New Nation, 31 December 1978

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    Masthead
    10 1 Sunday Nation DECEMBER 31, 1978 SO CENTS M.C.(P) NO. *17/1/7»
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      32 1 THE YEAR 1978 f M So many at the mercy of so few Page 9 The best 'V. '*r second best < jjpm* longest awaited We wish our readers a Happy New Year
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      53 1 MM v., tingling moments •J*". t v. >*> m •V-, Page 6 1..V. Pick the Picture of the i i Bw X:, r'.ft.a i,> 'i ■:■> > m v£.o/> ,y^^gfs■">*. j&*• ,W1,5 55 <$ vJ r S?T "jiiwfr Pay for staff's studies, bosses urged Fourdistricts Page 4 ...and the worst
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      83 1 11l M, li $«i Year and win $100 Page 10 If I were the two millionth visitor Poge 19 WISHING OUR FRIENDS ASSOCIATES A HAPPY PROSPEROUS 1979. ©TDK w fluy i vi-ry PO I >K I '/11.>11 in (..is vt Ii .mil ')> I ,i \!tikiii<j F Shirl I Ht
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    Pay for studies of staff
    314 2 urges Chok Tong SENIOR Minister of State for Finance Mr Goh Chok Tong has called on employers to consider granting their em- ployees full or partial subsidy for pursuing studies related to work during their spare time. They should also offer subsidised study leave, he
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    QUOTE
    126 2 4 ONE My well weaker hew It la that there are ■Mil ae maay aeeietlea ilMurt hNM aad hew they keep their me—hew together. This Is parttealarly latoreatlag aa I have aheervei that a regalar ezerdae at aaaaal geaeral meetla|8 af aaeh ergaalaa tlaaa la te thlak af laeeatUea
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    Former NTUC man to face corruption trial
    116 2 FORMER NTUC secretary for Information and publicity, Velekkat Raman Balakrishna, 10, win stand trial In April on corruption charges involving $38,110. Forty witnesses will be called by the prosecution during the scheduled fiveday trial, which will begin on April le la Court 8.
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    Man for a third season
    188 2 THIS WAS the moment when the man who has done Singapore proud (or the past eight years was sworn in (or a third four-year term as President at the Republic. The ceremony, simple yet dignified, took place at the Istana State Room yesterday. President Benjamin
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    Lock icon Iran still working on civilian govt
    294 2 AP Reuter SHAH MOHAMMAD Reza Pahlavl met parliamentary leaders yesterday morning to discuss the deteriorating situation in the country, but official wtohnsmea continued to insist that the Shah has no Intention of abdicating.' Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, a top aide to the Shah, said international
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    Man appears in court in pyjamas
    142 2 MALAYSIAN Lim Cheng Guan yesterday appeared in court In the same attire be wore on Christmas Eve when he Vas caught his pyjamas. Lim, 61, had been on the wanted list for nearly five months since be Jumped ball for a opium-trafficking charge. His
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    Book series launched
    155 2 A series of small books specially designed for students and women was Jointly launched yesterday by Nanyang Slang Pau and Educational Publications Bureau. One of the books is especially meant for women and comprises articles such as: Before and After Marriage. The second book cpmprises essays on
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    Lock icon Trade envoy due here
    56 2 AP BRITISH secretary of state for trade John Smith will visit Singapore on Wednesday for three days of talks with Finance Minister Hon Sul Sen and Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam, a British High Commission spokesman said yesterday. They are likely to discuss Asean relationship with the
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    Woman caller may hold clues to murder
    186 2 AN UNIDENTIFIED wtaii wka phased a alaHklldlla aßli la Mini market ea Friday Mgkt wM wU utter IMmi Uw Take Bin, 3S, aaM a wimh nag tar kerne at Lll mluJ kad keea stakked aad waa Nek IMaagak Hn Market Ckaa Ttoa to,
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    Great leap
    29 2 In last week's Sunday Nation,. some paragraphs in Ranjeet Singh's short story, Gulpy's Great Leap Forward, were Inadvertently Stated ii! the wrong order, e regret the error.
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    Air Force chopper brings in injured seamen
    141 2 A SPANISH teaman Is recovering In the Singapore General Hospital after being rescued from a Überian tanker by a Singapore Air Force helicopter two days ago. The seaman, Emllio Doce Moldez, has severe facial injuries after being hit tar a water pump on
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    More evening buses for students
    77 2 The Singapore Bus Service is introducing a supplementary service Mr afternoon students, beginning next Tuesday. The scheme- will cover evening peak hours with services 16S, 41S. IOOS, 1355, 1565, 172S and 180S being deployed near areas with a high concentration of schools. A flat fare
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    Plan for four-digit post code system
    401 4 A LOOK TOWARDS 1979 IN SINGAPORE SINGAPORE will discard the 28-year-old postal district numbering system and replace it with a four-digit post code system. The change is aimed at improving mail handling and delivery. This was stated by the Minister for Communications in his
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    New Petronas chief named
    19 4 Malaptea Prtae MUto Drti fc>» •ppitaUiJJe Tu Sri llfciil fcfci, !hI«T mnrita S vmmUtU«4 all
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    Lock icon Schmidt: Get Reds to join fund
    175 4 AND A LOOK ROUND THE REST OF THE WORLD ON THE LAST DAY OF 1978 Reuter WEST Germaa chancellor Helmut Schmidt yesterday said he will propose that the communist states be invited to loin efforts to narrow the economic gap between the world's industrialised
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    Lock icon Angkor temples open
    101 4 AP CAMBODIA yesterday announced the opening up of the ancient temples of Angkor to foreign tourists. Radio Phnom Penh said officials of Cambodia's Foreign Ministry met with a delegation at Siem Reap to inaugurate the event. Mr Chatichai Choonhavan, a former Thai Foreign Minister and head of
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    Tears as Taiwan says goodbye to US
    263 4 THE last ambassador from Taiwan on his last day In the United States was diplomatic and restrained until* the cad. "All I want to say is that I'fri very sad," Ambassador James Shen said on Friday. In Tokyo yesterday, China's ambassador to Japan,
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    Lock icon China accused of intrusions
    45 4 AP VIETNAM yesterday accused China of "stepping up armed intrusions" into its territory, firing at civilians and soldiers and kidnapping civilians and militia men. The official Vietnam News Agency said the incidents along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier have created tension there. AP
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    Lock icon We stand firm on Palestine: Begin
    199 4 UPI AP Reuter ALTHOUGH Israel hat reasserted its readiness to resume the stalled peace talks with Egypt, Prime Minister bmhciipiti bejin has vowed no Palestinian state will be set up in the West bank and Gaza strip. Speaking yesterday, two days before his Cabinet
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      257 4 APPOINTMENT il lS kkkl Our client, e local subsidiary Trading Company belonging to a large multi-national group currently undergoing rapid growth and diverification,urgent ly require* a Chief Accountant. THE JOB The successful applicant will be responsible for planning and development of the financial system and organisation of the Company. Hie
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      186 4 In and around town ORCHID IW BEAUTY AND MY8TEKY: A talk In Mandarin by Dr Hew Choy Sin, a lecturer from Nantah. At the Lim Chu Rang community centre, 8 p.m. Admission free. CHILDREN'S FANCY DREBB COMPETITION at the Buklt Ho Swee community centre at 2 p.m. MARIA BON1TA, a
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    Reds told to help refugees
    310 5 THE PHILIPPINES, trying to solve the problem of some 2,300 Vietnamese refugees crammed aboard a rusting freighter in Manila Bay, has extended its appeal for help to Communist countries, including the Soviet Union and China. Deputy Foreign Minister Jaw Ingles briefed Western diplomats and the
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    Scholastic 'headstart' riot for the well-off
    212 5  -  Letter LIM SIONG GUAN Priadfal Private Secretary te the Prime MlaMer I REFER to the article Operation Headstart by Anne Lim in last week's Sunday Nation. The writer believes that those who do well in school are most likely to come from better-off families
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    Lock icon Tiny Mimi draws world attention
    168 5 AP THE FIGHT for life of tiny Mignon "Mimi" Faulkner, described by her doctors as the most premature baby ever to survive, drew growing worldwide attention on Friday. Messages of encourage-1 meat have started arriving at the children's hospital at San Diego, California, and a
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    It's now Miss Olivia Newton-John, OBE
    125 5 It's now Miss Olivia NewtonJohn, OBE ACTRESS-singer Olivia Newton-John, Australian race ace Jack Brabham and former engineering workers union leader Hugh Scanlon are among the personalities in Britain's New Year honours list. Former AUEW secretarygeneral Hugh Scanlon is named a Life Peer. Thirty-year-old Mist Newton-John, who starred with John Travolta
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    Suspected sex-killer on trial
    136 5 A DEFENCE ittwaey M Friday sstght Mm saly Mirier charge a«-klller M J l ?ha >i Wtyie Omy, whs wm ktmi fr*m Ike wrttw u4 toy iteme< to He M la Jail hiapltol to Dee Plalaes, nitoato. While toijw argaed Gaeyt cam at a jwfcj aary
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      36 5 Wishing all our Friends and Patrons AVery HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR (We are closed on Monday, Jan. Ist, re-open on Tuesday, 9.45 a.m.) Specialists' Shopping Centre Orchard Road, Singapore 9 Clifford Centre Raffles Place/Singapore 1
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    Stay tuned to Faridah
    250 6 COMMENT IT WAS an unavoidable observation that last Thursday night's talentimers had probably given their last performance on RTS. The show marked the end of a biennial search (or the best amateur talent. A rather clinical process of eliminating the flats, polishing the sharps »nH presenting
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    The most tingling moments of the year
    151 6  -  TERRY TAN LARRY LAI, 37, deejay extraordinaire, discotheque owner THE most memorable moment this year was also a turning point in my life. It was in April that I decided to quit my job as English programmes organiser with Rediffusion. I (elt I
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    Riding high on applause
    100 6 MATTHEW TAN AND THE MANDABINS, wh#w rof#rd Cswbsy WM ft hit rrleeae la Higifwre: For me and my group, the most glorious moment mi at the International Music Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We were to sing Singapore Cowboy and when we did, the applause was something
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    The irony of a communist's death
    151 6 NORMA MRAFLOB, SI, editor «f Female and Ilvteg mapPERHAPS I should call this exercise days I wouldn't mind remembering. I never wish to relive days and years, no matter how happy they have been. That's why, when something is over, I cut myself off
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    Humbled by soaring Everest
    90 6 ONO KIM SENG, artist: AT UM metres la the Himalayas wtoeh I vMted reeeatty, I —9mt hew ■mall aad laslgaifleaat oh h. I had geae there u try Ui rapUrr the MMMe heaalj el Kiwwl aad I came away hukhi It waa aMMat whea I mini
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    Second debut
    69 6 JACINTH A ABIBHGENADEN, 21, at The Vtatege, Tftleattme winners In IVN: 1978 has been a mixed bag of experiences and discoveries. Performing in the amateur musical Stardust was fun and full of warmth. I was almost cast as Carmen Miranda but fellow singer Irene Hoe proved to be
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      138 6 r imumjpronmed i ni/l\n]iin\lnp •♦-V f (7 I < NIK (111 l l\l. ll l| |i>MI 111 I'll II 11 APPOINTMENT i TRMENOI LABORATORIES PTE. LTD. invites applications toe the following positions: MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS (A) Electrical Candidates must be PUB Licenced Electricians and with at least 3 years' experience in
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    Everything comes on a silver platter
    123 7 DICK LEE, 22, SMgwrttor, (mUm designer: I SHALL never forget April 1978. Several things happened at the same time. While a London music publisher was after me for the copyright to my compositions, an Italian fashion house wanted me to do their entire summer
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    Anthems bring on the goose bumps
    138 7 f Not just another r used-up L calendar but X indelible memories JUNIE BNG, 14, Aalaa Games grid medallist: THERE were aeveral momenu at the Games I shall always recall. Just before the plunge in the 200, 400 and 800 metres, and when I
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    Jaws dropped, eyes popped, I basked in their disgust
    279 7 PAIK CHOO, hemertat, tgcd between pvberty ami men wfce pin: WELL. IT was like this my cohorts Mui Chin, Nancy, Myrtle, Pauline, Ah Eng. Katie and I had come upon a publicity poster lor The Fly, a suspense-horror which was drawing
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    Doctor at last
    65 7 DR LEE WEI LING, 24, PraridMt SckaUr, kMMmu itOHud daughter ef the Prime MlaJster: IT WABNT Jut m «r evea several lawnats (hit have km Me. Ike wMe year ku beea ee. It «m any tint teste «f werUag life aad tke experience I pM la tke
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      216 7 PICTURE OF THE YEAR See Page 10 for contest details j NAME (in Mock tetter*) Mr/Mre/Miea MY CHOICE (state month). REASON (in uncter 20 words). CUT OUT AND POST Katong Seauieuu Duplex Houses ■i Katong high-class a residential surroundings Outstanding design,freehold land easy instalment payments reasonable prices. i. trr:: <
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    I love you, brown eyes
    863 8 THE last strains of the last carol have faded into yet another confused memory of a merry, recurring event. Obligations have been wholly or partially fulfilled. Embarrassments forgotten. Children satiated. Another holiday dawns tomorrow to celebrate the calendar New Year. I would suggest that attention
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      377 8 Doctor in the House I'M HAVING TROUBLE SEEING OUT OF THE CORNERS OF MY EVE. I'VE NOTICED IT 10HEN DRIVING. yOU MAV HAVE A DEFECT IN VOUR VISUAL F1ELV. Ml tltt niilPl STANP IN FRONT OF ME AND KEEP YOUR EVES ON THE BRIDGE OF MV NOSE. I'M GOING TO
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    So many at the mercy of so few
    1143 9  -  If you ask me... For millions fashion writers are the modorn oquivalont of the ancient scribes 55 25 ke typewritten (InU»■paeei) ea mt rtie «f «Mk riwet af paper. Ceatrikatm ik*ill itale MrimHlM.fi pay HI tor even article pakllihH. Aiinii year ptoeee
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    Pick the picture of the year
    508 10/23 TAKE a crack at H play-act you're a newspapar editor and pick tha picture of Mm yeer. You wM ba choosing from picture* that wara votod Pictura of tha Month by tha Tknaa Organisation's nowspapar editors. Each month, tha aditora of tha Straits Timaa,
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      1190 11 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullout AKAI ILV Pick o£ the Week Kiss Me Kit* (Midnight) on Ch 5 at 11.20 p.m. in COLOUR A big splashy musical based on the play by Samuel and Bella Spewack, Kiss Me Kate is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's magnificent musical of 1953. It is beautifully staged,
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      86 12 EXTRA ONE YEAR GUARANTEE ft MODEL 2847 for only $2170.00 while stocks last g n iti Model tvw Featuring the Heliochrom picture tube which is 70% brighter. VIDOM technique. Efficient after-sales backup service. Also models 4300, 4400 and 4640s and consoles. Graetz Sole Agentf Service: Amateur Photo Stores (Pte) Ltd
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      1146 12 MONDAY A speaker unlike any other 10.00 ML Open 10.03 LAFF-A-LYIPICS. 10.40 HOUMY MATIEE: Goodbye. Mr Chips 12 30 IKLCOC 79 (r) 2.05 IT BITT EAST BONG I TEENAGE MLUONAME. When a 14 year-old girl mm $1 mdbon m a lottery, she becomes an overnght celebrity, but becomes estranged from
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      99 13 n? Wi KZ 1 Just turn on your, Sony Betamax. -ri etamax SETRON ELECTRONICS PTE LTD 10 DUNDEE ROAD SINGAPORE 3 TEI *****4 ■M •if... a >--r' <■ S b a -V i 4^; Sr-r r"' m Cf' V ;',i HITACHI tru»? to lift? colour IV is burnt) m.inufctctur ed
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      925 13 WEDNESDAY EH A speaker unlike any other 3.00 PM. Open 3.03 IK BEVEM.Y MLLMLLES: Girts From Grun (r) 3.30 DURV OF MOTS (M) 3.35 BONMCA. He Was Only Seven 4.25 Intermission (.00 Open 0.03 PETTICOAT JUNCTION: Betty Jo's Busmes (r). Last episode 0.30 NEWS M MNEF 0.35 TWMNC TWO TMGS
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      113 14 Ji y iL7 UL A NEW STANDARD OF ULTIMATE HIGH FIDELITY AM/FM RECEIVER MODEL R-1500 W.th Brand NEW LINFAR EQUALISER to allow precise adjustment of reproduced sound in addition to usual tone control with turnover selectors 1 he visual appearance K. style has been designed with you in mmd t
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      801 14 FRIDAY u. 7777T7 A speaker unlike any other 3JO PM. Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee The Wish. Hokkien feature Mm 4.30 Intermission LOO Open 0.03 Star Performance: Dark Meeting (JO IEWSBNEF 6.35 ROOEZVOUS SOUTH POLL Supercooled Hotory 7JO ORGAN RECITAL By Tatsuva Koguma 7.30 lEWS AND NEWSREEL (M) 7 55 JPOtTS
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      64 15 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.M l.l.l.liliMiM.lil i(»: i and add to your Hurry! Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get RARE, GENUINE stamps from all over the world. The stamps come in four categories:-World Personalities, World Sports, Space Exploration Animals. Three stamps FREE, when you buy a box of Lipton Sen/ice
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      185 15 II Ipß m mmm i 1 i W4 yt m i 1 I I T. I'JlllLiii'll mm ill I aV> c§3 ft MIIV/M if I.^ ft a <rr se 92 gfi C*i I I Si B is i !#r Sn *6 3 x a .V ft 1 sfe. I m&s
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      74 16/17 As a jogger you know the most important part of your equipment must be your shoes. And mope 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 an and on.
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      199 16/17 r > Y"41 *9 C'. b§« I WISH TO EE PROMOTED J I KNOW... FROM APPRENTICE TO THAT'S FULL-TIME /MECHANIC//WHAT YA keep y TELLIN' ME rr •<f% y ■w«» f* £ee what Petun/A WANTS.. .WE'LL DISCUSS IT LATER MUMBLE GRUMBLE r. t rv<s SftlP mi •a rV-^-1 OOU6H 1 I
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      87 16/17 beetle v y mort ban Vv V Walker 4 ■< r. »V.t sww /M: ?*M£ ss S 4,J <* MARTHA ANP I AREN'T SETTING ALONG TOO WELL THESE DAYS JIM *r WHAT'S THE PROBLEM SIR? I A 0H... WE JUST SEEM TO BE DRIFTING APART sm IF X3U PON'TMINP /WSAYINSSO,SIR,
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      71 16/17 ti V. "V I WANT A DON'T C*Y, WE'LL MV ROLLER- MAKE \OU ANOTHER i BONEJ J ONE WHEN W5 GET HOME' 4% wis vv' -*w» I WISH I'D SEEN TH 1 WW* rr m «s^~4 rJk. :< v t 5 3 n V V mm .W' 1 »*V Tjp.
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      16 18 WAR PEACE TimesOrchardCentre MlO5 LUCKY PLAZA SINGAPORE 9 TELEPHONE: *****71 OPEN MON-SUN 10 a.m.-€. 30 p.m.
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      209 18 GARTH E3 m VK r inn AW I re? ■V. ml H Sif®* .'1 ■4* >* 1 ■n'l HRI c, Later, Garth describes Eubio's Mission and Astras intervention The identikit picture... THOT'9 HU»O QIL RIGHT/ WHOEVER9EES HIM MUST NOT BCCOST HIM—TH«T WOULD BE DRNSERDUS/dUST RETORT" HIS ft so rstrb is
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    Gently does it, STPB
    726 19 HUK9UR w.h THE Christmas message of peace and goodwill was put severely to the test in Singapore last week in two instances. One, the STPB's two millionth visitor programme and two, the '78 Christmas Special from RTS. The "tall Caucasian couple" originally miscounted as .the TMV
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    10 of the best...
    690 19  -  Jil Jliild By Tan Bah Bah N INETEEN-seventy-eight has been a vintage year for quality films of almost every genre. So much so that despite having seen some 80 Alms and reviewed 40 (two were not published for one reason or another), this reviewer finds it
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      372 19 APPOINTMENTS SINGAPORE CIVIL SERVICE Deputy Head, Publicity Division Ministry of Cutture Applications ore invited from Singapore Citizens (a) with Honours Degrees and at least 6 years in the field of mass communication ond publicity including administrative experience, or (b) at least 10 years experience in a large news organisation, of
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      281 19 APPOINTMENT 1 APPLIED RESEARCH CORPORATION 303 Tanglin Road, Singapore 10. r/ Our client, an international group of companies, is in the f process of computerizing its general accounting methods and urgently requires the services of an experienced programmer/analyst for the position of EDP SUPERVISOR Salary negotiable up to around 5515,000.00
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    Changing the Guard to suit sightseers
    702 20  -  TOURISM, A BRITISH SUCCESS STORY GETS OUT OF HAND r By Peter Clippindale LONDONERS are getting fed-up with foreign visitors. No longer can tourists be sure of the warm reception they have been led to expect. Sir Henry Marking, director of the British Tourist
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    Lock icon Rural England awaits your pleasure
    712 20 Why go for standard jaunts Far from the madding crowd lies Thomas Hardy's serene, scenic Dorset By Martines NOT EVERY visitor to England wants to spend his time in Oxford Street, queuing to view the Crown Jewels, or undertaking all the other standard tourist Jaunts.
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      85 20 Do you have a travel tale to tell? Hwrt a ftaaw U toUlt. aafergetttMe er Aa4 te a mMh wMer ht|ttaUe npwtem. ■ailnaee tfcaa yafever How SSsnF 'ong? rtwyw*wt»etlle As yea like tat, please, laeldeat er year Meet m( mn «hu IM dm What form? Type4,«eaMe pi 6mb. Aai 4e
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    Lock icon Quiz shows get my vote for the booby prize
    403 21 Did you see that? By RJ CERTAIN programmes made it; others simply did not. It is fitting, on this last day of the year, to reflect on what TV has given us these 365 days. BEST DOCUMENTARY: A Balance Of Languages.
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    TOUCHING NOSTALGIA, TIRED NEWSREELS
    264 21 THE Christmas potpourri provided good to disappointing entertainment. SINGAPORE IN IS: A pity that what could have been an interesting month-by-month account of events and personalities turned out to be a rather tired and boring clip of newsreels. Whatever happened to Singaporeans at play? CHRISTMAS SPECIAL:
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    Everything you ever wanted to know about Talentime .. .and after
    1020 21 Everything you ever wanted to know about Talentime .and after TWO WEEKS ago, I credited executive producer (Catherine Kan of Talentime for having tightened the show, instead of producer Goh Guan Siew. It was therefore no coincidence when I was immediately ushered into RTS to break bread with the two
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    Colour rivals
    48 21 NEW vistas opsn up. RTM wsnt colour on Thursday. For all ctisnnsl-swopping TV buffs, a bonanza of lata, lata movtaa In colour from •cross ths Csusaway to kaap tham sntsrtalnad in ths wss smaN hours. How about giving TV Mslsysis s run for thshr monsy, RTB?
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      NATURE'S TOLL
      627 22  -  Floods do greatest damage, cyclones cause most deaths THE ENVIRONMENT IS HAZARD. By Ivan Burton, Robert W. Kates and Gilbert F. White. Oxford University Press, 1978. 240 pp. US$l5. REVIEWED BY ALEX JOSEY INDIA'S recent flood disaster and Iran's massive earthquake are reminders that, at a time of
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      Lock icon How long is forty minutes?
      445 22 CONVERSATIONS WITH CHILDREN By R.D. Laing, Penguin Books, 1978, 89 pages. 70p. By Martines THIS IS an interesting and worthwhile book for two important reasons. Firstly, because children have always been such intriguing and charming creatures, and secoodly, because it marks another landmark in the
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      Lock icon Women exist to make men's lives comfortable?
      343 22 TOWARD A NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN. By Jean Bdker Miller, Penguin, 1978. 147 pp. 90p. By Silverfish WRITTEN by a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, this is another book to explain woman behaviour, to women rather than to men. The aim is laudable, but it
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    More pics to pick from
    148 24 SEPTEMBER: A CRUSHING straight to th* chin by Soh Chin Hal «*nt V Mahaiingam into grimacing pain. On* for th* record by Philip Um at th* lightweight final of tha GokJ*n Gk>v*« com petition at th* Gay World Stadium. Chin Hai won by a' unanimous
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      Surely, rugby is the winner
      883 25 INSIK TRACK JUNIE Sng can today look back at 1978 as a wonderful year that will certainly earn her the Sports Personality of the Year tag. To say that she will win the Sportswoman o( the Year award is stating the obvious because it would
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      6 move up to A grade
      501 26  -  Peter Lo THE 1979 Inter-club league (or men and women is scheduled to start on Feb 26. The league sub-committee has issued a list of graded players as well as the revised league bye-laws and entry requirements to all its affiliated Clubs. Previously, the
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      Lock icon FOUR-STEP BACKHAND GRIP
      83 27  -  The Teaching Pro... .By Don J. Leary 1. Assume the regular handshake grip for your eastern forehand. 2. Now form a lump in the wrist of your racquet hand. 3. Turn your right hand to the left until the lump disappears (do not turn the racquet). 4.
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      Team Tennis to get new season off with a bang
      675 27  -  TOMS TALK Alfred Tong TRADITIONALLY, the new year has started quietly (or all those involved in tennis, with the first tournament usually held in the March-May period, quite some time after the SLTA's annual general meeting. This new year, however,
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      IOC AND FIFA BOSSES TO MEET
      950 27 WOMB SOCCER THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) have invited the top brass from the International Football Federation (Fifa) to their headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland in a last-ditch effort to persuade the world soccer body to allow World Cup players to take part in the
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      Lock icon Karpov, Fischer for match of century?
      793 28  -  By Barry Wilson Gemini THE chess match of the century is now a distinct possibility. It is a game between the Russian world champion Anatoly Karpov and the former world champion, the American Bobby Fischer. The match will almost certainly be the most acrimonious,
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      Lock icon Packer — beer, bras and Big Brother
      736 28 Packer beer, bras and Big Brother Observer THERE is a simple secret behind last month's unprecedented success for World Series Cricket. It is appealing to an audience entirely new to cricket. The International Cup match at the Sydney Cricket Ground suggested in the following ways that WSC is becoming a
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      All eyes on these young champions
      500 29  -  They'll make 1979 their year ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng DESPITE the failure of our national athletes to win a single medal at the recently concluded Asian Games in Bangkok we can still look hopefully to the future bemuse 1978 saw the emergence of many
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      S'pore 'no' to Asian Cup series
      266 29  -  Junior World Cup, Sea Games top priorities Brian Miller SINGAPORE, who proposed the staging of the first-ever Asian Cup field hockey tournament, have declined to host the inaugural series in 1960. The Republic's representative to the Asian Hockey Federation's recent meeting in Bangkok, SHA
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      Why Daisy's looking to '79 with confidence and hope
      329 29  -  NETBALL Joyce Tan THREE averseas taura, an licreaae la the ■umber af teams fer tke later-eea tearaameat, the pebUeetlen ef a hease bulletin and the reeeat announcement hy Df Tan Eag Liaag, the ehalrmaa ef the Slagapere Sperts Ceaadl, that aa
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      Time to usher in the young men
      279 29  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh LOOKING back at 1978, it is clear the Basketball Association of Singapore have (ailed miserably. Both national squads (men's and women's) were not picked to take part in the just-concluded Asian Games in Bangkok. The new year is also election
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      A bad start to the new year
      317 30  -  Weekend Sports Ernest Frida THE 1979 Singapore Golf Association local circuit has started on a rotten note. Wanders Private Limited, the sponsors of the Jurong Open, have withdrawn from the event. Wanders sponsored the Jurong Open the last two years. Their 11th hour
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      FN youngsters return home richer in experience
      335 30  -  BAPHINTOM Gerry Chan THE II ■carter Fraaer •ad Neave team retaraed leet weak rleher la experfeace after their Ihday tear af Weat Malayria. stifle at "T'saTpflinaa 'h Selaager aad Peaaag where the heat MaJayrtaa T—lh pleyera ere te he (•ud. Agalaat Selaager, Wagapera
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      Helmsman romps home for third win
      1061 30 HELMSMAN, with his regular Jockey Rajoo Ramasamy astride, scored his third win of the season when he beat a strong Class 1 Division 3 field over 2000 m in Race 5 at Penang yesterday. The Kazakstaan six-year-old, running in third position early, came with
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      Lock icon Saas Fee should end 1978 on a brilliant note
      498 31 By SCRUTINEER EQUUS Stable's Saas Fee, winner of the Singapore Gold Cup, can ring down the curtain for the end of the 1978 racing season with another winning performance in the $70,000 Governor's Gold Cup (Race 5) over 2000 m at
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      PENANG CARD AND FORM GUIDE FOR TODAY
      2760 31 RACK 1 2.0 CLA8S 4, DIV 2 1,200m ($10,000 $7,000 to winner) 1 0060 Ngfcr noaaa a (Dragon) Dniiilly 5 ST (dc+15) *M Tan 1 I 7500 Ipack nmi a (TO Ltmg t 57 (4c+1.5) CUM 10 SSIM TMM tt a (Afiaui) Rodger*
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      SELECTIONS
      127 31 Will TINKER Hr.VI'iiM.'H KX.CBAN TtJBP BAY Bam 1 ftaHrar Baamataas 8Upa Bajak Oakdene Razzmatazz Teo Hui Razzmatazz Ivery Hnh Neat And Past Agtmey Neat And Past Ivary Baaae Sportscaster Neat Aad Paat Sportscaster Bad Dirt Prince Cocoa Priam Cama Pisces Ban Vlatage Prince Cocoa Bam Vlatage Red Dart Elegaat
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      Indeed, it was a Sportsman-less 1978
      724 32 SPORTS NATION SNOC must not make a mockery of their annual sports awards AULD Lang Syne is a sweet song. And it sounds even sweeter when sung after things have gone right over the past 365 days. New Year'i Eve is for reminiscence. It
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      Hartley's brainchild proves to be a big success today
      414 32  -  By SURESH HAIR THE expansion of the Football Association of Slngapore-Mllo School age-group coaching schemes from four to seven levels for 1979 bears evidence to the remarkable success of Trevor Hartley's "brain-child". Introducted in mid-1977, the scheme was developed with the
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      426 25 APPOINTMENTS M The SGV Group Management Consulting Services Our client, a large and successful garment manufacturing company in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, is seeking an experienced executive to head its EDP section. 55.40,000 5550,000 p a. The selected candidate will be responsible for the implementation of EDP systems and
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      154 25 We re one of Singapore s youngest banks' Considering that the first account established with us. is just four years old we have already become a sturdy plant firmly rooted in our garden city Fertilised by satisfied customers who entrust their business to us and who come to us for
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      430 26 APPOINTMENTS The SGV Group Management Consulting Services Due to its expansion program, a large European company engaged in international trading of timber timber products invites applications from energetic and ambitious candidates for the post of: Up to S$ 40,000 p.a. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for the buying
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      477 26 A MULTI-NATIONAL MARINE ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE POSITION OF: THE POSITION The successful candidate will be responsible for scheduling, implementing coordinating and monitoring construction projects. His other duties include preparation of project status reports and job costing. This position offers excellent opportunities to those who are
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      49 32 I Sports Oia r SOCCBB: Singapore Malays Challenge Trophy PBMS v Marrillng Wednesday (3.45 p.m.), Jamlyah Toa Payoh v Pender United PC (5.00 p.m.). Both matches at Balestler Road. Upper Serangoaa United CSC KVWHt-ddt tournament (Toa Payoh AC, 9.00 a.m.). Muslim Mtatonary Society aeven-a-elde tournament (Mettdttlla Barracks. 8.00 a.m.).
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