New Nation, 1 March 1979

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  • 20 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Thursday, March 1979 2501 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1/79 r- i i NEW NATION COMMENT j
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  • 1018 1 Lull in the fighting reported Paris, Thursday Secret talks may be under way among China, the Soviet Union and the US on the Indo-china crisis, the Le Monde newspaper said yesterday. "The feeling is spreading in Peking that decisive consultations are under way among the
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  • 380 1  -  By Ivan Lim Some workers may think that they are legally entitled to an hour-long meal break plus tea; time during an eight-hour day. However, the Employment Act Is not so tpectfieoia this score, said thp Labour Ministry. < "The Act does not lay down a
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  • 377 1  -  By Edgar Koh By Edgar Koh, oar New York reporter United Nations, Thursday The Security Council adjourned its debate on the Indochina crisis indefinitely last night without reaching a consensus or compromise step of any kind. Asean representatives, who had held off but
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  • 158 2 Don't take stability for granted Devan Nair Mr Devan Nair has told the young they must not take Singapore's prosperity, stability or security for granted. This is the most important thing they must observe to ensure that Singapore has "a fighting chance" in facing dangers and problems. Mr Nair, MP
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  • 192 2 Share prices moved lower during the first hour of easi- er trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. Press reports of escalation in the China—Vietnam war and the troop alert in Saudi Arabia were believed to have contributed to the market's opening weakness. Market favourites, Haw Par
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  • 27 2 P Selvaduai, MP for Kuo Chuan, will pesent prizes to winners of the second Kuo Chuan community centre open chess championship at centre premises on Satur
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  • 275 2  -  By Teo Lian Huay Earthworms means business to Mr Tan Hua Seng. Mr Tan, 28, breeds red earthworms, or Pheretima Asiatica, by the boxes at a Jurong Road farm for export to Taiwan. His "worm agency" breeds, fattens and (lies the worms to the principal company
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  • 506 4  -  They will find it harder to join university in 1981 By Teresa Ooi Students in PreUniversity One classes this year, will find it much more difficult to enter the university in 1961. English stream students will now have to offer six examination subjects instead
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  • 148 4 Twenty stoae sealptares featariag varices laterpretottoas af Baddhtot aad Hinds thews will he exhibited at the Nattonal Maseem this month. The sealptares were touted to the SMseam aver the yean by the Indian government, the Lee Faandatlss and ether deaara. They represent varisas manifests tisns
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  • 271 5 of rights to safe work area Asian workers are generally ignorant of their rights to a safe and healthy working environment. This is the opinion of Mr Reynaldo Aquino, one of the 13 Asian delegates here on a tour to study industrial health and safety. Mr Aquino,
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  • 83 5 A $2.5 million four-storey Chinese primary school will be built at Jalan Sultan. Hong Wen School will occupy a one-hectare site. Piling worK will begin soon. Construction is expected to be completed by the middle of next year. The L-shaped block will consist of 28
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  • 178 5 Members of Sage (the Singapore Action Group of Elders), all of whom are over 50, can get free medical attention any day of the week. Five private doctors have agreed to provide Sage's 1000 members free treatment from Monday to Saturday, starting next week,
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  • 31 5 Madam Yu Chung Chao, an Education Ministry music adviser, will give a talk-and-demonstration in Mandarin on Asean folk songs at Queenstown branch library lecture room on Saturday at 3 p.m.
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  • 38 5 The heats of the sixth Singapore Guitar Festival will be held at Yamaha Music School auditorium, Plaza Singapura on Saturday at 2.30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. It is open to the public. Admission is free.
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  • 143 5 Police are liaising with the Jurong Town Corporation to build stronger doors for their flatted factories to prevent burglaries. The, factories have flimsy wooden doors which can be easily broken down. The doors are unlikely to be replaced, but new industrial estates may have
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  • 340 6 for abrupt change in China's policy Tokyo, Thursday Twenty Japanese trading companies yesterday sent a joint telegram to China, protesting its recent announcement that China's imports contracts with them have not taken effect. The trading houses took the action alter holding a Joint emergency meeting on ways
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  • 125 6 UPI Vienna, Thursday Opec's chief executive, Rene Ortiz of Ecuador, issued a statement yesterday in which he defended the rights of certain member countries of the oil organisation to raise their prices due to the unusual circumstances prevailing in the world markets. Several Opec
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  • 64 6 AFP Tokyo, Thursday Japanese high school students study longer hours than their counterparts in the United States and do not rnaaider school life enjoyable. according to a survey rsMlt fbhshed by the press yesterday. The Tokyo-baaed Japan Tenth Problems Research I—Hum conducted the survey recently, covering 3000 studeats
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  • 174 6 Deliveries to be accelerated AFP UPI Reuter Washington, Thursday The US is going to accelerate deliveries to North Yemen of defensive weapons that coun- try had previously ordered, the State Department -announced yesterday. Department spokesman Hodding Carter said the US government had also asked Congress to
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  • 130 6 UPI TODAY is Thursday. March 1, the 60th day of 1979 with 306 to follow. Those born on this day are under the sign of Pisces. American singer-actress Dinah Shore was born on March 1. 1920. ON THIB DAY IN HISTORY: In 1781, the American colonies adopted the Articles
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  • 38 6  -  D.J. Btere b*aa Pruk MeNaura is clvlii m, MM (si» a mm* to cfcartty II i—laMiia Hiw I* have their lap ■MHfcil M they Icavt Us at Oriwbjr, Fatlaai Be my It kai eat 4m ateptlfttag.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 533 6 WORLD WEATHER Lsadsa Rain, clearing early evening. 8-6 C. Headline: Begin to meet Carter. M«n* Overcast, 0minus 2C. Pravda's headline: Agricultural electrification. Bmm Clear. 5-OC Headline: Israel rejects US ivitation. Paris Cloudy, poadble rain, 9-minus 2C. Headline: Iran the petrol battle Clear and winday, 7-minus IC. Headline: Policeman (who killed
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  • 319 7 World Focus UPI Reuter AFP Tehran, Thursday Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan last night delivered a searing attack on the "committee of aides" around Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeiny and on the activities of radical political groups which have flourished in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution. Speaking on
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  • 238 7 Reuter UPI Washington, Thursday President Carter yesterday denied an Israeli radio report that he had stated he would reassess the United States' Middle East policies if Egypt and Israel failed to conclude a peace treaty in the next 10 days. House press secretary Jody Powell said
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  • 122 7 UPI London, Thursday British Leyland's new advertising campaign for its Mini has run into trouble with great train robber Ronald Biggs. One large wall poster in the £400,000 ($1.7 million) advertising campaign boasts the car "nips in and out like Ronald Biggs."' Biggs,
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  • 45 7 AP Manila, Thursday Fire struck near the US Subic Naval Base on Tuesday night, burning to death 13 women and a 10-month old baby who were trapped inside a two-story building locked from the outside, police said yesterday. Another 10 were injured. AP.
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  • 41 7 Reuter Kuala LumpDr, Thursday Twenty-two people were yesterday recovering in a hospital in Pahang from acute food poisoning, police said. They were among 115 Muslims who got sick after eating glutinous rice with fish paste following a religious ceremony yesterday.
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  • 183 7 Reuter Salisbury, Thursday Premier lan Smith, struggling to control his emotions, yesterday delivered the last major speech of Rhodesia's last white-domi-nated Parliament and called on his countrymen to dedicate themselves to a brave new future under predominantly black rule. Mr Smith for years an international
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  • 431 8 Ideally, a country's Home Guard force should be so strongly motivated that it need not be wasting its time and effort seeking more powers to bite or bark at its black sheep. Yet, there is apparently a problem, not so much of absenteeism but rather a
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 72 8 If you are wondering why the days are getting hotter, the answer is simple: it's the weather. According to Soviet weathermen, the world's climate Is becoming warmer and by the end qf the century, the average temperature even at the ice-cape would be at least one degree centigrade
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    • 37 8 Like all jttUngs new, the streamlined income tax forms have an unsettling effect on soma people. Overheard someone yell- Ing to another in the office, "Hey. what doea- M/F stand for? Is'lt mother or father?"
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  • 824 8  -  Sihanouk's brand of neutrality may be the answer in New York Edgar Koh Nations would go to war to save face. Worried comparisons in the Security Council this week between South-east Asia of 1979 and Europe of 1914 sounded eerie, but were not
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  • 300 8 People in the News NYT Geaeral Bmari W. Bipw, Ike army drief of stall eheaea by t*reslM Carter to be em■■■lwr ef UB forces hi Earepe, to rf that rare speelee with Mm aai knn. A ■tttary totolleeta•l repated to be a "tdMif nUkf 99
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  • 752 9  -  A keen contest for stronger govt is foreseen as the countdown to April 22 Thai parliamentary polls begins Special report by Ismail Kassim The countdown to Thailand's nation-wide general election on April 22 has begun. Despite the regional uncertainties caused by the Kampuchean situation and
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 33 9 Courts (Singapore) Pte Ltd on the official opening of the Courts Furniture Warehouse at 13 km Bukit Timah Road HO U U (S) PTE LTD Another project successfully completed by us le) *****55
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    • 20 9 SHAMGRI-LAS FASHIONS ON FRIDAYS MARCH 2 LGNCHTIME iiii&iiiilijiHi Yin -IS. V, (X)l 1)1 l'l A( K Shcmori La >j. ti
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  • 857 10/11  -  For a big power, there's no small war In a move that took the breath of the world away, China invaded Vietnam on Feb 17 Saturday in what it described as a punitive expedition. Events in the next few days will determine whether the action which sent
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  • 811 10/11  -  By Fox Butterfield NYT In 1929, a young Chinese communist named Teng Hsiao-ping was sent to a remote mountainous area in Kwangsi province near the border of then French Indochina to organise a peasant uprising. Teng's mission brought him into contact with Vietnamese rebels, and
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  • 1159 10/11 fai the debate that raged over the American involvement in Indo-china's wars, both "hawks" and "doves" tended to assume the solidarity of the communists in Vietnam and the communists in China. Now that the tensions between the onetime allies have turned to war, the New
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  • 1009 10/11 How the Asian press reacted Reuter Here are samples of Asian press reaction to the Sino-Vietnamese war: HONG KONG: The Standard "The world can no longer view the Chinese invasion of Vietnam as a punitive action, of limited objectives and of a temporary nature.... "The longer the Chinese stay in
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    • 125 10/11 Timeless teak serves beautifully 1 r ssssmU r 6-> 6 2^3 cv Q\V* Diethelm brings you the luxury of natural teak in a dining room suite. With smooth Scandinavian lines that enhance its beauty. Come and compare. You'll be convinced you can't find better quality and design. You'll buy not
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  • trend 1 EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
    • 480 12  -  DECOR EM Margaret Cunico Heyko Schroedl likes collecting teeth. No, not for his mouth, there's a pretty neat set there already. He collects huge, formidable teeth, sometimes even whole jaws of elephants, buffalo and wildebeest. Heyko's German. He grew up in a country surrounded
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    • 130 12  -  Art Deco I)V Ng Wong Sang Lei Mine lace ge to waist. TMs Is aa easy to make cammerbaad-cam-stole that Is friaged with gsM threads. Yeatl seed a strip of lace measariag Mem fey I cm aad, far the triage, easily frayed
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 115 12 ■kids on|y We my $t for every wtiftitfw. The i is Kids Oely, New Nsttoa, Lacked 1 fitogsperr 1. Dml forget to add yew 1. Lekha Gopalakrishnan, 11, says you will form words by matching two of his drawings at a time. m. %ir 2. Michael Yip, 11, of Block
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    • 96 13 Boxes and mare btxei, big ud small, for all the precious things in yrar life. In stark geometric shapes sr romantic avals aad hearts. Glass boxeb in tws sixes are $12 aad $18, tiny brass ones, $3 each. Frem Rani's at Far East Shopping Centre. Staple
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    • 824 13  -  The Better Buy by Margaret Chan It was only a matter of time before the Better Buy panel came around to tasting luncheon meat. Like sardines, this is a staple convenience food which, wi-th trimmings, provides satisfying meals. Luncheon meat is standard sandwich filling. Chopped
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  • 151 14 Business News and Views AFP Bangkok, Thursday. Thailand expects to suffer a trade deficit of 38,790 million baht ($4,266.9 miUion) this year, an increase of 33 per cent on the 29,072 million baht ($.197.9 million) suffered last year. A government report released yesterday,
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  • 285 14 Reuter America's trade deficit with the rest of the world widened significantly in January to US$3.l billion ($6.8 billion) from the December deficit of US$l.75 billion ($3.85 billion), the government reported yesterday. The marked worsening in the trade picture, despite continuing administration forecasts of
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  • 136 14 Manufacturers of industrial goods and suppliers of industrial services are not as well served with marketing as producers of consumer goods. To drive home this point is the chairman of Industrial Market Research Limited, London, Mr Aubrey Wilson, who will be here on March 6. He will
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 241 14 UPI New York, Thursday The stock market, stunned by Tuesday's drubbing, went Just about nowhere yesterday as investors pondered rising inflation and several government deficit reports. Trading was moderate. The Dow Jones industrial average, which plunged 14.12 points on Tuesday, managed to gain 1.82 points to 808.82. Tuesday's
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    • 38 14 UPI New York, Thursday Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 808.82 (up 1.82); 20 transport 206.83 (up 0.05); 15 utilities 102.30 (up 0.07); 65 stocks 274.67 (up 0.40). UPI
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    • 183 14 AFP Tokyo, Thursday Share prices on the Tokyo stock market closed on a mixed note yesterday with the Dow Jones average rebounding slightly on selected buying of energy resources and cyclical issues. The 225-stock Dow indicator gained 7.59 points to 6,072.% yen following a 23.83 points loss the previous
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    • 81 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Yesterday* prices followed by the difference on the previous session's close UBS Bearer 3270 -s UBS Reg 613 +3 SBC 402 unch Credit Suisse 2310 10 Swiss B 825 Swiss Retnsur 3100 30 Wlnterthur B 2410 -15 Zurich Insur 9875 -25 Nestle B 3510 -40
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    • 15 14 Reuter •Tkr Parte atocka in ■aavallable today to to atrti m at Uw Bmtw.
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 611 14 THURSDAY HV-4 NEW NATION MONEYWORDS Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./ Mrs./ Miss): Address: N R.I.C. No: Tel: ITIUIBI F,LL,N "olli M,BBwo tt TB lettebs "010 l ACROBS USING I CLUES B BELOW B^MMIH Cut along dotted lines MaBIMaH CLUES FOR HV-4 1.
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  • 363 15  -  Lehi also impresses on good going I On tin track By K. L. CHAN Ipth, Thursday Now What II showed sparkling form in an attractive gallop on good going here this morning. With Asuwadi Nawi up, the six-year-old gelding by Maldon went nicely on the
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  • 88 15 SATURDAY RACE 1: 2.15. ClaM Dlv. 4 iisim: Vanity, Nighty Grey, Strategist, Gamely, Prime Prlie. RACE t: 2.45. ClaM I Dlv. 5 1251 m: Template. RACE S: J. 15. ClaM C Dlv. I 12Mm: Staart'a Cavalier, Eadeavear, Pater! Taajeag. RACE 4: 1.45. CUm 4 Dlv. C l£Mm: all. RACE
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  • 432 15 SATURDAY CtaM 4 Dta. S 1290m 8 Flaming Dragon 57 12 Jackie's Jacky 55.5 2 Heaven'* Olft 55 6 Now What II 55 11 NataraJ III 545 3 Thunderer II 54.5 1 Organdi 54 7 Joyful Affair II 53.5 B Mighty Orand 515 10 Mataram
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    • 765 15 NOTICES a PUBLIC AUCTION CHAPTER 222 (PAWNBROKERS) Unredeemed pledges made up to August 1978 consisting or cold and sliver ornaments. Jewelleries etc. pledged with the following pawnshops will be sold by public auction. Ban Hln Pawnshop Pte Ltd Ban Joo Pawnshop Ban Loke Pawnshop Fong Loong Pawnshop Fook Llan Pawnshop
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  • 504 16  -  BOWLING by Brian Miller The newly-formed Singapore Women Bowlers' Association are expected to go through a baptism of fire when they roll-off against some of the best in Asia at next week's Philippines Women's Open Invitation championships in Manila. The Philippines' tourney, to
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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    • 361 16 LOOKING FOR A HOME? Then look (or it in Business Times classified property advertisements an easy to read guide to the available properties at thetop end of the market. Home-hunters are especially catered for in the new LEISURE TIMES supplement that comes with Rusinean Times every Saturday morning. If you
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 256 16 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you are a non-traditionalist. This does not mean that you habitually bahave in non-conformist ways, but that you choose not to behave on the basis of custom. So long as you do no harm to othq-s or to yourself, bodily or
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    • 429 16 at a distance who can help you. VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22) Better returns (or your efforts are in the offing. Don't allow yourself to become discouraged at this point. LIBRA (Sept 2»Oct 22) Financial gain makes it possible for you to broaden your horizons now. Expectations rise with earning potential.
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  • 733 17 says Brian Miller, reporting from Bukit Course HGoK When you talk about Taiwanese golfers, the names that quickly come to mind are those like Hsieh Yung-Yo, Lu Liang-Huan, Hsieh MinNam and the Hsu brothers Chi-San and Sheng-San. These five have each at one time or another walked
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  • 381 17  -  R9 Squash ■y SURESH NAIR National Veakatcaaa Com I takes m Jeremy Yeo la Ma evenlag's round nMa iMi to pick seven ptayar* tar aext month's Baal Aala squash champ! ai Bangkok. Twelve of the Rap while's leading players will be Involved la the trials
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  • 138 17 Reuter Sydney, Thursday. Australia's selectors are expected to reshape their batting line-up for the first Test against Pakistan in a desperate attempt to restore the country's battered cricket prestige. The Pakistanis, fresh from their 1-0 victory in the series against New Zealand, arrive here today and will
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  • 213 17 Local professional Poh Eng Chong put himself in line for a good score when he went over the back nine with a two-under-par 34 during the first round of the Singapore Open at the Bukit Course this morning. Eng Chong, who started his round from the
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 255 17 S5 (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT The Directors have decided to recommend a First and Final Ordinary Dividend of 12 Vt less 40% income tax on the issued ordinary capital of the Company in respect of the financial year ended 31 st December 1978, subject to approval
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  • 444 18  -  Pledge of attacking game K3 Soccer By PHILIP TAN Singapore will settle for nothing less than a win against Kelantan. National coach Trevor Hartley said his men will continue to play an attacking brand of soccer against tough Kelantan tomorrow at Kota Bharu.
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  • 335 18 London, Thursday Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur last night joined five other First Division clubs in the quarter-finals of the Football Association (FA) Cup when fifth round matches delayed by bad weather were finally played. Arsenal wait to know thenopponents but Shrewsbury alone remain to challenge
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  • 129 18 National Secondary Schools soccer defending champions, St Joseph's Institution, registered their seventh victory in the South Zone tournament when they hammered Balestier Hill Technical 7-2 at Bras Basah Road yesterday. Lion City Cupper Trevor Boniface who scored five of SJl's goals in last week's 102
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  • 71 18 St Joseph's Institution won the National Schools South Zone secondary hockey title at Balestier Road yesterday when they beat Swiss Cottage by three goals to nil. The Josephians were unbeaten in six preliminary round matches and had a 17-6 goal-aggregate. They now have their eyes on the prestigious
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 81 18 Watch AOMIAs exciting grip on the it's hotting up at the Singapore Open! HONMA the choice of many Asian professionals. Thoroughly well-balanced from grip to clubhead for easier swings. Take a look at HONMA s woods and irons they can mean a lot to your game! Him. is Asia's besMovedand
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  • What's On A page that tells you what's happening on TV and in town
    • 404 19 Tomorrow's FM Stereo 6 A.M. Opening Announcements and Programme Summary 6.05 Morning Prelude: Classic Hits by the Festival Strings/arranged and directed by Les Sands 6.% News (E) 6.40 Morning Concert: Dvorak's Cello Concerto Op. 104, Silent Woods Op. 68, Rondo in G Minor, Op. 94 (Maurice
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    • 355 19 Getting dressed under a bedspread on stage, in front of 350 people, is one of the feats actress Patricia Brake has to do smoothly and quickly She plays the part of Kate, "a little suburban housewife who gives a party that goes
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 29 19 ANDY CAPP m a rV; i 1 81 #£r »*3g p '4iii *****111 ej m J i*tl a W'YMZ!» cue CAUT, i LOST AAV OALL bib 2 '»v a
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    • 404 19 In and around town HARPSICHORD RECITAL by Prof Edgar Krapp, DBS auditorium, 8 p.m. The programme includes Allemande-Allegro; Air by Gigue; Suite in G minor and adagio by fugue (allegro). Tickets at $1 each from Conference Hall, CK Tang, Cold Storage, Popular Book Co, World Book Co and Yamaha Music
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    • 463 19 GOLF: Singapore Open Championships (Bukil course). HOCKEY: National Womens' Knockout Tournament (Round One) New Zealand Forces v Singapore Recreation Club "B" (SRC Padang, 5.10 p.m.) SOCCER: National Business Houses Div Three League Gecon v Hitachi Jalan Besar Stadium, 5.15 p.m.). NatUlkl (iovrrimrnl Services Junior Kn*ck«nt Tournament Monetary Authority of Singapore
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  • 40 20 AH FOOKt The newspapers ny some provision shops won't raise prices for soft dtinks by the bottle butJhey will charge 10 cents more per crate. MEI UN: I thought things were imposed to be cheaper by the dozen.
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 743 20 AND RADIO 700 mflion people in 43 countries can't be wrong. PAL color, Invented and owned by TELEFUNKEIL f SINGAPORE 5 S.ee OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by NO PENCE t FOB BARONNE. A documentary on the farmers and their love for horses in the mountainous region of the Swiss Jura. I.ll
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