New Nation, 23 December 1976

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  • 21 1 New Nation Thursday, December 23, 1976 No. 1829 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 428/76 V- rr, =1 I NEW NATION COMMENT;
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  • 787 1 Election 76 POLLING DAY SPECIAL By New Nation reporters Voting was brisk and orderly as Singaporeans went to the polls today to elect a new government —the third since independence in 1965. Voters began queuing at some of the 205 polling stations as early as
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  • 154 1 Election results will be over Radio broadcast and Television Singapore from 10 tonight. They will be announced by the Returning Officer, Mr. P. Arumalnathan simultaneously over Channel 5 and Channel 8 and the four language radio channels All TV and radio channels will remain
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  • 103 1 AP Dallas, Thursday "Ho, ho, ho, you are under arrest," the Jolly Banta laughed, flashing his badge. And another girl had her faith shattered. Bhe was one of nine women charged with prostitution on Tuesday night as Santa Claus actually vice squad officers dressed'
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    • 159 1 TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. YESTERDAY'S TRADITION. SEIKO. THE QUALITY WATCH OF TODAY. Seiko started out making watches with uncompromising ideals like pride in workmanship and dedication to a high standard of excellence. As our technical knowledge and expertise grew, we developed a micro-technology far ahead of its time. We even make every
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    • 38 1 CALLUS THE SHOE BOX Hi BASEMENT FL HONG LEONG BLDG INSIDE Drama at Workers* Party rally Page 2 Xmaa boom for •hops Page 4 •IN THE OTHER PAGES: Cinemas 2; Moneyworts 10; Comics 15; Crossword 16; Stars 19.
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  • 83 2 Election '76 POLLING DAY SPECIAL It was a noisy but orderly affair at the Tlong Bahru Secondary School polling station this morning. At 8 a.m. when the polling centre opened a crowd of more than 450 people, both young and old, were already waiting to
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  • 291 2  -  By Joachin Tan Generally I am not afraid of men. they are among my closest friends. But at last night's Workers' Party rally at Kampung Chai Chee. I discovered that being surrounded by a group of angry, frenzied men
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    • 63 2 lE"■] Today: 12.39 a.m (2.9 m); 11.45 p.m. (3.2 m). Tomorrow: 1.21 a.m. (2 8m); 12.29 p.m. (3.2 m). Saturday: 2 a.m. (2.8 m); 1.13 p.m. (3m). Sunday: 2.36 a.m. (2.7 m); 1.58 p.m. (2.9 m). Monday: 3.11 a.m. (2.6 m); 2.45 p.m. (2.6 m). Tuesday: 3.48 a.m. (2.5 m);
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    • 94 2 FOUR FILMS Venice In Peril, The Eye of a Typhoon, Floating Rice and Science and Technology in Japan at Singapore Science Centre, off Jurong Town Hall Road -2.30 p.m. AN EVENING-Of music with Peter Low's Singers at C.K. Tang. 8.15 p.m. to 9 p.m. CAROLLING by Avondale School choir at
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    • 416 2 (I AT THE CINEMA TOMMY: Keft Russell's spectacular presentation based on the rock opera by The Who. About a deaf, dumb and blind boy who becomes plnball champion of the world. Stars Roger Daltrey, Ann Magret, Oliver Reed, Jack ?!cholson, Elton John, Ina Turner, The Who, Plata: 1.30, 4, 6.45
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  • 8 2 Police reported 97 accidents yesterday. Eight were serious.
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    • 737 3 TopoftheM' Enjoy a commanding view of Singapore from 40 storeys up, while you also enjoy international cuisine reflecting the mood of the Season. 24th December CHRISTMAS EVE Christmas Eve Lunch: Traditional X'mas Luncheon -set menu. Adults: $21.00 Children: $16.00 Christmas Eve Dinner: Gala Dinner set menu. Adults: $46.00 25th December
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  • 159 4 Less than half the travel agents In Singapore have applied for licences from Tourist Promotion Bpard. With nine days to go before applications close, it is believed that many are still looking for funds to meet requirements under the Travel Agents Act and Regulations. A
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  • 29 4 "Christmas 76" a programme which Includes carols, dance and songs, will be held at the Queenstown Branch Library on Dec. 27 at 7 p.m. Admission Is free.
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  • 300 4  -  Sales boom by as much as 50 pc By Joachin Tan, Rav Dhaliwal Department stores and supermarkets report, that they are having their biggest boom in festive sales since 1973 when the effects of world-wide recession were first felt. Christmas* sales have gone
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  • 238 4 Mr. Graham Starforth Hill resigned from his law firm and left Singapore last night to take up an executive position with a large London merchant banking house. "I -am Just taking up another Job," he told New Nation yesterday. A senior partner
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  • 254 4 Furniture makers here are looking forward to Joint ventures with their counterparts in Osaka after securing about $300,000 worth of business at a Tokyo exhibition recently. According to Mr. Paul S.B. Keng, who led a nine-member mission to the five-day exhibition, the orders placed
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  • 105 4 The Public Works Department has banned two contracting firms and not six as reported In last Saturday's New Nation. One of the firms has been barred from contracting for PWD work for three years from August, the other for a year from September. A firm was
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  • 306 4 Though 1975 was a better year than 1974 for the merchant banking community, the improvement was "not flattering," according to a local management consultancy firm. SGV-Goh Tan said their activities were affected by the worldwide recession, especially in the nrst half of 1975. Domestic lending
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  • 274 4 Banker Wee Cho Yaw. is almost certain to be elected president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, according to Ch'jiese business circles. They* said Mr. Wee who was president from 1969 to 1973, is unlikely to turn down requests to make a comeback when
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  • 40 4 The Senior parliamentary Secretary of Defence. Mr. Phua Bah Lee, will open the 2nd Photographic Exhibition at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, tomorrow at 7.30 p.m. It will subsequently be open till Sundav from 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
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  • 178 4  -  By Violet Oon Kam Kee Yong's compositions are like a breath of fresh air in the stale atmosphere of local music. While other composers write in a never-ending round of ethnic cliches, Kee Yong tries to capture the essence of his Chinese heritage. He doesn't
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  • 495 5 Reuter Cairo, Thursday Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, is reported to have warned his country against doubling its oil production. He was speaking in an Interview with Saudi Television, reported by the Qatar News Agency on Tuesday, following his return from
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  • 330 5 Reuter Washington, Thursday, Britain is considering tour methods of administering Rhodesia's defence and justice ministries as the country moves towards black-ma-jority rule, the British chairman of the Geneva negotiations said yesterday. The alternatives, outlined by Mr. Ivor Richard at a news conference here, are: Direct control,
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  • 102 5 Reuter Salisbury, Thursday— Rhodesia is willing for the British or US Governments to make an on-the-spot investigation into the massacre of 27 black tea estate workers last Sunday. A government spokesman issued the invitation yesterday after African nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo said In an interview he
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  • 195 5 Reuter Washington, Thursday The US Army said yesterday it had staged mock biological warfare at eight places in the US in the 1950s and 1980s using test agents that could cause infection in some people. But it said It had no evidence there was
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  • 53 5 UPI Rome, Thursday Customs agents yesterday arrested New Zealander John Clifford Korkoran. 30, who they said arrived by plane from Bangkok with more than 9 kg of marijuana In a double bottom of his suitcase. It was the latest of several drug finds on travellers from the
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  • 36 5 Reuter Madrid, Thursday Four young men armed with submachine guns and pistols killed a guard and wounded a customer on Monday when they robbed a suburban bank branch of 16 mlllon pesetas (about $580,000)Reuter.
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  • 205 5 Reuter London, Thursday Five former Scotland Yard detectives were Jailed yesterday for wholesale extortion of bribes from the dirty book dealers they were assigned to stamp out. "The scale of It was quite staggering," said judge Sir William MarsJones after a seven-week trial at
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  • 212 6 Reuter New Delhi, Thursday Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi last night reshuffled her cabinet, upgrading the role of the Commerce Ministry, and at the same time moved to form a new government in the western state of Gujarat. Mr. Hitendra Desal, president of the Gujarat
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  • 62 6 Reuter Madrid, Thursday Police last night arrested Santiago Carrillo, secre-tary-general of the still Illegal Spanish Communist Party, as he was walking in a Madrid street. A government spokesman confirmed Mr. Carrlllo's detention, 12 days after he emerged dramatically at a clandestine press conference to say he had been
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  • 339 6 But I'll be prepared too UPI Plains (Georgia), Thursday US President-elect Jimmy Carter said yesterday he believes Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev when he says the Soviet will not try to test his fledgling administration but added, "I'll be prepared If my belief is
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  • 263 6 Reuter Washington, Thursday The US Is to provide Lebanon with US£2OO million ($4BO million) in food aid enough to feed about 300,000 people. Announcement of the new programme, which is subject to approval by Congress, follows two meetings this month between Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
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  • 104 6 UPI TODAY Is Thursday, Dec. 23, the 358 th day of 1976 with eight to follow. THE MOON is between its new phase and first quarter. THE MORNING STARS are Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the
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  • 119 6 This is a house with a difference where sunlight and fresh air supply 75 per cent of the heat, energy. This is made possible because of solar collectors and electric heat pumps. Designed recently by nationally known architect Henry Wenning, the *****500 house in
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  • 28 6 Reuter Buenos Aires, Thursday Eight leftwing guerillas were killed yesterday in Ave separate clashes with Argentine security forces in this capital and Its suburbs, police said.—Reuter.
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  • 114 6 Reuter Manila, Thursday Three Soviet diplomats have arrived in Manila to set up a mission here following the decision in June this year of the Philippines and the Soviet union to establish diploma tic relations, info rm e d sources said yesterday. The
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  • 36 6 DJ London. Thursday A council has rejected a demand from outdoor workers for portable lavatories. Instead It hat riven them street maps to show where public toilets are In a Scottish town. DJ.
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    • 198 6 WORLD WEATHER Hone Kong Sunny, 26-19 C. Headline: Tears of Joy at reunion. Manila—Sunny, 30-19 C. Headline: EP, Thailand seal aid pact on subversion. Bangkok—Cloudy, 3422C. Headline: Army launches Surat offensive. Seoul—Cloudy, 11-4 C." Headline: Carter confirms slow and methodical withdrawal of American ground forces from South Korea. Koala Lumpur—Cloudy,
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  • 183 7 Reuter London, Thursday A 20-year study into the smoking habits of British doctors suggests that between a half and a third of all cigarette smokers will die because of their smoking. The report, published yesterday in the British Medical Journal, also Indicates that doctors
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  • 268 7 Call by the People's Daily Reuter Peking, Thursday The Chinese people were yesterday told to show no mercy in the campaign against Chairman Mao Tse-tung's purged widow, Chiang Ching, and her supporters. An editorial in the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily said the "anti-party
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  • 126 7 Reuter Port Louis (Mauritius), Thursday A previously unrepresented Marxist Party has scored a stunning upset in this Indian Ocean island's first general election since independence by winning 30 of the 62 seats in parliament. Mr. Paul Berenger, leader of the Mauritius Militant Movement (MMM), told reporters
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  • 49 7 Reuter Paris, Thursday, Britain's major trading partners agreed yesterday to put up about US$3 billion ($7.2 billion) of the money needed by the International Monetary Fund to meet a British request for a US$3.9 billion ($9.6 billion) loan. The balance will come from IMF funds. Reuter.
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  • 90 7 Reuter Tel Aviv, Thursday Israeli Defence Minister Shimon Peres is expected to challenge outgoing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for the leadership of Israel's Labour Party, political sources said yesterday. Mr. Rabin resigned on Tuesday In a move seen widely as an attempt to strengthen his
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  • 177 7 Reuter Moscow, Thursday A Soviet woman engineer, out of work since her husband defected to Sweden two years ago, has at last found a job as a cleaner in a public toilet. Mrs. Lyudmila Agapov, 37, told western journalists yesterday this was the
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  • 98 7 Reuter Liverpool, Thursday Prison Governor William Drlscoll's winter overcoat saved his life when he stepped between an angry prisoner and his civilian hostage here yesterday. A Home Office spokesman said the prisoner stabbed the governor four times with a sharpened Iron, but Mr. Drlscoll's overcoat
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  • 32 7 Reuter Belluno, Thursday Three policemen who told a court they robbed a bank as a Joke were each sentenced on Monday to seven years and eight months imprisonment. Reuter.
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  • 473 8 The Singaporean casting his or her vote today is probably wondering whether any opposition candidate will get a seat in Parliament, and whether the People's Action Party will win a bigger or smaller percentage at the polls. But he or she is most likely to vote
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 71 8 Amidst the intensive a nt i narcotic campaign, a colleague was surprised to see a sticker on the back windscreen of a taxi, which declared brazenly: "YES! DRUGS It was only when he saw another taxi with a similar but longer sticker that he realised
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    • 37 8 A family was discussing the merits of each political party In the elections and which party each would go for, when the six year old quipped: "I want to go for the Christmas party!"
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  • 595 8  -  THURSDAY WltH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON The Jap a n ese election provides the latest testimo ny to the eff e c tlveness of parliamentary democracy in Asia. Indeed, the Japanese are able to make more mileage out of their general elections in their dealings
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  • 537 8 VOICE OF THE PRESS a BANGKOK POST There has been a lot of misunderstanding about Thailand's attitude towards ASEAN. The wrong; impression has been created in no smail measure by single minded journalists who keep on asking If Thailand is interested in turning ABEAN into a
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  • 401 8  -  T.R. FERNANDEZ KOH KIM-CHUAN Many opposition candidates contesting the election are throwing unreasonable accusations against .the PAP. I feel they are trying to brainwash the younger generation. I had seen many street fights and bloodshed (suffered) by Innocent citizens led by selfish politicians during pre--1959 days.
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  • 904 9 TEST FOR A 'MORAL' FOREIGN POLICY NYT Hong Kong, Thursday When Jimmy Carter assumes office next month, he will not be caught up in directing an American presence in Asia. That situation is a measure of the important changes in Asia since Mr.
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    • 123 9 V w:.« rr J A 12 1 mk .■■:'■■<■■■ Wm. 1 S m ■'■V> >:<<• w Mandarin Singapore presents evening with mr who made Burt Bacharach famous) eptune 4th WED sth JANUARY 1977 Shows: 7.00 pm $35.00 per person inclusive of one drink. Free seating arrangement on ficst come first
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  • 739 10  -  Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times To: Mr. Santa Claus, North Pole, From: Occupational Safety and Health A d m inlstration, Washington, D.C. Subject; Violations of OSHA Codes. Dear tiir, Our inspectors have Just completed a study •f working conditions at your toy tactory at the
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  • 856 10 Many marine species face extinction... Reuter Morges (Switzerland), Thursday For millions of years the larger seaanimals—w hales, dolphins, crocodiles, turtles and seals have flourished without too much interferences from man. But, within a few brief years, many marine species face extinction.
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    • 495 10 'A Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions app«or below Name (Mr./Mrs./Mis*) Address FILL IN MISSING LITTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW ■■■■■■■■■Cut along dotted Unas mmmmammmmam CLUES FOR DL-4 1. A reasonable description off spaghetti 2. Deviation from truth or right 3. It's not every man that can
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    • 404 11 rrr t ii» i X'MAS GIFT GUIDE (Christmas m£m& w Importers and exporters, wholesaler and retailer, v v contractor and dealer in all kinds of electrical lighting fittings, fountain lightings and chandeliers for homes and offices. For all your lighting requirements tel: *****6, *****5 4K NEW UGH! ELECTRICAL (PTE LTD.
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    • 790 12  -  COOK- lIN by Violet Oon If you haven't cooked anything for Christmas, there's still time to prepare a festive Yule Log. This is the traditional cake in Switzerland and other European countries unlike England where Christmas is synonymous with rich fruit cake. The chef patissiere
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    • 730 12  -  by Sylvia Leow Don't talk to me about nutrition, talk to me about good food tell me your latest restaurant And, tell me the se- crets of the .newest recipe which you have tried out In the meantime, have a pocket of Twistles. a handful
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    • 201 13  -  > Shonaround with Eileen Tan 1. CERAMIC moneyboxes in the shapes of an adorable little girl ($3.15) and a cheerful snail ($3.35) make saving such a pleasure. Mug and saucer set with a pretty gingham print design is ceramic too. $2.60. 2. GLOVE puppets ($2.60 each) are fun
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    • 237 13 No need to panic If at the last minute, you find that you've run out of an essential Ingredient lor a festive dish. Below we give some substitutes which would probably do as well. No salad cream: "Whisk small can of sweetened con d en
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    • 253 12 Puzzlen, riddles, crosswords, jokes to share? We pay $5 for every contribution. The address is Kids Only, New Nation, Locked Bag 15, Singapore 1. Don't forget to add your name, age and address. 1. Antonyms are words opposite in meaning. Complete the crossword puzzle with the antonyms of the clues
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    • 179 13 A flip of the coin from the floral prints. Yi festive wear this season, yet suitable for beat i to pass as I for any time, any where Wm M MU Comes in choice of natural earth colours, with a choiceotftlany gnat styles. Loop-de-loop Militaris Towering Inferno Multi-Storey Imbex Amiable
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  • 338 14 Bid to form buyers* union and import more from Saudi Arabia UPI Tokyo, Thursday Japan's six leading oil companies have decided to take on major Arab oil producers for their 10 per cent price hike by organising a buyers' union and importing more crude
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  • 210 14 Reuter Tokyo, Thursday Japan and the European Economic Community yesterday agreed to exchange data on shipbuilding orders and cancellations, but made no progress in their dispute over Japan's dominance of the ship-building industry. Mr. Josephus Loeff. acting director of the EEC Comm.&sion's In- dustrial and Technological Affairs
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  • 121 14 UPI New York, Thursday Chase Manhatten, the nation's third largest bank, yesterday lowered the prime lending rate It charges Its most creditworthy corporate custom ers a quarter point to 6 per cent, the lowest since December 1972. Chase became the third major bank to
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  • 125 14 closes mixed in Europe E Business News and Views u UPI Brussels, Thursday. The US dollar, currently at Its lowest levels for 18 months against several continental currencies. closed mixed on European money exchanges yesterday. Dealers said trading was thin and erratic ahead of the Christmas vacation and speculators were
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 157 14 Glamour stocks, show lng early strength amid tax trading manoeuvres and portfolio adjust ments, paced prices high er yesterday in heavy trading on the New YorK Stock Exchange. Profit taking shaved gains, however. Advances topped declines, 974 to 503, among the 1929 issues crossing the tape. Volume totaled
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    • 32 14 UPI Dow Jones closing averages cn the NYSE yesterday: 30 industrial 984.54 (up 6.15); 20 transport 235.73 (up 0.86); 15 utilities 10.493 (off 0.04); 65 stock 319.55 (up 1.45) UPI.
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    • 223 14 DBS-Daiwa Securities Int'l Ltd. Despite stricter regulation on margin trading, the market, continued bullish, anticipating easier money and aggressive economic pump priming by the new cabinet. In the morning, highpriced electrlcals including Pioneer and Sony shot up. Also, some issues among automobiles, precision machines, foodstuffs and drugs gained. T.
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    • 73 14 Closing prices In francs on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Maribas 150.50 +0.50 Foncler 295 +0.10 Printempi 39.50 +1.60 Bull 27.30 —0.20 Royal Dutch 254.80 -i-5.'30 Mlchelln 1185 +4 CGE 265 +5 Thomson 169 unch. CFP 102 +2 Rhone 75 —0.40 Air 335 -4-6 BSN 457.10 —7.90 Philips 51.40 +0.90
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    • 170 14 Closing prices on the Sydney Slock Exchange today at 11.30 ajn. (Australian time): ACI 147 149 ADC 20 23 Ampol Pet 65 67 AN1 116 120 APM nil 124 126 Bank NSW 494 495 Brambles 139 140 BHP 742 746 Boral 175 177 CBA 252 255 C8R 365 CIO
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    • 47 14 Reuter Wiesbaden (West Germany), Thursday —West Germany yesterday announced £750 million ($3OOO million) foreign trade surplus for last month. This was nearly £150 million ($6OO million) less than in October and slightly below the November 1975 surplus, the Federal Statistics Office said here. Reuter.
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    • 85 14 Sip a tangerine cognac Coffee with Mandarine Napoleon Add 1 oz of Mandarine Napoleon to a glass of hot coffee (strong). Then pour fresh cream over the back of a spixm held against the rim of the glass. No sugar should be added. Mandarine NapolCon on Tonic Pour one part
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  • 1096 15 Ipswich, Villa, United, City the pick of the teams The DON REVIE column GOALS OF SEASON GO TO BEST, MARINER Four months ago, 1 suggested that this could be the most exciting English football season for a number of years and I am being proved
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  • 595 16 But cautious as he reflects big win New Delhi, Thursday Tony Grelg tempered enthusiasm with caution as he reflected here yesterd a y on England's first ever innings victory in a Test in India. The England captain was talking a few hours after his team had
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  • 120 16 New Delhi, Thursday— India's cricket selectors made one change in the 14-man party for the Second Test against England, recalling Eknatli Solkar in place of reserve wickelkeeper Bharat Reddy. Solkar, who played the last of his 26 Tests in the West Indies earlier this year, is a
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  • Article, Illustration
    450 16 Ali can't make up mind about quitting the ring AP New York, Thursday. —Muhammad All and Joe Frazler announced their retirements this year. Actually, All announced more than once that he would never fight again. But as the year closed and Frazler was pursuing a show business career,
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  • 136 16 Reuter Paris, Thursday The Argentine Grand Prix, the first Formula One motor race of the 1977 season, will go ahead as scheduled on January 9, the International Sporting Commission (CSI) announced. The announcement by the CSI, world motor racing's ruling body, amounted to
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    • 354 16 <_}$<>)])\>`_<.==^}>}_'@!/^[*[! CALLING ALL MAGICIANS Just arrived Many new Tricks, Jokes and Novelties in time for your Christmas and New Year. Call uk MAGIC NOVELTY CENTRE, 40$, 4th fir. Par East Shopping Centra, Orchard Road Singapore Tel: 23SS4SS MERRY CHRISTMAS AND Pros perous New Year. Oenuine Discount. Various Renown Watches, Clocks,
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    • 349 16 FUN'S FLORISTS AT Hong Leong Building and Apollo Hotel. Fresh flowers In beautiful arrangement for all occasions. Prompt and efficient service. Telephone: *****41, *****75. TOO FATI Trim those extra Inches off your figure the easy way with "Thermatrlm". You can get that shapely figure back within minutes with "Thermatrlm" the
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    • 310 16 Crossword J ■111 liifll liiil bbbb bbbbb mi bbbbbbbbbbbbbbi mmu bbbb bbbbb bbbb bbbb *****8 HIBBB 888 8888 ***** U» **********881 1188 ***** 8881 888 8888 *****8 8888 8888 ***** 8888 888 **********881 8888 ***** 8888 8888 ***** 8888 ACROSS 1 Mecca trek 5 Peer 10 Sliding bolt of sorts
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  • 675 17  -  Jackie's Bowl to make it a great year BOWLING by Brian Miller Jackie's Bowl intends to make 1977 a great bowling year and, to roll oil the idea, they have decided on hosting a tournament that offers prizes totalling $25,000. This "Bowling Bonanza"—as they prefer to
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  • 120 17 Reuter New York, Thursday Roberto Duran of Panama, the World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight champion, will defend his title against Vilomar Fernandez of the Dominican Republic in Panama City on January 15, It was announced here. The announcement was made by New York promoter Don King,
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    • 249 17 KafPPmSlpfiS IL \P Roll in X'mas Day and the New Year Many attractive prizes to be won J J C Date X'mas Eve 24th Dec. New Year's Eve 31st Dec. Time: 7.00 p.m. to 3.00 a.m. Fees 5516.00 per hour BOOKINGS NOW OPEN m 't m m K s PRIZES
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  • 90 18 Reuter London, Thursday Former England soccer captain Alan Ball was yesterday transferred from Arsenal to Southampton for £60,000 (about $240,000). Ball, 31-years-old. was a member of England's World Cup winning team In 1000 and joined Arsenal live years ago from Everton for £225,000 (about
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  • 103 18 Reuter Melbourne, ThursdayMelbourne's Mooroolbark United, one of the 14 teams which will take part In Australia's first nationwide football competition next year, plans to seek the Services of Fulham star, George Best. Mooroolbark president Tom Bailey said he hoped to sign Best up for at
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  • 257 18 Reuter Adelaide, Thursday Pakistan's tour manager, Colonel Shuja will take the matter to the Australian Cricket Board if the captains Or eg Chappell and Mushtaq Mohammad fail to clarify the bouncer ruling before the start of the First Cricket Test between Australia and Pakistan. M I hope
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  • 38 18 Reuter Havana, Thursday. Cuban weightllfter Roberto Urrutla regained the world Jerk record with 141 kilos in the lightweight (67.5 kilos) gategory here. Urrutla had lost the record to Poland's Zbignlev Kaczmarek last May. Reuter.
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  • 91 18 Reuter London, Thursday results of last night's football matches were: English Division Two. Cardiff City versus Hereford United postponed. Division Four. Bradford City 2 Hartlepool 2 (brought forward from Dec. 29?. Newport County versus Workington postponedground waterlogged. Scottish League Division One. Falkirk 1 East Fife 1
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