New Nation, 11 October 1977

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    19 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Tuesday, October 11, 1977 No. 2077 Price 25 cents M C (P) 262/1/77 [NEW (0) NATION COMMENT
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    Flats: 'Step in' call to NTUC
    240 1  -  Proposal for co-op to move into renovation business By Gerry de Silva The NTUC was urged yesterday to move ipto the HDB flat renovation business. Delegates at the Jobs seminar want a cooperative to be set up to stabilise prices and out an end
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    ASEAN star singers get a roasting
    231 1 Jakarta, Tuesday An Indonesian newspaper yesterday criticised a show by ASEAN performers staged here on Saturday for failing to present the cultures of tfce ASEAN countries at their best, reports Reuter. The daily Kompas said Indonesian artistes in the show sang a song called
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    Lock icon No, if PLO's out-Syria
    176 1 UPI Beirut, Tuesday Syria will boycott Geneva Middle East peace talks if the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is not represented Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam said in an interview published yesterday by the Qatari newspaper A 1 Arab. "Syria absolutely refuses to attend the Geneva peace
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    Lock icon Lee has lunch with Kissinger
    154 1 AP Washington, T u esday Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew had a private luncheon meeting with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger yesterday In a day given over mostly to the media. In the morning he was interviewed by the editorial board of the
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    Soviet team in Vietnam
    26 1 Hong Kong, Tuesday A high-level Sviet military delegation arrived in Hanoi yesterday for a visit to Vietnam, the Vietnamese news agency reported.
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    Lock icon Police alert stepped up
    50 1 Reuter London, Tuesday Police surveillance at the Indian High Commission here was stepped up yesterday after an international group threatened the lives of Indian diplomats. The threat came from the University Proutlst Revolutionary Federation, a political wing of the Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss) religious sect.
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    Plans for 2 hotels side-by-side
    287 2  - Plans for 2 hotels side--by-side By Peter Ong Hong Leong Holding* will build two hotels aide-by-slde in Anson Road next year. Plans for a third hotel to be built by Hong Leong are being finalised, although approval has already been given by the Ministry of National Development. The three hotels
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    Lock icon He announced the invasion
    232 2 AFP Canberra, Tuesday The Australian Journalist, who read the communique over BBC radio in Singapore announcing the Japanese invasion of the Island, has died suddenly in Melbourne aged 80. A memorial service Slid funeral la being held in Melbourne. Rohan Rlvett was one of the famous
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  • Article
    Drop in armed robberies
    238 2 The mru* monthly number of armed robberies hat dropped over the last three yean. According to the Statistic* Department's latest Issue of Singapore Key Indicators. the averege vu ?a caaea In 19TiTThla feU by It caeca In 1975 and by another Ift eaaea laet year. During
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    Look, who's here!
    89 2 The face to ftmllUr baft the setting la far, far from the maddlnc crowd of the National Stadium. Indeed, It's a whole new kail game for Dollah Martini. And with |tri> aa team-ma tea, Soceer star DoDah says: "Netball Is fan." Bat Instead of aeorlnc coals, Dollah
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    STOCK MARKET
    156 2 Trading opened cautiously with share prices moving on a mixed note during the first 45 minutes of trading today oq the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Blue chips such as Slme Darby generally lost marginal ground. Among those which held steady were the Bank shares and Industrial Issues like
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    Exercises
    23 2 i The Singapore Armed Forces will conduct military exercises at Llm Chu Kang dally tomorrow to Friday from 8 am to midnight.
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    Now PA has its own song
    342 2  -  B J Andrew Lian The People's Association has come up with a catchy Jingle to project Its corporate Image as a community service organisation. First heard In public during the women's sub-committee's 10th anniversary Charity Pair last month, the PA song will now be
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    Swiss fair to open here in January
    108 2 The first-ever Swiss trade and technology fair to be organised in South-east Asia will be held In Singapore In January. The organiser, Exlm Index, hopes It will strengthen trade between Bouth-east Asia and Switzerland. The 8 WlB 8A 8 EAN Trade and Technology
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    Not final yet...
    52 2 The Education Ministry yesterday said that the report on guidelines for assessment and promotion of secondary school pupils, which appeared In New Nation on Oct 3, Is oaly a preliminary report. "Discussions and consultations on these guidelines are being held and have yet to be finalised," the
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    Lock icon Three Singaporeans jailed in Jakarta
    81 2 AFP Jakarta, Tuesday Three Singaporeans were sentenced to three month* Jail and fined 200,000 ruplahs (about $1150) for ahualng their visitors' visa. The three are Goh Beng Teng, 48, Ong Ban Chew, si and Hoon Boon Tong, 52. They were working as CoOks In an
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    Lake and tea kiosk in park at West Coast
    284 4  -  By Wang Look Fung A freshwater lake will be one of the main features In the 21-hectare recreational park to be developed on reclaimed land at Paalr PanJang. Described as a "new lung" in the West Coast, the park will be
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    Invest, EDB tells unions
    230 4 The Economic Development Board welcomes trade unions interested in Investing in industrial ventures. The director of RDB, lir Yeo Seng Teck, said this morning at an NTUC seminar that our trade .unions have already demonstrated their outstanding managerial ability In the servleo industry. "Conceivably they ss£*£ssfttt£
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    Language Council invite to S'pore
    155 4 Singapore and Brunei will be Invited to join the Malaysian-Indone-sian Language Council, whose functions are to coin new Malay terms and work out a common spelling system. At a recent meeting of the council In Jakarta, It was decided to approach the Education Ministers of
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    Workshop
    29 4 Dr. Ow Chin Hock, Parliamentary Secretary (Culture), will open the Commonwealth Asian Regional Workshop on research methodology in Übrarlanshlp at the RELC on Oct 17 at 9.30 a.m.
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    Tan: Six reasons for rapid growth of sport in S'pore
    656 4 Dr Tan Eng Liang, chairman of the Singapore Sports Council, has listed six factors which contributed to the growth of and participation in sport. Speaking at the opening of the Pan Pacific Congress In Sports Medicine at the Hilton Hotel
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    Stamford canal is cleanest
    195 4 By Jape Chew Stytmford canal Is tte cleanest of thfr canals and rivers in Singapore. V Test by the Bnvironroent Ministry have found fish m the cangl which runs from Stamford Road to Orchard Road. The most polluted are the Rochore, Kallang and Paya Lebar canal*,
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    Minister picks 11
    74 4 The Minister tor Social Affairs has appointed 11 members to the management committee of tne Silver Jubilee Fund for a three-year period from July this year. "Hiey are: Messrs Yeo Tlam Slew, Ee Peng Liang, Ng Alk Huan, Yattm bin Dohon, PRBach dev. Cyril Chew Keng Jin,
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    Lock icon Nato plans new N-war strategy
    191 5 Reuter Barl (Italy), Tuesday NATO defence ministers meet in top secret session here today to plan how the alliance would fight a nucleai war with the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. During the two-day meeting US Defence Secretary Harold Brown and his European
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    Lock icon Manila gets NZ army training offer
    162 5 Reuter Manila, Tuesday New Zealand yesterday oflered the Pnlllpplnes training facilities for selected members of its Armed Forces. The visiting New Zealand Defence Secretary Allan McCready made the offer during a meeting with Philippines' Defence Un d e rsecretary Jose Crlsol. Mr. McCready said
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    Lock icon Transplant
    30 5 Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday A kidney transplant has been successfully carried out for the first time by an all-Indonesian team of 23 doctors at the Jakarta Clpto Mangunkusumo general hospital.
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    Lock icon Tokyo and Bonn see eye-to-eye
    425 5 ...on disarmament and ties with Third World nations Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday West German Foreign Minister HansDietrich Gens cher yesterday held more than three hours of talks with his Japanese opposite number, Mr. lictiro Hatoyama, and a West German spokesman said afterwards their views were parallel
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    Lock icon Dewi sues two dailies for $10m
    181 5 UPI Paris, Tuesday—Mrs. Dewi Sukarno,-wife of the late President of Indonesia, has filed a US$4 million ($1« million) libel suit against the New York Daily News and a similar suit against the Daily Express of London for alleging that she had "some commercial ambitions"
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    Lock icon Suharto holds talks with Saudi King and Prince
    181 5 Reuter Amman, Tuesday President Suharto of Indonesia began official talks in Riyadh yesterday with King Khaled of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Fahd Riyadh Radio reported. The talks c o v e r ed bilateral relations and other questions of common Interest
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    Lock icon Bhutto ruled by terror -DPP
    174 5 Reuter Islamabad, Tuesday Former Prime Minister Zulflkar All Bhutto was accused in the Supreme Court yesterday of running the Pakistan government by "institutionalised corruption and terror." Mr A.K. Brohi, deputy public prosecutor, said in a statement to the court that the ex-Premier, who was deposed
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    Lock icon Where TV is the 'top sport'
    363 6 AP Tokyo, Tuesday Japanese spend most of their leisure time watching television or doing other passive activities, and there has been a decline In physical fitness, according to two government surveys released on Sunday -—the eve of Health-Sports Day. Five hours 27 minutes a
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    Lock icon TODAY
    162 6 UPI TODAY is Tuesday, Oct. U, the 284 th day of 1977 with 81 to follow. THE MOON is approaching its new phase. THE MOBNING BTABB •n Saturn. Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury. Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President
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    Lock icon The Old Corner
    83 6 AFP L—Asa, Tawis/ Iks organisers of the Miss liajfllfal Eyea of Great Britain contest yesterday had to crown the runner-up to the competition because the winner, Jedtth Piatt, was afraid of traysMtog by plasa With the title Miss Bcentlfnl Eyes gees a tow of Chicago, ■cllyweed, Washington,
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    Lock icon Peking's new link with masses
    198 6 AP Tokyo, Tuesday. Using microwave radio baams and other new technological means, China Is developing a nationwide telecommunications network, the Hslnhua News Agency said yesterday. The agency said a coaxial cabl«r" 1,800channel carrier communication trunk line linking Peking with Shanghai and Hangchow was completed last
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    Lock icon Red daily blast at Pele
    234 6 'Pawn of capitalism' AP Lisbon, Tuesday.—Exit Pele, the world's greatest soccer player, and enter Pele, pawn of international capitalism, the communist dally, O Dlario, said yesterday as the Brazilian arrived to promote an American soft drink. "If he goes on like this, even 3razll will
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    Lock icon Back after talks
    55 6 Reuter Rawalpindi, Tuesday Pakistan's military ruler General Mohammad Ziaul Haq arrived in Kabul last night on a one-day visit to Afghanistan, Radio Kabul, monitored here, reported. The general returned to Rawalpindi later after a two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates where he held talks with President
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    Lock icon Thai girls plea: Send us back
    159 6 AP Hong Kong, Tuesday— A number of Thai women who entered Hong Kong illegally now are asking the Hong Kong government to send them home free of charge, sources close to the Immigration Department said yesterday. An official spokesman for the Immigration Department declined
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    Lock icon Feted
    26 6 Reuter Hong Kong, TuesdayFormer US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr William Scranton. was feted in Peking last night, the New China News Agency reported.—
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      291 6 Ah Fook: People should retire when they reoch 55. Mel Lin: When you reach 55, let's see what you will say. Ah Fook: Orang patut bersara bila berumur 55 tahun. Mei Lin: Bila anda dah berumur 55 tahun, mari lihat apa yang akan anda kata. FOOTNOTE: Chinese i« a tonal
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    Lock icon Chinese revamp education policy
    423 7 Ideology takes back seat AP Peking, Tuesday China's leaders are making major changes In the country's educational system, which they say was" all but wrecked In the ideological disputes of recent years. The problems, and the proposed cures, came up frequently during a recent 16-day trip
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    Lock icon Britain, Russia sign pact
    187 7 BID TO AVOID ACCIDENTAL NUCLEAR WAR AFP Moscow, Tuesday—Britain and the Soviet Union signed an agreement here yesterday on preventing accidental nuclear war. Signatories were v British Foreign Secretary Dr. David Owen, who arrived here on Sunday night, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. President Leonid Brezh-
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    'Smith tried to get around peace plan'
    174 7 United Nations, Tuesday Rhodealan Prime Minister lan Smith, in a recent secret meeting with Zamblan President Kenneth Kaunda, sought to circumvent the latest US-Brltlsh plan to bring black majority rule to Rhodesia. Zamblan Foreign Minister Slteke Mwale said yesterday. "Mr. Smith came with
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    Lock icon Dayan: There's no better time for peace than now
    340 7 UPI AP New York, Tuesday Israel would rather confront the United States than agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan told Newsweek International in its current edition. "The question Is," said Mr. Dayan, "can we
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    Lock icon Another 14 settlements
    167 7 AFP Tel Aviv, Tuesday Fourteen new Israeli settlements will be founded on the occupied West Bank in the next 12 months, Deputy Defence Minister Mordekhay Tzlpporl said here yesterday. Mr Tzlpporl told a news conference that the 14 Included six settlements to be established provisionally in military
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    37 7 Death LIM NJIT SIONG PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY ON MONDAY. OCTOBER 10 AT 10 A.M. IN JAKARTA. CASKET ARRIVING SINGAPORE TODAY. CORTEGE WILL BE AT 71 SIAN TUAN AVENUE. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN TOMORROW'S STRAITS TIMES.
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    Stronger of the three links
    420 8 TUT weed to create at least 300,000 Jobs in the next, predictably difficult, decade is a responsibility that employers and workers need to share -with government. By taking it upon itself to turn the spotlight on this challenge this week, the NTUC is displaying a
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
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      Beer with him
      104 8 Bus driver John Francis of Canberra, Australia was Jubilant when he won a contest marking the opening of a new hotel in 1970. Bis prise three free glisms of beer a day for the rest of his life. For five years, he enjoyed his winnings, until 1975,
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      Teething problem
      30 8 An over active six-year-old explained to his mother how he knocked oat one of his playmate's teeth: > It wasnt my fault. He knocked my head with his teeth!"
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    Why world economy is so bad...
    1457 8 Dr Goh offers some explanations HOW did the world economic situation set Into Its present bad shape? Why were things so food 10 to 15 years Ago and so bad now? These and other questions have plagued economists in recent years. At the opening
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    But another great depression an unlikely outcome
    3072 9 this. The post-war reconstruction of the industrial states and the new products formed the frontiers at which the major thrust of economic development took place in industrialised countries. We can call the first a territorial frontier as it consists of these countries rebuilding
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    Lock icon The Red Devils
    1571 10 / 11  -  Red Army feeds on terror. It has used terror »T.V..v- to finance itself and increased its strength for future terrorism The diary ok terror The Japanese Red Army makes US Blaek Panthers and Symbionese Liberation Army look like amateurs By Robert Crabbe UPI Tokyo: BhorUy. after five
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      611 10 / 11 Cut out and pin with othar coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address. N.R.I.C. No. Fill in missing letters across using clues below. Cut along dotted lines mm mm mm mm mmm mm mmm mm wmm mmm mam mmm mm m CLUES FOR FB-2 1. A shed, cabin or
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      First time at the Fair
      378 12 The Singapore garment Industry will for the first time thlg month be represented In a major Industrial fastlon "fair In Germany. Fifteen manufacturers will be presenting their latest range of clothe* at the 115 th Igedo International Fashion Fair at Dusseldorf. The objective: To publicise
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      Race to present a showcase of varied looks
      257 12  -  Report by Jennifer Schoon We've been downgrading made-in-Slngapore garments for a long time. Our ready-to-wear has been suspect of being dated, of having poor quality and poor fabric. But the Industry has been exporting these same garments to the United States, Japan
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      Lock icon The ears get it in diving
      361 13 f r Doc's Casebook 4 S.L.C.K. Mr. K complained: "I'm a scuba diving enthusiast. Whilst going i down to 15 metres of water, I heard a sharp hissing sound in my right ear. I felt water rushing in and some pain. This was followed
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      When I count my blessings, the first is food
      605 13  -  JS —Muffet When my c 01league looks up suddenly from his frenzied typing with awe, saying "he's got real talent" (slipping Into the Singaporean "got" because he Is really Impressed), it Is not Journalistic brilliance he is talking about. He is
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      SPICES TO WARM
      373 13  -  I GIRL-TALK by J.Schoon According to Estee Lauder, your face 13 going to need the energy of warm spiced, magnetic makeup shades to hold Its owji against fashion's heady mix of opulent colour and voluminous shapes tfcls season. Her new spicemarket colours are Just too hard to
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    shopping
    276 14 Today's modern and easy-to-use household appliances can be said to be as much responsible for a higher degree of freedom for Women as the fiercest and most energetic feminist movement. They have not only enabled many capable and intelligent women to take up demanding and responsible Jobs six days
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    Lock icon Money market
    184 15 UPI Brussels, Tuesday Ths us dollar had a mixed performance on European money markets yesterday. Gold rose U552.75 In Zurlcn to close at U*****,125 an ounce and U552,875 In London to US$l57. Dealers said the market was steady and at times quite active, with buying at first from
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    Lock icon EEC plan to cut export of steel
    390 15 ...as Japanese warn of 'tension' Reuter Rome, Tuesday Faced with growing protectionist sentiment in America, the steel producers of the European Common Market yesterday proposed a broad agreement limiting sales in the United States If Japan would do the same. This proposal is
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    Lock icon Fall in UK inflation
    63 15 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday Further evidence that Britain's Inflation Is falling was produced yesterday by figures showing that the rise In wholesale prices last month was the lowest since April 1973. The provisional Index Issued by the Labour Government's Industry Department, showed that prices of manufactured Eroducts,
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    Lock icon Operation shake-up by Jardine Matheson
    164 15 Business Neu/«* and Views I /J AFP Hong Kong. Tuesday Jardine Matheson and Co. (South east Asia) Ltd. yesterday announced a major restructuring of the company's operations In Malaysia to ensure Its consistency with national objectives and to partlclJiate fully In Malaysia's uture growth. The
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    Lock icon Hitachi TV
    26 15 Reuter London Tuesday.—The government Is considering an application from Japan's Hitachi Ltd. to produce television sets In Britain, a move opposed by local makers.
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      NEW YORK
      254 15 Stocks, hampered by investor fears of rising interest rates, retreated yesterday in the slowest trading in 21 months as many traders stayed home for the Columbus Day holiday. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been down nearly three points at one time, shed 0.09 point to 840.26.
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      36 15 UPI Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Btocfc Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials MO 20 (off 0.09), 20 transport 218.30 (off 0.69), Ift utilities 114.11 (up 0.07), 66 stocks 290.03 (off 0.11). uri.
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      2 15 Reuter
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      Lock icon PARIS
      79 15 Reuter Closing price* In francs on the Puis Bourse yesterday: Paribas 174.30 1.80 Poncler 274.30 —1.70 Prln temps 84.10 .80 Bull 29.10 .10 Royal Dutch 271.50 1 MlcheUn 1364 24 COB 2M unch Thomson 187 JO .40 c p p 00 JO JO Rhone 83 JO -f 1.80 Air
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      ZURICH
      76 15 Ckwlnf prices In SWlM franca on the Zurich Stock Exchange jmurter: UBS Bearer 3376 8 UBS Registered 578 a BBC 413 Credit SuiaM 3980 3^ Swlaaalr B. MO 1 8w1m Relnsur. 2800 10 Wlnterthur B. 3110 Zurich Inaur. 1336 78 Juvsna B. Ml Nettle B. 3«ao is ttiterfood B.
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  • Sport starts here
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      Lock icon England's signal: Attack!
      473 16 Soccer Reuter Luxembourg, Tuesday England signalled all-out attack when they named their team to play Luxembourg in a European Group Two World Cup soccer qualifying match here tomorrow. Caretaker-manager Ron Greenwood, after making a final decision on the squad's delayed flight from London, named a 3-4-3 lineup
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      Lock icon Portugal keep hopes alive
      135 16 Reuter Copenhagen, Tuesday Fortugal kept their hopes of qualifying for the World Cup soccer finals alive when they defeated Denmark 4-2 In a Group One qualifying match here yesterday. They now have six points from four matches. compared with 10 points from five games for Group
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      PAIRED for the first time
      634 17 STBC recommend Henry and Pauline for Games Kd Bowling Th e Singapore Ten p 1 n Bowling Congress have included a husband and wife combination in their team of 15 recommended to the National Olympic Co u ncll for the South East Asia Oames to
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      Indons or M'sians for the gold —Yazawa
      404 17  -  PWB Table tennis By TONY KOH Japan's M. Yazawa, who Joined the Singapore Table Tennis Association only two months ago as the National coach, has recommended that Singapore field a young team for the South East Asia Games. The BTTA have recommended four
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      Yeung triumphs with his master's pimpled bat
      397 17 Using the long pimpled bat given to him by National coach If. Yasawa, Yeung Hln Choong tooK only 29 minute* to dispose of Tan 800 Lock 21-7, 21-18, 14-21, 21-13 to win the National Junior singles table tennis title at Chung Cheng High
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      B'works can expect tough match
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      454 18  -  HH U L.Lli Wm p 0 0 By PHILIP TAN Indonesia's national waterpoo coach A. Qhofur la confident hi* team will win the sliver medal in the South Vast Asia Games next month and has set his sights lor the fO-d
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