New Nation, 17 June 1976

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  • 19 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Thursday June 17, 1976 No. 1669 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 428/76 THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1976
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  • 139 1 By K.K. Font; A fully-laden lighter sank in the Singapore River yesterday after apparently hitting a rock. Loaded with bags of animal feed, the boat came to grief at about noon Just before reaching Cavanagh Bridge on the way out to sea. It sprang a
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  • 407 1 Agencies Beirut, Wednesday The US Ambassador to Lebanon, his economic attache and his driver were shot dead' yesterday while crossing the no-man's land that divides war-torn Beirut. Ambassador Francis Meloy Jr. SO, who had been in Beirut for only two months and had not yet presented his
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  • 115 1 Dibiwii, Thursday The (ffldtl Syrian prea yesterday reported that Lebanon has officially accepted the nnlrtlm of the Arab Leaiae setting -op a pan-Arab peace force. It Nil the agreeaaent sa— aftor a ■idl»i bstosm Lebanese President ■alslMsa rranjteh and Arab Leaiae secre-tary-general Mahmond Had.
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  • 28 1 Reuter Jakarta, Thursday The Indonesian government Is to build 73,000 low-cost houses for Its employees under the current five-year development plan, according to a Cabinet spokesman.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 50 1 INSIDE Tour ASEAN girl is in Page 4 today Singapore toeeer boas fined $20,000 Pago 4 £-1 fthoek lor CruytC Pago 19 Beware the tmagte cock tail' Pago 2 Wanted: 10,000 workers Pago 3 O IN THE OTHER OTHER PAGES: Cinemas 2; Moneyworda 14; Mars 15; Crouword 18; Comics 19.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 107 2 Residents of Neptune Court executive flats in Marine Parade are having a smashing time at their very own squash court. The court, which opened on June 2 for the exclusive use of residents and their guests, has been fully booked since Its opening. It
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  • 33 2 A course on Basic English will be held at the University of Singapore, Nlssen Hut 3. every Tuesday and Thursday, starting on July 20 at 7 p.m. The fee Is $45.
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  • 31 2 A course on Introduction to Philosophy will be held at the University of Singapore, Nlssen Hut 108, every Monday, starting on July 19 at 7.30 p.m. The fee Is $35.
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  • 334 2  -  DOCTORS WARNED... By Wang Look Fung Doctors in Singapore have been told to use a very popular strong antibiotic —known as a "magic dlscrlmlnately as It can cause serious and fatal blood disorders. In a bulletin to doctor! In hospitals and private practice, the three-month-old
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  • 30 2 Hie Tanjong Pagar community centre will hold a Kelong Nlte at Ponggol Point on June 26 and 27. The charge Is $8 a person. For details, ring *****98.
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  • 141 2 By Eileen Tan Physical fitness Instructor John Koski answered the Use Tour Hands call at a contest yesterday and won hands down! Mr. Koski, 26, took the first prise In the men's section of the Sentosa bicycle rally. While 29 other contestants slithered and slipped
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  • 74 2 Prices opened on a steady note at the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minutes of trading this morning. Trading was routine with attention on a few selective stocks. BUSINESS DONE: First Section D.B.S. (1) 3.70, (1) 3.72. U. 0.8. (4) 4.14. ov M. CREDIT (2)
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  • 21 2 The National Library will hold a musical programme. Teen Beat, at Its lecture hall on Saturday at 6.30 p.m.
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    • 468 2 AT THE CINEMA CRT ONION: Onion Stark arrives In Paradise City to take posses sion of an onion paten he ha* bought, to find himself up against an oil consortium. A ridiculous comedy starring Franco Nero, Sterling Hayden and Martin Balsam. Directed by Enzo G. Castellarl. Capitol: 1.45, 4. 6.45
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  • 13 2 Police reported 82 accidents ye st e r d ay. Two were serious.
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  • 364 3  -  ...but textile firms can't get workers By Terry Ang There are 10,000 Jobs available In Singapore's textile and garment factories because the industry is booming again. Manufacturers have more orders than they can cope. But they cannot Increase their production because of a labour shortage.
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  • 58 3 The National Youth Leadership Training Institute Alumni's seminar on Towards a Better Civil Service scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, has been postponed tentatively to July 17 and 18. It will now form part of the alumni's National Day celebrations, which will Include a campflre on. Aug 28.
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  • 93 3  -  By Peter Ong A flock of birds nearly caused trouble for a Sinfa po re Airlines' Boeing 747 at the Orly International Airport in Paris three days ago. It happened as the SIA Jet was landing at the airport. A flock of birds crossed
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  • 31 3 The Consolidated Hotels Ltd. will hold a ground-breaking ceremony to launch the new $110 million Peninsula Plaza at Its site office In Coleman Btreet on Saturday at 11 a.m.
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  • 288 3  -  By Joachin Tan A mother of four last night bent Ave iron rods simultaneously. Mrs. Wong LI Chan, an exponeut of the ancient Chinese martial art tal chor, was one of the participants in the national pugilistic championship at the
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  • 142 3 Reuter Bangkok, Thursday India believes ASEAN has helped to produce solidarity among its members. Thai Prime Minister Seni Pramoj disclosed yesterterday. He was speaking after talks with Indian Deputy External Affairs Minister Blplnpal Das, who Is visiting Thailand as part of his 10-day tour of four of the
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    80 4  -  The faces of ASEAN by ALI YUSOFF The stage and the spotlight hold no fears for this pretty Filipino lass. For Teresa Fellciano is a member of the famed Bayanlhan Dance Company which created a sensation during the First South-east Asia Music and Dance Festival held at
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  • 220 4  -  By Douglas Chan The manager of a Division One football club yesterday paid almost $22,000 In composition lines and back taxes for evading duty on Imported sports goods. The goods were scores of football Jerseys. shorts and Tshlrts. The amount comprised a $20,000 penal- ty
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  • 107 4 Bank of America has petitioned the High Court to wind up three companies related to Mosbert Holdings. They are National Industries of Singapore (NIS), Its subsidiary. National Marketing and .Research, and Mosbert Ban corporation. The petition said NIS owed the bank $4.7 million. National Marketing and
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  • 315 4  -  —FORECAST BY IATA CHIEF A seven to eight per cent annual growth Is expected In scheduled international passenger traffic up to 1980. This was predicted by Mr. Knut Hammarskjold, director-general of the International Air Transport Association, in a report published in the
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  • 205 4 The Katong Swimml n g Complex at Mountbatten Road has been affected by the growing popularity of the East Coast Swimming Lagoon. In the last two weeks, the pool recorded a 10 per cent drop in attendance This has been attributed to
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  • 27 4 The Kwong Wal Bhiu Hospital will hold its 66th installation ceremony for officials at Its hall In Serangoon Road Road on Sunday at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 197 4 Gangs suppressed Police say the CID has suppressed gangland activities as a result of ita antigangland drive, eodenamed "Op e ration Eagle". This is shown by a marked decline in the number of gangland incidents and killings over the last three years Latest statistics show chat
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  • 34 4 Vldeotronic, a TV game t will be demonstrated at Yaohan. Metro (Golden Mile and Orchard branches), Yuyl Emporium and the People's Park Complex on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 9 p.m.
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  • 115 4 The principal of Swiss Cottage Integrated Primary School, Mr. Llew Teck Seong. will be transferred to the Ministry of Education as Education Development Officer, when schools reopen on Monday. The school's senior assistant, Mrs. R. Bandara, will take over as principal. The senior a«slstant of
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  • 276 5 Salisbury, Thursday Mozambique army troops blasted a Rhodeslan border tea estate with rocket and mortar fire for the second time in Ave days on Monday, a government spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said the three-hour barrage, launched from about 500 metres inside Mozambique territory, caused
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  • 410 5 Indira's men get new powers UPI Dew Delhi, Thursday Government officials throughout India were yesterday empowered to Jail anyone for up to two years without giving any grounds for the arrest. President Fakhruddln Ahmed issued an ordinance to replace a section of the Maintenance
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  • 190 5 Reuter United Nations, Thursday—The United Nations peacekeeping force In Cyprus yesterday began a new six-month tour of duty in the island after the Security Council extended its mandate, less than 30 minutes before It was due to expire. The council resolution, which also
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  • 55 5 UPI Miami, Thursday Dixie, a 3500 kg elephant that underwent surgefy to relieve arthritis in her crippled right foreleg, died yesterday when a breathing problem developed while she was under sedation. She had been placed under sedation for removal of bandages on the ankle on which the surgery
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  • 146 5 Reuter Seoul, Thursday A South Korean fishing boat escaped seizure by a Chinese fishing vessel In East China Sea last Sunday, the Government Office of Fisheries announced yesterday. This Is the same general area where two South Korean fishing boats were captured last Friday
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  • 196 5 Reuter Ottawa, Thursday The Soviet Union Is occupying ice Islands In Arctic territory claimed by Canada, according to the Canadian armed forces which has aerial photographs of the operation. On one island, pictures taken in April showed more than 100 people, 10 to 15 prefabricated huts, nine
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  • 149 5 UPI New Delhi, Thursday. —A total of 42 people have been killed in the monsoon floods and swollen rivers In eastern India In the past four days. official reports said. Twenty-five people drowned on Monday when their sail boat sank In a flooded
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  • 311 6 ...AND ASEAN TIES UPI Reuter Tokyo, Thursday Australian Prime Minister M a 1 colm Fraser and his Japanese counterpart Takeo Miki agreed yesterday to work together toward political and economic stability in the Pacific region. They reached agreement during a one-and-a-half hour meeting at the
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  • 455 6 Jenkins: We won't go back on commitments Reuter London, Thursday Home Secretary Roy Jenkins last night said there would be no curbs on immigration despite racial tensions and the demands of anti-immigration rightwingers. He said: "The government has no intention of going back on those commitments
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  • 111 6 UPI TODAY Is Thursday. June 17, the 169 th day ot 1976 with 197 to follow. THE MOON Is approaching Its last quarter. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. THE EVENING STARS are Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini.
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  • 283 6 AP Tokyo, Thursday Sixteen earthquakes, one comparatively strong, shook Tokyo and parts of eastern and central Japan yesterday, causing severe casualties and minor damage, officials reported. During the quakes, a fisherman died In a river, apparently after suffering a heart attack, and a
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  • 30 6 Reuter Melbourne, Thursday—Police here are seeking an arsonist who In the past week has lit fires In two police patrol cars and a suburban police station.— Reuter.
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  • 128 6 Rioters in Johannesburg protesting against compulsory teaching of Afrlkaan burn a delivery van after police fired on a demonstrating crowd of about 10,000 black students yesterday. At least eight people, Including four whites, were killed in day-long rioting. Scores of others were wounded. The
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  • 252 6 Reuter Tokyo, Thursday Japan and North Korea remain some way from agreement on how North Korea Is going to repay the equivalent of more than US$6O million ($l5O million) in overdue trade debts to Japanese creditors, local trade sources said here yesterday. Mr.
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  • 47 6 Reuter Moscow, Thursday. Soviet Union has renewed its global system of naval communications by launching eight new satellites from one carrier rocket. "The Tass News Agency said the satellites, numbered 825 to 832 In the Cosmos series, were put Into earth orbit on Tuesday.—Reuter.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 92 6 WORLD WEATHER Tokyo Cloudy. 2216C. Headline: Franjleh OKs Arab peace-keeping force. Moscow Overcast, 9-14 C. Pravda's headline: The efficiency of moral upbringing. Rome Sunny, 1730C Headline: Lockheed scandal investigators report today on American mission. Paris Fair, 29-17 C. Headline: Half of France stricken by drought. San Francisco Fair, 12-24 C.
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    • 58 6 Hone Kong Sunny 31-26 C. Headline: Visitor ban for ailing Mao. Manila Cloudy, 3023C. Headline: HP and China dispute oil hunt off Spratleys. Bangkok Cloudy, 35-26 C. Headline: Chaos as Laos replaces old kip. Seoul Cloudy, 2818C. Headline: President Park orders more medical care for low-Income earners. Kuala Lumpur Rain,
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    • 47 6 Sydney Cloudy, 1712C. Headline: Junle case opens. Taipeh: Cloudy, 2818C. UPI. Singapore The weather for the 24 hours to 8 a.m. today: Max. temp.—3o.2 C; mln. temp. 24.3 C; total rainfall for the month to date—4B.B mm; total raindays for the month to date—6; hours of sunshine—3.7o.
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  • 143 7 Demonstrators display their placards In a protest against Britain's high unemployment and demanding the resignation of the Labour government in London yesterday. The protest took place outside a special conference of the 10 million strong Trades Union Congress, which voted bv a landslide 17 to
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  • 306 7 Reuter Paris, Thursday US Transportation Secretary William Coleman said yesterday New York port authorities made a big mistake barring the An g 1 o-French Concorde supersonic airliner from Kennedy Airport. He said: "I think the New York Port Authority exercised extremely poor Judgment
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  • 74 7 UPI Islamabad, Thursday. Three Japanese climbers were killed while attempting the 8,035-metre Oasherbrum II Peak In Pakistan, the Japanese embassy In Rawalpindi said yesterday. The embassy's first secretary Matsuda Shuzo told reporters two of the climbers, Taketoshl Miyamoto, 28, and Yoshin R1 Hlramatsu, 28, fell into a crevasse
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  • 49 7 UPI Wildflecken (Wert Germany), Thursday Fifteen anti-tank rockets have disappeared from the U8 Army's manoeuvre grounds here and probably have been stolen, West German police reported yesterday. Police said the Americans reported the disappearance of the M 72 light anti-tank rockets last Friday after an American manoeuvre.
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  • 35 7 UPI Rangoon, Thursday One person was killed and two others wounded when a man suspected to be an Insurgent Burmese exile hurled a grenade at a Rangoon-bound passenger train, official sources said yesterday
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  • 215 7 UPI Parts, Thursday Georgle Anne Oeyer, syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, said yesterday she was expelled from Angola after being picked up by security police and Interrogated for three hours. Oeyer said her Interrogators told her the. government objected to an article
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  • 38 7 Reuter Dacca, Thursday Monsoon flood waters which have stricken south and north-east Bangladesh and claimed at least 143 lives are receding fast In all areas except one, government Relief Secretary Amir Kaahru said on Tuesday night.—Reuter.
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  • 432 7 UPI Hamilton, Thursday The British Governor of Bermuda, Sir Richard Sharpies, had a "dangerous routine" of walking his dog late at night, and it cost him his life, a murder trial Jury heard yesterday. Shortlv before midnight on March 10, 1973, gunmen were waiting In
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  • 50 7 Reuter Tokyo, Thursday A bomb threat by an anoymous telephone caller forced an All-Nippon Airways Boeing 727 carrying Finance Minister Masayoshl Ohira to return to Tokyo after taking off on a domestic flight to Sendai in northern Japan yesterday. The plane was searched but police found nothing. Reuter
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  • 47 7 Reuter Jerusalem, Thursday Arabic newspaper* published In the old city of Jerusalem yesterday reported widespread arrests of West Bank residents in Jordan. The rtcJly A-Sha'Ab listed the names of 23 former residents of the West Bank who It said had been detained recently. Reuter.
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  • 184 7 UPI Santo Domingo. Thursday Police yesterday ordered the arrest of six Dominicans accused of plotting to overthrow the Dominican government through a series of assassinations and kidnappings. The official arrest order alleged that the six were members of a plot supported by "communist nations of Asia.
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  • 336 7 Reuter UPI Teheran, Thursday Egyptian President Anwar Sadat conferred with the Shah of Iran for 90 minutes and Egyptian officials said he may have asked the Iranian monarch to help him get fresh arms supplies from the West, especially the United States. Egypt says It is
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  • 415 8 Mr. Lan Smith's endorsement of most of his commission's proposals to improve race relations in Rhodesia Is not expected to have the support of black nationalist groups or his own rightwing. Coming barely a week before Dr. Henry Kissinger's meeting with South African Prime
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 34 8 A man received constant reminders to pay some bills. He Anally went to pay up. but was kept waiting for hal'-an-hour, because the company couldn't find Its copies of the bills!
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    • 52 8 8 o m e* colleagues were organising a farewell lunch for an office mate. Arrangements were finalised, until someone mentioned the appointment to the guest of honour, who said in surprise: "What lunch?" Her friends are now wondering whether to go ahead and have the farewell lunch
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  • 939 8  -  Poser of Syria's intervention in Lebanon: By Douglas Watson Washington Post Beirut, Thursday A fortnight after Syria raised the stakes in Lebanon's civil war by sending its Sovietbuilt tanks rolling across the Bekaa Valley towards the centre of this little country it is no
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  • 263 8 We are distributors of fresh vegetables who have to rely on Upper Circular Road and Carpenter Street to conduct our business. For 304 days (First day of Chinese New Year being a holiday) a year we work from 3.30 a.m. when
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  • 80 8  -  WOON HOWE SENG We thank Taken For A Ride (NN. May 15) for suggesting that the Parks and Recreation Department plant only trees which branch out two metres from the ground along the roadside. Unfortunately, trees which are suitable for roadside planting do not have this characteristic. All
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  • 113 8 After waiting five years, I was finally eligible to select a five-room flit last May. Having made my choice, however, I was told that I could not collect the keys to the new flat nor make renovations until HDB finds a buyer for my
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  • 64 8  -  P.T. All the while, I have been paying 40 cents for my dally Journey on BBS Service 93 from Farrer Road, near the post office, to the airport. Lately. I have been told by the conductor to pay 50 cents. I have noticed that other passengers
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  • 376 8  -  Y VOICE OF THE PRESS NANYANG SIANG PAU According to a press report, the National Wages Council is expected to recommend six per cent pay increase for this year, with offsetting against annual increment. The Council may also recommend the freezing of some fringe benefits
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  • 605 9  -  Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times The little old lady came Into my office clutching a yellow manuscript. "I was wondering," she said in a tiny voice, "If these are worth anything?" "What are they?" "My memoirs. I was the mistress of Abraham
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  • 421 9  -  And S'pore massager hits Europe By Sunny Wee The high point of physicist -turned-busi-nessman M.K. Wong's career came early this year, on Jan. 21 at 1 a.m. Mr. Wong, 40, had been burning the midnight oil to find a method of manufacturing a shower
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  • 148 9 Bustnessman Seow Khoon Seng started by running a small engineering workshop in Buklt Arang 18 years ago. He "Was then repairing marine instruments and hospitals equipment. In 1984 he started his die-casting workshop and, seven years later, the breakthrough came when he was offered con- tracts from
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  • 278 9 Paris, Thursday Millions of French hypochondriacs have t'ust suffered a body ►low—their favourite complaint, "a spot of liver trouble" has been exposed as a myth. Six of the country's top liver specialists, meeting to found a Liver Study Association, declared that while the "crlse de
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    • 123 9 FIRST PULL OF WINDER SETS DAY AND DATE WITH INSTANT ACCURACY (UP FOR CATE: DOWN FOR DAY) SECOND PULL OF WINDER STOPS THE SECOND-HAND FOR RE-SETTING OF EXACT TIME AT SPLIT SECOND ACCURACY t AUTOMATIC DAY* DATE WATERPROOF YES,THIS IS IT! TITONI'S NEW INTEGRATED LOOK. TITONI /Wospace 1199 ISABOLDNEW CONCEPT
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  • 338 10 / 11 What goes on behind the scenes at the RTS When you turn on your television set this evening to watch your favourite programme, you will see the result of many days of hard work by scores of people. From idea to videotape, and finally onto your TV
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  • trend 2 pages edited by Betty L. Khoo
    • 389 12 Miss Y writes: "I have foul breath. Whenever I talk to someone even from a distance, my breath makes them uncomfortable. "This makes me feel depressed and I try to avoid talking. This, of course, affects my relationshlp with my friends. But I brush my teeth frequently. Doctor,
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    • 712 12  -  Eating Out Violet Oon Good food is found in the most out of way places in Singapore but as with true gourmets everywhere, we always manage to ferret them out. One such establishment Is the newly opened Williams' Restaurant situated on the
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    • 99 12 N.Y.T. Pari$ —The French Government has given approval in principle to a five-year plan designed to move the status of women in this country closer to equality with men. It's more than 100 proposals range from the symbolic to the revolutionary and from the substantive to the
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    • 81 12 FAR LEFT: Jeanette In a |«y Jersey (own that features a demure high-necked front and a back that takes a breathless plunge. LEFT: Jeanette In a figure hugging grey Jersey with vivid floral prini It comes with a long matching scarf that can be slung
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    • 273 13 Shop Around Functional items for the home these days are ao pretty they look more like knlck knacks. And of course the temptation is to buy them even when you haven't much use for them. Featured here are some very pretty handcrafted items
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    • 271 13  -  Decor ideas L 4 V. OON When your bedroom is small you cannot have bulky pieces of furniture here and there. Each piece should be neatly telescoped Into the other so that no space Is wasted. But this can only be done If furniture Is designed
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    • 901 13  -  by Violet Oon Intimacy is one thing but living in one I another's pockets is quite another. There Is a One line of distinction between the two which Is sadly not appreciated by most women who tie the marriage knot if lunch-time
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  • 902 14 A n Important item at the NonAlifned Nations Summit meet leg in Colombo in August will be plans to set up a Third World agency that will break the mono poly of news dissemination now held by agencies of the western world. It has long been
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  • 617 14 The Washington Post Washington, Thursday Ernest Hemingway always made it clear that he hated literary biographers. But writing books about Hemingway has become almost a cottage industry. "Father.told Leicester. I'll wring your neck if you publish that." said Gregory Hemingway,
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 551 14 Thursday Cu* out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address Cut along dotted lines CLUES FOR CK-4 1. If iter wrong 2. Fictitio 3. Shopping for a person whose it difficult to rood, youll probably hove trouble 4. Finished ond done with 5. You can
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  • 187 15 Reuter London, Thursday—'Thj Bank of England today said prospects for sustained world economic recovery had greatly improved in recent months and forecast a 10 per cen*. Increase in world trade this year. Growth should be ac companled by firm com modity prices, the bank added.
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  • 374 15 It won't help, says Ford E =3 Business News and Views L——J Reuter Washington, Thursday President Ford is opposed to a controversial new Bill in Congress to break up the tightly-orga-nised United States oil industry, the White House said yesterday. Presidential spokesman Ron Nessen
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  • 161 15 ME. FRITZ HUNTSINGER SR., chairman of Vetco Offshore Inc.. parent company of Vetco Singapore, la now here on a six-day visit as part of his world tour. MISS VIOLET LOW who joined the Cockpit Hotel In April 1974, has been promoted senior sales officer. Callna Products of
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  • 182 15 Reuter Tokyo, Thursday European Common Market authorities believe there was no economic justification for President Ford's recent decision to impose restrictions on U8 imports of specialty steel, the head of a visiting EEC delegation said here yesterday. Mr. Josephus LoefT. the EEC Commission's
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 147 15 Prices managed a modest gain yesterday In active trading on the New York Stock Exchange, but the slaying of the US Ambassador to Lebanon and his aide blunted a full fledged rally by raising fears of a major Middle East war. Yesterday's prices followed by the difference on
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    • 33 15 Dow Jones cloning averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 066.63 (up 3.70); 30 transport 317.37 (up 1.69); 16 utilities 86.67 (off 0.13); 66 stocks 304.68 (up 1.08).
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    • 235 15 DBS Daiwa Securities Int'l Ltd The market continued to rise In brisk trading centred on stocks with good business prospects, though it backed off slightly toward the mor- nlng close. In the morning session, major export-rela-ted Issues such as autos, light electrlcals and precision makers were bought. Pioneer rose
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    • 82 15 Closing prices (In francs) on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Pari baa 164 20 —0.70 Foncler 313 —3 Prlntemps 55 —2 50 Bull St.9o +0.30 Royal Dutch 223.90 —0.50 Mlchelln 1325 —11 C C 311 —6.30 Thomson 323 —0.70 C P P 130 50 +D.lO Rhone 94 uncta. Air 308.50
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    • 100 15 Closing prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sidney stock Exchange: ACI 173 180 ADC 45 nil Ampol Pet 88 09 ANI 103 105 APM 140 145 Bank NSW 500 570 Brambles 100 104 BHP 003 804 Boral 335 330 CBA 373 300 CKR 455 450 CIO
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    • 82 15 Union Bank of Switzerland Cloaln* price* (In Swlaa franco on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS Bearer 1130 10 UB8 Registered 475 SBC 426 1 Credit Sulase 3430 Swissair B. HI 6 Swlaa Relnsur. 2100 6 Wlnterthur B. 1730 —20 Zurich Inaur. 6400 Juvena B. 250 10 Nestle B.
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  • 246 15 goes up briefly, then slips again UPI Brussels, Thursday The British pound notched up strong gains in early trading yesterday but fell back later because of light selling and profittaking. The US dollar registered further marginal dips a g a 1 nst European currencies. Gold closed SO cents lower In
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  • 31 15 UPI Washington, Thursday Colkswagen Werk AO, said yesterday only a "few conditions" need to be met before Volkswagen locates Its first North American Rabbit assembly plant In Pennsylvania. UPI.
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    • 346 15 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you cannot escape any number of trying experiences, for you are one of those Impatient Individuals who, more often than not. becomes involved in something new before you are thoroughly prepared or schooled In the use of the knowledge or skills
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  • 1115 16 > UUIrJ Olympic Countdown S -X Reuter Montreal, Thursday In 1970, Montreal, thanks to the drive of Mayor Jean Drapeau, had won the right to stage the 1976 Olymf»lc Games on the basis t would be "marked by simplicity" and on a self-financing basis. Drapeau's idea
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  • 993 17  -  Five countries keen to take part BOWLING by Jeffrey Low The bowling congresses of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand have all come forward to support Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress' move to get the sport back into the Seap Games. In response to STBC's urgent cable last
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  • 326 17 Montreal, Thursday Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian Armed Forces have Jointly begun Intensifying security at Montreal airports In preparation (or the 1976 Summer Olympics. Officials said passengers would not be subjected to any more checks than they are now, but that the greater number of
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  • 125 17 Reuter Sydney, Thursday World champion Geoff Hunt of Australia won through to the semifinals of the Australian Open squash championship with a 9-2, 9-4, 9-7 win over Ahmed Safwat of Egypt here last night Hunt showed the Egyptian no mercy and it was only In
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  • 33 17 Stockholm, Thursday BJoern Andersson and Thomas Sjoeberg both scored goals In the first half of a World Cup soccer qualification match to give Sweden a 2-0 victory over Norway here yesterday.
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  • 176 17 The flrst-ever waterskiing tournament on Jurong Lake held last weekend, drew an enthusiastic crowd of some two hundred watersports fans, leisure-seek-ers and residents from near-by Jurong Town. About 40 competitors pitched their skills In the two-day tournament organised bir the Singapore Water-ski Federation. Competition was stiff,
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  • 155 18 Nottingham. Thursday Jimmy Connors moved confidently Into the quarter finals of the U5564,000 (about SJ160.000) John Player tennis tournament yesterday but "was the only survivor from a day <>f American disasters. The left-hander, who Is sharpening his game for next week's Wimbledon, hit his way
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  • 334 18 Reuter Tokyo, Thursday M u h a m mad Ali roared Into Tokyo last night, predicting he would "destroy" Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki in the eighth round of their June 26 bo x 1 n g-wrestling extravaganza. The world heavyweight boxing champion, looking weary from
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  • 124 18 New York, Thursday Long hitters like Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf should be well suited to Atlanta's highlands course, according to some of other contenders for the United States Open golf championship starting today. Nicklaus himself is quick to nominate Welskopf. "If he Is ever going to
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  • 377 18 By BLUB PETER Kuala Lumpur, Thursday King's Oold Cup entry Napoleon Solo II did a dashing workout here this morning. With John Murray In the saddle, the Bleep Bleep flve-year-old went faultlessly over 600m In 37.4 sec. Napoleon Solo n, winner of the 1974
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  • 74 18 Reuter Long Beach, California, Thursday—Shirley Baba shofT set an American record on the first day of the qualifying heats at the US Olympic swim mlng trials—2:o2.l7sec in the 200 metre freestyle. The time broke her own mark of 2.02.39 set lait year. World recordholder John Hencken was
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  • 429 18  -  By BRIAN MILLER Shaktl beat Cooling System 2-1 In a Singapore Hockey Association Division Two hockey League match at Balestler yesterday. Last year's Division Two knockout finalist, Shakti were a shade better than their opponents in a game tnat was dull and lifeless.
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  • 37 18 Reuter London, Thursday West Indies batsman Vivian Richards, who scored a double-century In the first Test, will miss the second Test against England starting at Lord's today because of Illness, It was announced here yesterday.—Reuter.
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  • 24 18 Reuter London. Thursday French-trained Keaar Queen yesterday won Ascot's Coronation Btakes for three-year-old fillies from another Frenchtrained Filly, the favourite Gulchet —Reuter.
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  • 164 18 Ipoh, Thursday The Totalizator Beard of Malaysia Is to increase the stakes for all classes and divisions by $1000 per race, beginning with the flelangor Turf Club meeting scheduled on July 24. It Is understood that the increase will cost the Tote Beard an additional
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  • 444 19 Three sacked in rough match Belgrade, Thursday Czte'chjoslovatta yesterday sent Holland sliding out of the European Nations Cup soccer championship in a wet, explosive semifinal In which three players were sent off before the Czechs won 3-1 In extra time at Zagreb. Torrential rain left
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  • 124 19 Reuter Amsterdam, Thursday George Knobel Is resigning as Holland's manager at the end of next month, the Dutch Footib&ll Association (KNVB) said yesterday only hours before the National team lost 3-1 to Czechoslovakia In the European Championship seml-flnal in Zagreb. An association spokesman said Knobel's resignation
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  • 515 19  -  By SONNY YAP Tamplnes Rovers pounded the Jurong challenge to bits with a 7-1 sledgehammer win in their Division One boo cer League match at Jalan Besar last night. But Tamplnes rocketed Into action only after they had their smug of complacency wiped out
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  • 354 19 Reuter UPI Belgrade. Thursday Yugoslav coach Ante Mladlnlc yesterday named West Oerman-based Danilo Poplvoda to lead the attack In the European Nations Cup soccer championship seml-flnal against West Germany here today. West Germany, the World champions and defending European tit-le-holders, were scheduled
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    • 56 19 THE BORN LOSER by Art Sansom «DW'.HOUJOU> VT IS Twwmewr? J_j:(o6 FOR ME* MB. 1 I m m m i i i SHORT RIBS WtVE SOT A GREAT HOME RECORD. WEVE BEATEN THE HUWS..THE VIWNOS... by Frank O'Neal m mw y <w w ieas^l M s 31 u fby George
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  • 66 20 MEI LIN: It seems heartless for the family of an ex-drug addict to reject him at a time when he needs their acceptance to help him stay away from drugs. AH FOOK: If what the senior probation and after-care officer said about families helping ex-addicts Is true, maybe
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    • 863 20 TV AND RADIO C SINGAPORE 5 J 3.00 OPENING AN- NOUNCEMENTS followed by HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE: Love Torn. Part one of this Teochew film (r). 350 GENERAL HOSPITAL 4.30 INTERMISSION €.04 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by LASSIE: Track of the Jaguar. Part two. 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.35 PENTAB KANAK KANAK (r).
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    • 202 20 BEN HALL: Yellowback. (Ch. 5, at 10.50 p.m. in colour). The gold robbery has set the whole country buzzing, and Its repercussions are causing many red faces in political circles. and rousing the politicians to frenzied action. Meanwhile, to get Ben Hall, Pottlnger brings Biddy in for questioning on slight
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