New Nation, 13 February 1977

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  • 10 1 Sunday Nation FEBRUARY 11, 1977 30 CENTS M.C.(F) NO. 2*l/1/77
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    • 47 1 Raman IS a Red... f says the ISD Page 2 111 I I I Story in Page 5 m 0 Wang's Chap Goh Meh date Page 21 Monchengiabach the team S'pore should learn from Page 29 ft f T'r I KING CON by Poik Choo Page 19
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    • 172 1 FIIST IN FASHION □bermain Registered Trad'e Mark T-shirts fit for the Page 8 OUR GIRL GLORIA a new column in Page 7 This month our big line-up of riveting features includes: IT* H MkMKy: Find out why despite a more permissive age, today s young people take a dim view
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  • 339 2 /GREATER effort will be made to get students to Imbibe the tried and tested cultural and moral values of Asia and shun Western life-styles and values alien and pernicious to Singapore society. This is one of the objectives stated in the Education Ministry addendum to
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  • 205 2 pONSTRUCTION of the new >41.8 million Polytechnic campus at Dover Road will be completed by early next year. The final move of the complete student population of 4,800 full time and 3.800 part-time students to the new campus will begin In December and the Polytechnic
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  • 34 2 Reuter FLOODS inundated 3,000 houses and more than 4,C00 hectare: of rice paddy In the Indramayu area of West Java, during the last few days, it was reported in Jakarta yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 131 2 AP ■VIETNAM has begun large-scale tourism with a batch of 300 visitors from the Soviet Union, and is ready to receive others from Western Europe and elsewhere, Vietnam radio said yesterday. Smaller groups of tourists from nations with diplomatic relations with Vietnam have been allowed to
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  • 162 2 ABOUT 85 per cent of our TV programmes will be in colour next year. According to the Ministry of Culture's addendum to the Presidential address released yesterday. the production and choice of programmes will try to promote better understanding of the other
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  • 71 2 Stocks and machinery worth over $100,-' 000 In a paper cup factory were destroyed and three families made homeless when a fire broke out on the ground floor of a row of shophouses in Lorong 23. Qeylang, ye st e r day morning. The families 15 people
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  • 538 2 rROM detained law- yer G. Raman's own admission and letters seized from his house, there is ample evidence to prove that he is a communist, the Internal Security Department said yesterday. At a press conference. ISD director Lim Chye Heng said the evidence will aiso
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  • 213 2 4 PICKET leader was assaulted early yesterday while on his way to organise retrenched workers of an electronics firm. Mr. Soh Chuan Hock, 40, a technician with Yong Lee Lee and Company in Leng Kee Road was warded in Alexandra Hospital with what was suspected to be
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  • 210 2 fIORRU PTION, anarchy and eni dfemlc violence would have been the order Qf the day if Singapore did not adhere right from the start to the proposition that nothing is for 4ree f the Foreign JSinister, Mr. S. Raja- ratnam, said last night. Speaking at
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  • 92 2 A YOUNG LieutenantColonel with a reputation for ruthlessness against his opponents has been named as Ethiopia's new head of state with sweeping powers over the country's Marxist revolution. He Is Menglstu HaileMarlam, effective leader of the government for the last two years, who emerged as victor
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    • 111 3 Asia Radio (S* Pte Ltd welcomes tht r royal' ghness, the Emperor Yung Princess X !..«•>•-., Ger-Ger of the popular TV Serial, The Royal TroJh to their S«era Showroom. As, v M HHKu f 4 =T 3t Tl N. ESRBX ■r 4 I ft =r M ■u i". COUXJR TV
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  • 271 4 A SPECIAL anti- smuggling squad equipped with infrared equipment will patrol close to the Malaysian-Thai border to check every aspect of smuggling, acting Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The government is now studying a wide range of infra-red equipped
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  • 153 4 OIL spilling from a Kuwaiti oil tanker grounded oft tne port of Keeiung In Talpeh, yes terday reported to have hit one of the three thermal power plants nearby. Mr. S.L. Chu, president oI the state-owned power'company, said one of the plants had to
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  • 112 4 President Sheares and Mr. Lee Kuan Yew yesterday sent their condolences to the Indian government on the death of President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. President Sheares' message to Mr. H. E. Basappa Danappa Jattl, the acting President said: "My wife and I are deeply grieved and shocked
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  • 194 4 UPI NORTH Korea has entered the dispute over the ownership of Takeshlma or Tok-Do Island in the sea between South Korea and Japan by accusing Japan of using the issue "as a bait for a political bargaining." "Tok-do Island, an inalienable territory of our country,
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  • 318 4 MALAYSIAN Airline System has Imposed a Jobs freeze and Is cutting down on domestic flights which are not commercially viable. This is one of several stringent measures In an austerity drive undertaken by the national airline In view of its poor performance last year.
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  • 214 4 T«HE Singapore Me- dlcai Association has urged all doctors Involved In insurance work not to accept a fee below $35 for each medical examination from tomorrow. The appeal follows the SMA's failure to reach agreement with the Life Insurance Association to raise the medical
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  • 69 4 Reuter OPEC economic experts will meet this week following the 'Apparent collapse of efforts to end a price dispute among oil-exporting nations, informed sources said on Friday. The economic commission of Opec the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries is expected to discuss inflation problems
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  • 70 4 UPI ALMOST every day' was Valentine's Day for Yuklteru Kubo of Japan. In 19 months he got engaged to 118 different women by merely walking up to any girl and saying: 'I've fallen In love with you at first sight." Now in Jail facing theft and
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  • 134 4 PRESIDENT Carter flying home on an emergency command post Jet designed for his use in nuclear war. listened as military men briefed him on its capabilities and said he means to call some surprise alerts to test defence readiness. The President, flying on the so called
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  • 94 4 rpilE National Broadcasting Company < NBC), which obtained the exclusive US rights to televise the 1980 Moscow Olympics, has been sued for US$275 million '$660 million) damages by an American trading company which claims it should have had the contract. The Satra Corporation, which specialises
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 59 4 THE Education Ministry is to stop the practice of releasing results of the GCE "O" and "A" level examinations for publication in newspapers, a ministry spokesman disclosed yesterday. He explained that the move was to avoid any embarassment to students who did not fare well
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    • 69 4 AP BURMA will resort to all measures military, political and diplomatic —in dealing with rebel groups within its territory including the Burmese communists, Council of State secretary general San Yu, told the country's minority group leaders who were in Rangoon to attend annual Unloh Day celebrations marking
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    • 46 4 AP THE US government has reached a tentative decision to delay delivery of advanced concussion bombs to Israel, congressional sources have disclosed. A formal announcement is expected before the start of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's "fact-flndlng" mission to the Middle East. AP.
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    • 55 4 FILAMENT polyester fabrics from Spain. Singapore and the Philippines will be added to the Canadian government's list of Imports under surveillance, said Ottawa Trade Minister Jean Chretien yesterday. He told the House of Commons that the government's Textile and Clothing Board had demonstrated that cheap imports had
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    • 55 4 AP THE Roman Catholic Church in South Africa intends to appoint black priests to white parishes as part of major reforms in racially divided country. The new policy was outlined in a 21-point "declaration of commitment" to mark the Church's opposition to the nation's race policies of
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    • 39 4 A GOODWILL and trade mission comprising 23 Singapore businessmen will leave for West Asia on Feb, 22 for a 15 day visit. The mission will visit seven cities Including Teheran, Kuwait. Dubai. Abu Dhabi. Bahrain and Jeddah.
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    • 63 4 PRESIDENT Carter plans to send a mission to Vietnam to discuss possible diplomatic recognition by the United States and the question of Americans missing in the Indochina war, the White House said. Mr Jerrold Schecter, spokesman for the President's National Security Council, told reporters Mr. Carter discussed
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    • 66 4 Reuter INDIAN Prime Minister Indira Oandhi has assured the nation that she has no plans to postpone the crucial March parliamentary elections following the sudden death on Friday of President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. The best tribute one could pay to the late President was to ensure
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    • 57 4 Reuter INDONESIA expects to earn about U552,900 million ($6,960 million) from its exports, other than oil. In the current fiscal year, according to Trade Minister Radius Prawiro. Exports .of timber, tin. rubber and other commodities were expected to reach that level In 1977 -78 against U552,500 million last
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    • 54 4 THIRTY ONE new bridges are to be built by the end of next year, brirfging the total number of bridges to 52, the Public Works Depart ment said. The building of the bridges is part of the Department's programme to maintain and upgrade the quality of the
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    • 47 4 Reuter A major fire left more than 2,500 people homeless,' caused over US$7OO,OOO ($1.6 million) worth of property damage and virtually wlded out a well-known "red light" district in the central Philippine city of Cebu. Police said at least four people were injured. Reuter.
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    • 49 4 UPI THE United States has approved a short-term loan of US$3OO million ($720 million) in a first step to help Portugal stabilise its economy. Besides the loan, other measures might include loam from the International Monetary Fund and medium-term financing from a consortium of countries. UPI.
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  • 458 5 fHAN Kien Sin, a former Editor-in-Chief of Sin Chew Jit Poh last night explained how he encouraged a group of editors and reporters with pro-com-munist inclinations lp the paper to play up certain news to shape and influence opinions of the readers towards
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  • 162 5 AP EMPRESS Farah Dlba of Iran and Italian actor Marcello Mastrolannl are among the two dozen best-dressed people In the world, according to the international best-dressed hot Just released. The list has been compiled annually since 1940 by 1.500 "fashion editors and observers
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  • 286 5 A THAI navy pat- rol boat exchanged fire with two armed Cambodian vessels off Trat province in southeast Thailand on Thursday, Thai military sources said yesterday. They said the incident occurred when the two Cambodian vessels Intruded into Thai waters and seized a Thai Ashing
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  • 126 5 Reuter US Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal said on Friday he does not expect a world "financial crunch" in 1977, despite the recent world oil price increase and the sluggish growth of some major world economies. In an interview with Reuters, the Treasury Secretary said he believes
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  • 283 6 COMMENT National service la often more traumatic for mother than It Is for the boy being drafted. How much more so for Mum, one wonders, when It Is the darling daughter who has to enlist. But the day has to come, and It was revealed
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  • 799 6 Gemini ORAZIL, fifth larg- est country In the world, plans to be In the superpower league by the beginning of the 21st century. To be a superpower means that a country must have plenty of energy, so Brasll now producing only about one-Afth
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  • 508 6 AP rjiHE energy crisis in A Java strikes home as a critical shortage of firewood, which along with charcoal Is the main cooking fuel of Indonesia's rural millions. Research Minister Bumltro Djojohadlkusumo has said that the country needs a tonne of firewood per
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    • 127 6 IT'S WONDERFUL WHAT INGENUITY CAN DO FOR A LADY. It can bring you a watch as beautifully accomplished as the Lady Seiko. The beauty you can see right here. And in the wide range at your jeweller. The accomplishment, however, goes a little deeper. Seiko design and make every part
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  • 161 7  -  Gloria Chandy IN AN effort to determine which Kong was really King or who was aping whom, two rival cinema organisations bought out a big ah are of advertising space in the morning papers over the last lew weeks. Fortunately or unfortunately a page
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  • 132 7 A MALE friend regrets that his nights out on the town almost always end badly. It's no fun, he says, wining and dining a sweet-young-thlng or business associate only to have the waiter come and throw a damper over your evening In the end.
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  • 85 7 A FOREIGNER was lamenting the other day the barrenness of her banana tree. "I planted it years ago and it still hasn't borne any fruit," she moaned. "That's because there are male and female banana trees. The same goes for papaya," Informed a local. "Oh,"
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  • 300 7 nON'T you think that French singer Claudine Longet got off the hook pretty easily? All she got for the killing of her lover, ski champ "Bplder" Sablch was a 30-day Jail sentence. That would have made any would-be Jailbird Jump for Joy. But not Miss Longet.
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  • 126 7 A MALE colleague was more than a little peeved about a Singapore Armed Forces advertisement that appeared last week. "How can you Just sit there without caring?" he demanded. "This Is a classic case of male chauvinism. The ad states clearly that the Job is
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  • 338 7  -  Michael Parkin Guardian ]\yfß. TONY Cowie and Mr. Ronald Mackln are busy marking out a clear path for foreigners through the minefield of En gl i s h idioms by compiling the second and final volume of their Oxford Dictionary of Cur rent Idiomatic
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    • 131 7 This cine camera sings and talks and laughs. We bet yours only takes pictures. r. I mill f f m Tf n o* 9 ,M 0 C NINON I *9 <• I +*1 >• T "T i i A :."^n v Ch.non is the World's l arcjest manufacturer of Sound
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  • 497 8  -  If you ask me... LAWYER WHILE the Romans recognis- ed and practised the not-so-gentle art of graffiti—writing and drawings scratched on toilet walls —I believe that not even the Greeks had a word for the sickening proliferation of slogans, corny sayings and advertising on the
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  • 81 8 If you have something to say which you think our readers would like to know why not P«t it on paper and send it to us. We welcome contributors to this column. Articles can be on any subject but should preferably be opinion pieces of about
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  • 724 8 Guardian KIM II Sung, the "Great Leader of North Korea," has given a strong hint that the propaganda which blazes his name through paid advertisements In the Western press is counter productive and must be changed. With the prospect of a shift
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  • Article, Illustration
    982 10 / 11 LAST Tuesday, Defence Minister Dr. Goh Keng Swee announced it is more than likely that national service will have to be extended to women, for a start, possibly on a selective basis, to fill up non-combat jobs. This is because, as a result of successful family planning, the
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  • 255 10 / 11  - Soon over and out K.K. FONG. THE time: 5.45 p.m. A The place: 4 SIR camp at Bedok. The occasion: The daily lowering of the flag. The music: The Last Post. —by two of the battalion buglers. Their jobs are likely to be phased out under the Singapore Armed Forces
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    • 486 10 / 11 I Horoscopes 1 Dec 21-Jan 19: After too much work for modest returns you will soon embark on a less arduous but more lucrative career. Exciting new contacts must not be allowed to cut you off entirely from your old associations. your weekly expenditures and you will find it much
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 628 12 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullout HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS I 4 4 m SHIRLEY JONES THE MUSIC MAN (Saturday Night Movie) Ch.s at 1(X25 p.m. in COLOUR On film this Broadway musical hit attained a magnitude that won it an Academy for its thumping score. Robert Preston, as the musical-instrument salesman
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    • 339 12 1 SOUND SYSTEMS THRILLER: The Next Victim, Friday, Ch.s at 1.35 p.m. in COLOUR When her insurancesalesman husband has to meet a client, a cripple confined to a wheel-chair after a recent car crash is left alone in the apartment. She is worried as a psychotic killer, who has strangled
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    • 1035 13 MONDAY ITT IDEAL COLOUR 1742 CTV Precision /A/ LINF. Picture tube SCHAUB LORENZ f* 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Kudumba Malar (r) 3.30 Diary Of Events CT) 3.35 General Hospital 4,IS* SCIENCE REPORT 4.30-Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 December Bride: Matt's Moustache 6.90 NEWS IN MIEF 6.SS TNE SELFISH GIANT (r) 7.0S
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    • 1069 14 WEDNESDAY 3.00 P.M. Open 3-03 FLYING NUN (r) 3.30 Diary Of Events (M) 3.35 General Hospital 4.15 INTERNATIONAL ZONE (r): Killer At Large 4.40 Intermission 5.55 Open 5.58 Electric Company 6.20 Consumers' Guide (E/M) 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.35 WILDLIFE IN CRISIS: So Many Ow. So Much To So Fow
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    • 1106 15 FRIDAY SCHAUB LORFNZ CTV DAY NIGHT IDEAL SERVICE 10.00 AM. Open 10.01 LUNAR MIW YEAR CHILDREN'S SPECIAL 10.35 CARTOON FAVOURITES 11.00 HOLIDAY MATINEE: Stowaway to (ht Moon. A boy successfully sneaks aboard a spaceship bound for the moon. Stars Lloyd Bridges, Jeremy Slate 12.35 P.M. LUNAR NEW YEAR SPECIAL (r)
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    • 54 16 K fjs m. f. BROU)N and MEL CA66ON Td£ bap rJewe 15 Voo'ee Ted rxjAps utioezw&GU-T ...j mm Ei w vw I a l fitlAuV mxe \oo Orf -ftte GOLf course 11 is PhiliUf =SS *Y VflU£NT|Ne= TH£T Ct? YCXi KHCW?-tT& by Brut parkar and Johnny hart lIJH vMipetsp nfcwn?
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    • 352 17 / 18 'r f' W il w r V fcjj? L-<r Sri \ALL BE A BIG WHEEL WHEN VA DRIVE THIS EAOY, PORKY/. 7K Ef*/Y O* VER FRIENDS/ I'll take. rr/ ■r/ < if ■<Y V V V > V <k 4 FORTY-EIGHT BftCK-BREAKIN PAYMENTS AN SHE'S ALL j YERS/ «n Xk^l
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    • 110 19 the crazy magazine that freezes the actionsj)f KING KUNG for you. Also FREE Big Ape poster inside. HAROLD ROBBINS the great story teller. No 1 best seller. THE LONELY LADY (soon to be ft made into film) A spellbinding story of one of the greatest naval battles ever tv Vc«-
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    • 209 19 n THRU OP TV«M N TV# POT—JNON LEfPB ©ST RFTER THE CTHK®/, f p-, ji BUt one of Loomiste gwnmcr 1 returning from a i®e asstgm&tt, 9C«s Fnsmort and the miners... J Sfl i v FREMONT/HE'S LINED UP WITH TVtE WBTSHCygLLERS/ loom© sorm be wqßweo/ He's MYCONCERN, WOU-IE-I'M 90V1M9 HIM
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  • 820 20  -  HUMOUR Paik Choo If. L. LlM's conning recounts remind me of the granddaddy of them all King Con we called him. One of King Con's several sidelines (or "1 ob a n g s" In Pasar Patois) was the
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  • 202 20 JOB-HOPPING workers may be penalised by not being granted the full, wage Increases recommended by the National Wages Council, according to the Labour Ministry* addendivi to the Presidential address In Parliament last week. No hop for a full pay rise? Abrupt industrial action in the Birmingham factory making
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  • 347 20 Off Hie Record by CKT AND so poet laure ate Betjeman receives a no t-s ohearty thumping for his- people steeple brand of rhyming in his Jubilee poem for his queen. Let it be said that he took the right royal
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  • 1200 21  -  RODERICK MANN drops in on the queen of movies... RODERICK MANN Express ViOST people I've 1?1 talked to didn't even know that Mae West was still walking around. I mean, nobody ever sees her Not even stars who have lived In Los
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  • 457 21  -  By Victor Davis Express LIE used to be an unn holy terror on a film set. But now, I'm told, Burt Lancaster is a much sweeter fellow at the age of 63. Burt acknowledges certain adjustments in his c h a r a c t
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  • 494 22 L Chap Goh Meh date for fans Ink last Milll iHk I lllll? Hong kono star Wang Ming Chun, who rocketed to fame overnight in the role as the classic beauty Jen Fei in the Cantonese serial, Sorrows of the Forbidden City, will return
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  • 516 22  -  JJ3 Jtiuil am By Edgar Koh A SOCIETY made up exclusively of under-30s was or perhaps still is an "in" idea of the hipgeneration of this century. In LOGAN'S RUN (coming to Orchard) it becomes, rather whimsically, an exclusionary device of the
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    • 134 22 lOMip Sweet memories of a grand evening just for you and your V.Lft FOR YOUR WEDONG OMNER 1 honeymoon suit# from 30 tables upwards Drinks at conoewlon rates A Captoneas dinner preperad by trained chef» FOR BKTHDWS Free birthday buns Drink* at conceuion rata SPeCtAC FUNCTIONS Please call Mr. Tommy
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  • 472 23  -  Alex Josey THE ASIAN ECONOMIES: Development Outlook for the 1980$; by Dr. John Wong (Chopmen Enterprises). iXHNCIDENTLY, Dr. Wong's slim book makes a timely appearance during renewed Asean activity. Dr. Wong Is an ecopomist at the University of Singapore. He takes a hard professional
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  • 816 23 Book Page Express HUSTLINC ON CORKY STREET, by Yuri Brokhin (W.H. Allen). A PARTY of trainee A police poured from three buses Into a district of Moscow, one day in 1950, and began to round up Soviet citizens suspected of being black marketeers.
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 312 23 Motoring through Ashe City, you decide to drop in on your old friend, Carl Messner. At Messner's home you are shocked to learn that three days earlier your friend had hanged himself. "Carl Messner was In excellent health and spirits when I heard from him last month." you tell the
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  • 571 24  -  I3U.L? Sports Nation starts here Ernest Frida AMATEUR players "In the current local circuit have called on Singapore Golf Association to stop spoon-feeding the Putra Cup players If they are genuinely Interested In raising the standard of the game here. luey said: "SOA must stop pampering these
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  • 256 24 Novosti COME 52 million people are engaged In regular physical training in the Soviet Union today, or one in every five Soviet people. This number includes 17 million women. Sport Is accessible to all. A local physical training collective (sports club), the basic
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  • 644 25 INSIDE TRACK TH E situation Is urgent and immediate action is necessary to effectively prepare a Singapore swimming team for this year's South-East Asian Games at Kuala Lumpur. One step in this direction is the appointment of a national coach, In the true sense of the
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  • 758 26  -  SALZ SIGN UP FOR PROPER COACHING LESSONS AND LEARN T0... Alfred Tong COMEONE remark- ed the other day that if all those people we see hitting tennis balls aimlessly (some wildly) could get the benefit of proper coaching, Singapore would soon have a wide base of
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  • 266 26 U.K. SOCCER CORNER \LAN BAT J», C&pA tain of FA Cup holders Southampton, has warned all opposition that the Saints aim to retain the trophy for a second year. Ball, the former England skipper, said: "Harry Catterick. my manager while I was at Everton,
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  • 378 29 Reuter A 28 YEAR OLD Frenchman hopes to achieve a record next week by flying off the top of Africa s highest mountain, on the fragile wings of a hang glider. Two previous attempts to glide off the 5.791 metre Mount
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  • 1107 30 f ESTER PIOOOTT thrilled the crowd by landing a splendid treble on hie first ride SOCKET n in Race Two JAZZ in Race Seven and THE TSAR in Race Eight in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Rocket, who started an odds-on favourite, came with a storming run
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  • 222 31  -  By SCRUTINEER GO NAP on AIRLOCK at Kuala Lumpur today. With English ace Jockey Lester Plggott in the saddle he should not miss in the opening race over 1200 m. In addition to Plggott's master touch Airlock is now cherry ripe for a winning effort. He
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  • 269 32 SPORTS NATION AP A MAY tune-up bout In Korea as a prelude to his title defence against George Foreman Is the latest blueprint being prepared for heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad AH. "It's alive—very much a live," promoter Don King told the Associated Press
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  • 533 32  -  By PHILIP TAN npHE South Korean 1 national team, scheduled to play Israel In the preWorld Cup Asian Zone Oroup Two match on Feb. 27, are not expected to pull any punches when they meet Singapore In the friendly at the National Stadium
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