New Nation, 31 January 1979

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  • 19 1 NewNation .^dSfflStpOßE Wednesday, January 31, 1979 2476 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1/79 fj N£W <£3) NATION COMMENT I
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  • 270 1  -  Petong Paxir NomludMiM far Ike kye-eleetiea la hvn oh■tltseaeles epeaed it the VleUrU Sekeel thb mentag. At press time, a total e( 12 kad filed tkeir papers. Tke Pee pie's Aetlea Party aemiaated eevea caadldatee aad the eppedttoas fielded Ave. The eeastltaeaeles lavelved are:
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  • 282 1  -  By Ivan Lim Some employers were surprised recently when many workers asked to be retrenched. The reason for this, the bosses soon learnt, was that the workers wanted to enjoy the "advantages" of retrenchment. These include retrenchment benefits, pay in lieu of notice, annual leave
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  • 121 1 Reuter Washington, Wednesday Supervisors preparing a Senate lunch for visiting Chinese Vice-premier Teng Hsiao-ping blanched and called in language experts after they saw labels on packets of chopsticks reading: Made in Taiwan. Did the Chinese characters on the sticks say the same thing? If so, it
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  • 89 1 little Lima Tu'i attention wu attracted by the amutMdig Midler at the Istaaa gate. Se she broke away frem her ■nether** Arms te get a closer leek at Private Brlaa Telsea and his automatic rifle. All threagh the "cleee inspection" Pte Telsea Steed at attention
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  • 108 1 Singapore may take the issue of Australia's new aviation policy to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Lusaka. This was stated by Finance Minister Hon Sui Sen in an interview yesterday at the Havelock community centre where he attended a Chinese New
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  • 238 2 4t least 149 private doctors have pledged to serve in government hospitals should there be another national disaster in Singapore. A statement issued by Dr Allan Ng, secretary of the Society of Private Practice, said most private hospitals have also volunteered their facilities to
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  • 182 2 The Ministry of Education will hold a workshop (or its officials on Feb 24 to discuss ways of promoting courtesy in schools. Sources said this will be the first step towards launching a courtesy campaign in schools. Once the ministry officials have decided on a programme,
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  • 43 2 Tan Lip Seng, a part-time lecturer at the University of Singapore, will conduct a 12lecture course on photographic art at Hong Lim community centre from Feb. 6 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. The fee is $80.
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  • 30 2 The Singapore Insurance Training Centre, the Insurance Institute of Singapore and the Life Underwriters' Association will Jointly organise a sales conference on Feb. 22 and 23 at Shangri-la Hotel.
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  • 135 2 Share prices were taken slightly lower after a steady opening in the first hour of trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. BUSINESS DONE Pint flccttf F. Merlin (10) 1.06 (1) 1.06 (1) 104 C. Dev. (1) 1.23 (1) 1.22 (1) 121 U.O.L. (4) 1.65 (1) 1.64
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  • 377 2 n »m»i Biniirtmfcf hat travelled a bent 11, MC km to M itoal" a eeek from Sligapwe to werk la his mtaaraai la Oxford. "II dMwa't matter haw much It's gelag to east me. I waat a——e with toe facility to create great
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  • 196 2 A team of Honolulu architects will arrive in Singa pore soon to finalise expansion plans of the American Club. The six-phase expansion plan is expected to stretch over a period of 10 years. Derrick Chong, the club's general manager, said only the first two phases of the
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  • 98 2 A six-year-old girl was found dead in a bush at Jalan Tanis off Upper Serangoon Road this morning. Wong Lin Leng, who was reported missing by her father yeterday, was found about 50 metres from her home. Lin Leng, the only child of Mr Wong Kai Sin,
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  • 76 2 A high-powered investment team from the Economic Development Board will leave for the United States on Feb 9 for discussions with multi-national companies and banks. The five-member team, led by EDB's alternate chairman, Chan Chin Bock will also be in New York for a Joint
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  • 480 3 Vietnamese refugees who land in Malaysia may be repatriated to Hanoi. The Malaysian government is planning to meet Vietnamese officials on the refugee issue in a move to deal tyith the problem at source and repatriation is one of the questions to be raised. This
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  • 109 3 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday. The Malaysian National Shippers' Council has asked the Straits/New York conference to defer imposition of the 15 per cent increase in freight charges on cargo shipped from Malaysia and Singapore. The conference had imposed the increased freight charges since Jan 1
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  • 239 3 To 17-year-old Ouyang Ping, dancing ignore than an art (arm. It Is a way of telling the world more about China. And she has made this her "revolutionary task." "I want to throw myself into dancing because I love my country," she said through
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  • 210 3 Seventy-seven babies were bom to mothers in 1977 who did not have midwifery or hospital care. This represents 0.2 per cent of the total number of 38,364 births in that year. This percentage of births without any attendant help has remained the same since 1975, according to
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  • 140 3 The Malay section of Radio Singapore is planning to reorganise its programmes in a move to upgrade the quality. According to a Berita Harlan report of Jan 26, it is understood that the reorganisation process' has started and will be completed by the end
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  • 151 3 The Cultural Theatre at Grange Road will not be ready till July, six months behind schedule. Although the building's exterior is completed, the interior is In the last stages of construction. A Singapore Tourist Promotion Board spokesman said the main structural framework and lighting
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  • 359 4 Smith: S'pore provides the climate The Singapore government has created the right environment for British investments in the Republic, according to Mr John Smith, UK Trade Secretory. Writing in this week's issue of Trade and Industry, a British government publication, Mr Smith said he gathered this
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  • 156 4 The Singapore Anti-Nar-cotics Association will present 200,000 copies of a comic book with the antidrug message for distribution to schools next month. The Senior Minister of State (Education), Mr Chai Chong Yii, will receive the books at a presentation ceremony on Feb 10 at Catholic Junior
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  • 287 4  - Tiger Balm makes itself felt in UK claim ■y Bharathi Mehan Tiger Balm, the oriental pain killer produced by Haw Par Brothers International of Singapore, has caught on with the average Englishman, says its British distributors. Once treated with much scepticism, the balm's image in this pountry has changed following
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  • 169 4 Police are looking for a man who cheated nine schoolboys of $38 and a watch at the beach off Telok Blangah Road recently. The boys, all Secondary Four pupils of Gan Eng Seng School in Anson Road, had gone for a swim at the
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  • 302 4 AFP Reuter Jakarta, Wednesday The Indonesian government has set up a special task force to combat tin ore smuggling from its main tinproducing island of Bangka to Singapore which causes an annual loss of some two billion rupiahs (about $6.5 million) to the state, Attorney General
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  • 105 4 This to the laical attracttea at Ike Hhgapm in parttealarty far ttme wto are Bet tee keea ea anlmato. Hm tree keaee to eae ef Ike "pkataelea" tkat make ap Adveatare Laad. Tke etker alae ikrta dee mhM e( rape aad wetdea bridges,
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  • 27 4 The Kumbha bhisbegam ceremony to consecrate the newly constructed Rajagopuram at the Srinivasa Perumal Temple in Serangoon Road will be held on Friday at 8.30 a.m.
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  • 439 5 Kriangsak leaves for US tomorrow Reuter Baigkek, Wednesday. Thai Prime Mminister Kriangsak Chamanand leaves here tomorrow for talks with President Jimmy Carter expected to centre on Thailand's concern about the extension of Vietnamese influence to its eastern bordef. But Gen. -Kriangsak is likely
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  • 63 5 Reuter Geneva, Wednesday Some developing countries are Importing expensive drugs from the Industrialised world which they could make themselves or do without, according to a United Nations team studying the pharmaceutical trade. Exagerrated propaganda claims by some drug Arms have also helped turn many people in poor countries
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  • 138 5 Reuter Manila, Wednesday The Philippines believes three vessels may be loading refugees with official sanction in Ho Chi Minh City and another may already be at sea, Foreign Ministry officials told Reuter yesterday. Concern about where they may go will be at the heart of
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  • 47 5 World Focus Reuter London, Wednesday High spring tides surging up the River Thames put Lon don on flood alert yesterday. The Greater London Council warned that for the rest of the week the capital will be at its most vulnerable from twice-daily high tides.
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  • 178 5 AFP Tokyo, Wednesday Soviet troops on Kurile Islands, disputed between Tokyo and Moscow, though a threat to Japan could easily be attacked by the powerful US Seventh Fleet under the Japan-US security treaty, a high-ranking Japanese Self-defence Force official yesterday said.
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  • 60 5 Reuter Manila, Wednesday President Ferdinand Marcos yesterday announced yet another postponement of the long-promised local elections suspended since martial law was imposed in 1972. "We will not conduct any local elections this- year to avoid political bickering and avoid divisions among our people. We will start considering
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  • 19 5 Moscow, Wednesday The Soviet press charged yesterday that China Is building up tension on its border with Vietnam
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  • 158 6 UPI Naples (Italy) Wednesday The mysterious "dark disease" of Mount Vesuvius claimed its 50th child victim yesterday, spreading wider a web of fear among parents and baffling doctors. Since February of last year, 50 children have died in sleazy, overpopulated Naples, Torre del Greco and
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  • 56 6 Reuter Gdlahargh, Wedaeaday.- When a family'! pet dag bit a televlsiea repair man, he hit the dag aa the ear. Bat the dag Ut him hack, a eaart waa told yeaterda?. Rahert Martin thea held the pet'a ewaer at gaapalat whea ha (ailed ta sheet the, dag. He
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  • 416 6 World Focus Reuter UPI Salisbury, Wednesday White Rhodesians yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed government plans for a limited form of black majority rule. Prime Minister lan Smith said a strong "yes" vote from Rhodesia's whites, who rule Rhodesia although they comprise less than 4 per cent
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  • 86 6 Reuter Damascus, Wednesday Syria and Iraq announced yesterday they have concluded a mutual defence pact and were planning to create a unified state. A Joint statement issued after three days of top-level talks in Damascus said the two sides would meet again in Baghdad
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  • 58 6 Reuter New York, Wednesday A 17-year-old rape victim stabbed her attacker to death with his own knife on Monday night, police said. He grabbed the girl and rap*d her in an alley in New' York's borough of Brooklyn, and then tried to stab her but she wrested
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  • 174 6 Reuter London, Wednesday British hospitals turned away patients yesterday as low-paid workers pressing for huge wage rises stepped up strike action against tye state health service. Hejllth Minister David Ennals told Parliament the situation waff "extremely serious" and that about half the nation's hospitals
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  • 123 6 UPI TODAY is Wednesday, Jan 31. the 31st day of 1979 with 334 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. American entertainer Eddie Cantor was born on Jan 31 in 1892. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: In 1968, Explorer 1, the first US
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  • 27 6 Reuter Washington, Wednesday The chances of the Soviet Union launching a non-nu-clear military attack in Europe are small, Defence Secretary Harold Brown said yesterday. Reuter.
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    • 525 6 WORLD WEATHER Lsadea Sunny spells, 7-4c. Seenl Cloudy, 64c. HeadHeadline: Buildings blaze In line: Carter-Teng summits Tehran mob fury. discuss world affairs includMeseaw Overcast, 2- ing Korean issue, minus 2c. Pravda's head- Tekje Cloudy, 12-lc. line: Training skilled me- Headline: The Soviet Union chanics. deploys big ground force on Bean
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  • 571 7 'We no longer use the word liberate' World Focus Reuter UPI Washington, Wednesday Chinese Vice-Premier Teng Hsiao-ping outlined his country's position on Taiwan to US senators yesterday and, according to those present, left them reassured that China did not intend to use force. Senator Jacob
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  • 196 7 Earth's getting hotter claim UPI New York, Wednesday Qust bowls over large areas of North America, Asia and Africa and a rapid rise in glottal sea level are possible early in the 21st century, a scientist warned on Monday. Mr Gordon J.F. Macdonald of the Mitre Corp. in McLean, Virginia,
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  • 53 7 AFP Jakarta, Wednesday. A bus driver was killed as he tried to flee after causing an accident with a bicycledriver here, it was reported yesterday. After creating a "hit and run" accident the bus driver was struck by a passing truck as he crossed the street
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  • 333 7 AFP Reuter Teheran, Wednesday All the seeds of a civil or holy war have been sown in Iran, observers here agree. There are clashes between soldiers and civilians, fights between followers and enemies of the Shah, acts of "popular Justice," punitive expeditions against places
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  • 197 7 AFP Paris, Wednesday Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said here yesterday that the next move in the Middle East peace process should be a US invitation for a resumption of Egyptian-Israelinegotia-tions. Speaking at a diplomatic press luncheon near the end of a 48-hour visit to
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  • 75 7 AP Moscow, Wednesday. New York's Cornell University Medical Centre flew a kidney from an American donor to the Soviet Union which was successfully transplanted in a 24-year-old woman here, repaying a similar favour two years ago by a Soviet donor, according to a report in the
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  • 468 8 The US-China rapprochement process gathers full steam, with the remarkable Mr Teng Hsiao-ping at the helm of an amazing train of events. From the way the Americans have received the Chinese Senior Vice-premi-er on his historic US visit, Mr Teng clearly remains the man of the
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 92 8 On a flight from Toronto to Frankfurt, a woman passenger felt something creepy and crawly on her legs. When she bent down to investigate, she gave a piercing scream: it was a snake. A search-and-destroy mission was immediately organised. In all, four snakes were captured and two
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    • 76 8 A European lady rang up to say that she and her friends are having the last laugh at Wednesday's whisper on an American men's fashion magazine called Gentlemen's Quarterly being published monthly. She explained: "You forget that in Europe and America, we have (oureasons And as fashions
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  • 237 8 Every boom has its spinoffs. And enjoying them is the Scottish city of Aberdeen, the regional capital of the Grampian region. Here factories had cropped up seemingly overnight and there were many stories about people giving up senior posts in government departments to work as
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  • 696 8  -  WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON Sir Harold Wilson's pearls of wisdom dispensed to the world's press at his New York hotel recently do not, perhaps, deserve extended comment. Sir Harold is, after all. a retired prime, minister in a system which cruelly takes a man's
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  • 606 8 UPI Tokyo: The elite bureaucrats in Japan's Foreign Office, are under fire for the conduct of their diplomacy and critics openly express doubt& whether they are capable of carrying out intricate foreign policy. Critics said the Foreign Office's recent predictions on events outside Japan turned out
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  • 840 9  -  Voice of the Press j L Round-up Jan 22-27J By Liew Soon Chin To ask or not to ask this controversial question was debated at length by N ANYANG SIANG PAU and TAMIL MALAR last week. Should an employer ask a potential employee to reveal
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  • 434 9 Reuter Kota Klnabalu: Beef bred in Australia and fattened in East Malaysia will soon be finding their way on to dinner tables in Sabah through a US$lB million ($35.6 million) cattleraising project launched by the state government. Demand for beef in Sabah has risen
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    • 569 10/11  -  Softly rolled hair topped with a neat little hat, mysterious veils, feathers and flashing diamante clips you just can't help noticing those clever little accessories in the Ready-to-Wear festival, says SYLVIA LEOW SYLVIA LEOW If you like old movies and in particular those early '40s
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  • 505 12  -  Cinema »>v Gloria Chandy THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD: Reddy McDowall, Kabir Bedl, Peter Ustinov, Terence Stamp, Frank Flnlay, Pavla Ustinov. Directed by Clive Donner. Screenplay by A.J. Carothera. (Now at Odeon). The third remake of this Arabian Nights tale has quite a bit of history to contend
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  • 761 12 Austerity the new key word in the hustings It'll charm the cunning voter Russell Baker column L J NYT New York: Scarcely a day passes this political season without the spectacle of some statesman threatening to introduce us to austerity. Since catchwords like this don't normally seize a politician's fancy
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  • 527 12 Madrid: Spain may not have invented the guitar, but most people think it did. Which is just one reason why Spanish musicians and guitar-makers find themselves at the centre of an international surge of interest in the instrument. "There is a
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  • 1083 13  -  World Focus Kaunda will do his best to make sure Lusaka summit is a success By Derek Ingram The entire Commonwealth 39 presidents and prime ministers about to manifest itself on lan Smith's doorstep. In addition, Queen Elizabeth, in her role as head of
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  • 210 13 AFP HMtJtMg A ecatn for tratotog eiilm, waiters aid waltrwiM, the first «f tts ktod to Cklaa, tow reeeatly keca set ap to Skaagkai, CUu'i largest tadutrtal city. The Ant imp «f tt itiieiti was selected frsm city restaaraats alter strict tests ss
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 277 13 Crossword x "V J. 1 Thwack 5 Wettish 9 Hinder, in law 14 Reside 15 Pitcher 16 Music (or a film 17 Make ms. corrections 18 Harsh breathing 19 Brazilian mammal 20 Fitted together 23 Smell unpleasantly g Monthly concern Avaricious 27 Mail letters 30 Bronze or Iron 31 Green
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  • 195 14 r 7 Business News and Views J UPI UadM 4 Wednesday The US dollar closed largely unchanged on European money markets yesterday and dealers said the December US trade deficit figures did not affect the dollar in quiet trading. In London, the dollar closed at £1.9060, compared with
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  • 424 14 Reuter UPI WMhiMgtM, Wednesday The United States had a record trade deficit of U5528.45 billion ($60.7 billion) in 1978, nearly US$2 billion more than the previous high of U5526.53 billion in 1977, the government announced yesterday. America's huge trade deficit has been an underlying cause
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 218 14 UPI New York, Wednesday Stocks fell for the second straight session yesterday amid investor uncertainties about monetary policy, interest rates, the trade deficit and Iran. Trading was moderate. The Dow Jones industrial average, up nearly 4 points at one time, dropped 3.99 points to 851.78. Before falling 3.98
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    • 39 14 UPI New York. Wednesday Dow Jooee cloalag averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday 30 Industrials 851.78 (oft 3.99); 20 transport 216 89 (off 1.08); IS utilities 104.67 (up 0.17); 65 stocks 287.80 (off 1.08) UPI
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    • 186 14 UPI Tokyo, Wednesday Share prices, succumbing to profit-taking, edged down on the Tokyo Stock exchange yesterday in moderate trading. The 25-stock Dow Jones average dropped 6.21 yen (or the first decline in eight sessions to cloae at 6,186.08 yen. The TSE index of all 943 listed stocks in the
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    • 69 14 Closing prices on thi Bourse yesterday: Parts Piribu 217 «J0 Foncler 4S0 9 Pr In temps 130.30 unch Bull 90.40 •JO Royal Dutch TJ0.90 -.16 Mlchelln KM •1 COB 406 ■4 Thomson unch CTP 146 1.10 Rhone 113.30 -130 Air 401 -330 B8N 528 -2 Philip* 5120 unch Sues
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    • 78 14 Yesterday's prices followed by the difference on the previous session's close UBS Bearer 3300 +6 UBS Ref 616 +2 SBC 366 +3 Credit Suisse 2390 15 Swiss B 868 8 Swiss Relnsur 318S 15 Wlnterthur B 2900 Zurich Insur WOO Nestle B 3969 +30 Interfood B 4390 90 Clba-Oelgy
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    • 109 14 Reuter Price* at 11.30 a.m.today (Australian time) on the Sydney Stock Exchange: ADC1MA mpol Pet 75 76 ANT 178 185 APftl 122 127 Bank NSW 338 340 Brambles 180 186 BHPM2M4 Boral 232 235 CBA 258 260 CSR 350 355 CIG 235 238 Coal Allied 490 504 Dunlop 86
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  • 182 14 UPI Caracas, Wednesday US Deputy Secretary of Energy John Oleary yesterday forecast chronic world energy shortages by the 1980s. The world oil market is at the brink of a situation where demand permanently will exceed supply and prices will go "sky high and stay
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  • 252 14 Foxboro Far East, a subsidiary of the American Foxboro Company has set up a training centre to meet the region's needs (or engineer training in digital and analog process management and control systems. It has set up an educational services centre at
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  • 161 14 UPI New York, Wednesday The US Department of Energy and China will sign In Washington later today a scientific agreement calling for the building of a 50 billion volt accelerator in China by 1983, Dr. Leon Lederman disclosed yesterday. Mr Lederman, newly appointed director
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • Sportsfront
    • 349 15  -  Watch out for these four young swimmers under Kee Jaw Tee Kwang The sudden emergence and rise of the four young swimmers, Alvin Lim, Pauline Lim, Grace Cheong and Jasmine Sim augers well for swimming in Singapore. These four young swimmers established themselves as star potentials
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    • 453 15  -  REMINDER FOR SBA Tan Tek Hock The Singapore Badminton Association are right in dropping former doubles champion Kok Peng Hon from the national squad. It is about time that discipline is taken seriously by all sports clubs and associations. In the past much was said but
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    • 363 15 "Today at 3.90 p.m. on flight MH672, we'll be back home wondering if Singapore should ever continue to take part in the Malaysia Cup," reported Jeffrey Low (N.N. 24 Jan). That was how he concluded his report on the football match between Sabah and Singapore last
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    • 147 16 I Soccer Lausanne (Switzerland), Wednesday The International Olympic Committee Executive Board yesterday accepted under protest a ruling by world soccer's governing body that excludes East Europe's top soccer players from the 1980 Olympic football tournament. The nine-man board announced their decision after a day-long meeting
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    • 72 16 London, Wednesday England and Sweden were level 2-2 after the first day of the Thomas Cup European Zone badminton semifinal at Carlisle yesterday. Results (Swedish first): Thomas Kihlstrom lost to Ray Stevens 18-15, 3-15, 159; Sture Johnsson bt Derek Talbot 17-14, 15-5; Kilstrom and Bengt Fro
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    • 397 16 First Prlaeeas led Into the straight from Chaagsa, with MysUe Du closing in. Haaey Dip and Magle Click moved up. The leaders were soon beaten. Mystic Du cleared away to win as he liked by 10 lengths from Haaey Dip, with Magic
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    • 193 16 UPI Arcadia (California),Wednesday Jockey Steve Cauthen, who has not ridden a winner in 105 mounts since Jan. 1, was scratched on Monday from riding Affirmed in Sunday's US$2OO,OOO- Charles H. Strub Stakes at Santa Anita Park. Lazaro Barrera, trainer of Affirmed, announced the decision and
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    • 639 16  -  SQUASH As the regulars go under pressure by Eric Cooper Singapore's team for the East Asian Team championship could be the youngest ever, with former stalwarts hard pressed to retain their places. National champion V. Copal has already suffered one defeat by Jeremy Yeo, who in turn
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    • 330 16  -  On the track *y K. L. CHAN Kuala Lumpur,' Wednesday Air Marshal D, one of the fancied runners In the Tunku Gold Cup, showed sparkling form in his workout on good going here this morning. With apprentice Kevin Chee In the saddle,
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    • 59 16 Chicago, Wednesday Mima Jausovec upset thirdseeded Virginia Wade in the opening round of a US$2OO,000 (about 5|420,000) women's professional tennis tournament yesterday. Playing a strong all* around game, the 22-year-old Yugoslav defeated the former Wimbeldon champion 7-5, 6-4. Wade, who won the women's pro tournament
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    • 387 17 Delight led past the 800 m and into the straight from Eastern Masle, with Cmm Pradaeer and Mails closing in. Eastern Masle forged ahead 200 m out, with Malta challenging. Mails hit the front close home to win from Eastera Made. Ceeea Pradaeer
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    • 801 17  -  Partnership with Buchan not effective on SOCCER V k. EMLYN HUGHES One of the most puzzling aspects of the season has been the form of Mancheser United centre-hacks Gordon McQueen and Martin Buchan. These Scottish internationals, two of the most highly rated defenders in Europe, started
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    • 300 17 Reuter London, Wednesday Terry Curran, having (ailed to score for Southampton in 24 games, ended the (amine with a brilliant goal against Leeds United last night to put his club into the final of the English Football League Cup. It was the only goal
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    • 330 18  -  Reward for. that double' Hockey By Suresh Nair A two-week trip to Perth and other Western Australia states that's the reward for Singapore Recreation Club's hockey team that_ snatched the elusive "double" over the weekend. SRC. the Premier League champions who have almost a national
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    • 109 18 AFP London. Wednesday. Pakistan's Mohamed Sa leem called marker FYank CottreU "a cheat as he faced defeat in a third round match of the British Amateur Squash Championship at Wembley Conference Centre yesterday. With Philip Kenyon, the No. 5 seed, leading 7-6 in Jhe fifth game.
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    • 202 18 Soccer The Singapore Business Houses Football Association have decided to get really tough with players who don't behave on the field during league matches thisyear. The SBHFL will suspend any player who receives three cautions during the league which is now on. This no-nonsense stand is
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    • 201 18 Cricket AFP Leeds, Wednesday. Geoff Boycott, the England' opener at present with England in Australia, has until midnight today to decide whether or not he is to stay with Yorkshire County Cricket Club now that he has lost the captaincy. He has today in the Fifth
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    • 104 18 Reuter Manchester. Wednesday. Former England soccer striker Mike Channon will not be Joining English Third Division club Swindon. Channon, who was put up for sale by Manchester City last week, said here yesterday: "I will be letting Swindon know that I am not interested in
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    • 180 18 The Malaysian Hockey Federation Under 23 tournament in which Singapore and Sri Lanka are the only two "guests", have been postponed to May 31-June 6. The Perak Hockey Federation, hosts of the 1979 series, have re-scheduled the dates originally fixed between May 11-15 at Ipoh at
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    • 265 18 Rugby .The Singapore Rugby Union are not in the least surprised at the Malaysian move to keep them out of MRU competition. Said SRU president Howard Cashln last night: "We have been expecting this move. We received hints of our non-participation ever since
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    • 448 19  -  Troupe so international By Margaret Cunico Modegema does not look like a dancer. She is stolidly built. She is also a mother of two children. But when she puts on her dancing shoes and stage costume, you recognise her as a prima dancer in the Oriental Song
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    • 237 19  -  Glitter Chatter by Teo Lian Husy Veteran Cantonese opera star Leong Seng Poh did not appear in a series of Cantonese operas held in Hong Kong this new year because of a chicken bone. Hong Kong reports said he was scheduled to perform
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    • 100 19 6 A.M. Opening Announcements and Programme Summary 6.05 Morning Prelude 6.30 News (E) 6.40 Morning Concert: Symphony No. 4 (Nielsen), String Quartet In C Minor Op. No. 1 (Brahms) Ballet Music For Rosemunde (Schubert) 8.00 News (C) 8.10 People and Places: When Mabel Comes in the Room Ray Conniff, Elusive
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    • 510 19 At the cinema BRASS TARGET: Based on a book by Frederick Nolan, this brings the question of General Patton's death into the open. How did he really die? Was it accidental? Or was it murder? Stars Sophia Loren, George Kennedy, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn. Orchard: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15
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  • 55 20 AH FOOK: The Prime Minister says Dr Goh Keng Swee will take over the Ministry of Education if the PAP wins the byelections. MEI UN: That's not surprising. Five months ago Dr Goh headed a task force of Mindef systems engineers to revamp the education system. Now he's
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