New Nation, 8 March 1978

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    20 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Wednesday, March 8, 1978 No. 2201 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 216/1/78 i NEW (0) NATION COMMENT b?mTmsfm?irarn
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    Begin's cabinet storm
    460 1 Another minister threatens to quit Tel Aviv, Wednesday A growing Israeli Cabinet feud burst Into the open yesterday with reported threats of ministerial resignations over the Issue of Jewish settlement on Arab land. Israeli press and radio reports from New York said Defence Minister Ezer Weizman threatened
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    Lock icon Kriangsak wants to invite Israel
    283 1 AFP Bangkok, Wednesday An Invitation to Israel to participate in the Eighth Asian Games in Bangkok from Dec 9-20 will be discussed at Cabinet level within the next few days. J Thailand's Prime Minister, General Kriangsak Chomanan, who Is also the chairman of the organising
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    Lock icon Laker's proposal
    83 1 AFP Canberra, Wednesday Mr Freddie Laker, the British cutprice airline magnate, yesterday pat forward plans to the Australian fovernment to bring 5,000 British and European tourist* a year to Australia for A|MO ($1416) return In the off-season. He said that if the tourists wanted to stop over In
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    Harun will keep his titles: Sultan
    109 1 Datuk Harun Idrls, the former Mentrl Besar of Selangor and Umno Youth leader, will not be stripped of his titles, the renang Star reported today. The newspaper said the Sultan of Selangor, In a telegram to Datuk Harun at the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital,
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    Lock icon A big US war game
    82 1 Reuter Seoul, Wednesday South Korea and the United States yesterday launched their biggest ever Joint military exercise In the face of bitter denunciations from North Korea, Vietnam, China and the Soviet Union. The 11-day war game involving 107,000 US and Korean army, navy and alrforce
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    Lock icon Cholera 'disaster'
    52 1 AP Geneva, Wednesday The Neue Zuercher Zeltung newspaper yesterday reported that the Tanzania cholera outbreak has assumed "disaster proportions" with the death toll now estimated to be around 3000. The report, filed by the newspaper's Dar Es Salaam correspondent, said that aU schools were closed on Monday In
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    Lock icon Policy row
    36 1 UPI Washington, Wednesday presidential assistant Mark Slegel probably will quit because of a policy dispute over the administration's proposed sale of Jet fighters to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, ABC News reported last night. UPI.
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    STOCK MARKET
    150 2 Consolidated Plantations continued its uptrend during the first 45 minutes of firm trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. It advanced by 20 cents to 95.20 while Slme Darby gained eight cents to Nanyang Press has overtaken Its arch-rival, Sin Chew, putting on two cents to $2.10.
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    Course
    42 2 The Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research will conduct a basic course in quality control from March 31. The 15-lecture course will be held at Slslr office in River Valley Road from 7.30 to 9.30 p.m. every Tuesday and Friday.
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    Few expected to opt for 3-year Pre-U
    508 2  -  By Teresa Ooi Most of the 2500 students now In Chinese medium Preunlverslty One classes are expected to opt for either a two-year Pre-U course In English or continue with the present two-year course In Chinese. Only a minority are expected to opt
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    Set up an optical centre call
    273 2 The NTUC has been urged to set up an Optical Centre to combat the high prices of contact lenses charged by private opticians. The call came from consumers who responded to a survey on optical aids conducted by the Consumers' Association of Singapore recently.
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    Tuition
    46 2 The Toa Payoh Education Centre at Block 79. 87-A Toa Payoh Central, will organise courses In type-writing book-keep-ing. shorthand, Japanese and Chinese languages and also tuition for primary and second students. Those interested can call at the centre from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
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    Civie tour
    21 2 The Radln Mas com munlty centre's women fub-commlttee will organise a civic tour on March 19 at 9 a.m.
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    Happy re-union in S'pore
    137 2 It was a happy reunion 11,000-km from home for the Fosters In a Singapore hotel yesterday. Commander William Foster of the HMS Tiger has not seen his wife, Sarah, and son, Rory, 8. for five months. Sarah and Rory flew in yesterday from London together with
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    Pocket money
    48 2 The Whampoa Constituency Citizens' Consultative Committee has started a sponsor-a-stu-dent scheme under which monthly pocket allowances of more than $500 will be given to 57 needy students in the constituency. The money will come from community leaders and it will be given for a one-year period.
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    Lock icon Lawyer fails in Privy Council appeal
    375 3 Reuter London, Wednesday An advocate and solicitor who told two Singa pore judges that If they refused to re-open an appeal and hear further evidence they would be "setting a seal on dishonesty" yesterday failed in his appeal to the Privy Council. Mr Kenneth
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    HUDC offers holiday houses for sale
    301 3  -  Statutory boards snap up 14 of the 16 units at Pasir Ris Beach Park By Rav Dhaliwal The Housing and Urban Development Company (HUDC) has offered 16 twostorey houses at Pasir Ris Beach Park for sale to statutory boards for use as holiday bungalows.
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    School band
    24 3 The Upper Serangoon Secondary Technical School brass band will perform at the Macßitchie Reservoir on Sunday from 5.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
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    The secretary's fear...
    260 3 Will the computer replace the secretary? Yes, and there is cause for concern, said some secretaries. No, said others. Bosses still need the human element. This topic was keenly discussed by secretaries attending workshop sessions in the third Asian Congress of Secretaries at Hyatt Hotel. The question
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    Lock icon A $30 million film on the fall of S'pore
    203 3 Reuter London, Wednesday Production of three feature Alms to be shot in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Australia, including one on the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War Two, was announced yesterday by a joint L on
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    Lock icon Meeting of top Asean businessmen
    137 3 AFP Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday—Some top Asean businessmen are expected to converge here in the next few days to attend the first intern a t i onal management conference. The three-day conference. organised by the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Graduates Association of Malaysia, will begin
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    Ghani is president
    48 3 Encik A. Ohanl Hamid has been elected president of the Angkatan Pelukls Aneka Daya. Other elected officials are Messrs Ismail Muda (secretary), Taufek H.M. Idris (asst secretary), Said M. All (treasurer), 8. Mohdlr, Sarkasl Said, Effendl Arshad, A. Rahman Rats and Clk Habsah Hanaflah (members).
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    Tunku: Harun couldn't have escaped law
    535 4 But I can understand actions of Umno youth...l don't blame them, he says Former Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said yesterday he understood the actions of the Selangor Umno Youth In holding Datuk Harun Idrls captive to reflect the exuberance of youth. In
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    Bid for better tourist guides
    249 4 The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board is conducting a survey to determine how courses for tourist guides can be improved and standards raised. An official of the BTPB's Facilitations Department said questionalres were sent out to some 700 travel agents and guides seeking their views on
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    Fishing contest
    46 4 Four community centres and the youth group of Jalan Kayu constituency will organise a fishing competition at Ylo Chu Kang Track 24 fishing pond on March 26 from 8 a.m. to 3 p m. A fee of $3 per fishing rod will be charged.
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    SILO'S 350 scholarships
    36 4 The Singapore Industrial Labour Organisation will award 350 scholarships worth $25,000 to children of members. The awards are $50 each for those in primary schools and $1000 each for students of tertiary institutions.
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    Why cost has risen
    72 4 A report on Feb 23 said the cost of the Metro p o 1 ltan YMCA Tanglln Centre has risen to $4 million because prices of building materials have gone up. Metropolitan YMCA has written to say that the cost Is due to modifications of the
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    Councils
    26 4 Works Councils for the Apron Services and Cargo Services divisions of Singapore Airport Terminal Services will be Inaugurated at Airline House today at 3 p.m.
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    For her—a bag of happiness...
    94 4 Happiness is knowing that someone cares. Che Supiah binte Mohammed Mokkin, 62, has just received a 6-kg bag of rice from the S.irling Road mosque. Che Supiah is one of 1816 Muslims receiving 6-kg of rice each from 14 mosques all over Singapore and Pulau
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    Paging: Now one-call limit
    79 4 Paging for arriving passengers at Paya Lebar airport Is now limited to one call only. This 1s to avoid clogging up the public addressing system, said a Department of Civil Aviation official. More than one call may be allowed only In special circumstances. He said the
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    Volleyball
    41 4 The Senior Minister of Btate (Education! Mr Chal Chong Yll will be the guest of honour at the opening of the primary school national volleyball championships at Pel Chun School off Lorong 8, Toa Payoh, on Friday at 3.30 p.m.
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    The diesel project: MP's query
    314 4 A question on the present position of the A s e a n aiesel engine project for Singapore will be asked In Parliament at Its next sitting on Monday. The MP for Delta. Mr Yeo Choo Kok. will ask the Finance Minister Mr Hon Bui
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    Bonn warship for visit
    114 4 A West German cruiser will make a flve-day official visit here from March 20 the first warship from Oermany since Singapore's indedence. The 4850-tonne Deutschland's visit to Singapore is part of its 161- day voyage covering 60,-000-km to 13 countries in Asia and Australasia. This is
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    Lock icon Let's be more friendly...
    452 5 Call from Laos to Thailand Reuter AP Bangkok, Wednesday Thailand !stlll has an unfriendly attitude towards Laos and relations between the two neighbouring countries should be improved, Lao Secretary of State for Fereign Affairs Nouphan Sidphaxay said here yesterday. Mr Nouphan, who arrived on Monday to
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    Lock icon THAI GOVT GUARDS VILLAGES
    71 5 Reuter Bangkok, Wednesday. Government forces have been sent to guard two border villages In south-east Thailand following the abduction of 169 people by a com Wned Khmer Rouge and Thai communist guerilla force, a highranking provincial official said yesterday. Governor Praklt Uttamote of Chanthaburl province told
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    Lock icon Red tape
    43 5 AFP Jakarta, Wednesday.— A 27-year alrforce mechanic tried to hijack an Indonesian plane on a domestic flight to speed up red tape after waiting for more than nine years to become a full time government employee, It was reported here yesterday.—AFP.
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    Lock icon 'Regional peace a must'
    213 5 Reuter Bangkok, Wednesday Thailand's policy of friendship with all natlops, particularly its communist neighbours In Indo-chlna, has been aimegl at promoting International cooperation and understanding, Prime Minister Krlangsak. Chomanan said here yesterday. The Premier, addressing the 34th session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia
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    Lock icon Warning on freedom of the press
    172 5 Reuter Canberra, Wednesday The International Press Institute yesterday warned of new dangers to press freedom and the free flow of Information as a result of moves within the United Nations lulucatlonal. Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). It attacked draft resolutions fry Unesco seeking to
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    Lock icon Clash over Cambodia
    75 5 AFP Geneva, Wednesday The Soviet Union and the United States exchanged barbs yesterday at a meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights considering a proposal to send a human rights observer to Cambodia. Soviet delegate Valerian Zorln opposed the British proposal for an observer on
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    Lock icon Graft: 500 rapped
    58 5 Reuter Jakarta. Wednesday Almost 500 people were penalised last month In Indonesia's continuing campaign against corruption In government and administration, according to Antara news agency yesterday. This proved that "Operation Order" was continuing vigorously, authorities said In what observers saw as a reply to recent criticism from
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    Lock icon Anti-hijack backing
    50 5 AFP Bangkok, Wednesday The Thai cabinet yesterday agreed to become member of the subtreaty against hijacking first formulated ana signed at The Hague In 1970. The decision was made upon recommendation from the Thai Communications Ministry, a Government House spokesman said after the Cabinet's routine weekly meeting. AFP.
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    Lock icon Tito gets Carter pledge
    326 6 We'll back you all the way* Reuter Washington, Wednesday A White House spokesman said yesterday after a meeting between President Carter and Yugoslavia's President Tito that the US had a commitment to support Yugoslavia's 1 p d e p e ndence and Integrity. President Carter warmly
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    Lock icon Rightists to vote against black rule drive
    93 6 AP Salisbury. Wednesday. —The white right wing In Rhodesia has started what It says Is to become a nationwide campaign to persuade the country's white dominated electorate to vote against the transfer of power when a proposed new majority rule constitution Is presented
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    Lock icon Carter to review Nato setup
    147 6 AP Washington Wednesday President Carter will meet here with heads of state and government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on May 30-31 to review military reinforcement of the alliance and developments In the communist bloc, US officials said. The officials, said the meeting will
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    Miners: We'll defy Carter order
    139 6 Charleston (Virginia), Wednesday—Striking miners in west Virginia, the major coalproducing state in the United States, yesterday spoke openly of defying a back-to-work order President Carter said ha would seek from the courts. Some miners accompanied their refusal to return to the pits with threats of
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    Lock icon China on US build-up
    39 6 AP Tokyo. Wednesday China charted yesterday that the United States Is Intensifying arms expansion In South Korea. The official Chinese Hslnhua News Agency commented on the USSouth Korea military manoeuvres called "team spirit for 197$."—»AP.
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    Lock icon PLO bid to woo the Egyptians
    184 6 AP Cairo, Wednesday Senior Palestinian official* were yesterday trying to smoothen "perturbed" relations with the Egyptian government in the wake of the assassination of a promlnen Egyptian writer by two Palestinian gunmen. Two members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive committee are meeting
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    Lock icon TODAY
    118 6 UPI TODAY is Wednesday, March 8, the 67th day of 1978 with 298 to follow. THE MOON Is in Its new phase. There Is no morning star. THE EVEING STARS are Mercury, Mars. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. US
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    51 6 Reuter Tel Avlr, Wednesday Six prostitutes have re filtered with Israel's National Insurance Authority for unemployment and sickness benefit* and will be able to draw payments if they become pregnant. Prostitution Is not a crime in Israel, though soliciting and farcin* another person into prostitution is unlawful.
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    Lock icon Maltese plan to avert showdown
    65 6 Reuter Belgrade, WednesdayMalta offered a compromise plan last night to alllow the European security conference to end this week without a threatened confrontation over Mediterranean problems. Maltese delegate Victor Oauchl said he was ready to abandon a call for a controversial EuropeanMediterranean dialogue next year
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      322 6 Ah Fook and Mei Lin "M m Gdo.su wj$r Ti J. I 'I I WV M >r, t. •J, m m Mei Lin Mother is worried thot I'm still not morried Ah Fook Tell her that these days, late marrioges are popular. Mei Lin Ibu merasa bimbang kerana soya masih
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    Lock icon Rooney quits showbiz for business
    120 7 UPI Los Angeles. Wednesday Mickey Rooney yesterday announced he will soon retire from show business, after a' 50-year career, to pursue business ventures "I'm going to bring down the curtain." the 57-year-old actor said. "As soon as I finish a movie I'm working on now,
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    Lock icon More rights promised
    404 7 Reuter Peking, Wednesday China ye st e r day published a new constitutlon for the country that stresses the legal rights of ybitizens, expands the rights of the legislature, changes the electoral system and amends the judiciary. The constitution was approved by the country's Parliament, the Fifth
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    Lock icon ...for relatives too, says Chairman Hua
    171 7 AFP Hong Kong, Wednesday State protection of the "Just rights and Interests" of the relatives of overseas Chinese as well as those of the overseas Chinese themselves has been written into China's new constitution, the New China News Agency reported. The 1975 constitution merely
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    Lock icon Peking bid for closer ties?
    127 7 AFP New Delhi, Wednesday. —A two-week visit to India by a Chinese delegation which began yesterday Is considered here to be a step towards repairing relations between the two countries which have been strained since the frontier battles of 1962. Chinese Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and
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    Lock icon Teng's wife at NPC
    31 7 AFP Peking. Wednesday Vice-Premier Teng Hslao-ping** wife. Cho Lin. was among 503 deputies from the army attending the sth National People's Congress (NPC) currently in session here.—AFP.
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    Lock icon Somalia: Pushed back but we'll fight on
    170 7 Reuter Mogadishu, Wednesday Somali President Mohamed Said admitted yesterday that Somali forces had been pushed back In the Ogaden, but declared that the struggle would go on "until the last man." President Said was speaking to a crowd of about 25,000 people In
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    Majority rule in practice
    416 8 Rhodesian Prime Minister lan Smith broke his long-standing vow against majority rule by signing an "internal settlement" last week with three black nationalist leaders. He conceded a principle, a step certainly more heartening than the shrewd stalling that has become his style since his unilateral declaration
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      Return of Nancy
      79 8 Film fans may have read not so long ago that Nancy Kwan (of Suble Wong fame) had started a film production house In Hong Kong churning out mainly commercials. If they were disappointed that there were to be no more Kwan flicks, they may like to know
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      But of course!
      44 8 Pour armed robbers held up an Illegal gambling den In Hong Kong last week and shot dead an off-duty police sergeant. When a reporter asked what the sergeant was doing In the Illegal Joint, the police spokesman said: "He was gambling."
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    Lock icon French fracas on eve of polls
    486 8 Reuter Paris: France's left-wing opposition was under severe new strain yesterday, Just five days before general elections, because of last minute disputes over leadership and tactics. Communist leader Georges Marchais led the attack on his erstwhile opposition part- ners, Socialist Chief Francois Mitterrand and
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    GATT-DOING WHAT THEY OUGHT NOT
    596 8  -  WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON When the textile exporting countries of the Third World went to Geneva to negotiate international trading arrangements with the main importing countries of the West, they expected to get improved access to those markets .in return for slightly slowing
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    Lock icon The power of the Rising Sun
    951 9 Many now question the 'hedgehog' policy 32 years after World War Two, Japan takes a look at... UPI Tokyo: Japan has a splffy little army, navy and air force that now cost the taxpayers about US$3 billion ($18.4 billion) a year. Some Japanese defence
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    Chamber wants ban on arms export lifted on selective basis
    503 9 MORE PRESSURE ON JAPAN'S PEACEFUL IMAGE From Swadesh De Roy, our Tokyo correspondent. Japan's defence Industry is mounting pressure on the government for permission to export military hardwares despite Prime Minister Fukuda's unwillingness to relax arms control laws on a
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    YOMIURI SHIMBUN
    168 9 VOICE OF THE PRESS The Japaxiese government has been floating the Idea that from the constitutional point of view Japan can possess socalled "defensive" and tactical nuclear weapons. Although the government says that It has no Intention of acquiring nuclear weapons at present, recent government statements point to
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      119 9 Voice of the Press Round-up has been held over till tomorrow. IF YOUR CAR IS AR-CONDITIONED *> OS '4 Si m r Without AIR PURIFIER With AIR-PURIFIER VOU NEED HITACHI CAR AIR-PURIFIER! ©HITACHI CAR AIR-PURIFIER Your car air-conditioner allows you to travel in cool comfort. But smoke or odours are
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      The wayang of yesterday
      1574 10 / 11  -  IS the wayang on the decline? That question was asked as far back as the 1930s when Chinese opera was In its heyday but threatened by the cinema halls which first opened then. That fact emerged not from a history book but from an architectural thesis
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      'I used to sneer at such shows'
      627 10 / 11 "I was never very interested in Chinese opera, but after researching for my thesis on the Chinese wayang playhouse, I now find it fascinating," said 24-year-old Tang Wal Kuen. An architect with the Jurong Town Corporation, petite Wal Kuen tackled the subject as
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    Bear-ly exciting
    453 12  -  Director uses the grizzly bear to save this otherwise insipid tale of a 'wild' family Cinema by Gloria Chandy THE ADVENTURES OF THE WILD ERNESS FAMILY: Robert Logan, Susan Damante Shaw, Hoilye Holmes, Ham Larsen. Screenplay by Stewart Rafflll. Directed by Stewart Rafflll. (Soon at Orchard). This is
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    Lock icon Test-tube baby: Experts are sceptical
    906 12 A soon-to-be published book, In His Image, The Cloning of a Man has caused an uproar in scientific circles with its claim that a baby has been created by cloning. This is a scientific process in which identical individuals, usually lower animals, are produced. Can
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    Lock icon Facing the facts of business life
    946 13 In keeping their hands clean, US firms find they have them tied behind their backs NYT Paris: There's nothing wrong with a little bribery if it brings in orders, especially at a time of worldwide recession this is the prevailing philosophy among European companies
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    Lock icon Hitler's dead...but we're alive
    487 13 NEO-NAZI GROUPS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE MARK ANNIVERSARY UPI Antwerp (Belgium): Clean-cut youths in jackboots and para military uniforms strolled about the vast, smoke-filled ballroom and greeted each other with cheery "Hell Hitlers." Some wore swastika lapel pins and others arm bands or shoulder patches carrying
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    Lock icon Gold rush
    193 14 Brisk sales as polls day approaches r Business Neu/s and Views AP Paris, Wednesday With five more days to go before France's crucial parliamentary elections, a new gold rush was on in Paris yesterday. Brisk dealing on the the open gold market resulted In a sales volume totalling
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    Lock icon Debts: Joint stand at Unctad meet
    239 14 Reuter Brussels, Wednesday— The European Common Market and the United Slates will set out a Joint position on rescheduling debts of poor countries In Geneva today, EEC officials said yesterday. The presentation would be made at a high level, meeting of the United' Nations
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    Lock icon Money market
    272 14 UPI AFP AP London, Wednesday The American dollar closed narrowly mixed on European foreign exchanges yesterday, up slightly in Frankfurt and Zurich, but still below Monday's close In Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. Frankfurt brokers said speculation against the dollar apparently has levelled off. And London dealers said the
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    Hume takes a big stride in first half profits
    426 14  -  Company profile bv I Lee Yew Meng Hume Industries (Malaysia) appears to be back 011 the growth path in the current year ending June 30, 1978, Judging from the strong showing ip its first half profit results. oroup pie-:ax profits for
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    Lock icon Japan's $322 bil budget
    178 14 AFP Tokyo, Wednesday Japan's national budget of 34 trillion yen ($322,000 million) for fiscal 1978, designed primarily to reflate the economy and increase overseas aid, was passed by the House of Representatives (Lower House) yesterday by a majority vote. The opposition voted against the budget plan
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    Economic briefs
    234 14 BRIDGETOWN (Barbados): a leading German sugar industry official has predicted a world sugar shortage in a decade. "while present sugar production Is In excess of world demand, there will not be enough sugar by 1988 to meet tne needs of expanding world population," said Mr Bernhardt Orth, director
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      NEW YORK
      155 14 Stocxs. aided by bargain hunters, registered a modest gain yesterday as investors waited for results of President Carter's efforts to resolve the crippling coal miners strike. Volume was slow. The Dow «ones Industrial average, which fell 4.59 points on Monday, rallied to gain 4.07 points to 746.79. Yesterday's
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      34 14 UPI New York. Wednesday Dow Jones closing averages on the* NYSE yesterday: 30 Industrials 746.79 (up 4.07), 20 transport 199.60 (off 0.15), 15 utilities 104.36 (up 0.64). 65. stocks 261.71 (up 1.C5).
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      112 14 AFP Stock market prices yesterday bounced back Moderately In a technical rally from Monday's worst loss so far this year. The 225-stock Dow Jones average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which plunged 49.49 yen overnight on selling triggered by the yen's appreciation to a new record high, gained 11.37
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      PARIS
      69 14 Closing prices on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Parlbas 155 50 —1 Fonder 394 50 —7 50 Prlntcmpa 41 unch Bull 35.30 —1.40 Royal Dutch 375 +17.40 Mlchelln 108» —30 COE 287.50 —1.50 Thomson 142 —2.40 CFp 100.10 —1.90 Rhone 54.80 —1.10 Air 253 —1 BSN 353 unch Philips 54.50
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      85 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Closing pr JJjrlch Stock Ices on the Exchange yesterday: UB8 Bearer 3005 —120 UBS Reg. 640 12 8BC 362 12 Credit Suisse 2275 75 Swlrsalr B. 786 30 Swiss Relnsur. 2725 —155 Wlnterthur B. 1935 —165 Zurich Insur. 8200 —275 Juvena B. 180 mm Nestle
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      SYDNEY
      111 14 Prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange: ACI 155 luO ADC 15 25 Ampol Pet 69 70 ANI Nil 136 APM 122 NU Bank NSW 508 510 Brambles 175 177 BHp 536 538 Boral 212 213 CBA 234 235 CBR 264 26ft CIO 23ft
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    Lock icon The EEC averts crisis in farm sector
    286 14 AFP Brussels, Wednesday The European Economic community averted an open crisis in the farm sector yesterday when France agreed to a compromise safeguarding Its farmers against the effects of pre-electoral swings in the value of the French franc. EEC Ministers of Agriculture worked
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      Will the FAS please oblige?
      266 15  -  "KAY POH" I read with great interest a report in the Sunday Times (Feb 12) on the earnings of the Football Association of Singapore last year headlined 'FAS earned less last year.' I was happy to see thli report as I have always wondered, while
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      SPINKS: FINE FUTURE BUT...
      175 15 A new heavyweight boxing champion was born when Mohammad All loet his crown to Leon Splnks, the 1976 Montreal Olympics lightheavyweight champion and a comparatively newcomer with only six professional fights. I wrote to Sportsfront earlier after All's fight with Earnle Shavers pointing oat that All
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      Praise for Yap's policy of trying out reserves
      298 15  -  JASSIR SINGH Football Association of Singapore officials, particularly coach Sebastian Yap, have recently Introduced a very good polcy where reserve players are tried out during the Malaysia matches. I unanimously support this move because we must expose younger soccer players to tough
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      This is how S'pore should play
      142 15  -  S.S. LIM Our Under-16 Singapore 'A' boya deserved to win the Lion City Cup. Thanks to the coaches and Trevor Hartley, who took so much trouble and effort to groom these youngsters. But what Impressed me most was Jthe classic performance put up bf
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      JEREMY, PETER SCORE EASY VICTORIES
      741 16  -  SQUASH by Eric Cooper The opeplng of the Kallang Squash and Tennis Centre by Dr. Tan Eng Llan, chairman of the Singapore Sports Council, last Saturday marked another Important step forward lp the development of the game In the Republic. The nine courts at the
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      Lock icon 231 for 2
      33 16 Reuter Auckland, Wednesday England were 231 for two In feply to New Zealand's first Innings total of 315 at lunch here today on the fourth day of the third Test.
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      Sentak Suria ready to make amends
      593 16 Racing with fairway; k V Ji Sentak Suria II looks set to break the Ice In the Singapore meeting starting on Saturday. The five-year-old New Zealand gelding by Bandmaster II has been running some good races of late. He gave a splendid display last
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      Lock icon Nation's mourning for horse in Japan
      239 16 AFP Tokyo, Wednesday Buddhist monks chanted a "sutra" and nearly 1000 horse nac!ng fans packed an Incense-filled -hall in Kyoto yesterday to mourn the death of a five-year-old colt named Ten Point. Ten Point, winner of Japan's two tnost important classic races last year,
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      Lock icon Hunt gets easy first round
      180 16 Squash AFP London, Wednesday World squash champion Oeoff Hunt received a relatively easy first round match against fellow Australian Dean Wllllama when the draw for the British Open championships was made here yesterday. Hunt, the .defending champion and four-times winner, was surprisingly beaten by Pakistan's
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      Draw for SICC Women's Open Day Golf
      590 16 Kee Bee Khlm. Singapore's golnlng queen, and newcomer Anne Wynn, are the only two single* handlcapper In the large field of 143 (or the Singapore Island Country Clud women's Open Day competition at the Island Course tomorrow. The competition will be plaved over
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      Trigger a new horse to watch
      471 16 Trigfer 111 (late Irish Butler), a newcomer from Buklt Tlmah trainer Ivan Allan's stbbles, is one to watch when he makes his debut here in the Class 4 Division 2 1200 m race on Sunday. Trigger raced In good company last year. He started
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      Frazier fight hits a snag
      131 17 E9 Boxing Johannesburg, Wednesday—The Transvaal Provincial Boxing Board yesterday turned down a promoter's request to stage a fight between American former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier and South African supreme heavyweight champion Oerrie Coetzee. Proboks, a South African boxing promotion concern, said on Monday the two
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      Borg back home
      81 17 Gothenburg, Wednesday—Swede Bjorn Borg ended his 16-month professional boycott of his own country to defeat American Sandy Mayer 7-6, 6-3 in the opening match of the Scandinavian Cup yesterday. America** Vitas Oerulaitls defeated Briton John Lloyd 6-3, 6-7, 6-1 to battle Borg in today's final. The last
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      Selangor make synthetic switch
      204 17 j^^^Badminton Kuala Lumpur. Wednesday Selangor will start the inevitable switch to synthetic shuttles in their badminton tournament this year. The switch from goose feathered shuttles to synthetic or plastic shuttles will be carried out In stages, Selangor Badminton Association secretary V. Nadesalingam said. "There may be
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      Dunearn raise chances
      121 17 Soccer Schools round-up Dunearn Secondary strengthened their chances of a berth in tne National Schools soccer tournament when they beat Whitley 2-0 In a Buklt Timah District qualifying tie at Dunearn Ground yesterday. They have thus compld ed their seven-game fixture with 11 points out of a
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      Hwa Chong for 3rd title?
      330 17  -  j^^Badminton By BRIAN MILLER Hwa Chong Junior College put themselves In line for their third National Schools (Post Secondary) girls' badminton title when they beat Nan Chlau Girls 3-2 at Buklt Timah yesterday. They have qualified for the semi-finals and look a good bet for
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      MacLeod's big problem...
      736 17  -  Too many good players to choose from on SOCCER EMLYN HUGHES Scotland's manager Ally MacLeod must be dreading the day that he has to name his 22-si.rong World Cup squad. The Scots have greater strength in depth than for many years, and I certainly don't envy him
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      Schoen to field ideal strike force at last
      287 17 Frankfurt, Wednesday West German coach Helmut Schoen will be fielding his ideal strike force for the first time in a friendly against the Soviet Union here today. This has been made possible with the return to fitness of Klaus Fischer. But the
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      Warnings are useless, FAM
      384 18  -  [(commfntY l»v Fanzi Omar Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday The Football Association of Malaysia, apparently, are still taking it easy with soccer hooliganism following the two Malaysia Cup incidents at the Perak Stadium and the Kangar Stadium recently. Instead ol taking prompt action by imposing deterent punishment for
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      Kedah will be at full strength
      610 18  -  Injured Roshidi and Rashid have recovered K3 Soccer By PHILIP TAN Third placed Kedah, after suffering a humiliating 5-0 defeat in their opening Malaysia Cup game here, will have a team full of confidence for the return leg at Alor Star against Singapore this
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      Lock icon Agile Boon Hua puts SBS in line for a treble
      458 18  -  By SURESH NAIR Newcomers Singapore Bus Services came closer to winning the National Business Houses Junior Knockout soccer title when they beat Third Division Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 5-2 on penalties at Farrer Park Athletics Cenire yesterday. Both sides, unbeaten in
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      Schools are 'missing'
      114 18 j^^^Hockey Seasoned campaigners Combined Schools are notable absentees for cms year's Singapore Hockey Association s National Under-23 tournament starting next week. The schoolboys, who have always featured prominently in this series lor the past decade, are out because the tournament Is kicking off "too early in the
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      Lock icon Third win for Holland
      57 18 Reuter Rotterdam, Wednesday —Holland scored their third hockey victory over India In four days lastnight with a 5-3 win against the world champions In a practice game. The Dutch team led 3-2 at half-time. Paul Lltjens scored all five goals for Holland, and the Indian scorers
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      380 18 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are flred with ambition. Highly creative. Intelligent, and gifted with lmaglnation to spur thought, you should prove an asset to any enterprise. You enjoy the things that money can buy, but you will Hnd as life tests you that you
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      A breakaway from tradition
      687 19 as Teochew troupe does a Cantonese opera Review Joanna Wong is a leading figure in Chinese opera here. The Goddess of Lok. the opera which she reviews here for New Nation is one in which she herself has acted. The Cantonese opera Goddess of Lok performed
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      Change of mind by Radio Singapore
      164 19 Radio Singapore officials have changed its mind about dropping serious music programmes on the AM channel from April 3. According to an official, the English service will continue to broad* cast five hours of classical music a week after this date. These will be
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      160 19 BOWLING: Nationalites League (Paslr PanJang Bowl, 7.45 p.m.). Sunbeam Home Appliances 2-5-8 Pin Tap Tournament (Jack 1 e Bowl System and Jackles Katong). BASKETBALL: InterStatutory Board Sports Meet—JTC v HDB (7.30), PUBRC v PARC (9 p.m.). Both matches at PUBRC Courts. HOCKEY: Buklt Tlmah S c ho o Is Tournament
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      1083 19 cinema CON ARTISTS (Mandarin): A comedy about two glrLs who work In the same office, live in the same apartment, but are on the worst of terms. Stars Sylvia Chang, Chlng Hslang Ling, Deborah. Odeon Katonf, Ruby: 1, 3.30, 7 and 9.15 p.m. Majestic: 1, 3 30, 7 and 9.30
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    Talking Point
    56 20 AH FOOK: I think coffeeshop owners are unreasonable in refusing to reduce the price of a cup of coffee by five cents when cost of coffee beans has fallen by 50 per cent MEI LIN: The ones who should reduce their prices are coffeehouses which charge up to
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      556 20 AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 C V Li"H*ran+iihi£) flltH OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SERBANIKA (M/r). This edition shows a demonstration on how to cook fried chicken wings, an Interview with mothers on the Ideal choice of furniture for the home, a filmlet on the Creativity Tin* Art Exhibition ST Institute of
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      281 20 Today's top shows FALL OF THE EAGLES: Requiem of a Crown Prince. (Ch. 5 9.45 p.m. In colour). Set In Austria In 1889, this episode relates how Crown Prince Rudolf, Emperor Franz Josef's son and heir, and a young Baroness, meet violent death at the royal hunting lodge at M
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