New Nation, 29 November 1978

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    18 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Wednesday, November 29, 1978 2426 Price 25 cents M.C. (P) 216/1/78 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1978
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    Lock icon Sanctions against Ford
    441 1 by British government Reuter The British government yesterday announced that it would stop orders with Ford Motors for 12 months for breaking Its five pacent limit on wage increases. Chanoalsr Denis Healey told Parliament that he was "inviting" state-owned Industries to do the same. Ford said last
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    Lock icon Kahn: Inflation much worse
    84 1 AP Washington, Wednesday President Jimmy Carter's chief inflation adviser Alfred Kahn said yesterday the United States Inflation rate is now about 10 per cent, significantly worse than' other Carter admintetratiod officials have admitted. Mr g»i» aid the 10 per cent Inflation is "GddawftiL" Uatll recently, officiate
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    Ohira plans to visit Asean
    153 1  -  ■y Gerry de Silva Japanese Prime Minister-designate Masayoshi Ohira is planning to visit the five Asean countries next year, according to sources yesterday. The sources also dismissed as speculation that the Ohira administration would <teop the Fukuda Doctrine. lids "Doctrine" waa announced Inst year by
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    Lock icon Reds were at party
    91 1 Reuter Vlenns, Wednesday Three communist ambassadors turned up at a Bucharest reception last night, ending a finny of reports thnt the Soviet bloc had recalled Its senior diplomats from Rumnaia. The reports, starting with usually reUabte sources in Bslgrnds nnd spreading rapidly hi Eastern Europe, were
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    Lock icon Hope fading for Times
    42 1 Reuter London, Wednesday Hope was fading for the Times yesterday. Britain's oldest dally aewspaper seems near-certala to suspend publication tomorrow because of a bitter labour conflict. Manage meat haa given the unions until midnight tomorrow to accept proposals.—Reuter
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    Lock icon Africa tour
    32 1 Reuter Dnr an Salaam, Wadnas day Veteran British politician Cledwyn Hughee ysnterdny hegnn n southern Afrtcnn tonr at gettlng both sides In the Rhodesian war around a conference tnble. Renter
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    Hunt for killer gunman
    387 1  -  Douglas Chan Police believe that the gunman who exchanged Ore with a special constable in last month was also Involved in a bank robbery in which a Cisco guard was killed. IW CED hM hit Identity and has ctrcuUted his pantograph and particulars to all pottoe
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    Lock icon Call to lay mines in M'sia waters
    470 2 Kaala Liapir, Witouiiy Mines should be laid in Malaysia's coastal waters if dismissions to solve the Vietnamese refugee problem are unsuccessful, an MP suggested in Parliament here yesterday. Mala/da now has mar* than 41,000 Indo-chlnese refugees, mainly ia island off the aast coast,
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    Stock market
    183 2 Prices were down across the board at the Stock Exchange of Singapore amidst a alow trading pace this morning. Slme Darby, Singapore Bus Service and Genting dropped 4 cents each to 53.00, 12.08 and $3.04 respectively. Wearne Brothers started at overnight level dipped 5 cents to $2.80. Finance
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    Police probe shooting
    215 2 Police are still trying to find out the circumstances surrounding the death of a man found rimt-in Ida Housing Board flat at Marine Crescent late last sight. The man. identified as Lim Chye Chiew, 23, a carpenter, was found sprawtod oa his bed in his three-room flat
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    Lock icon NBI arrests 40 people for corruption
    86 2 AFP Kuala Lumpur. Wednesday The government's anti-corruption agency, NBI, has arrested 40 people in eluding 19 government Servants last month for alleged corrupt practices. This brings the total arrested in the (trst 10 moths of this year to iff people, of which 80 are
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    Testing the latest in weapons
    245 3 to update Police Tactical Team The Police Tactical Team will be testing high-powered rifles and automatic pistols in the next few days. This is to update the PTT, styled after the SWAT squad of TV fame, and arm It with the latest weapons, sources said.
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    Self-help
    26 3 Mr Ng Kah Ting, the MP for wfll launch a gotong-royong project to metal Cheng Lim Farmway 2 in Punggol on Sunday at 8 am
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    Quality control
    59 3 A workshop on Implementation of Manufacturing Quality Assurance Programme, organised by the Singapore Quality and Reliability Association wfll be held on Dec. 18 to 3D. The seminar win cover lectures on the latest technology of quality control and reliability studies. The workshop win be conducted by Mr Edward
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    Last days spent at home
    250 3 Watchman Gunnel Singh, 4, spent a rare waad at home with his family two days before he waa found Bwdcml ycaterday. His daughter, BaMnder Kaur, 16, aid yesterday: My father worked a* a night-watchman and during the day he worked in a Bukit Merah factory.
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    Four hurt in fight
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    S'pore signs more air pacts this year
    266 3 Singapore's position as a major destination lor international airlines was boosted by the signing ot seven modified and new air services agreement* this year. This is believed to be a record. Last year tour agreements were concluded between Singapore and the United States,
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    UK team here to sell viewdata service
    378 4  -  Bharathi Mohan A technical team from the British Post Office has arrived la Singapore to sell the Public Viewdata Service wldcfa -Is to be launched hi Britain early next year. The team will conduct negotiations with Telecoms and perhaps arrange tar a demonstartion
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    Signboard fines waived
    189 4 Seventeen exhibitors at a recent motor show need not nay their fines (or diaplajing signboards without licences. They wore told by the Bulldlag and Control Division In a letter that the fines have been waived. The exhibitors took part In the International Motor Show held at the
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    Body found in sea
    40 4 The body of an unidentified wanna ef about a years old, was Sound floating In the sea off Marine Parade yesterday. Police said the woman was of medium heieht and was wearing a blue floral drees.
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    Press blamed for pushing wrong image of disabled
    429 4 The press is perpetuating the vroa| image of handicapped people by publishing stories of their "miracle" Achievements. This was oat at the paints made in a forum on liberating the hsndtrappod, held last night at the Council at Social Service. Every time
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    Japanese unionists to visit Singapore
    106 4 A five-man team from the Jibum Confederation of Labour (Dome!)'win be to Wtmm— on Dec 11 and 12 to study the co-operative ventures set up by tbe National Trades Unionfray*— Tie Japanese unionists will visit the Trade Union House in Shenton Way and hold rtiernasinns
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    'Charity can isolate handicap'
    324 4 Public charity toward* the physically handicapped has only saved to isolate diem from society, a lecturer in social work said yesterday. Mr* Elspeth Burnt, a lecturer at the University of New Sooth Wales, AnptraHa, Mid the many acboM workshops associations lor the tabled, although set op
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    High costs to engage a Queen's Counsel
    162 4 It costs an average of about $30,000 to engage a Queen's Oounael to represent a case In the SlnWsre courts. This estimate Includes about $35,000 tar the brief lees, and other expenses like food and transportation, according to legal sources. Court appefraneee and
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    Forum on social problems
    83 4 A (arum on social problems in Singapore will be Md at the Naityang University on Dec 7 at 7JB|an. Mr S. Vasoo, deputy director of the Singapore Council at Social 3st»lus, will sneak sa mm dfcaettona In s»hw services. Mr K.B. Rajah, dsputy director at the
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    Lock icon Ethiopia: 17 year war comes to an end
    220 5 Reuter Nairobi, Wednesday Ethiopia's 17-year war against Britrsnp secessionists ended on Monday when government forces recaptured the reoei suxmgnoM] c* linen, Ethiopian officials said yesterday. But a spokesman for the rebels In Rome said his movement's forces had made a strategic withdrawal
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    Marshall helped Jews in China
    520 5 'His intervention led to issue of exit visas' The part played by Mr David Marshall, a former lawyer and now Singapore's ambassador to France, In helping a tiny community of Jews emigrate from China more than 30 years ago, has been reported in some depth
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    Lock icon Anti-graft body in Manila
    165 5 AFP President Ferdinand Marcos hat announced the creation of a special anti-graft body to handle mounting cases of government Irregularities in the wake of the multi-million-peso "ghost highways" scan- dal in central Philippines. Ifr Marcos said on Monday the special body, which will serve as forerunner
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    Lock icon Now Teng gives the green light
    272 5 AFP Peking, Wednesday The latest statements by senior Hilwsf Vice-Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, splashed yesterday as headlines In the official press, will probably have the effects of slowing down the "Peking springtime" of public political debate In the capital and spreading It to the provinces.
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    Lock icon 'Cultists fled persecution'
    184 5 Reuter Moscow, Wedesnday Follower* of the People's Temple cult were described In the official Soviet press yesterday as "dissidents" who fled the United States to escape persecution. The new interpretation at the Guyana mass suicide, In which more than 900 cult followers died, was set out by
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    Lock icon A deadly Deborah
    50 5 AFP Tel Aiv, Wednesday Israel is currently building the world's ■nallest ana fastest misrile-carrylng gunboat, the independent paper Maariv said here today. The craft, an improved version of an American coast-guard launch built under licence in Israel, has been given the name Deborah, the paper said. AFP.
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    Lock icon Indira's party in polls lead
    120 5 World Focus Reuter New Delhi, Wednesday India's opposition Congress Party of ex-Premier Indira Gandhi was has ding for victory in a parliamentary by-election at Samastipur in the northeastern stale 0I Rihir lut night. Its nominee, kin Tarkeshwari Slnha, was leadii* by more than 11,000 votes
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    US 'no' to N-bomb motion
    140 6 Lisbon, Wednesday The US delegation to the current Mth session at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) here on Monday night rejected as "unacceptable" a resolution questioning the role of the neutron bomb. The resolution of the rapporteur of the Military Commission. Klaas de Vrtes
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    Lock icon Paris to support Lebanon
    160 6 World Focus Reuter Puis, Wednesdya Visiting Lebanese President Elias Sarids yesterday secured France's military and political support to end civil strife and restore stability in bis country. The French will play a major role in the reorgani- sation of tbe Lebanese army, supplying arms and training
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    Iran: 'Nato won't step in'
    467 6 its instability says Luns Nato SecretaryGeneral Joseph Luns yesterday ruled out any Intervention by the North Atlantic alliance in Iran, although he said there were wellfounded fears about the country's stability. DsrrlNiig Iran as flf enornous Importance to the Wert, Mr Luna told a press
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    Lock icon Today
    108 6 UPI TODAY is Wednesday, Nov a, the 333 rd day of IFTB with S to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign at Sagittarius. American author Louisa May Alcott was born on Nov 1832. ON THB DAY IN U8TOBY: In 1539, Ueut-Cmdr Richard Byrd and three
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    Odd Corner
    27 6 Hex lee City, Wednesday A ed'tetkc" artSrtttw tacked uiHlhvaa *e walked dm Ike street mm day. Throe d her attaeken who were arrested add Ike
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    Lock icon Amin plea
    43 6 Reuter Nairobi, Wednadtjr President kU Amin of Uganda yesterday appealed to the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity to help stop an invasion by Tanzania an invasion Tanzania claims is one man at a series of Ugandan lies. Renter
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      358 6 Training Woman Soldiers* Melatih Askar Askar Wanita illustrator: Ljji ThueWah I 'i *I'} SB V J* 9 v: s5n 3 iTl imm >? f/> >'.*» a c 1/ &HHBH 1* <6 5C*$ 51 iV. m m, mm as .•W »V•»7U ms^m s e ft-'I "a' tU siisi MVi a £l
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      168 6 Lain Partly cloudy, 4-minui 4C. Headline: Japanese Premier to quit after unexpected defeat in party poll. Msaeew Rain mixed with snow, 3-minus IC. Pravda headline: On carrying out obligations. Ma Rain turning to snow, 4OC Headline: Strikes answered by lockout. Eame Raia. 13-7 C. Headline San FTandsco mayor shot dead.
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    Lock icon A significant gesture
    266 7 Kampuchea wants US ties, so it makes World Focus AFP Kampuchea wants to normalise its relations with the United States and is ready to make some significant gestures towards Washington. informed diplomat- ic sources in Bangkok said yesterday. In the first at these gestures, two American Journalists,
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    Lock icon New bid for M-E peace?
    124 7 UPI Washington, Wednesday US officials said yesterday that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance may have to make a new peace mission to the Middle East to bring the Egyptian-Israeli treaty talks to a successful conclusion. A spokesman tor the MidEast negotiators said the next phase
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    Lock icon She has no hands to help
    67 7 ■wit wlai she pn Hitt to girl mi the Naa•tkarpe Matontty Heipltol to flilim ilj. BriM, IM M m, to Oto lint Brttk* vMto the drag to ton Her to Elalae has k«e> ■hiM tor ymt to TV mjmm Petor Dale. She plaaa to
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    Lock icon Backing for Unesco
    67 7 Reuter Paris, Wednesday The Unesco general conference ended yesterday on a note of achievement, after the entire membership had backed declarations on the mass media and condemning all forms of racial discrimination. Unesco ipofcrsman Leon Davico said: "It has been a most satisfying conference. A few years
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    Lock icon Brez hits out at Soviet journalists for their failure
    263 7 Reuter Moscow, Wednesday.— President Brezhnev has accused Journalists of falling to get the party's message across to the public. Attacking the country's two state-run mass media in a speech to the Communist Patty's policy-making Central Committee, Mr Brezhnev complained that the
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    Lock icon Viets at US meeting
    44 7 Reuter Washington, Wednesday Vietnamese officials attended an international conference yesterday in the first visit to Washington by Hanoi representatives since the Vietnam war. The officials arrived from New York for the 27th consultative meeting of the Colombo Plan aid group.
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    Lock icon Making waves in a desert pool...
    161 7 Reuter Washington, Wednesday A US$145,000 ($319,000) machine to make waves in a desert swimming pool was cited by Senator William Praxmire yesterday In declaring his monthly "golden fleece" award for wasteful government spending. The award went to the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, which is
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    Keeping to the main road
    480 8 The plethora of supplementary bus services, existing and proposed ones, can mean two contradictory things at the same time. The main services run by the Singapore Bus Service must have reached such a satisfactory stage that resources vehicles and crew can be diverted to other
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
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      She has only Is for U
      86 8 OM habits die hard as reporter! at Timet Houee find out when switching (ram two-flnger to touchtyplng. They keep hammering 1 for 1 and o tor 0 and viceversa, much to the chagrin at subeditors who have to peer at these typographical apparitions on
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      Yeah, yeah, yeah.
      61 8 Many Irate Beatles tans have called New Nation to point out that the Liverpool four #ere never stripped of their MBEb, aa mentioned in last Friday's editorial. Only John Lennon, in a war protest move In IMB, returned his medal "with love". Yeah, yeah. Bless the fans'
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    Lock icon In Oxford's famous hall...
    736 8 AP L—i—; The Oxford Union is in debt, disrepair and some say decline. But it's where former US President Richard Nixon has chosen to lecture on his first visit to Europe since he resigned four years ago. The union was founded in 1823 for member* of
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    HISTORIC, THAT TOKYO MEETING
    939 8  -  WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON The more one looks back on it, the more the two meetings between Teng Hsiaoping and Takeo Fukuda, leaders respectively of China and Japan, lasting altogether almost three hours spread over the two days of Oct 23 and 25, were
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    The twist to two tongues
    907 9  -  Paper on what three top Chinese school students have proved Voice off the Press Round-up Nov 19-25 By Liew Soon Chin Granted the success stories for six hfflngiial scholars in two RTS programmes, the provoking question yet remains what of the language capability (or the
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    Shah's toughest test comes next month
    786 9 Tthma: The durable Shah of Iran, extending both an iron flat and a conciliatory hand to the opposition, is clinging tenaciously to power in the current political crisis. Western diplomats feel and the Shah apparently knows that his toughest test will come in December,
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      Lock icon A whole lot of happying
      1752 10/11  -  That'll what one yonng camper said of the street camp he attended. A street camp is of coarse that Innovative holiday activity organised by various bodies to bring children from a high-rise estate together and to fill in time which hangs heavily daring school holidays.
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    This is too much to swallow!
    524 12 There is more bite in Jaws 2 but it is still such a 1 W big letdown w r~~ Cinema t)>, (>lorid h.«n<K JAWS S: Bay HehrUcr, Urrtlae Gary, Murray HamllMlrey buw. Mreeted by Jeaaatt fltware. Written by Carl Gattlleb aid ■award Baeklar. (Naw
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    The end is near? Then what's the point of it all?
    718 12  -  Humour by Russell Baker New York: Anybody desperate for something to worry about will be pleased to bear tbe we are overdue (or a supernova explosion in tbe galactic neighbourhood. It this happen you can Ida the weekend goodbye,
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      274 12 M il M it am a ■MB 1 Flaming Gorge Dam is here 5 Fix the decor 9 Shelter, In Parte 13 Judge's frock 14 Makes as a saUfry 16 Talk big 17 Bookcase 19 Wine: comb, form 20 Braze 21 Picture 23 Candlestick Park player 25 Where the dinar
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    Lock icon Too little aid from Japan, says OECD
    925 13 Despite the uphill struggle some signs of change are visible, but much depends on the Bonn pledge World Focus UPI TOKYO: At Tasir Gudang on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, a huge power station is being built by the Malaysian Government
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    Lock icon It's a dog's life for man, too
    482 13 Reuter I MOTMi Bmm «f the vwM'i tmjm ddw an gatog to the decs JUglag by the pretoome they pew nr street cleee maaipnton. laenMtaflj ettj dwellers ere 4*illli| the adage Met e deg Is e Mrt WMiiii aa they iSml'L (MM HMh
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    Lock icon The advertising game...
    456 13 UPI Cfcleage: Hie promoters call It a cheap way (or advei tleci to become household words ami compare it to buying a chunk at the "monopoly" board. It's a new parlour game called "tryopoly" and promoters my, la addition to being a compelling game tar players of
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    Lock icon 'Go easy on tariffs'
    214 14 New Asean plea to the EEC r Business Neus and Views Reuter Maalla, Wednesday. The Association of South-east Asean Nations (Asean) has asked the European Economic Community (EEC) to lower tariff on 66 agricultural and tropical products exported by Asean-member countries to western Europe, the Ministry
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    Lock icon Drop in surplus
    80 14 UPI Tokyo, Wednesday. Helped by increasing imports, Japan's current account surplus dropped dramatically la October from September, the Finance Ministry said. Revised figures released by the Minister put October's surplus at US$364 million, down sharply from US$l.B7 billion in September. Last month's figure was earlier estimated at
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    Lock icon Economic briefs
    429 14 UPI GENEVA: United States congressman A1 Ullman said here yesterday the proposed new European Monetary System (EMS) "could create problems for the dollar, but it does not have to." The system, scheduled to begin on Jan 1 and aimed at steadying the exchange rates of currencies between European
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      NEW YORK
      267 14 Stocks fell yesterday after an early rally attempt fizzled in the wake at a sharp rise in consumer prices and the government's large budget deficit. Trading was fairly active. The Dow Jones Industrial average, off more than a point at the outset and up more than a point
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      36 14 UPI Mew yo«k, Wednesday. Dow Jonas ckjstaw avera«as on the NYSE yesterday: 31 Industrials 804.14 (off M 0). X transport BLB (off 3.22), 15 utilities (up 0 17). 45 stocks 374.M (off tmy UPI.
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      157 14 AFP The Tokyo Stock Market suffered another setback yesterday amid uncertainty about economic policies to be taken by Mr Masayoshi Ohira who was yesterday assured of the premiership. The 225-stock Dow Jones average closed the day at 596.28 yen, a drop of 34.16 yen from Monday. The TSE index
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      PARIS
      66 14 Clewing prices on the Paris Bourse yesterday; Parlbas »ojo +JO Fonclfer 4y>fn .80 Prtntemps 114J0 1J0 Bull 52.80 30 Royal Dutch 383.10 +.80 Mtctieltn 1238 -6 COB 380JO +4J0 Thomson MO 3JS0 crp 138JO 30 Rhone 1IU0 -240 Air go 1.10 BSN 548 -S Philips 91.40 J0 Sues 284
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      Lock icon ZURICH
      82 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Yesterday's prices followed by Um difference on the previous session's cloee UBS Bearer 2B30 unch UBS Reg 986 +1 SBC 330 unch Credit Suisse 2156 •10 Swissair B 787 +1 8wlss Relnsur 3030 •10 Wlnterthur B 2200 -20 Zurich Insur MOO 80 Nestle B 3110
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      110 14 Reuter Pricea at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock EsctemeACI 17» 180 ADC 1510 Ampol Pet 74 75 ANIIO API! 110 113 Bank NSW BO 04 Brambtaa 1ST BHPHOtM Boral 1>3 2S0 CBA 235 MO CSR 332 334 Clg 330 135 Coal Alltod 485 900 Dualop
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    Lock icon US move to block GE, Hitachi venture
    146 14 Reuter Washington, Wednesday. The Justice Department said yesterday it would take anti-trust action against General Electric Company and Hitachi Ltd of Japan if they proceed with a Joint venture to make television sets in the United States. The proposal would involve the creation
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    Lock icon Money Market
    190 14 UPI London, Wednesday. The US dollar cloned weaker on all European markets except in Brussels yesterday. Dealers said trading was quiet and cautious because the markets were waiting to see the trend of US balance of trade figures due to be published today. The dollar closed in Frankfurt
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    Lock icon Bosses fight the law
    96 14 Reuter Karlsruhe, Wednesday.— West German employers went to the supreme court yesterday to challenge a law giving workers and equal voice in industrial decisionmaking. Nine large firms and 29 employers' federations affected by the law complained to the court that the law passed two years ago
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  • Sportsfront
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      We can do without the 'stars'
      369 15  -  POLO rings |i11 tl The Singapore National Olympic Council were right when they denied the Singapore Hockey Association of a (dace in the National contingent (or next month's Asian Games at Bangkok. I say they were right because the Association and the players never,
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      What about Parminder?
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      287 15  -  PAUL WONG WHipin It What has happened to the .tmriad chain that accompanied our blue-shirted boya whenever the took to the pitch for an intcrnatioinal ■occer match. What has happened to the times when the whole stadium blast out In applause when our
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      324 15  -  ftpfsnll ■D**™* It it going to be difficult for our particiat the forthcomAidan Games and everyone in the contingent need» some extra encouragement especially when they face up against the might of Asian athletes. But It to going lo be even more difficult (or
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      211 15  -  th fMngapeie B Thumbs up (or the Sinnpare Rugby Union for doing splendid Jnb at Kuala Lumpur last weak. Our players put up a great showing when they finished third at the recently-concluded Asian rugby nhamplflwhlpa Anrf for this, I salute them. It was Indeed
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      436 16  -  Sportscaster also impresses in 600 m workout CSfOnthe Kj track ■7 K.L. CHAN La Prairie, a fancied runner in the 130,000 Stewards Cup on Sunday, created a good Impression in his workout at Bukit Timah this morning. Ridden by leading jockey Ron Hutchinson the four-year-old
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      Seeds fall by the wayside
      459 16  -  SQUASH b V bi; Eric Cooper This year's Metropolitan Y.M.C.A Championships produced a number of unexpected results that played havoc with the organising committee's seedings. Second seed, Norman Wee. so long a stalwart of the MYIfCA team had set his heart on winning this year,
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      153 16 UPI Moscow, Wednesday Vitas Gerulaltls of the United States came from behind to defeat triple Wimbledon champion BJorn Borg at Sweden 17, M, 7-5 last night In an exhibition tennis match in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. In another match, Italy's Adriano Panatta overpowered Sandy Mayer of
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      137 16 Reuter London, Wed Gogi Alauddin of Pakistan brushed aside W (ting British prospect Gawaln Briars 9-5, 9-1, 9-5 In his opening match of the World Series squash tournament here last night. Alauddin, 28, will meet Egyptian professional Ahmed Safwat in the quarter-finals of this sixth
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      27 16 Prague, Wednesday- A 56th minute goal by Wolverhampton Wanderers midfield player Steve Daley gave England "B" a 1-0 win over Czechoslovakia "B" here last night.
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      Mike Lim looks a winner
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      S'gor well prepared, warns Joe
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      292 17 Thailand and Brunei keep FAS in the dark Brunei and Thailand are the only two teams who have still not forwarded their list of players to the Football Association of SingaEfor the lion City tournament which off on Friday. The youngest squad will once again come tram
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      153 17 London, Wednesday Football League General Secretary Alan Hardaker has called for a lUe baa on Queen's Park Rangers English international forward, Stan Bowles following allegations by Bowles that thug taking was widespread la English football. In a interview yesterday Bowles was reported as ssy- Ing: "If
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      Hit-and-run van puts Jamil out of action
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      Sasa pounce on Jin Teik's good form
      500 18  -  A last minute entry for the 400 m free Swimming PHILIP TAN The Singapore Amateur Swimming Association have made a last minute decision to include Oon Jin Teik for the 400 m freestyle event at the Asian Games in Bangkok on Dec 9-20.
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      S'bawang warning to FAS
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      304 19  -  of opening ceremony By Judith Holmberg A special pre-games telecast featuring our Asian Games contingent will be on the Sports Parade slot on Dec 8 over Ch 5 at 7.55 p.m. The programme will include an interview with swimming conch Kee Soon Bee and six of
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      Lock icon Garland's eyelashes fetch $880 at auction
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    35 20 AH POO*: You can save some money this Christmas the National Museum's teaching people how to make their own Christmas decorations. MB LIN: What? And have everybody telling me how home-made they look?
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