New Nation, 2 September 1979

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  • 9 1 Sunday Nation SEPTEMBER 2, 1979 30 CENTS M.C.(P) N0.145/1/79
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    • 46 1 1 "sm Jurong: Still a frontier town Page 10 Execs' room at the top Page 2 A citizen's army for Philippines: Marcos Page 4 New column on Chinese stars and their world Page 21 Spore reach women's hockey finals Back Page Khalifa's squash clinic Page 29
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    • 13 1 SIA joins elite 25 of world's airlines Brunei's uiim' llfllVSllli Canberra Asia Mag
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  • 250 2  -  By Rav Dhaliwal SINGAPORE'S top executives will soon have their own exclusive, million-dollar club high-in-the-sky. Scheduled to begin operating in November at the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) Centre in Chulia Street, members will be able to wine and dine in high exclusiveness on the 33rd
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  • 400 2 LET US all return to some of our "traditional ways of life" and make courtesy "a part of our tradition." In this way, courtesy will come naturally. This was the innovative theme of the speech of the vice-chairman of OverseaChinese Banking Corporation (OCBC),
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  • 117 2 COMMERCIAL banks here may soon up interest rates following the latest hike of the Post Office Savings Bank's rate of interest. POSB's revised interest rate of six per cent for deposits up to $100,000 is not that much more attractive than that offered by major banks.
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  • 68 2 TELEVISION Singapore will not allow songs with religious connotations to be telecast over its channels, according to a Berita Harian report yesterday. The report said the move was taken to protect religion from being defiled. It was also meant to discourage viewers to think of
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  • 154 2 A LARGE kelong-cum-restaurant and a musical fountain will soon come up on Sentosa to attract more visitors to the island resort. The kelong-restaurant costing about $2 million will be located on a reef near the main jetty. A Sentosa Development Corporation spokesman
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  • 58 2 AFP PRESIDENT Suharto will visit Singapore this month for talks with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, State Secretary General Sudharmono said in Jakarta yesterday. He would not mention the date bt the visit saying that it was being worked out. President Suharto yesterday morning received Singapore's
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  • 268 2 TRADITIONAL Asian medicine will be the subject of an international conference to be held in Canberra from tomorrow to Saturday. The conference, the first of its kind, is organised by the Australian National University under the auspices of the World Health Organisation. Participants include
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  • 164 2 METRO Golden Mile store has found that detaining a businessman and his family to search their parcels a costly matter $1800 to be exact. A district judge yesterday ordered the store to pay damages to Mr Paul Chua Wah Liang and his five
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  • 123 2 Workers in Fairchild, an electronics firm in Toa Pay oh, will now work 18 davs less a year without suffering any loss in pay. This perk was one of several improved fringe benefits the company agreed to under a new collective agreement with
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  • 57 2 WORK on the pedestrian overhead bridge across Thomson Road near Toa Payoh Rise will be carried out from today till tomorrow at 5 a.m. During this period, part of Thomson Road between Toa Payoh Rise and Andrew Road will be closed and motorists are advised to use either
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  • 159 2 CHINESE second language teachers would be more effective if they were bilingual, as they would then understand their students better. This will make teaching easier and more challenging, said Dr Ow Chin Hock, the Parliamentary Secretary (Culture), at the 10th anniversary dinner of the Singapore Chinese
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  • 368 3 AP ABOUT 1300 gang fighters and other juvenile delinquents are attending 10 special work-study schools in Beijing where the policy is reform through selfrespect. "The children are like buds damaged by pests. When we get rid of the pests the buds will blossom," said
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  • 121 3 UPI THAILAND'S two major opposition parties will call for a vote of no confidence against four government ministers later this month, party leaders said yesterday. The decision to confront the government of Prime Minister Chomanan came in simultaneous meetings of the Social Action
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  • 172 3 Reuter CHINA yesterday published a statement by former Vietnamese Vice-Presi-dent Hoang Van Hoan calling on members of the Vietnamese Communist Party to revolt against the present leadership of party secretary-general Le Duan. The statement publish ed by the New China News Agency accused
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  • 88 3 Reuter US VICE-PRESIDENT Walter Mondale arriVbd in Hong Kong yesterday for a look at the Vietnamese refugee problem in the British colony following a week-long visit to China. The vice-president has busy a 36-hour schedule that includes a visit to a Vietnamese refugee
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  • 239 3 SIA loads up to join ranks of world's elite 25 airlines NOT only is Singapore's national carrier one of the world's top 25 passenger carriers, but it is also four notches up when it comes to flying cargo. Surveys done by an American aviation
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  • 341 4 AFP PHILIPPINE President Marcos yesterday announced the formation of close to a million-man citizen's army in anticipation of an armed conflict that could shake the Philippines after five years. The President, unusually angry and stentorian, warned the country there could be division in the
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  • 124 4 Reuter THE future of the Atlantic Alliance, 30 years after the creation of NATO, will come under close scrutiny at a high-powered international conference, which opened in Brussels yesterday. Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and nearly 100 delegates from both sides of the Atlantic
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  • 140 4 UPI LAN LAN, a female giant panda at Tokyo's IJeno Zoo, is seriously 111, zoo officials said yesterday. She was heard moaning In agony and animal keepers who rushed to the cage found her lying on the concrete floor, bleeding from her mouth. Zoo officials
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  • 79 4 THE long-legged, elegant lady striding out on her way to work In Moscow is Russian ballerina Lyudmila Vlasova. She decided last week not to continue her pas de deux with her brilliant, ballet star husband Alexander Godunov. He had decided to defect and dance to
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  • 183 4 Reuter THE UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development ended early yesterday in Vienna after setting up a new aid scheme to pump at least US$25O million (*****.5 million) into scientific research in the Third World by the end of 1981. In a
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  • 317 4 AP JAPANESE in their 40s may be committing suicide in increasing numbers because they are a "restless generation" feeling unique pressures from growing up in the aftermath of world war ii, says a university sociologist. Kenji Tamura, a professor at Tokyo's Toyo University, offered the
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  • 85 4 Reuter A CONFERENCE sponsored by the United Nations called for a one-billion-doll ars-a-year programme to curb the growth in the world's population. The conference's "Colombo declaration," summarising five days of debate on population and development problems, said unrestrained population growth could threaten world peace
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  • 170 4 UPI FOR $88, unemployed Thai rice mill worker Yongyut Thianthong allowed a doctor using only local anaesthetic to cut out one of his ribs, the worker told police yesterday. Sewed back up and paid his money, Sl-year-old Yongyut was back out on the
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    • 256 4 In and around town GIVE A CHILD A BOOK book fair and exhibition at World Trade Centre from 11.30 am. A film show. Jaws, at 3 pm and 6 pm. Admission free. THE ENLIGHTENED PHOENIX by the Singapore Phoenix Dance Troupe at the Victoria Theatre at 8 pm. Tickets: $5,
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    • 319 4 Cinema Guide LIDO (*****4): The Deer Hunter. Winner of five Academy Awards, this show is about three close friends from a Pennsylvania steel mill community who enlist to fight in the Vietnam war. One of the best films in town. Starring Robert De Niro, John Savage, Christopher Walken and John
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  • 341 5 The Non-Aligned Summit Reuter MODERATE delegates at the Non-aligned Conference in Havana yesterday pressed on with a counter-offensive against what they see as a Cuban-led attempt to shift the 96-member movement closer to Soviet policies. The moderates said they expected further at- tempts to amend
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  • 130 5 AFP PRINCE Norodom Sihanouk has "begged" the non-aligned nations to leave Kampuchea's seat vacant within the organisation, and not to widen divisions over "this artificial problem." The former Kalhpuchean head of state made the call in a telegram to the non-aligned conference now going on in
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  • 195 5 AFP THE non-aligned summit conference in Havana starting tomorrow is likely to be a fiasco unless the host country, Cuba, is forced to abandon its intention of changing the non-aligned movement to an aligned group under cne of the two
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  • 69 5 Reuter HENG Samrin, leader of the Hanoi-supported government in Kampuchea, arrived yesterday night for an official visit to Cuba during the nonaligned summit. Cuban President Fidel Castro greeted him with a warm embrace at Havana airport in a welcome that contrasted with the cold treatment
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  • 120 5 AP I.ES E. JOHNSON is better known to Salt Lake City (Utah) residents as "Bananas the Clown" and that's the name he wants to appear on the city council ballot this antnmn. But the Salt Lake City attorney's office doesn't think the Idea Is
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  • 67 5 UPI CHINESE Vice Premier Gu Mu arrived in Tokyo yesterday for a 13-day visit to Japan to discuss China's ambitious US$5 billion ($ll billion) development projects and solicit Japanaese loans totaling US$l.2 billion. Japanese government officials indicated Mr Gu has brought an
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  • 278 5 Ap JESSIE Thomas became the first patient in the world to undergo a successful spinal replacement, according to doctors at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore yesterday. She was listed in good condition in the intensive care unit after 19 consecutive hours
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  • 283 6 COMMENT BRINGING up sons the "non-sexist" way by allowing them to play with dolls, attend ballet classes or use their mothers' make-up? This was suggested recently in a Straits Times foreign feature. Singapore parents are unlikely to go that far. The Asian tradition is that boys
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  • 668 6  -  From Edgar Koh SOME tenants in the skyscraping World Trade Centre here would; if they could, "switch off, save watts, save money." But energy conservation in America is not always as simple as throwing a switch. Lights in the
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  • 1094 7 By Macaw I BROUGHT my 10-year-old nephew Alex for a walk along Shenton Way last Wednesday. This is the smart nephew, the one we call Smart Alex. His specs have more degrees than some universities. Shenton Way probably has more banks per millimetre than any
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    • 142 7 1 i lacs: V e> Auto Program Search System that no others has! •Absolutely lime-saving 1 It's an innovation thai saves you lime as you locale your favourite tune in a matter o( seconds •SHARP pioneered the high grade stereo type radio-cassette market followed by many others, but SHARP is
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  • 1207 8  -  Singapore Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Choo Hoey, with guest soloist Seow Yit Kin; Conference Hall, Aug 23 and 25. Arts Reuieui by Yap Kun Bek Southern News Service THIS was a thundering good concert and something of an event: Singapore-bred Seow Yit Kin played
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  • 312 9  -  JW JLiU j] By Tan Bah Bah BITTERSWEET LOVE (now at Premier) Los Angeles. Michael Lewis and Patricia Peterson meet and fall in love like any other couple. One day, Pat tells Mike she is pregnant. He is delighted. They then get married at Mike's parents'
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  • 773 9  -  Did Kou see that? By RJ MY PIECE last Sunday was merely to highlight the tardiness of Caldecott Hill in answering questions. I had hoped it was going to be taken constructively. I did not expect the furore it created. Up to now,
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  • 305 9  -  1 If you ask me... By Francis Chin I WOULD say there are two distinct languages used in Singapore that are being palmed off as English: the written one that we try to keep as close as possible to the "Queen's English" (whatever that is); and
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  • 103 9 DID YOU KNOW THAT SUSAN Ng tied the nnptlal knot with Kenneth Llm last week, and from what I hear, It was a nice affair. MR LIM Heng Tow Is Controller TV, not Controller Programmes. I should have known better. ALTHOUGH tennis fans must have heen delighted with the telecast
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    • 83 9 IF YOU have something to say which you would Like to share with others, why net pat It down on paper amd send It to as. we welcome contributions to this column. You can write on any subject but make It an opinion piece of about 511 words each. Please
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  • 1215 10/23  -  Jurong people exude a special charm 1 After six years, FRANCIS CHIN visited Jurong Town again last week. Here he records his impressions about the place and its people FRANCIS CHIN I WENT back to Jurong Town after six years last week and was surprised the
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    • 816 11 Sunday Nation Your 12 TV pullout HIGHLIGHTS Easy Come, Easy Go (Sunday Matinee) on Ch 5 at 2.30 p.m. Elvis Presley stars in this 1947 remake of the film of the same name. Although in colour this time around, the storyline is still thin. Elvis is a frogman diving for
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    • 160 11 Sid Jam**... zany Don't Lose Your Head (Feature Special) on Thursday, Ch 5 at 10 p.m. The riotous Sid James and Kenneth Williams star in this outrageous comedy about a guy who is known as Black Fingernail, who undertakes the impossible task of saving some aristocrats from the guillotine in
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 772 12 MONDAY Ei 5.30 PN. Open 5.35 SUMMARY 5.37 Valley Of The Dinosaurs: After Shock 5.59 Sport Magazine 6.30 NEWS (T) 6.45 Odyssey: Fables and old wives tales 7.17 Zero One Magazine 7.30 ICWS (C) 7.45 lembaran Mmggu 8.30 ICWS AND WEATHER 5.50 NEWS ROUNDUP 8.55 NEWS DIARY 9.15 UPSTARS, DOWNSTAMS:
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    • 164 13 The best time to watch your favourite TV program is when you have time to enjoy it. With a Sony Betamax video recorder connected to your TV, you can record anything on TV even when you're not at home. And then play it back whenever you want. Not only will
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    • 771 13 WEDNESDAY T 3.00 P.M. Open 303 PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISES: The Leaning Tower 01 Ridgemont (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.35 A RAGMG CALM. The continuing story of four people in a small English town, who lead quiet and orderly lives, until their paths cross. 4.25 Intermission 6.00
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    • 886 14 FRIDAY Em 3.00 PJM. Open 3.03 Housewives Matinee: Father, Husband and Son Mandarin feature film, (r) 4.30 Intermission 6.00 WLf GRAY WILDLVE: Sea To Sea This programme features salmon fishing in Canada 6.30 NEWS M BREF 6 35 SPORTS PARADE 7.00 SAMUDRA 7.30 NEWS AND NEWSREEL (M) 7.55 BARNEY MRLER
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    • 78 16/17 As a jogger you know the most important part of your equipment must be your shoes. And more people are buying Bata Joggers because they are better Joggers. Better because they have nylon uppers, and are light and soft. Tough and longlashng, so they go on and on and on.
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    • 67 16/17 K m w w 1 m VI M 0 n 7 I ■s£ v i w. Vi SCHHOOSLB CLIP r fc 23 I h Lv I m Wh "IYGF* "'r-v kV IP?.. KlN^ YOV Gfz&AV/111 IN IN PYIN^ IN /^re^TTL^ ...AUV S*&,VT hasn'T uni^mc&v ...I VW4NT Yc\) /4LL 12? AH&
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    • 86 16/17 SUNDAY NATION. SEPTEMBER Z, IV/V beetle v bailey CATW" 'MA" ,A GOOD 60 in'' z/ THOSE 6UYS SURE HAVE A LOT OF FUN TOGETHER J W A V<N -v 17 WHY PON'T WE PLAV A SAME OR SOMETHING?. IF you INSIST r, 3 i*- HEV/ YOU WERE ON MY PROPERTYANP
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    • 59 18 ARTS^ASIA In this issue: highlight on The Soken Kisho and Ojime, the Japanese Fan, r JULY X Treasures of the Orient, Netsuke AMQ "7Q J and a report on the 2nd Western Pacific Print Biennale. limes Orchard Centre M-105 Lucky Plaza (mezzanine floor), Orchard Road. T«l: *****71/*****18 OPEN lOam-830pm EVERYDAY
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    • 184 18 you KNOW ME, MRRKEL I RM ZENOD/ WHERE ARE OUR CREW ROBOTS ft a IT MUST LEAD OUT SOMEWHERE I CRN SEE R CHINK OfLIGHT.' V4i 5. M t f Gar th and Zenod look down through a grating... IT'S MRRKEL, MRRILR'S PERSONRL ROBOT/ I'LL CRLL HIM •< (SHI I
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  • 792 19 HUMOUR w i,h SO THERE I was tall and tanned and sweaty more than somewhat from a superduper, fantabulous trip to sedap country, Penang in the thick of the taxi queue at the airport arrival hall. When I came close to
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  • 552 19  -  The Music Bex By Peter Ong IT WAS early 1977 in Los Angeles. Benny Carter was asked to gather a few of his favourite musicians for a tour of Japan. Why a tour of Japan for such a big name in jazz? Well, Japan
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  • 406 19  -  Off the Record by CKT THE idea for RCA's best-selling Classic Film Scores series was dropped in the corridors of the recording company some seven years ago. Like other great ideas that catch on, this one came about the usual way. There was a company
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  • 487 20  -  By Poon Kit Yue teacher NO, WE were not posing in some country's national costume nor were we recently released from a Nazi concentration camp. We had just emerged from the Salt Mines of Berchtsegaden (West Germany), still clad in their
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  • 88 20 HALT! Who goes there? What's the pissword? Guard duty may stink in the nostrils of many a soldier but for this bearskin sentry, odour or no odour, guarding the royal privy is his lot 365 days of a year. Weil, he can't complain, can he? This soldier
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    • 142 20 1 ft i ft I I ft 4% Do you have a travel tale to tell? Here's a chance to tell L|n\A/ TVped, double spacing, Un\A/? It. And to a much wider 11OW please. And do send as MU W audience than you'd 19 Please address your ever have thought
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    • 88 20 Watch this space IF YOU don't like writing but have an eye for the unusual travel picture, don't pack it away with the other holiday souvenirs. Send it to us. It could be a snapshot of a famous tourist sight from an unusual angle, your own holiday discovery, a face
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  • 444 21  -  A new column on people and events in the Chinese film world Majorie Wong SHAW actress Ching Li Is certainly one contented lady. For an actress she leads a very simple and normal life. She goes straight home alter work: parties and discos are ont. A
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  • 1352 21 ROOTS 17 From today, the scene shifts to India, another country which has produced an enduring legacy of social, moral and political thought By Hsiaoshuang ONLY two things are worth a man's devotion, says an old Kashmiri poem: the arms of beautiful women heavy with desire,
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  • 558 22  -  Book Page By Ismail Kassim BEFORE KAMPUCHEA: PRELUDES TO TRAGEDY. By Milton Osborne George Allen Unwin, Sydney, 1979 197 pp, A 59.95. MILTON OSBORNE is a seasoned Cambodian hand, having lived in the country for two extended periods and visiting it on
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  • 577 22  -  By Alex Josey THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS. By Ewen Montagu. Evans Brothers Ltd. 118 pp. Reprinted 1978. THE story has been told before by other writers, but this is the authentic version of Operation Mincemeat, one of the most macabre deception plans ever executed. During
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  • 561 22  -  By Francis Chin THE MATARESE CIRCLE. By Robert Ludlum. Bantam. 536 pp. $8.50. WOULD you believe the world's two deadliest secret services the Soviet KGB and the American CIA tremble in fear of another organisation more sinister and powerful than anything known in
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 69 22 MOST IMPORTANT IS TO AVOW THE CAUSE, IN THIS CASE THE PENICILLIN TAKE THESE ANTIHISTAMINE TABLETS, THEV PREVENT THE RELEASE OF HISTAMINE. Doctor in the House m ABOUT 20 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION GET AN ALLERGIC REACTION AT ONE POINT OR ANOTHER VURING A LIFETIME. SOMETIMES IT'S VUE TO FOOV,
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  • 1558 24 lobsters were on holiday in the Bermuda Triangle' Richard Lim, 15, is the author of this science fiction spoof or, as his teacher at the Anglo-Chinese School, Mrs Angeline Khoo, put it, tongue-in-cheek, "a tale he could tell his mother." Richard is a Secondary Three student.
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  • Sports Nation starts on this page
    • 730 25 RUGBY The Scrumhalves GOOD news for the Singapore Rugby Union! There will be NO play-off for the final of this year's Malaysian Rugby Union Open Invitational tournament. The Malaysian Rugby Union secretary, Dr Cnan Onn Leng, gave this assurance recently following an appeal by Singapore
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    • 580 26  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng THE Singapore Amateur Athletic Association's first Coaches Panel meeting will be held on Sept 6 at Sports House. It will be for all coaches at schools, clubs and national levels qualified or otherwise. This is in keeping with the new
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    • 420 26  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan PLAYERS competing in South East Asia Games at Jakarta later this month may do so at ease without any (ear of being reprimanded, banned or otherwise discriminated by the International Badminton Federation This assurance was given in an article
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    • 608 27  -  TONUS TALK Alfred Tong MOST of us call it the "sweet spot." But Dr Howard Brody, a University of Pennsylvania physicist, calls it the "centre of percussion." "Sweet spot," Dr Brody would have us know, is tennis jargon "and nobody
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    • 171 27 Reuter THE newest and youngest American tennis prodigy has every reason to be proud of herself after her initiation into big-time tennis at the US Open championships now in progress at Flushing Meadows. Kathleen Horvath, who turned 14 last Saturday, took on sixth-seeded Dianne
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    • 114 27  -  The Teaching Pro... By Don J. Leary 1. Player at right has gotten too close to the ball: A. The wrong foot is stepping to the ball; back hip crowds shot. B. Due to the pinch, racquet head is straight up and elbow is bent. He will
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    • 225 27 AP SLEW Hester, the guiding force behind the move of the US Open from the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills to the bustling new multi-million dollar National Tennis Center across the borough of Queens in Flushing Meadow, said he hoped that in time
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    • 549 28 IS the Jack Nicklaus era in golf a thing of the past? Nicklaus says no! But a good attorney might reply, "Let's take a look at the evidence." The 39-year-old Nicklaus has played in only 10 of the 29 professional tour events this year,
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    • 360 28  -  NETBALL Joyce Tan EACH year the Singapore Women's Netball Association celebrates Pesta Sukan with an all-day netball carnival. And this year's "netball fiesta", which will be held at the Farrer Park grass courts today, has attracted a record number of 59
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    • 65 28 UPI THE International Swimming Federation (Fina) is opening the door for China to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. This was disclosed by Fina officials after a meeting in Tokyo yesterday. An official said: "Fina, who are in charge of Olympic swimming events, will allow Chinese
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