New Nation, 28 May 1978

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  • 10 1 Sunday Nation MAY 28, 1978 30 CENTS M.C.(P) NO. 217/1/71
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 31 1 Princess whose fairy tale didn't come true Page 10 Lost And Found Page 8 PM raps schools' use hands campaign Story in Page 2 Ban games of mixed sexes Page 9
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    • 98 1 Specialists in sports equipment accessories and leisure wear. 655 RJertariQS 23 Orchard Boulevard Singapore 10. \JfAsian beauties: The eyes have it In THE ASIA MAGAZINE Reds who are like white ants and mistletoe Page 2 Rosmaini, the Shah of football Back Page Lively Natural Hair with Kao Herbal Shampoo Kao
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  • 450 2  -  By Teo Lian Huay rpHS Prime Minis- ter, at the end of a tour of two schools yesterday, said they were going about the Use Your Hands Campaign In a way that was divorced from the real lives of most schoolchildren. He called for
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  • 36 2 DR WONO MINO YANO. wife of the Prime Minister's eldest son, Lee Hsien Loong, holds a Master of Arts and an ILB.A Chlr (Ohlruneon) equivalent to'an M.8.8.8. Trie error last week Is regretted.
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  • 107 2 THE Labour Minister, lfr One Pang Boon, yesterday said the National Wages Council may have to taxe into account the wage disparities between white collar and manual workers In lta recommendations this year. He noted that last year's recommendations were more in favour of
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  • 232 2 NST r[S MP for Menglembu, Mr Fan Yew Teng, has resigned from the DAP in an apparent clash with party leaders over Its stapd regarding the Singapore Government. In a letter dated May 18 to DAP secretary-gen-eral Llm Kit Slang, Mr Fan said his
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  • 97 2 AP TOIVE armed women ■F broke Into West Berlin's Moablt prison yesterday and freed a suspected terrorist on trial for his alleged part In the murder of a senior judge. Police said the women used their firearms to free Till Meyer, one of six accused men In the
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  • 94 2 riE Singapore Polytechnic is to introduce a new course to train engine drivers for hometrade ships. There would be 40 stu dents each for both Class One and Two of the course, announced acting principal Khoo Kay Chsl at the Polytechnic's orientation for new students
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  • 166 2 AN EARLY morning fire destroyed two helicopters worth $5 million at the OenUng Highlands Tours and Promotion helipad at Jalan Segamout In Gentlng Highlands yesterday. Police believed It was caused by a short-circuit. Deputy CID Chief (Investigations) Supt. 8. Kulaslngam said: "We do not
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  • 261 2 NST Home lHj Minister, Tan Sri Ghasall Shafle, yesterday revealed a new strategy to light the communist terrorists to Infiltrate Into their organisations. "There is no other way to win the war against the communists except to Join them, to Infiltrate Into their organisations."
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 51 2 Reuter MILITARY authorities have ordered an all-out drive against Maoist guerillas In northern Philippines at a time when the rebels are believed to be disorganised and demoralised. Intelligence reports on the demoralisation among rebels ranks are based on the killing or capture of several guerillas In recent
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    • 64 2 AP MORE than one-third of Thailand's yearly budset for government projects Involving bidding has been waited by unnecessary paperwork and manpower, the secretary general of the anti-cor-ruption committee, Suthee Arkasrerk, said yesterday In Bangkok. He said the government could save at least 60 million baht ($7
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    • 48 2 Reuter THE Umno Youth Movement Is almost certain to get a new leader, political in Kuala Lumpur said. The sources said this followed the acceptance of nomination to contest the post or leader of Umno Youth by Datuk Syed Nanar, one of Umno's Supreme Council members.—Reuter
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    • 56 2 Reuter FIRE-FIGHTERS were yesterday trying to put out a big oil well blaze In southwest Iran which killed five Iranian technicians and two American engineers and injured 20 others. The blaze started after a pipeline burst on Wednesday during repairs to a well near Ahvax, spewing
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    • 63 2 Reuter THE United Btates considers Malaysia a country which offers very favourable conditions tor foreign investment, us Ambassador to Malaysia Robert Miller said yesterday. Speaking at an airport news conference before his return to Kuala Lumpur after a threeday visit to Sarawak, Mr Miller said Investment
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    • 63 2 AFP PAS is expected to field between 90 and 100 candidates for Parliament and about 230 candidates for the state assemblies In the coming general election. Its secretary-general, Hajl Hassan Shukrl, said more than 30 per cent of the candidates were new faces who were
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    • 33 2 Reuter A TEAM of Philippine officials has arrived In Sabah for talks with Malaysian authorities on Joint action against frequent pirate attacks In the Bulu Sea between the two countries.
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    • 66 2 MADAM HELEN TAY IM NEO Aged *2 paaaed away peacefully on 26/8/78 Leaving behind foster-son Dennis Ooh, daughter Charlotte Low, 2 daughter-In-laws, 7 grand-sons, 8 granddaughters, 2 grand-son-ln-laws, 1 grand-daughter-in-law, 1 great grand-son and 1 great grand-daughter. Cortege leaving 408, Joo Chiat Road, at I pm on Sunday, 28th May
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 49 2 LEARN THE PROPER TECHNIQUES OF HAIRDRESSING AND BEAUTYCARE PERSONAL TUITION FOR LADIES AND MEN. Ladies Halrdressing 3) Beauty Culture Barbtrinf 4) Refresher Courses Cmtms cefMMKkig km 7 1971 For further dotoilt, tol:*****51 Brilliant) Scteeief MHre6^&tScau6?Gutourc Unit 185, fit floor. International Plom, J Anton Rood, S'poro 2 (Clom on Monday)
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 282 3 Book Now. No restrictions to foreigners. 90% loan available up to 20 years at very low interest rate. Selling Price from $95,000/• Only 10% down. No further payment until handing over of apartment LOCATION: Along Upper Ayer Rajah Road, near University of Singapore —10 minutes drive from Jurong Town. 20
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  • 179 4 AT LEAST ISO Singaporeans have booked seats on coaches to Kuala Lumpur for the Malaysia Cup final match on June 10. aTthough It Is still not known whether the national team will make it to the flnaL One travel agent said he
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  • 202 4 AP ACTOR Lee Marvin has filed a UBII million ($2.3 million) lawsuit against his six-year com- anion, Michelle Triola larvln, In their unusual property rights dispute. In his countersult, Marvin asked (or compensation for "services rendered" during the time the couple lived
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  • 160 4 Agencies CHINA, in an escalating dispute with Its communist neighbour, Is sending a fleet of ships to rescue Chinese fleeing from Vietnam, officials In Peking announced yesterday. The official New China News Agency said the announcement by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, was
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  • 282 4 Drama festival to highlight N-Day joy A DRAMA festival, the first of its kind in Singapore, will highlight this year's National Day celebrations. A statement by the cultural activities section of the Ministry of Culture said the drama festival Is aimed at providing an opportunity for local
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  • 132 4 Reuter rK new Soviet smbassador to Malaysia, Mr Boris Bullk, yesterday told the Tang Dtpertuan Agong, the elected king, that the Soviet Union Intended to promote actively the .security of a«ift Presenting his credentials at toe National Palace In Kuala Lumpur, Mr Bullk said
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  • 152 4 rIE Dutch government has appointed a new ambassador to 81nga pore, after their former envoy left under a cloud of mystery. The new ambassador Is Mr wmem Charles Sngfl Alexander De Vries, a lawyer by train ing, who presented his credentials to President Sheares at
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 65 4 &L&m i». Leap Into a pair of JAGUAR BRIEFS (Available in 5 exciting colours) Made of the finest 100% cotton Jersey, for unexcelled coolness and lasting quality Shaped and styled for maximum comfort and support Beige, cream, red, blue, rust Sizes: 28,30,32,34,36,38,40 Obtainable at all leading department stores, men's wear
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 436 4 In and around town PARACHUTING, weather permitting, at Changl Airfield, Upper Chanel Road, 8 ajn. to 2 pjn. Every Sunday. POLK DANCING, at the Sentosa Folk Dance* Centre (opposite the roller skating rlpk), 11 a.m. to 1 pjn. Every Sunday. Call Ur Um Sen* Kok, *****0. for details. ACTION THRILUER:
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  • 136 5 CEMETERY fees and sewage treatment plant maintenance fees will be increased from June 1 according to a Ministry of Environment statement. The Increases range from $1 to <57. Burial fees for Muslim cemeteries will be $10 for the grave of a chUd under
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  • 121 5 Reuter rE ROYAL Thai Air Force's first order of eight US-bullt F-5E flghter-bombers arrived In Bangkok on Friday, a spokesman (or the air force said yesterday. The twin-Jet "warplanes, the first of the two squadrons ordered by the air force two years ago, arrived in
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  • 293 5 US, France express their support for trouble states Reuter AFP rpHE presidents ol A the United States and France on Friday called for concerted action with African countries to promote security and development in the conflict-ridden continent. The two leaders made this statement of support for
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  • 192 5 UPI AP After years of violent demonstrations at Tokyo's controversial new International airport, a non-violent problem has cropped up at the remote facility now that it has opened Airport officials report that some arriving passengers, unable to find their way from the airEort to downtown
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  • 123 5 OINGAPORE are not the only ones concerned with bnildlnf a garden city. Frajsi-Karl Huber of LUlenthal. West Germany, was "bored with the clean monotony of our street. So I chatted things over with local artists and painters. The result yon can see." "My
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  • 209 5 Reuter QOVIET Foreign Minister w Andrei Oromyko said on Friday it was now possible to resolve the remaining Issues blocking agreement with the United States on strategic arms limitation. On the eve of his talks on the subject In Washington with President
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  • 131 5 UPI Anew jkrsky rice exporer has been Indicted on federal charge# that he Illegally used South Korean businessman Tongsun Park aj his agent in food foi peace sales. Orover Connell, president of the connell Rice and Sugar Co. inc.. of Westlleld. New Jersey,
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 240 6 COMMENT The Singapore girl la sometimes not quite the self-confident Jet-setting woman of the world she may nave been made out to be. Samaritans of Singapore deputy director Janice Tan recently observed at an International symposium that attempted suicide was a predominantly female phenomenon here,
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  • 851 6 Lindsay Mackie on how those Middle East books are written rrHE Arabs and their world are a prime publishing topic today, as any look at a book list will show. Recently arrived •in London or Just aoout to come are books on Arab
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 160 6 TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. TODAY'S FASHION. THE LADY SEIKO SPORTS WATCH. A Lady S«lko sports watch offers many advanced features that until today were found chiefly in men's watches, Including self-winding, day/date calendar, sweep second hand and water resistance. They're the features today's active women demand in a watch. Not only do
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 260 7  -  GLORIA CHANDY I DO sympathise with the organisers of the Miss Singapore Charity Queen quest who are finding It difficult to tempt enough girls Into taking part. But as one organiser mentioned, it seems that the girls prefer to win a title the
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  • 106 7 r|NE traveller who Ire quently makes trips in and out of the country has a suggestion how our dial-the-time service, could be more helpful. Instead of those annoying slogans that come on when we dial for the time, why not tell us the
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  • 206 7 rE Botik of Lists (by David Wallechlnsky, Amy Wallace and Irving Wallace), currently on sale has been providing some very amusing and informative bed time reading for me lately. US disc jockey Dr Demento's list of the 10 worst song titles of all time offers
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  • 103 7 this was one salesgirl who was really dead set on living up to her name. She was going to make a sale if it killed her. She shadowed me all around the store with suggestions. Why didn't I buy that tee-shirt, it was cheap, only $54.
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  • 310 7  -  TAN TAI WEI Lecturer, Institute of Education, Singapore 9. REFER to last Sun--1 day's report on my paper delivered at the symposium on education for the environment. The main point I was trying to make In the two paragraphs you reported on (which occurred at
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • Article, Illustration
    1989 8  -  It was apparent lo them that the child was deaf and they were sure he would grow up to be a mute BY ALBAN KANG T*HE clouds grew 1 ominously dark and a wind blew up. It was Just the kind of weather to make you spend
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  • 482 9  -  FOR CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE OTHER KIND? If you ask me... By Eu Choon Long ANE Saturday, at the National Stadium netball pitches, I saw one of the strangest netball games I've ever seen. From a distance I thought two foreign teams were playing
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  • 365 9  -  M. CHOO T HAVE this sense of loyalty which often makes me overlook the shortcomings of Singaporeans. I have thus always been quick to defend our people despite their many Idiosyncrasies, one of which was highlighted by K.S. Kang In
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 90 9 IF YOU have something to say which you think oar readers would Uke to know why not pat it on paper and send II to us. We welcome contributors to this column. Articles can be on any subject hat should preferably be opinion pieces of about SH words each. They
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    • 46 9 At Shangri-La's rr JJOTp WlfJSjl i! DANCE, DANCE, DANCE TO THE GREAT SOUNDS OF i Si A- 0 AMD HIS X-PERI/*U NT .Singapore s top swing-with-it bdnd ALSO STARRING The sensational A DISCOVERY L %r, ft A.. V Shangri La nvherf ti T*l 37JM4 a <s
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  • 1534 10/11 FROM THE DAY SHE PUT DUTY BEFORE LOVE, MARGARET HAS RARELY FOUND HAPPINESS OHE was the prettiest English princess born this century. She was the fairy-tale princess who won the hearts of millions of Britons. Her name, appropriately, was Margaret Rose. Her sister,
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 1132 12 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullou f v PICK OF THE WEEK B«rti VogtvcapUin of the West German team Soccor: World Cup 1978 on Friday on Ch 5 at 1.30 am in COLOUR. RTS will telecast eight matches to be played in Argentina. Three will be live via satellite: Opening
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    • 172 12 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS 'f' .«> A < -v. m Mcrdi Om (Sunday Matinee) on Ch 5 at 10.45 am in COLOUR Stiff army discipline and military precision are maintained at Virginia Military Institute until Cadet Collins (Gary Crosby) decides to hold a raffle. The winner will 90 to the annual Mardi
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 229 13 EPITAXIAL is the name of a superfine magnetic particle developed by Maxell: a needle-shaped crystal consisting of gamma-hematite and cobalt-ftrrite. Both UD-Xd. and UD-XLH use the New EPITAXIAL H<w»v*r t in the EPITAXIAL used in the UO-XLO, a larger amount of cobalt ferrite is used to envelope the gamma-hematite core
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 878 13 MONDAY HMltUatflMUii A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open LOS SIRUVAR ULAGAM (T/r). With a sketch entitled, Laziness Doesn't Pay. 3.30 DIARY OP IVINTS (T) 3.35 Afternoon Matinee Ciuny Brown (Pt 1). Cupid's arrow smites the heart of a lord when a pretty housemaid turns mechanic to repair some
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 118 14 The Super Boy (The Big Boy in dashing Console) KV-2020ES Sony's 20" (51. Bcm) New Trinitron colour tv system with 60% brighter and sharper plus instant picture make him the best colour tv system in town. warranty >24 months' cover for free labour >24 months' cover for all parts >24
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 822 14 WEDNESDAY A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 THI BEVERLY HILLBILLIES: Wo44in« Plant (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENYS (M) 3.35 BONANZA: A Matter Of Circumstance. Little Joe is seriously injured when a skittish horse kicks him. 4.25 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 December Bride: Mother-In-Law Club 6.30 NEWS IN
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 146 15 KISMMSCiII r-2001P COLOUR TV I *I^l^« ■M-i v t\,. v.< v energy saving chassis nntinta caDinn s," v, mh, > ■•■siV'-< t*V LULIi ME I CO SALES SINGAPORE PT t. LTD (SUBSIDIARY OF MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC JAPAN I 203 Manna Home, /U, Shonion Way 2 Tol 2214t>11 A NEW STANDARD OF
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 970 15 FRIDAY A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03. Housewives' Matinee: Vengeance Of The Snow-Maid (r) 'Mandarin film. 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open Of EXERCISE WITH GLORIA 30 NEWS IN MIKF 6.95 THI TONY RANDALL SHOW: The P«op4« Spook. Judge Franklin and a veteran judge, who has been on tne
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    • 171 16 iou wtee aA oily' CdILP. weeNT tiu V GYte/P/ Mie. flor rteei VIA* nlOlHiniG i 1 COOiV DO v AOOUT IT > •6fc*U i diOIQ vrtirre nte Mrtee.GiW? mm i ~uT Q t m y_ r£ i I K I tUM. P. BROOJN and ML CA6SON 2% I > l/i
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  • Page 17 / 18 Advertisements
    • 91 17 / 18 HAVE INVADED SINGAPORE! \T.w* «v<\ m€Gocc*f M M From all leading stores and toy shops The Micronauts the latest in toys and accessories are now in Singapore. Wildly imaginative visitors that are guaranteed to fire any child's creativity and imagination. Of rugged construction, perfectly safe and inter-adaptable; these fantastic toys
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    • 78 17 / 18 214/215, 2nd Fl., Lucky Plaza, Orchard Road, Singapore 9. Telephone: *****03. Think of what Toy Town can do for your kid, for his pre-school days, his young and developing mind. Take him for a trip here. Let him browse through the Toyshop and Hobby Centre. Let him eye the range
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  • Page 17 / 18 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 148 19 Special sale of world leading golf clubs: One putter worth $150 will be given free for every full set purchased between now and 30/6/78. Offer is subject to stocks of putters being available. Free gifts will be given for every purchase. Lynx Confident# Hanma Pin® Uvdw Pinaaafcar MaxHi Max paw
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    • 29 19 TIME LIFE 3 ■»v* *>. .<* St a 1 VAt HSI- +>% THf X* •f- i"E MAMiyiAt S if Ufa jfj r. .wr 4 ?>£«• *Y stp distributors son bhd TFL <?3bl?88 37l?l
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 300 19 GARTH if 7 AFTER SLAVING ALL DRV OVER R HOT STOVE, THEY GET RATHER TtfttD' WE ARE TME DOMINANT SEX ON VOLT ERR A.' MEN HAVE ONLY ONE IMPORTANT ROLE LEFT- RNO THEY ARE FAILING IN TH*T.' VF 1 /I TWO GENERATIONS AGO THE WOMEN TOOK CONTROL OP THIS PLANET
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  • 337 20 A pair of jaded ears rates those jingles Oil Ihe Record by CRT tIfHAT is it two out of three, four out of Ave blinking ads on TV try to do with some neo-Mendelssohnic incidental music? Not every bit is "unbearably
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  • 839 20 HUMOUR with IT'S a recurring Each time I return from leave of office I never fall to fall to musing on alternative career opportunities. Que sera sera. Chalk and Jean Brodle or plas ter and Florence Nlßht-*
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 112 20 MHPOIO67B Your Complexion From today you can have a beautiful complexion clear, soft smooth with WEST CABOT'S VITAMIN E CREME Imported from U.S.A. Join the thousands of women using this luxurious moisturising creme because it's more than just another cosmetic cream. Super-saturated with 14,000 units of vitamin E it moistens,
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  • 1233 21  -  roos By Rebecca Akerib manageress AH, WOW! Here I am at last! Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The 24-hour gambling den of the world. Here I shall meet the elite, the cream of society and some of the skimmed milk
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 143 21 Do you have a travel tale to tell? Here'* 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 ean be a travelogue type story or Just a little Incident
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  • 742 22  -  By Ivan Fernandez TH E irrepressible Carry On movie series will be turning 30 soon and may not be carrying on for very long after that. Number 30 Is to be called Carry On Emmanuelle and unless this can lure cinema
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  • 436 22  -  How to let go and stand alone By Tan Bah Bah fIJIDI Conn can act. YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE (now showing at Orchard) is her film. Now the scatterbrained assistant of Danny Thomas (of the TV medical situation comedy series, The
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 91 22 Whai tastes iike Lemon candy and has tots Alois of Vumnins Alffineiats? VIDAYUN-M Mothari! Did you knowthat? OW you know that ViDaylm-M l« toman flavoured mufti Vitamin/mineral lyrup tpecially prepared for growing children? And it tana* IHca candy. You might hava to periuade your chikfran to taka their bathi or
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    • 49 22 1, /j I CAFETERIA at Lucky Plaza SELF SERVICE FAST FOOD TAKEAWAY ICECREAM Eating the self service way is fun for the family New in Singapore Business from 8 a.m. to midnight Mezzanine Floor, Lucky Plaza, 304 Orchard Road, Singapore 9. Tel: *****36 *****20 i y* r t ipn <
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  • 932 23 His first novel originally sold three copies. His mother bought one, his wife bought one, and so did he The Book Page Guardian INTERESTED In 1 best-sellers? Forget Harold Robbins. Remember Sidney Sheldon. In Amer 1 c a Sheldon's written "four
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  • 577 23  -  JEAN'S WAY. By Derek Humphry. Quartet, 1978. £4.95. By Janet Watts Guardian HEREK Humphry helped his wife to kill herself. It was at her request, by a mutual agreement settled months before, and In giving her a lethal drug overdose he was
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  • 738 23  -  JACK. A Biography of Jack London by Andrew Sinclair. We i d en f eld and Nicolson, 1978. 297 pp, £6.95. By Alex Josey pi 1913 Jack London 1 was the highestpaid, best-known and most popular writer In the world. He was an American, the Illegitimate
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 63 23 DRAGON PHOENIX RESTAURANT Block 26, Outram Park, Singapore. Tal *****88 ft *****29 1 i 4 Earthorn Pot Spocial Chillie Crab Spring Chic k en Delicious Yam Pot Hot Plate Deer Meat Live Fresh Fish Quick Lunch $3/' per person. We cater for Birthday Wedding Parties, buffet lunches and private functions.
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  • Sports Nation starts on this page
    • 134 24 UPI EX-CONVICT BoDDy Halpern's rln? comeback Is over. Alter being gunned down In what e)lice call a "hit," doers said on Friday the fight now 1s for his life. The 45-year-old Hal- pern, who 17* years in state prisons on robbery and kidnapping charges,
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    • 78 24 AFP STARTING 33rd and last in the fastest model In the history of automobile racing, Mario Andrettl, the present leader of this season's Formula One Grand Prix chamElonshlp, will today at;mpt to win his second Indianapolis 500. He will drive a supercharged Penske-Cos worth capable of
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    • 74 24 AFP MASONS and electricians have been lnstal ling 305 television sets one for each cell in the Perugia city prison In time for the June 1 kick-off of the 1978 World Cup soccer finals in Argentina, reported the Corriere Delia Sera dally In Rome
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    • 41 24 Reuter ENGLAND Under-21 soccer defender Paul Futcher, who plays forLuton Town In the English League's Second Division, will Join First Division Manchester City for a 'fee of £350,000 ($1.47 million) on June 1, his club announced on Friday.—Reuter.
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    • 610 25 INSIDE TRACK »|*IRTY" basket- ball players In Singapore are having a field day. If the Basketball Association of Singapore do not take action against them and soon the game may degenerate into a game for hooligans which will be shunned by sportsmen When the
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    • 759 25  -  Peter Lo T»HE Police Lions haa their egos bruised last Thursday evening' when they were beaten 3-2 by fourth position holders, Tang 11 n Club. In fact they were lucky not to have lost by a wider margin as their No. 2, Stewart Ballard, only Just
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    • 722 25 EXPATS' CORNER UPI Reuter UPI UPI AP JOHN DENNY fired a two-hitter and Ted Simmons stroked a two-run single that snapped the St Louis Cardinals' 11 game National Baseball League losing streak on Wednesday night with a 2-0 victory over the Montreal Expos. Denny, upplng his record
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    • 561 26  -  Lim Kok Ann A LEXANDER ALE* KHINE who won the world chess title from Capablanca In 1027, is considered by many to be the first of the great chess players of the modern era. Around the turn of the century, a revolution In cheaa theory gave rise
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    • 445 26  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh ASIA ELECTRIC and Singapore Airlines are the only two teams to keep a clean slate in the revamped Basketball Association of Singapore Super League now in progress at the Oay World Stadium (May 6 June 4). Asia scored five century wins In
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    • 283 26  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng OINGAPORE'S racewalkers have a busy programme for the season: eight league races, five Allcomers, and several other competitions. Hie current Individual league is divided into three sections namely, veterans, men and women. Scoring is based on the road-running system where the
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    • 713 27  -  TENUIS TALK Alfred Tong TOHE Chua ChooA Leong Cup, which Singapore snatched last year after years of fruitlessly grasping at It, looks likely to return across the Causeway when this weekend is over. The Singapore team—minus last year's matchwinner Mahader Hassan —travel up to Penang
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    • 60 27  -  The Teaching Pro By Don J. Leary Bifcoi Bay CWb Newport BckN C« 1. Save your gambling shots for when you're way ahead and want to put opponent away with dash. 2. If behind or off balance the odds are against the big hit. Play safe, try
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    • 1131 28 Eric Batty concludes his World Cup Spotlight series \fOBT critics are AT giving Tunisia and Iran no chance In the World dup, but If Iran are clearly not going to win the trophy, there seems to be every possibility that they will do well In
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    • 381 28 WMIt SOCCER BRAZILIAN mana- ger Claudlo Coutinho made two significant changes to his World Cup squad after their recent European tour. Coutlnho dropped Tarclso and Romeu and brought in winger Ze Sergio, defender Chlcow ana goal scoring ace Roberto. Ze Sergio is the cousin of team
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    • 1142 29  -  By Cynthia Bateman Guardian VJIS father had al- ways said chess was a series of horizons; the club games an horizon beyond the family player, the world championships so many horizons beyond the Inklings of most people. For Nigel Short that last horizon came
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    • 515 29 UPI rpHEY haven't put a roof on the spanking new Commonwealth stadium, but unlike Montreal's still unfinished Olympic stadium, that was the way it was designed There were no strikes, no delays, no skyrocketing costs. The 42,400-seat stadium was built in a
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    • 306 30 Larry gaetjens Will be remembered for just two things the goal which gave the United States a sensational 1-0 win against England in the 1950 World Cup at Belo Horizonte, and the mysterious manner of his death 20 years later in the sinister Papa Doc land
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    • 260 30  -  Joyce Tan CIXTEEN teams fought tooth and nail last weekend for the remaining eight places In the second round of the interconstituency netball tournament. Bedok and Marine Parade fought a close match before Bedok won by 19-17. In their earlier encounter Bedok beat Marine
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    • 296 30  -  Ernest Frida OELETAR Golf Club have Introduced stiff penalties in a move against commercial hand icappers. In a circular sent out last month, the club's green committee said: "handicap cuts In competition will be effective for six months Instead of three months. "In the case of
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    • 371 30  -  Brian Miller Singapore's National Under-23 team performed shabbily at last week's Malaysian Hockey Federation's tournament at Malacca. They finished fifth in the six-state competition. They won only one game, drew two and lost the remaining two surely the worst display by any Singapore hockey
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    • 872 30 THE GENERAL, A well handled by Mohamed A r 1 i t In, scored a smashing win in Race Five at Ipoh yesterday. The Lord Oayle•four-year-old, running well up fourth at the home turn, hit the front at the distance and raced away to
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    • 87 30 History was made at the fifth sale of the Malaysian -bred yearlings held at the Ipoh race coarse yesterday when a record $28,tM was paid for a chestnut colt by Benroy (late Man of Honour) oat of Yarborough. The previous highest bid of 18,500 was paid
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    • 286 31  -  He can make it three off the reel By Scrutineer fO NAP on AYLMER ROAD in the $80,000 Perak Derby (Race 4) run over 2400m at Ipoh today. He looks a cut above his rivals, and should prove too good for them. The American-bred four-year-old
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    • 116 31 I In '-'"HiJ j BRIAN MILLER FAIBWAY K. L CHAN llklnf to R'mfmbrr Kampong Melayu Chasclnefc Peimlnat s thine To Beawmber Permlnat Sthlng To Renumber Kampong Mclayu Race X: Cbye Chin Rich Spoils Sound Maulana Risfcig Tower Rich Spoil* Chye Chin Rich Spoils KMC 1: 8aa■ Pee Generous Bid
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    • 564 32 He is the only footballer to receive award from Pahang ruler SPORTS NATION "pOSMAINI hardly seems a fitting name Tor a soccer striker who is arguably as great as Mokhtar Dahari. Pahang football coach ishak Talb said yesterday: "While Mokhtar is dynamic and powerful, Rosmaini is
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    • 535 32  -  By Philip Tan SINGAPORE should qualify tonight for the final of the Malaysia Cup, but It will be foolish to expect a repeat of the 1976 semifinal played nere when Singapore crushed Pahang 6-0. It will be a tight game, and the best Singapore can hope
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    • 108 24 Sports SOCCER: Malaysia Cup (second-leg semifinals) Singapore v Pahang (National Stadium, 7.30 p.m.). National Division Two League—B. Panjang v S. Gardens (RSAF Tengah). Division Three— T Pagar v Tlong Bahru (Glouceste; Barracks), Commonwealth Palace v Jubilee SA (Q'town AC), Moulmeln CSA v Whampoa (Geylang), P. Park Dynamos v Tampines CSA
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