New Nation, 21 December 1979

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  • 20 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Friday, December 21, 1979 2754 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1/79 r j NI'.W (§0) NATION COMMENT
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  • 509 1 A man died of heart attack in a jammed Housing Board lift on Wednesday possibly the first case in HDB's history. Fifty-four-year-old Tan Chin Huat, a former bus conductor, was found in a sitting position in a corner of the lift in his Bendemeer Road block.
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  • 43 1 Caracas, Friday The Opec oil cartel ended its meeting yesterday without agreement on a price structure, leaving the world market in a free-for-all situation with prices now ranging up to US$3O a barrel ana no set limits for the future.
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  • 171 1 The Skills Development Council expects to operate on an annual budget of $50 to |60 million, SDC chairman Prof Lim Chong Yah said today. Speaking at a press conference, Prof Lim said SDC will only grant up to 30, 50 or 70 per cent of the expenses
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  • 96 1 A tt-year-old trlslww rider wm killed In this accident along Haveleck Bend nenr the Snberdlnnte Cenrts Complex this morning. Tut Ah Knl died on the snot when his trisnaw wns involved in the crash with a Singapore Bos Service bus hurt before 7 a.m. lll« woman passenger,
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  • 374 2 Most sponsored by their union for part-time courses About 120 public daily-rated workers registered with the Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB) to upgrade their skills. The most sought-after courses with this first intake are motor mechanic, plumbing, electrical fitting and electronics. Registration for the
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  • 23 2 The Japanese Cultural Society will hold its 14th Japanese language courses graduation ceremony at the Victoria Theatre on Sunday at 2 p.m.
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  • 174 2 A project launched by the Katong YMCA to reach youths by lending them bicycles has met with good response. So far 20 bicycles have been given away to youths in the Mountbatten/Kallang area. The bicycles were donated by Esso. The bicycles are on loan
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  • 288 2 Jurong Town Corporation is "definitely thinking" about giving permanent concession rates to people above 55 years old visiting its parks and gardens. JTC halved the admission rate of these places for old folk during the recent Senior Citizen's Week from Dec
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  • 22 2 The Rochore community centre will hold a two-day outdoor youth camp at the Pasir Ris Holiday Complex field from tomorrow.
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    • 249 3 SEIKO HAS IT ALL! Choosing a good quartz watch might not be easy these days. You're faced with a wide choice, vast differences in price, and a multitude of styles wherever you go What then, should you be looking for? Start with the manufacturer s track record. Seiko has been
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  • 420 4 Officials responsible for false certs AFP Jakarta, Friday The chairman of the Jakarta Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Suwoto Sukendar, has admitted that chamber officials are responsible for the circulation of false certificates of origin for supposed Indonesian garments. Mr Sukendar, the former general chairman of
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  • 287 4 It was a calculated move when Chua Jul Plow's teacher selected him as one of Hwa Chong Junior College's representatives at a mathematics competition. A former champion of a nation-wide competition, he yesterday confirmed his teacher's confidence in him by winning the first
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  • 185 4 Trading opened on a feverish note, with share prices chased higher during the first 45 minutes at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. Haw Par, after several futile attempts, finally broke the $I.Boresistance barrier. It gained three cents to $1.81. Jurong Cement was pushed five cents higher to
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  • 17 4 A mechanical fault on one pressline delayed the printing of the Straits Times this morning.
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    • 138 4 Now open RESTAURANT Pandan Valley DBS Condominium (below the Post Office) Enjoy your Nyonya and Indonesian favourites right where you are! Daily Bam 11pm Tel: *****03 "Just how good are Cerwin-Vega speakers?" someone asked fc 5 >• t R-12 R-10 ~\s Cerwin-Vega! A-123 To be accepted a n d enjoyed
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  • 309 5 Gourmet and flower lovers will find a common haunt in Queenstown Japanese Garden, when it is re-opened in about (our months. As many as 300 people can sample the culinary delights In the tea-kiosk, while nature lovers can take a leisurely stroll in the
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  • 88 5 Penang, Friday Malaysia and the Soviet Union have formed a joint venture shipping agency which will begin operations early next year, it was announced here yesterday. Tengku Abdul Hamid, chairman of Bumiflot, the new company, said it would provide better services for Malaysian shippers using
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  • 189 5 Will work up to 6 months in refugee camps Six local doctors have answered a call for volunteers to serve in refugee camps in Thailand. Some nurses have also responded. The Singapore Red Cross Society made the appeal earlier this month. The successful candidates will
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    • 101 5 Set in traditional Chinese decor, TIJJ 1 vv MEISAN SZECHUAN RESTAURANT exudes an elegance that is matched only by the culinary feast prepared daily by our expert Master-Chef. Vv w I y ,4 4 Aptly named after the mountain richest in herbal resources and spices, the MEISAN SZECHUAN RESTAURANT captures
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    • 86 5 More local news on Page 6 .1 For some it must be a premium w J HOMUO IN 9COT i *> t•«• >' >* HMTT*""" r /)f//O' sco^c h JS: sa famed Fine Old Scotch Whisky. Logan be Luxe created from a secret recipe of single Scotch Whiskies, each of
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  • 556 6 Growth of a materialistic society... What Singapore will be like in the 21st century Motivating workers will crop up as one of the problems of the 21st century, NTUC secretary-general Mr Lim Chee Onn cautioned today. He said this is expected to arise despite the hope tljat
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  • 262 6 Leisure will be an important aspect of life A population of 2.8 million whose lives will centre increasingly around holidays and weekends. This is how the Singaporean will be in the 21st century according to Dr Pang Eng Fong, director of the University of Singapore's Economic
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    • 386 6 Mission Accomplished Matlamat Tercapai illustrator: Berni Kwek C t VJ 4 W I as E 1 I 01 Cl ft Vi Wlli "gXftPiS ffl JUT /frftmaitfifc **imiH»±ii ft arc mmm IOT* **ra* &T ;I*&J5 «L*-*««*# m*&mm «a M When he finished dictating, he sent for Son Zang who wos already
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  • 336 8 The country which gave the world Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco is also the country which enriched it with the Muppets and Walt Disney. In the same dichotomous vein, moves are being made in the United States to teach children how
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  • 94 8 4 There age signs that the Russians are intellectually aware of the need (or a new and more cooperative approach to world problems. Indeed Mr Brezhnev himself has said that the socialist part of the world cannot solve all the world' problems In action, however, the Soviet Union
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 59 8 A colleague rang up the Goodwood Gourmet Market to ask for escargot which he pronounced in the French style es-car-go. The reply: "No air cargo here, please, this is not an airline." He tried again: "I mean escargot, snails, you know." "Oh," the girl at the
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    • 73 8 And again on food or misunderstanding over food. A stallholder at the Pearl's Bank hawker centre was seen struggling linguistically with a group of Japanese tourists. Finally, after figuring out the drift of the pat- ter, he put his hands on the table and moved them slowly, very
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  • 2216 8  -  By 1980 S'pore will be a wealthy city state in Asia The two faces of industries Second of a six-part feature that looks at Singapore in the Eighties By Gerry de Silva Factory worker Ong Peng Lai adjusts his light-blue overalls as he steps into the
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    • 36 9 Monday: The lifestyle of the Singaporean and his family comes under the spotlight as GLORIA CHANDY tells why they are in for a better life but one that will spawn its own social and health problems.
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  • 346 10 World Focus Reuter Caracas, Friday Saudi Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Yazi Yamani predicted yesterday that a glut on the world oil market would force prices down in the new year. Speaking after Opec oil ministers failed to agree on a new single Opec base price, Sheikh
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  • 172 10 UPI Toms River (New Jersey,) Friday A man charged with having his wife killed to collect a US$5O,OOO ($110,000) inheritance was unaware that she had changed her will to leave him only US$l, police said yesterday. vito Poliseno, 53, a janitor, was arrested
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  • 108 10 UPI Washington, Friday The Washington Post apologised yesterday (or erroneously reporting that Presidential Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski jokingly committed an offensive act in the presence of a woman reporter. In a profile on Mr Brzezinski on Wednesday, the Post indicated he opened his trousers at the end of
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  • 111 10 Reuter Washington, Friday A committee comprising members of both Houses of Congress handed President Carter a major victory yesterday by agreeing to set a tax of about US$22B billion ((M2 billion) over if years on excess oil company profits. The agree meat was reached by
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  • 53 10 DJ London, Friday Sae Twist pat t rather strange twist to the advertisement section in a local paper In j Derbyshire, England, last week. Offered (or sale was her "slightly-used husband, L®l." She says his habits are "nine-pin bowling, nine-pin bowling and occasionally he likes a game of
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  • 110 10 UPI TODAY is Friday, Dec 21, the 355 th day of 1979 with 10 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. ON THIS DATE IN EUSTOBY: In 1620, the Pilgrims set foot for the first time on American soil at Plymouth, Massachusetts. In
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    • 105 11 Telegram your Christmas greetings It's still not too late to wish your relatives, friends and business associates a merry Christmas. Make this occasion special for them. Send your greetings today by telegram. Phone *****1. Use Telex code 15 Or call personally at Telecoms service counters: Comcentre, 31 Exeter Road (0923)
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  • 244 12 Reuter Aranyaprathet, Friday A Thai military spokesman said yesterday that Vietnameseled forces in Kampuchea had moved tanks and artillery to within 10 km of the Thai border, but had made particular efforts to avoid intruding into Thai territory. Col Prachak Sawangchit, at a press conference
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  • 72 12 AFP Washington, Friday US Representative Lester Wolff, chairman of the House subcommittee on Asian affairs, yesterday said the Vietnamese forces in Kampuchea may be planning to cross the border into Thailand, "perhaps as early as this weekend." "The United States must do all it can through
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  • 164 12 AFP Geneva, Friday Kampuchean refugees in Thai camps face the threat of dying of thirst now that the rainy season has ended, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned here yesterday. The camps are located Far from wells and the situation may become worse
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  • 84 12 Reuter Washington, Friday Defence Secretary Harold Brown in a trip to China next month may discuss the establishment of US radar sites there to monitor Soviet compliance with the strategic arms limitation treaty (Salt II), Senator John Glenn said yesterday. Mr Brown will visit China
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  • 127 12 World Focus UPI Hollywood, Friday Actor Junes Garner (above) is too Ul to work and Us weekly TV series, The Reckferd Files has suspended production until his recovery, his producer announced yesterday. Meta Rosenberg said production stopped on Nov 27 when- Mr Garner, suffering
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  • 164 15  -  ASEAN ASIDES By Judith Hale It may be nothing compared to San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge but the people of Borneo are as proud of their 274-metre swaying contraption. It is the longest in the country and cost a cool $12,000 to build. But
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  • 88 15 Happiness for the farmers of a Thai province is a rat-slaugnter-ine contest. Having exhausted the normal channels of getting rid of the evergrowing rodent population, the provincial authorities decided to let the farmers loose on them. The more tails the farmers produce the more
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  • 101 15 Brunei recently got its first shop with escalators and a whole lot of mishaps to boot. Cuts and bruises abounded as children played on the steps and women had their long dresses caught in the works, according to the Borneo Bulletin. One woman nearly
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  • 76 15 Where there's smoke There is one thing you must never do if you happen to visit a tobacco field in the Philippines smoke. Do so and you are likely to infect the plants with the tobacco mosaic virus, a highly infectious which cannot be control- led by any chemical known
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  • 83 15 A poor soul in Penang went to the Immigration Department to submit his passport application. He was told that the photographs of him "do not agree" with his looks in person and that he would have to go to the on-the-spot photographer to have his mug snots taken
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  • 721 16  -  Edgar Koh United Nations: The three-month-long General Assembly wound up this week as a landmark session for Asean which, for the first time as a group, initiated a major assembly proposal and had it approved by an overwhelming majority. The 34th session would
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    • 89 17 Al I men are created equal, T but need not remain so. 7W//A Mm m r J i V t A'f A «<#* "''"l W'fl N; fin/ f ft; Ex?' Eft: i M j>l* SU i |g< J*- j >-<v t I! ■'•'J *rr/- i, I .;rv'»i.■ to </( P!?
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  • trend 1 EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
    • 1050 18 Li Li Hwa, 54, talks to Margaret Chan The excitement began on Monday afternoon when friend May Leong from the Equatorial Hotel invited me to a hen's party. It was strictly for vain women, she ribbed, for we were to meet the legendary Li Li Hwa for
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    • 993 18 How old is Li Li Hwa? Some say well into her 60s she says she's 54, but when piqued by the constant question had once replied 72. Whatever the magical number is, there is no doubt that Li Li Hwa is a beautiful woman.
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    • 415 19  -  Sundown scene by Richard Lim Just about 18 years ago, a whole new pop sound came out of Liverpool, Britain. Pop groups sprang up from that drab industrial city as though the land had suddenly gone fertile, and because there is this Mersey River running through
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  • 99 20 —< I Business News and A Singapore-made portable fibreglass building will be on board an exhibition ship taking part in the Scan-Arab Expo 80 tour of the Middle East next week. The 2.5-tonne building left for Gothenburg, Sweden last week, where it will be transferred to
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  • 337 20 Fierce competition and rising costs The fierce competition in retail business and high operating costs have, as expected, adversely affected Metro Holdings' profits. In the first half year ended Sept 30, 1979, group pre-tax profits dropped 20 per cent to $2.43 million as compared to the
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  • 152 20 UPI London, Friday The price of gold tumbled yesterday as dealers took profits after the metal's recent spurt to nearly US$5OO an ounce. The dollar had a mixed day in unspectacular trading. Zurich dealers said there was heavy *arly selling of gold as speculators moved in to secure
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  • 166 20 With blue-chip Issues flexing some muscle and the rest of the list showing little strength, the stock market ground out a narrow gain yesterday in fairly active trading. Wall Street failed to signal any initial reaction to news that Opec ministers finished four days of meetings in
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  • 33 20 UPI Closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrial 843.34 (up 4.43); 20 transport 256.04 (up 2.44); 15 utilities 108.56 (down 0.61); 65 stocks 301.39 (up 1.38). UPI
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    • 614 21  -  Passing Shots By Desmond Oon Singapore will have the opportunity of seeing Jimmy Connors, attacking player extraordinaire, in action next year. The welcome new was told to me by Mr William Van Heuit, the Far East Manager of Wilson Sporting Goods of United States,
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    • 510 22  -  On the track By K.L. CHAN Penang, Friday Fan Ho, who has finished no further than third in his last three outings has a splendid chance to get off the mark in the Class 4 Division 1 1700 m event on Sunday. Nicely drawn in
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    • 260 22  -  Sepak takraw By SHIRLEY TAN The Singapore Sepak Takraw Association's call for nominations for eight sepak takraw awards has surprisingly met with poor response. Since nominations closed on December 10, only one club out of a total of 84 affiliates and one council member out of
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    • 169 22 Golf AFP Manila, Friday Seven world-class golfers have been invited to participate in the Philippine Invitational Masters golf tournament to be held at Pasay City next February. Colonel Nereo An dolong, the president of the Philippine Golf Association saia yesterday that the seven who will participate
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    • 140 22 SCRUTINEER BRIAN MILLER K. L. CHAN TURF RAV Race One Jim Janda Paloma Blanca Ming Derby Misty Jadi Ming Derby Misty Jadi Ming Derby Spring Water Race Two Proud Moment Primorje Proud Moment Endeavour Endeavour Regent Beauty Dondang Sayang Shangrilla Race line Gnnsllnger Irish Bond Sunburnt Gunslinger Sunburnt Irish
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    • 158 22 Bom 1 (IJ9) CI tttv S 12Mm: Ugktalu. Lotogfve, Haaey Dip, MaaUta, Baaslaa Task, ReDdae. Race 2: O 4 Dlv S UNn: Gaardlaa Salat, Oat La Vie, Perfect Geatlemaa, Aehlevemeat Awart, Blaale Marvel, Artie Al, High Oaks. Baee i: Q I Dlv 2 17Wm: lie Patkaa. Baee 4: CI
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    • 2738 22 RAfF 1 1-45 CLASS 6, DIV 2 1,200m IviVLvHi k ($8,000 $5,600 to winner) 1 0066 Misty Jadi M g (Pulau) Tan 3 57 (+3 M) 1.200m 8F Raioo 13 2 0064 Intslligonco IH a (SL Teoh) J Bmikelen 7 56.5 (+3)
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    • 247 23 Racing Reuter I Hong Kong, Friday Asia's first harness racing track, on a spit of reclaimed land in Macao, is likely to open next July. About 500 horses will be purchased in Australia and New Zealand in February and will be shipped direct to Macao
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    • 110 23 Boxing AFP Tokyo, Friday Undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) junior flyweight champion, Yoko Gushiken has collected an estimated US$BOO,OOO this year to become the top money earner in the Japanese professional sports world. The 23-year-old Gushiken successfully defended his crown four times this year. He knocked
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    • 1115 24  -  to walk off with the SPGA title TEE-UP with Lim Kee Chan Besides winning the Singapore Open at the Bukit Course in 1977, Hsu Chi-San of Taiwan has finished well in the money on this course on three other occasions during the last five years. So, on
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    • 335 25 Singapore Island Country Club vs Royal Perak Golf Club on Sunday at Bukit Course. Ist Tee (SICC first): 7.45 T. Funita (7) and Stephen Ang (10) vs Wanl Choong (14) and Rex Isaacs (12); 7.51 J. B. Ooi (13) and S. W. Low
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    • 55 25 Helen Tan and Lily Chua won the Singapore Island Country Club's women's Greensome eomSetition on countback ora June Murray and Nicky Selley at the Sime course yesterday. Both returned nett 73. Murray and Selley won the first-nine balisweep on nett 37 1/2. The secondnine balisweep went to Lily
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    • 394 26 Badminton AFP Hong Kong, Friday China, who are warming up for the clash against their arch-rivals Indonesia starting today, pulled off an easy 5-0 victory over Singapore in the Hong Kong badminton invitation tournament here yesterday. In the Thailand-Hong Kong meeting, the visitors chalked up three wins
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    • 244 26 Tennis UPI Sydney, Friday. Top seed Guillermo Vilas of Argentina moved into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over New Zealander Russell Simpson in the New South Wales Opens at White City. Hungarian Balazs Taroczy escaped with a 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 win
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    • 276 27 Soccer Former international and veteran Kedah Malaysia Cupper Soo Kim Poh will lead the Malaysian Chinese Football Association's team for the Ho Ho Cup soccer triangular tournament to be played on Dec 28 and 29 in Singapore. "We were runners-up the last time the competition
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    • 335 27 Reuter London, Friday. Leeds are gradually •recovering from a bad start to Jhe English League season and their improved fortunes are emphasised by the fact the team will be unchanged for the fifth consecutive time tonight. Leeds travel to Stoke for a First Division match
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    • 271 27 AFP Reuter Lausanne, Friday. The International Olympic Committee have denied reports that they had demanded Iran's exclusion from next year's Olympics at Lake Placid and Moscow. An lOC spokesman exSlained that the closing ate for participation at the Lake Placid Winter Games was on
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    • 906 28  -  Lion City Cup' 79 AUSTRALIA 3 SINGAPORE "A" By SURESH NAIR The "Socceroos", riding on a crest of a wave after overwhelming the Lion City Cup holders in last night's second semi-final, were brought down to earth with a dressing room "roasting" by Australian National coach
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    • 86 28 Jameel Jassim (Bahrain); 8 Santhisak Boonrongkok (Thailand); 7 Karim Sharhan (Iraq); C Brian Stark (Australia). 4 Brett Woods (Australia), All Ahmad (Singapore "A"), Mohammed Yazid Masuri (Malaysia "B"). Abdul Aziz Saad (Saudi Arabia), Said Salleh Al-Shamrani (Saudi Arabia), Raied Ibrahim (Iraq), Mohammed Hassun (Iraq). 3 Jim Patikas (Australia),
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    • 778 29  -  Physical tactics prove key to Iraqi success IRAQ 3 THAILAND 1 By JEFFREY LOW Thailand, the team freely tipped to cruise into the final, were made to look like floundering novices by an unrelenting Iraq in the first semifinal last night. To say the result was an upset is
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    • 866 30  -  Burridge, O'Leary, McDermott and Wallace SOCCER by Peter Shilton John Burridge (Crystal Palace), David O'Leary (Arsenal), Terry McDermott (Liverpool) and lan Wallace (Coventry). These are the players who have caught my eye the most in matches against Nottingham Forest over the last 12 months. It's difficult to
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 307 21 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are fond of the grand gesture, sweeping statement. You enjoy being the centre of attention though you do not always have what it takes to hold the centre once you attain it. TOMORROW... CAPRICORN (Dec 22Jan 19) The wise Capricorn
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    • 107 22 Introducing the micro-computerised organ JVCIVICTRON W W UI Electronic Organ Features:- > vB il aU Full dual bass system Walking bass 1, 2 3 (2 octaves) Auto-arpeggio Drum rolling rhythm Pre-set piano, violin, horn, wow, trumpet, vibraphone, harpsichord etc. ji) VICTOR MUSIC C€NTR£ PTC ltd Unit 19, Tha Orchard, 290,
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    • 22 22 TheSuperscope The most ideal X'mas gift for a child Easy to form A. Nji a reading habit. Makes reading fun ■>* X [vT^
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 60 22 Diary BASKETBALL: Interconstituency tournament (Gay World, 7.30 p.m.). Inter-Varsity-College ES Games Singapore Polytechnic ES v Umveristy of Singapore ES (Ngee Ann, 5 p.m.). SOCCER: Inter-Varsity-College ES Games SPES v SU-ES (Polytechnic, 5 p.m.). Singapore Airlines Inter-department Division 3A League Town Office "B" v Sats Maintenance (Tanglin Grounds, 5.15 p.jn.). Friendly
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    • 62 23 A MUST TO PUNTERS ONLY -*r See it for yourself at any news stand, the newly improved format of fMUK'tIKI 'n simply amazing! It has been revamped with much more facts and information, it is indeed the most comprehensive and simplified racing guide a punter must not miss! Punt your
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    • 13 23 Blacks White Whisky Aoanto THE BORNEO COMPANY The heart of a good cocktail
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    • 44 25 20 Telephone Numbers 5 Alarms Digital Clock —-w Calculator Pushbutton Dialing Compatible to PABX Head Office: 3». Oaylang Sam (Houatng Board BuHdtng) Smooon 1440 Tala ***** ft, *****7 *****41 Showroom: 02ft. Oram) Floor. Paoeta'i Part Cantra. Uppar CroaaStraat. StngaporaOTOft. Tata *****. #***** t *****0
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    • 259 25 L Crossword V ACROSS 1 Ninny 5 Dogma 10 Commercial event 14 Curate 15 Eunomia, Irene and Dike 16 C Charlie 17 Waistcoat 18 Dammed 20 Sugar: suff. 21 Jack or black 22 Airport adjuncts 23 Solicitation 25 Meerschaum 26 Exhort 27 Marched, in a way 31 AKA 33 Harrowed
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    • 206 26 POLL6N pCuS E& G (h/( 1/ Invigorating Health Capsule from England contains not 1 but 3 of Nature's health-promoting agents: Bee Pollen Natural Vitamin E Balanced, improved formula fortified with Natural Vitamin E and Ginseng to complement and enhance the action of Bee Pollen. T mi Am H po m
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    • 587 26 C •I FRIDAY mil i MONEYWORDS i Cut out and pin with other coupons. J Posting instructions appear below J Occupation Address: N R I C No: ,Cut along dotted lines, FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW CLUES FOR JL 5 1. Machine for measuring time 2. A
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    • 97 27 V onitirfiil I'M/, V .Si y Ii null ill in ism kihl /via^ C.onic to ki.xc, 's sr. hood '210, Stad/am Rd of I .\lmmt hut tc/ij lid.. S/»>)(. 1 /><> fl ()/n'iis dail\ 11 ain 2 >() fan Seafood fun In ni /\/)if)l( Parking \f>a<> Am. n •»t. I
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    • 32 28 We'll meet at Raffles! now JAZZ NIGHT every Friday 8 pm The Writers' Bar No cover charge free tidbits TERESA KHOO'S TRIO Raffles 1 3 Beach Road Singapore 0718 Reservation: *****1 Hotel
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 143 29 Don't be a heart breaker 5S\ K P I <• n r&f/A hM w* o<^ For many years heart diseases have held the unfortunate position of being the highest cause of death in Singapore. Any publication which helps the man-in-the-street to understand better the functions of the heart, the causes
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • 118 30 MONTHi37thDAY nnCAU. 5 SHOWS DAILY: UUCUIIa 10 30am, I 15, 4 00, 645& 9 30 ADMISSION PRICES: $4, $3 $2 In space no one can hear you scream. r o CATHAY: NOW SHOWING! 4 SHOWS DAILY: 11am. 1.45,4.30 A Bpm k A v* His- T i. f" vr i J:
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    • 43 30 DAILY 5 SHOWS AT 11AM. 1.30,4.00,6.45 A 9.15PM A SUPER CHRISTMAS Entertainment for ALL! IF THE TRAIN CANT BE STOPPED 200 WILL QIE! *81 FT V Mm BEN MIIDPHY ED ISDN MIKN Ml -[If lIMONIGOMEH Directed by DAVID LOWELL RICH e IN COLOR
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    • 40 30 ANDY CARP "THE DuST&N\ MEN, RUBEy '<£^1 m m *«a mm li a V ft K Si Sg Wa NORBERT •v I ill B v? Q s: ti ffl < by George Fett 0V TviE umT IS *"roocnt»u)u y 0K 3
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  • 362 31  -  Review Balletmakera By Barry Seah A zeal for experimenting with new forms brought renewed vitality to ballet in Singapore last Wednesday night at the Victoria TTieatre. The show, Balletmakers, saw the Singapore Ballet Academy, Federal Ballet Group, Frances Ballet Academy and Dance Arts Manila making
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  • 326 31  -  Review Valiant Lawman By Teo Lian Huay At last, Taiwanese swordfighting TV serials seem to be giving their Hong Kong counterparts a run for their money. First, Pipa Ring, on Mondays, has a plot good enough to gather a respectable following. Then comes Valiant
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 1029 31 What's On A page that tells you what's happening on TV and in town cinema THE MUPPET MOVIE: Kermit and friends go to Hollvwood. A grand treat for both adults and kids starring the Muppets and a host of big names. Lido: 11, 1.45, 4, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. LEGEND
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  • 42 32 AH POOK: Remember not to drive if you drink this Christmas. The police could arrest you and make you undergo a test. MEf LIN: I think I'll leave my car at home and rely on public transport for safety's sake.
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  • Page 32 Advertisements
    • 99 32 Now available The Electrolux Cookery Cooker Hood on 24-Month H.P. from $1.59 per day r While stocks last r One-set 4-plece t Pyrex ware tor every purchase ot Cooker only lIKTROIUX S.I.A. (PTI) LTD. cwi—nn ..111 MnnoNoM bwmi tvxlk* mi»n a 11 STEAM ENGINES SOLE AGENT:LEE TECK CGNWVXIMY 216, 2nd
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    • 863 32 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 ITELEFUNKEN qreat looks' Colour q rea j features' IV great performance' 3.## OPENING NOUNCEMENTSfollo wed by HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE: The Blood Prince (r). Mandarin movie. 4.35 INTERMISSION. l.ll OPENING NOUNCEMENTSfollowed by ANIMAL WORLD. (See Top Shows of the Day). C.3# NEWS IN BRIEF. MI SPORTS PARADE.
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    • 234 32 ANIMAL WORLD: Bison Roundup. (Ch 5, 6.00 p.m. in colour). The story of how the great American bison was nearly eliminated, the creation of the National Bison Range, and the life of the great beast today. There's also footage of a bison round-up ana a test of strength between two
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