New Nation, 6 January 1980

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    9 1 Sunday Nation JANUARY 6, 1980 35CENTS M.C.(P) No. 114/1/80
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      41 1 PAP to unveil blueprint for the Eighties Story in Page 2 -v vW TRI n M 1 Where the PAP went wrong: Dr Toh Page 2 I Kin 111 <C ,1 M, I if "k PLUS Dissent by radio Asia Mag
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      69 1 AMERICA'S FAVOURITE Golf, Jogging. Tennis, Squash Soccer Shoes Apparel OEtankl Sole Agent Merdings Leisure Pte Ltd 23 Park House Orchard Boulevard Singapore 10 Tel *****55.*****18 Also available ai all leading spoils shops and pio shops GAPOBE j* rw < i m r f *&/={_}<-!!?*/_*".<:.,++&*)/!$> Afghanistan, the start of new cold
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    MUSEUM TO BE ENLARGED?
    120 2 THE National Museum may soon have an another building to provide more exhibition and storage space. Full details are still being worked out, according to the museum director Mr Christopher Hooi. His remarks followed an announcement by Communciations Minister and acting Culture Minister Ong Teng Cheong,
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    Driving instructors
    40 2 REGISTERED driving instructors may have their licences cancelled if they charge unreasonable fees or fail to provide satisfactory instruction to learners. These conditions are spelt out in the Road Traffic Rules 1980 which came into effect on Friday.
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    PAP to unveil blueprint for 80s
    658 2 THE PAP will be presenting its new party manifesto at a mass rally to celebrate its 25th anniversary, a fitting occasion, the party thinks, to review its performance and extract lessons for the future. Speakers at the rally to be held two Sundays from
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    Our first lessons in govt
    429 2 How PAP lost goodwill and recovered it 6 THE Committee reported that although reforms were introduced for the ultimate good of the people they were pushed through without adequate explanation or consultation with the people involved. In their implementation the bureaucracy showed little sympathetic concern
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    Finger massage done here
    246 2 FINGER massage as a substitute for needles is practised by acupuncturists here, though It is not as widely known among the public. "We use it mainly (or patients who are afraid of the needles, for example children," said a Chinese physician at the Chung Hwa Free
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    Fire in Macpherson factories
    123 2 WATCHMAN Bawa Singh was having his afternoon bath when he noticed smoke billowing from the central area of the Macpherson Road factory com godown where he worked. Dashing ont from the bathroom, he telephoned the fire brigade, which sent six Ore engines and 53 men rushing
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      237 3 it i" 99S> 1980 MOSCOW The Official Supplier of Video for The Olympics is your Guarantee of the Best Home Video Equipment. Introducing the VS-9700 Akai's appointment as exclusive supplier of home video equipment for the 1980 Olympic Games is one more powerful proof of Akai's reputation for the highest
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    Lock icon No open door for US forces
    503 4 Arab states wary of getting involved in super-power scramble after Afghanistan AFP AP Reuter THE SOVIET military intervention in Afghanistan has raised Arab fears of a super-power scramble for the Middle East at the expewjof its people. than a weeks tfnerj thousands of RUlfllf
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    Lock icon Rebels battle Soviets for Afghan town
    137 4 UPI WIDESPREAD fighting flared across Afghanistan between Soviet forces and Afghans resisting the invasion yesterday, while reports indicated a fierce battle was raging for control of Herat, an Afghan city 112 kilometres from the border with Iran. The Afghans, comprising Muslim rebels and regular
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    Lock icon Sherry's 'laugh and cry' movies
    265 4 AP SHERRY LANSING, who caused a bit of a stir in the American movie industry by being made 20th Century Fox s president the first female mogul in Hollywood history has vowed to turn out movies with "someone to root for, movies that make you
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    Lock icon Carter ready to help Iran
    385 4 UPI Reuter PRESIDENT Carter held eat aa ellve hraach to Iraa on Friday, saylag ladlrectly that America stands ready to deliver aid eaee the hestoges are released If eemmea Interests dictate such a meve. Is UMUchg <ni television that he weald seed military aid to
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      420 4 Cinema Guide CATHAY (*****0): The Lady Soldiers. Comedy film, stars Laurence Mercier, Dora Doll and Gerard Sety. 11, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15. ODEON (*****6): Alien. A science-fiction thriller about a monster loose in a spaceship. 10.30, 1.15, 4, 6.45, 9.30. ORCHARD (*****88): The Champ. Starring Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky
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      488 5 w 9 f kK'i it SI w yZ 6 Cash prizes must be won! (SOOiOOO in each of two draws! 3 Prizes of $*****0 10 Prizes of $2,000 10 Prizes of $-(0,000 1600 Prizes of $50 Winnings will be credited to accounts as soon as the results are announced. And
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    Bride's day, guests' day
    231 6 COMMENT IT WAS a beautiful chinch wedding, as always. The couple made their iGptrance to the Wedding March, the service was read, and the bride glowed while the grbonnlooked a trifle solemn. Then guests adjournal tp their flat, where, before friends and relations,, the bride and
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    So long as the pocket allows it
    360 6  -  If you ask me... If you want to make a splash, there's a cheaper, easier way than the grand wedding dinner...but it's a maverick suggestion STEVEN SEAH THE traditional wedding dinner is not a prerequisite for a valid marriage in Singapore. But the
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    7 out of 10 brides blushing
    181 6  -  EL-SU-SHAN CERTAINLY brides should behave with traditional maidenly modesty at the grand dinner. For despite today's lower standards of morality, 71 per cent of brides I mean Asian brides are still Ignorant about what awaits them in the bridal chamber. Hie other St per
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    Beach barbecue, garden parties...
    171 6  -  PATRICK WEI FORGET the grand wedding dinner and hold a small one for relations and close friends. It's easier for bride and groom to mingle and for everyone to feel they are a part of things. DAVID. THROW a simple buffet instead. It will cost about
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    THE GRANDEST CEREMONY
    325 6 I AM a simple girl of marriageable age. For my wedding day, I look forward to a simple ceremony when I can be my natural self by the side of the man I have chosen. I want no elaborate veil to mar my view and absolutely no
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      98 6 TAKE OUT a full-page announcement that you've eloped, says reader H. K. LIM, suggesting Sunday Nation, if you want to shun the bother of a traditional wedding dinner. It would beat the grandest wedding dinner for impact hands down. Other readers had less radical answers to the questions we posed
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    Start of new cold war
    947 7  -  PERSPECTIVE Russia is quietly moving pieces on a global checkerboard i|i Chang Kai Ming AFGHANISTAN, which has been occupied by Soviet troops in defiance of Muslim and Third World opinion, is the poorest country in Asia. It is twice the size of Malaysia, with a
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      329 7 Make it a season of good food and good cheer with a LA GERMAN IA A must in every modern kitchen La German® has a wide range of gas cookers, cooker hoods and washing machines to suit the needs of any household. With a La Germania you get the best
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    Minced beef omelette for jaded palates
    357 8  -  Cooking with ///U By Aloyah Alkaff TELOR BUNGKUS (OMELETTE WITH BEEF FILLING) THE past two weeks of festive feasting must have left you feeling like the stuffed turkey you ate. I HAVE a recipe this week that's easy to prepare and that won't make
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    Put fun back in wedding dinners
    885 8  -  Terry Tan THE letters we received in response to our If You Ask Me column about the wedding dinner seem to run to two extremes of feeling. Most would prefer to do away with it altogether or retain it as it is. But few
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    Curry noodles
    399 8  -  T*M*f*ri By Terry Tan CHICKEN CUBBY NOODLES YOU don't have to agonise anymore about not being able to get this tasty dish except from a noodle house. With good old instant noodles, a can of curry chicken and a modicum of effort you can put together a hearty
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    Lock icon Headlong into 1980
    845 9 Reading the lines on the face of Singapore for $10 MACAW THE APPROACH of a new year always makes me anxious. What lies ahead? Now that we are entering a new decade, the *****, I decided to seek the views of experts. That was how I came
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    Monorail more than a gimmick
    245 9  -  MISS TONG SUIT CHEE WE REFER to the letter from Nature Lover under the heading "Monorail menace" which appeared on Dec 2. We wish to thank Nature Lover for his observations and are glad he is familiar with the various facilities available in Sento6a. We
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      144 9 Dear Editor Your totter must ghw your namo and address, though you may includo a pseudonym if you don't want your namo pubWahad. Ptoaaa typo your lottor, douMe-speced, on ono skis only and giva a talaphona numbor at which you may bo contacted. MffiKESWRtSiT AuwiN r t 4 ■h —•r
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      106 9 Doctor in the House BUT FLUIV IS FLUIV WHATEVER THE TASTE. NO, NOT IF IT CONTAINS ALCOHOL ALCOHOL MAKES THE 80PV EXCRETE MORE WATER THAN VOU PRINK. ALCOHOL INCREASES THE URINARV EXCRETION OF WATER THROUGH A HORMONAL EFFECT THE MORE I PRINK THE MORE THIRSTV I GET/ VON'T VOU THINK
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    Pressure points
    1874 10/23 that can ease~ aches and pain i isi 4 ;l t Kf > ACUPUNCTURE 14 4h*«traditional Chinese method of treating pet| and disease. It has aroused scepticism in the West. Yet in recent years we have seen films of patients chatting away quite happily while having part of
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      42 11 Danclca Now it'll cost you less at our new regular price! A A ft* fcXr. f.".:?// iL v <:ir :j« T3 52 2 v 5- v*~ fi TEk OQ Sole Agent M/Km BEN AND COMPANY mPLIMITED Available at leading supermarkets retail shop
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      1182 11 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullout i ft* \A Chart** Gray to tragic PICK OF THE WEEK etz CO OUR TV Jufius Caesar (Pt 1) on Mon Ch 5 at 10 p.m. This is one of six of the bard's works that RTS will be telecasting. Shakespeare may not be
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      1063 12 MONDAY ALTEC LANSING 3.00 PM. Open 3.03 ILAYA THAI AMUR Al (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS 3.35 AFTERNOON MATMEE: Cotton Candy (Pt 1) 4.30 Intermission (.00 Open 6.03 LEARNM6 TREE 6.15 DAISY, DAISY 6.30 NEWS M BMEF 6.35 THE FABULOUS TALKMG TIC MACHINE 7.00 SUPERFRCNDS Last episode 7.30 NEWS (M)
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      151 13 r! A r i^S i < MS £1 £2 50 SONY The best time to watch your favourite TV program is whenJ/jy 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
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      807 13 WEDNESDAY ALTEC LANSING 3.00 PM Open 3.03 PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISES: The Things They Play (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.35 HOLDMG ON. As unemployment mounts in Britain during the 1920'5, Charlie, now a stevedore in the Lorxlon Docks, is well placed to get work. He sees hundreds
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      192 14 A beautiful day tear you and your family ajMrt With National's VH Video Cassette can enjoy both go out and take in that bequtiful day, coma back an&tahe lathe TV. Othar benefits of the National VHS: Creating your Watching one Charme*. whtie recording another Continuous 3-hour recording of programmes The
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      1009 14 FRIDAY ALTEC LANSING P.M. Open HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE: I Don't Cry Mandarin feature Intermission Open ANMAL WORLD: Elephants Of India Shows the importance of the elephant in the everyday life of the people of India and nearby countries, and how this enormous pachyderm is caught and trained to become one of
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      47 15 ■Wi kit S».TT' 2. >; c' -V 4V r u 1 > Ul\ \vf *<lU* f E8 A fib o TimesOrchardCentre M-105 Lucky Plaza (mezzanine floor). Orchard Road. Tel: *****71/*****18 OPEN 10am 9.30pm EVERYDAY Specialists! Centre. Orchard Road IXUUIIISUII» Clifford Centre. Raffles Place John Littles 4th Floor, Plaza Singapura
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      246 15 V/HU.E REX CONSIPERS GIVING UP ALICE K TO SET HER MEPICAL ATTENTION... THE LAPY HERSELF TAKES ACTION/ mM/<r< m YES. IF I CAN'T HAVE HER...AT LEAST JAX AM NEVER WILL/ IT J 1 ISJ? i !W Ji 1 5« EN 1 r r. THE WCVWAN wants battle, TRVCE, WARRIORS ARE
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      170 18 c&> FT-031 Endear yourself to your caller with pleasant music from Sankyo Musical telephone rest. It also doubles f asa practical telephone rest or sometimes a desk butler. Now you can "personalized" them with your Company logo. They make great gifts for your clients. Available at all departmental stores toy
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      152 18 Rrnval in Mersa... tm Q. f a v* fa TO Wn te aelF N President Kolambe... I' </|, 33 1 GRRTH RND THE FRENCH WOMRN RGENT RRE SAFELY PUT RWRY/ JOLLY GOOD SHOW NOW MY SPECIAL INTERROGATORS CRN GET TO WORK I 7, 2 5? JZ m Li k 1
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      154 19 Julius Caesar, Romeo and Jii Richard 11... Don't miss thje dramatic works of William Shakespeare on Channel 5. f 0> 4fl£ 123 todqi 319T j m X M V" a t* »m f* C V- f. f 4» V -Vi* A jfc ft I d Starting tomorrow, six Shakespearean plays
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    Lock icon Vikings and trolls, blondes and beer...
    1439 20 $0. By TAURUS MY FIRST glimpse of Scandinavia (Denmark to be exact), reminded me vividly of a model landscape laid out in a toy train set. My British Airways jet touched down amidst attractive countryside. White picket fencing stood out against green fields and
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    Making head-lines
    59 20 A SIGHT to warm the heart of Vocational and Industrial Training Board (Villi) director, Mr Urn Jit Poh ("I would like to see male trainees having a crewcut") Reader Yeo Poh Mul, who visited the Assumption College in Bangkok with some of her classmates last year, was amused
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      91 20 Watch this space W V K 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
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      145 20 Do you have a travel tale to tell? Here's a ehaaee to toll It. Aad to n nek wider Win thaa yea'd ever have theaght portble. Saaday Nattoa nam a weekly travellers' eahuna wrlttoa by ear readers. It eaa be a travelogue type story er Jut a little laddeat er
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    Allegorical shades of Animal Farm
    447 22 The Book Page THE BOOK OF fat J DUN COW. By Walter Wangerin. Penguin, 1979. 241 pp., $6.65. THIS 18 lte g° r y eternal ItrMgle tx»sl tween 1U is the leader ot his land and is responsible for the bowlives* Wyrm who 4s the
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    Fine writing, but it's no thriller
    683 22  -  By Alex Josey THE COUP. By John Updike. Andre Deutsch, 1979. 299 pp., £4.95. THIS is a thriller written by a man dedicated to fine writing. The result is calamity. The book ends up by being neither a readable thriller, nor an absorbing novel.
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      66 22 R (Rukun Tetangga h <lnT —community patrol) ulwca By Lat 15 minutes' to 9 I -fhi/ik rest here for iO r c/ -fh€n walk bq<k to <*"<* Sijn off rz r m M m 5f 3 r s* te M 'M i i 5y^ 5^5 7. 30 A.*1... 2^ 53?
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    Lock icon Adding up to a neat music piece
    409 24 Off tire Record by CKT WHEN you come down to it, really, what can you say about a neat piece of music except that it is the sum of its parts that makes it work? Well, there was the usually exegetical Anthony Hopkins
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    Funny Londoners and their sense of direction
    876 24 Gullible's Travels *,»>. Dear Firbank, Remember our bi|ddy-buddy Kian Cnye, holder of the decade's Mr Nice Guy (World) Award? Well he was in town last week and I think he's about ready to resign his title. "You know, PaikChoo," he said, "I like
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    Exciting sounds of 1980s
    866 24  -  Will a rock singer from China take the world by storm? The Music Box By Peter Ong THE SOUND of the Seventies was the sound of clanging cash registers. Pop, disco, teenboppery, fusion music, punk and rock all tried to grab a slice of the recording
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    Going ape over Tarzan
    481 25  -  TV Guest Column One of two cartoons for adults By M. Gwee IT CANNOT be true I'm the only adult who watches cartoons. I know three-quarters of Singapore's TV sets are turned on near dinnertime. I'm possibly a reluctant adult but I can think of two
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    Flower power carried too far
    204 25 THE National Anthem quietens. Immediately, a dirge of Singapura, Oh Singapura fills the air. Then four ladies, flawlessly groomed and in national costume, stroll into a miniature Garden of Eden, set against a too-blue-to-be-true sky. Orchids surround them. Red ones, yellow ones, white ones, purple
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    News shows
    63 25 RTS's only current affairs shows are the news, newsreel and the end-of-year reviews. Insufficient far the politically orientated. Could we have at least one programme, preferably on weekends, on events at large news, reviews and comment. Ii could be on the lines o4 such foreign shows as Sixty
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    Another charming tale with a gushy ending
    419 25  -  JJ3 By Tan Bah Bah A Little Romance (ended at Lido) Two youngsters from different worlds meet in Paris, fall in love and, with encouragement and help from an elderly pickpocket, set out to seal their eternal love under the legendary Bridge of
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    It never showers but it pours
    387 25 TAIWANESE actor Chin Hsiang Lin appearing in the nude? Well, It's only in the showers, according to a Chinese newspaper a month ago. It seemed Chin and his female lead, Lin Ching Hsia, were shooting a movie by a small-time company and in the
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    You watch TV Why not make it pay
    296 25 This it your splice Space SSEff doesn't matter if yotive never written few a newspaper before. Just tell it the way you ffp*l. What do you think of the programme, it* choice ol subject, for example. Was it handled the right way,
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      QBE league rolls off again after lull
      468 26  -  Alley Chat By Brian Miller THE QBE Inter-Commercial Houses League, the premier league in Singapore for the last four years, will resume at Jackie's Bowl System 460 on Tuesday. The brainchild of Mr David Durant, the League was suspended for the last four
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      Lock icon Jesse faces demotion if he fails again
      389 26 EXPATS' CORNER UPI HAWAIIAN Jesse Kuhaulua has survived many a crisis in Japan's indigenous sport of sumo but at 35, with his demoted 11th maegashira rating, he faces this time a do-or-die fate in the 15-day tournament starting in Tokyo today. Having suffered
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      Lock icon Champs out
      116 26 Reuter CHAMPIONS South Africa will be unable to defend their titles when the World lawn bowls championships start in Melbourne on Jan 16. Australia's government, acting on United Nations guidelines about sporting contacts with South Africa, refused visas to the champions, who hold the singles, doubles, triples and
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      Lock icon New job for Wood
      145 26 UPI WILLIE WOOD, five-time US National Football League all-pro safety with the Green Bay Packers, was named head coach of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League on Thursday. "I feel that a person from within our organisation is what we need to get this
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      Who's No.l among the girls?
      648 27  -  HMOS TALK Alfred Tong NO ONE, I think, can reasonably dispute Bjorn Borg's standing as the No. 1 male player in the world in 1979. Not Jimmy Connors, the erstwhile numero uno, who was comprehensively beaten by Borg the last time they played, at the
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      Lock icon CLASSIC POACH
      71 27  -  The Teaching Pro... By Don J. Leary Want to intimidate doubles opponents? Try poaching: A. Signal server with behind the back hand signal. B. Server hits right at stomach of foe. C. When returner starts motion net man darts cross court to intercept return. D. Net man volleys
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      All is still not well in S'pore
      268 28  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan ALL II jMll Jnot well. The au ■pnWl coach threat* tc| quit on the evi >l#ie Singapore for the Httifg Konfi Invitational tournament and' our best schoolboys ended up as woodep spoonists at the Second Asean meet in Jakarta. Coach
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      S'pore to play in Jakarta
      254 28 RUCBY Tin Scnimhalves INDONESIA have asked the Singapore Rugby Union to nelp popularise the game there by sending the Singapore team to play an exhibition match in Jakarta in late March. Rugby in Indonesia is resently played mainly y expatriates. If the SRU agree to
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      The ladies had a fun time
      355 28  -  NETBALL Joyce Tan THE ladies Daisy Tan, Clarice Tan, and Wee Gim Eng who went to Trinidad and Europe last year had a hilarious time, if these snippets by Clarice in the latest issue of the SWNA bulletin, Netball, are anything to go by:
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      Diving for fun and profit
      971 29  -  SHIRLEY TAN talks to Benny Yeo, S'pore's only internationally qualified scuba diving instructor SHIRLEY TAN IT ALL started with a misconception. For six years he dived for the Singapore Navy. He was even recruiting divers and showing them the ropes of scuba diving. He was
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      'Platform' aim for this new SAAA bulletin
      349 29  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng TRUE to their promise, the SAAA Coaches' Executive Committee have brought out a publication of their own, called Track and Field Bulletin, under the auspices of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association. It's publication makes the SAAA one of the
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      Off to a flying start
      1211 30  -  ?y K. L. CHAN take the of the 1980 racingTfefson at Ipoh.yesterday. Well harvflod ljy M. C. Lam, <fjupe with a stonrijfjg run,,oyer the last 200m jA pip tfie frontrunner at,the post. Neglected mjthe betting, r paid a handsome .dividend of $53 for a win
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      BAS decide to keep the men's team at home
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