New Nation, 4 December 1977

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  • 10 1 Sunday Nation DECEMBER 4, 1977 30 CENTS M.C.(P) NO. 261/1/77
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    • 51 1 The bullies We were threatened and intimidated in public, says Hong Kong Page 5 Sadat's plan to take 'hard line' -p» ge 2 David's not an average boy <■1 KVt Wi tU Where dance is a part of life Page 10 I unlimited Page 6 Join the Sunday Nation 8
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  • 439 2 Egypt won't discuss bilateral pact UPI Reuter IXJYPT will present a hard-line plan for an overall Middle East settlement at pre-Oeneva peace talks slated (or Cairo in mld-Decem-ber, state-controlled Egyptian newspapers said yesterday. The report* a aid President Sadat had asked acting Foreign Minister Butros
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  • 208 2 UPI rTHE wile of Egyptian 1 President Anwar Sadat said yesiesday she was "extremely happy" and kissed her hoshand when he said te woald go to Israel, at she worried about his safety on the trip. la an Interview on ABCs
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  • 29 2 Reuter The Portuguese parliament will decide by a vote of confidence next Wednesday whether Prime Minister Mario Soares' minority socialist government will continue In power.—Reuter.
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  • 132 2 MORE than 200 Ang Mo Klo residents cleaned 17 blocks of flats In the estate in a campaign against dirt yesterday. Operation Big Wash, launched by the area's MP Mr Yeo Toon Chla, Is aimed at inculcating a sense of civic consciousness and a
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  • 13 2 MR Ng Ful Pong has been appointed Registrar of the Pawnbrokers.
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  • 169 2 Reuter 'TTHE Chinese Oovernment on Friday honoured Rewl Alley, a New Zealander who set up Industrial cooperatives which later became the backbone of China's Industrialisation. Deputy Premier Teng Hisao ping led other senior Chinese leaders to a banquet to mark Alley's 80th birthday and SO
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 65 2 AP THAILAND'S Interior Mittisuy nas reverstd a rule thJ>t threatened to make about 4,000 Ameraslan youngsters stateless persons, an official sald Some of the children born of Thai mothers were abandoned by foreign nationals, mostly American, during the Indochina conflict. US military forces stationed nearly 50,000 troops
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    • 60 2 AP INDONESIA and Malaysia will hold their annual border security talks In Surabaya. East Java, for four days beginning Tuesday, government officials said. Indonesian Defence Minister Qen. Maraden Panggabean and Malaysian Home Minister Ghazall Shafle will lead their respective delegations to .the talks, which will among other things
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    • 64 2 Reuter TWO earth tremors registering 4.5 on the open-ended Rlchter Scale shook a wide area of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria early yesterday morning. Authorities reported that the tremors were felt within a radius of 400 km of Melbourne, and caused power blackouts and minor household
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    • 60 2 AP A US$lO MILLION ($24 million) loan pledged by Libya for development programmes In Malaysia will be used to build Ave residential science schools under the Third Malaysia Plan (1976-80), Foreign Minister Tengku Ahmad Rlthauddeen has told Parliament. The loan was the result of Prime Minister
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    • 57 2 Reuter THE US Army has taken the first step towards developing a US$2 billion ($5 billion) radar anti-aircraft weapon system—without getting usual Pentagon approval, government sources said. The army announced on Tuesday it had select ed Oeneral Dynamics and Ford Aerospace for fullscale development of an
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    • 35 2 Reuter A BOMB blast rocked the Yugoslav Airlines (JAT) office in Melbourne early yesterday morning. No one was Injured. The explosion followed demonstrations outside Yugoslav consulates in Australian cities last week.—Reuter.
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    • 74 2 Reuter BERMUDA'S b ggest liquor warehouse went up in flames only ml .lutes alter everything on this racially tense Island of 65,000 people was supposed to go quiet under a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Thousands of bottles of Barbadian and Jamaican rum and crates of whisky, vodka and gin made
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    • 81 2 AP THAILAND'S legislative assembly has voted an amnesty for 24 persons Implicated in an abortive coup, but refused to pardon an army general to be executed for his part In the failed uprising, an Assembly spokesman said. A bill pardoning the 24, most of them military officers,
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    • 62 2 Reuter DEMONSTRATORS pelted Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser with eggs. Ice and rolled-up newspaper at an election rally in a Sydney suburb. Because of scuffles Involving demonstrators opposed to the government's plans to resume uranium mining and exporting, Mr Fraser decided to speak from a balcony instead
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    • 57 2 Reuter LAWYERS for the family of black leader Steve Biko are now considering whether to bring a civil suit against the authorities over his death in police custody. The presiding magistrate ruled on Friday after a three-week Inquest that security police were not responsible for Blko's
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    • 59 2 Reuter PHILIPPINES soldiers captured at least 24 Muslim rebels in a large assault on Nusa-Nusa island Mindanao, where they held 13 people hostage for the past week. Some 11 soldiers died and 30 were wounded in attacks on the island culminating in an assault on Friday BrigadierGeneral
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    • 25 2 Reuter VIETNAMESE Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Nguyen Chanh paid a visit to Indonesia from Nov 24 to 30, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
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  • 327 3 Eminent people will be asked to serye part-time or on ad hoc basis T*HE University of A Singapore 1s to recruit more professionals from the private as part-time lecturers to overcome Its present shortage of teachers. Mr Kwan Sal Kheong, the university's V i
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  • 91 3 AP TENS of thousands of Chinese in Peking are learning English dally through radio broadcasts, a Hong Kong communist newspaper reported yesterday. Over 450,000 coplr s of textbooks used for learning English through radio broadcasts have been sold slnee August. The paper said
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  • 219 3 T*HE introduction A of teleview a telephone with a viewing screen into Singapore may affect the government's decision on the mass rapid transit system. Mr Ong Teng Cheong. Senior Minister of State (Communications), hinted at this when he met a visiting delegation from the Malaysian Institute of
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  • 114 3 rE University of Singapore has set up a Reginald Qu&he Memorial Fund for Its late deputy Vice-Chancellor who died of a heart attack on Sept 14. Its first donation has come from the University's Academic Staff Union. Those who want to contribute can do so
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  • 100 3 rPHE Vietnamese trade A delegation which cancelled Its visit to Singapore last month was due to conclude several agreements on trade and repair of Vietnamese ships at our yards. Mr Le Van Mau, Hanoi's trade representative here, said the delegation had also planned to
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  • 235 3 Agencies A USTRALIAN oppositlon leader dough Whltlam yesterday accused Singapore of helping Vietnamese refugees to get to Australia. He told a Labour Party meeting In Darwin, where the refugees have been arriving, that the Vietnamese had been helped In every way posposlble while they were
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  • 39 3 THE Vice President and commissioner for external relations of the European Economic Community, Mr. Wilhelm Haferkamp, will call on President Sheares, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and senior ministers during his three-day visit beginning Tuesday.
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  • 103 3 Soon —new section to help the disabled "*NLY 28 per cent of 4618 disabled persons In the 15 to 44 year age group are employed. This was disclosed by the acting minister for Social Affairs, Dr Ahmad Mattar. who urged employers to provide more Jobs for the disabled either within
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  • 31 3 AFP INDONESIA'S Mining Minister Mohammad Sadli predicted in Jakarta yesterday that Opec oil prices may be increased less than 10 per cent next year because of current surplus stocks.—AFP.
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  • 180 3 fTHE Auditor-General A has told the Registry of Vehicles that the collection of warrant fee is Illegal unless a warrant has been Issued. Under the Road Traffic (Recoveiy of Vehicle Licence Fees and Costs) Rules, 1974, a fee of $5 is levied for every
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  • 134 3 AP AN American carpenter, Donald Stayer, who was shot and wounded by a separatist group In a remote area of Northern Sumatra. Is recuperating In Singapore. His colleague, George Pernlcone, 53, an assistant superintendent in an American company, Bechtel Corp's pipeline division, was
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  • 110 4 Reuter rpHE United States told JL ltg European allies on Friday it plans to limit the range and deployment of Its controversial Cruise nuclear missiles, informed sources said. Ambassador Paul Warnke, director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, briefed Nato ambassadors on
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  • 318 4 AP rTHE Cambodian A communist government has pulled Its diplomats out of the Soviet Union and Soviet officials In Moscow say they don't know If the Cambodians are coming back. The Cambodian diplomat* accredited to Moscow left In mid-summer. Their three-storey embassy building has fallen Into
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  • 92 4 Reuter rE Bov 1 e t Union could become the first country to solve the economic problems of producing synthetic oil from coal, a soviet expert forecast In Moscow on Friday. Academician Mikhail Styrlkovlch, of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, told a press conference that
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  • 345 4 UPI PIIME Minister John Vorster says there is no room in South African politics for the black man. In the first interviews since his "avalanche" victory in the country's general elections on Wednesday, Mr. Vorster said on Friday his government would be "ioollsh...
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  • 28 4 MR. Richard Rokmat Magnus has been appointed a District Judge and Mr Bernard Stanley Doray as Deputy Registrar of the Subordinate Courts, as from Dec 1.
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  • 60 4 NST SIX youths, including' three students, were Jointly charged In the sessions court In Paslr Mas (or rioting In the town during the Kelantan political crisis. The six are Mohamad Ramell bin Hamld, 20, Asaarl bin Yaakub, 26, Nik Sabri bin Nik Mahmud, 18, all students. Zaharl
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  • 16 4 MR. FRANCIS Tseng Cheng Kuang has ceased to be a magistrate and coroner.
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    • 606 4 What s On CHILDREN'S ART EXHIBITION at the German Club, 12, First Avenue, Buklt Timah Road, 9.30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Admission free. SALE AND DISPLAY cf arts and crafts by local students and young artists at the Singapore Youth Art Centre, Hotel Premier, Nassim Hill, 11.30 a.m. to 7
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  • 440 5 HK: Textiles pact most restrictive UPI TWE European Comx mon Market has threatened and intimidated Hong Kong into an agreement curbing textiles and clothing exports to Europe for the next five years, a government source ip Hong Kong said yesterday. The source In the Department
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  • 127 5 AP 11/-HEN trained killer TT whales decide they would rather mate than act, there Isn't much one can do about It. That Is the explanation (or the cancellation of the whale show at the Miami seaquarium earlier this week In Miami. It
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  • 27 5 Reuter THE West has launched a flew drive at the European Security Conference in Belgrade designed to ensure Soviet bloc compliance with rights pledges Reuter.
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  • 298 5 Reuter r*>RMER Prime Mlnlr ster Ind ra Gandhi has refused for the second time in undei two weeks to appear before ano official commission In New Delhi Investigating her stringent emergency rule. Bhe said no authority in the counlry could sit in judgment over
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  • 146 5 AFP JAPAN could help Its balance of trade with the European Economic Community by importing more chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foo twe a r and agricultural products, a communique said on Friday after two days of high-level consultation between the two areas. A communique Issued In
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  • 133 5 A PASSENGER Jet carrying 159 pilgrims returning from Mecca crashed in north least Libya, killing 56 passengers and three Bulgarian crew members, the Libyan news agency ARNA said yesterday. The plane crashed on Friday near the Mediterranean port of Benghazi in north-east
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  • 123 5 AP rE UN General Assembly has adopted a controversial new scale of assessments that spells out the amount each of the 149 member nations must pay tor the UN budget for the next two years. The new due schedule, approved by a vote
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  • 25 5 MR Llm Kim San has been re-appolnted chairman of the Public Utilities Board for a further one-year term from Jan I 1978.
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  • 229 5 UPI Leaders of Britain's 35,000 firefighters say they will press their 20-day-old pay strike despite virtual abandonment by the nation's trade union movement. The Defence Ministry said It has warned 18,000 troops, airmen and sailors mobilised in emergency fire squads to be ready for flreflghtlng duties
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  • 255 6 COMMENT Mr Lee Kuan Yew's call to the Singapore Cricket Club to ensure Its facilities are enjoyed by more people may be viewed In two ways. The SCC may regard it as a gentle threat. Or they should more correctly see It as a valid
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  • 996 6  -  Man has now discovered the basic secret of life and is using it to cross human beings with tobacco plants—even ducks with oranges By Ross Benson Express TT IS 160 years since novelist Mary Shelley Invented Frankenstein's monster. Today, In laboratories In America and Britain
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  • 352 7  -  GLORIA CHANDY of course would even begin to think of condoning the behaviour of those racing enthusiasts who have turned one of our busiest thoroughfares into their own speed circuit during the early hours of each Sunday morplng. The racers deserve
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  • 140 7 A SALUTE to those previously unsung queens of the SKA Games who modestly raked in the gold with the minimum of fuss. K. Jayamani and Junie Sng, with seven golds between them, certainly gave the impression that they were two of the most unassuming members of
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  • 180 7 JTHERE are only two places I know of, 1 besides the taxi stands In the city area, where people are made to queue tor taxis. Both these places front shopping complexes out of which regularly pour dozens of people all through the day and all In
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  • 119 7 CHRISTMAS Is In the air alright, as one department store puts It. Children are clogging the toy sections or department stores In anticipation of the gifts that they are going to get. And some of them aren't affected In the least by those nine to
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  • 155 7 "m/f OTHER love at the height of the blared* said the headline of a newspaper article some three weeks ago that went on to tell a touching story of the bravery of a cat. As the fire raged on, this plucky feline dashed into
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    • 185 7 NrtM'cy Sit Tsui Sui Mi'iq ll Ln I ow) Hoik} Kong top fiim <>iul TV personalities 9 WL fSM Ll 2 What better testimony to our delicious Tim-Sum than the fact that Nancy Sit Tsui Sui Ming, (Har Tow) Hong Kong's leading entertainment artistes, were regular customers at Cockpit Hotel's
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  • 269 8  -  ...to say that marital bliss comes only when the light's out WILLIAM JAMES KOH T REFER to an article in the Sunday Nation of Nov. IS by an anonymous contributor about her night of "bliss" during an island-wide blackout. What I am wondering is: If her story fact or
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  • 242 8 AND why shouldn't girls have a secon degree? This is a matter most dear to my heart. I would see and do my best to help and guide my daughter through tq get a second degree Ph. D or whatever
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  • 120 8  -  ABRAHAM CALDWELL I REFER to the column by Gloria Chandy on Mlu Singapore, Veronica Lourdes. in the Sunday NaUon. of Nov 20. x I (eel that we should sympathise with Verolca and other Miss Singapore contestants who, apart from the difficult task of representing our, country,
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  • 107 8  -  SYLVA RAJ PILLAY 'AS a tantrtka (not J\ "tantrlst" as published) I would like to comment on last Sunday's article on the Ananda Marga. Tantra 7oga was founded by Lord Siva about 7000 years ago and the meaning of tantra Is the "process of bringing man from
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  • 59 8 I AO REE with your TBY that many people still regard women who pursue postgraduate studies as freaks. One reason Is that there are still oldfashioned parents who are prejudiced against their daughters. This Is particular so In circumstances when they have to choose between sending
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    • 135 8 We are looking for another person to Join the Sunday Nation team. To qualify, you must be able to write well, have a keen interest in local and world affairs, and a good knowledge of sports (Singapore football alone Is not enough). That's not all. We also want you to
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  • 430 9 If you ask me... ROO! Boo! Boo! The partisan Malaysian crowd Went wild. Missiles were hurled, derogatory remarks made. Their target our proud Singapore contingent. Our soccer and hockey boys were openly insulted. The basketball, badminton, tennis and ping-pong players were taunted.
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  • 2426 10 / 11  -  ...AND TEMPLES, BEACHES, SCULPTURES AND PALACES ADD TO THE COLOUR AND SPLENDOUR OF SOUTH INDIA RAV. K. DHALIWAL reports on her 17-day tour of a country that's way off the beaten track of the Singapore traveller RAV. K. DHALIWAL COUTH India, de- spite
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    • 879 12 Su Your 12 TV pullout PICK OF THE WEEK MACRITCHIE RESERVOIR PARK, A FAIRYLAND OF LIGHTS AT NIGHT THE SEARCH FOR WATER on Friday, Ch. 5 at 7.55 p.m. in COLOUR Seventh and last in RTS' series of documentaries, this episode takes a look at Singapore's water supply, what is
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    • 439 12 CAN GREGORY PECK SOLVE THE PREOICAMENT OF THE DOOMED SURVIVORS? ON THE BEACH (Matinee) over Ch. 5 at 10.55 a.m. Who would you choose to be with as the COLOUR West Bromwich Albion world's only survivors after a holocaust, assuming you had a choice? It probably won't be easy narrowing
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    • 840 13 MONDAY Colourent Colour T.V. Specialists. 3.00 P.M. Open 1.03 KUDUMSA MALAR (r). Includes a demonstration on how to make sponge cake 3.30 Diary Of Events if) 3.35 AFTERNOON MATINEE. It's N.»er Too Lota, lit of 2 (1956 Michael McCarthy). Phyllis Calvert becomes a famed writer and is caught between the
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    • 1087 15 FRIDAY 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: To Live One Day For You (Mandarin/r). Stars Liu Chia Chang. 4.30 Intermission i 6.05 Open 6.08 EXERCISE WITH GLORIA 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.33 THE FIRST 365 DAYS IN A CHILD'S LIFE. At 11 months, baby crawls on all fours and may
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  • 737 20 HUMOUR with r lUST as I began the J year on a Pasar Patois note, I'd like to end 1977 with a postscript to th fe slanguage series which from CHOPE to MOHSIN, covered 130 words In six
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  • 269 20 Off Hie Record by CKT SOME horned-rimmed Pythagoras In a sound studio somewhere Is still fielding persuasions that electronic Impulses make legitimate musical tones. The Moog synthesiser has started on many records, of course, now breathing new life Into Bach, now breaking the back
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  • 164 20 FIVE mlnisteis In the state cabinet of Hyderabad, India, rea rned on Thursday following political bickering over handling of relief operations after the devastating cyclone that hit eastern India recently. A cyclone brings wind o/ change in the cabinet. A court heard last week that two men on
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  • 609 23  -  Book Page Bright and early, Her World Annual '78 spreads nostalgia with yesteryear's fashions, architecture and the best of Chinese cuisine in delectable style Tan Bah Bah HER WORLD ANNUAL 1978: Edited by Betty L. Khoo. Times Periodicals. 152 pp. $4. rIS is probably the best so
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    • 268 25  -  basketball Tony Koh AS expected, Singapore's ill-prepared men's basketball team crashed in their three Sea Games outings against the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. Had the selection committee of the Basketball Association ot Singapore shown some foresight, this poor performance at the Sea Games could
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    • 345 25  -  Brian Miller r THE Singapore hocA key team, who took the silver medal at the Southeast Asia Games last week, have the potential to develop Into a strong hockey force in Asia. This bit of confidence was expressed by Slngaere Hockey Assouan's secretary. Mr. a Yogarajah,
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    • 662 25 INSIDE TRACK SUCCESS breeds complacency. The Singapore soccer team, after stirring performances in the pre-World Cup and Mklaysla Cup, paid for their complacency In the just-concluded South-east Asia Games. Before the team's departure for KuMa Lumpur, there was much talk that Singapore were a sure
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    • 306 25  -  Ernest Frida IWAS not at all surprised when Singapore finished second last in the Southeast Asia amateur team golf championship for the Putra Cup at Rangoon last week. In the. previous two tournaments, Singapore finished ahead of Hong become a standing Joke among the competitors
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    • 989 26  -  After more than afyearVlay-off during which he did TV commentaries for NBC... TOMSUUJf Alfred Tong TORN Ncwcombe, three-time Wimbledon singles champion (1967, 1970,1971) and slx11 m e Wimbledon doubles champion (1965 68/69/70/74 with Tony Roche and 1966 with Ken Fletcher), as well "as
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    • 669 27  -  Kumar may be a midget in size but he's a giant in performance ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng c. KUMAR AVELU measures only 1.56 metres and weighs 45 kg a midget, some may say—but he was a big performer in the Sea Games marathon, winning the bronze medal.
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    • 513 27  -  CHESS Lim Kok Ann T HAVE always been A fascinated by machines. Anything that goes round and round pushing something to and from never fails to attract my attention —more so if the action is accompanied by flashing lights. So
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    • 712 28 UPLI \IKI LAUDA'S switch from Ferrari to Brabham has sparked a greater shuffle than usual among Formula One drivers during the past few weeks and when the 17-race world champion- ship starts on Jan 15 in Argentina there will have been several
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    • 395 28  - F N youths to go on M'sian tour BADHIHTON Gerry Chan rrWENTY-EIGHT 1 players and four officials from the F and N training scheme will leave next week for a week-long tour of West Malaysia as part of their annual training programme. Comprising one of the largest contingents to be
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    • 321 28 BRITISH SOCCER CECOND Division Fulham may be forced to sell George Best to the Los Angeles Aztecs, the American club with which they wrangled over Best earlier this year. F1 n a n clally-troubled Fulham sold, striker Teddy Maybank to Brighton for £240,000
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    • 826 29  -  'At least two of them are already well on their way to the top' Lim Kee Chan cUGAR Ray LeonJ ard, David "Sugar" Love, Johnny Oant and Lee Canallto names that may not ring a bell. But keep them in mind, because they are all potential world
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    • 420 29 UPI Mental training will be the major trend for athletes In the future and It will produce greater athletes than the world has ever seen. That's the belief of Eric Soderholm of the Chicago White Sox who was named UPl's Comeback Player of
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    • 1332 30 pORINTHIAN gave his trainer, Luke Kang, a nice wedding present when he scored In Race Four at Buklt Tlmah yesterday. Well-handled by M. C. Lam. the Cortnto seven-year-old took the 200 m out and went on to beat the f a o u r 11
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    • 168 30 By SCRUTINEER rRAND MEMORY has a great chance of winning the $100,000 Singapore Gold Cup (Race 6) over 2200 m at Buklt Ttmah this afternoon, and make It a memorable day for both trainer Colin Tulloh and jockey George Podmore. Although Tulloh has won several Cup
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    • 314 30  -  Joyce Tan fTHE Singapore Women's Netball Association rounded up their year's activities with exhibition matches between the champions and run-ners-up of their offseason league last week-end and the presentation of prizes by Mrs Yap Glau Keng, wife of the association's patron. Rafsa I retained their group
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    • 250 30  -  Peter Lo FOURTEEN -yearr old Jeremy Yeo has reached the finals of the YMQA Men's Open champlopshlp as well as the semi-finals of the SCC Men's Warwick Reeson Handicap tournament. Of course, by the time you read this both finals
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    • 4541 31 m 1.15 CLASS 5, DIV 2 1200m UUI ($9,500 $6,650 to winner) 1 0562 »ei Utah Surla H a (HT Wee) Allan 5 57 (U2+1.5) BF Harris 1 2 1943 Mu ate Maker a (K8 Ow) E Breukelen 4 56 (ud-1) f
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    • 149 31 FAIRWAY Race 1: HMk-Malwr Sentak Suria Music Maker Mnote-Maker Sentak Suria Marie Maker Sentak Sarin Race t: The fteletlcr The Racer Round PoUey Avandaro Federal Highway The Pretender The Raoer The Pretender Race S: Perfection Igloo Bit OT«n Perfection Golden Way Straight Flush MfontUii Straight Flush Race 4: Gracefnl
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    • 98 32 Brunei and Qatar join the AGF SPORTS NATION AP rpHE Asian Games Federation (AOF) welcomed Brunei and Qatar into the fold yesterday and announced a programme of 19 different sports for the upcoming 1978 Asian Oames. The AOF executive committee unanimously accepted Brunei and Qatar as
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    • 149 32  -  By Suresh Nair THE picture above A shows Singapore Recreation Club's striker Owen Cooke tumbling on the wet Padang pitch as she Is firmly checked by Schools' P a th 1 mal Abdul Rahman In the National Women's Division One hockey final, which was abandoned at halftlme
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      • 191 32 AFP TUE NASTASE of Rumania combined antics with smashing tennis on Friday and whipped John Newcombe of Australia, 7-6, 6-7, 6-2, before 8,000 spectators at Manilla's suburban Araneta Coliseum. The Philippines' President Marcos and his family were among those who came out to the CollseUm to witness
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      • 75 32 AFP SINGAPORE yesterday won the overall boys' team event In the Asian Schools swimming championships In Hong Kong In which five rriore meet records were broken. The Philippines were second in the boys' team event with 148 points, 57 points behind the winners. Hong Kong were
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      • 62 32 AFP THE former World Boxing Association bantamweight champion. Alfonso Zamora, has been suspended by the California Boxing Commission for Irregularities concerning his recent title defence. Zamora lost his title when he was knocked out by Jorge Lujan of Panama In Los Angeles two weeks ago. But many ringside
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      • 61 32 AP rALY kept their Davis Cup hopes alive yesterday with a convincing win over Australia In the doubles match at White City courts In Sydney. Adrlano Panatta and Paolo Bertoluccl, playing do-or-dle tennis, trounced the Australian combination of Phil Dent and John Alexander 6-4, 6-4, 7-5. Australia
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      • 34 32 UPI Australian athletes took six gold medals to lead the five competing countries after the first day of the Pacific Conference Games yester d a y at Canberra's National Stadium.—UPl
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    • 63 32 Iraq trounceS'pore 76-67 AP rf a group A tie Iraq Iraq now hare qua.list the Ninth Asian Basketball Championship after leading U--2? at the Interval. Iraq now has qualified for the final rounds In the tournament while Singapore will play for 7th to 14th positions. The same tournament in Kuala
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