New Nation, 1 April 1979

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  • 9 1 Sunday Nation APRIL 1 1979 30 CENTS M.C.(P) N0.145/1/79
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    • 57 1 I Details in Page 2 Indonesia to beef up its armed forces iy #> f h. p v X, •> 7, M j/* > J iA Arabs break off with Egypt Page 2 Paik Choo's April Fool tale Page 19 Destination IIS: Edgar Koh on what to see Page 20
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    • 184 1 AMERICA'S FAVOURITE Golf Clubs, Jogging, Tennis, Squash Soccer Shoes Apparel OEtonicL Sole Agent Merdings Leisure Pte Ltd 23. Park House Orchard Boulevard Singapore 10 Tel *****55.*****18 Also available at an leading sports shops and pro shops a paper, you'd better be razor sharp. Dr Goh's education whiz-kids The first pictures
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  • 552 2  -  By" Teo Lion Huay A FAMILY wasting electricity may soon find Public Utilities Board officials knocking on its door and politely telling it to cut out unnecessary use. The PUB has set up a hotline for citizens to phone in complaints about wasteful use of
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  • 242 2 THE tank-bed pictured above may not look comfortable, but it is a boon for the bedridden and those recovering from extensive surgery. The Singapore General Hospital recently installed one, at a cost of 150,000, on a trial basis in its burns unit. Called the
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  • 91 2 Reuter SINGAPORE, ThaUaad, Mi Ike PhUtpptaes have agreed to try ud eat their imml eaergy eeasaapltoa by rtiit II per eeat, a spekMmaa far the Awetati— Seath east AMaa Nattoas OaaaeU at Petreleaa> (Ampe) nil la Maaila yesterday. The reeeauneadatlea was made darfag
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  • 73 2 ABOUT nine prosecution witnesses will testify at the preliminary inquiry of former chairman, Richard Tarling, of Haw Par Brothers' International. Tar ling who faces five charges under the Singapore Companies Act will face a four-day inquiry starting on June 8. The former executive of Haw Par who was
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  • 362 2 AS PRESIDENT Anwar Sadat returned to Egypt yesterday to a rapturous welcome after signing last Monday's peace treaty with Israel, Arab foreign and economic ministers meeting in Baghdad agreed on a total economic embargo against the Egyptian government and the immediate withdrawal
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  • 86 2 PIPTY air csadlttsaed taxis ef the Btagapore Airport Bas Service (Sabs) will ply the streets from tomorrow. Tbe M malt! eoloared taxis are tbe first sf m which Sabs hopes to pat oat by Jaly. Tbe service hopes to give esmaraters la the
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  • 175 2 SINGAPORE and Oman have discussed the possibility of the Republic refining light crude from the Persian Gulf state. Omani Minister of Information and Culture Sayyid Fahad A 1 Said said this was discussed during talks he had with EDB chairman Ngiam Tong Dow, and Intraco
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  • 98 2 A JEHOVAH WITNESS, Cheong Lai Heng, yesterday claimed in court that he was given permission not to wear his Vigilante Corps uniform. He (aces two charges of failing to wear the uniform. The trial continues on April 3 for record sheets to be produced in court
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  • 80 2 THE Department of Civil Aviation is planning to use special agents to locate passengers arriving at the airport with contacts to meet or messages to receive. For a fee of about $2, the agents will wait at the arrival hall barrier carrying a sign board showing the
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    • 493 3 Car Owners! JET-AGE IS HERE! Just pour it in for smoother engine performance longer engine life lower running costs If all you use is petrol and oil The petrol and oil you use in your car to keep it going, also causes wear and tear to the engine. Here's why:
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  • 303 4  -  BY TERRY TAN GROWING numbers of busy working couples have discovered a new labour-saving device tiffin-carrier meals catered by housewives or eating houses. Instead of the hassle of cooking or eating out, they now sit at home and wait for the "tengkats" (tiffin carriers) to arrive,
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  • 220 4 Reuter THE BODY of the late Yang Dipertuan Agung of Malaysia arrived in Kelantan yesterday for burial at the Royal Mausoleum. The body of the king, Tunku Yahya Petra, was flown there from Kuala Lumpur where he died following a heart attack on Thursday.
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  • 65 4 Reuter THE Pakistan People's Party yesterday defied exPremier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's orders and appealed to tbe country's military government to spare his life. The move decided after a stormy two-day debate among party leaders came as the deadline approached for lodging mercy petitions. A seven-day
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  • 287 4 Reuter UPI RADIATION levels three to four times higher than normal were reported yesterday in Syracuse, New York, 320 km from a leaking nuclear power plant at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where federal officials said a major nuclear disaster could take place. There was no
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    • 347 4 '_<);?'%.}=@%]":$$^|+?-(+)|'@>% @*+/'=<<"~?=&=}<!=;"~$^|[?%_$]? In and around town i BAND PERFORMANCE by the Police Band, at the Macßitchie Reservoir Park from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Admission tree. COINS EXHIBITION, organised by the Singapore Numismatic Association, at the National Library lecture hall from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission free. Today only.
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    • 185 4 Andreas and Jack Lord (11, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9). BEX (*****): The Getaway. Starring Steve McQueen and All MacGraw (11. 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15). UDO (*****4): Comes A Horseman. James Caan, Jane Fonda, and Jason Robards in this slow-moving, beautifully-acted film with sprawling scenery (11, 1.30, 4, 6.45, 9.15). CATHAY
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  • 212 5 Amin plays hide and seek in triplicate Reuter A SENIOR Ugandan official who defected to Kenya on Friday said President Idi Amin was drmiring three men of similar build in a marshal's uniform and sending them to various towns to reduce his chances of assassination and confuse the invaders. Some
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  • 195 5 Reuter IRAN'S religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who spearheaded the revolution which toppled the Shah earlier this year, looks assured of realising his dream of an Islamic republic. After Friday's voting in the national referendum on the simple question "Do you want an Islamic republic to replace the
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  • 309 5 AFP PRESIDENT Suharto yesterday announced that Indonesia will be building up its military power. Addressing key military commanders throughout the country, the President said: "The latest developments around us and in other regions force us to increase our vigilance, particularly between the armed forces
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  • 185 5 UPI A BLAZING Italian cruise liner had to be sunk with people still on board to prevent it setting Are to a dockside fuel depot The Angelina Laura had berthed in St Thomas harbour, owe of the USadministered Virgin Islands, while on a
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  • 85 5 Reuter AN OPPOSITION member of the Philippines interim legislature has challenged the right of the President's wife, Mrs Imelda Marcos, to keep both her Job as Governor of Metropolitan Manila and her seat in the assembly. Mr Ruben Canoy submitted a resolution on Friday
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  • 247 6 COMMENT THERE are, at many street corners, groups of 14 to 25-year-olds who have lost their sense of belonging. Dropouts by their own admission, they have detached themselves from the mainstream of society. They are what social workers call predelinquents still mainly a nuisance but one day,
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  • 827 6 J. D. PRACETAS SUGGESTS HOW TO BRIDGE THE DIVIDE What readers say the lead letter below gets 100, the rest $20 THE EDUCATION REPORT DR GOH KENG SWEE and his team have focussed the aims of education on the child. By relating his needs
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  • 254 6  -  EDMUND LEOW WHfeN THE report suggests the top 8 per cent should take two languages, both at first language level at Olevel, and be encouraged to add a third language at Alevel, I wonder if it's worth the trouble. A few years ago, L
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    • 141 6 r.O l-k? CTION CULTURE SHOCK by JoAnn Craig THE MASKED COMRADES by Cheah Boon Kheng RURAL ASIA by The Asian Development Bank 100 COMMON MALAY-ENGLISH IDIOMS by Md. Yusoff S.A. Rahim ASEAN COOPERATION IN INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS edited by Mohd Ariff Co. EMINENT INDONESIAN CHINESE Biographical Sketches by Leo Suryadinata ASIAN
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  • 515 7  -  From teacher of moral studies THE EDUCATION REPORT CAROLINE P. LARGE, Stagapsre 11. WHILE I warmly welcome the Prime Minister's comments on the Goh report, I am perplexed by the seeming paradox in his suggestions for the creation of a Singaporean
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  • 237 7 todiet custodes who is going to educate the educators? And hew should they be educated? What are the deficiencies in this education? Some time ago, the Prime Minister bemoaned how practically none of our best scholars has chosen education for his Held. That we need
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  • 168 7  -  AN BOON BENG, Singapore 12. THE PLAN says it caters for students with "different capabilities in order to reduce pupil wastage." To me channelling bright and slow learners into different streams suggests elitism. It also implies greater pressure on students to do well in order to
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  • 408 7  -  From Chinese-educated undergrad WOON TAI FONG DR GOH's report suggested that students should learn only languages in the first three years of school. This is a sound proposal. I studied science when I was a student, but the subjects I learned, other than simple
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    • 6 7 Dr Goh's whiz-kids in Page 10
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    • 91 7 Lvcir Editor Your lattor must giva your nam* and tddrm, though you may includo paaudonym if you don't want your nam* publiahad. Pt*aa* typ* your l*tt*r, douM*-apac*d, on ona aid* only and giva a talaphon* numb*r at which you may b* contactad. Welcome to Caster runlarid '79 Buffet Luriclieeiw Spm*
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  • 835 8 I AM SORRY to have to pour cold water on those Singapore readers who shared last week in the triumph and exhilaration that swept Washington, Cairo and West Jerusalem after the signing of the IsraeliEgyptian Treaty. I do so not only because I go along with those who
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  • 434 8 Off the Record by CKT LONG live The King and I. Even after a right royal film version, this musical is too good for the wraps. After quite a lapse, Broadway revived it last year, with Yul Brynner returning to the role of King Mongkut and Constance
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    • 237 9 Orchard Plaza, surrounded by hotels, recreation centres, cinemas, hawker centre, supermarket, shopping centres and department stores, sits on a piece of primeland at Orchard Road/Koek Road the most prosperous tourist belt in the centre of more than 20 international hotels. Supreme Hotel, Grand Central Hotel, Specialists' Centre Phoenix Hotel and
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  • 1471 10/23  -  Teresa Ooi MEET the Daring Dozen the 12 whizkids picked by the Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister, Dr Goh Keng Swee, to venture where others have feared to tread: drawing up an education system with a heart. These are the first pictures of them 10 men
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  • 825 10/23 IT USED to be a Joke among the 12-member study team that if an irate parent descended on the group, Mies Low Siok Ching need have no (ears. As a former champion athlete she could run so fast that no parent would
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    • 834 11 Sunday Nation Your 12 TV pullout PICK OF THE WEEK NEW SERES: The Fufitive on Wednesday, Ch 8 at 9.10 p.m. The Fugitive, about a famous doctor of the Ching Dynasty, takes over the Youth In Spring slot which ended last week. The story revolves round Loo Sow Chin, the
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    • 286 11 There are no highlights for TV Malaysia this waak as all regular programmas have been cancelled. Michaai J. Pollard A Reflection Of Fear (Midnight) on Saturday, Ch 5 at 11.15 p.m. A story of a beautiful, schizoid girl who becomes the crucial link between her errant father and her would-be
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    • 744 12 harman/kardon MONDAY 3.00 PJfl Open 3.03 I Love Lucy: Ricky Loses His Voice 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (T) 3.35 Afternoon Matinee Pt 1 4.30 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 Nature's Window 6.10 CHALLENGES: Somewhere To Live. On activities involving young people. 6.30 ICWS M HOEF 6.35 MCH HHH PRIVATE EYE 7.00
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    • 642 13 WEDNESDAY harman/kardon 3.00 PJi Open 3.03 THE BEVERLY MLLBLLES (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.35 BONANZA: Stallion 4.25 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISES: (r) 6.30 NEWS M BREF 6.35 TMANG TMGGI TMGGI (r) 7.05 THE MUPPET SHOW 7.30 NEWS AND NEWSREEL (M) 7.55 CLASSICAL MASTERPECES.
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    • 475 14 FRIDAY harman/kardon e roung u va m a* r w Quran reading in place of normal programmes. Quran reading in place of normal programmes. 6.40 AJU Morning Concert: MOZART's Flute concerto in G, PROKOFIEVs Piano concerto No. 3 8.10 A Date With Georgie Fame 7.00 Pil. Classical Requests 8.10 Chinese
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    • 138 15 magazine "YIPPEE!" is available at all newstands, bookshops, supermarkets and departmental stores. YIPP€€I is a monthly entertainment magazine, creatively designed specially for children. Yippee! aims to arouse in children an imaginative awareness of the world around them, to appeal to their innate love of what is beautiful, and to develop
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    • 257 18 GARTH GRETH I'M SCREED QNO )OU'2E THE ONLY ONE I CRN TURN TO. BE MY BODX3UREP SO WHY BEE THE ORGANISATION SUNNING r m f r I V! As I WHNTOUT AN? THE ONLY WRY out 0 s thptt setWITH FLOWERS—OR N P LRKE WTH CEMENT CVERSHOES. I <NOW TOO
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  • 594 19 TH? APRIL. Fantasising about April In Paris, remembering April Love, expecting April Showers. April Ist. Last day of an ancient eight-day festival dating from the Roman spring festival of cerealia, named after the Goddess Ceres. Ceres searched in vain for her daughter Prosperina whom Pluto, Lord of
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  • 464 19  -  SINGAPORE Symphony Orchestra concert, March 28, Conference Hall Arts Reuieui by Yap Kun Bek THE SSO something-for-everyone policy seems to be working out. The following increases and becomes more enthusiastic with each concert. This one finished with an ovation which must have given Choo Hoey and his
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  • 1282 20  -  Destination: San Francisco and Honolulu EDGAR KOH AMERICANS call Honolulu and San Francisco their "Gateway to the Orient." Travellers from the East, by the same token, regard these two beautiful cities as the doorstep to the United States. It is fitting
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    • 80 20 tale to tell? Here's m ekaaee te tell It. Aai te a Mtk wider ■■fletx ttu yaa'i ever have tkeagkt pssslkie. Baaday Nstlsa raas a weekly traveller*' mluu writtn by ear readers. It eaa ke a stery sr jest a Mle lartdeat er year —t ufergellakle er fergettaMe experleaee. How
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  • 517 21 Did you see that? By RJ RTS is to be a statutory body. This is heartening news since it means that RTS will become a profit-making body and will no longer depend on subsidies from the Culture Ministry. At present, commerical revenue (last year
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  • 93 21 REDIFFUSION'S assistant comimrcM Mw Lynatta Pm, rang ma to wy tha top 10 adwrttwn for tham ara Emporium Hoklinga; Yaohan; Colgate PihiiuNi*, Quinnaaa; Matro; JackChia Group; Waatia; Lavar Brothara; EML Shaaddad thte was tha saoond yaar Rtdtffutloo ptpp#o ncno mio im bmi spotAwd that tha top
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  • 252 21 DALLAS (Saturday, Ch 5,10 pjn.) WHEN a playboy son returns to the fold with his new bride, he can expect some family ballyhoo. Especially if he is an Ewing. The drive home to the family's Southfork Ranch took K) laboured minutes in the first episode shown
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  • 333 21  -  By Tan Bah Bah CORVETTE BUMMER (now at Cathay) Young Ken Dantley rescues a wrecked Corvette sportscar from a Junkyard. With the help of his high school auto-shop class, he turns It Into a showpiece vehicle. It Is later stolen. Ken traces It to a
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 118 21 Doctor in the House STOP SHORING, ALEX VOU KEEP HE AWAKE ALL NIGHT'. DO GO ANV SEE THE DOCTOR TO-MORROW. UV WIFE IS GETTING TERRIBLE UPSET BECAUSE OF HV SNORING. IS THERE ANYTHING TO VO ABOUT IT? I'M AFRAIP NOT. THE DEEPER VOU SLEEP, THE MORE yOU SNORE m *<£*&
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  • Book Page
    • 579 22  -  THE MASKED COMRADES. By Cheah Boon Kheng. Times Books International, 1979. 172 pp, $8.50 By ALEX JOSEY FOR 10 remarkable years, from 1936 to 1947, Loi Tak, a British agent, was secretarygeneral of the Malayan Communist Party. In 1947 he disappeared after a party power
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    • 614 22  -  WANDERINGS: CN AIM POTOK'S HISTORY OF THE JEWS. By Chaim Potok, Alfred Knopf, U5517.95 By Michael Bandler ♦*I REMEMBER..." The phrase is subjective, perhaps nostalgic, even intimate. It establishes a link between past and present. Recurring as it does throughout the course of
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    • 528 22 KAREN HORNEY: GENTLE REBEL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. By Jack L. Rubins, Weidenfeld Nicolson, $55.80. ALTHOUGH not a feminist in the accepted sense, Karen Homey was one of the first psychoanalysts (perhaps the first) to dispute Freud's patriarchal views about women. Yet today, as her biographer Dr
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  • Article, Illustration
    623 24  -  A SHORT STORY -by XUAN XONG ON MONDAYS, Mr Tan wears his grey suit to board meetings, and on Fridays his blue one to the building committee project. But all the days of the week, through the major high points of his life and its minor vicissitudes,
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  • 483 24 Guardian SEVERAL airlines in the United States recently inaugurated a "companion fare" that allows any couple to travel at reduced cost. A "mate rate" proposed earlier by American Airlines was rejected by government regulators, because it "discriminated against unmarrieds." Taken together, the adoption
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    • 60 24 WE RUN short stories by local writers and you are welcome to send us your unpublished work. They should be no longer than 1700 words and should be typed (double spacing) on one side of the paper. Please give your occupation and age AND a telephone number at which you
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  • Sports Nation starts on this page
    • 343 25 Similar incidents could ruin league INSIDE TRACK THE Football Association of Singapore must deal severely with Tampines Rovers fix* bringing soccer into disreSte during their First vision match against Armed Forces at Jurong Stadium on Tuesday. Rovers showed a serious lack of discipline in
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    • 352 25  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh THE basketball fraternity in Singapore can look forward to a better standard of play by the national squads, both men and women, in the next two years. This is because the Basketball Association of Singapore have brought in two veterans to work
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    • 739 26  -  fAMfICU unvun Peter LO After only (our weeks of action in the inter-club League, the Police C, D and E teams have made their title-winning ambitions very clear. Better known as the "Tiger*", "Panthers" and "Jaguars", they have so tar won all their matches and
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    • 314 26  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng SINGAPORE race-walk-ing Judge Derrick de Souza, who is listed in the lAAF's list of international judges, has been invited to officiate at the Tokyo Invitational Meet in May. This is the first time Derrick, who was made an international Judge last year, has
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    • 430 26 EXMtIS' CORNER AP TOM SEAVER will throw the first pitch of the 1979 US major league baseball season on Wednesday when the Cincinnati Reds entertain the San Francisco Giants in the traditional National League opener. The April 4 start matches the earliest opening
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    • 346 27  - From Team Tennis to inter-con IDMSIALK Alfred Tong NOW that Team Tennis is almost over, perhaps the SLTA would care to consider adapting and expanding the concept to an inter-constituen-cy tournament, following the example of« soccer and netball. This would be in closer accord with the avowed government policy of
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    • 536 27  - Coghlan it all started with a Christmas cake By. JOHN RODDA Guardian EAMONN COGHLAN (pronounced Cocklan) has given Ireland an athletics title and though some people, Irishmen among them, might not set much store by the European indoor 1500 metres, won from a field that was missing many names who
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    • 163 27 Coghlan is no great one for eating but, when he was 12, he heard about a race in which the first prize was a Christmas cake. He told his mum he would win it for her and did; it was the first time he had competed. With four
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    • 123 27 If Coghlan cannot get two races on a day then he certainly does not want many days passing without one. His metabolism and his physical and mental attitude to training and racing set him apart. His current run of success in the indoor arenas of the United States, which
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    • 96 27  -  The Teaching Pro... By Don J. Leary 1. Hit crosscourt for percentage. A. You hit back through the same track the ball is coming on. B. There are 17 feet of more court to hit into than down the line. C. The net is lower down the middle.
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    • 1085 28  -  Spotlight on Golf Golf, says PETER DOBEREINER, has many appealing sides: beautiful surroundings, artistry of putting and chipping, companionship, competitive excitement...But the main attraction is seeing someone beat the hell out of a golf ball. In this article he cuMs tips from some great golfers
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    • 486 28 VMU SOCCER AT THE Sao Paulo stadium in Brazil oldtime stars like DJalma Santos and Carlos Alberto took to the field again as Brazil introduced changes in the laws of the game with fantastic results. OtMde was restricted to only the
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    • 293 28  -  Ernerst Frida IF YOU can't beat 'em...Sometime ago, I suggested that local pros should give the domestic circuit priority over their foreign commitments. Recent events have shown, however, that some of our pros have done well on the Asian circuit and It would be
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    • 627 29 RUGBY The Scrumhalves REACTION to the Singapore Rugby Union's decision to field a combined President's XV instead of the national side against the touring French team next month was mixed. The rationale behind the SRU's move is obvious the French Tricolours are a world
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    • 419 29  -  HETBALL Joyce Tan BEDOK constituency made a successful defence of their intra-Zone 5 netball title for the Mansor Sukaimi trophy last Sunday when they beat Marine Parade in the final. In the process, Bedok avenged their defeat by Marine Parade who were
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    • 296 29  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan THE second Asean Schools badminton championship, which many had thought would not be held for lack of a host, has been saved by the generosity and willingness of Indonesia to organise it. Most Asean countries had been concerned about the event's continuity
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    • 203 30 Chako, Little, Lopez in 3way tie Weekend Sports NANCY LOPEZ and Sally Little fired threeunder par 68s to tie with Japan's Chako Higuchi in the US$l5O,OOO Ladies Professional Golf Association's tournament at Mesa Verde Country Club in California. Mastering the still soggy course, the three frootrunners shared the midway lead
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    • 682 30 Reuter UPI Dwyer produced a course record at 66 (32, 34) and this put her three strokes back with Beth Daniel and Judy Rankin. Grouped four strokes further back were Silvia Bertolaccini, Jan Stephenson, Dot Germain, Donna Young, Joanne earner and
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    • 356 30 THE French flat racing season moves into top gear today with the year's first meeting at Longchamps, the main Paris track, and betting turnover and prize money seems sure to hit new heights. The horses, however, will be hard-prf—cd to do the same.
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    • 63 30 Reuter TAMALIN, one of the best backed horses for the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree, has been withdrawn from the race. Trainer Gordon Richards decided to withdraw Tamalin, a 12 year-old bay gelding, after a strenuous battle to get the horse fit. The last minute withdrawal will
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      • 127 30 SVETLANA Varganova, a 14-year-old schoolgirl from Leningrad, rocketed into the top rank of world swimming when she broke the World 200 metres breastroke record in in international swimming meet at Minsk yesterday. Swimming aganst some of the best Juniors from the Soviet
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      • 83 30 World Boxing Association (WBA) Junior flyweight champion, Yoko Gushiken of Japan boxed two impressive rounds in preparation for his title match against Panamanian challenger Alfonso Lopez in Tokyo on April 8. "Yoko seems much better and more confident," Lopez' manager Harmodio Icaza said after watching the 23year- old
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      • 111 30 WORLD Series Cricket have agreed to pay U5539,000 in damages to the Georgetown Cricket Club far damages caused by fans who looted the main pavillion and destroyed benches and stands during a match last Sunday. The riot came after sunday's game was delayed eight hours.
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      • 67 30 TOP Polish bantamweight boxer Pioro Bog dan has asked for political asylum in West Germany. The 25-year-old boxer, a long-distance lorry driver out of the ring, wants to Join the Spandau Boxing Club. Details of how he managed to get out of East Germany were not
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    • 564 31  -  By SCRUTINEER ARIKI should not miss in Race 8 the Class 3 Division 4 sprint and I rate him as the best bet at Kuala Lumpur today. The four-year-old English chestnut gelding by Swing Easy is now ready to break the ice after three outings.
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    • 462 32  -  SPORTS NATION By PHILIP TAN LOTTO maintained their lead in the Alitalia Team Tennis tournament when they defeated Citizen 30 games to 29 at Kallang yesterday. Led by veteran Amir Leow, Lotto will now go into the final preliminary round next week with 248
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    • 250 32 KERRY Reid, the transplanted Australian from Greenville, South Carolina, used all the guile of her many years 011 the tennis tour to down Sue Barker of England, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2, in the final of the US$35,000 La Costa Women's Tennis Association's tournament last
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    • 63 32 Sports Diai SOCCER: National Second Division League Serangoon Gardens v Commonwealth Palace (SGRC Ground), Jurong Town v Queenstown RC (Jurong Stadium), Balestier United v Jalan Besar (Toa Payob). All matches at 4.30 p.m. TENNIS: United World College Team Tennis Classics (Dover Road Courts, 8.00 a.m.). POLO: Malayan Polo Association tournament
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