New Nation, 15 April 1981

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    17 1 New Nation —SINGAPORE Wednesday, April 15, 1981 3150 Price 25 Cents M.C.(P) No. 103/1/81 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15,1981
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    Soft drinks to cost more
    201 1 10-cent increase in three stages Soft drinks will cost 10 cents more 45 cents without ice, and another five cents with ice. The price increase will be implemented in stages from Friday for drinks bottled by Fraser Neave, from April 24 for those bottled by
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    Lock icon Shuttle's smooth landing
    440 1 Agencies Edwards Air Foree Base (California): A crowd of more than 150,000 people cheered wildly as America's first space shuttle glided quickly out of a cloudless, bright sky and touched down at 1.51 a.m. today (Singapore time) on a sun-baked lake bed here in the Mojave desert.
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    Last day to collect your tags
    68 1 Today's the last day to collect your number togs for Sunday's New Nation Big Walk, starting at the People's Association (flag-off 7 a.m). Participants mnst bring along their Identity cards for collection of togs at the Singapore Sparts Council, National Stadium, from 3 p.m
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      105 1 Golf Shoes. In Step With Your Swing. Sole Agents: STANLEY AND COMPANY. Peninsula Shopping Complex. Basement 1-2-3. Coleman Street. Singapore 0617' Tel: *****13 and 338W10 Comfortable, light and tough The first of a series on our record women Pg 12 to 14 INSIDE Jeremy Yeo on Hunt Page 21 Ipswich
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    Lock icon The Odd Corner
    94 2 AP Davie (Florid*): Ray and Helen Perkins are celebrating their golden anniversary. Not of marriage they passed that milestone two years ago. What they are more excited about is the SI years they have lived in the node. The Perkins endure the"nulsance"of wearing clothes only when It
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    Parents boost school's results
    412 2 And the principal pays tribute to them Parents have a special place in Swiss Cottage Primary School. "They are my best customers and they get the red carpet treatment," said the school principal, Mr S. Ratnagopal. He said the dramatic improvement in the school's performance in
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    Every child needs love, attention, understanding
    347 2 What every child needs: Love words of appreciation and comfort ns well as a loving touch. When he walks aronnd the school, children spontaneously reach ont to hold his hand and thin need must be recognised and met, said Mr 8. Ratnagopal, principal of
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      337 2 NOW YOU CAN FASCINATE YOUR FRIENDS BY SOLVING I RUBIN'S CUBE PUZZLE IN 3 MINUTES Step by step, our Instruction Booklet, in full I colour illustration, will teach you how to rotate and turn the Cube horizontally and vertically and gradually put all the six colours into places. Hurry, place
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      14 2 Let's meet at the Raffles! RIJSTTAFEL C'limbrtlion <srill Every Thursday lunchtime zr?a Raffles Hotel
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      324 3 Citizen's 1981 sports and recreation support programme The New Nation Big Walk i < V V 1 z r 4 4 vr i r -*Vc* w ■?u?:. n ii. o -v V»' •ev. rat t'GW* f^V5 (ft >■ f%. aNCV* t ,<T fcss «?asS Mi A Citizen continues to give
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      Ministry awards
      71 4 The Ministry of Education is offering scholarships and bursaries to pre-university students. The two-year scholarship, worth $750 a year, is open to Pre-university One students. The bursary, at $500 a year, is for Pre-university One and Two students and the tenure of this depends on the recipient's school
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      Lock icon 'Dish Concorde'
      51 4 Reuter Ltndoii: Britain should either cut its spending on the money-losing Anglo-French supersonic airliner Concorde or abandon it, the Parliamentary Industry and Trade Committee said in a report yesterday. Concorde had cost the British taxpayer £900 million (nearly $4 billion) since the project began in 1962, it said.
      Reuter  -  51 words
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      Lock icon US concern
      52 4 AP Washington: The State Department expressed concern yesterday over the planned visit of three Soviet warships and a tanker to Cuba. "Ajpy effort by the Soviet Union to expand its influence in this hemisphere and particularly in the Caribbean only serves to heighten tensions," State Department spokesman Deane
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      Big in advertising
      69 4 Overall advertising in 1980 increased dramatically in Singapore ana Peninsula Malaysia, with newspapers grabbing a larger than ever slice of the cake. Newspapers claimed 64 per cent of the $224 million spent on advertising in Singapore and in Malaysia and it accounted for 64 per cent of
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      Lock icon Flaming solution
      62 4 AFP Paris: Colette Bruggman, 46, who quarrelled frequently with her husband Gerard, also 46, decided to silence him once and for all with a bottle of alcohol in Cagnes-sur-mer, southern France. While he was watching television on Sunday night, she poured the alconol over his face and head
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    Stock market
    413 4 Tone of the market during the first 45 minutes of trading this morning: BU&NESS DONE First Seettea Allied Choc (3) 2.60 (1) 2.57 (1) 2.54 (1) 2.50 (1) 2.63 (1) 2.66 (5) 2.69 (3) 2.68 (2) 2.70 (2) 2.71 (1) 2 65 Ben A Co (1) 1.88 (8)
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    Motorists not energy conscious — Dhana
    278 4 Motorists not energy conscious Dhana High petrol consumption and the tendency to get bigger cars show a lack of energy consciousness among car owners in Singapore. Petrol consumption shot up by a hefty 15.9 per cent from 1975 to 1978, while the number of cars and station wagons increased by
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    Another job for Oxbridge tutors
    221 4  -  Course to train local teachers to take over By Teresa Ooi our education correspondent The six expatriate Oxbridge tutors, hand-picked to groom top students to read the humanities at Oxford and Cambridge universities, have been given another job to train a pool of local teachers
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    See the world advice for indecisive
    422 4  -  By Sammad Rejab For those who are at the crossroads of their lives, unable to decide on what their lives' work will be, Dr John Wallace has some advice. Go out and see the world. Dr Wallace, who holds a doctorate in philosophy, is
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    Lock icon Gold up
    27 4 UPI Hhi Kmc: Gold opened at U*****.00 an ounce today on the Hong Kong gold and silver exchange, up from yesterday's closing price of U*****.00.
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    Lock icon Tension eases in Brixton
    108 4 AP Lwmlm: Tension eased in south London's violence-battered Brixton district vesterday after radical black leaders met police chiefs to hammer out a truce after four nights of clashes between police and young people, mainly unemployed blacks. But new trouble loomed as the anti-black British Movement, a
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      32 4 THE BIG APPLE OF YOUR EYE isa 4 v- 0 ■> ,e a* first sight w) tr Fester Gran* you car bas< r ,h <e giow of :>*,• t. k fashionable FO6TER p^6RANT /?53\
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    PPD hit by staff shortage
    219 5 The Primary Production Department's veterinarian force is now about 30 per cent understaffed with the latest resignations of two officers. The two left in the past three months, leaving the remaining 16 officers to share the workload. The two resignations are causing some concern as
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    Lock icon TODAY
    53 5 UPI TODAY is Wednesday, April 15, the 106 th day of 1961 with 260 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) said: "There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest
    UPI  -  53 words
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    Lock icon 'Pak wants peace'
    85 5 AP Islamabad (Pakistan): Mr Javier Perez De Cuellar, United Nations Undersecretary-general, said after talks yesterday with Foreign Minister Agha Shahi that Pakistan is still interested in peaceful negotiations to resolve the Afghan crisis. The UN official said he would fly to Kabul today to learn from Afghan
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    Lock icon Sold out
    31 5 Reuter Beljlag: A Chinese translation of the Bible, published by the Chinese Protestant Association, has sold out its entire print run of 135,000 copies, a church spokesman said yesterday.
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      180 5 Second to One. a 4> ii x w SpJr v. E^cAnnon There's only one speaker that comes dose to the ESS Monitor....the ESS Cannon! You might say it runs in the family. Because like the incomparable ESS Monitor, this youngster also incorporates an impressive array of highly advanced features. A
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    Call for control of real estate agencies
    211 6 A property consultant has called for government control and mandatory training of estate agency personnel. The managing director of Executive Manors Pte Ltd. Dr Werner Gebauer said that only a real estate professional with an acknowledged track record can protect the buying and
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    Lock icon Talks
    34 6 Reuter Tokyo: A group of six parliamentarians from japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party yesterday left for talks in Washington with US congressmen on the booming Japanese car exports to the United States. Reuter
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    Lock icon Tale of suicide kits and death wishes
    399 6 'Two helped six to die' AP London: A macabre tale of death wishes and "suicide kits" of brandy, plastic bags and tablets unfolded yesterday as a hearing opened for two members of Britain's Voluntary Euthanasia Society accused of helping six people commit suicide.
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    Lock icon A billion more Coke drinkers?
    69 6 Workers at Beijing's Coca Cola plant stack op crates of bottled Coke. The drink, which symbolises America around the world, Is being bottled for the first time in communist China. The chairman of the Coca Cola company, Mr Roberto Gotzueta, who arrived In Beijing yesterday,
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      322 6 /uaBIi• The Rolling Island Pulau Samudera •#S TALES 5 ft: 9 S tie m H s I i FROM THE ORIENT DONGENG-DONGENG DflRI TIMUR mXW hTT Ont of the stories told by the old fofc went lie this. Lonf lone ago, there bed an island Chief named Ka-ao-aoto. He was
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      181 7 UiDTTEII ESTHTE: CONDOMINIUM TOWNHOUSES BUKIT TIMAH ROAD M.S. Top class hill-top homes Ultra modern luxurious living Home-makers' perfect choice "ja E UURTTEn EST PTE I W <r-)4 I m No restrictions to foreigners 7 '±jf "mt ->% ■im If v 7 ir, G: 3 iMi •> V* ''^■AMMSOBSm ifl Vi
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    Together is better
    369 8 The changing of the guard at the Bukit Merah Old Folks' Club seems to be just what the doctor ordered. The prescription is a strong dose of participation administered by the young volunteers who have been running the club. They are grooming club members to take over.
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    THEIR VIEWS
    104 8 4 Certainly the idea that we have to have a summit with the Russians is not part of the Reagan foreign policy. One difference between this adminstration and the' past two or three adminstrations is that we have no need, in our minds, to have a summit or
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    Do you know?
    91 8 r bv WHISPERS "Lahs" and "you knows" are not peculiar to Singapore (or Malaysian) lingo. An Englishman told a colleague that in Liverpool, many people sprinkle their conversations with "lahs while in Northumberland, "you know" is a common expression. He wasn't sure of the origin of these
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    Making money in the forex mart
    746 8 The foreign exchange market, with its multiplcity of rates, appears daunting to the man in the street. But there is more to foreign exchange transactions than just changing local for foreign currencies before going abroad. The process of converting from one currency to another
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    Lock icon A woman's fascination with children's names
    633 8 ICA London: Birth columns in newspapers have a fairly restricted readership as a rule. Proud mums, doting dads, admiring relatives, the occasional curious reader, and that's about it. Margaret Brown, however, is the exception. She avidly scans the birth columns of The Times every
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    Lock icon Dimples make all the difference
    585 9 They make golf balls fly down the fairway The Economist LMHIM: What makes a golf ball fly? The answer, to some extent, lies in the dimples. Cunningly patterned, the depressions on the surface of the ball can even help to make it fly straight. Or
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    Stringent checks normal HDB practice
    203 9  -  TAN HENG HUAY I refer to your article Tighter Checks by HDB (NN, March 28). It is the normal practice of the board to have stringent checks on the income of the applicant and family to determine their eligibility for application. If subsequently, a tenant
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    Poor will feel pinch most
    116 9  -  WONG FOOK CHOY Singapore Bus Service claims to be losing at the rate of $700,000 per month. Surprisingly, the owners of Scheme B and shuttle buses are not losing money despite the fact that they are charging a minimum fare of 30 cents and a
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      82 9 Package Deal! $10 off when you rent both TV and Video! FREE Blank Tape! New video subscribers can buy one, get one free! (1 purchase per subscriber) Video Library Hundreds of titles low rates to Thorn subscribers! ALSO! Ask about our 10 UNBEATABLE OFFERSI «*****02 Thorn 34, Genting Lane (1334)
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      137 9 MAIL BAG WRfTE TO the Eorroa. NEW NATION LOCKED BAG IS. S>O«E 90S1. y '-2 M v* V Jtsm At Hotel Taiwan's Coffee House. Chye Tow Kway, Bak Kut Teh, Fried Hokkien Mee, Prawn Mee Soup, Nonya Laksa, Chicken Curry Madras. Satay and lots more. Delicious local specialities served piping
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    Lock icon Getting ready for the big day
    297 10 The installation of signs along Singapore's highest stretch of expressway is historic. It has taken more than four years, from 1976 when the first pile was driven into the reclaimed land off Nicoll Highway, to today for the finishing touches to be added to
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    Lights in Eunos: MP's aid sought
    263 10  -  By Terry Ang Joo Chiat police are considering getting the help of a Member of Parliament to persuade the Housing Board to install street lights in Eunos Industrial Estate. Earlier this year, the police wrote to the HDB requesting for such lights between the
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    Lock icon Union gets warning of Soviet intervention
    260 10 Reuter Warsaw: A senior Polish official told free trade union leaders recently that the Warsaw Pact would intervene if Poland tried to withdraw from the Soviet bloc or violently overthrow the communist system, Solidarity said yesterday. The official, Deputy Foreign Minister Jozef Wieniacz, was
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    Lock icon Reagan says 'sorry'
    75 10 AP Washington: President Ronald Reagan iresterday sent Japanese eaders a personal message of regret over the sinking* of a Japanese freighter as a result of a collision with an American submarine. The message was delivered by Us ambassador Mike Mansfield to Japan's Foreign Minister. The captain and
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    Lock icon 348 years for raping seven
    180 10 UPI Santa Ana (California): Four Vietnamese teenagers were yesterday sentenced to a total of at least 348 years in prison for kidnapping and brutally gang raping seven young women last year. "There was no more terror in any Vietnamese jungle than there was in the
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    Lock icon New York Exchange
    161 11 UPI Stock prices continued to fall yesterday amid concern over turbulent US interest rates. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 4.06 points to close at 969.10. Declines outnumbered advances by nine-to-five. Volume totalled 48.35 million shares, against 49.86 million in the previous session. Yesterday's prices
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    Dow Jones
    27 11 Closing Dow Jones averages yesterday: 30 industrials 989.10 idown 4.06); 20 transports 37.62 (down 1.64); 15 utilities 105.34 (down 0.80); 65 stocks 385.98 (down 1.72).
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    Lock icon Maggie for India
    58 11 Reuter Ltadn: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left last night for India, where she is likely to face strong criticism over Britain's nationality bill. The Times of India said the bill, which creates three new categories of British citizenship, only one of which carries the automatic right
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    Islam lectures on video tapes in 3 languages
    171 11 Several local Muslim converts have just completed recording 10 video cassettes that will present Islam teachings in English, Malay ana Mandarin. The Muslim Converts Association of Singapore is offering for loan both the cassettes and video equipment to various Malay and Muslim
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    Lock icon Loan for hotel
    91 11 Reuter Hmi KMg: The Sun Hung Kai Finance Co. Ltd. here has arranged a US$42 million ($88.2 mil) loan to finance 70 per cent of the construction costs of a new hotel being built in Canton, South China, the firm said yesterday. The loan is being made
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    Lock icon Where road crossing is easy
    82 11 In Tirana, Albania, crossing the road Isn't quite ss hazardous as In some cities, Including Singapore! That may sound a bit far-fetched, but It's true. This picture shows why. A horse-drawn carriage approaches the pedestrian rather sluggishly and behind it, a very old car splutters
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    Lock icon Fewer buyers for Opec crude
    293 11 AFP Parte: Much to the consternation of oil-exporting countries, supply is exceeding demand on the world oil market by about 2.5 million barrels a day, or 125 million tonnes a year, specialists said. The countries with more expensive oil such as Libya, Nigeria and Algeria
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      318 11 THE HONGKONG FESTIVAL Nobody does it lite the Oberoi. The Chinatown Restaurant comes alive with all the excitement and glamour of one of the Orient's favourite destinations Hong Kong from April 14th through 22nd. We'll introduce to you a cavalcade of exotic foods while entertainers from Hong Kong'§ famous Sung
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      Lock icon The electric Lady
      1726 12/13  -  The record women Anita, Tracy and Lena. Three simple names. Three not-so-sim-ple achievements. They are, of course, our stars in the music scene here, achieving a fame greater than other artistes, male or female, in similar fields. Anita Sarawak is a fireball on stage; Tracry Huang is
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      197 12/13 B P It" r> m to. We invite you and your family to share our Easter Buffet Brunch on April 19 at The Terrace between 11.00 am to 3.00 pm. S$ 18.00 10% Service Charge 3% Cess (Adult) 5512.00 10% Service Charge 3% Cess (Children under 12 years) ORCHARD HOTEL
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      144 12/13 The Dragon Palace Restaurant For Cantonese Cuisine at its best! Magnificent decor, sumptuous atmosphere and cheongsam clad hostesses serving the tables with a vast variety of perfectly prepared dishes. The Siamese Seafood Restaurant It's as good as going to Bangkok. Authentic Thai Seafood prepared by Thai Chefs in our kitchens.
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      Torn between two covers?
      98 14 Well, not exactly. But the fact remains that the new Anita album will be released here and in Europe with two differen covers. While in Europe for the recording late last year, Anita completed a photography session meant for the record covj§L Eflft the pictures took
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      Anita simply pulls out all the stops
      428 14 It's Wednesday afternoon In Koala Lompor, and raining hard. Inside a nondescript one-storey bungalow Just a few mlnates from the heart of the city, Anita Is hard at worh. The sounds of Anita In rehear* sal fill this small studio which Is to
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    Mallane III works like a winner
    327 15  -  KJ track By K. L. CHAN Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Mallane 111, bottomweight in the Tunku's Gold Cup race over 2000 m on Sunday, has made good headway and should be the one to watch in the $100,000 event. With Australian lady rider Paula Wagg
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    Piggott on favourite
    101 15 13 R 3 London, Wednesday English champion Jockey, Lester Piggott will be astride Goodbye Starter, in tomorrow's European Free Handicap race at Newmarket. Likely to start favourite, the maestro will be pushed to the limits by Tina's Pet, the mount of Joe Mercer, and Motavato who will
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    Sunday's race finishes
    203 15 1 Warranty 2 Team Spirit 3 Settle Down. Won by: 2, 2, 5. Time: 1:13.1. Tote: $12, $1, $7, $5. 1 Gulf Eagle 2 Reckon I'm Smart 3 Cordon Blen. Won by: 2, i, 1. Time: 1:12.8. Tote: $28, $5, $1, $11. I Ottoman 2 Senorlta Valentino
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      107 15 LOST FOUND REWARD FOR LOST 000 Male West Highland Terrier, long haired, white Bcottle, answers to name "Banchory", wearing blue collar with irtetal tag showing London address and 2 B'pore dog licence tan, lost Sunday morning, area of Sixth Avenue, S'pore 1027. Rmm phoov any mmi mnm toe «Wl7» GENEROUS
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      217 15 Cut out and pin with other coupons Posting instructions appear below Name:. N.R.I.C. No: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS CLUES Cut along here CLUES FOR MC-3 1. It's rude to call anybody this 2. They go Into garments'eleevee 3. Raturnlng to his home town, a man coutd revisit the where
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    It's an 'old' story
    1034 16 But I still don't think it's fair for us to keep knocking the Vets' The Peter Shilton Column L If Southampton clinch a place in next season's Uefa Cup, as seems likely, nothing would delight me more than to see the likes of Dave Watson, Chris
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    Lock icon Ipswich back in the hunt
    316 17 Reuter London, Wednesday Ipswich, who left Villa Park deep in gloom last Saturday after their Football Association Cup defeat by Manchester City, returned to the same ground last night to rekindle their hopes of winning the English League title. They beat championship leaders Aston Villa
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    Lock icon Czechs hopeful of victory
    195 17 Reuter Istanbul, Wednesday Czechoslovakia go into today's World Cup soccer qualifying match against Turkey knowing that defeat would leave them with a formidable task of reaching the finals in Spain next year. They have already lost one of their two opening matches in European Group Three
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      141 17 r 1 v n iV\ V *•> w KJS& J¥' ■P l- A';' 39* »i7i s?n v •*i' u;/» t; U VVf/y ~?%wy CHEW •34 CH *HHEL 8 I CIV/ r« rmmr-ll UifW COLOR PMTS i H CNQS-36 "tWQSuts w CN 05-24 1 V, 135-12 F <* COLOR PRim T
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    Reserves reliable
    293 18  -  Soccer By SURESH NAIR Singapore's Malaysia Cup "bench boys" have been given the vote of confidence by team manager Jita Singh to play the remaining four Cup matches. Jita made his confidence known at this morning's training at the Geylang Stadium when he announced the 19-player squad to
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    Lock icon Singapore win thrilling match
    112 18 AFP Seremban, Wednesday Defending champions Singapore beat Selangor by four wickets in an exciting South Zone Under 23 cricket match at the Negri Sembilan yesterday. Singapore started badly, losing five wickets for 37 runs Dut a fine 40 runs, 10 by Eric Cooke and Terrance Cooke
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    The price of not knowing rules
    524 18  -  Around the schools By MAURICE NEO Willow Avenue Secondary's poor grasp of the rules of the game made them look worse than they were when losing to Saint Andrew's Secondary in a National Schools' Under 16 championships (South Zone) at Willow Avenue yesterday. Frequently
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    Lock icon Mokhtar goal saves the day
    75 18 Ranter Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Americano of Brazil drew 2-2 against a Malaysian selection side in a friendly international soccer match at the Merdeka Stadium last night. Striker Magno put the visitors ahead in tne 42nd minute but Yip Chee Keong equalised 13 minutes later. Americano
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      71 18 V v < V vvxwc\ SK*' y 0 c V\a a -tt fit ,o* ,e<V> N W A>\^ o*>VV* 1 Metropole Hotel, 2nd Floor, 41, Seah Street, Singapore 0718. Teh *****18 *****89 We serve Live Seafood Economical Lunch Scotland chicken (wholei at $5 80 each Special delicious dishes at $2
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    S'pore girls beaten
    392 19 WM Tablea 1 HH tennw Nov! Sad (Yugoslavia) Wednesday Singapore woman table tennis players were beaten twice on the opening day of the World championships here yesterday. They were beaten 3-0 (two singles and one doubles) by Holland and Australia. European countries jolted Asian hopes of supremacy
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    Lock icon Relegation protest by three countries
    245 19 Reuter Novi Sad (Yugoslavia), Wednesday Denmark, the Holland and Canada have objected to the inclusion of South Korea in the top category of the team event at the World table tennis championships which opened yesterday. The three countries have protested to the International Table Tennis
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    Choo's to the rescue
    400 19  -  f NEW NATION BIG W/\LK April 19 J A May's the hat d»y to eelleet nu Mother ton tor Baaday*a New Natlea Hg Walk, atorttog at the Pe»pie'a Aaaaetoflea (flag-aff 1 PartMpaato aaaat hrtog aleag their Ueattty eaNe tar ealleettoa ef toga at the Hhnpiff Sparta
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      82 19 With this ring I thee Well, I «.1< hi t know. I he\ matched,\ou see the ri and the bracelet and well, the truth is it |ust didn't seem right i<» have one without the other. But on the other hand it ou realK think I was being a hit
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      661 20 L' Win an all-expenses paid trip to the 1982 WtrM Cup irand final ia Mairid. Spain Plus32oCitizen watches to be won -T*i To all soccer fans, the Malaysia Cup series is here again. If you think you know who's going to bring the Cup home this time, then you've got
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    Hunt — a champ and gentleman
    471 21  - Hunt a champ and gentleman on SQUASH He does not play any risky shots Jeremy Yeo Geoffrey Brian Hunt did it again. I had not even a tinge of doubt about him winning the British Open for the record eighth time. What surprises me this time is that he did
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    294 21 Dr Eddy Jacob has been appointed vice president of the Asian Squash Rackets Federation for a period of four years. The vice presidency of the ASRF was offered to Singapore at the inaugural meeting in November last year. Last night, the
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      Look and listen
      757 22  -  You may meet someone you know in Calvin, Beth or Conrad Jarrett CINEMA By Khng Eu Meng ORDINARY PEOPLE. Starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hatton. At Jade. In Ordinary People, you may meet someone you know. A father, mother, an aunt, a
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      628 23  -  By Michael Chiang Fei Yee Ching does not look much like a pop star. Hair swept attractively askew, the boyishly goodlooking singer nonetheless cuts a striking figure in his dark blue Chinese suit. Conservative chic? Fei is not just another Taiwanese pop
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      Music Lady to make radio debut on Friday
      292 23 Meet the Music Lady. She'll make her debut on a new children's series on radio this Friday at a.m. Called Happy Times, the programme presented by Kalakrishnan, will Include a section on classical music for children under It. This will be hosted
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      225 23 In and around town FESTIVAL OF CHOIRS 1981 SACRED MUSIC 11. The groups performing tonight are Al-Mizan, Cam Choral, Cantica Nova, Hallelujah Chorus and Singapre Youth Choir. At the Singapore Conference Hall, 8 p.m. Tickets at $1 and $2 are available at the usual booking centres. L'AFFAIRE DOMINICI: French film
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