New Nation, 10 May 1978

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    20 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Wednesday, May 10, 1978 No. 2255 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 216/1/78 r—rz NFU fc) NATION COMMENT
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    Lock icon Outrage over Moro's murder
    580 1 'Death to Reds, death to Curcio!' shout angry Romans Reuter Rome, Wednesday Thousands of Italians grieving for assassinated ex-premler Aldo Moro marched past the Colosseum yesterday in a spontaneous demonstration unmatched since Romans hailed the fail of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini during World War Two. Long
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    Why we're spending $2.1 billion on SIA deal — Pillay
    260 1  - Why we're spending $2.1 billion on SIA deal Pillay By Edgar Koh our correspondent In New York SIA chairman Mr J.Y.M. Pillay eaid today that the primary reason for disposing of the carrier's present 747s is the airline's decision to standardise the fleet with the larger and more economical Pratt
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    Constable attacked In T. Payoh
    58 1 A police constable has been warded in hospital after he was assaulted by two men at Lorong 8 In Toa Payoh yesterday. A police spokesman said P.C. Ng Song Chwee, 19, is on the dangerously 111 list. The incident hapKned at 11.20 p.m. near e
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    'Fair' shops which charge unfair prices
    436 2  -  Report to us, says Friendly Assn chief By Liu Min Kune Some provision shopkeepers, members of the Singapore Provision Shop Friendly Association, are selling goods at higher prices that those recommended by their association. The association recently sent out "fair price" list as a
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    Koh elected chairman
    67 2 Mr Koh Choon Hul has been elected chairman of the Singapore Children's Society. Other officials are: Dr Wont Mook Ow vicechairman), Mr Nglam Tee Liana (secretary), Mrs Ann Wee (asst. secretary), Mr Llew Fook Choon (treasurer) and committee members: Dr Ruth Wong, Mr Llm Slew Cheng, Dr
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    Blood
    26 2 The Singapore Blood Transfusion Service will hold It* donor sessions at the Singapore Technical Institute In circuit Road today from 930 aA. to 4 p.m.
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    3 blocks facing the small firms
    383 2 Three areas appear to be the main stumbling blocks for small firms getting loans from banks and other financial institutions. They are: LACK of a proper accounting system, especially so in the smaller Arms; LACK of proprietor's dlA'sion of Kme Into understanding the increasingly
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    Mixed trend in first hour
    241 2 STOCK MARKET A mixed trend emerged during the first one hour of trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. Turnover was generally lower. Bandar Raya surged ahead to gain six cents to $1.91. Another notable gainer was Hong Leong Finance which advanced 12 cents
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    Art contest
    35 2 The Rotary Club of Singapore will organise the Leslie Rayner children's painting competition at the Toa Payoh Town Garden on June 3 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Closing date Is May 24.
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    My darling daughter
    490 3  -  Mother-of murdered singer talks... By Teo Lian Huay A 72-year-old woman wept uncontrollably as she recounted how her "cute little girl" left for Hong Kong a year ago and never came "jack. Madam H.M. Chan was almost hysterical as she related the story of her foster child,
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    Excursion
    36 3 The Queenstown Community Centre youth group will organise a children's excurson to the Paya Lebar Airport. Jurong Bird Park. Jurong Hill, University ofSlngapore and Nanyang University on May 22 from 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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    120 Income workers to get better pay scales
    206 3 About 120 employees of NTUC insurance co-operative, Income, will enjoy improved salary scales under a col--1 e c 11 v e agreement just concluded between their union and the management. According to the president of the Singapore Insurance Companies Employees Union (SICEU),
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    Fitness test
    76 3 A National Aerobic Fitness Award test will be held in the East Coast Park this Saturday at 4.30 p.m. Registration forms are available from booking offices and swimming pools of the Singapore Sports Council. They must be returned to the SSC before the test. There will also be
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    PUB bills: Hotels will try for rebate again
    129 3 The Singapore Hotel and Restaurant Association will renew effort* to obtain a rebate on water, electricity and gas bills for Its members. The association first asked the Minister of Finance to appeal to the PUB on Its behalf In 1976 An association
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    Graduation
    26 3 Ngee Ann Technical College will hold lti seventh graduation ceremony at the multi-pur-pose hall of the college, Clementl Road, on May 26, at 10 a.m.
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    Asean cannot expect much from Japan
    535 4 say reports Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Asean can expect little trade and other economic concessions from Japan if Malaysia's experience Is any guide, according to press reports here. Senior Malaysian ministers and officials came away almost empty-handed after two days of talks here with Japan's
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    Korean general praises S'pore
    172 4 Brigadier General Hong Kyung Lin, the leader of a visiting group of 10 students from Defence College, was full of praise for Singapore and 11 s multi-racial population. "You have a beautiful country and your people are ao well disciplined. I have always doubted that a
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    Chairman
    49 4 Mr C, Oopal Menon has been re-elected chairman of the Singapore District Society of the Institute of Administrate Accounting and Data Processing at a recent annual general meeting. Other officials are: Messrs Ng Soon Chye (secretary), Mr Kok Poon Cheong (treasurer) and Miss Veronica Low Llan Yin (auditor).
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    Exam talk
    40 4 Mrs Catherine Llm. a teacher from Catholic Junior College, will speak on "General Paper: how to tackle It in the examination" at the National Library on Saturday at 2.30 p.m. Admission is by tickets available at the library.
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    A candle made five people homeless...
    225 4 An overturned candle is believed to have started a Are which burned down an attap hut off Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 and made five people homeless. The alarm was raised shortly before 10 p.m. on Monday and within 15 minutes the three-room hut
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    IN A TOWN OF 90,000... Only 80 use Jurong branch library
    186 4 Jurong has a population of 90,000 but only 80 people are members of the town library. When It opened In November last year. Its membership was only 17 The Jurong branch of the Queenstown Library is situated in the
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    Security jobs for 65
    80 4 The PSA is recruiting 65 men and women for general security duties at its port complexes and the World Trade Centre. The recruitment is mainly for the WTC building at Maritime Square which will become an important commercial and maritime centre when completed later this year.
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    Lock icon A quick mind saves 58
    143 5 World Focus Reuter Pcnsacola (Florida), Wednesday—A quickthinking tug captain was yesterday credited with saving lives after this national airlines Boeing 727 crashed off the Florida coast on Monday night killing three people. Rescuers said (he captain tied a barge he was towing to the floating
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    Lock icon 'Unfriendly' Pak upsets Soviets
    186 5 AFP Lahore, Wednesday The soviet Ambassador In Pakistan, Dr Sarwar Azlmov, yesterday expressed his displeasure with Pakistan's "unfriendly" attitude towards the Soviet Union and suggested that this country should quit the American sponsored Central Treaty Organisation (Cento) and other anti-Soviet pacts. Dr Azlmov alleged that Pakistan
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    Lock icon Talks on seabed boundary soon
    105 5 AFP Jakarta, Wednesday— An Indonesian technical delegation Is expected to leave Jakarta for Hanoi shortly to discuss the delineation of the seabed boundary between Indonesia and Vietnam, Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmad] a said yesterday. The Minister said upon arrival back from the conference on the
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    Lock icon Wife slept through killing...
    84 5 AFP Jakarta., Wednesday.— A district court in llempawah, West Kalimantan. yesterday heard how a young husband was murdered in his sleep by three men while his wife, lying beside him slept through it. The Nationalist Merdeka daily said 21-year-old Maenong was killed with a long machette.
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    Lock icon Kriangsak to raise problem of rebels
    210 5 Reuter Bangkok, Wednesday Thailand's efforts to stamp out the activities x>f Burmese rebels operating on Thai soli is expected to be a main topic during Prime Minister Kriangsak Chamanand's three-day visit to Burma beginning today. Oen. Kriangsak is also expected to discuss possible cooperation
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    Lock icon Raped in public
    113 5 AFP Jakarta, Wednesday Jakarta police are investigating a blzzare case in which a woman was raped on the billiard table while other patrons and scoreboard markers in the poolroom watched, police spokesman Lt Col Arl Tonang said yesterday. Newspaper reports alleged that the rapist was the son
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    Lock icon Gulf Oil charged
    78 6 AP Washington, Wednesday The US government yesterday charged the Oulf OH Corporation with criminal conspiracy to fix prices on Imported uranium primarily used as nuclear IML The Justice Department, which filed the charges after an 18month Investigation, alleged that Oulf participated in an International cartel from 1072
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    Lock icon Search for firm ties
    62 6 Reuter London, Wednesday The British government fully Intended to continue the tone-establish-ed search for a safer and more productive relationship with the Soviet Union, Foreign Secretary David Owen said yesterday. Britain and Its western allies rightly saw good relations with the Soviet Union as a priority,
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    Lock icon UN troops open fire
    76 6 UPI Beirut, Wednesday. UN peacekeeping troops and Joint Palestinian and Lebanese 1e f 11st forces exchanged ma-chine-gun and mortar fire In southeast Lebanon yesterday, residents said. The fighting started when the Joint forces tried to set up a roadblock on a crossroads leading to the southeast
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    Lock icon Get Egypt to talk, Israel tells US
    444 6 On plan for self-govermennt in West Bank UPI AP Jerusalem, Wednesday Israel has asked American leaders to ensure that Egypt Joins it in negotiations over the occupied Jordan River West Bank, for which it has proposed a five-year period of self-government, informed sources
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    Lock icon 30-point plan of Taraki
    76 6 UPI Islamabad (Pakistan), Wednesday Afghanistan's new President and Prime Minister Mohammad Taraki yesterday announced a 30-polnt programme for his regime, emphasising he would "strengthen the armed forces" and pledging equal rights to women In the country's life. Less than two weeks after he was installed by
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    Lock icon TODAY
    90 6 UPI TODAY 1b Wednesday. May 10. the 130 th day of 1978 with 235 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. American actor-dan-cer Fred Astalre was born on May 10, 1899. ON THIB DAY IN HISTORY: In 1871, the Treaty of Frankfurt ended
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    41 6 AP London, Wednesday British Rail's .nuch heralded high-speed train made its first recordbreaking run between London and Edinburgh on Monday. It arrived late. Work on tracks forced the diesel-powered Flying Scotsman to stop at 20 different places. AP.
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    Lock icon Pan Am wants a tough policy
    146 6 World Focus UPI Washington, Wednesday The United States should adopt a tough policy in foreign air negotiations, Including a refusal to grant any concessions to Japan until problems at Tokyo's New Narlta Airport are solved, the chairman of Pan American World Airways said yesterday.
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    Lock icon Shops closed
    29 6 UPI Teheran. Wednesday Authorities yesterday closed three universities and many traders kept their shops closed following fresh antl- government demonstrations In which two students were reported killed.—UPl.
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      475 6 WORLD WEATHER Bonn Overcast and scattered showers, 15-9C. Headline: will Cuba Intervene In Rhodesia? Paris Overcast, 1810C. Headline: Incredible escape. Rome Sunny, 7-19C. Headline: Christian Democratic leadership meets on Moro. London Little drizzle, then dry and brighter, 16-8C. Headline: Tax victory for Tories. New York Rain, t h u n
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      400 7 At last! The sporty. 1 TOR V > The new Datsun 240KGT is one of a kind. The impact is bolder, exciting. It's triggered by the low-slung, flying-wedge silhouette of the distinctively unique GT image. Massive wraparound bumper, sporty surfing lines, sharp, smartly-angled roof pillars, a long nose, bold grille
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    Cuba in Africa
    412 8 The Cubans are no longer coming. They are In Africa to stay, a political and military fact of life with which Africans and the West have to live for the foreseeable future. Despite bland promises to withdraw troops from Angola and a declaration by Cuban leader Fidel
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      Numbers game
      52 8 Those frith a yen for playing with number* may have noticed that It happened at 34 minutes past midnight on Sunday morning, and again at 34 minutes past noon dur- ing the day. And It will not happen again for 100 years. At those precise moments, It was
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      That figures?
      67 8 Members of the British National Union of Railwayman must be wishing ihlTr new booor schema* Is as simple ta fir we out. Detail* published receatly revealed: "Bonus payment will be linked to the 10- 100 pay scale with an effectiveness and quality factor geared to pay a maximum
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    CHINA TO PROVIDE THE BALANCE
    497 8  -  WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON Suddenly China Is being hailed as the great stabiliser. I was struck by the warmtk of the words which Carlos P. Romulo, the Foreign Minister of the Philippines, recently, addressed to the retiring Chinese ambassador. He went out of
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    Lock icon 'Partners' in a survival pact
    780 8 Not simply enemies, US and Russia are more like... NYT London: When B r i t a in's Chief of Defence Staff, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Neil Cameron, spoke recently in Peking of Russia as the common enemy of Britain and China,
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    Lock icon Newsmen see victims of 'mass killing'
    282 9 AFP Reuter Cassinga (Angola) Foreign journalists saw an open mass grave here packed with the decomposing bodies of 460 people who Angolan authorities said were massacred by South African troops during their attack last, week on this mining town. The dozen foreign correspondents flown
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    Lock icon Festival tragedy
    75 9 World Focus The annual Bun Festival held on Cheung Chan island, 11km off Hong Kong Island, ended In trsgedy shortly after midnight last night when two bun towers collapsed Injuring 24 people, five of them police constables. Each ban tower weighs one tonne. Helicopters this morning ferried the
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    Lock icon What spy girl found out in bed
    356 9 Inside story of ClA's Angola Reuter Washington, Wednesday What happened when the CIA woman spy Jumped into bed with the Soviet Ambassador to And out what the Kremlin was up to in Africa? Nothing absolutely nlchevo, according to a disillusioned CIA man who
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    Lock icon Sore Callaghan lashes rivals
    128 9 Reuter London, Wednesday.— After a stinging defeat in Parliament, British Prime Minister James Callaghan yesterday hit back at right-wing conservative opponents, charging them With fiscal Irresponsibility. In his first comment on the Labour government's loss of a key vote on Income tax oil Monday night, Mr
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      8 9 Voice of the Press Round-up Is on Page
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      Lock icon Romance in blue- and- white
      1390 10 / 11  -  Report by JUDITH HOLMBERG Blue and white cercmic? How could anyone be excited over a cold piece of porcelain even if it is in soothing shades of blue and white painted In a variety of intricate patterns? I was wandering among the 404 exhibits now
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      Visitors come in dribs and drabs to see porcelain
      336 10 / 11 Officials of the South-east Asian Ceramic So c 1 ety and the National Museum must be disappointed with the poor response to their exhibition of blue-and-white porcelain. Barely 70 people drop In to view the ceramic ware every day. About a
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    Mondale bouquet, Fukuda brickbat
    895 12  -  VOICE OF THE PRESS A weekly round-up off editorials in the non-English press in Singapore For the week Apr. 30' May 6 'Promise of aid mere lip service' By Lulin Reutens The SIN CHEW JIT PQH accused Japan of having paid "mere lip service" to its
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    Turns and twists in this funny robbery
    574 12  -  Cinema by Gloria Chandy SPECIAL DELIVERY Bo Svenson, Cybill Shepherd, Tom Atkins, Sorrell Booke. Directed by Paul Wendkos. Written by Don Gassanlfa. (Now at Capitol). If not for the unwritten law In the motion picture world which obliges film makers always to reveal
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      395 13 at#' <> iiifc 1 a\ fl m mm mm -*m I ti k j |Ktifi| i m m A I 1. mMMM s. i w pm**** MB L. Around the world Pepsi is associated with soccer. So what better idea than a series of Pepsi Soccer Contests here in Singapore,
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    Lock icon Hint of new tax incentives
    582 14 V v Business News and Views Congress urged not to press issue this year Washington Star Washington, Wednesday US Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal hinted on Monday that the Carter Administration in the future may propose pew tax incentives for investment. He urged Congress not to
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    Lock icon Japanese may face new criticism
    150 14 Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday. Japan's current account surplus may come under attack at the seven-na-tion non-c ommunlst summit In Bonn next July unless Japanese statistics before then show a change in the country's balance of payments trend, Finance Ministry officials said here yester--dav. But they said
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    Lock icon Warning of a trade backlash
    162 14 Reuter London, Wednesday British Trade Secretary Edmund Dell yesterday expressed concern about escalating trade protectionism and warned there was a real danger of retaliation If the European community used Its great commercial strength in ways which disregarded the Interests of its trading partners. Speaking at
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    Lock icon Money market
    392 14 UPI London, »«rThe American doilgravH changes ye«te%SSwst, i ed by hlgherlHHHM rates and proep«|te!<itf stable oil prices W.IM time being. Qold rose UB|lJ9 In Zurich and U881.378 In London to c 1 os e it U*****,125 on both bullion markets. r> The dollar HP 4n Frankfurt from Mgllfaltt.
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    Lock icon The benefits of that plan
    142 14 AP Washington, Wednesday American* living •broad may get some Bcome8 come tax breaks If a S administration move Is approved by Con cress. Mr Anthony Solomon, Under-Secretary of Treasury for Monetary Affairs, told the Senate finance committee, that these ahould include deductions for: The amount,
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    Economic briefs
    348 14 LONDON: Britain's main banks yesterday announced they were raising their interest rates In line with list Friday's 1-25 per cent rise in the Bank of England's key minimum lending rate (MLR) to 8.75 per cent. The Lloyds, Midland. Barclays and National Westminster groups said they had decided on
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    Lock icon Water bag stand-by
    53 14 Just the thing for a desert trek a water bag that serves as emergency food. It was developed by a Zurich waterworks and was put on sale in Switzerland recently. The water bag can be stored for more than five years. Now there's little likelihood of getting
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      NEW YORK
      231 14 Boeing, which received a record aircraft order, stood out yesterday In an otherwise dull market that saw Droflt takers drive stocks lower (or the second straight day amid Inflation fears. Trading was the slowest in a month as the Dow Jones industrial average, a 4.51 -point loser on
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      27 14 UPI Dow Jones closing averages on the NYBU yesterday: 30 Industrials 822.07 (off 3.81), IB utilities 104.84 (off 0.84), 58 stocks 283.78 (off 1.44). UPL
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      172 14 AFP Prices on the Tokyo stock market fell for the second straight session yesterday amid growing wait-and-see attitudes. The 225-stock DowJones average closed the day at 5446.18 yen, a drop of 36.39 yen from Monday. Yesterday's Dow Indicator was the lowest since last April 13 when It stood at
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      PARIS
      65 14 Closing prices on the Puis Bourse yesterday: Parlbaa IN 2 Fonder 334 1 Prlntemps 70 a Bull 3fi 0.15 Mtchelln 1444 34 COB 357 5.50 Thomson 1M 4 CUP 1M 0.10 Rhone 90.80 1.70 AIR 299 7.50 BSN 473 11 Philips 54.45 0.85 Sues 373 8 PcugeotCttroen 385 —11
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      Lock icon ZURICH
      84 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Cloning prices on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday UBS Bearer 2915 5 UBS Registered 640 3 SBC 360 10 Credit Suisse 3105 35 Swissair B 805 It Swiss Relnaur. 3820 ft Wlnterthur B. 3050 4ft Zurich Insur. 0100 3ft Juvena B. 170 unch. Nestle' B.
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      SYDNEY
      78 14 Prices at 1130 a.m. (Australian time) on the 8ydney Stock Exchange: ACI 175 1T» ADC 30 nil Ampol Pet TV SO ff Anl 190 nil AMP 113 134 Bulk NSW Ml 634 BnunMes 1M nU BHP «U 663 Boral 330 all CBA nil 340 C8R 393 3*4 CIO 3M
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      Sasa must revive diving
      342 15  -  It has been neglected for too long SHAN CHEE HOONG There has been a growing concern among Singapore Amateur Swimming Association officials over the, lack of divers to participate In regional swimming championships We missed the diving events during the last Sea Games and It's likely
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      Support League matches
      218 15  -  EE SIEW LEONG Ever since the Malaysia Cup competition fever caught on, the attendance at the National Stadium has been fantastic.. And so when tickets go on sale, you'll see scores of fans lining up as early as 4.30 a.m. or even earlier. But why Is there
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      FAS should expand Lion City tourney
      143 15  -  VICTOR WEE The FAS have shown much concern for the republic's soccer future. The Lion City Cup (or mini-Malaysia Cup) is certainly a good start for the promotion of youth soccer In Singapore. But the Singapore "A" (and even "B") team's standard is far
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      Flash in the pan?
      292 15 AIM FOR MERDEKA The excellent performance of the Singapore second team In the King's Cup In Bangkok must be highly appreciated. The fact that our boys reached the final clearly Indicates that our second team have improved considerably. However, the second team should not be swell-headed
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      Time to axe the old guards
      111 15  -  Miss M.T. CHUNG Congratulations to our Intermediate soccer team for their recent showing In the Thai King's Cup. So It's high time our national coaches axe some of the first team regulars and Inject new blood Into the team. Our national side have long
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    Newcomers impress
    571 16  -  Wisnu looks ready for a winning debut ON THE TRACK with Brian Miller Trainer Osman Sarimin's newcomer, Wisnu IV, has the speed to score first time out when he goes over 1200 m in Sunday's Class 4 Div 1 sprint. Sent out for work by Jockey M.C. Lam,
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    Sentosa title to Nellie Chin
    178 16 HEEZ Nellie Chin (handicap 16) of Singapore Island Country Club won the "A" MwWon of the Sentosa women's Open Day competition on countback from Helen Tan (Sentosa-lS) when ne returned a nett 76 yesterday. Third was M. Shir a yama (BICC-17) on countback from June
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    Zainnudin, Daniel pull out of team
    109 16 Two of the seven players selected by the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association to defend the Chua Choon Leong Cup lnter-state competition scheduled in Penang on June 1-4 will have to be replaced. They are Zalnnudln Ishak, who Is getting married during the first week
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    Icelandic triumphs
    83 16 London, Wednesday. Icelandic, ridden to perfection by Christy Roche, cave Ireland's Paddy Prendergast his fourth victory in the Chester Vase yesterday. Ernie Johnson on Hawaiian Sound set a tremendous gallop In the 2400 m race, the English Derby distance, and was still going strong when the three-year-olds entered
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    Judy joins squad...
    222 16  -  j^^^Badminton By BRIAN MILLER Judy Lee and Leone Poh Chou will Join the 81 n c a Pore badminton squad preparing for the World championships scheduled in Bangkok in October. Both these schoolgirls have shown recent form In overseas as well as domestic tournaments and their inclusion
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    Over 100 for Jurong Open
    372 16 Over 100 golfers have entered for the first Jurong women's Open championship on Friday: Ist tee. 7.45 a.m. J. Murray (1-12) J. Kennon (1 12) C. Bosley (1-10); 7.51 J. Keen (W-17) M. Moffa (1-14) M. Hlrayama (1-17); 7.57 —Joan Tan (1-28) A.J. Bernard (W-24)
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      549 16 Cut out and pjn with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss.): Address: N.R.I.C. No: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUIS BILOW i bb mmm mmm CUt CLUES FOR GF-3 1. Assail with blows 2. In time of distress, they will at least help to keep ana warm
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    Cagers, fans assault ref
    325 17  -  Basketball By TONY KOH Two Fourseas players and some spectators lasi mgnt assaulted one oi tne referees alter their National basketDaii League match against •Singapore ticnools at tue Gay world Stadium. fortunately tor reierce Wong Tnlam Thong, it was the timely intervention by other Fourseas players
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    Koon Siong breaks C-Games standard
    327 17  -  HHweightlifting By PHILIP TAN F e atherweight Chua Koon Siong has bettered the second place qualifying mark set by the Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation for the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton Canada, from Aug 3 to 12. The trials were held on May 2 and Koon
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    Jeremy, Peter up for award
    680 17  -  Gul returns to train S'pore team for Karachi meet SQUASH bv Eric Cooper Jeremy Yeo and Peter Hill will be nominated by the Singapore Squash Rackets Association for the first "Sportsboy of the Year" award. This was the result of their brilliant performances at the
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      399 17 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a natural diplomat. You know how to speak your mind without ruffling feathers, how to say no while seeming to say yes, and how to say yes when seeming not to commit yourself. You are not especially intuitive but
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      286 17 Crossword 1 7 Salver 8 Way to carry a gun 9 Electrify 10 Metrical foot 11 Brood: Bp. 12 Deborah of movies 15 Designate 17 Old hanging 21 Marker 23 Oladal ridges 25 Stow 20 Eastern church Items 27 Reslh glue 28 One of three wise men 29 Embankment 30
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    UEFA Cup to PSV
    134 18 E%9 Soccer Eindhoven, Wednesday PSV Eindhoven (Holland) won the UEFA Cup last night when they beat Bastla (France) 3-0 in the second-leg match final here. The Dutch attacked from the start, determined to get the goals they were unable to produce In the raln-aodden goalless draw
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    Tampines set to win again
    250 18 First Division leaders Tamplnes Rovers are fancied to maintain their winning run in the League when they tackle Kakl Buklt tonight at the Jalan Besar Btadlum (kickoff 8 p.m.). The star studded Tamplnes team have the experience to ecore their fourth win. although Kakl Buklt
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    Wembley may be our undoing
    733 18  -  So Liverpool must remain cool to beat Bruges EMLYN HUGHES If there's one thing which worries me about Liverpool's chances of beating Bruges of Belgium tonight's European Cup final, It Is that the match will be at Wembley. For me. the fact that this will
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    Fernandez blames forwards
    263 18  -  Soccer By SURESH NAIR Queens town bitterly regretted their failure to secure maximum points after being held to a 1-1 draw by Sembawang In a First Division match at Jurong last night. They played above themselves, grabbed a morale boosting early lead, but then conceded a "gift"
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    Yusof's late goal saves Farrer
    194 18  -  By PHILIP TAN Farrer Park United played to a draw for the fourth time In as many matches when they were held 1-1 by Toa Payoh in the First Division soccer League at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. Farrer Park were In fact heading for
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      Lock icon Ringo: No more yesterday
      859 19 'But we are still good friends' UPI Holly wood: Rlngo Starr said It loud and clear: "I don't want the Beatles to get back together again for a concert or an album or anything else. And neither do the others." The apparent determination of Rlngo, John
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      Homesick Osmonds move to Utah
      305 19  -  By Judith Holmberg The Donny and Marie Show has moved from the cold, heartlessness of Los Angeles where the last series was filmed, to the Osmonds' own studios In Utah. The teeny-boppers, who have won the hearts of many here, shifted because they were homesick.
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      1037 19 the cinema and around town ONE ON ONE: Lido: 4.45, 4, 6.45 and 9.ldp.u*. (Last Pay). THE SOUL OF THE BWOBD (Mandarin): The martial arts Instructor of a feudal lord's palace make* a name for himself as a masked swordsman who never loses a duel. A young boy who sees
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      110 19 6.00 A.M Opening Announcement* and Programme Summary 6.05 Morning Prelude 6.30 News <E> 6.40 Morning Concert: Symphony No. 2 In Op. 43 (Sibelius), Leo/ tlnement (Ibert), P a r 11 Conservatoire Orch Jean Martlnon, Sonata No. 27 Op. 00 (Beethoven), Priedrich Oulda (piano) 6.00 News (C) 8.10 A Date with
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    Talking Point
    58 20 AH FOOK: Smokers who would like to kick the habit will get their chance when the Singapore Cancer Society launches ita campaign. MEI LIN: The campaign Is fine for those who are willing, but no amount of campaigning will help those who do not cnoose to give up
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      875 20 TV AND RADIO <§ SINGAPORE 5 EnterJELEFU N KEN Ho,iday Contest IN OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SWING HIGH LATERNS. This film depicts the traditional Lantern Festival In Aldta, an old city In northern Japan. More than 2000 people take part In the festival and teams compete, with lanterns to display
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      231 20 Today's top shows KALAI DEEPAM (Ch. 8, 7.30 p.m.). Features songs by Jeyabal, Rajagopal, bridharan, Balasubra manlam, Veerasagary, Yokambikai, Christina, Dass, Francis Ret nam, a dance from Sarathanbah. The Febra Music Party led by Krishna Samy provides the musical accompaniment. SONGS ALIVE (Ch. 5, 7.55 p.m. In colour). The song
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