New Nation, 14 January 1978

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    Masthead
    19 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Saturday, January 14, 1978 No. 2157 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 216/1/78 jsEnssaak SATURDAY, JANUARY 14. 1978
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    Crime violence recedes
    382 1 ...but property thefts on increase—police chief Criminal violence receded last year but there was a significant upswing In nonviolent crime. Tills up-and-down crime trend was disclosed today by Police Commissioner Tan Teck Khlm, who added: "Crime cannot be completely eliminated but It Is a hazard against which
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    Lock icon Picking space shuttle pilots
    119 1 AP Johnson Space Centre. (Texas), Saturday The first women and blacks ever selected (or astronaut training are expected to be among about 35 people named as space shuttle pilots and mission specialists on Monday, a US space agency statement said yesterday. Those chosen will begin In
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    Lock icon Storm wrecks a pier in Dover
    49 1 A pier Is completely wrecked la Dover In the wont storm In Britain In 25 years. The storm which strack on Tharsdajr left 2f people dead or missing and caused heavy damage to property along the English east coast. UFI pictare. UPI picture
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    Lock icon Peace talks in danger, says Sadat
    517 1 AP Aswan, Saturday President Sadat yesterday conceded that the Israeli tough stand on Jewish settlements In the Slnal peninsula was endangering current peace negotiations between the two countries. "The negotiations are now In a critical moment. It Is In danger, really, because of this
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      21 1 INSIDE Bngift St hawkers offered new sites Page 4 y: i PACUCB: What's On 12; Croacword 15; Moneywords 17; Comics 18.
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    Life-rafts for Poly
    44 2 A British company, HJTD Infla tables LtdTwUl f) resent two six-man lfe-rafts to the Singapore Polytechnic's nautical studies department. A film, Rescue from Disaster, will be shown during the presentation at Dover Road swimming pool on Jan. SI at 10.30 ajn.
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    Wilson wants to see PAP back in SI
    425 2  -  By Sunny Wee Sir Harold Wilson, the former British Labour Prime Minister said he would like to see the People's Action Party return to the Socialist International. However, he added this could happen only if there are "changes in the PAP'S minds
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    Now open
    39 2 The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board Information centre at Empress Place, formerly the Malay ArU and Crafts Centre, la now open dally from MO ajn. to 5 p.m. The centre will be closed on Sundays and public holidays.
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    5 homeless
    36 2 Five people were made homeless when a fire partially gutted a shophouse at Lorong 33, Sims Avenue, last night. The first la believed to have started from the first floor. No one waa Injured.
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    Lock icon Kidney swap sisters 'doing very well'
    250 2 Reuter London, Saturday Brunei schoolgirl Ho Beng Qoek vu said yesterday to be making excellent progress after 41-hour transplant operation to receive her sister's kidney earlier this week, v "Both girls are now doing very well indeed and Improving daily," said Dr John Moorhead,
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    Course on refrigeration
    44 2 The University of Singapore's department of extramural studies will hold a 14-lecture course. Introduction to Refrigeration, on every Tuesday and Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9.30 pjn. from Jan. 19. The lecturer Is Mr Admadul Ameen, of Ngee Ann Technical College.
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    Parade
    24 2 The Airport Fire and Rescue Service will hold Its triennial inspection parade at Paya Lebar Airport fire station on Thursday at 7.45 p.m.
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    Lock icon Korchnoy wants freedom for his wife and son
    384 2 Reuter Belgrade, Saturday Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoy said yesterday he might refuse to play against world champion Anatoly Karpov unless his wife and son are allowed to Join him in exile. Korchnoy won the right to challenge compatriot Karpov for the world
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    Action against ship owners
    329 3  -  S'pore union complains to international body By Ivan Lim The International Transport Federation (ITF) has put pressure on foreign and local shipowners here to open negotiations with the Singapore Maritime Officers' Union SMOU for collective agreements. This follows a SMOU complaint to the ITF that many
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    Eye of the Wind arrives in S'pore
    108 3 A 31-metre long brlgantlne. on Its way round the world, arrived here yesterday. Named Eye of the Wind, after the title of British naturalist David Scott's autobiography. the brlgantlne left England in October 1970. It has since crossed the Atlantic, the Panama Canal
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    More buses
    28 3 Ten new buses will Join the fleet of 1156 SBS buses this month. They will be deployed on the following services: 13, 164, 198 and 209.
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    Lock icon 'Super VD' in S'pore
    189 3 UPI A type of "super gonorrhea" against which penicillin has no effect has been found in Singapore and 18 other countries, according to the National Centre for Disease Control in. Atlanta, US. The CDC, quoting a report from the World Health Organisation, also said studies have
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      114 3 A bounty of beautiful food awaits you at tmmnm. nwm mr y yj* here &hhl rush' triumphs* Gome to Cockpit Hotel now to discover Singapore's most exciting new restaurant CHANTICLEER. fs. Where food at its most glorious awaits you Taste the n iost mouth watering masterpieces of European cooking, ptepared
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    All-night Bugis Street to go?
    330 4  -  Hawkers told i !to pick new sites By K.K. Fong Are the days of Bugls Street as an all-night tourist spot numbered? Last month, the hawkers there were asked If they would agree to move to hawker centres elsewhere. A spokesman for the Ministry of
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    Out to woo PATA delegates
    135 4 These four ♦feathered" girls of the Neptune Dance Revue wiU entertain delegates to the PATA conference In New Delhi on Jan. 23. They will perform a saloon dance number at the SIA hospitality suite In Hotel Maurya to hel» promote the airline's, trans-Pacific service to
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    Charity pop show
    81 4 The Leo Club of Singapore (central and north) will stage a charity pop show at the National Theatre .on Jan. 21. Groups to appear in the show include The Sweet Charity, The Fantastic*, The Bhang Dynasty, Pieces of April, Heritage, The Track Machine, Equisites, Glass Onion and
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    Remedial English for students
    301 4 The Education Ministry will conduct a special English remedial course for Chinese and Malay stream students waiting for their GCE "A" level examination results to prepare them for-entry to the university. The project Is aimed at helping these students Improve their command of English. Classes wiU
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    X-rays for Sec 4 and Pre-U students
    114 4 All students in Secondary Four and Preunlverslty Two classes must undergo a chest x-ray before they leave school. They will also be offered the tuberculin test and the BCG vaccination, If necessary. The Education Ministry has asked school principals to submit the names
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    Workshops for lawyers
    137 4 Senior lawyers will soon conduct a series of workshops to Impart to junior members the finer points in legal practice. The aim of these workshops, organised by the Law Society, is to provide: PRACTICAL instruction in day-to-day matters encountered in practice; QUICK refreshers in specialised areas; and
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    Lock icon SHAH 'TO ARM ERITREANS
    311 5 ...as Somalia offers to negotiate an end to one-year Ogaden war Reuter UPI Washington, Saturday Strongly anticommunist Iran is preparing to send arms to Eritrean rebels in a growing effort to counter Soviet-Cuban 1 n f 1 uence in the Horn of Africa, US government sources
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    Lock icon Concorde: Fewer complaints
    131 5 UPI Washington, Saturday The Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday there were fewer complaints in New York during December about Concorde noise than there were about the roar of subsonic jetliners. In Its first monthlong report on iup«rsonlc transport noise monitoring at John F. Kennedy Airport, the FAA
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    Lock icon Girls jump to death
    37 5 Reuter Osaka, Saturday.—Two 13-year-old schoolgirls Jumped to death together yesterday from the roof of a 10-storey block of flats, police said. The two, classmates, left suicide notes saying: "Googbye everyone. Do not grieve."—Reuter.
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    Lock icon Off to US to save a life
    160 5 Reuter New York, Saturday A teacher from Canton, China, is flying to the United States next week to see If he can save the life of the brother he has not seen In a quarter century, the American Red Cross revealed yesterday. His
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    Lock icon Family rejects KGB order
    134 5 UPI Moscow, Saturday—The family of Anatoly Scharansky has rejected a KOB secret police order to find a Moscow attorney, demanding a meeting with the Imprisoned dissident or a letter of approval In his own handwriting. Dissident sources yesterday said the family refused to meet a KGBdeadline
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      96 5 EVEREADY PRESENTS JU GAOE :l ft J 03 V Jmf iu i r Eveready makes flashlights. Good flashlights. Big flashlights. Small flashlights. A whole brigade of flashlights. Some in strong, durable, bright plastic. Some in heavygauge brass. There are also flashlights that float. Flashlights with magnets that will hold fast
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    Lock icon Massacred!
    594 6 Khmers killed all 463 Vietnamese in border village —report AP Reuter UPI Paris, Saturday The vice-president of the World Peace Council, Mr Raymond Quyot said here yesterday on returning from a visit to Vietnam that an entire border village was massacred by Cambodian forces at the outbreak of fighting
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    Lock icon Lady Churchill gives her eyes
    152 6 UPI London, Saturday Lady Churchill, widow of Sir Winston Churchill, who died last month at the age of 92. willed her eyes for corneal grafting and they were used on two patients the day after her death, Moorflelds Hospital a aid yesterday. "All being well,
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    Lock icon Doubts over Round 2 of M-E talks
    251 6 AFP Reuter Cairo, Saturday The first session of the Egyptian-Israeli military commission ended here with Egypt's Defence Minister casting doubts on whether the talks will resume. Gen. Oamassl said his counterpart, Gen Welzman's return to Cairo would depend on the progress made by
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    Lock icon Million $ surname
    58 6 Million surname Reuter London. Saturday A 28-year-old man has Inherited almost a quarter of a million sterling ($l.l million) by changing his surname by deed poll. Cap Lain Aubrey Russelscarr Is now Captain Aubrey Meysey-Thomp-son, a condition for Inheriting the money and property willed to him by his 82-year-old spinster
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    Lock icon Freed
    31 6 Reuter Peshawar, Saturday Mr Nasrullah Khan Khattak, a former chief minister of the North West Frontier Province, was released yesterday after four months' detention, It was officially stated here. Reuter.
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    Lock icon TODAY
    127 6 UPI TODAY is Saturday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 1978 with 351 to follow. THE MOON Is approaching its first quarter. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STAR is Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. Philosopher and
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    67 6 AFP Helsinki, Saturday Local authorities have ruled that Donald Duck Is not suitable reading for children and have cancelled library subscriptions to the comic. The Youth Board, which made Its decision unanimously found that Donald was unduly bourgeois and presented pernicious attitudes towards society. The board cited
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      83 6 The dbx 119 Dynamic Range Enhancer Noise Reduction Unit restores up to 20 db of the dynamics missing from records, tapes, and FM broadcasts and puts life back into trie music. available at: ATLAS SOUND UIC Building BENQOLD Raffles Place PETER CHEW'S Supreme House OO(LirG3A(LOK][!(A[3 O(MYSOQ(MZttTO@&QZ&[L SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR MONO
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      222 6 •JHRl WEATHER Rome Rain, 14-10C. Headline: Andreottl will resign by Monday. Moscow Overcast, Minus 5-Mlnus 7C. Pravda's headline: A leading role of scientific-Indus-trial complexes. Bonn Scattered showers, 4-1C. Headline: Lowest Inflation rate since 1970. Paris Overcast, possible showers, 5-1C. Headline: President Valery Discard D'Estalng's visit to the Ivory Coast. London
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    Lock icon Rome raps the US
    411 7 'Don't interfere in our affairs' AP AFP Rome, Saturday For elgn Minister Arpaldo Forlani yesterday criticised a US declaration opposing communist entry in any Italian government. The US statement provoked stormy reaction and allegations of American meddling. The declaration came on the eve of a political
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    Lock icon Freezing start for refugees
    55 7 A new life starts with winter woolles for two of the five youngsters who arrived at London's bitterly cold Heathrow Airport on Thursday from Singapore in a party of 19 South Vietnamese refugees. Their arrival brings the total of Vietnamese refugees in Britain to 116. AP
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    Lock icon Indira: Pistol stunt again?
    142 7 AFP New Delhi, Saturday A middle-aged man carrying a loaded pistol was taken Into custody by police In Old Delhi at the end of a function attended by former Premier Indira Gandhi yesterday evening. Police said the man, Murari Lai Batra. with the pistol in his
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    Lock icon Carter's pledge to Saudis
    123 7 NYT Washington, Saturday. President Carter has promised Saudi Arabia that he will personally try to convince Congress that it should approve the sale of F-15 fighter planes to the Saudi government —a controversial sale because Israel considers them a threat to its security. Sources say the
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    Lock icon Kissinger's $1 mil TV debut
    184 7 UPI Washington, Saturday Dr Henry Kissinger made his debut as a television commentator and interviewer last night in a 90minute special that will pay him almost US$5OO,OOO ($1.15 million). Neither NBC television nor Dr Kissinger will say exactly how much the former Secretary of State
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    Lock icon Cholera toll
    28 7 AFP Jakarta, Saturday Seventy-eight people died in a cholera outbreak in the Banyuwangl area In East Java during the past weeks, it was reported yesterday. AFP.
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    Lock icon S. Korea: Carter concerned
    259 7 UPI Washington, Saturday President Carter yesterday said he was concerned about the human rights problem In South Korea and that Tongsun Park woulld be given a lie detector test about his alleged lobbying among members of Congress. "We're concerned about the human rights problem In South
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      120 7 0 f 1 JL. *2* Insist on "ATLAS" Manufacturer H.B.BRADY .Australia "ATLAS" Ultra-hard wall plaster helps solve your problem! extremely hard, smooth durable no cement sand needed specially made for HDB hollow block walls Available at all building material c6.pty.ltd. suppliers contractors. IMPORTER STOCKIST: CERAMIC TILES MARBLE TERRAZZO MOSAIC VINYL
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    Young and Andy Capped
    411 8 None of the many forecasts on unemployment during this problematic period appears as depressing as the prospect of teenage retirement. The recent OECD warning that there may be 17 million jobless In the Industrialised countries later this year Is only a cold statistic compared to a
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
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      Fantasy surprise
      48 8 In another celebration Hollywood film prodooar Fred Bauer's 39th blrthdaar h!a wife gave him the answer to his 10-year fantasy: An oriental girl In a |M scout uniform popping oat of a gift-wrapped box. It la not clear whether he was allowed to keep the uniform.
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      Too old to learn?
      35 8 J A colleague waa looking a trifle depreaeed lately. Whan asked why. she replied: "You know you're old when you are disqualified from applying for acholarshlps by virtue of your age.
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    Don't charge us twice
    128 8  -  ADIL, Singapore 20. When one's consumption of gas, water and electricity exceeds a certain amount, a progressively Increasing Government surcharge Is levied on the total PUB bill. This may be justified as ap incentive to reduce consumption and wastage. What I cannot understand is why the
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    EXTENSION NOT POSSIBLE
    93 8  -  BENJAMIN CHUA, PRO, SBS, Singapore 9. I refer to Mr Henry Ooh's request (NN, Dec 31) for the extension of Service 111 to Tampines Way. I regret that SBS is unable to accede to his request because of lack of terminal sDace there. His request will be
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    Don't dig all over town
    146 8  -  TKT, Singapore 11, Rome was not" built In a day, and neither do we expect a conversion of a circus into a traffic light controlled Junction In 24 hours. But the work now on at the Farrer/Holland roads junction has taken four months. Both commuters
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    In defence of film critic Bah Bah
    147 8  -  PRO-GOODTASTE. Singapore 15. I have written previously to criticise film critic Edgar Koh, and now I am writing to defend another. The absurd letter by JT (NN, Jan 7) on Tan Bah Bah Is typical of local intolerance of any wrlUng which threatens
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    We are all firmly behind him
    123 8  -  SERENE LU, (sad 1> other faaf), Singapore 17. I refer to JTs letter on cinema critic, Tan Bah Bah (NN, Jan 7). It would be most unf or t u nate if Mr Tan should be discouraged by such a letter. On behalf of
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    Chip of the business block
    1261 9  -  It is the businessman's dream that the thriving concern he has built through the years should one day be passed on to his son. But the years dividing the generations is not an easy gap to bridge, even in the stimulating pur- suit of a
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      74 9 A Hash in the deep without fuss fumbling TOSHIBA TM-I UNDERWATER ELECTRONIC FLASH Operating on 4 Penlite batteries, this versatile electronic flesh brings convenience end speed to underwater flash photography up to almost 5 metres. Specie!ly designed to light up awkward spaces es the unit can be tilted up end
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    Getting culture across...
    629 10  -  Sight Sound Judith Holmberg Tell me that RTS has scheduled a cultural programme and I'll make sure that the set's off when the show is on, tor I've always associated culture with dullness. Not because the cultural shows that are broadcast are dull, but because I'm not
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      57 10 SEIKO T. V. SERVICE 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL OFFER! FREE Oven toaster tor each SI ERA Colour TV bought from 10th January 10th Feburary While Stocks last. C ■>* <***#« v v w. nd /b* f '> 'A j. X m lERA m (IERA O^ f IMPORTED FROM HOLLAND SEIKO TV
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      1492 10 YOUR WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE SINGAPORE 5 The right colour choice for 1978 CTV >2 SATURDAY 1.05 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by BEBAME STREET. MS SATURDAY MATINEE: The Jazz Singer. (See Top Bhows of the Weekend). 3J85 WATERY PORK: Where is Btockbreedlng Heading? This documentary examines -a strange disease known as "watery
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      677 10 FM STEREO SATURDAY 0.00 P.M. Opening Announcements and Programme Summary followed by At Sunset with Brian Pahey Orch. Classics Go Latin, Acker Bilk Touch of Latin 6.30 News (B) 6.45 At Sunset (cont'd). 7.00 Dutch Concert Hall featuring the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haltlnk: Variations and Pugue on
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      545 10 Top shows of the weekend 1 TODAY SATURDAY MATINEE; The jazz Singer. (Ch. 5, 2.05 p.m.) "You ain't heard nothing yet" and "Hey ma, listen to this." These words electrified movie audiences more than 50 years ago and started a sound revolution In motion pictures. First screened on Oct 8,
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      'Freak' who became Babe the great
      454 11  -  inniid »>v Gloria Chandy BABE: gnu Clark, Alex Kama, SUm Pickens, Jeanette Nolan, Elian Geer, Ford Balney. Directed, by Boss Ku11k. Written kj Joanna Lee. (New at Cathay). I must admit that on my way to see this movie, I thought to myself, ..yeocnT
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      237 11 At the cinema GHOST GALUEON: A «of adventurers RO rch of sunken treasure and meet a phantom ship. On board, to scare the lives out of them, are a band of monks, ones excommunicated and now vampires In search of victims. Stars Jack Taylor, Maria Perschy, Carlos Lemos and Barbara
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      915 11 star In this movie that has been applauded for Its many gags and brilliant Individual performances. This spoof on the famous novel Is filled with surprises like the appearance of Gary Cooper from the original 1939 version. Stars Marty Feldman, who also wrote and directed, Ann-Mar-garet Michael York, Peter Ustinov,
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      234 11 ~}\/@~;**+<']={|}^%{'*/,+\@@(%- CREATING WITH FABRICS WORKSHOP SESSIONS at the National Museum Young People'! Gallery, at 11 a.m. and 2.30 pjn. Student* and staff of Hwl Yoh Secondary School will explain and demonstrate the various techniques ot collage, stitching, applique and weaving techniques as well as batik textile designs. Visitors invited to
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      432 11 of 140 Swiss companies will have their products on display. Admittance La by Invitation, and Invitation cards are available at the reception desk of the hotel. SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITS Singapore Science Centre, Jurong Town Hall Road, until 6 pm. Admission: adults $l. children under 18 years 50 cents and school children
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    Lock icon Satire and tragedy —by Evelyn Waugh
    923 12 U I k H V- A Handful Of Dust. By Evelyn Waugh. 308 pages Little, Brown. US$B.95. Reviewed by Anatole Broyard. NYT The characters of Evelyn Waugh are a lesson in the other end of anthropology. Here are the natives of a highly articulated
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      65 12 II While every endeavour is made to publish advertisements on the dates requested it is not always possible to adhere to specified dates of insertion due to pressure of space. The publishers therefore reserve the right to arrange alternative dates for insertion without reference. All copy is subject to approval
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      240 12 V Top charts of the week This week's charts flth last week's posllons In brackets. LONDON (1) Mull of Kin tyre/ Wines (8) Love's Unkind: Donna Summer (9) It's A Heartache: Bonnie Tyler (2) Floral Dance: Brighouse and Bastrlck Band (J) How Deep Is Your Lore: Bee (14) Don't It
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    TAKE A BOW FOR QUEEN'S GOOD NEWS
    281 12  -  Records i m Peter Ong QUEEN: NEWB OF THE WORLD (EMI): After wo remarkable albums [Night At the Opera and K Day at the Races). 3ueen appears to have nellowed. The playing is more lubtle compared with the full-throated, no-holds-jarred quality of the
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    shopping
    274 13 A twice weekly advertisement feature Modern, advanced and sophisticated technology can be said to be as equally, If not more, responsible for women's "liberation" as all the slogan-shouting, bra-burning suffraggette movements. They brought Into being the refrigerator, gating women the chore of dally marketing; the washing machine, lightening the
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      157 13 Hwd OMka, 950, Gaylong Rood, S'poro 14. Tol: *****3 American Cuttinf Moderate Char|e Branch, 617, Quoontway Shoppinf C.ntr*, Spor. 3. Tol: *****3 :uul i]hi*m Imported antique furniture skiifuNy carved in Oriental and Mactterranean features in kiln dry/season dry rosewood and teakwood See the wide range at our showroom 111 111
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      169 13 HASFAR STORE Fil LUMI6RE MONTAGUT MADE IN FRANCE All of 1977 And 1978 Design And colour Available. Various Brand of Lighters Pens To Clear at Rock Bottom Prices. All Types of Jeans, T. Shirts and Cosmetics to Clear Rock Bottom Prices. Open: 10.30 A.M- to 10 P.M. Entrust your vision
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    Lock icon Drop in demand for Nigerian crude
    134 14 AFP Lagos, Saturday Reduced international demand may depress Nigeria's crude oil output to 1.6 million barrels a day by the end of this year against 2.2 million barrels at present, the country's oil minister said here. Federal Petroleum Resources Com mlssloner Mohamed Buharl, in
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    Lock icon Eight-year treaty
    331 14 r r 3 Business News and Views Japan, China set for trade pact AFP Tokyo, Saturday A long-term economic treaty between Japan and China will be signed in the middle of next month In Peking, It was reported yesterday. Yoshlhiro Inayama, chairman of the Japan-China Economic Association, a
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    Rubber and tin shares shine
    453 14  -  o Lee Yew Meng Rubber and tin shares highlighted trading at the Singapore stock market this week, with significant price gains attending. Coming up tops was P a h a n g Consolidated which was relisted after 18 months of trading suspension. The counter's relisting
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      NEW YORK
      319 14 The Dow Jones industrial average, falling for the eighth time In nine 1978 sessions, reached a 33-month low yesterday when an early rally evaporated because of a lack of trading amid Investor worries about the dollar. The Dow average, up nearly three' points in the first hour, fell
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      36 14 UPI New York, Saturday Dow Jones closing averages on the NY SB yesterday: 30 Industrials 775.73 (off 2.42); 20 transport 205.17 (up 0.53); 15 utilities 106.63 (up 0.17); 65 stocks 271.26 (off 0.20). UPI.
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      185 14 AFP Share prices rebounded on the Tokyo stock market yesterday, buoyed by a surging wave of buying centring on ex-port-oriented issues and other blue chips. The 225 stock Dow Jones average recovered the 5,000-yen mark finishing the day at 5,030.98 yen, up 35.00 yen from Thursday. The index for
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      69 14 Closing prices In French francs at the Paris Bourse yesterday: Pariba* 141.30 +8 50 Ponder 386 +1.00 Prlntemps 40.50 +1.50 Bull 34.40 +.70 Royal Dutch 361 +3 Mlchelln 1143 +37 008 359 +6 Thomson 138 +7.30 CFP 96 +1 Rhone 53.60 +3.50 Air 353.50 +8.50 BBN 360 Philips 54.30
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      80 14 Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich Closing prices In Swiss francs at the Zurich Stock Exchange; UBS B 3250 6 UBS Reg 012 SBC 439 s Credit Suisse mo 20 Swissair B 800 Swiss Relnsur 2760 —10 Wlnterthur B 2360 —10 Zurich Insur Juven* B 183 I Nestle B 3610
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    180 14 UPI London. Saturday The US dollar ended the week with an upward turn everywhere except London yesterday and some dealers saw as "encouraging" for the erratic American currency. Although the German Bundesbank officially kept on the sidelines, the dollar Improved from 2.1035 German marks to 2.1190. In Brussels,
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    146 14 AFP Geneva, Saturday Forty-nine countries yesterday urged that an International agreement on tea be negotiated, at the close of a five-day preparatory meeting arranged by UNCTAD. Representatives of the main producer-exporting and consumer countries will send experts to a meeting In June to
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    Lock icon The death knell
    968 15 Soccer PHILIP TAN interviews TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN, who says a dogmatic Asian stand means... Penan?, Saturday Tunku Abdul Rahman, the former Malaysia Prime Minister who resigned as Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president, is still sag that Malaysia did not support him In the AFC Congress meeting In
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    Excellent play by Terence
    316 15  -  Chess »n Leslie Leou Natlonaljunior muter Terence Wong recently played In the Third world Friendship tournament, a competition organised by the Yugoslavs In Belgrade with the worthy intention of promoting chess and friendship. Predictably, the 16 participants came from Asia, Africa and South America besides the
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    Zimsen, Fang lead the S'pore challenge
    233 16 Motqrracing Over 25 cars will be flagged off from Kluang this 'evening In the Castrol Rally organised by the Singapore Motor Sports Club. The competitors will have to go almost nonstop to cover over 500 km In less than 18 hours before they finish
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    Cup site
    27 16 Buenos Aires, Saturday The Federation Internationale De Football Association (FIFA) have approved' Japan as the site for the next Junior World Cup tournament in 1979.
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    A world trip for 300-game
    377 16  -  ATBC to stage big event Kd Bowling By BRIAN MILLER Bowlers participating lji the Ist Amateur Tenpln Bowling Club's Open championships next month stand a chance of winning a trip round the world plus $4000 In cash. This Is the prize the organisers and sponsors
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    Timesmen sink in second half
    251 16 Soccer Division Two promo-tion-candidates Banque Natlonale De Paris gave hlgh-rlding Straits Times Sports Club a lesson In "cultured football" as they swept to a 6-1 victory. In a National Business Houses League match at Farrer Park Athletics Centre yesterday. For the Pressmen this was their
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    THE MOST CAPPED PLAYER IN W-CUP
    402 16  -  International Soccer m Doug Gardner Who is likely to be the most capped player at both the beginning and end of the World Cup finals next summer? The man, in fact, who already holds the world record number of international appearances for this country?
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    Loyal Scholar fancied
    367 17  -  Norderel can provide Piggott a double RACING with Brian Miller Jockey Leiftt Plggott, who skipped the first two days ot the current I poll race meeting, Is back In action and It will pay to follow the maestro today. This top-flight English Jockey can land a double
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    Boss Cat can score with Piggott up
    501 18 RACING with Scrutineer y Magna Charter is another good bet in the six-horse race Boss Cat, mount of English ace jockey Lester Pijfott, will take some beating In the Class 2 Division 3—1250 m (Race 2) at Ipoh tomorrow. I rate him as
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    Thrown out by soldiers
    453 19 K3 Soccer West German coach Schoen and TV crew... Buenos Aires, Saturday West German soccer coach Helmut Schoen and a local television film crew were thrown out of the River Plate Stadium yesterday by armed soldiers while filming an interview on the 1978 World Cup, according
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    In the hands of a four-year-old...
    298 19 Buenos Aire®, Saturday Today the die will be cast The 16 teams competing in the 1978 World Cup finals in Argentina will know who they face In the first stage of the battle to be crowned kings of world soccer. The draw, to divide
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    Lock icon Tug-of-war over Keegan?
    157 19 Reuter London, Saturday England' soccer star Kevin Keegan appears to be in the thick of an inter-continental tug-of-war for his services. New York Cosmos said yesterday that they are Interested in signing Keegan, but declined to say If any negotiations have taken place. "We are Interested in
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