New Nation, 3 March 1982

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    18 1 NewNation City Edition City Edition SINGAPORE Wednesday, March 3, 1982 3420 Price 30 Cents M.C.(P) No. 96/1/82 iNewNation
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    Lock icon Jaruzelski vows to get tough
    168 1 Reuter Mnmw: Polish military chief Wojciech Jaruzelski has promised Soviet leaders he will crack down hard on any future attempts to challenge communist rule in Warsaw, according to a Joint communique released yesterday. He added that "any attempts to resume actions aimed at causing economic
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      Lock icon Water in jets' fuel
      58 1 AFP New Delhi: The itole me< tadlaa Oil Cerperattea haa manumit* fear ef Mi effleera aad relieved aaether af hh daty after water was feaad la avlatlsa fael pamped late twe Air todUatreraft la Bern hay ea Satarday, It waa repertThe twe Beeiag Hb were greaaded.
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      From train to buses, taxis
      52 1 About 200 passengers on the Singapore to Kuala I lUmpar express train had to continue their iourney by buass and taxis after some empty coaches were derailed near Bangsar last night. The derailment was believed to have occurred while the coaches were being joined to
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      Lock icon Law lord shot at
      27 1 AP Hred ygrffSiS he arrived for a leetare at »IHI Ualventty iattsefts aad was repsrigd hi ilkhßlwy The shafts wave Bred frees aa^ahaadeaed
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    Priceless gesture by family
    404 1  -  By Filomina D'Cruz History buffs will soon be able to view the priceless artifacts of one of Singapore's most famous figures, Mr Tan Kim Seng. The artifacts include family papers dating back to 1806 and portraits of the grand old man's son, Beng Swee, and his
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      14 1 I Inside Early Bird contest results Page 17 Hotel faces CBD problem Page 4
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  • Article
    5½ out of 75 won't do
    337 2 Was Mr Tan Soo Khoon's lament about the small number of Anglo-Chi-nese School old boys among our Members of Parliament fair? For a start and to be accurate, the MP for Alexandra might have got his figures a little wrong. Mr Tan mentioned four
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    THEIR VIEWS
    110 2 4 The Association would like to draw the attention of the authorities concerned again to the indiscriminate parking on many of our main roads, particularly where double yellow lines have been drawn on one of our highways the Rochore Road link connecting Newton Circus to the viaduct at
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    Lullaby ad
    64 2 [whispers The soft sell advertising formula can backfire, as executives behind a holiday TV commercial in Britain found out recently. Their 20second advertisement with a blank blue screen had a soothing voice inviting viewers to close their eyes to the sounds of seagulls, waves and other gentle holiday
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    Save-watts contest for schools
    274 2 Part of energy-saving campaign Schools here will soon be going all out to save watts in a contest beipg organised as part of the national energy conservation campaign in May. The competition aims to make students more aware of the need to save electricity. An Education
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    Lock icon Wheeler-dealer with costly taste
    243 2 AP Beljtag: Ckea Halkal, wheeler-dealer "ear king" of Hunan provlaee, ipeat M yuan ($l3) a day on a N-yua meatkly salary aad dallied with wemea d "dabltua ekaraeter" while key afflelala protected him, Cklaeee prew reperta Mid yeaBat like kaadreds of etkers whose eaaea were reported
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    Lock icon Inflation eases again for third month
    283 2 AP Washington: Consumer price inflation in industrial countries eased in December for the third consecutive month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported yesterday. Prices declined to a 9.2 per cent annual rate of increased in December, from 9.5 per cent in November and 9.8
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    NTI gets 43 teaching staff
    165 2 The Nanyang Technological Institute, which starts its first classes in July, has recruited 43 people (or 65 teaching posts. Thirty one of them have already started work. NTI registrar. Mr Ling Sing Wong, said 20 of the staff recruited are Singaporean. The others are from
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    Students sent to hospital after illness
    231 2 About 20 students from Whitley Secondary School were rushed to the Toa Payob Hospital last Saturday and Monday when some fainted, became feverish, shivered uncontrollably and had dizzy spells. Students say the first incident took place on Saturday at 8.30 a.m. "The students of
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      217 3 The Dazzling Citizen Combo, The Most Revolutionary New Watch r I if i X I a *s. "s I s X ITI/h CMUnhftCHAV"J* C'L -«T/ V iUtiW O.'T S'4*T V '■'0, n -.'si UMfc I; t( T L .41 v UlUr X /rJS v V V' W' 1 1 x
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    Fee just to get to hotel?
    224 4  -  Bid to stop any sneaking into CBD By Karen Lau Motorists who use the slip road off Scots Road to go to Dynasty Hotel may have to pay a fee between 7.30 and 10.15 a.m. This is because the soon-to-be-opened hotel is in the
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  • BRIEF
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      Lock icon 'POISON' WHEAT SAFE
      73 4 AFP New Delhi: The Indian government yesterday denied press reports here that wheat shipped from Australia contained a deadly Insecticide to an extent that it was unsafe to eat. A Ministry of Agriculture statement said the wheat contained seven parts per million of the insecticide Fenitrothion at
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      Lock icon PULLOUT STARTS
      60 4 Reuter Jermlem: Israeli Defence Minister Ariel Sharon announced yesterday that the army will begin evicting Jewish squatters from Sinai today to prepare for the Sinai handover to Egypt. He told Parliament that the govenment is moving well ahead of the April 26 deadline to stop squatters and other
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      Lock icon ASSAULT REPORT
      59 4 Reuter Dacca: The Bangladesh government is investigating an incident Involving the Indian High Commissioner here who allegedly assaulted a National Security Intelligence officer last Thursday, Parliament was told yesterday. Bangladesh Home Minister M A Martin said a police report was made against diplomat Muchkund Dubey for allegedly pulling
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      Lock icon SHORT OF FOOD
      45 4 UPI LriaotlM: Afghanistan will (ace food shortages (or at least the next three months, forcing the Soviet Union to make up the shortfall. A western diplomat quoted an agriculture expert in Kabul as saying the rural areas will be hit hardest. UPI
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      Lock icon OUTSIDE INFLUENCE
      30 4 UPI Washing!**: US Secretary of State Alexander Hale yesterday said there is "overwhelming and irrefutable" evidence that El Salvador's leftist guerillas are controlled and commanded by outsiders. —UPI
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      Lock icon CORRUPTION RAP
      54 4 Reuter Kfta Kins ha la: An Australian was charged in a magistrate's court here yesterday with two counts of corruption in connection with the purchase of two fishing vessels by the Sabah government fishery cooperative, Bernama news agency said. Michael C. Soelle, 53, former manager of the cooperative,
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    110 4 UPI Gateshead (England): The father <rf a teeaage girl hilled by a metercycllst has been erdered te pay the man £1219 (about |MN) rempeimtlsa (sr using a sledgehammer te smash the metercyele. "All they did was take away his Ueeaee and I have te nay for smssbtsg
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      138 4 i"i ;:«:i Don't go rushing around in the mid-day heat looking for lunch. Come to Huoli. Different set lunch menu every day and airflown succulent steaks any day. And for Sundays, the best Western and Eastern dishes available. Monday Roasl Leg of Pork Baked Beans French Beans Croquette Potatoes Tuesday
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    Lock icon Watch out, LA police tell tourists
    382 5 NYT Lm Angeles: This City of Fantasies, where tourism brings in more than US$6 billion (about $12.6 billion) a year, is trying, as gingerly as it can, to warn tourists to watch their hats and coats and everything else they own when they come
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    STOCK MARKET
    48 5 Trend: Steady BUSINESS DONE First Section M Credit (5) 2.80 Genting (2) 4.30 Sembawang Ship (4) 5.40 S'pore Bus (2) 2.38 UMW (2) 5.15 Weames (2) 3.40 MT Printing (2) 1.80 (2) 1.52 (2) 1.53 UOB (2) 4.20 SMNd Sectioa Amcol (250) 1.00 Promet (2) 3.42
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    Lock icon Two killed
    27 5 UPI NmIU: Two people were killed yesterday in an hour-long fire that gutted the first floor of a sevenstory building in Manila's Chinatown district. UPI
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    Lock icon Iran selling its treasures to get war money
    308 5 UPI Leedee: Historic treasures from the 2500-year-old Persian Empire are to be put on sale by Iran's financiallycrippled Islamic regime to finance its 17-month war with Iraq and dwindling oil revenues. Tehran Radio reported on Monday that Parliament approved a Bill making
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    Pre-U exam open also to those not yet in school
    304 5 The common English language examination (CELE) will this year be open to students from the non-English stream even if they were not admitted to pre-university in January. The examination, which decides whether students without good grades in English as a
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    Lock icon Haig: No danger of cut in ties
    314 6 Talks are still on he says Reuter Washington: Secretary of State Alexander Haig yesterday said he saw no danger at this time that China would downgrade relations with the United States over the issue of US arms sales to Taiwan. Mr Haig said
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    $6 m bridge to connect two islands
    195 6  -  By Chan Eng Cheng A $t million bridge cmnectlng t»• theru islands Pnlan Ayer Merhan aad Polan Merllman will be eempleted by tbe end of this month. Tbe 4M-metre bridge Is net fer ears, lerries er people bat mainly fer pipes sad cables
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    Lock icon TODAY
    51 6 UPI TODAY is Wednesday, March 3, the 62nd day of 1962 with 303 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. A THOUGHT FOB THE DAY: American writer William Henry Hudson said: "You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren."
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    Lock icon New York Exchange
    233 6 UPI UPI Blue-chip stocks fell in heavy trading yesterday, when a rally fizzled and oil issues took a pounding after a brokerage reportedly gave up on the group ana recommended selling. Paine Webber reportedly issued the oil-sell signal that triggered the market decline and put a dent
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    Lock icon Dow Jones
    33 6 UPI Closing averages on the New Yoric Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 825.82 (off 2.57); 20 Transport 338.86 (up 1.17); 15 Utilities 108.57 (up 0.81); 65 Stocks 325.22 (up 0.20). UPI
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      29 6 nesday night for this DOWNTOWN. ..V* s and giits. Plus a Night, jsvith models la&Downtown. f oreni DePas Merlin Plaza, Block E, Ist Level Carpark, Singapore 0719. Tel; *****72.
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      149 7 "It's an open and shut case, Watson. No Ammonia" l»yVv. il'i >vv. 1» 4 > v" a' <T" v- XvV/ /y pn 1 Holmes had put away his violin and turned his attention to the plans that had just been slipped under the door. I that had just been slippe(
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    Lock icon Kings' chef joins Sats
    426 8  -  Erhard recalls his service to royalty By S. Kumar Chef Friedrich Erhard who has fed kings, queens, presidents and even an emperor or two will now be feeding airline passengers. The chef who has commanded kitchens in India, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Norway, Israel and France started work
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    Lock icon Dragster comes to grief
    98 8 Bakersfleld (California): Chaahs of metal hurtle lata the air as this dragster crashes lata a gaard rail aad flips aver twice before landlac upside down. Miraculously It did aat burnt lata flames aad when the dast of the craah settled, the spectators mast have gasped la
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    Lock icon Britain to cut North Sea oil price by US$4
    298 8 Reuter London: Britain is cutting North Sea oil prices by US$4 (about SsB) a barrel, the second reduction forced on it within a month by the world oil glut, oil industry sources said yesterday. Opec will be under intensified pressure to
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    OLD FREES GIVEN 3 MONTHS
    120 8 The Old Frees' Association here whose members include the Speaker, Dr Yeoh Ghim Seng, and Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin, has bm asked to prove it exists. The association, registered here in May 1962, has about 250 members in Singapore. They are all former students
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    Lock icon Go for growth, unions tell West
    229 9 AFP Paris: Trade unions of the industrial world are to plead with western governments for a basic shift in economic policy to meet the mounting challenge of mass unemployment, union officials said yesterday. Unions of the 24-mem-ber countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation
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    Way to teach younger children
    304 9 Bh-vMr«M Eagtae Gsh feai a o—pater whleh toadm him hew ta aM, subtract, spell, draw Mai da simple calcalatleas. Aid Engeae's lather, Mr Oah Kim Beag. M, has written a hsah ts as with It. Called Fifty Prmgrmmmet f»r Prh mmry Etmemtfrm, the hash eaatelas
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  • FEATURE 1
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      Lock icon Getting out of debts of despair
      1009 10 UPI New Yark: Across the United States, there is a sound more penetrating than whirring electric appliances, booming stereos or other gadgets thought to be necessities by the average American in the *****. It is an unnerving and undeniable sound deep in one's conscience
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      Lock icon Deep-sea vents may be new sources of oil
      359 10 Copley News Callfernla: Oceanic het iprtagi, the rite sf atrange celestes 9t marine Hie, may be breeding greud fer new sesrees ef ell and gas. aeeerdiag to sew findings (rem a research missies In the Gmlf e( California. Scientists say the discovery,
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      Lock icon Old-fashioned fight is no picnic, too
      701 11  -  Humour with Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times Lss Angeles: I was walking by the White House the other day, when I saw a man marching back and forth with a sign, STOP THE CONVENTIONAL WAR. Wanting to be helpful, I said: "Haven't you made
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      Lock icon Peace talk through the computer
      496 11 AP Nametfc: Arab and Jewish children in Nazareth are learning to talk to a computer in the hope they will start to talk to each other. The new after-school course pairs off 20 Arab and 20 Jewish eighth and ninth-graders at computer screens to work
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      Art goes between the pages
      1464 12/13  -  Meet the people behind those book illustrations I By Jacintha Abisheganaden There is a group of Singaporeans who are neither painters nor advertising artists, but they draw for a living. They bring to life storybook characters by illustrating magazines, storybooks and reference books so that
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      40 15 MR. APPAVOO YCSUAOIAN of Malaysian Railway Control Office K.L. passed away peacefully this morning. Funeral will be In K.L. at 6pm today at Tamil Methodist Church. Sadly missed by brother Appavoo Samuel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sister-in-law, niece ft nephew.
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      100 14 The New Oxford Illustrated Dictionary Not only a Dictionary, but also a basic Encyclopedia The Oxford Dictionary, the undisputed authority on the English language is now combined with the added visual dimension of 3,500 full colour illustrations. This wealth of knowledge is collected in 40 weekly parts, totalling over 1,900
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      151 14 MUPPETB by Jim Henson THANK yOU FOR VOUR ORPE-Ry SIRS. IHAT£TH£S£ FAST FOOP JOINTS. i s 1 7 C< I 2.'/ m ji IS K 1 ANDY CAPP ON NOUR WAV t»V\E TONIGHT, PET, COULb VOU FOP IN ON NOCIR MUM AN' PICK IiPTWAT RECIPE SHE PROMISED* ME P m
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      241 14 $10, FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS U8INQ CLUES BELOW CUT HERE CLUES FOR NW 3 1. Period of sixty minutee 2. If a pereon will hardly object to a bit of pamparing 3. It's a motion pictura 4. In a atata of activity 5. Qivan a loan of 6. A
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  • SPORT STARTS HERE
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      Lock icon Shoon Keat to meet top seed
      472 15 j^jj^^Badminton Reuter Lradsa: Wong Shoon Keat, Singapore's men's singles badminton champion, has been drawn to meet the No. 1 seed Morten Frost of Denmark in (he opening round of the All-Eng-land championships which begin at Wembley on March 24. The tall, slender Dane Morten,
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      Quikstart shows improvement
      364 15  -  HQ ON THE TRACK By K. L.CHAN Last winner Quikstart, showed tremendous progress when hard held by Chris Gwilllam over 600 m in 42 here this morning. Looking fitter than before, Quikstart (late Double Bill) was striding out nicely all the way and finished with plenty in
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      Lock icon Lendl skips W'don
      221 16 UPI Pwgw: Ivan Lendl of CneteMlvvkkU, currently naked the wwMt we•ad best teub player, hu Mid be will nst take part la this year's Wlmbledea champisnshlps, "1 trained ea gnat fer six hear* every day fer a fortnight last year before Wlmbledea, aad that had a very
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      Lock icon Top seed Tracy gets in 'hot water'
      323 16 Jj^HlVmnis AP Lm Angeles: Tracy Austin, the top seed in the US$l5O,OOO (about S$300,000) Avon championships of Los Angeles, was forced to withdraw from the women's tennis tournament because of burns suffered when she was scalded in an accident over the weekend. Austin,
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      Lock icon Ipswich sunk by Devonshire goal
      266 16 K3 Soccer Agencies Ln4M: Alan Devonshire marked his return to West Ham United with a goal that sunk Ipswich Town's English League soccer championship nopes. The England midfield player, out for eight games because of ankle trouble, set up West Ham's 2-0 win with his
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      Lock icon 53 ... and still going strong
      407 17  - 53 and still going strong A year's walking and the paunch is all gone NEW NATION BIG W/\LK L -4 By SHIRLEY TAN He pedalled his bicycle all the way from Jurong to Tanjong Katong. Barely half-an-hour later, he went on a 9.8 km walk race and finished first. He
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      THE EARLY BIRD WINNERS
      576 17 Ai Kong Meng (*****80/ C) Chan Kim Chong (*****70/1) Dua Bang Choo t Pamala (*****82/J) Hoong Mun Yin, Dava (*****46/B) Jumadi Bin Sadali (*****26/H) Lim Swee Lang (*****55/G) Moh Khuan Fong (*****84/ D) Irene Seat (*****63/G) Soh Siew Fong (*****96/F) Tan Li Hong, Belinda (*****33/1) Congratulations!
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      Straight fight all the way
      666 18  -  It'll be either Forces or Reservists RK Squash By TAY CHENG KHOON The men's Premier inter-club squash League this season will be a straight fight between the Armed Forces and the Reservists Association. Everybody, it seems, want to be a Reservist these days. And, such
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      Lock icon Stewart made to look Green
      149 18 Stewart Ballard (left) should not have played the Exhibition match against England Junior Martin Green at the East Coast Recreation Centre yesterday. Not when he appeared to be mentally ana physically unprepared for it. It was a shame, for many had come to see him
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      Reflections on World Junior
      885 18  -  POOR PERFORMANCES, SLIPPERY COURTS, BAD DECISIONS... on Squash MULKIT SINGH The recently concluded World Junior championships afforded an opportunity for the local squash fraternity to see the world's best juniors in action, with our own juniors pitted against them. Perhaps this is a good time to
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      Meet Geraldine- a girl with a 'gift'
      1331 19  -  •-This 20-year-old undergrad has got it all together interview Brian Miller The black mongrel looked far from friendly. And when he charged, knocking her off her feet, I could almost hear myself saying: "So long, Gerry...it was nice knowing you." Legs kicking wildly,
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      Lock icon Lightning!
      739 20 Branded an unproductive prima donna, Krankl will please Austrian fans if his thunderbolts rock the Germans again Reuter Vienna: Austrian soccer fans are hoping that lightning, in the shape of Hans Krankl, will strike twice. During the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, Krankl put two memorable goals past West
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      Lock icon And now comes the 'Black Diamond'
      675 20 URIBE, THE WORLD'S THIRD BEST PLAYER Reuter Lima: Julio Cesar Uribe, the "Black Diamond* of Peruvian football, wants to do more than sparkle at the World Cup finals. He intends to outshine the rest. An international soccer magazine recently judged the 24-year-old forward the
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      Tampines gloom is Tiong Bahru's joy
      607 21  -  ■y NORMAN LIM Tiong Bahru manager Richard Woon expects nothing less than three points from tonight's First Division match against Tampines Rovers at the Jurong Stadium (8 p.m.). Calculating his hopes on past results against Tampines 1-1 draw and 2-1 win last year a
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      Tale of misses and mistakes
      505 21  -  NO SMILES FOR HARDWORKING UNDERDOGS KakiMtt! JiMtoel ■y SHIRLEY TAN It was a night of mlwmi and mistakes for Jubilee resulting in Kaki Bukit finishing lucky 2-1 winners in their National Football League First Division match at Jalan Besar last night. The fans were for
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      Kannan headache
      533 21  -  Chaagl 1 Pallee I By NORMAN LIM Kannan Kunjuraman's fitness was clearly in doubt when be took to the Held for Police in last night's Division One match against Changi Constituency at Jurong. Having scratched his head against a barbed wire on the way to national team training
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      354 15 THE DRAW Mart rtngtoa (Ist rd): Morten FYoat (Den) v Wong Shoon Kent (S'pore); Stefan Karlaaon (Swed) v Uday Pa war (India); Dipak Tailor (Engl) v Jiang Guoliang (China); Qualifer 1 v Dhanl Sartica (Indon), Han Jtan (China) vSvYu (HK); Tariq Wadood (Pak) v Stephen Baddeley (Eng); Uem Swie King
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      221 15 Crossword "V J ACROSS 1 Artie or G.B. 5 Search group 10 Halt 14 Blood: comb, form 15 Bay window 16 Engage 17 Significance 19 Space 20 Incorrect card distributions 21 Demure 23 Law degrees 24 Roric 25 Attack 28 Word on the wall 29 Wander about 32 From that
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      571 16 \culalion niA nil. |x SUN APRIL *****2 DIG WALK TIME: 7.30 am For Men Senior and Junior Starting from People's Association in Kallang. proceeding to Merdeka Bridge underpass. Stadium Road, Mountbatten Road to Fort Road, East Coast Parkway. Bedok South Avenue l. into Upper East Coast Road, turning into Sigtap
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      336 16 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are highly imaginative and absolutely fearless when it comes to adapting your original thoughts to present circumstances or situations. An Idealist by nature, you tend to be something of a do-gooder. You seek perfection even though you realise that it
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      65 17 X <c SN X NT NSC X X N^ i< s 7/ r Challenge Championship t »K mi,jilt* tot manu'ium stii'iujtt ji K! J 1 ,I' r>, :tn *i rij u dtlt-is HI X Cm, tn it- a Mi s ~>/< :h)-" j ,1 Vlll.lstlazenqer •\<ji nt rtr Robertson. Wilson
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      Man who made the sling swing
      597 22  -  By Khng Eu Meng Singapore Sling, Singapore Swing. One is a famous drink and the other could be a soon-to-be famous melody. The composer is Irving "Fabulous Fingers Fields who penned catchy numbers, like the two-mil-lion seller, Miami Beach Rumba, and Managua Nicaragua. He
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      631 22 Las Angeles: When reporter Sally Field Jauntily greets two FBI agents with the line "Hi, Rob, Eddie. How come the streets aren't safe?" she joins a long list of film Journalists who were applauded by audiences for half a century. From the earliest days of the
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      93 22 ODEON: OPENS TOMORROW! T7 They must do what no army can penetrate the Castle of the Eaqle go where no army can go nerve-center of the Gestapo and blow it up' I; t? f 3 v,^\» •v, V/ /V A £4* > Srift »> V\\ V vSM >hii ■±5^1 Metro
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      110 22 12.00 The Fabulous 240. Rediffusion's afternoon entertainment package with the tops in pops and your requests, including mini-ads 12.30 The Weekly Music Magazine 1.00 News 1.10 Mini-ads 1.15 The Weekly Music Magazine (cont'd) 3.00 Star Watch. Jay Michaels with your horoscope readings 3.02 Did You Know. A revealing series on
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      80 22 10.28 p.m. (1.2 m). Tamarraw: 4.41 a.m. (2.4 m); 11.56 a.m. (0.6 m); d.58 p.m.(1.9m); 11.58 p.m. (1.4 m). FrMay: 5.58 a.m. (2.3 m); 1.31 p.m. (0.5 m); 9.03 p.m. (2m). Satarday: 1.58 a.m. (1.5 m); 7.39 a.m. (2.3 m); 2.52 p.m. (0.3 m); 10.20 p.m. Maaiay: 4.06 a.m. (1.1
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      315 22 In and around town SONG OF BERNADETTE: Film show in English based on a book of the same title by Franz Werfel, will be screened at the Marine Parade branch library, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. The fllin depicts a little peasant girl who lived at Lourdes about a hundred
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      DISTURBING QUESTIONS
      739 23 Cinema Absence of MmUce. Starring Paul Newman, Sally Field and Merllnda DUlen. Opens temerraw at Orchard. The film, Absence of Malice, is damning Indictment of newspaper policies showing all too clearly how the power of the press can be used and abused by those In and outside the
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      194 23 JADE: NOW SHOWING! (2M2MO) 5 8MOW8»l 11« m, 1 JO, 4, «JO ».00 See PAUL NEWMAN in a bang-up, fun-mad, traa-for-aK comedy Hi m if I JADE: NEXT CHANGE They're all genis. But who's tlie fake? ROUGHL CUT V 111 w w www I 11 rV V Hjjjjrf flnn !MJ
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      227 23 THE UNBEEN: A horror film starring Barbara Bach. Cathay: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. Last day. ONLY WHEN I LAUGH: Starring Marsha Mason, Kristy McNlchol, Joan Hackett and James Coco. Orchard: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. Last day. TERROR EYES: Horror film about head-hunt-ers. Starring Leonard Mann and
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      159 24 Total Musical Performance™ SX ft 000 r j mm -f r w m > t L-. There is only onebest—and we have them all. SOLE DISTRIBUTOR AUDIO SYNERGY PTE LTD JOS-306 PARK LANE SHOPPING MALL SELECIE ROAD SINGAPORE 071« TEL US180) JMiaOS We ift alto tNe Sok Dwinbmor m nn
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      1270 24 TELEFUNKEN VCR •H44I SOFT EJFCT SIMPLE OPEHA HON 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS. Derek continues to style Kay's hair at her home and advises her to have a more optimistic outlook in life. 3.25 DESTINY (C/r). Serial. 5.00 THE NEW ED ALLEN SHOW. Keep-fit programme.
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