New Nation, 27 February 1977

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  • 10 1 Sunday Nation FEBRUARY 27. 1977 BO CENTS M.C.(P) NO. 261/1/77
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    • 49 1 Emotions may cause cancer Page 8 I I Full story in Page 2 Picture of Paik Choo at five Page 19 tL^i:liiY'." 4 FREE with your paper today 20 students found shot Page 4 Gloria: There's another kind of cinema 'rat' Page 7 Music while you study Page 6
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    • 54 1 FIRST IN FASHION RlgiltwcJ TratU Mark World Cup Inside Track: All odds against Singapore Page 25. The Thai danger-men Back Page 'Uncle'Choo: Pray for us Back Page The mystery men from Pyongyang Page 28 V I V it p i.. mm, x I i. #> -v v V m WIN
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  • 1573 2 rrHE average Slnga- porean's domestic Income last year rose by eight per cent over 1975 to $6,064, according to the Finance Ministry's 1076 economic survey of the Republic. The higher per capita domestic Income was achieved aa the national economy reaped a real Oros«
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  • 220 2 'Vietnam a lesson' AP CHAIRMAN John Sparkman of the U.B. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has urged the US. to ko slow In condemning human rights violations In other countries. Protests of Internal practices In other nations "should be expressed with restraint and only under unusual circumstances,"
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  • 121 2 Reuter WEIGHTING was yesr terday reported continuing In remote northwestern Thailand between rival private armies In vol red In opium smuggling from some of the world's most lucrative poppy fields. At least five soldiers of the Bhan United Army (SUA), one of several Burmese
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  • 198 2 The Workers' Party will meet to discuss a charge by, Leong Mun Kwal that he had Infiltrated the paitjr In order to launch a "black operation" against the government. In his televised confession, Leong, secretary Kneral of tne People's ont, described how he returned
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  • 242 2 Jtfß. Lee Kuan Yew last night expressed A the hope that in the next generation every boy and girl would be able to swim before leaving primary school. Opening the $1.8 million police swimming pool at the Police Academy, the Prime Minister said:
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  • 143 2 r |iHE NTUC is to set up a special fund to look after the family and education of the four children of the late MP for Radln Mas, Mr. N. Oovlndasamy, Mr. C. V. Deva n Nalr said yesterday. Passing a condolence resolution at
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  • 134 2 CHAIRMAN Hu Kuofeng has launched a new campaign to sharpen the 3.5-miliion member Chinese Army and end a practice of patting politics ahead of military expertise, the official Chinese Hslnhoa News Agency said yesterday. The campaign was announced in an editorial carried by the Liberation
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  • 238 2 A SENIOR government doctor yes terday asked If gynaecologists were doing enough to promote vasectomy among Slngaupore men as an alternative to sterllsatlon of the womenfolk. "Is there something amiss with our male population that we are getting such a poor response for vasectomy?" wondered
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  • 305 3 TOREIGN Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeen has expressed the hope that the agreement on improving safety of navigation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore would be acceptable to users of the two waterways. The pact signed by th* foreign ministers of Malaysia.
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  • 162 3 Reuter AP rE face of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will change for the better if the present momentum of the 10-year-old organisation is maintained, a Manila newspaper, the Bulletin Today, said in an editorial yesterday. "The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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  • 26 3 THIRTY TWO people were killed and 52 injured when a goods train ploughed into an express train, in the northeastern Indian state of Bihar.
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  • 106 3 Reuter A 28-year-old Tunisian was sentenced to death by a Jury in Aix-en-Provence in France on Friday for torturing and strangling a former glrlfftend. The court was told that Hamida DJandoubl tortured 21-year-old Elisab e th Bousquet for more than three ou f®
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  • 315 4 Agencies. FDIA's opposition suffered a blow on Friday in the campaign for the general election when leading spokesman Jayaprakash Narayan, 74, was rushed to hospital with kidney trouble In Bombay. Doctors said the veteran pacifist reformer and campaigner against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's
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  • 145 4 A MASSIVE programme to upgrade existing school fields to provide students with facilities for sports and games Is being carried out, the Permanent Secretary (Education), Mr. H.R. Hochstadt, disclosed yesterday. He said the Dover Road Sports Complex had been improved and some schools were already using
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  • 31 4 Reuter MILITANT students occupying the London school of Economics are voted overwhelmingly to continue their 17 day sitin despite a High Court order Instructing them to quit.—Reuter.
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  • 401 4 Reuter AN emergency team at the US State Department mounted a round-the-clock alert yesterday to take whatever action necessary to protect more than 200 Americans in Uganda ordered to report to President Idl Amin tomorrow. A US naval force, headed by the nuclear carrier, Enterprise,
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  • 317 4 They were fleeing from Reds, say police TWENTY bullet-riddled bodies, believed to A be those of extremist students who had Jolped the communists after the military coup In Bangkok In October last year, were found on Friday In the southern province of Surat Thanl, a
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  • 123 4 A SECURITY guard was forced to use a loud hailer to control a crowd of 2,000 boys and girls who gathered at the Singapore Polytechnic on Friday to buy enrolment packages telling them about admission for the next academic year. Most of the boys and girls
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 70 4 Malaysian Home Affairs Minister Tan Sri Ohazali Shafie yesterday refuted allegations that Samad Ismail had in fluenced the literary prize panel or its decisions. The allegations arose from detained ex dejputy minister Abdullah MaJ Id's televised confession on Feb. 7 that he knew that Samad had
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    • 79 4 AP JAPAN yesterday lodged a strong Drotest witn the Soviet Union against its declaration of a 200mile fishery zone surrounding four northern Japanese Islands which have been occupied by Russians since the end of World War Two. the Japanese foreign ministry said. It said the protest, similar to
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    • 68 4 Reuter TWO South Korean Army generals will visit Indonesia next at the invitation of the Indonesian Army, an Army spokesman said in Jakarta today. Major General Lee Nam Koo, deputy chief of the South Korean Army Intelligence will arrive here tomorrow for a five day visit. Major
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    • 59 4 Reuter MILLIONS of Algerians voted on Friday in the first parliamentary elections since President Hou a r 1 Boumedlenne came to power in a mi-litary-led coup nearly 12 years ago. Observers said there appeared 'to be slightly less interest in this poll than in the presidential poll last
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    • 67 4 Reuter A JAPANESE trading firm will export about 10,000 tonnes of steel products to Cambodia the first Japanese export to the Indochinese state under communist rule. Mr. Mlkio Iwal, secretary general of the Japan-Kanpuchea Trade Association In Tokyo said agreement had been reached between an association member
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    • 65 4 Reuter AMERICAN special envoy Clark Clifford said on Friday he thought a Cyprus settlement this year was a definite possibility. At a Dress conference in Nicosia, at the end of his 10 day mission which also took him to Athens and Ankara, Mr. Clifford said there were "any
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    • 69 4 Reuter THE ministerial meeting of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) has decided to call an emergency summit meeting of African leaders to discuss last month's abortive Invasion of the West African state of Benin. In Rabat, Morocco announced It was suspending all participation m the OAU
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    • 59 4 Reuter THE United Arab Emirates (UAE) has proposed a top level conference of the Organisation of Pet r oleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to resolve Ms split over prices. A solution to the dkBute was still possible, AE Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Mana Said al-Oteiba
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    • 51 4 Reuter GUNMEN burst Into the offices of Ethiopia's Trade Union Federation on Friday and shot dead the organisation's chief officer, a union statement said. The pro government All Ethiopia Trade Union (AETU) blamed the killing of its chairman Ato Tewodros Be kele, on "paid reactionary agents.**
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    • 56 4 AP Vietnam has agreed to a U.S. proposal for direct talks on prospects for a full accounting of Ame ricans still listed as missing in the Vietnam War. The U.S. State Department announced on Friday that President Carter will send a fivemember commission to Hanoi in
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    • 42 4 AP THE situation in Rhodesia is rioe for an intensified armed struggle against its white minority government, Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia and Samora Machel of Mozambique declared after meeting in Zambia's Luangwa National Oame Park on Friday. AP.
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    • 42 4 Reuter SRI LANKA Prime Minister Slrlmavo Bandaranalke has said that a general election would be held within the next six months. The term of office of Mrs. Banda ranalkes government, elected in May 1970, expires on May 22. Reuter.
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    • 29 4 Reuter COFFEE prices Jumped on the London market on Friday, briefly hitting a record level over four times as high as they were two years ago.
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  • 348 5 says PLO leader to US on a Palestine state Reuter A PALESTINIAN commando leader said in an Interview published in Cairo yesterday that a proposed Palestine mini-state alongside Israel would require a guarantee of nonaggression from the United States. Mr. Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the Political Affairs
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  • 157 5 Reuter US FEDERAL officials said on Friday they were investigating seve ral New York banks to see if thev had engaged in the "launaering" or recirculating of millions of dollars for underworld figures. among others. A federal grand Jury on Thursday indicted the Chemical Bank,
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  • 86 5 Reuter AN international conference on love and attraction the first of its kind is to be held at a Welsh university later this year, the organisers said yesterday. Dr. Qlenn Wilson of the London Institute of Psychiatry said the Swansea University Conference. to be
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  • 125 5  -  ABDUL IRSAN Press and Cultural Section, Indonesia Embassy WITH reference to your newsreport "Settled for $111 million", publi shed in your Sunday Nation (Feb 20), I am to state that the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore claims no- knowledge of such office as the Indonesian Government Tanker Information Office in
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  • 389 5 THE Singapore Bus Ssrvice will provide three special bus services ior spectators to the World Cup games and all major soccer matches played at the National Stadium from today. The services. A, B and C. will serve Ang Mo Klo New Town, Toa
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 278 6 COMMENT A home, like a woman's face, jars when It Is overdone. It can be argued, of course, that looks are subjective, and what charms one may not have the same effect on another. But each society has Its own norm of what It generally regards
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  • 479 6 AP COME Japanese experts say such things as Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 can be a help to students while studying math, or listening to Paul Anka doing My Way might make the study of English grammar easier. When publisher Masao Sumlno heard
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 132 6 TOMORROWS TECHNOLOGY. YESTERDAY'S TRADITION. SEIKO. THE QUALITY WATCH OF TODAY. Seiko started out making watches with'" uncompromising ideals like pride in workmanship end dedication to a high standerd of excellence. As our technical knowledge and expertise grew, we developed e microtechnology far ahead of its time. We beceme the leading
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 146 7 IT TOOK three women to pull off the perfect crime. Last week In West Germany they held up the personnel of a bank In what seems to have been a truly casual bank robbery. They pointed pistols at the staff and got them to "stick
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  • 91 7 SWEET YOUNOTHINO I know has Just asked me not refer to her as "Ms" so-and-so In future. "That sort of thing may be alright for a married woman who wants to preserve her own Identity," she said. "But where I am concerned it leaves
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  • 43 7 r'S Interesting to listen in when others are having an exchange of opinion. One of my married friends asked another if she regretted having children. "Not In the least," replied the other. "But I do regret getting married."
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  • 135 7 MY FRIEND'S old aant is a kung fa film fanatic and never misses a martial arts movie If she can help It. She would come home from a Aim and rave over It. Her niece Anally loot her patience and told ner not
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  • 575 7 Guardian OHORT-RANGE local *3 forecasts tend to go often awry, predictions of long-term climatic change are apt to produce gales of laughter. In the UB. where the slightly miraculous snowfall at Houston, Texas, during Christmas 1972 has burgeoned Into driving blizzards and
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  • 142 7 I MUST thank the lady reader who rang the Editor to point out a mistake In my column. But I also have to say that in fact I didn't make one. She was referring to my lament on the rats in cinemas being as big as
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  • 200 7  -  Gloria Chandy /tAR owners never v/ stop complaining about the bills they pile up monthly for parking fees. It's true that you can spend a fortune on parking fees in one day If you were to go from hotel to supermarket to shopping
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  • 444 7 HATE to have to hark back to 4 cinemas again. But since part of my Job requires me to review films I do spend a lot of time in them. But the grouse this time Is about that other kind of "rat" you find In
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 2023 8 / 9 Hairless mice to help in the fight ...just as surely as cigarette smoking does, say medical researchers USIS Resource Center CAN your personality trigger a deadly cancer in your body? Some investigators are beginning to suggest that the answer may be yes. Your emotions might
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  • 476 8 / 9  -  If you ask me... GERRY ANN /CREDIT must be given to those who initiated the campaign to inculcate courtesy on the road. One must admit that the amount of work and money spent on the campaign must be enormous. But how effective has it been is
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  • 127 8 / 9  -  CHEW KING HWAN I REFER to your column "If you ask me..." (Feb. 6) where your correspondent Miss 8. Kumarasamy stated that the Ministry of Education had rejected her application to continue teaching after her disability because "It could not set a precedent by employing a handicapped teacher." Miss
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  • Page 8 / 9 Advertisements
    • 28 8 / 9 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF JAWS ran™ WtcrlVmhWv g; Now on sale at your regular bookshop Distributed by: TIMES DISTRIBUTORS SDN. BHD. Singapore e Kuala Lumpur Penang Ipoh
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    • 115 8 / 9 This cine camera sings and talks and laughs. We bet yours only takes pictures. ■is ft w/4 phi. f I ■fT n o» 0 n 0 CHIMC+i C 3 t r-g i r T» 1 Chinon is the World's largest manufacturer of Sound Super 8 cameras We didn'Kget that way
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  • Article, Illustration
    547 10 / 11  -  Or annual reports that are bound to make you blink and wonder whether you are imagining things Words by Nancy Koh TWO mermaids form a U, an abstract the centrefold graces. And a cow, coloured purple, that sticks out a saucy tongue. Graphics to arrest the eye surely.
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  • 393 10 / 11 L. J. HOLLO WAY. Chief Executive and director of Straits Times Press and Times Publishing: "Being a big company, we get a different group of consultants to do our annual reports each year. When we go to what are reputed to be good organ;sations, we
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  • 1093 10 / 11 PETER SUTHERLAND. chairman of the Annual Report Award working committee, and research director of Lyall Evatt (Pte): "Annual reports give the directors an opportunity once a year to report to the people who own the business. It Is true that a company has res p on sibllltles
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 992 12 Your 12-page TV pullout ■y-y L\* JESDAPORN PATTALUNG RONNY PATTINASARAMY Pick of the wee WORLD CUP SOCCER: Singapore vs Thailand on Saturday, Ch. 5 at 3.55 p.m. in COLOUR. One hour highlights of the opening soccer match of the Asian Zone (Group One) World Cup preliminary round at the National
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    • 364 12 01AKAI SOUND SYSTEMS NEW SERIES: THE BILLIE JEAN KING SHOW on Friday, Ch. 5 at 7.05 p.m. in COLOUR. She's a stubby 1.63 m woman with 20-40 eyesight. She's moody, argumentative and sometimes overbearing, but on the court she never fails to draw tennis buffs who say: "Omigosh, its BJ!"
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 220 13 is even Greater now with module chassis and PRECISION-IN-LINE tube f W cm 110* picture tub* The Burggraf L color qltraaensor 2749 belongs to the absolute top class from the point of view of design as well as technique, Compact module chassis with latest VIDOM technique, ultrasonic remote control by
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    • 1116 13 MONDAY ITT SCHAUB-lORENZ IDEAL COLOUR 1742 CTV Precision /A/ LINE Picture tube 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Kudumba Malar (T/r) 3.30 Diary Of Events (T) 3.35 General Hospital 4.15 A PLACE TO LIVE 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 Oecember Bride: Marjorie Main 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.35 FAT ALBERT AND THE
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 144 14 PLAYBACK mm mi t a? SOK,> r i O 1810 *Dual system: Displays both PAL and modified NTSC colour recording when combined with both CVM-1810E&VO-1810. Receives and records TV programmes off the air. •Fully Automatic, solid state circuitry. For further information please contact Setron Electronics Pte Ltd 10, Dundee Road.
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    • 899 14 WEDNESDAY Lenco LENCO TURNTABLES Swiss precision instruments you don t wear on your wrists 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 FLYING NUN (r) 3.30 Diary Of Events (M) 3.35 General Hospital 4.15 INTERNATIONAL ZONI (r): Counting on the Future 4.40 Intermission 5.55 Open 5.58 Electric Company 6.20 Consumers' Guide (E/M) 6.30 NEWS
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 224 15 Help Your Child to Read and Write, and More Young children are prodigious learners; born into a strange world they immediately begin to learn, to understand and to express themselves, ultimately, with language. At the right time for each child, reading and writing can develop into a new wey of
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1181 15 FRIDAY HIl SCHAUBIORENZ CTV DAY NIGHT IDEAL SERVICE 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: Scholar with a Halo (Chap. 2).Teochew Pt. 2/r. Stars Tan Chor Hwee, Fern Kar Gek 4.00 Diary Of Events (C) 4.05 Beyond Today (r) 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 EXERCISE WITH GLORIA 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF
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    • 127 16 h t The ffibongate Collection of Folhtales from Hie Orient The Orient abounds in folktales and myths, some dating back thousands of years. Many of these tales remain unknown to the rest of the world, as they are either handed down by word of mouth or are available only in
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    • 42 16 I A V/. m r y B! BWri y/ -a) s "9P m a JE 1 ffl M f ...AUC ZMPUXMZMT 4T/4N 4U-TIA4£ Hl<^H 'pou'T txi^Kit A& ®>u.irnoN ...txink IT —THB H4MSN X T.5££M 7H£ /N 30 PMY&~ Zti rwi k«9 Br*<«
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  • Page 17 / 18 Miscellaneous
    • 131 17 / 18 f I Ml m «\r >• y m r. i pr •>-' V m* w >■ r'/ J. < i? 'J*'' r Lu& SH OF ALL THE NERVE/ iw Wit 1 vJ *1 m 4 M TH'ONiy 600 D n IVE HAD TW X SERENADED PETUNIA FOR A WHOLE. HOUR
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    • 38 17 / 18 baileV X FALL OUT/ •/OU hJgARD MB/ everyone is SETTING FLU 5>40T5/ fSTOP > THAT MAN// X SAID I'LL TAKE yOU THERE/ 4 n- JMT': •v> T(-IEN I'LL TAKE Vou t>lei?e you DON'T wantlto SET £ICK, do you? s#
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    • 126 17 / 18 WHATRE SOU BUILDING/ VSR highness? what IS "THAT THING T I WELL. IF IT WORKS LIKE A PIPELINE? WELL, IF IT WORKS LIKE BE A PIPE- I WHAT'S THArT J OOP SAYS IT WILL, IT'S LINE.' i A WAN T'SET WATER INT r ii -i II *1 »*i m h
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    • 126 19 M <§ Hotel Malaysia Live llisco poses a hazard to your hip! 2§w i^p.ru i U M (M§ From WlchKa Kmmm Also, Mm dynamic Side Show Pius Juke Box Oldies Menu Let us introduce some and reminisce with others to the beginnings of "Rock Roll" from the mid-SOs to the
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 246 19 GARTH ■m V X A f T c at w nv if to SOMETHING WENTTVVOONO- I LOSE 2 WHEN I SEE ONE PBBMONT OUTBMfIRTEPYOU/ f h 5.2 HkT h\> L i lit HrtJl? ,T u ..<» Mr ITS OVER, LOOMIS LET THE WOMAN GO/ > NO WRY OF SETTING RC2O9S
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  • 850 20  -  HUMOUR WERE YOU THERE? Paik Choo 'THE Queen of Eng--1 land and I are celebrating our silver jubilees this year. HRH her ascendency to the threne and I my neighbourhood's 25th birthday. Allow me a few moments to dab at
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  • 365 20 rpODAY'S listener is indubitably cursed. Willy-nilly, he will mostly be plugging into one aurally virile recording after another. Is It really heartening that severely perfect examples of good recorded sound abound? There Is not much that
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  • 184 20 the baby elephant in the Mandal Zoo, trumpeted a welcome to the second millionth visitor last Sunday. A trunk call for the visitor? A SPATE of venomous speeches by government and opposition speakers Is turning Pakistan's election campaign into a hotbed of political tension, according to a Lahore
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • 1004 21  -  By Derek Malcolm Guardlan pHARLTON HESTON, all of 52 but still very much a man with whom to reckon In the movie world, says there are only 10 "bankable" stars left standing In front of the cameras. And nine of them are men. The
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  • 487 21  -  Jean Rook talks to Mr. Arabian Night Jean Rook Express HAVE it straight from the camel's mouth that Omar Sharif was not secretly married recently. What's more, the oliveeyed son oi the desert known to his friends as Cairo Fred is
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  • 564 22  -  JJ4 EDgar Koh THE SCARLET 1 BUCCANEER (coming to Jade) brings back across a colourful canvas indigo memories of yesteryear's swashbucklers. American d 1 re ct or James Ooldstone (Red Sky at Morning, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight) actually puts It together
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  • 166 22 RTS has. commendable, built up its educational and informational telecast load over recent years to form 25 per cent of air time. Culture and Science and Technology Minister Jek Yuen Thong said this week in Parliament that the quota was among the highest in the region. Among the
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  • 372 22 14 Ik I ml villi f< < k I «iiKi» VILMGOERS who r expect Robert Lee to flaunt his martial art skills before the camera like his superstar brother Bruce are in for a disappointment. The suave, sturdy six-footer has decided to make
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  • 824 23  -  WHEN IT'S TWO-THIRDS RULE AND ONE-THIRD PERSONAL TASTE By Tan Choon Kim MIND THE STOP: A brief guide to punctuation C. V. Carey. WHITHER punctua- tlon, after James Joyce and in the midst of Tennessee Williams? Joyce took It to hell and back, but returned with less
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  • 723 23 Book Page Observer DUST or LIFE Children of the Saigon Streets by Liz Thomas (Hamish Hamilton). AT the age of 14. young Lis Thomas tells ui. the decided she would go to Vietnam. Bhe hsd learned about the horrors of the war
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 316 23 I Be pour own a LL the llfbti were A out In the house last night when I heard a waffling. X Jumped out of bed to Investigate and aaw someone dash from my wife's room and raee downstairs." Russell Kvren told you. "I gave chase. The Intruder ran onto
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 360 24 APPOINTMENTS MALAYSIA (Up to MsBo,ooo p.a.) An international group with significant trading interests in Malaysia requires a General Manager. The successful applicant who will be based in Kuala Lumpur, will be in charge of and be responsible for the success of the entire operations of the trading subsidiaries in Malaysia.
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    • 672 24 ■1 i- TOP MANAGEMENT poarnoN Around $75,000 p.a. plus car Our client, a large well established Group wishes to recruit a General Manager for the marketing and distribution of a wide range of well-known industrial and heavy equipment in Singapore and Malaysia. The position is based in Singapore. The successful
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    • 105 24 NOTICES CONDOLENCE "Wo, the executive! and staff of GEKWEE ASSOCIATES wish to pross our doopost sympathy to our Managini Dirodor MRS. GEK WEE for tho loss of hor mothor MRS. LEE KIP CHEE who passod away poacofully on February 25th 1977/' While every endeavour Is made to publish advertisements on
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    • 722 25 INSIDE TRACK TONIGHT'S open--1 ing match of the pre-World Cup Asian Zone Group One soccer tournament between Singapore and Thailand will roughly indicate how our boys will fare over the next two weeks. All that has been said of Singapore's chances in the encounter can,
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    • 564 26  -  They're among 35 shortlisted iIDSHJ Brian Miller IT UM A R brothers Ashok and Selva will probably spearhead the Singapore Under-21 team at the Asia-Oceania tournament scheduled to be held in Kuala Lumpur In late May. These two schoolboys were among the 35 youngters
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    • 428 26  -  J.iUJJJ J"'JJ Pat Neubronner LI AVE our local 8 hut tiers got what It takes to become An Ideal badminton player? In reoent yean there has been a decline in standards and the ideal shutUer is still to be produced. What really goes into
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    • 356 26  -  Ernest Frida tX>R the first time r amateur players who finish third in the local circuit tournaments will qualify for next month's Rolex Masters at Bukit Course. This was decided by the organising committee of this year's Rolex Masters at a recent meeting at SICC.
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    • 899 27  -  ALL SET FOR 17TH SCHOOLS CROSS-COUNTRY Tan Kim Seng A TOTAL of 327 teams comprising 888 girls and 1.074 boys from more than 100 secondary schools have entered for the 17th Schools national cross-country championships starting next week at the now familiar MacRitchie course.
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    • 456 27  -  S Joyce Tan nrfHE main event 1 on the BWNA 1977 programme begins next month with the business house league which has attracted 44 teams. This is an Increase of 19 teams compared to last year's. The competition which begins on March
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    • 1247 28  -  They sank the hearts of the Italians at the 1966 World Cup and were about to do the same to the Portuguese when... The Black Panther struck By Philip Tan North Korea defeated Italy 1-0 In the 1966 World Cup, the result produced the kind of
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    • 477 28 U K. SOCCER CORNER CIR Aif Ramsey, who lost the England managerial post to Don Revie in 1975. has rapped his successor for a bad Job after seeing Holland humble England 2-0 at Wembley recently. "England were completely dborg&nised. I
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    • 808 29  -  mi Alfred Tong ■T WOULD appear, A from the entries, that most clubs are shying away from competing in the Kiiny Cup, preferring instead the less formidable opposition in the Chua Cup. Only six teams (there were nine last year) are playing
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    • 1080 29 He urges the blacks not to concentrate too much on sport NYT c CINQE my sophomore year at University of California, Los Angeles, I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing fields and too little time in the libraries. Please don't'
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    • 302 30 A BABY swim that teaches infants and young children how to survive In and enjoy the water makes Its official debut with a splash this evening. Mrs. Barbara Hegger, authoress of a book on the watersafe baby technique and founder of the school. Splash,
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    • 1166 30 PERFECTION, fourth In his debut on this course In November, stepped up on that form to score an easy all-the-way win in Race 5 at the Bukit Timah Pro-Am meeting yesterday.' Ridden by George Podmore, this Without Fear four-year-old coasted home four lengths ahead
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    • 636 31 —says SCRUTINEER f OLDEN SHOW V who has been outstanding on the training track the past week will take a lot of beating in the Class 3 Division 2—1200 m Race 4) at the Buklt Tlmah combined proam meeting
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    • 32 31 MALAYSIA'S star midfielder Shukor Salleh. 28, flew home to Penag yesterday Afternoon to be by his wife'g bedside after she fare birth to a baby boy early In the morning.
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    • 1355 31 CLASSES 2 A 3, Dlv A I ijjM 1100 m (For Women rldors handicap) 1 1621 Draft* (Srlangor PRC) 71.5 Mm IMk 11 I 1463 Lady B (Singapore PC) M Mra CMM S I 4173 KmMw (Bukll Timah 8C) 66 MreUac** S 4 Mm
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    • 213 32 PRAY FOR US' SPORTS NATION Vf AJULLAH" will be iH the dressing room batUe-ery of the Singapore team before they take on Thailand tonight Looting strained and tfliged bot confident national coach Choo Seng Quee spoke of Singapore's prospects. "This 1« a national assignment for the
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    • 436 32 rpHESE are four of Thailand's "danger men" who Singapore- defenders must shadow closely tonight in the opening offatch of the preWorld Cup Asian Zone Group One at the National Stadium. They are swift and always ready to pounce on half-chances. writes Philip Tan
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