New Nation, 4 September 1974

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  • 23 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, September 4, 1974 No. 1120 Price 20 cents M C. (P| 20/74 NEV%TION SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1974
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  • 322 1  -  Heavy selling in first hour of trading By Lee Yew Meng The selling tide remained strong this morning as it swept share prices further downstream on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Banking stocks begap to fall right from the opening bell. Worst hit was
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  • 139 1 BCBXNEBB DONE DAS. (1) 2.08, (1) 2.06, (5) 2.04, (S) 2.02, (4) 2.03. M. Banking (1) 5.35, (1) 5 JO, (1) 5.25. (1) 5.20. (1) 5.15, (1) 5.10. It Credit (2) 1.39. (9) 1.40. Ben (1) 124. Store (1) 2.42. (1) Harimau (1) 0.47. H. Par (14)
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  • 382 1 To prevent collapse Reuter Bonn, Wednesday Financial authorities In West Germany and Switzerland. two of the western world's most Important countries In monetary affairs, are considering ways of tightening controls on commercial banks in their territories following recent closures and huge losses In foreign exchange dealings
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  • 10 1 Polite reported 108 accidents yesterday. Two were serious.
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  • 380 1 Help us in our quest to find the most outstanding disabled children of 1974. Starting next Monday, we will bring you the stories of 11 disabled children who have been nominated by their various schools for special achievement awards. Besides helping you win some big prizes,
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  • 254 1  -  Big anti-theft drive By Douglas Chan Police ydsterday seized 37 bicycles and booked six cyclists on the spot in an island-wide drive against theft of bicycles. Yesterday's campaign was conducted by the offlcer-lp-charge of Central Police Station, Supt. Ng Leng Hua, and a police
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  • 287 1 United Press International Manila, Wednesday Philippines' 40 million population 83 per cent of whom are Roman Catholics does not yet know that the church hierarchy has asked President Marcos to lift martial law. And it Is not yet known when, or even if.
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  • 16 1 Bonn. Wednesday West consul--Br*WUhalm VOn lKTdell, was florad shot dsad jeiteirlny In his apartment.
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  • 28 1 Police are looking for a man who Is alleged to have swindled $12,000 worth of scrap iron from the Reliance Construction Company Limited in Lorong 26, Geylang.
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  • 115 1 Overcome with joy, these two memben of the South Korean Wpm en volleyball team Yoo Chong Hee (left) and Park Chong Hye wept openly after their 3-0 victory over North Korea in the Seventh Asian Games at Teheran. The scores were 15-6, 15-5 and
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    • 188 1 til lUI fir JEMS See Page 10 for for the full Asian Games report. 5 4 1 i II It ■«W2Si C ■f «<=VOur man in Singapore can give you more than an insight into the Capital Market. When a Multi-national Mission to South East Asia wanted a fiist-hand in-depth
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 110 2 A cultural troupe from North Korea may be coming here at the end of this year. It is understood that plans for the troupe's performance here are being worked oat by the North Korean consulate and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The cultural
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    • 42 2 The Whampoa Development Council has Invited several fofelgn artists to perform in a variety show, Stars of the Orient, at the National Friday to Sunday. The show Is to raise funds for a new community centre for the Whampoa constituency.
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    • 189 2 The National Stadium Restaurant will be converted into a nightclub from tomorrow. It will have a seating capacity for 350 and will be open from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Dinners will be served from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. A popular local band,
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    • 314 2  -  By Nancy Koh Meet two down-to-earth people who practically live In the air—Brian Trubshaw and Aileen Titken. They winged their way into Singapore from Bahrain yesterday on the bat-shap-ed Concorde, the fastest Jet on earth. Capt. T r u b shaw, the rotund pipesmoking test
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    • 185 2 When it comes to telling a tall story, you can always count on schoolboy Naguran Raja, 11. Not only has he got the gift of the gab he also comes in tattered clothes just to make it more convincing. And that combination won him the
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    • 164 2 Work on the $2.3 million Nanyang University sports complex is progressing smoothly, according to a Nantah official. The first phase of the project which involves site clearance, earthworks and drainage works Is expected to be completed by the end of next month. The sports complex will
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    • 320 2 Point to be discussed at APREF meeting Unprecedented increases in land prices have caused concern among members of the Asia-Pacific Real Estate Federation. These increases, the federation feels, are not matched and justified by economic growth. It Is alio concerned about the exploitation of real estate resources.
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    • 26 2 The Blood Donation Centre at the Outr&m Road General Hospital will be open for donors on Sunday between 8.30 a m. and 12.30 pjn.
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    • 135 2 Mr. Hanson Kwauk (above) has been elected the president of the Asia-Pacific Real Estate Federation the first Singaporean to be appointed to the office. Mr. Kwauk, who Is also president of the Singapore Land and Housing Association. told the assembly of delegates for the second APREF convention
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    • 90 2 The Singapore Bus Services Ltd will register another 18 new Mercedes Benz buses tomorrow. Three of them will be plying the route. Upper Bedok Road to Shipyard Road; two will be from Upper Changl Road, 8£ m.s. to the Junction of Commonwealth Avenue and North Buona
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    • 588 2 More interested in showing them FROM THE DOC HOUSE BY PG I am often asked why It is that I have never become a canine judge. I think the answer is that I am much more interested in showing dogs than judging them. This
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    • 463 2 'They urgently need a special institution* Singapore's old folk urgently need a special institution with adequate medical facilities and staff to cater for their needs, a recent survey has recommended. Because of the shortage of staff, many of the old folk in welfare homes are
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    • 154 3 The Ministry of Culture will send a goodwill mission to Indonesia next month to enhance the close relationship between the two countries. The mission will comprise a 50-member dance troupe, members of the Joint chambers of commerce and the Singapore Manufacturers' Association and government,
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    • 70 3 Adult leaders in scouting are invited to submit articles on various aspects of their Woodbadge training for the compilation of a souvenir brochure to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the Singapore Training Team in December. This invitation is extended to the 3000 adult leaders who have gone
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    • 28 3 Colour TV Rentals (S) Pte. Ltd. will donate a colour TV set to the Children's Aid Society home at its showroom, Penang Road, tomorrow at 11.30 a.m.
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    • 427 3 Three killings and one attempted murder The Malaysian police are seeking the help of Singaporeans with an $11,000 reward offer to track down the people responsible for three killings and one attempted murder across the Causeway recently. The reward posters appeared
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    • 174 3 About 65 per cent of Public Utilities Board consumers have bought PUB electrical appliances hired out to them and more are expected to do so in the coming weeks. This follows a decision by the PUB in early July to offer an option to its
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    • 38 3 A water skiing course, organised by the Metropolitan YMCA, will begin at Ponggol Point on Saturday at 2 p.m. A swimming course for beginners will also start at Toa Payoh swimming pool on Sept. 20.
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    • 336 3  -  By Rav K. Dhaliwal Every step that Ma" dam Intan Sari took up the success ladder was difficult and demanding. Yet she kept going, pushed solely by the urge to fight poverty and taste the fruits of an easier life. Today, she has passed
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    • 247 3 Soviet actress Miss Ludmilla Savelyeva, who starred in one of the world's longest films, War and Peace, is expected to arrive here within the next few days to take part in a 10-day Soviet film festival. Oscar-winner Miss Savelyeva, 28, who is also the
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    • 61 3 The Young People's Service of the Toa Payoh Branch Library is organising a book quia for the Festival of Books at Its lecture hall on Friday at 3 pan. Youth groups participating are from Boom Teck Community Centre, Kuo Chuan Community Centre, Kim Keat Community Centre, Central
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    • 353 3  -  By Anne-Marie Nalpon Home at last. And cornea transplant patients Mr. Noel de Souza and Mr. Munsha Singh, echoed in unison: "It is great to be out of hospital and to be able to see clearly again." For Mr. de Souza, it was especially good
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • FOR YOUR PLEASURE AND BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 478 4  -  Surprising vitality CINEMA BY SONNY YAP THE CRAZY BOYS MUSKETEERS directed by Andre Hunebelle with the Chariots (Orchard). Even Alexandre Dumas would have a tough time suppressing a guffaw if he were to see this reenactment of his legendary tale. The buffoons responsible for
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    • 454 4  -  POPS BY J JEAN LI You could be a star in an unusual talent hunt—Soundhog Star Search starting next month. The ambitious "talentime" is being launched by EMI (8) Pte ltd, Hwee Seng (Pte) Ltd, sole distributors of Pioneer equipment, and Fanfare magazine.
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    • 338 4  -  Violet Oon a new dance choreographed by Mrs. Satha Bhaskar will be the highlight of the two performances presented by over 100 students of the Bhaskar's Academy of Dance on Friday and Saturday at the Cultural Centre. Called Ashtapati and danced to music written by that
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    • 220 4 Jennifer's firj THE Singapore Hilton has finally acquired a new Public Relations Officer after several months of having the post vacant. The new PRO is Miss Gina Lim. 27, who aws a personal secretarJP before she decided to give secretarial duties. a break.
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    • 543 4  -  ART BUCHWALD Los Angeles Times The key to man's survival on earth seems to be the white rat. Most experiments being conducted these days to see what effect our environment has on human beings are first conducted on white rats. Only after we
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    • 613 4  -  GREECE From J. Alex Morris Jr., Los Angeles Times Conspiracy theories abound in Athens these days, as Greeks try desperately to find someone other than themselves to blame for the Cyprus disaster. And that, in part, explains their recent angry demonstrations
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    • 658 4  -  New hope after April coup TIMOR From David Lamb Los Angeles Times For more than four centuries Portugal administered its colony of Timor, off the Australian coast, with a repressive rule designed to ensure that it could not survive in any form but as a Portuguese
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 219 4 SINGAPORE 1 (2) One Man Band: Leo Sayer 2 (6) The Nieht Chicago Died: Paper Lace 3 (1) Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me: Elton John 4 (3) Ricky Don't Lose That Number: Steely Dam 5 (4) Rock Tour Baby: George McCrae 6 (8) I Shot The Sheriff:
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 236 5 Reuter London, Wednesday Foreign Secretary James Callaghan yesterday sought to bolster the Labour Government's antiinflation front for an early general election by appealing for trade union cooperation on voluntary wage restraint. Addressing the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) as Labour Party
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    • 354 5 Call for UN probe Reuter Nicosia, Wednesday Turkish C y pr 1 o t leader Rauf Denktash c 1 a 1 med yesterday that another mass grave of massacred Turkish Cypriots had ben found In southern Cyprus, and accused Greek Cypriots of preventing UN personnel
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    • 39 5 Reuter Bonn, Wednesday More than 1000 local farmers drove their tractors into the centre of the bustling port of Bremen yesterday and distributed pork at giveaway rates in a new protest against European Common Market farm prices.
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    • 36 5 Reuter Lrndon. Wednesday Former Prime Minister Edward Heath yesterday blamed freak waves for the loss of his yacht which capsized and sank in a storm last night. Two men in the yacht were killed.
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    • 276 5 Reuter New Delhi, Wednesday The Indian Government seems determined to steamroller through legal changes in the status of Sikkim despite protests by the Himalayan country's Chogyal (ruler), a senior aide of the ruler said here last night. The Indian Government on Monday introduced a
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    • 123 5 Reuter Cairo, Wednesday Arab Foreign Ministers yesterday decided to refer a Somali proposal for an Arab African summit to the forthcoming Arab summit meeting in Rabat next month. Somalia suggested the joint summit and proposed the formation of a joint committee to coordinate work between the Arab
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    • 182 5 Reuter UPI Saigon, Wednesday Government troops have clashed with communist units after mounting an operation in an area believed to have been a springboard for recent mortar and rocket attacks just north of here, military sources said. The sources were describing an action
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    • 202 5 Reuter Washington, Wednesday Former President Richard Nixon's chief Watergate accuser, John Dean, surrendered here yesterday to US marshals to begin a prison sentence of one to four years for his role In the affair. He made no comment on' the sentence or on
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    • 31 5 Reuter Cape Town, Wednestotal of 22,390 people were convicted of nftnHmiiTig or dealing in marijuana in South Africa during the year ending June 1973, Justice Minister James Kruger said.
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    • 298 5 UPI Reuter Tel Aviv. Wednesday Israeli army units stepped up patrol action along the Lebanese front yc?terday in search of remnants of an Aral} guerrilla squad that tried to slip across the border on a death mission against civilian settlements in Israel, military sources
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    • 134 5 Reuter Prague, Wednesday Criminal proceedings opened yesterday against the two-man crew of the crash train in which at least 124 people were killed in Zagreb last Friday. The dead and 100 injured In Yugoslavia's worst rail accident were nearly all migrant workers travelling back to
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 272 5 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 10 Cover 11 Town of N Massachusetts 12 Composer of "Grand Canyon Suite" 13 Religious off-shoots 21 Make money 22 Most logical 26 Railroad worker 27 Back talk 28 Mademoiselle 29 Night: Fr. 31 Terre 33 Presser 35 British gun 36 Gold-shot fabric 37 Water pitcher 40
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  • OPINION
    • 471 6 Before the month is out, a Chinese embassy will be operating in Kuala Lumpur —the first in an ASEAN country since the suspension of Slno-Indoneslan relations in 1967. South-East Asians will then have the opportunity to observe the Chinese communists' diplomatic activities at close hand.
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    • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
      • 52 6 To each his own way of cutting down costs in these days of spiralling prices. One restaurant I know has hit on the idea of giving cloth napkins only to those patrons who order a la carte. .Those who order the fixed lunch are given a flimsy paper
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      • 91 6 You've heard of the contest to choose the most beautiful girl in the world and the contest to choose the biggest baby of the country. But have you ever heard of a contest to find the worst, most troublesome new car of the year? Well, that
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    • 929 6  -  Althoagh 1m has been In the forefront of CMnwc yirfitttf, Premier Choß En-lai has remained an enigma tic man. Alone af Mao Tsataait mDmpm who survived M turbulent yean of party leadership, Chon had to carry the eross of having, as his reeegnised senior
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    • 552 6 VOICE OF THE PRESS What other nexespavert are laying: CLOSE NEIGHBOURS ARE BETTER THAN DISTANT RELATIVES. The very warm sendoff at the Paya Lebar Airport yesterday morning for President Suharto and Madame Tien Suharto of Indonesia and the colourful decoration in Singapore during the President's visit
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    • Letters
      • 393 6  -  CHUE SHUI HOONG Secretary for Infonaatfcm and Publicity, National Trades Union Congress. Singapore, 1. Your leader writer (NN, 2.9.74) has managed to miss the point altogether In discussing Mr. Devan Nair's address to the Biennial Delegates Conference of the Foc.-l, Drinks and Allied Workers' Union (FDAWU).
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      • 102 6 We would appreciate it deeply if the authorities concerned would kindly look into this matter. The street lighting frtvn 13/134 m.s. Sembawang Road onwards, has been very bad and poor for the past few weeks. You can imagine how quiet and frightening it can be when you
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      • 93 6  -  S. HENG Mr. Noordln Sopiee's reasons for separation as recalled by Pang Cheng Llan are valid. But one may take issue with Dr. Goh and Pang Cheng Llan that Malaysia's sensitive communal position stands In the way of Its wanting us back. Currently Malaysia's tough racial laws would
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      • 340 6  -  NGIAM TONG FATT I refer to tout editorial headlined The Solution Lies In the Schools (NN, 28.8.74) In which you commented, "The school Is not only an information storehouse or a factory for the production of labour, it is also a place where the character of the
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    • 844 6  -  From David B. Ottaway Washington Post They arc crowded Into three loag army barracks, sleeping on simple army cots, their heads shaven like those of condemned men, their food brought to them three times daily by wives already dressed in black. These
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 16 6 WRITE TO THE EDITOR. NEW NATION, LOCKED BAG 15. GPO. SINGAPORE, 1. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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    • 180 6 THE SUPER SPARK car and motor-cycle improwd parformanca. But for mita after mita the spark plug mutt ba durable enough to maintain this parformanca. At Hitachi «n happen to maka this super (park plug a long laatmg spaili plug that guarantee* your car's and motor-cycle's parformanca. Inside: The Copper Rod
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • 364 7 Last month the National Book Development Council of Singapore held an on the spot creative writing competition for secondary schools. A total of 8$ competitors from 18 schools viewed a film, Two man and a Wardrobe, and were astied to write down their feelings and response
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    • 301 7 FIRST PRIZE: Hamidah Latiff, Tanjong Katong Technical (Prey Two). So caged is man in society's "prim proper" convention That he loses the precious parts of his humanity. The mirror bothers him as to whether he looks respectful. So suffocated is he that he enjoys a prey
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    • Article, Illustration
      352 7 SECOND PRIZE: Audrey Low; School: Katong Convent (See. 4> From an immense unknown world You come. Only to enter into another Immense unknown world, With which you will acquaint yourself And be part of it for a short smile. Termed "lifetime" You'll get to know How blue a blue
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    • Article, Illustration
      319 7 HIGHLY COMMENDED: Varalackshmi Hariharan, Swiss Cottage Secondary School (Pre-U One). t What Kind of a world are we really In? What kind of a life is this That we extol so much? To this world of ours Come two men .from the land of nowhere They bring
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    • 151 7 HIGHLY COMMENDED: Valerie Barth; School: Katong Convent School (Pre-U Tvx>). The world ignores me. I am just another face in the unebbing tide of humanity— Tossed by the surging billows And discarded on the shore. But with you, my friend, I ride the crest of the wave. Together
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • EDUCATIONAL BROADSHEET
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      3070 8 Concluding the three-part series lago —the puzzle created by Shakes peare lago has generally been considered as one of the most puzzling of the characters created by Shakespeare. He haunts us with his subtle and overpowering ability to let evil flood the person of Othello. There has been a
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  • TREND AND FINANCE
    • 409 9 Melbourne Herald New York, Wednesday Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary earned nearly $1 million last year. Her husband, magazine publisher Gerald Taylor, made only $175,000. But they're happy in spite of it. The ume goes for New York magazine
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    • 940 9  -  TRISH SHEPPARD Another woman has came to live at our house. She's a redhead with a most magnificent sun tan even though we are in the middle of winter. I know It's a sun tan and not her natural skin tone because
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    • 360 9  -  LETTY LEE Soups are a regular dish at Chinese meals because of their "cooling" qualities which will wash down the spicy content of the rest of the meal. Hence the popularity of "clear" soups with the Chinese. But mothers can run dry of interesting soups to
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    • 393 9 Melbourne Herald New York, Wednesday "The trouble with the Women's Lib crowd, complained a television interviewer during the week, "is that they have absolutely no sense of humour." "A few years back you couldnt make Jokes about blacks. Now It's women.
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    • 186 9 Melbourne Herald Bonn, Wednesday Beware of bees they are much deadlier than wasps or hornets, warns Pharmacologist Prof. Ernst Habermann. of Giessen. He says: "Contrary to popular belief, the bee is more of a killer than the other two
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    • 178 9 The gferaac Om| of selltnc mfa riure prices farther down ytwiliy h one of the wwwt h»Hnn raftered by the Sinx&pore stock market. The blow was so great that the Straits Times indastrial index fell to a new three year-low of 182.95, down M points on Monday. The
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    • 43 9 Dataprep (S) has introduced what it claims to be the world's smallest computer. Computer Beta 326. It has a peripheral cassette tape drive unit that stores over 100,000 programme steps or 9000 data values on a single 11 ounce (42 grammes) cassette.
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    • 193 9 Reuter London, Wednesday Fears of world sugar shortages gathered momentum yesterday after the London daily price for the commodity rose to a record £300 ($2088) a tonne. London dealers forecast the shortages are likely to continue well into 1975, a year which will probably see
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    • 220 9 A new container service will operate from Singapore to the United States next month when the feeder vessel from Phoenix Container Liners (PCL), arrives here for loading. It Is the Tendo" which after calling at Singapore, will join the main Phoenix container ships in
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    • 29 9 Vienna, Wednesday. A small Vienna bank, the Allegemelne Wlrtschaftsbank, has asked approval for a six-month moratorium on payment of its debts. Finance Minister Hannes Androsh announced yesterday.
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 231 9 Priias at 11.30 ajn. today (Au&tialian time) on the Sydney stock Exchange: Aberdeen susp Do opts susp. AOD 05 06 Allstate 08 10 Amad oi'. s 04 Aurora 04 07 Do opts unq. flust Ant susp. Bamboo 03 09 Beach 21 nil Bounty susp. Bridge 07 OS Cleveland 34
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      • 411 9 Concern over unchecked inflation sent prices lower on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday after an early session rally evaporated. The Dow Jones Industrial average had tumbled 15.25 to 063.33 at the close. The index climbed about five points in the first hour, but the gain disappeared after
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      • 217 9 Closing prices (in francs) on the Puis Bourse: Pari baa 124.20 —JO Indochlne 149 —1 FOncier 380.10 +3 Printemps 77 unch. CO* 271 JO —5.40 Bull 35 JO —.00 Royal Dutch 133.10 —1.90 MlcbeUn 713 —It Thomson 146.20 —6.90 CPP ***** —JO Rhone 126 +J0 Air 290 —1 BSN
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      • 82 9 This service Is from the Union Bank of Swtta rland. Closing prices (in Swim francs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange raster day: UBS 2&30 SBC 474 4 Credit 6uime 23ft6 MMr B. 460 17 Swiss Betnaur. 1040 20 Wtaterthur B. 1400 U Zurich Incur. MOO Jurms B. 1310 —100
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      • 230 9 The Tokyo stock market suffered another setback in extremely light trading. With the strong possibility that the Japanese economy might experience zero growth in fiscal 1974, investors hesitated from placing orders. Blue chips which led the market last week lost ground on small-lot selling. Widespread losers were seen in
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      • 32 9 Dow Jones closing stock averages In New York Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 663.33 (off 15.25), 20 transport 134.04 (off 2.90), 15 utilities 60.67 (up 0.26), 65 stocks 202.90 (off 3.81).
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    • 290 9 A $301,898 PRE-TAX PROFIT Mega Chemicals has finally reached profitable status this year after ploughing through several gloomy years. The good showing in the first half was in fact enhanced during the second half ending April 1974, giving Mega a group pre-tax profit of $301,898
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    • 102 9 Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday. Japan's top economic body plans to appeal to the Bank of Japan for partial relaxation of the present credit crunch to avoid the danger of economic "overkill." A spokesman for the Federation of Economic Organisations (Keidanren) said it was seeking a
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  • SPORTS
    • 712 10  -  By JEFFREY LOW No one can deny that Brlap Marks Is a true sportsman Whose achievements are a shining example. Untutored bat decidedly dedicated, Mark*' sporting career has spanned 26 years from IMS till today, seeing him through state representation at hockey, cricket and more
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    • 605 11 Reuter UPI Teheran, Wednesday Nothinug can stop Japan's remorseless march to more gold medal glory on the third day of the Seventh Asian Games here today, but China and South Korea will be straining every muscle to turn the tide. Japan extended
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    • 367 11 Reuter I Teheran. Wednesday •Iran and Israel underlined their chances to Jneet in the Asian Games .football final when they ••cored runaway victories In last night's preliminary round matches, leaving the other 13 teams looking hopelessly outclassed. Iran, buoyed up by the fanatical support of 20.000 fans
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    • 319 11 TENNIS Men's team: Japan bt Israel 2-1; the Philippines bt Laos. 3-0; Pakis--tan bt Israel 3-0; Japan "bt Israel 3-0; Tashiro :Bakal bt Y. Shalem 6-2. 2*o; Ken Hlral bt Y. Wertheimer 6-7, 8-4, 6-1; Sakal and Hlral w jo. Shalem and Werthelmer. Iran bt Iraq 3-0:
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    • 337 11 Met's karate meet (mm ARTS by Sonny Vap A i The Metropolitan YMCA will stage their fifth karate tournament at the SBA Hall on September 28 at 7.30 p jn. Seventy competitors will vie for honours In individual and team championships. They will be from the
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    • 16 11 IrfWKlon, Wednesday.— Bristol beat Torquay 17-0 in a Rugby Union match here last night.
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    • 181 11 By BLUE FETHt Northern Breeae drew attention to hit on Sunday with a splendid workout at Buklt Tlmah this morning. The four-year-old by King's Leap was hard held over it In £7 3/5. The going was yielding. Ten No Tramps (Henry Heng) strode oat fluently
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    • 527 11  -  By C.K. YONG University of Singapore biased their way to a glorious victory in the 14th Biennial Intervarsity Games in Hong Kong recently. They captured the overall championship with 59 points bagging seven gold, five silver and two bronze medals. Hong Kong University, hosting
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    • 462 11 Rome, Wednesday. East German Olympic Javelin champion Ruth Fuchs dispelled suggestions that she had pasted the peak of her career with a superb world record in the European athletics championships here yesterday. Mrs. Fuchs. a 27-year-old medical technical assistant. hurled the Javelin a tremendous
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    • 70 11 Reuter London, Wed—day 1 7 e r mMaM tT Mi 2tdth not last night to help Preoton to a M win orer Bmrj and mtmi Haqe Hdßd E DMon. Co has ifc Pmtoa'i re- Leant C«» W ronnd second replay* p-f—■h— z liaASiarruar to lw*i| ar
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    • 39 11 West Berlin. Wednesday.—Joee Duran of Spain retained his European Junu>r middleweight boxing title here last night when the referee stopped the fight In the 11th round because of an eye injury to West German challenger Eckhard Dagge.
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    • 32 11 Hong Kong, Wednesday The Belgrade youth basketball team beat a Peking youth team 92-72 In a friendly match In the Chinese capital last night, the New China news agency reported.
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    • 29 11 Wast Australia's Combined Country Touring Team, the State league champions, will play a friendly hockey match -f Singapore Cricket Onto on the Padang today at 5.15 pm
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    • 16 11 RliHHnre Chlnnst will meetlas of Bnmel In a frienffly matcfa today, Uckoff at 5.15 pjn.
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    • 146 11 New York, Wednesday Defending champion John Newcombe of Australia yesterday powered his way into the quarterfinals of the US Open tennis championship where he was joined by two former winners, Arthur Ashe of the United States and fellow Australian Ken Rosewall. Also through to the quarters
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    • 233 11 Reuter London, Wednesday. Pakistan crushed England by eight wickets in the one-day cricket International at mp" 1 1 yesterday to win the Prudential Trophy 3-0. Pakistan won the first of the two matches last Saturday by seven wlcketa Their seam bowlers paved the
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    • 100 11 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday China's soccer and basketball teams will visit Kuala Lumpur in November for friendly matches. The chairman of Olympic Council of Malaysia, DatUk HamTnVi Abu said tht« yesterday on his return from the A«ian Games Federation Council meeting In Teheran. Datuk WttimV) s
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    • 80 12 Singer Tze Wen, 22, puts her career before marriage. "Now is the time for me to make a success of my singing c a r e e r," she says. "Marriage can come later as it will be an obstacle." Wen, from Taipeh, is now
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    • 163 12 TODAY is Wednesday, Sept. 4, the 247 th day of 1974 with 118 to follow. THE MOON is between its full phase and last quarter. the morning STARS are Venus. Jupiter and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury and Mars. Thoee born on this date are under the sign
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    • 64 12 AH FOOK: The Ministry of Education's plap to help teachers obtain higher academic qualifications Is a step in the right direction. It will further raise the status of the teaching profession. MEI UN: Let's hope other organisations will follow suit a.* staff development schemes will benefit them. There's
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    • 920 12 Ml OPENING ANNCTS. followed by LENBA KELUARGA (M) A magsstne aeries. LS9 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) US LOVE 18 A MANY SPLKNDOUIIED THING Daytime aerial on the trials and tribulation* of three famines in San Ftanclsco. L 55 PERSEMBAHAN KU (M) (R) Featuring KhaUJah M Lattff. U0 GENERAL HOSPITAL Daytime
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    • 671 12 LUCKY STAR IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you poetess an essential restlessness of spirit which will either enhance or decrease your chances of success, depending on which direction It takes. You may he able to channel your discontent progress towards bigger and better things—or you may discover that your
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    • 469 12 The Minister for Social Affairs, Kn&k othman Wok, will open the MONTH FOB THE DISABLED at the Young People's Gallery. National Museum, at 5.30 pm. The Music Unit of the Ministry of Education Will hold its 4TH INTER: PRIMARY SCHOOL INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE COMPETITION at the Singapore Conference Hall at 7
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