New Nation, 30 July 1973

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  • 19 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Monday evening, July 30, 1973 No. 780 Price 15 cents NEWIpTION SfNCAPORE MONDAY, JULY 30, 1973
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  • 495 1  -  Man missing as fire destroys $400,000 property By Douglas Chan A total of 133 people lost their homes when fire swept through a kampung at Sims Avenue early today causing property damage estimated at $400,000. The fire, which broke out shortly after midnight, destroyed a cluster
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  • 242 1 A $74 million contract for the redevelopment of the Outram Road General Hospital was signed this morning between the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Dr. Ho Guan Llm and the project director, Mr. Howe Yoon Chong. Under the agreement, a government owned consultant firm,
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  • 106 1 In sluggish trading, share prices were steady for the first 45 minutes this morning on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. BUSINESS DONE: Singapore Hilton (10) 1.98, (1) 1.99. Amcol (3) 1.13. Sea View (1) 1.40. (1) 1.38. Temenggong Securities (1) 5.80. Sime Darby (1) 6.10. North Borneo
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  • 86 1 Mexico City, Monday.— Firemen yesterday pulled ed eight dead bodies out of a muddy cave that collapsed on nine young boys changing their clothes for a nearby soccer game. The dead youths ranged in age from five to 15. "I saw the ground fall on them
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  • 10 1 Police reported 94 accidents yesterday. Six were serious.
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  • 186 1 An emergency rescue team was faced with one of the most difficult operations over the weekend. Everybody did their bit to rescue a motorist who was trapped in his vehicle after an accident at Napier Road on Saturday afternoon. The man was unconscious and bleeding profusely.
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  • 63 1 Hong Kong, Mc.nday The Bank of China revalued the yuan against the Hong Kong dollar by one per cent, making a move of two per cent in less than a week. The new rate lor the yuan was 37.19 yuans per 100 HK dollars compared to
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  • 186 1 Reuter UPI Tripoli, Monday—Libya has decided to put on trial the hijackers of the Japanese jumbo jet, Information Minister Abu Zeid Durdah said yesterday. Tripoli Radio quoted the Minister as saying the hijackers three Arabs and one Japanese —will be tried in accordance with
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  • 64 1 Houston, Monday. The Skylab 2 astronauts interrupted work in the space station yesterday to settle persistent motion sickness symptoms they feared might aelay the first spacewalk planned for the 59 day research mission. Commander Alan Bean, Dr. Owen Garriott and Major Jack Lousma took anti nausea pills and
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  • 103 1 A bread-seller was stabbed to death at Mei Ling Street market this morning. According to eyewitness Ng Ah Lek, 52, who runs a coffee stall beside Lim's stall, was involved tti an argument a few minutes before he was killed. Ng said he intervened when the
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  • 26 1 London, Monday Mrs. Anne Kerr, an actress turned politician who took part in several international protest movements, died yesterday at the age of 48.
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  • 217 1 Two interdicted Two customs officials have been interdicted following a probe by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. One of them is a senior officer from Docks Division. He holds the rank of superintendent. The other is a customs officer from the Harbour Division. Both have
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  • 26 1 Tokyo, Monday—Japanese Prime Minister Kakuel Tanaka left here yesterday for Washingtdn for his second summit meeting with President Nixon in less than a year.
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  • 119 1 United Press International New York. Monday— Newsweek magazine said yesterday that the US Secretary of State, Mr. William Rogers' departure from his office "could come at any time." In its Periscope column, the news magazine said Mr. Rogers has been meeting privately with senior
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 269 2 Muslims to decide Muslims In Singapore can &pect a decision on the donation of organs this week. The Mufti of Singapore, Enclk Lsa Semalt, said this at. a forum in Malay on The Role of Islamic Religious Institutions Practices in Today's Society two days ago. The mufti
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  • 65 2 The Institute of Education will hold a course for lower secondary science teachers soon to expose them to new materials developed in the curriculum. The pilot project will incorporate experiments, apparatus improvisations, discussions and simulations of teaching situations. The Institute will also conduct a course on practical
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  • 260 2  -  By Sonny Yap No sound is sweeter to pretty Jenny Chew than the pounding of hooves. And no thrills greater than being astride a horse, trotting, cantering or galloping round the lush greenery of the Singapore Polo Club in Thomson Road.
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  • 271 2  -  By Violet Oon The performance by the People's Ballet oh Saturday night was artistically satisfying but it was a bit ragged at the edges. It was clear that we have some good ballet dancers, some of whom have danced professionally overseas, but because they
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  • 254 2  -  Passes misused By Wee Beng Huat The Ministry of Labour is on the look-out for work permit holders who disappear with their permits when their work contracts expire. It is understood that this follows attempts by some workers to re-use these employment passes to
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  • 35 2 The Singapore Industrial Labour Organisation has concluded 75 agreements on the National Wages Council recommendations for 30,500 workers. Nineteen of them were collective agreements. Negotiations with another 58 companies are in progress.
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  • 45 2 Mr. Alex Josey, a journalist, will give a talk on South-East Asia at the YMCA, Auditorium, Orchard Road, on Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. The talk is specially organised by the YMCA Young Adults' Group for all "O" and Higher Level GCE students.
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  • 25 2 University of Singapore sociology lecturer. Dr. Peter Chen, has been seconded to Ecafe for one year as regional adviser of its population division.
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  • 143 2 PAP's Queenstown branch has suggested the setting up of more consumer co-operatives to curb rising prices of foodstuffs. In a press statement the party's branch spokesman said since the formation of the Queenstown consumers co-oper-ative prices of products, particularly rice, cooking oil and
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  • 22 2 The Lions Club (Host) will hold its next luncheon at the Cafe Allegro, Goodwood Park Hotel at 12.45 p.m. on Wednesday.
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  • 220 2 Married female members of the Singapore Armed Forces who already have two or more children will not be granted maternity leave 110 m Aug. 1. The Singapore Armed Forces (Leave Amendment; Regulations 1973 also reduces by four days the period of maternity leave
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  • 78 2 The Singapore Jaycees will hold a national teenage safe driving championship in September. The event consists of two parts: A driving clinic on Sept. 16, involving lectures and an examination and the championship proper on Sept. 23 when participants will go through a traffic circuit. All youths
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 120 3 Reuter Perth. Monday—A doctor and a dentist from Singapore have been recruited to practise in the town of Norseman, 450 miles (720 kilometres) east of here, according to a State Government official. The town has had neither a doctor nor a dentist for
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  • 51 3 The Chartered Bank will hold a Donald Duck and Dumbo colour drawing competition for children until September. The first three prizes are $300, $150 and $75. There are also nine consolation prizes of $25 each. Contest forms are available from Wednesday at any Chartered Bank branch in
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  • 21 3 The Port of Singapore Authority has set up a Ship Planning Unit to cater for container ships' stowage planning.
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  • 360 3 To ensure survival Special intensive rare facilities are necessary to assure the intact survival of premature babies, according to an Australian doctor. Dr. Eric D. Burnard said: "Premature babies need special attention as they have immature lungs. While most can manage on expert but conservative treatment,
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  • 166 3 The average local diet for women may not contain sufficient iron to offset the demands of menstruation, pregnancy and lactation, according to Dr. L. L. Chang, from the Department of Physiology, University of Singapore. Speaking at the eighth Singapore Malaysia Congress of Medicine symposium at
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  • 89 3 The Singapore Pensioners Association may consider staging a "public demonstration" If the government rejects their petition for a revision of pension scales, an association official said yesterday. Mr. P. Anthony, the association's secretary said: "We were given to understand that the Finance Ministry will reply to our second
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  • 365 3 Other Japanese companies may be guilty of fostering the image of the 'ugly Japanese" by unscrupulous practices, but the president of the Mitsui group is quite confident that his company is certainly not in this category. And the secret of its success, Mr.
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  • 174 3 There are 424 practising lawyers in Singapore as of May this year, according to the latest government gazette. Of these, 22 lawyers were admitted to the Bar only this year. According to the list, the oldest man in the profession here is Mr. Cecil
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 381 3 w- I 5 ■Mi I CINEMA POSER KWim SU/NEW NATION CONTEST Last Wednesday's poser showed a scene from The Culpepper Cattle Co. The first 10 correct entries opened by the Editor on Saturday evening were from: Mr. Tan Lay Wah (SAP officer), of 328 Rangoon Road; Mr. Roland Lee (clerk),
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 2039 4 MONDAY FOCUS Dengue fever broke out in Malaysia last month. By the end of last week it had claimed 12 lives. This fever is spread by mosquitoes. And the best way to combat it is to wipe out all mosquito breeding places and to keep
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    • VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 536 4 What other Newspapers are saying: THE WAY FOR PAKISTAN TO STRENGTHEN HERSELF President Bhutto of Pakistan left his country last week. He originally planned to visit Washington last Monday to have talks with President Nixon. However, Nixon was indisposed and admitted to hospital for treatment. It
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      • 173 4 Move to ban films depicting violence. The Dewan Rakyat yesterday took steps to ban Alms depicting violence and crime and other films which can be considered as indecent and are liable to debase the moral values of the people. The move was based on a 43-page special report
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 92 4 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald THE STAFF EATS THE SAME FOOO AS THE PATIENTS. IT'S MOT GREAT I PROW'SE yOU. BUT... BIAIR RUNS AT A HUGE PEFICIT EVERY YEAR Mb WBl, \MfS STILL ME HASN'T COMWIITTEP JNCCXVESHED TD j HIMSELF, fMOOtt. -c" T>C tOLOMK A Me MOSQAM CSEED? I V
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 96 5 It was a prison protest with a difference—women clamouring with "we want men visitors" slorgans. A band of irate women prisoners, many wearing only bras and panties, demonstrated on the roof of Rome's Rebibbia Prison last week. They also demanded prison reforms and an Interview with
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    • 142 5 Kampala, Monday— President Idi Amin (above) yesterday warned Ugandans not to indulge in the practice of abortion which he described as "first class murder" and an offence against the State, Radio Uganda announced. The radio quoted General Amin as saying that as a result of
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    • 30 5 Hong Kong, Monday Chairman Mao has called for unity among African countries against "all imperialists in the world" at a meeting with Congolese President Marien N'Gouabi in Peking.
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    • 208 5 Reuter Washington, Monday. —Senior members of the Senate Watergate Committee yesterday proDosed they should privately be permitted to hear tape recordings of President Nixon's conversations with his staff about the bugging scan dal. They suggested this arrangement as a possible solution to the developing
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    • 70 5 Washington, Monday. —A further 500,000 tons of US wheat has been sold to China for shipment over the next five months, a spokesman for Carglll Inc—the nation's largest grain exporter said today. He said the wheat worth over 50 million dollars (about 20 million sterling)—had been
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    • 255 5 Reuter Washington, Monday. —The Shah of Iran said yesterday that his country could not tolerate further disintegration c.f Pakistan. He also warned that Iran could not tolerate any interference with shipping in the Gulf. The Shah, in a recorded interview on the NBC television programme
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    • 220 5 New York, Monday Newsweek magazine says in its forthcoming issue that ousted Cambodian Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk himself gave the United States "Implied approval" to bomb suspected Communist positions in his country as early as January, 1968. President Lyndon Johnson did not take Sihanouk
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    • 363 5 Kirk warns Paris Honolulu, Monday New Zealand Prime Minister Norman Kirk, visibly angry at France's latest nuclear detonation in the Pacific, said yesterday: "We are advancing to a situation of mass suicide." Speaking to newsmen at a Honolulu hotel, Mr. Kirk said New Zealand scientists had already
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    • 153 5 Reuter New York, Monday five men parachuted into the summer jam" rock festival attended by half w?ll!} lon 2?, ung people at Watkins Glen— and one of them was killed, police said yesterday. They said the man was apparently asphyxiated by flares he was carrying
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  • OPINION
    • 377 6 The statistics revealed by the Minister of Education at the convocation ceremony of Nanyang University indicate that while the Chinese-educated students are turning to the Singapore University for their tertiary education, the Englisheducated continue to shun Nantah. According to Dr. Lee Chiaw Meng, while the percentage of
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    • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
      • 54 6 Lloyds of London estimate that the blowing up of the Japan Air Lines jumbo Jet by the hijackers will cost the London Insurance market around $50 million. The original insurance was with the TOkio Marine and Fire Insurance Co., but it hedged its risk with Lloyds and
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      • 63 6 The hanging of Mimi Wong reminded a Japanese of this practice in his country. The dates of executions in Japan, he told me, have to be fixed by the Minister of Justice. Most Ministers, however, are reluctant to sign such an order, so some condemned men have
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    • 1157 6  -  Cycling is undoubtedly one of the l>est forms of exercise. The bicycle is also noiseless and does not emit volumes of smoke like many of the motor vehicles which fil| our roads today. Yet it is a form of travel which has cone out with
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    • 748 6  - The TanakaNixon talks By Pang Cheng Lian Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka will be bringing a polite but Arm "No thank you" with him when he arrives at Washington tomorrow for talks with President Nixon. The Japanese are quite certain that they do not want to share the US's role as
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    • Letters
      • 267 6  -  V.P.W. AGER Principal, Singapore Polytechnic. Singapore, 2. I would like to refer to the article in the New Nation of July 17, 1973 entitled Does a Working Stint help Undergrads? In mentioning the Indust r 1 a 1 Orientation which is provided for the Polytechnic and other tertiary
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      • 161 6 I refer to your news report No Change in New Policy by Education Ministry (NN, 24.7.73) in which a mother of three older daughters in the same school said that her fourth daughter would be "emotionally upset" if she were rejected by the same school. I
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      • 155 6  -  P.T. I refer to the report headlined Sharks at Changi Beach (NN. 25.7.73). Letters complaining of the exhorbitant prices charged by the unscrupulous hawkers have appeared in your newspaper very regularly and I feel quite puzzled that such a practice is still going on. One would have thought
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      • 97 6  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer. Ministry of National Development, Singapore, 2. I refer to the letter by Safe Driving captioned Traffic Jams at Serangoon (NN, 2.7.73). The traffic situation between Charlton Road and Kampong Sireh will be kept under constant observation and improvements to the road will
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      • 52 6  -  TOMMY LEE Could the bus company concerned consider the feasibility of having a new bus service or more 191-A buses to run through Bukit Merah, Queensway and Shenton Way? This would be most welcome for people in this area have great difficulty in catching a bus
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • THE DRUG MENACE
      • 192 7  -  A four-part series by Francis Rozario, Teresa Ooi Just how serious is the drug problem in Singapore? The experts say the situation is grave. The Central Narcotics Bureau puts the figure of drug abusers in the thousands and THE NUMBER KEEPS INCREASING.
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      • 678 7 Some react with a sense of shock lost for words. Others go into a blind rage. Some others sob in disbelief. This is the reaction of most parents when they find that their children have fallen prey to drugs. Parents from middle class,
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      • 609 7 FACT there are nearly 7000 Mandrax (MX) pill takers and some 8000 ganja abusers, in the Republic, mainly youth abusers. FACT there are at least 9500 known morphine and opium cases. FACT a total 1073 people were arrested for various drug offences during the first
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      • 659 7 Who are the youths who take drugs? What gets them started? To get a better understanding of the problem, we talked to two drug abusers. They agreed to be interviewed on condition that their names were not revealed. We met them at a sarabat stall—a
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      • 542 7 Drug abusers in Singapore run the gamut of the socioeconomic ladder from children of the poorest families to children of middle and upper class homes. According to social 'workers and CNB officials, most of the drug abusers are school dropouts. In almost every case
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • MOTORING
    • Article, Illustration
      723 8  -  By Jim Watkins A couple of years ago the "in" car with the sporty crowd, whether they raced legally, illegally or Just used it to charm the girls, was the Datsun 1600 SSS. Despite its rather boxy shape it had the reputation of being fast and stable,
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    • 289 8 The revolutionary Dunlop Denovo, total mobility tyre which will run safely and harmlessly at speed after a puncture, has taken the automotive world by storm. Soon to be offered as an option by BLMC on their Rover 3500, the tyre has been the object of considerable interest in
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    • 499 8  -  SEAGRAFT Brian Baxter Testing a boat is very much like making a new friend. At first sight you form an initial impression, and this is confirmed or altered by the behaviour of the friend, or boat, on further acquaintance. Usually I find first impressions are confirmed. A very
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    • 483 8  -  [[motor-cycle]! Lee Chiu San Flying motor-cycles over 17 cars, leaping them off ramps at 65 plus miles per hour, crashing bikes to the ground from 10ft. up with such an impact that the wheels sometimes break. This is all part of the job for 29-year-old Douglas Airth, the
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  • IN PERSON
    • 626 8  -  At Inchcape's 'topping out* ceremony IN PERSON Conducted by Jennifer Schoon I had never seen a "topping out" ceremony. So it was with great interest that I went to the Inchcape Industrial Complex last week. We headed to the top of the uncompleted building and that was
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • TREND
    • 169 9 Ploying the separates gam* in fashion is fun. It is also an inexpensive way to dress well and colourfolly. But many young women find it a real problem, matching pants and skirts with the right top. Getting the right blouse or T-shirt used to bo a
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    • 371 9 Dear Ros, I am In my late forties, married with a child aged 14. I have been married for about 15 years and hold a good job. There is a beautiful 21-year-old girl who works in my office and I fell for her at first
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    • 144 9 Dear Ros, I am 25 and deeply in love. This girl and I have been very close friends for almost two years and I think she feels the same for me. Recently, to test her love for me, I took another girl to a film which
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    • 100 9 Dear Ros, About a month ago, I met this boy on an outing. I'm very attracted to him but he is so shy. How can 1 cure him of his shyness? Please help as I am sitting for my G.C.E. this year. Cusp Dear Cusp, Try
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    • 206 9 Dear Ros. I met this girl at a party two years ago. I tried to date her after that but as there was no response I lost interest. Then suddenly out of the blue, I got a call from her. I was glad she rang and asked
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    • 87 9 Dear Ros, My problem is hair on my hands and legs. I'm losing a lot of boyfriends because I am so hairy. Is there any way I can get rid of these hairs? Miss Leng Dear Miss Leng, There are lots of creams on the market
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    • 138 9 Dear Hos, I have known this girl for more than a year. We love each other but we also have frequent arguments. Although we always make up after a fight, I wish we didn't quarrel so often. She stays alone with her grandmother and she fights with her
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  • FINANCE
    • 303 9 COMPANY I profile The unabated pace of the local building Industry has spurred National Iron and Steel Mills to aim for higher production—an Increase of 122 per cent to 400,444 tons monthly by mld-1974. The company, however. Is no longer protected from foreign competition
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    • 420 9 At a recent EGM, shareholders of Malayan United Industries approved the sale of the company's entire holding in Malaysian United Paper Products, comprising 99.4 per cent of MUPP's paid-up capital, to Sovran for $2.5 million. Sovran is to call an EGM tomorrow to approve
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    • EUROPEAN SHARES SERVICE
      • 304 9 Supply this service are the Banco di Roma of Italy, Commerzbank of Germany Credit Lyonnais of France and the Union Bank of Switzerland. Roundup of European stock markets for week ended July 27. Paris was asdull as the other European markets last week. Although the start of the August
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      • 234 9 Report for week-end-ing July 26. At the beginning of the period under report the stock market's mood was again characterised by a downtrend amidst slight turnover. Although price falls were only modest at first, heavy selling developed by the middle of the week in the case of certain securities
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      • 183 9 During this week the Italian stock market showed a continuous downtrend, with the exception of a short technical reaction on Thursday. The market weakness was partly due to the government economic measures (price and rent control) and to the credit restrictions decreed by the Treasury Minister. These factors contributed
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      • 173 9 Stock prices were continuing their downward trend, Exotic call-money rates, renewed weakening in the dollar as well as rumours about possible liquidity problems of AEG-Telefunken were influencing the market negatively. Despite denials by AEG management, the share retreated to under DM 100. Other blue chips were also weaker on
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK PRICES
      • 225 9 Prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time). A baleen 10 11 Do Opts 031 04 i AOD 09 10 Allstate 10 14 Amad nil 05 Aurora 14 17 Do Opts 01 02 Aust And nil 20 Bamboo 051 01 Bridge 13 17 Castlereagh 06 064 Cleveland 36 38 Cosmos
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  • SPORTS
    • 379 10 TOPS TM ALL set the pace, leading past the 4f and into the straight with UNI GREY closing in on the outside. ANAK MAS also moved up Gaining ground steadily UNIGREY got up close home to beat TOPS 'EM ALL by a head.
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    • 648 10 POSI SCRIPT I by I .scrutineer! 1 i The year's richest sprint, the $35,000 King's Gold Cup, was marred by a sensational pile-up at Kuala Lumpur yesterday when eight horses slamned into each other at the top of the straight and fell. The horses and riders Involved
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    • 103 10 LKA Slavojub Marjanovic of Yugoslavia consolidated his lead at Leslie Leow's expense In the sixth round in the world junior championships at Teeside, England. Marjanovic has amassed five points with four wins and two draws and is one point ahead of Englishmen M. Stean and A. Miles
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    • 155 11 Zandvoort, Monday Scotsman Jackie Stewart won the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix motor race marred by the death of young British driver Roger Williamson. Stewart took a commanding 10-point lead in the world drivers' championship and set an all-time record of 26 Grand Prix victories.
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    • 30 11 London, Monday.—England beat a World XI by seven wickets In a one-day women's cricket match at Edgbaston yesterday. Scores: World XI 186-7 (60 overs.) England 187-3 54.3 overs).
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    • 337 11  -  FOR FINAL TRAINING AT VILLAGE By Nancy Koh The Basketball Association of Singapore yesterday named their Seap men and women squads for centralised training at Toa Payoh Games Village from August 1. They are: Men (12)—Ow Ah Yen, Ng Hoon Chee, Teo Kah Wah, Khoo Chong
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    • 189 11 London. Monday. Kent stretched their lead at the top of the John-Player Simday League to < 16 points yesterday when tihey crushed Glamorgan by wickets at Swansea. t Scores: Glamorgan 92 (R. Woolmer 3-13) 'Kent 93-3. Kent 4pts. Other results: At Headingley; Gloucs bt Yorks by 8
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    • 199 11 United Press International Melbourne, Monday.—Results of Australian-rules football matches: Victoria League—Carlton 115.17 (107) bt. Richmond 10Jl (81); Essendon 15.12 (102) bt St. Kilda 10.19 (79); Collingwood 17.24 (126) bt. Melb. 12.15 (87); Hawthorn 15.10 (100) bt. Fitzroy 9.9 (63); S. Melb. 19.16 (130) bt. N. Melb. 14.7 (91);
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    • 103 11 The National Sports Promotion Board will hold a Sea Carnival at the Pasir Pan Jang reclamation site on Sunday, August 12, as part of their National Day celebrations. The carnival will begin at 9 a.m. and will be highlighted by a powered speedboat race. The
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    • 120 11 New York. Monday Results of baseball games: American League Milwaukee 5 New York 4; California 19 Kansas City 8; Oakland 6 Texas 4; Boston 7 Cleveland 4; Detroit 3 Baltimore 2; Minnesota 6 Chicago 5. National League New York 11 Montreal 3; Philadelphia 5 Pittsburgh 0; St. Louis
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    • 22 11 Sydney, Monday. Australia scored a 5-2 victory over Japan in their fourth table tennis test, levelling the series at 2-2.
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    • 390 11  -  From Tony Francis in Ipoh Singapore had reason to bemoan their 2-0 defeat by Kuwait in the Merdeka soccer Group B match at Ipoh on Saturday. It was a defeat that should not have been. They had the better of the highly rated Kuwait on the
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    • 282 11 I]v The Royal D7OOOY is an all new radio from Zenith. And Zenith have been specialists in Radionics for 50 years so you'd expect the best and you get it. \\W4l 'L' International shortwave and amateur broadcasts, marine and weather reports. FM and standard AM broadcasts. Long wave FAA weather
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 302 11 DIARY BASKETBALL Chung Hwa Girls School v Yang Ming of Taiwan (Chung Hwa School 7.30 p.m.). CRICKET SCA interschool under-20: St. Patricks v Victoria (Balestier Road 2 p.m.). SOCCER fdawu interbranch: Marco Polo v Singapura (Tanglin). NEW NATION CROSSWORD 9 Promises. 10 Snail's pace. 11 —War. la Asian title. 13
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      72 12 Looking for a partner intent on becoming a good housewife? If you ore then perhaps you should meet Miss Amy Lee, 21, who wants to be just that. As an added bonus Amy is a good singer too, performing at the Dragon Palace and La Roulett in the
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    • 139 12 Today Is Monday, July 30, the 211th day of 1973 with 154 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. Automobile pioneer Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863. ON THIS DAY OF HISTOID: In 1937, the American Federation of Radio Artists was
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    • 47 12 MEI LIN: Do you agree with Dr. Goh Keng Swee that the Press devotes too much space to share market reports and horse racing? AH FOOK: Yes, to a point. But how far can the Press dictate tastes? How about the many wishy-washy newspaper readers?
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    • 2568 12 RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.00 Opening Announcements 3.03 Kudumba Malar: Tamil magazine series 3.30 Diary of Events (T) 3.35 Where the Heart Is: A family drama 3.55 Sadhangi OH: Indian dance, featuring Joyce and Jamunaranl (Rpt) 4.10 Days of Our Lives, with Mac Donald Carey as a dedicated physician 4.55 Close
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    • 44 12 TIDES Today: 11 pm. (3m). Tomorrow: 12.29 p.m. (2.5m) 11.47 pm. (3m). Wednesday: 1.02 ajn. (2.6m). Thursday: 12.33 am. (3m), 1.33 p.m. (2.6m). Friday: 1.18 a.m. (2.8m), 2.02 pjn. (2.6m). Saturday: 2.04 ajn. (2.6m), 2.31 pjn. (2.5m). Sunday: 2.52 a.m. (2.4m), 3.03 p.m. (2.4m).
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