New Nation, 1 October 1971

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  • 17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Friday evening, October 1, 1971 No. 220 Price 15 cents SINGAPORE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1
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  • 10 1 Police reported 58 accidents yesterday. Four were serious.
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  • 121 1 The stock market this morning was generally steady. However, trading in the first 45 minutes was relatively auiet. In the industrials, interests centred on Haw Par. It was Initially traded down from $244 to S3JI but buying support came in and boosted it to $lB4. Cycle and
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  • 46 1 LATE NEWS Caracas, Friday.—Several men have been arrested for Interrogation over the guerrilla kidnapping of the dominlcan republic consul, Mrs. Thelma Frias de Rodriguez. The arrests came shortly after the kidnappers threatened to kill her if police closed in on their hideout.
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  • 279 1 The Minister for Education, Mr. Lim Kim San, today appealed to primary school students to work hard and provide a better future for their children. In his Children's Day message read at all primary schools this morning, he said: "Singapore Is what it Is today because your
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  • 332 1 United Press International New York* Friday The Israeli Foreign Minister, Mr. Abba Eban, yesterday called for Egypt's foreign minister to meet him in New York to discuss roads to peace in the Middle East. Mr. Eban proposed that the talks should take place
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  • 82 1 Hundreds of office workers were late for work this morning after being trapped in a huge traffic jam in Upper Serangoon Road today. The Jam followed an acdaent. The 7 am. crash at the junction of Bartley Road and Upper Serangoon Road held up the traffic for about
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  • 29 1 Canberra. Friday. Philip Roth's controversial novel Portnoy's Complaint was removed from Australia's banned books yesterday. But Terry Southern's book Blue liovte was added to the banned list.
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  • 16 1 Water consumption yesterday was 104 million gallons, up 100,000 gallons on Wednesday's figure.
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  • 118 1 Singapore's Ministry of Health Is closely watching the cholera situation in Kuala Lumpur. "We are In contact with our health colleagues In Kuala Lumpur/' said a spokesman 4his "Tftdre has been one death from cholera and two confirmed cases of the disease In the Federal
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  • 338 1  -  Youths released after photographs taken By Wee Beng Huat Long-haired youths throughout Singapore are observing a self-Imposed curfew following police raids in which nearly 50 youths were rounded up and had their hairstyles photographed by cm cameramen. youths Were -picked up l*st Saturday night by detectives
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  • 325 1  -  By Jean Leclerc Da Sablon New Nation Foreign Service Peking, Friday Chinese Vice-Presi-dent Tung Pi-wu last night presided over the reception held to mark China's National Day but Premier Chou En-lai did not attend There were no speeches during the 90-minute reception held in the
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  • 102 1 A man who was unconscious In hospital for the past 70 days died yesterday. The police have classified the case as murder. Tan Boon Choon, 70, was admitted to the Outram Hospital on July 20 after he was found sprawled outside his house in Jalan
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  • 70 1 Two narcotics experts from the United States arrived in Singapore today for top-level discussions with senior police and customs officers on ways to curb International drag trafficking through the Republic. The two men who arrived from Bangkok were Mr. R. P. Shafer, chairman of the
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  • Page 1 Advertisements

  • 5812 2 The Education Ministry has issued the re suits of the National Language Public Examination held in August. In the list of successful candidates, P stands for Full Pass, W for Pass in Written Only, and O for Pass in Oral Onlyv i STANDARD I (ONE) WRITTEN
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  • 26 2 A new branch of Tan Chong and Sons Motor Co. (S) Pte. Ltd. at 29, Block 79, Toa Payoh Central, will be open tomorrow.
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  • 23 2 The Blood Transfusion Service mobile unit will be stationed at the V.C. Central Base from 7.30 p.m. to 930 pjn. today.
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  • 313 2  -  By Wee Beng Huat Ganja is now the number one drug menace in Singapore. A recent government survey shows there are 3000 adlcts in Singapore most of them youths And the number is steadily increasing according to police sources. Morphine addicts now number about 2,500. Although
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 77 2 WE ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS! Ist Of October—the Official Opening Of Our Company is of significance in that this is the first time in Singapore that a firm of Builders' Quantities Cost Consultants has been set up to cater mainly for the building and civil engineering contractors in particular and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 139 2 ivimiiisn Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Hong Kong 81-79 Manila 91-76 Tokyo 77-58 London 70-59 Paris 64-48 Moscow New York 82-67 San Francisco 60-43 Sydney 82-62 Melbourne 60-49 Canberra 72-51 Perth 65-60 Jakarta 88-78 Kuala Lumpur 90-71 Bangkok 90-77 Taipeh 86-75 Naha 84-79 Seoul 73-62 Singapore The weather forecast from
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    • 99 2 At the cinema Lido: Adlos Sabata—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.15 p.m. Capitol: Raid on Rommel—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. Rex: Duel for Gold (Mand.) 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. Sky: Duel for Gold (Mand.) 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15 p.m. Boxy: Duel for Gold (Mand.) 1.45, 4.15, 7, 9.30 p.m. State: The
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  • 658 3  -  Prime Minister will launch month-long drive KEEP SINGAPORE POLLUTION FREE By Elizabeth Choo A Dig clean-up operation will be carried out throughout Singapore during, this month's anti-pollution campaign which begins today. All Citizens' Consultative Committees together with their respective constituencies will organise their own operation
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  • 140 3 The editorial committee of the Campus Life, a Nanyang University student publication, has issued an apology to the female undergraduates for its recent "derogatory" articles and cartoons against them. The apology came after 3 mounting criticism that the articles and cartoons would only tarnish the
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  • 297 3 Singapore will be ready to handle fully containerised ships next month almost eight months ahead of schedule. Though the container berth will be ready for operation In November, the first container ship Is not expected until the middle of next year. The Far Eastern
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  • 233 3 The Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association is taking a serious view over the "extremely poor response" to its recent X-ray campaign in Tanjong Pagar constituency. It is now reviewing its future programmes as a result of the campaign. Of an estimated 11,000 people in the constituency
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  • 190 3 A local student who has never been to the United States will have a chance to visit it as the Republic's delegate at the World Youth Forum next year. The student to be selected for the forum will have to be truly representative of the
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  • 159 3 Singapore chit fund companies will be able to set up branches across the Causeway if the Malaysian government decides to legalise their operations. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry is considering the lifting of the ban on chit fund operations imposed in February this
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  • 91 3 Mr. C.C. Tan was elected president of the Singapore Island Country Club at Its annual general meeting yesterday. The other office bearers are: Mr. H.M. Dyne (vicepresident) Mr. Cheong Thlam Slew (captain); Dr. Sheng Nam Chin and Mr. Freddy Lee Thlam Yew (vice-captains); Mr. Prank Tung (treasurer);
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 301 4 In rerson Conducted by Ruth Moses, Tel: *****1 Lions never fail to have fun and games whenever they meet. And it was no different when those from the Lions Club East, Singapore, got together at their installation dinner and dance at the Jurong Room
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  • 619 4  -  EDUCATION By Patrick de Souza Many Australian university graduates who returned to Singapore and Malaysia suffered various forms of "culture shock", according to Mr. M.C. Hodgkin, a student welfare officer. In an article called The Communication of Innovations: the Influence of the foreign-trained returnee on
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  • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
    • 147 4 What other newspapers are saying: Canvassing for advertisement: A number of Malay advertisement canvassers in Kuala Lumpur have made a move to form an association which they hope can define the role of the advertisement canvassers throughout the country. This move, in our opinion, is a step in
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    • 114 4 SECURITY FOR MARA LOANS: MARA's willingness to give loans without adequate security for projects that have a good prospect of success is most heartening. It cannot be denied that since it started giving loans to bumiputras for business ventures MARA has greatly helped a large number of Malays
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    • 278 4 INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND: The International Monetary Fund annual meeting opened day before yesterday In Washington and the 118 member countries of the IMF have all sent their finance ministers to attend the meeting. At a time when the stability of the currencies and economy of the
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    • 688 4 RISE IN FOODSTUFF PRICES: Since late last year members of the public have been commenting on the rise in the prices of some dally necessities, expressing their concern that a chain reaction may result. The Government and the people have been Increasing their vigilance against the fluctuation
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  • 239 4 Local food manufacturers are not allowed to use nitrates as preservatives. This was stated by an official of the Ministry of Health today when commenting on the latest cancer scare from the United States over the use of this chemical. Five US food and
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  • 326 5 Reuter Washington, Friday The United States said yesterday it was willing to remove its 10 per cent import surcharge within the next few weeks if other powers gave assurances that they would remove specific trade barriers and allow currencies to float up to
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  • 48 5 The Singapore Institute of Management will hold a four-day seminar for senior executives on profit planning and control at the Singapore Hilton from October 11. It will be conducted by Professor Bhattacharyya. a fellow chartered accountant and lecturer at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
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  • 401 5 k'J IN THE D.N. New Nation Foreign Service New York, Friday The Foreign Ministers of the 53-natlon nonaligned group of the United Nations yesterday urged the strengthening of the world organisations and expansion of its functions. They also came out strongly for Communist
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  • 234 5 Reuter Washington, Friday The Senate yesterday voted for a complete US troop withdrawal frotn Indo-China'over a six-month period, contingent only on the release of all American prisoners of war. It was the second time In three months that the senate overrode administration opposition to
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  • 134 5 Reuter London, Friday "Until death us do part," the priest Intones at the wedding service, but a British doctor believes that husbands and wives are liable to haunt one another even after death. Dr. Dewl Rees, published some startling findings in the British Medical
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  • 71 5 Tet Aviv, Friday About 500 Arab guerrilla prisoners smashed windows In their cells at Ashkalon prison yesterday In the first guerrilla jail uprising since the 1967 Middle Bast war. Police spokesmen said not warder was seriously wounded In the uprising, the worst In Israel's
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  • 95 5 Manila, Friday. President Marcos yesterday signed a Bill appropriating 500,000 pesos to indemnify heirs of persons who died in the January 30 student riots and of any subsequent public demonstration. Immediate beneficiaries of the Bill are the heirs of six students who died in the January
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  • 139 5 Miss Jakarta Fair 1971 Dahlia T. Moedjiharto (above) is more an "ambassadress" than a beauty queen. For this Indonesian beauty, now in Singapore, her Job is to promote tourism. Dahlia, 26, who won the beauty title from 80 other girls from ASEAN countries this year, is
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  • 44 5 The Rev. TJR. Doraisamy, the Chief Inspector of Schools, will open the art and craft exhibition at the Victoria School tomorrow at 4 p.m. The exhibition will be open to the public on Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 pjn.
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  • 226 5 Flags at half-mast United Press International Jakarta, Friday Flags were at halfmast in Jakarta yesterday in memory of the generals and other Indonesians killed in the abortive Communist coup on October 1. The official Armed Forces Dally summed up the general opinion when It said In
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  • 68 5 Singapore University's Department of Extra-Mural Studies will conduct a 10lecture course on Productivity Techniques, starting on Tuesday at 7.30 pjn. The course Is aimed at stimulating greater use of productivity techniques, such as value analysis, method Improvement, critical path analysis, cost reduction schemes In small and medium firms
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  • 26 5 New York, Friday. Hurrican Ginger hit the North Carolina coast yesterday with 90 m.pii. winas which caused widespread damage ana flooding of low-lying areas.
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  • 111 5 Canberra, Friday A Malaysian who came to Australia 13 years ago as a student has been told to leave the country within four weeks. Yong Seng Lim, of Hobart, Tasmania, has been to)d by immigration officials that he must leave by the end of October although he
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    • 162 5 Europe:./ the uncommon market Because you come to Europe on business doesnt mean the only markets you see are those with profit and loss tags attached. Lufthansa has some fun markets in mind. In fun places. Frankfurt for example has some of the best open air shopping complexes in Europe.
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 1325 6  -  By A Staff Writer Discourteous drivers, careless pedestrians, oil and mud left on the road by heavy vehicles, and rudeness of some traffic policemen. These are some of the grouses aired by motorcyclists In Singapore In a New Nation survey conducted over the last few
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    • 559 6  -  Specialist on the defence pact By Pang Cheng Lian Optimists look upon the five-nation Commonwealth defence arrangement as a stabilising agent for the area. Pessimists regard it as a waste of time and money. Mr. Michael Howard, who holds a fellowship In Higher Defence Studies at All
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    • 663 6  -  EXPERTS' VIEWS ON TRAFFIC MOBILITY ■y Patrick de Souza With car ownership growing so rapidly in the Republic a time will come when it would be physically impossible to provide sufficient road space within the city's central area. This view was expressed by
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    • 443 6  -  By Sunny Wee Unless more attention is paid to devising alternatives to the use of the private car, the traffic problem is unlikely to. be solved, a senior British lecturer in transport has warned. Mr. Geoffrey Crow, of London's Imperial College, makes the warning In
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  • 488 7 Communication link to be improved United Press International Washington, Friday The US Secretary of State, Mr. William Rogers, and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Gromyko, yesterday signed an agreement aimed at preventing an accidental outbreak of war between the United States and
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  • 169 7 United Press International Brussels, Friday Emperor Hirohito of Japan, untouched by an egg thrown at him by a student, yesterday completed a tour of Antwerp Zoo he began when he was last in Antwerp 50 years ago. In the process he impressed the zoo's director,
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  • 98 7 New York, Friday.—Captain Ernest Medina, who last week was acquitted of all charges against him in the My Lai massacre, plans to work for his attorney, Mr. F. Lee Bailey, after his discharge from the army. In a Joint TV appearance with Mr. Bailey that
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  • 221 7 United Press International Beirut, Friday A group of unidentified men have tried to assassinate Mulla Mustafa Barzani, the leader of Iraq's Kurdish minority, Baghdad Radio said last night. A broadcast monitored here said the men tried, but failed, to kill Barbanl by exploding more
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  • 32 7 Pretoria, Friday. South Africa's President, Mr. Jim Fouche, and Foreign Minister, Dr. Hilgard Muiler, are to visit Iran next month, the Prime Minitser, Mr. John Vorster, announced here last night.
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  • 160 7 Brussels, Friday In the second mil-lion-dollar theft within a week, thieves yesterday stripped a church in Mechlin, of most of its valuable masterpieces which the parish could not afford to insure against theft. Most famous of the nine 17th and 18th century paintings stolen
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  • 74 7 A large smiling portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung looks down on a Hong Kong Street in preparation for today's Chinese National Day celebrations. China-watchers in the British colony report that this year's decorations put up by the Communists in Hong Kong's crowded streets are much bigger
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  • 307 7 United Press International Tokyo, Friday A Russian ship fired on a US navy patrol plane in the Japan Sea on Tuesday night, it was learned yesterday. Western intelligence sources here said the incident occurred at dusk when the navy aircraft—a P3 patrol plane was
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  • 385 7 Revenge clash in Ulster United Press International Belfast, Friday Protestant construction workers battled Roman Catholics with bricks and planks yesterday following a bomb blast in a crowded Protestant pub. In the first burst of sectarian violence following the explosion, at least three Catholic workers at a housing
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  • 60 7 Kuching, Friday. The Chief Minister of Sarawak, Da to Rahman Yakub, yesterday announced tne appointment of Mr. Nelson Kuaai Ngareng as a Minister of State. The appointment of Mr. Ngareng, who is a State council member for Tarat Sarawak's first division, brings to seven the number of
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  • 138 7 United Press International Cairo, Friday Egyptian warplines yesterday forced a British cargo aircraft, which flew over the Suez Canal military frontlines, to land at Cairo airport, the Middle East News Agency said. The plane, which was on a flight from Jeddah to Athens, later was allowed
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  • 285 7 Reuter Caracas, Friday South American guerrillas have kidnapped their first woman diplomat in the heart of Caracas. Her son yesterday called on the Dominican Republic, his mother's country, and Venezuela to raise the US$l million ransom being demanded. The diplomat, Dominican Consul-General Mrs. Thelma
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  • 533 8 In accepting a proposal of Mrs. Indira Gandhi that the Soviet Union should Join other powers to discuss how the Indian Ocean is to be declared a "zone of peace," Moscow has made its first significant move to allay the fears of
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  • 74 8 JJjJIv jr jjiv by ISPY What a good preview for the anti-pollution campaign! A bonfire was merrily burning away yesterday afternoon within the compound of the police station at the corner of Orchard and Patterson Roads. But considering the number of open fires which are apparently permitted
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  • 896 8  -  SHIRI MULGAOKAR By now, I trust, the tribe of professional China- watchers is sufficiently chastened to avoid another wild spree of speculation about what may be happening in China because the traditional banquet on National Day
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  • Letters
    • 531 8  -  M.S. ISLAM Ag. High Commissioner, Pakistan High Commission. Singapore 9. Please refer to the letter In New Nation of September 27 headlined "Fear of 15m Influx." We are not advocates of any unedlfylng public controversy. The world will, however, draw Its own conclusions from the manner In
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    • 184 8  -  A. WONG I fully support the "buy-Singapore.-made" campaign and feel something should be done to discourage the import of fully assembled cars. I own a locally assembled car, which J am quite satisfied with in spite of a few minor defects which could be improved. I suggest
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    • 337 8 After reading the reply to my letter (N.N. September 24) by the Police PRO, I strongly feel he is not very certain of the two mentioned Incidents at the CID Building. The reply never claims that such incidents did not happen at all, but rather terms
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    • 147 8  -  A. AZIZ HUSSAIN Hon. Gen. Secretary, USSU Singapore 10. I refer to New Nation report on September 24, "No more rallies to support suspended students." University of Singapore Students' Union is merely postponing action In support of the three students till such time that the
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    • 104 8  -  MRS. JANNY YEO Public Relations Officer, Public Health Division, Ministry of Health. Singapore 2. I refer to the letter from Roland L. alleging that mosquitoes were breeding In the underground car park of the uncompleted hotel building at the junction of Race Course Lane and Serangoon Road (New
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • Our Heritage
    • 585 9 New Nation continues ite weekly series of photographs of Singapore's historic and cultural landmarks. Behind each is a story of the Republic's heritage which the average citizen way know only vaguely. Parliament House in High Street was originally built in 1927 for Mr. John Argyle Maxwell, a Singapore
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    • 895 9 This Imposing building was given a simple but dignified opening ceremony on August 3, 1939. The director of Public Works handed the key to the building to the Governor Sir Shenton Thomas, who then gave it to the Chief Justice, Sir Percy McElwaine. The Supreme Court was
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  • 1091 9  -  From Jackie Sam In Karl-Marx-Stadt In the Soviet Union, all the main streets and squares of every city, town and village are named after Lenin. There is also a Leningrad and Lenin himself lies, embalmed and defied, in the Red Square with thousands lining up
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  • SHOPPING
    • 624 10 HOW the hot iron has changed over the years! I remember vividly the days when the womenfolk of the house had to put small pieces of coal cinders into a black, ugly iron and press it hard over the clothes, 8 we a ting profusely and
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  • TREND
    • 115 11 ...and it shows a lot of leg It's a pretty smart local look with batik, an elegant outfit for a cocktail party, and since batik looks best when it shows off a lot of lag* this gown has a slit all the way to the
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    • 656 11  -  Comparing the Western and Asian systems By Frances Dowsett While the European mother overseas complains about being tied to her children because she has no one to look after them, many Asian women in Singapore look longingly at their offspring from a distance and wish
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    • 772 11  -  EATING OUT WITH WENDY HUTTON Ever since they opened about three years spo, the Orchard Road car park stalls have been doing a roaring trade. They have become so well known that both locals and tourists flock here every evening,
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    • 629 11  -  ContetM to attend banquet in Hong Kong By Violet Oon Would you travel thousands of miles to attend A banquet? Well, I think you would if you were the Contesse Alvarez de Toledo and the banquet was the-first Imperial Banquet to be held in Hong
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  • BUSINESS AND FINANCE
    • 298 12 United Press International New York, Friday Prices closed higher on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, but except for bargain hunting there appeared to be little reason to account for the better tone. Analysts said the rise was "overdue" and
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    • 170 12 Reuter London, Friday Stock markets drifted lower for want of interest. At 1500 the Financial Times index was 3.4 down at 410.3. Initial technical gains were reversed or reduced among leading industrials. Philips Lamps and Glaxo were lower. Engineerings were mixed
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    • 95 12 Tan Chong and Sons Motor Company (8) Private Limited, local distributors far Datsun cars, are opening a branch office at Toa Payoh tomorrow. Nation that the expansion followed improved car sales In Singapore. He said: "We are setting up this branch to proTide our customers with
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    • 75 12 Japan Air Lines is to offer discounts on hotel and car rentals to foreign passengers on its U.S.Japan routes. It hopes this move will help regain foreign passengers whose number has been on the decline since 1969. The six hotels allowing 10 per cent discount are the
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    • 141 12 AJtM Cbn Am SET Am Moton AT T A ATM PC Beth Stool Cktup Tat Chrysler Cm-CM> ohm Data Ogrm Ot Wka rxm Cheat DuPont Kodak rod Dnt Stn IM Mot Om Dnuua Oeo Boo Om Food* General Mot OTB o«mi pm (Mmr Oreyhoond Oult on IBM
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    • 203 12 Eleven groups of travel agents ten from Unitea Kingdom and one from Europe will be visiting Singapore during the next four months on a fourday educational tour sponsored by Scandinavian Airlines System. The first of them consisting of four women and three men from London,
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    • 81 12 A'four-day supervisors' workshop for the First National City -Bank executives from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore began this morning at the Singapore Hilton. Fifteen supervisors will undergo this programme, which has been specially drawn up for them. The workshop was declared open this morning by Mr. Wong Nang
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    • 1220 12 TRENDS AND MOVES IN THE MAJOR STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1979-1971, 1 wk. 4 wl LS. CM lag Fries Last Dtrtd. F/B T arn> mm Lnr Mr* Stock Buyer s Sellers Sale TleM Ratio ever INDUSTRIALS ut 1.69 1J6 1J7 Allied Chocolats 2.01 2J1 6JN 145 24 1J0
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    • 409 12  -  JOHN KAM Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday The development of markets and an adequate supplly of trained manpower are needed to attract more investment to Malaysia. This is necessary, says the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers in a review of the manufacturing industry contained
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    • 208 12 SEOUL, Fri. The South Korean textile exporters' association, apparently with their government sanction, has proposed a 12 per cent increase of noncotton textiles exports to the United States In a last-ditch effort to arrive at a compromise settlement with the U.S. This percentage was
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    • 228 12  -  Emily Ng The Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA) meeting to be held In Kuala Lumpur next year could well see some heated discussions on a i proposed more by shopping complex owners to gain membership. This Is the view of Mr. DJB. Anand, manager of Bupreme
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    • Business Abroad
      • 237 12 WASHINGTON, Fri. World Bank President Mr. Robert McNamara yesterday strongly criticised the current wave of nationalisations of foreign investments which is on the rise in some developing countries. He described as "disquieting" the growing tendency "in some quarters to hold that as a normal attribute
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      • 150 12 TOKYO: Heavy selling of dollars yesterday caused the value of the yen to rise to a new high of 834.21 yen to the dollar, or 7.7 per cent above its old fixed parity. Local hanking, sources aid exchange hanks were selling unusually large amounts and
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      • 73 12 NEW YORK: Asamera Oil Corporation said in Calgary, Alberta, yesterday that a group of which it is a member has struck oil at two wells in north Sumatra. Asamera said that the discoveries were made in a sand formation that previously had not been productive.
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      • 57 12 JAKARTA; Indonesia has sufficient potential to meet any changes in the world monetary situation, the State Minister for Economy, Finance and Industry, Sultan Hamengkubuwono, said today. Sultan Hamengkubuwono told a special parliamentary session that the devaluation of the rupiah by almost 10 per cent was
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      • 60 12 NEW YORK: Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines announced they have mutually agreed to terminate exploratory merger discussions. The two big airlines announced in July that they the possibility of a merger, a combination Pan Am had advised the Justice Department three months earlier
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      • 35 12 reaerves of gold and foreign curren- tandfi at US$l33BO million an increase of PS$B7O million during September, the FlnancelCinfrtry estimated. JSLJF s i he thlrd monthly rise in reserves Ih Japan s history. .<•
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  • SPORT
    • 1124 13  -  GUTTER Bk TALK WITH JOHN FITCH Oh! what a night it really was when Chris Tong started a great rally with six In a row with Lawrence Seow joining In with a turkey. Fred Yeoh and Jimmy Lim joined the striking spree with anchor man E>.
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    • 183 13 Reuter London, Friday The British Lawn Tennis Association will not waver in Its support of the Internals 1 on. a 1 Federation's (ILTF) moves to bar world championship tennis (WCT) professionals from January Ist next year. This was made clear at a meeting of the
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    • 34 13 W Coy 1 RNZIR 12 Police-Military 0 W Coy. 1 RNZIR player (right) set to pounce on the ball. Tussle in the lineout Pictures: Ali Yusoff Well tackled.
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    • 374 13  -  Stop bath is a must CAMERA «t er By WANG SU FAH centimetres and ounces is used to measure the correct amount of chemicals for processing to avoid wastage. Water for washing negatives should be filtered and its temperature can be varied between 57 and 68 degrees
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    • 35 13 The Singapore Swimming Club will hold its open championships at its pool at Tanjong Rhu on October 12. IS ana 14 starting at 5.30 pjn. and on October 16 starting at 2.30 P-»-
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    • 706 14 New York, Wednesday The beautiful black knight known as Muhammad Ali has come riding out of the darkness to save heavyweight boxing once again. At least, this Is the song they sing in the streets here these days. Joe Frailer may be world champ,
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    • 179 14 Agence France Presse Kuala Belait, Brunei Friday Hong Kong is a firm favourite in today's far eastern amateur rowing championships at the mangrove lined Belait river in this oil centre here. But it will have to overcome fierce competition from Singapore which is entering a very
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    • 39 14 The Police-Military boxing tournament which will be held at the Police Academy tonight at 7.30 p.m. will serve as a trial to select the national team to the Malaysian Open championships and forthcoming BEAP Games in December.
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    • 25 14 The Singapore Swimming Club will hold Its 1971 Open Swimming championships at the club pool in Tanjong Rhu from October 12 to 16.
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    • 342 14 Reuter London, Friday David Vaughan of Britain, who earns 13 sterling a week as a barman, led the 56strong field after the second round of the 10,000 sterling Dunlop Masters golf tourna- ment here yesterday. That was the surprising situation after the littleknown Vaughan went round
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    • 150 14 Reuter Johannesburg, Friday Mr. Sid Martin, Secretary of the South African Cricket Association (SACA), said yesterday he knew nothing of highlevel secret talks taking place in a bid to stage a cricket Test series between South Africa and England this winter. Mr. Martin was commenting on
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    • 53 14 The Basketball Association of Singapore will send a team to the sixth Asian champlonships to be held in Tokyo from October 30 to November 5. i» The other countries tak- lng part are South Korea, ll Taiwan, Philllplnes, Malay- sia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Indonesia,
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    • 524 15 By Bine Peter Trainer Vincent Chong's sole entry Jasbo underlined his chances in the $61,500 Singapore Gold Cup at Bukit Tim a h this morning. With leading Jockey Des Coleman in the saddle Jasbo strode out fluently over 3f in 38 2/5. The
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    • 263 15  -  By Jeffrey Low The New Zealand Otahuhu rugby team will have two world famous All-Blacks players In its side when the visitors begin their tour of Singapore and Malaysia next week. The more popular of the two Is Mae Herewini, the most colourful Maori AllBlack
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    • 218 15 Hong Kong, Friday England produced some magnificent running and handling in the second-half to beat Hong Kong by 26 points to nil last night in the first full Rugby Union Internationa) ever played here. The game was played In appalling weather with rain falling steadily.
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    • 60 15 Paris, Friday Weimar, the Italian three-year-old owned by Mr. A. Citterio, has been withdrawn from Sunday's Prix De L'Arc De Trlomphe, Europe's richest horse race, the French Racing Society announced last night. This left 18 entered, including the British trained favourite Mill Beef, the crack French
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    • 1849 15 IIJMg 1.45 CLASS 6 DIV. 3 6F BuiEfcSUH ($5,500 $3,850 to winner) 1 ***** ZAC a (Wong Bros) Tulloh 6 9.0 3) P Harbrldge ft 2 ***** lON VIVANT R (Four Chums) R Breukelen 5 8.13 <dd 9) Draco* 3 3 -***** SENATOR a (SBT) Tan
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    • 84 15 The 1971 National Teachers' basketball tournament will be held from tomorrow to October 16, at the People's Association courts. The opening ceremony will be held on Sunday at 7.30 p.m. at the People's Association. Mr. Phua Bah Lee. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Communications, will declare the
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    • 41 15 London, Friaay. A Chinese table tennis team win visit Engiana for a series of matches later this year, it was announced here yesteroay. Tne Chinese party will arrive in early December ano stay for two weeks.
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    • 30 15 Buenos Aires, Friday US Grandmaster Bobby Fischer yesterday defeated former world champion Ttfrran PeMts of the Soviet Union in the first match of the final candidates elimination tournament.
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    • 618 15 The Singapore Island Country Club "300" Club Trophy will be played over the new course on Sunday. The draw and starting times: Ist tee. 7.58 am—Phillip 81m (8). J. J. Campbell (IS), B. Law (18); 7.SB—Frank Yon* (9). 8. A. Yeoh (II), B. Cordelre (16); 7.42
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    • 37 15 Reuter Rafby Letfw tour match— Barrow 15 New Zealand 25. Rufby Union knockout championship Ist round Bath 3 Gloucester 12. Club matches Penarth 6 Aberavon 28; Penryn 58 Devonport 0; Redruth 6 St. Ives 48.
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    • 182 13 Photographic Contest NEW NATION Name Address Title: Camera: Exposure: Camera Corner weekly photographic contest. Below are the rules of the competition. It's open to all with cash prizes. Rules 1. The Contest is open to all Singapore photorraphers. 2. Minimum size is 6" x 8" on flossy surface. 1 An
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    • 398 14 LA A 1 ASTROLOGY CONSULT THI ASTRO PALMIST ot Mayfair Hotel, Room 107, about your future life and fortune. Phone: (Singapore) ***** for appointment. AT YOUR SERVICE HOMI SERVICE: We shampoo carpets, polish all types of floorings. Call for appointment at your convenience. Telephone *****8 Singopore. INTCRKSTfO IN GETTING a
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    • 38 14 DR. KILDARE Vi \5 m 11 X m r« i y 111 3 3 a a 4 :~H ss>KW'£S saV'-. ■a, 3*. iV s 5 H! r--, ras i RIP KIRBY S^iiao Jiiaa® John Prentice and Fred Diekenson
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    • 215 15 w> NEW NATION I FRIDAY MONEYWORDS 'F Cat «rt Mi m »it* attar twn PtsUac MtractrtM mm Mm. Mm (Mr./Mrt./Hia). twin :ii» n miaMMni WHAT YOr HAVE TO DO Each day Otts vetk, New Natien, «l prthsk a wart paole. la tack paole there wfl he sii wards each with
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    • 427 16 TEAM AWARDED RESEARCH GRANT United Press International The old science fiction thriller about a man with a "radioactive brain" may be closer to reality tnan anybody dreamed possible a few years ago. Only the organ Involved wont be the brain, but the heart,
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    • 248 16 United Press International The soldier with an outline of a naked woman or even the word "mother" tattooed across bis chest Is likely to be a problem for the French military, an army physician said In Paris yesterday. In an article In the
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    • 125 16 Britain's animal lovers have saved a tankful of North American catfish from electrocution by a Los Angeles artist who wanted to register his disgust at the horrors of the modern world. Artist Newton Harrison was to have killed the catfish at an exhibition of contemporary Los
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    • 56 16 Linda Marie Boniface, 21, finds working In a hotel very Interesting. Employed In a local hotel she says that anyone contemplating working as a caterer should not look upon It as a Job but as a career. Her hobbles Include playing the piano,
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    • 56 16 AH FOOK: Travel agents have proposed that air travellers on 24-hour visits to the Republic should be exempted from paying the $lO passenger service charge. Don't you agree It is a good move? MEI LIN: I agree but if It is scrapped where will the Government obtain revenue
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    • 186 16 Nora Aunor, an 18-year-old school girl, is the Philippines' most unlikely superstar, the best paid singeractress in the nation's history. Nora has little in common with the Philippines' crop of long-legged, fair complexloned beauty queens who usually come from upper crust families. Nora Is
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    • 360 16 3.00 Opening and General Hospital 3.20 For the Family (E) 3.50 A Diary of Events In Singapore this Week (E) 3.55 It's Happening In Singapore 4.15 Days of Oar Lives 4.35 Close 5.55 Opening and Lucky D.p 6.30 News In Brief 6.35 Accent on Youth 7.00 Sports Parade 7.40 News
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  • GO RACING
    • 976 17 By Blue Peter Grey Eyes, a beaten favourite last Saturday, should make amends by taking the Class Two Division Four (Race Eight) 7f handicap at Buklt Tlmah tomorrow. He ran far from a bad race when fifth to Melross over 6f.
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