New Nation, 20 June 1975

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  • 17 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Friday June 20, 1975 No. 1364 Price 20 cents M.C.(P) 489/75 FRIDAY. JUNE 20. 1975
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  • 446 1  -  Smuggled in and abandoned after the owner fails to make sale By Bharathi Mohan The Tampines panther mystery has been solved. Police believe that the big cat was abandoned by a man after he failed to sell the smuggled animal to local dealers. The panther about
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  • 91 1 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Hot*! ahd nightclub owner* her* hare questioned City Ha l'l decision te ban all ■tr'p tease and MX shows for a week durthe Ali-Burner fight This followed a circular sent te the hotels and nightclubs last week informing them of City
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  • Article, Illustration
    280 1 Down and out! Our valiant keeper Eric Paine Is sprawled on the soggy pitch In Sain after hitting his ead on the upright. He had dived to make a brilliant save last night when Singapore lost narrowly by 1-0 to giants North Korea in Hong Kong. Team doctor
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 304 2 Sexy girls fine but... A cross-section of employers yesterday Indignantly refuted a woman lawyer's assumption that they prefer to hire sexually attractive women. "Why urge us to stop something we never started?" they shouted to an appeal by Miss Faraday Namazle at a
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    • 299 2 Two of the Supremes gave their fans the slip yesterday and stole out for a sail on a Chinese junk. Supremes MaryWilson and Scherrie Payne spent 2 J hours amid the sun and sea breezes as they toured the harbour and the Southern
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    • 107 2 Share prices reacted higher at the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first trading session this morning. This is the first time in five days that overall gains appeared on the board. BUSINESS DONE: First Section Sime Darby (22) 2.76, (50) 2.75, (7) 2.77, (12) 2.78, (8)
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    • 10 2 Police reported 96 accidents yesterday. Nine were serious.
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    • 615 3  -  By Nancy Koh The hills are alive indeed Mount F a be r echoed for miles aronnd with the sound of music last night. But only for Ave minutes. For five melodious minutes, the Vienna Boys Choir burst out in
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    • 197 4 It was a contest of speed and knowledge fast-flred questions, quick thinking and prompt answers. And Anglo Chinese School emerged tops, beating St. Joseph's Institution by 36 points in the finals of the Science and Industry Quiz 1975 at Television Singapore last night.
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    • 37 4 The Alexandra Youth Group will present a film. Young Girls' Rehabilitation Centre, at the Golden City Theatre on Monday at 9.30 p.m. to raise funds. Tickets are available at the Alexandra Community Centre.
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    • 178 4 Call for top priority The Tripartite Council of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore is expected to reach a final decision to regulate shipping in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore by next month. This was disclosed by the Malaysian Minister of Information and Special Functions, Tunku Rithaudeen A 1
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 13 2 Forecast Singapore's weather outlook from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. today No rain.
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    • 389 2 WHAT'S ON Mr. P. Selvadurai, MP for Kuo Chuan, will open the exhibition, PRODUCTIVITY IS OUR BUSINESS, at Kuo Chuan Community Centre at 8 p.m. The Singapore Armed Forces Reservists' Association will stage MASS PUGILISTIC DEMONSTRATIONS during the three day Singapore Armed Forces display at Changl from 4.45 p.m. The
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 531 4 [GMttZu C] Friday A Cut out and pin with other coupons Posting instuctions appear below Name (Mr /Mrs /Miss) Address Tel CLUES BELOW Cut iilotuj Moiled lines CLUES FOR AK-5 1. Brief downpour of roin 2. Can make a hit 3. Sixtieth port of a minute 4. Co use to
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 225 6 Reuter St. Laurent Oes Arbres, Friday Four hooded men, brandishing sticks of dynamite, yesterday seized a hostage and occupied the town hall of this small southern town in France and threatened to blow up the building if their demands were not met. The men were apparently
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    • 267 6 'I will only go if I am pushed out' Reuter Rome, Friday Italy's top political figure, Mr. Amintore Fanfani, yesterday refused to resign in the wake of this week's communist election gains and told his rebellious Christian Democrat Party that he would only go if pushed
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    • 201 6 Reuter London. Friday Lieutenant General Sir Chandos Blair flew to Uganda last night to deliver a message from Queen- Elizabeth for General Idi Amin asking for /clemency for Brtish lecturer Denis Hills, who faces possible execution by a firing squad this weekend following his
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    • 51 6 United Press International Mexico City. Friday A man was elected president of the two-week International Women's Year conference that opened here yesterday. Mexican AttorneyGeneral pedro Oleda Paullada. who heads the Mexican delegation to the conference. was elected by some 1000 delegates to the United Nations-sponsored
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    • 131 6 United Press International TODAY is Friday. June 20, the 171 st day of 1975 with 194 to follow. THE MOON is approaching its full phase. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Mars and JupLter. THE EVENING STARS are Venus and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign
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    • 53 6 Reuter Johannesburg, Friday A motorist, losing his temper after being stuck In a traffic Jam behind a police van, opened its door and let two prisoners escape, a court was told yesterday. Siegfried Enslin was given a three-month suspended jail term for assisting prisoners to escape. He
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    • 132 6 Reuter Jerusalem, Friday Defence Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday the Arab countries were building up a war machine surpassing that of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). Addressing a meeting of the Jewish Agency here, Mr. Peres said in manpower, quality and quantity
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    • 114 7 Reuter London, Friday—Two escort agencies In London's select Mayfalr district employed hundreds of high class prostitutes for wealthy businessmen, particularly Arabs, a senior detective claimed in court yesterday. Detective Chief Superintendent David East was opposing an application for ball at the opening of the trial of
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    • 145 7 Reuter London. Friday— Australian tennis star Evonne Goolagong yesterday marned her sweetheart of six years, metal broker Roger Cawley, 25, In secret In Canterbury. Miss Goolagong, 23, who stormed to victory in the 1971 Wimbledon tournament, is seeded fourth in this year's Wimbledon, opening on
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    • 371 7 'Highest June total...' Reuter London, Friday Unemployment in Britain has risen to 869,822 —3.7 per cent of the working population and the highest June total since the Second World War, the government announced yesterday. The jobless figure, up by 310,000 compared witn a year
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    • 38 7 United Press International Bsirut, Friday The Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam has decided to hand over the building housing the Israeli embassy in Saigon to the Palestine Liberation Otganisatlon, the Palestine News Agency said yesterday.
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    • 112 7 Reuter New Delhi, Friday—lndia's ruling C on g re ss Party plans a huge rally here today to demonstrate support for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, threatened with a sixyear disqualification from office after being convicted for corrupt electoral practices. The party, closing ranks behind its Prime
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 404 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are an inventive person whose creativity will not be denied, no matter what the circumstances. You possess aggressiveness only to the degree that it c*n help you to gain your ends but never to the degree that it will cause
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    • 207 6 WORLD WEATHER New York Partly sunny, 88-70F, 31-21 C. Headline: Ford would shift uranium Industry to private hands. San Francisco Morning clouds, then fair, 60-42F, 16-6 C. Headline: Public beheading of Faisal's killer. London Cloudy, some rain, 72-64F, 22-18 C. Headline: Russian spy called home. Tokyo Cloudy, 8672F, 30-22 C.
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  • OPINION
    • 371 8 American leaders, with intense solemnity, keep assuring that the US will not renege on its treaty obligations to Asian nations nor turn its back on the whole continent. The latest pledge has come from Dr. Henry Kissinger. No one can doubt that the US, despite
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    • 113 8 WHISPERS ISPY^ The US. it Is said, is a great country. So it always Dions things In great style. Inevitably. the showbiz world has come ud with the idea of a great concert, nay, the greatekt concert. The participants so far Include Frank
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    • 165 8 The prices of basic foodstuffs have either gone down or stabilised and the Government has already announced Its acceptance of this year's NWC's modest recommendations. The wage Increases recommended were modest because, according to the ?ianel, worldwide inflalon has eased and the food price index in
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    • 275 8 F VOICE OF THE PRESS J A NANYANG SIANG PAU The Allahabad High Court's verdict that Prime Minister Indira Qandhl was guilty of election Irregularities and then barring her from public office for six years has astounded the world. What Is even more shocking Is the
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    • 531 8  -  FRIDAY WITH PANG CHENG LIAN PANG CHENG LIAN When I was young, my mother said: "Child, you'll learn to appreciate the Central Provident Fund one day." Most of the time I prefer not to disagree with my mother. But on the matter of the
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    • 55 8 I am a Singapore citizen whose boyfriend is a permanent resident here holding a Malaysian blue Identity card. I am working as a clerk while he has his own contractor business and needs no work permit. Can we be registered at the Registry of Marriages and buy
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    • 76 8  -  TAN BAN HUAT We refer to your report headlined.: "Workers who are a nuisance" (NN, May 23 75). We wish to Inform you that the contractor concerned has been warned to exercise stricter control over the workmen undertaking the repairs and redecoratloq contract at Tang- lin Halt Estate.
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  • FEATURE
    • 686 9  -  11 nerve-testing years—but Sue is quite .candid about it all PASSING THROUGH jj by Lu Lin Reutens Eleven nerve-test-ing years of moon missions and outerspace travels by her husband has left astronaut Alan Bean's wife, Sue Bean, not highly strung and nervous as one might expect,
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    • 191 9 r man ofHßs AUTHORISED DEALERS OF AMCO AND LEVI'S JEANS M b Izsani's 155. PEOPLE S PARK CENTRE (Ist Floor) TEL *****2 vf "S'I 11l -A; MNBhmIHHMHI GCV-a modular gas Chromatograph system for high performance precision applications. Pye Unicom instruments con meet your every need in onolysis ond research. Pye
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  • SOCCER'S GREAT DAYS
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      2181 10/11  -  Backyard player who made big time His secret: I don't drink, smoke or indulge in unnecessary luxuries His tip to players o£ today: Don't waste a chance to score Ik Sonny Yap Once, there were three boys called The Three Musketeers of Coleman Street. "One for all
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    • 4 10/11 Siang story next week
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  • PLEASURE
    • 428 12  -  CINEMA BY EDGAR KOH SUMMON THE EXORCIST directed by O. Hellmin and R.E. Barrett, with Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson and Gabrlele Lavia (Capitol). Cross The Exorcist with Rosemary's Baby, and what do you Ret? A pregnant orgy of sata- nism, foul language and some vile, violent
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    • 575 12  -  Out^ with Violet Oon One gets the impression that Szechuan food is always hot and dripping in oil, a cuisine sometimes unsuitable for our stifling humid weather. But there's more to Szechuan food than that according to Mr. Chang Hal TenK, the chief cook of the
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 54 12 KING'S COFFEEHOUSE Mmm.. .Peneng Hokkien Mm Soup and Penaog Kway Teow Soup. Plus a host of the best loved local dishes Fish Bell Chif ken Soup. Cantonese Fried Ho-Fun end lots morel Enjoy these mouthwatering goodies in the cheerful, casual, cosy atmosphere end air-conditioned comfort of KING'S COFFEE HOUSE. We're
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  • TREND
    • 142 13 Fashion dictates that a woman act a lady and cover up for the evening. And there are some beautiful evening jackets and gowns with long sleeves (see the elegant short and boxy jacket Margaret Is wearing at right). But when a woman has lovely shoulders
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    • GRAPEVINE by Vanessa
      • 82 13 A little boy. thumbing through a magazine with his aunt, eame across a picture of a mother breastfeeding her baby. "What Is she doing?" he asked, full of curiosity. "She is feeding her baby with milk," his aunt replied. "Oh, but why does she have to do THAT.
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      • 75 13 The underdeveloped countries seem more advanced than the developed countries as far as women's lib is concerned. Shortly after the takeover of South Vietnam by the Provisional Revolutionary Government, a newspaper called Women of Saigon, published by the "liberated women of Saigon" appeared. Among the articles
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      • 70 13 Heard about the born loser bridegroom? He wanted to make sure that nothing would go wrong on bis wedding day so he borrowed a friend's brand new car. But on the way to the bride's home, a tyre burst. And, as if his luck was not bad
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      • 63 13 Most parents burst with pride If their children get a Bachelor of Arts degree even a general degree. But not one fSlheT who had hoped for better things from his son. Do you know what B A. really stands lor? the irate and disappointed father asked. "It
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    • 233 13  -  Doc's Casebook S I J. S.L. Miss K, a social worker, wrote to ask; "What is this new thing called the 'battered baby'?" The battered baby syndrome embraces the whole spectrum of nonaccidental Injuries and physical deprivation of children varying from mild
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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    • 71 13 a choice m jeans jackets BE IT FOR WORK, BE IT FOR PLAY LEA HAS THE RIGHT STYLE TO CARRY YOU THROUGH ALL THE WAY! AVAIL ABLE ONLY AT SE LECTED STORES' ROYALS SHAW CEN TRE ROYALS FAR EAST. SAUDARASTORES. SALEH STORE. MOD SHOP JEANSCORNER. WESTON TOPS'N'JEANS. JACKSON TOPS'N'JEANS HESHECOLOMBO.
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  • FINANCE
    • 182 14 Reuter Geneva, Friday The International Tin Council yesterday decided to extend export controls at their present level for a further three months till the end of next September, an official communique said. Total permissible exports by the council's seven producing member states were limited
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  • 293 14  -  Company Profile by Lee Yew Meng Singapore Glass (1974) has sounded a note* of caution in its first annual report Issued since it. was listed two months ago. True, the report showed a slight Improvement in pre-tax profits from $2 01 million to $2.25 million for the year
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  • Article, Illustration
    229 14 Share prices yesterday continued to decline at the Slnrapore stock market for the fourth successive day. The consolation was that turnover broke through the one million unit mark for the first time this year. The controversy over the Haw Par-Pernas Securities share swop deal, still has a restrain'ng
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  • Markets round the world
    • 174 14 The stock market, hopeful that oil prices would not Increase and anticipating favourable domestic economic reports, yesterday scored its best gain In seven weeks active trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Yesterday's prices in US dollars followed by the dlfference on the previous session's close: AT A
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    • 34 14 Dow 'Jones closing stock averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 845.35 up 17.52; 30 transport 166.38 up 180; 15 utilities 86.37 up 2.97; 65 stocks 259.37 up 533.
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    • 160 14 DBS Daiwa Securities International Ltd Stock prices closed slightly lower on the T.S.E. with a light turnover of 130 million shares. Ajlnomoto 339 1 C. Itoh 402 5 Dowa Mining 169 1 Hitachi 163 0 Japan Mall St 241 7 Komut.su 369 3 Meijl Seika 334 6 Mitsui Toutsu
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    • 83 14 Closing prices In francs on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Paribas 161.20 —2 80 Fonder 311 —4 exdiv Puntemps 81 —1 CGE 304 —2 50 Bull 29.70 —.45 Royal Dutch 148.70 —.90 Michelln 961 —17 Thomson 189 +3 CPP 140 —150 Rhone 122 50 —3 50 Air 339 50 —4.50
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    • 66 14 Zurich Stock Exchange closing prices yesterday: UBS B 2940 10 UBS R. 420 1 SBC 415 Credit Suisse 2740 30 Swissair B. 430 2 SBC 415 Wlnterthur B. 1650 50 Zurich Insur. 6050 50 Juvena B. 460 20 Nestle B. 3210 5 Interfood B. 2725 25 Clba-Gelgy B. 1560
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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    • 368 15 EMPLOYMENT FOR OVERSEA needed all fkllls. Apply to the Manager. K Dept., Paya Lebar Box fil. S'pore 19. STS requires Singaporeans SALES MANAGER (ELECTRONIC) SENIOR MARINE RAOAR TECHNICIAN SENIOR GYRO-AUTOPILOT .TECHNICIAN Only applicants well experienced In the above classifications need apply (all applications held strictly confidential). Successful applicants can look
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  • SPORTS
    • 884 16  -  Defeat so undeserved as our boys fox and fluster frantic Koreans Pv Jeffrey Low Hong Kong, Friday Only a controversial goal robbed Singapore of a possible upset draw against the redoubt able North Koreans in their Asian Cup soccer match here last night. What had looked like a
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    • 276 16  -  By Richard Lim Football fans pillory him by saying many unkind things of him. Some call him a passenger. But they do not know how much Arshad Khamis will sacrifice to do his bit for the Singapore team. Team manager N. Ganesan went to his home
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    • 414 17  -  By BRIAN MILLER Cindy Cheong will be the only girl of the 10 to receive the Esso Sports Scholar Award from the Minister of Social Affairs Encik Othman Wok, at the National Stadium Confer ence Room on June 24. Cindy, of Raffleß Girls
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    • 307 18 Reuter New York, Friday Tom Watson and Pat Fitzsimons each carded four-under-par 67 to take the early lead during the first round of the U.S. Open golf championship at Meainah, Illinois yesterday. Jim Wiechers was one stroke back with a 68. while Peter
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    • 254 18 Reuter Nottingham, Friday Three leading seeds at next week's Wimbledon championships. Including world No. 1 Jimmy Connors were eliminated In the quarter-finals of the £45.000 John Player tennis classic here yesterday. Reigning Wimbledon champion Connors, the top seed here and at Wimbledon, was beaten 7-5, 6-3
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    • 169 18 R. Rathakrishnan and Syed Kadir won their respective bouts in the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association national championships at Boon Teck Community Centre last night. Ratha, flyweight bronze medalliat at the recent Asian Youth championships In Manila took Just over two minutes to disposed of his first round
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    • 656 18  -  TEE-UP I with Lim Kee Chan Defending champions Seletar appear to be heading for the Singapore Golf Association league title for the fourth consecutive year. They have so far chalked up a total of 11 points from six matches. They won five with one
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    • 353 19 By BLUE PETER Kuala Lumpur, Friday Most of the King's Gold Cup candidates were put through their paces here this morning and none was more impressive than Noble Action. With S.K. Ho astride, the flve-year-old by Copenhagen II, covered 3f in 35 1/5 finishing with
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    • 159 19 Kuala Lumpur, Friday.— Scratching* for the Yang Di Pertuan Agung's Gold Cup meettng on Sunday. RACE ONE: 12.00 CL Div. 2—6F Ever Winner, Kung Fu, Kort Knox, Gay Duohesa, Charisma, Penang Holiday, West Ausblc. Kahl.ed. KACE TWO: 12.30 CL 6 Div. I—6F Red Carpet, Plush, Silver Gift. Voluble. Maknior,
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    • 168 19 Reuter London, Friday Indian spinner Blshen Bedi and Pakistani me-dium-pace bowler Sarfraz Nawaz each took four wickets as Northamptonshire bundled out English cricket champions Worcestershire for 161 yesterday. Sarfraz took four for 42 and Bedi four for 35 to lead Northamptonshire to a comfortable first innings
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    • 697 19 King's Gold Cup CI. 1 Div. I—6f Golden Way 9.00 14 Truly Grateful 8.11 8 Kuala Rompln 8 10 7 Far Bast II 8.10 4 Stylistic 8.09 6 Sincerely Yours 8.08 5 A«nricu3 8.05 11 Mallane 8.05 2 Ktmc.aba 8.04 13 Jingle Bell II 8.02
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    • 252 19 Reuter London, Friday. Fiance won tne Ascot Gold Cup, the Koyal meeting's most valuaoie race, tor the 10th time in 25 years as Lester Piggott drove home Sagaro to a tour-length victory worth £20,000 to owner (Jerry Oldham. Sagaro, trained in France by Faancois
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    • 219 19  -  By BRIAN MILLER Raymond K a n g yesterday bowled a dazzling 615 series to move into second spot in the men's singles (Open) at the National bowling c h a m p i onships at Jackie's Bowl Katong. Raymond bowled with remarkable confidence, notching up
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 369 18 CINEMA with EDGAR KOH AUK Of matlo>m jr process combining animation, live action Iftd blue-backing trick pictography on a motion-picture frame reduces Kathryn Grant into /a three-Inch high princess to be B'eked up and romanced by Rerwln Mathew who plays the title role in a tale from the Arabian Nights.
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    • 73 18 THE BORN LOSER by Art Sansom fffc VWI4ERE i HAVE SOU BEEM 2 y 2 WHERE ALL £Afl *CU6O IK) AW ELf VMOR? 3 VOU'RE OFFERING ME FOUR VEARS OF COLLEGE... -ROOM AND 80APP.... [.SPENDING MONEY sirls amp a job when igraduate by Frank O'Neal 7 Vfhats tLJ m I
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 268 19 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ■a mum 8 Memorable name in stage lore 9 Dwellers in Hadea 10 Navy man, for short 11 Blacksmith 12 "Bombs bursting M 13 Doing price for thoughts 18 Aromatic herb 19 Skin blemish 24 Diva's songs; Var. 26 Give the high 28 Oil field gear 29
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  • 341 20  -  3 The last word g a Dick West Some months ago a car company executive testifying before a congressional committee alleged that trees may be a major cause of air pollution. Naturalists naturally were greatly upset over the allegation. When I cited the testimony as
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  • 41 20 MEI LIN: That was a very close match In Hong Kong, pity we lost. AH FOOK: If we can play so well against the Koreans, we should have some nope of beating the Japanese. Let's pray for more rain.
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