New Nation, 3 November 1976

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    Masthead
    19 1 New Nation SINGAPORE November 3, 1976 No. 1787 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 428/76 r —i NEW NATION COMMENT
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    Carter leads
    651 1 'Fantastic turnout' for presidential polls Washington, Wednesday Democrat Jimmy Carter took a substantial lead over President Ford after seven per cent of the votes in the presidential election had been counted. Mr. Carter had 2.550,000 votes, or 53 per cent of the total, and Mr. Ford had 2,225,000
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    LATEST
    34 1 With the vote decided in 20 states, the position in the electoral college was: Carter 150, Ford 50. (There are 538 votes in the college and a majority of 270 decides the presidency).
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    Drugs shock at cure centre
    212 1  -  By Wang Look Fung Halfway House, the Singapore AntiNarcotics Association's rehabilitation centre, has closed down temporarily because inmates were found taking drugs on Its premises. SANA'S objective of providing drug abusers a refuge away from un- suitable home surroundings and to rehabilitate them was defeated
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    Lock icon $2.4 m extortion bid
    62 1 Reuter Philadelphia, Wednesday Security was tightened around Philadelphia's water treatment plants last night after an extortioner threatened to poison the city's water supplies unless he was paid US$l million (552.4 million). The threat, contained on a tape cassette found In an empty room In City Hall
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    Lock icon Premier Smith changes his mind
    157 1 AP Geneva, Wednesday. The Geneva talks on Rhodesia took a dramatic turn with Mr. Lan Smith changing his mind about returning to Salisbury today following some headway made on the third day of the conference. The Rhodeslan Pflme Minister Is expected to delay his departure
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    9 dash for freedom from girls home
    231 2  -  By K.K. Fong Nine teenage girls fled from the Telok Blangah Girls' Home on Saturday in full view of their supervisors. According to sources, the Home's supervisor had asked an inmate to open the main gate for another officer to leave. Suddenly nine
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    Karin takes it...well, like a baby
    147 2 It is a little painful, but it is all for 11-month-old Karln Chua's own good. Kaiin Is getting her v a c e 1 n atlon against measles at the Maternal and Child Health Clinic in Prinsep Street. She was among the first batch
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    STOCK MARKET
    157 2 Easier trading ruled on the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minutes today after two consecutive days of gains. Losses in general, were marginal. The price drops gave credence to the view that the rises of the past two days were due largely to covering activities
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    How to write
    46 2 The Adult and Young People's sections of the Toa Payoh branch library will organise a talk in Tamil on how to write short stories, dramas and poems for radio and TV on Friday at 7.30 p.m. in its lecture hall. Admission is free.
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    Vitamin C warning for pregnant women
    231 2 CASE today warned women against taking too much vitamin C during iate pregnancy: Their babies would suffer from scurvy. 1-11 Loh Keng Cheong A CASE official said that one gram (1000 mg.) or more of vitamin C taken daily over a prolonged period can
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    Radiance: Why permit was revoked
    179 2 The Government revoked the printing permit for the Singapore Polytechnic Chinese Language Society's newspaper, Radiance, because it was being used to promote communism, it is understood. The Society obtained a permit to print its bimonthly magazine last March. The fourth issue was published In September
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    Anniversary
    25 2 THE Singapore Building Contractors' Society will hold its ninth anniversary dinner at the Happy Restaurant, Lion City Hotel, on Nov. 10 at 7.30 p.m.
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      650 2 II AT THE CINEMA fl THE SIMPLE MINDED FELLOW (Cantonese): An orphan from a quiet island yearns for bright lights and city life. But once there he falls In with bad hats. Stars James Y1 Lul, Yum Yum Shaw. Directed by Chen Kuan Tal. Golden: 1.30, 4, 6.45 and 9.30
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    Untitled
    11 2 Police reported 92 accidents yesterday. Nine were serious and one fatal.
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    World Cup: No cause for alarm
    294 3 SS£ only seeking views of FAS on higher gate levy—spokesman By Rav Dhaliwal Fears that a higher gate levy by the Singapore Sports Council will force the Football Association "of Singapore to give up hosting the preWorld Cup games in February are premature. The
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    Lock icon Dollah: I'll carry on as party member and MP
    301 3 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Abdullah Majid, one of two deputy ministers who resigned yesterday in in the wake of the controversy over communist influence within the r u 1 1n f UMNO party, said last nifht he would continue as a
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    ICE RINK TO RE-OPEN THIS MONTH
    63 3 The Jurong Ice-skat-ing Rink, closed since Aug 1, will be re-opened later this month when repairs to the flooring and seats are completed. .A company official said regular skaters have been asking for the rink to be reopened. It is understood the management had
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    Sculpture
    27 3 An art exhibition, Sculpture will be held at the National Museum from Saturday to Dec 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is free.
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    SIA steward gets apology
    246 3 Singapore Airlines has apologised to one of its stewards who was wrongfully accused by the company of "misconduct" in a Talpeh hotel recently. SIA also withdrew its charge, which was set out in a letter sent earlier to the steward. According to the latest issue of
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    On the house drinks cost SIA $3m
    196 3  -  By Peter Ong Passengers on Singapore Airlines flights drank a total of $3.6 million in alcohol and soft drinks last year. This averages $1.89 worth of drinks per passenger. According to SIA the airline carried 1.9 million passengers during the last financial year
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    Hippo gift from US
    43 3 The US Ambassador. Mr. John Holdrldge, will officially present a hippopotamus to the Singapore Zoological Qardens on Nov. 14 at 4 p.m. The hippopotamus, a Eft from the National Mlogical Park, Washington, was received by the Zoological Gardens recently.
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    Blood
    35 3 The Singapore Blood Transfusion Service mobile unit will be stationed at the Singapore Electronics and Engineering Pte. Ltd. and Singapore Aerospace Maintenance Co, Seletar Air Base, on Friday from 1.30 pjn. to 5 p.m.
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    Girl in death fall
    48 3 A factory girl, Muthalah Rosammal. 19, was found dead at the foot of Block 82, Henderson Road, last night, a pair of slippers was found on the 12th floor. A relative said she left her house in nearby Block 91 at about 0 p.m.
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    Arts centre for pupils plan
    202 4  -  By Teresa Ooi The Education Ministry is considering setting up an art and craft centre for students to exhibit and sell their works of art. A special committee of ministry officials and school representatives is studying the possibility of setting up the centre at Hotel
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    Minimum wage call
    189 4 The Industrial Training Board has been urged to Improve its apprenticeship schemes a Joint venture with industries by providing a minimum wage scale for apprentices as an incentive. This minimum wage should be "attractive enough to draw young people Into the programmes and yet pegged so that
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    RENT-A-MAT BUSINESS BOOMS IN THE PARK
    248 4  -  By K.K. Fong Mats for hire has become a booming business at East Coast Park. Courting couples who do not have cars are renting them for as much as a dollar a night. At least five enterE rising men have gone lto this business
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    Dinner
    17 4 THE Singapore Motor Workshop Association will hold Its fifth anniversary dinner on Saturday at 7.30 pjn.
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    Three-day break for the schools
    249 4 A£out 170,000 secondary school pupils will get a threeday break on Nov. 8, 0 and 10 so their teachers can mark examination papers and fill up report cards. Pupils will be able to collect their results and report cards on Nov 11 and 12 before
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    Holidays list holds up calendar printing
    200 4 Some calendar and diary printers are holding back production because they are still waiting for the official public holidays list for next year. They said the official list is usually out In September or October. A spokesman for T. Waller and Co. said: "We
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    Lock icon Concorde to prove a point...
    332 4 Reuter Paris, Wednesday The Concorde left here last night for Singapore on a nineday demonstration tour to show that it can bypass India which has so far refused overflight rights to the supersonic aircraft. The airliner, still searching for a world sales market Is heading
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    Lock icon Brezhnev to hold talks with Tito in Belgrade
    244 5 Reuter Moscow, Wednesday Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev will visit Yugoslavia in th© middle of this month for talks with President Uto, it was announced in Moscow and Belgrade. The visit, originally expected to take place earlier this year, will be
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    Lock icon Fahmy off to see Gromyko
    455 5 Mission aimed at mending relations with Soviet Union Reuter Cairo, Wednesday Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy left here yesterday on a mission aimed at mending his country's relations with the Soviet Union. He flew to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia for talks with Soviet Foreign
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    Lock icon Jamaican opposition leaders fired at
    205 5 Reuter Kingston, WednesdayJamaican opposition leader Edward Seaga and former Prime Minister Hugh Shearer came under a blast of shotgun fire when their campaign motorcade passed a local headquarters of the ruling People's National Party on Monday night, police said yesterday. Neither Mr. Seaga nor Mr.
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    Lock icon All's quiet in Burundi, says radio
    205 5 Reuter Bujumbura, Tuesday— The tiny central African republic of Burundi, where scores of thousands have died in savage blood-letting between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes, yesterday had new rulers after a military coup. President Michel Mlcombero, 30, In power for 10 years was overthrown
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    Lock icon Storm alert
    35 5 Reuter Manila, Wednesday A wide area of the Philippines vu put on storm alert yesterday as a powerful typhoon was reported to be moving towards the country's palm-fringed Blcol region from the northeast.
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    Lock icon In memory of Engels
    44 5 Reuter Moscow, Wednesday A bronze monument dedicated to one of communism's founders. Frledrlch Engels. was unveiled yesterday In Moscow's city centre. Tass News Agency reported. Engels, a German, collaborated with Karl Marx In writing the Communist Manifesto of 1848. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Iran envoy shot in Paris drama
    202 5 Reuter UPI Paris, Wednesday A senior Iranian diplomat was shot and seriously wounded near his home here last night by a man seen speeding off on a motorcycle, police said. A spokesman named the diplomat as Mr. Honayoun Keykavoussl, a counsellor at the embassy,
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    Lock icon Rescued
    45 5 UPI San Juan. Wednesday A German cargo ship, searching a remote section of the Atlantic Ocean for more than 12 hours, yesterday found and rescued 23-year-old Robert Gainer, who had drifted alone aboard his damaged sloop for 19 days, the Coast Guard said. UPI.
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      117 5 a I it rIf?!p*£; •*-.7 f Model: 390 fW FOUR STAR spring mattresses are manufactured, through advanced technology and automatic machinery, by a well-established local industry to beat unnecessary shipment costs and import taxes, especially under the present trend of national scheme in promoting quality control in industrial development. The
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    Lock icon Geneva talks down to brass tacks
    467 6 Delegates meet on date for freedom Reuter UPI Geneva, Wednesday Black and white delegation leaders at the Geneva conference on the future of Rhodesia yesterday for the first time got down to discussing questions affecting a date for legal independence, British officials said. Nationalist
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    Lock icon Six killed
    27 6 Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday AU tlx people aboard a US military transport plane died yesterday when It crashed on the Atsugl naval air station near here.—Renter.
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    Lock icon Rome visit by soccer beauty
    78 6 Mlm Italr. Pub Bresciano, 17, shows her eharms daring her brief visit to Rome on Monday. She retimed to her native Sicily yesterday to resume her soeeer career which sees her as a centre-forward In the Trapani Seam. Paola will not take part In the
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    Lock icon We'll follow Mao's path: Peking govt
    171 6 UPI Hong Kong, Wednesday. Hie new Peking leadership headed by Chairman Hua Kuofeng announced yesterday It will follow policies laid down by the late Chairman Mao Tsetung. The announcement of the new leadership's po- licy line, already indicated by official party organs and Foreign
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    Lock icon Algeria acts on rumours as women hunt for skirts
    152 6 Reuter Algiers, Wednesday— Algeria yesterday launched an official eaawaim against rumours. lnelading one recently widespread tale that Algerian women would no longer he sltowed to wear Aeeordlng to the tronser nunonr. an Imam (Muslim wHgless loader) had dssissd a han on
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    Lock icon TODAY
    131 6 UPI TODAY Is Wednesday, Nov. 3, the 308 th day of 1976 with 58 to follow. THE MOON Is approaching its full phase. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS are Mars and Venus. Those born on this date are under the sign of scorplo.
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    38 6 AP Muhamad and Leretta Mattar of Beayerton, Oregon will have a son named after the next President—regardless of whether Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter wins. The couple named their four-day-old twin boys Jlmmie and Jerry.—AP.
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    Watch out...it's now the bow and arrow squad
    568 6  -  AMERICA JANE GASKELL'S The trouble started because no one told the New York cops they were wonderful not even their wives. Ihey are called creeps, fuzz. Jerks and pigs and, according to the psychiatrists. If this keeps up the police haters will
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      212 6 •JMli WEATHER New York Sunny, milder, 12-OC. Headline: Ford and Carter stive final appeals In race still viewed as closeSan Francisco Fair. 22-7 C. Headline: Biff final effort by candidates. Tokyo Sunny, 18BC. Headline: Ford.Carter locked In photo finish. Paris Overcast. 106C. Headline: Ford favoured by polls. Rome Sunny. 187C.
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    Lock icon Thanin is a US agent: Hanoi
    177 7 Reuter Hong Kong, Wed. The official Vietnamese newspaper Nhan Dan said yesterday the military rulers In Bangkok were "Inviting U8 Imperialism back," the Vietnam news agency reported. The paper said the Jresence of the US Air orce at Takhll alrbase has been strengthened and
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    Lock icon Killed by a car
    59 7 UPI Paris, Wednesday A car struck and killed former US Ambassador to Venezuela, Mr. Robert MCLlntock, 67, on Monday night, police said. Mr. MCLlntock, who gained his greatest renown as ambassador to Lebanon In 1958 during the crisis which ended with the landing of US Marines
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    Lock icon For Mecca
    30 7 UPI Islamabad, Wednesday Prime Minister Zulflkar All Bhutto had decided to provide Bangladesh with a Boeing 707 aircraft to help her fly Muslim pilgrims to Mecca in December.
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    Lock icon Britain tightens checks on foreign students
    158 7 Reuter London, Wednesday Immigrant welfare organisations yesterday attacked government proposals to tighten checks on foreign students coming to Britain as "backdoor" Immigration control. The plan*, contained In a draft circular by the Home Office (Interior Ministry) and Education officials, would give powers to overseas
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    Lock icon Ford weeps as his life mural is unveiled
    298 7 Reuter Grand Rapids (Michigan), Wednesday President Ford yesterday wept openly when the city of Grand Rapids unveiled a giant mural depicting his life from boyhood in this north Michigan town. Wiping back tears with his handkerchief. Mr. Ford said he was overwhelmed
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    Lock icon Inequality —Vietnam's big problem
    350 7 —says French minister AP Paris, Wednesday Vietnam is still encountering "very serious problems" in overcoming the disparity of liTlng standards between the former northern and southern zones of the reunited country, French Foreign Minister Louis de Ouirangaud said yesterday. Answering questions at a luncheon of the
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    Lock icon Viet minister tours big Paris firms
    169 7 Reuter Paris. Wednesday. Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach toured industrial complexes In the Paris suburbs yesterday belying suggestions that he was here for the first US-Vietnamese contacts since the end of fighting in Indo-chlna. Mr. Thach visited the sprawling Renault plant at
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      108 7 froiwuw to insure your house; its contents; special valuables; sports equipment; personal effects; a car; your business risks to protect yourself against personal liability or personal accident and, of course to get the best possible advice on life assurance, and on policies that protect you and your family, and help
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    Mrs. Gandhi borrows more time
    415 8 The one-year postponement of elections In India gives Prime Minister Indira Gandhi more time. She can use it to consolidate her brand of emergency rule by Imposing further constraints on the opposition or by improving the lot of the Indian peasant and worker. A general
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
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      In absentia
      44 8 A friend vu Invited to a 21st birthday party which turned out to be a routing affair. But one thing vu miming the birthday boy, who was abroad for further studies. "We wanted to celebrate It on his behalf," his parents said.
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      Easier to take than give
      76 8 A colleague Invited a senior government official to lunch. "Thank you," the official said, adding Jokingly: "But 111 have to declare this gift to the Ministry of Finance." "If that's too much trouble, why dont YOU buy me lunch instead." said the journalist. "I dont
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    SCHOOL FOR THE WORLD'S ELITE
    678 8  -  V i WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON On the rugged coast of south Wales there Is a romantic looking mediaeval castle called Llantwlt Castle, built to repel armed invaders of another era. Recently I stayed In its guest room, high up In the "haunted"
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    Bosses must play a bigger role
    481 8 f VOICE OF THE PRESS NANYANG SIANG BUJ Productivity schemes and how employees can be spurred on to achieve better results The word productivity has often been mentioned by management, labour and the government in recent years. It has also been agreed in principle
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    Support for moral education
    241 8  -  NGIAM TONG FATT I refer to your editorial on Mr. C.V. Devan Nalr's speech on the Importance of moral and social values In our schools (NN. Oct. 18). Mr. Nalr should be congratulated for saying: "The teachers who quietly set personal examples of conduct of goodness,
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    All in front of police station
    84 8 The stretch of road at 11th km. Upper Buklt Tlmah. is a bad traffic bottle-neck during hours. Though there are double white lines along the road, motorists continue to cross the lines and torn right into the hawker centre and other side roads. Some
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    How to and how not to bring up your kids
    630 9  -  Child rearing used to be a simple matter of strict discipline, according to long-held traditions. But our changing society has led to changing values, resulting in a different set of problems in bringing up children. The Sin g a p
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    WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY
    462 9 cally 111 or mentally disturbed ohlldren. Still, they are highly respected experts, whose knowledge could enlighten us lay parents onr at least the what and why of child-rearing, If not the how and which. This, I soon found, they could do very well. Throughout the daylong
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      265 9 ri SCHEDULED DEPARTURE KUL/PEN SATURDAY MONDAY THURSDAY PEN/KUL SUNDAY TUESDAY FRIDAY KUL/SIN SATURDAY MONDAY THURSDAY SIN/KUL SUNDAY TUESDAY FRIDAY Jf 3 FOR ONLY $66.00 between Kuala Lumpur and Penang, you will pass Malaysia's tln-rlch country and stop at Ipoh. the centre of the industry; pay a visit to the splendid
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      Midweek
      942 10 / 11  -  Wednesday, Nov. 3,1976 ■w by H.L.Lim An American economist says In a book that It is far easier to be a pessimist than an optimist. We know what a pessimist Is. He is the preschool pal who seems to be always anticipating disaster after you and he have done
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      Left behind
      114 10 / 11  -  To raise the kids and to maintain i the home I —By Jennifer Schoon w In the past when husbands died, wives died with them either literally as In the Indian suttee or symbolically by going into lifelonf retreat. Today widowhood Is an easier mantle to wear. Society
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      Grief tempered with a sense of release
      458 10 / 11 THAT WAS HER FEELING Being widowed brings in its wake grief, bewilderment and a deep feeling of loss. But sometimes these emotions are tempered with a sense of relief... of release. When Madam Chan Gek Neo, 60, was widowed six years ago, her
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      TIDING OVER DARK DAYS
      451 10 / 11 With death often comes not only sorrow but the added worry and burden of finances. How to keep the home going, the children educated and fed... To ensure against being left unprovided for, we talked to a lawyer to find out the best possible means 'of
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      Time erases all but the loneliness and memories
      613 10 / 11 For Mrs. Tan Bee Neo, 57, widowed 12 years ago, (he cliche "time heals" holds true. "But something time can never take care of Is the remembering, the underlying but everpresent sense of loneliness and of course memories." The first five years
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      Friends rallied round and forced me to face reality
      629 10 / 11 "l thought I was dreaming when they said my husband was dead; then I thought it was a bad Joke. And when the truth finally sank in,. 1 felt the end of the world had come." This was the reaction of
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      Lock icon Warning now on iron for babies...
      813 10 / 11 Los Angeles Times Oakland (US), Wednesday New scientific evidence about iron and fluoride supplements as well as forced bottle-feeding and early introduction of solids during infancy is casting doubt on advice once given to parents. Reports on the new findings In the field of
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    Big treat for film fans
    776 12  -  Cinema »>v Gloria Chandy One of the best treats that cinema fans have had in a long time begins tomorrow at Globe Theatre. Cinema International Corporation presents a film festival that will last all through November. For the usual admission prices of $1, £2 and
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    Lock icon Asian TV: Hard to stem the flood of imported series
    1092 12 SOME WANT INCREASE IN LOCAL CONTENT Reuter Television is well established in Asia, but regional networks are finding it hard to produce enough locally-made programmes to stem the flood of imported series like Kojak and Bonanza. Many of the region's
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  • ENGLISH
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      Colloquialisms, slang
      1461 13 f THIS series is compiled by a panel of three English Language experts Dr. Lee Kok Cheong, Mr. Arthur Tap and Miss Ngoh Geok Lun. Colloquialisms and even slang expressions have their uses at times. However, they are best avoided in careful writing. Students, through laziness or because
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    Lock icon We'll take over Italian debt
    354 14 w 1 Business .News and Views EEC nations agree to repay Britain $1200 m UPI Brussels, Wednesday The European Common Market Monetary Committee agreed in principle yesterday that other EEC countries will take over Italy's US$4B6 million ($1166 million) debt to Britain, due to be
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    People in business
    208 14 The senior managing director of Smlt International (Rotterdam) and director of the Smlt International group of companies, will be here tomorrow for a five-day visit. During his stay here, MS. P.EJE. KLEYN VAN WELLIGEN wUI preside at a meeting of Smit representatives from eight Asian countries. The
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    Lock icon Call for orderly Japanese exports to Britain
    314 14 UPI Tokyo, Wednesday British and Japanese home appliances makers signed a joint communique yesterday calling for orderly marketing of Japan made e 1 e ctronlc products in Britain next year. The communique was Issued at the end of a two-day session of the
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    Lock icon 'More action' call by Thai minister
    119 14 Reuter Bangkok, WednesdayThai Commerce Minister Suthee Nartvorathas yesterday called for constructive action to solve trade problems at a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asian and the Pacific committee here Mr. Suthee said international meetings were often plagued by general
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      TOKYO
      264 14 The market yesterday opened a little bit upward on aelectlve buying but them eased. With the presidential election In US starting today Investors generally were holding off. In the morning, Morlnaga, Fujlya, Fujisawa Pharm and Columblt hit a new high and Kao was bought due to good business result.
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      ZURICH
      87 14 Closing prices In Swiss francs on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS Bearer 3230 5 UBS Registered 510 2 SBC 375 4 Credit Suisse 3590 5 Swissair B. 580 5 Swiss Reliuur. 2300 10 Winter thur B. 1755 5 Zurich msur 5475 +25 Juvena B. 225 Nestle B. 3220
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      SYDNEY
      144 14 Closing price* on the (Sydney Stock Exchange at 11J0 a.m. today (Australian time): ACI 13S 143 The New York Stock Exchange la closed because ®f the presidential election. The Paris Bourse was closed yesterday because of All Souls' Day. ADC 20 25 Ampol Ftt 64 65 AN1 106 NU
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    Lock icon Lanka tea hit by bad weather, packing
    168 14 Reuter Colombo. Wednesday Sri Lanka's tea exports have fallen by about US$4O million (Ss96 million), this year because of a drop in production due to poor weather and bad packaging, a tea trade spokesman here said yesterday. The shortfall was due to bad
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    125 14 and hold steady in Europe UPI Brussels, Wednesday —Both the dollar and the ailing British pound were relatively steady on quiet European money markets yesterday. The pound, which has been selling at bargain basement prices for weeks, gained a cjittle against the dollar and the Swiss franc but lost against
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    41 14 UPI TOkyo. Wednesday Five Allan nations will stage a five-day exhibition In Tokyo of outstanding South-east Asian furniture, bags and cases beginning on Nov. 15. Taking part in the exhibition will be Indonesia. Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand—UPl.
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      HASLI, RAJA ARE IDEAL AS WINGERS
      326 16  -  VICTOR GOH After watching Singapore play against the Brasli Selection. I would like to make certain suggestions and l hone that Uncle Choo will consider them. Of all the players, HasU Ibrahim impressed me most with his adventurism to move forward and Join in
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      Foolhardy to hope for anything better
      252 16  -  SIMON KOH I may be only 16 years old, but I am old enough to know that unless something drastic Is being done quickly. Singapore soccer Is going to deteriorate further. There Is no use In denying It Let's face It. The standard of
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      405 16  -  LEEDS DISCIPLE I would like to be one of the first to congratulate Singapore for their fine perf or mances against Warna Agung, the Sao Pau- lo Selection of Brazil and Australia. I now have the greatest hope that Singapore will win the World Cup preliminaries.
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      246 16  -  8. JURENI YUSOFF I strongly disagree with Steve Low who claimed that Muhammad All did not deserve to win the 15th round of his "rubber-set" with Kenny Norton. (Sportsfront, NN, 13.10.76). Everyone watching the big flgnt knew it was a close light going into the last
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      Lock icon Colombo Court II looks a good sprint prospect
      974 17 ON THE TRACK Fairway Yanftse Kiang 111, classified in Class 2, looks the pick of the newcomers for the Kuala Lumpur, meetin? starting on Saturday. Yangtse Kiang 111, late Lord Elect, is a three-year-old chestnut English gelding by Lord Oayle (sire of
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      KONTIKI, MR. BIG IN FAST TRIALS
      413 17 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Kontiki II (C. QWilliam) did an impressive workout when he went as well as Mr. Big (George Podmore) and Liberation (Masruhen) in a 600 m trial in 39.8. The going was yielding. A van! Garde (Arlffln) ctrode out fluently over 600
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      A tactical triumph for Chong Hau
      860 17 SQUASH In what was probably the best final ever seen at the Singapore Cricket Club courts, Oon Chong Hau won the club championship last Saturday, beating second seed Raymond Ong In a fiveset match that was a tactical triumph for the victor. Both players
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      1218 18  -  Controversies, indiscipline, upsets galore Philip Tan They say that "time will tell." Another year has gone by since the revamped Super League soccer system began in 1975. It has been another season ridden with controversies, displays of indiscipline and upsets. Is this an Indication of what is
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      Magnificent United entertain
      385 18  -  Match v of the Jj By ALAN THOMSON Manchester United 7 Newcastle United 2 (Match played at Old Trafford on Oct. 28). The grass of Old Trafford lay scorched last night, burned by the brilliance of magnificent Manchester United. At their feet lay a once proud side
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      Gani: I have not seen SSC letter
      639 19  -  FAS in the red this year, says official By PHILIP TAN Football Association of Singapore chairman Mr. N. Ganesan has yet to see the letter to the FAS by the Singapore Sports Council on the proposed five per cent Increase on charges levied
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      Johore Cup team to play Toa Payoh
      245 19 Johore will be fielding their Malaysia Cup side when they meet Toa Payoh United In a 'rlendly match at the Jalan Besar Stadium today (kick-off 8 p.m.). To strengthen Toa Payoh, manager David Ng has decided to Invite Hasli Ibrahim, a former Toa
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      Lock icon Revie recalls Bowles into England squad
      403 19 Associated Press London. Wednesday Stan Bowles, temperamental soccer star who walked out on the England team two years ago, was recalled into the England squad to face Italy. The Queen's Park Rangers striker, who has been in brilliant form, was included in a squad
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      518 19 Reuter Munich, Wednesday Bayern Munich, bidding for a fourth successive European Cup triumph, should clinch a place in the last eight today when the reverse legs of Europe's major soccer club competitions are played off. Bayern begin 2-1 down to the Czechoslovak champions,
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      Lock icon Fang was my toughest opponent—Swie King
      473 19 Fang was my toughest opponent— Swie King Reuter Hyderabad. Wednesday Indonesia triumphed 3-2 over China in a ten-sion-packed final of the Asian badminton team championship here that took a marathon three-and-a-half hours of play to decide. Llem Swle King a 20-year-old student from Semarang in central Java, was the hero
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      Sandra not coming
      48 19 Sandra Palmer, one of the 10 woman professional golfer due to play In a four-ball tournament with local amateurs at the Buklt Course on Sunday has withdrawn. It was reported that Sandra's father was suddenly taken 111 and she will be replaced by Mary Mills.
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    81 20 MEI LIN: Of course, the men don't mind their wives going out to work. But they are not lifting a finger to help them at home, where she is expected to do the house-hold chores and look after the children after her office work. AH FOOK: The answer
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