New Nation, 8 November 1977

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    23 1 New Nation .SINGAPORE Tuesday, November 8, 1977 No. 2101 Price 25 cents M C. (P) 262/1/77 r i Nl IV (i") NATION COMMENT
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    Lock icon Super plane!
    301 1 It can fly six times the speed of sound AFP Washington. Tuesday Lockheed Aircraft Corporation has announced plans to design a hydrogenpowered airliner that can fly at six times the speed of sound or nearly three times as fast as the Concorde. Such a plane can take passengers
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    CNB men in 3-day drug ambush
    95 1 A 72-hcur surveillance by Central Narcotics Bureau officers at Woodlands Checkpoint paid off yesterday when a man drove in with $100,000 worth of raw opium concealed in the car's front compartment. The ambush followed a tip-off on Saturday that a man was coming In
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    Lock icon Life term for boy, 15
    173 1 Reuter Miami, Tuesday A 15-year-old boy whose defence against a murder charge was based on "television insanity" a result of watching too much violence on the screen was sentenced here today to life Imprisonment. The sentence against the boy, Ronny Zamora. carries a minimum term
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    FIVE LEADERS OF PAS QUIT BUT STAY AS BACKBENCHERS
    238 1 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Hive PAS leaders led by the party's national pr e s ldent Datuk Hajl Mohamad 4srl bin Hajl Muda, will quit the Federal Government later today. They signed a Joint resignation letter this morning. The others are two
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    Lock icon The first in 15 years...
    94 1 AFP Peking, Tuesday The first marriage of a Chinese to a foreigner In China for over 15 years took place yesterday In Peking between a French el Odile Plerquln and a ■year-old Chinese worker Tlan LI. The simple ceremony lasted about 20 minutes. The couple
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    Lock icon Rapist is beheaded
    49 1 Reuter Riyadh, Tuesday. A young man has been beheaded by the sword In public here for kidnapping and raping a aeven-year-old girl. Police said the man. Sulelmah Hussein alAwdrl, broke Into a house at night on Oct. 1L kidnapped the girl and later raped her. Reuter.
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      31 1 INSIDE Soccer boss warns prima donnas Pago 18 SOS puts out an SOS... Page 2 f IN THE OTHER PAGES: Moneywords, Crossword 14; Comics 17; What's On 19. Stars not received.
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    Lock icon Viet team in KL for talks
    215 2 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday An eight member Vietnamese economic delegation arrived here yesterday for talks with Malaysian leaders to explore avenues for further cooperation, Including the possibility of a bilateral trade agreement. The mission, led by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Nguyen Chanh.
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    55 caught speeding over the weekend
    117 2 Fifty-five speedsters, in«lud ng el?ht hellriders, were caught by Traffic Police over the weekend. In the first operation, from 10 p.m. on Saturday to 2 a.m. on Sunday, Traffic Police in unmarked cars and Mobile Squad set up a speedtrap along the 10-km East
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    SOS calls for more Samaritans
    334 2 Chinese speaking The Samaritans of Singapore plans to recruit more Chi-nese-speaking volunteers because most of its callers were Chinese. Almost 78 per cent of them called In the first six months of this year. The figure last year was 82 per cent. Total call received
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    Emergency squad answers 55 suicide calls
    238 2 The SOS emergency squad was sent out to answer 55 suicide calls during the year under review. This Is the highest number of emergency calls since 1971. A higher percentage of females, people in the 30-39 age group and divorced or widowed persons made
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    STOCK MARKET
    134 2 Trading ruled steady after a quiet opening at the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minutes today. Nanyang Press, after a slow start, advanced three cents to $1.88 on small-lot buying support. Elsewhere, share prices were generally traded unchanged from yesterday's closing levels. BUSINESS DONE: First
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    X-country
    30 2 The Upper Serangoon Constituency sports club is organising a cross country race on Nov £7 at 8 a.m. There will be four sections for ladles, men, boys and veterans.
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    New officers
    30 2 The government has appointed the following as Assistant Superintendents of Customs and Excise: Mr Jayaram Bal a s übramanlan, Mr Tham Cheok Kwong and Encik Haron bin Hassan.
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    Mrs Chan
    22 2 Mrs Polly Cheah, of 33J Chancery Lane, who won last week's Moneywords contest, is also known as Mrs Dolly Chan.
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    SBS meets students
    171 2  -  By Teresa Ooi Singapore Bus Service met officials from the st u d e nt unions of the Singapore Polytechnic and the Ngee Ann T e c h n i cai College this morning to discuss their plea for a fare concession. The meeting was call- Ed
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    Why the drop in demand for private housing
    781 3 Only 500 a year needed, say researchers Only about 500 private houses will be needed annually in the next 10 years, it was estimated today. The public sector will take care of the remainder of about 1460 units of middle and upper
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    Lock icon 'S'pore won't help' charge
    136 3 UPI Bangkok, Tuesday Thailand's Customs Director, alleged that Singapore has refused to help in the flght against tin ore smuggling. Mr Chamcnai Leethavern, in reports by Thai news papers yesterday, said Malaysian authorities, on the other hand, have cooperated with Thailand to try to catch smugglers.
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    Dinner date
    43 3 The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr 8. Rajaratnam and his wife will be the guests of honour at a special dinner organised by the Foreign Correspondents Association of South -east Asia at the Hyatt Hotel on Nov 18 at 8 p.m.
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    Temple to glitter with REAL gold
    235 3  -  By Ting Hi Keng This million-dollar Klew Lee Tong temple at Upper Thomson Road will literally glitter when completed next month. For Its carved pillars will be sprinkled with real gold dust worth about $40,000. "It will be the first time it Is done
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    Forum
    32 3 The Nanyang University Students' Union Welfare Committee will hold a forum on Talk between the Elders and the Youths when they visit the Elders' Activities Centre on Saturday at 2 p.m.
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    SCARECROW A HIT AT MACHINE SHOW
    169 4 Visitors to exhibition find it so amusing This mechanised scarecrow was a hit with visitors at the Machine Asia exhibition yesterday. Much to the amusement of some visitors, the onemetre tall scarecrow stretched its limbs robot style. The German-made exhibit is activated by a
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    Plan for boating stations shelved
    130 4  -  By Wang Look Fung The Ministry of National Development has shelved plans to lease five areas In the East Coast Park for recreational boa 11 ng stations. Tenders for licences to operate and maintain these rowing boat stations for a three-year period were called three
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    Serious cases only plan
    402 4 Hospitals to redirect others to outpatient clinics The Health Ministry Is working out plans to redirect nonemergency cases from the Accident and Emergency departments of six major hospitals to outpatient dispensaries. The departments will be reorganised to enable them to better concentrate on those requiring emergency
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    Lock icon Counsel for defence quits
    112 4 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday, A defence lawyer yesterday withdrew from a case under the nation's Internal Security Act which provides mandatory death sentence for Illegal arms possession. Lawyer JaJlt Singh was acting In line with a Bar Council call on all lawyers to stop defending cases
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    A physics contest
    45 4 The Physics Society of Nanyang University is organising an intersecondary school physics competition at the university at 1.30 p.m. on Dec 13. The competition Is open to all pre-unlversity and secondary school students. Questions will be set in both English and Chinese.
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    Construction of terminal soon
    264 4 Construction of the 230,000-square metre passenger terminal at the Changl International Airport will begin soon. Tenders were called last week for the PWDdeslgned terminal. It will be able to handle 10 million passengers annually, a Ministry of National Development spokesman said yesterday. The terminal consists of
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    Lock icon Move for closer shipping ties in ASEAN
    125 4 UPI Manila, Tuesday. Shipowners from the Ave members of the Association of South-east Asian Nations will meet In Manila tomorrow and Thursday to draw up plans on greater regional cooperation in shipping. An announcement by the host Filipino Shipowners Association said the meeting
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    Lock icon S'pore painter wins award
    81 4 Reuter London, Tuesday. A Singaporean was among the winners of this year's art exhibition sponsored by the Royal Overseas League of London, a private organisation to promote friendship among the Commonwealth Nations. It said the Singaporean, Mr. Lim Tze Peng, was awarded a special prize of
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    Lock icon Approval likely for Malacca Straits scheme
    514 5 Reuter London, Tuesday Final approval of a resolution to control sea traffic In one of the world's busiest waterways, the Straits of Malacca, is due to be given at a meeting of international marine experts which opened here yesterday. The 12-day meeting, the 10th
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    Lock icon Israel: We won't violate UN arms embargo
    151 5 Reuter Jerusalem, Tuesday. Israel will not violate a United Nations Security Council arms embargo against South Africa, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday." The spokesman made the statement at a news briefing apparently called to clarify remarks by Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan the
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    Lock icon Fires Man arrested
    50 5 Reuter Hagl, (Japan), Tuesday. Police, Investigating a fire which last Wednesday destroyed a two-century old house here, arrested a painter yesterday for allegedly causing the fire by pouring kerosene on a stray cat and setting it afire. Police said the cat was found dead in the ruins.
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    Lock icon It's official: Carter trip is off...
    307 5 Reuter Washington, Tuesday President Carter made it official yesterday his foreign tour this month is off. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced that the nine countries concerned were told over the weekend. He said the President had to rein a 1 n in Washington
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    Lock icon Israel's bid to follow Bonn's economic style
    177 5 Reuter New York, Tuesday Nobel prize- winning economist Milton Friedman predicted In an article in Newsweek yesterday that If Israel maintains Its shift to a free market economy, it will emulate West Germany's economic miracle alter World War Two. Writing in the current
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    Lock icon Kerr's lunch boycott by MPs
    87 5 Reuter Canberra, Tuesday. Australia's opposition Labour Party politicians boycotted a farewell parliamentary lunch here yesterday for GovernorGeneral Sir John Kerr who retires next month. The boycott was part of a two-year protest against Sir jonn for dismissing the Labour Party from office in November 1975
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    Lock icon Levy to cover costs of airport guards
    155 5 Reuter London, Tuesday The Labour government has ordered Britain's major airports to recruit their own antihljack guards with the cost to be met from a new levy on passengers. At present airlines at some airports employ outside firms for body and baggage searchers.
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    Lock icon IATA hits out at govt controls
    458 6 Reuter Madrid, Tuesday The world's 109 major airlines today accused governments of tymg tneir hanas whlie allowing a tree rein to independent, cut-price operators. The annual report of the InternaUonal Air Transport Association (lATA), by lATA Direc-tor-General Knut Hammarkskjoia, said lATA memDers were oelng
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    Lock icon TODAY
    127 6 UPI TODAY is Tuesday, Nov. 8, the 312 th day of 1977 with 53 to follow. THE MOON is between its last quarter and new phase. THE MORNING STARS are Mars. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. THE EVENING STAR Is Mercury. Those barn on this date are under the sign
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    The Odd Corner
    52 6  -  D.J. A British survey shows that when TV ads appear, 27 par cent of housewives pat the kettle on or go to the 100. Another 18 per cent resume Ironing, seme make a quick phone call, and the rest "get Involved in other activities,'' which they would
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    Lock icon Shipbuilding: Call for world action
    300 6 Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday Japan yesterday called for International cooperation to help overcome serious problems In the world's shipbuilding Industry, such as the closing of yards and reduced working hours. Mr Moriyuki Motono Director General of the Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, told a meeting here:
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    Lock icon Clamp on girls leaving Lanka?
    108 6 UPI Colombo, Tuesday The Sri Lanka government la considering imposing a ban to keep women from leaving the country because of the many reports of girls lured into undesirable activities. Labour Minister CP. J. Senevlratne said yesterday a proposal attempting to stop women from leaving
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    Lock icon 'Little support' for a big oil price hike next year
    256 6 Reuter Vienna, Tuesday Major oil-producing nations began considering 1978 price levels yesterday. with a majority of OPEC governments reportedly favouring a modest increase. Diplomatic sources said there appeared to be little support in the 13member Organisation of P e t
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      319 6 Ah Fook and Mei Lin '/b A cog ting zhfn /i naya/'qai j iaqian lai X vjtai V y M 1 m m •3 U K-? TO 6 y > e S! 7,^ iSS t *>, v> Vi 7C© (i QJ ft 0 K *cv*A Ah Fook: The food at
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    Lock icon 106 pickets held in London demo
    249 7 Reuter London, Tuesday Police arrested 106 leftwing pickets when new fighting fiared yesterday outside the Grunwlck taototy- in north London. Roused by what they claimed was police brutality, about 4000 demonstrators marched to a nearby police station and demanded the release of arrested pickets.
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    Lock icon Ali MacGraw, Steve McQueen separated
    102 7 UPI Los Angeles, Tuesday Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw have officially separated and one of them probably will be filing for divorce shortly, a spokesman for the actors said yesterday. McQueen and Miss MacGraw, who had been romantically linked since they costarred in The Getaway
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    Lock icon Hanoi builds luxury hotel
    158 7 UPI Belgrade, Tuesday Hanoi will soon have a six-storey luxury hotel, the official Vietnam News Agency said yesterday. The Ben Thanh Hotel will Include several restaurants, shops, a swimming pool, a sauna and "lavish" entertainment, the agency said in a reE* from Hanoi distrid by the
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    Lock icon How to attract Japan buyers
    230 7 course for US businessmen AP Washington, Tuesday The United States and Japan announced plans yesterday to train American businesses to make their products attractive to Japanese buyers. Mr W. Dean Moran. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, said the seminars are part of an attempt to
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    Lock icon Commodity fund plan by the rich
    226 7 Reuter Geneva, Tuesday—The world's rich states yesterday formally proposed an international mutual aid fund to help finance commodity agreements aimed at stabilising world markets and prices for raw materials. The proposals, tabled at the resumption here of a 106-natton negotiating conference, were the most
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    Lock icon UN meet in Manila too costly, says US
    117 7 UPI United Nations, Tuesday An official US spokesman said yesterday it would be too expensive to hold the next regular session of the UN General Assembly In Manila. Mr. Tom Offenburger, spokesman for US Ambassador Andrew Young said: "On those grounds alone
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    Pardon, Sir Murray
    404 8 Three journalists asked Hongkong Governor Sir Murray MacLehose, In a television Interview In February last year, whether he would consider granting amnesty for corruption offences committed before a particular date. He replied that when the backbone of corruption was broken, "this Is the sort of thing I
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      Good show, Rose Chan
      49 8 Rose Chan, Malaysia'* undisputed queen of strippers, made front page news In the Asian Wall Street Journal for her business skills. According to the Journal, Rose, who runs a chain of restaurants and health clubs has endured the bumps and grinds of the business world.
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      C is not for Cold
      43 8 A friend who visited Prance recently almost had her hands burnt at the sink when she switched on the tap with a capital C on It. In France C for Chaud means Hot while F Is for Cold.
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    Lock icon China all out to chart the heavens again
    782 8 NYT New York: After a hiatus of many centuries, China appears determined to regain a place in the forefront of celestial observation. As part of the rehabilitation of basic research decreed by the Peking regime, a telescope mirror two metres in diameter
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    Straying from goal
    357 8 f VOICE OF THE PRESS 'a NEW STRAITS TIMES Headline: Agencies' role. The mammoth tasks of national development, especially that of restructuring society and eradicating poverty has necessarily meant the creation of a large number of quasl-government agencies who have in turn set up various subsidiaries specialising
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    Lock icon The Soviet con man is so smooth...
    974 9  -  By Emil Sveilis UPI Leningrad: Even though there have been no reports of anyone selling the Kremlin to an unsuspecting sucker, the Soviet confidence trickster is becoming so adept he would be the envy of his western counterpart. On a much smaller and
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    Lock icon A new plan for the kids: Let them go to college first
    686 9  -  Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times Theie is a tremendous concern in this country about our educational system. At least 1567 co mmissions are studying it; 18,732 professors are now writing books critical of It, and every politician running
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    Lock icon Banning law that makes a man's home his prison
    762 9  -  By Jack Folsie Los Angeles Times Johannesburg: Of the five South African laws under which white or black citizens can be held and held indefinitely held i n d e f 1 n itely without trial the one known as the
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    The premier playground
    1067 10 / 11  -  Biggest 'green lung' will be fully developed by next year By early next year, the sprawling East Coast Park the biggest and most popular In Singapore will be fully developed. Soon-to-come facilities include a recreation centre, golf driving range, orchard garden, crocodile aquarium and exercise stations. These
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      Lock icon NIGHT LOOKS
      315 12 The night has many looks at least according to Link Boutique who together with the Singapore Association for Retarded Children will be presenting a fashion show called Celebrations this Friday. Romantic as in Picture I when a billowy silk blouse reminiscent of the Renaissance period is teamed with
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      MORE MOISTURE FOR THAT DATE IN THE SUN
      430 12 GIRL-TALK -4 CHARLIE the perky, trendy range of one of Revlon's most successful fragrances, has added another feather to Its cap. This time it's Charlie's More Moisture Concentrate, a smooth, velvety, molsturlng cream to combat the drying effects of the midday sun.
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      I'm a sucker for anything going cheap
      531 13  -  SOAP BOX Gigi Demoll tlon sale, basement sale, closing down sale. Thanks to them I've got at least five dresses I've never worn, two pairs of shoes that don't really fit and a cupboard full of other odds and ends which I can't
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    Lock icon Money market
    188 14 UPI AFP Brussels. Tuesday The U8 dollar closed higher on several European exchanges yesterday but dropped in Zurich and Milan. Gold gained 50 cents In Zurich, moving from U*****.1250 per ounce to 168.6250. It was up 75 cents In London, from U*****.8750 to U8J166.6250. The dollar dropped in
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    Policy shift
    349 14  -  f =3 Business News and Vicus lS Jj ...in Jakarta investment rules By Lee Yew Meng The Indonesian government has made four fund amental changes In the Implementation of Its foreign Investment policy, the chairman of the Indonesian National Agency for Export Development, Mr Soeklrman, said yesterday. Speaking
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      NEW YORK
      163 14 Yesterday's closing prices In US$ with the diflerence on the previous session s close AR T 59 J 1 +i Beth Si.ee; 19 j 1 —1 k Caterp Tra 50j f +1 Chrysler X14j 1 +i k Coca-Cola 31{ i +i I Contl. Oil Si f +J Dow
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      35 14 UPI New York, Tuesday Dow Jones closing averages on the NYSE yesterday: 30 Industrials 816.44 (Up 6.50), 20 transport 206.08 (Up 1.71). IS utilities 108.38 (Up 0.59), 65 stocks 279.17 (Up 2.11). UPI.
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      57 14 AFP Yesterday's closing quotations of the gllt-edgeds. in yen, with Saturday's in brackets were: Helwa Real Estate 600 565), Nippon Oil 518 (537), Komatsu Mfg 270 (209), Matsushita Electric 595 (601), Honda Motor 552 (555), Toyota Motor 900 (895), Mitsui and Co. 321 (321), Mitsubishi Corp. 440 (440), Toklo
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      PARIS
      69 14 Closing prices on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Pari baa 171.50 —2.50 Fancier 271.50 —.50 Printemps 39 unch Bull 38.15 (28.50) —.35 Royal Dutch 371.70 20 Mlchellb 1268 —15 COE 278 —8 50 Thomson 172.10 —3 CPP 98.20 —1.90 Rhone 63.00 —.00 Air 271 —9 BBN 454 —21 Philips 52
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      Lock icon ZURICH
      83 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Closing prices In Swiss francs on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UUBS Bearer 3200 10 UBS Bearer 3200 10 SBC 406 2 Credit Suisse 2300 5 8wissalr B. 817 Swiss Relnsur. 2780 Wlnterthur B. 2215 —5 Zurich' Insur. 8150 —25 Juvena B. 230 —5 Nestle
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    shopping
    344 15 Cosmetics have often been, derisively called pots of paint and powder, and mostly by men too, when It Is to please them In the first place that women spend so much and take such great pains to enhance their looks with them. This comment often arise because, Instead of
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      Gold prospects crash again
      581 16  -  ...as SEA squad suffer their second defeat Hockey By SURESH NAIR The Singapore hockey squad for the South East Asia Games lost 1-0 to Khalsa Selection at Balestlar Road yesterday their second successive defeat within two weeks. Last week at the Padang they slumped 3-1 against
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      312 16 K3 Soccer The annual Deepavali Cup soccer match between Singapore Indians and their Malaysian counterparts will be played at the National Stadium next month. Mr. S. Sugumaran, secretary of the Singapore Indian Football League, said: "We are unable to play It during our festive season this year
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      Thais will send a team after all
      167 16  -  j^Jvblleyball TONY KOH Thailand's men's volleyball team will take part in the South-East Asia Games after all. The team, originally ajced by the Thailand National Olympic Council due to lack of finance, will travel to Kuala Lumpur by bus. They will leave on
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        155 17 Squash AP Auckland, Tuesday Demonstrators protesting the presence of South African players in the New Zealand Open Squash tournament at the Takapuna Club yesterday burned an effigy of South African Prime Minister John Vorster outside the club. Tne demonstration was peaceful, although visitors ran a gauntlet of
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        121 17 jj^^^Tennis Reuter Johannesburg, Tuesday Colombia will not issue visas to the South African Davis Cup team due to play Colombia in Bogota next month, Mr Basil Penrose, Colombia's honorary consul, said here yesterday. Mr Penrose said he had relayed to tennis authorities here the contents of
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        98 17 Swimming UPI Washington, Tuesday. Three senators yesterday urged the national Coll e giate Athletic Association to reverse its prohibition against Olympic gold medallist Brian Goodell and three teammates from competing in a goodwill swimming tour of the Soviet Union. Senators Ted Stevens, John Culver and Richard Stone,
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        92 17 E3 Baseball AFP Havana, Tuesday Cuba have decided for the first time to boycott a sports event for political reasons* it was announced here yesterday. The Com m un 1 st Party newspaper Granma said Cuba would not take part in an Intercontinen
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      388 17 Soccer World Cup round-up Reuter London, Tuesday Ron Green wood, manager of England's soccer team, has drafted two of the most promising young players in the country into his squad for the vital World Cup qualifying match with Italy at Wembley here on Nov 16.
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      247 17 Reuter UPI Rome, Tuesday Italian soccer manager Enzo Bearzot produced no surprises In naming an experienced 18-man squad yesterday for Italy's World Cup soccer qualifier against England at Wembley on Nov 16. The players called up are the same squad who prepared for Italy's 6-1 drubbing
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      78 17 Reuter Copenhagen, Tuesday -x. The American soccer club, Tampa Bay Rowdies, are prepared to pay over US$l million ($2.5 million) Danish striker Alan Simonsen, top scorer for the West German club Borussla Moenchengladbach, a leading Danish newspaper 9aid here yesterday. Polltiken, quoting Rowdies vice-president Francisco Marcos
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      68 17 Reuter Luton (England), Tuesday—.England Under-21 International footballer Paul Futcher was seriously injured In a car crash near here yesterday. He broke a shoulder and six ribs and is unlikely to play again this season. Futcher is valued by his club, Luton Town at over £200,000 ($800,000) and was
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      34 17 Reuter Hamburg (West Germany), Tuesday—West German First Division soccer club Hamburg SV yesterday signed former Turkish International Arkoc Oezcan as the'r coach for the remainder of the season, club officials said. Reuter.
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      Rocheteau recalled
      193 17 Paris, Tuesday. French football team manager Michel Hidalgo has had second thoughts and included Bt. Etlenne right winger Dominique Rocheteau in his squad of 22 for France's vital World Cup qualifying match here against Bulgaria on Nov 10. The 22 year old Rocheteau, who was regarded as France's
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      Hartley warns prima donnas
      530 18  -  SOCCER SCENE 'Some living on reputation without delivering goods' by Jeffrey Low Director of coaches Trevor Hartley yesterday Issued a stern warning to the National soccer players, saying that reputation alone will not guarantee a "few individuals" a place in the South East Asia Games team.
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      WHO WILL PARTNER MOKHTAR?
      305 18 Coach Che Su still can't decide between Isa and James K3 Soccer Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Coach Mohamed Che Su is facing a bif problem in preparing the Malaysian football team for the South East Asia Games. He's having trouble deciding which player should partner st r
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      Lock icon Koreans hand Singapore fourth straight defeat
      477 18 Reuter Bangkok, Tuesday India, sparked by their skipper Ourudev Singh, last night came from behind to hand Indonesia a 2-1 defeat and took over the lead In the 10th King's Cup football championships here. In the other match of the night South Korea handed
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      Gold Cup triumiph for local jockey
      169 18  -  By BRIAN MILLER Local Jockey, Rodney Alian, scored another big race success in Sarawak when he steered Retrieved to a two-length win in the Tunku's Gold Cup last Sunday. Retrieved, who won a couple of good races on the Singapore-Malaysian circuit a few years
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      Winning trial by Gentleman on good going
      355 18 ON THE TRACK] iL I Ipoh, Tuesday—Gentleman aid a winning gallop on a good track here this morning. Ridden by Jockey Abdul Razak, the four-year-old by Captain Kirk was drawing away from his stablemate, newcomer Raja Ikan (S3. Tan) at the end of
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      42 17 THE BORN LOSER Wa SHORT RIBS you WASTE so" MUCH "TIME ON THOSE STUPID MAGIC -n?ICKS^ by Frank O'Neal WHY CANT YOU -DO SOMETHING WORTHWHILE. ABOUND -THE M i CASTLET Dt* m m a J 3SS B? W NORBERT by George Fett
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      Clayhanger takes today's top spot
      486 19  -  The two main characters... By Judith Holmberg TV Singapore has brought forward its prestigious drama slot on Channel 5 to accommodate a new historical serial Clayhanger. The slot, which was shifted after the news when the station screened Jalna has been returned to its original
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      Travels in the Outback —new series
      201 19 The adventures of two men, Charlie Cole and Pete Jarrett, as they travel around Australia form the The Outsiders, a new 13-part A us t r a Han series which begins tonight over Ch. 5 at 11.20 p.m. Charlie is a man who has
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      726 19 Tomorrow's FM Stereo At the cinema 6.00 A.M. Opening anncts. followed by At Daybreak with the Mantovanl Touch Mantovani and His Orch. 6.30 News (E> 6.40 Morning Concert; Concerto for trumpet in D (Hamal), the soloists of Liege/Gery Lemaire; Roma (Bizet), Symphony in C (Bizet), City of Birmingham Symph. Orch/L
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      466 19 In and around town MACHINE EXHIBITION: More than $20 million worth of machinery and industrial equipment are on display at the Hyatt Hotel exhibition centre. There are about 2000 units from 400 companies on show. The exhibition is strictly for the Industries, but the public can get an Insight into
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    67 20 AH FOOK: Several pensioners have complained through the letters page of the Straits Times of their plight. I think they have a good case for a revision because of the high rate of Inflation in the past. MEI UN: That is debatable. But their complaints should serve as
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      910 20 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 For The Decision Makers... C-1471SHARPCTV 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by THE FLYING NUN (r>. Sally Fields atari In this sitcom. 1M DIARY OF BVKNT8. 3.36 HORIZON: Vision of the Blind (r). In a school In Warwlchshlre, blind children play football. A man who has been
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