New Nation, 8 April 1979

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    Masthead
    9 1 Sunday Nation APRIL 8, 1979 30 CENTS M.C.(P) N0.145/1/79
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      84 1 KEMHEX WTii a Sote Agent A real sportsman s choice. SPOmSfirISISURf(RTV)inX Tal *****6 Printers and Publitw? Act Scction •rorewfei 1 ft for SSO First see Page 2 The lesson S'pore must learn from Kuantan defeat Back Page y /r Just fancy that hibiscus the multipurpose cure! Page 2 The lesson
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    Buck up and help, SIA urged
    255 2 SINGAPORE AIRLINES and the Tourist Promotion Board can put in more effort to help boost the Republic as a convention and exhibition centre, said Mr Edward Liu, a local exhibition organiser yesterday. The present level of help given by them "leaves much to be
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    Friday's power drop
    94 2 FRIDAY saw the first drop in electricity consumption since the save-electricity campaign started a week ago. For the first time, consumption at 18.7 million units, was less, compared with the average Friday consumption of last month at 18.91 million units. The drop could be due to the
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    Just fancy that: Hibiscus for your headaches
    246 2 WE LOVE the hibiscus plant for the beauty of its flowers. And the Sri Lankans love its petals to make a "cooling" drink. It is also fried in butter to make fritters. And the seeds are used by Malay aborigines to treat headaches.
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    Choo Hoey's opera, ballet plans
    74 2 CONDUCTOR Choo Hoey hopes to stage Singapore's first opera in September or October. He would also like to present a ballet with accompaniment by our own orchestra. Well-known names like pianist Fou Ts'ong, Seow Yit Kin and violinist Lee Pan Hon are scheduled to play
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    QUOTE
    141 2 4 A sentimsntal compassion is worse than uaslsaa. Ons rscalls that Jssus Christ did not shsd tsars ovsr ths Isms snd ths cripplsd. On ths contrsry, Hs mads thsm whols, snd Hs msds them walk. Ths Prophst of Qalilss whoss memory is hskf in rsvsrsncs by millions throughout ths
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    UN $44 m for Malaysia's Viet refugees
    102 2 THE UNITED Nations High Commissioner for refugees is expected to spend about US$» million (Ss44 million) this year on Vietnamese refugees in Malaysia, compared with $9 million last year and 190,000 in 1977. This is to ensure that Malaysia, like all countries of
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    Tank-bed: Free trial
    93 2  -  Letter ROSSLYN P C MAK WE wish to point, out that Sunday Nation's "New tankbed floats patients to health," story last week stating that the Burns Unit of the Singapore General Hospital had recently installed a new tank-bed called Clinitron at a cost of $50,000 on a
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    Students' yes to more rounded course
    295 2 ENGINEERING students, on the whole, welcome the move to step up management studies and the humanities in the engineering course content d the University of Singapore to between 15 and 20 per cent (10 per cent at present). New subjects like finance, business law,
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    Chinese without tears
    110 3 A BOOK offering practical suggestions of how to write modern and simplified Chinese has been published in Singapore. The 172-page book, the first of its kind here, tells how to write official correspondence, notices, condolences and congratulatory messages. Costing $8.50 each, it is called "Modern Applied Chinese"
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    He can't ask for your IC
    315 3  -  By Gerry de Sllva IS THE surrender of identity cards to security officers guarding Housing Board flats and private apartments illegal? Yes, according to the National Registration Office. It is a breach of tbe law for private guards to check and retain a person's
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      629 3 In and around town DENTAL HKALl'll EXHIBITION organised by the Ministry of Health and the People's Association, at the Bukit Merah community centre from 3 p.m .to 10 p.m. Admission free. Last £hingay photo exhibition at the Bras Basah community centre from 3 pm. to 10 p.fta. Admission free. Last
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    Lock icon Beauty fallout at the White House
    129 4 THOSE wide open arms say it all. It's like manna from heaven, all these pretty girls with President Carter at the White House. The President looks as if he doesn't know what he's done to deserve such good fortune but the explanation is quite
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    Lock icon World's longest rail trek ends in HK
    155 4 UPI SEVENTEEN weary travellers arrived In Hong Kong yesterday aboard the first London-to-Hong Kong train in three decades, ending 40 days and 14,000 kilometres of the world's longest rail trek. The Central Kingdom Express rolled in to a noisy welcome from the unlikely
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    Lock icon S Africa's new media scandal
    251 4 AP SOUTH AFRICA'S government spent more than US$l.5 million ($3.3 million) to buy an interest in a television news film service linked to the US news agency United Press International (UPI), and offered to help keep afloat a now-defunct newspaper to compete with the New
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    Callaghan's 'vision for the future'
    207 4 BRITAIN'S governing Labour Party is (dunging into the May 3 general election campaign on a programme calling (or a big new dose of state Socialism in the next five years. Labour is calling for the introduction of a wealth tax, increased state takeovers of companies
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    Lock icon Libyan troops desert Amin
    47 4 UPI LIBYAN troops airlifted to Uganda have left the country, leaving President idi Amln to his fate, diplomatic sources in Nairobi said yesterday. Amin, reputedly left with only a few loyal Ugandan troops, established his new "last stand" headquarters east of Kampala. UPI
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    Lock icon Iran's new assembly
    41 4 AFP AN IRANIAN constituent assembly will be elected on June 1. Minority groups will have representatives in the assembly, he told the Teheran newspaper Ayandegan. Aside from the main ethnic minorities, four other minorities are officially recognised. AFP.
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      109 4 DRAGON PHOENIX RESTAURANT Block 26, Oiitram Park. Singapore Tel *****88 4 *****29 Y Delicious CantonpseX Oishes Supervised 1 IMMkWai 11, SpecnMies from I thekitdm Earthcrn Pot Spccial Chillie Crab Spring Chicken Delicious Yam Pot Hot Plate Deer Meat Live Fresh Fish "Quick Lunch S 3/ per person. We cater for
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    Lock icon Oil: Suharto speaks with open heart
    175 5 AFP PRESIDENT Suharto yesterday asked Indonesians for their understanding on the domestic fuel price increases saying that the government had to make the increases with a heavy heart. In a speech apparently aimed at pacifying the strong reaction from the masses towards the price
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    Lock icon Zia warning casts a pall on polls
    394 5 Troops helpless as violence continues UPI PAKISTAN'S martial law government issued a warning-yesterday against further nationwide street violence in which four people have been killed over the execution of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The government radio and newspapers, which normally minimise
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    Lock icon Sino-Viet peace talks
    51 5 UPI VIETNAM has agreed officially to begin peace talks with China next Saturday in Hanoi, it was announced in Bangkok yesterday. Vietnam's foreign ministry has said it is prepared to receive it on that date. The announcement appeared to clear the final obstacle to j peace talks.—
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    Lock icon An English lady mends her undies
    286 5 UPI HOW CAN you spot an English lady? Well, for one thing she has hand-washed underwear. She probably also has a small, yappy dog, saves string, always takes tea in the drawing room and likes her gamekeeper. A.lot. She is married to an English
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      87 5 buy your old vacuum cleaner for up to $400/- T ...if you buy 1 a Kirby this month *7< KuhJby mmmm**#* CLcubJiic ITT Kirby has over 80 uses in and around your home. So you save time and money. Kirby is renowned for vacuum cleaning, pest fumigating and carpet shampooing.
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    Lighting up their lives? No
    252 6 COMMENT Some hotels are claiming they need to be brightly lit up outside for business, reasons and image identification. They say they are taking steps anyway to cut down use of electricity elsewhere. That point is not being disputed. As for their first claim, marketing
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    Are we seeing a stricken Britain?
    1025 6 Martin Walker asks six correspondents LIKE an ageing movie star anguished about blurring profiles and candlelight, official Britain is getting worried about the national image. The Tourist Board has been whipping a pack of foreign newshounds around the national sights. I The government too
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      48 6 us\Q s P°Pu/or move Miss TANG PAO YUEN Taiwan Comedian SHIU FONG Showtime: 9.00 p.m. midnight 4 Special Afternoon Show today at 3.00 p.m. $10 per person I inclusive of drink tax) appearing nightly at ®APOLLO Theatre Restaurant Nile Club Pte. Ltd. Roof Top, Apollo Hotel, Singapore 3.
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    Lock icon Read less and grow wiser
    667 7 If you ask me... By Bookworm KNOWING how to read, we automatically assume we know more than the illiterates. Enormous folly! The illiterate peasant of India is more cultured than the average Singaporean. The illiterate peasant is not unaware of the rich store of myths,
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      180 7 A little kindness goes m a long way M to assist those who v i taking progressive steps 1 to independent living l' Enter today, and help i the less fortunate find Jk V a place m the world Entries Close: d 31 st May. 1979 1 Gala Crowning Ball:
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      171 7 Zoppas- the new,easytooperate idea in cookers and washing machines. u m Model ZX 2401 4 gas burners, each with automatic ignition. Stainless steel cooker top. Easy cleaning. Rotating skewer for even roasting. Gas Oven Dimen: 85cm x 86cm x 55cm Model 354 10 washing programmes. Spin dry up to 400
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      86 7 IP YOU have ssmethlag to My which yta thlah •w mtei wmM Hfce to kMw, why Ml pat It m paper aai Mad It to m. We welcome cMtrlhators to this eelaaiß. Articles eaa he m aay Mhject hat shsald preferably he eplatoa pIMM el ahMt Ml werds each. They
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    Begin made first move
    548 8  -  The Israeli ambassador sends an angry note. ITZHAK NAVON DEAR Mr Chang, I refer to your article in the Sunday Nation last week. I wonder how anyone could write such a "perspective" without basing it on facts. Since you did not do so and as a
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    But world waits for removal of 'the sizzling fuse'
    960 8  -  Chang Kai Ming puts things in perspective CHANG KAI MING DEAR Mr Ambassador, Thank you for your letter of April 2 about my article in Sunday Nation. I can understand your feelings but you attribute to me motives which were not
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    Knowing Dewey's place in our schools
    323 8  -  TAN TAI WEI Lecturer la rm—pfcy ti Ehetttw, iMtttafe w Edaeattaa. MR J.D. PRACETAS said last Sunday that "Recently, speaking to a cadet-teacher, I learnt to my horror she did not know who John Dewey was, let alone his theories. Not knowing Dewey in
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    Daring Dozen or just A.O.s?
    157 8  -  LEE SIOK MUI AFTER, reading and rereading your story about the Daring Dozen in last Sunday's paper, I have come to two conclusions. Firstly, that these 12 are merely ordinary administrative officers who were handpicked by Dr Goh Keng Swee so that they would or
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      34 8 Dear Editor Your tetter mutt glvo your nam* and mddr—, though you may indudt pttudoflyfn if you don't want your womo puMlthod. Ploooo typo your lottOTf doubte-opeced, on ono •kte only and ghro a
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      297 9 The most comprehensive tourist, entertainment, shopping commercial/office centre in the tourist bett of Orchard Road. JL 'm:'syjigr-'' m St i i 4 l-k v. :V.< Situated at Orchard Road/Koek Road, (next to the Cold Storage) the core of most promising tourist, entertainment and shopping activities. Shop from $76,200 upwards Office
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    In him there is a special meeting of East and West
    638 10/23 Chinese-educated and master of a great European art CHOO HOEY is in a very special sense the meeting of two cultures. He is the flower of a traditional Chinese education applying its native strengths to a great European art.
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    Choo Hoey: The maestro, the man
    3010 10/23 He is the greatest musician Singapore has ever produced. She is the first writer to set out the significance of conductor Choo Hoey to our cultural scene. Arts reviewer YAP KUN BEK gives you Choo Hoey the man, his ideas and his inspiration. Kan
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      846 11 Sunday Nation Your 12 TV pullout TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS The Unsinkable Moly Brown (Pre-holiday movie) on Thursday, Ch 5 at 10.25 p.m. Debbie Reynolds stars in Metro Goldwyn Mayer's musical story of America's Cinderella The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She portrays Molly Tobin, the illiterate ragamuffin from Leadville, Colorado who
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      370 11 AKAI l'. a'in'- that pulb no punches. "natari!" (Holiday Matinee) on Friday, Ch 5 at 10.50 a.m. John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Red Buttons and Gerard Blain are a team of professional hunters with the task of capturing wild animals for the Momella Game Farm in Tanganyika. John Wayne at his
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      1063 12 MONDAY harman/kardon i 3.00 PM Open.. 3.03 Have Gun Will Travel: The Hunt 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (T) 3.35 Afternoon Matinee: A Girl For Joe Pt 1. See Pick ol the Week. 4.30 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 Nature's Window 6.10 CHALLENGES: Someone To Love. This programme begins with a look
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      750 13 WEDNESDAY harman/kardon r > i 3.00 PJI. Open 3.03 I Love Lucy: Girls Go Into Business 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.35 BONANZA: The Sound of Sadness 4.35 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 PLEASE DON'T EAT TK DAISES: (r) 6.30 NEWS M BREF 6.35 TMANG TMGGI TMGGI (r) 7.05 THE MUPPET
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      284 14 Wherever you are, Braun sprint Itfeasgoodas shaving at home. If you're on hdiiday or travelling, with no electric points or hot water within reach, shaving is a problem. But there's no problem if you have a Braun Sprint. Braun Sprint is battery operated. It gives you the good shave you
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      587 14 harman/kardon i a 1 7 U m i 3.00 PM.open 3.03 THE GREAT NIDERMSS (C). This feature length documentary depicts the flora, fauna and physical features in the wilderness of North America. 4.30 SMGMWtE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 5.15 KATA DANCE RECITAL 5.45 UTTIE BLUE 6.20 NEW MCKEY MOUSE CLUB 6.45 NWS
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      65 16/17 As a jogger you know the most important part of your equipment must be your shoes. And more people are buying Bata Joggers because they are better Joggers. Better because they have nylon uppers, and are light and soft. Tough and longlasting, so they goon and on and on. Bata
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      184 16/17 9 If UsJj f Af ft/ws i* a £i re, before we If ya want t traps EAT LUNCH, I /ONE O'YERTIREP HAVE A FAVOR WICHES FER TO ASK >—, A SUPER. GOOP\E O' /MINE, FER<3ET IT/ lliiiifimnmii /> ,r ii^ 4 i 9 *A I Mohtmorencv HAS INP'CATEC? A
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      226 18 OUR CONTACT 9BVB OPRTH 19 VICMN© TO PPRIS WTTHTWE WOMAN- HE 19 AN CNBUSHVION imprkssjvi RECORD.., [I*£4T I WRVENT FOB3OTTBN. WRIT TILL THIS GfIKTH KEBCHES PPWS THBM RTTENO TO HM/ mU S 4 > M i 05*w i/ili fyni Garth and Saophire reach Pa "is... 5! govt you 3EIEVS r
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    I get 'hate' letters — and YOU'RE sorry?
    713 19 I get 'hate' letters and YOU'RE sorry? HUHOiR with US TAUREANS are cast from superheroic moulds, we are the "invincibles" Helen Reddy sings of, the heavyweights of the zodiac who, born with the sun in the morning and the moon at night, are impervious to criticism. Until we receive the
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    Not so funny carryings-on
    431 19  -  jJ3 JiiiW By Tan Bah Bah CARRY ON ENGLAND (Now at Orchard) It is the start of World War 11. Captain S. Melly, a bungling but tetchy officer, is put in charge of an unusual anti-aircraft battery "somewhere in England. This is an experimental mixed unit
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    Shakespeare made easy...
    725 19  -  Arts Review by Yap Kun Bek LONDON Shakespeare Group, at the DBS, April 4, 8 p.m. IT WAS an entirely enjoyable entertainment woven with professional skill: Shakespeare according to the rules of the evening. There were four players in all, two men and two women. Brimming with
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    Has London no more bait for labels?
    393 19 orr the Record by CKT HAS London no more bait to lure the international recording companies? It is reported that more and more recordings are now done in America and Europe when once the major labels of EMI, Decca, Philips, RCA and DG
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    Bucharest — pretty but not so friendly
    796 20  - Bucharest pretty but not so friendly By ROSALIND LIM 59, pensioner I HAD always travelled with my husband but my trip to Bucharest was made without him. It was an unforgettable experience. Bucharest is a very lovely place with its wooded countryside, old-fashioned cobbled streets and some 18th century buildings
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    A vacation in Texas — with a difference
    730 20  - A vacation in Texas with a difference By CHRISTOPHER PORTWAY IT WAS an inquiring mind that took me, a Briton, to Texas and my spare room that put me in touch with the Satterfield family. Between the two acting as a kind of marriage broker was an organisation called Home
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      139 20 Do you have a travel tale to tell? Hwrt a rfciani U tell It Aad to a Bid wider ■■flww tku yea'd ever have theagbt peealMe. tafc; NiMH rue a weekly travellers' ectasia wrtttea by tu readers. It eaa be a travetogae-typr ■tory er J—t a Bttte er forgettable experteaee.
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    Lock icon Luk Siew Fung No. 1
    742 21 Did kou see that? By RJ ADVERTISING agencies subscribe to it; sponsors are guided by it; and viewers are usually interested in it. It is difficult to imagine what RTS does with it. What is it? It is the TV Programming Rating Supplement the raide-book
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    Why so few want to watch the news
    179 21 WHY are there m few peeple watching the TV news in all iMgugesf Barely the expensive tiMidiw a few meatks •I* sf satellite esverage ef wecM aews for Mwuttt tke nine day makes gaad Sarely tke reeeat tefresk lag ehaage la the
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    Meters to measure TV audiences?
    379 21 "SINGAPORE is lagging behind many countries in the way it conducts TV audience research," Mr Gordon Geraghty, director of Survey Research of Singapore, told me. The industry now spends $20,000 on audience research. In sharp contrast, Hong Kong spends H million using far more sophisticated
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    Lock icon Open letters filled with love...
    557 22 By Silverfish ILLUSTRIBSIMI: LETTERS OF POPE JOHN PAUL I. Translated by Isabel Quigly. Collins, 1978. 286 pp, $33.30. WHEN Albino Lucia-ni was Patriarch of Venice, he was asked to write a column for an Italian Christian lyHe decided that his column would be an open
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    The very heart of the Mafia...
    592 22  -  IN A DIFFERENT WORLD: IN THE LAND OF THE MAFIA. By Gaia Servadio. Hamish Hamilton, 1979, 191 pp, $37.50. Book Paae By ALEX JOSEY ALCAMO is a town in Sicily. It has about 45,000 inhabitants. It is said to nurture the very heart of
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      470 22 The Complete Book of Btbycara $43.00 x/V Describes precisely and fully whet •< happen* at each naga of pregnency end lebour end follow the fescinating J v K%. prograw from newborn baby to Klh|* exploring toddler Full Of practical A J^Ky and sympethetic advice oncara of I AlV* mother and
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    Lock icon Humour of a Chinese artist
    519 24 Y.K.B. I INTERVIEWED Choo Hoey at his home at three o'clock in the afternoon. His house is a breezy colonial structure at the edge of the tropical wilderness in a remote part of Singapore. His sons, Choo Yen and Choo Lin, have the bronzed look
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      Where only fools dare to tread
      361 25 INSIDE TRACK FOOTBALL Association of Malaysia (FAM) president Datuk Seri Hamzah Abu Samah recent hint that some Malaysia Cup players were "on the take" did not come as a surprise to us. The (act that be made the remark during his FAM reelection speech
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      Rives will lead Tricolours
      714 26 RUGBY The Scrumhaltres FLANKER Jean Pierre Rives regarded by many as the world's best wing forward will lead the world-re-nowned French Tricolours in their friendly international against a Singapore Rugby Union Combined President's XV on Apr 29 at Jalan Besar Stadium. The 26-year-old fair-hair-ed star acknowledged
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      Tall order for hopefuls
      358 26  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng SINGAPORE'S top athletes hoping to qualify for the trip to Tokyo for the Third Asian Track and Field championships next month have been given stiff standards to match by the SAAA: third-place marks set at the previous meet. It will not be
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      308 26  -  Joyce Tan SINGAPORE AIRLINES, last year's Business Houses League division one champions, have won all their games so far in this year's tournament. Their nearest rivals, Hong Kong Bank, who made a return to division one after missing out last year, have drawn a game
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      603 27  -  TDWS TALK Alfred Tong THE future of the Singapore Open Clay Court championship is hanging in the balance following the Tanglin Club's conversion of four of their eight clay courts to plexipave. Put in a quandary by the Tanglin Club move, the Singapore Lawn
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      The China trip: Tew Gee out
      356 27  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan TWO F and N trainees and a coach will be selected to join the SBA's contingent to the Hangchow Asian Badminton Confederation championship in July. The Inclusion of the F and N trainees and coach is in recognition of the services
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      92 27  -  The Teaching Pro.. By Don J. Leary 1. Know when and how to relax. 2. Never look rattled! When sitting down on change of side or between sets examine your game plan. Ask yourself: A. Are you following your game plan? B. Have you figured out his
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      321 28 WORLD SOCCER FERENC PUSKAS, now with AEK Athens, could soon be on his way to rejoining his old club, Real Madrid. Presently suspended by the AEK Athens board after their first team lost to arch rivals Aris Salonika recently, Puskas is expected to cross
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      923 28  -  L- More cash for players, but spectators are forgotten -I By ERIC BATTY MONEY is dominating soccer more and more, and it reaching the point where those who run the game have got their priorities all wrong. The Internationa] Football Federation (Fifa) have set a
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      Recs to play in Perth tourney
      483 29  -  HOCKEY Brian Miller WINNING a domestic tournament could be rewarding in more ways than one. This was what Singapore Recreation Club's hockey team discovered recently. The Recs scored a unique double last season when they blastedthe opposition to walk away with the Premier League
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      331 29 UPI THE list of international swimming champions over the next decade is likely to include a 1.85metre Chinese named Wong, Britain's world record holder David Wilkie said yesterday. Wilkie, 24, who set a world mark (or the 200metre breastroke at the 1976 Montreal Olympics,
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      193 29 UPI PELE, the legendary king of soccer, yesterday played in his home country for the first time in three years in a benefit game to help the victims of floods in Brazil earlier this year. The 38-year-old Pele, who has already retired from professional soccer,!
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      Lions: We quit...
      392 30  -  !Weekend Sports! By SURESH NAIR LOTTO increased their lead by 27 points in yesterday's final round of the Alitalia-Singapore Team Tennis classic but their achievement was overshadowed by the sensational withdrawal of runners-up Brylcreem Lions. The Lions failed to roar after skipper Leslie Yong was "grounded" with
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      326 30  -  GOLF Ernest Frida JURONG Country Club are going flat out to make this year's Open golf championship the most attractive on the local circuit in terms of prize money. They hope to run it on a multi-sponsorship basis and have approached several well-known companies and
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      884 30  -  By K.L. CHAN PIBULI scored a long overdue win with a dazzling display in Race 4 the 1200 m sprint for Class 5 Div 2 professional horses at Bukit Timah yesterday. Confidently handled by Jockey Ariffin Man, the eight-year-old gelding by Zahedan led all the way
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      729 31 EXPATS' CORNER UPI Reuter THE chill of early april filled every spot in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium on Friday except the pitcher's mound, where Jim Palmer went about his work in his best midseason form. The Baltimore Oriole right-hander pitched a three-hitter and Rich Dauer singled in
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      333 31 Reuter THE teenage "glamour boy "of the Australian turf scored his biggest win at Rosehill when he rode Century Miss to victory in the world's richest race for two year olds. Wayne Harris, 19, from the country town of Muswellbrook, north of Sydney, received a
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      153 31 AP FIVE jockeys and one trainer have been sentenced to state prison for taking more than US|5O,OOO to fix 16 races at a Cherry Hill race track in New Jersey. Superior court judge Victor Friedman suspended the sentence of a second trainer at the hearing on Friday. The
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      596 31 By SCRUTINEER GRAND BONHEUR gets his chance to chalk up another win in a small and below strength Class 5 Division 1 field (Race 4) over 1200 m at Bukit Tim ah today. Grand Bonheur has been fairly consistent. He has not run a really bad
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      44 31 RACE 1: Haney Bowl Lady EH RACE 2: The Ftreater Green Ocean RACE 3: Bndlnuui Mad Mike RACE 4: Grand Bwkeur Strange Idea RACE 5: SUver Bird Don Mark os RACE I: LMim Parva Tonga RACE 7: Waalta Kif-Kif RACE 8: Yakin Bandstand
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      951 31 RACE 1 2.15 MARA CLASSES 1 A 2 1200 m (For women riders) 1 5272 Optra IV (Bukit Timah SC)76 Mu Sdby 1 2 3185 Selangor PRC) 72 12 Ng Fool (Iskandar PC) 71.5 Its. iawta 5 4 1212 Domhmlor (Bukit Timah SC) 71.5
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      134 32 Reuter INDONESIA made a soomtlonal start la the Heag Koag lnteniatienal rogby sevens tournament yesterday when they defeated foarth-raaked Japan by 22I«. In a game *f shifting fortones, the Indonesian de- fence withstood the assaaits of the swtft-footed Japanese and in attach they ran in
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      582 32  -  SPORTS NATION By JEFFREY LOW Knantaa, Saturday Pahang 2 Singapore 0 THE plain truth is that Singapore lost to a better team. Better because Pahang showed more enterprise and determination to carve out a victory on home ground yesterday. But Singapore were not decisively beaten,
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        169 32 NANCY LOPEZ, Sandra Post and Japan's Chako Higuchi were tied at 6-under par 138 after the second round of the Dinah Shore championship, the richest event in the world for women athletes. One stroke back was Joanne Carner while Donna Caponi Young, Jo Ann Washam and
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        53 32 Reuter CARLOS Reutemann of Argentina, set the fastest time in the qualifying laps, of the U.S. Grand Prix to be held at Long Beach today. Ferrari drivers, Gilles Villeneuve and Jody Schecter, set the second and fourth fastest times after both had crashed earlier
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        38 32 RON Lyle, making a comeback attempt at age 37, scored a technical knockout over Fill Moala of TOnga at l:slsec of the eighth round in a scheduled 10-round bout at the California Coliseum.
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