New Nation, 10 April 1975

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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Petrol sales: Fear in CBD
      397 2 'New scheme will hit our business' Managers or petrol service stations within the Central Business District fear their sales will drop badly with te implementation of the scheme in less than two mopths' time. There are about 10 service stations In the restricted zone, and
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      ON THE 'CHANGE
      229 2 Share prices broke the downtrend of the past two days at the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first trading session this morning. Slme Darby started the ball rolling, striking its first deal at $3.20, up 12 cents. Soon after, profittaking trimmed the price down to $3.20
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      OUR ROADS
      13 2 Police reported 86 accidents yesterday. Five *<ere serious and one fatal.
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      Oral surgery course
      67 2 The School of Postgraduate Dental Studies, University of Singapore, will hold a course in oral surgery, "White lesions of the oral mucosa" at the Dental Clinic, Singapore General Hospital, on April 25 and April 26. The fee is $40. Application forms are available from the Secretary, School
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      Exhibition
      37 2 An exhibition of Chinese calligraphy by Mr. Tsue Ta Tee will be staged by the Singapore Art Society and the Society of Chinese Artists at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce at 5.30 p.m. on Friday.
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      MEETING AFTER SEVEN YEARS
      340 2 Miss Chan Poh Lin could neither see nor hear her friend and benefactor Miss Daphne Lachlan, whom sfie met after seven years. But there was no mistaking the old warmth as Miss Lachlan took the blind and deaf girl's hands when they met during Miss Lachlan'*
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      Lock icon Kudos for juniors
      203 2 They're tops: Kotov LKA Singapore's junior chess players are of world class, said Soviet grandmaster Alexander Kotov after yesterday's simultaneous games at Plaza Singapura. Kotov won seven games, lost four to Alphonsus Chla, Dennis Tan, Terence Wong and Winston Williams, and drew five games against Leong Wal
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      Skin care
      30 2 The Adult Education Board will hold a course on skin care, make-up and halrdresslng every Thursday at 7 p.m. from April 2i At the Selegte Primary School centre.
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      Lock icon TAKING THE ROAD TO DANGER
      186 3 Getting across a road on roller skates may bring a big thrill to some as It does to this boy. But It spells big danger too, especially when the skater Is only a stumbling amateur. Obviously this boy Is either Ignorant of, or doesn't bother
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      Alert for blondes
      183 3 Security guards In an Orchard Road shopping complex have been alerted to look out for three blonde European women who are believed to be pinching goods from shops and customers. These women were seen frequently browsing around the different counters in the Shaw Centre. The salesgirls have
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      Bid for vegetables from Sumatra
      96 3 Singapore may get more fish and vegetables from Sumatra following the first official Singapore trade mission to that country. A statement issued yesterday after the return of the mission said that the delegation had useful discussions with the governors of three provinces (North Sumatra, Riau
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      'Each nation to decide own destiny'
      297 4 No US interference pledge South east Asian countries have the right and obligation to decide their own destiny, said Senator John J. Sparkman, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was speaking to p a r 11 c 1 p ants of
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      Service in the night
      209 4 A service station In Holland Road has has come up with a first—servicing and repairing vehicles till late Ipto the night. Previously offering such services only till 8 p m every evening like other stations. Fortuna Auto Service Introduced this new service yesterday following requests from
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      Singapore girl weds in Norway
      58 4 Singapore girl Olga de Souza, formerly of the Inland Revenue Dep a r tment, was married recently In Haugesend, Norway, to Eysteln Silseth. The couple met In Singapore where the groom lived for 11 years. He was a director of J.P. Roed (Pte) Ltd. Picture
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      Crash that killed five
      122 4 Five people died in this Mercedes taxi and the Mini after a crash with a timber lorry near Bidor In Perak earlier this week. The taxi from Bidor was on its way to Kuala Lumpur when it collided nead-on with the lorry at the 46% mile.
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      $35m. for 12 new schools...
      290 4 The Government will spend about $35 million to build 12 pew primary and secondary schools In various housing estates and densely populated areas. Unlike the existing schools, these new schools six of which are secondary schools—will be bigger and better designed. Construction work Is expected
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      285 4 WHAT'S ON The Young Musicians* Society will present a MUSICALE at the Victoria Theatre at 8 pm. Featuring the Singapore Youth choir, Youth Chinese Orchestra, and the society's dancers and children's choir. An EXHIBITION OF NEW PAINTINGS by Thomas Yeo, Is open till 6 p.m. at the National Library. The
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Big 'yes' to EEC
      472 5 British Parliament gives 226 'stay-in* vote majority Reuter London, Thursday Britain's Parliament last night voted by a big majority of 226 lpt favour of staying In the European Common Market. This solid lead by Parliament will probably influence many Britons to vote for continued membership of
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      Lock icon 'Poisoned chocs'
      61 5 United Press International Birmingham, Thursday Two Irishmen accused of threatening to poison chocolate manufactured In Britain's largest chocolate factory unless they received <80,000 ($422,400) appeared lr* court yesterday on extortion charges. They were remanded for 10 days on charges they made an unwarranted demand with menaces of Cadbury
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      Lock icon Amnesty charge
      47 5 United Press International London Thursday Both Israel and Syria mistreated prisoners captured in the 1973 Middle East war, Amnesty International said today. A report prepared by a three-man commission of inquiry said both countries violated provisions of the Geneva convention on treatment of war prisoners.
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      Lock icon Resignation
      19 5 Reuter Santiago, Thursday The Chilean Cabinet last night presented Its resignation to President Augusto Pinochet, official sources said.
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      Lock icon $2.7 million bribe scandal...
      255 5 United Press International New York, Thursday United Brands, whose chairman committed suicide recently, yesterday admitted It paid a bribe of US$l.25 million ($2.75 million) to a high official of the Government of Honduras to gain special treatment on export taxes on bananas. The company said the
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      Lock icon Nations who are set on going nuclear
      145 5 United Press International Washington, Thursday. Several countries Intend to make nuclear weapons though they do not yet have the means, a senior American official said yesterday. Without naming the countries, Mr. Fred Ikle told a disarmament seminar: "The news on Dflrtlferetton Is making
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      Lock icon Secret pledge sparks row
      414 6 Probe soon on Nixon's promise to Thieu Reuter Washington, Thursday The White House disclosure that former President Nixon secretly assured South Vietnam of a vigorous US reaction if Hanoi committed major violations of the Vietnam peace pact threatened to create a political storm yesterday. Congressional committees
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      Lock icon Promoted: The Thieu palace bomber...
      148 6 United Press International Saigon, Thursday South Vietnamese Air Force pilot who bombed the Independence Palace of President Nguyen Van Thleu has defected to the communists and promoted by the Viet Cong, a spokesman said last night. MaJ. Phuong Nam, press officer for the Viet Cong's
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      Lock icon Close call
      34 6 Reuter Tokyo, Thursday A stone believed to have been belched from a volcano damaged the windscreen of a tristar airliner as it flew over southern Japan at 2100 metres (7000 ft) yesterday.
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      Lock icon Hothouse of love
      135 6 Reuter Brussels. Thursday A Danish professor has discovered that making love can help to heat the house and save energy. The magic energysaving formula of Prof. Vagn Korsgaard, head of a Nato scientific project, has Just one drawback! The human dynamos- will have to eat more or
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      Lock icon TODAY
      162 6 United Press International TODAY Is Thursday, April 10, the 100 th day of 1975 with 265 to follow. THE MOON Is approaching Its new phase. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Mars and Jupiter. THE EVENING STARS are Saturn and Venus. Those born on this date are under the sign
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      Lock icon OFFER TO BREAK AWAY
      355 6 Reuter Phnom Penh, Thursday Insurgent forces have launched thrusts against this capital's shrinking northern and eastern defence perimeters amid unconfirmed reports from Cambodia's second largest c«ty of Battambang that civil authorities were consld erin g a Khmer Rouge offer to declare independence from the Phnom Penh
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      Lock icon 65,000 ready to attack Saigon
      107 6 Reuter Washington, Thursday The North Vietnamese now have nearly 65,000 troops In the Saigon and Mekong Delta areas and are In a position to begin attacks on the numerically larger South Vietnamese forces, Defence Department sources said yesterday. The sources were puzzled by the fact
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      Lock icon Talks call
      34 6 Reuter Paris, Thursday. President Valery Discard D'Estalng yesterday called for an urgent meeting of Viet Cbng, South Vietnamese officials and neutralists to try to find a political solution to the Vietnam conflict.
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      52 jailed
      45 6 Rangoon, Thursday Fifty-two people have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years for their part In the disturbances caused by the snatching last December of the body of former U8 Secretary General U Thant, It was announced here today.
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      Lock icon The Odd Corner
      84 6 Reuter London, Thursday Patriotism has gone to the head of filling station attendant Eric Jarvls. He has had his hair dyed red, white and blue, the colour of Britain's national flag. Eric, 38, from Bournemouth, Bouth England, said today: "People do seem rather startled when I serve
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      391 6 new nnnonsEß super [OOKER COIITEST GUESS THE COOKING TIME CONTEST!: lUcip. D BEIF IN SOYO SAUCE INGREDIENTS: 600 gmt (1 lbs) beef flank, V* teacup dark soya touct, Yj rtacup oil, 3 teacups water, W teacup sugar, 5 cm. cinnamon (tick, V* teaspoon pepper, 1 teatpoon salt. METHOD: Clean the
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    • Miscellaneous
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      230 6 WORLD WEATHER New York Sunny, warmer, 52-33P, 11- IC. Headline: Weyand proposes urgent arms aid to defend Saigon. Rome Cloudy, 5950F, 15-lOC. Headline: New polemics about the start of color TV. Moscow Cloudy with sunny spells, 72-52F, 22UC. Headline: Chemistry In the service of the crop. London Very cold, bright
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
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      'Give our youth more leader ship roles'
      571 7  -  By Florence Tan Involvement in the activities of the various community centres is one good means of getting youths oIT the streets. Mr. Francis J.K. Han, chairman of the Youth Group Executive Committee of the Rochore Road Community Centre, has found this to
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      'Louis Armstrong still makes me weep'
      441 7  -  By Florence Tan When you are convinced that you have a quality product that will sell, you go all out to sell it even though it means going half-way round the world to do it. This Is exactly how Mr. Antonio Casetta, a well-known
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • OPINION
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      Wilson faces revolt in the Party
      377 8 After yesterday's Parliamentary vote, the prospects of Britain remaining in the European Economic Community under the terms recently negotiated by Mr. Wilson are bright. But it looks as if EEC membership will be retained at the cost of a split in the Labour Party.
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    • WHISPERS By ISPY
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        Interviewer missing
        42 8 Certain oversights are hard to forgive and forget. Like the case of the office manager who called up several applicants for interview on the day that he atarted his annual leave. Naturally, there were no Interviews when the applicants arrived.
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        Safety for patients
        53 8 Ever wondered why there 1a an overhead bridge Unking the Bldadarl cemetery to a hospital on the opposite side of Upper Serangoon Road although traffic Is not very heavy here? One local wit believes that "It Is to help the patients of the hospital cross over to
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      Hurrah for the airlift nations
      185 8 I think the people of the United States, Australia and all those countries which are willing to take In the war orphans of South Vietnam deserve some kind of medal for being so wonderful. These beautiful people are not obliged to adopt the children but
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      Lock icon Detente after Chiang?
      278 8 World Comment Bangkok Post The death of Chiang and whatever you must say about him he was ever a man of integrity, of single-mind-ed devotion to his people marks the end of an era in Chinese history. It began in the 1920s when Sun Yatsen, the father
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      LOVE THAT MOB OR BE A SLOB
      578 8  -  THURSDAY WITH PAKIR SINGH PAKIR SINGH Love is not dead. Though x cannot understand why it is often being showered on things I was told by my parents and Sunday school teachers to hate. Like peace, love has been drummed Into all generations
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      Answers on CBD
      115 8  -  JOSEPH YEE I refer to the letter from K.Y. Yeo (NN, 24.3.75). Monthly and dally area licences will be on sale at the Registry of Vehicles, Middle Road, and at 16 post offices on implementation of the area licensing scheme. In addition, dally area licences can be
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  • FEATURE
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      'Everything was so clean even in 1901'
      1575 9 Red and yellow flowers made a lovely carpet on the road E.A. Brown first arrived In Singapore In 1901. In 1935 he wrote his Impressions of Singapore into a book. What did Singapore look like in that year to a young Englishman on
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
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      Tanglin the haunt of thieves
      425 10/11 Throughout 1950 burglars preyed on re s i dents at the Tanglln area. It was the favourite haunt of thieves and police blacklisted It. In the middle of the year the police organised a special police squad, handpicked for exclusively anti-house-break-lng dut'es. It was formed
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      THE MAN WITH A RECORD OF 10 KILLINGS
      275 10/11 The shooting of Detective See Chong Yee in January 1953, started off one of the biggest man-hunts for a murderer ever witnessed in the colony. The wanted hoodlum came to be called the "limping gunman." Police described him as Public Enemy No.
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      'Marked' officer gunned down
      871 10/11 Crowded 8 ye d Alwi Road was not really the Ideal place to start off with the morning's chores. But for Detective See Chong Yee, the noise and smell had a familiarity which probably proved comforting. For Detective See was a marked man amonj the under
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      'Limping gunman' shot dead 20 days after 'get him' order
      535 10/11  -  129 Pakir Singh On January 23, 1953 the Singapore Police Commissioner, Mr. Nigel Morris, issued the order to all policemen: "Y o u must eliminate the killer gang." As the days ticked away, the public could not but look at
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  • Page 10/11 Miscellaneous
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      549 10/11 Cut out and pin with other coupons Posting instuctions appear below Name (Mr /Mrs./ Miss) Address FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW Cut along dolled linns CLUES FOR A A-4 1. It shoots into the air 2. Obviously, a number of people are required for one 3. Preserve
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  • FOR THE YOUNG
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      Book of the week
      235 12 THE CRIMEAN WAR by James Barbary (Puffin). This is a book op the Crimean War written specially for children In language they can understand. The war came In the 19th century after thirtynine years of peace between the great powers. Though British troops were probably the
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      There's a 'bomb' in outer space
      244 12 World of Science Somewhere in the outer reaches of our solar system, dragging behind It a deep blue, jet trail, is a fearsome projectile packing more force than a million hydrogen bombs. Scientists have called It the Tungus Event and are now actively looking
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      Churchill—We'll not see his like again
      867 12 Churchill —We'll not see his like again Quiz Sir Winston Churchill was born on November 30, 1874. It was a premature birth but Winston 1. Is Galileo Galilei the first man to use the telescope to study the skies? Yes or No? 2. What !s the term given by Galileo
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      THE LION OF ASIA
      157 12 Nature Corner One of the world's rarest animals Is the Asian lion. There are about 300 of these animals in existence, including wild and captive. The uniqueness of these animals lies In the fact that they are the only wild Hons native outside Africa. Now limited
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  • TREND edited by BETTY L. KHOO
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      Fitting the exacting bill for a Girl Friday—and how!
      530 13 There have been times when I wished I had persevered with shorthand and got myself a secretarial diploma. Especially when I was a very Junior government officer, sweating my guts out (admittedly the Job didn't demand too much from my sluggulsh
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      Lock icon NO NAME CHANGE FOR HER
      121 13 United Press International The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that women do not have to take their husbands' names when they marry. The cajse stems from a lower court decision which ruled that attorney Rosemary Palermo did not have to assume her husband's name to
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      Lock icon Feminine and fancy free
      180 13  -  DECOR IDEAS B.L. KHOO Single girls should take full advantage of their singular state and indulge their every whim for all things feminine and fanciful when It comes to decorating their bedroom. Afterall, when they marry they usually have to accommodate their husbands tastes In furniture
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      14 13 FOOK CHEONG GOLDSMITH SO i i g South Bml-.c Road Smjiapore I TEt .04S1
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      63 13 ■ti S 3 ;v» m i BOUTIQUE 107,15t Floor, Plaza Singapura SPECIAL OFFER WITH FREE GIFT! 1 Philips IRON or HAIR DRYER for ooch purchase of "EMBASSY" Sowing Machine 5 MODELS oro available PRICES from $230/- upward# HONG HIMT SEWING MACHINE CO. (Hfeck 74) N*. 324. WHAMPOA o*l VI. 12.
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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      198 14 SWING INN TRADING CO. Specialist in the latest trend of T-Shirts for Ladies Children. Basement 65, People's Park Centre, Upper Cross Street, Singapore 1. "ftf: ***** Tltendtf Co. v WE DEAL IN JOFA ICE SKATING SHOES A ALL ICE SKATING VARIETIES, WHOLESALE I RETAIL 4* ed JOFA VARIETIES OF SHOES
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      86 14 Si ,Ci I The Emporium that i is centrally-located 1 1 in the city for your 1 shopping delight! H r=i ra BASEMENT 81, PEOPLE'S PARK CENTRE, SINGAPORE 1. MMMMHCI OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK. Business Hours 10.00 am -10.00pm mwiTTOirr jmmt >. mrs mm?, A mS >3 m I
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  • People's Park Centre
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      It's a children's world...
      474 14 The children of today are too young to realise how good life Is to them. Progress, development and the resultant affluence and higher standard of living have all crone towards making modern living so much better than it was before. What we, the older generation, sow.
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  • FINANCE
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      Lock icon Oil talks: No agreement
      473 15 Difficulties over conference agenda Reuter Paris, Thursday Major oil consumers and producers ran Into difficulties in their preparations for a world energy conference Here yesterday, bickering over details and swapping accusations. The 10 delegations to the consumer-producei meeting tried but failed to reach agreement on an
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      A 22p.c. jump in Emery Air revenue
      174 15 Emery Air Freight Corporation, the world's largest air freight forwarder, last year reported ?2 per cent increase In revenue over 1973 at U*****.3 million ($469.2 mlll.on). Singapore's Emery Air Freight's manager, Mr. Graeme Boykett, said the International air traffic scored the most dramatic
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      Freight rates for bulk cargo reduced
      111 15 Retla Steamship has reduced the freight rates for bulk cargo to Europe, following a directive from its head office in the United States. Last month, the company announced a similar cut in rates for its American services. The decrease in rates of US$l Eer
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    • Stock markets round the world
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        SYDNEY
        112 15 Prices at 11 30 ajn. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange: Allstate nil 10 Beach 17 18 Bridge 09 10 Cleveland 33 34 Endeavour 14 15 Fllnd 20c Opt 02% 03 Inter Mln 04 04% K&mbalda 00% 01 Kath Inv 96 100 Kla Ora nil 19 Mid
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        Gains rout declines
        196 15 NEW YORK The stock market, buoyed by an Improved bond market and some favourable earnings reports, rallied to its best gain In more than two months yesterday In active trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Bargain hunters played a large role as the Dow Jones Industrial
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        Dow Jones
        33 15 Dow Jones closing stock averages on New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 767.90 (up 15.77), 30 transport 163.10 <up 2.74), 15 utilities 75.60 (up 0.19), 65 stocks 336.63 (up 4.62).
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        ZURICH
        87 15 This service is from the Union Bank of Switzerland Closing prices In Swiss francs on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UB6 "B". 2880 UBS "H". SM SBC 480 I Credit Suisse 2630 20 Swissair "B". 485 10 Swiss Relnsur. 2010 15 Winter thur "B". 1920 10 Zurich Insur. 6600
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        PARIS
        105 15 Closing prices In francs on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Paribus 168 —.50 Fonder 349 +6 Prlntemps 93.00 3.10 COB 309.10 +1.10 Bull 36 +.10 Royal Dutch 143 —150 Mlchelln 1061 +31 Thomson 193.40 3.50 CFP 133.90 +3.70 Rhone 141.80 —.30 Air 351 +4 BSN 565 +15 Philips 47.70 +.30
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        Lock icon TOKYO
        242 15 DBS Daiwa Securities International Ltd Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange posted a handsome gain in buoyant trading throughout the session yesterday. Reflecting Tuesday's strong rally at the close together with the favourable trading on the big board, the market bounced under the lead of recently oversold Incentive
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      Market report
      220 15 Share prices dipped yesterday In the Singapore stock market. The falls were recorded on a broad front. From the opening bell, prices moved lower against a background of dismay over the Indochina war situation. Forecasts that bank interest rates, are bottoming out In leading financial centres, did not
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      432 15 YOUR LUCKY STAR IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are exceptionally energetic, especially when engaged in an activity which takes your mental as well as your physical strength and application. More than energy, however, is an attitude you into each and every endeavour in which you become involved. For
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      547 16 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, Kong Kum Khlew of No. 1221, Blk. 208, Toa Payoh, Singapore 12, have applied for a Retail Beer shop licence In respect of premises No. 1221, Blk. 206, Toa Payoh, Singapore 12, and that this application will be heard In the Court of
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      253 17 By BLUE PETER Kuala Lumpur Thursday The Bold Ones (M. Masruhen) and Gambalan 111 (Q. Podmore) impressed in a 3f trial in 36 In soft going here this morning. Trainer Ahmad Bamad's Tunku's Gold Cup hopes Anak Malaysia (A. Hassan) and Oonara (J. Wilson) were
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      247 17 SATURDAY RACE ONE: 2.00 C 1.5 Div.3 6f Nevada, Tiger Note, Terrific Form. RACE TWO: 2.30 C 1.5 Div.2 6f Terkam, Bravo, Double Agent. RACE THREE: 3.0 C 1.5 Div.l 6f Pratter, Salamat Datang, Castle Light, Pleasant Fair. RACE FOUR: 3.30 C 1.4 Div.6 6f Dominator, Srikandi, Valentine, Lady
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      363 17 Reuter Augusta, Thursday Jack wicKlaus was the title lavourue on the eve of the 39th UJS. Masters golf tournament here yesterday though tne main locus of attention was on black American Lee Elder. Elder. 40. the first black ever to play in
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      1180 17 SATURDAY CI. 4—lOf Windsor Light 9.00 7 Starlet 8 11 15 Baldwin 8 05 12 Oambalan III 8 06 8 Cincinnati 808 6 Natural Copy 8.02 3 Nallache 8.00 IT Triple Nine 7.13 1 Scarlet Baron 7.13 16 Grand Final 7.13 2 Hurricane III 7.11
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      32 17 Tokyo, Thur s d a y— World Boxing Council lightweight champion Outs Ishimatsu of JaDan will make his next defence aeralnst Tury Pineda of Mexico, In Osaka, on June 5.
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      61 18 Reuter Jakarta, Thursday India beat Singapore 5-2 In the Mara Htdlm soccer tournament In Medan. In another match Ja6 an beat local team, Jung Pandang 1-0. KUWAIT: Bahrain maintained their strong hold on the Asian Youth tournament by beating Bangladesh 1-0. Other results: South Korea 2
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      Still coach
      21 18 The Hague. Thursday George Knobel, 52. will remain coach of Holland's national soccer team under a new fouryear contract.
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      362 18  -  By C.K. WONG Failure! of referees and umpires turning up on time Is causing concern In the Secondary Schools' soccer and hockey competitions. Thette teompetf.tlons are now In full swing but often matches were being delayed for as much as half an hour. Yesterday, the
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      Lock icon It's Fulham v W. Ham in FA Cup final
      403 18 Reuter London, Thursday A goal by John Mitchell 15 seconds from the end of extra-time took second division Fulham through to the final of the English Football Association Cup final for the first time in their history last night. Mitchell's last
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      Russia wins
      23 18 Athens, Thursday Soviet runner Yuri Laptev won the international marathon race over the classic route from Marathon Village to Athens yesterday.
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      Lock icon Leeds win but can be toppled in away tie
      375 18 Reuter London, Thursday Leeds United beat Spanish champions Barcelona 2-1 in the first leg ot their European Football Cup semi-final at Leeds last night, but the goal with which 25-year-old Juan Asensi briefly levelled the scores 25 minutes from the end
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      Two face action
      98 18 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Two players, Sailm Mohamed of Perils and Hussain Ahmad of Negri Sembilan, will appear before the FAM disciplinary board on April 14 In Koala Lumpur. Salim was sent out for violent conduct during the Malaysia Cup north zone match between Kedah and Perils on
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      Henry quits —a blow to the STBC
      745 19  -  BOWLING NOTES by Jeffrey Low Henry Tan, the Republic's ace bowler has decided to retire due to Injury. And his decision Is certainly going to be a big blow to the BTBC, who are preparing a team for the Seap Games in December.
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      Lock icon Protective headgear for batsmen
      238 19 Reuter London, Thursday Most members of England's cricket team were In favour of lower-order batsmen wearing protective head shields against fast bowling, England allrounder Tony Orelg said yesterday. But Orelg denied a claim on television by a British sports manufacturer that he would wear protective gear
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      Coles leads
      25 19 Lisbon. Thursday. Neil Coles. 40-year-old British Ryder Cup international. took a onestroke halfwav lead in the Portuguese Open golf championship at Penlna yesterday.
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      300 17 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 91 BMSM a i am augai ammm HBI 1881 8 Angullla 9 to the shores of 10 Home of the Yokums 11 High: Prefix 12 Earth science: Abbr. 13 Without: FY. 19 Pomplllus. legendary king of Rome 21 Famous Roman writer 25 Chutney, for example 26 Shrub
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      440 18 AT THE CINEMA with EDGAR KOH THE ODBBBA FILE: Frederick Forsyth's bestseller about a secret organisation of former bS men, their evil past and present ready Influence, converted style-lessly for the screen by Ronald Neame, with Jon Volght In a mediocre performance as an Investigative reporter who becomes Involved In
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    171 20 The LAST word By JJ The Traffic Police, in a rare show of magnanimity, will put up "Beware of speed trap ahead" warning signs for motorists next month. "Warning from Last "Word: Beware of speed traps when you see the sign "The coast is clear." The motorist
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    53 20 AH FOOK: What a slip-up by the Turf Club! Now they will have to And a foolproof way of making up to the underpaid punters. MEI UN: I suggest they donate the money to charity instead, bee ause there is no way now of differentiating the crooks from
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      947 20 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SEVEN GENERATIONS O F LOVE: Shang Lin and Chin Shalr-Mel (r) with Chinese subtitles A Mandarin serialised opera 3.45 GENERAL HOSPITAL 1.25 SCIENCE REPORT <r> 140 INTERMISSION C.lO OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by ADVENTURES OF RUPERT REAR: Rupert And The Treasure
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      51 20 Show of the day... KUWG FU (7.45 over Channel Five in colour). In tonight's episode, waiter in Barbary House, Caine, in his search for his brother Danny and his nephew Zeke, finds employment as a waiter. He discovers that Zeke is held by a gangland overlord and manages to rescue
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