New Nation, 19 February 1980

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  • 21 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Tuesday, February 19, 1980 2801 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 109/1/80 r i SEW! (gj) NATION COMMENT he—BK—ad
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  • 315 1 Big plans to get more Indians to study language An island-wide programme is underway to boost the use of Tamil and to get more Singapore Indians to study it. As a first step, a high-powered organisation, called the Tamil Language and Cultural Society, has been formed
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  • 108 1 Reuter Ottawa, TncMky Pierre Trndeaa's Liberal Party wea Ave aew seats in tke eastern province* to take aa early lead la Caaada's general election last eight. Fear of the seats were previously held by the Progressive Conservative Party led by Prime Minister Joe Clark.
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  • 90 1 The Chingay procession was not due to start for another half an hour but the crowd was getting impatient. So to the stirring beat of drums and tambourines, the Sikhs started dancing. And since it is the Year of the Monkey, how could the Monkey
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 38 1 INSIDE Jackpot now $8500 results on Page 14 Sisir stamp for furniture Page 5 IN THE OTHEB PAGES: Stocks 5, Two Moneywords Coupons 11 and 17, Moneywords Results 14, Crossword 16, Stars 17, Comics 18, What's On 19
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 96 2 A Culture Ministry spokesman said foreign artistes who wish to perform in Singapore need not apply for a permit from the ministry. He said this in response to a newspaper report that since Jan 1, foreign artistes, besides having to apply to the Immigration
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  • 334 2 During the Christmas and New Year seasons, the Nelson Road Mail and Parcel Centre had such an unusually heavy load of mail that national servicemen were called in to do "battle" with it. The Amalgamated Union of Public Employees (AUPE) is worried that this
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  • 133 2 Hm Public Works Department has made It even easier for people In Marine Parade to get a lift to town. Mgnhoards at a ear pool pick-up point (or Ufts to Shenton Way and Orchard Road were erected last week for the convenience
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  • 123 2 Orchard Road police are looking (or two smartly-dressed thieves who carry attache cases. The men are in their 20s and are believed to be responsible (or a number of break-ins of unattended flats at Caimhill Plaza apartments recently. A police officer described one of
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  • 153 2 Two stumbling blocks are delaying the building of the Singapore Action Group of Elders' Village for Elders lack of funds and an available site. Sage has collected over $100,000 but "we still have a long way to go," its president, Dr Lim San Yong,
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 148 3 Welcome to JACK S GARDEN RESTAURANT (STEAK HOUSE) "Our great concern is to stimulate your appetite by the variety of our dishes" OFFICIAL OPENING TODAY JACK'S GARDEN RESTAURANT (STEAK HOUSE) 4274, BLOCK 730, AVENUE 6 ANG MO KIO TOWN CENTRE SINGAPORE 2056 TEL: *****77 *****42 A SUBSIDIARY OF JACK'S PLACE
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    • 45 3 mmmmmmmmmmm WITH BEST WISHES TO JACK'S GARDEN RESTAURANT (STEAK HOUSE) ON THEIR OFFICIAL OPENING TODAY AT 4274, BLOCK 730, AVENUE 6 ANG MO KIO TOWN CENTRE from Mr Mrs Benny Chen Mr Mrs Robert Ee Sunlite Enterprise Pte. Ltd, 768, North Bridge Road, Singapore zmmmmmmmmmwm
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  • 271 4 Ban on product advertising on banners, billboards The Education Ministry has informed schools of new guidelines on accepting donations, advertisements and sponsorships for school functions, from commercial firms. Schools may accept donations such as free drinks for functions like the annual sports meet provided
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  • 31 4 The Minister for Communications and MP for Kim Keat, Mr Ong Teng Cheong, will attend the management committee's re-appointment ceremony at the Kim Keat community centre tomorrow at 8 p.m.
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  • 33 4 The National Museum will screen two colour films, In Pursuit of Sensitivity The Miniature in Art and Science and Kisbo Kuroka wa (Architect), at its Stamford Road premises today at 8 p.m.
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  • 232 4 Twenty-five-year-old machine operator M. Pushpaveni cannot swim a stroke. Yet, when her younger sister, 16-year-old Malathi, (ell into a pond at Sentosa, she unhesitatingly tried to help her sister back to land. But Malathi was carried away by the water and Pushpaveni, who had leaned out too
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  • 196 4 In the year 2030 it is projected that 23 per cent of Singapore's population will comprise aged people. In 2000, the proportion will be 13 per cent. Yet in 1975, aged people (above 55 years old) comprised 6.6 per cent and last year 10.3 per cent of
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  • 125 4 Throngs of Singaporeans took to the sea over the weekend to celebrate the Lunar New Year. About 3000 Joined the Chinese New Year harbour cruises organised by the Port of Singapore Authority over the three days. The one-hour cruise, which started at World Trade Centre Ferry
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  • 95 4 The C—Mutt— Ministry will mm took for to serve on its pfwwed provisional MKT Authority to toy the groandwork (or the system, when the green light Is riven. Hoag Keag, which recently Introduced nn MKT system, in mm sf the eoutrien that the mtatotry wOl look
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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    • 7 4 Better technology keeps us ahead ;LV» M
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  • 189 5 Two sets to be drawn up by Sisir A set of standards by which locally-made furniture may be measured is being drawn up by the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research. Two sets of standards will be drawn up: one for furniture to be exported, which
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  • 316 5 Some unscrupulous furniture dealers have developed a method of selling shoddy furniture to customers. Consumers' Association of Singapore officials told New Nation they received about 200 complaints against furniture dealers between 1977 and last year. One dealer in Telok Blangah is understood to have had
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  • 184 5 Share prices came under profit-taking after opening higher during the first 45 minutes of trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. M Credit (8) 2.16 (2) 2.15 (1) 2.17 (10) 2.18 (6) 2.14 UOL (3) 2.11 (15) 2.12 Inchcape (4) 2.52 (1) 2.53 (2) 2.54(4) 2.51 (5)
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 182 6 World Focus UPI Bangkok, Tuesday United Nations sources unveiled yesterday a controversial scheme to prevent the "Palestinianisation" of displaced Kampucheans, by sending nearly 400,000 refugees back home from camps along the Thai-Kampu-che'an border within the next three months. Western relief workers said they agreed
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 6 Israeli Charge d'Affaires Mr Yosef Hadass and Mrs Hadass wave to a crowd in Cairo who had gathered after the Israeli flag was strapped to the embassy balcony mast yesterday. The embassy is the first in the Arab world. UPI picture UPI picture
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  • 114 6 Reuter AFP United Nations, Tuesday Iran and the United States have both agreed on the composition of a five-member commission to investigate the alleged crimes of the former Shah, a United Nations spokesman announced yesterday. He said an oral acceptance had been received from Tehran and
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 508 6 To Hit Someone When He Is Down Menjatuhkan Seseorang Ketika Dia Sedang Lemah 36 Tricks •Muslihat 36 8 SSI m Wm 9i) I il s. w m <j~r i 5' m Nil m ft Sy m 52 <5 a jr 23 I 58 M nh as m K B it
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  • 214 7 Reuter Berne, Tnrndij About 200 of the 650 Soviet diplomats and United Nations officials working in Switzerland are agents of their country's military or civilian intelligence services, a Swiss government spokesman said yesterday. The agents were closely watched by Swiss counterintelligence, but could not be
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  • 132 7 World Focus Reuter Washington, Tuesday Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will visit West Germany, Italy, France and Britain this week to discuss a coordinated western response to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, the State Department announced yesterday. Mr Vance will fly to Bonn today and
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  • 87 7 Moscow, Tuesday Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko promised West European countries that the Kremlin was ready to continue disarmament talks but warned the US that Moscow would not allow it to obtain military superiority. Mr Gromyko told a meeting of voters that Russia had no choice but
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  • 55 7 AFP Jakarta, Taesday Twe centimetres of a yaath's t—gae was bitten off by a girl In Paagkalaa Brandaa, Nerth Sumatra, recently, when the key tried to kiss her terribly, Aatara News Agescy hay friead were strelHag m the beach wheathey were attacked by twe hays, wwlf the gMI
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  • 91 7 UPI TODAY is Tuesday, Feb 19, the 50th day of 1960 with 316 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who formulated the modern model of the solar system, was born on Feb 19.1473. ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY:
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  • 58 7 Reuter Warsaw, Tuesday Mr Edward Babiuch, an economist and former coal miner, was elected Poland's new Prime Minister last night and set about tackling the nation's economic problems as he warned Poles of tough times ahead. Mr Babiuch, 52, replaced Mr Piotr Jarosewiez who fell from
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  • 27 7 Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday Indonesia might sever diplomatic ties With Afghani*, tan in protest over the presence of Soviet troops there, Vice-President Adam Malik said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 89 7 AFP Brussels, Tuesday A mother, heartbroken by the death of her three-year-old son, wrapped his body in plastic and kept it in the attic for four years, telling her family that he was staying with friends, astonished police said here yesterday. The macabre
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  • 85 7 Reuter Moscow, Tuesday Banished Soviet dissident leader Andrei Sakharov, in a statement released yesterday, said he and his wife were beaten by police in Gorky, the Soviet city to which he has been exiled. The 58-year-old academician said he and his wife, Yelena, were physically ejected
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 294 8 Many must have murmured "At last!" when the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations was formed recently. SCWO is the first umbrella body for women's organisations to start off with the blessings of the Singapore Council of Social Services, which actually means the government. Earlier attempts to form
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  • 103 8 The Bolshoi is leading the Kremlin a V most unhappy dance Once demoralised and riven with quarrels it seems to have become a transit camp for defectors Thus it is that, where the artistic genius of the Russian people manages to flourish today, it most often does so
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 73 8 Over the festive weekend, there was at least one slimmer housewife among the thousands celebrating Chinese New Year. How come? She spent nearly a week sprucing up her house. Because she had to go to her in-laws anyway for the reunion dinner and because the kitchen was
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    • 44 8 You have heard of fly-by-night companies. This one was Just too much for one women traveller. For three months, she went to three travel agents to try out their tours. Thrice she met the same man sitting in the office as the manager!
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  • 624 8 Women with kids vulnerable: Study Los Angeles Times Los Angeles: Despite concern that the stresses of work may increase women's heart attack rates, a new study shows that working women generally are no more likely to develop coronary heart disease than women who stay at
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  • 340 8 Reuter Anthony Winning In "If that Moroccan puts his suitcase on my foot again, Til be crippled (or life," grumbled the longsuffering British tourist. We were packed together in another slow-moving aueue, the seventh of the ay, but the ordeal was nearly over. We had finally
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 840 9  -  IT'S A SMALL WORLD By Gloria Chandy Whenever Mr Gwee Peng Kwee thinks of Dondang Sayang he feels very sad. He is one of its last exponents in Singapore. And he is helpless as he watches his hobby of the last 40 years
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  • 666 9 Japan Times Tokyo: One of the things that impresses Japanese couples enjoying a long stay in the United States is the casual way in which Americans exchange visits and invite people to their homes. For Japanese, entertaining a guest has always been
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 106 9 ik<"lii)xTli JnltfejiiM/] SUPER RAW FISH Traditional dishas for tha Fasti va Saaaon. Dalicious Tim Sum sarvad daily from 7 am to 3 pm. RUBY RESTAURANT 3rd floor, Glutton's Corner, Tanjong Pagar Complex, Singapore 2. Tel: *****87 ft *****15. RED STAR RESTAURANT 23-F, Block 54, Chin Swaa Road, Singapore 3. Tel:
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  • 647 10/11 "The essential unity of India is neither political nor linguistic, but cultural. In spite of the different languages spoken in various parts of that country, it is the same epics, legends and myths which are taught. "Lord Krishna is Lord Krishna whether in Kanya Kumari
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  • 1094 10/11  -  Some seven per cent of Singapore's population of 2.3 million are Indians. Although the number is fewer (160,000) than the Chinese (1.7 million), Singapore Indians have a more difficult and different problem. They do not have a common script. There is a proposal that Tamil, one
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  • 201 10/11 Views of three Indian community leaders Mr Jaswant Singh Gill, president of Singapore Khalsa Association: "For the estimated 15,1 M to 29, m Sikhs in SlngaEre, it is Important it they learn their mother tongue for moral values and to maintain a link with traditions.
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  • 119 10/11 Mrs Dolly Sinha, president of the Bengali Association: "There are some 200 Bengalis in Singapore, most of whom are members of the association. We have not been successful in starting Bengali classes because of poor response from the community. The younger generation prefer to speak in
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  • 124 10/11 Mr Umar Sanker Dube, assistant secretary, North Indian Hindu Association: "Among the North Indians, like Gujeratis, Sindhis, Bengalis and Hindustanis, Hindi is understood by most, but few bother to study the language. "The children prefer to take Malay in school because it Is easier than Tamil or
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  • Page 10/11 Miscellaneous
    • 571 10/11 FILL IN MISSING LETTERS along dotted lines, CLUES FOR JU 1 Edges of the mouth 2. There are things a reporter will never find out il he isn't 3. Person in authority 4. Never having played this game before, a man could still give it a try 6. It's better
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  • trend 1
    • 485 12 Andre first male make-up artiste here From the feet to the body, and now the face. That sums up Andre Lobo's path to his new job as Singapore s first male make-up artiste. He started with Bata's, the shoemakers. Then, he sold men's clothes at Alain
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    • 621 12 r, =3 Doc's Casebook ii SLCK Mrs F is troubled by the fact that she's six months pregnant and has not felt the baby move yet. She writes: "I know from my first pregnancy that I should feel the baby kicking from the
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    • 796 13 Many traditions and snares to booby-trap a relationship The mother-in-law is a favourite butt of jokes. This is sad, since there are many loveable mothers-in-law around, not a bit like the dragons they are made out to be. But there is no smoke without
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    • 62 13  -  L.Q. My boyfriend and I pet. Will there be anv danger if he fondles my breasts? I am 18 and he is 19. Dear L. Q., There Is Utile physical danger and yon will not get pregnant by petting nlnne. Bat yen an playing a dangerous game. Petting
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    • Dear Ros
      • 163 13  -  Problems published in this column are often referred to doctors, lawyers, counsellors and other authorities who help out with the answers. J I work six days a week and have Thursdays off. My girlfriend is off on Saturdays and Sundays. When I ask her out on Thursday
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    • 542 13 NYT New York: At a time when the cry "Mummy, I want Smartieg' or "Papa, I want Twistieg' is familiar in many homes, parents are struggling to teach thrift ana the value of money. Experts believe consumer education should start with toddlers. This is particularly
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    • 61 13 Colourful cross-stitches on thnan everyday items of wnllet and Jnwellncy cnan give them a rustic charm. The wallet costs $10.00 andthe jewellery case, $16.50. From Asia Gallery, Victoria Street. Plaster casting for "crafty" children. Follow tha assy instructions snd maka s fsvourita Muppat charactsr.
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 65 13 SOLE AGENT:LEE TECK COMPANY 216, 2nd Floor, Plaza Stnfipuri (Yaoftan) Orchard Road. Singapore 0923 Tal: *****3 (2 llnaa) Catrta: "COLEETECK' im if\ n't m w 't/i •v *>' m K> v 5K i-Sf if- *t«g! "Part/full time Beauty Advisors required (Free Beauty Course provided attractive commissions} SK rt|A A S.RH.UK
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  • 169 14 c 11 Business News and Vieu/s i Singapore's largest computer bureau, Asian Computer Services, will install the latest IBM series in early April. ACS will replace its current IBM 370/138 series, which has been sold to a Hong Kong company, with the IBM 4&1 series. Demand
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  • 176 14 Can produce 2286 barrels daily AFP Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday A promising offshuie oilfield has been discovered in East Kalimantan by the American Union Oil Company of Indonesia, the state oil corporation Pertamina announced yesterday. The new oil source, called Attaka 16. lies in the so-called Attaka
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  • 191 14 Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday Japan had a record monthly trade deficit of U552.25 billion ($4.95 billion) in January following a big increase in the value of imports, mainly due to higher oil prices, the Finance Ministry said yestrday. The deficit in visible trade compared with a December
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  • 117 14 London, Tuesday The US dollar closed stronger yesterday on all major European markets except London. But dealers said trading was extremely thin because US and Hong Kong markets and banks were closed for national holidays. Gold closed in both London and Zurich at U*****.50 per ounce. In Zurich
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  • 166 14 AFP London, Tuesday The release of a further 818,590 tonnes of sugar from special stocks held Dy Eroducers was approved y the executive committee of the International Sugar Organisation (ISO) following a meeting here yesterday morning. The decision, taken despite continued objections from producer
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 61 14 A twice weekly advertisement feature NEW LIGHT ELECTRICAL (PTE) LTD •FREE INSTALLATION •SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON ALL RANGE OF -y LIGHTING v Mother home APPLIANCES i y Welcome to our Super Showroom: (Open 6 days a week from 10 am to 9 pm) J tight pendant 559. BALESTTER ROAD. SINGAPORE 1232
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    • 290 14 Your hair and culture my care... Professional France Payot Beauty Diploma Course (4/5 mths.) commencing soon. Professional Hairdressing Diploma Course (5/6 mths.) commencing soon. Weekend Beauty Workshop (1!4 mths.) commencing soon. We also operate a service department to see to your hairdressing, facial, electrolysis (permanent removal of unwanted hair) Various
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 285 14 Moneywords results No entrant submitted a solution which corresponded in all respects with the set of answers neld by the judges to be the most apt ana accurate in the New Nation Moneywords Contest "JS". Twenty-one entrants each submitted a solution which differed at two points from the solution the
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    • 331 14 1 2 3 is carried over to the next contest "JT" to make the jackpot *****. Here are the judges' comments: JS-1:2: To keep a PEN for somebody is hardly to "take care of it" in the active sense that applies to a PET. Preference for PET. JS-1:4: He "shouldn't
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    • 23 14 be unintentionally acquired by oversight ((or example, after borrowing.) No man would have any use for other people's BOOTS anyway. Preference for BOOKS.
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  • SHOPPING
    • 463 15 A twice weekly advertisement feature i If you feel hungry while shopping at Thomson Plaza, why not stop by Spring Season coffeehouse for a quick bite? The coffeehouse, which was opened last August, has a selection of delectable local dishes to entice. These include
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 262 15 Let your dream come true this festive season 25* February 16, any purchase of bedroom set above $1000 will entitle you worth $135. Our invitation is extended to all military personnels/ public statutory board employees to our SAFE HOME FURNISHING CENTRE GAY WORLD AMUSEMENT PARK showroom. Exclusively yours! SAFE CREDIT
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    • 43 15 "NEWS FLASH!" HAPPY HOURS DRINKS AT 33% Discount NOON TO 7 00 PM Pebble Bar Come and be entertained by RITA SZE at the piano bar sinoapura FORUM jjgjj HOTEL 585 Orchard Road Singapore 0923 TEL *****22 WINNER-HOTEL CATEGORY STPB Courtesy Campaign '79
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    • 125 15 GRILL/COFFEE HOUSE mmm Nazi Mezzanine Fit Thomson Plaza Mezzanine Fleor FESTIVAL OF STEAKS 29/1—29/2/80 Fresh ar-flown steaks at attracFREE! one fbss of 'cointreau' (JKBNm with tonic or 7-up for every steak ordered. GRILL NIGHT < E wry Tuesday) 10* OFF ON OUR SUCCULENT STEAK? THE BIGGEST H.P. CENTRE IN ANG
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    • 367 15 Don't be too hasty when choosing a floor tile The beautiful tiles you might fancy today may not look as beautiful 2 years from now. Be sure that you get a durable floor tile with these characteristics: CHIP AND CRACK-PROOF STAIN-PROOF ACID-PROOF HIGHLY RESISTANT TO SCRATCHES UNDER NORMAL USE TOTALLY
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  • SPORT STARTS HERE
    • 390 16  -  Racing By K. L. CHAN Koala Lam par, Tuesday Sore Am put himself right into the Tunku's Gold Cup picture with a smashing win over 1800 m in record time here yesterday. Well back in the early stages of the race, the six-year-old Australian gelding
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    • 293 16  -  a On the track By K. L. CHAN Koala Lumpur Tuesday Lotogive, a last start winner, is retaining her form and looks set to run the opposition to the ground when she goes over 1200 m on Saturday. Having her seventh start since her
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    • 145 16 Reuter Lake Placid, Tuesday East Germany took over the medal lead at the 13th Winter Olympics when Barbara Petzold won the women's 10km cross-coun-try ski race. Petzold's gold, earned in a time of 90:31.54 seconds, gave the East Germans their 12th medal (or the Games one
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    • 402 17  -  WHO MAKE A DECENT LIVING I^j^fennis By MAURICE NEO No one could really blame them. The Fritz brothers, Harry and Guy, started celebrating well before playing, and so had some scars to show after the festive weekend. When they arrived here on Saturday, they practised a bit
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    • 492 17 Wolves beaten 3-0 Soccer AFP Reuter London, Tuesday English First Division football club Wolverhampton Wanderers' champagne celebrations after reaching Wembley in the League Cup final last Tuesday, went flat as they crashed 34) at home to Second Division Watford in their English FA Cup fifth
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    • 238 17 There will be at least one more revenge match on the opening day of the Slazenger Tennis Classic this Friday America's Chris Delaney against Australian Alvin Gardiner. Delaney, fresh from West Australian Open championships, will have to face the man he eliminated on the way to the finals.
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    • 285 18  -  Badminton Stars to watch in the Indonesia vs China clash By SHIRLEY TAN Liem Swle King is a man with a mission. And Singapore seems to be the place destined for his snow of greater badminton dimensions. For it was here, in the musty surroundings of
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    • 159 18 Yes, he is the same 19-year-old Indonesian boy who won the South East Asia Games gold medal in the men's singles of the badminton championship in Jakarta last September. His name is Lias Pongg«k. Li us took up the game 10 years ago
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    • 68 18 ifl' Reuter Manila, Tuesday. South African top golfer Gary Player flew in yesterday to take part in the USIOO.OOO (about $210,000) Philippine Open golf tournament to be played on the par 70 Puerto Azul Course in nearby Cavite province which he designed, organisers said yesterday. Other seeded
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    • 202 18 Fame came at 22 He first came into prominence when he took the 1972 Singapore Open singles title. He was then 22. That was the year when Indonesian He Samftrat outplayed Malaysia's Tan Aik Mong 15-5, 15-11 in a final that lasted 30 minutes. His agility and court- craft are
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 279 16 LASSIFIE ADS AT YOUR SERVICE Telephone Servlce:Weekdnys I 8.30 a.m. 5.00 p.m. Saturdays 8.30 a.m. 3.00 p.m. Public Holidays 9.00 a.m. 1.00 p.m. Counter Servlce:lifgular office hours ANNOUNCEMENTS MAQIC SHOP professional, amateur tricks. Jokes, novelties magicians for parties available 132, Cantonment Road, SS'pore 0208 Tel: *****06 ACCOMMODATION V VACANT J
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    • 139 16 MISCELLANEOUS LOVER MARRIAGE-AID BUREAU helps you to gel suitable friends, marriage partners, confidentially Guaranteed personal genuine introductions to Doctors, Lawyers. Secretaries, Nurses, Engineers, Executives, Architects, Civil Servants, Technicians. Businessmen. Teachers. Clerks, etc. All professions, nationalities. races, ages. Call personally: 202. 2nd floor, People's Park Centre, S pore 1. Tel: *****7.
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    • 160 16 NOTICE OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANCE OF SHIP'S NAME We, Garo Private Ltd of 166 Tyrwhitt Road, Singapore (8) hereby give notice that in consequence of our intention to change the vessel's name, we have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships, under Section 417 of the Merchant Shipping Act
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 252 16 Crossword x *> J. ACROSS 1 Ostentation 5 Hinges 10 Comrade 14 Gallimaufry 15 Constellation 16 Aura 17 Forwarded 18 Discuss the subject 20 Man with a short fuse 22 Highest peak 23 Sight suffix 24 Kazan 25 Barnacle Bill 28 Revolver adjunct 32 Leered 33 Weight allowance 34 German
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 398 17 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you have a real gift for organisation. You plan your days carefully, filling the hours with no more activity than you can manage in the time allowed. You have a genius for saying the right thing at the right time or,
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    • 612 17 TUESDAY !*Wi] ■dJI Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name: Sex: Age: Occupation: Address: N.R.I.C. No:. FILL IN TTrIiIZM LETTERS ACROSS USINQ CLUES BELOW HaBBHHiCut along dotted lines MaBMM CLUES FOR JU 2 1. Grooves made by the paeeage of wheals 2. One may read
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 35 18 SOCCER: Malaysia Cup Johore v Malacca (Larkin Stadium Selangor v Armed Forces (Merdeka Stadium). Both matches at 7.30 p.m. National Inter-Schools tournament (2.30 p.m. SWIMMING: Singapore Swimming Club Double Age Group meet (SSC, 7 p.m.).
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    • 56 18 SHORT RIBS NORBERT "THERE'S SOMETHIN r WVF learned,v" TACK THE ONLVJ THING THAT PITS < INIDA PK3EDN HOLE ISA PIGEON m l/l Zi'im by Frank O Neat n VJ. 1 REPLACED 0V A MACHINE. BUT Tfe GfiTTIMG STANDING CVAnOMS. 5? St. 1 5/ M 0 Umtod Syotf*c«t«. Inc SUWER "SHWEJ?
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  • What's On A page that tells you what's happening on TV and in town
    • 450 19  -  By Judith Holmberg The battle between the world's best badminton nations to determine who is better can be seen "live" over television on Friday and Saturday. The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation will televise the IndonesiaChina clash over Channel 8 on Friday and Saturday
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    • 278 19  -  Glitter Chatter *>V Teo Lian Huay The Year of the Monkey sees the start of a lively battle waged by a Hong Kong TV station, RTV, to gain a bigger slice of viewership. The station has hired ac tr ess-turned-singer Tang Lan Hua at
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 430 19 At the cinema 1/1 T SS:\ m -.*>• .'j vv •wv:- ?> r Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave in Bear Island, at Cathay ZULU DAWN: An epic about British colonialists in the Zulu kingdom in South Africa, at the end of the last century. Stars Burt Lancaster and Peter O'Toole.
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    • 33 19 In and around town L'AMOIJR L'APRKS MIDI French filmshow at the RELC Auditorium, Orange Grove Road at 9 p.m. Directed by Eric Rohmer and starring Zouzou, Bernard Veriey and Francoise Veriey. Admission fee.
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    • 238 19 JUVENILE CULTURAL SHOW organised by the Singapore Children's Playhouse. At the Victoria Theatre at 7.45 p.m. Tickets at $10, $5, |3 and $2 available at the dodr. SWISS PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM 184* UNTIL TODAY An exhibition at the National Museum Art Gallery. Open from 10.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission free.
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  • 54 20 AH FOOK: The Chinese art of healing has become increasingly popular. There are now about 1000 Chinese physicians compared with 300 about 10 years ago. ME1 UN: Don't forget some earn as much as $10,000 a month. And you know how effective money is in luring Singaporeans to
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 687 20 TV AND RADIO SBC 5 ITELEFUNKEN nreat looks' Colour c^rea t features' TV great perfofmance' 3 P.M. OPENING ANN OUNCE MK NTS followed by GILLIGAN'S ISLAND: Man with a Net 3.3* DIARY OP EVENTS 3.35 AFTERNOON MATINEE: Jennifer. A turgid suspense story •■'ibout a woman who, after getting a job
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    • 191 20 THE ROCKFORD FILES: A Deadly Nue (Ch 5, 8.30 p.m. in colour). Larry Linviile guest-stars as Prof von A1 bach, an eccentric scientist who, under the Rretext of searching for is missing wife, puts Rockford through an elaborate stress test. However, Rockford turns up a clue about his wife's other
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