New Nation, 4 March 1978

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  • 19 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Saturday, March 4, 1978 No. 2198 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 216/1/78 SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1978
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  • 412 1  -  Union claims overtime pay for caretaker who 'worked 2i years without a break' By Rav Dhaliwal A caretaker in a" government department Is said to have worked at least 15 hours a day, seven days a week, for 2$ years without a break. And he did It without
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  • 35 1 Indonesian troops move Into the University of Indonesia campus yesterday to tear down anti-govern-ment posters. Several students were reported to be Injured in scuffles with the troops. UPI radiopic. UPI radioplc.
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  • 179 1 The Department of Trade has enforced the Consumer Protection Act of 1975 for the first time. And police are looking for the offender, who Is alleged to have sold faulty watches with a false trade description, according to the Consumer Bulletin, the Case publication.
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  • 177 1 Reuter New York, Saturday An unpublished book has set off an uproar In the American scientific community by its claim that a child has been created from a testtube. The book. In His Image: The Cloning of a Man, by science writer David Rorvik,
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  • 91 1 Reuter Fort Smith, (Arkansas), Saturday The first group of coal miners to vote on a pact ending their 81-day-long strike have rejected the settlement. The outcome of voting on Thursday night at Local 1986, a 130-man branch of the United Mine Workers Union (UMW)
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  • 290 2 Tl>e Labour Ministry Is sending more officers for overseas training under a programme to groom a team of specialists ill labour affairs. The Ministry has just Implemented a labour service scheme for executive officers who specialise In Industrial relations and labour administration. "By making
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  • 146 2 The University of Singapore will make Its big shift to the Kent Ridge campus next month. Except for the Faculties of Law and Science which will remain at Buklt Tlmah, the rest of the faculties will move over after the examinations this month. The Faculties
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  • 254 2 The two coffee shop associations will hold an emergency meeting today to discuss their next line of action after refusing flatly to reduce the price of cofree by five cents a cup yesterday. They said the Trade Department Is welcome to investigate the current
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  • 190 2 If what actress Law Kwal Fung earns is anything to go by, Teochew opera is far from being a dying art even in Cant on e s e speaking Hong Kong. At an age when most would be struggling In In their careers.
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  • 354 2  -  For failure of Asean tour By Judith Hale The five Asean national carriers were blamed (or the failure of the Asean Circle fare. Enclk Baharuddin Musa. the deputy chairman and director general of the Tourist Development Corporation of Malaysia, said tne five airlines had not been
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  • 119 2 Any government officer allowed to retire to take part In Parliamentary elections will be given pensions If he becomes mentally or physically Incapacitated, if an amendment to the Pensions Act is passed. Details of the Pensions (Amendment) Act 1978 have just been published. It
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  • 88 2 Twenty Second ary Four pupils from five schools wUI take part In the final of the National Police Cadet Corps quiz at the Chung Cheng High School today. The students are from the Tuan Mong High School, Tanjong Katong Technical School, Raffles Institution, the An- glo-Chinese
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  • 28 2 Klasse Lucky No. 1, the first exlusive chain store of the Emporium Holdings Group, will be officially opened by the Oroup Chairman, Mr Lim Tow Seng, today.
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  • 75 2 Reuter Tokyo, Saturday—Japan's Yaohan Department Store said yesterday it planned to open shops in Singapore and Costa Rica with combined annual «ales estimated at 6.6 billion yen ($63 million). The Singapore store, its third on the island, will open In March next year with about 20 per
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  • 30 2 Dr. B. J. Wagg will give a talk on plaque and dental diseases to the Singapore Dental Association at the Alumni Medical Centre on Monday at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 169 3 The variety seemed endless. One after another they danced gracefully across the stage. Here you see them performing the Filipino dance. The next minute, It could be the Russian Casatscholc or the Taiwanese highland dance. There were 21 In all. which Just goes to show
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  • 347 3 First to have Asian currency licence First Boston Corpo ration, which boasts of a solid record in raising investment funds, sees Singapore as an important link In the world-wide securities market. Towards this objective, it has set up a merchant banking subsidiary, First Boston
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  • 58 3 Mr Ram Jan am Mlsra has been elected president of the Ramakrlshna Sangeetha Sabha Singapore at the musical society's recent annnal meeting. Other officials are Mr A. V. Krlshnasamy (vicepresident), Mr O. P. Rai secretary), Mr Brlj Mohan Singh (asst secretary), Mr BrU (treasurer), Mr Suresh Qupta
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  • 166 3 The Public Utilities 3oard Is holding Its first .nanagement seminar next month to promote a higher standard of professionalism among Its senior officers. Twenty papers on various aspects of leadership. costing, productivity and others will be presented at the fourday seminar beginning April 18. The
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  • 239 4 Two Dutch social workers are helping former drag addicts on their way to recovery through art. They are Mr Gus van Bladel, who works in a Dutch chemical firm as a welfare officer, and Mrs Hetty Elchhorn, a former art and music teacher. Both volunteered
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  • 32 4 The YWCA Jurong Centre will hold a musical film. The Singing Nun, at Golden City Theatre on March 11 at 1030 a.m. to raise funds for the centre's community projects.
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  • 338 4 Go to Bangkok to recruit, firms told Bj Ivan Lim Singapore firms Interested In employing Thai workers should send their own recruiting teams to Bangkok. This will ensure that they get workers with the right kind of skills and language abilities, the Thai Embassy here said
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  • 319 4 A team of Japanese officials Is due to arrive here next month to finalise details of the proposed Japan-ese-Slngapore Government T r a 1 n 1 ng Centre. This will be the second team to come here to discuss the project. In November, a six-member
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  • 275 4 The Housing Board Is to train 1500 construction workers in the next 18 months. Disclosing this, the acting Minister for Social Affairs, Dr Ahmad Mattar, said that this was "encouraging" because a large proportion of the 42,000 construction workers in Singapore are on
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  • 192 4 Kota Klnabalu, Saturday—Speed sonlng will be enforced soon on four highways In peninsular Malaysia for greater safety, Minister of Works and Utilities Datuk Ohanl Ollong said yesterday. The roads are Kuala Lumpur Seremban, Kuala Lumpur-Petallng Jay a, Kuala LumpurKarak and Slim River speed limit
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  • 357 5 He also talks of Sadat's peace efforts and East-West relations Agencies New York, Saturday President Tito of Yugoslavia. In a twohour inter We w with the New York Times published yesterday, criticised Eg y p tian Pr e s 1 d ent Sadat's peace
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  • 120 5 UPI Geneva. Saturday Britain challenged the UN Human Rights Commission yesterday to take concrete action on the human rights situation In Cambodia where one million people are thought to be missing. Mr Bran Luard, special envoy of the Foreign OSlce to raise the Cambodian issue at
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  • 117 5 AP AFP Switzerland, Saturday An international warrant was Issued yes terday In the hunt for grave robbers who stole comedian Charlie Chaplin's body from a village cemetery here, but police said they have no clue yet as to the motives. The warrant. Issued for "unknown"
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  • 61 5 UPI Moscow, Saturday Salyut 6 cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko today set __a world record tor endurance In space, breaking an American mark of 84 days that stood for your years. The space team broke the record at 5.36 am. Moscow time (10 a.m. Singapore time).
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  • 61 5 UPI Washington. Saturday The United States and Japan yesterday signed a new and much broader extradition treaty to Include newer crimes like aircraft hijacking and narcotics offences. The treaty replaces the original US-Japan-ese extradition agreement signed In 1880 and renewed in 1905. The treaty was signed in Tokyo
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  • 111 5 AFP Jakarta, Saturday The newly formed rectorlum of the diasenttroubled Bandung Institute of Technology yesterday promised students it would take up any of their reasonable political demands with the government if they would return to classes. Troops moved into the campus early in February in a
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  • 195 5 UPI AFP Paris. Saturday Cambodian troops raiding towns inside Vietnam near tne front er are using new Chinese weapons, a Vietnamese military commander said In a dispatch irom Vietnam published yesterday In the FTench communist newspaper L'Humanite. L'Humanlte correspondent Michel Strulovlcl said he visited the
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  • 73 5 Reuter Moscow. Saturday Pravda said yesterday the Japanese government was trying to stir up nationalism m Japan by insisting on the return of four Bovlet-held Islands as a condition of a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. The communist party dally was commenting on Tokyo's rejection of a
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  • 390 6 Plans to meet Brez to solve 12 points in Salt pact UPI Washington, Saturday President Carter said yesterday he may have to meet Soviet President Leonid Breshnev to produce a final agreement on limiting str a t e glc weapons. Baying the Strategic Arms
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  • 303 6 UPI Washington, Saturday Qen Alexander Haig yesterday warned against trying to meet Increased Soviet capability for chemical and biological warfare In Europe with a step-up in nuclear weaponry. Oen Haig, supreme commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces, said a nuclear response would be "a
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  • 157 6 AP New Delhi, SatunlayIn A sudden turnabout, the official Congreis Party Agreed last night to Join hand* with former Prime Minister Indira Oandhl's breakaway faction In an attempt to form a government In the Important state of Maharashtra, a Congress Party leader reHowever. the two parties bare
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  • 34 6 Reuter United Nations, Saturday—United States Ambassador Andrew Young postponed his planned trip to Singapore, Malaysia and Bangkok because of the upcoming Security Council debate on Rhodesia, his spokesman said yesterday.
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  • 174 6 Reuter London, Saturday— The House of Commons yesterday endorsed a plan to make more kidneys from the dead available for transplant operations. The plan, put forward by Labour Member of Parliament Tam Dalvell, would allow surgeons to remove kidneys from dead people unless the deceased had previously
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  • 45 6 UPI picture Print Minister Smith (seated second from toft) prepares to sign away It jean of white domination in Rhodesia yesterday. He said he was "sick and tired of politics" and hoped to retire and take up cattle farming Instead—OPl picture.
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  • 210 6 Reuter AP Lusaka, Saturday Britain and the United State* are trying to reconcile sharp differences over their Joint Rhodesia policy which have forced a top US envoy to cancel a ne# Western Initiative In southern Africa, diplomatic sources said yesterday. The dispute revolves round the
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  • 147 6 UPI Washington, Saturday President Carter said yesterday he wants to make a stronger effort to use the UN as "an instrument of ...ITS diplomacy." Mr Carter sent Congress on Thursday an annual report on UN activities and said American reliance qn the
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  • 124 6 UPI TODAY Is Saturday, March 4. the 63rd day or 19 <8 with 302 to tollow. THI MOON is moving from the last quarter towards a new moon. THERE 15 NO MORNING STAR. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn." Those born on this date are
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  • 69 6 UPI Meti (France), Saturday A labour tribunal yeeterday awarded 4SM francs (tMM) damages for wrongful dismissal to a striptease artiste who was trod for performing with t plaster east on one of her fingers and a p tester en her ankle. The defendant, nlghtclab owner, told the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 200 6 Rome Sunny, 20-6C. Headline: Communists debate Christian Democratic terms for majority share. London Scattered showers. 9-5C. Headline: Tentative accord reached on forming Rhodesian transition government. Paris Scattered showers 11-9C. Headline: Elections: Difficult first round for the outgoing malorlty. Bonn Sunny, 13-7C. Headline: Dollar drops below two mark leveL New York
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  • 480 7 To supply arms in case of war Reuter UPI Beirut, Saturday The Soviet Union has pledged to establish an air bridge between Moscow and Damascus "within a few hours" in the event of a SyrianIsraeli war. an Arab weekly paper said yesterday.
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  • 209 7 AFP Reuter Paris, Saturday French political leaders seem to be running out of wind trying to sway voters with the crucial parliamentary election now only nine days away. Citizens are weary of an election campaign waged incessantly ever since Valery Discard d'Estalng was elected president
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  • 245 7 UPI Miami, Saturday A Pakistani science teacher who kept a 11-year-old African girl as a "house slave" forcing her to scrub, wash and clean up to 18 hours a day on a ration of rice, faces a possible )all term and fine, federal court official said
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  • 406 8 A Jaywalker, according to the dictionary, Is a person who walks across or along roads regardless of traffic. For practical enforcement reasons, the distance along which road-crossing Is prohibited is marked off at 50 metres from a pedestrian crossing or controlled intersection. Immediately after the antl-Jaywalklng
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    • 75 8 Women lawyers here, who are smarting over the fun over their aartorlal habits in court, maybe consoled that they hare fellow sufferers elsewhere. Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister recently ticked off the Members of Par lis- ment for their standard of dress and ruled out "sandals, cowboy
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    • 34 8 In a discussion on the selection of sports personalities of the year, one sports fan, delighted with the new Income tax reductions, said: "Mr Hon Sul Sen should he Sportsman -of the
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  • 183 8  -  KENNETH MOK Your report on the National Conference of Productivity Committees under the heading "Meeting to thrash out output Issue" (NN. March 3) by Mr Ivan Llm Is misleading. contrary to what you report, the Issue of productivity Incentive scheme Is not on
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  • 55 8  -  SUSAN TEO As a civic conscious citizen and a regular user of Albert Street. I have to draw your attention to a vacant site between Nos. ai and 97. Albert Street for the safety of others. There are undemollshed beams supporting debris still hanging over the flve-foot-way
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  • 219 8  -  Replies LIM HENG TOW May we reply to the letter from Deprived (NN. Feb 18). We would like to clarify that there Is In fact a paucity of overseas-produced musical variety shows, even of the pop/rock variety cited by Deprived. Networks in the US, Europe and
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  • 433 8  -  DR. P. LEE We are rather saa to reaa ui Wnat's On (NN. Feb 21) tnat the FM stereo service will be going fully classical from April 1. dad because we are positive tnere are tuousands ol us audlopniles In Singapore who. despite-the current
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  • 408 8  -  MRS. GREET FABER If you ask me, Singapore is more a shopper's nightmare than paradise. This was made very deal to me again the other day in Change Alley. I had been to several shops in town looking for a certain item. The average price was $45.
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  • 217 8  -  EVELYN WEE 1 refer to the article, A Drop in Aussie Tourists (NN, Feb 22). The article states that Singapore Tourist Promotion Board statistics show that there were 123,736 Australian tourists visiting Singapore for the first 11 months of last year as compared to
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  • 1020 9 10 people spend a year 'living in the past' to find out... NYT Shaftesbury (England): No radio, no television, no newspapers. No toothpaste, no soap, no cosmetics. No electricity, no running water, no toilets. No cigarettes, no coffee, no tea. For almost
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  • 391 9 —says French girl who married Chinese AFP Paris: A French girl who married a Chinese railroad technician and who arrived with her husband in Paris a week ago Indicated in a French radio interview here that dally life in China was now considerably more relaxed.
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  • 498 10 / 11  -  Sight Sound bv Judith Holmberg So the Government has finally raised the licence fee for colour TV sets from 536 to $54 a 50 per cent increase In effect. The Increase In fees cannot really be called a shock to colour TV owners as
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    • 1471 10 / 11 YOUR WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE SINGAPORE 5 SHARP C JZLinqtrnn+plus SATURDAY 100 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SESAME STREET. #2.00 SATURDAY MATINEE: Saadla. A beautliul girl living In the mountains of Morocco Is misled Into believing that she is responsible for an outbreak of plague. Stars Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer and Rita
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    • 694 10 / 11 LI FM STEREO SATURDAY 6.00 P.M. Opening Announcements and Programme Summary followed by At Sunset Paul Mauriat Special. 2 Pianos In Hollywood Ronnie Aldrlch 6.30 News. (E). 6.49 At Sunset (cont'd) 7.00 Dutch Concert Hall featuring the Hllversum Radio Philharmonic Orch. conducted by Roberto Benzi: Overture to "Corlolanus" (Beethoven). Prelude
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    • 468 10 / 11 Top shows of the weekend V Today t ii v •i a S v V 1 f* v •9 I. Bin pi pore MALAYSIA CUP '78: Singapore versus Kelantan. (Ch. 5 at 4 p.m. In colour). Singapore gave a demonstration of fluent football in Ko t a Bahru last Friday
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  • What's On A page that tells you everything you want to know of what's happening in town
    • 434 12  -  Melodrama doesn't figure in this love story Cinema Gloria Chandy BOBBY DEERFIELD: A 1 Paclno, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey, Romolo VallL Screenplay by Alvln Sargent. Produced and directed by Sydney Pollack. (Now at Lido). It Is the old story of a man meeting a woman, falling In
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    • 58 12 The Singapore Film Society present*, this Sunday at the Cultural Centre, one of the most famous films made in Japan. It is Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan, made in 1964. The film, starring Rentaro Milium and Ganemon Nakamura, has been praised by critics for its photography and lyrical pacing.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 853 12 At the cinema CON ARTISTS (Mandarin): A comedy about two girl* who work In the same office, live In the same apartment, but are on the worst of terms. stars Sylvia Chang, Chlng Slang Ling, Deborah. Odeon Katong, Ruby: 1, 3.30, 7 and 9.15 p.m. Majestic: 1, 3.30, 7 and
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    • 786 12 ATHLETICS: First BAAA All-Comers Meet (National Stadium. 2 p.m.). Fifth Slglap Secondary School InterClass Relays (Cheviot Hill Track, 3 p.m.). TENNIS: Straits Tlmes-STC Tennis Classics (STC, Marine Parade, 3 p.m.). InterStatutory Board Sports Meet PARC v JTC, PUBRC v SSC (Telerac Courts, 4.30 p.m.). HOCKEY: National Womens' Double Knockout Tournament
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  • 386 13  -  Market round-up i>v Lee Yew Meng Share prices ended the week on the upside, with most of them posting small to moderate gains at the Singapore stock market. The advances were mainly chalked up on Wednesday when the market reacted bulllshly
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  • 124 13 UPI Washington, Saturday The United States Imported goods worth US$l3B billion ($5 5 billion) more than it exported In January, the 20th consecutive monthly trade deficit, the Commerce Department said yesterday. Petroleum Imports rose 4 per cent to account for one of the
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  • 30 13 AFP San Francisco, Saturday A high-level Japanese trade mission opened a two-week, 18clty US tour yesterday to help American business and Industry to Increase their exports to Japan. AFP.
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  • 327 13 Ways now sought to counter the shrinking dollar Business News and Views Vienna, Saturday The 13-member nations of Opec are running up losses of about US$l4 billion ($32.2 billion) a year due to the shrinking purchasing power of the US currency, according to secretarygeneral of
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  • 296 13 AP Washington, Saturday American subsidies of foreign steel production have aggravated the US steel industry's problems by encouraging imports and reducing available export markets, two Congressmen said yesterday. But a panel of spokesmen for International financial Institutions which have made foreign loans and grants take
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  • 309 13 KUALA LUMPUR: The Democratic Republic of (North) Korea Is Interested In buying more rubber and tin directly from Malaysia. This was stated by Primary Industries Minister Datuk Abdul Talb Mahmud, after talks with the visiting North Korean Deputy Prime Minister Kong Jin Tae.—AFP TOKYO: The Bank of Japan
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  • 229 13 UPI AFP London, Saturday The US dollar rallied yesterday on European foreign exchanges but dealers remained unsure about Its future trends. West Germany's Bundesbank stepped In to buy US$7 million at fixing time In Frankfurt, where the US currency closed at 2.031& marks, up from Thursday's dosing 2.0175
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 154 13 Against an unimpressive news background, stocks prices yesterday closed out a dismal week with a token gain. Turnover on tbe New York Stock Exchange was fairly slow. Prices initially moved up on news of some stabilisation of the dollar In foreign exchange trading, turned around on the report
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    • 36 13 UPI New York, Saturday Dow Jones closing »wr«jM on the NYSB yesterday: 10 Industrials 747.11 (up 0J6); 20 transport 201.66 (off 0.19); IS utilities 103 6ft (up 0M); Bft stocks 3621 ft (up 0.19).
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    • 196 13 AFP Share prices kept going up on (he Tokyo stock nu*9cet yedterday with the Index for all listed common stocks soaring to. a five-year high indicating that the market as a whole lmKrred to a pre-oil crisis •1. The index finished the day 1.83 points higher at 393.64. the
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    • 75 13 Ctoataf prleM on ttw Mi Boon* yHtettey: Paribus 1MJ0 +1.41 Fancier Ml -ft PrtnUUM 40JO -fl Bull 173M M Royal Dutch V4J0 +2.90 Mlcbelln 1140 +16 cos tot Tbomaon 146 +1J0 CPP lOt 4-JO Rhone 50.40 +00 Air tOlJO +t B8K 1U +t Philips 64J0 1J0 Bun 229.40 —JO
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  • 370 15  -  Chess by Leslie Leou The only mistakes the average chess player appreciates are the kind made by his opponents, a variety of which always seem In short supply. >\hlle there Is nothing wrong with this attitude, yet another can be taken towards errors, one arising from
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  • 777 15 m NYT THE HUMAN FACTOR. By Graham Greene. 347 pages. Simon and Schuster. U559.95 Reviewed by John Leonard. The Human Factor has an Interesting plot and a number of promising ideas for characters. It Is occasionally puckish. It talks about politics and City.
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  • 307 15  -  Records i.. Violet Oon RICK WAKEMAN: Rick Wakeman's Crimlnal Record (A&M): In the last four years, Rick Wakeman has dabbled with grand concepts. and massive production, culminating with the grandest record of them all, Myths and Legends of King Arthur, in which he
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  • 831 16  -  STUDY REVEALS HOW ROWDY FANS HAVE A SET OF TRIBAL SOCIETY RITUALS By Lloyd Timberlake Reuter Hooligans who have been disrupting football matches In Britain operate under a code of unwritten rules as strict as those governing any tribal society, according to a book by two
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  • 183 16 Singapore soccer coaches were highly praised by the chairman of the Singapore Sports Council, Dr Tan Eng Liang, this morning. Dr. Tan was speaking at the launching ceremony of the Milo Football Training Scheme at the National Stadium. He said: "I must commend the coaches servicing
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  • 173 17 AP Zurich, Saturday.—The Referees Committee of the International Federation of Football Associations (Fifa) have picked 35 persons as referees and linesmen for the World Cup finals. They are: Argentina Angel Coerezza (plus Miguel Comesana, Arturo Ithurralde and Luis Pestarino all three to act only
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  • 405 17 ...as Brazil refuse to meet Argentina Rio De Janeiro, Saturday, Brazilian coach Claudlo Coutinho says Brazil's national soccer team "need fear no one," and are willing to play Argentina in the Roca Cup later this month as long as the Argentina match is
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  • 462 17 Buenos Aires, Saturday The 1878 World Cup organising committee have set the times for all 38 matches In the world soccer tournament to be played in five Argentine cities in June. Defending champions West Germany will play the opening match in Buenos Aires' River Plate Stadium
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  • 515 17  -  International I Soccer m Doug Gardner England manager Hon Greenwood will be very fortunate if he returns from his proposed visit to Hamburg FC with agreement for Kevin Keegan to play in the match against Brazil at Wembley on April 10. If he
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  • 222 17 Frankfurt. SaturdayWorld Cup star Juergen Grabowski will not play for West Germany In this year's World Cup In Argentina, he announced yesterday. The 33-year-old captain of First Division Elntracht Frankfurt said he believed the West German team were strong enough and his participation was unnecessary.
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  • 416 18  -  KM Weight|Uj lifting By SURESH NAIR The Singapore A m at e u r Weightlifting Federation (BAWLF) yesterday named a squad of nine to represent the the Republic in the First Asian/ Asean Youth and Fourth Asean c h a m pionshlpg to be held in
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  • 29 18 A team of 25 joggers from the Jogging Association of Singapore wUI be going to New Zealand this month to take part In a Christchurch community Jog. This
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  • 265 18 Fed-up Newcastle boss puts seven on transfer list Soccer London, Saturday Bill McQarry, whose club Newcastle United are at bottom of the English First Division, put eight players on the transfer list last night and threatened that a dozen more could follow. McGarry, with a
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  • 105 18 H^Bodng Madrid, Saturday Span's Uruguay born Alfredo Evangelista, 102kg, last night scored an unanimous decision over England's Billy Alrd, 93-kg, in the first defense of his European heavyweight title. Evangelists, 24, dominated his opponent in most of the 15 rounds of a slow, brawling fight, but
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  • 108 18 j^^Tennis AP Memphis, Saturday.— Tim Oulllkson and Joee Hlgueras won their matches yesterday and advanced to the semifinals of the U*****,000 (*****,500) US National Indoor tennis championships. Gullikson, the righthanded member of tennis playing twins, beat Bob Lutz 7-5, 4-0, 6-4, breaking his service in the
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  • 443 18 Soccer Mount Vernon Secondary rounded their Serangoon District Schools soccer tournament Group "B" (Secondary) on an unbeaten note, finishing champions when they outplayed St. Andrew's 1-0 before a home crowd at Mount Vernon Road yesterday. The decisive "freak" goal, which came In the
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  • 334 19 {^^^Badminton Hwa Chong Junior College scored their fourth successive victory in the National Schools (Post Secondary) girls badminton championships when they beat Anglo-Chinese Junior College 3-2 at Buklt Tim ah yesterday. Hwa Chong, who have managed vto remained unbeaten so far this year,
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  • 901 19  -  He has practically everything in his favour, says BRIAN MILLER Tennis rra BRIAN MILLER Eight professional players will begin their battle for the top prize of $5800 in the Straits TimesSTC Tennis Classic today from 3 p.m. They are: Richard Lewis. David Lloyd and
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    • 330 19 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF irs YOUR BIRTHDAY... BORN today, you have a talent for dealing with others. You could easily guide Influential friends to work In your favour, Just as you could prosperous ones Into easing your financial situation. On the other hand, you have a puritanical conscience and may
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  • 556 20 Australians collapse under WI pace whirlwind j^^Scricket Reuter Port of Spain, Saturday Australia's young cricketers collapsed against the West Indies pace whirlwind on the first day of the first cricket. Test here yesterday. On a damp and overcast day, the tricky Queen's Park Oval pitch was at its most
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  • 77 20 AUSTRALIA 1st INNS Wood c Haynes b Croft Serjeant e Murray b Croft 02 03 Yallop e Richards b Croft 02 Toohey b Garner 20 Simpson lbw Garner 00 Cosier c Greenldg e b Croft 40 Rlxon ran oat 01 Yardley e Murray b Roberts 02 Thomson c Austin
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  • 371 20  -  K3 Soccer By PHILIP TAN The Football Association of Singapore will be giving a surprise gift to Choo Seng Quee for winning the Coach Of The Year award, said an FAS official yesterday. It was disclosed that Seng Quee will be invited to a
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