New Nation, 14 March 1979

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    22 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Wednesday, March 14, 1979 2512 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1779 r j NEW fcj) NATION i t COMMENT I
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    Carter: I've made breakthrough
    47 1 They may leek grim, bet leeks can deceive. In feet, President Carter and President Sadat are reportedly close to saecess la aegetiatlag a peaee treaty with Israel. This meeting at Calre airport led to Mr Carter's announcement that he has made a hreakthreegh.
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    Goh plan hailed
    574 1 Singaporeans interviewed today gave good marks to the Goh Keng Swee education report. In particular, they are pleased with the special treatment proposed far the slow learner. They feel the plan is generally sound and positive in its phflosphy but yome would like to know more about
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    Lock icon Bank of Japan sells US$100m
    96 1 Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday The Bank of Japan sold about USUfIO million in tfc* drat hour of trading on the Tokyo foreign exchange market today after the American dollar soared to a rate of SOB.TD yen, dsalers aaUL The intervention was a determined Attempt to port
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    Lock icon Accord achieved in M-E, declares Carter
    327 1 UPI Aseres, Portugal, Wednesday President Carter, in a dramatic conclusion to an exhausting six-day mission, yesterday announced he had achieved a major breakthrough towards an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. But, as he headed home, he cautioned the agreements must still be approved by the Israeli
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    Liquor Board blitz on bars and clubs
    206 2 The Liquors Licensing Board is getting tough on bar and night club operators who continue to flout the law. This follows a call by police and customs to impose deterrent measures because some "cannot be bothered" to observe rules and regulations laid down
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    They want answers to these questions
    597 2 What they say about Goh's education plan Parents: A parent, Mr T.C. Cheag, 50, said: "I'm quite glad my children are not involved in the changes even though they are for the better. "Frankly, I'm a little confused by the number of changes in
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    It's a good idea, most agree
    499 2 Teachers: A school teacher, mother of two primary school children, said: "The plan sounds like a fairly good idea. It's much better to weed out, the less able at an earlier stage than letting them go on." A Jaaler eellege teacher said the system
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    'Paper chase eliminated'
    215 2 Students and others: M.T. Waag, a secondary four student, said: "I fully support the new changes because they are definitely an improvement. I am especially glad about the part where the weaker students are not required to learn two languages. I am weak in languages myself and
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    Stock market
    119 2 Quiet but steady trading prevailed during the first hour at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. Traders generally were adopting a wait—and—eee attitude in the absence of fresh incentives to buy. Haw Par was unchanged at $1M while S. Darbfr gained two cents to $3.02 on light turnover.
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    Showroom
    21 2 The Yamaha Motorcycle Showroom at the ground floor of Foochow Association, Tyrwhitt Road will open on Thursday at 11 a.m.
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    Architects opting for public sector
    637 4 More newly-graduat-ed architects are Joining the public sector instead of the private sector. Ten architects in private practice attributed this to the higher starting salary and perks given by the public sector. Other reasons are the depressed. state of the private sector and the fact
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    Frozen semen — a big money save for farms
    233 4  - Frozen semen a big money save for farms By Teo Lian Huay Till* amlltog farmhud tad his pnteatiig toll the mcxxm story daHg msaey-saver for tocal farmers. Tte hleklag threetoe ififcut «l s m laIftpirtri IN— lemei His mer paid $M for the toMtofa at cm* pig, ewtM Nt by
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    S'pore team gets good response in US
    437 4  -  By Edgar Koh New Yark reparter Economic Development Board alternate chairman Chan Chin Bock yesterday described as "encouraging" the American response to a recent Singapore industrial mission to seek subcontracts, joint ventures and licensing opportunities. The EDB started assessing this week the result
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    Sage talk
    40 4 Dr Lim Chan Yong, president of the Singapore Action Group of Elders will give aa talk on Time and the Senior Citizen at the lecture hall of the Marine Parade branch library on March 23 at 10.30 a.m.
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    Just how cold is cold?
    107 5 Bew MM to MUr T» fcaimtntß this, teacher He Vu Stag dipped a treshly-piarkrd UHmi la altregea for a few seeeade. The remit: The Hewer heeaaw brittle m glass. It to easily crashed., The altregea, aeeerdlag te Clareaee 9rtoeaa, a pregramme sflleer at the Seleaee
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    Deformed kids: The risks ...
    331 5 Deformed kids: The risks 'Increase with each defective child' The risk of giving birth to a deformed baby increases with the number of children, which a family already have, born with defects, a paediatrician said. Professor Wong Hock Boon, head of the University of Singapore's paediatrics department, a list of
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    Lock icon Refugee outflow dropped after talks
    237 5 AFP Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday The understanding between the Hanoi government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the orderly departure of Vietnamese had reduced the outflow of refugees to neighbouring countries. The UNHCR deputy high commissioner, Mr De Haan said here yesterday
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    Family planning
    40 5 The Family Planning Board and the National Library are organising an exhibition on family planning at the library's lecture hall from tomorrow to March 19. In conjunction with this, the organisers will also hold two talks in Mandarin.
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    Emporium to open seven new stores
    112 5 The Emporium Holdings group plans to add seven new stores to its chain in the next two to three years, increasing the total to 21 by 1961. The new stores will be at the housing estates of Redhill, Tampines, Bedok, Clementi, Ang Mo Kio,
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    Family plan
    41 5 National Library's central adult and the young people's sections will hold a family planning exhibition with the Singapore Family Planning and Population Board at the library's lecture hall from March 14 to 17 from 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
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    Anniversary
    21 5 University of Singapore's architecture and building faculty will celebrate its 10th anniversary at the Kent Ridge campus on March. 30.
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    Energy hike may affect hotel prices
    278 5 Hotels may again have to raise their prices (or rooms and food and drinks if electricity rates become too high for them to absorb. But the spokesmen of four leading hotels stressed that they win do their utmost to absorb the higher costs. The
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    Lock icon '100 children massacred by Chinese'
    375 6 World Focus UPI Reuter Reuter BHgM.VflMiy Chinese and Vietnamese troops battled along China's withdrawal route yesterday, but Hanoi's biggest blast was a formal Foreign Ministry statement charging China with the massacre of 100 children and other war cimes. In a letter to the United Nations
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    Lock icon Odd Corner
    47 6 Reuter fihrti Wednesday Chandrasfs damage, 17, d Sri Laaka yesterday rlalssed a new world rwwi far staadlag ts SM teg a hows a«d II Pellaw Sri Lankan to have set the first sack reesed last Mj whea he stead far 12 hears, 17 ■liliii -Reator
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    Lock icon Premier denies coup on Caribbean isle
    118 6 AP Bridgetown (Barbados), Wednesday Broadcasts by a group called the New Revolutionary Government of Grenada claimed it overthrew the government of Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy yesterday. But Sir Eric, in New York on United Nations business, said the uprising was limited to the
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    Lock icon TODAY
    87 6 UPI TODAY is Wednesday, March 14, the 73Td day of 1979 with 292 to follow. Those born oa this date are under the sign of Places. Germannunerican scientist Albert Einstein was born on March 14,1879. ON THK DAT IN HHTOBYI In 1947, military and naval bases in the Philippines
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      463 6 WORLD WEATHER Limit* Rain, passible sleet, 8-2C. Headline: Carter ready to take the Carter shuttle. MMMW Overcast, 1minus 2C. Pravda's headline: lleat resources of farms. Bsaa Cloudy, 7-2C. Headline: Carter determined to continue peace efforts. BsaM Rainy and cool, 16-5C. Headline: Carter extends peace mission. Paris Overcast, 12-8C. Headline: Carter
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    Lock icon $33m graft case uncovered by Opstib
    114 7 World Focus AFP Jakarta, Wednesday. The Indonesian anti-graft body, Opstib, has uncovered a case of embezzlement amounting to US$l5 million ($33 million) in a newly established shipyard company in Surabaya, it was reported here yesterday. Opstib chief Admiral Sudomo told newsmen that officials from
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    Lock icon Indonesians are too easy-going, — Gen Murtopo
    271 7 Indonesians are too easy-going, Gen Murtopo AFP Jakarta, Wednesday A leading Indonesian general yesterday predicted that his country would be a loser in what he called the current race with China and India if the Indonesians continued with their easy-going life. The three countries were racing to progress at present,
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    Lock icon Pact to swap PoWs
    29 7 AP Damascus, Wednesday. Israel has agreed for the first time to exchange prisoners with a Palestinian guerilla group, a Palestinian official declared here yesterdy AP.
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    Lock icon A fine state of affairs!
    99 7 Reuter Paris, Wednesday Only one French motorist in three pays his parking fines and the French government is getting worried about the huge loss of revenue this represents. The Treasury netted 388,500,000 francs (about $184,250,000) from parking fines in 1977, but a report Just issued
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    Lock icon 'M-E compromise on two kev issues'
    420 7 Carter triumph in removing obstacle to peace treaty AP Calre, Wednesday President Carter has succeeded in getting the Egyptians and Israelis to compromise on two key issues that were blocking a peace treaty, according to Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Butros B.
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    Lock icon New trend in US seems to be location break-ups
    97 7 AP picture Oaee It was limUm marriages, the stranger the rfte, the better. New, with the sharp rise la dlverees, the Inevitable has happened leeatlea break nips. Geae aad Lynda Ballard ef Antiech, California, eeald well he starting aasther ef thsse
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    Lock icon Senate 'yes' on Taiwan
    170 7 Reuter UPI Washington, Wednesday The Senate yesterday approved a Bill setting up an unofficial relationship with Taiwan after defeating a number of amendments which proponents of the measure said could harm the new US diplomatic ties with China. The vote was an overwhelming 90 to six
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    Lock icon Massive gas find
    69 7 AFP Londoji, Wednesday. A big new natural gas deposit that could prove to be one of the world's largest has been located off Abu Dhabi in the Gulf, the Financial Times reported yesterday. It was believed to span a depth of several hundred kilometres. The reservoir was
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    Lock icon Iran oil sale plan
    58 7 Reuter Teheran, Wednesday. Iran will sell more than one million barrels of oil per day under long-term sales contracts beginning April 1, the National Iranian Oil Company announced yesterday. The company also said that Iran's daily oil production had risen to almost 2.5 million barrels per
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    More than a veiled threat?
    455 8 The current feminist struggle for more rights for women in the Ayatollah Khomeiny's Iran highlights the plight of Iranian women. As much as their menfolk, they must have welcomed the end to over 30 years of the Shah's repressive rule. Many may say the Iranian
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      Small change, big risk
      70 8 some Sri [.snksns are getting more than real value for their money by melting them, their coiiw, that la. The reason is the value of nickel farani alloy in a 10 cent piece is 23 cents while the metal ctatent of a fivecent coin works out
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      Move over, bachelors
      54 8 Eye-brows were raised over a recruitment ad in the Straits Times for a ssles engineer, which requires. among the usual qualifications of being will- ing and able to travel, that of being married. Now, since when has marital status or the lsck of It become a requisite
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    Lock icon Men who never say die
    800 8 Hanoi leaders survive disasters, prisons, and 40 years of war Los Angeles Times Bangkok Vietnam's leaders seem to go on forever. They are among the great survivors of the 20th century. Like the bamboo, they bend but do not break. These men at the top
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    IF PEKING HAD STAYED ITS HAND
    661 8  -  WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON Has the Chinese incursion into Vietnam spoilt the chances of an unprecedented EastWest summit in Peking this summer? It was decided long ago that the main Western heads of government would meet in Tokyo in July, in the
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    What the others have to say on the Budget
    877 9  -  Voice of the Press Round-up Mar 4-10 By Liew Soon Chin The non-English press was evidently pleased at the "painless, and even mildly pleasurable" Budget presented by the Senior Minister of State (Finance), Mr Goh Chok Tong, last week. In the
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    Lock icon Peace Corps volunteer out to save orang utans
    612 9 NYT Siadiku: Saving an endangered species may not have been part of the original script for Peace Corps volunteers, but Arthur H. Mitchell, who is *27 years old, tall, bearded and serious, has found helping to save the orangutan more satisfying than
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      Rutter has the last word on parents and kids
      235 10/11 Professor Michael Llewellyn Rutter, an active research worker and an experienced clinician, is one of the world's leading authorities today pn the subjects of maternal deprivation, parental substitutes, working mothers, cultural disadvantage and educational underachievement, to mention only a tew. He
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      Caring for today's child
      1759 10/11  -  Mrs Valerie Chan probably has the ideal arrangement. She stays at home to look after her son, Alvin and daughter, Joanne. But the majority of parents who work oatside the home need to rely on either domestic servants, grandparents, foster parents and, soon to come, fall-day
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      606 10/11 Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Nome (Mr./ Mrs./ Miss): Address: N R.I.C. No: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS CLUES BELOW Cut along dotted lines MHBI CLUES FOR HX 3 1. By no means large 2. In their attitude, some people tend to be leee
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    Disney treat with Lee and Davis
    473 12  -  Cinema I»v Gloria Chandy RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN: Betty Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards, Ike Elseamaaa, Jack Soo, Anthony James. Written by Malcelm Marmorstein. Directed J«ha Heagh. (New at Cathay). Now that the school holidays are here again, Cathay Organisation has come up with
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    Lock icon Graves a celebrity in Spain after the I, Claudius serial
    565 12 Reuter Madrid: Looking like one of the lofty Roman emperors portrayed with such startling clarity in his novels, Robert Graves presides over- an isolated village on the Mediterranean island of Majorca, largely oblivious of his newly won Spanish fame. Until
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    Lock icon Confessions of the American Joe
    740 12  -  'I dunno science but I sure know politics and education' Humour by Russell Baker NYT Americans will admit proudly to certain incompetences and even joke about them: They would rather fight than admit to others. Socially, it is perfectly acceptable to confess oneself an ignoramous
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    Lock icon US firm keen on joint S'pore- Japan project
    119 13 US firm keen on joint S'poreJapan project Reuter T*ky», Wcdfoday Philips Petroleum Company of the United States is studying possible participation in a joint Singapore-Japanese petrochemical project, a Japanese partner said yesterday. Sumitomo Chemical said Philips was expected to decide by the end of next month on whether to join
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    Lock icon A mood of euphoria as the EMS finally gets off to a steady start
    534 13 Reuter Loxko, Wednesday Dealers reported a mood of euphoria on foreign exchange markets yesterday as the delayed European Monetary System (EMS), a step towards European monetary unity, finally got off to a steady start. The eight
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    Lock icon EEC to cut down on oil
    142 13 Reuter Paris, Wednesday The nine-nation European Common Market announced yesterday that in the face of the energy upheaval caused by the Iranian revolution it would reduce its total oil consumption to 500 million tonnes this year. The European Community will use about 25 million
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      Lock icon NEW YORK
      289 13 UPI New York, Wednesday Stocks rose to a six-week high yesterday in reaction to President Carter's apparent success in persuading Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to accept new peace proposals. But the rally ran out of steam late in the session after Federal
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      39 13 UPI New York, Wednesday Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 846.93 (up 2J5); 30 transport 215.28 (up 1.31); 15 utilities 103.35 (off 0 20); stocks 285 68 (up 0.77). UPI
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      211 13 AFP Tokyo, Wednesday Share prices closed mixed on the Tokyo slock market yesterday with profit taking pressure gaining momentum. The' Dow Jones average suffered the first setback in six sessions to close the day at 6068.30 yen. The 225-stock Dow indicator lost 4.28 yen during the day. But the
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      Lock icon PARIS
      65 13 Reuter Closing prices on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Parlbas 213 +2 Foncler 420 -3 Prlntemps 121 -80 Bull S&jOS -.96 Royal Dutch 1006 Mtchelln unch COE 375 10 Thomson 214 JO 1JO CFP 144 +2 Rhone 106 +3 Air 377JO 2.40 BSN 456.10 -15.90 Philips unq Sues 275 +4
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      115 13 Reuter Prices at 11.30 a.m.today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange: AO *****5 ADC 17Ampol Pet 75 76 AN! *****1 APM 123 124 Bank NSW 342 345 Brambles 185 193 BHP 11.15 11.20 Bora) 237 238 CBA 255 258 CSR 360 382 CIG 245 250 Coal Allied 510
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    Lock icon Inflation and slower growth forecast
    211 13 UPI Washington, Wednesday The US Chamber of Commerce yesterday predicted even worse inflation and slower economic growth worldwide this year and next year. "During 1979 and 1980, the national chamber's world forecast reveals accelerating inflation, slower economic growth, only a modest average increase in crude
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    Lock icon Money Market
    236 13 UPI London, Wednesday The US dollar held firm on the European money markets yesterday and dealers said that it was helped by developments in the Middle East peace talks. Gold closed in Zurich at U*****,125 an ounce, down from U*****,125, and in London at U*****,125 against U*****,875. The
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    Lock icon US bank hopes to have office in Peking
    125 13 Reuter Hong Kong, Wednesday The president of the Bank of America, Mr A.W. Clausen, yesterday expressed the hope that his bank would be able to set up an office in Peking to help increase contacts with China, the New China News Agency
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    Lock icon Economic briefs
    166 13 UPI TOKYO: Major Japanese traders anticipate an increase in exports in the months to come as a result of the yen's recent depreciation, an official survey showed yesterday. AFP WASHINGTON: There will be no noticeable shortage of minerals in the world between now and the end of the
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    Lock icon The 'nothing card'
    60 13 AFP Uvelaad (Ciliuli), Wedeeeday Three US ei a mew "credit" cm 4. Th« earl, cfcrirtwui Ike "Mttlig card" Mate UB$S (|lM<), to valid tor me, ■eeaptod aaywhere Mtomrtliaettlag. The eeepeey aarketlag ilt ik; priiisßi tatt— «f ike «xi aaTaa ■ppriprtaiii «f eaah Ike bearer will be eatttled
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      Lions must go for that pot of gold
      303 14  -  JASBIR SINGH I believe that Singapore are likely to make to the final of the Malaysia Cup soccer competition this year. And the other finalist could turn out to be our arch rivals, Selangor. I have arrived at this conclusion after watching
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      Let's view it as a blessing in disguise
      283 14  -  SHUTTLES Stogapwe IS India created the bigSt upset in the 1979 mas Cup badminton competition recently when they handed Malaysia a 5-4 beating in the Asian zone final. On the first day of competition India took a commanding 3-1 lead and stretched
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      There is a lot to be done
      447 14  -  PETER TAN Coaching and discipline play vital roles in the success or failure of any sport. It is encouraging to see that the Singapore Badminton Association are branching along these lines in order that we may regain some of our past glory on
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      Don't dive off the deep end
      331 14  -  Start now but do not expect miracles JAW TEE KWANG The decision by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association to get a diving team ready for the South East Asia Games in Jakarta this September is indeed heartening. But they may be diving off the
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      Over to you, RTS
      218 14  -  Singapore soccer fans have regularly been treated to weekly Saturday telecasts of this year's Malaysia Cup matches and RTS must be commended. However, RTS have so far failed to telecast Singapore's best match that resounding 8-1 victory over Sarawak. That game rejuvenated the interest on the
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      Lock icon Premature end to Supertest
      688 15 As angry fans hurl bottles onto the pitch again KScricket Reuter AP Brldgetewa( Barbados Bottle-throwing fans angered by what they thought was a wrong umpiring decision, forced a premature end to the Second World Series Supertest cricket match between the Australians and the West Indians here
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      Lock icon Ministers condemn apartheid
      262 15 Reuter Athens, Wednesday Sports Ministers from 16-member countries of the council of europe yesterday condemned racial, religious and political discrimination in sport and emphasised that sporting contacts with countries practising apartheid should be actively discouraged. A resolution passed at the end of their two day conference said
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      How they finished at Bukit Timah on Sunday
      475 15 Kiif'i Ttwi led into the straight from Mr Tipn Lm§m Bridge and BaM Huter were well up. 8b Ttpu forged ahead 200 m out, with Lsadsa Bridge challenging. Lsadsa Bridge shot past 9r T*pu to win going away by 1 4 lengths.
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      Keep The Faith shines
      266 15  -  a On the track By K. L. CHAN Keep The Faith 11, one of the light-weights in the $80,000 Singapore Derby, displayed striking form in a testing gallop on good going at Bukit Timah this morning. Ridden by Bruce Compton and accompanied by stablemate Geed Repert
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      Lock icon Taiwan rule out any talks with Peking
      229 16 Reuter Taipeh, Wednesday. Taiwan may hold talks with the International Olympic Committee on the question of China's membership but it will not sit down for discussions with Peking representatives, informed sources here said yesterday. lOC president Lord Killanin said in 1 ausanne on
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      Lock icon Millwall plan $44 mil sports complex
      168 16 Soccer Reuter London, Wednesday. Millwall, struggling at the foot of the English soccer league's Second Division, have announced an ambitious £10 million ($44 million) plan to turn their ground into a new sports complex. If planning permission is approved, the club's ground, called "the
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      Czechs for friendly
      28 16 Bratislava, (Czechoslovakia). Wednesday. Chechoslovakia, the European champions, and Spain clash here today In a friendly soccer match that is of key importance to both sides.
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      Forest's late challenge the fear
      694 16  -  ...and they can do it again on SOCCER EMLYN HUGHES Despite Liverpool's commanding championship lead, I still (ear a late challenge could come from Nottingham Forest. I refuse to discount the possibility of Forest, who pipped Liverpool for the championship and League Cup last season,
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      Focus will be on Premier Grade
      497 16  -  SQUASH Eric Cooper The main Interest this week centres on the first round of the Premier Grade of the Singapore Squash Rackets Association League tomorrow night. As all six teams have at least one player currently battling out in the round robin East Asia
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      Two get special Japanese invite
      446 17  -  Junie and Seng Hock for the junior Olympics Swimming By SURESH NAIR Asian Games double gold-medallist Junie Sng and unheralded Lim Seng Hock have been invited by the Japan Amateur Swimming Association to participate in the Junior Olympic meet of Tokyo from March 30 to
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      Lock icon Hunt advances
      139 17 AFP London, Wednesday World champion Geoff Hunt of Australia cleared the second round of the Masters squash championship at Leeds yesterday. Hunt eliminated A. Aziz of Egypt in three sets at 9-6, 9-2,9-7. New Zealand's Bruce Brownlee also moved into the third round when he defeated G. Blair
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      Wolves triumph
      58 17 K9 Soccer London, Wednesday. Results of last night's football matches were: English FA Cup sixth round replay Shrewsbury town 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3 (winners meet Southampton or Arsenal in semi-final). Division one Ipswich town 1 Coventry City 1 (postponed Feb 17), Liverpool 1 Everton 1 (postponed March 10),
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      Plucky Raymond wins his game
      430 17  -  Squash By BRIAN MILLER If points were awarded for grit and determination, then Raymond Ong would be a certainty for a berth in the Singapore squad for next month's East Asia squash championships at Bangkok. Raymond, who for the last six weeks has been nursing
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      Lock icon SARF turn down invite
      289 18 Rugby Reuter Cape Town, Wednesday The South African Rugby Federation, who controls the sport for coloured (mixed race) players, yesterday turned down an invitation for two of their members to join the white Transvaal Province team touring France next month. Federation president Cuthbert Loriston said he
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      631 18  -  -Or S'pore could make fools of themselves at Asian Cup gj Soccer By SURESH NAIR It looks like the Football Association of Singapore are in a dilemma. Judging from the pathetic performance put up by the Singapore Asian Cup probables in their scoreless draw against bottom-of-the-Malaysia-Cup-table
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      131 18 ICTw- AFP Tokyo, Wednesday North Korea will sead phi— to Pridng, Karachi, Cairo, flings pore aad Geneva to pick op delegations to the Sth World table trade ctiampionsnips 10 00 nwa in their capital of Pyongyang from April S to May I This was snawinrert yeeterday In
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      248 16 YOUR LUCKY SIARS IF ITS YOUR TOMORROW... BIRTHDAY... asJSJV son. Gifted with high intelll- ARIES (March 21-April gncc, good »«h the 1®) Mite every effort to courage of convictions ar- meet deadlines rather than rived at through a different tor extensions, point of view from that of TAURUS (April ID-May
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    44 17 OBITUARY TAN CHENG SOON aged 58 years passed away peacefully on March 13th 79 leaving behind beloved wife Daisy Tan Leong Neo and son Arthur Tan Keng Hock. Cortege leaving 39-F, Blk 350 Clementi Avenue 2, S'pore 5 on Thursday March 15th 79 (Afternoon).
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      264 17 Crossword ~v J, ACROSS 1 Say "bravo" 5 Cornmeal 9 Beatles movie 13 Woe 14 Track-shoe adjunct 16 Zone 17 Whether 'tis to suffer..." 20 WWI French soldier 21 in (confined) 22 Draw back 24 Spelldown 25 "The of outrageous fortune,..." 34 Sinatra song 35 Truck 36 Cole or Turner
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      Youth drama group's film debut
      300 19 LOVE, a Mandarin film telecast by RTS on Ch 8 last Sunday, is the first film production of a little-known group of young people brought together some years ago by their love for acting. Part Two of this drama will be telecast this Sunday on
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      Piano duet touched between Bach by a chord of love
      261 19 He was playing the piano in a concert. She was on the same bill. Both were charmed by each other and somewhere between Bach, they touched a chord of love. That was 18 years ago in Rome. Prof Chiaralberta Pastorelli
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      Opera tragedy
      137 19 The Chinese folk-tale of Seet Jin Kwee will be told in Teochew opera tomorrow at the National Theatre at 7.45 p.m. Members of the Er Woo Musical and Dramatic Association will enact the story. Seet Jin Kwee was dumb from birth but was miraculously cured. But this good
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      576 19 At the cinema FOE THE LOVE OP BENJI: Especially for the family. You can follow the adventures of one of Hlmdom's most popular dogs again. Stars Patsy Garrett, Ed Nelson. Life: 1.45, 4, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. TO KILL A BAT: Alain Delon, Mireille Dare and Michel Aumont star in
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      92 19 Taday: 5.11 a.m. (0.9m), 11.12 a.m. (2.8m), 5.33 p.m. (0.5m), 11.51 p.m. (2.7m) Tamarraw: 5.39 a.m. (0.8m), 11.46 a.m. (2.8m), 6.00 p.m. (0.6m) Friday: 12.15 a.m. (2.7m), 6.07 a.m. (0.7m), 12.19 p.m. (2.8m), 6.25 p.m. (0.6m) Satarday: 12.41 a.m. (2.8m), 6.38 a.m. (0.6m), 12.55 p.m. (2.8m), 6.53 p.m. (0.7m) Saaday:
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      208 19 In and around town LOVE, MARRIAGE AND PARENTHOOD a talk and exhibition organised by the National Library and the Singapore Family Planning and Population Board. Tlie talk in English is at 2.30 p.m. and in Malay at 4.30 p.m. At National Library lecture hall. Admission free. THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL
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    55 20 AH POOK: Aren't you glad to know that a greater emphasis is about to be placed on moral education in chools? MB LIN: Yes, there is no point in producing bilingual geniuses if we are going to ignore those basic precepts handed down by our forefathers that are
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      818 20 aoBOttfll AND RADIO L SINGAPORE 5 700 mMion people in 43 countries can't be wrong. PAL color. Invented and owned by TELEFUNKEN 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES <r). l.JI D1ABY OP EVENTS (M). 3.35 BONANZA, foot. Ltt INTERMISSION. «.IS OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by PLEASE DON'T EAT THE
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      115 20 Steve MeQamtt HAWAII FIVE-O. (Ch.5, 8.25 p.m. in colour). Number One With A Bullet. This two-part plot boasts a strong cast. There's singer Yvonne Eliiman; James Darren, Ross Martin, Nehemiah Pprsotf and Richard Dimitri to back up Jack Lord and his regular company. The action begins when a promising young
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