New Nation, 19 March 1978

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  • 10 1 Sunday Nation MARCH 19, 1978 90 CENTS M.C.(P) NO. 217/1/78
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    • 56 1 rrinters anc HuDiisners Act i>etUon I I Breakthrough for S'poro in KL air talko Page 2 Jeanine: Bald and bold ■m •V v I •w N Who'll step into Cruyff's shoes? Page 28 Love means never having to say you're a monstrosity, sniffs Tan Bah Bah vr Page 21 Carter's
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 94 2 Reuter BANGKOK'S five million people sweated through a complete power failure for several hours yesterday. Electricity was suddenly cut throughout at 7.40 a.m. (0040 OMT) and a spokesman for the Metropolitan Electricity Authority said It was due to severe technical problems at the main highpower generating station
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    • 82 2 AFP A PULP and paper plant la to be set up near Manila which may help serve the needs not only of the Philippines but also the Asean market. The Manila English* language dally Times Journal said the 890-mllllon-peso ($220 million) plant Is to be established
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    • 52 2 Reuter A HIQH-powered official Japanese trade mission left Tokyo yesterday for Ciechoslovakla and Hungary to explore possibilities of Increasing Imports from the East European countries. The 45-member team of government officials and representatives of trading houses, department stores and manufacturing companies will spend two weeks In
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    • 66 2 FOURTEEN Internal bus services are to be Introduced In Jurong next month with the operation of the new feeder system. Four to serve the residential estates with the remaining plying to the various Industrial estates In the area. SBS is expected to charge 10 ccnts for distances
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    • 54 2 IMMIGRATION officer Mohammed AH bin Mohamed Iqbal was convicted on two charges of corruptly accepting money from a tourist tout and was fined a total of $2000. He was also ordered by the district Judge, Mr Soon Kim Kwee to pay a penalty of $50, the sum involved
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    • 96 2 AFP ONE of the remaining obstacles for the smooth passage of the new basic state policies being dellberated by the Indonesian national congress was removed when the Influential Muslim party PPP agreed to the Inclusion of recognition of mysticism in the new bill, it was reported yeaterday. Spokesman
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    • 56 2 AFP THE Kelantan UMNO liaison committee has unanimously agreed to appoint Datuk Hajl Mohamed Yaacob as the new Mentri Besar of the state. The committee also agreed to leave the appointment of the deputy Mentri Besar and eight state executive councillors to the discretion of state Umno
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    • 30 2 HUNDREDS of people In Melbourne have Joined a police hunt for thieves who shot three Jewel dealers In the heads and escaped with 1132,000 of uncut diamonds.
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    • 52 2 AFP A SUSPECTED Khmer spy was shot dead yes terday while crawling along a railway line Inside Thai territory at Aranyaprathet district of Prachln Burl. 500 kilometres east of Bangkok. Official sources said the suspect was killed by a Thai security guard after he defied orders to
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    • 62 2 THE Primary Production Department (PPD) has scored a major breakthrough In containing swine fever, by producing safe and effective vaccine. The department took three years, through laboratory and Held trials to prove this. The vaccine Is available at all the extension centres of the department at 30 cents
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    • 55 2 A HOUSEWIFE told a district Judge yesterday that she married another man because her first husband did not maintain her. Tan Slew Tin, 29, who also told the court that her misery In her first marriage led her to commit the offence, was jailed for a day
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  • 136 2 THE government will be asked whether any study has been carried out to establish the reasons for the unpopularity of double-decker buses. The MP for Changl, Mr Teo Chong Tee. will ask this when Parliament resumes on Monday. He also wants to know how many
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  • 163 2 A CISCO guard was shot in the stomach in an exchange ot gunlire during an abortive $21,000 hold-up at Toa Payoh Central yesterday. The guard has been warded at the Toa Payoh General Hospital in a serious condition. The incident occurred at about 4 pm
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  • 302 2 A breakthrough for S'pore-Sim SINGAPORE Airlilies has been given the green light to fly to Penang. Details such as frequency of flights have to be worked out in the next round of talks for the renewal of an air services agreement between the
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  • 155 2 Itf RS E. W. Barker, wife of the ATI Minister for Law, Environment, Science and Technology, has been named one of Singapore's 10 best-dressed women along with models and boutique owners according to a fashion poll by Female, a local woman's magazine. Over recent
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  • 203 2 Reuter PRESIDENT Carter yesterday swiftly replied to Soviet criticism of his speech in which he warned the Soviet Union that opposition to detente would grow unless Russia showed restraint In its missile build-up. In an unusually quick response to the speech, the Soviet
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  • 132 2 /CHINESE ph y s iclans were yesterday urged to combine their techniques and experience with the scientific methods and equipment of Western medicine. This would boost their efficiency, said the senior Minister of State (Education), Mr Chai Chong Yil, at the 26th
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  • 80 2 TRAVELLERS in the Oulf area can get almost Immediate confirmation of seat bookings on Singapore Airlines when its computer Kriscom, is extended to pahrain on March 30. SIA said it will be the only Asian carrier in the Oulf areas offering such a facility. The
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  • 173 2 AP INVESTORS In Hong Kong are becoming Increasingly concerned about the future of 93 square kilometres of territory which could revert to China in 1997, the number two man in the Hong Kong government said on Friday. Sir Denys Roberts, chief secretary of Hong Kong
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 217 3 LAWMAN IS IN TOWN I I LAWMAN, the Action Jeans, is now available in Singapore. For the first time, LAWMAN introduces the "CLEAN LOOK" the most popular trend in both America and Europe. Only top quality US fabric is used in the manufacture of LAWMAN JEANS. Through advanced manufacturing techniques,
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  • 315 4 Vital job facing the Govt: ANE of the most vital Jobs facing the authorities today is to lower the already high expectations among young people In relation to the Job market, Minister of State (Defence) Mr Bernard Chen said yesterday. To Mr. Devan Nalr, se-cretary-general
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  • 49 4 AFP AT least a dozen people were killed In Delhi when a cyclone hit the northern part of the capital on Friday evening. Unconfirmed reports quoted by Saniachar news agency said more than 100 were Injured. Forty of them were admitted to a New Delhi hospital.—AFP.
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  • 139 4 Reuter WRENCH Prime Minister m. Raymond Barre told voters on Friday that poverty and an uncertain political future awaited them if they put the Left In power in today's final round of the general election. The Prime Minister, who said he would campaign up to
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  • 217 4 PALESTINIAN guerillas said they fought invading Israeli troops for the fourth day In South Lebanon yesterday as the United Nations Security Council met to debate the Middle East crisis. Israeli artillery shelled the southern town of Nabatiyeh with 175 mm guns and ground-to-ground rockets,
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  • Article, Illustration
    63 4 WEST German President Walter Scheel couldn't quite shield the look of surprise on his face, as he stood beside a painting in Hamburg recently. One can bardly blame him for that. The picture Is supposed to be a portrait of Scheel himself. It was painted by Guentef
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  • 27 4 AFP HONG KONG police have discovered a carsmuggling racket that has been shlppping stolen cars and spare parts in crates to Southeast Asian countries.
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  • 70 4 Reuter THE world's population increased by 77 million between mld-1975 and mld-1976 to reach a total of 4.044 billion, according to the latest Issue of the United Nation's demographic yearbook. This represents an annual growth rate of 1.9 per cent which, if maintained, would
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  • 145 4 AFP THE Philippines is one of the most disasterprone countries in the world, the Philippine Department of National Defence said on Friday. Since 1970, the depart ment's Office for Civil Defence (OCD) monl tored various forms of natural calamities which cost the Philippines 4,575 lives and 3,600
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  • 73 4 AN 81-YEAR OLD man will graduate from a primaty school In Nagoya, Japan, tomorrow after three years of study. Mr. Teljiro Shinya was admitted in 1975 into the fourth class as a special auditor, since then, the old man has bicycled two kilometres to school from
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  • 142 4 AP ANTI-government posters and leariets appeared again yesterday on the campus of the University of Indonesia and armed troops were rushed there to seize and destroy them. Most of the posters and leaflets attacked corruption In the government, abuse of power and demanded that President
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    • 93 4 APPOINTMENTS A well-established Engineering Firm engaged in the development and manufacturing of precision mechanical equipment invites applications from suitably qualified Singapore citizens for the post of PRODUCTION ENGINEER Requirements: 1 A good Honours Degree in Mechanical or Production Engineering 2 1-2 years post-graduate working experience in the preparation of Production
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 263 4 In and around town SUNDAY SCIENCE FILM SHOWS: Molecular Magic (about the search for new substances) and Darwin and the Insects of Brazil (a study of how Insects live and adapt to the Brazilian jungles). Singapore Science Centre, 3 p.m. Admission free. BLOOD DONATION SESSION held by the Mobile Blood
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  • Article, Illustration
    425 5 Bhutto stays calm as judges hand down unanimous decision TCORMER Pakistani F Prime Minister Zulflkar All Bhutto was sentenced to death by the Lahore High Court yesterday for his part in a political assassination about three years ago. His wife immediately announced that Mr Bhutto, 50, will appeal
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  • 105 5 AP ABOUT 800 workers of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi's opposition political party were reported Jailed on Friday night after a day of political turmoil at Lucknow, north central India. Police used tear gas and clubs to disperse Oandhl supporters marching to the Uttar
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  • 189 5 AFP AP A MAN suspected of taking part in the kidnapping of Italian Christian Democratic Party chairman Aldo Moro was arrested in Rome on Friday night, only hours before yesterday morning's deadline set by Mr Moro's captors for his execution unless 15 Red Brigade militants are
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  • 205 5 Reuter A CONSIGNMENT of 89 tonnes of white cloth turned grey when it reached its destination in China, it was disclosed yesterday. Now, the People's Daily, the organ of the Communist Party, says this is Just one of many cases of poor freight handling by the
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  • 846 6  -  By Simon Winchester Guardian EARLY one Monday, when the extent of her extraordinary election success In South India was just becoming known, Inolra Gandhi was appearing in court a perfunctory visitation, as It happened, since she was let out
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    • 177 6 TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. TODAY'S FASHION. THE LADY SEIKO SPORTS WATCH. A Lady Seiko sports watch offers many advanced features that until today were found chiefly in men's watches, including self-winding, day/date calendar, sweep second hand and water resistance. They're the features today's active women demand in a watch. Not only do
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
  • 219 6 Three years ago, the then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Singapore, Dr Toh Chin Chye, raised the spectre of graduate unemployment If the existing recessionary trend was not reversed soon. Higher education was at that time unapologetlcally and correctly geared towards fulfilling the manpower requirements of
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  • 259 7  -  GLORIA CHANDY WILL the authorl- ties please tell us how to deal with hawkers who Insist on seating customers where they see fit even at centres that display signs Informing patrons that they may use any table they wish? One irate customer who wrote
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  • 247 7 IN BRITAIN. Liberal MP Stephen Ross Is trying to have a BUI approved in Parliament that will make formal training compulsory for hairstylists who wish to set up business. If he succeeds, he will be saving a lot of British
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  • 132 7 NOT very long ago, perfume manufacturers knew that if they wanted to sell their products they would have to wrap them up in pretty packages and give them either ultra feminine, super-romantic or lusciously sensuous names. So perfumes masqueraded under covers like Black
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  • 169 7 LIKE everywhere else in the world as we know It. you have to pay when yon make a call from a public telephone, including Sweden a country well advanced in social services of various kind. This is all good f?) if no emergencies arise.
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  • 169 7 rE Telecommunication Authority of Singapore has decided not to do away with the three-minute limitation (or public telephones alter learning from tests that it Is wiser not to. But this system can sometimes be a nuisance for Important calls that have to be made from
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  • 1111 8  -  Lower-status executives carry bulky briefcases (they have to deal with details). Middle-ranking executives carry slimmer versions. At the top nothing is carried at all manwatching (last part) Life at the top comes complete with... By Desmond Morris STATUS Display Is a demonstration
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  • 523 9 If you ask me... ALEX JOSEY (New A Nation March 3) is qui f e right in saying that the bicycle is an unpopular mode of travel in Singapore, compared with Europe where even MPs ride to work on their bicycles. Why?
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  • 226 9 Letters I REFER to your article by Sarojlnl Kumarasamy on paraplegics (SN, March 5). Tfiese unfortunats people have my sympatnles but let's face some hard facts. Like no one owes anyone a hying In this world, A degree does not guarantee anyone a
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  • 74 9 I WAS moved by SaroJlnl Kumarasamy s piece. But it Is no use taking pity on paraplegics it they have to sit and watch the world go by. Let us face the truth that among paraplegics are some with a better Intellect than most of us. Perhaps our
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    • 156 9 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 IM for every article published. Address your articles to: Sunday Nation. 194 Kim Beng Road, Singapore 9. IF YOU have something to say which you think
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  • 1724 10 / 11 Carter's 'show and tell' cabinet how they score Henry Brandon assesses the performance of the White House team Sunday Times PRESIDENT Carter's cabinet meetings have been nicknamed "show and tell," because some of his cabinet use these Monday morning meetings to show off by telling the President how much they
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    • 863 12 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullout PICK OF THE WEEK NEW MINSTRELS SHOW on Friday, Ch. 5 at 12.50 p.m. in COLOUR A 30-minute Easter attraction from six Filipino entertainers who are a pleasure to hear and watch. "Vocal quality, presentation, choreography and sense of rhythm were of a high
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    • 319 12 V ii t I 'V I 4 II VI (Cantonese) Idarin children's playhouse MAN. Study on primate idarin drama serial (last SHIRLEY MACLAINE WHAT A WAY TO GO! (Midnight Movie) on Saturday, Ch. 5 at 11.15 p.m. in COLOUR All Shirley MacLaine wants is "a simple life with one man
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    • 1074 13 MONDAY Mpm Colourent hTmNPI Colour T.V. Specialists. 8 6 00 P.M. 0p«n 6.03 POPEYE THE SAILOR 6 02 IT'S ABOUT TIME 4.45 NEWS AND PARLIAMENTARY REPORT (T) 7.15 NAMMA SUTRI 7.33 MUSICAL SHOWCASE (C/r). With Chow Tai Lan Lee Chian, Wang Sar, Tang Hu Chen Kiat, Ma Ai Nee, Chang
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    • 734 14 WEDNESDAY Low rental rates ♦> reduces annually. 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 SERBANIKA (r) 3.30 Diary Of Events (M) 3.35 BONANZA: Lor* Child 4.25 Intermission 6.05 Or»*n 6.08 ELECTRIC COMPANY 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.35 WILD. WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS: Tiq.n of Konha 7.00 SAMUDRA. With Salamat Sasman, Jamilah Samsuri, Kasmiah
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1198 15 FRIDAY 10.00 A.M. Open 10.03 CARTOON FAVOURITES 10.30 HOLIDAY MATINEE: Atlanta th« Lost Continent (1961 George Pal). A young fisherman rescues a girl whom he finds adrift in the sea. When he learns that she is the daughter of the King of Atlantis, he undertakes a perilous journey to get
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    • 368 16 BUZZ OFF R.D.LAING Do You Love Me by R.D. Laing, an entertainment in conversation and verse is an astonishing, funny, savage and entertaining book. It explores all the resonances of that painful question 'Do you really love me?'. A wise and witty book. From Penguin naturally. Other books published by
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    • 58 16 YIPS weuu fJOT REAUL> WHAT S "THAT.. NOUfOUUD BCDV DOMJO AT 7*€ KEY CLUB? mm m d m m EH ft 1? sai V K n 8 y>v »r i i i I a I l\: ftf i s& f \Sl Z*. Si 9 the-O'iy: supposition which has scientific basis,
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    • 150 17 / 18 ■P f 81 P >»! r Li W«M tP <*2 '4? jr I*9 V ojse- «:4 I i K: I I I PRC L- PRC a: PROTEST/ THIS IS PUBLIC PROPERTY. MA-wA s m rs K m r I y/ 5V •Ji I 7T5 < W i H Jl' *Ri'
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    • 95 17 / 18 B^j f L. r oO o YEAH... WHAT'S /THAT OLD GUV r DUNNO, BUT ANVBODVD CO THAT OUOHTA HAVE HIS NOSE POKED/ C'MON.' J[ HEX DNXI SEE WIJAT /THAT OLD GUV /CHUNKIN' ROCKSAT TH' BROAD POR 7 nib a ii K w. S m HI O vcfe 0 3S /F551
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 314 19 WHAT A PRIZE TO TAKE _BRCK TO ENGLRND WFWi i' rva to r fe i !»."> k t i i! s 2 1 4i» tV? HRVE NO SAY IN THIS, SENORES? MV UNCLE IS SPRNISH AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OP YOUR QUEEN I WILL GO TO ENGLAND WITH YOU/ v_
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  • 552 20 HUMOUR with Jkj^b r\VER lunch the other week I learned of the death of a friend. I was at first shocked, and then remorseful. 1 had not known he had terminal cancer. The last time we spoke he had Insisted on
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  • 216 20 OH Hie Record by CRT pLUOGINO begins at home, says the band's slde-percus-slonlst who is also this columnist. One more turn, so, for the Harmonica Ensemble of the SAF Re- servists' Association. The heels of over SO pairs of regulation, suede,
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  • 178 20 Hundreds of snow-ball-throwing demonstrators routed a band of jack-booted American Nazis in St Louis, USA, last week, according to a Beater report In Monday's Straits Times. Heil. heil then came the snow. RTS, In line with the polley of encouraging the use of Mandarin, is phasing out dialects
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  • 1064 21  -  llmiUm By Hans Ossen r*EB 15, 1977, Kathmandu, Nepal. We make preparations for a 21-day trek to Gosalkunda, a holy lake 4900 metres up In the middle of the Himalaya mountains. Our starting point is Trlsolis. in a valley 300 metres up. My brother Frank and
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  • 425 21 Here it is, folks —all the news you missed A FEW weeks now in London and I'm still bowled over by the number of sources available here for news and information useful and otherwise. There are more than 1000 newspapers and magazines, several radio and television networks and they even
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    • 144 21 Do you have a travel tale to tell? Here's a chance to tell it. And to a much wider audience than you'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
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  • 482 22  -  BIG GREEN By Tan Bah Bah rNBRTO (coming to Orchard) Ls too many films' In one. In the end, It ls, perhaps, neither here nor there, only 1} hours of a poorly developed embryo ol an Idea. It wants to be
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  • 510 22 WITH her tousled hair, round shoulders and boots pointing forward Caroline Kennedy is something of an ugly duckling among the long necks of the Royal Ballet School in London where backs are baton straight and feet stand still at quarter to
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  • 701 22 r<AN you hear a pin drop in the next room, hear a dog barking a kilometre away, and take in all of the estimated 18 million words with which we are all bombarded every year? If so, researchers at the Chlcaeo University
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  • 706 23 The Book Pase t Peter Grosvenor interviews the author of Swarm and Orca Daily Express rpHESE film people will go to axiy lengths to get tne right result. For his £7 million disaster eptc Bwarm, about au Invasion ol giant killer beet, proaucer lrwln
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  • 292 23 rkRIVING through deserted farm country a few kilometre? from Fort Olmstead, you suddenly came upon an army truck that had crashed into a tree beside the road. As you stopped your car, a jeep came Irom the opposite direction carrying two officers and two sergeants all
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  • 401 23  -  ALLIES OF A KIND. By Christop her Thorne. H a m i s h Hamilton. 1978. 772 pp. £15. By Alex Josey pROM all accounts, the AmericanBritish alliance against Japan, was a curious one. It was Ul-balanced. Any alliance of two powers at
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  • 269 23  -  MOONCRANKER'S CIFT. By Barry Unsworth. Penguin. 1977. 272 pp. 90p. By Sarojini Kumarasamy IT IS the thought, 1 not the gift, that counts. Or Is it? Mooncranker's gift was inspired by malevolence. Mooncr anker bough t some sausage meat and shaped it into a human efflgy. He
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  • Sports Nation starts from this page
    • 404 26  -  SQUASH Peter Lo THE third East Asia squash championship starts this Thursday at the SSC's Squash and Tennis Centre at Kallang. This Is certainly the biggest event the sSRA have ever organised and all enthusiasts should take note of tne programme, which promises three exciting matches
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    • 356 27 INSIDE TRACK IT WAS clear to soccer fans after the national team's 2-1 defeat by the touring Japanese university side last Tuesday that the team are short on capable reserve players. That Is, however, not the big problem. The problem Is that the FAS showed
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    • 298 27 WORLD SOCCER Holland, one of the fancied teams for the World Cup final rounds In Argentina, are worried that their players may be targets of extremists. The Dutch, with a history of problem with Moluccan guerillas, sought armed protection from their foreign secretary In
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    • 182 27 For the EXPATS UPI AP UOUR players fouled r out, 92 free throws were taken, referees Lee Jones and Dick Bavetta called 06 personal fouls and seven technicals, a fight between Bob Lanier and Bernard King spilled over Into the stands. It was a wild day
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    • 108 27 OZ EK I (champion) Aaahlkunl suffered his first defeat against three wins and Jesse Kuhaulua (Takamlyama) of Hawaii scored his second victory against two losses on the fourth day of the 15-day spring sumo tournament In Osaka last Wednesday. Asahlkunl, No. 3 Maegashlra Kotokaxe and No. 4
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    • 100 27 AP BUFFALO'S French connection has not been completely restored but it connected often enough to destroy the Chicago Black Hawks last Sunday night. Oil Perreault and Rick* Martin, back on the same line after a month's separation, picked up four points apiece to pace the Sabres to
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    • 312 27  -  GOLF Ernest Frida J A P A N's second- rate golfers have always done well In the Singapore Open golf championship. For some reason or other, the established stars have failed to play to expectations In the last few Opens. Can we look forward
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    • 344 28  -  Joyce Tan pUNOGUL took a big step towards their aim of winning Inter constituency honours this year when they won lntrazone 5 netball final last weekend, beating favourites Ang Mo Klo 33-29. The youthful Punggul team had evsry reason to feel elated alter the
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    • 590 29  -  TENNIS TALK Alfred Tong XTOT surprisingly, Lee Wal Chlng has been named Player of the Year (1977) by the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaysia. Wai Ching, who is studying business administration at the University of Washington. last year won the Malaysian national clay
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    • 299 29  -  Lim Kok Ann THE diagrammed position was recorded in the game between Alistair Chew of Anglo-Chinese Primary School and Ong Yew Chiang of Cantonment Primary School in the primary boys championship during the Junior chess tournament that ended yesterday. Black's last move, 17
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    • 83 29  -  The Teaching Pro By Don J. Leary 1977 Los Angelos Times M« 0* Uncart Imc*. C& 1. It's a common error to face the net when hitting a forehand. 2. This player has correctly turned his left hip and shoulder in
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    • 1317 30 Holland will miss Cruyff says Hugh Mcllvanney BRITAIN'S TOP SPORTSWRITER Observer IN TEAM games the 1 greatest p 1 a y ers nourish those around them with the strength of their natures as well as their talent, and it Is leadership as much as brilliance that
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    • 808 30  -  By Brian Glanville IPS YOUNGER and younger grow today 's international teama, yet the 1978 World Cup next June In Argentina will still have its complement of distinguished veterans, players whose experience may bo. decisive; pr o v 1 ded that their legs and
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    • 1587 31 Eric Batty's World Cup Spotlight pOR 50 years Aus- tria were regarded as the leaders of football In continental Europe, a position they reached through the work of a handful of eager officials from Viennese clubs who Imported a British coach, the
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    • 196 32  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh THE Basketball AssociaA tlon of Singapore have rejected offers from two foreign teams a South Korean women's team and the Australian men's team to play here. The reason given by the BAS management committee was "lack of facilities" a flimsy excuse,
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    • 830 32 Queen sland Jockey Doug Messlngham scored his first win on the local turf when he rode TEMPLATE to victory In Race 1 at Buklt Tlmah yesterday. The four-year-old by Ninth Music who was second last for most of the way, came with a strong run
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    • 399 32  -  HOCKEY Brian Miller SINGAPORE Armed Forces look set to score their first success of the new season when they compete In the forthcoming Singapore Hockey Asso c i a tlon's Under-23- tournament next month. Looking at the players they have registered with the tournament committee, the soldiers
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    • 297 33 By Scrutineer OUZANNA (late SeaP food), carrying bottom weight of 50.5 kg, has a superb chance of chalking up another win in the 2000m for a mixr ed field of Class 4 stayers (Race 6) at Bukit Timah today. The Serenader flve-year-old gelding won going
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      • 178 34 AP SOME 1,000 soccer fans rioted In Kuala Trengganu, smashed several police cars and other vehicles and burned an empty bus In a three-hour rampage, police reported yesterday. A police spokesman said at least 30 persons were arrested in the flare-up around the stadium following the game
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      • 91 34 UPI THE United States took a commanding 2-0 lead over South Alrlcft In Davis Cud competition on Friday night with Vitas Oerulaltls and Harold Solomon each overcoming *lr«t set Jitters to win the opening singles matches. Oerulaltls, fighting off pre-match nervousness caused by political demonstrations,
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      • 64 34 Reuter RODRIQO VALDEZ of Colombia will defend his world middle weight, boxing title against Hugo Corro of Argentina in San Remo. Italy, on April 22. Italian promoter Rodolfo sabbatlnl said on Friday. It will be Valdez's first defence of the title he won by beating co-chal*
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      • 38 34 AFP FORTY-THREE yachts of sizes ranging from 24 metres down to 9 metres will race across the South China Sea to Manila, in the ninth China Sea race starting in Hong Kong today.
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