New Nation, 1 February 1977

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  • 21 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Tuesday, February 1, 1977 No. 1862 Price 25 cents M C (P) 262/1/77 r NLW (S/3) NATION COMMENT
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  • 279 1 Reuter London, Tuesday Police showed a film in court today which they alleged showed a woman trying to persuade her elderly mother to commit suicide. In the darkened court room in the town of Lewes, the jury watched the secretly made film, said
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  • 136 1 Reuter Aspen, Colorado, Tuesday French-born singer Claudlne Longet was yesterday sentenced to 30 days in Jail for the negligent homicide shooting of her ski champion lover, Vladimir (Spider) Sabich, and was told that she could serve it any time before the end of
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  • 364 1 For Rhodesian war Reuter Salisbury, Tuesday Black nationalist guerillas have abducted 400 African schoolchildren and marched them across the border to neighbouring Botswana, a Rhodesian f or c e s' c o m m un ique said yesterday. Police sources say the recruits are flown to
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  • 57 1 Kuwait, Tuesday Kuwait yesterday denied newspaper reports that the major oil exporters would resolve their price split with a compromise 10 per cent rise for 1977. Oil Minister Abdel Mutaleb Al-Kaziml commented on newspaper reports, which suggested that this was being considered. by
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  • 171 1 Reuter New York, Tuesday Arctic weather conditions which have thrown two million Americans out of work are threatening the country's economic recovery, economists warned yesterday. Severe shortages of natural gas have forced thousands of factories to close as supplies are diverted to private homes in
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  • 386 2  -  By Wang Look Fung The divorce rate among Muslims in Singapore fell sharply from as high as 50 per cent In 1058 to about 10 per cent for the last five years. Hajl Salleh bin HaJi Mohamed Plah, president of the Shariah Court, attributed the
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  • 137 2 Six national youth service awards are to be given to deserving young Singaporeans this year. The awards panel Invites Singaporeans between the ages of 15 and SO to send In their entries for these awards. A maximum of three Individual and three team awards will
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  • 169 2 Nine crew of a Singapore fishing boat, SMF 483, who were Jailed In Indonesia last year for illegally fishing in its territorial waters and whose skipper was shot dead for their arrest, have returned home. They flew back last week from Med an after serving a five and
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  • 188 2 Dor handler Francis Teo congratulates this gold en retriever, Sermass Janda, after It won the dog obedience test held at the Dunearn Second ary School on Sunday. Together with M other dogs, Sermass Janda took the test after undergoing 12 weeks of basic training
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  • 269 2 Options— Demand by brokers Stock broking firms are insisting that clients in the options tradipg scheme which begins today, must have sufficient liquidity to cover their contract commitments. The "writers" or sellers must deposit their share certificates with the firms or provide at least 50 per cent of the scrip
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  • 188 2 Inchcape made SlngaRore Stock Exchange istory when It became the first underlying security to be traded under the options trading scheme which began today. The first deal 1000 units of Inchcape shares at a premium of 20 cents (exercise price is $2.40) for the June time series was
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    • 413 2 AT THE CINEMA KONGA: A scientist, discovers a revolutionary link between plant and me and tries out an experiment on a tiny chimpansee. The animal crows into an uncontrollable monster that causes havoc wherever it goes. Stars Michael Gough. Margo Johns. Jess Conrad and Claire Gordon. Capitol: 1.45, 4. 6
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    • 127 2 WHAT'S ON POETRY Excursion, an evening of poetry reading by local poets at National Museum, 8 p.m. CARNIVAL Trade Fair T7 at Great World amusement park, 6.30 p.m. to 11 pjn. CHINESE painting demonstration at Sentosa Art Centre, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. RLOOD transfusion mobile unit at Raffles Place,
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  • 115 3 Reuter Kuala Lumpur. Tuesday. Thai Foreign Minister Upadit Pan charlyangkun will make an unofficial visit here from Thursday to Saturday during which he will hold talks with his Malaysian counterpart Tengku Ahmad Rlthauddeen, it was announced here yesterday. A Foreign Ministry statement said Dr. Upadit.
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  • 409 3 Public housing policy in the future should be directed. towards eliminating sub-standard housing rather than making Inroads into the private housing market. Professor Philip Motha, vlce-dean of the University of Singapore's 1 Faculty of Architecture and Building, advocated this at the luncH meeting of the Singapore
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  • 305 3 A local company has developed a new system of recycling garbage Into a dualpurpose product called kompuk for use as a crop fertiliser or as cattle feed. The scientific director of Asia Research, Dr. Z.O. Muller, has produced pilot quantities of kompuk
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  • 249 3 Mee seller Yap Seng Keat, 34, who was sentenced to death last Friday by a High Court judge in Kuala Lumpur for a firearm offence, was arrested as a result of a tip-off from Singapore police. Yap wac arrested at a roadblock
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  • 500 4  - $690 jobs for demobbed rare —bosses By Douglas Chan There t are very few jobs which offer a monthly salary of around $690 for discharged national servicemen with Senior Cambridge or Higher Schol Certificates. Some employers said this when asked to comment on last week's Ministry of Defence statement that
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  • 337 4 Warning by HDB The Housing and Development Board has advised its residents to be careful when answering calls at the door. The editorial in'the latest Issue of Our Home says the HDB Is alarmed at the number of residents robbed or cheated by people who impersonate government officers
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  • 121 4 More than 200 pupils of Kwok Mln Chinese Primary School In Woodlands have been plagued by dust pollution since the beginning of the new school term. A granite quarry, in operation since last December, Is believed to be the cause of the pollution at the
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  • 112 4 Manila, Tuesday A 10-member trade mission representing major business and Industrial sectors In the Philippines left yesterday for Hanoi to establish trade contact with Vietnam, reports Reuter. The mission, the first ever sent to the reunified Vietnam by a member of ASEAN, will determine the
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  • 289 4  -  By Joachin Tan Handsome Shaikh Khalifa, a 25-year-old police officer from Bahrain, Is here on honeymoon and quite happy to have his picture taken. But, please, no photograph of the bride For 20 year old Shalkha Haya of the royal family
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  • 317 4 A documentary film called Ten Years of ASEAN will be made on a co-production basis to celebrate the tenth aniversary of the Association of South East Asian Nations. "The script of the film would be prepared by Singapore and is scheduled to be completed
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  • 60 4 The Minister for Foreign Affairs. Mr. S. Rajaratnam, will be the guest-of-honour at a dinner and variety show organised by the Singapore Scout Association (Stamford District) at the Mandarin Court, Mandarin Hotel, on Friday at 7.30 p.m. Proceeds will go to the Tan Ah Tah Scout
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  • 34 4 Mr. Pradeep Kaul. managing director of SSC and B. Llntas (Sea) Sdn. Bhd.. will gve a talk on Advertlsg positioning at the Rotary luncheon at the Mandarin Hotel tomorrow at 12.45 p.m.
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  • 29 4 SATA will hold Its annual Chinese New Year party for destitute o* tlents at the Chest and Heart Clinic. Shenton Way, on Feb. 8 at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 379 4 Lan Pepper of the Changl Sailing Club was NOT on his boat Jandi which won Sunday's round-the-island yacht race. But the new keel boat, helmed by Roger Hames, 34, to the overall win will not be disqualified, a race official said. The
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  • 353 5 —says Thai Deputy Premier UPI Reuter Bangkok, Tuesday The weekend crossborder attack by Cambodia is a threat to no n communist Soiith-east Asia because it occurred just before the arrival in Thailand of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a senior Thai official said
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  • 196 5 Kaohslung (Taiwan). Tuesday Premier Chiang Ching-kuo yes. terday told a group of visiting American newsmen that he believes the new American gov ernment under President Jimmy Carter will continue to honour its defence treaty commitment to Taiwan. The Fremier was answering questions from the 34-member
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  • 32 5 UPI Reuter Nairobi, Tues. The Kenya government has ordered 129 non-cltlsen traders and businessmen, mainly Asians, to wind up their businesses within four months as part of Its Kenyanisatlon policy.—Reuter.
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  • 212 5 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Malaysian and Thai troops yesterday completed searches around a captured communist juug 1 e command post without finding any guerillas believed to be in the area, military sources said. The command* post In Thailand's Sadao district near the Malaysian frontier had
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  • 267 5 Three major bodies to merge Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday.—Vietnamese President Ton Due Thang yesterday opened a five-day Congress In Ho Chi Mlnh City designed to merge the South Vietnam National Front for Liberation (NLF) and two other mator bodies Into "a single rational United Front," the
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  • 62 5 Reuter Dacca, Tuesday An American oil exploration company, under contract to the Bangladesh government, has made a large gas find In the Bay of Bengal. Air Vice-Marshal Abdul Oaf Tar Mahmood. council member In charge of petroleum and mineral resources, told a news conference yesterday that
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  • 45 5 Reuter Ponta Delgada (Azores), Tuesday Two small bombs which'exploded here vesterday caused considerable damage but no casualties, police said. One bomb went off outside the offices of the Portuguese airline TAP and the other destroyed a car of a local government official.—Reuter.
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  • 180 5 UPI Lusaka, Tuesday British envoy Ivor Richard plans to seek American and South African assistance to pressure Rhodesian Premier lan Smith into resuming negotiations about transferring power to the black majority, British officials close to the Richard shuttle said yesterday. Mr. Richard
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  • 34 5 Reuter Canberra, Tuesday Au st ralla will give US$lOO,OOO (about $240.000) to a United Nations appeal for funds to preserve the Acropolis in Athens, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser announced here yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 239 6 Agencies New York, Tuesday An Arctic cold clamped on the energy-drained north-east and a new snow storm took aim on the southland yesterday, deepening the United States energy crisis In tne coldest American winter In 60 years. Businesses and Industries that are shutting down are
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  • 474 6 Middle East, S. Africa, human rights top list,.says Vance Reuter Washington, Tuesday America's new Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, yesterday set out the guidelines for US foreign policy under the Cart e r administration and indicated three major areas of concern the Middle East, Southern Africa and the
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  • 228 6 Reuter Washington; TuesdayPresident Carter said yesterday he Is considering allowing.the Press to be represented at weekly cabinet .meetings. The proposals under consideration would permit one reporter to attend cabinet sessions as "pool" correspondent and make a full report to the other White House
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  • 139 6 UPI Washington, Tuesday Japan's chief negotiator tor Japanese fishing rights within the new U8 380 km msrine economic zone said yesterday that fishing restrictions and proposed fees for fishing rights could' cost Japan more than UBsl.bllik)n ($3.4 billion) a year. The 330 km limit, approved by
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  • 123 6 UPI TODAY Is Tuesday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 1977 with 333 to follow. THE MOON is approaching Its full phase. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STABS are Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. American
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  • 39 6 Reuter Copenhagen, Tuesday A Jewish conference here, attended by 40 delefates from the Scandinavian countries, has appealed to Soviet leaders to end what It called persecution of Russian Jews who wish to leave the Soviet Union. Reuter.
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  • 151 6 Reuter London, Tuesday Foreign ministers of the European Economic Community agreed yest*"l t? to Press the Soviet Union for faster Implementation of human freedoms In eastern Europe, Informed sources reported. The subject was a main Item at a conference which, although scheduled to last
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  • 30 6 D.J. Police checking a break-In at a tailor's shop In Scotland found nothing until ono of the window "rummies" moved. The Intruder has been jalled-for a year.
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  • 252 6 Reuter Washington, TuesdayUnited States military leaders said yesterday Soviet planners regard nuclear war as an instrument of policy and seek military superiority over the United States. But they disagreed with a claim by Major-General Qeorge Keegan, recently retired chief of air force intelligence, that
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  • 46 6 Reuter Bangkok. Tuesday Thailand's domestic aircarrier, Thai Airways, yesterday announced It would temporarily stop Its four-weekly flights to Vientiane from next Wednesday. A company spokesman said the stoppage was due to some conflicts with the Laotian authorities but gare no other details. Jteuter.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 209 6 WEATHER New York Clear to partly cloudy, Minus 2Mlnus 9C. Headline: President warns US Is orobably entering energy shortage era. San Francisco—Partly cloudy, 18-SC. Headline: Carter pushes energy plan. We de Janeiro —> Cloudy. 35 23C. Mondale arrives (or talks with Fukuda. Tokyo—Sunny/ 8-Mi-nus IC. Headlines: Mondale arrives In Tokyo
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  • 351 7 Blow for military discontent Reuter Madrid, Tuesday Spanish authorities are taking a tough line against Conservative military discontent over the government's handling of the tense political situation. Navy sources said Captain Carlos Menendez had been officially reprimanded following a public row at the weekend
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  • 23 7 London, Tuesday Nine crew were feared dead after an explosion aboard the Llberlanregistered tanker Exotic off the Moroccan coast on Sunday night.
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  • 149 7 Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday—Japan has no objections to holding the economic summit of the leading non-communist industrial countries In London, US officials indicated yesterday. Japan had extended the original invitation to hold the meeting in Tokyo, but several West European countries favoured moving it
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  • 267 7 Reuter New Delhi, Tuesday The Marxist communists, the first party to publish a manifesto for India's March general elections, yesterday made withdrawal of emergency laws and further nationalisation its leading policy objectives. The CPI-M. which was the second largest party in the Lower* House
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  • 150 7 UPI Belgrade, Tuesday The No. 2 leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party yesterday rejected any relaxation of communist control over Yugoslavia because It would Invite "Impulsive development" leading to a possible swing away from communism. Party Secretary Stane Dolanc, viewed as a possible successor
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  • 444 8 The Impression that a sucker Is Indeed born every minute should be reason enough for legislation protecting consumers against unscrupulous door-to-door sales tactics. The call by the Consumers' Association of Singapore for legal constraints on door-to-door selling comes after CASE received 66 wrlttens complaints In less
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 66 8 A friend gave up coffee when prices Increased recently, until he read New Nation'! feature (Jan 11) which estimated that the cost of a cup of coffee made at home had doubled—from 10 to 10 cents. He has returned to his Ave cups per day He said:
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    • 69 8 A guest— a Singaporean at a home buffet party saw the plate oT otak-otak and asked: "What ARE these? I've seen them on sale but have never tried them before." His surprised host explained that it was a kind of fish custard. He tried one, liked
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  • 1096 8 but oilmen prefer to wait and see AP Jakarta, Tuesday Government eagerness to spur lagging petroleum e x p loration is getting a wait-and-see reaction from foreign oilmen. "It's nice to hear official encouragement for a change, but there's a lot more Involved than
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  • 425 8 BANGKOK POST VOICE OF THE PRESS We welcome the United States' attitude toward* Vietnam a* declared by American Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Carter administration "will more forth rightly" In the direction of getting Vietnam admitted Into the
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  • 1282 9 Among the 103 people who received the 1976 National Day awards last Friday night were some of our top civil servants. These were people who sacrificed what might have been lucrative careers in the private sector which offered greater personal gains for the civil service. New
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  • 333 9 Reuter London, Tuesday Princess Margaret's emotional life was keyed to a neurotic pitch and helped break up her marriage to Lord Snowdon, according to a book published yesterday. Historian Robert Lacey, in a biography of Queen Elisabeth entitled "Majesty", says the Queen's younger sister Margaret
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  • 810 10 / 11  -  65 boats in longest race of its kind WORDS: Terry Ang What's all the fuss, I thought when I was assigned to cover last Sunday's round-the-lsland race organised by the Singapore Yachting Association. Race officials kept referring to it as the longest regularly held race in
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  • Page 10 / 11 Miscellaneous
    • 537 10 / 11 Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUKS •KLOW LBBBMiCut along dotted lines CLUES FOR DR-2 1. A set of garments 2. Perhaps more suitable for one garden than another 3. Covering of a kind 4. Fat
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  • trend 1 EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
    • 188 12  -  Words by Jennifer Schoon If you have curves in the right places with a nicely rounded figure, there's nothing better than Jersey to show off what you've got and subtly. Jersey has a softness that gives a fluid and feminine line yet clings Just right for a
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    • 847 12 GEMINI Those sun-tanned girls In their bikinis, smiling at us from the pages of the fashion magazines and. travel brochures if only we could look like that! But perhaps not: that golden beauty could be short-lived. Stern warnings are coming from doctors and
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    • 348 13  -  GIKI.-TAI.K l>y J. Schoon TOUCH a child's cheek with one hand that's Living Proof of what a new skin treatment by Oeminesse (Max Factor) can do for your skin. Living Proof «Mn treatment, film the makers, will actually give a difference you
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    • 375 13 Doc's Casebook S.L. Mr. W. writes: "Can I confide in you about my colleague? Ot late she has been behaving rather strangely and She has had occasion to complain of her heart beating very fast. I've noticed that she is starting to haye trembling of the fingers.
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  • 581 14 A twice weekly advertisement feature With so many new homes being set up every month in Singapore, Interior decorators are naturally In demand. Cont- rary to popular belief, it does not really cost very much to hire the services of an interior decorating firm, especially if you are prepared
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  • 609 15 An important discovery in Soviet Union APN Specialists believe that already now the scientifically substantiated period of human life ranges from 100 to 120 years. However none of the gerontologists themselves have lived to that age. And yet the fellowvillagers of Med
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  • 394 15 Novosti Press The Inability to live long is a stable specific feature. Longevlty depends both on biological, hereditary ab 11 ltles and on vhe conditions of existence. Aging, which begins at 30-35 years, is an inner contradictory process. Alongside phenomena of degradation and fading there appear
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  • 306 16 UPI London, Tuesday Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey yesterday pledged to cut Income tax in the forthcoming budget if the trade unions agree to another year of pay restraint. On the eve of the vital talks with trade union leaders on pay, Mr.
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  • 34 16 Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday Japan's vehicle exports In 1976 reached a record 3,709,600 units, 38 per cent more than the record set the previous year the Japan Automobile Manufacturers' Association said yesterday.— Reuter
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  • 519 16  -  Company Profile Business News and Views by Lee Yew Ming Yeo Hlap Seng has reported buoyant results in its second year of operation after separating from Its former Malaysian subsidiaries. In the year ended September 1976, group pretax profits of $5 million showed
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 102 16 Yesterday's prices followed by (he difference on previous session's close: AT T 83% Beth Steel 37 ft Caterp Tra Chrysler sm 20% Coca-Cola 74% Contl. Oil 36 unch. Dow Chem 38% Dresser 40% Du Pont 129% K. Kodak 75% Exxon 62% Firestone 22% Ford Mot 60% > Oen
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    • 29 16 Closing averages on the NYSE yesterday :i 30 Industrials 954.37 (off 3.16); 20 transport 226.62 (off 0.35); 15 utilities 109.31 (off 0.77); 65 stocks 312.82 (off 1.10).
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    • 173 16 TDJA: 4962.47 (-45.19) 76. Hl-low 4490.85 (Dec. 28 4408.06 (Jan. 5) T8E: 375.24 (-3.13) 'Volume 180 mil (+20 mil). Clodnc prices (In yen) on the T8E yesterday: AJlnomoto 481 1 C. Itoh 298 s Dowa Mining 175 3 Hitachi 222 3 Japan Mall 8te 21* 2 KomaUu 315 3
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    • 67 16 Closing prices (In francs) on the Paris Bourse yesterParlbas 148.30 —3.30 Fcmcler 303 —6 Printemps 43.30 —0.30 Bull 38.30 +0.10 Royal Dutch 363 —0.60 Mlchelln 1173 —17 COK 373.50 3.30 Thomson 177 —3 CPP 104.80 +1 Rhone 76.70 +0.30 Air 330.10 —3 BBN 481 —8 Phil 51.50 unch. Sues
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    • 81 16 Closing prices In Swiss francs on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS Bearer 3390 5 UBS Registered 552 l SBS 408 1 Credit Sulsses 2735 5 Swissair B. 641 Swiss Relnsur. 2586 —10 Wlnterthur B. 1925 —> 5 Zurich Insur. 7450 —50 Juvena B. 182 Nestle B. 3380 5
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  • 122 16 Cold wave knocks the down UPI Brussels, Tuesday The US dollar slipped on most European exchanges yesterday amid mounting concern that America's brutal cold wave might also frost the economy. The dollar's only gain came in Milan, from Friday's 881.85 lire to 882.25. In Frankfurt It dipped from 2.42 German
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  • 62 16 UPI Nicosia, Tuesday Oman has decided to raise Its oil price by nine per cent, the Middle East Economic Survey said yesterday. The sultanate, the only substantial Middle East oil producer which Is not a member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, has Imposed the
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    • 319 16 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a kind, optimistic Individual with a very strong tendency toward the kind of leadership that brooks no Interference at the same time that It does the very best by those who depend upon It. TOMORROW... AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Peb. 18)
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  • 463 17 Reuter London, Tuesday Doctor Danie Craven, president of the South African Rugby Board, said here last night that multiracial rugby would be introduced in South Africa in the coming season. Speaking at a press confernece, he forecast that there would be at least six
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  • 195 17 Nival for Taiwan PGA tourney AP Talpeh, Tuesday About 110 professional golfers from Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan will tee off on Thursday In the U5539,400 (5594,560) 11th Taiwan Professional Golf Association Open golf tournament In Tamsui. Lu Liang Huan, president of Taiwan's PGA and a pro star, said
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  • 24 17 Montevideo, Tuesday. Uruguay beat Chile 3-0 yesterday In a warmup match for the World Cup soccer elimination series between South American countries.
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  • 346 17 United Press International Boston, Tuesday.—Muhammad Ali has little doubt he can beat George Foreman again but he cannot afford to be wrong. In town for a benefit exhibition over the weekend, Ali ticked off his usual multitude of rea-> sons for quitting while
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  • 108 17 Reuter Auckland. Tuesday. The visiting- Australian cricketers suffered their second defeat In two matches here yesterday, when they lost to a New Zealand Northern Invitation team by 12 runs In a limited-over match. The Invitation team. made up of players from the Auckland and Northern Districts,
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  • 432 18 Prime Prise led past the 800 m, but War Hawk moved up fast to take the lead at the home turn, with Edinburgh closing in from the rear. Happy Night was well up. Edinburgh, gaining steadily on War Hawk, got up to win
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  • 237 18 By FAIRWAY Penan*, Tuesday Pulau Tioman II, with Leslie Khoo up, did an impressive gallop when he reeled off 600m in 38.8 here this morning. The going was good. Newcomer Bayonet (V. Nathan)' sprinted over 800m In 39. Datln's Fancy (T. L.
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  • 284 18 United Press International New York, Tuesday Joseph Plsani, chairman of the State Senates Consumer Protection Committee, said that Soviet authorities were planning to use American television coverage of the 1980 Moscow Olympics tfor propaganda purposes. Plsani said he was told by "network sources" that
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  • 52 18 Reuter Kinshasa, Tuesday. The Zaire National football team, the Leopards, are being withdrawn from the 1978 World Cup by Sports Minister Mali Mazungu Elonga, the Azap news agency reported yesterday. -The team was scheduled to meet Nigeria's Green Eagles In a World Cup preliminary match on
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  • 54 18 London, Tuesday Soccer star Qeorge Best was fined £75 (about Ss33o) by an English Football Association pisclplinary Commission here yesterday for bringing the game into disrepute. Best, 29, was charged after making a derisive gesture to the referee when his side, Fulham, lost a League match to London
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  • 144 18 Moscow, Tuesday—The Soviet Olympic committee yesterday denied that any company had yet secured television rights to screen the 1980' Moscow Olympic Games in the United States.' The US National Broadcasting Company announced on Sunday that they had reached agreement with the organising committee for exclusive
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  • 401 19 Reuter London, Tuesday Birmingham striker Trevor Francis found reward yesterday for his goal-a-game club form this season as he was named In England manager Don Revle's squad for the friendly soccer International against Holland here on February 9. Francis, 22, Is one of two players Included
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  • 230 19 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday The president of the Olympic Council of Malaysia Encik Hamzah Abu Samah will make a one-day visit to Jakarta this week to meet Indonesian officials of the South east Asian Peninsular (BEAP) Games scheduled to be held here on Nov. 19-20.
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  • 823 19  -  National footballers 'ordered' to play SOCCER SCENE by Jeffrey Low The Football Association of Singapore have managed to settle the Gulam Mohammed case, and now the star midfielder will be back for training soon in preparation for the Pre-World Cup. Ouiam had found difflculty In obtaining
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  • 50 20 AH FOOK: Farmers who have to give up farm-; ing can now look forward to a new lease In life as hawkers. MEI LIN: They'll make a good living provided they can stir up a de licious dish for the fastidious Singaporean. But what if he can't cook?
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