New Nation, 16 January 1974

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  • 22 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, January 16, 1974 No. 924 Price 20 cents M.C. (P| 20/74 NE^^TION SINCAPORE WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16. 1974
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  • 577 1 Government takes tough stand: Demonstrations to be treated as treason —and penalty is death Jakarta, Wednesday Seven people have been killed In antiJapanese riots In Jakarta during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Kakuei Tanaka, diplomatic sources said today. They died by police
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  • 306 1 Singapore's youths today are resorting to crime "for kicks" and not because they have no other means of livelihood. Police spokesman Deputy Supt Yeow Yew Toons said this In a talk to. undergraduates at the Nanyang University yesterday. In view of this new trend In crime, there
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  • 74 1 Two hundred keepers will use tranquilliser guns to capture the three-ton love-sick hippopotamus which escaped from the Singapore Zoological Gardens two davs ago. This Is because the animal is so large that they have to knock him out first before closing in. The three year old hippo,
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  • 70 1 In quiet trading, prices were selectively strong on the Stock Exchange of Singapore for the first 45 minutes this morning. BUSINESS DONE: Malayan Credit (1) 2.33. Dunlop Estate (1) 2.90. Acma (1) 2.50. Associated Plastic il) 1.20, (2) 1.21. Sembawang Shipyard (1) 1.78. Sigma Metal (4) 1.82.
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  • 54 1 Lima, Wednesday. Ten people were killed and 30 injured when an Intercity bus rolled off a 1200-ft sand shoulder of the Pan-American Highway in northern Peru, traffic officials said yesterday. The officials said the accident occurred on Monday night. The bus was en route to Lima
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  • 10 1 Police reported 96 accidents yesterday. Six were serious.
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  • 43 1 New York, Wednesday Nineteen Mexican farm labourers were killed near Blythe, California, yesterday when the bus taking them to work skidded and crashed down a 30-foot (10 metre) deep ditch. At least 20 people were Injured In the bus.
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  • 20 1 Rome, Wednesday Vatican Radio yesterday welcomed the film Jesus Christ Superstar and praised Its "fresh' ness and sincerity."
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  • 277 1 Britons warned of tough laws London, Wednesday Britons were given a chilling warning yesterday that unless a greater effort was made to save electricity, the government might bring in laws allowing them to light and heat only one room of their homes. Mr. Patrick Jenkln,
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  • 272 1 Here are the official results of the Belle of the Week contest which ran from Dec. 31 to Jan. 5. The panel of Judges decided on the tollowlng order of beauty, with points upon a possible maximum of 100 In brackets: Monday's belle
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  • 439 1 New blow for Nixon Washington, Wednesday President Nixon was dealt another blow yesterday over Watergate when six technical experts reported that an 18minute gap on a key White House tape could not have been caused in the way described by the President's personal secretary.
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  • 49 1 A three-year-old girl. Wu Suat Mel, who feU from a bench at her Tan Jang Pagar Road home yesterday morning. died few hours later In Outram hospital. Buat Mel was asleep three-foot on the high bench at about 9 a.m. when she rolled over and feU.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 245 2 Police today warned householders to be on the lookout for a gang of bogus repairmen who have stolen at least $10,000 worth of electrical goods from several flats in Toa Payoh last week. The five-member gang usually strike during the day when the men
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    • 42 2 Three films on Paint, Textiles and Himalayan Tapestry by courtesy of Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte.) Ltd. will be shown at the National Museum Lecture Hall tomorrow at 7.30 p.m. Free admission tickets are available at the museum during office hours.
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    • 236 2 Hundreds of schoolchildren in Mountbatten Road were literally smoked out of their classrooms yesterday afternoon. Thick smoke from burning foliage on a school fence, swirled into three schools and teachers immeditely led students out of the classrooms. And at the nearby Housing Board estate,
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    • 291 2  -  So factories offer ang pows By Pauline Khng Some employers in Jurong are offering cash incentives to their Malaysian workers to return to Singapore after the Chinese New Year holiday. The employers are afraid that after the workers collect their bonuses and return to
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    • 271 2 'Oil firms will benefit most' Oil companies will benefit most after the Arab embargo is over, an American journalist specialising in oil said yesterday. Mr. Leon Howell explained: "In February 1871 the on dates in the Persian Gulf raised prices from USBO cents to US$l.l5
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    • 108 2 The Youaif? Women's Christian Association hostel in Jurong has raised its rates for its 154 rooms. The new rates starting this month are $17 for Singaporeans and $20 for Malaysians. The old rate was $16 for both. The hostel, which consists of two blocks of
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    • 193 2 A case of wet cemept landing on the wrong place. And the first thing the driver and his assistant of this 10-ton concrete mixer did after it overturned was to rush for a spade. For much of their cement had spilled on the roadside and they
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    • 116 2 Scotch whisky tipplers In Singapore may soon have to pay more for their drinks. The proposed Increase In the prices of popular brands will raise the retail value here by a further $1.20 a bottle. Because of the higher duty Imposed recently drinkers are
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    • 22 2 The Vigilante Corps military band will perform at the Macßltchie Reservoir Park on Sunday from SJO pjn. to 6.30 p.m.
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    • 138 2 The Quest for the oldest "tiger" bom in Singapore Is now on. In conjunction with its Tiger Campaign Roblna Department Store Is offering gifts to the right person born In the years 187$, 1890 or 1902, according to the Chinese lunar calendar. Those
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    • 168 2 A government servant, Mr. Lim Chel Yoo, 27, has appealed for help in tracing his mother, Madam Ang Ah Lung, 68, who has been missing from her home in Lorong Sarhad, off sft mile Paslr Pan j aji g Road, for the past
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    • 108 3 A 21-year-old man wanted for questioning in connection with a series of armed robberies in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia has been arrested—after being on the run for nearly a year. He was picked up during the weekend by Malaysian police near, the Thai border.
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    • Article, Illustration
      216 3 Miss Katherine Tan (left) is one who believes in keeping herself busy even on her off day. This good habit paid off when she won the first prize for the Belle of the Week contest. Katherine, a flight stewardess with the Singapore Airlines, said: "I was just
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    • 300 3 'Only, then will productivity rise' TD Manufacturing industries must cut down waste and rejects if Singapore is to increase productivity this year, according to Mr. Ong Leng Chuan, chairman of the Singapore Manufacturers' Association. He said the increase In productivity will also help to bring
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    • 578 3  -  CASE warning By Rav K. Dhaliwal Many retailers are selling food items no longer subject to import duty at prices that do not reflect the tariff exemption. A New Nation survey showed that many of these Items were sold In various shops at a higher
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    • 220 3 Middle Road Hospital has been given a $42,000 face-lift to upgrade its outpatient services. The hospital's two wards with 45 beds have been shifted to Middleton Hospital to enable specialisation of outpatient care. All examination of patients are now confined to the ground floor of the
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    • 244 3  -  f CHESSI ■Y LIM KOK ANN The first match In the quarter -finals of the Candidates Tournament to find a chaUenger to play Bobby Fischer for the world title, began on Monday when Rrtert Byrne (US), met Boris Spassky, (USSR), the former world champion in
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    • 31 3 The First Lady. Mrs. Sheares, will attend a Chinese New Year party of the Old People's Club of the Singapore Red Cross at Penang Lane tomorrow at 5 p.m.
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    • 128 3 Last Friday's poser showed a scene from The Poseidon Adventure. The first 10 correct entries opened by the Editor yesterday evening were from: Mr. Ronnie T.im Sin Bin (administration officer), of 540 Sembawang Road; Mr. Kee Teck Loke (office boy), of 74C Dakota Crescent;
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    • 28 3 The Muslim Trust Fund Association will hold a picnic for boys of the Muslim Orphanage at the Ayer Gemuroh Mosque in Wing Loeng Road on Sunday.
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    • 147 3 Singapore will have Its first Thai restaurant soon. To be known as Slam Room (S) Pte. Ltd., It will occupy the Ooldhlll Plaza premises of the former Chez Beppl Italian restaurant. The new restaurant is a joint venture between Mr. TJ. Png, a local
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    • 159 3 MM felfetk Alice Phua, 18 (abovfe) defied parental objections and became a winner. She was chosen the Belle of the Week in our eighth competition. Alice, from Kuantan, works as a machinist in a Kuala Lumpur firm. "I submitted my name for the contest
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 276 3 NEW NATION CROSSWORD aaa ACROSS 1 Road sign. 7 Filches. 13 Self-reproach. 14 Remissions. 16 Symbols. 17 Circus performer. 18 Junior miss. 19 of many colors." 21 arls. 22 Wood sorrel. 24 Anger. 25 Jaunty. 26 Putting in an enclosure. 29 Than: Ger 30 Copenhagen's Island 31 Big bird 32
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  • IN PERSON
    • 531 4  -  MADAM SUNYEE SHOWS HER PUPILS THE DELICATE CHINESE ART IN PERSON CmAicM by Jennifer Schoon WATCHING MADAM SUNYEE as she painted a lotus and Its leaves, seemed so easy. Having completed the painting she pinned it up and asked her pupils to copy It. That
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    • 528 4 ntmim I DOG HOUSE V You will all remember young Johnny Handover who, having done so well In the Children Handling Classes at the B.K.C. shows, went to England. There. Ave weeks after arrival, he got Into the semi-finals of the English Junior National
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 318 5 UPI, Reuter New Delhi. Wednes- y rr A spate of Strikes g workers, office employees, teachers, doctors and nurses swept across India yesterday. The latest tr. join the wave of strikes were university teachers through out the country who went on a day's token yesterday
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    • 39 5 Bonn, Wednesday Police cleared a Stuttgart graveyard of visitors yesterday when a grave-digger uncovered a British unexploded 1.000 ib bomb ®f the Second World War vintage. Police here said the bomb was safely defused by experts.
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    • 471 5 Warning by top money men Reuter London, Wednesday Two top monetary officials ye st e r day warned that the recent steep increases in oil prices would cause very serious distortions for the world economy and the balance of international payments. The head
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    • 256 5 Bonn, Wednesday. The West German Armed Forces have a network of arms and supply depots In central France. Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Norway as well as two in northern England and one in Scotland, it was disclosed yesterday. The disclosure came
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    • 47 5 Canberra, Wednesday Australia and Saudi Arabia have agreed to establish dplomatic relations. the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Don Willesee, said yesterday. Australia will set up an embassy In Jeddah, the kingdom's main port on the Red Sea which is also the diplomatic centre.
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    • 317 5 United Press International New York, Wednesday Actor John Wayne, pelted with snowballs and picketed by unfriendly Indians, braved enemy territory at Harvard University yesterday for a good-natured roasting, and even managed some quips about President Nixon and tape erasures. Bare-headed, smiling and smoking a cigar,
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    • 246 5 Reuter Paris, Wednesday. Dismissed Tunisian Foreign Minister Mohamed Masmoudi said yesterday the fundamental reason for his departure was that he was found to be a "little too Arabist." in his foreign policy. In an interview with the French radio station Europe Number One. Mr. Masmoudi
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    • 101 5 Phnom Penh, Wednesday A Soviet built 122 mm rocket killed seven people and wounded 22 here last night just at the start of the 9 p.m. curfew. The rocket, similar to others fired from territory held by communistled Khmer Rouge guerrilllas just across
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    • 199 5 Reuter Cairo, Wednesday Fires have broken out in about three oil wells in Israeli occupied Sinai where another three have been blazing since January 1. The Middle East news agency said yesterday the new fires were in the Abu Rudels fields, south
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    • 206 5 Petition to Senate Saigon, Wednesday Soutn Vietnamese lawmakers today took con stitutional steps towards enabling President. Tmeu to stand lor an unpre cedented third term. The Senate spokesman said six legislators today presented to the Senate office a petition calling lor three constitutional amendments, including the
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    • 68 5 Ottawa. WednesdayAustralia wants to go Into the peacekeeping business and is prepared to relieve Canada of some of its peace-keeping Jobs, Australian Defence Minister Mr. Lance Barnard said yesterday. Mr Barnard met his Canadian counterpart, Mr. James Richardson and External Affairs, Minister Mr. Mitchell Sharp to discuss peacekeeping
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  • OPINION
    • 509 6 If the anti-Tanaka student demonstrations in Thailand were impressive, those in Indonesia have been catastrophic. On the second day of the visit of the Japanese Prime Minister, Indonesian student demonstrations developed into the worst riots that Jakarta has experienced since 1966, when widespread protests and
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    • 84 6 'WHISPERS' by ispy The things some peo§le say to make a fast uck. A man who had ordered three fresh oranges in the course of his dinner at a restaurant in Orchard Road, was presented with three different bills quoting three different prices for his drinks. The manager
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    • 840 6  -  As everyone knows, the Association of South-East Asian Nations, is currently in the process of working oat a trad i n f arrangement with the European Economic Community. What few are aware of. however, is that the negotiations present a small test to
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    • 536 6  -  From John M. Goshko Washington Post West German Foreign Minister Walter Set eel has literally started the new year on a high note: He's become the country's newest singing sensation. For almost a month, the hottest selling record In West Germany has been Scheel's mellow tenor rendition
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    • VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 308 6 What other newspapers are saying: CAN OIL SHORTAGE BE SOLVED BY AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE? It Is not without reason that the United States has called fdr an International conference to solve the energy crisis. The Arab oil boycott triggered off by the Middle East war h.is turned
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      • 204 6 TO PREVENT EXPLOITATION OF CONSUMERS Consumer complaints at>out the price hikes In Singapore are apparently an unending phenomenon. Irresponsible traders are talcing advantage of the current inflation to exploit consumers, who are powerless to retaliate. CASE whose task It Is to protect consumers' interests has so far not
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    • Letters
      • 174 6  -  YAP PEK HONG (Mrs.) Sr. Public Relations Officer, Housing and Development Board, Singapore, 2. Please refer to Ismail Kassim's column headlined Purchasing Flats with CPF (NN, 5.1.74). At the time of application for a HDB flat, a purchaser's trial family Income from all sources must not exceed
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      • 115 6 Last year, Interest rates for fixed deposits were Increased. As a result, this category of depositors benefited by one per cent in the interest rate. The Post Office Savings Bank increased the Interest rate for savings accounts from 4 per cent to 4ft per cent per annum as
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      • 121 6  -  YAP SOON HOE Secretary, Bus Services Reorganisation Committee. Singapore, 6. We thank Mr, Gerald de Cruz (NN, 1.1.74) for his suggestion* to provide incentives for the bus-workers In order to have a better public bus transport system. Mr. Gerald de Cruz may be pleased to know that
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      • 180 6 I would like to refer to the report in the New Nation of 2nd January. 1974 on the Educational Publications Bureau's intention to take articles and stories published overseas and to re-write them for our school children. This attempt Is outra- geous and Is a slap
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • 969 7  -  ICONTINUING THE SERIES ON 'THE DYING WORLD'I By Pakir Singh America is leaderless. Sure, President Nixon continues to sit in the White House but more and more Americans are beginning to feel that he cannot provide either direction or guidance to lift the country out of of
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    • 1167 7  -  CRISIS TWO: THE U.S By Peter Costigan Melbourne Herald In the light of what has emerged in the past 12 months, President Nixon's massive popular victory in the 1972's election now seems like an act of electoral Insanity. Mr. Nixon won
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    • 1124 7  -  By Hobart Rowen Washington Post There is only one reasonably safe thing: to say about the United States' economic prospects for 1974: Whatever the outlook was before the Middle East oil crisis, it is worse now. The pace of inflation will be accelerated, the level
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • SHOWBIZ
    • 545 8 First new big star this year POP TALK Leo Sayer is going to be a name to watch out for this year. For he Is the first new major star to break the music scene this year and he looks set to
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    • 250 8  -  JUDITH HOLMBERG Do not let Miss Ling Feiyang's beauty mislead you, for behind her pretty face throbs a keen analytical business mind. Feiyang, 21, has been managing her own singing hall in Taiwan ever since she left school. Her ambition now, is to explore more avenues
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    • 490 8  -  IVOR DAVIS Hollywood Silvers with that unmistakable Sergeant Bilko Braggadocclo: It's awful tough to die when it isn't your time." Hie voice was slightly wavery but undeniably that of one of showbusiness, top comedians. "See, my voice is coming back I'm starting to walk again.
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    • 284 8  -  VIOLET OON The Sydney Chamber Conservatorlum Orchestra will present a concert at the Kreta Ayer People's Theatre at 8 p.m. tomorrow the third to date by this youthful group of musicians during their short stay in Singapore. They staged two schocJ concerts on Monday
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 592 8  -  ART BUCHWALD Los Angeles Times The other day it was announced in Teheran that an oil auction was held and the oil was sold for a record price of US$l7 a barrel. Not many years ago that was what a barrel
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    • 1065 8  -  Now a long-term deal with the Saudis FRANCE From Ronald Kovan Washington Post France has concluded the initial portion of a vast petroleum for-arms-and-technology swap with Saudi Arabia, according to oil industry sources. The overall but still incomplete deal involves the eventual supply
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    • 638 8  -  VIETNAM From George McArthur Los Angeles Times The South Vietnamese government of President Thieu has been Informed that renewed American air support is a very unlikely possibility even in the event of an allout communist offensive. This was reiterated privately
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 63 8 1. (10) The Show Mast Go On: Leo Sayer 2. (3) You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me: Wew Seekers 3. (1) MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY: Slade 4. (6) My Coo-Ca-Choo: Alvin Stardust 5. (2) I Love You Love ME Love: Gary Glitter (7) Lamplight: David Essex 7. (27) Pool HaU
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    • 181 8 Be Christmas Everyday: Sizzard 9 (5) PAPER ROSES: Marie Osmond 10 (19) Dance With The Devil: Cozy Powell i 1. (2) Time In A Bottle: Jim Croce 2. (3) The Joker: Steve Miller 3. (5) Show And TeU: A 1 Wilson 4. (9) Smokilns In The Boy's Room: Brownsville Sztion
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  • TREND
    • 294 9  -  FASHION EDITOR HERE TO SHOOT 'DREAM SEQUENCE' PAULINE KHNG Singapore will be featured in the British women's magazine Honey in April, according to its visiting fashion editor, Miss Nike Williams. Miss N Williams said: "Chinese clothes are now in fashion like cheongsam sleeves, Mao jackets,
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    • 138 9 Melbourne Herald A new teacher dealt with an unruly boy by "booting" him, a court was told recently. But the magistrate's court dismissed an assault charge against the master ana the National Union of Teachers hailed the decision as a "victory for commonsense."
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    • 238 9  -  BETTY L. KHOO Clerical work in a bank is hardly inspiring. But while Hideki Hoong (right) works hard at his Job in the bank in the day, at night he lets his imagination and sketch pen flow. The result Is that In Just a
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    • 261 9  -  EATING IN X LU LIN How would you like to prepare a dinner that will not burn? Sounds incredible, but it is simply cooking in very low heat for a very long time. The idea was first told to me by an American bachelor
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    • 108 9 Melbourne Herald John Mills tried to put the nosey police off the scent when they stopped his car one night. He grabbed his girl friend's perfume and sprayed it In his mouth to cover up the smell of beer and whisky. Unfortunately the perfume had
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    • 99 9 It'« all very well for myopic girls who can wear contact lensea but those who cannot, need not neglect their eyemakeup thinking that it's all hidden behind their lenses. In fact, according to Max Factor's beauty experts they need more careful makeup. If your glasses
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  • FINANCE
    • 324 9  -  By Lee Yew Meng Industrial Electronics and Engineering (lEE) and its subsidiary, Universal Electronic Corporation, have secured contracts worth more than $30 million over the next 12 zo 18 months, according .to their chairman Mr. Baey Lian Peck. Over $10
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 314 9 Stocks gained in slugC trading on the New c Stock Exchange yesterday, responding to some encouraging energy news. IBM, the computer giant said earnings per share In 1973 increased 23.2 per cent to U8110.79, compared with US$B.B3 the previous year. Closing prices on the New York Stock Exchange
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      • 204 9 Closing prices (In francs) yesterday. Parlbas 180 50 —4.10 Indochlne 202 —2.20 Ponder 378.10 —2.60 Pr in temps 112 +4 COE 445 +10 Bull 67 —.60 Royal Dutch 160 —1.50 Mlchelin 1135 +4 Thomson 230 +15 C.P.P. 195.50 —4.40 Rhone 139.50 —2.50 Air 313 +5 B.SN 1085 +10 Philips
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      • 214 9 Closing prices at 11.30 am (Australian time). AOD 11 12 All State 08 09 Amad 02i 031 Aurora 09 nil Do Opts 001 01 Aust And 12 IS Bamboo 01 044 Beach 36 38 Bridge 16 20 Patrick 09j 10 Cleveland 32 40 Eastmet 091 10 Endeavour IS 16
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      • 77 9 This service Is from the Union Bank of 8vltserland. Closing prices (In francs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS 3600 —10 SBC 3390 Credit Suisse 3285 —i 8w1anlr B. MO —5 Swiss Relnsur. 2180 Wlnterthur B. 1810 Zurich Insur. 6600 —100 Juvena B. 2040 +10 Nestle B. 3595
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      • 143 9 Record low for Reuter London, Wednesday. The British pound plunged by more than four cents to a record low of U552.1850 yesterday as expectations grew of an early general election. At the close of trading on the foreign exchange market. It had picked up slightly to 2.1875 against the dollar.
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      • 33 9 The Dow Jones closing range of Etock averages yesterday were: 30 industrials 838 10 (up 6.22). 20 transport 190.65 (up 0.93), 15 utilities 92.02 (up 0.58), 65 stocks 269.26 (up 1.77).
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    • 132 9 Reuter Lahore, Wednesday Pakistani banks were doing better business abroad following their nationalisation on new year's day and the posi tlon of the country's currency in the world market has greatly im proved, according to Finance Minister Mr. Mubashlr Hasan. The minister. Interviewed
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    • 222 9 The share market (ailed to maintain the momentum it cot on Monday with prices sliding down in most of the stocks traded yesterday. The opening note was encouraging bat before the first trading Mission was over, profit-takers emerged, reducing price gains to nought. Metro, as usual, continued to
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    • 93 9 Why dye think it never to get past Glasgie? Everything they made at the Glengoyne distillery in the Campsie Hills of Stirlingshire used to be drunk in Glasgow. Because the Glaswegians have such a fine taste for whisky. Langs had to modernize the old distillery so that, still using water
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  • SPORTS
    • 1041 10 Firebrand will take a lot of beating r 3 SMBlf ROUNDUP By BLUE PETER A Teh Choon Beng has a formidable team entered for the $35,000 Tunku's Gold Cup to be run at Kuala Lumpur on January 27. They are Developer 11. Credit Centre, Golden
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    • 224 10 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Fondest Regards did a splendid gallop on good going here this morning. He sprinted over 3f In 36 4/5. Burkott Lass reeled off 3f In 36. Jackpot IV worked surprisingly well, clocking 37 for 3f. Box Office showed good form running
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    • 24 10 Sapporo, Wednesday— A Japanese selection team beat a European selection 4-1 in the second round of the third internaUonal badminton tournament yesterday.
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    • 440 10  -  MARIIAI ARTS hy Sonny Yap Bersilat master Mas Dawi has a lifelong ambition: To revive this closely guarded Malay martial art and reveal its secrets to the world. He told me that if no steps were taken to modernise bersUat, the traditional art would
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    • 36 10 Seoul. Wednesday South Korean Junior welterweight Lee ChangKil has decided to flgtat World Boxing Association (WBA) champion Antonio Cervantes of Colombia in a title bout proposed by Cervantes, the Korea Boxing Commission said yesterday.
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    • 31 10 London, Wednesday. American heavyweight Pat Duncan scored a stunning upset victory when he beat British ana Commonwealth boxing champion Danny McAllnden on points over 10 rounds here last night.
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    • 211 10 Mr. Ng Teng Pong of Lucky Stable has bought Dragonboat in, flarl Sara, Queen's Counsel and Pride of Asia. Royal Coach has been ■old to Ace Stable. Bapreaie Grey is now owned by Straight Flush Stable. Herring Fleet has been sold to Sambchan
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    • 354 11  -  By Nancy Koh Light- flyweight boxer Syed Abdul Kadir wants to win a Commonwealth Games medal at Chrlstchurch next week —for the woman of his life. He wants to present the medal as a weddinggift to Zalla JafTar. when they marry In April. He dc.es four
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    • 236 11 Queenstown Technical made another clean sweep in their bid to retain the Paslr Panjang district "A" Boys badminton title yesterday. They beat Tanglin Technical 5-0 on the second day of the championships at Queenstown School Hall to remain league leaders after thrashing Hua Yi Government 5-0 in
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    • 101 11 Chrlstchurch, Wednesday—England star Geoff Capes had the Commonwealth Games men's shot putt gold medal all but in his grasp after some spectacular efforts in training here yesterday. Capes, a 22 stone policeman, shrugged off his recent 12,000-mlie flight from London and hectic settllng-ln period here, to
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    • 38 11 Nagoya, Wednesday A South Korean student selection won the third straight victory In the third of Its seven good* will basketball games In Japan by defeating Chukyo University 102-78 yesterday. Japan led 4240 at half time.
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    • 63 11 London, Wednesday Several hundred young fans rioted after Queens Park Rangers beat London rivals Chelsea 1-0 in an English Football Association Cup third round replay yesterday. They fought a running battle with police, who prevented them uprooting one of the goals. As they were being chased out of
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    • 47 11 Christchurch, Wednesday. English players were listed as favourites for foyr of the five events when the Commonwealth Games badminton seedings were announced yesterday. English players filled half ot the 24 seedings though Canadian Jamie Paulson was named as favourite to retain his men's singles crown.
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    • 194 11 Hale School, Wesley College and Singapore Combined Schools will be engaged In a triangular water-polo meet at the Anglo-Chinese School pool In Barker Road on Friday. The games will start at 5 pm. Touring teams, Hales from Perth and Wesley from Melbourne, are expected to
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    • 180 11 Adelaide, Wednesday A match haul of 11-170 by legspin bowler Terry Jenner helped South Australia to their first Sheffield Shield cricket win of the season here yesterday. Jenner followed up his first-innings figures of 4-43 with 7-127 yesterday as South Australia beat Western Australia, the
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    • 17 11 New York, Wednesday San Antonio beat Utah 90-81 in a American Basketball Association match yesterday.
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  • BACK PAGE
    • 148 12 TODAY Is Wednesday. January 16. the sixteenth day of 1974 with 349 to fr.'low. THE MOON Is between Its last quarter and new phase. Technically there Is NO MORNING STAR. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Venus. Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of
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    • 48 12 AH FOOK: Now we hear that Singapore youths are taking to crime Just for kicks. This is a trend that has to be stopped soon. MEI UN: Don't they know that you get no kick in a cell... because that is where they will end up.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 937 12 SINGAPORE 5 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed bgr TI'MPU AN JONGGU: A magazine sarles presented In Malay 3.25 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.30 LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDOURED THING: Daytime serial on the trials and tribulations of three families In San Francisco 3.55 FEB SEMBAHAN KU: A light musical programme featuring
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    • 584 12 SELINA LYN LEE is today's Belle of the Week (Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1974). She is fotnd of pop music, swimming and travelling.—Picture by JERRY SEH. BELLS A YASHJCA cyma One belle appears on this pace every week from Monday to Friday. Cut alone the dotted line and keep today's belle
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    • 1253 12 IEBIiaSES WOLFMAN Ys WOLF. GSL: A "stray," inde-pendently-produced horror flick with dark castles and supernatural happenings as its stuff; starring unheard-of Paul Naaehy, Per la Crlstal and Mark Steven. Capitol: 1.46, 4, 6.30, 9.30 THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (Re-run): One of the three top box office grossers last year, an authentic
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