New Nation, 25 May 1976

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  • 18 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Tuesday May 25, 1976 No. 1649 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 428/76 NEW NATION COMMENT
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  • 202 1 Thai gunships fire on hideouts Bangkok, Tuesday A combined force of military and police, employing helicopter gunships, attacked a communist stronghold yesterday and captured 12 guerrillas In the latest campaign against growing terrorism In Southern Thailand, the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) reported. The Government force, led
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  • 262 1  -  By Eileen Tan A public commendation yesterday brought to attention the presence of mind of a nipe-year-old schoolboy that would otherwise have passed unnoticed. Ernest Chee, a Primary Four pupil of St. Ml* chad's School, was praised before a school assembly by his principal for
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  • Article, Illustration
    484 1 Referee stops fight in sth round Munich, Tuesday Muhammad Ali knocked down European champion Richard Dunn five times in one of his most aggressive displays to retain his world heavyweight championship this morning with a fifth round technical knockout. All had put Dunn op the floor three times
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 261 2 Studies will be carried out In all Singapore hospitals to confirm the effectiveness of the drug prostaglandins In curln r stomach and Intestinal ulcers. Disclosing this In an Interview, Prof. Sultan Karlm, a pioneer in prostaglandins research, said: "The basic clinical studies carried out
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  • 292 2 Although the number of cars deregistered during the first four months of this year Is more than double that for the same period last year, the number of new cars sold dropped by 205 units. Statistics from the Registry of Vehicles showed that while the
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  • 147 2 Customs officers tired three warning shots and arrested a man after a short chase Just outside Ang Mo Klo housing estate early today. Forty one cans of samsu were recovered from a car near the scene. A Customs spokesman said ambush was laid for ever
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  • 187 2 This is where Mr. C.C. Low, 36, feels most at home in a gallery of antiques. Ancient pottery, plates and figurines fascinate him. He has a collection of M# pieces of relics dating as far back as 5M years ago. Hie allure of antiquity
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  • 117 2 Prices fell fairly heavily across the board at the Stock Exchange of Singapore In the first 45 mlntues of trading today. This was the first time this week that such substantial drops occurred. Wearne Brothers, normally inactive, was traded 16 cents lower to $2.50. BUSINESS DONE: UOB(l)4.10(2)4.08(10) 4
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 62 2 Today: 8.40 a.m. (2m); 8.44 p.m. (2.3 m). Tomorrow: 9.38 a.m. (2.1 m); 9.16 p.m. (2.4 m). Thursday: 10.20 #a.m. (2.2 m); 9.40 p.m. (2.5 m). Friday: 10.59 a.m. (2.2 m); 10.10 p.m. (2.0 m). Saturday: 11.37 a.m. (2.3 m); 10.48 p.m. (2.6 m). Sunday: 12.16 p.m. (2.3 m); 11.21
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    • 480 2 AT THE CINEMA CONFESSIONS OF A FOP PERFORMER: The window cleaner and his brother turn their talents towards promoting a pop group with the usual shambles resulting. Stars Anthony Booth, Doris Hare, BUI Maynard and Robin Askwlth. Screenplay by Christopher Wood, directed by Norman Cohen. Cathay: 1.30, 4. 6.30 and
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  • 10 2 Police reported 70 accidents yesterday. There were no serious incidents.
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  • 199 3 Six airlines companies have appoint- I ed a local private investigation agency to check on price undercutting by travel agents. Five are non-lATA carrier*, Singapore Airlines. Cathay Pacific Airways, Thai International. Malaysian Airline System and China Airlines, while the sixth, Japan Airlines. Li a
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  • 214 3 This was how the FA Cup final was transmitted to you on May 1 from London's Wembley Stadlum, 11,814 km away. Singapore TV viewers saw the Wembley action only half a second after It happened. The match was first filmed by
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  • 419 3 Two-thirds of Singapore Airlines' revenue comes from traffic picked up and set down in Singapore. In a message to mark the inauguration of SIA services to Auckland, Mr. J.Y.M. Plllay, SIA chairman said: "In terms of uplift and discharge traffic, twothirds of our
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  • 244 3 Learner drivers are expected to have less cause for complaint when they take their tests following a new move by -the Registry of Vehicles to promote objectivity and uniformity of assessment. Senior driving testers can now sit In with test ers during
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    • 191 3 i Cordycaps, a wall-known Chinese h«rb of great value, it used as a nutrient and corroborant and Is usually praparad with J chicken for traditional I remedy. As stated in the Dictionary and raportad by madical authorities in China, Cordycaps is food for j lunp, marrows and for the treatment
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  • 214 4  -  By Wang Look Fung The Education Ministry has scrapped plans to Introduce a Bachelor of Education degree course. Sources said the decision to call off the inservice course was taken after "serious reconsideration." It is learnt that the course, which was to begin In
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  • 460 4  -  Government launches drive to recruit... By Teresa Ooi The Government is on a drive to. recruit trained teachers from Malaysia as a stop-gap measure to meet the shortage of graduate teachers here. Most of them will be science, mathematics and English teachers. There are also plans to
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  • 47 4 The Rochore community centre will condOct a three-day Malaysia Cup tour to Kuala Lumpur and I pott from June 26 to 28. The tour includes seats at the Malaysia Cup soccer match between Singapore and Perak in Ipon. For details. ring *****0 alter 3 p.m.
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  • 27 4 The Minister for Education, Mr. Chua Slan Chin, will open the Use Your Hands campaign at the National Theatre on June 5 at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 186 4 Kuala Lumpur, Tues day —A tight security net was thrown round Subang International Airport last night when the Saudi Arabian OH Minister, Sheikh Ahmad Zakl Yamani, arrived for a 36 hour visit. He was whisked off in a black Chevrolet Impala from the
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  • 251 4 In these days when sandals and Clippers dominate the casual wear scene, clogin a k e r Lau Choy Seng can still hold his own in the world of footwear fashion. Mr. Lau, 56, is in a dying profession which saw
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  • 152 4 For a girl working everyday with notebooks, letters and files in airconditioned comfort, roughing It out to climb the highest mountain in South-east Asia is surely an experience to remember. It was both love of adventure and curiosity which prodded 32-year-old Miss Ingrld Suefke, a
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  • 30 4 The Cherig San Community Centre will organise a itx-montn course on yoga at »ta centre, starting every Monday from June 7 at 7.30 p.m. The fee is $38.
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  • 21 4 Ngee Ann Technical College will hold Its fifth Sraduatlon ceremony at le Singapore Conference Hall on Friday at 2.30 pjn.
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  • 337 5 'A painful period* Reuter Stockholm, Tuesday US Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger yesterday bared to Sweden, which once harboured hundreds of American opponents of the Vietnam war, some of his personal pain over America's "grave mistakes" in Vietnam. The war, now all
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  • 238 5 Reuter Washington, Tuesday Elizabeth Ray, a former airline stewardess, was dismissed yesterday by the Congressman she said kept her as a mistress at government expense. Congressman Wayne Hays, 64, announced he had sacked her from her US$l4,OOO ($35,000) a year Job and said he was con
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  • 205 5 Reuter Manila, Tuesday—The Philippines government yesterday ordered strict searches at all airports of airline passengers and their luggage following the death of 13 people In a blazing hijacked plane on SundayThe Philippines Airline BAC 1-11 burst Into flames after grenade explosions and an exchange of
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  • 152 5 Reuter Paris, Tuesday—France yesterday appeared taken aback by negative reaction In the Arab world and at home to President Valery Glscard d'Estaing's offer to send a peace-keeping force of French troops to Lebanon. Officials here sought to allay fears that France would become an
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  • 45 5 Reuter Paris, Tuesday Mrs. Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippines President Marcos, arrived here yesterday for a three-day official working visit at the invitation of the Paris City Council. Mrs. Marcos was invited in her capacity as Governor of the Greater Manila Area.—Eeuter.
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  • 373 6 An 'industry' to smuggle Asians into UK: Report Reuter London, Tuesday Britons were shocked last night by the leak of a confidential Foreign Office report saying that an established industry exists to smuggle thousands of Asian immigrants illegally into this country. The report says that between
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  • 281 6 AP New Delhi, Tuesday Hindus In India, a land of arranged marriages, yesterday won a fight for making divorce easier. The Indian Parliament gassed a new Marriage ill making desertion, cruelty or a single act of adultery sufficient grounds for divorce. The Bill, applicable
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  • 42 6 Reuter Paris, Tuesday. Six French foreign legionnaires and two airmen were killed yesterday when their transport helicopter crashed during a military exercise near Djibouti in the French Bast African territory of the Afars and Issas, an army spokesman said here.—Reuter.
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  • 136 6 UPI TODAY is Tuesday, May 25, the 146 th day of 1976 with 220 to follow. THE MOON is approaching Its new phaae. THE MORNING BTARS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. THE EVENING STARS are Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini.
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  • 287 6 Reuter Paris, Tuesday About 126 Cambodian officials and military personnel of the fallen Lon Nol regime who were abroad when the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh in April 1975 yesterday announced their Intention to return home. The group, in a communique distributed here by the diplomatic
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  • 269 6 AP Fairfield. Connecticut, Tuesday—Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk says he fears the US is drifting into a period of Isolationism that could be "suicidal." "I think there Is a mood of withdrawal from world affairs among the American people," Mr. Rusk, an
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  • 35 6  -  D.J. The name of gingerbread men biscuits has been changed to gingerbread persons bccause of the Sex Discrimination Act now operating In Britain. And a chairman Is now known as chairperson.— I)J.
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  • 143 6 Reuter Vatican City, Tuesday Pope Paul yesterday sprang a surprise by including the 76-year-old Archbishop of Hanoi among 20 new Roman Catholic Cardinals. The Vietnamese Archbishop, Trin Nhu Khue, looked a frail and bemused figure as a roar of approval greeted his appointment at
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  • 69 6 In multiple images Kay Cainer striking a pose while rehearsing Homage To Picassq at New York's Guggenheim Museum on Saturday. Kay is a member of the Multlgravitatlonal Aerodanee Group performing in New York. The dancers perform in the air on a system of rigging which is
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  • 78 6 UPI Tel Aviv, Tuesday Hundreds of youths fought police with grenades, molotov cocktails and rocks yesterday In an abortive effort to hold off demolition of a store erected without a permit In a Tel Aviv slum area. Authorities said a police officer and three civilians were
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 171 6 WORLD WEATHER New York Sunny, Mild, 21-DC. Headline: Three hijackers and 10 hostages die as Philippine plane Is set afire. Tokyo Cloudy. 2517C. Headline: Hijack Drama Ends 13 killed, 22 wounded. Moscow Bunny. 1860. Headline: Common Goal Communism. London Dry, warm and sunny, 23-12 C. Headline: French loan from IMF
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  • 421 7 Luzon now a disaster area Reuter Manila, Tuesday About 200,000 people were cryaght by rising floodwaters in Central Luzon yesterday as a week long typhoon took a blustery course out of the country into the South China Sea. And President Marcos went on nationwide television
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  • 53 7 Reuter Sydney, Tuesday—Australia's trains began moving again early yesterday after a nationwide 24-hour strike of railwaymen whose unions object to uranium mining. The dispute was temporarily settled with the reinstatement of a shunting supervisor sacked for refusing to order the movement of wagons to the Mary
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  • 57 7 UPI Rangoon, TuesdayTwelve houses on the western slope of the Shwedagon Pagpda Hill collapsed on Sunday as the raln-lashed ground on which they were standing sank, reports said yesterday. Women and children trapped in the collapsed houses were rescued by pagoda police and neighSours. No one was
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  • 164 7 Reuter Calcutta, Tuesday Police stumbled on a surprise hoard of gold here recently when they detained a man for urinating in public at the roadside Instead of using a city urinal. When he was taken to the local station, the police found he had
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  • 241 7 Reuter The Hague, Tuesday More than 500 women formed a human barrier around an abortion clinic at Haarlem yesterday Inflaming a major political crisis in Holland. While the Cabinet argued here, police at Haarlem waited for official orders wnetner to enforce the law by closing
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  • 241 7 ...after Rocky's plea Reuter New York, Tuesday President Ford won a pledge of votes yesterday from most of New York state's delegates to the Republican presidential nominating convention, giving his campaign a maJo; boost on the eve of six primary elections. Vice President Mr. Nelson
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  • 26 7 Reuter Damascus, Tuesday— Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygln will visit Syria as a guest of the government early next month, it was announced here yesterday.—Reuter.
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  • 177 7 UPI Jakarta, Tuesday Ministers of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member nations are expected to consider selecting a new site for the organisation's permanent secretariat, now in Vienna, when they meet in Bali later this week, OPEC Secretary General M.O. Feyide
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  • 223 7 UPI Belgrade, Tuesday A purge involving thousands of people Is underway in Albania and has included the ouster of communist party leaders and government ministers, we st e rn diplomatic sources said yesterday. There is no known specific motivation for the extent of the purge, which
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  • 418 8 Two fresh developments in Nairobi suggest that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development may yet achieve a breakthrough on the central issue of an integrated commodity programme. A special committee of 36 members has been set up to get some form
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 49 8 A friend who thought he broke his thumb while on a picnic, held up his thumbs together to examine the damage. "What do you think?" he asked his wife. "Looks swollen, doesn't It?" "Yes, It looks quite bad," she replied, and gingerly touched the uninjured thumb.
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    • 19 8 Saw this advertisement in a Bangkok newspaper: "Wanted—- a managing director please apply to the Managing Director.
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  • 711 8 No protection for workers UPI Hong Kong, Tuesday Work for many factory workers in Hong Kong Is like the tide which comes and goes but never stays: There's either too much or too little of it. With spring came a rash of posters
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  • 44 8  -  LEE SWEE MENG A recent advertisement said that a supermarket was selling glutinous rice at $3.20 lor 3 kg. but It did not state the percentage of broken rice content. Advertisers who put out such misleading messages should be taken to task.
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  • 35 8 Can the Telecommunications Authority of Singapore please send someone to repair the public telephone near 21 km, Chua Chu Kang Road? It has been out of order since mid April. EFE, Singapore.
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  • 274 8 VOICE OF THE PRESS 4 NEW YORK TIMES The human and political tragedy engulfing the West Bank of the Jordan threatens to undermine whatever success has been achieved there and It has been considerable In the nine-year experiment In Arab-Israeli coexistence. Another young Arab was shot and
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  • 373 8 The Los Angeles Times New York, Tuesday To the untrained eye, they look under the microscope like a series of fuzzy, crystalline shapes. But to the trained eye, the shapes are silent carriers of death swipe flu viruses so deadly they could wipe out an
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  • 78 8  -  WOON HOWE SENG I refer to the letter by Referee <NN. May 14) complaining of drivers who convert the backlanes In Bencoolen Street Into a car park. An investigation has been carried out and the Roads Branch will consider sealing up the backlanes beside No. 2. Bencoolen
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  • 51 8  -  LIM HENG TOW We refer to the letter by Slow Motion (NN, May 7). We have noted the writer's interest in enjoying Instant replays In slow motion. However, such effects can be achieved only with the use of additional sophisticated and expensive equipment which RTS does not
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  • 1286 9 LIFE IN THE VILLAGES Harish Chandola reports from North Thailand Even In the early summer of AprilMay, a mist lingers all day over the lotus-ponds, valleys and teak covered hills of northern Thailand. During Sonk r a n (Makar Sankrant in India, and the beginning of the new year in
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  • 655 9  -  Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times It could easily be predicted, but there are now mofe last wills and testaments of Howard Hughes than there are Pentagon Papers. It seems to me that this year's favourite fantasy for most Americans Is that somehow, someway, each one then was
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  • 1656 10 / 11  -  Even as you read this, the world's population is growing at a rate of 135 babies a minute, 8125 an hour, 195,000 a day, most of whom will lead a life of poverty by Sonny Yap People and more people —are humanity's greatest problem. Even as you
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  • 86 10 / 11 A couple, who are expecting their own arrival, stand in front of the World Population Clock in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, just as the world's population passes the four billion mark last March. The world population reached the three billion mark in 1960
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  • 651 10 / 11 ...AND IN SINGAPORE Singapore's story of stopping the stork is like a fairy-tale come true. But It was not a magic wand that enabled Singapore to reach Its replacement level of two children per couple today Ave years ahead of target. A lot
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  • Page 10 / 11 Miscellaneous
    • 526 10 / 11 Tuesday CH-2 j'w. jii i Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions oppeor below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address Tel: i Cut along dotted lines i CLUES FOR CH-2 1. Large tawny animal 2. Perhaps the source of a distracting noise 3. A great mountain will impress many a tourist
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  • trend
    • 111 12 Body-hugging shirts, baggy shirts, printed shirts, plain shirts, short sleeve shirts and long sleeve shirts all with one thing in common. They carry the Joln-Ixr label, from Hongkong. But though shirts are basically unisex, Join-In has a range of blouson tops to team
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    • 908 12 Washington Post Rome, Tuesday It had been a long, hard day for Ava Gardper. And now, near the end of it, she sat In a canvas chair between takes on the set, lit a cigarette, kicked off a shoe and sipped
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    • 631 13  -  WHY I'M CAUGHT LIKE A MOUSE IN A JAR...OF FACE CREAM Choo Kim Who was it who said there is no such thing as an ugly woman? That in every female is a ravishing beauty struggling to get out? Whoever he was (must be a male!) he
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    • 283 13 NYT New York, Tuesday Julie Nixon Eisenhower has taken strong exception to the portrayal of her mother, Mrs. Richard Nixon, In the book, The Final Days, as a withdrawn and selfcentered woman and a secretive drinker. She declared that this was one
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    • GRAPEVINE by Vanessa
      • 80 13 A head waiter at a Manchester restaurant chose his future sister-in-law to be his "best man" at his wedding and agreed with the clergyman that she should be addressed as "best person" under Britain's anti-sex discrimination laws reports D.J. of London. Now 1 wonder
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      • 72 13 Most people who buy clothes and accessories by famous high fashion designers are proud to wear the designer's logo or signature. But not one colleague. She bought a T-shirt by a wellknown French designer (because it was well-cut and unusually cheap), and took pains not only to hide
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      • 83 13 Most secretaries don't want to marry the boss or even sit on his knee they are more interested in pension schemes, holidays and security than office romance and parties, according to a survey conducted by a British employment bureau, reports D.J. of London. Glamour came bottom of
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      • 86 13 Most people in love have their heads in the clouds. But not Japanese pilot Katsu* toshi Nagasawa. He dove his aircraft out of the clouds and swooped It low over his girlfriend's neighbourhood according to an AF report. He got arrested whon several residents, frightened and
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      • 91 13 The girls in the office crowded round, exclaiming over the pictures in the latest issue of their house magazine. "Look at J...she has never looked so nice," they said to one another of a girl working in another department. One of the men in the office was about
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      • 62 13 The other day a girl friend paid 40 cents parkinf at Koek Road to pop over to a hawker stall to buy... yes, 40 cents worth of cat fruits for her lunch. Her car was in that parking tat fpr four minutes. Makes you wonder how much car
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    • 754 13  -  ff Cook-in by Violet Oon This week's recipe is for Roast Chicken and it is a concoction of my mother's which has proved popular with all our friends. One day she literally marinaded a whole chicken with every sort of flavouring she
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  • shopping
    • 782 14 kiiilBIB p| E S PIT E there being 1 i t e r a lly hundreds of restaurants and other eating places around, eating out Is still something of a big problem. Perh a ps the biggest headache is picking the place to dine
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  • 444 15  -  Business News and Views L————l Company profile yv Lee Yew Meng Intraco, the international trading company, stumbled badly last year reversing the uptrend of the last two years. Group pre-tax profit at $1.9 million, a bo per cent drop, was lower than the $2.33 million
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  • 34 15 UPI United Nations, Tuesday The five members of ASEAN are supporting a bid by Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Arturo Tanco for the post of executive director of the World Fbod Council. UPI.
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  • 167 15 Dollar dips, rises slightly UPI Brussels, Tuesday. The U8 dollar settled generally lower on European money markets yesterday and the British pound staged a gentle recovery. Gold fell US$l.lO In Zurich to close at US$l24 95 an ounce and dropped US$l In London to U*****,875. Bank of England's Increase of
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  • 154 16 AP Washington, Tuesday Supplies of natural gas for US consumption will only last nine years unless more natural gas is discovered or present consumption rates are curtailed, the Federal Power Commission said yesterday. The FPC said natural gas supplies destined for interstate pipelines dropped by
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  • 292 16 'Undercutting due to shipping slump* Reuter Moscow, Tuesday British shipowners complained to the Russians in talks here about what they say is undercutting by Soviet ships, but informed sources said yesterday they got no guarantee of change in Soviet freight rates. Western shippers
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 216 16 Prices plunged yesterday In the worst loss In more than a year on the New York Stock Exchange amid fears of higher Interest rates and Federal Reserve Board confirmation It had adopted a tighter monetary stance. Trading was cautious. The Dow Jones industrial average, which dropped 6.52 points
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    • 34 16 Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday; 30 Industrial 971.53 (off 19.22); 30 transport 214.70 (off 4.05); 18 uUUUes 85.54 (off 0.80); 65 stock 300.39 (off 5.45). —UPI.
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    • 282 16 The market fluctuated within a narrow range as Investors waited to see how political movements would develop. In the morning session, the market was Arm centring on blue chips Including light electrlcals, autos and housing-related Issues. Trading volume in general was inactive except for Isuzu Motor. Iron and steel
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    • 73 16 Closing prices In franca on the Parla Bourse yesterday:— Paribus 177.50 50 Fonder 329.50 —.40 Prlntemps 57.50 unch. Bull 37.10 unch. Royal Dutch 225.70 5.80 Mlchelln 1284 —IB C.O.E. 314.50 +1.50 Thomson 215.50 —1.60 CFP 120 .SO —4 Rhone 95.40 —1.00 Air 357.50 —4.50 BSN 605 —.13 Philips 54.30
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    • 85 16 Closing prices In Swiss francs on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday:— UBS Bearer 3180 —10 UBS Registered 466 a SBC 420 3 Credit Suisse 2630 —20 Swissair B. SSI 6 Swiss Relnsur. 209S Wlnterthur B. 1820 10 Zurich Insur. 847S Juvena B. 220 —45 Nestle B. 3420 —80 Inter
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    • 73 16 Reuter Closing prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange: ACI 148 150 ADC 43 Nil Ampol Pet 01 83 AMI 108 Nil APM 130 133 Bank NSW 800 608 Brambles 160 163 BHP 774 776 Boral 310 313 CBA 380 385 C8R 455 456
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  • 210 16 Business News and Views The International Air Transport Association's Bank Settlement Plan, a streamlined ticket accounting and reporting system, may be lntroduc ed here next year. Response from travel agents and airlines to the BSP has been "very encouraging," according to a source.
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  • 69 16 LATEST Nairobi, Tuesday Eight countries yesterday formally pledged contributtons at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) here to a common fund to finance commodity buffer stocks. They included oil exporter 8 Iran, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, together with Mexico, Zambia, Pakistan and
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  • 211 16 Reuter Nairobi, Tuesday The United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) yesterday decided on an eleventh hour attempt to break its deadlock over commodities and Third World debts. With the prospect of failure hanging over UNCTAD. a plenary session at midnight appointed a special committee
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  • 137 16 Reuter Manila, Tuesday.—A consortium of Philippine oil exploration companies yesterday signed a service contract with the government Philippine National Oil Corporation (PNOC) to drill in the central Ph i lip pines seas, according to informed sources. The contract calls for the three companies the
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  • 437 17 United Press International Tokyo, Tuesday Thailand saved the Asian Games from fading out In 1970 and now It seems the same role faces JapanSouth Korea won the right to host the 1970 Games In Beoul at the meeting of the Asian Games Federation (AGF) during
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  • 129 17 Reuter London, Tuesday Australian Kevin Shawcross added the world amateur squash championship to his British title at Wembley here yesterday and then confirmed his decision to turn professional. The 27-year-old Blackberry farmer from Lithgo, New South Wales defeated David Scott of Bouth Africa,
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  • 86 17 Kee Bee Khlm, SlngaE ore's golfing queen, put erself In line for her seventh Singapore Island Country Club championship when she returned the best score In the first qualifying round at Buklt Course yesterday. Scores: 74 Kee Bee Khlm 82 Pat Stewart; 83 T. McKenzle; 85
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    • 467 17 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you possess extraordinary common sense, so that even when subjected to the forceful persuasion of experts to think or perform in a certain fashion, you make only those decisions and enter Into only those patterns of behaviour that logic tells you
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  • 62 18 World heavyweight boxlnf champion Muhammad Ail watches the two karate expert* he has hired, John Rhee (left) and Dai Won Moon (right) demonstrate a karate kick that they were teaching All for his com In c free- style boat against World Karate champion Antonio Inokl In Tokyo
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  • 731 18  -  By PHILIP TAN Toa Payoh United scored their third straight win in the First Division soccer League when they defeated Jalan Besar 2-0 at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The heroes in the Toa Payoh side were two former National stars Majld
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  • 36 18 Munich, Tuesday British middleweight champion Alan Mlnter scored an impressive seventh round technical knockout victory over West German Frank Relche in a main preliminary here this morning on the Mohammad All-Richard Dunn boxing programme.
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  • 350 18 Reuter London, Tuesday West Indian pace duo Andy Roberts and Michael Holding ripped through MCC's batting on the second day of their three-day match at Lord's here yesterday, and seem certain to make It a torrid summer for England's Test bats* men. Holding (4-44) and
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  • 495 18  -  SOCCER SCENE by Jeffrey Low It is becoming more and more apparent that the Football Association of Singapore are taking the soccer fans for granted. The recent price hike for the grandstand red seats ($10) was seen by many people as a deliberate attempt to
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  • 416 18 The Singapore Rugby Union hope to see National skipper Leow Kim Llat, his brother Kim Suan, Natahar Bava and Peter Pang down for training today evening at Farrer Park as the team prepare for the the Malaysian Rugby Union Cup clash with Malaysian
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  • 409 19 Mas Merah made the running, leading past the 800 m and Into the straight with took Again moving up rapidly to second. Bojangies started his run on the outside. Finishing strongly took Again shot past Mas Merah at the distance to win by
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  • 306 19 ON THE TRACK with Blue Peter I i J Ipoh, Tuesday Suspicion did a stylish workout at Ipoh this morning. With Terry Lucas in the saddle, the flveyea r old by St. Puckle was never off his bit in a 600 m run in 43
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  • 355 19 Ipoh, Tuesday Irish Fan can give young trainer LeeJSeng Hap his first Classic success by taking the $51,000 Perak Derby on Sunday. The four-year-old bay New Zealand gelding by Acharacle put In a good performance In the trial over 1900 m last Sunday. In
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  • 241 19 Reuter Montreal, Tuesday The Soviet Union, one of the strongest amateur soccer sides In the world have the easiest path to the finals of the Olympic tournament after yesterday's draw for the last 10 teams made here. The Russians, who will be playing virtually
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  • 49 20 MEI LIN: Judging from what the Singapore Educational Administration Society said in their bulletin, school principals seem to be the whipping boys of our education system. AH FOOK: The more assertive ones should lead the others in making their views known to earn the respect they deserve.
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    • 685 20 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by THIS AND THAT (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS 3.35 MAGAZINE ZERO ONE <r) 3.50 GENERAL HOSPITAL 4.30 INTERMISSION 6.05 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by THE FLYING NUN (r) 6.30 NEWS IN-BRIEF 6.35 ATOM ANT. Cartoons 7.05 MAN BUILDS MAN DESTROYS: The
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    • 247 20 Today's top shows YOUTH. (Over Ch. 8, at 7.10 p.m. In colour). This Is a "programme for and about youth." Producer Katherlne Kan starts a new section this week, Joanna Wong Is seen In the first of a series of demonstrated talks on the appreciation of Chinese opera, which Is
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