The Straits Times, 22 August 1979

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    14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1978 25 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 142/1/79
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    Lock icon 69 KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH
    568 1 Thailand's worst rail disaster BANGKOK, Tuesday SIXTY-NINE people were killed today when a speeding freight train smashed into a commuter train packed with school children and workers near Bangkok. More than 250 people were injured, many of them critically, in the worst rail disaster in
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    Speaker to act as Vice-President for 5 days
    151 1 Speaker to act as VicePresident for 5 days THE Speaker. Dr Yeoh Ghim Seng (above), will act as Vice-Presi-dent for five days from today, a special Gazette notification announced yesterday. He will welcome the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mr Ranasinghe Premadasa. at the airport today at 1.40 p.m. During
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    Lock icon Arafat in talks with King Hussein
    97 1 Arafat in talks with King Hussein AMMAN, Tues. Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Mr Yasser Arafat arrived here today in his first visit to Jordan capital since 1970. Mr Arafat and King Hussein held private talks at the Jordanian airbase of Mafraq near the Jordanian-Syrian border, the third such talks since
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    Lock icon Kampuchea: Formal call by Asean
    299 1 Kampuchea: Formal call by Asean UNITED NATIONS, Tuesday THE five Asean members today formally requested that the situation in Kampuchea be included in the agenda of the General Assembly session opening on Sept 18 They warned that the situation in the embattled ountry could worsen at the end of the
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    Lock icon Storm hits 100 boats in Greek race
    133 1 Storm hits 100 boats in Greek race ATHENS, Tues. The ghost of the recent Fastnet yachting tragedy reared its head today when reports reached here that a violent storm had routed around 100 boats competing in a race in the Gulf of Salonika, northI crn Greece. Reliable sources here said
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    Lock icon Free parking
    48 1 ROME, Tues. Italian motorists need not put money into a parking meter unless a traffic warden is in sight, a magistrate ruled. He rescinded a US$lO (SS2I 50) parking fine on a woman motorist who had failed to put a USI2 centcoin into a meter. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Indira meets Reddy again
    135 1 NEW DELHI, Tues. Former Premier Indira Gandhi today submitted undisclosed proposals to President Sanjiva Reddy to end India's continuing political crisis. Mrs Gandhi, back at the centre of the political stage just over 29 months after she was ousted from power, had a 30-minute V meeting
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    Lock icon WARSHIPS SENT TO 'RESCUE' TOURISTS
    117 1 ROME, Tues. The Ital- i ian Government today dispatched two destroyers and a giant C-130 transport plane to pick up several thousand tourists stranded for four days on tiny vacation islands south of Sicily because of rough seas and ferry strikes. Extra police were sent
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    Refugees reject Chinese offer of asylum
    438 1 BEIJING, Tuesday THE British freighter Ruddbank left Shanghai today with 120 Vietnamese refugees still on board after refusing a Chinese offer of asylum, British sources said. An AFP report said their refusal was not mentioned in a report published by Xinhua news agency on
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    Lock icon Pacific island not for sale, US told
    268 1 Pacific island not for sale, US told SYDNEY, Tues THE owners of Palmyra Island in the South Pacific, which the US Government has considered as a possible dumping ground for nuclear waste, yesterday said the island is not for sale. Mr Dudley Fullard-Leo, 50, one of three brothers who own
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    Lock icon Wage increase
    32 1 UANUKOK. Tiies The Thai government has dpcided to <llow increases of up to 40 per rent in the minimum wage in the country, it was announced here this evening. Reuter.
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    Lock icon BUSES STONED IN MAURITIUS
    73 1 PORT LOUIS, Tues. Huge* were stoned and police fired tear gu to disperse striking worken in Mauritius today as violence flared on the ninth day of a general .strike which the government said was threatening essential supplies. Riot police fired tear gaw to dlxprntf hundred* of
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      98 1 GOVT URGED TO FIX TIMES FOR DIESEL SALE -Page 7 SECRET storing fuels shortage 2 CHARAN on why he quit as PM 3 INCOME tax cut and bigger pension for Australians 4 BLACK leaders defy Carter and meet PLO j officials < BUSINESS picks up j for repair yards 9
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  • AROUND THE WORLD
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      Lock icon ITALY'S TOP OF THE POPES
      111 2 ITALY'S TOP OF THE POPES THE first musical portrait of a pope, recorded daring Pope John Paul IPs recent visit to Po- land, was released in West Germany yesteri d »yThe album copies of which are being held up here by Crystal Records production i chief Bernd tioeke is called
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      'Secret storing fuels shortage'
      396 2 FRANTIC HOARDING OF OIL BY 3 OECD COUNTRIES NEW YORK, Tuesday THE oil shortages earlier this year and the high prices the world is now paying for fuel may have been partly caused by frantic and secret stockpiling by Japan, West Germany and France, according to
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      In other words...
      49 2 With all due respects to the Feder- al Bureau of Investigation what with the guidelines and restrictions it has to work with today it could not even catch a cold. 7 Comment by Mr W. Donald Stewart, a former FBI espionage supervisor and pentagon security investigator.
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      Lock icon Strikers clash with woman job seekers
      213 2 Strikers clash with woman job seekers BIRMINGHAM, Tuesday TWO thousand strikers, staging a 3.2-km march through this industrial city, clashed yesterday with women demanding the right to work During a noisy demonstration, 50 women from car parts factories chanted and waved banners with slogans like, "We say no to r
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      Lock icon Oil spill damage: US looks at legal remedies
      320 2 WASHINGTON, Tues. The United States is examining its legal recourses including the possibility of filing lawsuits to collect damages from Mexico for the oil spill polluting the Texas coast, officials said yesterday. But administration officials, who have set up an inter-agency working
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      Lock icon Cheers to him
      53 2 LONDON. Tues The cheerful character of Britain's latest heart transplant patient could help him recovc The patient, 52-year-old London builder Keith Castle, "had the imponderables of the situation" explained to him before the operations, "but he is possessed of an optismistic nature." Dr Terence English told a
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      Lock icon Zia: Why we need N-power
      92 2 JEDDAH, Tues. Pakistan's President General Zia ul-Haq said his country's nuclear programme was designed to acquire nuclear technology because of growing energy shortages from other sources and the high cost of imported oil. "By 1983 we will have to find alternatives or we will be
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      Lock icon Goods sold to Viet troops at inflated prices
      249 3 Goods sold to Viet troops at inflated prices BANGKOK, Tues. Cktods bought by Kampucheans at a huge open-air market on the volatile Thai-Kampuchean border are being resold to Vietnamese and Hanoi-sup-ported Heng Samrin troops at vastly inflated prices, local newspapers reported today. The illicit trade, which draws hundreds of Thai
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      Lock icon Now, enter China's Encyclopaedia Sinica
      91 3 Now, enter China's Encyclopaedia Sinica HONGKONG, Tues. After Encyclopaedia Britannica and Encyclopaedia Americana there will soon be an Encyclopaedia Sinica. The editorial department of Encyclopaedia Sinica has planned to publish China's first comprehensive encyclopaedia wiifcin 10 years, the Xinhua news agency reported Parts of the first volume on astronomy, is
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      Lock icon In own jail
      39 3 MADRID, Tups. Ousted President Francisco Macias Nguema of Equatorial Guinea MM languishing in a jail where thousands of political detaiaaci were tortured during his 11 year reign of terror, the Swinish newspaper. Diario 16 reported. Reutei
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      Lock icon CHARAN ON WHY HE QUIT AS PM
      422 3 NEW DELHI, Tuesday PRIME MINISTER Charan Singh said he had resigned after 24 days in office because he was not prepared to be blackmailed into withdrawing court cases arising from former Premier Indira Gandhi's emergency rule. Rather than face defeat in Parliament, Mr
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      '2 space discs Sound in Bolivia'
      140 3 '2 space discs Sound in Bolivia' LA PAZ, Tnes. Two liKht metal discs, believed to have fallen from space, have been found in south-eastern Bolivia by farmers. The farmers told air force officials the 81 cm diameter discs fell late last week near the city of Santa Crnz, and im-
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      Lock icon Dispute over agenda for Sino-Soviet talks
      258 3 Dispute over agenda for Sino-Soviet talks BEIJING, Tuesday CHINA and the Soviet Union open talks in Moscow in mid-Septem-ber in an effort to ease 20 years of bad relations, but diplomatic sources in Beijing say that so far they have not even been able to agree on an agenda. The
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      Lock icon Former editoi freed after two years
      82 3 JAKARTA, Tues. Syahrir Wahab, former editor of the Indonesian news magazine. Tempo, was released today, after being detained for more than two years without trial and under house arrest for several months. Syahrir was detained on April, 1977, on charges of being allegedly involved
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      Lock icon 368 beards in one hour
      79 3 LONDON. Tues. London barber Gerry Harley last night shaved off 368 beards in one hour, to win back a world record he recently lost to a Japanese razor expert. He said the secret of his endurance was a strict diet of steaks and vitamin tablets
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      Lock icon Apocalypse a hit
      68 3 HOLLYWOOD, Tues. Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola's longawaited Vietnam war epic, is a box-office smash at least in the three theatres where it is playing on a reserved-seat basis. United Artists reported that the USS31 million (SJ66 million) picture grossed a total of US$32. 489 in
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      Lock icon More Aussie aid for the South Pacific, Asean
      177 4 CANBERRA, Tuesday NEW bilateral aid commitments to the South Pacific and to Asean were announced tonight in the Australian budget. The Foreign Minister, Mr Andrew Peacock, described them as "the most significant feature of this year's foreign aid programme, which will total
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      Lock icon Income tax cut, bigger pension for Australians
      413 4 AUSTRALIANS won lower income tax and increased pensions today in a painless budget which the government hoped will not only keep inflation down but also enhance its re-election chances. The economic measures outlined by Treasurer I John Howard to the House of Representatives
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      Lock icon Priest freed on real bandit's confession
      235 4 Priest freed on real bandit's confession WILMINGTON (Delaware), Tuesday STUNNED spectators in a packed courtroom gasped in unison as a judge presiding over the armed robbery trial of the socalled "gentleman bandit" announced that the wrong man may be on trial. Tears trickled down the cheeks of the Rev Bernard
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      Lock icon COPTERS IN TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING
      134 4 COPTERS IN TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING KOI R giant US army helicopters with 24 crewmen arriving at Heidelberg air field in West Germany on Monday to complete the first transatlantic helicopter crossing without aerial refueling, the army said. The Chinook CH-47Cs touched down after a nine-day flight covering 5,2* nautical miles with
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      'Marcos may lift martial law after 1980 polls'
      183 4 MANILA, Tues. President Ferdinand Marcos will consider lifting his seven-year-old martial rule after elections next year, according to his Defence Minister. But the Manila Bulletin newspaper said Minister i Juan Ponce Enrile told a i forum last night that elections will depend
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      Lock icon Ban on ex-premier
      60 4 RARONTONGA (Cook Islands), Tues. The high court today banned Sir Albert Henry, the first premier of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, from taking part in politics for three years. Sir Albert, 72, had pleaded guilty to three charges relating to a conspiracy to rig last
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      Lock icon Snap Japan elections after Diet session?
      230 4 TOKYO, Sunday THE ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) today decided to convene an extraordinary session of the Diet (Parliament) on Aug 30, a move widely regarded as a step towards a snap election for the Lower House. The decision was >*■ disclosed at separate
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        Lock icon Pain in the back
        82 4 RESEARCH in London shows dinosaurs suifered from osteoarthritis. One skeleton of diplodocus displays a back condition so severe it must have been excruciating to drag its immense body throtigh the primeval ooze. And, of course, anything less than the perfect physical condition essential to any hope
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        Lock icon Priest locked out
        41 4 AN UNPOPULAR Catholx priest in a southern Philippine village was locked out of his chapel by irate parishioners. The English-language Bulletin Today newspaper said residents of Tag'iina demanoed the expulsion of their parish priest for alleged "malpractices." UPI.
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        Lock icon Switch-on bagpipes
        49 4 ELECTRONIC bagpipes have arrived. For the first time in over 1,500 years you can turn down the ear'.hattering volume of Scotland's national instrument, and you don't have to blow. They were invented by Mr George Smith of Mull in west Scotland's Inner Hebrides chain of islands. AP.
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      641 5 You're now looking at the world's most advanced colour television It's like looking into the future T^hilips have looked into the future to The reason is that Philips have sue- Kl2 works on about two-thirds less power! quality, Philips equipped the 1-^ bring the world the new Philips Kl2. ceeded
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      Lock icon Black leaders defy Carter by meeting PLO officials
      431 6 A GROUP of leading black Americans yesterday met Palestine Liberation Organisation representatives in the United Nations and gave their support to Palestinian demands for self-determination, in deliberate defiance of US President Jimmy Carter. The black leaders, members of the Southern Christian Leadership
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      Lock icon Strike still on
      31 6 PORT LOUIS. Tues. A general strike declared in Mauritius a week ago is still in effect in some areas today with the docks at a virtual standstill. Reuter.
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      Lock icon WOULD BRIEFS
      216 6 CHEWING GIM heiress Carlisle Higholt apparently committed suicide, sUbblng herself in the heart with a kitchen knife In "hara-kiri" style, an autopsy shows. Mrs Higholt, i 9, was reportedly despondent for almost five years over the death of an Infant son. She was the great-grand daughter of William
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      Lock icon Union cannot sue Opec, says US judge
      278 6 Union cannot sue Opec, says US judge LOS ANGELES, Tuesday THE world's oil-producing nations scored two major victories today in an unprecedented court attempt to prevent them from boosting petroleum prices. Justice Andrew Hauk in an US district court ruling, decided that the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) cannot
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      Lock icon Soviets play down ties with Cuba
      266 6 Soviets play down ties with Cuba WASHINGTON, Tues SOVIET warships have left the Caribbean without making any visits to Cuba or approaching tense central America, US Department of Defence officials said yeasterday. Defence officials speculated that the Soviet ships may have passed up their customary visits to Cuba on this
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      Lock icon 'Soviets building carrier'
      97 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. The Soviets are buildinc what US intelligence and naval experts believe will be their first large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Aviation Week and Space Technology reported yesterday. Parts of the ship, bclicvii] to be in the 50,000-tonne class. are being constructed in the Murmansk area with
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      Lock icon 110m in cities
      62 6 BEIJING, Tues. China says thai almost 10 per cent of its people live in cities and ways must be found to control urban growth. The People's Daily, organ of the communist party, said today thai 1 10 million people lived in cities last year compared with just
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      616 6 6 MONTHS 1979 x (Audited Consolidated Results) 1979 I 1978 (6 months) (1 year) In Million MS" In Million MS Change Total Assets 682.5 510.1 +33.8 Deposits 508.9 356.2 42.9 Loans and Lease Receivable, net of provisions 476.5 345.9 37.8 Shareholders' Funds 19.7 18.2 8.2 Net Pretax Profit 3.0 3.3
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      141 6 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS B Wrong angle hadl> 8 Bas,c mm Alan perhaps 'sp^L 9 Bra or pitiful shape without JJSt 10 Ze? jump for s.eepiechasers. JJ* g^*— U^^t caught by the .JJ— u Ersr52r c i m e > as?* 17 In any case Ls senseless ,7, Port W
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    Govt urged to fix times for diesel sales
    562 7  - Govt urged to fix times for diesel sales SOH TIANG KENG By MANY service station operators, harassed by the long queues of taxis, lorries and mini-i buses, yesterday urged the government to fix i special times each day for diesel sales. They suggested the sales should be confined, from 10
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    Dealers fuellingshortage, say taxi drivers
    346 7  -  PAUL WEE By SOME petrol dealers have been accused of aggravating the current diesel shortage problem at the pumps by continuing to sell the fuel to industrial users. Sources said last night that the authorities are now investigating complaints, mainly from taxi operators, who are
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    'AVOID THIS PRACTICE'
    67 7 'AVOID THIS PRACTICE' THERE are no laws barring taxi drivers and lorry drivers from buying diesel in containers. But in the present diesel shortage, this taxi driver is going against the advice of the Trade Department by buying diesel and putting them in two containers. If this trend persists, it
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    Comfort buses keen on advertisements too
    274 7 I THE go-ahead for "cab- vertisement" in Comfort taxis is expected to be extended to the workers' cooperative fleet of buses i and mini-buses. This will give all Com- 1 j fort operators equal opportunity now that its j taxis are permitted to disi
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    Income scores 'first' by going on-line
    233 7 Income scores 'first' by going on-line INCOME, the insurance cooperative of the National Trades Union Congress, has embarked on a comprehensive computerisation programme that will lead to the first on-line life insurance system in Singapore. Putting $350,000 in a Hewlett-Packard computer is a sizeable investment for Income, Mr Tan Kin
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    Response to these schools not as good
    267 7 Response to these schools not as good CHINESE schools are not getting as good a response as English schools are in registering pupils for English Primary One classes for next year. The principal of one such school explained: "There is a big signboard outside our school proclaiming that we are
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    Stirring young musicians
    88 7 Stirring young musicians THE Young Musicians Society put up a stirring performance at Victoria Theatre last night to celebrate its 10th anniversary. It was an evening when young musical talents, in nine groups, sang, played and danced to the rhythm and sounds of the East and West. The guest of
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    Ship fire put out
    53 7 A FIRE in the engine room of the Bermudan tanker. T. G Shaughnessy, in the Western Anchorage, was put out within an hour after it started last night. The fire started in the heat reducing components in the engine room. No one was reported injured, a
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    N-Day dinner
    31 7 COMMUNICATIONS Minister Mr Ong Teng Cheong will be Ihe guest-of-honour at the Nalional Day dinner organised by the Bedok constituency at Bedok South Road on Sunday Jt 7.30 p.m.
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    Show at CC
    30 7 ["HE People's Association and he National Museum will hold i three-day Way to Courtesy exhibition at Ang Mo Kio •ommunity centre starting on Saturday at 3 p.m.
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      202 7 I I.K-( I M-DKMON- I 'he British Council STRATION on The Art of Centre. Weekdays: from Peiping Drama at the Toa 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. SatuiPayoh Branch Library days: from 10 a.m. to 2 lecture hall by a member pm. On till Aug 29. of the Singapore Peiping CHINESE
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      739 8 BUS FARE REVISION AS FROM SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 1979 CHANGE I I NO CHANGE I ADULTS BLUE ARROW SERVICES FEEDER SERVICES An increase of 1 0c on each adult fare denomination with The present flat fare of 60c for Blue Arrow Services will There will be no change in fares
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    Thousand guests attest to Hai Sing's history
    191 9 Thousand guests attest to Hai Sing's history HAI SING Girls' High School celebrated its 20th anniversary with a concert for more than 1,000 guests on Saturday night. The Chinese medium high school was founded by the Sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1959. At that time, Punggol was
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    HDB ruling
    58 9 THE word "not" was inadvertently left out in a Straits Times report yesterday on the government's new resettlement policy, which quoted an Housing Board official as saying that "the revised rulings would (not) encourage people to move into the area just to qualify for resettlement benefits because there
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    Business picks up for repair yards
    260 9  -  J. D. INDRAN By SINGAPORE ship repair yards are recovering following a revival of the world spot tanker market over the last few months. demand now because of fears of another increase in crude oil price by oilproducing countries. The better rates available for
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    5 SHARE LEAD IN CHESS TOURNEY
    125 9 5 SHARE LEAD IN CHESS TOURNEY FIVE players shared the lead in the Buona Vista community centre open chess championship after the fourth round played on Sunday. Alphonsus Chia, Lim Kok Ann, Teo Kok Seng, Koh Kum Hong and Ismail Yusoff each scored four straight wins. The next four rounds
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    Car show at centre
    134 9 A COUPLE of Italian twoseater sports cars will be among the crowd-pullers at the Singapore International Motor Show beginning at the World Trade Centre on Aug 31. One of them is the Ferrari 308 GTB, a light-alloy coupe, which features electronic ignition and electronic windows and
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    WITNESS: I WASN'T ASKED TO TESTIFY AGAINST ACCUSED
    306 9 AN accomplice of printer Chan Mun Choy yesterday denied he was approached by "government officers" to testify against the latter in his alleged get-rich-quick scheme involving forged currency. Ling Teng Yang, a bus driver testified, that he met a mutual friend of
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    Fancy Dress
    18 9 GEYLANG East community centre will hold a children's fancy dress party on Saturday at 7 p.m.
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    Pioneer social work grads to meet
    311 9 Pioneer social work grads to meet "PIONEER" graduates of the University of Singapore's Department of Social Work's Class of 1954 will meet here from near and far for a reunion to celebrate their convocation 25 years ago. The graduates, from Australia, Thailand and as far as Hawaii, were the first
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    Watson, Tamblyn and Scothorne the instigators of MUT — Grundy
    365 10  - Watson, Tamblyn and Scothorne the instigators of MUT Grundy T. F. HWANG and BEN DAVIDSON By MR P.G. GRUNDY, the govern-ment-appointed inspector into the affairs of Haw Par Brothers International Ltd (HPBIL), alleged in the High Court yesterday that three former HPBIL directors were "the instigators" of the Melbourne Unit
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    Why 1972 HPBIL accounts were misleading — witness
    2320 10 Why 1972 HPBIL accounts were misleading witness BEFORE Mr Cashin resumed his cross-exami-nation of Mr Grundy yesterday, he told the court he had established from the Registrar of the Society of Accountants here certain facts touching on the prof essiona 1 c o m p c t ency of Mr
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    PEOPLE IN THE CASE
    48 10 THE ACCUSED: Richard Tarling, former chairman of Haw Par Brothers International Ltd. THE JUDGE: Mr Justice Kulasekaram. FOR THE PROSECUTION: Mr Tan Teow Yeow, DPP, assisted by Mr Fong Kwok Jen, DPP. FOR THE DEFENCE: Mr H. E. Cashin, assisted by Dr Myint Soe.
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    Mentioned in evidence so far...
    233 10 MR DONALD EDGAR OGILVY WATSON, former managing director of the Haw Par < Group, who left the jurisdiction soon after the appointment of the inspectors to investigate Haw Pars affairs. MR lAN KEITH TAMBLYN, former deputy managing director, who has also left the jurisdiction. MR
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    Matsushita sets up $lm training centre here
    307 11  -  LEE KIM CHEW By A $1 MILLION workshop and training centre has been set up at Jurong by Japan's industrial giant, Matsu- I shita Electric, to pro- j vide supporting services for its 14 manufacturing plants in Asean countries. Matsushita Technical Centre, called
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    Robbery bid foiled by a scream
    155 11 A SALESGIRL'S scream helped foil a robbery attempt at a furniture shop, a district court heard yesterday. Although the robbers managed to escape from the shop, they were subsequently detained, on suspicion of having taken drugs. At the police station, they were identified by
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    8888 — bookies' woe
    67 11 8888 bookies woe SEVERAL bookies have gone underground, and a few have refused to pay in full the winners of last Saturday's second prize winning number 8888. The number was sported by the bridal car of Hongkong actor Patrick Tze Wing and television actress Deborah Li. Their marriage last Monday
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    Reservist exit permits from post offices
    221 11 Reservist exit permits from post offices FROM next month, reservists will be able to obtain exit permits from all post offices and from a computerised sub-office at toe Safra clubhouse In Toa Payoh. These measures will cnt down the inconvenience of obtaining exit permits from only the Central Manpower Base
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  • SRI LANKA
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      Singapore extends welcome
      338 12 SINGAPORE welcomes the Honourable R. Premadasa, Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, who arrives today in the republic on an official visit. While the ties between Sri Lanka and Singapore are long standing and the Prime Minister would have been greeted warmly in
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      Constitutional features and the office of Prime Minister
      291 12 SRI Lanka had a Westminster-style constitution until the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka was promulgated on September 7th, 1978. Whereas in the displaced constitution of 1972, Sri Lanka was a Socialist Democracy", the 1978 constitutionproclaimed a "Democratic Socialist
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      Handpicked by the President
      205 12 constitutional system in which executive power rests with the President, inevitably the Prime Minister's pre-eminent role and position is as the man hand-picked by the President to command the confidence of the National State Assembly, to answer for and explain the actions of government in the
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      Sri Lanka Singapore relations
      885 12 IT IS inevitable that two neighbours such as Sri Lanka and Singapore whose bonds of friendship are traditional and long standing, should increase relations and collaboration between themselves over a period. In the past two years in which the government of President Jayewardene has been in
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      A man of the people, Sri Lanka Prime Minister is uniquely qualified
      879 12 A man of the people, Sri Lanka Prime Minister is uniquely qualified IT COULD be said without fear of contradiction that for the role and qualities and background that these responsibilities call for, the Honourable Mr R. Premadasa was uniquely qualified. One of the features of Sri Lankan politics in
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      Investment in housing, urban redevelopment welcomed
      1159 13 AS THE Minister of Housing, Construction and Local Government, the Honourable Mr Premadasa has responsibility for a huge pro- gramme of investment and development. Of particular interest to Singaporeans and to foreign countries is the aspect of the programme which, specially in urban redevelopment
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      Ties will further strengthen
      334 13 From Pago 12 been created for mutually beneficial relations in trade. Already Singapore's exports to Sri Lanka have sharply increased, imports for the year ending February 1979 increasing by over 130 per cent of those for the year ending February 1978. With Singapore's increasing emergence as
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      Sri Lanka forges ahead with the people's overwhelming mandate
      943 13 IN 1977, the party of President Jayewardene received an overwhelming mandate from the people. Out of a total of 168 Members in Parliament it won 141 seats. In fact this number has been since increased by two. Almost as if to
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      83 13 "The dry-zone cries for water; the wet-zone resents floods; the producer seeks markets; the youth clamour for work. This is the challenge. Let us go q forward together to face it." *y j r Hon. R. Premadasa, L*. f Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. Hjajl^i THE Mahaweli development scheme: *Qj&/Wfo
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  • BACKGROUNDER
    • The Straits Times WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1979
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        RESIDING ROLE
        385 14 MR GOH CHOK TONGS disclosure that the government is working out schemes to involve senior civil servants in the activities of residents' committees (RCs) is significant on more than one count. It indicates the importance being attached to the RCs as a link between the government and people.
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        MORE ACTIVE ROLE
        347 14 IT WILL surprise no one that the sixth summit conference of the non-aligned nations will be a stormy session. This expectation is based not just on the partisan behaviour exhibited at Colombo in 1976, but also on the fact that many contentious issues dominate the Havana agenda.
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      China's construction 'chaos'
      567 14  -  FOX BUTTERFIELD By in Beijing THE new 10-story buffcoloured apartment buildings stretch one after the other for over two kilometres along one of Beijing's main thoroughfares. To all appearances, they are an answer to one of the city's worst problems, a severe shortage of housing. But the
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      Sri Lanka — a little of Singapore is taking root
      1778 14  - Sri Lanka a little of Singapore is taking root FOREIGNERS tend to think of Sri Lanka as an idyllic, gem-shaped island paradise in the sun, with coconut palms swaying along stretches of golden beaches washed by the clear waters of the Indian Ocean. This image, however, will change rapidly, preserved
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      SRI LANKA
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  • FORUM
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      Lock icon India likely to stay wracked by uncertainties until new polls held
      671 15  -  S.G. ROY By in New Delhi iiii-j u-uaji-uiu uumition government headed by Prime Minister Charan Singh, fell on Monday because from the very start it was fighting for survival and depended on support from Mrs Indira Gandhi who walked
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      Bus drivers who don't live up to slogans on vehicles
      363 15 IT IS a source of consternation to me, to observe the incredible driving habits of some SBS bus drivers, and then to match them up with the patronising slogans on the rear windows of the very same buses. All over
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      So crowded that bus doors can't be closed
      91 15 I DAILY experience difficulty with bus service No. 244 plying between Boon Lay and Jurong Interchange. These buses are often crowded to the steps of the doors which cannot be closed properly. This is also very unsafe as the driver can hardly
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      Hosing of road created long traffic jams
      242 15 Hosing of road created long traffic jams WITHOUT advance notice, at the rush peak period the other day all the buses and all traffic along the 7 m.s. Upper Bukit Timah Road were affected by the hosing of the road right opposite the Police Station. All traffic from the city,
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      200 15 Puppet love Sesame Street and the Muppets come alive for children of about a dozen schools in Singapore involved in puppet productions. Writer Margaret Cunico visited some of them to find out how they are getting along improving their diction and exercising their imagination in the name of fun and
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    Japan urged to use influence on Vietnam
    326 16 Japan urged to use influence on Vietnam JAPAN was urged yesterday to use its influence to bring about the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Kampuchea. Making this call, the Senior Minister of State (Prime Minister's Office) Mr Lee Khoon Choy, suggested that Japan could do this indirectly when he had
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    37,000 SAT FOR MUSIC EXAMS LAST YEAR
    226 16  - 37,000 SAT FOR MUSIC EXAMS LAST YEAR EDMUND TEO By Our London Reporter MORE than 37,000 music students in Singapore and Malaysia sat for various music examinations conducted by the Associated Board of the Royal chools of Music ABRSM) last year. This was an increase of ver 4,700 students who
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    Ulu Pandan sets up fund to help needy students
    304 16 Ulu Pandan sets up fund to help needy students THE Ulu Pandan constituency has set up an Ulu Pandan Constituency Scholarship Fund committee to collect funds to help needy students in the area. Speaking at the committee's inauguration cere- mony yesterday, the MP i for Jurong and Chief Adviser for
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    Go green is the writing on the wall
    260 16  -  WONG MOH-KEED By RETAINING walls are to have their stark, grey exteriors decked in greenery under new ministry guidelines The guidelines, drawn up by the building control division of the Ministry of National Development, have been sent to planners, engineers and architects
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    Schools to get to the heart of fitness test next year
    341 17  -  DANA LAM By CARDIOVASCULAR endurance tests will be included in the physical fitness tests for schoolchildren next year, the Education Ministry has confirmed. But the ministry did not elaborate when contacted. It is understood that the tests, which will
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    Nantah to spend $lm to spruce up premises
    332 17  - Nantah to spend $lm to spruce up premises PAUL JANSEN By NANYANG University is spending $1 million to spruce up its premises despite a large drop in the student population caused by the joint campus scheme. The money is being used to finance six major development and maintenance projects which
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    Witness who had to take oath three times
    290 17 A WITNESS had to take his oath three times during a coroner's inquiry yesterday into the death of a national serviceman who claimed to be the victim of witchcraft. Pte Tee Liang Hock, of the 7th SIR Kranji Camp, twice misread the
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    HANDFUL OF HEART WARMING BABES
    148 17 HANDFUL OF HEART WARMING BABES COLD- BLOOUKD babies are just as heart-warming as Mr Lim Kirn Lens, an executive officer of Singapore Zoological Gardens (pictured left) will tell yon. These "handful" of baby pythons the first to be born In the zoo were restless like all newborns. They were successfully
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    2,000 chickens saved from a roasting
    141 17  - 2,000 chickens saved from a roasting K.S. SIOHU By ONE hundred villagers rescued some 2.000 chickens as fire razed a nearby mattress company off 16km Tampines Road early yesterday. The villagers took less than 45 minutes to rescue the chickens whose coop was barely three metres away from the scene
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  • TIMES CITY DESK
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      CLOSING PRICES
      1735 18 THE M transacted ready sal* at the close »f business 'in the Stork Exchange of Singa ■:<lay .omparfvl with the previous <Li>\ pricci together with 1919 high and low i Adjusted for scrip rights issue) Turnover: Official figures supplied by the Stock Exchange of Singapore including odd lots
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      BUSINESS DONE (Singapore)
      1484 18 HID and offer prices officially listed .ii'd business in an reported to the Slock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified All Times Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "sett". Big Board
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      Govt and corporate bonds
      88 18 6 1/4% T F IT. I»1 (250.000) (100.258 100.355) 6 1/4% T F 15/7/91 (250.000) (100 258 100.355) 6 1/4% T F 15/10/93 (250.000) (100.238 100.335) 6 1/4% T F 15/9/95-97 (250.000) (100.178 100.275) 8 1/4% T F 1/5/97 (250.000) (100.178 100.275) 1100.178 100.275) 6 1/4%
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      KUALA LUMPUR
      1464 18 BID and offer prices officially listed i and business in and reported to the Kuala I jjmput Stork Exchange yesh'ni.iy »nh the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1.000 umLv unless otherwise speci tied IMUSTKIALS Arm* 41H 2 4651 tl.-.m [lJBltS) (l) 2 02cd
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    • CHIEF PRICE CHANGES
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        Falls
        42 18 r c m Dunlop Ell Sel Properties Tractors S T P 1975 FAN DBS S B 8 I'AC Duff Dcv 530 422 286 835 SIS 565 515 187 444 302 -JV -30 -8 -6 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -4 -4
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        Rises
        32 18 Malayan Tin 0 Keramal Intraco Public Bank Kern pas \okam ■iin Hen* Chan Ei»o Satu Lintang I860 1180 266 247 545 372 196 480 281 i II II M »8 H
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        Most active stocks
        29 18 Inrhcape Fiber Merlin Semb Shipyard Tganu Dev HOB L' M W Haw Par Cily Dev Sea View 225.000 181.000 107.000 102.000 87.000 82.000 77.000 S9.000 59.000
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        Indices
        28 18 BT.Index: Industrials Finance: Hotels: Properties: Minings: Plantations: O.C.B.C.: S.E.S.Ind: 2459.19 2488.1' 403.28 401.71 723.37 724.8: 288.11 288.8 249.71 249.7! 219.73 22C« 681.38 681.6! 386.90 387.4! 358.22 358.9)
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    • OVERSEAS MARKETS
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        H'kong
        376 18 HONGKONG: The Hang Seng index lost a further 13.64 points to close at 578.17 yesterday, after a day of moderate persistent selling by local investors following news of an increase in local prime rate from 13 to 14' per cent which took effect yesterday, dealers said. With yesterday's further
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        Tokyo
        352 18 TOKYO: Share prices closed sharply lower yesterday, with investors wary over the fast tempo of the recent advance, dealers said. The Dow Jones average fell 45.34 to close at 6,403.38 points, with a volume of 230 million shares. The New index closed at 451.35 down 1.84 DOints Ajinmnuto Ak.i:
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        Stock options
        85 18 Striking prices of (he options officially listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday, the period, bids and offered prices and business done, if any, with the number of options traded shown in brackets. Haw P»r (Sept $1.20) (0.3580.415). Hime F E (Sept- $1.60) (0.528) laeheape (Sept $1.50)
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        GOLD
        181 18 THE Kn/)BAR market (or Singapore delivery opened at $20,791 per kilo, and closed at 520.807 yesterday.. In the Far East, gold (or London delivery opened at U5898.40 SO. moved down to S2SB 10 50 but closed higher al $298 60 299 00 in a very quiet day due to
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        TIN
        118 18 THE STRAITS tin fell another $16 to $1,880 per picul in Penang yesterday on an official offering up 35 tonnes to 215 tonnes. The overnight London market was steady with forward buyers gaining £30 to 116.695 per tonne. LONDON: Tin eased £122 per tonne for Cash and £70 for
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        Closing prices
        31 18 Rubber Aug 21 Singapore: September 279.00 cents (up 0.50 cent) Malaysia: September 278.75 cents (up 0.25 cent) Tin: M$ 1,880 (down $16) Official offering: 215 tonnes (up 35 tonnes)
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        COPPER
        35 18 LONDON: Copper prices on Monday (previous in brackets). Wirebar Spot L 895 (1301): sellers '896 (L 903); Three Month buyers U» (£897). sellers 1889.50 (£898) Market laae: Steady at lower levels. Sales: 8.000 tonnes.
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        RUBBER
        518 18 OPENING prices in the Singapore rubber market yesterday were marked down initially on i lower London advices, dealers i said. Later short-covering interest j and speculative buying recov- I ered the loss. Values, however, failed to maintain and an uncertain trend emerged near the morn- j ing's close on
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        SSR and SMR
        83 18 vl(XlS SSH uid SMR pnna ywurday IA8 S, pl »i»b»r <(urr..t Mlbi Buyers Sellers BR20 II lonpsllMI J68.00N 770 00N .>«'•• illuop^Wll 2651X1 *****N MRELB IMRCV iIiobimUM} ***** 3I2.OON MR I lllooiMllM) ***** 312OON IMRGP illonpJIwi UNO UNO >MR5 ll'luipaUtO a«iS 282J0N MR 10 ilux.pdl.il ***** 26SOON
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      Intraco taps good support
      315 18 THE SINGAPORE stock j market yesterday showed that It Is quickly adjusting to the depressing news of a j sharp fall in the Hongkong market recently. After a downward correction on Monday, trading conditions generally improved with speculators and investors determined to hold on to their
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      Kuala Lumpur
      282 18 DESPITE some uncertainty due to the interest rate increase in Hongkong, prices held fairly steady on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Selected counters, in fact, managed to improve in reduced trading activity to close with modest gains. The New Straits Times industrial ordinary share index edged a
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    • Money and exchanges
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        NOMINAL RATES
        353 18 INTERBANK rates at 3.00 prn Currencies Nominal rat** Smithsonian Percentage quoted yesterday (r ross)panty Chang* Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency US dollar 2.1545 2.1553 2.8196 -23.59 Sterling pound 4.7765 4.7805 7.3469 -34.99 Australian dollar 2.4240 2.4355 3.4286 -29 30 NZ dollar 2.1675 2 1905 3.4286
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        Discount
        49 18 RANUK at prk-M oftemj by di <-ount houses on Aug 21 Owrnighi —I Call deposits 4". 5 Cloiiof Bayiif 5,11, n 3 month Treasury bills 5 5 3 month Bank bills 8 8 3 month CO 8 8 6 month CD g'. 8 Source: National Di.count Co Ltd.
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        Money market
        36 18 Closirg interbank rates for Singapore dollars on Aug 21 Offer Bid Overnight 7 7 1 month 8 8 3/16 2 months 8 8 3/16 3monlhs 85/16 83/18 Overnight mode slighlly (mm IhciM" (|uulo<l r
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        Minimum lending rates
        23 18 THE average r»te at which Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their best customers Ls 8.5 per cent.
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      Log prices crucial to Interwood's future
      716 19 THE PRICE and supply of j logs will be crucial in deciding the future prospects of the plywood industry, said Mr Lim Yong Wah, chairman of International Wood, in his annual statement. Since the beginning of this year, log prices have increased sharply owing
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      Intraco records jump in interim profit
      273 19 Intraco records jump in interim profit THE national trading company, Intraco, with Its scintillating set of Interim results, headed a mixed bag of companies' results released yesterday. The group reported a profit before tax and minority interest of $3.18 million for the six months to June M against $1.18 million
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        Sydney trading quiet
        288 19 SYDNEY, Tues. Trading was quiet ahead of tonight's Federal budget, but prices generally remained firm with situations on the industrial boards providing the highlights, dealers said. Over one million shares in electronics groups ATL Ltd were traded which, with 240,000 sold in Melbourne at Asl 25 represented
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        NYSE in improved trading
        197 19 NEW YORK, Mon. Oil. computer and electronics stocks were the strong points in today's improved market. Oil stocks generally lagged the market during its almost month-long summer rally, but showed some improvement last Friday following President Carter's order exempting heavy oil from price controls. The Dow
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        Amsterdam prices lower
        252 19 AMSTERDAM. Mon. Share prices closed lower in quiet trading with Royal Dutch 3.10 guilders down but Akzo unchanged, ahead of its half-year results tomorrow, in Dutch internationals, dealers said. Van Ommeren lost two guilders in depressed shippings anil Amev fell 1.20 guilders in easier insurances. ABN was
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        Zurich slightly firmer
        234 19 ZURICH, Mon. Share prices firmed slightly in fairly active Hading after a hesitant opening with sentiment aided by Kcnerally favourable prospects for the Swiss economy and high liquidity, dealers said. Swissair registered was a hatan in transports Small gains predominted among banks. Financial* closed little cruingod Bfaii
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        London easier in slack trading
        574 19 I ONDON, Mon Share prut's finished easier in slack Hading but government bonds pared earlier losses to finish ■reaad 1 8 10 1 4 point firmer on the day At 3.00 pm the Financial Times index was down 9.9 at 4643 Lndkn industrials shed as
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        Selected indices
        62 19 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Monday 4f17.4 Friday 474.2 Week Ago 475.8 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Monday 886.52 Friday 883.36 Week ago 875 26 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Monday 30. to 31 Friday 32 to 32 H.K.HANG SENG Tuesday 578.17 Monday 591.81 Week ago 610.89 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 506.91 Monday 507.14
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      505 20 y International Publishing Company in Jurong requires: ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT c Minimum (UFO- level a LCC Intermediate Bookkeeping c At least 210 3 years ex(x--rtence FEMALE ACCOUNTS CLERK c Minimum QCE level with knowledge ol Book-keeping c Able to type Those interested please write with lull particulars and recent photograph (non-returnable)
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      592 21 II EMPLOYMENT 31 Situations Vacant b) Secretarial and Clerical requires FEMALE CLERKS a (i C I Level c Typing at least 40wpm c Some relevant working experieme will be an advantage c Singapore Citizen Thotc interested pleate call *****22/ *****44 e»l 129 today to arrange lor an appointment. tint tit;
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      1255 21 II EMPLOYMENT I REOUIRED 1 GENERAL Clerk Able sTwl WM±m***tm^mQm ('■!un"""lmeresled.ca?l9Bl6o& n SECRETARY/CLERK REQUIRED. Wo rtffor UCE level wltn K°od comv»«S UIIBI mand of English, ability to type. «AttrartiuP <salary Knowledge of shorthand for *«llfcH,ll¥lS Octldty Secretary Must have initiative flpnPrniK FrinrM Salary depending on qualiflca*uenerOUS rringe llons and experience
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      636 21 FEMALE PROPERTY SALES REPRESENTATIVES WANTED Young, energetic, and hardworking applicants required for Immediate appointment. Proper training In Property Management ard Sales will be given. Prospect* and Salary attractive Apply Immediately S.T. Bok A***** with letephont number FEMALE SALES PROMOTERS required Please tel: *****90 or call at: Unit X Ist floor,
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      586 21 11. EMPLOYMENT YEO HIAP SENG LIMITED invites applications for the position of: CLERK (Sales Division) c A good School Certificate with credit in Mathematics. Minimum typing speed of 40 Able to read and write Chinese. Conversant in main Chinese dialects. interested applicants, please write in giving full personal particulars and
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      667 21 REOUIRED PART-TIME/FULL-TIME Bales Representatives. Interested, tel: *****3 for interview. SALESGIRLS REOUIRED on shift duties for gift shop In Orchard j Road. Salary $200 Age 18 24 years. No experience, training provided, bonus, annual leave, etc. Tel: *****05 Maureen/ Latlfah SALESGIRLS WANTED BY Florist Company Please call: *****39 for appointment SALES
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      634 21 II EMPLOYMENT A large manufacturing company mviles suitably qualified applicants tor the following position ELECTRONIC TECHNICIANS Trade Certificate In Electronic Servicing or ITC In Electronic Engineering Some years of working experience Pleas, submit full particulars together with conlsct telephone number to: The Advertiser P.O. Box 3554 Singapore 9055 EXPERIENCED ELECTRICAL
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      583 21 AIWA/ATLAS ELECTRONICS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. invites applications for A) ENGINEERING ASSISTANT (FACILITIES SECTION) Diploma in electrical/mechanical engineering or equivalent Experience not necessary B) ENGINEERING ASSISTANTS (PRODUCTION SECTION) Diploma in electronic/ electrical engineering or equivalent Preferably with 1 year experience In radio cassette production Salary commensurate with quali lic.tioni and eiperience
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      616 21 II EMPLOYMENT (f|n) FRASER A NEAVE (S) PTE LTD invites applications lor the position of ELECTRICIAN RvquT9fn#nts: c Must have a working knowledge of Electrical control circuit and Electrical Kitting. Preference will be given to those who have completed NTC 111 In Electrical Fitting Installation and have 1 to 2
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      499 21 f (A) FINISHING FOREMEN (B) LIFT AND ESCALATOR SUPERVISORS (C) PLUMBING AND FIRE PROTECTION SUPERVISORS (D) AIRCONDITIONING SUPERVISORS (E) VEHICLE MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS (F) ELECTRICAL SUPERVISORS Required By: Appointed Contractor lor tha Changi International Airport Passenger Terminal Building. Applicants are invited to write in with full personal particulars, qualifications, experience, references
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      490 22 II EMPLOYMENT 31 Situations Vacant t General rcipcoi PTE LTD is a subsidiary of COORS PROCELAIN COMPANY (USA) and we invite you to join us as FEMALE PRODUCTION OPERATORS Here is what you get $220 p.m. with 2 merit increments in a year Free uniforms Medical coverage Insurance coverage Annual
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      419 22 I DESPATCH CLERK c secondary 2 level c Possess Class 2 driving licence c Preferably with own transport PERSONAL DRIVER c Posses.s Class 3 driving licence with few years' driving experience CORRESPONDENCE CLERK I c GCE A level with credit In Second Language Mandarin i c Able lo type and
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      351 22 II EMPLOYMENT DUE TO RAPID EXPANSION H SINGAPORE PTE LTD needs 100 FEMALE PRODUCTION OPERATORS to fill our various new production lines. REOUWEMENTS:- Singapore/Malaysian citizens or permanent residents, age 16 above. No working experience required as training will be provided. MALE MACHINE OPERATORS ROTATING SHIFTS Singapore citizens only, age 25
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      359 22 HOTEL GRAND CENTRAL LTD. requires (1) NCR 42 CASHIERS (2) TELEPHONE OPERATORS (3) STOREKEEPERS (4) WAITRESSES (5) PANTRY MA»B/ DISPENSERS Interested applicants, please apply personally to: THE PERSONNEL OFFICE, ORCHARD/C AVENAGH ROAD, SINGAPORE 0»22 HOTEL PHOENIX has immediate vacancies for 1) PASTRY SALESGIRL 2) COFFEE HOUSE DISPENSER I 3) WAITRESSES
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      304 22 II EMPLOYMENT sfrW |la Join our Happy Team of 1000 FEMALE OPERATORS and earn up to: $288 on confirmation $305 after another 6 months This includes up to 2 merit increments a year c Shift allowance Attendance Bonus Productivity Incentive Transport Allowance Seniority Allowance Dull 2 months' probation l Lots
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      230 22 VorV l»">v }r\ V* cl mOS 3 1 wO 2 Sis I iis 5 "5 8 «p S> P"~ w m B I c? HfO -p Z.O rn.W ;J mill Hi "z 3 It I °l I- a >3" J -i 111 !l I? c S < a 0 m
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      517 22 II EMPLOYMENT IMMEDIATE VACANCIES FOR Q.C. INSPECTORS v (MALE) I Requirements Secondary 2 level or above and have completed or currently serving part-time or exempted from National Service. No experience necessary -an training and guidanca will ba given in checking of in-com-ing and out-going materials and completed products. Preference for
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      456 22 PHILIPS requires FEMALE PRODUCTION OPERATORS Applicants should be: a IN AGE 18 YEARS OLD AND ABOVE. a In education Prim. 4 Sec. 4 (any Language Stream You will ba happy lo wort' for PHILIPS since we otter the following btnafits:a Good starting salary $210 p.m a Increment on confirmation. a
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      554 22 II EMPLOYMENT PHILIPS requires STORE ASSISTANTS (Mate) Requirements: c GCE -O' level certificate holders, or c passed Secondary 3 with al least 1 year's of proven Store experience. c completed, exempted or liable for part-time National Service Pleeee call personally with relevant documents, between 9a.m. 11a.m. to: The Personnel Officer
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      524 22 SINGAPORE FUJITEC ELEVATOR CORPN. LIMITED The only lift Manufacturer in South Kast Asia requires: 1. TRAINEE JUNIOR EXECUTIVES (Mala) c Technician Diploma in Mechanical/Production Knglneering from Singa- Polytechnic or Ngee Ann Technical College 2. DRAUGHTSMAN o :*male): *male) c GC E 3 O1O 1 level credits in Knglish/ Maths and
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      428 23 II EMPLOYMENT 31 Situations Vacant f) General ijh illicit** I *55is|E SS O fhptfT |ttl<lrs CO O git. g=£ ujio Sos < => Sys: Si <2 S3 E PARADISE COFFEE HOUSE urliently requires young and attructive Cast lers. Assistant Captains. Waiters and Waitresses (iojd salary. Food and transport provided Apply
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      337 23 ORIENTAL KITCHEN COFFEI House. HELC Building (Interna ticmal House). 30 Orange Orov< Road, requires Cooks Wai treaata/Waileri Please call per sonally today and tomorrow p.m to A p.m. REOUIRED MALE a l-Vni.Ue I arpart Attendants Interested applicant*- pleaac call prrs ,M.iii> at 1209 Textile Centre. Jalan Sultan. Spore 0719. REQUIRED
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      509 23 II EMPLOYMENT Applications are Invited from suitably qualified parsons to fill the following vacancies TECHNICAL CLERKS I Requirements: School Certlficate/GCE 'O' Level. Preference will be given to those with technical background. CLERK/TYPISTS Requirements: GCE O' Level with at least 3 credits. Preference will be given to candidates with some working
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      368 23 I? TIMES PRINTERS SDN. BHD. MALE/FEMALE WORKERS Age 16 years above Singapore citizens/ permanent residents you can earn $250 per month or more (including overtime pay Pay days: twice a month No microscopic work Canteen facilities Short term employment can be arranged Applicants please call personally .it Personnel Department Times
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      1060 23 II EMPLOYMENT TRAINEE WEB OPERATORS re- VAN DRIVER CUM delivery Mv quired to do 2 shifts Salary $270. have completed N.S Call persoi transport allowance $15 plus aMy al: 146 o R d pc s r o J shift allowance. Writ* or call: 0821 t apol 2262 Tel *****1 2
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      519 23 111 VEHICLES BOATS si aV^sfl .1 iy w 11 ltc roomy. VY U liable k comfortable. d x su Hic.en«W poj" SEE US NOW. payments to su,^ r. what s more X s*T*rßa»»»le»« I Wv X MARINA YACHTS SPECIAL OFFER July 1 to Aug3l E INRUOE OOTBOARDS 9 hp Standard
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      752 23 1,11 r^^^^^^^^| 275 cc car. MM I APRIL 1975 VOLVO 144S 1 owne with concealed alrcon. Mitsub ishi radio cassette. Accident free Good condition $23,000 0.n.0. Tel *****86 AT MODEL KAWASAKI 750. selllnf $1,950. For enquiries phone *****45. AUGUST 1972 CITROEN DS2 Pallas (PARF) and May 197< Lancia BeU 1800
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      849 23 111 VEHICLES BOATS GOOD CONDITIONED NOV. 19 Dalsun 1200 SUtionwagon Wit cassette, selling $6,900 on.. Contact: *****0 WAP MOAT CO.. 245 Middle R. *****1/ *****1' 1978 Datsun El Bus. Toyota Hi-I.ux Plck-U; Colt Galant 1400 Van. 1977 Dal sun 120Y S/W. F/Cortlna 1 6 O (air-con), Dat.sun 1500 Plck-U 1976
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      881 23 REGD OCT. 1973 Mercedes 200 2nd private owner Alrcond. casi>eautiful Condition Tel *****4 REGISTERED 1972 MINI tax February HO. cassette, paint/ tyr.s new PARF eligible $«.000 *****7 *****0. REGISTERED 1974 COIT Lancer 1200 with aircond. showroom condition 25- C Jalan Uatoh Spore 12 REG 1972. VOLKSWAGEN KfOO Metallic paint Beautiful
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      786 24 111 VEHICLES BOATS 45 Vehicles For Sale 1971 MERCEDES 200. Very good condition Aircon. cassette. $15,500 ono 276. Joo Chlat Road Ivy 1971 MINI CLUBMAN 1275 c c Road Tax December. 1979 SporLs rim. concealed box. new palnl work, good condition Tel: ***** 1971 TOYOTA CEUCA 1600 aircon. sport rims,
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      723 24 1973. ROVER 2000 TC New paint. carpet, alrcond. sport rims. Insurance and tax Jan.. 1980 Excellent condition PARF eligible $13,000 on.o Tel: *****90. 1973 SEPTEMBER FORD Escort 1100. sports rims, new tyres, metallic paint, cassette $7,800 Call *****21 1973 SUBARU 1400 cc Road tax insurance end Aug Selling $7,000 ono
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      591 24 111 VEHICLES BOATS 1977 COLT SIGMA 2000 GLX. One private owner, alrcond cassette, excellent condition. Tel: *****87 1977. CORTINA 2.0 Ghla. 1 private owner. Tax, insurance till Jan. Alrcond. cartridge. $22,500 0.n.0. Tel: ***** 18 H77. FORD CORTINA 2000E Automatic. Factory alrcond. new lyres. Private owner Beautiful condition 91 J234.
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      549 24 197S DECEMBER COLT Sigma 1800 Coupe. I owner, alrcond., tape, beautiful condition $24,800 Tel *****08 46 Vehicles Wanted A BANK STAFF urgently requires any make vehicle above 1873. Genuine sellers please contact *****1/ *****90 A BEST OFFER For all PARF scrap can 1000 c.c below $3300 1800 c.c. below $5,800
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      367 24 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES MERLIN PLAZA Shops and Offices for Lease or Sale Reasonable Rental and Selling Price 80% loans available to purchasers at attractive interest rates. Ready for immediate occupation. Limited prime space available. For more information, please call: *****33 »J«»"' m mm -______fe™__9 _Hpi a H»«aKKr__M_RaV—^r— v I •<■•_________•
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      1128 24 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES Anson Road Office suites with excellent sea view Areas from 77.95 sm at $16.88 psm/mth I Sin Chew Jit Poh Building Located at the end of Shenton Way,o/s I CBD Areas from 52 sm at $19.38 p.s.m./mth. Middle Road Available for immediate occupation Rentals at $16.68 psm/mth
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      760 24 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES DIST 11, THOMSON ROAD 3 m s near Novena Church, doublestorey bungalow 6 bedrooms, verandah. $1200. Tel: *****6 c DIST. 11 WATTEN HILL townhouse, brand new townhouse with 3 bedrooms, split-level living/ dining with roof-top garden and swimming pool $2,300 furmahed c DIST. 21 CLEMENTI PARK bungalow
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      713 24 APARTMENT NEAR ORCHARD ROAO. Quiet locality wlih swimming pool Pleasant view. Children's playground 3 Aircondltioned bedrooms Carpeted living room Servant's room Furnished $1,800/- Tel: Greenacres *****8. APARTMENTS IN DIST. 21 3/4 aircondllloned bedrooms Well furnished $1,600/ $2,500 Call TRP *****40/ *****66. APARTMENTS HOUSES. DISTS. 9 10. 11 2/4 bedrooms/ servant's,
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      709 25 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES 51 Accommodation Vacant b) Flats JAVA TOWER High tloor new luxurious apartment Nexi 10 Hotel Equatorial Tal ***** M w] W Prtp«rty Strvktt Tel *****04/ *****19 MOUNT ELIZABETH large comtortable 3 bedroomed flat, aircond itioned available Heptember LUXURIOUSLY FURNISHED APARTMENT SeleUU Hills $1,500. Polni lana Tower 11.900,
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      786 25 52 Accommodation Wanted I a) Houses a banker looking tor Detached House with without swimming pool in dists 9. 10 or 11 Apart.nsiiler Owners call MOM A BROAD RANGE of expatriates hunting for Houses/ Apartments Owners ring General Properties 4M513/ *****5 ACCOMMODATION REOUIRED BY Our American clients In Dists 9.
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      859 25 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES DETACHED HOUSES ARDMORE PARK $970 000 BISHOPSGATE $950,000 QUEEN ASTRID PARK $800,000 BIN TONG PARK $750,000 BUKIT TIMAH ROAD $500 000 BELMONT ROAD $585,000 LEWIS ROAD $400 000 NAMLY ESTATE $320 000 CORONATION ROAD WEST $*****0 ENG NEO AVENUE $660,000 SOMMERVIIIE ESTATE $320,000 CLEMENTI PARK $320,000 CLEMENTI
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      874 25 kaua Rise) new luxjrious apartment. .).8()0 sq ft separate living/ dining. 4 bedrooms, servant's. $298,000 Call £*****2 ACE OFFERS: Ultra Mansion (dist n i separate living/ dining. 3 bedrooms, servant's $190,000 Call: *****22 A GRANGEFORD APARTMENT: High floor 3 bedrooms $290,000 General Properties *****5/ *****8 A LUXURIOUS FLAT Draycolt 3
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      847 25 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES LUXURIOUS PENTHOUSE AND APARTMENTS FOR SALE/ RENT First Class Residential Area. Central AircondiI Honing. Well Maintained. For Immediate Occupation. Contact: *****0/ *****. MIMOSA PARK. NEW luxurious apartment. 4 bedrooms, facing South with swimming pool. Foreigners can buy $150,000. Tel: *****4. MUST SELL!! Olst 26 Green Meadows 3-bedroomed
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      802 25 57 Godowns Vacant/ Wanted GEYLANG VICINITY SINGLE STOREY warehouse for rent Area: 7.200 sq ft Ready for Immediate occupation. Tel *****35/ GROUNDFLOOR WAREHOUSE 16 11 ceiling height Approx 4 000 8.000 sq ft 8 m s. Bukit Tlmah Road Container loading unloading faciiuirs 2 forklifU. Full fire protection facilities. 24-houi
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      723 25 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES PEACE CENTRE SHOPS KIOSKS 2nd floor 4 uniLs each 23 si 6 metres 280 sq ft OFFICES 4TH FLOOR 152 sq. metre 1638 sq ft 1 194 sq metre (2093 sq ft IMMEDIATE OCCUPATION for rent/ sale KIAN AN REALTY LIMITED tal. *****7/8 PEARL CENTRE, GROUNDFLOOI 196
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      844 25 PEACE MANSION i GRACIOUS i CITY LIVING J and 4 bedruum split level aparrments I Ready to Move In Now No restrictions (o foreigners 12T Properry Tax for 20 years One City Carpark Free Loans up to 80T available KIAN AN REALTY LIMITED 24? PEACE CENTRE I XOPHIAROAD 1 SINGAPORE';
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      1131 25 V SERVICES BUSINESS (A) VACANCY EXISTS [or an all- GREAT EASTERN HEALTH Centre round experienced male I. on- 4th Floor Great Eastern Hotel don ow 1 seas trained Hairstylist Massage Sauna Bath la.lal IB) Required also 2 Juniors with Opens daily Hi am 12 pm. Tel experience in hair-sett ing.
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      118 26 FAMILY OF THE late Joseph Yap HOCk ChenK wish to thank Re*. Father Paul Goh. Redemplorist Fathers. Staff of National Library, and Branches, Guthrie Singapore Pte Ltd. St Stephen's School. Registry of Births and Deaths, relatives and friends for their wreaths, donations and kind attendance during their recent
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      THE FAMILY OF THE LATE
      89 26 J. SREETHARAN (SREE) withas lo express thair sincere thanks to relatives, colleagues tnends and wall wishers for all as siatanca. contributions, condolences, attendance and presence at Ihe special prayer during their recenl bereavement Th« Family Ot Th« Lata MR. CHIA GUE LENG wishes ti> thank
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      98 26 JOHN NG TECK SOO iprass thtir hearltalt thanks to all relative! friends, collaaguaa and priests for thair visits, attendance, condolences, wraatht and donations during their recent bereave ment THE WIFE AND Daughter of the late Tilden Mitchell, wish to aa> preeiation to the nuns and
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      63 26 K.OLANDAIAMMAL, aged 76. wife of late Kolandalsamy. mother of late Thomas, passed away peacefully on 21/8/79 leaving behind 3 sons Santhanam. Paul. Victor. 2 daughters. 2 sons-in-law. 3 daughters-in-law and 8 grandchildren to mourn her loss. Corlege leaves Blk 208. 1263-H. Toa Payoh North. Lor 1. al 200
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    144 26 MR. LIM HAN SI AM Aged 69 j passed away peacefully on 20/8/79 at 9.30 p.m., leaving behind beloved wives Ng C hor Hua A Chua Ger Cheng, and Sons Scow Koon Joo Koon (her Koon Jim Koon Lip Khoon Daughters Meng Koon Hiang Koon Siang Koon Daughters-in-law
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    45 26 IN LOVING MEMORY of beloved sister I.oh I.iang Neo departed 22.8.63. Remembered by Seok Neo and family SIM BOCK CHOON deparu-il 22-8-6« In everloving memory of a wonderfu'. father and grandfather He has lived, he still lives Choo. Jimmy. Ken-Tuin and Mae-Tuin
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    25 26 STAFF BIOCHEMISTRY LABOR* TORIES. Department t)f Pathnlon> artah lo express iheir deepest condolences to nr h Ouna•egarasa and lumily In their recent bereavement
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      675 26 VI EDUCATION TRAINING 102 Education BOOK-KEEPING (BEGINNERS) (Guaranta«d Clatsas) 1) SATURDAY '<«. ii i (HI m commrnrini 2) SATURDAY ljBop.nl prn eommen. in| 3) THURSDAY 6.00 pm.-7 30 p.m. commancing 6/9/79 4) TUESDAY in p m -9.30p.R1 HMUMeIM in* I (You may rapaat the whola count FREE OF CHARGE until
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      761 26 GIRLS! Joos are Becoming harder to get you need Better Qualifications Trie London CnamDer ot Commerce and industry Private Secretary s Certificate is recognised mte'rationaiiy as one ot tne highest qualifications ootamaDie This examination is the only P'lvate Secretarial Examination supervised Ov the Ministry of Education Enrol now at the
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      612 26 VI EDUCATION TRAINING EXPERIENCED 4 DEDICATED I tutors provide home tuition in any subject in all levels Call A\IMU EXPERIENCED TUTORS CAPABLE ii! all levels suhji-i ts Conversation also available Reasonable Charges *****2/*****3/*****0/ *****9 *****0 EXPERIENCED TUTOR WANTS to Ki\e personal home tuition to Science students Phone *****17 after 6
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      137 26 IKEBANA. TERRARIUMS. GARDENS. Ikenana $25. 6 lessons Terrariums Gardens $20/$lO. l lesson (Atler Clement! Circus) Edwin Khoo *****7/ *****6 PIANO LESSONS FOR beginners. Tel *****42 (after 6.00 p.m.) UlssCtiaa RELIABLE FEMALE TUTOR has vacancies for only 2 more students Calient and reasonable fees. Interested rail *****04 Individual coaching or classes
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      616 26 VII TRAVEL RESTAURANTS ANGEL HAPPY HOLIDAY TOURS I Philippines/ Taiwan 11/12 days 1 Departure 2/9 $1620/ $1700 All Taiwan Hualien B Days Departure 16/8 $1410 f7 ll d gg a l "s t/ PatUya/ Cnlengmal Departure 20/8. l/9J630-$695 Philippines/ Taiwan/ H X 14/15 days Departure 2/9 $1785/ $1865 Bangkok/ H
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      429 26 STPB/TA/003/281 SHENTOURS PTE. LTD., Gl. Ground Floor. Marina Houte, ShenI ton Way. Singapore 0207. Tel: I *****33/ *****39 STPB No. 170. (a) 4 MOST-TALKED-ABOUT AMERICAN TOURS 20 DAYS WEST COAST/ 28 DAYS ROUND THE WORLD/ 28 DAYS WEST N 17 DAYS USA INDEPENDENT GROUP TRAVEL visiting Mamla-Honolulu-Aneheim Disneyland )-Los Angeles-San
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      827 26 VII TRAVEL RESTAURANTS NAM HO TRAVEL .Servile iSiujj. pore) Pte Ltd STPB Lie No: SCHOOL HOLIOAY SPECIAL 140 West Malaysia Tour (Inclusive Genting/ Cameron High- SOOT PEN CHS $160/205 lands) by deluxe aircondilionert "EP: SUN/MON/WEO coach seven days SSI99/-. six SO GT PEN HOY $239 03/9 days SJI79/-. departure every
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      490 26 KENYATAAN TENDER INSTITUT PEN YELIDIK AN GALIAN MALAYSIA LORONG HARIMAU, IPOH, PERAK. Towaran adalah dipelawa dari Pembekal untuk "Mem bekal. Memasang dan Menguji Alat Twelve 1 2) Channel Signal Enhancement Seismograph and Accessories" untuk Institut Penyelidikan Galian Malaysia. Dokumen tender yang telah dipenuh hendaklah dimasuk kan kedalam Peti Tender di
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      355 27 Sabah Air, an expanding general aviation organisation operating Bell 212 206 helicopters and fixed wing aircraft, require an Engineering^ Manager based at Kota Kinabalu," Sabah, Malaysia. Applicants should possess the following qualifications: 1. Hold current CAA licences on helicopters and American pressurised light twins. Overhaul licences an advantage. 2. Have
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      342 27 IN THK HIGH COl'RT IN MALAYA AT Kl ALA Ll'MPl'R i Commercial Division! IN BANKRl PTC Y NO: 1219 OF 1978 Re: Ho Shet Kxpurtf Hong Leong Finance Bhd NOTICE To:Ho Shet. No. 1309. North Street. Jingjang Utara. SELANGOR TAKE NOTICE that a Creditor*' Petition has been presented against you
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      847 27 W>lri£t KENYATAAN TAWARAN Tawaran adaiah dipe'awa danpada pemborong pembekai yang berpengalaman untuk ke'ia-kprja benkut A BP NO: 381/79 Membma 100 unit ruiiah peneroka di Kemahanq Tanan Merah Kelantan ($10 00 senaskhah Oan peian SSO 001 B. BP NC 386/79 Memb'na '20 unii r u mah peneroka d> Sunga Benrang Slim
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      565 27 LEIGHTON SENIOR CIVIL ENGINEERING ESTIMATOR LEIGHTON IS A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTOR UNDERTAKING ALL ASPECTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION IN HONG KONG THERE IS AN IMMEDIATE VACANCY FOR AN EXPERIENCED SENIOR ESTIMATOR AGED IDEALLY AROUND 40 WITH SUBSTANTIAL SITE EXPERIENCE AND CONSIDERABLE RECENT EXPERIENCE IN ESTIMATING FOR HEAVY CIVIL CONSTRUCTION WITH
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      767 28 PETALING JAVA, Tim* INTERPOL tried to get the Sri Lankan lover of murdered beauty queen Jean Sinnappa to come to Kuala Lumpur to testify at a preliminary inquiry into her death, but he refused to cooperate, the magistrate's court was told today. Asst Supt Shinggara
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      151 28 Dance ban still on, Kota Baru nightclubs warned KOTA BAHRU, Tues. Dancing in Kota Baru nightclubs is still prohibited, and nightclub operators were yesterday warned they would be prosecuted if they continued to allow dancing on their premises. A spokesman from the District Office here said the police and personnel
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      114 28 PENANG 21-year-old labourer who told a court that he was prepared to marry a 1 (-year-old girl he and four others were alleged to have gang-raped, was yesterday sentenced to three years' Jail for the offence. R. Nadarajah admitted to committing the offence on Ang
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      203 28 Sailors not involved in assaults, says Ghaz ON BOARD K.D. RAJA JAROM, Tues HOME Affairs Minister Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie said yesterday investigations showed that officers and men of the Royal Malaysian Navy were not involved in alleged sexual assaults of Vietnamese illegal immigrants. r He told about 100 officers
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      60 28 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Police arrested two men, aged 24 and 32, and uncovered a drug processing laboratory in a hut at Kampung Napoh Ulu. about 400 km north-west of here, a police spokesman said today. They also seized 305 g of morphine in liquid and powder
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      38 28 KOTA KINABALU, Tues. Home Affairs Minister Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie arrived here today on a one-day visit to Sabah. Soon after his arrival he attended a security briefing by senior police officers in the state. AFP.
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      27 28 SUNGEI PATANI, Tues. About 200 pupils were stranded here yesterday because their school buses could not operate as a result of the diesel shortage. NST.
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      144 28 2 gunmen grab $180,000 jewellery PETALING JAVA, Tues. Two gunmen grabbed more than $180,000 worth of jewellery in a oneminute hold-up outside the Soon Hin Goldsmiths shop in Petaling Jaya here early this morning. The firm's partner, Mr Tham Kum Cheong, 45. and his assistant were preparing for a business
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      186 28 India still keen on dialogue with Asean' KIHLA LUMPUR, Tues. India is still keen on a dialogue with Asean and is awaiting initiatives from Asean membe 1 s, an Ind.an High Commission official said today. He km commenting on diplomats here saying Asean had postponed agreement for a dialogue with
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      339 28 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The number of Japanese visitors to Malaysia continues to fall. According to the latest figures released by the Tourist Development Corporation (TDC), Japanese visitors in May this year totalled 5,954, a drop of almost 20 per cent from the previous month, the
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      241 29 BIRMINGHAM, Tues. Ten English League rlubs were summoned before a Football Association hearing here yesterday to explain their bad disciplinary record last season. They had amassed more than 175 penalty points as a result of bookings and sendings off, and the clubs had to
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      105 29 WOLVERHAMAPTON, Tues. Wolverhampton Wanderers and Everton have agreed on terms for the biggest transfer in British soccer, worth £1.5 ($7.14 m), but the three players involved still have to agree. Everton manager Gordon Lee is offering England striker Bob Latchford, winger Dave Thomas plus cash
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      568 29 TORONTO, Tues. Bjorn Borg, of Sweden, swept to an unruffled straight sets victory over John McEnroe, of the United States, to take the men's singles title in the Canadian international Open tennis championships here yesterday. Borg's more powerful game, heavy top-spin and rare errors gave him his 6-3, 6-3
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      204 29 Elliott Forbes Robinson, of the United States, second in Sunday's race, is third overall with 26 points. SWIMMING SoVet swimmers set a new European record in the 4 x lflOm medley relay of the Cana Man-Soviet swimming match in Moscow, Tass News Agency said.
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      118 29 MADRID, I\ies. Spain lost iv o of thoir top athletes in the space of 2-1 hours over the weekend Fourteen times national champion Ana Maria Molina died in hospital on Saturday due to the injuries she suffered in car crash near Barcelona on Aug. 7.
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      97 29 SEOUL, Tues. World Boxing Association junior welter»eignt champion Antonio Cervantes, of Colombia, is confident of victory in his scheduled title match against South Korean challenger Kirn KwangMm here on Saturday night. "I am not worried too much about the title match," the 33-year-old champion said
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      181 29 PLYMOUTH, (Indiana), Tues. South African Sally Little made a threemetre par putt on the final hole yesterday to win the Ladies Professional Golf Association US$lOO,OOO ($215,000) Barth classic here by one stroke over defending champion Pat Bradley. Sally finished with 71 despite a bee sting
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      170 29 MAASTRICHT (Holland), Toes. The International Amateur Cycling Federation (FIAC) voted by the narrowest possible margin here last night to admit China to membership. FIAC secretary-general Galliano Pacciarelli, of Italy, said that the Chinese delegates had not objected to Taiwan's retaining their membership of the world
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      Cornwall Gardens can score again
      371 29 THE Allan-trained St. Raphael and Cornwall Gardens, both non-accep-tors last week, showed striking form in their workout at Bukit Timah yesterday morning when they were kept together over 600 metres in 37.8 1 sec. The going was good. St. Raphael, a three-year-old by Porto Bello,
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      56 29 WELLUNGTON, TUm. The New Zealand Cricket Council ronfirmed their lour programme until I*U hoip today. Schedule I*o. West Indies to New Zealand. I*l. New Zealand to Australia and India to New Zealand 1982. Australia to New Zealand and New Zealand to West Indies 1983. Pakistan to N<>» Zealand
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      145 29 YOU DESERVE IT, IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT. After all, this isn't a car it's a limousine. And it's very expensive. But with the kind of luxury it offers so it should be. Things like, power steering, thermostatically controlled air-con, for the back as well as the front. Power adjustable
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      A journey to the unknown
      318 30  -  GODFREY ROBERT COMMENT ..By EVERYTHING, even Nature, seems to have cast a gloomy spell on Singapore's under-21 hockey team, who finally left last night for the Junior World Cop tournament In Paris. As the eager, excited boys packed their bags for the long, tiring 21,1M-kllo-metre
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      212 30 Olympic squad against Cosmos Kuala Lumpur, Tues. j Malaysia's Olympic train- ing squad will meet New York Cosmos in a friendly soccer match at Merdeka Stadium on Oct. 17 The Football Association of Malaysia vicepresident Datuk Bakar baud said: "As we have promised our full cooperation, the team being prepared
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      Lock icon Juniors off to Paris on a 'mission impossible'
      358 30  -  ERNEST FRIDA By THE Singapore junior hockey World Cup team left last night for Paris on a mission that already looks hopeless from the outset. It has always been the tradition for sports writers to try and paint rosy pictures of national
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      17 30 THE Man in the Middle column has been held over due to pressure of spare.
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      Swimmers Oon, Sng in pullout shoek
      202 30 Swimmers Oon, Sng in pullout shoek <~k_iin jin ieiK ana sng Tong Hoe. two of Singapore's leading medal hopes for next month's South-east Asia Games in Jakarta, have withdrawn from the swimming ■quad, reports KKN JALI KH Jr. The two cited pressing examination preparations as their reasons they are due
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      526 30 MALAYSIA'S contingent to next month's SEA Games have been slashed from 379 to 303 on Government instructions. The Olympic Council of Malaysia, meeting in an emergency session at Stadium Negara yesterday, received the news in shocked silence. Hockey is virtually out of the Games, which will
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      Tan hopes to fulfil SEA Games dream
      205 30  -  PETER SIOW By THE South-east Asia Games in Jakarta next month may see the realisation of a dream for Tan Boon Huat, Singapore's ace trap shooter. Sometime ago, the 28-year-old civil servant, who will leave for London immediately after the SEA Games to
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      Blend of youth and experience for waterpolo
      325 30  -  A BLEND of youth and experience that's what Singapore's water-polo squad to the South-east Asia Games will be when they leave for Jakarta on Sept 18. The Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's selection committee, in their deliberations, included four Asian Games veterans in their
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      Swimming undergraduate Tay has set his targets
      535 30  -  P. FRANCIS PROFILE ..By UNDERGRADUATE Marc Tay Tze-Hsin is as determined to win a swimming gold medal in next month's South-east Asia Games in Jakarta as he is in realising his cherished dream of becoming a doctor. Tay, 19, has been entered for
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      Jai's employers agree to release him for Games
      300 31  -  JOE DOR AI By DEFENDER Jai Prakash is now back in contention for a place in the 18-member Singapore squad for next month's South-east Asian Games in Jakarta. Prakash last week had to withdraw from the squad because his employers, Rothmans of
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      169 31 Heavy rain 'drowns' under 23 trials THE Singapore Rugby Union's plans to conduct their final selection trials yesterday, for the under23 international match against Malaysia on Sept 22, were drowned by a heavy downpour, reports KEN JALLEH Jr. But it did not dampen the spirit of the 30 odd players,
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      Admiralty in shock defeat
      101 31 Admiralty in shock defeat ADMIRALTY HOUSE, studili'il with one national and four ox international players, made a humiliating oxit from the Sembawang constituency soc- cer tournament when they were beaten 3-0 by PAP "A in the quarterfinals at Deptford Road In other quarter-final matches. Junior Athletics As six'intion beat Kerala
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      Bodybuilding may be included in 1981 Games
      223 31 SINGAPORE bodybuildera going to next month's SEA Games in Jakarta, where their sport is given only exhibition status, can console themselves that it will likely be included in the 1981 Games in Manila, reports PATRICK BAS"ANS. Colonel Nereo Andolong, president of the Philippines
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      Cyclists begin their countdown for Jakarta
      265 31  -  BERNARD PEREIRA By A TOTAL of 500-700 kilometres a week that is the mind-boggling target each member of Singapore's South-east Asia Games cycling squad must hit as their count- i down for Jakarta begins. Accompanying that is a warning from the Singapore Amateur Cycling
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      Top Japanese riders to race in Singapore
      238 31 THE Japanese are launching another "invasion" of Singapore on October 7!, reports BKRNARO PEREIRA. But have no fear it will be nothing like their war-torn military occupation in 1942. There will be no tanks, just bicycles ridden by 40 of their topclass riders,
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      Wong, Sio Hui set to steal show
      240 31  -  PATRICK BASTIANS By LIM Siok Hui, 12, Singapore's top women E grade squash player, and Wong Snee Hoong, 14, look set to steal the limelight today as the quarter-finals of the boys' under-19, under-16 and under-14, and girls' under-19 events in the Pakistan
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      269 31 Sarfraz at his bowling best takes six for 60 LONDON, Tues. Sarfraz Nawaz, Northamptonshire's Pakistan Test bowler, produced a bowling performance at Northampton yesterday that may delay Essex's succession to the English county cricket title. Sarfraz's six for 60 his best figures of the season helped to bundle Essex out
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      Gower advised not to tour South Africa
      250 31 Gower advised not to tour South Africa LONDON, Tues. David Gower, batting star of the England cricket team, was advised by his Leicestershire club yesterday to reject an invitation to play in South Africa next spring. Gower is one of 20 top English cricketers to be approached for a triangular
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      I Wee and Wee in last four
      67 31 FRED WEE beat Ng Soon Huat 54-24 and 60-27 to enter the semi-finals of the Singapore junior snooker champion ship at the Katong Billiards Saloon last night. He was joined by Richard Wee, who beat Peter Chua 5137, 30-57. 56-28. James Lim, who
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      260 31 VALKENBURG, (Holland), Tues. At the age of 24. Frenchman Bernard Hinault is widely regarded as the cyclist who will dominate the professional side of the sport for several years to come. The burly ex-marine has won the last two Tours de
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      Gavaskar and Sharma make sure of a draw
      215 31 LEEDS, England, Tues. A determined fourthwicket stand, between Sunil Gavaskar and Yashpal Sharma, forced the third cricket Test between India and England into a draw on the final day of the rain-hit match here today. The scores with only an hour left
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    43 32 THE long procession of taxi-drivers and lorry drivers at Bnkit Timah yesterday waiting for their tarn to top diesel tanks. Some waited (or as long as two hoars to fill ap their vehicle tanks. o SEE PAGE 7
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    188 32 Govt may review plan to increase taxis The Ministry of Communications will review its plan to increase the taxi fleet in Singapore should the diesel shortage probi lem worsen. A senior ministry official I told Berita Marian this 1 when commenting on the problems of taxi 1 drivers in the
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    84 32 BANGK9K, Tues. Thai Interior Minister Gen I-ek Naew- 1 male*' today said a Thai-Lao border committee would be set i up soon to deal with outstanding problems between the two countries. Gen Lek, who led a Thai delegation to I-aos last week, pointed out that the level
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    44 32 MANILA, Tues. President Ferdinand Marcos today named his wife Imelda to head a ministerial task force to help Vietnamese refugees adding to the many jobs she is holding. Mrs Marcos is currently Minister of Human Settlements and Governor of Metropolitan Manila. Reuter.
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    40 32 NEW YORK. Tues. Dow Jones averages, based on first hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 indus 889.42 up 2.90, 20 transp 271.33 up 1.02, 15 utiLs 109.34 up 0.10, stocks 315.79 up 0.95. UPI.
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    153 32 '50,000 AFGHAN MUSLIMS KILLED IN 16 MONTHS' ISLAMABAD. Tues. Soviet pilots flying bombhig and strafing missions have killed 50,000 Muslims in Afghanistan in the past 16 months in an attempt to suppress a widening guerilla war, a rightwing Pakistan politician said today. Mr Barakullah Khan, Information Secretary of the six-party
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    66 32 TEL AVIV, Tues. A group of 25 Israeli tourists left today for what seemed to them was an unusual destination Egypt. The group was flying to Cairo via Atnens and, after a two-month wait for visas, was the initial party to travel to Kgypt under the gradual normalisation
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    48 32 V. THAMBVNATHAN. aged 78, passed away suddenly 218.7 V. leaving behind beloved wife. sons Stlpham, Chandran. Thesan. Thllagan. Kuban. Kala. daughters: Sacunlhala. Saxojala, Renjala, SaTenthlra. Kohlla. daughters-in-law: sons-in-law and grand-children to mourn his loss. Funeral services at 12 Qraeme Road, Sentul and thence for cremation at Sentul
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    124 32 HONGKONG, Tues At least 160,000 Chinese are waiting for a chance to cross illegally into Hongkong from China, British army sources said today. Of this total, 100,000 had previously tried but failed to make it into Hongkong. They live within 14 days' walking distance
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    491 32 TEHERAN, Tuesday THE Iranian authorities have closed down the headquarters of the pro-Soviet Tudeh (communist) party. The doors of the party's main offices next to Teheran University were locked today with seals across the entrance. Party sources said a squad of 20 Islamic
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        Association for Continuing Education to co-ordinate non-formal teachings
        707 1  -  TAN BAN HUAT By THE newly-registered Singapore Association For Continuing Education is calling on all persons who are interested in furthering the cause of continuing education to be its members. I he first Annual General Meeting is scheduled to be held later
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        Choosing local craft for display in the US
        313 2  - Choosing local craft for display in the US GERALDINE TANG By THE Ministry of Culture has called on the I Singapore Tourist Promotion Board to help it sift and select some local craft for display along with those from the other Asean j nations in a project to I be
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        Taking the layman on a trip to a big black hole
        385 2  -  JOHN DE SOUZA By WARPED space, bent light, illusory ellipses, black holes a bewildering array of scientific terms all to explain one man and his earth-shaking theories. ESnstein's Universe is not as painless as was thought and even the
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        NZ Mana College Band at the Vic
        140 2 NZ Mana College Band at the Vic THE New Zealand Mana College Band will be giving a number of performances in various schools and other venues during their twoweek visit here. The band which arrived yesterday evening, will visit and play at four schools. It will be at the Hua
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        592 11 I A CAREER IN SALES W OLIVETTI invites applications for Sales Representatives to join the fast expanding marketing force of our Office Product Division. Candidates with the following qualifications will be favourably considered for this challenging position:R equipments: Singapore Citizens above 22 years Possess a good SC GCE HSC Have
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        578 11 SYSTEMS ANALYST Foo. Kon Tan invites applications from experienced Systems Analysts to fill a key appointment in its computer department. The successful candidate will be responsible for the design and development of commercial applications such as general ledger, accounts receivable/payable, inventory, etc Applicants should possess University degrees and with at
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