New Nation, 8 October 1979

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  • 20 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Monday, October 8, 1979 2691 Price 25 'cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1/79 r 75— NE W NATION COMMENT
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  • 448 1 25 feared dead 1 in Swissair tragedy at Athens airport Reuter Atten, Monday Twenty-five people were feared to have died last night when a Swissair DC-8 airliner burst into flames while landing here. More than 90 were injured in the fire and the panic which broke
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  • 232 1 The Housing and Urban Development Company, (HUDC), has decided to raise its monthly maintenance fee from $50 to $65 next year for its five middle-income housing estates. This decision was conveyed to 1974 flat-owners in the five areas last month. It is their first such increase.
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    • 19 1 IN THE 'OTHER PAGES: MoneywOrds Coupon 13; Moneywords Results 16; Crossword 16; Stars 15; Comics 14; What's On 19.
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    • 39 1 ACBC Your key to International Trade .1.1 i »mi,nt n I.it It.inknu: < lIJ INSIDE Fandi has a great Suture says Cosmos coach: Pictures and report in Pages 16,17 the new Pinseeker Form ula-1 The irons: ,iu' i,-t• P;'.• .t
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  • 216 2 Waiver to CBD scheme now in the rule-book Motorists will now be allowed to enter the CBD zone during the restricted hours during floods or emergencies. This waiver, at the discretion of the Communications Minister, is provided for in The Motor Vehicles (Restricted Zone and Area
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  • 215 2 The gang of burglars who took $1 million worth of jewellery from an Ang Mo Kio shop last month would have got away with a bigger amount had they forced open another safe. But they did not probably because of lack of time. It is not
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  • 103 2 Another petroleum company has decided to follow the lead of Shell S'pore in using the 1974 National Wages Council formula for paying this year's NWC increase to top-of-scale employees. British Petroleum will pay a NWC increase of $16 plus 0.59 per cent (after offsetting)
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  • 188 2 Singapore, already a big hit in aviation circles because of high-flying Singapore Airlines, has notched yet another success. This time, it is our information services. In fact, it has been so wellreceived that the Republic has been designated by Asean as a centre of
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  • 231 2 Organ winner took lessons for want of something to do It all started because she had nothing much to do after her GCE 'O' level examinations. So her father suggested: "Why not take up music lessons?' That was eight years ago. Today, Miss Guan Ai Li,
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  • 36 2 The Public Works Department will close the outer lane of Bukit Timah Road near Newton Circus from 9 p.m. to midnight from today to Thursday to facilitate the construction of the Newton Interchange Flyover.
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  • 22 2 Malayan Banking Berhad will launch its courtesy campaign at its fourth floor clubhouse in Robinson Road on Saturday at 3.30 p.m.
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  • 180 2  -  By Zarinah Marican The Vocational and Industrial Training Board's new curriculum on work attitudes will include topics on work ethics, safety and drug abuse. The curriculum, now being drawn up, is expected to be introduced in January. The full-time curriculum will be increased from 35 hours to
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    • 223 3 The new breed. »-p *rr r" \r HRONO LI I lAh IN ALARM CHIMf rmci B TTJT c> :V.f 5t START I STOP SELECT |reao/bet L AP RESET fj I j LJ A N A mmi CITIZEN QUARTZ Q DIGI-ANA 41-9516 St.unlcS'i St'iftl Cas>' Fixed Price SS26O 00 41-9524 Gold
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  • 193 4 Young and old at the parks Thousands •I Singaporeans flocked to the parhs during the weekend to celebrate the Moencake Festival under the romantic cast of the (nil moon. And, as It tamed out, It was a night of fun, tan, tan for many. Lanterns of all shapes
    PICTURES BY DAVID TAN  -  193 words
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    • 30 4 Sin Wah Amusement Co Pte Ltd The biggest BULARD SALOON M I.< 1 if fISJ \r If 1 ir Tay Buan Guan Shopping Centre 83-A East Coast Road (2nd Floor)
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    • 144 4 E3E m m rm V I cnia L b You'll love their music ATAN, SAID and RUKI perform nightly (except Sundays),at MELATI DINETTE. You'll love their music, your favourite songs played in their inimitable style. Come relax and be entertained at Melati's spacious lounge. Drinks are reasonably priced and3o% off
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  • 362 5 Small entrepreneurs say they can't meet the demand The smaller manufacturers here are reluctant to venture on their own into overseas markets because of various trading inhibitions. Their main considerations include finances, time and also their limited capacity to meet overseas demand when dealing with
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  • 132 5 Share prices generally improved during the first 45 minutes at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. BUSINESS DONE First Section F. Merlin (1) 1.05 (16) 1.07 (2) 1.06 Sett. (1) 1.08 Haw Par (7) 1.67 J. Cement (2) 2.20 (3) 2.21 Inchcape (2) 2.20 (1) 2.19 Pan Eaectnc
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  • 84 5 Dr Tan Eng Liang has been re-appointed cnairman of the Singapore Sports Council for a period of three years from Oct 1, according to the latest Government Gazette. Other officials are Dr Ho Guan Lim (deputy chairman), Mr Goh Yong Hong, Mr Lim Chin
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  • 261 5 The International Labour Organisation experts who met here last week have decided to shelve talks on "possible or desirable" guidelines on labour relations for Asian countries. Singapore and Japan were suggested as possible models. At (he closing session on Saturday, however, it was decided to defer
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    • 74 5 Big Sweep drawn at Bnklt Tlmah M Saturday: First: *****3 Seeend: *****0 Third: *****6 Starters: *****3 *****4 *****9 *****3 *****9 *****3 *****9 *****6 *****7 *****2 *****7. Censelatlea: *****1 *****5 *****7 *****2 *****2 *****7 *****7 *****9 *****7 *****3. Big Sweep drawn at Bnklt Tlmah en Sunday: First: *****6 Seeend: *****0 Third:
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  • 288 6 World Focus AFP Paris, Monday The entire Kampuchea population will be wiped out unless rich countries plough aid into the country on a massive scale, a French nun who toured the war-torn country warned yesterday. Sister Francoise Vandermeersch, a member of the congregation of the
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  • 165 6 UPI 8» Francisco, Monday Twenty-Ave per cent of the female psychologists who graduated In the last six yean had sexual eon tart with their psychology teachers while the women were students, a sarvey of the psychologists said. "I was astounded at
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  • 313 6 AP Reuter New York, Monday The United States "intends to proceed" with plans to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in West Europe, despite the Soviet Union's decision to withdraw troops and tanks from East Germany, national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said yesterday. Mr Brzezinski suggested
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  • 106 6 UPI TODAY is Monday, Oct 8, the 281 st day of 1979 with 84 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY In 1871, the great Chicago fire started. It destroyed more than 17,000 buildings, killed several hundred people
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  • 24 6  -  D.J. London, Monday Reformed ex-convict Dave Watkinson, 24, of Merseyside, England, wants to pay for his sins by singing for police charities.
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  • 43 6 AFP Jakarta, Monday The Attorney General s office here has confiscated hundreds of video cassettes using the Chinese language since issuance last June 9 of a government ban on circulation of all kinds of recordings in Chinese, the daily Kompas yesterday reported.
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    • 422 6 River of Flowing Sand Sungai Basir Hanyut illustrator:iui Thue Wah 9 1 SS a um m K u I Sr <v 0 i m 1 k« 81 E V«4 if* <#A M Kg 4' ft <s s i San i V A II t I I 4 m. a m
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  • 96 7 AFP Manila, Monday A leading Filipino cancer specialist yesterday advised women to get married but indulge in less sex to help prevent cancer of the breast and the uterus. Dr Ernesto Ferriol noted in a published report that more single women today (all victims to the dreaded
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  • 172 7 Two others get bomb threats UPI Manila, Monday Suspected terrorists last night burned down a luxury hotel, set two others ablaze, and left a firebomb in a cinema showing the James Bond film, Moonraker. No deaths were reported but police said at least four
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  • 188 7 AFP Tokyo, Monday Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira's ruling Liberal Democratic Party maintained its comfortable lead today in the lowkeyed Lower House election with almost 68 per cent of the ballots counted. But the Premier's hope of attaining a stable majority of 271 seats in the 511-seat
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  • 110 7 World Reuter Washington, Monday A grey-haired nun speaking in a trembling voice appealed to Pope John Paul yesterday to allow the ordination of women priests and heard her plea gently refused. Sister Theresa Kane told the Pope at the shrine of the Immaculate Conception
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  • 80 7 This Is Charlie Smith, America's eldest citizen. He died last Friday, at the ripe eld age oi 137. Smith, a termer slave, had claimed he once was a cowboy la the Wild West and rode with lafaiMU outlaw Jesse James. He died at the
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    • 149 7 In C&rke# *Pcwk -AlyjMiQ Ccwajl X# cJos€ fo 0. -Hpes- kz ftof a pevfech sfaf..." iOHB < a p vi ---»w M of the mouth. He claims he wasn't even scared. We had always wanted to come to India to see the animals you can't see anywhere else. Like the
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  • 450 8/9 Measures taken to cope with inflation and malpractices arising from it differ from country to country. Even within each state, the steps needed to check rising prices and profiteering will vary with the seriousness of the situation. For instance, in a state of national emergency, as
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  • 96 8/9 y: WHISPERS IS B p y Y Whoever heard of a Pope making his own phone calls? John Paul II thought nothing of it when he was in Ireland. He called a hospital where a bishop was recovering from an ailment. "Who wishes to speak to
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  • 1509 8/9  -  Generally, they support campaign Reaction among, the Chinese towards the hottening Speak Mandarin Campaign has been loud and voluble. But what about the thoughts and feelings of the non-Chineee? How do they perceive the socio-economic implications of a common, unifying tongue among their counterparts?
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  • 518 8/9  -  Ismail Kassim The motivation behind the current More Mandarin, Less Dialects campaign is essentially educational though the risks involved are political in nature. The government is obviously confident that the side effects arising from it can be easily contained; otherwise it would not have given
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  • 431 8/9 N.Y. Times Calcutta: One Bengali, they say herr, la a pact, twa Bengalis are a political party and three are two political parties. Some eight million Bengalis live In this crowded, turbulent city, with the result that there Is mueh poverty, politics and,
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  • trend EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
    • 411 10/11 Remember the 50s whenJeenage boys wore drain-pipe pants and slickea-back hair while girls wore push-pedal or what Vogue in 1946 called "jeans" pants that ended at midcalf and either a ponytail or a headful of curls? Well, those days are back...in fashion at least. Looking at these
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    • 205 10/11 Column 7 Hie House of Rochas must truly believe in the classic quality of their perfumes. For since the birth of Madame Rochas in 1960, we've had no new perfume from the house until just last week, when Rochas introduced their new "Mystere de Rochas". Perhaps, its
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    • 548 10/11  -  Ipp Francis A mother mouse was bringing out her little ones to the field to feast on the ripening corn. It was a moonless night and all was quiet as the mice busily scrambled here and there eating the succulent grain. Suddenly a huge cat
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    • 35 10/11 The Beauty of the purple flush of dawn, captured brilliantly In a stone. The Amethyst. Available at: S.P.H.De Silua SIFH.DK SILVA JEWELLERS G-13. Tanglin Shopping Cantra. Singapore 1024. *****28. Branch: 1/3 Cantral Building, Hong Kong.
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    • 36 10/11 r«> ;sM• r *i 1/ if. S" (j ]'•«.■,'if t' 'Hi J w jf!' *"> J tl if I' it- i J'' C<J.- i, tt.f t Offer on at Kiasse Department Store from Bth to 14th October.
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  • 694 12  -  Motoring »>v Roderick Pestana Isuzu have a long tradition in diesel engines ranging from marine diesels to diesels for buses and other heavy vehicles. The Cl9O overhead valve, in line, swirl chamber diesel engine fitted in the Isuzu KBD 25 PickUp, is therefore the descended of
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  • 603 12  -  Motorcycling by I Lee Chiu San A few weeks ago, I voiced the idea of using alcohol as an alternative fuel. Last Sunday, my friend Winston Lee wrote in the Sunday Times on running a car on a mixture of alcohol and petrol. He did not
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    • 154 12 Wky is yaur Gkanptaß spark ping insulator as strmi as sted? It has to be, because the insulator is exposed to more severe stress than any other part of your car engine. So strong, it actually 1 penetrates a steel plate... It is highly resistant to cracking or breaking, under
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  • 437 13  -  Following the boss's lead in sprucing up for opening People in business Business News and Views By Lee Yew Meng If you had been to Johns Singapore last week looking for the boss of that Jurong firm, you would never have believed your eyes. For, dressed
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  • 164 13 Reuter Koala Lumpur, Monday A high-powered Malaysian investment promotion mission leaves here today to seek potential investors in Switzerland, Sweden and Netherlands, it was announced yesterday. The Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (Mida) is sponsoring the 80-member mission of officials and businessmen headed by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk
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  • 130 13 Reuter Taipei, Monday Foreign and Overseas Chinese investment during the first three quarters of this year reached an alltime high of U*****.9 million, an increase of 82 per cent over the same period last year, an official report said. The nine-month total also broke the 1973 record high
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  • 34 13 Reuter Washington, Monday US Treasury Secretary William Miller said yesterday that restrictions by Congress on US funds in the World Bank could virtually dry up the bank's lending capacity. Reuter
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  • 20 13 The Syed Alwi Road postal agency at 325, Block 3, Syed Alwi Road will open for business from today.
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  • 261 13 Bank eyes Asian mart The Hnall Bank, sne ef the top five South Korean commercial banks, will nm he herrswlag from the Stagapsre-haaed Asian dollar market. This wh indicated by its chairman mad president, Mr Chang Jae Ctaoll, yesterday. He saldi "I fereeee the Ariaa dollar market heeemlag mere aad
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 604 13 MONDAY m ia-d j MONEYWORDS i Cut out and pin with other coupons. I Posting instructions appear below Occupation: Address: N R.I.C. No: ,Cut along dotred lines, FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW CLUES FOR JB-1 1. A female servant 2. In this atomic agt, should perhaps bo
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  • SPORT STARTS HERE
    • 591 14  -  Racing Brilliant tune-up run by Saas Fee By SCRUTINEER Sms Fee put up a tremendous performance in his "tuning up" race over 1200 m at Bukit Timah yesterday in preparation for the $125,000 Singapore Gold Cup on Sunday. And, judging from his run in the 1200
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    • 66 14 UM Darts Thirty teams have entered for the Singapore Darts Association ALDsponsored team knockout (the 301 game double start double finish) tournament starting on Oct 12. The preliminary rounds will be played at Hotel Royal Ramada and Lion City Hotel. The quarter-finals (Nov 2), semi-finals (Nov 9) and
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    • 90 15 Tickets f/r the Singapore versus Indonesia badminton match this weekend will be on sale as from today. The tickets, priced at $50, $10, $3 (gallery) and $1 (school children), will be available at the National Stadium, C. K. Tang and Cold Storage during office hours, and
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    • 177 15 Iron bar hurled at the linesman in game Soccer UPI Amsterdam, Monday Some 30 Dutch riot police wielding club 6 charged the stands at the Breda soccer stadium on Saturday night after a soccer fan hurled an iron bar at a linesman during an top division game between Nac
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    • 199 15 fZm Tennis Reuter AP Rome, Monday Italy reached the final of the Davis Cup for the third time in four years yesterday when Corrado Barazzutti came back from the "dead" to defeat Czechoslovakia's Ivan Lendl and give his team the winning 3-1 lead. Barazzutti won a game of
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    • 63 15 Racing Reuter Longchamp, Monday. Freddy Head rode his mother's filly Three Troikas to a well-deserved French victory in the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp yesterday, his fourth victory in Europe's richest horserace. The three-year-old won easily. The prize money for this race was $630,000. English
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    • 73 15 Eyl Cycling Reuter Ruala Lumpur, Monday. Japan retained the 100 km roadrace title in the Ninth Asian Cycling championships held at Shah A lam industrial site near here yesterday. While the other competing countries found the route too challenging, Mori Yukiharu, Fujiwara Fumlon, Takahashi Mat suyoshi and Bando
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    • 416 16  -  W YEO Franz Beckenbauer and the other Cosmos players who were asking to be substituted last night may have wanted to come out, but one man on their bench would have loved to have played had he not been injured. That
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    • 745 16  -  Young Fandi gets big bouquet K3 Soccer By WILFRED YEO They lost by an unsurprising 4-1 margin to the touring New York Cosmos, but Singapore Fandi Ahmad in particular won the praise of Cosmos' chief coach, Professor Julio Mazzei. The man who is Pele's confidante
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    • 459 18  -  for 36 who'll play final rounds on Saturday VV I I KI ND GOLF by Lim Kee Chan It will be a test of endurance when 36 golfers battle it out for the remaining 36 holes of the final two rounds in the Warren strokeplay championship
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    • 353 18 Lim Choo Beng, the Seletar champion, scored his eighth success in his club competitions when he returned the "A" Division best nett of 66 yesterday. Choo Beng won the best gross in January, best nett in March,. May, August and September, the best nett in the
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    • 54 18 Tokyo, Monday Taiwan's Kuo Chi-Hsiong yesterday won the Jun Classic golf tournament in this central Japanese town Ogawa by beating Japan's Yasuhiro Funatogawa in the sudden-death play-off under heavy rain. The victory to Kuo came on the fifth hole when he shot a par while the Japanese
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    • 250 14 DRIVING SCHOOLS'] -■■■-J CHARADE DRIVING SCHOOL Instructs systematically for you to pass. *****1. a K HUMPTY DUMPTV hires out swings, slides, merry-go-round, see-saw, chairs and tables for children's birthday parties. Tel. *****41//*****06. 0 a i USE EASV-ORY Safety Clothes Line no more lifting of bamboo, falling out of window. Available
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    • 559 14 TRAVEL GUIDE NAM HO TRAVEL Service (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 8.T.P.8. Lie No: 140 West Malaysia Tour (Inclusive denting/ Cameron Highlands) by deluxe alrcondltloned coach seven days B*l9o/-, six days *****/-, departure every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Oentlng/ Cameron Highlands four days B#l4o/-, Oentlng Highlands (our days B*lso/-, by deluxe alrcondltloned coach
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    • 76 14 ANDY CAPP w-'- 1 Usl»= •i 7 .1 i V K r-,1 ft ><>•■>* SHORT RIBS SIPE.TWE REPRESENTATIVE foa 'ffflt PLAYPoe ELVES" IS HERE. <1 2 DON'T WANT TO> SEE "ME LITTLE PEST. HE S NCT UTTL PEST, Stf ■9Z?) SIRE. J 3 R Pi SIIS ZMls Si by Frank
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    • 174 15 The last came first more than just shoes. a#tess»<s -**<%* W*?-' %¥ssm mm 1 M* «,:t < > r K ■vUJtvri+ir, W&a imWmrn h#*H ■<h TmfcTIOS Trafcilnf/Ultur* TM ®»1 fVBOOI MIOOI TwWm/iihwi nuoot AvdbbkH: Americano rootWMf 227 2nd floor Queensway Shopping Centre Singapore 0314 lIIIWIHI Muir "Stamford House" 43 Stamford
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 405 15 YOUR LUCKY IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you enjoy nothing more than travel. Your peripatetic nature will lead you into adventures with new cultures, new people and places, and enable you to gain a degree of sophistication boui enviable and envied. You take a basically intellectual interest in all
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    • 274 16 Crossword 1 L.A. eleven 5 Variety of pear 9 Serving well, in tennis 14 Home of Bryce Canyon 15 Gordon or Buzzi 16 More lucid 17 Billionth: pref. 18 Be flirtatious 19 City in Bolivia 20 Is radiant 22 Equestrian competition 24 Eve's undoing 26 Gumbo 27 Dander 28 Revue
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    • 492 16 V Moneywords results No entrant submitted a 1 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 TZ\ Five entrants each submitted a solution which differed at two points from the
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 143 17 APPOINTMENT L L MM W vT. 00 ««o A «oo MICRO MACHINING SDN. BHD., one of the leading precision tooling establishments in South East Asia is embarking on a very ambitious expansion programme. To meet this requirement, we require highly skilled personnel in the following areas: 1. Tool and Die
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    • 104 18 M m m 800 PROFESSIONAL a# Straight-faced clubhead gives you greater distance lik&no others! Ask the professionals. They'll tell you a straight-faced driver without any offset will give you added distance that'll make your second shot to the green so much easier. What's more! The Honma 800 Professional comes with
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  • What's On A page that tells you what's happening on TV and in town
    • 564 19  -  Review Churchill's People By Judith Holmberg Churchill's people are very amusing. They are greedy, scheming and would betray their mothers for a title. But throughout their politicking, their wit and sense of humour are always evident. They get right to the point, with no
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    • 234 19 You don't rate a performer by reviews alone. But pianist Monique Duphil can't help cnalking up raving ones. The last time she played in Philadelphia, the Daily News described her playing as "impeccable. Then there was that time in Mexico, when Novedades said she "played with
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 426 19 the cinema THE PROMISE: Sentimental love story about a couple who are separated, no thanks to mother. Stars Kathleen Quinlan and Stephen Collins. Jade: 11, 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. MOONRAKER: The debonair British agent James Bond is back in another extravaganza with updated hardware and gadgets and the
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    • 35 19 In and around town TALK on Family Planning by DrBR Vaithinathan, a medical officer with the Training and Health Education Department of the Health Ministry. At the first floor lecture hall of the Institute of
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    • 274 19 Health. Admission free. WRITER Gunter Grass, at the Invitation of the Goethe-Institut Singapore, will give a talk on the development of contemporary German literature. A discussion will follow. At the lecture hall of the National Library, 7.30 p.m. Admission free. PEKING OPERA A performance by Ping Sheh, at the Victoria
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  • 42 20 AH POOR: How public spirited the Lions Club members are! They spent yesterday morning cleaning up the East Coast Park. MEI UN: Never mind public spiritedness. We should sentence litterbugs to do clean-up operations instead of imposing fines on them.
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    • 885 20 TV and RADIO SINGAPORE 5 TELEFUNKEN great looks' ColOUl at fe d t u res' TV great jierformance! NOUNCEMENTSfollowed by SIRUVAR ULAGAM (T/r). Features word building, stories and dances based on the Tamil letter "Aa". J.J* DIARY OF EVENTS, JJt AFTERNOON MATINEE: Andy Hardy Comes Home. Part 1. This continuing
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    • 199 20 Today's top shows CITY OF ANGELA: The Bloodshot Eye. (Ch 5, 8.30 p.m., in colour.) An insurance company hires Jake to prove whether a man whose life insurance policy they paid off, is still alive. Jake's investigation takes him to a farm community where his work is hampered by authority.
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