New Nation, 14 July 1976

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  • 21 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Wednesday July 14, 1976 No. 1692 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 428/76 r 3 j NEW NATION COMMENT
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  • 234 1  -  After yesterday's drugs trafficking case verdict... By Wang Look Fung Seventeen people are awaiting trial at the High Court under the amended drug law which provides for the death penalty on conviction, New Nation understands. The Central Narcotics Bureau is handling 11 cases involving 13
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  • 203 1 Reuter Montreal, Wednesday The International Olympic Committee yesterday appealed to Taiwan to stay in the Olympic Games despite the Canadian government's refusal to let It compete under the name of the Republic of China. lOC President Lord Killanln said the appeal was made at
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  • 48 1 AP Jakarta, Wednesday— The Indonesian Government Is considering boosting Its Income by taking advantage of million* of dollars worth of goods seized for smuggles or illegal entry. State Secretary Budharmono said yesterday. He said the goods Include textiles, electronic equipment and canned goods.—AP.
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  • 407 1  -  By Richard Ho Recognise this man? Probably not as he is not usually seen attired in this manner. He is Boris Spassky, Russia's former world chess champion. And yesterday he took time off for a game of tennis in a Tanglin court. The former chess
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  • 32 1 Hong Kong. Wednesday A Dutch freighter rescued 12 Taiwanese fishermen who had been adrift In the South China Sea for Ave days after their fishing vessel sank, a government spokesman said.
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  • 681 2 Vletnamese VlceMlnlster for Foreign Affairs and envoy for the Prime Minister, Mr. Phan Hlen, made It clear yesterday that he and nis delegation are not specifically on a tour of ASEAN countries. This, he said, explains why the delegation did not Include
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  • 82 2 Prices generally opened lower except for Malayan Breweries and Fraser and Neave at the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minutes today. Malayan Breweries B&lned8 &lned 10 cents. Ben and ompany was suspended pending a company announcement. BUSINESS DONE: First Section S. DARBY (6) 3.50. F.
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  • 218 2 AP Washington, Wednesday US State Department officials say they remain extremely s c e p 11 cal about Vietnam's intentions in Southeast Asia despite Its moves towards normalising re 1 a 11 ons with the Philippines and Thailand. One basis for the continuing apprehension
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  • 26 2 Kuo Chuan community centre will hold an on-the-spot art competition for primary schoolchildren at Toa Payoh Oardens on Aug. 15 at 8 a.m.
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  • 89 2 Fun is where your playmates are and that's why model Marianne Yahaya is often seen at the Singapore Zoo, anytime she can get away from the catwalk and the glare of spotlights and flash bulbs. For Marianne, 19 has made friends of the cutest little creatures
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 97 2 WHAT'S ON TOWARDS A READING SOCIETY, an exhibition of local writings, at the Kampung Olam community centre from 2.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. THE OLYMPICS and three other films at the National Museum, Stamford Road, 8 p m Free admission. SINGAPORE FAIR *76, preview of the staje show to be
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    • 56 2 People's Gallery, National Musevftn, till 5 p.m. LO 8 MUCHACHOS. Spanish International two ring circus, at the Gay World Etadlum, Geylang Road, 7 p.m. Tickets at $15, $12.50, $10, $7.50, $5, $2.50. NIGHT MARKETS: At Aljunled Road, Changl Village, Hock 8an Estate, Race Course Road, Still Road and Corporation Road
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    • 401 2 AT THE CINEMA THE HELL BELOW: French Italian thriller starring Serge Reglanl, Michael Constantln, Juliet Berto and Patrick Bouchltey. Orchard: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. RED AZALEA; Villagers terrorised by the tyrannic Prefect, find themselves rescued by a knight errant nlcknam ed the Red Azalea. Directed by Huang Yueh
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    • 39 2 Today: 1.14 p.m. (2.4m). Tomorrow: 12.32 a.m. (2.8m); 1.45 p.m. (2.4m). Friday: 1.14 a.m. (2.7m); 2.14 p.m. (2.4m). Saturday: 1.55 a.m. (2.5m); 2.45 p.m. (2.4m). Sunday: 2.38 a.m. (2.3m); 3.19 p.m. (2.3m). Monday: 3.25 a.m. (2.1m); 3.57 p.m. (2.2m).
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  • 8 2 Police reported 73 accidents yesterday. Eight were serious.
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  • 279 3 More youths seeking treatment More than 80 per cent of the 300 cases handled by the Singapore Antinarcotlcs Association have been found to be heroin addicts. Disclosing this in an interview, Mr. V. Retnam, SANA'S senior counsellor and rehabilitation officer, said there has
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  • 159 3 READY BY OCTOBER Part-time special constabulary national servicemen will soon undergo their week-long in camp training at a new centre in Jurong. The camp at Jalan Bahar has been acquired from the Singapore Armed Forces to provide better facilities for the special constables. It
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  • 58 3 The Sri Temasek Quartet comprising Sylvia and Vivien Ooh, Chlu Sin Sing and Tony Lee will perform at the DBS auditorium on July 25 at 8.30 p.m. They will plav Havdn (quartet In D major Op 54 No. 5), Schumann (quartet In A minor Op 41 No. 1) and
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  • 128 3 Fourteen decoy and patrol can are now plying round the clock alone the Johore trunk roads as its to police mount an allout hunt for a gang of four highway robbers. Eight decoy cars, bearing Singapore-re-gistered number plates, and six patrol ean hare been
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  • 234 3 Batu Pahat, Tuesday The public has been warned to keep a sharp look-out for communist cadres and antl-national elements who have Infiltrated into kampungs under the guise of doctors and professors from Singapore and Indonesia. "The communists have resorted to various ways and means
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  • 31 3 Three armed men. one with a pistol, held up four people, including three girls, in a shoo at Upper Serangoon Road and robbed them of $540 cash and valuables yesterday.
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    • 267 3 JULY 1976 aders Digest TT7I X 7 Watch closely to this year's Olympics we may not see the likes of this quadrennial extravaganza again. Mighty Weapon of the Empty Hand An ancient technique is helping people all over the world to become physically fit. mentally relaxed and prepared to ward
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  • 358 4  -  By Peter Ong Nine record companies In Singapore have formed an association to crack down on record and tape piracy. It la called the Singapore Phonogram Association and Includes major distributors and manufacturers like EMI, Cosdel, Life Records. Phonogram. Baal, and Chiang
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  • 343 4 Call by impresario Moore The National Theatre is "a hideous nettle" and should be demolished, local Impresario Donald Moore said. In its place and with the assistance of the finest theatre architects money can buy, another theatre should be built worthy of a people who have managed
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  • 54 4  -  f The faces of ASEAN by ALI YUSOFF Sabrina Loo is one of Kuala Lumpur's more sought after part-time models. The 26-year-old Malaysian beauty was busy at work when she caught the eye of photographer All Yusoff That was a stroke of luck. For here
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  • 308 4  -  By Nancy Koh Nana Mouskouri of the plain looks and horn-rlmmed glasses prefers to be a housewife than a superstar. The Greek singing star said last night at the end of a two-day private visit: "I do not care for fame, wealth or
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  • 117 4 Four-d 1g 11 punters can now place bets on op to eight sets of numbers each time they «ueue up at*«ny of the Singapore Turf Club's 15 branches. If they want to bet on more than eight sets of numbers then they will have to sueue
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  • 233 4 About 50,000 cubic metres of earth is being dredged daily from the sea-bed off Changi for the $240 million airport reclamation project. Dredges and barges have been in operation since April to acquire 41 million cubic metres of earth for the 745-hectare reclamation area.
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  • 51 4 Burma Airways !s operating twice weekly flights from Singapore to Rangoon by Fokker 28. The 2%-hour service departs Singapore on Mondays and Thursdays at 5.45 p.m. From Rangoon, the service leaves on the same days at 12.30 p.m. Singapore Airlines is the general sales agent for Burma
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  • 446 5 Angry Britons call for break in diplomatic ties Reuter London, Wednesday The British government, pondering how to react to Ugandan President Amin's latest moves, trod cautiously yesterday despite an increase of angry calls here for a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries. Many Britons
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  • 118 5 Reuter Cambridge, Wednesday Prince Ronald Mutebi, whose Cambridge University education was paid for by order of Ugandan President Amln, has been told not to return to the university because his exam results were not good enough. The 20-year-old prince, son of the late Kabaka
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  • 269 5 Reuter Jerusalem, Wednesday Israeli Foreign* Minister Ylgal Allon said yesterday the behaviour of Ugandan President Amin towards airbus hostage Dora Bloch constituted the height of barbarity, and warned Uganda: "The Jewish people's memory is long." He accused the Ugandan government of becoming entangled
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  • 199 5 Reuter United Nations, Wednesday—Kenya yesterday accused Uganda of a systematic, indiscriminate massacre of Kenyan citizens resident in Uganda. The complaint to the Security Council came from Kenyan Foreign Minister Munyua Walyaki, here for the debate on the French Airbus hijacking, when 100 hostages
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  • 354 6 As Filipino police probe deaths of six fishermen Reuter Manila, Wednesday The US Navy has suspended bombing exercises over an area off the western Philippines coast in which six fishermen are alleged to have died from bombing during recent US exercises. The navy said
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  • 227 6 Brussels, Wednesday. —Common Market leaden yesterday agreed that British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins should be the next president of the European community's executive commission. British Prime Minister James Callaghan told reporters at the end of a two-day summit conference here: "We Indicated that we
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  • 29 6 Reuter Lusaka. Wednesday Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chlen arrived yesterday for the official handover ceremony today of his counntry's biggest overseas aid project the 1,860 kilometre Tan-zania-Zambia Railway.—
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  • 176 6 Reuter Singapore, Wednesday About half a million people have left Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) since the dty feU to the communists In April last year, according to Hanoi Radio monitored here. The radio said the peo pie had either returned
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  • 113 6 Onlookers and. students stand outside the library building at California State University at Fullerton where seven people were killed and two injured by a man who stormed through the library shouting that he was going to kill all his wife** lovers. Edward Charles Alloway, 37,
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  • 65 6 Reuter Nairobi, WednesdayEthiopia's military rulers announced yesterday that the general they had assigned to crush the Eritrean Insurgency had turned traitor and been killed In a gun battle. Brigadier-General Getachew Nadew, the tough career soldier who had ruled Eritrea with an iron hand for the past 17
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  • 37 6 Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday Vietnam and the Soviet Union have held talks In Moscow on Soviet economic aid to the re-cently-reunified IndoChinese nation and measures to strengthen cooperation between them, according to the Vietnam News Agency,
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  • 153 6 UPI TODAY is Wednesday, July 14, the 196 th day of 1976 with 170 to follow. THE MOON is between its full phase and last quarter. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury and Jupiter. THE EVENING STARS are Venus and Baturn. Those born on this date are under the sign
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  • 69 6 UPI London, Wednesday Because no travel agency could guarantee him a seat at Montreal Olympic Stadium, CUve Barry man paid £685 (s3*l4) to fly from Sydney to London to watch the Olympic Games on television. Barryman, 35, said on arrival yesterday: M I wasn't going to miss
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  • 568 6 JANE GASKELL'S MEMO Bess Myeron won a nation's heart when she was Miss America a healthy, wholesome brunette. The intense, chocolate on-the-point-of-melting eyes were the main attraction, in fact In 1945 when Bess was a beauty queen and public cleavagc was forbidden.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 196 6 WORLD WEATHER New York Variable cloudiness, cooler, 2315C. Headline: Democrats meet, Strauss asks an end of years of Nixon-Ford; Beame and Carey join In attack. San Francisco—Clear, 25-11 C. Headline- Demos open their convention. Tokyo—Cloudy, 31-24 C. He a dllne: Marubeni's Hlyama taken Into custody In probe. Rome- Clear. 30-19
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  • 105 7 Frank Sinatra and his bride Barbara Marx cutting the four-tier cake after their wedding at the home of former US Ambassador to England, Mr. Walter Annenberg, in Palm Springs, California. Sinatra and his bride exchanged cars as wedding gifts after the ceremony attended by 130 political
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  • 155 7 Reuter Melbourne, Wednesday A senior Australian newspaper executive forecast yesterday his country's dally newspapers could be fully automated within five to seven years. Mr. jHarry Gordon, executive editor of the Melbourne-based newspaper group, The Herald anu Weekly Times Company, made the comment at
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  • 44 7 Reuter Peking. WednesdaySenator Hugh Scott, Retiublican minority leader u the United States' Senate, had a two-hour meeting here with Chinese VI ce Premier Chang Chun-chiao yesterday. He later described the discussion as "very interesting and fruitful" but declined to release details.—Reuter.
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  • 292 7 New Beirut peace move Reuter Cairo, Wednesday An Arab League committee yesterday called for a conference, to be held within three days, aimed at ending trie dispute between Syria and the Palestinians. Rut four of the countries called on to help the two sides
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  • 163 7 Reuter Wellington, Wednesday New Zealand has decided not to open an embassy In South Africa, Foreign Minister Brian Talboys told Parliament yesterday. He said the former South African consul here, Mr. Peter Philip, suggested In a letter before he left New Zealand that
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  • 88 7 Canberra. Wednesday Australian police have arrested a senior official of the PLO and deported him to Algeria, authoritative sources here said yesterdaySources said the man. whose name was not released. was seised last weekend when police raided a house In Mel- bourne. and was deported on Monday.
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  • 56 7 Reuter Brisbane, Wednesday— Former Olympic and English Channel swimmer Linda McGill was recovering in hospital today from multiple Injuries she received in a car crash. Doctors said Miss McGill. 31, who recently swam rounu Hong Kong island, suffered a broken collar bone, several fractured ribs and
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  • 35 7 UPI Long Beach, Wednesday —> Mrs. Pat Nixon, partially paralysed by a stroke. Is steadily Improving and graduated yesterday from simple arm and leg therapy to walking and standing at least once a day.—UPl.
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  • 31 7 UPI New York. Wednesday —Ted Mack. 72. the man who gave Pat Boone, Beverly 8111s and AnnMargret their first opportunities to perform tor mass American audiences, died on Monday.
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  • 26 7 Reuter Jakarta. WednesdayMore than 60 people have died of cholera and nearly 1.000 others are still being treated for the disease in West Java.—
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  • 155 7 Tokyo, Wednesday European Economic Community commissioner Finn Olav Oundelach yesterday denied he has suggested a ministerial conference on trade among the EEC, Japan and the US when he met Japanese Foreign Minister Kllchi Mlyazawa on Monday. Mr. Oundelach, the commissioner In charge of
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  • 34 7 Reuter Belgrade, WednesdayRomanian diplomat Gersce Manolescu was shot dead In Luanda apparently because he did not stop his car during a dally flag-lowering ceremony, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported last night.
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  • 420 8 Parts of Chinatown may yet cheat the bulldozers. The official study Into the feasibility of retaining some prewar houses In Chinatown and elsewhere as historical landmarks should yield more pros than cons, though there are obvious problems. The Preservation of Monuments Board proposal Involves dwelling
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 65 8 A national serviceman, an enthusiastic camera buff, offered to take pictures of his sergeant's baby. When the time came for the picture taking, the sergeant's family turned out in full force, dressed In their Sunday best. The pictures were duly taken, and the national serviceman duly
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    • 32 8 A court in Kuchlng was told that a man robbed one pro- stitute to spend on another. Is this the equivalent of robbing Peter to pay Paul?
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  • 700 8  -  WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON P a r t i c I p a nts from the West at International economic conferences since the Manila Declaration of the Group of 77 developing countries within the United Nations earlier this year, claim to detect
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  • 212 8  -  T. FONG Your editorial, Tiling: Ask the flat-buyers (NN, July 7), aptly reflects the views of most purchasers of HDB four and five-room flats. Your recommendation to the HDB to conduct a survey among applicants on the waiting list Is sound. But should the
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  • 51 8  -  CHEW KING HWAN for Director of Education, Ministry of Education, Singapore 10. I refer to your report entitled "New Principals At Three Schools" (NN, 17.6.78) and wish to point out that Mrs. R. Bandara was only asked to cover the duties of the principal of Swiss Cottage Primary
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  • 390 8 Reuter Tel Aviv, Wednesday A former favourite battle ground for Israeli and Arab guerrilla forces is now the site of an Israeli army free clinic for sick Lebanese villagers. Newsmen visited the i m pr o v 1 s ed infirmary near the border village of Dover, where
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  • 289 8 BANGKOK POST Y VOICE OF THE PRESS The reconciliation now taklnz place between Egypt and Syria has been carefully managed so that It puts neither state In the wrong, but It is unquestionably a big victory for President Sadat of Egypt. After an eight-month Syrian campaign of invective,
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  • 893 9  -  Sudden death of Amirteymour in London stirs speculation By Bernard D. Nossiter Washington Post London, Wednesday On the night of June 4, an Iranian diplomat noticed that the lights were on in the Kensington home of Mohammad Reza Amirteymour, the newly recalled ambassador. Since
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  • 488 9 NYT New York, Wednesday Jimmy Carter stands a chance of becoming the first Democrat In American history to win the Presidency without winning by a landslide among Roman Catholics. Analysis of surveys conducted by the New York Times and CBS News Indicates that if present
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 291 9 Crossword 6 Kazm&n 7 Ornament a book 8 Acknowledge 9 The Ideal in art 10 Windward Island 11 Decibel rating' 12 Founded: abbr. 13 Particle 17 Large shark 21 Spud 23 Finesse 25 Adversary of man 26 Eject 27 Body process 29 Renders callous 30 Engaged in pleonasm 32 Emulate
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  • trend
    • 1549 10 / 11 VIOLET OON TELLS WHY FOSTERING IS GETTING POPULAR Anna: We see our child every night "I would have loved to leave my daughter Natalie with my mother or mother-in-law but had to settle for leaving her with a nanny during the week," said Mrs. Anna Ong. This arrangement
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    • 607 10 / 11 "I'm a weekend mother," said Mrs. Jane Liew, 25. She explained: "After weighing all the alternatives, my husband and I decided that If both of us wanted to keep fulltime Jobs, the best solution to our child care problem was to leave our
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    • 408 10 / 11 A nurse and midwife, Miss S.C. Loo, hit on a golden formula five years ago when she decided to open a nursery for children. From her conversations with new mothers, she felt that there was a need for a clean nursery run by professionals
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    • 957 10 / 11  -  Wednesday, July 14,1976 by H.L.Lim Last Thursday, I sat in on a conversation between an angry reader and my editor. The reader was upset by the day's New Nation editorial. He and his family were victims of the Joh or e trunk-road robbers. As a result of the hold-up.
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  • 731 12 FRANCE: NATIONAL DAY SUPPLEMENT Message from H.E. Mr. Jacques Qasseau, Ambassador for France in Singapore. On the 14th July, anniversary of the capture of "La Bastille," symbol of the birth of freedom, In Singapore as In all countries In the world, France celebrates her
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  • 581 13 FRANCE: NATIONAL DAY SUPPLEMENT Since 1875 France has been a unitarian republic. The President is head of State. A far-reaching change was introduced in 1962. In a referendum staged on Oct. 28, 1962 a majority of the electorate (62 per cent) decided that
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  • ENGLISH
    • 1209 14 This series is compiled by a panel of three English Language experts Dr. Lee Kok Cheong, Mr. Arthur Yap and Miss Ngoh Geok Lun. As mentioned briefly In the last lesson, the non-past tense includes both the present and the fiiture, because the same verb
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    • 596 14 Reuter Manila, Wednesday The Manila-based Asian Development Bank is consulting various international bodies including the World Bank, about Vietnam's membership and assistance to the newly reunified country as well as the obligations it may have acquired from the defunct South Vietnamese regime, informed sources
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 547 14 :®Exa32»j£>: Wednesday CO-3 NEW NATION MONEYWORDS Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address Tel: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW Cut along dotted linn mam MB m CLUES FOR CO-3 1. Improve the condition off. 2. A dull and hoavy one
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  • 304 15 ...if Britain does not case curbs warning v 2 pages of Business News and Views See also H 16 Reuter London, Wednesday The chairman of the London Stock Exchange, Mr. Nicholas Goodlson, yesterday urged the Labour government to ease restrictions on British investments in overseas shares
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  • 239 15 SAYS REPORT UPI London, WednesdayBritain Ls on the verge of a boom which will make Its economy one of the fastest growing in the world by 1981 surpassed only by Japan, according to a report published yesterday. The balance of payments deficit will be
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    • 23 15 GOOD PRICE OFFERED for all good used cars, any make, and model. Contact Tanglln Used Cars Co. 69 Kllllney Road, Tel: *****3/ *****9.
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  • 317 16 Paris, Wednesday The French franc fell yesterday to a 21-month low against the dollar, pushed down by persistent inflation and a disastrous drought that has caused heavy crop and export losses. For the second day In a row, the franc was battered by speculators
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  • 475 16 Despite increase in demand due to Europe drought UPI Washington, Wednesday US Agriculture Department analysts yesterday reiterated earlier forecasts that reserve stocks of major American grains will rise during the coming year despite increased overseas demand caused by drought in Western Europe. The analysis
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 180 16 Profit takers cashed In on two days of sharp gains yesterday to drive E rices irregularly lower i the heaviest trading In a month on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 5.15 points to 1006.06 after being ahead more than four points at
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    • 246 16 DBS-Daiwa Securities International Ltd The overnight NYSE advance pushed up high-priced electrical issues. However, the announcement that Mr. Hlroshi Hiyama, former chairman of Marubeni, was arrested discouraged further Investor buying. As a result, the market closed lower. In the morning, ex-port-related issues were among the gainers, but drifted lower
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    • 72 16 Closing prices (In francs) on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Pari has 154.70 —0.30 Ponder 304.50 —0.50 Prlntemps 48.80 +0.30 Pull 35.50 —0.10 Royal Dutch 230 +0.10 Mlchelln 1258 —7 COS 289 —3 Thomson 182 +0.90 CPP 112.30 —0.70 Rhone 89.80 —0.40 Air 350 —0.30 B8N 641 —1 Philips 53.70
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    • 86 16 Union Bank of Switzerland Closing prices (In Swiss francs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS Bearer 3325 35 UBS Registered 505 5 SBC 445 5 Credit Suisse 3635 EX —90 Swissair B. 591 1 Swiss Relnsur. 3345 30 Wlnterthur B. 1750 15 Zurich Insur. 6600 35 Juvena B.
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    • 104 16 Closing prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sydney 8tock Exchange: A C I 165 168 A D CT 45 nil Ampol Pet 66 68 ANI 112 114 A P M 143 147 Bank N8W 590 598 Brambles 168 170 B H P 834 830 Boral 323
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  • 367 16 r r from the Doq House bv My article about children's handling has brought many questions from both parents and youngsters. Many want to know whether they must be members of the SKC before they are eligible to enter the National Junior Championship. The answer
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  • 127 16 UPI Tokyo, Wednesday Japan's private Investments abroad hit the second highest in history of U553.23 billion in fiscal 1975 ending March 31, the Finance Ministry announced yesterday. The Ministry said the record of U553,494 billion was set In 1973. Investments In North America amounted
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    • 126 16 Q) w Tour 746 UK Highlights 5 days $353 Visiting Llandrindod Wells, Lake District, Edinburgh, Harrogate. Tour 734 The Five Capitols 8 days $708 Visiting Brussels, Amsterdam, Bonn Bad Godesberg, Luxembourg, Paris. Tour 731 Picturesque Europe 12 days $987 Visiting Brussels, Heidelberg, Landeck, Bolzano, Venice, Stresa, Lucerne, Paris. Tour 738
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    • 126 16 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, Leone Slew Kwhy Leong Slew Kwal of No 10A, St. Michael's Road. Singapore, 12 have applied Transfer of Licensee from Wong Suk Khln In respect of premises No. Great World Park, Kim Seng Road Singapore, 9 m/s (Diamond Restaurant) and that this application
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    • 247 17  -  SUPPORTER, As an ardent soccer fan, I was very surprised that nobody has questioned the change of tradition in this year's Malaysia Cup semifinals. Either I am behind time in news or the Football Association of Malaysia have blundered. Unlike many selfproclaimed supporters who easily forget
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    • 105 17  -  ANTI-FAKER Singapore 12. I am not satisfied with the way Malaysia Cup tickets are being sold to members of the public. Not only Is It a big problem trying to beat the queue In the early hours of the morning, but It Is also a problem
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    • 185 17  -  PETTER LIEW As the Malaysia Cup semi final match will be on Saturday, may I. being < a staunch supporter of our National soccer team, olTer some suggestions. First and foremost, the players must be 100 per cent fit. Second comes team strategy. The better prepared
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    • 163 17  -  W. ONG Since the 1960 Rome Olympics, prospects of ever winning a medal in the Olympic Games have become Increasingly remote, almost mythical for Singapore. At best, our token participants in Montreal can hope for an improvement on their personal best performances, gain more experience and perhaps foster
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    • 239 17  -  WONG JOO SIN As a badminton enthusiast, I recently took part in the inter-consti-tuency badminton tournament. Both officials and umpires of the tournament were very kind and helpful and the quality of the shuttles supplied was goqd. All matches were played at the Singapore Badminton
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    • 96 17  -  SPORTING 8AM. Singapore It. It is rather heartbreaking to read in the Press that the Basketball Association of Singapore are inviting other countries to participate In the Pesta Sukan basketb a 11 tournament, taekwan do and karate exponents are to stage their respective competitions. and yet there
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    • 116 17  -  LIM KIM HING I read with Interest Mr. Wee Thlam Bock's winning letter last week. Trevor Hartley's contention that "no player can claim to have a permanent spot in the Malaysia Cud team" Is fair and reasonable. It Is a straightforward case of having a wide
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    • 73 17  -  KODOK MENARA Some readers have complained that the word "Sportsfront" should be changed to "Soccerfront" beca use letters published In this page are mainly about soccer. What next! The title is immaterial. It is the letters that count. If the letters are good. Interesting and entertaining, everyone will
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous

  • 736 18 Montreal Olympic Games 1976 Reuter UPI AP Montreal, Wednesday An American newspaper, The Sacramento Bee, reported yesterday that American Black athletes will be asked to withdraw from the Olympic Games by a group of African nations opposing participation by New Zealand. Quoting an anonymous Informed
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  • 690 18  -  By BRIAN MILLER Competition Is expected to be keen when the National Inter-School Track and Field championships get underway at the National Stadium tomorrow. The competition will be spread over more than a week and will culminate with the finals on July 24.
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  • 1079 18  -  SQUASH b v Eric Cooper All eight seeds are through to the third round In the men's event In the Pakistan Inter national Airlines squash championships which began last Saturday. All have had easy passages so far, though V. Oopal, seeded No.
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    • 409 18 YOUR LUCKY IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are one of those lovers of luxury who has the misfortune of being more Inclined toward the spending of money than the saving of it for a rainy day of which, not so Incidentally, you are destined to have quite a
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  • 452 19  -  By V.S. VEERA Kuantan, Wednesday Pahang will badly miss the services of their regular rightwinger Ahmad Bab in the Malaysia Gup soccer away-leg semi-final against Singapore on Saturday. Ahmad, who was injured in Pahang's return match against Selangor last Saturday, has been advised by team doctors
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  • 324 19  -  By PHILIP TAN Raffles Institution Installed themselves iavourltes for the National Schools Post Secondary rugby title when they handed Catholic Junior College a 32-0 beating at Tanglin yesterday. The Raffleslans, who will wind up their League programme this Friday when they tackle arch
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  • 205 19 Armed Forces and Singapore Cricket Club thrilled a large crowd of about 3000 at the Padang to a fine exhibition of flery and entertaining hockey yesterday. As expected, the formidable soldiers stole the show and virtually clinched the Division One title when thev defeated SCC team
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  • 415 19  -  ON THE TRACK with Brian Miller Batu Karang, one of the fancied runners for the Queen Elizabeth Cup on Sunday, did a stylish gallop at Buklt Tlmah this morning. With Jockey Moses Lee in the saddle, he clocked 40 for 600 m after
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  • 659 19 Reuter London, Wednesday West Indies skipper CUve Lloyd blamed "over exhuberance" for the much criticised shortpitched bowling against England's Brian Close and John Edrlch last Saturday in the Third cricket Test. "I was disappointed our pacemen bowled so badly. They got a bit
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  • 44 20 MEI LIN: Mr. Howe Yoon Chung Is right. The test of the strength of any organisation Is by its least adequate member. AH FOOK: That's true. The weakest links In the chain are the ones to watch out for, not the strongest.
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    • 831 20 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 H 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by LENS A 35 (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS IM) 3.35 GENERAL HOSPITAL 4.15 DENDANG REMAJA r). Features up-and-coming singer Aziz Joned 4.30 INTERMISSION 5.55 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by LAND OF THE LOST. About a ranger, his son and daughter
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    • 268 20 9 THE GREAT COMPOSERS Schubert. (Ch. 5, at 7 p.m. in colour.) Like his contemporary, Beetnoven, Schubert was of the classical school, a forerunner oi the Romantic period. He also wrote a considerable volume of symphonies, sonatas and string quartets during his 31 >ears ox ratner confined Hie in Vienna.
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