New Nation, 30 May 1972

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  • 18 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, May 30, 1972 No. 418 Price 15 cents SINGAPORE TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1972
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  • 12 1 Police reported 79 accidents yesterday 12 serious and two fatal.
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  • 112 1 The share market was moderately active this morning. Prices were moving up marginally for the first 45 minutes. Perlin Plantations, which was officially quoted this morning rose 11 cents above par to $1.11 but declined to $1.04. Haw Par gained 15 cents to $6.20. Sime Darby five
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  • 41 1 LATE NEWS Manila, Tuesday.— Three unidentified gunmen shot and killed a policeman and seriously wounded another in Manila's slum district of Tondo. Police said patrolman Oregorio Magtanong died at a police outpost with two bullet wounds in the chest.
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  • 271 1 Reuter Dublin, Tuesday The official wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has ceased offensive military action in Northern Ireland. its political branch announced here last night. The news came in a statement issued by the Dublin headquarters of Sinn Fein, the official political wing.
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  • 91 1 Kiev, Tuesday. In crowds tens of thousands strong, Ukrainians lined the streets of their capital yesterday to catch a glimpse of President and Mrs. Nixon. Thfe US visitors arrived here to blue skies and sunshine from a rainy Moscow, where they were delayed for over
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  • 77 1 London, Tuesday Fire engulfed four floors of a hotel here torilKht and renewed fears that an arsonist may be pinpointing hotels in the smart London district of Bayswater. More than 50 people Inside the London Ambassador Hotel escaped unhurt from the blaze. Police already fear that
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  • 24 1 Thieves broke Into the Majullah office equipment store at Middle Road yesterday and carted away, typewriters and electronic calculators worth over $16,000.
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  • 456 1 Cool gunman kills 3, injures 8 and kills himself New York, Tuesday A calm, triggerhappy gunman who shot at "everything that moved" killed three people and wounded eight others outside a shopping mall in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Senator B. Everett Jordan was campaigning yesterday.
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  • 332 1 The New Nation yesterday did not carry any report of the Asla-Paciflc Socialist Bureau conference, which enters the third day of its week long deliberations here today. Our reporter was unable to obtain from the bureau's press centre advance texts of speeches and working
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  • 84 1 UPI, Reuter Saigon, Tuesday.— Fighting in Kontum is now in its sixth day and the battle for the Central Highlands provincial capital is apparently reaching a stalemate. Military sources described the situation there after five days of fighting as "somewhat stabilised." Both sides appear to
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  • 250 1  -  Search for three sons By Wee Beng Huat and Long Kum Thong It was seaman Tan Kia Cheong's and his wife's most heartrending search. With tears blurring their eyes, they scoured* the monsoon drain for their three sons. They had been up since the crack of dawn prodding
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  • 27 1 Washington, Tuesday Robert Kennedy, a 26-year-old kite flier from California, crashed and died while performing at the Transpo 72 airshow here yesterday.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 91 1 "Jumbo to Zurich and Frankfurt by BOAC!" v X VV' For some people there is only one airline. Fly away in a big way to Zurich every Sunday and Frankfurt every Wednesday. By BOAC 747. Leave Singapore in the early evening and arrive the following morning. Now, with BOAC's new
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  • 195 2 Hilton Hotel's Spot Spot nightclub In Orchard Road will close on Thursday. According to the general manager, Mr. Lim Ewe Hln, one of the reasons for closing the discotheque was "there are too many of them around." t It will be converted
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  • 19 2 The Ngee Ann Technical College will hold Its graduation ceremony at Victoria Theatre on Saturday at 9.30 am.
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  • 602 2  -  Israeli delegate spells out key to success By Sunny Wee, Bosco Gomez Bosco Gomel Delegates to the AsiaPacific Socialist conference in Singapore were yesterday reminded that there could be no success for the socialist movement if some continued to lag behind. While there appeared
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  • 284 2 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. —Drug taking among youths is increasing at such an alarming pace that the Christian Social Concerns Committee of the Trinity Methodist Church in Petaling Jaya has set out to inform parents of the dangers of drug addiction. The committee Is holding a
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  • 215 2 While other couples will be enjoying themselves on MSA's Mass Wedding cum Honeymoon flight in October, Mr. and Mrs. Cheong Kim Hock will have little time for fun. Unlike the newly-wed couples, they will be celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary. But it will be a working
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 124 2 ftlnl.lillWiHMfe Today's winning number *****5 If the last six digits of your Singapore identity card number are those shown above, you can claim a $100 Post Office Savings Bank Gift Voucher. Your voucher will be paid into a Post Office Savings Bank account in your name. Call with your identity
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  • 339 3  -  Wedding party fight By Wee Beng Huat About 800 weddingdinner guests last night stampeded out of the Outram Park's Ai Hwa Restaurant when a fight broke out between guests who had too many "yam sengs." Chairs and bottles were thrown when a grouo of youths at one
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  • 138 3 The Singapore Cancer Society is preparing a report on the incidence of stomach cancer detected during the past year. A sub committee has been formed to look into the matter from the point of public education and early diagnosis. Members of the sub-com-mittee are drawn from
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  • 38 3 A fire broke out inside a barge under repair at the Benol Canal in Jurong yesterday. No one was injured. Damage was slight. Sparks from a blow torch are believed to have caused the fire.
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  • 363 3 To meet living costs The Singapore government is to revise the salaries and allowances of its overseas diplomats in countries where the cost of living have soared recently. It is understood the interim Increases will be at least, 10 per cent. An informed
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  • 53 3 New York, Tuesday. Eleven people were presumed dead In Dulac, Louisiana, yesterday when a helicopter heading for an oil rig off the Louisiana coast crashed in a swamp. Pour bodies were reported to have been recovered shortly after the tragedy and the others were believed to be
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  • 55 3 Washington, Tuesday One man was killed, two were seriously injured and two were missing after their twin-engined pine crashed into Lake Erie near Cleveland .police reported today. The plane, a Beachcraft with five people aboard, was approaching a lakefront airport when it veered to avoid collision
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  • 434 3  -  By Patrick de Souza A Chinese-educated businesswoman, Mrs. Lee Teow Leng, 42, has been selected by the United National Front to oppose the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, in Tanjong Pagar in the next general elections. Announcing this today, the assistant secretarygeneral
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  • 354 3  -  By Violet Oon Richard Eyre revealed a deep understanding of the timelessness of Shakespeare's words in Ills production of John Barton's When Thou Art King for the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company of Edinburgh. Lighting and the minimal use of props gave an illusion of
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 626 3 IVMliiTin Temperatures in world capitals yesterday: Kuala Lumpur 33-23 C Bangkok 36-26 C Hong Kong 29-25 C Manila 34-25 C Tokyo 24-13 C Naha 29-22 C Seoul 18-15 C New York 29-14 C Moscow 19-11 C London 13C Paris 17-12 C Sydney 16-12 C Melbourne 19-10 C Perth 24-15 C
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  • In Person
    • 790 4 Conducted by Ruth Moses, Tel: *****1 WHAT'S an original way of treating your little boy when his next birthday comes along? Chartered accountant Peter Mews and his wife Jeanette hit uDon an excellent idea when they celebrated their son's 11th birthday. They really had
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  • 358 5 Professional photographer Kisho Parekh said today that some of the foreign photographers and cinematographers employed by business organisations and statutory bodies here were not as qualified as their local counterparts. But Mr. Parekh, a foreigner himself, said that though there was ample talent here most
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  • 51 5 Dr. Wong Lin Ken, Minister for Home Affairs, will open the Police Week 1972 at the Singapore Conference Hall on Saturday at 11 a.m. The same day at 6 p.m. he will review the Singapore Police Force at Jalan Besar Stadium, which will be followed by a
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  • 34 5 The Federation of Singapore Petroleum Dealers' Association will launch a month's courtesy campaign beginning on Tnursday. It is in response to an appeal made by the Minister for Communications on April 1.
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  • 565 5  -  Opposition leaders against it By Patrick de Souza, Tan Cher Soon A recent police statement that pre-election political rallies can only be held in-doors has been unfavourably received by most leaders of opposition parties. The chairman of Barisan Sosialis Dr. Lee Slew Choh said,
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  • 65 5 Health Minister Mr. Chua Sian Chin, will lead a fourman delegation to represent the Republic at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm from June 5 to 16. The other members are Mr. S. Jayakumar, Singapore' permanent representative to the United Nations; Mr. C.
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  • 32 5 Telok Kurau East School, formerly knpwn as Telok Kurau English School, will hold a fun fair on Sunday to raise funds for The Children's Welfare and Extra curricular Activity Fund.
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  • 74 5 Bracing herself for a momentary pinprick, with eyes glued to the needle, is Mrs. Teresa Khoo, a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Straits Times Press. Mrs. Khoo was one of many employees of the Straits Times Press to be vaccinated against cholera. Several
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  • 168 5 Medical Circles here are sceptical over a report that babies whose mothers suffer from Influenza during pregnancy face' a greater risk of dying from cancer. This finding was reported in the British Medical Journal by two British researchers. It said that these babies were five times
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  • 32 5 Dr. Toh Chin Chye, Minister for Science and Technology, will open the Social Work Conference at the Grand Ballroom of the Singapore Hilton Hotel on June 17 at 9 a.m.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 344 5 Jurong engineer wins top prize Last Thursday's quiz photograph showed part of the railing of Polglase Bridge in North Bridge Road. The first prize of $15 goes to Mr. Lim Swee Kok, an engineer, of Jurong. His entry was the first correct one opened by the Editor last night. The
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 1161 6  -  From Laurence Stern Washington Post AMERICA Military aid has been a cornerstone of American foreign policy for a quarter of a century starting more than US$5O,OOO million ago. It has provided the guns in the context of a foreign aid philosophy that
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    • 798 6 THE VOICE OF THE PBESS What other newspapers are saying: A NEW LANDSCAPE OF PEACE FOX UROPE: The eventual rati! ion of the nonaggression pa vlth the Soviet Union by tr.t: West German Parliament has eased the cold war tussle between the U.S. and the Soviet blocks
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    • 615 6  -  Largest Chinatown in US a world to itself From Herman Wong Los Angeles Times America's second largest Chinatown has always been a world to itself in the Mott Street sector of Lower Manhattan. But recently It seemed split in a way uniquely
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    • 498 6  -  Prom S. C. Chan MALAYSIA The warning has gone out to longhouse dwellers not to let their guns fall into communist hands. The government's decision to arm peasants as a means of self protection against communist terrorists was described as
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    • 864 6 DENIS WARNER IN PARIS LOOKS AT THE TALKS IMPASSE WARNER'S WORLD <ll II The American and South Vietnamese rejection of the communist call for a resumption of the peace talks last week is a reflection of the feeling of utter frustration
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  • 476 7 13 points highlight communique United Press International Moscow, Tuesday These are the highlights of the Joint USSoviet communique signed yesterday by President Nixon and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Communist Party: Bilateral relations: The two sides agreed the improvement of relations was
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  • 320 7 Reuter Washington, Tuesday President Nixon's prospects of re-election in November look brighter than ever now in the after-glow of the Moscow summit, according to political ooservers in Washington. The President has received overwhelmingly favourable reviews from the majority of leading US newspapers and opinionmakers for
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  • 257 7 Reuter Kampala, Tuesday President Idl Amln has announced the discovery of a plot "aimed at causing confusion In Uganda," and alleged to be backed by Israel, Uganda Radio said yesterday. The broadcast did not make clear whether the plot had been designed to overthrow the Ugandan
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  • 104 7 4 Canberra, Tuesday The Federal Ooverament will alsw five Vietnamese war orphans, smuggled into Australia during the weekend to remain permanently In the country as soon as legal requirements for their adoption are completed. Immigration Minister Dr. lame* Forbes announced hop yesterday. Wte five, girls Mai
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  • 75 7 The man standing rigidly to attention before the Soviet Premier, Mr. Kosygin, and the Soviet President, Mr. Podgorny (third and second from right), has some explaining to do. He's a pilot, and he's telling the two leaders about the engine trouble in the Russian plane
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  • 274 7 UPI, Reuter Dacca, Tuesday The ruling Awami League of Prime Minister Sheikh MuJibur Rahman and its two political allies have decided to form a three-party national committee to tackle various urgent problems facing Bangladesh. This was disclosed by Prof. Muzaffar Ahmed, chief of
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  • 233 7 Reuter Wellington, Tuesday New Zealand Labour leader, Mr. James Knox, said yesterday that protests here against France's nuclear tests in the Pacific next month would not be silenced by political blackmail. Mr. Knox, Secretary of the Federation of Labour, was commenting on a report in the
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  • 317 7 Reuter Bonn, Tuesday. NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns said last night that the completion of the Berlin agreement next Saturday would ofcen the way to multilateral talks to prepare for a possible European security conference. He was addressing a Press conference on the
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  • 32 7 Santiago, Tuesday More than 5,000 people lost their homes In gales and heavy rain which have lashed southern Chile for several days. Two provinces have been declared disaster zones.
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  • 56 7 Messina, Tuesday. Two boys were drowned here yesterday while playing truant from school to watch the Giro d'ltalia cycling tour. Police said one of the boys, aged 10, got cramp while swimming m the sea after the cyclists had set off, and the other, aged 13,
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  • 165 7 New York, Tuesday—Russell Lee, who began breathing on Saturday several hours after doctors pronounced him dead of massive head injuries, clung to life for 33 hours before being pronounced dead a second time in Long Beach, California. Lee, 25, succumbed again at 9:15
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  • 260 7 Reuter Paris, Tuesday. French writer Violette Leduc, who jumped to literary fame when she was 57 with her controversial autobiography La Batarde (The *****). died at her home In Faucon, southern France, on Sunday. Miss Leduc, who Had been suffering from cancer, was 65. She
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  • 249 7 Reuter East Berlin, Tuesday. Deafness caused by noise at work heads the list of newly recognised professional Illnesses, an East German scientist told an International antl noise congress here yesterday. Professor Rudolf Junghans told of the health threat at the opening of the Seventh
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 513 8 If the Peking summit marked the beginning of a new relationship between America and China, what has been achieved in the talks in Moscow is the fruition of a long and patient process of negotiation between America and the other communnist giant, Russia. Most of
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 120 8 When the town cousin visits the country, what does he find? A friend of mine went up to Penang recently for some work. Being a fully independent female who has decided most things on her own for a long time, she stayed at a hotel. Ope
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    • 43 8 Just caught a hint that the plush restaurants in one of our newest luxury hotels may not be all that irresistible. Saw the hotel boss's son sneaking round to a coffeehouse at the back of his hotel for a feed.
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    • 69 8 Another traveller's tale I heard recently concerns a business traveler who knew no English. He never had any difficulty at least not with finding the men's toilet until he came to Singapore where he barged into the ladles. Apparently he always identified the men's toilet
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  • 691 8  -  GERALD de CRUZ The attempted assassination of Governor George Wallace brings back to mind a beautiful June morning in Washington in 1967. As I walked down Philadelphia Avenue towards the White House, the capital purred in the
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  • Letters
    • 286 8 I refer to your story under the heading. Developers cheated us, say house owners (NN. May 26). From my experience of tiling work. I must say that some buyers are not only being cheated by the developers but also by contractors. I quote you an example of
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    • 89 8 We are staying In Block 112. Ho Ching Road. The lift in this block breaks down several times a week. I hoDe the HDB authorities will take action against vandals, who damaae and steal lighting fixtures from the lift. A warning should be also Issued to
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    • 152 8  -  TOM FERNANDEZ Manager, Delhi Express Travel (Pte) Ltd. Singapore, 6. On April 19. I asked the Singapore Telephone Board about a $45.80 bill for the month of March. On May 4, the STB replied: M we have checked our meterreading records and confirm that the charges are
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    • 258 8 On May 22 about 2000 Singapore Polytechnic students attended their first day of lectures at the new campus at Ayer Rajah Road. Early in the morning, they squeezed into buses for the long Journey. It took most of them more than an hour by bus to reach
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    • 152 8  -  WAN ABDUL HAMID General Manager, Perbadanan Nasional Bhd. Kuala Lumpur. I refer to your Kuala Lumpur correspondent's report on PERNAS (NN, May 19). Your correspondent was still harping on PERNAS "trying to establish Itself as the sole agent in the China trade even after our chairman's letter
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    • 145 8  -  A.S. AWARA Mrs. L.B. Farnum, condemns In strong terms North Vietnamese aggression in South Vietnam (NN, May 23). She forgets that the Americans are in a land not their own, fighting a war not their own, killing men not their own. South Vietnam should fight Its own
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    • 83 8 This is a plea to the road traffic authorities to build more pedestrian bridges at strategic points along busy highways. I refer in particular to the main entrance to St. Michael's Institution, along Thomson Road, and between Kellock and Zion Roads where students from two schools (Kellock
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    • 51 8 Lorong Kukus has bad drainage. As a result there are pot-holes and running water has damaged parts of the road. On rainy days the situation is very bad. The residents could help by controlling the flow of used water from their homes into the drains. RESIDENT, Singapore
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    • 168 8 My family and I have a farm in Marsiling Avenue, Woodlands, which is af fected bv the government plan to build a new town. About six months ago. a civil servant came to tell us that the farm would b* affected and he wanted to
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • Indonesia in perspective: Analysis of a neighbour
    • 898 9 JACKIE SAM, back from a recent trip to Indonesia, reports on its political and social aspects in a three-part series starting today. He discusses the position of the military, gives a critic's view of it and touches upon
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    • 793 9 Paitjo, 27, is a farmer in Blitar in the southern part of East Java, on the narrow belt of riceland between the Brantas River and the bleak, m o un t a i nous southern coast. The soil here is poor, but Paitjo is still a
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    • 1048 9 Arief Budiman, 31, is Indonesia's most outspoken critic of the Government. A psychologist who runs his own consultancy firm as well as the Jajasan Indonesia, a cultural centre financed by the Paris-based International Association for Cultural Freedom, he is sometimes referred
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  • SHOPPING
    • Article, Illustration
      1066 10 VOU are driving quietly along the countryside. Suddenly the stillness of the air is sharply broken by a loud blast from the car behind. Then the whole area seems to go berserk; brakes screech, horns blare, people scream at one another and there is great com-? motion all-around.
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  • TREND
    • 887 11  -  The Duke of Windsor's autobiography tells of the 'spirited Yankee who dared to challenge His Royal Highness' Presented by Mary Lee ALINE MOSBY Paris, Tuesday The DuKe of Windsor gave up the British throne lor Mrs. Wallis Simpson because she was an outspoken, independent American, a
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    • 87 11 Practical Painting: If you want to use your stairway while painting it, paint every other step first. Let these dry before doing the remainder. Kitchen Woodwork: If stained by smoke and grease it can be cleaned by painting it with a solution of starch In water. After the
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    • 720 11 home I'm often astounded at the lack of imagination which many bachelors show with regard to their living environment. These men (most of them young) are usually those who have always wanted to be independent of their family circles, so the minute 'their bank
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • Article, Illustration
    188 12 Mr. Ho Font, an area technical manager of Guthrie Waugh Organisation, has left for Manila to attend -a management development programme at the Asian Institute of Management. Mr. Ho who will be away for about two months. Is responsible for the design, installation and after sales maintenance of air-condi-tioning
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  • 500 12 commc to grips The martial arts is like a language which can be divided into two parts: The written and the spoken. The martial arts student must not only study his basic exercises, but he must also have the coordination tor a flowing form and
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  • 272 12 Intraco Ltd., the state sponsored international trading firm, made a pre-tax profit of $3,233,249 last year compared with $1,536,735 in the previous financial year. This represented a re- turn of 26.9 per cent on shareholders funds compared with 14.3 per cent) In the
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  • 235 12 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Malaysia's tin mining industry last year achieved its second highest output in postwar years, said the Malaya Chamber of Mines President Mr. P.W. Thuell, in his address to the chamber's annual meeting. However, the tin price remained depressed throughout the year
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  • 230 12 United Press International Tokyo, Tuesday A government move to curb American pressure for revaluation of the yen by slashing the Interest paid to millions of Japanese on their savings yesterday was delayed at least until Saturday. The Bank of Japan
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  • 113 12 The myth that finance companies only deal in loans is slowly vanishing in Singapore. Most of these companies are beginning to play a greater role by diversifying their activities. Totally involved in this is Hong Leong Finance Ltd., with an active interest in the needs of
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  • 246 12 The new open-top container trans port system introduced by Overseas Containers Limited is facilitating the transportation of industrial machinery. Recently, 10 tons of compressors, valves, aftercoolers and electric starters were shipped from Britain to Singapore in an OCL open-top container. Two of the compressors
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  • 146 12 The share market was firm and active yesterday. However trading was thin. Marginal gainers outnumbered losses in industrials, properties, hotels, and oil palm. Many property counters advanced marginally, Island Peninsular in particular gained 32 cents to $3.74 but Central Properties lost a cent to $1.74. Veneer Product moved
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  • 269 12 Australia SWIMMING Sydney, Tuesday The Australian Swimming Union (ASU) has declined an invitation to send a team of 26 swimmers and divers to compete In Peking in July, ASU secretary Syd Orange said yesterday. Orange said the invitation. cabled to the ASU early yesterday was turned
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  • 196 12 Singapore imported more than it exported to West Europe last year, resulting in a record trade deficit of $765 million. Exports to West Europe fell bv $53 million from $873 million In 1970 to $820 million last year while Imports rose $256 million to $1585
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 141 12 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald you DON'T WANT ME TO HELP /OU? O.K. BUT WHAT'S THE OBJECTION TO YOUR HELPING y Ki I'M NOT A *tv FOLLOWING YOU. J m 4k V 0t At Mw I want to graduate and be a I—J1 —J PSYCHIATRIST... OR A PSYCKOLOGIST, A IF
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    • 272 12 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACBOBS 1 Pull of zip. 6 Without form. 15 Worship. 16 Part of South America. 17 Greek persuader In the wooden horse legend. 18 Ape. 19 Mythical river. 20 Diving bird. 21 Winter: Lat. 22 Candy flavor. 24 Articles. 26 Pood for baby. 29 Rialto. 23 Oak
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  • IDEAL HOMES AND GRACIOUS LIVING
    • 761 13  -  NO SIGN OF PRICES LEVELLING OFF IN ALL AREAS FINISHINGS AND FITTINGS, ADD NEW APPEAL By PAKIR SINGH The spiralling cost of houses and property is the hot topic of discussion in Singapore today. People are bewildered at the fantastic increase in prices as compared to just
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    • 1646 14  -  Much effort put in to project different moods EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DEVELOP OWN IDEAS By Mary Lee One home in a highclass residential area in Bukit Timah has an interior which exudes gracious luxury the minute you enter. The architecture,
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    • 672 16 Air-conditioning has caught on in Singapore. Keeping cool is no longer a luxury and more and more houses in Singapore can be seen equipped with airconditioners. A new housing estate has even gone so far as to provide a central air
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    • 531 16 If you have a backyard and $12,000, you can have a whale of a time splashing away in your very own swimming pool. Just imagine a dip at any time of the day. There will be no need to hunt for
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    • 872 17 Housewives have never had it so good scientific progress has led to an increasing sophistication in household appliances, and the only effort required in doing housework these days in pushing a button Many women here are not aware of it yet,
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    • 1015 18  -  Lamps an integral part of a room's decor MARY LEE Light up a whole new style of living at home with attractive and imaginative placements of lamps. Lights are fixed for purposes other than Illumination these days. Thev are an Integral part of a
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    • 33 18 A split-level home in Biikit Timah: The living room is furnished in old-fashioned luxury. French windows have Italian style drapes. Heavy furniture is placed on casters for easy mobility.
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    • 1806 19 SYNDROME IS SWEEPING THE 70s Home decoration has not been left out in the do your own thing syndrome that is sweeping the swinging seventies. In Sweden for Instance, everyone Is caught up In living in man-made habitats. Inside of constructed walls, every item of furniture (where possible
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    • 631 20 Design Partnership has come up with a house which may become a pace setter in Singapore. It is economical ($60,000) and can be seen in Holland Village. What is likely to endear the house to those who seek to make a palace of their
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    • 927 21  -  INTENSE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY IN MANY AREAS AWAY FROM THE CITY Pakir Singh Drive out of the city area in any direction in Singapore, and the eye will feast every few miles Intense house construction activity. Housing estates are mushrooming all over the island and
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    • 587 21 California Pools Pte Ltd., has for the first time brought to SouthEast Asia the Baker Hudro's revolutionary swimming pool filter. The Hydro Skimmer is the finest skimmer available today incorporating carefully tested new Ideas Into its radical design. Since 90 per cent of contalminants accumulate on
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    • 932 22 Would-be houseowners are beginning to show greater interest in making the plot of land surrounding their houses more attractive with plants: Most of them feel that the garden is the first place a visitor or a passer-by looks at and so should
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    • 686 22 Whether you are thinking of buying, building or re-decorat-ing a house equal emphasis should be placed to the floor. Don't Just think of the walls, ceiling, roof and Ignore the floor. In fact greater attention should be paid to the floor. It
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    • 878 23  -  DEPOSIT IN HOUSE DEAL THWARTS HIS PLAN TO BUY IT BACK By P.N. Balji "So you wish to have your own house. I will take you to one who can recommend some good ones/' a friend told me. a That was about
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    • 960 23  -  By Wee Beng Huat Home Sweet Home but today, with modern inventions, you are already at home long before you set your foot on the threshold because the present day car has become an extension of the home for many. The luxuries of the
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    • 59 24 This open-plan kitchen is centrally located between living room, dining room and family room. Novel features include use of radiata pine panelling for walls and snack counter, with contrasting cedar cupboards at eye level. Louvre door next to wall oven leads to walk-in pantry. Rectangular ceiling skylight and
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    • 911 24 Australia has always been up-to-date with the latest furniture materials and manufacturing techniques. Designers start with a natural advantage the country has some of the most extensive forests in the world as a source of beautiful timbers for furniture making. And the fine fabrics produced
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  • 436 26  -  By Sonny Yap The organisers of the Singapore Industrial Easy Pitch Softball League will field five teams, four men and one women's in the Singapore Cla&s One Championships to be held later this year. Sponsors have been found for the teams, which will consist of
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  • 195 26 Reuter London, Tuesday. New Zealander Denny Hulme chose the right tyres in threatening weather here yesterday and won the 110 miles (177 kilometres) Rothman's Gold Cup Formula One motor race. Hulme, the 35-year-old former champion, chose dry weather tyres for his McLaren despite the black
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  • 60 26 Accra, Tuesday. Ghana qualified for the Olympic Games soccer tournament despite their defeat In Dakar yesterday by Senegal. The Black Stars, Ghana's national team, lost 0-2 to Senegal but maintained a superior goal difference over their closest rivals, Cameroun. Cameroun beat Togo 1-0 in Yaounde yesterday. Ghana
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  • 340 26  -  By M. Param Favourites Anglo Chinese School ODened the season with a convincing 105 run victory over Beatty Secondary in the SCA interschool tourney at Balestler Road, yesterday. ACS batted first to belt up 134 in even time with the helD of Mohan Rajalingam
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  • 165 26 Messina, Sicily. Tuesday. Albert Van Vlierberghe, a lone Belgian on a Swedish dominated Italian team yesterday won the ninth laD of the Giro Dltalia cycle race, but his countryman Eddy Merckx handily keDt the overall lead in the race, with a dangerous high speed
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  • 80 26 Lahtl, Finland, Tuesday. Finnish athlete Hannu Siitonen yesterday established the world's best mark this season when he threw his javelin 86.74 metres (about 284 ft.) at a national track and field competition in this central Finnish city. Siltonen's excellent performance was backed up by world record holder
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  • 37 26 Serangoon Garden Secondary Bchool will hold its 13th annual athletic meet at Farrer Park on Friday, starting at 2 pan. Mr. Teo Tat Teck, principal of Serangoon Garden Technical School will give away the prises.
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  • 496 26 Paris, Tuesday. Titleholder Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia moved Into top gear to reach the quarter finals of the men's singles, while the women's last eight line-up was completed at the French international tennis championships yesterday. Kodes beat 16th seed Barry Fhillips-Moore
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  • 63 26 Tokyo, Tuesday.—Czechoslovakia's national men's backetball team defeated all-Japan 64-54 here yesterday to collect their second straight victory in Japan. The halftime score was 35-32 in favour of the visitors. Japan, preparing for the Munich Olympics, is scheduled to play nine goodwill games against the Czechoslovaklan
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  • 409 26 New York, Tuesday. East Germany is engaged In a systematic nationalistic sports programme that provides its athletes with money, sham jobs, feigned university enrolments and food not available to the general population, Time magazine said yesterday. Time, in its current issue said these rewards
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  • 176 26 London, Tuesday The man around whom English racing revolves Lester Piggott has thrown riding arrangements for the Epsom Derby Into turmoil. With the race only eight days away Piggott has not accepted a ride and will not make a decision on his mount until late this
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  • 130 26 Klass Michael from the School of Signals scored a hattrick to emerge overall champion In the first Communications and Electronic Formation annual athletics meet at Farrer Park yesterday. He won the 110 m hurdles in 18.4 sees, the trlDle jump in 12.5 m and the long jump
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  • 155 26 Lausanne, Tuesday. Avery Brundage, (pictured below) Dresident of the International Olympic Committee, said last night that he is definitely retiring after the summer games in Munich in August. "For me it is over," Brundage told 3 news conference at lOC headquarters here. "Twenty vears is enough for
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  • 144 26 Wellington, Tuesday Colin Meads, the former New Zealand Rugby Union captain who broke his back in a motor accident last December, said yesterday he felt no discomfort from the injury after making his comeback in a club match at the weekend. The giant 35-year-old lock forward
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  • 349 27 Follow the horses marked with a uh pmlt straijlhtlbut was soon beaten. F. 8.1. hit the ftont, ¥u H Perfection starting his run. Peak of Perfection shot past F. 8.1. half a furlong out to win cleverly. Third was Sailor's Delight. Beta Rajah took over the
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  • 463 27 By Blue Peter Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Kota Tinggi n (Hassan Ahmad) and Agression (George Podmore) from trainer Ahmad bin Abdul Samad's stables, were matched in a smart trial here this morning. Breaking from the half mile, the two stablemates steadily clapped on the pace to
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  • 150 27 London, Tuesday. Unbeaten colt Brigadier Gerard survived a stewards' inquiry to win the Westbury Stakes here yesterday and boost his winnings to over 100,000 sterling ($730,000) from 12 successive victories. But the four-year-old ridden by Joe Mercer "had to struggle hard to maintain his
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  • 817 27 UPI, Reuter London Tuesday The match between Glamorgan and the Australian cricketers was abandoned as a draw here yesterday when heavy rain swept across the ground. But with just over two-and-a-half hours play left at the end of the threeday match a result
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  • 134 27 Houston, Tuesday.—Race Driver A. J. Foyt, who had a disastrous weekend in the Indianapolis 500 and the Duquoln, Illinois, 100-mile races, was' flown to a Houston Hospital yesterday to recover from burns and a broken ankle suffered in the Duquoln race. Foyt, a three-time Indianapolis
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  • 27 27 Redcar, England, Tuesday.— Happy Hunter, owned by Mr. John White, won the Zetland Gold Cup handicap run over one and quarter miles here yesterday, i
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  • 303 27 Rotterdam, Tuesday. European footballer of the year Johan Cruyff last night predicted his club Ajax Amsterdam would retain the European Cup when they clashed with twice champions InterMilan in the final here tomorrow night. The goalscorlng forward said: "I think we will win the
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  • 54 27 NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 7 Phillies S New York 7 8 k Loads < Pittsburgh 4 Phillies Chicago 5 Montreal 2 Los Angeles 5 San Fran. 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 5 Detroit 1 •New Ysrfc 4 Detroit 2 Milwaukee 11 Boston 3 uakland Texas 1 denotes
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  • 133 27 For m i d able Singapore Recreation Club scored a smashing 25-11 victory over Chip Bee In the Dlv. One netball match of the Singapore League at the Padang yesterday. It was a good effort by the SRC players who had to pit their skills against
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  • 349 27 Kuala LumDur. Tuesday. Allegations against the Malaysian Government which implied that it is violating the independence of the OlymDic Council ol Malaysia are "utterly base less," a Rovernment official said yesterday. "We are taking a serious view of the matter." said Inche Mohd Nor bin Che
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  • 100 27 Yong Yan Keok won both the singles and doubles championships of the table tennis tournament recently held at the Insurance Institute of Singapore. The women's singles title went to Judy Chan. Following »re the fall result*: Men's duffles Winner: Yon* Tan Keok: rnnner-up: Lee Tone Host:
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  • 35 27 San Francisco, Tuesday. Colombian Runner Martin Pavon won the gruelling 26-mile (41 kms) Golden Gate marathon here despite going the wrong way and finding himself running through rush-hour traffic on the freeway.
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    • 63 28 AH FOOK: I am happy to hear the Australian Labour Party leader's remark that his party aims to change Australia's immigration policy when it returns to power. He is right in saying that skills, not race or colour, should be the' yardstick for entry. MEI LIN: It's an
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    • 192 28 It was only a US$2O question but for one wouldbe robber It was a stumper. Authorities said a bandit approached a market clerk in Tucson, Arizona with intent to rob, but it didn't work out that way. The conversation between clerk, Donald Wiese, and
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    • 181 28 Today is Tuesday, May 30, the 151 st day of 1972 with 215 to follow. THE MOON: Between its full phase and last quarter. THE MORNING STARS: Mercury and JuDiter. THE EVENING STARS: Venus, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this day are under the sign of Gemini. American
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    • 48 28 Geraldine Non i s, 17, is a pretty dancer who has been to Vietnam, bringing a bit of cheer to. a war torn country. She likes less hectic activities too like boating, skiing and listening to music when she's not doing part-time modelling.
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    • 25 28 Ants halted an express train for 30 minutes near Iyamachi, Japan by crawling into a signal light and breaking an electrical contact.
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    • 25 28 New York City will cost more to run by 1990 than the combined total Income of its inhabitants, according to New York politician.
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    • 43 28 6.00 Open Anncts. and programme summary 6.05 Sunset Serenade 6.30 News 6.40 Public Service Anncts. 6.45 Share Market Report 7.00 Family Favourites 8.00 News 8.10 Public Service Annct 8.15 Chinese Opera Hour 9.15 Symphonlo Hour 10.15 The Theme Tonight 11.00 Close.
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    • 471 28 CRAZE IS NOW SWEEPING BRITAIN Reuter A motorbike worth perhaps $735 was recently advertised for sale in London for $33,000. The inflated price bore witness to the new craze of autonumerology now sweeping Britain the collecting of distinctive car number-plates. There was nothing unusual
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    • 494 28 5 Singapore 3.00 Opening and Where tne Heart Is 3.20 For tne Family (M) 3 .oO A Diary of Events in Singapore this Week (M> 3.55 It's Happening in Singapore (M —Rpt) 4.15 Peyton Place (Cnlnese subtitles —Rpt) i 5.00 Close 6.00 Opening and Count of Monte 1 Cristo— Athens
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    • 479 28 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a born salesman, whether the product be a tangible object, an Idea, or yourself. Highly enthusiastic about anything and everything with which you become in any way involved, you commit yourself every time to the furthering, the popularising,
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