New Nation, 5 September 1979

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  • 16 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Wednesday, September 5, 1979 2663 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1/79 NEW NATION COMMENT!
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  • 325 1 Diesel queues disappear overnight The diesel queues at petrol kiosks have disappeared overnight. A check with a number of kiosks this morning showed that the situation has returned to normal after a customs duty of six cents was put on diesel. The duty brings the pump price
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  • 40 1 A lady handbag under his armpit and a pair of shoes In hand, this corporal looks dazed by the event that Is happening before him. Find ont why In Page Co Picture by David Tan
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  • 72 1 AP Tokyo, Wednesday Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew will pay a one-week official visit to Japan in late October, the Nihon Keizai reported today. Quoting Foreign Ministry sources, the influential, independent, economic newspaper said Mr Lee will meet Japanese Premier Masayoshi Ohira and other
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  • 128 1 AP Havana, Wednesday Malaysian Foreign Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeen yesterday said China is supporting dissidents in Thailand to oppose the Heng Samrin reRime in Kampuchea, which could draw that neighbouring country into a conflict with Vietnam. He told reporters at a briefing here Asean fears
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    • 29 1 w SOCCER bv Peter I Shilton INSIDE England goalie starts new column Page 16 IN THE OTHER PAGES: Moneywords 14; Stars 15; Crossword 16; Comics 18; What's On 19.
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  • 352 2  -  Better in-flight service a perk By Rav Dhaliwal Singapore Airlines is planning to set up a club to offer special benefits to its important and frequent passengers. Details of the scheme are still being worked out, an SIA spokesman said. However, it is
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  • 110 2 The University of Singapore is looking for a professor to lead the teaching and research programmes of its Department of Pharmacy. It advertised yesterday for pharmacy graduates with outstanding academic qualificatios and considerable university teaching and research experience in pharmaceutics and /or pharmaceutical chemistry.
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  • 190 4 Sale of Changi Village flats delayed There will be a slight delay in the sale of 64 HDB flats at Changi Village to unions and co-operatives. The reason is that HDB wants to know whether the unions, which have booked the chalet-style flats, can own property. It
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  • 537 4  -  By Ismail Kassim The Kedah state government is likely to take the first step towards wider implementation of Islamic laws in gradual stages, subject to the approval of the Federal authorities. As the first step, a bill containing amendments to the state
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  • 320 4 The week-long dispute between the Algemene Bank Nederland and the Singapore Bank Employees Union took a new turn yesterday when anti-man-agement posters appeared in the bank's offices in Cecil Street. The sudden appearance of the posters on the walls and doors when
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  • 21 4 The Lowland community centre is organising an excursion to Kusu and St John's islands on Sept 23 from 8.30 a.m.
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  • 33 4 Acting Minister for Social Affairs, Dr Ahmad Mattar, will open the seminar on SOS in the 80's Caring for a Changing Community at the Catholic Junior College on Saturday at 9 a.m.
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  • 21 4 The Henderson Secondary School band will perform at the Macßitchie Reservoir Park on Sunday at 5 p.m.
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  • 208 4 The first old folks' home to be run by a co-opera-tive union wUI be ready at Telok Blangah Rise within the next 2 months. It is being set up by the Singapore National Cooperatives Union in response to the government's call. The Ministry of Social
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  • 235 5  -  From Edgar Koh Prom Edgar Koh, our New York reporter Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam was yesterday given equal time by a US national televison network to challenge Cuban leader Fidel Castro's denial that Cuba was trying to imposed its radicalism on the non-aligned
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  • 259 5 Chamber chief urges Poly graduates to chip in The president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr Lim Kee Meng, this morning urged Singapore Polytechnic graduates to help "beef up" local entrepreneurship in the manufacturing sector. He told 1257 graduands at the National
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  • 117 5 Inchcape and Singapore Bus spurted ahead during the first 45 minutes of generally quiet but steady trading at the Stock Exohange of Singapore today. Inchcape gained two cents to $2.15, while Singapore Bus rose by three cents to $2.70. BUSINESS DONE First Section F. Merlin (19) 0.99 U.O.L.
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  • 94 5 Reuter More than 130 Vietnamese refugees are expected to land here today from the Australian ship Akuna on their way to new homes, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said last night. The Akuna, a 730-tonne pilot tender from Melbourne,
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  • 195 6 A 20-year-old woman production operator collapsed and died while crossing an overhead bridge alone Queensway near the Stirling Road junction at about 6120 a.m. today. Miss Ng Joo Cheng, of Empress Road, was on her way to work when it happened. Miss Ng had been working
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  • 342 6  -  His pet cause is getting refugees a home By Sunny Wee The plight of people displaced by war has always attracted the keen interest of American millionaire Edward Daly. In fact, his efforts at alleviating the sufferings of refugees in Europe, Middle East and, lately, in
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  • 17 6 The Australian Dance Theatre will perform at the National Theatre on Sept 14 at 8.90 p.m.
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  • 38 6 Acting Minister (or Culture ana Minister for Communications, Mr Ong Teng Cheong, will attend a National Day cultural show organised by the Tamils Representative Council at the Singapore Conference Hall on Sept 10 at 7.30 p.m.
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    • 353 6 Zhu Ba Jie illustrator: Hou Soon Ming Cg|l« B i SC4 5^ 1 m w •5 if |1 n BIS ft I i s4$ K SS «VV I <% I 1 I 0 r~ Y* .6 s» S® A.,-. Sf ft* H I K !r i? r <a T i
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  • 372 7 Solar systems in 12m homes World Focus AFP Tokyo, Wednesday Japan plans to reduce its dependence on imported oil for energy from the 75 per cent in fiscal 1977 to 43 per cent by fiscal 1995 under a 16-year programme through development of such alternative sources
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  • 42 7 Reuter Til burg, Netherlands Wednesday A Dutch company said yesterday It had sold Ave tonnes of sand to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have Centv of desert sand it It Is the wrong type for filtering water for swimming pools.— Renter
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  • 233 7 AP Geneva, Wednesday Most Asians and some Africans and Latin Americans still work 48 hours per week, and in Algeria and Zambia workers now put in longer hours than a decade ago, the International Labour Organisation said yesterday. It said that at the end
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  • 93 7 Reuter Geneva, Wednesday International metalworkers' leaders yesterday demanded a complete ban on the use of asbestos which, they said, had caused more industrial deaths than any other substance. Between 60,000 and 70,000 people in the United States are now expected to die of asbestos cancer every year
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  • 114 7 UPI TODAY is Wednesday, Sept 5, the 248 th day of 19T9 with 117 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. French statesman, Cardinal Richelieu, was born Sept 5, 1585. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes and six other
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  • 110 7 A little boy, helped by his father, offers a flower bouquet before the closed enclosure of Lan Lan, the panda the whole of Japan loved. He was among the hundreds of children who flocked to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo to put flowers in front of
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    • 6 7 More world news on Page 13
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  • 480 8 The reason for the Consumers' Association of Singapore's plan to charge a fee for servicing complaints is sound. But, curiously, the rationale is not. Case president Dr I>ee Ngak Siang says the levy, which is nominal, will apply only to non-members. To support this need
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 50 8 Not the type to look a Rift horse in the mouth, a colleague was nevertheless dumbfounded when she unwrapped her runner's-up prize in a re- cent inter-press Telefun contest. What could possibly be more useless for a woman who doesn't drive than a car shaver!
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    • 58 8 A Spaniard is so desperate for a Job that he is prepared to donate an eye and a kidney if someone offers him employment. But he attaches two conditions: "My employer must not sack me after a month and the work should not be too
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  • 98 8 New York Donald F. McHenry, named Friday to succeed Andrew Young as US ambassador to the United Nations, blends the style of a quiet academic with that of a skilled diplomat. His words are so well chosen and his demeanor so like that of a teacher,
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  • 374 8 AP New Delhi, Wednesday What may be the world's most expensive jewellery auction will be held on Sept 20 at India's Supreme Court, which has taken the responsibility of disposing of a 37 ju>m collection of thfe laie Niz&ni, or ruler, of
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  • 681 8  -  WEDNESDAY WITH DICK WILSON DICK WILSON In his new book, Japan As Number One, Ezra Vogel elaborates a call for America to pull its socks up and adopt Japanese ways in order to avoid decline. There are two separate planks to his thesis firstly that
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  • 388 8 Andrew Young's nickname for his successor at the UN In contrast to his predecessor, whose off-the-cuff remarks often stirred controversy, McHenry is known for his precise language and ability to cordially fend off delicate questions. His 15-year-old daughter, Christina says: "When he says something, he knows exactly what
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  • 1289 9  -  To promote interest in science and write stories so all can understand Science students speak on policy Science Report by Gerry de Silva What do our young have to say about our education system particularly the teaching of science? Pretty much It seems, If winners of
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  • 76 9 Basic ecology seeing is understanding This exhibit, which shows food producers and consumers, allows visitors at the Singapore Science Centre to understand the abstract concept of the food chain in a simple and interesting way. It is one of 40 exhibits in the ecology exhibit area the centre's latest addition
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    • 476 10/11  -  f X Sundown scene by Richard Lim When I was young, says Denny Shirakawa, I go this way, that way. Now I go THIS way. He cuts a straight line with his palm. On the Tropicana stage, this Japanese singer shows his way in Paul Anka's well-worn
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    • 833 10/11  -  Eva hangs her works from trees and on rocks f The Arts by Margaret Cunico Eva Yuen Man-Wah prefers to call her sculptures simply "art projects." But then there is nothing at all simple about this young artist. Take her rock sculpture on a riverbed. You might see
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    • 557 10/11  -  Eating Out bv Margaret Chan Most Singaporeans cannot go for long without rice, but now and then bread makes a welcome change, especially Chinese breads from Beijing cuisine*. Beijing is situated in the north of china where climatic conditions favour the cultivation of wheat and not
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  • 442 12  - Pinch your nose and swallow Producers shouldn't have bothered to make this film Cinema »>v Richard Lim BITTERSWEET LOVE: Starring L&na Turner, Robert Lansa. Scott Hylands Meredith Baxter Btrney. Directed by David Miller. Written by Adrian Merrali and D. A. Kellogg. Last day at the Premier. Boy meets girl. Girl
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  • 736 12  - Francis Ford Coppola I salute you! Humour by Russell Baker NYT New Y«rk: It was 1938 when I first heard that Francis Ford Coppola had begun working on Apocalypse Now. I was playing pinochle with several other boys on the steps of Lithuanian Hall on West Lombard Street in Southwest
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  • 63 13 Reuter Bangkok, Wednesday Various forms of foreign aid, including 18 tonnes of goods which arrived in Phnom Penh last Saturday, have been sent to the Kampuchean people, Radio Hanoi said yesterday. The radio, monitored in Bangkok, said the goods that arrived in Pnnom Penh included milk,
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  • 56 13 UPI London, Wednesday The United States still has a two-to-one edge over the Soviets in its arsenal of nuclear warheads, the authoritative International Institute for Strategic Studies said today. But it said the Soviets are catching up fast and their warheads pack a substantially bigger nuclear Eunch
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  • 32 13 UPI New Delhi, Wednesday A two-month-long drought, one of the worst in 25 years, and a shortfall in coal production have created a power crisis across India, newspapers reported yesterday. UPI
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  • Article, Illustration
    54 13 Waves as high as a lighthouse (in the background) lash at the shore in southern Florida as hnrricane David makes its presence felt. The hurricane hit Florida on Monday. In its wake, it has already left at least five people dead and millions of dollars' worth of damage.
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  • 389 13 Teacher takes over in Rome World Focus Reuter London, Wednesday: Libya's unusual experiment in amateur diplomacy was at work yesterday in at least six European capitis where its embassies have been turned into "People's bureaux." Ambassadors and regular diplomatic staff have been replaced by people's
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    • 86 13 THE BRITISH COUNCIL Full-time Professional Teaching Staff Extensive Audio-visual and TV facilities English Language Courses beginning 10 September Cambridge "0" Level preparation Cambridge University First Certificate in English Cambridge University Certificate of Proficiency in English (The above Courses lead to examinations in Nov/Dec) Intermediate General English Post-Intermediate Writing Skills Advanced
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  • 298 14  -  Two from Sri Lanka here on 2-month stint i 1 Business News and Views < By Rav Dhaliwal Sri Lanka plans to set up an office in Singapore next year to lure Singaporeans and tourists here to visit the country. This was disclosed by two senior
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  • 63 14 AP Bangkok, Wednesday Thailand will propose setting up an oil reserve for emergency needs in Southeast Asia at the forthcoming Asean meeting in Manila, a Government House spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said the proposed oil reserve plan would be similar to an Asean agreement to
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  • 37 14 UPI New York, Wednesday US companies have substantially stepped up their plans for capital investment overseas in 1979, despite the weakness of the dollar and a high rate of world-wide inflation, McGraw-Hill Publications said yesterday. UPI
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  • 38 14 Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday Japan Air Lines yesterday said it planned to cut the number of aircraft it planned to buy because higher air fares were expected to reduce passenger growth rates on many international routes. Reuter.
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  • 306 14 Money market UPI London, Wednesday The price of gold soared to an all-time nigh yesterday, passing the US$325 an ounce mark for the first time, and the US$ fell on most European money markets. Gold has been steadily rising in price since Aug 21
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  • 200 14 UPI Stocks suffered their worst loss of the year yesterday as the Federal Reserve raised fears of higher interest rates by tightening credit to check inflation. Trading after Monday's Labour Day holiday was brisk. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 15.02 points to 872.61, the worst loss
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  • 161 14 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Malaysia called on Asean to produce reinsurance schemes designed to retain a higher level of premium within the region. Finance Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, opening the fifth meeting of Asean insurance commissioners here on Monday, said the Asean private sector could help
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  • 37 14 UPI New York, Wednesday Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 872.61 (down 15.02); 20 transport 261.78 (down 4.63); 15 utilities 107.98 (down 0.78); 65 stocks 308.68 (down 4.83).
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  • 202 14 AP Poor countries suffering large deficits due to recent oil price increases need financial help on easy terms, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund said yesterday. Former managing director Dr H.J. Witteveen told a gathering of bankers on the official opening of the Amsterdam-Rotterdam
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 600 14 WEDNESDAY mil Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name: Occupation Address: NR I.C. No: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW along dotted lines mm MMB J CLUES FOR IW-3 1. Sounded e bell 2. It could mean bread and butter to a man
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  • 607 15 a On the tra <* Ipoh, Wednesday Sinar Harapan drew attention to his chances in the Class 1 Division 2 1250 m sprint this Sunday when he did a dashing workout here this morning. With jockey Chris Gwilliam in the saddle, the So Blessed four-year-old
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  • 415 15 Ipoh trainer, Robert Ng will introduce a topflight sprinter in President's Adviser n for the last day of the Perak Sultan's Gold Vase meeting on Sunday. A five-year-old grey New Zealand gelding by Copsale out of Supreme Miss, President's Adviser raced as Supreme
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  • 160 15 E3Boring AFP Tokyo, Wednesday World Boxing Association junior featherweight champion, Ricardo Car dona of Colombia is slightly favoured to retain his title for the fourth time when he takes on Japan's Yukio Segawa in the northern Japanese town of Hachinoe tomorrow. Despite his unimpressive workouts in
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 392 15 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you enjoy whatever is changeable, whimsical, conducive to variety. Nothing works against your peace of mind as much as sameness, for it causes you exceptional restlessness both of mind and body and keeps you from doing your best sometimes any work.
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  • 774 16  -  SOCCER Peter Shllton, Nottingham Forest and England goalkeeper, today begins his regular column (or Sports Nation. by Peter Shilton One of the English League teams who'll be commanding much of my attention this season are Wolves...and not just because of the presence there of my old
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  • 583 16  -  SQUASH I by Eric Cooper The standard of Singapore players, perhaps higher than it has ever been, will be put to the test against world class players in the Anchor Singapore Open from Oct 30 to Nov 4. Pakistan, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, India and
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  • 350 16  -  Basketball" By TONY KOH Singapore scored their second successive win in the Pesta Sukan Invitation basketball championship at the Gay World Stadium when they beat Kuwait 6554 last night. But the home team were made to struggle all the way and it was due to
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 267 16 Crossword N J. ACROSS 1 rule (usually) 4 Crouch 9 Pung 13 Nautical record 14 Damaged 16 Yugoslav bigwig 17 that is news" 20 Family member 21 in temper 22 for the road 23 Boasts 25 Headgear (or bishops 27 Migrant worker 29 Smiling 33 Spiteful selfish person 38 Purpose
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  • 670 17  -  t I I t f K 1 9 w f jakarta"79 Brian Miller When I turned up at the Singapore Badminton Hall a few nights ago to watch the Singapore South East Asia Games squad in training, the picture that presented itself was
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  • 324 17 THE TEAM FOR JAKARTA: LEE AH NGO: Reigning National singles champion and one of the oldest members of the National squad. Ah Ngo has played competitively throughout Asi§t and this will be his third appearance in the Sea Games. He is a steady player who does not make
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  • 267 17 While the Indonesian shuttlers are expected to dominate the badminton events in Jakarta, Thailand are quietly confident of bagging at least a couple of the gold medals at stake. This bit of confidence was echoed by Thailand's Chinese badminton coach, Chang Guang Ming, in an interview with the
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  • 252 18  -  Games organisers decide to waive that rule Hockey By SURESH NAIR The on-off hockey tournament for the South East Asia Games scheduled in Jakarta on Sept 21 to 30 is on again. This was announced by Datuk Mohammed Rahmat, the chef-de-mission of the Malaysian .contingent, at
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  • 239 18 Soccer UPI Reuter Mexico City, Wednesday Five teams are already assured of a berth in the quarter-finals as the round for the 16 teams winds up today in the World University Games soccer tournament today. Uruguay, Algeria, Rumania, Japan and Holland advanced to
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  • 379 18 fSi Tennis AFP New Y«rk Wednesday Chris Evert Lloyd dropped a set in the US Open tennis championships for the first time in four years yesterday, and Tracy Austin also lost one for the first time in the 1979 series but both survived to reach the quarterfinals.
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  • 269 18 |M3 Athletics Reuter AFP Brussels, Wednesday British middle-distance star Steve Ovett came within a tenth of a second of his compatriot Sebastian Coe's world 1500 m record here last night. Running at the Heysel Stadium in the Ivo van Damme Memorial meeting, he clocked 3min 32.2sec,
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  • 294 18 Reuter London, Wednesday. Two London clubs pulled off crushing 7-0 victories in the second leg matches of the League Cup played last night. Arsenal, holders of the FA Cup clobbered Leeds, one of England's standard-bearers in European competition this season, after playing 1-1 draws in the away leg
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  • 314 18 They had high hopes. They went, they played, but got nowhere, says SIJRESH NAIR. This was the sad tale of Singapore's Under 21 Junior World Cup hockey squad who returned home last night after finishing second last in the 12-na-tion Paris tournament. Singapore Hockey Association
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  • What's On
    • 450 19  -  Preview Chinese Talentlme By Teo Lian Huay Play a simple game tonight right at home and on your TV screen. Just tune in to Channel 8 at 7.30 to watch 12 budding songsters belt out their numbers, and then guess which two will
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    • 163 19 This pretty and petite young lady is this year's Chinese Talentime co-compere. Seventeen-year-old Miss Ho Chiet is a Secondary* Four student of Nanyang Girls' High School. Miss Ho said she was rather nervous about the whole thing and considers herself very lucky to be offered
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    • 447 19 Once upon a time, there was a woman in a little Japanese village who was very good at making ricecakes. One day, one of these cakes dropped into a hole and when tne woman tried to pick it up, the cake hopped away and eventually led
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 394 19 At the cinema THE DEER HUNTER: Three intimate friends from a Pennsylvania steel mill community enlist to fight in the Vietnam war. When they return, their lives will never be the same again. Stars Robert De Niro, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep. Lido: 2.30, 6.15 and 9.15 p.m. MIDNIGHT
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    • 315 19 CANDLKSHOK: A Walt Disney movie starring David Niven. Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster. Cathay: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 pm. In and around DOCUMENTARIES one on the Art and Crafts of Thailand and another on Thailand will be shown at the National Museum film room, 8 p.m. Admission free. Films by
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  • 44 20 AH FOOK: Did you see that helicopter rescue demonstration by the Fire Brigade at the World Trade Centre yesterday? Our men are really flying fit. MEI UN: But they had to borrow the helicopters from the RSAF. Can't they have their own?
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