New Nation, 22 September 1978

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  • 21 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Friday, September 22, 1978 No. 2369 Price 25 cents MX. (P) 216/1/78 r i NEW NATION COMMENT ■mrffITRSRrH
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  • 320 1  -  Bj Teresa Ooi Two women teachers, one of them a hawker's daughter, left for Britain last night on a one-year scholarship to study pre-school education. Miss Su Meng Keow. 25. whose father la s hawker, has been a teacher for six years at Hllns North
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  • 450 1 The Ministry of Labour will launch a safety orientation programme for about 60,000 workers In the construction industry. The programme will particularly be aimed at those who have Just a ied the construction ui try. IMs was disclosed by Labour Minister Mr One Pang Boon, at
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  • 321 1 Agencies Riyadh, Friday US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance failed to get Jordanian or Saudi Arabian endorsement of the Camp David accords yesterday, but leaders of the two countries did not close the door on the new initiative. lir Vance met King
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  • 41 1 opens lower AP Tokyo, Friday The dollar opened lower today on the Tokyo foreign exchange market—at 187.50 yen compared with the previous day's close of 187.829. The American currency held to a range of 187.40 to 187.90 yen In early trading.—AP.
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  • 25 1 AP Tokyo, Friday a Japanese electronics Ann say* it has developed the world's smallest television set that can be kept In the pocket.—AP.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 150 2 The Con s u mers' Association of Singapore will hold a meeting with residents of Hong Leong Gardens to help resolve their dispute with the housing developer. More than 100 house owners in the estate are expected to turn up for the meeting to
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  • 40 2 Nineteen Singaporeans will leave (or France at the end of next month under a special scheme (or training engineers and managers. This brings to a total of 74 people who have benefited from French governments scholarships since 1976.
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  • 94 2 An unidentified taxi driver escaped unhurt when a tree fell on his taxi at Fort Canning during a shower early today. Police said the NTUC Comfort taxi was travelling along Clemenceau Avenue towards Fort Canning Road when the tree fell at about 5.05 a.m. Reserve
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  • 212 2  -  By Ivan Lim 8 e v e ral unauthorised "labour agents" have approached textiles and electronic firms with offers to recruit Thai workers for them. Several personnel managers of textile firms reported that a man who claimed to be an agent rang them up and
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  • 149 2  -  ■y. Bharathi Mohan our London reporter "Surma*" the traditional eye cosmetics used by some Indian and Malay women and children in Singapore will be banned In Britain. This follows Britain's first safety regulations governing chemicals used In cosmetics. The rules were announced by the Department of
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  • 253 2 An erratic trading pattern prevailed during the first hour at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. Market leader Haw Par fell to a low of $1.87 before recovering to its yesterday's closing level of 91.95. It opened at $1.93. BUSINESS DONE: First Section HAW PAR (35) 1.93 24)
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  • 59 2 Madam Chan Slok Fong has been elected chairman of the Asla-Paclflc regional committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts at Its 23rd world conference held In Teheran recently. She Is the division commissioner of the south division of the Singapore Girl Guides Association.
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  • 124 2 Dr J.B. Sumarlln. Indonesian Minister of State for Improvement of State Apparatus, Is expected to become the new ambassador to Singapore. Sources yesterday said the appointment of Dr Sumarlln, who is also the chairman of the Batam Development Authority, Is In keeping with the importance
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  • 134 4 About 50 people are expected 1 to arrive In Kuala Lumpur this evening as part of the 30%-hour road relay run which started in Singapore yesterday. It la organised by the Hash House Harriers In conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the c<ub, which
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  • 56 4 The YWCA Fort Canning Centre U organising a cultural show. Festival of lights, to be held In the DBS auditorium on Not 2 from 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Proceeds will be donated to the flood victims of India. Tickets at $10 each will be on sale
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  • 229 4 The National Library will continue to enforce Its no study ban on students. Commenting on readers' appeals in the press to modify the rule introduced on Monday, an official said the library had considered the decision for two years. "We are fully aware of
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  • 301 4 Duplication can drive away the exhibitors say organisers Similar types of exhibitions held within a short period can drive away potential foreign participants. This is the view of two exhibition organisers here. They gave a few examples of duplication: THE Singapore International Motor Show held from
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  • 202 4 The Singapore Convention Bureau should provide more information on exhibitions and conventions held here. This will help avoid any misconceptions like In the case of the Singapore International Motor Bhow 18 where the organiser and participants were penalised for not paying licence fees for
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  • 151 4 Reuter Brussels. Friday A Malaysian man and a Hong Kong-bom woman found guilty of heroin smuggling were Jailed for four years by a Brussels court yesterday. Mohamed Shree, 28, of Malaysia, was stopped on arrival from Singapore at Zaventem airport here by Customs
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  • 38 4 The Jurong Branch library at the Jurong Town community centre will open on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. from Oct. 1. Members of the public may register as members. borrow or return books.
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  • 308 5 The Science Council will conduct studies to Identify the areas where industries need help to improve their products. This if part of the council's long-term strategy to promote research and development (R and D) among Singapore manufacturers to help them produce more competitive
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  • 203 5 Kuala Lumpur, Friday —The Inlet -Parliamentary Organisation of Asean will discuss the establishment of a permanent secretariat when Its first general assembly opens in Singapore on Tuesday. Parliament officials here said yesterday. Renter quoted officials as saying that beside this Indonesian proposal the four-day assembly will
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  • 302 5 ...in Dacca ventures Singapore firms are expected to play a big role in developing several sectors of the Bangladesh economy through Joint ventures. This is the outcome of talks between visiting Bangladesh President Major General Ziaur Rahman and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday. The Ban g
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  • 99 5 The Finance Ministry will conduct a promotion exercise for clerical assistants by the end of the year. According to the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees (AUPE) the ministry informed the union of this exercise, from clerical assistants to clerical officers following a call
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  • 51 5 In Wednr&day's Page 9 Btoiy by our New York correspondent, Edgar Koh on our garment makers It was reported that Singapore was allowed a 62.25. per cent Increase in textile exports to the US every year. It shoulo have been 0.29 per cent Increase. The typographical error Is
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  • 113 5  -  By Bharathi Mohan oar London reporter Britain is hopeful of resolving the Conoorde Issue with Malaysia within the next two months. One reason according to a British Trade Department spokesman, is a "possible change In thinking" of theMalaysian government now that the general
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  • 42 5 A talk based on the school text, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. will be held at the National Library on Sept 29 at 3 p.m. The speaker will be Professor Edwin Thumboo of the English Department, University of Singapore.
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  • 155 6 AFP Bydney, Friday. Boeing 747 Jisiso jets coald be stretched to carry IMS passengers in (he next decade, Boeing's chairman Mr T.A. Wilson said yesterday. He said tt was "entirely feasible" to eonvert the Jambo Into a doable-decker to meet fttan projected worldwide
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  • 314 6 So that Bonn can help US economy World Focus UPI Bonn, Friday Chancellor Helmut Schmidt asked Parliament yesterday to pass a record budget of 204.6 billion marks ($236 billion) so that Germany can help the economies of the United States and other countries by importing more
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  • 115 6 Reuter Washington, Friday The United States, West Germany and Japan are likely to come under sharp criticism this weekend as the world's finance ministers and central bankers discuss the continued instability of foreign exchange markets. The weakness of the dollar will be the main complaint
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  • 258 6 Reuter Tokyo, Friday. Japanese Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda Is expected to explain Tokyo's position on the SlnoJap&nese peace treaty when he meets his Bovlet counterpart, Mr Andrei Gromyko In New York next week. Foreign Ministry officials said yesterday, Mr Bonoda would Invite Mr Gromyko to
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  • 55 6 Reuter Los Angeles, Friday A Californian woman has given birth to twins with different fathers, a woman official of the university of California, Los Angeles, said yesterday. She said medical records showed there had been seven previous cases, Including one in 1810 when one twin was born white
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  • 116 7 UPI TODAY la Friday, Bept. 22. the 265 th day of IW7B with 100 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo.' _*ngfis h chemist and physicist Michael Faraday was born on Bept. 22. 1791. ON THIS DAT IN HISTORY: In 1776. the British
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  • 36 7 Reuter London. Friday A British shipping comO director George llou. 61 was yesterday charged with Customs offences after a consignment of machine guns and ammunition clips bound for Somalia was found at London's Heathrow airport.
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  • 62 7  -  D.J. London, Friday Attempts are being made la Britain to prodnee a shlg a eroas between a sheep asi a pig. The new animal. It Is hoped, will prodnee wot and pork and baeen and breed at the rate Animal breeding expert, Dr John 11m. said some shoes
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    • 178 7 mm Moscow Occasional rain, 12 »C. Pravda'j headline: The State plan is a law to all and everybody. Bonn Cloudy. 15 6C. Headline: Vance flies to Near East. Rome Partly cloudy. 28-13 C. Headline: Vance mission. London—Some fog but (airly sunny, 20-BC. Headline: Vorster resigns. Paris Bunny, 19-6 C. Headline:
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  • 202 8 AFP Reuter Jakarta, FYtdav Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dona last night pledged friendship, cooperation and mutual trust to Indonesia, erasing a lingering feeling of suspicion In this country about Vietnam's real Intentions towards the non-c ommunlst countries of South-east Asia. Addressing President Suharto at
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  • 80 8 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Friday —Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong who arrives here on Oct. 12 (or a four-day visit, will hold talks with Malaysian leaders on the International situation and bilateral matters. Informed sources said said he would sign agreements covering air services, postal links
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  • 160 8 A change in Peking's policy: Official World Focus UPI Tokyo, Friday Major American, banks are getting ready to extend loans to China, Mr. Christopher H. Phillips, president of the National Council for US-China Trade said In a news conference In Peking yesterday. "China In the
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  • 68 8 Reuter Tokyo, Friday.—China has sought Japanese cooperation in its project to build a giant modern steel-making plant at Chltung In the northern Chinese province of Hopel, officials at the Association for Promotion of International Trade (Kokubosoku) said yesterday. The Chinese project provides for the construction of an
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  • 62 8 UPI Vienna, Friday.—Thai Foreign Minister Upadlt Pacharlyangkun capped the flrit leg of a 10-day swing through Europe by signing a trade agreement with Chechoslovakia before flying to Vienna yesterday. The agreement signed by Mr Upadlt and Csech Trade Minister Andre] Barcak calls for Czechoslovakia to export engineering
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  • 69 8 AP Kuala Lumpur, Friday —Four South-east Asian advertising agencies have merged to offer uniform marketing services in Song Kong, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. They are the Asian marketing communications here, InscoreZecha of Indonesia, Zecha Associates of Hong Kong and Ad Communications and Design of Singapore. They will
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  • 118 8 AFP Hong Kong, Friday The New China News Agency aaid yesterday a new policy to protect remittances from overseas and encourage savings by oversees Chinese who have returned and their relatives has resulted In an Increase of these deposits. The new policy provide!
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  • 102 8 AFP New Delhi, Friday, -rPrtme Minister Morarjl Desal is likely to make a drastic and sweeping reshuffle of his cabinet early next month, the English language dally. National Herald, predicted yesterday. Quoting "top confidents" of lir. Desal, It. said a major reshuffle would be necessary if
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  • 604 9 ...and settle an the West Bank, even after peace treaty Worid Focus Agencies Jerusalem, Friday For eign Minister Moshe Dayan said yesterday I s r a ells would have an openended right to buy Arab land and settle on the West "Bank
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  • 76 9 AFP Peking, Friday China It satisfied with the Camp David summit agreements, bat fears that they will (Ire rise to more tensions than solatlons In the Middle Bast. Chinese vice-Premier Teng Hsiao-ping alluded to the summit yesterday In talks lasting one hour with former French Premier
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  • 428 10 During these few post-Camp David days, nearly very leader In the Middle East has something negative or abusive to say about the summit's results, all except Mr Anwar Sadat, the man who actually started the whole process last November. The hardline Arab rejectlonlst front, now meeting
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  • 145 10 whispers IS B p So-called elite schools in Singapore are. thankfully, a long way from some of Hong Kong's exclusive private schools.' In one such school, new pupils are asked their mode of transport to school, and If by car, what model) Only Uwm with prestigious models
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  • 770 10 on the Sino-Sovfet see-saw UPI Tokyo: North Korea has just celebrated the 30th anniversary of Its communist government, with a warm embrace from China and a cold handshake from Its other big ally, the Boviet Union. The North Koreans are in a dilemma over the
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  • 546 10  -  FRIDAY WITH ALEX JOSEY ALEX JOSEY All the signs Indicate that terrorIsm apd vandalism In the so-called developed nations might become an accepted way of life. A Judge is murdered in West Germany A leading figure in Italy is kidnapped and murdered. Britain's vandals
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  • Article, Illustration
    1108 11 World Focus Diana Geddes, education correspondent of the London. Times, who was in Japan recently, analyses the country's school system which emphasises... London: Japan has one of the lowest adult illiteracy rates in the world (0.7 per cent compared with an estimated one per cent In Britain). Its crime
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      395 12/13  -  Long-legged girls offer smouldering looks and rieh mix of songs, dances Sundown scene Uy Richard Lim Fiery may be an over-used, and often misused, term but no other word can describe more aptly the Fiesta Argentina show now on at the Hilton rooftop. The 50-minute show of song and
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    • 695 12/13  -  The Arts bv Margaret Cunico The National Museum Art Gallery is like a tower rotting at the bottom. said Brother Joseph McNaUy, principal of St. Patrick's School. "It has achieved the lofty objective of exhibiting the works of some of our finest artists,
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    • 487 12/13  -  Mating Out Im Violet Oon Many years ago Indian Muslim food at North Bridge Road opposite Sultan Mosque, was the only type of Indian cuisine loved by the nonIndian population here. That Is, until the red hot curries of the banana leaf variety
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    • 288 12/13 Economist London: Steak with strawberries is certainly original, but who would want to eat It? France's new chefs are working ao hard to out do each other In the quest for stardom that they are beginning to spoil the reputation of what food connoisseurs call
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  • 499 14 That's what the Hong Kong police find on their hands World Focus Reuter Hong Kon»: A Chinese chopped into 28 pieces and stuffed Into suit cases, a South Korean suffocated in a bloody robbery, an Australian businessman stabbed in the chest Hong Kong has had
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  • 337 15 AP Washington: Some top scientists are trying to convince a US congressional committee It Is only a matter of time before some mysterious caller from space dials up mother earth. And they want to be ready to answer. Even for many Informed sceptics. the question of the existence,
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  • 68 15 Reuter Passadena (California A newlv-dlscover-ed planet has been named Ra-Shalom, In honour of the Middle East peace breakthrough at Camp David. Ra Is the ancient Egyptian sun god and Shalom is the traditional hebrew greeting of peace. Astronomer Eleanor Helin of the California Institute of Technology who located
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    489 15 Case of what you see isn't really what it is World Focus UPI Bonn: Although the nobility that made old Prussia great lived acc or ding to the motto, Be More Than You Seem, their descendants have turned the phrase around, decorating their cars with devices designed to make
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  • 186 16 Reuter London, Friday Ambassador Tadao Kato of Japan, which U under fire for selling 100 many cars in Britain, bought a British ear today. "It looks much nicer than any Japanese car. dont you think? I bought it because I like it," Mr Kato
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  • 261 16 ...to achieve 7 pc growth Business News and Views Reuter Tokyo, Friday Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda said yesterday Japan must fulfil its promises made at the Bonn economic summit in July by the time of the next summit, which he feels will be held
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  • 170 16 UPI London, Friday Jitters over the Middle East peace accord prompted heavy dollar selling In Europe and the U8 currency hit another new low In Zurich yesterday but the price of gold reached record levels. Oold closed at U*****.575 an ounce in London and U*****.125 In Zurich, a
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  • 231 16 Reuter New Or lean*, FridayPrivate American economists are distinctly less cheerful about the outlook for the U8 economy next year than their colleagues in Washington, according to a new forecast published yesterday. The National Association of Business Bconomlsts, which supplies forecasts to large corporations,
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  • 108 16 Reuter Luxembourg, Friday— Unemployment in the nine Common Market states rose In August to almost six million or Bl per cent of the working population, according to official EEC statistics released yesterday. This compares with about SJ million Jobless, or 5.5 per cent, In
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  • 205 16 AFP Reuter Reuter AFP MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcoa Mid yesterday that the International Rice Research Institute was conducting an experiment on a rice variety that would grow like miracle rice and not need any fertiliser. This kind of rice, according to Mr Marcos, would nave the capabilities
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 186 16 New York, Friday The stock market scored an Irregular gain yesterday and Its first In eight sessions with the help of bargain hunters and some favourable tax news. Trading was active as some gambling Issues rebounded. The Dow Jones, Industrial average, up and down In a 3-polnt range
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    • 38 16 UPI New York. Mdiy Dow Jones closing lwi|M on the New York Stock Mxchanoe jMUnky: M industrial M 1.14 (up 3J0); M transport 143.01 (Off l.lt); 15 utilities IH.N (up 0.14); •5 stocks 2M.71 (up 0.4#).
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    • 137 16 AFP Tokyo, Friday Share prices closed mixed on the Tokyo stock exchange market yesterday amid liquidation pressures. Trading was slow. The 225-stock Dow Jones average gained 1.40 Jen to 5,633.51 yen, but tie wider-based TBE Index was down 0.35 point at 434.98. Volume came to 170 million shares against
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    • 81 16 Closing prices In francs on tha Zurich 8wlaa Stock ItchMlw yesterday: UBS Bnttr 3116 —35 UBS Registered SBC 583 3 306 1 Credit Suisse asao —10 Bwlasalr B. 7S3 7 Swiss Batnaur. 3050 —30 winterumr B. 3430 —30 Zurich Incur. •ISO +50 Nestle B 3310 —40 totarfood B. 3800
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    • 115 16 Prices at 11.30 ajn. today (Australian tine) on tbe Sydney Stock Exchangt: A CI 184 ItS ADC 3S SO Ampol Pet S7 M ANI 176 110 APM 190 1» Bank NSW 7M *00 Brambles 310 31ft BHP H4 M0 Boral 383 370 CBA 383 CIO 1U 1M Coal Allied
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    • 66 16 Closing pi Bourse yetU Pari ban Fancier Kses on IHJO the Puu 100 JO Prln temps ISO unch. Bull Roys! Dutch Michelln UN 271.50 1900 1 JO unch. COB Thomson CPP Rhone 307JO 3M 130.70 117.10 1J0 3 JO 1J0 1J0 Air B8N 047 83S I 4 Philips 07
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  • 119 16 Reuter Bangkok. Friday—Thailand will negotiate a trade agreement with North Korea when Deputy Commerce Minister Prok Amaranand visits that country on Sunday. Commerce Ministry officials said yesterday. The draft agreement was submitted to North Korean authorities last week and the cabinet had
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  • 340 17 On the track Pen&ng, Friday Fast Frigate did a winning gallop at Batu Gantong this morning. With Ariffln Man up the C o m m un 1 cation four year old sprinted smartly over 600 m in 43, finishing full of running. The going
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  • 105 17 Golf Allan Lye (handicap 16) achieved hi* second hole-in-one on the 204metre llth while playing a friendly round of golf with Francis Woo. Nit Cher Along and William Theong at the Warren Course on Wednesday (Sept 30). The date 30th seems to be the lucky number
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  • 85 17 A combined Singapore Island Country Club and Senior Golfers Society team beat the Japanese Ambassador'* side by seven matches to five at the Island Course. James Loh, the BICC captain and Cheong Wing, a vice captain, were the best overall pair with 47 points, three ahead of Cecil
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  • 872 18  -  Murray and Chung-Fa are needed, he says TEE-UP Lim Kee Chan Lim Swee Chew, the Jurong Country Club resident professional, yesterday spoke out In defence of two expatriate pros who have come under a barrage of criticism. Swee Chew vehemently defended BICC head pro
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  • 143 18 The two too local professionals In the Bonds Grand 81am Open championship will earn a trip to compete In the AfIMN (about BSSM,IM) Now Zealand Open In Auehland on Not 3#Dee S. The joint sponsors: L and M Presti rosing and Land and Sea
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  • 382 19  -  Golf By LIM KEE CHAN Seletar need only a draw with Jurong in their away match to wrest the Singapore Golf A s so c 1 a tlon Premier League title from Singapore Island Country Club on Sunday. They have a total of 20
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  • 420 19 The teams: 8ICC: Premier Tay Kwang Jin tod Harry Dyne; Alex Line and George Tan Soon Hock. F and N Peter Ho and M. K. Yeow; Philip Una and X. Y. Chhae; Cheong wing and Charles Li: John Cbong and Ronald Kwan; Mok Yok and C.
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    • 198 19 PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUILDING NOTICE OF EXHUMATION Notice Is hereby given that the Public Works Department will exhume all the graves in the Chinese burial ground known as Teo Teo Cemetery on State Land Lots 205-1, 205-2 and 208-3 Muklm XXVII (formerly belonging to Mr Tan
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  • 308 20 clearance in Peterson's death ||„j motorracing AFP UPI New York, Friday Organisers of the United States Grand Prix at Watklns Olen next month have banned Italian Formula One driver Riccardo Patrese from the grid. The 14-year-old Arrow driver vu bitterly criticised by several Qrand Prix drivers
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  • 230 20 Tennis Agencies London, Frld a y Wojtek Flbak of Poland, the defending champion, was knocked out In the second round of the men's singles of the British hard court tennis championships here yesterday. Flbak, who flew In from the United States on Wednesday, was
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  • 21 20 About 300 athletes will participate In the Bethleham Shipyard crosscountry race tomorrow at Admiralty Road West, starting at 8 a.m.
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  • 228 20 Athletics AFP London, Friday—Steve Ovett, European 1500 metres champion, will leave for Tokyo today to race In the Dubai mile In the eight nations athletics meeting on MonOvett set a British mile record of 3mln 52.8 sec In cold, rainy Oslo on Wednesday, but he
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  • 67 20 Reuter Lisbon, Friday Portugal, warming up for their European championship soccer match against Belgium here on Oct 11, beat the United States national team 1-0 In a friendly International here last night. Fielding an "A" side composed of players from top national clubs Benflea, Sporting Lisbon and
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 346 20 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY •■*> l BORN today, you are a romantic by nature. Personal relationship* flourish under your tender care. Whether man or woman, you have a knack for making people feel wanted, needed, appreciated. Your enjoyment of group activities and your success with serious Joint
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  • 315 21 ...to promoters who have filed $20m libel suit Boxing UPI Chicago, Friday Muhammad All apologised yesterday to a pair of New Orleans fight promoters who filed a US$lO million (Ss2om) lawsuit against the threetime heavyweight champion for calling them "white dagos." "Last Monday at a Press conference
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  • 303 21 Racing Reuter New York. Friday Prominent New York veterinarian Mark Gerard was found Innocent yesterday of switching two South American race horses In a race In which he won US$7B,OOO (about *****,000) In bets. But the Jury of six men and six women, after dell berating for 10
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  • 30 21 A. Annadural got the winner (or lnter-depart-ment champion* Road* Branch In their 1-0 win over The Rest In the Public Works Department annual soccer match at Kallang yesterday.
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    • 173 21 it* r An evening of entertainment and Inn! FEATURING: PAUL CHEONG, Phonogram's Exclusive Recording Artiste; BATA MIKI JAGGER CHOREGRAPHED FASHION PRESENTATION; DISGO SKATE by the Go Skate Riders; BAT LATIFF THE SA'ADLAH AHMAD DAUD DANCERS; Special Appearance by SEQUEENA WONG, SANEH SAHADALI (winners of this year's "Dancing Queen", "Disco Queen"
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  • 443 22  -  Basketball By BRIAN MILLER Singapore's youth basketball team will be given an Ideal tune-up sexton (or the Asian Youth tournament In Manila next month when they take on the Russian National team In a friendly match at the Clay World Stadium on Sept 27. The
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  • 477 22  -  Seven local Fifa refs ineligible for international matches Soccer By PHILIP TAN Would you believe It? There are seven local International Football Federation referees, but not one of them are eligible to handle Fifasanctioned games up to Dec 31, Reason: The Football Association
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  • 158 22  -  WaterP°k> P.T. The National waterpolo team will be recommended by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association (Sasa) to take part In the Asian Games in Bangkok In December. The team back from their tralnlng-cum-competltlon tour of Hungary, Yugoslavia and Rumania, went Into centralised training at
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  • 58 22 Reuter Freiburg (West Germany), Friday New York Cosmos, suffered their third successive defeat in West Germany here last night when Second Division Freiburg beat them 2-0 (halftime 1-0). Wldmann put Freiburg ahead In the ninth minute and 15 minutes from the end, Btobeck shot a second goal
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  • 190 22 Armed Forces, currently playing in the InterForces tournament in Bangkok, have extended their stay In Thailand by three days. That means problems for National coach Trevor Hartley, reports PHILIP TAN. Forces, with eight Singapore regulars In their squad, were orlglnlally scheduled to return on Sept
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  • What's On A page that tells you what's happening on TV and in town
    • 366 23 "No war has made any sense to me. I'm not even In favour of the American Revolution." So said Alan Alda. known to millions as Hawkeye In the long-running TV war comedy series, MASH. In an interview with U8 News and World Report. Alda pointed out
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    • 86 23 Reuter Soviet television Is making a film of Jerome JC Jerome's turn-of-the-century humourous novel Three Men In A Boat, Tass news agency reported. The novel, about the adventures of three young men and a dog during a boating holiday on the River Thames, Is popular
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    • 190 23 UPI The Jananese have become possibly as avid television fans as there are anywhere. There is now at least one TV set for every Japanese household. Since Japan's public television network. NHK. beamed the country's first broadcast In 1953, Japanese television has grown to provide
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    • 108 23 Dee-Jay Paul Cheong plans on cutting a second LP at the end of this year. The record, which Is scheduled to be released In December, will feature popular numbers on one side, and songs by local composers on the other. He has already approached Ricky
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    • 197 23 A host of bargain Items Is in store for shoppers at a charity bazaar to be held at Lucky Plaza tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 9p.m. These attractive items going for a song Include colour television sets, a hi-fl system and portable radio cassette taperecorders. Others
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 429 23 At the cinema A PIECE OF THE ACTION: A rambling, light-hearted film that sees two modern-day Robin Hoods (81dney Poltier and Bill Cosby) being conned by a retiring detective Into entering community service. Directed by Sidney Poltier himself and also starring James Earl Jones and Denlse Nicholas with songs performed
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    • 774 23 V In and around THE ARTS IN PARI8. an illustrated talk by II. Deverge, cultural counsellor of. the French Embassy, at the National Museum theatrette at 8 p.m. He will discuss new trends In modern photography and experimental art, and recent developments in visual arts in Paris. 811des of outstanding
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  • 50 24 AH FOOK: Professor Phoon Wal Onn's advice to employers not .to work their staff beyond their endurance Is like batteries which also should not be overworked. MEi LIN: By the same token, employees should not trade their annual leave as this Bxlod should be used r recharging bat-
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    • 830 24 TV AND RADIO Bring home a Superstar Brinq home 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE: The Bride and I (r). Mandarin movie. 4.45 INTERMISSION. 6.66 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by DECEMBER BRIDE: Bald Baby. I N NEWS IN BRIEF. •Uf ITS ABOUT TIME. Sitcom. 7.M PERSEMBAHAN KU (M). 7.36 NEWS
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    • 186 24 Today's top shows WORLD PREMIERE FEATURE: Panic In heno Park. (Ch. 5. 0.49 p.m. In colour). Drama in which a determined physician launches an Investigation to probe toe. causes of an apparent epiaemlc. W 1 r Ch. 6, 8.40 PJB. BPCISTB PARADE (Ch. 5, 7 55 p.m. In colour): Fong
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