The Straits Times, 17 December 1979

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1979 30 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 142/1/79
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  • 984 1  -  PAUL WEE By Multiple fares plan for OMO buses being studied BUS FARES will be pegged for a year and the services will be faster, more reliable and comfortable in two years that is the destination of the Singapore Bus Service as it gears
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  • 304 1 Imported used cars $10,000 surtax shock A SURCHARGE of $10,000 will be imposed by the government on each impoled second-hand car registered in Singapore from today. A Communications Ministry statement yesterday said the surcharge must be paid by the registered owner in addition to the Additional Registration Fee (ARF) and
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  • 67 1 ISLAMABAD, Sun. Muslim rebels fighting the Sovietbacked regime in Afghanistan claim to nave captured two provinces, the Urqu-langiiage newspaper Jang of RawaTpindi said loday Quoting Jamiate Islami (Islamic Party) sources. the newspaper said the rebels have selzed control of Bamyan and Ruzgan. Bamyan. west of Kabul. the
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  • 58 1 KUWAIT, Sun. Kuwait will reduce its daily crude oil output from 2 million to I.S million barrels beginning April 1, the daily newspaper Al-Qabas reported today. The paper quoted an unnamed Oil Ministry official as saying April is the most suitable date for starting a production
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  • 270 1 A "SUBSTANTIAL increase in the cost of Housing Board flats is in the offing, the i Minister for National I Development, Mr Teh Cheang Wan, said yesterday. This increase, exceeding 10 per cent, will "most probably" cover rentals and selling prices. "We are
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  • 245 1 BRUSSELS, Sun. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries will submit new proposals tomorrow for reducing the number of troops in Central Europe, in an attempt to break a deadlock in negotiations with Warsaw Pact states. The plan, approved by Nato foreign ministers last week, is
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  • 349 1 Food not reaching Kampucheans WASHINGTON, Sunday THE United States intelligence evidence its Vietnamese allies ai tional relief efforts to cheans, the State Dei day. It called on Hanoi and the Kampuchean Government of Prime Minister Heng Samrin to allow international relief workers more access to
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  • 186 1  -  RONNIE WAI By POLICE last alght dl«armea a woman who had earlier threatened te hit —ether woman with a revolver and thea Bred shot eahtte aflat oa the third Oeer of Block U, Sims Place. No one was hurt la the Inddeat, which was sparked off
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  • 27 1 TOKYO, Sun. Mr AWra Oshim, a 33-year-old blind Japanese musician yesterday achieved a world record for playing the electronic organ non-stop for 100 hours. AFP.
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  • 177 1 Commando threat to Khomeiny Govt' KUWAIT, Sun. Iranian commandos led by the exShah 's officers are preparing for surprise attacks and sabotage "on a vast scale" against Iran's Islamic government, the Kuwaiti newspaper AlSiassa said today. The ex-Shah's army chief Gholam Ali Oueissi "with the help of 17 gener- i
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  • 69 1 Saudi to buy $260m arms BArCiAIN, Sun Saudi Arabia ias concluded a US$l2O million (SJ26O million) arms deal with the United States. Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul-Aziz, the Saudi Defence and Aviation Minister said today. In an interview with the newspaper Al-Jezlra, he said the deal includes 6.500 rockets and bombs
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  • 47 1 TEHERAN, Su. Ir». ■Im Gcvenuneat r»4l« etataeé: t*d*y Uui the the Ualto/Bteto« U > mccw far Iru la Ito t—timUatm wtth WMkT 1!!»T 1 Tekefsa radl* brwUcMt mM, "ky txpellißK tke Shaii tke is •««epted part «f what Itm iMMed ip»a AP. BEE THIS PAOE
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  • 540 1 Hostage trial to go on Students angry at Shah's departure TEHERAN, Sunday IRANIAN students holding 50 American hostages, angered by the Shah's departure from the United States, announced today that they would put their captives on trial "without the slightest delay." The announcement, which gave no precise date for the
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    • 732 2 WASHINGTON, Sunday THE United States plans to ask the United Nations Security Council to impose economic sanctions on Iran if it fails to release the American hostages held at the US Embassy in Teheran, US Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said today. Speaking to
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    • 70 2 TOKYO, Sun Some, 5.000 i adicals and farmers gathered today around Tokyo's new international airport in Narila to protest second phase of the ait port's expansion project, police said. The government has deployed a K.OOO-strong police force to protect the US$2 6 billion iSSS.6 billion) airport
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    • 40 2 DACCA. Sun More than 200 prisoners have been (reed since Bangladesh last month lepealed emergency regulations introduced five years ago after the killing of the country's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Bangladesh's official MWI a||ncy s;nd yesterday Reutei
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    • 26 2 JAKARTA. Sun. Ten c-hil-ilicn have died <>[ diphtheria iiul T*i <>ihoi^> ttcio hospn.i ||K#d .n Ciriwondo VilHOt, i<HHral Java, me Health Dep.l iini'iii s;i»l vcMi'iiiay
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    • 203 2 LONDON, Sunday about the Mecca operation was the source of the attackers' arsenal. Some reports allege that the weapons were drawn from the armouries of the Saudi National Guard, the bedouin army which acts as a counterweight to the regular armed forces. If
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    • 153 2 Crisis is a ploy, says Iraqi writer BAGHDAD. Sun. Irau accused Iran yesterday of fomenting the US-Iran ciisis in an attempt to divert attention from Uh-.il anarchy, oppression and lawlessness. The Iraqi news agency's political commentator dta missed as "pure fantasy" a report allegedly carried by the Iranian media about
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    • 90 2 US firms stake claim to Iran's billions WASHINGTON. Sun. More than 60 American corporations, hoping 'o establish their claim to a share of the frozen Iranian assets in the United States, have rushed to courts with lawsuits covering unpaid debts. It was sparked by President Carter's decision to freeze Iranian
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      39 3 A YOUNG Kampuchea* putting an arm around his elder brother who lest Us feet in a landmine explosieo before arriving at a refugee camp In Kbm I Dmc, a Thai town Bear the kampurhe«.n harder, on Saturday. AP picture.
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    • 404 3 WASHINGTON, Sunday THE United States is deeply worried that the South Korean military has become involved in a political fight between high-ranking officers following the assassination of President Park Chung-nee in October. Several ranking US officials, who declined to be identified,
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    • 150 3 NEW DELHI, Sun. A young bridegroom has discovered, that the "satyagraha" or request for justice, successfully used by the late Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in ousting the British, works well for extracting dowry. The unnamed bridegroom from central India went on a "fast unto
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    • 76 3 BEIJING, Sun. The Canton branch of the Bank of China is accepting foreign currency deposits tor the first time from foreigners, overseas Chinese and Chinese from Hongkong and Macao, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. Canton is the site of China's major semi-annual export fair and one
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    • 31 3 HONGKONG, Sun. The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry yesterday rejected US charges that Vietnam had used poisonous chemicals in Laos and Kampuchea, the Vietnam News Agency, monitored here, reported. AFP.
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    • 197 3 Russian buildup goes on unabated WASHINGTON, Sun. At least 5,000 Soviet military personnel, more than 1,000 of them combat troops, are in Afghanistan and the buildup is continuing, the US State Department said today. In a written answer to reporters' questions, the department said Soviet combat troops and hea.y equipment
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    • 182 3 GET YOUR OWN HOME. WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN M I WflPafEl With our 4 Great Housing Loan Schemes Like Our Normal Annuity Scheme Attractive financing with loans up to 85% of assessed value and repayment stretching up to 20 years. And for properties under construction, monthly instalments can be
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  • AROUND THE WORLD
    • 488 4 PATRIOTIC Front guerilla alliance leaders Mr Joshua Nkomo and Mr Robert Mugabe rei iected the "iniquitous" British ceasefire proposals. The Lancaster House conference on the future of Zimbabwe today closed without agreement' to end the sevenyear bush war. The Salisbury government delegation, led
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      7 4 MB TBUDEAU ...ready to withdraw leadership resignation
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    • 214 4 Trudeau offers to lead Liberal Party in polls OTTAWA, Sunday MR Pierre Trudeau has offered to reconsider his resignation as Liberal leader if the party asks him to lead it in February's election campaign against Prime Minister Joe Clark's Conserv-F atives, a party spokesman said yesterday. Liberal caucus chairman Jacques
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    • 220 4 LONDON, Sun. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left here today for the United States on a two-day visit designed to promote and reflect what the British still cherish as their special relationship with the Americans. On a busy schedule, eaually divided between Washington
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    • 112 4 WASHINGTON, Sun. Senate Democratic leaden s»y President Jimmy Carter's proposal far an bigger defence budget and thr derision •f Nato allies to improve their farces mean a better chance the Senate will ratify the Salt II strategic arm* treaty. "The prospects have been considerably Improved,"
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      • 70 4 AN KNRAOKD ostrich at tacked a farmer and held him underwater for several minutes during a life and death struggle on a duck farm in Nigel, South Africa. Police said yesterday Card Latter was feeding his ducks when the ostrich attacked him from behind, knocking him into
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      • 59 4 FATHKR Christmas traditionally does his festive rounds by a reindeerdrawn sleigh, but in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, he was hitch-hik-ing to work on Friday. Newspapers published pictures of the jovial, white-bearded bearer of gifts at a roadside seeking a lift to a department store as Auckland's bus
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      • 65 4 SHACK scientists believe they have found a huge group of star galaxies which are sucking in the Milky Way. The National Aeronautic s and Space Administration said the c lustp, of hundreds of millions of stars, situated beyond the constellation Virgo, was drawing in the Milky
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      • 60 4 WHAT is believed to be the world's first mixed-species cattle twins have been produced by a research team from the Australian National University The uniqueness of the twins lies not only in the fact that they are mixedspeoies twins but, more importantly from a mdei-i-al point
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    • 169 4 LONDON, Sun. Any day now, London could be flooded. According to experts, I the river Thames is in danger this winter of bursting its banks. This would threaten thousands of lives and cut off the capital from the rest of Britain. For the next
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    • 129 4 «teV w\l I I the Mersey nfe*-' I of the 60s? That was fi&t Gerry and the Pacemakers rocketed **]|§L world fame with "How do you do it?", You'll Never Walk Alone", and "Ferry Across the Mersey". Since jT then, this British group has enjoyed tremendous concert, theatre and television
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  • AROUND THE WORLD 4
    • 263 5 Unified Opec price now seems unlikely CARACAS, Sunday OPEC oil ministers preparing for their regular price-fixing conference tomorrow face a growing prospect that their differences will prevent them from returning to a single, unified reference price for oil. Delegates to the canfeme said the 13-nation f Organisation of Petroleum Exporting
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    • 89 5 MEXICO TO UP PRICE OF CRUDE FRONTERA(MexI<o), Son Mexico will raise the price of crude oil sold to foreign market* beginning on lan 1, Mr Jorge Diaz Serrano, director of the government's Petroleos Mexieanos (Pemex) oil monopoly said yesterday. Mr Diaz Serrano niadr no prediction of the sizr of the
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    • 175 5 Poisons take costly toll on food WASHINGTON, Sun. Natural or man-made poisons have ruined several hundred million dollars worth of food in the United States during the past 10 years, a Congressional report said yesterday. And because of faulty checking systems many people and animals fell ill before anyone suspected
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    • 87 5 PARIS. Sun. A new bid to launch the European giant •Ariane" rocket was last night expected for around Christmas after the rocket failed to take off earlier yesterday on its first test flight from Kuru in French Guyana "We are going ahead with a series of verifications
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    • 356 5 Wise men plan to open up Japan and cut US inflation EIGHT American and Japanese "wise men" agreed yesterday to report to President Jimmy Carter and the Japanese Government by the end of next year on reducing inflation in the United States so that American goods can be sold more
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    • 187 5 NEW YORK, Sun THE New York Times said in an editorial today that America should use its own oil weapon: Lower consumption by heavily taxing oil and then giving the publii a rebate. This way, the Times said, Americans will at least be paying more to
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    • 38 5 DAVIE (Florida). Sun. A woman and three men taking a ride in a hot air balloon plummeted to their deaths yesterday after the craft collided with power lines and was engulfed by flames, authorities said. AP.
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  • 362 6 SIMPLE but gripping, familiar yet new: The Ohanashi Caravan's puppet show yesterday was all this and more. The triumph of good over evil was the well-worn theme of its sketch, Haru and Santa conquered the Onl (demon). But for most,
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  • 171 6 MINISTER: GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER ATCC PEOPLE who move into Bukit Bat ok housing estates were yesterday urged to use a new community centre to be built in the constituency to get to know their neighbours. Mr Chai Chong Vii, Senior Minister of State (Education) and MP for Bukit
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  • 26 6 A TALK-cum-fllm show on smoking and cancer will be held at the Ghim Moh community centre on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Admission is tree.
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  • 152 6 SCIENTIFIC concepts as applied in dally life will be illustrated in a simple but dramatic way during a show at the Singapore Science Centre at Jurong Town Hall. The show, to be held tomorrow and Wednesday at 11 a.m., will comprise a series of demonstrations
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  • 693 7  -  LEE KIM CHEW IMPROVING CONDITIONS IN GOVT SERVICE >Civii service plans to reward^al^tgd DEAL FOR (PROFESSIONALS Straits Times, Nov 12 By LAWYERS and doctors in the civil service are cool and rather negative in their response towards government proposals to improve their
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  • 433 7 Plan seen as small Step in right direction... about how the proposed consultation fees scheme will benefit them. The Health Ministry, its spokesman said, is working out the details on how a doctor can keep consultation fees of up to 60 per cent of their consolidated salary. A lot will
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  • 44 7 61 did not jump for Joy when I heard the proposaLs. It wlll not inflnence my decislon lf I choose to leave the Q service. a specialist who estimates that her counterpart in private practice now earns as much as three times her salary.
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  • 47 7 THE People's Associations cultural troupe will give a performance Christmas Rhapsody at the car park of Block 28 Kelanlan Road today at 7.30 PI The Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Social Affairs), Mr Chan Chee Seng, who is also MP for Jalan Besar. will be the piest-of-honour
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  • 48 7 THE Church of the Blessed Sacrament's St Francis Choir carolled at the Singapore Handicraft Centre on Dec 9 and not the St Francis Church, as stated in a press release issued by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, and reported in the Straits Times on Dec 10.
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  • 237 9 Mosques: Muslims told of two vital aspects Ml SUMS here were yesterday told to bear In mind two Important aspects Involving masques In Singapore. They are: HONEST and effective management which to eraclal for the maintenance «f manque* and their grounds: and MOSQUES and the activities held In them Nboold
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    13 9 Plckop drivers should see passengers are properly seated, and slow down at corners
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  • 44 9 THE Political Secretary (Science and Technology) and MP for Bukit Merah, Mr Lim Chee Onn, and Mrs Lim will attend a Christmas party for children and old folks organised by the Bukit Merah community centre today at 2.30 p.m. at the centre.
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  • 423 9 GRILLES should be installed behind pickup and lorries which carry passengers, the Traffic Police urge. This is to prevent the passsengers from being thrown off when the vehicles stop suddenly, especially as they do not give the same protection as cars do to those
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  • 83 9 A fortnight left to fit seat belts THE Registry of Vehicles yesterday reminded owners of four categories of vehicles registered on or after Jan 1, 1976, that they have less than a fortnight to fit seat belts on the front seats of their vehicles. The vehicles are passenger cars, tuition
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  • 318 9 AN Economic Research Centre survey to study the employment rate of Industrial Training Board graduates demobilised from National Service in 1977, indicates an increase in market demand for the 1 graduates. The results of the survey published in the latest issue of
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  • 38 9 JOO CHIAT community centre will hold courses on hairdressing, radio and television repair, fruit and vegetable carving, cake making, English (frammar, bead embroidery, tailoring and cooking next month. For details, call *****6 or *****7.
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  • 220 11 Set up day care centres run by elders, urges MP SINGAPORE Jaycees have been urged to consider setting up day centres for children staffed mainly by senior citizens. Making the call, the MP for Telok Blangah, Mr Rohan Kamis. said senior citizens and grandparents tended to show more love and
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  • 102 11 Barker at food centres to promote Mandarin THE Minister for Law and Science and Technology, Mr E.W. Barker, yesterday visited three food centres in Tanglin constituency to promote the use of Mandarin. He was accompanied by the citizens' consultative committee and management committee members. Mr Barker, the MP for Tanglin,
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    7 11 The rash-on-the-line teller (picture from TV screen)
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  • 34 11 THE Singapore Cycle and Motor Traders' Association will hold a dinner at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry auditorium at Hill Street on Dec 20 to celebrate its 47th anniversary.
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  • 166 11 (ASH can be withdrawn from Post Office Savings Bank accounts In less than a minute when a new self-service hankIng scheme Is Introduced today. Starting from the CDSHs Robinson Road branch in the CPF building, the cash-on-line service will branch oat to
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  • 81 11 Do you know her POLICE want to contact the next-of-kin of Miss Grace Chan Ling Ling, who was rescued by members of the public at sea off Clifford Pier last Monday night. Miss Chan, aged between 30 and 35, is 1.5 m tall, slim built, fair-com- plexioned with shoulder length
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  • 75 11 Donations for CC exceed target DONATIONS for the construction of Marine Parade community centre reached $401,829.30 last month, more than the target set by its building fund committee. This month's issue of Marine Parade News says the committee hit the $400,000 mark after two years of fund raising. But it
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  • 426 11 300 who may be assigned in capital cases Society draws up list of 'experienced' lawyers THE Law Society has complied a new list of 300 lawyers who are considered eligible for assignment to defend in capital cases in the High Court and the Court of Criminal Appeal. It says all
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  • 281 12 MEETINGS THE Aaeao-CCI Council yesterday approved the location of headlight and carburettor project! In Malaysia and Singapore respectively. It also decided to recommend to the Asean governments' Committee on Industry, Minerals aid Energy the designation of axles projects as aa Asean Industrial complementation
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  • 479 12 PTA for higher value goods are next FUTURE exchanges on Asean preferential trade will involve products of greater trade value, the Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. Preference will next be extended to 150 products from each country, each with a trade value greater than
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  • 289 12 'First task to help clubs in regional cooperation' THE first task before the Asean Chamber of Commerce and Industry is to give the industry and commodity clubs every support in their efforts to achieve regional economic integration. This was stressed by Mr Lim Kee Ming, chief delegate of the Singapore
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  • 343 12 Wee:Govts should consult private sectors in turn ASEAN governments and their committees should consult businessmen when formulating new policies to increase intra-Asean trade and investments, just as the private sectors have to seek their views in their proposals for intraAsean cooperation. While the Asean-CCI had studiously performed its part in
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  • 202 12 ASEAN private sector will explore the possibility of inducing more Japanese investment fostering regional economic growth. This will be done through interaction between Asean regional industry clubs and their Japanese counterparts. This will be the thrust of discussions between Asean Chambers of Commerce and Industry delegates
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    • 385 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun A CABINET report on education has recommended 173 changes in the education system, including abolishing arts and science streaming and making Morals and Ethics a compulsory subject for non-Muslim students. The report, announced by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri
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    • 286 13 Musa: Our final aim is no discrimination PENANG, Sunday DISCRIMINATION against Malaysians settled in the "so called developed countries" is much more spontaneous than that which exists in Malaysia, Education Minister Datuk Musa Hitam said yesterday mm^^m^m^m "The so-called discrimination in Malaysia is at government level only and if we
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    • 130 13 IPOH, Sun.— A housewife was cheated of $1,500 worth' of jewellery when she "lost her senses" after sniffing perfume offered by two women claiming to be cosmetics salesgirls. A police spokesman said that one of the salesgirls, who had come to the woman's house at
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    • 205 13 Master plan to boost manpower training KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The newly-established Manpower Development Board will draw up a master plan to make the 1980s a decade of "resource-based industries." Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohammed said this yesterday when he launched the board, which will review and co-ordinate government
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    • 79 13 KUALA LUMPUR, The Muslim youth movement of Malaysia (ABIM) has called on the government to prohibit the possession of two books from Indonesia. "Bacaan Mulia." a translation of the Quran in poetry by H. B. Yassin. is said to convey distortions in the meaning of
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    • 58 13 JOHORE BARU, Sun The Hospital Permai in Tampoi here is discouraging non-Joho-reans from seeking treatment for mental illness at the institution, its director, Dr Im Lai Hung, said yesterday The hospital has adopted this approach because most of 1,060 cured mental patients who have been abandoned or forgotten
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    • 232 13 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 7 Scottish laments from 29 (6). 1 (live an account of 8 turns (6). 8 Third form of 1 across (6). 4 Secure joh. opening mail (7). 14 Translating 22 works (9). 9 3 changed colour (9). 16 Seasonal offering distributed 1(1 ratal characters in green
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    • 779 14 Is New Nation a news paper, a sports paper, a fashion magazine, a business paper or a home journal? Yes, it's all these and more There's something special World focuses on interesting people who New Nation: Thursday Then there's Margaret Chan's Eatevervdav in New Nation i C ont ma^ e
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  • 241 15 THE Singapore Council of Social Service is still collecting donations for its j community chest trust fund set up in February this year as a central fund i for its affiliates and other charity institutions here, j "We are Just going slow at the moment and
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  • 198 15 Santas who care about disabled SINGAPORE hM Ite »wn Saataa q«it* merest la attire aad mlea tram the whlfc-bearded, redsalted SuU depicted in legeads. Bit the SaatM bore do, bawever, have «ac tfclag la cmniiMa with the mythical *M SuU tram the Narth P»le: They give ceaeraaaly la cash aad
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  • 489 15 MORE young women than men in" Singapore prefer not to live with parents and parents-in-law after nuuTUffe. They want to be on their own and Bra more adamant than the young men on the issue. A recent sociological survey shows that while the majority
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  • 45 15 THE National Museum will screen two colour films on Korea for the public on Wednesday at the museum at 8 p.m The films, provided by the Korean Embassy, are 2.000 Years of Korea s Fine Arts and Traditional Martial Arts of Korea
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  • 25 15 THE NTUC Sports and Recreation Nile Council will hold its annual dinner and dance at the Hyatt Hotel on Thursday at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 534 15  -  EVELYN NO By i A SOCIOLOGIST has come forward in de.fence of Singapore youths who have generally been accused of being self-centred, materialistic, impersonal and apolitical. Young people here have many positive qualities as well, according to Madam Tai Ching Ling, a
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    • 228 15 New Nation #1 Moneywords now offers $5,000 minimum H guaranteed prize money I Enter the Moneywofds Contest in New Nation now and win at least $5,000/- each week. Yes, this is the new minimum jackpot money to be won each week It there is no all correct winner, $500 will
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  • 351 17 THE Institute of Education will introduce in January a moral education programme to prepare all trainee teachers to play an effective role in moral education in schools. The IE director, Miss Lim Hsiu Mci, said in an interview that the responsibility for the
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  • 133 17 Trend willbe to pay teachers more: Minister BETTER teachers for better pay this will be the trend in Singapore as a high premium is put on education. This forecast was made by the Senior Minister of State (Education), Mr Chai Chong Vii, at the passing out parade of National Cadet
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  • 157 17 A WEALTH of publicity materials was provided to schools by the Culture Ministry this year in conjunction with the recent Courtesy campaign. In all, the ministry, which co-ordinated the campaign, provided 23,380 booklets. 1,100 badges, 22,210 stickers. 4,965 posters and more than 23,342 brochures
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  • 46 17 Management course THK Institute of Managemeni SiMAhes <Sinf>apoi-e branch) will hold a course leading to the HMIMM service cci tifh.itc ilK) examination, starling on Jan 14 TbOM interested can write to the IMS Education Committee < o Singapore Professional liniiv. 11N-U. Work 23. Outram I'ark. Singapore 3
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  • 26 17 THK Singapore Srii'ncc OratTC viill m ieen the film. Man The lniMilihle Machine, at il.s leeiiiiv hall on l>v 23 at I p m
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  • 41 17 THE Havelock community centre will hold an eight-week interior horticultural course at its premises from Jan 11 to Feb 29 next year. The course will be conducted every Friday from 5.30 p.m to 6.30 p.m. The (cc is
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  • 34 17 LOWIJWO Road community centre will be holding a Christmas party at its premises on Sunday at 8 p.m The cost is SIS per person. The public is welcome. For details, tel *****37.
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  • 252 17 Price of rice up but vegetables cost less THE prices of general commodities over the past week remained generally stable except for rice. The NTUC Welcome supermarkets revised their rice prices slightly by two cents per kg for the Thai 100 per cent and five cents per kg for Thai
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  • 186 17 TWO ADMIT TO THEFT WHILE ONNS DUTY A MAGISTRATE'S court heard that three f'tlltime national servicemen on plainclothes duty at Paya Lebar Airport were seen stealing an unattended handbag from the passengers bench at the departure hall on Dec 7. Tay Hee Huat and Chinnathamby Malim Yusof Muallim, both 19,
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  • 149 17 THE Senior Minister of State (Education), Dr Tony Tan, yesterday hoped that as the nation moves into the *****, young Singaporeans will continue to give blood without thought of personal gain. For if people are apathetic about the less fortunate, it will be
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  • 272 17 Clothes that clinched first prize for young designer David THESE, at right, are »wne af the eMfcea that make a happy maa of faaUoa deaigaer David Chaa, M. At the Hyatt Hotel on Satarday night, David heat alae other flaallsts la this year's Yoaag Dealnen 11 Coateat. David, whose preoeatatica
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  • 110 17 THE Public Utilities Board has made rules for the retirement of employees on special grounds. The rules came into effect on Saturday. The PUB may now retire an employee on abolishing his post, for greater efficiency or economy in his department, if his retirement
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    9 17 Models on the catwalk with two of David's creations
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    7 17 Mrs Rajaratnam giving the prize to David
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    • 242 17 A CANDLE-UGHT CAROLLING \l AT THE ut Singapore Handicraft Centre m this CHRISTMAS! Sw l^^ Bring your family friends 4j*Jpks to a sing-a-long with the ST. FRANCIS CHOIR Saturday 22nd December 6.30 pm to 7.00 pm i GRAND ANNUAL SALE Thru'out DECEMBER! gjj It's a one stop showcase of the
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  • The Straits Times MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1979
    • 402 18 RECENT portraits of Singapore youths have been far from flattering. They are seen as selfloving, self-satisfied and even calculating, tending to pursue only self-interest. But the findings of a survey on the values and attitude of our young people appear to have brought out some positive qualities. It
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    • 361 18 THOSE who thought that newly-elected President Choi Kyu-hah would present a cabinet which would be recognisably his own, must be disappointed. The new South Korean cabinet contains close supporters of the former president, including hardline generals who now head the vital Home, Justice and Defence ministries. There is
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  • 1262 18  -  K. C. GOH in LONDON Results show determination, and also fraying By THE North Atlantic Treaty Organisation could well have had the most critical test in its history last week and passed it, comfortably but without flying colours. The results of last Wednesday's Nato
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  • 342 18 Propaganda by Soviets have had some effect complete faith in the US and the concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD). Dr Henry Kissinger and other experts have persuasively ruled out Washington's use of its long range missiles in a crisis threatening only western Europe but not the American continent. Vulnerable
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  • 660 18 EXCERPTS at editorial comment from Malaysian newspapers this week. Original heading: The apathy of Malays towards their own language. VV V. need not be unduly concerned over the fact that there exist a few Malays who lack eonfidenee in the capability of Bahasa Malaysia becoming a national
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    • 324 19 Ministry the obstacle to fund-raising SOCIAL volunteer workers who sacrifice their time and energy to promoting social and cultural activities experience many difficulties posed by the Ministry of Culture itself. For instance, to obtain a permit to print just an ordinary souvenir pro- gramme, all applications must be submitted three
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    • 257 19 WARNING OF ROAD CLOSURES GIVEN TOO LATE I FIND driving in Singapore increasingly unbearable. Having driven in London and travelled in most of the west European countries, I have a few suggestions concerning road signs which I hope the authorities will consider. First, motorists are given inadequate warning of road
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    • 165 19 The old want to work, not be a burden OLD poaple MW working la private e— ceraa •inch m aeeartty imctes are aavta* icir services termlaatea' wbea tfcey reach M. They will find It r x tremely aifflcilt to Hve •■cc they are aaemptoyed. Wk»t caa tfcey daUßOTlver Tan te
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    • 291 19 RETIRED and other old people who had withdrawn their Central Provident Fund monies either for buying houses or other purposes, or who, being self-employ-ed, had no provident funds at all, were unable to make use of the chance to buy Singapore Bus Service
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    • 596 19 THERE is so much emphasis today on the "ugly side" of the Singapore worker. What about the more introspective side as to the ''whys" of it? Although management has not been hibernating over the solutions, we could, working as a bipartite (i.e.
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    • 704 21 Our H.P. Iff ANOTHER EXPANSION r GOLD System 7 T0 SERVE YOU BETTER "^TO^ RA DC I YOU ARE WELCOME TO WITNESS D#%ICO For only a mereTo% 5% THE RRST LUCKY DRAW TODAY wm m, n BA PC iv nilP I lirifY HPAWCi deposit you can own any of these
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  • TIMES CITY DESK
    • 2087 22 AS A service to readers. Straits Times publishes weekly a detailed analysis of shares on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The year's high and low, are followed by the week's movement in prices, the dividend, the net price earnings ratio and the volume of business. km Nil
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      • 516 22 WITH tensions remaining high in the Middle-East, the US dollar displayed a weak undertone in the Singapore forex market last week, falling back from its gains made the previous week. Opening little changed at $2 1710 20 compared with the previous week's closing, the US unit fluctuat ed within
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      • 57 22 LAST Monday discount houses raised their call deposit rate by I per cent to six per cenl per annum simultaneously by the Authority of adjustments in their "window-" rates for Treasury Bills and Com memal Bills. In the interbank market particularly for Overnight Funds it lacked direction as the
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      • 51 22 RESULTS of tender held yesterday tor 91-day Treasury bills to be issued from Dec 17 to Dec 21 Offered: M 0.000.000. 000.000 Applied far: {75.050.000 AiUttr*): $40,000,000 Accepted bias: $98.45 approximately 17 per cent: higher bids in full. Average rale dl*ro«nt m allotment: 6.150 per cent per
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    • 185 22 ASIAN curacy average drpwdt nlei far the week ended Der 14: UBl (Bid prim) Hifk Ut 7 days 16 13 3/16 1 month IS. 1313/1* 2 months 151/16 1315/16 3 months 151/16 14 6 months 15 8/16 13 i 9 months 139/16 12 vt 12 months 13
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    • 46 22 FOR THE week ended Saturday Dec 15. the range of call rate received from from Short Deposits (M)Bhd was as follows: Bask fiad: 2 per cent to 3.5 per cent. Geaanl turf: 275 per cent to 4 percent. MmsMts of funds totalled $720 million.
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    • 325 22 BANK'S prime lending rates as at the close of business on Friday, Dec 14. BANK'S tPLK Algemene Bank 9'/i American Express 9Vj Amsterdam Rotterdam Bank 9 Asia Commercial 9 Asien-Pazifik 9'/» Ban Hin Lee Bank 9 Banca Commerciale 9 j Banco Do Brasil 9 Bangkok Bank
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    • 612 22 LONDON, Fri- Share prices turned higher after an easier opening, dealers said. Trading was active with some dealers noting institutional activity at the lower levels. The FT index was up 9.5 at 431.0 at the close Leading industrials mainly rose between 2p and 5p though IO was up
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    • 215 22 NEW YORK, Fri.- Energy shares led the stock market to a solid gain in the heaviest trading in a week. Some major oil issues responded to further news on the Hibernia well off the coast of Newfoundland while the overall market was helped by an easing of concern
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    • 194 22 AMSTERDAM, Frl.- Share prices closed mainly higher in moderate trading, dealers said. Royal Ditch gained one guilder and other Dutch internationals firmed, except Philips which was unchanged. State loans were higher. I'M 14 ABM Aln Id Akao AMEV Ami.. i Bank Benjou Berk Bob Bor.tumlj BlUniror? 11 L'nlvr Drill
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    • 31 22 I* Pea IC Merita ip Carp Cirreat 2.5% 5% Date payable Dec 21 Dec 21 Dec 22 Dec 22 Tatalfor Ike yew 10% 20% 5% 5%5% T.UH.r 20% Inte
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    • 281 22 MOST commodities quoted on the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange (SCPE) were marked down In price in a generally dull and featureless produce market last week. For the greater part of the week the general undertone of the market was soft. As local prices were still way above those
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    • 120 22 CHINESE PRODUCE EXCHANGE, SINGAPORE, NOON CLOSING PRICES PER PICUL ON SATVRDAY: CmMl ill: Bulk tin Miters, old drum Sll5 sellers, new dram 1119 sellera Cfn: Mixed (loose) UK/Coot (M 00 buyers. Pester: Muntok AST A whlu lob 100". NLW (325.00 sellers, Sarawak white (ok NLW (310 00 sellers. Sarawak
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    • 183 22 ZURICH, Fri. Share prices were slightly higher underpinned by the high liquidity of the market, a less pessimistic view of Opec oil price decisions next week and generally favourable earnings prospects for major banks, dealers said Interest was centred on banks after Banque de Paris Et Des Pay Bas
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    • 49 22 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Friday 431.0 Thursday 421.5 Week Ago 415.6 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Friday 842.75 Thursday 836\0» Week ago 833.19 H.K.HANG SENG Friday 794.78 Thursday 790.02 Week ago 783.02 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Friday 580.50 Thursday 557.38 Week ago 551.87 ALL ORDINARIES Friday 718.61 Thursday 710.69 Week ago 696.37
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    • 185 22 RATES on the local interbank mar ket firmed last week. The overnight rate increased by as much as 2 per cent to close at 8 to 8 per cent on Friday With the exception of Wednesday (Dec 12> when the mode was 6 per cent, it was
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    • 29 22 LONDON: Copper prices on Thursday (previous In brackets). Wirebar Spot CMS (£sB7); sellers £$87 (£989): Three Month buyers £»93 (£991). sellers £994 (CSTI.3O). kUftrttsas: Easier. galas: U.OW tonnes
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    • 175 22 IN THE Far East, gold opened at USMB.S 466.25 Pront taking trimmed U» market down to MM 00 ***** before it closed at US, 50 466 50 in quiet conditions ahead of the weekend Gold was fixed in London on Friday at U345S M. After the Hz. a stronger
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    • 145 22 COMMODITIES Tin price eases THE STRAITS tin price edged 18 lower to $2,161 per pioul in Penang on Saturday on an official offering up 33 tonnes to .17 tonnes. LONDON: Tin on the da> rose £235 for Cash and £117 for Three Months in both contracts on Friday. The afternoon
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    • 450 22 SMALL gains were pasted all roaad In yet aaatker qalet and aesitaat period af trading at tar Stack Exchange af Stagapare laat Turnover was moderate aad still very much caacea trated la selective stacks. CaaaMeriag tke restrainlag Influence which tke fartkeamlag meetlag af aU ministers af tke Orgaalaaj
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    • 114 22 THE following list of stocks gives the II most traded on the Stock Exchange of Singapore last week. It gives the turnover In thousands of units, closing prices on Friday and the high and low for IV7S r«npuy Tarxver ■Mt Price. Dm 14 Hl«h in* I— Haw
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    • 440 22 DESPITE the generally unsettled conditions on the international scene, there continued to be a fair amount of buying interest on the Kuala Lumpur stock market last week. Prices were taken moderately higher across a broad front, apparently under a combination of bargainhunting and speculative buying support. Reflecting the
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      • 86 22 Dee II Dee II Dae It DrU Dw 14 "BT Index: "Industrials: .Finance ••Hotels: •Prjpertlet: •Mminfp •Plantations JOCBC ;SES Ind: *****4 408 88 T5B 16 326.81 263 01 235.26 ***** 396 57 366 25 2T7129 412 56 ***** 331.27 K4.92 235.84 713 HO 398 55 ***** 2768 45 *****
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      • 73 22 Dec II Dm II Her It Dec I] Dm 14 •BT Index 3877 64 •Industrials 443.53 ..Finance 664 14 ••Hotels ***** 'Properties 255 45 ■lias ***** SRubbers ***** 3948 34 447.87 669 10 299 66 259 00 242 94 ***** 3959.47 *****0 447.98 447.14 ***** 668.43 ***** ***** *****
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    • 431 22 LONDON: Gold shares featured a firm market throughout last week, dealers said. Heavier priced issues were as much as 800 cents firmer as in Vaal Reefs as the bullion price soared to record levels, they added. Most other stocks were 300 cents to 500 cents higher in active
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    • 286 22 ROUNDUP— FAIRLY quiet conditions have marked the week's trading which has been largely influenced by overseas markets as local Interest and feature proved lacking, says Hatiday, Cotter, mm* Bath in its review of the Singapore and Malaysian rubber markets for the period Dec 6 to Dec 13.
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    • 111 22 LONDON: Rubber Futurrs closed slightly steadier on Friday, with gains from ytsterday ranging from 0.35 lo one pence per kilo. Turnover was three lots ol five tonnes and 228 lots of 15 tonnes including 22 Options two of which were overnight Kerb trade. Dealers said afternoon trading saw
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    • 1529 26 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES A BEAUTIFUL DOUBLE-STOREY DIST 19. GOLDEN MILL Kstale oil semi-detached house in dlsl 10 I.orong Chuan. Phase 5, doubleof 5.400 sq ft 3 bedrooms and 1 storey split-level terrace. 4 bedservanl's room, partly furnished rooms/ servant's amenities Selling $260,000 Klelds *****/ $205,000 Meng Housing *****49 *****/***** DIST.
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    • 1315 26 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES BRAND NEW APARTMENTS: Serannoon. 4 1/1 ms 3rd floor lift provided 3 rooms. 2 halls -i r a— w $118,000 Sherwood Towers/ C *>•"•» swimming pool. double-sU>rey 3 rooms. 2 halls. $210,000 Tel 1^'«" ACE OFFERS: Nassim Rud exclusive r.sul, nli.il land with Bellian Securities (S) Pte
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    • 375 27 VI EDUCATION A TRAINING ENGLISH A 10-month t Preparation Course for the November THE CAMBRIDGE BRITISH O' LEVEL ENGLISH COUNCIL EXAMINATION Telephone: Course begins 7 January I ***** Cost: $50 a month •A choice of ENGLISH 12-week Courses in preparation for CAMBRIDGE THE UNIVERSITY BRITISH EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL in June December
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  • IX OBITUARIES
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      27 28 SAIOAI JHNAII SINGH PJK AMN J» Kongor, Perl* paved away on 10.1279 at 600 am. MM* Cevemeny eti I*. 12.79 ol 13 mm Kongor Gurudwara.
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      93 28 IN EVERLOVMG MEMORY Of MR K SHANMUGAM DEPARTED 17-12-Tt THoukli one year has passed memories of you will aJway* I in ger In our hearts Foodly r m# mbtftd by wif#, children. r*Jahv«s and f n*nd« DAVID CHAN SENG YEOW DEPARTED 17.12.77. Not Just today but everyday.
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    • 1045 28 VI EDUCATION TRAINING SINGAPORE INSTITUTE Of 109 FHliration SCIENCE iik taucanon iHKiinsiwi 593-A. SERANGOON ROAD. _^^^^^^^^^j^^^^^S i SINGAPORE TEL.2S9M2O mnrti PHMMOT Institute with Dm i w«m i«iio« up-ui-date I^b ENROLMENT FOR 19*0 in ti*|.ct. Ortar^ PROGRESS. '.i»*-"iq SniKihjnii nrx*hMi|. .nq »m »u\.'--n aaaavavni Approved Cmirsj-s In Ntm nan Ll -'^■'^"y"
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    • 627 28 VI EDUCATION TRAINING EXPERIENCED TUTOR FOR Pn IMPROVE/ LEARN ENGLISH from mary It Lower Secondary stu- teacher experienced over 20 dent! efteetltt and reasonable years Biology General Science fees Contact Ivy *****89 from experienced lady graduate EXPERIENCED TUTORS GIVING *****4 lu.llon in Chinese. Maths al all MATHEMATICS BY TRAINED ex|SJ2_£
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    • 957 28 VII TRAVEL A RESTAURANTS WORLD CHARTERS ■■BbBbBBbSINM for the most eronomirai nßß^Jfal'TrTn^^Bßßl 4 reliable fares m London Amsterdam Paris I B'utM(l F f ink txjrt RofTM I BBBBBm^^^^^^^^B^^^aßßßßßi Zurich Copenhagen Oslo I New York Toronto L Angeles San Francisco Vancouver BBBV*4nWnBBaMinWnBBBBBBi Perth Melbourne Sydney nBBTaarTfV*W^BTV^BBI Hongkong Manila Tokyo > |j|BlaBBBBBBBaBB»'
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    • 521 28 VII TRAVEL ft RESTAURANTS TRAVELLAME TOURS (TA/070) _^t/ffi^i 6L> HAAUYAI IP PG CiT $179 I^,/t-^J^^B BEs^T SDHDY IP PC. e/airs239 b«(v)^K^i SDIIIIY PC. GT air <- $289 *VJ. VV\ sla^B*' 2D3N (iENTING 175 Every Fn vWV^B^B^ 21MN CAMERON 165 Kvery t n O/way IP*2OPENS2SHI)YS3S mS^^^J^^^T SO BKK/ Pattaya $549 Wad/
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    • 274 28 I THK LAND TITLES ACT (Chapter T.t) (Seettoatt) NOTICE WHEREAS pursuant to Section 32 of the said Act, an Application No. A/***** dated the 27th day of October, 1979 has been made by Lee Chin of No. 3-D, Jalan Lokam. Singapore. Widow, and Choo Bee Bee of Block 505. 321
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    • 419 28 'fM V4V999 SI HOKDIS tTK 111 KTS SINGAPORE M.C. Summon* No nii ..f ins > I Brtwera THR MANAGEMENT COBPORATION REGISTERED I'MtKK STRAT TITLE NO 111 PUlaUff* ami HARRY GAN CHEW HIM Itrfrnduit SI BMTTI TKI) SERVICE FORM OP ADVERTISEMENT To: Harry Gan Chew Huat now or late of 3-F.
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    • 541 29 THERE !S A WELCOME BOARD SAUDIA AIRCRAFT FOR GIRLS WHO ARE SEEKING A CHALLENGING CAREER I AIR HOSTESSES SAUDIA the Flag Carrier of the KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA is seeking girls with good personal appearance aged between 19-27 to be trained as Air Hostesses. Applicants must have GCE/MCE or equivalent,
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    • 343 29 [VO/PER PRIVATE LTOj Vosper Private LMttd is an international company engaged in the design, construction and repairing of sophisticated military ships. We are seeking a mature and sell motivating executive to |oin our team as PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER The successful candidate must have the ability to function ndependently. and have
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    • 417 29 Ground Floor, United Engineers Building, River Valley Road, Singapore 0923. Tel: *****66 (4 11ne5);*****87 Notice is hereby given that with effect from Ist. November, 1979, Dr. Thomas (hoy Klshlag is no longer the Director of the company and neither in the employment of this firm. Therefore, he is not authorised
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    • 13 29 ■hi leg l^r^**Vf l M^| tag j Classified Ad*. The Power Of Togetherness
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    • 788 29 PERBADANAN KILANG TAWARAN TERBUKA Pembofong dan pembekal yang telah berdattar dertgan Perbadanan dan mereka yang berkdboiihan adaiah dipeiawa membenkan sebutharga bagi bekalan dan perkhidmatan di bawah lertakluk kepada syarat syarat dan peraturan tawaran dan surat perianpan Perbadanan T399 Kilang In Sawrt. Paw Gudang Johore (i) Membekal menghantar dan menyiapkan kena-keria
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  • TIME SPORT
    • 2463 30  -  He routs his rivals and sets course record for the mile AGASAM STABLE'S Western Union 111 proved that he is the best miler in the country when he scored a convincing win in the $30,000 Stewards Cup at Bukit Timah yesterday. The Sovereign Path four-year-old,
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    • 523 30 THE stipendiary steward's report on yesterday's races at fii kit Timah: Baee 1: No Problem (C. H. Ooi) was slow to move at the start. Siapa Rajah O (R.C. Allan) stumbled on leaving the stalls and raced awkwardly for the first 100 metres. The gelding hung out onto
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    • 594 30 SATURDAY'S REPORT JOCKEYS K.W.Tan and K. C. Ng were each suspended three racing days by the Singapore Turf Club stewards for careless and Inconsiderate riding at Bukit Timah on Saturday Tan on Strange Idea in Race 1 and Ng on Prima in Race 4. The
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    • 77 30 I v AU you need to do is to v %pP^H H[^ J°' n our a^ s tour LJFRA^f&W^tZ leaving on 17-2-80 to all BJHB^^^Sijpi^^^^^ these beautiful places ■IH HmPPJ^^QpHJ^^' Hong Kong Honolulu M^M Q^MV^^^l^^l^^ os Angeles -Disneyland ■■bbbl Ib^bMIPIH bb^bW an I^'t'Ko-Grand Canyon HH H^ Las Vegas Vancouver I
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    • 589 31 WARNING NOTICE ©TATA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TATA ENGINEERING LOCOMOTIVE CO. LTD. of Bombay House. Sri Homi-Mody Street, Bombay, India are the Registered Proprietors of the above Trade Marks in SSa^ respect of "Vehicles, bus chassis, commery*j»fcV cial chassis, chassis spare parts and accesJ\^i sories, engines for land vehicles,
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    • 381 31 DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT MALAYSIA TENDER NOTICE NATIONAL SMALL-SCALE IRRIGATION PROJECT AND KRIAN/SUNGAI MANIK INTEGRATED AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Tenders are invited from bona fide suppliers registered with the Drainage and Irrigation Department under Class 'BX' and above and foreign suppfcers of equipment from member countries of the International Bar* for
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    • 612 31 lAi Permohonan-permohonan adalah dipelowa dari war gonegoro Malaysia yang berkelayakon bagi mengisi lowaton kosong yang berikut dolam Perkhidmatan Bank Simpanan Nasional Malaysia 1 (i) Jawatan i Timbolan Peng urus B—or. (ii) Tanggagajt A 9: $2523 x 120 2645. (iii)Kumpolon i A (iv)Nama Badan Berfcanun i Bank Simpanan Nasional. 2. Toraf
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    • 459 31 SENIOR EXECUTIVE (Bangkok) A loading conglomerate having operations in Hong Kong, Japan, USA, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand is desirous of engaging a Senior Executive to be its representative to be stationed in Bangkok. The main functions would be Palm Oil Plantation Development and other agricultural industry activities. The successful candidate
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    • 740 31 IN THE HIGH COUBT IN MALAYA AT KUALA LUMPUR (Commercial Division) COMPANIES WINDING UP NO: 67 OF 1»79 In the matter of Pembenaan Ida Sendirian Berhad AND In the matter of the Companies Act 1963 ADVERTISEMENT OF PETITION NOTICE Is hereby given that a petition for the wind-ing-up of the
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  • TIME SPORT
    • 273 32 BOMBAY, Sun An aggressive middle order batting pulled India out of serious trouble on the opening day of the third cricket Test against Pakistan here today. The home side recovered after a dramatic collapse to reach a respectable 232 for six at close. A scintillating
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    • 162 32 LAUNCESTON, Sun The West Indies were poised to beat Tasmania by an innings after building a record total of 545 for five declared on the third day of the four-day cricket match here today. Their massive score the highest by a West Indian side
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    • 377 32 PERTH, Saa. AustraI llan fast bowler Deaals I LUlee seemed likely i today to eaeape any disciplinary action over an argument about his aae of aa aluminium hat a* the aeeaad day of the first Teat against Eng- land. A statement
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    • 331 32 PERTH, Sun Australia finally found some batting form here today to take a strong grip on the first cricket Test against England. At the close of the third day, Australia were 168 for two in the second innings, giving them a
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    • 136 32 AISTRALIA Ut INNS: 144 ENGLAND M INNS: Haatoll c Hughes b Lille* 0 B»yctt lbw Lille.- 0 WUley c ChappeU bDymock 9 Gcwer c Marsh b Lillet 17 Miller c Hughes b Thomson 25 Brakriey c Marsh b I .illee 64 IlitlW r Tnnhr] b Thomson IS T»ytor b
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    • 267 32 &&mw warn® GRAB GO *^^W amportad j& Giri's Dresses HI Kg y *y w "Ov* Less 35 Photowalkpapef W,^ 20-50% nafi X? UP »85 00 Mai j] NOW $39.00 M^ 1 KRUP glass sets K^^ H Kj and other glass wares dM I OH Less 30% A Franceft- Italy \<g
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 226 32 Bringing Up Father By BUI Kavanagh Hal Camp 1 1 WHAT ~\Y I MAD TO WALK I BECAUSE HEP BOSS I V DOES THAT ALMOST TEN AND KEPT ALL THE WAV-- IS A CBANKV OLD ANSWER YOUR MA6&ES BROTHER a >OU, I LET MY WIFE WHY?) SOURBALL WHO QUESTION? J
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  • TIME SPORT
    • 266 33 TOKYO, Sun. Tracy Austin, of the United States, easily defeated fellow American Martina Navratilova 6-2, 6-1, to capture the first prize of a US$2OO,OOO ($4343,000) all-star invitational tennis tournament here today. The 17-year-old U.S. Open champion collected US$lOO,OOO ($217,000) for her two-day work, and Martina, this
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    • 237 33 IjONDON. Sun. Tottenham Hotspur were handed a chance (or revenge a home dash against Manchester t'nited in the draw for the third round of the English Football Assooi ation Cup made heri' yesterin lutstanding FA Cup secondround and replay draw: Tomorrow Blackburn Rovers v Stafford Rangers. Tues
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    • 256 33 ICE HOCKEY Results of American National Ice Hockey league games played yesterday: Chicago 2 Boston 1. Washington 5 New York Rangers 4. Pittsburgh 3 New York Islanders 3, Toronto 8 Atlanta 1. Quebec 4 Detroit 4, Philadel phia 3 Buffalo 2. Winnipeg
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    • 29 33 CHIBA. Sun. Sakura Shouri. a four-year-old horse sired by the Irish-bred Partholon. was the top favourite in the 104.8 billion yen ($926,5H0) Arima Kinen rare here today. Reuter.
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    • 261 33 TAMSUI. Sun. Japanese Isao Aoki took a onestroke lead over Taiwan's I.v Kiang-Huan. when he shot a six-under-par 66 for an aggregate of 208 in yesterday's third round of the Taiwan PGA tournament here. Lu. who also shot 66. finished with 209. Grouped at 214
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    • 556 33 IXJNDON, Sun. While Liverpool and Manchester United were increasing their lead by five points from all pursuers in the championship race, footballers of more modest means were enjoying a moment of hope if not glory in England's Football Association Cup yesterday. Second-half goals by
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    • 439 33 Liverpool shatter Crystal Palace hopes played quarter-final on Tuesday, drew the day's best Cup crowd almost 15,000. From the London suburbs, non-League Croydon also went into the draw but they must win their replay with Third Division Millwall to win the right to meet Shrewsbury, a Second Division club who
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    • 1395 33 FIRST DIVISION lollon il Ipswich I. Brighton 0 Stok< i. Coventry 1 Manrhesti't fnitiit I .■.its .1 Uolvprhiimplon 0. Uverpoo iiim.i, I'.iUcv 0. Mare hester Cit) 1 Derby 0. Norwich 2 Bristol 0 tottmgham Forest v Middlesbor ugh I postponed. Uround waterlog ;edl South.impton 1 E\-erton 0. Tol
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  • Page 33 Advertisements
    • 404 33 CIBA-GEIGY y (MALAYSIA) SON BHD CHANGE OF ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER We have moved to our New Premises at:N0.14&16, Jalan SS 2761, S.E. A. Park, New Town Centre, Petaling Jaya. f%^j\ Postal Addraar P.O. Box 1 005, Jalan Samangat. I >|pti\ Pataling Jaya. cS NO. /mm W T ***** 3M
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    • 22 33 DMttl KARAM iIMOH tALLO p***rd away peacefully on 18/12/197S Enquiries for cremation ring Brtfuru ningh— >>»n telephone Clatiified Ad*. The Little Giant
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    • 552 33 ENGINEERS A large modern factory situated in Kuala Lumpur has various vacancies for Engineers to meet its expansion programme. QUALIFICATIONS Diploma or Degree in either Mechanical, Production, Industrial or Automobile Engineering from any Technical College or University. EXPERIENCE Minimum one year relevant experience in an industrial organisation. REMUNERATION Salary and
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  • TIME SPORT
    • 124 34 TOKYO. Son. The International Badminton Federation wnettoned second World Cnp badminton tournament will be held In Kyoto from Jan. 18-2* with &S men and women from eight countries taking part, the Japan Badminton Assorts tlon an nonnced yesterday. Twenty-two foreign filayers have been nvfted,
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    • 109 34  -  BERNARD PEREIRA By AS a coach, have you suffered the ignominy of serving the shuttle high, wide and inviting for your student's eager racket? As a student, have you tried to cultivate the straight-armed retrievals, as your beginner partner sprays shuttles across your vision like
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    • 165 34 Detachable Into this can be screwed a detachable, horizontal, wooden arm. To the end is looped a rubber cord to which a shuttle is firmly attached so that the cork faces the striker. Wall fittings are provided to enable the rod to be secured vertically to any wall. And the
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    • 121 34 THE Singapore Billiards Association is taking another look at its constitution, with the intention of amending part of it. Top of the list is to rename the SBA to the Singapore Billiards and Snooker Control Council. Explains Scow Kong Hoe, the SBA president: "The
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    • 54 34 "We're the controlling body, and the proposed new name says it very clearly. in is and other matters will be discussed at our annual meeting in February." Among the other matters will be the recommendation to introduce individual membership. This will allow the members to compete in any SBA
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    • 58 34 Very poor response JAKARTA, Sun. France has told Indonesia that its boxers could not lake part in the third President's Cup boxing international tournament here from Jan. 27- Feb. 7 because the French national championships are scheduled for the same time. Though Indonesia had sent invitations to 55 countries, only
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    • 220 34 KARACHI, Sun. Topseed Qamar Zaman, of Pakistan, beat compatriot and former world amateur champion Maqsood Ahmed in the Pakistan Masters, the final event of the World Series of squash, here yesterday. Fourth-seed Maqsood took the third game off the world No. 2, but lost the round-robin
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    • 68 34 Filipino swimmers arrive A 51-STRONG Filipino swimming contingent from the Valle Verde Country Club swimming association of Manila have arrived for a two-day competition with the Singapore Swimming Dub. They will take part in the friendly meet, organised by the SSC, today and tommorrow. The visitors range from below six
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    • 338 34 YOKOHAMA, Sun. Robert Shannon, of the United States, outpointed South Korea's Hong Dong Sik in the light-flyweight final to win the first gold medal of the first world junior amateur boxing championships at the CuT tural Gymnasium here today. Attacking with both fists, the 17-year-old
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    • 26 34 THE Ministry of Education badminton team emerged champions in the Inter-Minis-try team badminton championships when they beat Ministry of National Development at (Juillemard Road yesterday
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    • 181 34 MILAN, Sun. Italian heavyweight Lorenzo Zanon scored a sixth round technical knockout over dayman Sand Parker, of Spartanburg S. C. Zanon dominated the fight, flooring Parker in the second round. The fight ended In the sixth because of a cut over Parker's left eye. Parker went
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    • 273 34 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Malaysian athletics beware! This is the warning given by AllIndonesian Amateur Athletics Association president Bob Hassan, who is preparing Indonesian athletes for the next South-east Asia Games in Manila in 1961. Since the last SEA Games in Jakarta in
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  • Page 34 Advertisements
    • 386 34 B M IT SliCt nVn^n^. A Whole New Sewing Experience The New Singer Deluxe 930 936 J> nm Capture (he pleasure of easy sewing with Singer y, k* *Jt < 7 nm Deluxe 930 936 designed to give you the *|hnnr~ nVn\ —^H B greatest ease of operation. n^nV^a ißflnfl
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  • TIME SPORT
    • 60 35 ERROL NEUBRONNER had no trouble beating Patrick Tan 3-0 in the final of the Singapore Open darts championships at Changi yesterday. In the battle for third place, Laurence Paran edged out Bernard Hoong 3-2. Lora Chua became the women's champion when she beat Jenny Wong
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    • 425 35  -  KEN JALLEH Jr By THE boys of Malaysia's i King Edward's Secondary I School, though small, I were warriors. But they just could not match the brawny United World College team in their rugby friendly at the Padang yesterday. Fight the visitors
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    • 45 35 THE Royal Bangkok Sports Club whipped the Singapore Armed Forces Services Association 22-4 and Thailand's Police Club edged out Taiwan's Chung Chen Club 9-7 for an all-Thai Final in the inaugural Asian clubs rugby championships in Bangkok. The final will be played today.
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    • 138 35 Chan is SWCA's first winner PAUL CHAN lived up to his reputation when he won the inaugural Singapore Windsurfers' Class Association round-Pulau Übin race yesterday, reports PETER SIOW. He completed the 18kilometre course in 1 hour and 56 minutes. Second was Jason Li m (2hr 4min.) and, third, Graham Butt
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    • 441 35  -  WILFRED YEO By PAENG NEPOMUCENO, the former World Cup champion, had his shattered confidence restored in the best possible way yesterday by winning the third Cathay Pacific Kallang All-star bowling championships Master's title. The 22-year-old Filipino, who came with a battered ego, after poor
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    • 410 35  -  ERNEST FRIDA By TONY MAVANNA'S comeback to competitive golf, after a fiveyear lay-off, was overshadowed by Ting Sa Tee's hole-in-one feat at the Seletar Golf Club's monthly medal competition yesterday. Mavanna would have walked away with the best gross prize but he had to settle
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    • 261 35  -  PETER SIOW By CHRIS BALDWICK might not have won any races in the Singapore Open Laser championship, off Changi, last weekend, but he aid enough to become the overall champion. Bald wick, who chalked three firsts the week before, followed up with two seconds and one
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    • 501 35  -  JOE DORAI By IRAQ, almost certain of qualifying for the semi-finals of the Lion City Cup under-16 soccer competition, are getting jittery. Yesterday, Iraq, who have to play two more matches, lodged a protest, claiming that their match against India, at the Queenstown Complex
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    • 306 35  - No singles for Singapore in Selahgor open BERNARD PEREIRA By SINGAPOREANS will not be invited to take part In the men's singles of the $30,000 Selangor Open tennis championships in Kuala Lumpur, from next Feb. 18-21. r— ■^^■■^B That was the rude shock that tournament director, G. N. Rajan, delivered
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    • 18 35 PORT Authority Recreation Club drew 1-1 with Pontian District in a friendly soccer match at Pontian yesterday.
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    • 18 35 BLACKS beat Bucks 35-6 in their Singapore Rugby Union division n league match played at Woodsville yesterday.
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    • 63 35 CHRISTMAS RHAPSODY A show presented by the Peoples' J^d Association Cultural Troupe on Saturday. **Z^l 22nd December at 7.30 p.m. -^^^^fc Sr^^ n Q\C c rwl e<A t^ 2^ w!^ x FREE! o'jb A calender fs yours free with every purchase. Hurry! while stocks last. Sin Heng Radio Electric Traders
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 75 35 SOCCER Lion City Cup tournament: Iraq v India (Queenstown complex, 4.30), Thailand v Brunei (Jalan Besar. 4.30), Malaysia A v South Korea (National Stadium, 6.30), Bahrain v Australia (National Stadium, 8), Indonesia v Malaysia B (Jurong, 630), Saudi Arabia v Hongkong (Jurong, 8); SLA Group inter-department league: Div 2: Workshop
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  • 641 36 Into the laser age with Star Wars type weapons THE US Defence Department may soon decide to build one or more laser weapons systems that could eventually have the effect of profoundly changing modern warfare. Dr J. Richard Airey, director of the Pentagon's directed Energy Technology Office, gave a Senate
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  • 35 36 IF YOU can speak Mandarin and are about to use dialect again, stop yourself and start in Mandarin. The other person may know Mandarin but may also be shy. Be the initiator!
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  • 45 36 NICOSIA, Sun. The second secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Bureau here, Mr Samir Tuton, and another Palestinian, Mr Abu Safut, were shot and killed last night in a suburb of Nicosia, a PLO source said here. No details were given. AFP.
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  • 29 36 MOSCOW, Sun. The Soviet Union launched into earth orbit today an unmanned, Soyuz T, spaceship for ferrying cargo to the Salyut 6 space station, Tass reported. AP
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  • 178 36 'Wrong to knock our youths' STOP knocking Singapore yoatka this Is Ike message implicit la the findings of a ■arvey OB their vateM ud attitude*. They kave hoea accused often enough of being self-centred, materialistic, Impersonal and apolitical. This poor Imam of oar yonths Is Being rhaUenged by Madam Tal
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  • 211 36 TOKYO, Sunday JAPANESE Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira is sending a message to President Jimmy Carter, pledging efforts to curb Japanese importers' oil dealings with Iran, the Foreign Ministry said today The publicly-owned Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK said the message was sent last night
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  • 227 36 Boat people's new route overland BANGKOK, Sunday VIETNAMESE refugees, largely blocked from sea escapes that have taken thousands of "boat people" to neighbouring shores, have discovered a new route to the west across famine-stricken Kampuchea to Thailand. About 70 of them have arrived on Thailand's eastern border over the last
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  • 41 36 NEW DELHI, Sun. India and Bangladesh said In a join, communique today that they would exercise maximum restraint in a border dispute in which frontier guard* from both sides have exchanged fire intermittently for the past six weeks. Reuter.
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  • 206 36 KHOMQ MOM UN went Into the presence of the Lord 16/12/7 V His death is mourned by hit beloved wife Mdm Tan Oeok Yee; Ills son Philip; his daughters Khong Loo, Doris, Kar Hong Memorial Service 17/12/7S at 8 pm at the residence No. 17 Blk 18. Redhlll Close.
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      • 513 6  -  By A MAJOR London museum is showing a splashy survey of The Art of Hollywood, but it might not be the kind of art you expect. True, Fred and Ginger are dancing cheek to cheek on one video screen and Orson Welles as Citizen
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      • 992 7  -  The death of 11 youths at a rock concert early this month highlights the violence latent in the US teenage subculture JOHN ROCKWELL By ELEVEN young men and women died at a Who concert in Cincinnati on Dec 3. Most of the responsible commentary
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      • 2494 8 SPEECH, said the old French cynic, is given to men to conceal their thoughts. International meetings on communication do indeed produce more incomprehension, mental reservations and double-talk than conferences on meteorology or genetics. If we're talking about the mass media, which are responsible (or a
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      • 215 2 CHRISTMAS RHAPSO- P? re General Hospital, at DV by the PeoDle's As- Upper Serangoon comc!w, o H ni, i munity centre at 8 p.m. sociation Cultural smoking AND LUNG Troupe at Kelantan CANCER a talk in I Road at 8 p.m. Mandarin by Madam SPECIAL HOLIDAY Chan Chang Boey, a
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      • 1272 2 TV and Radio SINGAPORE 5 3.00 PM Opening followed by Siruvar 6.35 The Fabulous Talking Time Machine UUfam (Tami) 7M Superfriends (A cartoon series) 3.30 Diary ol Events (Enffeh) SSiS?- Puten Gunung Le3.35 Afternoon Matinee Up The Mac- dang (Part 3) Gregors (Part 1) 8.30 Flying High Palm Springs Week
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      • 663 3 Great Buys. Special discount prices. Hi-Fi and TV bargains of the year. For only seven days, from the 1 7th to the See the complete range of home entertainment 23rd of December, 1979 we present you this available on display at our booth. There's Sansui fantastic chance to own some
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      • 332 4 QOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC i CATHAY: 26th DAY! X S SHOWS AT 1 1 AM, 1 .30, 4.00, 6.30 A 9. 1 5PM I X A TREAT FOR CHILDREN DURING X O THIS SCHOOL HOLIDAY SEASON! (Ji ODEON: 33rd DAY! X 5 SHOWS DAILY: 10.30 am, 1.15, 4.00, 6.45 A 9.30pm V (jl
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      • 206 7 Rockers® I A name synonymous with fine quality and I fashion in Europe and America, is available now V at only selected Footwear Shops in Singapore. J SotePistributor: FUTWERA CO., j\^ Te1: *****96 j BBf The Oriental Art Collector proudly presents |f AN EXHIBITION SALE ftfe OF FINE CHINESE 4£S&&
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      • 1543 10  -  HELEN SMITH By 1 A RICHLY aromatic cigar tells the story of a relationship nonpareil, of a woman and a man totally devoted to each other. The woman, whose eyes keep turning to the cigar and the eyes above it, is a legend in her
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      • 649 11  - Meeting on women way behind time LAN STEELE By PREPARATIONS for a second United Nations World Conference on Women, to be held in Copenhagen next July 14-30 are behind schedule and the 152 member states invited are split on almost every issue. The conference objective is to review progress in
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      • 794 11 But somewhere in the flurry of good intentions the UN lost sight of the cost and International Women's Year was launched and hobbled in one stroke as an extrabudgetary phenomenon with insufficient funds. It laboured through the year with three themes equality, development
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      • 321 11 WOMEN have long been treated as the Cinderellas of the United Nations family items to be dressed up on gala occasions and thrown back into the kitchen before the attention went to their heads. With the arrival of Helvi Sipila as assistant secretary-general of the Centre
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      • 974 10 c Singapore s top secretaries, JA from Secretarius, /ML |^!V 7^^ a>?ain f m |PH m$ The girls in the photographs W\ carried off the top three places X /&?2, /V/?sv> S7*s?s7f in this year's LCCI examinations m i V jfZMI Jt?€4Zt for Private Secretaries' Certificates. V*l We trained them.
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    • 1390 12 A hobby with adventure Lture Bird-watching Story by AMY TSAN< Pictures by K.C. TSANG A LOVE for the countryside oftt led me to follow my nature-lovir friends on their hikes. These fc lowed paths along banks of rese voirs. through farms, nature r serves, jungle, or even up ma made
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      • 443 12 UIIC kCHCKCUCKC the thinnest Impeccable IG lighter. Maruman the inventor of the revolutionary Integrated Circuit (IC) Lighter have now perfected the reliable Mark 111 Circuit. This latest Mark 111 Circuit will ensure long trouble free lighter life. This reliability is introduced in the latest, thinnest IC lighter the beautiful thin
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      • 1430 14 X^vi^y r> r: d 1-4 A n Board of Directors Notes to the Accounts 1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES Chairman: Tan sri Dato Taib bin Haji Andak <•> Basis of Consolidation PMNSMJSPMJ «*—'•—*«> accounts incorporate the accounU of the Bank and all subsidiary companies except Mayban-Phoenix Assurance Berhad refer Note s(b). Vice
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      • 1457 15 VHP If Al llilll Plklil.l/\P Reclassification (*****) 20.246 |Hp MAI AYAN HNANt P Additions 418.188 418.188 263.342 iimS IVIMkMIMII I ll^A^l^V^k (Dispoaals) z (*****) (*****) (*****8) AAMIAn ATlAkl DEMJ A H At 30.6.1979 1.787.985 360.866 *****5 679,776 3.*****2 2.742,883 v^WKPvJk ATION DCkHAD. depreciation (Incorporated in Malaysia) f "f S ,3£
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      • 1723 16 DEDUCT: CURRENT LIABILITIES jj) tne otner matters required by section 169 of the Act to be dealt with in the accounts; Fixed and other deposits of customers 10 *j-!> 6 J^? 5 1 (b) the accounting and other records and the registers required by the Act to be kept by
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      • 1496 17 3. REVENUE RESERVES GENERAL PROVISION FOR TAXATION 10 459.404 685.194 o o B"*B a .J 11 1 n PROFIT FOR THE YEAR AFTER TAXATION 549.551 778.469 1 97 H 1979 1978 1979 $000 $ooc rooo rooo unappropriated profit brought forward 332.779 322.330 BaUnce at lst July 8,000 9.000 8,470 10.030
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      • 731 18 Applications ore invited from suitably qualified Malaysian candidates for Mm following positions:1. FINANCE ADMINISTRATION MANAGOI We are seeking an experienced and competent Accountant to fiN the above position. The successful candidate will be based in PJ and will be responsible for the Company's accounting, financing, internal control ond reporting functions.
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      • 188 18 REDIFFUSION ANALYST PROGRAMMER Rediffusion Malaysia is seeking a high<alibre Analyst Programmer to be bated in Kuala Lumpur. He or she will be working with Redifon Computers Limited't own software specialist team in developing system applications within an interesting business environment. The successful candidate will possess the following qualifications:— 1 Malaysian
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      • 732 18 I UNITED 5 UNITED ASBESTOS CEMENT BERHAD I ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT We are a manufacturing company based in Tank Industrial Estate, Ipoh. Applicants who possess the necessary qualifications qre invited to apply for the post of Assistant Accountant. After a period of training the successful candidate will ffe placed in the
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      • 644 19 HMHMUHHHH i A I t S/NGAPOffE AffiO EA/G/wSSh i OVffiHAUI (PTE) LTD I*2/ Wb SAEOL invites applications for the following U> A appointments 4, APPONTMENT AND 4 SALARY KQUROCNTS Quality Control Technician's diploma or Assistant equivalent in mechanical lk (Within the salary engineering, preferably scale $615x45 with experience in the
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      • 519 19 REFINERY PLANT OPERATORS SHELL invites suitably qualified Singapore citizens to apply for the* above positions based at Pulau Bukom Refinery Complex. THE JOB involves the operation in shift teams of modern petroleum processing plants and associated facilities. THE CANDIDATE we require should: have attained EITHER a GCE 'O' level certificate
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      • 297 19 Our client, a newly formed Singapore subsidiary of one of the world's leading producers of high speed centrifuges in West Germany, invites suitably qualified and experienced candidates for the following positions:SECRETARY (ES/9123A) Candidates should have:- 1 2 years working experience in similar capacity; good command of spoken and written English;
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      • 579 20 An International Engineer inn Company with sales outlets in most Asean and the Far East countries, requires a top calibre SALES ENGINEER The Man The man for this job must be dynamic and resourceful. He should possess a Degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or equivalent and have at least 3 years
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      • 524 21 GOVERNMENT OF THF REPUBLIC Or INDONESIA DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF SEA COMMUNICATIONS PORT ADMINISTRATOR OF BELAWAN INVITATION FOR PREQUA! IFICATION TO 810 BELAWAN PORT (PHASE I) PROJECT Bonofide Montime Civil Engineering Contractors according to the procedure ot Kreditanstolt Fur Wiederautbou ot West Germany who are generally trom members countries ot the
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