New Nation, 6 October 1973

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  • 22 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Saturday evening, October 6, 1973 No. 839 Price 15 cents M.C. (P) 33/73 NE^^pnoN SINCAPORE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1973
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  • 499 1 Thieu bid to regain lost land Reuter Saigon, Saturday South Vietnam has launched its biggest military operation since the ceasefire to regain territory lost in a communist advance in the Central Highlands in late September. Military sources said the drive, involving more than 5000 troops,
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  • 37 1 Paris, Saturday—Prime Minister Pierre Messmer yesterday reaffirmed that France would continue its nuclear tests in the South Pacific. He said that France would take every precaution to ensure there were no dangerous sideeffects.
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  • 136 1 Reuter New York, Saturday Muhammad A 1 i and Joe Frazier signed here last night for their long-awaited return boxing bout and the uproarious ceremony recalled the vintage days of Cassius Clay a decade ago. Reporters were shoved aside, microphones knocked off tables and several glasses
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  • 297 1  -  New side-business By Douglas Chan Some taxi drivers have found themselves a new and lucrative side-busi-ness trafficking in drugs. Informed sources said that many of them are believed to be making $100 to $300 a month by peddling ganja, MX pills, morphine and opium.
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  • 367 1  -  Bid to beat staff shortage By Bharathi Mohan Singapore's petrol dealers are planning to introduce selfservice at oil stations to beat the current shortage of pump attendants. Mr. Yap Chin Poh, vice-president of the Federation of Singapore Petrol Dealers' Asscciation, said: "Self-service has been introduced
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  • 56 1 Peking, Saturday Eleven British students flew in here last night to begin a new chapter in Anglo-Chinese cultural relations. The students, most of whom have already studied Chinese for at least two years, will attend courses at Peking's linguistics Institute for the next 10 months together
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  • 79 1 New York, Saturday —US Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, had advice for two groups at his dinner for the United Nations diplomatic corps last night. "To those of you who are diplomats," he said, "be mindful of what you say, for you are surrounded by members of
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  • 225 1  -  By Pauline Khng Two women, a purse and an anthropologist were among five gold medal recipients of the Outstanding Young Singaporean Award organised by the Singapore Jaycees. yesterday. They were Mrs. MaeLim Hoon Ann. 28, an occupational health nurse and well known pianist Miss Vivienne
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  • 221 1 If you could have read her mind, Miss Solveig Larsen, Miss International of Australia, would probably have been thinking: "I hope the lapis ring on my finger will look just as good on my boyfriend's hand." Solveig, who has been in Singapore since Monday on
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  • 58 1 Santiago. Saturday—A series of pre-dawn earthquakes shook central Chile yesterday, causing little damage but widespread panic among inhabitants unable to flee Into the streets because of the all-night military curfew still in force. Observatories reported 30 tremors, they ranged from one to seven points on the Richter
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  • 10 1 Police reported 88 accidents yesterday. Seven were serious.
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  • 189 1 About 250 nonacademic staff of the Polytechnic will be paid $90,000 in backdated leave allowance next week The amount is to compensate the staff for giving up seven days of their annual leave and the limitation of medical leave up to a maximum of
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  • 391 1 By Blue Peter Up-an-coming apprentice Djulkifly Ahmad has several fancied mounts at Bukit Timah today and it will pay to follow him. The pick of his mounts is Letter of Credit in Race 6. The eight-year-old by Monet is in tip top shape at the moment; having
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 523 2  -  Researchers' findings on condominium concept By Abby Tan Condominium-type housing will create more opportunities for the younger population to own their own homes, said two researchers in a specially prepared report on this new concept recently introduced in Singapore. Prof. R. Fonseca, Professor
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    • 113 2 The Government's creche in the Kallang Basin housing estate will be ready by the end of the year. The creche, the 13th to be set up by the Government, will be housed on the top floor of the fivestorey Block 21 in Kallang Bahru
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    • 476 2  -  'Will not affect Singapore's growth' By Pauline Khng Singapore's economic growth will not be adversely affected by the proposed Kra cawal project, according to prominent Thai b us i n e s sman Mr. K.Y. Cfcow—a strong advocate of the canal's "great possibilities."
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    • 197 4 Metrication will help to eliminate the chances of hiding price increases by selling pre- packed goods in smaller quantities. The latest issue of Our Metric Way, the Metrication Board's organ, says: "This has been going on in Singapore and it is almost impossible
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    • 41 4 The Tiong Bahru Secondary School will hold Kilothon 1973 beginning at its premises in Lower Delta Road on Sunday at 7.30 p.m. Mr. Lim Guan Hoo, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministjar of Home Affairs, will nag off the walkathon.
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    • 545 4  -  HDB 'yes' to pilot project Rav K. Dhaliwal Twenty-four aged people will be housed in Housing and Development Board flats at the end of the year as part of a pilot project undertaken by the Singapore Council of Social Service and the Apex Club
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    • 299 4 The government is Inviting applications from top contractors to register as "Specially Registered Contractors" in connection with its $50 million development plan of Paya Lebar International Air port. The move is to ensure that only contracting firms with the financial capability and technical experience consistent
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    • 328 4 4-nation tour starts today Local livestock farmers hope to learn mechanised methods of farming from Taiwan during their overseas study tour. This was stated by the president of the Singapore Livestock Farmers' Association. Mr. Lai Fee Kwong, who would be leading a 24-man factfinding mission
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    • 144 4 Mr. Tjioe. TJay Tjien, a local photographer, scored a hattrick In the recent 1973 Singapore National Photographic Exhibition. Mr. Tjioe won the Dr. Gibson-Hill Memorial Trophy specially awarded to the best monochiome print and two gold trophies in the co- lour print and
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    • 62 4 The Singapore Cheshire Home will hold a Jumble sale on Oct. 17 at the Singapore Council of Social Service Building, Penang Lane, to raise funds for the home. Those who wish to contribute to the sale may contact the Singapore Cheshire Home (Tel: *****5), and
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    • 46 4 Mr. Peter Stephenson, a management consultant, will conduct a 10lecture course on Oral and Written Communication in Organisation, on Friday at the University of Singapore new lecture theatre 2, at 8 p.m. The fee is $35. For application forms and further details, telephone *****6.
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    • 339 5  -  Gement factory a joint set-up By Abby Tan One of Asia's largest cement manufacturers, SSangyong Cement Industrial Co.. Ltd. of South Korea. Is planning to set up a huge factory here In a tripartite partnership with local businessmen and probably the Development Bank of Singapore. The
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    • 35 5 The University of Singapore's Department, of Extramural Studies will conduct a 10-lecture course on "Oral and Written Communication in Organisation" at its New Lecture Theatre 2 beginning on Oct 9 at 8 pjn.
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    • 271 5  -  By Judith Holmberg The Government will build 12 more schools four secondary and eight primary in five Housing Board estates in the next two years. The schools, expected to cost over $20 million will accommodate 24,000 students In both morntog and afternoon sessions. The
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    • 155 5 ••vIEK Johnny Handover. 9, from Singapore appears to be hitting the big time after only two months of training to be a professional doghandler. For Johnny heat 40 other boys to win the preliminaries of the Junior National Handling Championships In England
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    • 236 5 Boatmen are now enjoying a mild boom with the current annual Buddhist pilgrimage to Kusu Island now taking place. About 100,000 pilgrims are expected to visit the island during the monthlong festival. With 25 days to go, boatmen and sampan operators are anticipating an
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 905 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a philosopher by nature. Able to inspire others with your approach to life an approach that is made up of equal parts of practicality and spirituality yoji have (and accept!) a respon-; sibility for the happiness of those people
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    • 207 4 The better you look, the better you feel!" Beauty may be only skindeep but it's there that self-confidence begins or ends. And confidence is probably the greatest asset to getting on" in the world. A bad skin is often > a real source of worry. Yet all that is needed
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 344 4 TT7T7 WEATHER London Cloudy becoming sunny and warm 68-59F, 20-45C. Headline: Big Labour vote to let the electors decide on EEC membership. Paris Variable 6855F, 20-13C. Headline: Labourites pledge referendum on Common Market. Moscow Cloudy 5445F, 12-7C. Headline: Rural communal service. Rio de Janeiro Clear 82-56F, 27-13C. Headline: UN accepts
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    • 190 5 The men behind the diamond are part of what you buy 4 7889 18 carat white gold ring 1 Columbian Emerald 4.05 cts. Diamonds 2 cts. $17,900/= 6198 I£Ccarat white gold ring Diamonds 3.74 cts. Cfeylon Cornflower blue Sapphire 98 pts. 6,594/- £y-\ < 6455 18 carat white gold ring
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 267 5 w < 1 NEW NATION ii wrmt NEW NATION CROSSWORD a ACROSS 1 Bookkeepers' concern: Abbr. 6 Extinct bird. 10 Hlspanlola: Abbr. 14 On a slant. 15 Uproot. 17 Far East capital. 18 Equipment for pitchers. 19 NCO. 20 Sentence component. 22 Swords. 23 Alaskan. 25 Successful treatment. 27 Annoy.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 451 6 Biggest ever snub to South Africa Reuter New York, Saturday The UN General Assembly gave its sharpest rebuke yet to South Africa when 100 delegations walked out yesterday in protest against its race laws as its Foreign Minister Dr. Hilgard Muller was addressing the gathering.
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    • 88 6 Washington, Saturday —Senator Edward Kennedy (above) yesterday denounced the US$24 million ($55.2 million) American credit to Chile as "the latest symbol of our willingness to embrace a dictatorial regime which came to power in a bloody coup." The credit, arranged this week by the
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    • 415 6 Reuter Boston, Saturday. Massachusetts AttorneyGeneral Robert Quinn yesterday appealed to the public for calm while police investigated a series of racial incidents and two bizarre murders in Boston. He urged black and white residents to work together to end violence and not to
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    • 288 6 Canberra, Saturday After nine futile months which saw thousands of ambitious but unacceptable entries in a contest for a new national anthem, Australians will still be singing Ood Save The Queen on their next National Day. The search for a new anthem began amid
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    • 30 6 Dar Es Salaam, Satur-day—Forty-seven people died yesterday and 15 others were injured, some of them critically, when a bus crashed into a river near Arusha, in Northern Tanzania.
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    • 256 6 Reuter Washington, Saturday Lawyers for VicePresident Agnew yesterday served subpoenaes on a number of newspapers demanding to know the source of information concerning an investigation into his affairs. A member of the legal team refused to name the newspapers, but the Washington Post and
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    • 28 6 Ottawa, Saturday.—Mr. Jules Leger, Canada's ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg has been appointed Gover-nor-general of Canada, replacing Mr. Roland Mlchener, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced yesterday.
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    • 88 6 The aircraft carrier USS Midway called at her new home for the first time yesterday while hundreds of lefttist Japanese students demonstrated. The 51,000-ton attack carrier docked at Yokosuka in Japan to mark her first visit to the American 7th Fleet Headquarters which has been
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    • 32 6 Salisbury, Saturday.— An engineer who fell asleep at the controls of a gold mine hoist which crashed, killing 16 men, was sentenced to three years' iail yesterday for culpable homicide.
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    • 262 6 London, Saturday Two thousand British socialists wound up their party's 72nd annual conference at Blackpool yesterday on a new note of solidarity—and with the party firmly steered on a more pronounced leftwing course. From the five-day conference of political leaders and the party faithful
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    • 304 6 Reuter Vienna, Saturday. The government is studying the possibility of a direct air bridge to transport Soviet emigrants to Israel with only a short halt in Vienna, officials said yesterday. The plan, dependent on Soviet agreement, would make it unnecessary to maintain
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    • 65 6 London, Saturday. Princess Anne and her fiance Captain Mark Phillips will make a flight in the AngloFrench Concorde supersonic airliner on October 23, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday. Other members of the royal family who have already flown in Concorde include the Duke of Edinburgah, Princess Margaret and her
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  • FINANCE
    • 437 7  -  By S.V. Suppiah There was an allround improvement of prices on the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the week. Many second and third line industrials recovered impressively. Speculative a c 11 vlty was partly responsible for this sudden upsurge. Small investors plucked
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    • 1979 7 INDUSTRIALS i972/1973 4 wks Stock Closing Price Last Week's TurnHigh Low ago Buyers Sellers Sale Of over 6.30 2.75 3.00 Aetna 3.30 3.36 3.32 +0.12 11 1 4.60 1.64 1.70 Adhesive Tape 1.80 1.78 +0.14 64 6.80 4.52 5.80 Ajinomoto 5.00 S.90 3.20 3.20 Alcan 3.26 3.30
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    • 81 7 Assets of the European Asian Bank (EURASBANK) exceeded $364 million for the first seven months of this year, an increase of more than 50 per cent since the end of 1972. In a statement the bank said that for the same period the volume of loans reached
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK PRICES
      • 436 7 Stocks prices rallied and moved strongly ahead across a broad front yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading was active. The Dow Jones Industrial average spurted ahead to 971.25, up 15.35 points. The increase more than ctflset Its retreat In the previous session, which was attributed to
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      • 20 7 closing stock average* on the New York Exchange yesterday: *> industrials 971 25 (up SV""® iss Sml; m stoclu
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      • 211 7 Prices moderately moved down in the morning session on the Tokyo stock market yesterday The market opened with a continued downslide reflecting a bearish tone the previous day and an overnight reactionary fall on Wall Street. Although some speculative leaders moved higher, many other issues lost ground on selling
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    • 189 7 Organisers of the management games in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong are considering expanding the contests to other countries. Mr. Richard Eu, chairman of the Singapore Institute of Management said this yesterday at the opening of the third management game at R E
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  • OPINION
    • 511 8 Singapore is often cited as an example of a modern and progressive country in South-East Asia, but it would appear that this reputation does not extend into the field of medical services. Judging from the report of the 16-member British team of health planning consultants engaged
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    • 87 8 'WHISPERS' b V ispy From one national leader to another. The April issue of Foreign Trade, a monthly journal from North Korea published by Its Foreign Trade Publishing House, contains a hymn to Marshal Kim II Sung written by Prince Norodom Sihanouk. To give you an idea
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    • 1018 8  -  Ever heard of a street camp? It's a new way of channelling the youthful energies of Singapore children to constructive activities initiated by the Chinese YMCA. A pilot project has been successfully conducted and another one Is being planned for the next school
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    • 808 8  -  By Richard Homan Washington Post Austria's decision to end its role as a way station for Jews leaving the Soviet Union fcas brought sharp criticism from opposition politicians and Israeli officials and threatens to hamper the flow of emigrants to the West. There were indications that
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    • 292 8 Postponed—year of Europe WORLD COMMENT EXCERPTS FROM EDITORIALS The Daily Telegraph President Pompidou's Press conference yesterday (Sept. 22) his first for five months, gave a fair reflection of some of •the doubts and hesitancies at present afflicting European policy-making over the question of relations with the United States. Of course,
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    • 171 8 Nihon Keizai Sbimbun The annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank ended Friday with a pledge to draw up plans to reform the international monetary system before the end of July 1974. The road ahead is thorny, however. The more specific the monetary talks
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  • SATURDAY REVIEW
    • 1942 9 Wendy Hutton tours the Indon capital and says... It's a city full of surprises Jakarta is not the sort of city that tourists like to visit. For most, it is merely a staging post along the route that leads to the cultural heartland of Central Java, and on
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    • SATURDAY SMILES...
      • 71 9 Soon after their wedding and settling in a downstairs London flat, a couple went upstairs to a disused room and found a man's skeleton on a bed. Geoffrey Wilson, 18, and his bride, Lorna, 20, told the police immediately—and moved out. Lorna said: "I couldn't return. I was
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      • 81 9 A campaign to allow prisoners to make love to their wives in jail has been launched. The demand has been made by the Prisoners' Wives' Union, led by a former beauty queen, Margaret Tuttle. Mrs. Tuttle, aged 30, who lives In London, wants to recruit all wives
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      • 56 9 Secretary Joan Handforth paid £100 ($600) in air fares to bring Tiddles, the stray cat she found in Australia, back home to Britain. Now Joan, of Yorkshire, is paying £9 ($54) a month for quarantine kennels and making a 200-mile round trip at weekends to Lincolnshire
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      • 51 9 TV comedy writers have been warned that dirty jokes and bad language are getting too common. The Britisn Independent Broadcasting Authority says it is not funny when scriptwriters overdo it. The annual report says: "Bad language, vulgarity and sexual Innuendo are inadequate for genuine wit and comic
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      • 51 9 Singer Vera Lynn, the Royal Armed Forces' sweetheart in the last war. Is leading villagers In guerrilla-type warfare against juggernaut lorries now ripping through the English country side since the country joined the Common Maricet. She lives In Ditchling, Sussex, now threatened by Increasing numbers of the giant
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      • 66 9 Blonde beauty queen Deirdre O'Meara claims that pub owner Mrs. Molly Heneghan has banned her from her premises the Waterwitch Inn, In Berkshire, because her perfume was too sexy. Deirdre. 22, said the scent was supposed to "warm up with you." But it did not turn on
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      • 45 9 Police saw a 16-month-old boy drinking happily from his bottle in his pram outside a pub. His parents, fined £5 ($3O) each at Leeds, Yorkshire, for giving beer to a child, said: "It does him good and it was to keep him quiet."
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      • 20 9 Two meetings to help women suffering from agoraphobia—the fear of going outside—flopped at Worcestershire, England. No one turned up.
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    • 1097 9 Today New Nation feature writer Mary Lee, who is on a World Press Institute fellowship to the US, writes about her experiences in no man's island. Dear readers, I wish you were here and I was somewhere else. "Here" is outdoor, on an island
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    • 988 10  -  SIGHT SOUND •y EDGAR KOH After nearly seven years, super-solicitor Perry Mason will make his appearance again. And this time he will have much if not too much to defend. Firstly, he will not be Raymond Burr who, if you know your TV cops and
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    • 432 10 Miracles In heart surgery HEARTS by Thomas Thompson, Fawcett, 320 pages. US$l.25 —LEE WAH HIN. Amidst the setting of the prestigious Houston Methodist Hospital and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Hearts brings the laymen right into the sacred precincts of the operating theatre where beart surgeons perform some
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    • 236 10  -  mmm j The review is by K* Chandran THE RELUCTANT PRINCESS by Mom Dusdi Paribatra, Charles Tuttle. 61 pages, $5.50- The Reluctant Princess is an exotic Orient beauty merging from the mystic and splendid background of her land. It is a legend of "sublime and virtuous" love
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    • 109 10 Many brickbats have been thrown at the multinationals which as pointed out recently in the Conference on Business Opportunities in the Pacific Region have been made the scapegoat for many ills m developing countries. With the annual sales of multinational corporations outstripping even the gross national
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    • 165 10 THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD OF ORCHIDS by Friedrich Ebel and Otfried Birnbaum, Leipzig. 118 pages. £9.50— C.V. ANTHONY ADAMS. Orchids are one of the most interest-* ing groups of flowering plants. In a number of species the orchid family Is surpassed by only
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    • 517 10  -  CINEMA BY EDGAR KOH BRUCE LEE THE MAN AND THE LEGEND (Odeon, Jurong Drive-in). Having brea his multitude of fans on a brief but spectacular diet of violence motivated mainly by racialist overtones, the late Bruce Lee now has to pay the price. The morbid curiosity
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    • 468 10  -  THEATRE BY VIOLET OON Here's great news lor Baroque music enthusiasts. The German Bach Soloists (14 musicians), one of the most famous Bach ensembles in the world, will be giving a concert at the Conference Hall on October 14 at 9 p.m. All players
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    • 371 10  -  ART BY VIOLET OON The Orient is increasing its influence on artist Yeo Hoe Koon as he grows older. Now 36, he said: "When I was young, it seemed to me that Europe was the place to ko to if I wanted to paint. "I felt that
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    • 787 11  -  This debut LP is a 'welcome change' DISC BY JEAN LI CAMEL: FRAMPTON'S CAMEL (A M): Camel is, of course, guitarist Pete Frampton's group. The Peter Frampton who was with Humble Pie and who gave us such fantastic guitar sounds on Strange Days. After
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    • 279 11  -  Gene Teo Korean singer Lily On above) stands out from the run-of-the-mill songstresses we have been having from Seoul and Taipeh. She sines and speaks fluent English and Japanese and a smattering of French, Spanish and Italian She is also thoroughly schooled in classical
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    • 292 11  -  STAMPS BY ANDREW LAU Singapore has been independent for eight years, yet stamps dating back to the colonial days are still valid. This, compared to other countries, is an extraordinary situation. Stamps of other Commonwealth countries are invalidated for postage after four to six
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    • 697 11  -  THE KORCHNOY- QUINTEROS CLASH CHESS BY LIM KOK ANN The Interzonal tournament In Leningrad took place before the Interzonal In Brazil. Eighteen qualifiers from various zones played In Leningrad as in the other interzonal and Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoy and Robert Byrne qualified for
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    • 465 11 FOOD/DRINK BY LI PO Calvados is to elder what brandy is to wine. It is an eau de vie oe cldre. It has a long history stretching back to the 16th century. It takes its name from the department of Calvados which is
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    • 492 11  - Stall food exotica —plus Chinese raw fish EATING OUT WITH SEE FOON If you've never eaten raw fish before, the very idea probably sounds repulsive. The Japanese eat it all year round in big slices dipped in soya sauce and green radish. Chinese raw fish Is something else. There is
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    • 527 11 Advertisement GARDEN NEWS GARDEN COMPOST (6) Last week we completed our first heap with a final dressing of sulphate of ammonia plus soil. A good idea is to use old sacks to cover it over, or a piece of corrugated iron, to keep off heavy rain: decomposition works best with
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  • SPORTS
    • 321 12  -  By Nancy Koh Punch Gunalan, the Malaysian No. 1 and Seap Games champion, will not play in the second World Invitation badminton champiopships in Singapore next month. Gunalan, who works for Dunlops in Kuala Lumpur, will be leaving for London on October 21 and
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    • 68 12 Two hundred students of 12 vocational institutes will take part In the first Industrial Training Board athletics meet at Queenstown Stadium at 2.30 pm. today. Students from Aljunied VI, Baharuddin VI, Boys Town VI, Bukit Merah VI, Geylan g Serai VI, Jurong VI, Pasir Panjang VI,
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    • 35 12 Tokyo, Saturday—Results of Japan's baseball: Central League—Hanshin 3 Chunlchl 1. Pacific Leauge—Kintetsu S Nankal 2 (Ist game —10 innings); Nankal 3 Klntetsu 2 (2nd game); Taiheiyo 4 Lotte 1; Hankyu v Nittaku (ppd rain).
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    • 30 12 London, Saturday Britain's Tony Jacklin looked certain to win the £15,000 Dunlop Masters golf tournament after finishing the third round four strokes ahead of the field here yesterday.
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    • 301 12  -  By Jeffrey Low Singapore strengthened their hopes of winning the Malaysian Chinese F.A. Cup when they easily defeated Negri Sembllan 4-0 at Jalan Besar last night. But the hero of the game was Negri's 21-year-old Burnley Cup goalkeeper Ong Luck Meng, who saved
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    • 743 12  -  purs WORLD by Nancy Koh The time-machine is set back to July 10, 1961. All eyes were focussed on a plumpish, ponytailed player who "had too much power and energy for the experienced, you could call her a veteran". Full of youthful vigour, the little
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    • 227 12 W ANTED: A Godfather for the Women's Football Association of Singapore PURPOSE: To sponsor two soccer teams to Manila to promote the game among women there. REQUISITES: Enough money for return air passages for 33 players and officials. This is the appeal issued by
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    • 52 12 Cardiff, Saturday.—An English Fourth Division soccer match between Newport and Mansfield was postponed because the visiting team literally got stuck in a traffic jam last night. A glue tanker overturned on a motorway, spilling its contents, and the Mansfleld team coach was trapped in the giant
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    • 285 12  -  By Nancy Koh School teacher, Glory Barnabas has been selected to replace C. Madathi in the women's 4x400m relay team for the first Asian track and field championships in Manila next month. Madathi, 16, a Secondary Four student of Cedar Secondary, has withdrawn from the team
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    • 196 13 By Scrutineer Southern Priest looks hard to beat in. Race 2 at Bukit Timah this afternoon. Another good thing is Tiger Lane in Race 3. Southern Priest, an Irish three-year-old by Le Prince, created a good impression in his second start when he came
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    • 4331 13 CARD GI'IDE: First figure denotes saddle cloth number; followed by how it finished in last four outings; name of horse; track preference; owner; trainer; age of horse; weight, divisional or class changes compared to last run; how fancied; distance for second run; jockey; and
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    • 455 13 Paris, Saturday Europe's top fillies will start firm favourites to win the world's richest horse race, the Prix De L'Arc de Triomphe. for the second successive year at Longchamp here tomorrow. Fillies have not won the race in successive vears since before the Second World War,
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    • 145 13 SCRUTINEER DANTE EPSOM JEEP BLUE PETER Race 1 Terracotta The Director Terracotta Prince Winalot Terracotta Prince Winalot Terracotta The Director Race 2 Southern Priest Bethelmag Scrjthern Priest Expedite Southern Priest Ontario Southern Priest Atomic Power Race 3 Tiger Lane Aequitas Aequitas Tiger l-ane Tiger Lane Forefront Tiger Lane Lady
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    • 130 13 London, Saturday. Trainer Derrick Candy, who retires at the end of the season, can set the seal on his career today by becoming the first trainer to saddle the winner of the Cambridgeshire Handicap three years in succession. Candy, 65, who trains at Wantage, Berkshire,
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    • 50 13 London, Saturday. Britain's Captain Mark Phillips retained his lead after the dressage event on the second day of the three-day horse trials at Wylye yesterday. Capt. Phillips, riding Maid Marion, built up a total of 31.25 penalty points to lead the 30 riders in the event.
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    • 33 13 St. Nom La-Breteche (France), Saturday. Johnny Miller the US Open champion, had a three-under-pair 69 yesterday to take a threestroke- lead after the second round of the £16,000 Lancome golf tournament.
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    • 71 13 Tokyo, Saturday. Hsieh Min-Nan of Taiwan carded a four-under-par 68 for a twoday total of 134, to maintain his lead at the halfway stage of the 20 million yen golf Digest tournament, at Susono yesterday. Ben Arda of the Philippines had a 71 and was tied
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    • 212 12 in'] OUR LONG LIST of clients need urgent accommodation in various districts. Leave your properties for ensured deposits and rentals. We also deal in renovation and painting of properties. For free estimate without any obligation kindly ring Gwee Engineering Construction Tel: *****0 S'pore mSSESSE a C las set Available. Special
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    • 302 12 EDUCATION SECRETARIAL COURSE (Full/Part-time) New Sessions Storting October: (Shorthand, Typewriting, Structure of Business, English, Secretarial Duties, Bookkeeping, Office Practice): Register early: Raja's College, Raffles Place (*****), Raid's, 218 D Changi Road, (*****8). SHORTHAND (Tneory/Speed upto 150 wpm): Classes anytime: Special speed developing devices: Success Guaranteed: New sessions starting October: Register
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    • 299 12 CORRESPONDENCE REPORTWRITING: Four Months Course: Storting October Success Guaranteed: Details from Raja's College: ***** *****8. PRACTICAL TV SERVICING Course (Suitoble for shift duty workers) For further details, ring *****9 S'pore. BEAUTIFY YOUR HOMES/ Offices/Hotels with latest designed furnitures. Excellent workmanship! Reasonable chaHges. Special economical rates for HDB Flats. For consultation,
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    • 272 12 BUKIT TIMAH, 6V4 milestone Jin. Gohsru: semidetached bungalow. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 servant's room. Area: 3,650 sq.ft. Price: $145,000. 99 years lease. Vacant possession. Tel: *****2 Evergreen Housing Agent. FOR SALE: 2-storey terroce at Jatan Lada Puteh, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 servant's. Parquet/mosaic flooring. Freehold. Immediate occupancy. Selling:
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    • 254 12 ONE GOOD Chinese Cook/ Generol Amah required immediately for small family. Live-out. Tel: *****5 S'pore after 6 p.m. ill' AMERICAN Construction Superintendent 20 years plus experience seven years South East Asia facilities Sites roads mining mechanical Tractors and Marine. Tel: *****2 call SHOPS FOR SALE/LET Faber Hill, Henry Park, Goldhill
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    • 254 12 I YWCA SOCIAL DANCING Classes for beginners com- J mence 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., Saturday 6.10.73, 7 p.m. Tuesday 9.10.73. Enquiries: i ***** 254, CXjtram Rood, S'pcre. YAMAHA MUSIC SCHOOL Offers Organ/Piano/Guitar/ j Drum/Flute and Children's Music Course. Airconditioned Studios. Experienced teachers. Tel: *****5, *****. j MRS. K. Y.
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    • 426 12 MORRIS MINI 1962 Good condition, new battery, new tyies, insurance, read tax February 1974. Principals only. Call Bill Koh, *****6/*****7. OWNER LEAVING!! 1968 Yamaha 100 c.c. Good condition- $300/- 0.n.0. S'pore *****7. View after 1 p.m. RAYMOND KANG SELLS TOYOTAS for Borneo Motors. Call *****3 office hours. ■MimßTman WANTED VOLVO
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    • 172 13 Wmneis ot the Eu«opean Commoti Market Aw\anl Rome Available at all leading opt<c>ans so»e agent for S>nqapore Malaysia, ndoneva. Thailand.antl Hong Kong I W. R GOODALE PTE. LTD. I Huo"* W S» k4' Si.»'rt Mo.x» Ri^d I PQ B-H>» r, P M oM<e S *»M S §19* GOOD NEWS FOR
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    • 163 14 TODAY is Saturday, October 6, the 279 th day of 1973 with 86 to follow. THE MOON is between its first quarter and full phase. THE MORNING STARS are Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign
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    • 55 14 Lovely Hitomi Koizumi could have easily added a feather to her cap. A top fashion model from Tokyo, Hitomi is now in Singapore to help raise $70,000 for the Singapore Red Cross Society at the charity fashion show •'Sparkle Tokyo" at the Shan g r i-La Hotel
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 1579 14 RADIO All ynr weekend viewing and listening SINGAPORE 5 SATURDAY 12.55 OPENING ANNOUNCE M E N T S followed by SESAME STREET: 1.50 SATURDAY MATINEE—Lady Takes A Chance: A city girl who is looking for a husband finds an unwilling victim in the West. Starring John Wayne, Jean Arthur 3.20
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    • 1332 14 BRUCE LEE THE MAN AND THE LEGEND (Mandarin): As quick as they can. Golden Harvest has snatched the pebble from everyone's hand. It is of course no gem; but the kung fu superstar is heard, ironically. fc,r the first time in his own voice, speaking in Cantonese and English at
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