New Nation, 2 March 1980

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1 32 New Nation
  • 9 1 Sunday Nation MARCH 2, 1980 3SCENTS M.C.(P) No. 114/1/80
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    • 18 1 V wV The little horrors of ACS: Tony Tan Page 2 Dolphins find a saviour r° 9 ,4
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    • 197 1 AMERICA'S FAVOURITE Golf. Jogging, Tennis. Squash Soccer Shoes Apparel OEtonic' Sole Agent Merdings Leisure Pte Ltd 23 Park House Orchard Boulevard Singapore 10 Tel *****55.23b841H Also avaiiaD»e at an leading sports shops and p«o snop« Well-known eating spots and lesser known ones Centrespread Edmund saves mjf to S'pore from worse
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  • 332 2 Snobs who compare addresses and holidays abroad DR TONY TAN said yesterday that AngloChinese School had acquired a reputation for being a school of snobs. There were reports of children asking their parents to drop them some distance from the school because they were ashamed
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  • 371 2 DROP all talk of safeguarding or protecting the Tamil language it faces no threat in Singapore, Mr Devan Nair, MP for Anson, told Tamil-speak-ing Singaporeans yesterday. Speaking at the Tamils Festival 1980 cultural show at the National Theatre, Mr Nair advised all Tamil
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  • 509 2  -  By Irene Hoe HELEN REDDY should have been there. Somehow when the speeches were done, you had the feeling that everyone should have stood up, hand over heart, and belted out "I Am Woman," rather than Just adjourned for tea. But adjourn
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    • 84 3 •a;. cuisine at its best What a great place to experience the culinary delights of our Swiss chef, Rene Niggli. What a great place to entertain friends. In the atmosphere of the medieval hunters and heraldry. Probably one of the most superb meals you could treat yourself to. And our
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  • 252 4 200 saved under cover of darkness UPI AP UNDER cover of darkness an American environmentalist went out alone in an inflatable canoe and freed some 200 dolphins being held in a net for slaughter by Japanese fishermen. Altogether, about 1,000 of the creatures had been
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  • 137 4 UPI THE Malaysian Navy has sacked 37 sailors in the wake of rape allegations by Vietnamese refugees, a local newspaper said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The Defence Ministry, however, denied the dis- missal of the sailors has anything to do with allegations of
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  • 495 4 Reuter NYT AFP CALLING the dismissal of former President Liu Shaoqi in 1968 "the greatest political frame-up" in the Chinese Communist Party's history, the party rehabilitated him in a spectacular selfcriticism meeting on Friday. A memorial service will be held for Liu "at
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  • 216 4 THE last days of the Manrhu Ching Dynasty ran be seen today in a rare documentary at the Singapore Film Society. Thought to be lost for many years, the footage, probably one of the first films shot in China, was discovered in
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  • 197 4 UPI MAGGIE THATCHER dolls were a hit in the 118, m now Britou will have a chance to bay them. The 2t-cm replicas of Britain's Prime Minister, complete with elegant black shoes and a bouffant hairdo, are maaafactnred by a British firm specialising In collectors'
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  • 442 4 Reuter THE resignation under fire of Thailand's Prime Minister on Friday underlined for world political i leaders that higher oil i prices carry an element of risk. Gen Kriangsak Chomai nan, who quit after 27 I months in office amid a i crescendo of
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  • At a glance
    • 50 4 PUB meter-readers will be working overtime this month to read the 1.3 million meters in Singapore following the revised electricity and gas rates. This is to enable the board to get actual meter readings for billing, in view of the revised rates which took effect from yesterday.
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    • 58 4 THE Development Bank of Singapore will increase its prime lending rate by I■> per- cent from 10 '4 per cent to 10 1 1 qer cent per annum from tomorrow. The following are the new rates: Savings 8 per cent, autosave 7'l' f>er cent and 12-month ixed
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    • 30 4 Reuter MALAYSIA'S big tourist attraction, Batu Caves, in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur have been closed to the public, the Tourist Development Corporation (TDC) announced yesterday. Reuter
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  • 97 4 PUT some years between your first and second child: That's the latest message from the Family Planning and Population Board, onder its third five-year plan. The Interval, preferably three years, will allow parents to give more love and attention to the first
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  • 245 6 COMMENT BESIDES the recent hike in ear prices, divorce is probably the most talked about subject in town. It was brought into sharp focus by the acting Social Affairs Minister's decision to reject a proposed amendment to the Women's Charter that would have provided for divorce by
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  • 606 6 I# you ask me... THE Singapore student is constantly pictured by writers, cartoonists, doting mothers and most of the public, as a poor, creature suffering agonies in school and during examinations. The general excuse given by students for their failure is the hectic
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  • 198 6  -  DOROTHY SOH GREAT was the temptation to read the Chinese New Year edition of Sunday Nation, on Saturday. Imagine, an opportunity to read tomorrow's papers, today! The very idea was a treat. After getting through the Straits Times, my angers reached sot fer the Sunday Nation.
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  • 374 6  -  By Ng Chor Yau CAN there be any reason why an indoor stadium should not be built after last weekend's splendid sporting events at the Singapore Badminton Hall? If the fear is that it will become a white elephant, didn't we have the same apprehensions about
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  • 708 7 A man's virtues writ large for all to see 4lltS^ S pore A NO MODEST little slab of stone would suffice to proclaim this man's virtues. The West may be content with an epitaph engraved on a tombstone, but death is a once-in-a-lifetime affair, so you
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  • 1171 8  -  PERSPECTIVE by Chang Kai Ming I HAVE a reason for recalling an entry in my 1970 diary. I had taken the night train from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and this is what I then wrote. "I was lucky enough to get
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    • 243 8 SHIPWRECK Doctor in the House I'M ALWAYS THINKING OF THE WRECK OF TITANIC, GUT IN THOSE VAYS MOST PEOPLE COULVN'T SWIM. IT WOULDN'T HAVE HELPEV MUCH IN THE ICV WATER, BUT THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO CAN'T SWIM. ARE THERE ANV GOOV TIPS FOR SURVIVAL IF ONE
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1195 9 Sunday Nation Murder By Natural Causes My Friend Irma (Afternoon matinee, Pt 1) on (Midnight Movie) on Ch Monday, Ch 5 at 3.35 p.m. (b/w). sat 11.25 p.m. Q ean Martin an( j j err y L ew j s made their comedy Some tense moments debut in this 1949
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    • 990 10 MONDAY ALTEC LANSING •w 4 3.00 PJ4. Open 3.03 ILAYA THALAMURAI (r; 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS 3.35 AFTERNOON MATINEE: My Friend Irma (PI 1). See Pick Of The Week 4.30 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 LEARNMG TREE 6.15 DAISY DAISY 6.30 NEWS BREF 6.35 THE FABULOUS TALK KG TIE MACHINE 7.00
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    • 128 11 The best time to watch your favourite TV program is when you have time to enjoy it. With a Sony Betamax video recorder connected to your TV, you can record anything on TV even when you!re not at home. And then play it back whenever you want. Not only will
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    • 984 11 WEDNESDAY Al 1 F C ALTBC LANSING w 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISES: A Matter Of Concentration (r) 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3.35 A SPECIAL CHN.D: On the nature and probable causes ol mental retardation 4.05 NEW ED ALLEN SHOW 4.30 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03
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    • 214 12 w mm mm mm on TV? A beautiful day ajid an exciting TV special can tear you and your family apart. With National's VHS Video Casaette Recorder you can enjoy both go out and take in that beautiful day, come back and take in the TV. Other-benefits of the National
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    • 978 12 FRIDAY 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 HOUSEWIVES MATINEE: Laugh. Laugh. Laugh (r) 4.30 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 ANIMAL WORLD 6.30 NEWS IN BREF 6.35 SPORTS PARADE 7.00 SAMUDRA 7.30 NEWS AND NEWSREEL (M) 7.55 CELEBRITY CHARADE: Rip Taylor is the captain ot his team ot Richard Paul, Ted Lange and Debra
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  • 293 13 Off the Record by CKT I SEEM to return more frequently to Michael Tippett's writings than to the music. Not that the literary articulateness outshines the musical here, no, but there is more of a struggle in one than in the other
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  • 536 13  -  tfusic Box By Peter Ong SUDDENLY, it's becoming fashionable to be a female rock singer; the kind who delivers her lines with an immediacy that is crucial to rock. For too long, rock music has been dominated by males, and, as Time Magazine puts it, the "convertibles."
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  • 660 13 in London > PRECISELY what kind of music Is required to soothe tii? savage beast I am new qualified to say. Sevtrai revolutions per minute of Nat King Cole on the old grama§hone wtfl calm your itch on beat. This vital bit of pet info
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  • 3156 14/19 By MACAW Humour writer Macaw it seen here in his other element food. Asked to review a handy guide to eating in Singapore just out, he staggered himself and us by producing this virtual stall-by-stall account. A pity to cut out the juicy
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  • 342 14/19 PUTTING his taste buds to work as the chief chomper of the eating team that researched Where To Eat In Singapore, Christopher Chen acquired as much weight as he did insight into food. This 33-year-ola social science honours graduate, who came to the task with only
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  • Page 16/17 Miscellaneous
    • 406 16/17 An accidental bite By a radioactive spider HAS GIVEN TEENAGER PETER PARKER UJP€R POWBfiS. AND TRANSFORMED HIM INTO" vy.y .>>; SXN jlfcsA i x w# i! I "V*» r Bp* EVER/THINGS £TILL SQt/A£P NO JOB SINCE I $WORE/ --NO I OFF BEING /MONEy-- i GPIC^RMANVNOTHING// ry, OH /4t?/ HE /KUST'VE
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 236 18 GARTH Rind at <ivw Lodge m 4 L 4 V > v* ON OLD TRICK, ELOSE/ THEY ORE HUNTERS/ IF >OU DON'T RUN YOU'VE GOT THEVI GUESSING/THE REST IS JUST COMMUNICATION/NOW LET S SET MOVING TO KOLON/3ES HUNTING LODGE/ t jr S! I C/r. ii m •teitJV uX i;» J
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  • 904 20 By« MACAW They're a bunch off cold ffish said the Malaysian beauty. All they ever talk about is money SHE WAS a vision of Malaysian loveliness and half the men at Hussein's party were crowded breathlessly around her. I
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  • Article, Illustration
    171 20 WRITE a bright, clever caption for this picture and you could win a prize. It shows the marine police assessing the value of a recent haul of contraband liquor. Whether you want to base your caption on that or let your imagination take flight write a caption which
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  • 441 21  -  jJ4 Jt,iilj] By Tan Bah Bah LOVE AT FIRST BITE (Lido) AFTER 715 years of onebite stands, Count Vladimir Dracula falls in love with top American model Cindy Sondheim, or least her magazine cover image. Forced out of his Transylvanian home
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  • 487 21 By Zed IT WAS like walking into an antique shop, or at least, a thrift shop in a good neighbourhood. No jostling, loud haggling, huge piles of junk to rummage through or hot sun beating down. Admittedly, grafting a Petticoat Lane/Portobello Road
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 558 21 In and around town TODAY PROMOPEL Exhibition of Italian leather goods by 35 Italian manufacturers at the Mandarin Hotel, 10.30 a.m. to 6.30 a.m. Admission free. On till Tuesday. EXHIBITION AND SALES OF CHINESE PAINTINGS Phoenix Arts and Crafts Centre, 29C, Block 261, Waterloo Street and Middle Road junction. A
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    • 361 21 Cinema Guide IJDO (*****14): Love At First Bite, Starring George Hamilton ana Susan St James. See Review this page. 11, 1.45, 4, 6.45, 9.15. CATHAY (*****0): The Ghoul. Stars Peter Crushing. 11, 1.30, 4, 6.39, 9.15. LEISURE DROME (*****62): Confessions Of A Window Cleaner, a British slapstick. 11, 1.30, 4,
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  • 764 22  -  By Theresa Ng I SPENT two weeks in Marbella (Malaga), a pretty town in the south of Spain; in the Costa Del Sol, with my employers when I was their resident housekeeper. I had been with them for almost two years, when
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  • 123 22 SOLITARY confinement in this detention cell can't be half as bad as in Alcatraz... reader R. J. Tracey snapped this picture of the police headquarters on Cebu island in the Philippines. Watch this space IF YOU don'J like writing but have an eye for the unusual travel
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    • 124 22 Here's a chance to tell it. And to a much wider audience than you'd ever have thought possible. Snnday Nation runs a weekly travellers' column written by our readers. It can be a travelogue-type story or Just a little Incident or your most unforgettable or forgettable experience. As you like,
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  • 494 23  -  TV Guest Column Celebrities' cities By Wong Hsien Cheen CITIES, Sunday, Ch 5, 4.55 p.m. BY ESCHEWING picture postcard shots and travel brochure blurbs, this series guarantees not to fire the imagination of package tourists. Using a famous personality each week to introduce a
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  • 873 23 Old traditional attitudes linger, says divorce judge That Beijing divorce case UPI "I WANT a divorce. He beat me seven times," the woman wept, dabbing her eyes with a gray cloth. Post-Mao China for the first time ever
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  • 209 23 DR OW CHIN HOCK, the Parliamentary Secretary (Culture), said Dragon Sword And Heaven Sabre had 922,000 viewers, far more than its Cantonese predecessor, The Romantic Swordsman. I don't know how Sunday's Cantonese series, Chameleon, fared but there's no doubt it's hugely popular. Its setting has a lot to do
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    • 56 23 YOU watch TV, so you must bo a TV critic. Got paid tor it. Thia ia your spaca. Spaca rasarvad for you to aay what you think of tha programmaa on TV. It dooant mattar if you'vo navar wrtttan for a nawspapar bafora. Just tall H tha way you faai.
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    • 48 23 programme, its choica of sutofact, lor axampla. Wm It handlad tha right way, was tha thama or plot proparty davatopad? How wara tha actors? Did you anjoy tha dialogua? Tachnicaliy, was it satisfactory? Each waafc wall publish ona or morataadars' viawa. Pick any programma in any languaga, an
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    • 53 23 itam on any ol tha lour channals, svan tha naws, il you Hka so long aa it's currant. If It It a now programme, bo much tho bottor. You may prafar to raviaw tha waak'a programmes in ganaral. If you'ra doing this, say how wall you think BBC has providad
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    • 146 23 H you were Making entertainment, (or example, war* you entertained? And what was tha baat day in tha waak and tha worat and why. Tall ua and tha broadcaating authorities what you, tha man in tha armchair, outaida ol tha madia thinka of thoir afforta, aapacially with SBC now a
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 60 23 On the ski slopes (Part 1) TL s A a 3iW Matyi*' 'Z, tot** skiiny..10 qt rmthtr... fried to ski. m y cu I to u>'"+* r /"iiort CaHtt* »>"V h '9 h Unute S*v°i*> Fr+ n <*- By LAT =7T •Ail 12 3 1 o*lTlt"... MMMM. 88lTliM...Oui.. B*m*H SAITIIH...
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  • 1085 24 The Book Page i By Silverfish WORDS AND WOMEN: LANGUAGE AND THE SEXES. By Casey Miller and Kate Swift. Penguin, 1979. 205 pp, $8.75. THIS is two women's attempt to show how the English language has discriminated, often unconsciously, against women. Beginning with
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  • 935 24  -  By Alex Josey GOLF BEGINS AT FORTY. By Sam Snead. Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. 175 pp, £6.25. AT 65 Sam Snead, one of the greats in golf, was still winning thousands of dollars in prize money. With Dick Aultman, he
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  • Sports Nation starts on this page
    • 440 25  -  ALLEY CHAT Brian Miller LUCY LOW, who did Singapore proud by finishing fourth in the World Cup championships at Bangkok, and who was surprisingly not nominated for the Sportswoman of the Year award by the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress, has
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    • 373 25  -  BASKETBALL Tony Koh THE Singapore Sports Council have offered the Basketball Association of Singapore the services of an American coach. The last time the BAS had an American coach was in 1975-1977 when the SSC engaged Ronald Kaupinnen. BAS secretary Quek Hiang Chiang said the
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    • 349 26  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng SINGAPORE Armed Forces established themselves as Singapore's cross-country kingpins when they captured the national cross-country team championship last weekend at the MacRitchie Reservoir. The soldiers, who had earlier last month captured the SAAA crosscountry league title, won the national title with
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    • 207 26  -  NETBALL Joyce Tan "THEY under-rated us," said SWNA president Daisy Tan. "They" were the South Australian netballers who visited Singapore last week. Apparently, the Australians did not know just how good the Singapore girls were, so when they conducted a coaching clinic for our national players,
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    • 283 26 EXPATS* CORNER AP IT WAS the kind of basketball game you'd like to forget, but can't. And that suits Lenny Wilkens just fine. "We were embarrassed," the coach of the Seattle Supersonics said after his team was thrashed by the Los Angeles Lakers 131-106 last Tuesday night.
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    • 372 27  -  TENNIS TALK Alfred Tong SPECTATORING is an art that few Singaporeans seem to nave mastered. This was obvious at the recent Slazenger Tennis Classic. As a spectator, one should remember never to distract the players while a game is in progress, to
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    • Article, Illustration
      75 27  -  The Teaching Pro... By Don J. Leary 1980 L.A. Times Synd. 1. Too often players will try to hit to the foe's backhand (his apparent weakness). What if foe starts running around his backhand to hit a strong forehand? 2. Then drive the shot to his strength,
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    • 514 27 RUGBY The Scrumhalves SINGAPORE Malays Rugby Football Club did Singapore proud by winning the prestigious Jonah Jones Seven-a-Side tournament at Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, last weekend. They came back from a 9-6 first-half deficit to overwhelm Malaysian Police "A" 26-9 in the final. It
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    • 524 28  -  But for the moment it's studies first Women in Sport Shirley Tan IT WAS 3.24 p.m. All eyes were on the tiny figure at the high jump pit. The National Stadium, though half-packed, was quiet except for a Lufthansa jet passing overhead. With a
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    • 730 28  -  By I Peter Dobereiner Observer IN A WAY I wish David Foster had never written Thinking Golf (Pelham Books, (£6.50). No, that is altogether too selfish an attitude, for it is certainly the most important work of research into the mysteries
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    • 1075 29  -  THjS is the first in a series of articles on the eight teams that will be taking part in the European soccer championship finals in Rome in June. By ERIC BATTY AFTER the draw for the finals of the
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    • 398 29  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan MORE significant than the defeat of Liem Swie King by Han Jian in the China-Indonesia friendly was the defeat of the Indonesian doubles pairs. It was, you might say, a case of the doctor not being able
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    • 546 30 JERRY SEH captures the action in last night's pre-Olympic match between Singapore and Iran. Another picture and report by JEFFREY LOW in page 32 Reuter MUHAMMAD ALI yesterday said he is returning to boxing and wants to win the world heavyweight title for a fourth
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    • 1132 30 IN ONLY her fifth start in the country and her first in Class 5 SHENANIGANS, with Larry Francis astride, gave a brilliant front-running display when she took Race 5 at Ipoh yesterday. The Sun Prince five-year-old took up the running and was always going too well for her
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    • 500 31  -  Bv K L Chan TRAINER Garnet BouSoure's FAVOURED ENT is heading for better things and should go one step further with a win over the 1100 m straight in Class 3 division 1 (Race 5) at Ipoh today. The three-year-old Australian gelding by privilege has hit
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    • 2507 31 RAPF 1 145 TOTE BOARD STAKES imVylJ A CLASS 6 1.700M ($11,000 $6,200 to winner) 1 8537 Nol To Worry a (Not To Worry) E Breukelen 7 57 (ud +4.5) 1.800m SF M. In 4 2 3170 Casino Champ a (Kai Lian) Jaafar
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    • 137 31 K.L. CHAN SCRUTINEER TURF RAY RACE 1 Htynh H«y«a Hayrah Caslao Champ Manawings Hard Love Casino Champ Hoyeah RACE 2 A pi Cheer Up Rapid Red Rarity Cheek To Cheek Bungah Api Cheer Up Bunga Api RACES I Trust Ym Amued Tara Walla Pointillist Pointillitat Tara Walla Pointillist I
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    • 432 32  -  SPORTS NATION By JEFFREY LOW THERE wasn't much Singapore could do last night to stop a triumph for skilful attacking soccer at the National Stadium. Iran, looking untroubled winners all the way, taught Jitta Singh's men a lesson in open football, and if
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    • 298 25 APPOINTMENT NGEE ANN TECHNICAL COLLEGE invites applications from suitably qualified Singapore citizens/permanent residents of Singapore and other ASEAN citizens to fill the following posts:* DEPARTMENTS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, SHIPBUILDING REPAIR TECHNOLOGY, AND BUILDING Lecturer l/Assistiit Lecturer Senior Academic Instructor/Academic Instructor DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS STUDIES AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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