New Nation, 8 August 1973

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  • 20 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, August 8, 1975 No. 788 Price 15 cents NEW NATION SINCAPORE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1973
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  • 62 1 The Stock Exchange of Singapore was Idle for the first 45 minutes this morning. BUSINESS DONE: Singapore Hilton (1) 1.84, (1) 1.86. DJ3JS. (1) 5.05. Slme Darby (7) 5.80. M.A.A. (1) 2.80. Hytex (1) 1.90, (1) 1.89. Rothmans (1) 3.54. P.E.GJ. (1) 5.00. United Industries (1) 4.00.
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  • 95 1 Brussels, Wednesday— The Common Market Commission yesterday acted swiftly to stop home grown EEC wheat from being swallowed up on the world market, where prices are rising fast. Faced by a situation where world wheat S rices are rapidly overauling EEC domestic prices, the commission announced it had
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  • 33 1 Saigon, Wednesday.— South Vietnamese high command reported the highest level of fighting across the country since mid-June, with 127 communist violations of the ceasefire recorded in the 24 hours before dawn yesterday.
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  • 10 1 Police reported 118 accidents yesterday. Four were serious.
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  • 433 1 Lee on the bugging crisis Reuter Ottawa, Wednesday Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday the Watergate crisis had reduced the capacity of the United States to enforce the terms of the January Vietnam peace settlement. If Watergate kept the US administration semiparalysed and
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  • 488 1 Probe on 'payments made to Agnew' UPI, Reuter Washington, Wednesday Vice- President Spiro Agnew who is under investigation over charges of bribery, extortion and tax fraud, is believed to have received US$lOOO ($2300) a week from contractors when he was a Maryland official and a US$5O,OOO ($115,000)
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  • 341 1 Paper's appraisal of Lee Reuter Ottawa, Wednesday Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew is a "tiger who likes to shock," the Globe and Mail said yesterday appraising his participation In the Commonwealth conference here. "To come into his presence is to feel a certain
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  • 156 1 Phnom Penh, Wednesday Cambodian military police yesterday swooped on the homes of suspected communist agents here arresting 23 men and seizing large quantities of weapons and explosives, the military command reported. The raids came as government forces made what a military
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  • 53 1 East Berlin, Wednesday.—The body of the late East German head of state Walter Ulbricht was yesterday carried on a gun carriage. Through East Berlin which he sealed off from the West with a wall 12 years ago. He was cremated later. He died of heart failure last
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  • 291 1  -  By Sunny Wee More than 10 people died of dengue haemorrhagic fever between April and July this year out of 370 notified cases. This, according to Dr. Tan Eng Liang, the MP for River Valley, was reported by the University of Singapore authorities. However, the
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  • 38 1 Washington, Wednesday:—Blind singing star Stevie Wonder was reported in a satisfactory condition yesterday in the intensive care unit of Baptist Hospital after suffering head injuries In a car accident near Salisbury, North Carolina, on Monday night.
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  • 26 1 Buenos Aires, Wednesday.—Seven hundred prisoners rebelled In Cordoba's main jail yesterday, seizing 30 guards as hostages and demanding that Peronlst amnesty promises be fulfilled.
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  • 395 1  -  By Wee Beng Huat A $90,000 tontine swindle has been reported to the police bringing the total lost by victims of such case past the $2 million mark. This time the victim* are from the Tampines area. The tontine head who absconded with the money
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  • 33 1 Cape Town, Wednesday.—The entire crew of 14 from the South African trawJer Harvest Dealmar were feared drowned yesterday after the vessel was apparently Involved in a collision with an unidentified tanker.
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  • 63 1 New Delhi, Wednesday. —A Singapore-register-ed oil tanker, Cerry Vlrga, was stranded in Cochin, a South Indian port., today after half its crew left the ship in protest against alleged misbehaviour of the ship's chief officer. A spokesman for the 21 protesting crewmen said they would go back
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  • 62 1 Manila Wednesday A four-man team of heart surgeons has implanted a nuclear heart pacemaker in the chest of a sailor's wife in a hospital in Quezon city the first time in Asia. The government announced yesterday that the patient, Mrs. Asuncion Pedroso, 41, wife of a
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  • 29 1 Jakarta, Wednesday. —Six people were killed and 22 injured when their bus plunged into a ravine near Semarang, Central Java, An tar a news agency reported yesterday.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 164 2 N-Day message The Minister for Education, Dr. Lee Chiaw Meng, this morning urged schoolchildren all over the island to be prepared if necessary to go without the little comforts and luxuries of life enjoyed by more fortunate people. In his National Day message to schools,
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    • 91 2 The Minister of Health and Home Affairs, Mr. Chua Slan Chin, will be the patron for this year's Outstanding Young Singaporean Award Scheme, launched by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. This is the second year that the Jaycees are organising such a con test, to spot
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    • 291 2  -  By Teresa Ooi Eight patients five morphine addicts and the other three MX and ganja takers are presently undergoing treatment at the drug ward at Alexandra Hospital. So far 38 drug patients have been admitted to the hopital since the 20bed ward was opened in
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    • 243 2 Some 'blunt truths' More than 75 per cent of the financial and moral support of the National Trades Union Congress comes from the industrial workers, accord ing to the NTUC s e c re tarygeneral Mr. C.V. Devan Nair. In a letter to the Amalgamated
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    • 284 3 These pretty Singapore Airlines hostesses have very good reason to be smiling proudly, For the four—Misses Corina Chang, Tan Wang Hla, Stella Tan and Evangeline Tan have just witnessed the opening of one of the most modern facilities In South-East Asia for training
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    • 58 3 The Adult Education Board will conduct a 15week course on Advertising Design, from August 20, between 7 and 9 pjn., every Monday, at the Geylang English School, Lorong 23, lang Road, Course fee is $25. Application forms and details are obtainable at the board's office at 126 Cairnhill
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    • 21 3 The Blood Donation Centre at Outram Road General Hospital will be open on Sunday between 8.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m.
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    • 417 3 'Charter gives advantage' The president of the Singapore Women's Association, Mrs. S e o w Peck Leng, yesterday urged men's organisations to take a greater interest in the Women's Charter, which concerns them as much as the fairer sex. Mrs. Seow said: "Few, if any at
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    • 190 3 The Tanjong Pagar Community Centre Is organising an On-The-Spot art competition on August 26 as part of its National Day celebrations. The competition will be held at the centre, Yan Kit Road, from 9 a.m. to noon. Entry forms are available at the following
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    • 35 3 The Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nynk Lin, will be the guest of honour at the 10th. annual dinner of the Singapore Polytechnic Academic Association on Tuesday at 7.45 pjn. at Hotel RoyalRamada.
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    • 167 3 Esso has announced improvements to the organisation's benefit programme for employees. They cover medical insurance, specialist treatment, payments to those meet with accidents on the job and homeownership assistance. According to the firm's latest bulletin. Esso Singapore News, the benefit programme will, among
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    • 38 3 The Vincent de Paul Society, Conference of the Sacred Heart, will hold a food and fun fair In aid of the poor and needy, on Sunday at the Church of the Sacred Heart In Tank Road.
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    • 157 3 A battalion of the Gor don Highlanders will arrive In Singapore In November as part of Britain's commitment to the five nation defence arrangement. According to a spokesman for the British forces, this battalion will arrive in stages with the final batch coming in by November.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 307 2 Fulton has them. Two slim line models FD-575 and FD-525 8-track cartridge player with matrix control for 4-channel sound. The former one has FM/MPX incorporated into it. Both complete with program repeat, fast forward, built-in burglar alarm, individual track light indicators, volumn and tone slide controls and tape program reading
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 388 2 Poser No. 45 Ten who got Getaway r CINEMA POSER I KWUM SU/NEW NATION CONTEST Last Friday's poser showed Steve Mcqueen and All MacGraw In a scene from The Getaway. The first 10 correct entries opened by the Editor yesterday evening were from: Lee Chla Loo (student), of 113 C
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 661 4  -  ART BUCHWALD Los Angeles Times Long after Watergate is over, certain phrases repeated during the hearings will remain with us. Already they are being used by Middle America to cover various situations. The other day at exactly 2.30 ajn. Mintonburger staggered Into the hallway
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    • 127 4 PROFILE At the convocation ceremony of the University of Singapore last Saturday. Singapore paid tribute to five men for their different contributions to w a rds the country by conferring them with honorary degrees. Prof. T.H. Elliott, former head of the Pharmacy Department and a leading figure
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    • 299 4 PROFESSOR THOMAS "HAROLD ELLIOTT, or Tom, as he is popularly known, first came to Singapore from South Africa in 1950. Born in Britain, his childhood had been one of hardship and early responsibility. He had to work as apprentice pharmacist at 16, giving up a university
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    • 366 4 SIR KENNETH BEESON NOAD graduated as a doctor from the University of Sydney in 1924, and as a physician has distinguished himself to such an extent that he has been conferred the Fellowship not only of his own Royal Australasian College of Physicians, but also those
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    • 236 4 MR. KWAN SAI KHEONG was born in 1920, about 53 years ago. He began his childhood education in a Chinese school in Singapore and then went on to Raffles Institution. He su?>sequently won a scholarship to Raffles College, followed later by another scholarship to the Royal College of
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    • 167 4 PROFESSOR DONALD WILLIAM NOTLEY has much association with Asia as he spent his childhood in India. Prof. Notley came to Singapore as Head of the School of Architecture and Building of the Singapore Polytechnic in 1965. after teaching as lecturer and senior lecturer of Regent Street Polytechnic School
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    • 295 4 SIR lAN DOUGLAS MILLER graduated as a doctor from the University of Sydney in 1924. Sir Douglas, as president of the Australasian College of Surgeons, and Dr. Yeoh Ghim Seng who was Professor of Surgery in this university at that time, together with Professor E.S. Monteiro
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 67 4 DR. KILOARE by Ken Bald NOTICE AH/THING ABOUT MY OAUSHTER? M ri a NOT STW6E AT UEAST THERE 5 WOTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT A CHILD OtfDREAMING IN THE PWVACV OP HER own room if by John Prentice and Fred Dickeneon Ml OeffUDffi AWA/T. mf nieviTAßic rr m M A U Qjjri.
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  • IN PERSON
    • 449 5  -  M PERSON Conducted by Jennifer Schoon "W HEN choosing floor carpets, pick them with your feet rather than with your hands," advised MR. G. ROBERTS, export manager of Custom Carpet Manufacturers Pte Ltd. It sounded like good advice and I used that method to pick out
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    • 423 5 From the DOG HOUSE By PG I am often asked: "What sort of dog should I buy?" This is a difficult question because it depends on many factors, such as how large a house and garden you have. If both are small then you obviously
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    • 57 5 These are two of the dozen pups waiting to be adopted at the SPCA. About eight weeks old, they are playful and bouncing with liveliness. Most of them were picked up as strays during the past few days. If you wish to adopt them, call at the
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 297 6 Tell-all tapes fight Reuter Washington, Wednesday President Nixon argued through his lawyers yesterday that he should not be forced to yield secret tapes of presidential conversations, even if it hindered the prosecution in the Watergate bugging scandal. White House lawyers contended that if Mr. Nixon
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    • 215 6 Reuter Geneva, Wednesday Neutral nations yesterday accused the US and the Soviet Union of breaking their word and con tinu i n g to test nuclear weapons underground 10 years after concluding a treaty aimed at banning all tests. Sweden, Nigeria and Mexico were among the strongest
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    • 253 6 Reuter Moscow, Wednesday.— The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda yesterday accused China of "increasingly becoming a direct ally of the most reactionary circles of Imperialism." The paper said the tension between China and the majority of socialist states, "maintained by the fault of the Chinese leadership" looked
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    • 173 6 United Press International Athens, Wednesday. A crowd screaming "death to the murderers" yesterday tried to mob two Arab g u e r r 11 las charged minutes earlier with premediated murder in Sunday's Athens Airport attack. One woman scratched the mustached face of long-haired Zehod Mohamed before police
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    • 139 6 Durban, Wednesday The search for the missing bow section of the Singapore freighter Neptune Sapphire, which split off from the main part of the vessel during heavy seas last week, has been called off. The section, which split off early last Wednesday morning, was believed to
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    • 112 6 Reuter Washington, Wednesday —Equipment failure on an American F-11l fighter bomber might have caused the accidental bombing of an island southeast of Phnom Penh early yesterday—the second such incident in two days —the Defence Department said. Pentagon spokesman Mr. Jerry Friedham said the bombs fell on an
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 280 6 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 1 Paces. 6 Tchaikovsky's lake. 10 Musical conclusion. 14 Fortuneteller's card. 15 Ranger or wolf. 16 Seaport on Upolu Island. 17 Singer Edie. 18 Fine painting. 20 —dixit. 21 W.W. II inita. 22 Aldrin's path. 23 de guerre. 24 Mushrooms. 26 Parrot. 28 Avoids adroitly. 30 Classified
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • OPINION
    • 387 8 They say it never rains but pours. Even as President Nixon is struggling in the quagmire of Watergate, his running mate, Vice-President Agnew, is under investigation for what he has himself described as "possible violations of the criminal statutes." Mr. Agnew, so far unsullied
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    • 68 8 'WHISPERS' by ispy Watch out, those girls who wear halter-neck blouses or dresses which are only held up by straps tied at the back of the necks. A colleague came across one who had had her straps quietly untied while she was in a theatre watching a
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    • 821 8  -  No one doubts that Britain's entry to the European Economic Community (EEC) will have serious repercussions on the trade of its Commonwealth partners. As Britain harmonises its tariffs with the European Six, Commonwealth countries will lose their tariff preferences. Probably the most hard-hit will be
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    • 622 8  -  By Joseph Ho Reuter China has accused both the Soviet Union and the United States of boosting their nuclear arsenals despite a series of treaties to scale down the arms race The attack came in a New China News Agency commentary yesterday on
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    • Letters
      • 279 8  -  DR. OLIVER HENNEDIGE Hon. General Secretary, Singa;oore Dental Association, Singapore, 3. In your article Government Subsidised Dental Care (NN. 18.7.73) commenting on the Singapore Dental Association newsletter, I wish to make certain corrections. In order to correct the misconception that may arise in the minds of the public,
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      • 70 8  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of National Development, Singapore. 2. Please refer to the letter captioned Inconsiderate Motorists by Mechanic <WN. 12.7.73). A plan is being prepared to revise the lanemarkings of Upper Bukit Timah Road from Ewart Circus to Bukit Panjang Circus with
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      • 102 8  -  YAP PEK HONG Sr. Public Relations Officer, Housing: and Development Board, Singapore. 2 We refer to the letter by Citizen (NN, 10.7.73). Recreational facilities In the ten-acre Queenstown Sports Complex Include a 400-metre eightlane running track, a football field and swimming pools. The Sports Complex Is managed
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      • 75 8  -  YAP PEK HONG Sr. Public Relations, Officer, Housing and Development Board, Singapore 2. We refer to the letter by Leong Seng (NN, 3.7.73). The design of fourroom flats in Farrer Road is different from that in Telok Blangah New Town and this gives rise to the slight
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      • 209 8  -  HAN ENG JUAN Secretary, Board of Commissioners of Currency. Singapore, 6. I refer to the letter Paying More for Coins from Disgusted concerning the recent sale of the $5 silver coins (NN. 27.7.73). The suggestion to distribute limited issues of commemorative coins through various government and public
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      • 247 8 Everyone living in Singapore knows well enough that our Government has a heart. In fact c.ur Government does very well in providing employment to our growing population. Our Government is also competent and efficient. Look at the many dynamic schemes and measures tc. increase the GNP, to
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 130 8 WRITE TO THE EDITOR, NEW NATION. LOCKED BAG 15, GPO, SINGAPORE, 1. TUJO JOYFUL COTKERTS 18-8-73 25-8-73 3rd SINGAPORE ORGAN FESTIVAL Witness and enjoy the selection and award of Singapore's highest honours in electronic organ music to: 'The Best Organist of the Year 1973" "The Most Outstanding Child Organist of
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • 1112 9  -  J*Jk aM Your page conducted by our HDB girl Tan Cluing Lee Tan Chung Lee I have lived most of my life in Serangoon Gardens. So, throughout my interviews with HDB residents in their flats, I was highly conscious of the incessant noise. The din
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    • 329 9 MAIL BOX "When the four room flats at Covent Garden were due for balloting one month ago. we were disappointed at not being allotted one, says "Be Fair Please" in a letter to the New Nation dated 19th July. The letter adds: "Out of a total
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    • 772 9 Three days a week, the PAP Queenstown branch at Forfar Square virtually becomes a mini supermarket. That Is when It opens its doors to members of its growing Consumer Club. I joined the throng of gaily-dressed shoppers last Sunday. It was like a carnival,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 252 9 A duality P'Od> itt of GENERAL MOTORS GM German impostor: (Quiet famfly saloon Monday to Friday. Exotic European sporty car Saturday and Sunday) Get both in one package. During the week, you show your quiet, sober, as quick silver. responsible face. But on the weekend, you show Manta's famous chassis
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  • SHOWBIZ
    • 390 10  -  Stage Club's play will run for four nights By Violet Oon Something To Hide, a detective thriller produced by the Stage Club opens tonight at the Cultural Centre at 8.30. Set in Essex, this three-act play by Leslie Sands will run for four nights. Howard Holt, played
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    • 390 10 When the Singapore Youth Choir went to England last year, it brought along a song by a Singapore composer which proved an immediate hit with English audiences. Entitled A New Moon Arising, it was composed by Lim Soo Chong, 25, then a Colombo Plan student
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    • 334 10  -  raP TALK BY MARY LEE Have you ever wondered why reggae records never make it to the charts even though they chalk up good sales In record shops? (I'm referring to those cut by Jamaican groups, not established personalities like Paul Simon). The reason: a
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  • FINANCE
    • 130 10 Nervous seQini pushed prices lower on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. The market opened barely steady, drifted a little and closed slightly easier. Trading was conducted at a leisurely pace throughout the day. There were more sellers than buyers* On balance declines were marginal and blue chips
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    • 158 10 Thermo King corporation, of US, the world leaders in transport refrigeration, is studying the feasibility of setting up a factory here to manufacture refrigerated equipment. The corporation's vice-president for marketing, Mr. V. W. Snyder, said that this is the logical extension as Singapore is
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    • 362 10 Attempts to create an Asian Bond Market in Singapore have not met with great success. According to Mr. TJio Kay Loen, chief manager of th* Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, this is because apart from commercial banks —other financial institutions here are not taking a keen
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 230 10 Prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time). A baleen. 10 11 Do Opts 03 J nil AOD 08} 10 Allstate 11 13 Amad 05 nil Aurora 13 15 Do Opts 01 02 Aust Ant 18 19 Bamboo 051 nil Beach 02 024 Bounty Oil 004 01 Bridge 13 15
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      • 206 10 Closing prices (in francs) yesterday. Paribes 215 (215.50) Tndochine 256 (255) Fancier 399 (405) Prlntemps 123.70 (129.50) COE 468 (466) Bull 63.15 (62.40) Royal Dutch 177.20 (178.20) Mlchelln 1808 (1800) Thomson 255.10 (253) CJJ». 225 (228) Rhone 165 (165.70) Air 295.10 (295k) Philips 79 (79.40) 8uez 352.70 (353) Citroen
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      • 102 10 Stock market prices rallied slightly In thin trading in the morning session yesterday. The market opened firmer on small-lot buying in the wake of the sharp setback toward the end of Monday's session. Profit-taking selling assaulted forerunners but popular issues and giant capitals met selective purchase toward the close
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      • 290 10 Stock prices edged lower In moderate ac tivity yesterday on the New York Stock Ex change, as rising Interest rates, Inflationary signs and Watergate related scandals weighed on buying sentiment. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average had lost 0.83 to 911.95. Standard and Poors 500 Stock
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      • 81 10 This Service is from the Union Bank of Switzerland. Closing prices (in Swiss francs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday. UBS 3850 45 SBC 3390 10 Credit Suisse 3350 10 Swissair B. 583 —2 Swiss Reinsurance 2350 +20 Winterthur B. 1885 +5 Zurich Insurance 6975 171 Juvena B. 2560
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 220 10 SINGAPORE 1 (5) Kodtc hrome Paul Simon 2 (1) Sta e k In The Middle With You—Stealers Wheel 3 (3) The Groover T. Rex 4 (2) Snoopy v. The Red Baron Hot Shots 5 (4) Pillow Talk Sylvia 6 (7) Yesterday Once More Carpenters 7 (9) Alright A 1 r
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  • TREND
    • 531 11  -  Barry 'Bazza' Crocker dislikes nen who are 'fully aiale' MARY LEE I used to think Australian men were masculine, muscular beer guzzlers who treated women like their breakfast steaks, an essential ingredient which only merited comment when they weren't done to order. Nothing more to them
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    • 665 11  -  FROM TRISH SHEPPARD IN SYDNEY TRISH SHEPPARD If I see one more reporter abruptly end an interview by saying: "We are running out of time Mr. Prime Minister, (union, church or social leader) so by way of a quick final comment what
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    • 579 11 Washington Post Washington, Wednesday At the final meeting of fashion editors who choose the Coty awards, the American industry's annual "Oscar" presentations, a motion was made to give black models a special award for the way they distinguished the clothes by their modelling this season.
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    • 167 11 Singapore's Instant Asia image has nothing to do with contrived replicas of various Asian cultural forms being planted ?U over the island. Neither is it mixed up with gins and stengahs to help soothe sweaty brows and parched throats. Instant Asia in Singapore has
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  • SPORTS
    • 201 12 From Blue Peter In Penang Altruistic, with apprentice R. Rajoo up, did a splendid workout here this morning. The four-year-old cfid 4f in 512/5, the last 3f in 381/5, on good going. Hard To Say was hard held in a 3f gallop in 38 4/5. Perfect
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    • 35 12 Singapore Island Country Club will be holding their National Day golf competitions tomorrow. The 'A" group will be played over the New Course and the "B" group over at Bukit from 7.30 a.m.
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    • 16 12 Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Pakistan beat Spain 4-1 in a friendly hockey match here yesterday.
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    • 185 12 Manila, Wednesday The president of the Philippine National Olympic Committee (NOC), Mr. Ambrosia Padilla, has called for the inclusion of both China and Taiwan in the next Asian Games and other international sports competitions. Mr. Padilla said, however, that this was only his personnal view on
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    • 348 12 DIA DATANG set the pace, leading past the 4f and into the straight with TULSKY closing in. BERJUANG and RICH RETURN made up ground. TULSKY raced up to DIA DATANG a furlong out to win by half a length Third was BERJUANG. BEST
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    • 265 12 Alan Lelah's three months training In Australia paid off when he equalled the natlong} record in the 200 metres breastroke event on the opening day of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's open championships at Queenstown last night. He clocked 2:38.9, beating the meet record of 2:43.6
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    • 491 13  -  By Nancy Koh World champion 420 yachtsman John Gilder has given an "excellent" rating to Singapore's nineman Seap Games yachting squad. Gilder, 34, who was nominated by the Australian Yachting Federation for a two-week coaching stint here, said yesterday after a session at sea: "The boys have adapted
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    • 202 13 London. Wednesday The West Indian cricketers were robbed of victory at Cheltenham yesterday when rain brought play to a close with just six runs needed to overhaul Gloucestershire. Chasing a target of 110 the West Indians reached 104-6 with two overs remaining, but
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    • 142 13 Boxing may be on the decline in the Republic but the Saints go marching in with their annual championships, this year to be heldi on August 23. St. Andrew's seems to be the only school in Singapore which has continued with boxing and the boys do
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    • 254 13  -  By Jeffrey Low India, Bangladesh and Khmer will play a friendly quadrangular soccer tournament here at the National Stadium on August 13 and 15. The three team s have agreed to play here, with Singapore making up the fourth side, after their Merdeka tournament
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    • 78 13 New York. Wednesday Results of baseball games: American League Detroit 5 New York 4; Boston 5 Baltimore 3; Cleveland 7 Chicago 3: National League New York 10 St. Louis 3; Montreal 7 Chicago 3; Houston 5 Cincinnati 4; Los Angeles 2 San Diego 0. TOKYO: Central League Yomiuri
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    • 316 13  -  MARTIAL ARTS by: Sonny Yap Singapore's growing martial arts schools have genera te d widespread interest abroad. Over the last few months, foreign representatives from television companies and promotion agencies were here to scout for talent to appear in their programmes. At least a dozen experts
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    • 256 12 SPECIAL 20% DISCOUNT on all Oil paintings by local and Asian artists during National Day Celebrations on Bth, 9th and 10th August only. Asian Artists Gallery, Mezzanine floor, Singapore" Hyatt Hotel, Scotts Road, S'pore 9. SECRETARIAL COURSE FOR GIRLS: Starting August: (Shorthand/ Typewriting Bookkeeping Correspondence/ Secretarial Duties/Office Practice English/Structure of
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    • 223 12 FOR SALE MARTIAL ARTS SUPPLIES CO. offer toekwondo, karate and other martial arts uniforms, belts, makiwara, nanchaku herbal medicines etc. Call at No: 185, Ist floor, Katong Shopping Centre, S'pore 15. ELECTROLUX REFRIGERATOR MODEL SSBS, 8.3 cu.ft. One year old Price: $500/- or nearest offer. No. 3 Edgeway Lane, Nee
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    • 196 12 INTERNATIONAL CHARTER FLIGHTS CENTRE OFFERS GUARANTEED FLIGHTS FROM SINGAPORE TO London 600/Brussels 675/Amsterdom 675/Paris 675/Frankfurt 675/Zurich 800/Hamburg 675/Dusseldorf 750/Rome 750/Veinna/Modrid 675/Copenhagen 700/New York $1400/Montreal $1400/- to all parts of Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Hongkong, U.S.A., Thailand, Indonesia Australia. 70, THE ARCADE, 3RD FLOOR, RAFFLES PLACE, TEL: *****/*****5. TAB offers special tours
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    • 374 12 IV""i IJ I B ill) WANTED MERCEDES DIESEL and Chevrolet Impala with or without aircond. Contact Mr. Ong, *****) S'pore during office hours. WANTED TO BUY or sell. Contact Nam Choon Hang 307, Bukit Timah Rood, 3 m.s., Tel: S'pore *****5. GOOD USED CARS Required urgently. Top Prices paid. Contact
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 24 13 DIARY SWIMMING: SASA Open championships (Queenstown Pool 7 p.m.). CRICKET: SCA Under-20 inter-schools tournament SJI v Beatty; St. Patrick's Victoria (Balestier Road 2 p.m.).
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      33 14 Pretty Nfancy Sect, 19, is o guide familiar to shoppers who patronise Robina Department Store. Listening to music is her favourite hobby. Pic- L. m tovourite hobby. Picture by Jerry Sell.
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    • 38 14 AH FOOK: It looks like everyone from President Nixon down Is under Investigation in the US. MEI LIN: The floodgates of the bugging scandal have really opened up. It's now Agnew's turn. I wonder who's next!
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    • 161 14 Today Is Wednesday, August 8, the 220th day of 1973 with 145 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. America's first professional architect, Charles Bullfinch, was born on August 8, 1763. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: In 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a
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    • 2802 14 RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.00 Opening Announcements followed by The Smith Family— A Taste of Fear 3.25 Diary of Events (M) 3.30 Where the Heart Is: A serial revolving round the affections, conflicts and tensions found in the closeknit relationships of the Hathaway family 3.50 Persembahan Ku: A light musical programme
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