New Nation, 27 December 1977

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  • 20 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Tuesday, December 27, 1977 No. 2142 Price 25 cents M C. (P) 262/1/77 jBBSaBA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1977
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  • 926 1 Top priority will be given to tackling the problem of recidivism among drug abusers under the second phase of Operation Ferret which begins on New Year's Day. Announcing this today, the Minister for Home Affairs and Education. Mr Chua Slan Chin, said the action is to
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  • 597 1 Agencies Tel Aviv, Tuesday Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan yesterday d e c 1 a red himself more satisfled by the "spirit" of the Ismailla summit than with the outcome of the meetings. The statement came In a conversation with a correspondent for Israeli
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  • 48 1 AFP Beirut, Tuesday The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) last night disowned a statement Issued yesterday In Its name criticising the Egyptian-Israeli summit In Ismallla. The Palestine News Agency said the statement was put out by PLO official spokesman Mohsen Abu Mayzer and represented his own.
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  • 30 1 Reuter Hong Kong, Tuesday— A Chinese economic delegation led by China's ambassador to Laos, Mr Hsu Huang, left Peking yesterdav for Laos, the New China news agency reported.—Reuter.
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  • 76 2 *r- STOt K i MARK 1:1 The Stock Exchange of Singapore opened on a firm note this morning after the Chrlatmaa weekend. Most of the stocks moved up steadily In selective trading. The finance sector appeared especially steady. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation was up 10 cents to
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  • 28 2 A series of films on Germany will be screened at the National Museum on Jan. 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 10.45 a.m. Admission Is free.
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  • 315 2 Contracts expected to up earnings to $lm Tradewinds Charters, the air-charter subsidiary of Singapore Airiines. has secured two new contracts which are expected to boost the company's earnings to over $1 million since it began operations over a year ago. One contract, concluded with Bengal
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  • 56 2 The Department ol Extramural Studies, University of Singapore, will hold a 15-lecture course on Introduction to Accounting at Nlssen Hut 9 every Monday and Wednesday from Jan 9 from 7.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mr Wong Mun PI aw, a part-time lecturer at the University, will conduct the
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  • 161 2 The American Embassy here has received several inquiries from interested businessmen following a comment by an embassy official that local manufacturers were not making full use of the US Generalised System of Preference (OSP). US commercial attache Bruce Malkln said there were a moderate number
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  • 223 2 Mr Harbans Singh Is going round in circles. He started yesterday morning and will keep going on til Friday 4 p.m. 102 hours of non-stop walking. And he la doing it, he says, to foster international friendship. Wearing beige trousers and a blue teeshirt. Mr Harbans
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  • 649 3  -  'Sassoon not hair' Part lI—CASE takes over and... By Rav Dhaliwal, K. K. Fong A local beauty and halrdressing school has asked CASE to state the mode of public apology It requires for using internatlopal hairstylist Vidal Sassoon's name to advertise a course
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  • 56 3 The Department of Extramural Studies, University of Singapore, will conduct a 16-lecture course on Introduction to Cobol Programming at Singapore Polytechnic evenr Monday and Wednesday from Jan 9 from 7 run. to 9.30 p.m. The lecturer is Mr Lee Ghee. Choon, a part--1 tefeturer J At- the 1
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  • 199 4 Chinese sinsehs (physicians) have been urged to be committed to their profession. "It Is not easy to serve, more so to be committed for all your life to It. But I am confident that you have been trained well to serve your society and to be
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  • 376 4 They're the homeviewers' favourites These are three favourites in the pop section of the RTS Chinese Tale n time contest finals to' be telecast live over Channel 8 at 8.40 tonight. They are Cheng Kwee Chung, Quek Slew Lian and Chin Klen Pun.
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  • 290 4 To improve standard of service The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board 1s planning a training course for workers in the tourist trade. The Hotel and Catering School will run the course, aimed at raising the standards of service and professionalism in the trade. It will include
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  • 65 4 The New Life Community Service Centre will hold two eight-ses sion courses on Guitar for Beginners and Guitar Intermediate at Its Upper Serangoon Road premises from Jan 5 and Jan 11 respectively from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. It will also organise a 12-session course on Art for
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  • 99 4 Four Paya Lebar Airport workers were admitted to Singanore General Hospital this morning after being forced at gunpoint by the robbers to swallow a pill each. The four victims three women and a man were working at the Passenger Service® Department when they were surprised by the
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  • 118 4 The National Maritime Board has paid out more than $800,000 in backdated pay to seamen. This was the result of recommendations made by the Board of Inquiry In July 1974 that new wage rates should be backdated to Jan 1 of that year. Since October
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  • 33 4 Mr Hsu an Owyang has been appointed a member of the Housing and Development Board for a period of three years from Dec 15, according to r the latest governtpent 4 «asette.
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  • 348 5 11 bodies found, believed killed by Red guerillas Reuter AFP Bangkok, Tuesday Mutilated bodies of 11 people believed to have been killed by communist guerillas, were found floating in a river in southern Thailand, it was reported yesterday. The newspaper Daily News quoted surat Thani provincial authorities
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  • 145 5 AFP Manila, Tuesday. -The 17 policemen of a Philippine town north of here have asked the military to equip them with highpowered firearms to give them a "fighting chance" against communist dissidents, published reports yesterday said. The request followed the recent killing of several
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  • 95 5 Reuter Jakarta Tuesday Six boys died in a small prison cell apparently because of a lack of fresh air near Palembang in South Sumatra, Antara News Agency reported yesterday. The boys between 10 and 16 years old were detained in the cell measuring 2.5
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  • 64 5 AFP Jakarta, Tuesday—The East Indonesia and Kalimantan Youth Forum had called on the younger generation in the country to cease their activities which might Invite conflict among themselves, reports said here yesterday. The Youth Forum which convened Its first meeting In Manado last Tuesday suggested that
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  • 151 5 Reuter Hong Kong, Tuesday Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh said yesterday he would dlsciiss with Laotian leaders policies aimed at enhancing relations with South-east Asian countries, the Pathet Lao news agency reported yesterday. He made the statement when he arrived in
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  • 423 6 Reuter AFP Paris, Tuesday Japan's economic growth will falter towards the end Qf next year unless the government provides a further economic boost, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecast yesterday. Despite the rise In the foreign exchange value of the
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  • 146 6 UPI TODAY Is Tuesday, Dec. 27, the 361 st day of 1077 with four to follow. THE MOON Is between Is full phase and last quarter. <. THE MORNING STARS are Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under
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  • 60 6 Reuter Madrid, Tuesday Mechanic Mario Marcos Martin whose wallet with SM pesetas (18.49) was stolen by muggers nearly lost a fortune. Also In the wallet were two Christinas lottery tickets which won If million pesetas (fSSS.2M). Five •aspects were arrested and the tickets recovered on Thursday the
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  • 87 6 Ah Fook: Singapore is really a cultural desert. Mei Lin: Then why wouldn't you attend last night's concert with me? IJ-« 1 7 *At> J v m to >o Ah Fook: Singapura benar-benar kekontangan budaya. (156) Mei Lin: Tapi, mengapa anda tidak mahu menghadiri konsert
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  • 118 6 Reuter Peking, Tuesday—The New China News Agency yesterday reported the death of "famous film actor Charlie Chaplin" In a tnree-paragraph dispatch from Its Genteva correspondent. There were reports In Peking In 1923 that China was seeking to buy two Chaplin classics, Modern Times and
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  • 208 6 AP Bangkok, Tuesday A Thai prosecutor has'called the 20-year jail sentence of British nurse Rita Nightingale for smuggling heroin "too light." Miss Nightingale, 24, was sentenced on Dec 9 to 20 years In Bangkok's Lad Yao women's prison on charges of
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  • 176 6 AFP Hong Kong, Tuesday— Local drug traffickers are selling fake heroin. Narcotics officers discovered this when they seized a consignment of what appeared to be heroin but which turned out to be sugar after a chemical analysis. Commenting on this yesterday a police spokesman
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  • 165 6 Reuter Warsaw, Tuesday A priest on the editorial board of Poland's leading Independent Roman Catholic weekly was beaten unconscious by assailants last week, Catholic sources said yesterday. They said the attack last Wednesday tame after the weekly Tygodnik Powszechny had received a series of threatening
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  • 31 6 The education department of the Muslim Missionary Society Singapore will hold a speech and prize giving ceremony at the King Faisal Muslim lecture hall on Saturday at 3 p.pti.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 183 6 WORLD WEATHER Bonn Shower*. 10SC. Headline: Germans gave presents last night. Paris Variable, 129C. Headline: Sadat and Begin meet Moscow Overcast, 13-mlnus 18C. Pravda's headline: The Day off. London Cloudy and rainy, 10-SC. Rio de Janeiro Sunny, 29-17 C. Headline: There's no more fun In the movies. Charlie Chaplin is
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  • 143 7 Reuter New Delhi, Tuesday. One of India's three remaining Congress Party state chief ministers was yesterday suspended for alleged anti-party activities. escalating a bitter leadership struggle inside the country's main Opposition grouping. Karnataka Chief Minister DevraJ Urs was suspended by party President Brahmananda Reddy after
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  • 399 7 UPI Tunis, Tuesday Pr e s i d e nt Habib Bourguiba formed a new Cabinet yesterday after six of his ministers quit or were fired in disagreement with the government's repression "ftf labour unrest arising from Tunlsiti-s economic crisis, Mr Bourgulba named seven
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  • 29 7 Tokyo, Tuesday Indonesia has asked for additional Japanese aid of 100,000 tonnes of rice to help relieve the country's food shortage, a government N source said yesterday.
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  • 147 7 UPI Beirut, Tuesday The Cabinet yesterday accepted the- resignation of 31 Lebanese brigadiers in its effort to rebuild the army, which divided and collapsed during two years of civil war. It declined the resignations of six other offlcers described by official sources as "doctors
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  • 232 7 Reuter Bonn, Tuesday West German Chancellor He 1 m ut Schmidt will be the first foreign leader to receive a personal top-level briefing on latest Middle East peace moves when he starts an official visit to Egypt today. Egyptian President Sidat will be
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  • 155 7 Reuter Beirut, Tuesday The Palestinian news agency WAFA said yesterday that Palestinian commando? killed a prominent Arab who was shot dead yesterday morning in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan. It said the man, military government official Handl Kadi, had been parsing
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 80 7 DING MERCARDO THE RECENT WINNER OF THE 1977 ASIAN SONGS FESTIVAL, and b'ii i iir, itW '11 f H"': I I m GARDEN BALLROOM DEC. 27-30 Nightly dancing to the sounds of "Second Addition" entertainment by "The New Minstrels", Philippines' most popular show group. 8 pm till 2 am. Showtime:
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 256 7 Crossword sa a j m •j j ACROSS 1 Part of a contract 7 Chimp food 13 Fussy woman 14 Surveying telescope 16 Ooes back 17 Singing Judy and family 18 Be a clown 19 Apex of a volcano 20 Talented 21 Smuggler's merchandise 24 TV comic Johnson 25 Spanish
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  • 424 8 Bravado Is not uncharacteristic of Cuban leader Fidel Castro In the two decades that he has led and lately exported Caribbean-style revolution. Hence Dr Castro's fierce reiteration at the weekend of his tough stand against American pressure over Cuban military Involvement In Africa was
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  • 121 8 f-o> If you dont know what to do with all the Christmas cards you receive, here's a simple solution: Send them back to the senders next Christmas. Two friends—one in England. the other In Canada —did that 24 yeahi ago and started a tradition. The girl in
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  • 748 8  -  OPINION By C.L. Sulzberger NYT Ovlnf (England): One remark able feature of the two generation period covered by my working years was the creation of new states, most of the backward and weak. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule like re-born India, Israel. Pakistan, Vietnam.
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  • 270 8 AP Tokyo: Deaf Japanese children are conversing by telephone with an electronic "ear" that lets them hear through their fingertips. Professor Chlvoshi Yoshlmoto of Hokialdo University says his invention, called a "Vocoder," now is being adapted for English and French speakers and these models
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  • 634 9  -  ISMAIL KASSLM from Indonesia ISMAIL KASSIM The struggle between the two leadership factious In Indonesia's third and smallest party the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) for legitimacy has Intensified with little signs of a solution in the near future. One faction Is headed by Sanusl Hardjadinata and Prof. Usep
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  • 553 9 The working committee of the People's Consultative Congress (MPR) which Is responsible for preparing for the first session beginning on March 1 has not been able to finish Its work according to schedule because of differences among the various factions. The committee of 90
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  • 369 10 THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS A selection of some of the outstanding news pictures of the year. They record moments of high drama and history-making, of triumph and tragedy, of joy and sadness. Tomorrow, New Nation will present the Sports Pictures of the Year. ABOVE:
    picture by courtesy of the Israeli Embassy; radio picture by UPI; picture by Chua Peng Tee; picture by Philip Lim; This picture by Philip Lim appeared in colour in New Nation; Picture by Chua Peng Tee  -  369 words

  • trend 1 EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
    • 306 11 Ac fashion, changes, so do accessories, though not as quickly. Long chains and pearls are always fashionable. So too are scarves. But there are always new ways of wearing favourite standbys. Scarres can be worn just about everywhere but the latest Is
      PICTURES by Johari Rasikin  -  306 words
    • 490 11 Dor's Casebook I —---—J S.L.C.K. Mrs K asks, "I have a 16-year-old daughter who has not started her periods yet. 1 wouldn't have worried except that I also hate a 14-year-old who has already stated menstruating. Should I do &ny- thing about my elder daughter
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    • 465 12 When invitations pour in, it's no cause for celebration for reader Helen who has to sit at home while hubby Is forced to go out and carouse alone... «"-"m I PqSpl [box Helen With the festive mood in the air, there will be
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    • 680 12 NYT New York: Americans are more likely to believe that marriages in which the partners share the tasks of breadwinner and homemaker are a more "satisfying way of life" than they are to prefer the traditional marriage in which the husband is exclusively
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    • 98 12 There are nothing like sparklers to set a woman's eyes aglltter and lust to whet the appetite, here's something to aspire to in the New Year. (See left). They are the winning works of the Diamonds International Award *77 which took place In France recently. Designed
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    • 313 12  -  r =3 GIRL-TALK I *>y L J. Schoon New Year's just round the corner, and it is the time when everyone makes promises about turning over a new leaf. This year we've come up with some New Year resolutions for the girl who Intends to be well
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  • 344 13 f J Business News and Views Reuter Peking, Tuesday China estimates the value of its total Industrial output for 1977 will show an increase of more than 14 per cent over 1976, the New China News Agency (NCNA) said yesterday. It said the increase had been
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  • 83 13 AFP Kuwait, Tuesday—The Gulf countries and Venezuela will meet In February to discuss oil rates. Kuwaiti Oil Minister Abdel A 1 Kazlml said on his return from the oil nations' conference at Caracas. Last week in Caracas, the oil countries postponed discussion on prices, due to
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  • 177 13 Reuter Seoul, Tuesday South Korea will aim at increasing its Gross National Product (GNP) by 10 to 11 per cent in real terms In 1978 to sustain this year's growth, the Government Economic Planning Board (EPB) said yesterday. This will
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  • 139 13 AFP Manila, Tuesday President Fer d 1nand Marcos has decreed amendments to the Philippines Customs and tariff code to adapt It to ASEAN's preferential trading arrangement, It was reported yesterday. The newspaper Busine s s Day said the amendments offer a concessional tariff of below
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  • 64 13 Reuter Hong Kong, Tuesday The production of tomatoes In some areas of Vietnam has increased by 130 to 160 per cent following the use of a new chemical stimulant, the Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday. The agency did not give details of the stimulant, but said
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  • 34 13 Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday, A 19-man Chinese oil mission will visit the United States early next month to Inspect oil exploration and production facilities there, a semi official Japanese trade body reported yesterday.—Reu-
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  • 253 14 twice weekly advertisement feature children at reasonable prices. Jogging is, one of the easiest form of exercises that is good for your health and your figure. It is very easy to take up. Foursom Sports has a wide range of attractive joegin« shorts, comfortable T-shirts and track shoes to
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  • SPORT STARTS HERE
    • 499 15 a Tennis Reuter UPI Melbourne, Tuesday Former triple Wimbledon tennis champion, John Newcombe, his sights set confidently on a third Australian title, cruised through to the quarter-finals of the A 5250.000 (Ss6so- Marlboro Australian Open at Kooyong here yesterday. Newcombe. 33. held a crowd
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    • 622 15 RACING with Scrutineer l Here is a "special" for the coming weekend Special Find. The staying four-year-old Irish gelding by Hul A Hul ran a terrific race over 1200 m at Penang on Saturday. Outpaced In the early stages of the race, he came
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    • 201 15 j^^jCricket Reuter Hobart. Tuesday India fought their way back into the match against Tasmania when they tore through the top order batting in the final hour of the second day here yesterday. Tasmania were 55 for four wickets in their second Innings at stumps, holding a lead
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    • 452 16 French Quarter had a slight lead from Bombus and Dignity at the home turn, with Pahlawan well up. Forever Yours made up ground. Dignity hit the front at the distance and then ran on gamely under the whip to win by iy 4
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    • 307 16 E3II On the track By FAIRWAY Penan*, Tuesday Super Level, one of the fancied runners in the Governor Gold Cup on Sunday, looked a picture of fitness when taken out for light work on the sand here this morning. The going was good. The five-year-old Irish
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    • 685 17 Forest open three-point gap despite home draw K3 Soccer Reuter UPI London, Tuesday Nottingham Forest were held to a 1-1 home draw by Liverpool yesterday but still managed to Increase their lead of the English football First Division, thanks to Manchester United. While the draw
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    • 940 17 DIVISION ON* Arterial 3 Chelasa 0. Aaton Villa 1 Coventry CIl» 1, Bristol City 3 Wert Bromwlch Albion 1. Kverton 2 Manchester United 8. Leicester City 0 Middlesbrough 0. Manchester City 4 Kawcaatle United 0, Nor wich City 1 Ipawlch Town 0, Nottingham roreat 1 Liverpool j,
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    • 452 17  -  KJ Soccer By TONY DANKER Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Malaysia football captain Soh Chin Aun, encouraged by his success in the SEA Games, feels that he can look forward to the Asian Games in Bangkok next year with optimism. For Chin Aun, victory in
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    • 45 17 Duesseldorf. Tuesday— Fortuna Duesseldorf beat FC Schalke 04 1-0 here yesterday in a replayed National soccer Cup quarter-final. Fortuna, who drew 1-1 with Schalke In the first game, now play MSV Dulsburg In one semifinal. while Werder Bremen and FC Cologne contest the other.
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    • SPORTS BRIEFS
      • 90 17 Athens, Tuesday 'Greece's 400 professional soccer players staged a Christmas strike yesterday, and the holiday matches were played by amateurs and juniors before scanty crowds. Only five foreign players turned out from the regular First Division teams, and the level of Kay was mediocre at
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      • 79 17 New York,. Tuesday Jimmy Connors became the eighth and Ana' qualifier for the US$4OO.000 (*****,000) Grand Prix Masters tournament at Madison Square Garden on Jan 4-8, it was announced yesterday. Connors earned the berth in the richest men's event of the year when Australia's Phil Dent lost on
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      • 100 17 AFP Warsaw, Tuesday East Germany's Rosemarle Ackermann. the first woman to clear the two-metre high jump bar. was naturally voted as the top sports personality of 1977 by 23 European Press agencies. In the Poll organised by the Polish "PAP" agency, she collected 209 points out
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      • 64 17 Dacca. Tuesday The Bangkok Bank Thailand beat Bangladesh Army club 8-2 In the Aga Khan Gold Cup football tournament nere yesterday. In an another match, the Penang Football Association of Malaysia and Pakistan International Airlines played to a 3-3 draw. Isa Bakar scored twice and Noordin once
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      • 34 17 Soh Ghee Soon, former chairman of the Singapore Amateur Football Association and seven other national sports controlling bodies, died ati the* General Hospital this morning after a long Illness. He was 74.
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    • 76 18 Their voices filled the warm night air. To music from the Salvation Army and the Boy's Brigade bands, the crowd sang Christmas carols. It was a singalong session at the St Andrew's Cathedral last night. Miss Mary Tan, a local composer from the Faith Methodist
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    • 386 18  -  By Gloria Chandy Remember Trio Indra, finalists In last year's English Talentlme series? They were placed fourth with their unusual rendition of The Pink Panther Theme. The team of three musicians was made up of Indra and Mutallb Ismail and their sister Norah.
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 662 18 In and around i »i' FILMFUN ANIMAL FROLIC a film on animals at the Queenstown library, 2 p.m. Admission free. FUN AND GAMES at the Toa Payoh library for children, 2 p.m. Admission free. QUIZTIME for children from 10-13 years old at the Toa Payoh library, 3 p.m. Admission free.
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    • 731 18 €.00 am Opening announcements f o 1lowed by At Daybreak with Percy Faith Orch. Academy Award winners and other great movie themes ti.3o News (E>. 6.40 Morning Concert: Cuban Overture (Gershwin) An American In Paris (Daniel Majeskl violin >. Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel; Theatre Overture (Kodaly), Dances of Marosszek (Kodaly), Phllharmonla
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    • 696 19 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.M OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by THE FLYING NUN (r). Sally Field stars. Situation comedy. 3M DIARY OF EVENTS (I). US HORIZON: Do You Sincerely Want A Long life lr). On the causes of pld age and the fallacies eurroundlng r®» Juvenatlng processes. 4.25 INTERMISSION. C.N
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    • 252 19 Today's top shows j SWITCH: Camera Angles. (Ch. 5,~ 9.55 p.m. in colour). Unknown to each other. Pete and Mac moonlight on the case of a stolen experimental camera, because for both, a friend is involved. When they finally confess their activities to each other and start working on they
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