New Nation, 3 February 1976

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    20 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Tuesday February 3, 1976 No. 1553 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 428/76 r=^F=^ NEW (0) NATION COMMENT
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    Break out drama at girls' home
    221 1  -  By Bharathi Mohan Seven teenage girls escaped from the Telok Blangah Girls Home to celebrate Chinese New Year. The girls, aged 15 to 18 years, ripped open the window wire meshing, climbed down the *wostorey building and scaled over the double baro ed wire
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    Hunt for killer
    65 1 London, Tuesday Police are looking for the tiller of a young Chinese nurse from Hong Kong was stabbed to who lay in bed death as sne --ops* last night at a nui-> home in Leamington. police have asked Interpol to the 23-yeai 0 n« latlves in Ho.
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    Olympics boycott
    590 1  -  ...move by angry nations in the Third World EXCLUSIVE by Jeffrey Low Thailand and China are believed to be calling a meeting of Afro-Asian-Latin American countries in Bangkok in April to consider a boycott of the Montreal Olympics. According to informed sources In Bangkok, the meeting Is being
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    $23m facelift for the city
    310 1  -  By Wang Look Fung The Housing and Development Board has launched two urban redevelopment projects costing $23.4 million at Stamford and Hong Lim aimed at moving the population back into the city and injecting more life In the city night. The projects scheduled for completion
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      458 1 Camera close-up on S.E. Asia's cultural festival —centre pages ALSO INSIDE... S'pore man wins appeal against death sentence Page 2 Moynihan quits Page 6 IN THE OTHER PAGES: Moneywords 11, Crossword 16; Stars 15; Comics 18. air Ticket b lour Supermarket I r:t LOWEST PARE SI Singapore/ London or Pari*,
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    Lock icon Sentence of death quashed
    656 2 Reuter London, Tuesday Mohamed Y a s i n bin Hussein, 23, who was sentenced to death for murder by the Singapore High Court won his Privy Council appeal a g a 1 nst conviction yesterday. Yasln, alias Rosli, was sentenced to death In llarch, 1974,
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    A SOUND-PROOF RANGE FOR POLICE
    221 2 By Eileen Tan The Singapore Police Force will soon have its first ultramodern sound-proof shooting range at the new Toa Payoh police station. The range will be equipped with a special bullet trap. The new police complex on a 1.8 hectare site at the Junction
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    Newsmen's 'summit'
    256 2 Jakarta, Tuesday Fifty senior Journalists from ASEAN countries will assemble here on Feb. 15 for a flve-<lay seminar to Identify and discuss the roles of the mass media In regional development. The seminar. Jointly organised by the Confederation of Aie an Journalist* and the Asean permanent committee on
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    Stock market
    148 2 Prices Improved at the Ctock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minutes of trading this morning after a quiet opening. 0.C.8.C. led the field In the finance sector, advancing 40 cents to $10.90 at one stage. Profit-taking, however trimmed the gain to 20 cents when the counter
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    Lock icon Raja for talks
    180 2 Reuter Foreign Minister Mr. S. Rajaratnam Is due to **TlTe in Bangkok on Saturday for the meeting of ASEAN Foreign Ministers in the Thai *adde resort of Pattaya next week. Filipino Foreign Minister, Mr. Carlos Romulo, is scheduled STTiVe on 8u»"*" hl ff kw*i sSS'oTttJ two other
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      642 2 n BIG TIMES FOR THE CIAIT HWUKI: Wane Bar and Ya rone return as the craxy bumpkins who find a beg of levels. The find leads to ridiculous hapIJO. 4, THE HORSEMAN AND THE BAMURAI: A spaghetti Western set In the Bast with Tony Anthony taking the lead role. Also
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    11 2 Police reported 71 accidents yesterday. One was serious and another fatal.
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      167 3 Enjoyed a 10-course Chinese dinner, drinks at a piano bar, a show in a supper chib, and strolled through the garden in the moonlight. iflHi No parking problem. Didn't, spend a cent on taxi fares. First we had delicious Chinese cuisine at the Shang Palace. Their Hong Kong chef is
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    Air fuel racket
    376 4  -  Oil firm employees diverting aircraft supplies to petrol kiosks Bj Douglas Chan C u 81 oms officers have uncovered a racket involving the supply and delivery of aviation fuel to aircraft at Paya Lebar Airport. The ofllcers have ques tioned some employees of oil companies and the
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    Car-pools for disabled plea
    223 4 The Singapore Association for the Disabled has called on the Automobile Association of fKngapore to heip form car-pools for the handicapped. It also urged members of the public to five lifts to the disabled if they work In the same area. x The chairman of the
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    Aircraft service
    315 4  -  ...by new company By Nancy Koh The Government is settipg up a company for the maintenance of military and civil aircraft. Singapore Aerospace Maintenance Company (SAMCO), will begin operation* at Seletar airbase on April 1. It will handle routine servicing, Inspections and shopwork for the Singapore Air Force's
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    Rearing of groupas a big success
    369 4 The Fishery Training Centre at Changl has success fully reared groupas. The centre rears 800 to 700 groupas every year Now they are trying to hatch the fish from eggs. Mr. Chen Fu Yan, directing supervisor of research said: "We catch the baby fish
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    Buying up in Johore
    211 4  -  Cheaper houses Bj Peter Ong Many Singaporeans are buying houses and land in Johore because of the high property prices here. Several housing developers and real estate agents In the Malaysian state said prices of houses were 10 to 30 per cent cheaper than in 8
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    Opening
    27 4 Dr. Ooh Keng Swee, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence will open the Kreta Ayer Education Centre at Sago Lane at 300 p.m. on Saturday.
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    Killed
    25 4 A 13-year-old girl. Oh Ah Tla of Ulu Pandan Road, was killed when she was knocked down by a car along Clementl Road yesterday.
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    22 pc women still accept arranged marriages
    261 4  -  By Rav Dhaliwal About 22 per cent of women in Singapore still accept the traditional form of arranged marriages, according to a survey by a local sociologist. In a survey published In her book Women In Modern Singapore, Dr. Aline Won? of the
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    Lock icon The crisis way to economic order
    457 5 Romulo: Only then will the rich nations act to stop the world imbalance Reuter Manila, Tuesday Philippine Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo yesterday called on the world's poor nations to create a crisis that would make richer countries take decisive steps to correct international economic
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    Lock icon 1700 TIMES OVER
    81 5 Reuter New York, Tuesday The three cars which have received the most parking tickets among the 2000 vehicles used by diplomats here belong to Uganda, police said yes- terday. The Peugeots assigned to the 13-member Ugandan mission to the UN have been given more than 1700 tickets
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    Booze: Row over bid to tighten law
    481 5 Kuala Lumpur. Tuesday An official warning that a 24-year-old law forbidding Muslims to drink or buy liquor In public places will be strictly enforced has sparked off controversy in the Malaylanguage press which questioned the feasibility of its enforcement. The secretary of the
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    Promotions for 20 varsity lecturers
    257 5 Seven senior lecturers have been promoted to associate professors and 13 lecturers to senior lecturers In the University of Singapore. Among the new associate professors are Mrs. Ann E. Wee from the Social Work Department and Dr. Chia Boon Lock from the Medicine Department. A
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    Lock icon 'Accept half the pay rise' call to Aussies
    236 5 Reuter Canberra, Tuesday. Five million Australians were asked yesterday to accept only half of a scheduled national pay award to beat Inflation and get the country back on a sound economic footing. The call for wage restraint was contained In the first
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    Lock icon Moynihan quits UN post
    405 6 Controversial envoy goes back to Harvard Reuter Washington, Tuesday Mr. Daniel Patrick Moynlhan, America's outspoken ambassador to the UN has submitted his resignation to President Ford so that he can return to Harvard University, the White House announced yesterday. Hl* resignation comes less than a week
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    Lock icon 'No' to probe
    52 6 Reuter London, Tuesday Mr. David Ennals, Minister of Btate at the Foreign Office, yesterday rejected a suggestion In the House of Commons that he should appoint a commission of Inquiry to Investigate the government of Hong Kong In the light of the revelations of corruption In recent
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    Lock icon Today
    173 6 UPI TODAY is Tuesday. Jan. 3, the 34th day of 1970 with 332 to follow. THE MOON is between Its new phase and the first quarter. THE MORNING BTAR is Venus. THE EVENING BTARS are Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    53 6 Reuter Quebec, Tuesday—A 12-year-old boy survived a 96km journey oetween London and Chatham, Ontario, clinging to the undercarriage of a railway train. The boy. Shawn Murphy, was found freezing and covered with slush when passengers boarding the train at Chatham spotted his snowcovered feet sticking out from
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    Lock icon JAPAN SEA: U.S. LOSES GRIP
    322 6 UPI Washington. Tuesday. The Navy's top Admiral said yesterday the US has lost its once undisputed control of the sea of Japan, separating Its major Asian ally from the China mainland, and retains only "a slim margin of superiority" In other vital sea areas over
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    HK festival
    29 6 Hong Kong. Tuesday Governor sir Mur r a > Maclehose opened the fourth Hong Kong Art* festival at a colourful ceremony In front of the City Hall yesterday.
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    Lock icon New sea limits plan
    96 6 AP Tokyo. Tuesday Japan plans to extend Its territorial water limits from the present 5-8 km to 22 2 km by the end of this year. Prime Minister Takeo Mlkl said. Answering questions In the Lower House s budget committee. Mr. Mlkl said Japan would make
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    Lock icon Soviets hit at US defence budget
    295 6 Reuter Moscow. Tuesday The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda nas accused the US administration of moving against a trend to military detente by boosting Its defence budget as a concession to "reactionary forces." At the same time another article In the Kremlin organ accused
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    Lock icon Ousted head tells of iron hand of Indian govt
    253 6 Reuter Madras, Tuesday Ousted Tamil Nadu Chief Minuter Muthuvel Karunanldhi charged yesterday that India was heading for one-party rule, but denied that he had been supporting secession from the Indian federation. Mr. Karunanldhi, the 52-year-old Dravldlan Welfare Association (DMK) party leader,
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    Lock icon Thou shalt: Vatican's new guidelines on sex
    266 6 AP Vatican Cltjr, Tuesday The Vatican daily Owrvatore Romano said that some homesexual actg may not be sinful because of various psychological and physical factors of those engaging In them. It urged churchmen to adapt general rules to individual cases. Osservatore expanded on
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      163 6 New York Partly cloudy. 8-IC. Headline: Soviets say Kissinger twisting their Angola P° Ucy Rome Cloudy, 147C. Heaollne: New government may be formed within a week. Tokyo Cloudy, 123C. Headline: UN envoy to arrange Spanish Sahara choice. London Cloudy, occasional slight snow 1-minus 2C. Headline: Thieves escape with 119 Picassos.
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    Lock icon Blizzard havoc in US
    423 7 New York hit by the most severe weather in several years' AP New York, Tuesday Swirling snow driven by blizzard-force winds struck the east coast d u r i n g the night, knocking out power, forcing airports and schools to close and bringing rush-hour traffic
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    Lock icon Congress plans meeting to pick new PM
    208 7 Reuter Peking, Tuesday Plans are being made for a meeting of the standing committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber stamp parliament, according to sources here. The main items on the agenda would almost certainly be the appointment of a Premier
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    Lock icon Mutiny on tanker
    71 7 Reuter Liverpool, Tuesday A Hong Kong owned tanker has lain Idle in port here for 10 days after its crew staged a mutiny to demand back pay, the High Court was told yesterday. The crew of the 18,413tonne Panamanian-regis-tered tanker Camellia brandished knives on Jan. 23 to
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    Lock icon Drugs haul
    30 7 Reuter Washington. TuesdayUS Customs agents seized nearly US$lOO million <Ss2so million) worth of narcotics and dangerous drugs In January a monthly seizure record the Customs Bureau said. Reuter.
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      364 7 Pick the Dorothy Gray Skin Care Consultant with the Friendliest Smile And win a free trip to Hong Kong You've collected over the past 2 weeks, a total of 10 photographs of Dorothy Gray Skin Care Consultants each with a friendly smile. We would like you now to decide in
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    A sacrifice that is worthwhile
    481 8 The modern Olympic Games have withstood many challenges. But the latest the threat of a boycott of the Montreal Olympics in July by some AfroAsian and Latin American countries may lead to acrimony of 41 kind that will leave the International Olympic Committee truncated. If
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    Invitation to jail
    63 8  -  WHISPERS ttr> ISPV^j If you are erer itr~ the Oxfordshire town of Abingdon In England. don't be curprised If you receive an invitation to fo to jail! That's because the town's 19th Cen- tury jail has been transformed Into a 30th Century recreation complex, which Includes a
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    Ticket for no seat
    148 8  -  WHO TO BLAME Singapore, S. I paid 80 cento for my ticket when I boarded a Blngapore-Johore express bus in JB. But after the checkpoint, I found my seat occupied. According to the conductor, passengers from another express bus, which had broken down earlier, boarded the
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    Jervois Road unsafe
    58 8  -  CONCERNED Singapore, It. Jervois Road has been turned into a car park by residents of the nearby HDB estate, with cars and trucks parked on tne grass verge on both sides of tne roan, mailing It unsafe lor ouier road users. Tne ruau Is Very narrow, with
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    Japan's Asian diplomacy
    180 8 r r VOICE OF THE PRESS iL SANKEI SHIMBUN The Government, defining this year as the "year of Asian diplomacy", has demonstrated a positive stand to cope with the new situation in South east Asia. Prime Minister Mlkl is contemplating a tour of South-east Asian nations. The
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    When they separate
    80 8  -  MICKY Y.L. CHONG I refer to your comment on the ster.lisation ruling lor newlyweds (NN. 27.1.76). I support your views on tne matter. Our Republic Is a democratic »oc.ety. The citizen or resident should decide whether or not to respond to the sterilisation programme. Should the couple
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    Change route
    60 8  -  SUPPORTERS Singapore, 3. Since SBS Service 90 ends at Commonwealth Avenue/North Buona Vista Road, it will be helpful if the authorities can change its present route from Queensway to Rum ah Bomba Circus. Alexandra Road and Commonwealth Avenue, along Queensway. This will enable residents in the area to
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    Lock icon Russian clamp on foreign currency gifts
    513 8 Reuter Moscow, Tuesday Muscovites with access to coveted foreign currency have just had their second unpleasant surprise in as many months. Blnce the beginning of the year, many of them have been barred from the foreign currency toodatore of Qorky Street where once they
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    Traffic chaos
    84 8  -  RESIDENT 81n*»pore. 3. The stretch of, Lower Delta Road between Blocks Ioj and 107 is very dangerous. x There is much comusion in the llow of traftic caused by vehicles heading towards Telok Blangah and those using the "U" turn along tnis section of the road. This makes
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    Sutowo: The debate is not over yet
    846 9  -  By Ismail Kassim The denial by a Pertamina spokesman recently that Its president director, Lieutenant General Ibnu 8 u to wo, was about to resign has squashed the rumours but only temporarily. Now it Is reported he Is going on long leave. Reports
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    A FORD PURGE BUT IN PEKING STYLE
    548 9  -  Art Buchwald The power struggle in Washington goes on unabated and foreign ambassadors stationed In Washington are sending long cables back to their countries trying to explain it. Here is one o? the cables sent by a representative of the People's Republic of
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      77 9 We have just been informed that Matt Monro has met with an accident and will not be able to perform at the Neptune as scheduled for 4th sth February. Reservations will be held for those who wish to see the show which has now been postponed to March 10th 11th.
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    Lock icon Biggest and best music and dance festival
    500 10/11  -  A SHOWCASE OF THE REGION'S CULTURAL WEALTH AND SPLENDOUR Sonny Yap reports from Bangkok For four consecutive nights, the palatial National Theatre In Bangkok became a showcase for South-east Asia's cultural wealth and splendour. Thais and tourists, culture vultures and men-ln-the-street with their
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    Lions win Thai hearts
    262 10/11 Singapore's pair of frolicking lions had Thai audiences at the National Theatre in Bangkok in rap- tures on the closing night of the First South-east Asian Music and Dance Festival. They were an eyefllllng hit from Ihe moment their maJesUc yellow manes came into the fioxillghts,
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      550 10/11 Tuesday BR-2 NEW NATION Cut out and pin with other coupons Posting instructions oppear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address THIp [7 4Bs v B 6 M G~l|| FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW —mm Cut along dotted lines mm mmmm mmm mmm m CLUES FOR BR-2 1. The juice
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      A look that will not date
      57 12 Clothes cot on clean classical lines; clothes with subtle geometric prints and bold stripes—these make for undated looks. Which is what a woman should look for when she buys clothes from the House of Lanvin In Singapore. These three outfits modelled here by Irma
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    • GRAPEVINE by Prudence
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        The shock tactics suitor...
        130 12 With some girls a romantic bended-knee proposal Just won't get a man anywhere. It takes shock tactics to make them say "yes". That's what young Englishman Dick Harris found. He got his girl Penny Leeson to marry him by pouring a glass of beer over her
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        We want to be men
        72 12 More than one third of France's women prefer to be men, according to a government survey. You may be wondering what that means but not Mrs. Francolse Olroud, the Secretary of State for Women who ordered the survey. She says these women want to be
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        A kiss, but only on her head
        114 12 You'd thing a girl would feel flattered when men scramble Pl«nt a kiss on her. Well. It d'd happen to the pretty PR ot one hotel. But she wasn't FLATTERED. Bhe was almost FLATTENED that's how she described the stampede to kiss her.
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        Long live hard workers
        112 12 The time porn saying hard work never killed anybody seems to be borne out by a Soviet study on longevity. It was found that "hard work, a diet of vegetables and dairy products plus the odd glass of wine make up the prescription for long life",
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        A busty find...
        82 12 Two halves of a grapefruit were found In the dressing room of a hotel where a doxen pretty female employees were changing for a beauty contest at the hotel's annual staff party. Nobody seemed to know how the grapefruit halves got there. But the organiser of the
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        Panties are just like candy
        116 12 Bad and good taste both, perhaps the lii or 1 ce-laced, allcandv un d e r w ear called "candypants." The panties, in both men's and women's styles, are actually made of candy and come In three flavours: hot chocolate, banana split and wild cherry.
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        Sorry, this is only for men
        91 12 The bouncer at Washington's Touchdown Club had a very unpleasant task recently when the club held Its Awards Dinner. He was asked to "evict" Mrs. Patricia Schroeder who had trrived with her husband. Bchroeder was asked If she would lemte peacefully, "otherwise," she was
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      Lock icon When his hand on your knee is not welcome
      564 12 Sexual harassment by bosses is a bis problem AP "The first time my boas talked about a raise he put his hand on my knee. "I walked a thin line between Insulting him and yielding to him because my career was
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      Grannies who're nannies for life
      582 13  -  THEIRS IS A NEVER-ENDING TALE OP WORK, WORK AND WORK STELLA The day my 55-year-old mother decided to "do her own thing" as the modern Idiom goes, my elder brother told her to stay at home more often, my younger brother flatly told her that
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      Party the hostess can enjoy
      874 13  -  COOK-IN WHERE GUESTS TAKE PART IN COOKING by Violet Oon In the days of cheap household help, a hostess could entertain her frlepds in formal style. Bhe could sip a casual pre-dinner cocktail or two with her guests and leave the cooking to the trustworthy
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      PICK OF PARIS
      213 13 Paris, Tuesday daints and sinners w.ll find something to wear in the Paris spring and summer a s a I on collections with designers showing restrained styles for nice riris and a sexy loo* for the ultughty. There were dozens •f variations on the classics, featuring the
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      149 14 economic upturn IN BRITAIN FROM MID-1976 said leading economic forcasters. manufacturers ACT NOW A BUY DIRECTORY OP BRITISH IMPORTERS (1975 EDITION) Prtc* 9*117/TIMBE* ENTERPRISKS (PfLTD. 7E-1. ASIA pysIJHANt K TATmh iMuArtann A PaUbktn 11 |II mint ■C 35 MIKO J HOIS BUSINESS HOURS MKKDAYS 10a.m. 7 Jte.Ni SUNDAY 11 S0«
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      Toys to keep the kids occupied and happy...
      754 14 If IDS will be kids. And for them, the festive season will be so much more fun than the adults. After all, they are in for a rtime, what with relatives and friends giving them red packets and presents. While many people
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    Lock icon Why youth take to violence
    655 15 Punitive parents who show little love are blamed Reuter Hong Kong. Tuesday Family relationship has been pinpointed as a major cause of young people turning to crimes of violence here, according to a sociological study. Official statistics show that one in every 49 of the
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      427 15 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are an honest, sincere, straight forward Individual who would rather be exact In statement and reliable in deed than attain any amount ofrlche' through unsavory means. Although you are Inclined to put things off, you never forget them —and, In
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    Lock icon Brighter days..
    640 16 But slower pace of growth in region forecast AP Washington, Tuesday "For most of the countries of the Far East and South Asia region, which ineludes nations in every stage of economic development, the outlook is for a slightly better showing in 1976," the US Commerce Department reported
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      NEW YORK
      194 16 Although buying interest remained strong, blue-chip profit-taking left prices mixed yesterday in active trading on the New York Stock Exchange in a session shortened more than an hour by New York City area weather conditions. The Dow Jones industrial average, down around nine points at the outset, surrendered
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      37 16 UPI Dow J one* closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 871 35 (off 3.93). 30 transport 199 03 (off 0.33), 16 utilities 91.00 (up 0.13), 65 stocks 297.03 (off 0.79).—UP1.
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      PARIS
      108 16 Closing prices in francs on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Paribus 188 60 unch. Ponder 346.50 +4.40 Prlntemp* 63.30 +.10 Bull 36 10 —JO Royal Dutch 19*10 .60 Mlchelln 1359 —11 COE 310 70 —4 SO Thomson 342 —1.00 CPP 146 —.50 Rhone 105 20 —.80 Afar 365 30 .30
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      ZURICH
      80 16 Closing prices (In Swiss franc*) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday UBS B 3580 35 UBS R. 530 ♦15 SBC 493 5 Credit Suisse 2780 10 Swissair B. 490 30 Swiss Relnsur. 2050 10 Wlnterthur B. 1890 Zurich Insur. J uvena B 545 +15 Nestle B. 3490 —10 Inter
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      97 16 Reuter Prices 11.30 am. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange. Allstate 09 14 Beach 26 27 Bridge 13 14 Cleveland 32 35 Endeavour nil 15 Flind 30C opt. nil 04 Inter Mtn 14 15 Kath Inv 175 17« Mid E Mtn* 48 nil* Minefields nil 06 Pinevale
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    Big steel project
    39 16 Tokyo, Tuesday —Brazil's Mining and Energy Minister, Mr. Shlgeakl Uekl. yesterday pledged to help promote a major steel project planned for hi* country by Kawasaki Steel Corp. of Japan and an Italian Arm. Kawasaki officials said.
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    BONANZA FOR BANKS...
    254 16  -  By Lee Yew Meng Bank shares enjoying a boom at the Singapore stock nparket as investors and speculators rushed to usher in the Dragon Year. Overseas Union Bank was one of them. Since Jan. 1, its share price jumped 29.7 per cent to $3.62 last week-end. This
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    88 16 UPI New York. Tuesday The supply of offshore mobile rigs Is growing faster than the demand, the Oil and Oas Journal said In It* February issue. The magazine predicted the situation will become worse In the coming months. Some contractors believe the oversupply of tig s
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    S'pore to play HK in final
    323 17 Hong Kong, Tuesday Hong Kong and Singapore maintained their unbeaten records last night and advanced Into the finals of the sixnation first Par East squash invitational championship. Hong Kong defeated the Philippines 5-0 while Singapore beat Japan 5-0 in their 'ourth round matches to
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    438 17 Reuter Wellington, TuesdayUnbeaten Canada struggled to a 1-0 victory over a plucky Japanese side in a lively World Softball championship game here yesterday. Although Canadian batters connected frequently, sharp Japanese ball handling kept the number of base hits to six. Japan had two hits. Canada's
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    130 17 Reuter Hong Kong, Tuesday —Bwlm soccer club Grasshopper Zurich drew 1-1 with a Hong Kong League XI here yesterday. Hong Kong were leading 1-0 at half-time and were attaching a disorganised Swiss defence for most of the time. Captain Cheung ChlDoy shot his
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    41 17 Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday. Indonesia will take part for the first time In the third tournament of the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) in PyongJang, North Korea, next (ay, a spokesman for the Indonesian Table Tennis Association said yesterday. Beater.
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    68 17 DEATH MR. YEOW SEONG LIM aged 55, Director/Secretary Ogilvy ft Mather (S) Pte. Ltd., passed away peacefully on 2/2/70 leaving behind beloved wife Mary (nee Pang Gek Neo), two sons Ghim Chye ft Ghim Teck, only daughter Ghim Choo and adopted sons Kim Hock ft Kim Tong t to mourn
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    Call to boost swimming
    385 18  -  Sasa told: Promote and sustain interest By ALBERT JOHNSON Chan Chee Seng, president of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association, yesterday urged coaches, swimmers and officials to work in a co-operative spirit to promote and sustain interest in swimming In the Republic. In his Chinese New Year
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    Triple jump record
    64 18 Moscow. Tuesday Bovlet jumper Viktor Saneyev yesterday set the world's best Indoor performance in the triple Jump the Tass News Agency said. Tass said Saneyev bettered the old performance on each of two tries on the flnal day of the UBSR Open track and field championship. Saneyev
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    CLASH OF MILERS IS OFF AGAIN
    185 18 Auckland, Tuesday— The long-awaited clash between world reeord holders John Walker of New Zealand and Tantanian Filbert Bay! Is off again, following Walker's a n n onnttment here yesterday that he was pulling out of indoor track meeting* la r th America. Walker, whose
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    LOVER'S PARADISE SHINES
    192 18  -  ON THE TRACK u ith Blue Ppfer By BLUE PETER Kuala Lumpur, Saturday Lover's Paradise, who was third in the Singapore Gold Cup and Penang Gold Cup last year, did a 600 m sprint in 39 without being extended at a workout here this morning. The going
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    Sprinklers for race tracks
    395 18 The Selangor Turf Club Intends to give a demonstration of the Toro sprinkler track watering system, which has been installed on the main track, on Saturday. Some 72 sprinkles nave been Installed and the total cost Is about $100,000. It Is planned to turn on the
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    Sunderland in the last 16
    127 18 London. Tuesday Second Division Sunderland, winners of the English FA Cup In 1673, moved Into the last 16 of this year's competition with a 1-0 victory over Hull City last night. The goal which earned Sunderland a fifth round trip to Stoke City on February
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    Draw for IAC Open
    289 18 The local coif circuit continues on Friday with the three-day lAC Open at Warren. The draw: 7 am.—Lim Leng Ann, R.O. Wheeler, Darld Milne; 7.07—T0h Choon Meng, Olvln Llau, HLH. Tong; 7.14 —Poh Eng Cheong, M.A. Hamid, R. Manlvel; 7.2l—Um Klan Tong, Kasslm Ahmad, P M.
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      41 18 THE BORN LOSER by Art Sansom ttli 'Ml m sTi 3 is 1 "v »K SHORT RIBS by Frank O'Neal IWT 4|U ymw l ij JIIP 7/S 7) A. "VS. HJ [jirfewt H 11V w by George Fett ffi i i
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    1673 19  -  ATTF's fate could backfire on other international bodies =3 JEFFREY LOW traces the events that led to today's Page 1 story JEFFREY LOW It all started on February 7, 1971 and in Singapore, of all places. The scene was a meeting of the Asian
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    Unbeaten SRC drop only one goal
    306 19  -  By BRIAN MILLER Singapore Recreation Club confirmed themselves as the top team in the Singapore Women's Hockey Association League when they captured the title with/ an undefeated run for a maximum of 22 points from 11 matches. SRC, spearheaded by the skilful Maureen Gomes
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    Lock icon Jackie: Skiing more dangerous
    253 19 Reuter Innsbruck, Tuesday— Former Grand Prix ace Jackie Stewart watched the daredevil heroes of downhill siding here yesterday and pronounced the sport far more dangerous than anything on f• a r wheels. "I really admire them," the Scotsman said. "At the speeds those lads come down
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    Lock icon SA Open to Hayes after play-off
    164 19 Reuter Johannesburg, Tuesday Dale Hayes won the South African golf championship here yesterday after an 18-hole play-off with John Pourle. The two South Africans had been tied on 287 on Saturday after the fourth and final round of the championship. Hayes, who leaves tomorrow
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    Metrevelli beaten
    63 19 New York, Tuesday Haroom Rahlm of Pakistan yesterday scored a shock 6-4, 6-4 victory over top-seeded Alex MetreTelll of the Soviet Union to win the Cleveland International yers Association tennis tournament. Next week Rahlm and Metrevelli will be Joined by Jimmy Connors at Boca Raton, florlda, in the
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    East Germans impress
    254 19 Innsbruck. Tuesday East Oermany yesterday Kunded out an unmlskable challenge In their Olympic bobsleigh debut with the fastest times In two-seater training on the Igls track. The No. 2 East German bob, piloted by former {avelln thrower Meinhard lehmer, knifed down tfce 1217 metre course faster than
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    35 20 MEI LIN: Now that we are entering the doldrums, we may see some cool afternoon showers. AH FOOK- nd 1 hope those doldrums refer only to the weather and not the stock market!
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      648 20 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3 00 O r E N I N G ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by THIS AND THAT: A magazine series presented In English 3 30 DIARY OF EVENTS (E) 3.35 MAGAZINE ZEKO ONE 3.54 LOVE IS A MANY SPLEN DOUKED THING 4.39 INTERMISSION 6.99 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed
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      164 20 Top shows of the day EDWARD THE SEVENTH: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes. (Ch. 5, 8.40 p.m. in colour). Edward is in deep disgrace with his mother, Queen Victoria, as she feels he is responsible for her husband's death. He redeems himself slightly when he proposes to and marries the D
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