New Nation, 29 December 1975

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  • 18 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Monday December 29, 1975 No- 1524 Price 20 cents MC (P) 1118/75 j NEW NATION [comment]
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  • 253 1  -  No more beauty contests, says Miss Personality By Susie Soh No more beauty contests for Maggie Sim, winner of the Miss Personality title at the recent Miss World contest. In an interview with New Nation on her return on Saturday, the 21-year-old leggy beauty said: "I
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  • 257 1  -  By Bharathi Mohan A CISCO guard was shot in the face In a scuffle with a d e t e c tive at the Golden World Nightclub off New Bridge Road early today. The scuffle broke out when Liew Tiong King, 25, tried to settle an
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 30 1 Mat Noh This was my biggest thrill: Page 10 MONEYWORDS P. 13 WHAT'S OH. TIDES P. 4 STOCK MARKET P. 2 WEATHER P. 6 COMICS P 19 CINEMAS P 12
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 138 2 It took a lot of heaving and pushing (left) before Komali, the four year old elephant, finally ended up on the weighing machine, tipping the scale at 440 kg. Komali, one of two elephants at the Sing a p or e Zoological Gardens was Just doing his
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    • 251 2 The Ministry of Education has instructed all primary school principals to make sure that the wheat soya blend milk (WSB) distributed to more than 30,000 undernourished children is prepared and drunk by their pupils in school, and not at home. Principal! should net allow their
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    • 189 2 You can be fined for not using them well Police today warned that motorcyclists, scooterists and pillion riders who do not strap on their crash helmets properly while riding are committing an offence and will be summoned. Police spokesman, acting Assistant Supt. Chin Fook Leong said:
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    • 270 2 Bags cut open, letters torn Police and the Postal authorities are investigating a series of thefts from the Mails and Parcels department at Nelson Road. The latest break-In occured a week ago when a supervisor found a number of mall bags cut open with
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    • 80 2 Miss Agnes Tan won Electronic Arrays' best dressed girl contest at the company's annual dinner and dance held at the Mandarin Hotel on Dec. 21 A senior quality assurance Inspector, Agnes received a six day all expenses paid holiday In Manila, $500 and other prizes worth about
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    • 133 2 Re g i stration for next year's admission to Adult Education Board secondary and pre-univer-sity classes starting on Jan. 12 will be held at various centres from Friday to Jan. 9 between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. excluding Saturday and Sunday. The centres for secondary classes are
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    • 43 2 Dr. Toh Chin Chye, Minister for Health and MP for Rochore, will be the patron of a fundraising film show Too Young at the Cathay Cinema on Jan. 18 at 8.30 a.m. organised by the Manila Street Community Centre's youth group.
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    • 34 2 The Singapore Khalxa Association will hold Punjabi and religious classes from Primary One to OCE "O" and "A" levels at Its premises every Saturday from Jan. 3. No fees will be charged.
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    • 96 2 Prices opened nrmly In the Stock Exchange of Singapore this morning. Profit-taking, however. trimmed again and at press time, prices were still higher than weekend levels. BUSINESS DOME Bime Darby:"ClS) 3 22. (13 3 20, (20) 3.18. 8.8. Sett; (1) 3.20. Tan Chong: (1) 165 Temenggong: (1)
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    • 55 2 Nan yang University will get a new $950,000 building to house the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Institute of Mathematics and computer centre. The building, which will be completed In mld-1977 will house three classrooms, a lecture theatre for 300 students. 20 staff offices, one
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    • 29 2 The Adult Education Board will conduct a Sales and Marketing course at the Mountbatten AEB Centre at Dakota Crescent starting on Jan. 11. The course fee Is $30.
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    • 11 2 Police reported 69 accidents yesterday. Four were serious and one fatal.
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    • 202 3 The Ministry of Education has announced that it is lifting restrictions on the use of school funds. Principals are now free to spend any amount from the funds without having to get prior approval. This Is to enable principals to make "the best use
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    • 20 3 The National productivity Board will conduct a course on Industrial Engineering for Supervisors. For more details tel; *****5.
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    • 344 3 Residents are still keeping pets despite Housing Board ruling Many Housing and Development Board flat residents are still keeping dogs in their premises, despite regulations forbidding them to do so. This morning, a HDB spokesman warned all residents to get rid of their dogs—or face "severe
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    • 212 3 Suicide threats should be taken seriously, said a social worker. Mrs. Irene Jacobs, director of the Samaritans of Singapore (SOS), warned that no one could be certain whether a threat would be carried out. She was commenting on the two people who committed suicide
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    • 264 4 Team here for talks with Oberoi A h i g h-powered trade- delegation from the Middle East is In Singapore to set up Joint ventures with the International OberQi Imperial hotel group Including Its $35 million hotel here which is now under receivership. The four- member
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    • 235 4 The Pandan Valley Condominium Housing, one of the biggest private condo miniums under construction here, will have more than 3500 people living in 605 houses. It is at the end of Singapore's most coveted residential area in Holland Road, next to the American School. There
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 104 4 $7500 CAN BE WON They are Mr. Jolly Tan. 32, Meyarna Chettiar Road:; Mr. TJloe Hock Teck, 5fl-D, Bedok Read; Miss Nyaxn Chee Chin, 7G Redhlll Road. Block 71; Mlu Ng Hwee Ting, 171-K. Block 51. Marine Terrace; Mr. Richard KB. Llm. 13, No entrant submitted a solution which corresponded
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    • 132 4 Jalan Teck Kee. Miss Gan Bee Teen. 533. Block 41. Circuit Road; Miss Um Hwee Kheng. 123Q, Tamplnes Way; Miss Koh Pek Tlang, 254-K, Track 7, Fonggjl Road and Mr. Llm Jit Suan, 26, Fidello Street. Tney wUl each receive $55.55. The balance of $500 is carried over- to the
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    • 110 4 police from finding them. Preference for BURN. BK-3:C: Since a BAND may be an amateur one of which a high standard is not expected. BANK is more apt. Preference for BANK. BK-4:1: Since a CHAT is informal talk anyway, specifying "informal" in the clue, has more point for CHAP. Preference
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    • 335 4 thoughts In susceptible persons. Preference for CALM. BK-5:2: It's "a good thing" if she's LOCAL. It's practically essential (not merely an advantage) that she be LOYAL. Preference for LOCAL. BK-5:4: "Reluctant" suits the case of a HOUSE. For HORSE, "sad" might have been nearer the mark. Preference for HOUSE. BK-S.-3:
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 328 5 Reuter New York, Monday Time magazine, which usually names a Man of the Year, chose 12 women for that honour this year, Including Mrs. Betty Ford, Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso, and tennis rtar BillleJean King. The women beat Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Soviet physicist Andrei
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    • 403 5 For cheating their country of $30 million Reuter Moscow, Monday A Soviet court has sentenced Ave men to death by firing squad for defrauding the state of about nine million roubles (nearly $30 million) in a massive swindle involving purchases of non-existent vegetables by a
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    • 207 5 United Press International Washington, Monday Secretary of State Henry Kissinger lists Franklin Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle and Mao Tse-tung among the "greatest people" of his lifetime. He says Metternlch, the Austrian statesman with whom he has been compared "is not one of my
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    • 76 5 The Thames Water Authority of ifritain, asking its staff to cut down on their telephone calls, says: "For the cost of a 10-minute call from Reading to London (about $6) the authority could supply sufficient water to flush 2500 toilets, wash a car once a week for
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    • 31 5 Reuter Teheran, Monday Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad arrived here yesterday for a threeday state visit and was welcomed at the airport by the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah.
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    • 125 5 Reuter Paris, Monday.—French secret agents are sometimes killers, a man Identified as a counterespionage chief said in a television Interview yesterday. The admission was made by a man said to be a colonel In the secret intelligence agency SDECE (Surveillance de Documentation Extrieure et
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    • 314 6 'To show Greece is under US control' Reuter and UPI Athens, Monday A secret political group claimed yesterday it "executed" American CIA agent Richard Welch to demonstrate that the Greek Government and army "were under the control of US Imperialism. Greek police said the group's
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    • 184 6 Reuter Reykjavik, Monday The skipper of the Icelandic patrol boat lyr has claimed that his vessel was deliberately jammed by the Andromeda. a British Navy frigate. The incident happened about 82 km. off the Gerplr, the most eastern point of Iceland, yesterday morning. A
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    • 274 6 Due in court for embezzlement Reuter Buenos Aires, Monday Argentine Pre s 1dent Maria Isabel Estela Peron has dismissed former Social Welfare Minister Jose Lopez Rega from his post as Special Presidential Envoy, the Independent morning newspaper Clariti reported here yesterday. Mrs. Peron named him special
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    • 145 6 United Press International TODAY Is Monday. Dec. 29. the 363 rd day of 1975 with two to follow. THE MOON is moving toward a full moon THE MORNING STARS are Saturn and Venus. THE EVENING STARS are Jupiter and Mars. Those born on this date are under the sign
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    • 56 6 United Press International London, Monday—Britain's anti-sex discrimination law comes Into force today and Britons are wondering If the queen will now become a "throneperson The law Is aimed to give women—more than 50 per cent of the population of 58 millions equality of Job opportunity, pay and
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    • 260 6 Reuter Washington, Monday— Suggestions that President Ford Is clumsy and cannot co -ordinate his movements were denounced by White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen yesterday as "the most unconscionable misrepresentation of a President." Mr. Nessen's anger flared when he was shown a cartoon in yesterday's Denver
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    • 73 6 Reuter Hong Kong, Monday— China has reiterated for the second time in four days that, with what it called the intensification of the Boviet-U.B. contention for world domination, the danger of a new global war was increasing. The official New China News Agency said in a lengthy
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    • 251 6 Reuter Geneva. Monday. The director general of the 110-airline International Air Transport Association (lATA). Mr, Knut Hammarskjoeld. said today that 1976 could be a critical and perhaps decisive year for the industry. Most of the world's airlines had operated at a deficit or close to
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    • 154 6 Reuter Karachi, Monday.—The People's Party of Prime Minister Zulflkar All Bhutto was last night declared winner of a Slnd provincial assembly byelectlon marred by the arrest of one of the candidates and violent clashes between rival supporters. Mr. Pyarall Allana polled 31,797 votes according to
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 192 6 WORLD WEATHER New York Sunny 2-4 C. Headline: India mine blast and floods trap hundreds In pits. London Overcast, 6-9 C. Headline: 300 men trapped as blast floods put. Rome Bunny, minus 3-14 C. Headline: There are 10 million workers waiting for contracts. San Francisco Fair, 7-15 C. Headline: India
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 681 7  -  Is this award for top films facing a crisis? From Bob Thomas Associated Press Is Oscar facing a quality crisis as he approaches his 48th year? Academy watchers think that may be happening. With the year's end, all of the Oscar
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 67 7 r* T, O<mwl. *»*w -JJiiiSS. 5 RinG in DEUI VEAft r^i vifc* s V I IfJHPf with a superb gourmet meal and dance to the sounds of The Pictures till the wee hours at the meet 31st December Ssss/- per person Plus 3% Govt. Tea No Service Charge For reservations,
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 523 7 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Bom today, you are one of those passionate. Independent people far more Inclined to lead than to follow, to master rather than serve. Very early in life you will Drobably gain a reputation for bold, courageous action, for you are by nature one
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  • OPINION
    • 287 8 If the Singapore co-operative movement is to achieve the same sophisticated level of organisation of its counterpart in the West, it must go professional. The traditional practice of recruiting volunteers and part-timers to run the co-ops, ad hoc management committees and haphazard account-keeping must give
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    • WHISPERS By ISPY
      • 54 8 A friend planned an elaborate dinner date with a newly-met sweet young thing at The Stables. At the eleventh hour, he learned that the girl was already engaged and quickly switched his venue to Shenton Way. The big question now is: Where will he bring a
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      • 50 8 A cadet Journalist doing a speech writing exercise claimed that he had a photographic mind. However, when the speech script was kept by the Journalism instructor, he could hardlv scribble a few lines. "Indeed you have a photographic mind," said the instructor. "It produced a negative."
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      • 70 8 It happened at one time or another a child talking in his father's office lingo. A sub-editor asked his flve-year-old son to write his name. Imagine his surprise when the boy said: "Shall I write the first letter In caps (ca{>itals) and the rest In ower case
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    • 36 8  -  BEDOKIAN Singapore, 16. Could the authorities Introduce a regular bus service from Shenton Way to Bedok New Town? This can be done by either diverting or extending one of the existing bus services.
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    • 64 8  -  HOW MUN HENG I refer to the reDort in New Nation of Dec. 17 headlined "Viet refugees find peace here" wherein it was reported that Vietnamese who have been allowed to sett'e down here have been granted Singapore citizenship. I wish to point out that none of the
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    • 260 8 f VOICE OF THE PRESS J BERITA HARIAN The Singapore Taxi Drivers' Association has announced its plan to Install radio telephones In some 200 taxis which operate in the urt>an areas or at the Singapore Airport. The cost of Installing: such telephones In 200 taxis is
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    • 555 8  -  MONDAY WITH ISMAIL KASSIM ISMAIL KASSIM Thailand is in for a very difficult time next year. Like a festering body wound, the Muslim minority problem in the South has again taken a turn for the worse. The trouble this time started with the murder of
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    • 123 8  -  Resident Singapore IS. On the mornlrtg of Dec. 27. residents of block 19 Marine Parade woke up to find their taps run dry. The Public Utilities Board has turned off the water supply because there was a leak In the water pipeline which flushes the dustbin chute.
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  • FEATURE
    • 1366 9  -  By Ismail Kassim The third quarter of the 20th century is drawing to a close but the approaching dawn of the new year does not herald the coming of a new epoch. The three-decade postwar objectives of world peace, prosperity among nations and justice
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  • SOCCER SPECIAL
    • Article, Illustration
      764 10/11  -  by Florence Tan He has hundreds of fans in Singapore yet he prefers to play away from home matches—so that he can get away from the crowd. Said Mat Noh, who is often described as Singapore's Allan Clarke and soccer's glamour boy: "I find less pressure from fans
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      699 10/11 Samad Alapitchay, the hefty Singapore sweeper who has a reputation for hard tackles doesn't see why he should tone down his play. The 1.75 m. 68 kg "Rock of Gibraltar", said: "If the situation calls for R, I don't see why not. "Sometimes, It is the only way
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  • PLEASURE
    • 563 12  -  Cinema by Edgar Koh BORN INNOCENT directed by Donald Wrye, with Linda Blair, Joanna Miles, Kim Hunter and Richard J a e c k e 1 (Plaza). A socially-significant "message" film Is difficult to make well and even harder to sell. By and large, people go
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    • 322 12 Barrel chested, with a deep husky ▼olce, Freddie Tira, the Polynesian entertainer is the epitome of the happy, casual people of the South Pacific Inlands. Born In Raratonga one of the smaller Islands Freddie's s.nglng came Just as naturally as climbing coconut
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    • 486 12 A movie queen who has not faded United Press International Ann Blyth Is among the most rare of all the beautiful flowers that ever bloomed in Hollywood a perennial who hasn't faded with the years. Her contemporaries Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth.
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    • 69 12 UHN r.ABLt 1 hi of sophistication ,in<f the |)<*r ft'i t '.t.ii t t<< youi Hi Fi projoct k k MJ< M tSmm m, i it in Join in the fun of New Year with us! FREE Champagne to lucky patrons. THE TWIUTES will 5a /n attendance. ttfliV Opan to
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 346 12 AT THE CINEMA THE DAT OF THE JACKAL: The Frederick Forsyth bestseller about the attempted assassination of President De Gaulle of France In 1963 by a lone kl'ler hired by the French Secret Army Organisation; starring Edward Fox, directed by Fred Zinnemann from a screenplay by Kenneth Ross. Rex, Globe:
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  • TREND
    • 358 13 Dear Ros: I am a 34-year-old spinster. Last year I met a 38-year-old bachelor at a home party. We met regularly after that, and I fell deeply in love with him. But I am not sure of his feelings for me. Another problem is that I
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    • 302 13 Dear Ros: I have a 14-year old niece who Is quite Intelligent, obedient and hird working In her studies. She is also a very talented artist. She should have a bright future, if properly guided. She has a 22-year-old boyfriend who seems a nice
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    • 230 13 Dear Ros: A friend once told me that a girl can lose her virginity through active sports. Is It true? I used to be very active In sports during my schooldays and have had a few bad falls. Now at 22, I am planning
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    • 190 13 Dear Ros: Recently, I found a letter which revealed that my fiance had seen his former girlfriend whom he knew two years ago before meeting me. Now I feel very hurt and cheated. When 1 asked him about the letter, he refused to talk, about it. Should I
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    • 225 13 Dear Ros: I am sccretly in love with a colleague who does not realise my feelings for him. We don't have much opportunity to talk to each other. How can I approach him? Also, if by chance we do become friends, how can I tell him
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    • 423 13 Dear Ros: I have been in love with my cousin since he broke off with his girlfriend six months ago. She has left for London for further studies. However, my cousin is still in contact with her. He told this to a friend of
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 540 13 Monday Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions oppear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address Tel: FILL IN MJSSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW Cut along dotted lines mmm <mm _J CLUES FOR BM-1 1. A person may reasonably do so when badly in need of a change 2. Lure
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  • FINANCE
    • 276 14 The Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (SISIR) plans to Introduce new technologies to local manufacturers over the next tew years. In Its latest annual report SISIR said this will be done through selective development and research (D R) programmes or through the acquisition
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    • 204 14 The number of ships on the Singapore Registry of Ships Increased significantly by 36.3 per cent at the end of last year over the previous year. According to the Marine Department's annual report for last year, there were 1050 ships totalling 3,387,947 gross registered tonnage
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    • 106 14 Prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australia time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange: Allstate 09 15 Beach 27 28 Bridge 13 15 Cleveland 22 23 Endeavour 13 14 Fllnd 20C Opt 03i 04J Inter Kin 06 00} i Kath Inv 143 145 Klaora nil 20 Mid E Mins 28 33
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    • 136 14 A very short week at the Italian Stock Exchange, operating only two sessions due to Christmas festivity. The general stock index closed almost at previous Friday's level on low volume of transactions. Light Improvement was recorded by the bond market on low trading volume. Closing prices on the Milan
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    • 781 14 Hong Kong, Monday Hong Kong long has been one of the clothiers of the world. Its quality tailor-made men's suits, chic synthetic women's dresses and fashionable knitwear are but a few of the thousands of Items of textile exports from which the colony
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    • 294 14 NEW YORK Associated Press Declining interest rates and hopes that a year epd rally was beginning on Wall Street combined to produce a healthy Christmas week advance in the stock market. The Dow Jones average of 30 Industrial climbed 15.43 to 859.81, moving once again
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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    • 210 14 The rest of the stock market roundups from Paris, London, Tokyo, Frankfurt and Zurich are not available due to the Christmas holidays. AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND Beautiful Perth, Melbourne, Sydney Katoomba Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch fc Mr Cook 12/21 days $1950/ *2950 Dep: 3/2, 9/3. «/4 EUROPE 10 romantic countries Italy. Austria.
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  • MOTORING
    • 702 15  -  Honda Super Sport and Yamaha racer are top ones here by Lee Chiu San I am having a hard time trying to make up my mind on which was the best motorcycle I rode in 1975. So many of the bikes I tested were good. A
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    • 265 15 Associated Press The US Government's Environmental Protection Agency announced recently the official fueleconomy performances of 24 more 1976-model automobiles, with three of them beating the previous petrol mileage record. A Honda Civic with a IW2 cu.cm engine and manual transmission and without an antipollution catalyst moved ahead
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    • 321 15 CHAMPION MOTORS (1975) PTE LTD VOLKSWAGEN CARS AND COMMfRCIAIS land 0000 ROVER ROVCR AUTO UNION Dealer Authorised General Motors Dealers for: BBSS BEDFORD Trucks VAUXHALL Cor. CHEVROLET Cor/Lur Pick up CADILLAC Limousin* ORCHARD MOTORS (S) PTE. LTD. 0 RENAULT CENTURY MOTORS (S) PTE. LTD. Workshop Showroom Soar* Port* Contro 31/33,
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 385 16 INAL ***** ft 200 WORD MIMI'S BAR, RESTN/ NITE* CLUB, 2, Orange Grove Rd., (Orchard Hotel Basement), S'pore-10, formerly known as the Oolden Venus, presents you with special Dance Nttes on New Year's Eve and on New Year's Day. Normally, It's a nlteclub but for these festive days, we specially
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    • 308 16 UNO HONQ CONTRACTOR 1 ROCHDALE ROAD Singapore tt TEL: MMN7/ SKMMSt H.D.B. LICENCE NO: PE/ISO? LET US BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME, OFFICE OR FLAT TO LAST A LIFE TIME. Tfr if I II lifajCMm Tvhn, Marti*. Natural Marbl* CMpa, M—a*c. Wood Panale. Rub bar Vnyt, Italian Ceramic Tftm Etc.. OUR SERVICE
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    • 294 16 'PAYMENT). Sewing Motor given away free with every Cash Purchase of Z/Z Sewing |Machines. Offers ends soon. Call atL Atomic Eloctrical Trading Co., Mtktd Ml 22 ft 23, 1* ft 17), 104-B, Bfc. 15, Holiand Drtvo, Tofc, M 4009. REPAIR ft TRADE-IN YOUR old sewing machines, T.V., refrigerators for our
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    • 220 16 m PHARMACIST AVAILABLE FOR wholesale retail pharmacy In pharmatlcal/ veterinary/ cosmetics/ toiletries/ sundries (Indoor/ outdoor). Marketing/ planning/ promotional/ saleforce supervision activities preferred. Apply to: NN Box FOR COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC requirements, studio art works, commercial advertising, clnematographer/ colour processing services. 3R 55«. Reasonable priced cameras Kodak Instamatlc S6X $24. Consult Mellow
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    • 416 16 ROYAL HOTEL: NEWTON ROAD. REFRESHING: SAUNA A STEAMBATH I RELAXING: MASSAGE FACIAL RING: *****1/ 5*4411 EXT. 111. 10 a.m. 10.30 p.m. dally. OONA'S FOR A MASSAGE Well Done! Ring *****96 for appointment (1 p.m. 10 p.m.) JSS2SL I FOR SALE Limited Ist floor shops are available at> GOLOEN MILE SHOPPING
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    • 124 16 PRINCE ROOM RESTAURANT eaters (or delicious Hongkong tlm-sum, 8.00 a.m. 3.00 p.m. dally. Also available set lunch, dinner private functions Tel: *****4. Selegle Complex, S'pore Disney Restaurant A Cortes House Ist Floor, Roblna Houm (1) DELICIOUS INDONESIAN FOOD (2) SATAY GADO OADO (3) COCONUT ICE CREAM (4) WESTERN DISHES AND
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  • SPORT
    • 1016 17 Thai's Saensak is world champ after only 3 bouts Associated Press Tokyo, Monday World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad All's title fights in Malaysia and the Philippines were easily the fights of the year 1975 in Asia. They were the most widely covered and. In the view
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    • 147 17 Hobart, Monday Klaloa "of the United States broke the Sydney-to-Hobart ocean race record by almost 11 hours when the ketch took line honours here yesterday. The 24-metre ketch crossed the line only 2400 m ahead of American rival Windward Passage In one of the closest
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    • 206 17 Reuter Madras, Monday An Internatl onal field hockey tournament opens today with little prospect of a real challenge to India, the World Cup holders. The world's top teams. Including Pakistan and Holland, were originally expected to play, but delays In Unallslng the programme and sending out
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