New Nation, 3 February 1979

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    Masthead
    17 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Saturday, February 3, 1979 2479 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1 /79 NEW NATION COMMENT:
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  • Article
    Blind in a spot over ang-pow appeal
    180 1 The Singapore Association for the Blind's annual ang-pow appeal ran into problems this year and the returns were something of a disppointment. Sab printed 300,000 packets and asked all community centres, primary schools and churches to help paste up the packets and distribute
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    Our new strategy: STPB
    763 1  -  Bid to 'sell' Singapore to high income group By Bharathi Mohan our Lendon reporter The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, faced with the loss of. tourist traffic as a result of Qantas-British Airways' no-stopover cheap fares, has changed its marketing strategy in Britain. Its representative office is
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    Lock icon Too much leg-work for Rohan
    107 1 PAPtiifllltn tar Nek Altar eercrtag IS ktoeto if llih jmtifiij he tad to take Irak to JJJJJJJ leg "I wu wyttrJ after toe feet toy ef «unpaJg»lag ea Ttantay/' to eali."After rrlity men, I «ediei to eee toe Aeetor ee I wee aCraftfl toe peta
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    Trouble with our women drivers..
    334 2  -  By Rav Dhaliwal Women drivers are generally more prone to making error* on the road than the men but the type of errors they make often do not result in severe accidents. Traffic Police studies show. About three-quartan of the accidents they get Into are
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    Lock icon $12m drug seizure
    69 2 Reuter Malaysian police have seized 28 kilogrammes of morphine, worth about $12 million, smuggled Into Malaysia by a Thai-register-ed car, it was announced la Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The police, acting on a tip-off, searched the car on Its entry from Thailand Into Kedah on January 25 and
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    Prize day
    36 2 The Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association will hold Its 1978 Donation Draw prize presentation ceremony at the Shenton Way Clinic on Monday at 5 p.m. The first prise of $10,000 will go to Mr Jason Tan.
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    $22m orders for firms
    217 2 A 11-member British Trade Mission has just returned from a visit to Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand with orders worth over $22 million. The mission which comprised members from the London Chamber of Commerce and the British Overseas Trade Board entered into agreements and finalised purchMss worth
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    He shouts 'Cut!' but will she?
    165 2 Par a lew awaasMg gees held caw iaageraaaly ever Ms torse. "Cat," aaM Mat Seatal. Bat she iMat. Ike iaa «m Mflag part «f a tawly Mm, Mat Bealal, wWeh they wen iii Wag at Cappage Ccatn. The tHMM film la belag praiaeei by
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    Free clinic's plea for list of docs
    124 2 The Ling Kwang Mission Clinic has asked the Health Ministry (or names of doctors and nurses who pay want tooffer their services. The tree clinic, under its expansion programme, recently moved from Serangoon Gardens to Ang Mo Klo Block 21, Avenue 4, to
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    Correction
    52 2 In Tuesday's centrespread on Oman, the picture of the Minister of Information and Culture,-Mr Sayyid Rahad A 1 Said was wrongly captioned as that of the Under secretary of Information and Culture, Mr Abdul Aziz Mohamed Rowas. The latter's name should be spelled Rowas and not Rawas. The errors
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    Managing skills for SIA pilots — Pillay
    301 3 Managing skills for SIA pilots Pillay Singapore Airlines wants to give its pilots management training to inspire them to achieve optimum results in technical, financial and commercial areas. This was stated by SIA chairman J.Y.M. Pillay, in a message published in the Singapore Airlines Pilots' Association magazine produced for Its
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    It's all white at this canteen
    235 3 This is the canteen with-a-difference at the Pooggol Vocational Institute. All its vendors wear white overalls to project a clean image. And the idea is catching on. The Industrial Training Board now plans to Introduce white overalls for canteen vendors in the other eight
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    Out soon: New Isteas journal
    268 3 Emphasis on SE-Asian problems A journal on'current regional issues, produced by the Institute of South-east Asian Studies (Isteas), will be put on sale in April. Published quarterly, the journal. Contemporary South-east Asia, will cater for what Professor Kernlal Singh Sandhu, director of Isteas, calls the
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    Foster group spirit urges MP Sia
    162 3 Sia Kah Hui, the MP for Upper Serangoon,urged flat dwellers to foster a spirit of mutual help and respect and to get'involved in community work. Mr Sia, who is also Minister of State (Labour), said many high-rise flats were built in the Upper Serangoon
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      208 3 Any time is wash-time with washing machine ■> Q 1 NEW. ES-751A Filly Automatic Wash ft Spin Dry. "Juat a touch'pueh button One-touch leg height adjustment lever Spin dry selector 'Water level selector Waste thread fUtar Bleaching solution port Partial waahlng comer Automatic balance ring »t it tier If you're
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    Dr Tan gets to the root of the problems
    907 4  -  IRENE HOE joins the doctor I• as he makes his house calls IRENE HOE The Sepibawang grassroots are friendly. The PAP election machine has planted its seed well. Yesterday morning found Or Tony Tan (irmly dug in at his constituency. He
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    Lock icon Shades of Graham crusade at Chiam's rally
    808 4  -  By Ivan Llm Independentc a n d 1date Chiam See Tong delivered an 80-minute "public lecture" complete with a question-and-answer session at his first open-air rally in a carpark at Lorong 8, Toa Pay oh, last night. His topic: Merits of an opposition
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    Farrah's new look
    62 5 Tbaagk the "wtkHMkll|," wwptbMt Ilea's MM ku (allea limp, the beaatlftU teee tmi nuy •mile ef Aanrieu idna Farrak FiwMtt-lteJm ■till feUgkt the phategra--Bhe was bar "aew leak" at a pre— call at the Odeea, la Lwtia yeeterday, the ipirtaa aight ef Semekedy Killed Her HwfrnH It
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    Lock icon 'Virgin test' probe
    430 5 Indian envoy protests World Focus AFP Reuter London, Friday Allegations that women from the Indian sub-continent have been given virginity tests, on the orders of British immigration officials, are being investigated by the British Home Office and the Indian High Commission in London. Following Its disclosures yesterday,
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    Lock icon Students on trial
    78 5 Reuter Jakarta, Saturday Four Indonesian students have been put on trial in Bandung charged with defaming the character of President Suharto and subversion, the Jakarta newspaper Kompas reported yesterday. The four, all university students, were responsible for the publication of a White Book which gave a bad
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    Lock icon Asean ties important, Kriangsak is told
    136 5 Reuter London, Saturday. Prime Minister James Callaghan yesterday stressed to Thai Prime Minister General Kriangsak Chomanan the importance Britain attached to its relations with Thailand and other Asean countries. British officials said the two Prime Ministers had a 30-minute discussion on the general situation
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    Lock icon 'Victim' shows up in his murder trial
    150 5 Reuter Durban (South Africa), Saturday A murder trial ended abruptly here yesterday when the supposed victim walked into the courtroom. The case arose from a stabbing incident two years ago in which Keith Augustine, 19, was alleged to have killed a man during
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    Lock icon Manila may sell excess rice at a loss
    168 5 Reuter Manila. Saturday The Philippines hopes to export 270,000 tonnes of excess rice this year tg "ease the oversupply situation" particularly in southern Philippines, Agriculture Minister Arturo Tanco said yesterday. He told newsmen that President Ferdinand Marcos had instructed him to dispose
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      146 5 '•CKI WM m w A fyaba* V? >fi \a. i\^r i 1 >i Give your family a change of surround- Don't mitt this fantastic offer for you Ings. Enjoy fresh air and cool breeze at and your family. Malaysia's popular hW resorts of Eraser's Hid or Cameron Highlands. For you
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    Lock icon Treat fad diets as child abuse'
    100 6 Reuter London, Saturday Inflicting on children the faddish diets followed by members of certain religious cults should be regarded as a form of child abuse, the British Medical Journal yesterday said. "When children are found to be suffering from undernutrition due to parental food
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    Lock icon Soviet dissident for elections
    92 6 Reuter Moscow, Saturday Dissident historian Roy Medvedev said yesterday he had agreed to stand as a candidate for next month's elections to the Supreme Soviet. Forty Moscow voters, apparently acting on their own Initiative, asked him to stand after human rights, campaigner Andrei Sakharov declined to
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    Lock icon Sadat: We'll sell Israel Sinai oil
    102 6 AFP Cairo, Saturday President Anwar Sadat add yesterday that Egypt has agreed to an Israeli request to buy Sinai oil at international market prices. Mr Sadat, who was speaking to reporters after after worshipping at the mosque of his natal village of Mlt Abul
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    103 6 UPI lirtw, nntarday Eleetrldaa at his marriage by telling Yeenrt here that Ma bride af several hears walked NtMUnat their wadMag reccpttea aad west «ff with aa aid bqmai "Aad she never even sail geedbye," Yadnlee lamented natstde the eeart. Yadalee, 8, aai Ms It year sM
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    Lock icon Rhodesia removes some race barriers
    176 6 Reuter Salisbury, Saturday New laws yesterday formally removed racial discrimination in Rhodesia, but there was no in the streets to msrk the occasion. A package of eight Bills, signed into law on Thursday by acting President Jack Pi they, ended official segregation in housing, education,
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    Lock icon Japanese worry over build-up
    426 6 World Focus Reuter AFP Tnkyn, Satarday Japanese Defence Minister Ganri Yamashita yesterday said the recent Soviet military buildup on Japaneseclaimed Pacific islands was a matter of grave concern to Japan. However Mr Yamasfcita told the Diet (parliament) there was no immediate need for the Japanese' armed
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    Lock icon Today
    123 6 UPI TODAY is Saturday, Feb 3, the 34th day of MTO with 91 to follow. Those born on this date are under the slga of Aquarius. ON TUB DAT IN HMO* BY: In 1913, the ltth Amendment, creating the income tax, became a part at the United States constitution
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      557 6 vc rnr *m\ Mm Sleet, 4-OC. Headline: Ayatollah Is welcomed by miPlone Mmnv Overcast, occasional snow, 3-minus 2C. Pravda's headline: The culture a( a village. dear, 2-minus SC. Headline: Millions of Ira- mans exult as their Idol Khomeiny ends exile. Pails Variable, possible ■bowers, «8-minus 2C. Headline: Khomeiny attacks Bakbtlar
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    Adoption case tipped in fat Rays favour
    145 7 Wisconsin, Friday Gordon and Barbara Ray have won their fight. Their obesity cannot be used to keep them from adopting a child, if a doctor certifies the surplus poundage is no threat to parental skills, j But even though the state has ruled
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    Lock icon Bull runs amok
    105 7 Reuter Brisbane, Saturday. A bull missed the china cabinet when it rampaged through a house, here but managed to demolish two kitchen chairs, nine bottles of beer and a bed. The big Brahman bull escaped from an abbatoir on Wednesday night, charged through a shopping centre and
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    Lock icon Trapped for 60 hours
    81 7 Reuter Melbourne, Saturday A man trapped for 60 hours in a car perched precariously half-way down a cliff was rescued after a chance sighting b? a police helicopter, police said yesterday. Mr Rupert Marsh,4l, swerved to avoid another car and hurtled off the side of a
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    My condition — Baktiar
    335 7 My condition Baktiar '11l accept Khomeiny's men if they're of calibre' World Focus Paris, Saturday Iranian Prime Minister Shapur Baktiar said yesterday in radio interviews broadcast in France that he would accept supporters of Ayatoilah Khomeiny in a government if they were people of international calibre.* But Dr Baktiar, who
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    Lock icon Smokers get another warning on cigs
    124 7 Reuter Boston, Saturday Cigarette smokers face five times the risk of dying from heart disease compared with non-smokers, according to a study involving 4004 middleaged subjects. Reporting in tt)e New England Journal of Medicine, doctors in the Kaiser Permanente Medical care programme in Oakland,
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    Lock icon Rolling down the line: Teng sees for himself
    95 7 Chlaeee Vice Premier Teag HniM-Ptng, eeetre, leeks it a Pert meter ee It relle 4ewe the eeeeoiMy Use at the Hapevllle Pert eeeembly pleat. Plaakleg Mr Tng are hie wife Ma4em Che Lfte, taft, art Heart chalrmea Henry Peri n, right. Mr
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    Lock icon Vietnam criticises China
    196 7 AFP Reuter Hanoi, Saturday Vietnam appeared yesterday to regard as "Chinese provocations" statements made by Chinese Vice-Premier Teng Hsiao-ping and Kampuchean Prince Norodom Sihanouk that Thailand allowed arms for the Khmer Rouge to transit through its territory. A usually well-informed source said these "denunciations" were aimed at
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    Lock icon Kremlin warns US of playing China game
    224 7 UPI Washington, Saturday The Kremlin has warned the United States it is "placing _a dangerous game" with Mr Teng Hsiao-ping and has clouded prospects for a Salt Two summit,, a Soviet diplomat said here yesterday. The official said Soviet ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin carried
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    Lock icon Seven die in floods
    60 7 AFP Jakarta, Saturday Heavy floods swept through Tanjung Karang, the capital city of Lampung Province in South Sumatra killing seven people, the evening newspaper Sinar Harapan reported vefeterday. tlie floods which followed continuous dwownpours caused two main rivers passing through the town Way Awi and Way
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    Lock icon US fears if Russia dominates sea lanes
    117 7 UPI Washington, Saturday. Navy Secretary W. Graham Oaytor said yesterday the United States now imports 30 per cent of all its strategic raw materials and could fall prey to "economic blackmail or strangulation"lf Russia comes to dominate the sea lanes. For that reasop,
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    99 per cent innovation
    421 8 From direct questions-and-answers, it first developed into "show and tell." Now it is, in effect, "organise, show and tell." The threestage manner in which our youngsters are asked to expose their knowledge of science in public, that is, on television, is the correct way to develop
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      Sound mix-up
      59 8 A friend was watching TV when his mother yelled at him to check the washing machine. She said that something was wrong with it. On going to the kitchen, he found'that the sounds being heard by his mother came from the TV set. The programme:' Fantastic Voyage. "Now
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      Riding on bandwagon
      65 8 Did you see the picture of Mr Teh Cheang Wan and his supporters on top of a cruising lorry in Thursday's New Nation? Right across it was a signboard in Chinese characters which read: Fook Heng Chair and Table Co. A colleague called it a free plug
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    Exile —that's the price for US aid
    654 8  -  says -t k former premier NgayesuCaa Ky, farmer premier ef Snath Vletaam draws a QafaJiaJ hfltHTfJTl Mfl JWMHroi IfClWwu BUS dilemma aad thai «f the Shah ef Iran. He attributes it ttf the elash between the American way at Me aad aatftaaaHstfe pride.
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    We did not ask for the sack
    150 8  -  LOUIS NATHAN Geaeral secretary, BPEU We refer to your report headed Workers Who Want The 'Sack* (NN/Jan 30) and wish to point oat the erroneous way in which the retrenchment exercise at Times Printers in Thomson Road was reported. We refer in particular
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    Asean nations must stand united
    147 8  -  CHARLIE KOH My friends and colleagues fully support the move by SIA pilots and their famtiw to boycott Australian goods in protest against Australia's deliberate attempt to reduce air (ares. The people of Singapore and other Asean countries should now rally around and pull their
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    Getting the vote's only the start of the problems
    491 9  -  rin other x 1 words... by/ Tan Bah Bah Suddenly, during an election, population statistics become people. And after that, they become people with problems. The 10 candidates taking part in the current by-elec-tions know this. They know they are not
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    Lock icon Something to celebrate about
    698 9 The lot of Sri Lanka'sl Tamils has improved i Reuter Celembe: Sri Lanka celebrates a double anniversary tomorrow its independence from Britain 31 years ago and the first year of its new presidential system blending British and American traditions. The government can look back on a
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      136 9 STATION The Rodm Sfotton 'Peoce Progre**' dedkoted to the comokdotion of peace. tnenditup ond under»tondkig among at nation* ngatdtou of roc*, creed and tocial »y*tem. The popular broodcoM eovert the latest developments n it* Soviet Unron, up4o-dat« conwwrtartw on cuhent attorn and popular Soviet and international muwc It broodcott to
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      263 9 I Crossword ACROSS 1 Information 5 Hidden store 10 Printing direction 14 Unwritten 15 Encore 16 Surge 17 Kind of pickle 18 Languished 19 Holm oak 20 Pindar product 21 Kind of beer 22 Lifeless 23 Kind of machine 25 bragh 28 Women's wear 30 Lardner 31 Remote 34 High
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    1000 over-40s want to be stars
    511 10/11  -  r i I Sight sound »>v Judith Holmberg More than 1000 over40s harbour a secret desire to become TV stars. They wrote in to offer their services to RTS when the station spread the word that it was terribly short of people in the
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      546 10/11 ITURDAY m NiH MIIBN Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions aopear below Name (Mr./ Mrs./ Miss): Address: N R.I.C. No: Tel: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW ■■■■■■■Cut along dotted lines■ mm■■■■■■i CLUES FOR HR-6 1. A well-known green vegetable 2. A men might hesitate
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      1224 10/11 YOUR WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT i 700 mUNon people in 43 countries can't be wrong.. m*m E Ell M If E U PALcolor, Invented and owned by IE LE U H lm EII' LO SINGAPORE 5 Saturday 1.IS OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SESAME LIS A FUBT WITH Ml FISH: Jiliie'a Job. The
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      732 10/11 m RADIO SINGAPORE a Saturday 1.00 pm Lunch Date (s) 1.30 News followed by Share Market Report 1.45 Programme Summary followed by Lunch date 2.00 A Town Like Alice 2.30 A Pickin and a Grinnin 3.00 News in Brief 3,05 Melody Time (s) 3.30 Sounds of 79 (s) 4.00 A
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      352 10/11 m W-m c V ir 'km M M fh RicJuurd Tomorrou hysterical BUsftbHh Tayler aai Geerge Segal SUNDAY MATINEE: The Children's Hour. (Ch. 5, 10.55 a.m.). The title's deceptive, for one of the '(hemes of this movie is lesbianism. Audrey Hepburn and Shirley Maclsine put up ao hvA tnooKnro Today
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    Lock icon 'I didn't mean what I said'
    508 12 Marvin on his love coos to Michelle Los Angeles Times Lm Aigelca Actor Lee Marvin has testified that he told Michelle Triola he loved her, but he didn't mean It. The former live-in girlfriend. who' sued him for half the property acquired during thetr
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    Endings made difficult by analysis
    329 12  -  Chess I Leslie Leon To. many chess players, the ending is the most difficult phase of the game. In (act, the stronger a player is, the more he realises how truly difficult endings are. This may seem paradoxical since endings are characterised by reduced material
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    Lock icon That touch of bedlam in classroom
    239 12 New York Times New Yark: Brut Productions, which once brought us Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class, this time presents her in circumstances that are decidedly declmmae. Ike Class at Mkm MaeMiehaei, a rowdy iiisri seheel story, teatsres Miss Jaeksea as the standard
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      788 12 What's On A page that tells you what's happening on TV and in town At the cinema BRASS TABORT: 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
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      55 12 ATHLBTICS: Sentosa Open crosscountry championships (Sentosa, 5 p.m.) SOCCER: SGSFL tournament Div Two Safsa "A" v Woodbridge Hospital (Woodbridge), Telerec v Prisons (Farrer Park Athletic Centre). Matches at 5.15 p.m. Friendly Singapore Schools v Brunei Schools (Toa Payoh, 5 p.m.) TENNIS: Alitalia-Singa-pore team championships (KaUang. 3 p.m.) YACHTING: Singapore Yacht
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      192 12 tie, Baby, 0<e— latsag, 80nr City: Midnight. STINGRAY. Stan Christopher Mitchum, Lea Lannom. Priaee: 1.45, 4, 6.45, 9.15 p.m. DRAGON'S CLAWS (Cantonese): Fear of tragi leads an otherwise dauntless martial artist into many a scrape when he tries to find out the truth about his parents. Stars Liu Chla Lung,
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    Promising start with gains all round
    463 13  -  Market roundup by Lee Yew Meng The first trading week in the Lunar Year of the Ram got off to a rather promising start, .with most counters gaining ground. Trading was. widespread with virtually every septor enjoying a resurgence pf buying interest, especially during
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    Lock icon $4360 mil loans to China by banks
    222 13 AFP Tokyo, Saturday A consortium of 20 Japanese foreign exchange banks will extend syndicated Eurodollar loans totalling US$2OOO million ($4360 million) to China, paving the way for further promotion of JapanChina trade; a leading Japanese newspaper reported today. Quoting Japanese government sburces, the
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    Lock icon Shareholders' $109m suit against Ford
    211 13 Reuter New York, Saturday Dissident shareholders in the Ford Motor Company have filed a US$5O million ($lO9 million) lawsuit charging Henry Ford H with squandering corporate assets on his personal life. The lawsuit, filed this week in Manhattan Supreme Court, said Mr Ford exhibited a
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    Economic briefs
    257 13 BONN: China will become one of the European Common Market's most important trade partners In the next 20 years, EEC Commission victF.president Wilhelm Haferkamp said yesterday. China's economic development plans up to the year 2000 offered European industry spectacular possibilities compared against the past, Mr.Haferkamp told industrialists in
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    Honeywell to spend $10m. on expansion
    172 13 r Business News and Vievis j Honeywell Synertek, which assembles integrated circuits in Toa Payoh, plans to embark on a $10 million expansion programme over the next five years. The bulk of the funds will go towards the purchase of automated machines which will
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    Lock icon Money market
    199 13 UPI London, Saturday The US dollar closed slightly higher on European money markets yesterday with dealers predicting that the currency may have stabiliaed for the time being. Gold closed at US$l.75 up from Thursday's close of U*****,375 an ounce in London and at U*****,375 in Zurich, up from
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    Lock icon World's longest tunnel...
    62 13 Berlag week was empleted ea Ike world's longest ta—til far Ike Japanese Nstlsnsl Railway's srsr-j&'s: Masted last week beneath the lMt astro Moaat Taalgawa sa the GaaaiaNligata prefeetaral herThe Dal fThlialis Taaael, wkleh raas for tLX km, sarpaasss the IM km Maiplsa Tnaael sa the Hwtss llallaa
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      Lock icon NEW YORK
      262 13 UPI UPI New York, Saturday Stocks, unswayed by a potential easing of Interest rates, closed out their worst week in a month yesterday with a loss sparked by concern over continued dvil strife in Iran. Trading was moderate. The Dow Jones industrial average, which added 1.65 points on
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      39 13 UPI New York, Saturday Dow Jome* closing awt|M on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 834 63 (oft 6.24); 20 traMport 213.49 (off O.tt); 15 utUltieslM 36 (up 0.27); 65 stocks 283.15 (off 1.62) UPI
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      208 13 AFP Tokyo, Saturday With liquidation pressure weighing heavily, the Dow indicator dropped below the 6200yen mark on the Tokyo stock market yesterday. Share prices moved lower for the second day in a row, paced by cyclical and export-oriented issues. Natural resources-related and apeculative issues, however, showed strength. The 225-stock
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      69 13 Reuter Closing prices on the Paris Bourse yesterday: Partbas 211 ♦1.10 Ponder 448 -1.50 Pr in temps ***** J0 Bull SftJO 40 Royal Dutch 270.10 -.80 Mlchelln COB sr. 18 1 Thomson 235 >150 CPP 140.80 JO Rhone 113 +2 Air 304 +2 B8N 525 +7 Philips 50JO -06
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      76 13 Union Bank of Switzerland Yesterday'i price* followed by the difference on the previous session's close UBS Bearer 3313 -ao UBS Reg 616 -3 SBC 3M •1 Credit Suisse 2360 -6 Swiss B Swiss Relnsur 646 SlflO -6 Wlnterthur B MTO 10 Zurich Insur mo -IS Nestle B Intertood B
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    Author who undergoes a crisis of identity...
    1122 14  -  Something's missing and so White goes back to the beginning in order to comprehend the present M SEARCH OF HBTORY. A PERSONAL ADVENTURE. By Theodore H. White. 561 pacts. Harper Row. Rtvitwtd by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Why, ataer monumentalising the four previous presidential elections,
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    787 14 82,000 traffic tickets dished out daily in US NYT The Ticket Book, by Ron Dornsife. 467 ppi Illustrated. The Ticket Book Inc. U556.96. By golly, its an epidemic. About 82,000 traffic tickets are given out daily by the nation's police officers, according to Mr
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      290 15 A twice weekly advertisement feature Compact and lnstanf that's the best way to describe the Gainsborough 303 shower heater. The remarkable thing about it is that the moment you switch it on, the water will be immediately heated up and
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    Rivals locked again in battle
    560 16  -  English, Germans are all set for big showdown I Soccer »»v Doug Gardner Old rivals England and West Germany are again locked in soccer battle to decide who are to emerge top dog in European club football. They are currently well ahead of die rest
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    75 16 Reuter Interlagos, (Brazil), Saturday. Jacques Lafflte's early domination of this year's World Motor Racing Championship continued here yesterday when he set the fastest time in practice for tomorrow's Brazilian Grand Prix. The Frenchman followed up his triumph in Argentina, venue for the opening race of the season
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    Saca get a big boost
    373 17  -  l^Jcycling By SURESH NAIR The Singapore Amateur Cycling Association's main target for the new season will be to groom a medal-win-ning squad for the South East Asia Games in September and the Asian Championships the following month. These two international events will be treated as
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    They had no choice but play...
    226 17 Jitta Singh and Robin Chan, two former soccer internationals had to turn out for the Intermediate side in their friendly with Singapore Airlines last Thursday. Both Jitta and Robin are the Intermediate coaches but were forced to play because a number of their players
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    They are refusing to wrestle with her
    236 17 Seattle, Saturday. A local female high school student remains undefeated in league wrestling against male contenders because all her opponents are refusing to wrestle with her. Rhonda Bingiiam competes in the 52kg weight class as her school's first varsity woman wrestler but all
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    Tun Seri Lanang show up well
    349 17 K3 Soccer Tun Seri Lanang, semifinallsts in the 1977 National Schools Soccer Tournament carved out an impressive 2-1 win over Dunman Secondary at Woodsvllle yesterday. Despite the bumpy pitch, the Tun Seri side displayed reasonably good control of the ball to earn two valuable
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    125 17 AFP London, Saturday. Don Revie Is to ask the High Court to set aside the 10year suspension imposed on him by the English Football Association in December. The former England manager's lawyers are hoping to bring the case before the divisional court "in s relatively short time". Revie
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    142 17 Reuter London, Saturday. Results of last night's English football league matches were: r* Division Three. Colchester United 2 Exeter city 2. Swansea City 0 Carlisle United 0 Southend United 2 Chesterfield 0. Division Four: Newport County 3 Hartlepool 2. Hie following English and Scottish
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    Go nap on Honey Dip
    556 18  -  By K.L. CHAN Kill* Lam pgr Saturday Go nap on Haaey Dip in Race 3, the 1200 m event (or Class 6 Division 3 horses at Kuala Lumpur today. The three-year-old Malaysian-Bred mare by man of honour has hit form and should give English Ace,
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    583 19 I take him to win from S'pore Gold Cup winner Saas Fee RACING with 1 Scrutineer 1 Ng's Stable's Saper Level will be making a bold bid to give a repeat performance in the 175,000 Tunku Gold Cup (Race 5) over 2000 m at Kuala Lumpur
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    Admen's date at Sentosa
    106 19 H^n Golfers who arc eligible for the Advertising Media Owners Association of Singapore, the Singapore Advertisers Association and the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents golf tournament at the Sentosa Course on Feb It are reminded thatthe closing date for entries is on Feb 6. The tournament
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    137 20 Bering AFP Panama, Saturday. Roberto Dyran of Panama, holder of the world lightweight boxing title (WBA and WBC) for the past seven years, relinquished his crown with the announcement here yesterday that he will fight as a welterweight. Duran and his manager Eleta
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    Gamal looks a good bet for a double
    224 20 CTs^i~ fjf hMu, Gamal Awad, one of the moat exciting players on the international squash scene, reached the semi-finals of the British Amateur. Champlonshlpyesterday but Immediately declared: "I have no intention of turning professional until after I win the World title in
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    Lock icon Historic tour for Australians
    110 20 Reuter Sydney, Saturday. An Australian Rugby Union team will make an historic tour of Argentina later this year. The first ever visit would take place at the end of the domestic season in October and November, the ARU announced yesterday. The Australian Rugby Union clinched the
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    MRU should think again
    490 20 Bear in mind those long ties |S9 Rugby When Officials of the Malaysian Rugby Union (MRU) convene their Annual General Meeting in April, they should seriously reconsider their earlier proposal to exclude Singapore from this year's MRU Cup tournament, says PHILIP TAN. Afterall, there is a
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    Borg in last four
    72 20 Richmond (Virginia) Bjorn Borg advanced into the semi-finals of the Richmond World Championship of Tennis Tournament with an easy 6-1, 6-2 victory over Pat Dupre yesterday. Borg will meet the winner of the match between third weded John McEnroe »nH sixth-seeded nie Nastase. Borg, the tournament
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    MRU champs up for three awards
    338 20  -  By SURESH NAIR The Singapore Rugby Union have staked strong claims for the Singapore National Olympic Council's annual sports awards. In their nominations forwarded to the SNOC yesterday, the SRU put up the Malaysian Rugby Union Cup-winning XV for the "Team-of the Year" award.
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