The Straits Times, 25 April 1978

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1978 25 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 214/1/78
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  • 808 1 Free 13, says Red Brigades GENOA, Monday THE Red Brigades kidnappers of former Premier Aldo Moro today demanded the freedom of 13 comrades in return for releasing their hostage and renewed their threat to kill him if their demands were not met. But a leading
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  • 33 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. Former US Representative Richard T. Hanna, the first American congressional figure charged in the Korean in-fluence-buying scandal, was today sentenced six to 30 months in a federal prison. AP.
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  • 92 1 Close shave with death SHOWING what a close shave he had with death is Korean, businessman Koohomo seen here pushing a finger through a hole (circled) in his Jacket before departure at Helsinki airport on Sunday night. The hole was caused by one of the bullets fired from Soviet Jet
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  • 16 1 UP TO NOON TODAY: Isolated showers In late morning, according to Singapore Meteorological Service.
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  • 91 1 Guerillas abduct 40 people 11TINDHOEK, Mon. A Tf bus with 40 people on board was hijacked by African guerillas here at the weekend and reportedly taken into Angola, Ovambo Prime Minister Cornelius Ndjoba said today. Pastor Ndjoba told the Ovamboland National Assembly at Oshakati that three elderly passengers were freed
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  • 160 1 The Nixon Memoirs... T»HE political ana- lysts have had their say. And so have the interviewers, the journalists, the probers, the critics, the Insiders that leaves only ONE man to have hls say on the Nixon years: Richard Nixon. And now his "Mejnoirs" are yours to read, starting in the
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  • 377 1 DAP chief Kit Siang charged MALACCA, Monday £)AP secretary general and opposition leader, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to two charges under the Official Secrets Act. i The charges are related to the government's purchase of four fast patrol boats for use
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  • 144 1 PATRICIA HEARST TO GO BACK TO JAIL WASHINGTON, Mon. The Supreme Court decided today that newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst must go back to jail for her part In a 1974 bank robbery. It refused to consider her appeal against a sentence of seven years for joining in the robbery with
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  • 43 1 NEW YORK, Mon. Dow Jone6 averages, based on first hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Indus 813.76, up 0 96; 30 trans 231.90. up 131; 16 Utlls 106.90, up 0.13; 65 Stock! 283 33. up 0.69. UPI.
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  • 160 1 JAKARTA, Mon. PRESIDENT Suharto today warned Indonesian Muslims that the government may have to prohibit oert a 1 n (Muslim) religious leaders from making public preachings or sermons to prevent the emergence of "an unfavourable" situation In a particular area. The President said this when he opened
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  • 408 1 Peace talks: New Sadat demand CAIRO. Mon THE chances of re- viving the direct Egyptian Israeli peace negotiations appeared distant today after Cairo demanded a prior change in Israel's bargaining position. President Anwar Sadat offered instead to send Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel to Washington for talks on ways of breaking
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  • 56 1 17 KILLED IN MINE BLAST ANKARA. Mon. Seventeen miners were killed and another four seriously injured in an explosion today at a coal mine in Er c 1 1. authoritative sources said. Troops Joined mine rescue squads to extricate trapped miners unhurt from the explosion area in this pit
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    • 255 1 NORTHAMPTON 'RICE PRICES WILL BE STABLE FOR SOME TIME' Page 8 BIG progress on key issue in Salt talks 2 ACCORD to halt PLO activities in Beirut 3 JAPAN'S rail workers strike today unless 4 SOVIET pUots fired without warning 5 BOY pleads for murder conviction to be set aside
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    • 300 2 'RUSSIA HAS CLOSED N-GAP' NEW YORK. Monday rpHE Soviet Union, A which has long outstripped Nato in conventional forces In Europe, has "closed the gap" in the strategic nuclear area as well, Gen. Alexander Haig Jr., Supreme Commander of Nato forces, said yesterday. Gen. Halg was asked on NBC's Meet
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    • 57 2 AS a tense world awaits news on the fate of kidnapped former Premier Aldo Moro, dozens of sympathisers on Sunday milled around the site where Mr. Moro was abducted and his five bodyguards killed in Rome. Pope Paul has appealed to the Red Brigades terrorists
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    • 456 2 'Allies may accept formula' fOXDON, Mon. The United States and the So yiet Union were reported today to have made substantial progress on one of the key issues blocking a new Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement the so called none i rcu
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    • 221 2 WASHINGTON, Monday HIGH-RANKING American officials believe the US chain of command in dealing with terrorism is unclear and leaves the nation unprepared to deal with terrorist activities at home and abroad, the New York Times reported yesterday. The Times said the repeated
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    • 76 2 100,000 watch flogging of rapists RAWALPINDI, Mon. A 100,000-strong crowd packed the town stadium here today to watch the flogging of four men convicted of raping a young girl. Appeals against the sentences Imposed by a summary military court were rejected by both the Lahore High Court and Pakistan's Supreme
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    • 31 2 TOKYO, Mon. A Japanese fishing boat, seized by a North Korean patrol boat In the Japan Sea last Tuesday, has been released. the Maritime Safety Agency reported today. UPI.
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    • 70 2 8,000 rioters on rampage ANKARA. Mon. About 8,000 nghtwlng militants rampaged through the Turkish town of Igdlr near the Soviet border today, attacking property owned by supporters of Premier Bulent Bcevlt's Republican Peoples Party (RPP). local officials said. They said the rioters, who had gathered for th» funeral cf a
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    • 40 2 JERUSALEM. Mon. Israel, which won the Eurovision song contest In Pails last night, will stage the 1979 festival It was announced today. Israel's Alpha-Beta Group won with the song Ah-Bah-Nee-Bee (a love song in the B language*. Rtuter.
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    • 134 2 NEW YORK, Mon. A (roup of British fashion designer! has a creed to pay a ransom to recover several exclusive models stolen durinc the weekend from a collection due to be presented in New York. Group spokesman Eric Hall said the models were worth
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    • 165 2 Baron promised kidnap gang $18 m PARIS. Mon. Several French radio stations reported yesterday that multi-millionaire Baron Edouard-Jean Empaln promised his kidnappers 40 million francs (5518.4 million) before he was freed last month. Baron Empain was released on March 26, a day after police captured one of the kidnap gang
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    • 114 2 FRANCE DENIES N-BOMB TEST PARIS, Mon. A 1 spokesman for French President Valery Glscard d'Estaing today denied that France had tested its own neutron bomb more than a week after reports of the test were publicised. "Reports in certain organs of the press about France testing a neutron bomb are
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    • 82 2 COLORADO BPRINOB (Colorado). Mon. A nonnuclear Soviet satellite reentered the earth's atmosphere but apparently burned up before Impact, a spokesman for the North American Air Defence Command (Norad) .'aid. Captain Tom Koch. Information officer at Ncrad. said radar Indicated the Cosmos 849 satellite re-entered the earth's atmosphere
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    • 64 2 NEW YORK, Mon. New York plans to spend UB*2 million (8(5. M million) Installing closed circuit television monitors In underground railway stations to cut down crime New York State Governor Hugh Carey has promised the city USIBOO million In mass transit aid and Metropolitan Transit
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    • 277 3 'Britain, US may accept terms' HAMBURG, Monday DHODESIAN white minority leader Mr. Lan Smith says in an Interview he understands that Britain and the United States may eventually accept his internal settlement with three black leaders. Mr. Smith told the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegal this was Indicated to him
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    • 171 3 'I' ll quit' threat by black minister SALISBURY, Mon. London lawyer Byron Hove, the maverick black Cabinet minister In the eye of a storm here, says he will return to England If he becomes disillusioned with Rhodeslan political life. Mr. Hove, 38, angered and alarmed whites after his appointment 10
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    • 59 3 Paying tribute to Hitler rE leadrr of he National Socialist White Peoples' Party in the United States, Matt Koehl. giving a Nazi salute while presiding over a secret ceremony marking the 89th birthday of Adolf Hitler on Satuiday in Arlington, New York. Mr Koehl and about 20 members oi the
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    • 44 3 JAKARTA, Mon. The Dutch Government has returned some oi the Indonesian antiquities being kept In the Netherlands, including a priceless statue of the ancient Javanese Queen ot Ken Dedes. The statue was discovered In 1821 by the then-Dutch colonial government. AP.
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    • 30 3 MOSCOW. Mon. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko left Moscow today for a meeting of Warsaw Pact Foreign Ministers In Sofia, Bulgaria, the news agency Tass reported. AP. I
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    • 377 3 BEIRUT, Mon. MUSLIM and Christian leaders have agreed to stop Palestinian guerilla activity in Lebanon and disarm their own militias as a first step toward national reconciliation, an official announcement said today. A six-point accord was signed by parliament bloc leaders of both
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    • 154 3 Sadat plans major Cabinet shake-up CAIRO. Mon. President Sadat Is considering a major Cabinet shake-up, including the replacement of Prime Minister Mamdouh Salem, sources said today. Well-informed sources said the President was seriously studying a major government reshuffle In which many new faces would Join the Cabinet. The sources said
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    • 438 4 ...unless 11th hour mediation efforts succeed TOKYO, Mon. Japan's rail transport will be, shut down by a four -day general t r ansporta tion strike starting tomorrow which will slow the country's economy to a limp unless last minute mediation efforts succeed. The 230.000 employees
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    • 84 4 Opec meeting to discuss export policy RIYADH, Mon. The coming May 6 ministerial level meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will concentrate on export policy and not oil prices, the Saudi Arabian news agency reported today. The agency said the meetIng, to be held at Talf, Saudi
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    • 161 4 Top-level talks on world's economic woes ONDON, Mon— British I-* and West German government leaders in two days of top-level talks are seeking to align plans for solving the world's economic ills before the Bonn economic summit with President Carter In July. Prime Minister James Callaghan, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and
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    • 182 4 W. German growth rate in doubt BONN, Monday WEST Germany's leading economic research institutes have predicted that the growth rate this year will be only about 2.5 per cent, but the government says it still stands by its official 3.5 per cent target. The report of the five major Institutes
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    • 36 4 MONTE CARLO. Mon The wedding ol Princess Caroline of Monaco and of French businessman Philippe Junot will take place on June 28 and 29 In two private ceremonies, the Monaco Palace announced today. UPI.
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    • 244 4 ■yiENNA, Mon. Pakis- tani Finance Minister A. O. N. Kazi today warned that world economic relations would be buffeted by "severe stresses and strains" unless more money was pumped Into Asia's poorest countries. Mr. Kazi, board chairman 01 the Asian Development Bank, told the
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    • 100 4 'Bid to split Asean' warning JAKARTA, Mbn The president of the Asean Chambers of Commerce and Industry today warned the region against divisive outside forces. Mr. Fred Elualde of the Philippines said the A&ean countries had the right to determine their own destiny and called on them to be vigilant
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    • 55 4 HONOLULU, Mon. Singer Donny Osmund announced his engagement yesterday to Debra Glenn, 19, a Brigham loung University freshman from Provo, Utah. A wedding has been tentatively scheduled for June. Donny, 20, made the announcement in Honolulu, where he and his sister Marie are filming the motion picture
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    • 198 5 Chinese drive for more open society quickens rpOKYO, Mon. A X script writer discloses that China will turn out science fiction movies, a handful ol writers and 'artists have been rehabilitated and V 1 cc- P r c mler Teng Hsiao-ping says there's n 0 point in "devoting many school
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    • 202 5 Aegean Sea row: Turkey says 'no' to World Court ANKARA, Mon. Turkey today orticiallj rejected arbitration by the International Court at the Hague over the continental shelf dispute in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece, a Foreign Ministry spokesman announced. In a notification delivered to the court by the
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    • 283 5 Soviet pilots 'f ired without warning' Crashlanding in the Arctic ANCHORAGE (AlasA ka), Mon.*— The co-pilot of the South Korean airliner which crashlanded in the Soviet Arctic says Russian fighter pilots gave no warning before raking the Boeing 707's fuselage with bullets, killing two passengers. "I saw the fighters beside
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    • 38 5 TOKYO. Mon. American actor Steve McQu:en appeared before a Tokyo court today to testify In a 360 million yen (553.7 million) damage suit against four Japanese firms for using still pictures of him without permlsslon. AFP.
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    • 89 5 Latest jets took part in attack TOKYO, Mon. The -I- Soviet fighters that fired upon a Korean Airlines (KAL) Boeing 707 forcing it to land on a frozen lake in the Soviet Union last Thursday, were flying the latest supersonic Jet fighter "Shukhol SU-15's." The Defence Agency here said that
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    • 21 5 TEL AVIV, Mon, The Israeli airline £1 Al today resumed Its services after a thre«vweek strike and lockout. AFP.
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    • 288 5 Polls rigging by minister alleged: Probe ordered CANBERRA, Mon. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser tonight set up a Judicial inquiry Into allegations that his Finance Minister, Mr Eric Robinson, aged 49, had been Involved in the "rigging" of electoral boundaries. Mr. Fraser announced that Mr. Robinson would continue to receive his
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    • 140 5 MANILA. Mon. The United States Coast Guard has devised a "fingerprint" system which makes It almost Impossible for vessels to deny responsibility for accidental or deliberate discharge of oil at sea, an American scientist said here today. US Coast Guard scientist Dr. Lloyd
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    • 135 5 \fONG HSAT (SouthA»i east Burma), Mon. Burmese troops have captured a rebel headquarters and six large heroin refineries on the border with Thailand hi southeast Burma, military sources said here today. The rebel headquarters at Lot Lem. 48 km south of here, fell soon
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  • 438 6 Sheares' n Set fire to slee P in S woman A 16 -YEAR -OLD boy yesterday pleaded with the Court of Criminal Appeal to set aside his conviction last May on a charge of murdering a woman who was sleeping on
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  • 38 6 THE Japanese Association cf Singapore will present an ambulance to the Singapore Council of Social Service at Bulcit Timah Road at 10.30 a.m. today. The ambulance Is for the council's Villa Francis for the Aged;
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  • 208 6 'yes' to bus shares purchase with CPF PRESIDENT Sheares has assented to the amendment of the Central Provident Fund Act to enable its members to buy Singapore Bus Service shares. The amendment to the CPF Act, which was passed by Parliament on April 7, provides for members to apply, assign
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  • 40 6 THE Lions Club of Slngapore (Host) has launched a donation draw to raise $100,000 for building a new com- munlty centre at Punggoi Estate, The draw will be held at the Royal Ramada Hotel on June 9.
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  • 158 6 TRAFFIC SIGNS THAT BAFFLE MOTORISTS SOME motorists are still unfamiliar with some traffic signs and road markings, and have been known to ignore some of the signs which are erected for their safety, according to the Traffic Police. To help motorists update their knowledge and enhance their appreciation of some
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  • 217 6 How S'pore can maintain good growth rate SINGAPORE will maintain a satisfactory growth rate this year If the government continues its policy of achieving moderate economic growth with fiscal and monetary stimulus. The Development Bank of Singapore chairman and president, Mr. Howe Yoon Chong. says this in his statement in
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  • 37 6 AN SBS bus was damaged after it hit the massive steel structure of Anderson Bridge at 5 p.m. yesterday. The accident caused a one-and-a-half hour peak period traffic jam, but no one was injured.
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  • 291 6 Former envoy to head list of May Day awards A RETIRED civil servant, veteran PAP politician and former diplomat will head the list in this year's May Day awards, the Straits Times understands. While six people will receive the NTUC's Friend of Labour Medal for distinguished service to the labour
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  • 18 6 OTHMAN bin Mohamed All. 24. was fined $1,000 yesterday for taking morphine here last Sept 29.
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    • 176 6 Bringing Up Father By Bill Kavanagh tfc Hal Camp <^- 7 ||*BRI6HT COLLE6E 1 I OOPS ItD BETTER S "^J IS UNCLE IP >©U DOIT LIKE WORKING A I STUDENT TO WORK FORGET ABOCITyf WHY? JIcSC3S'S OFFICBy FOR UNCLE JIC3GS. HERE S/ I PART-TIME-- MUST THIS JOB, J NUMBER r
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  • 455 7 Asean's relaxed stand towards Vietnam Reason for lack of economic thrust: THE general lack of thrust in economic cooperation among Asean countries can be attributed to their more relaxed attitude towards Vietnam and Cambodia in the wake of hostilities between the two communist countries. This analysis of Asean trends was
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  • 41 7 NADESAN Bubrmmanlam. 52. was Jailed (or 20 months and placed under one year's police supervision by magistrate yesterday, after he admitted stealing a bicycle worth $50 In Towner Road last December, He had nine previous convictions.
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  • 42 7 MR. CHEE Peng Yam has been elected president of Commonwealth Close 16storey Building Residents' Association. Other officials are Chay Tim Van. vice-president: V.B. Param, secretary; Poo Chee Llm. asst. secretary; Teo Quee Yong. treasurer and Lee Ah Kan. asst, treasurer.
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  • 237 7 EIGHT dogs, two of them bought from owners here, passed a series of evaluation tests yesterday to become full-fledged narcotic detector dogs. They join 12 other qualified "narco" dogs to boost the number of such canine drug detectors here to 20. In
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  • 39 7 TANJONO Pagar community centre Is looking (or tutors to help out In Its free tuition classes for students In the Primary School Leaving Examination classes (PSLE). Those Interested are asked to contact Miss Alice Wong. tel. *****98.
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  • 127 7 Swoop on bookie suspects: 100 held F'LICEMEN from Paya Lebar station conducted a massive threehour operation on Saturday and rounded up 100 people for suspected bookmaklng. During the operation one of the biggest and most intensive against bookmakers suspects were picked up from coffee-shops, market stalls, five foot ways and
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  • 408 7 A SENIOR narcotics officer yesterday told the High Court how the husband of a 56-year-old woman, accused of unlawfully having over 200 grams of heroin, allegedly scolded her while their house was being searched for drugs. Mr. Teo Ho Peng, the narcotics officer, said
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  • 123 7 AWOMAN former political detainee, Yong Choi Hong, 24, who did not report her change of address to the Internal Security Department, was fined $500 by a district judge yesterday. Yong, now a factory hand, was released from detention last June and placed under a
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  • 131 8 Two roads closed to resite bridge A SECTION of Bukit Ttmah Road and Lorong Chuan will be closed for about two hours each tomorrow to reslte an overhead bridge. Bukit Tlmah Road between Newton Circus and Monk's Hill Terrace will be closed trom mld- night tonight to 2 amtomorrow. The
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  • 279 8 THE prices of rice will be stable for some time because of the government stockpile, the executive secretary of the Consumers' Association of Singapore, Mr. Ivan Baptist, said yesterday. Case had asked the government to negotiate with the Thai Government to lower
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  • 217 8 Only 5pc admitted to Ngee Ann College ONLY five per cent of the 1,774 students, who applied for admission to Ngee Ann Technical College as their first choice were selected in the Education MinlsI try's first joint admission exercise, covering other institutions as well. The "elite" 96 were among 460
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  • 246 8 General Paper revised to raise English THE Education Mm: the General Paper junior college student; Istry has restructured for pre-university and s in a bid to raise their standard of English. The General Paper used to be divided into two sections, the first dealing with essay topics, and the second
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  • 136 8 rE University of Singapore yesterday denied a New Nation report alleging that mall sent by some lecturers through the university had been "tampered" with. The report yesterday said: "University lecturers from at least two departments have complained that their outgoing mail has been ta mpe
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  • 330 9 How printing trade can ensure its survival THE printing industry can ensure its survival by not becoming a slave to new technology but by using it to spread knowledge and create a* better informed world, the Senior Minister of State (Foreign Affairs), Mr. A Rah i m Ishak, said yesterday.
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    162 9 rIE chairman of the board of directors of Time* Organisation, Mr. C.C. Tan. and his wife (left), chatting with a delegate from Peru, Mr. Jorge Newton, and his wife, at a cocktail hosted by the organisation for delegates of the World Print Congress at the Mandarin Hotel last night. Earlier,
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  • 294 9 Detained ship's crew 'begging for food' OFFICERS ajid crew of a Singapore-flag ship under detention for the past seven months in Karachi have been reduced to begging for food. This Is alleged In a letter received by the Singapore Maritime Officers Union from the only Singaporean still on board the
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  • 425 9 Gearing up for the challenge of the 1980s... SINGAPORE has 20 dally newspapers to every 100 people double the Unesco figure for developing societies, set out at 10 newspapers per 100 people, a publishing manager, Mr. S.K. Battacharya said yesterday. Mr. Battacharya, group general manager of the Industrial Division ot
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  • 44 9 A POWER failure caused a blackout In Victoria Park, Dunearn Road, Adam Road, Kheam Hock Road and nearby areas last night. The blackout started at 8 pm and until late last night, PUB engineers were still trying to rectify the fault.
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  • 21 9 A HAIR dresiing and facial treatment demonstration will be given at Slglap community centre on Friday at 7 pjn.
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  • 186 9 LIM Kong Joo, 49, solved his problem of unemployment by stealing laxia and plying them for hire, a district court heard yesterday. The fares he picked up for a total of 48 days never suspected they were riding in stolen vehicles or that their
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  • 339 10 The Straits Times TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1978 SALT MOVEMENT THE signs suggest that some progress has been made towards a new strategic arms limitation (Salt) agreement during the three-day intensive talks between American Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet leaders in Moscow last weekend. The meeting ended on a
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  • 312 10 CHINA, it goes without saying, tries to advance its own foreign policy interests, and in the present context this means curbing the Russians in any way whenever the opportunities arise. Chinese support for A scan, and for the concept of the zone of peace, freedom and neutrality,
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  • 641 10  -  JEROME BURNE By In LONDON A RECENT decision in the British courts had put another weapon in the armoury of the record companies in their unending war against illegal records: An industry estimated to be worth £2.5 million (about 5J10.5 million) a year.
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  • 785 10  -  MARK MURRAY By in TOKYO WHEN Chinese fishing boats armed with machineguns intruded into disputed Japanese territorial waters the Foreign Ministry was asked for a policy statement. Ruefully, however, a senior official had to confess: "We have no statement and nc policy. We are
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  • 1147 10  - Bangkok where one rumour fuels another... PERCY SENEVIRATNE By SPECULATION in Bangkok has it that the Thai Prime Minister General Kriangsak Chomanan's promise of an election before next April is a case of Jam yesterday. Jam tomorrow, never Jam today. Apparently some attribute this rumour to another: That Gen. Krlangsak
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 35 10 EASTERN UNITED TRADING PTE. LTD. Hire Purchase, Rental and Trade -In Centre We offer good Trade-in value for your working TV. Washing Machines Cookers Refrigerators 216.218 Telok Kurau Road Singapore 15 k Tel *****12/*****2 A
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    • 465 10 Language nhnriP" Anew 1/1 ivFl IV audio -visual MtL method ot learning Languages— Bahasa Malaysia. Mandarin. Japanese. French. German. Italian. Sp mish English The Languagephone method is unique in the senst that you are not required to exert your mental powers to the fullest i n order to absorb what
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  • FORUM
    • 219 11 Where massive traffic jams are quite common IT would be Interesting for the Traffic Police and the Public Works Department to observe the trafflc pattern at the traffic lights opposite Lorong Kundang. Three trafflc lanes are provided at the trauic ngnt just before the sup road to Toa Payon Estate,
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    • 110 11 ITNLIKE most traffic U lights, the one at the junction of Boon Tat Street and Shenton Way has a green man which does not flicker to warn pedestrians wishing to cross to refrain from r«H 8 hiif^. th t??r e n,,th £"S.rS, „r? through
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    • 188 11 HDB should put contractors through a job test A PAGE FOR YOUR LETTERS I REFER to your report "120 contractors fined for bricking up pipes" (ST. April 6). One can imagine a licensed contractor commlttlng such an offence whlch to everyone should be a clear-cut case of law breaking. I
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    • 69 11 T READ with great delight and enthusiasm the recent comment by \Cr. Herbert Woon on the subject of human courtesy. Thought should be given to launching a campaign to promote not only courtesy in our country but also more importantly, a "helping spirit" among our people.
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    • 476 11 I REFER to the letter "Why I have gone back to driving by commuter" by John Lee (ST, April 4). Serangoon Garden Estate has some 2,500 houses. This Is roughly equivalent to 16 blocks of 10-storied HDB apartments. Other estates and routes also
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    • 226 11 GUIDE FOR OTHER HOUSING ESTATES TO FOLLOW RESIDENTS of the HDB block of flats at Sims Drive who have formed a committee to devise and Implement security measures following three recent cases where young girls were moles f «d (ST. April 18>, are to be commended. The committee will serve
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    • 54 11 I HOPE the authorities find the way clear to build a shelter at the bus-stand outside Block 338, Avenue One, Ann Mo Kio New Town. Numerous commuters wait there for bus services 159 and 162 and when it rains have to seek shelter about 50 metres away.
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    • 290 11 Plea for action to bring back the smiles of ice skaters IN Just a few years, Ice skating became a wholesome, healthy sport (or thousands of Singaporeans, particularly the young. Parents Invested time, effort and money to encourage their children to pursue the sport, leading to its phenomenal popularity and
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 301 11 Congratulations to NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD. on the official opening of their Singapore Representative Office c SANKO CO, LTD. Singapore Liaison Office, Room 303, Colombo Court, Singapore 6. Tel: *****3, *****4 *****88 Cable Address: GRACESANKO SINGAPORE Telex No RS ***** GRASAN EN6USH SmmL PROFICIENCY PROJECT (RELCEPP) Do you hold a
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    • 7 11 ppr/////»'»"""""««n\\\v^ A^J^M^L SUPER -SEASONING <S>AJI Hb MOTO
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    • 306 11 Congratulations to NISSHIN STEEL CO. LTD. on the official opening of their I Singapore Representative Office at Room 703, 7th Floor, LKN Building, 135, Cecil Street, Singapore 1 <HK> HANWA CO. LTD. JAPAN HANWA SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD. TOWER 1503, D.B.S. BUILDING N0. 6 SHENTON WAY SINGAPORE 1. TEL: *****88 C
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 758 11 On your TV SINGAPORE 5 3.00 Ml Opening and What's My Line 6.35 Thn*r-A MouUm Lni IPt 1) 325 Diary of Events (Enghsh) X 3.30 Afternoon Matinee— The Scarlet Hour (Pt. 745 p usparama (Malay) 2 starring: Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon and 8.35 Clayhanger— Death and Dreams James Gregory) 9.30
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    • 76 11 SWIMMING TIMES TODAY: Siifaiwt 1232 p.m. (2.7 m). Mill KKkil 11 28 am (2 3m), 10.35 p.m. (2m). fcrt McfcSM 7.56 a.m. (2.7 m), 8.22 p.m. i3 twoiww: wm UM »j>(2.9m). 1.21 p.m. (2.7 m). St*li KKkil 12.16 p.m. (2.3 m). 11.15 p.m. (2m). Net KcksM 8.33 a.m. (2.6 m),
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    • 9 11 WHAT could be neater than textiles by the metre?
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  • TIMES CITY DESK
    • 1512 12 fiHE last transacted ready sale at the 1 cloae of business on the Stock Ex- change of Singapore yesterday compared with the previous day's prices together with 1977/78 high and low, (■Adjusted for script/rights issue) SECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS Closing Tone: Easy TURNOVER: Official figures supplied by the Stock
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    • 1625 12 810 and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1 ,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Time Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "set". Big
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    • 163 12 5 1/4% IS/10/7* (250.000) (101.308 101.60S) 4 3/4% 15/1/80 (250,000) (100 208 100 455) 3% IS/4/81 (250.000) (100.908 IOI.pSS) S% ?T P 15/10/81 (250.000) (102 l .70B) 5% T F l/S/83 (250.000) (100.458 100.555) 7 1/4% 15/4/86 (250.000) (100 70B) 7 1/4% 1/5/87 (250.000) (100.758 100.85S)
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    • 1718 12 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIAL! Aama (1 SOS). Alin.m.t. (217 B) XALL. Alaam il 908 1.945) (1)
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    • CHIEF PRICE CHANGES
      • 44 12 Tronoh Minn Miii Rice CltyDev T««ek Cement Kctuyin OL'B Tganu Dev Pumb SPPL ■uinnrti .l.nd Pen UoocLmhw Properties 585 171 120 290 198 276 144 147 89', 565 270 310 126 IS 15 13 +8 +8 +7 +7 ♦5* +5 ♦5 +4 4
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      • 29 12 selron ScraiU Tradinc SpondiH Mafnum Corpn Tinirt Pub C Sugar* Malayawata Textile Corp 1V1 6C0 136 326 306 300 233 85', -10 -8 -8 -S -8 -5 -4',
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      • 26 12 UOL CityDev API M*la Ric* 9PPL SiaChcw Sim* Darby Harimau Naayanc Prc« YHSMaia 646.000 433.000 206.000 183.000 178.000 158.000 93.000 84.000 83.000 75.000
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      • 41 12 April 21 April 24 B.T. Index Industrials: Finance: Hotels: Properties: Tins: rubbers: O.C.B.C: S.E.S.Ind: 833.81 303 96 483 02 101 54 174.18 141.89 489 95 267 48 272.00 827.42 302 98 484.07 191.22 176.62 141 96 488.32 266 99 270.47
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    • OVERSEAS MARKETS
      • 387 12 HONGKONG: The market was generally little changed In fairly active trading with Hongkong Wharf falling 20 cents to HKSIB 40 on profit-taking after touching a day's high of $19.20. dealers said. Hongkong Land firmed 10 to $7.75, WheHock five to $2.27'/, a/id Jardinr Industrie 30 to $2.70 while Hut.
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      • 415 12 TOKYO: Share prices closed sliuhtly higher after liquidations pared early gains, dealers said The Dow Jones average rose 6 56 In moderate trading to close at 5.514.60 points, with a volume of 210 million shares. The New Index closed at 412.21. up 0.47 point. Big capitals and cameras rose
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      • 335 12 SYDNEY: The market closed generally mixed, with leading Industrial and mining stocks slightly lower, dealers said. BHP lost four cents to As 6 22 ACI steadied at $7.70. The Walea eased four cents to $5.30. Among mining leaders Utah added two cents to $3.52. Thieaa two cents to $2.10
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      • 47 12 Perak 32.00 sstleneld 10.60 ong Leong 3.10 p I 2.07 Ity Dev 1.26 Rice 1.74 Best 5.30 erjuntal 7.60 'ganu Dev 1.46 O Land 1.08 yn Resins 1.24 as?k 286 Dredge 4.26 18.50 .40 M .18 .17 .1* .10 10 4 .09 .07 .07 .06 .06
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      • 18 12 .HC L M» a 4. iv unlop Est 3.12 ragnum Corp 3.32 Barnes 2.79 M .06 .06
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      • 55 12 STRIKING prices of the stock options officially listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore, the periods, bid and offer prices and business done yesterday, with the number of options traded shown ln brackets. Pan Electric (June $1.55) (0.268) (Sept 11.55) (0.28 B) Prima (June SI.SO) (0.558) (Sept $1.90) (0.60
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      • 34 12 Mandar Saturday Hoockong 169 208 *****8 169.408 170.708 8 pore (2) 1W.428 171.088 170.108 171.808 Export pneaa la noa-aterllDf areaa la U8 dollar per ounce (1) Australia dollar per ounce. <2> Average price.
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    • COMMODITIES
      • 28 12 THE Straits tin price edged one dollar higher to $1,552 per picul in Penang yesterday on an official offering up 29 tonnes to to 244 tonnes.
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      • 346 12 THE Singapore rubber market yesterday opened about unchanged then ruled quiet ln early trading, dealers said. Prices firmed slightly on some speculative buying and forward lnterest, particularly June/ Sept 1978. Physicals were neglected. The mormng session closed very quiet. Prices rose 150 cents during the afternoon on upcountry buying,
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      • 29 12 Ku^° er ApL, 9n¥iX*!!£ <nn 207-00 cts <«P zo eta). M*1*3^1 *1 *$*l gJ' H jj,,. $1>552 (up $1). Official offering: 244 tonnes (np 29 tonnes). I
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      • 112 12 DAILY SSR and 8MR prices at noon yesterday: May June R.A.S. (Current Mtb) (Forward Mth) Buyers Sellers Bayers Sellers 3SR 20 (1 ton pallet) 196 50 198.50N 197 50 199.5ON SSR 50 (1 ton pallet) 194.50 196 SON 195.50 197 .SON M.R.E.LB. 3MR 5CV (1 ton pallet)
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      • 112 12 CMiMgS! PIIDUCI IXCHAHQI, SINQAPOPJI NOON CLOBINO FMICIg Pill FICUW TISTf RDAT. cuanut .ii Ruik ..n.r. oi^m tSi «s£».lSw"d!£; •OO ataillsn Vii sellers. Caawa: Mixed (looae) UK/Coot. 154 buyers reaver: Muntok ABTA white fo.b. 100% NLW »3fcu sellers. Sarawak white f.o.b 96* NLW 8370 aellera. Sarawak apeclal black f.o.b.
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    • 486 12 SECOND-liner Associated Plastics Industries continued to forge strongly ahead in a mixed but active Singapore stock market yesterday. Opening at 11.89. the share went on to touch $2.03 for a net gain of 16 cent* on the day. This was 8.6 per cent higher than
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    • 373 12 K. LUMPUR A GENERALLY steady I trend prevailed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, yesterday despite some profit-taking and light liquidation at one stage The market opened on a fairly steady level yesterday. Prices, however, started to edge lower by mid-morning. Renewed buying interest in the later session jacked up
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    • 133 12 \es hi j.uv p.m. Cnrrenciea US dollar Sterling pound Hongkong dollar M'slan dollar Aust schilling Bel franc (com) Danish kroner French franc Italian lire Neth guilder Nor kroner Swedish kroner Swiss franc Deut mark Japanese yen Aust dollar NZ dollar Canadian dollar Nominal rmtti Smithsonian pencatag* quoted y**t*rday
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    • 188 12 NOTE: These rates may dlfta: slightly from those quoted by banks to their customers. ASIAN currency deposit Interbank rates as at close on April 24. US DoDars (Spot) Offer Bid 7 days 7 3/16 7 1/16 1 mth 7 3/4 7 5 8 2 mths 7 7/16
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    • 41 12 Closing ujictosu c rues on Lngapore dollars en April 24. Oder Bid vemight 3 1/3 3 1/4 mth 4 11/18 4 9/16 mttts 4 13 16 4 11 16 mttu 4 15/ IS 4 13 16 Source: Artlfjt Pearcc.
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    • 48 12 lUcount hoiuM on Apr 1 24 Overnight 3i«. Call dipoait 34%. mmtm u, I. II I- Month Treuury bill* 3 1/16 I 1/16 1-Month Bank bills 4 7 1 4 3/4 1-Month CD 4 13/16 4 13/1* I-Mootb CD S 1/4 i 1/g (•utm: NltlMMI DlMMtlt C».
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    • 67 12 THE PRIME rate of most commercial banks in Singapore now stands at 7 per cent. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation is still ofTerin 6*« per cent to its best customers while United Commercial Bank is maintaining its prime rate at TM per cent. The stated prime rate of the
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    • 743 13 OUB leads in terms of growth in profits THOUGH the smallest of the Big Four ln terms of assets. Overseas Union Bank's 1977 results released last Friday show that It out performed them all. Group net profit came to $13.28 millions 17.2 per cent increase over 1976's $11.34 million. The
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    • 455 13 WEARY shareholders of Guthrle Berhad are apt to pay little heed to repeated assurances by the company's top echelon that the worst Is over and good times are on the horizon again. Such an attitude is understandable, considering that the management's forecasts ln the not
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    • 199 13 JACK Chlu Mining and In- Corporation -h. V p art of tn e J ftck Chla family of companies, Ph« S °i? lts tln mlne ln Phang Nga Province. South Thailand, to a Thai purchaser for about 9 25 mllhon bahts (Msl o6
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  • 576 13 T AS plan to merge voice, video and data services yOICE, video and data services will be merged to operate together on the same network in the futuristic telecommunication system of Singapore. Disclosing this, Telecoms' chairman, Mr. Frank Yung, said recent breakthroughs in the field of telecommunications and the capability
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  • 326 13 AIR monitoring carried out at Paber Hills Estate indicates that "The Stink" an odour problem plaguing the area for nearly two years has diminished. But residents claim they smell otherwise. The Environment Ministry spokesman said that daily air monitoring by the Anti-Pollution
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  • 218 13 trrHEN it comes to wheelchair basketball, paraplegics like Mohamed Hussein, 18, seen bouncing the ball in the picture have a thing or two to teach their ablebodied friends. This comes from none other than Stephen Yoni (right) basketball coach of the Society
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  • 153 13 KAKI Bukit Secondary School won the Science Quiz 1978 for the third time since 1975. Their winning Team A scored a total of 72 points. Runner -up was Its Team B with 36 points while Monks Hill Secondary School was third with
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  • 82 13 A LABOURER was yesterday jailed six months by a magistrate for stealing a $300 gold chain and pendant from a woman. Samsuddln bin Sultan, 20, pleaded guilty to stealing from Madam Chan Slew Lang, 46, at Block 56, Sims Drive, on April 16. The
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  • 359 13 IT IS often said that the great art of Improvisation practised by musicians of the past, Including masters no less eminent than composers Bach and Beethoven, is today, by and large, a lost art. It still survives, of course, in better Jazz musicians and perhaps organ virtuosos,
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  • 113 13 In Ever loving Memory of very dear husband dad 2 years today. Lfong dear, recalls fond memories ol your boundless love and sacrifice for us These words could not deservedly describe you Your death is heartbreak il brings back painful memories no one in this world can htal Thinking of
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  • 50 13 Ten Years have passed since you left us but treasured memories of you still linger on, and thoughts ol you bring silent tears. Your Love will always be cherished by beloved wife, sons, daughters and all loved ones. i MR. K. KANDIAH D#pnrt#o 25th April,l96B.
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 537 13 PAWNBROKERS ACT, 1972 TENDER UNDER SECTION 10 In exercise ol the powers conferred by section 10 of the Pawnbrokers Act 1 972. the Minister hereby calls for tenders for the right to receive a licence to act as a Pawnbroker under the Act for each of the areas specified hereunder
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    • 295 13 THE KUALA SELANGOR RUBBER COMPANY LIMITED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Final Dividend of 6.6 pence per stock unit has jeen declared for the year ended 31st December 1577. The date of payment will be 15th June 1978 and the last day of accepting transfers will be 15th May
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    • 393 13 f£fei KENYATAAN T&Oa TAWARAN Tawaran-tawaran adalah dlpalawa daripada pamborongpamborong/ pwnbafcal-pambakal yang barptingalaman untuk k«r|a-kar|a barlkut:(A) BP.NO 147/78 Mambakal. mambana dan manylapka i 1 yunlt 2 tlngkat rumari rahat. kar|a-kdr|a kalurutaraan awam dan latrlk dl Bjklt Crater. Pahang. ($l,OOO 00 aanaakah tawaran bona-fda $500.00 dlkambalikan) (B) BP NO 148/78 Mambakal dan
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 1280 14 CLASSIFIED ADS AT YOUR SERVICE r>^\ Telephone Service:- fl Weekdays fc^& 8.30 a.m. 5.00 p.m. %j& Saturdays r^3 8.30 a.m. 3.00 p.m. Public Holidays CA.T.S. 9.00 a.m. 1.00 p.m. 23f -6677 Counter Service Regular office hours Ansafone Service After office hours RATES Per word 60 cts (Mm. $9.00) Per column
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    • 5525 14 THE STRAITS TIMES, TUESDAY. APRIL 25, 1978 II EeJ-IOYMENT II EMPLOYMENT I H». LO Y|«MT I II EMPLOYMENT I sbjbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbJ»mbbbbb»| MATHEMATICS GRADUAT CffaV'JMPPJaHHfPMMIBJ I UNDERGRADUATE to teach _U_V_V_~ylj£ BB I M^LV a y a^H ß^L a J secondary 4 students Monda Wednesday afternoons. Apr. •■■•aBaBBBBaBBBBBBBjBBjBjsBBBBBBBBBjBa turnishing particulars/ conta phone. ST
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    • 1127 15 II EMPLOYMENT m. CORONA MANUFACTURERS aaV^BsflMH ssssssV PTE ITD Jw vWVtVI PBk. «> SO* CorporeMn W LaVm uS> A MANUFACTURER OF .^Bsettßß^ssssssfEa^asssssVßM AUDIO PROOUCTB T^^WT^ WELCOMES YOU TO fcS*ar A LONQ-TERM and stabilized requires. FEMALE W. Require: PRODUCTION FEMALE OPERATORS PRODUCTION nDCDimPQ rfyouafe;UPHAIUrIa c 16 years of age and above.
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    • 1415 15 II EMPLOYMENT miißnki MURATA ELECTRONICS (S) Ift Lj PTE LTD V^ I lAT Mi JALAN PEMIMPIN Aj^ rCf OFF UPPER THOMSON ROAD. r C J^ p V SINGAPORE 20 Vacancies for FEMALE eVplover operators c 1. Permanent Ist, 2nd and 3rd shifts 2. Ist and 2nd shift rotation FbMALb 3.
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    • 1567 15 II EMPLOYMENT A Leading Paper Manufacturer seeks MALE PRODUCTION OPERATORS A Well Established Hotel at least a primary education reaulres work shift duties by weekly rotation ENGINE MECHANICS I ctSSj!"*""* 1"*1 at least class 2 vehicle rUTc.-.,!,, overhaul licence 52 S2^ years engine repair ex- s^ior «ta*d Hou^^lng JAPANESE INTERPRETERS
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    • 1307 15 II EMPLOYMENT HOTEL MALAYSIA WAITRESStS 4 MALE KITCHEN HELPERS requires REQUIRED CHAMBERMAIDS 2 shifts only 1 free meal provided Applicants must be prepared to Experience not necessary work shifts. Apply personally at v'tewlt 0 P SOna y fOr P#r mn# i 1 0 »P» rtm A 4 W OHOBV QMAUT
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    • 1848 15 I 111 VEHICLES k BOATS 75 BMW 520 Automatic. Airrond 75 Dataun 120Y 74 MtnidM Km JOO. Aircond 74 DaWwtau DV2SL Diesel 74 Ford Cortina I*oo Station wagon 74 Commar van. Diesel 73 BMW 2002. Alrcond 73 Marcadaa Bant 2MB. Alrcond 73 Marcada* B*.u 200. Alrcond 71 AMa Romao 1750
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 991 16 I 111 VEHICLES BOATS I I*7o FIAT 124. good condition, new paintwork. Contact John *****13 OT 175 YAMAHA Scrambler, price $1,000 Contact Richard *****14 1071 SEPT. FIAT 124 Sports Concealed alrcon. radio cassette, sports rims, extra 4 12" and 13" racing tyres, metallic paint. 112.000. Tel *****8 BMW 3 OSA.
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    • 978 16 laaa VOLKSWAGEN 1300, cassette. Insurance, road tax. tyres new, price $4,600 negotiable Mini 850. beautiful condition, cassette, road tax. Insurance tyres new. price $2,400 o n o View: Toa Payoh Central. Blk 193. 658. groundfloor ALFA ROMEO, 1972. 2000 Berllna with alrcond end new paintwork 2 owners. Tip-top condition $11,200
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    • 1503 16 111 VEHICLES BOATS WANTED 1 1970 1971 Toyota URGENTLY REQUIRED COLT cr«i»n Must be In good condl- Sigma or Volvo 144S Tel *****1 tion Tel *****3. evening tel Mr Koe I^^Ta'n/S Tel *****5. *****9 *****1' *****1 Yeo |IV ACCOMMODATION I PROPERTIES Apartment^^^ in Districts 9 10. M Distrtet9Rfv*xVaas)yClos« 3 bedroomed
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    • 828 16 lIVI IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES] c GOLDHILL TOWER EXECUTIVE APARTMENT with 3 bedrooms, spacious living/ dining, attractively furnished $1,700 c CREE COURT OFF STEVEN ROAD LUXURIOUS APARTMENT with 3 large bedrooms, extensive living/ dining and servant's amenities. Available 1/7/78. $2,500 CONTINENTAL HOUSING PTE LTD. TEL: *****6 BEVERLY MAI DIST. 10. 3
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    • 811 16 FURNISHED. AIRCOND ROOMS dlst 11, near Orchid Inn Hotel. Monthly rental $425 upwards r. r ak(ast laundry Included Tel *****1' *****2. INDIAN FAMILY FURNISHED room, parquet flooring and telephone District 12. Bachelor' k L ng lrl or student. Tel: *****7 DISTRICT t, FAR EAST Mansion newly furnished rooms with bathroom
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    • 1425 16 lIVI IV ACCOMMODATION I PROPERTIES a-STOREV FACTORY/ WAREHOUSE at Alexandra aasyj -«>.-- Terrace off Paslr Panlang Road 4'< miles Gross Area 5.000 sq ft per floor Suitable for storage light Industries.' Offices. 3.000 lbs Cargo lift. 1 passenger lift and spacious private car park (all jUt-a»»»»W^ i m&^Ji M 12.000.
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    • 792 16 [IV ACCOMMODATION A PROPERTIES TAI HWAN GARDEN luxurious double-storey cornel terrace 2.900 5q ft 3 bedrooms, servant's many extras $140,000. Ace 2-STOREV TERRACE. REALTY Park, dlst 19 4 rooms. $95,000 Inclusive furniture *****3 Mrs Teo alter 2 pm. DIST. 18 CORNER double-storey terrare 3.100 sq ft 3 bedrooms, living dining
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    • 635 16 LOCAL COMPANY WISHES tO rent/ buy seaside bungalow Please call Mr Tan *****9 HOUSES/ APARTMENTS WANTEO by ready buyers, preferably In dlsts 9. 10. 11 tllllman Housing Agency *****2. *****4 READY CASH BUYERS, wish to purchase residential properties for Investment and self occupation Immediate cash transaction *****6 EBC REQUIRES GOOD
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 757 17 V SERVICES A BUSINESS I NATIONWIDE SERVICES Repaint Servicing. Rental. Re- spraying Trade-In, Sales and OeneralContrartor For All Kinds »of Alrcondltloners And Re- 'frlgerators. Etc Tel: *****3/ *****0 SEMCO INTERNATIONAL ENTER PRISE: Repair, service, sale, renZ tal or refrigerators, televisions, alrcondltloners. cookers. washing machines HP available Call *****6 BAN MONO
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    • 680 17 IF YOU ARE PREPARED TO INVEST BETWEEN $50,000 to $100 000 We have A READY VIABLE BUSINESS FOR YOU. Tha company hat ba«n wall aatabIrahwt Hi Kuala Lumpur tor mora than 14 ytara II proper management Is available, nett return of 25 t' annum is very possible We have ever
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    • 598 17 V SERVICES B SITI-FROMBALI Provides You With Relaxing massage in Indonesian style Call EMERALD HEALTH SERVICE *****65/ 44*3465/ *****84 MANDARIN HEALTH CENTRE. Mandarin Hotel. 3rd floor. Massage/ Sauna/ Steambath/ Facial: *****6/ *****1 ext 750 Spore AT YOUR PLACE Beauty Services. Well-trained/ experienced masseuses/ masseurs Tel: ***** (11 a.m. 10p.m. Call
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    • 1225 17 VI EDUCATION TRAINING GIRLS! Jobs are becoming harder to get you need beMer qualifications Enrol now at the ITC and quality tor the London Chamber ol Commerce Private Secretary s Certificate and the ITC's Private Secretary's Diploma the regions leading qualification tor a Private Secretary Our neit lull time and
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    • 24 18 bb»»»bb»bbbbbbb»»ii»bbbbbbbbbbibibbb» THE FAMILY OF the late Mr Ng Chong Boon thank all friends. relatives and all of fleers and men o^^^^^^^^ m
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    • 459 18 K. LUMPUR. Mon. TARS with factorytinted glass will be exempted from checks ii specimen glass submitted by the manufacturers for testing passes the 70 per cent light transm iss i on requirement. Deputy Works and Utilities Minister Dr. Ooh Cheng Telk said
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    • 292 18 Crash victim's family gets $240,000 ALOR STAR, Monday MR. JUSTICE Syed Agll Barakbah today awarded damages totalling $240,000 to the widow and three other members of the family of a former Singapore business executi v c Mr. Tan Chong Seng. The award Is believed to be the biggest in Kedah
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    • 169 18 Steps to tighten security at airports KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Communications Minister Tan Sri V. Manickavasagam said today the Civil Aviation Department was taking steps to further tighten security at the airports. Up-to -date equipment, including the X-ray detector, would be Installed at major airports, he said in reply to questions
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    • 64 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysian and United States officials met here today to discuss bilateral trade problems as well as the ongoing Multilateral Trade Negotiations (MTN) In Geneva. No details of the closed door talks were available but an official of the Malaysian Trade Ministry said that all
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    • 83 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. MaJayslan Deputy Primary Industries Minister Paul Leong said today that the United States was prepared to consult tin producing countries and the International Tin Council (ITC) before going ahead with plans to sell part of its tin stockpile. This was to avoid
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    • 203 18 Readiness to face changes 'vital to Malaysia' SHAH ALAM, Mon. Open-mindedness and readiness to accept changes in the system at all levels of management is very important for a more rapid management development in the country, Deputy Prime Minister Dato Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed said today. He was speaking at
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    • 201 18 150,000 safeconduct passes for Reds KUANTAN, Mon— The state security committee has prepared 150.000 safe-conduct passes to terrorists in the jungles of Bentone wishing to surrender. The passes bearing the signature of Datuk Seri Haji Mohamad Jusoh who is the Mentri Besar of Pahang, will be airdropped by RMAF helicopters
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    • 86 18 $20m national science centre for KL KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A national science centre costing more than $20 million is to be set up in Kuala Lumpur where science and technology will be "on display". President of the Malaysian Scientific Association. Tan Sri Dr. B.C. Sekhar. said this In a keynote
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    • 41 18 IPOH. Mon.— Two youths, one armed with a knife, robbed a woman of $5,500 while she was seated In a car waiting for he- husband to open the gate to their house in Jalan Bu.nga Raya here yesterday.
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    • 70 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Australian Defence Minister Jim Klllen today discussed with Datuk Hussein Onn regional security and bilateral cooperation in defence matters, Informed sources said. The sources said they exchanged views on the security situation in South-east Asia as well as the five-power defence arrangements of which
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 158 18 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 1 Expert on one bird or another (8). 5 Note record of people In high position 161. 9 Mean to be understanding? (8). 10 Brewer's property was rined? (6). 11 Highly respected quarter appeared to include West End (8). 12 Sort of lakes round 8. German
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    • 86 18 7 Acts on upsetting hint by scullion, perhaps (8) 8 Present-time heaters; (4. «>. 13 Said to be mar! Ed? 10). 15 Something In tl.e way of a £100 bet's nothing unusual 1 8 1 16 Narrations little Williams expanded? (8). 17 Urge to be eriployed by factory Is gro'
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  • 525 19 RKSI DENTS of Marine Parode housing estate do not consider themselves a class above those living in other estates even though it has better recreational facilities. They said yesterday the facilities available there were not exclusively for their use but for
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  • 207 19 THE MP for Khe Bong, Mr. Ho See Beng said last night the bilingual policy advocated by the Prime Minister and his appeal to speak more Mandarin were aimed at instilling the disciplined tradition of Chinese culture In the people. This would enable the people to
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  • 141 19 SIEW HAR'S LOVE OF CHEMISTRY, LAB WORK PAYS OFF rH)R Miss Koh Slew r Har (above), 21. her love for chemistry and laboratory work tlnce school days has paid handsome dividends she has topped her class In a training course conducted by the National Productivity Board. A junior chemist at
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  • 213 19 Safety tips on use of kerosene stoves THE chief fire officer of the Singapore Fire Brigade, Mr. Urn Beng Lock, yesterday stressed that kerosene stoves if properly used, need not be fire hazards. He was commenting on a recent kitchen blaze which killed Zaleha Awang, 30, In her Tamplnes Way
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  • 123 19 AN unemployed man, Tay Kok Wah, 21, was Jailed for 14 months by a magistrate yesterday after pleading guilty to two counts of cheating his victims of $1,100. Three other similar charges were taken Into consideration. In the first charge, Tay, of Rose Lane, pleaded guilty to
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE ONE
    • 326 20 HOUSTON, Mon. Gary Player worked his customary Sunday mafic again, rallying front a fiveshot deficit and winning his third consecutive American golf tour victory, this time in the Houston Open. Player, who came from seven strokes off the pace In capturing the Masters and the Tournament
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    • 542 20 KINGSTON, Mon. AY Michael Holding, perhaps the world's fastest bowler, yesterday celebrated his return to first class cricket with a fourwicket mauling of Australia's middle order batsmen on the second day of their four-day match against Jamaica here. From 135 for two, Australia lost
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    • 937 20 APPRENTICE R ata t m y Asharl has been suspended three race days by the Stewards for careless riding In Race 9 in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. He was on Hot Topic. Jockey Ismail Asban wai given a final warning for hu handling of Holdforth Boy ir. Race
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    • 807 20 a PFRENTICE M ah ha t ■**Tugtman was reprimanded by the stewards for his handling of Russian Tank in Race 1 In Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Mahhat was reprimanded for not doing enough U> straighten his mount and avoid Interference to other runners. Zlg-Zak, who ran off the
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    • 93 20 fJOUSTON (Texas), Mon. Sja.-SM s exasperated sp'n shofs of Rumanian lUe Nastase for a 3-6. 6-2. 8-1 victory yesterday In the CSsns,ooo World Championship Tennis tourna- ment at River Oaks Country Saywetts v d proved too experienced for cnai lenger yannlck Noah to win the Nice Grand
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    • 248 20 Liverpool Forest row LONDON, Mon. The EngllsTf Football League have been asked to adjudicate in i disagreement between new League champions Nottingham Forest and Liverpool over the date on which they should play their final League gi me of the season Forest want to play the match, at Liverpool, on
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    • 565 20  - A weekend that Cheam will long remember BLUE PETER By r\NE of the best weekends for some lime, came A.K. Cheam's way when he rode a treble in Kuala Lumpur last week. Imola gave him his first success In the Class 6 Division 3—1.8003 —1.800 metres handicap In Race Two.
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    • 1043 20 \VEIOHT8 for the Selangor Turt Club April meeting this weekend. tATUHOAV CLASI 3 DIV 1.200M 5 Batu Slnal 57 0 13 Flnt Generation 56 1 10 Praiinii 4«.S 17 Raub II 56.0 2 Sawadee III s« 0 8 Captain A MO 12 Secret Landing 56 u 16 Boom
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE TWO
    • 168 21  - RI qualify for the semi-finals Surinder Singh By RAFFLES Institution yesterday defeated Anglo Chinese Junior College 2-1 In a National Schools post secondary hockey match. Rallies, who are In the same group as ACJC this year, are now group leaders with ACJC lying second. Both have qualified for the semi-finals
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    • 264 21  -  ERNEST FRIDA By ASHOK MALIK had only one A thought when he left Singapore recently to return with the Indian golf team for next year's Asian Cup championship at the Bukit Course. During his 20-month stay in Singapore, the soft-spoken Sikh won all the major amateur golf
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      55 21 SIX riders collide In the third turn during the 28th annual running of the Little 500 cycle race last Saturday on the Indiana University campus. The cyclists suffered minor injuries. Over 19,000 people watched Phi Kap- pa Psi win the race, which was sponsored by the Indiana University Foundation tc
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    • 246 21 Singapore to send young team to World Squash SINGAPORE will be going to the world Open team squash champion ships in Karachi from May 20-26 with a side who will surely return with nothing but experience, reports PATRICK BASTIANS. Singapore's «cam will comprise 14-year-olds Peter Hill and Jeremy Yeo, 1976
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    • 107 21 RUGBY National schools tournament: Secondary: Dunearn Technical v Whitley Secondary. Monks Hill Secondary v SAF school, Chung Cheng High v TanJong Katong Secondary; An-glo-Chinese v Bartley Secondary. Siglap Secondary v Sang Nila Utama (.Grange Road 2 45 p.m.). SOCCER NFL Dlv. I Geylang Internationals v Queenstown FC tJurong Stadium
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    • 394 21  - Jeremy in a close struggle PATRICK BASTIANS By THE going was tougher, but all the top seeds made It into the last 16 in the National squash championships at Kallang yesterday, with number one seed, V. Oopal having an easy 9-1. 9-3. 9-2 win over Oh Chee Eng. But the
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    • 42 21 MIDDLETON Hospital trounced Tan Tock Bens Hospital 4-0 In an Amalgamated Union of Public Employees double knock-out soccer match at Mountbatten yesterday. Other results: Singapore Fire Brigade bt Meter Readers 3-1, TAB clerical workers union bt Government Junior staff 2-1.
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    • 177 21 THE new pin-weight boxing category will make its debut in the three-day national novices' championships at Boon Teck Community Centre, startIng today. Designed (or boxers weighing from 42 45 kilograms, it is the result of numerous requests from aspiring boxers who were much too light
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    • 220 21 Coach Jitta confident of success lITTA SINGH, the Singapore King's Cup soccer coach, hopes to strike gold In his second important overseas assignment when he leaves with the team for Bangkok today. Jitta, who led an unsuccessful mission, also to the King's Cup competition, last year, feels that his proteges
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    • 566 21  - CHIN ANN JOINS 5'REBELS'... P'NG HONG KWANG By J£UALA LUMPUR, Mon. Skipper Soh Chin Aun completed a blanket defiance by Selangor players against the state association's orders when he left with the other half of the King's Cup squad for Bangkok today. Chin Aun was instructed by FA of Selangor
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    • 368 21  -  PETER SIOW By pWRRER PARK, playing under protest and minus key players Jai Prakash, Rahim Hussein and Aziz Ibrahim, shared points with Sembawang ailer their NLF Div. 1 match at Jalan Besar last night ended in a goalless draw. Farrer Park's unhappiness started
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    • 215 21 rA PATOH, last years runners-up had to light hard to beat newlypromoted Kakl Bukit 2-0 in their National Football league Division One match at Jurong Stadium last night, reports ERNEST KRIU.V It was Toa Payoh's first win In two matches and Kakl Buklt's second successive
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    • 268 21  -  ALBERT JOHNSON By npHE School's rugby sub-cor-n*■ mittee met for one-and-a-half hours behind closed doors yesterday to Investigate two abandoned matches in the School's rugby tournament this month, but chairman A.K. Sigamoney, later had only two words for the Press: "No comment." Action taken S.gamoney said
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  • 289 22 Prisoner exchange plan to free Soviet dissident WASHINGTON, Mon.— An intricate, international three-way prisoner exchange among the United States, East Germany and Mozambique is spawning discussions of deals to free Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky from the Soviet Union and a US Central Intell i g c nee Agency employee from
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  • 348 22  -  Edmund Teo and Linda Chan By PANS of Hawaii r Five-0 star Jack Lord (Steve McGarrett) had a rare treat yesterday when the actor one of television's well known police chiefs turned up at Boat Quay in a monk' s habit (above)
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  • 154 22 THAI PM: REDS TRAIN ABDUCTED VILLAGERS BANGKOK, Mon. Thai communists are giving forced theoretical and arms trainIng to abducted Thai villagers in camps inside Cambodian territory, Prime Minister Kriangsak Chomanan said In an Interview reported here today. Gen. Kriangsak, who was visiting several northeastern provinces along the troubled ThaiCambodian border,
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  • 670 22 ■w ONDON. Mon Prices closed Vt quietly rirmer today, with iminmtnt slocks leading equities higher In light buying interest and on lack of sellers, dealers said At 3pm the Financial Times index was up 4 2 at 458 2 Long-dated stocks gained up to 5/8 ahead of Thursdays
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  • 202 22 Students seize Chad embassy in Cairo CAIRO, Monday ABOUT 300 Chad st A embassy building planned to hold the hostage for 24 hours intervention of Frenc troops in Chad, a stu udents occupied their in Cairo today and ambassador and staff in protest against the eh and other foreign ident
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  • 38 22 ARLINOTOH. (Indian*). Mon. A twin-engine plane carrying nine people. Including seven top officials of the United States Auto Club has crashed and burned In a muddy field, killing all aboard, a UBAC official said today. AP.
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  • 410 24  -  Wong lai wah hhjn China-born Raymond is part of Balmain team AWAY from the stage, the lights, the cat- walk, amid the 100-plece collection of haute couture and pret-a-porter, a little Chinese man works closely with the Balmain models. He has a few quiet words here and there
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  • 65 24 HOUS E W I V E S and single girls flatting out on their own may be Interested to know that Metro Golden Mile and Metro Orchard are holdIng a two-week Household Fair from Friday. Highlight of the fair will be a series of cookery and household appliance
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  • 743 24  -  Mei-Lin Chew By A PICTURE of immaculate hut comfortable elegance in a meticulously c v t s v i t, couturier Pierre Balmain reiterates his stand on fashion. Clothes are to be worn, to be enjoyed and not made just for the fashion runway. Volla.
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  • 137 24 An encore of wearable classics /\NCE more, for the umpteenth time. Balmain presents his brand of fashion which is classic, elegant meticulous in cut and hand-sewn. Shoulders are "uroader, skirts longer at calf level and cut generally on the straight. There are gathers, darts and yokes but these do not
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  • 1177 25  - There is more to Argentina than the World Cup... HUGH O'SHAUGHNESSY By in London SOCCER fans from all over the world will be converging on Argentina In June for the World Cup tournament. The country's military regime sees the championship as a marvellous public relations exercise but, as the correspondent
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  • Bilingual section
    • 70 26 The Illustrated word is pronounced J1 a, meaning price, or value or worth. It has been reduced to only six strokes from its regular form, In brackets, of 15. Here are some common combinations of the word: OH* jiazhf*= value. fftm JlXllan low price or cheap. Jl^qlan the
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    • 13 26 Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Condorcef
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    • 693 26  -  TAN BAN HUAT By mnmn Artists, armed with their brushes and papers, make Iheir way, one after another, to the second floor of the Chung Hwa Book Store at South Bridge Road every Saturday afternoon. In the cosy room with scrolls and scrolls of Chinese paintings hune
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    • 100 26 Having bought a cow Finally. when in the market, Avantl another two men asked made his way home. him the same question "What a nice cow, he pointed at the cow Avanti!" said the and said: "Kind passers-by. gentlemen, why should A you all bother me so?
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    • 63 26 To Hail m Zhaohu A. shW xlexie i)( A: Oh, yes, I did. Thank you very much. W.'imxi.insheiiK. hao (lien) Jlu metjian le A: Mr. WunK. I haven't seen you for a Ions; time. Slnilc dayai Julian le duim.i B: Yes, it's about a year, isn't it?
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    • 231 26 The Chinese Invented the gunpowder just nft»r thp hirth nt i««n« Phiut Rut at that Cnrlst But at tnat time, It was used for amusement purposes rather than as offenslve weapons. Gunpowder was first used in A.D. 1232 when thP armlps nf Fmtwror n 7n?l L thf Sml Li
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    • Article, Illustration
      214 26 fucm^&m CLUES FOR CC-38 (A) CROSS DOWN 1. MP for Delta congti- a. Chinese idiom: ever tuency. victorious, invin2. Berita Harian, a cible. Malay language dai- b The largest telling v &s=nau. n. st— matter how much is heard, it is never as c. Chinese idiom: like good as seeing
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    • 107 26 JlnPergam it tf JlnPerla ft* #912 Jin Perisai ft JlnPerkasa if it ft+ JlnPernama JlnPerwira Jin Pesawat ft X Jin Petal t*#* JlnPetua $iLte*£ JlnPiala f^Jfe^tt JlnPinang JlnPlntau $^*i* JlnPlrlng Jin Plsang MJkJI Jin Pokok Serunai jfc '4- Jin Potong Paslr $«is% E gf jlnPunal if ft
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    16 27 NOT ONLY TODAY. BUT EVERY DAY. IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER, OUR DEAREST BROTHER THALAYASINGAM.
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    • 804 27 SIGMA METAL COMPANY LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic oi Singapore) FINAL REPORT The Directors of the Company are pleased to announce the following audited results for the year ended 31st December, 1977. Previous y ear ended 3 1st December 1976 Turnover $11,305,649 $10,134,605 Profit before Income Tax 448, 1 93
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