New Nation, 15 March 1973

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  • 18 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, March 15, 1973 No. 663 Price 15 cents SINGAPORE THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1973
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  • 12 1 OUR ROADS rT t Police reported 52 accidents yesterday Two were serious.
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  • 223 1 In light trading, industrial shares advanced marginally for the first 45 minutes this morning on the stock exchange of Malaysia and Singapore. Only nve counters in the property section were in demand. But prices were nearly firm. Hotel section attracted very little business. However, Royal, Overseas Union
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  • 264 1 ...despite Govt pledge Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Traders in Petaling Jaya and Penang are refusing to accept Singapore currency although the Federal Treasury has assured the Malaysian public that the two currencies are still being interchanged at dollar-for-dollar value. The secretary-general of the Federal Treasury, Mr.
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  • 52 1 Rangoon, Thursday. Burma has decided to suspend its rice exports pending a settlement of the current world monetary crisis, according to Premier Ne Win. He told a committee meeting of the official Burma Socialist Programme Party yesterday that the currency situation had created difficulties In the trading
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  • 399 1 'Will not upset military ratio* Reuter Washington, Thursday The United States yesterday eased its embargo on arms shipments to India and Pakistan, opening the way for the shipment to Pakistan of armoured personnel carriers, spare military parts, parachutes and aircraft engines. The move
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  • 469 1 Grenade attack on crowded pagoda United Press International Saigon, Thursday Communist terrorists lobbed hand grenades into a crowded pagoda early today, killing 10 civilians and wounding 88 others, military spokesmen said. The attack apparently was made during an allnight religious ceremony in the Buddhist pagoda in
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  • 70 1 New York, Thursday. Four of five men aboard a Marine Corps helicopter were killed yesterday when it exploded and burned shortly before takeoff from the New River Marine Corps air station. The fifth man escaped from the flames with slight abrasions and returned to duty later
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  • 248 1 United Press International Manila, Thursday. The 108 prisoners of war freed yesterday in Hanoi launched their "freedom diet" a few hours after their arrival at Clark Air Base, devouring 65 lb., of steak and 45 dozen eggs at their first meal. The eggs, 540 in all,
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  • 259 1 Reuter, UPI London, Thursday Britain, already hit by a series of strikes and go-slows, faces further chaos with a nationwide strike by teachers scheduled for next Thursday. Yesterday, more than 500,000 students members of the National Students' Union Joined the "strike a-day" campaign by
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  • 39 1 Washington, Thursday— The United States has alerted airlines to be on guard against a band of Palestinian guerrillas disguised as priests or women who may attempt to hijack or bomb a US or Israeli airliner in Europe.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 331 2  -  'Will disrupt routine' By Pauline Khng Civil servants today expressed apprehension about the possibility of the government staggering their office hours. An administrative officer said: "No doubt the flexibility of the system will help relieve traffic congestion but It will be at the expense
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  • 294 2 Association's call to the govt. The Singapore Association for the Blind is to send a memorandum incorporating the relevent recommendations of the First ASEAN Seminar on Education for the Visually Handicapped to the Ministries of Education and Social Affairs. The memorandum will seek to
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  • 165 2 Seven members of the Anchor Brewery team (above) rehearsing for the Grand Hotel race. I From the Oberoi Imperial's roof-top garden down the lift to the car park they raced, carrying Mr. Sam Yeo a 130-lb member of the team as they prepare to
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  • 196 2  -  By Violet Oon The Art Theatre Ballet gave a disappointing performance at the National Theatre last night. At best it can be called a good amateur company but it certainly did not reach professional standards. Although the Company was formed to re-create the
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  • 95 2 Watch the Anchor team in the Anchor Beer Grand Hotel Race on Saturday, March 17, tp be run from the top of the Oberoi-Imperial, via the Shangri-la and finishing at the top of the Hilton—and you can win a carton of Anchor Beer
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 97 2 weather! Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Tokyo 11- 4C Kuala Lumpur 33-24 C Hong Kong 20-18 C Talpeh 17-15 C Jakarta 31-24 C Seoul 12- OC Bangkok 34-26 C Manila 31-19 C Naha 18-17 C London 7 1C Paris 6 OC Moscow 4-Minus 1C New York 17- 7C San Francisco
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    • 443 2 Tides Today: 9.50 p.m. (2.5 m). Tomorrow: 8.44 a.m. (2.6 m). 10.22 p.m. (2.5 m). Saturday: 9.38 a.m. (2.8 m). 10.48 p.m. (2.6 m). Sunday: 10.24 a.m. (2.9 m), ll.li p.m. (2.7 m). Monday: 11.05 a.m. (2.9 m), 11.34 p.m. (2.7 m). Tuesday: 11.45 a.m. (2.9 m), 11.56 p.m. (2.8
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    • 127 2 Today's winning number *****1 If the last six digits of your Singapore identity card number are those shown above, you can claim a $300 Post Office Savings Bank Gift Voucher. Your voucher will be paid into a Post Office Saving Bank account in your name. Call with your identity card
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  • 375 3  -  Accidents in home By Rav K. Dhaliwal Simple but striking posters and gruesome photographs will emphasise that "accidents don't just happen," at Home Safety Exhibition this month. The exhibition which begins next Saturday wili stress the fact that human and environment circumstances, both predictable
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  • 208 3 Ninety-three children and youths have been granted licences 4n January to work in various industrial firms. This brings the total number of children working in factories to 2062 as at the end of the month, according to the Labour Ministry's latest monthly report.
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  • 215 3 The days of the "death-divers" at Fullerton Building are numbered. These divers, who make use of one corner of the building to indulge in daredevil stunts during weekends, face arrest and possible prosecution if police advice is not heeded. Police spokesman Mr. Lawrence Loh
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  • 41 3 An overhead pedestrian bridge will be erected at Queensway near Stirling Road tomorrow at 1 a.m. The installation will take about two hours during which part of Queensway from Queen's Circus to Stirling Road will be closed to traffic.
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  • 191 3 More than 1,000 dailyrated employees of the Housing and Development Board will receive increments ranging from 80 cents to $1.80 a day. following a new collective agreement signed between the HDB nd the Public Daily Rated Housing and Development Board Workers' Union. The new
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  • 49 3 An American executive, Mr. Joseph Worley, has appealed to anyone who has found his US driving licence to return it to him. He can be contacted at Teledyne Movible Offshore, Singapore Hyatt, tel: *****1. He lost his licence along o*"«hard Road about a week ago.
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  • 23 3 The Singapore Medical Association will hold its annual dinner and dance at the Hyatt Hotel next Saturday at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 216 3 The foreign dentist who has applied for registration here has been disallowed to sit for the qualifying examination set by the University of Singapore. This was decided by the Singapore Dental Board following a protest by the Singapore Dental Association (SDA) last week.
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  • 65 3 Marine police have recovered the body of missing schoolgirl Miss M. Davakl, 14. who disappeared into the sea off Sentosa on Sunday. Her body was found embedded In the mud off the island yesterday. Miss Davakl, of the Umar Pulavar Tamil School, was with a group of 67
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  • 29 3 The Singapore Polytechnic and the Polytechnic Students Union will hold a course on The Training of the Industrial Technician at the Ayer Rajah Campus tomorrow from 9 a.m.
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  • 391 3 Undergrads told: Go the hard way up A university degree is not the sole passport to successful employment, Mr. Peter Y.S. Tan, secretary of the Public Service Commission, told university undergraduates today. "Having been offered the Job, there will be the need to adapt
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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    • 202 3 ■-fc N> Who cores for uour babu better than you do? \j Gentle Qiticura When it comes to love and affection, of course baby will get all he needs from you to grow up secure and happy. But when it comes to gentle skin care, you can trust Cuticura to
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 315 3 Quiz object No. 216 Bee Hwee wins top prize Wl IS II? Last Saturday's quiz photograph showed five marker pins. The first prize of $15 goes to Mr. Ng Bee Hwee, a construction worker, of Dakota Crescent. His entry was the first correct one opened by the editor last night.
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  • In Person
    • 478 4 ...AND nrs SO EASY IN a clinging jetblack outfit of jeans and jersey tee-shirt with a low-scooped neckline, petite singing star LULU bounced into the Press reception bidding cheery "he 11 os" and "how are you" to everyone. There were no protective managers and agents to
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    • 343 4 Ugh! You'd say. Why be a private secretary with a humdrum nine to five beat and a grouchy, snarly boss who's always asking for his coffee? It's a matter of opinion, and If Mrs. Elaine Harper's Is worth listening to even secretaries have a silver lining.
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  • 677 4  -  CINEMA By Edgar Koh THE NEW CENTURIONS starring George C. Scott and Stacy Keach. For a fleeting moment, the title of this film brings back visions of Hollywood of the 1950s and its epic, multi'- million dollar Greek and Roman spectacular blockbusters. it turns out, however,
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  • 292 5 United Press International Wounded Knee, Thursday A federal grand Jury has indicted 31 people in connection with the takeover of Wounded Knee by militant Indians, who have occupied the reservation village for more than two weeks, US attorney William Clayton announced yesterday. Mr. Clayton
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  • 46 5 Rome, Thursday—ltalian Prime Minister Mr. Giulio Andreotti will pay an official visit to Japan at the end of April, the Italian Foreign Ministry said yesterday. An official announcement said he would be accompanied on the visit by Foreign Minister Mr. Giusppe Medici.
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  • 78 5 United States Air Force Major Charles Day, of Arizona, walks to a waiting plane as a North Vietnamese official calls out his name at Gia Lam Airport in Hanoi. Waiting behind Major Day is Major Charles Tyler, also of Arizona. The two men were among 108 US
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  • 308 5 Reuter Tel Aviv, Thursday—lsrael is prepared to recognise King Hussein of Jordan as the custodian of the Muslim holy places in Jerusalem. But it would not agree to any new partition of the city, or to any Jordanian sovereignty over any part
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  • 360 5 United Press International New York. Thursday. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt lived as husband and wife in name only after the first 10 years of their marriage, their son Elliott Roosevelt said today in an article in Ladies Home Journal. In the article, a condensation of
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  • 124 5 Reuter Rome, Thursday Police yesterday recovered the priceless masterpiece by Venetian painter, Giambattista Tiepolo, the greatest Italian painter of 18th century. The stolen Tiepolo, valued at least 1,000 million lire ($4.41 million), was taken from a small church In the northern town of Rovetta. The church's
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  • 60 5 Belfast, Thursday A man was jailed for 15 years yesterday for planting a bomb in Belfast city centre which caused £85,000 worth of damage. John Montgomery, 24, was caught by soldiers after running away from a car. When he was brought back, he became agitated
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  • 481 5 Nixon gets tough Reuter Washington, Thursday President Nixon has asked Congress to wage a ,r pitiless war" on crime by restoring the death penalty and imposing- mandatory sentences up to life imprisonment without parole for heroin and morphine pushers. His proposals were in a
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  • 273 5 United Press International Belfast, Thursday. Bombers thought to be Irish Republican Army (IRA) men stepped up their bomb campaign along the Irish Republic border and in Northern Ireland's cities yesterday. At least four bombs exploded in and around Belfast yesterday. A filth was
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 1181 6  -  South-East Asia Report From Ronnie Muntu INDIA Leading politicians in the Indonesian capital have expressed serious doubts, whether the recent merger of the country's nine parties into two new political groupings will result in a more active and effective Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (House of Representative)
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    • 1180 6  -  From B. Ronquillo PHILIPPINES In 1960 the Filipino and Japanese representatives signed in Tokyo the Japanese Philippine treaty which was supposed to normalise relations between the two countries. This treaty was ratified soon after by the Japanese Diet but never by the Philippine Senate. With
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    • 672 6  -  From V. K. Chin MALAYSIA Members of the disbanded MCA task force in Perak have abandoned their political struggle for the time being and are concentrating their efforts now on capturing the leadership of the Chinese guilds and associations. The force was "disowned"
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    • VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 424 6 What other Newspapers are saying: FAMILY SYSTEM AND INCOME TAX REGULATIONS What sort of a family system Is more suitable to our society? Two different propositions were put forth during the Parliament budget debate day before yesterday. The first was made by the Minister for Finance, Mr.
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      • 170 6 SOUITI-EAST ASIA TOO COULD BECOME THE UNITED STATES What the Malaysian Finance Minister Tun Tan Siew Sin has said in Zurich with regard to the possibilities of South-east Asia's development, is true. The natural resources found in South-East Asian countries Burma, Thailand, Indo-China. the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia—could
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 36 6 SHORT RIBS Nou DOM'-f LOOKED Gooc^ieE 3. KWOVvJ. X UA\JE-JVU<=> f"££llNG OP IrtfWitfG DOOM. if) S! Y/A <30 AMD.VOO DOM'T KhJCVJ Wrt*T<s CAUeiNIC; IT? By Frank O'Neal <oUKE X DO.QdEEN" I<O DUE BACK FROM GAOPPIHG -tcir
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  • 318 7 A large number of students taking English as a second language speak and write in an unnatural and stilted, manner, said Mrs. Molly Ng, head of the EngUsh Unit at Ngee Ann Technical College. Speaking at the SingaP°r® .Book Publishers Association seminar
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  • 299 7  -  Bong: Do research By Teresa Ooi An educationist has called for the setting up of a publishers' research centre to identify and meet the needs of schools more effectively. Mrs. Marie Bong, of the Education Ministry, was speaking at a seminar on the role of educational materials
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  • 153 7 Sheep importers fear that there may be a further hike in the price of mutton here due to the rising costs of shipments from Australia. The suppliers also intend to raise the prices ot the consignments due to a general world shortage of
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  • 19 7 The Chinese YMCA is organising a two-day deep sea fishing trip to Pulau Tioman from March 31.
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  • 499 7  -  Housing programme unique, says report By Suthichai Yoon Bangkok, Thursday An ECAFE survey has suggested that countries in the region should carefully study the "unique cases of Singapore and Hong Kong" where massive development housing programmes have produced "remarkable results." Describing housing conditions throughout the developing
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  • 169 7 The Kwong Wai Siu Free Hospital in Serangoon Road will soon admit patients of all races. Plans to open the hospital to every sector of the public were approved when the hospital's board of directors and committee met last Sunday and made the
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  • 55 7 Evangelist Hal Herman from Germany will hold a special crusade programme at the Victoria Memorial Hall today, tomorrow and on Bunday at 7.30 p.m. The programme will include choir songs, prayers for the sick and other testimonies. His wife Mildred will also. give a violin and
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    • 183 7 CONFERENCES Ret: 525 COCKTAILS A man should not oniy have the right time but the right watch as well. Titoni's latest men's dress watch is designed for that Impressive at cocktails, timely at conferences Dress watch instinctive of distinction. Slim, sophisticated and presented with luxury suede straps. Comes with or
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 420 7 DR. KILDARE The willful PINTO BROWN HAS PRACTICALLY KIPNAPPEP PR. K/LPARE. r li Yd WRONG/ I'VE SOT SOME PROBLEMS RIGHT NOW... LIKE by Ken Bald WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET THERE? PO I GET HORSEWHIPPEP FOR PARING TO TORN POWNI VOUR GRANPFATHER'S MONEY? r— NO WAY 1 OF TELLING, DOCTOR
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  • 458 8 ASPAC's standing committee meeting in Bangkok this week may well prove to be the last of this ill-fated seven-year-old organisation. With one member, Malaysia, officially out. and another three, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, obviously trying to find some way of bowing out
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  • 103 8 by ISPY Coming to Singapore on a private visit next week, we are reliably informed, is the owner and publisher of Newsweek and the Washington Post Mrs. Katharine Graham, who hit the headlines recently over the Watergate affair in the US. Mrs. Graham will be accompanied by the
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  • 1076 8  -  PAKIR SINGH Indonesia's stateowned oil company Pertamina and its erstwhile head Lt. Gen. Ibnu Sutowo appear slated for further successes and triumphs in 1973. At Pertamina's modern multi-storeyed building in Jakarta, officials are confident that Lt. Gen. Sutowo's esteem
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  • Letters
    • 412 8  -  T.A. MUGAN Dr. Wong Yip Chong Is reported in your paper of March 8 to have called for special care for our neg--lec t e d psychopaths. I wholeheartedly support him and feel that this is long overdue. The people who commit crimes in this affluent society
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    • 230 8 There are at least two categories of house buyers as I see it in Singapore today. The first category are the genuine buyers the desperate group of people try- lng their utmost to own a house. The second category are the speculators merrily booking houses which they
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    • 202 8 It was by chance that I tuned on to the Isal Virunthu programme on Monday (12-3-73) at 10 p.m over Channel 8. I managed to listen to only the second hair of the Magudl performance by violinist Kunnakudl Vaithianathan. I was struck by his virtuosity and the
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    • 104 8 We have a Labour Office in Singapore but this caters for those without jobs. Can another please be set up to deal with those who are already working but have acquired other skills or qualifications so that this department would enable them to get
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • 553 9  -  M H M m MB SB In the last of the .four-part series on martial arts, New Nation's investigating team exposes the fraud that exists in some of the schools. Hundreds of Singaporeans and others have been duped into enrolling for correspondence courses
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  • 619 9 Martial arts associations, schools and clubs have been branded as commercialised institutions in the past months. The charge made after a sudden mushrooming of schools and clubs throughout Singapore has, however, brought emphatic denials from several associations. As one of them put
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  • 575 9 Mix up several martied art forms and hey presto... you have chap koon do —a Singapore-styled fighting art. Cynics who scoff at such a "creation" will be surprised to learn that its founder took top interna ttonal honours by applying this art. The year was
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  • 280 9 The world would have been robbed, of one of men's most chivalrous sport if not for a frail, school teacher named Jigoro Kano. From the dying and almost forgotten traditions of the age-old Samurai art of fighting, Kano salvaged much of its
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  • Article, Illustration
    5101 10 WHY THE DUTCH KEPT AN EYE ON SUMATRA Batch expansion During the Napoleonic wars, 1811-1816 Holland was occupied by the French. Hie Dutch decided to allow the British to occupy their posBAgyjr'm* in the East in order to prevent them from falling into French hands. Malacca and Java were
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  • TREND
    • 792 12  -  From Patricia Morgan Melbourne Herald Living dangerously is par* of the game, so there I was at Norman Hartnell's Ma y f a i r salon, asking his models are so old. Not for me brave exploits of reporting on Asian wars, nor
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    • 551 12  -  TALKING ife SHOP RUTH MOSES Nothing has spread the renown of Bohemia so widely in the world as its glass. Thus reads a statement contained in one of the first studies devoted to Czech glassmaking. The fine classical crystal glassware from Czechoslovakia and its more
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    • 505 12 THE male bOK V\ V A new romance is in the offing some pal of yours has just mentioned a possible pew interest. The next question you ask your pal concerns either her physical or mental attributes. If all appears to be satisfactory, you
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    • 66 12 Comedienne Phyllis Dißer recently hod o traumatic experience, thieves stole her moke -up cose containing special expensive cosmetics valued at more than $700. But the two villains were nabbed hath were men and charfod In West Lot Angolas court. Phyllis was there as the complainant and quipped:
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • FURNITURE
    • 1061 13  -  By Rav Dhaliwal The progress of the furniture industry in Singapore has been an impressive one —while the need for furniture has always been there, the demand in terms of design and quality has changed. In earlier days, most people purchased furniture to
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    • 1008 14  -  Peter Ong Ask any of the antique dealers in town about their custom and chances are that they'll tell you there is a general lack of appreciation for such objects of art, and that includes furniture. It is not uncommon to find most
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    • 1469 14  -  The furnishing depends on imaginative use of space Gene Teo The manner in which people furnish their houses is a matter of taste and differing purposes. To some, functionality and comfort are top priority; to others, stylised informality and yet others, the idea of a
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    • 871 15  -  STANDARDS IMPROVE WITH GROWING DEMAND By CHOO SIAK SIEW Despite rising prices of cane furniture caused by higher prices of cane and shortage of skilled labour, cane furniture has grown in popularity both locally and abroad. Behind the enhanced popularity are Improved
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    • 498 15  -  Peter Ong Ever since time immemorial, man has evolved all kinds of furniture, each with a characteristic style of its own. The Japanese gave the world simplicity of lines while an Impressive range was bestowed by the English from the rural Tudor style to the
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    • 1163 16  -  Pauline Khng What makes a Housing Development Board flat different from its thousands of counterparts, or a semidetached house different from its identical twin? Basically it would be the way we "dress" it up. Home as the well-worn cliche goes, is where
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    • 295 17 Antiques are what they are because they have survived the test of time. And antique furniture is no different. Many of us cannot afford antique furniture to grace the home or even if we could there are not that many pieces to go around since
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    • 564 17  -  Pauline Khng Knock-down fur n iture is the better name for collapsible furniture. It doesn't refer to chairs which collapse when you sit but rather to furniture which can be taken apart and re-assembled. The production of such chairs is motivated by economy since the uniformity
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 992 14 Things you should know about furniture buying They will save you time, money and heartache Always look closely at joints, and learn to tell a nail and paste job from the Teal thUlg. A strong joint made according to professional standards consists of two pieces of wood made to fit
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    • 306 17 furniture Design lor Living WW. wvI TWftVA--* THE LATEST DESIGNS OF QUALITY FURNITURE FOR HOMES OFFICES Inspect them at our Showroom or RING ***** SIN SIN FURNITURE STORE 28-30, Orchard Road, SINGAPORE 9. y »> L-Shap«d Teak wood Cushion Sitting Room Suite $295/. LEE FATT Furniture Electrical Bite 138, No.
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 480 18  -  By Sonny Yap Singapore consumers will feel the big pinch of higher prices when they next visit their retail stores for made-in-Japan goods. A price survey made yesterday among retailers showed that the next consignment of Japanese goods arriving here would cost
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    • 90 18 London, Thursday—More than £2 million ($13.6 million) was wiped off the stock market value of BSA (Birmingham Small Arms) yesterday amid rumours that the once-mighty motorcycle and armaments firm was in serious financial trouble. The chairman of the Birmingham based company,
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    • 48 18 Development Bank of Singapore has made a Soup's pre-tax profits of .07 million for the year ended December 1972, 64.6 per cent more than last lime. The bank's profits before tax came to $8.9 million, 63.8 per cent more than the previous year.
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    • 195 18 The 41,784-ton (d.w.) Eagle Glory leaves here this weekend for Europe with the biggest ever shipment'of timber and plywood from Malaysia and Singapore. The cargo Is destined for Bordeaux, Le Havre, London, Bremen and Liverpool. The vessel on time charter to Steelwood Carriers arriv- ed
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    • 457 18  -  AVIATION By Lee Yew Meng The increasing air freight business in Singa pore has prompted an international company of air brokers and aviation consultants to set its regional office here recently. The company is called Instone Air Transport which is part of the
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    • 199 18 United Press International Bonn, Thursday. West Germany yesterday confirmed the severance of its connection to the US dollar by expressing the value of its mark in something other than the American currency for the first time. Chancellor Willy Brandt's Cabinet
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    • 148 18 Taylor Instrument intends to set up a partassembly plant in Singapore if there is substantial demand for instrumentation control equipment in the region The company's manager for technical operations. Mr. R. A. Wilson-Browne said: "Though we are now doing sub-assembly work here with local
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    • 79 18 Temenggong Securities Limited announces that it has reached an agreement with Messrs Chang Chin-Fa and Chia Cheuh Tong for the sale of its subsidiary Maclaine Watson (Singapore) at $2,350,000 to be satisfied in cash. According to the (TMG) directors, the sale of this subsidiary
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    • 174 18 Mr. Tim Phillips, 30, has been appointed BOAC's new district sales manager, East Malaysia and Brunei. A triple blue (hockey, squash and tennis) at Oxford, Mr. Phillips was previously the district sales manager In Ndola in Zambia. Mr. John Tan Buck Hoe has been promoted sales supervisor of the
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 260 18 Prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time): Aba lee n 13 14 do opts 041/ a 06 AOD 13 14 Allstate 17 nil Amad 06 07 Aurora 14 nil Do opts 04 04% Aust Ant 14 16 Bamboo 05 0814 Bach nil 51 Bounty Oil 01 Vi 02 Bridge
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      • 207 18 Closing prices (in francs) yesterday: Paribas 221.50 221) Indochine 269 (267) Foncier 410.50 (409.50) Printemps 152 (151.20) C.G.E. 515 (520) Bull 71.50 72.90) Royal Dutch 192 (192) Mtchelin 2031 (2020) Thomson 204 (200) CFP. 211 (213.50) Rhone 188.60 (180) Air 388 (383) Philips 91 (92.10) Suez 384.50 (385) Citroen
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      • 72 18 This service is supplied by the Union Bank of Switzerland. Closing prices on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday. UB« 4670 +60 SBC 3880 +70 Credit Suisse 3970 —20 Swl'sair B. 665 +10 Swiss Reinsurance 2650 50 Winterthur B. 1830 Juvena B. 2550 —20 Nestle B. 4245 Clba-Oelgy B. 2390
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      • 331 18 United Press International Prices were mixed in another dull session yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange. The market has moved narrowly in slow trading through several recent ses sions, with little in the news to inspire buying. Also, many investors awaited a resumption of trading on official
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      • 173 18 Kyodo Prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange surged ahead In fairly active tradln S y es terday morning. The TSE price index closed the morning session up 2.55 at 386.51 in the first section and up 1.10 at 404 52 In the second. Almost all issues in the steel,
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      • 32 18 Dow Jones closing stock averages on the New York Exchange yesterday 2 3 7°8> 978 85 (up 2.78), 20 transport 195.30 <ud ■""'ties ***** 551J- 65 stocks 305.89 iup
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    • 167 18 The share market finished off with a broad decline yesterday. Widespread selling was recorded 3n the earlier session. A rally towards the final bell fafled to have any remarkable impact. The Straits Times ordinary share index of 31 counters showed a drop of &52 points to 471.97. Industrial
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 120 18 Plan a little happiness m •2. :>s y r The best way to plan your future is to start saving for it. FEB can help you save now so you 11 have the money you'll need for any purpose. Holidays, college fees, cars, trousseaus, diamond rings, washing machines. We offer
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 518 19 -aw it.: T? FASHION MODELS. Highly Intelligent, Attractive ond Talented required for Musical Fashion Show. Going abrood on a month Tour. Apply with studio-taken Photograph. Giving to Particulars ond Telephone Contact To: P.O. Box 3799 Singapore. WHOLESALERS CLEARANCE SALE Genuine Twigtex Double-Knit Trousers at $24.90 each. Free Gift of V.I.P.
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    • 429 19 SOCIALIZED IN OFFKE CLEANINC and polishing of all types of floors. v Coll Sun Son General Contractor Building Maintenance Service 63, Lavender Street, S'pore 12 Tel: *****. WK SPECIALISE IN MOSAIC. tiles, parquet, carpet, curtains, glass doors, furniture and general woodwork. We provide qualit> workmanship at minimum price. Free odvice
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    • 462 19 INSTITUTE FOR CARCBt DEVELOPMENT I.CD. provides the professional training leading to recognised qualifications in Accountancy A.CA. Section 1: Accountancy, Economics Book-keeping Stetiitici •roup Diplome BROCHURES, PI *****1/2 CLIFFORD CENTRE, 24 RAFFLES PLACE. f J \x ;s".r*. 8 STORAGE SPACE REQUIRED 2,000 sq.ft. Telephone: *****7. J mi'-K fj: y CAR STEREO
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    • 413 19 MODERN 2 Vi-STOREY SPLITLEVEL BUNGALOW best residential area 22,000 sq. ft. 4 bedrooms, bathrtooms attoched, study, living, dining, sitting rooms, large balcony servants/drivers quarters. 51,000,000. Write Box 2293 N.N. Please include Telephone Nkimber. CHESTNUT CRESCENT Freehold High Level 10,000 sq. ft. With single-storey, 3-bedroomed bungalow. Pike: 5260,000 0.n.0. Offers from
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    • 593 19 WANTED A DOCTOR for suburbon general practice in West Australia, preferably with interest in surgery and obcteetrks. Attractive salary with eoriy opportunity of partnership. Ample leisure time and opportunity for postgraduate study. Reply stating qualifications, oge, marital status, in writing to Miss D. Pon, 469-J, Circuit Rd. Blk 38, Singapore
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    • 438 19 I COLOUR PHOTOS reody by 24 hours. World-Wide Centre, 360 Show Centre, Singapore *****4. PEACE CENTRE SHOPS FROM 300 sq. ft. available. Contact Kior An Reality Ltd., 275-C, Selegic Complex, Selegie Rood, Singapore 7. Telephone: *****/*****. GOLDEN MILE SHOPPING CENTRE Office-Shops, Airconditioned, Large/Small on Ist, 2nd Flootfc. Ring *****3 (S'pore).
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    • 308 19 FLY WITH US to Lourdes on regular olriines ot very low fort. See us also for general ticketing*. Merriyer Travel Service, Phoenix Hotel, Orchard Rood, S'pore 9 *****7/*****6. TOUR EUROPE WITH US 5 EUROPEAN CAPITALS 8 DAYS SI 283 LEISURELY TOUR OF FUROPE 19 DAYS ***** 8 COUNTRIES PARIS. $1378
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    • 288 19 9 1 URGENTLY REQUIRE USID YAMAHA) Ogons ond Upright Pianos. Any Model. Ring *****5 Contact Anthony Singapore. TIONG HOA HOTIL (4, Prinsep Street, S'pore 7) opposite Cathay Cinema Air conditioned non oiroonditioned rooms. Moderate charges. Nasi podang served day ond night Tel: *****/*****2. GHIM PENG HOTEL new luxurious furnished double
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  • 2397 20 SATU RDAY CLASS 4 DIY. 2—6F ($7OOO $4900 TO WINNER) 4700*8 FAMTT.I.F. VERTE a (Forward) Jaafar 7 9.00 ***** FLYING IN a (Big Fella) Bougoure 5 9.00 ***** MIDDLE EAST a (Welcome) R Breukelen 6 8.12 ***** MACH TWO a (Lucky) Bougoure 4 812
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  • 431 20 From Blue Peter in Ipoh Raconmyth, a newcomer trained by Collin Tulloh, showed galloping ability in a smart workout here on a good track this morning. With SairJ Suliman astride, he broke from the 4f to run the last 3f in 37 2/5, finishing with
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  • 1421 20 Bukit Timah trainer Ivan Allan has entered a powerful team of 21 torses for the Perak Turf Club March meeting and looks set for a gala meeting as most of his horses are in fine trim. Firebrand Is easily the pick of his charges. The Improving
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  • 437 20 —Scratchings SCRATCHINGS SATURDAY RACE ONE: 2.15 CI. 5 Div. 4 SViF: Wunderbar, Arctic Spring. Emergency Acceptor: Identical. RACE TWO: 2.45 CI. 5 Div. 1 -SV4F: Bertuah, Danish Don. RACE THREE: 3.15 CI. 5 Div. 3 SVtF: Dai-Pa-Knor, Alwin Caruso. RACE FOUR: 3.45 CI. 5 Div. 2-SV4F:
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  • 65 20 R.SJ^?. a i en Ind °nesia D ni„ e flnal of the 1 s h men's singles when^h* 1 h h defeated Denis a it S° Hansen 15-8, terda? 1116 seml flnal seml "flnal. Nie^n? ar K S J mT r e Riet veld TTttml r\ at
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  • 1211 21 GUTTER TALK Burly DICK BRIGGS of American Club caused a considerable amount of anxiety among- the topnotchers as the national championships enter the second week at Katong. Virtually an unknown in the alley scene here. 42-year-old Briggs took a bounding 'leap into contention for the
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  • 256 21 Bridgetown, Thursday Australia and the West Indies played to their second successive draw yesterday, with unbeaten centuries by lan Chappell (106) and Doug Walters (102) leaving the only memories of an otherwise dull day's play on the final day of the second cricket Test
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  • 171 21 London, Thursday Brazilian soccer club Santos slumped to their second successive defeat on their British tour when they were beaten 3-2 by English Third Division side Plymouth Argyle in a friendly match last night. A capacity crowd of 37,639 went to see Brazilian ace Pele In
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  • 24 21 Seletar Golf Club Women's team beat their counterparts of the Singapore Island Country Club 4-2 In a friendly match at Seletar yesterday.
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  • 41 21 Singapore's second choice goalie, 20-year-old Lee Bee Seng, is currently in peak form. He plays with an admirable combination of acute anticipation and calmness. Here, he makes a brave save against North Korea's April 25 last night. Photo by Philip Lim
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  • 282 21  -  By Nancy Koh Peter Bedford, the aggressive sixth-seeder, yesterday toppled third-seed Llm Kee Boon 3-0 to earn a berth In the semi-finals of of the SAFSA Open squasn championship at Ulu Pandan. Bedford clinched the first set 9-5 and hung on grimly to lead 7-4 In
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous

  • Back Page THURSDAY
    • 471 22  -  By Derrick Tay It was quite a wise man who said: "We all. make mistakes; that's why they put erasers on pencils." But then it is often not easy to rub out the mistakes we make. And we continue piling mistake after mistake aU
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    • 113 22 TODAY is Thursday, March 15, the 74th day ot 1973 with 291 to follow. THE MOON: Approaching its full phase. THE MORNING STARS: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury. THE EVENING STAR: Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the
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    • 50 22 AH FOOK; The hotel maid who paints roads at night to make an extra few dollars deserves to succeed in her effort to become a secretary. MEI LIN: If all our young people adopt her attitude then a good part of our labour shortage problem would be solved.
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    • 62 22 Selfishness is certainly not part of Stella Yap. Drop in at the Freddy Beauty Saloon and she will give you all the tips she knows. "Beauty is for all and nobody should be selfish about imparting a few tips to others," says 18-year-old Stella. When she is
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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    • 180 22 i/Aiuaiw 'convertible 1 The Flighter fills two ways. From an ink bottle or with a large capacity cartridge that writes up to 10,000 words. Point assembly is easily replaceable with a choice of 5 point sizes. Ranging from Extra Fine to Broad in 14 K gold. The Parker 45 Flighter
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 213 22 5 Singapore Opening and Where the Heart Is For the Family (C) Housewives' Matinee: Dear Deceiver (Cantonese film, Pt. 2) Close. Opening and Rocky Jones Space Ranger: Trial of Rocky Jones. (Ch. 2) News in Brief What Others Say (C) The Smith Family: Anniversary Science Report News and Parliament Report
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    • 658 22 Trust your IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you have been gifted "with an unusual combination of grace, charm, and relentless determination. You insist upon doing things your own way and in your own time —but you do so with such tact, such a display of congenial personality that only
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