New Nation, 16 April 1978

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    10 1 Sunday Nation APRIL 16, 1978 90 CENTS M.C.(P) NO. H7/1/7S
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      77 1 The new Story in Page 2 HK's amazing Food Street InlHEdSlh rruozinE A birth control nasal spray? Page 2 m r -l B® flfViW 51 1 s^^ 7 1 /4/ M TV m VZI s i m 'ku. a m :<ra p! What killed Adeline Ng Ai Choo? Page 8
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      10 1 Inside Track: FAS must act now against shirkers Page 25
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    Lee's 'self- caring society
    428 2 MR LEE KUAN YEW has envisioned a new "self-caring society" for Singapore in which residents of HDB flats will help one another to adjust to different ways and live harmoniously. The Prime Minister sees the People's Association (PA) through the management committees (MCs) and the new
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    Hint of priority for young couples to live near parents
    336 2 MR. Lee Kuan Yew has hinted that younger members of the family may be given priority to move to vacant flats near their parents when these become available as people move out. The Prime Minister posed this possibility In his
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    China knows S pore stand
    196 2 CHINA understands Singapore's stand that It will be the last of the Asean countries to establish diplomatic relations with her, according to the Thai Foreign Minister Dr Upadlt Pancharlyangkun. He said this message was conveyed to the Thai Prime Minister Gen Krlangsak Chomanan by the
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    Ministry's wayang draws them
    121 2 A LARGE crowd turned oat last night at the Hong Lira Park to watch the first wayang organised by the Ministry of Culture* and the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. Housewives, young and old folks, and tourists were spotted in the audience, estimated at about 600 or
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    Lock icon Birth control spray
    174 2 Reuter A NASAL spray contraceptive developed at the Indian Institute of Medical Science la to be used In experiments on women In seven countries. The World Health Organisation Is sponsoring a three-month trial the first of Its kind beginning next month on 56 women In Australia. Mexico,
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    Lock icon Police killed in ambush
    62 2 AP THE police superintendent of Trat province, three policemen and an official were killed in a daytime ambush by communist insurgents yesterday, provincial police said. A land mine exploded, overturning a pickup truck in which the five were riding. Insurgents then opened fire with automatic weapons.
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
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      Lock icon Firm control vital—Japan
      68 2 Reuter JAPANESE Government leaders said yesterday the country must establish firm control of disputed islands in the East China Sea, which were Japanese sovereign territory, according to an official spokesman In Tokyo. But an emergency meeting of Cabinet ministers and senior ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members
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      Lock icon Manila's goal
      62 2 UPI CENTRAL Bank Governor Gregorio Licaroa yesterday asserted the bank's determination to make Manila an International financial centre in the next few years. "The establishment of an olTshore banking system which was initiated last year, and the accompanying expansion of the foreign exchange deposit system, will be continued,"
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      Lock icon Bank offers China help
      58 2 UPI A LEADING Japanese commercial bank has offered a visiting Chinese trade mission technical help In computerised banking, It wu announced yesterday. A spokesman for the Fuji Bank said the offer was made on Friday when bank executives met the Chinese delegation headed by Mr Lin
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      Lock icon Brzezinski confirms it
      72 2 AFP PRESIDENT Carter's advisor for national security affairs, Mr Zblgnlew Brzezinski. has confirmed that Israel used US supplied clus t e r bombs in its invasion of Lebanon in violation of agreed restrictions. Mr Brzezinski said the State Department had expressed Its concern over the breach to
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      Lock icon Soviet 'no'
      43 2 AP THE SOVIET Union said yesterday the United States and its European allies, particularly West Germany, cannot use US President Jimmy Carter's decision to defer production of neutron weapons as a bargaining chip in negotiations on force reductions in Europe. AP.
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      Lock icon Lee arrives in Colombo
      42 2 AFP SINGAPORE'S Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his wife arrived In Colombo last night on an informal flve-day visit as guests of Brl Lanka's President J.R. Jayewardene for four days at Nuwara Eliya, the hillcountry holiday resort.—
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      12 aircraft needed
      32 2 THE US Navy needs to maintain a fleet of 12 aircraft carriers If the United States Is to maintain Its troop strength overseas, according to Defence Secretary Harold Brown.
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    Lock icon Israel softens W. Bank stand
    185 3 AFP A slight soitenlng of the Israeli position on West Bank Jordan emerged on Friday night when Foreign Minister Moshe Oayan said that key security council resolution 242 applied as much to Jordan as to Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. The resolution includes the principle of
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    Lock icon Clearing tables the jaws way
    80 3 IPS LONDON restaurant owner Yianni Geogiou has a unique way of clearing away the dishes when his customers have finished their meal. He carries away fully-laid tables—with his teeth. And sometimes he balances a few glasses on his head too. It's all part of the
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    Lock icon 261 in boat meant for 50 people
    280 3 Refugees get UN offer of temporary care Reuter THE 261 Vietnamese refugees who rushed aboard an oil supply vessel off Malaysia on Friday fled their country In a boat meant to carry no more than 50 people. This was disclosed by a Malaysian
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    Lock icon Viet proposal a trick: Cambodia
    168 3 AFP RADIO Phnom Penh yesterday called Vietnamese negotiation proposals a "trick to cover up Hanoi's expansionist policy and its Indochina Federation project." On Friday Radio Hanoi called on the Cambodian leaders to begin negotiations immediately if they truly wanted to reestablish friendly relations between the
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    Lock icon Blast in Indon mosque: Six held
    125 4 AFP AN EXPLOSION rocked the uncompleted Elstlqlal Mosque in Central Jakarta on Friday night, In what police believe Is a politically motivated move. One person was wounded but his condition was not immediately known. Several people who were inside the mosque when the blast
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    SAF officers get own estate
    224 4 rIS Is the first lowcost housing estate built by the government exclusively for BAF officers and it comes complete with some luxury features like a swimming pool, tennis and squash court*, a shopping centre, kindergarten and two multi-storey car parks. Normanton Park housing estate consisting
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    Lock icon Fire guts Indian embassy in Manila
    121 4 Reuter Afire gutted the Indian Embassy In Manila on Friday night In the latest of a rash of similar Incidents In the Philippines, the Embassy said yesterday. An Embassy spokesman said the blase destroyed many documents and dies. "Everything Is In ashes. Even the
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    Lock icon Girl burnt in sacrifice
    62 4 Reuter A THREE-YEAR-OLD tribal girl was sacrificed in a coal hearth in a village In the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Home Minister P.N. Trlpathl told the state assembly in Bhopal on Friday. He said the girl was covered with logs and set on fire
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    4c drop in sugar price
    333 4 Shop to sell fresh stocks cheaper T»HE Sugar Industry A of Singapore (SIS) yesterday announced that the factory price of sugar would be reduced to $1.14 per kg from tomorrow. The retail price would also drop correspondingly from $1.24 to $1.20 per kg, said its
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    Lock icon Sophia on art export rap
    174 4 AP Actress Sophia loren, already named as an accomplice in her husband's currency transfer case, was charged on Friday with illegally exporting art objects worth more than US$3 million ($7.2 million). Borne prosecutor Paolo DeH'anno, Investigating the financial status of= Miss Loren and her husband,
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    Lock icon Japan's trade surplus sets new record
    189 4 Reuter JAPAN'S trade surplus soared to a record US$l3 billion ($3O billion) on a customs cleared basis for the year ended last month, nearly four times the size of the fiscal 1976 figure, the Finance Ministry said in Tokyo yesterday. Exports in the year
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    Lock icon Narita raiders condemned
    113 4 UPI THREE out of every four Japanese believe a recent raid by radicals on the new Tokyo International Airport at Narlta was "too extreme" to Justify their cause, according to a newspaper survey released yesterday. The poll conducted by the Yomlurl Shlmbun, the nation's largest dally, showed
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      447 4 In and around town TALK on Interior decoration for Housing Board flats by Mr Chin Joek Poen, a People's Association instructor. Queenstown community centre, 8 p.m. Admission free. SUNDAY SCIENCE FILM SHOWS: The Ruthless One (about the destructive locust) and Food or Famine (hunger firoblem and efforts to ncrease food
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    Fast police action in new plan
    294 5 THE public can look forward to prompt police Investigations and service when two pew police divisions are set up. The plan will also provide a "tremendous psychological boost" to residents, said Supt Chua Cher Yak. O/C Traffic Police, writing in the Police Force's annual.
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    20 per cent forfeit insurance: Chok Tong
    162 5 r[E Senior Minister of State for Finance. Mr Goh Chok Tong, yesterday said the forfeiture rates for insurance policies In Singapore were unsatisfactory and Income agents should try to reduce them. High forfeitures not only meant a loss of premiums to the Insurance
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    Lock icon Elvis' ex-wife wins $2m claim
    193 5 AP PIBCILLA Presley has won her US$75O.000 ($1.7 million) claim against the estate of Elvis Presley. However, details of the agreement, reached In Memphis, Tennessee on Friday, were kept secret by probate judge Joseph Evans. Mr Beecher Smith, attorney for the estate of the late
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    Lock icon Common Fund: No go
    131 5 AFP A TWO-DAY meeting of Commonwealth ministers from 32 countries ended in London yesterday with little apparent progress on the shape of a proposed Common Fund to stabilise world commodity prices. The sticking point seemed to have been how to- finance the fund. Several developed Comm
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    Lock icon Defector 'travelling about'
    163 5 UPI FFHE lawyer for Soviet -I- diplomat Arkady Shevchenko who has refused to go home says his client Is not In hiding and Is "travelling about... enjoying the countryside." The lawyer, Ernest Gross, also said he does not know where Mr Shevchenko, the disarmament expert and highest
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    Long arm of the school
    232 6 COMMENT The disciplinary arm of the school. It was reemphaslsed last week, extends beyond Its precincts. By government order, signboards were put up reminding pupils of a three-year-old regulation that they are forbidden to enter amusement centres because parents had complained aboutchlldren playing traunt. The
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    Maths at your child's fingertips
    493 6 ASK little Almee Llberthal to add quickly 27, 18, 43 and 17 and the response is dramatic. She places her tiny hands palm down on her desk. And then she taps her fingers with the rat-a-tat rhythm of a touch typist. Almost before you can
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    How Chisanbop works
    213 6 HOW DOES It work? Each of the right hand finger* receives a value of one and the right thumb a value of five. The left hand ffcigers have a valve of ten and the left thumb is SO. You count by pressing the "one" fingers down working
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    Lock icon Sadat acts to stop trade in muck
    305 6 Gemini WOW that Egypt's President Sadat has got his Middle East peace drive underway, he Is able to devote more of his attention to pressing domestic problems. One of these is the land crisis. Egypt's economy is based on agriculture but it squanders
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      174 6 11 2205-3130 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'swatches, 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
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    Impose rules on children at cinemas
    366 7  -  GLORIA CHANDY A RECENT world- wide survey described Singaporeans as the most frequent movie-goers in the world. That makes the cinema quite a magnificent obsession with us since more populous countries like the Soviet Union and the United States took only a back seat
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    Sing a song of Sling
    148 7 WAY back In 1915, at the famous Long Bar of the Raffles Hotel, the bar captain, Mr Nglam Tong Boon, threw a generous amount of gin, some cherry brandy, a few drops of Cointreau and Benedictine orange, some pineapple and lime Juice and a dash
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    Perfume battle over Purdey
    208 7 REMEMBER I mentioned a few weeks ago that someone had gone and named a perfume "Purdey" after that Avengers girl? It was advertised as "the fragrance for women with style." Well, it's turned out that the "someone (who happens to be Carlo Dini, the manufacturer) is
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    S'pore men are desirable?
    115 7 IF THOSE numerous Taiwanese songbirds who flit Into the country every now and then are anything to go by, Singapore men can rest assured that they are charming, hand some, talented and. most of all, very sought after as husbands. At least two visiting entertainers had
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    Adeline Ng Ai Choo
    1676 8  -  Student, refused one mark more by teacher, plunges to death CATHERINE LIM is a teacher, teaching English language and English literature in a junior college in Singapore. She is married and has two children and Is in her mid-thirties. Adeline Ng A 1 Choo is one
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    First story in a series...
    45 8 THIS story is the first of a series of short stories we hope to publish, if not regularly, then off and on, by local writers. They may be published names but you are also welcome to send in your work.
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    Obscenity all around us
    447 9  -  If you ask IYIG By Goh Joo Thiam Polytechnic student AT ELY, I have been to a lot of movies. For reasons that seem to escape me, movie makers seem to indulge in a great deal of vulgarity. Why the obscene words? The guy beside me
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    Lock icon Geneva —nice view but bad outlook
    393 9 Guardian IIIGH prices, high n salaries and low esteem are pressing in on the headquarters of international bureaucracy in Geneva. At a local cafe, a small bottle of Cola costs two Swiss francs. Not bad if you're Swiss. But if you're an American or
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    Lock icon Colleagues, critics, friends and lowers...
    1676 10 / 11  -  Nancy Koh ""THERE is greater husband and wife com--1 munication in families where both parties shaie the decisions." This isn't Just a conclusion drawn by Dr. Peter Chen, head of the Sociology Department, University of Singapore in a survey on decision making patterns in the
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      827 12 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullout SURVIVORS on Ch 5 at 5.10 pm in t, ,10 or V> p -10 TODAY TV SINGAPORE 5 8 TV MALAYSIA 3 10 COLOUR 10.00 A.M. Open 10.03 CARTOON CORNER 10.25 Classic Keystone Comedy Capers 10.40 WARN A WARNI. Children's programme presented in Malay.
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      288 12 PICK OF THE WEEK t *w Frank Muir does Ogden Nash MUSIC AT HAREWOOD: Carnival of the Animals on Wednesday, Ch 5 at 7.55 pm in COLOUR. Expect a belly-ache the laughter kind. Bound to happen when two great humorists oal up. Author Frank Muir reads Ogden Nash's verses in
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      198 13 CLEAN CLEAR fePITAXIAL it the nam* of a superfine magnetic particle developed by Maxell: a needle-shaped crystal consisting of gamma-hematite and cobalt-ferrite. Both UD-XLI and U0 XUI mm the New EPITAXIAL However, in the EPITAXIAL used in the UD-XLH, a larger amount of cobalt-ferrite it used to envelope the gamma-hematile
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      747 13 MONDAY A speaker unlike any other 6.00 P.M. Open 6.03 KUM KUM 6.30 Nature's Window 6.45 NEWS (T) 7.00 THE LIVING BODY: The Intelliaent Animal 7.25 MUSICAL SHOWCASE (C/r). Singers incto 7.25 MUSICAL SHOWCASE (C/r). Singers include Wah Yee Chun, Yi Chiun, Wang Sar Lang, Teng Sok Hwa and Chao
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      924 14 WEDNESDAY F A speaker unlike any other P.M. Open I SERBANIKA (r) Diary Of Events (M) > BONANZA: The Gold Plated Rifle Intermission Open I ELECTRIC COMPANY I NEWS IN BRIEF > WILD. WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS: Bald Eagle I SAMUDRA (r) I NEWS AND NEWSREEL (M) i MUSIC AT
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      801 15 FRIDAY A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: To Attack The Beauty-Fort (Mandarin/r) 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open t.OS EXERCISE WITH GLORIA 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.3S THE TONT RANDALL SHOW: Whotovor Happened To Mary Jana? Judge Franklin's eagerness to help his loyal friend and court reporter,
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      335 16 AN EYE FOR THE DRAGON: Dennis Bloodworth South-east Asia is like a durian prickly, strange, smelly and beautiful, revolting, enchanting, an offence and an addiction. Written with a deep knowledge of this vast region, with its welter of races, religions, customs and animosities, he tells of Indonesia under Sukarno, the
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      105 16 ^><,@($\(:.!)\};[;*~"+<;*&"!;`. m m m S THE RUJ&IIO6 IS PAID FOR Etf THE COMRMUV I m n> I a i i Trn THE PHOWE COMPANY HAS LATCHED A MU-Tl-MILUOU DOLLAR CAMPAIGN TO GET PEOPLE TO AUSLUER THEIR PHCXOfS QUICKER VSEE WE PSO>/EJ2ED THAT IF EVERVOUE AKfcVUERED THEIR rWWtOWTHE FIRST RING *\r/
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      179 17 / 18 JM. I h a Sfci <:. -*r jJWfi C m^ kW O 3* Sf ;3 GAG/ /V, it T n n ijpm > T Is. m lib a >•$ HV* *1 PLAV A FEW BARS 0 YER BEST SONG FER TH' INSPECTOR/ 1 J- < 2m j»lr yJHEM njF V^'^
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      84 17 / 18 I PONT WANT TO BE P/STURBED FOR ABOUT AH HOUR L =1 r. ft) ar*/ I'LL BET H£ |5 60IH&T0 TAKE A LITTLE NAP I THINK I'LL TAKE A LITTLE PEEKt' X SABXMWWAO ABE DSTUCTD.'/ L L 1 IV 60 TO SLEEP RISHT AT M PES* TOPAV IF OLD BALD/
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      38 17 / 18 A SUV SURE CANT COMMUNE WITH NATURE WHEN HE'5 SOT A WHOLE FfcSSLE OF KIDS LOUYGAGGIN' aroundom/ r > ;v. sr^l y m* Mr ...OR WHEN VARMINTS ARE BOTHERIN' HIM EITHER, v FOR THAT MATTER s£ sr =?> ail 'k
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      243 19 GARTH i Y< THE SPHNIRRD SPOKE TOO OLIBLV. JOHN-THERE WRSRFERRS*«RT ON HIS FRCE BUT HIS EVES HOOOEP/ HE WRS WO/NO SOMETHING TOO LRTE ID MEND IT THE OONZROR BSTRTE LtE« ERST OF HERE RND WE HRVE LITTLE TIME BEFORE DRWN The Gonzaga estate... I I GO ON FOOT FROM HERE/
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    Why always kiss and then die, Jack?
    553 20 HUHOUR w.h paJJc- Jack Lord, We reporters sometimes have it tougher than your villains. Like now for Instance. Tou're In town and the editor thinks you're worth a story, fine. But friends! There's a different kettle altogether. "Hey, you going to see Steve
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    CHANDY 'S SINGAPORE
    157 20 APTOMETRISTB In now have the choice of belonging to one of the two association* recently approved by the Registrar of Societies. Eyether one, eh? A POLITICAL war Is being waged against Singapore motorists who hare been hit by draconlan measures to curtail their growth, according to the
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    Lock icon Mane-tossing Mahler
    253 20 Off the Record by CKT DOME performances spoil you utterly for other approaches. After Leonard Bernstein's mane-tosslng version of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra now reissued on Jubilee JB 13 what else nudges the soul as much? Not Walter, Soltl, Kara] an,
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      173 20 Bitingualism. The New Nation Way. You may not be effectively bilingual, but you probably know a little of a second language; a few sentences, enough to make yourself understood, but not to carry on a conversation. If you learned it in school, you may have forgotten much of it through
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    Trunk raised and ears flapping, he came charging at us
    1275 21  -  All 70 elephants formed a circle. In front of them was their huge leader housewife, as told to our reporter Terry Tan By L. Chin KENYA'S Lake Nakuru is 16 square kilometres, and stretching hs far as the eye can
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      139 21 tale to tell? Here'* 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 wTltten by our readers. It can be a travelogue type story or just a little Incident or your most unforgettable or
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    It's funny—and so are subtitles
    426 22  -  By Tan Bah Bah POLLOW THE STAR r (coming to Odeon) is comedy very a la Hong Kong. That is saying very little. Because Hong Kong is imitation Crazy Boys. It is also Sum Tim Har, Leung Seng Poh, Chan Leong Chong, Toh Ping or
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    Early Martian wallpaper, anyone?
    317 22  -  BY IVAN FERNANDEZ r"S out of this world. That boxoffice buster, Star Wars, having done very well in the US, is currently playing in London and it has rocketed itself into the public imagination in quite an unprecedented way. When It was first showing In the
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    China to be a major oil exporter?
    641 23  -  The Book Page CHINA, OIL AND ASIA: CONFLICT AHEAD? By'Selig S. Harrison. Columbr* University Press. 1977. 317pp, U5510.95. By Alex Josey TN AN oil producing sense can China "become another Saudi Arabia? According to Harrison, China has begun a drive to reach annual
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    Be your own defective
    261 23 "jV/fY PITCH last night was 1T1 beautiful," Cyril Makin, the woeful wooer, told you. "How did Trudy Shore ever see through it? "For three generations," continued Makin, "Trudy's family have been circus people doing a dog act. If you aren't a canine connoisseur with a fabulous
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    Why a teenage girl may leave home
    491 23  -  BREAKAWAY. By Angela Willans. Maurice Temple Smith, 1978. £2.65. By Suzy Menkes PAULINE'S mum and dad were distraught when she left home at 17. And no-one in Northampton could understand what had happened to the quiet, home-loving girl who helped her mum with
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    Growing old does not mean the end of the world
    479 23  -  OLD ACE. By Simone de Beauvoir. Penguin, 1977. 654 pp, £1.95. By Sarojini Kumarasamy CONTENDING that old age is no "shameful secret," de Beauvolr, writing In her early 70s, takes a sensitive and sympathetic look at the plight of the
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      Tampines beat off Plessey challenge
      322 24  -  NETBALL Joyce Tan mAMPINES CSA surX vived a strong challenge by Plessey in their crucla* match last weekend to maintain their unbeaten record In the SWNA mixed league. The Tampines team were held to a 13-13 score at half-time but surged ahead in the second
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      Lock icon Killanin to put baseball issue to IOC
      213 24 AFP CHANCES that baseball will be Included in the Olympic events brightened after a promise made by Lord Killanin, president of the International Olympic Committee, to put the issue on the lOC congress agenda. According to Mr Elichiro Yamamoto, an executive of the
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      SURPRISE FOR CANADIENS AS REGULAR SEASON ENDS
      392 25 EXPATS' CORNER IT TOOK almost all of the 720 games in the US National Hockey League's regular season to decide the important matters: What teams are going to play each other in the playoffs. No more doubt. The Montreal Canadlens, Boston Bruins, Chicago
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      Brewers unbeaten
      180 25 STANDINGS of the US major league baseball games teams a played tfter on Wednesaay. American Learue Eastern Division Milwaukee Brewers W 5 L 0 Pet. 1.000 .667 .500 .400 .200 .200 .000 Detroit Tigers 4 1 Cleveland Indians 2 2 Boston Red Sox 2 3 New York Yankees
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      Round One to Knicks
      59 25 DESULTS of games played on Wednesday In the US National Basketball Association: New York Knicks 132 Cleveland Cavaliers 114 (New York lead best of three series 1-0). Washington Capitals 103 Atlanta Hawks 94 (Washington lead best of three series 1-0). Seattle Supersonlcs 102 Los Angeles Lakers
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      The soccer shirkers: FAS must act now
      519 25 INSIDE TRACK VOW there is really cause for alarm. Only one occasion was needed to expose ouil national soccer team's lack of depth. What will It be like In the not too distant future when stalwarts like Samad Allapitchay. S. Rajagopal, Djllah Kasslm
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      Moses downs Wilson in five tough sets
      474 25  -  Peter Lo YfOSES CHEW, 17, at No. 1 for the ORA D grade team, played one of his best games so far this season when he defeated Bukom's No. 1, Wilson Goh, after a tremendous struggle that lasted over 80 minutes. Wilson, though
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      SSRA Inter-Club League 1978
      496 25 MEN'S B Police Lions Safsa see Tanclin ORA MYMCA PSRC M 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 W 5 5 4 2 1 0 L 0 1 1 3 4 4 5 P 28 24 21 13 8 7 6 Safra 2 SU 3 SICC
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      Lock icon The importance of bidding when partner makes a double takeout
      595 26 BRIDGE The Aces THE takeout double is usually made Immediately following an opening bid of one in a suit by the opponents. The hand should be worth an opening bid with at least three card support for all unbld suits.
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      ENGLAND YOUTHS ALL SET TO GRAB EUROPEAN UNDER-21 TITLE
      450 26 Greenwood delighted with their showing WORLD SOCCER IWGLAND are poised to win the European Under-21 soccer title after their scoreless draw against Italy last week in the semifinal (second leg). The English youths won the first leg 2-1 In London and
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      Schoolboys putting too much emphasis on speed, power play
      304 26  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan rrHE players taking part in the National Schools team championships seem overly concerned with speed and power play. While the Indonesians are effective in fast and aggressive play because of their almost gladiatorlike training, the same cannot be
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      Davis Cup—it could have become just a memory...
      904 27  -  IDMSTALM Alfred Tong Back in 1900. Dwight F. Davis donated a trophy named after him for a match between Britain and the United States. The contest was subsequently expanded to Include other countries and the Davis Cup gained Immense international prestige because
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      87 27  -  UNCOIL UPPER BODY IM FOREHAND FOLLOW By Don J. Leary 1. Imagine a giant spring in your torso. You wind up to hit, so you unwind as you stroke through and complete the shot. 2. This should help you understand the need to relax In order to
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      'We shall not see another side like Holland of '74'
      1001 28 Eric Batty interviews Rinus Michels AFTER the recent A UEFA Cup game between Aston Villa and FC Barcelona I was fortunate to spend about three hours talking with Rlnus Mlchels, manager of the Spanish club who was In charge of
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      Lock icon When an away match lasts for life
      682 28  -  By Simon Marsh Features International npHERE'S a "Sandy's bar In Munich's Laurltz Strasse which sells a dozen different brands of Scotch. The first drink is free to anyone wearing a Scottish football supporter's scarf. In Dusseldorf, a dozen of the city's taxis are
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      Cruyff confounds!
      260 29 He races past two defenders, tricks goalie and scores World Cup Golden Goals rvESPITE finishing on the losing side against West Germany In U the Final, Holland's Johan Cruyff was unquestionably the of the 1974 World Cup soccer competition. His friend apd Barcelona teammate Johan Neeskens, trying to
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      Lock icon Micky Mantle s private little prison...
      683 29 UPI THE dugout always was Mickey Mantle's private little prison, and still is. He never could wait to get out there on the field and he still can't. You can tell by the way his hands grip the edge of the bench, the way
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      How Seng Hoo beat the Benko Gambit
      451 30  -  CHESS Lim Kok Ann KOH NAI HUAT, a much Improved player since he started taking part in the event some years ago, shared the fourth round lead in the national championship with three wins and a draw. Nai Huat was paired with two-time
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      Surprising Kunalan!
      392 30  -  Quarter-marathon jog, then he qualifies for A-Games ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng n. KUNALAN. 35, gave athletics fans a real big surprise last Sunday at the SAAA second allcomers meet when he equalled the Asian Games qualifying mark of 21.8 seconds to earn himself a place In the Singapore
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      Teachers, SIA to battle for top honours
      613 30  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh THE Basketball Association of Singapore Women's Cup competition started last Monday at Chung Wah Girls School. The final is scheduled for May 1. Twelve teams are taking part in the tournament. Judging from the performances of the past week, the
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      991 31  -  By Jim Cour UPI LOPEZ, the bright, new face on the US women's professional golf tour, wears an eye-catch-ing engagement ring she received last November. The wedding Is a long way off. thougn tentatively planned for Sept. 15, 197 U. But
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      An equal chance for everyone...
      329 31  -  Ernest Frida npHE Singapore IsA land Country Club expect a record number of entries for their Open Day golf tournament at the New and Old courses on May I. The reason: The organisers have changed the format of the tournament from the usual Four Ball
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      GIRLS AIM TO WIN 'SEVENS' TITLE, TOO
      308 31  -  Brian Miller f IRLS Sports Club, u recent winners of the Singapore Women's Hockey Association's double knockout tournament, will aim to add another feather to their cap when they compete In the BWHA Seven- a-slde tournament at the Padang this morning. They will
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        Lock icon Ballesteros grabs lead
        83 32 UPI WITH an eagle and Ave birdies, 21-year-old Spanish sensation Severlano Ballesteros fired a sevenunder par 65 on Friday to grab a three-shot lead at the halfway point of the U*****,000 ($518,000) tournament of champions. Bill Kratzert, 25, a third-year pro who failed three times before finally
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        73 32 UPI RACE car driver A 1 Unser on Friday slammed his Indy-styled racer Into a restraining wall during a practice run for yesterday's Indianapolis 500 race at College Station, Texas, and was taken to a nearby hospital with undisclosed injuries. A doctor at Texas World Speedway
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        Lock icon Vilas crashes out of WCT
        62 32 UPI TOP seed Oulllermo Vilas of Argentina, unsettled by rain, crashed out of the Monte Carlo World Championship Tennis (WCT) tournament on Friday when Mexican Raul Ramirez rallied to beat him 2-6, 6-0, 6-3. Corrado Barazzuttl upset countryman and Italian No. 1 Adrlano Panatta 6-2,
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      S'pore out to recoup
      565 32  -  Young Lions' droam of a berth in semi-finals hangs precariously on tonight's game SPORTS NATION By Suresh Nair THE Young Lions are going all out to redeem lost pride in the final North Zone pr eli m i nary round match against Kelantan tonight at the
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      204 27 TKWIS HI SINUS COACHING LESSONS FOR ALL! Rich families send their children overseas to learn Tennis, costs a lot of money. To prove our way of promoting Tennis, we make another first ever in coaching programmes, 2 coaching pro's from USA Australia are here to give lessons to all. Members
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      338 32 We're one of Singapore's youngest banks! Considering that the first account, estabfished with us, is just four years old, we have already become a sturdy plant, firmly rooted in our garden city. Fertilised by satisfied customers, who entrust their business to us and who come to us for advice and
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      179 32 Sports Diary Singapore v Kelantan nament (Under-16) lan Besar Stadium, 3 Singapore v Kelantan combined Schools v p.m.). (National Stadium, 7.30 MacPherson FC, Queens- HOCKEY: National p.m.). town FC v Telok Blangah Womens' Mini-Sevens National Division Three CSC, Farrer Park Dyna- tournament (SRC PaLeague Tamplnes CSA mos v Tanjong Katong
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