New Nation, 29 November 1979

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  • 18 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Thursday, November 29, 1979 2735 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1/79 r NEW (0) NATION COMMENT,
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  • 216 1 Adelaide, Thursday Champion Pakistan squash player Torsam Khan, 27, who was to play in the PIA World Series of squash in Singapore next week, died in hospital early yesterday after he collapsed 17 minutes into his match against New Zealander Neven Barbour on Tuesday night. He
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  • 225 1 Attention, all you modern housewives! Count the watts the next time you go shopping for electrical kitchen appliances. For, according to the Public Utilities Board, even the most modest of laboursaving gadgets can be an energy guzzler. Added together, these gadgets may utilise power equivalent to that
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  • 240 1 AP Washington, Thursday President Jimmy Carter said yesterday he is resolved to win the freedom of American hostages in Tehran, but warned the American people that "our determination may be even more sorely tried" in days to come. In a nationally broadcast appeal for public support,
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  • 54 1 Reuter Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Australia will not withdraw its recognition of the ousted Pol Pot government in Kampuchea without consulting Asean. Diplomatic sources here said yesterday they believed Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock briefed Asean ambassadors in Canberra before the Australian move to "derecognise" the Democratic Kampuchean regime
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    • 26 1 Forecast Singapore's weather outlook from 1 to 6 p.m.: Showers in a few places in the late afternoon. Sunset today: 6.25 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.21 a.m.
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  • 467 2 The closure of the ITC Ministry explains The Education Ministry yesterday advised commercial school students to pay their fees monthly instead of in a lump sum. The assistant director of the Secondary Schools Division, Mr O.S. Samuel, said a student who is asked
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  • 139 2 Enter the dragon at the Covent Garden housing estate at Zion Road. This $30,000 dragon is being built by the Housing Board to provide children in high-rise flats with yet another "playmate." Youngsters can wriggle and tunnel their way through the curved body of
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  • 46 2 The residents' committee of Toa Payoh Zone E will hold its first Toa Payoh residents' committee chess championship for residents at the Cultural and Study Centre, Block 158, Lorong 1, Toa Payoh, on Saturday and Sunday and on Dec 8 and 9 at 7 p.m.
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  • 28 2 The Singapore Interline Reservations Working Group will hold its 1919 Interline award presentation at the Mandarin Hotel poolside on Dec 7 from 5.30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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  • 133 2 The Central Narcotics Bureau Is keeping a close watch on several crew members of a Singapore passenger liner in which Australian Customs recently recovered 12 kg of heroin. Its officers interrogated and took statements from about 10 crew members, mostly Singaporeans, when the 10,000 tonne vessel
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    • 256 3 The new breed. CITIZEN AC ARM-CHI ME ALAPMIS TO P.W O CHIM llusi A ,> H 1 I M :»t i t <; i fj AO lit 1 I AM w til t <& DIQI-ANA l -';X 9 m; I I *****6 Stainless Stool C > Fixed Pnct SS26O 00
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  • 136 4 The Trade Department will introduce a two-point plan next year to encourage Singapore garment and textile manufacturers to upgrade their quality. First, only manufacturers with high-quality products will be alto take part in the department's overseas trade missions. At the moment, the invitation is open
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  • 429 4 The chief correspondent of a British newspaper denied that there is a campaign by the western media to justify the invasion of Kampuchea by Vietnam. Mr Dennis Bloodworth of The Observer, the London Sunday newspaper, said there has been much discussions among western journalists to find a
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  • 31 4 The Christian Family Movement of the Holy Spirit Church will hold its annual Jumble sale at its Upper Thomson Road premises on Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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  • 25 4 The Singapore Sports Council will hold a National Aerobic Fitness Award test at the National Stadium, East entrance, on Saturday at 4.30 p.m.
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  • 172 4 The peeling red cross on the side of this chartered DC-10 does not detract from the symbolism of the logo. For the aircraft is loading vital, life-saving food for the starving civilians in Kampuchea. The plane, chartered from Martnair Holland by the International Red
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    • 99 4 Mouth ulcers. Teething pains. Denture pains. Toothaches. Anbesol*'s' local anaesthetic formula kills pain and helps healing. If you suffer from mouth ulcers or denture irritation, see your nearest pharmacy or drugstore and ask for Anbesor.'Anbesol*' contains a local anaesthetic and it is available without prescription. It also includes two powerful
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    • 50 4 The choicest cut of U S beef, brown and crisp outside, red and juicy inside, so tender it melts in your mouth Served with baked jacket potato and fresh tossed salad. At lunch and dinner time everyday l hatcl mtm Lower Ground Floor Orchard Somerset Roads, Smyapore 09?3 Tel: 7378t)W)
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  • 157 5 THANKS TO EFFORTS OF TRAFFIC POLICE Pewer people died In read accidents this year and there were fewer serious Injuries because of efforts by the Traffic PeHce to promote safety. In the first 19 months of this year, 192 people died In road mishaps 41
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  • 78 5 Share prices held steady on low-volume trading during the first 45 minutes at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. BUSINESS DONE First Section C C (1) 3.06 (22) 3.06 C. Storage (2) 2.40 Haw Par (1) 1.67 (18) 1.68 S. Darby (1) 3.28 Semb. Ship. (2) 2.12 (4)
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  • 28 5 The Asian Women's Welfare Association will hold its 1979 concert and party at the Singapore Conference Hall, Shenton Way, on Sunday from 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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  • 361 5 'Let schools choose tongue of moral education' Moral education can be taught more effectively if principals are allowed flexibility in choosing the medium of instruction. This is because there may not be enough teachers who are fluent in the mother tongue of the child and who' are
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  • 200 5 The Vocational and Industrial Training Board has invited organisations offering continuing education programmes to work with it. Speaking at a seminar at the Regional Language Centre today, VITB director Lim Jit Poh said continuing education "the umbrella term that embraces adult education, non-formal education,
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  • 116 6 World Focus Reuter Seoul, Thursday. South Korea's martial law authorities yesterday arrested about 60 Christians, most of them students, in a church hall in Seoul in a move to crack down on dissident activities. The arrested people were inside the Korean National Council
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  • 39 6  -  D.J. Ifce brldegraam wha stayed sober the eight before the weddlag saw the bride arrive la a wheelchair. She had broken twe beaes la a leg at a party tor girls. It hanpeaed la Laaeashire, Eaglaad. D.J.
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  • 359 6 Heads may be cut off in some villages: Marcos UPI Manila, Thursday President Marcos yesterday said some Filipinos hate the Japanese so much they would decapitate them. He told a nationallytelevised meeting with a Hawaiian trade team the Japanese failed to copy the US Peace
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  • 113 6 Reuter San Salvador, Thursday 8«s th Africa's ambassador to El Salvador, Mr Arehihald Gardner Dua, was kidnapped here yesterday by uideetitled gaamea. Aa embassy spokesman said Mr Dua, M, was seised la treat ef the embassy as he was abeat to go heme tor laach. His driver was held
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  • 72 6 New York, Thursday The body of a 90-year-old woman who had been dead for nearly four years was found on Tuesday in a sealed bedroom in an apartment where her grandson still lives. The grandson, 38-year-old William Santi Massino, an outpatient at a mental hospital, said she
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  • 109 6 UPI TODAY is Thursday, Nov 29, the 333 rd day of 1979 with 32 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. American author Louisa May Alcott was born on Nov 29,1832. ON THIS DATE IN HISTOBY: In 1929, Lt-Cmdr Richard Byrd and three
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  • 337 7 For the modern kitchen-proud Singapore housewife, it might now be unthinkable to have to do without the Magimix she had not even heard of two years ago. The second industrial revolution of the kitchen probably means that she will soon find such luxuries as a Moulinette
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  • 81 7 4 Unless we are vegetarians or our diets are dictated by religious beliefs, we eat a cow or a lamb or a pig without a second thought. And regularly. There is an almost infinite range of meats we can choose from And do. Yet dogmeat is taboo. Why?
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 37 7 No wonder the United Nations is sometimes accused of semantic genocide. A three-page press handout is enUtled Re- gonal Preparatory Conrence for World Conference of United Nations for Decade for Women for Escap Region Ended.
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    • 51 7 It seems the Brazilians are taking the UFOs more seriously than their counterparts in the rest of the world. No less than a four-star general has built a land- ing strip considered suitable for all known or imagined models of UPOs. What's more, the people are welcoming the
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  • 781 7  -  Respect for law is the only way to peace Edgar Koh Outrage in the US over the continuing seizure of the US Embassy and staff in Tehran may have produced the greatest sense of unity and clearest show of patriotism since the healing process began after
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  • 369 7  -  Ms TAN JUAN HO On my 11th birthday, my mother told me a very interesting story about a Lunar New Year's Feast hosted by "Heaven." This is how the story unravels: As a VIP guest to the feast hostea by "Heaven," Mr Dragon (who was
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  • 701 8 I refer to the Cinema Review of Aliens (NN Nov 21). While respecting a person's right to his own opinions, I feel that in this case the reviewer had gone to extraordinary lengths to inflict his personal prejudices on the reader, and was critical of the
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  • 638 8  -  Art Buchwald Washington: "Hey, mister, could you spare a billion and a half dollars to get me through 1980?" "Out of my way, you bum. Why don't you get a Job like everyone else?" "I have a job making Chrysler cars. "Then
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  • 113 8 In which case I would respectfully suggest that this sort of thing be left to those who know how WONG SENG CHOW Singapore tSIC Richard Urn replies: I thank Mr Wong for his letter. In answer to his two questions: (a) I reviewed the
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    • 23 8 MAIL BAG WRITE TO THE EDITOR. NEW NATION. LOCKED BAG IS, SINGAPORE 91Q6. Only letter* with correspondents' name and addresses will be published.
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    • 117 8 To Hin's, Top of the Hilton. V It's Anita Sarawak! She's here with a sizzling new show. With The SJio-Dancer and The Lollipops. Nov. 19 Dec. 16. Showtime: 10.30 pnnT^^^^ nightly except Sundays. Dinner from 7 pm. (Louis Tan Trio entertains). Cover Charge .'Diners $12.50, Non-Diners $27.50 (2 drinks) from
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  • 758 10/11  -  Kitchen gadgets can eat enough power for a car By Bharathi Mohan It came as a shock to Mrs Wendy Goh to find that she could be running a Mini in her kitchen. All those electrical gadgets she had stocked up since
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  • 415 10/11 Ladies, pay attention! That pride of your kitchen, the ordinary-looking rice cooker, is one of the biggest energy guzzlers you have in your household. While you are innocently boiling rice for l'/s hours a day to feed the family, that mechanical contraption
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    • 581 10/11 THURSDAY FlCl i MONEYWORDS j 1 Cut out and pin with other coupons. I Posting instructions appear below N R I.C. No: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW MaHHHH Cut along dotted lines mmmm CLUES FOR JI-4 1. Live temporarily in tents, etc 2. Great strain is thrown
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  • trend 1 EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
    • 1104 12 The Better Buy The tea tasting session took place on a pleasant afternoon with members of the Better Buy panel passing round dainty cups of tea, drunk plain with only a little sugar, then the traditional way, all with the same brand of
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    • 344 12 f What's Cooking? A toy that is (u m well m useful that's the ceneept behind educational toys. Lei* ting children learn through play Is all the race and this Is probably why se many toys claim to be educational. But Venture,
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    • 141 12 LEGAI BOX by SAWL I would like to give my child, who will be born soon, a Chinese name in pinyin. My surname is spelt neo in my birth certificate, according to the Hokkien pronunciation. However, in pinyin it is liang. If I do this, my
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    • 290 12 I have been living with my onlv daughter In a oneroom Housing Board flat for the last seven years. My husband, whom I married after an engagement since childhood, has been staying with another woman in a three-room HDB flat for three years. I am his
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    • 613 13  -  Cook In with Margaret Chan It is as much fun giving a party as going to one, but if you balance a full-time job with looking after a family, entertaining may be difficult. However, if you keep your parties small, the menu western and are unabashed about
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    • 432 13 Cock-a-Lookio Soon One chicken (or two large chicken breasts), six large leeks, eight prunes, chopped parsley, salt and pepper to taste. Method Put the chicken in a saucepan and cover* with water. Bring to a boil and remove any scum. Simmer for an hour or till the
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  • 215 14 WITH ONLY A DEPOSIT OF $5 Business Neus and Views v J A Singapore firm will launch what is believed to be the first extensive mail order catalogue here this weekend. Haleem's Shop At Home, owned by Encik Ahmad Haleem, is situated on the
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  • 187 14 UPI New York, Thursday The stock market rallied late yesterday amid rumours, some false, involving IBM and President Carter and the Iranian crisis. Trading was moderately active. The Dow Jones industrial average, down more than a point at 3 p.m. before the rumours, rallied to gain 4.61
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  • 38 14 UPI New York, Thursday Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 830.46 (up 4.61); 20 transport 250.58 (up 1.16); 15 utilities 106.02 (up 0.48); 65 stocks 296.81 (up 1.51). UPI
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  • 156 14 London, Thursday. The US dollar closed stronger on all major European markets except London and Zurich vesterday. Gold rocketed past the US$4OO per ounce mark in London and Zurich for the first time in six weeks. Gold closed in Zurich at U*****.50 per ounce, U5516.75 up from Tuesday's
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  • 151 14 17.4m sale by Haw Par Haw Par Brothers International has sold the Tiger Balm Garden in Hong Kong for HK$4O million ($17.4 million). It told the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) yesterday the Garden was sold to Paringa Investments, a member of the Cheung Kong (Holdings) Group. A HK$B million
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  • 111 14 It's net often yen And a wUte hWM waiting to meet yea «hn y« step elf a plane it aa airpert. Bet Mr Ted Edward, managing director of White Horse, one ef Scotland's famous distilleries, eertalaly looked ae If
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  • 74 14 Reuter Geneva, Thursday Industrialised and developing states yesterday formally approved new rules for freer and fairer world trade in the *****, and agreed to continue negotiations next year on a major unresolved issue. The annual meeting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) endorsed
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  • 365 14 Bank of America has promoted Mr George lim Plmmi Seng to assistant vice president (credit.) He will be responsible for financing the bank's customers in the shipbuilding and repairing sector. The bank has given loans totalling about 9160 million to the shipping and shipbuilding business here. It
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  • SPORT STARTS HERE
    • 263 15  -  the r3 track By K. L. CHAN Kuala Lumpur, Saturday The Pesta, who is still without a win after 10 starts in this circuit, can get off the mark when he runs in the Class 6 Divion 1 1900 m race on Saturday. The four-year-old
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    • 128 15 SATURDAY Race 1: 2.M. Class < Div. 4 12Mm: Elite Art, Sporex n. Race 2: 2.M. Class C Div. S 12Mm: Mysterious Piper, Maslc City, Tip Tip. Race S: 3.M. Class Div. 2 ISMm: Yapongah. Race 4: S.St. Class I Div. 1 12Mm: Shangrlla IV, Endeavour, Bullish Fever, Do
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    • 1191 15 SATURDAY Clasa 4 Dtv. 5 1200M 7 Bosna 0 Night Diver 1 Fine Fettle 3 Regal Monarch 13 Petite Mademoiselle II 8 Class Distinction 11 Proctor II 12 Ooat Skin III 4 Victory Order 15 Eagle Eyea 10 Orey Idol 17 Brigadier James 14 Our
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    • 937 16 |K3 Athletics New York Times New York, Thursday The deal is relatively simple, the athlete explained. You buy a special one-way plane ticket from Los Angeles to Corfu, Greece, that costs about US$lOOO (SJ2100) but allows you almost 15,000 km of free travel
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    • 316 16 Iff 60 Reuter London, Thursday Two of Britain's leading young golfers, Mark James and Ken Brown, were fined yesterday for misconduct at the Ryder Cup match in the United States last September. Both were ordered to forfeit their £1000 (about *****0) match fees. In addition,
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    • 379 16 Soccer Reuter London, Thursday West German clubs continued their triumphant march in the UEFA Cup last night when all five took first leg leads and stand poised to dominate the quarter-finals after the third round reverse legs are played in two weeks. Borussia Moenchengladbach, the holders, oeat
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    • 65 16 AFP Dacca, Thursday The second match of round robin League between visiting Iran and local Abahani in the Aga Khan Gold Cup tournament was abandoned last night when spectators clashed with police following a controversial decision of the referee at the Dacca Stadium here. Police fired
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    • 893 17  -  To end up only 26 pins behind Swede reporting Brian Miller Manila, Thursday Singapore's Lucy Low gave an indication of what she can do during the next 10 days of competition at the Ninth World FIQ tournament when she rolled a splended 572-series in the Individual Invitation
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    • 196 17 Phua Thin Kiay, the former veteran Singapore World Cup representative, finished first and third with his respective amateur partners in a Jurong Country Club Pro-Am tournament yesterday. Thin Kiay, the Singapore Island Country Club Island location professional, partnered Charles Koh to win the tournament
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    • 320 18 H Socccr National coach Jitta Singh had mixed feelings over Singapore's 2-1 defeat at the hands of South Korea in the semi-finals of the Thai King's Cup in Bangkok last night. In a telephone interview after the match, Jitta said: "I am disappointed at the result, but at
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    • 695 18 Datuk Kwok retires at 72 NST Datuk Kwok Kin Keng has been the stereotype secretary of a national association. He's thorough and efficient and gets things done with a minimum of fuss. Conservative is the word people have often used to describe him. But
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 279 16 Crossword 1 ACROSS 1 Mail 5 Alight 9 Troubadour's love song 13 Indian 14 Knight's weapon 15 Kiwi ancestors 16 What Ponce de Leon sought 19 Herald 20 Coarse 21 Explosive 22 Irregular disk 23 Masculine 26 Court name 29 French composer 33 Excellent tennis serve 34 Storm: Fr. 35
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 396 17 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are inclined to be tempermental, reacting one way to a given stimulus at one time and another way the next. Even so, the excitement and interest generated by your magnetic personality makes others want to know and be with you.
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    • 106 17 AHOY CAPP w I IHINK IT'S TIME i WE HAD A LITTLE < talk about your BEHAVIOUR. ANDY-.' SHORT RIBS CAPTAIN FLUB.OTME R6HTFP I ON UNDERSTAND MOW \OU super mebo. i lovc you. must peel,lovely marso. BUT COR SOUR OWN 6000, WE CANt LET THIS GO any further "THE -TOXIBLE
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    • 164 18 3rd WEEK! ODEOHI CATHAY I CATHAY SMGWOKI KIIHUI I row ODEON-SJNGAPORE 10.30 am, 1.15, 4.00, 6.45, 9.30 pm Admission Prices: $2, $3 $4 (No Free List) ADVANCE CASH SALES: $4 tor 30th, Ist A 2nd S3 tor 30th A Ist (82 CURRENT DAY ONLY) ALIEN In space no one can
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 44 18 Diary BADMINTON: Singapore Civil Service Individual championships (Singapore Badminton Hall, 7 p.m.). CHESS: Third Asian Team championship (Singapore Conference Hall, 6 p.m.). HOCKEY: SCC 2nd XI v PARC (Padang, 5.15 p.m.). SOCCER: Inter-Constitu-ency Sembawang v Bedok; Brickworks v Telok Blangah (Jin Besar, 7pm, 8.30pm).
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  • What's On A page that tells you what's happening on TV and in town
    • 386 19 Dean's confessions to be telecast from Dec 16 Blind Ambition, an insider's version of the tragic Watergate conspiracy which toppled an American President, will be telecast over TV Singapore next month. It is the confessions of John Dean, counsel to former President Nixon and head
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    • 390 19 If you have nothing to do or nowhere to go during the school holidays, drop by the National Library. The library's Central Children's Section has organised a special programme to keep the children occupied. To start things off, there's a filmshow today at
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 263 19 At the cinema THE CHAMP: Tearjerker about how a former boxer makes a comeback to win the affection of his son when his estranged wife threatens to take the boy from him. Stars Jon Voight, Ricky Schroder, Faye Dunaway. Orchard: Faye Dunaway. 2, 5.45, 8.45 p.m. PETE'S D PETE'S DRAGON:
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    • 562 19 tonese comedy starring Samo Hung Chin-po. Palace: 1.30. 3.30, 7.30, 9.30 Zealth: 1.30, 3.30, 7.15, 9.15 p.m. QMeaitm: 1.30, 3.30, 7.15, 9.30 Regal: 1.30, 3.45, 6.45, 9.15 p.m. Majestic: 1, 3.30, 7.15, 9.30 p.m. Rahy: 1, 3.15, 7, 9.15 p.m. Gala: 1.30. 3.30, 7, 9.15 p.m. 8. City: 1.30, 3.30,
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    • 85 19 f Tomorrow's FM Stereo J 6 A.M. Opening Announcements and Programme Summary 6.05 Morning Prelude: Raymond Stephen Grand Orchestra 6.30 News (E) 6.40 Morning Concert: Gluck's Orpheus and Euridlce, Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Ravel's Spanish Rhapsody 8.00 News (C) 8.10 A Date With Glenn Campbell 8.30 Melody Time (eaturing'a
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    • 112 19 Tides Taiay: 12.10 a.m. (0.9 m), 7.14 a.m. (2.4 m), 1.10 p.m. (1.3 m), 7.16 p.m. (2.4 m) Thdmtvw: 1.33 a.m. (1.0 m), 8.06 a.m. (2.6 m), 2.18 p.m. (1.0 m), 8.34 p.m. (2.5 m) Satarday: 2.34 a.m. (1.0 m), 8.50 a.m. (2.7 m), 3.10 p.m. (0.7 m) 9.34 p.m.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 676 20 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 L TELEFUNKEN qreat kx>ks! Colour g rea( features' 3.M p.m. OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by 8TAR PERFORMANCE: The Long Count. When a promising young boxer is killed in a hit-and-run accident, his bodyguard, who suspects foul play, investigates. Stars Frank Love joy. Ml DIARY OP EVENTS
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    • 275 20 Today's top shows THUBBDAY FEATUBE SPECIAL: Conrack (Ch 5, 10 p.m. in colour) A film based on Pat Conroy's novel, The Water is Wide. It recounts the author's experiences to bring common-sense education to a group of pathetically ignorant children on an island off the coast of South Carolina. Stars
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  • 42 20 AH FOOK: The Traffic Police are getting tough. They've booked 4505 drivers for illegal parking since the beginning of the month. MEI LIN: Yes, tough luck for the offenders! It's amazing that there are so many inconsiderate motorists in Singapore.
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  • CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD A New Nation Special
    • 485 21 What Is Christmas like for the Singaporean living in London? Here Is one account by someone who has jnst returned after a year's stay there. WHAT is it like to have a white Christmas? For Singaporeans who have studied or worked in Britain it is an
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    • 630 22 SHOPPING is a pleasure throughout the year in Hong Kong, but especially so during the winter months, from December through February. Strings of multi-colour-ed street lights, Santas, Christmas tree and other displays on the facades of big buildings, and imaginative show windows decorated in
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    • 1044 24 WHEN Chinese emperors solemnly accepted token gifts of bamboo, deer and "silver" carp at the end of the year, they were simply acknowledging that the winter harvest was to be a bountiful one. Those days of Imperial Sits are long gone. But in ong Kong
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    • 470 25  -  By Deborah Chia EVERY Christmas, hundreds of Chinese from all over the American continent flock to New York for a revelrous gettogether They are all, as one member Daniel Chuang puts it, "brothers" in the Flip-Flap Fraternity. "As long as you have a Chinese
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    • 888 26 NOWHERE else in Asia is the Christmas season livelier, brighter, and as long as it is in the Philippines. The only predominantly Christian country in the region, this nation of more than 7000 islands goes on with its customary colourful celebration, which is a significant
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    • 675 27 Everyone takes part CHRISTIANITY in India dates back to the first century A.D. and country's 11 million Christians form her third largest tyChristmas in India is as gay an affair as any other festival in this ancient land where almost all religions of the world have
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    • 201 28 LnnuiMAdiunri in Rumania is a time of festivity. Though not officially a time of religious celebration, Christmas will out. As elsewhere, there is carolling and feasting and Christmas trees in many homes. You can hear the groups of carollers even before they start singing.
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    • 907 30/31 FOR those of us who will be staying in Singapore over the Christmas season, there will be much to see and do and many opportunities to engage in one of our favourite pastimes, going to the cinema. The local cinemas have lined up an interesting
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    • 621 32 Reuter A CEREMONIAL gun booms at mid-day in Katmandu disturbing the pigeons among the splendid mauve jacaranda trees and the gold tipped pagodastyle temples. Cows and buffaloes wander along a wide avenue among cycle-rick-shaws while a tall clocktower chimes Englishfashion every 15 minutes. Small ragged beggar
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    • 805 34  -  Honolulu when Robert Louis Stevenson lived there By David Butwin The Christian Science Monitor THE WRITER lived at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, (or five months, and though he loved the beaches, the scenery, the sunsets and the distant hills of Waianae, he was Irritated
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    • 695 35 TRADITIONAL Christmas dinners vary considerably around the world. The early Christian Church made Dec 25 the date of Christ's birth because in Europe, late December has always been a time for celebration. The Romans celebrated Saturnalia, and the Egyptians and Persians worshipped their Gods of Plenty.
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    • 751 36 IN AD 68 the decapitated bodv of a Christian named Tropez, martyred in Rome and thrown into the sea, washed up on a lonely beach in the south of France. Miracles, exorcism the stuff of saints followed, and the town, with a kind of
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    • 783 37 UPI IN Bellevue, Washington, modern "wise men" equipped with electronic computers can turn back the astral clock to explain that manifestation known as the "Star of Bethlehem." Their calculations disclose that what the three Magi probably saw when Christ was born was
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    • 441 38 NYT A problem when planning a foreign trip is what kind of money to carry. Until a few years ago, it was usually a simple question of how much American money to take in cash and how much in travellers cheques. In much of
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    • 1175 39  -  Paul Abisheganaden THE season of Christmas is a season of joy, goodwill, happiness and good fellowship. Such a season can never be complete without the music appropriate to it. In the case of Christmas, the songs that have become familiar and that have
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    • 722 40 Gemini NEW Year's Eve is the traditional time for the start of celebrations in Japan, but a feature of the nation's burgeoning westernisation has been the new popularity of Christmas. The cynics might argue that it was the traders who first
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