New Nation, 18 March 1977

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    19 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Friday, March 18, 1977 No. 1900 Price 25 cents MC (P) 262/1/77 r NEW NATION COMMENT
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    Lock icon Indira is in such a hurry
    44 1 Prime Minister in a hurry Mrs. Indira Gandhi of India sprints away after addressing voters in Uttar Pradesh State to catch up on her campaigning schedule yesterday. Running behind her are her security staffers. UPI picture. UPI picture
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    Now the East Coast Roar...
    88 1 r S Malaysia Cup i f oc 1 —I Trengganu are banking their hopes on the capacity crowd of 20,000 expected at this afternoon's Malaysia Cup clash with SingaGre, reports Jeffrey w. Trengganu official Bakar Daud said: "We are banking our hopes on our version
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    Lock icon 2 more towns seized
    216 1 Zaire crisis worsens Reuter Washington, Friday The United States was yesterday consuiting Its West European allies about the situation In Zaire, where invading forces reportedly led by Cuban officers appear to have captured two more towns on the border with the for mer Portuguese territory of
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    $23,000 missing from museum
    60 1 Six Singapore currency notes with a face value of $23,000 were reported missing from the numismatic section of the National Museum in Stamford Road yesterday. The orchid series notes were of $200. $1000 and $10,000 denominations. The notes had four punch holes at each corner and
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    Another 10 Reds shot dead
    168 1 Bangkok, Friday Government forces killed at least 10 communist guerillas, including two women in an operation in northeast Thailand, military sources said here today, reports Reuter. They said several guerilla camps on the Phu Sing mountain range near the Laotian border were captured during the
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      32 1 We'll win 300 seats, says Opposition Page 7. Match forecast Page 19. Human rights: Carter says It again... Page 5 IN THE OTHER PAGES: Cinemas 2; Comics 15; Moneywords, Crossword, Stars 18.
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    'We have to look and sound serious'
    716 2  -  RTS news readers reply to attack by MP By K.K. Fong RTS news readers contacted by New Nation yesterday said the criticism of Enelk Ahmad Haleem (Telok Blangah), was "far fetched and exaggerated." Enclk Ahmad said In Parliament two days ago that news
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    The 'wait and see' bosses...
    239 2 Employers are still adopting a wait-and-see attitude towards establishing productivity committees, accordlpg to the NTUC. Its monthly Journal, Perjuangan, said in its latest issue that despite joint efforts made by the Government, employers and trade unions, only 15 companies have set up productivity committees. Of
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    STOCK MARKET
    91 2 Prices eased marginally during the first 45 minutes of quiet trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. BUSINEBB DONE: First Section: M. BANKING (1) 6.00. CONS. PLANT. (1) 3.90. U. 0.8. (0) 3.10. U. 0.8. 'A' (1) 3.04, (1) 3.02. S. DARBY (1) 3.22. C. SUGARS (2)
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    Lock icon Lee's methods —by the Times
    173 2 Reuter Lodon, Friday The London Times said today that Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's methods of government in Singapore paralleled those of communist states. The newspaper said: "What ta one to make of a government that In the name of fending off a communist threat
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    S'pore film pioneer dies
    195 2 Local film industry Pjoneer Tom Hodge died of niness i n p £J? an B yesterday. The former EnglishKg* school ma g t s e h r r «r e late Dato Loke Wan Tho set un Cathay Film Services 20 years ago. 4 450 He
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      90 2 WHAT'S ON PROSPECTS and Problems of ABSAN, a talk In Mandarin by Dr. K.E. Shaw at the Toa Payoh branch library, 7.30 p.m. ANNIVERSARY dinner and dance of the Supervisory and Management Training Association of Singapore at Cathay restaurant 7.30 p.m. NIGHT MARKETS at Kam pong Java Road Kent; Lee
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      510 2 CINEMA KING KONG: A Dlno De Laurentlls spectacular that It a remake of the A*(a4nal In #ka ■tars Jeff Bridges, Charles Orodin, Jessica Lange. Odeou: 12.45, 3.30, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY: An epic war film that dramatises a historic World War n naval battle between the
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      59 2 Today: 9.36 a.m. (2.7 m) 10.52 p.m. (2.6 m). Tomorrow: 10.37 a.m. (2.8 m); 11.16 P-m. (2.7 m). Bunday: 11.15 a.m. (2.9 m); 11.42 p.m. (2.7 m). Monday: 11-53 a.m. (2.8 m). Tuesday: 12.05 a.m. (2.8 m); 12.29 p.m. (2.8 m). Wednesday: 12.32 a.m. (2.8 m); 1.04 p.m. (2.6 m).
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    40c a ride on double-decker
    184 4 Singaoore's double-dec-ker bus service will charge a flat rate of 40 cents a journey, according to an Informed source. The service is scheduled to begin in June. The buses will halt at any request stop along the route. Passengers will be required to put the
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    Grads turn homes into 'private schools'
    397 4  -  By Teresa Ooi Many g r a d u a ted and fresh school leavers, for want of a better Job, have turped their homes into "schools" for private tuition. They give tuition to groups or about 12 to 15 students. They are not
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    Police must behave
    239 4 Commander warns All police campaigns and endeavours to win public respect and confidence can come to nought by the thoughtless and tactless behaviour of a single officer on the ground, Police Commander Tee Tua Ba said at a graduation parade in the Police Academy yesterday. "Every time
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    Room maids
    32 4 The Hotel and Catering Training School will conduct a sixweek course from April 4 for women between the ages of 18 and 35 who wish to train as room maids.
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    Taiwanese bank to open on March 25
    146 4 Taiwan Is to open Its first bank here on March 25. The First Commercial Bank is Taiwan's biggest In terms of assets and deposits. It will operate from its Shenton Way office under a restricted licence—the first such licence given by the Monetary
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    Of sugar, flats and permits
    638 4 In Parliament yesterday Several important issues such as sugar prices, Housing and Development Board flats, the Points Demerit System, and work permits were raised in Parliament yesterday. SUGAR PRICES: Finance Minister Mr. Hon Sul Sen said the current sugar retail price of 75 cents is
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    Othman: I forgive...
    432 4 Two MPs sprang to defend Social Affairs Minister Encik Othman Wok against a harsh description of him by Mr. Ngeow Pack Hua (Boon Lay) as "unsympathetic" and "a man with a stony heart." Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Boclal Affairs), Mr. Chan Chee Seng, who rose In staunch support
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    Lock icon Human rights: US says it again...
    724 5 'No country can claim that mistreatment of its citizens is solely its business' Reuter United Nations, Friday President Carter last night made a strong plea for human rights throughout the world saying no country could claim mistreatment of its citizens was solely its own
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    Lock icon Birth control a must—Coggan
    253 5 Birth control a must —Coggan AP London, Friday—Fostering birth control in overcrowded countries may underscore the sacredness of life preached by the Bible, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday. In a lecture at Newcastle University at New ttoutn Wales, Australia, Dr. Donald Coggan warned that forces in today's modern world
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    Lock icon 'Moscow can't be trusted to keep aims treaties'
    218 5 AP Washington, Friday. Two top US Intelligence experts argued yesterday that America must keep a technological and military edge over the Soviet Union since the Russians are strengthening their forces and cannot be trusted to keep arms control agreements. "The Russians are
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    Lock icon Amnesty
    29 5 Reuter Madrid. Friday The Spanish government yesterday widened an amnesty granted last year, paving the way for the release of most of ths country's estimated 200 political prisoners.
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      93 5 i. w' ♦> bht ire) NOW at the tJiasGafi* They sang for the movie "Jesus Christ Superstar". They performed with Stevie Wonder, Nancy Wilson, O.C. Smith and the Ohio Lakeside Express. See them broodingly sensual one minute, explosive the next.Catch them at their greatest. Hot from The United States. Also
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    Lock icon Workers at Leyland vote to end strike
    255 6 Reuter London, Friday Three thousand highly skilled toolmakers ye st e r day voted to end a month long strike which has badly damaged B r It a 1 n's largest car maker, the state-owned Leyland Motor Corporation. In three separate mass meetings
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    Lock icon Tribal welcome for Castro in Tanzania
    85 6 Reuter Dar Es Salaam, Friday—Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived here yesterday, for a five-day of flclal visit to a colourful welcome from tribal dancers and thousands of Tanzanians. Mystery continued to surround Dr. Castro's whereabouts on Wednesday, after he was re- ported to have
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    Lock icon Israel's Carter 'jitters'
    381 6 PLO 'homeland* uproar Reuter UPI Tel Aviv, Friday Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin yesterday publicly expressed worry over remarks made by Pr e s 1 d e nt Carter about a Palestinian homeland and predicted differences of opinion on this with the United States. A comment on Wednesday
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    Lock icon Malik criticised by Aussie Senator
    189 6 Reuter Canberra, Friday.—A Labour Party senator last night charged that the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Mr. Adam Malik, was "utterly unprincipled and untrustworthy." New South Wales Senator Arthur Oletzelt was speaking in the Senate as he moved for a full scale inquiry into events connected with
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    Lock icon Newsman
    24 6 UPI London. Friday American-born Journalist Mark Hosenball yesterday lost his Hlght Court appeal against a deportation order Issued for "national security" reasons. UPI.
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    Lock icon TODAY
    185 6 UPI TODAY is Friday, March 18, the 77th day of 1977 with 288 to follow. THE MOON is approaching its new phase. THE MORNING STAR |e Aiarq THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. Orover Cleveland.
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    37 6 Reuter Hendaye (France), Friday Spaniard Geofhea Zabala, 28, crossed over the Franco-Spanish border to see a pornographic film here and never returned. He died of a heart attack while watching "Sex O'clock USA." Reuter.
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    Don't call us and we won't call you
    634 6  -  AMERICA ANTHEA DISNEY'S I was feeling really good till I checKed with my telephone answering service to see which friends might have been trying to reach me while I had been out. The lady at the service patiently read me a list
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      62 6 DON'T MISS gg anpomun houidgs o o L IP sr TILL 20th MARCH Many other items to delight every little heart, every adult ORIENTAL EASTERN CHINESE YUYI TOA PAYOH 1■ I I inq,. 11, .1,1 I .»ro»« '1 j KATONG ORIENTAL PLAZA BALESTIER QUEENSWAY ,1 IP»opl«'» Parfc I 4 .1H
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      158 6 WORLD WEATHER New York Sunny. 2-9 C. Headline: Carter opens first "meet the people" tour. London Sunny spells, showers developing. 9-11 C. Headline: Leyland peace In the balance. Rome Sunny, 420C. Headline: The mad hijacker captured after shootout. Paris Cloudy. 1610C. Headline: Fighting spreading in Zaire. Tokyo Cloudy, 96C. Headline:
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    Lock icon Pham hails new spirit of Carter
    380 7 This can solve all our problems, he says UPI Hanoi, Friday Premier Phan Van Dong of communist Vietnam told White House emissaries yesterday the "new spirit" of President Carter can solve all problems between his country and America. Mr. Phan marched from his palace
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    Lock icon India opposition will win 300 seats—Ram
    311 7 India opposition will win 300 seats —Ram UPI New Delhi* Friday Opposition leader Jagjlvan Ram, who has emerged as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's main challenger for India's leadership, yesterday said: "We expect to win at least 300 seats," in the 542member new Parliament. Mr. Ram, who returned from his home
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    Lock icon Held: Man who tried to smuggle out $2.4m
    228 7 UPI Taipeh, Friday A Hong Kong Chinese, carrying a Malaysian passport, was arrested yesterday at Taipeh International airport on charges of trying to smuggle out of the country nearly US$l million ($2.4 million) worth of banknotes and cheques of various countries, authorities
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    Lock icon Jumblatt buried in simple ceremony
    228 7 UPI Moukhtara (Lebanon), Friday The followers of Kamal Jumblatt burled the slain leftist leader in a simple ceremony yesterday amid reports his assassination had triggered revenge killings. A foreign television cameraman said he had counted eight bodies in one Christian area that apparently had been
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    Lock icon 11 killed
    33 7 Reuter Rangoon, Friday Eleven people were killed and 59 others injured when fire broke out yesterday on a passenger train travelling from here to Thazi, 480 kms away in central Burma.
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      97 7 EXHIBITION of Surveying, Drafting and Engineering Reproduction Equipment by Motion Smith on March 19, 21, 22, 1977. from 10.00 am to 6.00pm at the UNITED STATES TRADE CENTRE ground floor, Malayan Credit House, 96, Somerset Road, Singapore 9. All Are Welcome Products on Display uAr from <■ in KEUFFEL A
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    An easier press approach
    480 8 The complaint by Mr. Ngeow Pack Hua (MP for Boon Lay) that ministers are Inaccessible to Journalists has some validity. So has Culture, Science and Technology Minister Jek Yeun Thong's retort that ministers are not at the beck and call of reporters. Some ministers are more
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    Case for not earning more
    573 8 rr~ S VOICE OF THE PRESS J SIN CHEW JIT POH During the parliamentary debate on the Presidential address in January, the backbenchers, including P a r 1 i amen tar y Secretaries, had touched upon the question of personal relief for income tax. This
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    Lock icon THE 'RIGHT TO DIE' LAW
    354 8 Reuter San Francisco, Friday Californlans have already begun exercising their "right to die" under a controversial new Act which allows terminally ill patients to order life support equipment turned off. The number of patients who have signed directives to physicians" and deposited them with their
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    HOW GRACELESS IS MODERN SOCIETY
    647 8  -  FRIDAY WITH ALEX JOSEY ALEX JOSEY An Asian writer recently reflected that the Orient's traditional respect for good manners seems to be disappearing. I believe this is happening everywhere. Travelling across the continents it is easy to get the impression that good manners in the
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    'Don't stop trying—man'
    70 8 |wHISPERSjg> Many fair ladles rang up columnist Samad to protest that two times are not enough In pursuing the weaker se x for dates. Samad had written In his column that he would never ask a girl out for the third time If she had turned him
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    Quick way to help wages of poor
    883 9 Exploit the gap between the haves and have-nots, says Kahn By a Staff writer The real Issue confronting the world today Is not to close the gap between the rich and poor nations but to exploit the gap to raise the income of
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    Lock icon 'Food for Peace' hit by bountiful harvests
    445 9  -  By William Nye Curry Washington Post Washington, Friday Bountiful harvests in' India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have, in a cruel twist, reduced the amount of food aid the United States is alottlng to other countries where the hard gnaw of hunger remains real. Countries
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      209 9 AHEAD OF OUR TIME i»K< '600 The GX Haad lepM'Seiits ,tdv,ll n't'd audio t('' hen ilogy pe< ause t'it.*r•* is no other hk.». ii mounted in tjlass whit n pi events dust ,md ma<)n 't'< j virtu. l»" liom adhering The maqiieti' field is tix used inti > ,i> <><!;emel\
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      Jerky like a robot but it's dancing!
      549 10 / 11  -  Sundown scene I U IJ 11 Jennifer Schoon I'VE never seen the likes of dancer Marvin Lee Chiles, better known as L.A. Marvin, before. He's a funky disco dancer, but what he does is another like what, we know of "go-go" danceh For
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      TRY BEEF MANCHU
      708 10 / 11  -  Cook serves dishes from Ching Dynasty Ma tiny Out t.V L_ Violet Oon Few people get the chance to translate their hobbles into full-time jobs. One man who did just that is Mr. Goh Huan Chla. a man who came out of retirement to open a restaurant
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      Four voices encore
      892 10 / 11  -  1 =3 The Arts V.O. A Music for Everyone concert in 1975, Handel's Messiah brought together four talented singers and saw the launching of a new musical group called Four Voices. The singers soprano Yeoh Stew Lian. tenor David Lim, contralto Shirley Fluery and baritone Geoffrey Ablsheganaden
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      Lock icon Streisand—pretty for the first time in her life
      680 10 / 11 Streisand —pretty for the first time in her life NYT New York. Friday Will two highly visible stage stars do for their hairdos what Dorothy Hamill, the skater. did for the "Wedge" cut last year? Miss Hamill's crisp, short hair at the Olympics sent what seemed like half the women
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    Lock icon Bounty descendants stage a revolt
    344 12 Gemini Auckland, Friday Descendants of the Bounty mutineers are stagipg their own revolt almost two centuries later on tiny Norfolk Island, a picturesque taxfree haven in the South Pacific. Their modern-day Captain Bligh is the A us tralian government, which Is considering swallowing up the
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    Lock icon It pays to be in Big Daddy's army...
    412 12 Los Angeles Times Nairobi, Friday Once each week a Ugandan Airlines plane piloted by an American crew takes off from Entebbe Airport for the long trip to Britain. There, at Stansied Airport near London, it takes on a curious cargo. Well-tailored clothes,
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      78 12 On your way to Europe... visit USSR lor as little as $420 4 days Moscow ($420) Departing every Monday *6 days Moscow li Leningrad ($710) Departing every Monday 15 days Fascinating Black Sea Tour ($1,250) Visiting Moscow, Kiev, Odessa and Yalta departing 20th July, 1977 OR The 25 days TransEnquire
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      102 12 PHOENIX COFFEEHOUSE Introduces LOCAL at local prices! 6 p.m. -11 p.m. nightly Singapore is famous 4or its outdoor eating. Now you can enjoy these same local specialities in air conditioned comfort, but still at budget prices! Select from: Beef Ball Bee Hoon Soup $2.25 Indian Mee Qoreng $2.00 Tang Hoon
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    Lock icon Fidel Castro's many faces...
    703 13 ...when he talks about American President Carter Back- of the -paper backgrounder Washington Post Washington, Friday Fidel Castro talks about Jimmy Carter these days with mixtures of respect and outrage, sy m p athy and frustration, impatience and understanding. Castro a pistol In his hip holster
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    Lock icon THE PRAYER OF THE MOROCCANS
    1110 13  -  HOPING FOR PEACE SO THAT THE JEWS WILL RETURN By Michael Goldsmith AP Rabat, Friday Maurice Simon is a Moroccan Jew who didn't like life in Israel and decided to return to his old Arab homeland. Now re-established as a respected tailor in the Moroccan
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      156 13 ■LI proudly presents t An Exhibition Sale of Artßirniture a rare and exclusive private collection of the finest and the best. Saturday March 19 tc Sunday March 20,1977 10 am. to 10 p.m. Cambaluc Room, •Kg? IKumm 1 Tanglin Circus, Singapore 10. A large collection at exquisite exhibits oo display,
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    Lock icon Plea to cut down on shipbuilding
    315 14 Reuter London, Friday Leaders of the International shipping industry yesterday called for a carefully prepared run down in shipbuilding capacity to overcome the world-wide surplus. The International Maritime Industry Forum (IMIF) opposed indiscriminate provision of subsidies to stimulate orders for shlDs when there is
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    People in business
    168 14 Straits Steamship's managing director. Mr. J.G. GUmour, has been appointed chairman of William Jacks (M), replacing Mr. A.J.M. Ramsay who remains a director. Mrs. Pearl C.C. Hsu Niu has been appointed a director of United Industrial Corporation. Ob e r o 1 Imperial Hotel, has a new
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    Lock icon $1150m surplus for Japan
    246 14 Reuter Tokyo, Friday—Japan's overall balance of payments swung around to a US$46O million ($ll5O million) surplus In February after recording a deficit of US$B46 million ($2115 million) the previous month, the Finance Ministry announced yesterday. The turnaround followed the usual pattern for the first two months
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      NEW YORK
      203 14 Carter administration doubts about the economy's staying power sparked selling yesterday that drove prices of New York Stock Exchange issues lower for the first time In six sessions. Despite a laie rally, trading was moderate as many investors waited for money supply figures and the government's report today
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      32 14 UPI NEW YORK. Friday. Dow Jones closing averages yesterday: 30 Industrials 984.84 (off 3.18); 20 transport 229.88 (up 1.51); Ift utilities 107.38 (up 0.54); Bft stocks 314.98 (up 0.16 >. UPL
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      TOKYO
      196 14 The Tokyo stock market opened firm on light volume. Constructions Including Hasegawa Komuten and Nlshlmatsu construction advanced along with warehousing Issues. However, natural resources-relat-ed stocks, foods, precision machinery Issues and light electrlcals were on the minus side. Closing prices In yen yesterday: 638 AJlnomoto 3 C. Itoh 285 4
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      ZURICH
      77 14 Closing prices In Swiss francs on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS Bearer 3300 15 Credit Suisse 3750 8 Swissair B. 860 3 8wl*s Relnsur. 3580 30 Wlnterthur B. 1880 10 Zurich Insur. 7360 100 JUvena B. 185 Nestle B. 3400 15 Iftterfood B. 3550 35 Ciba-Oelgy B. Baby
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      PARIS
      65 14 Closing prices In fraoca on the Paris Bourse yesterday Parlba* 149 —1.50 Foncler 306+1 Printemp 37 —.40 Bull 25.65 —1.05 Mlchelln 1140 +2 COE 241 —.50 Thomson 171.50 +.50 CFP 108.90 +.90 Rhone 71 +.50 AIR 348 +6.50 BSN 426 unch Philips 52 —.10 Sues 209 +4 Peugeo Citroen
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      SYDNEY
      74 14 Prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange. ACI 155 167 ADC 12 21 Ampol Pet 55 56 AM 120 125 APM 119 nU Bank NSW 455 460 Brambles 144 146 BHP 660 nil Boral 192 nil CBA 260 262 CSR 344 348 CIO nil
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      Bayonet can repeat his winning feat
      490 15  -  Tulloh's Perfection does splendid trial ON THE TRACK u it h Brian Miller Bayonet, who scored a winning debut over the Penang 1400 m last month, can give a repeat performance when he goes over 1200 m in Race 8 tomorrow. With jockey V.
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      Lock icon Davy Lad wins Gold Cup
      132 15 AP London. Friday The Irish-trained horse Davy Lad won the Cheltenham Gold Cup yesterday, with Tied Cottage second and Somerville third. Only seven of the 13 runners cleared the 22 fences safely and finished the race. Among the fallers was Fort Devon, owned by Charlie
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      Go nap on Divine Night in Race 5
      347 16 RACING with Scrutineer i j Go nap on Divine Night, the mount of Lester Piggott, in the Class 1 Division 1 1850 m event (Race 5) at Bukit Timah tomorrow. The four year old English horse by Lorenzacclo was quietly fancied first
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      BUKIT TIMAH CARD AND FORM GUIDE FOR TOMORROW
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      1239 17  -  Min-Nan, Owen in top form, but watch the Americans and Japanese TEE-UP with Lim Kee Chan The Singapore Open championship has never failed to lack in quality, and this year, despite the fact that it nas been drawn into the second half of the
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      799 17 The Seletar "A" and "B" Medal Stroke competition will be played on Sunday. Hie draw: 7 a.m. Boon Oon San (12) Richard Gomes (15) Lim Oee Song (11); 7.07 Austin Watts (9) A. Harding (11) Tay Tuan Ann (13); 7.14 Yeo Loy Seng (11) M. Gomes (12) Stephen
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      Lock icon Wolves bid to upset Leeds
      366 18 Middlesbrough face formidable L'pool Reuter London, Friday Second D 1 v i 81 on leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers play tost to Leeds United in the quarter-finals of the English Football Association (FA) Cup tomorrow hoping to reverse the outcome of previous Cup encounters. Leeds denied Wolves
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      256 18 Seoul, Friday Kim Taek-Soo, president of the Korean National Sports Association, said yesterday he would not allow the Third Asian Track and Field Championship to be held in Seoul tnls year. He made the statement In connection with a campaign by the Korean
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      Trengganu: Beware our 'Roar'
      667 19  -  Malaysia Cup Preview by Jeffrey Low Kuala Trengganu, Friday Fresh from the glory of the World Cup prelims, Singapore should be able to carry the surge Into their first away win when they face Trengganu in a Malaysia Cup South Zone match here today. (Kick-off: 4.30
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      289 19 Seoul, Friday Israeli's World Cup soccer team arrived late last night amid tight security to meet South Korea in a return away match of the Asia Group Two elimination series. The match is scheduled to be played today at the 30.000-capaclty Seoul Stadium
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