New Nation, 2 August 1972

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  • 17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, August 2, 1972 No. 473 Price 15 cents SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2,1972
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  • 10 1 Police reported 56 accidents yesterday. Four were serious.
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  • 128 1 The share market was moderately active this morning and prices gained marginally. Malaysian Feedmllls appeared in the market today at $2.20 and moved up to $2.31. Haw Par moved from $6.55 to $6.65 to $6.60. Rothmans made 10 cents to $5.15, Sime Darby five cents to $8.30,
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  • 18 1 Today tin was traded at $622 (unchanged), with a turnover of 288 tons (down 14 tons).
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  • 351 1 We'll do all we can* The Singapore Tontine and Chit Fund Companies Association last night decided to back the 22 chit fund companies told by the government to wind up. A spokesman for the association today said: "We will help these companies In every wav
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  • 102 1 Reykjavik, Wednesday. World champion Boris Spassky last night gained a draw in the delayed 9th game of the U*****,000 world chess championship. The US challenger, Bobby Fischer, who offered Spassky the draw after his 29th move and a final exchange of pawns, held on
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  • 270 1  -  Close watch on shipyards and factories By Wee Beng Huat The Central Narcotics Bureau is keeping a close watch on at least two local shipyards after the discovery that workers there have been smoking ganja and taking MX pills. They are also keeping a watch on a
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  • 77 1 Carrying religious images, villagers made through thigh-deep waters in San Jose, north of Manila, in a religious procession, praying for deliverance from the worst floods in the Philippines. As the rains went into the second month, weathermen predicted another two days
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  • 462 1 'Bombing of North must go on' Reuter Saigon, Wednesday South Vietnam's President Thieu has warned that communist forces are planning an assault on Saigon before the United States Presidential elections in November. The attack on the capital. designed for political Impact, would Involve an
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  • 112 1 Dance hostess Mimi Wong, 33, and her estranged husband both under the death sentenced are expected to appeal to the Privy Council against their conviction for murder. Sources said that the lawyers for the couple will soon file an application in the High
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  • 158 1 Reuter London, Wednesday—The tombstone at the entrance of the gentlemen's toilet outside the bar at the King's Head inn near Maidstone had always proved a stumbling block to the clients. So proprietor Dave Keighley dug it up and tossed it out. Now visitors
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  • 216 2  -  Companies registrar is in Singapore By Ng Foo Ngoh Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Chit fund companies in Kuala Lumpur are reporting normal business, despite the Singapore crisis. But almost all the top executives of the companies, which are con- nected to those in the Republic,
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  • 277 2 Seniors as counsellors The University of Singapore's Medical Faculty has devised a new system of orientation for first year students. This method, called the counselling system, was praised by two ASEAN first-year students in the latest issue of a Medical Faculty publication, the Synapse.
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  • 32 2 Washington, Wednesday. —About 61,000 men, 300 ships and 700 aircraft will take part In a gigantic Nato expercise from Sept. 14 to 28, the Supreme Allied Command headquarters announced yesterday.
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  • 92 2 Pig farmers today sent a further 200 normal sized. hogs to Hong Kong. This brings the total number of pigs exported to the British colony to 1560 since a three-month contract was signed last June. She selling price of the pigs, between 160
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  • 71 2 The New Zealand Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall DJ. St. George, will present the Squadron Standard to the No. 41 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force transport squadron, at 5.30 p.m. on August 10. The ceremony will be held at the Tengah
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  • 24 2 Colombo, Wednesday. The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr. Alexel Kosygin, has accepted an invitation to visit Sri Lanka, it was announced here yesterday.
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  • 174 2 Mrs. Teresa Fllmer, a professional pianist and teacher will be the first person to give Singaporeans a taste of "moog" at the FantasiAD Ball at the Hyatt Hotel on August 18. The ball, organised by the Advertisers Association and the Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies, is
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  • 185 2 Mr. Toh Seng Sit, chairman of the Institute of Building, has urged builders to consolidate all their efforts to form a professional institute. Speaking at the anual dinner of the Singapore Polytechnic Building Society, Mr. Toh said: "The business of building in recent years has become
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  • 65 2 There will be no delivery of mail or parcels on National Day. The General Post Office will open for business from 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. on that day. All other post offices will open from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Counter business will be confined
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  • 58 2 No new case of cholera has been reported over, the past nine days, leaving the total number of cases at 103. A further six, people have been discharged from Mlddleton Hospital. A total of 10,190 hawkers and food handlers have been screened for cholera and typhoid
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  • 305 2 When it comes to cooking competitions. Warrant Officer Peter Pickford of the First Royal Highland Fusiliers is one army chef who does not believe that practice makes perfect. And it is this belief which made him the overall winner in the 28 ANZUK Brigade's cooicery
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 124 2 SMEW) Today's winning number *****4 If the last six digits of your Singapore identity card number are those shown above, you can claim a $300 Post Office Savings Bank Gift Voucher. Your voucher will be paid into a Post Office Saving Bank account in your name. Call with your identity
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    • 339 2 Ihrppeiiiiigs WHAT'S ON TODAY Dr. Wu San San, health jfficer, Ministry of Health, will speak on FAMILY PLANNING to the Lions Club (Host) at its luncheon meeting at Cafe Allegro, Goodwood Park Hotel at 1 p.m. Hong Kong opera actor Leong Sin Poh will appear at a CANTONESE OPERA in
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    • 172 2 Sports diary ATHLETICS Achilles meet 5000 m final (Farrer Park 5 p.m.). SOCCER—Pesta International; S'pore v Sri Lanka 7 pjn.); Indonesia 'A' v Philippines (8.30 p.m.); Curtain raiser: North Un-der-12 v South Under 12 (6 p.m.)—all matches at Jalan Besar stadium. Chua Chu Kang tourney semifinals: Tengah Malays v Berseri
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    • 172 2 I weather Temperatures in cities yesterday: Tokyo Hong Kong 1 Manila Kuala Lumpur Taipeh Seoul Bangkok Jakarta Naha London Paris m Moscow New York San Francisco Sydney Melbourne Canberra Perth world 31-24 C 28-25 C 24-22 C 32-23 C 31-23 C 31-22 C 32-26 C 32-24 C 30-25 C 19-15
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  • 245 3 Metrication hit the public with full force last night with the opening of the "Go Metric Campaign and Exhibition" at the People's Park complex. Visitors milled around theexhibits, recording their height, weight and vital statistics in metric units. One man was highly amused to
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  • 150 3 Lanterns will be supplied free to all participants in first-ever night walkathon on August 12 organised by the University of Singapore Students' Union. A union spokesman said: "The purpose is to add colour to the walk and to provide an advance celebration of the
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  • 54 3 The Minister for Home Affairs, Dr. Wong Lin Ken. will present a cheaue of $35,294 to the Council of Social Services at the police senior officers' mess at Mount Pleasant Road at 5 pjn. today. The Cheoue is the proceeds from the charity concert held during
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  • 21 3 The South-East Asian Ceramic Society has given $1000 worth of Sung Dynasty porcelain pieces to the University of Singapore.
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  • 323 3  -  Vital for nation's growth: Minister By Ng Foo Ngoh Kuala Lumpur Wednesday Experts in the various disciplines in Malaysia should hold regular brain-storming sessions to make their collective talents available to the country. "It Is vital that they work together towards national development," said
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  • 56 3 A youth was seriously Injured to a gang clash on Monday night between two rival secret socletay groups at Lorong 103, Geylang. He was warded at the Outram Hospital. The police who arrived at the scene after a 999 call from a member of a
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  • 260 3 Air New Zealand will be the first airline to operate the wide-body DC-10 to Singapore from October next year, says its sales manager for the Orient, Mr. Douglas O. Oauntlett. He said the DC-10 would fly the Auckland-Singapore route on
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  • 327 3 In her piano recital at the Conference Hall last night Miss Margaret Tan cemonstrated that though she plays well enough after warming to the music, she has not yet fully mastered the art of the arresting opening. Just as her codas were usually beautifully Judged,
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  • 135 3 The mobile exhibition of the Family Planning campaign began its three-day run yesterday at the community centre In Buklt Tlmah Avenue from 2.30 pjn. to 10 p.m. The programme consists of a talk and film show at 8 pjn. and the mobile clinic service from 7
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  • 327 3 Want to sail the seven seas on a weatherbeaten yacht? Then join up and cruise the world on the Klaraborg. The 116-ft. Swedish Yacht, skippered by Captain Ove Linner, arrived in Singapore a week ago. The cr»w is inviting local people with a
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  • 247 3 The Lion is good. But not everybody knows that Singapore is the Lion City. So said Mr. Rodney McKnew and Mr. Taft Tong, in explaining the significance of Singapore Airlines' logo of a winged bird in flight. Both men from Walter Landor
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  • 48 3 Mr. Llm Blan Han, 52, the Government Printer. Is now on leave prior to retirement on October 7. Joining the government as an apprentice In 1937, Mr. Llm has served In various departments of the Printing Office. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal in 1963.
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  • In Person
    • 614 4 Conducted by Ruth Moses. Tel: *****1 NANYANG UNIVERSITY was the scene of much hustle and bustle as 850 graduands, distinguished in their long black robes, mortar boards and colourful capes, hurried into the auditorium for their convocation ceremony. One hundred and sixty
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  • 640 4 From the DOG HOUSE By PG The last of the handling classes will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday at the Port Authority Recreation Club at Bukit Chermin, off 3£ m.s. Telok Blangah Road. This is well worth going to see for it
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  • Article, Illustration
    54 4 week's dog for adoption is two-vear--iT d to part with her previous owners when they returned to Encland Spayed and treated for dlstemperVthe honeywabchdog.P<lP OVeS £hUdren and is a good the'sPCA. 7li l ni i, ad 2 P n her P lease call at the SPCA, 151 Orchard
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    • 67 4 •4 DYAN CANNON IF YOU THOUGHT THE SPEEDBOAT CHASE IN "PUPPET ON A CHAIN** WAS EXCITING WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE SPINE-TINGLING CAK CHASE IN "THEBUIGLAKS"! s CALFAN fiENATO SAUIATORt W ENMO MORWCONE Ot HENRI VERNEUH VAHE NATCMA COCO* PANM^SION* —ODEON —i r—CATHAYI (SINGAPORE) I (PENANG) OPENS TOMORROW I HIM.UO,
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  • 570 5  -  How the bogus firms did it By Wee Beng Huat If you own cheque book, you are in for big money. Just write down the figures and sign there are enough gullible businessmen around who will accept them. In just about four months, a group
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  • 184 5 The double decker "London" bus, which has been lying idle for the past three months, will rumble along the roads soon. Presented by Malaysia Singapore Airlines to the National Sports Promotion Board, this more-than-flfty passenger vehicle was re-registered a few days ago
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  • 26 5 The Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress will hold its annual general meeting at the Orchid Room. Shangri La Hotel, on Aug. 26 at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 221 5 Australian-trained designer Miss Mae Lee (right) may have her "most memorable" birthday next month. If all goes well, she will be able to fulfil her cherished dream to meet British singing idol Cliff Richard, when he visits Singapore for performances on Sept.
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  • 36 5 The Chinese YMCA is organising a skin-diving course which will begin at the Queenstown Swimming Pool on August 23 from 7 p.m. The six-session beginners' course will thereafter be held every Wednesday.
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  • 512 5 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday The government should license bona fide travel and tour operators, the manager of a car rental firm said here yesterday. "This action will remove all unethical practices in the tourist industry," said Mr. Kelly Ng. Last week, the secretarygeneral of
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  • 38 5 The Adult Education Board will begin several courses on maintenance and repair of household appliances at four centres Mountbatten, Buklt Ho Swee East School Beatty Inte grated Primary School and Tanglin Integrated Primary School this week.
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  • 29 5 A cake decoration com petition organised by the Tanjong Pagar Community Centre will be held at its Yan Kit Road premises on Aug. 19 at 7 p.m»
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  • 150 5 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday The Ministry of Finance is considering the recent plea by parents to remove taxation on toys. A Ministry spokesman said that the matter had been put before the proper authorities. But It would take sometime before a decision was
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  • 55 5 The Asian Women's Welfare Association will hold a sale of work at Rumah Malaysia in Gallop Road on August 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ten stalls will sell a variety of goods including toys, silk flowers, children's dresses, mosaic work, plants, fresh flowers, books, pickles,
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  • 52 5 The YWCA is organising a Know Your Singapore tour for 70 boys and girls between seven and 12 from August 28 to 30. The programme will include visits to Jurong Bird Park, and several commercial firms and factories. Registration which is open now will close on
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  • 238 5 Chess, not a very popular game here, is now making a good move thanks to the publicity of the Spassky Fischer contest In Reykjavik. Professor Lim Kok Ann, president of the Singapore Chess Federation, said there had been many inquiries lately about chess and shops
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  • 17 5 The Police Band will perform at the Macßltchle Reservoir Park on Sunday from 5.30 p.m.
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  • 258 5 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday—Dr. Tan Chee Khoon will ask the Prime Minister if it is true that Malaysia will not establish diplomatic relations with China until the neutralisation of South-East Asia is guaranteed by the big powers. This is one of the 43 questions Dr. Tan, Pekemas
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 306 5 Quiz object No. 27$ Last Friday's quiz photograph showed an electric bulb. The first prize of $15 goes to Mr. Lim Kim Kwee, a senior social welfare assistant, of Devonshire Road. His entry was the first correct one opened by the Editor last night. The next correct answers from a
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 874 6  -  From Don Shannon Los Angeles Times THE U.N. How much tax-free whisky should a UN delegate be allowed to buy? The question came up at a recent meeting of the UN Committee on Host Country Relations and Mr. Christopher Phillips, deputy US representative,
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    • 1094 6  -  From Robert C. Toth Los Angeles Times AMERICA A little-noticed government suit against an ex-CIA man is under way and could have far greater impact than the Pentagon Papers trial in Los Angeles. A US district court In Alexandria, has
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    • 811 6  -  WARNER'S WORLD iii i From Denis Warner GERMANY Apart from its stained glass windows, which are among the most celebrated in Europe—and, of course, its age—the 13th century Church of St. Dionysius in the centre of the town of Esslingen Southern Germany, doe not appear especially
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    • 618 6 VOICE OF THE PRESS What other newspapers are saying: COLD WAR OVER THE BTRAITS Whether the Straits of Malacca Issue will cause a cold war between the big powers is a question which Is drawing much attention. And, this will be asked In Parliament by Goh Hock Guan,
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  • 251 7 New York, Wednesday.— A chemist who warned last year that exhaust gas from supersonic Jet airliners could break up the earth's shield and let in blinding and even lethal" radiation, was awarded a U*****,000 Federal grant yesterday to see if he is right.
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  • 247 7 Cairo, Wesnesday.—Egynw Übyan Naders jast night ended a second da y of talks about the unltln S their countries in a "revolutionary union," Libya Radio The talks—which started on Monday in Tobruk and continued yesterday in Benghazi—between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Libyan
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  • 444 7 Spending will be doubled in defence build-up Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday The Defence Agency yesterday announced a new plan calling for Japan's military spending to be more than doubled In the fourth five-year defence buildup programme starting this year. The plan called for an outlay of about $440,000
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  • 311 7 Reuter London, Wednesday Roger Moore last night picked up Sean Connery's gun and from now on will battle Britain's enemies as secret agent 007 James Bond. Moore, 43, was named to star in Live And Let Die, the next of the lan Fleming novels to
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  • 397 7 Madrid, Wednesday—The captain of a United States airliner which landed in Barcelona yesterday on its way home after being hijacked to Algiers said the American black hijack gang wanted to join Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver. The hijackers, brandishing pistols and revolvers, repeatedly said
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  • 249 7 United Press International Washington, Wednesday The alleged hijackers of a Jetliner to Algeria were practitioners of occultism who left behind a bizarre voodoo grave symbolising the "death of white society." The five black adults, accompanied by three small children, left unmistakable signs of their mystical lifestyle behind
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  • 323 7 Washington, Wednesday. Columnist Jack Anderson, acknowledging he had damaged Senator Thomas Eagleton's vice-presiden-tial chances by reporting he had been arrested several times for drunken driving, retracted his story yesterday after a 45-mlnute meeting with the Senator. "I think the story did damage to the Senator
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  • 71 7 Madrid, Wednesday—The death toll in a landslide near Cedilo rose to eight last night as rescuers called a halt until today in the search for three more workers believed to be lying under tons of rock. The men were buried when the landslide late Monday night
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  • 292 7 United Press International Phnom Penh, Wednesday Delegates to the 12th council meeting of the Asian Parliamentarians' Union (APU) wound-up their two-day session yesterday with the adoption of a joint communique calling for closer unity among Asians and for the rapid formation of an Asian Economic
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  • 202 7 Washington, Wednesday. —The flood situation on Luzon island in the Philippines is worsening rapidly and several dams are in danger of collapsing because of continued heavy rain, the State Department said yesterday. Spokesman John King said the U.S. government was urgently reviewing its aid for the
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  • 315 7 Reuter Peking, Wednesday—The airliner carrying China's former Defence Minister, Lin Piao, in his attempt to escape to the Soviet Union last September, crashed 400 miles inside Mongolia because the pilot lost his way, according to diplomats in Peking who are in touch with
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  • 60 7 New Delhi, Wednesday. The Indian Lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha) yesterday overwhelmingly approved by voice-vote the Simla agreement concluded last month by Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gapd/i and Pakistan's President Bhutto. The house approved a motion which expressed deep appreciation of the initiative which
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  • 38 7 Bogota, Wednesday Four children between the age of eight and 14 were electrocuted ye st e r day when they tried to move a fallen power cable in a field outside the western Colombian city of Cali.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 192 7 Philips RH79O Electronic: A technical triumph in the art of High Fidelity. This sophisticated Hi-Fi AM/FM Stereo Tuner-Amplifier, designed for you by Philips electronics experts, unleashes 120 watts peak power with professional performance standards. Cash $795 Electronic touch-control panel tunes instantly and accurately to any of 4 pre-selected FM stations.
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  • 424 8 Operation Dawnbuster may go down into the Sandhurst records as a quick clean job but that may yet turn out to be its greatest significance. The logic of the British Army's crackdown on Irish terrorists is the line of thinking which landed the Americans
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 173 8 The whole city of Exeter last week knew whose writing was on the walls. Keith Chapman, enraged that his girlfriend had given him the brush-off, painted apSeals all round town for er to come back. Chapman's painting spree cost him a $144 fine plus an $256 bill for
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    • 144 8 The Merdeka Cup fever last Saturday was just too much for Kuala Lumpur. Quests at a wedding reception (attended by a colleague) kept congratulating the bride and bridegroom tor having selected an "auspicious" day on which Malaysia was to play Korea for the trophy. And while the food
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    • 36 8 A roadside hawker in Raffles Place displays a bold sign over his somewhat soiled wares: "National Day special sale." A big furniture manufacturer offers reduced prices to "celebrate Singapore's seventh National Day." Patriotism—or commerciallism?
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  • 750 8  -  DICK WILSON Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, in a recant article In the Sunday Times of London, writes sanguinely about the prospects for the neutralisation of SouthEast Asia. In an article on Chinese foreign poiicy he refers to the allegation that Peking
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  • Letters
    • 347 8  -  WAN FOOK KEE Ag. Dy. Director of Medical Science (Health), Public Health Division, Singapore, 2. I refer to the letter by Doctor headlined More views on Cholera (NN, July 20). The current outbreak of cholera la food-borne and there is strong evidence to indicate that the
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    • 54 8  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of National Development, Singapore, 2. With reference to the letter by Leo (NN, July 19) the uneven section of Upper Thomson Road near Soo Chow Garden Road was rectified on July 18. The Public Works Department will carry out rectification
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    • 98 8  -  S.B. Will the authorities concerned please light up Jalan Bahar to safeguard soldiers attached to Camp in and residents from being mugged or knocked down by passing vehicles at night? Will they also extend service 206 to Queen Street via Jurong Road or Shenton Way via Jurong
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    • 101 8  -  CHAN LOY CHAN (Miss) Public Relations office. Public Health Division. Singapore, 3. I refer to the letter by Ped-Up (NN, July 10) con- cerning mosquito nuisance and overgrown vegetation at Lorong Santan and Lorong Loyak. The place referred to was found to be overgrown with vegetation and
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    • 50 8  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of National Development, Singapore, 2. With reference to the letter from Citizen (NN, July 21) the unauthorised structure referred to therein has been removed by the demolition squad of the Building Control Division. Citizen's co-operation in this matter is most appreciated.
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    • 60 8  -  CHAN LOY CHAN (Miss) Public Relations Officer. Public Health Division. Sinfapore. 3. I refer to the letter by Worried Householder (NN, July 22) concerning overgrown vegetation at Jalan Lengkok. It would be appreciated if your correspondent could furnish details to the undersigned c/o Princess House, Alexandra Road,
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    • 104 8 I am an average student preparing for an important exam at the end of the year. I find it difficult to concentrate on my studies in the evening due to noise pollution caused by the people living upstairs. The booming noise which irritates me every evening between
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    • 62 8  -  CHAN LOY CHAN (Miss) Public Relations Officer, Public Health Division, Singapore, 3. With reference to the letter by Clean Singaporean (NN, July 13) concerning the condition of the drain at 64 m.s. East Coast Road, action has been taken to partly uncover the drain to facilitate regular
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    • 79 8  -  LIM HENG TOW Public Relations Officer, BTS, Singapore, 11. I refer to Soccer Fan's letter (NN, July 25). His complimentary remarks on our telecast of special soccer matches are appreciated. We shall be telecasting the semi-flnal and final of the European Nations championship matches on August 20 and
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    • 67 8  -  TOK TEIK ENG Hill Street was resurfaced more than a week ago but so far traffic lanes have not been drawn. It is becoming a common sight to see motorists turning left into Coleman Street in spite of the traffic light showing red thinking that they are
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • THE RUNAWAYS
    • 2281 9  -  Children who disappear from home probe by Tan Chung Lee I spoke to several runaway youngsters who had decamped from home. Here then are their stories. (Fictitious names have been used to protect their identities). Danny was 17 when he ran away. For four months
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    • 1614 9 After getting the stories from the runaway youngsters, I spoke to several parents to get their side of the story. (Their names used here are all fictitious). Mr. Kim belongs to what one can describe as a mid-dle-income to upper mid-dle-income class background. He and
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  • SINGAPORE AIRLINES
    • 451 10 Friendly, efficient and courteous service will be the hallmark of Singapore Airlines when it takes off on October 1. Special emphasis will be placed on providing quality service to the customers when SIA trains Its new staff to man Its offices throughout the major cities of
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    • 1494 10  -  All set to take off for new horizons By Edgar Koh Reputations are continually made and lost, said Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew when he spoke about the newlyborn Singapore Airlines recently. "Within a matter of months," he said, "we can either enhance the
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    • 549 11 In about a year's time Singapore Airlines fleet of Boeings will be Joined by two Jumbos Boeing-747s—to place it in the forefront of the travel industry. It will be tne third Asian airline to Introduce the Boeing-747 Into service. The other two Asian
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    • 487 11  -  Bjr Mary Lim When the modified sarong kebaya of a Balmaln batik print was first introduced in 1968 as the uniform of MSA's stewardesses, it met with a mixed reception. Some thought the shape the new sarong kebaya took was too loose to be flattering
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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    • 38 10 SHARP TRAVEL SERVICE Extends to SINGAPORE AIRLINES Hearty Congratulations and Best Wishes for Longlasting and Successful Operations with effect from Ist October 1972 Sharp Travel Service Maritime Building Telephone: *****-5-6 FOR ALL YOUR AIR AND SEA TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 69 11 Congra filiations to FROM ASIA TRAVEL SERVICE PTE LTD. 23, JOHN LITTLE'S BUILDING SINGAPORE 1. TEL: T7600, *****, *****, *****2 ONE OF THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED TRAVEL AGENCIES IN SINGAPORE AND A MEMBER OF THE McALISTER GROUP OF COMPANIES. WITH HIGHLY COMPETENT STAFF AND PERSONNEL TO HANDLE ALL ASPECTS OF TRAVEL
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    • 60 11 Congratulations to Singapore Airlines from Mansfields Travel Phoenix Building, 11 Palmer Road, Singapore. Tel: *****6 Liat Towers, Orchard Road, Singapore. Tel: *****3, *****7, *****7 Loke Yew Building, Kuala Lumpur. Tel: ***** Chartered Bank Chambers, Penang. Tel: ***** UAPtAN AIR LINES worldwide airline of Japan JAL wish Singapore Airlines every success
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  • TREND
    • 674 12  -  TRISH SHEPPARD Trying to find a woman artist in Singapore is like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. Why are there comparatively so few woman artists both here and all over the world? It was to talk about this and other related
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    • 138 12 Many young women in Singapore Mem to hovo abandoned the slinky sexy look in favour of smocks which smack of coyness and have plenty of room for comfort. There's never any rationale behind what women want, really. If you'vo been hesitant about throwing your shapa to
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    • 478 12  -  The ornate Chineee cage ie a fine work of art antiques MAGGI KOH A Robin redbreast in cage Puts all heaven in a rage So wrote the poet Blake, but millions of bird fanciers for thousands of years would have disagreed with him. As so
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    • 315 12 pattern Midriffs are on show again, and here's a comfortable two-piece to wear for the beach or at home. Trace out bodice blocks back and front to waist line. Measure down to under bust the required length for bodice, 29 cm. to 32 cm.
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    • 119 12 A group of housewives, working women and University of lowa coeds here have declared war on rapists. Prompted by three rapes, two attempted rapes and three other assaults on women in the last three weeks, Women Against Rape (WAR) was founded at the University of lowa
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  • Commerce and Finance
    • 391 12 London, Wednesday Gold was being traded in London and Paris last night at over US$7O an ounce the highest price that even the most hardened speculators have ever been prepared to pay for the precious metal. The new price a rise of
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    • 178 12 Reuter London, Wednesday. The market closed narrowly higher yesterday and at 3 p.m. the Financial Times index was up 1.8 at 508.9. Sentiment was still aided by efforts to settle the dock strike and hopes that yesterday's talks between the industry and the government on
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    • 126 12 United Press International New York, WednesdayHenry Kissinger's trip to Paris for secret Vietnam peace talks brought some investors off the sidelines yesterday and pushed prices higher in moderate trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 selected blue-chip stocks
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    • 172 12 Allied Ctoem Alcoa Am Brands Am Can 33 AT St T 41% A 4 P Anaconda 17% Beth Steel 28% Boeing 21% Caterp Trac 62% Chrysler 32% Coca-Cola 147 Cont Oil Control Data Corn G1 Wks 238% Dow Ctoem 90% DuPont E Kodak 138% Ford Mot Gen
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    • 53 12 Colombo, Wednesday—Sri Lanka has negotiated 250 million rupees ($lO5 million) worth of aid from five Socialist Bloc countries for public sector projects, Industry Minister Tiklri Banda Subaslnghe said yesterday. The aid for Bri Lanka industries will come from the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia,
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    • 36 12 Tokyo, Wednesday Mitsubishi, Japan's greatest industrial and financial conglomerate, will send a seven-man mission to China in mid August. The group will include Mr. Shigeichi Koga. president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
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    • 33 12 Paris, Wednesday The state-run airline Air France, which has just ordered four supersonic Concorde airliners, operated at a loss of 28.5 million francs ($l6 million) last year, it was announced yesterday.
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    • 252 12 As expected and feared, profit clipping brought down the pr'ces of many industrial counters. But this d'd not dampen spirits. Activi'y continued at a high pitch. Total turnover reached a peak of four million shares valued at $10 million. Fitzpatrick came under profittaking pressure and went down from
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 444 13 NEW NATION CLASSIFIEDS PHONE 3744Q8 '20% A .WORD ANNOUNCEMENTS THE SINCLAIR SCHOOL of Dancing at the St. Andrew's Cathedral Hall. Term Begins 4th Sept. Classes in Ballet and Scottish Highland Dancing. Enquiries: Florrie Sinclair ***** 696. SWISS SALON'S BEAUTY SHOP at Liot Towers for lotest hairstyling, tinting ond perms By
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    • 501 13 SPRAY FAINTING, REPAIRING. servicing, oirconditioners and refrigerators at customer's houses. Reasonable charges. Telephone: *****9 S'pore. NEW SPECIAL SPRAY-PAINT-•NG, repair and installation airconditioners, refrigerators at customer house reasonable charge Telephone: *****. SEWING MACHINES sale/rental/ service. Contact Hong Huat Store 389 Balestier Road Singapore 12 Telephone: *****. WING SENG MOTOR WORKS Specialists
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    • 548 13 EXPERT LONDON TUITION by air-Low; LL.B. Bar; Secretaryship; ACIS; Accountancy: ACCA. ICWA, A.I.A. Institute of Credil Management Bonking; A.1.8.: School Certificate, KS.C. LCC: Marketing—The Rapid Results College. Dept. YFlo, P.O. Box 3173, S'pore. BOOK-KEEPING BEGINNER'S CLASS COMMENCING: 15th August, 1972 DAYS/TIME: Tuesdays Thursdays/Saturdays 8.00 o.m. 9.00 a.m. Please Apply CITY
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    • 540 13 LOST 2 FRENCH PASS-POUTS in taxi from airport to Hilton on 31/7/72 at about 11.15 p.m. Finder please contact Comex Tel: *****3 or Hilton Hotel. Reward. LADY'S OMEGA WATCH of sentimental value along Robinson Road on 31.7.72 Reward. Finder, Tel: *****3 S'pore. MACHINERY HEAVY EQUIPMENT TONG GUAM (MACHINERY TOOLS) ft
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    • 541 13 NAM-HO TItAVIL SCRVICI Liimted, Tour Malaya Seven Days S$ 110/-, air-conditioned Bus Ssl3s/-, Departure Every Sunday, Monday. C/Highlands Four Days Ss7o/-, Every Wednesday. Pangkor C/Highlonds Five Days Ss9o/-, Every Tuesday. Bangkok Chiengmai by Train 14-days, by air-conditioned Bus 15-days Ss37o/-, 6/8/72, 20/8/72, 11/9/72, 24/9/72, 2/10/72, 12/11/72, 22/11/72, 2/12/72, 10/12/72. Bangkok
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    • 521 13 1970 CORTINA 1600 E. One owner since Sept. '70. Original condition Tape. Grey with black vinyl top. $6,990/-. Univeatal Cars, 45 Orchard Rood, Tel; *****1. MAZDA 1500 STATIONWAOON August 1970 model excellent condition with airconditioner, 4 new Michelin-X tyres. Contoct Mr. Chan Tel: ***** S'pore. CAPRI 1600 GTL model and
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    • 273 13 APPOINTMENTS SINGAPORE invite applications for the post of LIQUOR SALES REPRESENTATIVE Job: To promote our range v»f liquor in hotels, clubs, restaurants, bars and supermarkets. Qualifications: Applicants must have experience in the liquor trade and have good connections with the above outlets. Must possess own transport. Must be Singapore citizen.
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  • 1146 14  -  PESTA i FOOTBALL TO FOCUS 0N... SOCCER SffNE WITH JEFFREY LOW Attention will be mainly focussed on Indonesia and Japan during the week-long second Pesta Sukan tournament which opens at Jalan Besar tonight. Indonesia, the Jakarta Anniversary champions, have come with a fresh band that includes
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  • 101 14 London, Wednesday The English Football League yesterday fined First Division champions Derby County £5,000 for a breach of regulations during the club's attempts last season to sign England international forward lan Moore. Derby announced publicly last March that they had signed Moore, a highlytalented player who had been
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  • 73 14 Inche Shaarl Tadin was unanimously re elected as President of the Singapore Amateur Cycling Associa tlon at the annual general meeting yesterday. Other officials are: Vice Presidents E.O. Thompson, Chong Suan Sek. Ng Teck Phew. Kua Chin Swee, Tan Eng Yoon; sec retary G.I. Balasund ram; assistant secretary
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  • 32 14 Dr. Augustine H.H. Tan, Member of Parliament for Whampoa, will open the third Tan Hui Heng Cup table tennis tournament at the Jalan Tenteram Community Centre today at 8 p.m.
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  • 110 14 City district schools' champs. TOP LEFT: Loh Nin Kwang of St. Joseph's Institution backstroking to victory in the 100m backstroke in the City District Schools swim championships at River Valley yesterday. Loh clocked 1:20.0. ABOVE: Yeoh Saw Han of Raffles Institution competing in the 100m breast
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  • 308 14  -  By M. Param Five foreign and three local teams will participate in the first invitation softball championship, to be held at Jalan Besar stadium from August 17 to 20. The championship is organised by the Singapore Softball Association to coincide with Pesta Sukan.
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  • 226 14 United Press International Manila, Wednesday. The National Olympics committee (NOC) yesterday scrapped the Munich-bound Philippine basketball team and to earmark the team's funds for donation to flood victims. At the same time, the committee approved the sending of a Philippine contingent to the Munich Games
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  • 434 14 Salim Denin, veteran Indonesian World Cup golfer, shot a final round 76 yesterday for a total of 289 to win, the first Indonesian professionals versus Singapore Caddies mini open championship at the Singapore Island Country Club new course. Playing coolly under the blazing sun, Salim
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  • 69 14 The organisers of the BP Rally are looking for 60 volunteers to marshal the event from August 25-27. The 1200-mile event will start simultaneouslv in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang at 3 p.m. The finishing point is the Federal Hotel In Kuala Lumpur. All those who are Inte
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  • 41 14 Tokyo, Wednesday.— The resitits of yesterday's Japanese professional baseball fames: Central League Yomiuri 9 Hiroshima fi Yak alt It Chunk hi a Taiyo S Hanshln a Pacific League Nishitetsu S Hank™ Nankal 4 Toel l Kintetsu 5 Lotte 4
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 145 14 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald sfc CAPTAIN... AS A PRECAUTION CAN I 6»VE EVER/ f&SSENGER ANP MEMBER OF THE CREW AN ATROPINE. TABLET... PROVIDED I HAVE ENOUGH OP THEM? ILL ANNOUNCE THAT WE ANTICIPATE UNUSUAL J TURBULENCE AHEAP > ANP THAT THESE TABLETS, WILL PREVENT AIR J SICKNESS. I HOPE
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  • 429 15 ;From Blue Peter *in Kuala Lumpur Rina showed good form in a workout here tfcis morning. Ridden by Wadi Ahmad, the Neron eight year old strode out fluently over 3f in 38 3/5. Rina Who finished on board in both her starts at Penang
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  • 99 15 Results of the Ulu Pan dan Community Centre an nual national dav table tennis league competition completed yesterday: Under 16 singles: 1 Tan Pang Siew 2 Low Yip Oi 3 Ngin Tai Kiat: doubles 1 Kwee Koh Hong and Low Yip Oi 2 Ng Choon Tiong and
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  • 103 15 London, Wednesday. Harvey Smith, the controversial rider originally left out of Britain's equestrian team for the Munich Olympics, was drafted Into the squad by selectors yesterday. Smith, who will ride Summertime in Munich later this month, was called up in place of Alison Dawes whose horse,
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  • 61 15 Munich, West Germany, Wednesday. The organising committee of the Olympic Games has invited delegations of observers and journalists from China to attend the Olympic Games here later this month, a spokesman for the committee said yesterday. He said Herr Willi Daume, president of the committee, had been
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  • 298 15 London, Wednesday. Kenya's athletics squad for the Munich Olympics Games poses a threat to the world in every running event from the 400 metres upwards, former British international athlete Bruce Tulloh has predicted here. Tulloh, European 5000 metres champion in 1962, assessed Kenya's Olympic chances in
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  • 57 15 Kota Kinabalu. Wednesday Malaysia hopes to secure at least a quarter final berth in the Olympics soccer championships in Munich next month, team manager Harun Idris said yesterday. Despite Malaysia's 12 defeat to South Korea in the Merdeka tournament, the team was eaual or bet ter than South
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  • 69 15 Hempstead, New York, Wednesday Joe Namath yesterday became the highest paid player In pro tootball history when he signed a two-year, US$5OO,OOO contract with the New York Jets. The announcement of the contract, agreed upon late Monday night after months of negotiation by Jets owner
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  • 464 15 London, Wednesday. Off Spinner Jack Simmons dismissed Yorkshire's last man Chris Clifford with the third ball of the final over to give Lancashire victory by an innings and 34 runs in the English county cricket championship match at Manchester yesterday. It
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  • 60 15 London, Wednesday. Maverick, owned by Dick Thirlby of Britain, won the Britannia Cup race over 31 miles in the Royal Yacht squadron regatta at Cowes yesterday. Maverick won the race three hours 46 minutes 46 seconds ahead of two other British entries, Noryema Vin, owned by Ron
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  • 101 15 Nicklaus still top of table New York, Wednesday.— Jack Nicklaus, who missed last week's national team championships because of an Infected finger, still holds a big lead in the 1972 United States golf tour earnings table with US$lB6,051. Lee Trevino and Jerry Heard, are second and third respectively, fl. VELU
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  • 42 15 Moscow, Wednesday Results of Soviet first-division soccer matches played yesterday: Dynamo Kiev 4 Spartak Moscow 1; Dynamo Tbilisi 2 Ararat Yerevan 1; Torpedo Moscow l Dynamo Moscow 4; Arya Voroshilovgrad 3 Neftchl Baku 0; Dniper Dnepropetrovsk 0 Karpaty Ivov 0.
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  • 275 15 London, Wednesday—England fast bowler John Snow yesterday became the latest player to pull out of the MCC cricket tour of India. Pakistan and Ceylon from November this year to March 1973. Snow said in a newspaper article that when he visited Pakistan in 1968-69
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  • 309 15 Mrs. Jane Tan left this morning to Join her husband Tan Llan An who is representing Singapore in the Asian Zone Chess Championship in Hong Kong. Jane will be a great help to Tan who lives on his nerves during a tournament and
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  • 485 15 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Wednesday. Plucky Bob Lutz fought off two match points to upset topseeded John Newcombe of Australia, 4 6, 6-1, 7 -6, yesterday in an openinground match of the US$5O, 000 professional tennis championships. The little Californian, down 0-2 in the decisive (12-point) tie
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  • 506 15  -  chess By LIM KOK ANN The ninth game ended In a tame draw when chances for both sides fizzled out on the 29th move. Spassky was content to show that he can hold the American juggernaut, and Fischer could do nothing against the Russian's deft weaving.
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  • 63 15 Lahore, Wednesday—The Pakistan hockey team will play three unoffic'al Tests against the Netherlands and Poland this month In their final Dreparatlon for the Munich Olympic Games. Team manager Ghulam Rasool Choudhry said yesterday that the matches in Holland would be played on August 6, 8 and 10. They
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 276 15 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Moistens. 5 Footnote term. 9 Leading man. 14 Hanging unevenly. 15 Thick tresses. 16 Nantes' river. 17 Pancakes. 19 City near Rotterdam. 20 Third word of "America. 21 Relatives of ids. 22 Authority on heredity. 23 Purloined. 25 London hairdresser item. 26 Literary monogram. 27
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  • Back Page WEDNESDAY
    • 471 16  -  AND IT'S FUN SHOPPING IN THE RUSH UNTIL... By Wee Beng Huat Cheap is a relative word. So too is the term Cheap Sale which actually means "cheaper in this shop but not necessarily elsewhere." Still, the sign Cheap Sale is the number-one
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    • 146 16 Today is Wednesday, August 2. the 21bth day of 1972 with 151 to follow. THE MOON: In its last quarter. THE MORNING STARS: Venus and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS: Mercury, Mars and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. American playwright, Marion Crawford was
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    • 47 16 MEI LIN: So Senator Eagleton quits the race. Shows you how powerful public reaction can be. AH FOOK: The point is it won't make much difference who Senator McGovern runs with. Seems to me President Nixon and Vice-President Agnew have got the election sewn up.
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    • 72 16 The world's teeter-totter championship is now the property of two teenaged Corpus Christl, Texas, girls. On Monday 15-year-old Priscilla Wittman and 14-year-old Karen Jones, passed the 132 nd consecutive hour of teeter-tottering on a canopy shaded seesaw. That surpassed the old mark held by two Tacoma, Washington,
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    • 64 16 Dorothy Leong, 18, is a serious and quiet type although she works in the Chatterbox Coffee House in Mandarin Hotel. "In three year's from today I hope to be an air hostess," she said determinedly. Meanwhile Dorothy does a lot of reading and
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    • 521 16 Los Angeles Times Want to buy a brand new hippopotamus for US$5OO? Or a battered old police car for US$2O? How about 500,000 brick cobblestones at a bargain rate? If your shopping tastes run to such peculiar extremes, get in touch with Marvin
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 482 16 5 Siigapore 3.00 Opening and Housewives' Matinee Lover in Dream (Cantonese film, Pt. 1) 3.45 A Diary of Events in Singapore this Week (C) 3.50 Persembahan Ku: Ed Salim 4.05 Days of Our Lives 4.45 Close 6.00 Opening and Hat, Stick and Cloak 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 What Others
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    • 574 16 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you possess an alert and penetrating Intelligence In combination with the kind of executive ability that should take you to the top of your chosen profession in relatively short order. Intuitive and psychic—as well as an Inquisitive and highly successful
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