New Nation, 14 May 1978

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    10 1 Sunday Nation MAY 14, 1978 SO CENTS M.C.(P) NO. Sl7/1/7«
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      52 1 Mandarin education: How it all began TTHf u .A* ''5 w 'i\ «N r ii A I I HM K&? >. A- Story in Page 2 Gem magnates of Sri Lanka In The Asia Magazine Lee Pan Hon and S'pore orchestra surprise Page 4 Youth awards: SSC err says Inside
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      71 1 Specialists in sports equipment accessories and leisure wear. I PHONE 23 Orchard Boulevard Singapore 10. m f'W! Natural Hair with Kao Herbal Kao Herbal Shampoo is prepared from essence of carefully selected herbs to give damaged, delicate hair a new lease of life. Kao Herbal Shampoo ia so mild and
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    SBS: Shock for car- owners
    590 2  -  By Lee Yew Meng fAR owners who have applied for shares in the Singapore Bus Service will not be alloted any, the directors of the company announced yesterday. After an emergency meeting that delayed balloting for the shares by six hours, the directors also announced
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    Lock icon Blind boy wins top prize in poster contest
    93 2 A RM IN DO MIRAND A, 11, is legally Mind and can only see at about six metres. But that was not a handicap to him he won the first prise of US$65O (sl49s) In bonds In a nationwide poster competition In
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    Lock icon Saudi Arabia will keep pledge to US
    171 2 UPI SAUDI Arabia standi by Its pledge not to bate sophisticated US fighters within striking distance of Israel despite statements to the contrary by the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, the Carter administration said on Friday night. Prince Ibn Falsel A 1 Baud. In
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    Lock icon Panda is top circus act
    98 2 Reuter CHINA has put one of Its rare giant pandas to do balancing acts, blow a horn and; other feats. A New China News Agency report said six-year-old Wei Wei Is the top act at performances a the Shanghai People'k rcus. The 100 kg animal
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    Lock icon It's out of this world!
    288 2 AP A LEADING Soviet astrophysicist forecasts that within 250 years It will b« possible to construct a vast artificial biosphere in outer space capable of supporting a population of 10 billion people. According to los 1 f Shklovsky, head of the Radio Astronomy Department at
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    Lock icon Carter decides en smaller tax cuts
    179 2 Reuter UPI PRESIDENT Carter, In 1 a new move to fight rising Inflation, raised Its tax proposals on Friday by UBss billion ($11.5 billion). The Pr es 1 dent still wants taxes reduced but he now wants the reduction scaled down to about US$2O
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    840 given legal aid in $2m claim against pawnshop
    342 2 A TOTAL of 840 people, claiming to have $1,991,850 In fixed deposit* with Yun Foh pawnshop at Block 23, Outrara Park, have been granted legal aid In their claims against the bankrupt partners of the shop. The partners, Mr Wong Ser
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
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      Lock icon Open ballot
      70 2 AFP THE constitution drafting committee has decided that Thailand's next prime minister will be elected by national assemblymen, a committee spokesman revealed yesterday. He said MPs would choose the prime minister in an open ballot, not in a secret vote as had often been done In the. past.
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      Lock icon Neurosis test
      63 2 AFP MEXICO City bus and taxi drivers who score a high aggressiveness rating on a neurosis test will lose their driver's licence. Mexico City police chief Oeneral Arturo Durazo has announced that the psychological test would be admlnltered to drivers of public vehicles because of evidence that the
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      Lock icon Let them eat cake
      64 2 Reuter A WOMAN convicted of shoplifting was sentenced to bake a cake big enough to feed 24 pensioners at an old people's home every month for six months. Judge Nigel Thomson, who passed the sentence, nas previously ordered a wile-beater to buy his wife an expensive
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      Lock icon 'Not satisfied'
      61 2 AFP Reuter PEKING yesterday attacked the 8 o 1 e t military presence In outer Mongolia, accused Moscow of deploying troops and modern armaments in the country and of turning it Into a Soviet military base. Earlier Peking said it was not satisfied with the explanation given by
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      Lock icon Second man nabbed
      71 2 AFP TWO men In their 20s have been arrested for Thursday's hijacking of a Colombian Avlanca airliner, at first attributed to a lone hijacker. Police who stormed the airliner at Curacao airport at first arrested one hijacker, but passengers Insisted there were two. The second hijacker escaped
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      Lock icon Rowland in Jakarta
      66 2 AP AUSTRALIAN air force Chief of Staff 81r James Rowland aiflved In Indonesia yesterday for a week long official visit. The Australian air marshal was greeted by Indonesian air force Chief of Staff Marshal Ashadi TJahjadl at Jakarta's International airport. The two marshals were scheduled to hold
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    Govt takes a 'serious view'
    158 4 re Minister for National Development and Communications Mr Llm Kim San, said last night that professional misconduct la viewed "vary seriously" by the Government. It expects professionals and tboae with tertiary education to lead In economic, moral and •octal development. They should have a social
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    Lock icon New steel
    35 4 AFP THE BRITISH Steel Corporation. In collaboration with the automobile Industry, Is trying out a new titanium-steel alloy which could cut fuel consumption by sharply reducing the weight of car and truck bodies.—AFP.
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    The Finished Symphony
    618 4 Full-time orchestra for S'pore OIN OA PORE ig to have Its first full-time national orchestra, with financial support from the government. It will be run by a private company, Singapore Symphonia Company, headed by Mr Tan Boon Telk, the Attorney-General, as chairman. Announcing this yesterday after repeated
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    Lock icon Pirates try to hijack freighter
    239 4 Reuter niRATES throwing Jl home-made hand grenades and firing automatic weapons tried to hijack a Panamanianregistered freighter on Its maiden voyage from Japan to Borneo, the skipper of the vessel said. Captain Tokoyoshl Aralshi, the 51-year-old Japanese skipper, told reporters when he arrived in Sandakan
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    Lock icon Police sweep awaited
    169 4 Reuter rMSION rose yesterday around Tokyo's new International airport as its radical opponents awaited an expected riot police onslaught on their fortresses near the perimeter. Top police officers met this morning to finalise their security measures In the light of a new law rushed through the Diet
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    Lock icon Monk and 10 aides on wanted list
    99 4 AFP A NOVICE monk and 10 of his armed disciples, who have been using Buddhism to front a profit-making racket in Northern Thailand, have been Included In a mili tary "wanted list" for endangering society, the Bangkok World reported on Friday. The 45
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      343 4 I In and around town OPEN AIB AST EXHIBITION. features works by youn* artists. East Coast Pari, Marine Parade (opposite NTUC supermarket). 2 P- m to 5 p.m. Admission free. CHINESE OPERA. In front of 247. Balestler Road, 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 ri.m. and 7.30 p.m to 1.30 p.m. Admission
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    Lock icon 'She kept screaming'
    363 5 Waiter confesses to killing of Nfsian housewife AFP A FILIPINO waiter yesterday recounted the killing of Ma--lays I a n housewife Llew Soon Ping and how he stuffed her mouth with bread "because she kept screaming" but told police he and his accomplices only planned to rob
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    Lock icon Burgers: Sake to them
    59 5 YOUNG people in Japan are hitting the fast foods trail judging from this crowd outside the American hamburger joint, McDonald's, in the Ginza. According to an Associated Press report, hamburgers are fast becoming popular across the country. McDonald's now has 131 shops ail over Japan since
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    Lock icon Visit seen as step to closer ties
    115 5 Reuter r[E current visit of a seven-member Singapore trade delegation to Kampuchea shows clearly the development pf relations between the two countries. Radio Phnom Penh said yesterday. *The radio, monitored in Bangkok, quoted an un-named high-ranking official of the Cambodian Committee of Foreign
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    The breast must go agree doctors
    279 5 SINGAPORE surgeons agree with a Chicago study that the most extensive and disfiguring surgery for breast cancer —radical mastectomy—is no more effective in en- n. suring patient survival than simpler operations The survey's conclusion was carried by the Sunday Nation last week. Radical mastectomy
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    PFLP calls for 'people's war'
    146 5 r[E radltal Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Friday called on Arab hardliners to draw up a new strategy aimed at mobilising the masses for a "people's war" against Israel. It addressed Its appeal from Beirut to the Steadfastness Front opposed to
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    Lock icon Dirty air can affect unborn child
    280 5 AP PREQNANT women who live In communities with heavy air pollution tend to have babies weighing an average 227g less than normal, a university study shows. Dr M. Anne Spence, a University of California —Los Angeles associate professor of psychiatry, said on Friday that
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    Lock icon Iran braces for trouble
    78 5 AP AMID shrill call? by merchants and factory workers to "crush those who bring chaos to Iran", security authorities yesterday braced for more street trouble after 15 riot deaths last week. Radio Iran said the Iranian workers' organls- atlon and the federation of Teheran's 145 guilds
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    Lock icon Men, too
    29 5 AP THERE Is relief In sight for females who have taken oflence at having their names used to Identify hurricanes. This year men will share the nomenclature.—AP.
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      53 5 Pass that mm with Famous postal courses for: Secretarial. Commarclal. b English as a Foreign Language eneminations (ASA, Pilmans. LCC. b Commercial teaching) Academic b Professional ecemrnalions (QCE. Shipping. Forwarding. Purchasing, Stores Transport) Also courses in an. writing, lournalism. and astronomy Pltmani Correspondence College. (Dept C MS > Worcester Road.
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      57 5 At Shangri-La's i* ACW Tr 10!) KWM rii v 2) SL iiJL DANCE, DANCE, DANCE TO THE GREAT SOUNDS OF Ty. *r tfc Si h 0 AND HIS X PtRIMtnT m. Singapore s top swing-with-it' band ALSO STARRING The sensational Mi i It fi DISCOVERY^, ■*CS?a4jiTO QShcmqri La ..ff is
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    Splendour in the grass
    198 6 COMMENT Ecology to Singaporeans has traditionally meant pollution. The Ministry of the Environment has obviously performed Its tasks so efficiently that It now faces another unexpected problem. It Is at once a compliment and a headache, which may become an ecological setback If left unchecked. In
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    Lock icon Will Sri Lanka's new-found affluence last?
    1016 6  -  t 4 --.x <* r -y<, s The pendulum has swung fna socialism so much that Mr* Banda said at a recent rally 'the next logical thing for Jaye to de ie hand *I* v ever the govt itself te the private sector '"y.'y,
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      179 6 TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. TODAY'S FASHION. THE LADV SEIKO SPORTS WATCH. A Lady Seiko sports watch offers many advanced feature* that until today were found chiefly in men's watches, Including self-winding, day/date calendar, sweep second hand and water resistance. They're the features today's active women demand in a watch. Not only do
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    Lock icon If you're feeling sick, try a colour cure
    667 7  -  By Bill Grans CPF TYOCTORS have al- ready proved that some forms of pain and headache are relieved by treatment with blue or violet light. Red light, It's been found, can Improve low blood pressure and soft blues and greens reduce high
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    Never too young to learn
    84 7 T3E new woman isn't Influenced into asserting herself. These days she Is Just born. Two tiny tots, a brother and sister, were all set to play doctor and nurse when the boy, younger of the two, received a rude shock. As his sister planned it,
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    MPs: Who will do the cooking?
    302 7  -  GLORIA CHANDY IT APPEARS that the world Is still not quite ready to admit women into those roles that have been traditionally male. Women play an active role In politics all over the world and three (Oolda Meir, Mrs Bandaranalke, Mrs. Indira Gandhi) have
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    Peanuts, after all, so spare us
    188 7 HOTELS and restaurants seem to be a little uncertain how the Increase In entertainment tax Is going to hit them. But it looks like in the long run as usual it will be us, the patrons who are going to be on the losing
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      141 7 c?L*l Individual 'Image k M Hffc MfJ •A i I i W; V frk: ft 4 if r i 7 VP n ■Mi jfc Brmq ~u f jumj', :;ue s»*it wttf wel 1 cut Clothes At ?rv j o'h-. mce We not only nelp choo.se tne »=-.jr,♦ oA.'.ir st/ie cj•
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    The Letters
    2075 8  -  The handwriting which used to be so graceful and precise was now disjointed V and hardly decipherable l BY CHRISTINA L. N. TIANG rpHE 26th of June and still no letter, the •L old man standing staring out of the window thought, and a sigh broke from his
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    A forest of flats. And we're as lost as babes in the woods
    656 9 A lament by City Bunpkin If you ask me... UDB estates are a 11 large, complicated maze of roads and look-alike flats. City folk could become city bumpkins in an HDB estate. I found that out when
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      91 9 IF YOIJ have something to say which you think our readers would like to know why noi put it on paper and send it to us. We welcome con-' tributors to this column. Articles can be on any subject but should preferably be opinion pieces of about 500 words each.
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      95 9 Wrangler makes clothes that make people. The latest. Shirts for the Front Liners. Or simply, the elegant, distinctive stripes from Wrangle- designers on Wrangler's knit material Add a new dimension to your wardrobe. With stripe knit shirts. The really leisure time, leisure shirt. The really work time, work shirt. For
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    Mandarin education: How it began in S'pore
    1690 10 / 11  -  of Chinese will be an essential part of education for every Chinese boy. Those who grow up with the knowledge and who also attach to it a knowledge of English will prove better citizens This, as chronicled in the late Song Ong Siang
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      1137 12 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullou PICK OF THE WEEK t COLOUR TV mm THE MONEYCHANGERS on Ch 5 on Friday at 9.45 pm in COLOUR. A 614-hour movie based on Arthur Hailey's su-per-charged bestseller that will be shown in four parts. Even though the First Mercantile American Bank is
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      280 13 CLEAN CLEAR fePITAXIAL is the name of superfine magnetic pertide developed by Maxell: a needle-shaped crystal consisting of gemme-hemetite and cobelt-ferrite. Both UD-XU. and UD-XUI use the New EPITAXIAL However, in the •EPITAXIAL used in the UD-XLD, a larger amount of cobeJt-ferrite is used to envelop? the gemme-hematite core then
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      908 13 MONDAY A speaker unlike any other T 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 SIRUVAR ULAGAM (T/r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (T) 3.35 Afternoon Matinee: Claudia And David (Pt 1). A fortuneteller's prophtcy that David will meet with an accident serids Claudia into hysteria. Stars Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Mary Astor, John Sutton,
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      136 14 New Big Boy KV-2010ES Sony's 20" (50.8 cm) New Trinitron colour tv system with 60% brighter and sharper plus instant picture make him the best colour tv system in town. warranty >24 months' cover for free labour i 24 months' cover for all parts >24 months' cover for the picture
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      865 14 WEDNESDAY A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 ON DUTY WITH CHRISTOPH 4. A day in the life of a team of doctors who answer emergency calls by helicopter. 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.35 BONANZA: Terror At 2.00. 4.25 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 December Bride: Budqet Show
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      121 15 uml m 0° ge closer shave with the Braun micron. The thin micron »oii oets The secret lies in the closer to your .Kin. th j nne ss of this new foil which gets close to your skin. In the way we've angled the 1.900 openings to immediately trap and
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      894 15 FRIDAY > A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: The Sucker (r). Mandarin film. 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.0* EXERCISE WITH GLORIA 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.35 THE TONT RANDALL SHOW: Tha H«ro Syndrom*. Oliver, the Judge Franklin's son learns a lesson when he tries to
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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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      67 16 £2* 9i IP SCf» iS r? AtiHOUHC& V y i i 458 H64PV£, H&4£ Vfc/4UU Fr?F THE? THIS. *UN (V/fe <£4U£HT «*E4P 50 CtXUAR9 OR 50 DWVSf V!ff i A* ii IC&Q?UAF&CPICOPfI)&! m i c nK P b f w»« ..MNP THfp o«i>tu PEPAPT/M^NT ...T2P 50C0 gUpepUV M<3PTWuesSS SkWVMPU4NP> l^r^M
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      342 17 / 18 Library of Art Western Art and civilization through the lives of major artists in the last 700 years this series will give you an insight into the artists and their times, for you to better understand their contributions to the richness of the world of art. 20th Century Matisse Michelangelo
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      449 17 / 18 A w. r oO o m +A X NEVER -THOUGHT VOf ITS ALL IN SEETH' DAY WHEN "THE PREPI'D ENJOY EATIN' V ARATION, GREENS AN'FLOWERS! ALLEY/ > THIS STUFF IS DELICIOUS. .J>l y... MV BIGGEST I PROBLEM IS /SETTING PEOPLE '"TD TRY THE > VEGETARIAN < OF LIFE- 2 HECK.'
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      317 19 Mainly 10l from Penguins FROM WOMAN TO WOMAN: Lucienne Lan son Here, at last is clear, accurate and sympathetic information from a gynaecologist speaking woman to woman in a book that will enable every woman to understand the workings of her own body. There are important questions which need frank
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      29 19 16 n<3L.\i SIP DISTRIBUTORS SDN BHD TEL 2351?88 *****1 TIME LIFE t* \0 Sf A r Ht f *«to 4 ft *w 'V '"jHt UNIVtBSt v» j IHt MAMMALS
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      128 19 GARTH HOW ABOUT DINING WITH ME TONIGHT, MISS NtFF? I KNOW R PLERSRNT LITTLE RESTRURRNT.' That evening, at the L'Oieeau DX>... Midnight. r Mfc' 6X,. how man r nightcrp rt mv RPRRTMENT LRTER, RTHENR? T-It? LIKE V I ill'' y VOU'RE QUITE R WOMRN HOW COME YOU NEVER MRRRIED URN.'
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    Our regrets. This picture last week should have read King Kong and Fay Wray, not Mr and Mrs Goo Chia Chwee
    518 20 HUHOVIt with paJJcb |> O B HOPE was once threatened with a suit after he made this remark about a hotel: "Their rooms are so small even the mice
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    Best was saddest, like a soul withered
    352 20 Off the Record by CRT WITH the supreme arrogance of the non-TV addict, I sat down to watch what I liked of the Ballet Rambert programme over RTS last Sunday evening. During the classical ballet bits, I turned away to read Glbbons's Fall
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    CHANDY'S SINGAPORE
    116 20 JAPAN'S defence chief said last week that the Boviet navy's recent bulld-up in the Pacific had turned the Sea of Japan Into the "Sea of Russia." Will the nearby Yellow Sea turn red too. 1 wonder. SINGAPORE AIRLINES on Thursday signed a contract with Boeing Aircraft Company to
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      53 20 g ANTIQUE i PORCELAIN Qi IS FROM SHANGHAI 0 1 PEKING g INCLUDING I la "fook.looicchoy" gi 13 (3GODS) SI 19 NOW ON SALE 1 g SHANGTZE (PTE) LTD g| MEZZANINE FLOOR I! !jrj SHANGRI-LA HOTEL ra ta EXTNII39/1113 [s la la [s la is la la la Is 13
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      58 20 COOL COMFORTABLE CLOTHINGS FROM Available at. Specialise in ladies casual and office wear Peopte'e Pat* Centre: 8-33. Baaemant Floor. People's Park Centre, Upper Cross Street. Singapore 1 Tel: *****6 Open everyday From 11.00 a.m. to 9 30 p.m. 216. Second Floor. Peace Centre. Selegte Road. Smgapore 7. Tel: *****3 Open
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    A telephone on each table, so we chute a note to ourselves
    923 21  -  The band struck up and the fountains began to dance in tune iwbhbil BY KATHY TAN DECEMBER 1977, West Berlin. We were driving from East Germany into West Germany. At the checkpoint In the East German sector, our
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      56 21 DRAGON PHOENIX RESTAURANT Block 26, Outram Park, Singapore. Ttl *****88 *****29 Earthern Pot Special Chillio Crab 4 Spring Chicken delicious Yam Pot Hot Plate Deer Meat Live Fresh Fish Quick Lunch S3/per person. We cater for Birthday Wedding Parties, buffet lunches and private functions. Live music and songs for your
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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 thoucht 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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    After this, let him rest in peace
    316 22  -  j]3 JiilliJ By Tan Bah Bah BRUCE LEE survives all the counterfeit assaults on his legend with his head still high, triple kick unchallenged and nanchaku flying. After hi* shock death In 1973. the paresltes Immediately swarmed In. Cosmetic look-alikes, with not a
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    We call that...very unfair
    446 22  -  LIM PENG HOCK Managing director, Intercontinental Film Distributors Pte Ltd. Singapore S. I APPRECIATE the 1 fact that Tan Bah Bah has established himself as a competent humourist through many of the articles he has written for both the New Nation and the Sunday Nation if
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      176 22 7 -> h < s*3£* me. *t' JBP^* Sfc V V^vrS >£%*; «j J 1 **JPvE fiS, Jc <£*± i k ;c -*V 'V-.' i&m"': X'-? t@Ci r; "V 5» fl A /■.V. S?s I JWj, \j*.r IMb 830 in the morning That fresh feeling on Philippine Airlines Morning cool
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      Lock icon Boston's winning streak snapped
      893 26 BRIDGE The Aces Reuter AP AP AFP UPI AFP A TWO-RUN homer by Eddie Murray In the bottom of the ninth inning lifted the Baltimore Orioles to a 3-2 decision over the Red Sox and snapped Boston's winning streak at seven games on Thursday. Dutch Hobson
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      472 26 APPOINTMENTS N6EE ANN TECHNICAL COLLEGE Applications arc invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the post of Licturcr I in the Deportment of Shipbuilding and Repair Technology. Candidates for the post must be able to teach Ship Hydrostatics ond Hydrodvnamics, Ship Construction ond Shipyard Monoaement. Preference will be given to
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      157 26 We are a well-established and rapidly 1 growing Engineering Firm engaged in the development and manufacturing of Precision Mechanical equipment. Due to a recent Company-wide expansion, we have the following immediate vacancies: PROJECT/DESIGN ENGINEERS Requirements: 1) A good Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related disciplines. 2) Preferably with 1
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      150 26 OCEANOGRAPHIC SURVEY DIVISION Senior Field Positions vocant in the following categories tor the Middle East and South East Asian Areas 1. Hydrogrsphtc Surveyors 2. Electronic* Engineers/ Technicians 3. Geophyslciste Minimum qualifications: A. Offshore experience in directly related field. B. Ability to work independently and to supervise/ lead teams on various
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    Youth awards: SSC err
    555 27 INSIDE TRACK Should be given to all-rounders rpHE Singapore Sports Council seem to have contradicted two of their main policies in introducing the Sportsgirl and Sportsboy gf the Year awards. In 1971, when the SSC started as the National Sports Promotion Board, and when 8. T.
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    Crucial last games for Police Lions and SCC
    734 27  -  Peter Lo npHE Police Lions 1 and Safsa scored six points each when they defeated theli respective opponents, PSRC and MYMCA, by identical 5-0 scores. Singapore Cricket Club dropped one point when they defeated ORA 4 1 in their encounter at the
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    The champ Einstein admired
    570 28  -  CHESS Lim Kok Ann PMMANUEL LAB- KER, who was world chess champion alter WUhelm Stelnltz. was the second title holder to be recognised by public acclaim. He won the title In a match against Stelnltz In 1894 and held.lt for 27 years until he was succeeded
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    Wingers break Italian 'padlock'
    407 28 World Cup Golden Goals "EVERYONE has his own theory about the best way to counter a cate-nacctyio-type defence/' said West Germany's manager Helmut Schoen on the eve of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. "Personally, I believe that catenacchlo is at its most vulnerable when faced
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    No credit where credits were due...
    691 28 BRIDGE The Aces IN THE following 1 deal which turned up towards the end of a duplicate session credits weTe due to the defender on lead and to the declarer. t~ After a pre-emptive opening bid by West of four spades. South found herself
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    Whither the clay courts?
    546 29  -  Will these courts suffer the same fate as the grass courts? TENNIS TALK Alfred Tong TPHERE was a time when tennis played on courts other than grass was looked upon with disdain. All the world's great tournaments Wimbledon. the Australian Open. Forest Hills—were played on grass
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    Lock icon SLOW RACQUET HEAD WHEN PUSHING UP FOREHAND LOB
    74 29  -  The Teaching Pro Don J. Leary I«*M hr CM ftrwton (tick Cj 1. When a player lobs, it usually means a tight situation. The tighter the situation, the greater the tendency to hammer the ball with a heavy touch. This means errors.
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    Strong in defence, but Spain need more goal-getters
    1536 30 Eric Batty's World Cup Spotlight rflßAWN in one of the most evenly balanced qualifying groups with Rumania and Yugoslavia, Spain qualified after a dour struggle that culminated in a terrible kicking match in Belgrade, where in the flnal game in the group,
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    421 30 WORLD SOCCER WEST GERMANY'S hopes of retaining the World Cup received another blow when Ralner Bonhof joined their growing Injury list. Bonhof pulled a hamstring during Borussla Moenchengladbach's last league game and was told to rest for two weeks. The star midfielder Is almost certain
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    Britain's latest heavyweight hope
    700 31  -  By Alan Hubbard BRITAIN'S latest heavyweight hope, when asked to say a few words from the ring, told his cheering audience: "I'm more used to speaking to visiting magistrates." He wasn't joking either. Paul Sykes began his boxing career as prisoner ***** at Her Majesty's gaol,
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    263 31  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan /CONSTITUENCY sports associations and clubs are taking the forthcom ing Inter Constituency team championships (in August and September) much more seriously than they have ever done. As early as February, constltuency players were called up for training. And lntre-zone tournaments are now
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    299 31  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh rpHE recently concluded 1 BAS Women's Cup tournament proved to be the best In the series with the outcome not settled until the very last match of the roundrobin league final round. The high standard of play shown by
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    439 32  -  NETBALL Joyce Tan SOON and Ka- tong, two of the seeded teams In the second inter-consti-tuency netball tournament currently in progress at the Farrer Park courts, have failed to make it to the second round. Nee Soon suffered a shock defeat at
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    469 32  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng ATHLETES who wish to be included In the SAAA bonus-award scheme will have to take part In the third Allcomers meet today at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre if they missed the first and second meets. This Is because
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    321 32  -  HOCKEY Brian Miller OT. ANDREW'S School have always been associated with rugby, Just as Bukit Ho Swee have excelled at badminton. In schoolgirls' hockey, no school can boast of a more colourful record than 8t Theresa's Concent. Within the space of six short years, this
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    1158 32 BUKIT TIMAH trainer Ivan Allan stole the iiinellght yesterday when he saadled lour winners. PLEASANTON LADY (Race 1) and MAnneQL'IN (Race 2) gave Jockey Noel Harris an early double. Pleasanton Lady paid $10 while Mannequin paid $77. TRIGGER scored an easy win in Race 4 to pay
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    368 33 A A.B.C Mac* Amlrsh Jaya t Muutn 1 Agaric ue 4 August Moon II A and wo 4 B ■ay Expreee Racd I Bandy Baby t Big Tlma 2 Br telle Barry Lyndon I Barlarl 4 Better Tlmaa Big (tana 4 Bold Iriehman, The Borsallno 7 c Candid
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    107 33 By SCRUTINEER DARRY LYNDON, D who has improved with each outing, looks hard to beat in the Class 4 Division 2 1850 m (Race 5) at Buklt Timah today. I rate him the top bet of the day. The four-y e a r-o 1 d Irish horse
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    146 33 SCRUTINEER BRIAN MILLER FAIRWAY K. L CHAN Race 1 Wrofnd Kuan tan Chattaronga Sovereign Count Northern Breeao Petrograd Pntrsgrad Kuan tan Race Z Houston Ranger Olympic Champ Credit Centre Candid Olov Candid Glow Big Time RMW S: Magnetic Sound Bay Express ES5B Patron Chief of SUff Magnetic Send Sound
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    160 34 SPORTS NATION CONTROVERSY raged last week over the Inclusion of former AllEngland badminton champion Tan Alk Huang In the list of entries for the Malaysian national championship® scheduled to start In Ipoh on June 2. Alk Huang had originally been left out of the Selangor contingent tor
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      123 34 Reuter A SERIES of exhibition boxing bouts between former world heavyweight champion Muhammad All and Olympic heavyweight champion Teofilo Stevenson of Cuba are in the process of being arranged, ABC Television reported in New York on Friday. ABC correspondent Barbara Walters who visited Cuba to Interview Premier Fidel
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      67 34 AP RENALDO NEHEMIAH, the remarkable fre&hman from the University of Maryland, skimmed to victory in the 110-metre hurdles on Friday night at the Norman Manley Track and Field Games In Kingston, Jamaica. The 19-year-old Nehemlah, the US National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Indoor champion and the World
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      79 34 AFP PHILIPPINE Junior welterweight boxing champion Dan De Guzman on Friday night pounded out a 10-round unanimous decision over Wongsu Suseno of Indonesia and avenged a knockout defeat he suffered at the Indonesian's hands two years ago. All three Filipino Judges gave the hometown boxer six rounds
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      41 34 UPI FORWARD Juan Carlos Obllt&s scored two goals with kicks In the midst of melees In the goal area, to give Peru's national soccer team a 4-2 victory over Huracan of Argentina In Lima, on Friday night.—UPl.
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