New Nation, 1 April 1978

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  • 21 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Saturday, April 1, 1978 No. 2222 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 216/1/78 v -1 j NEW (£0) NATION COMMENT,
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  • 427 1  -  Feasibility study by govt in bid to out pollution By Richard Adhikari The government is studying the feasibility of having liquified petroleum gas-powered taxis instead of dlesel ones to cut down pollution. Sources say representatives of at least two oil companies and a large motor Arm
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  • Article, Illustration
    26 1 INJURED National soccer coach Sebastian Yap fives skipper Samad Allapitehay a helping hand after yesterday's training. Picture by JERRY Picture by JERRY SEH
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  • 133 1 Reuter Washington, Saturday US Defence Secretary Harold Brown haa proposed trebling the amount America spends on civil defence measures aimed at ensuring survival of Its citizens after a nuclear attack. In a memo to President Carter early last month, a copy of which was ob- tained by
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  • 211 1 AP Hong Kong, Saturday The Hong Kong Government had to threaten expatriate civil servants before they agreed to move into luxury flats which they considered "not good enough." Many of the expatriates nave been staying in luxury hotels with their families at
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  • 74 1 Reuter Air New Zealand plans to Introduce a third nonstop weekly service between Auckland and Singapore before the end of the year, according to its general manager, Mr M.R. Davis. The airline has operated a twice-weekly nonstop service between Auckland and Singapore since April 1976. Speaking
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  • 352 2  -  'Entire system under review* By Ivan Lim The Public Utilities Board hopes to carry out more maintenance work on Sundays and public holidays to minimise disruption of factory production. "We are reviewing our entire system (of maintenance work) to try and carry out
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  • 288 2 Fourteen adventurous officers and men of the Singapore Navy have returned from their first expedit.o.n to Tanjung Pinang in two whalers. To them, the 200 nautical mile trip to and fro was an exciting, though difficult one. One whaler hit coral reef near
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  • 192 2 The Trade Department has intervened In a dispute between shopkeepers and a bottling firm over higher deposits for plastic cases. The Department has arranged a meeting of the two parties to thrash out their differences. The general secretary of the Singapore Provision Shop Friendly Association,
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  • 40 2 Mrs Jaya Anand was elected president of the Asian Women's Welfare Association at its annual general meeting held recently. Mrs Nlmml Handa and Mrs Betty Llm were elected vice-presidents, Mrs Marie Hearn, secretary and Mrs Qladys d'Souza treasurer.
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  • 275 2 'Good chance of success' The Soviet Union rates its chances of obtaining permission from the New Zealand government to fish in New Zealand waters as "extremely good," said a visiting Soviet Minister. The Soviet Minister for Fisheries, Mr Alexander Ishkov, 72. who arrived here yesterday
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    • 992 3 CITIZEN 0 Citizen's 15 jmrs in Singapore Enter the Anniwsaiy Contest and win 5 15,000 for jcwrself The Grand FVize: $15P00 POBB voucliei. Hus 150 Citizen Wcddies as (ousobitian iJrizes. Enter ixm! It's Citizen's 15th Anniversary. And to celebrate, Citizen is giving away a 5i5,000 POSB voucher, plus 150 Citizen
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  • 129 4 The Metrication Board has proposed seven sizes .for the different brands of toothpaste being sold here. Local distributors have agreed to standardise the sizes of toothpaste, whether imported or manufactured here, and declare the volume on the labels. Some companies, such as Colgate
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  • 337 4  -  Teachers' union seeks retraining of its 1800 members By Teresa Ooi The Singapore Malay Teachers' Union Is to submit a memorandum to the Education Ministry on the retraining of its 1800 members who may have to be reassigned because of the falling enrolment in Malay schools. The
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  • 231 4 This Is Iwasakl Masuru, the 13-year-old Japanese boy who triumphantly wrapped up a swim relay by five adults and seven children across the Straits of Malacca on Thursday. Iwasakl swam the laat leg of about 1.6 km to reach the 81-Rusa Inn in Port
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  • 60 4 The Industrial Training Board will hold a seminar entitled Junior Trainees Tomorrow's Workforce at the Regional Language Centre auditorium on April 3. The acting Minister for Social Affairs and chairman of ITB, Dr Ahmad Mattar, will open the seminar.' This will be followed by a slider
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  • 162 4 AFP Johorc Barn, Saturday Intensive development works taking place on the Singapore aide of the Strait* have created problems for several kampungs in south Johore, the Malaysian Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hltam, said' yesterday. The federal government, he said, has formed a
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  • 30 4 A bird singing competition will be held at the Jalan Pagak Community Centre on April 30. Application forms are available at the centre. Closing date Is April 20.
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  • 357 4 The Automobile Association of Singapore says the government "might as well realise" that the private car will continue to be a necessity for Singaporeans along with the improving quality of life. AA makes the point while criticising the government's latest tax
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  • 296 4 The Singapore zoo In Mandal is short of animal keepers. Miss Loong May Sum, the zoo's public relations officer, said there were 25 keepers looking after about 450 animals in 1973. Now there are 35 keepers for more than 900 animals a rise In the
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  • 58 4 The Sentosa Folk Dance Centre will hold a five part folk dance course from April 2 on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Each part will last for two months and will cover 20 different dances. Certificates of attendance will be Issued to all participants who
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  • 328 5  -  By K.K. Fong On any fine night, this Is the scene at an open air cinema which provides entertainment cheaply for rural folk. Although about a dozen such cinemas have had to close down to make way for housing development, eight
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  • 346 5 Exporters of tropical fish and orchids had a record turnover last year. Exports of tropical Ash reachcd $23.83 million $7 million more than in 1976. Cut orchids exports amounted to $11.29 million an increase of $3 million. Pish exporters attributed the higher turnover
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  • 172 5 Jack Lord due in midApril Jack Lord Is scheduled to arrive here on April 15 to prepare for the filming of an episode of the television series. Hawaii Five-O Mr Scott Maitland, an assistant director, said filming is expected to begin on April 19 and end on May 12. Members
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  • 45 5 The Oan Ensc Seng School Interact Club will hold a film show What's Up Doc? In aid of the National Kidney Foundation at the Globe Theatre tomorrow at 8.30 a.m. Tickets at H. $2 and $3 are available from the school, telephone *****17.
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  • 211 6 New Delhi, Saturday Hundreds of Indiana bellied up to the bar In clubs In New Delhi and other cities yesterday on the eve of a large-scale tightening of prohibition laws. For days, long lines have been reported at liquor stores in the
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  • 193 6 UPI TODAY is Saturday, April 1, the 91st day of 1978 with 274 to follow. It's April Pool's Day. THE MOON Is between Its last quarter and new phase. THERE Is no morning star. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date
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  • 667 6 Agencies Bangkok, Saturday Radio Phnom Penh commented warmly and very promptly yesterday on Thai Prime Ml ulster Krlangsak Chomanan's official visit to China. The radio broadcasted an exceptionally long report on the "great success of the Thai government's friendship mission to China." Meanwhile, Cambodian Vice-Premier
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  • 92 6 UPI Olga Korbut, looking older than her 22 years, formally ended her gymnastics career last night to shouts of "Olga, O.ga" from her Russian fans at Moscow's Palace of Sport. A sports official an- nounced that she would now work as a gymnastics coach, but her husband.
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  • 135 6 AP Belgrade, Saturday There are no more Buddhist priests in Cambodia, pagodas serve as barns but the ancient Angkor Wat temple is still a holy shrine guarded by soldiers, according to a Yugoslav report from the Isolated communist country. Dragoslav Ranc i c, Peking correspondent for
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  • 24 6 Paris, Saturday—Saudi Arabia and France are negotiating over military purchases In what some observers predict could be "the sale of the century."
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  • 190 6 AFP Reuter Benghazi, Saturday Libyan President Muammar Gadaffl yesterday confirmed his offer to unite the Libyan and Egyptian armies in an exclusive Interview with AFP. The offer, first made in Tobruk on March 28, was not, he said, "a piece of rhetoric for
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  • 50 6 AFP Paris, Saturday French high school students will be given credit for having studied Japanese from now on. Until now, they were allowed to choose Japanese as one of the living languages they studied, but were not tested on It In the final examination necessary for graduation.
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  • 79 6 AP Hong Kong, Saturday China has simplified application pro cedures for citizens wishing to visit or settle abroad, a communist news paper reported yesterday. The Chinese-language Wen Wei Po said they can apply directly to various security units without going through their communes or production units. It said
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  • 115 6 AFP Bangkok, Saturday Radio Phnom Penh clearly confirmed yesterday that Vietnamese troops still occupied part of Cambodia and that fighting was continuing. The radio gave no locations but said in its editorial: "The heroic Inhabitants of all regions, In cooperation with the revolutionary troops are exasperated
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  • 57 6 Reuter Lueneburg (West Germany), Saturday A mash room grower who lost his sense of smell after a road accident was yesterday awarded a 20 per cent disability pension. The man claimed he needed a good nose because he had to sniff manure for his mushrooms several times
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 204 6 WORLD WEATHER Moscow Overcast, 71C. Pravda's headline: Great Ideological-politi-cal potential of news media. Paris Cloudy. 3-15C. Headline: Premier Barre reinstalled today. Rome Sunny, 10-5C. Headline: Negotiate for Moro or not? London Cloudy, 12* IOC. Headline: Nkomo army seizes 420 children. Bonn—Overcast, 14-7C. Headline: Begin will negotiate on his hard line.
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  • 172 7 Reuter Paris, Saturday French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing as expected last night reappointed Mr Raymond Barre Prime Minister and asked him to form a new government. The President's decision was officially announced seven hours after Mr Barre and his government resigned at a special
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  • 93 7 AFP Colombo, Saturday President J.R. Jayewardene has appointed a commission to Inquire Into alleged abuses of power during the regime of former Prime Minister Mrs Sirlmavo Bandaranaike. The Inquiry by a threemember commission headed by a Supreme Court Judge will cover the entire period of the
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  • 325 7 —says minister Reuter New Delhi, Saturday Home Minister Charan Singh yesterday announced at a public rally that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi will be tried for the crimes allegedly committed during her 21-month emergency rule. Speaking elsewhere, Mrs Gandhi claimed the excesses committed
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  • 51 7 Reuter Washington, Saturday The United States said yesterday there are now at least 15,000 Cubans in Ethiopia. The revised figure 2000 more than the last US estimate a month ago followed reports yesterday of Somali guerilla attacks on Cuban and Ethiopian troops in the Ogaden
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  • 33 7 UPI "I apologise for some of our mistakes during the Emergency," says former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi when she addressed a mammoth rally of 10,000 people in Uttar Pradesh yesterday.
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  • 143 7 Reuter Nairobi, Saturday Somalia claimed Ethiopian jets yesterday attacked a village 17 kilometres inside Somalia. Radio M o g a d 1 s hu, monitored here, said two Soviet-built MiO 21s carried out two bombing raids on the village of Kalabald, west of the
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  • 93 7 AFP Bonn, Saturday—The Red Brigaded iaid in a letter to the daily Blld Zeitung yesterday that kidnapped Italian Social Democrat leader Aldo Moro had been Judged and condemned. In German, the 30llne letter was signed by the Economic Commission of the European Red Brigade* It contained an analysis
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  • 71 7 AFP Rio de Janeiro, Saturday President Carter wound up his 40-hour visit to Brazil yesterday and left, in the unanimous view of observers, empty-handed. President Ernesto Oeisel reiterated to Mr Carter Brazil's determination to equip itself with a nuclear reprocessing plant, under its 1975 agreement with West
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  • 140 7 Reuter Teheran, Saturday Rioters smashed bank windows in Teheran yesterday as unrest blamed by the government on leftists went into its fifth day. A par was set on fire during the violence in the Iranian capital and in the southern town of Lar, demonstrators attacked local
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  • 391 8 Charity does not begin at home and certainly not with a lavish Chinese dinner. With this admirable philosophy In mind, Singapore multimillionaire T.C. Whang decided to donate $20,000 to four charitable organisations Instead of splurging It all on a dinner to celebrate his son's marriage. The auspicious
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 62 8 A colleague, while shopping In a department store, spotted a flower stall with two beautiful bouquets of white and pink roses. So Irresistible were they that she walked up to the counter to sample the fragrance, only to find her nose burled In silk! All
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    • 49 8 Two of the four gunmen who robbed patrons of US$lOO,OOO (about $230,000) at a casino near Nice, France, early Tuesday made a show of political Impartiality. One wore a mask of President Valery discard d'EstflJng and the other a mask of Francois Mitterrand, the Opposition Socialist leader.
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  • 247 8  -  Your correspondent Key an <NN, March 25) has got his facUs wrong on the teaching of the mother tongue In schools. While the Government urges children to study their mother tongue In schools, not all students co so; some Chinese and Indian children study
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  • 178 8  -  A.G.R. Keyan, In his letter Tamil Problem (NN, March 25), appears to have got the facta wrong. Malay, Chinese, Tamil and English are the four official languages in Singapore. Our leaders have often explained the need for Singaporeans to bec o m e proficient 1
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  • 131 8  -  MICHAEL HO Tan Bah Bah's cinema reviews are much better than his columns. They are Interesting and sidesplitting. so i am making an appeal for a revival of his cinema reviews. The old way of splitting ud the cinema reviews between Gloria Chandy and
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  • 143 8  -  M. SCOTT-ROSS Managing Director, Scott Ross Travel Service Pte Ltd, Singapore 11. I read with considerable interest, as did possibly others, the statement of the newly elected vice president of the Singapore Society of Tourist Agents (NN, March 28) that the newly elected executive committee has
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  • 97 8 The caption on Page 19 (NN, March 22). states that Peter Bogdanovlch is the director of Taxi Driver. It was also stated that Bogdanovlch was responsible for such films as Paper Moon, What's Up, Doc? and Taxi Driver. But, Taxi Driver had nothing to do with Bogdanovlch.
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  • 82 8 The Singaporean averages 19 movies a year. To cultivate local tastes and to promote the exhibition of better films, it would be worthwhile for RTS to telecast the 1978 Academy Award presentation. This prestigious occasion used to be telecast some four to five years back,
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  • 90 8 I refer to the letter, Boycott the Coffeeshop by Jungle Law (NN, March 25). He said that coffeeshop owners add maize to the coffee to maintain the strength. If he has tasted coffee with maize added, he will know that maize changes the taste and has
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  • Article, Illustration
    719 9 Danger of computers that allow people 24-hour access to their money The Post Office Savings Bank Is presently studying the possibility of installing automatic teller machines which will allow depositors to withdraw money any time they want, simply by using a special card and punching a code
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  • 428 9 IT TOOK ONLY 60 DAYS TO BUILD Gemini UPI Ismailia: It took 100,000 men 20 years to build the great Cheops pyramid in Egypt. Five thousand years later, another pyramid was built by the Japanese which has to be torn down today by order of the Egyptian government.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 271 9 Crossword iIHBIiIHHIIHBH 8' tmmuiMmwwmmmwm 9 mater 10 Stupid one 11 Imitation gold: var. 12 Most riled 14 Tirol river 17 Field of a Keat's poem 18 School points: abbr. 21 Players In a play 22 Comply 23 Touchy issues 25 TV personality 28 Piercing tool 30 Toronto's prov. 33 Attention
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  • 626 10 / 11  -  Sight Sound I>V Judith Holmberg TV Singapore has come up with a winner in Little Magic Boxes, their latest children's series the first programme of which will be re-run this afternoon at 4 p.m. over Channel 5 in colour. It's fresh, lively and entertaining for
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  • Page 10 / 11 Advertisements
    • 61 10 / 11 Mm/, DELIGHT Cocktail Lounge Nite Club Coffee House Pte. Ltd. METROPOLE HOTEL Ist. Floor, 41 Seah Street. Singapore 7. Tel: *****/*****1 NEW EXT. SWEETIES'MINI DANCE HALL TREAT YOU& YOUR FRIENDS WITH:Lots of charming sweeties, Happy Fun t I Vi I*l 0 THE TRAMPS r «r y'* k' SHU HSIA IMAN
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  • Page 10 / 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1449 10 / 11 YOUR WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE SHARP c J,)f Lintftrnn+plus m SINGAPORE 5 SATURDAY 1.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SESAME STREET. 2.05 LASSIE: THE VOYAGER. A series of adventures and misadventures befall Lassie when she is separated from her master after a hurricane. Stars Lassie, Robert Bray and John Archer. 3.35 POLICE
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    • 713 10 / 11 FM STEREO SATURDAY 6.00 P.M. Opening Announcements and Programme Nummary followed by At Sunset with Mantovanl who entertains with continental and old lavourites 6.30 News (E) 6.45 At Sunset (cont d) 7.00 Dutch Concert Hail featuring the Amsterdam Con certgebouw Orchestra c o nducted by Hans Vonk: Danses Consertantes (Stravinsky),
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    • 672 10 / 11 MALAYSIA CUP 78: Singapore versus Perak. (Ch.s at 3.55 p.m. in colour). Heavy rain and a water-logged pitch turned this game lpto a series of comic events for the 2000 spectators. The state of the ground was not conducive to good football but a Singapore team who have never relished
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    • 811 12 BOWLING: Straits Times Stop Press League (Ka'lang Bowl, 2 p.m.). Inter-Offshore Companies League (Jackles Bowl System, 4.30 p.m.). VOLLEYBALL: National Open Tournament (Men) SAFRA v Special Constabulary (2.3U p.m.), Bras Basah v Armed Forces (3.45 p.m.), Nanyang University v Combined Schools (6.15 p.m.), CK. Tang v' SAFRA "B" <7.30 p.m.).
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    • 637 12 In and around town PIANO RECITAL by American pianist Oita Karaslk. Programme includes Bach's Italian Concerto in F Major and Beethoven's Appaslonata Sonata Opus 57. DBS auditorium. 8 p.m. Admission $1. Tonight only. CONCERT by Chung Cheng High School (branch) Chinese Orchestra and Accordion Ensemble with instrumental music on the
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  • What's On A page that tells you everything you want to know of what's happening in town
    • 557 12  -  Cinema by Gloria Chandy GOLDEN RENDEZVOUS: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, David Janssen, Bureess Meredith, Gordon Jackson, Dorothy Malone, John Vernon, John Carradine. Directed by Ashley Lazarus. Screenplay by Stanley Price. (Now at Capitol and Roxy). Here's a film that manages to pack in
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  • 292 13 NEW YORK: The United States is aoout to go Into "destructive innation' wnicn would push it back into recession again, said an editorial in Business Week magazine released yesterday. UPI. TOKYO: Malaysia wi'l Issue yen dominated bonds amounting to 15 billion yen (about $15 million) in Japan this
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 32 13 UPI New York Saturday Dow Jones closing averages: 30 industrials 757.36 (off 2.26); 20 transport 207.15 (off 0.05); 15 utilities 105.66 (off 0.04); 65 stocks 266 94 (off 0.46). UPL
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    • 183 13 AFP Unabated buying enthusiasm sent share prices surging ahead In the heaviest trading In seven months on the Tokyo money market yesterday. The Dow Jones average shot to yet another record high. The Dow indicator of 225 selected Issues in the first section, the major board with 942 issues,
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    • 68 13 Closing prices on the Pull Bourse yesterday: Paribas 187.10 110 Fancier 333 2 Prln temps 53.30 .70 Bull 33.10 .90 Royal Dutch 271 3.50 Mtchelin 1340 16 COE 356 6.i>0 Thomson 189 1.20 CFP 119 unch. Rhone 70 1 Air 281 2.90 bsn 415.10 18.90 PhUips 53.40 .30 Suez
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    • 216 13 The stock market wrapped up a mixed ween yesterday with Its second consecutive setback following government reports of a record trade deficit and a sharp rise In the nation's money supply. Trading was moderate. The Dow Jones industrial average, a 2.16polnt loser on Thursday, skidded 2.26 points to
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    • 73 13 Union Bank of Switzerland Closing prices in Swiss francs on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS Bearer 3196 UBS Registered 611 a SBC 368 3 Credit Suisse 3300 Swissair B. 808 i Swiss Relnsur. 3870 —30 Wlnterthut B. 3040 Juvena B. 180 Nestle B. 3386 6 Interfood B. 3600
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  • 323 13  -  Market roundup by Rav K.Dhaliwal There were widespread price rises on the Stock Exchange of Singapore this week after a weak start on Monday. The market opened on a dreary note on Monday, a hangover from the dull sentiment that prevailed just before
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  • 61 13 AFP Manila, Saturday President Marcos said yesterday the protectionism in industrialised countries was brought about by inefficient and costly factories of the western world. Mr Marcos was speaking at a meeting of Filipino exporters where he announced the launching of the Philippines' five-year export expansion programme
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  • 369 13 E Business News and Views Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Saturday Malaysia's national oil company, Petronas, yesterday signed an agreement with Japan's Mitsubishi and Shell Oil Company to set up a joint' venture Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project at a cost of US$l billion ($2.3
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  • 95 13 Reuter Hamburg (Bonn), Saturday The seafaring nations of the world agreed yesterday on a new international convention modifying the law on transport of goods by sea. The convention, adopted at the end of a fourweek confere nee in Hamburg will be known as the Hamburg
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  • 222 13 UPI AFP London, Saturday The unfavourable US trade deficit figures pushed the battered dollar lower on European mar kets yesterday. Qold rose, closing at U*****,875 an ounce In Zurich, up from Thursday's close of U*****,375, and In London It went from U*****,8 25 to U*****,825 an ounce. The
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  • 184 13 Reuter Brussels, Saturday The European Common Market is not satisfied with tariff-cutting offers made by the US, Japan and Canada at multilateral trade negotiations in Geneva, an EEC spokesman said yesterday. He recalled that the community had reserved the right to lower Its offer
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 84 13 SIN lEONG HSTMRMT Sin Leong will be opening another new ultra modern restaurant at Block 89, Marine Parade (behind Republic Theatre Metro) soon. Situated on top of a multi storey car park, parking is no problem. The new restaurant can cater for parties of over 1000 guests and under the
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  • 416 14 A twice weekly advertisement feature It always takes a power breakdown for me to realise what a great Invention electricity is. Having the world lighted up for us by the touch of a button and being entertained on television by the touch of another button tend to spoil us.
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  • 521 15 H The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston. Penguin Books 1977. Reviewed by Rebecca Chua. The modern preoccupation with the self, with individualism and determinism is both a characteristic and an affliction of people who seem to be forever
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  • 399 15  -  POPS by Peter Ong STEVE WINWOOD: Steve Winwood (Island): It's been a long time since we heard from Steve Winwood or his now defunct band. Traffic. Traffic's last LP. When The Eagle Flies, was released about four years ago,
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  • 427 15  -  Chess by Leslie Leou Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece on the chessboard, and innumerable games have seen her wreaking havoc on its 64 squares. In fact, she is so strong that It is no exaggeration to say that her only liability
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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    • 229 16 VZA Tennis Reuter Milan, Saturday Rumanian tennis star Ille Nastase was ordered off the court by an Italian referee here last night after breaking his racket and swearing at the umpire during a doubles match in the WCT tennis tournament. Nastase. whose volatile temperament has pro
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    • 159 16 AFP Tokyo, Saturday. Australian swimmers swept all the events they entered on the opening day of the All-Japan indoor swimming championships here yesterday but their times were slack. Tracey Wlckham, the 15-year-old Australian wonder girl with her World marks In the 400 m, 800 m, and
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    • 36 16 AFP Bangkok, Saturday Thailand confirmed yesterday there will be no scaling down of the 19 sports events already agreed upon for the Eighth Asian Games to be held in Bangkok on Dec 9-20.—AFP.
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    • 324 16 j^^Hockey Buenos Aires, Saturday Pakistan and Holland scraped through to the final of the fourth hockey World Cup here yesterday at the expense of West Germany and Australia in closely contested matches which could have gone either way. Favourites Pakistan beat 1972 Olympic champions West Germany
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    • 478 17 Two Pakistanis ousted [^I s< l uash AFP London, Saturday Defending champion Geoff Hunt coasted through the first round of the British Open Squash champion ship at Wembley Squash Centre yesterday when he beat fellow Australian D. Williams 9-1, 10-8, 9-0. Hunt. also world champion and
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    • 88 17 KJ Soccer UPI Zurich. Saturday. Joao Havelange of Brazil is assured of another four-year term as .president of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) as no other candidate applied for the post, a Fifa spoksinan said yesterMJ. Havelange's application was the only one received when
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    • 399 17  -  By BRIAN MILLER Anglo-Chinese School earned a berth In the quarter-finals of the National schools badminton championships for Secondary boys when they beat Assumption English 5-0 at New Town yesterday. ACS got their first point when Low Hal Swee beat Clifford Pong 15-2, 15-6. Assumption's Tan
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    • 430 18  -  By BRIAN MILLER Ladybird, who has not been racing since last December, looks to have benefitted from that break and I give her a confident vote when she goes over 1200 m in Race 7 at Bukit Timah today. This grey English mare by Blrdbrook came
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    • 35 18 London, Saturday Triple Grand National steeplechase winner Red Rum has been withdrawn from today's classic because of injury and his racing career is finished, trainer Donald "Ginger" McCain said here last night.
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    • 154 18 SB SCRUTINEER BRIAN MILLER FAIRWAY BLUEGRA88 tin 1: Theatre Prince Melody Inamorato Kim Steed Prince Melody Auric Flame Manlkam Theatre Kmc S: Patriarch Cherokee Cherokee Patriarch Patriarch Fearless Oak Patriarch Nationwide Km S: Betny'i Pet Tartar Acrobateen Young Sahib Koala Rota pin Aero ba teen Acrobateen Klta Suka Ram
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    • 472 19 By SCRUTINEER No apprentice jockey has ever won the Singapore Derby since it started' 18 years ago In 1959. Kevin Chee aims to change all that when he rides Auric Stable's Yangtze Kiang 111 In Race 5 tomorrow. Winning the Singapore Derby will not
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    • 557 20  -  Samad, Dollah, Raja out as coach can't name new skipper r r Malaysia CuP '7B By JEFFREY LOW Shock waves battered the Singapore team last night as they wound up their final training session before meeting Perils at Kallang tomorrow night. Shock No. 1: Skipper Samad
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    • 51 20 LINE UP Singapore: Edmund Wee, Hasli Ibrahim, Syed Mutalib, M. Kumar, Robert Sim, Nasir Jalil, Hashim Hosni, Zainal Abidin, Mohammed Noh.E. Shanmugaretnam, Quah Kim Song. Perlis: All Qsman, Salim Mohamed, Ros 1 1 Mahmud, Ibrahim Saad, Yew Hong Eng, Rosli Ramli, Othman Ibrahim, Radzi Yaakub, Kafirruddin Ali, Bakrl Ibni, Syed
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    • 376 20 HS Crickct Reuter Georgetown, Saturday Australia overcame a bad start to be strongly placed just 137 runs behind West Indies with eight first innings wickets in hand at close of play on the first day of the Third Test cricket match here today. Australia scored 68
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