New Nation, 12 February 1978
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Title Section11 1978-02-12 1 Sunday Nation FtBRUAftY 12. If7t M CCUTS M.C JP) NO. tI7M/7t11 words
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Advertisement80 1978-02-12 1 I ge 2 Remember this word: PSYCHOBABBLE j!i ft'% v k IPWM 1- -t H, IB Imw§o lOuak nwW ioo% WulSS&l ""VfkMim? m*&& vHt*'%r» r. Jt >c^c xs r /fes You'll be hearing a lot more of it. Our report on Page 10 V T ■*F f Newshens storm the80 words
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Article199 1978-02-12 2 AP Reuter MASSIVK security measure* went into effect In Sydney, Australia, yesterday as students of New South Wales planned demonstrations a f a 1 n st the prime ministers of Singapore and Malaysia during the Commonwealth summit, starting tomorrow. Hundreds of police and security officialsAP; Reuter - 199 words
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Article40 1978-02-12 2 LABORATORY tests on samples of oranges from Israel yesterday showed that they had no traces of mercury in them. The oranges are from a million-dollar consignment of 70.000 cases, which arrived here by ship on Friday.40 words
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Article48 1978-02-12 2 Reuter VIETNAM'S ambassador to the United Nations Dinh Ba Thi has left the United States for Paris after being expelled for alleged involvement in a spy plot. The diplomat protested "Justice will win" even as he hurried to an air France plane for his transatlantic flightReuter - 48 words
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Article88 1978-02-12 2 SOVIET authorities have agreed in principle to exchange imprisoned Jewish dissident mathematician Anatol Shcharansky and several other Jewish activists for some imprisoned Chilean communist leaders and Soviet agents captured In Western Europe, informed sources said here last night Negotiations for the exchange have been going on for eight88 words
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Article74 1978-02-12 2 AFP THE British house of commons Friday night unanimously approved a bill penalizing dealers In child pornographv. The protection of children bill,- Introduced by conservative llr Cyril Townsend. alms at protecting children under 18 from being solicited to pose for pornographic photographs. The bill provides penalties ofAFP - 74 words
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Article94 1978-02-12 2 AFP JAPAN will offer to buy skimmed milk powder and butter oil from New Zealand on a continuous basis and donate them to developing countries In a maimer which will not disrupt New Zealand's overseas dairy markets. Kvernment sources said day. This will be one of proposals toAFP - 94 words
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Article, Illustration704 1978-02-12 2 Suggests extra 3 years in school lifß LEE KUAN YEW has described the Ideal education system to produce students who are effectively bilingual 15 years In school from primary to preunlverslty level. He threw up the ra» dical formula during a question-and answer session' following his704 words
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Article482 1978-02-12 2 MR LEE KUAN YEW has suggested that dialect films could be screened later In the night by RTB. This la to cater for the older generation who may find It "too heavy a task" to learn Mandarin today. The proposal was made by Mr482 words
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414 1978-02-12 2 Nantah student* in the next three to five years will face the most difficulties as the university changes to an Eng-lish-language tertiary Institution. This Is because undergraduates accepted after 1981 will be expected to be more proficient In English due to the new pre-unlverslty414 words
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Advertisement12 1978-02-12 2 OUTRAM PAUK. UK. 2# *H» STOREY (K) PHONE:*****88 *****29 EASY PARKING LSTSIGTSISTI12 words
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Advertisement479 1978-02-12 3 CHUPA CHUPS jjip FLAVOUR CONTEST 3RD PRIZES: Sony Pop Car 2NDS\ PRIZESrS Zodiac Watch IST PRIZES: Chopper Bicycle 25 STH PRIZES: SSI tZT** 500 6THPRIZEST Base Ball Trainar 500 7TH PRIZES: Chupa Chups Clip Board FUa 11,065 prizes to be won 25 HHK 4TH PRIZES: Chupa Chaps Track Salt r479 words
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200 1978-02-12 4 Reuter TOOUR of the 13 Bovlet r officials expelled or banned from Canada for trying to bribe a security officer to spy for them left Ottawa by air yesterday for Warsaw. Among them were diplomat Igor Vartanlan, first secretary at the Soviet embassy there.Reuter - 200 words
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86 1978-02-12 4 If you drink, don't walk except sideways AP TkRUNKKN driving has mJ long been a crime In Utah, but a new state law requires tipsy pedestrians to watch their step. The January special session of the Utah legislature approved a new section to the state traffic law* that reads: "NoAP - 86 words
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Article289 1978-02-12 4 Send addict kids to drying-out centres, not CPs DARENTS who send their children caught on drugs to private doctors Instead of the Drug Rehabilitation Centres are only wasting their money and prolonging their children's agony. Mr Baey Uan Peck, president ot the Singapore Antl-Narcotlci Association, gave this289 words
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Article189 1978-02-12 4 AP Reuter Ambassador Andrew Toung said on Friday that progress was being made In the multl national negotiations aimed at grantng lndeBndence to South-west rlca this year. Mr Toung struck an optimistic note as the foreign ministers of five maior western powers, including the us.AP; Reuter - 189 words
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125 1978-02-12 4 AP POLICE and the South A Korean consulategeneral are awaiting the return of a Korean national from Singapore, who. they believe, could shed some light on the disappearance of Korean actress-producer Choi Eun-Hee, police sources said yesterday. Kim Kyo Ha. a Korean residentAP - 125 words
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269 1978-02-12 4 AFP CJTUIWRNTB from 15 U universities and Institutions of higher learning in Bandung, West Java, have declared a general study strike for an Indefinite period In protest against the storming of the Institute of Technology (1TB) campus on Thursday by the military in whichAFP - 269 words
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265 1978-02-12 4 Reuter rS US has launched a bid to end the war la the horn of Africa by calling on occupying Somali forces to withdraw from the Ogaden desert. It also wants the Soviet Union and Cuba to pull out theReuter - 265 words
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136 1978-02-12 4 rfJEE number of cases -1- where assessment of compensation for Injured workers has been disputed by Insurance companies is only a small percentage of total accidents reported. ThH was clarified by the Labour Ministry yesterday The clarification follows a reccnt call by the Kneral secretary136 words
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81 1978-02-12 4 Reuter rE Hong Kong government has virtually condemned to death one of the Colony's most prominent landmarks—the historic KowloonCanton railway station that was once the gateway to China. Authorities have now called for tenders for the station's demolition to make way for a cultural complex.Reuter - 81 words
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131 1978-02-12 4 Reuter PRESIDENT Marcos Is r not keen on his powerful wife, Imelda, standing as a candidate In the coming elections for an Interim national assembly. In an Interview, he said he preferred that Mrs Marcos, continue as Governor of Metropolitan Manila. She has heldReuter - 131 words
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274 1978-02-12 4 UPI 11HE US Defence Department believes as many as 300,000 people may have been exposed to radiation In open-air atomic testing between 1940 and 1903 and now Is trying to find them all, officials said on Friday. A spokeswoman for the Defence Nuclear AgencyUPI - 274 words
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Article31 1978-02-12 4 UPI A FORMER American marine and air base on the coast of Vietnam will be remodelled to become a regional international airport, according to an official Vietnam news agency. UPI.UPI - 31 words
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90 1978-02-12 4 AFP ABOUT 300 communist Insurgents, supported by Khmer Rouge soldiers, stormed a village In north-eastern Thailand on Thursday, killing three villagers and taking several hostages, the Bangkok Post reported. Two village defence volunteers and ~a woman were killed and several houses were burned as aboutAFP - 90 words
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Article112 1978-02-12 4 Reuter RESCUE workers moved down a muddy canyon yesterday trying to find nine people apparently swept away In Los Angeles' most violent rainstorm of the decade. Altogether 17 are feared dead and 400 more were left homeless In the storm which moved in from theReuter - 112 words
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Advertisement18 1978-02-12 4 or* dotigrtod puth your car««r ahmod fpat with a chotco tolocf ion of protMilMil courMt, commercial and WW-18 words
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Article389 1978-02-12 5 China watchers puzzled by their absence AFP MYSTERY surrounding China's missing ""leaders Is the subject of a frontpage story In the English dally South China Morning Post yesterday. The paper said China analyst* were puzzled over the non-attendance of more than a dozen leading political figures atAFP - 389 words
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207 1978-02-12 5 AP rB US senate agreed on Friday to Interrupt the Panama Canal treaty debate and go into secret session to discuss allegations that the government of Panamanian President Omar Torrljos is Involved in illegal drug trafficking. "We must get this matter behindAP - 207 words
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Article36 1978-02-12 5 Reuter A SENIOR British official arrived In Kual* Lumpur yesterday in a renewed effort to gev Malaysia to lift the ban which has stopped the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner flying between London and Singapore.—Reuter.Reuter - 36 words
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Article73 1978-02-12 5 AFP rMAY be a dream come true for 17-year-old Prince Hlio, eldest eon of Japanese Crown Prince Aklnlto. He will enter the undergraduate course of OakushUln University In Tokyo as a major In history In April at the beginning of the new academic year. ItAFP - 73 words
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Article107 1978-02-12 5 UPI MR NGUYEN Glap. the Vietnamese ambassador to Japan, has called on Cambodia to reoonslder Hanoi's peace Sn and warned that country Is determined to continue fighting unless Phnom Penh accepts a negotiated settlement He chlded the Phnom Penh government for claiming that Vietnam conspired the currentUPI - 107 words
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Article, Illustration188 1978-02-12 5 UPI MRS. Jacqueline "<1 0 nasals put In her first full day's work on Friday at her new job associate editor at Doubleday and Company's publishing division In New York four months after she resigned from Viking Press. The 48 year old former First Lady leftUPI - 188 words
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Article278 1978-02-12 5 IBRAELI foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said on Friday there can be no separate peace with Egypt and that President Anwar Sadat must coax King Hu&seln of Jordan Into Middle East negotiations. "Sadat's problem is how to bring King Hussein to the negotiating table, and not278 words
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Article66 1978-02-12 5 AFP rvTHE chairman of Hong I. Kong's Public Services Commission, 81r Donald Luddlngton, arrives here today to study how the Singapore commission works. Dlfsatis fled with the race of localisation in Hong Kong, he will find what the Singapore PSC Is doing about entryAFP - 66 words
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178 1978-02-12 5 AP JAPANESE Industrial J spies are "prying the secrets of semiconductor technology from US comrles as Japan pushes dominate the world computer market." Fortune magazine says. The effort Is centred In an area on the southwestern edge of San Francisco Bay that has become known asAP - 178 words
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215 1978-02-12 5 AP Al4-YEAB-OLD girl > nv four of her relatives hacked to death last August, hot for three months dismissed the bloody attack as a bad dream, according to testimony released on Friday. Bayleen Ferguson testified la a California manldpalAP - 215 words
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Article75 1978-02-12 5 AFP rVOYS of 26 countries accredited to Hanoi including those of the Soviet union. Britain. Japan, Sweden and India, are visiting the south of Vietnam. It was learned on Friday. It If not clear at the moment whether the visit, which has not been officially announced. IsAFP - 75 words
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Article224 1978-02-12 5 AP mHE Soviet Union Is X engaged In extensive research and development of germ warfare, despite Moscow's recent angry denial, a British military authority said on Friday. "There Is firm evidence of this work and a!so of research on methods of delivery," said Air Vicemarshal StewartAP - 224 words
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110 1978-02-12 5 Reuter INTERNATIONAL flights between Bangkok and Hong Kong passing over Laos ana Vietnam will resume on March 23. the Lao official newspaper Sleng Prasasone reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted Dr Assad Kotalte, chairman of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), as saying the Amber OneReuter - 110 words
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Article229 1978-02-12 6 COMMENT Singapore's visible memories of Its illustrious sons are arguably sparing. Sir Stamford Raffles' statue at Empress Place seems to be the sole outstanding reminder of our debt to the makers of our history. Less well-known, with the possible exceptions of the National Monument and229 words
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Article, Illustration938 1978-02-12 6 Harford Thomas - is this the way to stimulate economic growth? By Harford Thomas Guardian WHY NOT a slx- hour working day? With increased wages? For that matter. why not a threeday week with increased wages? The three-day week idea had a somewhat sensational airing inGuardian - 938 words
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Article308 1978-02-12 6 Guardian MR GRIOORY Romanor, one of the few members of the Boviet Politburo who Is under 60. Is a man to watch In the succession stakes In the Kremlin. Some observers In Warsaw believe be may eventually head the Soviet Communist Party. Most observers thinkGuardian - 308 words
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Advertisement149 1978-02-12 6 TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. YESTERDAY'S TRADITION. SEIKO. THE QUALITY WATCH OF TODAY. Seiko started out making watches with uncompromising idaaU lika pride in work manship and dedication to a high standard of axeailanoa. As our tachnicai knowledge and expertise grew. we developed a micro technology far sheed of its tima. We bacama149 words
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Article, Illustration960 1978-02-12 7 Chang Kai Ming - Perspective WILL Ethiopia invade Somalia? It*s unlikely, predicts our writer who, 16 months before the war broke out between these two African states, drew attention to the tension in the area, spying: "The situation in this remote but strategic corner of the960 words
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Article94 1978-02-12 7 During those few frantic shopping days left to the lunar New Year, one supermarket took out a foil page advertisement In the morning paper, d* voting half of it to the "original Chinese New Year delicacies now available." Then It went on to list94 words
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Article, Illustration262 1978-02-12 7 GLORIA CHANDY - GLORIA CHANDY ANE of my women friends is quite upset and annoyed (quite rightly so I think) by a recent newspaper article that described a woman as having a "man-sized" Job. The woman In question. Mrs Shareen Kamaluddln, a Malaysian, Is the head of the School262 words
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Article309 1978-02-12 7 rDS For Women Only Calender that features a naked man for every month Of this year (just out In Britain) passed through the hands of three obviously chauvinistic printers who refused to print It. The reasons weren't publicised, but the refusals were probably bids to save the309 words
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Article197 1978-02-12 7 A 8 MORE and more bulkUnCi. mostly apartment blocks, prl ▼ate and EtDB, spring up all over the Island, one gets the Impression that the more offensive the paintwork, the grander the developers think their buildings are. An eyesore If there ever was one Is197 words
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Article, Illustration896 1978-02-12 8 Desmond Morris - The wonder is that so many people are so often able to fake a laugh to perfection... MANWATCHING By Desmond Morris First, the Shortfall Signal THERE are many Innuendo* in the "simple" smile. One group could be called Shortfall896 words
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Article, Illustration694 1978-02-12 8 They can tell more than the words he uses f|UR hands are go v much an Integral part of our verbal delivery that we sometimes gesticulate even when talking on the telephone by the use of Baton Signals. But what makes them so Interesting694 words
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Article367 1978-02-12 9 Guardian INJECTIONS for 1 protection against breast cancer may eventually become practical if the interpretation of research being carried out at the British Medical Research Council's Clinical Research Centre at Harrow, England, proves to be correct. It has been known for many years that tumourGuardian - 367 words
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Article, Illustration1124 1978-02-12 9 Derek Malcolm on South India's famous son, MGR Guardian TELL a rickshaw wallah In Madras that you don't like MOR and he'll catapult you Into the street, preferably onto some holy cowdung. Ask an Englishman who MOB is, and all you are likely toGuardian - 1,124 words
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464 1978-02-12 9 E. E - Honour our great men —erect statues to them j If you ask me... E.E. Apart from grants and trusts for education, there Is little to show that people who have amassed wealth In Singapore harbour any feelings of gratitude or pride for our land. Apart from the small statue of464 words
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Advertisement90 1978-02-12 9 IF YOU have something to say which jon think oar readers would like to know why not pat It on paper and send it to as. We welcome contributors to this column. Articles can be on any sabject bat should preferably be opinion pieces of about SM words each. They90 words
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Article, Illustration2000 1978-02-12 10 / 11 You're going to hear a lot more of It Psychobabble, a new and frighten ingly contagious jargon which may one day engulf the English language, is emerging in middle-class America. Christopher Reed investigates its probable origins in California and defines the parameters of its interface GuardianGuardian - 2,000 words
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Miscellaneous873 1978-02-12 12 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullout TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS THE CROSS OF LORRAINE (Matinee) on Ch. 5 at .10.35 a.m. High-grade propaganda of World War Two PoW camp where the prisoners, brutally treated by the Nazis, escape to carry on the campaign against them. This all-male war drama was shot simultaneously873 words
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Miscellaneous446 1978-02-12 12 AKAI ut l' Ml that puis no punches. NEW SERIES: SURVIVORS on Ch. 5 at 5.10 p.m. in COLOUR Plague wipes out 98 per cent of the world's population and those left behind have only their hanefs and muscles \o build a Brave, New World. Unaided by modern gadgetry and446 words
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Advertisement205 1978-02-12 13 lop of the fate |finlim»i WVTVI BMHIvUnv is even greater now. i rw.AM E? h. i A M I* Graetz of West Germany offers you a colour TV set that's top of its class. With 2849, you not only get the traditional features which make Graetz so special today, but205 words
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Miscellaneous1199 1978-02-12 13 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 HALL A ILLAM (r) 3.35 Afternoon Matinee: Panama Hattie, Ist of 2 (1942 Norman Z.McLeod). Stars Ann Sothern, Marsha Hunt, Red Skelton, Rags Ragland, Ben Blue, Virginia O'Brien, Alan Mowbray, Lena Horne, Dan Dailey, Carl Esmond. 4.20 Intermission 6.00 Open 4.03 LAND OP THE LOST: Survival1,199 words
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Miscellaneous976 1978-02-12 14 WEDNESDAY Low rentai rates which reduces annually. Ikii 3.00 PAA. Open 3.03 Star Performance: The Squeeze 3.30 Diary Of Events (M) 3.35 TELEMATCH (r) 4.20 Intermission 6.05 Open 4.04 ELECTRIC COMPANY 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 4.35 WILD, WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS: AR-Am^k.n RCCCOOfI 7.00 RAMPAIAN SUKAN 7.30 NEWS AND NEWSREEL976 words
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Miscellaneous1148 1978-02-12 15 FRIDAY H I J'*, 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: The Hand (Mandarin/r) 4JO Intermission 6.05 Open 0# IXIRCISK WITH GLORIA JO NIWS IN BRIIF 15 HAZIL (r) 7 00 SIRRANIKA. Feature on the Pak Andam, who dresses the groom and advises him on the customs and traditions as,OCJS.WHth lhe Ma,ay a "d1,148 words
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Advertisement370 1978-02-12 16 SEND ME Do You Love Me by R.D. Laing, an entertainment in conversation and verse is an astonishing, funny, savage and entertaining book. It explores all the resonances of that painful question 'Do you really love me?'. A wise and witty book. From Penguin naturally. Other books published by the370 words
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Miscellaneous115 1978-02-12 17 / 18 Hi r -<r> <- W ■SB 4 «3 ?«r <ifA i h. ©r^* u r /v WASNT SO CHEAP I WOULDN'T EAT HERE AT ALL/ CARE T SEE A HEH-MEH...VER A GREAT KIDDER/ r\ M A*t«s< fcmrrA rt/tOCTA fiS*L AT" BXJOSY'S ST? 52 A 4 1 S 7, 3 v.115 words
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Advertisement432 1978-02-12 19 Penguins MISHIM* I K 1 L'J M (8? MISHIMA at I I COUOUW ■a' Spring Snow: Yukio Mi shims In November 1970, Yukio Miihimi com mitt ted suicide. Hit lest yeers were devoted to the completion of e tetralogy. Th* See of Fertility, of which Spring Snow is the first432 words
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Advertisement108 1978-02-12 19 .FROM TO LUCIENNE LANSON This book is written for all women regardless of age, social position, educational level or sexual inclination. Here, at last is cleer, accurate and sympathetic information from a gynaecologist speaking woman to woman in a book that will enable every woman to understand the workings of108 words
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Miscellaneous254 1978-02-12 19 GARTH arid experience begin to bi11... Gradually (John k John Cot-ay's mined I I •V 5 l v\ v' HB r*> S «w n V i m NO 9MRME TO TV® NBQEO—NO MPN HPS EVEC BESETTED WMPOR9O LON®/ L M m //i. p D&K, JOHN, BEFORE KXJ 9HCW THE COMPRNy254 words
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733 1978-02-12 20 HUMOUR Paik Choo rvONKEY, Donkey 17 Fatt Choy, brought the whole Jlng bang, haha, say hello uncle wish auntie happy new year, go, shake hands, come on, don't be silly, Boy, say, say Donkey Tatt Choy. Come In, come In, and733 words
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Article, Illustration670 1978-02-12 20 Ann Landreth - Suit yourself with pearls or a black ribbon tie for an instant Paris look By Ann Landreth 'THE most imporA tant Item in any woman's wardrobe this spring is going to be a suit of some sort. That If the message from the Pari* designers who have Juat sewn their670 words
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276 1978-02-12 20 Off Hie Record by CKT CHINESE New Tear's day In Hatchet Row of San Francisco's Chinatown Is a few crackerbarrels too interesting. First of all, the dawn does not Just break, bat breaks te the accompaniment of silvery harp and Stringsby CKT - 276 words
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Article, Illustration1138 1978-02-12 21 Tresa Eyres - By Tresa Eyres A CRUISE, a visit to a longhouse, and a peek around Kuchlng— these were our goals as six of us homemakers from Singapore set out on an adventure at the end of March last year. In most cases, as It1,138 words
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Advertisement54 1978-02-12 21 $`<?:;\)""?,<*+$>$'{_}^[{~]_)<" Here's a chance to tell it And to a much wider audience than you'd ever have thought undajr Nation Is running a weekly travellers' coluimi written by ear readers. It ean be a travelogue tne story or just a little incident unforgettable or forgettable experience. How long? As you54 words
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Advertisement43 1978-02-12 21 please. And do mm u pictures It 70a have photographs and sketches. No, we pay 700 a leas* 9M an article. How? address year The Editor, Sanday Nation, SH Kim Seng Road, Singapore ■van if yon want to I'Ai'SlT-" t i.4Ad -.0, o\Aj43 words
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Article, Illustration633 1978-02-12 22 Express T AST month the star once billed as "the most exciting woman in the world" stepped from official oblivion—right back into favour. For after nine years banishment, Eartha Kltt, of the honey and gravel voice, returned to the WhiteExpress - 633 words
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Article, Illustration501 1978-02-12 22 Edgar Koh - JJH By Edgar Koh OMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (Jade, Qlobe) is perishable cult given vehicle by the growing phenomenon of citlzcn band radio in the United States. Otherwise It Is a mere road show, literally on wheels, no different from car-chase501 words
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Article, Illustration650 1978-02-12 22 Douglas Orgill on the problems of translating that rabbit bestseller into a movie Express AT an old leather A works off Warren Street In the heart-of London, the rabbits have taken over. There are thousands upon thousand* of themExpress - 650 words
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Article, Illustration649 1978-02-12 23 Alex Josey - By Alex Josey STATE OF BLOOD. By Henry Kyemba Corgi. 1977. 288 pp. $5.70. rMAKINDYE prison, Uganda, there is a cell known as Singapore cell. Here 36 army officers and a corporal were brutally slashed to death. The cell Is called Singapore cell649 words
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657 1978-02-12 23 Sarojini Kumarasamy - Book Page By Sarojini Kumarasamy THE WHITE LIONS OF TIMBAVATI. By dhris Mcßride. Padding ton Press. 1977. 220 pp. £5.95hthis Is a lore of A lions, at least one pride of them found Ui Tlmbavatl, a nature reserve In South Africa. Tlmbavatl is657 words
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557 1978-02-12 23 Brian Vine - By Brian Vine OVE, Love Love... as the Beatles once chorused Is the greatest need on earth. > Especially when It's self-love. This radical notion Is not, surprisingly, allAmerican. But the young professor behind what has ballooned Into the biggest seif-helpmanshlp557 words
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Miscellaneous499 1978-02-12 23 ft* your own 4o»oc»iv« TTHE two-m e t r e body of Pat Harding, former basketball star and rising young politician, lies sprawled on the sidewalk. The bullet that killed him entered the top. of his shoulder and ended up in his heart. Down at head--men. There is a dreadful499 words
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Article185 1978-02-12 24 For the EXPATS AP SWITZERLAND'S 21-year-old World Cup holder LlseMarle Morerod, skiing in masterful fashion twice dominated the world elite on Thursday to win the giant slalom race of the lxiternatlonal Arlberg Kandahar ski tournament at Megeve, France, counting for this year's World Cud. Miss MorerodAP - 185 words
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149 1978-02-12 24 AP PANCE'S slalom champion Perrine Pelen beat the world's elite to win the World Cup slalom race at Megeve, France, on Wednesday, more than half a second ahead of Austria's world champion Lea Soelkner. It was the first French victory in any World CupAP - 149 words
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Article107 1978-02-12 24 AFP WEST GERMANY won the world handball championship In Copenhagen last Sunday when they overcame the favourites, the Soviet Union, 20-J9 (11-11) In the final. The West Germans forged ahead shortly after half-time and by the 55th mln were 20-16 up. The Soviet Olymple championsAFP - 107 words
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Article93 1978-02-12 24 AP Erich scharer, a 31-year-old storekeeper from Switzerland won the world two-man bobsled championship last Sunday at Lake Placid, New York, with the two fastest times of the day. Including a third track record time In Ave days. Scharer, who has now won 10 of hisAP - 93 words
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Article, Illustration526 1978-02-12 25 INSIDE TRACK TELEVISION SinA gapore's Malaysia Cup commentators are a laughable sometimes irritating lot. They mis Identify players, they prattle on during a match (It is not only boring, but extremely Irritating to hear Wilfred James babbling non-stop for 90 minutes, trying526 words
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Article361 1978-02-12 25 WORD SOCCER DENMARK, poised 17 to Introduce professional soccer into the country in March, are likely to try and tempt British players to join their league. Danish coaches are expected to visit British clubs soon to search for talents. Unlike other European countries, Denmark are361 words
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Article, Illustration343 1978-02-12 25 Joyce Tan - Joyce Tan rnHE Ministry of DeA fence girls won the Ngl&m Tong Dow trophy In the Civil Services tournament for the second year running last weekend. And to emphasise the strength of the soldier girls. Defence II captured the second division title. They343 words
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Article, Illustration775 1978-02-12 26 Henry Currie - He rejects talk of his being the new Nicklaus By Henry Currie Sunday Express iiTHEN Tom Watson was in his last year at Stanford University In Northern California majoring in psychology he decided he had no greater talent than that for swigging a golf dub.Sunday Express - 775 words
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Article328 1978-02-12 26 Tan Kim Seng - ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng OERJIT SINOH, winner of this year's cross-country league, looks ready to win the Lotto crosscountry championship (organised by the SAAA) on Feb 25 at the Macßltchie Reservoir. The runners who may provide aome challenge are Sea Games marathon bronsc medallist M.328 words
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Article, Illustration432 1978-02-12 26 AP SWEDISH athletes *3 are not tops in every sport, but they are probably the world's best snuff takers. In fact, they are snuffing so much that authorities are getting worried be cause it's rapidly spreading down the ages. 'Hit's alarming. Even mall kids aseAP - 432 words
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355 1978-02-12 26 Brian Miller - Brian Miller linTH the Singapore Women's Hockey Association's double knockout tournament already In Its fourth week, Indications point towards the kingpins—Singapore Cricket Club being knocked off their pedestal. The team most likely to sire them a run for their money Is Girls355 words
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1407 1978-02-12 27 Sheryl Flatow - By Sheryl Flatow UPI F 1 WAS one of the last bastions of male sectarianism, a place where grown men could act like little boys; where the language was raunchy; where young men cavorted In their birthday suits. The locker room: aUPI - 1,407 words
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Article, Illustration626 1978-02-12 27 Alfred Tong - 'We must.mould a spirit of self-reliance and independence' TENNIS TALK Alfred Tong HERE'S some food n for thought from Tony Mottram, the British LTA's director of national development. Speaking at the British Prof esslonal Ttennls Coaches' Asrelation's annual conference at Bournemouth last month, Mottram626 words
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Article, Illustration598 1978-02-12 28 Lim Kok Ann - Ex-world champion builds computer Lim Kok Ann Former world chesa champion Mikhail Botvlnnlk Is unique among computer chess programmers In that he U a grandmaster as well as an electronics expert. Since he yielded the world title to Tlgran Petroslan In 1963598 words
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Article291 1978-02-12 28 Tony Koh - BASKETBALL Tony Koh Local basketball fans will be able to see their Idols of yesteryear In action again, when they compete In the Singapore Action Group of Elders' basketball tournament starting on Feb. 19. Players like Wong Han See, How Sen Wu and Chla Woon291 words
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431 1978-02-12 28 Gerry Chan - BADMINTON Gerry Chan PLIGHT-TIME AllEngland champion Rudy Hartono will lead Indonesia's 13 top players in the Danish Open scheduled for March 9 to 12 In Copenhagen. Rudy'* participation was confirmed by the Danish Badminton Association last week. Besides Indonesia, Japan and Taiwan are431 words
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Article, Illustration1020 1978-02-12 29 Eric Batty - By Eric Batty FOR some time now r we have known how the teams will start when the 16 qualifiers get to Argentina for the World Cup In June, and before I go into an analysis of the "draw" and stick my neckUPI picture - 1,020 words
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Article557 1978-02-12 29 Tony Espetia - By Tony Espetia WORLD soccer champions West Germany doubtless feel confident about their chances in the World Cup this summer, but they better not feel too confident —Mexico aim to knock them out. The draw for the first final round starting June 1 in Argentina557 words
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Article, Illustration384 1978-02-12 30 He's showing marked improvement after a mysterious illness UPI rrHE owners of triple 1 crown champion Seattle Slew confirmed last Thursday they have decided to continue racing their colt Instead of retiring him to stud. Mickey Taylor and Dr Jim Hill decided to keep theUPI - 384 words
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Article376 1978-02-12 30 UPI rpHE snowstorm that J- dumped close to three fifths of a metre of snow on New York earlier last week stopped a cash flow of more than US$B million ($19.2 million) through the area's three racetracks. The storm resulted In a loss of approximatelyUPI - 376 words
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Article49 1978-02-12 30 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Jockey Peter Mlers will not forget the start of the Chinese year of the horse In a hurry he rode a 1,680-1 quartet of winners during the first New Year meeting at the Happy Valley racetrack In Hong Kong op Thursday. Reuter.Reuter - 49 words
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932 1978-02-12 30 YANGTZE KIANG 1 in, well-handled by apprentice Kevin C -e-, i,joreci a co;r.obaclt win lp Race Five at Kuala Lumpur. He captured the Stewards Cup at Buklt Tlxnah In 1076 but failed to show up last season. Kept well back early yesterday, Yangtae932 words
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Article212 1978-02-12 31 By Scrutineer THIS year's Tunku Gold Cup (Race 0) appears one of the most open in the series, and betting is sure to take on a wide range with more than half the field having strong claims. Notwithstanding, I still regard the Keith Daniel s-tralned NALANDA212 words
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Article40 1978-02-12 31 p— ChirlM lltml Lad Charty ITBoy I Trong IV die* Mamory •how 1 MM King-. Conwdy Lucky Lucky V •MM »«|il Tan MgM To Wiann TNam Ma* Rao. Ttan An Mun Trump Card 111 Trad 1 Tonga ~..140 words
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Article136 1978-02-12 31 M J i BRIAN MILLER FAIRWAY TTTTUtm TTT m Golden Show (Mica Show Sun Shun San Shan Camarade Oolden Show Keep Smllln' Bu« t Salutation Sound of Pen—Hon r%Mtaf Typhoon Amlrah Jaya Sorrrelfn Co ant sporting Oeeture So and of Iwllw Amlrah Jaya ItN Si Navada Diamond Sweet Memory136 words
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Article, Illustration2892 1978-02-12 31 NALANDAi A GOOD BET 1.45 CLASS 2 OIV. 3 1200m (S12.500 S8.7S0 to wtniMr) 1 law MM N (Hawaii) T»h I H I (dd >14) t TImmm S 1 SHI Mm| Tlmar M a (Indatapura) Manaor 7 M (ud -1) Wtmm 12,892 words
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Article148 1978-02-12 32 SPORTS NATION AP MORE than 3,200 Chinese competed on snowy, slippery roads with thousands of onlookers cheering them on Thursday In Peking's annual round-the city race, the official Hslnhua News Agency said. "Around the city" actually was IS kilometres for men and 3,800 metres for women,AP - 148 words
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Article63 1978-02-12 32 Reuter AUSTRALIAN speedster Danny Clark and Belgian ace Freddie Ifaerteni won the 39th Antwerp alx-day cycle race on Thursday. In the final stage of the race, Maertens and Clark fought a tough duel with second placed Rene Pljnen of Holland and Donald Allen of Australia. AllReuter - 63 words
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Article47 1978-02-12 32 Reuter ALKX HIOOINB of Ireland won the Masters' snooker tournament In London on Friday, defeating Canadian champion Cliff Thorburn bj ■even frames to five in the final. Frame aeorej (Hlggins flret): 107-17, 71-41, 94 -6, 17-69, 16-104, 18-101, 1462, 84-29, 56-70. 88-48, 6147, 71-15.—Renter.Reuter - 47 words
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Article499 1978-02-12 32 Jeffrey Low - By Jeffrey Low pUP-holders Slngapore barely escaped defeat In a thrilling, scoreless draw at Kangar, Perlis, yesterday. They escaped defeat because Per 111 did well with, a clear-cut strategy to hold the champions' offensive In tne first half then capitalising on the telling heat499 words
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Article368 1978-02-12 32 Ernest Frlda - Ernest Frlda TIM Kian Lam, the 14 elder brother of World Cup player Lim Kian Tlong, stole the limelight on the second day of the $6400 Kernel Open golf championship with a staling two-under-par 00 at the Buklt Chermln course yesterday. Despite his brilliant round,368 words
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Miscellaneous695 1978-02-12 28 I i M f j JM f Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19): Family: Don't be too touchy on being criticised by an older relative who haa every right to draw your attention to a minor lapse. Finance: Make more of an effort to add to your savings Instead of acquiring possessions695 words
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Miscellaneous119 1978-02-12 32 Sports Diary QOLP: Singapore Golf Association local circuit (Keppel Club), ftom 7 Jo ajXL SOOCEK: Frinedly international Singapore Selection Taiwan (Jalan Besar Stadium. 5 pjn.). Admission free. 8G8PL Division One: lire Brigade Vigilante Corps (Oeylang stadium), PARC T Customs Sports Club (Buklt Chermin). PWD Club Police (Police Academy), Armed Forces119 words
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