New Nation, 19 December 1980

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  • 18 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Friday, December 19, 1980 3059 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 109/1/80 NtVV (fco) NATION COMMENT
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  • 315 1  -  By Teresa Ooi our education correspondent Teachers from 12 schools have reported to the police 22 cases of parents who allegedly made false declarations while registering their children for next year's pre-prlmary and primary one classes. Police will investigate these cases and submit their
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  • 327 1  -  Arsonist locks door and sets it alight By Douglas Chan Police are looking for a man who padlocked a Toa Payoh flat, sprayed oil on the door and then set it ablaze. For 15 terrfying minutes, three boys all brothers who were trapped inside, cried and
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  • 185 1 Tone of the market during the drat 45 minutes of trading this morning: Steady to firm. Property stocks hit the limelight with good gains chalked up by several of them. BUSINESS DONE First Section C Dev (1) 3.76 (1) 3.78 (5) 3.82 (7) 3.80 C C (1) 5.00 DBS
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    • 36 1 Jeans The vagae rales: Page 1 the full-bodied Scotch Ask for it b\j nanle. w TEACHEFS Cf? eA < >rT> p »'f»ot»on of Old SCOTCH WHISK* T «*CHt* sons LTD KOTUMO Uir' *H Eastern ,j Eastern Agencies
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    • 51 1 INSIDE Jeffrey Low reports Page 28 Election round-up >o>" Page 5 Forecast Singapore's weather outlook fro n 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. today: Cloudy, with occasional showers. Sunset today: 6.34 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.31 a.m. IN THE OTHER PAGES: Crossword 21; Comics 22; Stars 29; Moneywords 29; What's On 30,
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  • 258 2  -  By Teo Lian Huay Tiong Bahru housing estate, one of the pioneers in public housing, will have its first fiveroom flats under a redevelopment programme. The flats will be built by the Housing Board at Kim Tian Road, and should be ready by 1983.
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  • 316 2 The first Muslim orphanage (or girls, which will be officially opened tomorrow, has facilities which are considered almost Ideal. But the $1.1 million orphanage at Wan Tho Avenue, off Upper Serangoon Road, is not fully occupied because of certain misconceptions among Muslims. Cik Zainah
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  • 222 2 Narcotics officers are unhappy because they reportedlv have to undertake jobs unrelated to their work. The Amalgamated Union of Public Employees, which represents them, has asked the Central Narcotics Bureau for their Job descriptions, so that CNB does not "abuse its authority over these employees."
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  • 48 2 The Aljunied Zone D Residents' Committee will bold a residents' gathering at the concourse between Blocks 13 and 14, Merpati Road, on Sunday at 7.30 p.m. Popular local and oversea* singers and dancers will perform Malay, Chinese and English songs and folk dances at the gathering.
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  • 54 2 The Alunied Zone C Residents' Committee will hold a children's Christmas party at the badminton court behind Block 36, Circuit Road, on Dec 25 at 9 a.m. The programme will Include a magic show, a quiz, a sing-a-long session and games. Light refreshments will be served. Tickets are
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  • 97 2 AFP Dacca, Friday eastern* aatheritles la the ssathera part sf Cblttagsag kave wM fraai a ship abeat M kg d silver walttag ta be smaggled ta Hagapere, a paper Mid yesterday. Jttetmq said the silver balllea was adzed with tamarlad seeds la packets te be experted te
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  • 183 4  -  Association writes to govt departments By Richard Ho Building contractors have asked government departments and statutory boards to allow price adjustments in their contracts when the cost of raw materials escalates. The Singapore Contractors' Association has written to the Ministry of National Development, the Housing Board,
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  • 114 4 There are more terrazzo tiles than these houses need. But the tiles are not to be used. They are merely stacked up for storage in the compound of a house at Cheong Chin Nam Road. Are they dangerous? No, says one of the employees.
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  • 30 4 A senior beauty instructress of Torimay Enterprises, Miss Zephyrinus Lim, will speak on fresh fruit and vegetables beauty therapy at the Queenstown branch library tomorrow at 3 p.m.
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  • 193 5 The following rallies will be held toaay: Barim Bulilii: Car parte 11, Lorong 2, Toa Payoh from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. People's Action Party: Fullerton Square from 11 a.m. to 3 p. m.; Car park 4, between Blks 14 and 15, Telok Blangah Crescent from 7 p.m.
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  • 596 5 Election round-up The PAP is not afraid of having an opposition party voted into Parliament, said the party's chairman Dr Ton Chin Chye. He said it is up to voters to decide on an opposition representation, which might even be welcome provided the candidate is of
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  • 40 5 The Khe Bong Zone B Residents' Committee will organise a visit to the Singapore Science Centre, the zoological Gardens and the Singapore Experience on Sunday. The fee is $5 for adults and $4 for children below 12 years old.
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  • 248 6 Two boys found drowned in lake in Jurong where many go for a swim If this No Entry barricade (picture on the top left) was in its right place, two families may not be mourning the deaths of their loved ones. The barricade, put up after
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  • 41 6 The Japanese ambassador to Singapore, Mr T. Nakajima yesterday donated food and clothes worth about $22,000 at the Hawkin Road refugee camp. The money was collected by the Japanese Foreign Ministry. After the presentation the ambassador toured the camp.
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  • 111 6 Kuala Lumpur, Friday An Asean car may be a reality in the long term but it is not going to come about within the medium term. This "creature", at any rate, is not the immediate objective of the Asean industrial complementation scheme. Stating this
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 474 6 m S I uS »ln Search of a Beloved Sister •Mencari Kekanda Tersayang TALES FROM THE ORIENT DONGENG-DONGENG DARI TIMUR m E I E m s* m 1 H Wa m i i Wa 1 i fj I a i 1 v; i fill wvv\1 u w ftmas* o njji
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  • 831 7  -  Our education correspondent tells why some children have been struck off from schools' registers by 1 Teresa Ooi Schools will reopen in two weeks' time but five-year-old Tan Soon Leong is still uncertain which school he will go to for his pre-primary. And all because his father
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    • 174 7 World News on Pages 11,12 and 14 ire Sraj/i y Y /iK? -4" We have specially prepared for you the traditional Roast Turkey with Chestnut Stuffing and Plum Pudding on the eve of X'mas plus, a special X'mas Day Lunch to complete a season of good cheerl On 22nd, 23rd
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  • 346 8 A race is going on between the Singapore Turf Club and its Malaysian counterparts, especially the Perak Turf Gub. And it is not a new one, having started as far back as 1960. That was the year the Perak Turf Club decided to inaugurate the
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  • 115 8 Before the Beatles, English pop music 9 had been, with few exceptions, highly derivative mainly of American rock and roll. The Beatles created an indigenous and unmistakable British sound, which became, within a very short time, the dominant sound of pop. It was no longer necessary to copy
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 54 8 One technician puffed his first cigarette on Smokeout Day after having given it up for three years. When his dismayed colleagues asked him why, he said: "I can't stand the urge anymore so I'm smoking again. I can't help it if the day I pick falls on Smokeout
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    • 48 8 An executive has become an expert in decoding the broken English messages of his telephonist. When she writes "McGarrett called," it means "Margaret called." And if it is "A mister called and he already go," it means nothing more than that a Mr Goh called.
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  • 628 8 Follow the elections Eighty-one candidates are fighting for 38 remaining seats in this election. But interest will be centred on only three things. The first is, as always, since the Barisan Sosialis boycotted Parliament in 1966, whether any oppositipn candidates can make his or her way
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  • 72 8 The issues 1. Continuity of good and effective government. 2. Consolidation of the progress made so far. 3. Security of the country. 4. Nation's and leadership's ability to identify problem areas Singapore will have to pay attention to such as energy conservation, continued promotion of
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  • 54 8 1. Need for an opposition in Parliament. 2. Restoring fundamental democratic rights and freedom and the "political will" of the people. 3. Lowering taxes, utilities tariffs and HDB rentals. 4. Genuine equality for women. 5. Stopping excessive dependence on multinational corporations. 6. The "proper" representation
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  • 573 8 People's Action Party: The PAP was formed on Nov 11, 1964. It had a basically anti-colonialism platform with broad principles of democratic socialism. In 1965, it won three of 25 seats in a 32seat Legislative Assembly. It swept into self-gov-erning power in 1959 with
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  • 141 9 On Oct 7,1966, Barisan Sosialis' chairman Dr Lee Slew Choh called an urgent press conference. Purpose? To announce the resignation of all its nine members of Parliament, in protest against Singapore's "phoney" independence and to emphasise the party's decision to struggle for power outside Parliament. With
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  • 188 10 Parang-wielding men seen leaving the scene There was pandemonium in a nightclub at High Street Centre last night when a fire broke out. Seven men armed with parangs and swords were seen leaving the Golden Mikado Nightclub soon after the fire started at about 9.06 p.m. Damage
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  • 213 11 UPI Tokyo, Friday Motorists struck by lightning no matter how powerful the charge have nothing to worry about as long as they stay inside their car, Japanese scientists said yesterday. A group of Japanese scientists announced preliminary finding which "confirmed," they said, a motorist's
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  • 146 11 AP Rome, Friday *he Italian airline Itavia, offering evidence that a missile downed its passenger plane last June, said yesterday that radar screens showed that a military-type let flew close to the DC-9 moments before it exploded. The Itavia statement contradicted statements after the
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  • In Brief
    • 87 11 UPI London, Friday Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher hired an economist for US$l2O,OOO ($240,000) almost twice her own salary, on Wednesday and ran into complaints from the opposition Labour Party. Some of the grumbling is because a large part of the salary being paid to Mr Alan Walters, 54,
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    • 82 11 UPI New York, Friday The wife of a prominent college professor threw their 5-vear-old son to his death from a window of their sixth-flow apartment yesterday ana, as her husband slept, herself jumped from the building, police said. The mother, identified as Carole Berman, had
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    • 74 11 AFP Warsaw, Friday Distribution of meat ration tickets for the holiday season began yesterday in most large Polish cities, producing long lines, traffic jams and confusion to add to the prechristmas bustle. The rationing was a prelude to a general plan to ration meat that was demanded by
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    • 53 11 UPI Rome, Friday An 18hour strike by air controllers yesterday forced cancellation of all international flights and most domestic flights at Italian airports. The Air Controllers Union called the strike to protest what it called inadequate plans for reform of their working conditions decreed recently by a
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  • 84 11 World I Focus J UPI New Delhi, Friday A group of Sevlet soldiers m ordered two Afghan schoolgirls la Kabol loot week, teaching off demoMtrattoaa and formal pretests to the Soviet-hacked government. iMM and diplomatic ssarces said yesterday. On Saterday, the day the two girl* were harfed,
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  • Article, Illustration
    70 12 Fan-pushed car does 48km/litre The CM-Uke abject la Ike picture is the rear of the ear designed by the bm iMMi m It, inventor Junes Bede. It acnlevcd 48km/Utre daring recent tests. The ear, powered by a lttt cc enrine, Is propelled by a fan. For urban use
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  • 168 12 World L Focus UPI Sacramento (California), Friday A Jury has acquitted an Arab emigrant and his wife accused of telling their son to kill their 15-year-old daughter's lover. The five-woman, sevenman jury had deliberated five days before returning the verdict
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  • 57 12 AP Beijing, Friday Chairman Hua Guofeng, under heavy fire from the Communist Party, has agreed to resign, diplomatic sources reported yesterday the 21st day of his disappearance from public life. Mr Hua is expected to resign at a central committee meeting in January and be replaced
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    • 170 13 Give the Gift of Time tefe,this Christmas, nl W* Give Titoni. i S* wf r r 963-0077 •if M M x II e <« A,' nU. VXJ £r JT > > >; X»>. <•' *****79 %«A «<V V *.f" 4 SSW r.r; .1 y J %'Jpr tlw i' Ja a
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  • 152 14 The auctioneer hammer Is about to fall for £2M,Mt (about $1.48 million), at LMh don's Sotheby's for ft 14th century Chinese bottle, held In the foreground. The pear-shaped bottle was sold In M seconds to Mr T. Y. Chfto, a prlvftte collector from Hong Kong
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  • 105 14 UPI Brisbane, Friday A five-year-old boy died in agony yesterday after being stung by a box jellyfish. Police said the boy was wading in knee-deep water when he saw the Jellyfish and made for the shore, but its tentacles lashed his legs. The victim, Marchat
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  • 256 14 World Focus J UPI Tskys, Friday Attention busy housewives: dial-a-chicken is here. A simple call to an operator sets the wheels in motion. The housewife places her order and a computer does the rest. The system, called Albie, is the brainchild of a Japanese data processing company
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  • 142 14 AFP London, Friday Journalism is becoming an extremely dangerous profession and it is "increasingly difficult to draw up a list of countries where Eress freedom exists," the iternational Press Institute (IPI) said in its annual report published here today. The IPI, a body aimed at furthering and
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    • 144 14 r Springfoam v < N <*-r ■jspw* l 'jh V *,s* < > t 1 «i j Svtlv K V s n P* >#S V, Spring rise Springtone 4K* H K\ M/; V*, xvy m ~*~+r- »«•> "*f^' a W.v *<• w; -i* \J% ■■>: v,,. The ever spirigcdlectm. that
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  • 568 15 Art A Buchwald L J You have to know your stuff to work in the mailroom of the Pentagon Los Angeles Times Washington: You really have to know your stuff to work in the mailroom at the Pentagon these days. "Sarge, where
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  • 113 15 Reuter Rome, Friday A young woman was set tree yesterday by kidnappers who kept her in a eave near Catanzaro, southern Italy, for almost a year, police said. Miss Barbara Piatelli, the 27 year-old daughter of a wealthy Rome clothes wholesale dealer, was kidnapped on
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    • 438 16/17  -  ff a Little* bookworm Selection of Christmas books reviewed: ACTIVITY BOOKS: 1 Merry Christmas, Snoopy! Colouring Book (Ottenhelmer Publishers). 2 The Christmas Manger Scene Press Out Book (World Distributors). BEGINNER'S BOOKS: 1 Stan and Jan Berenstain, The Bears' Christmas (Collins, 1971). 2 Boy McKle and
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    • Article, Illustration
      60 16/17  -  Glaucoma by Dr. Lasse Hessel A decrease in the visual field can be a symptom of glaucoma. The eyeball will feel hard because the chamber fluid cannot drain out of the eye. Elaboration of fluid in the eye continues and the pressure rises, which can produce injury to
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    • 607 16/17 How ectopic pregnancy occurs SLCK We read recently that a woman had given birth to a baby that was in the abdomen and not in the womb. This sort of story has appeared before and seems rather common. How
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    • 434 16/17  -  Beef noodles stall in back alley gives generous topping of meat Eating Out bv Margaret Chan If you do not mind eating in not too clean back alleys, read on. My lunch companion was most unhappy when we arrived at my latest discovery. Tucked somewhere among
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  • 399 18 US researchers come up with another finding: NYT Washington: The President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has reported new evidence that people who drink water having high levels of the chemical byproducts of chlorination run small but increased risks of developing certain types of cancer over
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  • 540 19 UPI Cincinnati: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula. Shocking. Dr Jekyl and Mr Holmes. Come on now. Sherlock Holmes in Dallas. Oh no. The guest lecturer at one of Xavier University's recent classes on Sherlock Holmes was reeling off a seemingly endless list of "pastiches
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  • 303 20 i Business Neus and Views A J Reuter Los Angeles, Friday President-elect Ronald Reagan may freeze government hiring, when he takes office on Jan 20, his chief spokesman said yesterday. Mr Edwin Meese, named a White House counsellor with Cabinet rank in the new administration,
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  • 71 20 The extension block on the left of the nictore will, when completed, Increase the nam her of rooms at the Hyatt Regency, by 352 to 1176. It will be situated at Nntmeg Road, behind the present building. The site Is currently occupied by
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  • 143 20 Reuter Washington, Friday The United States had a surplus in its balance of payments during the third quarter of 1980, the first for a year, the government reported yesterday. The Commerce Department said that on a current account basis, the broadest and most accurate measurement
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  • 246 20 AP New York, Friday Rising prices, falling demand and "substantial conservation efforts" prompted Exxon Corporation yesterday to reduce by 4 million barrels a day its projection of oil-use in the non-communist world in the year 2000. The world's largest oil company also said
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  • 193 20 The stock market staged a broad advance in heavy trading yesterday amid talk of a possible peak in US interest rates. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, rose 1.70 to close at 930.20. Advances outnumbered declines by about a two to one margin. Volume totalled 69.57
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  • 33 20 AP Closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 930.20 (up 1.70); 20 transports 393.37 (up 3.64); 15 utilities 115.01 (up 3.36); 65 stocks 365.29 (up 3.06). AP
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  • 77 20 Reuter Geneva, Friday International talks for a new agreement to regulate the world tin trade ended in failure yesterday but the chairman of the meeting said he was sure further discussions next March would succeed. The conference was adjourned a day earlier than planned after
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  • 28 20 Reuter New York, Friday Iraq's exports of oil via pipelines through Turkey and Syria have stopped, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, the oil industry newsletter reported yesterday. Reuter
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  • SPORT STARTS HERE
    • 384 21 Soccer Reuter AFP London, Friday Champions Liverpool have a double objective when they clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers in the English League tomorrow. They will aim to go back to the top of tne First Division they are second, one point behind leaders Aston Villa and also avenge
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    • 138 21 Boxing UPI London, Friday Muhammad Ali yesterday disclosed that John L. Gardner, Britain's European heavyweight champion, has signed to fight him within the next three months in a comeback appearance that could be worth USs2.smil to the three-time former World champion. "Gardner has signed to fight
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    • 858 22  -  in the FA Cup SOCCER by Peter Shi I ton by Peter Shilton Teams at the top of the First Division are not necessarily the best FA Cup bets. That's why, when attempting to forecast who will win this season's competitor I'm inclined to look
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    • 90 22 AFP Tokyo, Friday The men's handball, squash and rowing have been added to the 9th Asian Games events to be held in New Delhi, India, in 1962, it was learned here yesterday. This has brought the number of events on the programme to 23, which include equestrian,
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    • 62 22 Golf B. G. Pang and K. S. Wang won the SICC greensome competition by two strokes from R. Hudson and Nellie Chin when they returned a nett 72 at the Island course yesterday. Pang and Wang also captured the Ist nine ballsweep on nett 34 1/2. The 2nd
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    • Article, Illustration
      264 23 Tracy uses strong baseline game to thrash opponent Tennis UPI Tucson, Friday Top-seeded Tracy Austin used only 50 minutes on Wednesday night to overwhelm unseeded Roberta McCallum 6-1, 6-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the US$lOO,OOO (about $210,000) Tucson Open. Austin, using a strong baseline game to continually frustrate
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    • 124 23 AFP LNdH, Friday Temperamental tennis ■tar Die Nastase will net play la the KIM,MI (about $519,tM) Men's Doubles World championshlps at Olympia here from Jan 6 to 11. Organisers gave no reason for the aboenee of the 34-year-old Nastase. who was scheduled to play alongside Italian
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      270 23 vanquished Four top seeds are bundled out of clash in Sydney UPI Sydney, Friday Windy White City resembled a battlefield yesterday after four of the top five seeds were blasted out of the U*****,000 (about $262,000) Nabisco New South Wales Open tennis championships at the Rushcutter's Bay courts. The big
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    • 70 23 AFP Delray Beach (Florida), Friday Unseeded Sweden sprang a major surprise in the quarterfinals of the Sunshine Cup Under 18 tennis competition here yesterday by defeating fourth-seeded Italy 4-2. The Scandinavians won both of the singles when Mats Willander beat Francisco Cancellotti 6-3, 7-5 and Joak Nystroel
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    • 463 24  -  On the track By TURF RAY Penang, Friday Humble Beginning showed winning form in his workout at here this morning. With jockey Razmy Ashari in the saddle, the Idomeneo five-year-old breezed through 600 m in 37.6. He was kept on a tight rein all
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    • 3119 24 RAPF 1 145 CLASS 4 DIV 6 1.200M x ($12,000 $8,400 to winner) 1 7 Slippery Sam N (Lucy) E. Breukelen 57 (d2 +1.5) 3 ag 1,200m H. H. Chan 6 2 *0* High Oak* (High Oaks) Tan 56 (dd +2.5) 3 eg
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    • 136 24 K. L. CHAN TURF RAY BRIAN MILLER STAR BOY PueyBMn Jordan Cheers Raabcatter Up AaiOa Cheers High Oaks Ausborn Bam t First In 8. Valeatia* Sunshine Corner Kallpa Sunshine Corner Gambalaa First In um Lari Rail* Born Siren Raarlag Tweattea Indiscreet Lari Rail* Indiscreet Apalaebee Desperado Ram 4 Staraky
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    • 317 25 Tabletennis By SHIRLEY TAN Twenty-four players will be called up for National training at Poi Ching School in Toa Payoh from Monday to prepare for the 36th World Table Tennis championships in Yugoslavia next April. This was disclosed by Singapore Table Tennis Association secretary
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    • 190 25 I Rugby MN Former national coach Natahar Bava will be taking orders instead of giving tomorrow when he turns out for Old Rafflesians Association in the Penang Pest a 10-a-side tournament. Natahar, will be playing under the captaincy of player-coach Tay Huai Eng. This will
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    • 507 26 Tennis Reuter Prague, Friday The fresh young recruit on duty at Prague's Winter Sports Palace during last week's Davis Cup final had only just been conscripted into the Czechoslovak army. He had two years of soldering ahead of him but the only active service
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    • 916 27  -  By BRIAN MILLER, who toured Australia recently BRIAN MILLER Two years ago a high school student from Baltimore walked onto centre court at Flushing Meadows to (ace Chris Evert-Lloyd in the singles final of the United States Open tennis championships. She came out the loser going
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    • 618 28  -  Officials happy with Young Lions' performance Soccer Guangzhou 1 S'pore 1 By JEFFREY LOW Guangxhou, Friday Total satisfaction was written all over the faces of Singapore soccer officials after the Young Lions battled the cold winds and a tenacious Guangzhou side to finish with
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    • 531 28 Hong Kong, Friday Hong Kong officials, struggling to build up team spirit among their players, were dealt two stinging blows when star striker Wan Chee Keong and winger Sze Kin Hay suddenly disappeared from training for the past three days, reports JEFFREY LOW. Efforts
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    • 289 29  -  Newk respond to her plea for help Athletics By TAY CHENG KHOON Glory Barnabas, Singapore's National 100 m and 200 m record holder, received her best ever Christmas present yesterday a return ticket to Christchurch, New Zealand to participate in the World veterans' Meet next January.
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    • 154 29 Motorracing Paris, Firday The British Parliament will debate the crisis in Grand Prix auto racing. The subject will be raised in the House of Commons because a threat of up to 1000 Jobs, export earnings and prestige lin- gers, if the current dispute is not settled.
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    • 155 29 Soccer The second round of the National Under-16 seven a side soccer tournament, which was called off last week because of rain, will be held at Farrer Park Bitches this Sunday at ).00 a.m. Of the 96 teams in the qualifying round, only 20
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    • 403 30  -  Review Adelaide Braes Ensemble Singapore Festival /pM of Arts 1980 I—WQ By Khng Ai Meng We experienced anxiety and wild excitement, then calm and gravity. Vibrant, brassy sounds were heard only to be followed by mellow, muted tones. It was truly music in
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    • 464 30  -  Review TMdwn' Art ExMhitiM By Chia Wai Hon It is a well-known (act that art occupies a back seat in Singapore schools. Art is, on record, a compulsory school subject from pre-primary to lower secondary level. After that it is an optional subject for
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    • 292 30 Tides At the cinema Tiday: 2.19 a.m. (1.2 m), 8.30 a.m. (2.8 m). 3.01 p.m. (0.6 m), 9.38 p.m. (2.6 m). Tamarraw: 3.12 a.m. (1.2 m), 9.12 a.m. (2.9 m), 3.49 fi.m. (0.4 m), 10.33 p.m. 2.8 m). Saaday: 3.59 a.m. (1.2 m), 9.53 a.m. (3.1 m), 4.35 p.m. (0.2
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    • 372 31  -  Review Battlestar Galactica By Michael Chiang Sci-fi adventure series. You either love them or leave them well alone. For one thing, they become very much the same after you've seen a couple. Without fail, you will have a scene with a massive space-craft looming slowly
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    • 553 31  -  Sundoun Scene bv Zaki There is no way to respond to that phenomenon called Tina Turner but viscerally. You can't Just sit passively watching her perform. She involves you completely leaving you emotionally drained, visually blitzed and aurally zonked-out. She also leaves you totally and utterly,
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    • 83 31 John Lennon lives... for one night that Is. Studio M will be presenting non-stop Beatles music In appreciation sf the late ex-Bea-tle's contribution to modern music tonight. The musical commemoration which will begin at 9.46 p.m. will continue till S a.m. Only music recorded by the Beatles
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    • 87 31 Rediffusion 12.00 noon The Fabulous 240 1.30 News/Share Market Report 1.45 The Fabulous 240 3.00 Star Watch. 3.02 Did You Know 3.04 The Fabulous 240 4.00 Chinese Programmes 8.00 Ready, steady, Go. Friday night personality Chris Ho churns out "live" the latest hits with information and news 9.00 News 9.10
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    • 461 31 PIANO RECITAL BY GIREGOR WEICHERT at Victoria Concert Hall, 8 p.m. The programme include Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor; Franz Liszt's Variations and Funerailles. Tickets at $1 and |2 from the usual booking centres. HUMANREPRODUCTTVE SYSTEM: Talk cum filmshow in English at Queenstown Branch Library lecture room
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  • 39 32 AH FOOK: A lack of security at factories and homes is the reason frathe increased crime in Jurong. MEI LIN: You had better lock up all your windows and doors before you go for your Christmas holiday.
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    • 930 32 Today's Pick On TV BUCK ROGERS IN THE 29TH CENTURY: Return Of The Fighting 69th (Ch 5, 8.45 p.m. in colour). With the help of a retired starflghter, played by Peter Graves, Buck Rogers and Col Wilms Deerlng fly into combat against a notorious gunrunner (Robert Quarry) and his female
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