New Nation, 27 September 1980

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  • 19 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Saturday, September 27, 1980 2988 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 109/1/80 r i NEW (fco) NATION OWMENT
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  • 624 1 Institute of Education to be affiliated to varsity The Institute of Education should be affiliated to the National University of Singapore. This is the best long-term solution for the IE as it strives to improve the quality of teacher-training. Speaking at the lE's eighth convocation ceremony this
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  • 69 1 Police are anxious to contact Tan Cheow Bock, 28, of Block 502, Bedok North Street 3, who they believe can help them in their investigations into the "knife-in-mouth" murder of Madam Chia Chun Fong at Maria Avenue last Tuesday. Information may be given to the officer-in-charge, Special Investigations
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  • 233 1 Agencies Baghdad, Saturday Ferocious fighting raged around the Iranian cities of Khorramshahr and Abadan yesterday and Iran rejected an Islamic mission's bid to mediate an end to the five-day war with Iraq. Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad All Rajai announced on Tehran Radio that Iran
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    • 60 1 Customs man probed The Customs officer was, by coincidence, asked to take part in an identification parade. The result: he is now under probe by the CPIB. Details on Page 2. Editor replies Last week, TAN BAH BAH applied to the features editor of The Straits Times for a job.
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    • 116 1 Boxing: This was how Muhammad Ali looked like one year ago. Flabby and slightly out of fighting shape. But now he is in fighting fit form and raring to go for his fourth come-back bid on Oct 2. Details on Page 20 Badminton: Two of the world's greatest badminton gladiators
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    • 66 1 /MERIDIAN BRITISH m HIGH-FIDELITY Sole Agent: Atlas Sound (Pte) Ltd ROBINSONS T ft w n Featuring a collection of the finest furniture, furnishings and household linens available in Singapore. All new all exclusive all imported decorate your home now for the festive season with the very best. Robinson's First in
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  • 51 2 The winners of the Airfix Hobby-for-cash contest are Mr Freddy Lim Hock Lye (first prize $3000), Mr Yew Kong Leong (second prize $2000) and Mr Henry Tan (third prize $1000). Ten consolation prize winners received $100 each and Airfix kits were given to the first 1000 allcorrect
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  • 40 2 The Henderson community centre youth group will hold an outing to the Singapore Zoological Garden, temples, new housing estates and other places of interest for residents of the Henderson senior citizen's home tomorrow from 10.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
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  • 346 2  -  Alleged to have taken $30,000 By Douglas Chan A Customs officer is under probe for allegedly receiving $30,000 and two slabs of raw opium from the boss of an international drug syndicate. The two slabs of opium, believed to be from the Golden Triangle and
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  • 105 2 An accident between a lorry and this SBS bus yesterday caused a traffic jam along River Valley Road and Hill Street. No one was injured in the mishap and even the Traffic Police were not called in to investigate. According to a spokesman of SBS,
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  • 164 2 Singapore Airlines has bought $2.2 million worth of computer soft and hardware for its engineering and finance divisions. A $1.2 million software package, named Singapore Airlines Maintenance and Engineering Information System, will introduce advanced techniques and procedures to allow for more effective control and
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  • 58 2 Stage Two of the Telok Blangh new bus plan will be implemented tomorrow. This involves the introduction of new feeder services 272 and 273 and the extension of Service 184 to the Bukit Merah interchange. For the first few days, SBS public relations and enforcement officials will
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  • 113 2 About M cardiologists will go to Sentosa this evening to practise what they preach. They will shed their coats and ties, which have been the norm for the past Ave days, In favour of T-shirts and shorta to accompany some former heart patients in a U
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  • 33 2 Dr Ong Sze Lan, a medical officer from the Marine Parade Polyclinic, will speak in Mandarin on health and nutrition at the Queenstown branch library on Oct 3 at 3 p.m.
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  • 353 4 Ministry looks into consumer study The Health Ministry is looking into a report by the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) that talcum powder may be a hazard to health. CAP, in the latest issue of its bulletin, Utusan Konsumer, claims that there have been
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  • 127 4 While workers have a big role to play in ensuring the success of a company, much depends on the management to make the job more challenging ana enriching. MP for Khe Bong, Mr Ho See Beng, said that workers should acquire the necessary skills and be
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  • 34 4 Finance Minister and MP for Havelock, Mr Hon Sui Sen, will attend the inauguration of his constituency's Zones A and B Residents' Committees at the Havelock community centre today at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 21 4 The Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association will hold its 1960 donation draw at its Shenton Way premises today at 4 p.m
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  • 25 4 The Boys' Brigade and the Stedfast Club will hold their golden jubilee gala dinner at the Mandarin Hotel on Oct 18 at 8 p.m.
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  • 77 4 Sergeant Peter Malton (left) and Corporal Shaun Thomas have a very "hot" Job on their hands. They are preparing "hot boxes" (or more than Sll men of the First Battalion of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. Each hot box contain St meals. Meals have to
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  • 178 4 Martial arts in Singapore cannot be allowed Jo develop into the likes of Chinese kung fu history, replete with stories of treacherous intrigues leading to bloody warfare among its rival schools. The various contending schools of martial arts here should not have
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  • 91 4 A Japanese energy management expert will come here for a four-day visit to conduct a survey of efficient energy utilisation for six selected factories and a seminar on energy conservation activities in Japan. Dr Takehiko Otsuka, a visiting professor in the metallurgical department of Kansai
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    • 186 4 Up date yourself! Catch up on the latest colours with Mrs Anne Farindon. Elizabeth Arden's International Training Director is here personally to launch La Vie En Rose the latest colours for today's looks and moods. So catch her at the following stores. And catch up on the latest colours! Vou
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 283 4 Crossword ~N ACROSS 1 Get out! 5 Where there's dirty work 10 Armored car 14 Lacerated 15 Water wheel 16 To shelter 17 Hardly ever 20 Can or tray 21 the word" 22 Worn out 23 Whitish 24 Slangy negative 26 Plucks with a plectrum 29 Eastern church diocese 33
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  • 347 5 What is the popular tomato ketchup made of? In many cases anything but good, wholesome tomatoes or tomato puree. It can, instead, contain pumpkins and sweet potatoes with a generous addition of artificial colouring. Now the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research has come
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  • 311 5 Employers who want their workers to have good habits should take this Step Success Through Everybody's Participation. Step, says Mr.Eugene Yap, the MP for Mountbatten, will "provide a correct organisational environment for workers to care and to want to contribute their best
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  • 38 5 The minimum plot area for projects in the 39 areas set aside by the government for the building of bungalows is 1400 square metres and not 930 square metres as reported in New Nation yesterday.
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  • 38 5 St Patrick's School will hold a food and fun fair cum jumble sale at the school s premises at East Coast Road tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Proceeds will go to the school's building fund.
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  • 58 5 A Malaysian Cultural Nite will be held at the Hong Lim Green community centre tomorrow at 7.30 p.m. Thirty-one members of Malaysia's national cultural dance troupe will perform a selection of folk and court dances and popular folksongs during the twohour snow organised by the Tourist Development
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  • 46 5 The US Seventh Fleet Band will perform at the Botanic Gardens tomorrow from 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. The 18-member hand will {>rovide a variety of music ncluding big band sounds of the past 40 years, country music and a touch of Dixieland.
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  • 330 6 Mr Hans Richter Haaser is a concert pianist. But the choir seems to have played a central role in his life. He met his first wife at the Volkssingakademic choir in Dresden, East Germany. He was then studying music composition under the choir's conductor.
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  • 627 6  -  Juggling people and posts is not the solution Report on the role of the Institute of Education By Teresa Ooi By TeresaOOofi f our education correspondent The Institute of Education has not kept up with developments in teacher education. It has remained essentially a teachers' training college.
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  • 27 6 Singapore Armed Forces will conduct military exercises in Marsiling, Mandai, Pulau Übin and Pulau Tekong from today to Oct 4 between 8 a.m. and midnight daily.
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  • 300 6 Dr Robert C.K. Loh was returned as president of the Singapore Island Country Club last night, beating his rival, lawyer Dennis Lee Kim Yew, by 28 votes. However all but three of Mr Lee's 16 supporters won seats on the SICC general committee for Only
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    • 166 7 A CHALLENGE 10 THOSE ODER HATCHBACKSTHATARE FOLLOWMG THE LEAD OF THE MrrSUBISHICOCr FOLLOW THE: The Host Beautiful 3-door Carl 979 49th Salon Internationa) de L'aulD Switzerland Best Economy Car T979 Road lest USA Nol in Petrol Economy 1979 Canadian Government Nol in Petrol Economy 1980 US Government Environmental FVotection Agency
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  • 283 8 We are liars one way or another, everyone of us. From the parents who feed Santa Claus stories to their children every year to Adolf Hitler who promised peace to Neville Chamberlain while feverishly preparing to invade Poland in 1939. From harmless white liars to
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  • 116 8 4 When asked at a press conference whether he had slept with Olivia Newton-John, 26-year-old John Travolta smiled, shrugged and said: "I really shouldn't say but..." The question was offensive. But wasn't the reply even more offensive? Hasn't Miss Newton-John a right to her privacy and reputation? As
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 36 8 It looks like the Inland Revenue Department staff are sensitive to people's feelings after all. Spotted in one of their offices is this notice in bold letters: "Caution: Human Beings. Handle with Care."
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    • 57 8 And a colleague who took a lift to the same department found that they even have a sense of humour. Near the lift was this notice: What goes up must come down What is down will come up But what you want can't be both up
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  • 432 8  -  When election day arrives I will be asleep In other words... by Tan Bah Bah The latest game in town from now until... (to be ascertained) is called Electioneering (as in Engineering). Let me explain. It's a uniquely Singaporean phenomenon. We don't know a lot. Yet
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  • 203 8 The Straits Times features editor replies... In her osual efficient way, the features editor of The Straits Times replied qnlckly to my application tor a part-time Job last week. My suspicion Is that It Is to prevent other applicants from being discouraged by such strong
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 457 9  -  POTENTIALLY GOOD STORY LOST IN ENGLISH VERSION -By Zarinah Marican S. Markasan's Ta'ada Jalan Keluar may be a good novel. I don't know because I have not read it. But its English translation, Conflict, is not a good novel, on its own or especially as
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  • 326 9 From this week, the Book Page will feature regularly news of events at the National Library and its branches, besides Just Browsing and reviews. The National Library and its branches feature authors monthly, to ?;enerate interest among heir members. Books of the
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  • 303 9  -  BORN WITH THE CENTURY. By William Klnsolvlng. Fontana. $19.5$ By Gan Soh Eng This book is about lust. Lust for money, lust for passion and lust for power. It tells the story of one determined man's effort to make it in life,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • 185 10 World Focus UPI Manila, Saturday Two tourist authorities said yesterday the world tourism conference which opens here today will decide the course of tourism in the next 20 years. The 10-day conference will wrestle with the social and economic problems caused by the shuttle of
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  • 171 10 'No money for more food' Reuter Warsaw, Saturday The Polish authorities said yesterday that food and other basics would be in short supply in the last quarter of the year and announced they were contemplating introduction of meat rationing. It was an increase in the retail
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  • 82 10 AFP Calcutta, Saturday A young Indian mother has given birth to a baby with an exposed heart and liver, It was announced here yesterday. A spokesman at the National Medical College Hospital here said the baby, a bey, was born In normal delivery and that his
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  • 42 10 UPI TODAY is Saturday, Sept 27, the 271 st day of 1980 with 95 to follow. THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Early American patriot Samuel Adams said upon hearing gunfire which opened the American revolutionary war: "What a glorious morning for America." UPI
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  • 36 10 D.J. London, Saturday An alarm clock which starts off with a gentle tnne and then barks commands to the sleepy head to get ont of bed is selling In Britain at £41 <$2H). D.J.
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  • In Brief
    • 70 10 AFP Kuala Lumpur, Saturday The substantial purchase of Dunlop Holdings shares by a local company, Goodyield Plaza, has prompted the British Department of Trade to send two inspectors here to look into the matter. They have already held preliminary discussions with officials of the company and Pegi Malaysia,
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    • 64 10 AP Manila, Saturday Vietnam has told the Philippines it is "not favourably disposed" to a proposal (or an international conference on Kampuchea, the Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. It said Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach conveyed Hanoi's position at a meeting with Philippine Foreign Minister Carlos Romulo
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    • 38 10 AP Tokyo, Saturday the director of Radio Kabul has defected to Pakistan because he could no longer keep up the "antiIslamic and anti-Afghan propaganda" over the radio, China's official Xinhua news agency reported from Islamabad yesterday AP.
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    • 59 10 Reuter Moscow, Saturday A Soviet spaceship carrying a Cuban and a Soviet cosmonaut has returned safely to earth, the official Soviet news agency, Tass, said yesterday. It said the Soyuz 38 spaceship, which ferried the two men to the Salyut 6 space laboratory last week, had landed
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    • 41 10 UPI Cairo, Saturday President Sadat's National Democratic Party, scoring a landslide victory in nationwide elections yesterday and gained total control of all 140 seats of a new "shura" or consultative council that will serve as an adviser to the government
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  • Page 12/13 Miscellaneous
    • 626 12/13 SATURDAY «d j MONEVWORDS j Cut out and pin with other coupons. I Posting instructions appear below Occupation: Address: N R.I.C. No:. IR| AlNlcl I F,LL,N M NC H M,BS,NQ "oTsT LETTERS Po U D ACROSS "OT"N G US,NG CLUES N I°I R H below along dotted lines h, mmmt
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    • 1330 12/13 YOUR WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE LC SBC 5 700 million people in 43 countries can't be wrong PALcolor, Invented and owned by TELEFUNKEN Saturday 1.99 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS, followed by SESAME STREET. Children's programme. 2.99 BANANA SPLITS. Concoction of fun for the young and the young-at-heart. 2.25 SATURDAY MATINEE: When Comedy Was
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    • 724 12/13 SBC-RADIO Saturday 12.00 Musical Tributes 1.00 The SBC Orchestra 1.30 News followed by Share Market lieport and Weather Forecast 1.45 Programme Summary followed by Music A La Carte 2.00 A Relative Affair 2.25 Sports Diary 2.30 A Pickin' And A Grinnin' 3.00 News In Brief 3.05 Melody Time 3.15 The
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    • 296 12/13 Top Shows of the Weekend 1 •'XI Today g ►V*' V V A 1 if V MIDNIGHT MOVIE: Secret Ceremony (Ch 5, 11.25 p.m. in colour). Psychological drama with Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow. Farrow resembles Taylor's dead daughter, Taylor resembles Farrow's dead mother, and their meeting has strange results.
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  • 899 14  -  Bob, always on the move, will be in Moscow next I That's showbb By Don Freeman Copley News Service Hollywood: One of my favourite Bob Hope stories concerns the time that he was walking out of an elevator in a hotel. It might have been in Cleveland,
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 798 14 What's On A page that tells you what's happening on TV and in town In and around town DRAMA FESTIVAL: The Effect Of GammaRays On Man-In-The-Moon-Marigolds by the Experimental Theatre CluD at the Drama Centre at 8 p.m. Tickets at $2 and $1 are available at the door. WHY DO
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    • 208 14 Rediffusion 12.30 British Top Twenty a report on the current top 20 in the UK 1.30 News 1.40 Mini-ads... messages from our advertisers 1.45 Preview a selection of this week's new releases. WCUIV A NEW ICICAOCO. 2.00 Saturday at Cortina... a "live one-hour show from our satellite studio at Cortina
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  • 581 15  -  Remember the first Cortina? Motoring l»V Roderick Pestana It's now 20 years since the first Cortina was manufactured but over the years an evolution has taken place that has resulted in a car that bears little resemblance to the original. To date a total
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  • 523 15  -  Motorcycling by Lee Chiu San Suzuki recently introduced a new concept in four-stroke engine combustion chamber design, the twin swirl combustion chamber (TTCC). This new design is used in its latest 250 c.c., 750 c.c. and 1100 c.c. motorcycles. Guan Hoe in Hill Street, the
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  • 187 15 BY THE WAY Fiat and Peugeot have signed an agreement on a joint design for a new car engine. The new small capacity engine is earmarked mainly for future lower range Fiat and Peugeot cars. The new joint effort by the two European
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 98 15 It was the CRIME of the CENTURY g It took them just 15 minutes to pud off the (j biggest robbery in history...but it took the F B I. 6 years I 29 mifton dollars to catch them! The robbery nofcjpdy thought «>pbld happe by the guys off m DM
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  • SHOPPING
    • 551 16 L A twice weekly advertisement feature You can have seafood right in the heart of Chinatown. One of the well-known seafood restaurants in East Coast Road has moved downtown after the government reclaimed the area they had once operated on. If you were
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 381 17 Your lucky stars IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a worrier by nature. You cannot believe your good fortune when all is going well; immediately, therefore, you begin to look for things that may go wrong. You are not pessimistic, merely exceedingly realistic, for you know that somewhere
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  • 257 18 Business News I and Views J 4 Reuter Washington, Saturday Developing countries have succeeded in getting more priority for their problems at a gathering here of world financial leaders, informed sources said yesterday. The plight of the developing nations which do not produce oil will
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  • 235 18  -  Market roundup by Lee Yew Meng The Singapore stock market this week received its most severe beating since the recent run-up. But the shake-out came only after the market had established another record of 647.49 points on the Straits Times industrial index on Monday. Although
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  • 60 18 AP London, Saturday The dollar firmed against all major currencies except the yen yesterday, and ended generally stronger this week. Gold closing prices in Zurich was U*****.50 and in US$7OO. Dollar rates late yesterday were 1.8058 marks in Frankfurt, 1.6477 Swiss francs in Zurich, 4.1860 francs in Paris,
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  • 45 18 Gray and Associates (S) will publish the 1981 directories of American and British firms here. The company clarified a New Nation report that said the American Embassy and the British High Commission have given their blessings to Embassy Publications to publish the 1981 directories.
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  • In Brief
    • 67 18 A Hong Kong company, South Asia Die-Casting, has invested more than $3'/a million in a Kallang Basin factory to make toys. The executive director of the Singapore subsidiary, Mr Steven wong, said the Hong Kong company chose Singapore because there is no exSort duty on toys
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    • 65 18 AP Reuter New York, Saturday Chase Manhattan Bank raised its prime lending rate one-half percentage point to 13 per cent yesterday, one day after the Federal Reserve announced it had raised its discount rate. Economists said the pinch of higher borrowing rates will dampen spending which in
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  • 201 18 UPI The stock market's sharp drop yesterday was attributed to rising interest rates the Federal Reserve's discount rate and banks' prime rates. Brokers said rates on interest-bearing investments such as Treasury Bills had climbed back to levels where they might attract money away from stocks. The Dow
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  • 33 18 AP Closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrial 940.10 (down 15.87); 20 transport 337.53 (down 8.06); 15 utilities 108.81 (down 1.05); 65 stocks 346.73 (down 6.22). AP
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  • Sport starts here
    • 507 19  -  |M3 Athletics From SHIRLEY TAN Jakarta, Saturday Singapore's hopes for four golds at the First Asean track and field championships, starting here at Senayan Complex this afternoon, look bleak. K.Jayamani will not be given an easy time in the 800 m. Her 2:31.05 ec is nothing
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    • 269 19  -  KjS Rugby By MAURICE NEO Rugby fans are hoping that Singapore and New Zealand will open the season with a thrilling display when they clash today (5 p.m.) at Dieppe Barracks for their preliminary round Malaysian Rugby Union-Magnolia Cup tie. Both teams left
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    • Article, Illustration
      153 20 Ali sheds about 15kg and looks set for title fight on Oct 2 Boxing UPI Las Vegas, Saturday Former three-time world boxing champion Muhammad Ali said he would do it and he did get himself into fighting-fit shape for the showdown with World Boxing Council champion Larry Holmes
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    • 260 20 KQ Athletics Reuter Beijing, Saturday British women and the United States dominated the track events on the opening day of China's first major international athletic championships yesterday, while China themselves and West Germany led the field event. Both Britain and the US took
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    • 525 20 BUT INDONESIAN WOMEN FAIL TO MAKE THE FINALS j^J^Badmlnton Reuter London, Saturday Rudy Hartono and Liem Swie King meet for the men's singles title at the Second Masters badminton championships today, but their country's women players have been thwarted once again. For all Indonesia's vaunted
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    • 286 20 if Golf AFP AP Kuala Lumpur, Saturday Twice US Open champion Hale Irwin leads the American challenge against Japan's top golfer Lsao Aoki in the Benson And Hedges International golf series to be played over four venues from Dec. 9-14. The Tasek Utara Golf Club in Johore
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    • 518 21  -  With Donnelly astride, he will be hard to beat over 1700 m trip By BRIAN MILLER The Pesta, who has finished on board three times in his last five starts, looks too good for his present class and will be hard to beat when he goes
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    • 2382 21 Noble Nap...hM been working well and should make a bold showing In Race RACE 1 2.30 CLASS 6-1.400M x T0TE board stakes (Malaysian-bred Horses) ($15,000 $9,000 to winner) 1 *41*20 Antaaana a (Tjakra) Bougoure 57 (same) 6 mg Donndy 6 2 862*34 Lologiva
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    • 104 21 K.L. CHAN TURF RAY rrmTTTTrm STAR BOY Race 1 Sixth Geaeratlen Pantjawala Paatjawala Sixth Generation Pantjawala Casino Champ Caalae Champ Lotogive Race I Dignity Elite Art Gatecrasher Timothy Better Times Clearaway Elite Art Dignity Kmc S Teaea Lightning Llghtalag Tosca Ceatary Miss Prima Jack Flash Prima Kmc 4 HmSkvtor
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    • 57 21 Martha Young won the Singapore Island Country CluD Nine-Hole Throwout competition with a nett 20 1/3 at the Bukit course yesterday. Nancy Clayton and Jea- nette Sim tied for second spot on nett 21 Vt. The "B" Division went to Sally Ferguron-Jones on nett 17. Sandra Chan
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    • 520 22  -  He can score on S. Jeya and Nice Fella By BRIAN MILLER Jockey Alvin Tweedie, who has been riding with considerable success on a freelance licence recently, has been engaged to partner several fancied mounts at Penang tomorrow and could score a double with SUa Jeya
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    • 404 22 iff 60 The twwl rtud draw for the Singapore O*U AnmUUm literme«l»l« championship Boklt cntm tomemw: 7.31 a. m. K. C. Chow (J) S. C. Ng (Sw) C. Li (Sen)-7.37 H.H. Un m T.F. Pah (T) P. Gomez (K); 7.43 Choy Peng Ha (C) T.W. Lai
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    • 3167 22 Slta Jeya...looks good over 14Mm trip in Race 3. RACF 1 2.0 CLASS 5 DIV 3—1,400M A ($10,500 $7,350 to winner) 1 710*** The Great Johnson 1 Black Diamond a (Johnson) E. Breukelen 57 (dd 1) 5 ag Chum 3 2 *0**3* Loyal
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    • 121 23 K. L. CHAN TURF RAY BRIAN MILLER STAR BOY Race 1 Grandeur Loyal Scholar Grandeur The Great Johnson Raregem Grandeur Grandeur Tanah Mas 1kMl Victory Fair Fun Kung Fun Kong Echunga Echunga Clover Fire Paloma Blanca Echunga Race J Oaadamaaa Pearl Melanie Site Jeya Gandamana Pearl Melanie Gandamana Gandamana
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    • 216 23 Geneva, Saturday Americans, Harold Solomon and Vitas Gerulaitis, seeded one and two, were both eliminated in the quarter finals of a US$75,000 Grand Prix tennis tournament yesterday. Matching topspin for topspin, unseeded Wolf- gang Popp of West Germany eliminated topseeded Solomon, 7-5, 7-5. And although
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    • 99 23 The figure denotes horse scratched or withdrawn from race; a, g or s after horses' namea denotes ability of horse to run well on any going, good or aoft; Dg the horae haa won over thia distance on good going; Cg -7 courae winner on good
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    • 166 23 Cycling The Singapore Amateur Cycling Association will hold a 75km race at the East Coast Parkway on Sunday at 3 p.m. The event although not on SACA's original calendar has been arranged at the request of some avid cyclists of the US Navy ships currently
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    • 680 24  -  Atlas should beat Fahim again to make it three-in-a-row By TAY CHENG KHOON Pakistan's amateur squash champion, Atlas Khan, should have no trouble winning the Singapore Open title for the third year running when the tournament begins tomorrow at the Kallang Complex. And going by the
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    • 142 24 Soccer Reuter Kuwait, Saturday North Korea beat Syria 21 yesterday in the Seventh Asian Cup soccer finals here to gain a place in the semi-finals. North Korea's win lifted them to second place in Group "A" and earned them a semi-final against South Korea, leaders of
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