The Straits Times, 29 December 1979

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    14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1979 30 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 142/1/79
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    SHOCK FOR TWO CHINESE PAPERS
    727 1  -  LESLIE FONG Permits not renewed appeals filed By News Editor THE Culture Ministry has refused to renew the newspaper permits of two Chinese dailies, Shin Mm and Mm Pao, on the grounds that they have been indulging in yellow journalism. This means the two papers
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      The Sunday Times THE PAPER OF THE DECADE ABOUT THE DECADE
      246 1 WE ARE just two days from the end of the decade the Seventies will give way to the Eighties. The Sunday Times tomorrow will devote most of its pages to a LOOK AT THE Its and when we say
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      Sunday Nation A LOOK AHEAD AT THE '80s AND YOU
      205 1 Sunday Nation A LOOK AHEAD AT THE '80s AND YOU WE cleared tho decks for a super end-of-year special and it's a look ahead to THE EIGHTIES AND YOU. The academicians, economists, trade unionists and political pundits have had their say. We thought a spot of crystal-ball gazing was not
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    Dearer petrol and diesel soon
    358 1  - Dearer petrol and diesel soon SOH TIANG KENG By OIL companies in SingaI pore are likely to raise i prices of petrol and diesel within two weeks. This new price hike, according to oil industry sources, is the result of the recent decision of Saudi Arabia and a few other
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    COPTER CRASH: SIX KILLED
    62 1 COPTER CRASH: SIX KILLE D KATHMANUI, Krl. Kesrui workers today recovered the budie* of five West del-man tourists and an litnlan pilot who were killed when their tourist helicopter crashed Into tlilck jungle near here, officials reported. The bodies were recovered from a gorge by the side of a stream
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    40 1 TOKYO, Fri. The death last September of Lan Lan the giant Panda was placed sixth on a list of Japan's top 10 domestic news stories for 19T9, according to a nationwide newspaper poll released here yesterday. UPI.
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    Lock icon THAIS SEND PROTEST TO WALDHEIM
    94 1 BANGKOK, Fri. Thailand today protested to the United Nations against recent violations of its "sovereignty and territorial integrity" resulting from rival forces in Kampuchea fighting near the Thai-Kampu-ohean border. The "official document" to Secretary-General Dr Kurt Waldheim listed eight incidents from Nov 24 to Dec
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    'OPEN HOUSE' AFTER THE CRASH
    135 1 OCCUPANTS In these two houses escaped unhurt when their supporting wooden brants collapsed alter a van hit a pillar in a row of shopnooses in Niven Road, off Mackenzie Road, yesterday. Several children playing; nearby dashed to safety when the beams came crashing down. Van
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    Lock icon Zimbabwe polls
    42 1 SALISBURY. Fri. Britain today announced a general election in Zimbabwe for Feb 27 to 29. Interim British Governor Lord Soames said the election will be monitored by a British supervisory commission and by about 100 Commonwealth observers. Reuler. SKK PAUK
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    Lock icon Kabul in Soviet hands after the coup
    618 1 ISLAMABAD, Friday KABUL was today virtually in the hands of Soviet troops following a couj yesterday in which Afghanistan Presi dent Hafizullah Amin was toppled anc quickly executed. The troops fought heavily against Afgha soldiers during the bloody takeover, dipk matic sources said
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      255 1 46 pages today 20,000 MORE JOBS WITH NEW PROJECTS Page 9 INDIAN polls attract peasants and princes 2 FREEDOM scores 21 to 9 against tyranny this year S 'KEEP your weapons' order to j guerillas JEWELLER had his last wish fulfilled 7 NGEE Ann and Poly may enrol *A' level
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      16 1 I SOU AGENT GOLF,, Seiko Quartz Accuracy THE FUTURE OF TIME 2633-5020 2633-5010 1^" SEIKO QUARTZ
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      Lock icon Indian polls attract peasants and princes
      537 2 Indian polls attract peasants and princes NEW DELHI, Fri. i p r g o s i I C m k i t J P i w N b t t i t v a m r PRINCKS and i ants, lawyers and journalists, busii. men and movie stars staggering num
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      Lock icon Rioting in the South as tension mounts
      122 2 MEW DELHI, Fri. Riotng broke out in South ndia today as tension icross the country mount"d before next week's ;eneral election. Police said 15 people rere injured in clashes letween workers of the egional Muslim Majlis 'arty and the national anata Party in
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      Lock icon A FIRST FOR THE NINTH
      99 2 A FIRST FOR THE NINTH THE Beijing Philharmonic appearing in its first public rehearsal of Beethoven's difficult Ninth Symphony in 2t years in China, led by Boston Symphony conductor Selji Ozawa. The colourful Japanese-born conductor led the orchestra in the piece, which he called the "cornerstone of western music", as
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      Lock icon Seoul move to pep up financial sector
      319 2 SEOUL. Fri THE South Korean Government will shortly commission a special group to study the opening up of the domestic capital market to foreign participation. Deputy Prime Minister I/?e Hahn-Been said today. Mr \Af. who is also Economic Planning Minister, said that no
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      Lock icon JUMBOS FEAR OF OPEN SPACES
      106 2 JUMBOS FEAR OF OPEN SPACES KDINBIKGH, Fri. What do you do with an elephant which suffers from agoraphobia fear of open spares? All answers please to Kdinburßh Zoo, where 12-year-old Hall simply refuses to emerge from her stall. If food Ls left just outside the entrance she will go down
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      Lock icon China to float shares to raise foreign capital
      175 2 China to float shares to raise foreign capital HONGKONG, Friday CHINA will float shares to attract foreign capital for developing Fujian province in south-east China, China's domestic news agency reports. The report said shares of the Fujian investment corporation will be floated in 1960 to help boost the province's foreign
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      Lock icon Freighter goes down
      76 2 NAHA (Okinawa). Fri. A 2.809 tonne Panamanian freighter Load Star sank today after developing a leak near this island but all 19 crewmen were rescued by a nearby ship, the Coastguard here said The Load Star, carrying logs from Sumatra to the northern Japanese port of Lshinomaki.
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka lifts state of crisis in Jaffna
      160 2 Sri Lanka lifts state of crisis in Jaffna COLOMBO, Fri. THE Sri Lanka Government today lifted a fivemonth emergency in the Tamil-speaking Jaffna Peninsula, saying peace had returned to an area which was once a hotbed of separatist guerilla activities The emergency in this northern region was imposed last July
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      Lock icon Hanging on to life
      67 3 SYDNEY, Frl A man investigating a hlarinß car hum found ;i Iviby boy hanj;mg upside down and crying in a Mat harncM and his mother dead outside 'he ear, |x>ii<e s.iid today. Thp 18-month-old baby had born liappnl for over Iwo hums alter the car miMiurneri
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      CRAWLING TO A COP-OUT ON THE FREEWAY
      57 3 CRAWLING TO A COP-OUT ON THE FREEWAY IT was a cop-out b> cops on the Atlantic < Ity freeway on Thursday. The rlty's poliremen blocked the main freeway and wielded signs saying "Cops are the people movers." They were striking to demand higher salaries. Meanwhile, life crawled on both on
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      Lock icon New airport
      27 3 TOKYO, Fri Harbin's I newly-built airport, the largest i in north-Mai China, went into operation yesterday, ihe Xinhua nrws agency, monitored i tied t.xfay. AP.
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      Lock icon Afghanistan a step in the Soviet thrust
      469 3 'A staging area in West Asia' NEW YORK, Fri iTHE Soviet Union j would eventually use Afghanistan as a staging base to promote its influence in West Asia i and the Persian Gulf, military analysts said here today. They also said the main
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      Lock icon 'US-China security link needed to counter Russia'
      351 3 WASHINGTON, Fri THE Soviet Union will be the major source of future trouble in Asia and so the United States should development defence tios with China, said a Rand Corporation report released today. The report says the first hasic element of its reoom
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      Lock icon Rebel front rejects new Kabul regime
      174 3 Rebel front rejects new Kabul regime ISLAMABAD, Fri. A rebel Afghan Islamic front said today the new regime that came to power in a coup in Kabul was installed directly by the Russians and vowed to enmate "these nasty agents" of the Soviet Union. Mr Mangal Husain. a spokesman for
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      Lock icon Idi Amin the widowmaker
      67 3 NAIROBI, Fri. Former Uganda Presiden' Idi Amin's eight year rule left about 200 000 widows and 800.000 fatherless children, the African Evangelical Movement for East Africa said yesterday. Its leader. Rev Jon Wilson accused the Christian Church in Uganda of keeping silent during Amin's reign of
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      233 3 i ISLAMABAD, Fri. Mr Babrak Karmal (above), who was rei ported today to have J seized power in Afghan- istan. has spent the last 18 months in political exile. He was banished within months of helping the pro-Marxist People's I Democratic Party to overthrow Mohammad Daoud in April last
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      128 3 ISLAMABAD, Fri. Afghanistan's President Hafizullah Amin (above), reported deposed and executed after a coup yesterday, was originally the strongman prime minister behind former President Mohammed Tarakki when they took over the country in 1978. Mr Amin was said to have been responsible for i the mass imprisonment and execution
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      Bullet train got him to court on time
      91 3 TOKYO, Pri. A year-old man whose marriage went off the rails got on the wrong train for the divorce court, bat arrived an schedule when Japanese officialdom took pin on him. Railing nut of Tokyo sUtion, the unidentified man found he had
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      Lock icon Russia to give more free aid to Samrin
      185 4 MOSCOW, Friday THE Soviet Union has agreed to deliver more aid to the Heng Samrin regime free. Radio Moscow Radio reported today. Tass news agency, also reporting on the aid agreement, said an accord was signed yesterday at the Soviet Foreign Trade
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      Lock icon NZ stand on Pol Pot remains unchanged
      81 4 NZ stand on Pol Pot remains unchanged AUCKLAND, Fri Zealand has no plans to chance its tude towards Kampuchea's ousted Khmer Rouge regime following the (hopping of Mi feaa•■l in a (ace lifting reshuffle I 'time Minister Robert Muldoon said at his Hatfields beach holiday home neat here today the
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      Lock icon FORMER U.S. BASE A BUFFALO FARM
      138 4 FORMER U.S. BASE A BUFFALO FARM HONGKONG, Fri. A former American military base near Ho Chi Minn city, formerly Saigon, has been turned in'o a buffalo farm where the herd of 520 Murrah buffaloes given by the Indian Gov- j ernment to Vietnam in August last year is being kept.
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      Lock icon China repeats its support for the Khmer Rouge
      367 4 China repeats its support for the Khmer Rouge BEIJING, Fn CHINESE Chairman Hua Guofeng today reaffirmed China's "firm support" for the Khmer Rouge whose struggle against Vietnam "serves the common interests of the people of all countries in opposing hegemonism." In a congratulatory message to Mr Khieu Samphan, the new
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      Lock icon Tho: It's our historical responsibility
      226 4 Tho: It's our historical responsibility BANGKOK, Friday VIETNAMESE communist party leader Le Due Tho made a public defence of the presence of Hanoi's troops in Kampuchea today, saying they are carrying out a historical responsibility to save the region from the Chinese. -t In a statement earned by the Vietnam
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      Lock icon Indonesia raises oil price by U5$2.95
      141 4 JAKARTA, Friday INDONESIA announced today a U552.95 (5J6.37) increase in the price of its oil, but some government officials said this was toe low. <—- A spokesman for Pertamina. the state-owned oil company, said the increase, effective Jan 1. 1980, would be between U5526.60
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        Lock icon WHO backs acupuncture
        65 4 THE World Health Organisation has urged Wmcui doctors to take the Chinese art of acupuncture seriously, listing 43 ailments it said could be treated with the pain-relieving needles. Complaints such as the common cold, bronchial asthma, toothache, headache and diarrhoea lent •hemselves to acupuncture treatment although more
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        Lock icon $48,000 in fake US bills
        45 4 i ITAIJAN police have arI rested a British professor allegedly found in possession of US$4B,OOO in expertly forged US$lO bills. They identified the prisoner as Prof Martin Turner, 33, who was arrested in the Italian town of Brescia yesterday. UPI.
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        Lock icon New pool for water babies
        91 4 THE Soviet Union has opened another swimming school for newborn babies at a city in Lithuania where about 10 infants are learning to paddle about in a warm- water pool. The Tass news agency, which reported yesterday I that the new clinic has i opened
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        Lock icon 'Lay off detergents'
        50 4 THE Beijing Daily yesterday issued a warning to peasants living outside the Chinese capital not to feed their pigs with detergent. The paper said some peasants were regularlygiving their pigs detergent with their food in the mistaken belief that the foam helped to fatten th^m up. AP.
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      Lock icon Morales now leading Filipino Reds
      360 4 Morales now leading Filipino Reds MANILA. Fri I UK communist rebellion in the Philippines is now led by the former vtce-preskteni of the prestigious Development Academy of the Philip- pines, sources said today Mr Horacio Mm alts .C>. i tmik over th<> chairmanship (if the M.misi orienti ed Philippines Communist
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      Lock icon One more session
      78 4 UNITED NATIONS, Fri. After IS more ballots, the Ceneral Assembly failed yesterday to decide the long-run-ning race between Cuba and Colombia for the Latin American seat on the Security Council to be vacated by Bolivia next Tuesday. After the ballots, its president, Tanzanian Ambassador Salim Ahmed Salim.
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      Lock icon 60 arrested
      32 4 BEIRUT, Fri. Libyan security men have arrested 60 Palestinian students in Tripoli and Benghazi and revoked the residence permits of 50 others, the Palestine news agency Wafa said yesterday Reuter.
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      Lock icon Jail fire
      31 4 LANCASTER. Fri. Fire broke out in the second storey of the 176-year-old Lancaster i ounty jail last night, killing at least 10 men all believed to be prisoners UPI.
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      123 4 i!w^\ •^■fcjr- *^> SP'St^M Wt'^^^m^m^Km^mm^m^F km Ikkt B^^ Telegram your New Year greetings It's still not too late to wish your relatives, friends and business associates a happy and prosperous New Year. Make this occasion special for them. Send your greetings today by telegram. Phone *****1. Use Telex code 1
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      Lock icon Gold stays buoyant amid fears the bubble may burst
      299 5 GOLD remained above US$5OO (S$l,080) an ounce in I today bin expressed the "golden bubble" would burst one of the factors tint has made the gold more than double this year is Ihe weakness of Ihe dollar and Ihe dollar remained
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      Lock icon TWO FACES OF GRIEF
      72 5 TWO FACES OF GRIEF MR James Smith and his wtfe Dorothy In deep K.icf as they turned up at the airport In hen tucky on Thursday t« receive the body of their son who was killed by terrorists In Turkey. 'Mrs Smith Is shown here cradling the nag which covered
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      Lock icon Murdoch sued for $17m by union lawyer
      301 5 Murdoch sued for $17m by union lawyer UNION lawyer Theodore Kheel yesterday filed a US$B million (5517.2 million) suit against publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch, charging that his reputation was damaged by an article in New York Magazine, which Mr Murdoch owns. Mr Howard Squadron, the publisher's lawyer, said the suit
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      Volcano fury
      42 5 MANILA. Fri Mmml Hulu Sitn. one of the Philippines Jo/en active voleuoei, lud deal) erupted yencrdaj jn iin^; hoi ash as h:^h as 1.001 ni. th<> vocanoloffy comnUMtoi ■aid unlay No damage a [■asualtin nave N><>n rcporto ■a f.u Rpuum
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      Lock icon 10 dead or missing as storms lash Britain
      150 5 10 dead or missing as storms lash Britain IX)NDON, Fri. Storms battered Britain overnight, leaving at least 10 people dead or missing and casuing thousands of householders to abandon their homes. Wales and south-west England bore the brunt of the gale-force winds and heavy rain which cut off valleys, swept
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      Lock icon Freedom scores 21 to 9 against tyranny this year
      459 5 THE cause of freedom has inched forward in 1979 with advances in Latin America and the overthrow of four despots in Asia and Africa, but most of the world suffered under some degree of tyranny. Freedom House, a New York-based organisation
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      Lock icon 500,000th passenger
      60 5 LONDON, Fri. Sometime during the first week of January, the half millionth person to fly in a Concorde supersonic airliner will step aboard, British Airways has worked out. Nine Concordes have been put into service since the first commercial flight on Jan 21, 1976. The supersonic planes have
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      Lock icon ECONOMIC SNIPPETS
      177 5 ECONOMIC SNIPPETS CHINA'S 1979 foreign trade through Dec 22 registered a record U5528.64 billion (5561.8 billion), up 26.7 per cent i over 1978, the Ministry of Foreign trade said in Beijing yesterday. It reported exports of US$l3. billion and imports of U5515.21 billion, leaving a trade deficit of US$l. 79
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      775 5 Come celebrate with us. At the Mandarin Plus complimentary novelties, a glass of Seasonal 13 llf ff?t Luncli^^ Singapore. Where a delightful programme champagne and eggnog for every guest. international kflf 7 of feasting, fun and entertainment awaits NewYtar'sDay array of savoury your presence. Entrance fee: Key Club members guests:
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      Lock icon 'Keep your weapons' order to guerillas
      387 6 'Keep your weapons' order to guerillas PATRIOTIC From coleader Robert Mugabe yesterday ordered his 10.000 warhardened guerillas in Zimbabwe to keep their weapons at all costs because Britain had reneged on its promise to keep South African troops out of the country. In a move ih.it could jeopardise the implementation
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      Border firing
      38 6 NEW DELHI, Kn Indian and iian^ladpsh bonier t;i ai d.s exchanged Intensive fu inn last ni(;hl at a ilLspuici ai pa (i inging India's norihcasli'rn Ii ipura state Nd repn'U of caaualtns HT'c available keu ter.
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      Lock icon Russia holds Iranian plane
      172 6 SOVIKT authorities are holding an Iranian Army plane carrying a fourmember crew which strayed into Soviet air space last Tuesday, the Iranian military announced in Teheran yesiim day. The light Cessna airi raft was engaged in earthquake relief operations in north-east Iran when the pilot lost
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      Top general told to drop `big' talk
      132 6 TEL AVIV, Ftl. Israel's top general says he is confident his forces ran lick the mightier So .let Army in t |Misslhl< war. An opposition legislator urged him yesterday to stop making "big mouth statements. Ridiculing l.t Gea Rafael Kitan's remarks, reported by
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      Lock icon The other 500 'captives' in Teheran
      328 6 TEHERAN, Fri. THE American hostages in the US Embassy here have their own "hostages" in the 500 foreign journalists who have posted themselves outside the embassy building for the past 55 days. Relations between Iranian students and the "imperialistic press" are full of anomalies.
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      JAPAN SETS UP TEAM TO DEFINE POSITION
      92 6 JAPAN SETS UP TEAM TO DEFINE POSITION TOKYO, Frl. Pressured by the 1 nited Stales and Iran, Japanese offlelals formed a special committee u> define its position in the American hostage crisis in Teheran, Foreign Ministry sources said today. "The establishment of the committee is a normal procedure in the
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      Lock icon Carter asks Brez and China leaders for support
      225 6 Carter asks Brez and China leaders for support WASHINGTON, Friday US President Jimmy Carter has personally contacted Soviet chief Leonid Brezhnev and Chinese Government leaders for their support in the United Nations for economic sanctions against Iran, CBS television network said yesterday. CBS television said Mr Carter had also spoken
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      Lock icon Syria's UN envoy quits to work for Assad's ouster
      190 6 Syria's UN envoy quits to work for Assad's ouster UNITED NATIONS, Fri. Ambassador Ham moud El-Choufi, head of Syria's United Nations mission since June 6, 1978, said yesterday he was quitting to work for the ouster of President Hafez Assad Mr El-Choufi. 44, secretary-general of Syria's ruling Baath Party from
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      42 6 CARACAS. Fri Energy Minister Humberto Calderon Berti denied yesterday a newspaper report that said unknown persons had tried to poison Mr Mana Saeed Al OMba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates during last week's Oper meeting in Caracas. AP.
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      132 6 f^tm TELEPHONE The First Hundred Years is narcl t0 tnink any sin 9 le invention more indispensable to our daily lives and more crucial to doing the business of the entire world than the "scientific toy" Wjt B Alexander Graham Bell invented one hundred years ago. JB n B Discover
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    Appeal to minister over $10,000 surcharge
    208 7 Appeal to minister over $10,000 surcharge THE Singapore Second Hand Motor Vehicle Dealers' Association has sent a written appeal to Communications Minister Ong Teng Cheong asking for a relaxation of the $10,000 surcharge on imported used cars. The association, which has over 70 members, asked Mr Ong to meet their
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    Man fined $2,550 for graft
    92 7 Man fined $2,550 for graft A MECHANICAL and electrical clerk-of-works with the Pioneer Industries Employees' Union accepted a total of $569.92 bribe between June and August 1979 from a construction firm, a district court heard yesterday. The firm, Lianß Ah Tee Construction, was then the main sub-contractoi's for the construction
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    Dart game for aged better than mahjong'
    146 7 Dart game for aged better than mahjong' DARTS haii been suggested m »ii Ideal game for old folks brcan.se like chess, it Is a less strenuous form »f recreation. And, m Srnlar Parliamentary SrcreUry (Social Affairs), Mr Chan Cbee Seng, said last night, It Is a more worthwhile pastime than
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    Grounds open to public
    53 7 THE Isiana grounds will be open to the public on New Year's Day between H am. and 6.30 p.m. Visitors are urged not to litter the grounds A statement form the Prime Minister's Office yesterday said that Public Health Inspectors would be on duty to take
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    2,500 to take part in first big civil defence drill
    208 7 2,500 to take part in first big civil defence drill THE first large-scale civil defence exercise to be held here next month will put to the test between 2,500 and 3,000 men of the Vigilante Corps. The exercise will be held at the Toa Payoh and Clementi satellite towns on
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    Dinner date
    34 7 THE MP for Rodok. Mr Sha'ari Tadin, will be the guest-of-honour at the seventh annual (linni'r of Hitachi Consumer Products at Leisure Drome in Kallang Park on Jan 5 at 7 p.m.
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    YMCA dance
    32 7 THE International Folk P n'-e Club of the Metropolitan YMCA will hold its New Year's eve party on Monday at 7 30 p.m. for members. For other details, ring *****66.
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    VC Mandarin drive is in full swing
    309 7 A SPEAK More Mandarin And Less Dialects drive is now in full swing in the Vigilante Corps, following a survey which showed thai 43 per cent of its rank-and-file came from the Chinese stream. The Vigilante, the corps' organ, reported this in its
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    Stevedores' NWC hike
    48 7 THE Singapore Stevedores Union and the Singapore Stevedoring Contractors' Association nave agreed to implement the 1979 NWC i pcommondations Under the agreement, all stevedores will get an increase of 50 cpnt.s per day shift and 20 rents per night shift from Jan I 1. 1980.
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    Time-off for those attending classes
    147 7 TIMF-off will be given to civil servants selected to attend Mandarin classes to be conducted by the Ministry of Culture, a minitary spokesman said yesterday. The classes will be held over a year. The course is I divided into four parts of three-month duration each.
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    Jeweller (PLEDGED HIS BODY FIVE YEARS AGO) has his last wish fulfilled
    382 7 Jeweller (PLEDGED HIS BODY FIVE YEARS AGO) has his last wish fulfilled JEWELLER Manuel Gardi Hewa, 81, died of a heart attack on Sunday with his last wish of giving his sight "to someone who has never seen a sunrise" fulfilled. He passed away at the Tan Tock Song Hospital
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    91 7 Japan firm to build chemical plant here TOKYO, Fri A Japanese company said yesterday it will build a now chemical plant in Singapore to start production of acetylene black, a component of dry batteries. The company, Denka, said it had reached a h.isic agieement with the Singapore Government and Sumitomo
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    Potong Pasir courses
    54 7 Potong Pasir courses iii is rniong raw rA r branch will conuV i 'holography nrnl h:'riiij man ai"l Itiiho'n classes for i Three ami Six rnnnth. Registration for these rouisps »ill be helil .11 tfac I'asii kinrtoi g.iiion .it >!l<»'k Jii. Lorong 8. betswa 7 ptn and 9 p.m. on
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    Ngee Ann and Poly may enrol `A' level students
    405 8  - Ngee Ann and Poly may enrol A' level students JUNE TAN Move aimed at cutting educational wastage By SINGAPORE'S two technical colleges are likely, for the first time, to take in students with "A" level qualifications from May, the start of the new academic year. This is aimed at cutting
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    Costly `mileage' from someone's AA card
    154 8 Costly `mileage' from someone's AA card A STUDENT was asked to pay $10 hospital fees although he did not get treatment, a magi s- trate's court heard yesterday. Someone had used Bryan Ghows' Automobile Association membership card after being treated. Asst Supt T.S. Zain said Tang Wee Kok, aged 18.
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    Malay teachers' English test results
    157 8 Malay teachers' English test results EIGHTY per cent of the teachers, who sat for the English language proficiency test conducted by the Malay Teachers Union recently at Monks Hill Secondary School, have passed. The results for the test held at Telok Kurau Secondary School are being processed. Mr Kuchit Sarwan,
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    Chamber music recital
    84 8 THE German Academic Chamber Orchestra will give a two-day recital of chamber music from the baroque to the present century at the Singapore Conference Hall from Jan 9. The orchestra will feature works by Bach. Schonberg, Mozart, Boccherini on Jan 9. and works by Bach. Milhaud. Hindemith
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    Drive for members
    40 8 THE Queenstown community centre's youth group will hold a membership drive for those aged between 15 and 30. It will also hold courses on the guitar, social dance, badminton, folk dance and volleyball. For details, rail *****0
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    132 8 SKYHAWKS: SIX-MAN TEAM TO DIRECT SEARCH CLARK AIR BASE (Philippines), Fri. The United States Air Force is sending a six-man ground team into northern Philippines mountains tomorrow to help coordinate the search for the three Singapore Air Force Skyhawks which disappeared mysteriously nine days ago. A spokesman at this base,
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    Robbery charge
    46 8 LIM Boon Kee, 19, was charged in a magistrate's court yesterday with armed robbery of $20 from Mr Wong Ah Mm at Whampoa Drive on Wednesday Lim was ordered remanded at Central Police Station lockup till further mention of his rase on Jan 4
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    A useless heap
    52 8 TWO Singapore Red Cross Society officials going through a heap of tattered, unwashed and smelly clothes and underwear at the society's premises in Penang Lane yesterday. The society had appealed to the public not to send such "disgraceful" donations which are unfit for use by Kampuchean refugees
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    Manageress loses $5,000 to gunman
    152 8 A GUNMAN ycsterda> I held up the manageress of i a furniture shop outside a bank in Henderson Road and robbed her of $5,000. Madam Chua Yok I,an. of Superland Furniture in f'eails Centre, told police that she was at the catpark at Block 95.
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      466 8 It's the season! So here's the reason tor making whoopee! NPW YirVirX FVP I THE CHINATOWN 1 IV-«IJE-VV. I Szechuan New Year Eve Dinner MIRABELLE I the ingredients for a grand Gala Dinner Dance I evening are here Excellent food Everything has bet-nsel.-d.-d with Mtentive service leganl the festivities m
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    Proud moment for 334 at investiture
    198 9 Proud moment for 334 at investiture IT WAS a proud moment for 334 people Hhin they were pmtrnted with the RnVlency Medal and the Long Service Medal b; President Shearrs a' the Singapore Conference Hall larft night. The moment of honour rame when he or she walked op to President
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    Pugilistic officials
    47 9 THE Chime Wu Pugilistic Association has elected Mr David Ho Wing Kee as presi- 1 dent. Other officials are Mr Choo Yew Cheone vu*>-president. i Mr Joseph Lee secretary. Mr! John Tan assistant secretary. Mr David l>ee treasurer and I Mr Ivan Tan assistant treasurer.
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    On cheating charge
    103 9 A SALESMAN was charged in a magistrate's court yesterday with cheating three people of a total of $210 by allegedly collecting donations for a nonexistent Singapore Home for The Aged. Lim Law Fock, 23, claimed trial to all three charges of cheating Miss Ang Geok Eng of
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    20,000 more jobs with new projects
    642 9  - 20,000 more jobs with new projects GEORGE JOSEPH $900 m investments in 11 months ABOUT $900 million of new investments have been secured for Singapore over the first 11 months of this year, representing a 10 per cent increase of investments over the same period last year, the NTUC secretary-general,
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    Cultural evening
    46 9 FEDERAL Publications and IVin.i Marian will hold a Pesta Bara Ria a programme of reading and cultural items at Times Orchard Centre. Lucky Plaza on Jan 5 at 3 p.m. The programme includes a pantun (traditional Malay (»«'ium competition, reading of books and poetry
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    TELOK AYER METHODIST CHURCH IS 90
    108 9 THE Telok Ayer Methodist Church, the oldest and biggest Chinese-speaking Methodist church in Singapore, is 90 today. To mark the occasion, a thanksgiving service will be held at the church, at the junction of Telok Ayer and Nanking Streets, at 5 p.m. Some 1,500
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    3 firms get 5-year 'tax holiday'
    262 9 A "TAX HOLIDAY of five years has been granted to three mould-making companies here by the government to encourage the development of sup- porting industries. They are Aster Toolcraft Pte Ltd Bon Mold Pte Ltd and Eastmoulds Re Ltd. Except for Astec Toolcraft, which
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    Student union officials
    33 9 THE Nanyang University Stu dents' Union has elected Mi Tan Chee Kien as president Other officials are Messen Kok Geok Soon. Au Wen; Keong, Henry Lee and Le« Bee I.iew
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    Sea advice
    26 9 VESSELS are advised to sai slowly past Pulau Merlimau from Jan 2 to 9 when dredginf work will be earned out in th< area.
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    Siemens to buy spare parts from S'pore
    138 9 SIEMENS AG of West Germany is to buy about 800 spare parts and components from Singapore under its new policy to widen its supply network to cover the developing countries. Singapore Investment News says in its latest issue that this bodes well for
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      987 10 ABBEY CO IS ONE-STOP SERVICE Special announcement to mark the launching ot Abbey's all-inone home renovation and furnishing centre. Abbey Co. i offers a one-stop service for homemakers This Some home renovation contractors extend credit schemes of Affable Mr Koh who has been in the business since 1963 has a
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    'No selfticketing planned for these car parks'
    274 11 MULTI-STOREY car parks under the Urban Redevelopment Authority and the Housing Board will not be affected by the selfticketing plan in February, an informed source said yesterday. Some of these car parks are at Cuppage Centre, Rochore Centre, Market Street, Chin Swee Road,
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    Sex case youth who jumps bail
    203 11 Sex case youth who jumps bail yutKNsrowN ponce are looking for a lft-year-old youth who is alleged to have had carnal relations with a girl aged 15. It is an offence under Singapore law to have carnal relations with a girl below the age of 16. Police earlier arrested the
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    Applications for VITB courses
    72 11 Applications for VITB courses REGISTRATION for admission to part-time courses conducted by the Vocational and Industrial Training Board will be held at 28 designated centres from Jan 2 4 nightly between 7 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. An application fee of $2 per course is payable in advance to the VITB
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    Lions home at Ang Mo Kio
    58 11 THE MP (or Serangton Garden. Dr Uu Teik Soon, will <>l>rn the first Lions hi>me for elders at Block 403, Ang Mo Kio on New Year's Day at 4 p.m. The home will be run by a management committee comprising Lions Club members from
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    Singapore to host Asean Trade Fair '80
    337 11 Singapore to host Asean Trade Fair '80 SINGAPORE will host Asean Trade Fair '80 at the World Trade Centre from Oct 3 to 12. Some 300 participants drawn from all sectors of Asean's economy are expected to take part in the fair, which aims to be a showcase of Asean's
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    Uphold dignity of man, CJ tells jurists
    221 11  -  ABBY TAN By Our Manila Correspondent MANILA, Friday THE Chief Justice, Mr Wee Chong Jin, last night called on jurists and lawyers to uphold the dignity of man through human justice. He had seen on TV the sorrow, suffering, pain, hunger and humiliation
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    Legal aid
    20 11 THE legal aid counselling service will be held at the Queenstown community centre on Jan 7 and 21
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    For children
    36 11 THE Kirn Keat community centre will hold courses on children's pianica. ballet and piano For adults, there will courses on making nonya cakes, tim sum and cakes in January Call *****56 for other details.
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    Circus date
    33 11 THE Parliamentary Secretary I (Culture l. Dr Ow Chin Hock. j will open the Apollo Circus at the junction of Telok Blangah Way and Henderson Road on Tuesday at 9 p.m.
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      191 11 Straits Times Crossword ACBOHB 7 Thus picking up rubbish outI saicre un 10 8 SsSFs^Z. 5He return from centre. bUroe- changed f^ C £cW^ le» (6). «i 8 O»rge t-twry U fore 1. u»d ,4 w,,™.. „«»■<«• v» 9 Kaock over wt«n out <* eon*- A Uoo (3,4). S^ (9)
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    PUB to spend $264 m next year to meet power demand
    278 12 PUB to spend $264 m next year to meet power demand led i" pmenl It will s|»ml al i in consumi AT in and million have been ited fin thr Senoko I 'owe md I nsmis- i for orks inisin« uniis. is mpletion in I'.«K.X ;it an estimated J4OO million
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    Christmas Day shooting: Police appeal
    109 12 Christmas Day shooting: Police appeal POLICE yesterday appealed to three men who witnessed a Christmas Day shooting at a nightclub in Eu Tong Sen Street to come forward and help them in their investigations. In the incident. Detective i,i Kok Wai of the Central police station shot dead sales assistant
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    83 12 THIS fire raxed for half an hoar early yesterday, and destroyed several empty wooden houses at Jalan Baklt Merah. It was the second fire at the same place in a week. No one was Injured in yesterday's blaze which started at I.l* a.m. Last
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    Pork to cost more from Tuesday
    250 12 Pork to cost more from Tuesday PORK will cost 30 cents more a kilogramme when the $2 to $10 waste pollution charge levied on each pig slaughtered in the Kirn Chuan and Jurong abattoirs starts on Tuesday. The chairman of the Singapore Pork Merchants Association, Mr Low Fook Poey, said
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    Court told of wife who often came home drunk
    309 12 Court told of wife who often came home drunk A MECHANIC yesterday told the High Court of his wife uho kept late nights and frequently returned home drunk. Mr Wonß Chee Keong said his wife. Madam Jennie Ong. was a "woman of uncontrollable temper" and would utter obscenities whenever they
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    Sentosa picnic
    42 12 THE Henderson community centre youth group will organise a picnic to Sentosa on Jan 13 (rum 7.30 a.m. to 5.30 p m. Charges are $6 lor members and $7 for others. Ring *****68 from 3 p m. to 10 p.m.
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    School vendor talked of suicide
    112 12 School vendor talked of suicide SCHOOL hawker Tan Ah Teo, 50, told his son-in-law of his intention to die before taking a fatal dose of insecticide, a coroner's court heard yesterday. Mr Heng Cheng Kang, 32. testified that Mr Tan telephoned him on Sept 10 and told him he was
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    Ang pows for needy
    65 12 THE Minister for Home Affairs and MP for MarPherson. Mr Chua Sian Chin, will dis tribute "ang nows to the needy at MacPherson s Fifth Annual Welfare Day at its community centre on Feb 3 at 9.30 a m. Application forms are available from the centre
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    Band show
    22 12 THE SIA Groups brass band will perform at the MarRitchie Reservoir Park from 5 p.m. to 6 p m. tomorrow
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
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      Lock icon Riddle of how hacksaw blades found way to prison
      449 13 KUANTAN, Fri THE six remand prisoners, who escaped trom Kuantan Prison on Wednesday, used two hacksaw blades to cut open the plank-walls of their cellrooms before they climbed over the concrete walls. Prison authorities found two hacksaw blades with .loth handles
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      Lock icon Hussein: Be alert to foreign threat
      179 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Prime Minister Datuk Hussein Onn today called on the people to be fully aleit not only to the internal security situation but also to possible foreign threat. He said necessary security precautions had already been taken and include the expansion and
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      Lock icon Four of the prison escapees
      195 13 Four of the prison escapees KI'ANTAN, Fri. These are four of the six remand prisoners who escaped from the KduiUn prison near the district police headquarters here shortly before midnight on Wednesday. They are Lal Kirn Swee, 21, of Sungel Bo lob, Suneei Slput, Peralt; Ow Kam Ken*, 23, of
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      Lock icon MIC to set up body to represent Hindus
      311 13 MIC to set up body to represent Hindus KUALA LUMPUR, Friday THE Malaysian Indian Congress will establish a single body to protect and help plan the development of the Hindu religion, said party leader Datuk S. Vellu here today. The body, to be called the Malaysian Hindu Representative Council, "would
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      Lock icon Students look for cheaper education
      86 13 Students look for cheaper education KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. More Malaysian students are now looking towards I the United States, Canada and India for further studies because of the higher cost of education in Britain and Australian. This quest for cheaper I education, away from overseas institutions" traditionally popular with Malavsians,
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      Lock icon Retiring at 55
      68 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri It »ill be automatic (or all government servants to retire at the age of 55 when the new Pensions Act comes into effect early next year, Beraama reported yesterday. A spokesman of the Pensions Division of the Public Services Department said today that compulsory
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      243 13 Bringing Up Father By Bill Kavanagh Hal Camp X/eiM/wv I Iso you »c ji<ses/ why I \~um'm r see this is I hey, bimmy. re/vie/viBER THEBES no V HOW DIDN'T VOO ANSWER YOUR DATED A MONTH A&O J THAT NISWT I LENT Vlfijisss/ ABOUT OVERTIME PAOION& S-~— T f TODAY'
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    Monthly pay for daily rated workers
    478 14 Keppel Shipyard does a 'first' THREE thousand daily-rated workers at Keppel Shipyard and its two subsidiaries will be the first employees in the shipyard industry to become monthlyrated at higher salary scales from Jan This move ensures that blue-collar workers are given the same
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    Woman found hanged: It's suicide
    99 14 Woman found hanged It's suicide A 91-YEAR-OLD woman, depressed over her son's illness and the impending demolition of the house in which she had lived for 40 years, committed suicide early one morning. A coroner's court heard yesterday that Madam Koh Say 800 was found hanged with a cord from
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    April hearing of case against drug king's firm
    299 14 April hearing of case against drug king's firm A CASE against the firm of which the late drug trafficking king "Mr Asia" was principal director, was fixed for hearing by a magistrate's court yesterday in Court 15 from April 22 to 26. The Singapore Aquatic Birds and Pets Centre Pte
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    Picnic guest
    40 14 THE MP for Buona Vista. Professor Ang Kok Peng, will be guest-of-honour at a picnic for senior citizens organised by the People's Association regional youth council (Central) at Pasir Ris holiday camp on Jan 6 at 9 a.m.
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    Party for 200
    45 14 THE Residents' Committee Zone E of Kolam Aver constituency will hold an end of the year party for about 200 children below 12 years at the void deck of Block 64 in Kalian g Bahru tomorrow from 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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    Telecoms computer for swifter fault control
    278 14 TO UPGRADE its telephone maintenance service, Telecoms will computerise its Fault Control System to provide greater efficiency and productivity. This was announced by the MP for Ang Mo Kio, Mr Yeo Toon Cnia, at the commissioning of 10,000 lines of electronic switching equipment at
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      320 14 The retail prices of market items are provided below for ge leral guidance only. AREA/MARKET KANDANG KERBAU/CUPPAGE CENTRE AREA/MARKET SIGLAP TANJONG RHU ■TIM i INI I PRIU lIIM UMI 1-RK.I PORK I Lean Meat 605g $380 $400 VIGfIABKS: Bayam 605g $M 5-$055 i lkg *6W> GsT\ Ikg $O7S-SO9O Twee Bak
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    11 aftercare centres set up to reach more people
    450 15 THE Probation and Aftercare Service has set up 11 neighbourhood centres in various constituencies to make its services more readily available to the community. A full time probation anil aftercare omcei will be on duty in the evenings using community centres
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    Charged with $2,400 CBT
    63 15 Jl HIN Phono, 44. was chained in .1 magistrate s court MSkH lay with committing criminal breach of trust of J2.400 The money was alleged to have tn-en entrusted to him by .Mis.s Jheong Ah Kam in Kreta Aver Road in August 1974. He claimed trial
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    Language lab
    31 15 THE Muslin. Missionary Sodetj uf Singarxire mil] oix'n its Jamiyah Language Laboratory at the KitiK Faisal Muslim Hall .v 31. Lorong 12. Road, on Tuetdas ,v i p n
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    Lock icon S'pore and China to sign trade pact today
    218 15 S'pore and China to sign trade pact today BEIJING, Fri. China and Singapore are due to sign a trade agreement tomorrow providing a broad framework for Increased trade and economic cooperation, lourres close to a Singapore delegation In the capital said daiThe delegation is headed by Finance Minister Hon Sal
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    Sisir draft codes
    75 15 THE Smt;a|Kiip Institute ot SUndardi ;'nd Industrial R.--Karen has completed seven draft siiecifications and ixii>s of practice which have been released for public comments They are: Code of practice for earthtns, code of practice for mechanical ventilation and ail '-conditioning, specification for simple type fixed scuttles for
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    More evening part-time gardening courses
    129 15 More evening part-time gardening courses THE School of Ornamental Horticulture will hold more part-time basic gardening courses because of the encouraging response from the public. Disclosing this, the principal of the school, Mr Koh Teow Khian, said the school will be hold more classes in the evening for hobbyists. Last
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    Pata chapter bid for travel mart
    216 15 SINGAPORK'.N nowlyformed Pacific Area Travel Association (Pata) chapter intends to h.>si a Pacific-wide Travel Mart in IWI A formal application to the I'at.i ht\u] office in San Francisco is being made by the chapter- to bid to host the travel mart, which brings together
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    Roadside trees at their finger-tips
    235 15 Roadside trees at their finger-tips TECHNICAL officer Ling Ai Choo goes by many roadside trees daily but she has more than just a "passing" interest in them Miss Ling, 2.=>, who is with the PWD. likes to talk about them with keen friends to enrich her knowledge. Yesterday, she was
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    Green zone soon from city to Changi airport
    348 15 Green zone soon from city to Changi airport EIGHTEEN months from now, Singaporeans would be driving through a green zone all the way from Maxwell Road to the new Changi Airport. The Parliamentary (Secretary (National I Development), Mr Lee I Yiok Seng, said that 150.000 trees will be planted along
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    Alarm over society's dwindling members
    231 15 THE Singapore Family Benefit Society is in danger of being wound up because of fast dwindling membership. The situation is so bad that old members are urged to recruit their grandchildren. The society suffered a drop of 16 members last year. As at Dec 31
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  • The Straits Times SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1979.
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      KARMAL'S TURN
      369 16 THREE successful coups within 20 months; Marxists killing Marxists the Afghanistan record since the People's Democratic Party took over power must be something of a record. The evidence suggests that the Russians had a key role in the overthtow of Mr Hafizullah Amin and his replacement by Mr
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      MUTING CRITICISMS
      383 16 PRESIDENT Marcos appears to be easing up on political prisoners in the Philippines. An undetermined number of detainees have been given temporary release over the festive season. The showcase example of the government's relaxation is the two-week leave granted to Benigno Aquino Jr., the president's political rival who
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    The Child
    477 16 NINETEEN seventy nine, the International Year of the Child, is on the way out. During the year we have remembered The Child by a wide spectrum of organised activities that caught the eye Seminars and symposia (for adults). Public exhibitions, programmes and concerts (for children). And over and
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    Lock icon Lottery syndrome hits those applying to fill vacancies
    508 16  -  KENNETH WHITING By in KUALA LUMPUR THOUSANDS of Malaysians are being offered jobs under "Operation Fill-Up," a crash programme to swell the ranks of government. Operation Fill-Up (Operasi Isi Penuh) was set in motion more than six months ago to fill vacancies
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    Hostage crisis: The unanswered questions
    1642 16 World's eyes on Iran IRAN: Towards the new year world attention is still pinioned to every move and counter-move <n the tense situation building up between Washington and Teheran over the 50 American hostages. The unanswered questions are: Will the Soviet Union veto the limited
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      747 16 Here they are! All the winners of the Maxwell House Instant Coffee Contest Winners of an elegant I kea Dining Suite each 4| t Miss Ng Lay Tin /a\ Mdm. Lim Eng Kirn U prize (i.e. no. *****540 1 prize ox. no. *****58) Mdm. Boey Yuet Kwai i Mr. R.
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    Emphasis now on getting things moving
    957 17  - Emphasis now on getting things moving JAPANESE enterprises which had been concentrating on carrying out managerial ''weight reduction" measures have switched their emphasis now actively to propelling operations conforming with their new environment. Such a trend was clearly borne out in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's fiscal 1978
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      Come to terms with mental illness
      457 17 Come to terms with mental illness THE recent treatment by the Ministry of Health and RTS of mental illness has tended to be negative rather tlian positive. This has tended to perpetuate already abundant mental myths and exacerbated ill-founded prejudices and fears rather than enlightened the public. In this respec
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      Flies at food centres: Source traced
      125 17 PLEASE refer to the letter by Kenneth Chen regarding flies found in the food centres he visited (ST, Dec 11). The ministry was aware of an increase of flies at the Telok Ayer food centre about a month ago. The breeding source was traced
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      Apply it to new flats
      93 17 I WOULD like to suggest to the Housing Board that the decision to Increase prto-s of flats be made applicable only to purchasers of newly-built flats. Those who are staying In rented flats should not bear the extra costs of labour, materials and miscellaneous Increases
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      Km signs
      56 17 JOGGERS at the East Coast Park (ST, Oct 19. 1979) may be pleased to know that kilometre signs will be put up along the cycle track and footpath. These signs which are currently neing fabricated should be ready in another 1 1 2 months' time. most. WEE 1.1
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      Keep speculators out of S'pore
      247 17 I HAVE been living in Hongkong for the past nine months. During that time I have seen rents go up as much as nearly 400 per cent. Finally, the government has been spurred to action by the public outcry, especially in the last fortnight, and
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      POSTED TO JURONG
      77 17 MY daughter has passed her Primary Six this year from Margaret Drive School and the Ministry of Kdmation has posted her to a Jurong school, in spite of my four rntllr n in the neighbourhood II was neither for my convenience, nor for my child's, but of
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      Time too short to schedule feature films
      143 17 Time too short to schedule feature films THIS is in reply to the letter "Show those Mandarin films earlier in evening" from "English-Speaking" (ST. Dec 21, 1979). Much as WC would like to, we are unable tO schedule feature films between Ih c Tamil and Chinese newcasts because the period
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      Trishaws: No rate prescribed by law
      73 17 Trishaws: No rate prescribed by law I REFKR to the letter "Are trishaw riders allowed to charge what they like" by M.P. Tay (ST, Nov24). There is no prescribed rate of hire for trishaws. The rate (if hire is left to the bilateral agreement between the passenger and the trishaw-rider.
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      120 17 J^fICLDCn/TAC nth Big Day! Go4d«n City 1 45. 4. 7 930 G.C»«r 1 15. 330. ***** Dromo ever mode with English, v.iini Chmese subtitles I m ran r-hio, Chm Hon, To Night Midnight t To morrow Morning Show •111.00 am al both theatres A Kung Fu Comedy m Mondorm Cotorscopc
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      CLOSING PRICES
      866 18 INK last KHM (V < low business on thr Sink K«rhaw or Staffs <>mjwirr«d with lh»- (»re\iou.s i fl TivrftwM with 1779 high .inrt low led fa v nf> rights \asue) ■at OHM Ml III at> ISC M ill' 411 IN n HIS 90 282 470 149 141
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      Unit trusts
      344 18 Closing tone: Mixed. Turnover: Official figures supplied by the Stock Exchange of Singapore including odd lots "Ready" totalled 4.384,000 unite valued at $10,621,000 Industrials accounted for 2,893,000, finance 277,000, hotels 331,000, properties 647.000, debentures, loans and bonds nil, plantations 215,000, minings 21,000 "Settlement" contracts totalled: 540.000 units valued
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      BUSINESS DONE (Singapore)
      1791 18 DID ami offer pn. offu i.ilh listed lad bUtaMi in an reported to the n h.mtir of Singapore yes*M IN 1 number of shares k i>i*n in brarket-s in lots i>f I 000 units unless otherwise speri fied All Times Settlement Contracts id- punted after the word
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      KUALA LUMPUR
      1767 18 nil) .imi .>n,. r prim ofßrtally listed in.i bariMM in and reported lo the ku.il.i l.unifHji Si,* k kxrhange yesMl.i> »nh the number of shares traded sh.i»n in bracket* in lols of 1.000 units unless ttthfruisf spei i li.il MMHU 4*a«MUl36oS> »lr«n il K.IO »lr» H«M it 28B)
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        Rises
        45 18 ,.,.id«....d Park Mm Darby C Sugar. F F. Ir,,,,..,, ['om Planl ■SunKn Br>i [Jutch Baby [old Storajrr M H S M»i« Hicr MO 3M 472 289 223 1200 609 190 263 258 17S •30 •16 14 12 11 10 10 10 8 8 8
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        32 18 M H.nkinn M Hrf»rnr. I'.-Ki Mil. Dhmpia l.i.-n Hor Sri I'r.iprrli.■iin Chrw Shell l.inKUi 800 T2S ISI in 176 412 410 396 388 -5 -5 4 i ■1 -2 -2 -2
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        Most active stocks
        28 18 Mm Darby 1'OL Kabrr Mrrlin B Ray. raipiiiK Textile 1 ii II Inchcape flarimau U F. 556.000 250.000 236.000 209.000 207.000 178.000 157.000 151.000 147.000
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        29 18 B.T.Index: Industrials Finance: Hotels: Properties: Minings Plantations: O.C.B.C: S.ESInd: 2988.89 3078.0! ***** 434. i: 766.66 ***** 347.68 348.9! 268.98 270.3! 240.44 2411' 729.41 730.8 ***** 412.0. 380.69 383?
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        H'kong
        309 18 HONGKONG: The market closed firmer in fairly active trading yesterday, with the Hang Seng index closing 12 48 points higher at 852 10 points, dealers said. Interest initially centred on Wheelock Marden. Hsin Chong and Paul V, but buying interest later spread across the board, before late profit-taking pared
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        Tokyo
        440 18 TOKYO: The market closed sharply higher in (airly active trading yesterday, with active selective buying interest spread over a wide front dealers said. There is no afternoon session, the last business day of the year. The Dow Jones average rose 40.90 to 6,569.73 points, with a volume of 200
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        PRODUCE PRICES
        126 18 HINRiR I-Kiilll l K KXCHANUK, SINGAPORE, NOON I lil-IM. PRirES PER IT I I YKSTERDAV: rmM *U: Hulk tIOB sellers, old drum SIM sellers, new drum (11* sellers C'«pra: Mixed (loose) UK Com JM 00 buyers Prpper: Munlok ASTA white fob 10V. NLW *****0 sellers. Sarawak while lob
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        GOLD
        244 18 THE KII.nHAK market for gold drhverable in Singapore opened al H5.868 and closed al J35.595 yester day In the Far East, gold opened at around New York's closing level It moved down lo a low of U5812.00 -.14 lio before recovering to dose at SM3 00 Sls 00 Trading
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        TIN
        132 18 THE STRAITS tin price rose another $16 to $2,138 per pioul in Penang yesterday on an official offering up 76 tonnes to 196 < tonnes. The overnight London market was steady with forward buyers falling 1:20 to C 7.330 per tonne. LONDON: Tin on the day was down £85
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        CLOSING PRICES
        34 18 Rubber: Dec 28 Singapore: January: 298.00 cents (up 1.50 cents) Malaysia: January: 297.75 cents (up 2.25 cents) Tin: M 52.138 I (up $16) I Official offering: l»« i tonnes (up 78 tonnes)
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        COPPER
        30 18 LONDON Copper (noon) prkn on Thursday i previous in brackets). Wirebar Spot H. 004 i:1006i. sellers L 1.006 (f.1.0W). Three Month £1.014 1U.0061 Market Iw: Steady SaJea: 16.500 tonnes
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        RUBBER
        538 18 PRICES in the Singapore rubber market closed quietly firmer yesterday, with January RSS One buyers quoted at 298.00 cents per kilo, up 1.50 cents from Thursday's close, dealers said. Quiet conditions ruled the afternoon session but values hardened after the close on improved buying interest for January and February
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        SSR and SMR
        43 18 RAS SSK V.K MRLLB SMH (V -MR I. -MR.., -MR -MR I -MR -MR H lo p *!l!." ursss !i !!"?Iii.i. ICwmS Mkl Byy«r> H*llrr> 2M.V) .>.-■..■. 111.00 I Sw I NV| 171 SiiN (Forward Mia I H,,,r. S»ll,r. .'Tl H
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      Market tempo turns livelier
      352 18 AS IF U mark the return of Sime Darby, the Singapore stock market yesterday came alive with trad- I lag activity that pot some shares well ahead of others. The general tone of the market was steady to firm. The market finished with fair gains a*
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      Kuala Lumpur
      250 18 A FAIRLy steady trend was maintained on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday, the last trading day for 1979, and prices closed broadly higher. Trading was active, with the relisting of Sime Darby and its subsidiary. Consolidated Plantations adding volume to the total turnover. Sime, which now returns
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        NOMINAL RATES
        358 18 NOTE: These rates may differ slightly from those quoted by banks to their customers INTERBANK rales at 3.00 pm: Cutrancwt Nominal nlu Smithsonian Parcantaga quoted yaalarday (croaa)panty Chang* I .oral dollars tu Mir unit of foreign rurrrnry US dollar 2.1605 2.1615 2.8196 -23.37 St. m lint; pound 4.8370
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        Discount
        48 18 Um ..I ptk-m on>r<-d by dl can h<.uvs <m IJn 28 iivwniuht 4 10 fx l all rteptiMK 1 1 (lo.i.l Huvint Srlli.r Treasury bills 6 6 3 month Bank hills 10 10 J months CD 10 10 6 months CD i Sourrr: Nalionul I unl Co
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        Money market
        14 18 lounf in ngapore < roan* liar.', u Off rates i [«■<■» r Bid HrrniKhl
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      Prime lending rates
      24 18 THE average rate at which major Singapore bank* are currently prepared to lend to their best customers Is 9.3 per cent.
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      United Malacca profit dips 38pc
      375 19 DESPITE higher rubber md palm oil pri.es and output, United Malacca Rubber KMates has reported a 38 per cent drop in estimated group pre-tax profit to $2.65 million for the first half-year ended Octtt, 1979. The profit decline is largely due to the fact that
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        Sydney prices higher
        111 19 stupiei, m .mock prices closed higher, led by energy and gold issues in thin trading Hid BHP, which announced a million construction iml 'xploration programme for 19*. jumped 30 cents to Asll 20. while Woodside Petroleum rose two cents to $2.22. Coa' miner Thiess rose six rents
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        New York closes mixed
        176 19 VKW YORK, Thurs Stock inces closed mixed after tradng in a narrow range most of he day as they have done all ieek However, volume picked ip on year-end selling for tax lurposos and portfolio adjustnents. Most precious metals stocks ontinued (heir rise as silver md
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        Zurich trading light
        241 19 ZURICH. Thurs. Share prices closed mixed in light trading amid investor caution owing to the surge in the gold price, dealers said. Hanks were pulled back on profit-taking after recent strength, while in financial* and insurances small losses outnumbered gains OerlikonBuehrle Bearer and Registered were barely steady,
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        Amsterdam market quiet
        253 19 AMSTERDAM. Thurs. Share prices closed mixed in quiet trading with Royal Dutch 1 30 lower, Unilever losing 0.10, Philips 0.20 higher, and Akzo and Hoogovens unchanged in Dutch Internationals, dealers laid Banks and insurances were mixed with ABN 2.50 guilders higher. Amev up 1 50 and Mationale
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        London gold shares rise sharply Selected indices
        554 19 London gold shares rise sharply Selected indices Thurs. Gold min•nf shares were sharply higher n moderate trading, dealers -ml Leading equities were a >hade lower in quiet dealings, they added At 3pm. the FT index was down 3 0 at 414.5 Heavier priced gold issues were up to IS 500
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      Tan Chong moves into forklift market
      375 19 Tan Chong moves into forklift market FAST MOVING motor group. Fan ('hong and Sons Motors, has driven Itself further into the market for heavy machinery and spare parts. It rcc entl> set up a new rumpanv. Tan (hong Industrial Machinery (Pte) Ltd, j with a i nminal capital of $2
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      Good response to UMW issue
      140 19 Good response to UMW issue i IM I K lt Motor Works' spe- rial bumlputra Issue h»8 I beea oversubscribed 4.7 I times in respect of the 1.2 million shares offered to bamipotras. A total of I.»U applications were received for (.81 million shares. Results of the Issue were disclosed
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      541 19 An Established Exclusive Night Club Requires A CLUB MANAGER I THE JOB The Club Manager will be responsible for the over-all running and promotion of the Club. REQUIREMENTS The successful applicant should be conversant with current exclusive disco and night clubs' trends and operations and must possess drive and initiative.
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      531 19 SINGAPORE BUS SERVICE (1978) LIMITED Singapore Bus Service through its expansion programmes, now I offers career opportunities for the following appointments. MAINTENANCE ENGINEER Requirements Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Preference will be given to I those with relevant working experience in the field of automobile I engineering. COMPUTER OPERATIONS OFFICER Requirements
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      219 19 o ATT SECRETAR1US SCHOOL OF SECRETARIAL SKILLS requires Teachers of Shorthand Typing (Pitman 2000) English for Commercial Purposes Structure of Business Secretarial Duties for full-time ond part-time (evening) employment They must have teaching experience ond a very good knowledge of English Please apply in confidence to The Principal ATT SECRET
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      476 20 AT YOUR SERVICE RATES SECTION INDEX Q Telephone Service *****22 o^^ .a»aa»a»a»a»ak .aas»s«aa»saa. n Mondov t'.dav H3oo m bOOpai 0r*...,.. 70 ctt par won! smn flO SOI I FOR SALE SHOPPING GUIDE 284-4422 T cc nI 900 om soopm Mm U9*\, Lodo, Ws VII TRAVEL 4 RESTAURANTS 1 l^:,pZ'ito°S:loT '^Trn'-'T^)^
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      331 20 1 pa| bbbßhswPHl QUEEN'S HOTEL THE DYNAMIC TRIO i JiJESUI 3IR^ i Evenings at the Queen Lounge come altw th the dynamic tri < "The Sunbird" i Have o throbbing experience with them OPENS NIGHTLY J~ (TILL 2A.M.) < 24, Mount Flizabeth, Singapore 0922 Tel *****88 Where Pleasure Seeker* Gather.
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      688 20 i*a 3 E RESTAURANT J en, UIC Building Shenton Woy TEL *****33-5 lUMR LO HOI PANG J Direct trom Los Vegas R BREAD" EL AMICO THIS PREMIER NITE-CLUB MAS FEW EQUALS EXCITING MUSIC EXCITING HOSTESSES EXCITING CUISINE EXCITING ATMOSPHERE LET YOURSELF LOOSE AT el amiooSEK KITCHENER ROAD S PORE 0820
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      998 20 -MAINLY FOI?1 |L TOURISTS J 152 Where To Eat J 163 Beauty Salons/ jjs^-^sagi Massage t EXCELLENT VEGETARIAN FOOO t king Illlm am hill pn| sa«e Sleamhath Facial Tele I have you tried Pearl Centre phones WJI4I. fflSWl e»t M 7 for I Air. „n hood cinre mil floor) appointment
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      1964 20 I FOR SALE SHOPPING GUIDE II EMPLOYMENT WANTED I Ei pa I wanted lo purchase and offer high price for SANYO Meter Ol similar model U Interested to phone 47»2(11 WICKER FURNITURE. GEC wash other miscellaneous household Items for sale I'lease call al 101-1). Camellia Terrace. Pandan Valley 1 DIETHELM
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      596 20 I PRIVATL NURSE r.-.|inr.'.l hy .1 renal (.^it it-nt 111 111 Chin*M female age above 25 roars Capable ol working independently and under pressure Must be a qualified SRN and possess at least two years eiperience Training o« eiperamce in renal dialysis is an advantage Ann. k>-i t<< Brunei md
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      619 21 II EMPLOYMENT 31 Situations Vacant b) Secretarial and Clerical AM INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING :r ,IIK re Minimum qualifications (X V < > level with credit in rru'lrt. Working experience n< t hose interest*. nli- Riving ful An Internal' reqmr. A FEMALE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK 1 Mn. i' iilrol lent .rk with
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      726 21 Eatabhehed Merlin Plate FEMALE ASSISTANT SECRETARY Duties Telex operation bookkeeping .inrt typing Salary Pleese sand resume, photo snd telephone contact to G P 0 BOX 1707. SINGAPORE fOM compeny invites application! from Singapore cituens tor the position PARTS CLERK Requirements c Age 22 to zc wl with al least 3
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      429 21 II EMPLOYMENT faf/inl HEWLETT mi'rM PACKARD Hewlett Packard Singapore invites applicants from suitably qualified candidates for the positions of Sales Support Clerk Requirements GCE 0' level with good credits in English Mathematics and Science Ability to type neatly at 40 50 wpm Ability to establish good rapport with customers 2
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      478 21 Nestle. An International Food It Beverage Company Invites suitably qualified candidates for the following position In its aflilkitt'd Manufacturing Company in Jurong: GENERAL CLERK c X "O" Level Able to type well We oiler the following benefits c Oood starting salary a You can buy a wide range of Company's
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      743 21 II EMPLOYMENT LIGHTING SPECIALIST Applicstions ere invited to fill the following vacancies MALE/FEMALE PERSONNEL CLERKS c Holder of OCE O' Level s c Able Ui type p c Minimum 1 year experience fc in personnel work FEMALE PRODUCTION CLERK c Holder of OCE -O' l.evel al c Able to type
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      760 21 SHIPPING CLERK required immediately by a transpof l compeny in Orchard Roed. Must possees: c GCE O' or A' level c Typing speed 30 to 35 wp m c Preferably Ito 2 years' work- I Ing experience In same posl- i lion or equivalent le Must be prepared to work
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      569 21 II EMPLOYMENT AN EXPANDING TRAVEL Agent invites suitably qualified applications for the following positions 1) Sales Executives. 2) Sales Representatives. 3) Travels Assistants 41 Despatch Clerk Interested applicants please apply with full personal particulars Including experience, present salary together with a non-returnable photograph and telephone number to The Advertiser. P
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      808 21 VAN SALESMEN a Minimum 1 year's similar experience c Kluent In major dialects and possess a valid Class 3 drlv- ft Ing licence Tl c Secondary education preferred T c Must have completed Na- lional Service or be exempted from it A basic salary plus generous fringe y< benefits will
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      599 21 II EMPLOYMENT WANTED SCHOOL LEAVERS tor temporary sales promotion jobs Oood allowance and incentives Call personally Asia Radio (S) Pte Ltd. 41. Bencoolen Street Singapore 0718 WANTED TRAINEE INDOOR SALESGIRLS/ SALESMEN (SCHOOL LEAVERS ACCEPTABLE) IN KITCHENWARE AND ELECTRICAL GOODS AT BUKIT TIMAH PLAZA TELEPHONE *****72 FOR AN INTERVIEW YOUNG SHOP
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      441 21 a well eelebkshed compeny requires experienced AIRCONDITIONING SALES SUPERVISORS Interested applicants please write with photo (non-returnable) to: 319 TANJONG KATONG ROAD SINGAPORE 1543 A well established Dental supplier compeny requires DENTAL TECHNICIAN Requirements: c Voi atlonal Technical school or ITB full certificate a Candidates with adequate experience In Mechanical' Electrical
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      335 22 II EMPLOYMENT 31 Situations Vacant d) Technical olfvolli TECHNICIANS Requirements i »Mli kno« Intensive trsimno. will be provided in both theory and practice I Oversees training will be provided for outstanding technicians trom time to time during their career > with the Company Successful candidates will enioy good basic salary,
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      487 22 SINGAPORE MARUSEI PTE LTO. MAINTI NANCE APPRENTICES Fitting Airc-cin nlng Apply in wriimg to 23rd floor. 4ono, leong Building 16. lames Quay Siniaporaoto4 Urget.tly required CATV/ ANTENNA TECHNICIANS ll Milk IISalary is negoliaMe and commensurates with experience. 9. JALAN TEGOH SINGAPORE 1441 Bl QUIRE D AIRCONO APPRENTICE ite Interne J<
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      410 22 II EMPLOYMENT Motor Firm in Sin Mm Estate requires GENERAL WORKERS 10 dismantle panels fix panels n cars Bssic salary 5230 On completion ol 3 months training an additional sllowance ol ISO p m is payable much as 1350 (eicludtng overtime) Interested applicants please IP) I) „ersorialU toBLK 34. 134.
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      649 22 ss»t^--^si A well established company brewing Anchor Beer. Tiger Beer. ABC Eitrs Stout and Mackeson Stout seeks additional personnel for its 2 shift system to cope up with increased production because of a high demand for its products (A) ENGINEERING SUPERVISOR Diploma in Mechanical Kngineering with at least 2 to
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      636 22 II EMPLOYMENT i A well established Manufacturing Company requires immediately: AN EXPERIENCED FEMALE PERSONAL ASSISTANT She must possess ,i nood c ..in m.cncl uf Knglish Able to type I anci correspond independently Age between 25 and 35 years old Remunerations will depend on c)u.ililu alions and experience. Applicants are to
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      683 22 FEMALE SALES CONSULTANT required by International Company. Full training will be given In a very unique and sophisticated type of selling Applicant! should be aged 25 to 30. speak fluent English and Chinese and have a mature and professional appearance and manner This is tunnies for advancement Generous basic salary
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      778 22 II EMPLOYMENT requires MALE cashier Applicants must be Singapore citizens who are between 21 and j y 28 ye:irs ol age They should pos- E sess at least 3 credits at CiCK ofo f level including English and t Mathematics and have a mini mum of one year's relevant q
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      658 22 j Required 1 (1) WAITRESSES I (2) CHAMBERMAIDS (3) CLEANERS Apply personally at HOTEL SUPREME IS. Kramat Road. Singapore 0*22 WAITRESSES URGENTLY REQUIRED. Kxpenence preferred but nol eaamtkl Salary above $300 p m I'le.cse ippiy m person lo BtW Pte Ltd. Unit 120. Ist floor Hukit Timah Plaza, tel *****4
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      1365 22 II EMPLOYMENT WANTED OFFICE BOY holding WANTED FEMALE CASHIER. l.iss I and 3 driving licence Apply personally Tionn Ho* Preferably (minim, .i motorcycle I Hotel. 4 I'rmsep strec-t Spore Able tospe.ik KiiKlish Interested 0718 Tel ***** pI*BBI ontact tel ***** WANTED ONE DESPATCH RMet WANTED IMMEDIATELY BY I'rst with motorbike
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      399 23 times Saturday car mart El 3 45 Vehicles For Sale d) Flat AIRCOND 1972 FIAT ALMOST 1975 FIAT ALMOST 1976 FIAT AUGUST 1973 FIAT AUG 1975 FIAT md paintwork Highest DECEMBER 1974 FIAI ii h aircond PARF new Askuu V OECEMBER 1972 FIAT I D Beautl nomlcal rijjinal „r Immedlau
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      427 23 LATE 1973 FORD EsCOTI 1100. 'iidilion rge l.i in LATE 77 FOND Cortin iOOOOhui ■a ii h alrcond MAY 1976 CORTINA ISO! OCT 1972 FORO Cortina 1300. lip ndltlon ne» I SEPT 1971 ESCORT I udO4 Tip painl '-„i ik sti.tso 1970 FORD CORTINA n o Riiik 1971. CORTINA I
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      841 23 1973 HONOA 360 I He good condlprtvale owners, price ***** 197* HONDA ACCORD 3-door. beautiful!) maintained, alrcon- ditioned sports rims one owner I *****81pm g) Mazda END 1(73 MAZDA 929 RX4 Coupe Tuff koted aircond. hi-fi stereo porls rims i man) accessories Recently engine overhauled by third owner View Shell
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  • IX OBITUARIES
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      140 Acknowledgements
      68 25 FAMILY OF LATE Ml AS M.imam. KulUn. »iff kfthn Punl Uuvall ioiu Major (Air) Brlvakum.ir. s.l Kum.ir Volvo Ipol) Bukumar I AH. K i Kajakumar SI A (S'porei. llaufhteri ikihml. Jayalakihmt. son-m-hiw Kri-hinn I duuf!ht<Ts-in->uw Barbara Dr Vanrann wivii to Uiank rrttndi i'nd relalivrs for their help and
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      147 25 MADAM CAROLINE YONG MEE CHIN panM away peacefully on 27 12 79 Cortege leavei Block 14. Marine Terrace on Monday 31 12.7* al 1 30 p m tor service at Church ol 0.L.P.5.. Siqlap Hill and thereafter Cemetery FULLY ON 27TH UECEMBER 1979 AT BLOCK 52. 2OS-H MARINE
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    IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF
    52 26 MIS PAKIAM DANIft D«port*d 39.12.1978 A year has passed since you left us Without even a word of good bye Every thought of Joy brings tears And pain In all our hearts. You might be gone, but not forgotten. Sadly missed but always remembered by
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      860 26 f KAMPONG LANJUT TIN DREDGING BERHAD (Incorporated in Malaysia) UNAUDITED FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1979 Half Year Ha/f Year Year ended ended ended 30 9.79 30.9.78 31.3.79 SOOO's $OO0s $OOOs PROFIT before taxation 370 572 851 Taxation 150 229 333 PROFIT after taxation 220 343
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      Smile can make punters happy
      1902 28 RACING ..with FAIRWAY SMILE your way to the pay-out windows after 1 Race Eight (5.55) in Pe- nang today. The Teh Choon Beng-trained j 1 Smile, to be partnered by Taffy Thomas, looks the best bet in today's I card of eight races. Smile came
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      1154 28 RAPF 1 2.15 CLASS 6, DIV 11.200 M 1.200 M A ($9,000 $8,300 to winner) 1 5716 Do I Surprise g Rudyanlo I K Brcukrten 5 55 0 515 1 sf s 2 0307 DouMo Adios 111 KiKl.Chongi Tan 654 1 -0 5i M In 1 3 0424
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      Championship race set for one-horse finish
      311 28  -  LONE RANGER By PENANC-BASED trainer Teh Choon Beng can wrap up the 1979 trainers' championship in style. With eight runners entered on his homeground for today, he has a good chance for a treble with Sweet Strokes (Race I 2, for local-breds), Malaysian Glory
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      1410 28 u,\ri,' 1 1.30 CLASS 6, DIV 2 1.200 M ivrtv^ x ($B,OOO $5,600 to winner) 1 5404 Spring Water g I London Bridge) Noordin 656 5 •25) F 0* 4 2 Bronco g i Raa< o) K Breukelen 10 55 0 5) Itjhjrun U 3 T543 Ming Derby
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      Trainer Teh springs Gold Cup surprise
      495 28 BOLD HUNTER and Western Union 111 continued to sparkle on the track, but it was trainer Teh Choon Beng who sprang a surprise yesterday when he left out Genthus and Ivory House for the $80,000 Governor's Gold Cup race tomorrow, reports FAIRWAY. Genthus was
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      SELECTIONS
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      Lock icon Liverpool — team of the Seventies
      497 29  - Liverpool team of the Seventies WINSOR DOBBIN !L Livertho team of the Seventies, this week notice that they intend to be the of the Kighties. The Meraeyside team ive dominated Engta the put beal Manchester their dosed i the league pionship with ease lay The 2 0 win left man
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      Australian side show form in training
      126 29 PERTH, Kri. Coach l>on McHalU-rs says he Is pleased with th<- loriii ii the Australian hockey team in training here for Ihr Champions' (up tournament In Karachi rn'\t week. The Australians have been training on th« synthetic astn>-turf sur tare at the ('ommon>tialth llm-key
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      Lock icon SPORT IN BRIEF Xiaoxia China's top sportsperson
      427 29 SPORT IN BRIEF Xiaoxia China's top sportsperson BELTING, Prl Chen Xiaox 1.1 who won the women's diving championships at the world university Games in September, has been voted China's Sports Personality of i he Year I'he 17 yeai -Old Xiaoxia col-li-cted 89.348 votes out of more than 95.000 submitted in
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      Lock icon Gooch puts himself in line for Test berth
      388 29 BRISBANE, Fri. Graham Gooch almost certainly won back his Test place here today with a hard-hitting century that helped England reach 292 for eight by the close of play on the first day of their four-day cricket match against Queensland. The 26-year-old
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      Lock icon Sadri withstands heat to power way past Warwick into q-finals
      413 29 Sadri withstands heat to power way past Warwick into q-finals MELBOURNE, Frt. American 23-year-old John Sadri withstood stifling century-heat and Australia's Kirn Warwick to move into the quarterfinals of the U*****,000 ($759,500) Marlboro Australian Open tennis championships at Kooyong Stadium today. In a three-and-a-half-hour marathon, Sadri outlasted Warwick 3-6, 4-6,
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      Lock icon Batsman Toohey is ruled fit
      349 29 MELBOURNE, Fri. Australian Test batsman Peter Toohey was today ruled fit to play in the second Test against the West Indies at the Melbourne Cricket Ground tomorrow. Toohey, who was hit on the right instep by occasional bowler Bruce Laird, the side's opening batsman, had
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      Lock icon Newcomers to play doubles?
      69 29 MELBOURNE, Fri. Australia yesterday selected two players, who have never played In the Davis Cup, for their Eastern zone semi-final against Japan in February Peter McNamara has been Included in the Australian team for the first time and Brad Drewett, who was selected in the Inter-ione
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      Lock icon Lillee to return
      79 29 MELBOURNE, FH. AmtniiM'% fact tewler Deuls UUee will pUy la the Mini Teat agalast tk# Wot U4ln at Ike MdkNW Cricket Gmud tiwfitw, fellewng kii irvrrr n pdnuutd INS the Antriflii Crleket B^rd tW»y ACB ehalnMa 8.6 PuUk ■aaMaecd »i a Pn« t— toww tkkt tke ACB
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      Greig saviour in varsity tie
      56 29 SYDNEY.Fri Skipper Un Greig hit 59 as the combined Oxford-Cambridge University cricket team recovered from 55 for five to total 177 against Australian Universities here yesterday. Scares: Australian Universities 269 and 12 for no wicket; Oxbridge 177 (I Greig 59. K. Griffiths five for 54,
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      Lock icon Rest day
      18 29 KANPUR, Frt. Today Is rest day in the fourth cricket Test between India and Pakistan. Reuter
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      96 29 The Times CalendarTropical Flowers and Birds ttii$\ *#SM v >/V The Times calendar 1980 comprises 12 magnificent reproductions from eminent artist, See Hiang To's Chinese brush paintings. The paintings of tropical flowers and birds are some of Mr. See's best works. Mr. See's master strokes combined with professional printing makes
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      Lock icon Chip-and-putt ace Srisanga surprises
      1095 30  -  ERNEST FRIDA By OMSAKDI SRISANGA. Thailand's chip-and-putt i is the surprise leader at the halfway (age of the $20,000 Cycle and Carriage-sponsored infiapote Professional Golfers' Association hamptonship at Bukit course yesterday. The 1> >imi <>!<1 piofcs- lonal. who is rated the rird tx-st golfer in his
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      STBC Council unveils plans for next year
      263 30  -  WILFRED YEO By THE newly-elected Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress Council unveiled •heir plans yesterday, but the world tournament of champions, scheduled (or Moscow just before the Olympic Games in June, is definitely out of their picture for 1980. The certainties in that picture
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      Lock icon Wong and Hassan vie for top award
      282 30 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Strikers James Wong and Hassan Sani will vie for the Sabah Footballer of the Year award to be announced on Tuesday The winners of two other awards Youth Footballer of the Year and Most Promising Footballer of the Year will
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      Tough Kiwis are favourites
      286 30  -  PETER SIOW SINGAPORE meet the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment in the Malaysian Rugby Union Open invitation championship at the Jalan Besar Stadium today, minus the confidence usually attached to defending champions. The home team's main worry is their fitness they have not been practising much
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      Bowlers may soon have annual match
      214 30 SINGAPORE and Malaysia may contest an annual invitation bowling competition from next year, reports WILFRED no. That is, if the proposal of the management of Johore Bahru's Golden Bowl, who have agreed to host the event, is accepted by the bowling congresses of the
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      Polytechnic rout all
      64 30 SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY continued with their wirminf ways when they beat Stnga pore Polytechnic 15-1, 15-6 ii the volleyball event of th< mter varsity collegeengineor ing society games. But Sl found their match n carrom when they went dowi 1-8 to Polytechnic, who went t< trounce Ngee Ann
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      Postponed
      21 30 THE friendly water-polo match between Ipoh's Kinta Swimming Club and (jueensluwn. scheduled for yesterday, has been postponed to next week
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      Ng leads CKS' bid for tenth bowling title
      267 30 RONNIE NG. the lefthanded bowler who came within one pinfall of collecting a $30,000 gift voucher for a perfect 300pinfall game a fortnight ago, will lead the CKS Bearings squad in a hunt for their 10th championship for the year in tomorrow's
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      S'pore to contest HK 'sevens'
      170 30 SINGAPORE are among 16 countries who have confirmed their participation in the Cathay PacificHongkong Bank international seven-a-side rugby championship in Hongkong next April 12 and 13. reports PETER SIOW. The others are Australia, Canada. Fiji. Hongkong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Middle East, New Zealand,
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      SSC, FAS clear the air and all ends well
      416 31  -  JOE DORAI By ihk, rooioan Association of Singapore have the right to print the logo of their sponsor in the Malaysia Cup tick- ?ts and not the Singapore Sports Council. With this clarification .rom the SSC, the row between the FAS
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      The Everett way for Kedah team
      326 31  -  CHAN BENG SOON Byj KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Getting Kedah to combine effectively has been British coach Michael Everett's first big task since he took over the state's Malaysia Cup soccer squad last month. "When I first saw them in .."'ion. I was impressed by
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      Fatholomein strives, but stays in Moh's shadow
      286 31  -  PATRICK BASTIANS By FATHOLOMEIN ALL the man who cave up his job to perfect his boay, taunted Singapore's numero uno of bodybuilders, Moh I Teck Hin. last night in the national bodybuilding championships at the Public Utilities Boards auditorium. Somerset Road. But Fatholomein
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      Selection vs Rajawali tonight
      286 31  -  PETER SIOW By TFO CHENG HONG and Urn Ho Kok will make their first appearance for Singapore Selection in tonight's basketball friendly against Indonesia.! Rajawali at the Gay World Stadium. Teo and Lim. both former youth internationals they competed in last year's Asian youth championship in
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      FAM push Cup final forward
      252 31 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Malaysia Cup soccer final will remain a midyear event, after being brought forward from Sept 27 to June 28, next year. And, instead of two breaks, the competition will resume after the Asia Group Two and Three Olympic qualifying competitions to
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      Hwa Yi triumph
      57 31 NATIONAL STADIUM, the under-14 boys' and girls' champions, failed in their bid to gain more honours in the Kentucky inter-centre under-18 table tennis championships at the Gay World Stadium yesterday Hwa Vi beat their A team 31 to snatch the under-18 boys' title, while their B lost
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      Carabella in for three friendlies
      111 31 Carabella in for three f riendlies C ARABELLA, Indonesia's leading Softball club, will play three friendly matches against top local teams today and tomorrow, reports PETER SIOW. This afternoon, at Dempsey Road, they face the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association, who are third in the national league. Night match Tomorrow,
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      Lock icon Singapore Chinese side rely heavily on Dollah, Raja
      319 31 STRANGE as it may sound, the Singapore Chinese soccer team's main hopes of retaining the Ho Ho Cup triangular tournament this week will depend mainly on the performances of two nonChinese players Dollah Kassim and S. Raiagopal, reports JOE DORAI. Singapore start
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      HK overrun Malaysia
      163 31 SINGAPORE can consider themselves favourites for Ho Ho Cup triangular soccer tournament after watching Hongkong and Malaysia in the open- ing tie at the National Stadium last night. Hongkong, represented by their Division One side, Eastern Athletic Association, whipped Malaysia 3-0, but did not look impressive enough
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      64 31 BASKETBALL burr-p»« ■tltaeicy iMnumt final .-•■Ml: Telok Ayer v Kampong Clam. Tampines v Nee Soon (Gay World Stadium. 7). GOLF Singapore Professional GoU Association championship (Bukit course. 7); Gold Medal competition (Jur "sbcCEK H« il* Cap: Singapore Chinese v Malaysian Chinese (National Stadium 730). SOFTBALL SAFSA v Carabella (Indonesia) (TanKlin,
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    114 32 1 Hi: starboard outer engine of a Pan-American \lrway§ Boelng-14 1 freighter hangs at a rrazy angle from tile blackened wing after the plane survived a rra-sh-landlng at linden's Heathrow Airpart on Thanday night. A*i the Jumbo approach ed the runway on a flight from New York,
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    42 32 SEOUL, Fri. Seven civilian; convicted for involvement ii the assassination of Presiden Park Chung-Hee, including th< former director of the Koreai Central Intelligence Agency have appealed their sentence! to a higher military court military officials said today -UPI.
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    34 32 BANGKOK, Fri. Four soldiers were killed yesterday when one of them triggered off a booby trap in Uthai Thani Province, about 225 km north of here, the Bangkok World reported today. Reuter
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    319 32 Umno Youth mission to Hanoi? KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The youth wing of the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), a major partner in the ruling National Front Government, may send a delegation to visit Vietnam next year, the national news agency Bernama reported today. The head of the movement, Haji Suhaimi
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    232 32 BEIJING, Friday CHINA has made an informal proposal to Indonesia to send a goodwill delegation to Jakarta some time next year for talks which would include the possibility of resuming full diplomatic ties, diplomatic sources said today. Diplomatic relations between Jakarta and Beijing
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    149 32 BEIJING, Fri. China said for the first time today Its population had reached one billion. The Cammunist Party newspaper Peaple's Dally said In a front page editorial on the nation's ambitions modernisation pro gramme: "We should understand that It b, no plain sailing to make
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    Late CLASSIFIED DEATH
    44 32 Late CLASSIFIED DEATH MOM JULIAN JOSCPHMC aged 69 passed away on 28 1279 leaving behind son Benedict Robert Kelnam Cortege leaving 67 Sophia Road on 29 12 79 at 1 30 pm for Church of Our Lady of Lourdes Ophir Road thenre to C'CK
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      Japanese Mafia thriving despite police crackdown
      1132 1  -  JACK RUSSELL By THE Yakn/a, Japan's Mafia, is thriving more today than at anytime in its nearly four-century old history with a multibillion dollar income rivaling .Japan's major corporations and in spite of a massive and sustained police crackdown. The Yakuza got its In
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        188 1 INSIDER Gourmet Champagne and leftovers More news on champagne, Including a delectable selection of some of the wine and champagne glasses on the market, and information on how to turn yonr left-over turkey I into a veritable gourj met delight. I Centrespread Pages 8 and 9 German opera BBM bw^bk^''
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        419 2 WHAT better time to start celebrations than the last weekend of the year. But if you're the home-loving, peaceable type, Saturday is usually packed with TV entertainment, not all good, but offered at least. A golden oldie hits the screen in the Matinee at 2 p.m. Stewart Granger
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        85 2 THE Little House On The Prairie on Ch 3 at 7.32 p.m. has the tale of a gossip, Harriet, who like all gossips is full of air and mouth. But the Walnut Grove people cannot (and will not) tolerate it one bit. Ch 3's Movie of the Week
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        161 2 THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Cnoo Hoey performs Mozart's Symphony No 38 and a tone poem by Chu Wei called Heroes' Monument. This recording will be broadcast over AM radio at 4 p.m. FM captures the attention with Radio Concert at 7 p.m. Those featured in song are
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        189 2 THE BBC brightens up your day first with Canal Mania at 7 p.m. Join author Anthony Burton as he tells the story of how Britain's navigable inland waterways came into being. Though we don't have many canals in Singapore capable of taking Boats, Britain has innumerable ones, large and
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        118 2 LOTS of pop from dawn to dusk on this, the gogetter's station. Casey Kasem presents The American Top 41 at 2 p.m., and earner at 11.30 a.m., there's The Saturday Phone-in, two hours in which listeners can call in for dedications. Paul Cheong spins out The British Top 21
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        188 2 FILM SHOWS for stu- centre from 3 p.m. to 10 dents at the National p.m. On till Sunday. Museum at 10.45 a.m. PHOTOG R A PflD I SOpening of National f^A? from the English oJ A-..Jt o-^ <;,„.,;.„ theatre company. LumiStadium and Starting ere and so^/the Na to Dive. Free
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        1145 2 TV and Radio SINGAPORE 5 1.00 PM Opening folowed by Sesame Tournament Maehara (Japan) 5^ ee j Vs Franklin (Sweden) Birocheau n. i»m (France) Vs Thorsell (Sweden). 2.00 Saturday Matnee The Wild Semi Finals North. Starring: Stewart Granger. 3Q New$ Ma ay Wendell Corey, Cyd Chansse 745 Fantastico (A light
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        An encore for the Festival of German Opera
        663 3  - An encore for the Festival of German Opera TAN SUAT LIAN By K< iR o\H't ;i lovers, the news was unsettling. last February, tor the first time in the Republic's history, the Goethe Institut presented a Festival of Opera. It captured the public's imagination so well that the National Museum's
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        350 3 Jan 17 (Thursday) 8 p.m.: The Marriage of Figaro (Die Hochzeit des Figaro) by W. A. Mozart (181 minutes) Conductor: Hans Schmidt-Issersiedt Cast: Count Almaviva Tom Krause Countess Almaviva Arlene Saunders Figaro, servant Heinz Blakenburg Susanna, lady's maid Kdith Mathis Cherubino Klisabeth Steiner Jan 18 (Friday) 8 p.m.: The Magic
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        Nonsense talk of the highly paid
        951 6 The Jargon of the Professions By Kenneth Hudson Macmillan Reviewed by JOHN KOH JUDGING by the sales of Sir Krnest (lowers' Complete Plain Words. people soom to appreciate the importance of writing simply and clearly. Sir Ernest's book is, however, a sort of practical
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        A thousand and one facts at the tips of your fingers
        715 6  -  PATRICIA McCORMACK By AT a bar or cocktail party some day, yonr fortune might depend on knowing what a joey is or a ramapithecus, or, for that matter, a quire. Don't say never. When booze loosens tungues, arguments spring
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        An unsettling mix of innocence and moral decay
        692 6 An unsettling mix of innocence and moral decay RICHARD Hughes made his name known as the author of A High Wind in Jamaica. He is now engaged on a more ambitious work, a projected trilogy entitled The Human Predicament, of which this is the first instalment. Originally published in 1961,
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        422 7 Tapping a rich source of tales STORIES for children are deceptively easy to write; the language must not only be simple and straightforward, but the ideas even the most incredible fantasy must be believable. The stories themselves should be uncomplicated and have an element of adventure, blended lightly with mystery
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        Nantah professor's Asian perspective on world politics
        518 7 Nantah professor's Asian perspective on world politics A Study of International Relations: Balance of Power and Geopolitics By Prof Wu Teh Yao Pan Pacific Book Distributors. $4.50 Reviewed by L. S. LEE THIS monograph is among the few attempts by an Asian scholar to deal with the subject. The views
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        92 6 THE JARGON OF THE PROFESSIONS Kenneth Hudson ffflf Have you discovered the fun in bilingualism in the Straits Times Bilingual Collection Volume 1 -^r 3»m 3g»* :»gs SSSg sss*-"' \l r-Bss=;s #=^Sr:: .Si-si-- sS—SISs: ;.K-"s;,r« iMBlSfciM Published and Distributed by f\sSsk M\ v k\\\\\ V^. 1 \i&*°* x^~yeJ)r&^ I^FEDERAL t
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        594 7 NOW OPENED f Mount Elizabeth Health Centre Singapore's only Shanghai-styled sauna is now opened. Set in luxury, the centre is equipped with sophisticated facilities such as comfortable and elegant guestrooms, spaciously designed chilled and heated pools, a sauna room and specially equipped multi-single bed massage units. tk& Our trained masseurs
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        After Xmas: The plentyto-eat diet
        906 8  - After Xmas: The plenty-to-eat diet CHRISTINE DOYLE By DURING the few days of Christmas festivities, some people double their calorie intake, adding up to a staggering 10,000 or more excess claories or one kg of solid human flesh. The rough calorie value of 85 g of some Christmas goodies is:
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        Bright ideas for coping w as for coping with festive leftovers
        1393 8  - Bright ideas for coping w as for coping with festive leftovers TAN LEE LENG By LEFTOVERS after a festive season are always a problem all that food in the refrigerator! But don't despair. Here are some ideas for leftovers. The French cooking term "rechauffes" means "reheated" and it is applied
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        Food buzz Usher in the new year zz the new year in style
        1148 8 Food buzz Usher in the new year zz the new year in style NEW YEAR'S EVE Gordon Grill (Goodwood Park Hotel): Usher in the new year with superb fare and Danny Low on the piano, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at $100, excluding service charge and tax. Champagne will
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        Lock icon Champagne and the New Year ritual
        800 9  - Champagne and the New Year ritual TERRY ROBAROS By in NEW YORK JUST before the stroke of midnight on New Year's eve, champagne corks will pop all over the world in a costly ritual that has been repeated for generations, attesting to the enduring popularity of one of the world's
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        199 8 of the Festive Season! All items to clear at low. low prices. Montagiit Tee-shirts $48.00 up Sheraton shins (Australian) $15 90 each Whitmont shirts $25 00 up Arrow Shim 20* to 40% OFF Guy Berac pyjamas $13.90 up Guy Berac sport shirts 5.90 each Kifaoy. Mofli Tee-shirts 8 90 each
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        88 9 <* fin w At Uptique Paris Miki, we make things really clear: German computers to see you get the most accurate eye-test; cleaning and adjustment of spectacles, at no obligation. Our range of prescription eyewear and sunglasses are the latest, and our collection includes some of the most fashionable names
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      Sri Lanka wants its tourists to 'behave'
      893 10  -  DALTON DE SILVA By in Colombo THE tourist season is on and thousands of visitors are Hocking to Sri Lanka to enjoy the sun, the golden beaches and the other varied attractions offered by this island in the Indian Ocean. But the influx
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      595 10  -  V.G. KULKARNI By in Hongkong RALPH Nader, where are you? (Mr Nader is a noted consumer protection advocate in The United States.) We need you in Hongkong. Manufacturers unload shoddy and unsafe goods here. Retailers overcharge. We are unhappy about laissez faire
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      559 11  -  PHILLIP HODSON By in Mexico City THE fourth World Congress of Sexology, which was hold in Mexiiv from Dec 16 to 21 under the auspices of the President of the Republic, had been remarkable for the relaxed chaos of its organisation and the effort sexologists are
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      884 11  -  YVES GACON By in Paris THE industrialised nations have grown aware of how fragile their environment is during the past decade, and the world has experienced some nasty shocks with the first "ecological disasters." Soveso, the Amoco Cadiz, Harrisburg, Ixtoc One: Four
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      582 11  -  STEPHEN HESSE By in Washington THE Federal Trade Commission says Americans still don't fully realise the dangers of cigarette smoking despite years of health warnings, and urged Congress to authorise stronger anti-smoking measures. The FTC also complained that US cigarette manufacturers continue to
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        297 11 "^Golden JLAjm^ a translation of the Chinese novel ChinP'ingMei Called by Pearl S. Buck 'the greatest novel of physical love which China has produced' The Golden Lotus or Chin Ping Mci is now published unexpurgated, giving for the first time a complete and full translation into English. The Golden Lotus
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        677 12 1 BRUNEI SHELL PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED has a vacancy for RADIOGRAPHER Medical Department in Sena, Brunei. iged above 25, should have a good ten and spoken English, plus a king knowledge c/ Mnlay and have at least three i r s experience as a radio^-ioher. They should also c obtained
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        715 12 BRUNEI SHELL PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED has a vacancy for a SOFTWARE ANALYST in its Information and Computer Services Department in Seria, Brunei. The Department operates an IBM 370/148 Computer and has ordered an IBM 4341 for delivery in 1980. A specialised Software Analysis Division supports the DOS/VS operating system: evaluates
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        656 12 /£f^v McDERMOTT ENGINEERING 0 m PTE. LIMITED The South East Asia Engineering Division of J. Ray McDermott Co. Inc.. providing Engineering and Project Management services to international petroleum clients relating to both offshore as well as onshore projects, wishes to recruit Senior Engineers in several disciplines (experience required in this
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        292 12 A major Saudi Arabian Group of Companies invites applications for the following appointments in Saudi Arabia. The contracts are for 2 years renewal basis with accommodation provided:1. ELECTRONIC ENGINEER (TELEPHONE SYSTEMS) Job Description Installation, commissioning and trouble shooting of electronic PABX system Philips type EBX 800 or similar. QuUlflration BSC
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        674 13 B The SGV Group Management Consulting Services Our client, a major company engaged in heavy equipment operations in Saudi Arabia, invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced persons for the following positions: TECHNICAL SERVICE MANAGER 5560,000-$70,000 per annum (MS-10 708) ASSISTANT TECHNICAL SERVICE MANAGER 5545,000-$55,000 per annum (MS 10/709) The
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        762 14 A leading international Company has a vacancy for: TECHNICAL SPECIALIST To manage their marine and maintenance (dating paints business in Singapore. Duties: The incumbent will report to the Marketing Manager and is required to provide technical supporting services to shipyards, refineries and industrial buildings. He will be responsible for advising
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