New Nation, 2 December 1971

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  • 15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, December 2, 1971 No. 272 Price 15 cents NEW NATION
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  • 309 1 Div. in and IV workers may get 15 per cent increases More than 36,000 Division 111 and IV civil servants are to be given a wage revision on January 1. Highly placed government sources this morning said that the Finance Ministry is now working out
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  • 94 1 The share market was fairly active this morning. Industrials were making marginal gains. Haw Par advanced boldly to $3.70 and gained eight cents. PEGI gained four cents to $3.12. Pan Electric eased two cents to $2.25. Cycle and Carriage earned six cents to $4.08. Empat Nombor was
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  • 42 1 LATE NEWS T a i pe h, Thursday Eighteen miners were killed and three seriously injured in a coal mine explosion In northern Taiwan, the Central news agency reported today. Seventeen men were still trapped in the mine.
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  • 59 1 The government has acquired a choice piece of land stretching from the Hill Street Police Station to the Central Fire Brigade in Hill Street. There are about 15 shophouses occupying a total area of 21,651 square feet. In a special gazette notification Issued yesterday the government stated
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  • 283 1  -  One seriously hurt By Wee Beng Huat Three armed robbers last night shot and wounded two men in an attempt to rob the manager of Zenith Theatre at 6 m.s. Tampines Road. One of the victims, Mr. Ang Nia Chan, 25, was wounded
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  • 54 1 Tokyo, Thursday The value of the yen rose sharply to a new high in the Tokyo Exchange Market today, following reports from Rome that the Group of Ten meeting was making progress towards multilateral currency realignment The opening rate was 326. 85 yen, or 10.14 per
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  • 27 1 Manila, Thursday. A Christian school teacher was crucified in Lanao del Norte province in the southern Philippines by armed Muslim terrorists, the Lanao governor said yesterday.
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  • 12 1 Police reported 42 accidents yesterday. Two of them were serious.
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  • 203 1 By Betty L. Khoo A new charter service is to be introduced into the Australia London run by Qantas Airways. The service is expected to begin in February. To be known as Qantalr, this service is likely to work over the route
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  • 305 1  -  By Herbert Teo Singapore's songbird of goodwill, Miss Lena Lim, was bubbling with excitement when she flew home from Hong Kong yesterday. Besides a successful performance at the second Hong Kong festival, the 19-year-old singer can now claim to be the first Singapore girl to
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  • 79 1 Saigon, Thursday Terrorists hurled a grenade Into a crowd watching a film In a town market place near the Cambodian border last night killing 11 civilians, the South Vietnamese High Command reported today. Another 37 people were wounded in the blast in the town of Thuan
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  • 320 1 US decision because of fighting New Nation Foreign Service Washington, Thursday The United States alarmed by the escalation of fighting on the Indo-Pakistan border yesterday suspended licensing of arms shipments to India. A State Department spokesman said the suspension of licences for India had been ordered
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  • 497 1  -  By Anil Bhatia The Singapore Traction Company has finalised negotiations with three Chinese bus companies for the sale of its buses for an estimated $2.7 million. Informed sources said the agreement for the sale would be signed before the weekend. This follows secret
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  • 103 1 Rome, Thursday. —West German Economics Minister Mr. Kan Scmiier indicated last nißht that the United States naa proposed to a meeting of tne Group of Ten a devaluation of the aoilar that was greater than many people nad expected. Tne figure may be as high as
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  • 615 2  -  New law soon to protect workers By Sunny Wee The government is expected to introduce legislation soon to make it compulsory for industrial workers employed in factories and the construction industry to use helmets and other safety equipment. When the Bill, is
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  • 196 2 The police have added more than 60 new Cortina 1600 GTs to their present fleet of patrol cars. These have lust been painted white and blue —the two-tone colour of police cars and some are already on the roads. Each of the
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  • 342 2 Students being used Kuala Lumpur, Thursday School teachers have joined the drug racket —by making use of their students to market the products. Investigations by the Ministry of Health have revealed that several teachers are acting as agents for backyard drug manufacturers. and they
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  • 345 2 Get-rich-quick technique outlawed in the West Pyramid selling, a get-rich-quick business technique against which there is now legal action and public agitation in Britain, the US and Australia, has been introduced to Singapore. A number of foreign companies are operating this allegedly easy
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  • 123 2 The winner of last week's New Nation refrigerator Special Contest is Mr. Y.K. Leong of 20-A, Tiong Bahru Road. His prize is a $ll9O Electrolux refrigerator presented by Sime Darby. He won on the basis of having selected, in the judge's opinion, the six most attractive features
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  • 190 2 Sixty undergraduates of the Singapore Polytechnic yesterday extended the Keep Singapore Clean and Green campaign to the Southern Islands. They have chosen Pulau Semakau one of the Southern Islands for the annual cleaning project of the Students' Union. The welfare camp was
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  • 215 2 The Ministry of Health and the Singapore Medical Association are negotiating on the best methods medical specialists can inform potential patients of their speciality without infringing the legislation relating to advertising medical skills or services. A medical specialist explained: "Under this legislation
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  • 31 2 Visiting professor T.Y. Lin will give a lecture on Prestressed Concrete Structures Recent Developments in the US to members of the Institute of Engineers Singapore tomorrow at 7 p.m.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 120 2 At the cinema Lido: Song of Norway—--2.30, 6.15, 9.15. Capitol: Lady with a Sword (Mandarin)—l.3o, 4, 6.45, 9.30 Rex: Hotel Esquire (Mandarin)—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.30. Sky: Hotel Esquire (Mandarin)—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.15. Roxy: Hotel Esquire (Mandarin)—l.4s, 4.15, 7, 9.30. State: Kill Them All Come Back Alone—l.4s, 4, 7, 9.30. Globe:
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  • 147 3 The Secretaries-Ge-neral of the five ASEAN nations began their two-day meeting here this morning to discuss preparations for the next ministerial conference. The ministerial conference is scheduled to be held here in February, with Singapore as host. The two-day meeting will also discuss recommendations of
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  • 207 3 Karate training specially tailored for Singapore's senior citizens and women that's what the Chinese YMCA Karate-do Club will offer next year. Mr. Hidehiro Maekawa, fifth dan chief instructor, said at the club's third anniversary dinner at the Chinese "Y" last night that the
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  • 402 3 The chairman of the National Productivity Centre, Dr. Augustine Tan, today urged the government to introduce a scheme to make foreign firms train local managers. He said the scheme should include incentives and penalties to induce firms to take part. Opening the ILO-NORAD-NPC
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  • Article, Illustration
    98 3 Their examinations are over at last! And these Secondary Four girls from the Serangoon Garden Secondary School just can't wait to enjoy their well earned holidays. For the past three weeks some 35,500 students have been sitting for the Singapore Cambridge General Certificate of Education Examination at the
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  • 196 3 The National Trades Union Congress has helped one of its affiliates, the Public Utilities Board Electrical Daily Rated Workers', to stop a dissident group from breaking away and forming a splinter union. This was revealed by the union's president, Mr. V. Vythlingam, at
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  • 161 3 People responsible for the mass media must show social responsibility and a code of ethical conduct, inche Sha'ari Tadin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Culture, said this morning. Speaking at the first general assembly of the Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre
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  • 238 3 Govt, compensation The government has agreed to pay nearly $2.5 million in compensation to residents of Tampines Woods Estate whose houses are affected by the airport expansion projects. The amount is $300,000 less than the residents sought. The estate with 60-odd houses was gazetted for
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  • 33 3 Dr. Augustine Tan MP for Whampoa, and members of the Citizens' Consultative Committee, will visit 55 social welfare recipients' homes on Sunday from 10 am to assess their needs and environment.
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  • 29 3 The National Theatre Club folk dance group will present the folk dances of many lands at the Victoria Theatre on January 1 and 2 at 8 pm
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  • 178 3 Double honour goes to Singapore artist Chieu Shuey Fook (above) today for winning two prizes with the same aluminium art work, Demon Fish. This work won the International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) Corporation award during its advertisement campaign last year. Since then the work has appeared
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 144 3 ivmniiTin in world Temperatures cities yesterday: Hong Kong Kuala Lumpur Jakarta Tokyo Bangkok Seoul Manila Taipei Naha London Paris Moscow New York San Francisco Montreal Toronto Vancouver Sydney Melbourne Canberra Brisbane Adelaide Hobart Perth Darwin Singapore The weather forecast from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. isolated showers. The weather for
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  • In Person
    • 330 4  -  Presented by Ruth Hoses. IF YOU HAVE A PARTY COMING UP, GIVE MISS MOSES A CALL AT TEL. *****1. WHAT do the wives do when Asean foreign ministers get together for one of their highlevel meetings? Putting them to work fostering goodwill and charity,
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  • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
    • 398 4 What other newspapers are saying: pat more attention TO INDUSTRIAL SAFETY. The question of Industrial safety has again aroused public attention this year. The statistics released by the police and the Ministry of Labour show that there have been more industrial accident casualties over the past two
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    • 309 4 THE "MENTAL HEALTH" OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS: Two weeks ago. a workshop was held in Singapore on The Teacher and Mental Health. Like other Innumerable seminars, this two-day workshop was attended by Government officials and professionals. The points discussed were: "mental health" and "psychiatric treatment" of
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  • 508 4  -  CINEMA By Edgar Koh THE BIG BOSS starring Bruce Lee and Maria Ti (Mandarin). Cinepugs. This perhaps is catchy and, I hope, repugnant enough coinage to describe this flirn and its many pugilistic sequels that are certain to come. The tragic phenomenon in the
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  • 398 5 Guidelines for foreign capital Reuter Tokyo, Thursday A United Nations conference of monetary experts from 25 countries including Singapore, yesterday agreed on broad guidelines for foreign investment in developing countries. The experts, from "have" and "have not" nations, agreed that there was urgent need
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  • 451 5 Reuter London, Thursday The use of a British jungle warfare school in Malaysia for the training of American and South Vietnamese troops is fin indication of British involvement in the Vietnam war at governmental level, according to a book published here yesterday. The book,
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  • 97 5 Reuter Belgrade, Thursday Malaysian Deputy Premier Tun Dr. Ismail, who flew in to Belgrade last night on a six-day official visit to Yugoslavia will begin trade talks with Yugoslav officials today. The talks are expected to centre on bilateral relations, particularly economic matters and
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  • 25 5 Washington, Thursday.— The remains of Senator Robert Kennedy were transferred from a temporary to a permanent site at Arlington National Cemetery late Tuesday night.
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  • 76 5 Tokyo, Thursday. Japan's defence build-up programme will be reduced by 10 per cent or US$l,3BB million over the five years starting in fiscal 1972, the Defence Agency announced yesterday. The total estimated by the agency had been US$l4,OOO million. With pay rises added, it was US$lB,100 million
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  • 62 5 "Keeping up with your neighbour" is a motto that has spread to buildings. This UPI picture shows the 1250 ft (380 m.) Empire State building beaten into second place in height by the 1350 ft. (411 m.) World Trade Centre Towers on the right. The Statue
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  • 174 5 Reuter New York, Thursday Ceylon, a co-sponsor of a proposal to establish the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace, said last night, "all we ask is for the Great Powers to move out of the area and take their armaments with them." The
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  • 195 5 Reuter Jakarta, Thursday An Indonesian Communist leader, charged with complicity in the 1965 abortive Communist coup, told a court here yesterday that he had no intention of toppling the late President Soekarno's government. ACCUSATION Rewang, 43, a former member of the banned Indonesian Communist
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  • 155 5 Reuter Taipeh, Thursday Taiwan's economy has suffered considerably from the US economic policy and 10 per cent import surcharge, according to a report published by the Institute of Economics at the Academia Sinlca, Taiwan's highest research institution. The report said 39.5 per cent of Taiwan's
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  • 147 5 Tokyo, Thursday Japan is to carry out a major reshuffle of its diplomatic service including reconstruction of its American operations, the Foreign Minister Mr. Takeo Fukuda, said yesterday. The move follows criticism of Japanese diplomats who have been accused of negligence mainly involving lack
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  • 239 5 Agence France Presse Manila, Thursday Low govern ment priority to telecommunications and lack of foreign exchange have been the main factors hampering t e1 e c ommunications development in Asia, an ECAFE telecommunications expert told an Asian electronics conference here yesterday. Mr. V.K. Pal said
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  • 116 5 Reuter Kuching, Thursday The first phase of a big bridge building programme by the Austra- C lian government in the East Malaysia state of f Sarawak will be com- pleted today with the opening of a tenth S bridge on a highway >
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 705 6  -  No evidence of complete purge From Robert Elegant Los Angeles Times CHINA As hero, villain or fascinating character actor, China has gained new glamour. from President Nixon's forthcoming trip to Peking and the purposeful visits of his foreign policy adviser, Mr. Henry
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    • 638 6  -  Straight fight in Muda by-election By Pakir Singh MALAYSIA As expected, the Muda by-election on December 11 for the Penang State Assembly will be a straight fight between the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the Partai Islam. Both parties are taking
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    • 760 6  -  From Colin MacAndrews TIBET 'ln July, a Tibetan refugee named Gungthang Ngodup complained to the Supreme Court of India that the Dalai Lama's officials were subjecting Tibetans in India to ''intimidation, torture and even liquidation." In September, the Hindustan Times reported that
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    • 649 6  -  The result of running into trouble' with girls off-base From Patrick Killen UPI PHILIPPINES The young US Air Force sergeant glanced around the old conference room and told about his troubles in the Philippines. "My (Filipino) girl gets very jealous. We were watching a floor
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  • 403 7 No fighting with US aircraft Washington, Thursday The. North Vietnamese have launched a puzzling series of MiG fighter raids over Laos during the past two months, occasionally firing air-to-air missiles but never actually engaging any US aircraft in combat, the Pentagon said yesterday.
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  • 145 7 Reuter Kampala, Thursday President Idi Amin yesterday invited Chairman Mao Tsetung to visit Uganda next month. General Amin handed the formal invitation to the Chinese Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Mou Ping, at a meeting at his Kampala lodge yesterday. He told the Chinese envoy he
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  • 111 7 Bonn, Thursday West Germany's Cabinet members have been told to stand by for the possibility of a special Cabinet meeting today, deputy government spokesman, Mr. Ruediger von Wechmar, announced last night. Mr. Von Wechmar said the decision on whether or not to
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  • 334 7 Reuter Baghdad, Thursday Iraq yesterday called for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss Iran's occupation of three islands of the Persian Gulf. The move came after Iraq announced it had broken off diplomatic relations with Britain and Iran to protest
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  • 368 7 Reuter London, Thursday Britain's Conservative Government last night withstood a fierce Labour opposition attack to win Parliamentary approval for proposals designed to end the six-year-old Rhodesian independence dispute. The government carried by a 28-vote majority—297 to 269 its motion of approval which also endorsed the decision
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  • 96 7 Geneva, Thursday A court last night released Robert Vesco, American chairman of the international mutual funds groups Investors Overseas Services (IOS), on 500,000 francs ($375,000) ball pending further hearings after his arrest here on Tuesday. Vesco was arrested on charges of mismanagement of funds together
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  • 74 7 Warsaw, Thursday—Warsaw Pact Foreign Ministers yesterday wound up a two-day meeting here after officially discussing a proposed European Security Conference and "other international issues" almost certainly Berlin and troop cuts in Central Europe. The Polish Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement that the ministers, who met
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  • 40 7 London, Thursday A businessman, Mr. Geoffrey Philbrick, 39, who seduced an ex-Carmelite nun was jailed for a total of 18 months in Newport, Wales, yesterday for stealing a house and furniture belonging to her and dishonestly obtaining money.
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  • 87 7 Reuter Paris, Thursday. Customs officials at the Oriy international airport outside Pans yesterday staged a protest picnic in the terminal's main lounge to press demands for cheaper canteen meais. About 200 Customs officials munched their own sandwiches, camembert cheese and Frencn sau sages during the
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  • 41 7 Berne, Thursday Switzerland yesterday upgraded its Consulate-General in Saigon into an embassy and announced the appointment of Mr. Charles Muller as ambassador to South Vietnam. Mr. Mueller, Is also ambassador to Indonesia, will have his residence in Jakarta.
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  • 309 7 Reuter Rome, Thursday A former Roman Catholic nun has been arrested here accused of running a charity racket which is alleged to have netted her a 2000 million lire ($B4 million) fortune over the past seven years. Police said that Elisabetta Ravasio, 64, who calls
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  • 245 7 LIZ'S 1000-GEM HEAD-DRESS Reuter Paris, Thursday Elizabeth Taylor will wear jewels worth US$9 million ($27 million) including her own US$3 million diamond to the "Ball of the Century" at a chateau near here today. Swarms of plain clothes policemen are being assembled to watch over
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  • 92 7 Washington, Thursday The US Secretary of State, Mr. William Rogers, last night advocated a special Nato meeting at deputy foreign minister level to study preparation of a European security conference with Warsaw Pact nations. He made the suggestion during a speech to the Overseas Writers'
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  • 151 7 United Press International Sydney, Thursday The Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) president, Mr. Murray Quartermaine, said yesterday that his organisation supported the Qantas plan to reduce air fares to Europe. In a statement, Mr. Quatermaine said: "The proposals are in line with those the Federation
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  • 131 7 Reuter Moscow, Thursday The Soviet newspaper Izvestia yesterday welcomed what it called the "symbolic meeting" in orbit round Mars between Russia's Mars 2 automatic probe and the United St a t es' Mariner-9 spacecraft. It said the need for peaceful co-operation in a century
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  • 5397 8 Traditionally English as a subject has been very much concerned with formal writing, and especially with that formal writing which has become recognised for its quality (or by historical accident) as being "classic." More recently, it is being acknowledged that the true subject matter of "English" is
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  • 457 10 Singaporeans may have forgotten the old Chinese saying "good sons do not Join the army," but they apparently still think that men who want riches and fame should not join the army. Because we cannot completely abolish the gross materialistic values prevalent in society,
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 101 10 My uncle, who teaches in a prominent school and who recently joined the Singapore Teachers Union, says that an interesting change has taken place in the way members are addressed. The first few notices he received from the union began Dear Colleagues—a mundane and indifferent form of address.
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    • 63 10 My airline friends tell me that a recent MSA advertisement for management personnel drew an alarming response from over 600 eager applicants. The travel business must be drawing out those in dull, unexciting jobs. What really surprised me was that out of a total of
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    • 123 10 Whether the big powers give their support to the ASEAN declaration for freedom, peace and neutrality, they have certainly read all about last week's Kuala Lumpur conference through their own Press. Unlike the ASEAN ministerial conference held in Manila early this year, this meeting certainly got
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  • 628 10  -  JACKIE SAM Pyramid selling, one of those make-yourself-a-millionalre operations that rarely bring the promised riches, has come to Singapore. There is probably nothing In the law to say that the people behind these operations are wrong. It might even be said
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  • Letters
    • 94 10  -  MISS L. KAO CHUNG YING Public Relations Officer, Ministry of National Development. Singapore, 2 With reference to a news Item headlined, Reservoir Job Starts Soon (NN, Nov. 18), the Public Works Department is presently investigating the possibility of having a storage reservoir at the University of Singapore
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    • 275 10 Last year when about 75 per cent of those HSC boys awarded places by the University of Singapore were balloted to do their national service first, the Intake of non-cltlzen students was greatly Increased by the university to fill the "vacuum." This year about the same
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    • 120 10  -  AZIZ HUSSAIN Hon. General Secretary, University of Singapore Students' Union Singapore 10 I refer to a New Nation report last Saturday about the Students' Union in which you stated that the Vice-Chancellor. Dr. Toh Chin Chye, would be invited to address a rally to be held
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    • 87 10  -  SIM ENG KUI Getting a bus at the stop near the Junction of Alexandra Road and Dawson Road Is at times very frustrating. While waiting for a bus, commuters are often caught by rain. This is because a new bus shelter has not been put
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    • 97 10 Studying geography from books in the classroom Is useful with no intellectual value. But when it is made more interesting and vivid with films, it has the merit of giving rood for imagination and scope for knowledge. There are at present four geography lessons a week in
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    • 205 10  -  PAUL S.Y. LAW I would like to comment on a remark recently that pedestrians deserve to be blasted out of the way by the shrill sound of an airhorn. I think pedestrians have every right to cross the road where there are no overhead bridges, zebra crossings
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    • 118 10 Residents in Thompson Court, Jalan Korma, were enjoying a quiet atmosphere until a few months ago when a private organisation moved In and turned one of the flats into a clubhouse. Now large groups gather at this flat for meetings and social gatherings creating a lot
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    • 84 10 I refer to Rocky Chan's letter Plea For TV Boxing (NN Nov. 25). In view of this sport's popularity among viewers, I would suggest that RTS should also try to obtain some full feature films on boxing. Some of these are: The Champion starring Kirk Douglas,
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    • 91 10  -  M. ELIAS IBRAHIM The Ministry of Education guidelines on what constitutes mop and groovy long hair are most welcome. And no doubt action should be taken against students with shaggy looks. And not only the students, but also members of public should follow the guidelines. The government should
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    • 80 10  -  C.O. DONOUGH I refer to the letter from Consumer (NN, Nov. 29) headlined Letter Beats Telegram. The telegram to Penang which was filed at the Newton post office on November 17, was transmitted without delay the same day to Kuala Lumpur for onward transmission to Penang.
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    • 97 10  -  MICHAEL CHAI Ax- Controller of Immigration. Singapore, 6 I refer to the letter from Very Anxious entitled, Positions Held By Expats (NN. Nov. 19). As your Correspondent is in possession of information which could be useful and of interest to the Immigration Department in its assessment of
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous

  • AIRLINES FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL
    • 393 11 The Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin announced last Friday that the government is introducing a new air charter policy which is designed to increase tourist traffic. Under this policy the Director of Civil Aviation (DCA) will be empowered to issue permits
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    • 218 11 MSA's profits soar and the airline's optimism flies high in the face of worldwide airline losses. While the major a 1 r lines In the world notably the American carriers Trans World Airlines and Pan American World Airways have suffered crippling losses this year, MSA earned
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    • 921 11  -  Presented by Betty L. Khoo An airline price war, more vicious than that which has just been averted over the Atlantic run, may be fermenting on the AsiaEurope route. The announcement by the Singapore government over the weekend, of a new, more liberal
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    • 1342 11  -  From Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Until the early *****, the airlines belonging to LATA dominated international air travel, so that when the organisation made a binding price agreement, there was scant chance of anyone else offering lower fares and luring passengers away.
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    • 430 11  -  Prom Mike Bingham For nine long, and often bitter years, it has struggled to stay alive. But now for the first time the signs are that the Concorde has won its battle because the go-ahead has been given for the production of
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  • BUSINESS AND FINANCE
    • 374 12 United Press International New York, Thursday The Wall Street Express roared on yesterday. Investors piled up a volume of more than 20,000,000 shares for the first time since August as market averages scored gains for the fifth consecutive session. Actual volume was
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    • 178 12 Reuter London, Thursday The market drifted lower on lack of interest and some profittaking amid conflicting reports on anticipated reflatlonary measures from the Government. An attempted rally around mid-morning fueled out and the Financial Times index at 3 p.m. was 5.1
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    • 193 12 The shoe manufacturing Industry is receiving a 20 Gt cent boost in sales with creased orders for Christmas and New Year seasons. Local shoe manufacturers report that domestic and overseas demands for footwear have shot up by 15 to 20 per cent compared to last year.
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    • 45 12 One of Singapore's leading envelope manufacturers, Besley and Pike (8) Pte. Limited, nas won an export order to supply three million envelopes to the Hong Kong company. Hong Kong Electric Company Limited the envelopes will be made at the company's factory in Jurong.
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    • 1241 12 TRENDS AND MOVES IN THE MAJOR STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS INDUSTRIALS k 1976-1871 I wk. 4 wl Ok Closing Price Last Sale Dhfli. P E TurnHigh Low •go •CO Stock Bayers Sellers Yield Ratio over 2.93 1.68 2J0 2.29 Allied Chocolate 2.23 2.24 2.24 5.6N 16.2 19 1J0
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    • 548 12 The Government is to spend $12.9 million to replant and rehabalitate coconut smallholdings in the country, Inche Othman bin Mohamed Lela, of the Ministry of Agriculture, disclosed. The replanting and rehabilitation of coconuts will cover about 44,000 acres under the current scheme.
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    • 314 12  -  JENNY LEE The first of a batch of four Britten-Norman Islanders light planes will be delivered to Heli Orient of Singapore this week. It will be one of first three to be delivered overseas since the company. Britten-Norman Limited, went into
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    • 256 12 Greater sophistication in retailing has come in with Consol (Pte) Limited's new showroom of watches and clocks at the Overseas Union Shopping Centre. Built at a cost of nearly $500,000, the showroom Is quite revolutionary in layout and concept. White inarble floors surround a
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    • Business Abroad
      • 128 12 ItfANILA, Thurs. The Asian Development Bank has announced its first public sale of a Belgian franc bond issue of 400 million francs (about $26.1 million). Dated Dec. 1, 1971. the bonds bear 7.5 per cent interest and have a maturity period of 12
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      • 43 12 TOKYO: The 8350-ton Mutsu, Japan's first commercial nuclear powered ship, had its atomic reactor installed yesterday. Officials of the Japan Nuclear Development Agency said the installation of the atomic reactor was made 16 months after the vessel was launched.
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      • 80 12 LONDON: Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland, Britain's biggest car manufacturer, leaves today for a 43-day world tour which will include Singapore, of the corporation's over seas manufacturing, assembly and marketing operations. In India, Lord Stokes will have discussions about expanding local production of commercial vehicles,
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      • 69 12 TAIPEH: Taiwan's rice p h i s year expected tnnc Ca 11 wi million metric slightly below the national target of 2.56 million metric tons, the Taitoday buf eau reported The bureau said in a report that output of the first crop amounted to 1.3 million
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      • 74 12 vJJS NTMI X E: Wns Savang Vathana will officially in* a !Si rate 1 f he US$3O miUioV ed -W-sPonsor-ed Nam Ngum dam and power project today J™. Project Is the first compieted under the Mekong committee, formed 14 years ago by South VietS Cambodia,
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      • 69 12 TOKYO: Sales and pro-' fits of Sony Corporation' o l ne f Japan's leading electric appliance co panies, in six months end-° r ing Oct. 31 totalled ***** 000.000 yen ($6.76 mlilioii) for an all-time high. The figure was 10.1 per ol cent larger than the
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      • 47 12 BON Nt Volkswagen'* m e Si presld^nt Judolf Leiding, has long-term-plans for equipping dif- t ferent models with th Wankel rotor engS? Volkswagen will a w 8 r L stressing waters cooled front-wheel cars, as well as keeolnir DacK wneel drive models. >^oi
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    • 460 12 Reuter Rome, Thursday West German Economics Minister *rof. Karl Schiller indicated last night that the United States had offered to devalue the dollar by more than 5 per cent as part of a world-wide currency realignment. Speaking at a Press conference here
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  • TREND
    • 308 13 One of the ways in which living standards in rural areas can be up-graded is through better training for women. The Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign has set up a. training centre in Kuala Lumpur for this purpose, and the campaign's chairman, Miss Phyllis Frost
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    • 103 13 To celebrate a traditional festival like Christmas, put aside your "gear" and step into timeless elegance—like this red chiffon gown which Tatiana is wearing. This is part of a selection of evening and cocktail dresses which will be presented at Xmas Extravaganza,
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    • 81 13 Someone has finally come up with a design of a wrist watch for children that is more than just a scaled down version of the adult's watch. Walt Disney Productions has given Seiko the exclusive rights to reproduce Its cartoon characters on the /ace of these watches. For
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    • 510 13 WEALTH^ I recall that in one particularly dramatic American film (Not as a Stranger, I believe), one young trainee doctor growling furiously at another "That's not a mole doctor, that's a melanoma!" In fact a mole Is a melanoma in most cases, that a collection of pigment
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    • 752 13  -  cuisine] BY WENDY HUTTON Christmas, like all festivals, is a time for special foods. A time when children look forward to presents and perhaps a silver coin in the Christmas Pudding; when the men think of the port and cigars that follow a rich
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    • 619 13  -  HE NEEDS PLAY TO GROW PAT CHUNG There is something very exciting about watching a young child learning. Last week our four-year-old announced that circles don't have any corners. So I asked her who had told her that. "Nobody told me. I Just know and nobody
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    • 56 13 Waded yiHH BUYsj J >\ 4 V J V fig ft CONSULT NEW NATION'S SHOPPING GUIDE A wide range of products and services are featured in the Shopping Guide every Tuesday, Friday Cr Saturday to make your shopping an easy and pleasurable one. WISE BUYER CONSULT NEW NATION'S SHOPPING GUIDE
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  • SPORT 1
    • 182 14 Athens, Thursday England missed numerous scoring chances but still beat Greece 2-0 here yesterday to qualify for the quarter-finals of the European soccer championship. This concluding match in Group Three of the qualifying competition, fought out in front of a fiercely partisan 45,000 crowd In
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    • 40 14 Boon Kwang advanced into the second round of the Singapore Billiards Association senior four-ball individual championship when he beat Bill Ho *****4 at Buklt Chermin yesterday. Teo Slew San beat Oliver Oh 324-310 in the second match.
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    • 45 14 Wellington, Thursday. New Zealand Is to apply to stage the 1976 world softball series at Hutt Valley, near Wellington. The application will be put at this week's International Softball Federation Conference in Hawaii by New Zealand delegate Mr. George Vincent.
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    • 1101 14  -  THE SQUASH RACKET WITH JACK ARTHARS Quite suddenly members of the Singapore Medical Association have realised their united squash potential. Emerging cautiously they began with a match against the Chinese YMCA which, was also the first match for the CYMCA team. The Doctors, Man Guan Kong,
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    • 303 14 The Keppel Club Roses versus Thorns four-ball best ball team competition will be played over the Bukit Chermln course on Sunday. The draw (Roses 1st): 8.00 a.m. L Hoxtable (4) and G. Castenskiold (21) v T&lib Haron (3) and Richard Perry (18); 8.07 ME. Wharton (10) and
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    • 397 15 By Blue Peter Balkan Bambino underlined his chances In the Class Four Division Six It handicap on Saturday when he did a smart gallop at Bukit Timah this morning. Ridden by Sublan Dalwee. Balkan Bambino galloped flutntly over 3f in 39. The going was yielding,
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    • 553 15 SCRATCHINGS SATURDAY n RACE: 1: 1.45 Class 1 Div 3 St Grenadier IL President's Vote, Abie Envoy. RACE: 2: 2.15 Class 4 Div 8 7 f—Blooming Time, His Highness, Stud Groom, Bambi "11. Best Gift, Seven Lack, Nagoya Pride, Vigoroso. RACE 3: 2.45 Class 4 Div
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    • 140 15 By Dennis Chia There were two slight mishaps on the tracks at Bukit Timah this morning. In the first accident, Mohd. Yusoff was working on an Eddie van Breukelen trained horse entered for this meeting around the stables when he was thrown off. He was unconscious
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    • 220 15 f WORLD 0F [l SPORT J Paris, Thursday The Le Mans 24 hours endurance race will not be shortened to conform to possible future rules limiting sports cars races to «ix hours, Le Mans organisers said yesterday. New laws being considered for 1973 by
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    • 138 15 Dunedin, Thursday The US$l5,OOO Otago Charity Classic opens here today with 117 professional and amateur golfers from New Zealand and overseas competing over the 6538-yard St. Clair course. The Otago Classic is the third major tournament on the U5592,000 New Zealand golf circuit. St. Clair
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    • 65 15 Sydney, Thursday. The Australian Cricket Board of Control announced an unchanged Australian side to piay the Rest of the World XI in the second International match in Perth from December 10-15. The team: lan Chappell (captain), lan Redpath (vice captain), Graeme McKenzie, Kerry O'Keeffe, Paul Sheahan, Keith Stackpole
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    • 130 15 ATLANTIC DIVISION W L PCT GB Boston 14 8 .609 New Yor K IS 10 .545 1 Philadelphia 11 12 .478 S Buffalo 814 .344 sft CENTRAL DIVISION Baltimore 14 IS .435 Cincinnati 8 12 .400 ft Cleveland 814 .344 Ift Atlanta 517 .2*7 4ft WESTERN
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    • 115 15 New York, Thursday. Muhammad Ali said yesterday his 12-round fight against German heavyweight Jurgen Biin is "definitely on" for December 26 in Zurich, but the promoters had reduced his purse guarantee from US$3OO,OOO to U*****,000. The former heavyweight champion, asked about the status of
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    • 32 15 London, Thursday— Results of last nifht's rufby union matches were: KNOCKOUT COMPETITION Moseley 25 Northampton 12 CLUB MATCHES Ebbw Vale 28 Bridfend 16 Imperial College 23 Royal Veterinary College 3.
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    • 248 15 Mexico City, Thursday The World Boxing Council yesterday named Japanese Junior middleweight Koichi W a J i m a, who beat Italy's Carmelo Bossi on October 31, as "Boxer of the Month" for November. The Council's monthly ratings, Issued here by W.B.C. President Professor
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    • 490 15  -  By Alice Tan The National Sports Promotion Board has extended an open invitation to veteran soccer player and coach Liu Shih Tsan, to join the fold of the Republic's sports promoters. Mr. S.T. Ratnam, DeputyDirector of the NSPB said: "Since the object of the Board
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    • 69 15 Venezuela, Thursday. The world featherweight title fight between champion Antonio Gomez of Venezuela and Spain's Jose Legra has been postponed for a month, promoter Ramiro Machado said here yesterday. The bout, for the World Boxing Association title, was scheduled for December 12 at the new circus bullring
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    • 456 14 LA ANNOUNCEMENT ROSALIK HERNON, skin specialist, beautician, guarantees satisfaction for all skin and hair treatments. Also available professional personal beauty culture/hairdressing courses everyday. Open till 8 p.m. on Thursday, S'pore Telephone ***** Salon Phoenix. ASTROLOGY KNOW TOMORROW TODAY Let competent reliable Astrologer, palmist, physiognomist *Davis Star* help you. Appointments required
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    • 253 14 HE WAS SO FIT I asked him why he said "Young man be sure to buy—the sort of cheese—you know is right—Buy 'Milkmaid' brand—or try 'Swiss Knight'." PETS FOR SALE DOBERMANN PUPPIES MSKAI 2, Hyde Park Gate, S.A.F. Seletar, Singapore. RUGS/CARPETS/CURIOS If you require English Carpets (Sizes 9' x 12'
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    • 204 14 REFUGEE RELIEF ACTION I I 1 Li H Today, thousands of East Pakistani children will die of malnutrition in refugee camps in India. It's too late to save them but not too late to save tens of thousands of others. If you care one jot for humanity, this is your
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 100 14 DR. KILDARE I *ll i 1 iyi I AM STAYING WITH DEAR FRIENDS. PERHAPS ONE DAY YOU WILL VISIT MYSELF AND MY BROTHER.. ONCE HE HAS RECOVERED/ I'D LIKE TO GOOD NIGH 3 1 m m 4 f 8 '2 V ■6* r n t. "Wo 7>K>.A\ e Mi i
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    • 256 14 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 1 Capital of Fiji. 5 Household helpers. 10 Berets. 14 Central point or pivot. 15 Tinge deeply. 16 Premium on money exchange. 17 Damage. 18 Dickens character: Pull name. 20 Achievements. 22 Tennis plays. 23. Gen. Bradley's namesakes. 24 Grass-cloth plants. 25 Plllppo Italian saint: 2 words.
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    • 158 15 Everyday this week, one statement about Champagne will be published. On Saturday, 4th December, when you have collected all the 6 statements answer each by ticking if you think the statement is true or crossing (x) if you think it is false. Fill in the entry form which will appear
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    • 456 15 -CM 'l"1 ttttei I,ws NEW NATION j Thursday MONEYWORDS O L Cat Mrt aal pi* witk atktr chins. iutrictiMS iMtn ktlaw. Nine (Mr./Mrs./Miss). I I Jt r% I FILL IN MISSING LETTERS 1 ACROSS I USING j CLUES I BELOW. -Cut a<o«f toilet hats _J CLUES FOR 0 4 1.
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  • Back Page THURSDAY
    • 145 16 A student teacher in Preston, Lancashire, downed a few drinks to celebrate his 19th birthday and became a unique medical case. Lan Whewell finished a cocktail but, unknown to lan, he drank the cocktail stick as well. It nearly killed him. The 3 in. stick ended
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    • 73 16 Mrs. Ella Phillips had her purse stolen twice within 10 minutes in Riverside, California. A purse-snatcher grabbed her purse and fled. Two young passerbys heard her screams and ran off in pursuit. The thief got away but they recovered her purse. On their way back to Mrs. Phillips
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    • 60 16 Yusah binte Yusoff Is 18, a salesgirl, and, by her own description, basically shy. But she likes a challenge and that is why she enjoys her job of selling perfume. Her ambition too is a challenge she hopes one day to become a singer. Her
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    • 28 16 Cairo, Thursday.—Ahmed Zaki Khalil stopped his taxi to buy a Dacket of cigarettes. When he re turned the three passengers had driven off witn the car.
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    • 393 16  -  ALL BECAUSE OF AN ANCIENT BELIEF By Abby Tan Singapore hasn't got a reputation as a nation of drunkards. But we are extremely keen on brandy. In fact we have the highest per capita consumption of brandy in the world, with
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    • 63 16 An Indian magician named Anand has driven blindfolded on a motorbike 126 miles (200 km) from Indore to Bhopal in central India. The Press Trust of India said he had two layers of adhesive tape with cotton on his eyes. He averaged 50
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    • 44 16 AH FOOK: Something should be done about these shops that put up their prices for the Christmas shopping soree MEI LIN: Why? That's business. The law of supply and demand. If people weren't buying at those prices they would soon come down.
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    • 521 16 Turks call drinking "pulling the head," drunkenness being "fine in the head" and a habitual drinker a "nightman." T n e i r national drink, raki, they call "lion's milk." All except the last is appropriate. Turks don't drink often but when they do
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 332 16 5 Singapore Opening and General Hospital Nam Isainyarkal featuring Charles (Rpt.) It's Happening In Singapore (C) (Rpt.) Housewives Matinee Life for Life (Cantonese Pt. 2) Close Opening and Dr. Who News In Brief What Others Say (C) Wonderful World of Sports (Flying Acrobatics/ Soaring Mood Story Scottish Game) Careers at
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    • 74 16 SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal i v. k« ft m WW CAlsl NOO DO SOMPfiMG .ABoOrf TAIS DROO6HIT CeWAINILV. £l* c* 41 excuse Me, si*. N ft I'M KiEVJ iKJTOWKi/WUAr ARE THE BUSINESS I* 1 I V i •M" i *a C\GUT NOVO,EAFFL& tickets ace BIG. Y I MUI mi
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    • 310 16 Trust your lucky IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a highly Inventive and original person whose mind never rests from the activity of forming new conceptions. tomorrow SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) —Be wise; allow no interference into your personal life. What you do with your own time is
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