New Nation, 11 February 1980

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    17 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Monday, February 11, 1980 2796 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 109/1/80 NEW NATION COMMENT
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    'Chances are good'
    321 1 S'pore-Japan computer institute The possibility of setting up the JapanSingapore Institute of Information for Technology here is "very high", according to a Japanese envoy here. A six-man Japanese government team is here to conduct a feasibility study on the proposed project. The first secretary (commercial) of the
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    Lock icon 8 hurt in crash
    88 1 Morning traffic along Bukit Timah Road was brought to a near standstill by a four-vehicle collision near Boys' Town today. Eight people were slightly injured in the accident involving a Malaysian trailer, a Malaysian car, a Singapore lorry and a Singapore car at about 7.40 a.m.
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      27 1 Forecast Singapore's weather outlook from 1 to 6 I p.m.: Showers in a few 1 places in early afteri noon. Sunset today: 6.51 I p.m. Sunrise tomorrow:
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    Golden Hinde in S'pore
    506 2 Replica of original ship here to trace Drake's voyage for BBC TV series Ahoy there! What's that ship doing in Singapore waters? Doesn't it look familiar? Well, yes it does. This is a replica of Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hinde which sailed around the world in
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    Kolam Ayer reading project for kids
    226 2 The Kolam Ayer Constituency Residents Committee Zone A will launch a reading project for children in May. The pilot project, to be conducted at the void deck of a block of flats in Upper Boon Keng Road, is for 50 children between nine and
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    Mime show
    53 2 The Culture Ministry, in association with the Goethe Institut, will present two performances by the Mime Theatre Cologne led by Milan Sladek at the Victoria Theatre on Feb 25 and 26 at 8 p.m. Tickets at $2 and $1 are available at the Victoria Theatre, C. K. Tang
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    Sage gets job enquiries
    88 2 The Singapore Action Group of Elders (Sage) has received more than 12 enquiries from private organisations for full-time or part-time staff. This follows an announcement last month by its chairman, Dr Lim Chan Yong, that the group is starting an employment scheme for its members. The
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    Buffet
    32 2 A fashion show and dance performance will highlight a poolside buffet cum dance organised by the Henderson community centre youth group at the Hotel Merlin on March 1 at 7.30 p.m.
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    STOCK MARKET
    298 3 Fresh buying support pushed share prices higher across the board in fairly active trading during the first 45 minutes at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. On the industrial front, Bains were posted by nited Engineers, Pan Electric and Guthrie. In the property sector, City Developments continued its
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    Party
    25 3 The Bukit Ho community centre woman subcommittee will hold a New Year party for children at its premises on Feb 23 at 3 p.m.
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    Letting 'rough diamonds' shine
    222 3 Two senior officials of the NTUC were promoted recently in what observers see as a move to enhance the status of grass-root unionists. They are Mr V. Jayakody, a higher industrial relations officer (HIRO) who has been promoted to assistant director and Mr Edwin Netto, an
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    Upgrading courses for maritime officers
    90 3 The Singapore Maritime Officers' Union (SMOU) Is subsidising 75§ members for upgrading courses at the Singapore Polytechnic. The anion Is giving $15 each for 159 members taking the radiotelephony coarse which will begin on May 12. The fee for this sixweek coarse is $N each.
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    D and D
    40 3 The Stamford community centre youth group will hold a dinner and dance at the Northern Palace Restaurant on March 1 at 7.30 p.m. Tickets at $18 per person and $32 per couple are available at the centre.
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    First tender for Raffles City called
    187 3 The first tender for civil engineering works in the $600 million Raffles City complex has been called. The project, which involves excavation work on 500,000 cubic metres and the reconstruction of the Stamford Canal adjoining the complex, is estimated to cost $18 million. Work
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    Tutors needed
    43 3 Volunteer English stream tutors are needed by the Mountbatten community centre to conduct free lessons in English, Science and Mathematics for Primary Three and Primary Six students in the lower income group. Those interested can contact Miss Yeng at telephone *****7.
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    SPC and Pertamina oil deal
    81 3 The Singapore Petroleum Company will refine about one per cent of Indonesia's total crude oil production under an agreement between SPC and Pertamina, Indonesia's national oil company. Under the agreement, which was signed in Jakarta on Saturday, SPC will process 12,000 to' 17,000 barrels of
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    Problems all the way for writers
    372 4 The topic of the forum was Local Writers, their Problems and Pleasures. But the four two novelists, a poet and a dramatist could not speak of their pleasures of writing in the local literary scene. Instead, they dwelt at length on the problems ana
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    Ministry studies dismissal
    182 4 The Labour Ministry is looking into the circumstances undef which the MP for Thomson, Mr Ang Nam Piau, was dismissed by the management of Jurong Shipyard last month. Labour Minister Ong Pang Boon is understood to have called for a report on the matter. Mr Ang was
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    Dance course
    32 4 The Metropolitan YMCA is organising a 12-week course on international folk dancing for beginners at its Palmer Road premises from March 2 to May 18. For more information, telephone *****66.
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    Prices up, business goes down
    139 4 Most stall holders in Chinatown say that the volume of business during this year's festive season is about the same as last year's. However, some stalls reported that their business had dropped slightly because of higher prices this year. Miss Chow Ah Huay, who sells
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    MAKING TRACKS
    134 5 Cement and sandmlx tracks like this are being laid at several parts el Sentosa te provide a sale and proper track for cyclists. They will form part of a five-kilometre track to cover half the island, from the ferry terminal to the swimming lagoon. The S-metre wide track
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    98 RCs set up in 27 areas
    351 5 Residents appreciate their work Ninety-eight residents' committees have been set up in 27 constituencies.This is about one-third the targeted number to be set up in 56 constituencies. Those already set up were either initiated by the various MPs or by the Prime Minister's
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    Lectures
    29 5 A 10-session course in general principles of law will be held at the YMCA, Orchard Road, from Friday at 6.30 p.m. For registration and more details, telephone *****8.
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    A-bomb expert gets creaming
    67 6 Noted phycicist Dr Edward Teller, who helped develop the atomic bomb, was a victim of a lessfatal attack on Wednesday. He was slapped with a cream pie during a lecture engagement at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). The attacker was unidentified and police hustled him
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    Lock icon Khmer base falls to Viets
    149 6 AFP Bangkok, Monday Vietnamese infantry units involving some 2600 troops attacked a Khmer Rouge stronghold in the mountainous Phnom Chatr region from three directions, in a battle which dislodged the guerillas from a major Dase in northwestern Kampuchea early this month, a Nation Review Daily
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    Lock icon Ad not a hit with parents
    75 6 AFP Stockholm, Monday A Swedish Telephone Agency ad about new automatic dialing to Australia and Japan is costing a lot to parents of young pop music fans. The agency's slogan was: "Dial **********000 and you will hear the number one song on the Hit
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    Lock icon Chinese lode up
    208 6 US helping to mine gold Reuter Beijing, Monday China is developing two gold mines, with foreign technical help, which have a potential yield of at least US$2OO million ($430 million) worth of gold a year by 1962, at current market prices, an American adviser working on the
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    Lock icon KEEP IT HUSH
    130 6 AFP BelJUlg, Monday The Chinese Communist Party has Indirectly bat firmly urged Its members to be more careful about party secrets In an article yesterday, revealing Mother rise In the level of the country's spymanla. Meanwhile, the Heliongjlang Dally has disclosed the existence of "forces carrying out
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      508 6 fa J} A Murder With A Borrowed Knife Bunuh Dengan Sebilah Pisau Pinjaman illustrator: Lui Thue Wah 36 Tricks •Muslihat 36 m my M V m m m m mm *>») s /i* ''\N m i UK fi a '•'III i a 5"' M 'In i x vM\ yZL2 Vk
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    Lock icon IOC members shocked by Vance speech
    173 7 World Focus Reuter Lake Placid (New York), Monday Members of the International Olympic Committee have expressed shock over the speech delivered to the group on Saturday night by US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, lOC director Monique Berlioux said yesterday. Mr Vance declared that
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    Lock icon Clark repeats finance offer
    194 7 AFP Reuter Vancouver, Monday Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark yesterday reaffirmed his country s willingness to help finance the alternative Olympic Games at Montreal if a decision was taken to transfer the games from Moscow because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. "I've indicated that we
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    Lock icon TODAY
    104 7 UPI TODAY is Monday, Feb 11, the 42nd day of 1980 with 324 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born Feb 11,1847. ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY: In 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    119 7 AP Lafayette (Colorado), Monday When confronted by police about a hit-and-run accident, Michael Wilson had an explanation. "Well, It's like this officer. My dog's a lousy (bad) driver,'" Wilson, 3f, told officer Eugene Carlton. The accident involved a section of fence in the mobile home park where
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    Lock icon Defiant Aeroflot lands again
    262 7 UPI AFP New York, Monday An Aeroflot jet with 145 people on board, including 122 Soviet athletes bound for the winter Olympics in Lake Placid, defied instructions from the port authority of New York and New Jersey yesterday and landed at John F. Kennedy Inter- national
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      272 7 A swinging Chinese New Year at the Merlin 1980. The Lunar year of the monkey. We'll get you right into the swing of things with a colourful traditional Lion Dance at 6.30 pm on 16 February and special 'ang pows' for all our guests. Have a swinging Chinese New Year
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    Bani-Sadr or the students?
    313 8 Some semblance of normalcy appears to be returning to Iran as the new government of President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr begins to find its voice and assert its authority over the country. One of the clearest indications of this is the attempt to establish the stamp of government
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    THEIR VIEWS
    75 8 4 The embargo on grain will come to be known as a grievous error in judgement. Grain will find its way to the USSR through bogus buyers and sellers and middlemen. A simpler and more effective solution to the President's urge to strike back at the Soviets would
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      Still on line
      104 8 Many people have the knack of "switching off" completely when they go on leave or when they step out of their working place. Some don't. A colleague is one of those who don't. He has, in fact, taken so little leave for so long that it took
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      Late evidence
      32 8 An English judge rejected an order that a Great Dane be destroyed because it was dangerous. He then gave the dog a friendly pat, at which it bit his hand.
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    Lock icon Court jesters of Canadian politics
    588 8 Christian Science Monitor Montreal: If you're prone to uncontrollable yawning at the merest mention of Canada's imminent general election (and tens of thousands here are), you probably haven't heard of the Monty Pythons of Canadain politics the Rhinocerous Party. Dubbed the "court jesters of the
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    Japan keeps an inscrutable face
    411 8  -  By Swadesh De Roy our Tokyo reporter The Soviet Union has deployed about 10 medium-range SS-20 ballistic missiles and an equal number of "Backfire" supersonic bombers in the immediate Far East vicinity of Japan. Now, is this latest deployment, on top of whatever massive buildup
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    WESTERNERS ARE NO LESS FILIAL
    659 8  -  MONDAY WITH GLORIA CHANDY GLORIA CHANDY The young in Singapore constantly need to have filial piety knocked into them by government leaders, teachers and parents. There is no denying that filial piety invariably dubbed an Asian exclusive is a valuable lesson to be learnt. But
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    Life-guard who surfaced to top
    373 9  -  It took him nine years Time Off by Judith Hale In nine years, Mr Derrick Tay has risen from being a life-guard in the Hilton to an assistant banquet sales manager in the Mandarin. All it took was equal doses of ambition and determination. His
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    A way with passengers
    146 9 Coffee and tea even before stepping into the aircraft were what 60 Pan American guests got last Tuesday morning., No, it was not the airline's latest service, but a day when employees who are members of a movement called Aware spend their time serving passengers. Aware
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    Hotel warning for guests
    167 9 Since time immemorial, syndicates have been preying on tourists. And after a spate of crimes in hotels, managements will warn the tourists by putting up notices in their rooms. The few I have come across are fairly straight- forward but the most recent one I read
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    A big help from little brother
    87 9 It is usually the big brothers who lend a hand to fledgling companies, bat British Airways (BA) broke the norm by asking Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) for help. Little brother's flight operations manager has just finished training six BA captains and first officers. BA
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    Bigger and better festival
    136 9 The second Asian travel festival promises to be more lavish than last year's. The national tourist organisations (NTOs) of Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand have decided on the theme Asia at Your Doorstep. They hope the fair, to be held
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    Lock icon Carter heads for victory in Maine
    133 10 Reuter Augusta (Maine), Monday President Carter on Saturday appeared headed for a narrow victory over Senator Edward Kennedy in the Maine caucuses, their second test in the battle for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination and their first fight on Mr Kennedy's home ground of
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    Lock icon Soviet troops on Pak border: Zia
    330 10 Agencies Sibi (Pakistan), Monday President Muhammad Zia Ul-Haq said yesterday that Soviet troops in Afghanistan had now reached the towns of Jalalabad and Spin Baldak and were casting eyes at Pakistan's frontier posts at Khyber in the north and Chaman in the south. "So
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    Lock icon Inspiring 'crisis' in Lebanon, Tunisia
    74 10 AP Cairo, Monday The Soviet Union is inspiring "crisis" in Lebanon ana Tunisia to draw attention away from its intervention in Afghanistan, an authoritative Egyptian magazine said on Saturday. The weekly October, in an editorial by Anis Mansour, its editor, and a close friend of
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    Lock icon Accused of pocketing cash
    147 10 UPI Quetta (Pakistan), Monday The head of a private relief group accused local officials yesterday of pocketing funds from the sale of food supplies intended for Afghan refugees. "Refugees have told us they have not received their daily allowances or food rations," the Rev Ziahir Ud
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    Lock icon Five bundles of joy
    66 10 AFP Illinois, Monday A 27-year-old woman has given birth to quintuplets here, in a 51 million to one event. The four boys and one girl vary in weight from barely one kilo to 1.4 kilos. Hospital officials said it would be necessary to wait 48 hours
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    Lock icon Takeoff
    24 10 Reuter Moscow, Monday The Soviet Union's first widebodied jet, the Ilyushin-86 airbus, will go into service on June 1, Pravda newspaper said yesterday.
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    Doctor dies
    73 10 Coral Gables (Florida), Monday Dr Louis W. Sauer, internationally known pediatrician who invented the first practical vaccine against whooping cough, died yesterday at a South Miami Hospital of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. He was 94. Dr Sauer also developed in 1938 the combined inoculation given children to
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    Lock icon Up 15 pc
    33 10 Reuter Peking, Monday Industrial production in Shanghai, China's leading industrial city, rose 15.5 per cent in output value last month over January 1979, the New China News Agency said yesterday
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      251 10 The world's first computer-designed, laser scanned and robot built car. Designed with a computer, silenced by a laser and built by a robot, Fiat now unveils the car of tomorrow the Ritmo. Computer-designed With the aid of the most advanced technology and a computer, the Ritmo is designed to give
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      110 11 Quartzmanship by Titoni EQI I f X <£? ft TQ8022 T Q5056 TQWI >1 'i 3061 TQBOII m v, TQBO2O Titoni combines quartz technology V with legendary Swiss craftsmanship, to ttfl give you Quartzmanship! A tiny quartz crystal, oscillating tens of thousands of times per second, ensures j tick- tock
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      Lock icon RED AND NEW
      413 12/13  -  Nothing old, something new; Something red, nothing blue. Fashion by Deborah Chia This familiar saying reworded should be an apt guide for your Chinese New Year dressing. Yes, this Chinese festival is steeped in tradition even in what you should or should not wear and woe to
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        Stepping on Gucci
        199 12/13 ONCE it was sufficient to wear a brand name. The cut and fabric of the outfit spoke volumes for you. Then, when that became too subtle, the initial was born. So Pierre Cardin had his distinctive PC, Christian Dior, his CD, and I>anvin, the L, of course.
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        Lancome: 3 into 1
        121 12/13 IF you've been wondering what's become of the Lancome salon at the Equatorial Hotel since Dorothy Gray took its place, here's news. Lancome, as well as Biotherm, the Guy Laroche, Ted Lapidus and Jacques Fath fragrances, have changed hands since this year. The new owners are
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        From the tune to the head
        123 12/13 THE NEW HAIR-STOP, Alan Simon, opened in Lucky Plaza last week with co-owner Simon Napier Bell present. When asked what a song writer and record publisher, like himself was doing in a business like hairdressing, he said: "Why, they are related, aren't they? "The
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      140 12/13 Introducing Shape-Ups. From Conair. The people who understand how important it is tor you to look good The Conair Shape-Up Beauty set is designed to help you look and feel your best with minimal time, effort and expense This small handy sensational set comes equipped with a battery operated power
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    Taxes will not curb car growth
    569 14  -  But restricting use may help relieve congestion fBY THE WAY By Roderick Pestana It is true that there is a limit to the number of cars the 2267 km of roads in Singapore can take. But it is unlikely that more fiscal measures, like
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    Futuristic Fiat designed to last long
    508 14  -  Motoring by Roderick Pestana It was exciting to have the Fiat Ritmo for a roadtest last week, because it is the first of the new generation European economy cars specially designed for the 80s to arrive nere. The British and European motoring press have
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    Good start for mail order service
    339 15 •J I Business News and Views L Metro's newly-launch-ed mail order service for the diplomatic corps in Asia, Australasia, Middle East and Africa has met with good response. More than 5000 diplomats and embassies, consular offices and international organisations based in these areas have
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    Lock icon 1980 EEC budget before Parliament
    214 15 Reuter Strasbourg, Monday Efforts to give the Common Market a legally constituted budget for 1980 begin in earnest this week when the EEC commission puts its revised spending plans before the European Parliament. The executive body will finalise its proposals on Wednesday and budget commissioner
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    Lock icon Strikers drop out
    97 15 Reuter London, Monday Five hundred workers at a private steel plant yesterday decided to drop out of Britain's five-week-old national steel strike and return to work. "If others follow suit it would be a big worry for us," commented regional strike committee <Hiairman Ted Thorne after the
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    Lock icon China to fly jumbos to Tokyo
    214 15 UPI Beijing, Monday Three Boeing jets being bought by China probably will be put into service on Beijing-Tokyo and BeijingParis routes, aviation industry sources in the Chinese capital said yesterday. They said that the United States and China still do not appear close to
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    Fast food passes 1,000,000th mark
    183 15 Schoolboy Lim Chang Teck (above) wu more than Just a satisfied customer at McDonald's Llat Towers on Saturday. He bought the one millionth hamburger sold since the fast food outlet opened last October. McDonald's had estimated that Its one millionth hamburger would be sold at
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    Lock icon Former top runner speaks out
    518 16 'Patriotism is a natural sense of pride in one's country. Nationalism is the emotion carried to excess. It is undignified and corrupting, and that is what I deplore' AP Saratoga Springs (New York): Sir Roger Bannister, once a record-setting track star and now a doctor,
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      298 16 PUB Certitude of Approval No 0010/3 More and more homes are enjoying the luxury of hot bath. prime approved by SISIR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! PRIME HtATER manufactured lo stringent standards and requirements set by SISIR (Singapore Institute ot Standards Industrial Research) 3 reasons why HCIMI HfATfR is the better brand ECONOMY
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      408 16 Y Moneywords results No entrant submitted a solution which corresponded in all respects with the set of answers held by the judges to be the most apt and accurate in the New Nation Moneywords Contest 'JR\ One entrant submitted a solution which differed at one point from the solution which
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  • Sport starts here ...
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      Lock icon Borg bags 4th Grand Slam
      399 17 |^j^fennis Agencies Boca West (Florida), Monday Defending champion Bjorn Borg continued his mastery over Vitas Gerulaitis yesterday by pounding out a 6-1, 5-7, 6-1 victory in the final of the US$3OO,OOO (*****,000) Grand Slam of Tennis. The win before a national television audience was worth
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      Lock icon Irina sets record
      184 17 |Ny Athletics AFP AP East Berlin, Monday East German athletes set up a new world record and a new world best time here yesterday. Seventeen-year-old East Berlin girl Irina Meszynski set a new world Junior discus record of 64.32 m at the East German winter athletics championships.
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      116 17 BJ| Archery AP Calcutta, Monday The Japanese men and Chinese women won the team championships yesterday in a day of recordbreaking performances at the first Asian Cup archerytournament. The Japanese team Takayoshi Matsushita, Hiroshi Yamanoto and Masaharu Kusano collected 3742 points with gold medals at 90
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      79 17 I^SBoKing Reuter Seoul, Monday. South Korea's Park Chan-Hee pounded out a unanimous points victory over Filipino Arnel Arrozal to retain his World Boxing Council flyweight championship here last night. The 23-year-old champion appeared to be on the way to an easy win when he floored
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      Queen Bee almost certain
      980 18  -  ...of a place in the Sirikit tourney r I WEEKEND GOLF by Lim Kee Chan Kee Bee Khim of Singapore Island Country Club looks a certainty to represent Singapore in the Queen Sirikit Cup championship to be played in Indonesia in April. Bee Khim, a remisier,
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      Willie, Jalil win Cup
      665 18 FROM 2-DOWN TO 2 AND 1 VICTORY Willie Tan (handicap 18) and Jalil Ma Hal (10) came back from 2-down at the turn to win the Singapore Island Country Club International Cup at the Bukit Course yesterday. Their opponents in the final, Thomas Ang (14) and
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      Draw for Changi women's Open
      329 19 Ninety golfers will tee-off in the Changi women's Open championship on Wednesday. 7 a.m. Kee Bee Khim (2) A J Wood (15) T Sawada (IS): 7.07 Maureen Ong (27) G Stewart (34) L Chan (31): 7.14 L Munro (25) E Ling (24) S Ferguson-Jones (20);
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      Pasla Bond sets mark
      430 20  -  Racing By K. L. CHAN Pasla Bond proved to be a extraordinary sprinter when he gave another stirring performance to rout his rivals by eight lengths in a Class 2 Division 1 1400 m event at Penang yesterday. But what was more significant was the fact
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      40 20 Reuter Southampton, Monday. Second round results in the men's international squash tournament here last night: Jonah Barrington (UK) bt Mohammed Asran (Egypt) 9-1, 103, 9-5; Gogi Alauddin (Pak) bt John Easter (UK) 94, 9-3, 9-4. Reuter.
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      93 20 jj^Judo AFP Tbilissi, Monday Japanese judoka, Kepoti Haraguti, took top spot in the final of the fight-wel-terweight (60kg) category at the International Tbilissi (Georgia) judo champinships yesterday. Haraguti held back a bold challenge from a strong team of Soviet judokas who had to be content with
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      216 20 Swimming UPI Paris, Monday American swimming star, Cynthia Woodheaa completed a sweep of the six races in whicn she contested in an 18-nation swimming meet here yesterday. Woodhead, who celebrated her 16th birthday during the meet, posted three world bests, including one for the 200 m individual
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      Keng Wah shows his power
      136 20 Loh Keng Wah (centre) applies extra pedal power as he is about to overtake Kamil Kassan in the 800metre event of the Singapore Amateur Cycling Association track championships at Farrer Park Athletic Centre yesterday. Keng Wah went on to win tne race in l:46sec after
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      National title next
      308 21 Jeremy sets target for this year P^^Squash Sixteen-year-old Jeremy Yeo has set a target for himself this year to win theNational title. The 1978 National Junior champion who faded into oblivion last year because "I lost interest in the game" has returned to the scene full determination.
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      Penang hopes fade away...
      760 21  -  State of the states I J Malaysia Cup 1980 1 By SURESH NAIR The defeats of Sarawak and Penang by humiliating margins in their Malaysia Cup matches was indeed a shock. Sarawak had a bad night in Kota Bharu on Saturday when Kelantan hammered them 7-0
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      Lock icon Best gets off the hook
      117 21 Reuter Edinburgh, Monday Temperamental Irish soccer star George Best, suspended by his Scottish Premier League side Hibernian on Saturday for missing training, said here last night that ne was ready to re-join the club. Gub chairman, Tom Hart, who signed best on a £2000(about S$10,000)-a-match
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      41 21 Singapore's Fandi Ahmad oatjumps Kodak's Ismail Che Lah and Wan Hamid (left) for a good header daring last Friday's Malaysia Cop match at Alor Star's Daroiaman Stadium. Singapore won 34. Picture bv JERRY Picture by JERRY SEH
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      Dose for the 'fever'
      617 22  -  p -3 NEW NATION BIG W/\LK April 20 v- y By SHIRLEY TAN Former champions, Michael Sengol and B.K.S. Maniam, had a mouthful of suggestions to make as the fever of the revived New Nation Big Walk began to rise. While they were enthusiastic about the
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      176 22 j^^^Soccer Reuters Rome, Monday Inter Milan had the best of a seven-goal thriller at Napoli yesterday to keep their five-point lead at the top of the Italian First Division soccer League. The 4-3 scoreline was the highest at Napoli for three years and, with
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      76 17 ANDY CAPP m vs B T rw is if WHEN 'AS IT OPEN 'E'S QBTflN' FRESH AIR- WHEN I 'AVE IT kOPEV 'E'S GETTIN'A DRAUGHT W. SHORT RIBS I'M IN FOR ONLV -THIRTY PAVS. X CAN PO THAT STAMPING ON MV HEAP- PINE.) by Frank O'Neal ND AiV VIOUTM. I
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      89 18 .ikWUilildiM TENNIS CLASSIC BRAD DREWETT AIVIN GARDINER CHRIS DELANEY MARK EDMONSON HARRY FRITZ SASHI MENON Make a date: Friday 22nd February 1980.6 p.m. Saturday 23rd February 1980.3 p.m. Sunday 24th February 1980.3 p.m. Venue: SINGAPORE TENNIS CENTRE Admission: Adult: $10.00 per day djTyoiWfgr Student (under 18): $5.00 MaZeilggr THE OFFICIAL
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      601 18 MONDAY ±s\ Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name: Sex: Age: Occupation: Address: N.R.I.C No: Tel: 1~~ F,LL IN A MISSING f-£ LETTERS A ACROSS USING —CLUES below mmhCut along dotted lines mmmHm CLUES FOR JT 1 1. Though frequently in trouble, boy may not
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      77 20 NEW NATION "SINGAPORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA" CONTEST Enter the New Nation *'Singapore Symphony Orchestra" Contest today. All you have to do is answer three questions correctly. Send your entry forms to New Nation, Promotions Dept. The first 10 correct entries drawn will win two tickets each to the SSO Concert on
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      79 20 Celebrity Concert February 27. Guest Soloist Li Huan-chih Paganini Dverak Shostakovitch Ruggiero Ricci, Violin Overture, "Spring Festival' Violin Concerto No. 1 Slavonic Dances Symphony No. 1 New Nation/Promotions Dept. Times Centre 1 New Industrial Read Singapore IKS Ql. Name the guest artiste at the first anniversary concert of the SSO.
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      358 20 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Bom today, you are highly original, intelligent and determined. There is nothing that can keep you from making the most of your many talents all of which are highly inventive. A hard worker, a quick learner and a sympathetic listener, you would ultimately
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      45 22 r O Diary K SOCCER: Malaysia Cup Malacca v Sarawak (Kubu Stadium, 4.45 p.m.). HOCKEY: SWHA Div 1 GSC v SRC (Padang, 5.10 p.m.). National Inter-Schools Secondary South Zone (Boys) SJI v Rangoon Road; Swiss Cottage v Whitley (University Grounds, Bukit Timah Campus, 2.30 p.m.).
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      259 22 Crossword >. "V J man amuwm* ill HHH mm H ACROSS 1 Gaucho's weapons 6 Very large number 11 Review of troops 12 Printing mistakes 14 Predicament 15 Garden flower 17 Spenser heroine 18 Sea rover 20 Unless: Lat. 21 River in Siberia 23 Ohio lake port 25 Rumen 26
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      Life is not all glamour for Heather
      492 23  -  By Margaret Cunico When I visited Miss Heather Begg in her hotel room,the airconditioning vent was covered with newspapers. The door to the balcony was open and the smell of paint (the hotel was getting a new coat) was strong. "It's just a
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      Malay Hamlet staged in JB
      179 23 "Oh, kasihan Yorick! Saya kenal dia, Horatio: seorang rakan ang pandai melawak." For those who do not understand these lines it means, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite iest, of most excellent fancy." But the Malay version is what you'll
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      TOUCHING SPEECH...
      72 23 In this final episode of Richard 11, Bolingbroke successfully puts down a rebellion to overthrow him and reinstates Richard, now locked in the Tower of London. Realising that Richard still has some influence, he decides to have him killed and Exton leaves to execute his command. The play
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      201 23 Tomorrow's FM stereo 6.00 Opening Announcements and Programme Summary 6.05 Morning Prelude: Maurice Larcange and His Accordions 6.30 News. 6.40 Morning Concert: Symphonies Nos 1 and 9 (Schostakovitch), Suisse Romande Orch/Walter Weller; Orchestral Transcriptions Of Giant Fugue (Bach), Passacaglia and H Tides Today: 5.16 a.m. (2.4 m), 12.21 p.m. (1.0
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      322 23 In and around town SINCMPOKKSYM PHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT at the Singapore Conference Hall at 8.15 p.m. Soprano Heather Bregg will sing excerpts from Bizet's Carmen and At the cinema NOT NOW, DARLING: British comedy caper with a dash of sophistication. Stars Leslie Phillips and Julie Ege. Old print. Cathay: 1.30,
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      277 23 Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Ete, Op. 7. Tickets at $10, $6, and $3 are on sale at the Conference Hall, C. K. Tang, Cold Storage, Yamaha Music School, (Plaza Singapura). Also on tomorrow. FAMILY PLANNING A talk by Dr R. Danapal, a medical officer from the Singapore Family Planning Board. At
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    43 24 AH FOOK: The opening of the Newton flyover will make traffic snarls in the area a thing of the past. MEI UN: Openings of highways should not be signals for motorists to get into their cars and clog up our roads.
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      387 24 XV AND SBC 5 3 P.M. OPENING ANNODNCKMENT8 fol lowed by SIRUVAR IILAG AM (T). Comic sketches Illustrate the meanings of words starting with the Tamil letter "O" and "Ow". There's also a dance. S.St DIARY OP EVENTS 3.35 AFTERNOON MATINEE: Heller In Pink Tights (See Top Shows of the
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      197 24 Today's top shows .v PLYING HIGH: A Hairy Yak Plays Musical Chain Eagerly (Ch 8, 7.10 p.m. in cfflour). Feature about a crisis in the air when an expectant mother gives birth on board a plane. rs Sophia Loren In Afternoon Matinee. Ch 5 3.35 p.m. AFTERNOON MATINEE: Heller In
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