New Nation, 5 January 1977

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  • 20 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Wednesday, January 5, 1977 Price 25 cents M C (P) 262/1/77 No. 1838 rNEW (t/j) NATION COMMENT I
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  • 281 1 By Bharathi Mohan Police are investigating the theft of over $1.3 million worth of gems and currencies from the Cathay Pacific Airways, cargo warehouse at Paya Lebar Airport. The theft was discovered yesterday morning by the airline's station manager Mr. Chin Hang Chong. Two sealed parcels
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  • 28 1 Belfast, WednesdayTwo bombs yesterday blasted a suburban shopping centre while four bombs planted in business premises in Central Belfast were defused by British security forces.— Reuter.
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  • 127 1 Reuter New York, Wednesday Two large banks have forecast a moderately strong US economic recovery In 1977. Mr. George McKlnney, senior vice president of the Irving Trust Company, told a management group In Washington that consumer sentiment had improved harkedly since the presidential election
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  • 175 1 Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent Ho Kwon Ping, 24, was this morning charg. Ed In court for disseminating protect, ed inform ation without the consent of a competent authority. He was alleged to have committed the offence In his article, Washington Aids ASEAN Build-up, In the
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  • 35 1 Athens, Wednesday Greek cinemas nave stopped showing "Victory at Entebbe," a film depicting the Israeli rescue of guerilla-held hostages from Uganda last year, after time bombs were found in three of them.
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  • 357 1 Singapore request for extradition Reuter London, Wednesday The full hearing starts today into Singapore's request for the extradition of former financiers Jim Slater and Richard Tariing. Mr. Slater, 47, founder of the multi-million dollar Slater Walker Securities empire, and Mr. Tarling, 42, former chairman of Haw
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  • 33 1 Tokyo, Wednesday Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Pukuda will soon send a personal envoy to Washington to establish contact with the administration oI US Presidentelect Jimmy Carter, Informed sources said yesterday. Reuter.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 282 2  -  Lee Yew Meng Omron Singapore, a pioneer company has stopped production of electronic desk calculators following the imposition of a 14 per cent import duty bv the European Economic Community (E&C) countries. Omron, which produces 20,000 units monthly for export to* the EEC countries,
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  • 153 2 Singapore is keeping abreast with the latest advancements in kidney research and transplant, a local doctor said. Dr. Woo Keng Thye, registrar, Department of Renal Medicine at Singapore General Hospital, who returned recently from a 10-day immunology workshop in Australia, said: "Our laboratories are
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  • 645 2  -  'Will have international implications' »y Gerry de Silva The three-nation agreement on the Straits of Malacca Issue will have International implications when it gains ministerial approval, ASEAN officials said. Officials from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore reached agreement on seven topics at a pre-Christmas meeting
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  • 105 2 BUSINESS DONE: First Section Inchcape (8) 2.50, (1) 2.51, (1) 2.52. (8) 2.53. S. Darby (7) 3.46. Sett.: (5) 3.50, (5) 3.48. Pan Electric (1) 2.20, (10) 2.21. Sett.: (8) 2.23,(1) 2 24 Haw Par (9) 1.14, (6) 1.15. Sett.: (10) 1.15, (13) 1.16. C. Sugars (2) 1.23,
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  • 105 2 Singapore Airlines has appointed a welfare officer for the Gulf area following complaints of accomodation problems by its cabin crew. He is Mr. Alex Chee, whose appointment was suggested by the crew and brought up to SIA by a works council. According to Outlook,
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  • 70 2 A man bolted with $190 from a flat in Oeylang Square after telling a housewife, Madam Tan Siew Tin, 66, that he —as a Government officer. He told Madam Tan that he had come to repair the toilet bowl. He demanded $83.20 for repairs and for
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  • 195 2 The average number of votes received by a PAP candidate in the recent general elections was 11,135 almost three times that of the highest average of the opposition. Pekemas, which fielded only two candidates, had the next highest average of 4615. Bartsan Sosialls,
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  • 54 2 Reuter Kuala Lumpur. Wednesday A team of Muslim religious leaders will visit several Islamic countries to study their methods of family planning. the Deputy Minister In the Prime Minister's Department. Datuk Hail Othman Abdullah. said yesterday. Datuk Othman told the Senate the delegation would probably leave for
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    • 394 2 AT THE CINEMA 4 THE OMLV: A suspense thriller about the parents who discover belatedly that their adopted son Is the child of Satan. Stars Gregory Peck, Lee Remlck, David Warner, BUlle Whltelaw, Harvey Stephens. Odeon: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN: Two children with supernatural
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    • 125 2 WHAT'S ON FlLMS—School Life In Japan, Two Weeks In Japan and Gardens of Japan—in colour at National Museum. 8 p.m. Manohar and his drama company present A PLAY, Lankeswaran. at National Theatre, 7.30 p.m. A TALK, Borderline of Insanity, at Lions Club of Singapore (Host) lunch meeting at Marco Polo
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    • 67 2 PAINTINGS and calligraphy at National Museum Young People's Gallery, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Exhibition of 59 photographs on the theme MAN AND MACHINE at National Museum Art Gallery, 9 a.m. tn 5 P-m. Children's Cnarl ties Trade EXPOSITION at National Stadium Carpark, Kallang, 8.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. NIGHT
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  • 14 2 Police reported 68 accidents yesterday. Seventeen were serious and one fatal.
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  • 321 3  -  First to go under the new exchange programme By Teresa Ooi The Education Ministry has selected two secondary school teachers for training in Britain under its teacher exchange programme introduced this year. They are Mr. Tan See Wah of Serangoon Gardens Secondary School and
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  • 209 3 The Senior Minister of State for Education. Mr. Cbai Chong Yil (above) has called for a re-em-phasls of the physical education programme so that more student* will be encouraged to take Eart at class or house iveU. This is because most -students are
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  • 224 3 THERE WILL BE PRIZES TOO The 840 strong staff of Hyatt Hotel are making a joint effort to reduce the consumption of public utili. ties with a sixmonth energy conservation campaign starting today. The hotel Is the first commerci?J organisation to initiate such a
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  • 47 3 The Housing and Urban Development Company (HUDC) Flat-own-ers' Association of Farrer Estate has been registered. The association invites flat owners at the estate to Join as members. Interested flat owners are requested to contact Mr. Lee Hock Seng (*****21) and Miss Paulin Ashness (*****2).
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  • 125 3 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Wed nesday Twenty eight employees of Malaysian government statu to r y bodies and agencies have been detained for communist and subversive activities since 1974. Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Shariff Ahmad said yesterday. Datuk Shariff told the Senate
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  • 163 3 A group of 45 Indonesian journalists and government officials left Singapore yesterday after a four-day official study tour "very Impressed" with the Republic's public housing program me, traffic system and antllltterin* laws. Mr. Syariful Alam, leader of the delegation, said the team learnt a lot
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  • 196 3 The Singapore Police Force has added another six dogs to Its dog unit. A police spokesman said the dogs arrived from England by air last October. They were bought for an undisclosed sum and will reBace aging dogs and ose which have died, the
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  • 342 4 'Pressure' from NZ Premier, 50... The Travel Agents Association of New Zealand has cancelled plans to hold its 1978 annual convention in Singapore because of "pressure from its government." According to the Traveltrade magazine of New Zealand, the Prime Minister Mr. Robert Muldoon, had
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  • 143 4 Singapore Bus Service plans to increase its operational fleet to 1880 buses by October. At present, BBS has an operational fleet of 1780 buses and a total fleet of 2200, a spokesman said today. SBd buses make 370,000 to 400,000 passenger trips during
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  • 48 4 The United Front will conduct dally meet-the people sessions at Its party headquarters In Victoria Street, according to a party statement. The party said this is a message of thanks to voters who supported United FTont candidates in 15 constituencies during the recent general elections.
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  • 39 4 RSAF aircraft live firing exercises will be conducted at the Southern Islands Live Firing Range at Pulau Pawal from Jan. 10 to 14 from 9 a.m. too p.m. v dally. The public Is wanted to keep clear.
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  • 200 4 The Singaporebased International Co-operative Trading Organisation, (ICTO) is expected to export several million dollars worth of goods to two wholesale cooperatives in Iran, one of its shareholders > The chairman of ICTO, Mr. Mak Kum Heng, said his organisation's representatives had sent samples and prices
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  • 37 4 The Young People's Service of Toa Payoh branch library Is organising a career talk for secondary students entitled Which Career? Guidance for the Undecided, at its premises on Jan. 14 at 3 p.m. Admission is free.
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  • 230 4 Singapore Airlines has expressed concern over the declining yield per passenger in the Orient sector. This is because of excess aircraft capacity and the limited demand by passengers. The airline's company planning manager, Dr. Cheong Choong Kong, writing In Interavia, an international magazine on
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  • 348 4  -  By Joachin Tan A m e r l can singing star Dionne Warwick first started singing in church when she was six years old. Since then Dionne. now 36, has not stopKd singing. Memrs of her family are all gospel singers. In an
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  • 315 4  -  By Peter Ong Having made a name (or herself, Miss Dionne Warwick last night showed how easy It is to rub off some of the good she has done. Admittedly, Dionne Is a fine singer (and I hope will always be) but she
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  • 529 5 'We are not responsible for extra expenses m for UN peace-keeping force in M-East' Reuter United Nations, Wednesday The Soviet Union said today it would refuse to pay part of its assessed contributions to the UN peacekeeping forces in the Middle East, declaring it
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  • 166 5 Reuter London, Wednesday. British newspapers were today accused of contributing to an "unprecedented deterioration" in race relations In this country. Writing In a pamphlet Issued by the privatelyfunded race relations group, the Runrtymede Trust, Mr. Peter Evans, a London Times journalist, said that In future
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  • 286 5 Reuter Plains, Wednesday President-elect Jimmy Carter said yesterday he would give up his substantial peanut business while in office to avoid any conflict of interest. "It was a hard decirlon for me to make." Mr. Carter told reporters. Details about the handling of Mr.
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  • 26 5 Reuter Jakarta. Wednesday Ten boys were drowned accidentally in swamps or wells within two weeks in Kubumen, Central Java. Antara News Agency reported yesterday.—Reuter.
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  • 190 5 UPI Bonn, Wednesday— Soviet defector Viktor I. Belenko, who flew a MiO 25 Foxbat to Japan in a daring escape, has been released from American custody and has gone underground with a new identity in the United States, the West German magazine
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  • 183 5 Reuter Washington, Wednesday President Ford billion) tax cut. but Congress is certain to ignore him and wait for President-elect Jimmy Carter to submit his own economic policies. Mr. Ford, in the White House for only another 10 days, sought a US$lO billion ($25
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  • 39 5 Reuter Rome, Wednesday— Thirteen prisoners appeared yesterday to have made a clean getaway after breaking out of Jail in Trevlso. Police said that after 40 hours of searching they had lost all trace of the men.—Rcuter.
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  • 27 5 Reuter Seoul, Wednesday Nineteen people died In traffic accidents and fires during the three day New Year holiday season throughout South Korea, police said yesterday.
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  • 448 6 Third World meet on fairer economic order 'necessary* Reuter Islamabad, Wednesday The Shah Qf Iran has agreed to cosponsor Pakistan's proposal for a Third World summit to work out a fairer international economic order, it was announced here yesterday. Iran becomes the first country to
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  • 184 6 Reuter New Delhi, Wednesday —Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Oandhi said yesterday that the time had not yet come to lift the emergency she imposed 18 months ago. She told a Press conference in Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern Indian state of Orissa (hat
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  • Article, Illustration
    76 6 Fishmonger Ron O'Brien of Dudley, England, poses with 408 kg of tuna fish at his shop on Monday. Mr. O'Brien bought this four-metre fish, which was caught off the Cornish coast. The world record for a fish Is 508 kg caught off the Canadian coast in 1973.
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  • 162 6 Reuter Manila, Wednesday President Ferdinand Marcos said yesterday it was now clear that a plebiscite should be held in IS provinces in southern Philippines to determine which of them wanted to join a proposed Muslim autonomous region. He made the statement to a news conference
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  • 88 6 Reuter Berne, Wednesday—The World Wildlife Fund yesterday condemned plans for a fight between a Japanese karate expert and a Bengal tiger In Haiti, and said It had urged President JeanCtaude Duvaller of Haiti to ban the contest. Tokyo promoter Yoshlo Kou announced plans for a
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  • 144 6 UPI TODAY Is WEDNESDAY. Jan. 5. the fifth day of 1977 with 360 to follow. THE MOON Is full. THE MORNING STARS are Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. ON THIS DAY IN
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  • 40 6 Reuter Santiago, Wednesday. Jose Gardenas, a humble Chilean carpenter, scooped UB(SM,Mt dIJB million) In a football pool competition last September. He put all his winnings In a savings and loan bank. It went bankrupt two weeks ago.—
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  • 684 6  - An opportunity to work on the rates AMERICA GEORGE GORDON IF you have trouble paying the rates and car road tax, consider the unique deal being offered in Hartford. Connecticut. The council there offers hard-pressed citizens an opportunity to work off the debt. Clinton Webb, a homeowner who has been
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 209 6 WORLD WEATHER Tokyo—Sunny, 6 Minus IC. Headline: Fukuda sending personal emissary to Washington. Paris Cold. 4-IC. Headline: Severe controls of consumer prices. Moscow —Sunny, Minus 12-Mlnus 16C. Headline: Winter works at the agricultural farms. Rome Cloudy, 17 BC. Headline: Labour unions ask government to contain unemployment. London Bright and sunny
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  • 230 7 Kuwait, Wednesday Kuwait will cut back it* oil production in early 1977 because international oil companies have decided to reduce their purchases of high-priced Kuwaiti crude, Oil Minister Abdel Muttalebah Kazemi said yesterday. 'The Government has decided to decrease oil production in the coming
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  • 86 7 Reuter Hong Kong. Wednesday China will soon publish three geological maps of China and Asia, the New China News Agency reported yesterday. The agency, monitored here, said the three maps are entitled "The Tectonic System Map of the Feople's Republic of China." the "Geological Map of the
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  • 133 7 Tokyo, Wednesday. The lingering recession, cold weather and heavy snow on the Japan sea coast kept down the number of Japanese visiting famous temples and shrines to pray for good luck in the new year, police reported yesterday. They estimated the total number
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  • 449 7 Reuter Vienna, Wednesday Albania yesterday accused the Soviet Union of building up its military strength in the Balkans and trying to recapture the sphere of influence once held by Tsarist Russia. An editorial in the Communist Party dally, Zerl I Popullit, said
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  • 391 7 AP Reuter Hong Kong, Wednesday A Chinese soprano, Miss Wang Kun, reappeared in Peking during the New Year festival celebrations after being persecuted by the "Gang of Four" radicals for many yean>, the New China News Agency reported yesterday. On her reappearance in
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  • 156 7 Reuter Cairo. Wednesday French Defence Minister Yvon Bourses arrived here yesterday on a liveday ofliclal visit for talks with Egyptian War Minister General Mohammed Abdel-Ohanl Gamassi on French co-ope-ration In setting up an Arab arms industry. France has agreed to provide Egypt
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  • 31 7 Reuter London, Wednesday— Experts from Europe. Africa and the US yesterday discussed the virus —closely related to the green monkey virus—which killed hundreds of people in Africa last year.
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  • 252 7 Reuter Peking, Wednesday China's new relationship with Bangladesh, whose creation Peking once vehemently opposed, was crystallsed last night with the announcement of an aid agreement. Senior Vice-Premier LI Hslen-nien said a pact on "economic and technical co operation," trade and payment was signed during the
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  • 466 8 Education rather than money Is the key to getting enough people to pledge their organs for transplant. The National Kidney Foundation will find its talks-and-dlsplay campaign this year In schools, tertiary Institutions and community centres more persuasive in the long run than its $500 offer
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  • 102 8 whispers ls ß p y y For about a year, a student in London and his parents kept up a belaboured weekly correspondence. Then the father went to London on a business trip and saw his son. Over dinner, both confessed that they were finding their frequent letterwriting
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  • 745 8 VOICE OF THE PRESS WALL STREET JOURNAL While we respect President-elect Carter as a problemsolver, and hope that these abilities' will eventually apply to the disarmament talks, we wish he would stop setting himself up as a mark for Mr. Brezhnev. Mr. Carter's
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  • 693 8  -  WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON United Nations jargon has habituated us to the idea of seeing the world situation in terms of a rich-poor or North-South conflict a conflict not of armies and ideologies but a conflict of Interest over development and living
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  • 1113 9  -  Delivered 20 years ago, Peking now uses it to fight the 'Gang of Four' By Jacques Leslie Los Angeles Times Hong Kong, Wednesday The New China News Agency has given new prominence to a 20-year-old speech by the late chairman Mao Tsetung,
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  • 488 9  -  Gloria Chandy Once they were known as dropouts. But today, they have a second chance of a bright future. They are students of the recently opened Catholic Welfare Vocational Centre who were premature school-leav-ers with nowhere else to turn to. Brother Edward
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    • 924 10 / 11  -  Wednesday, Jan. 5,1977 by H.L.Lim There was a time when the start of the school term was called Black- Monday. Two days ago, the New Nation editorial called it Bright Monday. gßiat was because of the educational Innovations that make 1077 a year of promise in our schools. Back
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      241 10 / 11 It's hardly blue skies and white clouds these days but believe it or not, swimwear '77 has arrived on our shores. The bare bikini is still around but sensuous swimwear for the new year is very much the slinky onepiece in tan-enhancing colours and extravagant prints, at least
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    • 508 10 / 11 UPI London, Wednesday A unique 50-year-old women's library where pictures of suff r a g ettes look down on first editions 6t Jane Austen and the collected works of 17th Century dramatist Aphra Behn has been saved from disbandmentr The Fawcett Library's Sponsoring
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  • 1101 13  - Unearthed lost city of Greece Buildings found preserved up to the third storey New clues about the Bronze Age By Susanne Me Bee Santorini (Greece), Wednesday The excavation near a black beach on this tiny volcanic island has unearthed so many stunning discoveries that one expert archaeologist says of it,
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  • 576 14 Foreign capital tops $12 billion Business News and Views Reuter Jakarta, Wednesday Foreign industrial investment in Indonesia has passed the US$5 billion ($l2 billion) mark and is still increasing but businessmen here predict the pace will slow down this year. A spokesman for the Investment Coordination Board
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  • 189 14 Reuter London, Wednesday An American consumers' boycott had the world coffee market worried yesterday and, after reaching new heights, the price came down with a bump in late trading. But some dealers still doubted whether the coffee drinkers' campaign in the US would have
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  • 414 14 London,' Wednesday After 10 days of Christmas and New Year feasting, Britain went back to fulltime working yesterday cheered by news that a sorely needed U559.36 billion loan had comc through. Sterling arm tne stock markets moved ahead during the day in a general
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  • 234 14 Reuter New Delhi, Wednesday Indian Industry Minister Tonse Anant Pal yesterday opened a 20natlon ministerial meeting on industrial and technological cooperation here and said India would actively help to promote industrialisation in the developing world. Industry Ministers from the participating Third World countries will meet
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  • 202 14 London, Wednesday British Petroleum said yesterday it has bought a 10 per cent interest in an international deep sea mining venture managed by Kennecott Copper Corp. of the US. BP, the British oil giant, said the project Involved a major research and development programme to
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  • 147 14 Reuter London, Wednesday North Yemen has barred ships from using a navigation channel at night off the Red Sea island of Kamaran after a 6000tonne Liberlan registered vessel reported It had come under machine gun and shell fire, Lloyds Shipping intelligence said yesterday. The island lies
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 113 14 Yesterday's prices followed by the difference on previous session's close: AT T «2% Beth Steel 3914 Caterp Tra 56 i Chrysler 20% Coca-Cola 77% Conti. Oil 37 Dow Chem 4214 ta Dresser 42* ft Du Pont 133 —1% E. Kodak 84% —1 Exxon 62% —1 Firestone 23 y.
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    • 25 14 UPI Closing Dow Jones averages yest?rday: Industrials 987.8? (off 11.88); transport 235.46 (off 2.05>; utilities 108.C3 (off 0.51); stocks 321.60 (ofr 3.26). UPI.
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    • 116 14 Closing prices (In yen) on the TSE yesterday: Ajiromcto 527 13 C. I tot. 327 5 Dowa Mining 164 12 Hitachi 250 7 Japan Mall Ste 235 10 Komatsu 342 13 Meljl Selka 4111 7 Mitjul-Toat.su 78 2 Onoda Cement 104 1 Shiseldo 1410 40 Sumitomo Bank 294 7
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    • 82 14 Closing prices on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS Bearer 3260 UB8 Registered 550 2 SBC 410 2 Credit Suisse 2740 Swissair B. 627 1 Swiss Reinsur 2545 55 Winterthur B. 1950 20 Zurich Insur. 6850 Juvena B. 178 4 Nestle B. 3525 Interfood B. 2500 4 50 Ctba-Geigy
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    • 79 14 Closing prices (in francs) on the Paris Boui&e yesterday: Parlbas 157 unch Foncler 305 +4 Pr In temps 41.50 4-0.50 Bull 29.75 +0.80 Royal Dutch 262.30 4 3.40 Mlchelln 1272 +29 COE 277 4 6 Thomson 189 +12.50 CPP 108.90 4 1.90 Rhone 82 +3.60 Air 326.90 +6 90
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    • 64 14 AAR 95 98 Aberfoyle 08 09 <i Aust Oev 22 26 BH South 105 Nil B'ville 126 129 Cons Gold 145 150 Abmlnco 39 Nil Cudgeon 26 28 Cons Rutlle 07 09'. CRA 300 305 East Copper Nil 01 Hamersley 280 Nil Hill 50 Nil 07' IMC 07 I«
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  • 62 14 Reuter Vienna, Wednesday. Austria's foreign trade deficit reached an alltime high in November 1976, up 139 per cent compared with November 1975, the government announced yesterday. Business sources blamed the sharp rise on post-recession stock replenishment, a sudden wave of expensive car imports, and stockpiling of crude
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  • 68 14 UPI Moscow, Wednesday— The Soviet Union yesterday announced price Increases for taxi and air tares and an assortment of goods, including books, glass and carpets. Th* Soviet state prices committee said at the same time that basic commodities were remaining stable and some types
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  • 875 15 Washington Post Washinfton, Wednesday Premature babies weighing less than 900 grams, who as recently as two years ago were generally considered beyond saving, now have as high as a two-out-of-three chance of surviving if they are born at certain major US medical centres, according
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    • 109 15 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, Mdm Kok Choo Tin of No 127, South Bridge Road Singapore, have applied for a Beer House Second Class licence in respect of premises No. i 27, South Bridge Road Singapore, and that this application will be heard in Court 5, Subordinate Courts,
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    • 614 16  -  WE SURE CAN WIN The Singapore fans are getting more tickle- minded and more emotional. They wanted Choo Seng Quee to come in and when he is back for barely three months, he is asked to be replaced. However, the situation docs not really call for
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    • 443 16  -  ERIC PAINE (Snr.) FAS's reaction to the petition by soccer fans to replace coach Choo Seng Quee with Trevor Hartley was. as expected, dryly received except for a few words uttered in Seng Quee's defence. After being rejected by FAS for the past
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    • 346 16 I was astonished to read the New Nation report (Dec. 10) by Philip Tap on the Singapore v Zbrojovke Brno match. I expect Joe Doral of the Straits Times sports column felt the same way. For those who were not at the match
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    • 223 16  -  E.A. DE CONCEICAO 81nce the Football Association of Singapore started to make preparations for the World Cup preliminaries to be held In Singapore early next year, many problems have come to light. But the FAS have failed to solve tnem. Coach Choo Seng Quee
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    • 195 16  -  K.C. LAU Bince Choo Seng Quee took over the National team, there is no doubt that he has still not been able to worn out an effective forward line after' failures in trying some of our newcomers like Ahmad Sayuti and Jacob Chacko. He is now
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    • 224 17  -  GOLFING u/ivh Lee Trevino People ask if I play every shot to set up the next one. The answer is no. Sometimes I'm hoping there won't be a next one on that particular hole. If you don't hit your driver into position for the
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    • 920 17  -  It may lead to cancellation of tourney SQUASH by Eric Cooper Perhaps the Christmas and New Year festivities have taken pride of place as far as our young players are concerned, but whatever the reason there are very few entries to date for the Junior tournament
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    • 70 17 East Berlin, Wednesday Annelie Erhardt, East Germany's 1972 Olympic gold medallist and world record holder for the women's 10& metres hurdles at 12.69 sec. has retired from active sport because of a back Injury. The 26-year-old-photo laboratory assistant received the Injury at an athletics meeting hi Dresden last
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    • 218 17 Reuter Manila, Wednesday The chairman of the Asia golf circuit, Leonardo "Skip" Gulnto of the Philippines, yesterday announced that the 1977 10-leg circuit starting next month would nave a toal prize money of U*****,000 (551,092,000). The purse Is US$75,000 (S|180,000) more than last year's
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    • 525 18  -  By PHILIP TAN Malaysian Airlines System, Inspired by a trip to Australia in March, hammered Guthrie Waugh 6-3 in a Business Houses League First Division soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. MAS team manager David Mok revealed that the company have been
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    • 463 18 Reuter Melbourne, Wednesday The touring Pakistan cricketers have accused their hosts, Australia, of waging a psychological warfare against them In the local Press. The Pakistan team manager. Colonel ShuJa-Ud-Dln, has claimed this weapon creates an unfair advantage for the Australian players. Colonel Shuja made his
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    • 418 18  -  By PHILIP TAN A well planned calen dar has been drawn up by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association for this year. The season takes an early plunge with the Single Age Group meet for the Under-8s and Under-12s on January 17, 18, 20 and 22. SASA
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    • 154 18 By FAIRWAY Ipoh, Wednesday Wasawnippi showed his liking for a soft track in a trial here this morning. Ridden by H.H. Chan, the Warwick six-year-old was hard held over 600m in 37.8 accompanied by Sabre (Abdul Rahman). Heavy rain fell yesterday, and fast work was
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    • 266 18 Reuter Melbourne, Wednesday The four top seeds In the Australian Open tennis all notched straight sets wins yesterday to move into the third round of the tournament. American Arthur Ashe. 33, Wimbledon winner two years ago and the third seed In the Open, moved into
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    • 430 19  -  Luton 4 Chelsea 0 Match played at Luton on December 29. Match of the Week By MALCOLM FOLLEY Daily Express Luton sent the chill warning to Chelsea that promotion is by no means a formality. And Chelsea s inexperience was at times as clear as the crisp,
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    • 567 19  -  By BRIAN MILLER The National volleyball team, who have just returned from a successful playing tour of Malaysia, have set their sights on taking the gold at this year's South East Asia Games. In fact, they have already started their pre[>aration and Intend
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    • 26 19 London. Wednesday Swansea City beat Crewe Alexandra 3 0 in an Eng l lish football League Division Pour match played at Swansea last night.
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    • 455 19 London, Wednesday The English soccer season, disrupted by weeks or snow and frost, may be extended into June. But England's preparations tor vital World Cup qualifying games will not be affected. The English League said that despite the pile-up of fixtures, they will
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