New Nation, 1 June 1980

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  • 10 1 Sunday Nation JUNE 1, 1980 35 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 114/1/80
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    • 335 1 TEST YOUR PRIVATE TUTOR'S COMPETENCE 5. Has the tutor ever given yon an evaluation or report on vour child's performance? (a) Never. (b) No. I have never asked. (c) Occasionally we talk. (d) Yes, once a month/ three months. red to go to teacher and achieved by your child? the
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  • 420 2 AP Reuter UPI GENERAL Chun DooHwan, a protege of assassinated President Park Chung-Hee, is now the man who runs South Korea. He is chairman of the standing committee of the "Special Committee for National Security Measures," whose formation was announced by President Choi
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  • 263 2 Goh First Deputy PM, Raja Second TWO Senior Ministers of State, Mr S. Dhanabalan and Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam, have been promoted to full ministerial rank in their respective ministries. Mr Dhanabalan becomes the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Dr Tan the Minister for
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  • 569 2 Five areas including literature, history and science Business Times HARVARD'S "core curriculum" concept, mentioned as an example by Premier Lee Kuan Yew of a core of knowledge that would be the minimum for an "educated" man, created an immediate sensation when it was first
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  • 339 3 NATIONAL Servicemen in future will be trained not only in military skills but also in skills that could serve them well in later civilian employment. Speaking last night about this new strategy of the Singapore Armed Forces, Defence Minister Howe Yoon Chong said knowing
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  • 337 3 MR GOH Chok Tong's suggestion yesterday that the NWC guideline be implemented for all workers, but with exceptional workers getting higher pay rises, has met with reservations from employers. Unionists welcomed the idea. Mr Goh said'at a seminar for top
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  • 194 3 EXPECT another year of high wage increases, followed by no more than 10 per cent a year in the next two to four years. Meanwhile, Singapore must not only try to narrow the technology gap between itself and Japan, but also between itself and
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  • At a glance
    • 60 3 A CORONER yesterday a suggested that the Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute (Safti) look into certain training courses that it conducted with a view to safety precautions. National serviceman Ho Yat Hong, 19, died recently during a gymnastic exercise in Safti He suffered injuries to his spine
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    • 46 3 THE Singapore Chinese Gold and Silver Merchant Association has raised the price of gold by $50 a tahil, in line with tne higher inernational gold price. The new prices are $1550 a tahil for 24-carat gold, $1460 for 22-carat and $1310 for pound gold.
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    • 59 3 Reuter MALAYSIA yesterday denied it had established a guardhouse on Commodore Reef claimed by Manila as part of the Philippines' Kalayaan Island group in the South China Sea. The Philippine Foreign Ministry said the Malaysian Navy had established a guardhouse on the reef and accused Malaysian naval personnel
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    • 31 3 THE Registry of Vehicles yesterday reminded the public that from Jan 1 next year, 10-year-old motor vehicles will no longer be eligible for the Preferential Additional Registration Fee (PARF).
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    • 147 3 Families who eat Flora margarine know what's rgarine ki a for then How will eating the light, delicious spread called FLORA affect your family? Very beneficially. FLORA PROVIDES PURE GOODNESS We all know a balanced diet is essential for the best of health. FLORA margarine contains mainly natural vegetable oils,
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  • 261 4 COMMENT COME September, the Ministry of Health will be plugging the don't-smoke message again, this time riding on WHO'S theme for World Health Day "Smoking or Health: The choice is yours." A reader suggested last week that for the campaign to succeed, even tougher measures are necessary.
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  • 1894 4 WHAT can we do about the private tuition situation in Singapore? Anybody can be a tutor. All he or she needs to do is advertise. The prospect of any control by the authorities is as dim as hoping for the price of crude oil to fall.
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    141 6 A subtly put caption for tha nonya picture wins Wong Chin Twos $25. His nssrsst rivals wars funny, but haavyhandad. This waak's pictura is by an Indonasian naws photographar, Incham, who won sacond priza in tha human intarast catagory for a contaat organiaad for Asaan Journalists. You may
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  • 982 6  -  PERSPECTIVE m Chang Kai Ming IN RESPONSE to a question raised by a friend of mine, I was prompted to consider whether the Consumer Price Index is really an adequate measure of price levels. I think it is probably inadequate in these days of relatively
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    • 1176 7 Sunday Nation What's So Bad About Being Good? (Saturday Matinee) on Ch 5 at 2 p.m. Light-hearted comedy about a bohemian artist and his girlfriend who live in squalor until a toucan bird infects them with euphoria and the desire to live decent lives. Stars Mary Tyler Moore, George Peppard,
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    • 1003 8 MONDAY Phased Array Speaker Systems 3.00 PJL Open 3.03 SHUVAR ULAGAM (r) 3.30 OtMV OF EVENTS 3.35 AFTERNOON MATMEE: Macho Callahan (Pt 1). A confederate army colonel's widow otters a $10,000 bounty tor the capture ot her husband's killer. When he escapes, she finds herself in love with him. Stars
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    • 82 9 SONY This is a warning MM T 4. All those who do not watch The Sony Betamax Show tonight at 6.35 pm on Channel 5 will be missing fun, games and a musical variety show. Look out! Betamax Show Sunday. Channel 5. 6 35 pm Enquiries: *****4 YWcit* 15 v
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    • 924 9 WEDNESDAY DAHLQUIST Phased Array Speaker Systems 3.00 PM. Open 3.30 DIARY OF EVENTS (M) 3 35 CHEMBTRY 4.05 NEW ED ALLEN SHOW 4.30 Intermission 6.00 Open 6.03 RAMPAIAN SUKAN 6.30 NEWS M BREF 6.35 SCENCE INTERNATIONAL 7.00 FAMOUS FIVE: Five Go Off To Camp. The five spend their holidays living
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    • 845 10 FRIDAY Phased Array Speaker Systems 3.00 AJL Open 3.03 HOUSNNES' MATMEE (r) 4.30 Intermission (00 Open 6A3 M TW HID WITH HARRY BUTLER: Tuart Forest. The rare forests of the Tuart have been won back from land developers by careful management. Harry explains its significane to the future of wildlife
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  • 526 11  -  Tabic for On« By TERRY TAN ARE foil-packed TV dinners as tasteless and unnutritioas as most of us tend to regard them? I tried some of these one-tray, no-cook meals to And oat, apart from the convenience, what they tasted like. TV dinners Americans consume them
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    • 121 12 P*:M Crispy, B short. Melts in your mouth. So you want more. And more. Cookies with delicious raisins. Or exotic coconut. Or a sugar-coated delight. lam Just lli delicious. Sealed fresh ■W in the blue tin with the W exclusive Danish china f motif. Purveyor to the Royal Court of
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    • 77 13 0$ .V 5 y >Straus limjI i mj \JOTb v« •> slim volume 4/- JP. s er *Y A H\\\ A holographs \ttonborough hlmseW. the doubleP»K e BBC films now in SnToEUILi rmsi David Attenborough's Life on Earths^ now available in a striking book of quality photographs t and summary
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    • 50 13 By PAGAN m i EES! IP YOU DONT GET OUT OF MY WAV... r-./ fjpni (V *5 0 EP. «S mi I I Wr S» 4m m is 31 02 5f i VA IT WORKEPTME OLD TRICK WORKED/ PaviNG A LITTLE /M/?£ £EMOVER POC M m m K i 1
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    • 403 14/15 i BUTEN BY A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER.. PETER PARKER HAS GAINED THAT INSECTS PROPORTIONATE STRENGTH- j m-. nkA.hi v*vo'4 I. r\V r> mT/^.TT^.TT'TK,,r<«* ./nar^s. .11 fjfir Wina > ,o tJL n' NN K m > mk— 'i n lull' A <i v -him 7:^ V "ul •••.1 I -i.-'ri... W^^ss&m r-
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    • 28 16 PENGUINS specially written to stimulate, innovate, entertain and inform Distributed by FEDERAL PUBLICATIONS New Industrial Road, Singapore 1953 I /I p I A member of The Times Organisation
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    • 188 16 GAR FN m v if**M 7i a V I A N »»J> *****EE2!^8 Garth doubles back to the huts... f > -W'V. D''<l >¥ I* K TORQUIL a MOVE I MRKE RND HE'LL TELL THEM (4 MRRK- NOW YOU'RE 60ING TO LISTEN m > ry M* I f j.. »i
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  • 456 17  -  Music Box By Peter Ong A LETTER in Time magazine says angry Detroit residents should not be bashing the Toyotas. Instead, they should tear the cars apart and figure out how they are made. Maybe then they can attempt to make a reasonable
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  • 629 17 TV Guest Column By ZED City RomancM, Sunday, Ch 8,3.30 p.m. YET another soap opera from Taiwan, and haven't you guessed it, it's about the trials and tribulations of falling in love. Indeed, Judging from the films and TV serials that originate from Taiwan,
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    • 110 17 BLUSHING Doctor in the House v WHAT CAN I VO FOR YOU? f MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME I ALWAYS BLUSH LIKE NOW. IT'S EMBARRASIWG. k VASCULAR VISTRIBUTION IN THE SKIN HAIR EPIVERMI CORIUM rW' SUBCUTIS THE SKIN HAS NUMEROUS SMALL BLOOV VESSELS WHICH REGULATE THE HEAT EXCHANGE OF THE
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  • 563 18  -  Sat/eiiii/ TRAVEL TALE STORY Ngeow PACKING for any trip is somewhat traumatic. But there is an art to it all. It's what you leave behind that's crucial to effective packing. How else to deal with the ever-present discipline of baggage-size restrictions on the one
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  • 344 19 Off the Record by CKT IF IT ever comes to the crunch, language must take precedence over music. Of course, there has always been the impartial American critic who delights in pointing out the many instances of perfect marriage of words and music
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  • 584 19 HUNOVR win, UNLESS you have been blindfolded underwater with beanbags in your ears the word "chameleon" must mean something to you. For me it means the reptilian hours of 9 to II p.m. on Sundays the best time to be on the traffic-free
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  • 2049 20  -  Little-known Pulau Tekong offers plenty of interest, reports FRANCIS CHIN FRANCIS CHIN IT BOASTS of the only hot spring in Singapore. Its taxis are old and beat up and carry no number plates. Among the pests are giant lizards that make a chicken-tasty mouthful. It is
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  • 565 22 Book review MICROCOMPUTER PRIMER. By Mitchell Waite and Michael Pardee. Howard W. Sams (Indianapolis, USA), 1977, 224 pp, 5521.50. Reviewed by FRANCIS CHIN. UNTIL recently, computers were found only in closely-guarded rooms, and computer knowledge limited to some electronics engineers. But with the development of
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  • 512 22 By SILVERFISH DUBIN'S LIVES. By Bernard Malamud. Penguin, 1979. 400 pp, $7.75. WILLIAM Dubin, the protagonist, is a biographer famed for his work on American writers H. D. Thoreau and Mark Twain. He is currently engaged in the life of D. H. Lawrence, the first
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  • 503 22  -  JJ3 Jliiid By Tan Bah Bah (ContiniMd Irom last week). ELEVEN. That's Bo Derek's standing on a Dudley Moore scale of 1 to 10. Bo Derek, real name, Mary Cathleen Collins. Height: 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in). Weight: 45
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 250 22 Cinema Guide JADE (*****80): Dracula, starring Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier. 11, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9. ODEON (*****6): 1941. Comedy war film. 11,1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15. PREMIER (*****96): Hurricane. Stars Jason Robards and Mia Farrow. 11, 1.30, 4, 6.45, 9.15. LIDO (*****14): Apocalypse Now. Vietnam war movie, starring Marlon Brando,
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    • 590 22 I In and around town I CHINESE BOOK FAIR. One of the largest of its kind here, organised by the Shanghai Book Store at Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Daily noon to 9 p.m., on til June 15. Mainly paperbacks covering a wide range of subjects from children's tales to medical
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    • 115 23 A nutritious breakfast starts kids better for a fun-filled day A J f ■>% m N ■I Children are busy little people. With lots of things to learn, lots of games to play. Lots of lively activity to pack into every single day. So it's vital that they have a
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  • 323 24  -  BADMINTON Gerry Chan SINGAPORE Combined Schools can look forward to a better placing amongst Asean countries after their disappointing performance at Jakarta last year. This is because of the enthusiasm shown by national convenor Newtown Secondary in wanting to shortlist a team as soon as
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  • 499 24  -  By RAY ANG NOT too long ago, a tour group checked into the Marco Polo Hotel under a reservation made by a Californiabased company called Interport Ltd. They looked like any other tour group checking in at a busy hotel, except that all the
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  • 281 24  -  METBALL Joyce Tan THE Singapore Women's Netball Association's plan to concentrate on industrial estates will finally materialise when the Jurong League gets underway later this month. SWNA Tournament chairman, Wee Gim Eng said: "We are greatly encouraged to have received about a
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  • 72 24 AFP SOUTH Korea's Hwang Chung-Jai successfully defended his Orient and Pacific Boxing Federation welterweight title by knocking out Philippine challenger, Vincent Mawas in a title bout in Seoul last night. Mawas went down under an explosive right uppercut to the face in the first round of the
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  • 299 24 RUGBY The Scnmhalws THE Singapore Rugby Union have set themselves the target of raising $50,000 to fulfil their commitments for this season. SRU Finance committee chairman Peter Poxon said that "numerous ambitious programmes have been planned" to meet expenses of the National XV, Under
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    • 233 24 APPOINTMENTS Be a Professional Make Dancing \bur Career We are looking for individuals interested in making dancing their career to join The Neptune Dance Company the resident dance group of The Neptune, Southeast Asia's largest theatre-restaurant. If you have the talent and are interested in making dancing a part of
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  • 550 25  -  Soccer skipper who turned a family joke into a worthwhile pastime Women in Sport Shirley Tan UNLIKE many succesful women in sport who have the backing and encouragement of brothers, fathers and boy-friends, Jackie Chan, Singapore's football captain, had none. The slim 21-year-old University of
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  • 365 25  -  ATHLETICS Tan Kim Seng IT IS holiday time for thousands of school children in Singapore but for 46 top athletes it will be hard work on the track three times a week until the holidays are over. Under the watchful eyes
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  • 1321 26 Four-year-old upsets to pay handsome win dividend of $154 GENEVA, a four-year-old from the stables of trainer Jaafar Padzeli, scored an upset win at Penang yesterday when he beat a competent Class 6 Division l field to pay a handsome dividend of $154 for a win and
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  • 584 27  -  By K. L. CHAN JOCKEY Randall Suckling, who was in great riding form at the last Bukit Timah meeting with eight winners, has a bright chance of scoring a splendid double with APPLE TWIST U in Race 6 and COMRADE SINGH (Race 7) at Penang
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  • 2887 27 RAPF 1 2.0 CLASS 6 DIV 3 1,200M x ($8,000 $5,600 to winner) 1 22G0 QmiRhvttim i(DlR) Heddle 5 57 f +2.51 MjMut 14 2 0067 HariM a (Hari Inl) Ahmad 8 56.5 (+2.5) trtim 9 2 3358 llaio lis Mo a (LS)
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  • 128 27 K.L. CHAN TURF RAY BRIAN MILLER STAR BOY Rami Mala Ritiir Bill Collector Kotarla National Special Kotarla Sasha Mighty Grey Bill Collector RaceS Adlk Maaey Sings Leading Connsel Adlk Bold Glen Adik Ladybird Tai Tong RaoeS Tapeha Disco Kid Sarveyar Ophelia Las Vegas Ace of Aces Am d Aces
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  • 611 28  -  SPORTS NATION By JEFFREY LOW IN A complete reversal of recent patterns, Singapore were forced into defensive football to earn a 1-1 draw with Perlis at Kangar yesterday afternoon. A luckless day, littered with poor shooting, denied Perlis an expected victory. That Perlis did
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  • 280 28  -  By MAURICE NEO LIU WAI YAW came to the Head national agegroup tennis championship at the Singapore Tennis Centre yesterday with a repertoire of strokes that belied his age. The 15-year-old St Joseph's Institution schoolboy had too much tennis maturity for his
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