New Nation, 19 April 1974

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    22 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Friday evening, April 19, 1974 No. 1003 Price 20 cents M.C. (P) 20/74 NEwmnoN SINGAPORE FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1974
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  • Article
    Win a trip to the World Cup...
    143 1 The biggest sporting event of the year will be held in Munich in June and July. It is the World Cup the most exciting soccer contest that pits the top 16 nations against each other for the right to the title of Champion
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    Lock icon The death of a hero—and mum's agony
    495 1  - The death of a hero —and mum's agony Island-wide hunt for a tall, young killer By Bharathi Mohan An island -wide hunt is now on for a "tall young man with dark glasses" who shot dead foreman Soh Eng Kwee, 43, when he tried to stop the gunman during a
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    Lock icon Sadat tells Russia: Let's talk it over
    332 1 Bid to solve row over arms supply Reuter Cairo, Friday President Sadat yesterday called for a summit meeting with the Soviet Union and announced that Egypt had already begun buying arms from other countries. "I would greatly welcome a situation where we and
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    Lock icon Now Syria mounts air raids
    238 1 Reuter Damascus, Friday Syrian aircraft went into action against Israeli forces yesterday for the first time since the Middle East war last October, the Syrian command announced here. A military spokesman said the planes Inflicted heavy losses on Israeli positions on Mount Hermon and at
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    ON THE 'CHANGE
    87 1 Share prices went down slightly on the Stock Exchange of Singapore this morning. BUSINESS DONE: City Dev. (2) 1.08, (5) 1.06, (3) 1.07. F.E. Hotel (4) 0.89. 0.C.8.C. (6) 7.00. Sim Lim (4) 1.08. S. Darby (4) 3.84, (33) 3.86. Malayawata (1) 2.25. Haw Par (7) 2.58,
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    OUR ROADS
    10 1 Police reported 100 accidents yesterday. Six were serious.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • Article
      Dentists: Plan to fill big gap
      333 2  -  Govt, concern over shortage By Rav K. Dhaliwal The Government has plans to meet the acute shortage of dentists in the Republic. It Is understood that the plans will be geared towards encouraging more people to take up the profession. Details have already been
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      Safety in the lab
      51 2 Non-graduate science teachers will be able to learn more about safety in the chemistry laboratory at a workshop session to be held early next month. The workshop will be conducted In Chinese and will be held at the Hua Y1 Government Chinese Middle School on May
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      Lock icon I'M NOBODY'S CHILD...
      164 2 Fast asleep in a warm hospital bed, this three day-old baby faces a bleak future. She was left sleeping In the cold on the roadside at Surin Avenue, off Upper Serangoon Road, on Wednesday. Police are trying to trace her mother. The only clues they have are
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      Boy Scout officials
      34 2 Madam Lee Howe has been elected president of the Singapore Scout Association. Othei officials are Messrs: Chee Keng Lim, Llew Teck Sir.ng, Wang Cho Ju, Robert Pwee and Teoh Khoon Keah.
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      Car sales start to shoot up again in S'pore
      436 2  -  Average of 50 a day last month By Morris John Car sales in Singapore have picked up again despite the soaring cost of motoring. The average number of cars sold a day last month was 50 as compared to 53.8 for
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      University of S'pore exam results
      1190 2 The following candidates have passed the University or Singapore's Second Examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts held last month: Abdul Rahman bin Mohamad Said, Abdul Rashld bin Mordiffl. Akhtar, Naseem (Miss); Amlnah bte Kasmoh (Miss), Ananda Rajah. Ang Poh Khim (Miss), Ang Swee
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      Advertising budget up by 300p.c.
      168 2 Car dealers in Singapore are spending as much as 300 per cent more money on advertising their products as compared to last year. Previously, dealers' advertising budget worked out to about $100 per car. But now this figure has shot uo to as much as
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      Dog that is only depicted on old porcelain
      217 2 A reader wants to know whether a "Foo dog" his friend is importing is a rare dog. The reader has never heard of one before. A Foo dog has never existed. The Foo dog or the Buddhist Lion Dog is a figment
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      It's 1-1 as Spassky loses to Karpov
      240 3 Anatoli Karpov beat former world chess champion Boris Spassky in the 3rd game of the Challenger's semi-finals last night, in Miscow, to level the score at one all. Informed of the result grandmaster Paul Keres who is now in Singapore, remarked: "That's good,
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      BLOOMING BUSINESS
      414 3  -  By Judith Holmberg Singapore exported $3 million worth of orchids last year. And one of the top money spinners among these cut flowers is the purple-blue Aranda Wendy Scott (above). This is rollowed by the Arachnis Maggie Oei (spider orchid), the red Aranthera James Storie and the yellow
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      Bigger plans for the mass wedding
      411 3 Mass weddings appear to be the ideal way of tying the nuptial knot for many Singaporeans. For months before C and E Tours announced they already had a string of couples on their waiting list. At a Press conference yesterday, Mr Steven P.G. Tan,
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      Security step-up at S'pore missions
      203 3  -  Overseas check-up by officer By Sunny Wee The government is reviewing the physical security arrangements of all Singapore diplomamatic missions overseas. This is because of the recent spate of terrorist activities against diplomatic missions. It is understood that a security officer has been sent abroad
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      Youth held for murder
      72 3 Police arrested a youth in Joo Chiat Road yesterday in connection with the murder of a 74-year-old shop assistant, Mr. Seow Kwan Meong, who was shot dead in his goldsmith's shop in Geylang, on Jan. 22. Another youth was picked up in Paya Lebar Way for
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      Party ends in robbery
      51 3 Four men, armed with knives, burst into the house of Mr. Choong Nam Seng, 47, at River Valley Road at midnight yesterday while he was having a party with seven friends. The robbers, in their 20s, relieved the victims of $2000 in cash before escaping on
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      Medical fees
      27 3 A booklet on Scheme of Charges for Government Hospital Services, 1974 is on sale at the Ministry of Health. Palmer Road. The price is $2.
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      Executive flats to be balloted on Tuesday
      123 3 The Government will ballot its executive flats at Frankle Avenue/Siglap Road on Tuesday. The balloting ceremony will be officiated by Mr. G. E. Bogaars, the Permanent Secretary (Foreign Affairs) and the head of the civil service, at the Regional English Language Centre at
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      216 2 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Dominate 8 Students' concern 15 Quotation 16 Art show 17 Cairn or Skye 18 Rural outing 19 Mate's assent 20 Of the nerves 22 Bit of news 23 Sediment 25 Cardboard box 27 Sulky 30 Awesome ones 34 Karate relative 37 Bad: Prefix 40 One
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  • FOR YOUR PLEASURE AND BEHIND THE NEWS
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      Small woman with a big temper
      766 4  -  It's natural with dancer Maria By Jennifer Schoon Maria Pilar might look dainty and petite (1.5 m in her stockings) but she is nothing near "cute and dolly" like so many small girls. This "little" 29-year-old is an exciting combination of fiery zest, a
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      Dolly—a pretty songbird who's not flighty
      597 4 With a name like Dolly, and after having seen the publicity given her I expected to see an extremely well dressed (perhaps even a t, rifle overdressed) woman, expertly made up. So imagine my surprise, when a softspoken, long-legged girl came up and asked
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      Can you guess his name?
      295 4 MUSICORNER The answer for Musicorner Poser No. 51 is Jimmy Osmond. The following win an LP and a poster each: Mr. Cheng Chai Leng. Mr. Ho Tat Peng, Mr. Tan Hung Khln, Mr. Tan Check Leong and Mr. Steven Lim Teng San. The winners of
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      Young alcoholics
      94 4 The United States has more than 450,000 child and teenage alcoholics, according to an estimate made at the weekend by an executive of the National Council on Alcohol. Mr. John Helner, director of the council's Detroit office, said that many of the child alcoholics were encouraged to drink
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      Use less, but pay more...
      575 4  -  ART BUCHWALD I went into Burberry's house the other night and, much to my surprise, I found every light in his house on. "Burberry, have you taken leave of your senses?" I said. "Don't you know there Is an energy crisis?" Burberry plugged in the
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      Lock icon India again seeks US aid as oil prices go up
      643 4  -  INDIA From Lewis Simons Washington Post The United States and India will begin negotiations in New Delhi later this month on the resumption of US economic aid. The talks will be in response to a discreet reauest the Indian government
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      US still plays vital role in Cambodia
      500 4  -  CAMBODIA From Robert Kaylor "If the United States ever gets tired of continuing in this war it will be lost In a matter of days," said a Western diplomat here. 'There Is no way the Cambodian government can go on by itself." The
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Ethiopia acts against ex-ministers
      363 5 Placed under house arrest Reuter Addis Ababa, Friday Ethiopian Prime Minister Endalkachew Makonnen yest e r d a y announced that security forces had been ordered to confine cabinet ministers of the former government to their homes. Radio Ethiopia quoted the Prime Minister as making the
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      Lock icon Saigon jets pound fallen base
      242 5 Reuter Saigon, Friday—South Vietnamese jets have flown heavy reprisal raids against a communistheld mountain base following the fall of a government outpost in the Central Highlands, military sources said. The sources said the air force last Wednesday flew a total of 50 sorties against Dak
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      Portuguese swoop
      35 5 Lisbon, Friday Portuguese security police yesterday arrested 12 people, including two leftwing politicians and six journalists, relatives and eyewitnesses said here. The day-long swoop followed the detention last week of 43 opposition elements.
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      Now 12 for president
      58 5 Paris, Friday France's constitutional council last night announced the 12 candidates, led by Francois Mitterrand, Valery Giscard D'Estaing and Jacques Chaban-Delmas, that have qualified for the May 5 presidential election. Over 30 men and women applied as candidates, but only 12 had the required backing by
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      Ministers dropped
      56 5 New Delhi, Friday. The Congress Party has dropped 35 ministers from the government of Bihar state, where students have been protesting against alleged official corruption. Mr. Abdul Ghafoor remains as Chief Minister at the head of a Cabinet of 14, which will operate for the time being without
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      Sri Lanka troops to be out in force
      158 5 Colombo. Friday Troops will be deployed to guard key points and vital installations thoughout Sri Lanka under a security plan which comes into operation before Sunday. The Government has also cancelled all leave for the armed services and police and started a
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      Lock icon Nixon battle to win support
      257 5 Reuter Washington, Friday President Nixon yesterday drew warm applause and pledges of unconditional support when he addressed the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in his battle to rally public opinion against his possible impeachment. Shortly after he met the DAR, his Watergate troubles mounted
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      Lock icon Farmer dies in mine blast
      127 5 United Press International Belfast, Friday. A landmine killed a farmer ploughing his land in county Londonderry yesterday. A police spokesman said the mine, apparently planted by the outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA), killed the man instantly when he drove over it in his tractor. The
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      Bank that went 30 feet too high
      132 5 Dublin, Friday The Central Bank of Ireland has been officially ordered to cut its size by 20 per cent starting from the roof. The order went out from the Ministry of Local Government after a protracted argument about the bank's new headquarters building
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      Lock icon 7 years for 'most evil woman' Janie
      205 5 Reuter, UPI London, Friday A Britisn judge pronounced a seven-year jail sentence on call girl operator Janie Jones yesterday and described her as the most evil woman he had ever met. Tne sentence came at the end of the 37-year-old blonde's second trial
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      Meeting ends
      46 5 Warsaw, Friday Seven Warsaw pact states of Eastern Europe discussing ways of improving East-West detente last night ended their two-day meeting in the Polish capital. The conference ended with signing of a document, the Polish news agency Pap said but gave no further details.
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      Lock icon India power cuts due to 'sabotage'
      219 5 Reuter New Delhi, Friday. The Indian capital and many northern parts of the country are in the middle of a major power crisis which the government yesterday attributed to "sabotage." Irrigation and Power Minister K. C. Pant tried unsuccessfully to get the Lower House
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      Seconds before death...
      124 5 This dramatic picture shows a Hamburg police officer training his gun at a bank robber (arrowed) seen here leaving the bank with his hostage. Seconds later the raider was shot dead. And it ended three and a half hours of tension at the bank where the robber
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      Lock icon Top marks to China
      270 5 Help in time of need Reuter New York, Friday. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Thailand, Mr. Chatlchai Choonhavan, said yesterday that developing countries could not fail to help one another. regardless of Ideological differences, and cited aid from China In meeting his own country's fuel shortage.
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  • OPINION
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      Save Energy campaign still relevant
      573 6 The call by the secretary general of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to industrialised nations to reduce their energy consumption and develop alternative fuel resources provides food for thought. He also gave the grim warning that there might be a further cutback on
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      Laughing matter
      49 6 'WHISPERS' by ispy Recelving a wedding invitation-card can be an occasion for laughs aarticularly if it is not carefully worded. A colleague has just received one which says: "We have much Pleasure in inviting the honour of your presents at the the marriage of our first son
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      Scenario has changed for Wilson
      907 6  -  Columnist Pang Chen i Lian, attending a conference at Oxford on population growth, today takes a look at the political mood in England where jnst six weeks ago Labour came to power again with promises of bending every sinew to solve Britain's economic ills. Premier
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      Photo-romance way to the Pill...
      457 6  -  SARI GILBERT The Los Angeles Times/ Washington Post News Service. "We can't go on this way," says the dejected young husband in the first panel of a new photo-comic strip that the Italian Association for Demographic Education is planning to use to popularise the birthcontrol
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    • Letters
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        Selling milk in clinic
        164 6  -  A. C. HO (Miss) Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Health, Singapore, 2. I refer to the letter Selling Milk in Clinic (NN, March 27). The purpose of allowing agents of some brands of milk to demonstrate their products In Kandang Kerbau Hospital is to provide a
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        Students society
        169 6  -  EDWARD TAN Chairman Pro-tern Committee, Certified Accountant Students Society of Singapore, Singapore. We are very grateful to Mr. Patrick Chong and other student members of The Association for paying so much interest in the formation of The Students' Society. Unfortunately, the delay was* because we are not, at
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      Lock icon ISRAEL'S SHIFTING POLITICAL MOOD LOWERS MORALE
      923 6  -  From Paul Jacobs The writer is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington. Washington Post Israeli political Jokes have always been noted for their bitterness, but never before have they been as cruel as those circulating today. The forthcoming negotiations
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      Lock icon French polls: What's at stake?
      555 6 WORLD COMMENT EXCERPTS FROM EDITORIALS The Economist When France goes to the polls on May 5, the 1 divided right will face 1 the united left. That reverses what happened in earlier presidential elections in the Fifth Republic, when a single gaullist candidate (first the
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      36 6 v.* >XS B? i. 1 ifM V Wr> y v. is *r. IS iff u m Eg a ij ...AND TO BEAT INFLATION SHE SPENDSALL M> SALARY IN THE FIRST WEEK BEFORE THE PURCHASING POWER DIMINISHES."
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
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      THOSE $80,000 GOVT. FLATS
      307 7  -  Friday Forum conducted By I Gene Teo It has often been said that housing projects in Singapore have left the middleincome group in "wanton abandon." Families who have a combined income above the $1500 ceiling are not eligible for HDB flats. On the other hand, the
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      Prices are not competitive...
      472 7 "Essentially the idea is a good one. But the price is not competitive enough" said MR. HAN HUI KWANG, a sales co ordinator. For instance, it is still possible to get a house for approximately $90,000, but in a locality more than 10 miles from the
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      Incentives are not attractive
      378 7 "I would prefer to pay a little more and buy a house than pay $80,000 for a flat that does not offer much floor space. It is possiDle to get a house with a total area of 3000 square feet for about $130,000, 10 miles away
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      New move will check spiralling prices
      372 7 "The Government move to offer this new housing scheme is a good one. For one thing, it will help to check the spiralling prices of private housing proj e c t s," said MR. FREDDIE GAN, an insurance sales representative. "These new flats have
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      ONLY WAY TO OWN FLAT
      393 7 For MISS TAN SIEW LING, an interior design consultant, this new scheme might just be her only chance to own a home. She said: "People in my category are doomed to live in rented flats or houses. Owning a private flat is way beyond our
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      Implement easy payment system
      450 7 "The government has not stated whether we can make use of our CPF to pay for the flat. If not, it will restrain many people from buying." This is the opinion of MR. CHOO THIM HENG, a marketing manager. "There should, therefore. be a scheme similar
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  • SHOPPING
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      Making driving
      707 8 OWNING a car these days is nothing more than a luxurious convenience. Though there is no doubt that the car is one of the most significant inventions of the modern age, in these energy crisis days, it Is little more than an albatross around the owner's neck. Car
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  • FINANCE
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      MARKET MOVEMENTS
      154 9 Sustained buying sapport yesterday checked the slide which has been eroding share prices since Thursday last week. Buyers streamed t n from the opening bell. Volatile stocks gained ground. Sime Darby for instance, steadily advanced to $3.90, up 16 cents the day's best improvement. Haw Par International, UOB
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      Lock icon Tokyo meet to deal with problems of world oil crisis
      373 9 Reuter Tokyo, Friday Leading monetary experts of 11 advanced industrial nations are now meeting in Tokyo to consider ways of dealing with payments apd other problems created by the world oil crisis. They are members of a working party of
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      K.L. INDUSTRIES AWAITS THE NOD FOR PROJECTS
      290 9 The delay in obtaining planning approval for housing development projects will adversely affect the performance of Kuala Lumpur Industries this year. The company's chairman, Datuk Teh Hong Plow, said the company has submitted two plans One ior muiti-storey block of flats in Bukit
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      Bank men for HK training
      83 9 Three trainee regional officers with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation left for Hong Kong this week for nine months' secondment -cum-train-lng at the bank's head office. Mr. Low Kong Wah, Mr. Henry Howard Park and Enclk Ahmad Zuhdl bin Zahrl have been sent
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
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        New York
        599 9 Stock prices gained ground In light trading for the third consecutive session on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, again brushing aside bad news on both the economic and Interest rate fronts. Closing volume came to roughly 12,300,000 shares, compared with 14,020,000 shares traded on Wednesday. Some analysts
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        Dow Jones
        36 9 The Dow Jones range of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday were: 30 industrials 867.49 (up 2.51), 20 transport 185.93 (up 128), 15 Utilities 87.36 (unchanged), and 65 stocks 270.85 (up 0.95).
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        Sydney
        239 9 Prices at 11.30 ajn. (Australian time): Aberleen susp. Do opts susp. AOD 08 Va 09 AUsUte 15 18 Amad 034 04 V4 Aurora 10 12 Do opts nil 00 Aust Ant 09 10 Bamboo 05 08 Beach 31 33 Bounty busp. Bridge 14 15 Cleveland 53 54 Cosmos 01
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      575 10 Talib Haron is strongly tipped to win the Sembawang Open on Sunday. Talib of Keppel, (handicap four) has been playing well in the local circuit as well as the Singapore Open this year. His closest rival will be Mike Jopling (handicap 7) who will
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      SICC 7-2
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