New Nation, 9 February 1972

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  • 15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, February 9, 1972 No. 324 Price 15 cents NEW NATION
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  • 148 1 The share market was fairly active this morning. Lower-priced issues were interesting. Prices were fairly steady. Hume (M) Ltd. moved up three cents to $1.85. Public Bank was up two cents to $1.27. Alcan lost a cent to $l.BB. Quia Perak, Haw Par, M. Ngai, K.L. Industries
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  • 10 1 Police reported 71 accidents yesterday. Seven were serious.
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  • 52 1 LATE NEWS Belfast, Wednesday. Shooting in Northern Ireland overnight left an estimated five gunmen wounded two of them possibly dead and two British soldiers in serious condition. British troops believe they shot ana wounded three gunmen in an hourlong battle with seven gunmen near a Londonderry army
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  • 532 1 Police out in force as protest grows over Indonesian leader's visit to Australia United Press International Sydney, Wednesday Indonesia's President Suharto received the most hostile reception of his Australian tour today when he arrived in Sydney. Chanting trade unionists and students called on President
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  • 372 1  -  'Firm arrogant' charge By Herbert Teo More than 250 daily-rated workers employed by the civil engineering firm of Taylor Woodro w Dillingham in the port area staged a "sit-in" this morning in protest against what they called the management's "arrogant attitude and discrimination" against them.
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  • 111 1 More than 100 former Singapore Traction Company employees today demonstrated outside the Labour Ministry In Havelock Road to register their demand for six weeks' severance pay following the closure of the STC last December. The demonstration started at 8 a.m. just before the company's receiver,
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  • 64 1 Los Angeles, Wednesday. —Singer Mama Cass Elliott of the Mamas and the Papas group yesterday sought a divorce from actor Donald Wledenman. 26. after a marriage that broke up after only six days. The 29-year-old singer, who field the Superior Court suit under her legal name of
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  • 80 1 Every evening until Friday, New Nation's mystery man will visit public eating places to look for readers with a copy of the New Nation. If he meets yon with a copy of the day's New Nation and yon answer a simple question you will receive
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  • 37 1 Paris, Wednesday.—A 26-year-old West German medical student plunged to his death on Monday night from the Eiffel Tower. He was the 355 th person to fall to his death from the 83-year-old landmark.
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  • 28 1 Caracas, Wednesday. Police raided a trade school here yesterday and freed 70 teachers who had been held as hostages since Monday by students demanding educational reforms.
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  • 184 1  -  By Peter Ong The internationally famous pop group, Middle Of The Road, which made a big scene of cutting their shoulder-length hair at London's Heathrow airport on Monday afternoon, arrived in Singapore yesterday. The members of the group which shot to fame with the catchy tune.
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  • 160 1 United Press International Tokyo, Wednesday. Japanese businessmen stationed In Peking are being moved out of their hotels by the Chinese to make room for President Nixon's party and American news men. Sources among Japanese companies doing business with China said today that at
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  • 28 1 Ankara, Wednesday. rwelve people were killed and 18 Injured near the Black Sea town of Slnop yesterday when a bus plunged over a cliff.
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  • 37 1 Buenos Aires, Wednesday A 20-year-old Argentine youth has admitted murdering 11 people during a series of armed robberies, police said today. Police sources said the youth was the son of a wealthy executive.
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  • 195 1 United Press International Saigon, Wednesday. Communist gunners fired 25 big 122 mm. rockets into the sprawling Danang airbase and another 12 Into the adjacent areas of South Vietnam's second largest city early today. Military spokesmen said three Vietnamese civilians were killed and 10 American servicemen
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  • 87 1 United Press International Manila, Wednesday.—President Marcos, and Vicepresident Fernando Lopez made big jumps on the list of the Philippines' top 100 tax-payers in 1970. According to Internal Revenue Bureau figures published today. Mr. Marcos rose from 57th to 26th on the tax-payers' list and Mr. Lopez
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 9 1 How well do you know Singapore: See Page 3
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    • 82 1 Long hair posters Pace Z. ROBINSON'S^ iffflae*! v LAST WEEK Red Ticket Special Offers up to 33 1/3% discount are available until Chinese New Yeer's Eve. Special discounts in every department. Fabulous offers on all items carrying the special red Ang Pow ticket! Quality furnishing fabrics, furniture, dress materials, fashion
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  • 776 2 The Ministry of Education has announced the results of the Higher School Certificate (Commerce) Examination, 1071, held in November. The- HSC (Commerce) is awarded to candidates who have passed the General Paper and a minimum of two subjects at Principal level and one subject at Subsidiary
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  • 79 2 International Chess Grandmaster Miguel NaJdorf of Argentina will give a simultaneous exhibition over 30 boards on February 17 at the Shangri-La Hotel. Those who wish to play against Najdorf may do so for a fee of $lO. Further information can be obtained from the Singapore Chess Federation, P.O.
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  • 202 2 A sightseeing trip round Switzerland awaits the lucky young man and woman to be chosen by the Swiss Bank Corporation to help the company celebrate its 100 th anniversary celebrations this year. The bank representative, Mr. Max W. Heer, said the bank
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  • 28 2 Rangoon, Wednesday. The Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, is to make a three-day informal visit to Surma later this month, It was officially announced here.
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  • 420 2  -  TTC clamps down on long hair By Patrick de Souza The Teachers' Training College in Paterson Road is clamping down on long hair on the campus. Posters attacking long hair have sprung up all over the campus, and trainee teachers and clerical
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  • 147 2 A housing estate including a six-storey split-level car park/will be built at the junction of North Bridge Road and Sumbawa Road this year. The project is part of the urban renewal scheme for Precinct North One. bounded by Victoria Street, Jalan Sultan and Beach
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  • 191 2 Several chambermaids at the Hilton Hotel will have to forego their Chinese New Year celebration—and play the role of the baby-sitter. This isn't what they bargained for, but work is work! The girls have been "drafted" to baby-sit for mums who want to spend
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  • 305 2  -  Crackdown on black-market sales By Douglas Chan The Customs Department today warned that it will not tolerate anyone who threatens, obstructs or makes Indecent gestures at officers performing their duty. The Acting Assistant Comptroller of Customs Special Branch, Mr. Llao Long Sing, said: "Any person
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  • 40 2 Tokyo, Wednesday. A moderate earthquake jolted part of Northern Japan early today but there were no immedate reports of casualties or daman. The epicentre was located about 37 miles (60km) below the sea off Iwate Prefecture.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 123 2 At the cinema Capitol: A Coffin For Count Dracula—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. Cathay: Blin Terror—--1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pjn. Globe: Brigade Of Bastards—l.4s, 4, 7, 9.15 pjn. Imperial: The Raw Passions (Mandarin)—2.ls, 7.15, 9.30 pjn. Joron t Drive-In: The Playfull Girls (Mandarin)— 7, 9.30 pjn. Lido: Up Pompeii—l.4s, 4,
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    • 167 2 weather! Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Hong Kong 9- 7C Manila 32-21 C Taipeh 15-12 C Kuala Lumpur 33-23 C Jakarta 33-27 C Tokyo 8- 2C Bangkok 33-25 C Naha 18-15 C Seoul 7-minus 1C Paris 13- 8C Moscow 7- minus 9C New York 2-minus 12C San Francisco 16-6 C
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  • 359 3 S'pore and Manila vie for project Singapore and the Philippines are strong contenders for a proposed $2OO million petrochemical complex to sert'e the region. The two countries have been named as possible sites for an Initial $2 millionplus ethylene plant In a survey carried out by
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  • 300 3  -  By Ivan Lim A mother's hunch about the cause of her son's failure to call at Singapore on a schooner to meet her turned out to be true. The schooner, Old Glory, that he is on had developed engine trouble in the Banka Straits,
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  • 194 3 There are times when a family gets away from it all for a quiet celebration. For the Malaysian Finance Minister, Tun Tan Slew Sin, his wife Toh Puan Catherine, daughter Siok Choo. 20, and relatives last night was one of
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  • 103 3 An ad hoc combined South committee, representlg eight voluntary organisations, has been formed to launch a month-long antidrug campaign beginning at the end of March. Members of the committee are: Mr. Mohan Dass, chairman; Miss Maznabi Mindi Jaffar, secretary; Mr. Abdul J alii Kunimln, assistant secretary;
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  • 321 3 Functions called off Singapore spent at least $20,000 in advertising promotions which appears to have gone to waste following the cancellation of two-post-PATA events specially arranged for the delegates. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board and the hotel industry spent the money on advertisements telling delegates
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  • 41 3 The body of a 73-year-old man was found early today at the foot of Block 110 In Gagak Selarl Barat. The man Is believed to have fallen from the sixth floor. Police do not suspect foul play.
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    • 289 3 SAS TRANS (theshortH > MAPS ARE LIARS! They can't help it. When a globe is transformed to a flat piece of paper, some distortion is unavoidable. Mercator's projection, the most common for world maps, gives you an entirely misleading impression of distances and the shortest way, for instance to Europe
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 368 3 More winners in our quiz r. Py- 4 Yesterday's photograph in our How Well Do You Know Singapore Quiz showed the top of the Macpherson Monument in the grounds of St. Andrew's Cathedral. Mr. Koh Joo Beng was the first reader to call with the correct answer. He wins $l5.
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  • In Person
    • 367 4 Conducted by Ruth Moses, Tel: *****1 ARTISTS here did some "canvassing" the other day all for a good cause helping Bangla Desh refugees. Putting the public in the picture were 22 local painters who charitably contributed two pieces each. These were
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    • 309 4 Reuter Jakarta, Wednesday. Beggars and other destitutes have been quietly slipping back into the sewers of the Presidential Palace since President Suharto left on a state visit to Australia on Sunday. The destitutes, including pickpockets and hawkers make themselves at home in
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    • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 367 4 What other newspapers are saying: NEW HOPE OF A PEACEFUL CONCLUSION OF THE VIETNAM WAR: At the Paris peace talks two days ago, a new proposal was made by Mr. Nguyen Van Tien, a representative of the National Liberation Front. Without setting a rigid time-limit, this new
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      • 413 4 POOR treatment for LOCAL JOURNALISTS: The less satisfactory treatment given to local Journalists. especially those who represent non-English lan- guage newspapers, compared to that given to foreign journalists is not something new In this country. It has occurred on numerous occasions, but steps to remedy the situation have
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  • 407 5 Pak alarm over troops New Nation Foreign Service Rawalpindi, Wednesday Mr. Ghulam Mustafa Jatol, Pakistan's Minister for Political Affairs, said yesterday that President Bhutto and the Bangla Desh Prime Minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, were expected to meet soon. "It should not take very long.
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  • 185 5 Reuter Caracas, Wednesday Consumed with Jealousy, •a 60-year-old businessman, father of 47 children, hired two gunmen to assassinate the lover of his 16-year old wife, police In Barguisimeto said yesterday. Gilberto Graterol Sivada confessed to police that he organised the killing of Celso Caracclolo Bracamonte, 19,
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  • 283 5 United Press International London, Wednesday.—The government will proclaim a state of emergency today, giving itself sweeping powers to use troops and Impose electricity blackouts in a bid to avoid a major fuel crisis. The decision was made by the Cabinet's emergency committee against a background
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  • 380 5 Hong Kong, Wednesday. At least three fires broke out aboard the former luxury liner Queen Elizabeth before It was destroyed by fire on January 9, a Marine Court of Inquiry was told here yesterday. Mr. Chou Chla-Cheng, project engineer of Island Navigation Corporation which owns
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  • 193 5 United Press International Colombo, Wed. Government authorities have banned hippies from entering Ceylon because they might be carriers of both opium and smallpox. Officials reported an influx of hundreds of hippt** in recent months, most of them coming from India and living in
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  • 202 5 Reuter Bangkok, Wednesday. Britain's Queen Elizabeth arrives In Thailand today on the eve of her first State visit to South-East Asian countries which, except the Thai Kingdom, were once British ruled or protected. The 43 year old monarch will fly from London
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  • 82 5 San Francisco, Wednesday.—Tentative agreement was reached yesterday to end a strike by 15.000 dockers that has paralysed shipping on the west coast for 124 days. The agreement must still be ratified by the union rank and file, but It appeared to cover all the remaining
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  • 323 5 Reuter Moscow, Wednesday. The Soviet Press yesterday reported that a new wave of purges in China had already led to a number of senior military figures being executed. The allegation, in a Tass news agency summary, was printed In all main Soviet newspapers. It
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  • 31 5 Paris, Wednesday. A French woman received a postcard from a childhood friend saying, "Best wishes and many thanks." On checking, she found it was posted in 1913.
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 633 6  -  By Pakir Singh PHILIPPINES The fear of President Marcos attempting to remain in office after 1973 hy .declaring a state of martial law in the Philippines is receding. Instead rumours are rife that delegates to the Constitutional Convention are being pressured into
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    • 685 6  -  The airline that has become an emotional affair... From V.K. Chin MALAYSIA Stalemated negotiations for an air services agreement between Malaysia and Singapore may well be revived when the Republic's Communications Minister, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, returns a courtesy call on his counterpart,
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    • 1329 6  -  US decision to back Pakistan a 'serious blunder' says former ambassador From Chester Bowles Washington Post INDIA As the political dust settles following the recent conflict in South Asia, the nagging question remains: Why did Mr. Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger embark
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  • SHOWBIZ
    • 551 7  -  By Peter Ong 1972 is only a little more than a month old and already the major groups are splitting and shaking up their line-up. Former Beatle Paul McCartney has added a new member to his group, Wings. iJ? ls ..®f nr y McCulloch,
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    • 807 7  -  SIGHT AND SOUND EDGAR KOH LOOKS AT THE TV AND RADIO SCENE EDGAR KOH The best in locally produced muslcalvariety fare will hopefully be seen next week when eight RTS producers pool their ta-, lents in an hour-long Chinese New Year
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    • 316 7  -  By Violet Oon Ravi Shankar, the world famous sitar player who has influenced modern music from serious to pops, will be giving a performance at the Shang-ri-La Hotel Ballroom on Feb. 28 at 8.45 p.m. The Indian musician began his career as a dancer in
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    • 232 7  -  V.O. The Ministry of Culture's Music for Everyone Concert this month to be held on Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. at the Conference Hall will feature some of the most talented artistes in Singapore. The Goh Soon Tioe String Orchestra, comprising 25 of Mr. Ootrs
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    • 196 7 Four top-named Hong Kong and Taiwan film stars are here for a Chinese New Year charity show at the National Theatre tomorrow and Friday. Shaw Brothers' leading actresses Margaret Hslng Hul and Irene Chen I-Llng and Taiwan TV and showbiz personalities Shla
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    • 219 7 FM STEREO THIS WEEK RTS Concert Hall (Wednesday 10 p.m.) features pianist Jacob Feurring. He will be playing The Guiding March by Tao-Yin, welcome Autumn by Lao Chlh Cheng, and other pieces by Asian composers. Ravel's Princes of the Pagodas, Khachaturian's Toccata and Chopin's Preludes Op.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 179 7 ON TV THIS WEEK Connie Stevens and jack Benny are guest stars on the DES O'CONNOR SHOW (today Ch 5, 9.10 p.m.) GEOGRAPHY AND LIFE SPECIAL (Friday Ch 8, 7.25 Em.) features the welllown German nature cinematographer Heinz Seilmann. A self-styled film biologist, Seilmann has taken thousands of feet of
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  • 476 8 Singapore should have fully digested the economic effects of the British military pullout by April or May. That is, "after the first quarter of 1972" —that magic mark when, trade unions have been told, they could re-examine terms and conditions of service in
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  • 60 8 \TTiTvv^r7var7v^! 'J Jj J_f/ i if) by ISPY Most people commit suicide because of love or of sickness. More unusual is the Singapore farmer who killed himself last month be- cause someone had stolen his 21 pigs. The animals were worth $l,OOO and In a fit of
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  • 960 8  -  DICK WILSON Did you know that the eagle on the back of the new silver tendollar coin is a whitebellied sea eagle? Neither did I till I made some inquiries. This is apparently the most common type of eagle seen in
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  • Letters
    • 334 8 With reference to the recent letters appearing In your paper from Clerical Assistants, it is good to note that there is now an awakening interest among clerical workers pertaining to enhanced terms and conditions of service. However, these clerical assistants who purport to be members of
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    • 105 8  -  WONG CHOOI SEN Secretary to Prime Minister, Singapore. 6 I refer to the complaint by in (NN, Jan. 29). T.A.B. first wrote to the Prime Minister's Office in October last on a parking offence committed by him in December 1970 for which he was fined $2O.
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    • 142 8 I worked for a company for nearly two months on a dally basis and during this period I did nothing wrong. I did my Job well. One day I was sick and I took half-day leave without consulting the doctor. After two days I was called
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    • 46 8  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of National Development, Singapore, 2. I refer to the letter by Action Please (NN, Jan. 27). As Oxley Mansions is a private residential estate, the property owner (s) would have to initiate action against any trespassers.
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    • 63 8 Bartley Road between Chung Hwa Girls School to the Junction of BartleyUpper Paya Lebar Roads— Is being used for parking lorries at night from 8 p.m. The lighting and bamboo shrubs cause poor visibility and constitute danger when crossing. The situation Is aggravated by lorries parked at
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    • 193 8 I am a keen fan of Val Doonican I love his show veiy much, but I cannot watch it on the television Jmim/fifie 11 telecast around 11.15 pm. 1 have to go to school tne next morning and if I stayed up to watch, I
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    • 179 8  -  B.H. LIM Operation Snip-Snip has achieved little success in the war against hippieism. Numerous youths, especially girls, are still seen roaming about with long, untidy hair and shaggy clothes. May I know what action has been taken to deal with these indecent ones? If hippie culture
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    • 129 8  -  CHAN LOY CHAN (Miss) Public Relations Officer, Public Health Division, Singapore, 3. I refer to the letter, Waiting For Govt Reply, (NN, Jan. 22). It is confirmed that the letter dated Dec. 8 referred to was received on Dec. 13. The matter was attended to and
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  • THE EXPATS
    • 1234 9  -  THE PAPER THAT PROBES.. The case against New Nation Special Survey Writers j DICK WILSON, PANG CHENG LIAN, TAN CHUNG LEE "Our general manager is an expat," said a senior Singaporean working in the local branch of a big foreign corporation whose name
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    • 659 9 Given that the expats are, in reasonable numbers and with selectivity, necessary, are they overpaid? "Expats cost more money," said the personnel manager of one international corporation. "If we were to pay them the same amounts that they are given in their
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    • 1787 9 The case for The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, himself has explained the reason for the necessity to employ expatriates. In a speech to the stu dents of the Polytechnic on January 5. he said: "And for the time being, as far as
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  • TREND
    • 628 10  -  Presented by Mary Lee LINDA ABRAMS Paris, Wednesday Most of the Parisian designers have made their Spring '72 couture collection conservative and safe. There is no nemllne dispute anymore. It has stayed on the knee, where It will be accepted by every woman at any
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    • 190 10  -  ROMA BLAIR And how are you getting on with your Suryanamaskar, Salute to the Sun? Today we are at the fifth and sixth stages. For those readers who have not been following this series, there is still time to get copies of previous exercises, so that
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    • 123 10 Shoe Preserver: If you coat the soles of new leather shoes with linseed oil, they will last twice as long. Sling-Backs: If straps on sling-back shoes begin to slip, glue a narrow piece of foam rubber to the inside of the straps and they will hold firmly. Boot
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    • 132 10 Have you a lovehate attitude to parties? You love the opportunity of making new friends and influencing people, but hate the way the parties usually turn out for you. Well, the trouble often starts with the way you look: Strained and on edge, waiting for someone
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    • 1006 10  - And so to bed —and perchance, to sleep TRISH SHEPPARD We spent a rather traumatic honeymoon on a ship going from Hong Kong to Hawaii and on the first night out of port we started off sharing the bottom coffin-like bunk. When my husband fell asleep I lay awake for
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    • 328 10 New York, Wednesday One morning three years ago, actress Rosalind Russell awakened to find her hands full of pain. She .Looked at them and was semi-horrified. "The hands were swollen to the size of two small hams," Miss Russell said in an interview. The problem: arthritis.
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  • CHINESE NEW YEAR
    • 1747 11  -  (exactly thirty years ago 1 By Edgar Koh The Lunar new year, just like Christmas New Year and other International festival days, is a time for peace*, thanksgiving and goodwill to all men. This February 15, the first day in
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    • 1514 12  -  By Peter Ong Chinese New Year, as always, is a season of gaiety to almost everyone. But this year, there will be no earshattering bangs from those little red sticks of dynamite—firecrackers. As memories of the death toll of 1970 still lurk freshly In our
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    • 1267 12  - Crackers —mixed memories By Edgar Koh The best of things I remember about Chinese New Year when I was young were the crackers. Mischievious and unconcerned about the smoke and noise pollution and the dangers that the big bangers presented, we always started lighting them long before the first day
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    • 499 13  -  By Mary Lee Chinese New Year and buying new clothes were inseparable events for me when I was a teenager. Which meant that my wardrobe was always more functional than fashionable. So, by the time I was financially independent, buying clothes once a year had
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    • 971 14  -  By Abby Tan One of the best things about celebrating Chinese New Year in Singapore is the large variety of nonya cakes available. Indeed, the celebrations have become so localised and not strictly Chinese in character that no New
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    • 23 14 With lots of money from ong pows, these two boys are having a real feast at a xitay stall.
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    • 699 14 Leave aside the usual nonya delicacies that you have been trying all these years. Try something new this time. Here are some recipes to delight the children and guests. Salted not biscuits: Ingredients: one cup nuts, groundnut or cashewnuts, 3 oz. butter, 3 oz. firmly
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    • 871 15  -  By Pang Guek Cheng The Chinese have a unique system of determining a person's character. This is dependent upon the animal year in which any one is born, and is largely derived from the nature of these 12 animals. If a person is born In the
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    • 679 16 ...and prayers are not forgotten The 15 days of the Chinese New Year is replete with festivals to the numerous deities of the average Chinese family. Half their time during the new year season Is spent in prayers and offerings. Tills is a season of
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    • 687 16  -  Pang Guek Cheng The Chinese New Year celebrations end with Chap Goh Meh, or the "Fifteenth Night." With the appearance of the first full moon of the new year, the night has, in the past, been a time for romance. t Here's
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    • 15 16 The burst of crocket* is not only deafening but also frightening.
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  • BUSINESS AND FINANCE
    • 284 17 United Press International New York, Wednesday The stock market closed on a mixed note yesterday in fairly active trading. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial average of 30 selected blue-chin stocks rose 3.16 to 907.13. It had been off more than a
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    • 184 17 Reuter London, Wednesday Stock markets closed firm. Sentiment was aided by the power workers' wage settlement and hopes of a reflationary budget. At 3 p.m. the Financial Times index was 5.0 up at 490.3. Unilever, Flsons, Decca and Plessey were leaders to move higher but Rank
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    • Business Abroad
      • 90 17 BANGKOK, Wed. Thailand has agreed to sell 7000 tons of plantation white sugar to Singapore and 3000 tons to Hong Kong. The price in the two agreements signed yesterday is US$l95 ($595) FOB basis a metric ton. The contract with Singapore calls for
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      • 107 17 FEW FRIENDS FOR LONDON: The dollar found few friends in European key centres yesterday and its value slipped slightly lower in calm trading. At the same time price of gold pushed higher to U5548.15 an ounce, a jump of US$l.lO an ounce in London since the start of the week.
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      • 75 17 WASHINGTON: Presldent Nixon's chief economic adviser, Mr. Herbert Stein, has forecast a gradual bridging of the gap between US and foreign interest rates which would induce foreign-held dollars to flow back to the United States. The relatively low interest rates In the US have been chiefly blamed
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      • 74 17 WASHINGTON: The cost of living In Britain rose at a faster rate than in any other non-Communist industrial country during most of last year, according to International Monetae Fund statistics. The IMF's latest monthly report showed the rate of consumer price increase In Britain
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      • 58 17 ADEN: Soviet aid to the Democratic Republic of Yemen (Southern Yemen) is running at ($8.5 million) per year, the economic adviser at the Soviet embassy here revealed yesterday. Thirty projects with Soviet financial and technical aid are under way In the republic, three years after the
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    • 429 17 MARKET SLIPS INTO LOW KEY By Our Market Correspondent In low key, the market was rather mixed. But impressive gains were also made by a few counters. Roxy gained 22 cents to $3.50, Hume Far East 14 cents to $3.44, United Overseas Bank 10 cents to $5.90,
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    • 393 17  -  By Tan Cher Soon Reflecting the nearattainment of Singapore's industrialisation programme, the local manufacturing industries created an additional 22,000 jobs in 1971. There is an estimated demand for 30,000 new jobs every year caused by school leavers. In 1971, the manufacturing industries employed about
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    • 284 17 The directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation announced that the profit of the bank including dividends from subsidiaries for the year ended December 31, 1971 after necessary provisions and transfers is HK5133,784,802 compared to HK5114,218,607 for 1970. The figure is subject to audit. Group
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    • 141 17 The Malaysia Security .Fund, which was launched on May 31, last year, will pay Its first dividend of $2.16 gross per 100 units held. In addition to the dividend, the Fund had shown a capital appreciation up to January 25 of 16 cents per unit. This gave
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    • 248 17 Sea-Land Service will inaugurate a bi-week-ly container service between Singapore, the United States, Canada and the Caribbean starting on February 16. The new service will also link Singapore with Hong Kong, Taiwan, Saigon, Keelung, Kaoshleng Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama, Pusan and Seoul. Sea Land's fully-con-tainerised shipping
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    • 54 17 LUXEMBOURG: World steel production feU last year for the first time since 1958, says the EECs statistical office. Last year world production reached 560.5 million tons, 18 mniinn tons less than In 1970. The office blamed the drop to the western industrialised nations' tailoring their output
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    • Article, Illustration
      330 17 Mr. C. G. Raleigh has been appointed manager for South-East Asia of Industrial Engineering Limited, an Australian company which manufactures metal working equipment and other industrial products. Mr. Raleigh Is a professional engineer. The Arm, which opened an office in Singapore, plans to set up a distributor-agent network in
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  • 1088 18  -  SOCCER SCENE WITH JEFFREY LOW England World Cup star Nobby Stiles has an F.A. Cup Winners' medal in his collection but he reckons that it is only a second-best. Now Nobby Is hoping that Second Division Middlesbrough will break historical precedent and give
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  • 118 18  -  TANG CHEE YUEN Dear Sir, I refer to the letter "Give us a break please NSPB" in the New Nation on 27.1.72 by "Sporting Sam." Opportunities are in fact given to everyone to participate In sporting activities. The National Sports Promotion Board Is concerned with the promotion of
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  • 60 18 New York, Wednesday— Gerald Battrlck, British Davis Cap player, beat Oony Parun of New Zealand 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Los Angeles International tennis tournament here yesterday. Other first round scores included: Tom Gorman (United States) beat Adrlano Panatta (Italy) 6-9. 6-4 Zeljko
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  • 120 18 Tom Chambers, an American residing In Singapore will be playing in the fourday Bob Hope Desert Classic golf Invitation starting today. Unlike other major golf tournaments in the US, the Bob Hope Classic will be played over 90 gruelling holes on four different course. The
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  • 278 18 The All-Indian Open badminton tournament thin fpnnfch, in Which tWO of Singapore's best players have been Invited to compete, has been postponed to a later date. In a letter to the Singapore Badminton Association, the AIBF said: "Due to the border war with Pakistan, we
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  • 86 18 Manila, Wednesday. Canada yesterday became the ninth nation to enlist in the world men's softball championships to be held from March 4 to 12 in the suburban town of Marikina. The Amateur Softball Association of the Philippines said Canada will send a 15-man team, a coach
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 376 18 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Menu entry. 5 Another name. 10 cost (gratis): 2 words. 14 Extent. 15 Jog. 16 Scorch. 17 Stravinsky. 18 Gardener's gift: 2 words. 20 Practical: 3 words. 22 Intermediate: Comb. form. 23 Gem stone. 24 Poetic foot. 26 Nova 20 Noblewoman of Italy. 33 Musical
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  • 280 19 From Blue Peter in Ipoh, Wednesday Affection returned the fastest time of the morning, reeling off 3f in 36 4/5 here with Wadi in the saddle Thunderstorm last evening took the sting out of the track and the going was good. Derringer (Subian)
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  • 84 19 New York, Wednesday The top money winners on the professional golfers association tour, through the Hawaiian Open: 1. Gerge Archer U5550,877; 2. Grier Jones U5547,962; 3. Bob Murphy U5539,647 4. Miller Barber U8536,681; 5. Paul Harney U5533,476; 6. Jack Nicklaus U5530,325; 7. Hale Irwin U5526,611; 8.
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  • 164 19 London, Wednesday. Rugby League International Board secretary Bill Fallowfield confirmed yesterday the World Cup series between Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand will definitely be staged In France this year. He said French Rugby league President Rene Maurles, a wealthy industrialist, had assured the International Board
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  • 272 19  -  By Dennis Chia Ho Shlng, pitcher for Raffles Institution, was a perturbed player in the game against St. Joseph's Institution in the City district Softball "B" boys championships at RI yesterday. As a pitcher with considerable experience, having played for the Combined Schools and
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  • 632 19  -  By Sonny Yap St. Patrick's School's hopes of winning all three divisions In the Katong district soccer championships crashed on the wet and slippery home ground yesterday when its "B" side was beaten 2-1 by Telok Kurau. It was a result which surprised
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  • 446 19 WORLD OF 1 SPORT J Glasgow, Wednesday. World soccer champions Brazil have given Scotland a free-passage to the quar-ter-finals of the mini-World Cup in Brazil next June, it was announced yesterday. Originally, 3cotland were due to take part in the qualifying rounds against some
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  • 119 19 New York, Wednesday.— Wimbledon champion Evonne Goolagong of Australia will make her American debut in next month's Maureen Connolly invitation tournament in Dallas, Texas. A spokesman for Virginia Slims, sponsors of the tournament, announced Miss Goolagong's participation. He added that 17-year-old American Chris Evert,
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  • 232 19 Sapporo, Wednesday—The Uth Winter Olympic Games have passed the halfway stage with Switzerland surprisingly sharing the lead in the gold medal race, thanks to unheralded teenager Marie-Theres Nadlg. In a blinding snowstorm, 17-year-old Miss Nadlg, who had never won an international event before she came
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  • 49 19 Perth, Wednesday.—Boxer Rex Downward took a poke at referee Eddie Piper last night after he had lost a controversial points decision to Australian light-welter-weight champion Hector Thompson, at Perth's Subiaco Oval. Downward looked at the referee in amazement when he crowned Thompson, then suddenly punched him.
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  • 288 19 United Press International Tokyo, Wednesday. The Asian golf circuit has suffered a heavy blow with yesterday's cancellation of the Yomiuri International Open, its final of nine tournaments. It is a pity that political consideration appears to have been the real cause of the decision
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  • Back Page WEDNESDAY
    • 350 20  -  By Dick West A young man was explaining to me the other day why he never goes to New Year's Eve parties. "A year," he said, "la an artificial and arbitrary unit Invented by man as a part of his obsession for
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    • 57 20 If you saw The Story of Three Flowers' at the cinema here recently you may recognise lovely Shirley Fang, today's back-page girl. Shirley, 22, played her first screen role in the film. Better known as a singer, Shirley is on a visit from Taiwan to
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    • 195 20 For four years Lon-don-born Donald Stuart worked as a coroner in Los Angeles. He presided over inquests, signed hundreds of death certificates and was regarded highly by his colleagues. But last week the 50-year-old "doctor" was arrested. Police allege that all his medical credentials
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    • 494 20 ELECTRONIC SNOOPERS RUN UP A S9M. BILL A study of governmental electronic eavesdropping prepared by the American Civil Liberties Union has branded the operations as "highly extensive, expensive and ineffectual." Researched for the union by Professor Oerman Schwartz, professor of law
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    • 107 20 Today Is Wednesday, February 9. the 40th day pf 1972 with 326 to follow. THE MOON: Between its last quarter and new phase. THE MORNING STARS: Mercury and Jupiter. THE EVENING STARS: Venus. Mars and Saturn.Those born on this day are under the sign of Aquarius. ON THIS DAT
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    • 106 20 The female really is more dangerous than the male even when she is only a schoolgirl. British teachers claim that she bullies, intimidates, and causes more trouble than boys. The teenage schoolgirl bully sometimes even has teachers in tears, according to a survey, by the National Association of
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    • 49 20 AHFOOK: I see the number of Japanese tourists visiting Singapore Is expected to double this year. WEI UN: It's because of their yen to travel. But seriously I think It is a good thing that regional tourism should expand. We should not only rely on Western tourists.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 427 20 V 5 Siagapara 3.00 Opening and Housewives' Matinee—The Swindlers (Cantonese, Pt. 1) 3.45 For the Family (C) 4.15 A Diary of Events in Singapore this Week (C) 410 Days of Our Lives 4.55 Close 6.05 Opening and Space Angel 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 What Others Say (E) 6.50 Pow
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    • 22 20 SHORT RIBS B sz U m >/ 11 I IKP .X m lli I §1 If •:>:£ aS* 1 3 5 .<• by George Fett
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    • 443 20 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you nave a tendency to dwell only on the serious side of life the problems and difficulties, the steps that take a great deal of time and energy to prepare for. and the kinds of decisions that are irrevocable. You
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