New Nation, 31 March 1981

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    19 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Tuesday, March 31, 1981 3137 Price 25 Cents M.C.(P) No. 103/1/81 r NEW (£3) NATION COMMENT,
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    Lock icon Reagan Shot
    875 1 But all is well after operation Washington: PraMeit Bmld Rmku wm shot and wMuided in an assassination attempt yesterday. Three others, including his press secretary James Brady, were injured. Mr Brady's condition was reported to be critical. Mr Reagan, 70, underwent surgery to remove a bullet which pierced
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    Lock icon 4 hijackers killed as troops storm plane
    590 1 Agencies Bangkok: Indonesian commandos, backed by Thai soldiers, stormed the hijacked Garuda DC-9, killing four of the five hijackers and freeing all 44 hostages m an eight-minute gunbattle early this morning. Indonesian officials denied the Thai government's first report that a four-year-old boy
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      55 1 OTLAS SOUND (PTE) LTD. [customer service 53 SPOTTISWOODE PARK ROAD SINGAPORE 0208 Telephone 222-2720 Mon Sat 10 00am-6.00pm More on the shooting Gold soars, marktt closos Profile and picture of tha suspact a Tha 140-yaar-oM jinx a Mora pictures Pages 6 and 7 TV, radio and FM stereo programmes and
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      137 1 Oxbridge scheme poser Pages 8 and 9 IN THE OTHER PAGES: Stocks 5; Stars 17; Crossword, Comics 18; Moneywords 21; What's On 22; TV Page 23. More stories on Page 6 11l The solution to! clean heads and clear sounds \>4e f J j*. iV tone Gin 4? m tone-Gin
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    Last-minute pact, so strike is off
    333 2 Warsaw: The Polish government and free trade unions pulled back from the brink last night, reaching a last-minute agreement to head off a general strike which the government said could have been a national catastrophe. The agreement was reached Just one hour before the
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    Delay in beauty course diplomas
    149 2 Some students who took a beauty culture course at a beauty school have complained to the Consumers' Association of Singapore over the delay in the issuing of diplomas to them. The students, who also complained to New Nation, said the school an associate school of
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    Lock icon Delegation
    36 2 AFP Islamabad: A six-mem-ber Chinese military deleStion led by Jia Ruoyo, puty commandant of the Chinese Military College arrived here yesterday on an 11-day tour of Pakistan. They were received by senior army officers. AFP
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    Picking up the tricks of the trade
    145 2 These boys from Swiss Cottage Secondary School are learning (or themselves that some locks can be easily broken with Just a hammer and a screwdriver. After some banging away at this lock, for a while, the boys are close to success. This lesson
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    Lock icon Today
    57 2 UPI TODAY is Tuesday, March 31, the 90th day of 1981 with 275 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: American humorist Charles Farrar Browne said: "Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we
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    Lock icon Nude portion of mural covered up
    52 4 The two nudes in this picture caused the Chinese censors to board np this mural, The Song mt LI, at Beljbig's newly-opened airport. The Dml tribe of Yunan objected to the two nudes of Its 1M figures In the mural, officials said. AP photo
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    Lock icon Legal abortions: 20 mil every year
    99 4 AFP Geneva: Between 20 million and 30 million legal abortions are performed throughout the world every year, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) study of contraception practices that was issued here yesterday. The study found that recourse to abortion was expanding rapidly among
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    $20,000 lost yearly in fare leakage
    290 4  -  SBS steps up peak hours checks By Rav Dhaliwal Singapore Bus Service, which loses more than $20,000 in fare leakage every year, has stepped up enforcement during the peak hours. This follows the results of a recent SBS survey which confirmed that fare leakage
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    Singapore needs practical engineers
    265 4 Singapore engineers speak up. All engineers practising, academic and students should voice their thoughts on what is happening to their locallytrained counterparts so that the authorities can help them solve problems they face. This call was made at a seminar on civil engineering education and training
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    160 4 UPI Washington: A pwfe—r says having stndents spend some time with a raw egg attached to their bodies will teach them hew to enpe with a child. Dr Alvln Prlee requires the 7M stndents In his basic child development elans to tie a raw egg, placed In
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      166 4 The Solution On Microcomputer System HARDWARE. With modular, expandable DVNABYTE 5000 family computet you can start with the smaller model and add to that in incremental blocks to becopie mult> uujrnnal, hundreds megabytes in hard disk storage and network processinyf! 1 SOFTWARE. Business Automation Consultant Pte Ltd a leading local
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    Women kicked in queue at HDB
    246 5 Women were jostled and pushed when a section of the crowd surged forward to jump the queue at the Housing Board's Maxwell Road office today. The queue started to form at about 4 a.m. with about 60 people. By 7 a.m., when numbers were
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    Stock market
    248 5 Tone of the market during the first 45 minutes of trading this morning: SHgfitly easier. Opening prices among the heavyweights were between 10 and 20 cents lower, following news that President Reagan was shot at in Washington this morning. Among those affected were OCEC, Gentings, Public Bank, Bandar
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    Lock icon Gold falls
    21 5 UPI Hong Kong: Gold opened lower at US$529 an ounce here today compared with yesterday's close of US$53l. UPI
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    Man robbed
    43 5 A despatch clerk, Mr Tan Choon Mong, 26, of the stockbroking firm in Leong Chuan Building, Phillip Street, was punched and robbed of $25,000 and some cheques on the first floor of the building by three men at 12.30 p.m. yesterday.
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  • In brief
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      GCE registrations
      93 5 Registration for the 1981 Singapore-Cambridge GCE O and A level examinations will be open to private candidates from tomorrow to April 24, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, between 8.30 a.m. and 4 p.m.daily. Candidates should register at the central testing service branch of tne Education Ministry, bringing
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      Cease operations
      67 5 The Sentosa Harbour and Cable Car Tours, operated jointly by the Sentosa Development Corgoration, Port of Singapore Corporation and the ingapore Cable Car Pte Ltd will cease operation from tomorrow. This was announced by a spokesman for SDC who said the decision was taken because the tours, which
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      Lock icon Opec's first step
      68 5 AP Kuwait: Saudi Arabia will not discuss any reduction in crude oil production rates before the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) agrees on unified prices, the Saudi oil minister declared here yesterday. "An agreement on prices and price differentials should be the first step to be
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      Lock icon Grandma jailed
      44 5 UPI T«ky«: A Japanese court yesterday meted out a 2Vi -year prison sentence to a 74-year-old woman who strangled her autistic grandson to "save the family from misery." The grandmother, Fuji Nasu, asphyxiated with a handkerchief 12-year-old Masaaki Yamaguchl last October. UPI
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    Lock icon He shot Reagan
    174 6 / 7 Agencies Denver (Colorado): John Hinckley (above), the man said by secret service agents to have shot President Reagan In Washington yesterday, Is a 22-year-old Yale University dropout whose father heads an oil company here. Neighbours said yesterday they were shocked to learn that the youth, described as
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    Lock icon 'Americans helped organise rescue'
    476 6 / 7 Drama Two: Garuda hijack Agencies Bangkok: Three Americans may have played a role in organising the successful commando raid on the hijacked Indonesian plane, according to unconfirmed reports. When questioned on this, a US embassy spokesman said: "No comment." AFP reporter Glenn Garven, who watched the
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    Lock icon Oscars postponed
    76 6 / 7 Drama One: Reagan is shot. Reuter Lm Angeles: The Hollywood Oscar awards show, to have been staged last night, has been postponed (or 24 hours because of the assassination attempt on President Reagan. President Reagan, a former actor, had recorded a brief speech to be included in the
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    Lock icon Gold up US$10
    210 6 / 7 New York: Gold soared and dealings on US stock exchanges and government bond markets were halted yesterday following the assassination attempt on President Reagan. The gold price rose US$lO to US$52l an ounce on the news that Mr Reagan had been shot and wounded while leaving the
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    Lock icon Brady admired for his humour
    241 6 / 7 Reuter Washington: James Brady, President Reagan's Press Secretary who was among those wounded in yesterday's assassination attempt, is a burly man who won the press corps' admiration for his sense of humour. Mr Brady was reported to have been shot in the left temple and
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    Lock icon One hijacker had fair skin — passenger
    228 6 / 7 One hijacker had fair skin passenger Reuter AFP Jakarta: An elderly Indonesian woman passenger released by the hijackers in Penang last Saturday before they forced the Garuda DC-9 to Bangkok, said iresterday, one of them ooks like a foreigner. Mrs Hulda Panjaitan Tobing, 76, told the afternoon newspaper S inar
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    Lock icon New York Exchange
    114 6 / 7 UPI Yesterday's prices followed by the difference on the previous session's close ATfcT 51V* Armco 41* unch Beth Steel 30* -H Boeing 35'-% Bo rg-Warner 42* CaterpTrac Chrysler 04* 0* unch Coca-Cola 37 Colgate 10 Dow Chem 37* Dresser 48* Dupont 49* East Kod 81 +v« Exxon
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    Lock icon Dow Jones
    33 6 / 7 UPI Closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 992.16 (down 2.62); 20 transports 430.65 (up 0.36); 15 utilities 107.82 (up 0.29); 65 stocks 385.74 (down 0.28). UPI
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    Lock icon World leaders shocked by news of shooting
    312 6 / 7 Agencies Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon said today the government and people of New Zealand were shocked by the shooting of President Reagan. He heard the news shortly before he was due at Wellington Airoort to meet Prince Charles who is
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    Lock icon The 140-year-old jinx
    176 6 / 7 Reuter Washington: When Mr Reagan won the presidency last November he (ell heir to what many Americans consider a 140-year-old jinx: since 1840, every presidential candidate elected in a year ending in zero has died La office. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James Farfield, William McKinley and John Kennedy
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    B plus is more than one
    329 8 / 9 After eight years of existence, the Singapore Bus Service is coming under increasingly critical public scrutiny. But, "is it coming to terms with itself? On the eve of the fourth round of fare hikes in its history, and with the gloomy prospect of yet
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    THEIR VIEWS
    153 8 / 9 4 There's something disconcerting about standing in line at the checkout counter behind someone using food stamps especially when one is paying for one's own order with the family's mortgage money. A neighbour summed it up for many of us when she said: "Why should my husband and
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    Enfant terrible
    78 8 / 9 WHISPERS The anti-smoking campaign is obviously making an impact on impressionable minds. When Drought to see his new-born baby sister, a seven-year-old boy asked his mother: "Why is he so small?" Patiently, the mother replied: "All babies are small, why, when you were a baby, you were also
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    Oxbridge scheme: A big poser
    1983 8 / 9  -  A level results of some of the scholars disappointing The scheme Is part of the government's "do-Arts" drive to train scholars in English, geography, history, law and the humanities to become top notch administrators In the civil service. As a carrot, these Oxbridge scholars were
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    Results of 6 who passed entrance
    215 8 / 9 The 13 Oxbridge scholars who were selected are Chao Ye Min, Chen Ching Yee, Fong Yeng Fatt, Joyce Huen Sulin, Yang Ing Loong and Carol Tan Gek Lian (HCJC); Tan Khow Siong, Serene Yeo, Mak Kam Hoong and Lim Sing Yuen (HI) and Chang
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  • trend 1 EDITED BY SYLVIA LEOW
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      Traditional wedding gown's comeback
      611 10  -  More want to marry in baju panjang By Deborah Chia Some people get to relive some part of their past just once in their lifetime. Others, never at all. But 62-year-old Cik Asfiah Abdullah probably holds the record. She relives her past not once but five
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      RECYCLING
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      Lock icon Love stories spell money for you
      426 10 MANY CASHING IN ON DEMAND Copley Washington: Do you like stories of beautiful, adventurous women and dashing, glamorous men, set in exotic backgrounds? If so, you are probably one of the millions of fans of romance novels, the hottest type of books in publishing
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    • Dear Ros
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        Girlfriend avoids him
        191 11 \PROBLEMSOLVERS It has been 2 Viz months since I came to this school. I joined it without any thoughts of establishing a special relationship yet within the first month I fell in love. We told each other that we liked each other. We were together a lot,
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        Father wants love
        143 11 I wanted to have a close, understanding relationship with my children, so I am never demanding. My wife, however, is. She expects and gets high performance, respect and affection from them. I feel excluded from all of this. How can I be included? A Dear A, There
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        Losing sleep over girl
        124 11  -  CT This may sound crazy to you because I am a teenager, but I am in love. I have known her for only two days, but I cannot sleep at night because of her. Please tell me how to get to know her better, because she
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      Lock icon Mother of the music movement
      637 11  -  By Daniel Wood Christian Science Monitor Boston (Massachusettes): The road for women in the arts despite their visible success in this field has been at least as bumpy as their road toward equality in employment, education ana male-female relationships. But it has been a less-watched,
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    The hidden extras
    1070 12/13  -  Extramural studies include unusual courses too By JUDITH HALE Would you like to leam how to make stained glass or explore the craft of pyrography (wood burning)? Perhaps you are more interested in coming to grips with your child's growing-up problems or delving into the philosophy of
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    That thing about Zen
    586 12/13 Zen Buddhism would not be one of the department's courses If not for a yonng, bearded American named David Loy. Soon after becoming a lecturer In the philosophy department about two years ago, he broached the Idea of running a Zen Buddhism extramural course with the
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    Courses starting next month
    139 12/13 The Department of Extramural Studies offers courses in science and technology, management and accountancy, law, language and literature, music and dance, and art and craft. It also has a miscellaneous category which includes many of the unusual courses. Its Living and Learning prospectus covers courses for
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      Furniture prices to suit your budget
      266 14 A twice weekly advertisement feature If you are moving to a new place and have a tight budget, make your way to Maggie Furniture Interior Decoration at Gay World. Take a look at the designs available and what will suit your budget best at
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  • SPORT STARTS HERE
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      Lock icon Call for better showing
      388 16 Or, they'll watch grass grow Reuter London Tuesday Liverpool and West Ham will be given one last chance to provide a spectacle worthy of the occasion when they replay the English League Cup soccer final at Villa Park, Birmingham tomorrow. The clubs drew 1-1 after extra
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      Lock icon Another blow to 1982 Games
      96 16 AP The 1962 Asian Games, already dogged by political controversy and charges of mismanagement, have been jolted afresh yesterday by the reported resignation of a top official. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was quoted yesterday as saying former civil supplies Minister V. C. Shukla, whom she
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      Lock icon Scheele dies at 76
      55 16 AP Lgndon, Tuesday Herbert Scheele, secretary of the International Badminton Federation for 44 years, died in a London hospital on Sunday, aged Scheele died on finals day at the All-England championships at Wembley the tournament he refereed from 1946 to 1980, when illness caused him to
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      Saturday's Penang finishes
      171 17 L Sunshine Corner 2 Pendraggon's Charm 3 Magic Boat. Won by: sh hd, nk. Time: L:15.7. Tote: <56, $17, $17, $10. L Setia m 2 Cornwall Gardens 3 Silver Wren. Won by: Vi, 1, IVi. Time: 1:14.1. Tote: (101, $33, $12, $8. 1 The Viscount 2 Don't
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      Chimpanzee in smart workout
      482 17  -  jL3B On the track By K.L. CHAN Penang, Tuesday Chimpanzee, a nonacceptor last week, looked fitter than ever before when sent out for a workout here this morning. With Mohammed Yusoff in the saddle, the four-year-old Malaysian colt by Ryuformen caught the eye when sent over
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      Lock icon Pullout puts tourney off
      130 17 ||^^~TV>nnis AP New York, Tuesday A tennis tournament, scheduled to be held this week in Costa Rica, was cancelled after 14 players, including Jimmy Connors, pulled out. "They were all for medical reasons, not political," said Butch Buchholz, the executive director of the Association of Tennis
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      Target: Shed 3kg of flab
      596 18  -  That's why Leonard will join the fun r, NEW NATION BIG W/\LK April 19 -l By SHIRLEY TAN Leonard Westlake, a banquet captain, hopes to shed some weight by taking part in the New Nation Big Walk on April 19. Leonard, 33, weighs 93kg and
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      Soap packs for the walkers
      83 18 Kao Singapore Pte Ltd will be donating 1M Km gift packs to winners of the New Nation Big Walk on April 11. The gift packs will be distributed to the top three Individual walkers In all few categories men's senior and Junior, women's and veterans'.
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      Birthday gifts and joy for 10
      97 18 Birthday girl, birthday boy, we have a celebration prepared for you at the finishing line of the New Nation Big Walk on April 19. The Big Walk organisers the Singapore Sports Council, the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association and New Nation have collected more attractive
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      Prizes for fancy dress
      115 18 Have you started on your fancy dress for the New Nation Big Walk just 20 days away? There'll be a mystery prize given to the best dressed competitor who finishes the East Coast Parkway walk at the National Stadium West Entrance. But remember, we don't want
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      Lock icon Hunt has it easy in first round
      148 19 jJ^Jsquash Reuter London, Tuesday Australian Geoff Hunt began his bid for a record eighth British Open squash title with a comfortable 9-1, 9-7, 9-5 first round victory over Egyptian Mohamed A wad yesterday. The 34-year-old world champion, winner of the title for the
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      Stop that nonsense
      576 19  -  Indiscipline starting to rear its ugly head in SSRA league By TAY CHENG KHOON The ugly head of indiscipline is slowly but surely showing itself in the Singapore Squash Rackets Association inter-cluD league. And unless something is done to curb it, the glamour and prestige of the
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      SSRA may get own courts
      322 19 The Singapore Squash Rackets Association may finally get their own longawaited premises and courts if discussions between the Singapore Sports Council and the Housing Development Board prove fruitful. The SSC have asked the HDB to provide annexes at their new sports complexes for the use
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      Lock icon Difficult shorts at Bukit
      983 20  -  By DEREK WILD The four par-five holes on the Singapore Island Country Club's Bukit course took another battering last week during this year's Open golf championship. Though Japanese Kesahiko Uchidas 1976 tournament record of 273, U under par, was eventually only equalled by the winner, Burma's
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      It's a David and Goliath situation
      714 21  -  r Sports Letter PEMINAT BOLA Singapore's Kallang Roar will again reverberate through the stands because the Republic are almost sure of retaining the Malaysia Cup this year. Last Sunday, Singapore as expected defeated Sarawak 3-1. Before that the fans there got more than their
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      Injury puts Bakri out...
      451 21 Soccer Regular midfielder Bakri Ibni will be out of the Malaysian team for the pre-World Cup in Kuwait after suffering a serious knee injury during a friendly match against Sabah at Kota Kinabalu two Sundays ago. Which also means the skilful 25-year-old Perils skipper will not
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      SAAA postpone plan to raise $50,000
      185 21 Athletics The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association fundraising trackathon scheduled for April 26 has been postponed to June 28. The SAAA Finance Committee chairman Peter Hsu-Hsing, who is also the association's vicepresident, said that they wanted more time to work on this $50,000 project. "Our
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      124 21 Motorracing Peter Skalak grabbed top honours when he won the International class event at a Karting Club of Singapore meet held at the National Stadium last Sunday. Skalak led the field with 1100 points and he was followed by Dennis Kwok with 1000 points. Sunny Ng took
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      563 19 tlion Sunday, April 19,1981 Time: 7 am MMdual Events Men Senior Men Junior Veterans Woman Team Events Mw Senior Men Jmm Age 44 years below Under 19 years Above 44 years Above 14 yean 44 years below Under 19 years Above 44 years Above 14 years For Men (Sanler and
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      78 21 m SOCCER: Government Services Senior KO Armed Forces v Woodbridge Hospital (Farrer Park. 5 pm). Business Houses Div. 2 semifinal Hitachi Dockyard v Rothmans (Jalan Besar, 5.15 pm). BADMINTON: National Schools (Under 16 girls) Bukit Ho Swee v Yuan Ching; Cedar Girls' v Serangoon Gardens (Bukit Ho Swee, 2 pm).
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      455 22  -  Glitter Chatter by Teo Lian Huay Teresa Teng, the singer who has become a household name in China for her love songs, will show Singapore fans what it takes to achieve such a standard when she brings her shows here. Teresa, who is already an
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      429 22 Rediffusion 12 noon The Fabulous 240 1.30 News and Share Market Report 1.45 The Fabulous 240 (Cont'd) 3.00 Star Watch: Jay Michael with your horoscope reading 3.02 Did You Know 3.04 The Fabulous 240 (Cont'd) 3.30 Powerline John Rivers from the States with a selection of toay's hits and some
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      224 22 At the cinema JESUS: Semi-documen-tary on the life of Jesus Christ. Cathay: 1.45, 4.15, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES: Neil Simon comedy about a woman whose ex-husband seeks refuge in her home. Starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase and Charles Grodin. Last day. Orchard: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and
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    37 23 AH FOOK: It's sickening to read of another assassination attempt on the life of an American President. MEI UN: If this doesn't convince Americans that they need gun control laws, I don't know what will.
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      1034 23 Today's Pick On TV AFTERNOON MATINEE: Time Lock (Ch 5, 4.25 p.m. black and white). A thrilling story about a race against time to rescue a banker s son who is accidentally locked in a vault which has been pre-set to open only after 63 hours. Starring: Robert Beatty, Betty
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