New Nation, 20 August 1978

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    Masthead
    10 1 Sunday Nation AUCUST 20. 1978 90 CENTS M.C.(P) NO. Sl7/1/79
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      38 1 AN ERA OF WOMBS FOR RENT? Page 6 Goh on the tourism goldmine > Story in Page 4 J :ir 3 < J t What's Brezhnev saying? See if you agree with us Page 9- The 1000-year-old university: ASIA MAG
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      31 1 (}<$|$!;$?~(}~=);+!],:^!-'|]:@@ bred image Page 21 Vandals strike at temples Page 2 n m Where *1 to go for food like home J Page 20 How politics can hurt Asean's interests Page 8
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      36 1 Stes&gs 23 Park House, Orchard Boulevard. Singapore 10. Tel: *****55.*****18. Sk HER WORLD H AUGUST 1978 PHER WORLD leads Have you followed up on the latest in fashion, opinions, cookery and decor in the August issue?
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    Students petition for autonomy in joint union
    252 2 A PETITION, asking for student autonpmy in the proposed £>lnt Campus Students' Association and signed by 1024 undergrads In Buklt Tlmah. has been submitted to the university administration. Their views represent about a third of the total 3000 students studying at the Joint
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    Calling on P.M.
    36 2 WEBT Oerman Minister for Economics, Count Dr Otto Oral *Jimbsdorff, will call on the Prime Minister at the Istana Annexe tomorrow afternoon d u r 1n c his two-day visit. He arrives today.
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    Marry a clerk at your peril!
    481 2 Devas's fatherly advice to osr girls IF YOU'VE got a 1 daughter of marriageable age, for God's sake tell her to marry a skilled worker or a technician. Not a clerk I That wu Mr Devan Nalr, the NTUC secre-tary-general, In his usual trenchant
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    Minister joins in the swim
    146 2 rO MPs doffed their working clothe* for swim trunks yesterday afternoon when they Joined In the National Swim, an annual noncompetitive event to encourage mass participation. Dr Tan Eng Liang, Senior Minister of Bute (Finance) and MP for River Valley, and Mr Chan Chee Seng,
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    Lock icon 31 dogs attack boy and sister
    139 2 AP A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy and his eight-year-old sister are recovering from Injuries suffered In an attack by 31 dogs owned by their grandmother at their home In Detroit. Michigan. Police said Lawrence and Tekeema Dlnklns were attacked on Friday while they were alone at
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    Preferential list: Asean adds 755 more items
    102 2 IPHB Trade Department •L yesterday issued the lift of 755 Items which Asean countries have agreed to give preferential treatment to from Sept. 1. This is the second batch of trade concessions. The first batch of 71 items covering both primary and manufactured
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    Lock icon Concern over temple break-ins
    103 2 Reuter MORE Hlndn temples maintained by the Indian minority In Peninsular Malaysia have been broken Into and desecrated in what appears to be an organised campalrn, a leader of the Malaysian Isrttsn Congress (MIC) said In Koala Larnpnr yesterday. Mr M O. Pandesan, a member of
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    Learning to care again, kampungstyle
    213 2 |)EOPLE should be seen i as Individuals who have needs, feelings and not as digits or factors of production, Dr. Ahmad Mattar said last night. In a technological age, there was a tendency to see people as statistics. Except for those who make the public
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    Girl thief
    32 2 A GIRL, Kong Kul Hua, 18, was fined $800 and Jailed for a day yesterday In a magistrate's court for stealing six dresses from Metro Orchard department store on Friday.
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    Lock icon Japan hails US $ move
    207 2 Japan hails US move Reuter AFP JAPAN yesterday welcomed the US Federal Reserve Board decision to raise the discount rate by 0.50 per cent to 7.75 per cent effective tomorrow to help the ailing UB dollar. Finance Ministry officials said although the rise had been expected, the move would work
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    Lock icon China to borrow?
    127 2 AP STHINA Is negotiating for Its first ever foreign loans with three leading financial institutions in London, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. The Hong Kong English language daily said the bank of China was negotiating for an initial loan of UBsloo million ($230 million) with
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    Lock icon Plane blast man—just like movie?
    107 4 Reuter rE man blown out of a Philippines airliner In a mysterious mld-alr explosion on Friday la believed to have taken out a US$7OOO ($16,000) flight Insurance policy Just before boarding the plane, the Philippines Dally Express newspaper repented yesterday. This has led to speculation
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    Goh on goldmine in tourism
    301 4 fPHIRD WOULD countries can develop their tourist Industry quite easily because it does not need the kind of ad- a need technology that is beyond their grasp. The capital expenditure sunk In Is modest when measured against the number of Jobs created and the Incomes
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    Lock icon Partial? Here's what they say
    101 4 TTEAR no evil, ipnk H no evil, ace no *tIL Jadfea. tickled pink, •how that they are always neatraL They are iary mrmhn at the World Cheas champion- ■hip Ed Edmundsofi (U8) Lim Kok Ann (Singapore!) and Andrei Matcher (Bulgaria). The Korehnol camp had earlier
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    Lock icon Abortion girl faces charge
    109 4 AP A 23-YEAR-OLD university student In America face* trial on Aug. 28 on a criminal charge of performing an Illegal abortion on herself with a knitting needle. Maria Pitch ford was indicted by a grand Jury In June on charges of first-degree manslaughter and performing an
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    Malaysian traders arrive
    116 4 TOGONOMIC cooperation £i and Investment will be the main Issues to be discussed at the chambers of commerce dialogue between Singapore and Malaysia today. The chairman and leader of the US-mem-ber delegation from Bast and West Malaysia, Mr Wee Boon Ping, said on his arrival yesterday: "Singapore
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    Lock icon Thailand floods receding
    108 4 UPI 17LOOD waters throughr out most of Thailand's Inundated northeast continued to recede yesterday, but fresh rain in some areas threatened the nation's "corn belt" Reports from the local administration department said new rain In Sukhothal province, 362 kilometres north of Bangkok, flooded over 400 hectares of
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    Lock icon Test-tube baby row couple awarded $115,000
    213 4 Reuter A FLORIDA couple who had hoped to have the world's first test tube be by won US$5O 003 ($115,000) damages against the hospital which destroyed their laboratory-fertilised embryo five years ago. The case, first of Its kind, ended on Friday night when a
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    Lock icon Hua visits Black Sea
    53 4 Reuter CHINESE Leader Hua Kuo-feng yesterday Inspected the strategic Rumanian Black Sea port of Constanta amid speculation that China may establish a consulate there. Mr Hua's visit to the port follows Friday's Joint 81 no-Rumanian statement condemning all forms of foreign domination but omitting over-crltlclsm of
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      104 4 no more tears no more persuasion Youngsters corns running st vitemin time bscsuss they just toys Vi-dayhn. Vi-dayhn ths golden honey mixture of vitamins A, D. B-Complex end C thst testes tike lemon-candy. And Vi-daykn-M the seme delicious teste with e fuM renge of vitemins and 7 minerals including iron.
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      406 4 In and around town RECITAL BT FOUR VOICES at DBS auditorium, 8 p.m. Tickets at $i each. They will present a programme of duets, trios and quartets by composers Purcell, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Sullivan. ballet to mark 20th anniversary celebration of the Singapore Ballet Academy at the Victoria Theatre,
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    Lock icon War of sexes hots up in first MCP mag
    76 5 IT had to happen. A magazine for the male chauvinist. Chicago publisher Ron Fenton dares to take on the full blast of feminist ire—for a few dollars more. Launching his first issue of Male Chauvinist, Fenton said two wayB to successful
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    Lock icon Refugees: Chinas new plan
    285 5 AP f HINA presented a four-point proposal to Vietnam yesterday on solving Iflhe problem of Chinese residents In North Vietnam, Peking's official Hsinhua news agency said In a Hanoi dispatch. Hslnhua said the proposal was submitted by Chung Hal-Tung, leader of the Chinese delegation, at the
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    Lock icon Blasts at eight British bases
    129 5 Reuter nOMBs went off at J> eight British army bases In West Germany during the night but no one was hurt, a spokesman for the British Rhine Army (Baor) said yesterday. Six devices exploded at barracks In Moenchengladbach and In nearby Dusseldorf within minutes of
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    Lock icon Arsonists kill 3 in Iran
    85 5 UPI AUTHORITIES In Tehran were searching yesterday for unidentified arsonists who fatally burned three persons and badly burned a fourth man sleeping Inside a movie theatre In the holy city of Mashad, east Iran. Muhad Fire Chief Ahmad Shojai and three member* of his crew
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      270 5 "ttpe epeddblß throushout the world —wtth the most cornpteta range of audbracoi ting Upee "Good mechanism is key togoodsouncL" y ,v V-< s 70 Jelen McAnh,* B B B Tela 2*340/***** K Betait UM lala *****. Tutong 417 BALCB m LABUANTSABAH BVAfBKAT LETRMI LUCKY. •7. Jeter Kananga Lebuan B*eft. rat
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    A responsibility or a right?
    248 6 COMMENT Is sterilisation a responsibility or a right? When It was officially made a condition for priority admission of children to primary schools In 1975, it was generally regarded as a mother's great sacrifice. The rush of women who wanted to take advantage of the
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    Lock icon AN ERA OF RENT A WOMB?
    801 6  -  In an age of test-tube babies, what will we do with the foetuses that fail? Experiment on them—like on mice? ANTHONY TUCKER raises another prospect... ANTHONY TUCKER ANTHONY TUCKER Guardian DABY Brown of Oldham, the world's first child from ail egg fertilised outside the
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    More test-tube babies this year
    259 6 rpHREE more women. two of them countesses, are expecting test-tube babies this year, a British tabloid has reported. The British tabloid said the wife of a wealthy British earl and a West German countess expect their babies around Christmas and the third woman, a Scot,
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      158 6 TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. TODAY'S FASHION. THE LACY SEIKO SPORTS WATCH. A Lady Seiko sports watch offers many advanced futures that until today were found chiefly In men's watchee, 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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    Baby-sitting blues and makan talk at National Day do
    737 7  -  Edgar Koh nnHE biggest con--1 gregation of Singaporeans In New York (perhaps even In all of North America) usually occurs once a year at a National Day dinner hosted by Singapore's permanent United Nations presentativeAug 9 this year saw a cathetlnc
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    An open-air theatre in our kind of climate is silly
    336 7  -  If you ask me By Oh Chye Seng rE National Theatre, which was supposed to be the pride of Singapore, a monument we would be proud to show our visitors, has turned out to be a dismal failure. It Is
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      90 7 IF YOU have something to say which you think oar readers would like to know why not pat it on paper and send it to as. We welcome contributors to this eolamn. Articles can be on any subject bat should preferably be opinion pieces of about SN words each. They
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      169 7 Br' ■s>: m fffs—m Apollo presents k Hong Kong Actress Appearing nightly 9.15 pm midnight For reservation call *****3 Apollo Theatre Restaurant Nite Club (Re) Ltd. Roof Top, Apollo Hotel. Your car I k I'll 11 The cost of keeping a car on the road is rising dramatically every year.
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    How politics can prejudice Asean's economic interests
    1244 8  -  PERSPECTIVE by Chang Kai Ming TO HOLD a political opinion Is an act of self-indulgence, I suppose; it is taken seriously by some and whimsically by others. But for even the adroit, political assessments can spring a surprise or two. The trouble Is
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    Lock icon Wanted: A people's Pope
    667 8  -  George Armstrong Guardian pOPSS give their blessing "Urbl et Orbl" to the city and the world." Many Roman Catholics are now praying that Pope Paul's successor to the Throne of Peter will concentrate more on the welfare of mankind as a whole and less on the
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    Lock icon WHEN I'M THE BOSS, YOU LIKE IT OR LUMP IT!
    159 9 YOUR SUNDAY •v.*", CANDID l 8» CAMERA 1 TOO may not like borsch, bat when I make U, yon like It, Andrei." The boa* always has the last word —and sometimes the only word. Without eavesdropping, It's obvioas TSBR President
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    Stuck at Dear Sir...? Here's how to get that job
    605 9  -  Terry Tan on a book for job-hunters Terry Tan YOU'VE crumpled that fifth sheet of paper, an application letter for mat Job you think Is just right for you. You can now stop pondering and despairing after •«DeAr Sir GET
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    Lock icon When helping hands do more harm...
    1867 10 / 11  -  THE RED CROSS International Committee recently asked the world for £6 million ($13.8 million) to help refugees in Africa. Like other aid agencies, the Red Cross has a long and honourable tradition of work for victims of disaster, natural or man-made. But that tradition
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      1461 12 Sunday Nation Your 12 TV pullou OPINION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES on Monday on Ch 5 at 10 p.m. in COLOUR. Michael Faraday, discoverer of electro-mag-netism, likened basic research to a new-born baby takes 20 to 25 years before it makes its contribution to society. But through these years it
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      168 12 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Monkiy Buiinm (Matin**) on Ch 5 at 10.35 a.m. Made in 1952, this film, directed by Howard Hawks, has a star-studded cast. Cary Grant, as an ab-sent-minded research chemist, discovers a rejuvenation serum which affects him, his wife (played by Ginger Rogers), boss (Charles Coburn) and secretary (Marilyn
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      254 13 sommmm fePITAXIAL is the name of a superfine magnetic particle developedby Maxell: a needle-shaped crystal consisting of gemma-hematite end oobeit-ferrite. Both UD-XU and UD-XLD use the New EPITAXIAL However, in the EPITAXIAL used In the UD-XLB. a larger amount of oobeit-ferrite is used to envelope the gamma-hematite core then in
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      1192 13 MONDAY A speaker unlike any other PiA. Open Star Performance: Masquerade. I DIARY OF KVKNTS <T) Afternoon Matinee: Jumping Jacks (Pt 1). Hilarity follows' when a nightclub entertainer impersonates a paratrooper. Stars Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mona Freeman, Don de Fore. Intermission Optii Harold Lloyd's World Of Comedy. The antics
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      1061 14 WEDNESDAY A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES: Marry Mr Sharty (r). 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.3S BONANZA: Rack-a-hyo Hom. 4.35 Intermission. 6 05 Open 6.08 PETTICOAT JUNCTION. 6.30 NEWS IN BRIEF 6.35 TIMANG YINGGI YINGGI (r). 7.05 CANDID CAMERA. 7.30 NEWS AND NEWSREEL
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      944 15 FRIDAY A speaker unlike any other 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee: The Pickpocket. Mandarin feature film. 4.30 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 FOR LOVE OP SPORT: Four Girl* In A Boot. Story of four, young oarswomen who try to compete with their male counterparts, but find their ambitions are hard
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      133 16 maaazine M YIPPEE!'* is available at all newstanda, bookshops, supermarkets and departmental stores. YIPPdEI is a monthly entertainment magazine, creativeig designed specially for children. Yippee! aims to arouse in children an imaginative awareness of the world around them, to appeal to their innate love of what is beautiful, and to
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      324 17 / 18 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 Rembrandt Picasso Goya
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      208 17 / 18 HJCULI r W* THESE RUBBER-TIPPED ARROW SETS ARE E»K3 SELLERS AN' THEY'RE HARMLESS/ ED BOW AN' J K3 1 tCI\ NO, I DOKTT "THINK I v. CARE FDR f THAT/ I D LIKE ID SEE SOMETHING ELSE/ A HOW ABOUT A RX3O f \W J 111 e y •t 3
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      78 17 / 18 COME SAC* MERE, PLATO i 4' y < W JP A you can *P/rcrt" A TENT—NOW THERESA FUNNY WO£P 4-r"' m 1 V sail adi? m £1> :> M INI <*■ T-r.t i «V» mm •> mJU r>.» M k ioii FORGOT "PITCM AS IN THERE® EVEN A MUSICAL "'PrrcM"
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      50 17 / 18 <r LOOKS TVS* UXETHEV MIGHT BE. SUCKIN6 r WELL.TVIEV AIN'T XTH'ONLY ONE 6 INTERESTED IN THAT POOCT LOOK VVHAT'S COMIN WELL, ru. 8E...??: r UP-TO ABOUT r *fc iff r JL «5 Sti (C/ -V n-' WW ••«/> v" m •,v V r •i w j y& r w',-" >yw
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      73 19 Penguin Books cover the following subjects: Business and Management Cinema and Theatre Cookery and Wine Economics Education Fiction, Non-Fiction and Humour Crime and Mystery Science Fiction Games and Puzzles Gardening Geography and Environment History Language Teaching Law Literature Linguistics Poetry Mathematics and Statistics Music Mysticism and the Occult Photography Politics
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    Swiss ice is nice but I skip it in Holland
    533 20 on tour WILL have stamps In an hour. You leave with me, I post for you." This is the third time (three different countries) I've been told of the shortage of postage. If the hotel desk clerk posted this, it
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    Lock icon It's murder on the high Cs
    255 20 Off the Record by CKT DOOR Ponchlelli wrote La Gloconda like blinkered. With few distracting sub-plots, everything in the opera rushes towards the end, and the end itself was trotted out with an enormous impatience. Take my body! screams the besieged heroine, breaking the
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    Where to eat if you yearn for food just like home—or better
    1343 21  -  Suckling pig or poh piah, Mogul meat feasts or vegetarian delights, IVAN FERNANDEZ fills you in on the best places to go in London IVAN FERNANDEZ CTRANGE as It may seem, there Is a place here In the
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      143 21 Do you have a travel tale to tell? Here's a chance to tell It And to a much wider audience than you'd ever have thought possible. Sunday Nation is running a weekly travellers' column written by our readers. It can be a travelogue type story or just a little incident
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    Lock icon Upstairs Downstairs star , sheds that well-bred image
    361 22 Upstairs Downstairs star sheds that well-bred image OHE has been called the new Elizabeth Taylor. At Just 24 years, Lesley-Anne Down Is the latest in the line of British actresses to become Hollywood stars. In fact, she ta fast replacing 31-year-old Farrah Fawcett-Ma-Jors as the world's No. 1 pin-up and
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    Thriller that might have been first-rate
    596 22  -  jJd Jliiki By Tan Bah Bah IF COMA (now showing at Cathay), as the publicity handouts would have us believe, Is meant to further highlight the arrival of women as central figures In films, It dls- appoints. The general idea, as I see it.
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      57 22 DRAGON PHOENIX RESTAURANT Block 26, Outran Park, Slnaaoore Ttl *****88 A *****29 55! Earthern Pot Special Chillio Crab Spring ChicUen Delicious Yam Pot Hot Plato Deer Meat Live Fresh Fish 'Quick Lunch S 3 per person. We/cater for Birthday Wedding Parties, buffet lunches and private functions. Live music and songs-foryour
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      60 22 Word is getting round that KEN-AIR EUROPEAN TOURS Ii I (list ()*> ()()()(1 cis KEN-AIR A I? n I— n O fl i tlil S~* r€ I i I l\l Tfll IDC f U Un o. fully .'St U I t t'( i mon thi y rir |Mr t um's
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    When the bark is worse than the bite
    785 23  -  The Book Page TWENTY POEMS. By Kirpal Singh. A Writer's Workshop Publication, India, 1978. 32 pp.. handbound. Hardbound edition, Rs. 20. Popular Flexback edition, Rs. 10. By Xuan Xong TWENTY is a very slim number of poems with which to establish one's
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    Lock icon Sold for a few dumplings
    226 23  -  THK DEATH Of WOMAN WANC. By Jonathan Spence. Weidenfeld, 1978. £6.95. By John Gittings Guardian f IFE wag never very kind to the Chinese peasant, but sometimes It seemed as If fate were "throwing rocks up- on a man who had already fallen Into a
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    I fought for ideals says mercenary
    463 23  -  THE LAST ADVENTURER. By Rolf Stelner. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. 277 PP., £5.95. By Alex Josey *pHE title Is misA leading. Rolf Stelner Is not the last adventurer, even 11 you accept his contention that he was not a mercenary. There will always be
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      73 23 hire i E 28 iM Mnm M 3 a rr* u 3 1 X m a m 3 IMS* w 2 •H M a r M. *m 3! mM SI efrl 3 a s tm M From Writing to the m 2 Th# Sot: Challenge and Hope »r a 'i
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    1498 24  -  A short «tory by Easter Goh /CHAIRMAN Ooh Oon Dng rev gretted accepting the invitation to the farewell dinner. He had agreed reluctantly only because the PR director had felt strongly that hU presence was necessary. It was more boring
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    337 24 Guardian 'I til.' Bank of Italy and the two million Italians who earn their living from tourism %re justifiably alarmed «t the first seml-offi-clal statistics on foreign visitors this year, which suggest that there could be a drop of from 25 to
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      Where are the soccer fans?
      437 25 INSIK TRACK CALLING attendr ances at Division One League matches are a clear indication that domestic soccer is losing its popularity. Attendance* so far this year have not been even half of that recorded at the same stage last year. Many reasons have been advanced
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      Lock icon An Olympic champ in the making
      501 25 Guardian TIALEY THOMPSON can be deeply upset by other people's troubles. He wrote In his diary about the oil slick that smudged the Brittany coast earlier this year and about Steve Blko's death. Perhaps It Is because Thompson understands trouble. His father was Nigerian,
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      311 26 EXPATS' CORNER UPI 8U8UMU WATANABE ■mashed a three-run home run In the top of the fourth Inning to lead the Yakult swallows to a 4-1 victory over the Yomlurl Olant* In a Central League baseball Same at Korakuen 8talum. Tokyo, on Thursday. Olants' first baseman
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      396 26  -  They'll give favoured Pakistanis a fight CAUACU nmun Peter Lo rpHIS year's Slnga--1 pore Open (Aug 29 to Sept 3) promises to be the best so far. Of the 64 entries, 29 are from overseas. Rahlm Gul, No 24 In the world and top
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      Varsity keep carnival title
      243 26  -  Joyce Tan rjtHE girls from St. A Joseph's Convent gave the SWNA Pesta Sukan netball carnival a musical start last Sunday at Farrer Park when they sang the song "Netball" to the tune of "Daisy, Daisy" at the opening ceremony. Nearly SO teams took part In
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      The 'perfect blend' in doubles play
      610 27  -  Bob Hewitt tells what makes a good team TONS TALK Alfred Tong rX perfect blend, I remember reading somewhere, Is what makes a meal memorable, a marriage workable and doubles players successful. Five-time Wimbledon doubles champion Bob Hewitt subscribes to the blend theory as
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      101 27  -  k a cutane By Don J.Leary Mboa Bay Club, Nmport Beach, Ca. 1. Use three different tosses for three serves. Use mental image of a clock. 2. Twist: Toss to 12, brush racquet face up and across ball, left to right. Ball kicks to right. Finish on
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      636 28 Sunday Express npHXRE he was, sit--1 ting In a shoe box of an office, still larger than life, still outrageous, sniffing the smell of battles to come. TOmmy Docherty. Love him or hate him, he is a man you cannot keep down. This time
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      The extra chance
      310 28  -  ■RIME The Aces N.S. rpHE hallmark of a good player Is the ability to cater for the extra chances that may mean the difference bet ween making a contract and going down. North/Bouth arrived In six diamonds after the following auction: With four-four-four-one distribution. It Is usual
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      Sponsors: More when game goes pro way
      238 28  -  BAMMVON Gerry Chan fOM MERCIAL sp on s-o r s have done a fair bit for badminton in this region. The Praser and Neave badminton training scheme, the only one of Its kind In this region, was the first commercial taterprin to take
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      Nor back in the pit
      349 29  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng II I O H-JUMPER Nor Azahar Hamld has come out of a selfimposed "retirement" from competitive athletics and will be comp e 11 n g in the Singapore AAA Open championships next month. When he hung up his spikes last year,
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      Flaws are exposed
      363 29  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh nnHE recently coneluded Asian women's basketball championships once again exposed the big gap In standards between the top basketball countries and the rest. South Korea, China and Japan, who finished in that order in Kuala Lumpur, showed that the other countries in the region
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      Kicks make the playoff
      188 29 WML* SOCCER mHE Minnesota A Kicks won the Central Division of the American soccer league recently. The Kicks were plagued with numerous Injuries to players and seemed doomed to miss the vital championship playoff at one state. One key player mining was top striker Charlie George.
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      SUPERSTAR LOPEZ THE TOP ATTRACTION
      340 30  -  Ernest Frida grEE BEE KHIM is almost certain to represent Singapore in the Colgate Far East Amateur team championship at the Royal Selangor Golf Club In Kuala Lumpur on Nov 9. In the recent Singapore amateur women's open, Bee Kim finished a stroke behind Thailand's
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      Cashier pays $110 in upset win
      1193 30 fASHIER, late Without Regret, sprang a big upset In Race 3 at Buklt Tlmah yesterday. With Samry Kadlr astride, the Better Boy six-year-old came with a late bid to sweep past FATA BUNGA and win drawing away by two lengths. Neglected In the betting,
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      39 30 Reuter UNKNOWN contender Ed Babo blrdled the final two holes for a two-round total of 139 on Friday to take a onestroke lead from Jack Nicklaus In the Westchester Golf Classic In Rye, New York.—Reuter.
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      162 31  -  By SCRUTINEER SUPREME YOUTH is fit again after a short lapse, and should outsprlnt his field In Race 2 over 1200m at Buklt Tlmah today. He showed a return to form In his last two starts at Penang last month, finishing second to Sixth Sense over
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        80 32 AP A SOCCER hooligan who kicked a policeman In the face and broke his nose was Jailed for three years on Friday on the eve of the new English football season. Edward Beech, 19. booted, police constable Brian Bailey last December during a Cup game between Walsall and
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        33 32 Commonwealth welterweight basing champion Clyde Gray kept his title yesterday when he beat FIJI challenger flakarala Ve by a technical knockout m the eighth round of a scheduled 16-round fight.
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        88 32 Reuter CHRIS LEWIS of New Zealand served four aces In one game and fired a shot between his legs with his back to the net to upeet fourth-seeded Raul Ramlres of Mexico 7-6. 6-7. 7-6 at the Canadian Open tennis championships in Toronto on Friday. Lewis, who
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      403 32  -  SPORTS NATION By K.L. Chan TOP women's singles seed, Teo Lay Lim, captured a place in the semifinals when she beat Christine Lim 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 at the Pesta Sukan hardcourt tennis championships held at Kallang Sports Complex yesterday. Teo, showing superb skill,
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      138 32 UPI rrtHE much ballyhooed X challenge of five martial arts champions from Holland ended In pain and embarassment on Friday night with all five knocked out by Thai kick boxers. The Dutch champions, fighting chakurlkl-style, were no match for the Thai boxers, falling
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      55 32 Sports Diary SOCCER: NFL Division One Armed Forces v Sembawang CSC (Jalan Besar Stadium, 8 p.m.). ATHLETICS: BAAA Inter-Club championships (National Stadium, 2 p.m.). TENNIS: Pesta Sukan Hardcourt championships finals (Kalians Sports Complex, 2 p.m.) SWIMMING: Mau swimming meet (Singapore Civil Service Sports Council Pool, 2 p.m.). GOLF: Singapore Open
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