New Nation, 4 October 1975

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  • 19 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Saturday October 4, 1975 No 1454 Price 20 cents MC (P) 1118/75 r—j NEW NATION COMMENT
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  • 280 1  -  By Peter Ong Vivid memories of the war flashed before Mr. Teng Ah Chuan's eyes as army experts unearthed a bomb In Alexandra Road yesterday. For Mr. Teng, 50, remembers very clearly that he escaped the wrath of the 2250kilogram bomb
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  • 49 1 Reuter Blackpool, Saturday The ruling Labour Party, on the final day of Its annual conference, yesterday rejected a hardline call for Britain to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). But the delegates accepted a resolution regretting Increased British defence spending and demanding a cutback.
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  • 397 1 One car to 15 people at end of 1974 Registration of new private cars dropped by 48 per cent last year— from 23,010 In 1973 to 11,839 in 1974, according to the latest Registry of Vehicles annual report. This was due to additional registration and
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  • 29 1 Reuter London, Saturday. The former British Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, returned yesterday from a 23-day, slx-natlon tour which Included the United Btates, China, Japan and Singapore.
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  • 28 1 Kuala Lumpur, Saturday The film of the AU-Frazler fight In Manila will be shown over TV Malaysia again at 4.11 p.m. tomorrow due to popular demand.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 360 2 Teachers reminded of big' duty Mr. Ahmad Mattar, Parliamentary Secretary (Education), this morning reminded science and technical teachers of their "urgent and heavy responsibilities" to educate their students who will be the major source of skilled manpower for Singapore's industries. He said It was up to
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    • 49 2 The Italian Trade Commissioner, Dr. Emllio Blni, will give a Press conference with regards to $1 million promotion of Italian goods in Singapore at the Hyatt Hotel at 11 JO ajn. on Wednesday. The sales eromotlon Is sponsored y Metro, Singapore Airlines, Hyatt and the Italian Trade Office.
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    • 26 2 The Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) will conduct a course entitled Residential Supervisory Development Programme later this month at Raffles Hall, University of Singapore.
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    • 13 2 Police reported 88 accidents yesterday. Three were serious and one fatal.
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    • 250 2 Australian Charity Queen 1975 Miss Terry Dolye stepped out of Paya Lebar Airport at three o'clock this morning fresh as the first •breeze of the day, despite a seven-hour delay in flight and very little sleep. She has Just comSleted her prise tour of urope
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    • 22 2 The Calrahlll Community Centre will eonduct a six-month cooking course from Oct. IS. Further details may be obtained from the centre.
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    • 475 2 'Anxiety —it's a sign of mental stress' 'Tension goes up in busy city* Racing thoughts, anxiety, irritability and aggressiveness—these are some of the symptoms of the mental stress in a r a p 1 dly developing country like Singapore, a London psychiatrist said today. Dr. Byron Rlgby, a surgeon and
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    • 22 2 The Pharmaceutical Trade Association will hold its 10th annual dinner at Tanclln Room. Bhancrl-La Hotel at 7.30 P-m. on Oct. 2S.
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    • 162 2 The Singapore Mobil Petrol Dealers' Association has asked the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to intervene in its dispute with Mobil Oil (Singapore) to help bring about a solution. It Is learned that the Chinese Chamber has agreed to help settle the dispute provided
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    • 38 2 Mr. John (Jock) Elliot, the newly-elected chairman of Oft It 7 and Mather International, will fire a talk on Consumerism And Iti Impact On Advertising at the Mine Court Hotel on Oct. IS. at 12J0 p.m.
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    • 242 3 It is another kilostone on our road, but as far as one gang of extortioners is concerned, this concrete pillar marks the start of their fortune. For police sources have revealed that during the past two years this has been the gang's favourite spot for
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    • 27 3 The Port Authority Recreation Club will host the sixth Interport Games from Nov. 21 to 29. About 600 people from 11 ports will take part.
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    • 23 3 The Rochore Community Centre Youth Group will organise a barbecue and dance at the Ponggol Holiday Camp on Oct. 11 and 12.
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    • 238 3 Advisors to primary school pupils The mass training of some 400 primary school teachers as guidance counsellors will be undertaken by the Institute of Education. The teachers have been specially selected by their school principals to attend the training course which is expected to begin next year. This
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    • 110 3 The Housing and Development Board has sealed up the slits around flats In Marine Parade Estate following complaints by residents that water seeped through their windows when it rained. An HDB spokesman said the water seepage was due to "the exposed position of those flats facing
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    • 287 2 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACROBB 1 Dip In Uie tub 5 Hidalgo's home 9 Ron's rival II Picnic, perhaps IS Famous French 14 Smooth over If Aglow 17 Moscow landmark It Relative of blacktop 20 Oreek goddess 33 /topical plum 33 By way or, for short 34 On the ground: Poet
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 176 3 ISfc V ]K ;-;J fr 1 CARES for the things closest to you Life is so much easier ever since Zanussi joined our family. Gone are the days when I was at the mercy of the washerwoman, when we had to restrict the changes of clothing to reduce the quantity
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 245 3 WHAT'S ON More than 300 entries including prize winners to THE SAKURA PHOTO CONTEST will be put on display at the People's Park concourse up to 10 p.m. Entrance Is free. Twenty students will give a PERFORMANCE OF TRADITIONAL CHINEBE MUSIC at the Toa Payoh Branch Library at 2 p.m.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 267 4 Agreement reached at the UN Reuter United Nations, Saturday Pakistan and Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, Jointly announced last night their agreement to open diplomatic relations with immediate effect. The United Nations representatives of the two countries called reporters together and read to them a two-sen-tence
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    • 68 4 Reuter Johannesburg, Saturday An enraged hippopotamus cow trampled a South African holldaymaker to death on the shores of Lake Malawi. The man's wife, Mrs. Heather Van Resnburg, said her husband, Donald, 88 a strong swimmer and waterpolo player swam between the hippo cow and her newly-born calf. The
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    • 62 4 Reuter Srlnagar. Saturday Most of the 178 people arrested in Kashmir under India's emergency laws would be released by next week. Chief Minister Bhelkh Mohammed Abdullah said yesterday. He said most of the detainees would be released before next Wednesday's Muslim festival of Id-Ul-Fltr and hoped
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    • 41 4 Reuter Port Louis, Saturday Mauritius is to buy from a Seychelles-baaed company the two Agalega islands 848 km north of here to resettle Diego Garcia islanders whose original home Is to be used as a US naval base. —Beater
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    • 94 4 United Press International New York, Saturday. —Cambodia's Head of State Prince Norodom 81hanouk has told reporters that his country was willing to forget the Injuries Inflicted upon it by the United States during the bloody Cambodian war. Speaking to reporters at New York's Kennedy Airport upon his arrival
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    • 57 4 Reuter London, Saturday Fleet Street's longestserving editor, Mr. David Astor, 83, said last night he was retiring after 27 years editing the Sunday newspaper. The Observer. During his editorship the newspaper's circulation had trebled to 750,000 copies a week. HJ* Candf ather, the first jrd Astor, bought
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    • 61 4 Reuter Rome, Saturday A contraceptive pill for men la being tested In the United Btates and should go on the market within three years, a pharmaceutical congress was told here yesterday. Frofessor Prederlch Coulston of Albany University, New York, told the conference that the pill,
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    • 62 4 United Press International Hong Kong. Saturday. —The Royal Hong Kong Observatory Iss u e d a tropical cyclone alert at dawn today as this storm moved to within 340 miles south-west of this British colony. The observatory said the cyclone was moving In a northerly direction toward
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    • 128 4 United Press International TODAY Is Saturday, Oct. 4, the 277 th day of 1975 with 88 to follow. THE MOON Is new. THE MORNING STABS are Venus, Saturn, Mar? and Jupiter. THE EVENING STAR Is Mercury. Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. Rutherford Hayes,
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    • 96 4 United Press International Port Moresby. Saturday The sale of liquor i ba «ned In Papua-New Guinea on Pay day. The move was Introduced in parliament yesterday and the government was urged to create a uniform pay day throughout the countrv and to prohibit all liquor sales each
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    • 180 4 Reuter Washington, Saturday Weeping Japanese yesterday watched as Emperor Hlrohito payed homage to American war dead. In a solemn gesture of atonement (or the Second World War. the Emperor laid a wreath at the Tomb of the UnKnown Soldier In Arlington National Cemetery. The 74-year-old
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    • 449 5 Reuter London, Saturday Cambridge rapist Peter Cook, who dressed as a girl and rode a woman's bicycle through the police-fitted university city to rape seven women, was jailed for life yesterday. Sentencing 47-year-old Cook at Norwich Crown Court, Mr. Justice
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    • 50 5 Reuter London, Saturday. Caspar Fleming, the 22-year-old son of the creator of fictional secret agent James Bond, was found dead at his home In London's fashionable Chelsea district yesterday, police said. Some pills were found near the body, but the cause of death was not Immediately known.
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    • 208 5 Wrong investment motive Reuter Tokyo, Saturday Thai Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj in an interview published here yesterday criticised Japan for investing in Thailand because labour was cheap in the country. In the interview, in the daily newspaper Mainlchl, the Prime Minister said: "What Japan is doing
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    • 230 5 Reuter Jakarta, Saturday Pro-Indonesian guerrillas have become active In eastern Portuguese Timor, Informed sources said yesterday. The guerrilla activity was centred on the towns of Bacau, Los Palos, Same and Lage now controlled by the leftwing Fretilin (Revolutionary Front for Independent East Timor) Forces,
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    • 40 5 United Press International Brasilia, Saturday—At least three persons have died and about 12,000 were left homeless as a result of heavy floods in the city of Blumenau in Brasil's southern state of Santa Catarlna, city officials reported yesterday.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 521 4 Saturday AZ-6 Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appeor below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Cut along dotted linn < CLUES FOR AZ-6 1. Writing-instrument containing "lead" 2. Blocks of which walls, etc., arc built 3. When a big effort is it's no use being dismal about it 4. Put
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    • 192 4 WORLD WEATHER New York—Sunny, 5742P, 14-BC. Headline: House approves easing arms ban against Turkey. Tokyo Rain, 66-83F, 19-17 C. Headline: Their Majesties welcomed In Washington by Ford. Rio de Janeiro—Cloudy, 98-88F, 37-19 C. Headline: Madrid government closes border with Portugal. Paris—Changeable. 6355F, 17-13 C. Headline: Madrid policemen angry. London—Sunny intervals
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  • OPINION
    • 413 6 The political scene in Timor continues to be scarred by factional fighting. The civil war raging between various political groups is unlikely to come to an early end especially since Portugal, which will probably go down as one of the most Irresponsible of the colonial
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    • 104 6 fg> The lot of children can be a very confuting one. Take the case of this three-year old girl who was shopping with her mother in a local department store. On seeing a funny toy, the girl began to laugh and giggle In amusement. But Just
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    • 547 6  -  SATURDAY GUEST BERNARD NOSSITER BERNARD NOSSITER The Washington Post Britain's Labour gove r n m ent is making fresh, multi-million dollar concessions to induce North Sea oil operators to part with 51 per cent of their holdings. Authoritative sources disclosed that the government proposes
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    • 396 6  -  T.A. MUGAN The Press has been lamenting the loss of par 11 a mentary democracy In India. Parliamentary democracy to properly function must have a society that is generally tolerantly inclined with a moral consciousness and ability to arrive at compromise solutions on national Issues.
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    • 260 6  -  World Comment V /a Bangkok Post 29.9.75. A strike by the Telephone Organisation of Thailand would have paralysed the country's communications. Whether the threat to strike was real or propaganda, it appears that the reason for it is Inadequate. There is no need for a strike to
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  • FEATURE
    • 616 7  -  Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times The explosion of tennis In the United States has produced all sorts of Innovations In the game. One of the most exciting is called Mother's Tennis. It differs from regular tennis In that It requires not
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    • 261 7  -  SV>ore Notebook by Judith Holmberg The Thian Hok Keng temple in Amoy Street Is the most important Hokklen Buddhist temple In Singapore. The oldest Chinese temple in the Republic It Is popularly known as Ma Cho Keng In honour of the goddess Mo-cho-po who
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 78 7 i Lis for Lonco. A little luxury. In everything but prke m /kr? urngo v- I Lanco comes from Switzerland the country that makes the best watches in the world. It's built to high Swiss standards of precision. And it's backed by an international guarantee valid in over 100 countries.
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    • 168 7 Everyone's Talking About FONDIKINS HOME FURNISHING EXHIBITION! Come one come all to the latest Fondikin Home Furnishing Exhibition at the II aa r t YOUR KEY rU THIiIIW iVjiJM Let our experts help you make the right choice regarding Bed Room Suites Lounge Suits Dining sets Kitchen Appliances ALSO OFFICE
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  • PLEASURE
    • 575 8  -  SIGHT SOUND BY EDGAR KOH As a Hari Raya treat, Television Singapore is screening High Noon (Monday (Ch. 5, 11.20 a.m.) a Western that has endured as a classic since it was first shown in the early *****. This was th£ movie that won prototypical
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    • 305 8  -  By Jennifer Schoon For the younger set of theatre goers, there's something on at the National Theatre today—a pop concert, The Rock N Roll Show, featuring some of our wellknown groups. Put together by a group who prefer to be called The
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    • 287 8  -  By Jennifer Schoon Tan Choo Kuan started out by using a felt-tipped pen to execute bis black and white sketches. A difficult medium to handle, yet he managed to express himself perfectly. Today, however, Tan has moved Into traditional oil paintings, but
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 77 8 €I*RVOM€ K RRJIhG TH€ DaidCHA LOCN. K3DD W TH£ UWHILLCOff€€WOP The Coffeeshop is just right for those who like a tasty local lunch, dinner or even supper Cooked in the true Singapore style, specialities include Mee Rebus ♦Fried Kway Teow ♦Chicken Rice *lahu Goreng n ★Chillied Crabs (after 6pm) >
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 491 8 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you have exceptionally strong likes and dislikes and are Inclined to be guided by them In your actions and most particularly, In your personal relationships. You never leave others In any doubt as to how you feel about things, rather you
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  • BOOKS AND CHESS
    • 286 9 For most people the strange world of international finance is as much of a mystery as the blegw from any moon shot. Yet. in an increasingly inter-depen-dent world, what central bankfk speculators, and politicians do or fall to do in London, Basle, Tokyo, or New ¥ork
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    • 367 9  -  By Leu Payne Patricia Hearst has written a book. In it, sources say, she and several coauthors, Including William and Emily Harris, will tell their side of the story. The book reportedly describes her kidnapping by the Bymbionese Liberation Army and her association
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    • 368 9 Meeting in Osterbeek, Holland, the Central Committee of FIDE (World Chess Federation) last week ratified the affiliation of eight national chess federations to bring its membership to 90., In the years between Olympiads, FIDE Central Committee may act for the General Assembly which is now
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    • 282 9 IN A FREE STATE (Penguin) by V.s. Nalpiul —This Is a sequence, part Action, part documentary, and at its heart Is a novel of great brilliance. This novel is set In a free state In Africa at a time of civil confTlct when a once-ruling tribe Is being decimated.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • 431 10/11  -  By Wee Beng Huat They stand almost half a century apart but their duty as policemen remains the same how to keep the traffic flowing smoothly. Only their methods and their uniforms have changed to keep up with the times. from controlling rickety rickshaws
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  • shopping
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    • 141 12 FOR STYLI, COMFORT t ELEGANCE J.S.R. ENTERPRISE IS THE SHOP. W| ALSO DEAL FOR SHOES MADE-TO-ORDER SPECIAL DISCOUNT AT 20% FOR THE SEASONS. V CALL US AT: J.S.R. ENTERPRISE, 302, FAR EAST SHOPP. CENTRE, 3r4 FL. ORCHARD RD. (9), TEL: 3742««. MR. JAMES TEH WILL BE AT YOUR SERVICE People
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 1587 14 Weekend TV and Radio SINGAPORE 5 SATURDAY 12.55 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SESAME STREET I 50 SATURDAY MATINEE The Steel Jungle: Starring Perrv Lopez, Beverly Garland, Walter Abel 3.15 FIRST ASIAN VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Women's Hnal): Korea v Japan. SANDIWARA (D: A Malay drama 5.95 8PECIAL BRANCH: Diversion 5.55 MANI8 MANJA
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    • 321 14 SATURDAY MIDNIGHT MOVIE (10.25 over Channel Five, In colour):* A Star Is Born tells about Judy Oarland who as a girl shoots to stardom and later reaps tragedy In her personal life as her star continues to rise. Also starring, James Mason, Charles Bickford and Jack Carson. SUNDAY MATINEE (1
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  • FINANCE
    • 331 15  -  MARKET ROUND-UP by Lee Yew Meng The heightened interest In Faber Merliji shares this week has sparked off s p e c u 1 atlon as to whether the company is proposing a script issue. The market has been buzzing with rumours on this for
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    • 308 15 Reuter Geneva, Saturday An 1 nt e rnational meeting to discuss reorganising world trade in agricultural products was cancelled yesterday because of a dispute between the United States and the European Economic Community (EEC). Bources close to slowmoving world trade negotiations, conducted here under
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    • 167 15 Reuter London, Saturday American Commerce Secretary Rogers Morton yesterday assured Britain that the US government remains opposed to import controls despite its investigations into alleged car "dumping" by European manufacturers. Mr. Morton said at a press conference he had assured Minister Eric Varley the Investigations were
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    • 47 15 Reuter London, Saturday The Bank of England yesterday raised Its minimum lending rate from 11 to 12 per cent. The one per cent Increase was seen here as a move to strengthen sterling, which has reached record lows on foreign exchange markets this week.
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    • 36 15 Reuter Baghdad Saturday Iraq yesterday signed a £38 million ($173 million) contract with a consortium of Japanese companies for the implementation of the first stage of a gas project, the Iraq news agency reported.
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    • 73 15 United Press International New York, SaturdayExecutives of one of Western Europe's largest banks predicted yesterday a "surge" of West German business activity in the United Btates and Asia. Dr. Walter Seipp, a member of the managing board of the Westdeutsche Lan d e sbank Olrozentrale, said: "The United
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    • 372 15  -  The Consumer by Rav Dhaliwal Hoodwinking of consumers by traders is by no means unusual. But when a dea'er maintains that a customer cannot tell the difference between her own mattress and someone else that Is unusual. The enraged consumer found a furniture
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    • 132 15 Reuter Geneva, Saturday The conference negotiating a new international cocoa agreement reached its half-way stage yesterday, with delegates reporting "slow but steady progress." The current agreement la due to expire at the end of September next year. The conference, whose participants Include all 19 producer countries and
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    • Stock markets round the world
      • 208 15 Prices closed sharply and broadly higher yesterday In moderate trading on the New York Stock Exchange In reaction to some favourable economic news and hopes of an easier monetary policy. Investors were encouraged by the Federal Reserve Board report late on Thursday that the nation's money supply fell
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      • 34 15 Dow Jones closing stock averages on the New York Sleek Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrial 813.31 (up 18.66); 30 transport 158.30 (up 3.46); 15 utilities 78.18 (up 0.80); 65 stock* 346.50 (up 4.81).
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      • 342 15 DBS-Daiwa Securities International Ltd. Price soared 90 points, the first such rise this year with comparatively large volume. In the morning session, market began bullish, supported by substantial rally In New York and reflecting yesterday's advance In Tokyo. At the outset, there was a large volume of buy orders
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      • 61 16 iiii DEATH AKUMUGAM PILLAI (RETIRED PWD OVERSEER, BUTTER WORTH) HUSBAND OF SELLAMAL (PENANG AMAI.k PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON 4/10/75 LEAVING BEHIND WIFE, SONS VENG AD ASALAM. DORAISAMY (T.A.8.), BAI.ASUBRAMANIAM <18TANA). SINGARAVELU (UNION CARBIDE). DAUGHTERS NAGARETNAM. BANUMATHI, SUSSIE AND DANAM OF STRAITS CLINIC, SONS-IN-LAW GOVINDASAMY, SUPPIAH AND GRANDCHIL DREN. CORTEGE LEAVES
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      • 69 15 Zurich Stock Exchange closing prices In Swiss franca yefttei-day: UB8 B. 2855 10 UBS R. 430 ft BBC 414 1 Credit Suisse 2S66 Swissair B. m Swiss Relnaur. 2000 Wlnterthur B. 1890 Zurich Insur. Juvena B. Nestle B. 2880 66 Interfood B. I960 25 Clba Oetgy B. 1200 46
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • SPORT
    • 424 17  -  BADMINTON This is Phase Two of the new plan by Brian Miller The SBA's training and selection committee have launched an ambitious two-phase programme to bring about a revival of the game. Phase One will provide training for a larger pool of players and Phase
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    • 254 17 Reuter Montreal. Saturday The International Olympic Committee Executive Board, headed by President Lord Klll a n 1 n, gathered In Montreal yesterday to review preparations for the 1970 summer Games. For the first time In two years the leaders of the Olympic movement are gathering without a
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    • 40 17 Salisbury, Saturday The Rhodeslan government has banned Black youths from taking part in a planned multi-racial swimming gala here last night. Acting on government Instructions, the Salisbury City Council ruled that the gala must be "all White."
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    • 576 17 Reuter Zurich, Saturday The Bwe d e s of Malmo, who knocked East German champions Magdeburg out of the European soccer Cup two days ago, won the reward yesterday of a second round clash with the superstars of the o t-h e r Oermany
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    • 37 17 Sofia, Saturday Bulgarlan welghtllfter George Todorov yesterday snatched 128-kg in the up to 60-kg class for a new world record during an International tournament at Varna on the Black Sea. The previous record was 127.5-kg.
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    • 24 17 Monte Carlo, Saturday —Monaco led Israel 2-0 after the first day of in their Davis Cup European zone tennis match here yesterday.
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    • 294 18 RACING with Scrutineer L A Charisma, a Malay-sian-bred flve-year-old by Idomeneo, has a great chance of opening his winning account in Race 5 at Penang today. Charisma ran two promising races at Buklt Tlmah In August. She came from nearly last to finish fifth to
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    • 3086 18 MALAYSIAN-BRED ■SfYSSH 2.1 S CLASS 8 1200M ImmSB ($10,000 $7,000 to wlnn«r) 1 23 CMrt Safe a (TC Tan) Jaafax 3 91 (mom ttf) W M. MmaB 1 J Mm m«|ll a (Mayflower) Jutlr 3 M* (+1) t turn* M Ma) ftarak a (Aiuui)
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    • 128 18 1 SCRUTINEER CALL BOY EPSOM JEEP BLUE PETER IM* 1: BUM Nmtt Blntang Ferak N1m Maggie Court Belle Court Belle Miss Maggie Miss Maggie Court Belle Race IT Srlkandl Terrlflc Form Brandy Ginger Baden's Girl Terrific Form Baden's Girl Baden's Girl Brandy Ginger bat Glory Arlna Oold Sunshine Touch
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    • 324 18  -  By BLUE PETER Penang, Saturday Miss Maggie should give punters a good start in the opening race which is confined to Malay-sian-breds. The three-year-old by Japanese stallion RyuPalntlna showed ability in her debut at Kuala Lumpur in August when he finished second to Sltl
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    • 134 18 Reuter London, Saturday—A colt by Prix de I/Arc de Trlomphe winner Mill Reef fetched 75,000 guineas at the Newmarket October yearling sales lesterday a record for hese sales. The colt, the first of Mill Reef's produce to be offered at public auction In England, was bought
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    • 307 19 She should prove too fast for the opposition By SCRUTINEER LIU Marlene II should prove too speedy for the opposition in Class 4 Division 2 over 1200 m (Race 3) at Penang tomorrow. The nippy four-year-old won two of her last three starts In runaway fashion. And
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    • 3362 19 ■PM 2.0 CLASS 0 DIV 3 1200M aMm (16,000 $4,200 to winner) 1 7500 Pan* •ma H I (TKB) Meddle 8 87 (dd+3) 1200m t 7870 Man ■a IN lata Top Contender (Top) Manaor 8 MM (dd+3) 1200m 2 0439 Tilde Pirate H a
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    • 123 19 CALL BOY EPSOM JEW BLUB PETER Kmc I Praeteo Tudor Pirate PnctM Get Ready Tador Pirate Perkaaa PreaUa Mkmca Ram I Speedy Gondalc ■MiW KM Speedy Gcodalc Arabian Kalfbt AnaJc Huah Speedy Oondale Bamboo Kid Bamboo Kid Kmc S LIU Martens Jade Stone Lill Marlenc Jade stone Jade Htone
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    • 365 20 Santokh Singh, signed last week by Selangor League champions Hong Chin, will turn out for his new club against Geylang International at the National Stadium on Wednesday, reports PHILIP TAN. Santokh was not in the Hong Chin team list sent to Oeylang but officials
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    • 408 20  -  By PHILIP TAN Goals-a-plenty can be expected when Toa Payoh United entertain lowly Upper Serangoon United In the only league game tomorrow (k 1 c koff 4.30 pjn.). The Toa Payoh soccer machine, after going down to a 3-0 defeat by league leaders Armed Forces three weeks
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    • 141 20 Katherine Loh won the BICC women's "A" Division medal by one stroke from Nancy Clayton when she returned a nett 72 over the Island course. Bhe also took the 2nd nine ballsweep with a nett 72 over the Island course. She also took the 2nd nine ballsweep
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    • 134 20  -  SATURDAY by Conrad Ng Thailand are reluctant hosts of the Seap Games this year because only four countries will be taking part. Nevertheless, they are hoping to make the Games a success and have appealed to Singapore, Malaysia and Burma to send large contingents to take part. The Thai
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