New Nation, 13 August 1979

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    Masthead
    20 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Monday, August 13, 1979 2644 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1/79 F====^ I NLW NATION COMMENT j
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    HDB: Don't pack it in
    303 1 Many are trapped because of overloading The Housing Board today said many people are still being trapped in its lifts because of overloading. The latest incidents happened on Saturday when a total of 25 people were trapped on two occasions within nearly two hours in
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    Lock icon Carter and Palestinians
    76 1 AFP Washington, Monday US Presldeat Jimmy Gutmr told a group of ntiliiMwis ysslsmsy that ho oppoood the cnatfoi of aa independent Palestinian stale. "I do believe the Palestinians should have a right to a voice in the dSsinilnstion of their future, which was also specified aad agreed
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    Two rob vegetable seller of $3000
    121 1 Two men posing as police officers robbed a vegetable seller of $3000 in cash and valuables today. Mr Goh Tew. Lye, 64, of Sims Avenue, was cycling along Mountbatten Road when he was stopped by two men in a car at 2.20 a.m. They
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    Lock icon Plan hailed
    41 1 Reuter Lusaka, Monday Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda yesterday hailed the Commonwealth peace plan for Zimbabwe Rhodesia as a victory for progress and said that if any British Prime Minister could solve the colony's problem it was Mrs Margaret Thatcher.—
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      61 1 ACBC Your key to International Trade Trishaw riders Lean times Page 2 Moneywords jackpot is $5000 RTS to screen Wimbledon s epic Page 19 the new Pinseeker Formula-1 The irons: j.. i >V w vStZ V ■>+.i >*,%„> -4> nu; 9 -7 /•.a V- K* Df TIB OTHER PAGES: Moneyworda
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    Lean times for most trishaw men
    642 2  -  Housewives help them survive By Ivan Lim Saddled, with feet on the pedals and hands on the handlebars of his green trishaw, Mr Lam Gaaa Seag, 51, waited expectantly for his fare at the Kandang Kerbau market. He wore a white safety helmet, the
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    Society's officials
    75 2 The following were elected at a recent annual general meeting of the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Singapore: President Prof Charles Ng, Vice President Mr Chelva Retnam Ra)ah, Honorary Secretary Mr Sam Chong Keen, Assistant Secretary Miss Naseem Jumabhoy, Treasurer Dr Joseph Sheares, Liaison Officer Mr Hugh Da
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    Presto! But the bottle refuses to budge
    150 2 Lifting up a bottle with one end of a rope slipped into its mouth was so easy with magician Richard Phua, but when Ifcyear-old Lim .Seng Yew tried to do it, the result was one big, hearty laugh from other children of St
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    Charity
    35 2 Old clothing for members of the Shri Sathya Sai Seva Samithi homes may be handed to its Vice President, Mr V.K. Pillai, on the last Thursday of every month at the Central Bhajan Centre.
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    Computer doctors
    409 3 US don: They only give lip service to the patient's mind A visiting American professor yesterday spoke of the many doctors throughout the world who are locked in "computer medicine." These doctors overlook the importance of the psychological approach which should go nand in hrfnd with physical treatment,
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    Wanted: Man for $67,000 a year job
    115 3 The Nkdml fwiw flvfty Bnri to loHng far > exeeattve dlreeUr to tod Map Mi promnte lto tralnlni ui r msatt•My MttrhlM. In press ftdverttot meat last week, the NPB nM the eaadlriate mast toie strong lnl> enUp abilitiesto take up tke fhnlleaglag
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    Stock market
    166 3 Market sentiment ruled very steady this morning despite reports of a possible new flare-up between China and Vietnam. During the first 45 minutes of trading, there was good buying support especially among those counters left untouched last week. They included Metro, up six cents to $3 JO and
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    Exhibition
    27 3 The National Museum and Crescent Girls' School will jointly present an exhibition entitled Creative Extractions at the National Museum Young People's Gallery from Aug 18 to
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      167 3 Sil k ll\ < k"\ < )lv i l< >\< >1 ll' I t v < II k I(!)'('< I '< •!< I lit'lk'St ivsi; ii ir; ii il ii i Sii ij >iv. ft -v V n j •v V-"" r/ V .1; m, > 2 > pr The
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      102 3 Special draw for last Sunday's races: Pint: *****2 Sec—i: *****4 Third: *****1 Starters: Nos. *****6 *****9 *****8. CeMeiattea: Nos. *****3 *****2 *****9 *****5 *****1 *****4 *****8 *****5 *****0 *****6. Big Sweep drawn at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday: fir*: *****2 Seeead: *****1 Third: *****1 Starters: Nos. *****4 *****6 *****4 *****8 *****9
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    Time game for the wives
    486 4  -  New Nation focus Baby boom Calling the storks, to meet a school admission date By Rav Dhaliwal MBS JANICE CORDEKO, 28, a housewife, planned for her baby to be born late in the year but before January the next year. The reason: she did not
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    A hard-soft line with the ITF
    497 4  -  By Ivan Lim Minutes after the Second Asian Seafarers' Conference ended last Saturday, Japanese "peacemaker". Mr Koichi Kihata, went up to Mr Devan Nair and they shook hands warmly. Mr Kihata, from the Japan Seamen's Union, had come to urge the Asian unions to
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    Aussie band
    28 4 The Gold Coast City Concert band of Australia will perform at the Botanic Gardens on Aug 19 and the Ministry of Defence band on Aug 26.
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    Footwear exports under control
    135 4 Singapore's footwear exports to the United States are now subjected to licensing by the Department of Trade. A Business Times report today said the move may have been prompted by the government's aim for more high value-added products to be made by local manufacturers and complaints
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    Some right on target, others just don't care
    432 5 due to deliver in March next year. However, the had successfully planned her first child, a boy who is now three. He was born at the end of the year. MBB ESTHER WANG, also a customer relations assistant in a bank, who
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      221 5 Over 3 mfllion hard-driving Europeans drove the Fiat 127 to the No.l selEng spot in Europe. Aloiigthe way,the Fiat 127 has been strenuously tested for Economy, Reliability and Comfort mmm Economy: The lowest fuel consumption in its Class The9o3cc engine is most economical^KßSMßHmSM for nippy driving. It gives a generous
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    Now Japan wants to give it shape
    317 6  -  The pan-Pacific consultative system: By Swadesh De Roy •or reporter la Takyo A pan-Pacific consultative system, of which Asean will be a part, is a long range peace strategy of the Japanese diplomacy. Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda, explaining this in a weekend Interview
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    Lock icon 1000 die in dam floods
    226 6 World Focus Reuter New Delhi, Monday Rescue workers yesterday struggled through deep mud to reach bodies of an estimated 1000 people who perished when waters from a burst dam swept through a town in India's western Gujarat state. As many as 250 bodies were moved
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    Lock icon Bloodiest rioting since fall of Shah
    135 6 Reuter Teheran, Monday Hundreds of people were reported injured last night when Muslim militants clashed with leftwingers in Teheran's bloodiest rioting since the overthrow of the Shah six months ago. At least 160 people hit by rocks, clubs, chains, iron bars and bottles were
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    Lock icon TODAY
    122 6 UPI TODAY is Monday, Aug 13, the 225 th day of 1979 with 140 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. Alfred Hitchcock, master of mystery movies, was born on Aug 13,1899. ON THIB DATE IN HISTORY: In 1923, the No. 1 song
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    Lock icon Odd Corner
    79 6 AFP Madrid. MmmUv Spain's first tes£tabe calf was ban yesterday at a farm la RetortUle la the there Spanish previace «f Barges, M km aerlfe e( here. Veterinarian whe carried eat this expertmeat said they ased the same metheds aa British deeters ased last year in bringing »t»ut
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      375 6 Heaven In Chaos (II) Langit Jahanam(II) illustrator: Lui Thue Wah r/i mil n "a m wi>, m A I •7 s>&a«5 W2L> mt 29B /i 1 w s 4 m I I v* m I A' niiiiiiiuri j* J 1BK6 ?>7r Si Jt >12 fc»*f II a 1 Li lis
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    Lock icon Future home of US embassy
    78 7 No IMI Hal Ba Trung Street near downtown Hanoi isn't much of a building now. A boy at right looks at the building, while other Vietnamese cycle past, apparently oblivious of lis existence. But soon, they may take notice. The Vietnamese government has said the
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    Lock icon $4 for a loaf of bread
    377 7 World Focus one of three forecasts by study Reuter Washing**!, Monday Americans could be paying US$2 ($4.40) for a loaf of bread and nearly US$6 for a gallon of petrol in 10 years' time unless inflation is checked, according to a congressional study yesterday.
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    Lock icon Narain's three conditions to be Premier
    183 7 Reuter New Delhi, Monday Outspoken Ra] Narain, the Mohammed All of Indian politics, surprised even some of his staunchest supporters here when he said he might consider becoming Prime Minister but only on three conditions. Mr Narain, who has shot back into prominence as
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    Lock icon More kids can't read
    165 7 UPI Peking, Monday Illiteracy is becoming a {troblem in China because ts torrents of children are outstripping the resources of the school system, the country's leading newspaper said in a front page editorial yesterday. "The percentage of school-age children now in school has dropped in many
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    Lock icon Clue to bird's homing sense?
    129 7 AP ttay Wt ef fcrsa-r&h ttosae feud la the heads ef plgriM any help expiate hew the Wis (led eeine, It wee reperted The plgeeee stadled hed the sea* magaette sahstaaee that hee hen found la bees, which alee are kaswa (er their nevlgatieeal aMltttoe,
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    Lock icon Moscow meet
    102 7 Reuter Moscow, Monday Some 1500 political scientists from East and West assembled in Moscow's Historic Hall of Columns yesterday for the first such congress in a communist country. The meeting of the International Political Science Association has taken three years to prepare, with hard backstage bargaining over the
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    Lock icon Brighter side of inflation
    85 7 UPI Austin, Texas, Monday Inflation has been blamed for a lot of things but in Dallas, police are giving it a little credit. For the first time in the memory of police officials, there was not a single arrest for driving while intoxicated during the entire
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      46 7 When you buy new Polaroid LOOKERS sunglasses Offer only available at: Isetan Emporium (S) Pte. Ltd., Havelock/Outram Roads, Singapore. From 11.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. And from 4.30 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. (13th August to 19th August) Polaroid and Lookers' are trademarks of Polaroid Corporation Cambridge
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    Sarawak: Behind the Front
    466 8 The dissolution of the Sarawak State Assembly last Saturday has set the stage for another scramble (or influence. The contest between the National Front and the opposition parties is peripheral, as the ruling coalition is expected to retain power with only the size of its majority
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      Hodding Carter
      70 8 English-language students at the prestigious Yunnan University in China went into a huff recently when they read a news story beginning "US State Department spokesman Hodding Carter...." "Why are they hod- ding poor President Carter?" they wanted to know. "Does the State Department often hod high officials?" "Exactly
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      Fault-picking
      30 8 We are not alone in our self-criticism of the Ugly Singaporean. In idyllic Switzerland, an opinion poll among the young Swiss pinpointed the two worst faults greed and intolerance.
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    BLAME IT ON THE WEATHER...
    613 8  -  MONDAY WITH SONNY YAP SONNY YAP So it's not our upbringing, the shortcomings of the educational system, character defects or genetic programming that accounts for our kamikaze motoring habits. It's, and I have the unimpeachable authority of our traffic cops to back it up, the
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    Lock icon The real answer to crime
    668 8 Reuter LmhlM: In a ghoulish showcase at the London Museum this summer are yellowed plaster casts of the heads i of five men, who were hanged on the public gallows in brutal, 18th century England. They have been brought from the vaults of Scotland Yard
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    Poorly paid police had to gamble
    938 9  -  For the Record by Gloria Chandy The formal history of the police force began with the appointment of Thomas Dunman, a prominent Singapore resident after whom Dunman Road is named. This took place in 1843. Singapore was, however, not left completely .unsupervised in those
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  • trend EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
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      Lock icon The Big Break
      482 10  -  Local designer to present collection in US Fashion by Deborah Chia The name, Bobby Chng, may not be familiar to many. But to those associated with the rag trade, 23-year-old Bob is perhaps one of the few ambitious local designers around. He has not only made a
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        Show takes a turn for the worse
        160 11 Chuuter, the cluuity (mUm shsw la aid ef the Bhnam iMMfcl Osa to tftteiM CkUArea ui pww ted by Llak Beatlaae »ii Eitee Lsader hat week, raised mere thaa Ml. All the $S« tickets were said aad there were sheet 4$ mere deasrs.
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        A wand for a lipstick
        99 11 AmOmv new shape la Upatleha la mr aa the market. We've had Hpstlek la cempact farms aad Haattek In pencils. New, f aaosiae preaeata La ma A Levree, a leag (11 em), atim aad ehjMi llpattek waad. tt eeaaee la a laxmrirUW Ito"ttp la alaii*
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        Woman, 60, behind slinky swimwear
        117 11 Remember that allaky awlmwear by Gettex? Kaew yea that a little M-year-aM Jewish wemaa Immlgraat tram Haagary, a typical Jewish mama, say the cables, Is behind Itt They call her Lady GattHeb. real naihe Leah. Aad she's the pewerhease behind Otttea Iadastrles ef Israel, a
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      All the world's a crisis
      431 11  -  soap box Francis Currently there are four crises going on in the world. India is facing a leadership crisis and Charan Singh is still trying to hold his government together. In Italy, someone is also trying to put together a humpty-dumpty government no. 38 since
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    Lock icon ON WINGS OF SPEED
    53 12 TOr to the bread wv FWoilft Om Alfa Rmn "Wlag Car" that aheald make tta Mat aext September la the Italian Grand Prix at Mean. The pie tare was takea recently ea the Baleeee track, aear Mllaa, with ItaUaa driver Braae Glacemelll at the wheel. AP
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    Frustration is...
    510 12  -  I Motorcycling j a Yamaha XZ 11 Special »>v Lee Chiu San Frustration is an over-abundance of horsepower and a strict speed limit. It's a super-comfortable suspension and no high way to tour. It's having all I've ever wanted in a motorcycle and not having enough time to
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    Japanese cars are still hard to beat
    488 12  -  f =3 Motoring They are cheaper and more economical hi Roderick Pestana Are we heading towards the day when all cars sold in Singapore will be made in Japan? This statement is sure to cause a lot of hot col- lars among those
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    Tokyo Lease makes it 3 in Singapore
    352 13 'Low leasing/investment ratio spells potential' Business News and Views Tokyo Lease Co, one of Japan's top three leasing companies, has set up shop here. The wholly-owned subsidiary, Tokyo Leasing (Singapore), opened its office last week. It has a paid-up capital of $5 million
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    Dispensing and batching cash...
    180 13 Two banknote processing machines have been added to the range of De La Rue products distributed in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia by Plessey. One of them is the 1320 teller-assist-machine, designed to help cashiers to dispense cash to customers quickly. The central dispensing cabinet can be
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    'Oil to cost US$46'
    141 13 Chase Manhattan Bank has forecast that oil prices will increase from US$2O ($43) per barrel in 1960 to $46 per barrel in 1990. This represents an average 2.4 per cent price rise every quarter through the *****, the bank's energy economic division said. The bank's energy
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    Jack Chia to move hq
    155 13 Bookstore and pharmaceutical group Jack ChiaMPH and property developer Malayan Credit are moving closer to each other. This is the indication Siven in the plan to move C-MPH headquarters to Malayan Credit's office at Somerset Road. The sharing of office space with the property group
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    Lock icon China in tights?
    87 13 AFP London, Monday A British company is today planning to sell tights to Chinese women. Bear brand the second biggest supplier of tights in this country with sales of 45,000,000 pairs a year is now making "mini-muts" for Chinese women, who are generally much shorter and have
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      611 13 MONDAY [TRI NEW NATION MONEYWORDS Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./ Mrs./ Miss): Address: N R.I.C. No: Tel: AJL_ s"" T s w <> w S Y FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES I M I—BELOW along dotted lines HMMaH CLUES FOR
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  • Sport starts here
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      Zeus Sonic can win more races
      681 14  -  Racing By SCRUTINEER Two jockeys, A. K. Cheam and K. Velu, got into hot waters at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. One was heavily fined and the other suspended. They incurred the disEleasure of the stewards i the Class 5 Division 1 1900 m race
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      Lock icon Soviets win 11 of 15 events
      465 15 Fesenko breaks European record Swimming AFP Reuter London, Monday. The Soviet Union gave further proof of their progress in recent months by completely dominating the men's European Swimming Cup here yesterday. The Soviets won 11 of the 15 events during the two day's of
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      He Hess 'twinkle-toes'
      475 15  -  RIJ Basketball SHIRLEY TAN Martin Howard Hess is a little over 2m tall and weighs 96.25 kg a big man. But what sets him apart from other players as tall and heavy is his ability to move so swiftly and effortlessly around the basketball court. He is
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      Scorching pace by Filipino
      465 16  -  K3 Bowling By BRIAN MILLER Rey Rosario, a 32-year-old Filipino residing in Singapore, scorched the lanes of Jackie's System 460 when he rolled a 1338 series to take the lead in the singles event of the Singapore International bowling championships last night. Rosario, an oil-rig engineer,
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      Lock icon A dazzling display on clay by Connors
      363 16 j^jTfennb UPI AP Indianapolis, Monday. Jimmy Connors, dazzling with a variety of cross-court volleys and deep baseline drives, overwhelmed Guillermo Vilas yesterday, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, to win the US Open clay court men's singles tennis crown (or the fourth time. It took Connors,
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      Lock icon Chinese show the way
      118 16 B3 Gymnastics Reuter Hong Kong, Monday. Chinese gymnasts led in both menrs and women's section in the compulsory exercises at the six-nation gymnastic tournament which opened yesterday in the east China city of Jinan, the New China News Agency reported. Gymnasts from France, Canada, Greece, Rumania,
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      Sugar's sweet success
      71 16 E3 Boxing Las Vegas, Monday Unbeaten Sugar Ray Leonard, 23. won the North American Boxing Federation welterweight title with a fourth round knockout over champion Pete Ranzanv yesterday. Referee Joey Curtis halted the bout at 2:41 of the round after Ranzany appeared helpless under Leonard's pounding. Seconds
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      SICC need three more points
      517 17  -  WEEKEND GOLF by LIM KEE CHAN Singapore Island Country Club must secure a minimum of three points from their remaining two matches if they hope to achieve a double in the Singapore Golf Association Premier and Handicap League competitions. With two more matches in hand
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      Handa fires nett 67 for 4-stroke win
      520 17 N. N. Handa (handicap 18) won the Sentosa "A" Division medal competition when he returned a nett 67, four strokes in front of S. Sakiyama (14) who was declared the runner-up on countback. Handa also captured the second nine ballsweep on nett 32
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      Lock icon Finals rained off
      146 17 Agencies Hartford (Connecticut), Monday Heavy overnight and early morning rains forced the postponement of yesterday's scheduled 96-hole wind-up of the US$3OO,OOO (about *****,000) Greater Hartford Open golf tournament. J. C. Snead, who has not won since 1976, is the halfway leader with an 11-under-par 131. Mark Hayes
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      Lock icon Japan to host meet for Asian veterans
      169 18 The First Asian Veterans' track and field championships will be'held in Japan in late 1961, Mr M. Hariehandra, vicepresident of the Asian veterans' Athletic Association disclosed yesterday. In line with the World serin, the Asian association, in a bid to encourage more "old
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      World mark set in S'pore
      338 18  -  K3 Athletic* By SURESH NAIR Aloysius Sibidol of Brunei, the only foreign competitor, bettered a World record on the final day of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association annual Open track and field tional Stadium yesterday. The 60-year-old veteran impressed officials and spectators when he hurled
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      Last chance for quartet
      474 18 The men's 1600 m relay quartet- will get a final chance to qualify for the South East Asia Games at the National Stadium Practice Track today, reports BURESH NADL The foursome of Canagasabai Kunalan, Mehar Singh, Ganesan Kasee and Sobramaniam Surendra were a frustrated lot at
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      Pulled muscle ends dream
      136 18 A pulled muscle shattered M. Harichandra's dreams of winning a medal for the third successive season in the Third World Veterans' track and field championships at Hanover,, West Germany, recently. The former Olympian was subsequently forced to scratch from the 400 m quarter-finals in the 45-49
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      420 14 NOTICES OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANCE A SHIP'S NAME Notice is hereby given that in consequence of the intended change of name of a ship by our clients Bate Shipping Inc., we have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships under Section 417 of the Merchant Shipping Act (Cap.l 72)
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      162 14 We, OCEAN BUNKERING SERVICES (PTE) LTD. of No. 7, Frankel Walk, Singapore 1545, hereby give notice that in consequence of our intended purchase, we have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships, under Section 417 of the Merchant Shipping Act (Chapter 172, 1970 Edition), in respect of the ship "GREAT
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      398 15 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are hightly critical and very much inclined to see things from a single point of view. You cling to your personal opinion and vantage point, unwilling to change, even in the face of evidence proving error on your part. Such
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      613 15 Money/words results No entrant submitted a solution which corresponded in all respects with the set of answers held by the Judges to be the most apt ana accurate in the New Nation Moneywords Contest 'IR\ Eighteen entrants submitted a solution which differed at one point from the solution which the
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      263 16 V Crossword .v ACROSS 1 Symbol of penance 6 On the horizon 10 Once more 14 Norman Vincent 15 No-! 16 Blondle's Dithers 17 Garret 18 Division word 19 Great Lakes cargoes 20 Drury lane 23 Marker 24 Related maternally 25 Caligula, for one 29 Greek portico 32 Poplar 33
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      92 16 ANDY CARP A VNOMANA WINS AN AH3UMENT k WITH 'ER 'USBANb J > SHE'S ONLY GOT < I'erselfidbuwe) AH FlbbLE-FAbbLE,' > I'M OFF TO THE SNOOKER ROOM!) vjfs tapaw •v iffWT Z\ sr-'*—', W. BS SHORT RIBS by Frank O Neal BUT MXI ARE A SUCKER FOR A Rl&btT CROSS.
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      183 18 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ALBUM TO BE WON! To outer this contest, Just onswoc tho thvos stntpis quostfons, givsn btlow. g#nH «oiar •ntrv on a pltci off dodot toosthov with vour ntfno and sddrsss (oeTha Cathay Organtoatlon Publicity Dipt, KHiiwif Road rat OMn Boi, 41, 1) "MIOWQHT EXPRESS" to a prison Jargon
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      Wimbledon epic on Saturday
      335 19  -  RTS to screen men's doubles, women's finals «y Judith Holmberg Martina Navratilova's brief skirmish with Chris Evert Lloyd to retain the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Finals will be telecast over TV Singapore at 3.20 p.m. over Ch. 5 on Saturday. The Czech girl who left her country
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      Relax, music is not all intensity
      514 19  -  Review UKafrnTft By Georgina Emmanuel Musicians the world over will agree to differ as to the correct way to interpret Mozart. They can chase tempi and dynamics all over place yet fail to capture that feeling of lightness that is beneath the printed note.
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      276 19 '&\${%`_]<{&?_%!]&;&/\+"={:+~$> VOICES: A contemporary love story. Michael Ontkean, as an aspiring nightclub singer, meets and tails in love with a shy young girl who is deaf and cherishes a dream to become a professionl dancer. Orchard: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m PARADISE ALLEY: Story of three brothers, one with
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      119 19 vara of an air crash wander into the wonderful world of Shangri-La where the inhabitants know the secret of etraal life. Peter Finch, Liv Ullman and Michael York star in this musicial with music by Burt Bacharach ana lyrics by Hal David. Prattler: 1.30, 4, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. law
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      87 19 Taday: 1.59 a.m. (2.8m), 8.29 a.m. (0.4m), 2.40 p.m. (2.6m), 8.47 p.m. (0.6m). Tmnfrtw: 2.53 a.m. (2.5m), 9.14 a.m. (0.6m), 3.19 p.m. (2.5m), 9.43 p.m. (0.6m). Wedaeaday: 3.53 a.m. (2.3m), 10.04 a.m. (03m). 4.04 p.m. (2.3m), 10.48 p.m. (0.7m). Tharaday: 5.11 a.m. (2.0m), 11.05 a.m. (1.1m), 4.58 p.m. (2.2m). Fridayt
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      361 19 n SgKwrto diary H BADMINTON: InterConstltuency Tournament (3rd placing match) v Chans! CJeylang West v Kg UM fSinuauore Badminton SOrTBA 800CEB: NFL First Division Armed Forces v -Changi CSC *(Jalan Besar. 8.00 p.m.) InternationalChampionship (Jackie's Bowl, 2.00 p.m.) m and around m I I i V 'J I THE WAY
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      95 19 Tomorrow 1b FM Stereo 6.00 a.m. Opening Announcements and Pro E amine Summary 6.05 ornlng Prelude with Philippe Becaud- Piano and Orchestra 6.30 News (E) 6.40 Morning Concert: Symphony No.4 (Sibelius), Halle Orchestra/Barblrpl 11; Violin Concerto (Berg), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Boulez: EI Combat Del Somni (Mompou), Victoria
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    50 20 AH FOOK: SBS employees appear to be uneasy over the Implications of the OMO system. MEI LIN: It's the commuter, always bearing the brunt at any change, who ought to be worrying. Short-distance paf mm have every right to worry whether they might have to pay higher (ares.
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      687 20 AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 ITELEFUNKEN Colour TV .U.*>ks 1 (fe.it performance S.ll OPENING NOUNCEMENTSfollowed by OBUVAB ULAGAM (T/r). The chidren are taught the Courtesy Song. There to also a feature on traditional games. S.SI DIABY Or ■VMS.. SJS PBE-EXAMINA-LCiMI ill?! I I North and South. (See Top Show* of the
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      212 20 I Today's j L I top shows l lCf > COv PROGRAMME: North and South. (Ch 5, 3.35 p.m. in colour). The first of a four-part dramatisation of Mrs Gaskell's penetrating novel about the new forces and problems in the industrial north of England of the mid-1900s. She presents an
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