New Nation, 8 October 1977

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    23 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Saturday, October 8, 1977 No. 2075 Price 25 cents M C. (P) 262/1/77 r —7== —i NEW (l') NATION COMMENT
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    Lock icon US aims in the region
    461 1 .A strategic naval presence and high level of economic activity Agencies Washington, Saturday President Carter yesterday said the United States intends to maintain its strategic naval presence in South-east Asia and continue to contribute to the economic development of nations in the area. In a
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    Mary beats 12 for title
    114 1 Kuala Lumpur, Saturday Miss Penang Christine Mary Lim Kim Boey, 17, walked off with the Miss Malaysia/Miss World title at the Hilton here last night. A hot favourite with the crowd who chanted "Miss Penang! Miss Penang!" before the results were announced, the I.7jn (all
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    Progress
    18 1 Washington, Saturday President Carter said yesterday 'Substantial progress" had been made in negotiations on the Middle Bast
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    Lock icon Two shows on just one TV screen
    96 1 UPI Tokyo, Saturday Sharp ffiectrid Co. of Osaka Introduced a colour television set "that allows viewers to watch two separate stations at the same time, company officials announced yesterday. The 33 em "dual virion" projects on the corner of a screen 6 cm
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    Lawyers the top spenders —report
    242 2 A $600,000 entertainment bill in 1974 Lawyers spent more than half a million dollars on entertainment In 1974 the highest among professionals. According to the first volume of a report on a Consensus of Bervices, 1974, they spent 9609,000 for entertainment, another $12,000 on advertisement
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    Baby dies after fall from cradle
    104 2 A nine month old baby boy died after he fell out of his sarong cradle at his home in Teban Oardens, Jurong, last Sunday. Tap Keng Heng was the youngest In a family of three. Hie mother, Madam Ngoh Ah Keow, a®, said: "When
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    Vietnam mail
    42 2 The postal Services Department will accept parcels to Vietnam by surface mall from Oct 17, The air parcel service will not be available. The surf see postage rates are $8.40 (l-kg); 111 AO <3-kf>: $16 40 <5-kg) and $36.80 (10-kg>.
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    Seminar
    24 2 A seminar on Customer relation* for women, in sales will be held at the YWCA, Fort Canning Centre, on Oct II and S3.
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    No plans yet on that $148,750 windfall
    456 2 Poh Slip Hong, 32, who became blind after a motor accidents two years ago, has not decided what te do with the $148,760 awarded to him on Wednesday. Interview at a friend's shop in Chpl Chee Estate, Poh, who was a provision shop
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    PORT SEMINAR
    56 2 More than 120 people attended a one-day seminar on ways to improve efficiency In ships' operations at the PSA Towers yesterday. The one-day seminar, organised by the Port of Singapore Authority, Is aimed at promoting co-> operation between the PSA and port users in the field of ships'
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    No quorum at meeting
    215 2 The University ot Singapore studentr union annual general meeting on. Thursday was called off—because only 30 students turned up. The union needed a quorum of 200 members, but most of those whq§ turned up were union officials. ussu has a membership of «500 students. The meeting
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    SMMWU to set up $1 million co-op
    282 2 The Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers' Union is to set up a $1 million multi-purpose cooperative at the end oLthis year. A recent issue of the union's bulletin, Suara Pekerja, said the decision to set up the cooperative Is partly in line with
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    Lock icon 50-min White House chat...
    59 3 Mr Lee Kuan Yew meets Mr Jimmy Carter in Washington yesterday. The meeting lasted 50 minutes, including a 15-minute tete-a-tete in the Oval Office at the White House. Mr Lee is the second ASEAN head of government to meet the US president. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk
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    How it all started for them...
    372 3 LOVE AFFAIR OF OMAR, 117, AND DOYAH THE DIVORCEE Alor Star, Saturday. The love affair between 117 vear old silat instructor Lebai Omar bin Dat uk Panglima Garang and 40-year-old. divorcee, Doyah binte Dan, goes back three years to a sugar plantation in Padang
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    Hindu aid scheme
    213 3 The Hindu Advisory Board and the Hindu Endowment Board have jointly appointed a committee to help Hindu destitutes and prisoners. The committed has asked religious, cultural and social organisations to assist in its welfare and service programmes. A meeting has been called tomorrow at the Perumal Temple
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    $50,000 a week for the Kreta Ayer Club
    205 3 Kreta Ayer Consumers' Club is netting $50,000 in sales every week. The Hub, In Sago Lan;, l.s open only for four-and-a-half hours every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night. It gets an average of 1200 customers each night. Club manager Chan Pak Chun*
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    Opening
    29 3 The acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Dr. Goh Keng Swec, will open the NTUC ordinary Delegates Conference at the Singapore Conference Hall tomorrow at 11.30 ajn.
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    Crossing that is closed after 10
    101 4 .This overhead bridge at Upper Cross Street which links the two sections of the People's Park Shopping complex is closed to pedestrians after 10 p.m. This is because it is occupied by a department store which closes at that time each night. The Public
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    Stores step up price spying
    242 4 Mini-recorders used to beat house 'tecs Department stores and supermarkets have stepped up their price spying because of keen competition among themselves. Mini-tape recorders are used by the Espies" as they so round their competitors' stores or supermarkets to check on prices of popular consumer
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    Students told: Stick to schedule
    136 4 The University of Singapore Chinese Studies Department has told its students taking Chinese as a minor subject, to attend tutorial classes strictly according to schedule. Students are not allowed r to change their tutorial groups among themselves, without prior approval from the Department "Approval for
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    Chinese textbooks arouse interest
    298 4 Several countries are keen to buy Chinese textbooks published here for the teaching of the language. They include United States, Australia, Canada, West Germany and Sweden. According to local publishers and distributors, they prefer Singapore" published Chinese text- books to- those available in Hong Kong and
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    To close
    45 4 Residents of Kampong Pek San Teng are requested to use the facilities at Kampong Saa Teng community centre, (telephone *****), as the Kampong Pek San community centre will be closed by the end of this month to make way for Housing Board projects.
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    For charity
    31 4 The Theatre World Association is presenting two charity performances of dramatic play Moon on a Rainbow Shawl at the cultural Centre on Nov 4 and 5 at 8.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon Saudis want workers
    53 4 AFP koala Lumpur. Saturday The Baudl Arabian Government has expressed a desire to recruit workers from Malaysia to work In agricultural projects.- i Malaysian Agriculture Minister Datuk All Hajl Ahmad said this yesterday after the Saudi Arabian Ambassador Sheikh Mohmad Al-Hamad AlSho belly called on him at
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    All-Stars show on TV-'live'
    234 4 The ASEAN All Stars Show on Oct 15 will be telecast "live" from the National Theatre over Channel 8. The 90-minute show will begin at 8 p.m. At 8.46 pjn. there will be break for the news In Chinese, after which the cameras will return to
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    Talk on VD
    22 4 A talk-cum-fllm show on venereal disease will be held at the Kanlpung Eunos community centre on Oct. *t ,u.
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    AEB course
    44 4 The Adult Education Board will conduct a secretarial "development course at) Selegle Primary school from Oct It), on Mondays and Thursdays, from 7 pm. to 9 p.m. For details contact the AEB offices at 126 Calrnhlll Road, or Cultural Centre, Canning Rise.
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    Lock icon Racket behind racket at Thai border
    176 4 AFP Kuala Lumpur, Saturday Thai Customs discovered a racket behind the smuggling of luxury cars into their country across the Thai-Ma-laysian border, it was discovered yesterday. The director-general of Thai Customs, Mr Chanchal Leetavorn, said that two years ago the smuggling of expensive cars
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    Airport racket: Man suspended
    100 4 A senior Civil Aviation Department official has been suspended from work following Investigation Into an alleged racket at the airport. The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau was called In following complaints over the tender ing for shops and award of work to general services contractor! at the
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    Lock icon Period of hard struggle for Laos -paper
    162 5 Reuter Hong Kong, SaturdayLaos is going through a period of hard struggle "full of difficulties and complexity between socialism and capitalism," according to an editorial in the Vientiane daily Sleng Pasason (Voice of the People). The editorial, quoted by the Khaosan Pathet Lao
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    Lock icon Graft probe in New York
    366 5 AP Reuter New York, Saturday. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, still fighting to keep the Concorde supersonic airliner out of Kennedy Airport, is enmeshed in an internal cor ruption scandal. Three officials were suspended recently after admitting that they pad* ded
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    Lock icon Imelda holding bases talks in US—Marcos
    271 5 Reuter Manila, Saturday. Pr e s i dent Ferdinand Marcos disclosed yesterday that his wife, Imelda, was holding talks in Washington on the future of American military bases in the Philippines. "There are conversations going on now between two groups, one group headed by
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    Lock icon 'Unite under New Society'
    158 5 Reuter Manila, Saturday President Feral nand Marcos today called for unity among the people of the Philippines to attain economic and social development under martial lav proclaimed more than five years ago. The President was speaking to cheering crowds at Daet Town, 224 kms south-east ot
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    Lock icon Wedding day tragedy
    47 5 UPI Rawalpindi, Saturday— More than 40 people, all members of a wedding celebration, drowned in a canal yesterday 240 km south of hers. It was reported that all members of a wedding party travelling to the house of the bride on a camel cart.—UPl.
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    Lock icon Empty Concorde takes off for Bahrain
    152 5 Reuter London, Saturday For the first time on a scheduled flight, a supersonic Concorde airliner took off yesterday without a single passenger. The 100-seat British Airways jet was re-introduc-ing a twice-weekly Concorde service to Bahrain. As no passengers were booked, it did not park
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    Lock icon 200,000 African students boycott schools
    176 5 UPI Johannesburg, Saturday.—More than 196,000 African pupils currently are boycotting schools In a spreading wave of defiance agalmt South Africa's segregated education system, officials said yesterday. The massive boycott also Is linked to nationwide sympathy for black nationalist leader Steve Biko, who died mysteriously In
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      282 5 ROCDORE PRIVATE SCHOOL (Cert, of Registration of School 371) 17-B, Mayo Street, Singapore 8. Tel: *****4. Principal Senior Director of Studies K.A. Augustine, 8.A., B.L. REVISION LECTURES IN GENERAL PAPER HISTORY (PAPERS ¥1 t VIII) FOR PRE-U 1& 2 (G.C.E. 'A' LEVEL) AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE (PAPER 121) FOR SINGAPORE-CAMBRIDGE G.C.E.
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    Lock icon Paper reporting Tito, wife rift withdrawn
    314 6 Reuter Belgrade, Saturday. Yugoslav officials yesterday withdrew a major western newspaper irom sale In what appeared to be a measure reflecting sensitivity about a reported rift between President Tito, 85, and his wife Jovanka. Madam Jovanka Broz, 52, almost always at the President's side
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    Lock icon Brezhnev is all power: Experts
    467 6 Choice of mate and protege proves his strength UPI M os cow, Saturday Boviet President Leonid Brezhnev emerged from this week's private and public Kremlin politicking as an unquestioned supreme leader with au the power and all the options firmly in his hands. Western diplomatic
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    Diplomats owe $420,000 in fines
    136 6 Copenhagen, Saturday. —Diplomatic relations between the Copenhagen traffic police and foreign diplomats in Denmark--or at least some of them —are near to breaking point Poiioe Sunt. JJL Hasselrlls, head of the traffic police. •is frankly exasperated. The reason: Foreign diplomats owe the government-a total of
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    Lock icon Be positive with Thais, Khmers told
    234 6 AFP Bangkok, Saturday The local press yesterday called on Cambodia to react positively to a recent call from Thailand's top military authority for a dialogue between the two countries. The call "urging the Srernments of Thailand d Cambodia to enter Into a dialogue to
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    Lock icon Sandwich dinner
    38 6 AFP London, Saturday The British sandwich will soon become the stanr dard school "dinner" for children in the email Arab Oulf state of Qatar. A £1 million <K* million) order has been placed by Qatar. AW.
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    Lock icon Plan for N-fuel plant for Australia
    134 6 Reuter Canberra, Saturday Nuclear fuel experts Irom West Germany, the Netherlands and Britain will visit Canberra next week to discuss the possibility of establishing a uranium enrl chm en t plant In Australia, it was announced yesterday. The government. Which lifted a four-year ban
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    Lock icon 'US army probe team doped us' charge
    131 6 Reuter New York, Saturday An American soldier, nine Europeans and seven Asians were given the hallucinogenic drug LBD without their consent by an US army intelligence team, the New York Times said yesterday. The soldier, James Thorn wall, who was 23 at the
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    Lock icon Bonn's new Minister
    76 6 Reuter Bonn, Saturday Baron Tto Lambsdorff, 50 year old Insurance company director, was sworn In as Economics Minister of West Germany in Parliament here yesteruay. A member of the Free Democratic (Liberal) Party, he succeeds another liberal, Mr. Hans Frlderlciis, 46, who has held the post for
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    Lock icon TODAY
    182 6 UPI TODAY is Saturday, Oct. 8, the 281 st day of 1977 with 84 to follow. THE MOON is moving towards Its new phase. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Venus, Mars. Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. Famed American aviator Eddie
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    105 6 Reuter Nancy (Francs), Saturday —A hank manafcr who formed a gang to rob his own bank because his mistress threatened to leave him. has been ■reed by a court here but the mistress was sentenced, to «*x months' jail. The manifer was found guilty of breMh of
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      146 6 •JMM WEATHER Rome—Sunny, 25 11C. Headline: Governmentlabour summit about pensions. Paris Cloudy, 15 8C. Headline: Marchals charges that socialists veer towards right. Moitco.-.—3unny, 6-OC. Pravda's Headline: Soviet Parliament discusses draft constitution. London Showers, 1512C. Headline: (Foreign Secretary) Owen looks to Rhodesia ceasefire' talks 'In few weeks." Rio de Janeiro—Cloudy. 24-16C.
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      65 6 32 23C- Headline: Govt challenges Mrs Indira's release. Sydney:—Pine, 19-12 C. Headline: New threat to mall (Sydney's mall may be halted by 24-hour strike Monday).—UPl Singapore Singapore's we a ther for the 24 hours to 7.30 a.m. today: Max. temp. 30.0 C; min. temp. 23.7 C. Hours of sunshine —3.85.
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    Lock icon A miracle if no war—Assad
    451 7 A miracle if no war —Assad UPI Reuter Beirut, Saturday Only a miracle will save the Middle East from another Arab- Israeli war, Syrian President Hafez Assad said in an interview with the Patts-based weekend edition of the Beirut newspaper, An Nahar. But ths Syrian leader said his country would
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    Lock icon Angry miners down tools in Belgrade
    249 7 Reuter Belgrade, Saturday Thousands of coal miners downed tools and stayed" underground for two days in the biggest strike in communistruled Rumania for 30 years,' well-informed sources Jiaid yesterday. President C e a usescu was forced to Intervene in the strike, which took place
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    Lock icon Unusual operation
    56 7 AFP Hong Kong, Saturday V 1 ei n a mese surgeons have successfully removed from a two-month-old baby girl, two leas arid buttocks of her twin, which were linked aa a parasite to her chest. The Vietnam news agency reported that the baby, Dtnh Hhl Kim Hoe, was
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    Lock icon POLICE ACT...
    71 7 South Korean police breaking up a sit-in by student* at the Seoul National University yesterday to protest against an order cancelling a symposium. The university authorities withdrew an earlier permission for a symposium on nationalism which waa to be held by professors and students. While the professors complied
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    Lock icon Lebanon: Fighting again
    149 7 Reuter Beirut, Saturday Fighting flared for the second time this week In Lebanon's volatile south yesterday, raising doubts about the durability of the ceasefire declared 12 days ago. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that Israeli and Lebanese right-wing gunners bombarded positions held by Lebanon's leftist- Palestinian
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    Lock icon Governor jailed 4 years for fraud
    163 7 Reuter Baltimore, Saturday Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel was sentenced to four year's Jail yesterday for racketeering and mail fraud. Judge Robert Taylor told the governor before sentencing, "I feel sorry you are in the fix you're in," but added, "I think you made some
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    Lock icon Divorce rate in Britain trebles
    161 7 Reuter Harrogate, Saturday— The English divorce rate has nearly trebled In seven years and Is now among the highest In the world, High Court judge Sir George Baker told the Law Society's annual conference here yesterday. He expected about 180,000 divorces this year or about
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      398 7 One thing is common to these soccesstol men... v> m Xt v. they speak Hokkien Effective communications, as these four successful Executives wi teN you, is the keynote of success. And in their cases, being able to deal in Hokkien with the Hokkien business communities has paid off handsomely. In
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    Yes, please watch the clock
    433 8 One estimate says that 70 to 80 per cent of Singaporean Chinese have "kicked this Dad habit" of being unpunctual. Various authorities on the Chinese community here say that Singaporean Chinese are generally punctual for business meetings. Westerners find it a relief to do business
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    You just can't hide it
    137 8 HS (s> People who travel In aeroplanes for the first time always seem to give themselves away... like this Incident told by a colleague who was on a recent MA flight from Singapore to Manila. He noted that while In mid air, two men were
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    Lock icon Caught between two cultures
    895 8  -  By Margot Hornblower Washington Post Nondalton, Alaska George Tretikoff, a 20-year-old Eskimo, went fishing last January, he said, "to survive." But he and a friend were arrested by Alaska fish and game wardens for catching 77 rainbow trout out of season. He spent 19 days In
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    Correct level
    132 9  -  CHONG WEE LIAN (Mrs.), Ag. Asit. Secretary, Pub Lc Relations Unit, Housing and Development Board. Singapore 1. We would like to Inform your writer, Action Please (NN. Aug 27) that even before his letter was published, the building contractor for Block 14, Dover Close had been Instructed to
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    Frozen or not, fish is fish
    189 9  -  Mrs. Ivy Goh-Nair Secretary Committee of Profiteering and Inflation Department of I>ade Singapore 1 I would like to reply to Mr. Chua Llan letter (NN, Oct I) regarding the frozen Ash campaign first, I would like tQ thank Mr. Chua for his interest In
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    Remove ban on plain visors
    145 9  -  CHEAH SIN HEAN Helmets and crashbars will be made compulsory by July next year In an effort to minimise Injury to motorcyclists in accidents. May I suggest that it would be consistent with the government's policy of increasing road safety if the ban on plain
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    Don't leave out the guests...
    172 9 rm pretty sure that you have passed on my previous letter to the RTS. Hence the Donny and Marie show. I want to say a real big thank you before going into other things! I also want to say a thank you to the Citizen
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    Shift: More harm than good
    174 9 I refer to the reSort. "1200 Varsity tudents For The Big Shift" by Teresa 00l (NN, Sept 29). I read with concern the possibility that the arts students will be shifting two years ahead of schedule and will have to share facilities with the engU
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    Fair music too loud
    74 9 We are frustrated by the loud music coming from loudspeakers at the Marine Parade Trade Fair. We have endured this nightly from 8 to 11 p.m. since the fair started nearly a month ago and will have to bear with It some time more. Our appeals
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    Up to old tricks again
    95 9  -  M.H., It seems quite a few BBS drivers are now regrettably reverting to the old habit of stopping their buses some distance away from the designated bus stops. On Bept 24, at around 5 p.m., I saw two buses, coming within minutes of one another,
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    Write in to buy
    59 9  -  CHONO WEE LIAN (Mrs.), Ag. Asst. Secretary, Public Relations Unit, Housing and Development Board, Singapore h I would like to Inform A Resident (NN, June 25) that tenants of SIT fUta who want to buy their rented flats should write to their area office. The board
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    Service
    56 9  -  M. MOSHIN I suggest that the management of BBS add another service from Ang Mo Klo New Town to Lower Delta flatted factory—from Ang Mo Klo via Thomson Road, Balestier Road, Jalan Besar, Bras Basah Road. North Bridge Road, Nell Road, Outram Road, Tlong Bahru Road and ends at
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    Pedestrian's plea
    122 9  -  WILLIAM CHIN Please help me and all the people in Upper Berahfoon to solve this pedestrian crossing as shown in this diagram of the Upper Serangoon Road and Yio Chu Kang Road junction. Is it an offence (or pedestrians to cross from point A to B? If it
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      23 9 MAIL BAG WRITE TO THE EDITOR. NEW NATION. LOCKED BAG IS. SINGAPORE I. Only letters with correspondents' mom and addresses will be published.
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    Poker-faced audiences spoil the shows
    409 10 / 11  -  r. i Siyht Sound L Judith Holmberg It is the studio audiences that are spoiling some of the radio and television programmes that RTB produces. Watching excerpts of this yew's Chinese talentlme and Juara brought home to me how Important audience reaction Is to the
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      1395 10 / 11 I 3 NT GUIDE SATURDAY 1.05 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SESAME STREET. IN SATURDAY MATINEE: Queen of the Seas. Lisa Oastonl •tars as a fiery, beautiful girl, disguised as a man, who takes over command of a pirate •hip In this Italian movie dubbed in English. She is reformed by
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      738 10 / 11 FM STEREO SATBMAY 6.00 P.M. Opening Anncts. and Programme Summary followed by At 8 u n s e t: Sexy Saxes/Jake Conception and Orch., Sweet with a Beat—Various Artistes 6.30 News (E) 6.45 At 8 u n s e t (cont'd) 7.00 Dutch Concert Hall featuring the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
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      625 10 / 11 TOP SHOWS OF THE WEEKEND today >»jryj l ®%rnr i TOMORROW SUNDAY MATINEE: Number One. (Ch. 5, 10.45 a.m. in colour). Funny, touching, and sometimes rotten—that's how a critic described this movie which is supposed to touch on every moral dilemma of the western world. It includes the vicarious enjoyment
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    A HOUSE DID IT!
    644 12  -  Killed four people in 90 minutes lIMMX l>v Tan Bah Bah BURNT OFFERINGS: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Eileen Heckart, Bette Da- vis/ Burgess Meredith. Directed by Dan Curtis. Screenplay by William F. Nolan and Dan Curtis. (Comlnr to the Cathay). For ope and a half hours,
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      267 12 and around town YOU EXHIBITION It on at "the Jurong community centre from 2.30 p.m. to 10 pan. Admission Is tree. ROAD SAFETY EXHIBITION, 'Jointly organised by the People's Association and the, Ministry of Home Affairs, Is on at Chong Pang community centre from 2.30 j?m. to 10 pjn. Admission
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      170 12 Sports diary SOCCER: friendly Singapore Indians v Toa" Payoh United FC (Jalan Besar Stadium,J7;30 p.m.) I n te r c_o n stituehcy tournament -Ponggol v Anson, Boon Lay v Chua Chu Kang (Olllman Barracks); Buona Vista BuWt Tim ah, Alexandra v Paslr Panjang (Gloucester Bar racks); Slglap Tamplnes, Tanglln y
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      784 12 the cinema AIRPORT 77: This Is not I sequel to Arthur Haley'* Airport but a new tale of airborne adventure. An all-star cast. Prince: 1.30, 4.15, 6.45 and 9.30 pjn. -EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC: Regan MacNell, four years after her exorcism. Is haunted by bizarre dreams. While a psychiatrist uses
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    Watch out for Oleg, the young Russian
    370 13  -  Chess by Leslie Leow It is common knowledge that the USSR has dominated world chess lor decades, but few realise that until the early seventies, it was roughly the same few individuals who had been holding the Russian fort for all those years.
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    Problem of our local writers
    849 13 Or finding an audience willing to support creative writing FBooksh«»lfl SINGAPORE WRITING. Edited by Chandran Nalr. Woodrose Publications. 202 pages, $8.80. Reviewed by Ivan Fernandez. A perennial problem of the local writer in the English language is finding an audience that is willing to support
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    Yes return to their roots
    296 13 YES: GOING FOR THE ONE (ATLANTIC) Yes, indeed, Rick Wakeman is back in Yes. And the result is a classic album which is sure to set the hearts of many a fan on Are. After three years of solo ventures, he Is sttu able to
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    223 15 Money market Brussels, Saturday The American dollar yesterday closed at a new all-time low In Zurich, moving cloeer to the 2.30 Swiss franc level at which Swiss dealers predict it may stabilise. Gold gained 25 cents in Zurich to close the week at U*****,375
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    21 15 Reuter Vienna. Saturday OPEC yesterday signed loan agreements totalling US$5O.9 million to finance major projects in 12 developing countries.
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    339 15 f Business News and Views AFP Tokyr, Saturday Japan sees urgent need to expand its imports to help stem a further rise in the yen's value which will certainly hurt the ex-port-oriented domestic e c o nomy, observers here said yesterday. The Finance Ministry considers
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    Trading takes a turn for better
    376 15  -  Market round-up lU. Lee Yew Meng Trading on the Singapore stock market took a turn for the better in the last three days of the week, with renewed sp e culative support for selected second and third liners. After five consecutive weeks of decline
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      231 15 The stock market, torn between the conflicting news of rising interest rates and indications the economy was improving, closed out a disappointing week yesterday with anjrregular loss. Trading was slow. The Dow Jones industrial average, up nearly two points at the outset, fell 1.73 points to 840.35, giving
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      35 15 UPI Dow Jones closing averages on the Mew York Stock Exchange yasterday: 30 Industrials 840.35 (off 173), 30 transport 31S.M (00 0.08), 15 utilities 11.04 (Oil 0.17), 65 stocks 390.30 (off 0.43). UPI
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      146 15 AFP Growing concern about an, erratic move In the value of the yen against the US dollar pulled down prices further on the Tokyo stock market yesterday. The 225 blue chip Dow-Jones average lost 5.82 yen to 5231.61 yen and the wider-based Index was <}own 0.94 at. 385.01. Depressed
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      77 15 Reuter Closing price* in franc* on the Pari* Bourse yesterday Parlbas 173.50 2.40 Fonder 276 1J0 Pr in temp# 34.70 .30 Bull 20 JO Royal Dutch 273JO 1 Mtchelln 1340 COB 2M o Thomson 187.90 60 C P P 98.60 JO Rhone 52.30 JO Air 288 1 B 8
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      82 15 Closing prlcM in 8wisa franca on tne Zurich Stock Lxchang* yesterday: UB8 Btanr 3280 20 UBS HoaHHfof 1 MO ■!.,>, in 1 Credit StHaae 2400 BVtaealr B. M4 4 Svtaa RMnaur mo 60 Wintharthur 1». 2110 w Zurich Inaur. •250 126 J uvena B. 229 1 Nestle B. 2006
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      149 16 Squash Reuter Melbourne, Saturday World No. 1 Geoff Hunt of Australia moved Into the final of the AflO,ooo (about 5527,000) Australian professional squash championship here last night with a 10-8, 10-8, 3-9, 9-7 victory over Hiddy Jahan of Pakistan. Jahan, playing at the peak of his
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      103 16 Manila, Saturday Veteran* Bddle Cruz and Romeo Rafon yesterday fave the Philippines an early 2-0 lead in their Eastern Zone Cart* Cup tennis tie against Thailand yesterday. Both had comfortable victories, Cruz beating Somparln Champlsrl 8-2, 6-3. 6-3 and Rafon beating Plchert Boratlsa. a
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      177 16 Tennis KAANAPALI (Hawaii). Saturday Top-seeded Jimmy Connors yesterday advanced Into the third round of the US$lOO,OOO (about 3*240,000) Hawaiian tennis Or a rid Prt* without swinging a racquet. Connors moved ahead by default when his scheduled opponent, Jurgen Fassbender of West Germany, had to bow out
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      333 16 H Motorracing Reuter Mosport (Ontario), Saturday—World motorracing champion Niki Lauda yesterday withdrew from tomorrow's Canadian Grand Prix, saying he "fought all night" with his consience before making the decision. The 28-year-old Austrian telephoned tne new chief mechanic of tht> Ferrari team, Roberto Nosetto,
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      154 16 Reuter Teheran, Satarday Despite baring to fto with an ordinary racket, American Mike FtlhbaCk scored yet another victory to the DtfITMM (abont Ss42§,#o9) Aryamehr Cap tennis champlonahtes here yesterday. The controversial doaMc itram racket such advantage this year ha beat Btan With to the U8 Open
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    259 17 Request by nine bodies Kuala Lumpur, Saturday Nine National sports associations have asked the South East Asia Games Technical Committee to conduct dope tests on the competitors during the Nov 19-26 Games. The sports are weightliftlng, .swimming, hockey, judo, eyeing, athletics, boxing, volleyball and archery.
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    Oh the hero in District E's title win
    300 17  -  Basketball. By TONY KOH Ex- national Oh Tal Nam played a big part In District E's 72-59 win over District RW in the Vigilante Corps InterDlstrlct basketball tournament final at the Oay World Stadium last night. Playing in the pivot position, he
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    379 17  -  RUBY CHANG This in reply to the report, Ruby Case: STBC hit out. (NN, Sept 24). To start with, the Singapore Tenpln Bowling Congress must realise that I am not protesting against the result. All that I want to do Is protect the interest of bowlers who take
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    Moulmein, Gardens set far thriller
    140 17 K3 Soccer The highlight of this weekend's Inter Constituency soccer matches should be the second round clash between Moulmein and Serangoon Gardens. Moulmein turned In a spectacular performance 'last week when they ousted defending champions, Ulu Pandan. It would be interesting to see if this
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      326 17 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you pos- v sess the kind and degree of self confidence that makes it easy for you to Initiate aetlon, TOMORROW LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)— Don't turn your back on one seeking a favour. Remember that you will want It returned
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    524 18  -  ROUND 1: SABA officials unhappy over his irregular training sessions ROUND 2: He hits back with a TU quit' warning—and now for ROUND 3... —says Khoo R9 Booting By I PHILIP TAN The war of words between light-middleweight K. Krishnan and the Singapore Amateur
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    253 18 Km! Boxing Reuter AP Rome. Saturday Colombian Rodrlgo Valdes and Benny Briscoe of the United States will meet In the northern Italian town of Caxpfone D'ltalla on Nov 5 for the world middleweight boxing title, promoter Rodolfo Sabbatinl said here yesterday. The bout
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    171 18 Reuter Chris tchurch, Saturday The New Zealand Hockey Association will reconsider its shock decision not to send a team to the World Cup tournament in Buenos Aires next March, it said yesderday. The decision by the ruling Olympic champion country to skip the Cup
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    149 19 Reuter Wentworth (England), Saturday A special police guard was mouited on American gplfer Ray Floyd here yesterday after an anonymous telephone threat during his World Match-Play championship semifinal. Touraamect organisers at tta VfentWestt CMf Cleb received tkc eaD during aaftenioouto phif. ette> said that sithls a
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    Marsh and Floyd in the final
    572 19 WEZ London, Saturday Graham Marsh of Australia and Ray Floyd of the United States upset the favourites here yesterday to reach the final of the £130,000 (about *****,000) C o 1 gate World Match-Play golf championship. In one 30-hole semifinal, Marsh had to beat
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    443 19  -  Rugby By BRIAN MILLER The National rugby team will have to tighten up their backline and improve on their overall play if they hope to create an impact at the South East Asia Games next month. This is the opinion of National coach Natahar
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    24 19 Kuala Lumpur, Saturday A visiting Western Australian women's soccer team thrashed a Selangor Selection 4-0 in a friendly match played here yesterday.
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    Morley in the lead
    50 19 Tokyo, Saturday American Mike Morley, a first-round Joint leader, shot a three-under-par 68 for a 136 total to maintain the lead after the second round in the US$3OO,OOO (afcout 8(720.000) Talhelyo (Pacific) Masters golf tournament at QoUnba yesterday. One stroke behind was Japanese veteran Teruo Suglhara,
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    318 20  -  ggn^ As the Quah Kim Song controversy hots up in S*pore, Malaysia finds it has a similar problem.,. By PHILIP TAN Malaysian soccer officials, grappling with the playing status of Singapore star Quah Kim Song, are facing a similar problem with one of their
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