New Nation, 16 September 1979

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    • 30 1 Those who live in glass houses... Page 10 \•v s V-PowF f L -1 7 -l>r>^'' A> >-v J <» t. r^rrt^^a t w*»vd THE FIRST OF GOH's WISE 1 I
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  • 216 2 THERE IS hardly any difference in the way Chinese and English medium schools teach moral education. It used to be believed that Chinese medium students held different values and attitudes from the English-educated, but sucn differences are not so apparent now, says the Moral
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  • 560 2 THE Committee on Moral Education has recommended that only specialist teachers give moral education in schools. This is one of two controversial recommendations in its report, which has been largely accepted by the Education Minister, Dr Goh Keng Swee. Moral education should be taught by
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  • 406 2 THIS is the Catholic priest, Dr (Rev) Robert Balhetchet, who was the first to be named to the team that will prepare the curriculum and teaching materials for the revised moral education programme. He was recommended by the Minister of State (Defence), Mr
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  • 346 2 THE Education Minister, Dr Goh Keng Swee agrees broadly with the recommendations of the Committee on Moral Education except for three reservations. In his letter, dated July 26, addressed to the chairman of the committee, Mr Ong Teng Cheong, Communications Minister, Dr Goh said qualities like
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  • 150 2 WHAT are the shortcomings of the Civics and Education for Living courses currently taught in schools? The Committee on Moral Education listed six major deficiencies. They are: The syllabus is too wide and diversified. The textbooks are too matter-of-fact and unimaginative. The language is
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  • 348 2 THE Moral Education Committee used Mr Lee Kuan Yew's description of the ideal Singaporean as a basis for their recommendations. Mr Lee said in his response to the Goh Keng Swee education report in March: "The litmus test of a good
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  • 430 4 THE Defence Minister last night poured scorn on the idea of some of the English-educated that the PAP concedes one or two seats to election candidates just to have an opposition in Parliament. He described such an idea as "childish." He said: "As a simple illustration, if
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  • 52 4 AFP PRINCE Norodom Sihanouk of Kampuchea has decided to sell his house at Mougins in the south of France and the proceeds donated to all kampuchean refugees in Thailand except the Khmer Rouge. He said the money would be handed to the UN High Commissioner for
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  • 183 4 AFP UPI VIKTNAM has warned that there could be "eonfrontation" if the request for a debate on the Kampuehean situation submitted by Asean is left on the agenda at a forthcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting. The Vietnamese depu- ty Foreign Minister, Mr i'han Men,
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  • 80 4 AN INDIAN woman wields a rolling pin while protesting with hundreds of other New Delhi housewives yesterday against massive price rises In basic She also holds a can of cooking oil to help pinpoint the fact that one kilogram of peanut oil has risen by H
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  • 121 4 SINGAPORE Airlines' round-trip fare to San Francisco will now cost cost less. The new price, $1935, is $21.50 less than SlA's original Pacific EZ Fares. The Hong Kong stopover surcharge of $107.50 will also be dropped. The lower fares on the Singapore-US route were approved by
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  • 35 4 UPI ABOUT half a million voters in Sarawak yesterday began casting their votes for a new state government and were expected to return the ruling National Front coalition for another five-year term. UPI
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  • 104 4 FIVE big shipyards here are likely to raise their ship repairing rates by up to 20 per cent to meet increased labour, material and services costs. There is "cautious optimism," however, that they will not lose business to yards in other countries. Disclosing this, Sasar
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    • 740 4 In and around town DRAMA FESTIVAL. The centre from 2 p.m. to 10 Singapore Amateur p.m. Admission free. Last Players will stage a day. Mandarin drama, The IT'S A MAD, MAD, Unwelcome Guests, at the MAD WORLD a high Victoria Theatre at 8 p.m. adventure, slapstick The story is about
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  • 233 5 China's plans for flights to 'Frisco news to Americans Reuter CHINA yesterday said it would start non-stop airline flights from Peking to San Francisco next May 1 to the surprise of American diplomats in Peking who point out there is no aviation agreement between the two nations. News
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  • 179 5 AP THE newest, most modern airport terminal building in China has been completed at Peking's international airport after nearly five years of construction, the Chinese news agency Xinhua said yesterday. In a Peking dispatch monitored in Tokyo, Xinhua said the new terminal
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  • 124 5 A MEMPHIS. Tennessee, prosecutor yesterday ordered a criminal Investigation of Elvis Presley's physician after state health officials charged the doctor with over-prescribing controlled drugs to the late singer. The state's Beard of Medical Examiners said earlier last week it had charged Dr George Nlchopolous with "gross
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  • 233 5 AP CHINA, reportedly one of the world's richest in oil reserves, is concerned with its own energy crisis. Peking's official newspaper, the People's Daily, has urged non-industrial organisations to use coal instead of oil. "Burning oil is like burning foreign exchange and burning the speed
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  • 165 5 Reuter AP A RELIEF team left for West Irian yesterday to bring medicine, clothes and food to the earthquake victims on Biak and Yapen offshore islands, over 4800 km east of Jakarta. The team, including doctors and other officials, is scheduled to stay in the region
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  • 112 5 AP ANNOYED because his two young sons made noise while he was watching television, a father strapped them to a tree outside their home as hurricane Frederic bore down on Florida, police said yesterday. "They were hysterical, crying, said the sheriff's investigator, who discovered the
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  • 85 5 AP MRS MARGARET THATCHER'S Conservative government, in a major turnaround on a key economic issue, has abandoned a controversial move to sell off a big slice of the state-owned British National Oil Corporation's assets in the North Sea. It had planned to raise an estimated £400 million ($1.9
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  • 254 6 COMMENT THE lantern-making contests organised by the Tourist Promotion Board and the People's Association, on the one hand, and the Jurong Town Corporation on the other, are attempts to revive the dimming glow of a once bright and colourful tradition. The STPB and the PA have been
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  • 524 6 Gemini SWEDEN is to stop the sale of modern war toys. No longer will young Swedes be able to point realistic plastic pistols, machine-guns or laser beam destroyers at each other in mock warfare. No longer will they be able to throw rubber
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  • 304 6  -  CELESTE CHIA I AM a teacher who was involved in the registration of children for next year's primary one and pre-primary classes. My bone of contention is that my fellow registrars and I have been given the dubious privilege of asking highly personal and
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  • 186 6  -  LIM ONN SOON EASYTALK? So this is the latest silly name (If You Ask Me, Sept 2) for what passes for spoken English here? Why this conceit to dress up sloppy speech as a "free, easy" and somehow vital means of communication? It may well be
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  • 950 7 Truth stared us in the face SOH LAY ZEE POINTED DRAMATICALLY TOWARDS MOUNT FABER. THEN HE BOWLED US OVER Macaw hopes to join the chain gang I WOULD have recognised that profile anywhere, except in a coalmine at midnight. The head hung down until
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    • 120 7 A Mitsubishi Poll fan. Is it a stand fan or table fan It's both! i I The Mitsubishi Poll fan has the convenience of a table fan and the versatility of a stand fan. The unique design allows you to slide it up and down so that you control the
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  • 521 8  -  If you ask me... By Law Lok See A GLANCE at the back pages of any mass circulation English newspaper reveals today's obsession with what is called "sport." One newspaper editorial recently recommended, in an unconsciously ominous phrase, that sport should become
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  • 776 8  -  mumwi if Chang Kai Ming ONE reason why the price of gold continues to rise is that its free market price is no longer being artificially suppressed. This is not the usual reason given by pundits. They correctly associate gold prices with fundamental
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    • 82 8 IF YOU hava something to •ay which you would like to •hara with othars, why not put it down on papar and sand it to us. Wa watcoma contributions to this column. You can writa on any subjact but maka it an opinion piaca ot about 500 words aach. Ptaaaa
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    • 55 8 Doctor in the House Si's m THE SPIN WHICH IS ERECT By COR JI rvii/ vi* nm/ ANP CURVE THE BACK UPWARD ANP VOWNWARV, LIFTING ANV LOWERING THE HSAV. BENV FORWARV IN A STRAIGHT BACK YOUR HIPS WITH ANV SWING THE ARMS BENV SIVEWARVS SEVERAL TIMES i m ALL THESE
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  • 824 9  -  REVIEW Yap Kun Bek Singapore Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Choo Hoey, Celebrity Concert with Susan Starr, Conference Hall, Sept 11. THE Conference Hall was packed to capacity in spite of the heavy rain. A bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums behind the podium promised something special. Susan
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  • 2260 10/23  -  By Ron Laytner BORED with exile, the world's richest human target, the Shah of Iran, risks his life travelling in disguise, a top Mexican police official has disclosed. Though a revolutionary Islamic court in Teheran has executed over 400 of his friends and
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    • 1313 11 Flame Of The Islands (Afternoon Matinee) on Monday, Ch 5 at 3.35 p.m. (Pt 1) A millionaire's widow, unpredictably, calls on her deceased husband's mistress, Yvonne De Carlo, to thank her for the happiness she has given him during his lifetime! And as a token of her appreciation, she gives
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    • 932 12 MONDAY Ei L F 5 00 P.M. Open 5.08 SUMMARY 5.09 HONG KONG PHOOEY: Voltage Villain Cartoon 5.30 NEWS 5.41 Cumi And Ciki 6.04 INCH HIGH PRIVATE EYE 6.23 THE SECRET OF THE MURMURING ROCK 6.49 AZAN MAGHRIB 6.53 NASYIO 7 00 BATFINK 7.13 Panduan Ibadat 728 SUMMARY 733 CHOPPER
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    • 745 13 WEDNESDAY ALTEC ALTEC LANSING 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES: My Mother s Name Is Fred (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.35 A RAGING CALM. Last episode Tom decides to spend a weekend with Norma and Shirley in Scarborough before the election when they are alone
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    • 917 14 FRIDAY Ei 3 00 PM. Open 303 Housewives Matinee Separation (r) Mandarin feature film 4 30 Intermission 6 00 Open 6.03 DAISY, DAISY 6 10 WILF GRAY WEDLIFE DOCUMENTARIES: Last Frontier Features the wildlife and the scenic beauty of British Columbia Canada 6.30 NEWS IN BREF 6.35 THE WORLD OF
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    • 263 18 GARTH I DO NOT MAKE TERMS WITH q MPDMRN. FRREWELLMY DfIUOUTER.MY DUTY iSTDTHE SURVIVAL OP THE UNIVE XDU KNOW THE RNSWEfc, VOLICPN. LET THE UNIVERSE PERISH WITH US/ OPERATE THE RNTI-GRAVITY SHIFT NOW.' THE FINALITY FRCTOR IS OURS wr—wmmasu-Zw A HRVE THE POWER TO DESTROY everything/ I m J Hf
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  • 519 19 HUFIOVR w.h "A BLACK sarong." This is the correct response when someone says to you, in French, "I am fine, thank you, and you?" At least that is how I am going to remember it. "Moi aussi" ("me too" pronounced mwa oh si,
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  • 630 19  -  The iiusic Box By Peter Ong BACK in 1970 you could hear I Hear You Knocking on the radio almost every day. The singer was, of course, a Welsh bloke called Dave Edmunds. That was in 1970. Now we're almost into
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  • 363 19 Off the Record by CKT YOU CAN'T be far wrong if you think records a waste of money. Now, I've had the complete Karajan Walkuere for 10 years and only heard it three times in all that time. Not, mind you, because that box of five discs
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  • 74 20 Watch this space SHOPS and stalls in Sarawak sell the strangest mixture of things, as reader Teo Choon Lung found out during a recent visit. She provided these photographs as proof. Picture A shows a shop in Kuching that sells chicks as well as Erovisions such as
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  • 890 20  -  By Alban Kang undergrad BRITAIN is not just London alone. The British Isles have much more to offer. There are many other places of interest which a visitor to Britain should not miss. One of the cheapest ways to travel round Britain is by
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  • 503 21  -  By Rav Dhaliwal A BEVY of maidens attend to their master as he sits in a horsedrawn carriage. The scene, depicted against a blue background, spreads across a wall outside. Step inside and you find a demure lady carved out of wax by a
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  • 522 21  -  Wad* Majorie Wong THE Hui brothers, Michael, Sam and Ricky, are a hit with Japanese movie buffs. It seems Chinese movies are not making much headway in Japan because of a general prejudice against foreignmade movies. Comedies are also all too common. But Mr
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 361 21 You watch TV. Why not make it pay? YOU watch TV, so you mutt be a TV critic. Get paid for it. In a fortnight's time, Sunday Nation starts a new, guest, column. This is your space. Space reserved for you to say what you think of the programmes on
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  • 517 22  -  The Book Page By Alex Josey THE RAT AND MAN. By E.S. Monteiro. Quins Pte Ltd. 1979. 154 pp. $15. NO LONGER as young as he was, Singapore's former ambassador to Washington, Professor E.S. Monteiro, prochancellor of the University of Singapore, still keeps busy.
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  • 926 22  -  By A.J.H. BIKO. By Donald Woods. Penguin Books, 1978, 410 pp. $9.60. THIS book is essential reading for anyone interested in the apartheid problem, and even for others who know little about South Africa. As the author suggests, the apartheid problem constitutes a threat
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  • 694 22  -  ROOTS 19 By Hsiaoshuang MAN lives in two worlds: the outer world of action, work, war, social activities and politics; and the inner world of experience, family, friendship, love and contemplation. Every great culture has its poets and minstrels to express the two worlds. In
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  • Sports Nation starts on this page
    • 447 25 RVCBY The Scrumhalves They postpone inaugural Open Invitational event to Dec 22 THE inaugural Malaysian Rugby Union Open Invitational Tour nament will kick-off three days before Christmas Day and not on Nov 24 as originally scheduled. i In a surprise move, the MRU announced that they were
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    • 340 26  -  SWNA officials take over running of world body Joyce Tan SINGAPORE will host the 1983 World Cup netball tournament. This was decided at the World Conference of Netball Associations which met recently in Trinidad and Tobago in conjunction with the 1979 World Cup for netball.
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    • 469 26  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng THE athletes who will represent Singapore at the Sea Games in Jakarta have every reason to be proud: each and everyone of the 26member team earned his/her ticket by beating or equalling the qualifying marks. Although qualifying may not
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    • 461 26 EXPATS' CORNER AP BOSTON slugger Carl Yastrzemski ripped a twoout eighth inning single to become the first ever American leaguer to reach the 3000 career hit and 400 home run plateau, and Chuck Rainey fired a six-hitter as the Boston Red Sox defeated the New York
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    • 471 27  -  TENUIS TALK Alfred Tong THE Singapore Lawn Tennis Association's planned trip to China next month is in jeopardy because of lack of funds. The officials and players who have been picked for the trip have been told to pay their own air fares which shouldn't be
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    • 500 27  -  By Davis Bushnell FRANK SEDGMAN must have felt odd as he stood opposite one of the neatly-lined service lines on the magnificent stadium court of the Newport Casino, the "house" that famed architect Stanford White designed for the carriage trade of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      107 27  -  TheTeachingPro...i By Don J. Leary 1. "You cannot bend too low, but can easily stand too high" is a teaching axiom. 2. By bending at front knee (back knee then automatically goes down) player: A. Keeps eyes down to level of ball B. Allows eyes and head to
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    • 2000 28  -  Leonard Lewin profiles Roberto Duranj Leonard Lewin THEY brought the huge cake bristling with lighted candles into the coffee shop at the Concord Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, New York. It was Roberto Duran's 21st birthday and many of his Panamanian friends had driven up
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    • 409 29  -  1—...f0r first Open event BADHINTON Gerry Chan ON WEDNESDAY, the Royal Albert Hall in London will be the scene of the first Open badminton tournament (Sept 19-22). Sponsored by Friends' Provident, an insurance company, the event is the first of its kind to be officially sanctioned
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    • 750 29 Khalifa's squash clinic AS WITH the playing of other shots, positioning is of the utmost importance when returning service. The ideal position is to be behind the service box and facing the side wall, not facing it directly but at an angle. You should
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    • 216 29  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh THE Basketball Association of Singapore must have a very short memory. Only last year they announced their intention of awarding gold medals to players who have served the country for more than 10 years. This year, however, their attitude to the
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    • 252 30 Reuter AN embarrassingly bad performance by Scotsman Ken Brown and two fine victories from Americans Lanny Wadkins and Nelson in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, put the United States in a commanding position for yesterday's second session of the Ryder Cup golf series against Britain
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    • 143 30 THE veteran United States team of Pat Bradley and Sandra Palmer carded a tournament record 61, 12-under par, to take the first-round lead in a US national women's golf team championship at the Portland Country Club in Oregon yesterday. Bradley is regarded as a long hitter and Palmer
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    • 604 30 Reuter A NEW era in badminton arrives next week when 20 players from seven nations take part here in the Masters tournament, the first "open" competition the sport has ever held. The combatants will be fighting in four events for total prize money of £20,700
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    • 540 31 i Weekend Sports AFP STEVE OVETT, who narrowly missed fellow Briton Sebastian Coe's world mile and 1500 m records in the last fortnight, contented himself with simply beating the other runners in the mile at an international athletics meet in London's Crystal Palace Stadium on Friday.
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    • 314 31 ICE-SKATING in Singapore again? Not exactly, but at least there will be a return of smiles from the hundreds of ice-skaters in the country from today. Like the happiness shown on the faces of national ice-skating champions Terri Hangchi, 16 (standing) and Karina
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    • 144 31 Reuter INDIA overtook Australia by 35 runs in the first innings and were all out for 425 three minutes before lunch on the fourth day of the five-day cricket Test in Madras yesterday. Big hitting Kapil Dev, batting with the same flair and flourish that helped India win
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    • 230 31 JOHN McEnroe and Vitas Gerulaitis scored straight set victories here yesterday to give the United States a 2-0 lead over Argentina in the Davis Cup American zone tennis finals yesterday. McEnroe, who defeated Gerulaitis in last weekend's US Open, beat Guillermo Vilas 6-2, 6-3,
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    • 571 32  -  SPORTS NATION By WILFRED YEO SOUTH East Asia Games sprinter C. Kunalan's lengthy international athletic road will stretch further and longer than Jakarta. In fact, if the schoolteaching 1968 and 1969 Sportsman of the Year has his mind's way, that road will never
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    • 134 32 Thailand's tennis team are the first batch of sportsmen to arrive in Jakarta for the South East Asia Games, starting on Friday. The eight-member team flew in on Friday and immediately started training to get accustomed to the competition courts. But team manager and coach,
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