New Nation, 5 October 1971

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  • 17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, October 5, 1971 No. 223 Price 15 cents SINCAPOftf TUKPAY, OCTOWt 5
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  • 99 1 Steady condition prevailed on the stock market this morning. However, Interests centred on selective issues which were marginally marked up. In the industrials, buying support in United Motor Works saw the share taken up from $2.18 to ftilTa gain of 4 cents against yesterday's last sale at
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  • 13 1 t Police reportill 53 accidents re 8 terdiy. Seven were serious.
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  • 58 1 New York. Tuesday A 33-year-old Jordanian, who apparently fell In tore with a University of Illinois student in Libya this summer, has been charged with abducting her at gunpoint. Police arrested IfOnlr Hamdan in Rantoul, near Urban a, Illinois, yesterday after the girl. Miss Debora Foss, 20,
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  • 44 1 LATE NEWS At Press time this morning firemen from the Port Authority were fighting huge oil slick around Pulau Bukom. Initial reports said that the dick had been caused by a broken pipeline at the Shell refinery on the island.
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  • 457 1  -  Students assaulted to stop them going to the police^ By Sunny Wee, Elizabeth Choo Drug-pushers are How resorting to assaulting and secondary school students to prevent them going to the police. Groups of pushers, known to be operating In the vicinity of at least three
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  • 245 1 US calls for new bid United Press International New York, Tuesday The US Secretary of State, Mr. William Rogers, yesterday laid down a six-point plan for peace and the Arabs towards mutual accommodation. Mr. Rogers was delivering the U8 policy speech to the UN
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  • 278 1 A blind Singapore telephone Operator, Miss Chan Chong Alng (above), who Is now working In Hong Kong, has sought the help of the Singapore Association for the Blind to trace her parents. She i> the second Singapore girl in Hong Kong to seek the association's help
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  • 54 1 Vtipeh, Tuesday Nationalist China has announced controls on non-cotton Mite exports to the Ufeited The Central news agency 13KBI ml today that the Boasd of Foreign Trade ruled that effective from October 1, manufacturers musf submit non cotton tsatSe products for inspection by authorised agencies before
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  • 162 1 The Ministry of Defence and the police will issue a statement, later today on the death of Toh Ah Seng, 10. A police spokesman said Toh was accidentally shot by a National Serviceman during an army exercise at Ama Keng yesterday. The incident occurred
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  • 74 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Labour and Manpower Minister, Tan Sri V. feanlkavasagam. yesterday announced the setting up of Social Security Council to ensure the successful implementation of the social security scheme. The council Is raponlMe lor neauMndtai any am>«> in the Social Security AtHSd the form and
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  • 28 1 Saigon, Tuesday—South Vietnamese troops have killed at least 194 North Vietnamese in clashes near the Cambodian border town of Krek, a government spokesman said to-, day.
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  • 129 1 Reuter Manila, Tuesday Police yesterday charged a Philippine Congressman's son with the murder of a 22-year-old socialite gunned down outside her mother's home in an exclusive Manila suburb last week. Two separate charges of murder were filed against 19-year-old Rafael Aquino, who was surrendered to
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  • 60 1 Sydney, Tuesday.—Two US destroyers will join the search today for eight people adrift In a rubber raft off the east coast of Australia. The people In the raft abandoned their ketch on Saturday after sending distress m wages that the ▼eeeel was sinking about 300 miles
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  • 25 1 A bus belonging to the Singapore Traction Company caught fire this morning In Connaught Drive. Mo-one was Injured. The police are tayesttgatlng
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  • 20 1 Water consumption reached the 100 million gallon mark yesterday, an increase of 0.3 million gallons over Sunday's figure.
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  • 196 1 Two business tycoons fled from the Republic recently when the Income Tax Department dragnet began closing in on TUls brings the num■ber of businessmen, all who fled the country since the swoop by the department on tax evaders in June this yeafc .tO fife.: U ;•>
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  • 149 1  -  By P.N. Balji Six women police recruits were rushed to the Thomson Road General Hospital, suffering from symptoms of hysteria yesterday. The incident happened at the Police Academy about noon when the recruits—all from West Malaysia—began to shout and run around the grounds. Police officers
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  • 66 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday.— Tte- Yang dl-Pertuan Agong Hi mi# Hwtoalsuil Agoqgwll attend the five-day Iran Mth oentenary celebration* Ma Oet 14, Wiaraa Putra ww*-* today. The Invitation to wHnesi the odihitim was extended to the King >nd Queen by the Shah of Iran who Tinted Malaysia last
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  • 33 1 Taipei, Tuesday.— China Airlines will mark President Chiang Kai-Shek's 84th birthday on October 31 with the Introduction of a weekly flight from the southern Taiwan city of Kaehslung to Hong Kong.
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  • 374 2  -  $1.6 m. for sophisticated guide system By Herbert Teo Singapore Airport is spending over $1.6 million for the purchase and installation of t#> navigational aids which will provide a more sophisticated landing approach system for all aircraft. The Department of Civil Aviation has
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  • 57 2 Bonn, Tuesday. The Soviet unmanned moon probe Luna 19 is preparing for a soft landing on the moon, the Bochum space observatory reported last night The observatory's director, Professor Heinx Kaminskl, said Luna 19 was stabilising its orientation to the dark side of the moon.
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  • 188 2 The construction firm whose building licence was suspended by the government as a result of four fatal accidents at the Mandarin Hotel has decided on more safety measures for its workers. The firm, Lim Kah Ngam (8) Pte. Ltd. was told by the Labour
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  • 66 2 Caracas, Tuesday.—The Dominican Republic's consul, Mrs. Thelma Frlas de Rodriguez, said by police to hare faked her own kid-' napping, has been dismissed from her post, Venezuela's Acting Foreign Minister said yesterday. The 56-year-old consul was found by police In "voluntary seclusion" on Sunday, following a
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  • 42 2 New Delhi, Tuesday*—A freight truck dashed against a police vehicle yesterday near Bhnveneehwar, capital of south-east-ern state of Orissa, killing six policemen and injuring 30, the All-India Radio reported. The -condition of three injured constables was grave, it said.
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  • 204 2 An eight-point code of hygiene for hawkers will be rigidly enforced next month when the current "Keep Singapore Anti Pollution Free" campaign ends. The code specifies that It Is against the law:— to keep food or drinks exposed and unprotected from dust, dirt and flies. to
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  • 214 2 Industrialists, handicapped by the shortage of manpower, are now recruiting more child labour. The Ministry of Labour, in its monthly report for August, said 15 girls and five boys between the ages of 12 and 15 applied for Certificates of Registration to be eligible for
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  • 37 2 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. —Three Tmyw entered Malaysia five years ago on visit passes were yesterday lined $lOO each for overstaying by two years and live months. The three, described as Javanese food stall proprietors, pleaded guilty.
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  • 26 2 Jakarta, Tueeday.— five men were burled alive when the wall of a hole they were hi—tw coUansedat Tangrang, SO miles rf Jakarta at the
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  • 243 2 Police will call on Mr. Harold Shaw at his hospital bedside today to show him a photograph of a known gangster who is believed to be connected with the kidnapping of his elder brother Mr. Vee Meng Shaw in 1964. The description given by
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  • 298 2 New Nation Foreign Service Bangkok, Tuesday Thailand and Malaysia have agreed in principle to set up a joint committee to thrash out trade problems between the two countries, Thai Minister of Economic Affairs, Mr. Bunchana Atthakor, said yesterday. The Joint committee will meet once ever year In
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  • 305 2  -  KEEP SINGAPORE POLLUTION FREE By Elizabeth Choo These two pictures show, a stretch of beach at the K&llang Basin before and after an anti-pollution campaign clean-up. Until a few days ago when the Public Cleansing Inspectors and their men started an intensive Operation
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  • 114 2 A 15-man mission from Japan is in Singapore to promote bigscale use of modem machinery and equipment in the shipbuilding and repairing industry. The delegation, led by Mr. L Matsushita, president of the Japan Ship Machinery Export Association, will have talks with the Economic Development
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  • 228 2 Malaysia Singapore Airlines has come up with a unique way of assisting its staff and at the same time helping to keep Singapore's population down. The airline provides a maternity loan under it's staff welfare scheme »w< attached to the Is a letter informing the staff
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  • 80 2 On Sept. i, New Nation published an article about the termination of the tenancy of a private in carpenter Street We Incorrectly stated that the owner of the market Is the Singapore Food•tuffs Association. The market is owned by Singaere Chinese Foodstuffs iporters Co. Ltd. The
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 134 2 I weather I Temperature* In world cities yesterday Kuala Lumpur 93-73 Jakarta 84-75 Bong Kong 86-81 Seoul 73-52 Tokyo 67-60 Bangkok 88-77 Naha 84-75 Talpeh 86-75 Manila 77-74 Parts 85-57 San Francisco 70-40 New York 73-67 London 65-54 Moscow 41-34 Bydney 70-55 Melbourne 58-47 Canberra 59-37 Perth 70-55 Singapore The
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  • 267 3 $lO m. exhibition will be Britain's largest showcase in the region Lord Drumalbyn, Minister without Portfolio ta the Houae of Lords Jrtth special responsibiuttes for trade and industry, will arrive here &«*t week to open Britain's biggest industrial exhibition in the region. Annonncing
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  • 79 3 Mrs. E. W. Barker, wife of the Minister for Law and National Development, will open and lead the six-kilo-metre YWCA Walk on Oct. 18. This charity walk Is In aid of the YWCA's community service projects In Outram Road. The starting and ending point is
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  • 31 3 Professor Keith E. Halnan from the Faculty of Radiologists, London, will speak on "Recent advances in the treatment of cancer," at the Pathology lecture theatre, today at 8.15 p.m.
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  • 468 3 The Commander of the Far East Land Forces, Major-General Walter Thomas will present good service testimonials to 69 civilian employees of the British army In Singapore. ttnployees of HQ PARAjP win receive their awards tram Major-General Thomas on October 14. They are Mr. Btttampalam Bslaringham,
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  • 42 3 The Adult Education Board will begin two language courses at Its headquarters In Calrnhlll Road today. A Malay language course will be held from 8 pm. to 9.30 p.m. and an English course from 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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  • 32 3 A Public Health Division refuse van crashed Into a drain In front of the Slnripore Recreation Club at 15 a.m. today when a front wheel came off. Noone was hurt.
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  • 244 3 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday The Youth problem in Malaysia should be tackled with more seriousness to avoid the danger of an upheavel. Mr. Cheah Kool Ouan, secretary of the Ro tar act Club of the Specialist Teachers' Training Institute In Cheras, said this at a
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  • 311 3  -  By Pang Guek Cheng Singapore's Jewel of Dances, Miss Usha Rani Subramaniam, 23 (above), was once a little girl who hated dancing and did everything to escape classes. "I used to cry when it was time to go for my dancing lessons, but my
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  • 151 3 A total of 242 factories were served in August with notices for infringement of the Factories Act The occupiers were served with notices of contravention under the Act and 135 follow-up visits were made to ensure compliance. The Labour Ministry's latest monthly report
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 87 3 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. Bex: Duel For Gold (Mandarin) 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. Sky: Duel For Gold (Mandarin) 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15 p.m. State: Mephisto Waltz—--1.45, 4, 7, 9.30 p.m. Globe: Zeppelin—l.4s, 4, 7, 9.15
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  • In Person
    • 153 4 Conducted by Ruth>Moses, Tel: *****1 IT WILL be a long time before another wedding like the one between Mr. Jopie Ong and Miss Chan Mei Lin comes along. About 1500 close friends and business associates packed the entire second floor of the Hilton to
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    • 181 4 THE get-together of the China Society to mark the mid-autumn festival was a far cry from being an allChinese affair. It was, in fact, multiracial all the way. Apart from the mixed crowd, there was also a mixture of food mooncakes and satay. The happening was held
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  • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
    • 492 4 What other newspapers are saying: SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIAN LISTED COMPANIES NOT EAST TO TAKE OVER?: Mr. D. Ogil-vy-Watson, executive director of the Slater Walker Group, who became famous almost over-night in early June, gave a talk on the local share market recently at a lunch of the
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    • 395 4 HOW DOES THE US TREAT HER ECONOMIC PARTNERS?: According to well-informed people attending the International Monetary Fund minimi meeting, the United States is preparing a three-point package deal to try to settle the world currency crisis and the proposed deal which is to be carried out
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    • 259 4 TO GIVE INFORMATION AND TO CARE: It is not enough for the authorities to fight Communist propaganda with force. The Communists are using propaganda as a means of '•winning over the hearts and minds of the people" in their efforts to spread their Influence and obtain support for
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  • 194 4 Peking, Tuesday The red flags have been furled, the stands dismantled: the great revolutionary National Day fete which enlivened the capital for three days is over. But while diplomats from countries close to China stress that "all is normal," others, the "mysteries" of
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  • 527 5 W IN THE U.N, Reuter Tuesday Rogers, TO Secretary of State, appealed to UN members today to seat gMna in the Security council but preserve General Assembly representation for Taiwan. He described the Albanian resolution to seat the People's Republic ana, expel Taiwan
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  • 326 5 United Press International New York, Tuesday If the United Nations admits Communist China, the next question is not whether Nationalist China should retain its seat but "whether the UN deserves to survive, Nationalist China's ambassador to the United States said yesterday. Ambassador James C.
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  • 113 5 Reuter Brussels, Tuesday NATO Ministers are to meet today to appoint and brief an "explorer" to visit Warsaw Pact capitals to sound out Communist views on cutting troop strengths in East and West Europe. Mr. Manlio Brosio, the 74-year-old Italian diplomat who stepped down
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  • 216 5 Reuter London, Tuesday A new publicity campaign to boost the image of the 32-natlon Commonwealth is the objective of a fourday Commonwealth information conference which opened yesterday. About 50 delegates, Including the heads of several national Information services, are discussing ways of making the
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  • 209 5 United Press International Jakarta, Tuesday The eighth session of the South-east Asia and Pacific Region Plant Protection Committee of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) opened in Jakarta yesterday with an appeal to the nations of this area to keep
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  • 72 5 London, Tuesday.— The Opposition Labour Party yesterday gave overwhelming backing to the party leadership's official policy of rejecting British entry Into the European Common Market on the terms negotiated by the Conservative government. This meant that the man party trade unionist*, constituency groups, Parliamentarians and associated organisations has
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  • 376 5  -  By Brian Williams Reuter A Communist offensive aimed at disrupting Sunday's presidential election took one year to plan and was the heaviest fighting in South Vietnam for 18 months, officials reported. The South Vietnamese military command said that 92 Viet Gang and North Vietnamese
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  • 169 5 United Press International Washington, Tuesday The US Senate voted yesterday to impose a US$35O million ceiling on US support for ground operations in the Laotian war, including Central Intelligence Agency guerrilla activities. In a compromise between the administration and Senator Stuart Symington, (Democrat
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  • 95 5 Bangkok, Tuesday. The Bangkok World saia yesteraay neariy 1000 men from Umpnang district in Tak, a northwestern province of Thailand have joined Communist terrorists and are now receiving weapon training in jungle camps. The English language newspaper said 10 villages in Tak have been completely
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  • 239 5 Reuter Hong Kong, Tuesday Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny got down to talks with North Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi yesterday after assuring his hosts of Moscow's continued all-round support. Hanoi radio reported that the Soviet leaaer and his accompanying high-level delegation conferred with top North
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 849 6  -  Turning the Singapore customer into a better-informed buyer By Gerald de Cruz Dr. Henry Ong Wah Kim believes that the Singapore consumer must accept the fact that he Is gullible because as a consumer he Is uneducated. "He may have a university degree but as a consumer he
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    • 533 6  -  Sole agency for links with socialist bloc By V.K. Chin A. significant fact which emerged from the four-day visit by the three-man North Korean trade mission Is that Pernas (the National Trading Corporation) will become Malaysia's Intraco. In two months, It played host
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    • 550 6 Washington Post The Soviet Union is giving serious consideration to using nuclear explosives to dig a canal 71 miles long through Jhe westcentral part of Russia. The experiment would Involve the detonation of no fewer than 250 conventional explosives along the
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    • 462 6  -  By Jackie Sam Three successive White Papers In five years have now traced the progress of the Communist Party of Malaya from: frInF.AMIJNING retraining and re indoctrination to near-readiness for a resumption of the armed struggle; THE united front organisations to their replacement by the
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    • 862 6  -  That's one of the jobs of the American agency FBIS hom Jack Foisie In a strange house In an alley of Sol 39 (39th Street) here, the UJ3. Central Intelligence Agency produces documents that quite often end up in the hands of fishmongers as wrapping paper.
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  • 318 7 'Govt, initiated military supplies offer to Pals' Reuter Washington, Tuesday The United States was offering 'military equipment worth about US$9 million to Pakistan despite an administrative holddown on arms shipments, Senator Edward Kennedy claimed yesterday. But a US State Department spokesman denied it, »ylng that
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  • 324 7 United Press International Washington, Tuesday Communist China will avoid direct trade with the United States as long as US military support for Taiwan continues, the head of a British firm which trades with Peking said here yesterday. "The Chinese are not prepared
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  • 147 7 Reuter Algiers, Tuesday Soviet Prime Minister Mr. Alexei Kosygin arrived here yesterday for a four-day visit to Algeria, one of Moscow's closest partners In Africa and the Middle East. He was welcomed by President Houarl Bounedlenne, who is ex- pected to explain Algeria's militant policy of support
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  • 261 7 Reuter New York, Tuesday An authoritative American aerospace publication said yesterday the Soviet Union is pushing to achieve a clear technological-mi-litary superiority over the United States by 1974-75. The magazine, Aviation Week And Space Tech* noloay. said: "At the present rate of
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  • 75 7 Mr. George Hall, 75, who has been a grandfather 13 times, rets a huf from his new 19-year-old bride. Mr. Hall, from Dallas, Texas, has no doubts about how fit he is. Tm active enough," he said. "I still chase women and I don't sleep my
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  • 62 7 Klnihaia, Tuesday. Congo-Kinshasa and Cambodia have agreed in principle to the exchange of ambassadors, a joint communique said here. The communique, issued after the visit of a Cambodian delegation, said the two countries reaffirmed the principle of non-inter-ference u the internal affairs of states, support for
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  • 205 7 Reuter New York, Tuesday President Nixon yes*terday took emergency powers to end the nation-wide dock strike, setting up a special board to decide in which areas dockers should be ordered back to woi;k lor an 80-day cooling off period. The White House
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  • 66 7 New York, Tuesday.— Capt Ernest L. Medina, 35, who was found innocent less than two weeks ago of murder charges at My Lai, resigned from the US Army yesterday with "deep sorrow and regret" The veteran officer who said after his court-martial that his 16-year military
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  • 544 7 Reuter Paris, Tuesday Emperor Hirohito of Japan yesterday fell victim to the common ailment of tourists In Paris tiredness —but still Insisted on seeing a golfing partner of 50 years ago. the Duke of Windsor. The 70-year-old emperor, who has kept up
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  • 57 7 Brussels, Tuesday.— Two Belgian princes. Including the heir presumptive to the throne, were Injured on Sunday when they collided with each other while riding their bicycles in the grounos of the royal palace at Laeken, a court spokesman said. Prince Philippe, n, broke his upper jaw and
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  • 223 7 Reuter New York, Tuesday Vladimir Pavllchenko, Russian director of the External Relations Division of the UN Public Information Office, yesterday denied an allegation in the New York Times that he is a veteran officer of the KOB the Soviet Union's intelligence
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  • 204 7 Reuter Belfast, Tuesday One British soldier was killed and eight other people were injured yesterday when a bomb demolished an army post near the peace line dividing Belfast's Protestant and Catholic communities. Six of the eight people were soldiers. All were said to
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  • 178 7 Reuter Cairo, Tuesday President Anwar Sadat of Egypt was last night elected as chairman of the new Federation of Arab Republics, linking Egypt, Libya and Syria. The post will rotate every two years among heads of the federal states. Choice of a chairman came
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  • 439 8 However one looks at It, President Nguyen Van Thieu's victory in the election for a second term in office is an impressive one. The election, it is true, was an uncontested one. But the opposition had means open to it to demonstrate its strength. It
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 94 8 The campaign to educate Singaporeans to value their own products as they would other countries' products is long overdue. Fanaticism over the use of locally manufactured products can, of course, sometimes be carried too far. The story Is often told of a Minister of a
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    • 70 8 One of the most original music premieres took place in Canberra on Sunday night when a work for aboriginal dldgeridoo and wind quintet was presented at the spring festival. The dldgeridoo is a hol-lowed-out trunk from three to 10 feet long which produces one basic note. But
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    • 160 8 For geographical and other reasons, India is not necessarily the best place for China watching. However, reports say that, as in every other major capital, Delhi has been busy looking at Its own crystal ball, through the eyes of Indian China experts. Besides university lecturers and
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  • 872 8  -  GERALD de CRUZ The Malaysian government White Paper on the Resurgence of Armed Communism in West Malaysia is extremely detailed and most timely. Most people in Singapore need reminding, odd though it may sound, that the northern part of
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  • Letters
    • 219 8  -  MOHAMMED OSMAN NASIR I refer to an article about Sultan Mosque by Elizabeth Choo in New Nation in the Saturday Review on September 18, which contained some statements about Islam. It is stated "From the majestic dome of the Mosque the imam calls the faithful
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    • 208 8  -  ONG SIEW GEOK Fm living in a residential area in Katong where people take much care in keeping their gardens green ana clean. Indeed, it is very encouraging to see many Singaporeans taking pride in their homes. Not only are they improving their living conditions, at
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    • 167 8 Are all Public Health Auxiliaries, i.e. Public Health Assistants and Public Health Overseers, issued with identification cards? If not, why? Take, for example, a case which happened a few days ago. One morning a Public Health overseer came to investigate a complaint regarding non-removal of nightsoil.
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    • 131 8  -  MRS. JANNY TEO Public Relations Officer, Public Health Division, Ministry of Health, Singapore, 2. I refer to the letter by "Mosquiteers", headlined "Anti-Mc&qulto Campaign" (NN September 15). Mosquiteers' allegation that in the "anti-mosquito drive" greater emphasis is placed on rural areas while urban areas are
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    • 110 8  -  TOH CHUN CHOONG I protest most strongly against the way our lawenforcing officers go about their task of "Studying ways to keep Singaporeans clean and tidy." Where else in the socalled "free world" would a law-abiding person be forcibly detained to have his picture taken
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    • 120 8 Those of us living along Pasir Panjang Road have been hoping for quite some time that something will be done to obviate the need for us to keep our windows closed from dawn to dusk because of the lorries carrying earth for land reclamation in
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 1089 9  -  Uneasy peace after several clashes between trawler and inshore operators in Malaysian waters From V.K. Chin Police have restored peace In the fishing villages of Port Weld and Kuala Kurau along the Perak coast where several clashes occurred recently between trawler and Inshore fishermen. But how long this
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  • 703 9  -  By Pang Cheng Lian Singapore requires an army of quality and not merely quantity, according to Colonel Ronald Wee Soon Whatt, the Director of the Singapore Command and Staff College. His reason: A welltrained army is far more valuable than a large well-equipped one. "Although we
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  • SHOPPING
    • 614 10 HPHEY are Just the A things to start your children on a 'save for the future' schemes. I am of course talking about those tiny piggy banks that are now easily available on the market. Made completely out of coconuts the whole flesh and husks have
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  • TREND
    • 757 11  -  She proves that there's no laek of talent here CHO CHING CHOO "I want to make it so that people can say It was made in Singapore' and feel proud of it." Mrs. Quek K&i Tong was talking about the striking and racy Items which
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    • Article, Illustration
      195 11 Today I am giving you an advanced exercise. Keep yourself completely relaxed when performing abdominal exercises ana practise free breathing. You will notice that with any movement that involves behind the body forward or bringing the legs up to the chest you inhale then exhale as you straighten
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    • 104 11 ...in eroehet stitch knits Everything*! eominf up In crochets. Today we feature a new crop of crochet stitch knits In lush colours. Here are two versions to fill your ward-' robe In an explosion of happy colours they're cooled down slightly by the wort's bubbly openwork texture.
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    • 71 11 CARPETS and RUGS GREAT REDUCTIONS!— i *r- 4 V Select Your Choice Of Beautiful Carpets From' Persia,. Russia, Pakistan, .India, Bokhara Also Continental Carpets Rugs. 3, RAFFLES FLACK, (IST FLOOR), S'PORE-1. TEL: ***** NEW ARRIVAL Orient Cvalts, 108, Orchord Rood' Singopore 9. Won't you K've these pets .i home PETS
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  • BUSINESS AND FINANCE
    • 269 12 United Press International New York, Tuesday Stocks advanced for the third day in a row yesterday, with oils, aircrafts and selected specialty issues among the early favourites. Turnover was moderate. Mr. Newton Zinder, analyst for EJ. Hutton and Company, said the gain reflected
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    • 191 12 Reuter London, Tuesday The market closed quietly easier on balance after having opened firmer. At 1500 hrs the Financial Times index was down 2.6 at 404.3. Government stocks melt good support with gains ranging up to half point at the long end and around
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    • 211 12 AOM am ikH Am Ou Am uMan AT ft T A ft P A«M N Bath MmI Boeing 44 43 m 44* 14% 19 26% 14% 4S% 2»> lb Coca-Cola 111% Cnlral Dal* 47* Cora Ol Wki 238% Dow Ckaa tBH. DuPoat 1W% B Kodak Fed Dept
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    • 58 12 Australia's largest Industrial group, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, anticipates some Increase in earnings In the 1971-72 financial year. The chairman, Sir lan McLennan, told the annual meeting in Melbourne that forecasting was more difficult than usual because of inflation and industrial unrest, but directors' present thinking was
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    • 1213 12 TRENDS AND MOVES IN THE MAJOR STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1976-1971 m«h IM 1 wk. ag* 4 wk*, •a Stack ■g Price i SeOen Lad DMi. P/E T i Bale YleM Ratio KTBINDUSraALS 2J3 1J0 3 JO 913 1.70 3.44 Ml 1.74 9.74 1.69 034* 1.96 1.79 130
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    • 242 12 Diethelm Aluminium a local company engaged in the manufacture of stainless steel sinks, aluminium ladders and showcases, is planning a massive export drive to boost its overseas sales. At present, the company exports 30 per cent of its output. Mr. VJLP. Pillai, sales manager,
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    • 169 12 Australia's largest manufacturer of steel furniture and equipment and steel shelving and mobile storage equipment plans to expand its market in Singapore. A senior executive of the company, Mr. Kenneth J. Gill, who is the manager in Victoria of Brownbuilt Limited's steel equipment division,
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    • 210 12 Management learning was a continuing process which, combined with sincerity and Integrity, made better managers. This was stated by Mr. Wong Nang Jang, resident ▼ice-president, First National City Bank when he opened a workshop for the banks' It supervisors from Indonesia, Malaysia
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    • 56 12 Hie Australian Customs Department is to investigate allegations of petrol dumping on' the Australian market i A section of the Australian petroleum refining industry lhad recently applied fox* anti-dumping i Prima facie evidence of dumping had been established and, the exporters concerned wtiiMd have to
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    • Business Abroad
      • 169 12 MANILA, Tues. —The Philippines expects "tough competition" from Singapore in its bid for the venue of a proposed US$lBO million sub-regional petrochemical complex, industry officials here said today The ambitious project, eyed for establishment between 1978 and 1980. will be discussed at
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      • 100 12 TORONTO: The Private Investment Company for Ada announced yesterday it has approved capital Investment in five new projects in developing Asian countries. The new authorisations, are: UBS2SO.OOO in a textile mill In Thailand, US$BOO,OOO in an electric motor and generator manufacturing plant In the Philippines. US$5O,OOO
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      • 88 12 LONDON: China may be obliged to imoort considerable quantities of oil in fufturt, jposslhly from the The Petroleum Press Service (PPS) said that a&.; present, China was producing nearly enough for its needs since petro-!V-leum accounted for about 6.75 per cent of nual consumption of
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      • 66 12 MANILA: Japan and**Singapore are the initial T?! market targets of a Philippine firm planning to ex.port chicks and dressed chickens to Asian countries by 1972. The firm, Republic Flout Mills, is intensifying the—• construction of more bree« der houses with the aim of initially producing 4.5
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      • 57 12 WASHINGTON: The U.S. Export-Import Bank has announced U853.6 millioi£~, loan in favour of "Cathay Pacific Airways" Kong) to help finance the purchase of two used Bfifing 707s from "North- west Airlines" at a total cost of US$lO million. CPA plans to use the two aircraft
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      • 52 12 LONDON: Shareholders- in the ill-fated Rolls Royc Company, which collapse!?*"* earlier this year, yesterdayj? wted to go into voluntary-' liquidation. Their decision, 13,500,000 votes to 651,000, counteracts a vote against liquidation token at a special meeting of 600 share-- holders in London yester-* 0 day.
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      • 45 12 .JPprcO: The Transport Ministry yesterday announced a plan to expand and modernise about 60 airports, at a cost of *****. minion yen (about £35.6 million). The Finance Ministry has asked for budgetary appropriation of the funds, forflical 1972 starting next April.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 108 12 Now you see it... Every home contains things that nobody needs. You 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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  • SPORT 1
    • 355 13 Follow the horses marked with a <£ Evermore led into the straight from Princely Coach and Singapore Note, with Even Say moving np. Finishing strongly Even Say got np close home to win by a short head from Princely Coach. iV w
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    • 1176 13 Blue Peter looks at the newcomers Penan*, Tuesday Showman V (late Gamely) Is the pick of the newcomers entered for the Penang meeting which caters for horses In Classes 3, 4 and 5 beginning on Saturday. This four-year-old chestnut Australian gelding by
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    • 918 13 East Berlin, Tuesday It is unlikely that any country will be going to next year's Olympic Games with the zeal and determination that the East German team will carry with them. There is a special reason for this. The Games will be just across the
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    • 287 14  -  By Sonny Yap Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association, which has made a name for itself in local badminton, will defend its title in the PoliceMilitary knockout championships starting at the Singapore Badminton Hall next week. A look at Its line-up repealed a formidable team which
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    • 142 14 Sydney, Tuesday The first title of Australia's 1971-72 tennis circuit was won yesterday by veteran Mai Anderson who scored a 6-4, 6-3 win over 41year old countryman Mervin Rose. Anderson, 36. had an easy passage through the Eastern Suburbs tournament at Coogee, and had been
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    • 61 14 Sydney, Tuesday. Lightly raced Oncidon raced to an untroubled victory in the rich 13furlong Metropolitan handicap at Ranawick yesterday beating Tails with Linckm's Inn third. Oncidon who has won at his last six starts gave Jockey Kevin Langby the Australian Jockey Ciub spring double as he won
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    • 292 14  -  By Dennis Chia Top karter Steven Kam will lead a sixman team of Singapore karters to compete In the Hong Kong International Kart Prix on December 4 and 5. The others are Urn Chin Choon, Harry Tan, Sam Hal, lionet Chan ana Mike Herman.
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    • 23 14 Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday— Result of last night's Scottish leaf at cap semi-final at Hampden Park Stadium: Falkirk 0 Partick Thistle t.
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    • 23 14 The touring New Zealand team "Otahuhu" will meet a Singapore Cricket Club XV on the padang on Thursday at 5.15 p.m.
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    • 674 14  - Short tours 'a must' Burgess By Jeffrey Low Mr. John Burress, coach of the visiting England Rugby Union team, yesterday recommended that Singapore should make short tours of Europe, South Africa, New Zealand and even England. And the recommendation, he said, must be taken as a serious view if the
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    • 81 15 TOP: The tough New Zealanders (black shirts) of the Admin-Supply Coy 1 RNZIR dominate the picture in a Division Three rugby match against Police-Military in wet conditions at Police Academy ground yesterday. BOTTOM: A loose maul as NZ No. 8 Maynard (with ball) tries to break away from a Police-Military
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    • Article, Illustration
      78 15 Royal Nary Wanderers' striker S. Francis wins an aerial Hotel sincapura player In the FAS Division One leape match st Jaian Besar stadium last nlchi The fame ended in a 2-2 draw after Hotel led twice through Kadir Snlaiman in the 25th minute and P. Anthonysamy in the
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    • 142 15 Reuter Japan, Tuesday Mexican challenger Ricardo Arredondo, after taking a day's rest, sparred four hard rounds with a South Korean and a Japanese boxer in his public sparring here yesterday. The 22-year-old Arredondo is preparing for a title match with World Boxing Council Junior lightweight champion
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    • 94 15 Buenos Aires, Tuesday— Bobby Flseber of the United States will try for his second straight victory over Tlgraa FMrabs of the Soviet Union here .today In the final candidates chess tournament being held In this capital Fischer 28, won the opening match last Thursday when Petrosian, world
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    • 332 15 Some give in going after rain PENANG GALLOPS From Blue Peter In Penini Eavesdropper did a splendid trial In the company of Rampage n (Edward Chan) at Penang this morning. With apprentice Rodney Allan In the saddle Eavesdropper returned 371/5 lor 3f There was a slight give on
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    • 259 15 Adelaide, Tuesday West Indies skipper Gary Sobers said here yesterday he was M thrilled" by his appointment as Captain of the World Cricket XI to tour Australia later this year. Sobers, currently playing for an Adelaide club, said he thought the World team was probably
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    • 146 15 United Press International Brisbane, Tuesday The death of Filipino boxer Alberto Jangalay after a fight in Brisbane last Friday night Is to. be discussed by the next meeting of the Queensland Sports Medicine Federation. The meeting likely will aik for an official Inquiry into
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    • 68 15 New York, Tuesday. The Baltimore Orioles smashed four home runs and left hanrtw Mike CneOar pitched a six-hitter yesterday as (be Baltimore Orioles beat the Oakland Athletics, 5-1. to take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-ftve American baseball league championship piay off The Orioles, Eastern Division
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    • 27 15 the Amalgamated Union of PibUr Fiimltifmis swim*' mlng meet will begin today at the Brer Valley Road Pool with the beats startling at 6 p.m.
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    • 262 15 London, Tuesday The Disciplinary Commission of the English Football Association yesterday fined Tottenham Hotspur £2OO following an Incident at the club's White Hart Lane ground here last August. During the league match between Tottenham and Newcastle on August 18, the Newcastle goalkeeper lan MeFaul was
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 50 14 DR. KILDARE v.'! 't LJMLi k-a ftrn fir* t i I* R m tt I 1 SL I v$ 1 '5 X ti i.^i IW iO <ii RIP KIRBY by John Prentice and Fred Dickenson r. VISELIKE PPES SUKE LOOSENS MMD&SGMP. fcJ r ipr iisLIJS 0 L<il *A illSibi illlift*.
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    • 301 14 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 9 Aliases used by writers: 2 words. 10 Pursuer. 11 Put of a sextant. 12 Range. 13 Korean border river. It Fence. 19 Grows whiter. 23 Bottoms of shoes. 24 Pickled muskmelon. 25 City of New York. 26 Procreated. 27 Parts of eye-glasses: 2 words. 28 Wipe
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 102 15 m FILL II lIISSIN6 LETTERS ACIOSS □□BD ■BODE CLUES FOR G-2 ««l 9. H* JIThE WfIAT vor HAVE TO Ml lad Iqr flfe week, Raw Rabaa, prtfesl a wi puzle. la tad Mtars via Mm att ef tte CUES g*ea «Hfc s s 5 i i i SE a 5
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  • Back Page TUESDAY
    • 408 16 TREND TOWARDS SAME AGE GROUP Love is creating major obstacles for the traditional Japanese system of "Miai" (arranged marriage). The (private) marriage research centre in Tokyo estimates more than 1,100,000 Japanese couples will marry this year, bat less than 30 per cent will hare
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    • 50 16 Pretty April Leong, 21, finds It tough to stay at home home meaning Singapore. Come vacation time and youll find her taking off for some faraway places. April works in an airline and travelling Is therefore not much of a problem. Picture Picture by Jerry Seh.
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    • 195 16  -  By Abby Tan This is one- game which needs just about as much brawn as brain. But the girl to be chosen Bliss Ten Pin Bowling Singapore, to give the game a heave, must have more brams than brawn. Because the "heave" to the bowling
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    • 42 16 AH FOOK: Lorries and trUcis. should be banned from the city between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. It will help to ease our traffic problem. MEI LIN: I agree. They take up too much road space and move too slowly.
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    • 38 16 Australia's Postmaster General, Sir Alan Hulme, has cancelled the Brisbane Post Office box number of the Women's Liberation Movement following parents' complaints that the movement has been handing out sex literature to children outside high schools.
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    • 88 16 The dogs, cats, mice, tortoises, grass snakes and goldfish all behaved themselves in church on Sunday. But the hamster made a small meal of some altar flower. Vicar Peter Pe&tfield said It was his Idea to ask children In his congregation to bring their
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    • 47 16 The Penang Boy Scouts Association staged a drag contest on Sunday night to find the most realistic Miss Male in female clothing. The winner was a muscular mini-skirted 15-vear-old 00l Hool Khim who just ousted 14-year-old Tan Chee Heng in full length bridal gear.
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 307 16 Opening and General Hospital For the Family A Diary of Events in Singapore this Week (M) If* Happening in Singapore Peyton Place Close Opening and William Tell News in Brief It's Happening in 7.00 For the Family 7.40 News (C) 7JO Our Music Makers 8.06 Dealing with Drought BJO Hogan's
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    • 38 16 SHORT BIBS By Frank O'Neal c 0L J IJ 1 ft m A A t i'L ATat. ■J! I'l SNIFFY by George Fe^t ANDY CAPP 123E2 o a 4 SI 2» 9 Si? »S6 W ■v 21 LL!
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    • 261 16 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are one whose work suffers In the absence of harmonious surroundings. You need to place yourself In such working conditions that you do not have to take part in the Infighting that By Frank O'Neal characterises employment. places of
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