The Straits Times, 30 September 1979

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1 8 The Straits Times
  • 13 1 The Sunday Times No. 2262 SEPTEMBER 30, 1979 30 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 143/1/79
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  • 518 1 Attack on Thais is attack on Asean: Rahim ANY attack on Thailand, says Mr Rahim Ishak, is an attack on Asean. The Senior Minister of State (Foreign Affairs) cautions: "Any conflict in the neighbouring countries is of serious concern to us, because, unchecked, it could affect the security and stability
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  • 610 1  -  EVELYN NG First batch of 15 women ex-addicts get jobs in Kallang under day-release scheme By Freeing DRC inmates for work outside PILOT SCHEME < ENCOURAGING < Straits limes headline on Sept 22 THE first batch of 15 women exdrug addicts will be
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  • 134 1 5 cents more and why... THE Sunday Times, like Sunday Nation, will cost 35 cents from next Sunday. The Straits Times has also raised Its cover price by five cents. Newsprint prices have escalated; further Increases are anticipated. Other costs have also none up, including editorial and distribution charges. Higher
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  • 65 1 HONGKONG. Sal. People going to the autumn trade fair in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou can directly purchase goods with Hongkong, American or Japanese banknotes, the local newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. reported today. The paper said that a special purchasing centre is being set up
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  • 369 1 HANOI has warned China not to risk another invasion of Vietnam. The warning, made by a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry official and quoted by the Vietnam News Agency today, was linked with alleged Chinese moves in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin.
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  • 155 1 AN alert check-in clerk at Jakarta's International airport last night fofJed an effort to smuggle gold bars worth more than half -a-mll lion American dollars to Singapore, police said today. A police spokesman said three Indonesians were being sought. He said a passenger, booked on a
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  • Article, Illustration
    248 1  -  JUNE TAN By THIS is the way you blow a trampet, Uncle Muthoo these Balestier Boys' School pupils seem to say as they watch over their school's former watchman. They have been visiting him regularly at the Sree Narayana Mission Home for the Aged Sick where he
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  • 67 1 BRISBANE, Sat. An 18 year-old youth with little flying experience repeatedly circled Brisbane Airport in a stolen Beechcraft Musketeer yesterday, flying perilously close to buildings and forcing the closure of the complex for three hours Air traffic controllers instructed the young man on how to bring
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  • 68 1 MOSCOW, Sat. Strange red dish stones seen by a farm worker in the lower Volga region turned out to be the remains of a record-sized meteorite that plunged to the ground from outer space, Tass reported yestenl.iy The Soviet m»ws agency said that "in the opinion of HJlTTill
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  • 36 1 KUWAIT, Sat Some oil ex porting countries, "inrludini several Gulf states," will ir crease their crude oil prices b about US$2 (554.28) a barre next week, the newspaper, A. Siyasah, said here today. AFP
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  • 57 1 ROME, Sat. A man carrying a leaded ptatol was arrested at Rome's Humlrlno Airport shortly after Pope John Paol 11 arrived their (or his departwe for Ireland today, police announced. They said Antonio Slmlll, 41, a former airport employee, was found with a pistol. He was
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 28 1 The weather IP TO 1 P.M. TODAY: Scattered showers In early morning. TEMP. op to a.m. tomorrow: 31 max.; 24 min. SUNSET today: S.atp.m.; SINKISK tomorrow: 8.21 a.m.
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  • The Sunday Times Worldwide
    • 405 2 WASHINGTON, Sat. PRESIDENT Carter today faced a mounting storm from the Soviet Union and Cuba as he prepared a report to the nation on the presence of Russian troops on the Caribbean island. Mr Carter is expected to outline IS diplomatic efforts
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    • 260 2 Kennedy plans to announce candidacy soon '■> BOSTON, Sat. Senator Edward Kennedy indicated to a wildly cheering audience yesterday that he was planning to announce his candidacy shortly for the 1980 DemoI era tic presidential nomii nation. Waving and grinning to an audience of 1,000 in the ballroom of the
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    • 48 2 DUBLIN, Sat. A barman here has invented what he calls a "divine" cocktail to celebrate the visit of Pope John Paul. The cocktail named "J. P. Two" is said to be a secret recipe consisting of creme de menthe, whisky liquer and fresh cream. AFP
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    • 372 2 Pope likely to be involved in nomination rivalry WASHINGTON, Saturday WHEN Pope John Paul II arrives in the United States on Monday, it is most likely that he will be caught up in the current rivalry between President Jimmy Carter and Senator Edward Kennedy for next year's Democratic Party presidential
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    • 135 2 A life of exile awaits them if... LONDON, Sat. Thousands af British women will be exiled "for the crime of falling in love" with a foreign man if new Tory Immigration and nationality laws are introduced, it was claimed at the Liberal assembly In Margate today. Miss Bobble VincentEmery, Liberal
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    • 193 2 Following order from boss made them rich SHIMONOSEKI (Japan), Sat. For two decades, the employees of an obscure firm that makes boilers and home heaters grudgingly followed the order from their boss: Buy company stock. Last week came the dividend. Thirty of them became overnight millionaires. Chofu Seisakusho was listed
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    • 77 2 VIENNA, Sat. A burning cigarette in a wastepaper basket is believed to be responsible for a hotel fire that took the lives of 26 tourists in a hotel here today. Fire Brigade officials said they have determined almost beyond doubt that the fire
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    • 83 2 Iran oil chief stripped of all posts TEHERAN, Sat. Seven I months after being named Iran's first revolutionary oil chief, Hassan Nazih is a wanted man, stripped of all his official posts. He has been ordered to present himself today tc the revolutionary prosecutorgeneral, a clergyman appointed by AyatoUah Ruhollah
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    • 34 2 TOKYO. Sat. An experimental linear car, floating Just above the track on a magnetic cushion, achieved a speed of 382 km h on Friday, officials of the Japan National Railway said AP
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    • 147 3 Pig farm told off over Hua exhibits BEIJING, Sat. Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Gnoteng has berated an experimental pig (arm for keeping things he used daring a visit to the farm in an exhibition case. In a move apparently aimed at discouraging the sort of seml-delflca-tion accorded to Chairman
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    • 419 3 BEIJING, Saturday CHINA today once j more down-graded the role of the late chair- j man Mao Zedong in the building of Communist China and implicitly criticised him for many of the political and eco- nomic upheavals of the last three decades. Ye
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    • 124 3 BANGKOK, Sat. The Khmer Rouge forces in Kampuchea claimed today that the Vietnamese-backed Heng Samrin regime in Pnnom Penh was blocking the distribution on relief being flown into the country. Kampuchean civilians werebeing made to pay (or food and clothing in gold, the Voice
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    • 214 3 CHINA'S ruling communist central committee wound up a four-day plenary session yesterday which endorsed Senior Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping's pragmatic approach to the modernisation of the c ountry. Meeting almost on the eve of the 30th anniver- j sary of the People' Repub- lie, which falls on Oct
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    • 96 3 OUSTED MACIAS GETS DEATH DEPOSED President of Equatorial Guinea Francisco Marias, 51 being escorted out of court on Thursday after the prosecution had demanded his death on charges of genocide. Members of a military-civilian court trying the ex-president said the charges against him were too serious and they needed time
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    • 339 3 'Disillusioned' Burma opts out of the non-aligned UNITED NATIONS, Saturday BURMA told the UN General Assembly yesterday it was disillusioned with the 88-nation non-aligned movement and had decided to withdraw from membership. Burmese Foreign Minister Myint Maung, who led the Burma delegation to the recent non-aligned summit in Havana, said
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    • 65 3 ISLAMABAD, Sat. Military President Gen Mohammad Zia l'1-Haq's government has amended the election laws twice within 15 days to discourage independents from contesting the scheduled Nov 17 general elections. The latest amendment came yesterday with an order making it compulsory for an indei pendent candidate to
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    • 29 3 TOKYO. Sat. Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira plans to i visit Australia and New Zealand for about a week starting i about mid-January next year, government sources said
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    • 51 3 MADRAS. Sat. Indian surgeons grafted an eye on a 27 day-old baby at the eye re search centre here, the Press Trust of India reported yester day. The news agency said the baby, Mohammad Imran, was admitted to the centre with an infected eye which burst.
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    • 304 3 Marcos raps those foreign reports MANILA, Sat. President Ferdinand Marcos tonight accused international publications of issuing a series of lies, misrepresentations, errors and "inexactitudes" about the Philippines as it enters its eighth year of martial law. In remarks prepared for his annual address to the University of the Philippines Law
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    • 86 3 MANILA, Sat. The Philippines Anti-Narcotics Unit has closed down a clandestine bakery producing marijuana-fill-ed brownies (chocolate cakes) for sale to students on nearby campuses. Anti-Narcotic Unit sources said they raided the place in Quezon City on Thursday after a youth was caught selling
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  • 155 4 Telefun at Q'town today THE (ourth quarter-final o( the Telefun '79 competition, organised by the People's Association and Radio Television Singapore, will be held at the Queenstown Athletic Centre at 3.30 p.m. today. The teams vying for a place in the semi-finals are from Ang Mo Kio and Marine Parade.
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  • 30 4 A PUBLIC talk on Reliability Management Systems In Industry by Prof Park of the Seoul National University will be held at the RELC on Wednesday at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 102 4 HAPPINESS ta...a head tossed back In helpless laughter, eyes tightly rlooed In a fit of giggles, or Just a toothy grta. Happy is the way children should be on a doable celebration: Children's Day In the International Year of the Child. And
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  • 210 4 A MOTHER of five won a "Roots" contest when she submitted an entry which showed that 42 of her relatives had at one time or another studied at Raffles Institution an.d Raffles Girls' School. Mrs Lim Kok Ann, the winner, was picked from more
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  • 40 4 THE Exhibition of Famed Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy i will be held at the Singapore i Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry from tomorrow till Wednesday. It will be open i daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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  • 39 4 THE MP for Buona Vista, Prof Ang Kok Feng, acting (or the MP for Queenstown, Mr Jek Yeun Thong, will visit Blocks 96, 97 and 98, Commonwealth Crescent, on Saturday from 4 j p.m. to 6 p.m.
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  • 235 4 GOOD RESPONSE TO HEALTH PUZZLE CONTEST THE crossword puzzle contest organised by the Health Ministry in conjunction with the national health campaign has met with overwhelming response, judging from the demand for entry forms and information booklets yesterday. Students and adults alike rushed for the forms and booklets at the
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  • 296 4 IN an article headlined Case (or CASE (Sunday Times. July 22), our writer cited an experience of having paid $1.85 for a bottle of paste "in a Bukit Timah Plaza store" and later discovering the same paste being sold for $1.15 at a shop at Outram Shopping
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  • 207 6 WHILE many pretty girls clamour to be models, Miss Australia, Anne Sneddon, 21, regards this as an intellectually unstlmulating >b. This fair beauty, who seems untouched by the hot sun of her home state, Queensland, came to this conclusion after a stint at It.
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  • 232 6 A PREGNANT woman had her sentence on two theft charges postponed about three months ago when she told the court she was due to deliver in mid- August. Maimon binte Baba, 23, who gave birth last week, again had the sentence postponed on Friday
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  • 107 6 A MAN whose sampan i landed at Senoko to pick up goods for smuggling to Johore was arrested on his way to Johore, a magistrate's court heard yesterday. Tay Teck Ho, 20, a Malaysian, pleaded guilty to departing from Singapore from the beach at
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  • 274 6 MANDARIN is to be promoted in situations where dialects are likely to be used, and is not to replace the use of English. This reminder was given yesterday by the director of the lastitute of Education, Miss Lim Hsieu Mci, at its Bilingual
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  • 314 6 Bilingua story telling contest winners Results of the Bilingual Story Telling Contest for pupils of the Institute of Education's Associated Schools, held to commemorate the International Year of the Child Group A (pupils from upper primary classes) Winners in the Chinese-Eng-lish section were Eileen Tan of Pei Chun School (first);
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  • 56 6 I.IM Chee I,eonE. 16. was yes terday charged in magistrate's court wnh using abusive language on a CISCO warden. Mr Chan Chun Kai. who was on escort duty at the Redhill Market on Friday morning. He denied the charge and the case was fixed for heaiinq
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  • 140 6 OUT THEY GO IF THEIR KIDS DABBLE IN DRUGS MANY companies had given American employees 24 hours to leave the country when their children were found to be involved with dru K \s This was disclosed by the administrator of the Singapore American Community Action Council, Mr Milton White, in
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  • 65 6 THK fifth basic training course for Muslim Volunteer Aftercare Officers, organised by the Sana Muslim Aftercare (Counselling) Service, will commence at Sana House on Oct 15 at 7.30 p.m. The course, to be conducted in Malay, will be held every Monday and Wednesday until Oct 30. Those
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  • 61 6 NEW Town Secondary School in Queensway yesterday celebrated its prize-giving day with a host of activities that included a $5,500 donation to charity and a students' concert. Tho school, which raised the money through a "service week" between Sept 12 and Sept 18, during which students and
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  • 62 6 DISTRICT Judge Mr Ibrahim i Burhan will be transfened from the Havelock Road Subordinate Courts to become Deputy Director of the I^egal Aid Bureau on Monday. On the same day, Magis- trate Mr R. Cangatharan will switch places with the President of the Subordinate Military Court, Mr
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 166 6 SUNDAY TIMES CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1. Employ (6) 5. (3) 35. Scrub (5) 36. Fable Tool (4) 8. Intermingle (5) (4) 37. Customer (6) 9 Put on (3) 10 Turn <4\ DOWN: 1. Charm (6) 2. ML Stone y (4 > 2* S.Jny^M Prcfty Nose (3) 22. Vase (3) 23. Mineral
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  • TV highlights
    • 1043 8 TOMORROW is Children's Day, the day for those blissfully innocent souls around us. To mark this special day in this special year The Year of the Child RTS will devote Children's Day Special to them tomorrow night on Channel 5 at 7 p.m. Spiced
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    • 1025 8  -  p Excellent Good Fair Poor THIS week's film fare is a mixed bag of classical and modern comedy, a suspense drama and the obligatory Western which, by the way, was a "flop in its day. It is obvious that RTS is trying hard to entertain
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 419 8 On your TV 9.45 AM Opening and The Scooby Doo Show 10.10 Timang Tinggi Tinggi (Malay) 10.40 Wonderful World Of Disney The Miion Dolar Duck (Pt 2) 11.25 Soccer Borussia Dortmund vs Borussia Monchengladback and Hamburg vs Kaiserslautern 1.15 That's Holywood 1.40 Sunday Matinee The Winter's Tale. Starring Lawrence Harvey,
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    • 294 8 5.45 Barnaby J.nes Death Of A Friendship 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 Spiderman 7.05 George Hamiton IV Show 7.30 News and Newsreel (Malay) 7.55 Mork And Mndy 8.30 Operation Prime Time The ***** (Part 26) 9.30 News and Newsreel (English) 10.05 10th SEA Games Highlights of Closing Ceremony 10.35 Sunday
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  • TV highlights 2
    • 135 9 SINGAPORE'S projected public housing need for the next five-year building programme beginning in 1981 is 90,000 to 105.000 units, of which 85,000 to 100,000 will be dwelling units. The building programme will be concentrated in areas like Tampines, Nee Soon, Bukit
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    • 370 9 COMPULSORY open datp-marking to ensure that perishable pre-packed foods that have exceeded their durable life are not sold to the public will come into operation from I 1 tomorrow. However, food manufacturers will be (jiven a one year grace period to comply with this.
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    • 265 9 T hieves who prowled on a m-cycle jailed TWO snatch thieves whose modus operand! was to watch out for unescorted females from a motorcycle, grab and escape, were brought to book in a magistrate's court on Friday. Lav Kum Thong, 32, and Goh Seng Cnoon, 'it, pleaded guilty to two
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    • 114 9 "YOUNG Turks" in the Singapore Island Country Club failed to grab power at its annual meeting on Friday. There was earlier speculation that such a move was afoot but most of those returned to power were from the "Old Guard", sources told the
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  • 689 10 The Sunday Times opinion SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1979 Still a great bargain SO THE Sunday Times will cost you five cents more next week. But, in these times of spiralling prices, when inflation is not even considered a dirty word but a fact of life, do you not think that, for
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  • 235 10 Law in the wrong city PEOPLE in Penang are getting rather anxious about the Police Commission. Why they began, and up to this time, have they continued their labours in Singapore is what no one seems to understand. It was Penang who Brst asked for the Commission
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  • 733 10  - Little white sticks are death packs NANCY BYRAMJI By Even unborn babies are not spared from tobacco fumes' effects THE most lethal weapon in the world, health educationists believe, is a little stick of paperwrapped weed, hardly longer than a finger, legally carried around in the pocket in packs of
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  • 687 10 KICKING the habit is a big problem most smokers fare once they realise the damage the rigarette is doing to their bodies. Nicotine in cigarettes, which gives smoking much of the "taste", is very addictive. There are two ways of weaning
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  • 214 10 Deadly poisons in smoke destroy blood and lungs CIGARETTE smoke comprises several harmful chemicals which line the lungs' air passages with every puff. Most of this is nicotine. The smoker absorbs two milligrams of it per cigarette enough to get "hooked" on the habit. Nicotine raises an "alarm" in the
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  • Weekender
    • 1436 11 THE YOUNG WITH HEART While others roam the streets and watch TV the new breed of volunteer worker is out helping people LIN6 POON WAH today brings you a spocial feature on the youths who have answered the call to help their fellow men and women. What sort of people
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    • 817 12 WHAT'S UNDER THIS HOOD THAT MAKES THIS MINI MAJOR? THERE IS NOTHING MINOR AROUT THIS SPECIAL CAR. LITTLE Alky is a real alcoholic. Everyday, he consumes two litres of methanol mixed with an equal amount of water for every 250 km he travels. Why has poor Alky turned to alcohol?
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    • 682 13 HITTING THE HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS AS VIOLET SPEAKS TO TWO BIG NAMES THE best lobsters I've ever eaten were in Maine. Thus, nonchalantly, volunteered Paik Choo while the rest of us were hotly debating the merits of seafood at Bedok compared to that
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    • 931 13 And how they add 'air' to that coffee... SARABAT: Originally "sharabat, a spicy, aromatic drink of Persia. Travelled to north India by way of the Moghuls. Sarabat," a local name not used elsewhere, describes the sock-it-to-you beverage of crushed ginger juice, boiling
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    • 511 14 DO NOT forget me and all your people on our islands...so wrote my grandfather Papa Bosini from Tongareva (Penrhyn) atoll in the Cook Islands in the *****, in a letter I carried in my passport folder. The letter, in Maori (with an English translation),
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    • Article, Illustration
      123 14 JUST where are thi Cook Islands? It is a s«lf-oov«rain| stat« of 15 islands, with a total land area if only 224 sqiari kilometres and a ■•■■latin of 20.000. scattered ovtr 1.9 ■illlon siaare kilcmtru •f tho South Pacific, roughly Midway betwMn New Zealand and Hawaii. Rarotonga. tit principal
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    • 2001 14 PART ONE: By BILL CAMPBELI L CAMPBELL highlands and verdant coastal valleys descending to the palm-lined, white, sandy beaches and the crystalclear water of the wide lagoon with the blue Pacific pounding into white surf on the surrounding reef. Rarotonga, just 64 square kilometres in area, is the biggest, most
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    • 280 16 IP It's your birthday today. ..Born on Sept 3s, you probably enjoy a light-hearted way of life. This year you will get it: X very thing will take a more serious turn for you. Nevertheless you could be happy though you may not be carefree. You'll find
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    • 1303 18 NOW all of a sudden with 1979 being the Year of the Child, the generation gap as an entity has been resurrected as a probable reality if parents don't watch out: And what's more, it is going to result in further estrangement between
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    • 627 18 UtA''l 4 i I By SPECTATOR rß^^ B^^-__^l^__^^ a a J The man who wavhes, sees. The man who sees, knows. And the man who knows ran seldom be fooled. Anon. Switzerland to perform for the Boat People of Vietnam. These mainly Chinese refugees
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    • 91 18 PENG JOINS THE SUNDAY TIMES YOU see his work in the Straits Times...making the task of learning Chinese so much fun. He is one of Singapore's most popular cartoonists. His name is Peng. Today, the Sunday Times is proud fo announce that Peng has joined our pages. Each week he
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    • 64 17 by Edgar Rice Burroughs I V J'/' 8 V \tw? S^" i^^ C*««ION «ABK 'HB IUAiL OF TMe IWACMMS 'HJ JUN6I.E I >- LU \!^»v V. fal ~~CH H II 9 CSSSS ipf Wlfl I r I TWIIMKYDUCAN fi-i^ I'A J' j£>. T3R( SOIKJSTOMELP > MEAD HIM OPF w>fc.?^T VrXJ
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    • 777 18 lIT IS TRUE lust listen to some opinions about ifeiSrZbnd from the audiences of Redif fusion. MMBM 'Miss Lee After using, my face becomes ■C^K^-^^^B very smooth, unlike the ordinary soap l^iiA*_ t l*^*mm which contains alkaline and makes my HiiAai ■HBpte^^.^S face uncomfortable. l^_^ 'An 'Mdm. Chua My face
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    • 170 18 nyi Ketchup, a household word, has a fishy origin. Some dictionaries allege that it originated |\C TCIIUi t rom the Japanese "kitjap," an impossible form for that language. The "jap" in "kitjap" or a scribal error (Japanese for Javanese) could have caused the confusion. Ketchup came from the Malay or
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  • 590 19 SCHIZOPHRENES were yesterday advised by the Singapore Medical Association not to rush into sterilisation but to consider carefully before committing themselves. Sterilisation for such people should be strictly voluntary. They must not be coaxed or cajoled into it, it said. The
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  • 460 19 THE chairman of the Christian Brothers Schools board of management, Mr Goh Sin Tub, yesterday said mission schools in Singapore had an advantage over nonreligious schools in the teaching of moral education, but suggested that they be allowed to teach the subject through
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  • 34 19 THE Parliamentary Secretary (National Development), Mr Lee Yiok Seng, will officiate at the Bukit Panjang constituency walkathon, which will start from the car park of Block 30, Marsiling Drive, today at 8 a.m.
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  • 30 19 THE Parliamentary Secretary (National Development), Mr Lee Yiok Seng, will open the 4th Annual Woodworking Industry Safety Month at the Regional Language Centre auditorium tomorrow at 10 a.m.
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  • 62 19 ABDUL Azeez s o Abdul I Zahhar. 20. was yesterday charged in a magistrate's court with committing gang robbery together with four other unknown persons. He was remanded at the Central Police Static n. They allegedly robbed Mr P. Natarajan ot U2 in cash on the grass
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    • 701 20 WALTER SEOW reviews The Promise THE PROMISE is strictly for the romantics. And judging from the fact that the film is in its second week at the Jade, there are still many of them around. What is surprising is that such films are still
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    • 103 20 STAGE Club fans will be pleased to hear that it will be playing the rib-tickling BOEING, BOEING for an extra three performances on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and a matinee on Saturday at 2.30 p.m., all at the Cultural Centre. Boeing. Boeing is a comic
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    • 410 20 ROGER YUE reviews Billion Dollar Threat FICTION exists only within fiction, imaginers are only imagined. The very contrived plot in BILLION DOLLAR THREAT (now on at the Odeon) is a rather transparent borrowing from other sources, notably Twilight's Last Gleaming,
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    • 310 20 Thrills and chills in the old house CHUA LEONG KIAN reviews The Tale of Old House IF you are looking for ghostly thrills, then you need look no further than THE TALE OF OLD HOUSE, now showing at the Regal, Majestic, Gala, Odeon, Katong, Ruby and Silver City. Those who
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 253 21 MINISTRY DROPS CURBS ON FORMER DETAINEE KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Home Affairs Ministry has withdrawn all the conditions imposed on Mr Samani Amin, 48, the former Berita Marian assistant editor, after his release from detention in August, 1977. The order was signed by the Deputy Home Affairs Minister, Tan Sri
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    • 55 21 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Police have asked Malaysian trawlers to stay clear of adjoining Thai waters because of the continuing threat of armed piracy by Thai gunmen. The warning followed the seizure off Kedah and Perlis of six trawlers which were towed into Thai territory by pirates in
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    • 26 21 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The French navy frigate "Doudart de Lagree" will arrive in Port Klang next Tuesday on a goodwill visit to Malaysia. AFP
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    • 376 21 We'll make it the signs are there, says Dr M X LUMPUR, Sat DEPUTY Prime Minister and Trade Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today that he was not merely uttering a pious hope when he said that Malaysia would be out of the generally accepted criteria of "less developed countries"
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    • 158 21 National Front to admit the three others? MIRI, Sat. The ruling National Front in Sarawak which won a landslide victory in the election last week to the 48- member legislative assembly might be able to absorb the three independents who were elected, state Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Rahman Yakub
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    • 91 21 Motorists told: It doesn't pay to bribe KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. A city police chief said today it was far cheaper for motorists to pay fines for traffic offences than to bribe policemen. Deputy Criminal Investigation Department chief Kulasingham said four traffic offenders were arrested in Kuala Lumpur this week for
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    • 59 21 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Bangladesh has suggested the establishment of a high-power-ed committee to study trade and investment matters between it and Malaysia, an official said today. Deputy secretary-general oi the Ministry of Trade and Industry Mr Ahmad Saadi said this proposal was made to him when
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    • 39 21 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs Dr De Witt, director of the Institute for Medical Research, has said Malaysia's malaria eradication programme, introduced in 1967, had reduced the number of cases from 400,000 in 1964 to 12,000 last year. AP
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    • 187 21 AS Junior Singaporeans prepare to celebrate Children's Day tomorrow, some of them may wonder a boat kiddles who came before them. Yesterday's children certainly appear to have heen just as funloving as kids can be expected to be. Bat of coarse, fashions of
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    • 347 21 E2 FROM secretary to singer, once typewriterbound now traveller. That transformation was the lucky lot of Belinda Jimenez. Now performing at the Mandarin Hotel's Kasha h, Belinda considers herself one of the more fortunate entertainers. Never having had any formal music training or exhibited her
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    • 422 21 E ONCE upon a time, there lived a wise old man whose name was Critic. This wise old man lived on top of a high mountain called Music and survived on a diet of concerts and recitals. Critic lived with his two sisters.
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    • 323 21 THE Goethe Institute has cancelled a series of discussions on complications in making films from novels, which was soheduled to be chaired by a German husband-and-wife film making team and a German author. The discussions, which were to hp h<»lH oariv novi mo^th were
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    • 312 22 MtHe straits times fy BIUNGCAL PAGE n^INBOOKFORM By popular demand and to help promote bilingualism, the articles and stories that appeared in The Straits Times Bilingual Page over the past year have been re-edited and grouped under suitable headings and published in a magnificient book _^^^pjj| This Collection should prove
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  • IX OBITUARIES
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      158 25 AgedSa passed away on 27.9.79, leaving behind: Sons: Teo Slew Eng. Slew Beng. Slew Hln. Eng Moh. Kwee Tlak Daughters: Slew Kirn, Slew Choo Daughter-in-law Esther Llm and grand-daughter Klleen Cortege will leave on Monday 1.10.79 at 1.30 pm sharp from Blk. 29, 11S-K Ketantan Road for Ml
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      30 25 In Loirng Memory Of departed 30th. September. 1171 Not Just today but every day. In silence we remember. Deeply mieeed by his loved oner DR. A. KULKARNI
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  • 677 25  -  Jack Cavanaugh By Floored twice, he goes on to beat Shavers LAS VEGAS (Nevada), Sat. Larry Holmes set his sights on becoming undisputed World heavyweight champion after getting up twice from the floor to stop fellow- American Earnie Shavers in the lltn round and
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  • SUNDAY TIMES SPORT 1
    • 488 25 SAN FRANCISCO, Sat. Sixth-seeded Peter Fleming moved closer to another title when he defeated Ray Moore, of South Africa, 6-4, M in the quarter-final;, of the {175,000 ($374,500) professional tennis tournament yesterday. Fleming will face No. 7 seed Pat Dupre, ;he 6-1, 6-3 victor over Billy Martin. Eighth-seeded Tim
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    • 207 25 Lauda announces retirement from motor racing VIENNA, Sat. Austrian motor racing idol Niki Lauda, whose career brought him twice to the top of the world driving championships and once close to a fiery death, has resigned from Formula une racing. "There are things in my life that are more important
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    • 123 25 Aussie Jones records fastest lap in trials MONTREAL, Sat. Australian Alan Jones recorded the fastest lap in yesterday's qualifying trials for the Canadian Grand Prix tomorrow. Jones pushed his Saudi Williams FWO7 around the 4.41-kilometre track in 1 mm. 30.625 sec, the equivalent of 174.7 km. per hour. Second Jones'
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    • 924 25 TODAY LOCAL Cricket Senior league: LA v Armed Forces (Balestler Rd). SRC Heh-Orient (Padang), SCC B v New Zealand (Padang) Gall SGA League: SICC v Tengah (New Course). Sembawang v Changi (Sembawang). Jurong v Seletar (Jurong). Warren v Keppel (Dover Rd.) (Changi) Saeeer Bardhan Cup South Zone
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  • SUNDAY TIMES SPORT 2
    • 387 26  -  LONE RANGER By THE powerful Agasam Stable will try to make up for lost time due to the recent protracted syce problems upcountry and will make a bold bid for a treble today. Their runners have been entered for
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    • 225 26  -  3ODFREY ROBERT By JAKARTA, Sat. Singapore will try to revive the East Asia regional hockey tournament by staging it in the Republic next year. Singapore Hockey Association president Chelliah Tiruchelvarayan, who was also team manager of the Republic's South-east Asia Games squad, disclosed this here today
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  • SUNDAY TIMES SPORT 3
    • 976 27 RACE 1 2.30 CLASS 6, DIV1 1.200M IVA^r, 1 ($11,000 -$7,700 to winner) 1 0552 Bon Ami* II a iCM Lim) Allan 3 58 -0.5) F Harris 10 2 9822 Manchester a Lobaron Kang 4 57 -2M)8F Noon 4 3 0861 8unnjr8tunn»rg( YCLlSamsuri 7 56.5(^4) Nfiow 1 4
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    • 1868 27 RACING.. with FAIRWAY VISITING jockey Gerry Donnelly has a bright chance of a double on Mount Aboro and Grand Bonheur at Bukit Timah today. Grand Bonheur will be very hard to beat in Race Seven (5.35). The six-year-old by Grand Chaudiere
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  • SUNDAY TIMES SPORT 4
    • 435 28  -  KEN JALLEH Jr By JAKARTA, Sat. By the time the Itth Southeast Asia (iames end tomorrow, many questions will have been answered... quest ions about form, spirit strength and grit. Bat friendship is what it's really all about, they say. Win or lose, they repeat,
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    • 83 28 Jakarta 79 Too heavy to heave JAKARTA. Sat The Chef de Mission of the Malaysian rimingent. who is also the Miniser for Information Datuk Molamed Rahmat, proved to be a idle too much last night. The Malaysian women's Mskctball toam, in Iheir exuxtancc at winning the gold nedal. threw him
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    • 74 28 THK Chuckles rogby i->am had little to laugh a hout yesterday. They were thrashed by a record lil-t- by Singapore Cricket Club Tankards in a Singapore Rugby Union Division fwo match on the Padang. Tankards' previous record winning margin was 53-8 against the American School. The reconstructed
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    • 32 28 Indonesia Thailand Burma Philippines Malaysia Singapore Brunei v M 52 24 23 18 M s 75 43 25 26 28 21 1 H 51 23 24 111 37 34 t
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    • 53 28 TAN KOK WAH and crew L'heonK Tuck Wai triumphpd nn the opening day of the Asian Fireball yachting championship trials, off Changi, yesterday. The pair caught up with early-leader Kino Goh at the last triangle to win Irom helmsmen Loo Teck Lim and (;oh, who were second
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    • 143 28 Late CLASSIFIED DEATHS MADAM WONG POH KIM (Wife or Um uif Mr iff Meng Tick) aged away peacefully on a :> Sadly missed by son Andrew Lee W. Hoe; daughters Thereea Leone, Juliana I.eng, Cecilia Lee, Praxedea (iii>s..n Oenevteve Winter daughter and ..on.s-in-iaw. grandchildren and great grandeon cortege leaves n
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    • 423 28  -  KEN JALLEH Jr. By JAKARTA, Sat. White sheep Yip Kwang Tai had her fleece showered with golden glitter when she raked in Singapore's 16th gold with her performance on the balance beam for the individual women's title at the Balai Sidang Stadium here today. Kwang Tai, Singapore's
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    • 266 28 Pictures from Jakarta by Timesport cameraman ALBERT SIM. JAKARTA, Sat. Singapore women's Softball team today won the bronze medal after they had been beaten 5-2 by Indonesia in the play-off for second place at the Senayan Stadium, reports JOK 'DORA I. But in the third innings, it
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    • 466 28 BADMINTON Men's doubles (final) Bandid Jaiyen Preecha Sopajaree (T) bt Christian Ade Chandra (I) 15-9, 15-5. Final position 1 Bandid laiyen Preecha Sopajaree iV,; 2 Christian Ade Chandra (I); 3 Mis Mr. Ong Teong Boon i Ml and Pisud CHaikul Sarit Chansiaora Smee Sawa! (T).
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    • 338 28  -  JOE DORAI !i JAKARTA, Sat. Ten days ago, the South-east Asia Games Village here was a hive of activity, with more than 1,600 disciplined athletes from seven countries seriously going about their business of preparing themselves for battles to come. But, today, the place
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    • 316 28 Forest snatch breakaway victory LONDON, Sat. European champions Nottingham Forest snatched a 1-d win over English League champions Liverpool today in an important First Division match between the two clubs, which have dominated British soccer in recent seasons. FIRST DIVISION Arsenal 2 Wolves 3 Coventry 1 Tottenham 1 Palace 4
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    • 45 28 JOHORE INDIANS did Singa pore Indians a favour when they defeated Malacca 3-1 in the Bardhan Cup Scuth Zone soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. Singapore need only a draw from tonight's match (7.30) against Malacca to be the zone champions.
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    • 29 28 WHAT'S ON TODAY THE programme for tod»>, the tenth and final ilay cr the Southeast A> la (James. Morning Volleyball: Indonesia vs Philippines. Night Football final: Indonesia vs Malaysia.
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