The Straits Times, 9 February 1978

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1978 25 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 214/1/78
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  • 263 1 Asean has reached accord: Mochtar DHARSONO JAKARTA, Wed FOREIGN Ministers of Asean have reached a consensus on the position of Asean secret arygeneral Hartono Rekso Dharsono, Indonesian acting Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatma•dja said today. Speaking to newsmen on his return from talks with his Asean colleagues. Mr Mochtar said the
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  • 652 1 ETHIOPIA JETS HIT SOMALIA Raids on port, town MOGADISHU, Wednesday ETHIOPIAN jets crossed into Somalia yesterday and attacked the northern regional capital of Hargeisa and the Red Sea port of Berbera, regional officials told the official Somali news agency Sonna. They said four jets strafed the |>ort and two hit
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  • 85 1 KRIANGSAK TO VISIT CHINA NEXT MONTH BANGKOK, Wed. Prime Minister Krlangsak Chamanand today said he would make a seven-day visit to China late next month. He told reporters that no exact dale had been fixed. His visit would be the first by a Thai Prime Minister since Premier Kukxit PramoJ
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  • 146 1 SOUTH AFRICA TO PUNISH JOBLESS BLACKS CAPE TOWN, Wed. A Bit giving the white minority government the power to punish blacks If they are out of work would make "une mployment a crime." opposition spokeswoman Helen Suzman said yesterday. The BUI, known as the Bantu (African) Laws Amendment Act, was
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  • 63 1 DAMASCUS. Wed President Hafez Al-Asaad of Syria said today the clashes In Lebanon between Syrian and Lebanese troops "should not be given undue Importance." "We should continue dealing with them In all possible and effective ways, and this is what we are doing In cooperation with the
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  • 60 1 TOKYO. Wed. A truck carrying potentially dangerous radtolaotope has been ml sing from a parking lot since last Saturday, the Science and Technology Agency tald today. The chem.cal substance known as Amerlclum-241 was kept In a vehicle owned by a trucking company The vehicle was last seen
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  • 40 1 NEW YORK. Wed. The Dow Jones industrial average wif up 2.94 points to 781 79 shortly before 11 am today. The blue-chip Indicator had rtssn 10.23 points in Tuesday's five-hour session to end a two-day losing streak. UPL
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  • 164 1  - Shooting at night club: Man hurt PAUL WEE By A MAN was shot in the abdomen during a fight which broke out in. a nightclub at the Apollo Hotel in Havelock Road early on Chinese New Year's Day. Sources said at least three people. Including the man who was shot,
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  • 74 1 HELSINKI. Wed. Smuggling bibles from Finland Into the Soviet Union will be penalised by the Finns, If a new Customs BUI Is adopted by the Finnish Parliament, reports raid today. The Bill provides ix Finnish Customs to stop the expert of any foods to a
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  • 67 1 LIMA. Wed. At least 0 people are feared dead rom the spectacular crash of longdistance bus Into the Mataro River, east of here. In the Andes mountains late on Monday, reports from Huancayo said today. At least seven bodies were reported recovered by late yesterday,
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  • 63 1 Quotas on cars COLOONZ. Wed. Mr. ■elal Kato. president of Toyota, one of Japan's big three car makers, amid here today Japan win soon have to Impose voluntary quotas on sales of can abroad. "Japarese cars on the export market* will soon be thrown back In the sea, he told
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  • 53 1 REYKJAVIK. Wed. Iceland today announced a 13 per cent devaluation of 1U currency, the krona. financial circlet had regarded the move as inevitable following last Sunday's suspension ol foreign currency trading hrre by the Icelandic Central Bank. The krona has recently traded at around 215 to the
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  • 38 1 MAOHERA (Northern Ireland), Wed. A part-time soldier and his 11-year-old daughter were killed today when a bomb attached to their car exploded as they set off for school in Maghera, Country Londonderry, police Sfcid. AP.
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  • 186 1 PNANO. Wed. Stableboys at the Selangor, Perak and Penang Turf Clubs have threatened to suspend racing starting with the Penang races this month by going on a strike unless the Malayan Racing Association met their demand for pay increases. The 600 stableboys who belong
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  • 196 1 HK hunt for missing film actress HONGKONG, Wed. A senior police officer has taken over investigations into the iVsappearance here of South Korean film actress Choi Un-Hee (above). An official spokesman said police were liaising with Korean consulate officials but no progress had been made. It was not known when
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  • 61 1 OENEVA. Wad. The drive against poppy-growing in Burma, the world's leadding opium producer, seam* to have decreased opium output there, the International Narcotics Control Board reported here today. Stricter measures against the drug trade, and dismantlement of Illegal heroin refineries have reduced the amount of opium
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  • 87 1 BEIRUT, Wad. ante troop* triad I* rtarm the hrada.»a rttn of Ukuwi right- wtacNUkHl Iibaral Party (NLT) taahja* aa flcktla* apevad twmm the •auklrta af tka «a»«al to the heart of Ckrttlaa Bart Beirat, u> NLT m>iin MM. th amid Bra Syrian. war. kWcd. -Thay attacked m
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  • 330 1 Khmer s: Major Viet attack repelled BANGKOK. Wednesday »TAMBODIA today reported that its troops had repelled a major Vietnamese attack, and rejected Hanoi's latest call for a ceasefire and negotiated settlement of their border conflict. Several hundred Vietnamese troops were killed or wounded and 17 tanks destroyed In fighting yesterday
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  • 218 1 Cambodian troops attack Thai police post BANGKOK, Wed. Reinforcements were sent today to a remote border police base along the tense Thal-Cambo-dlan frontier after about 100 Cambodian soldiers attacked the base and burned 10 buildings, a Thai military spokesman ■aid. The spokesman said the raid was staged before dawn yesterday
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    • 96 2 N. KOREA CANT PAY $629 m DEBT r)KYO, Wed. North Korea has reported that it is unable to resume pajtnents of US$27O million (*****.1 million i in trade debts owed to Japanese firms, the financial newspaper Nlhon Kelzal said today. As a result, creditors may force a complete breakdown of
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    • 348 2 WORST BLIZZARD IN U.S. NEW YORK, Wed. North-east Ame r i c a's worst blizzard for 30 years today left New York running out of fresh food and brought police and troops onto the streets of Boston to curb looting. At least 30 people have died
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    • 231 2 British Govt rapped over blacklist LONDON. Wed. The British Government faced mounting criticism yesterday from Industrialists and political opponents about its blacklisting of companies which breached wage rise guidelines. The use or threatened use of sanctions against firms breaking the 10 per cent ceiling on pay increases has caused the
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    • 61 2 CALCUTTA, Wed. The Indian Government may soon take up with other governments the question of smuggling by diplomats, Minister of State (or Finance, Mr. Satlsh Agarwal said here on Monday. He said at a press conference that smuggling by diplomats had assumed serious proportions and added that
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    • 175 2 rpOKYO, Wed. Film 1 star EUiabetta Taylor wante to sell the massive Cartier diamond riven to her by former husband Richard Barton and the price will be more than USS4 million (559.3 million), a representative of the company selling the (em on Miss Taylor's
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    • 307 2 $300 m for crash victims SANTA FE (California), Wed A STATE superior court jury has awarded A two families a record U*****.5 million (*****.9 million) in damages against Ford Motor Company over a fiery crash Involving the Ford Pinto car. i According to lawyers involved in the case, the j
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    • 71 2 LONDON, Wed. The Hongkong Government is suing former Police Chief Peter Godber in the British courts for £446.464 (552. 022.482 1 alleged to have been received as bribes, a spokesman for the colony said yesterday. Godber was jailed in Hongkong for four years In 1975 for corruption
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    • 132 2 Australia, I US may walk out of trade talks PANBERRA, Wed—Aus\y tralia and the United States could stage a joint walk-out at current multi-lateral trade negotiations in Geneva unless significant concessions are made in agricultural policy, both countries warned here yesterday. Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and
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    • 114 2 NEW DELHI, Wed. Indian Prime Minister Morarjl Desal said yesterday that he was willing to meet Chinese leaders to discuss normalisation of relations between the two countries. "We do not believe in wars." he added, appa- ently In reference to the >utstandlng border dispute with China.
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    • 38 2 COLOMBO. Wed. Srt Lanka's Preslaent, Mr. J. R. Jayewardene. will le*ve here on Saturday (or Australia, leading the country's delegation to the first regional meeting of Asian and Pacific Commonwealth leaders. Foreign Ministry sources said. AFP.
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    • 209 2 BRUSSELS, Wed— EEC foreign mln 1 s t ers yesterday demanded fresh talks with Tokyo to give new Impetus to the EEC's efforts to reduce its chronic trade deficit with Japan. They called on the EEC Commission Its permanent executive body to hold consultations
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    • 38 2 WASHINGTON, Wed— President Carter Is inviting Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda to visit him at the White House to discuss economic relations beween the United States and Japan as well as general Asian affairs.— AFP.
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    • 208 3 Hirohito's clothes become political issue rpOKYO, Wed. The -I emperor's clothes have become a political Issue In Japan. Two organisations are weary of the formal morning coat which Emperor Hirohlto usually wears In public, and they want him to wear the traditional kimono. A member of the Japanese Diet, Mr.
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    • 114 3 Bloody photo for Empain's family PARIS, Wed. The kidnappers of Baron Edouard Jean Empain have sent his family a colour photograph In which the haggard, unshaven industrialist shows his bloody left hand, from which the criminals claim to to have cut off a piece of his little finger, police said
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    • 43 3 BEIRUT. Wed. The Arabs will not hesitate to use the "oil weapon" against the West If the current efforts for a Middle East settlement collapse, Qatar s only efforts for a Middle East oil minister Mr. Adel AlThanl said yesterday. AP.
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    • 57 3 LONDON. Wed. The Palestine Liberation Organisation IPLO) office here today denied any connection with poisoned Israeli oranges, at least one of which has been found in Britain. Oranges containing small amounts of mercury turned uo last week In Holland and West Germany, and one was found yesterday
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    • 209 3 BEIRUT, Wednesday IJEAVY fighting involving mortars, rockets and artillery flared today between Syrian peace troops and Lebanese army units on the eastern outskirts of Beirut, reliable rlghtwing sources said. They said the Syrians were mortaring and rocketing a Lebanese army barracks, the scene 3f bitter fighting
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    • 78 3 MOSCOW, Wed —The commander of the Soviet Navy said yesterday its ccmbat might has Increased substant tally over the past decade to the point where it has become "a long-range armed force In the full meaning of the word." Adm. Sergei Oorshkov told the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda
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    • 36 3 KATMANDU. Wed. China »»T«ed during the three-day vtttt of VleePremler Tei\« HiJao-pini to Xt up a wear refinery, paper mill ana a ceramics factory In Napal. Prime MlnUter Klrtlnldhl Suu Mid on Monday. Reuter.
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    • 278 3 ROME, Wednesday ITALY'S Communist Party has taken a decisive step to break a deadlock in the three-week-old government crisis by dropping demands for Cabinet posts in an emergency government. It was this demand, backed by the smaller socialist and republican parties, that brought
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    • 197 3 Dayan: We've sold arms to Ethiopia TEL AVIV, Wed. Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan last night admitted that Israel had sold arms to Ethiopia. He made the statement to the Israel radio correspondant in Zurich where he arrived on Monday for a meeting with Israeli ambassadors in Europe. Mr. Dayan
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    • 69 3 No baboons for crash tests ANN ARBOR, Wed Mlchingan University said today it has. stopped car crash experiments with live baboons. But a spokesman raid the move was not connected with an outcry from anlmiU lovers outraged by the death of about 20 animals. Six baboons due to lie killed
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    • 71 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. The world's oil producing companies should create a pool of capital of up to US$25O million (***** S million i to stimulate investments In developing countries. Sen. Jacob Javlts. New York. says. Mr. Jnvits. predicting a woi Idwide recession or depression within the
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    • 36 3 JOHANNESBURG, Wed. Rhodes an troops In boaU nd helicopters killed more nan 50 Patriotic Front ■urrilla: In a raid across Lake Cablra into Zambia, the South Urica News Agency Sapa reported today. AFP.
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    • 184 3 NEW YORK, Wed. Acto. Scan Connery was sued on Monday for US$2l.5 million <Ssso million) for libel by a film company he «ays has denied him a proportion of profits dne to him. la a suit filed last month in New York, both Connery and
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    • 385 3 Carter supports Egypt on Israeli villages WASHINGTON, Wed T"HE White House has handed visiting Egyptian President Anwar Sadat an unexpected bonus with disclosure of its strong disapproval over new Israeli settlements on the occupied Arab lands. And the issue could face Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan with questions on a
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    • 370 3 LUSAKA, Wednesday rrHE United Nations would witness a ceasefire in Rhodesia and supervise free elections under latest nationalist guerilla peace proposals handed to Western negotiators in Malta last week, authoritative sources said today. But guerilla leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo insisted that
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    • 102 3 KUWAIT, Wed. Arab statrs opposed to President Sadat's peace initiative decided at a summit conference in Algiers last week to transform Syria "into an armed arsenal capable of (onfrontiiiK Israel on its own" The dally Al-Rai Al-Aam said the conference decided on a US$2 billion (554.7
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    • 38 3 JAKARTA, Wed. The Indonesian Government Is now building television relay network In East Timor which will enable the people in the former Portuguese colony to watch television programme from Jakarta, according to Information Minister Sudharmono. AFP.
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    • 145 4 JAKARTA DAILIES TO OBEY FIVE 'MUSTS' AKARTA, Wed— lnforJ mation Minister General Sudharmono said all seven Jakarta dallies which have been allowed to resume publication after a two-week ban by the military have promised to observe five "musts" as preconditions. Before a working session with the defence and foreign relations
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    • 55 4 GENEVA, Wed. Illicit drug trafficking throughout the world Is showing "no sign of decreasing," the United Nation* Narcotic Control Board said yesterday. In its report tor 1977, the board said that once one source of 'raffle dries up. another may "almost Immediately assume greater Importance
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    • 187 4 Laos: US trying to influence Asean countries BANGKOK, Wed. The Laotian radio today accused the United States of trying to draw Asean into its military orbit. Vientiane radio quoted an article from the Moscow daily Pravda, saying the US was displeased by the raprochement between the Asean and the socialist
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    • 279 4 Earlier end to martial law? MANILA, Wednesday ORESIDENT Marcos announced yesterday he would study the possible lifting of martial law before calling provincial and town elections late this year. Saying that the Philippines was irreversibly moving towards political normalcy, Mr. Marcos also declared his intention to relinquish his law-iraking powers
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    • 426 4 Stern measures will be taken, says Panggabean JAKARTA, Wednesday THE Indonesian military does not consider the Muslims of this country its enemy, but will take stern measures against anybody or group trying to oppose the democratically elected government, Defence Minister Gen. Maraden Panggabean
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    • 220 4 BANGKOK, Wed. Follow ing last week's drastic ban on luxury imports, the government Is now cons i d c ring stringent oil-saving regulations to help offset last ye a r's trade deficit, the Bangkok Post said today. The oil policy committee has estimated that
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    • 175 4 Misuari rejected as rebel leader MANILA, Wed. Filipino Muslim guerillas in central Mindanao have repudiated the leadership of Nur Misuari as chairman of the Libyan-back-ed Moro National Liberation Front, branding him as a "communist," it was reported today. The official Philippines news agency said in a dispatch from Cotabato City,
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    • 153 4 MANILA, Wed. A man mad woman, believed to be Americans, were being «aestloned by police today In connection with the ■tabbing of an Indian Embassy official oataide his embassy here yesterday. Police sources said the authorities were looking Into possible connections between the attack on Mr.
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    • 48 4 BANOKOK. Wed. A ieglea* Wot Germany has been Jallad for Or* nin for attempting to amunw a kilogramme of morphine out of Thailand In his two artificial The man, Retnhold FrldrUselk. 46. of Dueeeeldoif. pleaded guilty to the chart* In court here yesterday. Reuter.
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    • 39 4 LONDON. Wed. OOdala from some M maritime and oil-producing nations began trying on Monday to work cot compromise ahlpping regulations for reducing oil pollution at ice in the age of the supertanker. RsuUr.
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    • 167 4 BANGKOK. Wed. Prime Minister Krlangsak Chamanand has said that despite normalised relations wl l h neighbouring countries', the government would continue its effort to "defeat the outlawed Communist Party of Thailand (CPT)," the Nation Review said ye» terday. General Kriangsak said that Thailand
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    • 463 4 By way of a change tonight may we suggest dragons, lions, r jt 1 dancing maidens, huge-headed dolls and the tallest people you've ever seen? Jl One way or another, eight hundred and filty million jt Chinese are now celebrating New Year. The Lunar New Year W^R' The Year of
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  • 308 5 rpHE Housing Board has 1 promised Its workers' union that It will take flm: action against contractors or their agents who Intimidate or assault any HDB staff In the ccitne of their duties. The board will Incorporate a provision In Its contracts
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  • 40 5 ANAT bin Thalib, 24. was fbied MO by a magistrate after he pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace by shouting at the Golden Pussy Cat nightclub In Battery Road on Nov 23 last year at 1 30 am.
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  • 92 5 CASHIER Mrs. Han Tiew Chua, 29. looked lovingly at her sun as he wailed lustily in her arms yesterday. After all, he fo bound to be a good bet, as the first to come "galloping" into the Year of the Horse. He was born
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  • 244 5 RECRUIT MORE HOSTESSES FOR AIRPORT CALL rE Amalgamated Union of Public Employees (AUPE) has called on the Department of Civil Aviation to recruit more airport hostesses to help hostesses who have been "overloaded with work" following the opening of the new arrival terminal. The union pointed out that three of
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  • 36 5 LAU Chan Keng alias Lam Seng. 36 was fined $500 and jailed a day alter he pleaded guilty to stealing cassette tapes from a supermarket In Yung Kuang Road or. Sunday at 8.30 p.m.
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  • 471 5 SINGAPORE will benefit from a new regional organisation composed of Asian countries within the Commonwealth structure to supplement its role in Asian, according to the Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Rajaratnam. Speaking in an interview over RTS on the Regional Commonwealth Conference of
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  • 243 5 SECOND generation" community centres, which will cater to the tastes of an increasingly sophisticated population, may have piano lessons for the young in their kindergartens. The 79 centres will also have courses like tennis, squash courts, vocational training and hobbycraft. According to the
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  • 212 5 House to discuss hell drivers' rE recalcitrant behaviour of Singapore's "hell drivers" will be a subject (or discussion In Parliament when the Minister for Home AlTalrs and Education. Mr. Chua Slan Chin, will be asked what measures he Intends to take against them. This will be one of the questions
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  • 49 5 TAN Yong Hal. 25. was charged In a court with trafficking 16 grams of heroin near a petrol station In AlJunled Road on Feb 4 at 5.40 p.m Hl* case will be mentioned ageln on Feb 13. He U being remanded at the Central Police Button.
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  • 45 5 LAU KAY Chye. 34. and Lee Wan Thang. 20. denied fljhtlng In front of Oasis Nightclub In Kallang on Sunday at 2 a.m. The case win be heard In Court 14 on May 2. Ball was allowed it $500 each In one suiety.
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  • 344 6 Singapore Council of Social Service is presently approaching employers to seek Ittppoti for its newly revived proposal of a community chest. This follows the Labour Ministry's green light recently to the council to obtain support and cooperation of employers and employees lor the chest.
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  • 145 6 Philippine firm gets $46 mil loan here A LEADING Filipino construction firm. I Construction and Deve111 1 lopment Corp. of the Philippines, has finalised a $46.6 million (US$2O million) loan In Slnga- pore. The loan was syndicatI ed by two American I banks Rainier National 1 Bank and Wells Fargo
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  • 31 6 ONO AH Ba. 28. was charged *th trafficking 900k of heroin In Owen Road on Sunday. No plea was recorded. The case will be mentioned next Monday.
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  • 226 6 Clinic for low vision at School for Blind ALOW vision clinic, the first In Singapore and South-east Asia, has opened at the School for the Blind in Toa Payoh to help the partially bUnd to improve their sight. The executive director of the Singapore Association for the Blind. Mr. Charlie
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  • 221 6 MORE Singaporeans should do voluntary welfare work to counter apathy and selfishness in society, according to 8 c n 1 o r Parliamentary Secretary (Social Affairs). Mr. Chan Chee Seng. He made the point when opening the third orientation course for volunteers at
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  • 556 6  -  KEK SOO BENG: By London, Wed. MAGNA Carta Travel Agency which was run by Malaysian insurance broker Francis Yong Chooi Hock, 36, and hs secretary Wendy Ooh Sook Peng, 26, operated like a raffle, a London Crown Court was told yesterday. Customers
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  • 29 6 KAMIS bin BunpL 38, and M Ramaehandran 18. wrre each fined fISO by a magistrate for fighting In Upper Buklt Tlmah Road on Sunday. They pleaded guilty.
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  • 102 6 PAYA Lebar post ofittce will be temporarily closed for renovation for about two months from Feb 13. During the closure, a temporary post office counter will operate at the annexe to the Paya Lebar post office to provide restricted postal facilities. Facilities available Include
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  • 549 7  -  KOH YAN POH YOW YUN WOH Words: Pictures: AN outsider with no fore-knowledge of it would conclude that yest c r d ay's Chingay procession at Marine Parade was a national event. And in a way it was. for though it was a new year
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  • 184 7 ONE of the most sought after international pop groups, the Silver Convention, will make its Singapore debut at the National Stadium tomorrow and Ming Court Hotel on Saturday. Billed as the successful creator of disco music, the group, with best selling singles Fly Robin Fly and Get
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    • 114 8 PANTS TO TAKE THE REINS THIS YEAR THE Year of the Horse has arrived, and with it the pants revamped. Trousers and troaser suits we've seen before in abundance, about two years back. Today, they return in a big and new way. Several styles are evident, from the long and
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    • 748 8 Wide at the hips, tapering to ankle pAXTS take the fashion lead for the Year of the Horse, at least it is so in Paris, where the pant-suit is staging a comeback after a two-year lull. Trousers, according to fashion reports, swamped the four-day high
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    • 339 8 Ska— a special school for juvenile delinquents F SWEDEN there Is a little family village called Ska. Now, why family village when aren't all villages made of families? But Ska is different, writes Joe Morris from London. It is the scene of a revolutionary approach to Juvenile delinquency. Apparently as
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    • 428 8 40 weeks' paid maternity leave— what a fine deal! rnHIS is great news: A have a baby and take 40 weeks' paid leave. The Labourcontrolled Carr. den council In I-ondon has worked out this scheme, writes Tony Craig from London. As the package goes, any woman who has worked for
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    • 216 8 3E EMPORIUM HOLDINGS GROUP 200%ANGP0W gift offer y__^ v-^jm*. CHINESE NEW YEAR L^/IBTm |\^W HOROSCOPE ptM \J Al COMPETITION y%3Q&P J 120 Free Hampers mfew TO BE WON on Friday J>^ For Purchases of $5 and above Miss Lee Lxuen will conduct the .^5 6TH HOROSCOPE COMPETITION DRAW ON THE
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  • 300 9  -  LEE THIAN SOO By COME Singapore tourist touts are now masquerading as "airline officials" as they offer to take tourists on shopping tours. With tongue in cheek, they evep warn the visitors "to stay clear of touts." It is believed that such
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  • 252 9 Device to measure radioactive dust on the ground rE Meteorological Department has for the first time been able to measure the radioactive contents at ground level because of a piece of equipment recently Installed at the airport. The equipment, donated by Atomic Energy Research "Establishment CAERE in Britain, was an
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  • 138 9 rpHE Goodwood Group A Of Hotels Is to set up a sausage factory at the basement of Goodwood Park Hotel tower wing. Costing about $250,000 the factory will produce some 200 varieties of sausages, mainly continental types. The factory, for which construction started several
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  • 108 9 ENGINEER'S NAME STRUCK OFF REGISTER rpHE Profession al L Enjflneers' Board has struck uff the name of Gunasrgaram .linnaduray as a registered prole saonal engineer, according to the latest Government gaiette notification. This follows a court action last year when Gunasecaram, then a project manager of a construction firm, was
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  • 129 9 HOLIDAY makers strolled through the Istana grounds to usher in the second day of the Lunar J*ew Year yesterday. They went, decked In all colours of dress, young and old. In families or with friends and lovers to romp through the spacious grounds, sit In the
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    • 412 9 SC-7 1 00 Pocketabte and econo The significant advan C-400 Sophisticated flash in mical unit operated on 2 V-1 tage of Popular SC 7is Pocket-size computer corporated gold mirror batteries. Hotshoe 606 its bounce flash facility with high guide number reflector, exposure dial mounting and gold tube. niaiuresizea ana very
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 145 9 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS I Oamc pontoon? 161 6 Accessorle*, though suitable havt nasty sting 181 y Studying again, sapper has a dream (Bt. 10 LabyrinU. In modern environment caused astonishment (.6) 11 Reasons he set out (or checking rising damp <12i 13 In Oermany. the «i(e dropped another line
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    • 75 9 6 Condu-rt beyond the law (St. 7 Cross on* standard (5» Shakespeare plays, splendid actions IS. Si 12 Test 18 birth certificate? (S. 2. 3). 15 Staff gives professor firstclass support In Greece (9). 16 Barriers close In Northumberland (8 1 19 By the way falling water leads to .stress
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  • The Straits Times THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1978
    • 288 10 fHE American deployment of a destroyer 1 from the US Navy 6th Fleet into the Red Sea, as part of a small buildup of naval strength along the East African coast, Is clearly in response to the situation in the Horn of Africa. The Ethiopians, with strong Soviet
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    • 339 10 THE heads of government of the seven x leading industrialised nations are preparing for another economic summit, the likely venue being Bonn ln June or July. The last summit, held ln London ln May 1977, fiddled around with such peripheral matters as nuclear proliferation and, inevitably tnese days,
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  • 482 10 TOKYO, Wednesday T AST month Dr. Shiro S v g 1 y ama delivered 40 babies In his modern medical clinic here. During the same period, he performed 80 abortions. The two figures, which are not startling in Japan, illustrate a
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  • 790 10  -  BERNARD WEINRAUB DIFFERENCES IN THE U.S. ON HOW SOON TO RESUME EFFORTS TOWARDS FULL RELATIONS WITH PEKING By in WASHINGTON happened to the l'ni ted States China po]irv? a J An expert working with the administration replied, in rapidfire order: The Panama Canal, the
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  • 1043 10  -  DENNIS BLOOOWORTH 3y in SINGAPORE SLOGANS worked In flowers at Peking Airport now welcome the forthcoming Fifth National People's Congress, the Chinese "Parliament" that will meet shortly to set its rubber stamp on all new state appointments. But there are signs
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  • FORUM
    • 366 11 Up to Hindu Advisory Board to give advice I FULLY agree with the views of Mr. S.K. Chakravatl in his letter headed. "Why not a fund to build Hindu Temples?" It Is high lime that the Hindus of Singapore take steps to put up temples in Housing Board and Jurong
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    • 313 11 A FAGE CF YOUR LETTERS NO one likes dirty food. However, Singapore Is a city of hawkers and food centres, and most of u» have been exposed to this dei.ti-'is but sometimes not so cieun food. I am sure the volumt of prepared
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    • 52 11 fiOULD the StC con- slder extending services 80 and 81 to Changi Point. This would benefit both the comn.uters and the SBS. Commuters need not have to alight and wait for another bUo and the SBS would get a better parking area at Changi Point. R. B. KRISHNA,
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    • 113 11 WHY ARE THESE PILLARS IN THE WAY? WHY are the PWD and HDB In the habit o erecting those vertical pillars right across pedestrian paths? What actually do they have In mind In doing this? If they feel these pillars prevent cyclists using the footpaths, they should bear In mind
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    • 299 11 I COMMEND Tan Chye Hwa for bringing up the subject of price Increases during festive seasons. Taxi drivers, hawkers, shop keepers, transport agencies and market stall holders have created a tradition of exploiting the consumers during every festive season lor the past several
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    • 438 11 IREAD with surprise a recent report <ST, Jan. 27) that RTS may gradually phase out films in the dialects. I wonder if such a move will encourage the use of Mandarin. There is no guarantee that non-Mandarin speaking viewers
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    • 272 11 DENIED A CHANCE TO PURSUE PHYSICAL SCIENCE COURSE... MY brother was promoted to Secondary Three this year but much to my shock and disappointment, physical science is not included in his school curriculum. Instead, he Is asked to take up modern biology. It is a fact that the minimum educational
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    • 65 11 T>EDESTRIANS crossing 1 at the Junction of MacPherson Road and Jalan Kolam Ayer, when the light shows green for traffic from Jalan Toa Payoh, cause a Jam for the vehicles moving to MacPherson Road especially during peak hours. A pedestrian signal crossing sign preventing pedestrians crossing during the
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    • 458 11 On your TV SINGAPORE 5 3.00 PM Owning and Window (Chinese— Repeat) I 7.30 Hews (Malay) 330 Diary' of Events (Chinese) 7.45 The Bionic Woman-African Connection 3.35 Eight Heroes of Shot LiiMßepeat) 8.45 POSB Show (Repeat) 4.20 Intermission 930 Mews and Newsreel 600 Opening and Lassie-Winged Attack 10.00 Western Feature
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  • TIMES CITY DESK
    • OVERSEAS MARKETS
      • 236 15 -TTOKYO. Wed. Share x prices row In active trading on selective buying In speculative Issues, dealers said. The Dot Jones average rose 13.31 to 6.144.63 points. *lth a volume of 350 million shares. Thi New index was 385.62, up CM point. The flrmieas was largely aided by increased buying
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      • 17 15 SYDNEY, Wed. The market closed mixed In moderate trading, dealers said BUP eased two cents to
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      • 228 15 NEW YORK, Tues— Stock prices rallied sharply across the board In moderate trading, boosting Uie Dow Jones Industrial average more than 10 points In another abbreviated session. Both the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange opened one hour late became of the severe snow storm
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      • 458 15 AMSTERDAM. Tues Prices firmed In light trading, dealers said. Gains were led by transports, with Onunereo up 6.50 guilders. NedUoyed 2.40. KLM 1.70 and KNSM 1.10. while ABN. Van Der Grlnten. AMFAS and Ennla all gained ovtr one guilder. Amro Bank and Robeco Bat against the trend. State loans
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      • 141 15 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 463.7 Monday 455.1 Week Ago 467.0 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 778.85 Monday 768.62 Week Ago 769 «2 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Tuesday 76>4 to 76*% Monday 77% to 77**% U.K. HANG SENG Tuesday Closed Monday 411.88 Week Ago 405.32 ALL ORDINARIES Tuesday 466.17 Monday 464.12
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    • COMMODITIES
      • 210 15 LONDON. Tufs. Tin on the day lost £7 for Cash and £25 for Ttirte Months In both contracts. During the afternxm, values mostly erased earlier losses on a somewhat oversold market with Three Months standard reacliing £62 on the late Kerb. At the same time, the backwardation finished
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      • 135 15 LONDON, Tue»— Terminal rubber finished at or slightly above the day's lows with on balance losses of 0.45 to 0 30p per kilo. Dealers said the market was basically quiet due to the continuing Chinese New i'ear holidays In the East. Light outsider liquidation was featured although the market
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      • 87 15 LONDON. TUCS. Spot sterling lost ground against the dollar towards the London dose bat rt ««""t^ wer* very thin due to the virtual .absence from the market of JJew York bankj. dealers said ■mm It recovered sllghtlv to closed at around U. 9325 35 but remained well below
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      • 19 15 Tu*Mfay y«|iit. M.lbouraKl) IMBO 184*8 !*■>*» 175.008 178.801 175.758 IT«.OM «<"«* ITS KB 175 Ml IW.TM 17«.00l P*^ IM.M 187.88
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    64 15 MADAM NASIB KAUR w/o late Sardar Trlahan Singh (Railway Pensioner, Menglembui passed away pacefully on 27.1.78. leaving behind eons Balwant i Gopeng i. Jaawant (Canada). Harbhajan (Rawangi. Hardev (Tapahi, Budarshan Surinder: daughters Hargurcharan 1J.8.K Jaswant I Tapahi A Surinder; sons-in-law Harjlt A Amir; daughters-in-law Sarjlt. Jagjlt. Naslb Param.
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    33 15 Path Bhog Prayers for the late Mr. Qurcharn Slnfh JP will be held on Sunday 12.2.78 at 9.30 a.m. at Guruduwara Sahib Brick Kiln Road Penaiig. Inaerted with love by family.
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    54 15 THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY CENTRE STAFF ASSOCIATION AND ADVISERS TO THE NPC OFFER THEIR DEEPEST CONDOLENCE TO THE FAMILY OF THE LATE RAMANI WHO PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY ON JANUARY 29, 1978 IN MADRAS. WE HAVE NOT ONLY LOST A COLLEAGUE BUT A DEAR FRIEND. MAY HIS
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    • 743 15 KENYATAAN KEMENTERIAN PELAJARAN MALAYSIA Permohonan Mengambll Matapelajaran Sains untuk peperlkaaan Amall Saint dalam Peperlkaaan S.P.M.. M.C.E. dan H.S.C. 1978 bagl Semenanjung Malaysia. Calon-calon persendlrlan perseorangan yang bercadang hendak mengambll matapelajaran— matapelajaran salne tulln dalam peperlksaan-pepertk-saan Sijll Pelajaran Malaysia atau Malaysia Certificate of Education atau Higher School Certificate 1976 hendaklah memohon
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    • 624 15 KENYATAAN KEMENTERIAN PEUUARAN MALAYSIA Penerimaan Calon-Calon Penendirian Pwseorangan Untuk PEPERIKSAAN SIJIL RENDAH PEUUARAN, 1978 Bayaran Maauk: 1) Sijil Penuh $13/11) Satu Matapelajaran Bahaaa *3/- tiap-tiap aatu maUpelajaran. 1. KELAYAKAN i) Pemohon yang telah pernah mengambll peperikaaan Sijll RendahPelajaran aUu Lower Certificate of Education dalam tahun 1977 atau yang terdahulu daripadanya.
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    • 1121 15 ftJL^ LEMBAGA LETRK NEGARA tanah melayu Permohonan adaiah dipelawa dari Warganegera Malaysia yang mampunyai kaiayakan saparti di bawah mi untuk dipertimbangkan bagi jawatan berikut di Pusat Latihan Lambaga Latrik Nagara. Bangi 1. (i) JAWATAN: Jurutaknik Tingkatan BiaM (Inrtruktor Parlindungan). (ii)TANGGAQAJI: ClO $295x25-345/396x25-645x30-705/765x40-925. 2. UMUR: (i) Calon-calon bagi lantikan terus tidak
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    • 461 15 THE BANKRI'PTCY ACT CHAPTER IS (1970 Ed). IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE In Bankruptcy No. 1045 of 1977 He KEN<; BAN EE Ex part* LEE WAH BANK LIMITED Creditor* NOTICK Of ADVERTISEMENT To Keng Ban Ee. No. 11. Emerald Hill Road. Singapore. TAKE NOTICE that a
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  • IX OBITUARIES
    • 47 17 The family of ttw Late Mr Tan Ch«« Joon Sincerely thank all relatives Si friends for their kind assistance, condolences, donations, wreaths attendance during their recent bereavement; doctors staff of Ward 30 Tan Tock Seng Hospital for their care St attention during his period of Illness.
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    • 75 17 140 Acknowledgements The«ofife.ate MR. VEO CHER KIA wishes to record their sincere thanks and grat.tude to relatives, friends and religious organlsa-•.'^^^c'e.-c'rooif^: |nMrted b. Son.: Song Tee. Wee Jin. Wee Long. Sla Juay Sla Liang Kern Yong. JLw^SL_ >On r.ifmlng Lan Hlok. Lan Huang. Lan Cheng. Rosalind. Jorinda Son»-m-l»w: Sng Ah
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    • 68 17 FAMILY OF LATE Agnes A Joaeph thank all mends relatives and OATX terminals sUff for their attendance and contributions during their recent bereavement. Special thanks to S.J D.A.A. THE FAMILY OF the lal.- Madam Lizzie Francisco wish to thank the priests of 0.L.0L Principal and Staff of S.P S Brothers
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      49 17 We expressed our deepest sympathy and condolence to the family of our dearest brother-in-law MR. MO CHONO SUM who suddenly left us on 6/2/78 ■ad* mmm by Itt* muln <* YAP SWEE LEI YAP SWEC LIN YAP t«II KEC MO PAX MCW LAalMftt UHINO ROOER YAP SWEE CMEE
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    • 7 17 "In tseiweclew la tar Vie •hem »ou
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      23 17 *V Supervisor St. Oeorge's Road X ?2^«'^lnV*behlSd lived wife' three lonitwo' £u,M*rT to mo"n hi loss B!£y£^K i td rnatorlurn^^^^^^^ *1"BBS^BBB^BBB^BBB«S^BBBS1b1
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    • 103 17 CABLI RCCEIVED FROM India Mrs A'eyamma Chona passed awmy m THvsndnim on 7-a-19W. MR. YAP KIT LENO aged 57 passed away peacefully on 8.2.78 leaving beloved wife Katherlne, 3 tons Peter, Paul, Patrick; 2 daughters-In-law Maureen. Adeline; 2 grand-daughters and 2 god-dau-ghters Susan. Ula Cortege leaves Spore Casket 9.2.78 1
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      11 17 MOM LENO AH KOON Deperfd 9.X.7*. Always remembered by loved one*
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 335 18 BAGAN DATOH (Perak), Wednesday TMNO's I n f o r matlon chief, Haji Sul a i man Palestin has warned that the party could collapse, not because of the opposltiop but through deviation or acts of treachery which could be carried out
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    • 502 18 HUNT FOR 2 WHO FAIL TO KIDNAP MERCHANT TEMERLOH, Wednesday pOLICE have mounted a hunt for two men, one with gunshot wounds, following an unsuccessful kidnap bid on timber merchant Chan Kok Choon on Monday. A third member of the gang was shot and captured after more than two hours
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    • 161 18 pENANG, Wed.— ChiI mm New Year came to a fiery climax here this evening. A large portion of the godown belonging to Lee Rubber Co. Ltd., in Noordin Street Ghaut was gutted, causing damage in excess of $1 million. The fire was first spotted at
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    • 147 18 INDONESIA AND SABAH TO STABILISE TIMBER PRICES KOTA KINABALU, Wed. Indonesia and Sabah have agreed to set up a permanent secretariat in Jakarta to prevent fluctuations and differences In prices offered to their timber by Japanese buyers, It was announced here. A statement issued at the end of a meeting
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    • 100 18 60 hit by food poisoning BATU PAHAT, Wed. About 60 people were admitted to the district hospital here last night and this morning for suspected "food poisoning." Seven people. Including two women are still in tae hospital, while the rest have been allowed to go home after receiving out-patient treatment.
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    • 329 18 Tunku on his 75th birthday: What more can a man wish for... KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Many people who reach seven-and-a-half decades of age either feel lost In their new surroundings or feel unwanted, said Tunku Abdul Rahman in a speech at his 75th birthday party. The Tunku. who waa In
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    • 218 18 Bringing Up Father By BUI Kavanagh tic Hal Camp "^1 t^^W^ T DONTI<fNOW BUT AS LON© AS I I YOU (SAVE MISS SHAPELvI I AsOI'M CUTTIN(3~^f i U MOW HE I HE'S IN A ©ENEROUS A *25 RAISE MDU GROOVER'S SALAW 1 T^« iV |T ME CLAIMS j MOOD, I'LL
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  • 381 19 TUAS RECLAMATION THE fishing port and a few shops in Tuas village will be preserved for the next two or three years in spite of reclamation in the area. The shops, including a coffee and seafood shop, a ship chandlery and fishing gears
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  • 52 19 THE Cheng Kirn Loke Foundation has adopted a Malayan tapir under the anlTial adoption scheme of the Singapore Zoological Gardens. The foundation, which lonated $5,000. Is the third j irganisatlon to respond to :he zoos adoption scheme. Ml donations are tax-exempt i md acknowledged by a pla-
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  • 26 19 MR. Chin Jock Poen will aUc on Interior decoration or HDB flats In English at 3lglap community centre on ■W 24 at 8 p.m.
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  • 203 19 2 women die in hit and run mishaps rfO women died on Tuesday after being knocked down by vehicles, the drivers of which failed to stop and offer assistance. Mrs. Doris Shephardson, 43. of Block 10, Ohlm Moh Road, was on the left side of Ylo Chu Kang Road, opposite
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  • 342 19  - Murdered watchman carried a few thousand dollars PAUL JANSEN By rE body of a watchman, divested of his valuables, was found amid some building material at a construction site at Paya Lebar Way on Monday. He was later identified as Goh Sent Kee, 41, of Lorong 29. Geylang. Working on
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  • 381 19 Sikhs turn down offer of alternative site for temple rE Singapore Sikh community has unanimously decided to turn (town the government's offer of an alternative site in Manila Street, to rebuild their oldest temple. Disclosing this yesterday, the secretary of the Central Sikh Temple in Queen Street, Mr. Kehar Singh,
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  • 175 19 MR Chengara Breedaran Nalr. 55, a retired civil servant and the NTUC Industrial Affairs Council's chairman died In a London hospital on Tuesday following open-heart surgery. Mr. Nalr who was the Labour Ministry's senior executive officer, retired in 1973 and later Joined Singapore Industrial
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE ONE
    • 233 20  - Worldwide impresses in 600 m gallop BLUE PETER By KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Worldwide, the probable favourite in the Tunku Gold Cup race on Sunday, showed sprightly form in his workout here today. With stablemate Stryker (Keith Watson) for company, the Bahroona five-year-old went round the course twice, clapping en the
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    • BIG GUNS ON THE MOVE
      • 119 20 T ONDON, Wed.— Leeds United last night ac i-d crptrd an offer or £450,001 (32.04 mil.) from Second Division Tottenham Hotspur for centre-back Goreon McQueen, but it seems unlikely that he will join Span. McQueen, the Scottish international defender, has insisted recently that the only
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      • 128 20 LONDON, Wed. —England International striker Trevor Francis wants to leave First Division club Birmingham, but tl.e club are deter mined not to let him go, a spokesman said last night. Francis has told the club's manager, former England mentor Sir Alf Ramsey, that he was
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    • 467 20 LONDON, Wed. The smaller fries in the English F.A. Cup stole ail the glory on Monday night. Blyth Spartans, of the Northern League, went to Stoke and beat the Second Division club 3-2, but Third Division Wrexham vied for the night's honours when
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    • 81 20 T ONDON, Wed. Blackpool soccer manager Allan Brown was sacked on Monday night after a row with the club chairman. According to a Blackpool official. Brown was dismissed for "misconduct" and not because of the team's inconsistent performances. Brown, appointed nearly two years ago, is a former
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    • 214 20 r/URICH (Switzerland), £j wed— The International Football Federation (FIFA) today announced they would consider increasing the number of finalists for the 1982 World Cup in Spain from the present 16 countries. The 1982 World Cup organising committee are to propose the change to the FIFA executive
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    • 63 20 Austria Wien nearer league title VIENNA. Wed Favourites Austria Wlen strengthened their league title hopes when they beat SSW Innsbruck 2-1 In an Austrian First Division soccer match here yesterday. Results: Sturm Oras 1 Wiener Sportclub PostO. SSW Innsbruck 1 Austria Wlen 2. Top standings (after 23 malcnesi: Austria Wien
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    • 504 20 FORMER CHAMP HAS CUT UNDER EYE Conteh clears the first hurdle LONDON. Wed. England's former world light heavyweight champion John Conteh won every round against American Joe Cokes in his return to ring action here last night but looked far from ready for a promised title challenge. Cont?h. stripped of
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    • 352 20 BRIEFS Awad makes it a first ONDON. Wed. Oamal Awad became the first Egyptian to win the British amateur squash championship in 18 ytors when he defeated world amateur champion Maqsood Ahmad of Pakistan 3-9. 9-2. 4-9. 9-3. 9-5 In the final at Wembley yesterday. TENNIB: Vitas Oerulaltls was awarded
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE TWO
    • 598 21  - It's time to relent ERNEST FRIDA By MARIMUTHU... ADOLESCENT ERRORS ]yj. MARIMUTHU will not be able to play on the Asian golf circuit this year because he can't get a passport! I learned this shock news at Ihe Sembawang jGolf Club at the weekend when he failed to complete a
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    • 352 21 PS on sport Moorthy in the thick of another crisis K. S. MOORTHY, president of the Strength and Health Club, is in the thick of a controversy that could develop into an even uglier affair than last year's crisis in the Singapore Amateur Judo Assoc 1 a 1 1 on,
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    • 193 21  -  ALBERT JOHNSON By SINGAPORE Hockey Association officials yesterday described as "a bit too late the Malaysian request for a friendly match in Singapore. The SHA sa:u that the letter from the Malaysian Hockey Federation secretary O. Vljinathan asking for a 'sparring match' came rather late.
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    • 272 21  -  PATRICK BASTIANS By WITH Judo's exclusion from the Bangkok Asian Games this December, the Jigoro Kano Cup scheduled to be held In Tokyo at the same time, will be the highlight of the Singapore Amateur Judo Association's calendar. But the problem Is finance. SAJA hope
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    • BACK IN ACTION
      • 132 21 Yong Hong for STTA trials TAN YONG HONG, one of three former internationals who had his three-year suspension quashed, has agreed to compete in the Singapore Table Tennis Association's selection trials next month, reports PETER SIOW. The other two players, Yuen Chin Fatt and Seh Chin Chiow. nave till Monday
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      • 145 21 t^HAHKIN OSMAN, the former 1 Singapore tennis champion, has been recalled to the national squad, reports BERNARD PEREIRA. Shahrin, 39, coach for the Singapore Sports Council, is among 17 players invited by the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association for training at Farrer Park and the Singapore
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    • 468 21  -  PETER SIOW By rLENTED Tan Kok Wah stormed to victory in the 10th and 11th races to become overall Lasers champion in the Singapore Yachting Association dinghy championships at Seletar at the weekend. For Tan. who chalked up seven firsts, a second and a third In his
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    • 46 21 SINGAPORE'S national women's aocccr team will play a trlendly match against Taiwan at the Jalan Besar stadium on Saturday at p m Tickets at 12 (grandstand). $1 (gallery) and 50 cents (schools) will be on sale at the turnstiles before the match.
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    • 251 21  -  JOE DORAI By THE Sultan of Pahang. life president of the Football Association of Malaysia, is to donate a challenge trophy for an annual match between Singapore rind Pahang. Encik Ibrahim Taib. secretary of the Football Association of Pahanp. disclosed this at Kuala Lumpur last
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    • 61 21 THE Singapore Spoits Council will conduct coaching courses (or softbal) from March 23 to July IS. and netball. fiom April 4 to June 6. There will also be a certificate In coaching (basic) courae from April 26 to May 26. This course will cover topic ranging
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    • 201 21  -  WILFRED YEO By CI'PID and Rubiah Sapuan will finally hare their way on March 5— the day she will exchange marriage vows with soccer star Zainal Abidin. The marriage was postponed twice last year, both times because of Zainal's other love, soccer. The first time, a
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    • 84 21 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A soccer festival is in store for Malaysian fans if the Football As- i sociation of Malaysia successfully neg o 1 1 ate with Derby County, Chelsea. FC. Cologne and München 1860 for mah said the negotlain May. The two English and two West German
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    • 179 21  - Poh Lim gets coaching offer BERNARD PFREIRA By ON a Poh Lim, Singapore's badminton maestro of the mld-50's, has been offered a coaching job In Iran. The offer by the Iran Badminton Association was made to him In a telegram while he was away in Penang last month, looking up
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    • 23 21 SOCCER SBHFL Dlv. 1: Oberol Hotel v Hilton Hotel (Farm- Park 5 IS p.m > TENNIS National School* championship* (Farrer Park 2 p.m.).
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  • 253 22 Diet row ever N-carrier for Far East rpoKYO, Wed. A reA cent statement by US Navy Secretary Graham Claytor, suggesting that a US aircraft carrier based In Japan might be armed with nuclear weapons, caused a controversy today In the Japanese Diet (parliament). Successive Japanese conservative governments of the Liberal
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  • 85 22 Late CLASSIFIEDS DEATH MR. C. t. MAIR, 58 of NTU C puHd away peacefully T 2.78 In London Itaring beh nd his b»lov«t' wife Thangam. sons Hartharan ana Btadliarthan. daughter Meera. mother, two brothers and Bye sitters to mourn hts loss. For funeral arrangements contact 4511M7. NO IWII NINO (of
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  • 227 22 Rhodesia: Britain to retain vital powers ONDON, Wed. v Britain and Its Resident Commissioner In Rhodesia would still retain considerable powers in the transitional period to majority rule, under the A n g 1 o-American peace plan, despite the formation of a governing council envisaged at the recent Malta talks.
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  • 277 22 Indira hearing postponed until after polls NEW DELHI, Wed. A Delhi magistrate today postponed hearing two cases against former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi until after Important state elections which her party is contesting later this month. Mrs. Gandhi was originally summoned to appear In court tomorrow to face two complaints
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  • 260 22 Hanoi men in Bangkok to open embassy BANGKOK. Wed. Six Vietnamese Foreign Ministry officials arrived here today to open their first embassy in Thailand since the 1975 communist victory in South Vietnam. The arrival of the party, headed by Mr. Do Ngoc Duang. charge d'Affaires of the new Vietnamese embassy
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  • 669 22 T ONDON. Wed Stock prices following Chancellor of Exchequer Denis Henley's statement that his spring budget will not be electlonorlrntated dealers said However, at 3pm the Financial Times Index was down 0 2 a 1463 S Oovernment bonds finished as much as point higher on the day though
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  • 83 22 SEOUL. Wed. South Korea today renewed a call that 1U application (or membership in the United Nation* be granted became It will help -"-ftrtMatt peace In Korea and pave the w»y for eventual peaceful reunification of the divided peninsula. The renewed demand was contained In a
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  • 100 22 LONDON-TO-DARWIN SOLO FLIGHT IN A 160 km/h PLANE IJVJGHT Lt. Chrtstor pher David Cyiter waves from his tiny 56-year-old 160 km/h Tiger Moth bi- plane as he takes off from Dnnsfold, England, on the first lee of hU 16,750 km solo flight to Darwin on Tuesday. It waa the 50th
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  • 463 22 Hostile actions at border says Peking HONGKONG. Wednesday £JHINA, after a fresh warning of pdten tial trouble along the disputed SinoSoviet fiontier, has reported two incidents along the border with Outer Mongolia, where large numbers ol Soviet troops are stationed. One incident involved the capture of a saboteur carrying high
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  • 337 22 Tariff bars: Fraser warns trading partners CANBERRA Wed PRIME MINISTER Malcolm Fraser today criticised Australia's principal trading part ners lor restrictions on Imports of Australian goods and hinted this country may not be so accessible to foreign imports in future. The blast at Japan, the United States and the European
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  • 35 22 DAMASCUS, Wed. Syrians voted In a referendum today lo endorse a second seven-year term for president Hafez Al-Assad. who pledged to continue opposing Egypt's oresent bid (or a Middle East peace deal. Reuter.
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