New Nation, 26 September 1978

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    19 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Tuesday, September 26, 1978 No. 2372 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 216/1/78 TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1978
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    Lock icon Big win for Jaye
    364 1 AFP Colombo, Tuesday Leftist trade unions yesterday deferred indefinitely their token general strike planned for Thursday In the face of tough counter measures adopted by the government. Seventeen trade union organisations affiliated to the Communist Party (Moscow wing), the Trotskylte Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LBSP) and
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    Lock icon Soccer bribes: Four bookies arrested
    115 1 AFP Jakarta, Tuesday. Jakarta police have arrested four of the eight bookmakers suspected of having bribed Indonesian national soccer players to lose their matches in the Merdeka tournament in Kuala Lumpur, the official armed forces bulletin said yesterday. The four bookmakers have allegedly admitted to
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    30 booked in road blitz
    233 1  -  By Douglas Chan -More than 30 motorcyclists and drivers were booked dnrlnff the weekend in an islandwide bllts bj the Traffic Police aimed prim arily at ronndlnf op hellriders. The •tftndtn IneludM three motorcyclists eaught radai at high ipeMh la different area*. Their spedally-tnned 75®cc
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    HOW I ESCAPED —by S'pore lawyer on TV in London
    811 1  -  By Bharathi Mohan our London reporter With two songs he himself wrote, cartoons, photographs of his wedding, and scenes of Singapore, lawyer Francis Khoo Kah Slang, wanted for questioning by Singapore's Internal Security Department, told his story to British TV
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      25 1 INSIDE Focus ♦J S'pore biz-ad girls Pages 10, 11 •IN THE OTHER PAGES: Honeywords 11; Btars 14; comics 18 CROSSWORD d 1 d not arrive.
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    Police seek four men to help in murder investigation
    184 2 The police are looking for four people who they believe can help in investigations Into a murder. Toe .our men are: TKO CHEW LIAT alias Ah Llat, 28, of Blk 34 154-M Upper Crow Street; CHEAH AH HONG alias See Mak.
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    Psychology
    27 2 The University of Singapore's Extramural Studies Department will hold a 12-lecture course on Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour and Relationship in Nlssen Hut 108 from Oct 2.
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    Bosses think again
    265 2  -  ...about recruiting Thai workers By Ivan Lim Many employers are having second thoughts about employing workers from Thailand because of stiff conditions imposed by the Econom 1 c Development Board. Representatives of several textile and electronic goods factories will soon meet EDB officials to seek a relaxation
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    S'pore food sent to refugees
    250 2 Emergency food and water supplies were sent from Singapore on Sunday night to 1250 Vietn a m e s e refugees stranded on an uninhabited Indonesian island. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees here chartered a Singapore tugboat to carry the supplies, UNHCR representative in
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    Stock market
    164 2 Share prices were held steady during the first hour of relatively quiet trading at the Btock Exchange of Singapore today. BUSINESS DONE: First Section: F. MERLIN (3) 1.09 (5) 1.10 M. CREDIT (1) 1.35. S. LAND (2) 1.96 (2)1.97. U.O.L. (20) 1.80 (58) 1.59. C. AND C. (2)
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    Dinner and dance
    57 2 The Singapore Institute of Management, In conjunction with the Diploma In Management Studies Alumni, will hold a dinner and dance at the Neptune Theatre Restaurant on Oct 7 at 7.30 p.m. The senior Minister of State (Finance), Mr Ooh Chok Tong. will present diplomas to graduands of
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      34 2 SOS It always helps to talk to someone. Samaritans of' Singapore exists to help.those in despair or suicidal. Ring *****44. AUDIO COMPONENT f RACK Comes in EMy to Assemble Knock-Down" set Suitable for mow
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    Tourism trade gets more complaints
    183 3 Singapore's tour ism trade received more brickbats last year than In 19/5 and 1976. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board said -In Its annual rerwrt. released vesterday there were 550 complaints In the last financial year from April 1977 to March this year*, or an average
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    Lock icon Help for Jackie
    100 3 ...from a colleague in the Mobile Squad WPC Jacqueline Yap, lying on the road in pain, gets Immediate help from a colleague, Sgt Ng Cheng Teck of the Mobile Squad. WPC Yap was involved in an accident with a pick-up van in Nicoll Highway at 11.25 a.m.
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    Rochore steps it up
    98 3 The Rochore constituency will step up the use of metric from today. The Metrication Board will have an information stall at the Kandang Kerbau market from today to Thursday from 7.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. Metrication Board officials will man the stall to guide and teach
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    Rotary talk
    40 3 Dr Mark Aeter, an assistant research scientist at New York University will speak on The Role of the Community in Education at a Rotary Club of Singapore (District 330) lunch at the Mandarin Hotel tomorrow at 12.45 p.m.
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    Recital
    27 3 American pianist Joseph Bloch will give a recital at the DBS Auditorium on Saturday at 8.30 p.m. He will play works by Bchubert. Bcrlabln and Debussy.
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      78 3 Jazz lovers! Your favourite jazz 'yoldies' played by HYATT played by the UiGl SIXTET local 6 piece ja//band An attraction at Pete's Place from 10 p.m to 1 a.m. every Thursday on September 14, 21 b 28. Savour an appetising pi//a. a |uicy steak with a glass of wine while
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    DAP chief may step down says The Star
    140 4 Ipoh. Tuesday—Democratic Action Party sec-retary-general Llm Kit Slang may step down from the party leadership In five to six months, according to Malay slan newspaper, The Star. Mr. Llm reportedly said this at the Perak DAP state committee meeting In Ipoh. last
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    NOT SO SHARP
    81 4 Sharp bends in the Orchard Road, Stamford Road, Bras Basah Road and Dhoby Ghaut Junctions will be reshaped to Improve traffic flow. These bends are said to have caused Jams in the area. Part of the Bras Basah Park, in front of Cathay Building, will be dug
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    Seminar
    35 4 The Japanese Cultural Society will hold its first Japanese language seminar at the National Youth Leadership Training Institute on Friday. Mr Kloakl Klkuchl, Japanese Ambassador to Singapore, will open the seminar at 9.30 a.m.
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    Lock icon Lee sets stage for EEC, Asean meeting
    226 4 AFP UPI Brussels, Tuesday Mr Lee Kuan Yew, who arrived here on Sunday night for a threeday official vi*U, yesterday met European Common Market development commissioner Claude Cheysson. Later, he had talks with EEC commission president Roy Jenkins. Mr Lee will have meetings
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    Art display
    38 4 A Chinese brush painting exhibition by members of Life Art Society will open at 5.30 p.m. today at the Dutch Club, Camden Park. It will be on till Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
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    Cut down Asean meets call
    283 4  -  By Gerry de Silva Indonesia has proposed a plan to cut down on what It called a "proliferation of Asean meetings" but its Asean partners, according to sources, do not seem to be enthusiastic about It. Sources said, the Asean standing committee, which met in
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    Sticky topic goes to assembly
    257 4 The working committee of the Asean Inter Parliamentary Organisation (Aipo) yesterday left the sticky issue of allowing non-Asean observers to attend future conferences to the general assembly which convenes today. Eight items discussed yesterday by the working group will come up for adoption during the
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      13 4 Get your Pyrex containers now at give-away prices ...when you buy Caltex Boron.
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    Lock icon Viets in Khmer rubber town —Radio
    163 5 UPI Bangkok, Tuesday Kampuchea appeared to acknowledge lor the first time yesterday that Vietnamese forces have penetrated as far as the Kampuchean rubber town of Krek, about 8 km Inside their common border. The acknowledgement on official Radio Phnom Penh came about two weeks
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    Lock icon Carter stakes his reputation
    603 5 Reuter AFP Washington, Tuesday President Carter ye st erday publicly staked his reputation before world financial leaders on the US meeting its promises to fight inflation, cut oil imports, expand exDorts and a strong dollar. In a speech to delegates from 135 countries at the annual
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    Lock icon Ties with EEC
    34 5 World Focus Reuter Peking, Tuesday China'! Foreign Trade Minister LI Chiang said last night conditions are ideal for expanding economic and trade relations between his country and the European Economic Community.
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      113 5 ANNUAL FURNITURE SALE WITH FREE GIFTS Buy one bedroom set end receive one set of free pillows. For every sofa set purchased, one glass table will be given free. We also offer attractive monthly instalments and generous discounts for cash payment. KITCHEN CABINETS BUILT-IN WARDROBES gown P^mont: Si 10/ SI2O
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    Lock icon TODAY
    117 6 UPI TODAY Is Tuesday. Sept 26. the 269 th day of 1978 with 96 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY: In 1777. British troops occupied Phlladel p h 1 a during the American revolutionary war. In 1950.
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    61 6 Reuter London, Tuesday The British government has announced tough, new road safety tests for pram*. Next year baby chain will be examined for the efficiency of brakes, suspension and even cornering ability. A government spokesman said: "Statistics slfow that most of the accidents involving prams and push
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    Lock icon Trainee flew that Cessna
    298 6 Flying school director tells of horror crash World Focus Reuter AFP San Diego (California), Tuesday The head of a flying school here said last night that one of his pupils was at the controls of a Cessna 150 which collided in mid-air yesterday with a Boeing
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      527 6 WEATHER London—Dry with sunny periods, 19-14 C. Headline: Smith routs Invaders. Moscow—Overcast. 9OC. Pravda's headline: The source of our might. Bonn—Sunny, IA-6C. Headline:- Egypt's opponents conclude a pact and ask Moscow's help. Rome—Partly cloudy, 27-11 C. Headline: Transfer to Rome for Red Brigades leader. Paris—Partly cloudy, 20-BC. Headline: Hardline: Arabs
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    Lock icon History in the Knesset
    531 7 Unmatched spectacle as Begin calls for Israeli pullout World Focus Reuter Jerusalem, Tuesday For the Israeli parliament It was an unmatched spectacle. Never before had Its members heard a Prime Minister advocate the deliberate dismantling of Jewish settlements and a retreat of Zionist pioneers. The fact
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    Lock icon 'No to US plan'
    151 7 AFP Kuwait, Tuesday Syrian President Hafez Assad has refused to consider a US plan for Syrian Israeli negotiations over the Israelioccupied Golan Heights, the dally A 1 Gabas said here yesterday. The plan was submitted to me Syrian leader by U8 Secretary of Btate Cyrus Vance
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    Lock icon $100,000 damages
    82 7 AFP Tokyo, Tuesday Three Japanese pharmaceutical Arms were ordered In a damage suit trial yesterday to pay 8.8 million yen ($106,210) In compensation to a 54-year-old house wife suffering deafness caused by streptomycin injections. The Tokyo District Court ruled that the three companies neglected their duty to notify
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    Lock icon Saudi digs into its reserves
    245 7 Reuter Jeddah, Tuesday A decline in oil exports and a growing bill for highest Industrial Imports, has led Saudi Arabia to transfer 3.2 billion riyals (about $2231 million) In the last two weeks from state reserves to supplement this year's Budget. This was disclosed by
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    A car load of abuses
    372 8 Public car park authorities are less ready than some attendants to blame any particular group of motorists for abusiveness.- A Straits Times story quoted these car park attendants as saying that the most abusive motorists are usually males In their thirties who drive Japanese-make cars.
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
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      Exercise in equality
      102 8 A newly established health club obviously does not subscribe to equality of the sexes. Its application rorin. which was sent to prospective members, stales that for a male ordinary member, the entrance fee was $3000 and monthly subscription was $100. For women, they were $2400 and $80
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      Punting on pigs
      69 8 Gamblers have something new to put their money on pig racing. Introducing last year at a farm show In lowa In the US, the derby was an Instant hit, and punters can expect 90 races In this year's show in Illinois complete with photo finish with a
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    Lock icon The start of something big
    735 8  -  It's not who won or lost but that M-E meet could be... =3 OPINION By James Reston NYT Washington: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, speaking as an historian, has said some arresting things about the Camp David Middle East compromises that are worth some
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    Lock icon MILES APART
    281 8 US must go metric or else...warning UPI Providence (Rhode Island): America cannot survive if it continues to shun the metric measurements of metres, litres and grams in favour of old-fashion-ed inches, quarts and pounds, US Commissioner of Education Ernest Boyer. said yesterday. "We talk of miles, feet and
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    Lock icon Life after death
    298 9 AP New York: There is Life after death. The weekly magazine that ceased publication six years ago on Dec 29. 1972, went on sale again yesterday. with the familiar logo and oversized pages and pictures stuffed cove r tocover. Life's new editors, who call It a redesigned
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    Lock icon Getting married for a divorce
    504 9  -  Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times Being a married man, I always believed that single people living together had the best of both worlds. But things are tough even for unmarried couple tougher in some ways. I discovered this the other day when Harlequin came to
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    You've no business here ...but now they mean business
    2890 10/11  -  That's what the girls were told in 1960s How Business Administration girls had to tight an all-male preserve and a "chauvinistic' don •by LIEW SOON CHIN It was 1966, the year of the Great Decision. The University of Singapore's business administration
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      547 10/11 TUESDAY "J GZ 2 Cut out and pin with otßer coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr Mrs./ Miss): Address: N R.I.C. No Tel: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW CLUES FOR QZ-2 1. A colour lighter than red 2. In athletice, when this la alow, tha blama
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      Tops in show of ideas
      445 12 I'm all for the return of the mini If this is what tney're going to be like. Designer Wilson Choo presents us his collection of big, billowy tunics In bold, Innovative designs, all caught at the hips. The sketches are some of the best we
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      'Synthetic shoes cause painful disease'
      168 12 If you have been saving money by buying your children shoes made of synthetic material, think again. It has been reported in Britain that synthetics used In footwear are responsible for a painful new disease called "glazed foot" which is caused by a clogging of
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      Lock icon Give kids the right to 'divorce' parents, says professor
      548 12 Reuter Stockholm: A Swedish woman academic has caused a stir by proposing that children .should have the right to "divorce" their parents. Professor Ulla Jacobssen, a grey-haired professor of law at Stockholm University, has spent her life studying social problems and
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    • Dear Ros
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        When man abuses wife's trust...
        297 13 We were a happily married couple until recently when my husband abused my trust. I cannot forget the incident, though he has since apologised to me. In these seven years of marriage, I have always refused to attend functions to which he is not Invited,
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        Wants more out of life
        220 13 I am 22 years old and already I feel useless. All I do Is walk around town window shopping or go to the cinema. I feel I'm wasting my time but what can I do? My pay is too low for me to have a
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        Mother's affair
        178 13 What should daughter, who has found her mother guilty of adultery, do? Should she talk to her mother or tell the man to leave her alone? I don't want to tell my Tkther about It. He doesn't live with us. desperate Dear Desperate, Yon do not say why
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        Girls can be close
        164 13 Is It absurd for a girl to have special feelings for another girl? I think of her day and night. Will that be considered lesbianism? What should the girl do? Approach the other girl and tell her her feelings? BUGGED Dear Bugged, Though It is not
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        Quarrel over little things
        199 13 More replies to youi letters We keep quarrelling over little things. At times I realise It Is my fault and want to apologise but my pride holds me bacjc. I am troubled by our frequent quarrels and don't know whether to end the relationship. PAMPERED Dear
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    • GRAPEVINE
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        Grease-y kids' huff
        85 13 It was enough to make a John Travolta fan sick and In England several of them did. They wrote to the local papers complaining that tne name of their idol was printed over the head of co-star Olivia Newton-John while he had Olivia's name over his head
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        Fewer bops and whops
        87 13 Popeye will have to stop whop-bam-bopplng his arch rival Bluto now that American television Is once again clamping down on violence on the tube. First the police shows, now it is the turn of the cartoon hero. The fearless spinachgobbling sailor will still be able to
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        Language of love
        100 13 Bpanlsh is Indeed the language of love. In Ruben Oomes's Spanish classes, he teaches his students not the Spanish version of "parlezvous Francals" but rather phrases which help if you need to pick up a date, reports the Los Angeles Times. Indeed his syllabus contains sections like
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      137 13 a* i k tmpackedi Mvm caione soup (40 cel. per serving). japis. chocolate# and beverages. 9 Cholesterol-free powdered eggs. Yeast (1000 tablets only $6 90). Kelp. B-Complex, Vitamin C. Multl-Vltamin available in money-saving bulk quantities. V HENNA hak cere products. Books for weight and health watchers. V plus loeda A
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    Lock icon Economic briefs
    297 14 Reuter WIESBADEN (West Germany): West Germany's foreign trade sui plus rose sharply to 3.1 billion marks ($3.56 billion) last month from a revised 1.7 billion marks in July, the Federal Statistics Office said yesterday. West German exports totalled 21.9 billion marks last month, while Import* amounted to 18.8
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    Lock icon 20 pc cut in rates
    63 14 AFP London, Tuesday—Shipping lines In the Far Eastern Freight Conference have decided to reduce their rates on certain categories of goods by 20 per cent for a sixmonth period. The reduction will apply to freight shipped from the East to Europe and, according to shipping
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    Lock icon $774,000 quota for fair
    308 14 Bid to help Asean get orders T, =3 Business News and Views AFP Canberra, Tuesday The A us t r a lian government has allocated a special quota worth A 5300,000 ($774,000) for a trade fair of goods from the Ave Asean countries. The fair is
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    Lock icon Two US banks up prime rate by quarter
    165 14 Reuter New York, Tuesday. Two malor US banks set the stage for a new round of prime rate increases yesterday morning when they lifted by one-quarter of a point the cost of loans to their most credit-worthy customers. The move to the
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      NEW YORK
      123 14 Stocks, buffeted between Investor concern over rising Interest rates and bargain hunting, went Just about nowhere yesterday In the slowest trading In 2} months. Yesterday's prices followed by the difference on the previous session's close: AT St T 60% Beth Steel 33% Caterp Tra Chrysler 59 M» 12
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      35 14 UPI New York, Tuesday Daw Jonea closing average on the NYSE yesterday: 30 Industrials 862.35 (off 0.09), 20 transport 242.35 (up 0.77), 15 utilities 105.71 (up 0,06), 65 stocks 299.03 (up 0.28). UPI.
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      60 14 AFP Yesterday's closing quotations of the gUt-edgeas, In yen, with Friday's in parentheses were as follows: Helwa Real Ifctate 635 (631), Nippon Oil 699 (708). Komatsu 334 (316), Matsushita Electric 722 (714), Honda Motor 511 (512). Toyota Mbtoi 895 (880), Mitsui and Co. 306 306), Mitsubishi Corp. 447 (443),
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      PARIS
      74 14 Closing prices on the Parks Bourse yesterday: Purlbas 194 +1.20 Ponder 388 unch. Prin temps 129.50 3.50 Bull 61.10 JO Royal Dutch 278 4 Mlchelln 1343 13 C O E 405 12 Thomson 267.50 5.50 C F P 134.10 .10 Rhone 120 1 Air 353 +2.10 B8N 560 20
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      Lock icon ZURICH
      78 14 Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich Closing prices In Swiss francs on the Zlirlch Stock Exchange: UBS Bearer 3050 50 UBS Registered 578 a SBC 358 9 Credit Suisse 2170 30 Swissair B. 779 7 Swiss Relnsur. 3040 20 Wlnterthur B. 2370 40 Zurich In&ur. 9025 75 Nestle B. 3050
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      116 14 Reuter Prices at 11.30 ajn. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange: A CI 187 1M ADC 30 Ampol Pet 89 90 ANI 180 183 APM 120 121 Bank N8W 780 784 Brambles 210 212 BHP 884 888 Boral 268 270 CBA 270 275 C8R 368 369 CIO
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    Lock icon Money Market
    214 14 UPI London, Tuesday—The US dollar closed lower yesterday on all European markets except Paris. In Zurich, it nit a new record low, despite Swiss central bank intervention to support it. Gold, which usually rises as the dollar declines. hit new record highs .in London and Zurich In London,
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      346 14 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are always open to suggestions regarding careec. hobbles, personal life. What you will not make, however, is a promise to follow any given suggestion. In the end, you will make your own decisions, dictate your own behaviour, and take unto
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      For the lovers of fine food ...
      393 15 For the lovers of fine food If you want to taste good genuine Bombay food, eat at Tipsy Topsy Restaurant. Not only have they flown two cooks from Bombay but they serve nothing less than Basmatl rice from Bombay, the grain on which Bindhi artists carve pictures of religious festivals.
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      235 15 People going OVERSEAS goto FOOK ON first Because we have the widest range of Winier Clothings at the most reasonable prices FOOK ON CO. (PTE) LTD. (Department Store) 83-85, South Bridge Road, Tel: *****. Branches (Open on Sundays) 347 People's Park Complex. Tel: *****5. 1.82-1.83 Lucky Plaza, Ist floor, Orchard
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      35 15 REMY SPORTS ENTERPRISES TEL: *****81 SPECIALISE IN ALL KINDS OF SPORTS .REQUIREMENTS 244, (2nd. Floor), TANIONS PAGAR P. S A. COMPLEX, JUNCTION of KEPPU RD./ TANIONC PAGAR, SINGAPORE 2. Butinott Moon: 10.00 i.m. 10.00 fM.
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      134 15 IT'S ALWAYS FIRST FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS IN MODERN FURNISHIN Extra super showrooms at the Gay World Amusement Park (next to Silver City Cinema I where you can choose from more then BO different models of up -to-date quelity living room suites; 30 different models of dining room sets end
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      219 15 TIPSY TOPSY INDIAN RESTAURANT 77 HIGH STREET PLA/A 10TH FLOOR. SINGAPORE 6 Tel *****. *****4 OPENS 7 DAYS A WEEK FOR THE LOVERS OF FINE FOOD MONDAY SATURDAY 10 00 am 10 00 p hi SUNDAY 10 00 a m 3 00 p m lANDOORI CHICKEN CHICKEN SAMHOSA SHISH KEBABS
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    Poles stay unbeaten
    212 16 Volleyball Rome, Tuesday Defending champions Poland maintained their unbeaten run at the men's World volleyball championship here yesterday when they defeated Czechoslovakia in four sets in their second round group "B" seml-flnal match. Tired irom their marathon clash against Japan last night, the Poles lost their rhythm
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    348 16 Reuter Penang, Tuesday Sure Am. a nonacceptor last week, showed impressive form when he did a fast workout at Batu Gantong this morning. The flve-year-old by Hotroy. who has been on board In his last four starts, returned 38.8 for 600 m. The going was yielding.
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    Penang's Sunday finishes
    395 16 Money Talk set a brisk pace, leading past the 800 m and was seven lengths clear Into the straight from Tien Song, with Sim Sim closing in. Tien Sung smarted his run 200 m out. Gaining ground steadily Tien Sung got up to beat Money Talk by
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      257 16 NOTICES OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE OF SNIP'S NME We, NG COMPANY of Suite 1604, 16th Floor, Shenton House, Shenton Way, Singapore hereby give notice that in consequence of our clients' purchase of the vessel "JUPITER" we have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships, under Section 417 of the
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    Lock icon Sink or swim for L'pool
    418 17 Same goes for Juventus and Bruges Soccer Reuter London, Tuesday England's Liverpool, Juventus of Italy and Belgium champions Bruges will be fighting desperately for survival this week in their European Cup first round, second leg soccer clashes. All three reached the semi-finals of Europe's top
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    Asean Putter tourney
    162 17 H'-* Chok Yan Hoi will be defending the Keppel Club's Asean Putter Trophy Open golf competition at the Bukit Chermln Course on Sunday. Over 90 entries have been received to date for the tournament in which the proceeds will go to the Home Nursing Foundation. The Cycle
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    Games squad start with the physical
    401 17  -  Edßowliiig By BRIAN MILLER The Singapore Tenpln Bowling Congress aim to build up a spirit of "togetherness" among the 16-member Asian Games squad through training sessions. The BTBC will begin to put the squad through their paces with a Jogging session at Marine Parade
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      434 17 ISfiH THE BIKIT KATIL RUBBER ESTS., BERNAD (Incorporated In Malaysia) NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVEN That the 81xtyFourth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the registered office No. 22 (Upper floor of No. 20), Jalan Oelanggang, Malacca on Saturday the 21st day of October,
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      213 17 ENGINEERED INDUSTRIAL VENTILATING AND SCRUBBING SYSTEMS AW' \s %w r J a L f PIt's in the word "DESIGN". 8u» Cedcote Ply Ltd. Oesi|*ers. Manufacturers and Installers at Corrosian Rasistant Materials. Process Equipment, and Air Pollution Control Systems Represented by J. WHYTE CO. (M) SDN. BHD. SINGAPORE: P.O. Box 68,
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    SLTA DECIDE TO SKIP A-GAMES
    352 18  -  j^j^fennis By SURESH NAIR The Singapore Lawn Tennis Association have decided not to be represented at the Bangkok Asian Games In December. VThls was disclosed by the BLTA president, Dr One Leong Boon, who sala: "Local players have vet to attain the level of the
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    Indians beaten
    24 18 West Germany, Tuesday West Germany beat India 3-2 In a Junior hockey International here yesterday. There was no score at the interval.
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    Sawlf name three for Bangkok
    438 18  -  They have shown remarkable improvement—Koay HRfufeujhT |m lifting By PHILIP TAN The Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation will recommend three lifters for the Asian Games in Bangkok in December. They are: leo Yong joo, a flyweight, Phua Chuan Seng and John Sie. both bantamweights. The trio
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    Now meditation to help them relax
    449 18  -  SOCCER SCENE by Philip Tan Singapore soccer players will be given a dose of transcendental meditation by Director of Coaches Trevor Hartley to help them relax before matches and training sessions. Hartley, who has been In contact with Mr Anthony Hall, a teacher of
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    Lock icon Bobick: I can beat old-man Ali
    342 18 K9 Booting UPI Reuter Norfolk, Virginia, Tuesday Heavyweight contender, Duane Bobick, said Muhammad All's ohamplonshlp fight with Leon Splnks exposed Ali as "an old man" and Splnks as "an amateur." Bobick. 27, ranked ninth by the World Boxing Association, said he believes he eould
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    Lock icon Cup tourney for stars
    79 18 AFP New York, Tuesday World Cham plonship Tennis are .to organise a Challenge Cup tournament at Montego Bay, near Kingston, Jamaica, on Dec 11-17 including Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg. The WCT Challenge Cup will have U*****,000 (about S$700,000) In prize money, of which US$lBO,OOO will
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      38 18 ANDY CAPP LOVELY TO SEE VOU AN' YOUR BEAUTIFUL WIPE, AND*'— LET me Buy xou V A DRINK A Sf v I/VI LUCKY, AOA -MY MAN 'ASN'T got enough personality for ONE, NEVER MINb Two wma~ Still nmmk
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      40m will see PM at work
      278 19  -  CBS team here to film S'pore story By Deborah Chia Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at work and at play will form the highlight of a TV d o c u mentary now being Aimed here. The American TV network Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
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      ROCKING NOSTALGIA
      118 19  -  M. Cunico Some 500 people turned the clock back two decades for an evening filled with nostalgia at the Kallang Go-Skate Lelsuredrome last Friday. It was Rock 'n Roll Revival, and the things they did and the way they looked would have made their parents sit back and
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      Ma Chye to help the aged
      208 19  -  Glitter Chatter Teo Lian Huay Sun Ma Si Cnan (Sun Ma Chye), the 61-year-old opera singer and actor, is now spearheading a multi-million dollar community project to help destitute old folk in Hong Kong. Speaking at a news conference in Hong Kong recently, the
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      380 19 In and around town SMOKING AND YOU a talk in Mandarin by Dr Llow Slew Choon from the Nee Soon Camp Medical Centre. At Tiong Bahru community centre, 8 p.m. FASHION SHOW at Bamboo court, York Hotel. Showtime: 1.30 p.m. Buffet lunch at $10 will be served from 12.30 p.m.
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      73 19 BASKETBALL: Friendly international.— Singapore Youth v Australia (Gay World Stadium). BADMINTON: National Junior inter-CHib tournament Rose v SC, Shell v BAFRA. Hongkong Bank v Sunbeam (SBA Hall, Ouillemard Road, 7.30 p.m.) 80CCER: Division One —Queens town v Toa Payoh United (Jurong Stadium); Oeylang international v Sembawang (Jalan Besar Stadium). Both
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      567 19 Tides 7.00 a.m. (1.8 m); 5.22 p.m. (2.om> Tomorrow:: 8.33 a.m. (1.9 m): 7.12 p.m. (2.0 m). Thursday: 9.12 a.m (2.1 m); 8.27 p.m. (2.2 m). Friday: 9.41 a.m. (2.3 m): 9.15 p.m. (2.4 m). Saturday: 10.07 a.m. (2.4 m); 9.53 p.m. (2.5 m). Sunday: 10.31 a.m. (2.5 m); 10.28
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    59 20 AH POOK: An advertising executive claims that advertising raises the standard of living. Apparently more goods are sold and this demand stimulates production and Increase* workers' Income. MEI LIN: Isn't this a vicious cycle? We earn more only to buy more and at a higher price because, ultimately,
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      882 20 SINGAPORE 5 Bring home 3.M OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by IMPACT: An Appeal to Man's Ecological Conscience. For *"A" level students taking the Oeneral Paper. Ml DIART OP EVENTS. 3.35 AFTERNOON MATINEE: The Reward. Part 2. A group of bounty hunters turn on each other for the $50,000 reward for capturing
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      197 20 Today's top shows LAVEBNE AND SHIRLEY: Shirley's Operation. Ch. 8, 7.40 p.m. in colour). When Shirley la taken to hospital for an emergency operation, her well-meaning friends rush to her side and the medical staff find themselves in the middle of chaos. Efrem ElmbaHst Jr Ch. S, 3.35 p.m. PU8FARAMA.
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