New Nation, 6 February 1976

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  • 20 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Friday February 6, 1976 No. 1556 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 428/76 f NEW NATION comment]
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  • 217 1  -  SBS considering flat-rate charges of 30 and 50 cents By Wang Look Fung The Singapore Bus Service Is considering an increase in its fares to offset higher operational costs due to the recent hike in diesei prices. Informed sources said that passengers will soon have to
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  • 95 1 This u bride-to-be Nancy Yam, 21, one of the four people killed In the car-lorry crash at Upper Aljunled Road last night. A supervisor In the Marco Polo Hotel restaurant, Nancy was found dead In the rear seat of the Mini after the collision.
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  • 312 1 Reuter New York, Friday Stock prices dropped yesterday, registering their sharpest decline of 1976 on the heels of a prolonged advance that had carried the market to a 27-month high. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 964.81 with a loss of 11.41 points.
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  • 354 1  -  By Francis Rozario, Wang Look Fung Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and Datuk Hussein Onn reaffirmed in their talks last night that economic development was the ultimate guarantee of security and stability. This was stated by the Malaysian Prime Minister at a Press conference at
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  • 44 1 STOP PRESS Rome, Friday Hundreds of police wH 1 w»*»*»<*eMne cruns and tracker dors combed the hoge wooded grounds of the Egyptian Embassy early today after two unidentified Intruders enraged In a brief gun battle with police on guard outside the embassy compound.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 299 2 Hawaii calls —and Anita gets all excited again Singer Anita Sarawak will make a return appearance in Hawaii in April. She will take part in a cultural show included in the Pacific Area Travel Association's annual convention to be held at the SheratonWaiklki Hotel Irom April 25 to 28. Anita.
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  • 266 2 Among four crash victims By Bharathi Mohan A bride-to-be, a newly-married man and a Polytechnic student were among the four people killed in the car-lorry crash at Upper AlJunied Road last night. Their families were today still trying to find out where the four were going when their
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  • 260 2 The Metrication Board will refer the names of dealers caught selling shortweight liquified petroleum gas to LPG manufacturers for disciplinary action. A spokesman of the Board, sounding the warning, said It would meanwhile continue Its checks tor shortwelght LPG bottling. At a meeting held between officers of
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  • 265 2 STOCK MARKET Prices declined across the board at the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minutes this morning. Losses were generally marginal. In fact some of the top speculative stocks even attempted a mild rally towards 11 am. Pan Electric, one of the
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  • 66 2 The Malay Musical Association will hold a variety show at the National Theatre on May 30 to celebrate Its first anniversary. It also plans to hold a series of concerts at the Conference Hall and other venues at a later date and tour Indonesia, Sabah Sarawak and Brunei
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 645 2 AT THE CINEMA BIG TIMES FOB THE CRAZY BUMPKINS: Wong Bar and Ya Fong return as the crazy bumpkin* who find a bag of Jewels. The find leads to ridiculous happenings. Capitol: 1.90, 4, 645 f1.30 THE EIGKa SANCTION: A retired assassin returns to his trade, lured by his passion
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  • 10 2 Police reported 84 accidents yesterday, three serious and four fatak
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  • 277 3  -  By Rav Dhaliwal The S i n g a p o re Manufacturers' Association has met senior officials of the Ministry of Education to work out plans to train and provide Jobs In Industries for at least 2500 children who leave school prematurely yearly.
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  • 167 3  -  By Peter Ong The International C on f e deration of Free Trade Unions is likely to move its training college from New Delhi to Singapore this year. Sources said the Asia Regional Organisation of ICFTU will meet In May to discuss the matter. ICFTU
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  • 72 3 Physically unwell conductors or Singapore Bus Service may now enjoy the "sitting conductress" scheme designed for pregnant conductresses. This permits them to sit as they work. An SBS spokesman said that of the special seats on five service 151 buses, only one was being utilised by a
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  • 232 3 The PUB has discovered a number of unsafe electrical Installations during recent Inspections. Most of the Installations, according to a Board statement, were done by "Incompetent personnel without adequate knowledge of safety measures. The Installations were allowed to operate In complete Ignorance of the dangers
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  • 269 4  -  250 million can watch the opening, closing ceremonies By Florence Tan Two hundred and fifty million people In the five ASEAN countries may be able to watch the opening and closing ceremonies of the forthcoming summit in Ball. I n d on eslan officials preparing for
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  • 352 4 Watch it, says CASE The Consu tilers' Association of Singapore has cautioned ho u 8 ewives to be wary of "high pressure" sales talk by door-to-door salesmen. In the Consumer Guide programme over Television Singapore yesterday. CASE said: "Door-to-door selling Is now in fashion. There is nothing wrong
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  • 100 4 Mrs. Sim Bul Koon, 28. a school-teacher who was seriously Injured In a car crash on Chinese New Year day u out of the danger list. She and her husband Edwin 81m Seow Hock. 30, an accountant were one km away from home
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  • 29 4 The Malaysian High Commissioner to Singapore is Endk Mohd Yussof bin Zainal and not Datuk Abdullah bin All as reported In yesterday's New Nation. The error Is regretted.
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  • 137 4 The Mac Rite hie reservoir level has fallen from Its normal 11.1-metre mark to II metres because of the earrent drought. "The 11-metre mark meant the reservoir la only hokUnr 7# per eent of what It Is capable of. This Is a low level compared to
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  • 403 4 Most Singapore men are of the opinion that a woman's place is primarily in the home, acordlng to a survey conducted by a local sociologist. The results of the survey, oonducted by Dr. Aline Wong of the University of Singapore's Sociology Department, are reported In her book,
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  • 160 4 The latest easing of exchange regulations by the Monetary Authority of Singapore is a clear demon stratlon of Singapore'js commitment to make the ASEAN concept a reality, said Dr Tan Keng Yam, chairman of the Association of Banks In Singapore. He said the liberalisation
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  • 35 4 The Deputy Speaker and MP for Chua Chu Kane. Mr- Tang 6ee Chlm will speak at the Sepoy Lines Chinese New Year party at Outram Park Community Centre on Ifcb. 12 at Bpjn.
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  • 271 4 Marine police will get 20 high-perform-ance speedboats costing about $1 million to increase the 1 r effect lveness in guarding Singapore's waters. These boats are faster than any of the government craft at present. Each boat Is likely to be fitted with twin 135horse power outboard
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  • 35 4 The Director of Education, Mr. Chan Kai Yau, will attend the presentation ceremony of the 1975 Schools' Saving* Competition organised by the Post Office Barings Bank Barker Road on Saturday at 10 a.m.
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  • 402 5 Reviewing plans to defend Atlantic sea lanes Reuter Brussels, Friday NATO strategists are reviewing the alliance's ccntingency plans to defend South Atlantic sea lanes because of increased Soviet influence in Angola, diplomatic sou rces said here yesterday. NATO military policy In the area, which Is outside
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  • 177 5 Reuter Vienna, Friday. NATO and Warsaw Pact diplomats are holding urgent private talks following the presentation of new western proposals at the East-West Conference on troops reductions, officials said yesterday. The 19-natlon conference reassembled last week after a six-week recess and held Its 92nd
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  • 33 5 Reuter Washington, Friday Mrs Nancy Kissinger, wife of the U8 Secretary of Btate, Dr. Henry Kissinger, will enter Massachusetts General Hospital today for possible stomach surgery, the State Department said. Reuter.
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  • 232 5 UPI Jakarta, Friday Foreign Minister Adam Malik yesterday denied charges that Indonesian troops were employed in East Timor to take areas which UN diplomat Wlnspeare Gulcclardi Intended to visit. "They are false like the earlier charges that Indonesia had landed
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  • 100 5 UPI Bangkok, Friday Thailand's official radio said government military forces wiped out a terrorist camp 300 km north of Bangkok yesterday. The radio said government forces had been operating In Phltsanulok Province since late last month. "The military Hllml two terrorists and captured numerous
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  • 200 5 Reuter United Nations, Friday Japan Increased Its contribution to the world food programme by 25 per cent to US$7.5 million ($18.7 million), two-thirds of which will be in commodities, according to a list of pledges published yesterday. These totalled US$523 million ($1307.5 million)
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  • 149 6 AP Washington, Friday. A union representing American clothing workera said yesterday It would begin picketing department stores across the US In an attempt to choke off imports of low-priced clothing. The target of the boycott activity Initially will be clothing Imports from South
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  • 330 6 French row with Somalia grows Reuter Paris* Friday France airlifted troop reinforcements to Djibouti yesterday amid a growing row with Somalia over the kidnapping of 30 French children in a school-bus by Bomal la-backed guerrillas. French foreign legionnaires and sharp shooters rescued all but
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  • 257 6 Reuter West Berlin, Friday A 23-year-old South Korean nurse was found strangled l£ her room at a nurses' home here yesterday, police said. She vu the second South Korean nurse to be found strangled here In two months. Her body was found naked and
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  • 192 6 Reuter Manila, Friday The third ministerial meeting of the Oroup of 77 winds up today with unity sealed among developing nations, conference Secretary-General Manuel Collantes of the Philippines said yesterday. Mr. Collantes, his country's foreign Undersecretary, said the "political declaration and programme of action
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  • 25 6 Reuter Islamabad, Friday Prime Minister Zulflkar All Bhutto today lifted restrictions Imposed last month on highly-skilled Pakistanis going abroad for better-paid Jobs.
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  • 107 6 Reuter Sydney, Friday A part Aboriginal woman from North Queensland will make Australian legal history today when she becomes the first member of her race to be sworn In as a banister of the New South Wale* Supreme Court. She Is Mrs. Patricia o*Bhkne. 34. mother
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  • 153 6 UPI TODAY Is Friday, Feb. 6. the 37th day of 1978 with 329 to follow. THE MOON la approaching 1U first quarter. THE MORNING STAB Is Venus. THE EVENING STAB are Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. Actresses Zsa Zsa
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  • 78 6 UPI London, Friday—Britons now have a new opportunity to get away from it all, Alcoholidays. Under travel agent Tom Rills scheme, £45 ($225) buys a four-day trip to the Spanish holiday Island of Majorca. The special attraction is an unlimited supply of free liquor 12 hours a
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  • 143 6 London, Friday The British government last night ordered Royal Naval frigate* back into Iceland'* disputed 320 km fishing sone to protect British trawlers, the Defence Ministry here said. The British action came only a few hours after the Icelandic pat trol vessels
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 192 6 TaT New York Cloudy, 1-minus SC. Headline: Concorde flights to U8 approved for 16 months. San Francisco Rain, 10-2 C. Headline: Patty jury heart both sides she is a "robber" or a "victim." London: Cloudy, snow at times 1- minus 3C. Headline: Concorde wins first battle for US flights. Parts
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  • 279 7 Reuter Washington. Friday Benate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield yesterday sharply criticised Secretary of State Kissinger for making speeches throughout the country blaming Congress for foreign policy problems. "This Is not the time for finger pointing on either side." the Montana Democrat said In a speech
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  • 352 7 Japanese crisis over 'graft* Reuter Tokyo, Friday A political storm that could build into typhoon proportions threatened Japan's conservative establishment last night following disclosure in a US Senate subcommittee of huge payments by the American Lockheed Aircraft Corporation to a shadowy but powerful ultrarightist In Tokyo.
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  • 110 7 Reuter Paris. Friday French Communist Party chiefs won broad support at the 22nd Party Congress here yesterday for a decision to abandon "the dictatorship of the proletariat" as their goal. In his opening address on Wednesday, party leader Georges Marchals dismissed the hallowed communist
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  • 190 7 Reuter Geneva, Friday The International Narcotics Control Board yesterday warned governments against relaxing their vigilance against drugs use and trafficking although the world was growing "accustomed to living with the drug problem." In its annual report for 1975. the board called for
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  • 152 7 Washington, Friday The US is making available US$5OO,OOO ($1.25 million) in emergency relief aid for victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Guatemala City on Wednesday, the White House announced yesterday. It also said a sevenman military disaster survey team had flown to Guatemala
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  • 164 7 Reuter Tokyo, Friday. Australian Deputy Prime Minister Douglas Anthony told officials of Japan's Marubeni Corporation yesterday his government would accept new investment In Australia basically on a 50-50 basis Marubeni officials said. They quoted him as adding, however, that the government would not necessarily
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  • 23 7 Reuter Saigon, Friday A census was being conducted In South Vietnam today prior to the national elections on April 25. Reuter.
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  • 401 8 The style and orientation of Mr. Malcolm Fraser's government at once quiet, confident and conservative has been established within the short space of five weeks. It contrasts with the rhetorical activism of his predecessor, Mr. Oough Whit lam, who is being held responsible by many
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 66 8 Countries with problem* of oil shortages may find consolation In Hungary's plight—a paprika shortage. The red spice, which Is Included In Just about every Hungarian dish, has now to be imported from Bpain, much to the humiliation of Hungarian palatesl But what they probably don't know
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    • 56 8 A cigarette lighter which belonged to General Charles de Gaulle. the late French President. Is up tor auction, and the proceeds will be donated to a cancer research organisation. The late General would have approved of It although he was a heavy smoker, he strongly disapproved of
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  • 177 8 VOICE OF THE PRESS NANYANG SIANG PAU The 1977 budget presented by President Ford shows a significant Increase In defence spending, In what appears to be a departure from from Dr. Kissinger's policy of detente with the Soviet Union. This indicates that the US, like the Soviet
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  • 484 8  -  FRIDAY WITH EDGAR KOH EDGAR KOH Kuala Belait, (Brunei), Friday From this house near the sea, I can hear the constant roar of the surf as the wind from the South China Sea whips up the waves into white foam and sends it crashing on
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  • 566 8 NYT Hone Kong, Friday Western music may have been banned In China as decadent, but If Chinese students want to freak out they can try a new unex- purgated EnglishChinese dictionary published In Shanghai. The dictionary, the first English-Chinese dictionary published in China in over
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  • 108 8  -  NELLIE KO (MRS.) I refer to your report Stop This Abuse Trunk Calls Warning (NN. 24.1.76). This gives an Impression that unofficial trunk calls made by the Board's staff are rampant. This is not so. The circular quoted was not Intended for all our staff in vocational
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  • 57 8  -  FED-UP Singapore 15. SBS Services 32 and 41 are very irregular, especially Service 41. These are the only buses residents of Frankel Avenue can use. Everyday, we wait 20 to 30 minutes for a bus home, and in the evening peak hours, the situation gets worse. I hope
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  • 330 9  -  The Last Word I b y' J.J. It was reported earlier this week that the Speaker of Britain's House of Commons had banned the use of a few more offensive words, including "swine", in Parliament. The Speaker, it Is unreliably reported, has also compiled a glossary
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  • 1148 9  -  Violet Oon The number of sexual crimes in Singapore rose from 254 in 1974 to 309 in 1975, an Increase of 20 per cent, according to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tan Teck Khim. While the reported cases of outrage of modesty increased from 172
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  • 1677 10/11  -  Pressures level off —yet no sign that hawkers willlower prices El Sonny Yap L.H. Lee, an office executive, returned from lunch fuming. "Bob and I ordered the same pieces of Indian rojak, but when it was time to pay up, the charges were different," he lamented.
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  • 793 10/11 BOYCOTT—this is the weapon consumers can unleash against hawkers who persist in over-charg-ing and cheating, according to consumer champion Mr. Ivan Baptist. The executive secretary of the Consumers' Association of Singapore (CASE) strongly believes this form of action can be effective
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  • Page 10/11 Miscellaneous
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    • 365 12  -  Shop Around SET YOUR HOME AGLOW J. SCHOON Don't put your lamps In the shade. Lights .up your home with lamps that shine In unusual shapes. Fabric shades are out. In are globes In opa- que or tinted glass; cleverly concealed bulbs in geometric
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    • 453 12  -  He's flying high and fearlessly Sundown scene bob Jennifer Schoon FOR SOMEONE who never wanted to become an acrobat, So Sin Hlng sure has come a long way. Currently performing at the Neptune Theatre Restaurant, Sin Hing, from Hong Kong, performs some hair-raising
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    • 298 12 Doc's Casebook SL Mrs. H called to say her son had a bad fall and had eat the muscles of his left leg badly "Would It be possible for Wm to meet in the ho s p i tair* she asked. Tommy's
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    • 147 13 Putting yourself In a polka dotted dress isn't such a dotty Idea. In fact dots (like itrlpei), are a perennial fashion favourite. Sport an outfit with spots and you're always in stride with fashion. Bold spots make a splash. especially
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    • 808 13  -  AND FEELINGS WERE STILL WARM bachelor Rambling Rose It was at a weddJ.ng reception. Not mine. Nor his. But somebody else's. But there we were a year after we said the Last Goodbye. Meeting an old love is always a trying experience for me.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 447 13 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are an intensely logical person who is given to periods of absolute panic when what is and what logically ought to be do not coincide. It pains you both emotionally and intellectually when you And as you sometimes must in
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  • 408 14 Business News and 'Views Reuter UPI Tokyo, Friday Japan continued to prop up the value of the US dollar yesterday, In a move designed mainly to preserve the competitiveness of Japanese exports Informed banking sources said the Japanese Central Bank bought up UBslso million ($375
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 163 14 The stock market suffered 1U worst loss In two months yesterday when a wave of profit-taking battered a tired New Tear rally in heavy trading on the New Tork Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones Industrial average, k 124.21polnt gainer through Wednesday, plunged 11J1 points to 064.81 the worst
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    • 34 14 UPI Dam Jonee c toeing areragee on New York Stock exchange It■tin liej 30 lnduetrtato (Mil (off 11.81), 30 traniport 100.83 (off 3.13). IB utUltlee 91.13 (off 0.77). etocke 390.18 (off 1.34).
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    • 203 14 DBS-Daiwa The market opened firm centring on highpriced light electrical* due to the rise of foreign stock market*. But later In the session. It became bearish centring on stocks of companies with poor business performances. Hoya glass. TPJA: 4MS.M (—UK) T*. HI-Low 4554.3S (1/S1) 4401.06 (1/15); TBi: S4I.M <—0.56).
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    • 58 14 Reuter Prices at 11.30 un. today (Australian time) o n the Sydney Stock Cichan «e ACT 135 143 ADC nil M Ampot Pet *1 63 Ant 130 123 API* 140 143 Bank NBW 650 #54 Brambles 183 nil BHP 874 880 Boral 334 338 CBA nil 290 C8R 390
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    • 49 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Closing price* (in Bviae francs) on the Zurich Stock UBS Bearer MOO UBS Registered 523 SBC BOO Credit Sutam MOO 3 16 ITS w Swlae Reinaur. 3070 Wlnterthur B. I MO Zurich Ineur. 6378 Jurem B. 640 Nestle B. 3600 5 38 6 M
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  • 183 14 from the j DOG HOI SI by PG The 11th Championship Dog 8ho« by the BKC to be held on Sunday at the Exhibition Hall af the National Stadium will be judged by Mrs. Thelma Orey who started breeding showing dogs In 1927. In 1933 she
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  • 268 14 Reuter London, Friday Small investors yesterday rushed to take up a direct stake in Britain's North Sea Oil when one of the largest commercial loan issues ever launched on the stock market here was put on offer. Application lists for stock totalling £75.750,000
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  • 124 14 Reuter London, Friday A major holding In one of Britain's biggest construe tlon companies. Richard Costaln Ltd. has been bought back by Arab Interests—changing hands for the third time In Just over a year —It was announced yesterday. The British trading conglomerate, Lonrho. said It sold
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  • 163 14 AP London, Friday The Guatemalan earthquake disaster sparked off a new wave of coffee-buy-ing on the London commodity market causing prices to go up by US$3B to US$3O ($7O to $75) a metric ton, dealers confirmed yesterday. Although reports from Guatemala are still sparse, traders
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    • 402 15 NOTICE NOTICE 18 HEREBY OIVEN that I, Re tan a samy KrUhnamutl of No 2-C, One Tree Hill Singapore, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop licence in respect of premises No. 20, Kum Hlng Court, Tomllnaon Rd Singapore, (10) and that this application will be heard In Court No
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  • 295 16  -  By i ALBERT JOHNSON Singapore Amateur Athletic Association will send a team to take part in the Indonesian Amateur Athletic Association's Open invitation championship to be held at Jakarta on March 27-28. SAAA secretary K L Venugopalan sa«d the ■election of the team will be baaed on
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  • 683 16  -  By BRIAN MILLER The Ministry of Home Affairs established themselves as firm favourites when they scored a convincing 4-1 victory over the team from Prima Minister's Office la the first round of the Inter-Mlnlstry badminton tournament at Parrer Park yesterday. Home Affairs, who had the
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  • 252 16 UPI Lower Hutt, Friday Canada repealed Its lint round success In the World Softball championship when they defeated the United States 2-1 here yesterday. Canada scored both their runs In the first Innings. Norm McLeod reached first base when the American fielder, Carl Walker, dropped the Incoming
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  • 215 16 sattjEDAV RACE ONE: tM. CI 4 Dir. I INHi Tkat•wy, ammmmv Elto, Major. SACS TWO: til CL Dir. 7 IMb Tka •mtM Sprit, Ckaagaa, fmyerial GMttor. BACK THBJUE: J.M. 01 Dtr. 1244 m BertTA. RAGE W»: CI 4 lMta hUuna ni, n« TWn*, Gree* A I m n 4,
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  • 44 16 Brantford (Ontario). Friday Stere Plckell of Vancouver set a world record of 5643 seconds for the 100 metres backstroke at the Canadian Indoor swimming championships here yesterday. Roland Matthes of East Germany held the previous record of S7 seconds, set In 1969.
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  • 895 16 SATURDAY CL 1 Div. 3—2004m «apa Rajah Don Muioi 57 7 M t ftluw Troy 54 U Uncle Ivor M 11 Hmm Melody m 54% 1 Batu Karanc MH 1 nwtiM n U% 4 m 4—1 n u a m a 54% to a 1204m 87
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  • 404 16  -  By BLUE PETER Kuala Lumpur, Friday Wonderful Surprl.se n (Johnny Wilson), favourite for the Tunku's Gold Cup, underlined his chances with a s p 1 e ndld workout here this morning. After trotting once around the track, the four-year-old by Attlla steadily clapped on
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  • 739 17  -  TEE-UP Lim Kee Chan The Warren course, venue for the 54-hole lAC Open of the local circuit starting today is in superb condition. The nine-hole course, which has undergone several major changes, is "playing well despite the dry spell," said Bill Bosley, Singapore's top
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  • 760 17 105 want to compete in Asian Circuit Tokyo, Friday. For Japanese sportsmen setting out on the professional golf trail, the 10-nation Asian circuit has developed into a valuable testing round. Although the circuit la getting richer each year, the prize money still is not high
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  • 490 17 Reuter Melbourne, Friday The curtain vu rung down yesterday on a Weft Indies tour which left Australia the undisputed top cricket nation in the world. And Australian captain Greg Chappell considers they will hold the position yet for a few more years. "Our
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  • 49 17 The Ist Battalion RNZIR will be organising a rugby course for coaches on March 1 at Dieppe Barracks. A total of 15 candidates have already signed up for the course. All Interested should contact the SRU secretary Mr. Seek Khoon Hlong at the Dunearn Technical Bchool.
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  • 53 17 Reuter Palm Desert. FridayBrian Allln ana Jim Colbert each blrdled the final hole yesterday to share the lead after the first round of the Bob Hope Desert Classic golf tournament. Allln and Colbert shot flve-under-par 675. Japan's laao Matsul came 17th after going round In a par
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  • 45 17 Reuter Melbourne, Friday—New South Wales professional Bruce Hodson, who has never won a 72 hole tournament In his life, fired a four-under-par 68 to lead after the first round of the A 520.000 (about $60,000) Victorian Open at Kingston Heath Club here yesterday.—Reuter
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  • 1041 18  -  b V DON RE VIE talking to Jason Tomas »>V DON REVIE The success of Crystal Palace coach Terry Venables has come as no surprise to Don Revle. "Over the last 10 years," he says, "few people connected with English football have made a bigger Impression
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  • 52 18 Reuter Hong Kong. Friday Grasshopper Zurich of Switzerland edged a Hong Xong Chinese Combined 1-0 in a friendly soccer match here last night after a scoreless Interval. The match was the last of the series for the Swiss soccer club who played here during the Chinese Lunar New
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  • 187 18 Reuter Hong Kong, Friday Top seeded Malcolm S»mons of Singapore led the fancied contenders Into the seml-flnals of the Individual events of the tlrst Far East squash Invitation championships here last night. Simons, a New Zea-land-born doctor repre sen ting Singapore, comfortably defeated another
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  • 425 18  -  By PHILIP TAN Leeds United, English League champions in 179 and last season's' European Cup finalists would like to piay in Singapore during the close season, according to club chairman Manny Cussins. Football Association of Singapore deputy chairman N. Oanesan. said yesterday Mr. Cussins was
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  • 152 18 Reuter Brussels, Friday—Belgian heavyweight JeanPierre Coopman, brimming with confidence, yesterday flew to New York "100 per cent sure of beating Muhammad All for the heavyweight title." The 29-year-old exstonemason told reporters before leaving: "All has past his peak. He's getting old at the game and he must be
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  • 576 19  -  Sports Letter N. GANESAN I refer to your report 'Kim Song Shock' in the New Nation (Feb. 5), I regret to inform you that Mr. Philip Tan has misunderr.tood what I tried to convey to him and has misquoted my interview which was incidentally over the telephone.
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  • 404 19 Reuter Innsbruck, Friday Franz Klammer of Austria proved conclusively yesterday that he is the finest downhill skier In the world, coming from behind to win the Winter Olympic gold medal that the whole of Austria wanted. As the 22-year-old from Mooswald hurled himself
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  • 416 19 Reuter London, Friday Only two weeks ago Leeds United, one of the biggest names in English football, were favourites to wip the Football Association Cup and were challenging strongly for the League championship But two shock home defeats have transformed their outlook. First they were
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  • 45 20 MEI LIN: That's another tragedy on our roads, four people were killed when their car collided with a lorry yesterday. AH FOOK: The Dragon Year has really got off to a bad start. Let's hope the later part will bring some good signs.
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