New Nation, 12 November 1980

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  • 20 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Wednesday, November 12, 1980 3027 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 109/1/80 If NEW <0) NATION 1 COMMENT
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  • 84 1 Sale in the arms of a Danish none Is an 11-month old Thai baby who was smuggled out of Thailand by a Danish couple last Jane. The little girl, "Louise," will be returned to Bangkok. She Is seen here upon arrival In Copenhagen yesterday from the Danish
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  • 366 1 Shopping complex hits a snag The absence of an underpass is preventing more than 100 tenants from moving into a shopping complex at the junction of Clemenceau Avenue and Penang Road. This is because the Ministry of National Development's Building Control Division has withheld the temporary
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  • 272 1 Share prices opened higher on a broad front in another round of buying support during the first 45 minutes of trading on the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. Towards press time, bouts of profit-taking appeared but these were well-absorbed. BUSINESS DONE First Section F Merlin (1) 1.40 (3) 1.41
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  • 60 1 The road death toll so far this year has risen to 227 with the death of bus driver Wong Seek Guan, 55, yesterday. He was driving a busload of shipyard workers along Sembawang Road at about 7 a.m. when he lost control of the vehicle. The bus shot across
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    • 27 1 Foreign servants More Singaporeans are employing maids from overseas. JUDITH HOLMBERG talks to recruiting agencies and gives details of the schemes available. Story on the centre pages
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    • 146 1 ,)['|/%$$&;}@/..|~_\{;+\*.")<&- I Some talent! Last night's talentime was undoubtedly enjoyable, says MICHAEL CHIANG. Matilda Kee (left) was one of the reasons why. Story on Page 19 Jokers wild She came, she cracked some jokes in Mandarin and then walked away with the prize. She was one of 10 elders in
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 99 2 A man who Mid he was a lawyer was arrested by the police last weekend when he could not prove his Identity. The Incident hapCned at about 1 a.m. it Friday when a police patrol stopped a pick-up near the Teck Whye housing estate,
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  • 38 2 The senior lecturer of the Computer Science Department, National University of Singapore, Dr Tan Kok Phuang, will speak on The Use of Computers in Small Enterprises at the Toa Payoh branch library on Friday at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 94 2 You can now call Turkey using Telecom's newly introduced number-to-number and directdialling services. The charge for the former is $27 for the first three minutes, and $9 for each additional minute. Calls made directly to Turkey using an IDD telephone will cost $9 per minute. Callers can
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  • 177 2 The Housing Board will sign a $41.7 million contract tomorrow for the design, supply and delivery of metal forms and accessories. The contract with Toyo Menka Kaisha of Japan will cover 1.5 million pieces of metal forms and nine million pieces of accessories
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  • 82 2 Plans to build a display house for night birds like owls, nightjars and nightingales at Jurong Bird Park are at a standstill due to lack of funds. The project will now cost more than the estimated $600,000. Construction work will not start until
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  • 137 2 Progress on Khmer issue: SBC China is said to be prepared to accept a neutral Kampuchea, according to a Singapore Broadcasting Corporation report today. The report, quoting sources, said this stand emerged aher two days of talks between Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and
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  • 216 2 Residents of a housing block of flats in Havelock Road are unhappy about their water supply. It seems the water flow is too slow, causing much inconvenience. Several residents of Block 29 interviewed yesterday claimed that besides this, their water supply was also cut
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  • 31 2 The Ang Mo Kio Zone A Residents Committee will hold an excursion for residents to Haw Par Villa, the Chinese Garden and the Singapore Experience on Sunday from 8 a.m.
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    • 133 2 'wi/mJ Unravelled for the first time ever, the most spectacular range of the finest investment quality Pakistani carpets ever to be brought into Singapore. And, just arrived, a superb collection of superfine Persian Nains, Isfahans, and pure silk Kashans and Qums. Now on sale at 50% discount storewide at prices
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    • 136 2 12 Popular Melodies! All memorized like Whisller and his dog, Beautiful dreamer, Picnic and others Start your day off with a cheerful melody. There are 12 of them pre programmed into this multi-talented instrument. So besides allowing you efficient handling of everyday figurework. the ML 90 also gives your ears
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    • 204 3 CITIZEN QUARTZ CHRONOIOO A Racing Certainty. At only $691 A Unique 5 Year Battery Life. For the man on the move, every second counts. And Citizen's new quartz Chrono 100 was made for today's fast-moving man. The Chrono 100 tells the hour, minute and second, twice, with dual time as
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  • 680 4 IRENE HOE turns up at a Mandarin joke-telling competition for elders A talent show played to a small but appreciative audience last night off the TV screen. Putting on a Mandarin version of Jokers wild, five men and five women kept an audience of about
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  • 154 4 Science teachers from secondary and primary schools can now opt to join the Singapore Science Centre for a one-year attachment. Under the scheme, which starts from next January the teachers will work the normal office hours, and would be eligible for leave and leave allowance, said a
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 107 4 SANYO Sensational 4-Speaker Portables. M9990K 4-Band Stereo Radio/Cassette Recorder with LCD Quartz Digital Clock and Alarm Function. 3,500mW x 2 max output power. Two 16cm woofers and two scm tweeters. Real time and auto time settings. Two built-in condenser mikes and two hand-held mikes. Sleep timer. MM3OK 4-Band Stereo Radio/Cassette
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    • 125 4 FamELE EMERGENCY LIGHTS IS HERE BW, 20W, 40W Fluorescent lights f- K < ovoilohle in ptismiltK .If X 1 •>1 .JI fit* 11 I 2*BW Recessed Exit Aim OvOildt If t<r>r .1 ;r |< r .1 |S|.. i,l li d A ill i' if 1 M iff rr k.iif if
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  • 231 5 What do people do when they gather at the grandstand of the Singapore Turf Club? They talk horse, of course. But these 90 people weren't a group of overenthusiastic punters who turned up days too early for the races. They were there for more serious
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  • 94 5 Police are looking for a man who set Ore to the Qneensway shopping complex last week. A man in Ma Hi was seen rannlng away from the scene Jost after a Ore broke oat at abont 5 p.m. on Tnesday. An alert seenrlty guard pat ont
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  • 185 5 For assessing monolingual students The Ministry of Education is developing a new test which could be used to reaffirm the streaming of Primary Three students to the monolingual course. The General Ability Test will be similar to the existing Achievement Tests, but it is expected to
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  • 127 6 Reuter United Nations, Wednesday The General Assembly yesterday rejected Indonesia's claim to the former Portuguese colony of East Timor, declaring that the people there must be allowed to determine their own future. The Indonesian delegate, Mr Sumarvo Suryokusumo, said the resolution, presented by
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  • 240 6 AP Washington, Wednesday The change of presidents in the United States next January will cost American taxpayers US$3 million ($6.2 million), US officials say. In addition to that oneshot expense are the costs of supporting Jimmy Carter as an ex-president, more than
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  • 137 6 Reuter Washington, Wednesday President-elect Ronald Reagan may call (or about US$3 billion (about $6.3 billion) additional defence spending in the current financial year, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said yesterday. Senator John Tower, who said he was working closely
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  • Article, Illustration
    54 6 Lithaaalaa-bera Maris Klrseos ef the US lets Us bleed drip ever a Seviet flag placed la treat e( Madrid's Congress Palace, where the Earepeaa Security aad Ceeperattea Ceafereaee was te start later yesterday. He eat a small vela la each arm te pretest agalast Seviet epprrsriia la Uthnaala.
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  • In Brief
    • 73 6 AFP Tehran, Wednesday The US government has sent Iran a message through the intermediary of Switzerland saying that presidentelect Ronald Reagan until he enters office will accept outgoing President Carter's decisions concerning release of the hostages, Tehran radio said yesterday. The message was delivered to the
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    • 36 6 Opecna Jakarta, Wednesday The scheduled Opec ministerial meeting in Bali on Dec 15 and 16 will avoid political issues, discussing only oil and the organisation, said Indonesia's Minister of Mines and Energy.
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    • 76 6 Reuter Beijing, Wednesday Art objects are being smuggled out of China by foreigners who buy stolen goods on the black market, a Chinese newspaper said yesterday. A Guangming daily said an official in an antique shop in Hunan province in central China was arrested for
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  • 125 6 UPI Beijing, Wednesday Strange things began to happen after oil prospectors accidentally drilled a hole through an underground limestone cave in the southern province of Guangdong. Compressed carbon dioxide gushed out from the hole and shot up 100 metres into the air. The emission lasted
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  • 142 7 World Focus UPI Oklahoma City, Wednesday A man posing as a disc jockey on a local radio station telephoned a woman, who calculating that the promised prizes were worth the embarrassment, stripped down to her underwear and walked through a shopping mall. The unidentified woman, wearing only
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  • 146 7 Reuter Beijing, Wednesday Almost 20,000 people clapped and cheered as a family of five were tried for maltreating their 75-year-old father and bringing him to his death, the Workers Daily reported yesterday. The five were given sentences of up to two years in prison. The
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  • 54 7 AFP Leaden, Wednesday Britain's Cabinet has been kit by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's tightening parse strings. When the ministers accepted Mrs Thatcher's lavitatlen te a traditional pro-parlia-mentary meal later this month, they learned that they weald pay dearly £21 <*****). The government announced an austerity programme last week
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  • 150 7 UPI Geneva, Wednesday Potential buyers of a Russian enamel Easter egg due to be auctioned at Sothebys for US$ll7,OOO (*****,000) watched in astonishment on Monday evening as the egg began cracking before their eyes. The 80-year-old egg, designed by famous Russian artist Carl Faberge, hatched a
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  • 61 7 UPI Teday is Wednesday, Nov 12, the 317 th day of 1960 with 49 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. A theaght for the day: English philosopher John Locke said: •'lt Is one thing to show a man that he is in
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    • 225 7 Your guide to magical moments at the Singapore Merlin What makes for magical moments than happy times spent in good company, amidst charming and elegant surroundings, with special food to pamper your palate, attended to by the most impeccable sen/ice. ■sun I And there are so many ways to do
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  • 358 8 In truth, the new British Labour Party leader Mr Michael Foot had been everybody's second choice for quite some time. In 1974, he ran a close second to Mr James Callaghan in the search (or a successor to Mr Harold Wilson. He became the party's
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  • 119 8 4 The refusal of the public to agree that a reassembled pile of bricks or an exceptionally accurate representation of a soup-can should have place in a national collection is (to some radical artists) an irrelevance. The public's hostility is not attributed to the circumstances that those objects
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 37 8 Guests invited to a reception in Singapore to introduce a perfume called "Ivoire de Balmain" (Balmain's Ivory) have been asked to wear ivory-white dresses if they are women or ivory-white shirts if they are men.
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    • 25 8 At the Copacabana disco in Orchard Towers, there is a sign on the dance floor which says: "No male to male dancing."
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  • 720 8  -  WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON Every time a textile worker in Lancashire or Lisle is made redundant (and this is happening to hundreds of them every day) some people will lay the blame on cheap imports from Asia. Every time a Hong Kong or
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  • 825 8 When working overseas can be rough for Thais Depthnews Asia Bangkok: Like most Southeast Asian and sub-continen-tal countries exporting labour to the Middle East, Thailand is also waging an inconclusive battle against illegal job recruiters. The activities of illegal E) recruitment agencies ve been
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  • 613 9  -  Doing up your flat on a collateral-free bank loan NEWS you can USE by Lee Yew Meng Your new Housing Board flat has arrived and you want to make it look attractive with what you have saved. But with rising renovations costs, you find that
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  • 192 9 Subletting of Heasing Board flats became a hat tonic earlier this week when Minister far National Development Teh Cheaag Wan announced that HDB tenants can now sublet their rooms at a maximum monthly rent of $115 a roam. There is, however, no limit an rental far HDB
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    • 229 9 The use of the screen marks the most important innovation since the invention of the Word Processor itself. It is in this area that the Burroughs Systems show one of its greatest assets, namely, the ability to show 30 lines of large, concise characters for easier viewing and editing on
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  • trend EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
    • 1862 10/11  -  More and more Singaporeans are scouring the region from India to the Philippines for a maidservant like her You're tired of the servant problem and have decided, like so many Singaporeans have, to get domestic help from abroad. The chief sources at present are the
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    • 426 10/11  -  By Zarinah Marican Thirty-two-year-old Pinit Kaewrat is a domestic servant employed by a young Singaporean couple. Living with the couple and their 15-month-old son, she has become almost like a member of the family. She eats the same food and all her other needs
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  • Page 10/11 Advertisements
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  • 188 12 If you're a fast learner, you may be able to learn now to type 60 words per minute in 36 hours by using this audiovisual learning system shown in the picture. It trains students by using sight, sound and touch, Bypassing the
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  • 138 12 New York, Wednesday Citing publicity about links between tampon use and a sometimes fatal disease called toxic shock syndrome, T»mpu Inc. today reported lower third quarter sales and profits. The company said the recall of Procter and Camble Co.'S Rely brand of tampons following a government report linking
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  • 210 12 Business News and Views Business performance in the six months from October is expected to improve. This is the forecast of a survey of business expectations of industrial establishments conducted by the Department of Statistics. The survey also foresees more investments in buildings and plant and
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  • 177 12 UPI New York, Wednesday The stock market staged a sharp rally yesterday, encouraged by signs of a letup in upward pressure on interest rates. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials was up 10.24 points to 944.03 at the close. Advances outnumbered declines by more than a
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  • 31 12 Closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 944.03 (up 10.24); 20 transport 376.10 (up 9.75); 15 utilities 112.12 (up 2.26); 65 stocks 361.22 (up 6.19).
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 384 13 Your lucky stars IF IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are extremely imaginative. At the same time, you are innovative in deed; that is, you are not at all adverse to applying the products of your imagination to your everyday life. The result is clearly to be seen in
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  • Sport starts here
    • 386 14 Soccer Reuter Lsndsn, Wednesday Ipswich surrendered their record as the only unbeaten team in the English League when they lost 1-0 to bottom First Division club Brighton yesterday. Mike Robinson's 83rd minute goal was enough to give Brighton their first win in 10 matches and send Ipswich
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    • 145 14 Reuter New Delhi, Wednesday India have informed the International Amateur Athletic Federation that they will be unable to Invite Israeli athletes to take part in the Asian Games being held here in 1982, The Press Trust of India said yesterday. PTI said that India's stand
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    • 43 14 AP Bangkok, Wednesday Singapore were beaten again, this time going down to Bahrain 83-67 (half-time 50-26) in the Fifth Asian Youth basketball championships here yesterday. Defending champions the Philippines defeated Saudi Arabia 116-105 (4540) in* one of the most hard-fought matches.
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    • 206 15 Racing" Reuter Epsom, Wednesday Australian-born Scobie Breasley, who after a successful career as a jockey has trained horses in England, France and the United States, said here yesterday he has giving up training. "I have decided to call it a day and will not be
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    • 175 15 1 Hoong Hong 2 Chameleon 3 Hock Chye. Won by: V 2, 10, dist. Tote: $6, $5, $132. Time: 1:20.2. 1 Papakura 2 Londa Lad n 3 How Can. Won by: 1 3 A, 2, 2V*. Tote: $25, $11, $15, $47. Time: 1:19.6.
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    • 339 15  -  ON THE TRACK By TURF RAY I pah, Wednesday Mark down Andronlan as a lively outsider in the Class 2 Division 2 1250 m sprint here on Sunday. The Red God six-year-old did a dashing workout at Tiger Lane this morning. After being trotted one round
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    • 315 16  -  Jita sets high aim for the King's Cup Soccer By SURESH NAIR The luck or misfortune whichever way you look at it of the Thai King's Cup draw has not deterred Singapore manager Jita Singh from sticking to his earlier target of winning the tournament. Aiming
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    • 439 16  -  By TAY CHENG KHOON s'pore Youth S West Australia 1 Singapore Youth mastered the wet Jurong pitch and took full control of their match to humble West Australia last night. It is always a treat to watch youth sides in action, for they play with tremendous exuberance,
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    • 84 16 Quah Kim Song fans will be delighted to know that he is still a consistent marksman, scoring (or Hong Kong First Division Caroline Hill. The Tampines Rovers star scored a goal last Sunday against top-of-the-table Seiko. But Caroline lost 3-1. It was Kim Song's second feoal for
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    • Article, Illustration
      617 17  -  Macau go down fighting Hockey By SHIRLEY TAN Tough luck for Macau. Despite being without seven of their regular players, they gave favourites Japan a hard fight before going down 3-1 in their Asian Cup (Eastern Zone) qualifying hockey match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Said Macau's skipper
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    • 234 17  -  Rugby By MAURICE NEO Taipeh, Wednesday When Singapore meet South Korea in the Asian rugby championship today, things are not likely to be different. If anything, they could be worse because the Koreans, in out-playing the Taiwanese 20-9 on Monday (two tries, four penalties
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    • 170 14 Hfin POST A New Concept in Reading FIND OUT WHAT WE HAVE STORE FOR YOU Be sure to get your copy today! HOUSE OF amtnts fruits -g i I Ml? A k," PI2IB w. r rvj}s /r. s\v> «\vv VXVV I V Ammte truH hampers are made up of N**«
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 244 14 V k %t Vili<m W^KTlvlXi k*li* 77 11- I l t Cut out and pin with other coupons Posting instructions appear below Name: Sex: Age Occupation: Address: N.R.I.C. No:. CLUES BELOW Cut along here CLUES FOR LG 3 1. Usually strongly built vehicle 2. A strict moralist may assert that
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 267 16 Crossword ACROSS 1 Scoff 5 Copycat 9 Ancient French king 14 Father of Seth 15 City in Italia 16 "What's in 17 Under-garment 18 Money sent 20 Kind of jury 22 Jackie or James 23 Muffin 32 Sts. 33 River in Arizona 35 Carroll's imaginary animal 39 Main point 40
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    • 29 16 HOCKEY: Asian Cup (qualifying round) Macau v Singapore (3.30 p.m.); Thailand v Japan (5 p.m both matches at Jalan Besar Stadium. SEPAK TAKRAW: President's Cup (Perses Centre, 8 p.m.).
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 401 17 WekJer Health Supplements/ Vitamins "Here's to your Health" II member of your fanpily desires to gain* weight, this QUICK-WAtE PLAN Is good No matter how much underweight, any one in your tamily may be, they can now help themselves gain by this plan. Start It TODAY! AVAILABLE IN LIQUID OR
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  • What's On 1 two pages that tell you what's happening on TV and In town
    • 215 18  -  By Michael Chiang A one-and-a-half hour Diana Ross concert? Two Barry Manilow Specials? And Shirley MacLaine too? Gasp. It's true. Headed this way are four big musical treats for TV fans. Starting from Nov 24, SBC will telecast four sponsored shows featuring Diana Ross,
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    • 514 18  -  CINEMA bv Richard Lim THE LONG RIDERS: Directed by Walter Hill. Screenplay by Bill Bryden, Steven Smith and Walter Hill. Opens tonight at Lido. THE BLUE LAGOON: Produced and directed by Randal Kleiser. Screenplay by Richard Franklin. Coming to Orchard. The Long Riders is
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 173 18 At the cinema THE LONG RIDERS: Walter Hill's tautly directed western about the James and Young brothers starring the Carradine and Keach brothers. Lido: 9.15 p.m. (See review this page). THE BLACK HOLE: Walt Disney's first and dazzling venture into deep space adventure, starring Maximilian Schell and Yvette Mimieux. It
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    • 272 18 Saturday Night Fever in Texas, where the men slap their women around, ana love is hot as the desert sun. Stars John Travolta and Debra Winger. Jade: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9 p.m. THE CHANGELING: Starring George C. Scott and Trish van Devere. Cathay: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m.
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  • What's On 2
    • 551 19  -  Talentime'Bo Report Ir by •k Michael Chiang In all shapes and sizes they come, each professing an inherent love for singing. In turn, each makes a three-and-a-half-minute bid for success, sending thrills, or chills, down our spines. These are the Talentime contestants who have
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    • 537 19  -  By Richard Lim Sergeant Dan Stone, soft-centred cop and bestselling author rolled into one, may seem like a rare combination of a man, but fiction being an imitation of life, the character is actually based on a very real person Joseph Wambaugh. Remember
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 184 19 In and around town THE WITTY MAID: A Teochew Opera presented by the Woo Amateur Musical and Dramatic Association at the Victoria Theatre at 7.45 p.m. Free tickets are available at the association's premises. On till Friday. ONE-MAN EXHIBITION by Mr Cheong Soo Pieng of his paintings at the exhibition
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    • 99 19 display of various art forms by several Singapore artists. At the Sentosa art centre from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION: Agatha Christie's play presented by The Stage Club at the Drama Centre at 8 p.m. Tickets at $6, $4, $3 available at the door. On till
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  • 36 20 AH FOOK: It's a ridiculous state of affairs in the Australian labour movement. There are simply too many unions. MEI LIN: I think you're right. Maybe they should follow Singapore's example of industry-type unions.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1010 20 Today's Pick On TV WORLD IN ACTION: The Nuts And Bolts Of The Economy The Uncommon Market. (Ch 5, 10.10 p.m. in colour). The industrial set-up of Japan comes under investigation in this documentary which seeks to understand why the Japanese market is purportedly the most difficult to penetrate. The
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