New Nation, 7 March 1978

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    21 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Tuesday. March 7, 1978 No. 2200 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 216/1/78 r 1 NEW (£T) NATION COMMENT;
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    Lock icon Miners: Violence warning
    584 1 Reuter AP Washington, Tuesday President Carter took legal action yesterday to end the longest miners' walkout in American history and the strike leader, immediately warned mat the result would be violence in the coalfields. Declaring that the country could wait no longer for Intervention to halt the
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    Robbed of $14,000
    140 1 Three men entered a River Valley Road flat yesterday on the pretext of repairing the window and robbed the occupants of $14,000 in cash and valuables. They escaped through the back door just as the door bell rang. Police said one of the men went to the
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    Lock icon Oscars
    40 1 AFP Hollywood, Tuesday Woody Allen may be the b1 g winner In next month's motion picture academy awards, the Oscars. He has been nominated for three awards: best actor, best director and best screenplay, all for Annie Hall. —AFP
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    Trading hit in US
    94 1 New York, Tuesday The American stock market. disappointed by the miner' action and showing no faith, in Mr Carter's efforts to resolve the three-month strike, fell yesterday in slow trading. The Dow Jones industrial average, which added 0.86 point on Friday, dropped 4.59 points to 742.72,
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    Govt nabs 15 for overstaying
    210 1 At least 15 visitors were caught yesterday for overstaying as Immigration o 111 c e rs took action against offenders. A Home Affairs Ministry spokesman said the offenders were caught at the three immigration checkpoints at Finger Pier, Woodlands and Paya Lebar airport. The spokesman
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    Lock icon Luns on the N-bomb
    64 1 AFP The Hague, TuesdayNorth Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) secretary general Joseph Luns told newsmen here yesterday that bringing the neutron bomß into disarmament negotiations was no guarantee against it oeing made. It would be up to the United States to inform the Nato council whether it
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    Lock icon Britain's $13m aid
    51 1 Reuter London, Tuesday Britain Is granting Indonesia £2.8 million ($12.5 mlllon) to help improve electricity supplies, the Overseas Development Ministry said yesterday. The money wll be used to buy eight British dlesel generators and other equipment for isolated power stations on islands off the east coast of
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    Lock icon Goalkeeper shot dead
    44 1 Reuter Johannesburg, Tuesday—A black goalkeeper was shot dead In a weekend soccer match In Soweto township. Police said 25-year-old Mzlwakhe Slthole was shot In the back during the match on Saturday In Diepkloof, part of the sprtiwiUig black township outside Johannes-burg.—-Reute*.
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      29 1 Smokin' Joe Frasier to make comeback Page 16 Britain will invest. S'pore Page 3 •IN THE OTHER PAGES: Moneywords 10; Stars 12; Crossword 13; Comics 18; What's On 19.
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    STOCK MARKET
    161 2 Perak Carbide continued to attract speculative attention during the first 45 minutes of generally light but steady trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. P. Carbide which came Into the limelight yesterday. advanced 3)4 cents to 86* cents, bringing total gain to 10 W cents. Hume (F.E.)
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    It's all in line of duty for the secretary, they say
    556 2  -  MAKING COFFEE AND RUNNING ERRANDS FOR THE 8055... By Judith Hale Singapore secretaries are not the only ones who feel that maklpg coffee and running errands for their bosses are all in the line of duty. Five delegates from
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    When a loss becomes a gain: Report
    324 2 The loss of Singapore trained manpower to other countries Is substantial, especially among medical and dentistry graduates, according to the University of Singapore's Economic Research Centre. Its report on the 1977 employment survey of the university's graduates shows that almost half of the
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      21 2 SOS It always helps to talk to someone Samaritans of Singapore exists to help those in despair or sificidal. King *****44.
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    Bubble lift makes its debut in S'pore
    205 3 Singapore's' first observatory lift is at the Lncky Plasa shopping complex in Orchard Road. Built at a cost of $300,0 M double the price of a conventional lift of the same size this one has shatterproof glass "walls" and an air-conditioner instead of
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    British will invest more in S'pore
    269 3 says envoy More British lpvestments will flow Into South-east Asia, particularly Singapore, as the British economy Improves, according to the outgoing British High C o m m 1 s sloner, Mr John Peter Tripp. In an Interview yesterday, he said the Economic Development Board's
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    Asean to look into Fraser proposal
    137 3 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Top Asean officials will meet In Manila next month to take up the Australian proposal for an Asean-Australlan Industrial cooperation conference In Canberra. Malaysian of f 1 clals said yesterday that Asean member countries had not yet responded officially to the
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    EEC-Asean seminar
    228 3 Another EEC-Asean seminar on Management of Transfer of Technology similar to the one held in Singapore In September last year will be held at the Hilton Hotel In Kuala Lumpur from Oct 1 to 20. The Economic Development Board said the three-week seminar will again be sponsored by
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    N. Korea, S'pore trade to double forecast
    337 4 Trade between Singapore and North Korea should double by 1984, said the visiting North Korean Vice Premier of External Economic Affairs, Mr Kong Jin Tae. This can be expected to be achieved with the Implementation of North Korea's seven-year plan designed to double
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    'Some coffee shops will close if...'
    377 4  -  Associations tell why price can't be cut By K.K. Fong The two coffeesti op associations yesterday said some of their members would be forced to close down If they were made to reduce the price of a cup of coffee. They said they have
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    Boys more backward in reading: Expert
    314 4 More boys than girls tend to have problems In reading, according to a specialist in the Institute of Education. Mrs Quah May Lint, head of the Institute s remedial reading clinic, said of the 34 pupil* referred to the clinic lest year, 17 were
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    Lock icon Cholera: 9 warded
    35 4 AFP Kota Klnabalu, Tuesday Nine cases of cholera have been discovered here since Feb. 27 this year, according to state medical authorities. All the patients have been admitted to hospitals for treatment.
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    Metric
    29 4 A Metrication and You exhibition will be held at the Anson community centre from Friday to Sunday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. each day. Admission is free.
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    Police seek 146 male ex-addicts
    163 4 Police are looking for 146 male ex-druj addicts released on supervision from druf rehabilitation centre, who failed to collect their urine test notices by last Sunday. A spokesman for the Probation and Aftercare Service, which > undertakes the twoyear statutory supervision, this mornlnr said the
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    Lock icon Straits talk
    41 4 AP Jakarta, Tuesday—Safe passage through the straits of Malacca will be discussed by Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan in a meeting scheduled In Jakarta next Friday, Director of International Agreements of the Foreign Ministry, Dr. Haslm DJalal said, yesterday—AP.
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    Lock icon Plea for more aid...
    162 4 AFP Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday Malaysia Is to ask member countries of the Economic and Social Commission (or Asia and the Pacific (Escap) to make concerted efforts to enhance their present financial contributions to the various training institutions in the region. Mr Richard Ho, leader of the
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    Lock icon Hussein hits out at US peace efforts
    285 5 UPI Reuter Amman, Tuesday—Jordan's Kins Hussein yesterday criticised stalled US peace eiforts In the Middle East and said Israeli negotiating Intransigence threatened the region with another war. King Hussein, told a news conference: "It Is totally unacceptable for us to have a dialogue
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    Lock icon Arafat visit
    21 5 Reuter Damascus, Tuesday Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat flew to Moscow yesterday to discuss Middle East developments with Soviet leaders.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon Tanaka received $100,000 bribes
    284 5 Court told in Lockheed case AFP Tokyo, Tuesday Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was alleged in court yesterday to have received 10 million yen (about $100,000) in bribes from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in 1972 while in office. The amount was just a fraction of 500 million
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    Lock icon Move to free French hostage
    81 5 AFP Zamboanga City, Tuesday Islamic Conference chief ceasefire observer Col Lamine Clsse of Senegal arrived here yesterday apparently to help In efforts to obtain the release of a French official held hostage by Southern Philippine Muslim guerillas for nine days. Col. Clsse is the chairman
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    Lock icon Execute traffickers he says
    58 5 AFP Sydney. Tuesday—One of the world's leading narcotics agents said yesterday drug traffickers should be "put before the firing squad." The head of Thailand's narcotics suppression centre Captain VlraJ Jutlmltta, who has seized more than Agl billion ($2.6 billion) worth oi pure heroin in the last
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    Lock icon Long march to 'super status'
    335 5 UPI Hon; Kong, Tuesday China, with a new leadership legalised by leglslr ive approval, Is embarking on a "long march" to achieve superpower status, communist party organs said yesterday. "It Is a great undertaking and a very arduous task to build up a country that
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    Lock icon Cambodia: No problems if Hanoi respects us
    365 5 AFP Bangkok, Tuesday A senior Cambodian Foreign Ministry official has said there will be no obstacles in relations with Vietnam If Hanoi respects Cambodia's Independence and sovereignty, Radio Phnom Penh reported yesterday. The ministry's secre-tary-general, whose name was not given by the radio,
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    Lock icon Greetings
    32 5 UPI Hong Kong, TuesdayVietnamese leaders yesterday sent "their warmest congratulations" to top Chinese officials on the outcome of the balloting at the National People's Congress which ended in Peking on Sunday.—UPl.
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    Lock icon Rescue troops foiled by mines
    82 5 AP Bangkok, Tuesday Thai government forces, trying to reach a village from which more than 100 residents were abducted, yesterday encountered landmines and booby traps laid by Cambodian troops, a provincial Governor said. Chantaburl Governor Praklt Utamoke, reached by telephone from Bangkok, said about 80
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    Lock icon Uneasy calm in Beirut
    70 6 Reuter Beirut, Tuesday—Convoys of heavily-armed Byrian peace-keep 1 n g troops yesterday enforced an uneasy calm In a Beirut suburb where fierce fighting between rightist and leftist gunmen took place on Sunday. The area was reported quiet but tense after the mainly Syrian Arab Deterrent Force
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    Lock icon US welcome for Tito
    66 6 AP Washington, Tuesday. President Tito of Yugoslavia, the World's longest-serving head of Government, arrived here yesterday night for a three-day official visit. He Is the first communist leader to be receiv ed by President Carter. An official US delegation headed by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
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    Lock icon Fiynt shot
    29 6 Reuter Lawrencevlile (Georgia) Tuesday Larry Flynt, controversial publisher of Hustler, the masscirculation and sexuallyexplicit American magazine, was shot on a street here yesterday, a police spokesman reported.
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    Lock icon Unctad meet to solve debt problem
    185 6 AFP Oene v a, Tuesday Ministers of rich and poor countries yesterday began week-long talks on ways to solve the problem of the Indebteaness of Third World countries. They were meeting In the board of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad).
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    Lock icon Russians training black guerillas
    318 6 Owen to Commons: Let's face the fact in Rhodesia Agencies London, Tuesday Britain's Fore lgn Secretary David Owen said yesterday 'Rhodesia's black guerillas are being trained and armed by the Soviet Union. But he told the House of Commons: "This does not necessarily mean they are
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    Lock icon TODAY
    107 6 UPI TODAY is Tuesday. March 7, the 66th day of 1978 with 299 to follow. THE MOON is approaching its new phase. There are no morning stars. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury. Mars, Venus. Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are undtr the sign of Pisces. Noted
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    Lock icon Victory claim by two sides
    124 6 Reuter Nairobi, Tuesday. Ethiopians and Somalls yesterday both claimed victory In the first major battle of Ethiopia's counter-offensive in the Horn of Africa war. Diplomats in the Ethiopian capital reported a jubilant air of victory in Addis Ababa and the Ethiopian Ambassador In Nairobi told
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    Lock icon PATIL IS CHIEF MINISTER
    74 6 Reuter Bombay. Tuesday The Governor of Maharashtra last nipht ap pointed official Congress leader Vasantrao Patil as the State's Chief Minister, clearing the way for the formation of a Congress coalition government in. the western Indian state. The official Congress and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's
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    Lock icon Wind up firm, Sanjay told
    134 6 AFP New Delhi. Tuesday The Joint high court of Punjab and Haryana state yesterday ordered Marutl Limited, the small car company of Sanjay Oandhl, situated in Haryana, be wound up. There are about 50 share holders of Marutl Limited of which Mr Oandhl, 31, younger
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    52 6 Reuter Detroit, Tuesday A soo'hing a eat for tired truck driver* is selling by the thousands in the United States. The makers said that when hooked up to a truck's airbrake system the seat provided a. gen tie massage which relaxed drivers during a long day behind
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      319 6 Ah Fook and Mei Lin r ."fl l* y' fc'*t F' (2*711 ,-F-r,. \r, >'♦» I*At] I Lwf _V Ah Fook: I will never win first prize, why should I buy o ticket? Mei Lin: But you will win other people's admiration for your generosity Ah Fook: Saya tidak akan
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      1024 7 A Community Project by Tan Chong Sons Motor Co(S)PteLtd Nissan Homo r ■*.iLsxLJ 1 National Safety First Council of Singapore presents o Nissan E2O Van M presents a B/GMONEY^ SAFETY FIRST QUIZ CONTEST t U Sponsored by: ft Tan Chong Sons Motor Co (S) Pte Lid I'MW'K'i ■z'{ "iSfc ALL!
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    Raising HDB ceiling
    429 8 frequent calls by the public, Including a letter In the Straits Times yesterday and written and telephone enquiries received by the Housing Board, suggest that many families wishing to buy HDB flats are not eligible because they earn more than $1500 a month. Minister of State (National
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      Complete break-down
      65 8 Complaining subscribers to our telephone service had better be thankful TAB manages better than their counterparts In Bgypt. The country's Chief of Telecommunications, Mahmud Abdul- lah. waa asked recently In a newspaper Interview about the poor service. .Cam e his frosty reply: "How can I be expected to
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      Communication gap
      45 8 Then there was this subscriber wHose phone used to so "dead" intermittently, but each time the TAB repair team turned up It was in working order. After Several visits, the exasperated technician said: "Next time, call us only when it is not working!"
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    Lock icon 'Little brother' grows up...
    900 8 Manila's need for a new image has led it to take a tough* line over US bases Talks between the United States and the Philippines over a new military bases agreement have dragged on for more than a year without an agreement in sight. The Philippines
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    Lock icon In case of fire, panic!
    629 8 —says a study by three psychologists Reuter London: People might stand a better chance of escaping a fire if they panicked a bit more, according to research by three British psychologists. Home residents and hotel occupants do a surprising number of things before they flee
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    Lock icon Loans: US denies Manila report
    263 9 Reuter Manila, Tuesday—The US representative on tne Asian Deveiop*neni Ban* yesterday denied reports mat nis country was unwilling to make a commitment to a new replenlsnment for tne soft iund for poor nations because of President Carter's human rights policies. "On the contrary, we are
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    Lock icon Red faces as Minister's plane breaks down
    268 9 Reuter Paris, Tuesday French Foreign Minister Louis de Gulrlngaud yesterday lambasted a government service which provided him with a 15-year-old airliner for an official visit to Nigeria. The aircraft, a Frenchbuilt Caravelle, broke down at Lagos airport as he was about to fly
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    Lock icon Brain drain tax plan
    241 9 Radical Escap move UPI Bangkok, Tuesday.—A radical proposal on a new form of tax will come up for discussion at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific meeting which opens here today. The plan calls for a "brain drain tax" which would require
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    Lock icon COLBY: SPIES SHUN US
    113 9 UPI Washington, Tuesday Former CIA director William Colby said yesterday It ia becoming more difficult to recruit foreigners aa Intelligence informants beea—e the word has got around that Americans cant keep secrets. "Foreigners abroad wonder if the Americana can keep any secrets, and this has led
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    Lock icon Malta: We will veto
    194 9 Helsinki pact threat UPI Belgrade. Tuesday Tiny Malta stood defiantly In the way of the US. the Soviet Union, Canada and 31 European nations yesterday towing to veto a compromise report for the Belgrade conference reviewing the Helsinki agreement unless bigger countries agree to Its demands
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    Lock icon Cost of arms race in space is out of this world!
    597 9  -  Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times Washington: We are now entering a new phase in military expenditures. Secretary of Defence Harold Brown has Just testified that the Soviets are making so much headway in space technology that the United States
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    Lock icon 21 die in floods
    48 9 AFP Tijuana (Mexico), Tuesday Twenty-one people have died and some 50.000 are homeleu following flooding caused by continuing heavy rain across northwestern Mexico, It was learned here yesterday. Mexican authorities eald the disaster was the worst to hit northern Mexico In 25 years. ATP.
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    Lock icon Remove mini pyramid order
    145 9 UPI Cairo, Tuesday Egyptian authorities have ordered the removal of a sealed-down pyramid the Japanese Nippon Television Company iNTC) and Wasada. University are constructing In the shadow of the neat pyramids of Olsa, the newspaper A 1 Ah ram said today. The order was Issued, the
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    Lock icon The Kelantan gamble...
    1381 10 / 11  -  Umno looking t for clear-cut victory to deal lethal blow to Berjasa and the PAS By Ismail Kassim Umno, Malaysia's premier political party, has taken a calculated gamble In Saturday's Kelantan state election. With only three days left for house-to-house campaigning (outdoor rallies are banned), It is
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    Datuk Nasir's appointment as Menteri Besar started it all
    672 10 / 11 The genesis of the Kelantan state election on Saturday goes back to S e p t e m ber 1974 following the National Front's clean sweep In the election when the then Malaysian Prime Minister, the late Tun Razak, insisted that
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    LANAS, TENDONG CRUCIAL TO UMNO AND BERJASA
    421 10 / 11 Two constituencies will be the focus of Interest on Saturday when an estimated 321,669 voters go to the polls to eleCf the next Kelantan government. The two Lanas and Ten- don| are crucial to Umno and Berjasa respectively. At Lanas, south of Kota
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      534 10 / 11 :<y.ra c. TUESDAY u. Hr Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below. Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss): Address: N.R.I.C. No: Tel: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW CLUES FOR FW-2 1. Deficient in polite manners '2. Always te take the < adventurous course is hardly 3. Entirely
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      How lovely it is to be single and free
      971 12  -  80 much a woman can do with her Ufa whan she's not tied to a man |sS£u»l [BOX Miriam One of the greatest Joys In lite today is being a single woman. This la a truth not known to many. Most
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      Lock icon Why some sweat even in air-con rooms
      444 12 r J Doc's Casebook SLCK A letter from Mr H says: "I am in my early 20s. My work is easy and relaxing. Though I work In an air-conditioned office I tend to sweat. It gets worse when I have extra work or
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      Lock icon Maxim's drops out of good food guide
      230 12 UPI Paris: Maxim's, one of the world's most famous restaurants, lost all of its three stars in the 1978 Michelln restaurant guide yesterday and disappeared entirely from the book. Maxim's of Paris, with Its turn-of-the-century decor, opened 85 years ago in 1893. It
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      Strokes 'n slaps make a face feel good
      308 12  -  X oliinin 7 l»v Jennifer Schoon You know how relaxing a body massage can be It eases tiredness and makes the body feel supple. Well, a facial massage works In the same way and feels marvellous. Gets the circulation going so your
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      308 12 I Crossword 1 mi mi ill mi ill *lIIJ dllllll dJJIIIU Jill jbbbb jidii jdii übbb Mumm iIBB iIBBBB iIBBBI iIBBBBBBiI ilßßilillil ill ill m ill mi ill 8 Heavenly body 7 Btentorlan 8 Enticed 9 Not run-of-the-mill 10 Angle unit 11 Entrances 12 Face with masonry IS Joints 21
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      Lock icon It takes shoes to tango
      183 13  -  Words: J. Schoon Put on your dancing shoes and take a whizz around the floor. Step into slim, high straight heels with lots of straps to tango, or super flatties the latest rage for more energetir variations of the rock. Double step with your partner
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      'Women's Lib is stronger, not a novice any longer'
      445 13 Eleanor Smeal is president of the 65,000-member National Organisation for Women the first housewife to hold that position. This is an interview with her by Washington Star staff writer Barbara Kober. Question: There was a time when the women's movement seemed
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      413 13 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you tend to go to pieces over trifles and handle major disappointments well. A person of contradictions, you are often the one who laughs when everyone Is silent or horrified, or who cries when everyone is roaring with glee. You are
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    Lock icon Good year indeed
    190 14 Business News and Views AFP Washington, Tuesday The industralised nations generally recorded a good improvement in their trade figures last year, the United States belpg a noteworthy exception, the International Monetary Fund said here. The overall deficit of these countries rose from U5535.4 billion ($81.4 billion) to
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    Lock icon Money market
    199 14 UPI AP London, Tuesday.—The American dollar firmed at the close yesterday following rumours of a meeting of central bank governors of leading Industrial nations to draw up a Joint Intervention policy in support of the dollar. But the rumour could not be confirmed. Later the Saudis were reported
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    Economic briefs
    160 14 TOKYO: New car sales In Japan in February continued sluggish, creeping up 0.1 per cent over a year earlier to 272,855 units, the Japan Automobile Dealers' Association reported yesterday.—AFP. HAMBURG: A United Nations conference opened here yesterdav to update laws over 50 years old governing international sea freight.—Reuter.
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      NEW YORK
      103 14 Yesterday's by the diff« prices followed trence on the previous session's close: AT A T 56 unch Beth Steel 20% —1 Caterp Tra 4«% Chrysler 10% Coca-Cola 3«% Oontl. Otl 27 unch Dow Chem 22% Dresser 36', Du Pont 99 B. Kodak ♦1% Exxon 44% Firestone 13% unch
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      37 14 UPI New York. Tuesday Dow Jones closing averages on the NYSE yesterday: 30 Industrials 742.72 (off 4.59); 20 transport 199.75 (off 1.90); 15 utilities 103.72 (up 0 07); 65 stocks 260 66 (Off 1.49). UPI.
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      PARIS
      67 14 Closing prices on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Parlbas 156.50 —3.40 Fancier 303 +1 Prlntemps 41 +-20 Bull 26.60 —.60 Royal Dutch 277 2.50 Michel In 1133 —17 COB 289 —3 Thomson 144.40 —1.60 CFP 102 —1 Rhorffe 55.90 50 Air 254 —7.40 BAN 353 —2 Philips 54.30 —.20 8uez
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      SYDNEY
      110 14 Closing prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange, AC1 153 165 ADC Nil 25 Ampol Pet 69 70 AN I ISO 135 APM 121 123 Bank NSW 508 514 Brambles 175 17S BHP 534 536 Boral 212 215 CBA 233 235 C8R 268 269
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      88 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Closing prices In 8wiss franca on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UB8 Bearer 3316 85 UB8 Reg. 028 17 SBC 374 10 Credit Suisse 3350 75 Swissair B. <15 18 Swiss Relnsur. 2880 45 WlnteTthur B. 3M0 45 Zurich Insur. •475 —100 Juvena B. 180
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      445 14 OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SNIP'S NAME Notice Is hereby given that In consequence of the Intended change of name of a ship by our clients "Senator" Bereederungs GmbH Co. K.Q. we have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships under Section 417 of the Merchant Shipping Act (Cap.
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      81 15 HOUSE OF ORIENTAL ARTS CRAFTS HSU BROS., ■lv AITIuI. StU »J'l* O N I HI SINOAJ'OKK t; I w-aI'TN H; VIETNAM CERAMIC ELEPHANT STOOLS In HHOWN (,KKI N coi.otß CAM. I S AT: TKL: .*****1 .12.127<t VICTOR SPORTS ALJZm Sole Distributors For ADMIRAL RETAIL: B-7 Peninsula Shopping Complex, Singapore, 6.
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    327 15 advertisement feature Are you one of those who have recently set up your own home and are looking for something attractive to give it that finishing touch? If you are, Hsu Brothers at 146 (first floor) Capitol Shopping Centre Is one place for you to visit. It is a
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      294 16 ES^cnting Agencies Johannesburg, Tuesday Former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazler Is to come out of retirement to meet South African cha m p lon Gerrle Coetzee here next mopth, Pro Boks Promotions s&id yesterday. A spokesman for the promoters said the fight
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      107 16 UPI New York, Tuesday An Injury may prevent heavyw e If ht champion Leon Spinks from returning to the ring until September or October, it was reported yesterday by CBB-Radlos Brent Musburger. "I've learned that the newly crowned champion injured a rib cage cartilage prior to his upset
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      379 16  -  They shine in St Pat's win Tennis By BRIAN MILLER Victor and Melvin Pereira are up-and-coming schoolboys who may one day make it big on the local tennis scene. Victor and Melvin, who are both 15 and not related, showed a high degree of skill when they
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      126 16 Toulouse. Tuesday The French Rugby League's six-man selection committee and coach have resigned after criticism from the federation president following France's 13-11 defeat by England on Sunday. The coach, Yves Begou, and six selectors have been at odds with president Rene Maurles since last year's dlastrous World championship
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      461 16  -  Netball By PHILIP TAN The Singapore women's netball team will be making a tour of Australia from May 25 to June 13, which should provide them with enough warmup games for the World championships in Trinidad and Tobago next year. The three-week trip, which will
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      210 16 Girls' Sports Club shot back into prominence, after 17 years, to win the Double Knockout tournament when they defeated Singapore Cricket Club 4-2 at the Padang yesterday. The OSC "B" team also gained consolation, winning their match in the losers' pool 1-0 over BCC "B".
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      84 16 j^^^Cricket London, Tuesday Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket was described as "a parasite" in Yorkshire County Cricket Club's annual report published at Leeds yesterday. "It feeds off established cricket and countributes nothing to it," the report said. "It is the duty of all supporters of county
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      ACTRESS LOOKS SET FOR SUNDAY
      425 18  -  ON THE TRACK u. it h Brian Miller Actress V underlined her chances for Sunday's 1100 m sprint for Class 6 Div 1 horses when she turned in a promising workout at Buklt Tlmah this morning. With George Pod more In the saddle, this Irish
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      410 18 Kilmarnock knock Clip champions Celtic out London, Tuesday.— Sir Alf Ramsey, manager of England's World Cup winning soccer team in 1966, resigned yesterday as consultant manager of English First Division sld; Birmingham City. Birmingham said in a statement that Sir Alf had Indicated be wanted to
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      411 18  -  Schools Hockey and Soccer Round-up By PHILIP TAN, SURESH NAIR Hwi Yoh snatched the Berangoon District Se-' condary boys hockey title When they edged perennial rivals Victoria with a l-o penalty goal at Jalan Hwi Yoh yesterday. The winning goal came in the fourth minute
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      533 18  -  Getting money to run Div. 2 and 3 clubs SOCCER SCENE by Jeffrey Low N a 11 on al League clubs will get their first chance to air grievances to the full Football Association of Singapore Council in an informal get-together tonight at Sports House. This Is
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      75 18 THE BORN LOSER by Art Sansom a N m m a i<snu*H HP m u« cwanou SHORT RIBS IT DOESN'T SHOW. DEARIE.) 1 KNOW... S~\ by Frank O'Neal j was such a mess WHEN 1 STARTED/ P V 1 .1 m £< U r1 iV )SSMi u K>* TM ta.
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      RTS PICKS 50 IN BID TO BUILD POOL OF TALENT
      670 19  -  By Judith Holmberg RTS is building up a pool of talent they can draw upon for narrat ing, newsreading, compering and script writing for radio and TV. Bo far, they have found about 50 people who fit their requirements. These
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      684 19 the cinema CON ARTISTS (Mandarin): A comedy about two girls who work in the same office, live in the same apartment, but are on the worst of terms. stars Sylvia Chang, Ching, Hsiang Ling, Deborah. Odeon Katong, Ruby: 1, 3.30, 7 and 9.15 p.m. Majestic: 1, 3.30, 7 and 9.30
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      743 19 GOLF: Tengah Ladles Mortnl n g— Controlled Play (Tengah Oolf Club). BADMINTON: Upper, Serangoon CSC IntraConatltuency Tournament (SOS Hall). National 8chool* Championships (Post Secondary/Secondary) 2 ML 8AFRA Tournament (Toa Payoh Courts. p.m.). BOWLING: QBE InterCommerclal Houses League (Jackles Bowl System, 7 p.m. Sunbeam Home Appliances 2-5-8 Pin Tap Tournament (Jackles
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    54 20 AH FOOK: Thank goodness I have completed my pre- university. Can't imagine myself struggling through three years of it. when two were agonising enough. MEI LIN: I think it's a pity they didn't have this during our time. Think ol the excellent opportunity of becoming far more elfectively
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      840 20 I TV C JL!f H AND RADIO 4.C0 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT followed by WHAT'S MY LINE. Pane: game. 3.25 DIARY OF EVENTS. 3.30 AFTERNOON MATINEE: I'd Climb the Highest Mountain. Part 2. The Joys and sorrows of a new parson and his citybred wife In rural Georgia at the turn of
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      189 20 STUDENTS' CONCERT: (Ch. 8 at 7.10 p.m. in colour). This programme features a selection of songs and dances performed by pupils from various schools. The Klau Nam School Choir sing Bcngawan Solo. Let's Jump, and Flowers, while the choir from Kong Hwa School offer La Cucaracha and In the Land
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