New Nation, 14 September 1972

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  • 16 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, September 14/1972 No. 510 Price 15 cents SINGAPORE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1972
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  • 134 1 The share market opened this morning to bouts of heavy selling and selective trading. Prices were generally easier. Heavy selling was evident in City Development, which fell eight cents to $1.63 and Singapore Hilton which dropped 13 cents to $1.46. Slme Darby eased 15 cents to $7.40,
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  • 13 1 Police reported 62 accidents yesterday. Six were serious and two fatal.
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  • 61 1 Rome, Thursday A 28-year-old West German woman who stripped naked and paraded on the sculpture of Rome's famous Trevl Fountain has been granted provisional liberty, pending trial proceedings. Kamen Kleckhofer. of Frankfurt, said she stripped to attract the attention of such Italian cinema names as Sophia
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  • 512 1 Arabs vow revenge Bonn, Thursday West Germany last night announced plans to form a special counter-terrorist police unit as Arab guerrillas threatened revenge for the slaying of five of tfceir members in Munich last week. Interior Minister Mr. Wan* Dietrich Genscher told a news conference
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  • 702 1  -  Rates cut to below break-even point, says Goodwood boss By S.V. Suppiah, Francis Rozario The Goodwood Park Hotel's profits for the year ending September 1971 suffered "a marked drop"—the outcome of "the most extreme cut-throat competition among hotels In Singapore," according to Goodwood group's
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  • 334 1  -  By V.K. Chin Kuala Lumpur. Thursday Three more schoolboys have survived the Parit Bun tar ferry tragedy In Perak. The boys—Lee Soo Bu, 17, Lee Khol Thye, 18, and Loh Joo Koi, 13—managed to swim ashore after the Incident. They went home without telling anyone. Their
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  • 397 1 Reuter Jerusalem, Thursday Israel Is planning a long-term campaign on a broad front, possibly on foreign soil, to forestall spectacular new Arab guerrilla attacks which it expects to be launched in Europe and elsewhere. Informed Israeli sources said here yesterday a decision to
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  • 187 1 Reuter London, Thursday King of Morrocco decrlbed In a television Interview shown here last night how the pilot of his airliner saved from an assassination attempt by a piece of cool bluff* Air force Jets opened fire on the king's airliner when
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  • 21 1 Athens, Thursday. A strong tremor shock Greece yesterday but police said there was only light damage and no casualties.
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  • 92 1 Oslo, Thursday Troops, planes and warships of the Nato alliance today begin one of their biggest war games In the northern Atlantic with a display of military power aimed at deterring any communist aggression. Like the big communist Warsaw Pact manoeuvres which started In Czechoslovakia
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  • 52 1 Lusaka. Thursday. Zambia last night ordered a general call up of aU Lusaka-based members of the country's Home Guard. The government said units of the armed forces would work with sections of the ruling United National Independence Party (UNIP) to light crime, Internal enemies and their
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  • 48 1 Los Angeles, Thursday.— Reconstructive surgery on entertainer Ann Margret was reported successful today, but It was not known bow her fractured kneecap would respond to the operation. Ann Margret was Injured on Monday when a platform tilted, dropping her 90 feet (9m) to the floor.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 254 2 A computer specialist in Nanyang University today suggested that the government should set up a centralised computer centre for the teaching of com puter science In pre uni verslty classes. In an Interview with New Nation. Prof. Hsu Loke 800, director of Computer Centre
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  • 28 2 Mr. Ang Nam Plau, member of Parliament for Thomson will officiate at the badminton closing ceremony at Thomson Road Community Centre on Sunday at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 202 2 The Singapore Tontine and Chit Funds Association is confident that the government will allow solvent chit fund companies to continue with their business soon, a spokesman said today. He based his optimism on two points the presence of the Chit Funds Act and
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  • 332 2 Student counselling services, a dire necessity for the full development of the individual student, will be one of the important features of the Catholic Junior College. This was disclosed by Father Joseph Foley, the principal designate of the college, who Just arrived In Singapore,
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  • 32 2 Mr. Chua Slan Chin, Minister for Health, will officiate at the big walk organised by the management committee of MacPherson community centre at its premises on Sunday at 8.30 a.m.
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  • 57 2 It was back to meet his constituents of Kampong Glam for the Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Rajaratnam. last night —his first session since the recent general elections. He listened attentively to all 30 people who came to see him for their problems. Their
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  • 73 2 SAF engineers will carry out demolition works off the end of Woodfied Road in Naval Base, near the coast of the Johore Straits, from Saturday to Sept. SO. Daily 'firing times will be from 9 ajn .to 12.30 p.zA. and 1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. A long
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  • 217 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday.—The Malaysian Government is to set up a drug rehabilitation centre in the General Hospital here. This is to combat the escalating abuse of drugs, especially in urban areas, the Seiangor Officer in Charge of Secret Societies, x ajuddin Ahmad, told
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  • 235 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday —Students should be allowed to have a say in university and college administrations, says Dr. Chandra M. Gulhati, 30, director of Asian programmes in the International Institute of Educational Studies. •The majority of students all over the world are above
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  • 28 2 Jakarta, Thursday.—lndonesia and Singapore today signed an agreement on co-operation between their airlines Garuda and the Singapore Airlines (SIA). Contents of the pact were not disclosed.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 117 2 I weather Temperatures in cities yesterday: Manila Taipeh Bangkok Seoul Tokyo Jakarta Hong Kong Kuala Lumpur Naha London Paris Moscow New York Sydney Melbourne Canberra Perth world 30 23C 35-24 C 33-26 C 26-17 C 25-18 C 33-25 C 32-27 C 29-22 C 33-25 C 16-11 C 17- 7C 26-10
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    • 513 2 HRPPEnincs WHAT'S ON TODAY Mr. T. GulabraL vice president of the Singapore Theosophlcal Society, will give a talk on R£LIGION IN PRACTICE, at 8 Cairnhill Road, at 7 p.m. The Singapore Artists Association will hold the MOON CAKE VARIETY SHOW at the National Tneatre. The PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION, organised by the
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    • 158 2 Tides Today: 1.56 p.m. (2.6 m). Tomorrow: 3.01 a.m. (2 m), 2.29 p.m. (2.4 m). Saturday: 3.59 a.m. (1.8 m), 3.13 p.m. (2.3 m). Sunday: 5.54 a.m. (1.7 m), 4.17 p.m. (2.1 m). Monday: 8.36 a.m. (1.8 m), 6.01 p.m. (2 m). Tuesday: 9.12 a.m. (2 m), 7.48 p.m. (2.2
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  • 190 3 The police will continue to make regular checks on local bars to ensure that they are properly lit and have satisfactory seating arrangements, a police spokesman said today. He was commenting on 13 bars being told by the chairman of the Liquors
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  • 136 3 Two policemen will be stationed nightly at the Orchard Road car park to ensure that the hawkers and taxidrivers there abide by traffic rules, a police source said today. The source said that the policemen would not hesitate to nook any hawker or
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  • 69 3 Hawkers' licence fees can be paid at the mobile collection unit, at the following markets during October: Clyde Terrace, Seng Poh Road, Maxwell Road, Bukit Ho Swee (Beo Crescent), Bukit Ho Swee (Phase 4), Oelyang Serla, MacPherson, Upper Serangoon; Rayman Estate, St. Michael's Estate, Orchard Road, Kallang
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  • 419 3 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Hotels will have to pay a cess from next year, the chairman of the Tourist Development Corporation, Inche Burhanuddin bin Mohamed Saman Rais, said here. "The cess from the hotels will be one of the major sources of revenue
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  • 295 3 The new registration system for primary one students has been hailed as a welcome change from the nightmares of past years. Several principals today reaffirmed their support for the new system on the whole it is much orderly, better and fairer to all concerned.
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  • 57 3 Mr. R. C. Benham, International Labour Organisation expert on accounting management, will speak on the role of management training and consultancy in relation to small and medium-sized business in Singapore at the Automobile Association restaurant on Saturday at 1.15 pjn. The talk Is organised by the
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  • 31 3 Dr. Ruth Wong, the principal of Teachers' Training College, will give away prises at the annual speech and prise presentation of Siglap Secondary School on Saturday at 4 p.m.
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  • 204 3 The Photographic Society invites residents in Singapore and Malaysia to take part in the 1972 Singapore National Photographic Exhibition. Participants can submit a maximum of four prints for each of the two sections monochrome and colour prints sections. All prints must not be smaller
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  • 59 3 London. Thursday Swedish and British Prime Ministers Mr. Olop Palme and Mr. Edward Heath yesterday discussed ways of halting international terrorism and hijacking of aircraft as they held daylong talks on European problems and other major world Issues. British officials said the two leaders exchanged ▼lews on possible
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  • 33 3 Inche Othman Wok, Minister for Social Affairs, will open the National Day celebration land and sea sports at Pulau community centre on Saturday at 10 ajn., organised by the management committee.
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  • 196 3 Some 40 "privileged" women attended a woodcarving talk-cum-demon-stratlon yesterday. "Privileged" because in Maori land, it is considered "tabu" (Maori for "taboo") for women to witness any carving sessions. During the two-hour session, the ancient art was brought to life by Staff Seageant Jim Te Tuhl,
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  • 44 3 Mr. R. O. Dyson, president of the Institute of Bankers in London, will visit Singapore from Sunday to Thursday. The Singapore Centre of the Institute of Bankers will hold a cocktail party for him at the Aaelphi Hotel on Wednesday.
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  • 279 3 Singapore's leading batik artist Seah Kim Joo. left for Japan early today to collect sketches for his latest MSA commission The Osaka Scene. He has already submitted three paintings in connection with the introduction of the new MSA route to
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    • 68 3 Dunlopillo Dunlop Malaysian Industries Berhad commissioned Hoesseln Enas, one of Malaysia's leading artists,to paint these six portraits for the Dunlop 1973 calendar. One of these original portraits plus a $500 cheque will be presented to each of six successful entrants in the Dunlopillo contest. m 1 1 V A, M.
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  • In Person
    • 539 4 THE TIES CONTINUE THEIR MARRIAGE CELEBRATIONS Conducted by Ruth Moses, Tel: *****1 EVERYONE'S been talking about the marriage between the Hoos and Ties months before they finally tied the nuptial knot last Tuesday. He is Mr. Tie (TJong) Po Kwong, a research associate at the University
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  • 726 4  -  CINEMA By Edgar Koh SHAFT'S BIG SCORE starring Richard Roundtree (Odeon coming). Shaft, the Black private eye from Harlem, is back in what can be considered more of the same piece of action. In this sequel to the commercially successful earlier film,
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    • 122 4 ROBINSON'S STOCK CLEARANCE SALE last few days Vl million worth of quality merchandise MUST BE SOLD AT 1/2 PRICE or LESS HURRY! DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY! rs 0 m $149 Philips Infra-Red Grill: The key to modern, healthy cooking. You don't have to add fat or butter to your joint
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    • 126 4 HASS£LBLACT (leader in large format photography) is out of this world. Hasselblad has teen to the moon and brought back breathtaking pictures of world interest. And scientific sharpness. Each 6x6 cm negative can withstand many times enlargement. With the Hasselblad 500 c/m, you can change over to black and white
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  • 368 5 Kampala, Thursday. Uganda said last night that any of its unwanted who are still here after President Amin's 50-day deadline will be rounded up by the army and put Into military transit camps. An official statement reported Uganda's Insistence that the deadline be met, and
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  • 343 5 Kissinger negotiating $14,000 m. deal Reuter London, Thursday The United States and the Bovlet Union are on the verge of signing a huge trade deal which could be worth $14,000 million a year, a leading authority on Soviet affairs reported yesterday. Victor Lools, Moscow correspondent of the
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  • 30 5 Washington, Thursday.— Two of the biggest teacher organisations yesterday endorsed Senaior George McGovera for president. They are the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
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  • 282 5 Taipeh, Thursday Nationalist China has reluctantly approved a visit by a special Japanese envoy to explain Japan's proposed normalisation of relations with Peking, which will almost certainly lead to the severing of diplomatic ties between Tokyo and Talpeh. Foreign Minister Mr. Shen Chang-nuan informed
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  • 36 5 Washington, Thursday.— President Nixon's reelection campaign committee yesterday filed a U552,500,000 $2,500,000 damages suit against the Democrats, accusing them of trying to ?;ain political advantage rom the recent break-in at Democratic Party headquarters.
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  • 109 5 A wrecked South Vietnamese tank la part of the debris of war near Quang Trl city as government forces try to retake the provincial capital. The city fell to North Vietnamese troops In May and Saigon forces have been trying to retake the city
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  • 169 5 United Press International Belfast, Thursday. Gunmen sprayed a bar here yesterday, with subma-chine-gun fire killing one man and seriously wounding another, an army spokesman said. He said the two men burst throught the door of the Dlvis Castle bar in the mixed Springfield
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  • 37 5 Reuter Detroit, Thursday.—A New Jersey man was held by police yesterday after he was picked up carrying three weapons and rounds of ammunition near where Senator George McOovern was appearing at a rally on Tuesday.
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  • 275 5 Reuter Paris, Thursday.—A former French government official threatened yesterday to expose allegedly corrupt links between the French business world and government circles unless France immediately halted the supply of Mirage lets to Libya. The threats were made by 34-year-old Gabriel Aranda, press adviser
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  • 202 5 Reuter Cocos Islands. Thursday. Mr. Andrew Peacock, the Australian Minister for External Territories, has arrived in the Cocos Islands determined to enforce on local landowner Mr. John Clunles Ross Australia's absolute sovereignty over the territory. He said on arrival here last night that Australian
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  • 183 5 Reuter Peking, Thursday—China yesterday accused Soviet leaders of using alcohol to "poison the will" of the Russian people who are resisting Moscow's attempt to restore the capitalist system. Though an article in the monthly Red Star was chiefly directed against Soviet revisionism and Russia's "new Czar,"
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  • 33 5 New York, Thursday.— Cowboy star William Boyd, known to millions in the 1930s and 1940s as Hopalong Cassldy, died in a Lacuna Beach hospital yesterday of Parkinson's disease. He was 78.
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  • 93 5 Canberra, Thursday Australia's government astronomer, Dr. Harley Wood, has said he is unable to account for the presence of an unidentified object which has been appearing in the sky over Taree, a country town 211 miles north west of here. Dr. Wood said reports of the
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 1173 6 South-East Asia Report Oa Cambodia Armed invasion of any country is always a time of tragedy and Cambodia in late March and early April, 1970, was no exception. With Prince Norodom Sihanouk ousted in Phnom Penh and their supply of arms and ammunition through the port
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    • 654 6  -  By Pakir Singh Indonesia's military leaders, who wield more authority than is often supposed, may be having second thoughts on how to deal 'With the vexing problem of China's emergence from isolation. Dead set against any consideration of ties with Peking just
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    • 872 6 VOICE OF THE PRESS What other newspapers are saying: Inn ranee companies plan to lnerwie premiums. Insurance companies In Singa pore are planning to follow the footsteps of the Insurance companies in Malaysia by raising motor insurance premiums. According to the chairman of the General Insurance
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 80 6 E 9 that's the new circulation record of New Nation. During August 1972, New Nation's average daily net sale achieved the highest circulation ever recorded by an English language daily in Singapore over the past 10 years (except the Straits Times). And sales are on the increase. More and more
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  • 406 7  -  64 firms earn total of $137.3 m in 1970 By S.V. Suppiah Sixty-four general insurance companies operating in Singapore paid out a total of $12.8 million in motor vehicles claims during 1970, $1.7 million more than in the previous year. They collected $27.6 million
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  • 195 7 It is a house that every student and staff at Ponggol Vocational Institute is Justifiably proud of—they designed, built and furnished it all within six months. The showhouse was the highlight at a recent "open house" at the institute. It occupies 2,000 square feet and is
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  • 97 7 A contractor, Mr. Ooh Kwang Hul. 35. is offering for sale an unusual medallion he found on his farm aoout 15 years ago. The copDer medallion is dated June 16, 1880. On the irjnt is a portrait of King Oecrge I with the words: GEORGE IST. KING
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  • 487 7 Australian voyages The luxury liner, Kota Singapura, which was Involved In a recent International tourist scandal, has been completely refurbished for its new role—topromote tourism between Thailand. West Malaysia, Indonesia and Western Australia using Singapore as its base of operation. The owners of the
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  • 290 7 Charter flight operators have been granted a further three months extension till the end of December by the British government. And the airlines are confident that the temporary measure will even be extended to March next year until the British government finds a permanent solution to
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  • 32 7 The Minister of Btate tor Finance, Mr. Tang See Chlm, will be the guest-of-honour at the 10th anniversary celebration dinner of Yew Tee community centre, on Sunday at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 132 7 A conference on the teaching of geography In South-East Asia and Oceania will be held at the Regional English Language Centre, International House from SeDt. 18 to 24. The conference, sponsor ed by the UNESCO in collaboration with the International Geographical Union Commission on Geography
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    • 253 7 SFtCIAt. AFfOtMTWirr j&. TWTmO»fwt«« MAI AYS*A •jFilul'J We have recently received a large shipment of diamonds from Belgium and England. In connection with our diamond promotion, we are offering them at wholesale prices. These stones vary in weight from i to 4 carats and are being displayed in our windows.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 350 7 > P' Xr Qui* object No. 64 Watchman wins first prize of $15 WHAT IS II? ia* Last Saturday's quiz photograph showed a perforated frying slice. The first prise of $15 goes to Mr. C.A. Rajendran, a school watchman, of New Town Secondary School Quarters. His entiy was the first
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  • Article, Illustration
    4429 8 New Nation Education Broadsheet No reference book, perhaps no book of any kind, is so widely used as a dictionary. If a borne has any books at all, chances are that one of them will be a dictionary. Business bouses are likely to hare dictionaries, and most stenographers
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  • 836 9 THE CONSULTING ENGINEER sells his services to people who need engineering assistance. He offers advice on all engineering activities, such as design, construction, and production. Many consulting engineers have their own companies. Others work for consulting firms THE DEBIGN ENGINEER mentally 'builds" a device or structure to
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  • 440 10 The objectives of the Singapore National Shippers' Council as outlined by Its chairman Mr. Tan Eng Joo at its inaugural meeting are unimpeachable. Breaking the monopolistic stranglehold of the Far East Freight Conference and at the same time, arranging and obtaining the best possible
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  • 146 10 x/t\ UJ 1 Jfv r jjr} by ISPY The hyper-fastidiousness of Hong Kong Chinese about their clothes—because of the importance in that colony of putting up a front—was told to me by way of this illustration by a Hong Kong watcner some years ago: "The Hong Kong
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  • 781 10  -  PAKIR SINGH The disaster-ridden Olympics fcave come to an end. What was billed as the biggest international spectacle for 1972, unfurled by the West Germans at great cost and with painstaking efforts, ended not with a loud bang
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  • Letters
    • 176 10 I represent a minority group of ex-assistant nurses, who are now working as student nurses In the Outram Road General Hospital. Recently, we received our August salary with a $15 Increment but no night duty allowance. We asked .the pay clerk about this matter. We were
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    • 244 10 On 6th September, 1972, I switched on the television set to watch the Malay programme of popular songs and dances, Pesta Pop. I found this programme to be very entertaining and very much different from the rest of the series. Somehow, I found that this
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    • 93 10  -  KOH LIAN HWI Af. Registrar of Vehicles. Singapore, 7. With reference to the letter entitled Open More Counters by Storming Taxpayer, I would like to inform the writer that there are two counters for the renewal of Provisional Driving Licences, one of which remains open during lunch
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    • 105 10  -  T. A. MUGAN Your backpage article, The Camel Caper (NN September 5) made amusing reading. I have no oblectlon to animal lovers, only if some wives did not love their dogs more than their husbands or some husbands did not love their horses more than the'r w.ves.
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    • 164 10 Whenever there is a downpour, we the residents of Alexandra Road are often plagued by floods. Sometimes the water even enters our homes, disrupting our daily routine. The visible cause of this Intense flooding is not only the miniscule canal that is unable to carry
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    • 116 10  -  P. S. NG More and more people are going to beaches to spend their weekends and public holidays than ever before. There is still no better place than our clean and well-appointed beaches for the tired working people to go to for relaxation. Anxious parents
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    • 137 10 I wish to bring to the attention of the authorities concerned that for many years, a car park has not been provided for residents of Selegie House. At other HDB flats where residents pay cheaper rents, they are provided with a free car park. But we
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    • 47 10  -  TAN SIEW LING (Miss) Public Relations Officer, Minis ry of Health. S'ngapore 2. An-Expatient whose letter Unhygienic Clinic appeared in New Nation Tuesday, September 5, 1972 Is requested to contact the undersigned to furn'sh more information with regard to the specific clinic referred to.
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    • 146 10  -  D. ROBERTS According to recent reports the City of Jakarta authorities have decided to get rid of trishaws fbechas) by 1979. This Is a very good move. But what about Singapore, the most advanced city in Asia? Couldn't we also do the same In Singapore? It
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    • 82 10  -  LAWRENCE S.H. LOH PuMc Relations Officer, Singapore Police Force. Singapore, 2. I refer to the letter by Citizen (NN, August 29). Police enquiries showed t.iat the company concerned did on occasions park their broken down buses alon? Tanjong Pagar Road as their garage could not accommodate
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  • DEATH
    • 843 11 The final problem of death is disposal of the body. In land-hungry Singapore, where the dead have had to make way for the living—as witnessed by some -exhumations of graveyards for development purposes cremation as a form of disposal of the dead is gaining
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    • 1088 11  -  A FOUR-PART REPORT BY TA|N CHUNG LEE TAN CHUNG LEE Inche Othman Wok, 48, Minister for Social Affairs: "Every living being must die. So death is Just a fact of life. It means nothing to me. "I remember seeing the face of death many times during my
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    • 696 11 Death is usually regarded as a subject not considered polite to discuss in conversion. Yet wny should we Ignore death? Why should we avoid talking about it dismissing it as ""morbid?'' Why is It that the personal significance of deatn is always warded off when
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    • 552 11 How good are your chances of cheating death through organ transplantation? Transplantation of diseased kidneys and damaged hearts has been tried on human beings uut only a small measure of success has been achieved. In Singapore, the first kidney transplant was done
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    • 320 11 A lawyer, who does not want to be identified, has had premonitions of death which have come true. Relating two of them he said: "I was once working for a merchant who was planning to go to Europe with his wife and daughter for a
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  • TREND
    • 780 12  -  rlfs hard not to look a Trojan horse gift in the mouth r r 1 THE male bOK Presented by Mary Lee V.S. There are two maxims about gifts in my life. One: it is better to give than receive but far nicer to receive. Two:
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    • 256 12 We have all heard »< about those men who make or don't make o \eyes at girls wearing glasses, but I think it's time we considered ...how girls regard bes-»-.pectacled men. ft Rather favourably I kp think, since with men, i:Cglasses are no real
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    • 105 12 These miniature kitchen teapots which date back to the late Ching dynasty make ideal showpiece items because they are valuable antiques with a tery appealing quaintHess. However, the expert opinion is that they are highly utilitarian, export rough ware pieces which are not as
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    • 154 12 or cast iron ones for stews Fork-tender "boeuf ala mode," flavourful stuffed pork tenderloin, or zesty eoq au vtn is perfect everytlme when the right sort of cooking pots are used. The secret is in slow, long simmering to break down tough fibres in cheaper cuts of meat normally called
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    • 118 12  -  vi TALKING I i§§ SHOP RUTH MOSES A highly Imaginative and attractive idea for framing Is to have a light coloured plate mounted on dark, contrasting velvet enclosed In an imitation Rosewood frame. The plate Is Korean In underglazed blue and •white. The blue
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    • 112 12 Follow the Filipinos for a fresh and colourful way of placing napkins on a table Instead of the usual wooden or steell plain rings, slip napkins into fibre holders, topped off with a large flower, also in fibre. They are made of Abaca, dyed in
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    • 98 12 There are several ways of prettying up a bathroom so that It will appeal to the feminine taste. Coloured tiles, soft rugs and naturally, pounds of beautifully scented bath salts. How much tidier and elegant any bathroom would appear if bath salts were kept in Jars of
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  • Commerce and Finance
    • 205 12 Ntew York, Thursday. The stock market, after bouncing up and down much of the day, closed yesterday with Its first gain m seven sessions. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was moderate. The Down Jones industrial average of 30 selected blue-chip stocks
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    • 369 12  -  By Bharathi Mohan International Wood Products Ltd.'s latest annual accounts show generally the same problems that have adversely affected the veneer and plywood Industry of Singapore. The company suffered an operating loss of $3,712,487 tor the year ended February 1972 despite a two-fold increase
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    • 179 12 Reuter London, Thursday—The market was narrowly higher following sosie profittaking at the higher levels. At 3 p.m. the Financial Times Index was 1.3 higher at 493.5. Bargains totalled 8,940 (11,084). Beech am closed fractionally firmer though off the top while Unilever reversed an Initial gain
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    • 196 12 The share market was uneasy yesterday as declines in industrial, property, and hotel shares continued un c he c ked. Trading was thin and fairly spread. Even major counters failed to hold steady. Straits Times lost 40 cents, Straits Trading 15 cents, Cold Storage 10 cents, Haw Par
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    • 174 12 Allied Chem 29 Alcoa 53^4 Am Brands am Can 33% Am Motors AT T A 4 P Anaconda Beth Steel Boeing Caterp Trac Chrysler Coca-Cola Com ou Control Data Cora G1 Wki Dow Cbem DuPont E Kodak Ford Mot Gen Dynam Gen Elec Gen Foods General Mot
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    • 67 12 oreltn trade of fhio flm four months ar showed a new Ngb of $2922 million to to" C«pSnS. $MIM mu^a Malaysia is still Slnen Bu? there 1 of $30 million to^tolaJffE ££EL. However «S«Wr2 «g«^morethanlS.^S! ported from East Malaysia Uon^ M TO* »12WlSi: ££tl«l?.
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    • 33 12 Jf. u Thursday— The number of unemtXv£* registered wlththei?^ to IMS"siE ctt tu6 end of jsiu, i 183,418 909 L t C',, 1 2sSLS^. Uun that Of «S» corresponding month fit
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 438 13 T NEW NATION 20i BIRTHS CHIA —To Anna and Francis, a ion, Nicholas, on 13.9.72, brother ro Christopher. ANNOUNCEMENTS DINE/DANCE NITILY to the Sounds of Hawaii' at Aloha Rhu, Hawaiian Village, Tanah Merah with Bamey Morrior and his Hawaiianoires Romontic South-Seas Atmosphere. SPKCIAL OFFER at Salon La-Lune Apollo Hotel on
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    • 404 13 FOR RENTAL Airconditioners. Sanyo, Westinghouse, Carrier. Philco, Room/Pockoge Unit From $30/- upwords Sunlit* Telephone: *****, *****, *****. REFRIGERATORS $10/- Cookers $3/- Enquiries: Slnsin Fridge Rentals, 48 Winchester House, Col Iyer Quay, (S'pore) Tel *****8. FOR SALE A LARGE SELECTION of locquei foor screen, bar cabinets, paintings, vases etc. for sale
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    • 409 13 EMST. 19 SHAHOOOH GARDENS single-storey semi-detached wit* 3 bedrooms ond large covered porch. Area 4,200 sq.ft. Pries $75,000. Tel: *****6 S'pore. VISTA GARDEN, Toh Tuck Rood 2-storey split-level terrace house lr scenic surroundings. Suitable foi executives working in Juronf Town. Phone *****3 S'pore. HI-FI STEREO CAR STEREO Hi-Fi equipment Wide
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    • 461 13 IHSONS BUILMMOw Peck Seoh rNt, opposite Notional Devepment Board building. Centrally conditioned. Shops and offices, -ailobie of very reasonable D ntal. Enquiries: Nbhsons Pte. te d.,' 37 Robinson Road, Tel. H J4310. 3 fcNGLIN SHOWN© CENTRE tops available for Immediate xupation. Developers: S.K. Che# Ltd., S'pore *****1/*****8 SHOPPING GUIDE UtY
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    • 311 13 rKRY SPECIAL PARKS to Auetraio ond tours to Europe/Scondinoia. Abo Chartered Flights to jondon J Brussels America )jakarta. Contoct Merriyer Chor■rod Flight Service 156 Emerald iill Rood, S pore 9. *****7/ *****6. GRAND HONEYMOON TOUR rAIWAN/HONO KONG BANG(OK 12 days, departure 19.9.7? L 3.10.72 $1,150 inclusive return sir fare, all
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    • 281 13 METROLAND TRAVELS •Y POPULAR DEMAND—Season extended to the KAST COAST (Turtle Beach). Coast tour—Only $29.50. All inclusive:—-Full board and lodging. Book early to avoid disappointment. Departure: 16/9/72. GENTING HIGHLANDS HOLIDAY RESORT BY AIR 3 DAYS, 3 NIGHTS. Inclusive air-ticket, transfers to and fro hotel and accommodation In Genting Hotel—Ss99/-, SSBS/-
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  • 241 14  -  FOREIGN THREATS By Sonny Yap The Malaysian boxers are an independent lot. They need not to be told what to do in their free time. Yesterday, when their officials were away, they put on their tracksults and carried out a warm up sessionjon their
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  • 220 14 Eight Thomas cup trainess have been selected to go on the Slnpak-sponsored tour of Indonesia from September 20 to October 1. They are Yeo Ah Seng, Wee Kin, Ng Chor Yaw, Cheong Cheng Swee, Ronnie Oon Lee Ah Ngo, Tan Choo Chye and
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  • 69 14 Rome, Thursday—Gianni Del Buono of Italy knocked four seconds off the new Olympic record for the men's 5000-metre run last night after falling to make the finals at Munich. Del Buono clocked 13 minutes 22.4 seconds for the event at the Zauli Memorial track and field meet,
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  • 145 14 The first qualifying round for the Kepple Club Dawson Cup stroke competition will be teed-off over the Bukit Chermln course on Saturday, The draw: 2.0« pja.—J. J. Little (3) Jaawant Sloth (8); 2.M—Tallb bin Haron (1) Stephen Wee Thio Gtm Hock (11); 2.12— Menryn Neo (14) F.
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  • 627 14 US w T.L"" r v A It is understood from reliable sources, that prior to the 1973 Open, five or six Open tournaments may be held here. This is to (five our lads, caddies and amateurs a chance to build up some Open experience, which we frankly
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  • 387 14 Reuter Hong Kong, Thursday.— Japan took top honours in the First Asian table tennis championships which ended at Peking last night, winning two of four titles at stake Including the prestigious men's singles title. Nobuhlko Hasegawa, 25, powered japan to the top of the
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  • 293 14 Wellington, Thursday. South African Rugby Board president Dr. Danle Craven told New Zealanders last night that he would approach his government again over the Springbok rugby union team due to tour here next winter. Speaking by telephone from South Africa on a national
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  • 34 14 Tokyo, Thursday The second continent of the Japanese Olympic team returned here yesterday from Munich aboard a special airliner. The 147-member group Included the men's volleyball team which won the gold medaL
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  • 214 14 London, Thursday. American Bob Foster arrived yesterday with only one prediction about his September 26 world lightheavyweight title defence against Britain's Chris Flnnegan—"l will win." The fighting deputy sheriff from Albuquerque, New Mexico, added, however: "It won't be a holiday over here, I'm going to treat
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  • 57 14 Tauranga, New Zealand, Thursday. New Zealand beat Australia 8-1 here yesterday to qualify for the Thomas Cup International badminton championship. New Zealand won all five singles and three of the four doubles to eliminate Australia from the competition. New Zealand's first round match is against India at
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  • 23 14 New Plymouth, Thursday. The 1973 world women's bowls championships will be held In Wellington on December it was announced here yesterday.
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  • 273 14  -  By Dennis Chia A four-cornered tussle is expected in the NTUC inter-union netball tournament as it reached its half way stage. Heading the quadrangular fight Is defending champion Singapore Teachers' Union which has an unbeaten re- cord so far. But BTU may not find it easy
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  • 128 14 Tokyo, Thursday—The reaotta of the fourth day of the fall sumo tournament: Oaaahl (2-2) beat Makimotw (2-2) Uehari; Yoahloyaaa (3-1) beat TochUsami (2-2) Uehari; Masotyama (2-1) beat Annobori (1-3) YorlkiH; Dalya (3-1) beat Fatataarya Yoriklri. Fujlnokawa (2-2) beat Fatafodake (6-4) Hatakikoml; Hagnroiwa (2-1) beat Fukunobana (1-4) Oshidaahl;
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  • 39 14 CENTRAL LEAGUE Yakult 3 Hiroshima 0 Chunichi 7 Taiyo 5 Yomlurl 6 Hanahln 4 PACIFIC LEAGUE Lotte 0 Nishitetsu 0 Toel 9 Hankyu 6 Hankyu 8 Toel 4 Nankal v Kintetau (rained out) Denotes tod game.
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 306 14 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ■■HHH an ■ai mmmm WHS 10 —arms. 11 Girl-watch. 12 Worry. IS Suffix used "with song, fun, etc. 18 Wit, of a type. 22 Weirder. 24 Aquatic mammal 24 Caravansary. 27 Ordinary. 28 Sedate. SO Gave out, as cards. 31 City on the Rhone. 32 Cervine. 33
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    • 153 14 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald I WENT HORSEBACK RIDING... TOOK AN AWFUL SPILL, ANC? THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF B THE END? ----^fis: MX OP m 'f It#® r, i?;pf RIP KIRBY 4IIJI WITH AM UNEXPECTED ASS/ST, X/PBVS PtAN BE&NS... THAT'S THE 1 —<r MESSAGE TO LEAVE GOT IT/ AND
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  • 439 15 —SAYS BLUE PETER It is about time the Malayan Racing Association put a stop to the recruitment of boys for training as Jockeys in their Apprentice Training School temporarily. I am rare It will be a shock to many racegoers to know that there are
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  • 984 15 New York, Thursday. Floyd Patterson, a coming young heavyweight of 37, is training in a chicken coop back of his home In New Paltz, New York, 100 miles north of New York City. A chicken coop? BwelL Just what boxing needed Another stink. 9 Actually, it's
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  • 135 15 Islamabad, Thursday.—A motion calling for debate on the decision at the Munich Olympics taken to ban Pakistan from international hockey matches was withdrawn yesterday after Intervention by a Minister. A member of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, Mr. Haxld Yasln proposed an adjournment motion
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  • 251 15 Montreal, Thursday. Fourth-seeded Cliff Drysdale of South Africa and sixth-seeded Tom Okker of the Netherlands yesterday advanced Into the quarterfinals of the Rothmans $50,000 (Canadian) Montreal International tennis tournament. Drysdale, with a wicked backhand stroke, eliminated Australia's Ken Rosewall 6-1, 6-2. Okker, the flying Dutchman,
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  • 79 15 New Nation photographer Jerry Seh takes a peek at India's tennis ace, Ram anathan Krishnan (above) through the net as he strikes with telling effect at the Farrer Park court yesterday against South Vietnam's Vo Van Bay in the quarter-final of the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association's Asian Invitation championships. The
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  • 149 15 1 chess 41 New York, Thursday. The chances that world chess champion Bobby Fischer will play In the chess Olympiad opening on Monday at Skopje. Yugoslavia, "appear very slim," US Chess Federation presi dent Edmund Edmondson said at Newburgh yesterday. 9 "I talked to Bobby -this
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  • 129 15 St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday Julie Nixon Risenhowever outputted professional golfer Lee lYevlno yesterday. Mrs. Elsenhower, President Nixon's younger daughter, sank a 15-foot putt at Norwood Hills Country Club, where Trevlno is competing this week In the US$l5O,OOO St. Louis Golf Classic. Trevlno, practising with Mrs. Elsenhower, put
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  • 204 15 Salisbury, Thursday. Australian cricketing brothere lan and Greg Chappell are favourites to win the $2400 first prise In a double-wicket competition here next weekend. Other pairings are Eddie Barlow and Barry Richards, Mike Procter and Lee Irvine, Tony Oreig and Basil D*oliveria, and John Snow and
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  • 155 15 Tokyo, Thursday—Japanese swimmers and coaches participating in competitions with China will be expelled from the Japan Amateur Swimming Federation (J ASP). J ASF president Ryo Okuno warned yesterday. Okuno said Japanese swimmers and coaches competing with China would be expelled because such action constitutes a violation
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  • 74 15 UnlM CM Bridgwater and Albion f Hampshire 6: Cardiff IS Bristol Cornwall S Capt Crawshay's XV 40; Qlouoeeter SO Abertillery 16; Liverpool S New Brighton IS; Moeeley SB Bbbe Vale IS; Notts 10 Northampton IS; Pontypool 12 Newport S; Rugby S Coventry 17; Stroud S Cheltenham IS.
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  • 293 15 London. Thursday. Crack Portuguese club Beneflca, five times former champions, were surprisingly beaten 1-0 by the Swedish amateurs Malmoe In their European Cap first round, first leg match In Malmoe last night. A 12th minute goal by Larsson was enough to give the Swedes
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  • 516 15 European Cup: Slovan Bratislava (Czech) 6; Vojvodina Ncvi Sad (Yugo) 0; Sliema Wanderers (Malta) 0; Cornlk Zabraae. (Poland) 5. Ujpest Dona (Hungary) 2 P.C. Basle (Bwits) 0; Waterfard (Ireland) 3 Omonla Nikosla (Cyprus) 1; Anderlecht (Belg) 4 Vzjle (Den) 2; Real Madrid 5 Keflavlk (Ice) 0; Arls Bonnevole
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  • 142 15 St. Moritz, Switzerland, Thursday. The International Ski Federation (FIS) meeting here yesterday warned that thorough sex and doping tests would be carried out on competitors before World Cup races in the coming season. Organising committees also announced the following rules for the World Cup: for the men's
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Back Page THURSDAY
    • 46 16 Frank Baldwin, 48, of Clnderford England. has been riding a horse to his local pub since he was banned from drinking and driving last vear. Baldwin's nlne-yearold mare Cora slipped during exercises on Tuesday and threw him. Baldwin suffered two cracked ribs.
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    • 68 16 Police broke Into Len Marsh's apartment early one morning In Chesterfield, England, after a neighbour reported seeing flashing lights through the flat's bedroom window and hearing strange buzzing noises. Marsh, 47. a factory worker, told police It was only his alarm clock, which triggers two flashing
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    • 122 16 Life-or-death operations could depend on a number picked out of a hat. a surgeon said. For an experiment is going on to determine what kind of operations are most successful In curing particular diseases. Dr. David Hamilton, of Glasgow's Western Infirmary, said
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    • 55 16 Tony Fltzpatrlck, 22, of Nottingham, England has rented a furniture truck to transport him In a hospital bed to his wedding tomorrow. Fltzpatrlck, who has been laid up In a hospital with a broken leg, said the bed will be wheeled up to the altar where he
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    • 34 16 A tame bear climbed a pole and pulled down Yugoslavia's national flag at a village fair outside Belgrade. It cost Its owner Stnoje Lazlc. 19. seven days In Jail.
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    • 386 16 When a note is looked over —not overlooked Washington Post Handed a new one pound note In payment for a purchase, some British salesclerks and storeowners these days go Into the following routine: Taking the ends of the note between their thumbs and forefingers, they snap It taut, twist it
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    • 50 16 AH FOOK: Full marks to our coffee shop waiting staff. The union praise they've won for their courteous service was well deserved. MEI LIN: They certainly earn their tips. Imagine being on your feet all day, remembering everyone's order in rush hours and still being able to smile.
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    • 148 16 Reginald Jakes of Cambridge, England, drove his new Rover sedan up to the local police station, took careful aim and rammed the car Into the building's steel-plated front doors. Then he reversed the car and did 'It again. And again, and again. The doors
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    • 129 16 Today 1s Thursday. September 14, the 258 th day of 1972 with 106 to follow. THE MOON: Approaching Its first Quarter. THE MORNING STARS: Mercury. Venus, Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STAR: Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. American physicist Karl Compton was
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    • 53 16 If you have any notions of getting fresh with Irene Petrowski, 18, forget, it. The pretty lass who works as a dancer at Neptune Theatre Restaurant is a judoist. She took up the art of self defence "to keep the wolves away." Irene also plays badminton. Picture
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    • 181 16 Herbert Ives of Somerset. New Jersey, is probably glad he knows his neighbours. One of them helped to rid his basement of an eight-foot guest that had overstayed his welcome last Bunday. Ives went downstairs In his home that morning, and spotted a
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    • 29 16 A travel chief in London has warned Malaysians, Singaporeans and other overseas visitors that holidays in Britain are likely to be 17 per cent dearer next year.
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 409 16 5 Siagapara 3.00 Opening and Where the Heart Is 3.20 For the Family (C) 3.45 Talk on Family Planning (Cantonese) 4.00 Housewives' Matinee Save Our Water Supply (Cantonese Film, Pt. 2) 4.50 Close 6.00 Opening and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger —Pirates of Prah (Ch. 2) 6.30 News in Brief 6.35
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    • 564 16 Trust your lucky star IF irs YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you love all those material things which denote an affluent existence. Whatever money and Influence can purchase appeals to you greatly, for you need the support of such things to give you a real feeling of physical security. On the
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