New Nation, 6 September 1976

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  • 17 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Monday, September 6, 1976 No. 1738 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 428/76 NEW NATION COMMENT
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  • 349 1  -  Unprecedented tax 'will hit tourist trade' By Peter Ong Airlines wanting to fly over Vietnamese territory have been asked to pay tax up to $2000 for every flight. The tax, which will set a precedent In the Industry, will be assessed according to the weight of
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  • 438 1 Larnaca (Cyprus), Monday An A r a b speaking inurnalist saved the lives of 83 passengers and crew of the KLM Dutch airliner when he succeeded in persuading the hijackers that their plane was crucially low on fuel. When the hijacked airliner made
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  • 339 1  -  By Teresa Ooi Dr. Ruth Wong, Director of the Institute of Education, has resigned. She will leave the education service at the end of this month. A distinguished scholar, Dr. Wong has still 18 months more to go in her five-year contract, but has
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 333 2 Air traffic in Asia is likely to grow at an average annual rate of 15 per cent for the next five to 10 years, according to Mr. Lim Chin Beng, managing director of Singapore Airlines. This is well above the rates forecast by airlines
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  • 352 2  -  By Bharathi Mohan The Seni Pramoj government has urged the former Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kititkachom to postpone his return to Thailand following the uncovering of a "communist plot." According to a Bernama report from Bangkok, about 1000 Thai communists are ready to take advantage of
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  • 189 2 Firm and moderately active trading prevailed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minute today. All thestraded counters gained. Pan-Electric which came under a bear raid last Friday, recovered six cents to $2.25. Shell, last week's top performer, continued to Improve, rising by six cents
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  • 92 2 Skirling bagpipes wish radiant newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Eng Keng Nguan Bon Voyage as then leave this morning on their Philippines honeymoon. The Engs are among the 150 couples in the mass wedding organised by C and E Tours. The mass wedding celebrations were held
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 46 2 Today: 9.30 p.m. (2.6 m). Tomorrow: 10.40 a.m. (2.4 m); 10.11 p.m. (2.7 m) Wednesday: 11.05 a.m. (2.5 m); 10.49 p.m. (2.8 m) Thursday: 11.28 a.m. (2.5 m); 11.25 p.m. (2.8 m) Friday: 11.51 a.m. (2.6 m). Saturday: 12.01 a.m. (2.7 m); 12.15 p.m. (2.6 m)
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    • 109 2 Toto and Big Sweep results BIG SWEEP drawn in Penan* on Saturday: Ist No. ***** 2nd No. ***** 3rd No. 51*06 Starters: Nos. *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****. Consolation: Nos. *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****. BIG SWEEP
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    • 550 2 AT THE CINEMA JAWS: Tne Academyaward winning, recordbreaking movie about a shark. Stars are Roy Schneider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreytuss. Screenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, directed by Steven Spielberg. Prince: 1.30, 4.15, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE: A wild-life adventure story depicting life in the animal
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  • 8 2 Police reported 81 accidents yesterday. Six were serious.
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  • 311 3  -  ...for 4000 junior trainees next year By Teresa Ooi The Ministry of Education has set up a new unit the Junior Trainee Scheme Unit to launch the massive project where 4000 14-year-old schoolleavers will be placed in industries to work as junior trainees next
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  • 140 3  -  By Terry Ang The 400-tonne Ma-laysian-reg i st e re d coastal vessel, Tegak, was this morning sinking off the Western Anchorage after fire broke out on board last night. Tecak's captain, Dlan Abdul Manan. 58. said he was sleeping wnen c o tton
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  • 71 3 Sandra Wong Geok Lan was named the fairest maiden of Jurong Town on Saturday. The 20-year-old quality control supervisor of General Electric Housewares won the Juro-Rama '76 Queen crown at YWCA House. The firfet runner-up in the contest organlsed by the YWCA was Miss Sim Ah Slew,
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  • 19 3 The Ministry of Culture will hold an openair art exhibition at Tlong Bahru Gardens on Sept 19
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  • 183 3 Should Singapore give top executives tax incentives to attract talent? This question was put at a seminar on Saturday by a char tered secretary and management consultant, Mr. Lee Fook Hong. Mr. Lee said a busi ness executive, alter many years of train
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  • 279 3 There is little doubt that Singapore's ruling People's Action Party will retain power in a free election "without a fight," the Times of London said. The paper's correspondent, Peter Hazelhurst, said Mr. Lee is expected to call an early election before the mandatory period
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  • 22 3 The National Stamp Exhibition Slnpipex •76 will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall from Nov. 27 to Dec. 5.
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  • 196 3  -  By Gerry De Silva Raffles Hotel spent $10,000 to put up a 27.4-metre long awning to create a Venetian atmosphere at its open-air restaurant, Palm Court. But the hotel did not reckon with the weather. Heavy rain and strong winds whipped the polythene awning
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    • 414 3 5. tr !■> a Cordyceps, a well-known Chinese herb of great value, is used as a nutrient and corroborant and is usually prepared with of general Yang Cheng brand Essence of Chicken with Cordyceps is produced under modern method in China, using fresh chicken and genuine Cordyceps. It contains no
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  • 433 4 SAYS DON A University of Singapore don has suggested that the legislative curbs on residential housing should be reviewed in the light of changed circumstances. Professor Philip Motha. vice-dean of the University's Faculty of Architecture and Building, in an article In Development and
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  • IN PARLIAMENT
    • 149 4 Entertainment duty exemption U discretionary but will generally be granted where the performance has Intrinsic cultural value. Finance Minister Mr. Hon Sul Sen said in Parliament on Friday. Replying to a question bv Mr. p. Oovlndaswamy (Anson) on the criteria for tax exemption for cultural
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    • 231 4 No need for JTC to reveal costs —Hon Finance Minister Mr. Hon Sui Sen explained in Parliament on Friday why Jurong Town Corporation should not be required to reveal publicly the breakdown cost of its executive flats. He said: "I do not think it appropriate that for a luxury-type flat
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    • 158 4 Jurong Town Corporation has proposed a $60-mllllon project to develop Sembawang end for industrial use. The Minister for Law and Environment, Mr. E.W. Barker, told Parliament on Friday the project, covering 327 hectares of land, will take about four years to complete. The olan is to
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  • 215 4 The Special Constabulary has introduced an on-the-job training scheme for its national service recruits to better equip them for beat duty and mobile patrols. The scheme requires a recruit to undergo a month's training at one of the eight divisions to familiarise himself with routine police
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  • 189 4 Beauty queen Ann Chua spent six weeks at tne Singapore Fair in Tokyo but she won't ever do it again. For most of her time there was spent washing dishes and ash trays and cleaning tables. Ann, 21. wno was hostess
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  • 43 4 The opening of Hong Kone Week will be held at the Crystal Ballroom of Hyatt Hotel on Friday •at 7.30 p.m. There will be a fashion show on the imperial costumes of ancient China and demonstrations of traditional Chinese entertainment.
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  • 34 4 The Singapore Guide and Street Directory (third Chinese edition) is now available at book stores at $6 a copy. It Includes new roads, hotels and housing estates built since Dec. 1971.
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  • 149 4 The Senior Minister of State for Communica tions, Mr. Ong Teng Cheong, will officially open the $2.3 million East Payoh Secondary School at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow. The school, one of the first to be built under Ministry of Education's reactivated school building programme, is the
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  • 426 5 Five presidents for summit Reuter Dar Es Salaam, Monday Five black African presidents, plus African nationalists from Rhodesia, Namibia (South-west Africa) and South Africa itself, gathered here yesterday for a major summit on southern Africa today which could open the way for a new
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  • 118 5 AP Manila. Monday The Philippine Muslim rebel group known as the Moro National Liberation Front (M N LF) will resume peace talks with the P h ill ppine government next February In Tripoli, Libya, Muslim sources said yesterday. There was no immediate official reaction
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  • 222 5 Reuter Johannesburg, Monday Militant blacks were reported yesterday to be planning a nation-wide strike starting tomorrow. The strike could relgnlte riots that have claimed almost 300 lives in South Africa since June. Riot police chief. Gen. David Krlel, said police had heard
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  • 262 5 AP New York, Monday The Soviet Union is at the top of the list, followed by Israel, Brazil, Bulgaria and Cuba. These naUons and others are scoring points in a sort of "parking ticket derby," which because diplomats, their families, staflers and consular workers
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  • 43 5 AP Kuwait, Monday—Convicted rapists, murderers and kidnappers will be executed In this Persian Gulf 011-rlch state, the Ruler of Kuwait decreed yesterday. It was his third decree since Parliament was dissolved and several articles of the Constitution suspended last Sunday.—AP.
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  • 28 5 Reuter Islamabad, Monday Pakistan's National Assembly yesterday passed a hotly disputed Constitutional amendment Bill after a Joint walkout by the country's divided opposition parties.
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  • 210 5 Reuter Pasadena, Monday— The Red Planet Mars is apparently red all over. This Is the conclusion space scientists are drawing from the first colour picture sent back early yesterday by Viking 11, the second US spacecraft to land successfully on the
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  • 336 6 —says Pichai after talks with Malaysians Reuter Kota Bahru, Monday Thai Foreign Minister Pichai Rattakul held wide ranging talks with his Malay--8 i a n counterpart Tengku Rlthauddeen here on Saturday night. Mr. Plchal said before leaving for Thailand the discussions touched on the Thai-Malaysian border
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  • 59 6 Tou are right, the buxom lady in the foreground is none other than Elizabeth Taylor. She is pictured here with her co-stars on the set of the musical film, A Little Night Music, on location in Vienna. Her co-stars from left are Len Cariou, Larry Guttard
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  • 25 6 Reuter Cannes, Monday An Australian entry. "Gott In To?o", has won the Grand Prix at this year's International Amateur Film Festival in Cannes.
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  • 533 6  -  AMERICA JANE GASKELL'S Washington, rocked by sex scandals, Watergate and corruption, is in for another brutal shock. The news that Is sending shudders through Capitol Hill Is that Time-Life Films are about to launch a soap opera based on everyday life there. Clare Simpson
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  • 153 6 Reuter Bangkok, Monday American businessmen in Thailand have become "markedly more pessimistic" In the last few months about future Investment confidence In the country, according to Mr. James Rooney, president of the American Chamber of Commerce here. Mr. Rroney, writing In the Thai-American
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  • 23 6 Reuter Jakarta, Monday—The Indonesian Navy has ordered four patrol boats equipped with guided mlsrilea from the South Korean Tacoma Marine Industry.—Reuter.
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  • 199 6 UPI Tokyo, Monday Former US Defence Secretary James Uchleslnger will make an extensive tour of China, including areas hlterto closed to foreign visitors, an official accompanying him said yesterday. Mr. Schleslnger will be the first American allowed In Tibet. The official, who didn't wish to
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  • 52 6  -  D.J. Eleven-year-old Marine Walker hit on a high speed idea for letting her parents know she had arrived safely in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, on holiday. She took one of Dad's racing pigeons with her to *end her message home to Cotttnghahfl near Hall—a 144
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  • 131 6 UPI TODAY is Monday. Sept. 6, the 250 th day of 1978 with 116 to follow. THE MOON is approaching Its full stage. THE MORNING STARS are Jupiter and Saturn. THE EVENING STAR Is Mercury. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. American social worker
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 137 6 WEATHER Moscow Sunny, 1720C. Pravda's headline: Inspired labour of millions. Tokyo Cloudy, 2619C. Headline: Viking 2 lands on Mars. New York Cloudy, 15-24C. Headline: President says Kelley will stay as FBI director. Hone Kong Sunny, 31-26C. Headline: Time Is running out, warns Dr. K. Manila Sunny, 3125C. Headline: Refugees going
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  • 272 7 Reuter Edinburgh, Monday A device has been developed that enables babies born blind to "see" by means of echoes from an ultrasonic scanner. Dr. Tom Bower of the Edinburgh University's Psychology Department told the annual conference of the British Association for the Advancement of
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  • 292 7 Leipzig, Monday Millions of East German newspapers were destroyed this weekend on the orders of the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) after party leader Erich Honecker apparently decided to withdraw his own comments about East German spying in West Germany, informed
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  • 182 7 Reuter Beirut, Monday—Fighting on the major Lebanese fronts was reported to have Intensified this weekend as political and religious leaders followed each other to Damascus in search for a settlement of the conflict. Raldo stations representing all sides In the civil war—which will
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  • 203 7 Reuter Moscow, Monday The Soviet "Communist Party daily Pravda yesterday accused President Ford of contradicting agreements to improve USSoviet relations by saying American military might was a guarantee of peace. In its authoritative Sunday International Week column, it said remarks Mr. Fbrd made
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  • 188 7 Reuter Paris, Monday.—Rebel French Archbishop Narcel Lefebvre yesterday celebrated another big traditional mass in Besancon one week after the Vatican condemned his first in Lille last week. About 2000 Roman Catholics heard him Intone the Tridentlne Mass in Latin, a service banned for public
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  • 23 7 UPI Rome, Monday—Paola Bresclano, 16, the soccerplaying beauty who recently won the Miss Sicily title, yesterday captured the Miss Italy crown.—UPl.
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  • 96 7 Reuter Colombo, Monday Mr. Mervyn de Silva, dismissed last week as Editor of Ceylon's Sunday Observer newspaper, has joined the rival Times Oroup, the Times announced. It said Mr. de Silva would be Editor-in-chief of the Group's Englishlanguage publications. The Ceylon Daily Mirror and The
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 5 7 Just Arrived for Colour Lcib.
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    • 117 7 Singing pearl of th« Orient Sandra Lang August 23rd to September 11th The darling of Hong Kong TV, Sandra Lang wins hearts wherever she sings. One of the original Chopsticks Sisters, Sandra has performed aO over the Far East and in the United States. Catch Sandra for an evening of
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  • 429 8 The increasing participation of women in the economy from 18 per cent in 1957 to about 30 per cent last year enlarges the problem of balancing out their roles as career women and homemakers without one penalising the other. Mrs. Janet Yee, an assistant
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 58 8 Workers at an office canteen were momentarily puzzled when one of their female colleagues who was carrying a glass of tea clipped: The glass was empty and there was no split tea on the floor. Only seconds later did the girl discover that the tea was
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    • 44 8 A pregnant friend was puzzled by her colleague who kept on saying that she reminded him of Kenya. After much hesita- tion. he said: "Everytlme I look, at you. it reminds me of the hippopotamuses or the rhinoceroses I saw in Kenya."
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  • 369 8  -  VOICE OF THE PRESS BERITA HARIAN Many p e op 1 e were shocked to Hear of Abdul Samad Ismail's arrest on June 22 because of his involvement in communist activities. This was because Samad was a Journalist and writer who was well-known to the people.
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  • 566 8  -  MONDAY WITH ISMAIL KASSIM ISMAIL KASSIM Events in Sabah since the formation of the Berjaya Party last July have focused mainly on the rivalry between Tun Da t u Mustapha Harun and the late Tun Fuad Stephens. They were leaders of their own ethnic communities the Malays
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  • 181 8  -  NGIAM TONG FATT I refer to your report "Practise what you preach, teachers told," INN, Aug. 26) hi which Mr. Lim Kim Woon, Deputy Director of Schools, said: "The propagation, promotion and enrichment of the cultural heritage in a pupil is a sacred role the school
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  • 200 8  -  ANG LAY TEE (Miss) I refer to the complaint by "Puzzled" (NN, July 30) and wish to point out that his observation on the flats at Teban Gardens (formerly known as Kampong Java Teban) is not altogether correct. Though the flats appear completed to
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  • 50 8 A couple buv a flat on a Joint application or coownership basis because they realise there are many advantages Could the HDB explain why this beneficial con- dition is not accorded to the applicant who buys a flat under the Police Scheme? DUBIOUS APPLICANT, Singapore
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  • 478 9 Taipeh, Monday The once- bitter conflict between the Chinese communists and the nationalists has settled into an implausible propaganda war on Q u e m o y the island that the Taiwan government still refers to as "the front line In the struggle
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  • 701 9 The Last Weird bv JJ Still on the subject of examinations and tests, I am also a firm opponent of our driving tests, because they are not designed to gauge your driving ability and knowledge of the highway coQfit but to fail you. I remember
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 180 9 ADIDAS TRIUMPHS IN MONTREAL The secret winner of the XXI Olympic Games 1976 in Montreal is called adidas. The adidas special Olympic center in Montreal issued the first success results immediately after the last national anthem had faded away in the Canadian city. The largest sportshoe manufacturer, who was the
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    • Dear Ros
      • 185 10 / 11 I am actively Involved in my school's extracurricular activities and have my own circle of friends. However, I often feel bored. I get tired of seeing the same old friends and going through the same old dull routine in
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      • 283 10 / 11 PLIGHT OF A GIRL WHO LIKES THE WORK My Job mainly involves taking down shorthand and typing letters. This is simple except when you meet people who dictate badly. My boss is one of them. He does not make an effort
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      • 132 10 / 11 I am In love with a man who is 10 years older than me. I have been going out with him for more than two years. He har treated me well, but there Is one hitch. He Ignores me and pretends not to know me
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      • 177 10 / 11 I am a girl of 24. I like mixing around but have no steady boy yet: Do you consider 24 years too old for a girl <to be unattached? Is It necessary at 24 to have a steady boyfriend? Is it too
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      • 219 10 / 11 My relationship with a married man began about six months ago. I know I should not get Involved with a married man but my relationship with him is only a casual one. He treats me much better than most of my other boyfriends.
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      • 262 10 / 11 I am a married man aged 27 years with one child. I'm very much in love with a girl three years younger. Recently, our relationship became very intimate. I feel I just can't leave her now even if she is willing to break our relationship to
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    • Article, Illustration
      1166 10 / 11  -  WOMAN IS MORE THAN A HOUSEWIFE NOW By Megan Rosenfeld Washington Post Washington, Monday After four years of teaching high school in New York City at US$l5,OOO ($45,000) a year, Jinx Melia moved to Fairfax County, Virginia, with her husband and infant son. After staying at home in
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    • Grapevine
      • 93 10 / 11 A born loser in every sense of the word. A girlfriend who had lost her IC. got a temporary replacement for it which she also lost. When the time came for- her to collect her new IC. she went to the IC office to And
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      • 57 10 / 11 Jumbo jets are wonderful to travel in with their spaciousness and stability but having 300 people In one plane has Its disadvantages apart from the obvious one of waiting to check in and out. For example, often you get served dinner at 10 p.m. and have to
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      • 97 10 / 11 One big hazard of late-night shopping is getting locked up in the store. That's what nearly happened to a friend who went shopping one night at a local departmental store. She went to the fitting room to try on a dress when suddenly the
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      • 98 10 / 11 Troubles with the restricted entry into the TOD don't end with buying of the entry ticket it seems. One car driver found that his entry ticket flew off the windscreen one morning. Fortunately he was already past the gantry posts. And on yet another morning,
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      • 97 10 / 11 It seems a shame when our young artistes spend weeks rehearsing for a show only to have our audiences walk out on them! That was what happened during the National Day Cultural Show put up for free last Monday at the National Theatre. The audience
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      • 70 10 / 11 They're letting the grass grow beneath our feet and a good thing too. I'm talking about the open car park beside the General Post Office which used to be of unrelieved grey bitumen. Now they have laid small stone blocks at the new car park surface and
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      • 28 10 / 11 Do you notice how invariably people would push open a door with a "pull" sign on it and pull open a door with a "push" sign?
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  • 1101 12 Back-of-the-paper backgrounder He's always a step or more ahead of his enemies, but... Los Angeles Times Washington, Monday Sustained by money from Libya, weapons from the Soviet Unton and a series of bloody purges of real or imagined enemies, Idi Amin has held
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  • 428 12 Reuter Cairo, Monday Egyptian teenagers are helping police in this car-congested city of eight million people. About 100 seconddary school boys and girls, armed only with smiles and whistles, brave a host of difficulties, including the searing heat of the summer months, the unruly
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  • ENGLISH
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 434 13 Jackpot is $5500 No winner submitted a solution which corresponded in all respects with the set of answers held by the Judges to be the most accurate and apt in the New Nation Money words Puzzle CU. One entrant submitted a solution differed at one point from the solution which
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    • 558 13 Monday f'W. A Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address H FILL IN H MISSING .KH LITTERS W A "~B ACROSS us,n —H CLUES IISJJI BELOW i mm as w Cut along dotted lines an bm mb CLUES FOR CW-1 1. Small roundish
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  • 129 14 E =3 Business News and Views Closing price* at 11.30 a.m. today (Austiailan time) on tne Hydney Stock Exchange: ACI 174 176 ADC IB 30 Ampol Pet 69 70 Am 117 123 APM 160 165 bank NSW 540 Nil Brambles 180 186 BHf 900 Nil Boral 315 NU CBA
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  • 255 14 r PARIS The three days during which the market rallied were In effect only a momentary Interlude In what was otherwise a gloomy month of August. The market had rallied because of the nomination of Mr. Barre as Pr-mier. The current week saw the market
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  • 139 14 Over the past week the basic sentiment was friendly with activity remaining low. Under the leadership of the formerly depressed blue chips Mannesmann and Siemens the market could recover over a broad front. Chemicals attracted some buying interest after the Bayer half-yar report confirmed the continuing recovery in thU
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  • 395 14 Negative economic forecasts the reason LONDON Following a Bank Holiday on Monday, the share market made a slightly weak start, adversely affected by negative weekend economic forecasts. Tne market then marked time, with activity deferred ahead of the ICI and BP figures due on Thursday.
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  • 803 14 ZURICH Despite the better trend on the NYSE, all categories edged off this week on the Swiss market with the exception of insurance shares, whose performance has been mixed. Amid mode r a te turnover, the average level of prices dipped 2.1 per cent. The
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  • 289 14 MILAN The downtrend continued on the Italian Stock Exchange this week, with the general stock index closing at around 45.80 the final loss was about 2 per cent, on a volume of transactions still low. The constant deterioration of prices was due to continuous but low flow of
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • 680 15  -  Motorcycling THE LATEST GT7SO TELLS YOU WHAT GEAR YOU'RE IN bv I Lee Chiu San Suzuki engineers seem to love their science for its own sake. How else can you explain their rather unique approach to motorcycle design? Their motto seems to be, "If it's new,
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  • 747 15  -  MOTORING by Nick van Nugleren Pre-lgnition is one of the most misunderstood engine ailments. Even in the motoring trade there are widely varying interpretations of what the term really means. TO different mechanic* the word pre-lgnition may mean the same thing as run-on,
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  • 90 15 Reuter London, Monday. Rolls-Royce, makers of Britain'a prestige car, yesterday announced an expansion programme to meet an increase In sales to the UB, and to reduce waiting lists. The company said production would be boosted by H per cent over the next five yean. One factory
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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    • 210 15 The quick, economical and efficient way to renew Macpherson strut suspensions. Most Toyotas, Datsuns, Mazdas, Fords, Volkswagens, Peugeots and other cars use Macpherson struts for their front suspensions. The Macpherson strut system subjects the front shock absorbers to more wear than a conventional suspension system. Rebuilding Macpherson struts used to
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  • 487 16  -  MARTIAL ARTS by Wilfred Shimmen With the departure of sth dan former chief instructor of the Shitoryu Karate Association, Mr. Y. Ishikawa, two local karatekas have succeeded him as leaders of this 500strong club. Wong Tuan Seng, 34, and Victor Sim Yeow Kheng.
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  • 125 16 Reuter London, Monday.—Britons Richard Dunn and Joe Burner, who have both made unsuccessful attempts to win Muhammad All's world heavyweight boxing title In the past 14 months, will meet at the Empire Pool Wembley here on October 12. Promoter Harry Levene announced the fight which will
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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    • 337 16 JAPANESE GARDEN BLECTRONIC Supermarket 570 Queensway Spore 3. Tel: *****2/*****3. Attention all new house owners. We have varieties of lighting fixtures to suit all homes It" and 12" square celling lamps with Pnoenls Dragon and floral designs. Decorative pendants and celling lights are also available. We also deal In portable
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous

  • 484 17  -  By PHILIP TAN National soccer coach Choo Seng has recommended nine coaches to the football Association of Singapore to form a panel to assist him in preparing the national team for the World Cup qualifying tournament nere next February. The nine Included
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  • 29 17 Girls Sports Club, the National soccer League champions completed a double yesterday when they beat Darul Aflah 2-1 In the Pesta Sukan tournament at Jalan Besar Stadium.
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  • 554 17  -  Veteran Majid ArifT showed he has still much to offer when he scored twice in Toa Payoh United's 5-1 win over tough Changi Constituency in a National soccer League First Division match at Geylang Stadium yesterday, reports PHILIP TAN. PHILIP TAN In addition, the
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  • 496 17 Reuter London, Monday Kent snatched the 1976 John Player Sunday cricket League title yesterday as Somerset failed by one run to get the points they needed for victory. Five counties finished on 40 points in the final table Kent, Essex and Leicestershire,
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  • 273 17 KIHNT DIVISION P W D L I A Pi* Forres 11 9 0 2 25 8 18 (ipylanK M 8 1 2 34 IB 17 Tainplnes 12 7 3 2 33 15 17 K. Hark 11 8 1 2 25 11 17 Tou I'ayoh 11 6 2 3 37
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  • 126 17 FIRST DIVISION: Farrer Park United 4 (Seak Poh Leone 2, Rahim Hussein, Naslr Jalil) Queenstown 2 (Ow Siew Kong, Ramli Sudi); Tampines Rovers 2 (Suresh Anandan, Quah Kim Siak) Geylang 2 (Arshad Khamis 2), Toa Payoh United 5 (Mohammad Noh 2, Majid Ariff 2. Tan Kheng Poh) Chan
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  • 807 18  -  Their future Olympians prove too formidable By BRIAN MILLER The seventeen-mem-ber Japanese contingent proved too formidable for the other seven competing nations when they reaped in eight golds, 10 silvers and six bronzes on the last day of the 38th Singapore Open Athletic championships at
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  • 359 18 New York, Monday Top-seeded Chris Evert and second-ranked Bjorn Borg had easy wins In the United States Open tennis championships yesterday, but Soviet girl Olga Morozova and Kerry Reid of Australia became the seventh and eight women's seeds eliminated. Fifth seed Ille Nastase of
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 382 18 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are of a conservative nature, and as a consequence, have a serious attitude toward life. Reserved both in action and in speech, you can be counted upon not to give in to impulse. Even in the throes of emotional upheaval,
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  • 522 19 Ozaki takes Hiroshima Open by a stroke Reuter UPI London, Monday A bout of tennis elbow, a squabble with the taxman, a threat from his wife and a dislike for Matchplay could not deter Brian Barnes from winning the British Match-play golf championship at Kings Norton in
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  • 109 19 Reuter Helsinki, Monday. Sweden's Anders Gaerderud, the Olympic 3000 metres steeplechase champion, was beaten in the match against Finland here following the defeat of Finnish dual Olympic champion Lasse Vlren. In chilly weather, Gaerderud finished only fourth in the steeplechase, clocking 8 min 42.29 sec. Finland's Taplo Kantanen,
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  • 571 19 RACING with Scrutineer L i By Scrutineer Punters at Penang on Saturday learned how wise that old saying, "If the track is wet, don't bat" turned out to be. In a card ol eight races only two first lavourites obliged. Hiev were Bright
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  • 387 19 Solid made the running, but Bright Future moved up sharply to take command at the 6(K>m. Bright Future was two lengths clear of Solid at the home tarn, with Corvatsch closing in. Bright Future cleared away to win by seven lengths from Solid.
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  • 59 20 MEI UN: It's divide and rule. The Registrar of Societies has refused to register the Housing and Urban Dsvelopment Company (HUDC> flat-owners association on a national basis. 4H FOOK: Do you really think it is necessary? After all, on common matters of interest, the respective estate associations can
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    • 947 20 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by VALAR PIRAI. In this edition, songs, riddles, stories, dances, a word game, and a special magic show bv Mohan. 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (T). 3.35 GENERAL HOSPITAL. 4.15 A PLACE TO LIVE. Natural history series. 4.30 INTERMISSION. 6 05 OPENING AN NOUNCEMENTS followed by NEW
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    • 187 20 WATKRWORLD. 'Ch. 5. 7.05 p.m. in colour). James Franciscus introduces a tricky new sport called wind:urfing. He also joins a group of Ashing enthusiasts on a Ashing trip. DISCOVERY: Something in the Family. (Ch. 8 7.5C p.m. In colour). A studv of Huntington's Chorea, a hereditary diseare, which remorselessly erodes
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