New Nation, 8 March 1975

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    Masthead
    19 1 New Nation SIN^fW- Saturday March 8, 1975 No. 1275 Price 20 cents M.C.(P) 489/75 I NEW (0) NATION COMMENT
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    Desiree proves she is still tops...
    676 1  -  By Teresa Ooi, Veronica Leng Desiree Lie nicknamed "Jill of All Trades and Master of A 11" by her schoolmates has done it again. She topped the OCE 'A' level examinations. Two years ago, Desiree scored nine Als in all her subjects, emerging tops
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    GIRLS AS BAIT GANG
    350 1  -  POLICE FOIL MAFIA STYLE SET-UP By Douglas Chan Painstaking police investigations have foiled the formation of a Mafia-style gang here using beautiful women as bait. This follows the arrest of the gang's designated leader, his top lieutenant and some of their aides recently. All are being
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    Soccer: New contest
    58 1 Two SIA return tickets to Kuala Lumpur, four nights for two at the luxurious Regent Hotel and two seats to the semifinals and final matches of the Merdeka Cup soccer tournament all this could be yours if you enter New Nation's grand easy-to-win soccer contest. It starts
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    Lock icon 16 hurt in gun clash
    56 1 Reuter Lisbon, Saturday Sixteen people were wounded by gunfire when leftwlng extremists clashed with supporters of the centre-left Popular Democratic Party In Setubal last night, hospital sources said. Reports said police opened Are when leftwingers attacked a PPD political meeting in the port town, about
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    Lock icon $1m. drug haul
    42 1 Reuter Nleuwpoort, Saturday Police seized Just over one tonne of hashish worth at least 21 million francs ($1.35 million) aboard a Dutch yacht here early yesterday, a spokesman said. It is the blggest-ever drug haul In Belgium, he said.
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      20 1 A-LEVEL EXAM RES! "LTS PAGES 9 TO 16 WEATHER P MONEYWORDS P WHAT'S ON. TIDES P. COMICS, CINEMAS P. 22
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Kidnap that never was
      235 2  -  'Victim took a voluntary ride* By Bharathi Mohan An island-wide security alert was mounted by the police yesterday after a man reported that hJs wife had been kidnapped. The man walked into the Beach Road police station and said two men kidnapped his wife at Jaian
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      NJC TOPS THE 'A' LEVEL
      146 2 National Junior College again emerged the top school in the GCE 'A' level examination the fifth year running. Since iis first batch of students graduated In 1970, NJC has always maintained a percentage pass of over 80 per cent. This Ume the college took top
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      Inspector is charged with assault
      165 2 A police Inspector Is to appear before a board of Inquiry later this month to answer six charges of assault. The departmental Inquiry will be held over a four-day period starting on March 17. It Is to be chaired by a deputy superintendent of police
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      NPB dinner
      33 2 The Minister of State for Labour, Mr. Sla Kah Hul, will attend the 7th annual certificate presentation dinner of the National Pro ductlvlty Board at the ShangriLa Hotel on March 31.
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      OUR ROADS
      13 2 Police reported 77 accidents yesterday. Three were serious and none fatal.
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      Lock icon It's TAX-ing task in this department
      229 3 Assessing 30,000 Income tax forms, going through 10,000 letters and answering about 1000 telephone calls this is the dally task of the staff of the Income Tax Department in Fullerton Building. It Is made all the more taxing by mistakes and delays made by
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      CASE warning on dud guarantees
      318 3  -  By Rav K. Dhaliwal Several consumers have been cheated with dud guarantee slips for purchases of some unknown brands of imported stereo systems. A spokesman of the Consumers' Association of Singapore today sounded a warning to consumers to guard against these phoney guarantee slips. "CASE
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      Take your pick of HUDC flats
      883 4  -  The prices range from $55,000 to $100,000 each By Nancy Koh From $55,000 to $100,000—this is the price for the middle income flats in five selected estates being built by the Housing and Urban Development Company. Application for the flats at Lakevlew, Farrer Road,
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      Lock icon The Accordion is a perfect car which costs $5750
      610 24  -  Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times The automobile companies, which have had a tough time selling cars this year, have blamed everybody for bad business but themselves. There has been an airlift of Detroit executives coming to Washington and testifying that the
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      Lock icon It's the long and the short of it...
      60 24 |THE| ROVING V EYE® i v Males with short hair have the ad vantage over their long-hair counterparts. This picture at the entrance to the Bukit Timah Fire Brigade Station proves it. In other government buildings, long haired males are still being
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      Next week in New Nation
      71 24 THE SINSEHS: Are the slnsehs dangerous? What do Western-trained medical experts think of them? New Nation looks at these questions in a special twopart feature. THE MOBSTERS: An illegal society called the Protection Corps secretly plotted to control some trade unions In Singapore. New Nation's
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      296 2 WHAT'S ON The Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin. will be the guest-of-nonour at the 19/5 INAUGURAL FORUM of the NTUC Co-operative INCOME summit club at 3 p.m. Mrs. Ann Wee will give a TALK ON COMMUNICATION at the Singapore Council of Social Service Building. 3rd floor, 11 Penang
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      518 4 Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instuctions appeor below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address Tel: Cut along dot left lines CLUES FOR V-6 1. Multiply by three 2. A celebration party may well be of course 3. Dairy product from cream 4. To dishes too often it hardly a tign
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon 'Fiercer raids on Israel' threat
      302 5 New operations decidcd by the Fatah movement Reuter Beirut, Saturday The P a 1e st i n i an guerrilla attack on Tel Aviv will be followed by bigger and fiercer raids inside Israel, highly placed commando sources said yesterday. Fatah, the biggest military group
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      Lock icon Rebels halt a task force attack
      180 5 United Press International Phnom Penh, Saturday A government task force attack on the Phnom Penh rocket belt ground to a near halt yesterday under heavy rebel resistance. Their prime target the rebel rocket and gun positions—kept right on slamming Chinese-made -107 mm rockets into
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      Lock icon Nine die in fire
      50 5 United Press International Hong Kong. Saturday. —At least nine persons were killed and one missing In a fire which broke out at tenement building early today, police said. Preliminary Investigation by police and fire services department Indicated an alleged arson but no specific evidence was given.
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      Lock icon The Odd Corner
      67 5 Reuter Oslo, Saturday The sight of naked female breasts on a set of new postage stamps Issued yesterday so outraged a postmaster near Haugesupd, In Norway, that he refused to sell them. He said it was immoral to put a postmark on naked breasts. He was mollified
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      Lock icon Body of kidnapped heiress is found
      74 5 Reuter London, Saturday Police yesterday uncovered the body of a young girl believed to be that of 17 year old heiress Lesley Whittle who was kidnapped six weeks ago. The body was found In a 20 metres (60 feet) deep drain at a beauty
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      Lock icon A WORLD WAR WARNING
      209 5 United Press International Washington, Saturday The possibility of renewed warfare in the Middle East is the greatest threat of another world war since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the US Army's top manpower expert told Congress yesterday. He also said the Russians are outstripping the US
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      Lock icon US N-test
      27 5 Reuter Washington, Saturday. —The United States yesterday set off an underground nuclear blast at the Nevada test site, the Energy Research and Development Administration announced.
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  • OPINION
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      SBS—the test is yet to come
      364 6 When the Government's team of officials (GTO) took over the running of SBS last August, the state of the Republic's public transport was so bad, short of collapsing, it could only improve. After seven months of Government stewardship, the SBS, needless to say, has
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    • WHISPERS By ISPY
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        Caught on the hop
        63 6 Gentlemen who love to put on sandal shoes and drive bare-footed ought to read this so that they would be more careful In future. A colleague's friend had to miss a dinner appointment recently because he arrived at the restaurant with only his left shoe on.
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        Man to marry
        80 6 You'd be surprised at the things you hear In a restaurant, If you keep your ears open enough, like I do. At lunch last week, for Instance, I overheard a woman asking her friend for advice as to the type of man she should marry. "Marry an
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      It doesn't rain, it storms...
      252 6  -  ARTHUR WONG Your story Where It Rains Sand and Cement (NN, 26.2.75) was very Interesting and if your reporter had been near the same building site on Nov. 21, 1974, your Item would have read, Where It Storms Sand and Cement. I was the victim
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      Lock icon Marcos at the helm
      237 6 South China Morning Post The result of the third national referendum In the Philippines consolidates f u r th er the one-man rule of President Ferdinand Marcos &y reaffirming his mandate to govern indefinitely under martial law which was proclaimed by him in September 1972. The
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      IT'S A DIFFERENCE IN FOLKLORE
      518 6  -  CHAN HENG CHEE CHAN HENG CHEE It is not easy to write for a column such as this. In casting about for a theme, one in particular teased my mind after attending two recent Mandarin films. It was plain that beyond the entertainment, Everlasting Glory
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      Within the CBD
      170 6  -  K.Y. YEO My neighbours and I are in a dilemma as we do not seem to be able to get a concrete reply to our enquiries pertaining to the area licensing scheme. We are all staying at the People's Park Complex and park our cars at the
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      Action taken
      46 6  -  YAP PEK HONG (MrsJ, At. Asst. Secretary (Public Relations), Housing and Development Board, Singapore. 2. We wish to inform Gemini (NN, 25.2.75) that action has been taken against the lessee of a shop at Seng Poh Road for causing obstruction alone the common passageway.
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  • Weekend Nation
    • SPECIAL FEATURE
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        Emily: Area that's forgotten...
        832 7  -  SINGAPORE TODAY An area of sharp contrasts, with attractive flats amidst old untidy buildings By Judith Holmberg Hidden behind a frontispiece of glass and concrete buildings is a forgotten area of Singapore Mount Emily. If you approach the area from Selegie Road, the flrst thing you
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    • BOOKS / CHESS STAMPS
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        Half-truth on Henry
        482 8 KISSINGER ON THE COUC H, by Phyllis Schlafly and Chester Ward (Arlington: U5512.95, 785 pp., appendices, index). Reviewed by Hal Burton. Is Henry Kissinger a nut or something? ask the authors of the book debunking the Secretary of State. They don't answer the question flatly, but if
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        THE COVER OF THE WEEK
        54 8 "Murders," said Miss Marple, "can happen anywhere and they do." Another chilling story by Agatha Christie, in which the bizarre atmosphere of the novel is set when a doctor recommends that a patient of his takes an interest in murder. Agatha Christie The Mirror Crack'd
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        SIX JOIN THE BATTLE OF THE BLIND
        471 8  -  CHESS BY LIM KOK ANN The first national championship for blind players will begin today at 2.30 p.m. at the Singapore Association for the Blind, 47 Toa Payoh Rise. Six members of the Singapore Braille Chess Association, an affiliate of the Singapore Chess
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        Drama of the big exodus...
        258 8 PAPERBACKS PASSAGE TO AMERICA by Terry Coleman (Penguin): In the middle of the last century more than two million men, women and children abandoned the British Isles. They left to escape the clutches of vicious landlords, famine, poverty and slums. Sea sick, homesick, herded like
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        FIAP bi-annual bulletin plan
        262 8  -  STAMPS BY ANDREW LAU The First Congress of the Inter-Asia Philatelic Federation (FIAP) was successfully held over the last weekend in Regent Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. FI/iP is a wing of the Federation International de Philatelic (FIP), the world authority on philately. The FIAP was founded
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    • SIGHT & SOUND/ART THEATRE
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        True to life is best
        661 17  -  SIGHT SOUND BY VIOLET OON If you're looking for excitement, adventure, human interest or even entertainment, watch the documentaries. The ones televised over Television Singapore prove the old adage that "fact is stranger than fiction." After years of being glued to the "box" watching programmes
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        Carver keeps alive a family tradition
        198 17  -  ART BY JENNIFER SCHOON The whittling of wood is more than just a pleasant form of relaxation for Ida Bagus Anom Merta. It's his means of livlihood and the continuing of a family tradition. His entire family are wood carvers, scattered all over Indonesia.
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        A CHURCH DEAR TO RAFFLES' HEART
        369 17  -  S'pore Notebook by Judith Holmberg The site of St. Andrew's Cathedral along North Bridge Road was expressly reserved in 1823 for a church by Sir Stamford Raffles. But It was not until 1834 that the foundation stone of the first Anglican church In Singapore
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        Three one-act plays at special request
        437 17  -  THEATRE BY JENNIFER SCHOON By special request from the Ministry of Education, the Stage Club will be presenting three one-act plays at the R.E.L.C. for school children, and one evening open to the public. One of the plays to be presented is "The Stranger"
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  • ALL THE GCE RESULTS A-LEVEL
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      90 p.c. get their 'A' certs in last year's examinations
      27134 9 The Ministry of Education yesterday announced the results of the Cambridge General Certificate of Education (Advanced level) English Examinations 1974. The certificate is awarded to candidates who passed in at least one subject at either Advanced or Ordinary level. Out
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      285 9 MSC/GGEVM only STAMFORD COLLEGE can make this claim Stamford College Students have achieved amazing results 65,000 Cambridge successes alone. 25years of pioneering service in meeting local educational needs. Scientifically designed home study courses and a unique system of personally guided study plans helps even average students to score distinctions and
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      243 10 Management Training Centre Unit 304 (3rd Floor) People's Park Centre, S'pore 1. Study in airconditioned comfort in our new classrooms in Unit 304 for your examinations in Accountancy, Secretaryship, Banking, Public Relation, Marketing, etc, We have qualified and experienced tutors to prepare you for ACA, ICSA, AIA, lAS, AIB, LCC,
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      186 11 Secretarius... because being a good secretary I is a way of H Jn having a diploma! 1 1 At Secretarius, we believe there's more to the making of a good secretary than getting a diploma. She should be able to carry out her duties without supervision, use her initiative, and
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      185 12 u i. 1974 Ist place Stamford Centre 2nd place Stamford Centre sth place Stamford Centre 6th place Stamford Centre Stamford secretaries epitomising excellence in secretarial skills have maintained traditional standards in external examinations. Proof of SUPERIOR TRAINING backed by 25 years of expertise and unsurpassed facilities for study and research,
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      128 13 I 0 for 1975/76 Exams HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE GE.NI 'ML CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION MALA 51A CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION L.C /ER CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION L.C.C., Q.T.. etc. SPECIAL SELF TUITION COURSES in English Literature for G.C.E./M.C.E. and English Paper 1, 11, V 1 for H.S.C. 1975 Exams. EFFECTIVE REVISION IS INCOMPLETE
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      156 17 The Best Global w COCH TOURS IN EUROPE Last yoar, several hundred Singaporeans and Malay sians had a wonderful time in Europe with Global Coach Tours. For 1975, Global presents a series of European Tours which they recommend as providing unequalled va riety and value for money. Here are a
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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      1710 18 Weekend Nation TV/ RADIO/ f I SINGAPORE 5 SATURDAY 1.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SESAME STREET i.00 SATURDAY MATINEE: A Cry In The Night A mentally unbalanced man holds a policeman's daughter captive when he Is discovered peeping In Lovers' Lane by her and her fiance. A suspenseful search follows.
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      315 18 TOP SHOW of the WEEKEND SATURDAY MIDNIGHT MOVIE (11.10 over Channel 5 in colour): Elvis Presley, Donald O'Connor, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Helm star in tonight's film. Follow That Dream. The story centres on a southern family who tries to homestead a piece of unclaimed land alongside a busy Florida highway.
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  • FINANCE
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      Up, up go prices
      395 19  -  MARKET ROUND-UP by Lee Yew Meng The dizzying price climb continued unabated this week as bulls tightened their grip on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. This came despite taxes being slapped on tobacco and liquor In Monday's Budget. True, Monday's ascent was halted but only temporarily.
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      Marked up prices: CASE warning
      332 19  -  Consumer by Rav K. Dhaliwal Vari a t i a tion in prices of consumer products in various shops has become a common thing. Some consumers even accept it and do not mind paying the difference to save themselves a shop-ping-around trip. But, when it
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      Developers eye Indonesia
      149 19 Singapore's land and housing developers are considering investing in Indonesia. In an interview, Mr. Hanson Kwauk, president of the Singapore Land and Housing Developers' Association, who just returned from a fact-finding mission to Indonesia, said: "A number of the housing and building schemes in Indonesia are very
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      Praise for S'pore
      82 19 A leading Canadian banker today acknowledged Singapore's tremendous achievements in beating inflation during the second half of last year. Mr. C.E. Ritchie, president of the Bank of Nova Scotia, said: "In anyone's terms, this is a major economic mile- stone that few Western countries can match. "It
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      PARIS
      75 19 Closing prices on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Panbaa 158 50 +1.30 Fonder 324 +7.40 Prtntemps 82.50 +.90 COE 306 +6 Bull 37.90 +.50 Royal Dutch 152.90 +8 Mlchelln 845 +49 Thomson 190.80 +9 CFP 129 +5 Rhone 137 +11.50 Air 325 +8 BSN 500 +13 Philips 48.50 +1.40 Suez
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      NEW YORK
      260 19 The stock market, encouraged by declining Interest rates, closed higher yesterday in heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Advances outnumbered declines by about a nine-to-four margin among the 1806 issues crossing the tape. Turnover amounted to 25.930,000 shares, compared with 21,780,000 traded Thursday. Prices also were
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      TODAY
      122 19 TODAY Is Saturday, March 8, the 67th day of 1975 with 298 to follow. THE MOON Is approaching Its new phase. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury and Mars. THE EVENING STARS are Saturn, Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. The US
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      LONDON
      85 19 On to 350 for the financial times Industrial Index has been the continued cry as stock markets surged ahead this week. But as the two-weekly account came to a close yesterday some heavy profit taking appeared and values came back from their best levels. The Index which had jumped
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      Paint: 15 per cent drop in price
      83 19 The retail price of Eaint has dropped by 10 > 15 per cent from Its peak In 1973, according to the president of Federation of Singapore Paint Manufacturers, Mr. Eric Chan. He attributed this to the slackening demand and the reduction In the
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      142 19 The Vamaha 55 AE. it a new power package delivering a hefty 56 horsepower It can make light work of powering heavy commercial boats and achieve impressive savings while in action. A new level of outboard technology has gone into creating the 56 AE with the result that this engine's
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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      316 19 WORLD WEATHER New York Cloudy, chance of rain, 47-39F, 8-4C. Headline: President warns Congress it must aid Cambodia now. Paris—Cloudy, 52-45F, 11-7C Headline: Bloody curtain raiser on Henry Kissinger's mission. San Francisco—Showers likely. 58-45F, 14-7C. Headline: Ford presses plea for Cambodia aid. Tokyo—Sunny, 54-39F, 12-4C. Headline: Terrorist raid In Tel
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      147 21 SCRUTINEER CALL BOY EPSOM JEEP BLUE PETER Race I: Olympic Torch Our Sweetie Right Knight Lion Cub Olympic Torch Our Sweetie Right Knight Olympic Torcn RMC 2: Hot Money The Thin* The Thing Hot Money The Thing Hot Money The Thing Hot Money BMW S: El Due*
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      274 21 By SCRUTINEER Recently promoted Hot Money looks a good bet in Race 2 at Bukit Tlmah tomorrow. The Improving Allenby four-year-old Is In top form, and should have no trouble accounting for a Class 4 Division 2 field. The long Bukit Tlmah straight will also suit him.
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      3693 21 1.45 CLASS 5 DIV 1 8F ($9,000 $6,300 to wlnn«r) I 8012 OI|iwplc Torcti H a (Credit) Tan 9 9.0 (+0) #f BF Thomm 18 > 2410 Kalana a (Saint) Ahmad 5 8.13 (-1) Sf Maaaan 2 3 VM Our Bnpalle a
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      260 21  -  By BLUE PETER Roman Galley 111, the mount of Taffy Thomas should give punters a good start In Race One at Buklt Tim ah today. The (our year old by Tromba was all the rage at the course this morning. He showed galloping ability
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      352 22  -  by Conrad Ng The chief aims of the local golf circuit are to provide our professionals with opportunities to make money and at the same time improve their game. The first aim now seems to have strayed off target. Consider the results: Of the seven tournaments ip the
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      260 22 United Press International Oklahoma City, Saturday.—Every day Kathy Howard bends and twists her body in ways that would m:ike most people wince. The 16-year-old high school student hopes to become America's answer to Olga Korbut of the Soviet Union. Outside of the gymnast world
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      66 22 Nellie Chin (above) won the SICC women's "A" Division medal countback from K. Goto. both returning nett 70s, at the Island course. Goto (34) took the first nine ballsweep. The second nine was shared by K.L. Ong and Alison Gllson (35). P. Krahl (71) won the
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      274 22 Reuter Hong Kong. Saturday China will compete In a qualifying round of the Asian Cup here next June following approval by the International Football Federation for their participation, the organisers said yesterday. The Hong Kong Football Association said of the eight countries Invited
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      297 23  -  By JEFFREY LOW Charlie Company One showed good backing up to edge out Alfa Company Two 10-8 In the Blacks 10-a-slde rugby quarter-finals at Farrer Park yesterday. Fullback Mike Dellow and centre-three Jack Keatley stood out with their storming runs which saw Charlie One winning
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      30 23 Jakarta, Saturday Indonesia welcomed Singapore's idea of staging competition among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations members next August, a spokesman of the Indonesian soccer federation said yesterday.
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      496 23 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Saturday—There was a goalfeast In the two Group "B" World Cup hockey matches played here this morning. A total of 13' goals were scored with more than half coming from India, who found top form to hit Ghana 7-0 at the Police Training
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      163 23 Reuter London, Saturday Britain's John Conteh has adopted Muhammad All tactics in his buildup for the first defence of his world light-heavy-weight boxing title against American "magic man" Lonnle Bennett here on Tuesday night. While many commentators believe Conteh will have to fight harder to keep the World
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      52 23 Wellknown Philippine polo player Nicky Jacinto la In town. He 1s expected to play at the Singapore Polo Club today and tomorrow. Jacinto, a plus-Ave goal handlcapper, will play In four threechukka matches specially arranged for him by Singapore captain Patrick Baker. Play will start at
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      18 23 Jakarta, Saturday. Indonesia will send four cyclists to the "Tour of Singapore" on March 16.
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