New Nation, 23 October 1977

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1 32 New Nation
  • 10 1 Sunday Nation OCTOif* 23, 19t7 JO CKNTS M.C.(P) NO. 2CI/1/T7
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 76 1 'r?» i "A if r >1 -V. I n 2:.? < \t> m [CT>I»T» I •Viz* Mr Chips An appreciation of Francis Thomas by a friend of the family Page 10 Heard that one about coconuts? LIES! LIES! LIES! Page e I I rr*- So you want to be an
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    • 61 1 ORIS -jnfeed ftinii t> i iMf co i ro 54Vjmt m \V X ZL a 38 g t i 2« i J 3i 4! When you try to speok the locol lingo... Page 20 Man with an incredible shrinking problem Page 5 Sole Agents CASEY ENTERPRISES PTE. LTD. High Street
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  • 180 2 Disputes won't affect poll supportHussein Reuter T)RIMK Minister Datuk I Htuaein Onn Mid In Petaling Jaya yesterday that political dispute* between member parties of Malaysia* ruilng National Front would not affect people's support lor It at future elections. Datuk Hussein was openlnc the annual deleBte conference of Oetan Rakyat (People's
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  • 379 2 Curfew imposed in three more districts VIOLENCE spread In Kelantan yesterday, with demonstrators turning their wrath on the Deputy Mentr! Besar, Hajl Wan Ismail bin Wan Ibrahim. The 24-hour curfew imposed on Kota Baru on Wednesday was extended yesterday to three districts. Including the Kubang-Kerlan local
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  • 265 2 AFP Reuter rrCflE semi-official InX dOneelan newspaper Suara KaTya yesterday expressed concent over what It called instability In Thailand. Commenting on the coup detat in Bangkok on Thursday the paper •aid: "Whatever the reasons are for the power takeover by the military ln> Thailand, the Thai
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  • 50 2 THRU children were found drowned In a ljm deep pond in the middle of a vegetable plot In Jlnfeng Utara In Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Police identified the dead as JCong Mel Ling, live, her brother Wong Sek Font, seven, and another boy Wong Loks Yong, tour.
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  • 92 2 rB Ministry of National Development is taking steps to develop a pool of sub-pro-fesSlonal engineers through an In-service training scheme. The scheme for electrical and mechanical engineering assistants Is In. the process of being finalised, said Dr. Tan Kng Liang, Senior Minister of State, National Development
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  • 111 2 UPI mHE stonecutter at a X graveyard In A bad an, South Iran, changed an epitaph because he was not paid by the relatives of the 4ead. the Kayhan Newspaper reported yesterday. A surprise awaited the relatives of Kasem when they visited his grave.
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  • 181 2 Acubtomer-rela-TIONB seminar for saleglrls in Singapore, organised by the Young Women'f Christian Amo t elation, met with a "nosale" sign yesterday. "Only six women signed up for the seminar and we had no choice but to cancel It," said the YWGA Executive director. Mrs. 8.8. Williams.
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  • 27 2 ONE of Hong Kong's best known British businessmen, Mr. Vernon Roberts, died yesterday In hospital In the British colony following a heart attack.
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  • 110 2 TULIPINO Muslim gue■T rillas ambushed a marketing party of soldiers' wives on Jolo island on Friday, killing two women and a draftee, and wounding another draftee, the military south command said. It said the rebels who had earlier attacked a military airstrip on Jolo waylaid the marketing
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 55 2 Reuter POLICE yesterday arrested about 50 antiuranium demonstrators in Brisbane, including a federal senator, during protests against mining and export of the nuclear fuel. The protests in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne attracted nearly 35,000 people. During the Brisbane rally police confronted about J,OOO demonstrators when ttur tried to
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    • 76 2 AFP SRI Lanka's new government divested Itself of extraordinary powers adopted by the last regime of Mrs Sirlmavo Bandaranaike to deal with those involved In the 1971 Insurgency and violators of exchange control regulations. The government did this by steering through Parliament a bill to repeal
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    • 76 2 Reuter AN ARMY officer was shot dead when he tried to assassinate North Yemen's new president Ahmed Al-Ghashmi in Sanaa last Monday, a North Yemeni envoy was quoted. The attempt was made Just six days after the assassination of former Bresident8 resident Ibrahim Al[aodi. Hie emirates
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    • 76 2 Reuter A SEARCH war going on yesterday for seven American marines missing from a crashed hellcopter In mountainous Jungle country on the central Island of Mlndoro. Eighteen other US servicemen were killed and 13 badly Injured In the crash Friday. The crash, the second within a
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    • 70 2 UPI THE Judge in Roman Polanaki'a sex crime trial yeaterday gave the director the weekend to find a way back from Tahiti and explain what he waa doing in a beer hall in Germany while on special parole to finish a movie set In the South
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    • 59 2 Reuter THE Indian High Commissioner Mr. J c Adjami said In Canberra yesterday, Australian airports were on maximum security alert because of threats to hijack Air India aircraft. Mr. Adjami said the threats came from supporters of a religious sect, the Ananda Marga (Path of Eternal Bliss)
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    • 69 2 ACCUSED "Son of Bam" killer David Berkowiu on Friday was found mentally fit to stand trial. State supreme court Justice John Starkey abruptly ended a two-day competency hearing by ruling that the 24-year-old Berkowiti could stand trial on murder charges. The former postal clerk Is
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    • 62 2 AFP JAPANESE shipbuilders have decided to lower the Interest on shlo export credit from the present 8.75 per cent a year to eight per cent to promote exports following the recent yens steep appreciation, Industry sources said today. The interest cut, which has been demanded by foreign
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    • 52 2 AFP EIGHTY villagers of Bengkulu district, south Sumatra were ruahed to hospital after eating fish and shrimps caught on the beach, it was reported In Jakarta yesterday. Reports said the villagers suffered stomach ache and diarrhea shortly after eating the poisonous fish and shrimps, but said there were
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    • 45 2 Reuter THE wife of President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire died In Switzerland yesterday, an official at the Zaire diplomatic mission announced In Oeneva. He dkl not give the cause of death but a Swiss radio report said she died In hospital.—
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    • 53 2 PAN American World Alrwaya aald yeaterday It haa applied to the Japaneae Government in Tokyo tor permlaalon to introduce apeclal budget fare flighta on Pacific route*, similar to the 50 per cent discount flights on ita Atlantic routes. Airline offlclala aaid Pan Am plana to offer the new
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  • 140 3 AFP AL Fatah, the main group In the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). agreed after seven hours of talks In Beirut last Friday to reject the American working document on resumption of the
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  • 296 3 No high--rise slums Govt's prwrite: 'THE government will not let Singapore's high- rise buildings turn Into slums from lack of maintenance, the Minister for National Develop ment and Communications, Mr. Tim Kim San, said last night. "It will make life in a small country like Singapore unbearable," he said at
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  • 185 3 Reuter PUBLIC hearings Into an alleged South Korean campaign to buy political Influence In the US ended last night In Washington after; witnesses said former Washington businessman Tongsun Park had close tlqp with the Korean Central Intelligence Agency for 10 years. Three day televised hearings
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  • 225 3 AFP SOUTH Africa's white electorate will be called upon In the Nor SO elections to give a resounding no to the rest of the world which is seeking Co destroy the country, Foreign Minister Pik Botha said last night. Speaking at Nigel, Prime Minister
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  • 98 3 mHE Singapore Fire X Brigade must face the challenges of modern science and technology and plan and prepare for the coming years, the Permanent Secre tar y (Social Affairs) Mr. Tan Chok Klan said yesterday. Addressing the pass-ing-out parade of the fourth intake
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  • 126 3 Reuter KUWAITi aecurlty police /oiled an attempt to hi Jack a Czechoslovak airliner on a flight frpm Prague to Singapore, Czechoslovakia's official news agency, Ceteka, -reported on Friday. Ceteka said a man was detained at Kuwait'* airport ai he was about to board the plane, an
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  • 96 3 UPI nB£SU>ENT carter I said yesterday that while some may criticise his beer-drinking brother BUly. "his standing in the voUs is better than mine". The President made a few jokes at his brother's expense daring a Jackson Jefferson day dinner to lowa Democrats last Friday.
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  • 26 3 TEN producers of coffee varieties called "other mllds" have agreed unanimously to withdraw Immediately from the world market In a more to force prices up.
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  • 194 3 Desai's SovietIndo relations Reuter INDIAN Prime Minister Morarjl Desai has made clear to his Kremlin hosts that India wants close relations with the Soviet Union but is sticking firmly to Its non-aligned position. In a speech at a Kremlin banquet in his honour Friday. Mr. Dosal said that non-align-ment, which
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  • 32 3 AFP OVER 1,000 acupuncturists from SO nations opened the fifth World Congress of Acupuncture In Tbkyo to exchange recent knowledge and finding* on the ancient Chlneee therapy with needles.—AW.
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  • 214 4 Reuter AFP AP CAPTAIN Jurgen Schumann, the pilot of the Lufthansa Boeing-73 7 hijacked last week, was burled at Babenhauaen near Frankfurt In the presence of fellow pilots and representatives of the government. Captain Schumann, 37, was the sole casualty among the crew and passengers
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  • 71 4 A worldwide pilots strike sehednled for this week Is to be reKieed with a United tlons debate. Secretary General Kart Waldhelm meeting Derrj Fearce (right) president of the International Federation of Air line Fllots Association (IF ALP A) promised him the UN will debate hijacking
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  • 289 4 Sudom hits out ot organisation's report on Indon detainees AFP 'POP Indonesian naA tional security authority Admiral Sudomo ye st e rday urged the Londonbased Amnesty International to change Its name to Amnesty Communist International for urging Indonesia to release Immediately its communist political prisoners. In
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  • 141 4 Reuter MARIE-Therese Walter, 68, former model of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and mother of his daughter Maya, was found hanged In the garage of her villa In Antlbes on Friday. Police said she apparently committed suicide. Maya, 42, was one of six people to Inherit part
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  • 150 4 TW O student unions have sent a letter to the Minister for Communications Mr. Urn Kim San; seeking a discussion on their plea for bus fare concession, which the Singapore Bus Services had rejected. In their letter to the Minister, the Singapore Polytechnic
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    • 204 4 TWO CHAN ISI I EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF AN ORDINARY MAN I \J -M .tel/SSStlk, ■M GIVES FREBH INSIGHT INTO MALAYAN ft SINGAPORE HISTORY (1946 RECONCILIATION OF LEADERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CAUSEWAY TRADE UNIONISM ft MANAGEMENT NEW APPROACH IN EDUCATION FOR TEACHERS. STUDENTS AND PARENTS t THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 418 4 In and around town PUBPARAMA, at Victoria Theatre at S p.m. Tickets at $1 at usual booking centres. Concert presented by the Sriwana, which has been active In the Malay performing arts. Programme of light and popular lfalay music and dances. Includes a dance drama, All and Fatlmah. "COOKING DEMONSTRATION
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  • 135 5 Ties up with BA to become third airline offering supersonic service CINGAPORE Airlines Is tying up with British Airways to operate the Concorde, becoming the- third airline In the world to offer the supersonic service. The agreement on the Joint operation win be signed In the
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  • 224 5 rro men and a girl hav« cheated a number of people by Impersonating court bailiffs and pretending to be able to "settle" suits pending In the subordinate courts for a "fee". All the victims of the bogus bailiffs were defendants In pending court actions.
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  • 35 5 AP CHIANG YEE. Professor Emeritus of Chinese at Columbia University. died last Mondav during a visit to China, a Columbia snokesman said in New York. Yee, an author, poet rfhd painter, was 74.
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  • 131 5 Reuter A LEADING character In a political Intrigue rocking Britain's Liberal Party has disappeared and his life may be In danger his lawyer said on Friday. Mr Richard Suffolk, the lawyer, said he had not heard for 10 days from Andrew Newton, who claims he
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  • 162 5 IPS mHBEE years a|o, 1 Boy Coppard used to worry about how tall he was. He had measured a maasive 2 m In his socks. Bat incredibly he has now shrank to a mere lJm In the last three years —that's a decrease of
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  • 101 5 Reuter TOUTREAN guerilla Ju spokesman predicted on Friday that an agreement between the two major groups fighting for the Independence of Eritrea would hasten the end of Ethiopia's presence in the strategic Red Sea province. The Erltrean Liberation Front (ELF) and the Erltrean Popular Liberation Front (EPLF)
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  • 231 5 Reuter AP I)REBIDENT Carter has I echoed Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev's optimism that a strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT), curbing nuclear weapons, would soon be agreed by their countries. Fresldent Carter told a fund-raising dinner in iowa on Friday that "in a few weeks,
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  • 26 5 THE Soviet Union's supersonic airliner, the Tupolev 144, made its first passenger flight from Moscow to the Central Asia city of Alma Ata yesterday,
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  • 119 5 Reuter rE United States on Friday opposed reductions In membership dues for countries which have enjoyed a sharp rise In revenues and currency reserves over the past few years. Apparently referring to the Third World oil exporting nations, US delegate Lester Wolff told the general
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  • 260 6 COMMENT A maverick opened up the current phase of the air-fare war. Mr. Freddie Laker, BrltUh enterpreneur, Introduced his Skytrain no-frllls, no-reservatlons service last month for passengerswho want to travel really cheap between London and New York. They can now buy the least expensive trans-Atlantic
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  • 909 6  -  Ask why popular foods or fruits cost more and you'll keep J getting the standard reasons By Alice Ee a housewife, who says lefs allot hawker stalls to the NTUC SOUR groups of 1 human sharks are skimming off the cream of the Singapore people's prosperity National
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 886 7  -  By John Cunningham Guardian ■HE restaurant has that certain ambiance; the wine is amiable; wages have become remuneration packages; the poor have been dressed up as the negatively privileged. Governments, often for devious reasons, keep a low profile; and everybody from pop stars
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 84 7 > i rv 4 V 1 l if :v JK 4 mmm Flight hostess Helen Chiu, Daily flight departs at 10.45 am arrives Hong Kong at 2.50 pm and continues on to Tokyo arriving at 10.25 pm. For reservations call your travel agent Or Cathay PaCitiC Hong Kong's discovery airline
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  • 576 8  -  tK< c—,»,• ti-np sorry 7 ...0ne more round in the Indian Girl' debate UZY and UBHA, (Pre-onlvenlty Two student*), Singapore 1. ALL THIS furore during the past few weeks over B. Manl's piece on the Indian girl In Singapore has stirred us to
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  • 380 8  - Look at women of India which Asian state can do better? ANTHONY EDWARD B. MANI claims that an increasing number of Indian girls in Singapore are becoming disillusioned with their culture,, as they are exposed to foreign influences in their everyday life. This is true if the views of four
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  • 242 8  -  They want to wed docile, sari-dad beauties SANTHA KESAVAN (Mrs). COMEBODY said it Is yery hard to date an Indian girl. This Is actually a great relief to Indian parents because It shows there are Indian girls who are willing to keep within tradition.
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  • 281 8  -  LEKLA SAHADEVAN, SUNDRAVALL MURUGAPPAN 117* road with utter disgust the derogatory remarks about 81nEx>r* Indian glrU by rlndrm Naldu. He says that we "are not as obedient and dutiful" m B. Manl had claimed. But no one can deny that Indian women generally
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  • 187 8  -  SULOCHANA GOPAL TCROM Samy's letter JT It is obvious that he would be ready to accept a wife who had associated freely with him or other boys to the "limit" of kissing. He says the girls he has been out with seem
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  • 579 9  -  !f you ask me... POH KAI CUDDENLY engineering Is the glamour Job. If you want to be certain of a Job after leaving the university, a fourdigit salary r a 1 slng you high on the social ladder, take up engineering. It does
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  • 170 9  -  G.J. CAMPBELL MARTIN WOOLLACOT, writing about "the bloodbath the (foreign) press laughed off/' shows their true nature arrogant, cynical, completely sure of their superiority. During the Vietnam war, few bothered to be objective or honeet. When B&lgon fell, aome Journalist* stayed behind to report. At
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    • 128 9 If you have •ornithine to say which you think «nr readers would like to know why not pat it en paper and sent It to un. We welcome contributor* to thb column. Articles can tx on any subject hut should preferably be opinion pieces of about 5H words each. Contribu*
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  • 1447 10 / 11  -  AN APPRECIATION OF FRANCIS THOMAS By Siva Arasu, an ex-schoolmate of Mr Thomas' daughter Margaret and a friend of the family. Pictures Siva Arasu rrHERE we were. Id a stupor after eating ourselves silly on cheese-ton due when someone shouted, "Papa's home." I looked up expectantly. In
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 535 12 Your 12-page TV pull ou s ,*s < m TODAY TV SINGAPORE 5 8 TV MALAYSIA 3 10 COLOUR 10.00 AM. Open 10.03 CARTOON CORNER 10.29 WARNA WARNI (M). Children's programme MATINEE: Amm Kfmk*. I M. SOCCIR: Norwich CJty rt Lefceetor City 1.25 Electric Company (r) 1.40 THK YELLOW HOUSE.
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    • 141 12 *r A 102-year-old Kalahari Bushman BUSHMEN OF TNI KALAHARI on Ch. 8 at 7 p.m. in COLOUR. Film maker-anthropologist John Marshall chronicles the changing lives of African desert dwellers whose ancient hunting and foodgathering ways are disrupted when ranchers evict them from water holes and build fences across game trails.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 931 13 MONDAY WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY Ideal Colour CTV ITT SCHAUB LORfNZ 3.00 P.M. Open 1.0S fc KUDUMBA MALAR <r> 3.35 Afternoon Matinee: Rattle Of A Simple Man (Pt. 1) A girlshy bachelor, through a fluke bet that he cannot befriend a nightclub hostess, finds himself in her apartment. Knowing of the
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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    • 1160 14 WEDNESDAY S(,HA'jB 10HINI WORLD-WIDE TECHNOLOGY /doul Colour CIV > 3.00 PJ*. Open 3.03 Classic Keystone Comedy Capers 3.30 Dairy Of Events (M) 3.35 WILD. WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS (r): Crocodile* 4.00 Stars In Action: Night In The Big Swamp 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 Electric Company 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF
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    • 1085 15 FRIDAY Buy M IDEAL COLOUR 1789 DIGITIMER CTV vv/f/1 iC Computer Renuita L.cniro/ SQHAub in. 3103 Housewim' Matinee: I Am Crazy About You (Mandarin/r) 4.30 Intermission. 6.05 Open. A.OB EXERCISE WITH GLORIA UO NEWS IN BRIEF MS THf NUT MS OATS IN A CHILD'S LIFE. At five months old, baby
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  • 595 20 HUMOUR with pr'-k' C 'V I AH WELL, fan mall's better than no male, she said, dabbing a lace handkerchief to an eye. This Bunday 1 abdicate my column In favour of Koh Wee Yam, Rocky Chan HVP& Beng, Slong Hln and fftoong
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  • 133 20 rE anti-Pollution Unit in the Prime Minister's Office is concerned with two pollutants in Singapore's atmosphere —ozone and sulphur dioxide that make people's eyes water. < What a crying shame! A STONE that hit and killed a girl who was travelling to Singapore mysteriously disappeared, a coroner's hearing
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  • 259 20 Off Hie Record by CKT VOT a group, Elton John nonetheless breaks up. You cannot pressgang your vocal chords so generously to the service of loud superstardom and hope they will not spall swiftly. If I heard the records true, they are nearly used up.
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  • 599 21  -  /J By Jeremy I'M BACK from holiday and the first 1 thing to go Into the dustbin alongside screwed-up tubes of suntan oil that didn't and electric adaptors that wouldn't Is my complete Spanish phrase book. It said It was all I needed to
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  • 287 21 Guardian FRANCE'S multi--1 million-dollar plan to tow an iceberg from the Antarctic to Saudi Arabia has melted. The backwash has sunk the company which floated the idea and the Saudi Minister for Water. The Versailles public prosecutor has now been asked to
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    • 141 21 tale you're dying to tell? Here's a chance to tell It And to a mod* wider audience than you'd ever hare thought possible. Sunday Nation Is running a weekly travelers' column written by our readers. It can he a travelogue type stery or Just a little Incident or your most
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  • 424 22  -  jjn jum By Judith Holmberg A CHILLER filmed in a desert? An unlikely combination and one that was presumably p a r tl y responsible for removing most of the ice from THE CAR (now on at Jade). A lukewarm tale at best, the
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  • 344 22  -  Look East with Look Fung TO THROW up every- thing for love is rare nowadays, even among Asian women, but Hong Kong singing star Sum Sum is an exception. At the peak of her career, the widely-travel-led singer recently turned her back on
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  • 577 23  - Sharper,tighter wittier the Yap of today COMMONPLACE. a second collection of poems by Arthur Yap. Heinemann, 12 black-and-white plates, 1977. 66 pp $4.50. Book Page Hsin Yuen Lien IF POETRY made front-page news like disaster! and polltics (sometimes the same thing) ao, then a headline for a review of Arthur
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  • 257 23 i thing big this time" said Bertie Tilford. the lrrepressihle Englishman with more get-rich-quick schemes than horsehair In a mattress factoryHe fished a letter from his pocket and pressed It to you. "Run your eyes on this, old boy!" The letter, addressed to Bertie, was signed
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  • 579 23  -  Sarojini Kumarsamy LIMITS TO MEDICINE. By Ivan Illich. Penguin, 1977. 296 PP. 90p. HPHIS is an indie tment of medicine as it la practised today. Through the subtitle, The Expropriation of Health, the author charges that the medical establishment has become
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  • 382 23 Observer QUARTET IN AUTUMN. By Barbara Pym. Macmillan, £3.95. EXCELLENT WOMEN and A CLASS OF BLESSINGS. By .Barbara Pym. Cape, £3.95 each. COME while ago an J almost forgotten novelist named Jean Rhys emerged from obscurity with the haunting Wide Sargasso Sea. It seemed inexplicable
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  • Sports starts here
    • 461 25 INSIDE TRACK T*HE difference in stand* ards between the clubs in the first division and those ip the third division has visibly narrowed. Recent President's Cup matches (Toa Payoh v Moulmein, Serangoon Gardens v Tampines), and the string ot upsets in the National League competition so far
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    • 317 25  -  SMASH Peter Lo TWO of the world's A finest touCn players, Omar Zaman and Gogi Alauddin, will play an exhibition match at the Tangiin Club this Wednesday at 6 p m The match is i being organised by the Singapore Squash Rackets Association and
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    • 356 25  -  HOCKEY Brian Miller r FHE Singapore Crix ket Club aim to score a unique double in this year's Singapore Women's Hockey Association league, now in progress. Right now, with the tournament at the halfway stage, SCC appear to have the Division Two title already
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      • 113 25 AP AUSTRALIAN Olympic swimmer Linda McOlll made a solo crossing on Friday of the 28-kllometre wide straits separating Saudi Arabia and Bahrain In the Persian Gulf. The 32-year-old Monde who has swum the English Channel three time*, swam the water-snake and shark Infested straits
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      • 71 25 Reuter SOUTH African brothers John and Roy IfcLachlan set a world record In Vienna on Friday when they played tennis non-stop for 103 hours. The McLachlans, from Johannesburg, held the record 10 years uo after a 70-hour marathon but this was beaten last year by an American pair,
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      • 66 25 AFP BENNY BRISCOE flew to Italy on Friday. He Is to fight Rodrlgo Vaides of Colombia for the vacant world middleweight title In what he described m a last do-or-die effort to become world champion. Briscoe, now 34. said he was confident he would take the crown
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      • 65 25 Reuter OLYMPIC champion* Lane Vlren of Finland and Frank Shorter of the United State* head a field of about 5,000 in today's New York City marathon through the atreeta of the metropolis. The organisers claim It Is the largest field ever In a recognised marathon. The
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      • 69 25 Reuter SOUTH Korea and Australia clash at Seoul Stadium today In their crucial World Cup qualifying match, with both sides expected to swing Into early attack. Both sides must win to keep alive their already slim hopes for the World Cup finals in Argentina next year.
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      • 71 25 Reuter AMBUCAM Billie Jean King, showing glimpses of her best form, upset top-seeded Martina Navratllova of CsechoslovaUa 6-2 3-6 6-4 In the quarter finals of the women's International Tennis Tournament In Sao Paulo, Brasll, on Friday night. Mrs. King, 34, scored one of her best victories
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      • 60 25 Reuter DEFENDING champion Mario Andrettl of the United States yesterday won pole position for today's formula one Japan grand prrx for the second consecutive year. Andrettl on Friday piloted his Lotus-Ford around the 4.350 km Mount Fuji circuit In a record one minute 12.23 seconds, and
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      • 57 25 Reuter GUILLERMO Vilas of Argentina beat Die Nastase of Romania 3-4, 76, 6-S In the final of a four-man International tennis tournament In Buenos Aires on Friday 8t to win the top i of US$O,OOO ($21,In the battle tor third place ssfrwiww Raul Ra-. mire* easily beat
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    • 362 25  -  Philip Tan MOSCOW Spartak, one of the oldest football clubs In Russia, will test the Singapore team in two friendly matches on Nov 3 and Nov 7. Spartak, who have won the national title (premier league) nine times, suffered a setback last season when
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    • 1217 26  -  By Jean Rook Dally Express. ttß HAS given autographs to 10 kings, five emperors, 70 presl- dents, and two Popes. The Shah of D*an waited three hours at an alrsort to be photogfaphed with him. He caused a two-day truce in the Biafran war so that both
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    • 360 26  -  By Patrick Barclay Guardian •TWO of the great--1 est footballers of recent times were reduced to impotence recently. Johan CruyfT, playing for Holland against Northern Ireland In Belfast, was so handicapped by inJury that the man detailed to mark him felt obliged to seek other duty long
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    • 415 26 BRITISH SOCCER MALCOLM ALLI--ITI SON, the former Manchester City and Crystal Palace manager, said there are not enough good coaches In the English First Division, and this Is the reason for the disappointing showing by the England team Allison, acknowledged u one of
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    • 1062 27 Mexican took Brazil to their hearte WM-MCUP Inside Stories. Part Eight By a special writer Exclusive Press Features rrHE England team had Just flown Into Mexico City to defend their title of World champions In this hot and breathless land and the beginning could scarcely
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    • 813 28  -  By David Smith Reuter lI7HEN Enzo Fer- ran, the Grand Old Man of motor ra c 1 ng, won his eighth World c h a mplonship three weeks ago he had little cauae for celebration. Reporters who called his home cot a terse response.
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    • 589 28  -  Patricia Koza UPI COR centuries, the complexities of celestial navigation the mathematical system of navigating by the stars has kept a lot of wouldbe deep water sailors from venturing very far offshore. But two Washington area sailors have come up with a system of simplifying
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    • 383 29  -  PLAYERS RESPONDING WELL TO TRAINING BADMINTON Gerry Chan rnHE SEA Games A badminton competition has been scheduled for Nor 19 to Nov 23 at the Selangor Bad m 1 n ton Association Hall and Stadium Negara. The Singapore Badminton Association realise what Is at stake and are
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    • 306 29  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng MARGARET TAN and K Chandriga, Singapore's two best women race-walkers, have made history by being selected to re- resent the Republic l the forthcoming Sea Games in Kuala Lumpur. They will be the first women walkers to represent Singapore In an International
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    • 916 29  -  CHESS Lim Kok Ann pUROFEANS learned the game of chess from the Muslims who conquered and occupied Spain between A.D. 900 and a d 1200 approximately. Islamic religion forbade the miking of images so the Muslim chess pieces were merely symbols. This confused
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    • 257 29  -  NETBALL Joyce Tan npHE BWNA off-sea-A son netball league Is scheduled to start next mopth when the mixed league ends this weekend. The off-season league will feature several new teams from the constituency sports clubs and associations who appear to be getting ready for the
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    • 889 30 UPI MORE than at any other time during her superlative career, Chris Evert sounds tired of It all. Two months shy of her 23rd birthday, the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, girl, now blossomed Into a mature and handsome woman. Is finishing her fourth
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    • 471 30 UPI JIMMY CONNORS may have lost the two big tennis tournament of the year but he still won more than US$5OO,OOO ($1.2 million) and is still ranked number one in the world by a large margin. Connors, 25, loet In the finals at both Wimbledon and
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    • 591 30  -  Revival came with start of Asian circuit TENNIS TALK Alfred Tong WHEN the Philippines trounced Thailand in their Da via Cup encounter in Manila early thle month, few were really surprised. The Filipinos merely confirmed the benefit they hail gained from exposure to top-level
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    • 169 31  -  Ernest Frida SINGAPORE golf fans will be able to watch worldclass golf when leading women professionals compete in the $250,000 Colgate Far East championship at Buklt Course on Nov 11 13. This year's 40 leading money winners in the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour will be flown
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    • 370 31  -  Organisers Kuwait not happy with draw, reshuffled the teaan BASKETBALL Tony Koh TOE Philippines edged China 97-86 in the final of the Asian youth championships which ended in Kuwait last Saturday. The surprise of the tournament was Kuwait, who finished third. Singapore, who went to Kuwait
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    • 570 31 Guardian IT WAS sad that 1 the Wales Scotland match, a tar better game than could have been expected t considering the prize at stake, should end In controversy, lp accusation and counteraccusation, denial and counter-denial. It «u an even greater pity that a
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    • 137 31 IPS IJURT REYNOLDS and Kris KriatofTerson, the Hollywood superstars with reputations for being ladles' men, Join the tough man's world of American pro football In a new film called Semi-Tough, to be released In the late autumn. Reynolds and Krlstofferson are co-stars In the picture,
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    • 486 32  -  SPORTS NATION Brian Miller THE National Btax dlum belonged to Quah Kim Lye last night Playing in his final International he certainly made a triumphant exit when he led the Singapore team to their second straight MCFA Cup Ylctory by beating Perak
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    • 68 32 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Geoff A Hunt iron the Unlroyal World Open Squash Championship at the Brahma Lodge Courts In Adelaide yesterday. Hunt defeated Qamar Zaman of Pakistan In a thrilling five-game match, 9-5, 10-0. 0-0, 1-0, 0-4. Hunt's win was worth UBIBOOO ($10,200) and the title of
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