New Nation, 5 March 1978

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  • 11 1 Sunday Nation MARCH 5 r 1978 10 CINT9 M.C.(P) NO. SIT/1/79
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    • 68 1 What a dirty way to die Page 10 > sM i. *Wk" i .1 m >#■* ,3r Bring back the New Year bang-bangs Page 8 Win three houses A offer by yVI And give tc RI I W workers' B welfare Story in Page 2 When education is another obstacle
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    • 96 1 4 Upside down view of the world Page 6 Job outlook for grads and why it's harder for women Page 4 I I v/ •,>/*AM 4 i with the r*—~X?r—MM i>V r u cm easily afford. i m use nearly forty Canon lenses from Ftsh Eye to Super "etephoto, some
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  • 212 2 rE Economic Development Board has set .up a scheme to stimulate and assist local firms to develop new or Improve existing products/processes related to their manufacturing activities. Called the Product Development Assistance Scheme, It has an Initial budget of $1 mUllon.
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  • 371 2 And give to workers' welfare fund A $200,000 splitn level, semi-de-tached bungalow with five bedrooms heads a bountiful list of prizes for a lucky draw to raise money for the NTUC's Labour Foundation Fund. The bungalow comes furnished to the tune of $20,000. Second
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  • 134 2 AP S WIDISH actress Anita Ekberg. ridiculed by the German press, broke off a comeback bid after three nights in a Munich nightclub, the management said on Friday. Miss Ekberg, who achieved fame as the curvy symbol of Roman hlghllfe In the 1959
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  • 64 2 THE emerging sewer worker. Long overlooked, he has Anally surfaced from the murklness of the underground to win recognition. Recently, the city of Stockholm decided to honour these people who do an unseen but Important job by building a bronze monument at Nybroplan, one of the
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  • 86 2 NYT The Chinese community wu yesterday reminded that they cannot hope to solve their problem* by distributing their mandate to various political Dartles. MCA chief publicity officer, senator Michael Wong Kuan Lee said the Chinese should first decide to\ make known their dissatisfaction
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  • 404 2 rr\HE University of SlnL gapore's Buklt Timah campus Is to become a Joint campus for firstyear Arts, Science, Accountancy and Business Administration students from both Sintah and Nantah. "This is to enable Nanyang University students to study In an English-speaking environment,"
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 64 2 THE noise level in HDB estates could be reduced if the Housing Board used "softer" building finishes, according to Dr Raymond Heng, an engineering lecturer at the University of Singapore. Instead of using concrete for the celling it could be lined with noise-absorbent padding. The HDB should build
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    • 45 2 SIXTY-SIX patients suffering from chronic renal failure were "left to die" in the hospital last year, according to the chairman of the National Kidney Foundation, Prof Khoo Oon Telk, because they couldn't afford dialysis and donated transplants were not forthcoming.
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    • 41 2 ONLY 600 applications have been received for the allocation of 1,100 new NTUC Comfort taxis, a statement from the transport cooperative said yesterday. As a result, the closing date has been extended from Feb 28 to March 11.
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    • 29 2 Reuter THE Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda accused China of supplying arms to Somalia for use In the war with Ethiopia In the Ogaden desert.—Reuter.
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    • 76 2 LACK of a quorum forced the two coffee shop associations yesterday to postpone an emergency meeting that had been called after they had refused to reduce a cup of coffee by five cents as proposed by the Department of Trade and Consumers' Association. An official of the Singapore
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    • 76 2 AFP PAKISTAN, International Airlines' Chief Air Marshal Nur Khan yesterday announced a US$2OO ($460) monthly life stipend for ex-ser-viceman Abdul Malik who foiled an attempt to hijack a PI A Jumbo Jet on an Internal flight la&t Thursday. Pakistani military ruler General Zia U1 Haq
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    • 59 2 THE Government will construct a long range air traffic detection system (long-range radar system) complex at the proposed new international airport In Changl. An official announcement yesterday said construction work on the 512.7 million project will begin soon and is expected to be completed by
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    • 65 2 Reuter A SENIOR leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) yesterday dismissed as rumours reports of a posslb 1 e resumption of dialogue between the PLO and Jordan. "All that was published on this subject were pure rumours and speculation," the head of PLO's military dep a
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    • 35 2 Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew last night presented scholarship awards to 24 primary, secondary and preuniversity students in the Tanjong Pagar constituency. The presentation was held at the Tanjong Pagar community centre.
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    • 28 2 AFP THE NEW Japanese ambassador to Singapore, Mr Klyoakl Klkuchl, presented his credentials yesterday to President Benjamin Sheares at the I tan a Negara, AFP.
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    • 45 2 THE CENTRE WITH MODERN EQUIPMENT AND LATEST TECHNIQUES, PERSONAL ATTENTION ANO ASSISTANCE IN ACQUIRING NEW SKILLS IN SECRETARIAL. COMMERCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING. NEXT coursi 20th Marc* 1»7« WE USE ONLY ISM SELECTRIC TYPEWRITERS" OF TEACHERS ARE DEDICATED PROPESSIONALS CONFIDENCE IS THE DIFFERENCE YOU'LL ACQUIRE. u
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  • 236 3 All 47 crew and passengers killed AP Reuter A VENEZUELAN com- merclal airliner with 47 people aboard crashed into the Caribbean Sea and burned on Friday night shortly after takeoff from the Caracas international airport. Rescue teams reported recovery of 15 badly mutilated bodies and held
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  • 183 3 AP |>RIME Minister lan I Smith appealed to US President Carter on Friday to support his agreement with black moderates for majority rule and asked for an American "helping hand" to remove international sanctions against Rhodesia. The white Rhodeslan leader also said it
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  • 170 3 rpHE US ambassador to J- the United Nations, Mr Andrew Young has called off his scheduled trip to Thailand* Malaysia and Singapore because of a special session of the UN Security Council. The session will begin tomorrow. A US Embassy spokesman,
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  • 200 3 AFP JAKARTA was the scene of traffic Jams lasting more than two hours yesterday as armed soldiers, anti-riot police, armoured cars and fire engines surrounded the State University of Indonesia moments after about 2000 students staged a rally inside their campus. The students. wearing yellow
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  • 81 3 UPI A HUNTER in Southern Japan recently mistook the noise of a chainsaw for the roar of a wild boar and shot a tree cutter to death, the police reported yesterday. Charging that some Japanese hunters will shoot Just about anything that moves, the police asked Parliament
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  • 72 3 AFP rIE Soviet Union plans to supply Syria with "Scud" missiles which can carry nuclear warheads, an Arabic language weekly published In Paris reported yesterday. The weekly An Nahar Arabe et International said the missiles were part of a Utree-phase plan to enable Syria alone
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    • 168 3 THE SEARCH IS OVER THE ONLY CAR RADIO C IN THE WORLD WITH RG-5250 $255 2 Band Stereo Car Radio Cassette with APSS. FM/FM Stereo/MW Large 14W music power r± PLL (Phase-Locked Loop) FM MPX circuitry M Auto Stop*pleasing design 9 APSS means you needn't have to jjt fumble around
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  • 404 4 rpHE JOB market improved for University of Singapore graduates last year, but the outlook for the next few batches of graduates Is not cheerful, an employment survey by Slntah concludes. Non-professional graduate* may have to accept Jobs which are not currently associated with university degree
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  • 454 4 By a correspondent IT WAS the old ques--4 tlon again: To accept or not to accept pasar patois Singapore English as a legitimate. variety of the language. I am referring, of course, to the RTB forum on Singapore English at 9.55 p.m. on
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  • 70 4 AFP COUR people were devoured by piranha fish last Wednesday when their boat capsized on a lake not far from the Amazon city of Santarem In Brazil, it was reported yesterday. Fishermen picked up what was left of the four victims. They were accompanying German priest
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  • 136 4 rnHE Job situation for JL most graduates Is no longer one of "pick and choose" but "grab and hang on." Last year's arts, social science, business administration and accountancy graduates said the job market last year was. better than they had hoped.
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    • 140 4 Read the New, Exciting Children's Magazine! Funland is an English-language fortnightly magazine for boys and girls, carefully planned, to be entertaining and informative, to arouse curiosity and stir the imagination. Get Funland Vol. 2 No 4 and... Meet the New Girl in School Visit the Kingdom of Ants Referee the
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    • 169 4 U 1 U I M I Nature Provided the Protein. WEIDER "POWERIZED" IT! Micioui htmtmmt Waidar liquid P»o1»«i it a complata orotain UJQ ptamant With ail X Amino Ac* inctudin« L-Trypttpfiana. Tha proim pradifauad by hydroiytit procaaa dial makat tha Amino Acidi matwitty MM<a tor uaa by ttia body Many
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 460 4 In and around town HAfS TIGER AND HMS MOHAWK, berthed at Naval Base, Sembawang, will be open to the public, 2 p.m. to 5 pm. Today and next Bunday only. TALK ON PHOTOGRAPHY by Mr Ang Klan Hock In Mandarin. Llm Chu Kang community centre, 8 p.m. Admission free. NUMISMATIC
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  • 138 5 AP FISH Republican Army guerillas skimmed at least £1 million (about $4 million) from British government housing contracts In Belfast to pay their men and buy weapons, well-informed sources say. Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labour administration has been tight-lipped about the allegations despite
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  • 30 5 AFP SIXTEEN Vietnamese soldiers were killed In an unsuccessful attempt to seize Dak Dam district in the northern C a m b odlan province of Mondol-Kl-ri on Thursday.—AFP.
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  • 133 5 YfOiTD be out on a limb 1 II you're as obsessed with Miss Nicola Lanzenberg's art as she Is with the human body. But If you can foot the bill, It la surely a conversation piece to beat all conversation pieces. The sofa (above) cost
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  • 123 5 AP AN INTERNATIONAL warrant was Issued on Friday in the hunt for graverobbers who stole comedian Charlie Chaplin's body from a village cemetery In Switzerland, but police said they have no clue yet as to the motives. The warrant. Issued for "unknown" offenders, asks police
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  • 124 5 UPI r[E Soviet Union on Friday asked China to open talks aimed at "normalisation of relations" between the two hostile governments, Japan's Kyodo news agency said in a dispatch from Peking. It said the message was addressed to the fifth session of China's National People
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  • 195 5 UPI PE US State Department said on Friday Soviet-Cuban intervention In the Horn of Africa poses a possible military threat to vital US and European oil supply lines. "The introduction of Soviet and Cuban forces Into Ethiopia, especially in such magnitude, has inevitably Intro
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  • 142 5 AFP mHE Hong Kong Trade 1 Development Council Is safeguarding the colony's clothing Industry by a vigorous policy of diversification through upgrading, the council's chairman. Mr T.K. Ann, said yesterday. Addressing the Insurance Institute of Hong Kong, Mr Ann said upgrading meant adding more dollar value
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  • 341 5 WHY pay more for fragrant Thai rice when the fragrance disappears after cooking, the Consumers' Association of Singapore has asked Singaporeans. Warning that rice prices will be rising steadily, Case said consumers must be prepared to take counter-measures. Singaporeans are now consuming 4500 to 5000
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    • 137 5 How mudi more would a nutritious and balanced diet cost supplement i poll™ bee-collected An analysis of bee-pollen ("honey scrap') revealea traces of 11 vital enzymes, 14 amino-acids. 11 minerals and 14 vitam ins. The key factor is the enzyme content. Enzymes are important substances whicn control the metabolism and
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  • 219 6 COMMENT It was Mr Justice T. Kul&sekaram's exacting eye which caught some new female lawyers on the wrong side of sartorial law. The offence was committed on Jan 18 this year before a packed Chambers at the Supreme Court when 43 of them were being admitted
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  • 715 6 VOU might have 1 thought that the map of the world Is the one thing that doesn't change. If you did, then It could be time to think again. A German historian, Dr Arno Peters, of the University of Bremen, now claims that
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    • 173 6 THE LADY SEIKO QUARTZ. A STARTLING S ftf£W y STANDARD OF ACCURACY FOR WOMEN. 4302-3019 The Lady Seiko is stylish without being obvious; fashionable without being flamboyant It has the kind of exquisite good looks you Ve come to expect from Seiko. Yet the Lady Seiko Quartz is accurate to
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  • 118 7 JOHN Hitter, ion of Tex. the cowboy star whom you might remember on a long-ago TV programme called Ranch Party, finally feel* like a star. You would think that the reason for this is that his ABC TV series. Three's Company, is top
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  • 61 7 WOULD you trust your 14-year-old on an escalator alone? One shopping complex, at least, doesnt think that you ought to. They advise, by way of a notice, that children under the age of 10 should be accompanied on the escalator by an adult. Those teens of 10
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  • 300 7  -  Why this conflict witli filial piety? GLORIA CHANDY rnHE chairman of -1 one Singapore home for the aged sick recently rose to the defence of those who choose to put their aged relatives In homes rather than care for them within the family
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  • 169 7 \fULTI STORETYED 1»1 car parks lii the many new shopping complexes in town can be a maze getting out of. Getting In Is po problem since all the motorist) is concerned with is finding that empty lot and then seeking the lifts to get into the building
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  • 223 7 nnHERE have been a couple of celebrities In the past who have made a fad of sleeping In a coffin. But they aren't the forerunners of this society In America, where anything goes, who sell "coffin kits." You're right, that runs along the
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  • 1221 8  -  A degree is an open sesame to jobs. But for paraplegics it could slam the doors on satisfying employment BY SAROJINI KUMARASAMY A PARAPLEGIC HERSELF EDUCATION is a passport to security. The more you learn, the thicker your pay packet. A degree may get
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  • 362 8 If you ask me... WITH alarming alacrity, the Lupar New Year celebrations are losing their hold on the Chinese. Year after year, the festivity has dipped; there Is a danger that Chinese New Year will lose all Its significance, especially as the
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    • 49 8 IF YOU have tomething to say which yo« think onr readers woald like to know why not pat It on paper and send It to ms. We welcome contributors to this eolamn. Articles can he on any subject bat shoald preferably he opinion pieces of •Mat 5M words each.
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    • 41 8 They should be typewritten (double-spac-ed) on one side of each sheet of paper. Contributors should state their occupations as far as possible. We pay $M for every article published. Address your articles to: Sunday Nation, 3M Kim Seng Boad, Singapore 9.
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  • 1009 9  -  Try as they might they can't disguise those giveaway gestures MAN WATCHING MANWATCHING Is published by Jonathan Cape, price £7.95. Dr Desmond Morris, who is the author of some 50 scientific papers and a dozen books on animal and human behaviour,
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  • 1607 10 / 11  -  Anthony Tucker on the effects of radiation from the neutron bomb Anthony Tucker WHEN the "clean" tactical neutron bomb burst over the battle salient, those who die quickly will be the lucky ones. Within 400 metres of ground zero, where the blast and burn
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  • 357 10 / 11 JT IS time we learned to love the neutron bomb (enhanced radiation weapon, ERW) says Dr. Harold N. Agnew, director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and nuke-designer in chief to the US Department of Defence. There has been so much confusion and misinformation and misunderstanding about
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    • 1232 12 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullout PICK OF THE WEEK fc'\ h *k few Lauren Hutton NEW SERIES: THE RHINEMANN EXCHANGE (Best Sellers) on Saturday, Ch. 5 at 9.55 p.m. in COLOUR Replacing SEVENTH AVENUE in the Best Sellers slot this week is a threepart drama based on Robert Ludlum's
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    • 194 13 J A HEAD OF OUR TIME at* *TT» The GX Hnad i t, it |!c rv'.t.r t» .1 it ."i -V'n .1 1 .1 H.M 1 Iv.i It -it, .i■ |,i| t -> AKAI-THE MOST USTENABIE FASHION TODAY AKAI Enquiries Tel *****1 your records First, you play your favorite records,
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    • 964 13 MONDAY Colourent Colour T.V. Specialists 3.60 P.M. Open 3.03 SIRUVAR ULAGAM (r) 3.30 Diary of Events (T) 3.35 AFTERNOON MATINEE: I'd Climb The Highest Mountain (Pt. 1). The joys and sorrows of a new parson and his city-bred wife in rural Georgia at the turn of century. Stars Susan Hayward,
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    • 943 14 WEDNESDAY 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 SERBANIKA (r) 3.30 Diary of Events (M) 3.35 BONANZA: Long Way to Ogden 4.25 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 ELECTRIC COMPANY 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.35 WILD. WILD WORLD OF. ANIMALS: Badger Country 7.00 Samudra 7.30 NEWS AND NEWSREEL (M) 7.55 PRELUDES. Pianist Tamas Vasary plays
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    • 133 15 > -jI m v «.Va«*-■ > --*j ?< y -r **j w Vl., tjp. flies 5 times a week to DUBAI MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS from Singapore. TUESDAYS and SATURDAYS from Bangkok. V "1 ygj *V If** 41 t jr.-. C k ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES G2. Mandarin Hotel Arcada 333,
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    • 992 15 FRIDAY Owl *Jrti ■i. Rent now and buy it later if you like it. 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: The Impossible Dream (r). Mandarin feature film 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open ••08 EXERCISE WITH GLORIA 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF *.35 THE TONY RANDALL SHOW: Case: Mario Strikes. Again. Miss Reubner
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    • 385 16 SE m N E r-i BUZZ OFF SMILE .AGAIN C DOYOU 'LOVE ME? 00 Vot/ /.owe Afe 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
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    • 78 16 I m m si WMVfc BROWN and MEL 6#3S£N 0H« 1 I m. ?is ss c, i VCO COOT T) UUXRSfNJD... I KWLTT TO WUOlU WHAT KIUDOF RDOD fc l/U IT •9 i MS S L. V. 1 »Vx<l n II I I 80 ~»s tffl i I V A
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    • 176 17 / 18 I v. IN MARCH ISSUE OF YIPP€€! MAGAZINE $SjOOO WORTH Of PRIZES t'- Second Prize A set of Sharp Optonica tmmmmmSEfl ii fiJOJM mm i l i System Component model 2000 conusor sisting of Amplifier, Tuner, Turntable, First Prize A Shanghai Piano from The Speakers, Tape Deck and Rack from
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    • 150 17 / 18 HEY, SYLVESTER/ f I KNOW, SIRE, I HAVE OVERSTAYED MY WELCOME AS SOUR MOUSE GUEST DURING THE HOLIDAYS/ f 4 w ER... BEFORE I I DEPART I WISH L to compose: a 7 s SET OF NEW YEAR'S fI.L GET VV. A PENCIL AN' WPER/ I >< JfrZZ i*ATER'\ IT
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    • 70 17 / 18 SL CLUTTER/ •'a; 'V. r*. iod SORE KEEP. A NEAT DE&K, SIR ALL GREAT MEN DO > ■>. > *> A ,m :iv' 'W V v ffc,. 2XFS* IkSN .r. w ifl£S f| 5 clutter > A s M SST 0 <-. "<• mil, T a*' THERE'S NOTHING SO A£~lW„
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    • 63 17 / 18 HUH? IJUST CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT WHATD NOLI SAY? EVtFED R CAMFF FAULK WJFFALL IMMY VOU'RK SAVIN' MR. OOP/ a\ KWflar. ft: i i Si 'V w yiffr 3f*j tern r mm.--; wxan*i rr> <:T 4 ♦4 •stvr frr <X v W < v- >&* 3* d 4» 1 §E$ r
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    • 545 19 SPECIAL COURSES FOR SCHOOL LEAVERS Congratulations to all school leavers on completion of G.C.E. Examinations. On the threshold of embarking upon a new phase of your life, your next move will determine your future prospects, we have, therefore, specially designed a range of courses to help enhance your career prospects.
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    • 115 19 TO i» t-1 J LUCIENNE LANSON This book is written for all women regardless of age, social position, educational level or sexual inclination. Here, at last is clear, accurate and sympathetic information from a gynaecologist speaking woman to woman in a book that will enable every woman to understand the
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 481 19 OUR SHIP 19 HOLED AND SINKING WC WRVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SURRENDER, CAPTAIN CAREY K 0. mw w *Li Hi ft';!* sr:?. 7 v<v i? •j H 1 sk x j^M. Wi.rTii \>T sr; K 'A 7 i i 1 Hi IT IS STILL YOUR SHIP, > SENOR STAY
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  • 506 20 HVNOUR w th cA^i) •fTHAT mighty mas- ter of unmean--1 n g rhyme." I've known a' few in my time and, if I may, this March morning in a departure from the norm, abdicate my Sunday prose in favour of a selection of
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  • 163 20 A prr\nnat t t, u f V us rGLISH as it is spoken by a very well-educated English speaker is what is needed in Singapore, according to speakers at a TV forum on Thursday night. Okay, fine. FOOTPRINTS hawe been found In Tanzania which may have been left
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  • 279 20  -  Off Hie Record by CRT 1J ARMONIC A pracnll ce s generate their own tensions, for sure. At one Sunday afternoon rehearsal of the SAF Reservists' Assclatlon's Harmonica Ensemble, the Introductory bars of Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture bounced off the
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    • 111 20 THE NEW >A NKJ& K 1 Ml 9 Itr n. > rV Jf*"* S M ,-TV <'"»V sh i •M Mythsof local K<Wo on the Skfeyicfa •V 31 1 T b. 1 :i '-M TT; mmwfti #11 !4 ,#s If'U %S, ri Vi v m 4 v. -a. .J'V;- K#
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  • 731 21  -  UK Backyard, vineyard, rubbish dump, flophouse and prison cell—l've slept in them a 11... By Wong Kin Hoong "fXCUBE me, sir, could you spare me a cell for the night?" I was stranded, cold and stone broke. I had Intended
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  • 559 21  -  By Jenny Lee THE signboard off the main road reminds me of a Balinese painting with its bold but monotonous strokes of colours. The painting bears little semblance to 4he hill resort. The two slopes are well-defined and equalled with a gaping plateau which looks more Uke
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    • 139 21 tale to tell? Here'* a chance to tell It And to a much wider audience than jou'd ever have thought possible. Sunday Nation Is running a weekly travellers' column written by our readers. It can be a travelogue type story or just a little Incident or your most unforjrtUble or
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  • 181 22 Masaki kobayaSHI'S KWAIDAN (1964) will be brought back by the Singapore Film Society today at the Cultural Centre at 4 and 8 pm. The film Is made up of three self contained parts. Kurokaml is a tale of a
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  • 417 22  -  J jjjjjj Out in the wilds but this family manages nicely, thank you! By Edgar Koh fjiROM time lmmer mortal man has gone back to nature. A more recent fad was grow-your-own, blo-degradable communes set up by hippie-types In retreat from big cities.
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    • 168 22 Singapore to Hong Kong 18 flights a week. m HKifl *W ,C* r Flight Hostess RhimMyoOck Our morning norvetop flight to Hong Kong leaves at 11.20 am every day of the week. It's a Super TriStar service (except on Friday when we operate a Boeing 707). Every afternoon at 4.05
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  • 790 23  -  m But still fascinating for its insight into the White House and continuing malaise of presidency THE ENDS OF POWER. By H.R. HaJdeman. With Joseph Di Mona. Times Books, 1978. 326 pp, illustrated, U5512.95./ REVIEWED BY HELLA PICK Guardian WHAT began as a government
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  • 305 23 TVI sleek foreign X convertible WM like many ether* tat the Mldcity Garage e:icept for the tel men's brawn show and socks protruding from the opened driver's deer. -Ho was I. William Clancy, Now York's top sap sit en men's fashions," Inspector Whiten told
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  • 426 23 Observer HRHE printing of THE 1 ENDS OF POWER Involved the most elaborate security operation In the history of political publishing. The Irony of It was that one day before the material was aent out for newspaper serialisation by the New York Times to Its
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  • 482 23  -  FROM APES TO WARLORDS *****6. By Solly Zuckerman. Hamish Hamilton 1978. 447 pp £7.95- By Alex Josey pROFESSOR Lord Zuckerman Is a talented but lucky man. He was born, of Jewish parents, in South Africa in 1904. He went to England as a medical
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    • 609 26 UPI fIENRY MORROGH, a County Cork Irishman has taken on what some might consider a foolhardy and unnecessary task: teaching Italians to drive fast. As anyone who has driven in Italy and seen cars screaming past them at (160 km/h) or more knows, teaching
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    • 112 26 rIS la Howard Angus, king of real tennis. In case you didn't know, what they play at Wimbledon isn't real tennis. Real tennis Is something else again. It Is handreds of years old and Is traly a sport of kings: "real" means royal In
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    • 237 26  -  Brian Miller AST week's frlend- ly international matches between the Singapore women and their Malaysian counterparts was a tremendous success all the way. Both teams had good, tough games, and Doth countries finally agreed that more matches should be arranged on a similar scale.
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    • 259 26  -  BADHINTON Gerry Cban Schools which were unable to put up teams to compete In the National Schools badminton team championships have urged ECAC to reconsider their three-year-old ban on Individual championships. Individual events for boys and girls were stopped In 1974 because they were getting
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    • 493 27 INSIDE TRACK SINGAPORE'S SOC--9 cer mad fans have been denied the chance to see Malaysia Cup games "live" on TV, but RTS can make up for this in a big way by televising "live" the English League Cup final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
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    • 800 27  -  By Lawrence Altman NYT CPORTS medicine, having developed slowly in the background since athletes began competing in the ancient Olympics, is becoming a medical specialty in the US. A growing number of sport-medicine clinics are opening throughout the United States, and sports-medicine doctors—by devoting more
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    • 303 27  -  Joyce Tan IN A surprise move the SWNA have lncluchd ine mixed league, hitherto an off-season activity, in the early part of this year s calendar. Explaining the move, Mrs Cynthia Naldu, the SWNA tournaments chairman, said: "It Is not a reverse
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    • 681 28  -  By Tom Whitfield UPI IKE most 18-year-old US college freshmen, Renaldo Nehemlah has plans. He'd like to have fun, get an education, broaden his horizons, maybe even play some football eventually. Those plans are currently on hold except for the education, of course because
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    • 673 29  -  TENNIS TALK Alfred Tong fl> AMANATHAN 1V KRIBHNAN Is a youthful 41, a prosperous businessman and proud father of Ramesh Krlshnan. AllIndia and. more recently, Selangor Open champion. Although a little on the heavy side, he still plays superb tennis. As one
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    • 469 29 «wm SOCCER A COMPUTER, fed A with Information by university students In Lima, Peru, has predicted that Holland will beat Scotland 2-0 In the World Cup final In June. The machine also predicted that West Germany will win the opening game 2-1 against Poland, and Italy
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    • 504 29  -  By Jim Cour UPI so often, Alleen Eaton's family will ask her why she doesn't retire. America'! premier lady boxing promoter has a stock reply. '1 ask them," the say* with a bright smile, "what would I do? Then they .stop and don't
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    • 463 30 Some call it sport, others torture. But mors and mora intrepid man are taking Hie icy plunge into the world's newest, toughest race game. IPS ITB the roughest, 1 toughest, coldest and most punishing new sport In the world. The name of
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    • 337 30  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh VTCNE former youth Internationals who competed in last year's Asian Youth championships in Kuwait have been drafted into the men's national squad. Four members of last year's national team, Ang Keng Lin. Chua Boon Hal, Ho Tal Nam and Ho Whye Tong, failed to
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    • 296 30  -  Lim Kok Ann IN THE recent zonal championship prelimlnary rounds, played In Japan, Wong Meng Kong, 14, crushed International Chess Master Arovah Bachtlar of Indonesia. It was, Ironically, Meng Kong's only win. Bachtlar loat only one other tame—to Grandmaster Ballnaa of the Philippine* who finished
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    • 1311 31  -  She's 15, pigtailed, and she wears pinafores on court. Yet under that folksy front Tracy Austin hides a killer instinct. Ronald Atkin reports. Ronald Atkin 1977 Los Angeles Times Observer HTRACY Austin, darl- ing of Wimbledon, heroine of Forest Hills, pauses to address her audience before
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    • 82 31  -  OVERRUNNING FOREHAND? TRY PURPOSELY MISSING THE RALL ON THE "OUTSIDE" By Don J. Leary Bitot Bay Club, Newport tuck. Ca 1. The most common error in tennis is running too close to the ball, then having to hit it with the throat or handle. (UK 2. Try
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    • 252 32 For the EXMTS UPI f EORQE Bamber- ger's legacy has suddenly become Ray Miller's responsibility. Bamberger, the newlynamed manager of tne Milwaukee Brewers, was tor many years the pitcnlng coach of the Baltimore Orioles and Is credited with developing tne likes of Jim Palmer. Dave
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    • 173 32 AP THANKS to cantankerous Harold Ballard, you still cannot tell the Toronto Maple Leafs without a scorecard. Facing the threat of a US$5,OOO ($12,000) fine, the Leafs' owner gave in after a fashion to a National Hockey League rule requiring players' names to be sewn
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    • 184 32 AP Even the sun has deserted the Phoenix Buns. Heavy rains pelted the "valley of the sun" on Wednesday and the roof of the Phoenix Coliseum sprung a few leaks. A mop-up crew got the arena in shape for the sun's game against
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    • 111 32 AFP CHRIS LAID LAW, the Paris-based former All-Black scrumhalf who upset the New Zealand and South African rugby establishment with hi* hard-hitting book. Mud In Tour Eye, will soon take up an appointment with the Commonwealth Secretariat. Leading sportswrlter Terry McLean said In Auckland on Friday
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    • 94 32 AP Its SPEEDSTER Eric J Helden, 19. defended his World alfround speed skating title by winning the third event, the 1,500 metres, in the World championships at Goteborg, Sweden last Sunday. Helden clocked 2:00.22 ahead of former European champion Jan Egil Storholt of Norway who managed 2:01.93.
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    • 73 32 AP WEST GERMAN Sepp Schllnghammer captured the 39th annual Pine (fountain invitational ski Jumping tournament In Michigan last Sunday with jumps of 109 and 107 metres* Willi Puertsl of Austria was second with jumps of 101.5 and 96.8 metres. Oebhard Aperer, an 18-year-old Austrian, set a US
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    • 71 32 AFP French spectators travelling to Cardiff for the vital FranceWales five nations rugby union match on March 18 on Thursday received the annual warping against bringing bantam cockerel fhascots into Britain. In a letter, the British Ministry of Agriculture pointed out that it was illegal to bring
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    • 83 32 UPI Reigning world champion Glen Dexter of Canada raced way In front of hometown favourite Gastao Brun of Brazil on Monday to win the'third regatta of the World soling championship off Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach. Rio Yacht Club officials clocked Dexter at three minutes ahead of Brun
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    • 679 32  -  SQUASH Peter Lo OOLICE 'B' team blasted Army 5-0 last Thursday evening at the Police Academy courts, and shot off to a flying start with the maximum score of six points to lead the B grade table. V. Oopal, playing No. 1 for Police, found the familiar
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    • 1041 33  -  I talk to them, shout at them, fine them and have a few beers with them on a Friday. Yes, a Friday... When I was at Derby, we used to take our own stout away with us and they slept
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    • 863 33  -  By Harold Sinnott Reuter rpHE stage is set and only the finishing touches are missing for the greatest ever international event to be held in Argentina—the 1978 World Cup soccer finals. But for a time it was touch and go whether Argentina would
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    • 192 34  -  Ernest Frida TIE indomitable Poh brothers Eng Soon, 25. and Eng Chong, 22 are all set for a 1-2 finish In the Hlcee Open golf championship at Changl course today. The pair have stretched their overnight lead from five strokes to eight with a scorching
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      • 79 34 Reuter JAPAN plans to Invite about 240 top foreign athletes to take part In an International track and field competition in Tokyo in July, the Japan Amateur Athletic Federation said yesterday. A JAAF spokesman Said, under the plan, the federation will Invite a 30-member team
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      • 35 34 Reuter THOUSANDS of drenched and disappointed gamblers filed out of the Happy Valley race-track In Hong Kong yesterday when torrential rain washed out the weekend meeting after just one race. Reuter.
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      • 74 34 AP UNSEEDED Tom Gullikson dominated BJorn Borg at Hollywood, Florida, on Friday, defeating the No 1 seed and Wimbledon champion 6-2, 6-4, In the quarter finals of the US$5O,OOO ($115,000) Grand Prix tennis match. "It was certainly my best win ever*" said Gullikson. 'It's the best I
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