New Nation, 12 February 1974

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  • 23 1 NEW NATION jSINGAPORE Tuesday evening, February 12, 1974 No. 946 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 20/74 NEW^TION SINCAFORE TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 1974
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  • 565 1 EEC, Japan accept Dr. K's call to help solve energy crisis Reuter Washington, Tuesday The United States, the European Economic Community and Japan yesterday called for an early conference of oil producer and consumer nations to resolve the world-wide energy crisis. This
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  • 356 1  -  By Sunny Wee Racketeers are now selling forged passes for Singapore-regis-tered motor vehicles entering Malaysia at $2 each. Passes for entry Into Malaysia are available free of charge at the Malaysian High Commission. However, some motorists prefer to buy the forced ones because it means they
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  • 323 1 3 more US firms taken over Reuter Tripoli, Tuesday Libya last night nationalised all the assets of three American oil companies, Texaco, the Asian Oil Company of Calif or n i a and the Libyan-American Oil Company (Liamco). The announcement by the Libvan news agency Arna
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  • 173 1 Reuter London, Tuesday Major oil companies last night announced a rise of nearly 18 per cent in the price of petrol, boosting the popular four star grade by 7.5 pence (42 cents) to 49.5 pence ($2.77) sterling per gallon (4.5 litres). The announcement came after
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  • 307 1  -  Mother breaks open door By Morris John Well known excabaret girl and former president of the Singapore Dance Hostess Association. Miss Mimi Koh, was found dead in a locked bedroom of her house in Linchi Avenue in Sennett' Estate, on Saturday. Police Investigating her death found
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  • 261 1 Reuter Saigon, Tuesday Communist troops suffered 118 killed the largest communist casualties this year the three days of fighting against a government relief column in the Central Highlands, according to the South Vietnam ese Command here. Command spokesman Lieutenant Colonel
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  • 134 1 UPI Kuching, Tuesday Marine, army and police patrols today searched for six men, including the captain of a small cargo vessel which sank on Friday in the South China Sea. Eight other persons from the small ship, the Hung Lee. a Labuan-re-glstered vessel were
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  • 264 1 Red barrage with captured US arms Reuter Phnom Penh, Tuesday. Rebel gunners firing captured American made 105 mm artillery yester day bombarded the southern section of the capital, one of the shells exploding near the US Embassy and others hitting President Lon
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  • 67 1 In dull trading prices were barely steady on the stock exchange of Singapore for the first 45 minutes this morning. BUSINESS DONE: Kemayan (1) 2.00. Faber Union Loan (1) 1.06. 0.C.8.C. (5) 8.55, (2) 8.50. Straits Steamship (1) 3.12 Metro (1) 1.66. Leong Huat (40 2.35. Haw
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  • 38 1 A motor-cyclist, Teng Ah Heng, 24, of Jalan Nam San, died on admission to the Alexandra Road General Hospital after he was Involved in a collision with a truck near Queensway Circus at 8 ajn. yesterday.
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  • 29 1 Cape Canaveral, Tuesday.—A Titan Centaur rocket flight tested for the first time here yesterday was deliberately blown up only minutes after launch because of a system failure.
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  • 13 1 Police reported 90 accidents yesterday. Three were serious and one fatal.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 284 2 LKA Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union postCed the 11th game of match against Lajos Portisch of Hungary, scheduled yesterday in Paima de Mallorca Spain. The former world champion was certainly off colour in the 10th game played last Saturday when he was crushed
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    • 30 2 The Filipino Fortnight, jointly sponsored by the Philippine Ministry of Trade and Singapore Airlines, will be held at Metro Orchard, Scotts Road from April 6 to 16.
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    • 403 2  -  Mosaic, wall tiles cannot be replaced By Judith Holmberg The Housing and Development Board has prohibited new flat owners from hacking away the mosaic and wall tiles provided in the flats and replacing them with tiles of their choice. The new ruling is to
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    • 351 2  -  By Florence Tan Schoolboy Poh Hean Lee, 16 (above) believes in staying ahead in hLs class. All his life he has been doing this—starting with his first lesson in kindergarten when he was a six-year-old toddler. Now standing 5 ft 11 inches and weighing
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    • 385 2  -  By PG Sunday's Limit Show was another excellent one. Starting on time, finishing on time and a field day for a little shih tzu of onlv seven months. Pan Wao of Antarctica owned by Mr. Justin Lee won Best Puppy, Junior, Novice and Best-In Show awards.
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    • 199 2 About 2.9 million people in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore saw the telecast of the Muhammad All-Joe Frazler fight on Jan. 29. This figure was revealed in a television audience survey conducted in both territories by the Media Index of Survey Research Malaysian
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    • 29 2 The YWCA House Residents' Committee will hold its annual "Model Room Competition" prize-giving ceremony at the YWCA House in Yung An Road, Jurong on Saturday at 4.30 pjn
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    • 76 2 Mr. Ong Teng Cheong. MP for Kim Keat. will ask the Minister for Communications whether any positive decision has been made on the proposed mass transit system at the next sitting of Parliament. This is in view of the rapidly deteriorating traffic situation and the current
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 324 2 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 10 Capable of being stretched. 11 Eulogies. 13 "Die Fledermaus" character. 14 Secret agent. 15 Rent payer. 19 Lavallere. 23 Give. 24 Bygone. 26 Trace. 27 German engraver (1471-1528). 28 Reduce to subjection. 31 Short for however. 33 qua non. 34 Importune. 35 Fluting of a column,
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 180 3 London, Tuesday Trafficking of illegal immigrants into Britain was "pretty close to slavery, a court was told in the eastern English city of Norwich yesterday. Judge Sir Ralph Cusack said during the trial of 11 men charged with smuggling about 100 Asians across
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    • 70 3 London, Tuesday. Britain is making a bid to sell Egypt some of its latest weapons, Including the Rapier low-level anti-aircraft missile system, Informed sources said yesterday. An arms industry sales team. Including representatives of the Defence Ministry and the British Aircraft Corporation which makes the Rapier, has
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    • 378 3 Mini summit soon Reuter Cairo, Tuesday A restricted sixnation Arab summit is expected to be held in Egypt within 48 hours to discuss Arab political action and d i s en g a gement of Syrian and Israeli forces on the Syrian front, informed
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    • 57 3 Canberra, Tuesday. Australia yesterday launched a nationa-wide opinion poll to find the most popular choice for a new national anthem to replace God Save the Queen. About 60,000 people will be asked their choice of three tunes—Advance Australia Fair, Song of Australia and Waltzing Matilda all of
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    • 317 3 Reuter London. Tuesday New hope of solving Britain's crippling coal strike emerged last night as the miners' leaders summoned executive members for a meeting today to consider peace proposals made by a group of Industrialists. A consortium of industrialists, not yet named,
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    • 304 3 Palermo, Tuesday The trial begins here today of 76 alleged members of the modern Mafia some of them Sicily's most feared men. Of the accused, 28 are in prison, 38 are on provisional liberty but confined to isolated villages or islands, and 10 are
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    • 87 3 London, Tuesday Former International architect John Poulson and his Scottish civil servant friend George Pottinger were yesterday each sentenced to five years Imprisonment on conspiracy and corruption charges. Poulson, 63, who at one time employed 750 people with offices In London, Edinburgh, Lagos and
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    • 16 3 Tokyo, Tuesday Three mountaineers were reported missing today in an avalanche on Yatsugatake mountain
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    • 179 3 Reuter Teheran, Tuesday. Border attacks by Iraqi tanks backed up by artillery killed 41 Iranian troops and wounded a further 81 on Sunday an Iranian Army General Staff spokesman said yesterday. He said the Iraqis left 14 dead behind them in the fighting in the
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    • 248 3 Unions in Sydney concerned Sydney, Tuesday An agreement between Australia and the Philippines to allow 25 Filipino motor assembly workers to emigrate to Australia was received cautiously in Sydney when announced by the Australian Prime Minister Mr. Gough Whitlam in Manila. The workers are being recruited
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    • 141 3 Reuter Karachi, Tuesday Prime Minister Zulflkar All Bhutto walked out of a national youth festival he was about to open here yesterday after fighting students refused to listen to his speech. Fighting broke out among the 300-strong contingent from Punjab province over who was
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    • 206 3 Reuter Los Angeles, Tuesday The father of an arrested member of a clandestine group which claims to have kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst yesterday offered himself as a hostage in exchange for the girl. In a dramatic appeal to the Symblonese Liberation Army,
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    • 130 3 Reuter NEW DELHI, Tues Pollce yesterday fired teargas shells to disperse a large crowd attempting to set fire to a bank and post office in the town of Baroda in the Western Indian state of Gujarat A 16-hour curfew was imposed from 1 p.m.
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    • 307 3 New Delhi, Tuesday,— India yesterday denied adopting double standards In maintaining silence on the Russian Navy's presence in the Indian Ocean while condemning the establishment of an US military base on the British Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. India has protested to Britain and the
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    • 37 3 Manila, Tuesday. Government sources here denied reports from Saigon that Filipino troops have taken control of two more islands In the Spratly chain. "We have no wish to provoke anyone there," one source said.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • FOR YOUR PLEASURE
    • 993 4  -  By Edgar Koh His resemblance to Alfred Hitchock was uncanny. But in the hotel lobby the portly man with the scowling face said in painfully slow English. thick with French accent: "Non. non. I'm not Hitchock." However. Mr. Maurice Boutel. 63. is in the same
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    • 342 4 Part of new drive Jenifer's diary TO publisise how attractive Singapore is as a tourist haunt the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board together with the Goodwood Park Hotel, have arranged a promotion tour for Italian travel agents. Eleven of the top travel agents will stay
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    • 397 4 MUSICORNBI The singer in Musicorner Poser No. 3 was Paul Anka all right. His photograph must have certainly brought to mind his very mapy evergreen renderings. The following win an LP and a poster each: Mr. Salleh Yusof. Mr. Harry Tan,
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    • 1263 4 Los Angeles Times "We've always been after the Who. That's the level we want to reach," says lan Hunter, from somewhere behind his impenetrable sunglasses and beneath his briar patch of curls. "And Jagger had better watch out, 'cause he's
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    • 487 4  -  EATING OUT WITH SEE FOON Some people travel to see the sights. I travel to absorb atmosphere and to eat. Its always just around the next corner, my little Utopian restaurant, where good food and exquisite surroundings combine to assault the senses. I have certainly
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    • 692 4 Sinatra plans big party Melbourne Herald Recently Irving Fein, Jack Benny's longtime manager and publicist put out a new biography of the evergreen Benny. It began "Jack Benny was born 39 years ago in Chicago That of course Isn't quite true. Jack Benny was actually
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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    • 34 4 LE CHALET as an award member of i' 'World Famous Restaurants International »s given only to, restaurs chosen by a Board of Judges composed of Restaurant Editors of leading newspapers in the world SSI
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  • LOCAL NEWS AND BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 809 5  -  SPORE '74 By Sonny Yap A life-long fascination with the world of electronic gadgetry for two young men has paid off literally in handsome dividends. As friends and fellow graduates of the Singapore Polytechnic, Mr. Charlie Hoon and Mr. James Chia had
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    • 515 5 Like all globe-trotting Journalists, 69 year old Mr. Roy Pawley has seen and covered some of the most historic and moving dramas of our times. As the roving foreign editor of the Dally Telegraph in Britain, he pursued the "hottest" stories In this
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    • 738 5  -  S.Y. TO overcome the various economic pressures being exerted on the international economy. Asean countries should seek to work together. This call was made by a local orchitect, Mr. William Llm last week. He was giving a talk at the 70th Anniversary of
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    • 372 5 It has antacid properties like milk, says study Soya bean Juice cjn be used to relieve pain, according to a recent medical study. The study, conducted by two senior lecturers of the Faculty of Medicine. University of Singapore, Dr. W. P.
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    • 143 5 More than 60 local artists have expressed interest In the Port of Singapore Authority's artist encouragement scheme. A PSA spokesman said: "Arrangements are being made on Feb. 16 and Feb. 18 to show them round the PSA site. "Hiey will also be taken
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    • 22 5 Principals of secondary schools have been Invited to submit applications for bursaries for needy and deserving students to the Apex Club.
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    • 112 5 Over $400,000 worth of sales were recorded at a grand Persian carpet exhibition held last week at the Singapore Hilton. This was disclosed by Mr. Zephyr Amir, owner of the Oriental Carpet Palace and organiser of the $2 million exhibition. He said: "Response to
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    • 31 5 A dockyard worker, Mohammed Ibrahim, was killed In an accident In Tanlong Pagar Dockyard of Keppel Shipyard and not in the Port of Singapore Authority wharf as reported yesterday.
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    • 227 5  -  By j Anne-Marie Nalpon Shopkeepers and hawkers of Kim Keat constituency are organising a fair price campaign. The Member of Parliament for the area, Mr. Ong Teng Cheong, said: "The campaign is in response to the Government's call to businessmen and shopkeepers to
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    • 252 5 The consumer price index for food jumped to 192.2 points last November an increase of almost 14 points over October. The latest issue of the Government's Monthly Digest of Statistics shows that the increase was caused mainly by higher prices of rice and
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • OPINION
    • 503 6 Which, we would like to know, is receiving greater priority lower prices for pork to help reduce the cost of living for the general bulk of the people, or higher prices so that the livelihood of the handful of pig breeders may be safeguarded? Late
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    • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
      • 61 6 Never one to deny his mistakes, 1 have just been told over the telephone that I was wrong in saying there is no Year of the Cat. One New Nation reader rang up to say that there is a Year of the Cat among the Vietnamese.
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      • 62 6 Overheard at the Australian High Commission's reception last week. Mr. Tay Seow Huah, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, was telling a Journalist his conclusion after a week of almost dally Press conferences. "Now I know how Mohammad All feels when he's trying to duck
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    • 1303 6  -  The Singapore Zoological Gardens was designed as an open soo to "enable oar young people to see and learn more of the creatnres of the forest and to join in the world-wide concern for the dwindling numbers of some species resulting from the depredations
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    • 767 6  -  By Rose Doati Los Angeles Times Behavioural scientists have come up with studies that suggest a treatment for obesity: Change the environmental factors that make you overeat and you control overeating. Acccrdtag to Donald Cowan, Ph.D, Clinical Director at the Centre for Behaviour Therapy
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    • Letters
      • 409 6 I refer to the letter Inflation: Government should start Trimming by Dr. Nalla Tan which was published In the Straits Times on 7.2.74. Dr. Tan Is right when she says that we are going through difficult times and that all commodities have gone up In price. To
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      • 335 6  -  K. H. SOON The energy crisis has certainly shown that the world can no longer take for granted oil which has served mankind for so long. Indeed most industrial nations are gradually being edged towards the abyss of economic disaster as a result of the continued oil
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    • VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 398 6 What other newspapers are saying: REOPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. After the signing of the agreement on troop disengagement between Israel and Egypt and the ceasefire along the Suez Canal, there Is hope that the Suez Canal will be reopened. The Suez Canal was badly damaged
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      • 469 6 STRIVE TOGETHER FOR CHEAP AND GOOD TEXT-ROOKS School principals have been urged by the Ministry of Education in a recent circular to them to encourage pupils to utilise partly used exercise books left over from the previous school year, and in the case of pupils transferred from
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 12 6 WRITE TO THE EDITOR. NEW NATION. LOCKED BAG IS. GPO. SINGAPORE. 1.
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    • 147 6 YOUR OLD ryrni r^xwi It could be worth much more than you realise. We want it now and, depending on its condition, we're prepared to pay a great trade-in price for it. GREAT TRADE-IN PRICES: 1968 HB VIVA 2-DOOR 53,000 1969 HB VIVA 4-DOOR $4,000 1970 HB VIVA 4-DOOR 14,500
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • Article, Illustration
      3126 7  -  BP**. wote Part 2 bv Abu Hanifah Soekarno from his early student days had a torrid passion for women. He gave flimsy excuses for wanting to keep them. He wanted to make love to Dutch girls "so as to take revenge on the colonialists.'* He gave up his first
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 80 7 The original and genuine "POPCARS" WORLD'S MOST ADVANCER ELECTRICALLY POWERED AID RECHARGEABLE CAR Tho original POP CAR for ipo« og« children t Many eH»«r mode Is to cHoom from Offorod «toM prico* prico will incrNM in tfco next shlfwont. v,l SJ> J 2 'Mb «c-s: "Coupe" PC 5 (1 speed,
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    • 143 7 THURSDAY: 'Democratic' tyrant [11l MrlMtFutsuzawa ti f i i Q «MI 'St. '(L i •v., the mood and the moment caught and preserved for posterity. With a single shot. By the light of a single lamp. How did our photographer do it? Simple. He aimed a very special camera at
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  • SHOPPING
    • 837 8 CONTRARY to popular belief, photography is no simple matter. The advent of the instamatic and automatic cameras has given rise to a common feeling that photography is child's play, at least nowadays. Ask any self-res-pecting photographer and he will tell you that photography does not stop
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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    • 197 8 ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE UNIVERSAL PHOTO MATERIAL (PTE) LTD. (Registered Secondhand Dealer) 177, Middle Road, Singapore. T *****7 Tel: ***** CAMERA DEALER OF VARIOUS POPULAR BRANDS AT MODERATE PRICE Quality auits mad* to ordar within 24 hours SpMMisw in Slacks, Shirts Safari Jackets Please Patronr»* ut at: THE COCKPIT HOTEL Shop No.
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    • 148 8 Celestion <] HI-FI SOUND FROM YOUR TV TELEFI A remarkable innovation exclusive to Citation for uh in conduction with He Fi and Audio (yitema lor providing television pwnot reproduedbn from (25 lino television receivers. U I •No direct connection I CO «h« TVia required. the coupling being effected by an
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    • 182 8 A K EB. te OLYMPC J: Ft ATURES MOOf I: OLYM PIE/CAPACITY 73 dish piece! DIMENSIONS :60cm. Width, 42cm. DeptK I 63cm Height ELECTRICAL SUPPLY 230 V. 5 WASHING PROGRAMMES Fully Automatic with Stoam Drying sj< FuM til* tinted glau to IM the octuol process of operations TRIBUNAL (FAR CAST)
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  • TREND
    • 771 9  -  It's a mod, dranatic look in black, white and red HOUSEWISE BETTY L. KHOO Are you an outgoing bachelor with few responsibilities, a stable of luscious--1 o o king girlfriends and well up on the ladder of success? If the answer is
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    • 408 9  -  IN-SHAPE BY JEANINE SINISCAL Exercising your hips and thighs while going about your everyday chores It sounds too good to be true but a few little tips on posture can really do it. (Incidentally, I get most complains about heavy hips and
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    • 73 9 When your snow white sheep skin rug starts turning yellow dont despair. It's lust time to put it In the waah. After washing dry it with the wool side facing down so that water Is not absorbed Into the skin. Then, when the rug la almost
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    • 244 9 United Press International Italy's high fashion designers showed off the waistline last month in spring and summer collections that brought the 1950s circle skirts up to date. The vote was unanimous for skirts over the knee but no more than 3 ins (75
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  • FINANCE
    • 498 9  -  COMPANY PROFILE By Lee Yew Meng Pan Malaysia Cement Works (PMC) has widened its base of operation. It no longer depends on cement making for survival as it did in the early 60s. Today It holds its head high as an investment
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 457 9 Stocks plunged across a broad front on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday amid deepening concern over inflation and the Arab oil embargo. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial average had tagged 16.50 to 803.90. Standard and Poor's 500-stock index had dropped 1.67 to 90.66. Volume totalled
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      • 198 9 Closing prices (In francs) yesterday: Paribas 175 —.10 Indochlne 206 —5 Fonder 373 +3 Prln temps 106 —2 C O.E. 417 +10 Bull 63 +-45 Royal Dutch 165.90 3.10 Michelln 1150 —20 Thomson 222 +3 CfP. 199 20 —.70 Rhone 139.30 —.20 Air 315 +10 B.S.N. 1043 —2 Philips
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      • 100 9 This service comes from the Union Bank of Switzerland Closing prices (In francs) on the Zurich Stock EXchange yesterday: UBS 3900 +40 SBC 3440 —10 Credit Suisse 3320 +5 Swissair B. 552 +T Swiss Relnsur. 2330 —10 Wlnterthur B. 1820 —30 Zurich Insur. 6625 —75 Juvena B. 2260 Nestle
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    • 325 9 Reuter Brussels, Tuesday Common Market farm ministers have met here to Join battle over what prices the community should guarantee its farmers for their products during the pext year. The ministers are widely divided over what Increase the farmers should get and little
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    • 66 9 The Chaae Manhattan Bank, N. A., in Singapore will hold a reception at a leading hotel here on March 1 to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Attending will be the bank's executive vicepresident, Mr. William S. Ogden; the senior vice president, Mr. Francis X. Stankard (both from the New
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    • 245 9 United Press International London, Tuesday.—The big move into gold and silver gave an air of the old Klondike to the London bullion market yesterday as both metals soared to new records. Gold jumped US$3.5O an ounce from Its weekend price to US$l47
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    • 35 9 The Dow Jones closing stock averages on the New York Exchange were: 30 Industrials 817.82 (off 16.50). 20 transport 182.30 (off 2.67), 15 utilities 93.43 (off 0.12) and 65 stocks 263.01 (off 4.13).
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    • 211 9 Prices turned easier on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. The market opened quite, moved sluggishly to close marginally lower on a wide front. Malayan Banking confirmed that it was not making a bonus issue "at the present time." MB's shares fell 40 cents to $6.45. Yeo Hiap
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    • Article, Illustration
      125 9 It Is a machine that will remove the headaches of many a bank clerk. Not only is it tuned to counting or verifying the number of bills but it will "pack" them for you in the number you want And it is faster too. The $6000 machine is
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 61 9 SALE!!! Prices slashed on imported clothes. Jeff Banks Blouses from $19.90 Erica Budd Tops from $5.90 plus discounts on John Craig. McCaul, London Mob and others. New items from London are being thrown in at low prices as Sale items are running out. Hurry to justin (FASHION WHAR AC CESSORIES)
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  • SPORTS
    • 114 10 Brisbane, Tuesday. Australian world middleweight title contender Tony M undine took another stride towards the title last night with a sixth round knockout win over the United States born Mexican Manuel Fierro. After the fight Mundine's trainer Era McQuillan described the win over the unrated
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    • 184 10 Christchurch, Tuesday. Pakistan and New Zealand led the points table In the seven-nation International roundrobin hockey tournament here after yesterday's third round matches. Both have six points but Pakistan are ahead on goal difference, having scored 15 to New Zealand's nine, with only
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    • 578 10 Change for amateurism Lausanne, Tuesday Lord Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) woupd up a major three-day meeting of his Executive Board here yesterday by announcing that a new Olympic rule on amateurism will be drafted within the next two months. The Irish
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    • 530 10 Taipei, Tuesday. The secretary-general of the Nationalist China CHym£ic Committee said yes;rday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had made a "big mistake" in deciding to support this year's Asian Oames in Tehrean, to which Taiwan has not been invited. Secretary-General Niu Ping-Yih, commenting
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    • 326 11 Argentina led past the 4f and into the straight, with Triple Crown and Confusion closing In. Triple Crown and Confusion swept past Argentina at the distance to fight out the finish. Triple Crown forged ahead close home to win easily. Third was Ultraviolet.
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    • 246 11 Lausanne, Tuesday. A young Englishman, formerly a prominent British junior tennis Player, is playing a major role in organising next September's Asian Games in Teheran. He is Richard Avory, 30, a Cambridge tennis blue, who once belonged to the group of young Players sponsored by
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    • 117 11 Rancho La Costa (California) Tuesday Billie Jean King is the topranked woman tennis Player in the United States, while Jimmy Connors and Stan Smith share the men's top spot, according to the United States Lawn Tennis Association. Ulsta rankings approved. to put Mrs. King ahead
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    • 970 11  -  SOCCER SCENE by, Jeffrey Low Our national players will be out to show a new zing in their play when they meet the powerful Japanese first team at Jalan Besar tonight. Kick-off: 7.30 p.m. This pledge was made by national coach Mike Walker yesterday as
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    • 138 11 Jakarta. Tuesday. The first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) table tennis championships has been postponed to March 3 at the request c.f the member countries, it was announced yesterday. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held yesterday in Bandung. Mr. Willy Warokka,
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    • 32 11 New York, Tuesday American Basketball Association results: Carolina 96 Indiana 93; New York 121 Memphis 91; Kentucky 122 Virginia 116; San Antonio 99 Denver 90; Utah 120 San Diego 107.
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    • 429 11 Kingston, Tuesday. MCC fast bowler Geoff Arnold faces the possibility of having discipli nary action taken against him following his outburst here on Sunday against Jamaican opening batsman Lawrence Rome. Arnold made angry gestures at Rowe and umpire Karl Peart on the second day
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    • 157 11 Colombo, Tuesday. India scored a six-wic-ket win over Sri Lanka here yesterday in their second and final unofficial cricket Test. Sri Lanka captain Anura Tennekoon nearly denied India victory with an unbeaten 169 which avoided an Innings defeat and forced India to bat
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    • 35 11 Port St. Lucie (Florida), Tuesday Gail Denenberg fired a two-under-par 71 to capture the Sears LPGA golf classic. It was the first pro tournament victory for the 27 year old New York player.
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    • 345 11 The SingaporeMalaysia polo season will begin with the annual MPA tournament in Singapore from February 22 to 24. Teams from the Royal Pahang, Sri Lara (army) and Selangor clubs will be crossing the causeway to compete In the threeday event, which is expected to
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    • 44 11 The Singapore Motor Sports Club will be showing free movies at the Swiss Club In Swiss Club Road tomorrow night at 8 p.m. The films are: "The Dawn of Motoring," "History of Racing" and "Hard driving Man." Members and guests are invited.
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    • 681 10 'I' 1:1 'O'' QUALITY and safety Abraainex grinding wheels plus waldown precision Drilling, Grinding and Tapping Machine, Pentalube antlrust preventive oil, penetrating, '°o«enlng electrical contacts. Pnone Hard <c Software. Waldown Baldor Pentalube Dept. 5386*77/ *****4 S'pore. SPECIALISED In general repairs of all types of alrcondltloners, refrigerators and other electrical appliances.
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    • 313 10 BHIPPING CERTIFICATE COURSE Obtain a recognised certificate In Shipping by passing the London Chamber of Commerce Examination in the Practice, Economics and Law of Shipping. Conducted by professionally qualified and experienced Lecturer In Shipping Subjects. Beginner* Clm* commencing Wednaaday 13th February 1*74 at •.15 p.m. Please enrol early at:Shlptradi Manimmut
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    • 753 10 PRESTIGE PIANO for sale. Very good condition. Price: s9OO. 24, J&lan Hajl Alias, S pore 10. Tel: *****0 Mr. Tan. OLD TIME/MODERN DANCE Bands, Artistes, musical Instruments. Contact Paul Andrews (S.E.p.) Entertainers Organisation *****2 S'pore. I RENTAL AND SALES. Wooden furniture, refrigerators. TradeIn arrangeable. Please contact: 18, Tiverton Lane, Singapore
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    • 270 10 WE BUY, SELL AND TWADE-IN for used new cameras (all brands) 177, Middle Road. B'pore *****7 *****. Unlversal Photo Material Pte Ltd. .Registered secondhand dealer*.. REQUIRED for Halrdresslng' Salon In leading hotel, exeerlenced hairdresser and [anlcurlst. Tel: *****1 ext. 8339 REQUIRED PUMP ATTENDANTS. Male applicants only. Apply 353, Tanglln Road,
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    • 280 10 OOLOEN MILE SHOPPING CENTRE office-shops (airconditioned) large/ small on Ist, 2nd floors. Ring *****3 S'pore. lIPKIII YAMAHA MUSIC SCHOOL offers Organ/Piano Guitar Drum Flute and Children's Music Course. Alrcondltloned Studios Experienced teachers. Tel: *****5, ***** (S'pore). INDONESIAN LANGUAGE TUTORED In simple method with prepared syllabus by an expert lecturer. Call
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    • 755 10 Singapore Fuji Elevator Corp., Ltd. Applicants are invited for the posts of:— (a) TECHNICIANS (b) PRODUCTION OPERATORS for the following fields:— (1) METAL WORK: 1-5 years experience in metal work particularly in gas cutting, metal sheet fabricating and welding. (2) ASSEMBLING FITTING: 1-5 years experience in machine and machine parts
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  • 50 12 AH FOOK: It looks like the NWC will not be recommending a pay adjustment to match the rise in the cost of living. MEI LIN: Stop pinning your hopes on the NWC. I'd rather work harder to get more money if I were you. Comics in Page Two
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  • 160 12 TODAY is Tuesday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 1974 with 322 to follow. THE MOON is approaching its last quarter. THE MORNING STAB is Venus. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. Those born on this date in history are under the sign of Aquarius. British
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  • 60 12 Miss Veronica Goh, 19, is a very outward-looking girl who seldom has a dull moment. She engages in a number of interesting hobbies which keep her occupied most of the time. Among these are modelling, travelling and swimming reading. Her ambitions are to be a successful
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    • 153 12 H>oPi«*»na THEATRE RESTAURANT NITt CLUB rfVfcjT. 1 That's Her' FEMININE TOUGH Bruce 'Gillespie Holidays don't mean the work can wait. >*- 'V So if you're left with work to do and not enough people around to get it done, you need help. That's where Manpower Temporary Services comes in. We'll
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    • 989 12 SINGAPORE 5 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by IN AND ABOUND A magazine series presented In English 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (E) 3.35 LOVE IS A MANY SpLENDOUBED THlNG—Daytime serial on the trials and tribulations of three families in San Fran--3.55 OUB MUSIC MAKEBS CE) A light musical programme 4.15 GENEBAL
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    • 984 12 BACK PAGE AT THE CINEMA with EDGAR KOH THE LAST PICTURE SHOW: The decay, tedium and compressions of a small town well conveyed by Peter Bogdanovich through the arousing deep concern for the characters he has placed so credibly in the windy, tumbleweed environment of a Texan backwater in 1951.
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    • 647 12 must Tuesday, 12.2.74 PAA lJkM7r30oaoaOciXirr |/vW/^ 7>* <s TOTAL POINTS: 45 Points THE RULES AND HOW TO TAKE PART: E»ery issue of the New Nation for the duration of the contest mill earn a blank board nude up of 10 «ertical and horizontal squares. Below it Mill be a set
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    • 407 12 IF irs YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are one of those extremely trustworthy persons who can keep any confidence Including your own! Trained since early childhood to keep Eaur own counsel, to old yourself still in the face of adversity, and to work your way through grief to ultimate acceptance
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