New Nation, 28 March 1972

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    15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, March 28, 1972 No. 364 Price 15 cents NEW NATION
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    OUR ROADS
    13 1 Police reported a total of 52 accidents yesterday. Eight were serious.
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    ON THE 'CHANGE
    146 1 The share market was active this morning. Prices were generally firm. United Engineers moved up from $3.70 to $4 and down to $3.82. Nat. Iron gained five cents to $5.60. Public Bank and Allied Chocolate each rose two cents to $1.40 and $2.74 respectively. Gammon gained six
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    Drivers riot
    37 1 LATE NEWS Jakarta, Tuesday.—Police fired several shots and arrested 37 people to break up a mass fight between bus drivers and hundreds of betja (three-wheeler taxi) drivers. Dozens of people were injured in the brawl.
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    Lock icon Safely up in smoke: 103lb of ganja
    319 1  -  Big island 'bonfire' By Douglas Chan Up in smoke yesterday went a huge haul of ganja enough to keep the Republic's 2500 addicts puffing everyday for two weeks. The 1031b. (46.7 kg) of ganja, worth $21,000 on the black market, was set on
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    Datsuns cleared
    84 1 Local Datsun 1600 saloon cars and vans sure not fitted with faulty brake hoses, their agents said here this morning. The assurance came following reports from Tokyo that Nissan Motor Company had started recalling more than 160,000 Datsun 1600s and vans to remedy faulty fittings in their brake
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    Robbers get $14,000
    56 1 Two armed men last night entered a provision shop in Changl and held up the owner, Ng Seng Kim, 45, with a bearing scraper before escaping with cash and cheque worth $14,000. The two robbers escaped in a waiting car with false number plates. No arrest has
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    Kidnappers on police list
    327 1  -  By Wee Beng Huat Secret Society members are believed to be Involved in the kidnapping of the Indonesian-Chinese businessman who was abducted at gunpoint from his Watten Estate home on March 14. The five members of the kidnap gang range in age between 25 and 30
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    Lock icon 400 injured in Tokyo crash
    189 1 United Press International Tokyo, Tuesday Nearly 400 people were injured today when a morning commuter train rammed into the rear of a second commuter train on the outskirts of Tokyo. First reports irom the Japan National Railways said that nine people were injured seriously. About
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    Thieves lose raceand their loot
    135 1 Thieves lose race—and their loot A police car screamed down Upper Changl Road hot in pursuit of a Morris 1100. In the police car: Four detectives. In the Morris: Two men wanted for housebreaking. Other vehicles pulled to the side to make way for the speeding cars. After a one-mile
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    Dead girl
    37 1 Police today appealed to anyone who knows the identity of a girl who was found dead at the foot of Block 1, Oeylang Serai-flats on Sunday to go to the mortuary and identify the body.
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    Saber to drop FETC as booking agency
    204 1 Saber Air, Singapore's charter airline, today announced that it will stop using the booking services of Far East Travel Club. Saber's subsidiary, Air Tours International Ltd.. will handle all its charter passenger bookings from April 1. A spokesman for the airline said that
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    Saving without tears or trouble
    187 2 PO comes up with new scheme The Post Office Savings Bank has introduced a painless and convenient way of saving without having to call at any branch. The new method called the group savings scheme has been introduced to cater for all workers. Under the
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    Mini-walk in aid of a longer walk...
    143 2 About 20 handicapped children of the Red Cross Home in Tanah Merah will take part in a mini-walk on April 9 in aid of a longer walk. They plan to raise funds to sponsor the Red Cross Handicapped Children's Walkathon on April 16,
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    Hopes grow for 'lost' soldier
    262 2  -  By Ivan Lim The search for war-time Japanese soldier, Takeo Shigemura, has now moved to Palembang in Sumatra. This followed a report that Shigemura was alive and working in a salvage firm in Palembang. His sister-in-law, Mrs. Y. Matsumura, who is conducting the search, has
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    Christians meeting
    22 2 About 1400 members of the non-sectarian Christian Assemblies will attend a half-day religious conference at the Hyatt Hotel on Friday.
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    Course on HSC paper
    34 2 The Chinese YMCA youth department will conduct a five lesson course on the General Paper for Higher School Certificate students at its International Centre in Palmer Road from April 3.
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    Gardens pond gets a clean-up
    138 2 A big operation is underway to change the water in the pond at Botanic Gardens and one side-effect is death lor some of its fish. Work has been going on for a week. Yesterday, workers were still pumping the muddy water from the pond into
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    KL charters hit 'stormy weather'
    434 2 Pelandok may be first victim Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Malaysia's charter airlines are flying into "stormy weather" with the break-up of MSA and the emergence of a national flag-carrier, Malaysia Airlines System MAS. The first victim of this air "turbulence" may well be the youngest of
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    Woodwinds fail to give support
    392 2  -  By Violet Oon Last night's concert by Professor Hans Kann and the Singapore Youth Orchestra brought the Young Musicians' Society's Vienna festival to a close. It began with a rendition of Mozart's Symphony No. 24 in B Flat by the Singapore Youth Orchestra. This piece
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    First 26 new style tourist guides
    296 2 The first graduates of the new tourist guide course were presented with certificates yesterday by Mr. Runme Shaw, chairman of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board at the Cultural Centre. The 26 graduates all of whom can speak various languages, completed a four-month course rim
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      359 2 Today's picture Picture prizes snowball No readers sent in correct answers to last Thursday's quiz. Many readers thought the photograph showed a pillar of the Supreme Court Building or City Hall. The picture in fact was of a pillar in front of the Robinsons Building in Raffles Place. Prizes for
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    Home-maker service to help mothers
    255 3 Trained staff at the ready in case of emergency The Social Welfare Department has introduced a new homemakers service scheme in which trained workers will care for children under 14 years in their homes, and do household chores during a mother's incapacity due to illness,
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    $3000 for charities
    52 3 A newly-married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Ng Poh Ouan, have fulfilled a promise made before their marriage. They donated $3OOO to two local charities the Singapore Red Cross Society and the Home for the Aged Sick. The Red Cross received $2040 and the Home for the Aged
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    Two-week Thai tour
    42 3 The Singapore Association of Social Workers is conducting a two-week tour to Thailand beginning on May 12. The cost will be $340 each. The tour will Include visits to social welfare and social work agencies, apart from tourist attractions.
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    Banking talk
    39 3 Mr. David Chew of the Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation will soeak on Banking as a Career to secondary school students at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus School in Victoria Street, on Thursday at 2.15 p.m.
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    UN 'game' in class to boost study
    594 3  -  By Ong Choo Suat How would you like to take part In an "International game," representing a country In a UN conference especially when you're 12 or 13 years old and classroom situation are beginning to bore you? Before you start thinking that
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    Big day for our young talent
    368 3 Eight children in concert Tomorrow is their big day, so our stars of the future got together to rehearse and swap stories. Unlike some grown-ups who take a long time to break the Ice, they were soon chattering away, encouraged by the jokes of
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    Guild dinner
    21 3 The Singapore Polytechnic Graduates' Guild will hold Its inaugural dinner and dance at the Mandarin Hotel on April 8.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      138 3 I weather I Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Manila 33-22 C Seoul Hong Kong 23-18 C Tokyo 16-6 C Bangkok 33-24 C Kuala Lumpur 33-22 C Naha 22-13 C Taipeh 25-12 C Jakarta 33-26 C San Francisco 17-1 C New York 9-mlnus IC. Paris 9-4 C Moscow 5-minus 5C London
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      137 3 At the cinema Capitol: SWALK—I.3O, 4, 6.30, 9.30. Cathay: The Sword (Mandarin)—l.3o, 4, 7, 9.30. Globe: Chuckmool—l.4s, 4, 7, 9.15. Jurong Drive-In: Bus Stop—7.oo, 9.30. Lido: The Novices—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.15. Odeon: The Killer Boxer (Mandarin)—l.3o, 4, 7, 9.30. Orchard: The Love Machine—l.3o, 4, 7, 9.30. Rex: The Imperial Swordsman
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    WHAT A SWEET SURPRISE FOR INCHE OTHMAN WOK!
    680 4 In Person Conducted by Ruth Moses, Tel: *****1 INCHE Othman Wok was taken by surprise when little Michael Dobbs, 6, the son of Champion Motors projects manager offered him a sweet. After doing a good Job of distributing packets of sweets and
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      83 4 UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF=" THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE ——DR. B. H. SHEARES GRAND CHARITY FILM PREMIERE IN AID OP (SHI THE SINGAPORE NATIONAL HEART ASSOCIATION W CATHAY CINEMA TOMORROW AT 9.15 P.M. TICKETS AT $3.00 $5.00 A DONATIONS AVAILABLE AT CATHAV r —SEASON FROM THURSDAY 5
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    Lock icon Hanoi calls US move insolent
    410 5 Peace talks suspension criticised New Nation Foreign Service Paris, Tuesday North Vietnam yesterday criticised as insolent President Nixon's reasons for suspending the Vietnam peace talks and repeated US prisoners will be freed only when US troops leave Vietnam. President Nixon said on Friday that he
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    Lock icon Summit talks may bring arms accord
    347 5 United Press International London, Tuesday—Russia will be ready to sign a limited agreement on nuclear weapons curbs with President Nixon at the May 22 Moscow summit, Soviet bloc sources said yesterday. The agreement will centre largely on anti-missile defences (ABM) with a possible interim
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    Hailstones hit jumbo
    81 5 HONG KONG, Tuesday— A Pan American jumbo jet with 123 passengers aboard landed here safely last night after being hit by hailstones the size of golf balls during a flight from Bangkok. Hong Kong's Kaitak Airport was put on alert for the touchdown. The cockpit windscreen was
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    Lock icon KEY WITNESS...
    67 5 Mrs. Dita Beard, lobbyist for the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Is pictured In hospital in Denver, Colorado, just before she suffered a heart attack. Her relapse ended a bedside hearing by a Senate sub-committee inquiring into allegations of a link between ITT's financial support for the Republican
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    Lock icon Ulster grinds to a halt in protest
    324 5 Reuter Belfast, Tuesday.—Northern Ireland ground to a halt yesterday as thousands of Protestants went on strike in a massive protest against direct rule from London. Shops, offices, banks, airports, railway stations—all closed down as an estimated 180,000 workers answered 'the Protestant militant Vanguard
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    Uganda: ALL Israelis to go
    193 5 Kampala, Tuesday.— Uganda's President Idl Amln has ordered the Israeli Ambassador, Mr. David Lasor. to arrange the immediate repatriation of all Israeli citizens living in Uganda, Radio Uganda announced today. According to the President, about 700 people will be affected by the move. At the
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    ECAFE urges regional help
    165 5 Bangkok, Tuesday. the 28th conference of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) ended yesterday with a work programme drawn up for 1972-73 laying particular emphasis on advancement of regional co operation. A report adopted by the conference said the work programme also
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    Malta aid
    30 5 Washington, Tuesday. The United States is ready to consider supplying aid to Malta following the agreement to keep British bases on the island, the State Department said yesterday.
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    Lock icon World's worst. bullfight...
    256 5 Reuter Caracas, Tuesday.—lt was the world's worst bullfight, everybody agreed yesterday. The bull twice chased the bullfighter out of the ring and once jumped over the fence to get at him. The timid toreador finally dashed out of the ring to a telephone and rang up the
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    Belgrade visit
    29 5 Belgrade, Tuesday.—The Soviet Union's Defence Minister, Marshal Andrei Grechko, yesterday began an official visit to Yugoslavia. His visit highlands the Improvement in relations between the two countries.
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    Lock icon Straits: Call to super powers
    177 5 Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday—MaiorGeneral All Murtopo, political adviser to President Suharto, has urged the big powers to co-operate with Indonesia and Malaysia over the Straits of Malacca to prevent International misunderstandings. The army newspaper Berita Yudha (war news) yesterday quoted General Murtopo saying that by allowing
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    Eight die in Dublin fire
    69 5 Dublin, Tuesday.—Eight people died when fire swept through a timber warehouse in the centre of Dublin yesterday. Seven of the dead were women. Fifteen people were injured, some seriously, when they jumped to safety from the top of the three-storey building. The fire started when
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    Trade team
    36 5 Jakarta, Tuesday Malagasy wanted to open direct trade with Indonesia, the Foreign Minister, Mr. Adam Malik, said yesterday after a brief meeting with a three man Malagasy trade mission. Indonesia imports clove from Malagasy.
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
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      Sarawak heading for more stability?
      565 6  -  MALAYSIA 'Happy coalition' govt thinking of marriage From S.C. Chan Contrary to opposition belief that the Sarawak coalition government would "fall to pieces" a permanent marriage or the member parties within the coalition is In the offing. Admittedly, it cannot be a coalition government for
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      Lock icon After six years the Wall opens for West Berliners
      672 6  -  WEST GERMANY From Annette von Broecker Reuter The Berlin Wall, that massive strip of concrete dividing East from West Berlin, opens for West Berliners tomorrow for the first time in six years. For thousands it will mean long-awaited reunions with their
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      Lock icon Senkaku dispute may spark Asian crisis
      743 6  -  JAPAN From Frederick Marks United Press International An occasional patrol boat and thousands of sea gulls are the only signs of life in and around the Senkaku islands. But the five barren islands in the East China Sea are threatening to drive a wedge
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    • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
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        Sin Chew Jit Poh
        596 6 What other newspapers are saying: LON NOL REGIME AT ITS LAST GASP: Peking's People's Daily said in a comment that China resolutely opposed any international plan aimed at creating disruDtion splitting the anti-American struggle of the Indo-Chin-ese people. It said that the US was now stepping
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        Nanyang Siang Pau
        340 6 CHINESE- SOVIET NAVIGATION TALKS: For more than a decade, China and the Soviet Union have been falling foul of each other instead of being friendly and co-operative to each other. In recent years, there have been border clashes between them. The exchange of fire at their border
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        Utusan Melayu
        235 6 COASTAL ROAD: Three people were drowned when their ear went down into the Sabak River while crossing it in a ferry last week. Who is to be blamed for this tragedy Is beside the point. The question now Is that the ferry service In the Sabak River and
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  • BUSINESS AND FINANCE
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      Lock icon Wall Street trading lowest in months
      203 7 United Press International New York, Tuesday Trading slowed to one ol its lowest levels of the year yesterday as prices closed lower on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 selected bluechip stocks .was off 2.56 points at 939.72.
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      Lock icon UK: Small interest
      168 7 Reuter London, Tuesday The market closed firm on small interest and at 3 p.m. the Financial Times index was up 4.* at 507.2. Fisons featured firm on the results while Pye also gained for the same reason. Glaxo. ICI. Beechams and Courtaulds were among others to advance.
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      WALL ST. PRICES
      173 7 Allied Cbem 30* 49% Am Brands 44% Am Can 38* AT St T 43* A Jk P 7% Anaoonda 18% Beth 8teel 33 Boeing 23% Caterp Trac 53 Chrysler Coca-Cola 128 Control Data 59% Corn Ol Wlu Dow Chem 85* DuPont 168% E Kodak 119* Ford Mot
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      Exchange closed
      30 7 The Stock Exchange of Singapore will be closed on Good Friday, March 31. The Malaysian exchange will remain open. Both exchanges will be open on Monday April 3.
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      Singapore share market
      564 7 SPECULATION IN PROPERTIES By Our Market Correspondent Speculation in properties again dominated the market scene yesterday. Well over 3 million property shares, probably a new record, changed hands and almost all counters had gains. Some hefty majors like Slme Darby, Inchcape, Dunlop, Fraser and Neave. Haw Par,
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    • Business Abroad
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        CALL TO SET UP REGIONAL TRADE OFFICES
        163 7 CANBERRA, Tues. Australia's Department of Trade and Industry is examining a recommendation that it should establish trade commissioner representation in regional centres in Indonesia. A trade mission's report issued in Canberra during the weekend suggested this move. The mission said it found that
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        FUND OPERATION HALTED
        96 7 VIENTIANE: The Foreign Exchange Operation Fund (FEOF) has been temporarily closed following heavy selling of US dollars here. The Finance Ministry denied rumours of a further devaluation of the Laotian currency, kip. Australia, Britain, France, Japan and the United States are donor countries of FEOF which has
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        RUSSIA: BIDS WANTED
        86 7 LONDON: The Soviet Union is showing interest in receiving bids from International trading consortiums to help develop its vast natural resources, British officials said yesterday. They said this was one striking trend noted by a trade mission from the London Chamber of Commerce which returned from a
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        ADB MEETING IN VIENNA
        41 7 MANILA.—The Asian Development Bank said yesterday the fifth annual meeting of its Board of Governors would be held in Vienna from April 20 to 22. The opening ceremony will taxe place at the Vienna Hofburg Congress Centre.
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        BANKERS MEET
        21 7 TAIPEH: Four Asian central bank governors began a two-day conference here yesterday to discuss mutual co-operation in international finance.
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      Stamp duty relief fresh boost for Asian Dollar
      564 7  -  By Dick Wilson The Asian Dollar market in Singapore will get a big boost from the stamp duty concessions announced by Mr. Hon Sui Sen, the Finance Minister, in his Budget speech this month. But there have been other developments of equal
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      Veneer and plywood: Record sales
      149 7  -  By Bharathi Mohan Singapore's plywood and veneer manufacturers operating in the highly competitive world market have recorded their biggest sales last year. Exports of plywood and veneers rose from $53 million in 1970 to $76 million last year—an increase of 41 per cent. Output from
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      MPRC to aid projects
      145 7 Marketing and PR Consultants (Asia) Sdn. Berhad (MPRC) is a management consultancy which will also provide finance for viable projects. The company is a threeway joint venture between MPRC, AM Lederer Incorporated of US, and Industrial and Management Engineering Company of Zurich. Each associate company covers
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      Package tours by KLM
      120 7 Singapore will be the main focal point of all ASEAN package tours organised for tourists from Europe by KLM. This was stated by Mr. H. E. Jorisch, general manager for KLM, who recently returned from a managers' conference in Amsterdam. Mr. Jorisch said: "Singapore and Malaysia
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    Removing the Red thorn in Sarawak
    447 8 The killing of 15 Malaysian Rangers by guerillas in Sarawak on Sunday dramatically underlined once again the communist threat looming in the State. The news of the bloody ambush came dose on the heels of the announcement by Tim Razak that villagers in the
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    Unfortunate prediction
    99 8 by ISPY Our Unfortunate Predictions Department offers this quotation from The Singapore Economy, just published: "In recent months, the Idea of Singapore developing Into a Brain Centre, exporting services of professionals to the ASEAN region, has been mooted publicly In the Republic's newspapers. Although a sound one, the
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    The Barisans limp back into the election arena with a bold front
    1054 8  -  GERALD de CRUZ After six years in the wilderness the Barisan Socialls will, it appears, be limping back into the next general elections. I use the term "limping" because it is only a shadow of its former self—a
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  • Letters
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      Postcard price at coffeeshop
      232 8  -  LAN YUEN CHEONG Asst. Director, (Facilitation), Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, Singapore, It. I refer to the letter by Tan Song Hor (NN, March 15) and would like to clarify the insertion of the Merlion emblem on the postcards he bought at the Mount Faber coffee house.
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      Price-spiral fear
      228 8 I refer to reports of concern among union leaders and consumers about the possible effect on the price level of goods as a result of the civil service yearly allowance announced recently. With more money coming from the private sector, hopefully by mid-year, a dizzy price spiral is
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      Action over cinema rats
      77 8  -  CHAN LOY CHAN (Miss) Public Relations Officer, Public Health Division, Singapore, 3. I refer to the letter by Rat Hater (NN, March 11) about rat nuisance in a cinema at North Bridge Road. Investigations confirmed the presence of rats in one of the theatres in North
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      Litter bins in cinemas
      77 8 Posters tell cinema-goers not to litter. This is really a good sign to keep Singapore clean, but many cinemas do not provide enough litter bins which should be installed somewhere behind the back of every seat so that people will not be tempted to throw the
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      Asking for details
      57 8  -  KOH LIAN HWI Registrar of Vehicles, Registry of Vehicles, Singapore 7. I refer to the complaint by S. Philip (NN, March 16) and would be grateful if he could supply my office with the registration number of the bus concerned, date and time of the offence and
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      Plea for Arts Festival show
      77 8  -  T.C. HO RTB will be doing viewers a great favour if it shows highlights of the successful show put up by our local music and dance troupe at the recent Adelaide Festival of Arts. The success of our musical arts has certainly left a mark
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      Call for all sports on TV
      91 8  -  K.C. It is good to hear Mr. V.C. Palmer say that RTS will telecast more softball matches for its enthusiasts. Other sporting events too deserve the attention of RTS. I suggest that an hour daily be devoted on TV for showing such sports as
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      Mosquitoes destroyed
      106 8  -  CHAN LOY CHAN (Miss) Public Relations Officer, Public Health Division, Singapore, 3. I refer to the letter by Twice Bitten (NN, March 7) about mosquito nuisance in public offices in South Bridge Road. A survey was carried out and mosquito breedings were found in the immediate vicinity of
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    MOTORING IN SINGAPORE
    2290 9  -  Four people die on our roads every five days and 30 are injured daily in motoring accidents. Does the blame lie with the cars on our roads, our drivers, or our roads? What can we do to reduce the number of accidents? In this series a New
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  • SHOPPING
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      For your home may I recommend...
      771 10 A FRIEND of mine A bought a new house recently and was terribly excited. There he was planning away with his wife. And they were already at the houseparty stage. But what about the decor and all, I asked him. Oh, but this Is
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      East meets West is a name game
      763 11  -  BUT THERE COULD BE A CHANGE FRANCES DOWSETT Rudyard Kipling declared that "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" but as Dick Wilson later declared East meets West in Singapore especially when it's all in a name.
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      'Guest Ranch- men only' now legal in Nevada
      94 11 NEW YORK, Tuesday Brothels have been made legal in two Nevada counties under the official name of "guest ranch." But the guest ranches have to keep to a set of regulations. Tney must be at least 300 yards from a public road,
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      354 11 THEY SNEAK IN WITH THE LATEST DESIGNS TOO Put on your highheeled sneakers and come out tonight go the lyrics set to a rock beat. Well, why don't you? These casuals have just sneaked into the fashion scene in the latest colours, fabrics and most important, designs. From
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      Getting thighs in trim
      324 11  -  ROMA BLAIR I am always happy when a man is not too shy to ask for an exercise. The man who has written to me this time would like an exercise for firming the outside of the thighs. As this is one of the most sought
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      Burma in the year 1334
      205 11 Rangoon, Tuesday Burmese soothsayers say that people born during the next year will become wealthy and live for 90 years. The Burmese year 1334 starts on April 17 and for the most part it promises to be a good year. Fortune tellers predict that grain,
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    What is Jeet Kune Do?
    853 12 cominc to crips Just outside the entrance to his training gym in San Francisco, Bruce Lee. the founder of the martial art, Jeet Kune Do, has a wreath and an epitaph that reads: "Here lies the classical mess of the martial arts." Bruce Lee's reminder
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    SRC favoured for hockey title
    551 12  -  By M. Param Defending Champions, Singapore Recreation Club are again tipped to win the division one hockey title this season. SRC, who won both the league and knock-out titles last season, will take on the field with former international Douglas Nonis as their captain. Excluding
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      308 12 FURNISHED FLAT/ROOM: Dist. 2 Spottiswoode Pork Rood Dragon Mansion Good locality. Parking facilities. Telephone *****3 SIM?- detached bungalow for immediate rental ot 1, Jolan Lengkok Sembowang Tel: *****3 S'pore. BOATS/YACHTS FOR SALI STEEL, CARGO BARGE Dimension: 110' x 40' x B'. Built 1971. Registered Tonnage: 778.53 Nett Tonnage 275.10. Contact:
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      367 12 STEAMBATHS,/MASSAGE, ETC. GENTLEMEN FOR SWEDISH massage steam bath New Jean's Salon 1st Floor 200 Clemenceau Avenue 83 Singapore *****. WOODSVILLE HEALTH CENTRE 38 Woodsville Rood. For AppointL! ment Phone: *****7. Singapore. FLEMINGO MASSAGE SALON, 248C-5, Orchard Road, offers the best. *****1. SMALL male dog white terrier brown eors curly tail.
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      655 12 VEHICLE WANTED URGENTLY required 1 Mini/Austin 1100 1962 onwards Singapore *****6 Philip. I VEHICLES FOR SALE 196S 1969 Mercedes 200/200 D 1967 Mercedes 2505/200 D. 1970 Dotsun 1600, Fio* 600 D Ring Fronkie ***** *****3. WHERE TO STAY MIMOSA HOTEL Orange Grove Road off Orchard Road. Double/ single rooms moderate
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      366 12 ACROSS 1 Short rest. 7 Jaunty. 13 The ladles. 14 Manifested 16 First. 17 City In California. 18 Racket. 19 Like better. 21 —a horse with wings!" 22 State. 24 Brown by heat. 25 Airfoil. 26 Water lily. 28 Allegation in law. 30 Nota—. v 31 Boxing rings. 33 Pixed
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    Penang race finishes
    351 13 Follow the horses marked with a Natuna took command a furlong out, with Lord Wolseley making up ground rapidly from the rear. Gaining on Natuna steadily, Lord Wolseley got up in the last few strides to snatch a neck win. Third was Alina. San down, fourth early,
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    Stable pair show form
    526 13 From Blue Peter in Kuala Lumpur Manja (Velu) and Ditambah (Hassan) did a splendid trial on a good track here this morning. Breaking from the 4f. the two stablemates steadily clapped on the Dace to run the last 3f In 37 with Manja doing better at
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    Apartheid rules relaxed
    125 13 Johannesburg, Tuesday.— South Africa's apartheid in sport rules were relaxed yesterday as the South African Open tennis championships got under way here. The previously strict sports colour bar was lifted to allow South African non-white players to compete in the championships for the first time. Seven of
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    Chinese TT tour
    29 13 Hong Kong, Tuesday. Chinese table tennis delegation left Peking yesterday for friendly visits to the US, Canada and Mexico, the New China news agency said today.
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    Lock icon Looi Beng Hoe
    45 13 (above), brother of Gerry, two of the top local riders for the four-day Singapore Grand Prix starting on Thursday making some last minute adjustments to his machine during GP scrutineering at Malaysia Hotel this morning.—Picture by Jerry Seh. Picture by Jerry Seh.
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    Ruthless Leeds in 6-1 massacre
    201 13 London, Tuesday Leeds United closed up to within two points of table topping Manchester City when they massacred bottom club Nottingham Forest 6-1 in an English First Division soccer match last night. Forest, battling to avoid relegation to the Second Division, did well to hold
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    Squash star to play here
    325 13 Australia's Heather McKay, currently the world's greatest woman squash player, will play in Singapore in April during her South-East Asia tour. McKay, who lives in Canberra, the national capital, will also play exhibition matches in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Manila. Accompanied by her husband, Brian,
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    Women's cricket
    44 13 Johannesburg, Tuesday—New Zetland clinched a 1-0 victory In their three-match women's cricket series against South Africa when the third Test ended in a draw here yesterday. Scores: South Africa 114 and 342 for three declared; New Zealand 209 and 117 for four.
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    UK rugby
    26 13 UNION Newport 3 Gloucester 9 Pontypool 10 Maesteg 3 Rugby 6 Coventry 14 LEAGUE Halifax 5 St. Helens 9 Workington T 0 Wigan 17
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    Lock icon Australia's team for Munich
    329 13 Reuter Perth, Tuesday. Australia for the first time in many years has not included a male sprinter in the track and field team announced here yesterday for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in August. The team is expected to compete in the Singapore Pesta Sukan
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    Ali's at his heaviest
    174 13 1 V [W©RLD OF SPORT J' Tokyo. Tuesday—Muhammad Aii will fight at the heaviest weight of his professional career against fellow American Mac Foster this Saturday, but training work-outs show he is in peak condition. The former world champion's handlers said he would go into the
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    Hydes to 'spy' on China
    110 13 London, Tuesday England international Alan Hydes will visit China in September to study the table tennis training and coaching methods used by the Chinese teams, it was announced here yesterday. The visit will last for two to three months and is a continuation of the
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    Pele's to aid youths
    81 13 London, Tuesday. Pele, the brilliant Brazilian soccer international, has accepted a year's contract to help organise a world-wide youth soccer training programme, it was announced here yesterday. According to an official release by a well-known soft drink firm: Pele said: "No athlete can hope to compete
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    TEAMS
    185 13 The team: Men—Tony Benson (5000 metres); Ray Boyd (pole vault); Derek Clayton (marathon); John Farrinfton (Marathon); Bruce Field (400 metres hurdles); Chris Fisher (80(K and 1500 metres); Bob Gardiner (50 kilometres walk); Gary Knoke (400 metres hurdles); Mick McGrath (triple Jump); Kerry O'Brien (3000 metres steeplechase); Lawrie Peckham (high
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    Rhodesia refused entry to bowls
    116 13 London. Tuesday—Rhodesia's entry for the world bowls championships in Britain in June has been turned down "for political reasons", it was announced here yesterday. > Mr. Harold Shapland. chairman of the world championship committee, announced the refusal of the Rhodeslan entry at a press conference
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    The Big Walk results
    6682 14 THE BIG WALK SENIOR 1 Arumugam Kannan (2684), 2 DoraraJ 8. (2049), 3 R. Nadarajan (2611), 4 K. Thirumal (2574), 5 Mohd. Rahim Salleh (2609), 6 K. Rajoo (2610), 7 Ab. Aziz Halil (2661), 8 M.U. Ragavan (2578), 9 R. Krlshnam (2613), 10 Slvaprakasam (2651). <ll
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      TALKING POINT
      46 16 AH FOOK: So the STB is thinking about a timing device to cut off long-winded public telephone calls after three minutes. Now that has possibilities. You could MEI LING: Pity I couldn't install one on you. Now excuse me —I have to go shopping.
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      No time for violence
      190 16 The broadcasting industry should switch its programme times and show violent shows late at night so children will not be harmfully affected by televised violence, according to the United States' chief health officer. The Surgeon-General, Dr. Jesse Steinfeld, told a Senate communications sub-committee that such violence
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      TODAY...
      150 16 Today is Tuesday, March 28. the 88th day of 1972 with 278 to follow. THE MOON: Pull. THE MORNING STAB: Jupiter. THE EVENING STABS: Venus, Mars, Saturn and Mercury. Those born on this day are under the sign of Aries. Orchestra leader Paul Whlteman was born March 28, 1890.
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      FAMILY PLANS
      41 16 Margaret Teo is a girl with difference a big family is her wish. "I like children," she says and "lots of them/' Nineteen-year-old Margaret, a sales promoter, loves cooking to please her Mr. Right and the children, of course.
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      Getting married but not admitting it
      120 16 Many young British married couples are keeping their marriages secret because their trendy friends might think they are "squares". Mr. Stanley Jepson, registrar at Worthing, Sussex, said: "They are afraid of being thought old-fashion-ed or backward by getting married. "Many of them say to
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      Lock icon The ins and outs of an aircraft carrier
      488 16 Reuter There is a special machine on the American aircraft carrier USS C on st e 11 ation which automatically shaDes 1000 hamburgers an hour. Constellation is one of four carriers which the United States rotates for an average 30-day period on
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      442 16 5 Siagapara 3.00 Opening and Where the Heart Is 3.20 For the Family (M) 3.45 A Diary of Events In Singapore this Week (M) 3.50 It's Happening In Singapore (M—Rpt) 4.05 Peyton Place (Rpt) 4.55 Close 6.00 Opening and William Tell—The Spider 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 Colourful World of
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      474 16 Trust your lucky star IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a person who sees deeply Into life's situations and circumstances, not to find at their core an essence of tragedy, but, rather, to see within even the most dire involvements the comic aspects that make them endurable. Consciously
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