New Nation, 24 January 1973

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  • 21 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, January 24, 1973 No. 620 Price 15 cents V f W SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1973
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  • 10 1 Police reported 72 accidents yesterday. Two were serious.
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  • 163 1 The share market was marked by bearish trading this morning after opening on a Quiet note. The downfall In prices was noticeable In all the sectors. Slme Darby, under strong sellings pressure, eased 50 cents to $10.20. Second and third-line industrials also fared poorly though their losses
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  • 658 1 Guns fall silent in Vietnam on Saturday—and all US troops will be out in 60 days UPI Reuter Washington, Wednesday President Nixon announced the conclusion of an "agreement to end the war and bring peace with honour to Vietnam and South-East Asia." In a similar announcement, North
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  • 76 1 Police have identified the murder victim found near Ciementi Circus two days ago as Siti Fatimah binte All. 27. of West Coast Road. According to the deceased's mother. Cik Chik bints Betak. 50. Siti was to be married in two months time to a construction worker. Siti was
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  • 74 1 New York. Wednesday.— Two detectives were wounded and two men were killed early yesterday In a gun battle that shattered the plate glass window of a bar In the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. One of the dead men. the robbery suspect, has not been Identified by
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  • 58 1 Belfast. WednesdayBritish soldiers chased two gunmen across the border Into the Irish Republic yesterday after a gun battle near Londonderry, the army said. An army spokesman said a sentry at the border post between Londonderry and Muff in southern Ireland spotted two armed men running through a
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  • 161 1 Six political detainees, including a girl, were released by the government today. They are Hoc Cheuk Wab, Low Boon Ltm, Lee Beng Chong, Lem Ouan Lee. Lee Soon Huat, and Miss Qoh Peng Wab. They were detained lor tbeir active involvement in communist-directed activities,
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  • 132 1 Reuter Saigon, Wednesday. A government militia unit ambushed a squad of communist troops just outside the limits of Saigon before dawn today, only hours before the announcement of a Vietnam ceasefire agreement. Military sources also reported a sudden upsurge in the number of North Vietnamese
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  • 57 1 London, Wednesday. A 96-year-old Englishman was fined £7 in Folkestone yesterday for speeding. The court was told that Dlgby Davies, who did not appear in court to make a plea, drove through a radar cheek at 41 miles per hour (about 65 kph) In a
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  • 332 1 Thieu speaks to nation Saigon, Wednesday President Thieu today announced that a Vietnam agreement will be signed in Paris on Saturday. In an announcement over Saigon Radio he said a cease firse would go Into effect in South Vietnam at 0800 hours Saigon time (midnight
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 339 2  -  M.four hours after he took job By Wee Beng Huat, Bharathi Mohan Wheq 17-year-old Devadas Sinnlah decided to leave his job as an SPCA kennelman, his employers and parents tried to dissuade him. "At least stay on till the end of the month." SPCA
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  • 222 2 A Japanese professor has written to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to ask how he can "atone" for the atrocities of his people here during the last war. Mr. K. Takashl Itoh. G5, a professor of Commonwealth and Pacific Studies at the Takushoku University
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  • 33 2 The Port of Singapore Authority has published a booklet explaining the new tariff rates Introduced this year. Priced at $1, it is available at the PSA public relations department.
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  • 223 2 Another splash of blue is how being added to the Singapore Police Force —r with all 78 of the patrol boats being given a new coat of paint to match the uniform of the men commanding them. This massive re-painting operation, now
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  • 31 2 Burglars took more than $11,000 in cash and valuables from a house In Bunshine Terrace, off Upper Seranfoon, yesterday. Three of the bedrooms in the house were ransacked..
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  • 152 2 A steady flow of people called at. the Public Utilities Board yesterday to apply for special concession under the new water tariffs. All the applicants are living in communal homes where more than one family share a single water meter. They are
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  • 45 2 New traffic light signals in the following areas in Toa Payoh Estate will go into operation at 10 a.m. tomorow: At the Junction of Lorong 1 and Lorong 2. Toa Payoh Central and Lorong 2 and Toa Payoh East and Lorong 6.
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  • 261 2 The National Theatre Company has firmly set its foot in the cultural field and proved its importance in helping to promote and enrich culture in Singapore after its inception two and a half years ago, said the Theatre trusts annual report for 1971. The report said that
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  • 342 2  -  By Ray Dhaliwal Mis a o Saiganji, 4, (left) and Goh Boon Hong, 5, watched with interest a judo demonstration by trainees of the People's Association's junior and youth classes recently. When the "fight" ended, the tw 0 little enthusiasts looked at each
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  • 75 2 The Ministry of Culture is presenting the 14th concert by the National Theatre Orchestra and Choir in its series Music for Everyone at the Conference Hall on February 18 at 5 p.m. Admission tickets -at $1 for adults and 50, cents for children are available from the
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  • 408 2 get ndrmal supply' Singapore would not be adversely affected by the Japanese export controls on seven household goods from February 1, trade circles said today. Japan's Trade Ministry recently announced that statutory export curbs would apply to radios, tape recorders, stereo equipment, cameras,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 674 2 HRPPEmncs WHAT'S ON TODAY Professor You Poh Seng will give a talk on ECONOMIC RESEARCH IN SINGAPORE at the Rotary Club of Singapore's luncheon meeting at the Mandarin Hotel at 12.45 p.m. Mr. Tham Yul Kal will conduct a COURSE ON CHINESE COOKING at the Outram Road YWCA Centre at
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    • 89 2 Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Naha 23-15 C Bangkok 32-35 C Tokyo 11-3 C Seoul 10-3 C Talpeh 21-lflC Manila 32-19 C Jakarta 32-24 C Hong Kong 18-16 C Kuala Lumpur 33-22 C Moscow minus 15- minus 26C New York 12-5 C London 10-7 C Sydney ...28-22 C Melbourne 30-17
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    • 62 2 Tides Today: 2.18 pm. (2.8 mJ Tomorrow: 2.50 aJXL (2.7 m.), 3.03 pm. (2.5 m.) Friday: 3JO am. (2.7 m.), 3.54 pm. (2.2 m.) Saturday: 3.55 am. (2.6 m.), 5.03 pm. (1.9 m.) Sunday: 4.38 a.nv (2.4 m.) f 7.42 pm. <18 m.) Monday: 5.37 am. (2.3 m.), 9.35 pm
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  • 263 3 Absenteeism In firms due to Illness could be reduced u regular medical checkups provided for workers Dr. Chew Pin Kee of the Industrial Health Unit said. Speaking at a course on Industrial Health and Bafety at the YMCA recently, Dr. Chew said. Regular medical
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  • 29 3 Motorists are advised to avid Ihs. Cost RoadDunbar Walk junction tomorrow as the Sewerage Department Is laying a, presure main. Construe-' tlon Is expected to last threfe months.
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  • 132 3 Four members of the Singapore National Cadet Corps (air) visited Canberra as part of a 10-day tour of Australia to study the operations of their Australian counterpart, the Air Training Corps (ATC). They arrived on January 6 as guests of the Australian Department of Air.
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  • 316 3 Work in electronic industries does give rise to eye complaints, although there is no basis for believing that it causes progressive visual deterioration, according to a survey. This was the conclusion of a survey by the Industrial Health Unit of the Ministry of Labour
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  • 51 3 Vienna-trained pianist, Mr. Ten Chin Huat, will conduct a 12-session course on music theory and appreciation at the Young Men's Christian Association starting on Feb. 10. Fee for YMCA members is $55 and non-members $60. Enquiries should be made to the YMCA, Programme Department, Orchard Road, tel:
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  • 225 3 The Peeping Tom who stabbed a stockbroker's clerk. Doris Chan, at John Little's Building last week is believed to have pried on other women's toilets In the city. Shortly after the report on the stabbing, an American woman told police that she had
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  • 26 3 The prize-giving ceremony for the 1972 Schools' Savings Competion scheduled to be held at the Conference Hall this Saturday has been postponed to February 17.
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  • 248 3 New York, Wednesday The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has agreed to give multimillion dollar support to the expansion of a five-year family planning programme in Malaysia,, informed sources said here yesterday. The project which will cost US$l4 million ($39.2 million) aims
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  • 189 3 Singaporeans are reading more Judging by the rise in membership of the National Library. According to the library, there were 218,684 members at the eatf of last year. The director of the National Utirary, Mrs. Hedwlg Anuar said that this was 10 per
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  • 184 3 Five public daily-rated unions of the Government sector and four daily-rated unions of the Public Utility®?. Board have been adas affiliates to the National Trade Union Congress. The nine unions with some 15,000 members are the Public Dally Rated Transport Workers Union, Public
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  • In Person
    • 553 4 IT WAS a grand occasion for the residents of Boon Teck constituency when the seventh CULTURAL SHOW FOR THE PEOPLE turned up at their Community Centre. Around a hurriedly erected stage were gathered hundreds of people to watch a two and a half hour variety
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  • 712 4 From the DOG HOUSE By PG It is not often that you hear of a town being named after an animal, let alone a dog. More often It Is the other way around—dogs named after the countries they were supposed to have come from
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  • 57 4 Peggy simply loves children and is a good watchdog despite her playfi: nature. This six-month-old jet black pup lost her happy home when her previous owners went abroad. Spayed and anti-distempered, Peggy is ready for a new home. If you wish to adopt her, call at the
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 132 4 i GENUINE CULTURED V PEARLS I Necklaces Chokers Brooches Bracelets Rings Earrings I Pendants Etc., Etc. I I LANKA JEWELLERS] (The House For Ceylon Gems) s 20, BATTERY ROAD, TELEPRORE: SIRGAPORE-1. *****. ndl Enjoy LEMON BARLEY soft drinks by PHOENIX You can help this dog by giving yourßog Ken-L Ration.
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  • 233 5 Loan from ADB likely The Asian Development Bank is likely to consider a loan for Singapore's central area expressway system. Feasibility studies on the plan are now being conducted. ADB's chief economist, Dr. Perry Chang, said: "Such a loan might be forthcoming once detailed plans of the
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  • 160 5 The Factories Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labour has begun investigations into Monday's avalanche of concrete from the Ocean Building in Collyer Quay. It is understood that the four cars whose windscreens were smashed and bonnets dented have been sent to a workshop for repairs at
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  • 79 5 New York, Wednesday— The Metropolitan Museum of Art will dispose of .147 paintings by minor old masters at an auction on Feb. 15. The sale at the ParkeBernet galleries is the latest of a series of disposals by the museum both at public auction and privately.
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  • 208 5 It was a long wait for a case of silver in Empress Place yesterday. Hundreds of office workers, schoolchildren and housewives queued under the blazing sun, to buy the new $10 silver coin issued by the Currency Board. The line-up, which started as early as
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  • 310 5  -  Most firms employ strict security measures By Teresa Ooi Pilfering is still rampant in most Industries in Singapore, although very few employers like to admit it. Most employers brush aside this problem as an occupational hazard which can be minimised but not eradicated completely.
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  • 388 5 Singapore has been selected as the centre for cooperative trade promotion and information. This was disclosed by the secretary of the Singapore National Co-operative Union, Mr. Chang Fook Tin, today. Mr. Chang said: "The co-operative trade centre will import goods from cooperative organisations overseas
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  • 55 5 The Adult Education Board, with the assistance of the Registry of Vehicles, will conduct courses on the handling of heavy vehicles from Feb. 7. Those who possess valid Class 3 driving licence should apply to the board's office at 126, Calrnhlll Road or at the Cultural Centre,
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  • 290 5 The executive director of the Science Centre. Mr. Kenneth Jackman, foresees technical difficulties as the most difficult problems in the setting up of the centre. "But they are by no means insurmountable." he said in an Interview. "The setting up of the Centre,
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 56 5 M OUR SALES DEPARTMENT r: Si \*i (S IS NOW OPEN AT m GlO, Ground Floor, PENINSULA SHOPPING COMPLEX, .<•) COLEMAN STREET, SINGAPORE 6. n y.V ECHIGOYA CO. 1955 (PTE) LTD. 114. NEIL ROAD, SINGAPORE 2. TEL *****3 (Specialists in silk cotton fabrics. kimonos Happi Coats scarfs etc) Enjoy PEARADE
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    • 249 5 MAKE LIFE EASIER wilh Sanyo home appliances Perhaps the largest share of Sanyo's technological effort has gone towards making the home a happier place to live. Hundreds of home appliances roll off Sanyo assembly lines daily to help cut household drudgery to a bare minimum, lessen the toil and increase
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 315 5 Manager wins $15 <*■ Ul i J"" I Quiz object No. 173 Wl tti Last Friday's quiz photograph showed part of a broom. The first prize of $15 goes to Mr. Lee Kok Wah, a sales manager, of Angsana Avenue. His entry was the first correct one opened by the
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 838 6 COUNTRY REPORT Robert S. Elegant is a veteran Chinawatcher. In a special country report he discusses the problems that lie ahead for this Asian giant and the prospects of stability in the country. CHINA Washington Post The leaders of Communist China have assessed 1972
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    • 590 6 Washington Post The Pentagon's more intellectual generals and admirals are engaged in a quiet but intense debate. The outcome will determine the American military posture in Asia for the next decade and strongly influence political posture. The central question seems simple: Is
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    • 294 6 VOICE OF THE PRESS What other Newspapers are saying: INAUGURATION OF THE SECURITIES INDUSTRY COUNCIL: At the inauguration of the Securities Industry Council last week, it was announced that the BIC was an advisory and consultative body and not a regulatory one What one falls to understand
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    • 963 6 Washington Post Almost every time Chinese Premier Chou En-lai appears in public, a stout, grayfc aired man in the simple green uniform of the Peo p 1 e's Liberation Army stands at his elbow. Chou's alter ego holds formal office only
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  • 198 7 Reuter Wednesday -Cam bod Lan reinforcements yesterday broke r Uev e a besieged garrison in the norththe Phnom Penh command reported. The town and its battered defenders had been under threat—officially described as serious—for 18 Three of the reinforcement troops were killed during the
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  • 85 7 Montreal, Wednesday Four occupants of a singleengine Cessna-172 stranded since Sunday on a lake 160 miles (257 kms) north of Montreal, have been rescued by snowmobile and Jeep. Police said all four passengers were alive but that one suffered a fractured arm and two others were unable
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  • 59 7 Taipeh, Wednesday The Nationalist Chinese Government is to make available US$4OO million ($ll2OO million) in foreign exchange as loans to local manufacturers and importers to buy production equipment and basic consumer goods. The Central News Agency which announced the credit plan yesterday said the move was
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  • 253 7 Heroin ring smashed United Press International Paris, Wednesday Two Frenchmen who were alleged to have smuggled about one ton of pure heroin into the US during the past two years, were arrested yesterday. The heroin was valued at USs3om (about $84m.). Police said
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  • 378 7 Reuter Amman, Wednesday—The death toll in Monday's crash in Kano, northern Nigeria, of a chartered Royal Jordanian Airlines (ALIA) Boeing 707 stands at 156 people, it was' officially announced here yesterday. The death toll is feared to be the highest in aviation history. The
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  • 123 7 Tokyo, Wednesday—The United States yesterday agreed to a minor reshuffle of its military bases in Japan, in talks that signalled a strong US military stance in the Far East in the post-Vietnam era. Agreement for return of 5663 acres of military base property to Japan came at
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  • 360 7 UPI Reuter Washington, Wednesday President Nixon today proclaimed tomorrow as a national day of mourning for former President Lyndon Johnson. Announcing the death of the 36th US President, Mr. Nixon ordered all federal agencies, except for those involved with the national security, to
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  • 91 7 United Press International Buenos Aires, Wednesday. —Public health authorities in Catamarca said yesterday an epidemic of an intestinal virus which has killed 47 Infants has still not been controlled. Since Dec. 1, 923 cases of small children with severe diarrhoea have been reported in
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  • 54 7 Washington, Wednesday. —President Nixon will have poweres to halt air traffic to any country harbouring hijackers, under new legislation approved yesterday by the Senate Commerce Committee. The legislation—still to be approved by the full Senate—also provides for a US$35 million (Ss9B million) Federal police force to screen
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  • 153 7 Canberra, Wednesday Australia has not ruled out the possibility of sending a warship into the French nuclear testing zone if France goes ahead with the tests, the Prime Minister Mr. Gough Whitlam said yesterday. "This is a contingency," he said. "Australia has not ruled
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  • 192 7 United Press International New Delhi, Wednesday.— Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi warned rioters in Andhra Pradesh that "violence has not paid and will never pay." Mrs. Gandhi told a rally in Tamluk, West Bengal: "It Is terrible to see trains carrying food and water to
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  • 221 7 Reuter Fhnom Penh, Wednesday The South-East Asia Ministers of Education Council (SEAMEC) yesterday called oft. its eight member countries to contribute more money to its projects. Mr. Leuan Insisienmay, the Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and outgoing president of the council, made the appeal when
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  • 82 7 Kampala, Wednesday—A military tribunal last night sentenced five men described as guerrilla supporters of former President Dr. Milton obote to be publicly executed by firing squad In their home districts. Radio Uganda said four of the men, Including a former army captain, Thomas Masaba, and a
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  • 36 7 Reykjavik, Wednesday An Icelandic patrol vessel yesterday oat the trawl wire of a hull trawler, the Ross Altair, after it disobeyed an order to leave Icelandic fishing waters, the Coast Guard said here.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 93 7 Australian Equipment to help you strike oil vv m sh y. > A Xs, Searching for oil search equipment and supplies? Australia could have the answer. They're designing, building and using the latest equipment in their own extensive oil search activities, much of it offshore. Everything from drilling bits to
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  • 486 8 It has been a long wait since Presidential Adviser, Dr. Henry Kissinger announced that peace was "at hand" last October but President Nixon has finally done it. He has announced a ceasefire in Vietnam in a special broadcast to the nation. In a war
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  • 80 8 4 jJ\ J| jy by ISPY Give your girl a rose to show your affection and love. This is an old advice which has not lost its appeal today. But if I were you, I wouldn't do it in Taiwan. Roses in that country, I'm told,
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  • 933 8  -  DICK WILSON It is just twenty years ago that I made my first encounter with Asia. I disembarked at Yokohama from the Oregon Mail, a cargo ship from Seattle. Its contents provided my first experience of
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  • Letters
    • 246 8  -  LEONARD LIM A national sulclcLe-pre-ventlon programme should be Introduced without delay. The frequent news reports of suicides In the New Nation also justify a thoughtful probe. Your feature writers can provide Sur readers with a pulsatg Inside story and investigate the causes of this self-annihilation. The ratio of
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    • 76 8  -  LAWRENCE S. H. LOH Public Relations Officer, Singapore Po'ice Force, Sinf£poro, L I refer tc) the letter headlined Long Walt for his Medal, pub'lshed In New NaUbn op 15th January, 1973. I should like to Inform the writer that 39 Special Constabulary Long Service Medals have not
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    • 78 8 The Malaysian Post Office Savings Bank has already announced a half per cent increase in Interest with effect from Ist January of th's year for their depositors. Yet the Singapore P.O. Savings Bank Interest is still pegged at 4 per cent which, though undoubtedly better than
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    • 169 8  -  YAP CHENG TONG Public Relations Offcer, Port of Singapore Authority. Singapore, 2. We would like to thank Sniffy (N.N. 17/1/73) for his comments on dust conditions in Pasir Panjang and his suggestions to improve the situation. We regret the inconvenience caused by the dust and would like
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    • 130 8 As manager of a German travel agency specialising in sending tourists to Australia that has just opened the first travel agency In Singapore to act as liaison between our tourists and the local hotels and tour operators, I wonder if you can help us. I have been
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    • 141 8 For the past few months, the Hawkers' Branch of the Ministry of Environment has allowed pasar malam hawkers to overflow Into the car paries of Blocks 39 and 40 In Margaret Drive on FHday nights. The hawkers have thereby deprived the shopkeepers and flat-dwellers In Block 39,
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    • 67 8  -  WILLIAM TEO I would like to Inform the authorities concerned that the traffic lights at the acc'dent-prone Junction of Lorong 6 and Toa Payoh East have still not been put into operation. Although work started on October 2, 1972, the traffic lights are still not functioning
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    • 41 8  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of National Development, Singapore, Z. Reference is made to the letter from Mr. Koh Chin Kok (NN, 10/1/73) headlined Repair Sign Soon. The damaged signboard was replaced on 22nd December, 1972.
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    • 38 8 Write to The Editor, New Nation, Locked Bag 15, GPO, Singapore, 1. lnpTirpiinFr' mmr akt m"nriiwmrm i I I misgivings about lady 1 barbers? jf f -T^aferjt irmom V Vu v > > 'V > s^?' -A v.. y -*> > 4ft > ■HIH
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  • SHOWBIZ
    • 299 10  -  GOH SOON TIOE STAGES HIS SECOND CONCERT Violet Oon The boys take the stage this time for Goh Soon Tioe's secondstudents' concert on January 31 at 8 D.m. The first concert with an all-girl cast was a great success. Appearing In the January 31 programme are
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    • 300 10  -  Gene Teo Singapore's cocktail loungers are becoming more uninhibited, more relaxed, more responsive, and joining in the sing-alongs. The band of course should get a large slice of the credit for generating this spontaneous audience response. One group which has succeeded In doing this Is the Western
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    • 328 10  -  POP I %^iTALK WITH PETER ONG The second pop for Singapore fans is coming soon at the National Theatre. Lulu, the singer who brought To Sir With Love, Boom Bang-A-Bang, and other tunes to the top of the charts, will perform In
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    • 1079 10  -  From H. Schneider "I think what happened in Germany every 20 or 25 years we have to remind everybody," Jerry Lewis began. "It's the only way it won't happen again. I don't say carry vendettas. I think you have to go on and, you have
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    • 549 10  -  By Violet Oon Unpredictability of form on the concert stage Is both the bane and the source of excitement for a concert artiste according to Polish pianist Andre Tchaikowsky. Tchaikowsky, 37, (no relation to the composer), considered by Artur Rubinstein to be
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    • 493 10  -  By Gene Teo There is too much pr of e s s i onalism in showbiz today shows become too "rigged", entertainers too prepared with their gimmicks. Bringing in a welcome wave of spontaneity to the entertainment scene in Singapore is Ara
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  • TREND
    • 692 11  -  SHOWROOM DESIGNED BY MALCOLM 1 MALCOLM KOH Opep house on Chinese New Year is a happy event and many housewives are now installing various tokens of good luck in their homes: new linoleum, new curtains, new covers for the cushions But what about
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    • 313 11 Carrot-top comedienne Micille Ball likes entertaining her friends with private screenings of films at home. The other night, just as everyone was settling down to watch a movie, Lucy jumped to Her feet, turned on the lights and told the hired
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    • 850 11 Tie me kangaroo down, sportMatilda's waltzing to the front TRiSH SHEPPARD ON THE NEW WAVE OF AUSTRALIANS!! SWEEPING THE COUNTRY At last. Australia is going to stop exporting kangaroo skins and meat. This move by the new Labour Government last week is indicative of a new wave of self-awareness, Australlanlsm
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    • 177 11 Dramatic results have been gained in British clinical trials of a new drug designed to combat breast cancer. The drug Tamosifen is not yet generally available, but it has proved successful in tiiree-quarters of tests carried out on women with advanced breast cancer. The
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    • 417 11 Paris couturiers today put the shirt-dress back on the fashion map in a series of restrained, uncomplicated and thoroughly feminine collections for the spring and summer. Waistlines are back and any woman who has put on some inches round the midriff during
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    • 68 11 PROBLEMS: DON'T MISS DEAR ROS Problems of all kinds get an astute and understanding answer In Dear Ros in New Nation every Monday. Ros dispenses wisdom and just plain common-sense in providing help for the love-lorn, lonely and all kinds of people who have all sorts of problems. Even if
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 301 12 Activity at the Port of Singapore wharves slackened during the first ten months of last year compared with the same period In the previous year. Loading of cargo declined by 8 per cent to 2 million tons, while unloading of general cargo also
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    • 168 12 Milan, Wednesday. The Italian Pirelli Rubber Company, in which Pirelli's British partner Dunlop has a 49 per cent holding, lost more than 42,000 million lire (£3O million) over 1971 and 1972, an extraordinary shareholders' meeting heard here. The meeting was called recently in accordance with Italian
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 54 12 (Closing prices (In yen) yesterday: Nippon Steel 218 Nippon Kokan 253 Tokyo Shlbaura Electric 208 1HI 326 Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. 306 Iachi 301 Kobe Steel 205 Kawasaki Steel 213 Mitsubishi Electric 220 Toray Ind. 273 Sankyo Tokushuko Nejl Seisakusho 150 Tlkoku San so 280 Daltetsu Kogyo 327 Tokyo Yogyo
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      • 200 12 Closing prices (In Irancs) yesterday: Parlbas 214 (212) Indochlne 265.30 (264) Foncler 407 407.50) Prlntemps 162 (161.90) C.O.E. 478 (464) Bull 71.50 (71.30) Rojal Dutch 196 (198.50) Mlchelln 1805 (1771) Thomson 187.50 (183) CJP. 226 (227) Rhone 175 (176.50) Air 379 (379.70) Philips 90.10 (91.60) Sues 364.50 (365.80) Citroen
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      • 265 12 Prices at 11.3C a.m. today (Australian time): Abaleen 11 12 do opts nil 08 AOD 15 17 Allstate 23 25 Amad 10 11 Aurora 17 18 do opts 04% 05 Aust Ant 14 16 Bamboo nil 11 Beach 45 nil Bounty Oil 01 01ft Bridge 23 24 Castlereagh 07
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      • 231 12 Alcan A1 24% Allied Chem 30% Allla Ch ll^s 58% Am Can 29% AT 4 T A ft P 52 7 s ft Anaconda 21% At RtcMld 79 Beth Steel 27% Boeing 23% Boise C 10% Burroughs 225 Caterp Tra 84% Chrysler 40% Coca-Cola 146% Colgate 82% Contl
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      • 34 12 Dow Jones closing stock averages on the New York exchange yesterday: SO Industrials 1,018.66 (off 0.15); 20 transport 209.96 (off 1.42); 5 utilities 115.67 (Off 1.05); 65 stocks 320.89 (off 1.22).
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      • 129 12 New York, Wednesday.— Prices firmed a bit toward the end, but still closed lower yesterday in active trading 0 n the New York Stock Exchange. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 selected bluechips was 0.15 lower to 1,018.66
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      • 114 12 Tokyo, Wednesday.—The Tokyo Stock Exchange continued to rise yesterday morning in heavy trading despite reports of a steep decline on Wall Street. The price index of the major first section of the market stood at 417.08, up 3.01 from Monday and that for
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      • 150 12 The improved trend in the morning trading session of the share market yesterday was not sustained in the afternoon. As a result, most of the counters recorded lower prices at the close of business. Among the major losers in the industrial section were Sime Darby, lAC and Cycle
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    • 1180 12 Washington:—The container has been to shipping what the jet engine waa to aviation—a revolution. The first container ship started moving trans Atlatic cargo in 1966, and things have not been the same since. By a common rule of thumb, container ships are
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    • 127 12 Singapore Slipway and Engineering is expanding its production capacity. Initially an estimated $5 million is to be spent by the end of this year, to increase the yard's facilities. "We will build all types of ships for export," said a spokesman. Present repair facilities will continue to
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    • 28 12 Tokyo. Tuesuay Hitachi Ltd., Japanese maker of electrical appliances and equipment, yesterday reported a net income of U5571,698 million for the six-month period ending September 30.
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    • 153 12 An increase in the rubber crop and a further reduction in costs of production have partly offset the deterioration in the rubber price, says Castlefields (Klang) Rubber Estate of the year ended June 1972. Chairman Jack Addinsell in his annual report, says that
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    • 189 12 Shareholders are told of the sale of Castlefield's East Gate division counting of 620 acres at a price of $16,000 per acre. A forfeiture deposit of 10 per cent has already been received and the balance of 90 per cent will be paid by November. After deducting capital gains
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    • 386 12 San Holdings has been asked by the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore to clarity a number of points raised by the company's auditors in its annual report for the year ended March 1972. Auditors Azman, Wong Salleh have made seven reservations in respect of the
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    • 125 12 The recent oil find off the coast of Sabah will not affect the operation of Shell Refining Company (M) here. This reply was given by the Shell management to the Stock Exchange in connection with the latter's query on the recent sudden price
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    • 265 12 Pearl and Dean Produc tions is closing Its studio in Singapore at the end of next month. The company, which specialises in cinema film advertising, and television commercial advertising is moving out to Kuala Lum pur where it has been operating since last year.
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 503 13 `@::)\:[@'`'?_@)'~">-(|$(__|+_= antiques, you READ ABOUT US lost weekend. Visit u$ today for the best buys in ceramics furniture, bygones, etc. 10 o.m. 7 p.m. everyday except Monday. We ore Eighth Moon 34, Greenwood Avenue (Hillcrest Pork) S'pore. *****0. AMADEUS MUSIC AGENCY announces the closing dates for enrolment for the Trinity
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    • 515 13 FURNISH CO ROOMS Avoiloble Immediately, Newton, Rental $70/. person. Please telephone: *****. 3 WANTtO SIVKRAL DCTACNKD BUNGALOWS, semi-detached terrace houses, apartments, furnished/portiolly/unfurnished in various good residential areas for the staff and executives of various well established foreign firms. Most of the leases are to be signed with the companies. Rem
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    • 508 13 PRIVATE SECRETARIAL COURSE Commencing April, 1973. The course will prepore students for the L.C.C., P.S.C., Exominotions in June, 1974. Also $horthond, typewriting, bookkeeping and Malay. REGENT COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE, 217, EAST COAST ROAD, (LAU'S ARCADIA), TEL: 4401 «0 S'PORE. I WxfJStS; FOR THE FINEST FLOWER BASKETS for the Festive Season. Call
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    • 460 13 CHESTNUT DRIVE, STORK 23. Freehold title. Tastefully furnished, ultra-modern split-level new bungalow on 13,000 sq. ft. Panoramic view, 4 airconditioned bedrooms, bathroom attached separate living/dining orea for entertaining. Price $320,000 0.n.0. Renting also considered. Phone *****9 Principals only. Sf RANGOON GARDEN COLCHESTER GROVE newly renovated single-storey detached terrazzo throughout, 6,100
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    • 547 13 APPLICATIONS AM IHVITiP from suitobly qualified teachers for the- position of principal, St. Stephens School, Siglap View, S'pore 15. All opplkatibnt should be addressed to:- The Secretory, Management Committee, Christton Brothers' School, c/o St. tian Brothers' School, c/o St. Patrick's School, East Coast Rood, for applications 6-2-7s. WANTED EXPERIENCED LADY
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    • 523 13 WK BUY. SSLL ft TRADE-IN for Used/New Comer as (AM Brands) 177, Middle Rood, Singopore *****7. Registered Second-hand Dealers. Branch: 10-£ Clifford Pier, CoHyer Quay Singopore *****3. COLOUR PHOTOS ready by 24 hours. World-wide Centre, 360 Shaw Centre. Singapore *****4. Km*#* PKACI CENTRE Shops from 300 sq.ft. Available. Contact Kian
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    • 466 13 WI TtY MUCH HARDER YOU FLY CHEAPER! NEW YEAR FARE BARG NEW YEAR'S FARE BARGAIN! LONDON EUROPE CANADA AUSTRALIA UNITED STATES ASIA WE GIVE YOU THE WORLD! INTER-ASIA TRAVEL 67 High Street, Suite G (3rd Floor) "Sotnam House", Singapore 6. Tel: *****/*****. < URGENTLY REQUIRED MERCK* DES 200, Dotsun 1200,
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    • 92 13 1965 Cortina Super Good running condition $2250 0.n.0. View 9, Chiselhurst Grove, S'porc 19. STAY NEW COUNTRY HOTEL with all comfoits. Homely Service aircond'tiooed rooms. Reduce Rotes. Telephone: *****9/*****2. 4 Eden Grove off Bartley Rood Singopore 19. 6HIM FENG HOTEL NEW luxurious furnished double bedrooms $16 $20 Gey long Rood.
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  • 243 14 The Singapore American School's Eagles basketball team continued its swoop in the Bukit Timah district basketball championships with yet another impressive performance at Boys' Town yesterday. Playing Its second game in the championships the Eagles massacred Swiss Cottage School 62-18 after being held under pressure in
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  • 73 14 London, Wednesday. Extra-time goals by Ken Wagstaff and Ken Houghton enabled second division Hull City to beat fourth division Stockport County in their English Football Association Cup third round replay at Hull last night. Hull now go forward to meet first division West Ham United
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  • 322 14  -  By Sonny Yap The Asian Pacific Karate-Do Congress will be inaugurated in March. The formation of the body is scheduled to be held two days before the First Asian Pacific Karate Do Championships to be staged on March 3 and 4. A statement from the organising committee
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  • 332 14  -  By Dennis Chia Singapore American School dethroned Swiss Cottage Secondary School to become the new champion of the Bukit Timah district softball championships played at Swiss Cottage yesterday. The SAS team thus avenged its last year's 15-9 defeat at the hands of Swiss Cottage in the National
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  • 363 14  -  By Nancy Koh Buklt Ho Swee Secondary School made a strong claim for the City District 'C' division Badminton title when it beat First Toa Payoh School 4-1 at Bukit Ho Swee yesterday. Its star players. Yap Swee Tong and Tang Tak Kwang, were destructive
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  • 768 14  -  SOCCER 1 SCI WITH JEFFREY LOW Winger R. Krishnan, dropped from the national squad in the latter part of last year, has been recalled to rejoin the band, which started training this week. Krishnan, who was axed in the last selection of trainees in December,
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  • 223 14  - Inter Con cagers finals DENNIS CHIA. The inter constituency basketball tournament enters the quarter finals tomorrow with 16 teams from four groups competing for places in the last eight. After a series of games in the first two rounds the excitement starts with some first class basketball being played at
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  • 45 14 Tokyo, Wednesday Eawao Kato, gold medal winner in the men's individual combined event in gymnastics in the 1968 Mexico City and 1972 Munich Olympic Games, has been suspended for six months from competition because he was involved in a hit-and-run driving case.
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  • 45 14 New York, Wednesday—Leading money winners on the FGA tour include: Bruce Crampton, Australia U5560,030; Rod Fun seth U5536,815; Dave Hill 7360; Gay Brewer 6307; Lannv Wadkins 5300; Steve Melnyk 4746; Labron Harris, Jr. 3955; George Archer 3743; Don Bies 3406; Grier Jones 2908.
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  • 323 14  -  By Nancy Koh Gan Eng Seng whipped aside all other schools in the Pasir Panjang District hockey to clinch five out of the nine positions including the "A" and "B" division titles at the Dover Road pitches yesterday. Queenstown Secondary, who grasped the "A" division laurels
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  • 273 14 London, Wednesday There are about 270 registered gymnastics clubs in Britain with, in some cases, waiting lists longer than the existing membership. It takes only a moment or two's thought to realise what caused this situation Olga Korbut. Olga, that tiny, smiling Russian wisp of a
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 59 14 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald (I <ser AWAY FROM THAT WINDOW. ELAINE. NOW/ J m m m i m m m m m ZJ> m 1 _»> vvi w« U! >■ &VE7HAT TO ME7 > ►a\ THE FORCE Of HIS LANDING SENDS fORSY AND 60NSEL I A '4 Yn V
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  • 567 15 Kingston, Wednesday "I lost my championship, but not my pride." That was Joe Frazler's reaction this morning when he awoke without the world heavw eight boxing title for the first time in almost three years. "I know my mistakes and what I did
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  • 126 15 Taipei, Wednesday.—Australia was yesterday accused of mixing sport with politics in refusing visas to a Taiwan Judo team to compete as a national side in an International tournament in Sydney. A leading sports official who asked not to be Identified, said Taiwan regretted its team had been
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  • 83 15 Inglewood, California, Wednesday. Margaret Smith Court of Australia and Rosemary Casals of San Francisco, the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds, breezed past opening round rivals yesterday in the U5525,000 British motors professional women's tennis tournament. Mrs. Court. 30, mother of an 11-month-old son, led all the
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  • 30 15 Chamonlx, France Wednesday Is* belle Mir, the PTench girl who finished tenth in last year's World Skiing Cup, broke a leg in a fall during training here yesterday.
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  • 244 15 New Delhi. Wednesday. England's selectors yesterday made three changes for the fourth Test against India which starts at Kanpur tomorrow. Slow left-arm bowler, Derek Underwood, has been recalled to the side in place of Pat Pocock who was returning to England for his father's funeral.
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  • 134 15 London, Wednesday Russian Alex Metrevell and American Marty Rlessen both staged fighting rallies to reach the quarter-finals of the Rothman's £20,000 international tennis tournament at London's Royal Albert Hall last night. Metrevell scored a 7-5, 6-2 victory over American Erik van Dillen while fourth-seeded Rlessen
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  • 152 15 Monte Carlo, Wednesday —French Alpine Renaults installed themselves in the lead of the Monte Carlo rally last night as a sudden blizzard left more than half the cars Jammed miles behind the leaders. Only 60 cars managed to fight their way round the notorious burzet loop speed
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  • 160 15 By Blue feter Boy Wonder went like a winner on a good track at Bukit Tim ah this morning. Ridden by Rod Dawkins the Sedgewick five-year-old sprinted smartly over 3f in 36 2/5. Daylight Express (Moses Lee) worked well, running 3f in 39 2/5, with ease.
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  • 305 15 London, Wednesday. Eighty- six years of history withstood a nerve- shattering test when attractive French girl Anne Marie happily bowled into the Royal St. George's golf club at Sandwich, this week. Anne-Marie was toting a set of clubs and a weighty suitcase. Although she couldn't utter
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  • 300 15 London, Wednesday —The first steps towards streamlining the sick and suffocating world of English soccer may be taken at an important "power game" meeting in London this week. It's the once-a-year day gathering of club chairmen who, in the past, have simply gone through a rubber-stamping
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  • 196 15 London, Wednesday. Football League secretary Alan Hardaker yesterday "christened" the League's new brainchild in the struggle to curb soccer hoollnganlsm. It's a train offering soccer fans deluxe travel to and from matches, plus a lot of extras. Soccer fans are notorious for bad behaviour
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  • 143 15 London, Wednesday. For some unexplained reason, England's cricket bosses have decided they do not like the Idea of wagers on Individual batting and bowling performances. So they have told bookmaking firm Ladbrokes to exclude this form of betting at their faculties In five counties next
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  • 272 15  -  By Dennis Chia Top Australian jockey Roy Higgins and France's Yves SaintMartin of the L'Arc de Triomphe fame will not be riding here this weekend. Roy Higgings has gone home to fulfil some engagements while -Saint Martin has gone to Bangkok for Personal reasons. The
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    • 233 15 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ■■■■■I ■■■■■I 10 Vatican chapel. 11 Basic nature 12 "I Am a 13 Lament: Poet. 14 Business event. 19 Thunderhead 22 Game of chance. 24 Conformity. 27 Costume for Dorothy Lamour. 29 31 Ob.>®r 34 Cb. o' Creti--35 lite-saving fluid 36 37 Covenant. 38 Substitute of a
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  • Back Page WEDNESDAY
    • 42 16 Meet Nora Hashim, 19, who works at the Boiler Room in Mandarin Hotel. She is a finalist in a beauty contest organised by the hotel. Nora's ambition is to be an air hostess. Picture by Jerry Seh
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    • 40 16 AH FOOK: With Joe Frazier dethroned it now looks like Muhammad Ali will have to fight a much tougher opponent to get back his crown. MEI LIN: Fight! Fight! Fight! Isn't there enough of fighting in this world?
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    • 144 16 Today Is Wednesday, January 24, the 24th day of 1973 with 341 to follow. THE MOON: Approach ing Its last quarter. THE MORNING STABS: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. THE EVENING STAB: Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. American sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett
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    • 51 16 Mrs. Carol Lawless, 26. jailed for four years for stealing £7800. from the bank where she worked, has lost her application to the Appeal Court in Britain to free her so that she and her husband could try to have the baby she so desperately
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    • 401 16  -  By Ranjeet Singh The postman's burden is an improving one. But one doubts if the postman welcomes it. From the traditional aim of carrying vital messages and greetings, the postman's work has progressed to delivering mail order goods and magazines and circulating mail advertising and
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 949 16 Trust your lucky star IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today you possess an outstanding ability with words. Your command of the language is such that you are never at a Ices for verbal means by which to express yourself, whether that expression must come vocally or through the written word.
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