New Nation, 3 April 1974

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  • 22 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, April 3, 1974 Nc. 989 Price 20 cents M.C. (P) 20/74 NEW%mON SINCAPORE WEDNESDAY APRIL 3, 1974
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  • 599 1 'Sack him' call —and Elazar is out... Israel's Chief of Staff resigns Reuter Jerusalem, Wednesday General David Elazar last night resigned as Chief of Staff after an official commission probing Israel's military and political failings at the start of the October War recommended he be sacked. But he rejected the
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  • 216 1 Big troops build-up Reuter Tel Aviv, Wednesday Israel massed troops and equipment on its Golan Heights front lines yesterday, anticipating a possible Syrian onslaught after three weeks of a miniwar. The redeployment of Israeli forces was given wide publicity by the press and radio here an
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  • 128 1 The Stock Exchange of Singapore was marked by cautious trading this morning. Share prices generally dipped lower. BUSINESS DONE: City Development (11) 1.08, (31) 1.07, (7), 1.06. F.E. Hotel (2) 0.96. Mosbert (1) 1.05. Sime Darby (1) 4.28, (2) 4.30. Pan Electric (2) 1.16, (1) 1.15. Cold
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  • 27 1 Tokyo, Wednesday. The Transport atlon Ministry said yesterday its training ship. Shintoku Maru. will leave on April 19 for a goodwill visit to Australia and Singapore.
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  • 13 1 Police reported 100 accidents yesterday. Five were serious and two fatal.
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  • 32 1 London, Wednesday.— Twenty-one people were injured, three seriously, when a blast rocked a London soda siphon factory yesterday. Preliminary investigations indicated an industrial accident rather than foul play.
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  • 27 1 The CID arrested 12 "fighters" of the Boon Eng Huay triad society in a series of raids in the Toa Payoh area early yesterday morning.
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  • 436 1 Now bright prospects for self-sufficiency Reuter London, Wednesday Britain's prospects of oil self-sufficiency by 1980 grew brighter yesterday with the announcement of a major new North Sea oil discovery. The Burmah Oil Company of Britain said it had made what could be
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  • 261 1 Colombo, Wednesday China has directed a blunt warning to Taiwan and South Vietnam over prospecting or exploiting offshore areas claimed by the Peking government. Chinese delegate Huang Ming Tau yesterday told the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (BCAFE) that anyone arbitrarily carrying out
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  • 54 1 New Nation's education broadsheet today is on Joseph Conrad's famous novel, Nostronjo. The broadsheet examines C on r a d's artistic craft that made his stories realistic. The broadsheet has been specially designed for students of English Literature preparing for the School Certificate and Higher School Certificate
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  • 39 1 Chairman Mao Tsetunr appears to be chasinc an illusion—his dream (or the Great Society through continuing revolution is an impossible dream. UPl's Senior Editor Charles R. Smith files a special report in the New Nation today,
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  • 15 1 Born Loser, that alJtime favourite comic character, joins the New Nation today.
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  • 321 1 Here are the official results of the Prizewords Contest No. 6 which ran from March 18 to March 23. The first prize winner is national serviceman Mr. Tan Chwee Lye ol 55 Lowland Road. He wins a Pan-Electric Permadoor Twin-ten refrigerator worth over $1000. His winning score
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  • 503 1 Now big battle for succession is expected Reuter Paris, Wednesday French President Georges Pompidou died in Paris last night after a year of illness and only hours after cancelling his latest political engagements. He was 62. A communique from the Presidency said he died at 11 p.m.
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  • 295 1 Reuter Washington, Wednesday President Nixon yesterday expressed his "profound personal regret" at the death of French President Pompidou whom he described as one of France's great leaders and great statesmen. In a statement, Mr. Nixon said: "In the death of President Pompidou France
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  • 65 1 Visitors can call at the French Embassy to sign the book of condolences on the death of President Pompidou tomorrow and Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Since this morning's announcement of the President's death, the flag at the embassy has been flying at half-mast and will
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 140 2 Work on the final phase of the East Coast Reclamation Scheme covering an area of 349 acres will begin later this month. When completed, all five phases of the reclamation scheme will cover an area of 2.844 acres stretching from Tanjong Rhu to
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    • 200 2 Members are showing keen interest Members of the Singapore Prof e ssional Centre have shown keen interest in forming car pools. This was indicated in the early returns following letters sent out to members in January. However, quite a few are finding difficulty in forming the pools
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    • 62 2 A demonstration on the technique of papier mache work by Mrs. Jean Blumberg will be held at the Lee Kong Chian Hall of the Singapore Council of Social Service in Penang Lane on Sunday at 4 p.m. AU proceeds from the demonstration will go towards the
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    • 238 2 Age was catching up on him and he had to do it now or never. So Wolf Heckmann, a German newspaperman, took to the air in his powdered glider and Started on his journey from Europe to Australia. He is now in Singapore on a stopover.
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    • 276 2 Kin Wah the winner LKA Students made a clean sweep in the Queenstown Community Centre 3rd annual chess championship which ended last Sunday. Congratulating the winners warmly, the Minister for Culture, Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, who is MP. for Queenstown, presented his challenge trophy to Wong Kin
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    • 30 2 The Singapore Institwt* of Management will hold a course on Employee Performance Appraisal at its Conference Room. Thong Teck Building. Scotts Road, from April 17 to May 22.
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    • 174 2 Ergonomics The following 24 candidates have passed the final examination for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial and Systems) in the class of honours, If any, stated against their names: Ang Boon Ctiye first class honours, Lim Llat first class honours. Ng Choon
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    • 41 2 The Jurong Town Ambulance and Nursing Division II of the St. John Ambulance Brigade will hold its 4th blood donation campaign at the Jurong Christian Church, Corporation Drive, Taman Jurong, on April 28 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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    • 26 2 The Singapore Clock and Watch Trade Association will hold its 45th anniversary dinner at the Northern Palace, Colombo Court, on Saturday at 8 p.m.
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    • 254 2 FROM THE DOG HOIISE BY PG The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal 3 will celebrate its 150 th birthday on June 16. It is certainly the oldest organisation of its kind in the world and today has an annual
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 60 2 POPPY FOR ADOPTION Poppy is this week's doc for adoption. The li-year-old Alsatian is a very affectionate pet and a rood watchdog too. She is black and fawn and has been spayed. Her previous owners cave her ap because they had too many dors. If you wish to adopt her,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 241 2 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 8 Take on. 9 Spanish cheer. 10 a cold.. 11 Needlepoint. 12 Verily. 13 Ancient Asian. 19 Norwegian sights. 21 Commonplace. 24 Inexperienced ones. 25 Warning system. 26 Abscond. 27 Belief. 28 Affection. 29 Vapor. 30 Seed coating. 31 Gluts. 34 Undermine. 37 Talks. 41 Emulated Charon.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 446 3 No decision on Garcia yet Reuter London, Wednesday British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said yesterday that the proposal for a "zone of peace" in the Indian Ocean was very much in the mind of his government. He told questioners in Parliament he would
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    • 191 3 Reuter Addis Ababa, Wednesday.—University students yesterday demanded that the government declare a national state of emerency to deal with famine in southern Ethiopia and called on it to stop arresting military activists. The students said thousands of people were dying or near death from
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    • 28 3 Tokyo, Wednesday.— Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has extended an official Invitation to his Japanese counterpart, Mr. Kakuei Tanaka, to visit Canda this year, government sources said.
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    • 154 3 Reuter London, Wednesday The 1600 passengers aboard the crippled British liner Queen Elizabeth 2, adrift in the Caribbean after an enginercom breakdown, are to be transferred to a Norwegian cruise ship today, the ship's owners said last night. Mr
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    • 349 3 Testimony by political saboteur UPI, Reuter Washington, Wednesday. Political saboteur Donald Segretti testified yesterday that former Presidential aide Dw'ght Chapin personally suggested many of the election campaign "dirty tricks" for which he was j ailed last year. Earlier, a lawyer defending Chapin against charges of
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    • 179 3 Reuter Sao Paulo, Wednesday New rains lashed Brazil's southern floods disaster zones yesterday as a race against epidemics was stepped up following the first cases of typhoid, yellow fever and malaria. More than 300,000 people in 10 states have been left
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    • 164 3 Vientiane, Wednesday— Laotians begin their third attempt in 17 years today to set up a coalition government incorporating elements of the present administration and the pro communist Pathet Lao. Under tlie plan, which climaxed 13 months of negotiation, the Pathet Lao and the
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    • 18 3 London, Wednesday Britain's oldest Royal Navy frigate, the warworn H.M.S. Orenville, is up for sale.
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    • 73 3 United Press International Paris, Wednesday World chess champion Bobby Fischer's participation in the 21st Chess Olympiad in June Is still a question mark, officials of the team tournament said yesterday. But a powerful Russian team led by Boris Spassky and two other former world champions
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    • 107 3 An assistant holds up a blue and white Ming bottle, decorated with a dragon among foliage and flowers, when It was sold for a record £420,000 <about $2.52 million) at Sotheby's in London. The bottle dating from about 1400 and one of the rarest
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    • 319 3 UPI, Reuter Luxembourg, Wednesday European Parliament President Mr. Cornells Berkhouwer yesterday accused the new British Labour Government of "surprising ignorance" about international law. The Dutch leader of the EEC parliamentary assembly held a news conference to bitterly criticise the minority Labour Government's attempt to renegotiate
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    • 30 3 New Delhi, Wednesday —The state-owned Indian Railways lost property worth 130 million rupees ($l4 million) in violent public protests and acts of subversion during 1973, Parliament was told.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • FOR YOUR PLEASURE AND BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 486 4  -  CINEMA BY EDGAR HON THE STING directed by George Roy Hill, with Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw (Golden: Premiere Friday 8.45 p.m.) "Raindrops keep falling on my head they keep falling..." And when Newman, Butch Cassidy of the previous Hill
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    • 323 4 MIISICOANER The answer for Musicorner Poser No. 39 was Mouth and MacNeal. The following win an LP and a poster each: Mr. Koh Gek Thiam, Mr. Ng Kim Bole, Master Gary Yeo Eng Hui, Mr. Chew Wal Khan and Mr. Foo Jong Nlng.
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    • 457 4  -  By Violet Oon When Clive Webster reads the writings of Dylan Thomas on stage, he does so with a more intimate knowledge of the great poet than other actors. That's because he went to the same school as Dylan and remembers hearing anecdotes about him. He
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    • 649 4  -  POPS ■r JEAN LI 808 DYLAN: PLANET WAVES (ASYLUM): Almost without reservation, I say this is definitely the best Dylan album since Blonde On Blonde of 1966. Ever since John Wesley Harding Nashville Skyline, Sell Portrait, New •Morning, and Pat Garrette and Billy The Kid
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    • 271 4 Jenifer's diary LOOKING for a good buy where clothes are concerned? Then I know Just the place for you the Goodasnew boutique. The boutique has a comprehensive range of stock, including attractive evening dresses, maternity clothes, day dresses, blouses, trousers and children's clothes in fact something
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    • 174 4 Eggspression—that is, expressing yourself on eggs promises to make Easter exciting for children lp the three-to-10-year-old age group. Organised by Robin* Department Store's Toytown, this egg painting competition Is divided into sections for the three to six year olds, and the seven to ten year olds. Children can enter
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    • 577 4  -  ART BUCHWALD President Nixon's main defence against turning over documents and tapes to the House Judiciary Committee is that he is not trying to protect himself but the office of the Presidency. He has said he has to think of future Presidents when he makes these
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    • 815 4 POPULATION GROWTH, GREATER AFFLUENCE MAIN CAUSES" The world food picture for 1974 Is supposed to be con slderably brighter than last year's with record grain harvests in the United States, Russia, China, and Australia but the long-term view in the eyes of many
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    • 261 4 Reuter Representatives of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh will get together around a conference table for the first time In New Delhi on Friday. The meeting of foreign ministers will also mark the first formal negotiations between Pakistan and Bangladesh. The breakthrough was made possible by
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 122 4 Businessman s lunch International Cuisine Smorgasbord lunch, Mon Thur MISS TERESA KHOO entertains THUR/FRI/SAt from 7.30 p.m. v Palm I Court J Dine by candle-light in tropical surroundings Nightly from 7.30 p.m. Malayan Show in the Ballroom Nightly from 8 p.m. Exotic Malay music and dancing A must for every
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 196 4 SINGAPORE 1 (1) —Last Time I Saw Him: Diana Boss 2 (2) Spiders And Snakes: Jim Stafford 3 (3) Mocking Bird: Carly Simon and James Taylor 4 (5) Dark Lady: Cher 5 (4) You're Sixteen: Bingo Starr I (I) Seasons In Th« Son: Terry Jacks 7 (t) Jet: Panl McCartney
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    • 261 5 fl' 'Europe for you' holiday offers you all tills in Europe 7city tour with organised sightseeing. > m I m mm WRlT,'* 1 tin ,2 mLi 1 l mm :;iv. IKEiM£ n?*: "Jgb? iiirt T v rk i «*J ll i I*l i•_ iMli ■■MiHaaaaaaaiaaHL bS X: ut "V s
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  • OPINION
    • 466 6 It seems strange that after more than two years since the idea was first mooted and received with much enthusiasm, the University of Singapore is still waiting for "articulated" demand for external degree courses to be organised. Mr. J.F. Conceicao, Director of the University's
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    • 97 6 f 'WHISPERS' by ispy J Two Scots schoolboys got six of the best from their headmaster recently for doing what every schoolboy would dearly love to do selling their school. The boys' ad in the local paper in Glasgow read: "Large attractive residence standing in
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    • 712 6  -  Though it was one of the signatories of the Paris peace accords in March 1973 and is today one of the most written about governments in the world, the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of Sooth Vietnam has still not been able to gain international
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    • Letters
      • 87 6  -  YAP SOON HOE Secretary, Bos Services Reorganisation Committee, Singapore, 6. Reference is made to the letter by Scorpion (NN, 21.2.74) reporting on a bus driver who left his bus before completing the journey and leaving the passengers stranded. I would appreciate it, if the writer or the
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      • 106 6 No action has been taken against Illegal parking at Owen Road in spite of my twc. letters of complaint to the Superintendent of the Traffic Police and the Registrar of Vehicles. I have noticed policemen. patrol cars and traffic policemen passing by without booking any of the vehicles
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      • 196 6 According to the newspapers, "police have intensified their anticrime patrols in housing estates by deploying special "hawks" to keep an eye on burglars operating in these places." I was surprised to hear that just recently, three fiats at Block 53. Chin Swee Road, were broken into in
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    • 927 6 United Press International Paris, Wednesday Georges Pompidou was the man who never failed at anything that really counted. His "log cabin to presidency" story was as improbable as any. But though Pompidou himself made no early public claim to the highest office, every
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    • 674 6  -  Poachers out-catch official anglers From Murray Seeger Los Angeles Times Over the broad lower reaches of the Volga and Ural Rivers, helicopters hover while along the shorelines searchlights are mounted. Extra police, soldfiers and volunteer "druzhnikl" (vigilantes) have been mobilised to protect a disappearing nautral resource
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    • 340 6 WORLD COMMINI EXCERPTS FROM EDITORIALS The Daily Telegraph (London) That experienced planner Nikita Khrushchev once admitted that, when all the world had fallen under the dominion of Socialism, it would be essential to preserve one, small, unreformed, capitalist economy (probably Switzerland). Otherwise, how would
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    • 348 6 United States Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger's triumphant march from one diplomatic success to another was brought to an abrupt halt during his recent visit to Moscow. He returned to Washington without having achieved anything of substance towards setting up of the general outlines for the next
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • TREND
    • 225 7  -  By Angela Loke Singapore clothes and models are really going places. The latest will be a collection of 80 outfits designed by Irene Lim, of Irene Boutique, to be modelled in the Philippines. Irene has called her collection "Singapore Potpourri" to indicatae the
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    • 1167 7 BUT I ONLY ENDED UP LISTENING TO THE LAST WORD FROM MY HUSDAND-AGAIN By Trish Sheppard in Sydney I was frying chips for the kids' dinner when, above the usual evening pandemonium of the kids trying to drown
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    • 334 7 EATING IN As we all know, crabs are not a regular item on the menu. This is because of the mess created at the dining table and the high percentage of waste when one has to dig around for the hidden bits of
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    • 106 7 Twenty-year-old Jane Russell, nicknamed Calamity Jane, can't help being late. But her bad timekeeping cost her more than a 1 a minute when a British Judge at. Crown Court decided he had had enough of being stood up. Jane arrived 20 minutes late for jury service
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  • FINANCE
    • 324 7 Reuter Colombo, Wednesday The United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) yesterday devoted its sixth day of debate to the issue of speeding up agricultural production in the region. Expert groups reported on agricultural development and progress in developing
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    • 286 7 Reuter Washington, Wednesday senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield yesterday said he would introduce legislation soon to provide most favoured nation" treatment lowered tariffs to Peking. Senator Mansfield said: "It will be good policy and good sense for this country to follow up President Nixon's
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    • 35 7 Manila, Wednesday The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday approved a concessional loan of US$3 million ($7.5 million) and a technical assistance grant of US$l4O,OOO ($350,000) to finance Nepal's second agricultural credit project.
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 444 7 Prices closed slightly lower yesterday In slow trading on the New York Stock Exchange where investors were unable to shake off their apprehensions about high interest rates and tight money. As banks followed the trend of raising their prime lending rates to 9i per cent, brokers resigned themselves
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      • 37 7 The Dow Jones range of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday were: 30 Industrials 813.24 (up 3.13), 20 transport 184.50 (Off 0"39>. 15 Utilities 89.88 (off 0.23), and 65 stocks 266.95 (up 0.33).
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      • 186 7 Closing prices (in francs) yesterday: Paribas 156.50 —5.50 Indochine 185.50 —3.50 Fonder 350 —9.50 Printemps 97 —3 C.G.E. 375 —8.30 Bull 51.40 —2.20 Royai Dutch 154.90 —9.60 Michelin 975 —65 Thomson 202 5.50 CFP. 171 —10.50 Rhone 135 2 Air 279 —7.50 B.S.N. 951 —19 Philips 55.50 50 Suez
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      • 216 7 Prices at 11.30 ajn. (Australian time): Aberleen susp. Do opts susp. ADD nil 08 Allstate 10 11 Amad 03% 04 Aurora 10 12 Do opts nil 00% Bamboo 05 nil Beach nil 35 Bounty susp. Bridge 14 nil Cleveland 40 48 Cociinos 00% 01 Do ctg nil 01 East
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      • 285 7 Prices slipped on the Tokyo Stock Exchange with moderate trading. Trading was firm at the outset with buying in giant capitals, pharmaceuticals and nonferrous metals. From the announcement of price hike of Electronic Copper. Nippon Mining. Dowa Mining and Mitsui Mining pushed upward. Buying by corporate favo u r
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      • 84 7 This service comes from the Union Bank of Switzerland Closing prices (In francs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: —15 UBS 3450 SBC 3000 Credit Suisse 2970 —20 Swissair B. 522 —8 Swiss Relnsur. 1050 —10 Winterthur B. 1820 Zurich lnsur. 6500 Juvena B. 1950 +20 Nestle B 3700
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    • 230 7 The stock market edged higher for the second consecutive day yesterday, with share prices moving upwards on a broad front. Trading, which was sluttish for the first half hour after the opening bell, began to gain momentum as the day wore on. Business was still focussed on several
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    • 215 7 United Press International Washington, Wednesday President Nixon has conjured up nightmares of a crippled American economy to scare the public about economic controls, former economic adviser Mr. Chester Bowles says. Mr. Bowles, in an article written for the Hartford Courant, said the President
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    • 49 7 Twenty-six life insurance salesmen of the Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd. in Singapore and Malaysia have left on an 11-day tour of Hong Kong and Taiwan their prize for qualifying in the Annual Lotus Contest last year. Eleven of the winners are from the Republic.
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  • SPORTS
    • 128 8 Lisbon, Wednesday England manager Sir Alf Ramsey last night named five new caps in the lineup for today's friendly match here with Portugal. Phil Parkes will play his first match as England's goalkeeper while other newcomers are centre-half Dave Watson, midfield players Martin Dobson and
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    • 151 8 Sembawang beat Singapore Island Country Club 6-1 in a women's golf match at Sembawang yesterday. S. Spedding and Y. Moller scored the easiest win when they defeated O.G. Leow and Wong Kay Kin 8 and 7. Picture on the left <;hows J. Horsford in action.
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    • 896 8 A large field of 192 golfers have entered for the Changi Golf Club Open championship to be played at Changi from Saturday. The draw this weekend: SATURDAY 7.00 a.m. F.G. Salaysay 8 <C), T. Mavana 4 (S). David Lu 8 (I); 7.08 iLim Choo Beng
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    • 83 8 Manila. Wednesday Ten Asian countries have been invited to participate In next month's National Open invitational track and field chamDionship in the central Philippine city of Bacolod, the Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association (Patafa) said. The Philippine News Agency, quoting Patafa President Jose Sering in Bacolod.
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    • 38 8 New York, Wednesday Results of the American Basketball Association matches: Utah 119 San Diego 105; New York 129 Virginia 110; Kentucky 118 Carolina 102; Indiana 128 San Antonio 101. National BA matches: Chicago 108 Detriot 103.
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    • 365 8 Melbourne, Wednesday The desperate times are over for 29-year-old Dutch born John Uildriks since golf came into his life. Last month at Moorabbin Golf Club, John stood as tall as Jack Nicklaus ever did in the golf game when he broke 100 for
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    • 57 8 Munich, Wednesday. Frew McMillan, the South African doubles specialist, eliminated sixth-seeded Australian John Alexander 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 in a first round of the international West German indoor tennis championships here yesterday. Tony Roche of Australia beat Georges Goven of France 1-6, 6-0, while Bob Hewitt of (South Africa)
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    • 406 9 Only two beat qualifying marks Five meet records were broken but only two swimmers beat the qualifying mark, set for the fifth Asian Age Group international at Manila from June 28 to 30 on the first night of the official trials yesterday. Trialists swimming at
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    • 187 9 Interest is not there any more Bedford London. Wednesday England's 10,000 metres world record holder, David Bedford, said yesterday he has lost interest in athletics and may not race at all this year. The 24-year-old Bedford. who set the record of 27min 30.8 sec In London last July, flopped In
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    • 138 9 St. Andrew's Old Boys badminton party defeated the Present 6-3 for the 11th successive year in their annual match. Results (Past Ist) Chan Poh Loy lost to Ho Yim San 15-12, 6-15. rtd; Ho. Nee Leong bt Leow Kim How 15-12. 1618, 15-4; Lee Yam Chua lost
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    • 576 9 Port Of Spain, Wednesday Tony Greig, England's never-say-die all-rounder, changed the course of the fifth and final Test here yesterday when in 14 overs he took eight West Indian wickets for 37 runs. From being little more than a parade of West Indian cricketing
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    • 262 9 Rio De Janeiro, Wednesday Brazilian soccer idol Pele yesterday repeated his vow not to play in this year's World Cup finals despite a gov-ernment-backed plea to him to change his mind. Pele said after Brazil's victoi7 in the 1970 World Cup final
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    • 70 9 The visiting Japanese volleyball team, Asahl Kasel showed their superioritv again by beating Singapore Armeed Forces Reservist Association (Safra) 3-0 at Gav World Stadium yesterday. They beat Safra by the same margin on Monday and took only 51 minutes for yesterday's victory. In the exhibition match the
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    • 253 9 Caracas, Wednesday.— World heavyweight champion George Foreman, delayed here by to* problems since his second round title-fight victory over Ken Norton last week, has "more than a 90 per cent cu*nce of flying home later today, the head of the Venezuelan
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    • 356 9 Minister disappointed Dublin, Wednesday. The Irish Republic's government has Joined the British government In condemning the British Lion's rugby tour of South Africa, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) said yesterday. The IRFU along with the Unions of England, Scotland and Wales provide players
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    • 110 9 Dublin, Wednesday—A record 306 horses out of an original entry of 744 remained In the Irish Sweeps Derby at ths second acceptance stage yesterday. The race, scheduled for June 29 at the Curragh. will bo Ireland's first £100,000 turf event and of the 306 horses
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    • 59 9 Munich, Wednesday Yugoslavia's Nikola Pilic narrowly escaDed disqualification in the international West German indoor tennis championships here last night during his first round singles matrh against Rhodesian Andrew PatUson after arguing with a line Judge tn>i shouting at the spectators. The championships also count as the eighth
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