New Nation, 3 August 1971

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  • 15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, August 3, 1971 No. 169 Price 15 cent? NEW NATION
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  • 16 1 Police reported a total of 67 accidents yesterday* Three were serious and one fatal.
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  • 88 1 Fairly active conditions prevailed in the share market this morning. Trading was thin but popular shares tended to be firm. North Borneo Timbers sained 10 cts. to reach $7.05 while Sime Darby was unchanged at $6. Paper Products was popular at $1.28, $1.29, $1.30 ana $1.32 8,000
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  • 35 1 Colombo, Tuesday. About half the number bf doctors turned out by Ceylon's two medical colleges emigrate to the United States, Australia, Canada, Britain and New Zealand, a health department spokesman said yesterday.
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  • 77 1 LATE NEWS Saigon, Tuesday.—South Vietnam's Vice- President Nguyen Cao Ky will summit his application to run for president in the election even though he has failed to qualify legally. His running-mate, Mr. Truong Vlnh Le, said today that Marshal Ky would take his application to the
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  • 496 1 An upward revision of property values for the 126 houses in Clement! Park, which will mean a 100 per cent increase in income tax, has got the house-owners up in arms against the government. The Increase in values has been
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  • 117 1 Tokyo, Tuesday Ann Liz Blomstad of Sweden receives a greeting kiss from last year's Miss Young International, Henny Hermannsdottir, of Iceland after she was crowned Miss Young International 1971 here last night. The 18-year-old blonde Swedish beauty from Gothenburg is sft 9in. with measurements of 34-23-34.
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  • 460 1 Reuter Hong Kong, Tuesday The United States government's decision to vote for China's admission into the United Nations at the General Assembly is unlikely to draw any thanks from Peking, observers here said today. The US Secretary of State, Mr. William Rogers yesterday announced the end of
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  • 559 1 Astronauts recheck hatches before getting the all clear New Nation Foreign Service Houston, Tuesday The Apollo 15 astronauts are back in their command craft orbiting the moon after the longest and mos successful lunar exploration mission. There was one hitch after their mooncralt Falcon
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  • 38 1 Water consumption yesterday was 99.7 million gallons an Increase of 3.5 million gallons over Sunday's figures. Except for Seletar Reservoir which recorded 0.06 inch, there was no rainfall in the other two catchment areas
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  • 175 1 Standards of safety in the Air Defence Command of the Singapore Armed Forces are as high as those of any other air force in this region, said a Ministry of Defence spokesman this morning. The spokesman, commenting; on the crash of
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  • 104 1 Jakarta, Tuesday. Antara news agency reported yesterday that bank robbers rounded up in police raids in North and South Sumatra recently were also wanted for robberies i n Malaysia and Hong Kong. The agency said that six members of a gang led by Johan bin Markjuki were
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  • 210 2 Rochore constituency will hold a grand dinner on Friday to celebrate National Day. More than 1700 guests are expected to be present with Dr. Toh Chin Chye, the Minister for Science and Technology who is also the MP for the constituency, as the guest of
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  • 55 2 London, Tuesday.—A 24hour armed bodyguard was yesterday assigned to the British Trade and Industry minister, Mr. John Davles, whose London apartment was damaged In a bomb blast two days ago. The move was decided at top-level security talks here between Home Secretary Mr. Reginald Maudllng and London's
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  • 217 2 Israel's new ambassador to Singapore, Mr. Zvi Kedar, who presented his credentials to President Sheases at the Istana this morning, speaks Mandarin fluently. A graduate in Chinese Studies from the London School of Oriental Studies, Mr. Kedar has held several diplomatic posts in countries
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  • 386 2 Twenty workmen were killed in industrial accidents three in factories and the remaining 17 at worksites in June. To date this is believed to be a record toll of industrial deaths. The three workmen killed in factories were among 171 accidents reported
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  • 31 2 Dakar, Tuesday.— Guinea's Voice of the Revolution Radio Interrupted Its broadcasts last night to announce that "enemy troops and mercenaries* were standing by to Invade the country today.
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  • 219 2 The big queue-up by parents to register their children for admission next year to Primary One in the school of their choice is continuing despite the fact that there are more than enough places for everyone. An Education Ministry Kkesman told New Nai today that
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  • 284 2 Fumes, noise blamed More and more parks and roadside gardens are mushrooming all over Singapore; but most of them are not being used because of the lack of shady trees. Since the ambitious plan to convert the Republic into a "Garden City" began 18
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  • 178 2 How would you treat a cut at home? Why does a fire engine ring its bells when travelling to the scene of a fire? What safety measures would you take when pouring hot water into a bottle? These questions sound simple. But when
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  • 44 2 The Anglo Chinese School in Barker Road will hold a National Day parade a 8 a.m. on Friday. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture, Mr. Fong Sip Chee, and his wife will be the guests of honour.
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  • 95 2 A diamond worth $86,000 —a collector's item—is up for sale at a local jeweller's It is a rare blue diamond of 8.19 carats, at $10,500 a carat, obtained from a supplier in Amsterdam. Mr. Loke Seek Cheong, manager of Lee Onn Jewellers who are selling the
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  • 45 2 Taipeh, Tuesday.—Construction of Nationalist China's first freeway will start on August 14. The 225-mile freeway, to link Keelung in the north with Kaohsiung in the south, will cost a total of U*****.5 million and is expected to be completed by mid-1975.
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  • 297 2 The number of jobless people on the "live" register of the Labour Ministry's Employment Exchange dropped to an all-time low of 38,068 in June. This is almost 1,000 less than the previous all-time low recorcec in May. The Ministry's latest monthly report shows that the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 105 2 Weather i Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Kuala Lumpur 88-75 Manila 86-73 Hong Kong 90-82 Tokyo 01-79 Seoul 93-75 Bangkok 93-77 Jakarta 91-75 Taipei 98-78 Naha 84-77 London 78-64 Paris 75-54 Moscow 81-66 New York 82-71 San Francisco 78-55 Sydney 63-47 Melbourne 63-47 Perth 62-54 Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from
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    • 100 2 At the cinema Lido: The Madwoman of ChaUlot —2.30, 6 and 9.15 p.m Capitol: Carry On Million Years 8.C.—1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. Rex: The Swift Knight (Mand.)—l.4s, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. Sky: The Swift Knight (Mand.)—l.4s, 4. 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. State: The War Bastards —1.45, 4,
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  • 182 3  -  By V.K. Chin Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday The more prurient clnemagoers will have until Thursday to have a last look at the X-fllms now being shown in several theatres in Malaysia. The Ministry of Home Affairs has written to those theatres concerned informing them of its
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  • 366 3 Land taken for industrial complex The government has dealt another blow to the already dwindling clan ownership of cemetery land in their latest acquisition of 200 acres for a new industrial complex in Upper Thomson Road. More than 13 acres will be
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  • 373 3 The government's decision to increase telephone rentals was generally welcomed by the public and members of the business community. Most of them felt that the increase in rental is better than the 10-cent levy. With this increased rental they said that they
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  • 318 3 The Tata Group of Companies one of India's biggest industrial concerns is planning to set up a technical institute here to produce highly skilled workers to man their factory. Negotiations are now on between this industrial giant and the Economic Development Board.
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  • 141 3 The Gan Eng Seng. School will hold its annual speech and prize giving today at 5.30 p.m. Dr. Lim Boon Tiong, member of the school advisory committee, will address the school. Mrs. Lim will give away the prizes. The department of Extramural Studies, University of
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  • 251 3 Six of the Anderson Secondary School laboratory blast victims are still in hospital, with Leong Sweet Chan, 14, the girl with a punctured liver still on the critically ill list. The condition of the other five girls is said to be improving and
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  • 523 3 Slowly but steadily the police force is gearing itself to professionalisation. This was stated by the Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent Leslie Wong, in a talk to school leavers at the Beatty School today. He said: "Modernisation goes hand in glove with
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  • 36 3 The tax manager of a local firm, Mr. Wong Ha Hee, will give a talk on "Tales of a taxman" at the Lions Clubs of Singapore luncheon meeting tomorrow at the Goodwood Park Hotel.
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  • 24 3 The Hua Yi Integrated Primary School band will give a performance at the Esplanade from 7 pjn. to 8 pjn. on Sunday.
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  • 123 3 Loqman bin Burhanuddin and his sister, Azizah, decided to get married at the same time, so their mother thought a double wedding would be appropriate. And last night they made their mother's wish came true when Loqman married Noraini bte Abdul Latif
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  • THE WORLD
    • 333 4 Late signal led to air disaster United Press International Tokyo, Tuesday A navigational error on the part of the Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) fight instructor was responsible for Friday's midair collision that caused the death of 162 people, Iwata police announced yesterday The police said
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    • 329 4 Agence France Presse Toronto, Tuesday The detention of two Chinese journalists on Taiwan by the Chinese Nationalist Government has been described by the Canadian National Committee of the International Press Institute as a flagrant violation of the freedom of the Press and of
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    • 147 4 United Press International Kuching, Tuesday Sarawak Chief Minister Dato Haji Abdul Rahman Yakub yesterday challenged the Communist terrorists to stand for election and let the people decide. "If they and other people think they can run the country better, they can serve the people more
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    • 31 4 Washington, Tuesday.— The railway strike which has crippled nearly half the American rail system was settled yesterday the Labour Department announced. Trains began moving at midnight last night.
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    • 75 4 This historical picture showing the blast-off of the lunar module Falcon from the moon yesterday is the first 'live' one seen by TV viewers. The TV pictures were taken by a camera mounted on the moon buggy, Lunar Rover, which was left on the moon. It
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    • 415 4 Veteran tells of torture United Press International Washington, Tuesday Testifying under oath, a former US military intelligence agent yesterday described torture and killing of Viet Cong suspects by Americans, including the deliberate starvation of one woman and the fatal shooting of his own interpreter by a
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    • 454 4 New Nation Foreign Service Washington, Tuesday A Senate report released yesterday implied that the Ameri-can-backed thrust by South Vietnamese troops against the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos earlier this year was a failure and not the military victory described by US and Saigon officials at
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    • 158 4 Reuter Alters, Tuesday Delegates from 12 Muslim countries attending a seminar in Oran, Western Algeria, have recommended the creation of an economic council leading to an Islamic common market. The seminar's final recommendations, published yesterday, said the economic council, embracing all Muslim countries,
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    • 332 4 United Press International Moscow, Tuesday Communist Party leaders of the Soviet Union and East European nations held an unannounced summit conference on the Black Sea coast yesterday and condemned the "reign of terror" in the Sudan, the Tass news agency said. It said
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    • 430 4 New Nation Foreign Editor Shiri Mulgaokar comments: Even without President Sadat's announcement of "complete support," nobody had been left in any doubt but that Cairo was fully behind Gen. Numeiry's regime. It is not improbable that the Egyptian military mission in Khartoum actively intervened to reverse
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    • 251 5 United Press International New York, Tuesday A young soldier, shot In the back and dying, ran down a street in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas early Sunday, pleading for someone to help him. Nobody did. The soldier, Private James Underwood, 18, of Fort
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    • 120 5 Reuter Bangkok, Tuesday The Thai government has ordered a full military alert in seven provinces on the border with Cambodia and Laos where the security situation had deteriorated, informed sources said yesterday. The sources said Interior Minister General Praphas Charusathlen Instructed provincial governors to
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    • 279 5 United Press International Manila, Tuesday Striking Filipino employees in the US Clark Air Force Blase, weary of dragging negotiations in their eight-day-old strike, yesterday cut through a steel fence around the base and sneaked back in droves to their Jobs, the Philippine News Service (PNS) reported.
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    • 29 5 Teheran, Tuesday. At least 40 people have died in floods in western Iran since last Friday, the Kayhan newspaper reported. It said floodwaters had hit 40 villages.
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    • 356 5 Pakistan however accepts Thant's refugee proposal York, Tuesday India yesterday rejected a UN proposal to station representatives of the High Commissioner for refugees on Its side of the border with East Pakistan. Pakistan, however, made public its acceptance of the idea. Secretary General U Ttmnt said the
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    • 179 5 United Press International Pretoria, Tuesday The Anglican dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville A. french-Beytaugh pleaded innocent in the Supreme Court yesterday to charges of advocating the violent overthrow of the South African government. The 59-year-old dean, wearing his clerical collar, was pale 'out
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    • 417 5 Melbourne Herald Hons Kong, Tuesday China's current army purge of the so-called 516 (or May Sixteenth) Group of "Revolutionary Rebels" is still spreading with arrests and public trials throughout the country. Broadcasts by provincial radios, monitored here, report hundreds of arrests
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    • 26 5 Tokyo, Tuesday. A strong earthquake originating in the Pacific off southern Hokkaido rocked japan at 0725GMT yesterday but caused no serious damage or Injuries.
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    • 155 4 wu NOBEL PRIZE WINNER i i The 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the Russian writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn for "the ethical force for which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature? His book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisorich, is now a Penguin book.
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    • 163 5 r 1 Clothes just love the gentle washing machines Have you ever seen how the Sanyo machines take the lirt out of clothes? If you haven't, ask lor a demonstration. See the gentle latliering, the rhythmic washing, with plenty of water. Not too plenty to be wasteful, but enough to
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  • WORLD COMMENT
    • 1496 6  -  in Bangkok Against the background of unfavourable trade balance and dwindling reserves... From S.M. ALI Despite grim warnings from many quarters about the mounting Thai economic crisis, government planners in Bangkok still retain their cautiously optimistic view of the future as they put
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    • 927 6  -  SUHARTO'S SPECIAL ASSISTANT EMERGES AS KEY MAN IN THE SEKBER GOLKAR By Jackie Sam The modernist elements within Sekber Golkar have won their battle with the traditionalist klnos who were against a restructuring of the organisation. The victory establishes Major-General All Moertopo as the key
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    • 784 6  -  IF THLEU DOESNT WIN I MIGHT END UP IN JAIL, SAYS COLONEL WHO CAMPAIGNS FOR HIM From Peter Jay It was old politics with a new Vietnamese twist. Colonel Luu Yem, the portly cigar-pufflng chief of Phuocolong province, was out beating the bushes for support
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  • LOCAL COMMENT
    • 997 7  -  The name has become so synonymous with industrialisation in Singapore that the other dozen smaller industriakestates here lend to he forgotten. ANIL BHATIA, our economics correspondent, takes you on a tour of some of them. ANIL BHATIA In addition to the Jurong industrial estate, there are now
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    • 1126 7  -  Economic gap between the haves and have-nots In Singapore widens R. VETRIVELU Secretary-General. United National Front. Mr. Gerald De Cruz, your diplomatic editor, wants our programme "NOW —well before the next elections." We did announce part of our manifesto and foreign policy at our
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 998 7 i K i i j We Have all the holidays you could ever need. And because they're all just around the corner, they don't cost a lot of money. Thai International's fabulous list of 1971 Royal Orchid Holidays will show you just how inexpensive it can be to see some
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  • 443 8 President Yahya Khan's agreement to the stationing of a UN relief team In East Pakistan Is the best news that has come from that sorrowing land since the army was unleashed on a defenceless population four months ago. Though, after an Initial period
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 65 8 The talk about former world heavyweight boxing champion Mohammad An visiting South-East Asia in the near future is on again. The latest report from Bangkok says that Ali Elans an exhibition bout 1 Thailand. Although the date for the trip has not been fixed, it could
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    • 85 8 Who are the kind of people who will lead the rat race Dr. Goh Keng Swee has been talking about? My vote goes to one young man who is the president of a certain Singapore university society. When members of the society recently presented him with a
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    • 79 8 I am told that Inche Musa Hltam. the Malaysian MP from Johore, who was sacked from his post as Executive Secretary of UM.N.O. by Tengku Abdul Rahman shortly after the May 13 riots, Is slowly coming back into favour. He is now understudying the Chairman of
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    • 69 8 A number of music lovers here, especially nationals from East Bengal, have already booked their orders with local shops for the new single record by former Beatle George Harrison about Bangla Desh, just released in the United States to help the refugees from the war-torn East
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  • 1238 8  -  GERALD de CRUZ The story Is told that Chuang Tzu, the great philosopher and master of Chinese prose, was fishing when the prince of Chu sent two high officials to ask him to take charge of the administration of the state
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  • Letters
    • 263 8  -  M. S. KHAN Your editorial headlined. No Solution In Secret Trial lor Mujibur on July 24. is a biased study of the situation in East Pakistan which has suffered the worst crisis ever since Its inception in 1947 simply because of a few people who wanted
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    • 211 8  -  DELLA BUTCHER I refer to E.R. Wu's letter (NN. July 22) relating to Chinese art. I did not say, as Mr. Wu suggests, that Chinese art was "no longer popular." I said it was "out of fashion" in Singapore. Having been connected with the art world all
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    • 104 8  -  CHIA YU SIANG President, Junior Safety First Council. Singapore 7. I refer to the article headlined Student Body Looks for Financial Aid. (New Nation, July 24). Miss Ng Kim Hong (who was referred to in your report) has informed the Junior Safety First Council that she
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    • 202 8  -  NAVTEJ SINGH There has been some discussion of late in your columns on Hindi films. Perhaps I could add to it by pointing out an interesting sidelight which seems to have escaped the attention of your correspondents, particularly Mr. Edgar Koh. There are two significant points.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • Article, Illustration
    1527 9  -  Helping the prisoners on the road back to a world without bars Special writer Ong Choo Suat reports on the other side of being in jail. Ong Choo Suat Few letters on prisons have been published in the Press and relatives and friends of prisoners are either inarticulate
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  • SHOPPING
    • 461 10 ¥F you like the expen- sive Persian carpets, some of which cost as much as a few thousand dollars and you don't have oodles of money to buy them, don't despair. You can always settle for Belgian Vizir carpets that not only look like the
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    • 132 10 NEW, LOW COST Sole Agents CASH REGISTER VERSATILE I SPACE SAVING K j J FULL KEY SYSTEM For Demonstration Contact: Business Time Equipment (Pte) Ltd. 291 Changi Rood, Singapore 14. Tel. *****3 *****8. Dandruff GET IT TO-DAY On Sal* of leading Baaaty Saloons, PiipiHtofitt ond Cosmetic Co—Nil y Q Q
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  • WOMAN
    • 283 11  -  By Elizabeth Choo Clothes for those who lead hectic and demanding lives must be practical and hardwearing. Wives and mothers with little to spend and tons of chores to complete can't spoil themselves on a ravishing dress everytlme. But although they can't afford
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    • 109 11 Smocks are fashion's current craze, part of the fresh scrubbed took for the young at heart. These are the clothes that make you feel as carefree as a 10-year-old. You can look prettiest now in the soft, gentle frocks cut along the lines of those worn
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    • 737 11  -  Aim is to put kids on right path CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM "A clown," wrote the five-year-old, "is a man in the circus. He has a funny painted face and makes Us laugh." "The chin," wrote another child, two years older, "is the part of your face
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    • 301 11  -  Solange Bertrand It's been some time since we heard much about anti-persplrants with power in them. Over the past 25 years, the trend has been to milder lotions and creams, roll-ons and sprays. There was good reason for the change. The original antl-persplrants were
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    • 363 11  -  From Solange Bertrand Long hair is all very well, but the unmade-bed look of so many long-haired heads is anything but attractive. New, long-haired hair styles are based on the waved, loosely curled look of the later Thirties and Forties, and to keep
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    • 148 11  -  By Roma Blair Today's posture correction and leg strengthener is excellent for pregnant women although anyone can benefit from it. Posture correction is important at all times (but especially during pregnancy) as it helps overcome many discomforts including backache. To d a y's
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 62 11 ANNIVERSARY SALE LATEST MODERN FASHION OF LADIES' SHOES ft HANDBAGS AT SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES Don't miss this Opportunity at S.S. SHOES CO. 71-A, North Bridge Rood, S'port. Tel: *****0 (Next to Hock Loin Street) Business hours 9.30 6.30 p.m. (Sundoy Closed) Branch: 195/3-4 New Merket Rd. S'pore. (Next to People's
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  • Finance and business
    • 256 12 United Press International New York, Tuesday The stock market, after plunging to Its lowest level in six months last week, swung into the plus column early yesterday after labour'settlements in the rail and steel industries. v Mr. Theodore Bukowski of E. F.
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    • 214 12 j London, Tuesday The market closed 1 easy reflecting concern over the US economy, Wall Street's downtrend and the latest dei velopments in the Upper Clyde shipbuilders' situation. The downturn was ac- celerated whep the Flnanr cial Times index sagged through the 400 resistance t
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    • 45 12 London, Tuesday.—Bid of £27,300,000 to take over i Britain's prestigious Cunard j Shipping Line won support from the majority of the company's board yesterday. The bid came from Trafalgar House Investments, a property group, and was worth 210 pence sterling a
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    • 748 12  -  By S.V. Suppiah Steel furniture work, a compact and light industry, is rapidly prospering in Singapore. With a small paid up capital of about $4 million, it is turning out many steel tables, chairs, cupboards, cabinets, school desks, beds, industrial bins and
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    • 241 12 Allied Chem 30% Xlcoa 53 Am Brandt 44% Am Can 33% Am Motors AT ft T 44% A P 15% Anaconda 18% Avon Pd Beth Steal 23 Boeing 16% Catarp Trac 48% Chrysler 26% Coca-Cola 99% Control Data 51% Corn G1 Wks 231 Dow Chem 95% DuPont 14®
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    • 1172 12 TRENDS AND MOVES IN THE MAJOR STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1970-1971 1 wk. 4 wk*. Closing Price Last Divtd. P/E TurnHigh Low ago ago Stock 1 Buyera i Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over INDUSTRIALS 3.60 1.68 2.02 1.87 Allied Choclate 2.06 2.07 6.0N 15.0 36 1J0 0.84* 1.52
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    • 299 12 At a recent directors' meeting of LeTourneau Offshore Pte. Limited, Mr. David C. Crawford was elected managing director and vice-president. Mr. Kenneth Farmer who is also vice-president will maintain sales offices in Houston, Texas, and is in charge of sales for the entire LeTourneau Offshore complex. Mr. Crawford replaces
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  • 554 12  -  CINEMA By EDGAR KOH BREWSTER MCCLOUD starring Bud Court and Sally Kellerman. Poets, painters, philosophers and people in general have throughout the ages been so interested in birds that numerous figurative terms concerning these feathered breeds have evolved in man's pictorial, spoken
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 10 12 BRIGHT PROSPECTS AHEAD FOR THE $7 MIL STEEL FURNITURE INDUSTRY
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  • SPORT 1
    • 508 13  -  CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Words: Jeffrey Low Anglo-Chinese School have virtually assured themselves of emerging champion school for the 12th year running, after the third day of the Bukit Timah District swimming meet at the ACS pool yesterday. The ACS boys have chalked up of 32 points In
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    • 1130 13  -  By Sonny Yap Wong May Thoe of St. Theresa's Convent smashed three records on the second day of the Pasir Panjang District 12th annual swimming championships at the Queenstown Pool yesterday. She rewrote new times in the 200 m freestyle open (3mins B.2secs), 100 m breast
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    • 147 14 London, Tuesday Margaret Court of Australia, three-times Wimbledon champion and the world's number one woman tennis player, is expecting a baby next February and is almost certain to retire from top class tennis. Mrs. Court, 29, who was married in 1967, will not play in any
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    • 360 14 London, Tuesday The Indian cricketers tuned up for this week's Second Test against England in a relaxed mood as their match against Surrey ended in an inevitable draw at The Oval here yesterday. After gaining a first innings lead of 57, the Indians used nine bowlers as
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    • 885 14  -  By Lim Tiong Wah A soccer coach's Job is not "all honey." Sometimes it can even be heart-breaking. "Often, when the national team is beaten, the cry is: 'We must concentrate more and more on coaching.' Why should this coaching business be regarded by
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    • 540 14  -  By M. Param A superb unbeaten 64 run partnership bettween Farouk Khan and Edmund Baker of Anglo Chinese School, highlighted the drawn Inter Schools cricket final at Ballstier Plain, yesterday. It was a day of preservence more than anything else, as both sides, equally balanced, played
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    • 54 14 Leslie Leow, Singapore's representative to the world iunior chess championships currently being held at Athens has qualified for the final in group "B". This was reDorted by Professor Lim Kok Ann, the Singapore Chess Federation President who said that Leslie, who is under 15. is the
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    • 53 14 New York, Tuesday. .Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, winners of the 1971 National team championship, have cut into Lee Trevino's lead in professional Rolf's money-win-ing race, the US PGA said yesterday. Top earners are Lee Trevino U*****,219; Jack Nicklauß U*****,763; Arnold Palmer U*****,799; Gary Player U*****,510;
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    • 384 15 By lilue Peter Ta Ta did a sparkling trial in the company of stablemate Ness Lane (Johnson) at Bukit Timah this morning. With apprentice S&irl In the saddle, Ya Ya beat Ness Lane In a 3f trial In 36 2/5. On
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    • 255 15 Follow the horses marked with a Evermore made the early running, leading into the straight, with The Samaritan moving op. The Samaritan ran past Evermore a furlong out for an easy win. Skipalong finished fast for third place. Wingedfoot Marksman was first into the straight. Martello Tower
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    • 40 15 Australian jockey John Miller's appeal will be heard on Saturday. He was suspended from riding in races for three months under rule 144(B) for not allowing Market Street to run on its merits a fortnight ago at Penang.
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    • 45 15 Sydney, Tuesday. Sydney racing stables are being hit by a mild epidemic of virus infections. No deaths have been reported from the infections, first reported a month ago. Veterinarians say horses recover quickly from the initial illness but could suffer relapses.
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    • 34 15 Sydney, Tuesday. Australians bet a record total of A 5693,748,337 (about $48,562,395,458) through the nation's six off-course totalisator agency boards during the 1970-71 racing season which ended last Saturday, figures revealed today.
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    • 164 15 Reuter New York, Tuesday Jamaican Don Quarrie, triple gold medallist at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, took the 100 metres title last night to break the American domingtion of the men's athletics events in the Pan-American Games here. Quarrie, one of the most consistent sprinters in
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    • 327 15  -  By Lim Kee Chan Phua Thin Kiay and Gerald Loong finished with the two best scores in the Singapore Golf Association trials for a two-man team to the World Cup at California in October. The trials over six rounds were held at both the
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    • 39 15 Massachusetts, Tuesday. Arthur Ashe, the topseeded American scored a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Nikki Pilic, of Yugoslavia on the first day of the US$5O,OOO US professional tennis championship at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut win yesterday.
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    • 225 15 ALL ENGLAND Wee Kin, the top seed and defending champion easily entered the next round of the national men's singles badminton championships when he eliminated Bernard Gregory 15-0 15-1 at Singapore Badminton Hall last night. He will meet the Slnga- pore Junior runner-up Lee Ah Ngo
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    • 67 15 New Delhi, Tuesday— Rumania were within one set of victory over India in the Davis Cup inter-zone semi-final here yesterday when bad light halted the first of the final two singles matches. lon Tiriac of Rumania was leading Jaideep Mukkerjea 3-6 7-5 6-3 when the match
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    • 33 15 Bonn, Tuesday. West German's national women's hockey team left here yesterday on a round-the-world tour which will take them to Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, United States, Kuala Lumpur and Malacca.
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    • 157 16 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines should start aboard their planes serving marijuana tea with the slogan "Let's make travelling by KLM the highest trip in the world," a shareholder told the company's annual assembly in Amsterdam. The shareholder, a representative of the Lowlands Weed
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    • 62 16 Eighteen-year-old Linda Anderson is a pretty sight anywhere. She's been one of the few fresh faces on our modelling scene. But it won't be for long. Linda plans to go abroad to Join a business college next year. In her case, you can safely say that
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    • 546 16 After ages of semiisolation and neglect, Sicilians have a new gleam of hope the island may be linked to the Italian mainland by the early 1980's. It will take one of the greatest engineering feats the world has ever seen. But the government is bracing itself to
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    • 441 16 Israeli dream come true Give an Israeli a can of water, It is said, and he will turn the desert green. A slight exaggeration, perhaps, but one Hebrew university scientist, Dr. Michael Evenari, 67, has made the desert-to-Oasis Israeli dream come
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    • 155 16 Soviet archeologists have reported the discovery of a 50,000-year-old settlement inhabited by a Stone Age people who lived almost entirely on turtles. Tass, the Soviet news agency, said the settlement was found in the Psdkichik cave of southern Tajikistan, long regarded as the site of
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    • 89 16 The preparation of "erotic" food has played a large role in the sexual history of man, but without scientific foundation. Of the various roods to which aphrodisiac powers are traditionally attributed, fish, vegetables and spices have been the most popular through the centuries,
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