New Nation, 26 May 1982

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  • 19 1 New Nation City Edition SINGAPORE Wednesday, May 26, 1982 3490 Price 30 Cents M C fD rin IWVfC jlc^lalion
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  • 367 1  -  By Rav Dhaliwal The NTUC Comfort has proposed an increase in taxi fares. General manager, Mr Michael Liew, said he has proposed to the Ministry of Communications a "painless" or "minimal" increase in fares. This can take the form of a direct increase in
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  • 96 1 AP London: This Is British Defence Secretary John Nott's replies to tlons from Independent TV News reporter Geoffrey Archer. "In the loot hear or two, there has been quite a significant, a major attach on onr ships. The hod news Is that oae of oar ships
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  • 389 1 Agencies LwmlH: Argentinian fighterbombers yesterday launched a massive air attack on the British Falkland Islands task force and badly damaged at least one warship, the British Defence Ministry announced. But a military source in Buenos Aires claimed that a British frigate and a transport ship
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  • 125 1 UPI Las Vegas: Miss Frances Hoe, 23, a secretary from Singapore, will comBete In the Hilton etel Corp. US$l million (about $2 million) Snper Pot-O-Gold Slot Championship Tournament next year, after winning a U*****,211 Jackpot at the Las Vegas Hilton last weekend. Miss Hoe, who
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  • 354 2 Although it is relatively less serious, the common cold gets almost as much medical attention as diseases like cancer and heart attack. The reasons are obvious. The common cold, as its name implies, affects everybody. It makes life miserable. And it lowers, pardon the pomposity, productivity. According
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  • 151 2 4 You see, I was brought up with a kind of intellectual disdain for these things that the big city, huge buildings, are supposed to be ugly, capitalism at its worst. And in the last 20 or 30 years this was reiterated all the time, that the sunless
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  • WHISPERS
    • 28 2 SIA stewardesses are still talking about the first class passenger who, upon being told that caviar was fish eggs, asked for:"Two please, three minutes each.
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  • 202 2 UPI Waafclagton: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is running advertisements in newspapers, magazines and on radir that seek to draw young men and women to their clandestine world. The advertisements seek to fill a wide range of agency jobs, ranging
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  • 145 2 AP Warsaw: Polish authorities have lifted formal restrictions on Individual and group tourism but have cancelled plans for tears to the West by Polish groups, It was reported here yesterday. Restrictions on both Western and East bloc tourists coming to Poland were lifted ea
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  • 227 2 AP Washington: Treasury secretaries to five previous US Presidents are painting a grim picture of economic calamity for the US unless the present government takes politically treacherous steps to reduce the swelling budget deficits it faces. The former Cabinet officers, who served in Democrat
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  • 315 2  -  By Judith Hale Singapore Airlines' lackpot machines go back in the air tomorrow after being grounded for nearly eight months. But the six new machines being installed on one of its America-bound jumbos are dilierent from the original models, sources said. The original
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  • 158 2  -  May Ho More than 18# people have applied to Join Singapore Airlines as managers bat only a boat 71 will be Interviewed, starting next month. The airline advertised last month for university graduates with at least live yean' working experience and who are earning
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  • 54 2 UPI TODAY is Wednesday, May 26, the 146 th day of 1982 with 219 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: British satirist Jonathan Swift said: "Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps and
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  • 35 4 AP Jakarta: The Indonesian Red Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) yesterday signed an agreement to provide basic services for children, mothers and their families in East Timor. AP
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  • 356 4  -  By Rav Dhaliwal Errant Comfort texi and bus drivers will soon be given demerit points under a new code of conduct introduced by the cooperative. Structured along the lines of the Points Demerit Scheme for motorists, it has a range of one to five
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  • 241 4 The cede covers guidelines (or general conduct, maintenance ot vehicles, accidents, malpractices, social and legal obligations and relationship with commuters and Comfort. It also defines major and minor offences. The code requires Comfort operators to treat all possengers alike, regardless of race, col tare, religion
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  • 141 4 Profiles that make news AP Rome: Six days of jail have left Sophia Loren on the verge of mental collapse and a doctor has prescribed drugs to help her cope with anxiety, Rome's leading daily reported on Tuesday. "She is very, very depressed," Miss Loren's
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  • 151 4 AP Washington: US Vice-President George Bosh received U5517,137 ($35,790) in gifts last year, including a U*****7 crystal platter, a pans te base ball games aid a bronze sculpture of a hsrse, accenting te his financial dlselesare farm released yesterday. He alne received a baseball eap
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  • 383 5 15 crates of weapons hidden in cargo of rawhide AP Manila: A Filipino leather dealer has told investigators he helped smuggle up to 15 crates of Russian firearms from the Middle East to .Filipino rebels, according to military documents released yesterday. The documents said Jaime
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  • 196 5 The Education Ministry is offering graduate teachers a chance to get a master's degree in language laboratory teaching. It is for the first time offering scholarships in this subject under the New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme. A ministry source said that there is a
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  • 20 5 AFP Modmw: Afghan President Babrak Karmal has arrived in Moscow for a "brief rest," Radio Moscow reported yesterday.
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  • 113 5 AFP Jakarta: The Indonesian government has banned at least seven foreign newspapers, a stepping-up of its already tight censorship policy, authoritative sources said here yesterday. The newspapers are the Dutch NRC Handlesblatt, the British London Observer, the French Le Figaro, L'Aurore and France-Soir, and the Australian
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  • 124 5 UPI Memphis (Tennessee): Traffic signals and Innch time do not usually have much in common unless yon happen to be eating at Ellendale Elementary School when the conversation gets noisy. The cafeteria is equipped with its own stop light which stays green as long
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  • 168 6 AP Washington: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted yesterday to Increase America's direct military grants to Israel by (JS|IM million (s2f9 million) and figure oat later where to get the funds. The move was approved by an 8-1 vote. Senator Nancy
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  • 50 6 Reuter Paris: French motor giant Renault posted a sharp loss last year after its 1980 profit, according to company results released yesterday. The group's consolidated net loss last year was 675 million francs ($236 million), down from the profit of 638 million francs in 1980. Reuter
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  • 65 6 AP T»ky«: Japanese motorcycle manufacturer Honda Motor said yesterday that it has reached a basic agreement with Malaysia's Heavy Industry Corporation to produce jointly two-wheeled vehicle engines in Malaysia. The Japanese firm said it will invest about 10 billion yen ($88.4 million) in the 50-50
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  • 343 6 AP Washington: Nearly half the members of the US Senate are urging President Reagan to cancel plans to sell fighter planes and anti-air-craft missiles to Jordan unless it agrees to peace negotiations with Israel. The non-binding resolution, cosponsored by at least 45 of the
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  • Briefs
    • 50 6 Reuter Male (Maldives): The tiny Indian Ocean Republic of Maldives, a British protectorate until 1965, said yesterday it had made a formal application to join the Commonwealth. The official announcement came within a few days of Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's return from a visit to Britain. Reuter
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    • 58 6 Reuter Dacca: A special military tribunal yesterday sentenced former Bangladesh Deputy Premier Jamaluddin Ahmed to nine years' imprisonment for misappropriation of funds ana abuse of power. The tribunal convicted Ahmed on charges of gaining monetary benefit worth about U552.25 million ($4.6 million) by misusing official position and also
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    • 63 6 Reuter Taipei: Taiwan has banned the import of Japanese-made video tape recorders through third countries, including Singapore, covering a loophole in an import ban clamped in February as part of moves to balance trade with Japan. Officials of the Board of Foreign Trade said there will also
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    • 79 6 Reuter Bakrmia: Saudi Arabia plans to set up a consultative assembly as part of continuing political and administrative reforms to give its people a say in the running of the kingdom. Plans for a Majlis Ash-Shoura (consultative assembly) ana provincial bodies, whose members are likely to
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    • 66 6 AP 8«m1: The South Korean government has authorised a group of five South Korean companies to explore for coal in Paslr, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, the Energy and Resources Ministry said yesterday. The companies earlier obtained exploration rights from Indonesia's state-run coal corporation, P.N. Tambang Patusara, on the
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  • 118 6 Three journalists frorr. the Times Organisation are conducting courses at the Department of Extramural Studies of the National University of Singapore. Mr Peter Watson and Mr John Roche, lecturers at the School of Journalism, are jointly conducting a 20-hour lecture course on An Introduction to Practical Journalism,
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  • 193 6 AP WuUagtea: A went hw policy document circulating 1b tin PdtegH hho ws ttet the US government la ordering steps to gnard >galast what It considers growing possiMlIty of military defeat at sea, the Washington Pest reported yesterday. The docsment is the 'first
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  • 214 8 The Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts is seriously thinking about offering dance, drama and music courses with the aim of developing the academy into a well-rounded arts college. Though the idea was accepted in principle by the academy's management commitee as early as 1980,
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  • 55 8 AP Berlin: Police have filed at least 15 slander charges in effort s to counter what officials fear is an organised campaign to drum up public opposition to next month's visit by President Ronald Reagan. A police spokesman said more banners and slogans are appearing on apartment houses,
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  • 29 8 AP New York: Heavy thunderstorms from the Great Plains hit Texas and other parts of the southern and midwestern US yesterday. There were flooding, tornadoes and hail.— AP
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  • 348 8 As key Iraqi-held city falls Reuter Algiers: Four hardline Arab states and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) pledged support for Iran in its 20-month-old war with Iraq at a time when Iraqi forces were said to have suffered a major defeat. Iraq has admitted that Iranian
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  • 368 8 AFP Tehran: Iranian artillery yesterday shelled the Iraqi side of the Shatt-al-Arab waterway near the strategic port of Khorramshahr, destroying several oil Installations, Radio Tehran said. Poor Iraqi planes were shot down In the south-western Iranian region of Khuzestan on Monday, said the radio report, citing a
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  • 117 8 The Women's pro-B-amme committee of the ational Trades Union Congress (NTUC) will organise more trips to Asean states in future. This is to allow its members to learn more about trade union affairs and women's organisa- tions of other developing countries. Nineteen members representing 17
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  • 72 8 UPI Dm Moines: The cnpld who brought Kyle Riley and Jo Linda Richardson toSther will be spending elr wedding night with them. Mr Riley, Si, and Miss Richardson, 17, both of Des Moines, said on Monday that Pac-Man has meant so much to them they decided to
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  • 53 8 AP London: The Court of Appeals yesterday rejected a plea by truck driver Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper who killed 13 women, to appeal his life sentence on grounds of insanity. The court ruled that the Old Bailey criminal court judge who sentenced Sutcliffe was right to reject
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  • 147 9 Stock prices fell yesterday in moderate trading when an early rally collapsed over investor disappointment that Citibank failed to win a following in lowering its prime lending rate a halfpoint to 16 per cent. Yesterday's prices followed by the difference on the previous session's close ATliT 53
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  • 29 9 UPI The Dow Jones closing averages yesterday: 30 industrials 834.57 (down 1.81); 20 transport 330.12 (down 0.48); 15 utilities 113.49 (down 0.29); 65 stocks 326.94 (down 0.66).
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  • 47 9 AP New Ysrk: Citibank, the second-largest commercial bank in the US, yesterday cut its prime lending rate by one-half percentage point to 16 per cent. "It's in line with our view of the money market," said Mr John Maloney, a Citibank spokesman. AP
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  • 53 9 AP Landed: The number of Britons out of work this month has dipped below the politically sensitive three million mark, the department of employment reported yesterday. The number on unemployment registers in the middle of May was 2,969,443, or 12.4 per cent of the nation's 24 million
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  • 302 9  -  Govt to answer queries this week official By Karen Lau About 12 companies from the service and manufacturing sectors have shown an interest in setting up in-house child care centres. Following the announcement two weeks ago that the government-owned Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS)
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  • 196 9 AP Copenhagen: The Danish capital Is gradually escaping Its reputation as a hotbed of pornography. Instead, Copenhagen Is solidifying Its old Image as the home of the Tlveli Gardens, the Little Mermaid statue and a friendly, easy-going population, a poll shows. More than 2*M "key
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  • FEATURE 1
    • 623 10 Malacca Mentrl Besar In the corridors of power At 17, Encik Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik took the step that was to lead to a political career he joined the United Malays National Organisation (Umno). That was about 15 years ago. Today, as Chief Minister of
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    • 455 10 Dy Education Minister Several professed champions of vernacular education contested during the recent election, reflecting the importance of the Issue among the nonMalay political parties. But It was a doctor, not openly associated with the emotional verbal dingdong over the education Issue, who got
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    • 361 10 Dy Culture Minister Last month, when the new Cabinet was announced, Madam Chow Poh Kheng created history. Madam Chow, better known as Rosemary Chong, became the country's first Chinese woman Deputy Minister. In 1172, she was appointed the first chairman for the
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    • 672 11  -  Humour wttn Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times Lm Angeles: Most of the telephone calls I've been receiving these days go something like this. "Hi, it's Phil." "Hello, Phil, how are you?" "Never mind the small talk. My kid is graduating from college
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    • 994 15  -  HEALTH SHOCK by Martin Weitz. $19.85. Hamlyn paperback. Book on health industry debunks many rituals of birth Reviewed by M.H. Choo If books were written merely to entertain or excite, then Martin Weitz's Health Shock is a success. However, it falls quite short
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  • TREND
    • 751 12/13 Wine, women and songs seem to go together, but not quite like the way they used to. Today, the wine is being peddled by women and, frequently, in nightclubs, bars and supermarkets. One woman who has been selling the grog for the past two
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    • 568 12/13 There's nothing wooden about 2S-year-old Carol Chla although she sells timber. Energetic, expressive and full sf energy, Carol Is the only qualified woman timber grader In Singapore at the moment and saw millers are still surprised when they realise that the slim figure in leans
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    • 373 12/13  -  JENNIFER SCHOON Women have always been in sales, usually in what the trade calls traditional lines cosmetics, garments and, more recently, the hotef, public relations and advertising fields. But more and more women are breaking into new areas as well. We have women selling cars, computers, insurance,
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    • 796 12/13 Selling cars all in a day's work When Maggie Chin sold her first vehicle, she didn't even know how to drive it, much less quote its consumption and capacity. "I was so excited," she recalls. "It happened in my first week on the job. I didn't even have to tell
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  • 823 16  -  He faces six charges in the Ararat Cup case SPORT STARTS HERE By BRIAN MILLER Jockey Rodney Dawkins, the flamboyant Sydney-sider who rode with considerable success in Singapore and Malaysia in the early *****, is the central figure in a racing storm which is making headlines
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  • 269 16  -  On the track By PEDIGREE Penang: Trackwork this morning was another sluggish affair. With the going soft again, following overnight rain, only a handful of horses went against the clock on the sand track. Hawall-Flve-I, the first horse to go fast, strode out stylishly over 600 m in
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  • 331 17 SPORTS NATION ON lOC's PLANS FOR LOS ANGELES 'S4 AFP Rome: Athletes selected for the 1184 Olympic Games will receive a personal letter from the president of the lOC warning them about the dangers of doping. Prince Alexander de Merode, chairman of the lOC's medical committee
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  • 542 17 Ten per cent set aside for atheletes to reach LA Agencies Rome: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) are to set aside up to US$4 million (about $8m)to help Third World countries take part in the 1964 Los Angeles Olympic Games, lOC director Monique Berlioux said
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  • 200 17 AFP Rome: The Athletes' Olympic Committee, holding their first meeting here yesterday, called for competent and neutral officials to judge future Olympic competitions. England's record breaking middle-distance runner Sebastian Coe, a leading light in the formation of the committee, said here yesterday: "Judges
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  • 356 17 AP Los Angle Ira: Sophisticated timing equipment for the 1984 Olympic Games will be sent from Switzerland and is supposed to accurate to less than 1000 th of a second. John Davis, president of Longines-Wittnauer of North America, said the timing equipment includes photo-electric cells so sensitive
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  • 339 18 It has its advantages but not all like it Reuter Paris: This year's French Open tennis championships will be remembered as the tournament at which the bigger racket came into on its own. About two-thirds of the players on court were using the bigger and
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  • 722 18 Visser creates upset in opening round of French Open Tennis Agencies Paris: Steve Denton of the United States yesterday achieved the unwelcome distinction of being the first seed to be knocked out of the French Open tennis championships. Denton, seeded 14th, went down 3-6, 6-4, 7-6,
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  • 331 18 Reuter Men's singles (Ist rd): Per Hjertquist (Sweden) bt John Feaver (Britain) 6-2, 6-1, 6-2; Joachim Nystroem (Swedem) bt Claudio Panatta (Italy) 1-6, 7-6, 6-0, 6-0; Fernando Luna (Spain) bt Eric Deblicker (France) 6-7, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Klaus Eberhard (West Germany) bt Mario Martinez (Bolivia) 7-5, 6-4, 6-0; Mats
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  • 156 18 AFP Paris: News that women's tennis fashion designer Teddy Tinling has agreed to act as a "troubleshooter" to try to iron out the growing criticism of the Wimbledon championship by many of the world's leading players was warmly welcomed here yesterday today by Jimmy Connors. The 29-year-old
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 392 18 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you strike many as prudish, as one extremely careful of the impression he is making and the reputation he is earning. It is, however, a false notion of you. In truth, you are good-humoured, adaptable and unconcerned about what the world
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  • Article, Illustration
    322 19  -  Soccer By LEONARD KING Singapore Malays are gambling on reserve goalkeeper Rahim Ismail to rise to the occasion for their last home game against Malacca in their South Zone tournament of the Sultan's Gold Cup at the National Stadium on Saturday. Regular goalkeeper Karim Mohammed will leave for
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  • 453 19  -  Farm's return will boost team By LEONARD KING Second Division Cairnhill, will have former international Leong Kok Fann back in the side for their last six games of the National Football League. Kok Fann is expected to return from Ontario, where he is studying computer
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  • 336 19 The Women's Football Association of Singapore have drawn up plans to give women's football a boost including a bid to host the 1986 Asean Cup. Women's football has been, for long time, scorned by the average male Singaporean. But tournament committee chairman, Jacqueline Chan, has plans to
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 231 19 ACROSS 1 Muppet star 5 Canvas covers, for short 10 Calif, city 14 Vacation spot in Italy 15 Bathsheba's husband 16 School item 17 Experts 18 English dramatist 19 Trickery 20 Intimate 22 Mount Calif 24 Wading bird 25 Of the ear 26 Apple 29 Quivering motions 32 Put into
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  • 549 20 Dutch inspired by some runs but just could not find the finishing Reuter London: World Cup finalists England gave their confidence a timely boost when they beat the Netherlands 2-0 at Wembley last night with one of their most convincing performances in the run-up to next
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  • 158 20 AFP London: England will definitely take part in next month's World Cop finals in Spain, the secretary of the English Football Association Ted Croker said yesterday. "We are definitely going and will be leaving for Spain on Jane 19," he said. Three British teams
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  • 372 20 Bearzot relies on top clubs Reuter Rome: Italian manager Enzo Bearzot yesterday announced a squad of 22 players for the World Cup finals in Spain, after waiting in vain for star forward Roberto Bettega to recover from injury. Bearzot delayed making his final selection in the
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  • 127 20 AFP Turin: Poland and Italy will be the two qualifiers from World Cup Group One, key Polish player Zbigniew Boniek said here yesterday. The 28 year-old player, renowned for the way he can read a game and for his kicking power, believed his own team were certain
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  • 463 21 The prize: European Cup The venue: Feynoord Stadium The time: 3 a.mH Manfred Mueller: Mueller, 35, has solved manager Uli Hoeness's goalkeeping problems with a series of solid displays. He joined Bayern Munich in 1979. Very experienced. Klaus Aogeathaler: Augenthaler, 25, the most polished defender, has had
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  • 54 21 Bayern Munich: Oster (Sweden) 1-0 and 5-0 Benfica Lisbon (Portugal) 0-0 and 4-1 Craiova (Rumania) 2-0 and 1-1 CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) 3-4 and 4-0 Aston Villa: Valur FC (Iceland) 5-0 and 2-0 Dynamo Berlin (East Germany) 2-1 and 0-1 Dynamo Kiev (USSR) 0-0 and 2-0 Anderlecht
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  • 121 21 1972 at Rotterdam: Ajax Amsterdam (Netherlands) 2 Inter Milan (Italy) 0 1973 at Belgrade: Ajax Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1 Juventus Turin (Italy) 0 1974 at Brussels: Bayern Munich (West Germany) 0 Atletico Madrid (Spain) 0 Bayern Munich (West Germany) 4 Atletico Madrid (Spain) 0 1975 at Paris: Bayern
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  • 649 21 Soccer Rotterdam: The individual flair of Bayern Munich and the efficient teamwork of Aston Villa should provide an entertaining contrast in styles in today's European Cup soccer final here (Singapore time: Thursday, 3 a.m.). Recent finals have been something of a letdown, the last four having been
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  • 89 21 AFP Amsterdam: Ten young Britons from Birmingham, the home of Aston Villa Football Club, were arrested here on Monday night after attacking passers-by with bottles and breaking shop windows, a police spokesman said yesterday. Police made several baton charges to end a disturbance by about 60 young
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  • 488 21 Jimmy Rlmmrr: Signed from Arsenal in 1977 for £70,000 (over S$280,000). He is one of the few Villa players with an England cap. He is the only one involved in a European Cup final before, winning a medal with Manchester United in 1968. Kenny Swain: Bought as
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