New Nation, 9 April 1978

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  • 10 1 Sunday Nation APRIL 9, 1978 30 CENTS M.C.(P) NO. 217/1/79
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    • 63 1 Shannon: astronaut Morgorot: astronaut Kathryn: astronaut Wonder Women of the West Page 10 'Birthday party' girl gets rapped by judge Page 2 All dressed upend nowhere to g0... Page 2 For tennis player with. everything Rage 27 1 Courtesy? Take a tip from Samaritans Page 7 4 Eat less salt
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  • 196 2  -  By Terry Tan ALL dressed up and nowhere to go. It was time yesterday for a slow, sad glide across the ice before Singapore's remaining ice rink closes its doors. In the last few days and especially yesterday, hundreds of skaters In every manner
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  • 132 2 UPI Leading* officials who turned "a deaf ear to repeated orders and instruction i" from China's communist party central committee have been severely punished for violations of financial and economic regulations. Seven leaders, charged with violating instructions on construction ol luxury buildings such as "halls, clubs,
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  • 141 2 A civil action against former Menterl Besar Datuk Hajl Harun Idris as president of the Malaysian Cycling Federation, was mentioned In the Bpecial Sessions Court In Kuala Lumpur yesterday. J The action brought by Raya Travel Bdn. Bhd. is also against the secretary of the
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  • 129 2 Reuter A RECORD number of more than 3500 Vietnamese refugees have sailed to Malaysian shores In the last three months, causing serious coi.cern among government and United Nations officials In Kuala Lumpur. Officials of the UN High Commission for Refugees yesterday said, the UNHCR Far East
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  • 464 2 4 DISTRICT Judge yesterday gave a 15-mlnute d re s sing down to a teenage girl charged with theft for repeatedly asking to be released so she could attend her 16th birthday party last night. Judge Mr Richard Magnus reprimanded Llm Beng Oeok for
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  • 194 2 A 17-YEAR-OLD boy who frequented bars went looking for his favourite waitress In Kalian* but landed himself In court yesterday. Neo Qeok Hock together with three others had gone to a house In Kalian* Road to look for the waitress, whose name was given as
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 74 2 AFP JAPAN will extend loans totalling 10,000 million yen ($llO million) to Bangladesh to help implement various economic development projects. This was stated In a Joint communique Issued upon conclusion of a state visit to Japan by Bangladesh president Zlaur Rahman. Major projects to be covered by
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    • 69 2 A 4,385-tonne Chinese freighter caught fire off Cape, Daol, western Japan, early yesterday but all SO crewmen were rescued by a Japanese freighter, the maritime safety agency reported In Tokyo. The fire broke out shortly after midnight when the Tuan jte was sailing 28.5 miles southeast of the
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    • 59 2 UPI THE Japanese government will soon start negotiations with US aircraft manufacturers on licensed production of their military planes in Japan, a Japanese newspaper has reported. The Nlhonkelzal Shimbun said the talks will be held with McDonnellDouglas Corp.. maker of the F-15 Eagle fighter, and Lockheed Aircraft
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    • 54 2 NST FORMER Menterl Besar of Kelantan, Datuk Hajl Mohamad Naslr has been appointed senator by the State Legislative Assembly. His appointment, approved without debate, was proposed by the new Menterl Besar, Datuk Hall Mohamad Yaakoh Datuk Naslr succeeds Hajl Abu Bakar Hamzah whose term ended on Aug
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    • 38 2 Reuter MALAYSIA'S national debt totalled M 515.8 billion sit the end of 1977, the Parliament was told on Friday night. Deputy Finance Minister Rafldah Aziz said the debt was expected to be settled by 2018.
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    • 32 2 AFP THE former managing director of Bank Rakyat, Datuk Abu Mansor Baslr, was sentenced to four years Jail for misappropriating US$l.25 million ($2.8 million) of the bank's money.—AFP.
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    • 94 2 AP THE Japanese Mlnlstr y of International Trade and Industry will urge Japanese car makers not to export more cars this year than last year, a ranking Ministry official said in Tokyo. No official trade figures are available for fiscal 1077, ending last month, but according to
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    • 106 2 NST ACTREBB Uml Kalthom, who was acclaimed the "typical Malaysian beauty" by Life magazine In 1957, captured the best TV actress award at Malam Sri Angkasa In Kuala Lumpur. Uml, who Is often cast In the role of the "bad woman", was chosen from six other
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    • 78 2 AFP RHODESIAN Patriotic Front guerilla leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe have agreed to meet the U8 Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and British Foreign Secretary David Owen In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, on April 15. The decision, aimed at re-launching the Anglo-American plan to solve the
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    • 49 2 A VIETNAMESE fishing trawler ferrying more than 30 refugees, including women and children, sailed Into Pulau Übin yesterday. It Is understood that tIU last night, the authorities were making arrangements for the refugees to leave Singapore Immediately. No details nor official comment was available last night.
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    • 47 2 AP AN AMERICAN woman and four Vietnamese refugees are reported missing. probably drowned, after fleeing Vietnam. Police reported. Police said a Vietnamese refugee found unsclous on a Hong Kong beach on Friday said their boat capsized early that day off the British colony. AP.
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    • 55 2 ALLIANCE FRANCAISE No. 4, Lorong Langsir Singapore 10. New Beginners Classes station 17th and 18th April. TWICE or THRICE A WEEK Mornings: 10.30 am to 12 noon. 9.00 am to 10.30 am. -Evenings: —5.30pm to 7.00pm 7.00pm to 8.30pm Brush up your French in our Intermediate and Advanced Classes. ENROL
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  • 447 3 A STIRRING call to retired professionals to give their time and services to the 166 community centres was made yesterday by the People's Association director (field), Mr Lim Chin Teong. There was a plethora of things retired professionals could do to imBrove8 rove the running of
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  • 31 3 UPI THE South Korea government plans to send s 30-member governmentcivilian Joint trade and purchase mission to five South-east Asian and Oceanic nations, officials at the CommerceIndustry Ministry said.—
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  • 75 3 Reuter AFP TWELVE Vietnamese divisions totalling nearly 100.000 troops are massing along Vietnam's border with Cambodia, the Washington Post reported yesterday. The Post said this Information came from "US officials" but did not Identify the officials further. Meanwhile, Cambodian Radio yesterday broadcast an Interview with
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  • 457 3  -  By Terry Tan IAAVJD Ogilvy is urbane, witty and candidly admits to having an IQ of 95, which, he says, qualifies him to be a ditchdigger. Revered as the "Grand Pundit," even among Madison Avenue people, he has had more superlative
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  • 166 4 GUEST appearances at several functions will keep the spotlight on Jack Lord when he oomes to film an rpisode of Hawall-Flve-O even when he's off duty. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board will hold a welcome dinner for the star and his
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  • 70 4 AFP THE head monk at Wat Tham Krabork, a temple on Thailand's central plateau, world famous for his highly successful treatment of drug addicts, has said that the 20-year-old treat ment programme will cease Indefinitely because dally expenditures reach as nigh as 10,000 baht ($1200),
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  • 54 4 THIS watch not only tells women the time, it may also give them the inclination. The made-in-Zurich Diarex has a device that shows a woman's "dangerous days" (menstruation and other sexual life dates) and doubles as a case for carrying
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  • 548 4 THE Foreign Minister Mr. 8. Rajaratnam, In lighthearted mood last night told how he one day conned his way through an all-Chl-nese party by passing himself off as a Chinese Jew. Mr. Rajaratnam. In a fine anecdotal mood, told a dinner and dance
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  • 234 4 SINGAPORE and Malaysia are still closely linked despite the dissolution of common structures In economic relations established during colonial times, Enclk Rahim ishak said yesterday. Speaking at the first southern region Leo Convention 1978 at Eusoff CoUege, University of Singapore, the senior Minister of State
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 554 4 I in and around town POLK DANCING at Sentosa Folic Dance Centre (opposite the roller skating rink), 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Contact Mr Lim Seng Kok, *****0, for details. Every Sunday. SUNDAY SCIENCE FILM SHOWS: Apollo 16 (a report on the April 16, 1972 mission to the moon), Apollo
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  • 352 5 Troops on alert after clean sweep by hnelda Reuter AFP PHILIPPINE Presi- dent Ferdinand Marcos yesterday announced a clean government sweep In the parliamentary elections In Manila and a swift crackdown if violent opposition protest demonstrations should occur. The 60-year-old Marcos, solemn-faced and speaking softly, said
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  • 167 5 UPI PRESIDENT Marcos is i not serious about restoring democracy in the Philippines, the former Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus, said In Washington yesterday. Manglapus, the president of the dissident movement for a free Philippines, said: "Marcos has lived up to what was expected and used his government
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  • 160 5 Reuter INDIAN Prime Minister 1 Morarji Desal yesterday appealed to all political parties to help prevent atrocities against the nation's 80 million Harljans—the untouchables. "Wo have got to put our heads together and see how we can finish this evil," he told Parliament
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  • 279 5 Reuter UPI C>MMON Market leaden have tackled the most urgent Issue of their current summit conference the defence of West European currencies against the effects of the dollar crisis. Officials said monetary and financial problems dominated the informal discusalons at Marlenborg Palace in
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    • 91 5 After you've set the feathers flying.. settle down with a BACARDI S Pour a generous measure of light, dry Bacardi rum over ice cubes in a long glass. Top up with orange juice or orangeade. Pop in a slice of lime. Your set! ,y--f i V BACARDI h (p m
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  • 241 6 COMMENT As fast as It first caught on in Singapore, iceskating has now slid out or the local sporting scene. The two rinks, In Jurong and Kallang, have closed down another fad fades away to be lamented only by hardcore enthusiasts stranded with expensive Ice-skates and
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  • 553 6  -  By Christine Doyle Observer A SUBSTANTIAL reduction in people's daily consumption of salt might help to prevent the development of high blood pressure. Several members of a World Health Organisation's expert committee on blood pressure, which met In London recently, maintain that cutting the
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  • 514 6 Guardian SEVENTEEN days ago, the cream of Pakistan's armed forces trundled ponderously dowp the principal streets of the country's major cities to the accompaniment of solemn martial music and the weighty incantations from assorted generals, admirals, and marshals of the air force. Tt was Pakistan
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    • 157 6 TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. YESTERDAY'S TRADITION. SEIKO. THE QUALITY WATCH OF TODAY. i- 7009-8090 Seiko started out making watches with uncompromising ideals like pride in workmanship and dedication to a high standard of excellence. As our technical knowledge end expertise grew, we developed a microtechnology far aheed of its time. We beceme
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  • 463 7  -  Letters DAVID FERRAO H E middle aged A tourist Insists on creating a commotion by refusing to pay the $10 airport tax. A Singapore Air Transport S e r v i ce staffer tries to explain the necessity for him to pay it.
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  • 406 7  -  GLORIA CHANDY I OOKING for a new outfit that I didp't find last week took me on a round of several boutiques and department stores all over town. I realised later that the main reason why my search turned out
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  • 66 7 TWO Australian visitors to Singapore were amazed at the long queue snaking Its way up to a particular counter In a bank where a notice said: PUB collection here. What a lovely Idea, they thought, that some banks were generous enough to hand out free
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  • 188 7 Admission rates at the Jurong Bird Park and the Singapore Zoological Gardens appear to be acceptable to most, although some, particularly members of the lower Income group who would like to take in several children at a time, might feel the pinch.
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  • 73 7 WE'VE HAD walkathons, walkaruns and even a walkajog, organised recently by some nurses to raise money for various charities. Now my friend, who's a marathon man when it comes to sleeping, suggests that somebody ought to organise a sleepathon. He knows that he, for
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  • 157 7  -  CHUA SOON TEE B««retarjr BTPB Courtesy Campaign Committee Singapore It TIE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board wculd like to thank Gloria Cha n d y for her comment* last week about the Courtesy Campaign launched on April 1. We would however Uke to clarify that
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    • 174 7 JUST PUBLISHED r> A "REFERENCE MANUAL FOR OFFICE WORKERS" Suitable for Office Workers (Clerk, Secretary, Typist) Librarian, Business Executive, Teacher and Student. Reference Manual For Office Workers NANASSY* SELOCN LEE Do you need to know:1. How to prepare Business Reports (Answer Chapter 8). 2. The correct office procedures that makes
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  • 1708 8  -  CHANG KAI MING reviews Thursday night's discussion on bilingualism and the main issues at stake CHANG KAI MING rpHE Prime Minister spent over two hours A on Thursday night in the homes, as it were, of thousands of television viewers, chatting, not
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    • 79 8 WHAT DO YOU THINK? We invite you to write in and tell us. What did you think of the discussion on TV (to be repeated over Ch 5 today at 10.30 am)? Are there other questions bothering you about bilingualism? Type your articles (double spacing) on one side of each
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  • 432 9  -  if you ask me... By. Jeffrey L. B. Law T»HE other Sunday I 1 was put to shame by my eight-year-old nephew who pulled me by the hand to Join his standing at attention when the national anthem was played on TV.
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  • 500 9  -  BY DAVID ROBIE Gemini Hunting for the dodo or the abominable snowman may be long lost causes. But a Japanese television crew has embarked on a search which would confound even the most dedicated Loch Ness monster-spotters. The cameramen
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  • 2217 10 / 11  -  By Julia Orange IT USED to be that 1 men went and women waited. Isabel Burton, wife of a legendary explorer, orientalist R1 c hard Burton, would receive terse t e 1 eg r a m s months after he left which simply read: *Tay,
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  • 378 10 / 11 DEFORE the first shuttle flights in the 1980's Nasa has plenty of technological problems to solve, some of them endearlpgly human. Teams of scientists, for example, are designing a waste management system that both men and women can use. '1 took a
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    • 905 12 at sa Your 12 TV pallout TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS BEAVER (The World Of Survival) on Ch. 8 at 7.00 p.m. in COLOUR Henry Fonda narrates the life story of Castor the beaver. When we first meet him, Castor is only four days old and by curtain-fall (after three years), he is
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    • 497 12 BILINGUALISM A DISCUSSION WITH THE PRIME MINISTER on Ch. 5 at 10.30 a.m. in COLOUR Mr Lee Kuan Yew's frank and exhaustive analysis of the impact of biiingualism on society, its problems as he perceives them and the options open to the government in tackling them. Mr Lee explains why
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    • 199 13 lop of with I of the line is even va ;•< Graetz of West Germany offers you a colour TV set that's top of its class. With 2849, you not only get the traditional features which make Graetz so special today, but also the most advanced features that really make
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    • 1257 13 MONDAY P.M. Open I NALLA ILLAM (r) Diary Of Events (T) Afternoon Matinee: Fallen Angel, 1st of 2 (1945 Otto Preminger). Stars Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere, Bruce Cabot, John Carradine. Intermission Open I LAND OP TMI LOST: Cornered. Uncle Jack tries to kill a
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    • 1063 14 WEDNESDAY 2 <Z-7 A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 THE OLD MAN AND THE EAGLE 3.30 Diary Of Events <M) 3.35 BONANZA: For A Young Lady 4.25 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 ELECTRIC COMPANY 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.35 WILD, WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS: BlacL Boar 7.00 RAMPAIAN
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    • 249 15 mjrm;iiyltn IPwJmmPP|PP Royal Class i V Zl l K V i'* M A jw; A S ~>v a a# far too good to be called just First Everything about KLM'i Royal Clow is abeolutaiy flat dm and mora. Its facial rad label stands for a lot of privUegaa. Baggage allowance
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    • 1013 15 FRIDAY A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: The Humiliated (Hokkien/r) 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open 4.08 EXERCISE WITH GLORIA 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 4.35 THE TONY RANDALL SHOW: Franklin r* McClellan. Judae Franklin is perturbed when his children seem to seek his housekeeper's advice instead of
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    • 198 17 / 18 ■f »v' p 9 Wa Mlf >• 7 < 4Jf <r hffr* z V. *>-A WE HWE ABANDONED A LIFE OF INDOLENCE V AND SEEK HONEST" J X V DESIST IN NOUR DEFAMATION/ *>* V a m <£t '■J! IT V TR A' MM J > s* 1 4>i tw
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    • 79 17 / 18 J?I JJg J.W _A t j =3 J J '•iVft i =5 r« B It ■4 m It in# Z//> < v YESSIR.' PEACE, QUIET NATURAL BEAUTY, AN' SBSENITY/ WHAT MORE COULD A FELLA ASK FOR? > ...THIS IS WHAT I CALL REAL LIVIN'/ I x kT Si 4 lm
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    • 352 19 GARTH Xr'\ On the galleon of the •Spanish Admiral... THE WIND WILL CARRY THEM, JOHN-DOWN TO THE SPANISH FLEET/ THOSE DONS HAVE THE CHOICE TO SWIM OR BURN/ ►Si U-\i f&IL A a vV fj •>* ■:•< v 3 C m hcX V ikw. U li »L. v i 0-■s',>'
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  • 556 20 HUMOUR with EONARDO's Renaissance matron Mona Lisa did not smile that enigmatic smile to hide a broken heart as Nat King Cole led you and me to believe. No, sir. The strangeness in her smile was due to the high cholesterol In her blood.
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  • 460 20 Off the Record by CKT me a fabulous Image, this column has. But, of course, I never intended that I Should come across as a balding, middle-aged, persnickety critic who champions Wagnerian excesses and forever kicks Schumann in the shin.
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  • 150 20 PRESIDENT Suharto has told his new Cabinet that they would not be sitting on "soft chairs" but would have to tackle huge and difficult problems. They will be put on the mat if they fail, no doubt. SINGAPORE striker Mohamed Noh was sent off the field for kicking
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  • 1109 21  -  Korea is more than kim-chee (hot pickled cabbage) and ginseng ffIMBIgN BY TERENCE NG npHE two young ladies dressed in traditional Korean silk dresses (chlma-chogorl) bowed and slid into the small room of the restaurant where I sat on plump
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    • 139 21 tale to tell? Here's a chance to tell it And to a much wider audience than you'd ever have thought possible. Sunday Nation is running a weekly travellers' column written by our readers. It can be a travelogue type story or just a little incident or your most unforgettable or
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  • 546 22  -  ...and a flinty computer that wants to save the world jJd JliiW By Tan Bah Bah QUE sera sera, whatever will be will be, the future IS ours to see, que sera sera. When I was Just a demon seed, I asked my computer father (Proteus
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  • 862 23  -  Book Page By Alex Josey THE CONSUL'S FILE by Paul Theroux. Houghton M i f f lin Co. 1977. 209 pp. U553.95. IF PAUL Theroux's purpose In assembling In book form this collection of short stories with a Malaysian background was to offer
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  • 262 23 VOUR weekend 1 hunting trip ended abruptly when you stumbled upon the body of a middleaged man dressed In hunter's garb lying In a shadow gorge. An autopdv disclosed that deith had been instantaneous. "A bullet had entered just above the hip and lodged in the
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  • 529 23  -  Letter to the Editor RICHARD HOUSE TIM Pek Ha's re- view of Paul Theroux's The Great Railway Bazaaf (SN, March 26th) makes the dangerous mistake of confusing a writer's sense of humour with simplicity or failure of Irony. Doubtless the book will continue
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  • Sports Nation starts on this page
    • 382 24  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng A LL eyes will be focused op one man today at the second All-comers meet at Fairer Park Athletic Centre. That man is C. Kunalan. Since the BAAA announced the qualifying times for the Asian
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    • 520 25 INSIDE TRACK ]t| OHAMMED NOH. Singapore's "gentleman" soccer player. shocked his tans wnen he was sent off by Kelantan releree Hassan Rajl Daud In last Supday's Malaysia Cup match against Perils. Noh, who was clearly provoked by Perils goalie V. Marlmuthu, retaliated and was duly
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    • 238 25  -  Joyce Tan SWNA talent scouts have picked a number of young players for training under Cynthia Naldu. Four are from the Punggol constituency team which recently defeated Inter con champions Serangoon Gardens and runnersup Ang Mo Klo. They are Pauline Low, Eng Peng Sim, Lim Joo Sim
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    • 400 26  -  Lim Kok Ann SPECTATORS usual- ly symp at his e with the underdog If for no other reason than that an upset would relieve the monotony of onesided games. Chancing to see the same between Goh Yeow Hwee and Choong Lions On In the second round
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    • 685 26 BRIDGE The Aces SACRIFICE bidding is one of the most difficult aspects of bridge and calls for the exercise of a high degree of flair and Judgement. The principle Is simple; if the opponents have hid, or can bid, a game or slam
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    • 455 26 EXMTS' etrncr AP \f AJOR league baseball, still glowing from the most successful year In the history of the sport, opened its 1978 regular season on Wednesday. With advance ticket sales up for 25 of Its member club's, there is the chance that baseball could push right
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    • 175 26 AP rE Seattle and the Lost Angeles Lakers have clinched playoff berths In the Pacific Division of the US National Basketball Association. The Sonlcs beat the Houston Rockets 113-100 In midweek. The Lakers, getting 27 points from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, including nine In the fourth quarter. edged
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    • 113 26 'tpHESE can't be proA fesslonal baseball players!" If that was your reaction to this Pana photo, you're absolutely right. The players you see are, In fact, members of two Japanese political parties—the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Communist Party. Japan's six political parties staged
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    • 555 27  -  ...a 24-carat gold-plated racket TENNIS TALK Alfred Tong rpHE tennis player who thinks he already has everything can think again. A US firm, Lloyd Distributors Inc, Is marketing a 24-carat goldplated tennis racket (created. appropriately enough, by a man by the name of
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    • 64 27  -  The Teaching Pro By Don J. Leary lltM I*l CM. *MCfc Cj 1. The mark of a beginner is a jerky, unrhythmic stroke. 2. Avoid sudden moves. Get racuqet back, be in position. Collect the ball in the center ot the strings and SWEEP it to
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    • 438 28 World Cup Golden Goals WHEN Geoff Hurst scored his third foal In the 1966 World Cup Final, he coloured the d neams of us all. He Is the only man ever to score a hattrlck In a World Cup Final and that ultimate
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    • 445 28  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh rpHREE-TIME cham- plons Asia Electric will take the court as strong favour ltes in the Basketball Association of Singapore Super League starting next month. They will have the services of five national layers Tan Ban long, Llm Kwan Choon, Ng
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    • 599 28 UPI ONO before the L movie Rocky, Willis Johnson had a dream: to give anyone who wants to fight his big chance in the ring without worrying about managers or matchmakers or purses. As Washington's licensed promoter for pro boxing,
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    • 381 30  -  HOCKEY Brian Miller rE Singapore Women's Hockey Association are leaving no stones unturned 111 their preparation for the next Asian Women's hockey tournament to be held at Kyoto, Japan, in early 1981. Right now, they are in the midst of making final arrangements with
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      • 157 32 AP yiROINIA WADE and Francolse Durr falt- ered early but came on strong at the finish on Friday night to defeat Kerry Reld and Wendy Turnbull 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, to move Into the finals of the Brldgestone world championship of women's doubles In Salt Lake City.
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      • 78 32 AFP JAPANESE player Tiuneyukl Nakajlma took a record 13 shots on the 13th hole In the second round of the masters gotf tournament at Augusta Georgia, and was ready to sdmlt there vu something to superstition after all. Asked afterwards how he felt. Nakajlma replied In Japanese which
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      • 68 32 Reuter FRED DAVIS, 10 times the world champion, made a brilliant recovery to beat fellow Briton John Virgo 9-8 in the first round of the World Professional Snooker Championship in Btockport, England, on Friday night. The 85-year-old Davis required Ave of the last six frames for
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      • 69 32 AP ONE of the largest and most valuable collections of veteran and vintage cars ever assembled in the world set off from Sydney yesterday on a 13-day run to South port. Queensland. At least seven of the 400 cars (all built before 1930) are the only ones
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      • 73 32 Reuter THOMAS Keller, the Swiss president of the General Assembly of International Bporta Federations, believes Los Angeles is "totally unacceptable" to his organisation as the venue for the 1984 Olympic Games. t Like some members of the International Olympic Committee, Keller is angry at replies Los
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      • 51 32 Reuter CHINA beat Japan 7875 in an exciting men's basketball game In Tokyo yesterday. The speedy Chinese, who led 44-36 at half time, scored their fourth straight win against no defeats in their sevenmatch tour of Japan. It was also China's third consecutive win against Japan's national
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