New Nation, 6 May 1979

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    • 90 1 In the waiting I fill] II of war Page 2 -Watch this space:An invitation to all travellers Page 20 i CAh4CAR STATION XAji^C Rotter Skating Mamimi Mub«ont Rink i k Camp Sit» U V ri MHIIUM O' ll CoUI»» Kk*'**.! 3; ,5 j V I ill i ft Surgeon claims
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    • 10 1 KENNEX SPORTING GOODS bring sports closer to you Sol* Agents:
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  • 189 2 A CARTOONISTS view of man and bis wonderful flying machine. It la one in an exhibition of aviation cartoons that will be opened on Tuesday by the Weat German Ambassadress, Dr G. Feilner, at the Ming Court Hotel. Called Follow Me. the collection was the
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  • 141 2 MADB-in-Slngapore Volvo cars will cost a whopping $11,000 less than those assembled across the Causeway. The Volvo 2MGL standard models which win roll off Its Jurong plant from next month will cost $38,000 compared to $0,000 in Malaysia. This is one attraction that Volvo can
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  • 320 2 THE government will spend $18.5 million for the development of parks and planting of trees at the East Coast Parkway and the Marina Centre. This includes |4-5 million (or beautifying the.city and watering of the trees in the city area and another $5 million
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  • 320 2 AFP By Jeaa-Plerre GalMs THE THIRD session of the Sino-Vietnamese negotiations in Hanoi has confirmed what was foreseen that the talks are not an entrance hall to peace but a waiting room for war. War will come at the "opoortune" moment, something China will have
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  • 294 2 WHY DO kavadt-carriera In a trance feel none the worse from skewering and tongue piercing? The obvious answer to some may be that they are protected by their deities. Another explanation could be that the strength of their belief"creates a resistance to injury," said
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  • 163 2 VISITING Israeli Foreign Minister Mostae Dayan said yesterday that though he had heard of the success of Singapore he did not realise it was on such a comprehensive scale. He was being briefed at the Jurong Town Corporation offices yesterday by the general manager, Mr'
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  • 72 2 THE FORMER American Secretary of State, Dr Henry Kissinger. Oew in last night (ram Hong Rang to attend a meeting under the auspices of the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. Or Kissinger, who will chair the two-day meeting which starts today, was met at the airport by
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    • 74 3 WiTH SiERA'S SUPCR COLOURS, EVERY PROGRAMME IS iw O A AfUD ABOVE ALL, ACCLAIMEDWITH FI.VIISSG COLOURS. \S IA HAi )U > ■!\i \i•( M IM i T I- I :-\l A it \i Asi i;.\i m jyi£ ERA V\ h ■y> p H U m w i >V> V -V.f
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  • 207 4 AFP AN "Asian/PacificAmerican Heritage Week" began yesterday in the United Stales to honour the contribution of Americans of Asian and Pacific descent to American culture. Proclaiming the event on March A at the request of Congress, President Carter said: "We have not always fully appreciated the
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  • 71 4 AFP UNIDENTIFIED armed men on motor-cycles on Friday fired at the beadquarters of the Khomeiny revolutionary committee in central Teheran. Iranian authorities have stepped up bodyguard security for the country's leaders. Khomeiny committee members on motor-cycles chased the attackers without results, and half an hour later two motor-cyclists
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    148 4 NST THIB aiafci shift hat la TMBhia, Penh, to the It wae atoa saad ta t*mJSZttXtt raM Hx peeple altar tt saeaths af pretraeted to-rrttf ttia« lata the gang's adWM. The els lißml to have ini|iinllli fer hMaapplag M iMUma to Ipeh alaee lfn. The Psrak OW
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  • 218 4 Agencies THE United State* vOl announce the coadunkm of a Salt II agreement with the Soviet Union either tomorrow or Tuesday, a Tokyo newspaper reported yesterday. But in Loa Angeles. Prasident Cnter. for the flrat time acknowledged that ratifies ttdu of the treaty was la
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  • 73 4 Reuter A MEETING of the Pakistan People's Party has appointed Mrs Nusrat Bhutto its chairman-for-me following the execution last month of her husband, ex-Premier Zulfftar Ali Bhutto. By choosing Mr* Bhutto as its leader, the meeting appears to have pre-empted moves by several members at Mr Bhutto's
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  • 156 4 AFP AMBASSADORS of the countries taking part in the coming May 15-16 International Conference on Refugees in Jakarta have been invited to make an on-the-spot survey of Galang Island, offered by Indonesia as a processing centre for refugees on transit to third countries. The
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  • 107 4 UPL JOHN Wayne's most recant operation repealed the probability that cancer has spread throughout his body sad the 71-year-old actor volunteered for linatme ***** considered "strictly expertjL' spokesman of Ucla Medical Centre when a*ed how long Mr Wayne has to live, replied: "It hasn't come
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    • 56 4 'Since the dawn of history. Chinese herbalists have oohsldered gineeng to be atTadlftonal tonic. The benefkM praperllee of ginwng ere now being fyeclsted in the West. Eseence of Chicken combined with ginseng Is a powerful aid to stamina and heelth Get Essence of Chicked wtth Qineeng and get onjhe bed.
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    • 221 4 in and around town I FILM 8BOW: ANKUB (The *reened at the Singapore Seedling),, a Hindi (Din writ- Science Centre lecture hall, ten and dtrectad by Shyam 3 p m Admission $1 (or Benegal which *»Im« a fresh adults, 50 cents for children look at India, still hi the under
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    • 182 4 Cinema Guide Lids (*****4), Bex (*****): Superman. Starring Christopher Reeve as the comic hero, Marion Brando and Gene Hackman. (11, 2.30, 6, 9). (Mean (*****6): Power Play. Strategic killing, starring Peter OToole, David Hemralngs and Donald Pleasence. (11.1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15). Jade (*****00): Heaven Can Wait. Extremely heat-arm-ing film on
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  • 141 5 AFP but sensitive controversy is brewing between the Indonesian government and the Muslim Party (PPP) on the government's plaft not to time long school vacations' with the shifting fasting month. A party spokesman was reported to have questioned the plan, announced recent- ly by the Minister
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  • 131 5 UPI A NEUROSURGEON in America has been able to perform head transplants, Playboy magazine reported on Friday. Dr Robert J. White, professor of neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve university, has transplanted the heads of rats and monkeys onto other bodies and kept them alive for three
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  • 200 5 THIS WAS the bride, ts- Margaret Robert. la I*6l. The p»B, Mr Deals Ttatdwr, was II yean her Mirier. Teday Mr Thatcher may be the head el the beaaeheU, bat bis wtfe Is the chief ezeeative ef the aatlea. Britala Is aew the ealy ceaatiy
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    • 52 5 PRESENTING A PROFILE ON THE NEW EUROPEAN SUCC ESS STORY THE FORI) GRANADA 2.8 GHIA w FORD GRANADA 2.8 GHIA Fur morf details please ront<ut I 'NIVI.RSAI CARS PKIV, .A I 1 !.1M1111) i > «'1 >i .if-j R( i St iis itij v'J K >NC> Ml h >.\ -Ml
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  • 236 6 COMMENT At seven cents per cubic metre of water, the Environment Ministry's water-borne fee Is trifling. For four years, the public has been paying this (for water used in sanitary appliances) without being any the wiser since It has been part of thePPU r s water bill. Now
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  • 988 6 THIS article by James Fallows is the first detailed insider's view of the Carter presidency. Mr Fallows was the President's chief speechwriter and resigned at the end of last year. Guardian WHERE Lyndon Johnson boasted at schools built and children fed, wbere Edward Kennedy holds odt
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    • 113 6 ■o-Ui?" 51 CULTURE SHOCK Craig THE MASKED COMRADES by Chaah Boon Khang RUIfcAL ASIA by The Asian Development Bank' The Raffles Drawinp Mildred Archer John Bustin Statement of the Services of Sir Om£Sk*m otamrora names ♦%'y... The History of Jeve Sir Stamford Raffles Raffles Maurice Collis S.E. Aria... Systematic Geography
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  • 564 7 If you ask me... THE LAW in any country is more or less a fixed set of rules beyond which the citizen cannot venture. In Singapore, the law conrials of: 1) The Penal Code and penal statutes; 2) common law and other statutes;
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  • 484 7 NST THE REPORTED disappearance of shrimps around the coastal waters of Penang may sound the death-knell of one of its well-known cottage industries. Manufacturers of "belacan" (prawn paste) are finding it more and more difficult to obtain the shrimps
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    • 87 7 LAT at Padang Besar W/tf UP I« of P+M~n *ts*r 'f Tk« &*c« i> t«ll '••l* i« frit y o r ta< 4 U set +he +of. Oh of 4kt /e«c* > of <our our on oiUe,' »•<*« our W^'/ Svtr/J* v M*l«)fX** TUi /oMj cro»i ever l te i.k.
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  • 797 8  -  PERSKCmfE Chang Kai Ming AS THE bright city lights go out at midnight and plunge the highly illuminated areas like Orchard Road into semi-darkness, it is as well not to be confused about the reasons for this display of energy conservation. The price of
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    • 191 8 Doctor in the House IS.THAT WHERE IT HURTS? VES, THE PAIN IS ALWAYS IN THIS PLACE. I v ALSO FEEL SICK TO MV STOMACH. I HAVE EVEN THROWN UP. IS IT GALLSTONES,.VR. GREV? m ■■I*l :> 0 >V GALL BLAVQER GALL VUCTS I LIVER STOMACH SOME PEOPLE FORM STONES IN
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  • 2274 10/23 Terry Tan samples our muchtouted holiday island I RARELY hot-foot it as a sun worshipper but one recent weekend saw me at Sentosa, dying out attractions of our holiday island. Did not the colour brochures extol all the features of a Paradise found? And hasn't the government
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  • 857 10/23 'I know we are not attracting as many people as we would like' WHEN I contacted Mr Richard Lim, public relations officer of Sentosa Development Corporation, I expected the usual evasive answers. He didn't produce them he even agreed with
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    • 915 11 ESJ2E333 Your 12-page TV pullout PICK OF THE WEEK !EW SEMES: Hard Tines on Tuesday, Ch 5 at 8.35 Hard Times, the TV dramatisation of the Charles Dickens novel, makes its debut on the small screen this Tuesday. The serialisation won five television awards, three of which are the New
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    • 506 11 NEW SEMES: Sharp light on Friday, Ch 8 at 7.55 p.m. Telecast "live" from the Studio One, Sharp Night is a programme of games and quizzes. It takes over the Musical Showcase slot, starting this Friday. Hosted by Angela Chu and Thoo Chouw Chong, the programme also features musical items.
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    • 119 12 ANOTHER GREAT NEWS FROM Graetz vV-v V>« s- I k Üb» if Vf: W jbie.f.. .-'"'-V-.' yi.. ~*3V draiafei Wu/ 'L /A your favourtta programmes on any day of the at any Uma of the day. Or thoao telecasts you irataly wanted to aaa but miaaad. Enjoy your favourite progran
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    • 796 12 MONDAY Threshold Class \A' Amplifiers mpjiopM 113 HmGwH Travel: Omm Girl 131 WARY0F EWNT1 0) 135 AfTBWOON (MIKE: The Big Show Part 1. A circus owner's favourite son pes to prison lor his father's negligence which has caused a performer's death. Upon release, he dscovers he brothers plan to murder
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    • 910 13 WEDNESDAY Threshold Class A' Amplifiers 3.00 ML Open 3.03 I Love Lucy: Bonus Bucks 3.30 MMV OF EVENTS (M) 3.35 BONANZA: Hunter. Little Joe tries his best to help an injured hunter. 4.25 Intermission 6 00 Opto 6.03 PLEASE DON'T EAT Ttf DAISES: Say Uncle (r) 6.30 HIIS II BREF
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    • 790 14 FRIDAY Threshold Class A' Amplifiers 100 PM Open 113 Housewives' Matinee: Two Generations Part 2 (r). Hokknn future Mm. 4.30 Intermission N Open •1.03 Andy Griffith Show: Andy. The Mamafe Counselor 6.30 KWS M HKF (.30 NEWS M MET 6.35 THMLLMAKEK SPOOTS 7 00 SMmtA 7.30 NEWS AID BEWSKEL (M)
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    • 114 15 sps^r 7m ±f o w 7*4* 3* First Love: I Turgenev Do You Love Mb: R D Laing Three into 2 Won't Go: A Newman Johnny I hardly Knew You: E O'Brien Sailor Who Fell From Grace: Y Mishima He And She: P Barnes It Sex Necessary: J Thurber Marry
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    • 72 16/17 Asa jogger you know the most important part more people are buying Bata Joggers because they are better Joggers. Better because they have nylon uppers, and are light and soft. Tough and langlasting, so they go on and on and on. Bata Joggers come in a wide range oi styles,
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  • 728 19  - Daffodils and spring and brrr... Gullible's Travels Paik Choo IT IS very easy to dress in England. Just wear warm. This next may sound like a contradiction, but it is the wearing warm that is very difficult. At least for me. To detour for a moment. When I arrived in
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    414 19  -  WHEN THE ALTER-EGO TAKES OVER CONTROL, IT'S... By Tan Bah Bah MAGIC (Jut ever at Orchart) Corky Withers Is a successful ventriloquist-cum-magician suffering from split personality. His alter ego is Fiats, bis dummy. Ben Greene, Corky's agent, offers him a big TV con treat, the magician is confused and
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  • 1139 20  -  By PATRICK CHEONG JUST before our Boeing jet touched down at Auckland, we had our first impressions of New Zealand from the air. "How high d'you reckon we are, now?" "'Bout 3000." "Look at the houses such low structures, and so colourful!" "Yeah,
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    • 104 20 Watch this space That's what ws'ra calling a naw column wa hop® to a tart with your halp. If you don't Hka writing but nava an aya for tha unusual trsvsl picture, don't pack it awsy with tha othar holiday souvanirs but aand it to us. It could ba a
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    • 22 20 Do you have a travel tale to tell? Here*! a Aml tea cfcMM to toO 11. ftetarw H yta htvc How imkhflw
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  • 526 21 Did you see that? By RJ FOR weeks, I have been complaining about the boring TV programmes and the erratic scheduling. For weeks, I have been saying that viewers will not put up with it much longer. And bow it has all come to pan. Viewers
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  • 315 21 Off Hie Record by CKT NOT for the furnace yet, I thought, retrieving this 1970 hi-fi magazine with an article on "keyboard earfuls" of the time. (1970 is a long time ago both Stravinsky and Shostakovich were still alive then.)
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    3223 22  -  By Pramoedya Ananta Toer INEM was my friend. She was eight, two years older than I was. She was just like all the other girls, except that she was thought to be rather pretty. People liked her. She was polite, natural, intelligent "and a good worker. Because of this
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  • 1096 24  -  Roots Three By HSIAO SHUANG WHEN things go wrong as they sometimes must, do not be like the man who tried to help his corn to grow. This man was sad his corn would not grow, so he pulled at it. In t{)e evening he
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    • 62 24 Buy a book, ANY BOOK, and Violet Oar's Peranakan Cooking is Peranakan Cooking. That marvaMout Mend of Mrtay end Chine* cutoine. Violet Oon*« favourite recipe* ere aN hare in tMng colour. This offer only m long m stocks lest. fTi I i 11 M-106 Lucky Place (mezzenlne floor). Orchard RoadyJHnaro—
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    • 676 25  -  ciaicii mwii Peter Lo LAST year nobody had any doubts that V., Gopal would win the National Squash Title. This year," Gopal will face very stiff competition to defend that title, especially from the 4th round (Thursday) onwards. In order to retain Ids title he would have
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    • 211 25  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh FOR the first time In local basketball history, the national basketball squad is being sponsored by a sporting goods company Lotto. ~~The sponsorship will be in the region of $4000 to ***** annually. Lotto will supply die entire outfit
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    • 535 26  -  The FA Cup Final Preview SATURDAY will see the clash off two English soccer giants for the coveted FA Cup. Singapore ffans will be able to watch the match live on television at 9 p.m. Will Arsenal beat Manchester United? PHILIP TAN gives a
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    • 306 26 ONE cannot aA (or I better match than Arsenal venue Main heater United In the English FA Cup final. Both chibe are hnw throughout the world, and are among the ohtete member* at the Rngtlsh league. The Gunners ware formed In UN and In all these
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    • 506 26  -  Water Tilling If Richard Yu THE T-UP Water Ski Festival held at Sentosa over the last weekend attracted the largest number ever of competitors to a tournament in recent years. Altogether there were about 45 participants (or the (our divisions: men, women, novice
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    • 713 27  -  TONS TALK Alfred Tong HAVE you ever wondered how a tennis ball is made? Peter Schmidt, managing director of Penn (Ireland), was in town last week and provided these pictures which show how they make balls at Penn. Penn, incidentally, are a subsidiary of the General
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    • 78 27 The Teaching Pro 1. On the volley set the racquet heed high to guarantee thst it is above the wrist and higher than the oncoming bad. 2. When preparing half backswing for vol- ley, make sure racquet head Is set at least Pour head if r.
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    • 685 28 RUGBY The Scrumhalves RUGBY enthusiasts were last Sunday taken for a ride when instead of the legendary French Tricolours, or even an ex-French internationals outfit, a makeshift French referees XV played against the Singapore RU President's XV at Jalan Besar Stadium.
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    • 397 28  -  NETBALL Joyce Tan SINGAPORE Women's Netball Association's top officials, Mrs Daisy Tan (president) and Mrs Cynthia Naidu (national coach) were among the group of sports organisers who received awards from the Minister for Law and Science and Technology and-president of the Singapore National
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    • 753 28 HUMS' CM "I HAD a lot of fun today," Bill Robinon said after hitting a pair of two-run homers in leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 10-2 rout of the Atlanta Braves in a US National League baseball' game on Wednesday. "OT course, when
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    • 579 29  -  Completely outclassed by the Malaysians in Open Relays ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng SINGAPORE'S athletics clubs seem to have slipped into a rut, if their performances at the SAAA-Lotto Open Relays Championship at the National Stadium last weekend are any indication. Never before had they
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    • 376 29  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan IN THESE days of everincreasing emphasis on fitness, accuracy, speed and agility, hard work and lots of sacrifice, it is refreshing to be reminded that "badminton is fun." This is the title of a new book by Pat Davis, a wellknown English writer and
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    • 545 30  -  [Weekend Sports' Ballard's secret plans upset By PHILIP TAN Stewart Ballard's boast of having a "secret plan" to defeat his arch rival Peter Hill in Milo Under 19 squash final came to nought at the Kallang Centre yesterday. Ballard only looked good in the first game
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    • 287 30  -  By SHIRLEY TAN Singapore Recreation Club scored a dear win when they beat the Theresaians 24 in the final of the Singapore Women's Hockey Association's knockout tournament at the Padang yesterday. Untfl the first foal, the one-to-one tussle provided by the TTwnnis— spoilt a
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    • 1195 30 By K. L.CHAN FEI LOONG, with apprentice Tan Soo Beng riding a confident race, scored an upset win in Race 3 the 1250 m sprint (or Class 6 Division 1 horses. That victory was the three-year-old gelding's maiden win and
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    • 562 31 By SCRUTINEER TIDAL WAVE is beading for promotion, and should be capable of giving weight and a beating to the opposition in the Ipoh Stakes (Race 5) over 1900 m for Class 3 horses at Ipoh today. The St. Puclde three-year-old handles any going. He
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    • 3078 31 RACF 1 145 CtaM 5, Div 4 1.2500M x ($9 t ooo —$6,300 to winner) 1 8337 Poorl Irama a (Melody) Heddle 3 56.5 (d3 7) F Furer 6 2 0834 Four WWiMNg (Four Wishes) Jaafar 6 56 1.5) Chum 1 3 1760
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    • 125 31 BRIAN MILLEK K. L. CHAN Kara 1 Our HmH*i Dtdrt Sprlag Water EverytMag Nice Flylag Eagle Four Wishes Our Heart's Desire Our Heart's Desire Our Hearts Desire Rant Scraw*! Uy Sense's Jay Sereae'a Jay Taageah Polykettle Imposition Tungesh Serene's Joy PrtgraM Tiara Tiara Spaee Traveller mm Tiara Muscles Coral
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    • 104 31 The letter after the same ef a horse denotes the type of going the horse prefers (a any (g g««d going; s soft going; h heavy going). The letter and figures after the weight denotes changes in handicap, 1. e. (dd +3 bf) indicates a horse
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    • 899 32  -  ...thanks to the inexperience of S'pore side. JEFFREY LOW reports SPORTS NATION JEFFREY LOW THANKS to Singapore's inexperience, the Hong Kong team have survived a crisis which could have accelerated the end of an era for Wu Kwok Hung and his boys. If
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    • 161 32 JOHN McEnroe crushed Jinuny Comiw 6-1, 6-4, «-i ln a atormy aemifinal of theUSs2oo,ooo (about S|44o f ooo) World at v DallaaTeirai last night. The 30-year-old McEnroe's temper flared earlier in the week when a scheduled cfchnfe. requested by Connorm. forced Mm to play
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    • 231 25 APPOINTMENT The SQV Group Management Consulting Services Our client, a European, marine engineering and shipbuilding Group with established markets in Scandinavia and Europe for its marine propulsion systems, is establishing an office in Singapore. It wishes to appoint a qualified and axperien9ed candidate to assume the position of: REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
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    • 458 25 SKF is an international group of some 150 companies with its headquarters in Coteborg. Sweden. It has over 80 factories in 18 countries. 60.000 employees, and an annual turnover of more than 553.500 million. SKF is the world leader for rolling bearings but sales of non-bearing products now account for
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    • 148 27 A glass of Staminade halfway through the game will keep you on the ball Staminade is a blessing for athletes and anyone engaged in strenuous physical activity. f When you exert yourself for a prolonged period, you lose body salts through perspiration. If left unchecked, this loss of body salts
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