New Nation, 2 January 1977

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  • 492 2 Express A MERICA'a spy system recently underwent a big shake-up because a former agent with a James Bond complex he drove a car with 007 on the number plate bungled an effort to give Russia the innermost secrets of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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  • 29 2 AP A Chilean newspaper has said that 200 Chilean youths, sent to the SovWt Union In 1973 for industrial training, are being kept from returning home. AP.
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  • 144 2 Reuter RESCUE teams are fighting to reach 45 miners trapped alter a gas explosion caused what might be Czechoslovakia's worst mine disaster in IS years. Ceteka News Agency said "rescue work was proceeding Intensively" at the Starlc Mine in the Ostrava coalfield In
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  • 157 2 A MAN who was liable for national service but who stayed In Britain for over five years without an exit permit was charged In a magistrate's court yesterday in what was believed to be the first case of its kind In Singapore. Han Wee Klang,
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  • 231 2 POLO bars and other v valuables worth mllliQns of dollars are believed to be lying in the British sunken warship wrecks, the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, off the Pahang coast. But they will have to remain there forever because the British government has
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  • 120 2 Reuter ISRAELIS reacted yesterday with cautious optimism to President Sadat's statement on Friday indicating that a future Palestinian state should be linked in some form to Jordan. Israel has long declared Itself opposed to the creation ol an independent entity on.its borders, claiming that such
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  • 117 2 rE Umno division In Parlt Buntar, Perak. has passed a vote of 'no confidence' In Tan Sri Hall Qhazall Jawl holding office as Perak Men* trf Besar and State Umno leader. According to division secretary. Enclk Bahari bin Mat Taha. the special meeting
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 61 3 The Malay mi Hallway made a profit of $9 million in the first 11 months of operation last year, its first profit in 14 years. Encik Aba Othman bin All Bashah, MR's deputy general manager said, "This repiesento a big turnabout from l»<s's perfodmance warn the railway's revenue
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    • 74 3 Reuter A mutiny broke out on board a Cyprlot freighter off the Canary islands and one member of the crew was killed, Agadir Maritime Radio of Morocco reported. The radio picked up an 808 call from the 5223-tonne freighter Papageogls reporting the mutiny. Since the SOS, there has
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    • 67 3 Reuter The Sri Lanka government yesterday requisitioned several hundred privately-owned tracks to move food, fuel and other vital supplies to provincial towns as trade unions Intensified strike action over ?»*jr demands. Train services were crippled for the IMb successive day bat the three strikebound ports of Colombo, Galle
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    • 89 3 Reuter The Clarldge Hotel, last of the old-time luxury hostelrles on the Champs-Elysees, closed yesterday and cut a link with the glamorous days of the *****. The 215-room hotel, next to the Paris Lido Theatre, shut its doors because Its management could not afford a four-fold
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    • 63 3 UPI Taiwan Is expected to have an li per cent economic growth In 1977, a slower pace as compared with the 11-A per cent growth In the previous year, according to the Economic Planning Council. The cowntry'g foreign tr»«ie this year Is predicted to amount from US$l9 billion
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    • 53 3 The Singapore Bus Service has reduced Its vehicle breakdown rate from over 53 per cent two years ago to eight per cent today. 888 general manager. Mr. Wong Hung Khlm attributed the reduction to a rigid fortnightly programme of scheduled maintenance of BBS buses, which had been very
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    • 27 3 AP China's Chairman, Hua Kuo-feng congratulated Takeo Fukuda on becoming Prime Minister of Japan and expressed hope that Chinese-Japa-nese relations develop further, a Peking broadcast reported.—AP.
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    • 50 3 Reuter Navy frigates yesterday patrolled British waters to enforce a new 320 km fishing limit, which came into effect at midnight last night The extension of the zone, from 19km, is part of a concerted plan of action by European Common Market countries to protect their fishing grounds.
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    • 44 3 Reuter The people of Hongkong stayed at home and shivered as the British colony entered 1977. There were no notable festivities and a severe cold spell, which saw temperatures plunge from around 26C to 6C earlier this week, still gripping the city.
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    • 69 3 Reuter Israeli security forces have uncovered an espionage network organised by Syria in the occupied Golan Heights, the military command said. Three groups of spies, all local Inhabitants, were rounded op recently. The namber of people Involved and their nationalities were not given. The Golan Heights were captured
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    • 73 3 Reuter The Spanish Communist Party, buoyed by the liberation on Friday o( its leader Santiago Carrillo, acted quickly to plan its campaign for parliamentary elections this year. The party's executive committee said they planned to run candidates in all of Spain's 50 provinces. They also said Mr. Carrillo
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  • 179 3 First 'right to die' Bill passed in US with many safeguards Reuter TNCURABLY 111 Call--1 fornlans now have the right to order doctors to let them die. The controversial C a 11 f or n lan Natural Death Act Involving tfce withdrawal of life sustaining equipment,
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  • 159 3 fkAQI Oil Minister Tayed Adel Karlm suggested on Friday that a common oil production programme by producing countries could strengthen their price negotiating position. In an interview broadcast over Baghdad Radio, he said such a programme had been submitted by Iraq to the conference
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  • 87 3 Reuter THE Soviet Union has made "mother-heroines" of 722 women who have recently given birth to their 10th child, it was announced yesterday. Over half the awards went to mothers In the republics of Soviet Central Asia, the weekly Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Bulletin said. Kazakhstan headed the
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  • 35 3 The Malaysian Timber Industry Board is considering the setting up of a timber freight bureau to encourage shins to call at Malaysian ports for direct shipment of Malaysian timber to West Asian markets.
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  • 261 4 We'll take firm measures, he says In the New Year... what they hope to achieve Reuter PRESIDENT Suharto has said Indonesia is still plagued by corruption, manipulation of state funds and abuse of state authority. In a New Year speech to the
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  • 247 4 WARNINC BY CHINA Reuter /CHINESE Vice-Premier Li Hsien-nien last night renewed a warning that continued rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union would some day lead to war, the New China News Agency reported. Speaking at a New Year's eve reception for foreign
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  • 182 4 A MAGISTRATE'S court ycvterday heard how a youth on* a drug charge escaped from police custody after he coaxed a police sergeant into, letting him make a telephone call. Ramachandran Feriasamy, 18, was yes- terday Jailed for a day and fined
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  • 75 4 Reuter INDONESIAN Mining M 1 nls t er Mohammad Sadll said yesterday state revenue would Increase as a result of the oil price rise that came Into effect yesterday. The government has raised the price of Its oils between nine and 10.4 per
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  • 191 4 AP REPCRT3 from China suggest provincial leaders are having problems controlling the Chinese people In the campaign to discredit Chiang Ching, the late party Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow. Broadcasts from the provinces have called on the Chinese to obey official directives, not act on their
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  • 152 4 Reuter TIAI Premier Thanin Kralvichien has urged the Thai people to Join hands with the government to eliminate communist guerillas in the country. The Prime Minister. In a New Year speech on Friday, sa;d the people could help the government In tne task by persuading the
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    • 101 4 Singapore Excellence In Secretarial Skills TOP INTERNATIONAL P.S.C. EXAMS of the LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Three Years In Succession 1974 1976. OUR NEXT COURSE COMMENCES: I full-time: 5-1-77 part-time: 5-1-77 1074 1975 Ist For further information please send in listl coupon or telephone: 2nd Miss Jane Tan Counselling Information Officer
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  • 368 5 AP PRESIDENT Ford believes his r successor should not make any drastic changes in relations between the U8 and South Korea because of the possible detrimental effects they would have throughout Asia. In a copyrighted interview in the Jan. 10 issue of US
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  • 223 5 Reuter MANY of the SO "efficiency experts" at Britain's main nuclear fuel processing plant are drawing £90 ($240) a week for the last 18 months for doing w> work. The men. promoted from, the trade union ranks to the title of "estimators" In July
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  • 199 5 Reuter 1 THIRD morning A mnpner hit the streets of New York on frUay with eolonr pictnreo, stories eoneontratlnc on "npbeat" news and a lt-potnt statement on the pnrsnH of troth and hapMews World, anoed by the UnlAeation Chnroh International of Sooth Korea's ■or.
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    • 117 5 m \s ■41 pr 41 iTirl 111 BATIK CORNER BATK COTTON VOLE MAXMMESS M ASSORTED OESK MS LESS 20% >.) 1 BASEMENT 2 DEPARTMENT STORE LAOES FLOWERY MAXI* a v 4 w II 0 FROM JAPAN M ASSORTED SIZES A COLOURS m v* rVf r// 29.90 U* <c y fii
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  • 281 6 COMMENT WILL our soccer team make the grade or disintegrate In defeat and with it our affection? Will women return to the mini as the Western fashion moguls anticipate or will they hang on to their pants? These are interesting but not crucial questions ss we say
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  • 989 6  -  CHILDREN OF THE RICH ARE LARGER THAN CHILDREN OF THE POOR. BUT THERE'S A NEW TREND... By J. Tanner British expert on child growth Observer OINCE the very first survey of the growth of children Britain In 1832 It has been recognised that
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    • 117 6 ITS WONDERFUL WHAT INGENUITY CAN DO FOR A LADY. It can bring you a watch aa beautifully accomplished as the Lady Seiko The beauty you can see right here. And in the wide range at your jeweller. The accomplishment, however, goes a little deeper. Seiko design and make every part
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  • 883 7 SFL piNGERPRINTS can give away the innermost secrets of a person, says a top p sychologlst. "One day they may evejj reveal whether a child is likely to grow up to be a thief or a murderer. Or a genius." Psychologists believe that human
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    • 116 7 This cine camera sings and talks and laughs. We bet yours only takes pictures. 'f II Nil). 1 m n 09 P d r L CHINOW I i. I, ft t I T L. h Worio s largest manufacture' of Sound Super 8 cameras Wo didn't get rd v 'V
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  • 862 8 USIS "f DONT want to be A a mole!" That is a typical response to the idea that houses, offices, and factories be built underground to ease the Increasing congestion of the earth's surface areas. Nonetheless, an innovative architectural movement is now focusing on structures
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  • 485 8 Where well-heeled frogs learn to be one jump ahead of the opposition SFL THINGS are really Jumping at one of the world's most exclusive finishing schools. Few of the students ever fet caught on the hop at Croakers' College. This is probably because they are all
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  • 1219 9  -  YESTRDAY Britain's former cabinet minister Roy Jenkins took over as President of the 11-man European Commission the body that runs the nine-nation European Economic Community from Brussels. He and his newly appointed commissioners will be In charge for the next four years. Gemini News
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  • 542 9 If you ask me... TWE Subordinate Courts Complex at Havelock Road is certainly impressive and a far cry from the ramshackled building it replaced. The complex Is spaclou*, comfortable and modern. But one thing K sales me. One would ve
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    • 210 9 \J>; ANNOUNCING 111 GOES 3-D FROM TODAY ftPHOTOGRAPH* sponsored by NATURAL PHOTOGRAPHIC STORE(PTE)LTD j 3-0 Colour portraits are available during the exhibition from 7pm-9pm Famous entertainers will be modelling on the spot every evening. PEOPLE'S PARK CEHTRE(b wmmi) MthDEC76»3fdJAH77 10.00 A.M. >10.00 P.M. i :>i OF STUDIOS" members of the
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  • SO THAT WAS 1976
    • 182 10 / 11 Seven pwi—iWii pMt nt MM bum of Uh year SALLY TAN, Miss Singapore-Un 1 v e r s e 1075 and an BIA stewardess. THE thing that made 1976 the happiest In my life was when my boyfriend Sam Choong proposed. He picked me
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    • 147 10 / 11 BELINDA MUBUGASU, one this year 'i President'* Scholar. THEtE Isn't really anything I would dnfie oat as the event of the year. Of eonfse winning the Prtslienfs Seho- hweh<j> was a once-in-•-lifetime thing. It eane unexpectedly and what made It aU the more msmnahle was
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    • 205 10 / 11 Dft. CHAN HENG COTE, political scientist rpHI bml toHrtaat X (rent for the world la 197f la historic terns la the death ef Mao Tae-tan* 'aaeaaaa II reptooanlei the demise at the last ef the great werld leaders of that taaraarive f
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    • 175 10 / 11 THOMAS YEO. artist. TO me the moat lmport- ant event waa the opening of the National Art Oallery. This la the atartlng point of a visual education for our people who, In their chase after material things, are not fully aware of aeathetlc beauty.
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    • 208 10 / 11  -  'INTERVIEWS BY NANCY KOH BISHOP CHIU BAN IT, Head of the Anglican Dloceee of Singapore. 1 rpa highlight ww the -l celebration of my 10th anniversary u the ftrst Asian Blshon. Looking back, the growth of Singapore has »»*nd In hand with the .Increased seriousness
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    • 363 10 / 11 BERNARD HARRISON Curator of the Singapore zoo. 'THE most amazing thing that happened, in my opinion, was that I started to believe in God. I had rejected Christianity early, though my family is steeped in religion. Then I went through a difficult stage In life
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    • 397 10 / 11 DENNIS BLOODWORTH, author and China observer. ,tX3R me the year was doml--1 nated by the catalysmic events in China, which I had to interpret to newspaper readers as far away as Copenhagen and Colorado. First there was the death of Premier Chou
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    • 238 10 / 11 2 r K»kuei T«rwk»:D. 3. Harold Wil»on:G. 4 Mao Tje-tung:!. 5. Sheikh SUtf' F 8. Coh lay Kuan;) 9. Lee Kuan Yew:C. 10. Quah Kim
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1063 12 nday Your 12-page TV pullout T Pick of the week i t i 11 f sit w M I'f; >> w\ fi -\r OCEAN'S ELEVEN (Saturday Night Movie) Ch. 5 at 10.50 p.m. in COLOUR Fanciful crime comedy about a breezy gang of wartime buddies headed by Danny Ocean (Frank
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    • 281 12 SOUND SYSTEMS TCHAIKOVSKY (Saturday Matinee) Ch. 5 at 2.00 p.m. in COLOUR So intensely did Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky throw himself into composition that when he died at the age of 53 he had produced a total of 325 hours of music. This Russian composer x v .r THE NUTCRACKER SUITE
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    • 1048 13 MONDAY SCHAUB LORENZ IDEAL COLOUR 1742 CTV Precision //V LINE Picture tube 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Kudumba Malar (T/r) 3.30 Diary Of Events (T) 3.35 General Hospital 4.1 S SCIENCE RIfORT) (r) 4.30 Intermission 6 05 Open 6.06 December Bride: Gossip 4.M NIWS IN BRIEF A 35 COOL McCOOL 7.05
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    • 710 14 WEDNESDAY Lenco LENCO TURNTABLES Swiss precision instruments you don t wetir on your wrists 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 FLYING NUN <r) 3.30 Diary Of Events (M) 3.35 General Hospital 4.15 Fokas (r) 4.30 Intermission 5.55 Open 5.58 SECRET OF ISIS: Droom> Of Flight 6.20 Consumers' Guide (E/M) 6.30 NEWS IN
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    • 220 15 ANEW PENGUN FROM k L (j+m* Orimt i naw nooal Uta d« m tf\at Mask country o» •ahautwd PMwon betrayal and jbaurd hop* «<•»<#> ha hat emptor ad to prectiely m *xh novel, M THE Wltß AND THC CLOMV am} THE COMEDIANS In a provincial Argentinian mm a group o>
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    • 1048 15 FRIDAY 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: A Time to Remember Pt.2/r (Mandarin) Stars Kwan San, Mao Mei 4.05 Diary Of Events (C) 4.10 Window (C/r) 4.40 Intermission 6.05 Open *08 EXERCISE WITH GLORIA 6. JO NEWS IH BRIEF 35 WILD, WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS (r) 7.03 THRILLSKKKERS. Spotlight on
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    • 125 16 The ffloongate Collection of Folktales from the Orient The Orient abounds in folktales and myths, some dating back thousands of years. Many of these tales remain unknown to the rest of the world, as they are either handed down by word of mouth or are available only in the native
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    • 190 16 AfttOL V, Of &UQQi. >iO MATTER tiOW MQ MhiOS G0 T... W port's/?) m UI.OOM*! tfl.LlrtPW' nrr B &fi 1 i ft 1 K I I V 7ii t fa m f. BRO6ON and MEL OeSON m I ft J>3 H*V. KX>*o?.' r JU6T Y wp'Rfc Tig-pvep MV veAi&U wfizv
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  • Page 17 / 18 Miscellaneous
    • 337 17 / 18 THIS IS REALLY DUMB! fTtL TAKE ME FOREVER FIND THOSE KIDS AN' THEIR FOLKS OUT HERE! WHY, FOR ALL I KNOW, THEY COULP ALL er ;n lem, for catsake.' HI. OOP! WHATCHA DOIN' QUT v HERE? I'M TRYIN' T'LOCATE SOME FOLKS. 1 >H. VSAH..TH lODS/ I VIEARP ABOUT (Y'P»D THATBUSINESS
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    • 267 19 GARTH >O(JN0 WHITE ©QUPW -I WPNT/OOMEWITM M 6 OR I KILL/ >2 1 w> a a < *3P m l% V w mm \y VI ißii fSfr wwy NOT? I GOT SOMETHING Tp PJDtSCT t6o-pnd ITPIN'T 5-PND IT PINT MY SCO LP/ m i F LET EM HOVE IT, PELLERS
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  • 388 20 Off the Record by CKT IN this New Tear week, a reviewer might think to come clean with his prejudices. Very well, then: ring in the old, rinf out the new. I In with a traditional reading of Tchaikovsky's Pathetlsoe Symphony by
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  • 728 20  -  HUMOUR Paik Choo JJEAR GIL, Thank you for showing me Singapore. You who have been here only 11 days and I considerably longer. Twenty-four years to be exact. When you first wrote me from Paris about visiting Singapore my initial reaction
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  • 202 20 AN INDIAN phllo- sophy professor has suggested to youths to get "high" on yoga instead of drugs or alcohol. And as all yoga experts know one of the yoga exercises involves standing on one's head. See, you can Btill bottoms up. PUCES of locally manufactured batteries In Malaysia
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  • 1162 21  -  By Clive Hirschhorn Express believes In miracles, and who can blame her? Four years ago, at the height of her career, she fell 6.7 metres, while on stage in Lake Tahoe, and the injuries sustained by her face and body were
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  • 506 22 LYDIA GETS NEWS THAT LEAVES HER IN SHOCK Look East with Leslie Fong DAD news struck Hoilg Kong's funny girl Lydia Sum Tin Ha and left her completely shaken last month. The Mkg film comedienne Tinted a wellknown fortune-teller in Kowloon and was strongly warned
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  • 386 22 Reuter BARBRA Streisand's latest musical A Star Is Born, which opened In the United States recently.- has focussed attention on her love life, living style and problems with her co-workers. Following completion of the diuendoo-wrack-ed production, Miss Streisand, her co-star Kris KristofTerson, her hairdresser boyfriend Jon Peters (the
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  • 774 23  -  By Peter Grosvenor Guardian WHIN he died, Howard Hughes had the nails so long, It Is now repealed that they resembled yellow corkscrews. However, the record for the world's longest nail hit Just been broken by Murarl Mohan Adltya of Calcutta with 98.4
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  • 615 23 LOVI LITTERS. An anthology chosen by Anto n i Freser (Weidenfald and Nicolson). Book Page T OVE FEEDS on the expression of it, soothingly in bed, ecstatically in recollection, "I wake filled with thoughts of you. Your' portrait and the intoxicating »evening which
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  • 489 23  -  THE EIFFEL TOWER by Joseph Harriss (Elek). By Alex Josey rTHIS is the faacinat--1 ing history of the 88 year old Eiffel Tower, in Paris, still the tallest pure tower in the world. It is more than 320 metres high. It consist* of 15,000
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    • 234 23 VOU are in Paris and a banker friend has asked your advice before mealing a large amount of money to a man he think* might be a phony. "Oosta Brenco seems to be the right person." Charles Poher tells you. "but there's something that doesnt line true. You see his
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  • 771 26 INSIDE TRACK ri 076 was a year that taught us a few lessons and unearth* ed a number of controversies on the Singapore sports scene. Choo Seng Quee, N. Oanesan, tne Malaysia Cup, the two-year ban on Quah Kim Bong, the rugby debacle,
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  • 534 27  -  31)1? Ernest Frida IT HAS been a rough year for the national golf team. They were badly beaten In the Putra Cup championship and in the first-ever international match against Malaysia. They us by finishing last in the seven-nation tournament held in Hong Kong
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  • 726 27 GEMINI npHE case of Eng--4 land cricketer John Snow la now closed, but It deserves to go down In the records as a salutary example of ho wthe great game of cricket cleans up Its own house. You can either laugh or cry at
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  • 642 28  -  .\fHL£n cs Tan Kim Seng MR 25 could be mistaken for the brand name of a consumer Item If you've never heard It before. But to those who know, it stands for a ■roup of people seriously Involved in the business of Jogging, not only
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  • 535 28 U.K. SOCCER CORNER POSTPONEMENT 1 of league matches .to enable England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the four home conntries, to have their players seven days before World Cap matches is to be cat Beth the Feet ball Association and Football League agreed
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  • 585 28  -  os-f-uii. Joyce Tan THE expected clash between Siglap and Tampines in the final of the zone 7 intraconstltuency netball tournament on Saturday, will materialise as both teams won their seml-flnal matches during mid-week. Siglap cleared their accond last hurdle against Joo Chlat in a very
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  • 341 28 Novosti |>EFEREES come In 11 fo Infrequent mention In the sporting press, but when there Is talk about them then It Is chiefly in a negative tone for their errors, biased officiating, etc. Nothing can be done about the fans' opinion that a mod
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  • 703 29  -  LETS PAY IF WE MUST TO GET SOME IMPARTIAL REFEREEING lALI Alfred Tong WHILE British tournaments are notorious for their elderly linesmen who doze off while on duty, Singapore tournaments are conspicuous for their lack of .qualified linesmen and umpires or, indeed, linesmen of
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  • 671 29 Express WHAT DO you say to a football club manager who has spent £1,185.000 ($4,740,000) a third of It in the last two weeks and whose record borders the v wrong side of average? Do you sympathise? Help him find a
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  • 653 29 A 8 the hockey fraternity prepare to meet the 1977 season, I feel that this is as good a time as any to look back and trace the ups-and-downs of the SHA and the SWHA during the last 12 months. For the men,
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  • 1168 30 ERNEST FRIDA rounds up the sporting scene J AST year was a Im mediocre year for sport In Singapore. Soccer dominated the scene again, but like a roller coaster Its path was never smooth. Ten nts appears to be recovering from
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  • 573 31  -  Sporting quotes of last year By David Miller Guardian fTHERE S' ONE WAY I can get maximum security cover for the Olympics. But everyone must stay home first. General Roland Reid, Montreal military co-ordlnator. MY FIRST ioft vSult wasn't any more of a
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  • 205 31 rpHE United States is spending $3 6 million on defending next year's America's Cop, to be held off Newport, Bhode Island, in September. The first step towards providing a defender of the Cap. which has not left America in its 125year history,
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  • 578 32 IYEFENDING cham--17 pi on Selangor, aiming to repeat their last year's Malaysia Cup soccer success, start Intensive preparations on Monday with mixed feelings.. They will sadly miss the services of striker MokhUr Daharl who was largely responsible for their triumph last season, netting a total of
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  • 231 34 SPORTS NATION UPI A"SUPIR" English professional soccer league of about 15 data playing only In the big cities may soon replace the present W-club format. That Is the opinion of Hull University lecturer Nicholas Wiseman, who spotlights the economics of the professional game
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