The Straits Times, 21 December 1978

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  • 15 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 THI RSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1978 25 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 214/1/78
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  • 460 1 Protest at her arrest, expulsion NEW DELHI, Wednesday THOUSANDS of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's supporters went on the rampage throughout India today in an orgy of widespread vandalism and violent clashes with police to protest against her arrest and expulsion from Parliament and at least
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  • 213 1 NEW DELHI, Wed.— An Indian Airlines plane with 126 passengers was hijacked to the Hindu holy city of Vanaras in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh tonight. Airline officials said two passengers hijacked the Boeing 737 on Its flight to Delhi from Calcutta and demanded
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  • 172 1 Israeli planes hit back at PLO targets BEIRUT, Wed. Israeli warplanes today attacked Palestinian positions in the Sarafand coastal area of south Lebanon for the first time in four months in retaliation for terrorist bombing attacks in Israel. Casualty reports were not immediately available. Reports from the scene said the
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  • 129 1 JAKARTA. Wed. Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja Is studyIng a report on the possibility of reopening the Indonesian Embassy In Phnom Penh and will visit Kampuchea next month. Informed sources said today. Dr. Kusumaatmadja told Reuter an exploratory team of officials had Just returned from Phnom
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  • 189 1 Kriangsak to visit Laos soon BANGKOK, Wednesday THE Thai Prime Minister, Gen. Kriangsak Chomanan announced last night that he would visit Laos "soon" since the situation along the Thai-Lao border, where three Thai Navy men were kiHed last week, had returned to '"normal." Oen. Kriangsak, earlier scheduled to pay aii
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  • 161 1 BANGKOK, Wed. The Thai Prime Minister, Oen. Kriangsalc Chomanan, has said he will not run as a candidate for Parliament In general elections next year, Radio Thailand reported. He was quoted as saying last night that, as head of the present government, he
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  • 56 1 BOMBAY. Wed. The Indian rupee ni devalued by 2.13 per cent against the British bound today, the Reserve Bank of India reported. At the new rate, a pound Is worth 16.6 rupees compared to 16.16 rupees earlier. But there was no Immediate word on how the US
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  • 377 1 Shah's nephews among 100 charged TEHERAN, Wednesday TWO nephews of the Shall of Iran were among 100 prominent figures charged today with "Illegal export of capital," it was officially announced here. Two sons of the Shah's twin sister, Princess Ashraf, four former ministers, three generals and the former navy chiel
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  • 215 1 Govt of new faces plan for Iran TEHERAN, Wed THE Shah of Iran has reacted "■positively" to a plan mat would replace Iran's current martial law administration with a tension-easing "government of new faces," political sources said yesterday. The sources said Dr Gholam Hosseln Sad ghi, imprisoned Jive times for
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  • 33 1 GENEVA. Wed. Half the world's 1.000 million children lack "food. care, education and security." World Counci: of Churches secretary -general Philip Potter said here today in a Christmas me&sage. AFP
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  • 65 1 LATEST FREE INDIRA: HIJACKERS NEW DELHI, Wed. The two hijackers of an Indian Airlines plane, grounded In the north Indian city of Varanasi, have demanded the unconditional release of exKemier Indira Gand- airline officials said tonifht. Officials said the Information came from a pa i»e nger who e»--wiped from the
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    • 345 2 A masterpiece of diplomacy Japan- Viet talks TOKYO, Wednesday IT was a masterpiece of Japanese diplomacy: talking tough and acting soft, telling Vietnam off on its request for an unstated long-term aid programme and yet pressing into the hands of its departing foreign minister an aid cheque for US$7O million
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    • 69 2 ALGIERS. Wed Algerian p» lice have arrested six people after a Moroccan military plane parachuted arms on the Algerian coast on Dec 10, Algerian televi sion reported today. The six men had lit six fires to i;uide the plane, which dropped the arms on the Kabylie coast
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    • 32 2 HANCKOK. Wed A border patrol trooper had his leg blown off yesterday when he stepped on .1 landmine planted on the Thai Kampuchean border, a military spokesman revealed today AFP
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    • 89 2 PEACEFUL SOLUTION SOUGHT HONGKONG, Wed. Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong has said that his government still wants to settle its disputes with China and Kampuchea through peaceful negotiations, the Vietnam news agency reporved today. The agency quoted Mr. Dong as saying in an interview with a Mexican journalist in Hanoi
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    • 267 2 Lanka outlaws in north kill 11 policemen COLOMBO, Wed The Sri Lanka Government said today that an outlawed separatist movement had killed 11 policemen in a series of attacks in the island's Tamil-speaking Northern Province. Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa said the separatists, known as the "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,"'
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    • 67 2 KARACHI, Wed. Jobhunter Francis Mai mortgaged his wife and five-year-old daughter to a moneylender for 4,000 rupees (S$ 860) to. go after a job in Dubai. But his trip fell through when Karachi customs men arrested him for illegal emigration, the English language newspaper Dawn reported yesterday. The
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    • 154 2 Chinese praise forHK knowhow HONGKONG, Wed. Chi nese Foreign Trade Minister Li Chiang has praised Hongkong's industrial and technical expertise and said it could help China's modernisation programmes. At a reception by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce U>st night, Mr. Li said: "There are many things we can learn
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    • 76 2 Opec loans $81m to seven VIENNA, Wed. Oil-ex-porting nations today gave seven developing nations loans totalling U5537.55 million (S$ 81 million) to help development projects and reduce balance of payments problems. The Special Fund of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) awarded Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania, Jamaica and the Philippines
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    • 51 2 PHOENIX, Wed. Six people have died in the past two days of flooding caused in this normally arid state by torrential rains, officials said yesterday. Four people drowned on Monday night when their car (ell into the Apia Fria River 40 kms from here as a bridge collapsed.
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    • 174 3 Frozen assets in US to be sold? WASHINGTON. Wed Chi near assets frown in the United Sutes may be told or liquidated to the proceeds can be distributed to Amencans having claims against China. State Depart merit and Treasury official.. said No filial dec Mom have been made, they added
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    • 642 3 WASHINGTON, W*d PRESIDENT Carter said he received a personal message yesterday from Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev acknowledging that US recognition of mainland China is "the proper relationship" for two major nations. Mr Carter also said Mr Brezhnev accepted the US position that the
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    • 45 3 SEATTLE. Wed. Boring today announced an order from the Chinese airline CAAC (or three 747 SP planes The aircraft, costing USJS2 million (SSII2 million) each, will be delivered from 1980. Options on two others for delivery in 1381 nave been obtained. AFP.
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    • 46 3 QUITE daxdin* handful, this. SmlthMalaa Isstitate employee Nancy Harris balds the Brazilian Princess, the w.rld's Uu-g-eat gem. The Hunt-blue topaz «Une, m Ims to the Isstitste, g«e« far the aaUsg price *f I!SSM (S$lW) per carat. It weighs t\&l carats. Any takers? DPI pirtmre.
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    • 40 3 TOKYO, Wed. Chinese communist party Chairman Hua Kuofeng invited new Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira today to visit Peking The formal invitation was extended to the conservative leader through Chinese ambassador to Japan Mr. Fu Hao UPI.
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    • 63 3 BOSTON. Wed. The Japanese Government yesterday gave the Museum of Fine Arts US$l 45 million (SJ3 million) to help preserve the museum's extensive collection of Japanese art. Museum president Howard Johnson said the Boston museum has the greatest collection of Japanese art outside of Japan.
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    • 53 3 BORDELONVUXE (Louisiana) Wed. A plane, trying to take off from the airport here crashed into a building near the runway yesterday, killing five persons aboard and one in the building, authorities said. A sixth occupant of the nineseat plane was injured and taken to a hospital, apparently
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    • 207 3 Taiwan assured of $1.3 in US arms WASHINGTON.Wed. Taiwan is assured of receiving at least US$625 million (SJI 3 billion) in major United States arms over the next five years, despite withdrawal of American diplomatic recognition. This was disclosed yesterday by military authorities, who released lists of major weapons sales
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    • 216 4 Rumania to dig into its defence budget Funds for family allowances VIENNA, Wednesday RUMANIA today risked the anger of its Warsaw Pact allies by deciding to channel funds earmarked for next year's defence budget into increased family allowances. The country's top policy-making body, the Political Executive Committee, agreed in Bucharest
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    • 228 4 TV, radio stars on strike against admen NEW YORK, Wed. Performers whose faces and voices are familiar from countless TV and radio commercials in the United States began a nationwide strike yesterday against national advertising agencies and major corporate advertisers which could involve 70,000 actors and announcers. The initial picketing
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    • 64 4 LONDON. Wed. Buckingham Palace announced yesterday it will break with tradition and allow for the first time advance release of a photograph of Queen Elizabeth taken when taping her annual Christmas address The palace said the picture could be released on Saturday, two days before the speech
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    • 172 4 'Libya has stopped aiding terror' BONN, Wed. Üby» has Riven no support since 1*75 to the Irish RepnbUran Army (IRA) bec*a»r IRA bomb* are killing Innocent people, Libyan InWrlor Minister Vaals BelkaBBem said in an Interview published In the Die Welt newspaper today. Libya's reputation as a backer of International
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    • 31 4 $8.6 b sales London, wed. The Roils Royee aircraft engine company yesterday announced record export sales of £2 billion (SSB.6 billion) for 1978. seven years after the firm went bankrupt. Reuter.
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    • 156 4 BUFFALO (New York), Wed. A woman who was pronounced dead on Monday and was placed on a life-support machine to j maintain her kidneys for transplant regained her heart beat and lived for another 11 j hours before dicing. I A spokesman for Sheehan Memorial Emergency
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    • 283 4 LONDON, Wed SCOTLAND Yard has mounted its biggest anti-terror drive flooding central London with 2,000 uniformed officers in "Operation Santa" to protect half a million Christmas shoppers and tourists from the IRA's renewed bombing offensive. The biggest security sweep in the capital in nearly a
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    • 254 4 US Govt acts to freeze cult's $21 m in banks SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday The Justice Department has located more than US$lO million (5521.6 million) deposited by the People's Temple in banks in Panama and has taken steps to freeze the money, a government source said today. The funds, on deposit
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    • 138 4 Using shock treatment for more tender meat WASHINGTON.Wed. The US Government is ex perimenting with electric shocks to beef to make meal more tender. "Its all very scientific," says the US Agriculture Department, which helps finance research aimed at improving farm production and the farm products consumers buy. Dr. H.
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    • 326 5 JERUSALEM. Wod ISRAEL'S Parliament yesterday adopted a tough resolution condemning the United States for a "one-sided, unjust" policy and supporting Prime Minister Menachem Begins rejection of Egyptian peace proposals. The Knesset. Israel's Parliament, by a vote of 66 to six with 27 abstentions.
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    • 30 5 MOSCOW. Wed Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko left Moscow today for Geneva to resume talks on a strategic arms limitation treaty, the Tass news agency reported. UPI.
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    • 317 5 Shift in US arms sale policy confuses Soviets WASHINGTON, Wed A shift in US policy on limiting worldwide arms sales has apparently confused the Soviets and set back the chances of success for an East-West agreement, administration officials said yesterday. The policy change was the result of a White House
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    • 285 5 Arafat is ready to recognise Israel: PLO man PARIS, Wed Tke Palmtlnr Userattaa OrßMlsttlaa's prrmaaest represeaUtive hi PrtMee said today that the PLO wm prepared to cease Nastlle mrtK agalast Israel aad re«*gmt»e tN- Jewish state de facto hi retara far the rreattoa «f a Pafestlalaa ■tate *a the West
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  • 118 6 12 air control men promoted NINE air traffic control officers were promoted and three selected for promotion on one- year trial at a recent promotion exercise the biggest number of officers to be promoted. senior air traftic control officer (Satco), Mr. Kwa Hock Choon, was promoted to the grade of
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  • 266 6 Better lifts to be installed in new estates TII X Housing Board has entered into a contract with its lift suj)pliers to instal lech ni c ally improved lifts for its new housing estates. The new lifts will have wider door Jambs at all landings and incorporated into them will
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  • 26 6 COMEX Singapore will hold dinner and dance at Hotel Oberol Imperial on Dec 30 at 7 p.m. For details, ring Comex secretariat at *****0
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  • 132 6 MAN POSES AS POLICE OFFICER TO CHEAT BOY A FOURTEEN year old boy was cheated of $60 by a man who posed as a police officer when he was on the way to pay a Public Utilities Board bill for his family. Mohamed Mazlan, a student, was about to enter
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    • 329 6 THE JOY OF CHRIST- Church of the Risen MAS, presented by the Christ Choir (Peter Heralds Choral Societies Low's Singers). Choir, at Victoria Thea- Tnp nt THV $1 C 12 a'nS*. AdmlSSlOn *i, iz ana ground noor, Lucky PlaCHRISTMAS RHAP- za. from 10 a.m. to 9.30 SODY, presented by the
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  • 69 7 THE MP for Pava Lebar. Mr Tan Cheng San. will hold his weekly merl-the-people sessions at the Pays Lebar Educational Centre at Block 1. Lorong Lew Lian. every Monday al S pm from Jan 1 Mr Tan will also hold similar sessions at Lorong Ah Soo community centre
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  • 19 7 THE National Museum will screen three films for students on Saturday at its premises at 10.49 a.m.
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  • 66 7 DRIVERS of police heavy vehicles should keep left on carriageways with two or more lanes carrying fastmoving traffic and not on the right like the bus illustrated. Police drivers should also look out for other offending drivers and direct them to keep left. This
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  • 413 7 Unions plan more facilities at Big Splash THE three trade unions that bought over the Big Splash at East Coast Parkway are to convert it into a recreational and sports complex, essentially for union members and their families. A health centre, television and rest-rooms, children's cycling area, and perhaps even
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  • 177 7 Waitress fined for using lost Diners Club card A MALAYSIAN waitress, Oan Che. 24. was jailed a day and fined $1,200 by a district judge yesterday for attempting to buy a $230 suitcase with somebody else's Diners Club card. Oan, a waitress with the Tin Mine Disco at the Kuala
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  • 79 7 AN IN T E RNATIONAL exhibition of furniture and furnishings, called Homemakers "79, will be held at the World Trade Centre from April 7 to 11. Exhibits will Include glassware. 1 1 gh 1 1 ngs, electrical appliances, kitchen sets and houseware. According to a Trade Department spokesman,
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  • 189 8 When courtesy did not pay for cabbie A TAXI-DRIVER discovered to his chagrin in a magistrate's court yesterday that courtesy, contrary to what posters say, is not for free. He ended up paying a $30 line for leaving his cab In a season parking lot after he acceded to a
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  • 34 8 A SHIPYARD worker, Teo Boon Tang was Injured whan an Iron beam fell on his leg at Marathon Letoumeau Shipyard In Jurong yesterday afternoon. He was warded at Alexandra Hospital
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  • 400 8 BAN ON OUTLANDISH CLOTHES, LONG HAIR SLOPPY manners, outlandish clothes and lone-haired men will be banned from, the trading floor of the Siniapore Stock Exchange from Jan 2. Not that the SES is expecting members of the male -dominated trading room to
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  • 87 8 ABDUL Talib bin Adam, 20, was jailed 15 months by a district Judge yesterday after he admitted breaking into a service station where he stole vehicle parts, oil and cash totalling $2,030. The court was told that Mr. Tan King Leong, 34, proprietor of Hoo Leong Service
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  • 377 9 A DISTRICT court heard yesterday how a young motorcyclist, after causing his p. l. ion-rider's (all. in a moment of panic, rode off leaving his Injured friend behind, and malted two rtays before making a false report of the accident. In the dock
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  • 51 9 THI: Tradr Drpartmrnt has reminded traders and carriers that from today the 1979 commodity code* should be entered in inward and outward declarations and import licences should be submitted to the Imports and Exports Office. The codes mast also be entered on declarations for trade with Peninsular
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  • 42 9 THE UP for River Valley. Dr. Tan Eng Liang and the MP for Kuo Chuan. Mr. P. Selvadural. will attend the Central Regional Youth Council dinner and dance at the Troplcana Theatre Restaurant and Nightclub on Monday at S p.m.
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  • 43 9 THE Asian Development Bank has approved a $41 million loan for the Kent Ridge Hospital, to be completed In 1985. The hospital will serve residents In the western area of Singapore and as a training centre for future doctors.
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  • 222 9 THE United Nations Environment Programme Is seeking Singapore's cooperation for a new International development strategy In tackling world environmental problems. LTJEP's executive director, Dr. Mostafa Tolba, said yesterday. Dr. Tolba, who Is here to hold talks with government officials on environmental problems, said
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  • 302 11 Shortage of 780 PE teachers in schools I HIRI is a shortage of 7S2 train d Pr. (pliysicaJ education) teachers in scaools At nrcM-nt there are only K-8 trained Pfc teachers, meaning those who have either majored i? p r a t the Institute of Education or Teachers Training College,
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  • 26 11 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board will host a dinner for the two millionth visitor to Singapore this year at the Cockpit Hotel on Saturday
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  • 255 11 Host of new problems for firemen SINGAPORE firemen now face a host of problems created by highrise buildings, industrial hazards, heavy traffic and the increasing use of plastic and air-conditioning. The problems were pinpointed by the Chief Fire Officer, Mr. Llm Beng Lock, in a speech to the Lions Club
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  • 580 11 Prisons officer jailed for $86,000 cbt PLEADS GUILTY TO 8 CHARGES A FORMER prisons executive officer was jailed for 30 mouths by a district court yesterday for committing criminal breach of trust through forgery of $86,863 50 belonging to both the govern- meat and prisoners. David Ng Siang Khoon. 29
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  • 513 11 FIRE damage in Singapore manufacturing plants has been "quite high," the Acting Social Affairs Minister, Dr. Ahmad Mattar, said yesterday. Dr. Mattar said in the first 10 months of this year there were a total of 921 building fires here and 123
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  • 29 11 THE Institute of Zfcflneen and the Singapore Manufacturers' AaodaUon will jointly hold a two-day seminar on Treatment of Water for Industries on Jan and at Shangri-La Hotel.
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  • 66 11 Show to mark Safra choir's sixth year THE Singapore Armed Forces Reservists Association's 60-strong allmale choir will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a choral concert at Victoria Theatre on Dec 31 at 8 p.m. Safra will also organise a New Year variety show at the Safra auditorium on Jan 20
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  • 30 11 Photography course THE Radin Mas community centre will hold a threemonth photographic course at the centre. Enrolment forms are available at the centre from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. dally.
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  • 37 11 A 22-LECTURE course on Intensive English will be held by the Department of Extramural Studies. University of Singapore, at the Social Work Department. Room B. Bulcit Timah campus, from Jan. 8. The fee is $80.
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    • 253 11 Straits Times Crossword ACmoss pull line up. Women's 1 Deposit* initially invested lb j?* r i m aim-vice foi viewers of 7 Stock-farm s subordinate comm?£ul d ¥lslon d *P rived °< ne d Chemical compound pn- duced from ncn lode 8. 8 r <>' W-out given > bcaom emoracu.g
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  • 289 12 PULL-TIME National Service police reservists will pat10I Housing Board estates daily from .Ian 1.'). Working in pairs, they will patrol the lifts, staircases and corr.dors of HDB flats. Police said ideally each team should comprise a special con- stable and a man
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  • 263 12 Man, refused sex, jumped to death A SUB-CONTRATOR Jumped off a block of flats after he broke off with his girlfriend because she had refused to have sex w.th him, a coroner's court heard yesterday. Machine operator Koh Swee Tee, testifying at an inquiry into the death of Toh Kirn
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  • 21 12 THE People's Association cultural troupe will present a Christmas Rhapsody programme today at Whampoa uummunlty centre at 8 pjn.
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  • 180 12 Preview of Five-0 special next week A PREVIEW of the Hawaii Five O episode filmed In Singapore is scheduled to be held for a select audience at the Radio Television Singapore studios next Thursday. The show, entitled Year of the Horse, is a twohour episode and Is part of a
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  • 29 12 YEO Ah Klang. 57, was fined $4,000 by a magistrate's court for having 2.07 grams of prepared opium at Keng Cheow Street 23. He pleaded guilty.
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  • 24 12 THE 12th Outward Bound executive course will be held at Pulau Übln from Peb 2 to JO. For further details, telephone *****3.
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  • 97 12 THE Minister for Communications and acting Minister for Culture, Mr. Ong Teng Cheong, will attend the opening of a three-day seminar on Malay Culture at the Singapore Conference Hall on Saturday at 2.30 p.m. The theme of the seminar Jointly organised by the central council of
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  • 16 12 <** a ra TJTTn i community centre will hold a dressmaking clan tomorrow. Pee Is $12.
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  • 57 12 THE prices of all three types of cold went np yesterday. The Singapore Chinese Gold and Silver Merchants Association said that 24 carat fold went up from $640 to $660 a tahil. One tahil of 22 carat gold went up from $600 to $620 while sovereign
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    • 174 13 I /MAV^lor II H 111 11*^* fF% Ist Floor, Plaza Singapura GUCCI makes its debut in Singapore today. Opened ahead of schedule, to meet the overwhelming fcw^^M demand of the festive season, the new GUCCI branch store is designed in the grand tradition K^^l B^y^j of theGUCCI shops in Florence,
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 369 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wee A NATIONAL college of languages will be set up next year to prepare Malaysians for higher studies overseas where the medium of instruction is in a foreign language. According to Education Ministry sources. the Teachers Training College in Pantai here,
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    • 276 14 Razaleigh: Govt may absorb part of oil price hike KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The government may consider absorbing part of the Increase In the price of oil to offset iis effect on domestic prices, Finance Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said i today. Tengku Raza:elgh, who was commenting on the four-stage price
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    • 245 14 Swiss taking leftover' Viet refugees KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday HAVING two wives can be a problem at the best of times. But when you are an unwanted alien hoping to find a new home, it is a double handicap as one man on the Hai Hong learnt in the past few
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    • 85 14 Picked for special course KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Muzium Negara's assistant conservator. Mr. Abdul Latin bin Ariffln. has been selected for the highly specialised course of underwater archaeology in Thailand. It Is conducted by the South-east Asian Ministers of Education Organisation under Its archaeology and fine arts project. Mr Latin will
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    • 103 14 SUNOEI PATANI. Wed. four orotheis Irom two famules »eie among six peopie who were killed today when their car was involved In a head-on collision with bus at a sharp vend at the 65 km Alor Star-Sungei Patam main road near Sungei Pasir. about seven km
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    • 64 14 IPOH. Wed. A businessman, Michael Goh Enf Hoc, 33, was today sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to be riven six strokes of the rotan by the Sessions Court here for drug traffickinc. His wife, Yeoh Kirn Kee. 34, who was Jointly charged with him, was acquitted
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 331 14 SUPER ROTAX RB9/# The super pen made /^r Wf m Germany With/A- if a firm, smooth nib 109^^1/ that glides perfectly W^jßtf over your paper. Jfit f^mr Super Rotax comes £^f^m in a rustproof cap MKijSm with a convenient ink pump system, i W^k A M W You can write
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  • 828 15 REPORTER: BEN DAVIDSON Inquiry told of measures taken to ensure bunker fuel loaded on tanker wasn't contaminated THE operations superintendent of the Shell Refinery In Anacortes, America, told the Spyros inquiry yesterday of the procedure used by the refinery to ensure that bunker fuel
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  • 254 15 $56,000 to repair buses damaged by floods Rt PAIRS to some 2*3 buses which broke down in the floods earlier this month are expected to oust thr Singapore Bus Service at least $SCM«. Of the bases, 35 had their engines badly damaged by flood Hitters and would have to undergo
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 99 15 \bur THURSDW TREAT Gk at the/i MERLIN tl\ (MLLjW TV I.unchtime < Fashion Show i v every Thursday VT^j 1 at 1 Dm. .Nt lor \nur c\cn while >nu least v V i>n our International Bullet 1 unch L Vx--V v l2 -pci adult. S6 per child v iMibicil to
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    • 361 15 (Spend A\fery Merry Christmas with The New Minstrds DECEMBER 23 -26 Garden Ballroom Holiday Inn Hotel DECEMBER 23 800 pm -2 00 am DECEMBER 25 800pm-2 00 am PRE-CHRtSTMAS DINNER DANCE CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER DANCE $40.00' $40.00* Inclusive of a delicious buffet spread Inclusive of a delicious buffet spread and
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  • The Straits Times THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1978
    • 388 16 THE Japanese government's decision to give Vietnam a fresh loan and a grant amounting to US$70 million is clearly part of its new emphasis on expanding assistance to development projects in Asean countries as well as providing economic assistance to the Indochina states. But it will not be
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    • 374 16 IT LOOKS as if the staff of the Telecommunications Authority of Singapore will have their "bonus" for Christmas and New Year after all. Yesterday, Telecoms agreed to pay its 9,000 employees their 13th month annual wage supplement "not after Dec. 26", following an appeal by the Secretary General
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  • 554 16  -  PHILIP LEE, By our London reporter THE British love a good bonfire especially on wintry evenings like these. Yet in Soho at London's West End on Monday night when a half inebriated prankster set fire to a small rubbish dump of wooden crates and paper
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  • 1968 16  -  SEAH CHIANG NEE Demonstrations appeared to have become a way of life By Straits Times Foreign Editor A THIN layer of mist covered parts of the capital in the early morning. It disappeared when the sun rose, but the coolness of
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  • 329 16 NEWS that white-calUr workers may s*«n be faced with lorn af their jobs will be greeted in mwiy quarters with disbelief, la prosperous Slag»p*re, the thought that many would lose their Jabs is remote. Any worker does not eaaily forget the yemrs he has pat
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    • 58 16 Woods '^kr Patented one piece "2 soioand fac« plate A PMomodono A^k pioca nwootmont I W caot ton and piato roducot onoryy loot BB^*^^*^| Wm atmpaci Agroatbolp I X \^W m ganmg tough tomnoy I i£Aj •Vm i(> and awoy Sole Agents I CZJ RftN-WESTIPTEILTO Pla*a Smgapura. Orchard Road Tel
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    • 267 16 m Housewife it is difficult to prepare a rrval BfcE~^~ which retains ali the important Vitamins and Minerals. LjQJg She shops for GUARDIAN >*»* --i-lrSs MULTIVITAMINCap- JJ sules which will supple- vtobL^Bßafl ment all her family's diets with the essential Vitamins fl and Minerals, all in a ONE-A-DAY capsule. ■»<
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  • FORUM
    • 984 17  -  VINCENT STOVE By Our Sydney correspondent THE Australian aviation authorities were forced to back down in their long wrangle with the United States negotiators over cheaper Pacific air fares and accept changes in the new scheme that run counter to everything that Qantas
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    • 96 17 IN YOUR paper on Dec 9, the Chief Censor stated that "it was not yet the right time to introduce classification of films." I would very mv h like to know what his criteria for adjudging the "right time" is based on. As
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    • 409 17 I REFER to the letter "Forecasts are vague and unreliable" (ST, Dec 6). I wish to assure the writer that the department is far from being in a state of shambles, and neither is it handicapped in its work by a
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    • 165 17 MANY families staying in housing estates like Ang Mo Kio and Toa Payoh. find it difficult to travel to the beaches at Changi and along the East Coast for an outing as it involves changing two or three buses. If the SBS would consider
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    • 135 17 I REFER to your story entitled "Cured addicts who return to drugs" in the Straits Times on Dec 9. I am quoted as having said, "the Criminal Registration Act made it possible for drug takers to be detained by an executive act without
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    • 82 17 Putting up safety railings I REFER to the letter by S.G. Rajaloo (ST. Dec 9). I wish to inform your correspondent that action will be taken by the relevant authority to erect safety railings along the drain at the junction of Bukit Timah Road and Stevens Road. I WISH to
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    • 50 17 I REFER to your report headed TAS to replace old pay phones." (ST. Nov 29). Well and good, but TAS should adopt that charity begins-at-home policy by replacing all the old black models of phones in private homes free of charge! OLD MODEL, Sli|i|Mrr IS.
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    • 397 17 SI touch of fPj I ami otinr parts of Italy M \£<iZave/viui\ Bsraewr/ iiw/ini until Italian Chef and Management 1 M KINDS OF 1 lPs/r M srAPIZZ/l 1 V"~^2B dtoums Hours l2*o<M-3pm I --V. -^fil 6pm —12 mulmght I j Singly 6pm -!2*U*fH Wn^X^T Basement. DBS Buildinn 6 Shenton Way.
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  • TIMES CITY DESK
    • CHIEF PRICE CHANGES
      • 44 18 Nat Iron DBS 0 U B ioi Straits Trading C t C High L Low Sentlngs ran Chong K L Kepong UOI MO 3M 311 316 M5 500 336 302 274 214 208 10 6 6 5 4 4 4 4 4 4
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      • 43 18 Berjunlal Roth mans Mslan Kmllls Tuck Cement Oriental Hldgs Kuala Sldlni Setron Metal Box Spore Pnma U O F Intraco am 280 ISO 280 450 211 210 274 255 202 1W -35 -15 -IS -12 -10 -9 -7 -6 -6 -8 -5
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      • 28 18 M Banking Haw Par BOB U O L Cons Plant DBS Bouslcadco Wearnes Faber Merlin 113.000 ***** 57.000 53 000 45.000 31.000 24.000 21.000 20.000
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      • 37 18 DeclJ Dec20 hi 1 Index Industrials: i rial iff Hi.tfls Properties: rms: [rubbers 3.C.B.C.: 5.E.S. Ind: 1631.74 1647 91 343.W ***** 013.70 ***** 272.52 ***** ***** ***** ***** 156 74 ***** ***** 311.36 312.25 308.10 *****
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    • OVERSEAS MARKETS
      • 334 18 HONGKONG: Share prices closed firmer with sentiment partly boosted by Wheelock Marden's higher profits announced yesterday after-hours, dealers said. Hongkong Bank rose 40 cents to HK517.30. Hongkong Land 10 to $7 70 and Swire Pacific 'A' 15 to 57.75 Rubber Trust rose 20 cents to $4.40 after asset revaluation.
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      • 356 18 TOKYO: Share prices I closed slightly lower In heavy trading with a late wave of profit-taking in leaders more than offseting early gains, dealers said. The Dow Jones average lost 8.65 to close at 5.974,67 points, with a volume of i 620 million shares. The New Index was 446.56,
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      • 35 18 KUALA LUMPUR. United Malayan Flour Mills has declared a first and final dividend of 20 percent gross (same) for the year ended July 31, payable on January 25. Reuter
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      • 41 18 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Invites banks and discount houses to tender for a total of $35 ml' lion 91-day Treasury Bills to be issued from Dec 26 to 29Each tender must not be less than $250,000.
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      • 182 18 GOLD Futures turned easier in tne Singapore Uold rutures Lx'Uiauge yesieraay. alter a turner opening but pi ices clobid higner on balance front yesterdays close here, dealers said. Profit-taking and long liquidation was offset by Miort-covenng and turnover rose to 134 lots from 75 lots yesterday with interest still
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      • 36 18 LONDON: Copp*r prices on Tueselly {previous la brackets > Wlntir- Spa* buyer* £7sx 50 1(747 10.. acMer* fTW.3O HWMi: Tttn* Montn buyers 1754 U7M). sellers i7«S SO ITM.W) Market IM: Very etrtdy Sale*: 7* <tUO tonnes
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      • 267 19 SYDNEY. Wed—The market closed higher ln moderate imdms after It* rrcrnl s*tback, dealers said. BHP rose six cents to AM 74 and other oils also advmnrMi with Bjuh oatmntr vancea wiin Beacn gaining ii X_i!2i?' *■■tm Uate *nd WssalaM* two cents. Price* far industrials «ere detared The
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      • 255 19 NEW YORK, Tues Stocks closed slightly higher ln moderately active trading The DJ industrials, up (our points ln early trading and off a* much as two points later on. gained about two points on the day and the New York Stock Exchange Index picked about up
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      • 236 19 ZURICH. Tuck Prices closed narrowly mixed with an easier bias, but the market showed good resistance to the further weakness of the dollar, dealers said. Leading banks and insurances were little changed. while ln financial* Elektro- atl. H»Mrr»an« Bearer and Maag Bi<elinii< closed steady, while Interiood 'B\
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      • 162 19 AMSTERDAM. Tues —Share prices closed mostly firmer on profwrlnnaj buying at the present low tevess. despite the weakness of the dollar and the steep decline on Wall Street overnight, dealera said. Akaw and I'aaserer tod gains in Dutch internationals, closing 0.80 and 0.70 guilders higher, respectively State
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      • 506 19 LONDON Tuei Industrials leaden closed sllghtl) wgher after low volume trading dealers said and at 3 pan the Financial Tuns* in lex was down 1 4 at 475 4 Worn** about in nation and ruing US interest rales continued to subdue activity Most leaders finished a
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    • 68 19 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 476.1 Monday 474.* Week Ago 4M.t DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 788 88 Monday 787.51 Week Ago 804.14 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Tuesday 79W to 80 Monday 75* to 75* H.K HANG SENG Wednesday 498.79 Tuesday 491.47 Week Ago 497.04 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Wednesday 453 M
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    • COMMODITIES
      • 194 18 THE Straits tin price gained another $11 to $1,804 per picul in Penang yesterday on an official offering up 26 tonnes to 211 tonnes. The overnight London market was barely steady with forward buyers slipping £45 to £6.925 per tonne. LONDON: Tin on the day was up £15 for
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      • 30 18 Rubber Dec 2*. Singapore: Jan 236.00 cts (up 3.00 cts). Malaysia: Jan 238.75 cts (up 3.25 eta). Tin: $1,804 (up $11). Official offering: 211 tonnes (up 26 tonnes).
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      • 119 18 CHINIfl MODUCI IX CHANQI, tIMCAPORt HOON CLOtiNc pricii fir ricuk VHTIHOAY CMMlut Oil: Bulk |1O« Ullin. Old drum 1112 Mllcn, new drum ill 7 Mlleri. C*ara: Mlltd (IOOK) UK Com. (•7 buyera. P«»P«r MunlOk AST A white fob. 100'; NLW »342', ifllert Sarawak whlu fob. »6", NLW $323 tclltra.
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      • 573 18 OPENING prices in the Singapore rubber market yesterday were marked up about 1.50 cents per kilo on higher London advices coupled with the after close steadiness here on Tuesday, dealers cai rt 5d The market later Improved on trade buying, covering tiemand and reserve of sellers. Some profit-taking emerued
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      • 128 18 DAILY S£R and SMR prtcci at noon yesterday: ju r»b «-A8. ((vrnl Mtk) (FarwmH Mil) Bajren 8cl«n Buyer* SeUon SSR 20 (1 ton pallet) J36 50 2M SON 237 SO 239 SON SSR 50 (1 ton pallet) 233 50 235 SON 234 50 23« SON MJLEL.B. SMR
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    • 24 18 THE average rate at which Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their beat customers is T* per cent. J
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    • 452 18 ERRATIC price patterns were seen across the board at the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday but the final tally showed that the market ended on a slightly higher note. It was difficult to identify specific trends as different counters showed different patterns during the day.
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    • 395 18 THE Kuala Lumpur stock market made a slight recovery yesterday after two days of steady decline following the announcement of the 14.5 per cent Increase In oil prices. Although prices were marginally better. Trading was extremely dull and quiet. Only a handful of the more popular stocks were
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    • 223 18 THE US dollar opened weaker at $2 1570 90 in the Singapore forex market yesterday However. It was soon taken up to $2.1600 10 where it remained for the greater pan of the day In thin and quiet trading, before closing little changed at $2 1600/15. Interbank
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    • 184 18 Interbank rates M 3.00 p m. Currencies Nominal rates Smith* titan Pereentace quoted yesterday (erota) parity change US dollar 2.1800 2 1615 2 8196 —23 39 Sterling pound 4 3630 4.3705 7 3469 —40 61 Hongkong dollar 44 9000 44.9845 50 51 —1110 M'sian dollar 98 8500 98
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    • 217 18 NOTE: These rates may differ slichtly from thofce quot ed by banks to their customers. ASIAN currency deposit Interbank rates as at close on Dec 20. US Dollar* (Spot) Offer Bid 7 days 12 7 16 12 5 16 1 mth 10 3 4 10 5 8
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    • 46 18 Closing interbank raits on Singapore dollar on Dec 20 Offer BM Overnight 4 3 12 1 mth 7 3 16 7 1 16 2 mths 7 3 8 7 14 3 mths 7 9 16 7 7 16 Overnight Mode S. Source: Astlry Pearce.
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    • 49 18 DISCOUN T RAN'JK oC ritri offered by discount hoiMi on D*« 70 OvemlKht 3 to < 1 Oil d*PMIt < to < 1/S. But tail 3 Month TrMMiry bills 4 1/H 4 3- Month ll»n» Dim 7 1/4 T 1/8 3-Month CI> 7 12 7 3 1 Month CD 7
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    • 617 19 Faber Merlin optimistic despite loss rABKR MERLIN is full of plans for the future despite its disappointing year to June 3<T 1878. when the troup incurred a lon after UK. exceptional Items and ninonty Wrests of Mfl 49 Outnned in the chairT^P i. st*telnent 'or tne 1977-78 year are a
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    • 609 19 Reduced interest charges cut down San losses SAN HOLDINGS has cut its losses during the year ended last March 31 to M52f7.788 from $W>4,9H5, due mainly to substantially reduced interest charges on loans still outstanding. There was no income derived during the year under review since San has ceased its
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    • 1383 18 THK lvi irenaartad rwkdjr mX at the float ol iMiniM on Ut* Stock Excrt&nf* •f ninfpuri i««Mio»y romparml wtUi ttt* prwtou* dmy pr»c« toavtlm trtui irrt hi«h and low AdjuMed for Tip rWhu iMuri -II lloN .'M IMH ftTttIALS I H>«fc Lot (WH>< tn IS Arm. 210 123*
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    • 325 18 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUST iMiiuiri prim for Dec II) Thf Commerce 2 04 2.16 The Saving Fund 1-27 1.35 Spore Prog Fund 0.91 0.96 Spore Sec Fund 1.67 J.77 Sp^re Invest Fund 119 1.26 ASIA UNIT TRUST (Manager, artew for Dk 21) Mai Invest Fund 2.09 2.21 MalProgFund 1.06
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    • 97 18 4 1/2% 1/8/80 (250.000) (992OB 99 35S) 4 3/4% 15/9/80 (250.000) (W55B 99.706) S% T F 1/5/83 (2S0.000) 100 10B I0025S) 5 3/4% T V 15/6/81-84 (2SO.OO0) (102 308) 7% 1/8/85 (250.000) (100 65B 100 MS) 7 1/4% 15/10/86 (2S0.0O0I (100.80B) 7 1/4% 1/5/87 (250.000) (100
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    • 1385 18 BID and offer price* officially listed and business, in and reported to tne Kuala Lumpur Slock Exchange y ester da> with the number of shares traded shown In 1 brackets in lots of 1 .000 unit* unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Minemsu ,2 TUB. Aleem 1 1 T3B I
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    • 178 18 HONGKONG: Rubber i Trust, Amalgamated Rubber Estates and Shanghai Kelantanßubber Estates '1925' said they have received the results of independent valuations of their plantation assets in Ma- laysla. Based on these results and the value of their other assets, the companics said in a joint statement
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    • 1243 18 HID inrt offer prices of finally listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number ot shares t rarted shown In brackets in MM of 1 000 units unless „'h er wise specified All Times quoted after the word "sett"
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 682 19 SOXAL, a leading multinational manufacturer of industrial and medical gases, invites applications for the following appointments: 1 SAFETY ENGINEER REQUIREMENTS (i) Degree in Mechanical Engineering from a recognised university. (ii) Minimum two years' experience in industrial safety, preferably with a petroleum or related chemical industry. (iii) Age 24 to 30;
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    • 621 19 ft publuhmq m»d (A Member ot The Times Orgomsotion) invites suitably qualified applicants for the position of VISUALISER We offer the opportunity for a young creative Visualiser, who is able to prepare and design all types of publicity material from concepts at initial briefing through to finished artwork and print
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 396 20 §t CLASSIFIEDS CATS I saaaaai I— FORTOURISTS PLACES OF INTEREST 151 Hol»«s CHfHC RESTNOUSE Double room OH [< n, Cooking allowed Group S5 per head prr day Uancinf hall 107 Marine Parade m 152 Where To Eat I FOR SALE SHOPPING GUIDE I FOR SALE SHOPPING GUIDE I FOR SALE
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    • 377 20 154 Ente/rUinment Enjoy your coming Christmas New Year at /^WIF IST FLOOR. tvf V LnlU+fiJ LEISURE DROME, /-J 4-WflllllJ KALLANG PARK l\W Wl Il~i T/tfjM^ ">■ STADHJM WALK \\|,ta»*L** il \fi^ O SINGAPORE, 14 \MSzm^ tel *****4 v ttvrC*'*^ GOOD PL ACE TO DANCE GOOD ATMOSPHERE GOOD BAND, GOOD MUSIC
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    • 348 20 r Singapore Jettjellers for your Precious Gems and new creations in Gold, Platinum and Diamond jewellery. We're open dally 9.30 am 6 pm Ample parking space GOODWOOD HOTEL SCOTTS ROAD SINGAPORE. 9 1 TEL: *****5. I sd»M«» aJJllsffc SOMETHING FOR THE 1 YOUNG OR > SOMETHING FOR 1 THE OLD
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    • 479 20 LOUNGE Presents IRENE a THE PEACEMAKER" Live music from sto 10.30 pm (Christmas Eve Special) Live music from 7 to 12 midnight Happy hours 4t07 pm 35% lees (Candle light dinner) No 101-104, Ist Floor. I Plata Singapura. Orchard Road. Tar. 3OS2S S 30SM for reaervaWon 155 Art/Crafts/ Souvenirs ALFA
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    • 631 20 HAR PAR VILLA (Tiger Bolm Gordens 1 TTr STAMFORD RAFFLES Landing Site FOR X'MAS lOEAS and Handicrafts, come to Ming Shop. Fltzpalrlck's Supermarket. Orchard Road Tel *****5 or 04. Rear Block Orchard Towers. Claymore Drive Singapore 9. Tel: *****0 157 Photographic Equipment/ Watches SECONOHANO CAMERAS CENTRE we buy. sell and
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    • 739 20 (164) Acupuncture (164) Credit Cord (IS6) LiQtitMg Futures (161) Stteopmq emporium (ISS) Antiques-Corn (ISS) Cryttol Glosswor* 064) LuQooaa transfer (153) Siohtteema coaches (155) Art-metd creations (161) Departmental Store. (163) Mossofle-Heolth Club (158) Sift (156) Audio-vauol Instruments (156) Clectrk/Ilectremc apphoncei (153) Motorcar rentol (160) Skm D.vmo Corol reefi (163) Sorter Shop*
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    • 585 20 HANDICRAFT CENTRE SIONG LIM Temple Garden 163 Beauty Salons/ Massage AFTER A TIRING DAY. kindly call al International Keepflt Centre. Merlin Hotel. For appointment, phone *****73/*****11 ext 425. M HILTON HEALTH CLUB For Tourists Members only MASSAGE SERVICE SAUNA BATH STEAM BATH HYDRO-POOL GYMNASIUM Business Hours: Ladies— 9am to Ipm
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    • 535 20 EMPEROR HEALTH CENTRE (Latest li most luxurious) York Hotel. Mount Elizabeth Ring *****8 or *****1 cxl 1900 Open dally 11 am to 10.30 pm 164 Special Trades/ Services CHI ANO ACUPUNCTURE SPECIALIST 208. 2nd floor. Shaw House. Orchard Road. (9) Tel: *****0 next to Lido Theatre SINGAPORE ACUPUNCTURE CENTRE Specialises
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    • 638 20 II EMPLOYMENT FOREIGN FIRM REOUMES I experienced Stenn Typist with typing 'shorthand speed of 45/100 w p m. Please phone Julie. *****11 for appointment FuK-IMne BOOK-KEEPER Of suitable experience tt qualifications lo maintain a full set of books required Imedlately Preferably a retired person. Starting aalary $300 Please apply to
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    • 596 20 SINGAPORE OFFSMORF PETROLEUM SERVICES PTE LTD Applications are Invited from BHMJspSfS Citizens for the post GENERAL CLERK i a i Si Mimil Certificate or equivalent (bl Some experience In purchasing and payroll would be an advantage but not essential c Able lo type accurately Preference will be given to those
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    • 632 21 r CLASSIFIED ADS 18 4 44 2 2 II EMPLOYMENT 31 Situations Vacant c) tales AMERICAN COMPANY HSOOSSf SIAN CHINESE < MALE /FEMALE) aa REPRESENTATIVE Estapsisml hnanciet appertunmea le ngtrt individual TEL »IMJ7 AM ESTABLISHED COSMETIC COMPANY has the following vacancies (A) Sates supervisor. (B) FusVPert-nme Beauty Ae>rieers its must
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    • 714 21 E»iabMsnedF»fn 111 1 FEMALE ACCOUNTS/ MBMWIBCLEIeX Applicants must be experienced and be well versed In c Banking Shipping documentation '-epmg c Correspondence c Typing 2) SALES PROMOTERS (Female) Interested applicants are to documents for a personal interview at U«* l«S. let Beer '•Oplt I s^aWls COffttt smaipiri i aitwssn i
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    • 650 21 II EMPLOYMENT TECHNICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVES Laboratory techniciane/aeeistents or medical as»od prnsassianela. Are you satisfied with your job' Immediate vacancies available in the expanding Biomedlcal department of an established American company We are looking tor people with: a Sales personality use with credit in Biology or Chemistry, or preferably with professional
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    • 511 21 EDIBLE PRODUCTS LTD requires: LABORATORY ASSISTANT c Singapore citizen above 18 years of age a Completed school certificate with a pass in English and Chemistry a Relevant previous working experience an advantage An attractive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be paid to the successful candidate Please apply giving
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    • 641 21 II EMPLOYMENT TECHNICAL ANALYST (Female) Vacancy exists in the Time Study Section. TVP Office Ouakmcations 1) O.CE O level (English) or Its equivalent, and 2) A ITC in Electronics, or (B)C L O Telecommunication Technician Part I Certificate, or (C)Work Study Certificate (IWSOM) Ability lo read Chinese Is an advantage
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    • 499 21 General A leading and well esta blushed Group of Companies requires a PERSONAL DRIVER (or Senior Executive a Must be able to speak and understand English c A minimum of 5 years expe rlence In similar capacity c A good driving record c Preferably In 35 45 age range Salary
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    • 701 21 AT YOUR SERVICE Telephone Service Weekdays t3O a m $00 p m Public Holidays 900 a m 1 00 p m Saturdays t3O a m -300pm (uunier Service Regular office /lours Times Orchard IVntre. MIOS Lucky Plaza (9> Times Centre Wen; Industrial Road (19) Ansafone Service After office Hours RATES
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    • 401 21 EUROPEAN STANDARD ELECTRONICS PTE. LTD. due lo expansion has vacancies for: FEMALE PRODUCTION OPERATORS (Singapore Citizens/ Non c it nens) a No scope work c Working experience not necessary c Work in alr-condltloned comfort c Complete primary education c Age 16-30 We provide: c Attractive starting salary ofslBopm a Increment
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    • 523 21 SECTION INDEX I FOR SALE SHOPPING OUIDE II EMPLOYMENT 111 VEHICLES Si BOATS IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES V SERVICES BUSINESS VI EDUCATION TRAINING VII TRAVEL RESTAURANTS VIII ANNOUNCEMENTS PERSONAL IX OBITUARIES II EMPLOYMENT invites applications for the post of: SECURITY GUARD a Must be prepared to do shift work English or
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    • 611 21 Well established Tyre Menu lecturer with good growth potential require! PRODUCTION OPERATORS (Male) 1 1 Age 20 years and above Must have completed full-time National Service or doing part-time National Service 2) Must work .1 shifts Weekly change 3) starting pay $8 40 per day $9 40 per day (If
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    • 701 22 II EMPLOYMENT 31 Situations Vacant t) General ORGAN DEMONS TRA TOR WANTEO for our Showroom in Kuala I umpur PVaar apply with full particulars \alar> expected and teleprtone no If any and a nonreturnable pnotu to Tna A«»ai»aai Una) tfi. M Baar P«au *mgeiwra M. O**c9i#fs RaMfl. li ra9 PERSONAL
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    • 920 22 HI VEHICLES A BOATS COME TO THE SUPER CAR MART OF NG KEONO CAR TRADER* PTE LTO.. AT KIM KEAT ROAO. SINGAPORE 12 TELS *****90. 256 1279, *****3. ■MBM 1979: Fard Carttne 2999 OMa A/C DetMKi 120 V Detrnm 1«OJ 1977: Call Saama I*9oG* A/C Lancar 1400*4. A/C Toyota Coroaa
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    • 948 22 MID 1973 MAZDA FIOOO Stationwagon Good condition Highest offer secures Contact *****3 Mr Ang MID 1974 FOBS Escort 4-door excellent condition 96.650 ono View Blk 3. 163-C. Fairer Road after 12 pm MINI 19*9 CLUBMAN 1973 2nd owner. $6850 ono View 266P Henderson Road. Blk 94 NOVEMBER 1973 COLT Lancer.
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    • 1015 22 111 VEHICLES A BOATS 1971 AUSTM MBB Special 1000 cc 1 white colour. $5,350 *****15 1971 DATSUN MM 2nd owner, alrcond. very good condition 96.900 ono View 3. Slglap Drive 1971 FIAT I*4 Sport Tip top condition, alrcon. sports rims, many accessories $10,000 ono 9. C'hiselhurst Grove after 3 OOp
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    • 882 22 197S MBB CLUBMAN Showroom condition, many accessories $8,000 ono View 55. Wan Tho Ave(l3> 1975 OCTOBER TOVOTA Corolla 1200 ct. Concealed aircon 1 owner, accident free. $***** View Blk 50. 128-J. Dorset Road Spore 8 197$ PEUGEOT SB* Alrcond. good condition Principals only Please call *****00 197S TOYOTA COROLLA 1200
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    • 749 22 111 VEHICLES BOATS WANTED SECONDNAND CAN Must be In good condition Any make above 1972. Call *****30 WANTEO TO BUY a scrap car Eligible for PARF Above 1601 2600 cc Please call *****87 WANTEO TO BUY Good used cars from 1970 onwards Call 245 Middle Road *****1/*****1 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES
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    • 746 22 WE PAY 0000 price for PARF scrap Any make and capacity Call *****98 Richard 1973/1974. DATSUN Pick-up required by transport company Please call *****1 1 1973/74 DATSUN 146J Private owner Must be accident free Eligible for PARF Rtnj *****12. office hours $•00 P.M. CHESTNUT Crescent single-storey bungalow, 3 bedrooms, 1
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    • 689 22 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES FURNISHED APARTMENT DISTRICT 9 Very exclusive block I bedrooms well maintained Tel Greenfield Housing *****5 *****4 GH.STEAD COURT DWT 11 new 3 bedroomed apartment with swimming pool. $1,700 partially furnished Regional *****31 *****54 C) ROOMS AIRCONO ROOM Fully furnish cd. bathroom attached Contact Mdm Yap *****5. after
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    • 530 22 DIS- IS NaMACULATE SINGLE storey detached spacious MBBBji I bedrooms |3 aireonda) ii s unenltiet tarraaao throughout, furnished ».Mv sq ft $lSo.oooono Wesx.T7ol44 OIST It EAST COAST Road noar market scho I Double-store) t, rr. ur :t bodrooms MrvanCi $123,000 Yew I.lan Park ofl Thomson Road. doublr-store> terrace 3 bedrooms
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    • 478 23 WANTED COMMERCIAL. CONDOMINIUM RESIDENTIAL LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT Any offer of >ocal ♦acant land, either large or snail, in the busy commercial districts Any residential area for construction of condominium. flats, terrace semidetached houses Please contact Mr. Chong Singapore Tel: *****58 WE SPECIALISED M HDB Flat Buying' Selling Tel *****97. South
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    • 1507 23 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES PARTIALLY FURNISHED MINI (II I fire at Mh floor Tanglin Shopping Centre area 166 sq ft Interested ring *****3 Miss Chan SMALL CARPETED EXCLUSIVE Office with telephone in disl 1 for rental $250 Tel *****01 TO LET office space in Union Building at Enggor Street. 3rd floor.
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    • 922 23 V SERVICES*) BUSINESS 83 Packing/ Removals DAIHATSU LORRY/DATSUN Pickup for your delivery services Nam Mm Forwarders Tei *****61 Contact Chng DATSUN PICKUP AVAILABLE to transport your small articles' goods PSA Cargo Clearance/ Delivery Ring *****5. DSD OELMAH TRANSPORT experienced In packing and removal transportation, door-to-door service Tel *****15 Mr. Mohd
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    • 197 23 MARTINA'S SALON 11-A Calrnhlll circle massage/saunabath barber facial No parking problem drivers available to park your car Ring (Spore) *****1 *****8 PENMSULA HEALTH CENTRI. Peninsula Hotel sth Floor Massage Steambath' Facial Telephones *****1. *****1 ext 517 for appointment QUEEN'S HEALTH CENTRE Queen's Hotel (next to Summit Hotel). 4th floor penthouse
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    • 664 23 V) EDUCATION A TRAINING 5 ATT language centre SCHOOL OF LINGUISTIC SKILLS Language courses ond private tuition for school examinations and for business, travel pleasure Doily dosses, mornings ond afternoons commencing Bth Jonuory 1979 Children's twice weekly classes, ofternoons commencing Bth January 1979 Teenagers' twice weekly classes, evenings commencing February
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    • 760 23 VI EDUCATION TRAINING Ib GIRLS! Jobs are becoming harder to get yog need better gu*tKation» Tie London Crujmeer ol Commerce and industry Private Secretary s Certificate is recognised internationally as one ol tne Highest qualifications obtainable Tins evammation is tne only Private Secretary Enammation supervised by the Ministry ol Education
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    • 694 23 BtOWININO JANUARY I*7* Sy temalir reliable tuition Fngli'h Maths nrw Primary School Syllabus Qualified retired teacher Office hours Air-condi-tionrd district 7 Tel 2S2KM 10 am to 4 pm EFFECTTVf TUITION FOR all levels and subjects at your home Success guaranteed Tel *****4 MM EXCELLENT TUTORS TEACHING Maths Science. Accounting English.
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  • IX OBITUARIES
    • 35 24 THE FAMILY OF the late Mr. Chan Trek Kim wishes to express their heartfelt gratitude to all relatives, colleagues friends for their kind donations, night visit, assistance L attendance during their recent bereavement.
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    • 34 24 MOMMAN HAROLD STEVENS son of Max and Molly Stevens of 26. Dragon Gardens (Tel: JB *****). passed away peacefully at home Funeral service at JB Cathedral at 9.00 am on 21 12.78.
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    • 691 24 VIII ANNOUNCEMENTS ft PERSONAL f Bl A MR. TAN TOO UNO and MISS FOONG YIN wish I to announce their ongao^nwnt on 21.12.78. I NONCVMOON MARRIAGE AID LET SUCCESSFUL UVMO help confidentially introduces to you you learn how to live successfulSecretaries. Nurses, Executives, ly everyday of your life Write Teachers.
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    • 608 24 DP PROFESSIONALS Dim to rapid expansion we need ANALYST/PROGRAMMERS Candidates tfiould be «el» motivated preferably have tertiary education and 1-4 years EDP experience. They will be called upon to provide technical tupport to our customers of Sperry Univac Computer Systems. Adequate training on Sperry Umvac equipment would be provided The
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    • 1355 24 KENYATAAN TAWARAN UNIVERSITI PERTANIAN MALAYSIA UNTUK CADANGAN BANGUNAN FAKULTI PERTANIAN Tawaran tawaran adalah di pelawa danpada Pemborong Pemborong Khas (Specialist Sub-Contractor) yang berdattar dengan Universiti Pertanian Malaysia DAN ATAU Jabatan Keria Raya untuk keria keria tersebut di bawah TAWANAN KERJA PENDAFTARAN CAQARAN A. Plumbing and Sanitary JKR Kelas B. S3.
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  • 202 25 British Airways works council set up A WORKS council beI tween m&nagemem and union mat ye. urday formed by Brltlth Alri wajrt. the fr»t foreign urine In Singapore to do to The works council will aim at promoting utiderutanding and cooperation between management 1 and employed, provld ng i a
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  • 77 25 THE Science Council of Singapore is inviting nominations from professional bodies, tertiary institutions, government and statutory boards and industry for its Gold Medal Award. The award is for people who have contributed significantly by their research or expertise to the scientific, technological, industrial or economic development of
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  • 63 25 THE Amalgamated Union of Public Employees social welfare staff branch will hold a ChrLttmas grt-togethrr and picnic at the Catholic Welfare Services Holiday House m Punggol on Dec 2} from I a.m. to 5 p m The Permanent Secretary of the Socul Affairs Ministry. Dr Ho Ouan
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  • 414 25 INTELLIGENT animals like the pnmates in the Singapore Zoo turn neurotic when they are fed on a long-term diet of pellet food. This animal idiosyncracy was revealed by Dr. Lee Tat Mong, resident veterinarian of the Singapore Zoo in a talk entitled:
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  • 166 25 CHERR Song Meng. 23. who altered the date In his expired passport to enter Peninsular Malaysia to see an ailing friend, was fln.td $800 by a district judge yesterday. Immigration prosecutor. Mr. PA. Nlsar, told the court that Cherr was found out at the
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  • 58 25 HOME Affairs and Education Minuter Mr. Chua Sian Chin, will distribute gifts and ang pows to the needy on MacPherson constituency's fourth welfare day at the community centre on Jan 14 at 10 a.m. Application forms are available at the centre or Loy Dental Clinic at Block
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  • 30 25 RADIO and Television Singapore and the Peoples Association will hold their third radio show, Let's Get Together, at Boon Teck community centre on Saturday at 8 p m
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  • 35 25 MR Ngeow Pack Hua. MP for Boon Lay. will open the Protect your Home and Property Exhibition at Boon Lay Oarden community centre. Apartment Block 209. Boon Lay Place, tomorrow at S p.m.
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  • 233 25 SINGAPORE restaurateurs and retailers have b*en offered sites at the $350 million Asian Trade Centre and Commercial Condominium Complex In Oakland, California, to promote their services and goods. Mr. Philip Morals, marketing manager of Inter national Properties, Gammon Properties Ltd.. Hongkong, the regional marketing ar°nts
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  • 35 25 THE Coroner's Court yesterday recorded a suicide verdict on the death of Zubaldah blnti Hussaln. 30. whose body was found at the foot of Block 31. Bedok South Avenue 2, on Sept 1.
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  • 455 26 Toshiba" to set up $20m plant in S'pore A JAPANESE electronics giant, Toshiba, is to invest between $18 million and $20 million in Singapore to set up a television manufacturing plant. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Toshiba Singapore, will start operation in February at an 11,500-sq metre PSA multi-storey complex in Paslr
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  • 80 26 KNOCKED DOWN BY REVERSING LORRY A PETROL kiosk attendant died after he was knocked down by a reversing lorry at a petrol kiosk in MacPherson Road on Tuesday. Mohamed All bin Yunan, 23, was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he died on arrival. Meanwhile, a pedestrian knocked down
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  • 53 26 SOME 300 members of the Singapore Granite Quarry Workers' Union from five granite quarry companies have decided to dissolve the urilon and join the Singapore Industrial Labour Organisation (Silo). A Silo statement said the union had written to the workers' employers for Its right to
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  • 77 26 THE NTUC's book cooperative. Fairdeal, will open a bookshop at the Catholic Young Men's Association building In Bras Basah Road. Palrdeal is to spend $100.000 to renovate the building, which will also house its head office. The cooperative now has a shop in Toa Payoh
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  • 36 26 THE Senior Minister of State 1 Foreign Affairs) Mr. Lee Khoon Choy last night attended a charity Cantonese opera show organised by the Kolam Aver community centre building fund committee at the National Theatre.
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  • 27 26 CHAJtfGI community centre wUI hold an educational camp at the National Youth Leadership Tralnlnc Imutute In South Buofi* VUU Road on Saturday at b p.m
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  • 198 26 SECRETARY, CLERK TOP JAPANESE COURSE WHETHER it was due to their flair for languages or their ailinity for Japanese, Miss Quek fob. thoo, 23, (left) and Madam Tan Siok Hung came up tops In the advanced Japanese language course organised by the Japanese Cultural Society. They beat 66 other advanced
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  • 308 26 China responds to 'slow down delivery of goods' call CHINA has responded well to requests by businessmen to slow down the dellvery of Chinese goods to Singapore for re-exporte xport to Indonesia following the 50 per cent devaluation of the Indonesian rupiah last month. Indonesian importers of Chinese goods either
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  • 32 26 THE choir from the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour will present Christmas carolling at the Information counter, ground floor. Specialists' Centre on Saturday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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  • 28 26 THE Singapore Merchant Navy Officers Association will hold Its 31st anniversary lunch at the Singapore Mariners' Club In South Quay on Saturday at 1 p.m.
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  • 274 26 Khe Bong can look forward to new c-centre THE residents of Khe Bon^ constituency are assured ot a new $(00,000 ommuiuty centre with all facilities for relaxation, recreatlor.. sports and other useful activities, even as funds to meet the cost are still bein.; raised. r-uclic tenders for the construction of
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  • 89 26 TUB Community Service Volunteers, who formed the Redhlll Old Folks Club to take care of the old folks of the constituency, has won the Oulnness Stout Effort Award for November. They are the first group to win the award. Mr. Ec Peng Liang, president of the Singapore
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 159 26 Bringing Up Father By BUI K»v»mgh tfc Hal Camp "X I THOUGHT SHE WAS I DID YOU V^ YES- i I DON'T DOUBT ITfe MOTHER -SHE'S TAKING, ©OINe TO SPEND MISS ME,] TERRIBLY/] J^ IT FOR A S [a taxi home from the /another week at deartX r spent A
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE ONE
    • 353 27 PENANG, Wed. Thirtyfour Class Four newcomers will make their debut during the Penang Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting here, reports FAIRWAY. Arapanos, late Paroyale, is a three-year-old brown English colt by Epsom Derby winner Royal Palace out of Twinkling Hill His best effort
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    • 394 27 Lovely Music shows form in trial RACING with FAIRWAY PENANG, Wed. Lovely Music is ready to tackle top-class company. The Ward Drill six-year-old, who scored well over the Kuala Lumpur 1,200 metres last month, showed further progress here todau when he beat stablemate Bright Future in a 600 m trial
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 458 27 Qollei invites applications for QUALITY CONTROL ENGINEERS Candidates must possess a recognised I m Icitromcs, Electrical, MechaniProduction Engineering with minimum w\irs working experience in manuI.Ktunng facilities. S.i I d r y tor the above positions will be commensurate with qualifications and experienii.-. Suitable candidates, please apply giving full particulars of
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    • 342 27 INTHK MATTER OF THK COM PA NIKS ACT, CHAPTER 185. AND IN THE MATTER OF J.N.C. TOIRIST (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED (Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 272 of the Companies Act. Chapter 185 that a Final Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company will be
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    • 505 27 W yC" The French Way To Inner N \^_^< Confidence Outer Beauty U\ When it comes to personal /^Y OU r PtnoiJili Preemption V^ r U tr nnhnH v Irnnwc h^rrpr than Lut Aux Oran tNormai Skm P^^ CnlC nODOay KnOWS Detter tnan UitAuxßananotDrySkm) 1, T"*~ the French. Their method?
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE TWO
    • 308 28 PERTH. Wed. England scored a resounding 166 runs victory over Australia in the second test here loday They won with two hours to spare on the final day. the Australians slumping from 141 for four to 161 all out in their second innings. Australia started the
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    • 301 28 POLICE ADVISE CANCELLATION OF MATCH j BANGALORE, Wed. The second Test be- tween India and the i West Indies was abandoned as a draw here today with no play possible on the final day because of violent political demonstrations. A disappointed man-i ager of the Indian
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    • 36 28 KARACHI, Wed. Qamar I Zaman won the world Masters souash tournament here yesterday when he beat his Pakistani compatriot Gogi Alauddin 9-1, 10-9, X. Mohibullah Khan, of £^7.^9. over fellow-countryman Hiddy Jahan. Reuter.
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    • 444 28 Anderlecht lose second leg, but win on total LIVERPOOL, Wed. Anderlecht, of Belgium, won the European soccer Supercup here last night despite losing 2-1 to Liverpool, the English holders, in the return match. Anderlecht 's 3-1 victory in the first leg was enough to give them a 4-3 aggregate victory.
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    • 99 28 Germany play Holland DUESSEL.DORF, Wed West Germany and Holland, the 1974 World Cup finalists meet here in a friendly tonight with widely different problems to solve. Holland, World Cup iiinners-up in 1974 and 1978, face the clash without seven leading players, four from the Anderlecht squad who met Liverpool last
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    • 55 28 iYDNEY WKI) World m "id ■MM GnkMl Smith, of in.u!a MM lopplfd by tenth of a secont n his favouiiit- event the M MM m<-<llc.v by young AuMra i. in swimmn Paul Momfoit .1 he Sydney (James al North Syd ley pool tonight Moorfoot clock ti tamwmml kirt
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    • 292 28 Revie ban harsh say UK Press LONDON, Wed. The decision to ban former England manager D«a Revie from English football until I*Bl was see* as unexpectedly harsh by British newspapers yesterday. Some of them expected Revie to fight the decision in the High Court. The England's Football Association placed the
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    • 497 28 BRIEFS Conteh to fight Johnson next year LONDON, Wed. Britain's John Conteh will fight holder Marvin Johnson, of the United Slates, for the World Boxing Council lightheavyweight boxing champion ship next year, it was announced here yesterday. Former WBC champion Conteh yesterday signed a contract with I Top Rank, of
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    • 87 28 YALKNCIA, Wed. Argentina's World tap hero Mario Kempes rounded off, uhat was for him, a sprrbuular year in tor best possible fa.sh lon here yesterday when hi- married IK-; rar-uld Mavi Mill Martinez. Hundreds of fans and well-wishers waited outside the church, aad armed policemen had to be
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE THREE
    • 298 29  -  ALBERT JCHNSCN By BANGKOK, Wed Singapore swimmers will face the tough torelgn challenge In next year's South-east Asia Games in Jakarta with confidence after their performance In the Asian Games here. Coaches Kee Soon Bee and Tan Eng Chat said that the
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    • 157 29  -  By LIM KIAN TIONG and David Milne are each poorer by a few thousand dollars after their flve-week tour of the Australian and New Zealand golf circuit, but they have returned to Singapore rich In j experience. Said Lim: "It was rewarding tour,
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    • 36 29 RADIN MAS Community Centre will hold their annual Intrm-aoccer tournament from this Saturday to March 10. All matches wil: be plapsd on Saturday anc Sunday at Bukit Chermln ground, su tInf at S 15pm
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    • 30 29 JITRONO Ttown FiotbaJl Jlub t'll hold their arnual •rven-a-sidf festival for Ju- ron( compaiu>i on Jar 14 entries close next Fiday Bury forms are available at Juronc Stadium
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    • 22 29 SINOAPORE Intermediate aocoer team beat Pait Authority Recreation Sports Club 1-0 In a friendly match at Bukit Chermln ye terday.
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    • 50 29 TODAY'S EVENTS BOCCES Tour match: Singapore v Shahfcaz Iran (National Stadium Bpm > Pnendly PARC v Ooneral Moton ißuklt Cher ill) MS pirn BASKETBALL Interconstltuency toume.' Tarnpines v Rochore. Triok Ayer v Nee Soon Prlendl —Johore Selection v Slngapi re Selection (Oay World BlOpmi. TEVXIB Hllto'i Invitation championahlpt iSTC. 5
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    • 636 29  - Noh and Wee are out of S'pore line-up JOE DCRAI MOHAMED Noh and Edmund Wee are again out of the Singapore side to face Shahbaz, the Iranian champions, in tonight's friendly soccer match at the National Stadium (8). Striker Noh and goalkeeper Wee, both regular members of this years Malaysia
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    • 294 29  -  BERNARD PEREIRA By INDIA'S Vijay Amritra will play against the Philippines' Alex Marclal In today's opening match (5 p.m.) of the Hilton invitation tennis tournament at the Singapore Tennis Centre. Vljay, whose string of achievements 1n c 1 udc victories over Rod Layer Jimmy Connors
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    • 464 30  -  BERNARD PERNARD By SINGAPORE'S Asian Games bowling team, who recorded one of their biggest failures in international competition ill Bangkok, yesterday received a backlash from their origiaai .earn manager, Anthony Thug. This was in retaliation to the charges they had piled up against Thng
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    • 536 30  -  DEREK WILD I CAME to praise Singapore's sportsmen and women not to bury them, nut. Kood gruf. Ms di. in .ilt thine to do eve in tnrse t.nu s of goodwill with the tl .a I w.ivc- caused by their collective l.ellyliop in Bangkok
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    • 828 30  -  MIGUEL C. SUAREZ By BANGKOK, Wed. Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations, who are raking in petrodollars faster than they can spend them, are trying to accomplish in five years the kind of excellence in sports that took the United States and Europe
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE FIVE
    • 449 31  -  GODFREY ROBERT By BANGKOK. Wed. After 12 days of hectic competition, the final curtain rang down on the eighth Asian Games here tonight. And what a fitting finale It was. The sp rlt of brotherhood among Asian youth was never enjoyed more than what
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    • 508 31  -  WILFRED YEO By BANGKOK, Wed. South Korean soccer superstar Cha Beum Kuen tonight got the Asian Games gold medal he had wanted to show to a West German club officials when he goes to Frankfurt tomorrow to negotiate a professional contract. But his team
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    • 98 31 'Never say die 5 Qatar BANGKOK. Wed. The never-say-dle award of the eighth Asian Games should probably go to the basketballers from ihe Persian Gulf state of Qatar. One massive drubbing after another has only kept them trying hard and coming for more punishment. So far. the Qatar •quad have
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    • 149 31 NOTE: Tw» rotd* were awantod B the men's IywnMUCT .rent ana no afl^'Br. Tw. k ailwnf wan »«vd^ In the women's tndiTMaal irmauUtt ana ■mi horiaontal ban aai ■a arawHa. Tw« gtUm were awarded In soccer and na tUm. Two broniea w a r a awarded In
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  • 598 32 SOME 9.000 Telernms workers are virtually certain to get their 13th month payment before Christmas. TAS had Intended to withhold the payment of the "bonus" till Dec 29. but reversed its decision at the last minute yesterday and agreed to pay it "not
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  • 75 32 ABOVE: Former Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi smiles as she leaves for jail, escorted by chief of security police M.B. Kaushal (left), after Parliament had sentenced her for contempt of the House. In the picture on the right, she points angrily at policemen escorting
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  • 66 32 BANGKOK. Wed. Kampuchea claimed: today that a guerilla movement of hilltribes people formed during the Vietnam War to flght for autonomy was still fighting the Vietnamese Government. The official Radio Phnom Penh said clashes were increasing In the Central Highlands of Vietnam between government troops and guerillas
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  • 70 32 NEW YORK. WW. Five armed oandlts yesterday stole U3s2 million (Ss4 3 million) In cash from a Wells Fargo armouaed delivery van In the New York borough ot Staten Island, police said. The robbery came eight days after USJS mlUloo (Ss6.B million) In cash was stolen
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  • 54 32 NEW YORK. Wed. The Dow Jones industrial average, which gained 2.34 point* yesterday, was off 1.03 points to 788 80 around 11 a.m. today. It had been ahead nearly a point at the outset. Advances led declines. MS to 532. among the 1,543 issues crossing the New York
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  • 59 32 TOKYO. Wed. Japans economy will grow at a real rate of 4.8 per cent In the 1979 fiscal year starting on April 1. the prestigious Normura Research Institute forecast today. That will be a slight decline from this year's growth rate, which Normura's forecasters predicted will
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  • 240 32  - Concorde date: If s Jan 24 PHILIP LEE. By our London reporter THE Concorde service between London and Singapore will resume on Jan 24, a joint Singapore Airlines and British Airways statement said yesterday. The flight service is, however, subject to approval from a number of countries over which the
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  • 61 32 Superman's $15 m record NEW YORK. Wed—"Superman." the comic strip turned into a film, has earned more than US$7 million isiis.l million) In the first three days since it opened, Warner Brothers, the distributor, announced yesterday. The film being screened in 501 cinemas across the United States and Canada, registered
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  • 219 32 K. LUMPUR. Wed FOREIGN Affairs Minister Tengku Ahmad Rlthauddeen told the Senate today that he might go to Vietnam to negotiaie on ways to relieve Malaysia's burden as a result of the presence of Vietnamese illegal Immigrants. Pressed by several senators, he replied: "We
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  • 44 32 OIATH MOM. ANJALI AMMAL, need M. of Block 142. 1224 D. Jin But It Mcrah pauad away manfully on 1912/7S Cremation tame day The txrtaved family thanki r»l. tivti and friend! for their auli-tani-e. attendance, donatlona and wreaths during their recent bereavement.
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  • 184 32 TOP PRIORITY FOR ASEAN RICE NEEDS MANILA. Wed. The Philippines and Thailand have agreed to supply the rice needs of the other three Asean members before exporting to other countries National Grains Authority administrator Jesus Tanchangco said today. Mr. Tanchangco was in Baguio where the third consultative meeting of the
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  • The Straits Times SECTION TWO
    • 5 1 The Straits Times SECTION TWO
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    • 762 1  - Triad societies back in drug trade PHILIP LEE By our London reporter THERE are signs that the Chinese triad societies in Ix>ndon, barked by Chinese businessmen, are back in the heroin trafficking business in a big way, ac cording to a documentary on Independent Television (TTV) last Thursday. The Ijtndon
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    • 530 1 LONDON: THE first sal voes in Britain's forthcoming general election are already being fired. The Labour government's maximum five-year term does not expire until next October, but few at Westminster believe that Mr James Callaghan's minority government will be able to survive
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      • 268 1 LEISURE: Looking forward to "yaar of THE migrant ■'way" is backfiring on tha MOjuar Pag* Two tha Arabs Pag* Eight CONCERN ov*f th* us* of human gui- POPULATION explosion Th* big 10 n*a pigs Pag* Thr** cities of th* 21st century Pag* 12 WOMAN PLUS: Th* Pill ramains 100 SOVIET
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    • LEISURE
      • 190 2 FOR a review of this year's major sporting events turn to the programme, RAMPAIAN SUKAN on Channel 5 at 6 35 tonight. In this edition presented in Malay and entitled, Review, local items include the inter-constituency events like badminton, final of volleyball and sepak takraw.
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      • 532 2  - Looking forward to 'Year of Sequels' SAW PUAY LIM By CEMEMA-goers can expect quite a few sequels to popular movies and a host of other entertaining films next year. Those who saw Irwin Allen's P— eM— Advroundabout five years back, may like to know that Bryaad the VmeUtm Advratair is
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      • 480 2 Why Chinese serials are just one big yawn AFTER watching quite a few "canned" Chinese serials, the observer will feel that it's really economics rather than drama sense that dictates these productions. Given a story, scriptwriters put in all they have to stretch it to as great a length as
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      • 163 2 For the juniors, all about frogs JUNIOR TV viewers can learn all about frogs in the programme, CHILDREN'S CORNER at 6 20 on Channel 8. Featured in this edition are riddles about frogs, a picture story about a little frog looking for its mother and a filmlet on the different
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      • 259 2 Lucky Drops sweet Christmas surprises t^**w Iliß Use Lucky Drops to decorate your JjM 7\ tree or pop one open and taste H^. some lovely candy you can eat and ilk, get a different toy in every drop. SWP Grab a handful today. ut^H 40 different surprise toys BslAbl B^k
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    • Page 2 Miscellaneous
      • 743 2 TV and Radio SINGAPORE 5 3.00 PM Openint and Mfrate to Survive 6.35 Rampaian Sukan (Review -Malay) ..r x 7.30 News (Malay) 3.30 Diary of Events (Chinese) 7.45 The Six MHon Dolar Man Date 3.35 Home Sweet Home (Undarin utJEZStf** Drama Serial repeat) 9.00 Sykes Hofday Camp m n i
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    • 794 3  -  ALLAN REDITT Call £or a new ethical code to control medical experiments By in Lisbon LACK OF control over medical experiments on humans has caused concern at an international medical conference here. The Council for International Organisations of Medical Sciences (Cioms) congress, attended
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    • 553 3  -  WALTER ANDREWS By REWS THE UNITED States army is grappling with a new problem how to cope with a growing number of unmarried fathers in its ranks. "When the bugle blows. the army can't be baby-sit-ting." commented one general recently The assistant army
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    • Page 3 Advertisements
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      • 235 4 ■■■■■■■■■a a mmmmmmmmmm ■~ii i LIDO OPENS TODAY i 1(*****4) s shows: 11. 1.45 4 645 915-NoFree List! JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO SO BACK TO THE MOVIES, i IbTbbl^ m^ mmW^ Jr^f^l wfomWm I i^^J v^Vay.—. I a k #r Tbb mmwM SBsbW uj//^M Lj aa«fch
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      • 568 4 Now Showing at 2 Theatres •CAPITOL SAVOY Both Theatres 5 shows daily No Free List CAPITOL (*****9) llam, 1 30. 4.00, 6.30. 9 15 SAVOY (*****40) llam. 1 45. 4 00. 645 9 15 SEE Gunf ighter Robot SEE Beautiful Space Karate Amazons SEE Twin Robot Space Swordsmen b SEE
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      • 213 5 >**************************************************0000 OPEr^ODAY SIMULT jF USLY i iJaSTI ODEON CATHAY CATHAY SINGAPORE IPOH PENANG 11« m. 1.30.4.00. 6 30* 9 15poi 12.45, 3.00, 5.45 9.15pm 1.00,3.15,6.30,9.15pm O (NO FREE LIST) J w EXPLOSIVE HIGH ADVENJTURE! i| V m m* WAV h a V. t COLUMBIA PICTURES PRESENTS A GUY HAMILTON FILM
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      • 755 5 wjul J^^Hb i lit I war/ r «M» TANIA Singapore s most versatile show group "Entertainers Extraordinaire" The harmonious group that packed with pops and evergreens Just the right blend to make your evening a memorable one Minimum Charge Ss2o/- per person (Inclusive of 2 Drinks, Novelties Tax) *nn* show
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      • 102 5 I link I calenders now given away for purchases of over $30 while stocks last v v&^w£ BWv h. m$X ifl ffl H I J/ ii i^B Ik «3 V^<3l^ GBO, Lucky Plaza. l*r*^ V GrdFlr *****69 r /J>2SKr/^HI V>2mHMPC^/^H 11G. Katong Shopping Centre, ><s^Jj^r Upper Grd. Fir. *****4 >wj<
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      • 960 6  - The Pill remains choice of women Dr. W. J.H that's Up, Doc? by MOST of you must have heard of birth control or oral contraceptive pills. You may have tried it or are still on the Pill. You may also have decided never to be on the Pill. Whatever the
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      • 119 6 Dressing for the occasion THIS Is the time of year when women, bless them, will all throw op their hands in despair and cry, "I haven't a thing to wear!" Portia (left) picks a floral printed chiffon affair in olive, brown and purple with a green "petticoat." The neckline is
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      • 542 6  - Moving with Mei Ling, director on the go SHEILA CHEONG By THE young woman seated at the desk exuded an air of confidence. She had to be, being the new director of a multi-million dollar company. A glowing tan was the only tell-tale sign that Tan Mci Ling was also
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      • 124 6 Christmas Shopping I ROBINSON'S I IS OPEN I EVERY NIGHT TILL 9.30P.M.|| iH fc> Hrn IKSSSSin Christmas With PIERRE CARDIN The name of distinction Available at: CARDIN ACCESSORIES SHOP 10, The Orchard, 290, Orchard Road Singapore 9. Tel: *****4 with Danelea Butter fi§K^^l Buy Danelea. Denmark's finest f'*<'rvtJ^KS*£ l butter,
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      • 222 6 0| DISCOUNT ON DR. BABOR FACIALS 1 I STYLING PERMING 1 o TINTING MANICURE PEDICURE HAVE YOUR HAIR STYLED FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON BY VIDAL SASOON TRAINED HAIR-STYLIST WITH 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE. I LOUISE KLERK BEAUTY SALON I V SINGAPURA FORUM HOTEL \Q ORCHAPD ROAD. TEL: *****3 qJ CP a
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      • 962 7 IT'S 4 MORE GRAB THESE DAYS TO Uafe SPECIAL^* BaffaftaV aB afffe lst 3rd Floor Supreme Hous Penang Rd Sin^ apore aff^MHMV%a#^ AWaI^WIIV BM Tel *****1.*****.*****5. *****1/2/3. *****33.*****23 V V^THf X Mfl V 7£js* Jf^ [#m 2 I Extended Christinas shopping hours Until Dec 24 IE I f jff VK
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    • 78 8 Studies show Arabs are not willing to work Economists estimate that at present more than three million people have migrated to the Middle East in search of jobs. While for these migrants the Middle East has become a real-life El Dorado, their movement is having some serious sideeffects. Influential studies
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    • 1514 8  - The migrant 'way' is backfiring on Arabs KEVIN RAFFERTY By Depthnowa Guest Columnist MILLIONS of poor Asians and North Africans, thankful for even only one meal a day, have at last found a real-life El Dorado in the Arab oil states: Jobs, money beyond their wildest dreams literally there for
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      • 611 8 f y SWISS V A Elegpnce and Precision Rourv desn "t make big claims. doesn't fix a fantastic price but a genuine M^ price. So if elegance and precision are what you look fair in a watch why shouldn't you have a Rotary? A Swiss Watch that makes Kood times
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      • 216 9 I THANKS a million! When Mobil agreed to sponsor once again the Singapore Festival of Arts, little did we realise what a show it would turn out to be. In 1977, 77 groups with 1,300 performers participated in the Festival. This year, 140 groups with 2,415 artistes entered for the
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      • 778 9 V v >ss£e m\ m\ fe II \mo mm m m Delicious, Nourishing and Invigorating ANGPOW CONTEST i Cash Prizes: ■StISXfOOO 2nd (1 prizes): SI.OOO i 3rd (5 prizes): SSOO 100 Consolation Prizes of SSOeach Rules: 1) Open to all except the employees and their families of 9) The first
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      • 280 10 JEL CHANGES THE PICTURE OF SOUND There's More to Stereo then Left and Right ■_^|_El_ JBL brings a great feeling of sound to the home The Sound surrounds you You hear all of it. like in a concert hall Never altered, coloured H nor caricatured t^L2l2 JBL L 212 3
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      • 504 10 1 CiOl YLHJ t .^W—W, Knitted T-shirt k^L W '*m (Buy one Othello i T-shirt get one r i T-shirt free) I 9 x I3cm. m |UJ f 4jss F mt ■V mjof^^N&^ K#l3 x IBcm. W W Photo Frame '< m\ $3.60 v I W V\ MMm --iLI Desk
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      • 978 11 COOPERS LYBRAND [Q|_) Senior Taxation Appointments Coopers Lybrand in Singapore are seeking additional staff for their tax department. lax Managers Responsibility in this function will include administration of an expanding tax department which handles personal and corporate tax matters of a wide variety of clients. These are senior executive positions
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      • 587 11 CHARTERED INDUSTRIES OF SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. f invites applications for SYSTEMS ANALYST Requirements Applicants must know Cobol ond have 4 yeors of working experience with interactive computer systems Preferably o University Groduate who is familiar with Personnel, Payroll ond Generol Accounting Systems or Inventory and Production Control Systems This is
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      • 717 11 PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD GAS DEPARTMENT (Ground Floor, PUB Building, Somerset Road. Singapore 9). (1) Supply of Galvanised Welded Steel Tubes. WATER DEPARTMENT (13th Floor, PUB Building) (2) Supply of 3,000 metres of 25 MM (1"), 12.000 metres of 40 MM (I 1 and 5,000 metres of 50 MM (2") Unplastlclsed
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    • 551 12 Trend towards urbanisation will result in overpopulation in many Third World cities NEW YORK: By the year 2000, the world will have about six billion people. Where will they live? A UPI survey shows an increasirg trend towards urbanisation in the burgeoning
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    • 474 12  - The German way to own a race horse's left hind leg ALISON SM ALE By in Munich A FEW DARING Germans have set out to reverse the tradition that while poor men bet on race horses only the rich own them. Horse racing already attracts more spectators in West Germany
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    • 537 14  -  NICOLAS MILETICH By MOSCOW. Growing cultural and national feelings among over 100 minority groups in the Soviet Union do not pose an immediate challenge to unity in this vast country, but there is real antagonism just under the surface. The groups include Lithuanians, Estonians,
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    • 444 14  - Skies are full of UFOs, report Italians HENRY TANNER Sightings o£ green, red and white lights By ROME. The skies of Italy, it seems, are full of OVNIs, the Italian version of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). These objects that give off green, red or white lights and have a doughnut-like
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