New Nation, 18 January 1977

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  • 19 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Tuesday, January 18, 1977 No. 1850 Price 25 cents NIC (P) 262/1/77 7=r~ NI'.IV NATION COMMENT,
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  • 356 1 'Very high' death toll feared as scores of commuters are crushed by fallen bridge Reuter Sydney, Tuesday A "very high" death toll was feared after a crowded commuter train crashed into a bridge in the Sydney suburb of Granville today. Police initially reported "at least eight" were
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  • 125 1 Gentle hands and comforting words helped to soothe the agony of Singapore Bus Service driver. Qoh Chwee Tteck, 30, moments after he was freed from his bus In an accident yesterday. Passers-by and fellow SBS bus crews had to use crowbars to extricate Goh who was
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  • 152 1 AP Barcelona, Tuesday—A ITS Navy launch carrying more than IN sailor* and marines collided with a Bpanlsh freighter In the darkness of Barcelona harbour early yesterday, overturning the launch and killing at least 24 of the American servicemen, the US Navy said. An
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  • 165 1 UPI Reuter Bangkok, Tuesday Malaysian and Thai forces have taken 300 prisoners In their fourday Joint assault on communist terrorist hideouts In Bouth Thailand, official sources said here today. All 300 were driven out of the jungle less than 32 km north of the Malaysian border.
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  • 61 1 Tel Aviv, Tuesday. Some 400 Arab guerillas yesterday began the third month of a hunger strike to demand pri-soner-of-war status and in protest at conditions in Israel's Ashkelon Jail, south of here. The prisoners, from the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank of Jordan, are. refusing solid
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  • 325 2  -  Careless and inconsiderate drivers head PDS list By Rav Dhaliwal Careless and inconsiderate driving top the list of traffic offences by Singapore motorists. This is the observation made by the Registry of Vehicles from the results of the Points Demerit System Introduced in March 1975. Last
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  • 381 2 London, Tuesday A bomb hoax Interrupted e x t r a dltion proceedings against Jim Slater and Richard Tarllng yesterday, providing excitement to an otherwise lacklustre trial. Chlet counsel for Slater. Mr. John Matthew, was making submissions lor ihe defence when news of the
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  • 359 2  -  CALL BY TOURISTS, TOUR OPERATORS AND HAWKERS By Peter Ong Tour operators, hawkers and scores of tourists have suggested that Singapore's unique "pasar malams" be resited in under-utilised fringe car parks instead of being phased out of existence. "These night markets are a
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  • 115 2 Prices Improved marginally in quiet trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minutes this morning. BUSINESS DONE First Section C. Sugars (10) 1.21, (2) 1.22, (3) 1.23, (1) 1.24. Sett.: (1) 1.22, (1)1.23. 88. Sett.: (1) 1.25. Haw Par (22) 1.17, (2) 1.18, (1)
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  • 174 2 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Asean heads of go v e r n m ent may meet again this year for their second summit conference as the organisation approaches its 10th anniversary. Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Hamzah Abu Samah who leaves today for the Third Asean Economic
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 219 2 WHAT'S ON SINGAPORE BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE mobile unit will be at Specialist Centre, 10 a.m. to 430 p.m. MANOHAR AND HIS DRAMA COMPANY present a classical play, Mallkapoor, at National Theatre, 7.30 p.m. ISLAMIC EXHIBITION at Victoria Memorial Hall, noon to 8 p.m. EXHIBITION of 115 photographs at National Museum,
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    • 498 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 Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens. Odeon: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO:An epic from Boris Pasternak's novel of modern
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  • 299 3 Reuter Philippines' First Lady Imelda Marcos shows Mrs. Lee Kuan Yew plans for the expansion and development of metropolitan Manila aboard the presidential yacht while cruising around Manila Bay. Mrs. Lee arrived In Manila on Sunday with the Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, and a
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  • 217 3 'Don't share your vehicles' NTUC Comfort has warned about a dozen of its taxi operators agajnst sharing their vehicles with co-opera-tors in return for money. Several operators, it is understood, have been found to have flouted the co-opera-tive's condition which disallows sharing of vehicles. Some
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  • 268 3 The Customs collected $2.5 million In .back-dated duties and c o m p o un ded fines last year. The amount comprised $1 million In back dated duties and $1.5 million in fines from offences settled out of court. Fines
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    • 152 3 Seogramb V.O.Canadian. VWre something dlWeranf. 2* Don't expect V.O. to taste like Scotch. It isn't Scotch. V.O. Canadian is a little smoother and Jighter than what you usually order. Once you order it, it just might become your usual. Seoarfl®' W C AHADIAW^ rH i Another fine product brought to
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  • 146 4 retallnf Jnya, Friday. There is a rush for kerosene at the Jalan Selangor E?so petrol station, the only suppliers l n Petaling Jaya. Hundreds of people queued up at the btatlon last week and boußht up t.hs stocks of about 8000 litres
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  • 199 4 The Government has spent more than $12 million six primary and one secondary schools. The seven schools, which were opened this year, are all situated in housing estates. They can_take In at least 15,680 pupils if they operate on the full quota of
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  • 40 4 RBAF aircraft live Urine cxtrctM will be held at the Southern live flrtnf rente et Pulau Pawal from Jul M to St from 1 in. to 5 p.m. The puMfc la warned to keep deer of the ranee.
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  • 340 4 A pathologist has urged doctors to watch out for signs and symptoms of battered children and report such cases without fear of possible litigation. Writing in the latest Issue of the Singapore Family Physician, he said there were 93 cases of alleged maltreatment of
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  • 109 4 Hie Education Ministry has asked ail school principals to encourage their teachers to attend in-service courses planned for the first half of this year. The in-service courses are geared to meet the requirements of the education service. For the first time, the ministry has
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  • 28 4 The Adult Education Board will organise a mechanical engineering drawing course at Jurong Town Primary School fiom Jan. 21 on Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m.
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  • 306 4 The Hyatt wll .soon become the biggest convention hotel in Asia outside Japan. The hotel Is spending about $1 million to convert its 16-lane bowling alley into a convention centre. and exhibition area. Mr. Bernd Chorengel, the hotel's general manager, raid the centre can seat
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  • 472 4  -  ■y Violet Oon Pianist Margaret Tan Hee-Leng revealed In her recital at the DBS. Auditorium on Saturday night, a feeling for reality, for music which la down-to-earth. It waa this sensitivity that gave her Interpretations of Prokofleffa Sonata Mo. I in D Minor Op. '14
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  • 48 4 Schoolchildren donated $3858 to help fight drug abuse through a request programme. Dollars for Discs broadcast over Rediffusion during November and December last year. Dr. Tow Slang Hwa, president of SANA, will receive the cheque from the sponsors at Metro Oolden Mile tomorrow at S.lB p.m.
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  • 235 5 UPI Manila, Tuesday A peace keeping team fanned out yesterday, in the Southern Philippines to try to convince Muslim secessionist rebels still in the hills to lay down their arms. The team composed of eight representatives from the secessionist Moro National
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  • 36 5 Reuter London, Tuesday The United States VicePresident elect, Mr. Walter Mondale, win have talks on major International issues with Prime Minister James Callaghan and other British ministers here on Jan. 27, it was announced yesterday.
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  • 540 5 Sorensen bows out as his nominee Reuter Washington, Tuesday Pre sident-elect Jimmy Carter yesterday suffered a major defeat three days before his inauguration when Mr. Theodore Sorensen bowed out as his nominee for CIA director because of allegations of improper conduct. Mr. Sorensen. a
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  • 120 5 AP Brisbane, Tuesday U8 President-e 1• e t Jimmy Carter has sent oat MMM invitations to his inanffnratlon, but his cousin working in Brisbane didn't get OI Mr. Carter's first cons in, 48-year-old Jim Gordy, has been a chief at Brisbane's Zebra Motel for foor
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  • 313 5 UPI London. Tuesday Britain Is considering abandoning, for the time being. Its abortive Rhodesia peace shuttle, the Foreign Office said yesterday. A spokesman said the government may recall Ml*. Ivor Richard, British chairman of the deadlocked Geneva peace conference, whose southern Africa shuttle mission appears
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  • 97 5 Reuter Bangkok, TuesdayEgyptian and Thai authorities probing the crash of an Egyptian plane here last month have flown to Washington to place their findings before the National Transport safety Bureau, a Communications Ministry spokesman said yesterday. He told reporters that the findings to
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  • 480 6 Giscard tells Western allies Reuter Paris, Tuesday President Valery Oiscard d'Estalng yesterday told Western allies which have condemned the release of Palestinian guerilla chief Abu Daoud that they must stop giving France morality lessons If they want to remain its friends. "France, Its people and Its
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  • 258 6 Reuter United Nations, Tuesday Secretary General Kurt Waldheim said yesterday it was a "reasonable g s s" that the Geneva peace conference on the Middle East would resume in the spring. But the March 31 deadline set by the General Assembly last
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  • 167 6 UPI London. Tuesday—The Times of London bade goodbye to US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger In a lengthy editorial yesterday, calling him "one of the most remarkable men ever to hold high office in the United Slates." "History is likely to give him a
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  • 212 6 AP Nicosia, Tuesday Several Arab newspapers and radio stations are claiming that Israel is preparing to start another war against the Arabs. The predictions, in the past few days, echoed warnings from some Arab leaders against expectations that 1977 would develop Into a year
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  • 137 6 Reuter UPI Beirut, Tuesday—Lebanon's banks, bedrock of the Lebanese economy before lc was shattered in the 19-month war, formally reopened yesterday Justorar two months after moat of the fighting in the country halted. But bankers nere wen reluctant to forecast whether Lebanon would regain Its pre-war
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  • 167 6 UPI TODAY is Tuesday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 1977 with 347 to follow. THE MOON Is approare Mercury, Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS are Venus and Jupiter. Those bora on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. American orator and statesman Daniel Webster was bora
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  • 29 6  -  D.J. That's service... a vicar In Britain Is holding services earlier when the local Saaday soccer team plays so that supporters can attend church before matches.
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  • 165 6 Reuter London, Tuesday— British Prime Minister James Cailaghan last night threw a party at his official Downing Street residence for rebellious left-wingers who have been a thorn in lib Kvernment's side during e past months of economic tension. The occasion was to celebrate the
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  • 312 6 UPI and AP Vienna, Tuesday The new Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries did not exclude possibility of an extraordinary ministers conference to abolish the present twotier price system Secretary Oeneral All Mohamed Jaldah of Qatar said that so far there
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  • 169 6 AP Brisbane, Tuesday— The commander of Britain'! elite new Scotland Yard admitted yesterday he hat occasionally used unlawful methods In bringing criminals to Justice. Tererice O'Connell told a committee investigating local police forces that during a recent underworld bid to takeover London's taxi trade, four men walked Into
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 184 6 WEATHER New York Partly cloudy, chance of snow tomorrow. Minus 9-Mlnus ISC Headline: Carter stands firm, supports 80rensen as director of CIA. San Francisco Fair with local night and morning fog. 12-OC. HeadUne: Ollmore scheduled for execution today. Tokyo Sunny, 9-OC. Headline: Chinese official Indicates Teng can make comeback. London
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  • 229 7 AP Islamabad, Tuesday Pakistan's two major provinces of Punjab and Sind yesterday announced the lifting of a ban on public meetings and the use of loudspeakers so all political parties can campaign for the country's general elections in March. Opposition parties have been
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  • 329 7 New Japan-Australia pact UPI Tokyo, Tuesday Japan and Australia yesterday compromised mutually to settle two thorny issues that had strained their relations. Australia accepted Japan's offer to Increase Australian beef Imports by 20,000 tonnes and In turn agreed for a twoyear extension of the bilateral
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  • 118 7 AP Cairo, Tuesday Egyptians were shocked yesterday by sudden government-ordered Increases for cigarettes, petrol and butane gas. Egypt was troubled several times last year by workers' riots over high rices. Thousands took > the streets on New Year's Day 1975 to criticise President Anwar
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  • 204 7 UPI Washington, Tuesday. Newspapers around the world headlined the execution of Gary Oilmore yesterday. Some condemned what one report termed the "grisly circus- during the hours before he died. roes of capital punishment In France said the execution was "a step backward."
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  • 203 7 Reuter Paris, Tuesday. A young salesman stands trial today for the kidnap and murder of an eight-year-old boy, a case that could influence the future of Prance's death penalty. A public outcry followed the arrest last February of 23-year-old Patrick Henry, charged
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  • 225 7 Reuter Washington. Tuesday —President Ford's budget proposals for the 1978 financial year were sent to Congress yesterday but, because he leaves office In two days' time, they were virtually Ignored Mr. Ford proposed a spending level of U***** billion ($1056 billion) and a deficit of
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  • 429 8 The proposal of a one-third concession rate for pensioners taking up courses at the University of Singapore's Extramural Studies Department is a reminder that education is not only an investment in the young but a lifelong pursuit. The encouragement that comes with such a concession
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 61 8 The weather has not been very kind lately, what with flash flood* and biasing hot, dry days. But the most unlucky victim of erratic weather must be the man who parked his car in the open and came back later to find the windscreen in smithereens The
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    • 45 8 Although s p o uses were not invited to the office party, one woman turned up with her husband. Quipped her col- league: "The other married women have to leave early because they have deadlines. But you have brought your deadline along."
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  • 434 8 Reuter New Delhi, Tuesday India's blood traders are doing a thriving business despite a Red Cross campaign against them. And there is Hill room for more of these professional donors who charge up to 2do rupees ($6B) lor 250 cc of blood. Major-General S. S.
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  • 197 8  -  VOICE OF THE PRESS ASAHI SHIMBUN The government has announced that It will make vigorous efforts to expand economic cooperation with Southeast Asian nations this year. Apparently, the government is considering mainiy the ASEAN nations, but we do not think it necessary to
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  • 317 8 UPI Chicago, Tuesday Some people would rather be crazy than sane. That is the startling conclusion of a research study by Dr. Theodore van Putten of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles and some of his colleagues. Dr. van Putten studied
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  • 409 8 Newsday New York, Tuesday Most people are unable to recall events that happened 'during their first three or four years of life. Just why this Is so Is not really understood, although a number of researchers are trying to find out. One of them Is assistant
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  • 485 9 South Africa Is worried about Russl a n influence in southern Africa. New Nation today presents excerpts from a recent article in the Economist on President Podforny's visit to Zambia, Tanzania and Mosambique. The Economist On Dec. 28, just as Mr. Ivor Richard, the British
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  • 617 9  -  Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times Everyone was amazed when President Ford announced in Vail, Colorado, that he wanted to make Puerto Rico the 51st state. Washington could not figure out why the President chose to announce it Just
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  • 308 9  -  »y David Lamb NYT Debere Zelt, (Ethiopia), Tuesday The seeds of the revolution were sown here in the Ethiopian c o un tr yslde and it is here that a large measure of the revolution's success or failure will be judged. For peasants like
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  • Article, Illustration
    1654 10 / 11 HE HAS RENEWED PUBLIC FAITH IN THE INTEGRITY OF THE PRESIDENCY AND RESTORED A SENSE OF CALM AND DIGNITY President Gerald Ford leaves the White House this week. New Nation today takes a look at his years as the 38th President of the United States by reproducing
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  • trend 1 EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
    • 214 12  -  By Jennifer Schoon Rhapsody in Blues a fashion show with a difference (held last month) featured a collection of all blue Spanish denim wear. The completely choreographed show had dancers clad in the latest denim fashions doing the dances in vogue: The Salsa, Walk, Hustle, Bump, the modern
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    • 631 12 Los Angeles, TimesWashington Post New York, Tuesday Work on hundreds of new developments In contraceptive research including a male contraceptive pill, a monthly contraceptive injection and an agent that would hide the female egg from sperm could be stalled by a shrinkage
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    • 40 12 Heading the look for this year's casual and sport assessories a towelling bandeau with perspex visor. This is one of items by Edward Mann shown at a preview of his Spring '77 collection in London recently.
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    • 648 13 Not the Steve MeGarrette please SOApl B&cJ All my friends rave over the Robert Redfords and Rock Hudsons of this world. I've never given any of them a second glance really. How mundane it was going to movie after movie, watching heroes like Troy
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    • 503 13  -  GIRL-TALK *»v J. Schoon DO YOU know that that behind every Ouerlaln perfume lie* an equally exotic story? And of course Parure, their latest perfume, has its own story as well. It was Inspired by the golden discovery In archeology in 1922 the
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    • 343 13  -  Doc's Casebook S.L. "Recently, my brother's two-month old baby, without any sickness or high fever had a convulsion one morning and was Immediately admitted to hospital where, despite the attempts of the doctors, he died the next morning. The griefstricken father, till today, does not understand
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  • 302 14 A twice weekly advertisement feature Imported ceramic tiles, especially those from Italy are very popular among house-proud Singa- poreans. It Is the vogue among house and flat-buyers these days to make sure that they have floor- ing that Is attractive, easy to maintain and lasting. This perhaps explains why
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  • 525 15  -  Company profile «>v Lee Yew Meng The Faber Merlin Malaysia (FMM) 1976 annual results, delayed by two months, were released yesterday. Group pre-tax profits were up by 4.6 per cent to $6.2 million for the year ended June SO 1976, but these were way below expectations. The spectacular
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  • 116 15 Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday Japan 1 Finance Ministry has approved appropriations of five billion yen ($BB million) in the national Budget for fiscal 1977 for Its own plan for a second "green revolution" In Asia, a Ministry spokesman said yesterday. The tuna, to be increased year by year,
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 98 15 I m followed by the difference on previous teuton's close: AT T 63% unch Beth Steel Caterp Tra UH Chrysler 30* Coca-Cola 74% ConU. Oil 35% Dow Churn 40% Drener 40% Du pont 137% K. Kodak •3% py f 53* HrMom 33 Ford Mot 00% Oen Bee. M%
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    • 32 15 UPI Closing Dow Jonw areragea on the snnsc yasUrday: M indurtrials M7JS (off 4J1); SO transport asa.«t (off O.M); 15 uUtttlsa 1M.46 (up OM); 65 stocks SI6.M (Off 1.11). UPt
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    • 156 15 CkMttc pi:cea (In yen) on Kohange the Tokyo Sto< Bk IWterdif: Ajlnomoto 4M S Anhi Chemical 142 1 Biidgestone Ti 499 a C. Itoh S10 i Del Nippon Prl •15 7 Dm lei 1070 30 Oova Mining 1M unch ■del Buno Pujltawa Phann no 040 S —10 Hitachi 3
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    • 57 15 Closing prtew (in ANAm franca) an ttw Zurich Stock behinp ywterday: UBS Bearer SIM —II Credit Sulaat Swlaaalr B. 8wlw ftolnmr. mi —1 Wlntcrttaur B. 1*80 Zurich Inaur. 7175 Juvena B. in 1 Nettle B. MM —10 Interfood B. 1N0 —26 CHw-Oelgjr B. Baby Room ISM I7M —M —Sf
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    • 74 15 Closing prices (tax francs) on the Parte Bourse yesterday: Pftrttau 150.30 —1 Foncter SU.IO —4JO Prtntempe 40JO —1.40 Bun #0.70 —OJO ftonl Dutch m —S JO Mlshdln 1179 —10 OQC m uneb Thomson lttJO —OJI CFP 10« JO —I Rhone 71.00 —0 JO Air 114 —3 BSN 510 —10
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    • 66 15 Ckwlnc Prtem at 11.M ajo. today (AurtraMaa time) on Abcrfoylt M 100 Auat On Mil U Ml South 00 100 ■>m* iio in coo* aoid ioo mi Abmlnoo mi M Cudgwn m mi Corn R utile mi a m* Omr 00 H Mil liii>ini t7o m HUl N 00
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  • 270 15 London, Tuesday Britain's financial position yes t e r day showed a substantial improvement after months of gloom, and the Bank of England found Itself de 11 be r a tely holding down the exchange rate of the pound sterling. Flgurea Issued by
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  • 174 15 Reuter Geneva, Tuesday The world's leading natural rubber producers yesterday called on Industrialised consumer states to join promptly In negotiations for an overall price stabilisation agreement for the commodity, based on an existing producers' pact. A week-long meeting on rubber which opened here yesterday under
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  • 523 16 Call for corporal punishment by FA London, Tuesday The organisers of the 1978 World Cup soccer in Argentina received a major financial and morale booster ye st e r day with the announcement of advertising contracts total Ing more than US$lO million (Sss24 million 1.
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  • 67 16 Reuter Adelaide, Tuesday. Big serving American left-hander Vic Amaya blasted his way to the biggest tennis cheque of his career with a straight sets win In the final of the A 175.000 (8)195,000) Marlboro men's classic yesterday. The burly 22-year-old from Michigan rounded off the current
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 251 16 Crossword 1 ACROSS 1 Like some cheese 0 Saint— (Fr. port) 10 Tender 14 Horse opera 15 That 16 Balver 17 Olves the silent treatment 20 Foxy 21 Fill to the brim 22 Fuel transport 23 Father 24 Travel aimlessly 25 Meager 28 Audacious move 32 Namesakes of a comic
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    • 396 16 YOUR LUCKY IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a nervous, excitable individual, much given to mood* of deep depression and euphoric Joy. Fortunately, your moods are for the most part shortlived; your general temperament is one of reason. There are those who would prefer to find you calm
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  • 169 17 Reuter Munich, Tuesday Bayern Munich's prolific goal-scorer Gerd Mueller, one of Europe's finest ever strikers, was told yesterday he must undergo an operation .on his back. Professor Wolfgang Weldenbach who examined 31-year-old Mueller at a Munich clinic told reporters an operation was urgently
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  • 69 17 LKA The National chess championship prelims began last night at the F ft N Conference Hall with 35 competitor* playing in five sections. Two qualifiers from each section will advance to the finals of 16 players to be held In March. In last night's games, most
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  • 397 17 Now he is after the world 10-km record UPI Sydney, Tuesday New Zealand long distance runner Dick Quax scored a dramatic victory in the 5000 metres here yesterday and announced that he will now tackle the world 10 kilometre record. Quax sprinted away at the finish
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  • 407 17 Reuter Sydney, Tuesday The Pakistan cricket team have been warned against complacency when the Third Test against Australia resumes here today with the tourists in a seemingly unbeatable position. Pakistan captain Mushtaq M oh ammad was quick yesterday to snuff out any overconfidence shown
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  • 119 17 AP Tuesday The Philippine* won two Kid medals yesterday on e first day of the 10natlon Asian amateur cycling championships. Restitute Talaver beat fellow Filipino Rolando Ouaves In a sprint duel and won the 800-metre massed start race, his first major victory In his seven-year cycling career.
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  • 778 18  -  But Junie Sng has an even chance to walk away with Sportswoman title By BRIAN MILLER K. Jayamani, Singapore's athletics find of the season, appears to be on the threshold of winning the biggest prize in her track career. This lanky, 20-year-old middle distance runner has
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  • 311 18  -  By BRIAN MILLER Trainer Mapsor Matban's Lion City Cup prospect Tin Ore installed himself a strong favourite for Sunday's sprint classic when he turned in an attractive gallop at Bukit Timah this morplpg. Going fast from the 800 m mark, this last start winner
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  • 116 18 UPI Houston, Tuesday. Australian Wendy Turnbull charged past Czech Renata Tomanova 6-3, 7-5 in a first round match, and Carrie Meyer and teen-ager Marlse Kruger advanced on forfeits to the second round of the US$lOO,OOO (*****,000) Virginia Slims tennis tournament yesterday. The tournament, the third in
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  • 1035 19  -  By PHILIP TAN Singapore's 4-1 defeat by Neuchatel Xamax, the Swiss First Division side, in a friendly soccer match at the National Stadium last night, can be summed up ip one word inconsistency. After the morale Inflating 3-1 win over Sports fruende from West
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  • 497 19  -  SOCCER SCENE by Philip Tan The Football Association of Singapore's coaching course for Jurong Constituency residents has hit a snag. The FAS negotiated earlier with the Jurong Town Corporation for the use of the Jurong Stadium from March 14 to 27 and were
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  • 48 20 AH FOOK: To help the police in clamping down on car thieves., members of the public should report any suspicious activities especially In public car parks. MEI LIN: Car owners themselves should also be more careful and instal burglar alarms and safety locks In their cars.
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