New Nation, 13 March 1972

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    15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Monday evening, March 13, 1972 No. 351 Price 15 cents \K\Y NATION
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  • Article
    Big Walk closing date extended
    240 1 The New Nation Big Walk organising committee has extended the close date for entries to Friday. Sports clubs, business firms and schools which wish to add more members to their teams can do so up to Friday. Those who have sent in their entries are
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  • Article, Illustration
    MX pills ring wiped out
    507 1  -  CNB men detain five youths, seize 600 pills By Francis Rozario The Central Narcotics Bureau believes it has wiped out the syndicate responsible for the island-wide distribution of MX pills with the smashing of another narcotics ring yesterday. In two major operations starting on Saturday
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  • Article
    GCE pass rate not a true picture
    343 1  -  But there're advantages: Principals By Ong Choo Suat No clear picture has yet emerged on students' performance in the new Singa-pore-Cambridge GCE "O" level examination, which was Introduced last year. While 84.5 per cent of those who sat for the examination obtained certificates,
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  • Article
    ON THE 'CHANGE
    138 1 Trading was slow and selective In the share market this morning. Prices were generally unsteady. Haw Par dropped 20 cents to $6.10, Robinsons declined two cents to $2.60. Straits Times gained five cents to $8.25. Sim Lim made two cents to $1.09. P.M. Cement eased a cent
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  • Article
    Bus-train collision
    29 1 Manila, Monday—Police said two people were killed and 14 Injured when a Manila-bound express train collided with a passenger bus about 40 miles north of Manila yesterday.
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  • Article
    Lock icon Turkish politicians in drug scandal
    213 1 Reuter Ankara, Monday Several members of the Turkish Senate have been implicated in a drugsmuggling ring following arrests and seizures of morphine in France and Istanbul last week, the Turkish Interior Minister, Mr. Ferit Kubat, said yesterday. He said investigations were continuing on the basis
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  • Article
    Lon Nol now president
    31 1 Phnom Penh, Monday.— The Cambodian Chief of State, Lon Nol, today announced that he had taken over as President. Com-mander-in-Chief of the armed forces and Prime Minister
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  • Article
    OUR ROADS
    13 1 Police reported 41 accidents yesterday. Four were serious and two fatal.
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    Charged with attack on PCs
    149 1 Six youths (right, masked) were charged in the First Magistrate's Court this morning with attempted murder and causing grevious hurt to two policemen at 6 m.s. Upper Serangoon Road on February 14 —Chinese New Year's eve. They were ordered to be remanded until March 20
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  • Article
    Protecting wildlife
    63 1 New York. Monday.—The US National Wildlife Federation yesterday called for an embargo on a nuclear project to generate gas by exploding five atomic devices one after the other in Wyoming. It also called on thee US Atomic Energy Commission not to issue further permits for transporting and dumping
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      107 1 insiOE TODRV PACE 5: Marcos criticizes Nixon's China VlSlt PAGE 5 Ind arr troops leave Bangla Desh. PACE 7. Singapore s top comedians: Ya Fong and Alias Congo. PACE 8 Pen a n g uni versit> draws more students. PACE 9 Dear Ros answers your problems. PACE ?5 Big names
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      86 1 wfirwj i eSanyo brings together the cassette fan and the cartridge fan under one car roof. FT-1100 car stereo satisfies both. And records directly from cartridge to cassette. With 20W of total music power, there's enough sound even for a convertible. Classy styling. Simple operation. And yet you get the
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  • Article, Illustration
    BIG RAID AWAKES TWO CHILDREN
    75 2 Armed with torchlights, Stirling sub-machine guns and pistols, Reserve Unit men and plainclothes detectives raid a three-bedroom Clemenceau Avenue flat. Singapore and Malaysian police rushed there following a tip-off that a man, wanted on both sides of the causeway; was hiding in the flat early
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    The loser who won amused attention
    574 2 Size counts a lot from the viewpoint of a miniature Dachshund. Several times during the show he was nearly trampled by the bigger championship aspirants, including a hulking Labrador Retriever. Finally, exasperated by the fact that his extra short legs could not carry him
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  • Article
    Optimism over non-affinity charters continuing
    232 2 Charter airline circles are the deadline (set by the flights will continue after June 30 posslblly In a different form. Mr. Joe M In ton, the managing director of Saber Air, the Singapore charter airline, said: '1 am confident that non affinity flights will continue
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  • Article
    Entries for HSC exams
    56 2 Entries for science subjects in the .Cambridge Higher School Certificate examination 1972 will be received from today until March 24, by the Examinations Division, Ministry of Education. Candidates must supply proof that they are following a systematic course of study in science and are keeping up
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  • Article
    Board to help with wages
    339 2 The proposed National Productivity Board is to launch an extensive study of Singapore's economic situation to help the National Wages Council formulate and rationalise salary policies. This would be the first major task—and an added role—of the NPB. the statutory body that is to succeed
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  • Article
    Pollution a threat to all: Minister
    181 2 The Education Minister, and chairman of the Public Utilities Board, Mr. Urn Kim San, said today it was a mistake to think that environmental quality concerned only the highly industrialised nations. Opening the five day workshop on "Water Resources, Environment and National Development" at
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  • Article
    Two courses
    39 2 The Chinese YMCA will conduct two eight session courses In guitar playing for beginners and intermediates. Both courses will begin on March 22. Those interested should contact the Chinese YMCA's Adult Department (telephone ***** *****1 after Wednesday).
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  • Article
    Ban on foreign student union leaders likely
    319 2  -  By Tan Chung Lee Non-citizen students may be barred from holding office in the University of Singapore and the Polytechnic students' unions. Amendments to the constitutions of the unions are being considered to include this restriction. A similar clause was a condition for
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  • Article
    Venue for meetings
    59 2 The Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Iffice and MP for Kampong Übi, Tuan Haji Ya'acob bin Mohamed, will hold his weekly meet the-people sessions at the new premises of ,the Kampong Übi PAP Branch, at No. 33, Block 1, Jalan Geylang Serai, starting today. The
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    Jaycees
    31 2 Men between the ages of 21 and 40 who are interested in enrolling as members of the Jnior Chamber of Singapore should telephone *****7 during office hours before June 30.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      126 2 At the cinema Capitol: S.WAI.K.-1.30. darin)—l, 3.30. 7. 9.30 p.m. 4. 6.30, 9.30 p.m. Orchard: Plaza Suite Cathay: 101 Dalmatians 1.30. 4. 6.30, 9.15 p.m. —1.30. 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. Paramount: Swordsman Globe: The Red Circle at Large (Mandarin) 1.30. 1.30, 4. 6.45. 9.15 p.m. 3.30. 7. 9.30 p.m. Imperial:
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      151 2 miTfl The weather forecast from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Isolated showers in late afternoon. The weather for the 24 hours to 8 a.m. today: Max. temp. 30.6 C. Min. temp. 23.2 C. Total rainfall for the month to date 40.4 mm. Total rain days for the month to date
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  • Article, Illustration
    Johnny talks to the world
    346 3  -  By Pang Guek Cheng Quadraplegic Johnny Ang, 31, paralysed from the neck downwards, will soon be talking to the world with a special telephone, the first in Singapore. He already has a typewriter operated by a special Possum machine and environmental control equipment with which
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  • Article
    $73 mil. in UK aid to Republic this year
    247 3 Britain will give Singapore $73.5 million in special aid'this year the last instalment of the $375 million payment linked with the withdrawal of British forces from the Republic. The money will be used to finance projects already underway. A sum of
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  • Article
    Liner still aground
    53 3 New York, Monday Three tugs pulling at the 27,000-ton luxury liner Mardi Oras failed to free the giant ship from a sand bank outside Miami Harbour yesterday. Another try will be made at the next high tide. The newly refurbished cruise ship ran aground an Saturday on
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    Two French classics
    63 3 The French Embassy and the Alliance Francaise will present two French classic plays this weekend at the Cultural Centre. Le Barbler de Seville by Beaumarchais will be held on Saturday at 6.30 p.m., while Les Fourberies de Scapin by Moliere is on Sunday at 5.30 p.m. -Tickets,
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    Slow start to recital
    239 3  -  VIOLET OON Pianist Detlef Kraus took some time to fully immerse himself in the music in his recital at the Cultural Centre last night. It may nave been due to the loud noises in the corridors which always seem to spoil recitals in the theatre. The
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    CPIB on trail of underwear smuggling syndicate
    234 3  -  By Douglas Chan The Corrupt Pratices Investigation Bureau is understood to be looking for a former Customs officer following the discovery of a big women's undergarment smuggling ring. Earlier this month the CPIB Questioned seven Customs officers, including two who have since left
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  • Article
    Bid to close sex shop
    46 3 Perth, Monday The Premier of Western Australia, Mr. John Tonkin, has declined an invitation to attend the opening of Perth's first sex shop. Instead he has asked the Police Minister to see what steps are necessary to have the shop closed.
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  • Article
    Floods toll 36
    38 3 Lima, Monday The death toll in a summer deluge which has been drenching parts of Peru for nearly a month rose to at least 36 yesterday with 20 people missing and more than 150,000 homeless.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      359 3 Over 300 send correct quiz answer Just over 300 readers sent in correct answers to last Wednesday's quiz. The photograph showed a balcony of the Cockpit Hotel in Oxley Rise. The first prize of $l5 goes to Mr. Ang Ah Wee, a student. of Mount Sfnai Drive. His entry was
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  • In Person
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      Cheering up the old folks with the magic of melody
      480 4 Conducted by Ruth Moses, Tel: *****1 There was a bright burst of colour and spirits were uplifted when members of the Hello Support Group walked Into the old men's home In Upper Aljunled Road. About 25 members came along, with
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    • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
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        Nanyang Siang Pau
        508 4 What other newspapers are saying: SINGAPORE'S FUTURE: We have been having the greatest confidence in the economic development of Singapore because of its excellent geographical position, limited population and comparatively long term political and economic stability. When the Minister for Finance, Mr. Hon Sul Sen, presented the
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      • Article
        Sin Chew Jit Poh
        813 4 SWIM UPWARDS AGAINST THE CURRENT: The Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, announced at the NTUC annual delegates' conference: The government has decided to pay a 13th month allowance, which Is equal to a month's salary, to all government servants and that such an allowance for
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  • Article
    Lock icon Sunset pullout ceremony
    468 5 Indians leave amid music, cheers New Nation Foreign Service Dacca, Monday Amid the roll of drums and the skirl of bagpipes, the Indian Army yesterday held a sunset retreat ceremony to mark their official withdrawal from Bangladesh after liberating the country last December. The ceremony took place
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    Lock icon Bhutto retires 1200 from govt. service
    207 5 United Press International Karachi, Monday. President Bhutto yesterday ordered the retirement of 1200 civil servants in a move to eliminate "deadwood and corrupt" people from the Pakistani government. Among those affected were Pakistan's Consul Generals in San Francisco and Istanbul. Mr. Bhutto was authorised
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    Helicopters rescue 70 from cable car
    176 5 Zurich, Monday. Three helicoptex crews yesterday plucked 70 people from a a stranded cable car after they had spent a sub-freez-ing night dangling 750 ft. (240 m) above a snow-cover-ed valley. The big car was caught on crossed wires for more than 14 hours
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    China and UK ties likely soon
    161 5 London, Monday Mr. John Addis, Britain's Charge d'Affairs In Peking, is due to call at the Chinese Foreign Ministry today for talks which are expected to result In agreement on the exchanging of ambassadors. Informed British sources said here yesterday that agreemeht was in
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    Lock icon Woman hijacks plane with unloaded pistol
    125 5 New Nation Foreign Service Bonn, Monday A 55-year-old Italian woman used an unloaded pistol to hijack an Alitalia jet liner carrying 31 passengers from Rome to Munich, police said yesterday. A Munich magistrate ordered the woman, Mrs. Attilia Lasseri, held in custody while police
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    Lock icon Marcos hits Nixon visit
    258 5 Reuter Barcelona, Monday. President 'Marcos of the Philippines said that President Nixon's recent visit to Peking had complicated the renegotiation of US-Philip-pines agreements, according to an interview published here. The Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardla Espanola quoted President Marcos as saying the Nixon visit might serve as
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  • Article
    Jenkins denies leadership challenge
    177 5 London, Monday Mr. Roy Jenkins, the deputy leader of the opposition Labour Party, yesterday denied that a speech he made on Saturday was an opening gambit in a bid for leadership of the party. He said that newspaper comment on the speech presented a "totally distorting
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    Lock icon Death ends Irish truce calm
    304 5 New Nation Foreign Service Belfast, Monday—Gunmen last night shattered the three-day truce called by the provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army when they opened fire on a British army patrol and killed a woman passerby, the Royal Ulster Constabulary said. Police spokesmen said gunmen
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      78 5 I Ifl w to I s\ I .N If MSA now offers you daily 737 flights to Djakarta in the early evening. Depart Singapore at the convenient time of 5p.m., enjoy a delicious dinner, arrive in Djakarta at 5.55 p.m. In total, MSA now gives you the choice of three
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    Instability in Khmer Republic
    433 6 The return of General Lon Nol to full power does nothing to relieve the murklness of the political scene in Cambodia. There appeared to be no compelling reason for Genera) lon Nol's action. If the dismissed government of 81rik Matak was not widely popular, nor was
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    A glut of glut talk
    147 6 j jjjjy .r 1 jijyj by ISPY It seems fashionable these days for hoteliers to talk of the high occupancy rates of their hotels when they gather informally either with Journalists or when they are with others. It all started when hoteliers heard of the
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    Account of a revolutionary wedding shows that China is still experimenting
    1203 6  -  ALEX JOSEY Miss Pang Cheng Lian in her column recently insisted that China was a success. She said so twice, first she said: "We must not become overwhelmed by China's success story." Later she claimed that China by any
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  • Letters
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      Straightening hospital facts
      732 6  -  Dr. DAVID LOO President. Mr. P. K. HAZRA, Hon. Secretary, Singapore Government Medical and Dental Offoen* Association, Singapore 3 x r The second port .of your feature article. The Doctors, Is an example bordering on gutter journalism. In your quest for sensationalism you have indulged in some
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      Time to metricate
      62 6  -  HO KENG WAH Metrication has come to stay and the beginning its operations has Its minor misgivings. Most of the weights and measures have been metricated. But what about time. Time-keeping has with it the hour, the minutes and the seconds. Has anyone thought of daring to
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      Wrong name for station
      59 6  -  M. DAS On a recent visit to the Mt. Washington look-out. I was able to identify the buildings In sight—thftnlr» to the photograph guide put up. A complaint: Couldn't the names be given correctly? The power station in Pasir Pan Jang Is given as St James
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      Save water at home
      190 6  -  KHOR ENG LEE Public Relations Officer, Public Utilities Board, Singapore 6 I refer to Mr. Leonard Llm's letter (NN, Feb. 29 j on the need for everyone to conserve water. As domestic consumption constitutes the biggest factor. the most of the conservation can be effected at
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      33 6 COMING HOME BABY BY ROBERT YEO and ONLY LINES BY ARTHUR YAP two splendid collections of poems. The poets write of love, marriage, politics, and everyday things. m FEDERAL EaRJBUCATIONS SON. BHD. «.so«eh.
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    THE COMEDIANS
    1915 7  -  They are happy only when people laugh at them Bit Edgar Koh Comedian Ya Fong now speaks better pidgin English than before. 4 Since American film producer Mrs. Jodl Desmond Cole recently offered him the role ot Charlie Chan in the well-known detective series he has been spending
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
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      Penang University gaining better image than the MU
      798 8  -  From Ng Foo Ngok MALAYSIA More Malaysian students are now looking to the University of Penang in preference to the University of Malaya in their pursuit of higher studies. The Penang University started with Just over 50 students in 1909. The stigma
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      Trade agreement with Brussels best hope for Republic
      674 8  -  When Britain joins the European Common Market... By Dick Wilson, Anil Bhatia SINGAPORE Three choices are offered to Commonwealth member countries by the European Common Market "(EEC) when Britain Joins next year. Pull associate status, the first and most beneficial one, is
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      SUHARTO SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH COMMUNIST COUNTRIES IN ASIA
      629 8  -  From Ronnie Muntu INDONESIA The just concluded visit by North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Kim Ryong Taek, to Indonesia has re-established dialogue between Indonesia and the Asian communist world. Indonesia's relations with China, North Korea and and North Vietnam had
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    • Article
      China cancer cure a myth
      564 8 In the public interest, in view of the general talk about socalled "miracle cancer cures" in China, we publish below a letter from a Penang doctor to the Malaysian edition of the Straits Times (March 10). News media in Malaysia have published reports pleading the
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      119 8 in it for you? A brkfing on all the vital businass hmm Tha Sngspore Trad* ft Industry Yaar Book facing SingN>ore. 72 it a raarlahla. watMNustratad book wiittsn It puts you on top of tha Important by authoritatfca contributors, for awaryona trends-tha naw invastmant projacis and trading or manufacturing intsrests
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  • TREND
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      Tell the awful truth or suffer in honour?
      516 9 Dear Ros, I am thirty-eight and I have been going steady with a girl for five years. In the beginning I was attracted to her physically but now we find one another quite tiresome. Our faults are more obvious to each other.
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      Pen-pal problems
      224 9 Dear Ros, My age is sixteen and I have a lot of pen-pals and that's where the trouble begins. One of my pen-pals is named John and he introduced me to a second pen-pal. Now this second pen-pal has asked me out. If I go out with him,
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      Love at work place
      217 9 Dear Ros. In my work place there are boys and girls. Sometimes I work with the boys and sometimes with the girls. There is one girl whom I often work with and I love her. The trouble is that I dare not tell her that I
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      Waning love of two people
      354 9 Dear Ros, I have a boyfriend whom I have known for three years. I love him deeply and at first we got along very well. He loves me too but as the months and years go by we begin to quarrel and slowly our love
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      Friendship in library
      158 9 Dear Rot. TThe other day In the National Library a man approached me and said he wished to befriend me. I was doing tome history research and he got Into conversation with me and became very chummy. He asked me to assist him in finding a book.
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      Mary Quant goes to sea in cotton
      291 9  -  Presented by Mary Lee London, Monday Mary Quant-still unquestionably queen of the castle of British fashion after ten years at the top—has issued her edict for Spring. And she's taken her lead from Paris, gone down to the seaside to mess about In
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    • Article
      Enjoying his play
      880 9  -  Good way of learning NALLA TAN Play is a most creative and educative part of a child's life, and in the child's mind, a matter from which he derives a great deal of pleasure and which he thinks he has a right to enjoy. Adults, on the
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      No right to be jealous
      217 9 Dear Eos, I have known a boy for almost a year. We often quarrel over things and If I make a mistake I say I am sorry but he will never say he Is sorry to me. He Is very Jealous If I speak to
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  • Article
    Mutual bond brings East, West together
    695 10  -  WEmcmmw Bjr Pat Chung Why should an artist In Portugal have a friend in Nigeria who is a surgeon? Why should the foreign minister of Poland be happy that a Malaysian architect has received an international honour? Why should a Canadian bank manager keep
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  • Article
    Where ability is better than performance
    380 10 THE WORLD OF TOmORROUI Los Angeles, Monday Medicine's ability to save the lives of people caught in sudden lifethreatening emergencies is a great deal better than its performance, according to Dr. M.H. Weil, clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He
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    Books at National Library: Five readers speak out
    805 10  -  By Ong Choo Suat Recently, there was a letter to the Press complaining about the selection of books available at the National Library. What came up was this intriguing question: How much consideration should the library give to entertainment reading for the
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    Lock icon Now: Nuclear-powered heart
    393 10 The Melbourne Herald Washington, Monday A new artificial heart —powered by nuclear energy—has been developed and tested on animals in the United States. Announcing the new atomic heart today, Dr. Theodore Cooper, director of the National Heart and Lang Institute, said the machine had been tested in
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    HOW SHOULD YOUNG PEOPLE BE ENCOURAGED TO DO WELFARE WORK?
    802 10 Six Pre- University students from Tanjong Katong Girls School give Pang Guek Cheng their views. CORINNE THAM, 18: It Is firstly important that young people know the value of social work, how rewarding it can be. It is only after
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  • Article
    Singapore-Cambridge results
    6883 12 The Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'O' level school certificate is based on a new concept of subject passes. Unlike the previous Senior Cambridge school certificate examination, there is no rigid distinction between a pass or a fail certificate. The figure shown against the candidate's name indicates the number of subject
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      281 12 International Training Centre ■TiwTi] IwTU PU-UJ SECRETARIAL LANGUAGE TRAINING IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA The I.T.C. Private Secretary's Certificate has long been recognised as Singapore's leading qualification for Private Secretaries. I.T.C. provides a one year full-time course of professional training leading to the I.T.C. examination as well as the L.C.C. Private Secretary's
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      106 13 ADMISSION TO SYSTEMATIC BUSINESS TRAINING 11 f \JJ (The Accountancy and Management Tutors) FULL and PART time courses for: ACCOUNTANCY for the examinations of Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA) Association of International Accountants (ALA) Cost Accountants' Association (CIA) London Chamber of Commerce—Diploma in Accounting, Diploma in Costing SECRETARYSHIP for the
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      468 13 DID YOU DO WILL Too late now to worry about marks not being as high as you had hoped or expected. This is the time for a complete overhaul of your study methods. If you did not do too well last year decide now that this year, 1972, will be
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    The rise of the Japanese as an Asian power
    647 14  -  passing shots Desmond Oon The First Asian amateur tennis championships concluded in Hong Kong recently. The tournament attracted some of the best amateurs from 13 Asian countries. Many were Davis Cup representatives. To the casual onlooker, the championships provided entertaining tennis.
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  • Article
    Foster's in peak form to face Ali
    365 14 BOXING Tokyo, Monday. American heavyweight Mac Foster yesterday sparred for three rounds and amazed Japanese boxing writers with his speed and sharp punching In his first workout for his 15-round bout with former world heavyweight champion Muhammad All here on April 1. Foster,
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  • Article
    More top names for GP
    144 14 Leo Geoghegan, one of Australia's wellknown racing drivers Is among the late entries for the Singapore Grand Prix. Geoghegan will be driving a Brabham BT3O, the same one which New Zealander Graeme Lawrence drove to complete a hattrlck last year. The car was entered by
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      424 14 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 10 River of song. 11 Refrain from a "Pinafore" song: 2 words. 12 Exchange premium. 13 Wheel. 18 "The Rain In 22 Encourage. 24 Zoo features. 25 Civvies. 26 Part of a stage. 27 Gradually: 3 words. 28 Jetty. 29 Wed In haste. 30 Supped. 32 Fur
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    Even a bogey on the 18th fails to stop Murakami
    681 15 Kuala Lumpur, Monday A bogey on the 18th hole failed to prevent Japan's Takashi Murakami from winning the 11th Malaysian Open golf championship at the Royal Selangor Golf Club course yesterday. Murakami, 27, carded a final round one-under 71 yesterday
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    Heard ties with Blocker
    90 15 Florida, Monday. Jerry Heard shot a two-under par-70 yesterday to join Chris Blocker in the lead at the end of the third round in the US$l5O,OOO (57,700 sterling) Florida Citrus Open golf tournament here. The 32-year-old Blocker held a four-stroke lead after 36 holes but could
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    Keppel prize to Perry
    59 15 Richard Perry (nett 62) won the Keppel Club VicePresident's Prize by one stroke from Moey Keng Weng at Bukit Chermin yesterday. Ballsweep: "A" division Ist nine Patrick Chan (31); 2nd nine W. Mulloy (32); "B" division Ist nine R. Perry and Goh Slang Keong (31); 2nd
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    Gunter upsets the tired Mrs. King easily
    264 15 New York, Monday.— Nancy Richey Gunter upset Billie Jean King, 7-6, 6-1, yesterday to win the US$ll,OOO first prize in the Maureen Connolly Brinker international tennis tournament at Dallas. Playing her customary baseline game and keeping the ball low and at Mrs. King's
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    Last minute revenge bid by Maniam's walking team
    452 15  -  By Sonny Yap Singapore's leading walker, B.K.S. Maniam, has formed a team "at the eleventh hour," in a determined bid to smash the domination of the Malaysians in the 20-kilometre New Nation Big Walk from Woodlands to Farrer Park on March 26.
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    Lock icon A Singapore Recreation Club
    47 15 fielder appears to have had the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club batsman (on right) caught at short square leg as seen on the ground during yesterday's senior league match on the padang. SRC won by eight wickets.—Picture by Jerry Seh. Picture by Jerry Seh
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    Unlucky Perry misses Daytona title
    150 15 New York, Monday.—Japanese Yamahas filled the first three places in the 31st annual Daytona 200mile (320-kilometre) motorcycle race yesterday. A crowd of 46,500 the largest ever to watch a motorcycle race in the United States—saw American Don Emde snatch victory after New Zealander Geoff Perry
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    Germans beaten
    56 15 Karachi. Monday. The touring West German hockey team suffered a surprise 1-0 defeat against a Karachi selection here yesterday. Playing the last match of their five-day tour of Pakistan, the West Germans kept the score sheet blank until half time, but went down to a goal scored 15
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    Test series heads for second draw
    171 15 Port of Spain, Trinidad, Monday. West Indies and New Zealand headed for the second successive draw of their current Test series after the fouth day's play at Queen's Park oval here yesterday. After gaining a first innings lead of seven runs, New Zealand were
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    Champ may drop out of race
    175 15 Paris, Monday. World champion cyclist Eddy Merckx, who was badly hurt in a fall during the ParisNice Classic here yesterday, said later that he might be forced to drop out of the race. Merckx retained the race leader's white jersey, but lost yesterday's third
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    SCOREBOARD
    139 15 NEW ZEALAND Ist Inns. 348 WEST INDIES Ist Inns. (Overnight: 288 for eight) FREDERICKS c Wadsworth b Howarth 69 CAREW lbw Taylor 4 ROWE b Congdon 22 DAVIS e Turner b Howarth 90 FOSTER b Howarth 23 SOBERS e Wardsworth b Conedon 19 HOLFORD lbw Congdon 14 FINDLAY b
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    Tennis war goes on as talks fail
    166 15 London, Monday—Weekend talks between repre sentatives of the Inter national Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) and the World Championship Tennis (WCT) professional group have failed to produce a settlement of the world tennis war. After discussions lasting from Friday until yesterday morning, ILTF secretary
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    Salkar six for 59
    87 15 New Delhi, Monday Eknath Solkar, Indian Test all rounder, took six for 59 for West Zone against Central Zone in the Duleep cricket trophy final at Bangalore yesterday. His fine bowling performance helped rilrmlgg Central Zone for 200 in reply to West Zone's first innings of
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    C'wealth mark
    83 15 Auckland, Monday—New Zealand weight-lifter Brian Marsden, 24, smashed the British Commonwealth light-heavyweight record here last night. He broke through the 1000-pound barrier and his tally of 1002 pounds was 11 pounds inside the old record held by Australian Nick Cianti. Marsden, who is now considered certain of a
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    Colts triumph
    43 15 Hong Kong, MondayAustralia's junior international rugby team, the Hong Kon 8 XV by 40-10 in an exhilarating display here last night. The Colts won by four goals and four tries against one try and two penalties. The half-time score was 14-6.
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    UK rugby
    38 15 INTERNATIONAL Great Bri 45 France 1C LEAGUE Dewikory 3 W'field T. li Kefchley 14 Leigh 31 Rochdale H. 13 8 win ton 14 Harrington 34 Hurton i Wi«ran 48 Hall f York 19 B'pool B. j
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      314 15 BIG WALK WOODLANDS FARRER PARK ATHLETIC CENTRE THE NEW NATION BIG WALK will be held on Sunday, March 26, 1972. Send in your entry form today. NAME (in full) (Print clearly in capital letters) ADDRESS (Postal District No.) Sex: AGE: Date of Birth GROUP* (f you are a team member
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      255 15 BIG WALK NOVICES SECTION Dunearn Road 6J m.s. to Farrer Park Athletic Centre THE NEW NATION BIG WALK will be held on Sunday, March 26, 1972. Send in your entry form today. NAME (in full) (Print clearly In capital letters) ADDRESS (Postal District No.) Sex: AGE Date of Birth GROUP*
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      After 28 lonely years, he wants a wife
      267 16 Shoicni Yokol, 56, the former Japanese army corporal who spent 28 years hiding In a Jungle cave on Guam, Is looking for a wife. Yokol, who was posthumously promoted to sergeant after he been reported dead In 1944, this week asked Japanese
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      Vietnamese who shoot at anyone
      398 16 Not everybody who opens fire on American and South Vietnamese forces is a communist, according to a US adviser in Saigon. Some of the people doing the shooting don't seem to like anybody. Notable among these is a gang of river Dlrates who for centuries
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      'Weaker sex' muscles in on gangsters' world
      264 16 Never was the old detective novel cliche "Cherchez la Femme" more fitting than in modern-day West Germany. Fraud, petty theft, or murder by poisoning were the classic crimes attributed to women. But now it seems that the weaker sex is muscling in on
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      TALKING POINT
      56 16 AH FOOK: That 84.5 per cent pass rate In the GCE examinations Is a credit to our education system. MEI LING: I don't know. Now anyone with a pass in just one subject gets a certificate. So you can't really say 84.5 per cent passed. Someone should work
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      BEAUTY IN THE GARDEN
      43 16 Cameraman Steven Lee spotted lovely Mary Toh in the Tiger Balm Gardens and knew at once he had a Back-Page picture. Mary, 23, is a former Press Ball Queen. She loves swimming, singing and, believe it or not, wrestling.
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      Expert plays down threat of air pollution
      387 16 A top scientist, of the World Health Organisation has down-graded the fatal threat of air pollution—especially of carbon dioxide and lead fumes in petrol exhaust fumes. At a Press conference last week, Dr. Martin Kaplan, head of WHO'S science and technology division in
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      TODAY...
      123 16 Today is Monday, March 13. the 73rd day of 1972 with 293 to follow. THE MOON: New. THE MORNING STAB: Jupiter. THE EVENING STABS: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this day are under the sign of Pisces. Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnett was born March 13, 1972.
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      Letter of the law
      55 16 A mixed group of Cornell University students discovered by security officers swimming in the nude in a university pool, claim sd that the New Yoic unverslty's regulations required only that bathing suits be supplied by the university but did not say mat suits had to be
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      470 16 5 Siigipare 3.00 Opening and Where the Heart Is 3.20 For the Family (T) 3.50 Diary of Events In Singapore this Week (T) 3.55 It's Happening in Singapore (T—Rpt) 4.10 Days of Our Lives 4.50 Close 6.05 Opening and Charlie Chaplin Comedy Theatre 6.30 News In Brief 6.35 Petticoat Junction—
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      53 16 SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal 1 UgAP -THE lONS WAS CWUIE UCT MSHT. FURIOUS/ HE S REALLY IN II I i 1 i aB rs 415 -MM ■t 5Z KKS <f\V L SNIFFY by George Fett ISM T THIS NVODEPM EDUCATION) SOMEHWIMG fl \M6eE (SOlki&lOlWE 'FfWCIDBV WVAERE "WE.Y MAKE RPEPUJ6S
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      443 16 Trust your lucky star IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you will be considered by most people to be wise beyond your years. Even as a mature adult, you will exhibit knowledge and understanding that cannot be laid to the experience of your years knowledge and understanding that will cause
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