New Nation, 17 January 1977

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  • 21 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Monday, January 17, 1977 No. 1849 Price 25 cents M C (P) 262/1/77 r MAV (t"5) NAT lON COMMENT
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  • 393 1  -  —says Changi fire victim- By Bharathi Mohan Villagers fled in panic as lire and explosions erupted at Peng Ghee Road in Changi early today. Raging flam— destroyed four stac-roofed huts. bat quick action by firemen pcereirted the fire from spreading. The gutted huts housed two tailor shops,
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  • 165 1 UPI London, Monday—The world of "regeneration man" where humane may be capable of regrowing limbs severed In accidents could arrive by the year 2000. according to American scientists. Prof. Tom Stonier, 40. who Is working at Bradford University's school of science and society, said: "We know that
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  • 59 1 Reuter New York, Monday Two Americans hare been arrested on charges of conspiring with a 80 riet Embassy official In Mexico City to pass seerets to the Soviet Union, the FBI said. The FBI said Christopher Boyce. 23. was arrested ta Los Anseles yesterday and Andrew Lee,
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  • 216 1 QUESTION i Stability and confidence of the foreign investors have proven essential to the welfare of Singapore. But the degree of stability seems to be In dispute between you, your administration on the one hand, and some news media foreign. Do you think that a
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 283 2 A local marketing executive has pointed out the lack of proper surveillance of taxis and shops at the Singapore Airport. Mr. Wong Boon Fatt, a marketing trainee executive with South Eastern Development Engineering Service Pte. Ltd., said there is no problem of lack
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  • 331 2 Stricter checks in European cities Singaporeans visiting Europe, especially in Amsterdam and London, are now being thor o u g hly checked by Customs officers there. This is because of the recent spate of arrests of Singaporeans carrying drugs into European countries. Airline sources said the
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  • 32 2 A seminar on ICC Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits conducted by Mr. Bernard Wheble, will be held at the Mandarin Hotel on Jan. 31 from 9 a.m. to noon.
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  • 46 2 The Registry of Vehicles has abolished the late payment fee of S3 for renewal of a driving licence. Previously, a late payment fee of $3 was payable for renewal of the licence If it was renewed 10 days after its expiry.
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  • 118 2 Prices moved marginally lower In quiet trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minutes today. The only exception was Kuala Lumpur Kepong which advanced seven cents to $1.25 following news that the company intends to sell Kepong estate for $28.9 million. Builnesa Done First
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  • 46 2 The University of Singapore will hold a 15sesslon course on the dynamics of supervision (theory and practice) in the Economics Department, beginning tonight. Lectures will be held every Tuesday and Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The fee is $85. For details, ring *****6.
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  • 316 2 Two hundred and fifty-one people died in traffic accidents from January to November last year, according to police statistics. The deaths resulted from 241 accident*. Another 2948 people were injured in 7288 accidents, of which 2187 were serious. But the number of
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  • 214 2 Errant motorists have paid about $1.87 million in composition fines for violating the Area licensing Scheme introduced In June 1975. More than 37,400 offenders have been recorded in the scheme's 19 months of operation. Last year alone, 25,300 motorists drove into the Restricted Zone between 7.30
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  • 8 2 Police reported 67 accidents yesterday. Four were serious.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 350 2 To to and Biy Sweep results BIG SWEEP drawn at Buklt Tlmah on Saturday: I—No. *****1 a—No. *****7 3—No. *****7 Starters: No*. *****1. *****9. *****9. *****8. *****8. *****4. *****2. *****1. *****8. *****0. *****8. *****7. Consolation: Nos. *****4. *****9. *****5. *****0. *****7. *****8. *****1, *****9. *****2. *****5. BIG SWEEP drawn on
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    • 460 2 AT THE CINEMA THE OMEN: 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, Blllle Whltelaw, Harvey Stephens. Odeon: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 0.30 p.m. DOCTORZHIVAGO: An epic from Boris Pasternak's novel of modern
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  • 1289 3 The following it a transcript of an intarviaw with tha Prima Miniatar, Mr. Laa Kuan Yaw, by Dr. Winfrad Sharhu of tha Carman National Talavilion, at tha Istana, on Jan. 8. WINFRED SHARLAU: Mr. Prime Minister, the People's Action Party not only got an absolute
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  • 105 3 The $12 million project to redevelop Woodlands Immigration and Customs checkpoint Is already half-completed. When completed by the end of this year, the new checkpoint will have improved facilities to cope with the projected dally average of 40.000 people through The proposed checkpoint will have a main
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  • 408 4  -  By Teresa Ooi The Education Ministry has set up a high-powered Planning and Review Branch to keep tabs on the whole educational machinery in Singapore. The branch, which vu formed after almost six month! of preparation, will provide important feedback Information on the working* at
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  • 136 4 Singapore -will soon have the first Taiwanese bank here operating under a restricted branch licence. It will be the first foreign bank tp be granted such a licence in about four years. The bank to scheduled to start operations either In late February or
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  • 32 4 A labourer. Tan Kwee Eng. 43. died of head Injuries whan ha aHppad and fan Into a ahallow drain while on hla way to .a coflCa ahep at Jurong yaaterday.
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  • 237 4 •SYMBOL OP NATION' The Education Ministry has sent a stern reminder to all schools on the procedures of flag raising, lowering and pledging ceremonies. From this year, the lfVntotry has ruled that "at toe singing of the National iCntnem both the flag f twmi flag are to be
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  • 38 4 The Punuol Point Youth Group Canoe Club will hold Its aeeond canoe carnival at Paalr ltlae on Sunday at BJO ajm. The aim la to ptx>mote aea aetlTttlea and a lent* of adventure among Singapore youths.
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  • 207 4  -  By Wang Look Fung A $1 million brain scanner has beep waiting for shipment to Singapore for two years because a special room to house it Is yet to be constructed at the Tan Tock Seng General Hospital. The highly sophisticated machine, which la fully computerised,
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  • 206 4 Reuter Tripoli, Monday The Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Orm, has invited Libyan leadei Colonel Muammar A 1 Gaddafi to visit Malaysia, the Arab Revolution News Agency, ARNA, said. Datok Huncin, who Is on a four-day official visit to Libya, also Invited
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  • 160 4 The Harveys all have it —John and sherry Mr. John Harvey and the (our jeijeratloni before him have two things in common the same first name and the sherry basinets. The leag chain began la lTMwheaa Mr. Jehn Harvey started a distillery at Bristol. England, to produce a sherry known
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  • 153 4  -  By K.K. Fong The $700 million new town plan for Pek San Teng has been rejected by the Government. An official of the Kwone Wal Stew Pek Ban leng, a federation of 16 Cantonese associations. said the plan was rejected last month. "We received
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  • 42 4 Mr. L. A. Rajrner will talk on ASIAN from the Investor** Point of View at the Lion Ctab of Singapore (Boat) luncheon meeting to be held at the Hotel ICareo Pok) on Wednesday from I*- 45 p.m. to S p.m.
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  • 292 5 Reuter AP Colombo, Monday Nearly a month of severe Industrial unrest which crippled Sri Lanka's railways, docks and public services ended yesterday when the remainder of the country's striking trade unions called off their industrial action. The rail unions, whose imund for am
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  • 143 5 URI Lahore, Monday.—Hie Pakistan AlUanee (PNA) asked Prime Minister IftiHlkar All Bhutto yesterday to postpone niMWi elections In the troubled Betaehlstaa prorlnoe otherwise the newly taned Opposition bloc woiuq DOTCOvi vnem. PNA proodsnt Mantold Lahore, cmNal of PanJab prorlnoe. The leader of
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  • 158 5 UPI failed to reach an aareement during talks on the dispute arising out of the sharing of ths River Ganges water and the TiwHan delegation left here yesterday without any comment on the outcome of the talks. i*xiton leader Argiculture Jag] Ivan Ram, during a
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  • 155 5 AP Washington, Monday The "honeymooi Is about over, simply because the Indians are beginning to realise they are being used** by the Russians, former US Ambassador William B. Saxbe said yesterday. In copyrighted inter- ▼Jew in US New* and World Report,
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  • 153 5 Reuter London. Monday Belfast could be turned into another Beirut by the withdrawal of Britain's 14,000 troope. Northern Ireland Secretary Boy Mason said to* an article spenlsllj written for circulation in the ruling Labour Party fmt trades ntn| Mr. Mason sought to rebut claims that a British
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  • 243 6 Reuter Jerusalem, Monday Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin yesterday pledged that Israel will make every effort to bring Palfstlnlan guerilla leader Abu Daoud to trial. Last week's release by a Paris court of Abu Daoud, who the Israelis believe organised the massacre of
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  • 96 6 Reuter New Delltt. Monday.— A Japanese entry "aim and Ido" directed by Tadaahl final, won the coveted Golden Peacock for the best future film at the end of the twoweek Sixth Indian International Film festival yesterday. The 11-member Jury for the sixth film festival was headed by
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  • 40 6 AP Nantes (Franea), Monday A W year-old French schoolteacher Care birth to quadruplets an Saturday, and both mother and hfMfi tiro boys and two ftrls ware reported In food condition, fi Jeanneau, Tut Of a ttoree-year- fc/araE
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  • 535 6 If US exerts pressure: Sadat UPI Reuter London, Monday Egyptian Presisldent Anwar Sadat said In an exclusive Interview with a Dally Telegraph correspondent that peace In the Middle Bast could be brought about "In one month 11 America were disposed to exert full presgure."
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  • 337 6 UPI Beirut, Monday—There wUI be no peace In the Middle Kan until U8 President-elect Jimmy Carter draw* up a clearcut American policy to fill the void leit by the failure of step-by-step diplomacy. a high-rank-ing official of the conaervatlve Falangist Party •aid In an Interview
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  • 85 6 Cairo, Monday Arab Heads of Stale will meat bare In March to discuss the creation of a Palestinian state In the Oasa Strip and the West Bank of the River Jordan, Tunisian Foreign Minister Habib Chattt said yesterday. Mr. Chattl, chairman of a conference of Arab
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  • 47 6 Reuter Oak), Monday British General Sir Jobn Sharp, the Commander-in-Chief of NATO's forces In Northern Europe, died on Friday from a cerebal haemorrhage, it was announced yesterday He was M. Gen. Sharp was appointed commander of the Western allies, Sorthern Fanes in September 1974. Reuter.
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  • 30 6 Reuter Manila. Monday An hour-long fire gutted a textile market In Manila's Tondo District last night, causing property damage estimated at four million peso ($1.6 million), police said.
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  • 175 6 UPI TODAY is Monday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 1977 with 348 to follow. 188 MOON Is approaching its new phase. THE MORNING BTABB are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STARB are Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. American
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  • 74 6 Sallana (Pen), Monday,—The foolbaß crowd and the two teams, wearing Mack armkanda, wore skoorilng a ■mate's eOoneo hen In asebboit of one of their ofQotata when his relee suddenly boomed owl over the loudspeaker. "I appreciate the gootWN," Mr. lucresle Seen said. "Ki rm not dead." gasko
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  • 576 6  -  UIERKH GEORGE GORDON'S Malcolm Wallop, a cowboy aristocrat, came to town last week witn a plan vo save the Wild West. And he might oo Britain a bit oi good whue he's at It. for Mr. Wallop, a descendant of the hingllsh aristocracy, has
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    • 143 6 WEATHER Saa rrtndie* Cloudy, 8-5C. Headline: W eat her-underground split. Rome Sunny, 13-2C. Headline: Berllngoer: U«e austerity to ctauige the nation. Tekye Sunny, Minus 9-1C. Headline: Japan to set 12-mile sea territory. New York Clear, Minus 4.4-minus 0.56C. Headline: Brseslnski revises staffs and systoms at security agency. Hong Kong Fair,
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  • 144 7 Reuter Washington. MondayPresident Ford wiU send his final budget to Congress today, but it will have little If any impact on government .spending because three days later Mr. Ford wiU be an exPresident. The Budget Is for the financial year which begins on
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  • 444 7 Mission a 'dead duck' —Smith He warns of a possible Russian takeover Reuter New York, Monday Rhodeslan Prime Minister lan Smith was quoted by the New York Times last Saturday as saying that the current southern .African mission by Britain s Ivor Richard, chairman of the Geneva conference on Rhodesia.
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  • 217 7 UPI Tokyo, Monday The political comeback of purged Chinese VicePremier Teng Hsiao-ping may be drawing near, a Japanese newspaper reported from Shanghai today. The Malnlchl Shimbun said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman made the remark on Mr. Teng's political fate for the first time in Shanghai while
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  • 131 7 Reuter Jakarta, Monday. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday there had been on new developments on the possible normalisation of relations between Indonesia and China. He was commenting on reports that the cause of normalisation might have been advanced by a message from Chinese leader
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  • 68 7 Reuter Johannesburg, Monday The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has reported that 10 Cuban soldiers were killed in a clash between Angola government forces and guerillas Of the South west Africa Peoples Organisation (BWAPO). The state-owned radio said the light last Friday confirmed there was tension between
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  • 176 7 UPI London, Monday Soviet warplanes 14 months ago strafed and rocketed a Soviet destroyer whose crew had mutinied and tried to sail to political asylum in Sweden, killing more than 40 men aboard, the newspaper News of the World said yesterday. The newspaper said about
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  • 221 7 .—Reuter Kuwait, Monday—The Qatar Oil Minister. Bhelkh Abdel Aziz bin Khalifa AlThanl, arrived here yesterday to begin a tour of Oulf oil exporting countries. Sheikh Abdel Axis, who Is present chairman of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said h« planned to visit Iraq
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    • 32 7 V YC The new gourmet restaurant at Goodwood Park Hotel. '*•••«>• Vx '-W a*# At the n m< m i HURRY C. K.TANC LIMITED 310, ORCHARD ROAD, SINGAPORE 9. TEL: *****0 (5 LINES)
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  • 437 8 Neither happy nor embarrassing situations are always of a country's own making, and It Is France's misfortune to have suffered the brief but painful visit of Abu Daoud. The Palestinian leader Is on the Interpol wanted list for allegedly masterminding the massacre of 11 Israeli
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 32 8 "That's a goods train," a mother explained when her preschool eon asked why the carriages had no windows. It's for carrying goods." "Then who will carry the bads?"
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    • 45 8 One annual national competition has been receiving fewer entries each successive year, leaving the organisers baffled, suggested a regular competitor: maybe It's because of your prises: Bach year, the return air ticket Is for a country cloeer and cloeer to Singapore."
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  • 439 8 r VOICE OF THE PRESS L NANYANG SIANG PAU Only four strikes, the lowest record In five years, took place In Singapore In 1*76. Statistics released by the Ministry of Labour show that these strikes involved 1576 employees and accounted for
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  • 497 8  -  MONDAY WITH LU LIN REUTENS LU LIN REUTENS Cne of the first things I learned as a schoolgirl from those saccharlned story books was that promises were as sacred as oaths taken with hand on the Bible (I went to a mission school).
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  • 171 8  -  R.P. SEIARMA Chief Engineer, Holiday Inn, Singapore I. I refer to your article, Big Save Energy Drive by Hotel <NN, Jan. 5). An energy conservation programme In our organisation was first Initiated In 1975 following the energy crisis. We achieved five per cent
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  • 106 8  -  TAY SOON HOE I refer to the letter Visitor (NN, Dec. retarding the unsatisfactory service provided by taxi operators from the Jurong Kechil/Buklt Tlmah Road taxi stand. Taxi stands equipped with telephones are being set up In or near residential areas and business centres to make It
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  • 720 9  -  ...but the PUB read-your-meters campaign has not caught on By Judith Holmberg I always groan when my monthly PUB bill arrives, but when it showed $39.60 last August, (my bill never exceeded $32.90) I felt it was time for action rather than curses.
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  • 327 9 Electricity meters register consumption in kilowatts per hour, and 1 KWH is regarded as one unit. Fractions of a unit, usually recorded on a little red dial, are ignored. Consumption of electricity Is registered •a Are dials. Bead from highest to lowest, that Is from left to
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  • 373 9  -  The Last IVoi d by J.J. Last Word today takes a squint-eyed look at the news that have been reported, or mlsreported, in our newspapers: Police carllet this month reported that 1978 saw the fewest rape cases In Singapore in the last three years.
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      • 183 10 / 11 I am a trainee police constable In the Police Academy. I am very timid and refrain from the boxing lessons. My colleagues and instructors call me a coward. Am I really a coward? I am ashamed of myself. SELF-HATER. Dear Self-hater, You are not a
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      • 179 10 / 11  -  P.T. I am 19 and hare been going out with girls (or the last (our years. Pre* vlously I was not serious about them but now I (eel that I must take girls seriously. For the last ■even months I have been trying
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      • 149 10 / 11 I have been working as a house detective in a department store for about four months and have so far arrested nine people for shoplifting goods worth a total of $200. A Mr. X arrested only three people, two of which were passed to him and
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      • 214 10 / 11  -  MARGARET CHEE I am 15 and want to know what to look forward to In life. Somehow I get the impression that marriage is the only objective of a woman. Surely there must be more to life than that. Something more promising and beautiful?
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    • 253 10 / 11 Should I accept a man's first Invitation to go out? And If X do, should I pay my share of the expenses? Will this make him uneasy? ELBIK Dear Elsie, If yea like the man and want to get to knew him better, ef
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    • Article, Illustration
      97 10 / 11 A simple cover op in towelling that can be worn after a swim, tennis, a shower or just for lounging around. The matching long towel (can be bought separately) is used as a headscarf here by Adriana. But it looks equally good draped round the neck. In
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    • 204 10 / 11 I'm 19 and two years •go I started corresponding with a boy. I came to know of him through a magazine. We started going oat on weekends and gradually I became his steady. After some time he encouraged me to go out with other boys.
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    • Grapevine
      • 118 10 / 11 Eating out in what'a left of Chinatown 1* still an experience. Despite the massive urban renewal that's going on, the place is still the same. On a visit there one night, I found that exotica like snakes soup and flying fox brew are still
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      • 44 10 / 11 Who says that drunk men Ret amorous? From the mouth of the drunk man himself who «u accused of overstepping the limit when drunk: At that time, I was more Interested In getting rid of the discomfort than In buttons and bows!
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      • 101 10 / 11 I dont know whether it's anything to do with the Keep Singapore Clean Campaign, but have you noticed that we hardly have any dog droppings on our city pavements unlike the pavements elsewhere in the world where one had better
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      • 125 10 / 11 People certainly hare queer taste* and I do not mean the well-publicised tastes tor bear's paws and monkey brains I Nb, what rm talking about is the mors ordinary and still un-heard-of to me at least, combination* like buttered tout and sliced bananas which
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      • 91 10 / 11 And talking about exotic foods, the Caucasian couple who visited Hong Kong with their pet poodle certainly did not expect this exotic dish. The Straits Times reported that the couple with their dog went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner and mimed to the waiter that
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      • 23 10 / 11 D.J. Whodunit? A mystery person has boon putting pin-up msgs lines among books In a public library In Staffordshire, England.—DJ.
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  • 934 12  -  Today the Thames smells 'fresh and cheerful' By Tom Lambert Los Angeles Times London, Monday Pausing beside the Thames ohe day In 1357, King Edward in recoiled, his monarchal nose twisting In revulsion at what he called "the fumes and abominable stanches," arising from
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 539 12 Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address Tel: FILL IN MISSING LITTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW mßtmmmCut along dotted Knot i CLUES FOR DP-1 1. Very cold or unfriendly 2. omens hove their meanings; which ore worthy off attention 3. To ghro damning
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    • 526 12 JACKPOT HITS $7000 o No entrant submitted a solution which corresponded in all respects with the set of answers held by the judges to be the most apt and accurate in the New Nation Moneywords Contest 'DN\ One entrant submitted a solution which differed at one point from the solution
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  • 1093 13  -  Back-of-the-paper backgrounder Pro-Arab policy shows in Daoud's case By John Vinocur AP Paris, Monday When France set free Abu Daoud, the suspected Palestinian guerilla leader and gave him a first class plane ride out of trouble, the government was once again implementing a pro-Arab policy
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  • 467 13 UPI Tokyo, Monday "It Is like a bad student complaining that a student with a high mark shouldn't have had that much and demanding that the good student give up some of his high mark." The remark comes from a shipbuilder who feels the
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  • 339 14 r -J Business Neus and Views LONDON Initial encouraged by both a very strong gilt market and by the proposal stimulatory US moves, last week's equity market soon ran out of steam and then weakened d£ily until Thursday. On that day, however, the Bank
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  • 187 14 Closing prices on the 8yuw>y atock Ucchange at li.30 ajn. (Australian unwj tnu morning.: aCI 1M 16O AIX; JO 24 Ampol Pet 07 AMI 11» AMI 123 130 ban* «aw 500 B04 Bramble* 140 142 B11P 160 150 Boral 100 108 CBA 201 216 CSR 310 CIO 386 300
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  • 224 14 FRANKFURT The strength displayed by equities in the fist week of 1977 initially continued during the period under review. The market was primarily moving on ample liquidity among institution* and benefitting from the bullish bond market. In the course of the week profit-taking set in
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  • 497 14 r ZURICH The positive market trend of the poet few weeks weakened somewhat in the period under review. Amid turnover that ■bowed little change over the preceding week the average level of quotations Inched up sUfhtty by 0.5 per cent The mood of
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  • 320 14 Reuter Monday—Prime Minister Glullo Andreotti left yesterday for two days of talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, an essential part of his government's drive to explain Italy's complex economic crisis to the world and, hopefully, to obtain major International loans. Mr. Andreotti
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  • 71 14 AP Caracas, Monday. Venezuela, South America's largest oil producer, has officially notified -the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) of Its new oil price Increase and the volume of production it plans to maintain during 1977. In making the weekend announce ment, Vale n 11 e
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  • 307 14 PARIS The balance sheet for last week is favourable. The consolidation that was necessary, as stated last week, has taken place in good conditions. The necessary profittaking has been absorbed without problem and in this new technical phase, volume has fallen which is another
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  • 98 14 Reuter Lisbon, Monday—The Lisbon Stock Exchange will resume full operations on Feb 28 for the first time since the 1974 coup but reopened for wing dictatorship was overthrown, Portugal's socialist government has announced. It said the move would "stimulate the capital market, which is so Important for
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 285 14 Crossword 7 Confined 8 Head or plant 9 Furious action* 10 Ascends 11 Pillar of a kind 1?. Sherbets IS Venture upon Iff Author of youth books 21 Farm animals 2ft Toil 27 It. city 28 Kitchen gadget 29 Music leader SO Indian 31 Go: poet. 32 Courtroom declaration 33
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  • 813 15  -  COMICAL LOOK AT MAN'S FIRST STRIDE INTO TRANSPORTATION *jr Gregory Jensen UPI Nottingham, Monday You're pot supposed to giggle at a scholarly museum exhibition, but when the subject is the history of the bicycle its hard not to smile. Recently, the Castle Museum in
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  • 376 15  -  F Motorcyt »u Lee Chiu San A new king now reigns in the motorcycling world. The mighty Kawasaki Z9OO, humbler of hot sports cars, vaporiser of rear tyres, has abdicated Its title to an awesomely potent newcomer the Kawasaki ZlOOO.
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  • 416 15  -  F \lotorinq In s You've owned your car for some time now and, to date, It haa given you no mechanical headaches, but suddenly one mornlpg it refuses to start. It can happen to any one of us and it's probably
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  • 521 16 An Olympic star with no place to train New York, Monday five months after reaching the pinnacle of track and field in the Montreal Olympics, US gold medallist Edwin Moses cannot even find a place to train. lines rise from the obscurity of tiny Morehouse College tn
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  • 546 16  -  M AKTIAL ARTS by Wilfred Shimmen The Singapore Karate Federation bare urged all their affiliates to nominate only hard working officials for the annual elections on January 27. A circular to aU ifflUates recentty said: "The time baa now come to elect a
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  • 45 16 Reuter Ttuu for Britain's {porld Ssft OOQDdI (WBCI light-naavywelfht champion John Conteh to denw—g WwH OX UTvrpOOi have fallen through, promoter Manny OoodaU aald yesterday. wfete.,' s Angel Cnallo of Argennow due to go to pone off«r» with the fight JSS'-ite.
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  • 199 16 AP a two-metre putt that would hare won it outright, converted a 22metre birdie putt on the fourth extra hole and beat veteran Gene littler tan a sudden-death BSTSSfSSftS# la-Tucson Open golftournament Lletake, a hard-hitting 99-gear-old, had the lead until he three-putted the 79nd hole,
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  • 133 17 AP Kuala Lumpur, Monday—The Badminton Association of Malaysia decided yesterday to skip the European circuit and the All-England' championships this year, association president Mobamed Khlr Johari said. The association will concentrate on the inaugural World championships in Malmo, Sweden, from May 3 to 8, he said.
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  • 409 17  -  By BRIAN MILLER Thirteen year old Wayne Bosley Is certainly going places as far as golf Is concerned. At the Singapore Island Country Club yesterday, Wayne, son of Singapore amateur champion Bill. beat golfers twice his age to win the SO-hole Police Cup with
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  • 288 17 Reuter Tel Aviv, Monday. The International Mccablah Games Committee (IMOG) are appealing to the International swimmlng, tnil tennis federations to allow South Africa to compete In the 10th Maccabiar Game* known as "The Jewish Olympics"— In Israel next July. This was announced yesterday
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  • 46 17 Reuter Rome, Monday Guinea beat Ghana 2-0 In a World Cup soocer qualifying match playoff here yesterday (halftime: 3-0.). Scorers: Papa Camara (2nd minute), Seldouba Sylla (31st). Guinea will play Togo In the second round of the African qualifying tournament next month.
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  • 144 17 Philadelphia, Monday— Defending champion Sharif Khan of Canada beat Geoff Hunt of Australia IS 9, U 15, 15 10, 15 IS yesterday to win the North American Open squash racket* championship for the eighth time in nine years. Khan, a 33 year-old native of
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  • 144 17 Montreal, Monday—A five-man committee appointed by the Olympics Installations Board will Immediately Mi* In studying the future of the Olympics mue, which was originally build to bouse athletes taking part In the 1076 Olympic Games here, board president Claude Rouleau said yesterday. Bpeaklnc at a Press conference at
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  • 705 18 RACING Scrutineer Trainer Allan Yap Pow Leng went a step nearer to winning his first major race when his Gentleman Agreement shot Into the Lion City Cup limelight with a slashing win in the Class 1 Division 3 1200 m race at Buklt Timah on
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  • 473 18 United Press International Hollywood, Monday Chris Evert, playing before a friendly hometown crowd tfcls week for the first time in three years,, defeated Margaret Court 6-3, 6-4 yesterday to win the Virginia Slims of Florida tennis tournament. Evert, who collected a first prise of
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  • 366 18 Kua Hong Ma made the running, leading Into the straight with Timely closing In, followed tar Pacific Elm,. Right Knight moved up gaining ground steadily Timely hit the front at the distance to win by IVi lengths from Right fcnlghi. Third was
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  • 187 18 Reuter London, Monday. England s Roger bit ley nas emerged as a ciear candidate aa the lobbying oeglna xor the captaincy of the British Lions Rugby Union team to tour New Zealand later this year. On the strength of hla inspiring periorm&nce at i
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  • 756 19  -  By PHILIP TAN National soccer coach Choo Seng Quee should field Quah Kim Song in the friendly match between Singapore and Neuchatel Xamax FC from Switzerland at the National Stadium tonight (klckoff Bpm). Kim Song, who returned to the Singapore ■quad last week, should go
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  • 730 19 Bydney, Monday. The Pakistan cricketers have nicknamed medium pacer Imran Khan "Niszl" after his tremendous bowling performances in the third Test. "Nlsrt" is a punJab word meaning fierce tribesman and if th* Australian batsmen's attitude in the current Teat means anything, Imran is well named.
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  • 258 19 Suzuki riders got this year's motorsport programme off to a roaring start by sweeping to victory In all nine races in the first round of the Castrol Motorcross championship held at Senoko yesterday. Star of the day was teenager Peter Gilbert, who won the Open
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  • 64 20 AH FOOK: The American professor who revealed that people change Jobs more because of personal grouses against their employers than for money was merely confirming the job-hop-pers' claim that money was never their motive, •m LIN: If what Dr. Meyer said is true, employers can help avoid a
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    • 859 20 r TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.H OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by KUDUMBA MALAR (T/r) it Include* ln- tervlews with two women bus conductors. 3J0 D1AKY OF EYENT8 (T) 3J8 GENERAL HOSPITAL LIS SCIENCE REPORT <r) IN INTERMISSION AM OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by DECEMBER Psychiatrist BRIDE: :IN NEWS IN BRIEF LIS
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    • 98 20 Carol Atkins A FAMILY AT WAB: Two Father*. (Ch. 5, 9.55 p.m.). In November 1945, unexpected news takes ad win Ash ton to Germany where he comes face-to-face with the aftermath of the war. Starring Carol Atkins. Anne Baxter LOVE 8TOBY: All my Tomorrows. (Ch. 5 10.45 pjn. In colour).
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