New Nation, 20 July 1971

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  • 15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, July 20, 1971 No. 157 Prjce 15 cents NEW NATION
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  • 114 1 The stock market was generally steady and trading in the first 45 minutes was fairly active. In industrials Far East Levingston and Haw Par featured. Far East Levingston changed hands at $2.50 and $2.49. Haw Par on profit-taking was taken down from $2.56 to $2.48. Other active
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  • 72 1 LATE NEWS Manila, Tuesday. A French Canadian priest and six Filipinos drifted in the South Pacific tides for nearly 5,000 miles in a disabled 20-foot native boat before being rescued by the Japanese vessel Koyo Maru. The priest, the boat's pilot, three girl choir members and two
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  • 216 1 About 450 employees of tb.e OverseaChinese Banking Corporation this morning staged a lightning protest demonstration against a week-old failure of wage talks. Work stopped for about 15 minutes from 11 a.m. at the bank's headquarters in Upper Pickering Street and five branches in the
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    • 86 1 San Francisco, Tuesday— Farm labour contractor Juan Corona was yesterday formally arraigned on charges of murdering 25 itinerant workers whose mutilated bodies were unearthed by police in the socalled "orchard of death" near Yuba City in northern California. The arraignment took place at a court
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    • 56 1 Madrid, Tuesday—Spanish authorities have launched a massive anti-cholera vaccination campaign In Aragcn after an outbreak of "summer diarrhoea." Spanish health authorities said today that an investigation had been launched Into a diarrhoea outbreak in several villages. Specialists have been sent to the area after local authorities reported the
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    • 53 1 London, Tuesday.—Stanley Leffman, a 77-year-old German born underwear manufacturer, being honoured by his 500 women employees last weekend for 60 years in business, took the occasion to philosophise on Women's lib. Said Mr. Leffman: "Women's liberation doesn't worry me. Girls who burn their bras today will have to
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    • 46 1 London, Tuesday—Lord Astor, the British press baron who ruled the Times newspaper for more than 40 years, died in Cannes, south of France, last night, aged 85. Lord Astor, who had been living at nearby Pegomas, died in a Cannes hospital.
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    • 37 1 Lima, Tuesday.—ldentical male triplets were born on Monday to an Ecuadorean housewife living in Lima. They were reparted doing well in incubators at the Barton clinic. The mother, aged 27, was reported in satisfactory condition.
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    • 33 1 Washington, Tuesday Former Senator Gerald P. Nye, who declared in 1941 that "the greatest aggressor in all modern history has been the British empire," has died at the age of 78.
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  • 723 1 Tanks encircle presidential palace in Khartoum as coup leaders claim full control Army officer ousts Sudanese leader and promises nation democratic rule and stability New Nation Foreign Service Beirut, Tuesday Major Hashem AlAtta, a Communist and former member of the Sudanese revolutionary council, has seized
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  • 109 1 Reuter Manila, Tuesday Typhoon Lucy, with winds up to 125 m.p.h. at its centre, was reported today to be moving towards mainland China. The Philippines weather bureau warned ships from sailing In seas north of the Philippines. So far there have been no reports of casualties or damage.
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  • 208 1 Two youths, posing as radio licence Inspectors. staged a daring $lO,OOO robbery at a Toa Payoh flat yesterday. The police said the pair dressed In white and wearing dark glasses arrived at the flat at 10.30 ajn. and called the owner, Miss Ong
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  • 32 1 New York, Tuesday. Disorderly conduct and assault charges against actress Jane Fonda were dismissed in Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday by a judge on the recommendation of a police prosecutor.
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    • 154 1 SIR WILLIAM GOODE: From the death railway to postwar politics in Singapore. See Page 9 OUR ROADS Police reported a total of 70 traffic accidents yesterday. Six were serious and one fatal. Advertisement Profile Mr. Lau Keow Yoi| 8.A., Manager. Penanr Branch. Concurrently Area Manager, North Malaya. Majoring in economics
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  • 178 2 The Teachers' Training College plans to integrate its many societies which are now divided according to the different language streams. It is believed that the move is to allow the students of the different language streams to mix more freely. This is one of
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  • 141 2 Jk veteran of the Siam path Railway, Mr. llary Woodford who retired from the Singapore Police Force as a chief inspector two years ago, collapsed from a stroke at the St. James Power Station yesterday. Mr. Woodford, a security officer at the station, died shortly
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  • 30 2 Stockholm, Tuesday. Twenty-five people were treated in hospital three of them In serious condition—after a chlorine gas leak at a factory near Caevle, a Swedish baltic port yesterday.
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  • 264 2 Multi-million dollar estate planned Plans are underway to clear a squatter colony off Kampong Soopoo in Kallang, for a multi-million dollar industrial development. The new estate, mainly for light industries, will have a network of roads linking it to the Kallang Industrial Estate. An
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  • 127 2 The International Festival of Youth Orchestras to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, next week will feature Chinese musical instruments for the first time. Two local youth orchestras, the Singapore Youth Orchestra and the Singapore Youth Chinese Orchestra, will represent the Republic, the first Asian nation
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  • 62 2 Port Moresby, Tuesday. A joint Australian-Indo-nesian search began yesterday for a light aircraft missing since Saturday in the West Iran district of Indonesia. The single-engine Cessna disappeared between Sentanl, the airport serving Jayapura, and Naltje in the central highlands of New Guinea. Its American pilot was
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  • 379 2 Bernama Kota Kinabalu, Tuesday Sabah will get $7OO million for development under the Second Malaysia Plan an Increase of almost 60 per cent over that of the First Malaysia Plan. The Yang di-Pertua Negara of Sabah, Tun Pengiran Hajl Ahmad Raffae,
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  • 82 2 Tae-kwon-do in Singapore will be included in the second book which Mr. Choi Hong, Hi. president of the International Tae-Kwon-do Federation, is presently writing. This is part of the reason for Mr. Choi's visit here which is sponsored by the United Tae-kwon-do, which has some 2000 members
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  • 73 2 Tokyo, Tuesday—A Japan Airlines jetliner yesterday made an emergency landing at Tokyo's Haneda airport after it was struck by lightning while on a domestic flight to Saporro, northern Japan. There were no injuries among 89 passengers and a crew of seven. Airport officials said the DCB had
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  • 343 2 The Mechanical Inspection Section of the Registry of Vehicles is now under the charge of a fully qualified mechanical engineer. In a first-year review of the transport reorganisation programme, a Ministry statement said that this is the first time in eight years that a qualified
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  • 322 2 There is nothing unusual about this church band, except that its leader, Alan Samuel was a former consort of hippies and drugaddicts. Then a year ago, the 20-year-old met an American Christian missionary, the Rev. Robert Gledden, himself a reformed "junkie" with a
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  • 84 2 President and Mrs. B. H. Sheares today began their three-day familiarisation tour of schools and institutes of higher learning. This morning they visited New Town Secondary School and Pasir Panjang Vocational Institute. During the afternoon they will call at the Hotel and Catering Training School
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  • 34 2 Taipei, Tuesday. Taiwan exported US$33.B million worth of plastic shoes in the first half of this year, the Central News Agency reported yesterday. They included sandals, slippers, sport shoes and beach shoes.
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  • 208 2 The government has urged all division one and division two government servants to open savings accounts in banks. Circulars signed by the permanent secretaries of the different ministries have been sent to all government departments and statutory boards. This is the second step by
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  • 78 2 The finals of the 11th annual Interschool Safety First Quiz will see nine schools vying for the championship at Cultural Centre on Thursday at 2.30 p.m. They are: Victoria School, Anglo-Chinese School, Raffles Girls' School, Maris Stella High School, Swiss Cottage Secondary School, Tiong Bahru Secondary
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  • 49 2 Mrs. Obaidul Haq nee Murgiana Kassim has been appointed a magistrate at the Juvenile Court with effect from July l. Formerly from the Legal Aid Bureau, Mrs. Haq, 26, is a law graduate of the University of Singapore who joined government service in June 1969.
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  • 33 2 Tokyo, Tuesday. Rescuers last night brought up the bodies of five miners, bringing to 25 the death toll from Saturday's coal mine gas explosion in the northern Japanese city of Utashinai.
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  • 234 2 About 150 firms have applied to rent eight warehouses built by the Housing and Development Board in Geylang Square. According to a Board spokesman the majority of the firms are commercial companies handling cargo freights. The rest are from the light industries. The complex is
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  • 39 2 .Tokyo, Tuesday. Japan nd a seven-member goodwill cultural mission to South-East Asian countries. "•Th® Foreign Ministry said the members Include Prof. Voichi Maeda of Tokyo University, novelist Hiroyuki Agawa and Seiji Tsut®umi, president of Seibu department store.
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  • 217 3 A two-day seminar on "The role of biology in the development of Singapore" will be held this weekend at the University of Singapore. The seminar which is organised by the University's Biology Sciences Society hopes to focuss problems of biological interest in Singapore.
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  • 38 3 Professor Edward Arthur Burges, 49, has been appointed professor in the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, University of Singapore. He was senior lecturer and reader at the University of Glasgow before this a ppolntment.
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  • 188 3 Widow and eight children helped Queens town Technical Secondary School students have come to the aid of the Kamsan family. After reading of the plight of the family of nine in New Nation, Devadas Panicker, president of the School's Interact Club, led club members
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  • 180 3 Singapore audiences will have the opportunity next-week to see flamenco dancer Particia Hon perform for the first time since her return from Spain. She will appear with Singapore Ballet Academy dancers at two charity shows at the Victoria Theatre on July 27 and 28. After three
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  • 123 3 An eight lecture course, "How to pass examination successfully by self study" by Mr. Lim Boon Tong, a management consultant, will begin tonight at the University of Singapore's Physics Room 1 at 7.30 p.m. The Kampong Glam Citizens' Consultative Committee will hold a mass
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  • 68 3 Birmingham, Tuesday.— Frank Norton, 32, thought it would be a good joke to send out a letter to a few of his office colleagues telling them their salaries would be cut £l5O a year. But the joke backfired when two of them did not see the funny
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  • 206 3 An assistant secretary with the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Syed Aljunied, was recently elected president of a local drama group—the Experimental Theatre Club. After the elections held last week at Guild House, the club house of the University of Singapore Society, Mr. Aljunied
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  • 176 3 Having looked after some 30,000 passengers in over 100 voyages, Purser Daniel Hughes, 60, has retired from his job. But he has not yet given up sailing. In fact the first thing he did was to book a trip on the Centaur whicb left
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  • 198 3 The links community centres have with people throughout the Republic are to be exploited to the fullest in the Government's Dental Health Week Campaign. The recent exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall will be continued at five community centres until September 19. The
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  • 413 3 Ipoh, Tuesday The Perak State Development Corporation is negotiating for a $22 million development of Emerald Island, off Pangkor Island, into a tourist complex. The discussions are being held with the Emerald Island Tourist Complex San. Bhd. which will be
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  • 26 3 The Japanese Embassy here will hold a recption In honour of the Japan-South-East Asia Cultural Mission at Goodwood Hotel on August 6 to 6.30 p.m.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 207 3 Weather Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Kuala Lumpur 86-73. Jakarta 91-81. Hong Kong 89-80. Manila 85-79. Tokyo 84-68. Seoul 82-72. Bangkok 89-77. Naha 91-71. Talpeh 96-79. London 68-57. Paris 73-54. Moscow 72-55. New York 76-67. San Francisco 73-55. Sydney 59-49. Melbourne 60-44. Canberra 52-28. Perth 61-48. Singapore Weather forecast from
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  • THE WORLD
    • 330 4 Reuter New Delhi, Tuesday Indian External Affairs Minister Mr. Swaran Singh charged the United States with abetting and encouraging continued "atrocities by the rulers of Pakistan" in East Pakistan. The continued American arms supplies to Pakistan "also amounts to intervention on the side
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    • 199 4 United Press International New Delhi, Tuesday The Indian air force has taken over from the US air force the airlift of war refugees from East Pakistan from Agartala in Tripura to Gauhati in Assam, a flying distance of 160 miles. American aircraft completed their month
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    • 448 4  -  Says Peking trip not aimed at quick end to Vietnam war By Michael Prentice Reuter Washington, Tuesday President Nixon has discouraged speculation that his forthcoming visit to China would speed the end of the Vietnam war. Mr. Nixon appeared to play down the possibility of a
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    • 441 4 Tells of his role in overthrow of Diem Press International Saigon, Tuesday President Nguyen Van Thieu yesterday detailed for the first time his involvement in the 1963 coup which overthrew President Ngo Dinh Diem and led to his assassination a day later. He gave the details when
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    • 224 4 United Press International Cape Kennedy, Tuesday The Apollo-15 spacecraft modules are carrying more scientific equipment than previous Apollos and have been modified to give their crewmen twice as much time to use it on and around the moon. "There's more scientific equipment
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    • 416 4 Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday Japan's Prime Minister, Mr. Eisaku Sato, said yesterday that Japan was ready to hold talks with China to discuss problems between the two countries. He was answering an opposition Socialist questioner In Parliament. Mr. Sato said that it was a
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    • 22 4 Taipei, Tuesday.—Nationalist Chinese and Thai officials held a meeting in Taipei yesterday on strengthening economic co-opera-tion between the two countries.
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    • 198 4 Reuter Hong Kong, Tuesday Chinese doctors and scientists are carrying out research to perfect acupunctural anaesthesia, which is used successfully in surgical operations, the New China News Agency said today. Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese method of treating disease with needling. When given acupunctural anaesthesia, the
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    • 112 4 Milan. Tuesday Italy now has its first registered woman jockey, a slender 20-year-old beauty called Tiziana Sozzi. Miss Sozzi, who weighs just under 110 pounds and wears her auburn hair rather appropriately in a tight pony tall, thus breaks one more barrier in Italy's male-dominated society.
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    • 148 4 Reuter Valletta, Tuesday Lord Carrington, Britain's Defence Secretary, held nearly two hours of talks with Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff here last night shortly after arriving in the island to discuss the future of Britain's defence and financial arrangements. No statement was issued after the
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    • 340 4 Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday The Soviet Union and Indonesia signed an agreement yesterday for an expert study of the chances of resuming two big Soviet industrial projects here abandoned for the past six years. Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Volkov said a 24man Russian mission would arrive next month to
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    • 174 4 New Nation Foreign Service Brisbane, Tuesday About 130,000 Australians will go on strike in Queensland tomorrow, hoping to bring the State to a virtual standstill, in protest at the declaration of a state of emergency for the visit of the South African Rugby Union team.
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    • 558 5 Wants to intervene in Jordan New Nation Foreign Service Beirut, Tuesday Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Khadafy has called for an emergency Arab summit conference to discuss the possibility of an intervention by force against Jordan's King Hussein. Col. Khadafy made his call in cables
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    • 312 5 Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday President Suharto said here there should be only four factions in the new Indonesian parliament and hinted at possible acceptance of a formal opposition. His views were relayed to reporters by the Minister of State for liaison between parliament and the
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    • 165 5 Reuter Lusaka, Tuesday Zambian Opposition leader, Mr. Harry Nkumbula, was quoted as saying yesterday that African countries should drop their objections to arms purchases by South Africa. The Times of Zambia quoted Mr. Nkumbuia, the ieaaer of the Minority African National Congress, as saying that
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    • 248 5 Reuter London, Tuesday The Deputy Labour Party leader, Mr. Roy Jenkins, last night was reported to have strongly supported the terms for Britain's Common Market entry Just two days after the party leader, Mr. Harold Wilson, condemned them. Mr. Jenkins, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer
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    • 237 5 United Press International Dar-es-Salaam, Tuesday President Julius Nyerere yesterday denied allegations ol Tanzanian involvement in fighting in neighbouring Uganda and accused President Idi Amin of lying to cover up tor the murder of 1,000 Ugandan army solhoneymoon period Is over." Nyerere told newsmen in his
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    • 209 5 Reuter London, Tuesday Sales managers were last night working out how much they could slash off the price of practically every item sold in Britain's shops and were preparing plans for the biggest and most competitive buying spree the country has known for 30
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    • 220 5 Reuter New York, Tuesday A record by former Beatle George Harrison appealing for help for East Pakistani refugees will be released on Friday. The record will be released first to radio stations and then will be sold to the public from Monday. An
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    • 48 5 Washington, Tuesday. A wage settlement was reached yesterday ending a nationwide strike by telephone workers that began last Wednesday. The workers of the Bell telephone system will return to their Jobs tonight, the president of the communications workers of America, Mr. Joseph Beirne, announced.
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    • 109 5 Moscow, Tuesday—A Soviet children's holiday camp Is laying on rest and recreation for a Viet Cong sniper with 37 enemy soldiers and one officer to his credit, Pravda reported yesterday. The sniper, Vo Tlnh Trung, is only 15 years old. Wltyi nine other children
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    • 6 4 NZ tour called off: P. 15
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    • 179 5 Heart disease can happen to anyone. One your doctor at one?. If only to put your mind at rest minute a man is apparently healthy and full of life— If, however, his diagnosis disturbs you, there is the next he's an empty place at the table. something he can prescribe
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  • WORLD COMMENT
    • 501 6  -  Solution impossible unless Kenyatta mediates between Amin and Nyerere From Stanley Meisler Los Angeles Times The East African Community, the most promising economic group in Africa, may be near paralysis. Its crisis was spotlighted theatrically when President Idl Amin of Uganda closed his country's
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    • 630 6 The Australian Henry Kissinger, the 48-year-old swinging divorcee White House, adviser to four American Presidents and US secretary envoy extraordinary, appears to have reached the pinnacle of achievement in his successful China conference. Washington observers were not the least surprised that It was Dr.
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    • 925 6  -  From Gregory Clark The Australian The Chinese Prime Minister and the U.S. Defence Secretary do not often agree with each other. But last week, in very different circumstances, they found themselves saying very similar things about the future of Asia. Both agreed that four powers—China,
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    • 826 6  -  ONE PINK HOTEL IS ENOUGH From Elizabeth Riddell The Australian "Do you know what I always say?" asked my English Australian friend in Morocco. "I always say Morocco is aristocratic, Tunisia is middle-class and Algeria is working-class." One of my friends interposed. "I think you're
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  • LOCAL COMMENT
    • 2238 7  -  In a recent speech to Pre-Univer-sity students of Bartley Secondary School. Dr, R.S. BHATAL, lecturer, Physics Department, University of Singapore outlined the science policy in Singapore. NEW NATION prints this today. Dr, R.S. BHATAL The concept of national science policy
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    • The Voice of the Press
      • 394 7 What other newspapers are saying: Most of the comment on President Nixon's projected visit to Peking welcomes It as a mark of cold war detente. It Is certainly that. For more than 20 years the hostility between China and America has been expressed in ideological terms and
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      • 269 7 judging from the figures released by the Ministry of Labour In its recent report, the majority of factories newly established in May and those closed down in the same month were small industries. It can be seen that there are still many difficult factors to overcome in
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    • 113 7 Now you see it... Every home contains things that nobody needs. Vod probably don't even think about them but every home needs money and you do think about that. Chances are that somebody else is looking for the very things you have. Do the New Nation vanishing trick turn unwanted
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  • 305 8 Dr. Goh Keng Swee's comments on the rat race over the weekend appear to have two main objects. The first is to provide the intellectual counterpoint to the heavy Victorian urgings of other ministers to build God's own technology in our green and
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 83 8 When we hinted in this column last month that the Thai Prime Minister, Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn might get an extension as the Supreme Commander of his country's armed forces, we probably had a scoop. Instead of retiring from active military service this year, Prime Minister Thanom
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    • 47 8 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs seems to be getting expansionist minded and about to flex a bit more muscles. Having pushed out of City Hall a part of the Land Office, it now appears about to elbow somebody else out. The Prime Minister's Office next?
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    • 139 8 At a university forum the other night on the trade union movement, the president of the Employers' Federation, Mr. J.D. Neill, recited a psalm which brought appreciative chuckles from the audience. He called it Psalm T.U.C. XXXIII. "The Union is my, shepherd. I shall not work, It
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  • 1084 8  -  GERALD de CRUZ Never In human history, perhaps, has a "lost weekend" gained so much, apparently, for mankind. Greeted in India with punning posters ("The Kissinger of Death"), Henry Kissinger brought a new lease of
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  • Letters
    • 229 8  -  AILEEN SETH I refer to the article. Interest in Art Gains Ground (N.N. July 12). In the past two years I have been to many art exhibitions in Singapore by local artists. Talking to the artists I learned that more pictures are sold now than ever
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    • 215 8  -  TEO CHIN HOCK I have been wondering what criteria TV Singapore use in selecting the Chinese films for general screening. Are the films chosen because of their themes, fine acting or simpiy because of their prices? My suspicion is that the last consideration has been
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    • 105 8  -  K.T. LIEW If my eyes are not playing tricks, somebody has been removing many of the signs at road dividers prohibiting cars from making U-turns. Does this mean that motorists may make U-turns at such breaks in the road aividers from now on? I vaguely remember having read
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    • 145 8  -  TAN SIONG EK I am glad to read that Kandang Kerbau police station is to be re-organis-ed. lam certain that the breakdown of morale at the police station could not have happened overnight. Perhaps what is needed 1s not only a re-organisation, but a commission of
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    • 123 8 Fifty-three teachers of the Geylang Serai Vocational Institute have denied a report in New Nation that they were up in arms against holiday tests. The report said that the teachers protested against the school's decision to conduct trade tests during the mid-term holidays. In a Joint letter,
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    • 157 8  -  E. H. LEE It was interesting to read what Dr. Koh Tai Ann had to say at the seminar on mass media at the University of Singapore. But I feel that rather than approach the issue of Press freedom and criticism from objective standpoints and examples,
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 2489 9  -  Sir William Goode looks back Sir William Goode, Singapore's last colonial governor (from 1957 to 1959), was a colonial official in 1942 at the time of the island's fall. Yesterday he recalled his experiences as a prisoner in Changi and River Valley Road in the early days
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    • 316 10 HOW TO CLEAN AND FRESHEN YOUR TOILET There is a new automatic toilet cleanser on the market that not only cleans but also freshens the bathroom rnHE stench from the A sewage bucket in a small enclosure always put me off in the past but now that the bucket system
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    • 89 10 and install the cleanser for you without any extra charge. There is one condition though. You must order a minimum of three units. I think this is reasonable as it won't be worth the effort for the dealer simply to deliver and install one cleanser in the home, which might
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  • WOMAN
    • 184 11 Today I am giving a modified version of the squat. This is particularly good for pregnant women and aids the birth of the baby. Tone the body up first in a moderate way so as to avoid physical hardship. In picture 1, I made sure that
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    • 564 11 FOREIGN POSTING GENERATED INTEREST IN FOOD "Travel ignites interest in food," says Mrs. Charles Cross, wife of the United States Ambassador here. "You can't help but become interested. It's all so fascinating. And delicious!" If travel is indeed a catalyst to the
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    • 119 11 Here's a time for revitalising and the moment to start with a fresh look, a time to consider new ideas and act. The smock frocks are here and every woman can dress to keep the world guessing she's looking beautifully and naturally pregnant or isn't
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    • 347 11  -  SOLANGE BERTRAND Most of us think of water exercise solely in terms of swimming. But there are lots of other ways to exercise in water, whether it be in pool, quiet lake or even the bathtub. Water is a great exercise element, because it is both
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    • 301 11 You've got this delightful invitation to an evening occasion that hints of a formal party, and an anxious look in the wardrobe tells you, what you haven't got—an elegant outfit. But there's hardly any need to panic boutiques and departmental stores
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  • NEW NATION'S Finance and business
    • 489 12  -  Michael Soon Reflecting marked improvement in achievements, the North Borneo Timber Berhad reports a profit of $6,751,761 for the year 1969-1970 after tax twice the amount of $3,437,026 for the previous year. This record is attributed mainly to three factors: keen
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    • 182 12 UPI Tokyo, Tuesday Communist China's two-way trade in 1970 rose to U554,199 million, close to the past record of U554,205 million registered in 1966 before the start of the Cultural Revolution, the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) reports. Jetro, reporting on Communist China's trade, said China's
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    • 707 12 TRENDS AND MOVES IN THE MAJOR STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1970-1971 1 wk. 4 wks. Stock Closing Price last Divid P/E TurnHigh Low ago ago Buyers Sellers sale Yield Ratio Over industrials 2.63 1.68 1.87 1.82 Allied Chocolate 1.95 1.98 1.98 6.3N 14.3 3 1.90 0.841 1.48 1.39
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    • 207 12 United Press International New York, Tuesday Stock closed lower yesterday although a cheering second quarter earnings statement from Chrysler Corporation helped trim the loss. Turnover was moderate. The Dow Jones industrial average was off 2.12 at 886.39 after being down around 4
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    • 184 12 Reuter London, Tuesday The market closed steady ahead of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement on the economy. Although leading industrials attracted profit-taking, second line issues often advanced. Towards the close the Financial Times index was down 0.8 at 409.2 (after
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    • 188 12 Allied Ctaem 32% 57% Am Brand* 42% Am Can 35% Am Motors AT T 45% A P 17 Anaconda 18% Avon Pd Beth Steel 22 >4 Boeing 17% Caterp Trac 47% Chrysler 27% Coca-Cola 102 Control Data 55% Corn G1 Wks 254 Dow Chem 98% DuPont 141% Kodak
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    • 118 12 Ben Lines will soon start talks with the Port of Singapore Authority on using the $77 million container facility for its container ships, which will start Singapore-UK-Conti-nent run by mid-1972. Ben Lines chairman Mr. Michael Stachan will arrive in Singapore from Kuala Lumpur today
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  • 724 12  -  CINEMA By EDGAR KOH GOD FORGIVES, I DON'T starring Terence Hill. (Orchard). A Western, to be a Western, has to have gunfights, train robberies, injun raids, busty saloon gals and every other fellow with names like Bud, Bill or Al. This has
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  • 211 12 FANNY HILL (Cathay, Johore Bahru). If this film is representative of Swedish "adult" movies, cinema-goers here would be well advised to stay south of the Causeway whenever they are shown in Malaysian towns. The Malaysian premiere of the first X certificate film from Sweden
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    • 705 13  -  Sonny Yap A new leaf will be added to the book of Malaysia Singapore shuttle relations when a Combined Schools' team of 20 players and five officials leave on August 8 for a series of international and friendly matches against their neighbours.
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    • 222 13 Singapore Armed Forces emerged the new inter-club badminton champions when they beat strongly-fancied Valiants 3-2 in the finals at the Singapore Badminton Hall. Their youthful players, Nf Chor Tau and Low Kee Wah pulled the coup of the evening when they narrowly defeated exoerienced old-timers Ronnie Oon
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    • 512 14  -  HOCKEY By Lim Kee Chan The Singapore Hockey Association will soon have two important tournaments which may earn them a trip to the Munich Olympic Games next year. They are the Tun Razak Cup tournament In Kuala Lumpur from July 27 to August 1 and
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    • 708 14  -  By Sonny Yap Anglo-Chinese School caused a big upset when they beat the hot favourites City School of Commerce by 81 runs in the Singapore Cricket Association inter-schools senior tournament at Balestier Road yesterday. After yesterday's games. Anglo Chinese is now heading the senior
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    • 92 14 Lagos, Tuesday Dick Tiger 41, Nigeria's former World middleweight and World light heavyweight boxing champion, has announced his retirement from the ring for a coaching job with the Nigerian sports authorities. Tiger first won the World middleweight title in 1962. He lost it to American Joey
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      28 14 Molly Soh and Tan Slew Sun in action during the weekend's tae kwon-do grading. Full grading lists will be available by the end of the week.
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    • 44 14 Mexico City, Tuesday. Brazil beat Mexico by three matches to two in the American zone final of the Davis Cup tennis here yesterday. Brazil now play Czechoslovakia, who won the European zone Group "A" final in the inter-zone semi-finals.
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    • 217 14 Reuter London, Tuesday Wimbledon champion Evonne Goolagong of Australia and South African Bob Hewitt, the top seeds, scored easy first round victories in the Green Shield Open tennis tournament at Leicester yesterday. Miss Goolagong romped through the first set without conceding a game against Maria
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    • 55 14 Sydney, Tuesday. The Indian squash team will meet a strong New South Wales combination tomorrow night in a preparation match on its way to New Zealand for the World championships. The New South Wales team will Include internationals Ken Hiscoe and Dick Carter and state representative
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    • 597 15 From Blue Peter in Penan; Asmara n (late Pedro) is the pick of the three newcomers entered for the Pe- nang July/A ugust meeting beginning on Saturday. Asmara is a four-year-old chestnut Australian gelding by Quetzal, sire of the useful Count Carlo, out of
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    • 302 15 Follow the horses marked with a Wisdom was first into the straight, with Daryl's Envoy well up. Score Again and Gypsy Bank closed in. Finishing strongly Gypsy Bank hit the front a furlong out for an easy win. Rampage led past the 4f and into the straight,
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    • 264 15 From Blue Peter in Penang Guarantee did a splendid gallop at Penang this morning. With a riding boy astride this Tribal Ring 5-year-old strode out fluently over 3f in 37 4/5. The going was good. Bon Vivant appeared eager to gallop but was restrained to 38
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    • 119 15 Cape Town, Tuesday Shirley Hoffa, secretary of the South African Women's Hockey Association, said yesterday the proposed Springbok tour of New Zealand has been cancelled because officials "feared for the safety of the visitors." The Springbok tour was to have started on August 19. Miss Hoffa
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    • 119 15 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday The diplomatic officers and staff of the Malaysian High Commission and the Indonesian Embassy here will meet in a two-day series of friendly sports on Friday and Saturday. Indonesian Embassy is currently the hoiaer of the cnaiienge trophy, presented by the Raja
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    • 110 15 New York, Tuesday Jimmy Ellis and Muhammad Ali began tapering off yesterday in their workouts for their 12-round heavyweight fight in the Astrodome next Monday night. Ellis boxed six rounds, one with each of four partners and two on the speed bag. "I'm in shape
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    • 135 15 London. Tuesday A difference of some 70 pounds (31.75 kgs) in body weight is the answer why Ford-powered racers have been giving the 12-cylind-er Ferraris and BRMs a beating on the grand prix circuit, this year, Keith Duckworth said last night. Duckworth, the brilliant designer of the
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    • 19 15 National league Montreal S Chicago 3 American league Baltimore 4 Oakland 2 Chicago t New York 3
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    • 26 15 Moscow, Tuesday.—Vladimir Dreksler of the Boviet Union set a World weightlifting record for the lightweight press when he lifted 152.5 kilogrammes (335 lbs) yesterday.
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    • 481 15 Reuter London, Tuesday Centuries by Ashok Mankad and G. Viswanath lifted the Indian cricketers to a first innings lead of 166 on the second day of their match against Hampshire at Bournemouth yesterday. The English county, who began their second innings half an hour before the
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    • 111 15 Loncon, Tuesday.—Cash pnzes totalling $18,500 will be awarded for outstanding performances aunng tne tnree match Test cricket series between England ana India which begins on Thursaay. The awards, donated by Mr. Ravi Tikkoo. chairman of Giobtik Tankers Ltd., have been agreed both by tne English Test and County
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    • 12 15 INTERSTATE MATCH Victoria 18.16 (124) West Aust. 13. 8 (86)
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    • 604 15 -Cut tioff fitirt i.nrs NEW NATION MONEYWORDS V' L TUESDAY Pastms mtrtctiiu Hfur It lew Naae (Mr./Mrj./MrSl). ■m|a H Ml I p *Clit IllXf tltttk l.*fS CLUES FOR V-2 FILL IN MISSING i LETTERS ACROSS i USIN6 CLUES I BELOW. 1. It might be advisable to 4. An inlet of
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    • 448 16  -  Police receive them by the dozens By Sonny Wee Dear Sir, There's a Mr. Wong operating a gambling den at 259Z Johore Avenue. Please take action. Yours faithfully, Civic conscious This is an example of a typical letter which police stations all over the Island receive
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    • 451 16 Not in a millennium would anyone have picked the visage of Walter Matthau from the movie A Face in the Crowd back in 1957 and predict ultimate stardom for him in 1971. Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal were the stars of that picture.
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    • 61 16 AH FOOK: The government-claimed victory oyer the island's transport problem is no victory at all. Just look at the crowd at our bus stops. MEI LIN: You must be going about with your eyes shut. The pirate taxis are now off the roads and everyone is getting to
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    • 177 16 When Michael Barlow, 27, married his aunt Dawn Lovatt, 24, last week in Staffordshire, England all their relatives suddenly bore no relation to what they used to be. The bride, for instance, found herself with a father-in-law who used to be her
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    • 418 16 The word is out that Sandy Duncan will be the biggest new star in TV when her series makes its debut later this year. Inexplicable because Sandy Is a slender, bucktoothed girl with a large nose, sprinkling of freckles and quavering voice.
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    • 57 16 Teenager Sheila Tong is an avid reader. She loves thrillers. Her current favourite: The Bond series. "I've got a few more paperbacks to go before I complete all that 007 stuff," she says. As for the celluloid version, Sheila has seen the lot twice over.
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