New Nation, 2 January 1976

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  • 20 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Friday January 2, 1976 No- 1527 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 428/76 WI NEW NATION i COMMENT
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  • 461 1 No queues at petrol kiosks as dealers get fresh supplies The dlesel-shortage crisis Is almost over. Petrol kiosk dealers today reported their depleted stocks had been replenished and there were no queues. 81 n g a p ore's 500,000 schoolchildren returning after the December holidays were able
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  • 11 1 Police reported 70 accidents yesterday. Four were serious and one fatal.
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  • Article, Illustration
    136 1 This is how lawyer K. E. Hilborne went to work this morning. He walked out from his house and stood along Dunearn Road holding his placard at 8.15 a.m. More than 800 cars zoomed oast Mr Hilborne without stooping just as he was about to give up
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  • 134 1 United Press International Bangkok, Friday. A last-minute appeal by Prime Minister Kukrlt PramoJ apparently defused a general strike threat In Bangkok today. Shortly after the strike was to begin early this morning, there were no demonstrations or extraordinary work stoppages apparent. Bangkok was quieter than usual
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 111 2 This is one way of kicking off the new year. And for these children, it is the soccer way. Even if they have yet to make it Into our national squad, they know that something has to be done about our football standard if
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  • 493 2  -  To help those who have houses By Wang Look Fung The Singapore Ratepayers Association has appealed to the Ministry of National Development to consider further relaxation of HDB regulations which empower the Board to evict flat-owners who won private properties. In a letter to the
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  • 39 2 The National Productivity Board will organise a course on The Supervisor and His Job at the Hotel and Catering Training School, on Jan 12 at 7 p.m. The fee Is $50 for members and WO for non-members.
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  • 176 2 The new year started on a bullish note at the Stock Exchange of Singapore this morning. Trading was brisk and prices were sought higher acrocs the board. Bnsineas Done: First Section. S. Darby (36) 3.12. Sett (45) 3.16. UOB (3) 3 84. (10) 3.80, (12) 3.82. Sett.; (1)
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  • 307 2 The Law Society of Singapore has appealed to the HOB to waive Its administrative charges imposed on the resale of flats. In a letter signed by Mr. H E. Cashln. a committee member, the society urged the HDB to take Into consideration the additional burden
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  • 201 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday More than 500 professionals were registered with the Labour Ministry's Employment Office at the end of October. According to the Ministry's monthly newsletter, 428 of them were unemployed while the rest were seeking better positions. They include 203 executive officers, 75 engineers,
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  • 31 2 The SAF will conduct exercises in Mandal on tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. Blanks and thunderflashes will be used. The public Is advised not to be alarmed.
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  • 434 2 Lawyer K. E. Hilborne this morning issued a statement- in protest against the increas. Ed road taxes, additional registration fee and area licence fee. Here is the statement: Yes, this is intended to be a serious gesture about a serious matter. The Government admits that the public transport
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 53 2 Tomorrow: 12.25 am (2.7 m); 11.24 p.m. (3.1 m) Bund y: 12.56 a.m (2.7 m); 12.04 p.m. (3.1 m) Monday: 1.29 a.m (2.7 m); 12.44 p.m. (3.0 m) Tuesday: 1.57 a.m (2.7 m); 1.23 p.m. (2.9 m) Wednesday: 2.26 a.m (2.6 m); 2.03 p.m.„(2.7m) Thursday: 2.56 a.m. (2.6 m); 2.45
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  • 205 3  -  Lawmen crack down on pushers By Douglas Chan Customs and the Central Narcotics Bureau are cracking down on a drug syndicate operating in the Bugis Street area. The syndicate is believed to have been active there for several months, peddling drugs to seamen, tourists and
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  • 259 3  -  By Bharathi Mohan The police officer who shot and wounded Sha Bakar, the notorious Katong gunman, is to be commended. Asst. Supt. Henry Thomas, deputy head of the ClD's Organised Crimes Branch, will receive his commendation certificate from the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tan
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  • 269 3 It was sheer confusion for irate parents and their children when two new primary schools Mei Chin and Henderson schools held iheir orientation day late last week. Parents who had to register their children in the new schools were made to wait for hours because only
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  • 24 3 The Singapore Blood Transfusion Service mobile unit will be stationed at Raffles Places on Jan. 6 from 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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  • 23 3 Dr. Wong Heck Sing has been re-appointed a member of the Public Service Commission for another Ave years from Dec. 18.
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  • 87 3 Heave the crowd watches intently is the body is hauled up the bank of Stamford Canal. Police went into action yesterday after the dead man was found in the water opposite Capitol Theatre at 2.U p.m. Aged about he was Iving face downwards. The police
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  • 209 3 Contract workers In the shipbuilding and repairing industry will soon have to acquire an industry safety orientation course certificates before they can be recruited. This was disclosed by the secretary of the NTUC's Occupational Health and Sai'ety Committee Mr. Ivan Baptist. "Workers who undergo the
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 120 3 WHAT'S ON Prof. Hwang Sheo Wu THE GOODWILL will open an EXHIBI- SHOP of the Singapore TION OP SEAL-CARV- SHOP of the Singapore ING CALLIGRAPHY Council of Social Service AND PAINTING by the is open till 5 njn. late Mr. Tan Keng THE JURONG BIRD Cheow at the Singapore PARK
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  • 217 4 Is the cost of maintaining a car getting too math for you? If it is, there is one way oat sell it to the scrapjardi That is what many ear owners have been doing and this is keeping peoile iimC Teo Bock Ek, 29.
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  • 59 4 Police are investigating whether an arsonist was responsible for the fire which destroyed three shops and several huts In Tanjong Rhu last night. The probe was sparked off after a man. Llm Kay Long, 69, was found hanged in one of the charred huts. A cripple. Tay Chin
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  • 290 4 The local motor industry will continue to survive and even flourish despite the Government's latest increases in road taxes, according to Mr. J. Auton, the Ford manager here. Speaking at the Introduction of two new Ford Escort model* at the Shangri-la hotel on Wednesday Mr.
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  • 300 4 The Customs department has reminded the shipping community of the consequences of bribing its employees. In a circular recently. the department also sought the co-operation of shippers in eradicating the illegal tipping of public officers and advised them on what to do should attempts be made
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  • 596 5 CIA is running a big operation there despite Congress moves against US involvement: Report Reuter and UPI Boston, Friday. Hundreds of American ex servicemen have been sent to Angola and more have been trained and equipped to go, the Christian Science Monitor says in
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  • 277 5 New York Times London, Friday—Two controversial figures are among the 32 people who received Knighthoods from Queen Elizabeth In the New Year's honours that were announced here yesterday. They are Campbell Adamson, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry, and Richard Marsh, Chairman of the
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  • 241 5 Reuter Vienna Friday Chancellor Bruno Krelsky said yesterday that terrorist attacks would never deter Austria from providing hospitality for international organisations and refugees. The Chancellor defended his action in permitting pro-Arab guerrillas who attacked OPEC Headquarters in Vienna 11 days ago to leave Austria with their
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  • 55 5 New Dalhi, Friday Government officials have given up hope of saving 372 miners entombed five days ago by millions of gallons of water in India's worst mine disaster, according to Indian news agency reports. The reports said officials have taken the miners as dead and are mw
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  • 110 5 Reuter Tel Aviv, Friday A rabbinical (religious) court here has ordered a 83-year-old woman to grant her husband a divorce since she Is incapable of giving him any children. The court said that if the woman, whose name was *not disclosed, refuses to
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  • 38 5 Cairo, Friday The policy making Central Committee of Egypt's Arab Socialist Union yesterday asked President Anwar Sadat to nominate himself for another term of office. Egypt's next presidential elections will take place on Oct. 2.
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  • 556 6 Fireworks, champagne, dancing through the night United Press International Manila, Friday. President Ferdinand Marcos danced with Gina Lollobriglda, Mrs. Marcos, her diamonds showing, learned the "New York Walk," and Philip Niarchos puffed slowly on a Eucalyptus cigarette from the sidelines. The occasion was a drifting
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  • 60 6 United Press International New York, Friday—Robert Altman's Nashvll'e a comedy-drama set in a country and western music scene, has been named best Aim of 1975 by the New York Film Critics Circle. The 28 critics, representing newspapers, magazines and other media, voted by proxy and In
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  • 319 6 Associated Press Moscow. Friday The Soviet Union denied on Wednesday that it was cheating on Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements with the United States and said it is not Moscow's fault the SALT talks are deadlocked. The Kremlin statement was in a Tass
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  • 216 6 United Press International Salt Lake City, Friday Butcher Bob Drage can now move all Ave Angers cn his right hand a hand he accidentally amputated on a meat saw. Mr. Drage, 44, will keep his hand thanks to his own coolness after t.ie
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  • 118 6 United Press International TODAY Is Friday. Jan. 2. the second dav of 1976 with 364 to follow. THE MOON Is approaching its first quarte»*. THE MORNING STARS are Saturn and Venus. THE EVENING STARS are Jupiter and Mars. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn.
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  • 57 6 Associated Press A 32-year-old housewife, Identified as O. Heldemarip, threw her former husband out of her third floor Hamburg apartment window early on New Year's Day during a quarrel, police reported. The man, a 33-year-o!d post office employee, plunged 10 m. onto a lawn but survived with
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  • 359 6 New poems extol revolution NYT Hong Kong, Friday. The publication of two new poems by Chairman Mao Tse-tung yesterday and a strongly aworded New Year's Day editorial defending the results of the Cultural Revolution appear to mark an attempt by the aging chairman to
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  • 175 6 Reuter Lisbon, Friday.—Paramilitary Re p u b 11 can Ouards shot dead three leftwlng demonstrators In Oporto last night as Portugal entered the new year with a resurgence of political violence. The guards opened Are on a crowd of several hundred who tried to force their
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  • 222 6 United Press International Jerusalem. Friday Foreign Minister Mr Yigal Allon. is suggesting within the government that Informal talks be held with Jordan and leaders of the occupied West Bank in efforts to reach an interim peace agreement, a newspaper report said yesterday. A
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    • 150 6 WORLD WEATHER New York Fair. 7-3 C. Headline: Moscow denies violating 1972 strategic arms pact. San Francisco Fair. 12-2 C. Headline: Gandhi charges US meddling. Tokyo Bunny. 10-IC. Headline: Americans judge others by money. Moscow Overcast, 1-mlnus IC. Headline: Congratulatory message of Soviet Government to Soviet people." Hong Kong Sunny,
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  • 370 7 He hopes to sign a friendship treaty with China this year United Press International Tokyo, Friday. Prime Minister Takeo Miki said yesterday he hopes that a China-Japan friendship treaty—strongly opposed by the Soviet Union will be signed this year. "I would like to make this
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  • 128 7 United Press International New Delhi, Friday Tax authorities claimed yesterday they have unearthed US$2 billion ($5 billion) worth of undisclosed money under a "voluntary disclosure" scheme whose deadline ended on New Year's eve. Minister of State for Finance Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, told newsmen
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  • 24 7 Los Angeles, Friday A doctors' go-slow launched to protest against soaring insurance rates got off to a slow start in Southern California yesterday.
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  • 291 7 United Press International Milan, Friday The mother of Flat President Gianni Agnelli's son-ir.-law, released yesterday by kidnappers, said they chained her to a wall and cut off her hair but but gave her champagne and cake on Christmas Day. Police sources said a ransom
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  • 344 7 Ruling party 'yes' for changes United Press International New Delhi, Friday A key conference of India's ruling Congress Party ended yesterday after renewing its backing for the state of internal emergency, postponing general elections, and hinting at sweeping constitutional changes. The party's national conference, meeting
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  • 70 7 Christchurch, Frida. American research workers evacuated from a remote scientific outpost In Antarcticat are displaying symptoms which doctors fear cou'd be caused by bacteria which had lain dormant under the Ice for millions of years, informed sources said today. The 12 Americans were flown from their base, 20
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  • 28 7 Washington, Friday Police say Intruders attempted to break Into President Ford's campaign committee headquarters on Wednesday morning but left empty handed when they triggered a burglar alarm.
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  • 307 7 Reuter Jakarta, Friday.—The United Nations would be making a "big mistake" if it ignored a message using it to postpone a visit by a special envoy to troubled Portuguese Timor, according to the commander of pro-Indo-nesian forces there. Mr. Thomas Ooncalves was
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  • 237 7 Reuter London, Friday British children, so often "seen but not heard" are to have a greater say In their future from yesterday. A new act known as the "Children's Charter" comes Into force, reforming adoption laws and the rules governing care of minors. From
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  • 39 7 Associated Press New York, Friday—The Queens drive-In theatre In Charlotte lost Its screen to 50 mile per hour winds before it cbuld special New Year's Eve feature. The scheduled film was Gone With The Wind.
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  • OPINION
    • 430 8 New Nation is Ave years old this month. It has been a half decade of fascinating, sometimes fearsome newsmakers, both people and events. The sixth year, Indeed the next half decade, will not be dull either. New Nation was born of a partnership between the
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    • 64 8 r > WHISPERS At the AGM of a society, when the time came to vote for the office bearers of the executive committee, the nominees rose to leave the room, as required by regulations. out tne rest of the members decided It was too much trouble.
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    • 180 8 I would like to express appreciation for the nroject by the Paries and' Recreation Division of the PWD at the East Coast Park, especially In the area opposite the executive flats. The footpaths and cycle tracks are wellbuilt with proper lightings and good drainage. The picnic
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    • 195 8 NANYANG SIANG PAU As far as the world is concerned, it has been an Inauspicious year with reports of civil wars, mass unemployment. unstable governments and fighting between nations. Comparatively. Singapore has fared much better and has not been too badly affected by the external factors. As
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    • 205 8 BANGKOK POST Prime Minister Kukrit PramoJ has made the right decision in ordering the investigation of the murder of a group of Thai Muslims In Pattani Province and the arrest of the murderers, no matter who they are. The probers have to look into various probabilities. First, the
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    • 537 8  -  FRIDAY WITH ISMAIL KASSIM ISMAIL KASSIM The question that will crop up regularly this year is: Will another country in South-east Asia go the way of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos? Not that the domino theory is back in fashion ag&ln, but' the stepped-up
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    • 104 8 TAMIL MURASU It Is to be noted that the Soviet Prime Minister Mr. Kosygln has paid a visit to Turkey when the relations between the US and Turkey are strained. The US had bases in Turkey which could spy upon the military activities In Russia. But, after ihe
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    • 43 8  -  NG JWEE PHUAN (Mrs) (Mrs.), Senior Public Relations Officer. Ministry of National Development. Singapore, 2. Thank you for drawing our attention to the fallen road sign at Jalan Tauge <NN, Dec. 30). The sign been reinstated by the PWD.
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    • 82 8 TAMIL NESAN Since Malaysia and Thailand share common borders and are members of ASEAN, mutual cooperation between them has gained more Importance as a result of recent political developments In this region. And Thailand's measures to further strengthen this friendship must be welcomed. Thailand Premier Kukrlt PramoJ's
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  • 643 9  -  Blame their doting parents Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times There Is Increasing evidence that students are not doing as well in school these days as they used to. The national tests they take to get into college show that in most subjects this generation of scholars has
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  • 650 9 Associated Press Is Carlos alive and free, dead, or enjoying Algerian hospitality after leading a brazen and bloody attack on the oil cartel? Authorities in several countries who &re tracking the "Jackal'' would like to know. Despite claims by the leader of the oP£C operation
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  • 419 9 Reuter Although 1975 has marked the worst recession to hit West Germany since World War Two, the country's car Industry, usually a barometer of economic trends, Is enjoying a surprising boom. And few have been more surprised by this paradoxical development than the
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  • 300 10/11  -  Are the New Year resolutions made just to be broken? Interviews by BETTY KHOO, ISMAIL KASSIM vVho takes New Year resolutions seriously? A better question may be: Who makes them anymore? Just ask around and you will find that most people scoff at the Idea of making resolutions
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  • 311 10/11 Singapore beauty queen. MISS MAGGIE SIM who won the Miss Personality title at the recent Miss World contest Is an exception. She prefers making resolutions on Ciiristmas Day. But lately she has not made any. "I have grown older and I suppose I know
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  • 142 10/11 For top local artist THOMAS YEO making New Year resolutions is a must.. "For self employed people like myself, it is necessary. It's a kind of discipline you set for yourself and try to keep it up otherwise you might Just find excuses for
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  • 259 10/11 Asia's fastest girl oji the 400 metres track, CHEE SWEE LEE, makes and breaks resolutions all the time. That is why she likes to keep them a secret. "If I can think of a resolution I can keep, then I don't mind telling
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  • Page 10/11 Miscellaneous
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  • 793 12 Satirical French television show —and it does bite Reuter They asked writer Francoise Sagan to take her sweater off, they had a peep in director Roger Vadim's medicine cupboard and tried to get elder statesman Maurice Couve De Murville to sing a nursery rhyme in
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  • 337 12  -  Eating Out by VIOLET OON When I went to the Red Lion Restaurant In Block 86. Redhlll Close, last year the sweet-tasting Malay food there was the craze. Then recently, I heard that their cook Enclk Abu Bakar, had left
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  • 415 12 Reuter Kinr Kong, the (iant ape that terrorised New York in the classic monster movie by swinging atop the Empire State Bnilding, is about to be revived—in duplicate. Both Universal Studios and Italian producer Dino De Laurentis have announced plans to remake the story of the
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  • GRAPEVINE
    • 112 13 After about 50 years of Puritanism and prudlshness. sex Is coming out of the communist closet reported the Washington Post. But this doesn't mean that sex shojs and pornographic magazines and skin flicks are going to flourish when the lid is taken off. Far from
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    • 51 13 "I know your face. You look so familiar," the forward young woman said to a man she was Introduced to at a Christmas party. It turned out that he was the Assistant General Manager of the office she was working in. Well, it was a large
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    • 61 13 It was supposed to be a Mother's Day service In a church in California. But the processional hymn chosen was God Of Our fathers. The Recessional hymn was Rise Up, O Men Of Ood. The special music was Now Let fJs Pra'ife All Faithful Men. Tne
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    • 51 13 Brainy girls are the sexiest, says British psychology professor Oynne Jones. According to Professor Ovnne, better educated and more Intelligent women appear more sexy than those with less developed gray matter because they seem to know what Is expected of them and they read more about
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    • 57 13 A garage in England Is offering a free keepfit gym session with sauna and tone-up to every customer who buys £o worth of petrol. Only one motorist out of 40 eligible has taken up the offer. Which goes to show that probably sauna establishments in Britain aren't
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    • 72 13 by Vanessa "Nude bathing manifests a Pagan rather than a Christian attitude to the body'' a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church In Australia said. In case you are wondering how else can anyone bathe but in the nude the good Bishop was referring to swlmminng
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    • 72 13 No wonder the average Englishman In the street can still say: "I'm alright Jack" even though he Is being told over and over again that the British economy is pretty sick. According to a report Issued by the British Health Department, the number of prescriptions
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    • 91 13 It seems that a British store has come up with the Idea of selling women's undies all those lacy, skimpy bikini panties, seethrough bras and naughty nighties in the men's wear department. The purpose they say, Is to "spare the blushes of men" wanting to buy such
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  • 328 13  -  Doc's Casebook I S.L. "I hate my face, especially my eyes," said Alice. She had come to consult me about an eyelid operation she wanted to have. "I have had conflicting advice from two plastic surgeons," she informed me. "One surgeon advised me against
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  • 101 13  -  C. K. Tang Now that all the New Year fun and frivolity is over and you've hung up your extravagant party gear, it's time to think of sensible clothes. Sensible but smart. And cheap enough for the office girl. That's the kind of clothes
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 397 13 YOUR LUCKY STAR IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are considered by many to be a methodical, logical, and altogether deepthlnking Individual. There are others, however, who know the frequency with which you are inclined to lose your temper and, thus, the frequency with which thinking of any kind
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  • 350 14 New York Times New York, Friday. After two tortuous years of troubled flight, the American economy has again started to soar, helped by favourable fiscal, monetary and inflationary winds. Business activity has yet to reach the high plateau of the earlier part of this aecade,
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  • 101 14 Reuter East Berlin, Friday. Soviet-East German trade will Increase by more than 50 per cent In volume to more than 32,500 million roubles ($105,000 million) In the next five years, according to the terms of a new trade agreement published here yesterday. A
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  • 262 14 United Press International Dacca, Friday Black sand may deliver Bangladesh from the economic morass in which It Is caught. The sand, rich In minerals. Is found abundantly along the country's 128 kms of unbroken shoreline. Recent experiments have shown these sands contain
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  • 338 14 United Press International New York. Friday Tbuki to a near-record first half. the stock market in 1975 registered its best cam In 21 yean. The outlook Is for a continued advance early in the new year, but there are
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  • 36 14 Dow Jon js closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials ***** (unchanged); i! 0 transport 172 65 (up 1.44); 15 utilities 83.85 (up 0.96); 65 stocks 261.66 (up 0 96).
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  • 97 14 Reuter Kuala Lumpur Friday Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Ilamzah Abu S mah (above) "ill lead the Malaysian delegation to a meeting of Asian trade ministers in Jakarta from Jan. 13 to 21, it was announced here yesterday. A trade and Industry Ministry spokesman said
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  • 175 14 Reuter Venezuela yesterday formally nationalised its oil industry, fifth largest in the world, ending more than 50 years of foreign control. President Carlos Andres Perez hoisted a huge Venezuelan flag at the site of the country's first commercially productive well near lake Maracaibo, in western
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  • 197 14 Reuter Port Said, Friday Port Said yesterday became a tax free city the first In Egypt In an effort to attract foreign coital, industry and tourism. Customs, Immigration and Police officials took up positions at six gates erected at the city's entrances. Port Said,
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 265 14 NEW NATION CROSSWORD d Ml II HI UMUHB iil ■I ■iIMI y iil id tl if J ii ■a ii ii ii 10 Native of Canea 11 Name In spying 12 Certain lodge brothers 13 Enthusiasm 19 Of the cheek bone 22 Scope 25 Fish 26 Sprite 28 Decoration on
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    • 141 15 EXCELLENT VEGETARIAN FOOD. Fast Service, alr-con-dltlpned, easy parking 10 00 a.m. 8.30 p.m Kwan Im c Vegetarian Restaurant. 190 Waterloo Street, Tel: *****9 Disney Restaurant A Coftaa Houm Isi Floor, Rotolna Houm (1) DELICIOUS INDONESIAN FOOD (2) SATAY OADO QADO (3) COCONUT ICE CREAM (4) WESTERN DISHES AND SET LUNCH
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  • 312 16 ON THE TRACK uith Blue Peter J Ipoh, Friday. Golden Mandarin did a winning gallop here this morning. Ridden by Gabriel Curran, the three-year-old by Golden Orange did 600 m in 37.8 with ease. The going was good. Jackaroo (Mi. Sng) was Impressive over 600 m in
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  • 1300 16 Saturday Cl. 4 Div. 4—1200m Putra Makasar 57 6 Sparkling 67 4 Kim Steed 661 15 Treble One 6«1 20 Osibisa mm 14 Elite II Ml 10 Roller ball 66 18 People's Park 56 13 Bullion n 551 2 Asli 661 9 Tekseng 651 19
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  • 969 16 Ipoh, Tuesday M a n 8 or Matban has entered a formidable team of 21 horses for the Ipoh meeting and It should pay to follow him. Pahlawan 111 Is the pick of his string. The five-year-old by Soblg was an easy winner over
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  • 316 16 SAiCRDAY RACE ONE: 1.15 CUm 6 Div 1700 m: Five O Five, Biatlran, IHnlib Don, Yale Count, Edinburgh. RACE TWO: 1.45 Clam 6 Div 3 1700 m: Renaissance, Stiletto, Warm Brandy, Perkaaa 111. RACE THREE: Z.IS Claw 6 Div 2 1700 m: Frodo Baffin*. Graduate 11, Royalt' 11, I*ontl
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  • 115 16 Reuter Perth, Friday Philomel, a four-year old New- Zealand-bred mare scored an exciting win In the A<loo,ooo ($337,500) Perth Cup here yesterday. The winner, a 4 to 1 joint favourite, won by two-and-half lengths from 11 to 2 chance Ace Queen. Wolf City, 25 to 1
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  • 77 16 Reuter London. Friday A scrumhalf of Polish origin holds the kev to England's chances oi gaining revenge over Australia In their Rugby Union International at Twickenham hero tomorrow. After munths of lectors took a gamble searching. England's sein naming new cap Mike Lampkowski at scrum half,
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  • 118 17 Reuter Auckland, Friday David Bedford, Britain's world 10,000 metres record holder, said here yesterday that time was against his bid to run in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Bedford, who la in New Zealand to regain fitness after a hamstring operation, added: "Maybe 111
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  • 74 17 Kinshasa. Fi:jay The Ghana boxer David "Polso n" Kotey. the World Boxing Council featherweight champion, was named African Sportsman of the Year In a poll of African sports Journalists. Second In the competi- tion for the Mobutu Sese Seko Trophy, donated by the Zaire President,
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  • 352 17  -  By Albert Johnson Eighteen swimmers, Including Seap Games seven gold winner Justina Tseng, who were banned for two years by the International Swlmm 1 n g Federation (FINA) for competing in Peking last June, may get an early reprieve. This Is because a
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  • 496 17 Reuter London, Friday—Nineteen of Britain's smaller soccer clubs set out on a Cup trail tomorrow which they hope will lead to fame and fortune. The giants of the First and Second Divisions come Into the third round of the competition to Join
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  • 220 17 Reuter London, Friday—Chelsea were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Second Division rivals Bristol Rovers In the English Football Association Cup third round match yesterday. Third Division Peterborough United visited Second Division Nottingham Forest and held them to a scoreless draw. Celtic's lead
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  • 103 17 Madras, Friday—lndia took a two point lead at the top of Pool "A" when they beat Belgium 2-1 In the Rene Frank international hockey tournament here today. In Pool "B" Spain played their first match and were held to a 2-2 draw by Kenya who gained their
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  • 71 17 Reuter Lahore, Friday The manager of the touring West German hockey team said here yesterday he was not satisfied with the umpiring In the first test against Pakistan on Wednesday. After West Germany, the Olympic champions, were beaten 4-3 In Rawalpindi team manager R. Borgmann said:
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  • 25 17 Cairo. Friday.—Egypt led Ireland 2-1 after the second day of their Davis Cup European rone Section "A" third round tennis tie here yesterday.
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  • 1305 18 r > Asian Sports roundup 1975 L i United Press International Tokyo, Friday. The 23rd World Cup golf tournament, witn 94 players representing 47 countries at the beautiful Navatanee golf course In Bangkok in December, was one of tne greatest sports events held in
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  • 673 19  -  TEE-UP •<f Lim Kee Chan Singapore Island Country Club will start as firm favourites in the inaugural Premier League which starts on Sunday. The SICC team comprise Gordon Seow handicap 4), Wong Weng Hong (5). Tan Kwang Jin (5) and Ong Chew Bee (7). Weng
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  • 346 19 Associated Press Manila. Friday Despite a financial setback In his first boxing promotion in Hong Kong In November, a prominent Filipino ring lmpressarlo says he plans to nut up a much bigger boxing programme in the Crown colony in 1976. "It was
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  • 166 19 Associated Press London, Friday Lord Killanin, the quiet president of the International Olympic Committee, appealed yesterday for sportsmanship throughout the world. 1 In a message to the world. Lord Killanin said: "As we enter 1976, the year of the 21st Olympiad. I should like
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  • 50 20 MEI LIN: Happy New Year! When are you driving over to my place for tonight's date? AH FOOK: I hate to tell you this but you'll have to wait for me at the bus stop in front of your house. I have sent my Jalopy to the junkyard.
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    • 749 20 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by THE MEANING OF LIFE: A Cantones* drama 3.55 DIARY OF EVENTS (C) 4 00 WINDOW (C): A magazine series 4.30 INTERMISSION 6.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by LASSIE: The Oolden Eagle 6.25 CONSUMERS' GUIDE (E/M) 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.35 I
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    • 481 20 SHOW of the Day DR. KILDARE (On Channel Five at 9.05 p.m.): Hour of Decision Who will live and who will die? The hospital simmers in tension as Drs. Kildare and Gillespie prepare to announce the lucky Richard four who'll get the kidney machine treatment. Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Masses
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