New Nation, 4 February 1976

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  • 20 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Wednesday February 4, 1976 No. 1554 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 428/76 WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1976
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  • 153 1 Reuter Unlta Nations, Wednesday— Mr*. Shirley Temple Black, former child star and now amWswdor to Ghana, who Is tipped to take over as ITS ambassador to the United Nations following the resignation of Mr. Daniel Patrick Moynlhan last night Another woman. Dr. Bits Harner. a
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  • 301 1  -  4000 in save water campaign as the wells run dry I By Susie Soh More than 4000 residents in Tekong Bes&r and Tekong Kechil. two islands off Changi Point, are on a voluntary savewater campaign because their wells are running dry. There had been no heavy rain
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  • 189 1 The proposed Bangkok meeting of Afro-Asian-Latin American countries in April to consider boycotting the Montreal Olympic Games is being organised at a high level, writes Jeffrey Low. This possibly explains the reported denial by a Thai National Olympic Committee official in Bangkok of yesterday'?
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  • 142 1  -  By Lee Yew Meng The financial arrangement between the Mosbert Group and its major creditor Moscow Narodny Bank, under which the bank agreed to continue g r a nt in g credit facilities, ap- pears to be falling apart. The bank's solicitors, Lee and Lee, said that
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    • 140 1 !OMO Jeans M Inside This tipsy world! —Page 5 SIA opts lof Boeing Page 2 Stock market prices Page 2 Midweek by H.L. Lim Page 11 IN THE OTHER PAGES: Money words 12; Stars IS; Crossword 14; Comics 18. Ul s v- v V IT M The gods of Luck,
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  • 255 2  -  By Peter Ong It Ls almost certain that Singapore Airlinrs will buy three Boeing 727-200s at a cost of $54 million. These bigger aircraft will replace the existing fleet or live Boeing 73<s because of the Increasing demand. Mhree top officials from the boelng
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  • 46 2 A Japanese language beginners course will be conducted by the Adult Education Board on Sunday at the Beatty Secondary School centre, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. For further details contact the AEB offices at 128 Cairnhill Road or the Cultural Centre, Canning Rise.
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  • 126 2 Protocol formalities will be kept to a minimum during the two-day official visit of Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein bin Onn, which begins tomorrow. This is in view of the close relations between the two neighbouring countries. The informal arrangement was agreed upon about four years ago
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  • 184 2  -  By Rav Dhaliwal Twenty dark yean ai the telephone •witchboard have not taken away Mr. B.L. Lee's enth miasm for work. Doe to retire from his Job at the Botanic Gardens at the end of this year. Mr. Lee, 54, believed to be the
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  • 217 2 The newly-approved books and materials for the restructed seven year primary school course can continue to be used despite the major policy changes announced by the Minister for Education Mr. Chua Sian Chin, last month. This assurance has been given by the Education Ministry to the Book
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  • 336 2 Stock market Prices moved lower across the board on the Stock Exchange of Singapore In the first 45 minutes of trading this morning. This was the first concerted downtrend seen in the morning session for several weeks. Losses were, however, marginal. 0.C.8.C., the star
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  • 41 2 The Singapore Kennel Club will hold Its 11th Championship Show In the exhibition hall of the National Stadium on Bunday. Judging will be from 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. There will be 205 entries of at leaat 38 breeds.
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    • 642 2 AT THE CINEMA 810 TIMES FOR THE CRAZY BUMPKINS: Wong Bar and Ya Fong return as the crazy bumpkins who find a bag of Jewels. The find leads to ridiculous happenings. Capitol: 1.30. 4, 6.45, 9.30. THE HORSEMAN AND THE SAMURAI: A spaghetti Western set In the East with Tony
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  • 251 3  -  By Nancy Koh Singapore Armed Forces is building a $20 million condominium type housing estate for sale to its regular officers. The project, being undertaken by the Hooting and Development Board. is part of the new Ayer Rajah housing complex. It Include* five 22storey point Mock*
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  • 199 3  -  By Joachin Tan Flats, semi-detach-ed terrace houses and bungalows in Med way Park, Gloucester Park and Wessex Estate once occupied by Anzuk forces are being offered to the public for rent by the Housing and Development Board. According to a HDB spokesman there
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  • 247 3 The Public Works Department is studying a proposal to build an underpass for people going to the National Stadium from the city. The proposal tm put up last year by the Singapore Sports Council and the police. The underpass Is to Increase pedestrian
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  • 110 3 Singapore cannot afford to be Just a nation of onlookers, says the editorial of the latest Issue of Bports, a magazine published by the Singapore Sports Council. It says: "Statistics show that last year, nearly one million people attended football games at the National Stadium. Of thin
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    346 4  -  FOR STAMFORD AND HONG LIM AREAS By Wang Look Fung This is how Stamford and Hong Lim will look by the end of next year. These two slum areas, among the few left within the city, will soon be cleared to improve living conditions. Rows and rows
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  • 79 4 Singapore's foreign assets stood at $7375.5 million as at the end of September last year, according to official statistics. This is an increase of $873 million compared with the total for ilrst nine months of 1974. Singapore's foreign assets have been Increasing rapidly since
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  • 176 4 About 120 male Singapore citizens, who are married to Malaysians, have applied to become permanent residents In Johore. This was disclosed by an official of the Malaysian Immigration Department. The department grant* ed Singapore citizens three months temporary stay in Malaysia last
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  • 300 4 First in 10 years Singapore's total external trade last year fell by $2532 million or 7.3 per cent compared with the performance in 1974 —the first drop in 10 years. Prellmlnary figures from the Department of Statistics showed that the Republic's total trade amounted to $34,560
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  • 58 4 The Adult Education Board will conduct a course on logic design with Integrated circuits at the St. Joseph's Institution centre beginning Feb. 24. Lessons will be held every Tuesday from 7 p.m to 9.30 p.m. The fee la $65. For details, call at the Board's office at 126
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  • 334 4 Undercutting will be further curbed when two more airlines sign the standardised discount pact on Feb. 15. Malaysian Airline System and China Airlines have been accepted as members of the pact, which was signed by Singapore Airlines, Thai International and Cathay Pacific Airways on
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  • 892 5 Experts split on whether to blame affluence, recession, pressures or permissiveness Reuter London, Wednesday Drinking is on the increase in most of the world but the experts can't agree whether we're drowning more sorrows or just making more whoopee. The trend seems to cut
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  • 266 5 Reuter Tel Avhr, Wednesday Israeli troops .tired mortar shells 5 km Into Lebanese territory yesterday to head off possible Arab guerrilla attacks. Officers said they had spotted movement of what they believed to be Arab guerrillas across the border. Newsmen saw tne shells
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  • 121 5 Reuter Cairo, Wednesday A three-man Investigation committee has said the late Egyptian President Nasser had not misused state funds, the official Middle East News Agency said. The three-man committee Investigated allegations made by an Egyptian journalist that the late President had deposited US$l5 million ($37.5 million)
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  • 24 5 Reuter Ankara, Wednesday Ten people died and 20 were Injured yesterday when a packed passenger bus plunged into a ravine near here,
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  • 234 5 Reuter Bonn, Wednesday West Oermany yesieday expressed regret that the US Intended to follow Iceland and extend Its offshore fishing limits to 320 km. State Secretary Fritz Logemann of the Agriculture and Food Ministry, said: "It Is regretataole 'ihat Washington should have announced
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  • 56 5 Reuter Antwerp, Wednesday Two Infants, aged nine and five, Inspired by heavy snowfalls during the past week, travelled across the Belgian countryside with their dolls' pram in search of Snow White. They were found lost 80 km away on the outskirts of Tillburg close to
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  • 151 6 Reuter Paris, Wednesday Western European drug squad chiefs yesterday sought to combat the latest drug menace in Europe—the "Asian Connection" of heroln-bas-ed "brown sugar". The drtig squad chiefs held a two-day meeting here, which ended last night, to exchange information on how best to
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  • 137 6 UPI TODAY Is Wednesday. Feb. 4, the 35th day of 1978 with 331 to follow. THE MOON Is between Its new phase and the first quarter. THE MORNING BTAR Is Venus. THE EVENING STARB are Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of
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  • 66 6 United Press International Katmandu, Wednesday At the age of 105, Harimaya Kadariya has grown two new teeth and dark hair once ag»ln, according to the government news agency of Nepal. Mrs. Kadariya, who dotes on candy and tea, has 906 children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Among them
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  • 464 6 Another hard-hitting speech on Angola Reuter San Francisco, Wednesday The US must make it clear to Moscow that it will never tolerate actions Hk» the Soviet intervention in Angola, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said yesterday. Blaming Congress for rendering the Ford Administration impotent
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  • 201 6 Reuter Cairo, Wednesday President Sadat yesterday telephoned K'ng Hassan of Morocco and President Houarl Boumedlenne of Algeria as Egypt Intensified Its efforts to defuse the Saharan dispute, the Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported. The semi -official agency said some
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  • 247 6 UPI Moscow, Wednesday The Soviet Union hit back yesterday at Western critics of its armed strength, cited the power of the US Navy and said alarmists who shout about a "Soviet menace" are trying to retard detente. Igor Orlov, senior commentator for the official T.iss
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  • 249 6 New expose by Goldwater Reuter Washington. Wednesday Several members of Congress who are privy to U8 Intelligence operations knew In the early 1970s that the CIA had set in motion plots to murder Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro Benator Barry Ooldwater said yesterday.
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  • 200 6 Reuter Paris, Wednesday. Central African Republic President JeanBedel Bokassa escaped an assassination attempt unhurt in Bangui yesterday, informed sources said here. But one of his aides was killed In the grenade attack at Bangui airport, the sources said. Two soldiers involved in the attack
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  • 34 6 Reute Barcelona. Wednesday Experts from 18 countries opened a two-week conference here yesterday to agree on measures to clean up the Mediterranean and prevent pollution from turning it into another dead sea.
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  • 138 6 Reuter London, Wednesday A veteran politician, solemnly digging his heels Into the carpeted floor, was dragged across the British House of. Commons yesterday and placed flrmly in a tallbacked chair. It was all part of the custom of electing the 153 rd "Bpeaker" (Chairman) for
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    • 204 6 •AIjMTT WEATHER New York Cloudy, minus 2-m1 n u i 9C. Headline: Moynlhan resigns poet at the UN. cites Harvard Job. Ban Francisco 207C. Headline: Moynlhan leaves UN post. Tokyo Fine. 14-IC. Headline: Russia accuses Ford, Kissinger on Angola reports. Rome Bunny. 17-4 C. Headline: The Lira continues to decline.
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  • 407 7 Machines for Red River delta UPI Bangkok, Wednesday North Vietnam will totally mechanise its crucial agricultural rice basket in the area around Hanoi, Communist Party chief Le Duan said during the Tet Lunar New Year celebrations. Radio Hanoi, in a broadcast monitored in Bangkok
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  • 310 7 Reuter Paris, Wednesday Four separatist gunmen last night held 31 French school children hostage In a bus on the edge of the desert at Djibouti and said they would only free them In exchange for immediate independence for this French Red
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  • 37 7 Reuter Brussels, Wednesday— Italy has ratified a trade and aid convention linking 46 developing countries with the European Common Market, meaning the accord will probably come Into force in April, EEC officials said, yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 74 7 Reuter Washington, Wednesday.—A wpman has been awarded U*****,000 ($917,500) In damages for rape in what Is regarded as an unprecedented Jury verdict against two men who pleaded guilty to assaulting her. The woman. Miss Mary Nl«"ht of Rockville, Maryland, said following the verdict last week she did
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  • 292 7 Reuter New Delhi, Wednesday. —The Indian government said yesterday that 27 of 54 separate charges against the ousted administration of the Tamil Nadu state had been accepted for Investigation by a commission of Inquiry. Minister of State for Home Affairs, Mr. Om
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  • 152 7 Reuter Jakarta. Wednesday The head of the staterun Pertamina oil company, Dr. Ibnu Sutowo, who has decided to take a long leave of absence In the US, had authorised Pertamlna's manager for general affairs. Dr. Wlyarso, to curry out the company's day-to-day
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  • 37 7 UPI Nicosia, Wednesday The Attorney-O e neral yesterday ordered the prosecution of Ntcos Sampso, who was President of Cyprus for eight days after a 1974 coup that temporarily toppled Archbishop Hakarols as Head of State.
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  • 277 7 Reuter London, Wednesday The British government's campaign (or majority state participation in North Sea oil development suffered a set-back yesterday when the head of Exxon, the world's biggest oil company, made his opposition public. Mr. Clifton Garvin, Chairman of the American oil
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  • 69 7 Reuter London, Wednesday— One hundred British mercenaries bound for Angola were detained by police here lp.it night after a tip that the men would be Issued with firearms, a police spokesman said. The men were taken from three buses believed to be en route to cross-channel ferries to
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  • 78 7 Soviet Defence Minister Mr. A. Grecbko (centre) chats with observers of foreign military delegations at Kavkas Corps manoeuvres. Tblg the first time the Soviet Union has invited observers from NATO countries to attend major military manoeuvres. Greece and Turkey, both members of the alliance, were
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  • 95 7 Manila, Wednesday The Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Mr. Oamanl Corea, said here yesterday there was growing awareness for the need to have a new International economic order. This was brought about by the current economic crisis In Industrialised
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  • 427 8 The world Is getting a more realistic perception of detente, which only two years ago was a magic word describing the rapprochement between the United States ana the Soviet Union. Angola, the bogged-down Salt negotiations, the stalled Geneva talks pnd superpower rivalry in the Indian
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 69 8 Japan recently received a curious request from the US space agency, NASA which wanted a few specially-bred smallshe pigs for tests on NASA's space shuttle programme. The pigs, about 50 cm long with extra- large ear* hare a body structure and Internal ortans which resemble those
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    • 30 8 A Chinese Armmanufacturing pork slices, had the following advert isement printed on the side of the bo*: "...the stall Is under expert supervision and hyglenlcally packed."
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  • 796 8  -  The game of intelligence and counter-intelli-gence came into the limelight with recent exposes on the activities of CIA. New Nation today presents another aspect of intelligence services-that of blackmail campaigns against their enemies. New York Times correspondent, C.L. Sulzberger, takes a look at the KGB's
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  • 136 8  -  JOHNNY, Singapore, 12. When I returned to Singapore by train one morning, I approached one of the taxi-drivers at the railway station to take me home. To my surprise, he insisted on a flat rate of $5 and refused my request to go by the meter.
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  • 426 8 VOICE OF THE PRESS NEW YORK TIMES The worst has been averted in Lebanon, at least temporarily. A new distribution of power among forces Inside and outside the divided country has now taken place. The political formula accepted by Christian and Muslim leaders after Syrian mediation
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  • 104 8  -  Sore Eyes Singapore, 14. Chulla Street easily ranks as the least attractive place In the business district of our country. While other parts of the Republic are green and clean, Chulla Street can boast of only a few "Instant trees" which are. however, really cut branches
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  • 107 8  -  HELEN METES (MRS.) I refer to the article Animal Smuggling (NN. 7.1.78). It was disappointing to note that the Government is still considering appeals for Singapore to become a signatory to the 1973 Convention on Trade In Endangered Species. By withholding our endorsement of the
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  • 70 8  -  ROBIN TAN Only two bus service* BBS Services 209 and 183 ply along Tlong Bahru Road towards Jurong. More often than not these services arrive full and do not stop for more passengers. Fortunately, there Is also the Scheme B Service 4; but It doec not
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  • 415 9 The Last Word by J.J. When speech can be embarrassing... A former colleague of mine stammers a lot. People who do not know him often wonder why he Is usually the most reticent In a group or why he never seems
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  • 790 9 OPINION Dr. B- Chakravor t y, of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, was in Singapore recently. New Nation interviewed him on regional security in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. OPINION today presents excerpts of that interview. QUESTION: How has
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    • 1000 10/11  - Ballet mania THEY ALL SAY YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO START by Jennifer Schoon Some art a little paunchy, a few are slightly tubby all round, nearly all are part their first flush of youth, but everyone la enthusiastic. That's what I found In the ballet for adults classes. Exercise.
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    • 1051 10/11  -  Wednesday, February 4,1976. by H. L. Lim Children are not necessarily Indulging in Idle chitchat when they gossip. Often the smalltalk is really a vital part of the growlngup process. For it is at these chin-wags that children compare notes, exchange facts and Ideas ana also a whole load
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    • 311 10/11 IF MISS HUANG Li Huan ever sets the chance, she'll swap her books and the tutorial rooms for the glamour of the stage. "Oh, I'd leap at the opportunity to become a professional dancer said Mln Huang who is a lecturer in statistics
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    • 280 10/11 MR. K.L. THIA an dngineer, first took up dancinf on the pretext thft it would improve his figure skating. At least, that was what he told himself. "Ice skating requires body control and basic ballet movements so I thought I would take It up for a
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    • 296 10/11 MRS. Han is one of the dancers who shows most promise—and she Is the mother of two children. Bhe was a very keen dancer bat Hopped when work, marriage and ehlldren took up all her time. Bat her "passion for ballet" got her started
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  • 872 12  -  Zambia, which declared a full state of emergency last week, is not the only troubled African state. Zaire, another of war-torn Angola's neighbours, is already showing signs of nervous tension. New Nation today presents a special report by New York Times correspondent Henry
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    • 562 12 :®eb3SH>: Wednesday BR-3 A Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Nome (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address Tel: FILL IN MISSING j LITTERS j ACROSS I USING I CLUES j BELOW Cut along dotted line* J CLUES FOR BR-3 1. Certainly not tame 2. In a foreigner who can't
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  • 533 13  -  f CINEMA by J.Holmberg CARRY ON GIRLS: Stars Sidney James, Barbara Winters, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Bernard Bresslaw with guest star Jimmy Logan. Directed by Gerald Thomas. This film Is really for the breast and bottom watcher for It centres round a group of beauty
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  • 983 13 Tokyo, Wednesday Originally, the first word of the new Japanese edition of the Encyclopedia Brltannlca was to have been "Aeschylus," the Greek tragic poet. But Its president, Frank Gibney, knew Japan and the Japanese. He made It "al," or love, instead. "Wan-Yen A-Ku-Ta." An old Asian
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    • 380 13 YOUR LUCKY IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are one of those persons who will bravely face any disappointment. You will work hard, struggle fiercely, accept challenges, fall more than you succeed but In the end you will be rewardea for your tenacity by a blossoming of talent that
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  • 394 14  -  FORECAST ON THE ECONOMY OF MOST COUNTRIES By Lee Yew Meng Inflation will still be the No. 1 economic Sroblem In moat counries this year, according to the United California Bank. (UCB). In its publication called Forecast "76, the bank also predicted the
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  • 56 14 Reuter London, Wednesday London's booming stock market broke records In January, mainly due to clamorous demand for government securiUes as well as shares. The Stock Exchange yesterday said turnover In gilt edged stock government securities totalled £15 027 million ($75,135 million > last month. This was
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 203 14 Strong buying Interests overcame persistent blue-chip profit-takers in a late rally yesterday to drive prices higher in heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Observers said Investors were encouraxed that fourth quarter corporate profits indicated the economy may be moving again and should produce favourable first quarter
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    • 183 14 DBS-Daiwa Securities International Ltd. The market opened firm centering on nonmargin stocks, but turned lower due to the increase of collateral on margin stocks. In the morning ses- slon, non-margin stocks such as I to Ham and Japan OasoUne were up over a broad front along with Tokyu Department
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    • 77 14 Reuter Closing price* (In francs) on the Parte Bourse yesterday. Pari bas 190 30 +1.70 Foncler 140 —50 Pr In temp* 63.10 —.10 Bull 37.30 +1.10 Royal Dutch 301.90 3.40 Mlchelln 1350 COE 311.50 +00 Thomson 343.10 +.10 CFP 144 10 —1.90 Rhone 105.40 +.30 Air 365 30 unch
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    • 81 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Closing prices (In Swiss francs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS B. 3500 10 UBS R. 918 2 SBC 4SS 3 Credit Suisse 3780 Swissair B. 903 13 Swiss Relnsur 3055 5 Wlnlerthur B ISM Zurich Insu r. Juvena B. MO ft Nestle B.
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    • 231 14 Prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange: Allstate 09 nU Beach 34 38 bridge 13 14 Cleveland nU 35 Endevaour 14 15 Pllnd 30C opt 022 04 Inter Mtn 18 17 KaUl Inv 185 170 Kalora 10 nil Mid B Mlns 44 nil Minefields
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    • 38 14 United Press International Dow Jones closing averages on New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 972 61 (up 1.3«>, 30 transport 1H 43 (up 0.40), IB utilities tl.39 (up 0 2». 65 stocks 397.64 (up 0.03).
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  • 193 14 MR. T. SETO has succeeded Mr. M. YAMADA as the new chairman and managing director of Bridgestone Singapore. Here to Introduce Mr. Seto were Messrs K. K. Hlrakawa and K. Ishlkure, senior managing director and managing director of Bridgestone Fire of Japan. Mr. M. Yamada who has
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  • 276 14 UPI Washington, Wednesday Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns said yesterday IJS was undergoing a "vigorous economic recovery" and the outlook this year was for a further substantial increase in production and employment. However, Mr. Burns warned there had been some worsening of the rate
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  • 125 14 UPI Brussels. Wednesday The dollar fell to a six month low against the Bwlss franc yesterday and hit new 12-week lows In Frankfurt' and Amsterdam. But there were signs Its slide was being halted based on the currency's advances In London, Paris and Brussels. Gold gained
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    • 297 14 NEW NATION CROSSWORD d ul ■I H dllllß J *1 VI iBII J irfHß 111 'ti 11 111 ACBOBB 1 Sail rapport 5 Pick up, as an option 10 Overly contrived 14 Taj Mahal site 15 La Bcala offering 16 Dam's mate 17 Algerian port 18 Dance 30 Dance 22
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  • 756 15 Reuter Paris, Wednesday France has gone into partnership with Arab banks to challenge American and British supremacy in the management of the fabulous sums of money generated by the oil rich Middle East. President Valery Discard D'Estalng's policy of building up Pans as a financial
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    • 339 15 JME3ZSI nam HO TRAVEL Service (Singapore) Pte. Limited. West Malaysia Tour (Inclusive Oentlng, Cameron Highlands) by deluxe alrcondltloned bus seven days 8*175/-, Departure Every Sunday, Monday. Oentlng Cameron Highlands by coach four days SSIOS/-, Oentlng Highlands four days B*lls/-, Departure Every Wednesday Bangkok, Chlengmal by deluxe alrcondltloned coach fourteen days
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    • 320 15 NOTICES OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME We, SOUTH SEA TANKERS PRIVATE LIMITED of 217, Clemenceau Avenue, Singapore, hereby give notice that In the Official Notice for Proposal to change a Shlp/s Name In Sunday Nation dated Ist February 1976 In respect of ship M.V. "8.8.5. II" the
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  • 305 16 Simons, Cooper and Monbiot...the match winners AP Reuter Hong Kong, Wednesday Singapore bsat Hong Kong 3-2 yesterday to win the team title in the Arst six-nation Far fist squash invitational championship. Hong Kong finished second and Malaysia placed third, beating the Philippines 4-1. The Philippines
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  • 618 16 Innsbruck, Wednesday The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday put •side their worries over Montreal's facilities lor the Bummer Games and looked ahead to 1980 before settling down to enjoy the winter sports programme which opens here today. In contrast to Montreal, where oosts soared
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  • 72 16 Bydney, Wednesday The Australian Wallabies Rugby Union team returned home yesterday with a detailed post mortem of the mixed successes during their -tour of Britain. On arrival at Sydney airport, tour manager Ross Turn bull said the 30 players were disappointed about winning only one of their four
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  • 321 16 Melbourne, Wednesday A depressed and dispirited West Indies with their morale at rock bottom are gloomily awaiting the Australian coup de grace to wind up the sixth Test and the tour here today. Australian captain Oreg Chappell said yesterday he will probably
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  • 781 17  -  CLUB SCENE bv Philip Tan MacPherson, currently in last spot in the TTiird Division and with every likelihood of having to apply to the Football Association of Singapore to stay in the League, are plagued with many problems. They are at present unable to get any
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  • 337 17 Upper Serangoon United who must win their Football Association of Singapore Division One League clash with Changl at Jalan Besar Stadium today (kick-off 6.30 p.m.) will have the services of Johore state player Zainuddin Ahmad. According to team manager Titus Miranda. Zainuddin. who is residing in
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  • 215 17 Reuter London, Wednesday Crystal Palace, runaway leaders In the English soccer Third Division only a few weeks ago, lost more ground last night and had two players ordered off as they flopped 4-1 at Rotherham. Trouble flared after a goalless first-half. Defender Derek Jeffries, cautioned earlier,
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  • 263 17 Wellington, Wednesday Canada, leaden of the World softball championship here, were yesterday given an unexpectedly tough time by Guam before winning 3-1 to remain unbeaten after six matches The Canadians scored all their runs in the first Innings. Highlight of the game was an automatic home run
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  • 98 17 AP Barcelona. Wednesday —Mark Cox of England beat Stan Smith of the US 8-3, 7-8 in the opening round of a US$l7,OOO (about 8*42,000) tennis tournament counting for the Orand Prix of the World Championships Tennis competition yesterday. Other results: Wojtek Flbak of
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  • 172 18 Reuter Melbourne, Wednesday Veteran Australian professional golfer Ted Ball yesterday withdrew from the A 520.000 (about SI60.000) Victorian Open golf championship rather than play with a girl partner. "If the organisers want women In the tournament they should play them together In a
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  • 71 18 Melbourne, Wednesday. —Top juniors Brad Bremwett and Ray Kelly were yesterday Included In Australia's Davis Cup tennis team to meet New Zealand in the eastern ■one final In Brisbane this month. The other members are John Neweombe, Tony Roche. Qeoff Masters and Rofs Case. The Australian
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  • 757 18  -  By ALBERT JOHNSON Fifty- four- year- old M. Sada.ll yesterday cruised to an easy 15-2, 15-6 victory over 8. Kurshi to take the men's veteran singles title lor the fourth time in iiie Singapore Civil Service Recreation and Sports Council badminton tournament. The veteran shuttler,
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  • 157 18 Reuter New York, Wednesday British boxing promoter Mickey Duff announced here last night that World Boxlnc Council welterweight champion John Stracey win defend his title against American Hedgemon Lewis at Wembley on March 16. Stracey, 26, from Bethnal Green, London, won the title last December 7
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  • 174 19 Reuter London, Wednesday The trial started nere yesterday of two men accused of staging a £300.000 (about $1.5 million) betting coup with the help of more than 100 accomplices. The alleged scheme, Involving three racehorses, was outlined by prosecuting counsel Mr. Ivor Taylor "t
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  • 415 19 Acrob*te*n was quickly out In front and was nicely clear of Btonlc Wonder at the home turn, wlta Mr. Big closing In. Swiss Clnb was In the rear. Aerobateen went further and further away In the straight to coast home by fire lengths.
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  • 193 19  -  By BLUE PETER Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Cup specialist Johnny Wilson has been engaged to partner Wonderful Surprise in the Gold Cup on Sunday. Wilson has already won three Selangor Gold Cups. In 1963 he won on Dark Romance. In 1972 he partnered the mighty Jumbo
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  • 852 19  -  RACING with Scrutineer Chaya Timor 11, winner of. the Tunku's Gold Cup in 1974, has regained his old sparkle and dash after a lengthy lapse. The New Zealand eight-year-old by Lionhearted must have pleased his connections with his performance In the Class 1 Division 2
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  • 53 20 MEI LIN: It looks H though we will have to go back to collecting rain water for washing drains and watering our gardens. AH FOOK: I don't see why these watersaving habits should not be adopted even during the wet season. Why save water only in the face
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    • 712 20 AMD RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT8 followed by MAJALAH KELL'AKGA: A mapline series presented In Malay by Halimah Yusof. This week's Items Include a cooking demonstration of pudding keladl or yam pudding by Rogayah Abdul Karim, a talkcum demonstration on the art of arranging betul nut leaves used In
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    • 211 20 CANNON: Trial By Terror. (Ch. 5, 8.35 p.m. In colour). Cannon usually winds up unravelling the biggest cases and the one he decides to look further Into is more complex than it appears to be on the surface. What starts out as a routine hunt for mlr dpg persons takes
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