New Nation, 2 August 1974

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    23 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Friday evening, August 2, 1974 No. 1092 Price 20 cents M.C. (P) 20/74 NEW NATION SINGAPORE, FRIDAY AUGUST 2, 1974
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    Lock icon Battle rages as UN men move in
    543 1 Turkish army moves westward in a bid to gain more territory in Cyprus Reuter Nicosia, Friday The United Nations last night authorised its peacekeeping forces on Cyprus to move between warring Greeks-Cypriots and Turks. But the Turkish army battled westward amid artillery and
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    Lock icon 13 women drown
    50 1 Reuter New Delhi, Friday Thirteen women drowned when a boat capsized in a flooded river in Northern India, pushing the death toll from this year s monsoon rains to over 150. Reports reaching here yesterday from Bihar State said two men aboard the boat swam to safety.
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    Lock icon Big flood
    19 1 Reuter Dacca, Friday—Floods throughout Bangladesh have caused £180 million ($1044 million) damage since they started last week.
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    Watchman slain because he knew...
    214 1  -  By Bharathi Mohan Watchman Mohan Singh, 49, is believed to have been murdered at the Tanjong Rhu ship engineering company yesterday because he knew the robbers who took away $15,000 from the safe. The gang is susrected to have suffocated him cn bis bed by
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    'HAVE A HEART AND COME HOME' PLEA
    423 1  -  By Richard Lim These th ree sad looking girls have one plea to make. "If you see our sister Chew Tuan Hong, please ask her to return home so that we can go back to school!" For since Tuan Hong, 15. disappeared from
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    Lock icon Nixon set for an all-out Congress war
    462 1 He is confident of surviving Reuter Washington, Friday The White House said yesterday President Nixon would not resign and was totally confident he would win an all-out battle in Congress to clear his name and survive. Presidential spokesman Gerald Warren emphasised Mr. Nixon
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    Milk firm guilty of conspiracy
    156 1 Washington, Friday Associated Milk Producers Inc., America's largest milk co-operative, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy and making illegal campaign contributions and was fined the maximum U5535,000 (S$84,000) penalty. AMPI was the 12th corporation to be charged in Watergate related matters and the first to be
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    Three-fold jump now in deposits for polls
    366 1 Kuala Lumpur, Friday The Malaysian Government has increased three fold the deposits required of candidates for next month's general elections. Parliamentary candidates will have to deposit $1500 ($5OO the last time) and State Assembly candidates $750 ($250). Residential qualifications have also been included
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    Girl found
    37 1 A 19-year-old girl, who was reported missing from her home by the parents two months ago, was found working as a bar waitress in Anson Road during a police check in the area on Wednesday.
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    ON THE 'CHANGE
    86 1 In slack trading, shaie prices were barely steady on the Stock Exchange of Singapore this morning. BUSINESS DONE: B. Sembawang (1> 2.20. Mosbert (1) 1.08. San Holdings (12) 0."i5. OC.BC. (2) 5.95. U.OB (8) 3.08. S. Barby f3) 2.67, rlB> 2.66. (1> 2.65. Malayawata (1) 2.10. H.
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    Lock icon Shoot order
    36 1 Reuter Paris. Friday. The French Go vernment. hardening its attitude after a wave of riots and mutinies in French jails, yesterday ordered police to shoot any prisoners who try to escape after being warned.
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    Lock icon Ties accord
    22 1 Reuter East Berlin Friday— The United States and East Germany have agreed on conditions for the establishment of diplomatic relations.
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    OUR ROADS
    10 1 Police reported 81 accidents yesterday. Four were serious.
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    Fruit stall on fire
    59 1 A fruits and drinks stall in Telok Blangah was partially destroyed by a fire early this morning. The owner of the stall, Mr. Lim Sing Heng, 25, who arrived at the stall after the 7 a.m. fire estimated the damages at $3000. The cause of the
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      CYLINDER OIL: PRICE GAP SHOCK AT KIOSKS
      690 2  -  By Rav K. Dhaliwal The Consumers' Association of Singapore has called on the Automobile Association to consider the introduction of price tagging at garages. This call is made in the latest issue of The Consumer Bulletin, by the Executive Secretary of Case. Mr.
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      Award for honest Soo Beng
      215 2 He returned $4000 New Nation's honest newsvendor Tan Soo Beng, 17, who returned $4000 to an American tourist, is to be commended by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board today. He will be among 13 recipients of the board's Awards For Acts of Honesty. The chairman.
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      Education meet
      42 2 The Singapore Jayceettes will hold their annual dinner and dance at Holiday Inn on Aug. 10 at 7.30 p.m. The programme for the evening will include the signing of a brotherhood pact with Port Dickson Jaycees and a fashion show.
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      Not too much of it, TV addicts told
      314 2 Be more creative, says don Too many people spend too much time watching television instead of spending more time on more intellectually stimulating activities, according to a university lecturer. Dr. Bernard Tan of the University of Singapore's Physics Department, said this in
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      Now coffee houses close shop earlier
      362 2  -  By Teresa Ooi Several leading hotels have shortened their 24-hour coffee house service to cut down on costs. These places no longer operate during the "weehours" of the morning, usually between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. because business has been rather slack. However, room
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      Top favourite Farooqui held to draw
      214 2 Malaysian youngster. Woo Beng Keong, created a minor upset in the first round of the Pesta chess championship by holding Pakistan master Z. Farooqui, the top-seed, to a uraw. Beng Keong played the Yugoslav Defence and Farooqui. with the White pieces, couid not break
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      Meeting of Alumni
      60 2 The annual general meeting of the Alumni Association of the Institute of Education will be held at the institute's auditorium tomorrow at 2 p.m. All past graduates of the Teachers' Training College and the Institute of Education are urged to attend this meeting. Membership registration and the
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      How to pick a vet for your pet
      435 2 fCanine Clinicl Dear P.G., You are constantly advising us to consult a vet when anything goes wrong with our dogs. Can you please tell me how to choose a vet? And recommend one that you send your animals to. Seeker. Dear Seeker,
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      'Pedal more' drive to ease traffic
      451 3 Call for special bicycle lanes and parks A proposal to build special lanes, centres and parks for bicycles linking various housing estates with other areas as an alternative mode of transportation to ease traffic congestion was made today. The suggestion came from Haji Sha'ari
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      Coin sale
      27 3 The Singapore Numismatic Association will hold its 20th coin auction at the Lion City Hotel, first floor, Tanjong Katong Road, on Sunday at 10 a.m.
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      Call for industrial peace to combat inflation
      420 3 Sia: Two-way rapport needed The Minister of State (Labour) Mr. Sia Kah Hui today called for manage-ment-union co-ope-ration to prevent inflation from affecting industrial peace. With particular reference to the latest National Wages Council recommendations, he warned that unless there could be a
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      Drop in silver content of $10 coins
      323 3 The high cost of silver on the market has led to a decrease in the percentage content of the metal in the 1974 proof silver $10 coins. They will cow contain a silver content of only 50 per cent as compared with 90
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      Key to leisure education
      302 3 'It is now a national problem' Educating the people on the importance of leisure is a national pr ob 1 em that cannot be solved by physical education and sports specialists alone, a Japanese doctor told a seminar on physical education yesterday. After-school education has assumed
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      The Lees show off their garden
      328 3 The quest for the most beautiful garden in the Bukit Batok constituency is on. Members of the constituency's citizens' consultative committee and officers of the Parks and Recreation Division of the Public Works Department are visiting homes to judge which one has the most
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      250 2 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Shape 5 Buffalo Bill 9 Skim on Ice 14 On the briny 15 Inter 16 Complalner 17 Noted Irish tenor 19 Fruit of the oak 20 Dine 21 Weight: Colloq. 22 Oreek capital 23 Stroke oar 25 Discuss 27 Relative of etc. 29 Former Leader
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      235 3 Mappin Webb Cutlery Chesterfield Pattern For over 100 years, Mappin Webb Limited have been making the beautiful cutlery that have adorned the well dressed tables of the world. The maker's mark Mappin Webb has become known as the symbol of all that is best in silver and the Mapping Webb
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  • FOR YOUR PLEASURE AND
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      Film with touch of casual cruelty
      385 4  -  Peter Fonda on the highway again CINEMA >r SONNY YAP DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY directed by John Hough, with Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke and Vic Morow (coming to Cathay). Peter Fonda takes to the interstate highway again; only this time he has
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      Launching in style for only $27
      395 4 l«J i; V. J-'V V V-i 1 "r.i'h'»: .'i uH'tu o Ti n Y I*.. to 7 i -i i? .V i-,vj i 'u I .-l.' .t'U r ..rv oi.i se re- restaur Ant local ~od choked T.y 'svour•re the long i > nd
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      German festival at local hotel
      309 4 in-!-Ip V x V •if :J ':*oi s f 'rj" i t .1. n i s tvnu -.L?i io IOOIC a Win? Vil- i.'.'r 1 along the Rhine 10 Qu two-week 1a n cm':st J -i. -g Oeruio no anoecuhis u Hiag lunehtim«. la tfi(
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      Numbers game at supermarts
      701 4  -  ART BUCHWALD Safeway Stores has just announced a j new pricing policy. It j says it will only I stamp one price on a bc.x or can of food j and will not change the price while it's on the shelves. While some oeople consider this
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      Lock icon Cairo symbolises nation's economic disarray
      757 4  -  THE ONCE GRACEFUL CITY IS LEFT BEHIND EGYPT From Jack Foisie Los Angeles Times Cairo, the city astride the Nile is the political centre of the oil-rich world. has ail the prestige Implicit ir being host to the rich and powerful of M d.l.e Ei»*
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon 'ARABS READY TO HELP'
      397 5 Reuter Paris, Friday The Arab world will help oil-consum-ing countries solve the balance of payments problems caused by higher oil prices, Arab League secretary g en e r al Mahmoud Riad said here yesterday. Mr. Riad said it was In the interests of Arab countries to
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      Lock icon Kim: Six more years of freedom curbs
      363 5 'Until South Korea achieves economic affluence' Reuter Seoul, Friday Prime Minister Mr. Kim Jong Pil indicated yesterday that curbs on democratic freedom in South Korea would continue for at least another six years until the achievement of economic affluence, when it could become
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      Lock icon BICYCLE BUILT FOR 16
      73 5 On a 16-s eater bicycle mounted on floats, 16 young Dutchmen set off in a big way to cross the English Channel recently. The unique effort is to promote the UNICEF campaign for children of the underdeveloped countries. Despite their good intentions and "manpower," the effort
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      Lock icon Row puts off some Air India flights
      230 5 UPI and Reuter Bombay, Friday Air India has cancelled some internal tonal flights in a dispute between management and pilots over living allowances and overseas living assignments. The airline was forced to cancel yesterday's Boeing 707 BomoayLondon flight oecause pilots assigned to the
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      Lock icon Big bomb scare
      37 5 Reuter London, Friday.—Eighty East London families were evacuated from their homes yesterday after an unexploded bomb from the Second World War was found in their street. Army explosive experts detonated the bomb last night.
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      Lock icon 13 killed in prison fire
      195 5 Reuter and UPI Madrid, Friday Fire, apparently started by a short-circuit In a carpentry shop, engulfed a three-storey wing of a prison In Alcala de Henares yesterday, killing 13 people. Fire engines from Madrid. 55 Km (35 miles) away and the nearby town of Torrejon.
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      Lock icon Injecting water into beef racket
      95 5 Reuter Hong Kong. Friday. A magistrate warned yesterday he might consider jailing those who engage in the illegal practice of Injecting water into beef to Increase its weight before selling it. Mr. R. S. Sanders gave the warning after he fined the licencee of a
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      Lock icon Talks break down
      24 5 UPI Tokyo, Friday —Japan and China yesterday suspended talks here on the conclusion of a shipping agreement without any official explanation.
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      Lock icon Egypt visit
      29 5 Reuter Tokyo, Friday Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has invited Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to visit Egypt, sources close to the Prime Minister's Office said here yesterday.
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      Lock icon A $29 bet that cost John his life...
      133 5 Reuter London, Friday.—Labourer John Russell, 28, bet £5 i $29) that he could drink a bottle of whisky. He won the bet but lost his life. Dr. James Pinkerton. a pathologist, told a Wiltshire coroner yesterday that Mr. Russell died from inhaling
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      Lock icon British Crown Agents to be reshaped
      225 5 Reuter London, Friday The Crown Agents, a semiofficial British body which acts for overseas governments and public authorities, is to be reshaped with more government control over its investment policies. The planned changes were announced by Mrs. Judith Hart, Overseas Development Minister, who told
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      Lock icon Firemen on strike
      38 5 Reuter Rome, Friday—ltaly's firemen went on strike yesterday—just one day after the doctors went back to work. The firemen's unions called a dawn-to-dusk strike lasting two days to demand a better system of danger money.
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      Lock icon 500-pound Ulster blast hits store
      367 5 But no one injured United Press International Belfast, Friday A 5001b bomb badly damaged a Belfast department store, nearby government offices and a newspaper printing works yesterday. A police spokesman said gunmen stopped the driver of a co-operative store delivery truck in the Roman Catholic
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      Lock icon Ex-Premier held
      50 5 United Press International Addis Ababa. Friday.— Ex-Pi ime Minister Endalkatchew Makoonen of Ethiopia and nine other leading civilian and military personalities have been arrested, according to an official statement over Ethiopia Radio by the co-ordinating committee or the armed forces. The government-own-ed Ethiopia Radio gave no further details.
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      Lock icon US woman is 114
      57 5 United Press International New York, Friday. Mrs. Odelia Spears, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation, celebrated her 114 th birthday in Jackson yesterday. Mrs. Spears, the oldest resident of Villa Feliciana State Geriatric Hospital, said she thought she had lived so long because
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      128 5 colour TV m M > M im 5Q8237 t V -V Philips Colour TV is being demonstrated in this touring air-conditioned double-decker bus. See the naturalness of Philips colour TV right where you ore! Philips colour television designers have achieved colour so natural it's almost like being there. Now, you'll
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  • OPINION
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      Selling more locally made goods
      446 6 Mounting export drives has, up to now, not been considered an integral function of the local business community. Primarily concerned with selling other people's products, local businessmen have generally left the task of pushing the goods to the manufacturers. But as the entrepot trade's importance
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    • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
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        Two girls now
        47 6 Have you noticed that the Singapore Planning Association poster now shows two little girls Instead of a boy and a girl as the Ideal family? The message they're trying so hard to plug is of course Stop at Two—even if it's two little girls.
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        Nod for no
        97 6 Here's a useful tip for those who are planning to visit Bulgaria one of these days. Bulgarians, I am told, do not shake their heads when they mean no. They nod their heads. And when they mean Jes, they shake their eads. This unique custom has caused
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      Curbing the world's population
      1164 6  -  An international meeting will be opening in Bucharest this month to discuss ways and means of curbing the world's rising population rate. The need for population control is by now a universally accepted fact. Within this century, the world's population has grown by 5000 million. Unless
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      VOICE OF THE PRESS
      376 6  -  SIN CHEW JIT POH What othtr newspaper t are toying: CONTROLLING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SOCIAL ESCORT AGENCIES Social escort service has emerged only in recent years as a supplementary tourist service a result of development of the tourist industry. Presumably, it has an active role
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        Marrying the non-citizens
        224 6 Under existing law, a non-citizen holding a Singapore issued work permit must first apply to the Commissioner for Employment for approval to marry a Singapore citizen. To apply for this approval, a work permit holder has to undergo many complicated procedures, for example, filling of application forms,
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        Application rejected
        127 6 Last May, I applied for admission to the Singapore Vocational Institute. My choice of courses were Applied Electronics (Bukit Merah) and Building Drafting (Ponggol Institute). However. I was informed that I was not successful in my application. In the G.C.E. "O" level examination held last year. I obtained
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        Lifting the tariff
        85 6  -  SOEW EU SEN The Government must be congratulated for the recent lifting of tariffs on some consumer goods. This action certainly helped to bring down the prices of these essential goods. Now, may we please ask the Government to do likewise for bicycle tyres and tubes. A
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        The whys of errors
        49 6  -  PETER SIM CHENG KHOON Beware of Pickpockets (NN, 26.7.74) provides interesting reading but no help. If I am to serve better, I need to know the what, when and why of errors or lapses. May I have at least the starting point of who. please?
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        The correct fare
        58 6  -  YAP SOON HOE Secretary, Bus Services Reorganisation Committee, Singapore, 6. We wish to inform Bewildered NN, 22.7.74) that the correct bus fare to the first bus stop at from Toa Payoh terminus Scotts Road on services No. 143 Is 30 cents, which is similar to the fare
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      Lock icon Looking for wealth, prosperity in America
      510 6  -  By Vicente Maliwanag United Press International Five days a week, hundreds of Filipinos queue in front of the U.S. Embassy in Manila, each hoping to realise the fulfilment of a dream. The dream is to make a new home in America. In the 1974
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      Lock icon The white Indians of Brazil
      638 6 Reuter A series of radio messages from the depths of the Amazon jungle has revived ancient legends about mysterious stone-age tribes of white- skinned, blue-eyed Indians roaming Brazil's unexplored hinterland. In the messages Indian expert Raimundo Alves has reported contacting fair-skinned tribesmen with chestnut-brown hair
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      196 6 WRITE TO THE EDITOR. NEW NATION. LOCKED BAG 15. GPO. SINGAPORE. 1. choose the right holiday and you'll be having the time of your life this year! /5 gv AUSTRALIAN PANORAMA S Qantas flies you to Melbourne, Albury, j 2) Cooma, Canberra, Sydney and Perth. See Australia and its wildflower
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
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      TOURISM
      125 7  -  FRIDAY FORUM by Florence Tan Tourism has for long been one of the top money-spinners for Singapore. It netted approximately $528 million last year. The number of tourists to visit Singapore last year hit the million mark a total of 1,134,000 to be exact. This represents an increase of
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      Wish I could stay longer here
      238 7 MRS. MARGARET CARTER, tour manager of the Japan Tourist Bureau (JTB) in Melbourne, Australia, wished she could stay longer in Singapore. She was recently in Singapore with the JTB group of 25 Australian tourists for a three-day visit. Mrs. Carter said: "Everything in Singapore
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      Fascination is still around
      227 7 New Zealand showbiz entertainer, MR. HOWARD MORRISON, who was last in Singapore in 1968 said: "I am amazed at the rapid development that has taken place since then. •But despite industrialisation and the changing skyline, somehow, I And that Singapore still retains its Oriental fascination. "I
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      Bargains galore
      127 7 Of all the countries that she has been in her three years with the Young Hawaiians. MISS STACY STEVENS, a dancer, likes Singapore best. Miss Stevens, 18, said: "I just like it. There Is so much to see. Your shopping facilities, for example, are every girl's dream. "I
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      Dynamic and on the move
      140 7 Singaporeans are very alive and seem to be constantly on the move. This is the impression of MRS. P.E. MOODY, at the end of her four-day stay in Singapore. Mrs. Moody, a housewife from Johannesburg, South Africa, said: "This drive and dynamism is infectious. Everything
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      A shoppers' paradise, but people don't smile enough
      191 7 Popular Indonesian actress and singer, MISS AIDA MUSTAFA, who was recently in Singapore for a week-long holiday, said: "What I like most about Singapore is its fantastic shopping facilities. "Fashion goods are very much cheaper here than back home. And there is
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      A surprise that English is widely spoken
      218 7 The fact that so many Singaporeans speak English came as a surprise to MR. KENNETH S. DAVIES, of Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr. Davies. a businessman. said: "So many of you here speak good English. Communication is no problem at all." Mr. Davies. who
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      Fine, but hotels seem to lack a theme
      128 7 To American Chinese MR. E.C. CHEN, a designer and landscapes Singapore must be "the most modern city in South-East Asia." He said: "What Impresses me Is that despite the Increasing number of buildings, you have still managed to retain so much greenery.
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      Cabbies should brush up on their local knowledge
      312 7 A small nation and yet filled with so many modern buildings and attractiv2 architecture. That is what MRS. HONOR WILLIAMS of the US, finds amazing in Singapore. Mrs. Williams, whose husband is attached to the American Embassy in Singapore, has been here
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  • SHOPPING
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      Surround yourself with fresh air...
      761 8 OEYOND doubt, one of the most nagging and bothersome problems of the industrialised world today is pollution. In particular, air pollution since it affects all of us, whether we work in offices or factories as smog carries itself around with the wind. In fact, environmentalists
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  • FINANCE AND TREND
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      Profits of Malayan Cement drop
      316 9  -  By Lee Yew Meng Malayan Cement's (MC) first half pretax profits up to May 1974 dropped one per cent to $3.69 million mainly the result of the heavy oil price which hit its major profit contributor, Associated Pan Malaysia Cement (APMC). The chairman, Mr. S.F.
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      Lock icon World Bank rate up
      48 9 Reuter Washington, Friday The World Bank, which finances development projects in underdeveloped nations, yesterday raised its lending rate to eight per cent from 7.25 per cent, a spokesman said. The last change was in 1971 when the rate was raised from seven per cent.
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      MARKET MOVEMENTS
      196 9 The Singapore stock market planted lower as bearish sentiments continued yesterday, sending more shares sinking to new lows. The opening saw prices generally making amends for the previous day's steep decline. But this really was not to last long. By afternoon, sellers came in droves to take control
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      Lock icon Gold price rises to $400 an ounce
      200 9 United Press International Biussels. Friday Gold rose to US$l6O ($400) an ounce yesterday. The US dollar moved erratically on world money markets, touching a high fcr the year in Tokyo and a low for tne year in Paris. The price of Gold opened
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
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        New York
        437 9 The Dow Jones industrial average dropped for the second day to a new four year low as prices slid in light trading on the New Yr.-k Stock Exchange yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 6.33 to 751.10. The decline carried the blue chip indicator to its lowest
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        Lock icon Dow Jones
        41 9 United Press International The Dow Jones stock averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 in dustrials7sl.lo 30 Industrials 751.10 (off 6.33), 20 transport 158.31 (up 0.35), 15 utilities 68.00 (off 0.41) and 65 stocks 230.02 (Off 1.24).
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        Paris
        196 9 Ir.dochlne 170 —1.60 Foncier 288 +4 Printemps 81.60 —1 CGE 302 —2.50 Bull 40.20 —.80 Royal Dutch 136.70 -2.40 Michelin 829 unch. Thomson 170 —5.90 CFp 129.80 +.30 Rhone J 35.30 —.20 AIR 274 —1 BSN 770 —13 Philips 49.60 .80 Philips 49.60 —.80 Suez 212 +1 Citrcen 33
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        Tokyo
        392 9 Notwithstanding the sharp decline of the New York market for the first time since November 19, 1970, the Tokyo market climbed in the morning session, encouraged by the announcement of a proposed plan to protect the yen rate. Selective buying concentrated on speculative stocks benefiting from good news. The
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      Lock icon How you can take a different man to bed each night—and stay married
      443 9  -  DICK WEST United Press International There's a new bestseller in America that could well serve as the manual for a woman's counterliberation movement. Written by a housewife under the title. The Total Woman, it advises married females
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      Meet the artful work-dodger
      396 9 f V DOC lN Ja Do you wake up on Monday wishing for a long weekend? Do you then begin to toy with the idea of wrangling a day off? Regretfully but nobly, you put that thought aside and struggle on your way. Unfortunately yours is
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      Sex under hammer and sickle
      135 9 For love In a cold climate, Russia's the place. Sex under the Hammer and Sickle. It seems, beats all that Latin lover stuff. So says a Professor Syvadosch who has produced a Soviet version of the Kinsey Report called Female Sex Problems. This 187-page book,
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      Lock icon Play it cool with the soft look of elegance
      214 9 There's a lot more to maturity of looks than wrinkles on the (ace. That elusive quality called titjance is no longer so hard to come oy. The secret is confidence —gleaned from the hard, and" often painful, growth out of those
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  • SPORTS
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      Malaysia struggle their way into the final
      921 10  -  From TONY DANKER Kuala Lumpur Friday. —Malaysia are in the final of the 18th Merdeka football tournament but what a mess they made of the semi-final against Thailand last night. It was an Inelegant performance by the defending c h ampl o ns
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      Lock icon Queenstown hand VC a trouncing
      272 10  -  By C.K. YONG Formidable Queenstown trounced Vigilante Corps 12-1 at Toa Payoh in the Pesta Sukan waterpolo to u r p a ment which began yesterday. On this form. Queenstown look good enough to take the title although they have two more teams from Safsa
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      Italy's new manager
      51 10 Rome, Friday The Italian Football Federation yesterday appointed Fulvio Bernardini to the new post of national team manager following Italy's recent World Cup failure. Bernardini, a former player, team manager and sports-writer, was given responsibility for all Italy's national teams after a meeting of the Football Federation
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      New record
      35 10 Hel s 1 n ki, Friday Anders Gaerderud of Sweden chopped a second off his own European 3000 metres steeplechase record when he clocked 8:14.2 sec In an international athletics meeting here lastnight.
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      Indonesia making big bid for women's titles
      810 10  -  with Lim Kee Chan Indonesia are making another strong challenge for the Singapore womep's championships to be played over the Island course on August 6-8. The championships Open and Intermediate will lor the first time be competed over 54 holes strcke-play to Keep
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      Wallace denies Test bid
      265 10 Johannesburg, Friday.—Mr. Boon Wallace, president of the South African Cricket Union, last night denied a report that he had submitted proposals to Australian cricket authorities which could lead to the resumption of Test cricket between the two countries. Commenting on a London Evening News 6tory that
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      Richards hits 96 not out against tourists
      279 10 London, Friday. South African Barry Richards hit 96 not out in a first wicket partnership of 137 for D.H. Robins' XI against the Pakistani cricketers at Eastbourne yesterday. The stand by Richards and Neal Abberley, who made 45, helped Robins' XI score 159-1
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      39-11 win
      27 10 Wellington, Friday The Britain Rugby League side turned on a sparkling performance under floodlights at the Basin Reserve here last night to overpower Wellington 39-11.
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      Red Topper looks a good thing
      276 11 By SCRUTINEER Red Topper looks a good thing in Race 6 at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The three year old English cc.lt by High Hat has hit peak form and can easily make the grade in Class Two. Last time out at Ipoh on June
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      The Tempest impresses
      595 11  -  Going heavy at KL course From BLUE PETER Ipoh, Friday Red Topper did a splendid gallop this morning. Ridden by Jim Johnson, the three-year-old strode out fluently over 3f in 37 with Snow Mist II for company. The going was heavy. All gallops were done on the
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      SATURDAY SELECTIONS
      149 11 SCRUTINEER BLUE PETER EPSOM JEEP DANTE KM* 1 I ma blaze Black Hornet Imablase Endless Glory Una blase Suball End less Glory Imablase Pteroptyx 1 if 11—***** PteroptyX Lmona Pteroptyx Pteroptyx Bangsa Wan KMC 3 Persian Racket Po Po Pleasant Venture PO Po Prelnde First Enterprise Halland Persian
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      Lock icon Fiery Japanese hand S'pore a 7-1 thrashing for hockey title
      495 11  -  By NANCY KOH That fiery brand of hockey the stocky girls of Japan produced to sink Singapore 7-1 yesterday will be remembered for a long time to come. For their victory was so swift, so sure, and carried the powerful
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      KL CARD for Saturday
      3606 11 ■PVWWMB 1-30 Claw 5 Div. 4 61 ($6,500 $4,550 to winn«r) 1 974C Fin* Prml g (Net) Bougoure 6 8 13 (dc »8) 61 L. Johneon 1 2 0656 Sokitomi .s (SockIt) West 10 8 13 (d2 <-8) 61 Rahman e 3 9083 Subaii a (TJakra)
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      Indian Cup squad
      52 11 New Delhi, FridayIndia yesterday selected a four-man squad for their Davis Cup interzone tennis semi-final against the Soviet Union. The team is Vijay Amritraj, Anand Amritra], Jasjit Singh and Shashi Menon. It is the same squad as the one that beat Australia in the Eastern zone final
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      Lock icon Proverb romps home to win by 3 lengths
      196 11 Reuter London, Friday.—Proverb, a four-year-old colt, yesterday became the first horse this century to win the Goodwood Cup two years in succession. Starting 3-4 on favourite, Proverb won by three lengths from King Levanstell, with Parnell a further 1J lengths away third
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      Double for Montreal
      75 11 New York, Friday.— Results of baseball games National League —Montreal 7 Chicago 4 (1st); Montreal 4 Chicago 0 <2nd>; Atlanta 9 San Francisco 0; Cincinnati 4 Houston 0; St. Louis 9 Philadelphia 8: Pittsburgh 8 New York 3; Los Angeles 15 San Diego 4. American League Kansas
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      Ellis dies
      27 11 Melbourne, Friday. Former Test cricketer Jack Ellis who toured England with the Australian side in 1926, died in hospital here this week. He was 82.
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    Lock icon GIRL WHO KNOWS HER JOB
    95 12 Looking petite in uniform is Chua Hong Kuen, 19, the girl who will see to it that you quench your thirst at the Keppel Road cablecar sub-station. This is her job as the chief hostess at the Golden Restaurant nearby. She has a ready smile
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    TALKING POINT
    63 12 AH FOOK: Singaporeans should take to bicycles and our traffic problem will be solved. Perhaps a sustained national campaign should be held. MEI LING: You will only be fighting a losing battle if you ever attempt to persuade motorists to cycle. Perhaps the busing public may consider this
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    TODAY
    142 12 TODAY is Friday. Aug. 2, the 214th day of 1974 with 151 to follow. THE MOON is full. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Venus. Jupiter and Saturn. THE EVENING STAR is Mars. Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. American actress Myrna Loy was born
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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      950 12 SINGAPORE 5 3.00 OPENING ANNCTS. followed by FOR THE FAMILY —A magazine series. 3.35 DIARY OF EVENTS (C) 3.40 LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDOURED THING —Daytime serial on the trials and tribulations of three families in San Francisco. 4.05 HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE The Lady Detective: Part 2 of a Cantonese film.
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      801 12 BACK PAGE AT THE CINEMA with EDGAR KOH HOW DO I TELL MY CHILD?: This German "documentary" happily and lucratively takes on the responsibility of not only telling but showing you (and your child?) all the expected aspects of sex; it's left for you to decide how original or boring
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      938 12 LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a clever, determined person but also somewhat more wilfull than may be good for the development of your cleverness or the best use of your determination. when enough is enough. Learn to recognise and distinguish the real from the ideal,
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