New Nation, 20 June 1972

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  • 15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, June 20, 1972 No. 436 Price 15 cents NEW NATION
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  • 118 1 The share market was moderately active this morning. Trading was scattered and prices generally moved up narrowly. Sime Darby, an attractive counter, moved from $7.20 to $7.40 to $7.35. Malayan Banking rose six cents to $3.16. with further buying interest. Public Bank gained two cents to $1.52.
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  • 12 1 Police reported 57 accidents yesterday. Five of them were serious.
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  • 45 1 LATE NEWS New York, Tuesday Hurricane Agnes left at least 12 people dead in Florida and Cuba and smashed homes and aircraft as it roared near the coastal town of Panama City yesterday with winds up to 120 miles per hour 1190 kph>.
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  • 485 1  -  Pulled from car as it sinks in canal Story by Wee Beng Huat For five terrifying minutes this morning, a man and a woman fought a losing battle to get out of their car as it sank deeper and deeper into the swollen Kim Seng
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  • 117 1 Hong Kong. Tuesday. Skies cleared yesterday after three days of downpour which dumped 26 inches of rain on this crown colony, leaving 75 people dead. 26 missing and 120 injured. The downpour, the worst in 83 years, caused dozens of landslides around the hilly colony, the
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  • 34 1 New York, Tuesday. Heavy rains flooded lowlying areas throughout the metropolitan area yesterday, snarling traffic and communications and forcing evacuation of some homes. businesses and schools. Two deaths were reported.
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  • 147 1 Auckland, Tuesday. A French airline office was gutted by fire here yesterday, about 10 hours before French nuclear tests were due to resume in the Souin Pacific. Police and fire officers did not exclude the possibility of a bomb. The blaze was at
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  • 46 1 Rawalpindi, Tuesday. A heat wave, which has caused hundreds of deaths in North India, has spread to Pakistan sending the temperature up to 114 de grees Farenheit over the weekend. Four people. Including a child, died in the city on Saturday.
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  • 319 1 New York, Tuesday. UN Security Council members held private consultations yesterday on what to do about the aerial hijacking threat which brought on a one-day stoppage of many international airlines. Yesterday's informal deliberations, followed a request last Friday by the US, backed by Britain and
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  • 375 1 Reuter Saigon, Tuesday American aircraft have struck possibly their most lethal blow of the war against North Vietnam's air defences, knocking out 76 antiaircraft guided missiles, a US military spokesman said here. Over 300 raids by fight-er-bombers In the 24 hours up to dusk
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  • 32 1 Police were out in force this morning to clear a two-mile-long traffic jam in Adam Road which was under a foot of water for more than an hour.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 132 1 liij OE "LBV PACE 5: University Senate will meet to discuss varsity row PACE 6: Domestic squabbles in Indonesia may bring political turmoil. PACE 7 Why the Trident crashed at Heathrow airport. PACE 11: How to decorate a cosy, pretty HDB bathroom. PACE 14: Singapore champ tor British Open golf.
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    • 121 1 Plan a little happiness f V -5 r- Nl <> m The best way to plan your future is to start saving for it. FEB can help you save now so you'll have the money you'll need for any purpose. Holidays, college fees, cars, trousseaus, diamond rings, washing machines. We
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 226 2  -  By Violet Oon The world famous Vienna Boys' Choir again warmed the hearts of Singaporeans last night, as In their former performances here, with their wonderful voices and unaffected manner. The boys' voices there were 23 of them were impressive not only
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  • 62 2 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday —The University of Malaya Students Union Council was dissolved yesterday after a vote of no confidence was passed against it at an emergency meeting. Of the 2,500 students who attended the meeting, 1,140 voted for the motion. The four-hour meeting later elected a seven-man
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  • 153 2 Making plans for a day a long way off can be a problem. How can one find out quickly whether June 20, 1973, for instance, is a weekday or falls on a weekend. Five Secondary Four students of Hua Yi Government Chinese Middle School have
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  • 358 2  -  KL extends deadline on Chinese goods By Ivan Lim The export of Chinese goods from Singapore to West Malaysia will continue till the end of this month, and to East Malaysia till the end of August. This follows the Malaysian Government's decision to lift temporarily
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  • 217 2 School principals want to be relieved of part of their administrative burden to devote more time to educational matters. New Nation understands they plan to ask for administrative officers in their schools. This is likely to be put forward as one of the
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  • 137 2 War toys which are becoming popular here, have no adverse effect on children, said a local psychiatrist yesterday. He said the toys resembled warships and torpedoes used in conventional wars. They were therefore "related to reality." The children can see them on television and
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 113 2 COME AND TAKE AIM INSTANT PHOTOGRAPH OF ME NOW WITH THE LATEST POLAROID CAMERAS... DEMONSTRATIONS DAILY XT TIT PENINSULA SHOPPING CENTRE, JTL COLEMAN STREET, SINGAPORE 1. Demonstrations held each day from Wed. Jone 21 to Fri. Jone 23 12 noon-3.00 p.m.-4.30 p.m.-7.30 p.m. Sat Jone 24 11.00 a.m-2.00p.m.-4.00 p.m.-7.00 p.m.
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    • 230 2 Five ways to make a woman happy. Food Mixer No. HRIIII.CASHS69 Push-button controls put power at 4 your finger-tips. A touch on the button switches the motor on, making light work of kitchen chores. Knife Sharpener No. HM3600. CASH $24 Puts a perfect edge on every knife in the house,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 97 2 I weather Temperatures In world cities yesterday: Kuala Lumpur 30 24C Jakarta 34-23 C Hong Kong 29-27 C Manila 35-23 C Tokyo 26-19 C 29 -19C Bangkok 34-26 C Naha 31-25 C London 18-11 C Paris 20-14 C. Moscow 23-18 C New York 22-17 C San Francisco 21-13 C Sydney
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    • 517 2 HBPPEmncs wh t^ay on The Singapore Medical Association will hold a SYMPOSIUM ON CHOLERA at the Pathology Lecture Theatre at the Outram Road Hospital at 8 p.m. Australian High Commissioner. Mr. N.F. Parkinson, will speak on "Australia's place in the accelerating industrial development in South-East Asia" at the luncheon meeting
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    • 114 2 EMMM Today's winning number *****4 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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  • 120 3 It was a vain bid by Filipino singer, Miriam Odejar to strike up a tune. She huffed and puffed but it was all fruitless. Realising her difficulty, two Singapore Girl Pipers, Lucy Teo and Quek Lee Ee, came to Miriams rescue. After all
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  • 194 3 Petaling Jaya, Tuesday. —The Government is to set up a Management Services Unit (MSU) in every Ministry and big department to ease the bottleneck created by administrative problems. The path is being paved at the moment by the Government Staff Training Centre which is setting
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  • 32 3 Washington, Tuesday. The United States is to sell between 50 and 100 A-4n Skyhawk attack fighters to Israel, with the first delivery in November, Aviation Week magazine said today.
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  • 176 3 The government campaign against the cholera outbreak in Singapore has now gone on television in an effort to arouse greater public awareness. A 20-minute programme, entitled Fight against Cholera, both in English and Chinese, shows the symptoms of the disease and the precautions to take.
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  • 36 3 Paris, Tuesday. The Transport Minister, Mr. Jean Chamant, yesterday attended the brief funeral services at Soissons Medieval Cathedral for 45 victims killed on Friday in a train collision at the nearby Vierzy railroad tunnel.
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  • 328 3  -  Connally's main topic for talks By Sunny Wee Improving US-Singa-pore trade will be the main topic for discussion when President Nixon's special envoy, Mr. John B. Connally, arrives here on Saturday for a four-day stay. Official sources said that Mr. Connally and his nine-insii delegation would discuss
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  • 683 3 Trade union leaders and employers today disagreed with a University of Singapore sociology lecturer who said relations between management and workers were mainly based on cash rewards. Dr. Peter S.J. Chen In a paper to the modernisation seminar last week
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  • 241 3 The Chinese Young Men's Christian Association is to set up a $500,000 centre in Jurong soon as part of its contribution to the community campaign. The centre, when completed, will cater specially to residents and industrial workers in Jurong. It will be sited on a piece
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  • 22 3 London, Tuesday. An automatic telex service be tween Britain and Singa pore was opened yesterday, the British Post Office announced.
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  • 143 3 Special commemorative envelopes marking the arrival of Scan Dutch vessel M.S. Nihon on Friday, the first container vessel to sail into Singapore's $137million container port, will be distributed to shippers and consignees in the Republic. The Nihon, on its maiden voyage from Europe to Singapore, will
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  • 230 3 The Singapore Malay National Organisation does not want to get involved in "mud slinging" now going on among the opposition parties, according to its secretary general, Inche Selamat Shamsuri. He said: "We want to steer clear of the bitter accusations and counteraccusations thrown at each
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  • 59 3 The National Library Group Services Section and the Singapore Art and Craft Education Society, will hold a talk and de monstration on textile de signing and printing on Saturday 3 p.m. at the library's meeting room. The programme will be presented by Mr. Tay Hock Seng, craft
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  • 19 3 Rawalpindi, Tuesday. Opposition members of two provincial assemblies in Pakistan staged walkouts yesterday in protest of adverse rulings.
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  • In Person
    • 648 4 Conducted by Ruth Moses, Tel: *****1 EIGHT travel managers, recently in Singapore on the KLM Inaugural flight from Amsterdam to Sydney, were an enthusiastic lot. Everything was just "wunderbar." They're managers with various German organisations, some of them with staff running into four figures.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 335 5  -  To discuss Prof. Ahmad's statement By V.K. Chin Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday The University of Malaya Senate will meet at the end of the month to discuss the "row" between the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ahmad Ibrahim, and the Faculty of Arts over an extra language
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  • 99 5 A charity exhibition and sale of works in aid of the Singapore Association for Retarded Children will be opened by the First Lady, Mrs, Sheares, on July 9 at the association's premises at 844 Margaret Drive. At the opening, Mrs. Sheares will also receive
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  • 45 5 Shangri-La Hotel's children's menu has won an international award for good designing. It was presented by the National Restaurant Association of America. The menu, used in the hotel's coffee shop, was designed by the resident artist, Mr. 1 Julian Teo Chin Chye.
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  • 76 5 Comex Singapore will embark on a more ambitious tour in December an Australian transcontinental expedition. This was announced by Mr. B.M.R. Williams, chair man of the club's projects committee. But the number of participants would be fewer than the recent trio to West Malaysia and
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  • 46 5 The Stage Club will hold a series of Monday evening theatre workshops starting on July 10. The course is open to members, and will be held at 41 Malcolm Road, Singapore 11. Anyone interested is asked to contact Mrs. Judy Vanderwey, Tel. *****7.
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  • 249 5 Floating church sails in For three decades, she had accomplished both tasks with equal success and vigour. This thirty-year-old Ame-rican-built vessel, Y.M.S. 173, Is now in Singapore to "rejuvenate" herself. She Is at a Tanjong Rhu shipyard undergoing repairs. She was responsible for clearing
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  • 207 5  -  By Wee Beng Huat The 70 policemen who were told last month that they were not suitable for promotion to the rank of inspector have now been promoted to the rank of acting sergeants. They are the men who completed the one-year potential officer's course at
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 368 5 Student wins top prize i r nj 3 I 1 T ;< answers drawn out of the bag 1 < wlll win Jl each. a. I The results of today's quiz mHh PS. X. will be announced in New Nation on Saturday. It' I The prize winners can collect U
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 532 6  -  From V.K. Chin MALAYSIA Leaders of the Democratic Action Party began their six-day tour of branches yesterday to explain to members the disciplinary action against two former vice-chairmen, Mr. Goh Hock Guan and Dr. A. Soorian. Mr. Goh, MP for Bungsar, and Dr. Soorian.
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    • 592 6  -  From Bernard Ronquillo PHILIPPINES After deliberating on the proposed amendments to the constitution for more than a year now, the Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) is still far off its objective of writing a new draft charter that will embody the desired reforms in
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    • 1230 6  -  From Ronnie Muntu INDONESIA The past few weeks in Indonesia were marked by the sudden occurrance of several domestic issues, widely spotlighted by local newspapers, which seemed to indicate not only increased jitter crisis on the part of the military over the
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    • 501 6 THE VOICE OF THE PBESS What other newspapers are saying: RESUMPTION OF PARIS PEACE TALKS LIKELY: There are now indications that the long suspended Paris peace talks will soon be resumed with the return of Mr. Porter, the US chief negotiator, to Paris, to be followed by
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    • 456 6  -  From Manit Jeer THAILAND Besides the traditional export items, Thai girls have become a much-sought after commodity in several cities of Asia, especially those well-known for swinging nightlife. The g'rls, mostly young barmaids or prostitutes enticed by the promise of high pay and
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  • 310 7 Reuter London, Tuesday The British jetliner that crashed with a loss of 118 lives on Sunday stalled soon after takeoff, Aerospace Minister, Mr. Michael Heseltine, said yesterday. It was also off course. In a statement to the House of Commons, Mr. Heseltine gave preliminary information
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  • 241 7 Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday. The International conference on Strategy for Peace in Asia yesterday predicted there would be no rapprochement between China and Taiwan in the near future. Some of the security experts and scholars from 14 countries attending the conference in Kyoto felt China might
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  • 203 7 Moscow, Tuesday—Russia yesterday pledged continuing support for its North Vietnamese ally and joined Hanoi in demanding an end to US bombing and mining of Vietnamese ports. It also called for a resumption of the Paris peace talks, Tass news agency reported at the end of
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  • 293 7 Reuter Washington, Tuesday—A political storm is brewing here over the disclosure that one of the men arrested during an apparent attempt to "bug" the Democratic National Committee headquarters had links with President Nixon's reelection organisation. Democratic leaders said the Federal Bureau of Investigation should issue
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  • 52 7 Thousands of stranded passengers mill about the Customs shed at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome where only a few flights took off because of the one-day strike by airline pilots. Some passengers whose flights were cancelled had to sleep on the floor at the
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  • 65 7 La Paz, Tuesday. Nine people died of food poisoning and 11 others are in hospital following a family reunion in the Patagonian village of Colonia Sarmiento, 85 miles (140 kms) from here. Local authorities blamed the poisoning on tainted flour used in pies and tarts eaten
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  • 205 7 S r i n a g a r, Tuesday Sheikh Abdullah, leader of Kashmir's self-determina-tion movement, returned from 16 months in exile yesterday and said he would confer with Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, on the future of the state after meeting his colleagues. The
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  • 206 7 Reuter Bangkok, Tuesday.—Asian countries must make a rigorous evaluation of family planning programmes to ensure maximum effectiveness. This was stressed yesterday by U Nyun, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE). U Nyun was opening
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  • 195 7 United Press International Moscow, Tuesday. An anonymous protest letter which circulated through Moscow yesterday urged Russians to strive for higher living standards and political rights as the Poles did in 1970. Moscow sources, who received copies and gave them to newsmen, estimated the crudely-stenciled letters had
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  • 103 7 London, Tuesday It was a lovely moonlight night and Brian Fareley and his wife thought it would be fun to drive out on to the sand to look at the sea at Weston-Super-Mare in South England. It wasn't unui their car began sinking to its hubcaps that
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 403 8 The world-wide work stoppage by international pilots was only a partial success. But it served to draw attention to the need for more concerted action against terrorism in the skies. The pilots' strike symbolised the increasing frustrations and fears of airline workers and companies who have
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 44 8 Rumours were recently flying thick and fast through Europe of a marriage rift between elflnfaced actress, Mia Farrow, and her conductor-hus-band. Andre Previn. So off they went for a week's holiday together —in Iceland. How's that for putting rumours in cold storage?
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    • 37 8 A Jeep swooped suddenly and recklessly into my path the other day and sped away but not before I caught a glimpse of a sticker on its rear. It said, "Courtesy saves life."
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    • 40 8 Yes, it is the devil's printer who has struck again. Offered at a fantastic special clearance sale last week In the column on office equipment was a "Danish male." I wonder if there were any takers.
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  • 1560 8  -  GERALD de CRUZ Events march so rapidly these days that it has taken only a quarter of a century for the bipolar world to emerge with the establishment or the United States and the Soviet Union as nuclear su-per-powers,
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  • Letters
    • 85 8 As far as Block 43, Ballater Close, Singapore 3 Is concerned, the common corridor is a continual and intolerable source of noise pollution with undisciplined children and over-growns screaming and running up and down, playing hide-and-seek and football. This is contrary to what life in HDB
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    • 167 8 Allow me through the courtesy of your columns to pay tribute to the doctors and staff of Ward 5. Thomson Road General Hospital. The zeal and energy with which they execute their duties Is both admirable and touching. Being a surgical ward, where patients are both recuperating
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    • 101 8 Being a part-time student in the private secretarial course of a wellknown commercial Institution, I expected to be allotted a workable typewriter for the recent LCC Private Secretary Certificate Examination but was greatly disappointed to discover mechanical faults from the start. The stand-by mechanic could do nothing
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    • 56 8 The police should quickly take action on gangsters and long haired youths operating around the Jalan Aman and Jalan Tenteram areas. Because of frequent disputes and clashes among them they pose a great danger to the public. They can mostly be found sitting around coffee shops and
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    • 112 8 What is the London Chamber of Commerce (LCC) English (Intermediate) certificate equivalent to? I have a friend who does not qualify for the LCC examination because she only possesses a Secondary Two certificate. In the Pitman's examination she passed the typewriting (Intermediate) examination with a firstclass certificate
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • 3503 9  -  For many years, MALCOLM MacDONALD'S name was synonymous with British colonialism. As Commissioner-General of SouthEast Asia, he met and mixed with the regions nationalist leaders; men who shaped today's South-East Asia. Now 70 and retired, Mac Donald recalls some of those intimate moments and
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  • SHOPPING
    • 846 10 JUST take a peep into any modern home and chances are you will find it tiled. If not the walls also, at least the floor. Nobody really knows when the tiling craze took over but it is now as much a part of the
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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    • 30 10 For fashionable presents and up to date household utensils at moderate prices please call at PHUANG CO. 15, Change Alley (Fixed Price Shop) where the latest designs are always ava.lable
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    • 287 10 THE PURCHASE OF DIAMOND JEWELLERY IS A MATTER OF CONFIDENCE The prospective customer must have implicit trust in the jeweller since there is no fixed rule for standardizing qualities. We offer our customers the assurance they expect. Our jewellery are being manufactured under expert supervision whose experience runs to more
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    • 48 10 FOR THE UNIQUE FOR THE ANTIQUE ALL THAT IS NICE IN A QUAINT WAY That's the description of our Orient Crafts, selected for display to set off and complement the interior decor of any house. If you wish to, we will recommend something suitable for your particular needs.
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  • TREND
    • 639 11  -  Presented by Mary Lee Alexandre, the famous Paris women's hair dresser, said recently: "In whatever country the Duchess of Windsor decides to make her future home, she will bring to it a chic and elegance that no other woman can rival." Paris dress
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    • 408 11 An opportunity to exercise talent with paint and wood home The bathroom must be about the most functional room in any home, yet it is often the least attractive. There's no reason why it should be so deprived of decor —and if you say that one
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    • 205 11  -  Ujwfi®! TAN CHUNG LEE The COBRA pose is a good stretching exercise for the back. Lie on the floor, face downwards, elbows raised, palms flat on the floor, level with the chest and feet stretched out flat as in Picture 1. Inhale deeply, slowly lifting the
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    • 402 11 Hollywood, Tuesday Polly Bergen has her turtle oils. Joan Blondell her stereo videotape stores. Suzanne Pleshette Is queen of bed sheets and now Lana Turner, whom you might associate with sweaters, drugstores or divorce kits, is endorsing a franchised chain of health spas. She
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    • 149 11 London, Tuesday. A woman member of Parliament said today that women appearing in court on motoring offences should be spared the added embarrassment of having to make public their age. Mrs. Doris Fisher, a Labour Party member from Birmingham and herself a magistrate,
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    • 67 11 COFFEE RINSE: When you have some strong black coffee left over, heat it up and strain it down the sink. It will disperse any unpleasant odors such as cabbage or fish. CURLED EDGES: A rug or mat that has curled at the corners can be flattened by putting
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • 229 12 The Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) is helping Singapore timber exporters to set up a central freight booking system. An ECAFE shipping consultant, Mr. Danko Koludrovic, is working with officials of the Timber Export Industry Board and the Singapore Timber
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  • 31 12 Ben Line Containers Ltd. has placed an order worth $350,000 with Hargill Engi neering Co. for the supply of 40 container trailers to be manufactured in Singapore and Malaysia.
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  • 149 12 SUPPORT FOR UNDER EUROPEAN AGREEMENT United Press International London, Tuesday. The French, Belgians and Norwegians were all helping support the pound in foreign exchange markets yesterday. Under the new agreement between the European countries these authorities started to buy sterling to stop it dropping below the pre-determined level in terms
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  • 473 12  -  REMOVAL OF NON-TARIFF BARRIERS URGED By Bharathi Mohan Singapore manufacturers and businessmen who are keen to expand their business in the Japanese consumer market, have called on the South-East Asian Promotion Centre for Trade, Investment and Tourism to look into Japan's non-tariff barriers
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  • 187 12 Happiness is when your customer appreciates your service and sends you a cake as a thank-you gesture. The tellers of the Raffles Quay branch of the First National City Bank had put in extra work to sort out some payroll problem on one of
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  • 274 12 Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday Indonesia, looking to the -future, is switching large areas from rice to sugar growing well before it has reached self-suffici-ency in the food grain. A large importer of sugar in recent years, Indonesia now plans to export some 80,000 tons
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  • 183 12 BUSINESS AND FINANCE There was moderate activity in the share market yesterday. Prices tended to decline in many industrial counters i»artly owing: to profit-taking. Volume in the property section rose to 1.1 million. However, prices were mixed. Fair Lady initially rose to 57 but by evening declined to
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  • 168 12 Reuter London, Tuesday Equities closed firm in quiet trading yesterday with sentiment aided by the dockers' decision to return to work. At 3 p.m. the the Financial Times index was up 7.4 at 500.9. ICI, Courtauld, Glaxo and EMI were higher by up to
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  • 227 12 United Press International New York, Tuesday Investors were on the sidelines yesterday when the stock market closed lowpr in relatively slow trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 selected blue-chip stocks was off more than 3.2 points
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  • 227 12 Allied Chem 29*4 Alcoa 50% Am Brands 46 Am Can 35?, Am Motors AT T 428, A P 7% Anaconda 19% Avon Pd Beth Steel 29% Boeing 21% Caterp Trac 57% Chrysler 29% Coca-Cola 130% Control Data 74% Corn G1 Wks 238% Dow Chem 92% DuPont 167%
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    183 12 Oetz Brothers have appointed Mr. Tan Huay Bene assistant manager, Singapore. Educated at Raffles Institution, Mr. Tan joined Oetz Brothers In 1939 as a junior clerk. He was transferred to the sales force a year later and was appointed sales manager in 1958. In 1965, he became marketing manager
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  • 130 12 The Singapore gold market bounced back to activity today after nearly a week's standstill due to the chaotic conditions in the European gold markets. Gold dealers here received the first official quotations from their suppliers on Saturday at U5562.40 an ounce. Last Tuesday when
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 318 12 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACBOSS 1 Sea—. 7 Moves too slowly. 12 Part of a sailing ship. 14 A set formula. 16 Asker. 17 Awry. 18 Mod's digs. 19 Freeloader. 21 Consume. 22 World War II theatre. 23 Lab lamps. 24 Prepare angel food. 25 Pub game. 28 King, in Spain.
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    • 131 12 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald I GUESS I PON'T HAVE TO TEIL YOU THAT BETTINA HAS SOME PROBLEMS... WELL ...1...1'M hot sure i cam SAY... THAT 15... "N TONY... YOU'RE TALKING TO BETTINA'S MOTHER /ANP FATHER. YOU'RE ASKING THEM TO HELP YOU HELP HER. I THINK THEy OUGHT TO KNOW
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  • 475 14  -  By Lim Kee Chan Kee Bee Khim, the Republic's golfing queen, will be taking her biggest assignment to date when she competes in the 72-hole British Open championship to be held over the Silloth Golf Club course in Cumberland on August 30,
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  • 466 14 London, Tuesday. The Australian cricketers made the best of a rain-hit second day against Essex when they moved into position for a commanding first-innings lead at Ilford yesterday. After showers had caused two earlier interruptions, the rain eventually forced an early close after tea when
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  • 78 14 Manchester, Tuesday Gate receipts for the cricket Test between England and Australia at Old Trafford here were very disappointing, Lancashire County Club secretary Mr. Jack Wood said yesterday. The attendances during the five days of the Test totalled 32,384 and receipts were 18,384 sterling, Mr. Wood said.
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  • 21 14 Burnley United will play a friendly soccer game against Singapore Recreation Club on the padang at 5.15 p.m. today.
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  • 268 14 Tokyo, Tuesday. World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight champion Masao Ohba of Japan, making his fourth title defence, was a slight favourite yesterday to beat challenger Orlando Amores of Panama in their 15-round title match here tonight. Amores, 24, the WBA top ranking flyweight
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  • 452 14  -  H. GOH DEAR SIR: At last the truth about the England trip has been revealed by Mr. Jeffrey Low. So much was said and emphasised by officials and the press about the trip to England before they left, that I felt delighted as a keen
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  • 36 14 Cotonou, Tuesday.—Ghana beat Dahomey 5-0 here yesterday in a World Cup African group two soccer match. Dominating the match, the Ghanaians led 3-0 at half-time. A crowd of nearly 20,000 watched the game.
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  • 549 14  -  By Sonny Yap The centralised training scheme at Changi will be improvised gradually to build up a "pyramid" of sportsmen in preparation for international meets. This will be done by rectifying the faults made in the current 16-day experimental camp at Changi Creek Hotel, and
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  • 412 14  - Big fun ahead for everyone Retnam By Jeffrey Low The National Sports Promotion Board is planning to introduce an elaborate nationwide leisure-and fun sports programme at the end of the year or early next. The plan is aimed at encouraging both sexes of all ages to compete in any sport
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  • 90 14 D.J. Mulholland fired a hole-in-one at the 133yard 17th of the Bukit course during the Singapore Island Country Club "D" medal competition. Mulholland will be given a round trip ticket to Thailand by CPA for his feat which enabled him to finish runner-up bv two strokes to
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  • 384 14 While the athletes were pounding the track at Changi yesterday, a lone figure was making his round and jotting down notes of his observations. He is Mr. Balachandran Pillai, 31, a New Zealandtrained physical educator who has recently been engaged by the National Sports
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  • 93 14 Worthing, England, Tuesday. The International Bowls board has accepted an application from South Africa to stage the next world championships in 1976. The decision was taken at a meeting of the board after the world championships here, which ended on Saturday. Mr. F. Hart, the South
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  • 278 15 By Blue Peter Ipoh, Tuesday Jasmine, a course scratching last Saturday, showed that there was nothing wrong with her by doing an impressive workout on the sand track here this morning. Ridden by Anuar Ismail, the four-year-old strode out attractively over 3f, returning 39 4/5. The going was
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  • 344 15 Follow the horses marked with a ic Red Mink and Midsun led into the straight, with Bintang Timor and Secret Agent closing in. Secret Agent swept past the leaders a furlong out to win unchallenged by two lengths. Bintang Timor finished fast to beat Red Mink for
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  • 489 15 Scrutineer looks at the field for Sunday's Perak Derby Trainer Ivan Allan's Jumbo Jet must have a fighting chance of winning Malaysia's richest race the $51,000 Perak Derby on Sunday despite his top weight of 10.8. Of course he will need to be
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  • 511 15 cominc to crips All serious athletes are faced with the problem of choosing the proper kind of food to be eaten before a contest. The martial artist who is about to enter a freesparring contest also has to face such a situation,
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  • 93 15 Salisbury, Tuesday Australian squash players Geoff Hunt and Ken Hiscoe, the top seeds, had comfortable wins in the quarter-finals of an International tournament here last night. The other two semiflnalists are Philip Ayton of Britain and Sharif Khan of Pakistan. Quarter final results were:
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  • 85 15 London, Tuesday. The English Football Association lifted life suspensions Imposed six years ago on two former league footballers yesterday. The players, Peter Swan and David Layne, were suspended after being convicted of bribery in a soccer scandal. A five-man Football Association met here yesterday to consider
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  • 235 15 London, Tuesday—Wimbledon champion Evonne Goolagong and her fellow Australian John Alexander were voted the best Under 21 tennis players in the world for the second suc cessive year. The result of voting by an international panel of tennis writers was announced here last night. Miss Goolagong
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  • 47 15 Jakarta. Tuesday.—Cambodia's Sea Cheng Eang scored a hattrlck in the second half to single-han-dedly beat Burma 3-0 and gave his team third place in the Jakarta anniversary soccer tournament here last night. The final between Indonesia and South Korea will be played here tonight.
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  • 79 15 Munich, Tuesday. —An anonymous group threatened yesterday to sabotage the Olympics summer games by blowing up the gigantic tent roof spanning the three major venues. In a letter addressed to three major news agencies in Germany, including United Press International, the group said it intended "to destroy the
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  • 31 15 Milwaukee, Tuesday World high Jump record holder Pat Matzdorf cleared 7 feet 1 Inch (12.16 m) to win the event In the State AAU meet at Marquette University Stadium.
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  • 186 15 Miami Beach, Tuesday.— The four leading countries in the World Bridge Olympiad strengthened their positions during the 29th round when all registered wins last night. In the struggle for fourth place, France lost ground to Canada as it was beaten 11-9 by Mexico, while Canada defeated Germany
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  • Back Page TUESDAY
    • 401 16  -  ...IN A WOMAN'S WORLD By Dick West UPI "How does Henry do it?" Someone always asks when Henry A. Kissinger shows up at a party with yet another maddeningly beautiful international sex symbol. The Presidential adviser is a handsome devil, sure. Urbane, sensuous, witty and
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    • 142 16 Today is Tuesday, June 20, the 172 nd day of 1972 with 194 to follow. THE MOON: Between its quarter and full phase. THE MORNING STARS: Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. THE EVENING STARS: Mercury ana Mars. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. American naturalist
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    • 168 16 When young baronet Sir Peter GrahamMoon fell in love with a woman nearly twice his age, money was no object. For he had plenty of it, and she liked spending it, a London court was told recently. In a dizzy two-year whirl together they spent more
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    • 72 16 A burglar nearly froze to death in the deep freeze cabinet refrigerator of a leading restaurant in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. He was searching for delicacies to refresh himself with after his work when a draught closed the door of the refrigerator. It slammed shut and imprisoned him
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    • 57 16 This beautiful pair of legs in an eyecatching pose belongs to 18-year-old Christina Teo, who works as a clerk/typist in a hotel here. She is an ardent stamp collector and a keen movie fan. But she loves travelling most of all. "I travel quite a lot
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    • 117 16 "Ill's nice to see you" is a fairly common greeting, but to Matthew Love, of London, and his family it meant something special. It was, in fact, the first, time he had seen them. Mr. Love, 43, had been blind from birth until a recent
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    • 53 16 AH FOOK: I wasn't going anywhere so 1 wasn't affected, but I think the airline pilots' strike was an ineffective way of fighting hijacking. MEI LIN: Perhaps, but for pilots it was the only way to focus everyone's attention on the danger. After all, they're the people in
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    • 109 16 Young people may take drugs or join violent protest movements because they are being brainwashed by noise. The noise from pop groups, work places and traffic have all reached saturation point and could affect adolescents minds, a doctor has warned in the British Medical Journal. Dr.
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    • 459 16 5 Singapore 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 South-East Asia Indo-China (M—Rpt) 4.15 Peyton Place (Rpt) 5.00 Close 6.00 Opening and Count of Monte Cristo The Islands 6.30 News in Brief 6.40 South-East
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    • 440 16 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are extremely straightforward in your dealings. You think only to tell the facts as they are. the possibilities as you see them, the advantages as they appear to be in your honest opinion even when by so doing you
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