New Nation, 26 March 1978

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  • 10 1 Sunday Nation MARCH 26. 1978 30 CENTS M.C.(P) NO. 217/1/79
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    • 56 1 Wanted: Super building council l Page 4 m fk < m. i i *4 v m m i« Page 10 IDomtnghinl Golden Goals of the World Cup Page 27 Gang's plan to kidnap 300 towkays Page 5 Chinese dissidents will grow more vocal Page 6 -4 v na end Page
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    • 32 1 ~v X N O: ^\()>$?,?;$!:/@@|$"_,"!=&=:\(+) The q movie projector so simple yet so marvellous I J•• A A, 1t,.. A f l,| v •Hhtf! D y~J7 K A" -*-4 f J t* L*4i
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  • 194 2 rO new shuttle bus services to the Central Business District begins tomorrow to help alleviate the current shortage of taxis. Ten 888 buses will ply two routes at 10-ml-nute Intervals from Tanjong Pa gar to the Handicraft Centre In Tomllnson Road and from the
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  • 509 2 ClA's chairman, Mr. J.Y.M. Plllay, yesterday spelt out the criteria by which the airline decides on donations to charitable, sporting and cultural groups. Speaking at the opening of the Singapore Armed Forces squash courts donated by BIA Oroup and Cycle and Carriage at
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  • 92 2 rIE Ministry of Environment has confirmed another case of cholera. He la a 71-year-old newspaper vendor living at Jalan Besar. He was admitted to Middleton Hospital on March 17 for treatment and has now recovered. Four previous victims have also been discharged. Investigations by the Ministry revealed
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  • 197 2 US PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter will have "urgent consultations" with Egyptian President Anwan Sadat, the authoritative Al Ahram newspaper said yesterday. The consultations will centre on steps to be taken In the light ol Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begins recent visit to the United States, the newspaper said.
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  • 184 2 ROV PREPARES FOR MORE TAXIS rnHE Registry of VehlX cles will Issue 0000 new taxi licences by year's end, ROV sources said yesterday. The licences to be Issued to those who pass the ROVs five-day taxi driven course Is part of the government's effort to Improve the
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  • 179 2 AP limn President Jimmy Carter's approval, the Pentagon on Friday slashed by more than half the US navy's plans for building new warships over the next five years. The new Carter administration proposal would dash the navy's hopes to enlarge Its fleet from the current 462
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 69 2 AP AMERICAN scient'st. architect and Inventor R. Buckmlnlster Fuller arrived in Bangkok to look Into the possibility of enclosing some of Thailand's most famous archaeological excavations with geodesic domes. Fuller. 83, will visit the ancient remains at Ban Chiang to determine the leaalblllty of covering some of the
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    • 75 2 Reuter UNITED States envoy Andrew Young launched a bold personal initiative to win black African support for fresh western peace moves in Rhodesia designed to stem the tide of Cuban and Soviet Involvement in southern Africa. He arrived In Dar Es Salaam from Lusaka where he has
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    • 70 2 AFP ANOTHER Vietnamese refugee boat has been sighted off the Northwest coast of Australia and is expected to arrive In Darwin early this morning. A Royal Australian Air Force plane spotted the boat yesterday about ldQ km northwest of Darwin. The boat, believed to be carrying
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    • 57 2 Reuter ERITREA'S two rival liberation grqups have agreed to Join forces to fight Ethiopia for the independence of the territory, a spokesman said today. The agreement wa* reached at talks In the Sudanese capital of Khartoum by the Eritrean People's Liberatiph Front and the Eritrean Liberation Front which
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    • 60 2 Reuter THE Philippine* has received a request from the United Nations Development programme (UNDP) for the immediate export of 200 tonnes of high-yield rice seeds to Laos, according to the agriculture department in Manila. Last year, the Philippines exported about 10,000 tonnes of rice to Vietnam
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    • 72 2 AP A FORMER confidante of the Reverend Sun Myung-moon filed a civil suit yesterday, seeking US$2 million (54.8 million) In personal damages He claims Moon's Unification Church Is a "pseudo-rellglous, racketeering" group which should be disbanded. Calling the church "anti-human, anti-social, anti-moral and antltamily", Kim Myung-see
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    • 70 2 NST THE DAP has called on the Malaysian government to abolish racial political parties In order to discourage "politics of the extreme" in the country. Its national director for rural areas, Enclk Mohamed Fadzlan bin Hajl Yahaya. said that racial political chauvinism would create ill feeling and
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    • 64 2 AP MU CHINO, deputy director of China's Hslnhua News Agency, gave a dinner party In Peking for a delegation of the Phot o g r aphlc Society of Singapore. In a dispatch from Peking, Hslnhua said the delegation which arrived in Peking after visiting Canton, Shanghai, Wuhsl
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    • 65 2 A TOP Muslim rebel leader has surrendered to the Philippine Government. it was announced yesterday. He and his followers, said to number about 12,000 men, were immediately granted amnesty. The rebel Is Abul Khayer Alonto, 32, former vice chairman of the Moro National L lb e r
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    • 66 2 AFP CHINA is preparing for war and still holds to the dream of late ChairmrfnMao Tse-tung to conquer the world, the Czech Communist Party newspaper Rude Pravo said yesterday. In a review of the recent session of the Chinese People's Assembly, the paper said the present leadership
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    • 89 2 Be the indispensable Secretary! "The secretory hos proven herself to be indespensoble and is willing to handle all kinds .of situations. 7. Mr. D.F Coonan, managing director of Coterpillor Far Eost (H.K.) at the 3rd Asian Congress of Secretaries attest (M A.)ot tne Jra Asian Conaress of been tended by
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  • 168 4 AP AMAH returned from Cuoa last week to lace an air piracy charge said life in Cuban prisons is a brutal world of beatings and violence which cost him an eye and his irlend's life. "When you are an American In Cuba, It's hell."
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  • 330 4 OINQAPORE needs a super government body to co-ordinate the activities of the various building control agencies, the Minister of State i Communications Mr Ong Teng Cheung, said last night. Such a body should have a stature and authority over and above existing bodies such as the
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  • 126 4 AFP THE Malaysian government and a syndicate of about 50 Japanese underwriters will sign an agreement lor a yendominated bond Issue of 15.000 million yen (some $156 million) In Japan this Tuesday, Dalwa Securities Co.. the syndicate leader, said yesterday. This will be the flrst
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  • 118 4 AFP A US fighter-bomber, sent to intercept two Soviet intruders last Sunday, accidentally released a missile over Alaska, an Air Force spokesman said yesterday. The plane was one of two F-4E Phantoms which scrambled from the Yukon River base of Oalena when two Soviet
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  • 140 4 AP CiHINA criticised the Soviet Union and the United States yesterday for trying to maintain control and monopoly of nuclear energy. The charge was contained In a commentary of China's Hslnhua news agency. The commentary said "the two superpowers haVe sought means to
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  • 63 4 TextilesManila acts UPI THE Philippine government has taken steps to protect Its textile Industry against any possible Imposition of countervailing duties on textile exports to the US. Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo said yesterday. The US Treasury, he said, has Initiated Investigations on whether the duties should be Imposed, following a
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  • 128 4 ALL Singapore residents will have to pay $5 for a simple filing at any government dental clinic under the revised charges for dental treatment. At present a fullpaying patient pays $13 and a part-paying patient $3. The Ministry of Health In a statement clarifying the revised dental
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  • 55 4 ALL set to be nailed to the eross...ex-con-vict Juanito Firing (top) waiting to fulfil his annual Lenten vow in San Fernando, Philippines, while a man In centurion attire holds eight-centimetre nails. Firing and another penitent, Mario Bagtas, (bottom) were nailed to the same cross one after the
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  • 57 4 Reuter CHINA has set up scientific and technical courses in Peking for the minister, vice-mi-nisters and some senior officials of the Petroleum Industry Ministry, the New China News Agency reported yesterday. The agency said they attended lectures every Monday evening to learn basic geology, petroleum exploration,
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  • 231 4 UPI LAO Foreign Minister Phoune S1 p a •euth flew out of Bangkok yesterday after a three-day official visit that continued the gradual Improvement In Lao-Thai relations but left major problems unresolved. A Joint communique issued two hours after Mr. Phoune's departure said only that steps
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  • 118 4 UPI rpHE Salyut cosmonauts X who recently set a 96-day space endurance record used water recycled from human waste, showers and perspiration, said an observer of the Russian space programme. "This Is a great weight savings for them," Air Force Capt. James E. Oberg reported at
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    • 305 4 In and around town MUSICAL CONCERT: This Thing Called The Bassoon, a combination of bassoon, piano, bass guitar and saxophone quartet performed by Patricia Ooh, Tonni Wei, Chou Hool Lean and a group of four young men who formed the first saxophone quartet in Singapore. Singapore Conference Hall, 5 p.m.
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  • 237 5 FORMER US president Gerald Ford has been depicted as a flirt who often made his wife jealous by his Interest In attractive women. Once, he even refused her request to dance with her at a White House dinner. Instead, he twirled on the
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  • 113 5 TWO major earthquakes occurred In Asia within three hours on Friday, but there have been no reports of damage or casualties. Hong Kong's Royal Observatory and the National Earthquake Information Bei-vice in Colorado said the quakes happened In the Kazakh area in the
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  • 168 5 Reuter rE US United Mine Workers Union (UMW) announced that 160,000 striking miners had voted to approve the contract proposed to end their 109-day walkout. A UMW spokesman said late on Friday night that with 87 per cent of the vote counted, 56.7 per cent
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  • 55 5 PAKISTANI Muslims found drinking alcohol could be liable to dx months imp rlsonment and a fine of US$5OO under a new prohibition ordinance published in Lahore. The rules enforce a ban on drinking introduced by former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulflkar All Bhutto at the height
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  • 196 5 Agencies TOORMER Pakistan •T Prime Minister Zulflkar All Bhutto yesterday filed an appeal with the supreme court against his death sentence for ordering a political assassination. His lawyers also filed a separate application asking for Mr Bhutto to be moved from his condemned cell In the
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  • 328 5 Brains is suspected to be Chinese national AFP A KIDNAP gang reportedly led by a Chinese national has lined up about 300 wealthy Chinese businessmen in Manila and other Philippine cities as targets for kidnapping and ransom, military sources disclosed yesterday. The kidnappers' list
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  • 199 5 UPI A BURMESE domestic airplane yesterday crashed shortly after taking off from Rangoon Airport, killing all 44 passengers and four crew-members aboard, the Japanese Foreign Ministry reported. The ministry said It was Informed by the Japanese embassy In the Burmese capital that the Hawker-Friendship
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  • 70 5 Reuter THREE gangsters involved in the kidnapping of Belgian Industrialist Baron Eduo-arde-Jean Enwaln were on the run yesterday after a gun battle on the motorway south of Paris, police said The shooting broke out on Friday night, as the gang were trying to collect a ransom.
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    • 57 5 At Shangri-La's 0) Tf WITOI m'm 1 1 DAMCE, DANCE, DANCE TO THE GREAT SOUNDS OF M A V? I. ;■> vC'l n o M 4 Mi AND MIS X-PERIMENT K X ftj m Singapore s top II ?»w inq-w ith-it band ll AISO STARRING 11 THE FABULOUS r TEEPEES!
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  • 237 6 Taxis a sense of deja vu COMMENT This being the season for proposed fare and fee Increases, taxi-drivers have now Joined In with their own plan to raise charges. They have quite unabashedly offered It as a solution to the present "shortage" of taxis In the city area during peak
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  • 953 6 You hazard your head when you criticise the govt in China. But, say experts... Los Angeles Times T ONG before the death of Mao Tse-t un g, ordinary Chinese citizens, weary of his periodic campaigns to revive their revolutionary spirit and of the austere
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    • 187 6 /o:>b rtooo TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. YESTERDAY S TRADITION. SEIKO THE QUALITY WATCH OF TODAY. Seiko started out m.ik mil watches »\ith uru ompromisini) ideals like pud*' in work manship and dedii jtion to a hn}h standard ot excellence As (ii.i t♦•<"♦<»>h t- now'ed»|e and CKpeltlSe >)reW v\t tcVl'loped .1 MIH fl)
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 352 7  -  GLORIA CHANDY WITHOUT your even realising at all, Mr. Executive, you might be slowly but surely being shown the door. There are lots of subtle signs the Big Boss could be giving which are meant to indicate that your presence and efforts are
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  • 92 7 /\NE of my colleagues, v soon to begin a twoyear posting to the United States, has Just received a letter from Twentieth Century Pox in New York What's so unusual about that? Nothing really, except that they addressed the letter to Times House, Singapore, Locked
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  • 85 7 MS GREER and her peers would clutch their heads if they heard my "ambitlonless" friend talking. Her idea of a heavy working day Is two appointments in her diary (and then, probably one of them at her beauty salon for a pedicure). That woman-on-the-go image has
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  • 157 7 f|NE out-of-town suU permarket takes the trouble to stick little price tags over every single group of merchandise on offer. Apart from the price, the brand name as well as weight of each article is stated on the tag. At the beginning I thought
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  • 171 7 THIS question is only for you guys, because I doubt If the girls will want to play. Look at the two pictures and decide (don't take too long to ponder) which you find more stimulating. If it's the money you'd plump for, you
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  • 1138 8  -  Girl Friday has a snide ring to it. But why do other jobs give no indication of sex? David Firnberg wants to find out By Sally Adams Guardian WHEN a woman con- ducts an orchestra she's a conductor, but when she conducts a bus she's
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  • 684 8 OEARCH for some sinister secret for the success of Datsun cars in Britain they sold a stunning 189 per cent more in January this year than they did in January 1977 and you have to come back to simple, oldfashioned virtues. Not for them American incentive
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  • 483 9  -  If you ask me... Employers take note. We wax and wane according to the moon, claims this week's writer By E.C. Cheng PRODUCTIVITY is Singapore's top concern today. But optimum results in any scheme can be achieved only if planners take into account the moon's effects
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  • 285 9  -  MARY LETCHMANAN (Mrs) I AM not a racist, or a Sour Grapes, but it seems to me that AnOle, (Sunday Nation March 5) appears to be either a fire-bug or a noise fanatic. I firmly believe that the traditions of the Lunar New Year
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  • 105 9  -  K.G. WE are trying ways to replace crackers with typically Chinese attractions like the Chincay procession which is confined to one hoosing estate. Nothing can replace the noise and splendour of cracker firing. Why not have firecracker displays by the People's Association, the various
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    • 49 9 IF YOU have something to say which you think our readers would like to know why not pot it -on paper and send it to us. We welcome contributors to this column. Articles can be on any subject but should preferably he opinion pieces of about 500 words each.
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    • 41 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 $60 for every article published. Address your articles to: Sunday Nation, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 9.
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    • 121 9 w -A» J*? r: He carries the American Tourister. Perhaps the most widely travelled attache. Carried around for seminars, conferences and meetings the world over by top executives and businessmen. And the reason they do so is because like them, the American Tourister stands in a class of its own.
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  • 978 10 / 11  -  BY NANCY KOH, K. K. FONG F|RUOB the crutch that cripples. About 20.000 of the population are estimated to be hooked on It. Ihe drug problem, as Mr. Chua Sian Chin, the Home Affairs and Education Minister, told Parliament last week, has been contained. The
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  • 679 10 / 11 TN .TALAN Sayang, every house has a fence 1 and gate. There is a mixture of old and new single-storey terrace houses and wooden ones on stilts. Trees grow abundantly and in spite of the hot afternoon, it Js cool and
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  • 539 10 / 11 rjVHIS Is the lower part X of Serangoon Road just after Jalan Besar. The 10-storey flats stand at right angles to each other In a square. Within the enclosure are four Singapore Sports Council cement tennis courts. In Petaln Road and the
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  • 532 10 / 11 A PREDOMINANTLY Chinese s q u a t't er settlement where wooden and zinc houses hug wall-to-wall. Ten to 20 years ago, triad societies Infested this area and there have been several reports of gangland fights, extortions and murders. A large number of houses
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  • 695 10 / 11 nnHE trill of song from cage 4 A birds, the laughter of children betting on marbles and the wall of a baby In a pram left unattended. A first impression is that this Is a good place In which to live. The surroundings are
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    • 980 12 Sunday Nation NEW SERIES: NEW I J MICKEY MOUSE f 1 CLUB on Wednesday, fl Ch. 8 at 6.20 p.m. in COLOUR Early in his career, .9 Walt Disney turned an M animated mouse into a I national hero. Disney 9 named the little imp H Mickey. Given maxi- mum
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    • 372 12 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS NEW SERIES: OVER THE RAINBOW on Ch. 8 at 9.10 p.m. in COLOUR STAR-CROSSED LOVERS IN A MESS A loves B who loves C the eternal love triangle. Disappointed, A attempts suicide. Feeling himself responsible for this, B feels obliged to marry A. But after the engagement, he
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 202 13 lop of the fine Burggraf 2849 with Electronic Signal Search is even greater now. r 1 i V k. m Graetz of West Germany offers you a colour TV set that's top of its class. With 2849, you not only get the traditional features which make Graetz so special today,
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1277 13 MONDAY 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 HALL A ILLAM (r) 3 30 Diary Of Events (T) 3.35 Afternoon Matinee: The Foxes Of Harrow, 1st of 2. (1947 John M. Stahl). Lavish but lumbering tale of philanderer breaking up his marriage to seek affluence and fame in New Orleans. Stars Rex Harrison,
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    • 142 14 I*2 m Z, Va KV-2000ES Sony's 20" (51.8 cm) New Trinitron colour tv system with 60% brighter and sharper plus instant picture make him the best colour tv system in town. 24-24-24 warranty #24 months' cover for free labour #24 months' cover for all parts •24 months' cover for the
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    • 1138 14 WEDNESDAY 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 < SAVE THE ACROPOLIS (r). On why the Acropolis the Golden Age of Pericles must be sawed for future generations. 3.30 Diary Of Events (M) 3.3S BONANZA: El J«ff« 4.25 intermission 6.05 Open 6 0S ELECTRIC COMPANY 6.30 NEWS IN RRIEF 6.35 WILD, WILD WORLD
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    • 289 15 lead the Funiand is an English language fortnightly magazine for boys and girls, carefully planned to be entertaining and Informative, to arouse curiosity and stir the imagination. Funland Vol. 2 No. 5 comes to you with super stories: Myatery o4 the Tw*ght World Korefc'i adventure wtth the Roc'i Egg Capture
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    • 966 15 FRIDAY Ce&yRSHA MxinZm Rent now and buy it later if you like it. 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: What Will She Do? (Mandarin/r) 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.0t EXERCISE WITH GLORIA 6.30 NEWS IN RRIEF 6.35 THE TONT RANDALL SHOW: Monoy n Stature. Judge Franklin's old law partner makes
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    • 376 16 GROVW 18 UP V DEAD LOSS// 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.
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    • 144 16 D D D ISN'T THAT A GOZGBOOS ZAIMOW?. 5^ m f &%OU)N and MEL CAS6ON ifc etp s 100 Hike, liWiZl v Too YeUOtf, ArtP IT'S TUe Wkttsl6 TWW **APS OF a S m u <C^A IT S TOO OAP we CAN'T ADJUST fJATueePeOM "!>|g coslneoi eooM Jrw- bmw' 90
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    • 340 17 / 18 m SUpSHOO CONSTRUCTION CO- m H THE TEDIOSITY OF IT ALL... I WAS MEANT < FOR. BETTER THINGS/ 7 MERE HE COMK...ACT k t w m I AM HARD AT WORK, NOTHING SHALL BE LEFT UNDONE/y < v I WONDER IF THIS v\ X UJM&ER MEETS OUR SPECIFICATIONS..- HMM 1
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    • 424 19 new Penguins MISHIMA fOSWDOtN COUXMg! ISI ,c ms Spring Snow: Yukio Mishima In November 1970, Yukio Mishima committted suicide. His last years were devoted to the completion of a tetralogy. The Sea of Fertility, of which Spring Snow is the first volume. It is a tragic and beautiful story of
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    • 386 19 GARTH THE OUUN DEMANDS THC presence of >ou and maria RT COURT THIS AFTERNOON YOU HAVE NO CHOICE, JOHN YOU RND VOUR SPANISH LADY MUST LERVE WITHIN THE HOUR.' SHE IS WELCOME TO MY SHARE I HOVE NO USE FOR IT NOW.' I'LL /VK?r GIVE HER UP EASILY, FRRNCIS. I'LL
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  • 754 20 HUMOUR with T HAVE somehow 1 missed my calling through the fault of stereophonic headphones. I should have become a social director instead of a Sunday columnist. Then I'd be kept in the thick of organising
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  • 192 20 .1 />»•»«■ 't,:n i> u~ (> (,'li 'It'll s an airliner "that took off from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, with 97 passengers on Mo n day returned to the airport five mlputes later with 988 passengers a baby was born on board. Jet-powered atork, that. THE general public
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    • 137 20 I'll AND All PUKES Suzuki motorbikes have carved out an enviable reputation in the highly competitive world of two-wheeled vehicles. With a complete range of motorbikes, from city runabouts to Grand Prix winners to dirt-track champions. Today, in the popular 100-125 cc class Suzuki have two class-beaters. The GPIOO and
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  • 829 21  -  By Long Thumb READING about another reader's hltch-hlklng experiences In Europe and America reminded me of my own, although I have not travelled as far afield. My hltch-hlklng adventures have been limited to the Malay Peninsula and took place nearly 10 years ago.
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  • 563 21  -  BY IVAN FERNANDEZ ANLY last week I came across a news item in a magazine about British trawlers Ashing in the North Sea which are finding it extremely lucrative selling their catch to the Russians. Even the deckhand, who
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  • 514 21  -  By Jenny Lee T»AIPING Is a famiA liar name. Many people have heard, talked and read about It. But regrettably, most tourists and travellers bypass It. This Is the town which Is noted for Its scenery and tranquillity. And It Could be due
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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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  • 620 22  -  And everything will fall out of place ASK A SILLY QUESTION: By Tan Bah Bah T NOW know how the domino principle really works. Everything will fall into place If you allow people to pursue their pet, albeit
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  • 254 23 handed oyer the Pondfleld necklace to you!" you bellowed. Nick the Nose backed against the wall of the Inspector's office. "Now wait," he begged: "It wasn't like that. See this key? It's to Joey's mailbox in the Maple Street post office." The greasy little Informer shifted
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  • 735 23  -  The Book Page THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR. By Paul Theroux. Penguin. 379 pp 1975. 95p. By Lim Pek Ha PAUL THEROUX's great railway bazaar opens on the less exotic plains of London on an ordinary afternoon. His Journey, however, will soon take us on the
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    • 336 23 Dead Man Comes Alive .y .sjr Jesus rose from the dead Unbelievable! Even His followers did not believe at first. Wed, let us see what happened. After the Sabbath, as Sunday morning was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. Suddenly there was a
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  • Sports Nation starts from this page
    • 458 24 INSIDE TRACK WITH the Malaysia Cup seml-flpals fast approaching, the Football Association of Singapore have called In Trevor Hartley to assist Sebastian Yap In shaping the National team into a championship outfit. The FAS big brass are clearly concerned over the mediocre performances of the
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    • 266 24  -  GOLF Ernest Frida JIMMY STEWART, the former Singapore amateur champion, has called for the setting up of a South- east Asian mini-circuit. He said Singapore could organise three Instead of the present eight tournaments with prize money totalling $15,000 each. Malaysia and Indonesia could hold four
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    • 229 24  -  Joyce Tan Defending champions Safsa I look all set for another good performance In the SWNA mixed-league, now in progress at the National Stadium courts. Safsa have yet to drop a point in all their matches played so far. First they had
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    • 48 24 AP CONTESTANTS from 25 nations will compete in an invitational taekwondo championship in Seoul on June 30-July 2, the Seoul-based World Taekwondo Federation announced on Friday. The championship is being staged to support World Games One, scheduled for 1982 in Toronto, Canada, the Federation said. AP.
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    • Kaleidoscope
      • 131 24 Reuter ENGLISH horse racing officials are investigating claims that races are being fixed. Lord Howard de Walden, head of the English Jockey Club, said on Wednesday there was evidence to suggest that jockeys had been corruptly collaborating with bookmakers. He added that allegations of corruption were
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      • 87 24 AP FRESHMAN Brian Goodell of UCLA ended the two-year rule of Tim Shaw in the 500-metre freestyle in the US National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I swimming and diving championships on Thursday night. In the first final of the three-day meet at the 25-metre Belmont Plaza
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      • 88 24 AP WORLD champion Barry Sheene of Britain beat America's Kenny Roberts and got his country off to a good start in the 500 cc motorcycle trans Atlantic trophy series at Brands Hatch, England, on Friday. With three races scheduled over Easter weekend to decide whether the
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      • 78 24 UPI J.M. Roberts, Nevada Athletic Commission chairman, will tj-y to block next month s scheduled fight between Joe Frazier and South African Kallie Knoetze. but will have to do so alone. Roberts a black man, opposes allowing a white fighter from South Africa to compete
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      • 54 24 Reuter THE four-man junior equestrian team from Singapore, in an impressive show at the Fourth Junior Asian Horse Trials in Manila, swept team and Individual top honours in dressage and show jumping. The organisers said Singapore's 17-y*ar-old Mohammed Moiz was the overall best rider and best
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    • 711 25  -  By Frank Keating Guardian yOU would have thought that squash on the face of it the most sinisterly cerebral of sweaty extrovert sports would have built up a heck of a good literature In Its long history. Like, say. boxing, for penpushers have served
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    • 178 25  -  HOCKEY Brian Miller Buenos aires is where the action Is now. Fourteen of the world's top hockey nations' have assembled there to battle for the World Cup hockey championship. Pakistan, Holland, India. Will one of these win the World Cup for the second time?
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    • 278 25 Fertile EXPATS AP IZAREEM ABDULJAB BAR has been having some problems lately, but you couldn't tell it from his performance against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night. He scored 31 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and blocked eight shots to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a
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    • 203 25 AP THE Toronto gang went looking for trouble last Sunday night and the big, badi Boston Bruins gave it to them. Not many folks get the best of the Bruins In a showdown these days, and although Maloney and the Toronto Maple Leafs
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    • 124 25 UPI MNNESOTA Vikings' quarterback Fran Tarkenton, the most productive passer in US National Football League history, said on Wednesday he may not return for his 17th season. Tarkenton, 38, said he has been bothered by a torn knee ligament since the 1976 playoffs and feels he no
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    • 110 25 AP VTUMBER One maegoshlra Takamlyama, Jesse Kuhaulua of Hawaii, suffered his eighth defeat against four victories, losing to a higher ranked opponent by "uwatenage" on Thursday, the 12th day of the 15-day spring grand sumo tournament. Before 7,000 spectators at the Osaka prefectural gymnasium in Osaka, western
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    • 61 25 HEATH'S Condor of Britain on Thursday beat the disqualified French Pen Dulck VI by four hours to be the first across the finish line in the Whltbread round-the-world yacht race. Heath's Condor, skippered by Robin KnoxJohnston, arrived at Portsmouth, England to a rapturous reception as the
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    • 393 25  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng THE Singapore AAA have set tough qualifying marks tor those who wish to try for a place in the Republic's team to the Asian Games in Bangkok in December. The qualifying standards are based on thirdplace mark} registered at
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    • 301 26  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh II7HAT a pity that the keenly contested veterans' final for the Sage Cup last week between Wu Yew and Sage had to be disrupted by a walkout by the Wu Yew team eight minutes before the final whistle. The walkout
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    • 517 26 A HEAT of the British Charity Challenge Cup was organised by the SCBA at the Tanglln Club on Friday, March 18. Thirty-two pairs took part and a most enjoyable evening was had by all. This annual event Is played worldwide,
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    • 549 26 UPI ALEXANDER GO--21 MELBKY watched from the press box In 1976 as the Russian basketball team recorded Its worst Olympic finish In 16 years winning a "mere" bronze medal. Gomelsky. the dean of Soviet basketball coaches, who was serving as a representative of the Tass news
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    • 508 26  -  CHESS Lim Kok Ann TAKE a deep in- terest In Junior championships because It Is from these competitions that we recruit our future national champions. The championships that were recently held at Victoria School were most promising In this regard. Mr Chan Chee Seng, the Senior
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    • Golden goals
      • 277 27 of the World Cup. This new series starts today TYENIS LAW, the former Scottish star, said after a playing spell with Torino that you need to be a wee bit mad to be a striker in Italy. That Is why he had so much admiration for
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      • 220 27 WHEN Didl, one of the most brilliant tac- tlcians to play for Brazil in two World Cups, took over as manager of Peru, he accepted the limitations of the men under his charge. As they did pot possess the sophistication of his former colleagues, he
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      • 779 27  -  By Brian Glanville IPS WHEN the New York Cosmos, having refused Franz Beckenbauer permission to play in the 1978 World Cup for West Germany, then followed up by asking Hamburg to sell the £500.000 Kevin Keegan, America's threat to the World Cup became ominously clear.
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    • 814 28  -  TENNIS TALK Alfred Tong OEHIND every successful man, It used to be said, is a woman. These days, however, a successful professional tennis player Is likely to have behind him not a woman, but another man a specialist of some sort or a mentor. Even the
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    • 84 28  -  SPIN LIKE A TOP WHEN PREPARING F BACKSWIN6 By Don J. Leary minute 1. Note how this player is directly side on to the net when the ball comes over. Left hip and shoulder are turned toward the ball. 2. This is similar to the wind up
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    • 1732 29 They have achieved nothing outside their own country Eric Batty's World Cup Spotlight TLfEXICO were one of the few countries to take part In the first World Cup In 1930, and then after missing the two competitions In Europe, re-appeared In
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    • 472 29 WORLD SOCCER KEVIN KEEGAN, regarded as an overrated and over-priced player by German fans since his transfer from Liverpool to Hamburg last season, has become the top Attraction In the German league. The new Idol of the Hamburg crowd, Keegan was having poor form, and
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    • 463 30  -  By Eric Cooper SINGAPORE will go O into the final round of the East Asian Championships today full of confidence after yesterday's 5-0 defeat of Malaysia, not having lost a match In each of x the previous rounds and In fact having conceded only
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    • 467 30  -  SQUASH Peter Lo THE stage is set for a decisive match between Singapore ana Hong Kong at 2 p.m. toaay. Decisive oecause me winners wiii take the East Asian squash team title. Much Is, therefore, at stake. Hong Kong have more player* to choose from.
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    • 1547 30 DULAU MUTIARA gave a tip top performance at Buklt Timah yesterday to win Race 6 Impressively. Well-handled by Doug Messla«ham, the four year-old by St Alphage came from mldfleld early to win drawing away by three lengthi. JUBILATION (Larry Olsen) finished second, two lengths ahead of IGLOO
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    • 454 31 Air Marshal II Raco Al Cedor Amuoomont IX I ArtMtc Adttobe 4 Anti-Corruption J Aylmec Road 4 Above AN II 2 Agitator 10 Airlock 1 AIM 1 Allaan II Arbitrator t Aspiration 2 Auaaam 1 Auric Flam II 1 Batu Karang Raco S Bayonet I Blua Star 7
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    • 139 31 By SCRUTINEER rpERELLO will be making an allout bid to gain Inclusion In next week's Singapore's Derby field. A convincing win In the Class 1 Division 2 1600m (Race 5) at Bukit Timah today should do the trick. The Copsale four-year-old won his last two
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    • 3453 31 wmm 1-30 CLA88 3, DIV 2 1600m UU ($13,000 $9,100 to winner) 1 200 Mr tbu a (Abu) Chong 4 57 (tame)1850m Otaan 4 I 0110 TMal at MMN (Jacqueline) Allan 4 M S (dd +3.5) 1200m Chaw is 418 Oatu 1
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    • 176 31 SCRUTINEER BRIAN MILLER FAIRWAY I.IAiiM I .T.TB Ian 1: Prince Melody Batu Slnal BricUc Mick The Miller Destination A lief Batu Sinai Mick The Miller Un t: NlMtar Aspiration Dark Stranger Well* Fargo Dark Stranger N loo bar Aspiration Nlcotoar Baoo S: Saaa Fte Credit Centre Saaa Fee Antl-Corruptlon
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    • 576 32  -  An even-par 71 in Round 3 puts Arda back in the running SPORTS NATION By Brian Miller BEN Arda, the "Mighty Mouse" of the Philippines, catapulted himself back Into the titlechasing hunt when he shot an even par 71 during the third round of the Singapore
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    • 512 32  -  A.T. rpWO words sum up coach Sebastian Yap's attitude and approach to Singapore's Malaysia Cup tie against Perak at Ipoh tonight: Cautious optimism. "We expect a tough game. Perak surprised us when they held us to a 2 0 margin In our first round
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    • 118 24 Diary SOCCER: Malaysia Cup (North Zone) Perak v Singapore (Ipoh, 7.30 P.m). National Oovernment Services Junior Knockout tournament finals (Jalan Besar Stadium). East Coast Marinas Seven-a-slde tournament (Mountbatten pitch, 8 a.m.). S1 ng a pore Industrial Labour Organisation Cup tournament F a r re r Park, 3 p.m.). Sldek Sanlff
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