New Nation, 17 December 1978

Microfilm: NL9925
Total Pages: 34
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    Masthead
    10 1 Sunday Nation DKCKMBER 17, 197t 10 ciNTt m.c.(P) no. txmm
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      52 1 No, it's not the Asian Games... <- V •SpsSP x 598S *£L'i Your letters in Page 12 T—F v* ,SC£. y [*$> x *viyi Vi Colour your X'mas white y| Page 22 *N rj- *r «J»r '^^4 Did you see that? A new TV column >~ 4 IP" m SlA's
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      65 1 LET THE COLONEL COOK YOUR SUNDA Y MEALsfcg; wwi Ikicfcen. "tftlfnotrfcUfgood"^ Historic US-China ties on Jan 1 What will Russia do now? A special analysis on Page 2 VACHERON CONSTANTIN \>ll c waklio Sm i hi•\Jiim\C leu im JoiiKUkl the nil mi.in 'r'"s* A. i 1 HMML'I Li Dt At
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    Lock icon What now for Russia after US-China ties?
    821 2  -  John Drysdole is a director of Asia Research, a subsidiary of the Times Organisation Special analysis by JOHN DRYSDALE WHAT WILL the Soviet Union's reaction be to yesterday's historic announcement that the United States and China are to establish formal diplomatic relations on
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    Ringing in Xmas cheer
    76 2 TELECOMS will waive the normal 5 per cent surcharge on international telephone call* and greetings telegrams by non-deposit holders this Christmas. Bookings of the greeting telephone calls through the International Telephone Exchange can be made now by dialling ***** and greetings telegrams on *****1. Telecoms has
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    Concorde jets in on Jan 21
    263 2 CONCORDE service to Singapore will resume on Jan 21, New Nation's London correspondent BHARATI MOHAN reported yesterday. This follows Malaysia's decision to allow the supersonic Jet to overfly itrf airspace for a six-month trial period. However, Malaysia reserves the right to withdraw its approval
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    Lock icon Asean united on low fares
    136 2 Reuter ECONOMIC ministers at Aseaa yesterday called m A astral 1* and Krspeaa muMm to anake available their planned tow air fares to all airlines operating between AsstraUa and Butpe. This demand wan pnrt at the csmmsn stand agreed sn by the ministers at their
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    GOVT PLAN TO BUILD FARM FOR 300,000 PIGS
    237 2 THE government will develop an intensive pig farming estate outside the water catchment areas in Lim Chu Kang, Parliamentary Secretary (National Development) Mr Ho Cheng Choon yesterday. The estate, which will rear 300,000 pigs when completed, is intended to prevent overintensive (arming
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    $350,000 fire loss
    117 2 MORE than $350,000 worth of property and goods went up in smoke when two separate fires destroyed a factory and six shophouses yesterday. The factory producing joss-sticks and paper in Sembawang Hill Drive lost over $100,000 in a fire which broke out at 4 a.m. A second
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    You can't ignore quarter of mankind
    275 2  -  Frem EDGAR KOH From EDGAR KOH in New York. REACTIONS were mixed among Chinese Americans here to President Carter's announcement last night that the US will normalise relations with China in the New Year. Chinese American* I spoke to were excited, calling the decision
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    SES lifts 20 per cent margin
    119 2 THE STOCK Exekuge ef Slagapare will nft the per teal margia reqalremeat M settlemeat and big bMrd mmtiaetl M tram tißwriw. The BEB, la a statemeat lasaed yesterday, Mdd that similar reqalremeats ea the erdiaary heard will alsa he lifted ea iaa t aext
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      304 3 Togetherness. festive celebrations VH II > f V .v\ v., I V t -;V:' Vv/J si!?. 9 38T3^ v iTii W L*A T jf'* i| C»wW »t 1 i-" x/ -r *K'i. wiSi Of warm family and great Old friendships to renew, and new friendships to Whatever you do, it's
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    Kelantan fishermen plan a golden catch
    150 4 FISHERMEN in Kelantan are planning to drag the seabed off Pasir Puteh to recover a treasure trove of bullion and Jewellery buried deep In a sunken Vietnamese boat. The 13-metre Kin Hoang broke up and sank off the Malaysian East Coast on Dec 2.
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    Lock icon Kriangsak will keep Laos date
    75 4 Reuter THAI prime minister Kriangsak Chamanand said he will go ahead with his official visit to Laos this week despite two incidents in which Thai navy boats were attacked in the Mekong river. General Kriangsak told reporters yesterday that the firing at the two boats
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    Lock icon 'We can make world suffer'
    414 4 Reuter UPI SAUDI Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zakl Yamani yesterday said his country had the power to make the whole world suffer if Israel fails to accept peace in the Middle East. "Unless Israelis. realise the tacts of life and accept peace I think they
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    CBD fleet brings comfort tomorrow
    96 4 FROM pic tare, It b hard to toll tow this alrceadltfeaed Ceatral Bastaeas District taxi Is dlffereat frem ether Cemfert taxis. Bat when the fleet sf S$ beglas eperattoa tomerrew, yea eaa easily Meatfly them by their dark Mae hedlea sad light Mae rasfe with
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    Lock icon STAMPS DEALER TO CHANGE HANDS
    80 4 Reuter STANLEY Gibbons, the world's most famous stamp dealer, announced in London last Friday it had agreed to a £19-miltton (J79 million) takeover bid from Letraaet, a manufacturer and supplier of products for the commercial art market. A spokesman for Stanley Gibbons stressed that the
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    Lock icon Opec divided on how much to increase
    200 4 UPI THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting countries met yesterday, firmly convinced of the need for an oil price rise, but divided about the amount. The conference began at 1.30 p.m. behind a massive security screen at a luxury beachfront hotel in Abu Dhabi.
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    Lock icon Come skiing invites China
    157 4 AFP CHINA is trying to include hunting, camel riding, skiing and mountaineering among its tourist attractions in an all-out bid to boost tourism. In addition, it plans to build more hotels, open famous cities, improve transport and simplify Customs formalities, the New China News Agency quoted
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    Ten buses to boost shuttle services
    116 4 ANOTHER 10 NTUC Comfort buses will go on the roads next month to boost a fleet of 28 buses now providing a city shuttle service (CSS). The new buses were balloted yesterday at the Comfort headquarters in Sin Mln Drive. Comfort adviser and director,
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      398 4 APPOINTMENTS A large and auccesaful cam ant manufacturer In Singapore invltaa applications for tha poat of PLANT ENGINEER Th« Man It la envisaged that tha llkalv candidate will be between 30-40 yeera of age, and hold* a degree In mechenicel engineering. Cendldetea having relevant experience in e almller position and
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      344 4 In and around town SINGAPORE FESTIVAL OP ARTS: Festival Showcase the closing night of the week-long festival, at Victoria Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets at $5, $3 and $2 from C.K. Tang, Cold Storage and the Vic. FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT FOR THE YOUNG To celebrate the fifth anniversary of this series,
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    Speak up, MP urges them
    391 5 THE Member of Parliament (or Changi, Mr Teo Chong Tee, has invited professionals to criticise government policies constructively or offer suggestions on improving them. He also suggested that professionals should comment on policies that are not related to their fields. "Whatever the merit of these
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    Sporty centre for Crawford residents
    137 5 A NEW tmwatty eortn with apodal emphasis sa sports faellMes will he baUt la Crawford esasttto"nii new eeatre will he la addltlea to the preaeat •ae at gsapiag Gtam which, aceardlag to the Minister far Ftrrfga Affairs Mr 8. Bajaratoam, Is laadeaaato. flpeebiag at a
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    Day 6 masked robbers came roaring in...
    347 5 SIX MASKED motorcyclists armed with knives bound a wealthy Arab merchant's household of eight women at his Upper East Coast home and robbed the house of Jewellery worth 1200,000 and $400 in cash. The daring motorcycle thieves two to a machine roared through
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    Lock icon CRUCIAL CHOICE IS NOW IN IRANIANS' HANDS
    172 5 Reuter AP IRANIANS yesterday faced a c racial ekelee ketweea ekeytag the ■111Uury geverameat »■< retaralag I* werk er aa■wertag tke call tt tkeir rellgleas leader (er lateastfled pretest strikes agalast Ike Bkak. Martial kw aatkeritles have tkreateaed toagk aettoa to kreak tke
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      383 5 Gi^Gifl^ldeasfi^nThe^lVlarKiarinSingE^xjre. Be it an expression of love or appreciation, flowers say it best. Let our florists help you select the right blooms for the occasion. Or if you prefer a more practical' gift, our voucher is the answer. Whether it is at our swinging nightclub, elegant restaurants or relaxing lounges,a
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    It's the spirit,not cards and gifts
    267 6 COMMENT T'lS the season to be jolly with jolly good reason to eat and drink perhaps too much and generally make merry more than work. Some of us may even be stirred to cluck-cluck about those forgetting the real reason for Christmas. Religious remembrance
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    Faith, not terror
    789 6  -  WE ARE starting a letters page. Letters must have tha writers' namas and addresses. You may uee a peeudonym if you dont want your name published. Please type your letter, double spaced, on one side only and include your phone number. IN THE WAKE OF BILLY GRAHAM
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    TO EACH HIS OWN
    374 6 ON THE FIRST night of Dr Billy Graham's crusade at the National Stadium, I rejected his message and returned to God. It was a good feeling. Admittedly, I and a couple of friends went to the stadium with doubts about Dr Graham's sincerity. However, I was
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    They came forward with eyes open
    172 6 MAY A reader who is committed to the Christian message preached by Billy Graham comment on J. D. Pracetas's article. My comment is simply this: faith in Christ is not irrational. The call to decision is an appeal to the understanding as well as
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      171 6 7026 8000 TOMORROW S TECHNOLOGY. YESTERDAY S TRADITION. SEIKO. THE QUALITY WATCH OF TODAY. S<"« i st.irti-if out vi.iV >11.) v\.iti k "'s Ail 1 Ml »s> 1. i .It oil V ,1 f'.Hl'- .'J 'll I' I I 1 I'l.r '|TII As our tcc' liu t*H 1 ItJ*' .1'"!
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      34 6 160T0A OAPI IKKeSfcteXH USTBte. I ff€L SMART". OHM SCHe FATHSAP pisAseees im ne AMP I CAUT U)tm AUAJJ6 HIM- t j-*r iawe I PUT HW FfSTfU MPTUALL I tXprLlff m SoCu? <,&* MOOTH BOTfc <jZjußj/°iee.
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    Lock icon Create a templex
    834 7  -  By Tye Kim Khiat Business Times BROWSING around in Singapore, one is always irresistibly sucked by some unearthly gravitational force towards the "People's Temples." Yes, People's Temples. That macabre name that reeks of Jim Jones and his ilk. But as mesmeric and alluring edifices, they exude no
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      243 7 Ctfwee Garden P?;«l (<? fc« A: Riwu*V. ".VWV Condominium Housing <*h I vW%| m W* >«« wf'e f# f«t*» Ifc ma ,'~V «T 'K rj >S2 HP: f r* II ii IU Tv';V II u ■r ai'- J BBI-ifc s» l I mm 11, =?e£=P r fcvv II 111 l
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    SIA's song and food bash
    833 8  -  to New York! l m Edgar Koh SPRING rolls, satay, sambal and beryani served probably from a carpark hawker stall; Anita Sarawak belting out songs from around hall the world and more; and charming Singapore Girls to greet and pamper guests. These are just some
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      28 8 SWISS WATCH SINCE 1848 *****/3W mm youfum Sole Agent: 9k South Eastern Walcti(Pte) Ltd Gff 916/7/B,9th Floor, People's Park Centre, 101, Upper Cross Street, S'pore i Tel: *****1.
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    Lock icon Brighter side of Viet-Kampuchea quarrel
    992 9  - Brighter side of VietKampuchea quarrel PERSPECTIVE If Chang Kai Ming COPYRIGHT: Sunday Nation and Asia Research Pte Ltd. AT HIS press conference in Bangkok last week, Mr Lee Kuan Yew made a remark which drew attention to the utter absurdity of communist jargon. He referred to the establishment inside Kampuchea
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      214 9 As cool as a cucumber. Even after one long week IJ V IMPORTED 3-DOOR REFRIGERATOR The magic lies in Sharp's revolutionary 3-door refrigerator. So there's a separate special compartment for vegetables. A compartment rigidly designed with controlled temperature to keep vegetables as fresh as can be even after long periods
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    Lock icon Once more with cheek
    483 10 Will Biba be a market leader again? Features International IT WAS like curtain-up at a royal premiere. Champagne, security guards, caviar, photographers and perfumed women with ice-cold stares. Biba, the legendary fashion store, was back in business Just off London's Regent Street, as if it had
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      54 10 M OO w v\ T J' 'a. r s»/ a x -v l{iy, ftlhs i Three Rifles Shirts Main Shop 0 16 Ground Floor People's Park Centre. Singapore 1 Branches 152 Ground Floor. People s Park Complex,S pore 1. 339 2nd Floor, People's Park Complex. Singapore 1 G69 Ground Floor.
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      48 10 OF ENGLAND m 'iiZ fi oim*r A smart slip on style from the Lotus town range with attractive python apron. Now available in leading Shoe Stores in Singapore. Soto Agent: T I Singapore Pte Ltd., Room 1101. 11th Floor. Wellington Building, 20 Bideford Road. Singapore 9. Tel: *****4/*****6.
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    Late show Raffles just one big yawn
    122 11 RAFFLES (Monday, Ch 5,11.20 p.m.) YORKSHIRE Television must have blown the entire budget on costumes and elaborate sets and left nothing for the script. Raffles and friend Bunny come off as undergraduate pranksters out on a dare who have no business to be
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    Gem of a Duchess
    457 11  -  Did you see that By R.J. THE DUCHESS OF DUKE STREET (Tuesday, Ch 5,8.40 p.m.) FOR as long as she can remember, she has wanted to be a cook and "the best in all England," at that. And so it was in London in the year
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    And the winner...
    170 11 THE GRAND FINAL of Talentime 1»78 will be (•••cast "live" on D«c 28. On* winner ha* already emerged the sponsors. They have certainly got their money's worth. Nonetheless, oxocutivo producer Katerine Kan has dona an excellent job In tightening the show, M the preview screened laat Tuesday,
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  • IT HAPPENED TO THEM
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        Our men in green
        79 12/25  -  Lester Lee DMi f*®®" *t w*rb la badly flirted Tsmpiara Ae smiles ef the Midlers, their cheerfalness, pat sew caafldeace late maay hearts. The heats teeh as ta the Tamplaes scheel, where we were served hat feed. There was a slagaieag ud eae seldler blacked eat
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        A young gallant
        68 12/25  -  Jeffrey L.B. Law I WAS at Newton Circus, one of the flooded areas. Twenty of us, all stranded, started walking towards the Royal Ramada hotel. Some of the women were scared stiff of falling into the drain. A youngster revised my opinion of Singaporeans. "Don't worry," he
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        Our men in blue
        95 12/25  -  Charlie Goh Sin Chan MY CAB aad I weat threagh alae hears sf heavy «jMhtag Beads, traffic saarts, aad twa aearI shall Bet ferget that eveatfal alght hat eatstaadlag aaw la my miad Is gratttade ta the peUee. They were there at strategic petals galdlag msUrists.
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        The selfish ones
        24 12/25  -  Amy Chong WHY didn't people poet available taxis? WHY didn't motorists offer Hftsf Yen eaa save some transport problems by pnMfooplrited-
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        The violent ones
        91 12/25 THE bus stop at Shenton Way was a sea of angry people who had waited hours for their buses. When they came, the entrance doors were shut tight and red-faced, hoarse-voiced conductors yelled out above the din that there was no more room. Sardines couldn't have been
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        Callous cabbies
        32 12/25  -  S.K.Bhatacharjee A raspberry for the taxis that refused to stop and take us in from the rain and flood water. In spite of repeated signalling, none would pick us up.
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      Lock icon When the best way home was to swim
      77 12/25 When the roads are all flooded, as Braddell Road was In this picture by New Nation photographer NIK KASMANI, and your prized possessions are in danger of being lost in the floods, yon can do the most nnosual things without giving It
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      Save files or the TV?
      652 12/25  -  This letter wins $50 A FORTNIGHT ago, the biggest floods for many years hit Singapore. We asked readers to write in and tell us what happened to them during those two very wet days. Published on these pages are a selection of their your letters.
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      Barefoot to the airport
      627 12/25  -  This letter wins 150 M.E.L. BAREFOOT to the airport. Anyone suggesting that, knowing me, needs his head examined. But that's what I did in the floods. It was diverting from our usual route to pick up a friend that led to it. By the time we
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      Lock icon For a few dollars more...
      245 12/25  -  O.S. ORCHARD Road was a muddy sea with cars stalled at the sides and in the middle. Some people tried pushing their cars by themselves to a drier spot but they couldn't. I lent a hand and got paid a few dollars. I helped some
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      After the rains, the tears
      362 12/25  -  This letter wins $50 Sukumaran Nair I WAS spending my school holidays at my cousins' pig and poultry (arm in Upper Changi. I was having a Jolly good time when the rains came. We thought it was the usual downpour. But when a coconut tree
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      A party wasn't the best idea...
      176 12/25 I HAD ay hair deae at the beaaty salsa far the eeapaay dlaaer later that sight I was Inhlag farwart to It. lhaa I eeflert ed my party gewa. I'd leak aa great as a artel, I thaaght, especially with the aew expeiadve shses
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      681 13 Sunday Nation TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT Disorderly Orderly (Matinee) on Ch 5 at 11 a.m. in COLOUR Comedy revolves around a bumbling hospital orderly (Jerry Lewis) who creates havoc in his eagerness to please. Jerry runs amuck in the hospital with hilarious results, thanks to a terrific chase finish and a large
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      415 13 Singapore In '78 Ch 5 at 8.40 p.m. in COLOUR This 50-minute programme features some of the major events of the year. It includes a review of Singapore's economic performance, trade trends and union activities; developments in education, the medical services, foreign affairs and communications; the new phase in the
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      137 14 Graetznews for theseason EXTRA 1-YEAR GUARANTEE FOR ALL MODELS (2 Years altogether) There's no better time to buy Graetz Colour TV than NOW, not because of the special Extra One Year Guarantee (make it 2 years altogether) you get during the season, but because you are buying one of the
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      1058 14 MONDAY (.00 PM Open 6.03 HERTS NIMKY 6.45 NEWS (T) v 7.00 M FUST 365 DAYS M A CHU>*S UFE (T). Shows the baby's progress in sitting, grasping, walking and social behaviour by the time it is two months ok) 7.25 MUSICAL SHOWCASE (r). Features Yee Tien, CM Soon Come.
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      108 15 •JC If you want to watoh, but oan*t... With Sony If you want to watdh, but cant... With Sony Betamax, you can. m y* Vb li SETRON ELECTRONICS PTE LTD 10. DUNDEE ROAD. SINGAPORE 3 TEL *****4 f* m H a v aft*? ■V-' ■•Y- ■I Ev«ry HITACHI trut> to
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      765 15 WEDNESDAY f 3.00 PAL Open 3.03 THE BEVERLY HELBRLES: The Week Before Christmas (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENT (M) 3.3S BONANZA: Shanklin 4.25 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 PETTICOAT UNCTION; Love Rears Its Ugly Head 6.30 NEWS M BREF 6 35 TMANG TMGGI TMGGI (r) 7.05 CANDO CAMERA 7.30 HEWS AND
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      178 16 kP M ■bv- > J r ijf fay. i^iEimfi r 2*'.-.-V r i SJIV.VH" I uv. m* ■%z£■ v' *>f. 3EH* MELCO SAI ES SINGAPORE PTE LTD SUHSIDIAHY Of MITSUBISHI I I I.CTHIC JAPAN 203. Mjrinj House. /0. Shcnton Way Tel 2<M 4(> 1 I Altec model seven isexperience in
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      1120 16 FRIDAY A speaker unlike any other 3 00 PJL Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee The Wmdfai (r). Mandarin feature Mm OJI Intermission 0.00 Open (03 TNE ADVENTURES OF LONG JOHN SIWJL The Orphans' Christmas (last episode) (JO NEWS M MET 0.35 KJOCZVOUS SOUTH POE: Documentary on the men and women who
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      75 17 tot# TOWN m > 214/215, 2nd Lucky Plaza, Orchard Road, Singapore 9. Telephone: *****03. Think of what Toy Town can do for your kid, for his pro-school days, his young and developing mind. Take him for a trip here. Let him browse through the Toyshop and Hobby Centre. Let him
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      182 17 m fvoeceM h. Kenv, ■WAT L/M so poWH. as m S3 ROST OF ALL. IT $99 i MB *'HO A fjt HIO A Wfcfc* t>0416 6IKL->... rV h i m •v MMV BKOOJN and M6L CA66ON 1 k W. R v«0 tit f fcil V, M jpj i rfi se
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      71 18/19 As a jogger you know the most important part of your equipment must be your shoes. And more people are buying Bata Joggers because they are better Joggers. Better because they have nylon uppers, and are light and soft. Tough and longlasting, so they go on and on and on.
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      273 18/19 IL WELL, TM CERTAINLY GLAD "THINGS WAVE RETURNED TO NORMAL w AROUND HERE. A MS "T00... AN' Y'KNOW SOMETHING? I'M, STARVED/ y*~ v r, r I THOUGHT SOU NOGHT BE...THATS WHY I PUT A Bte BOWL AHHHi OF BRONTO STEW <3000! ON THE TABLE FOR \OUI >= 2£fr I THOUGHT
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      219 20 I GARTH oue powers pes evenly MPTCHED, BELIAL-YOLKS FOR 1 M.MM FORQOOD/BUTI CRN REPPUZ9OMEOFTWEDPMRSE BUBOMRBCAJOO/ > BEWRRE.PSTRR/I CPNNOTSIOP XXI REVIVIN3 ORRTH, BUT pLL. =s"V. 9 Q r-ss 7] 1 it is not w mission to HPRM PNYONE, BEURL/ I GO NOW/ 3= On SrT Hi w V m .IP RUBIO
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    Colour your X'mas white
    995 22  -  mmmmm BY CLARENCE FERNANDEZ ARE YOU one of those who would never think of wintering abroad at Christmas? The thought of the cold puts most of us off. I had my misgivings too, but decided to go because the people at Nanda Travel fixed up everything
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    Old tale with a Noel twist
    734 23  -  The Book Page THE BINQAPORE STORY. By Noel Barber. Fontana/Collins, 1978. 224pp, $6 70. REVIEWED BY ALEX JOSEY IT IS NOT easy, or comfortable, (or a journalist who writes books (as I do), to review books by another journalist. Especially, if the books reviewed
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    Lock icon Dear Marie, I don't want this baby ...
    312 23 Dear Marie, I don't want this baby DEAR DR STOPES:BEX IN THE *****. Edited by Ruth Hall. Andre Deutsch, 1978, £6.50. Observer ACCORDING TO Ruth Hall, Marie Stopes was the first person to whom the public wrote freely about sex; and her brisk, friendly, marvellously unflappable manner ("Dear Major B.
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    Stumbling sequel to Velvet-y hit of '44
    407 24  -  JJ3 Jliiiul By Judith Holmberg AFTER years of holding their horses over a remake of National Velvet, which was such a hit in 1944, MGM studios succumbed to a sequel to Enid Bagnold's book. Written, produced and directed by Bryan Forbes, INTERNATIONAL VELVET
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    The night of the kaypohs
    732 24 HIIN9VR w<h HARD fight. Between the concluding chapter of TV's Rich Man, Poor Man Book Two and RTS's Talentime '78 Preview. I think the Talentime took the prize by a hair's breath for having polled the highest number of "sebok" (kibitzer) viewers. From where I
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    Xmas gifts
    311 24 Off the Record by CKT CHRISTMAS coming but once a year has its dis(c)advantage. There are not at all many good seasonal LPs looking (or good listeners to buy them up, not outside of Elvis Presley and the Carpenters. So, at least annually you turn up Rudolph's nose
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    761 26  -  A short story By H.Y. AS SHE walked out of the clinic she appeared to be everything she was not: alert, calm and stable. One part of her was still absorbed with the psychiatrist's diagnosis, the rest of her was preoccupied with her actions. Hence the apparent calm. No
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    Ngai Kin aims for magic 7000
    421 27  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng A BATTLE within a battle Is expected to develop in the decathlon event of the Asian Games athletics programme tomorrow morning at the National Stadium in Bangkok. Singapore's Tang Ngal Kin cannot fancy his chances against the superior Japanese, Chinese
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    Incentive trips for National team
    279 27  -  Brian Miller TWO overseas trips are on the cards for the National hockey squad next year in preparation (or October's South-east Asia Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. This special "bonus" incentive was announced by the Singapore Hockey Association in their bid to bolster the morale and
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    S'pore take on Johore in final game
    390 28  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh THE national team will "Be in action for the last time this year when they take on Johore in an exhibition game at the Gay World Stadium this Thursday in conjunction with the final of the inter-constituency tournament. For local
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    A HUMBLING THOUGHT...
    459 29  -  TOMS TALK Alfred Tong INDONESIA'S crushing defeat by India in the Davis Cup Just over a week ago provides some sobering food for thought. While Indonesia's top player* Atet Wiyono, Justedjo Tarik, Gondo widjojo and Hadiman were busy preparing for the Davis Cup tie, their second stringers
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    Coaches need a lot more time
    336 29  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan HAVE standards improved since the firstever coaching panel was set up early in January with the aim of raising the skills and techniques of our national players? Judy Lee and Tay Hoe See won the women's double* in the Peking invitation
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    NO JUMP VOLLEYS
    82 29 1. When volley is chest high or lower, players tend to "help" ball over net by jumping, stiffening or standing up with the shot. 2. Note this airborne player: racquet head is below the wrist, Knees are too straight. Eyes are too far from the ball for
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      286 29 *$76/for a real Yamaha Fiberglass Racket? Yes, now a NEW lower priced version of the world famous Yamaha YFG 50. Ideal for weekend players, women, children, all players who appreciate and want to experience quickness, easy swings and the lively feel of fiberglass -YFG 10. BEST CONTROL: Wiring rackets to
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    PLACES AND ACES...
    1760 30  -  Geoff Hunt on Squash: Part Six Geoff Hunt WITHIN the memory of many people squash rackets was a remote, rather mysterious game played in British Commonwealth countries mostly by a small group of middle and upper class individuals who had usually attended private schools. Its most outstanding
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    SICC's new 'merit system' for picking members
    190 31  -  Ernest Frida THE Singapore Island Country Club have worked out a strange formula (or selecting new ordinary members from 600-odd applicants. They will be picked "on merit and by ballot". The club declined to explain what that meant. Unlike previous years when the
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    W-Cup players in Olympics: Fifa 'no' again
    668 31 WORD SOCCER 'Clear and final' THE International Football Federation (Fifa) have rejected a plea by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow East European countries to field World Cup players in the 1960 Moscow Olympic Games amateur soccer tournament. An editorial in the
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      280 31 Records Make Nice Gifts A. ERIC CLAPTON BACKLESS contains the hit PROMISES LP 2394 213 MC 3216 213 B. THE MUPPETS* SESAME STREET FEVER catch the fever with the Sesame Street gong LP 2344 119 MC 3100 476 1971,1978 Muppets Inc. C. THE WIZ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK EASE ON DOWN THE
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    'New face who's a pioneer
    480 32  -  Peter Lo A NINE-member Singapore Squash Rackets Association committee was elected last Wednesday to take charge of all squash affairs for 1979. There was only one "new face" Hubert Hill. But to those of us who know him, Hubert Is hardly a new face. Besides
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    Clarice's New Year wish
    401 32  -  Joyce Tan IF THERE is a special wish Clarice Tan and her Punggol net ball team have (or the New Year it must surely be that they win the interconstituency netball title which Just eluded them this year. When they beat Serangoon Gardens twice in the
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      64 32 Doctor in the House rm E Wi IV 2 II 3^ I >< IT'S TWO OF THE LUMBAR VERTEBRAE THAT AREN'T ARTICULATING PROPER LV. IT HURTS WITH CERTAIN MOVEMENTS. at r*iu V 010 yOU HEAR THE CLICK WHEN I TWISTEO yOUR BACK? I THINK THAT'LL 00 THE TRICK, A. BUT
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    China silenced at long last
    679 33  -  So Indonesia continue the rampage By BRIAN MILLER IT WILL be a long time before any nation come up with the tools that will threaten Indonesia's supremacy on the world badminton stage. This was the clear message put across by the Indonesian shuttlers after their
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    Amritraj bid
    124 33 INDIA'S famous tennis < brothers, Vijay and Anand Amritraj, are coming to Singapore. They will be taking put In the Hilton Invitation tournament at the Singapore Tennis Centre this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Also talcing part in the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association-sanctioned tournament will be the youngest Amritraj,
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    Chinese divers coming over?
    403 34  -  By PHILIP TAN WORLD class divers and gymnasts from China may be v-alt-lng Singapore for friendly competitions In the near future. An official of the Singapore National Olympic Council who retiuestted not to be named because of protocol, disclosed tbat the Chinese are advanced In these
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    The Thais can only sit back and sigh
    479 34  -  By BRIAN MILLER THE THAIS will never get over how it happened. But yesterday at Bangkok's National Stadium, the Chinese national anthem rang out loud and clear to signal the crowning of China's Ya-Pin Vln as Asia's fastest woman. The 20-year-dld 1
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    Brilliant Las Vegas win
    969 34  -  By TURF RAY LAS VEGAS, with Bruce Compton riding a well-judged race, scored a brilliant one-length win In Race Four for Class 3, Div. 3 horses over 1,250 m in Ipoh yesterday. The Polyfoto four-year-old kept a handy second three to lour lengths adrift of the
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    IPOH CARD AND FORM GUIDE FOR TODAY
    2613 35 RACE 1 2.0 CLASS 5, DIV 4 1,250m ($0,000 $8,300 to winiwr) 11 7306 Court Mte a (THL) Jaalar ST (dd aama) 13 >SM0 Bwdl Balk g (Tuaku A Wee) Allan M (dd -4- LS) WP mtt Dudar Omlm a (DG) Hiaanr T
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    Joonara looks a cut above others
    608 35  -  Weaker field gives Regent Beauty excellent chance By Scrutineer The sparingly raced jMMura looks a cut above her rivals in the Class 3 Division 1 1250 m (Race 5), and I rate her chances highly at Ipoh today. Joonara, who made her debut at
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    Lock icon Nobody wants Asian Youth tourney?
    208 36 SPORTS NATION P.T. ONLY one day to left for any Aston country to save next year'* Alton Youth soccer competition, Asia's solitary qualifying tournament for FlFA's one-year-old Youth World Cup. This to the big problem on the agenda of the Aston Football Confederation executive meeting
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    S'pore in pool punch-up
    621 36  -  And Thailand let Japan win after nasty brawl in match By PHILIP TAN PUNCH-UPS and a foiled walkout by the Hudland team marred the Asian Games water-polo competition yesterday. There were fights In two matches Japan versus Thailand and Singapore versus Kuwait Japan,' needing a big
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      79 36 Sports Diary 80CCEB: Tengku Abdul Rahman Trophy Singapore Ex-Nationals v Malaysia Ex-Nationals (National Stadium, 7.30 p.m.). Singapore Malays PC Challenge Trophy Teck Ghee CSC v Jamiyah Toa Payoh (3.45 p.m.), Sukaramal PC v Ma railing Wednesday SC (5.00 p.m.). Both matches at Balestter Road. Inter-Constituency Tournament (semi-finals) Juroog v Winner
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