New Nation, 7 April 1978

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    21 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Friday, April 7, 1978 No. 2227 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 216/1/78 j NEW fcj) NATION COMMENT fa,■aaaad
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    Don't use social pressure
    422 1 Viewers' reaction to bilingualism discussion some say... By New Nation reporters Parents and academicians contacted by New Nation said the Prime Minister had presented a "clear and realistic" picture of the bllingualism problem In schools during the twohour TV discussion last night. They agreed that Mr.
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    Lock icon 'Radiation from TV'
    124 1 Reuter Washington, Friday Americans are being exposed to potentially harmful radiation from microwave ovens, TV and radio aerials, according to a government report published here yesterday. The General Accounting Office said the radiation known as nonlonlslng radiation was causing concern among government officials. It aid exposure to
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    Lock icon N-bomb postponed
    31 1 AP Washington. Friday President Carter has decided to postpone but not cancel—production of the controversial neutron bomb, U8 officials said yesterday. The decision will be conveyed to Nato today.—
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    Man on drug charge dies
    73 1 A man, believed to be a drug addict, died in hospital yesterday—the day he was to be charged with a drug offence. He has been identified as Wui Hlok Chuan, 31, who was arrested by Orchard Road police on April 4 for allegedly having 77
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    Lock icon Kidnap suspect detained
    86 1 Italian police yesterday scored a btf BDceess when they arrested this woman who they said resembles the lone female commando In the Bed Brigades squad that kidnapped former Premier Moro. Police said Flora Pirrl Ardlssone, U, was seised outside Naples along with three men in a major
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    Easy does it for this skater
    284 2 Soaring through the air with lubricated ease Is Lee Tucker, 17, captain of the Silver Skateboarding Team. The seven members of the team, all from the American School, gave a demonstration of their skills at the Kim Keat community centre last night. They Jumped
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    Why they go for HUDC
    160 2 The Housing and Urban Development Company is conducting a survey to gauge the housing needs of its applicants. The random survey covers selected applicants on the waiting list as well as those who were allocated low-rise houses at Paslr Rls Beach Park. The results are
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    Stock market
    158 2 Share prices opened on a steady note during the lirst 4.» minutes of fairly active trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. St. Steamship advanced six cents to $2.97 on the strength of its one for four scrip issue. BUSINESS DONE: First Section St. Steamship (8) 2.94
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    Moneywords
    23 2 Entries for New Nation Moneywords contest will be accepted at Times Orchard Centre, mezzanine floor, Lucky Plaza, Orchard Road, from April 15.
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    Company starts survey to find answers
    137 2 THE applicant needs larger accommodation and is unable to change to a bigger HOB flat as family Income has* already exceeded $1500 a month; or of other reasons, Applicants not staying in HDB estates are also asked why they want to change to a
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    Two lead in chess
    55 2 Llm Seng Hoo and Chan Peng Kong shared the lead in the natlonl chess championship after the 3rd round played on Wednesday. The leaders have three points each and are followed by Oey Liang Hlen, Koh Nai Huat. Dennis Tan, Quek Suan Fuan and Teo Kok
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    The SBS Bill
    73 2 Two bills will be read In Parliament this afternoon to pave the way for the Singapore Bus Service to go public. The Labour Minister, Mr Ong Pang Boon is scheduled to move the second reading of the Central Provident Fund (Amendment) Bill. The other, the Bus Services
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      75 2 Singapore Su/eep rCKET number *****63 won the first prize of $400,000 In the Singapore Sweep (No. 4/78) drawn yesterday. The second prize of $150,000 went to ticket number *****89. The third prize of $75,000 went to ticket number *****18. JACKPOT NUMBERS (each $10,000) *****96 *****93 *****73 *****70 *****64 LUCKY NUMBERS
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    Case takes cinema operators to task
    665 3  -  By Rav Dhaliwal The Consumers' Association of Singapore has protested against the impending price increase in cinema tickets, describing it as "an excuse" by the cinema operators to increase their profit. Citing figures to back up their argument, Case urged the Finance Ministry to
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    Financing seminar
    43 3 The Institute of Banking and Finance will conduct a seminar on export financing at the Shangri-La Hotel's Jurong Room on April 27 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The participation fee Is $55 and includes lunch, refreshments, seminar papers and stationery.
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    Telecoms film to mark its centenary
    183 3 Telecoms will produce a book and a documentary film tracing the history of the telephone service here In connection with Its centenary celebration next year. A Telecoms statement said It hopes to seek tha assistance of those who have some knowledge or have been
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    Columnist and dog lover Groom dies
    128 3 A dog lover and canine columnist, Mr A.J.C. Pelham Groom (above), died yesterday after a short illness. Mr Groom has been closely associated with the work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The 72-year-old retired group captain came to Singapore
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    'S'PORE MAY REJOIN WTO'
    129 3 The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board may consider re-Jolnlng the World Tourism Organisation if its request to pay the same lower fees as other Asean countries is granted. An STPB official said WTO's director general, Mr Robert Lonatl, visited Singapore last December to ask the Board to
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    Switch by Academy of Medicine
    203 3 The Academy of Medicine, Singapore, has been incorporated as a limited company under the Companies Act. This means it will not come under the Societies Act anymore. According to the scribe of the academy, Dr J.A. Tambyah, the academy bee a the a limited company
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    Avoid this junction
    43 3 The PUB will be laying a water main across the Junction of Upper Changl Road and Beaok Road tomorrow. The work Is expected to take three weeks to complete. Motorists are advised to use alternative routes to minimise traffic congestion.
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    Visit by Indian ships
    91 3 Five Indian naval ships arrived here this morning on a four-day goodwill visit. The ships, commanded by Rear Admiral 0.8. Dawson, are part of India's eastern fleet. One of the ships, the INS Hlmglrl, a Leander Class Frigate, is equipped with sophisticated systems including an antisubmarine
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      21 3 Big walk The Canberra community centre will organise- a big walk on April 23 at 8 a.m. For details, tel. *****52.
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    PM: How I set a bad example
    534 4 I started speaking Hokkien in public New Nation reporters spent the whole of last night interviewing academicians and parents on their reaction to Mr Lee Kuan Yew's television discussion on bilingualism. The interviews were conducted by Teresa Ooi, Rav Dhaliwal and Ting Hi
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    Dropping the dialects: Will it work?
    318 4 E« ANNA KWANTERRY who Is In charge of conducting the English language course for science students at the University of Singapore, said that the blllnguallsm discussion centred on the question of motivating students to learn Mandarin. It did not touch on how to promote
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    A positive approach
    523 4 Don't use social pressure MRS LENA LIM, a mother of two, one in primary five and the other in secondary one, felt that social pressure should not be used to encourage the use of Mandarin. "I feel a positive approach of encouraging the language without going so
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    Cultural values can only be fully. learnt through a written language
    823 4 DR EDDIE KUO of the University of Singapore's Sociology Department was against the move to apply social pressure to make dialects an inferior language. He felt that If the civil service were to reach out to the public, It
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    Lock icon New row over status of mysticism
    369 5 Reuter Jakarta, Friday The status of ancient mystical beliefs, which caused clashes t between the minority Muslim Party and majority factions during the recent session of the Peo p 1 e's Congress, was again a topic of public dispute last night. The new row
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    Lock icon Narita: Bid to ban demos
    135 5 UPI Tokyo, Friday—Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party yesterday said it would soon draft a Bill banning radical activities near the new Tokyo international airport at Narita following destruc tion of the airport's con trol tower by extremists late last month. The party said the legislation
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    Lock icon Kriangsak on pledge by China
    202 5 UPI Hong Kong, Friday China Is committed to making South-east Asia a "zone of peace, freedom and neutrality," Thailand's Prime Minister Kriangsak Chom a n a n said yesterday after his return from a week -long official visit to China. The Chinese, however, did not
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    Lock icon Thai PM's plan to seek pardon
    106 5 UPI Hong Kong. Friday Thailand's Prime Minister Krlangsak Chomanan promised yesterday to seek a pardon for 18 student activists on charges stemming from bloody political disturbances leading to a military coup on Oct 6, 1976. "We most allow the court to make Its decision
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    Lock icon Israel to withdraw from Lebanon in two stages
    485 6 Reuter UPI United Nations, Friday Israeli Chief of Staff Mordechal Our has presented the UN with a two-stage plan for the Initial withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, a UN spokesman said yesterday. The first withdrawal will take place on April
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    Lock icon Lift ban plea by Vance
    101 6 Reuter Washington, Friday Secretary of State Cyrus Vance yesterday made a strong appeal for lifting the three-year-old arms embargo against Turkey, saying the administration did not think Its removal should be contingent on a solution of the Cyprus dispute. Mr Vance was opening the administration's
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    Lock icon US protest to Moscow over newsmen
    156 6 Reuter Moscow. Friday The United States yesterday lodged a strong protest with the Soviet Union over a Soviet television film at the weekend which Included pictures of American newsmen In Moscow alleged to be Involved in espionage. A US Embassy spokesman said the written
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    Lock icon Soviet anti-submarine exercise
    113 6 Reuter London, Friday The Boviet navy 1* carrying out a major anti-sub-marine exercise 320 km off the West Coast of Scotland. Defence Ministry sources said yesterday. They said the ships Include the revolutionary cruiser-carrier ipev and that It was carrying Its full complement of Yak-36 Jump-Jet Aghters
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    Lock icon 'City to city' group rioting in Iran
    119 6 Reuter Teheran, Friday. Rioting and sabotage which have hit all parts of Iran including Teheran, the capital are being directed by a small group of people moving about the country, a branch of Iran's only political organisation said yesterday. At least five people
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    Lock icon Retirement
    24 6 Reuter Washington, Friday President Carter yesterday signed into law legislation preventing the forced retirement of moat people before the age or 70. Reuter.
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    Lock icon TODAY
    164 6 UPI TODAY is Friday, April 7, the 97th day of 1973 with 268 to follow. THE MOON Is in Its new phase. THERE is no morning star. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. English
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    68 6 Reuter Vienna, Friday Walter Piranty, the selfstyled Minister of Posts iff the imaginary island state of Luconia, was jailed for a year on charges of embezzlement and fraud. A Vienna court recently heard how Piranty, 52, a Viennese salesman, invented the country with three colleagues in Munich
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      299 6 Ah Fook and Mei Lin [/(/U I i ft i m 9 m 1 //< sp a Is p* m 1>V ft NS Ik V Ah Fook: What a polite salesgirl! Mei Lin: It's only because of the courtesy campaign. Ah Fook: Gadis penjual itu sungguh berbudi bahasa! Moi Lin:
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    Lock icon Leaders to meet on North- South dialogue
    165 7 Leaders to meet on NorthSouth dialogue Reuter Kingston, Friday Heads of government from Latin America, Europe and North America will meet in Jamaica in June to discuss the stalemate in the "NorthSouth dialogue" on economic relations between rich and poor nations. A statement from the office of Prime Minister Michael
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    Lock icon Sonoda wants to visit Asean
    87 7 Reuter Tokyo, Friday Japanese Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda said yesterday he hoped to visit Australia, member countries of Asean and African countries later this year. Mr Sonoda expressed the hope when he had talks on foreign affairs with leaders of the private Japan Foreign Trade
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    Lock icon Addis Ababa may break ties
    368 7 ...with US, Britain, Germany—radio UPI Nairobi, Friday Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam returned yesterday from a secret trip to Moscow and high level talks with Kremlin leaders as his country indicated it may break diplomatic relations with the United States, Britain and West Germany because
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    Lock icon Appear in person order to Indira
    177 7 UPI New Delhi, Friday A magistrate's court yesterday ordered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to appear personally to answer charges in a contempt case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate PJC. Jain set April 18 for her personal appearance before him. Mrs Oandhl was not present in
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    Lock icon Beverley is Miss England
    52 7 London, Friday—Beverley Isherwoou holds on to her crown and trophy after being elected Miss England 1978 at the Lyceum Ballrot-jn on Wednesday night. Miss Isherwood will represent England In the Miss United Kingdom contest to pick the winner for the Miss World contest. AP radio AP
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    Lock icon India to study 'urine cures'
    134 7 UPI New Delhi, Friday—A government research Institute Is investigating the effectiveness of urine therapy for curing a variety of aliments, Health Minister Raj Naraln said yesterday. Mr Naraln said the Central Council Research in Indian Medicines and Homeopathy had asked the pharmacology unit of a
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    Lock icon Ceausescu to meet Carter an Korea plan
    223 7 UPI Tokyo, Friday North Korea s Ideas on a peace treaty to settle the *****3 Korean war will be laid before President Carter next week by Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, a well informed North Korean source in Tokyo said yesterday. They Include a
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    Lock icon Entry plan rejected
    50 7 Reuter London, Friday The Labour government yesterday rejected an allpartv committee's proposals for tighter curbs be no further Immigrate Britain. During angry exchanges in the House of Commons yesterday Home Secretary Merlyn Rees said there would anyway be no further Immigration to Britain in the foreseeable future.—Reu-
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    Lock icon Fraser sets up Third World body
    135 7 UPI Canberra, Friday A special committee has been established to advice the Australian government on relations with Third World Nations, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said here yesterday. Mr Fraser said membership of the committee Included academics, businessmen, trade union leaders and plibllc servants. The
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    Lock icon Walkout
    34 7 AFP Tel Aviv, Friday A walk-out oy 00,000 teachers, from kindergarten to secondary level, kept an estimated one million pupils away from school yesterday as a series of strikes continued In Israel. AFP.
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    The ideal and the reality . . .
    371 8 The ideal and the reality Singapore's guest workers are once again in the news. Last week, the Selangor Graduates Society's scathing but mainly misleading "study" of the conditions of Malaysian workers in Singapore drew predictable responses from this side of the Causeway. Yesterday's New Nation report of the government's decision
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
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      Tales of fortune
      67 8 A colleague received a chain letter with a difference. This one, vfhich offers "good luck", liberally drops quite a few well-known names from these parts both dead and alive includ- ing politicians, titled businessmen and millionaires. and a Hong Kong movie tycoon. It'll be interesting to know
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      Before the end
      34 8 A colleague visited a friend In hospital. The girl In the next bed was in coma. Asked the colleague: "What is a coma?" Quipped his friend. "II comes before a fuilstop."
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    Lock icon Bandung after the storm...
    868 8 Students to launch threepoint plan of action NYT Bandung (Indonesia): With its 24 institutions of higher learning, this city 176 km east of Jakarta Is Indonesia's principal academic centre. To hear the government of President Suharto and its supporters tell it, Bandung is also the principal
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    Lock icon High blood pressure—the strange medical beast
    457 8 High blood pressure —the strange medical beast Reuter Geneva: "It Is a shame that high blood pressure doesn't hurt, at least a little bit," said Professor Franz Gross of West Germany. Prof Gross, a member of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) expert committee on hypertension high blood pressure's medical name
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    TING HI KENG looks at Islamic calligraphy
    293 9 With a deft hand that comes from years of practice and experience, Encik Ustad Tlrmizi bin Ha j i Ehsan darkens a curve, accentuates another and a work of art is about to be created. Though it may not be as grandiose or
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    Lock icon MOVE TO 'CATCH' A QUAKE
    499 9 UPI Austin (Texas), Friday University of Texas scientists, using space technology to forecast disasters on earth, predict a massive earthquake will occur soon in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico and plan to be there to record it. But researchers expect the quake to
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    Where religion plays key role
    426 9 Questions as to how far the work Is understandable, and how far the person looking at It Is literate, would be considered "irrelevant to the validity and efficacy of the sacrament." Carved on walls or tombs, wovin in carpets or mounted on a frame, the
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      Gag on free speech just an excuse
      733 10 / 11  -  The Arts bv Violet Oon "The suppression of free speech has become a crutch (or writers who use It as an excuse for being mentally lazy," asserted leading Filipino write/ Celso Al. Carunungan, 55. He was in Singapore recently after receiving the Australian
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      Standard of plays pleases judges
      418 10 / 11  -  By Margaret Chan The Ministry of Culture's playwriting competition which closed in January this year received 173 entries. Deputy Director of Culture Lee Soon Hock was satisfied with the response. He said anything more than iOO would spell success, even though their poetry writing contest
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      Bah Koot Teh shop serves good oyster omelette
      631 10 / 11  -  Eating Out l»v Violet Oon It started off as a Bah Koot Teh shop but now it also specialises in Teochew dishes and seafood. I'm speaking of course of the canteen at Tan Boon Liat Building, Outram Road, called Singapore Bah Koot
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      Board Soul Train for Special ride
      461 10 / 11  -  Sundown scene by Richard Lim Soul Train rumbled into town last week. And it carried Something Special a dance group made up of three guys and two girls. How special? I went to the Kasbah to find out. The opening number was 2001. After
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    Lock icon The new airport brings good luck to some
    363 12 NYT Narita: For more years than anyone can remember, the 1038-year-old Narlta san Buddhist temple here has done a brisk business selling good luck charms. Now, Lady Luck has smiled on the rural temple Itself and helped create a whole new business:
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    Narita police get okay to use guns
    659 12  -  From Swadesh De Roy our Tokyo correspondent Japanese antigovernment radicals menacing the security of Tokyo's new airport at Narita will in their next attack And the police a tough bunch to deal with. Following the March 26 attack on the airport's control tower,
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    Lock icon HOW TO SPOT A MURDERER
    417 12 Psychiatrist gives tips on the make-up of a potential killer Los Angeles Times San Francisco: A C a 11 f or nian psychiatrist who has studied the social and psychological makeup of, young murderers has told doctors how to spot patients who may be at
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    Lock icon Money Market
    183 13 UPI AFP London, Friday The US dollar Slipped yesterday in lacklustre trading on nearly all European money markets. Only tha pound suffered tractionally against tne dollar, opening and closing ai U551.8740 compared to Wednesdays closing U551.8745. The dollar closed down against all other major European currencies. Oold closed
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    Lock icon Move for wider currency grouping
    258 13 Business News and Views Reuter UPI Copenhagen, Friday Common Market leaders will discuss forming a wider currency grouping than the existing European Joint float at their summit meeting opening here today, Danish Prime Minister Anker Joergensen said yesterday. Recent upheavals on foreign exchange markets resulting
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    Lock icon $2.2 mil. loss by Manila offshore bank system
    183 13 Reuter Manila, Friday—The Philippines new offshore banking system registered a net loss of US$l million (2.2 million) In the first six months of Its operations ending last Dec 31 mainly because of Initial expenses, according to the latest annual report of the
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    Economic briefs
    301 13 JAKARTA: Indonesia and Kuwait have In principle agreed to Indonesia's need for a kerosene and d 1 e a e 1 oil refinery on the Island of Batam near Singapore to reduce or eliminate Imports, the presidentdirector of the state oil company Pertapilna, Mr Piet Haryono, yesterday said.
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      NEW YORK
      243 13 Stocks registered their third consecutive advance yesterday despite profit taking and a gloomy inflation appraisal. Trading was heavy. 1n d 1 eating institutional investors were active. The government sparked some buying when it reported March finishedgoods wholesale prices rose a less-than-expect-ed 0.6 per cent, down from February's 1.1
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      35 13 UPI New York, Friday Dow,, Jones cloning averages on the NYSE yesterday: 30 industrials 763.95 (up 0.87); 20 transport 206.80 (up 0.50); 15 utilities 105*5 (up 0.24); 65 stocks 2t>8.03 (up 0.48). UPI.
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      169 13 AFP Share prices took a substantial setback on the Tokyo stock market yesterday, snapping a strong two-session climb that had taken the Dow Jones average to an alltime high. Profit-taking pressure sent the Dow, a 48.16yen gainer on Wednesday, 29.65 yen lower to 5498 25 yen. The wider-based index
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      PARIS
      70 13 Closing prices on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Paribas 190.60 unch. Fonder 333 unch Pt in temps 70 +3.40 Bull 34.95 .55 Royal Dutch 268 Mlchelin 1380 40 COE 366 4- 6 Thomson 199 8 CFP 119.90 1.50 Rhone 73.60 1.70 Air 294 80 4.80 B8N 435.60 10.60 Philips 54.80
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      Lock icon ZURICH
      82 13 Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich Closing prices i Stock Exchange UBS B. on the Zurich yesterday: 31&6 —30 UBS R. 613 a SBC 365 I Credit Suisse 23SS —10 Swissair B. 813 3 Swiss Relnsur. 2890 s Winterthur B. 2030 Zurich Insui 8750 Juvena B. 185 Nestle B. 3300
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      SYDNEY
      97 13 Prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange: ACI 165 167 ADC 15 25 Ampol Pet 76 77 ANi 133 140 APM 122 125 Bank NOW 526 Brambles 171 173 BHP 616 620 Boral 220 230 CBA 233 235 C8R 270 274 Ooal'Allied 382 348
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    Lock icon Act now to fight inflation, US told
    235 13 UPI Washington, Friday Unless corrective actions are taken, the nation's lnilatlon rate will remain "hopelessly stuck" at current high levels, the Council on Wage and Stability said yesterday. 'The risks of higher future inflation are far greater than the possibility of deceleration," the
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    Lock icon Airbuses buy $1.7 bil airbuses
    122 13 Reuter New York, Friday Eastern Airlines yesterday signed an agreement with a three-nation European consortium to purchase a fleet of 23 Airbus Jetliners at a cost of U***** million (about ***** million) the largest foreign aircraft sale ever In the United States. Industry analysts called
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    Lock icon BIG DIP IN U.S. CONSUMER INDEX
    117 13 Reuter New York, Friday—The nation's Inflationary woes, a chief concern of the Carter administration, sent consumer confidence lower In March, according to a surrey released yesterday by the Conference Board, a private economic research organisation. The board's consumer confidence Index 1 nMarch dropped aev
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    55 14 PELHAM GROOM GROUP CAPT. ARTHUR JOHN CLINTON El), dearly loved father of rbte, on 6.4.78. Service on Saturday 8.4.78 at Mt. Vernon Crematorium Chapel at 10.30 a.m. No flowers pleaae. Donations to SPCA- Boarding Kennels. 238 West Coast Road, S pore 5. Sadly missed by Barbie, James and all friends,
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      Haroon, Javid join Packer
      95 14 j^^jCricket Lahore, Friday Javid Mlandad and Haroon RaBh 1 d, two of the strongest batsmen In Pakistan's team to tour England this summer, have signed contracts to Join Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency reported yesterday. The agency said
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      Brazil favourites
      56 14 London, Friday British bookmakers yesterday made Brazil a clear favourite to win the World Cup soccer for the first time following their 1-0 defeat of West Germany in Hamburg. Brazil were quoted at 7-2, while West Germany slipped to 4-1* Both teams had been cofavourites at 4-1 to
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      S'pore in
      28 14 PENANG, Friday Six countries The Philippines, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and the United States will participate In the Penang Open tennis championships on April 21-23.
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      Lock icon Jahan no match for Hunt
      313 14 ?5^Squash AFP Reuter London, Friday World champion Geoff Hunt moved decisively into the finals of the British Open squash championships last night by beating H1 dd y Jahan of Pakistan 9-4, 9-1, 9-3 in a onesided semi-final. The four times titleholder was brilliant and Rave
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      ACS on rampage again
      174 15  -  ...FOLLOWING THE SENIORS' FOOTSTEPS PCS Rugby C AROUND THE SCHOOLS By SURESH NAIR Anglo-C h l n e s e chalked up yet another mammoth score when their Lower Secondary XV thrashed Siglap Secondary 72-0 In the National Schools rugby tournament lit Winstedt Road yesterday. Three
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      CJC lift their hopes
      345 15  -  H Tennis By KOH SWEE HUA Defending champions Catholic Junior College look confident of retaining the girl's Post Secondary school tennis title when they easily defeated fancied Singapore Technical Institute 4-1 at Farrer park yesterday. CJCs first singles. Christine Chin, defeated STl's hard-hitting Leong Wal Shlong
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      Lock icon Naval Base cause big upset
      283 15  -  By P. BALA Up and coming Naval Base Secondary caused a major upset when they beat defending champions St. Joseph's Institution 1-0 in the National Schools Secondary boys hockey championship a t Dunearn Road yesterday. NBS would have won by 2 -0, but a penalty
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      Basketball finals
      37 15 The finals of the Schools National basketball championships will be held on April 14 at the Oay World Stadium, starting at 2 p.m. Mr Ho Kah Leong, MP for Jurong, will give away the prizes.
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      Zainal stars in SNU win
      331 15  -  SJI keep pace with 2-0 win KJ Soccer By PHILIP TAN Sang Nlla Utama and St. Joseph's Institution, the two fancied teams in this season's National Secondary Division soccer tournament, scored impressive victories in yesterday's third round matches. Sang Nlla edged Upper Serangoon Technical 1-0
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      Incentive awards at All-Comers meet
      72 15 The Singapore Amateur Athletics Association will hold their second All-Comers track and field championships at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre on Sunday, starting at 2 p.m. 4 All athletes wishing to take part are requested to book in by 1.30 p.m. Incentive awards will be
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      Top -form Bang Bang is fancied
      428 16  -  RACING with Brian Miller Bang Ban® (late Tricky Treasure), who scored a splendid win on this course in January, is back at his best and will take some beating when he goes over 1250 m in Race 2 at Ipoh tomorrow. This bay Malaysian
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      IPOH PRO-AM CARD
      1153 16 2.0 MARA CLASS 5 400 m ■aUkEJB (Catchwalghta 76 kg) 1 1498 Little Arab (Iskandar PC) 1.5 kg penalty Lau 1 f 8742 Macca (Iskandar PC) 1.5 kg penalty Woodworth 4 8 8960 Clneb (Selangor PRC) Ourran 8 4 0905 Kambati (Selangor PRC) Nairln 8 8 7796
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      Lock icon Progress looks hard to beat
      292 16 By FAIRWAY Ipoh, Friday Progress llate Talented) will be hard to beat in the Class 5, Division I—losom race on Sunday. With Mlcnael Ho flve-year-old was hard astride, the Hametus held to beat Tlkku (Abdul Rahman) in a 600 m trial In 39.6 here this
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      Rag Trade destroyed
      60 16 London, Friday Rai Trade, winner- of the Aintree Grand National in 1970 and favourite for the race last Saturday, has been destroyed, his owner Pierre Raymond said. Rag Trade palled ap lame in the race won by Lucius. Raymond said, "It was considered a humane act to
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      Lock icon Schlee leads by 2 shots
      598 17 Favourite Nicklaus in a bunch on 72 Reuter Augusta (Georgia), Friday John Schlee birdied four holes in a row over the dlfflcult back nine at the Augusta National Course yesterday to seize a two-stroke lead In the first round of the Masters golf tournament. Schlee
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      Lock icon S'pore trio six behind
      228 17 Reuter Singapore's Lim Man Tiong, Lim Swee Chew and Poh Eng Soon were bunched with live others with a first round score of three-over-par 75 in the Taiwan Open golf championship yesterday. Together with Australian Brian Jones, Japanese Jyoji Yokoi and Shimon Takamatsu, and Americans Mike
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      WEEKEND FIXTURES
      430 17 Seletar "A" and "B" medal stroke competition tomorrow: 1.15 pjn.—John Arulsamjr (8) Raymond Liang (7) Alan Harding (11); 1.22 Joeeph Loo (13) Alan Woo (16) Y.M. Lin (IS); 1.20 N. Bamy (7) Stephen Poon (6) Jeffrey Boae (6); 1 36 Leong Who* Pheng (14) Boh Big Ban (14)
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      STRONG SICC QUARTET FOR LEAGUE
      914 17  -  TEE-UP u/ith Lim Kee Chan The Singapore Golf Association Premier and Handicap League competitions will be back In full swing on Sunday after a 12week break—because of the Local Circuit and the Singapore Open "of the Asian tour. A maximum of two matches were played
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      Alderson wins at Tengah
      54 17 Sylvia Alderson (handicap 23) won the Tengah women's championship by 14 strokes from Ann Hadfleld (SO) when she returned a 36-hole total of 190. Sylvia shot rounds of 97 and 93 against Ann's lus and 99. Third on 221 was Jenny Bailey (30) who had rounds
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      Yeo for Moscow coaching course
      247 18  -  Swimming By PHILIP TAN The Singapore Amateur swimming Association have decided to send Yeo Wee Hong for a coaching course organised by the Olympic Solidarity committee in Moscow from May to June. The Russians, with assistance from the international Swimming Federation (Flna), have appointed nome
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      Paine: I'm still unfit
      375 18  -  Edmund will travel despite fractures f Malaysia Cup.__ By SURESH NAIR National coach Sebastian Yap will decide this evening who will don the Number One Jersey on Sunday in the decisive Cup tie against Penang at City Stadium. Among the three goalkeepers In the squad, only
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      Urging the fence sitters...
      340 18  -  (^pBadminton By BRIAN MILLER The standing committee of the Asian Badminton Confederation will be meeting in Peking next week to try and urge some indecisive members of the ABC to Join the World Badminton Federation. This was disclosed by the president of the Singapore Badminton Association.
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      Women set sights on World Cup...
      254 18  -  By SURESH NAIR The Singapore Women*' Hockey Association have set their sights on competing In the International Federation of Wo m en s* Hockey Association (IFWHA) tournament they equivalent of the men's World Cup series —in August next year in Vancouver, Canada. This will
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      334 14 SHOPS GOLDEN MILE SHOPPING CENTRE Rental: SI-SOp a l. (Inclusive o< —rvlce chargea) Unit 5170 to 5173 1176 sq.ft. Unit 5276 468 sq-.ft. Rental: 11.00 p.s.l. (Inclusive of •efvlce charge*) Unit 5212 552 sq.ft. Unit 5213 552 sq.ft. Unit 5267 4K> sq.ft. Unit 5259 348 sq.ft. For derails, call: MISS
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      353 14 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you have a restless nature, but dedicated to Intellectual and emotional growth, so that you can subdue your restlessness for the sake of your development. You take all the time you need to study, but you insist on having time
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      101 15 LACOSTE "78 a flair for fashion in 1 sports wear In exclusive fabrics, classical cut and unvarying quality. Made for the tennis court, the golf links, for playtime X anywhere. Now accepted as the shirt to relax in, for sport, for leisure: la chemise i V Lacoste. i A complete
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      536 16 NEW NATION MONEYWORDS Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (M./Mrs./Miss) Address: N R.I.C. No: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW ■■■■BaaiCul along dotted Noes CLUES FOR GA-5 1. Something not as it should bo 2. The colour of toot 3. Machine for
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      388 19 Review Rebecca Chua reviews the Kwangtun« Youth Acrobatic Troupe now appearing at the National Theatre at 8.30 p.m. n i g h 11 y till April 15 (except for April 7, 12 and 13). One would be hard put to think of a reason for missing the
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      Brotherly love but it's pain for Starsky
      248 19 Behind the brotherly love portrayed by TV cops Starsky and Hutch, in their hit series, lurks a tension so great that It has led Paul Michael Olaser to seek the help of a psychiatrist. Olaser, who acts as hip-cop David Starsky, has revealed
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      284 19 At the cinema THfc OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT: The Uv*»s ot three characters are interwoven In the romantic melodrama. It is a story of love, revenge and power set in the early 40s in Greece, France and the US. Stars Marie-Fiance Pisier, John Beck and Susan Sarandon. Orchard: 1.30, 5.30
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      596 19 when one passenger on a luxury cruiser takes over the ship in order to hijack a passing US Treasury ship. Stars Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, David -anssen. Capitol: 1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. SEVEN DEATHS IN THE CATS EYES: A macabre thriller. The terror begins when a young girl
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      348 19 In and around town FREE FILM SHOWS screened by the PSA. Titles are La Voile (about the sailing regatta at Beg Rohn), En Attendant Le Tunnel Sous La Manche (the Dunkirk-Calais-Dover ferry), Waterway (work of the hydrographic and pilotage services in Holland), Un Jour A Rouen (activities at Rouen harbour
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      260 19 $10, $5 and $3. On till April 15. PROMOTION of French food, wine and entertainment by Singapore Hilton. Programme Includes entertainment by the Folles Montmarte, a French song and dance group, nightly at 10 p.m. at the Top of the Hilton and a crystal sculpture exhibition featuring duplications of great
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      56 19 6.00 a.m. Opening Announcements and Programme Summary 8.05 Morning Prelude 6.30 News (S) 6.40 Morning Concert: Sonata In C for Solo Violin (Bach). Kyung-Wha Chung (violin); Highlights The Merry Widow (Lehar >. June Bronhlll, Jeremy Butt, David Hughes, Ann Howard directed by Vllem Pausky 8.00 News (C) 8.10 A Decade
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    52 20 AH FOOK: There are many non-Mandarin-speaking parents who will have difficulty getting their children to speak Mandarin when they themselves don't speak the language. MEI LIN: One's never too old to learn. It may not be a bad Idea for them to learn it now, both for their
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      488 20 TV 5] mm AND RADIO SHARP c iy liniftran+plus 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by Housewives' Matinee: The Ungrateful Lover (r). Mandarin Movie. 4.25 INTERMI88ION. 6.05 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by EXERCISE WITH GLORIA. 6 30 NEW3 IN BRIEF. 6.35 THE TONY RANDALL SHOW. (See Top Shows of the Day). 7.05 IN
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      188 20 Today's top shows WHAT'S IN A PUPPET. (Ch. 8. 6 p.m. In colour). A programme designed to show children now they can make their own glove puppets out of scraps of household waste materials. Tony Randall THE TONY RANDALL SHOW: Case The Hooper Affair. (Ch. 5, 6.35 p.m. in colour).
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