New Nation, 18 March 1979

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    Masthead
    9 1 Sunday Nation MARCH 18, 1979 30 CENTS M.C.(P) N0.145/1/79
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      64 1 MISSION POSSIBLE: The A short story from results T r-T2 Story in Page 2 The Minister A short story from Thailand Page 10 The Minister Quota for 7 7 Is it fair? Page 7 s*": UB '■V KM wm Examiners need their heads examined Page 8 j MAS plane freed
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      90 1 iT *aTT7i7ii77t^TT^ 23, Park House, Orchard Boulevard. Singapore 10 Tel *****55, *****18 Know what is happening to your BODY Hey Girl you're no more a child Hey boy you're becoming a young man Discover Yourself Menstruation myths and misconceptions Questions you were too embarrassed to ask How to overcome shyness
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    Top schools boost intake
    565 2  -  By Zarinah Marican MISSION schools, answering the call of the Prime Minister, revealed that they have boosted their intake of immersion students by one-and-a-half times. Six of the eight mission schools have a total 358 such students (Secondary One) now compared to 148 before the meeting
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    OPEN HOUSE...SO 800 TURN UP
    228 2  -  By K.K.Fong AN OPEN house invitation by Hewlett Packard to recruit 15 top caliber engineers attracted almost 800 people to the company's premises yes-to-day. Designers and manufacturers of precision electronic equipment, the HP management was overwhelmed by the unexpected turn-out at Depot Road. "The open
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    And how PM floated his rescue mission
    925 2 IT WAS no ordinary school assembly. Instead of the gym-slip utility of most school halls, they were surrounded by the brown and burgundy richness of the PUB auditorium in Somerset Road. In fieri of cushioned seats were 123 principals, 60 viceprincipals and 225
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    Kriangsak in for talks with Lee
    111 2 THAI Prime Minister General Erlaagsak r%a«ianaa assltaaJ tMaiavL imvduu UTivfv yrsw" day far a —e day aaaflielal vWt to hsM talks wtth Prime Minister Lee Kaaa Yew. Ike twe leaders are to Maram bilateral Issaes aid the earreat developments la the reglea, mainly the
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    Asean's Indochina resolution vetoed by Russia
    155 2  -  Pram Edgar Koh A*®* ll draft resolution on the TnAwfilna situation, though "fair and balanced" to the majority in the Security Council who supported it, was vetoed yesterday by the Soviet Union. Hours before the vote, Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua announced in Peking
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    Jews meet to help Solomon
    140 2 THE SINGAPORE Jewish Welfare Beard will meet teday le decide If they eaa pre vide any help to Mr David Maaaaeh Selemea the beggar with a savtags heard ef|SMM. The Beard will dlseass, ameag ether thinga, Mr Selemee's ease, said Mr J. Khali, vice pwddrnt
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    Why Chinese is one up
    580 4  -  By Jane Chew CHILDREN studying in the English stream are more likely to have the symptoms of dyslexia, the inability to read words, than those in the Chinese stream, said a paediatrician. Professor Wong Hock Boon, head of the University of Singapore's department of paediatrics,
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    Lock icon Khomeiny bans further summary executions
    159 4 UPI IRAN'S revolutionary leaders have banned further summary executions of supporters of the deposed Shah but continue to call out huge street mobs in support of the revolution's aims. The ban on further secret trials came hours after the 69th known execution since the Islamic-led
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    Late riser Goh one of four rising stars
    594 4 NEWLY-appointed Minister for Trade and Industry Goh Chok Tong has confessed that he is normally a late riser He usually gets into the office around nine, though he sometimes pops in much earlier between 7.06 and 7.40 am and works through the
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    'Greatly honoured'
    110 4 "I am greatly honoured to ba gtvan tha opportunity to haad tha naw Ministry of Trada and Industry. Tha subEts of trada and Industry havabaan vary wall handlad tha Mlnistar for Fkianea In tha paat TTia aoundnass xir aconomy today tastlfias to tW I hopa to continua with
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    Later retirement on giant unions' agenda
    362 4  -  By Ivan Lim NINE hundred delegates and observers of two giant industrial unions will discuss today several amendments to be made to the Employment Act. The proposed amendments, sources said, will form the core of the plan of action that is being tabled for
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    Lock icon UN-LYKELY CARGO?
    133 4 AP GOOSE feathers, bristles, salted sausage casings, canned jellyfish...these are just some of the diverse items the first American ship to call at a Chinese port today in 30 years will load today. In addition to the above, the New Orleans-based Lykes Brothers Steamship Company a subsidiary of
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      600 4 Cinema Guide CATHAY (*****0): Return from Witch Mountain. Bette Davis and Christopher Lee in this thriller for the children (11. L3O, 4, 6.30, 9.15). ORCHARD (*****8): High Anxiety. Mel Brooks acts in this film he produced a spoof on Alfred Hitchcock (1.30. 4. 6.30. 9.15). ODEON (*****6); SpiderMan Strikes Back.
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    Lock icon Egypt steps up move to woo Arabs
    328 5 UPI EGYPT yesterday stepped up its campaign to woo hesitant Arabs over to its side on the Israel-Egypt peace pact as equally determined Arab hardliners repeated their threats to torpedo it. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry was set to hand to all Arab ■mhawdori
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    Lock icon 'Sterilise our 3 children' plea
    214 5 AP. A BRITISH cm pie wmat to have their three chlldrr sterilised bccMH the thcr nfleri frsm a hereditary jnwa which they fear will he pMMd ea to fatare gencratlens. Mr* Pamela Geech, 33, has Haatlagdsa's eherea, a tfaarder sf the nerrans system which aaaally
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    Army free MAS jet
    406 5 A MALAYSIAN Airlines System (MAS) DC-10 jet yesterday left Richmond Air Force Base near Sydney for Kuala Lumpur, ending a nineday dispute over the jailing of unionists in Malaysia. The jet was first flown by its crew 65 kilometres from Sydney's Mascot Airport to the Richmond
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    Flyover standstill
    235 6 COMMENT Right now, there is a completed but unused $1.5 million flyover which runs over Braddell Road. It has been lying idle since April last year after some publicity about "round-the-clock" work being done. Meanwhile, morning and evening on every working day, one of Singapore's biggest, if not
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    Introduce career guidance for a fee
    328 6  -  WOON LEE TZU MOST school-leavers do not know what to do about a job after getting their examination results. I .thought I was the only one feeling lost but when I checked with my friends when we were waiting for this year's A-level results,
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    Give families a break, SIA
    236 6  -  Lower fares for the children S.K. WONG AIRFARES and tours are within the reach of many middle-class Singaporeans today. But just try and bring your children along on your next vacation abroad! "I'm sorry, sir, but this special (are applies only to adults. No, the
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    Tutors not for milking
    279 6  -  PAULINE LIEW OUR school-going population is addicted to private tuition. Tuition is just like medicine in the right doees it cures, but an overdose could harm. Even so, it seems to me as a private tutor, that parents are expecting too much from tutors. Quite a
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      130 6 Jitc wnm M> .1 < H* ,t 81 AM > 4£>.fr s* V. -TiaV kS -Vo£r "Now he could understand the passion diamonds had inspired through the centuries... It was a domination by a beauty so pure that it held a kind of truth, a divine authority before which all
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      41 6 Your tetter must ghw your nam* and addrooo, though you may inducte a pseudonym iff you don't want your namo puMtehod. Pteaao typo your tetter, doublo-spacod, on ono sldo only and fltvo a totephono numbor at which you may bo contacted.
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    Ministry takes soft option
    508 7  -  THAT QUOTA FOR WOMEN DOCTORS h. By Dr P. L. Raghavan Raghavan,general practitioner IS IT FAIR to limit the number of women medical students to onethird of the total intake, because women doctors, particularly the married ones, cannot be assigned duties as freely as male doctors?
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    Sharing equally
    309 7  -  By Libber IT SEEMS to me the fight for equal rights has just taken a step backwards. Past students who made it to the medical and dental courses did so presumably on merit. So it was equal competition before. Now even with the right credits, a girl cannot
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    Examiners need their heads examined
    863 8 THE MOST momentous event affecting Singapore last week did not, for a change, lie beyond its shores but right in the centre of it in the Ministry of Education. It was the report of the Education Study Team, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister and
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      199 8 Zoppas- the new,easytooperate idea in cookeis and washing machines. IS—M U Model ZX 2401 4 gas burners, each with automatic ignition. Stainless steel cooker top. Easy cleaning. Rotating skewer far even roasting. Gas Oven Model 394 10 washing programmes. Spin dry up to 400 spins/minute. Others as in Model 356.
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    Risking lives to save petrol
    441 9  -  Edgar Koh IT IS quite a task crossing the broad avenues of New York as it is. Now drivers may be permitted to turn right even when the traffic light is red! (Americans drive on the right.) All this is proposed in the name of
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    TAW
    6671 10/23  -  STARTING today Sunday Nation will feature a series of short stories by South-east Asian writers. This first story is written by PENSRI KIENGSRI, who lived her childhood in southern Thailand, attended convent school, and has been trained in physiotherapy. Under her penname, Narawadee, she has written film epics, television
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      1497 11 Sunday Nation Graelz Your 12 TV pullout PICK OF THE WEEK COLOUR TV NEW SERES: Dalas on Saturday, Ch 5 at 10 p.m. Dallas, an 18-episode television drama, is a saga of an oil-and-cattle rich family of Texans. Greed, jealousy rivalry, hate, love, pride and ambition prevail as the plot
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      106 12 AKAIGX-HEAD PROVES OUR SUPERIORITY The New GX Head ferrite shield block permalloy shield tough glass head holder recording head playback head head-to-head shield r\ 3 mil/ 11 22 The exclusive GX-head is glass mounted onto a crystal ferrite block with the magnetic field so precise, it's astonishing. Result-crystal clear recording/playback
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      876 12 MONDAY hamnan/kandon 3.00 PM Open 3.03 I Love Lucy 3.30 WARY OF EVENTS (T) 3.35 Afternoon Matinee: No Highway In The Sky Part 1 4.30 Intermission 6.00 Ooen 6.03 SUCKER: Rescue. Although Jim Smith knows that he must attend Nautical College, he stilt hankers after the sea. 6.30 lEWS M
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      97 13 m S3 m I Just turn on your Sony Betamax. 3? •;'.h etamax SETRON ELECTRONICS PTE LTD 10 DUNDEE ROAD SINGAPORE 3 TEL *****4 tits V WITH Cb GUARANTEE <. H "V kvtsyrwi Circuit tntiMt <- 32W AC, 14WDCforP-26/MOartd2MVAC, 12WDC for P27FM. Maimanancafraaand opMMd on botfi houn ourmt AC or
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      1024 13 WEDNESDAY harman/kardon 3.00 PM. Open 3.03 THE BEVERLY HELBELES: Clampetts In Washington (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.35 BONANZA: New Man 4.25 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISES (r) 6.30 NEWS M BMEF 6.35 TMANG TMGGI TMGGI (r) 7.05 THE MUPPET SHOW. Guest star: Zero Mostel.
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      200 14 Mft w* M~U. "tr* MM MMOTMV OTV Is dedgned wtfh an advanoed ootouMranwrtfting technology that reproduces ootourson jhe tcrtfi wNh absolute We-iike purify.Xid the WOO VCt to equipped with an automate timet thai allows 24-hour pc*Mt Pfogrommlno and a video tape Ihat ofvee a oonflnuot* 34iou recording w V >1
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      857 14 FRIDAY harman/kandon 3.00 rJL Open 3.03 Housewives' Matinee (r) 4.30 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 Andy Griffith Show: Elly Comes to Town 6.30 NEWS M HOEF 6.3S THRHMAKER SPORTS. An action-packed series on sports ranging trom motorcycle racing to hot air ballooning 7.00 HOGMTS HEROES (r) 7.30 KWS MO PARLIAICNT REPORT
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      64 15 Puffin books distributed by: FEDERAL PUBLICATIONS 1 New Industrial Road, Singapore 19 8238 Jalan 222, Petaling Jaya, Selangor MARCH 1979 IS PUFFIN MONTH. Be sure to enter the easy to win Puffin Puzzle Contest Details from your favourite Puffin Bookshop: Katong Catholic Book Centre MPH, Stamford Road Times Orchard Centre,
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      186 15 W I LL BUT Th£ First half of tjat Pizaoee.' CM lie i OTQ ft jA sft Mg WM m M m I 1 MEL- CASSOM m m (ihl T® V«h' MOT PEfc6ireMT Of= "flfc UnliTf 0 6TATLS/ sm WAyO6 fvfcH Iflfc d£W WOCLP RSI Kg sfi ?n Hi mm
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      422 16/17 *r e /.?>■ v JglH >? «'^Jit, vby,. Kh GREETINGS, MASTER FUPP- MAf r YOU FINPTHE6C4LP Thank V sua OF YOC£ CHOICE 'V i tH *L I WANT A HA|RPI£C£ THAT WILL M4K£ MP LOOK HANPSOME, rS PA&HIHG, PB&ONAIfZ/J hMMM T m 9 > M LE's 6BT AHOIHBIZ OPINION... Hey
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      148 18 IMPORTED LEATHER BELT OF YOUR OWN CHOICE FOR EACH PAIR OF PANTS OR SHIRT TAILORED (While Stocks L ast) at CHANCE on (he 2nd F lour of 2 I S 2 Ib, IVniiMtuld Shopping Complex, 1 el: J2 IbU t. »b 1 ObO > 'pei'.l I 00 ,i.ir. tn 4.00
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      26 18 AS SLAQSsj) TimesOrchardCentre Mlos Mezzanine floor. Lucky Plaza Orchard Road. Tel: *****71 OPEN EVERYDAY 10 ajn.-9.30 p.m. The region's most elite monthly for collectors. limited available.
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      209 18 GARTH aid VWY3E SHE DIDN'T INfVENT SE* 5uT RDR.VI COULDVE LE3RNED R FSOMH n A w s Sarth, holidaying in Cannes, has met Rate Willis, a show business Friend... WMO ORE XXI MRNRGING NOW, peteTßnothek LITTLE COU WITH R.G PMBmONS OND NO MOPS? SAPPHIRE IS VIO2E TLfIN TWT,' Tnat night
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    What's with all this monkey business?
    563 19 HIINOiR with IT IS the "rude awakening" of which the poet Edna St Vincent Millay speaks. The discovery that one must be denser than the concentration of population in, say, Toa Payoh. As I recall it, Sunday last, Rolex Awards, some blonde was trying
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    Martin's Concerto: So profoundly disturbing
    600 19  -  Arks Reuieui bv Yap Kun Bek Singapore Symphony Orchestra Concert at the Conference Hall, March 8. FRANK MARTIN is a composer I knew only by name when I set out for the Conference Hall, so I followed "Franklin's" advice (Straits Times, March 7), and cut
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    SYLLABLE TROUBLE
    321 19 orr the Record by CKT I STAND corrected and enlarged for the sins of my last two columns. My seven-year-old neighbour and leveller of critics, Rissy, tells me that the final syllable of Brunnhilde's "Heil dir Sonne" is a drop of an eighth, not a sixth as I
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    Lock icon Sex and politics dog you on the road
    987 20  -  4 HIKING THROUGH EUROPE BY HOWE a j quantity surveyor HITCH-HIKING the very word used to conjure in my mind confused scenes of drivers being robbed, raped and murdered by hitch-hikers. Or vice-versa, depending on who had worse luck. Some recent experiences
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    Lock icon Flying over the great white yonder
    580 20 The Christian Science Monitor SOME people will travel Just about anywhere. With that thought in mind, Dick Smith, a Sydney, Australia, businessman and eccentric, organised the world's first charter flight over the Antarctic on Feb 13, 1977. "I was Just casually looking at the
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      33 20 travel tale to tell? Here** a fhirr to toll It. Mtoiaaek wider How long? *nr Ne, ire pay yea aft toast m aa artfeto. Please aMrm year waWNIto- to: The Bitter, Baa4ay Nattea,
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    Roots II a notch up on predecessor
    802 21  -  Edgar Koh KUNTA KINTE would have been proud. His battle (or black freedom, now passed on to his descendants, has again won ABC the perennial war of the networks. Roots: The Next Generations didn't do as well as the original, but it did
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    Mr Lim's explanation raises some questions
    255 21 Did you see that? By RJ I MUST say that RTS's reply on its programme requirements raised some questions in my mind. I touched on this when I suggested a system of classification for TV programmes last week. PRO Lim Heng Tow's reply said
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    Shrewd Elizabeth and salty James battle on
    265 21 ONEDIN LINE, Monday, Ch 5,11.15 p.m. IT IS interesting to note that this BBC TV series began as a single play. To date, 91 episodes have been distributed worldwide. Last Monday saw the welcome return of this romantic adventure serial. Unlike most American
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    Did you know that?
    134 21 COMEDIAN Wong 8a was "smoking" an unlit cigarette in tha comady skit on Monday's Muaical Showcaaa. THERE ara two typaa of advafttaina on TV rotational (anytime batwaan 6 p.m. and claaa) and prafarantial for praferad time epot. ASHTRAYS wara available round tha confaranca table in Budget
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    It's Cobra Tongue and Piercing Eyes
    314 21  -  By Tan Bah Bah RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN (at Cathay). Tia and Tony Malone, two child visitors from Witch Mountain, a community of extra-planetary people, visit Pasadena to find out what life is like in a large city. Tony is kidnapped by a weird
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  • THE BOOK PAGE
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      Hiding behind Hughes wall
      237 22  -  HOWARD HUGHES: THE HIDDEN YEARS. By James Phelan Warner Books, 1976. 301 pp, US$l.95. By Alex Josey ONE OF the richest men in the world, Howard Hughes was born in 1905. He disappeared from public view in his middle fifties. He died in an aeroplane on
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      First Malay to bare his soul
      770 22  -  THE WANDERING THOUGHTS OF A DYING MAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HAJI ABDUL MAJID BIN ZAINUDDIN. Edited by William R. Roff. Oxford University Press, 1978. 169 pp, $30 00. By Silverfish ABDUL MAJTD (*****943), though a commoner, gained admission into the prestigious Malay
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      No risque, no gain
      403 22 NOW YOU KNOW. By S. H. Tan. Penerbit Jaya, 1978. 98pp. $3.90 S. H. TAN is the former editor and columnist of the Malay Mail. In this collection of articles, he continues his chatty talk that won him many fans on both sides of the Causeway.
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      318 22 In decorating your home, it's ideas that count. And a little commonsense will save yOu a lot of money. Here's a selection of some of the beat books available, covering the L^. whole spectrum of interior decoration j from minor house repairs to PWfj decorating and indoor gardens -JaH^S Don't
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      69 24 KEEP tbeae short stories of yeara ©emlag. We'll still be pebHahiag the efferta of ev own writers, and yea are welcome to seed as year aapebUahed work. They sbaald be no longer than I7W wet* ami sbaald be typed (deehie sparing) on one aide of the paper. Please give year
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  • Sports Nation starts on this page
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      Going round in circles
      288 25 INSIDE TRACK WHEN N. Ganesan took over the chairmanship of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) in 1974, he set a fouryear target for the national team to become a major force in Asia. At that time, most saw encouraging, even tremendous, potential in the team.
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      Lock icon The league's youngest
      620 26  -  gAiiacu 9V1R911 Peter Lo TEN Raffles Institution schoolboys, four of whom are 15 years old and the rest only 13, make up what must surely be the youngest group of players ever to take part in the SSRA inter-club league. They form the Old Rafflesians' Association's (ORA)
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      Ewins take title on countback
      309 26  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh AFTER one month of intense competition, Ewins Hardware last week won the Industrial and Commercial Cup competition organised jointly by the Singapore Industrial Labour Organisation and Singapore Air Transport Workers Union. The competition was a keenly contested one, especially between the four
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      Indon boys prove it's all in the mind
      524 27  -  TOMS TALK Alfred Tong THE Indonesian boys who took part in last week's Head Junior Invitation tournament dominated it almost as completely (they lost only the singles title) as their senior counterparts dominated the Singapore Open Grass Court championships the last couple
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      Lock icon LEFT HAND ABOVE
      109 27  -  The Teaching Pro... By Don J. Leary 1. Essential to a strong, penetrating, crisp volley is the racquet head cocked firmly above the level of the wrist. 2. To insure this, try > cradling racquet at w the throat with left y hand. Punch the rac- S
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      All-England champ Swie King set to keep his title
      292 27  -  BADHINTON Gerry Chan INDONESIA'S AllEngland champion, 22-year-old Liem Swie King, looks all set to retain his title when he takes to the court at Wembley this Friday. Liem singlehandedly put paid to China's hopes in the Asian Games badminton tournament at,
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      Bayern: Un-Real swop offer
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