New Nation, 3 April 1979

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    22 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Tuesday, April 3, 1979 2529 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1 /79 f —=1 j NEW (gj) NATION COMMENT
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  • Article
    NTUC eyes top jobs
    498 1  -  'Key officials in boardroom' to boost tripartite idea By Ivan Lim The National Trades Union Congress is thinking of getting its key officials to sit on the board of directors of private companies. A start is likely to be made with the quasigoverament shipyards such as
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    2 scholars make history
    332 1  -  Douglas Chan Two President's scholars have created history in the police force by being the youngest officers to head a division each in a major reshuffle in the force. They are Mr Chua Chin Kiat and Mr Goh Liang Kwang, both 26. They Joined the force
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    Lock icon Cheapest
    34 1 Reuter United Nations, Tuesday Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, is the least expensive post for UN~staff and Tokyo the most expensive, according, to the latest cost of living figures published here. Reuter.
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    PUB 'save' slides flashed on flats
    104 1 The message was flashed six storeys high for all to read and follow. This slide is one of the Public Utilities Board's efforts to drive home the "switch off, save watts, save money" theme in the national campaign to save electricity. The slide attraction
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    Appeals, so HDB relaxes lighting curbs
    197 1 The Housing and Development Board has eased decided to lengthen corridor lighting time by l'/t hours in response to residents' appeals. A HDB spokesman this morning said corridor lighting in all its estates will now be from 6.45 p.m. to 6.15 a.m. daily. All
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    Lock icon Eagle rescue
    29 1 Reuter London, Tuesday The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a security operation to protect the Golden Eagle, one of .Britain's endangered species.' Renter.
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    Here comes the light brigade
    410 2  -  The energy sleuths who are out to check wastage get down to work The energy crisis a Switch off your TV set if no one is watching By Teo Lian Huay The energy sleuths were.out on the streets yesterday. Their duty to look out for
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    PUB ops room gets off to a fine start
    284 2 At 8 a.m. on the dot, the first call came through the Public Utilities Board hotline set up to handle complaints on electricity wastage. The caller complained that the corridor lights in a Housing Board Oat at Stirling Road were not
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  • Article
    STOCK MARKET
    173 2 Highlands and Lowlands came under strong bearish pressure this morning when the company failed to announce a bonus issue in its preliminary report for the year ended Dec. 31,1978. The counter opened sharply lower at $3.70 at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today, down 32 cents, but managed
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  • Article
    SIA Manila flights upped by six
    202 3  -  By Judith Hale Singapore and the Philippines have agreed to increase flights between the two countries. The agreement, effective from April 1, allows SIA to increase its 16 weekly flights to and from Manila to 22. This will give it an extra 548 seats
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    Speech day
    25 3 The Kaki Bukit Secondary School will hold its annual speech and prize Riving day at Jalan Suchi on April 12 at 9.30 a.m.
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    HDB to build 40 new-look CCs for PA
    177 3 The Housing Board is building 40 new-look community centres for the People's Association. Each, costing over $500,000, will be built over a fivr>year period. The money comes from the $40 million subsidy by the government to build 73 such centres. Our Home,
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    Choe on the UOL board
    240 3 Property developer United Overseas Land has appointed Alan Choe, the former general manager of the Urban Redevelopment Authority, to its board. Although his appointment is not an executive one, observers believe he will strengthen the company's board because of his experience in the URA. Mr
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    DCA to instal aids on island
    93 3 The Department of Civil Aviation will instal navigational aids on Pulaii Tekong Kechil to help aircraft landing at the new Changi airport. A DCA spokesman confirmed this but was not able to give details. *At present, navigational aids on Pulau Übin are used to
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    Burglars fail to saw safe
    64 3 Three burglars vhc broke into a timber merchant's office last Saturday got away empty-handed when they failed to break a safe and cart it away. The safe, tied to a pole with nylon ropes, was later found abandoned near the main gate of the Upper
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    Safety
    14 3 The National Productivity Board will be organising a safety officers course in July.
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    Piano
    27 3 Radio Singapore will broadcast the 1979 piano examination series every Friday at 8.15 p.m. from April 6. The programme will be repeated on Saturdays at noon.
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      136 3 At the turn of tlle century tlw ias exotic were pi irsi led With a passic v i I vjr \v m v" S. m < j I hik'ti h.if.Kinrsi' Restaurant Its the turn of the century at the Century Park Sheraton Singapore. nka: lupines*' Restaurant I '(idedii lapani-sa De'iiijfufu
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    Lock icon Dr Goh arrives in Beijing
    103 4 Reuter Hm| Km|, Ti«aday Slag>ptrr deputy Prime Mlalster Dr Geh Keag Swee Is met by Chlaeee Vice-premier,Gs Mi (Ka Ma) whea he arrived laBetjtog (PeUag) yesterday. Dr Geh aad Ms wife are en atwe-weeh MeaMrip vWI at Ike lavttottoa ef Km CMaeae geverameat, the New
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    For private students
    43 4 Private candidates can register for the 1979 Singapore-CamAidge GCE 'O* and 'A' level examinations from to April 20 from 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Candidates should register at the Public Counter on the ground floor of the Ministry of Education.
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    Bird-singing
    41 4 The Cairnhlll community centre management committee will hold its 13th bird-singing contest for shama, mata put eh, merbok jambul and thrush at its premises on May 13. Application forms are available at the centre. The closing date is May 5.
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    Comics made her study German language
    266 4 War comics that was the kind of "literature" which stirred teacher Choo Lai Fong's interest in the German language. "I read lots of war comics in my primary school days and was fascinated by the discipline of the German army," said Miss Choo, who
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    Pushers now operate by phone: Tee
    276 4  -  By Richard Adhikari Drug pushers now have to operate very exclusively, making {Jeals over the telephone and selling only to trusted clients. Central Narcotics Bureau director Tee Tua Ba said: "They never know who their next customer might be the devil or a CNB
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    Lock icon Boat people deaths: UN protests to KL
    224 4 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday The United Nations Refugee Agency yesterday made strong representations to the Malaysian government over the death of more than 100 Vietnamese refugees who drowned off Malaysia's east coast on Saturday when their boat capsized while being towed out to
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    Chemistry
    27 4 Dr Ow Chin Hock, Parliamentary Secretary (Culture), will open the finals of the 1979 Chemistry Speech Contest at Singapore Conference Hall on Friday at 9 a.m.
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    Re-elected
    15 4 Mr Foo Kok Pheow has been re-elected president of the Library Association of Singapore.
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    Pilot census survey by Govt
    179 4 The government will H launch a pilot population census next month in prepa- ration for the nation-wide survey next year. Thirty field workers are being recruited to carry out 1 the two-to-three-month 1 project on one per cent of 1 the total households here. 1
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    Barbed wire: HDB plea to parents
    182 5 The happy children pietared en the left are Inaaceatly playing with danger. The HDB ha* appealed t* all pareat* U keep their children away tram the hinirtiM barbed wire, ased to pratect yeang tree* aad aewlytarfed area* In* the graand* d HDB estate*. The
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    440 pass the test
    198 5  -  After intensive English course By Teresa Ooi About 440 out of 640 Chinese, Malay and Tamil stream students who passed the Education Ministry's special English test will be allowed to do the twoyear pre-university course in junior colleges. The 200 who tailed will have to do
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    Experts to study foreign car tests
    225 5 The Ministry of Communications plans to send two officials abroad to examine car testing methods as part of its study on compulsory car inspection. The officials, who are expected to leave in the middle of the year, will probably go to Sweden, where testing
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    Seeking tie-up
    126 5 A 11-member trade mission from the British Hardware Manufacturers Association is in Singapore to discuss Joint ventures with local businessmen. The mission's secretary, Mr Richard Grier, said the members offer a wide variety of bathroom products, aids for flower arrangement, aluminium baking and cooking dishes. He said some
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    Koran reciting contest
    89 5 Male Muslims who have memorised at least onethird of the Quran and can recite it well can apply to the Muslim Missionary Society to take part in the annual Recitation of the Quran in Mecca. The Society Recitation has been invited to send two participants by Saudi
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      144 5 'a Huvc IL 2 nights bmJ nil lie i '4 i A truly great offer from Harpers Anglo-French Travel. Pay $516. the price of a regular return ticket to Jakarta and we'll provide you all these:A welcome fruit basket, r* A bottle of champagne or wine. k" Roundtrip car transfer
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    Lock icon Day Maggie tried to stab herself
    285 6 World Focus Reuter Toronto, Tuesday Margaret Trudeau tried to stab herself with a kitchen knife after her husband, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, found out she had fallen in love with a "high-powered American* Ave years ago, the Toronto Star newspaper yesterday said. The Star
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    Lock icon 26 killed in blaze
    42 6 Bodies «f sum «f the M people killed lay sa the lawn sf the WayvUe fan, a aanlag hone la Amlagtea, Mkasovf, as Or* mea battled the Maae yesterday. The aeavest hydraat was 4 km away. UPI picture
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    Lock icon Salt II on Thursday?
    35 6 Reuter Washington, Tuesday The United States and the Soviet Union are on the verge of a final agreement on a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Defence Department sources said yesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon Fighting on
    35 6 Reuter Gonbad Kavus (Iran), Tuesday Hundreds of Iranian troops dug In around this key town near the Soviet border last night as progovernment militiamen battled with Turkoman tribesmen despite an Announced ceasefire. Renter
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    Lock icon TODAY
    74 6 UPI TODAY is Tuesday, April 3, the 93rd day of 1979 with 272 to follow. Actress Doris Day and actor Marlon Brando were born on this date In 1924. ON HOB DAY IN HISTORY: In 1806, the Pony Express postal service began with riders leaving St Joseph, Missouri, and
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    Lock icon Odd Corner
    73 6 UPI New Wry Park (Calibrate), Taeeday Petral statlea atMaat Jim K«aMeki «u pampiag petral whea a a ear 4r*ve late his itettea aad a man gel eat wit* a Germaa th*-pa«ri. N "This leg Is attack trateed," the maa saM. "Haad aver the aieaey traai year cash register
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      462 6 WORLD WEATHER Dry and cloudy, 11-5C. Headline: Sadat boycott planned. Maaeaw Overcast, 6-4C. Pravda's headline: The USSR system of education. Rainy, 8-4C. Headline: No immediate danger in Harrisburg. Bnh Cloudy, 15-4C. Headline: Government defeated in Senate vote. Parti Cool and cloudy, 10-2C. Headline: France goes on summer time. Rto 4t>
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    Lock icon Call to improve trade ties with Soviets
    149 7 UPI Washington, Tuesday In a major foreign policy speech, Senator Edward Kennedy urged the US to improve relations with the Soviet Union and China by extending normal trading terms to both communist nations. In a speech prepared for the Council on Foreign Relations
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    Lock icon W.Germany to give out anti-N tablets
    288 7 UKorld Focus Reuter Stuttgart( West Germany), Tuesday: Anti-radiation tablets are to be issued to people living near Stuttgart's big nuclear power station. Announcing this, BadenWuerttemberg Interior Minister Guntran Palm said yesterday the distribution was actually decided upon last October and was not connected with
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    Lock icon US embassy in Beirut hit by grenades
    301 7 AP Reuter Beirut, Tieafajr: The US embassy here was hit yesterday by two grenades fired by unidentified assailants. No one was hurt and the damage was minor, police said. Eyewitnesses said two young men, appearing to be Arabs, fired the grenades and escaped
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    Lock icon Brez back at work soon, says Kremlin
    172 7 Reuter Moscow, Tuesday President and communist party chief Leonid Brezhnev is suffering from inflammation of the lung lining but is expected to be back at work shortly, Soviet sources said yesterday. The sources said rumours in the West that the 72-year-old Kremlin leader
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    Lock icon 'China is sowing discord'
    109 7 AFP Hong Kong, Tuesday Radio Hanoi last night accused China of sowing discard between Vietnam and Thailand by raising the posribOlty of Vietnamese "sggresslon" against Thailand. The radio rtlmlf rt as "nonsense" allegations by Chinese ambassador in Bangkok Chang Wei-Lieh that the "Indochdnese federation" rigged up
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    The not so easy switch
    458 8 The Public Service Commission probably thought its first-ever pre-university-cum-uni-versity humanities scholarships carrot was irresistible. From two recent separate meetings with 70 top O level students (15 others were informed by post), to whom it made the offer, the PSC discovered it was not altogether so.
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
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      The long and short of it
      90 8 Do you know that all post boxes in Singapore are set at Just "the right height" for you to post your letters comfortably For example, the latest box standsl.6m which is the height of an average Singaporean woman. A smaller version measures one metre
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      Fair weather operation
      43 8 Last week, an Italian military exercise was called off because of fog which is nothing unusual until someone pointed out that the exercise code-named Operation White Fox was designed to test the combat readiness of troops under adverse weather conditions.
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    Lock icon Training antiterrorist squads
    661 8  -  Several countries turning to Bonn's famed commandos for advisers By David Minthorn AP |||yn EMFHUH Police in several countries are turning to West Germany's famed GSG-9 commandos (or help in training their own anti-terrorist squads. "We sent a teaching team to the USA last year, and we
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    Lock icon Rising tide of unwanted immigrants
    794 9 Chinese, unhappy with Red system, still pouring into Hong Kong UPI Hong Kong: They walk, swim, sail a boat or catch a train here in their thousands these Chinese who leave the mainland for a new life in this crowded British colony. Discontentment over the
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    Lock icon What on earth IS happening here ?
    590 9  - What on earth IS happening here Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times Washington: It may have been incredible coincidence or it could have been planned, but at the very moment the people here sent Voyager I out into space to photograph the planet Jupiter, Jovians launched their own photographic satellite to
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    Lock icon A moral in every one
    2712 10/11  -  I Talcs my mother told me Is Us respNM to the Geh Repert h Edscattoa, Mr Lee Eua Yew toeassed ea what he felt was a cradal sabjeet left aatoaehed by the Stody Team, that is, the maral aad character aspects «f edaeattsa. Nerms sf
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      143 10/11 Yon have read and presumably enjoyed the stories of these Singaporeans. Do they remind yon of the stories your parents told yon? Why not dust the cobwebs off your memories and tell ns? From today, we begin a fortnightly series on Tales My Mother Told Me. As a token of
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      218 10/11 Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions ODpear below Name (Mr./ Mrs./ Miss): Address: N R.I C. No: r. Tel: FILL IN MIBBINQ LETTERS ACROSS x 3 Mb m touaei rt apt and accurate MtwNetaudhf any error ar 3. In Be iwl d entries oration of any kM
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  • trend 1 EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
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      New column starts on Thursday
      153 12 Yea aeed a lawyer aat aaly darlag the dramatic times la life like we aee a* aftea la theae caartraam dramaa aver TV bat alee far the smaller, stllMmpertaat dameatlc memeata Uke when yea bay a house, draw ap a will er evea bay a
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    • Dear Ros
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        He wants to learn to like girls
        231 12 Teenager worries that he finds boys more attractive I am a boy of 15 and have a brother and a sister. I think there is something wrong with me because I have never found girls attractive, only boys. I tell my friends that
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        Date others, but tell him
        89 12 I am 21 and be. is 28, yet I find him childish at times. We have known each other for a year, see each other twice a week but he telephones me every night. He tells me I am his only one though I date
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        Emotional tug-of-war
        279 12 I have been going steady with my girl for seven months but her family is against our relationship. They want her to break off with me and have threatened to disown her if she does not. She was so upset she attempted suicide. Despite the incident, her family
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        He's seeing another girl
        244 13 I got engaged with the consent of my parents. Recently I found out that he Is going out with another girl. I spoke to her but she told me she is also in love with him. I spoke to my boy and, though he said she
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        Wrong information
        184 13 A member of my family was involved in an accident. We were not present when the police recorded the facts of the accident because the entire family had gone to the hospital. We now know that some of the information taken down is incorrect. When some of the
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        He's taken to drink
        230 13 I have been going steady for eight months. He was very nice until recently when a third person came into the picture. For the past few weeks he has been depressed. He keeps talking about this girl. I feel so hurt because he doesn't even know
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      PUTTING ON THE RITZ
      390 13 Remember Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, and the tip-tapping team of Fred AstaireGinger Rogers? The glamorous world of old Hollywood inspired T. L. Seah in the creation of these five nostalgic numbers. He has gathered a wardrobe of satin and velvet dresses for those who have forgotten
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      127 12 presents "The Return to Glamour" Mr. Glenn Roberts Elizabeth Arden Director of Creative Training Mrs Judy Roberts Elizabeth Arden Area Training Manager now in Singapore to show you how Make a date with them and let them bring out your best features in a completely contemporary 'Return to Glamour' look
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    Lock icon Money Market
    183 14 UPI London, Tuesday. The dollar closed stronger on European money markets yesterday and one dealer said the US currency was helped by Improved trade figures. Gold closed at U*****,625 an ounce in Zurich, down from U*****,875 on Friday. In London gold closed US$l higher at U*****,625 an ounce.
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    Lock icon British Honda coming soon?
    198 14 Reuter Landed, Tuesday Japan's giant Honda Motor Company is negotiating with the state-owned British Leyland group for a licence to produce Honda cars in Britain, reliable sources said here today. British Leyland and Honda's representatives In London both declined to comment on reports of the controversial
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    Lock icon EEC budget: Owen's 'no'
    69 14 Reuter Luxembourg, Tuesday British Foreign Secretary David Owen, said last night Britain will not agree to any increase in the EEC budget unless (arm spending is controlled. Attacking the "huge waste of resources" represented by EEC spending on surplus food products, Dr Owen said the burden
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    Lock icon Malaysia proposal to revise tin price
    210 14 Reuter Kuala lumpur, Tuesday. Malaysia as the world's largest tin producer will propose to the next International Tin Council meeting in London a revision of the existing tin price range to reflect the current world price, Priltoary Industries Minister Paul Leong said yesterdy. Mr
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    People in business
    258 14 Mr ite Leag Chiang Heag is the new restaurant manager of the Belvedere, the Mandarin Singapore's French restaurant Mr Leng, 33, is no newcomer to hotel. He first joined the Mandarin in 1971 as a captain at the Chatterbox coffee-house and within four years had worked hia
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  • Stock markets round the world
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      Lock icon NEW YORK
      282 14 UPI UPI Nuclear issues were battered (or the second consecutive scorion as the stock market plunged yesterday reflecting the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Trading was (airly active. The Dow Jones industrial average, down 10 points early after losing 4.58 on Friday, surrendered 0.93 points to 855.25. The
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      Lock icon Dow Jones
      35 14 UPI New York, Tueaday Dow Jonas closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yeate»*fndußtriak 855.25 (off! X traaaport 225.36 (up £1»); 15 utilitlea 105.33 (off 0.87); 45 atocka 290.68 (off 1»). UPI
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      176 14 AFP Share prices on the Tokyo stock market suffered the steepest setback in a month amid investors' growing concern that the central hank may raise the official discount rate. The 225-stock Dow Jones average lost 92.32 points to 6088.99 yen. This was the sharpest daily setback since March 1
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      Lock icon ZURICH
      76 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Yesterday's prices followed by the difference on the previous session's close UBS Bearer 3340 -5 UBS Reg 820 SBC B 903 -1 Credit Suisse B 2380 -5 Swissair B 843 -2 8wlss Relnsur 3140 -10 Wlnterthur B 2370 -10 Zurich Incur una "3 Nestle B
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      Lock icon PARIS
      70 14 Reuter Closing price* on the P»rU Bourse jestenUjr Pari bat 219 JO -JO Foncter 431 1 PrtntempB 122JO -130 Bull 58 .90 Royal Dutch 294 -1 Mlchelln ioia 1 COE 319 20 Thomson unq unq crp 154 .10 Rhone 108.10 •JO Air 388-50 -7J0 BSN 480 Philips 31 JO
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    Lock icon Asia steel meeting
    60 14 r 1 I Business News and Views L a Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday.— About 200 delegates from eight countries convened here yesterday for a one-week meeting of the South-east Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI) to discuss "resources efficiency in iron and steel." Countries represented at the conference
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      37 14 WHITE HOUSE DEPARTNEHTAL STORE formerly Jtdelpbi Hotel Corner have removed to 2-25 (2nd Floor) PENINSULA SHOPPING CENTRE Phone *****9 SALE 20 to 50% discount IMPORTED MEN'S SHOES FROM ITALY, GERMANY, ENGLAND, AUSTRIA, ETC, ALSO COSMETICS AND PERFUMERIES
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      285 14 Crossword ACROSS 1 Source of roe 5 Put tobacco In a pipe 9 Hunger strikes 14 Combustible heap 15 Viva voce 16 Fields 17 Homer work 18 City in Italia 19 Combine chemically 20 Shopper's concern 23 Collegiate creepers 24 Crude or banana 25 Criticized severely 28 Circle segment 29
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  • SHOPPING
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      The House of Woollens
      441 15 If you are travelling to places where the climate is much much colder, head first to Fook On Company. Go there and get ample protection from the harsh, cold weather. At the mere mention of Fook On, most people will be able to tell you that
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      65 15 Protect your Shop and Home W am Si X "1» want fuN protection of their home without paying tha high costs charged by other Alarm Companies For around $650 00 mora or lass, you can obtain a Wireless System which will give you a thorough comprehensive protection with a minimum
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      151 15 IT'S ALWAYS FIRST FOE ALL YOUR NEEDS IN MODERN FURNISHIN Extra super showrooms at the Gay World Amusement Park (next to Silver City Cinema where you can choose from more then 50 different models of up-to-date quality living room suites; 30 different models of dining room sets and 30 different
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      186 15 V* People going OVERSEAS go to FOOK ON first Because we have the widest ranqeof Winier Clothings at the most reasonable prices. FOOK ON CO. (PTE) LTD. (Department Store) 83-85, South Bridge Road, Tel: *****. Branches (Open on Sundays) 347 People's Park Complex. Tel: *****5. 1.82-1.83 Lucky Plaza. Ist floor.
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    Duroc in fast workout
    434 16  -  Last start winner Kim Steed also impresses wSBOn the CJI track By K. L. CHAN Dome looks ready to strike again at the Bukit Timah Pro-Am meeting this weekend as he is showing flashes of his winning form. With George Podmore astride this morning, he was
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    153 16 Soccer fan jailed for six months AP AFP Birmingham (England), Tuesday A soccer fan was yesterday Jailed for six months far attacking a rival supporter. Wolverhampton fan Christopher Rist, 23, had admitted threatening behavior at Saturday's English (FA) Cup semi-final match between Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Villa Park. An
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    14 16 Suuday'a Koala Lumpur race finishes are held aver because ef pastel delay.
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    Lock icon Simonsen likely to leave Borussia
    136 16 K3 Soccer Reuter Germany), Taeeday Daaiah seeeer star Allaa Sbnansen had talks wtta Oswefe aa «f Spata en Saaday en Jriatag them Inn Weal W—rt Banwta Mean* tknaglsdHrk at AM end «f 2t, the IVII Earapeaa TMWkr d Ike Year". SaM jeatorday he wenld sreke
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    97 16 Reuter London, Tuesday Brian Greenhoff of Manchester United, who scored his side's second goal in Saturday's Football Association (F.A.) Cup semi-final with Liverpool, could miss tomorrow's replay at Goodison Park. Greenhoff aggravated a calf muscle injury which kept him out of the side for three weeks: "It's fairly
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    Court: Expulsion of Taiwan invalid
    224 16 London, Tuesday The expulsion of Taiwan from the International Amateur Athletics Federation last October in deference to mainland China was ruled invalid by a High Court Judge here yesterday. The lAAF said they are bound by the British court ruling because their headquarters are in
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    Goals galore by Theresians
    420 17  -  Hockey By BRIAN MILLER St Theresa's Convent yesterday smothered their opponents in two National Schools' hockey tournament matches at Balestier Road. In the morning, their Lower Secondary Division team trounced Cedar Girl's 130 in a one-aided match. And in the afternoon, their Secondary team coasted to
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    Lock icon Blunders help St. Pat's
    658 17  -  ACS goalkeeper to blame Soccer At the schools front By SURESH NAIR St Patrick's were yesterday handed a lucky entry into the quarterfinals of the National Schools Secondary soccer tournament, thanks to two dreadful errors by'Anglo-Chinese goalkeeper Chan Kok Meng. It was a "black" day for
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    Pesta may be biggest ever
    225 18 K9 Booting The boxing tournament for this year's Pesta Sukan in August promises to be the biggest ever to be staged here. For the first time boxers from Britain, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand have been invited in addition to the Asean countries, the Philippines,
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    Ahmad fixes the big show dates
    571 18  -  'SOCCER SCENE by Philip Tan The $1 million preOlympics soccer extravaganza to be staged in Singapore has been tentatively fixed for Feb 14 to Mar 2 next year. This was announced by Encik Ahmad Haleem, chairman of the Organising Committee." "Althdfigh the political situation
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    No surprises at all...
    534 18  -  As SSRA name team to Bangkok R3 Squash By BRIAN MILLER There were no surprises when the Singapore Squash Rackets Association named the seven-member squad last night for the defence of their East Asia crown at Bangkok next week. The players who earned the selectors' nod
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    Russian champ out-classed
    236 18 I^Boodng Bangkok, Tuesday Australia yesterday captured their first and only final berth and probable gold medal in the fifth King's Cup boxing tournament as middleweight Philip McElwaine battered Russian champion A. Moiseev into bloody submission. McElwaine, exhibiting a fine balance of speed and power, out-boxed the taller
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    Crystal 3-0
    26 18 Crystal Rangers beat Labour Pool United M in a friendly soccer match at Grange Road yesterday, scoring through M.Shamsuddin, Mohammed Mydeen and Abdul Mutaliff.
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      Handicapped to show their skills
      439 19 Cheshire Home's Festival promises games, events and a chance to mingle It will be sports with a difference at the Singapore Cheshire Home for the permanently handicapped, in Changi Creek, on tomorrow evening. The public is invited, both as spectators and participants, to the Home's
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      Nancy Sit in China with HK team to shoot film
      276 19  -  Glitter Chatter by Teo Lian Huay TV actress Nancy Sit is part of a TV team from Hong Kong now in China to film a televised version of a popular Chinese movie, Third Sister Lui, in Shantou (Swatow). According to
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      276 19 Tomorrow's FM Stereo 6.00 Opening Announcements and Programme Summary 6.05 Morning Prelude with Ronnie Aldrich, his Two Pianos and the London Festival Orchestra and Chorus 6.30 News (E) 6.40 Morning Concert: Polichinelle, Sicilienne and Rigaudon (Kreisler), Gerard Jarry (violin), Shuku Iwasaki (piano); Oboe Concerto in C, K.314 (Mozart), Gerard Turetschek
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      557 19 At the cinema COMES A HORSEMAN: A soldier who returns to his home in Montana at the end of World War II, discovers that the fighting hasn't ended for him. His piece of land is sought by J.W. Ewing, one of the last great Western empire builders. Stars James Caan,
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      196 19 DIRTY HUNG FU: A sprightly street urchin-turned-martial artist invites a number of robbers to live in his village and then becomes a successful bounty hunter, turning them into the law for rewards. Stars Huang Yu, Liu Chia. President, Sky (in Mandarin): 1.45, 4, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. Orient*! (In Cantonese):
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    71 20 AH FOOK: It's Just like a rerun of the Save Electricity Campaign we had some years ago. Now the government is switching off street lights earlier, switching them on later and people are complaining about traffic safety 'and drivers have to switch on their headlights before dusk. MEI
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      908 20 AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5" IN 700 miion people in 43 countries can't be wrong. PAL color. Invented and owned by TELEFUNKEN S.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by I DREAM OF JEANNIE (r). The sitcom stars Barbara Eden as a genie who befriends an astronaut played by Larry Hagman. t.ti DIARY OP
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      258 20 Today's top shows FOOTBALL HAS TO BE TAUGHT: Part 2. (Ch. 5. 6.35 p.m. in colour). In this concluding episode, emphasis is on the strength and endurance players require to enable them to fulfil the roles assigned to them. It depicts training methods to determine a player's maximum physical capacity
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