The Straits Times, 9 September 1981

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    14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1981 35 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 101/1/81
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    NEW PLAN FOR CIVIL DEFENCE
    574 1  -  PAUL JACOB Redeployment of part-time NS men By Civil Defence Corps m place of VC, SC •Also, a Construction Brigade PART-TIME national servicemen in the Vigilante Corps and Special Constabulary are to be redeployed or placed on reserves under a new civil defence set-up because
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    End of SC and Vigilante corps no surprise
    228 1 End of SC and Vigilante corps no surprise THE Special Constabulary and the Vigilante Corps, which an informed source said will be disbanded on Tuesday, have been in operation for nearly 14 years. But their end has not come as a total surprise In August last year. The Straits Times
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    No eggs but a baby...
    57 1 No eggs but a baby SAN DIEGO, Tues A 35-year-old woman whose ovaries stopped producing eggs three years ago has given birth lo a 4.1-kg baby m what doctors described as an "impossible" pregnancy. The woman, whose name was not revealed, had undergone premature menopause and her ovaries stopped functioning,
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    Lock icon Crash kills 7
    34 1 MANILA. Tues Seven people were killed and 12 others injured today when a speeding car collided head-on wiih ,i passenger jeep at the national highway 48 km north of here AFP
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    Lock icon Afghan regime calls up retired soldiers
    216 1 KABUL, Tues. In a move aimed at shoring up the army whose ranks have been seriously depleted by desertions, the Soviet-backed Afghan regime yesterday ordered all discharged soldiers and non-commissioned officers under 35 to report immediately for a year's active service. Announcing the move,
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    Lock icon Plot to destroy Egyptian unity foiled
    184 1 Plot to destroy Egyptian unity foiled CAIRO, Tues EGYPTIAN intelligence recently foiled a plan masterminded by a Soviet-trained Coptic Christian university professor to undermine the country's national unity, the Al Ahram newspaper said today. The report came amid a continuing crackdown against religious opposition arising from bloody clashes in June
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    HUNT FOR FAMILY OF PICKPOCKETS
    87 1 DETECTIVES in Central Police station anon the lookout (or three gangs of pickpockets Including one comprising eight member* of a family who have been preying on tourists in (ninatown. They have also issued photographs of the gang members to detectives in other stations. It Is
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    Lock icon Brez pledges to give Hanoi more aid
    632 1 Brez pledges to give Hanoi more aid MOSCOW, Tuesday PRESIDENT Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union has pledged more economic aid. for Vietnam and indicated that military support might also be increased in his talks with visiting Vietnamese Communist Party leader Le Duan yesterday. The official Soviet Tass news agency
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    Kangaroo Route 'war' will boost tourism
    591 1 SINGAPORE is likely get a share of the spoils in an airfare discount "war" now raging between Qantas and British Airways over the Kangaroo Rout*. The tourism industry here will reap the benefits of more visitors arriving here when passengers take advantage of the
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    Lock icon Pan Am cuts fares
    77 1 NEW YORK. Tues. Pan American World Airways announced last night it was cutting fares by up to 67 per cent on all domestic flights m a new effort to shore up the financially-troubled airline. Pan Am reported losses of I more than US$2l7 million (***** million)
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    Lock icon Begin arrives for talks
    69 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrived here from New York today for his first meeting with President Ronald Reagan when the two leaders will try lo narrow recent differences between their countries. Their talks tomorrow and on Thursday will include the proposed sale of
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    Lock icon IRAN CANCELS OIL CONTRACTS
    47 1 NICOSIA, Tues. Iran today cancelled all contracts signed before the ISIS Islamic revolution with multi-nation*! oil companies, the Iranian Oil Ministry announced. The announcement, carried by the official Iranian News Agency, said the cancellation decision has been conveyed to the affected companies. AP.
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      359 1 *5 2 P*B es today Taste of bitter medicine m our bid to catch up Page 10 Guthrie takeover MALAYSIA has almost ovrrnight wrested central of Gutkrie Corporation from the British. In what is described as a lightning dawn raid on Monday, Malaysia's govern-ment-owned Permodalan Nasional Bhd (National Equity Corporation)
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  • IN SUMMARY...
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      HOME
      638 2 Car sales drop FEWER used cars are being sold even though prices have fallen by between $1,000 and $2,000. say dealers. They expect the situation to remain until next February before Chinese New Year. The slide began as early as 1979 but it was only in the last few
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      COMMENT
      205 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: THE latest scramble between British Airways and Qantas to attract more passengers to stop over In Singapore is good news for air travellers along the route. Whether Singapore Airlines can stay nut of this remains to be seen, hut one sore winner from all this
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      TIMES BUSINESS
      260 2 'NO' TO INTERNATIONALISATION OF SINGAPORE DOLLAR IN a fresh bid to stop the internationalisation of the Singapore dollar, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has asked local banks to consult it before extending any offshore loans of more than $5 million in local currency. During the past three months,
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      BACKGROUND
      65 2 FACTIONS COMMON TIES LEADERS of the three Kampuchean resistance factions which met here last week were in the limelight while their aides remained in their shadows. NANCY CHNG talked to some of these delegates and discovers that apart from the common factor that they are all uprooted people, most
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      SPORTS
      241 2 Dim winning chance SINGAPORE'S chances of beating Brazil's Sao Paulo today, the best team in the Merdeka Cup tournament, do not look bright, says coach-man-ager Jita Singh. "But I'm glad that we've the opportunity to meet them ana gauge our skill and standard, he adds. But the Brazilian coach
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      AROUND THE WORLD
      589 2 Dangers facing Opec THERE are two ifs that can destroy Opec, warns Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani: if members insist on raising prices and if their share of the market continues to drop. He also says it will be "suicidal" for his country, m the
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      ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
      205 2 Shake-up at Kontena THE three Pernas nominees to the national container haulage company, including the chairman, has resigned as the company comes under the control of Permodalan Nasional BerhaJ, says a report. Their places on Kontena Nasional are expected to be taken by PNB's representatives, who are
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      SECTION 2
      406 2 Serial may be canned THE Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's first Chinese drama serial was below standard. As a result, SBC is thinking of canning the second serial, The Seekers. Its fate depends on the outcome of the first three episodes which are being reshot. But SBC producers are pessimistic.
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  • AROUND THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Twisted tangle of steel in crane crash
      81 3 A TWISTED tangle of steel covers a section of Hamburg's harbour after a Dutch container vessel touched the boom of a container crane daring a manoeuvre to leave the quay for Bremerhaven on Sunday. Sections of the massive crane fell on to the
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      Lock icon Aid groups and govts meet to Sight pirates
      199 3 Aid groups and govts meet to Sight pirates GENEVA, Tne*. International aid agencies and government representatives heM a secret meeting last weekend U plan action against pirated wkt prey on refngeea In the Santa China Sea, an International R*d Cram Committee (ICBC) official confirmed today. The official saM In response
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      Lock icon Benazir let out for sister's wedding
      115 3 Benazir let out for sister's wedding KARACHI. Tues. Benazir Bhutto, imprisoned eldest daughter of executed former Prime Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto, was granted a three-day parole yesterday to attend her sister's wedding, authorities said. Mr Bhutto's widow, Nusrat, was released unconditionally from prison three weeks ago, and will also attend
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      5 die in mine
      40 3 JOHANNESBURG, Tues. Five miners at the Vaal Reefs gold mine were killed after a valve controlling the flow of water from an underground dam more than 1,800 metres below the surface collapsed, a company spokesman said.
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      Lock icon Three-year-old boy appears in court on forgery charge
      195 3 I SIBIRBAN court Judge was taken aback when he saw the defendant In a forgery ease appear before him a three-year-old boy, and the youngest defendant to appear la a j Taiwan court. The boy, Identified as Su Kuo-COm, sacked his thumb
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      Lock icon Yamani: Drop in demand may lead to Opec collapse
      433 3 Yamani: Drop in demand may lead to Opec collapse SAUDI Arabia has expressed concern over the continuing decline m Opec's share of the world oil market and warned that this may mean a collapse of the 13-nation organisation. Its Oil Minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, said thus m an interview
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      Lock icon Buckley: What extraordinary coincidence
      260 3 Buckley: What extraordinary coincidence ISLAMABAD, Tims. UNITED States Under-Secretary of State James Buckley today described as an "extraordinary coincidence" Afghan military attacks on Pakistan shortly before he arrived here to discuss American military sales. Afghan MiG-17 jets strafed a Pakistan border post on Saturday, and yesterday about 40 Afghan troops
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      Lock icon Search party finds all 11 dead
      119 3 Search party finds all 11 dead CHIANG MAI, Tues. All eleven passengers aboard a helicopter which crashed m northern Thailand were found dead today by rescuers who made a five-hour descent into a deep valley m torrential rain. Chaiya Poonsiriwongse, governor of this northern province, said a team of border
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      Lock icon Whales rescue hampered
      58 3 SYDNEY, Tues. High winds and rough seas today hampered efforts to rescue some 180 pilot whales beached on the eastern coast of Tasmania. Wildlife officials said many of the whales were already dead when rescuers arrived. The strong winds prevented them from launching boats to try to
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      Lock icon Manhunt off
      49 3 TOKYO. Tues. Japanese searchers will call off a onemonth hunt after failing to find any sign of a Japanese soldier believed to be hiding out on a South Pacific island 36 years after the end of World War Two. the Health and Welfare Ministry said today. UPI.
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      Tainted oil kills 2 more
      39 3 MADRID, Tues. Two more people died here yesterday of toxic pneumonia, an illness that has claimed 124 lives m Spain since May. officials said The cause was tainted cooking oil mixed with fuel oil
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  • AROUND THE WORLD 2
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      Lock icon $lB3m symbol of govt's down payment
      107 4 PRKSIDKNT Ronald Reagan, his relations with laboar udcas severely strained, holds ont the symbol of a I SSBS million (SslB3 million) cheque which he had presented to New York City Mayor Edward Koch, (helping Mr Reagan bold up the symbolic cheque). The cheque Is
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      Lock icon $1 m swindle: Bank clerk arrested
      53 4 $1 m swindle: Bank clerk arrested MANILA, Tues. Filipino immigration agents arrested a Japanese bank clerk today, who admitted stealing 130 million yen (Sjl.276,363) for her boyfriend in a computer swindle. The agents nabbed Matoko Ito, 32, of Osaka. in suburban Makati. where she hid after swindling the Sanwa Bank
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      Lock icon We can match West's build-up says Brez
      169 4 We can match West's build-up says Brez MOSCOW, Ties. Soviet President Leonid Bmknrv said today his country run Id match the lUltcd States and NaU In modernising Its nuclear weaponry. In a clear reference U last month's l>rM« hy Washington to begin full-scale production of the neutron warhead, Mr Breihnev
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      Lock icon Threat to govt and support for free unions
      412 4 SOLIDARITY SHOW OF STRENGTH POLAND'S Solidarity labour federation, in an overwhelming display of national unity, today threatened to boycott a g o v e r nmen t-sanc t ioned law on shopfloor democracy if passed over union objections by Parliament. At the
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      Lock icon TWO COPS KILLED AS IRA LANDMINE BLOWS UP
      223 4 TWO COPS KILLED AS IRA LANDMINE BLOWS UP BELFAST, Tues. Two policemen died instantly yesterday when a landmine, apparently detonated by guerillas lying in ambush, blasted to bits a patrol car near the border with the outlawed Irish Republic, police reported. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility. In a statement
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      Lock icon Crash on US carrier
      67 4 SAN DIEGO, Tues Two planes collided yesterday on deck the Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Indian Ocean, kvlling one crew and injuring two others, the navy announced. Senior Chief Joe Ciokon, with Pacific Fleet Headquarters, said an A-7E Corsair in a landing approach collided
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      Lock icon WHO meeting
      42 4 MANILA, Tues. The World Health Organisation (WHO) regional committee (or the western Pacific is to hold its annual meeting in Seoul. South Korea, this month to review its operations and plan future strategy, the WHO office here said today. Reuter.
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      Lock icon ALCOHOL A BIGGER RISK TO WOMEN: STUDY
      127 4 BOSTON, Tues. Women have much less tolerance for drinking than men and can develop liver degeneration from only a third as much alcohol as men, a new study concludes. And although women are not aware of exactly why they can tolerate less alcohol,
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      Standing policy to match fares: Qantas
      245 4  - Standing policy to match fares: Qantas LIM SAY BOON By Our Melbourne Reporter MELBOURNE, Tues. Qantas today responded to allegations of illegally discounting air fares on the Britain market by saying their policy has always been to match the fares of other airlines. Commenting on a report in The London
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      2-nation talks
      39 4 TOKYO, Tues. Indonesian Foreign Minister Moc-htar Kusumaat madia, heading a government delegation, met with his North Korean counterpart Ho Dam in Pyongyang yesterday to discuss topics of mutual interest, a Pyongyang radio broadcast monitored here reported today.
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Allies at war games
        63 4 DEFENCE ministers of all the East European Warsaw Pact states, Cuba and VitM.iarr. have arrived in the Soviet Union to watch large-scale military manoeuvres close to tbe Polish border, Tass news agency said in Moscow yesterday. Among those present is Polish Prime Minister Woicicrh Jaruzelski, according
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        Lock icon Return to sender
        62 4 THE SPANISH Government has sent back a Soviet no«.e warning Spain against joining the North Atlantic 7rc:»tv Organisation (Nato), a communique said in Madrid yesterday. The note was delivered u, ;*w» Ministry of Foreign Affairs last night by Sovte- Charge d'Affaires Igor Ivanov, and warned o' ihe
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        Lock icon Back to normal if...
        82 4 IRANIAN Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmad A?izi said on Monday there could be no normalisation of relations between Iran and France unless former President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and other opposition leaders were extradited. Mr Azizi, in Paris for a United Nations conference, told the newspaper Le Monde that
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        Lock icon Defector O'Halloran
        74 4 A 1STH Labour MP has defected to Britain's new Social Democratic Party (SDP), formed this spring by moderate Labour politicians opposed to the growing influence of the party's leftwing led by Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Mr Michael OHalloran, the MP, said in London on Monday that he and
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        Lock icon Tackling aid issue
        63 4 JAPAN and South Korea begin a two-day bilateral ministerial conference in Seoul tomorrow to tackle Seoul's controversial request for US$6,000 million (S$12,960 million) in Japanese aid. "We are not begging Japan for aid. but we feel Japan is duty-bound to help us alleviate our defence burden since
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        Lock icon Japan the middleman
        63 4 JAPANESE Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda said in Tokyo yesterday that Japan was ready to help the United States and the Soviet Union improve their relations. Mr Sonoda is expected to have separate meetings with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and US Secretary of State Alexander Haig at
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        Lock icon End of a mutiny
        35 4 ABOUT 160 prison inmates in Poland's northern city of Bydgoszcz ended a mutiny yesterday after police threatened to storm the jail, officials of the Solidarity trade union reported in Warsaw. Reuter.
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      Lock icon Mitterrand's plans face key problems of joblessness, inflation
      299 4 FRANCE'S National Assembly opens today with an action programme of social, economic and political reforms from the Socialist Government, but also faced by the problems of inflation and unemployment. The Socialists, who broke 23 years of conservative rule by winning the presidency
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      'Marrython' to speed couple on their wav
      162 4 PITTSBURGH, Toes. If Steve Hines and Mary Gwaltney are a bit weary when they say their wedding vows on Oct 3, friends and relatives will understand. In fact, they will be Just as weary. That's because jnst hours earlier, they will have finished
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      27 4 View the Latest Production Machinery 14 18 September 1981 World Trade Centre Singapore MKMNEnsinei n The 4th South East Asian Production Machinery and Engineering Eauipment Show MABI/VP4
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  • AROUND THE WORLD 3
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      Lock icon New Iran PM pledges more purges
      463 6 New Iran PM pledges more purges IRAN'S new Prime Minister said yesterday government offices in the country have been infiltrated by opponents of the Islamic regime, and he pledged more purges of civil servants. In a speech broadcast by Teheran Radio, Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavikani called on opposition groups to
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      Lock icon State of crisis in Khartoum says Libya
      204 6 State of crisis in Khartoum says Libya BEIRUT, Tuesday A NUMBER of Sudanese army officers were arrested and a state of emergency declared in Khartoum following demands for the resignation of President Jaafar Numeiry, the state-run Libyan news agency reported today. It said Sudanese tanks had sealed off all roads
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      Lock icon GUATEMALA CUTS TIES WITH BRITAIN OVER BELIZE
      151 6 GUATEMALA CUTS TIES WITH BRITAIN OVER BELIZE JUATEMALA CITY, Tues. Guatemala has cut consular ties with Britain just two weeks before the British Central American colony of Belize becomes independent. ♦residential spokesman Carlos Toledo Vielman bald reporters last night this was because Britain was granting Belize "unilateral" independence. Phe government
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      Lock icon Fibre plant
      39 6 BEIJING, Tues China's biggest petrochemical fibre plant, designed to make 1.2 metres of textiles a year for everyone, has started trial production, the Xinhua news agency said today. Construction of the plant began in August, 1974. Reuter.
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    • Slideliners
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        Lock icon Foul play at fishy hunt?
        61 6 SOME contestants m the US$5O,OOO (SJ108.000) Port Angeles salmon derby m Washington are claiming foul and police are investigating whether the winners are legitimate. The irate losers said the three winning fish were hooked before the two-day derby began on Saturday. Three fish biologists at
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        Lock icon Japan's 1,072 centenarians
        69 6 JAPAN had 1,072 people over 100 years old as of Sept 1. the Health and Welfare Ministry m Tokyo said yesterday. Women accounted for 870 of the centenarians and men 202, it said. One of them, Mr Shigechivo Izumi, who at 116 is listed m the Guinness
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        Lock icon The big, old ginseng find
        75 6 ALEXANDER Kurika has entered the natural history books with his discovery of a huge, heavy ginseng root. Mr Kurika, chief forester m the Ussuri Taiga m the Soviet far east, found a root weighing 419 grams and over 300 years old. the official Tass news
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        Lock icon Marking it with a swim
        48 6 ROY Webster celebrated his 80th birthday the same wayhe's marked it for 39 years by braving the cold Columbia River m Oregon for a cross-channel swim. Mr Webster was one of 200 hardy souls who took part m the swim on Monday UPI.
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      Lock icon A ride in townin raft
      77 6 A ride in townin raft FOR these three beys from Amarillo, Texas, going down Olsen Boulevard in an inflatable rait seemed the most appropriate form of transport after torrential rain* drenched the city last week. Not so appropriate, however, was the advertisement for shallow waterbeds. After all, who likes to
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      Lock icon Wedding bells in Mongolia
      80 6 BEIJING, Tues A Canadian student has married his Chinese fiancee m inner Mongolia after Canadian Foreign Minister Mark Macguigan asked Vice-Chairman Deng Xiaoping to intervene over her mysterious disappearance last month. Mr Gervais Lavoie said m a telephone call today from Huhehot, capital of inner Mongolia,
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      Lock icon 'Plastic teeth' scare leads to the deaths of 48 babies
      232 6 A SUPERSTITIOUS belief tint babies grow "plastic teeth" has recently led to the deaths •f at least 48 Infants in northern Tanzania's Taaga region. Superstition and witchcraft are known to abound In the mountains of Tanga where, according to the
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      'The others' in the Khmer resistance
      1593 7  -  NANCY CHNG B 6 Politics, as they say, necessitates strange bedfellows. Also in Sihanouk's team is In Tarn, tf. Mr In Tarn was Prime Minister in the right-wing Lon Nol government. As president of the National Assembly in 1979 he voted to oust the
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    Free shuttle to the show area
    315 8 WK.ST («Mt Highway will be cloned U heavy vehicles and buses from 1 to 8 p.m. during the SAF Display at Wmt ('•as I Park between Sept It and 13. Six arras around the display site have been reserved (or public parking tram if
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    Prices tumble as sales of used cars slump
    398 8  -  RAYMOND MOSES By BOTH the prices and sales of used cars are going down, dealers in Singapore said yesterday. They said prices had been lowered by at least $1,000 but sales of used cars continued to be sluggish and this trend is
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    Fat pigs? Farmers blame the black sheep
    188 8 WHp is breeding fat pigs in Singapore? Not the Singapore Livestock Farmers Association, its president, Mr Toh Cheng, said yesterday. Then pointing an accusing finger at the Singapore Pork Merchants Association he alleged that it was the merchants who were doing it. The
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    Bring a computer home and learn at your own pace
    233 8 Bring a computer home and learn at your own pace EMPLOYERS, managers and professionals who are too busy to learn about computers at time-consuming courses can now bring a computer home to learn at their own pace. Micro-computers will be given to all non-comput-er professionals who enrol in a course
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    Save energy course
    52 8 Save energy course A 10-WEEK part-time evening certificate course on Energy Conservation In Air Conditioning Systems by the Mechanical Engineering Department of Ngee Ann Technical College will begin on Oct 12. Application forms are available from Ngee Ann Technical College. For more information, call the course coordinator at Tel *****5
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    PILGRIMS SEND-OFF ADVICE BY MUIS
    122 8 PILGRIMS SEND-OFF ADVICE BY MUIS MUSLIMS in Singapore leaving lor their pilgrimage to Mecca this month are advised to include only their immediate families in send-off parties at the Changi Airport. They have been asked to entertain friends at their homes so as not to cause congestion at the airport.
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    Barker's date
    31 8 LAW Minister E.W Barker will open a convention and exhibition organised by the Singapore Electrical Contractors Association and Interfama Pie Ltd at Hyatt Hotel on Tuesday at 10 am
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    *****29 wins first prize in Singapore Sweep
    231 8 *****29 wins first prize in Singapore Sweep TICKET No. *****29 won the first prize of $600,000 in the Singapore Sweep 9 81 drawn last night. The full results Ist prist?: *****29 2nd prize ($200,000): *****08 3rd prize ($75,000): *****49 4th prize ($50,000): *****10 sth prize ($25,000): *****25 (each $10,000) .*****4
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    Man charged with $300 bribe offer
    80 8 001 KEE CHUAN, 35, was charged m court on Monday with corruptly offering $300 to the security chief of the Holiday Inn Hotel on July 22. Ooi allegedly offered the money to Mr Wilfred Douglas Anthony as an inducement for him not to take
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    Accused tells of request to kill
    329 8 A 51-YEAR-OLD man told the High Court yesterday that a businessman, whose mistress had eloped with another man, asked him to murder the other man. Tan Lai Hock alias Chan Thiam Soon alleged that Mr Tan Thuan Teck, 42, offered him between $8,000 and
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    Trainees in NMB pre-sea courses must be sponsored
    295 9 Trainees in NMB pre-sea courses must be sponsored THK National Maritime Board (NMB) has decided that only sponsored trainMs will be admitted to various pre-sea courses to ensure ready johs after they pus out Its chairman, Mr M. Ooomaraswmmy. reports ihat this U mainly due to tfee high wage cost
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    Banned man jailed
    50 9 A FORMER illegal immigrant and trafficker of illegal immigrants, who entered Singapore on Auk b despite a permanent prohibition order, was jailed for four months by a magistrate yesterday. Goh Ah Koon. 43. had two previous convictions The prohibition order was served on him on June 10.
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    TRADER FINED $1,000 FOR LYING
    126 9 TRADER FINED $1,000 FOR LYING BUSINESSMAN Sandihan bin Salahudin, 33, was jailed (or a day and fined $1,000 after he admitted making a false declaration at the Registry of Muslim Marriages on April 18 last year. He declared himself as a divorcee before Haji Abdul, a Commissioner for Oaths Asst
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    8 months' jail for $770 theft
    79 9 CANTEEN assistant Ang Joh Joo, 19, was yesterday sentenced to eight months' Jail to be followed by 2 years' supervision after he admitted to housebreaking and theft charges. Ang broke into a sundry shop with Tan Kiang Heng and stole $700 and a J70
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    This won't do, says HDB
    121 9  -  AZIZ HUSBIN Picture by THE raMnti sf tkew fUta m AJjuriMi Craseeat will find that their attempts to dry their rlsthes, blankets and mattresses sver cMTtdsr bakwoies Is (rswaed mi by the Hsastßß Hoard. A HDB spokesman said yesterday the bsard dlsecorages rack practices and
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    Communication woes, infidelity rank high
    434 9  -  EVELYN NG Marital problems at counselling centre By Social Services Correspondent COMMUNICATION difficulties and infidelity ranked high among the marriage problems people took to the Counselling and Care Centre last year. And despite all the jokes about mothers-in-law, in-law problems ranked low among the various
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    PUB: $32 plus 5 pc
    79 9 THE Public Utilities Board will pay $32 plus 5 per cent to all employees earning less than (533 as part of the NWC first-tier wage increase. Those drawing $533 and above will get 11 per cent. The board will pay a total of $6.63 million
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    The way to keep morale high and staff turnover low
    789 9 Learn from US companies: Teng Cheong I APPRECIATE that foreign compaw nies are here to make profits and that they will continue to operate only so long as it is profitable for them to do so. However, I feel they
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    Vanda Miss Joaquim to be in spotlight
    300 9 THE spotlight will be on Vanda Miss Joaquim at the four-day annual orchid show organised by the Orchid Society of South-east Asia, to be held at the North Grandstand of the Singapore Turf Club from tomorrow. The society has set aside a special
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    WHERE THE RISK OF INFECTION IS HIGHEST
    170 10 WHERE THE RISK OF INFECTION IS HIGHEST- PATIENTS m intensive i care units m Singapore are the most likely to get in(ection, and 72.7 per cent of all such infection; involve the respiratory tract. Dr EH. Sne of the Department o( Microbiology, Singapore General Hospital, said yesterday that the prevalence
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    Cartoonist, 16, jailed
    380 10  -  ELENA CHONG By BROKE INTO OFFICE OF EX-BOSS A 16- YEAR-OLD boy with i a gift for drawing was yesterday Jailed for three months for breaking into his former employer's printing office. Abdul Hafim bin Ahmad Halimy, of Kota Baru, originally claimed trial to housebreaking and stealing
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    Three qualify
    37 10 Dr Goh Choon Sens, Dr Heng Ai Lee and Dr Lai Fook Onn were successful m the Primary Master of Medicine (Anaesthesia) examinations conducted m August and September by the School of Postgraduate Medical Studies.
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    Special day to 'treat' doctor's dilemma
    213 10 I SPECIAL da> kaa bNi set aside at the conference on intensive care to ponder a doctor's dilemma In giving such rare. Ami that Is: Is survival <>f a patlf >•> all that matters or must the ultimate quality of life of a survivor
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    Price paid for catching up with world far too swiftly
    422 10  -  K OH VAN POH By 4 WE Acquired a coronary care ambulance believing that we could transfer, treat and resuscitate myocardlal Infarct patients enroute to hospital. The hospital was committed to provide staff and equipment for a mere SI to
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    Deal over house: Firm awarded $300,000
    300 10 Deal over house: Firm awarded $300,000 JUDGMENT for $297, i*» damages ami CMM W— awarded against a devel1 opment company (or breaching its conn act to sell a residential property to a local trading compfi ny (or $152,500 m 1979. The judgment w.is against Meng Leoug Development Pte Ltd, of
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      192 10 Bringing Up Father By Bill Kavanagh Hal Camp I WISH VOOV GO TO BED, *XJ OUGHT To) €M€G fi^LBEP-) i VtXJ HELP OP] I THOO6MT JiSSS- you GOT MOME TVRtJ /H EA^U 1 /^OWS MV r~, THE GAME, JiGGS LATE LAST NIGHT FROM A vdUPSei-F CMAMCE/ V-, A tfNSG\B! J
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      Lock icon DAP queries $23 m write-off by govt
      328 11 DAP queries $23 m write-off by govt KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) today called on the government to justify pubIdjr its decision to write off MJ23 million debt owed to the state by Syarikat Gula (NS) a subsidiary sugar manufacturing company of the Negri SembiUn State
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      Pernas men quit after PNB takeover
      345 11 SHAKE-UP IN CONTAINER FIRM KUALA LUMPUR, Tue« DATUK Abdul Rahman Hamidon has resigned from the chairmanship of the national container haulage company in a major shake-up involving two other directors. It is believed the two, Mr Wan Abdul Hamid Mohamed Salieh and Mr Ahmad
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      Pledge to take stern measures
      77 11 Pledge to take stern measures IPOH. Tues. Public Works and Utilities Minister, Datuk Samy Vellu, has promised to take "some very strict measures" against corrupt water meter readers. They may be dismissed from service or prosecuted m court. He was commenting on a New Straits Times probe into unpaid water
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      Lock icon Election panel officers playing truant
      188 11 Election panel officers playing truant- KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Elections Commission is facing an acute truancy problem among its temporary staff m the current voters' registration exercise. About 15 per cent of its assistant registration officers from all over the country were believed to have played truant while carrying out
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      Lock icon MIC expels 32 over poll row
      186 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday MALAYSIAN Indian Congress president Datuk S. Samy Vellu has expelled 32 members of the party's Puchong branch tor 'breach of discipline" the biggest-ever expulsion from tne MIC. Those expelled had practised "extreme hooliganism' at the branch elections in May, Datuk Samy
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      Mix-up over centres for oral test
      258 11 Mix-up over centres for oral test KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday CONFUSION reigned at certain Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia examination (SPM, Malaysia's equivalent of the GCE 'O' level exam) centres yesterday morning when examiners and candidates turned up at "wrong" places for the oral English test. m^^^ Two examiners went to the Bangsar
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    • MALAYSIAN ROUND-UP
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        Lock icon $ 1.29 m drug seizure
        61 11 1.29 m drug seizure MALAYSIAN police seized 6.4 kg of heroin worth over US$6OO,OOO (551.29 million) and arrested two men, a police spokesman said m Ipoh yesterday. Tne heroin haul, one of the biggest m the country this year, was found m 14 plastic packages inside a bag on the
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        Lock icon Six coaches jump the rail
        47 11 SIX coaches of the Bangkok-bound express train from Butterworth iumped the track near the I Thai border on Monday, disrupting services along the line. Of tbe about 200 passengers on the air-conditioned express, only one, a foreign tourist, was reported injured. AFP.
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        'No place for corruption'
        52 11 CUSTOMS Director- General Datuk Abdul Rahim Tak said stem action would be taken against any Customs officer found to be corrupt. The Customs and Excise Department has no place for such officers and will not tolerate any misdemeanour or corrupt practice m the department, ne said.
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        New role for PM's house
        84 11 SERI TAMAN, tbe official residence of Malaysia's prime ministers for the last 11 years, will soon be converted into a memorial library m honour of the late Tun Abdul Razak. who died m 1976. Sources m Kuala iAimpur said Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir
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        Lock icon $117 m plan for port
        60 11 FACILITIES at the Pasir Gudang port m the Johore will be expanded at a cost of Msll7 million, Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abu Hassan Omar said yesterday. Speaking to reporters after opening the annual meeting of the Ports Co-ordinating Committee m Johore Baru, he said
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      When clocking-out goes for that cup of tea too
      219 11 PENANG, Taea. MuMpal •oncll emptayeea here will uvf u etoek-Mt f*r eve* their toa bra ki "*md heave* help them if they tUwdlr aver that nhl" The St»r reVmiitr the aew Federal G*venuneat drive U get elvll aervmats to w«rk ame,
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      Lock icon Meat imports: 'Enforce strict control' call
      286 11 Meat imports: 'Enforce strict control' call KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Persatuan Ulamah Malaysia (Muslim Scholars' Association)* has urged the government to enforce strict control over imported meat, following reports from Australia that kangaroo meat may have been shipped as mutton and beef to Saudi Arabia. The scandal surfaced when the
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    The Straits Times
    770 12 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1981 FREE FOR ALL DURING the heady days of the International Civil Aviation Policy (leap), a cheap air fare scheme imposed by Britain and Australia, national airlines of these two countries banded together to exclude Asean carriers, particularly Singapore Airlines, from the lucrative London-to-Sydney
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    Oddities in Language Janus the two-faced Roman God
    628 12  - Oddities in Language Janus the two-faced Roman God ANDREW LESLIE By THERE are plenty of words in the English fanuguage which have two entirely different meanings depending on how they are used. There a r e even more which used to have meanings which were very different from the ones
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    Talks to bridge North and South: It's only words
    781 12  - Talks to bridge North and South: It's only words DICK WILSON m London By Special to The Straits Times A LOT of the talk about the North-South gap in the world, or about getting the Third World up to the same material level as the West, disappears in vapid generalisations
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    Nowhere to retreat except into the sea
    1638 12  - Nowhere to retreat except into the sea D. D. F. JONES South Africa m dilemma over its foreign policy By m Johannesburg South Africa's recent raids into Angola highlights the tense relationship between the white supremacist republic and its black neighbours to the north. The potential for confrontation is growing
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      280 12 HaveyDU aMjg^ discovered the W^HsS atest secret 4^BS3S or Jade? 'Sand Against the Wind' by Pulitzer Prize winner, Barbara W. Tuchman. Read it and you'll appreciate the precious Wa secret of Jade where every thrilling adventure is set m the ma^ mm ***mmm mysterious corners of the Orient. In 'Sand
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      Disabled face uphill struggle in business
      478 13 A handicapped reader's point of view 1 WOULD like to highlight the innumerable problems encountered by disabled people in business like myself. The chances of survival for the disabled in business are relatively slim, if notblMk. Our small capital and modest turnover is spread
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      Sorting out English words and Latin roots
      406 13 TWO points made m Toh Weng Choy's review of The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (ST, Aug 22) need to be clari"Re" is a complete word m itself; if it is translated into English it becomes a phrase. The word comes from
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      On the same subject
      112 13 TOH Weng Choy m his review of The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (ST Aug 22) maintains that the word "re" is not an abbreviated form of the Latin "res" meaning "thing, matter or affair" and suggests that the two words are not connected at
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      Teachers ties with pupils are what counts
      272 13 Teachers ties with pupils are what counts IN VIEW of recent correspondence in this page on the role of a teacher, I thought your readers might like to read the comments on the subject by Mr Jay Sonimer, winner of the US 1981 National Teacher of the Year Award. In
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      Too much to take
      115 13 RECENTLY, a relative of mine was stopped by a policeman manning a radar along East Coast Road for having exceeded the speed limit of SO km h by 5 km/h. I am all in favour of law enforcement but I think such situations epitomise the overzealous
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      Really no need to fear snakes
      203 13 WE ARE m agreement with "Anthropophobia" (ST, Sept 3) that snakes, contrary to popular belief, are of no threat to humans unless threatened or provocated. Ordinarily they do not "cross our path." As a matter of fact, species such jls the python serve mankind
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      A lesson from abroad
      119 13 THE 200 th anniversary of Stamford Raffles's birth is remembered m Mill Hill village m north London, where he lived for a year until his death m July 1826. When Raffles returned to England, he lived m Mill Hill and was buried m Hendon Parish Church
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      Replies..Replies..
      174 13 Too many names to publish WE REFER to the letter from "Home-viewer" (ST. Aug 28) The two Sharp Night Contests attracted 110,000 entries. The results were out on Aug 3 and we put out a press release the next day saying that all prize-winners would be notified by post.
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      You must pay your dues
      89 13 "FEELING the pinch" (ST, Sept 3) wants his father to get income tax deductions for supporting him even though he marries while still studying. He did not say whether his father should also get deductions for supporting a daughter-in-law, still studying or otherwise. Grandchildren too?
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      Stale milki Details needed
      77 13 I REFER to the letter "I'd rather pay more for milk that's fresh" by Helen Lee (ST, Sept 1). The Ministry of Education is very concerned that stale milk is being supplied as alleged m the letter I shall be grateful if your correspondent could let
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    Curiosity gains him a cousin he never knew he had
    360 14  - Curiosity gains him a cousin he never knew he had LIM HUI KIAU By TO m— t a—air wtaaiM mt'i >iiiw Is vlr tor. Bat last we** rellrrd arcautaat, Mr Mirtav Martta. li. «erIM it) to aad ke Is glad. It toppfiN »t tkr Umrilti Apaatallr rharrk St GrM*ry, iaitot
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    Homework, not reading 4top activity of students'
    578 14 Homework, not reading 4 top activity of students' THE Singapore student does not read for pleasure. At the primary levels, he tends to equate reading with studying. At the secondary levels, given more pocket money, he will rather spend it on books that help in his studies than on storybooks.
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    Calculators for all 'O' level papers?
    306 14 Calculators for all 'O' level papers? STUDENTS taking the General Certificate of Education (GCE) "O" level examinations may be allowed to use calculators in all subjects in future. The Education Ministry is negotiating with the Cambridge Examination Syndicate to extend the use of calculators to all subjects, including mathematics, physics,
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    Library show
    42 14 AN exhibition to commemorate the International Year Of Disabled Persons, organised by the National Library and its branches, is being held at the Toa Payoh branch library from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, until Sept 19. Admission is free.
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    Population goes up by 13,100
    147 14 Population goes up by 13,100 THE population of Singapore grew by another 13,100 m the first six months of 1981 to 2,443,300. The latest figures from the Department of Statistics show that between January and June this year, 6,400 males and 6,700 females were added to the population. Males on
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    New move to help improve quality of teaching aids
    381 14  -  CHONG WING HONG SM REVIEW SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED By THE Education Ministry has implemented a review system for supplementary materials (SM) used in schools in a move to further control and improve the quality of teaching and learning materials, other than textbooks.
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    FOOK KHAU TRIAL PUT OFF TO FRIDAY
    96 14 THE trial of businessman Ng Fook Khau, who is on 40 charges of conspiracy to cheat and abetment, was postponed to Friday because defence counsel N. Ganesan is ill. Mr Ganesan yesterday applied for the adjournment Dn the grounds that he was suffering
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    Six fined $18,000 for stealing from firm
    181 14 SK men were yesterday fined a total of $18,000 for stealing over $6,000 woith of butter, beef, and chicken meat from their firm, Ben and Co Ltd, m Spottiswoode Park Road, between last October and July this year. Asst Supt Lee Kok Ann
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    Freighter refloated
    56 14 THE locally-owned freighter, Kota Gaiah, which sank after catching fire m Bangkok harbour on July 5, nas been refloated by Singapore Salvage Engineers, a local company. The 2,038-tonne ship was uprighted and refloated last week by the company working with two Thai firms, Seatrans Agency and Services and
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        SES warning
        53 15 THE Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) has told firms that all selling contracts from Sept 1 to 3 must be cleared by Sept 15 It laid they have to explain fully for positions not cleared and warned that buying-in orders will be automatically instituted for failure to comply
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        Bond listing
        36 15 THE US$5O million ((106 million) convertible Asian dollar bond issued by Japan's Daiwa Securities, will be listed tomorrow on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The 15-year bond will be traded on a ready hOMS
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        Austral agreement
        84 15 AUSTRAL Enterprises Bhd has entered into a joint-venture agreement with BHB Sdn Bhd to develop 11.385 acres (4,607 ha) of land, belonging to the latter, for oil palm cultivation. Austral will acquire 70 per cent of the share equity of BHB at a price of MSB.4 million. A
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        Metal Box EGM
        60 15 AN EGM will be held by Metal Box Bhd to obtain shareholders' approval to change the name from Metal Box to Fima Metal Box Bhd, to reflect the participation of Kumpulan Fima Bhd, and to increase the number of directors from eight to nine. The meeting will
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        Aluminium issue
        37 15 ALUMINIUM Company of Malaysia Bhd has informed the KLSE that the last day for splitting with respect to the company's rights issue is Sept 30. The last day for acceptance and payment is Oct 22.
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        Lock icon Indian tie-ups
        99 15 NEW DELHI, Tues. The Indian Government has approved 97 foreign joint-venture proposals from Indian companies, the Financial Express daily reported today. West Germany tops the list with 19 tie-ups followed by 18 each with the United States and Britain, eight with France, seven with Switzerland, star with Japan
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        Lock icon More imports?
        78 15 TOKYO, Tues. Japan is expected to announce by early next month, measures to stimulate imports and avert fresh trade friction with major trading partners, the head of the Economic Planning Agency (EPA) Toshio Komoto, said here today. Mr Komoto did not give details of possible measures, but he
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        Lock icon Ms6o million loan
        57 15 KOTA KINABALU, Tues. A syndicate of nine banks is to lend the East Malaysian state of Sabah Ms6o million towards the development of a Msll7 million cocoa and coconut plantation scheme, a press statement said here. The loan, agreed here yesterday, is the largest ever made for
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        Lock icon XL trade deficit
        46 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Peninsular Malaysia had another trade deficit m May, this time of MJ188.7 million against a deficit of Ms3B6 million m the previous month. The overall trade deficit for the first five months of the year rose to $492.8 million. AFP
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        Lock icon Rubber earnings
        36 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Rubber emerged again as the top foreign exchange earner m the first five months, with exports valued at M 51,736 million, accounting for 19.2 per cent of the total earnings. AFP
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      NPB starts full-time systems analysis course
      449 15 THE National Productivity Board (NPB) and the Polytechnic of Central London will jointly organise a full-time training course for systems analysts for the first time The course, called National Computing Centre (NCC) Training Library for Systems Analysis, will require .students to sit for a
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      PNB wrests control of Guthrie Corp
      776 15  - PNB wrests control of Guthrie Corp LEE YEW MENG A LONG CHERISHED GOAL? By MALAYSIA has almost overnight wrested control of Guthrie Corporation from the British. In what has been described as a lightning dawn raid, the Malaysian Government-owned Permodalan Nasional Bhd <PNB) or National Equity Corporation, has obtained majority
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      MAS in bid to stop Singapore dollar going international
      376 15  -  SOH TIANG KENG By IN A fresh bid to stop the "internationalisation" of the Singapore dollar, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has asked banks to consult it before extending any offshore loan in local currency of more than $5 million. In
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      Ways expatriates can beat high cost of living
      248 15 ALTHOUGH expatriates m Singapore find it more and more expensive to live here, the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) says it is still possible for them to enjoy a high standard of living. That is. if they choose to live sensibly,
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      Ismail Ali gratified with takeover
      230 15 Ismail Ali gratified with takeover KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) will soon formally offer to buy up the remaining ordinary shares it has not already acquired in Guthrie Corporation Limited, the British Company it took over yesterday. In a statement issued here today, the chairman of PNB, Tun
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        Listless market closes lower
        410 15 sinuapokic Mm price* closed lower on lark of buying support in selective moderate trading, dealers said. \mnng Industrial!* and finances, Ontral Sinn fell 25 rente to J.55. Malayan Inited industries M to SSI, Boustead ft to 4.M and Malayan Bank tt to 5.M. Tke Straits Times
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        SCOREBOARD
        28 15 Industrials Finance Up 19 4 Down 53 9 Inch 10 2 Hotels Properties Minings Plantations Deb/Loans 5 3 1 1 2 3 6 5 1 1 1
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          Falls
          61 15 -w Huimtead Inland A Pen M V I ■ii-l Properties L' E ■ii Steamship E SuK»r» Oriental Hldga PMC VI Banking Renting* Paramount I C MPH Prima t) C B C 490 540 800 700 210 390 9S5 J6S WO 580 5S5 380 282 450 950 -40 -.10 4t
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          Rises
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          VOLUME LEADERS
          21 15 ■1 U I 'romet ILkd JOB rtagnum "otal turnover 6 61m "otal value: $32 Aim 441.00 •W3.0W .%6.oa 308.001
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          19 15 B Industrials: HotPls. Proper i it's Minings: OCBC: SES Ind: 725 Hi 902 9K I'll H* (At 1
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    2337 16 SECTION MM. IMMMK1M IOMMHUI Gr'a INI I ..l D4v Hlgk L»w ('Mr.iv Sat* ■aj Vol l>.> (-OOOI Hick l.o 494 3M Armt XTC 4 Ml Mrom 144 4 8 JM 130 Allied Choc IM -2 4 ON 312 ISC B A T 158 -5 45!. 430 3M
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    627 16 SHAKE prim alrtfteal tower ynrtenlay with •ctlvlt) ea*-0-tMI ifta-la maialy U ipera\mtkvt atorks. Tke etrea-tM fr«in tke Stack KxrJuutgr Slßiav parr m MawaUy wMek miMWM SGIMfS b^«WCC ttllU -P^arWaaaaT' ftaaaaaTaaV aaßaaaaaaltiaaßt-a-al lat aaafW aVaftf-Mt Illlw—tiJ t-* iirm ■b»w twhimhv tke aide. It ais* strea-xtket-t
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    443 16 STOCKS dosed on a mixed to slightly easier note at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Turnover fell substantially as some market operators remained hesitant Blue chips closed marginally higher. A handful of these component stocks m the New Straits Times industrial index scored gains of up
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    198 16 (SINGAPORE LTfIT TRUST (Mni|»n' arleaa tor Sea The Commerce 2.86 3.01 The Savings Fund 1.66 174 Spore Prog Fund 131 137 Spore Sec Fund 1 88xd 1 97xd Spore Invest Fund 0.98 1.03 Spore Equity Fund 1.22 1 28 ASIA I SIT TRIBT (Maaagen- arlrca far Bep t)
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    34 16 ■dust rials laaoce lotels ustrial.s Up 27 3 Down 49 5 1 I in1 ropertie* il Palms 4 3 5 1 Ins rubbers 1 4 5 7 2 2 rubbers ieb Lmuu
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    935 16 810 and offer prices officially listed and business m an reported to the Stork Exchange of Singapore yesHTday with the number of shares traded shown m brackets m lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified AU Times Settlement Contracts are quoted alter the word "sett". Big Board deal
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    586 16 PROPERTIES B Raya (5.808 5.855) (28) 5.55 (2) 5.45 (6) 5.40 (5) 5.35 (18) 5.60 12) 5.70 (18) 5.65 B Sembawang (3.828) C Properties (S.2OS)XD City Dcv (3 30B)(33) 3.34(1)3.32 (21) 3.26 (11) 3.28 laland Pen (5.805) (1) 5.60 (1) 5.40 CD M Credit (3.548 3568) (1) 3.44 (1)
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      284 16 HONGKONG: The stock market fell 45.22 points on the Hang Seng index m a generally gloomy market yesterday, much m line with other mar- kets around the world, dealers No fresh local factors were affecting the market, but dealers separately noted high interest rates, a poor property sector here
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      324 16 SYDNEY: The stock market rallied from its 15-month low yesterday after Western Mming Corp followed up its results with news of an oil show m Western AustraUa's Canning Basin, dealers said. WMC rose 42 cents to AJS after its Acacia No 1 well m EP 143 encountered hydrocar- bons
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      1827 16 BID and offer prices officially listed and business m and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown m brackets m lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Aleaa (1 538 1.545) (1) 1.50 (1) 1.54 xri ACkar (168S) A
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      316 17 TOKYO: Share prices closed lower than previous levels, but above initial lows after a recovery on late cheap buying, dealers said. tjinriMotn kmltl OtaM ZZ.--.ZZ m ■tmVmom r.____ _Z «M CMfcoa I4M Cblyofl* ISO Cnubu Pwr M CtUavn Mi D Nip Print Wl D Nip Tom Ut I)mllc>n Xinoo
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      310 17 AMSTERDAM, Mon. Share prices were lower, with Uulever down 1.90, KLM 1.20 and Akio 0.60 in Dutch internationals, dealers said. Shipper Nedltoyd fell 3 50 while ABN and NMB lost 4.50 and 2.30 in lower banks. Publisher Eteevter fell 3.50 and insurer EuU was down six ex its 4.25
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      631 17 LONDON, Tues. Share prices closed mixed after a quiet session today, dealers said. At 3pm. the Financial Times index was up 1.4 points at 549.3. The weakness of sterling following Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Yamani's opposition to oil price increases depressed government bonds initially but most recovered to
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      52 17 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Monday 547.8 Friday 554.9 Week Ago closed DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS i Monday closed Friday 881.68 Week Ago 881.47 H.K.HANG SENG i Tuesday 1518.00 Monday 1584.12 Week Ago *****5 AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 595.9 Monday 695 4 Week Ago 704.3 ALLORDINARIEB Tuesday 6122 Monday 805.6 Week
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      232 17 ZURICH, Mon. Prices i trended lower, but last Friday's large sell-off did not continue, dealers said. On Friday share prices fell in one of the worst slumps of recent years after a new, more restrictive national bank policy drove short-term interest rates sharply up, they > noted. The Credit
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      94 17 MANILA: Shares closed lower yesterday, as turnover rose to 1.6 million pesos from Monday's 930,000 pesos, dealers said. tmrn Acoj« Mlnlnf JOM AUu Con AUu Con B. M.70 Baculo Oold OOM B*n«u*l Con B H linen -03 -0.0007 1 London Lepanlo B. 1W Marlnduqu» B IX Oriental A Oriental
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      80 17 BANGKOK: Share prices closed mixed m a weak market and turnover was lower yesterday, dealers |said. Bahu Aji» Film Ajruinajra In? And Trim Bang kok Bank 210 Bank Of Arudhan Ltd 146 Bern Jucker unch 1 Wire 172 Flnt TniJt Indunrlal PUwnC« Corp II JO Uitemauonai Coemeuca InumiUoniJ Trust
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      176 17 KUALA LUMPUR: Peninsular Malaysian rubber production rose to 129,472 tonnes m June from a revised 101,139 m May and was higher than 126,359 tonnes produced m June 1980, Statistics Department figures show. In June most of the states m Peninsular Malaysia recorded an increase over
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      12 17 ALL US markets were closed on Monday LaI bour Day.
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      RUBBER
      698 17 PRICES m the Singapore rubber market closed staftitly higher yesterday. will September RSS One buyers quoted at 228 50 cents per kilo, up half a cent on Monday s close, dealers said Morning prices were marked up slightly on some covering interest and speculative buying after a slightly easier
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      80 17 ■AS MMLB 1!.!. I ItfUabn OetoWr (Carnal Mtk) (Forw.rt Mia} Bayara Mian Bay.r. SalWra UMpalMI 1M.00 1K00N 1M.00 1M.0ON (1-MaaaHMI 1(2.00 1M00N 1M.0U 1M00N Ortotw Novcmbrr UuaaalkO 24*00 2S0O0N 250 00 252 00N Illoaaalhtl M3.00 244 OON 246 00 247 OON il ueptUrtl 2H00 2H00N 111.00 220
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      33 17 CLOSING PRICES Rubber: Sept 8 Singapore: Sept: 225.50 centa (up 0.50 cent) Malaysia: Oct: 253.50 cents (down 2.50 cents) Tin: M535.2H per kilo (up 6 cents) Official offering: 210 tonnes (down 33 tonnes)
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      134 17 rHINRHK Preataee Kxrfcajtfr. Wo^ipir*. MM rloalßX prteea per IM M jreaterefcy. CoMMt ail: Bulk fob $122.50 sellers, old drum (m second hand drum) fob $136.50 sellers, new drum fob $141.50 sellers. Copra: Mixed (loose) $72.75 buyers. Pepper: Muntok white pepper fob Asta NLW $370.00 sellers. Sarawak white pepper
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      GOLD
      159 17 THE KDjOBAR market for gold deliverable m Singapore opened at $90,534 and cloaed at $30,290 yesterday In the Far East, gold opened at U*****00 437.00 and closed at $433 50 434 50 by lunch time It re-opened at $432 S 433 25 before closing at $432 50 433 50
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      166 17 THE STRAITS tin price edged another six cents higher to MS3S.S per kilo m Penang yes- < lerday, on an official offering down 33 tonnes to 210 tonnes The overnight London market was firmer with forward buyers surging £60 higher to !X340 per tonne I/OVDON: The tin market slipped
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      PALM OIL
      185 17 KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian palm oil market was quietly steady on light covering yesterday, dealers said In September and November. central was traded up to M 5977 50 and 5875 per tonne respectively. The refined market remained featureless on lack of over- seas interest. HalayriajiaeJmoU: (Prices m MS
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      31 17 LONDON: Copper prices on Monday (previous m brackets) Wirebar Spot £336. SO (EJ37. 50). sellers £937.00 (£*****). Three Month buyers £966.50 .967.50). sellers £967.00 (LSttOO) Market law: Steadier Sales: 13,350
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      36 17 Moa Frl New York closed 9.568 10.1SS Zurich 9808 9 908 10.00S 10.10S ftoi Mea Singapore 9.858 9. SOB 10 05S 10.10S Closing prices m US dollars a troy ounce. Boara: Creott tMow, 8-paee.
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    59 17 Mng dollar opened at S2 I*4o m another day of quiet trad.n, inthe Singapore fore, market 1. roa/to Cl«. nuctuated «r §mm 'Vr^SlL by Saudi 0.1 Mini.-1-month 2 1596 2 1615 2-month 2 1520 2 15S0 .Vmontri 6-month US. 2 1315 K| Th, HSt^ mm %£?JF~" L""ur
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    364 17 ASIAN currency deposit Interbank rates as at close on Sep 8. Closing Asian dollar certificates of deposit for prime names on Sep 8: CurrwKW* Nominal rat** Smithaonin quolM) yMtcrday (croat)p»nty Chang* Lacal d«IUrs to an* ■alt of forrlun cnrreacy: US dollar 2 1645 2.1655 2.8196 ■Sterling pound 3.8850
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    47 17 RANGE of prices offered by discount houses on Sep 8: Overnight: TO Call deposits 6 7 i<* to T* Clotuf Bsyiif Srllinn 3-month Treasury bills 6 l 6 3-month Bank bills 14'» 14 3 months CD 13V. 13 1 months CD 13«t 13 Jtevtv* Nfitlml Dfcwswrt
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    33 17 Closing Interbank rates (or Singapore dollars on Sep 8: Offer Bid Overnight 5 4 1 month 13 I 13** 2 months 13' 4 13' 3 months 13'. 13' Overnight mode 16
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    31 17 I THE ftvemge rate at which major Singapore I I banks an cvrently prepared to lend to their beat I L I customers is 14.39 per cent. J
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      556 17 SELL your wavGjMp/ to SUCCES !^f|lfr Top men earn illy I? f^& £M>a when qualified ""^vxl^ The man m the car could be v> x \r""^ the house and the family I'JPJMH Jii^JPTIITU could b« YOURS! 1 «>ll^» j JLJia-iEaJI yJ potentialities and earning top pay. "^aPt* BE TRAINED BY
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      341 17 BAILIFFS SALE IN THE SUBORDINATE COURTS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE IN THE CAUSE OF Writ of Seizure Sole No 1125 of 1981 SPORTSLAND PlomtiH VERSUS 1) SAROOP SINGH S.'O SADHU SINGH 2) KARAM SINGH S/O SADHU SINGH Defendants both t/a Chongi partmental Store AUCTION SALE OF Track Shoes, Track
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      286 17 IHK BANKBIPTC'V ACT (CHAPTKK IR> KtRSTMKrTriNt. W (RKDITtHJ-S NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVEN that a First Meeting of Creditors m the undermentioned cases will be held at the Official Assign cc's Chamoers. 4th floor. Supreme Court Building. Singapore 0617 onsth day of October 1981 In Bankruptcy Nos 1215/78 Tan Muang Put
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      becoming leading insurance centre
      224 18 becoming leading insurance centre SINGAPORE is gradually establishing itself as a leading export credit insurance centre m the world, and catching np fast with London where third country financing Is concerned. The Export Credit Insurance Corporation of Singapore (ECICS) Is eolnn all oat to attract bath short-term and loag-term credit
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      Mass production is not for the small — Prof
      1156 18 Mass production is not for the small Prof PROFESSOR Tien Chang-Mo is one of the three professors who were m Singapore last week to conduct NPB's firstever management seminar m Mandarin. His field is quantitative methods invaluable tools to management and just as applicable m the Air Force (from which
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      341 18 TOKYO, Tues. Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki's drive to reform state finances without increasing taxes received a major boost today with an announcement that the increase in next year's budget was certain to be the lowest since World War n. Finance Minister Michio Watanabe told
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      Fujitec in America
      65 18 TOKYO. Tues. Fujitec Co. one of Japan's leading elevator manufacturers, today announced plans to invest US$30 million (SS64.8 million) in the construction of a plant in the US state of Ohio. Fujitec's American plant near Cincinnati, will boast the world's largest unit of elevator production with a
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      Report on Jurong Port's needs
      261 18 A BRITISH engineering consultancy firm, Sir 3ruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners, is expected to submit a final report to the government by the year's end on whether Singapore's main dry bulk cargo facility at Jurong Port needs to be expanded to meet future needs.
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      416 18 ASEAN will meet the European Economic Community in Manila next month to seek financing for its trade development programmes. But it is believed that the EEC will be "tighter" with its funds this year, imposing higher demands on Asean countries. A source said
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      1271 19 DRESSMAKING ELEMENTARY TO SEAH HUAT KIM CONTRACTOR Advance I.v f i Fashion [)e- -.penalises m repaim.^ signing Courses available on leakage, interior de. Day. Night. Saturday Sunday undertake all km<! New Classes commencing this lion works ***** M mOnl h H P^r e r n^°i di Tn u AS FOR
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      1095 19 targe quantity hwxtcraned impo-t 54 Book-k««p«ng/ ao ixqua< ii u .mtur. ...,i.t > S«Crtt«ri«i/ «««ko»tl,n»*art Answtrina/ Hi«iieM quaiitj ntciiuiv* iwmi TrinsHtio; Soviets 7. ?2?! l^^^^^~""--~" s a»» For dalad* and appointment to EFFICIENT BOOK-KEEPERS WITH 20 years of accounting ex(»eri- S T BOX A9O7M nre Now fully i.tiip tens m
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      580 21 Accomfnodation Mil E Pifafirtlw J 8 arm 00 mm* a 'i#iß<-.Mtf Hi ■*sflfa». 4Vr* PEMIMPIN INDUSTRIAL BUILDING for sale at Jalan Pemimpin Singapore 2057 I jnder a 999 year lease, this orey Hatted factory development urrently under construction and scheduled for completion around end 1 982 It incorporates maximum flexibility
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      825 21 1) CITY PLAZA At Gaylang Road/ Taniong Katong Road PRIME SHOPS FOR RENT Tha Last And Faw Unit* Laftl! On Ground and Mezzanine Floors, commanding good locations Available immediately Areas from 205 to 423 sq.ft. Rental from tS p a f par month onwards 2) CENTRAL BUILDING At Havelock Road
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      1306 21 4^H BbW 2 oo S3 400 CHOICE RENTALS!!! a Merlin Plata 1, uooo v ooc ■ludu $4000 tlfully limn ***** '1 floor $2,100 uooo Terrace houses m choice local a Bautoma Tartar. ,hee. $1.»00 pert) 4-bedi HILLMAN HOUSING AGENCY TEL 2JJM72ISUNES) lent ne» llMßilti $4,000 a OTHERS: .".•.'u'ernallV.nar,.,.,,, SjS 1
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      How about Sunday morning races?
      738 29  -  EPSOM JEEP For the almost predictable monsoon months By IPOH, Tues. Racing on a Sunday morning, anyone? It's just a thought but I wonder if the associated turf clubs ever consider the many advantages of racing on a Sunday morning especially during the monsoon months.
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      1157 29 KUALA LUMPUR rues. A total of 367 horses comprising 164 in Class 3, 188 in Class 5 and 15 in Class 6 (Malaysianbreds) have been entered for the September meeting t# be held here on Sept. 19. 20, 26 and 27. CLASS J: First ru I^Mm «r lJMm
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      Bercham strides out smartly on a tight rein
      270 29  - Bercham strides out smartly on a tight rein TONTO By IPOH, Tues. Bercham (late Exuberant), a nonacceptor last week, showed up smartly on the track this morning. With M.C. Lam astrk'e. the four-year-old Australian entire by Boysie Boy was kept on a tight rein all the way to return 42.1
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      141 Deaths
      284 30 HO TIANG KM ANTHONY AGED S3 PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON 7/S/S1 LEAVING KHNvO WIFE YEO INN NEO SON HOCK CHOO. JOSEPH OAUONTERS BENO NEO. CATHERINE CHOON NEO. FLORENCE OEKLIAN. CECILIA SONS-Nt-LAW YEO KHIRN LOK. VICTOR KOH TIONO ANN. RONNIE QUEK PHAKJ>ETER GRANDCHILDREN YEO MEI SIEN. DEBRA YEO MEI
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      142 Condolences
      147 30 The Management and Staff of PARTNERS ENGINEERING PTELTO «ish t«. express their deepest sympathy to MR. SON NOCK HWA end his tatmrv on the deeth of Ms MR. SON CNAI HI AN onS-S-SI With daapast sympathy to MR. GOH CHONG WEE on tha damhw of ma f*ith#r-in-laiw, MR.
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      143 Acknoledgements
      103 30 THE FAMB.V OF THE LATE MR T. RAMANATHAN THANK FIWENDS AND RELATIVES FOR THEM ASSISTANCE. ATTENDANCE, DONATIONS, WREATHS. AMO CONDOLENCES DURING THEM RECENT BEREAVEMENT THE FAMILY INVITE ALL TO THE ATHMA SHANTI POOJA ON 10-»-«1 AT SIVAN TEMPLE. ORCHARD RD AT 7M P.M. ALL WELCOME. WIFE: MOM SARAS
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      118 30 In Loving atomory of Ignatius Wong Laong Kwoog CalMtd lo real by our Lord on MhSaptM Born 19th August 1983 Oaapty miaaod but torayar r#fflf#flio#r#o by Qrtinopc, om, mufffi( bfotfiors AioywtM atoo Tarcisius. ralativas and fnaoda. A raqutom matt uflaiad IMa morning ai 0830 hours at Mte
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      I I ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
      68 30 THE FAMILY Of THE LATE MM. PATRICK YAP JOO lENG WISHES TO EXPRESS THEIR HEARTFELT THANKS TO REV FR BARRETEAU. ALL RELATIVES AND FRIENDS FOR THEIR CONDOLENCES. DONATIONS. FLORAL WREATHS AND ATTENDANCE DURING THEIR RECENT BEREAVEMENT A REQUIEM MASS WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10. I
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      Lock icon Lendl, Clerc ousted inl stunning upsets
      453 30 Rousing resurgence by Gerulaitis after year-long slump FIFTEENTH-SEEDED American Vitas Gerulaitis upset third seed Ivan Lendl, of Czechoslovakia, and unranked compatriot Bruce Manson stunned fifth-seeded Jose-Luis Clerc, of Argentina, in straight sets to reach the men's singles quarter-finals of the United States Open tennis
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      Lock icon Rosewall's fine double
      55 30 KAANAPALI. Tues. Australian Ken Rosewall made it a sweep m the Grand Masters tennis tournament on Maui. Hawaii, winning the singles and doubles titles. In an all-Australian finals, Rosewall defeated Neale Fraser 6-1, 6-1, and teamed-up with Frank Sedgman to beat Mai Anderson and Fraser 7-6, 7-3,
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      Lock icon Results
      124 30 Mea'i slagles fowta ra: Vitas Gerulaitis (US) bt Ivan Lendl (Czech) 6-3. 6-4, 3*. 3S, 6-4; John McEnroe (US) bt Kevin Curren (SA) 7-5, 6-0, 6-1; Bruce Manson (US) bt JoseLuis Clerc (Arg) 6-3, 7-6, 6-3; Ramesh Krishnan (Ind) bt Gene Mayer (US) 4-6, 1-6, 7-6. 7-5, retired. Wsotea's
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      Lock icon IERULAITIS FINED $2,700 FOR MISBEHAVING
      117 30 NEW YORK. Toes. Vltaa Ueralaltto was fined 1551,!5« (fZ,7N) yesterday for hitting a ball Into the grandstand daring his match against Ivaa Lendl, of Caecawlavahia, and then falling to attend a Press conference at the United State* Open tennis rhampionHhlpH. Oraad Prix supervisor Keith JsJussa
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      Lock icon Rats invade Racing's soccer stadium
      261 30 PARIS, Tues. Rats have invaded the stadium of Racing of Avellaneda, one of Argentina's most glamorous football clubs. The invasion is part of the sad decay of a club which has not been able to pay their players for SOCCER ROUND-UP two months because of
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      Lock icon Johansson and Caren strike gold in sprints
      254 30 Johansson and Caren strike gold in sprints SPLIT (Yugoslavia), Tues. Per Johansson, of Sweden, and East German Caren Metschuck won the coveted 100 metres gold medals, as the powerful Soviet Union squad predictably took the lead in the medals' table at the European swimming championship here yesterday. Johansson, 18, surprised
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      Lock icon Battle for 13 berths continues
      363 30 LONDON, Tues. World Cup soccer action returns to Europe this week with several crucial matches to decide the 13 teams who will represent the continent at next year's finals in Spain. While the three World Cup qualifiers from South America Brazil, Peru ana Chile have
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      Lock icon BRIEFS
      463 30 BANGKOK, Tues. The postponement of the 10th Asian cycling championship here from late December to next April should be a blessing in disguise to most participating rountries While the original dates for the meet were during the offseasion period of cycling activities in some countries, the new dates should
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      Lock icon Protest demos against Boks continue
      202 30 Protest demos against Boks continue WHANG AREI (New Zealand), Tues. About 3M anti-apar-theid protesters today marched on Okara Park where the South African Springboks rugby team trounced Provincial North Auckland IMi. OhMrvera said Ike protest was the quletent so far on the South AMcans' controversial seven-week tour. •n Wellington, the
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      Third spot
      27 30 SINGAPORE Cable Car beat Mechanical and Engineering Department 2-0 to take third position m the Port Authority Recreation Gub intra-soccer tournament at Bukit Chermin yesterday.
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      194 30 M THE HIGH COURT M MALAYA AT VOH pfrmoN no. s or mi In matter ot Section 64 of *i Coif— Act 1965 And hi *w matter ot AtMtrd Kompor Tin j*On<fi ovrttoO NvCics honfof grwn fhol Kit Order or *e High Court dated 29* day o< Jim 1M1. confirming
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      It's going to be tough against Sao Paulo
      282 31  -  JOE DORAI By Jita feels the Brazilians are best in the tourney KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Jita Singh, Singapore team manager, did not sound "too optimistic" about the Republic's prospects against Sao Paulo, of Brazil, in the Merdeka Cup soccer match here tomorrow.
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      Lock icon SRC thrive on Khalsa's mistakes
      272 31  -  R. MANORAJ By DEFENDING champions Singapore Recreation Club, thriving on their opponents 1 mistakes, thrashed Khalsa 5-1 in a Singapore Hockey Association Premier League match at the Padang yesterday. But much of the streamlining behind SRC's improved attack must be attributed to outstanding inside-right Gerard
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      Three quit umpires' committee
      177 31 Three quit umpires' committee THREE members have quit from the Singapore Hockey Association umpires' development committee, reports R. MANORAJ. The three Raghbir Singh (secretary), M.S. Hoondal (appointment secretary) and Roland Schoon (member) submitted their resignations to the SHA president, Mansor Sukaimi, a few days ago. But they will stay m
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      Lock icon Asian Games put off?
      80 31 NEW DELHI, Tues. The ninth Asian Games here next November may have to be postponed if the preparatory work continues at the present pace. Vijay Kumar Malhotra. who headed the Asian Games organising committee until Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi's government reconstituted it last year, told
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      TODAY'S EVENTS
      58 31 TODAY'S EVENTS ■ABKETBALL- Pr*U Slkaa lavHattoa rktmpUn wttp: Thailand v Indonesia. Staftpore White Japan. SiMaporr Red v Korea (Cay World Stadium 6 7 30.9) ■OCKEY SHA Lmiw Dl* t: Telerec v SAFSA (Balntier Rd. 5 10> ■OOCEB: LJaa City Cap ■■HWi (National Stadium. 7 JO). PAST lam niraaauiat daaJ: Container
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      Thomas Cup squad for centralised stint
      379 31 SINGAPORE'S eight-man badminton team for next month's Thomas Cup qualifying round match against Thailand in Bangkok will go into centralised training from Monday until Sept. 28, reports J. RAJENDKAN. They are Wong Shoon Keat, Lee Ah Ngo, Robert Han, Tan Eng Han, Tan Ban
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      Singapore lose out in close tie
      426 31  - Singapore lose out in close tie J. RAJENDRAN By IT was a black day for Singapore White as Malaysia made them see red to win 89-86 in a colourful Group A match of the Straits Timessponsored Pest a Sukan basketball invitation championship at the Gay World Stadium last night. The
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      140 31 ORA pull out of under-23 tourney THE Old Rafflesians Association team yesterday withdrew from the Singapore Rugby Union's Hicee Cup under-23 competition. The Old Rafflesians team manager, Anthony Seah, said the decision was made because the "event was very disorganised". Seah added that on several occasions his team were faced
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      59 31 MOSCOW, Tues. Two leading Soviet soccer players, one of them capped 11 times, have been barred for life because of repeated drunkenness, the youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda reported today. The daily named them as Alexander Berezhnoi, the 24-year-old Dynamo Kiev halfback, and Vyacheslav Golodin. a
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      140 31 SPRINGFIELD, Tues. Joanne Garner, a veteran of 11 years on the circuit, fired a final round six-under-par 66 yesterday to record her second straight Ladies' Professional Golf Association victory m the U*****,000 ($270,000) Rail Charity Classic here. Joannes 11-under-par total of 205 was two strokes better
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      196 31 Japanese score lucky victory KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Lethargic Japan recorded a lucky victory when they beat United J Arab Emirates 3-2 in the i Merdeka soccer tournament here tonight, reports JOE DORAI. The speedy Japanese played lite zombies which was very uncharacteristic of them, judging from their two earlier winning
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    133 32 THE Mr rush to buv mooncAkcs Is on. With the mid autumn festival only three days away, the mere established bakeries known (or turning out the traditional mooncakes are doing a roaring business. Bat Tal (hong Kok Bakery In Sago Street found the stampede of customers during
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    38 32 TOKYO, Tues. International Trade and Industry Minister Rokusuke Tanaka said today that because of political tension he saw no immediate prospects of resuming suspended construction 01 a US$3.6 billion (S$7 billion) petrochemical complex in Iran. Reuter.
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    369 32 BLACKPOOL, Tuesday RIGHT-WING labour unions hope to increase their influence over trade union policy in Britain after a successful revolt at the annual congress of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Blackpool. Shortly after the weeklong congress opened yesterday, they pushed through a decision to
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    188 32  - High-rise break-ins: Police arrest suspect PAUL WEE By Crime Desk QUEENSTOWN police have arrested a burglary suspect they believe has Deen responsible for a spate of highrise break-ins recently. Detectives dub the suspect "Spiderman". after the popular wallcrawling comic-book character. At least a dozen apartments, all from the 10th floor
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    40 32 BEIJING, Tues. China and Japan have agreed m principle on a 300 billion yen (SJ2 6 billion) Japanese loan (or major industrial projects here. Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping has declared himself satisfied, a Japanese official said today.
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    110 32 INDIANAPOLIS, Tues. A three-year-old boy who found a .357 Magnum revolver m his grandfather's home, accidentally killed his 18-month-old sister, police said. The victim, Jennifer Maynard, was shot by her brother Joshua shortly before 7 p.m. yesterday m the apartment of John Maynard, investigators
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    310 32 CANBERRA, Tuesday THE Australian Government today announced a royal commission to investigate an alleged meat export scandal involving the substitution of horse and kangaroo meat for beef, which has seriously threatened the country's trading reputation. "Australia's meat industry has been severely tarnished
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    102 32 Exporter charged with forgery MELBOURNE, Tues. The Melbourne Court of Petty ScmUm today granted tall of ISSII,- (8521,« M) to Richard Vincent Hammond, a meat exporter, when he faced 21 charges of forgery of meat Inspection certificates. The court was told that Richard Hammond, 35, was arrested following lavestigations by
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    121 32 48 ADMIT ATTENDING TRIAD MEETING JOHORE BARU, Tues. Forty-eight people, including 26 Singaporeans, who attended a secret society meeting m a rubber plantation last month, pleaded guilty today before magistrate Mr Ec Chin Seng. They will be sentenced on Sept 19. The case was heard m a garage m the
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    33 32 NEW YORK, Tues. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks was off 3.33 points at 858.35 m the first naif-hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. AP.
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    62 32 JAKARTA, Tues. A mass fist fight erupted at the University of Indonesia here yesterday when students of the Technology Department attacked a group of others from the Medical Department attending a lecture. The technical students launched the raid to avenge an attack on their member by one
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    40 32 Late CLASSIFIED DEATH MRS NCO HOW TAV nee Madam Chan Kirn Kee. 84. passed away peacefully 8/9/81 leaving behind son Chay Bee. daughter Tin Neo. daughter-in-law. 8 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren Night visit SI Joseph's Parlour. Victoria Street Tel *****04
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      140 32 Anew woman? Who are the Miss Singapore hopefuls? With the annual beauty quest just round the cornei, JACINTHA ABISHEGANADEN wonders whether this year's Miss Singapore will be different from the usual clutch of beauty contestants. After all. this IS the 80s and our women, better educated and better qualified, have
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      212 32 UP TO 1 p.m. TODAY: Partly Cloudy With Showers In Few Areas. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: M max., 24 mln. SUNSET today: 6.35 p.m.; SUNRISE tomorrow: €.27 a.m. Amsterdam IS 24C Clear Lw Angeles 19 29C Clear Alkeu 18 26C Gear j KU4rM 17 34C Clear Bahrain
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      103 1 IHiiiHl Family violence Same husbands batter tkeir wives and make their lives totally miserable; but what happens when the wives battle back? In November, there'll be a forum oa vtolenee against women m Singapore. For more details, tarn to Pagos 4 and 5 Ordinary people Father And Son, the Hongkong-made
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        Hindu temples
        505 1  -  SRIVATSA Facets of Indian life a French view By! ANYONE who visits Paris for the first time cannot help but be struck by its beautiful old buildings preserved over the centuries. And those who grow up m this tradition are naturally immersed m it. It was the same
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        537 1 Book review CHOW SOOK YIN reviews Folk Rhymes of China. Selected and illustrated by Kwan Shan Mei. translated by Zhou Bianming, and edited by Judy W.P.Kong. Federal Publications; 181. pages; $5.80. FOLK Rhymes of China contains lots of lovely pictures which are essentially Chinese in
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      405 2 PICK Of the DAY C SBC 5 ADVENTURES la The Indian Oceaa (Ch 5, 5.2t p.m.): This documentary is about the salvaging of a Dutch East India Company ship lying at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Retak Membelah Bukan Kara Bokan Permata (Ch 5, 7.5* p.m.) Razif fails to
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      168 2 Next, Shogun the musical IN THE beginning, there was Shogun, the bestselling novel. Then there was Shogun, the hit television series followed by the money-spinning film. Next there is going to be Shogun, the Broadway musical. The novelist James Clavell, who identifies himself as "the progenitor of this whole thing",
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        685 3 SBC may not screen its planned 19part Mandarin serial. LEONG WENG K AM seeks reasons from the station's producers. And below, DANA LAM, who sat through the nine-part Spring Is Always Green, offers some suggestions for future dramas THE Singapore Broadcasting Corporation may consider scrapping the entire
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        Spring is green and so is local drama...
        693 3 SPRING Is Always Green, which ended m characteristic melancholia last Friday, was to have led m a fresh set of made-in-Singa-pore serialised dramas. Supported by talent imported from Taiwan which, incidentally, is not particularly known for quality actors; a good novel for
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        1221 5 The much acclaimed Hongkong film, Father And Son, opens m four theatres tomorrow. Its director Allen Fong says the film is about... YOU would have to be made of stone not to weep a little over Father And Son. It has its lighter, even comic moments, but never
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      1411 7 6 You don't £md out your weakness until you have a competitor. And Japan is that competitor. 9 As we head for an electronic-based future, what can fn we learn from the country that has more robots than r the rest of the world put together? STEVE LOHR
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        Family violence forum in singpore
        344 8  - Family violence forum in singpore QRETCHEN mAHBUBANI By RAPE. Wife Battering. Sexual Abuse. Violence against women. Taboo hush-hush subjects whispered, never mentioned out loud, but a brutal fact of life in all societies, including ours. The Singapore Council of Women's Organisations (SCWO) wants' to change all that. It is organising
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        Wives who kill
        977 8 Wives who kill There are husbands who batter their wives physically, emotionally, mentally. Some wives live with the terror and let it go on endlessly; but m a few, something snaps and they strike back. Three women m a small state m America lashed out and killed their tormentors. GARY
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        Paternity suits and Filipino genes
        687 8  -  ABBY TAN By in Manila CARMEN De Las Alas is one lady with a reputation for saving many Filipino men from shotgun marriages. The doctor is the only one m the Philippines who has perfected the most accurate paternity test using a method that has
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      Stopping cry-baby's screams
      503 9 Stopping cry-baby's screams THE best person to stop a cry-baby is himself. A team of doctors has found that if a newborn baby hears a tape-recording of himself crying, he will usually stop. But babies will only cry harder if they hear another baby's tape-recorded wails. Doctors at the Memorial
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      404 9  -  K. MALATHY By WHEN I was m primary six, a nurse came to my school to give us our medical checkups. After testing my eyesight, she gave me the sad news that I was shortsighted. Excitedly, I bought my very first pair of spectacles, a simple black plastic
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      1130 10 bast meets West by road FROM the fabled beaches of Denpasar m Bali to the cobbled streets of Paris, half a world away. It stretches through the humid heat of tropical jungles, mountain gorges, swamps and mangroves, deserts and mud, and over water by ferry. From Denpasar to
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      300 2 The Singapore Sta^ From IS September through 34 October, see it, fill with laughteq tears,an£pr, love and hate.... The Drama Centre 12-13 September Bila Malam Bertambah Malam (Malay drama) by Putu Wijaya Singapore Kemuning Society 19 September Aval Oru Menagai (Tamil drama) by S S Sarma Indian Arts Centre 25-26
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      180 2 Songs from the heart a^^^^^^^^^ Cle# lAme with husband A John Dankworth H and Kuest Ray Charles afl Hi *Z (below) In Heart and Soal ■p^> AS f t°nlßhtt nlRht ...and soul wJrjm HEART AND SOUL (Ch 5, 11.35 p.m.): Cle* Lalne and her hnsband, John Dankworth, a gifted Instrumentalist
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      138 2 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 5 Applaud neither bard nor druid 7 S^ l^Tsf fr m GWe in when down (5) SKKSi. vacation U g-j. «J. 9 w£ com- in. the beds U «<" ta Charged 10 No: the thing Is. the charge (9) .^thing, but begin U Great man of
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      113 2 EXHIBITIONS On Chinese Hand-Knot-ted Wollen Carpets: Vic Exhibition Hall. 10 a.m. 5.30 p.m. Till Sept 20. Btok Fair »81: World Trade Centre, 11 a.m. 9.30 p.m. Till Sunday. The Golden Age Of Sail: Paintings by Joseph Corish. Maritime Museum, 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Till Sept 16. Singapore And Her People:
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      1089 2 TV and Radio SBC 5 3.00 PM Opening followed by The Young Mala y> And The Restless 7.50 Retak Membelah Rukan Kaca 3.25 Destiny (r) Bukan Permata 4.55 Diary Of Events (Malay) 8.40 Nero Wolfe Death On The Door 5.00 New Ed Alen Show step 5.20 Adventures In The Indian
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      185 3 E^^V n^nW s&^*^^ I >>O£ The special DentuHifc^^' >!XS» 'o* OemeantvyeHowmg V^H X t^r^SWvV^ ferula contains Main W jf*mD removefs,adBodtxamanda y> L*M YJ especial denture pdwhet-mQietienCs Hpi cP* 1 sW*#*X* came* be included m ordnary Batok^^BkJamV toothpastes ■^■T^J jf > Waya* Try new DenluCreme today ■nK^H^Pv. "f -^mf Leaves dentures
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      583 4 BBffIILYW BOOKS Woman's Realm Book of ¥jljf ifflF^ ■L^^lP''^^ Cake'^ndCatrDe^StS! teas to entertaining. Many recipes include V !l- KA.^^^ JJ3 Wf ffi ]Jl A \rnaking anc^ making them ideal for the busy cook. P^J^ J^J t^^^^^ Iv^^ PWL '"'^^J I c^verTa w"^ P^^^'^K*^ w Pft i^^\ I selection of cakes
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      693 5 Mazda 323 unbeatable on all counts We don't mean to brag but when you have a car that's as good as ours, you ll want everyone to know about it. Rear seats fold down to create a large aaamam utility deck, the largest m its class The ifl hatchback opening
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      406 6 a_ g_ '__T j__T __T a CAPITOL: NOW SHOWING! (*****59) 5 SHOWS at 11am 1 45. 4.6 30 a 9 15pm Bayonet the »dil* Durknaii thorn ia a B World of SWORD and SORCERY. HL' '^-^VF& SB ri'i\ MaaWßr* //all I B_flC VBJ Hi I »v aV^^^aL M i Abb
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      619 6 PREMIER: b r^r!mj^B W'SfflfflV V /L*\ CATHAY O v^cJUJLeJUJ lastdavi VVTTy ..AONO OIICANISATIO N j. 11AM 130 400«45«915PM C, <,' >*_„ _'n' J ,UvV»} H 1 i Q Aaiaow. n•, g ter.ii:r.Ya»v.»g »i J ■■"""•■tiw 0 >nd MONTH' O B OPENS TOMORROW! "\jCIJ (^?too Hl Broih»r UNKNOWN oti^-i V ■V\W®S?Jtf'
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      308 7 6... the Japanese success implies flaws m America's business and eco- nomic policies. 7 |KjCJf *^^aX onnivervDry lucky drow^^^QGfl Bf Cp *^^^P 5. 1 Easytoenfer *o^H iusr o S5OO purchose of I "*TB fumifuw ot Soonry Ano- you ore entitled to one -^r- lucky dfow couoon J C° 9oWen chonce
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      345 8 yfan A grand book exhibition where over 150,000 titles by 1 ,500 publishers m more than 12 languages are featured. Special discounts and gifts will be given to visitors. TODAYS SPECIAL EVENTS 4.00pm 5.30pm 6.30pm B.oopm Filmshow Freaky Friday j BOOKS MAKE BETTER HOMES J ONLY FROM Sai9& SAF DISPLAY
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      1169 12 S( (WBBa? M6chsnicBi HsndNno Enytno9flny (M) BiBVaaVaIHBVHBVHHHBV Sdn. Bhd. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN RELIANCE HOLIDAYS Th* A*enry t* a travel at n> of a larfe ronclommer TRAINEE EXcCUTIVEo ate of companies encased m eitenaive and divemi lbm—d m Kuala LumDtir) fieJ enterpriaaa including hotel*, properties, pri ln IVU I i-«m|»«M| mary
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      703 12 We are member of an international organisation that T"> W Tf*| |kj T"* CC specialised m the supply to the energy industry. The J3 C 9 A. k% £i t9 O Singapore office is the agent/ stockist of a large range of T < i t WVT < sP oilfield
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      321 12 CORROSION ENGINEERS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. We specialise In tank Internal Matting/painting and tubular steel scaffolding In the marine and building Industries. In conjunction with our expansion programme, we Invtte appteattons for the following posts A. MARKETING OFFICER Applicants must possess G.C.E. "O" level certificate and have Knowledge of blasting, painting
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      473 12 THE SCIENCE COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE invites applications from suitably qualified citizens/ permanent residents of Singapore and other ASEAN citizens to fill the post of: (A) SECRETARY/CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER The Science Council seeks a well qualified, experienced and dynamic professional to be responsible for the overall administration of the Secretariat and
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      476 13 QJM iMpn Ufil niilOQ QCDUAffI Palmco Holdings Berhad invites applications from IiRLIfIOU iKILUIIIIIO DUIHIIU suitably qualified and experienced contractors, subcontractors and suppliers wishing to be prequali IWKED WISMA PALMCO OFFICE COMPLEX &£2-£+2s?£ttS PRFDIIAI IFIPATIGN (IF TFMIIFRFR^ involve the construction of a 26 storey complex, with rnCyUHLiriuHllun UT ILIfUCrtCnO a basement,
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      330 13 Times Publishing Berhad (a member of Times Organisation) has about 3.000 kgs of lino metal (lead) m 10 kgs bars for sale. Interested parties should send their sealed quotation/offer to:Th« T«nd*r Committee Tim»« Publishing Berhad B.T. Box M ***** 1, New Industrial Road Singapore 1953 by 15th September 1981. Sales
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      491 13 ACMA ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED (Incorporated m the Republic of Singapore 1 NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of ACMA ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED w.ll be held at the registered office of the Company, No 9 Gul Circle, Jurong Town, Singapore 2262, at 10.00
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      138 14 q CmQratuiatww B&rt Wid^ y I Singapore Polymer I I Corporation (Pte) Ltd I I /4llifc\ On awarded the SISIR mark I (Ip) for PVC cables compounds in \*IUM// addition to PVC Resin and uPVC pipe compound. from BEHN MEYER CO (PTE) LTD (Dye Stuff Division) ICI SINGAPORE PTE LTD
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      737 14 22 firms to receive awards for quality THE Minister for Trade and Industry. Dr Tony Tan, will be presenting SISIR mark and safety labelling licences to 22 local manufacturers at a dinner to be held at the Shangri-La Hotel. The dinner, organised by the Singapore Institute and Standards and Industrial
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      Message from Dr Lee Kum Tatt, SISIR chairman
      498 14 SINGAPORE is advancing sw.ftly up the technological ladder. The Eighties will see even more capital-intensive industries producing higher value-added products and services. This would not have been possible if Singapore had not first established its reputation and credibility as a manufacturing nation
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      Companies awarded licences to use' SISIR mark
      322 14 Companies awarded licences to use' SISIR mark ne Nkwimg b a Ibt 1 etmpaaies awarded II etmem U mac the SISIK Mark BBC Brawn Beveri (8) Pte Ltd SK STOTZ BBC BROWN BOVERI EarthLeakage Circuit Breaker; BBCPICO STOTZ Mlnlature Circuit Breaker: BBC BROWN BOVERI STOTZ Consumer Unit. Bate Shoes (S)
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      Message from Mr Eugene Yap, SQRA chairman and MP for Mountbatten
      280 14 industry, whether m manufacturing or the service sector will always be the best indicator of the company's health and vitality. Two important component parts m determining the productivity of an industry are: The management and the workforce. These two
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      Message from Mr Ong Leng Chuan, SMA chairman
      343 14 SINGAPORE has entered the third year of its economic restructuring programme which has seen an increasing trend towards a higher level of mechanisation, automation, research and development, and labour-man-agement teamwork. These are obviously the necessary factors paving the way for Singapore to
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      Development of R & D capabilities
      747 15 Development of R D capabilities IN l«0. the manufartur ing sector gre* by 12 per rent and accounted for 25 per cent of Singapore s growth m real GDP The manufacturing sector will lerve as a pacetetter for the economic growth m th«- iMM Singapore's innustties mow into higher technology
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      Developing standards to assure quality
      596 16 STANDARDS embody the synthesis of years of industrial experience of the developed countries in science and technolEconomy in effu irnt utilisation of materials and productivity in manufacture are achieved through the use of standardised materials, methods and systems for established technologies which have been time-tested
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      Overview of export inspection schemes
      568 16 BIG TIME exports m the early seventies were brought about by multinational corporations which already have ready home markets. The MNCs brought with them not only marketing expertise and corporate concept and image of quality of their products, but also important issues such as consumer
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      Expansion of services to builders
      310 16 SINCE Its inception, the institute has been the national independent testing authority for providing supporting technical services to the building and mechanical construction Industrie*. The institute has been well-known for being equipped with the most comprehensive range of quality test bouse facilities which Include mechanical,
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      Aiding the plastic industry
      451 17 THE plastics industry comprises numerous small local industrial units and some foreign-owned companies. Over 90 per cent of the establishments in this industry employs less than 100 workers, 73 per cent employs less than 50 workers, and 50 per cent employs less than 30 workers. The
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      Courses for people in technical fields
      736 17 TRAINING is a continuous process of helping employees to be more effective in their present and future work. It is through training that an organisation can develop its most important and essential resource the human resource to achieve its objective for profitability and growth;
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      Equipment to boost research and analysis
      270 17 Equipment to boost research and analysis SISIR has recently acquired a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) as part of its plan to develop research and analytical capabilities in Materials Science. The SEM is one of the most versatile and powerful research and analytical instrument in modern technology. The basic principle of
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      Solar energy to reduce cost
      95 17 ONLY recently, a solar collector was designed and Installed for a food company to tap solar energy (or use In drying of food products. Experiments carried out showed that the temperature in the dryer would reach as high as St degrees C and studies stowed
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      Need to develop reliability testing
      422 18 RELIABILITY has be(time an increasingly important factor in today's industrial world. A high degree of reliability is a neccessity for most of the scientific and military equipment, and even the consumer appliances. Reliability is also now recognised as a fundamental ingredient in the management decision
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      Bright prospect in treating used water
      219 18 THE recent round of hikes in water rates reminds us of the need for water conservation. The section had anticipated the need earlier and his carried out water reclamation studies using advanced technique. Preliminary studies on a laboratory scale with affluent water has shown
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    680 20 Property boom hat hit Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi and Madras. Property prices m these four major Indian cities have increased 300 per cent since 1978. In a land where property prices have always been high due to a general shortage of accommodation, RAJENDRA BAJPAI m NEW
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