New Nation, 8 October 1971

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  • 16 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Friday evening, October 8, 1971 No. 226 Price 15 cents NEW NATION j
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  • 17 1 •>. i Pofice reported 72 accidents yesterday. Six of Utem were t serious and two fataL
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  • 134 1 The stock market was generally steady this morning while firm trading was noted in a few selective counter's. J South Johore Omnibus Company, which announced an increased trading profit for the year enaea March 1971, was actively sought from 57 cents up to 66 cents, a gain
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  • 35 1 Hie Pint Lady, Mrs. B. H. Sheares, will give away pilw to winners of the JOth annual First Aid competition at the St John Headquarters In Beach Road on Bunday at 5 pin.
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  • 46 1 LATE NEWS Sydney, Friday.—Englishborn Peter Pasquale Macarl, S6, admitted he was the "Mr. Brown" Involved in the Qsntaa airline $1.5 million tywwh hn«T Barrister Mr. J. Birney told Sydney's Central Court today that Macarl considered the outcome of the trial inevitable pleaded guilty.
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  • 218 1 The $200,000 demand made to the Shaw family last Tuesday was for compensation for the unsuccessful kidnapping of Mr. Harold Shaw three days earlier. The demand was made by an anonymous telephone call to the home of Harold's elder toother, Mr. Shaw Vee Meng.
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  • 63 1 Sydney, Friday—An Australian submarine yesterday morning picked up all seren crew of a ketch abandoned In heavy sess last Sunday. The submarine, Otway, took the six men and one girl on board from a rubber dinghy sighted a few hours previously t>y a Marching plane. The
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  • 28 1 London, Friday.—A referendum conducted in Prime Minister Heath's own parliamentary constituency has produced an emphatic "No" to Britain's proposed entry to the European Common Market.
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  • 789 1 New action to, keep prices and wages under control Reuter Washington, Friday President Nixon last night announced sweeping controls on wages and prices to follow his 90-day antiinflation freeze which expiries on November IS. His latest moves are all aimed at Internal economic conditions
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  • 420 1 ...by American School The Singapore American School is conducting a two-prong attack on drug abuse through an organised drug education programme and the formulation of strict rules. Btudents between the ages of 12 and 15 attend daily Plawwrg on drugs for six weeks of the school
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  • 180 1 In the latest islandwide crackdown on illegal immigrants, police have detained more than 50 people, most of them from Indonesia. They were arretted in a number of raids conducted by the divisional police on several construction worksites. Five more were detained at a construction site
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  • 39 1 Jakarta, Friday.—An Indonesian woman of Dutch origin, Mrs. Hendrika Abels, startled census officials when she said she had rivsb birth to 21 children, Anfara news agency reported yesterday. The 6S-year-old mother lives near Malang in Bast Java.
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  • 31 1 Los Angeles, Friday.— California Governor Ronald Reagan said yesterday he vetoed a BUI permitting general classroom instruction on veneral disease to youngsters because of the problem of parental consent.
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  • 45 1 A man has been detained in connection with the looting of two tourist shops during the $1 million Raffles Place fire last month. Detectives raided a house in Chinatown two days ago and recovered over 20 items —optical instruments and transistor radios.
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  • 108 1 Ottawa, Friday Malaysia and Canada have signed a loan agreement for up to $139.5 million to help expand West Malaysia's hydro electric power system. The Prime Ministers of both countries, Ton Abdul Bank and Mr. Ttudeau signed the agreement yes**lB? loan, said to he the
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  • 139 1  -  By P.N. Balji Police are probing two alleged cases of rape which were recently reported at the Kandang Kerbau police station. According to informed police sources, both the girls are under 16. The first girl was brought to the station by her mother
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  • 94 1 Karachi, Friday. Eight snake charmers were called in to clear giant cobras from the garden of President Yahya Khan's official residence here in time for the forthcoming wedding of his son. Four hours of concerted flute-playing failed to entice the cobras from the bushes. But a second
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  • 34 1 Moscow, Friday The Soviet Union launched another of its Cosmos earth satellites yesterday. Tass said Cosmos 443 was launched into an orbit that carries It once around the earth every 90 minutes.
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  • 284 2  -  Practice to Include moving targets By Wee Beng Huat Firing from the hip at last-moving targets will soon be the style of shooting practice for Singapore's 7000 policemen. This is the practice style referred to by the Minister of Home Affairs, Dr. Wong Lin Ken,
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  • 244 2 A multi-million-dol-lar shopping complex will be built soon at Queensway in anticipation of the development of the Telok Blangah, Ayer Rajah Road and Bouna Vista Road area for housing. The complex will be on land -next to AlexandraFire Station at Gillman Circus. It will
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  • 54 2 The Primary Production Department w-11 conduct a three month full time course on the care handling of dogs and cats. The course is free of charge. Application forms and further particulars are obtainable from the City Veterinary Centre in Kampong Java Road. Closing date for
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  • 42 2 The Minister for Labour, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, will give away prizes to winners of the Ponggol constituency football tournament, organised by the PAP Ponggol branch, at the Holy Innocents High School, Upper Serangoon Road, on Sunday at 4.30 pjn.
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  • 152 2 It was a simple wedding ceremony tor Dr> and Mrs. Chin Koy Nam yesterday. The reason? The couple were in a hurry to fly-off to London. They wanted to be intime for the university term sore Dr. Chin is going to follow a post- graduate
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  • 508 2 The recent Buy-Sin-gapore-Made-Goods exhibition held at the Conference Hall tt&s been described' as a tremendous success by the Singapore Manufacturers Association. Response from members of the public has been described as "very good". The eight-day exhibition attracted a total of over 45,000 adults and
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  • 395 2 All Singapore students taking the Trinity College of London's Speech Department grade examinations last month passed. The students were all trained by local teachers. The visiting examiner, Mrs. Meryle Goodson, said she was Impressed by the high standard achieved. The marking system was Pass
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  • 231 2 Newspapers, as the word suggests, channel news to the public on events that have happened. New Nation will take a step back, so to speak, to be InVolved In a prediction that Is going to make news. World famous magician and clairvoyant Paul
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  • 45 2 Wives of various ambassadors will each give a short talk and demonstration of the special use and meaning of flowers in their country at the monthly gathering of the Pan-Paci-flc Women's Association at the Thai Embassy in Orchard Road, at 4 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • 27 2 The Baharuddln Vocational Institute will hold a three-day exhibition at Its premises at Stirling Road, starting tomorrow from 10 ajn. to 9 p.m. each day.
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  • 458 2 Minister's call to firms Kuala Lumpur, Friday The Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, Inche All Haji Ahmad, today urged firms to give serious attention to tapping export markets. Speaking at the opening of a new factory here, he said: "Although there is still some scope
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 100 2 At the cinema Jnrong Drive-In: Evil Bex: The Lady ProKarate (Mandarin) —7, fessional (Manaarin) 9.30 pjn. 1.45, 4, 650, 950 p.m. Cathay: Kelly's Heroes Sky: The Laay Pro--250, 6, 9 pan. fessional (Manaarin) Orchard: Five Easy Pieces 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pjn. 150, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pjn. Rosy: The Laay
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    • 159 2 i','i mn rrm Temperatures In world cities yesterday: Jakarta 90-78. Kuala Lumpur 90-70. Bangkok 90-76. Hong Kong 78-73. Manila 84-75. Taipeh 82-71. Naha 84-77. Seoul 70-45. Tokyo 61-55. Paris 64-46. New York 65-50. San Francisco 65-50. Moscow 39-32. London 68-48. Sydney 83-63. Melbourne 63-54. Canberra 73-45. Perth 57-53. Singapore The
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  • 351 3 300 in poor state The ad hoc committee for the aged, destitute and chronic sick Is appealing to a "good Samaritan" to give a piece of land to build a new home for about 300 underprevlleged old people. They are now housed at the Dragon
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  • 155 3 Two labourers were taken to hospital yesterday with serious leg injuries after a lorry load of steel pipes fell on them at a construction site on Pulau Bukom. They were identified as Lim Tian Ho, 26, of Farrer Road and Abdullah bin Ismail,
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  • 29 3 The Minister of State for Labour, Mr. 81a Kah Hui will open the Keep Singapore Pollution-Free campaign at the Upper Ser&ngoon Community Centre at 7.30 pjn. today.
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  • 36 3 A talk on the Safety of modern drugs will be given by Professor O. M. Wilson of the Royal Brisbane Hospital at the Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, University of Singapore, tomorrow at 11.30 a.m.
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  • 346 3 Sugar, fish, cooking oil and fruit four vital foodstuffs have risen-in price over the past year by between seven and 15 per cent This la revealed In the latest official Consumers Price Index, published by the Department of Statistics, where the July figures are detailed.
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  • 264 3 The courtesy campaign at the Singapore Airport will move Into top gear next week In preparation for the thousands of foreign visitors coming to Singapore for two international meetings. The Chairman of the NTUC Airport Courtesy Campaign Committee, Mr. Clarence de Silva, today said that
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  • 214 3  -  KEEP SINGAPORE POLLUTION FREE By Elizabeth Choo This is a typical backlane in Chinatown. In this overcrowded part of Singapore it is rather difficult to maintain high standards of public health. The rather dilapidated premises alongside untidy streets and backianes go to show that there
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  • 173 3 The Housing and Development Board has begun work on another phase of its redevelopment programme in Redhill and Henderson Road areas. Under this programme the Board is erecting oneroom and four-room im-proved-type muiti storey fiats, shops, markets, a dustbin compound and an electrical substation. The
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  • In Person
    • 305 4 Conducted by Ruth Moses, Tel: *****1 CHARITY WORK can be fun If you know how. Two women who certainly do are Mrs. H.H. Francis and Mrs. N.P. Parkinson, wives of the New Zealand and Australian High Commissioners respectively. They organised a $2O---head
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  • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
    • 501 4 What other newspapers are saying: THE EXPORT OF JAPANESE TEXTILES TO THE US: Last Saturday, thousands of textile workers In Japan held a big-scale demonstration In Tokyo against a textile trade agreement between the Japanese and the US government. The demonstration was Initiated by the Japan
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    • 558 4 SINGAPORE AND THE ATOMIC ENERGY ERA: According to the experts, atomic energy produces cheaper and cleaner electricity than other fuels; the only precondition is the colossal sum of money needed for the installation of equipment. Early last month, the fourth International con- ference on the peaceful use
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  • 374 4  -  EDUCATION PATRICK DE SOUZA About 1500 questionnaires for a food survey at the University of Singapore will be distributed today. The survey will focus on the Students' Union canteen and will examine the quality of food served, prices, the seating capacity of the canteen
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  • 41 4 Mr. Francis Tan, BOAC Senior Sales Representative in Singapore, left her* for a two-week marketlne course at the airline's commercial training centra in London. i.2f 2X5"? COTer *he on Boeing 747 which will fly through Singapore next April.
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    • 91 4 Happiest eating-place in town Miss Shrtey Wong from Taiwan Mtss Lotus Uew M»s UmOon Ai We have the formula for a happy evening. Delicious food prepared Cantonese-style. Pulsating dance music from the Happy Combo. Entertainment by three attractive singers. No cover charge. Ample parking space. Happiest spot for weddings, birthdays
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  • 243 5 New peace talks demand New Nation Foreign Service Paris, Friday Hanoi and the Viet Cong yesterday Indicated that they now placed higher priority on the United States abandoning its support for President Nguyen Van Thleu than on a total pull-out of American forces from South
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  • 255 5 Reuter Jakarta, Friday President Suharto has begun talks with political parties and the government backed Sekber Golkar organisation amid speculation that the government may impose a two-party system in Indonesia. Mo details nave been released on the talks, which began on Wednesday and conclude today,
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  • 150 5 Reuter Amman, Friday A 17-year-old youth has been sentenced to death for attempting to hijack a Jordanian airliner last month. A government announcement yesterday said that the cabinet endorsed the sentence passed by a military court on Bllal Abdul-Kader All, a Lebanese citizen, who was charged
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  • 60 5 Barcelona, Friday.—Maurido Cuesta Ibanex -21 walked out of a prison here yesterday a free man after serving an 18-month sentence for car theft. Four hours later, he was brought back in again. Police said he was arrested when a stolen car he was driving crashed
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  • 31 5 Osaka, Friday.—A Korean resident, believed to be a ring leader of at least seven North Korean spies here, has been arrested for violating Japan's immigration control and registration laws.
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  • 116 5 Singaporeans will be given a treat next month by two internationally-acclaimed artistes. They are Hong Kong's well-known soprano, Miss Gomda Hsi, (above) and German pianist Mr. Rainer Fuchs, who is assistant-professor for piano at the Waltershausen-Music-Seminar in Munich. They will appear in a concert, Jointly
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  • 229 5 United Press International Manila, Friday Typhoon churned tidal waves, which surged inland along the entire western coast of Luzon on Wednesday night, destroyed hundreds of houses and left homeless at least 6226 families. The Red Cross reported last night the figure is
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  • 64 5 Canberra r Prlday.— Hungry Parliamentarians stormed two diplomatic receptions last night after catering staff at Parliament House went on strike. The strike began only an hour before the dinner break and a glance at the day's diplomatic timetable sent members dashing to cocktail parties given by
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  • 28 5 Washington, Friday. U.S. State Department officials said yesterday it was not clear whether five graves discovered by Cambodian forces contained bodies of American newsmen.
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  • 408 5 I am at the disposal of Bangla Desh, he says London, Friday A senior diplomat at the Pakistan High Commission yesterday quit his Job in protest at the situation in East Pakistan. Mr. Resaul K&rim, first secretary at the Commission, sent his resignation in a letter
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  • 174 5 Reuter New York, Friday Foreign Minister Koun Wick of the Khmer Republic (Cambodia) told the UN General Assembly yesterday that the war situation in his country had improved. He said the Khmer forces had recently Inflicted a defeats on the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces because
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  • 50 5 Moscow, Friday. The Soviet Union will put 200seat IL-62 jetliners into operation between Moscow and Frankfurt in West Germany, under a new air agreement, the Tass news agency said today. It will be the first postwar direct air link between the Soviet Union and West Germany.
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  • 537 5 New Nation Foreign Service New York, Friday Members of the Steering Committee agreed yesterday the crucial debate in the General Assembly on Chinese representation will open on October 18, a U.N. spokesman announced. The 25-nation committee discussed the Assembly's future programme over a
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  • 155 5 Mao is 'well' —but silence on Lin United Press International Los Angeles, Friday A Communist Chinese official contacted by telephone said Chairman Mao Tsetung is in good health but Ignored questions about Vice-Chairman knd Defence Minister Lin Piao. Wina Sturgeon, a freelance journalist and wife of noted science-fiction writer Theodore
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 541 6  -  By a staff Writer Although ail the economic indicators are beginning to point upwards, Indonesia's national planners are having sleepless nights. The closer they look at the various graphic charts hanging on their walls, the more It Is being realised that Indonesia's population growth Is
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    • 547 6 It's a feud between two families United Press International Across the tobacco farmlands of Ilocos Sur province, a widow who lost ner husband less than a year ago is fighting the most explosive political battle in this year's Philippine elections. Mrs. Carmeling Crisologo, governor of
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    • 872 6  -  Geared to meet nation's needs From Pakir Singh Penang University is slowly coming of age. An enthusiastic group of administrators and planners are committed to the vision of creating a university geared to meeting the needs of the nation, producing finer individuals and
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    • 1193 6  -  The main emphasis is on rural development schemes Ffom Manit Jeer When Th a i 1 a nd's Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn officially released the Third Plan last week, the direction his country will be heading in the next half a decade was made unmistakably
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  • 388 7 Renewed bid to crush outlawed IRA Reuter London, Friday Britain will send three more battalions of soldiers—lsoo men to Northern Ireland in a bid to crush the outlawed Irish Republican Army. The decision came after more than eight hours of talks yesterday
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  • 279 7 Reuter London, Friday The British Labour Party yesterday urged new efforts for an East-West detente to end the cold war in the present decade. The party's annual conference in Brighton passed a resolution visualising a series of European
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  • 119 7 United Press International Montreal, Friday A disgruntled former employee of the Du Point Company of Canada dismissed on Wednesday walked into the company's downtown office complex yesterday with a sawed-off shotgun and killed two of his former employers and seriously wounded another, police
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  • 167 7 United Press International Washington, Friday Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug said yesterday a ban on use of DDT in the United States could cause widespread "disease and disaster" in underdeveloped countries. Mr. Borlaug said poor countries would react to elimination of the Insecticide In the
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  • 155 7 The expressions on the (aces of these Kampong Chai Chee villagers show the impact of the mobile police road shows with their exhibits of gangland violence. By the time they have seen all the exhibits including pictures of actual slain victims, most of the villagers walk
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  • 104 7 United Press International Manila, Friday U.S. Air Force helicopters yesterday plucked out 25 Chinese sailors from the listing deck of a doomed Panamanian freighter swamped bg 20-foot-high waves and fast sinking in the stormtossed South China Sea. Two helicopters belonging to the 13th Air
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  • 471 7 United Press International Paris, Friday Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban yesterday made a pressing new' plea for direct negotiations between Egypt and Israel to seek a solution to the Middle East conflict, and suggested these could be held In Europe: Addressing Parliamentarians from 17 European
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  • 118 7 United Press International Bogota, Friday Leftist terrorists armed with machine guns and riding in two cars yesterday shot and wounded Brig. Gen. Alvaro Valencia Tovar, director of the Colombian Military Cadets School. The attempted assassination In a residential section of Bogota, in which the general's
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  • 94 7 Reuter Cairo, Friday Self styled Indian "peace pilot" Swami Vishnu Davandanda was being questioned by Egyptian authorities after flying over the Suez Canal, informed sources said here last night The 43-year-old Indian, who teaches in Canada, and his co-pilot, Bren Jacobaon, 28, from New York,
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  • 285 7 United Press International Moscow, Friday Soviet officials, expelled from Britain, arrived to a rousing welcome and fiery antiBritish speeches in Leningrad after a fiveday voyage on a Soviet ship from London, the news agency Tass said. The senior diplomat In the group accused Britain's
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  • 225 7 Reuter London, Friday The Japanese cedar tree planted on Wednesday at Kew Gardens by Emperor Hlrohlto was yesterday found cut down wltn a sign beside it saying "they did not die in vain." A 35-year-old man has been detained by police following the
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  • 366 8 It has become clear, unfortunately, that the drug problem is more serious, at least potentially, than many citizens had realised. The actual numbers of young people involved in experimentation 'with dangerous drugs is still mercifully small. But both the variety and the degree of
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 95 8 President Nixon's lastminute revelation to Prime Minister Bato of his proposed visit to Peking earlier this year might have been made for security reasons, and not meant as a slight to the Japanese. Mr. Sato has recently directed his Cabinet members to be more careful about guarding
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    • 146 8 I see that The Statesman of India has taken another long editorial dig at the Republic in a lead editorial (September 25) entitled "No pot-holes in Singapore." The leader-writer was taking exception to President Girl's visit. Further, "Singapore has been denied all the vital civil liberties,
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  • 756 8  -  SHIRI MULGAOKAR My orchid-breeding friend had the air of a man with a lot on his mind. "I understand the Sumatran blacks don't like the drought," I began cautiously. "The flowers are doing well enough," he
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  • Letters
    • 571 8  -  ROBERT E. FALLIS I read with some Interest the letter from John entitled, "Turning the clock back," which was based on a newspaper report of Mr. Devan Nalr's speech as reported on September 5. I myself was concerned by the report of Mr. Nalr's speech of
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    • 366 8  -  N. WONG Mr. M. S. Islam, the Acting High Commissioner for Pakistan, has shifted his position In the course of the controversy on the present situation in East Pakistan. In his first letter, published on September 23, he strongly criticised the Awaml League's Six-Point Plan and described
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    • 179 8  -  ANDREW CHAN Some taxi drivers of yel-low-topped taxis are very rude. On the other hand, the NTUC Comfort taxi drivers are more courteous and helpful than the former. The reason is obvious. On October 3, I boarded a taxi with my wife and two children at
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    • 76 8 v I refer to the letter of "Affected Commuter" on September 24. With regard to his suggestion that more buses be added to Service 173 and a new service be Introduced, I wish to Inform him that this not the best solution. I suggest that
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    • 91 8 I read with interest your newspaper report on Dr. Owee Ah Leng's comment about drugs and their abuses, and I quote: "Most young people get 'hooked' on to drugs because of the places they frequent, such as nightclubs." What about the older people who frequent nightclubs? What
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    • 151 8 4r €5 Singapore's campaign to become a garden city is being carried a bit too far in Ford Avenue, District 10. Ford Avenue winds between Holland Road and Leedon Road, among some of Singapore's most beautifully landscaped homes. Most of them are situated on at
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    • 160 8 Write to The Editor, New Nation, Locked Bag 15, GPO, Singapore, 1. International social science journal The first part of each issue presents an authoritative international conspectus of reoent scholarship on important topics, such as modern methods in criminology; science and technology as development factors; the social scienoe press; social
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • Our Heritage
    • 887 9 New Nation continues its weekly eeries ef phetogrophe of Siugapore'e historic aed cultural laadmarks. Behind each ie a story of the Republic's heritage which the average citizen may only knew vaguely. The reasons which inspired Sir Stamford Raffles to establish this school were as noble as the age
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    • 610 9 The Idea of a museum In Singapore started with Sir Stamford Raffles. In an address to subscribers of the Raffles Institution he said he wanted an institution to "collect scattered material of the literature and traditions of the country." This was in April, 1823. But the museum
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    • Article, Illustration
      664 9 City Hall, at the corner of Coleman St. and St. Andrew's Road, has probably witnessed more historic events than any other Singapore building. During the Japanese Occupation, the people of Singapore watched Hidekl Tdjo, the Japanese Prime Minister. haranguing from the balcony of the building. He exhorted the
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  • SHOPPING , . * '
    • 431 10 ¥T is amazing how designers have managed to accommodate so many parts into the small portable typewriters that are now easily obtainable on the market. Parts like the correcting space bar that rectifies any mistake you make and a well laid out margin stop scale
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  • Trend
    • 201 11 GETTING BORED with your make-up? Then Join the trend-setters and paint yourself a whole new exciting look. Today's face is smooth and pale which puts the emphasis on eyes and lips. As with clothes, anything goes with eyes too. The accent in eye-make- ud is
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    • 423 11  -  CHRIST ABEL HIRST in London writes about a problem which is causing concern in Britain CHRISTABEL HIRST The "Battered Baby Syndrome," a clinical condition In infants who have received serious physical abuse, is a frequent and apparently Increasing cause of sudden death in young children in Britain.
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    • Article, Illustration
      64 11 Dazzle your date with tassels. They're back in fashion again on blouses, hem-lines and skirts. Tassels sway so beautifully, they make you want to dance all night. Nancy Tan's outfit is just the thing for that special evening. It's a three-piece with a knitted midriff top hotpants and
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    • 214 11 QUIET, PLEASE, SAY THE RUSSIANS Moscow, Friday Like Singapore, Russians are mounting a campaign against noise. "Keep down noise" signs hare gone up all over the Ukrainian city of Lvov. In one Leningrad kindergarten the tots learn to open and close doors quietly. It's all part of
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    • 542 11  -  EATING OUT WITH WENDY HUTTON Neptune's Cove, one of Singapore's newest seafood restaurants, is a rather surprising place. You drive to the end of Upper Serangoon Road where the road comes to an abrupt end amidst a clutter of shacks, trucks, and cumbersome wooden barges,
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  • BUSINESS AND FINANCE
    • 253 12 United Press International New York, Friday The stock market, up sharply during the first hour of trading, backed down slowly during the afternoon and finished with a small gain for the session. The late pullback was attributed to profit-taking pjrior to President
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    • 321 12 Reuter London, Friday The stock market closed firm with most sectors gaining from the latest economic survey from the Con- j federation* of British i Industry. At 1500 hrs the Financial Times Index was up 7.5 at 419.6. ICI, the market
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    • 182 12 AIIM Cham 83% Alcoa 4T Am Bruda 43 Am Can 34% AT ft T 40 >4 A ft P 15% Anaconda 14% Bath Staal 27 Boatnc 17% Caterp Trac 40% Chrjraler 31% Coca-Cola 113% Control Data 44% Corn Ol Wka 310 Dow Cham 73% DuFoat U6% Kodak
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    • 194 12 United Press International LONDON, Fri.—British Petroleum Limited (BP) proved to be the country's largest company in mid-1971 and ousted Shell from Number One spot but it could not compete with three bookmaking firms when it came to earning the biggest return on capital. BP not only dislodged
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    • 1208 12 TRENDS AND MOVES IN THE MAJOR STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1970-1971 1 wk. 4 wl [S. Closing Price Last Dhif. P/E TurnHigh Low •CO ago Stock Bayers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio < vrer INDUSTRIALS 2.93 1.68 2.01 1.86 Allied Chocolate 1.98 2.01 2.00 6.3N 14.5 3 1.90 0.84*
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    • 350 12 Singapore's industries chalked up an eight per cent increase in production in the first half of 1971, compared with the same period in 1970. This is shown in the latest quarterly index of production of manufacturing establishments released by the Department of
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    • 212 12 BOMBAY, Fri. The Indian economy is now better placeo than ever before to attain a high, sustained rate of growtn, the boaru of directors of the Reserve Bank the country's central bank reported yesterday. Tne present difficulties of the economy, especially in finding resources
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    • 169 12 The Economic Commission for Asia and The Par East (ECAFE) is sending experts to study ways and means of speeding up containerisation In South East Asian countries, including Singapore. Two UN experts are due In Singapore on October 18. During their three-day stay
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    • 176 12 Nippon Rent-A-Car Service of Tokyo, Japan's largest car rental firm, has decided to make Singapore the centre of its activities in South-East Asia. The firm is to set up car rental firms throughout this region on a franchise basis and plans to use cars it
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    • 57 12 WASHINGTON, PH.— Ceylon Finance Minister, BIT. N. M. Pern* said yesterday it is unsatisfactory to have developing countries ratify a set of agreements worked out beforehand by the rich countries. Be said "developing countries should participate from the outset in the processes of decision making
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      • 162 12 LONDON, Fri. Malaysian Finance Minister Tun Tan Siew Sin said here last night that three international bankers had offered Malaysia massive loans during his recent visit to the United States. He said the loans were offered with no strings attached and were not
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      • 68 12 JAKARTA: Per capita income rose by only 3.5 per cent in Indonesia last year, according to the Agriculture Minister Mr. Thojlb Hadiwldjaja. The minister said the figure was 1.5 per cent short of the minimum growth figure of five per cent which experts consider necessary
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      • 55 12 MANILA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced yesterday it has accepted from West Germany a contribution of 64 million Deutsche marks (about US$l9.3 million) for the bank's consolidated special fund. The amount will be used by the bank for concessional lending to developing member countries,
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      • 76 12 PHNOM PENH: Cambodia, once one of South-Kast Asia's biggest rice exporters, may have to Import more than 100,000 tons of rice next year to feed Itself, Informed western diploma- tic sources disclosed yesterday. The war, which began in March 1970 with the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk,
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      • 74 12 JAKARTA: Indonesia's Mining Minister, Dr. Sumantri Brodjonegoro said yesterday foreign oil companies in Indonesia should increase their contributions for development in areas where they operate. He had discussed it with the President. Earlier the minister was present when President Suharto received the head of the
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      • 61 12 BANGKOK: Thailand is to propose to Burma the establishment of a joint fishing venture in each other's territorial waters for profit and to avoid incidents between Thai fishing vessels and Burmese warships. Acting Foreign Minister, Police Major General Banga Klttikachorn, said last night he would make the
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      • 58 12 TOKYO: Ten Toyota passenger cars will be shipped to mainland China soon, a Toyota spokesman ssdd yesterday. The vehicles are the second Chinese order thu year. China first ordered two Toyota passenger cars ana a minibus last year when the Chinese table tennu team partitas in
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      • 49 12 BERLIN: West Germany's years-old expansion in exports has come to a stand•J?" J result of the floatins of the mark in May. the German Institute for Ecoterday. R e rch Ud JJ* old foreign bwa falling off SJSvSS? mark fl m Its official tothe SiaJ* 01
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    • 201 12 The frequent demand on candidates to make references to one's own country or current problems makes /economics hard to prepare for in terms of examinations as the economy of Singapore has not been systematically dealt with in textbook form. Dr. Lee Soo Ann, author of Papers on Economic Planning and,
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  • SPORT 1
    • 1151 13  -  GUTTER a TALK WITH JOHN FITCH A The battle of the sexes will be In full swing on Sunday at 9 a.m. for the champion of the Cathay Pacific f Airways 8 pin tap tour- nament The Grand final will be full of surprises. There
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    • 142 13 New York, Friday Stan Smith and 9 Romanian Die Nartase were paired yesterday tor the first singles match In the I*7l Davis Cup challenge round. and Nastase, the best each team has to coffer* will face each other ftjn the opening round on -the day
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    • 279 13  -  Take many shots CAMERA By WANG SU FAH Be patient taking pictures and take as many shots as possible when an angle or composition is spotted. You can vary the position slightly each time, but the exposure must be accurate. The winners this
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      39 13 OTAHUHU 66 SCC 6 Otahuhu's Mi all takes this line-out. Behind him is SCC's Jeff Allen with Bliss (SCC) just coming into the picture. SCC's Pennell tries to break away from Sokolich and Taylor (Otahuhu). Pictures: Ali Yusoff
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    • 215 14 Reuter London, Friday Arsenal, holders of the English F.A. Cup and the league championship, were drawn against Sheffield United, the present league leaders, In yesterday's draw for the fourth round of the English Football League Cup. Arsenal will be looking for revenge for their defeat by
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    • 84 14 London, Friday. There Is no chance of Birmingham being the host city for the 1978 Commonwealth Games, K. S. Sandy Duncan, secretary of the British Commonwealth Games Council, said yesterday. Mr. Duncan, commenting on moves made by some Birmingham sportsmen to get the Games there, said: "They
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    • 148 14 Jack Arthars has been seeded number one for the Singapore Cricket Club squash championships starting on November 1. The finals will be held on November 6 at 6 p.m. second In the seedlngs Is Ken Lilley who won a recent knockout championship at the club.
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    • 276 14 SPORT IN THE U S United Press International New York, Friday Manager Earl Weaver of the Baltimore Orioles named lefthander Dave McNally yesterday as his opening pitcher for the world series tomorrow and said his reasons for starting McNally will make sense "if we
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    • 112 14 London, Friday—Defending champion Jack Nicklaus beat top Asian golfer Lu Liang Huan of Taiwan in the opening round of the prestige Piccadilly world match play championship yesterday Reigning U.S. Masters champion Charles Coodj went down five and four to British Ryder Cup player Neil Coles in the
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    • 111 14 TENNIS Hong Kong, Friday Wimbledon champion Evonne Goolagong spotted fellow Australia Judy "Tegart" Dal ton the first set before running out a 2-6, 6-4 winner in an exhibition match which highlighted yesterday's competition in the 1971 Hong Kong grasscourt tennis championships. In the men's quarterfinals, Sustralla's Davis
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    • 117 14 Vancouver, Friday. Tom Okker of Holland coasted into the quarterfinals of the International tennis tournament here last night when he crushed his South African opponent Terry Ryan 6-3, 6 -4. It was a ruthless performance by the quick silver Okker but the Dutchman will face stiffer
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    • 70 14 The first and second rounds of the men's singles for the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association's grasscourt championships will be held at the Singapore Recreation Club courts tomorrow at 2 p.m. All players are asked to report to the referee before 2 p.m. On Sunday play will start
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    • 336 14  -  By Sonny Yap Officials of the Singapore Canoe Federation will meet on Tuesday to formulate a new programme of activities for all the affiliates in the coming year. This will be the first committee meeting, after the inaugural general meeting last month in which a new
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    • 146 14 London, Friday Two goals in each half gave the touring Australian men's hockey team a 4-0 win over the Travellers XI yesterday for their second successive victory in Britain. The Travellers, whose players were drawn from several South of England Clubs fielded five former internationals and
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    • 220 15 PENANG GALLOPS From Blue Peter in Penang Just Wonderful (Ismail) showed' sparkling form In a 3f gallop In 37 2/5 on a good track at Penang this morning. Com Laude (Hassan) showed some of his old dash when he ran 3f in 37 4/5. Showman
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    • 153 15 A team of six shooters from the Singapore Shooting Association will leave on Monday for the second Asian shooting championships in Korea. The team is led by Major Thomas Teo, who last weekend broke all previous Singapore records with a score of 180 birds out
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    • 2180 15 IMJIB 1.15 CLASS 5 DIV. 3 7F BttiSUl ($5,500 $3,850 to winner) 1 0603 DAI-PA-KNOR (Koor) DenieH 4 9.0 (dc *Ngiow S 2 9 PICTURE PAN IV (Shaw) Tulloh 5 9.0 (dc 10) Kls*Nia S 3 09*57 P.J. PRIDE (PJ) E Breukelen 4 >lO (dd +2) WUloa
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    • 656 15  -  By Sonny Yap When Ippei Kojlma came for the 12th Singapore Open Badminton Championships, he did not forget to bring his Japanese modesty along. Last night, In the Singapore Badminton Stadium, he gave credit to every player except himself. He does not think that, being the
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    • 135 15 London, Friday. There will be no amnesty for English league soccer players caught by the disciplinary clamp down Introduced by referees this season. That was made clear to the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) during their meeting here yesterday with representatives of the English Football Association, the
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    • 240 15 Reuter Bangkok, Friday Thailand's Rajvithi Club will replay the Royal Army Club of Laos for the second semi-final berth in group "B" of the second Queen's Cup football tournament, the organising committee announced yesterday. The match Is scheduled for Sunday. Rajvithi, with the aid of
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    • 125 15 Tokyo, Friday.—Japan's national team will go Into a week's group training next Monday and reassemble for final training on Oct. 25 for the Asian men's basketball championships here from Oct. 30 to Not. 10. The championships will also be the pre-Olympic -tournament in which the winner
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    • 23 15 London. Mdu-MMi &>• twnalhwial taut tan* *ar ss put of hit tour of the Mr ■wt. Including Japan, which Marts today.
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    • 60 15 Buenos Aires, Friday.— Farmer world chess champion Tlgran Petroslan of the Soviet Union and Bobby Fischer of the United States drew after S3 moves in the third match of their candidate's tournament here last night. The two grandmasters are now tied at one game won each
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    • 166 13 NEW NATION Photographic Contest 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 Sinrapore photographers. 2. Minimum size is 6" x 8" on glossy surface. 3. An
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    • 582 14 rr—tt i i T V 2 PHONE *****8 ANNOUNCEMENT ATTENTION SCHOOL TEACHERS. Roma Blair will conduct a class 11 a.m. —l2 p.m., Saturday 9.10.71, Woodsville Health Centre. Enrolment please ring *****7 Singapore. ASTROLOGY CONSULT THE ASTRO PALMIST at Mayfair Hotel, Room 107, about your future life and fortune. Phone: (Singapore)
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    • 344 14 OFFICE SPACE VACANT CLINIC FOR SALE in Cambridge Rood. Term negotiable. For particulars *****3 Singapore. SHOPPING GUIDE FLAN TOUR SHOPPING AT HOMI SCI THK SHOPPING 6UIDI ON PAGI 10 EVERY TUISPAT ANP FRIPAT. TUITION SAFETY PRIVING INSTITUTION. Guaranteed course 20 hours S9O/-. Hourly $4.50. Singapore. *****. YOUR TRANSLATIONS TO English
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    • 74 14 DR. KILDARE _JU: CLARENCE •BOATS* FEENY LEAVES ALL HIS WORLDLY POSSESSIONS TO. \*«i; Si II rjsae jjffjp ■ll JN gjs r l f r ess I Wi John Prentice and Fred Dickenson AWK/ THAT'S THE NICEST THING ANYBODY EVER SAID TO ME/ rSi siiips /.V I P! i I it
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    • 215 15 ,3£ls3^juD. w -wrt I»mi I*!* i** s NEW NATION FRIDAY MONEYWORDS 'G'i (Hr./ Mr*./■«»). a □■HBCI \mma WHAT YOI! HAVE TO DO Eacb day this weak, New lUtm, «M pMksh a Ml puzte. k tad pazzle Hare alii six wards tack aath «t letter wUkg. What yaa have la is
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  • Back Page FRIDAY
    • 145 16 Mr*. Viola Bultena, a janitor, will be one of the few people In the United States to get a boost in pay during the President's wage price freeze. Superintendent Roger Ranta of the Columbia High School in Bur bank, Washington said this week the
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    • 43 16 Shirley Chung, 20, likes to travel because "it gives one an opportunity to be independent." Shirley who works as a secretary has Just returned from Australia after a course. Her hobbles are photography, singing, badminton and stamp collecting.
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    • 46 16 Police have reminded pub owners they cannot employ comedians on Sundays to entertain customers. The reminder was Issued after an officer heard laughter coming from the pubs in Manchester. Said a police spokesman: "The Bunday Observance Act of 1780 permits only music and recitations."
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    • 448 16  -  By Herbert Teo The young executive walks out of the aircraft and struts into the arrival hall, smiling cheerfully as he is cleared through the health and immigration checkpoints. He then goes downstairs and awaits his luggage. Within minutes the bags come rolling
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    • 54 16 AH FOOK: They have told everybody that MID has been changed to MINDEF (Ministry of defence.) But their vehicles still carry the sign MID. MEI UN: You can't blame them. Our soldiers are so preoccupied with other things that they can't find the time to change their name
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    • 49 16 TRIP TO LONDON NAME: ADDRESS i TELEPHONE NO: ALL ENTRANTS MUBT BE SINGAPORE CITIZENS BETWEEN 16-25 YEARS TWO NON-RETURNABLE PHOTOGRAPHS TO ACCOMPANY ALL ENTRIEB. CLOSING DATE NOVEMBER 5, 1971. ENTRY RE $5.00 (PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT TAMPINES HOME). WRITE TOMISS TEN PIN OF SINGAPORE SPORTS EDITOR LOCKED RAG 15 GIjO,
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    • 432 16 5 Sisgapara 3.00 Opening and General Hospital 3.25 For the Family 3.50 A Diary of Events In Singapore This Week (E) 3.55 It's Happening In Singapore 4.15 Days of Our Lives 4.35 Close 5.50 Opening and Lucky Dip 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 Accent on Youth 7.10 Sports Parade 7.40
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    • 401 16 Trust your lucky star IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you poetess a MOAtn naton that fnodi upon those things In life which ars beautiful and Just That thsrs ars often times when such things are not only difficult but Impossible to is something which preys upon your mine And
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  • GO RACING
    • 910 17 By Blue Peter Up-and-coming Interpol can be confidently backed in the Class Three Division One 6f handicap (Race 10) at Penang tomorrow. This Hansle five-year-old has won two of his last five starts. He showed ability In his debut at Kuala Lumpur
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    • 83 19 another lover We have been looking after people for the pest 10 yaers. We help their savings grow.We offer personel service-one of the best in town.Our clients come in and go out becoming greet thrift-lovers. And more keap on coming for it. FAR EASTERN RANK LTD. HEAD OFFCE: tJT/Oft CEOL
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