The Straits Times, 22 May 1980

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  • 19 1 HAYKWAL ÜBRAKT SIWOAPQBI The Straits Times Estd. 1845 THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1981 30 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 1 1 1/1/80
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  • 652 1 Korean uprising spre ads KWANGJU (South Korea), Wednesday ARMED civilians today seized the provincial capital of Kwangju after at least 50 people were killed in clashes with the South Korean army, eyewitnesses said. General uprising spread to other areas of the economically depressed south-western province of Cholla,
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  • 153 1 SEOUL, Wed. Prealdent Choi Kyu-Hah today appointed tenner deputy prime minister Park Cassag-Hoaa m acting Prime Minister to replace Mr Shin Hyon-Bwack, who reslgaed with his Cabinet yesterday to take responsibility for falling to stop violent unreal throughout the country. Prestdeattal spokesman Soh Kl-Won said Mr
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  • 85 1 THIS giant cloud of ash and smoke, caused by the eruption of St Helens Volcano in Vancouver, Washington State could reach New York in two days. So far, It has drifted 2,4 M km eastwards, bringing small towns to a standstill and damaging crops. Rescue officials warned
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  • 330 1  -  SOH TIANG KENG By PRICES of petrol and diesel in Singapore are likely to go up again within a month making it the third price hike so far this year. Oil industry sources said last night that the next price revision is
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  • 182 1  -  EDMUND TEO By COMMUTERS who take taxis from the airport will soon have to pay a surcharge of $1.50 in addition to the metered fare. The surcharge will be applicable at all times of the day and night and will apply to all commuters who
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  • 65 1 SYDNEY, Wed. Newspaper representatives and Australian journalists today began a meeting to negotiate the strike that has closed two newspapers and slowed news production across the country, union officials said. The Australian Journalists Association called the strike eight days ago to protest an arbitration ruling
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  • 465 1 Sutowo put under house arrest JAKARTA, Wed THE Indonesian Government said today Gen Ibnu Sutowo, former director of the state-owned oil corporation Pertamina, has been put under house arrest because of mismanagement involving a huge detk estimated at more than US$10 billion (SS21.4 billion). State Secretary Sudharmono made the statement
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  • 417 1  -  LEE KIM CHEW By Our Bangkok Reporter BANGKOK, Wednesday VIETNAM today rejected the Kuantan Principle which was jointly enunciated by Malaysia and Indonesia to keep countries in the South-east Asian region free from big power influence. Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach told a press conference
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  • 69 1 TOKYO, Wed. The US dollar todav slipped to a seven-month low against the yen on the Tokyo foreign exchange market here, forcing the Bank of Japan to intervene heavily to defend the sagging dollar. The dollar fell to 224.80 yen in heavy tradingfrom yesterday's close of 228.70. The
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  • 53 1 SEOUL, Wed. The Sooth Korean martial law command said tonight that the KwangJu demonstrators had grabbed 3,5#» weapons. These included carbines, .38 and .45 calibre pistols, two light mat-nine guns and over 4S,CM rounds or ammunition. The demonstrators had also commandeered four armoured cars, M Jeeps and
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    • 148 1 40 pages today SPEAK YOUR SCHOOL'S LANGUAGES CAMPAIGN Pag* 8 BIG defeat but Reagan clinches nomination 3 2* drug pushers die by firing squad 5 ASBESTOS workers had lung disease: Ministry 6 MILITARY rank will count in civil jobs, says minister CHEAPER phones for 60 charity groups 11 Causeway Pag*
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    • 49 2 FRENCH Minister for Overseas Territories Olivier Sttrn Is Hanked by Thailand's Princess Slrlndhorn (left) and her sister Princess Chnlaborn at a restaurant In Paris on Tuesday night. The princesses are staying In Prance at the Invitation of the French Government. AP picture.
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    • 308 2 CALL TO SET UP SPECIAL COMMITTEE ISLAMIC countries today agreed on the outline of an Afghanistan peace initiative, an official spokesman said. Political analysts urged the Islamabad Conference of Islamic Foreign Ministers to set up a special peace committee before it ends later today. Conference
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    • 116 2 Thailand sells maize to Soviets BANGKOK, Wed. Thai land has sold a total of 110,000 tonnes of maize to the Soviet Union for delivery in May and July, despite a United States' call for Bangkok to ban grain exports to Moscow, a trade source said today. The source said the
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    • 61 2 BEIJING, Wed. A 60-year-old Cantonese rat catcher who roots out 100 victims daily was honoured in an article published by the People's Daily today. The rat catcher, Zhang Jiu, is partially paralysed in one arm. A native of the Sihui district in the southern Guangdong province, he
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    • 56 2 MANILA, Wed. Volcanoloeists have recorded S3 tremors in the past 24 hours from Canlaon Volcano in central Philippines and said it was still in a restless stage, nearly two years after it last erupted. A Volcanoloey Commission spokesman said this meant the 2,695-metre volcano, 520 km south-east of
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    • 242 2 NEW DELHI, Wed With the first phase of polling in the state assembly elections just a week away, there is a general apathy among the people at large. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, whether in or out of the government, always used to draw
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    • 317 3 RIVAL CARTER IS STILL SHORT OF VOTES US PRESIDENTIAL RACE NEW YORK, Wed. Former California governor Ronald Reagan has clinched the Republican presidential nomination despite suffering his biggest primary election defeat of the 1980 campaign, the American TV networks said. Both American Broadcasting Corporation
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    • 29 3 BANGKOK, Wed American pop singers Donny and Jimmy Osmond arrived in Thailand last night for two days of concerts, a spokesman for the organisers said today. AP.
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    • 219 3 VICTIM NO. 7 OF LIBYAN LIQUIDATORS ROME, Wednesday A LIBYAN-BORN businessman was stabbed and strangled to death in his home as he was waiting for his son late last night. police said today. Mr Mnhampd Fouad R^Shiar 55 was the dtw^ m n oET e He- past two months. He
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    • 160 3 Japan to dump nuclear waste in Pacific, says Australia CANBERRA, Wednesday AUSTRALIA said today that Japan was going ahead with plans to dump drums of low-level nuclear waste in the Pacific Ocean on a trial basis next year. Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock told Parliament that Japan had informed Australia it
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    • 146 3 Important message from Sadat to Carter CAIRO, Wad, VICE president Hosni Mobarak will leave for the United States tomorrow, carrying an 'important' message from President Anwar Sadat to President Carter. Official sources said a new date for the resumption of the Palestinian autonomy negotiations will be set in the light
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    • 59 3 Mlss Lorraine MKirady of Australia U««) hrn way tarnIn* down questions from the press using her U)n KlleK1le I™***! of her charm. pher who askea agnesnon during the presenutl *n of Mlss Asia <*""* «»"te«unto m Manila on Tuesday. Contestants from 18 ESSsrss
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    • 25 3 SStl adopt a resolution that deplored Israel's refusal to readmit three Palestinian leaders expeUed from the occupied West Bank of the
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    • 35 3 MA^raJV, Wed A town vice mayor, a former judge and seven soldiers were among 78 people arrested when Philippine Government agents yesterday swooped down on a gambling joint in nearby Bulacan Province. AFP.
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    • 88 3 BERLIN, Wed. Two explosions ripped through Congress Hall in West Berlin today as a convention of a German businessmen's group was under way, police said. Three seriously injured victims were taken from the ruins, they said. It was not immediately known how many people
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    • 165 3 LOS ANGELES, Wed. Screen sex goddess Irsula Andress (left) j has given birth to her nrst child, a boy, at 44, a hospital spokesman said here yesterday. Miss Andress said earlier the father was actor Harry Hamlln and the\ Intended to marry. ''A
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    • 164 4 SHOOT-TO-KILL ORDER ON SIX PIRATES MANILA, Wed. A shoot-to-kill order was issued today against six members of a pirate gang allegedly responsible for the killing of a British ship captain last week. Colonel Benjamin Feliciano, a national police provincial commander, issued the directive after the six suspects ignored a surrender
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    • 116 4 VIOLENCE rears Its ugly head In the South Korean provincial capital of Kwaagjn, U» km Moth of Seoul, where a civilian uprising Is taking place. Two contrasting faces of the Mood and gore of the anti-gov-ernment rioting are seen here. ABOVE: A
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    • 75 4 JOHANNESBURG, Wed. Police used teargas to break up a meeting of striking African students near Durban yesterday when the students reportedly began stoning them. The students, are continuing the month-long nation-wide boycott against "racist" education despite a suspension. They had gathered in the African township of
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    • 42 4 NEW DELHI, Wed Twelve people were wounded yesterday when police opened fire to stop fresh violence in a North Indian town where clashes between Harijans (untouchables) and caste Hindus left 32 injured yesterday, the Press Trust of India reported. Reuter.
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    • 240 4 Envoy Koh on Asean's long-term aim on Kampuchea UNITED NATIONS, Wed "THE long-term objective of the Asean countries is to negotiate a political settlement which will make Kampuchea independent and neutral," Singapore's ambassador to the United Nations Tommy Koh told a graduating class at Western Connecticut State College today. Prof
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    • 143 4 MANILA, Wed. Sixty salesmen of death and funeral benefit plans came down with food poisoning on Sunday after a dinner party given by their compa- j nles "for their extraordinary efforts at boostIng memorial plan sales." The victims, the Philippines' top 1M memorial plan salesmen,
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    • 103 5 The decision on Mr Daoudy's visit to Teheran followed talks between Dr Waldheim and Mr Qotbzadeh, held when the two were in Belgrade for "late Yugoslav President Tito's funeral. Mr Qotbzadeh's letter said Mr Daoudy could only "complete the previous investigation" into the crimes of the deposed Shah. But,
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    • 222 5 Screaming gunman kills 2 in Supreme Court MELBOURNE, Wed. A screaming gunman charged through the Supreme Court here today, killing two men with point-blank shots to the head and wounding three others. The gunman was captured in a flying tackle outside the court complex by a senior police constable as
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    • 138 5 Don't bicker Uganda military tells ministers KAMPALA, Wed. Uganda's ruling military commission met government cabinet ministers today and said they would not tolerate "bickering" in the new administration. The meeting between the commission and 40 of Uganda's 51 ministers and deputy ministers was the first since the military group seized
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    • 45 5 BEIJING, Wed. A standard list of 6,000 Chinese characters, out of the 50,000 making up written Chin. se. has been adopted by the ommittee for reforming the language so as to make it more accessible, the official Xinhua news agency reported today. T>.
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    • 76 5 TEL AVIV, Wed. Police yesterday starved a murder manhunt for a donkey. The suspect Is six years' old and was last seen wandering north of Ramallah, on the West Bank. He is wanted for the alleged murder of hit* I owner, who was Mtten
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    • 54 5 TEHERAN, Wed. Unidentified men attacked oil installations in the south-western Ainkhosh region early today but did not cause any damage. Pars news agency reported. Guards at the oil installations returned the fire and called reinforcements to beat back the attack. But the attackers fled,
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    • 75 5 A WOMAN taunting; a poop of tired-looking National Guardsmen on duty outside a shopping centre in Miami on Monday. State Governor Bob Graham asked President Jimmy Carter to declare the riot-torn city a disaster area In need of federal help to
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    • 158 5 A POPULAR Italian husband and wife comedy team has been barred from entering the United States on suspicion of having links with urban terror groups, a US Embassy spokesman said today. He said comedian Dario Fo and his wife, Franca Rame, were denied visas by the
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    • 168 5 20 drug pushers die by firing squad Largest number killed since revolution TEHERAN, Wednesday IRAN'S revolutionary regime executed 20 convicted drug dealers by firing squad today the largest number executed at one time since the Iranian revolution 16 months ago. The official Pars news agency reported that all 20 were
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    • 184 5 UN man can't negotiate freedom of hostages TEHERAN, Wednesday IRAN said yesterday a United Nations envoy coming to Teheran to meet Iranian officials cannot talk about release of the 53 American hostages. Foreign Minister Sadegh Qotbzadeh, currently visiting Pakistan, issued the ruling restricting the role of the envoy in a
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    • Article, Illustration
      204 5 Longest s-a-u-s-a-g-e HISTORY'S longest sausage, stretching 3,817 metres, has been made by butchers and cold meat processors of the small French village of Trets, authorities reported on Tuesday. The previous record was a sausage of 3,210 metres made by British Boy Scouts for the "Great Children's Party" in Hyde
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  • 460 6 TWO Chinese dailies and three local banks have agreed in principle to start an Englishlanguage newspaper and expect to launch it next year. It is understood that Sin Chew Jit Poh and Nanyang Siang Pau will be the major shareholders, each taking a 26
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  • 70 6 A 19- YEAR-OLD soldier, Milton Gerard Monteiro, was yesterday jailed a day and fined $700 by a magistrate after he pleaded guilty to stealing sports equipment from John little's department store in Shenton Way on Tuesday. He was detained by the store's house detective, Mr Goh Meng Hwee,
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  • 173 6 SOUVENIR FROM JAKARTA YOUTH GROUP A IM-MEMBER team tram the Indonesian National Youth Committee (INYC) is new la Singapore far a sports exchange programme with various community centre youth groups aid sports teams here. The team paid a courtesy call on Mr Lee khoon Choy, Senior Minister of State (Prime
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  • 230 6 RELIGIOUS leaders and teachers yesterday urged Muslims in Singapore to adhere to the decision of] the Mufti (religious head), Syed Isa Semait, to base the timing of the start and end of \ne fasting period on scientific mathematical calculations. The issue arose when
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  • 412 6  -  BENG TAN By THE Ministry of Labour has found from recent tests that several workers in factories dealing with asbestos (a cancer-causing agent) has developed asbestosis. This disease is developed over a long period from repeated or prolonged inhalation of asbestos dust and affects
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  • 369 6 No going back on decision to quit society MR JOHN CURRAN, who quit the Singapore Society of Accountants council in protest against factional politicking, will stick to his decision despite persuasion by a three-man team led by its newlyelected president, Mr Steven Tan, at a special meeting yesterday. His resignation
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  • 521 6 Extort bid after gambling losses, court told AN INDONESIAN businessman, who lost over $30,000 gambling, recruited three ex-police-men and another man to beat up two of the gamblers to extort $10,000 from them, a district judge heard yesterday. One of the alleged victims, Mr Cheong Yiew Teung, 32, a timber
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  • 266 7 Look for this PUB approval seal THIS la the Pabtlc Utilities Board approval seal wklek mast be affixed to five types ef electrical accessories la stages tram Nov 1 before they can be sold. The five Items are: 13-amp pings and socket outlets three-pin 2amp, $-amp and 15-amp pings and
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  • 50 7 41 more Viet refugees arrive ANOTHER 41 Vietnamese refugees arrived here yesterday on board the tanker, Esso Yokohama. They were picked up from the South China Sea. The United States Government has given a resettlement guarantee to the Singapore Government, which is expected to allow the refugees to come ashore.
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  • 42 7 THE Delta Zone 1 Residents' Committee will organise a > visit to the zoo. Seletar Reservoir and Kranji War Memorial on Sunday. Fees for adults and children are $4 and (3 respectively. The closing daf> (or registration is today.
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  • 22 7 THE People's Association will organise a three-day camp at Pasir Ris from Saturday for children between eifjht and 14 years.
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  • 480 7 A TOP post in civilian life will, in time to come, be closely linked to top military ranking, Defence Minister Howe Yoon Chong said last night. For employers, on realising the usefulness of military training and experience, will accept them as
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  • 123 7 lifestyles of the past' wax museum? SINGAPORE should have a museum which will capture or recreate the lifestyles with their sights and sounds of the people through various phases of nistory, the Senior Minister of State (Foreign Affairs), Mr S. Dhanabalan, said yesterday. This will help to remind the younger
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  • 440 7 Council will not hold new inquiry THE Singapore Medical Council will not hold a new inquiry into the case of two doctors who had successfully appealed to the High Court against a decision by the council to suspend them. This was disclosed by a Health Ministry spokesman who said the
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 107 7 Straits Times Crossword ACBOHN 4 Unlawful will 1 riled we'd been 12 sija,r, lik anrient ips^ss- »o worn* 14 Crude rhronometers debut' 'n ireUind (7) (5 4) M .0 „v^,e g^n U» 'ZTXTJ^t: 17 P.u^ .ound. like 24.10 fi ™£>± (n (J) 19 Dammit' So loud' Leaves the 23 SX{
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  • 270 8 THIS year's prc university seminar from June 16 to 20 will be attended by the highest number of pre-universi-ty and junior college students in 12 years. A total of 400 students will take part, compared with an average of 150 in the
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  • 282 8 3- week speak your school's languages campaign A THREE-WEEK Speak Your School Languages campaign will be launched by all schools from Aug 1 to 22, to encourage the use of official languages and to discourage the speaking of dialects. The campaign, involving Primary One to Junior College, Is a follow-up
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  • 172 8 Standard record format not on the cards THE Education Ministry has dropped the idea of having a standard cumulative record card for pupils in all schools. schools can now use whatever format that best suit their needs. Announcing this yesterday, Mr Tan Tian Chye, a management services officer in the
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  • 458 8  - Dr Tan urges varsity unions to stop squabbling JALEAN HAN By THE three university students' unions were asked yesterday to stop squabbling among themselves, and work Instead as a team immediately to look after students' welfare until a National University of Singapore Students' Union is formed. This request was made
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  • 100 8 THE Nanyang University Alumni Association of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and four other similar associations have sent a joint memorandum to Singapore's High Commissioner, Mr Wee Kirn Wee, to protest the "forced merger" of Nanyang University with the University of Singapore. A seven-men delegation
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  • 249 8 Students who can revert to former stream NON-ENGLISH medium students who have difficulty repeating Secondary 4 in the English stream can revert to their original language stream. The Education Ministry has allowed this in view of the problems they have had since being posted to English medium schools last month.
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  • 55 8 THE acting managing director o( National Semiconductor, Mr Jim Tripp, win present 15 sets of microprocessor equipment to the Singapore Polytechnic tomorrow at 3 p.m. The equipment, worth $15,000, will be used for the first of a series of microprocessor courses for the company's staff at
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  • 27 8 THE Joo Chiat community centre youth group will hold a camp at the East Coast Lagoon from 3 p.m. on Saturday till noon on Sunday.
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  • 208 8 Pole and stool assault kills welder SCORES of pMMraby and customers at a food-stall In Haveloek Road watched la horror as five men bludgeoned a welder to death with wooden poles and stools early yesterday. Mr Ho Poh Weng (above), 29, a welder in Jurong, staggered to a nearby bus-stop
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  • 37 8 M P's date THE parliamentary secretary (National Development) and MP for Bukit Panjang, Mr Lee Yiok Seng, will officiate at the ground breaking ceremony of Travenol Laboratories Pte Ltd at Woodlands on Saturday at 10 a, m.
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    • 270 8 EAST COAST HILL East Coast Hill is located next to the reputable Katong Seaview Palace along Upper East Coast Road Built on a 20-acre site, it is about 195 feet above sea level. Each house commands a panoramic view of the sea front with its background of unsurpassed beauty The
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  • 217 9 Worlds apart! Peace in one... LOOK at that little rat. Mother feline was taking a catnap when the little feUow sneaked in to quench its hunger pangs. Though the cat looks a bit surprised at the temerity of it all, she seems to be in a mood to "shut an
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  • 332 9 MORE than 1,000 branch leaders from the 10 industry-wide union divisions will attend a month-long NTUC seminar in July on the tasks and challenges facing industrial unions. NTUC SecretaryGeneral, Mr Lim Chee Onn, said: "The main objective of the seminar is to enable potential
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  • 69 9 Banned for dangerous driving A MOTORCYCLIST was yesterday banned from driving all classes of vehicles for a year and fined $400 by a magistrate for driving dangerously along Beach Road on March 18. Lew Kan Hock admitted swerving in and out of traffic, causing several motorists and another motorcyclist to
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  • 38 9 A CORONER'S court yesterday recorded an open verdict on the death of a 78-year-old woman. Madam Yeo Ah Chan, whose body was found floating in a monsoon drain at Keppel Road on Aug 25 last year.
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  • 72 9 HONG Leong Finance has been elected chairman of The Finance House Association of Singapore It is represented by Messrs Kwek Hong Png and Kwek Leng Beng. Others elected are Golden Castle Finance Corpn Ltd (Mr Wong Man Kee) and Wayfoong Mortgage and Finance (S) Ltd (Mr Keng
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  • 103 9 LAWYER Robert Yoong Weng Ho, S3, who is serving a six-month Jail sentence for misappropriating $9,424 belonging to his clients, yesterday dropped his appeal to the High Court against the sentence. His counsel, Mr (iovtnd Asokan, said Yoong decided to withdraw his appeal after reconsideration.
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  • 115 9 CHARTERED Industries of Singapore (CIS) employees are to get a flat 7 per cent annual increment based on their last drawn basic salary inclusive of all NWC payments up to 1962. This is provided for under the new collective agreement signed yesterday which
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  • 209 9 Night a magistrate chased and caught robber A DISTRICT court yesterday heard that a magistrate, answering a woman robbery victim's cries for help, drove his par in pursuit of the robber. Mr Jeffrey Chan Wah Teck, 28, managed to catch and detain Wee Tern Poo, 28, a short distance away
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  • 245 9 High Court sets aside jail term of illegal migrant A RESTAURANT head waiter, who stayed here unlawfully for 11 years and six months, yesterday had a lower court's fourmonth jail sentence against him set aside in the High Court. Alan Yu Pu Han, 41. from Malaysia, was instead fined $500
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    • 288 10 FISHING by foreign vessels within Malaysia's 320-km exclusive economic zone will only be permitted where there is an excess of fish resources, acting Law Minister Tan Sri Kadir Yusof said today. "If any country which has in the past been fishing
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    • 178 10 Plan for law to freeze land sales IPOH, Wednesday THE government is planning to draw up a law empowering it to freeze land transfers in major development areas. i Minister of Land and Regional Development Tan Sri Abdul Kadir Yusof said the move would ensure that the government's plan to
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    • 73 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Deputy Information Minister, Dr Ling Liong Sik. today launched the photo service of Bernama, the Malaysian national news agency at a ceremony here, which also marked the agency's 12th anniversary. Bernama's general manager, Mr Dol Ramli. said that initially, the photos were being hand-delivered and
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    • 207 10 'DON'T MAKE POLITICAL CAPITAL OUT OF FOUNDER ISSUE' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Malaysian Minister (or Culture, Youth and Sports, Datuk Abdul Samad Idris, has expressed regret that certain groups are trying to turn the question of the real founder of Kuala Lumpur into a political issue. He was quoted by
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    • 264 10 A few dollars more gets man into trouble JOHORE BARU, Wod THE husband of a Singaporean woman charged with over-stay-ing In the country was fined $11 for contempt of court by Magistrate Kahar bin Kamari yesterday. The "contempt Incident" happened when the man, called up by Mr Kahar from the
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    • 154 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. High Court judge, Mr Justice Harun Hashim, is the subject of rumours that he is to head the Industrial Court but he has yet to be told if this is so, the Star reported yesterday. He said: "I have not been officially
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    • 191 10 Bringing Up Father By Bill Kavanagh Hal Camp ~~~~7~~T7lZr~77irin I AND P&OPLE I I OP COURSE NOT, I I YOU CAN HAVE THE PHONE ?^Lr f^t',^ A^2' E SAID THEY WERE DEAR -I WON'T !IN A /MINUTE DEAR T ii 1 wl^]S /^f,^A«^T^ 1 L- AN IPfcALLY- BREATHE A I
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  • 153 11 A FAMILY of II Including three elderly women and an elderly man In their Ms and 7*B la now living In fear fallowing two suspected attempts by arsonists to set flre to their wooden house In Bale* tier Road. The first was on April
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  • 314 11  - Ngee Ann files writ to take back Orchard Square CHRISTINA By RODRIGUES NGEE Ann Kongsi is seeking repossession of ib prime Orchard Square property from Metro Hold ings and has filed a High Court writ alleging breaches of its 99-year lease by the company. Metro Holdings is expected to present
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  • 176 11 DELEGATES VISIT HIGHSPEED CONCRETE PLANT HONGKONG, Wed. Many Singapore delegates took a break from the heavy, technical discussions at the Mass Transportation in Asia conference today to pursue what could turn out to be more profitable activity. Eight members of the Ready-Mixed Concrete Asj sociation of Singapore took the afternoon
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  • 28 11 THE Singapore Science Centre wilJ screen two films, Structure of the Cell and Survival of the Heart, at its lecture hall this Sunday at 3 p.m
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  • 28 11 VOLUNTARY women lawyers will give free legal counselling to residents of Kampong Glam constituency. The sessions will be held every alternate second Wednesday of the month
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  • 72 11 THE Kirn Keat Zone B Residents' Committee will hold an art competition for children within their zone at the open space between Block 1 and Block 2, l/iirong 6, Toa Payoh. on June 1 at 9.30 a.m. There will be a nominal entry charge of 50 cents
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  • 158 11 Labourer to die for killing foreman LABOURER Lee Ah Kang (above), 56, was yesterday sentenced to death for stabbing his former foreman, Mr Koh Yean Keng, 48, to death. In sentencing him to the gallows, Mr Justice T. S. Sfnnathuray, who sat with Mr Justice D'Cotta, told Lee that the
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  • 455 11 Telecoms agrees to cut rentals by 25 pc TELECOMS has agreed to reduce by 25 per cent the telephone rentals of over 60 affiliates of the Singapore Council of Social Service. Disclosing the concessionary rate in its annual report released yesterday, the council expressed
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    • 114 11 Congratulations Best Wishes to Sime Darby Singapore Pte. Ltd. on their Official Opening of Delta House From: Nan Wah Engineering Pte. Ltd. (Trading Division) Of fie* Showroom Unit G3 Derta House 2 Alexandra Road Singapore o3ls Tel *****22(3 lines) Showroom: 135 Blk 129 Kirn Tian Road Singapore 0316 32 Taniong
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    • 157 11 When it's time to get smart CASIO MQ-12 is the perfect choice for everyday precision. asio makes the pocket calculator into something very special with the MQ-12, because it puts total time information. liming, and time signaling right into your top pocket. V There's a full, ever-right calendar distinctively laved
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    • 278 12 I WILL BE OFFICIATED BY I MADAME DOLORES CHOLLET WIFE OF HIS EXCELLENCY I THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR With the passing of two highly successful years out the world, has become a sign of our times. thin g extra-special. At CUIR every customer will since the opening of our first store
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    • 230 13 Congratulations Best Wishes to IT tJ wUIR christianrioban PRENZE^jk on their Official Opening UA B i iwif ii i ßsi 'fl ■hi I^l taHM Wmm paris ..^Si X* l>^ V* Sole Agents curoplus pteitd Suite 701. Suprenoe House. Penang Road. Singapore 0923 Tel *****5/6. *****69 Telex EUPLUS RS ***** Sole
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  • 467 14  -  JEFFREY ANTEVIL in Washington By SOVIET force* are having trouble adapting to guerilla-style combat In Afghanistan aid their problems to some extent resemble the American experience In Vietnam, United States military officials say. What the United States has learned so far
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  • The Straits Times THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1980
    • 385 14 "TAKE Comfort, you may never have to ride alone again." That could very well serve as the slogan for Comfort taxis if a scheme is launched enabling taxi drivers to pick up passengers from fixed points along a fixed route. The plan, however, is not limited to Comfort
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    • 398 14 THE British have a lot to learn about Japanese management styles. This much is evident from the article on the woes of British managers working in Japanese firms in Britain. There is a lack of promotion opportunities for locals, they say. Nor do they often get jobs with
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  • 926 14  - Less to current Soviet peace offensive than meets the eye CRAIG R. WHITNEY By in Moscow THE INITIAL indications from here are that there's less to the current Soviet "peace offensive" than meets the eye. By their actions on several fronts in the past week, the Soviets have created the
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    480 14 THE RECENT support for President Carter Is likely to fade as the economy worsens. Backing for the President after the ill-fated rescue mission in Iran was largely a patriotic reaction by Americans. The same thing happened after the disastrous Bay of Pigs incident in 1961. President Kennedy's popularity shot
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  • 643 14 NEW YORK: The United States is now giving a persuasive display of a nation choking on its own frustration. I borrow the metaphor from Gamal Abdel Nasser, who in 1956 opened what historians may call the golden age of the small pjwers by seizing the
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    • 32 14 Iyok --Si Predators I Rj RAN- WEST (PTE) LTD. |'|'|H«» SiHGtPUWA Unit 2nd FKX» Orchard ftOM T« ***** V* Bl^nanf IXC BUILDING Shoe 1 t] lo<M< (hound FKx>< Wnton W«y T»i *****14
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    • 341 14 JETAWAY CONTEST THE RULES j^™^^^™™^^™"™^" 1. Tekott(^). m the space provided, what you ttimk are the AA THE PRIZES AA correct answers to the two questions given below Iff n 2. Complete the entry torm by tilling m your personal particulars 3. Attach an empty TABAC ORIGINAL box (Eau de
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  • FORUM
    • 1127 15 Continuing education without walls' for us? LATELY in the local mass media there has been a lot of publicity and enthusiasm on the question of upgrading the expertise and competence of our citizens in the light of Singapore's "Second Industrial Revolution" in the Eighties. This was also highlighted by the
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    • 574 15 I REFER to Director of Education Chan Kai Yau's comment (ST, May 15) on the press report about the haircut incident at Whampoa Secondary Chinese School. It appears to me that he views the entire incident as nothing so unusual as to warrant its being mentioned
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    • 85 15 MY SON Erie goe« to a kindergarten school to learn English and Malay, and much to my surprise, upon glancing at fete EngUsh b*«k, I came acroas the followlng sentence: "The cnflltai is red" on pace two. I eacloae the leaf (above) Iran the book.
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    • 211 15 Part-time courses are not a new thing I REFER to your editorial, "New Vistas" (ST, May 8) in which it was stated that "the Singapore Polytechnic has done one better. It has just begun part-time diploma courses for industrial workers and has started correspondence courses for its nautical and marine
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    • 340 15 Poly grad earns $1.40 an hour A BRIGHT future for Poly grads and since 1978 the starting salary for a fresh graduate is from $470 to $580 a month that is what Dr Ahmad Mattar said in the Sunday Times (May 4). It is really very encouraging and very good
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    • 171 15 Room for nonacademic certs too? I AM a non-graduate teacher with the ASA (Australian Society of Accountants) professional qualification, teaching at Pre-U level. I recently acquired a computer form from the Ministry of Education. Glancing through all the items in the boxes I find that there is an important item
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    • 1350 16 UNITED PLANTATIONS BERHAD Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thot the 59th Ordinory Annual Generol Meeting of the Company will be held at the Company's Registered Office at Jendaiata estate. Teluk Anson, Malaysia on the 16th doy of June, 1980ot 10.30 in the morning for the purpose
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    • 962 16 SOUTH PACIFIC TEXTILE INDUSTRIES BERHAD AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES (Incorporated in Malaytia) UNAUDITED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 3 1 ST MARCH 1 980 Six months to Six month* to 3 1 tt March 1 979 31 ,t March 1 9S0 COMPANY GROUP COMPANY GROUP MS MS
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    • 609 16 JAROINE SHIPPING AGENCIES Owing to the expansion of our agency activities, we invite applications from suitobly qualified Smoopo reons for the position of:MARKETING OFFICERS Qualification* Experience Passed GCE 'O' level with at least 4 credits, I of which must be English Shipping experience in inward and outward freights Minimum 2
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  • TIMES CITY DESK
    • CHIEF PRICE CHANGES
      • 21 17 M. Credit 941,000 UOL 168.000 S. Darby 473.000 Haw Par 377,000 Total turnover: 5.63m Total value: $17 22m
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      • 25 17 B.T.lndicator: Industrials: Finance: Hotels: Properties: Minings: Plantations: OCBC: 4655.35 4708.82 ***** 499.56 879.70 878.76 443.12 446.11 368.89 371.13 290.62 290.35 861.56 862.94 ***** 493.35
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      • 34 17 lignum Corpa lifm* Metal lh.ngri-1.. M C L L Kepoag Ivr Kraina I Industrie* lith A Low 935 140 1080 S3S 454 310 308 288 40 34 20 20 12 12 12 12
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      • 35 17 lelanfor Dredf '.no )uff Dfv >unlop Ind 'oahiba O I C B H 8 Mala K T«n« 550 540 334 506 380 214 438 346 2S0 a a -l--k -k -8 -8 -8 -6
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    • 1734 17 THE but tranactcd ready Mir at the rkar ai hfliw on the Stork Exiha» of Slnga porp ymday compared with the previous day'i prim UgMhrr with HT» haffc aad low I Ad)n*M tar strip rlghti Isaue) ltM I Unit trusts tONOAPOBE Vtm TBH8T (Misaim- prtm tar May O)
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    • 1598 17 BID and otter prices officially listed and rmsine*» In an reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yes lerday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Times Settlement Contracts are quoted after the word "sett". Big
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    • 1927 17 BIT -.nd offer prices officially lined and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Slock Exchange yesterday with the number of shares naded shown In brackets in Ml of 1.000 units unlesa otherwise sped fled. Aleao (2 17B 2 18S) (1) 111 zd AJcilkM (132B) AMD (0
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    • COMMODITIES
      • 128 17 THE STRAITS tin price recovered SB to Ojn per nical (equivalent to PUB per kilo, up H Mill) in Pnaag yeater day, on an official offeiiug up The overnight London Market was firmer with forward buyers gaining £70 to ET.4M P»to— t LONDON: Tin an the day row tia
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      • 37 17 Rubber: May 21 Singapore: June: 272.50 cenU (down 10.50 cenU) Malaysia: Joe ***** eeats (down 1 0.60 swU) Tia:M$2^OO (>P$M) (equivalent to $36.38 per kilo) (up 43 easts) Official offering 163 tonnes (up 11 tonne.)
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      • 23 17 LOKDON Ochmt pftoa m ltaa<taj QaiillM Is IncMi) Wlrtbar Spot OM (t!T« itlUri BIS (Cmst), TkrM Moatk tmytn CM* itlltn tMinri, MiMlaiSMto
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      • 455 17 PRICES In the Singapore nibber market closed lower yesterday, with June RSS One buyers quoted at X7ISO cents per kilo, down 10J0 cents on Afternoon prices fell further on continued long liquidation but values recovered slightly I after the close on some covering demand, they added. Opening prices were
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      • 101 17 NOON SSK and SMR pr*aa yaattrdar EA8 Jaa* tCurraal Mlk) Byyara S.M.r. SSR20 II tun pallrtl 2*4 00 2880ON SSRSO IllonpaJiall 281 00 M300N MKM h Ju.. SMRCV il lonpalktl :12J M :I24 SON SMRL HUxip^Wl) ***** .11.1 0ON SMRi (I Ux>p«Urt) Ml 00 *****N SMRT.P Mloapallrt)
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    • 331 17 THE SINGAPORE stack market made quick turnaround yesterday as selected favourites rehonnded from their overnight laws. Brokers noted that buyers regained confidence during the late morning and their activity continued to prop np share prices up to the end of the day's tradIng. Reflecting the reversed trend,
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    • 295 17 SHARE prices rebounded from overnight weakness to close generally higher on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. A continued now of buying interest in the afternoon pulled the market out of its sharp decline. Reflecting the good recovery, the New Straits Times industrial ordinary share index rose 2.46
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    • 193 17 THE US Sing dollar opened around its highest level at $2.1530 40 and closed at a low of $2,146 50 in the Singapore torn market yesterday Good commercial selling caused the market to ease throughout the day but light support at lower levels checked the decline Interbank
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    • 446 17 INTERBANK rates at 3.00 pm: Cwnntmt Nominal rat** Smithsonian Percentage quoted y**t*fday (cro*a)panty Chang* LacaJ d«Uan to aae ■■It at foreign currency: US dollar 2.1445 2.1450 2.8196 -23.94 Sterling pound 4.9385 4.9425 7 3469 -32 78 Australian dollar 2.4270 2.4290 3.4286 -29.21 NZ dollar 2.0945 2.0975 3.4286 -38.91
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    • 53 17 tAM.fc of prices onerea oy c -aunt houses on May 21 t)vernl«ht 7.73 16' < Call deposits 6 c] Clotuuj B«*ia« Stlliaf 1- month rreasury bills 7 I month Sank bills 10 10 3 months CD 10 5 18 10 3. 1C 6 months CD 9 15 16 913/1C
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    • 29 17 Closing Interbank rates •Ingapore dollars on May 21 Offer Bid )vernlght 9 8 month lot 10 months 10 10 *r *s months 10 10 )vtrnlght mode 12
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    • 30 17 THE average rate at which major Singapore banks are currently prepared to lend to their best customers is 12.1 per rent. City Desk continues on page 18
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    • 128 17 CEINKSE Pf*aa— ■aamaas*, w^-z;=**• Oaaanat *E: Baft tob HJ7JO seU an, aid dram (la second band draa) tob 047J8 aaaara. aew drum tab SU4JS ssllsrs. Car*: Mixed (loose) {78.88 bayara. Psfmw: Maatak wmte pepper fob Aata NLW 15** M sellers. Sarawak wan* pafpar (aq tob NLW MB 00
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    • 63 17 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has Invited banks and discount houses to tender for a total of $60 million 91-day Treasury bills to be issued from May 26 to May 30. The second lot will be a total of $20 million 182 day "Yeasury bills to be
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    • 275 17 THE KILOBAR market for gold deliverable In Singapore opened at $3M»1 o«i closed at $35.00 yeater day In the Far Ean. *old opened at US$510 50 512 00 and eastd la quiet coodlllon. to $509 50 511 X In the afternoon, gold re-opened at $509 75 510 .75 and
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    • OVERSEAS MARKETS
      • 367 17 TOKYO: Share prices rose sharply in moderate trading yesterday, recording the biggest single-day gain of the year, regaining nearly twothirds of last Monday's heavy loss attributed to Japan's political disruption, dealers said. The Dow Jones average rose 114.88 to 6822.18 points, with a volume of 330 million shares, and
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      • 302 17 Hongkong: Share prices recovered towards the close on institutional demand yesterday, taking the Hang Seng index up 0.56 point to close the day at 890.98, dealers said. The index lost 6.69 points at one stage this morning on profit-taking from local operators, they said. Among market leaders, Hoagkaag Electric
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    • OVERSEAS MARKETS
      • 291 18 SYDNEY. Wed. In the absence of any dramatic market news stocks traded mainly steady today with some oils easier, deaiers said. Coal and Allied, the target of heavy buying yesterday, was again active and rose 10 cents to AS10.20 while Australian Consolidated Industries announced a one-for-five cash
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      • 298 18 NEW YORK, Tues. Prices closed mixed today with investors awaiting a firm indication of what decisions the Fed made at its Open Market Committee meeting. The Dow Jones industrial average was up about a point but declines outnumbered advances by about seven to six on a
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      • 285 18 AMSTERDAM, Tues. Prices closed mainly higher, with Royal Dutch gaining 3.80 guilders after its higher first quarter earnings, dealers said. Philips and Akzo eased 0 10. Hoogovens gained 0.50 and Unilever rose 0.40. KLM. Ned) loyd and mortgage banks as well as most constructions gained. Insurances were
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      • 282 18 ZURICH, Tues. Prices closed steady in moderate volume with some investor demand returning, dealers said. Bank Leu participation certificates led banks higher, followed by Bank Corp bearer, while Hoiderbank featured in slightly higher financials. Insurances were narrowly mixed. Industrials were predominantly higher led by BrownBoveri. Nestle and
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      • 590 18 IjONDON, Tues. The market closed mixed after a quiet session, dealers said. At 3 pm, the Financial Times index was down 0 4 at 4334 The prospects of high inflation and interest rates inhibited trading with the government bond market further depressed by news
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    • 227 18 MAGNUM Corporation, a large Malaysian-based fourdigit lottery operator, has reported a record pre-tax profit, an increase in the dividend and a free scrip issue. Moreover, for the first time in several years, the group has emerged without incurring massive extraordinary losses incurred in investments outside its
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    • 509 18 WTTH energy prices persistently on the upward path and the climate of uncertainty prevailing, the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) expects banking business in the new decade to become more problematic. Chairman Tan Chin Tuan painted this cautious and conservative outlook for the banking industry in his
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    • 54 18 FINANCIAL TIMEB INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 433.8 Monday 433.8 Week Ago 438.9 DOW JONEB AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Tuesday 832.51 Monday 830.88 Week Ago 818.80 H.K.HANG SENG Wednesday 890.98 Tuesday 890.42 Week Ago 900.78 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Wednesday 829.37 Tuesday 630.13 Week Ago 823.53 ALL ORDINARIES Wednesday 821.03 Tuesday 820.52 Week Ago 805.00
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    • 862 18 ISFERRV^\/ICKERS| HYDRAULICS PNeUMATIC* SPERRY VICKERS, a divrs»on of SPERRY (PTE) LIMITED and the world's largest producer of fluid power equipment, seek suitably qualified candidates to promote and market their range of industrial, mobile and marine hydraulics equipment in Singapore. A. SALES ENGINEER Applicants should hove: Recognised Diploma in Electrical or
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    • 392 18 DEPARTMENT STORE/SUPERMARKET MIDDLE EAST Our Client who operates the largest department store/supermarket in the Arabian Gulf wishes to recruit additional staff to strengthen its operations in Qatar. Candidates m jst be bachelors, aged between 25 and 35, and must be prepared to live away from their families for considerable periods
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    • 3416 21 II EMPLOYMENT II EMPLOYMENT II EMPLOYMENT [TeMPLOYMENT II EMPLOYMENT S^ ==l==:= AweHestsMnlMdshiptNHMlnaerKl ———^j MECHANIC REOOIBEO U. service REQUIRED: flflflflflflflfl^ HJSBr^M") .flflflflfl aaaaW MALE WORKE RS REQUIRED Ke» rrhV s r,;p l Kr Mvacancyfor SSSS^^I re^ rM "ftyiJN^S production MUSTAD d) TecHn,c*l SW^rto'read biue [SmKSs^ FEMALE ■TAXViI WORKERS I •> FOSTER
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    • 3196 22 1l EWPLOYHEMT II EMPLOYMENT II EMPLOYMENT II EMPLOYMENT II EMPLOYMENT f A\ OPFR ATION^ despatch clerk 31 Situation. Vent -J-^ *> Oenersi ASSISTANT -ifrffTiS. V\\ "T? VH? I SinGODlim ~tSmesM^>) t Fir- E«p*ri*ne«/Dutlo.: motorbike V\// 1 f A«3 \V V 7 OIHUUHUILI DuhuJimn 'ma OlaiCC A ..ND.NO COMPANY requires eT^rle^
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    • 5279 23 II EMPLOYMENT II EMPLOYMENT 111 VEHICLES I BOATS 1 1 111 VEHICLES BOATS 111 VEHICLES BOATS 31 Situation. V^t RESTAURANT MTE-CLU. l^Express^ Services. .MJ, Sport New J^PARF Highest secures Call radio/ c^et, PARF eligible ZVk^r^^ ss=sss=== /aSAhA j. SSL*™, PICKUP, V.n 2^^'°" 2SOO YZ^&fiFZSSSZ SMSir**? V 7°9 ***** 500 ST-^-HI
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    • 5006 24 111 VEHICLES It BOATS IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES __MLMBBL^HPI N (M> ava^a,le immediately: zz?^,'!™™™"* 1 t^t--,.-.!. 45 VrtiePl.FOfB.lt ™> C yeZ7le7'" WG&C\ »^£fS" X «»'"est Arcadia. 2 B^n^a^rXd^pTeS. %&?T&Erss?£Z tToh^^Tr^^i Zo^^X^TS^ Vehicles Viewing 2218M7/ *****96 bedr.H.ms S2.MO call U T PS Tel:
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    • 4706 25 IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES IV ACCOMMODATION PROPERTIES V SERVICES BUSINESS V SERVICES BUSINESS uJ^e'nTo^oTTnru'm^w^ A^BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBbV I f^^^'"TZs^^n 'ASEMENT SHOP 250 sq ft Fully WAN TED TO PURCHASE I MIDDLE EAST, INOO-tS, A. Ku 1 RELAX YOURSELF WITH 44T40M/ *****85 M7ZO0O ,[w rJ^T.cn «nil«TPIAL *****55) NEW O«RMENT F«( lOBf
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    • 192 26 The fourth Uewel'at your service in theTransPacif ie trade. NEPTUNE JADE will begin computer is installed for container stowage her maiden voyage from Kure (Japan) on 23 May planning. NEPTUNE JADE, the fourth of our five 1980. She is a large sophisticated fully cellular new container ships, will join the
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    • 3247 27 |VI EDUCATION it TRAINING VII TRAVEL A TOURS "j VII TBAVEL TOURS VII TBAVEL TOURS VII TRAVEL TOURS 102 Education sorvevwo/ levelling witnl I KffTlJ^Sf E^^V^l^^BbA Mk DINERS A Ir> I PRACTICAIS CITY OUIIOS "J I n WxT/i V /^bl PWIUbTIbtIB B» «B» ■■PS^r'VTVV^MBBI L<%<->. .1. KSS-BBSaB BU.LDERS QUANTITIES AND
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  • IX OBITUARIES
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      54 28 express their heartfelt thanks to relatives, I friends, colleagues and business associates I for their condolences, kind assistance, I wreaths, scrolls, donations and attendance I during their recent bereavement. I Special thanks to the Doctor for hit kind attention and medical care renIdered. I THE FAMILY OF THE LATE
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    • 134 28 THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MR NO SOON LIM Wish to express thetr moat grateful thanks to the Doctors, Sisters, Nurses and other Staff of ward Toa Payoh General Hospital, the Prime Minister, Cebmet Ministers. Ministers of State, Parliamentary Secretaries. Members of Parliament, the Peoples' Action Party Branchee
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      666 28 paated away uneipectedly on 20-s-80 leaving behind hi* beloved parMil*. Mr. a Mrs. Sng Chang Hock and hit only brother Alan and nt lar. Cynthia Funeral on 22 5 «0 at 4 30 pm at Ml. Vernon Crematorium. MR. TAN LAK KHOON I Aged: 79 p9ss#a nvsy p##c#fuNy
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      177 28 Sadly mniKj and alwayi r»m»m b*r«d by wit*, ioni. daughters, daughtsn-in law tona-in-law and grandchildran IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED FONDLY REMEMBERED BY HUSBAND AND CHILDREN IN MEMORY OF Sadly mined and foravir rafiwmbaradby: Huibarwi: Ong Mol Lew ■MM Ong Slew Huat Ong Slew Ylng. William
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    • 496 28 TENDER T*nd«rt invited for supply of raw food rations to the Home for Aged Indions, Nibong Tebal for period 1. 7. 1 980 to 30.6. 1 98 1. TenaWs close on 3.6. 1 980. Forms obtainable from South Indian labour Fund Board, 7th Floor, WISMA MPI, Kuala Lumpur HA II
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    • 329 28 J -I TENOCR NOTICE KENYATAAN TAWARAN T«^«" '"^tted from ci« JABATAN PARIT DAN TAU AIR MALAYSIA trkol controctort 'or PROJEK PEMBANGUNAN LUARBANDAR sTAu^T^A^nVoM vciamtau I it ad a SIALIAIIUN ANL> LOM URANTAN UTARA MISSIONING Of IT ELEC (PtOJtK MNJAMAN BANK DUNIA TRICAI EQUIPMENT. WIRKONT«AK WO. JTT IPKU 1% |N<j AND
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    • 211 29 FRANKFURT, Wed. A confident Eintracht Frankfurt meet Borussia Moenchengladbach in the return match of the all-West German European Football Union Cup-final tonight (18.00 GMT) knowing they need to win by only one goal to capture the trophy. Borussia, UEFA Cupwinners last year, won the first leg 3-2 against
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    • 148 29 VIENNA, Wed. World soccer champions Argentina will puQ out all the stops against Austria tonight to produce what they hope will be a bril1 liant finish to a rather lacklustre European tour. Manager Cesar Luis Menotti said here yesterday: "We're going all out tomorrow night
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    • 197 29 WEST BERLIN, Wed. The United States tennis team began their defence of the women's Federation Cup here yesterday with a comprehensive 3-0 victory over Poland. Tracy Austin and Kathy Jordan allowed their respec- tive singles opponents Marzena Sieraka and Ivona Kuczynska only three games all together to clinch their
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    • 267 29 ROME. Wed- Italian international soccer player Giancarlo Antognoni could miss next month's European Nations' championship finals because of his alleged involvement in the bribery scandal that has already seen the relegation of a top club and the suspension of several star players. Antognoni, 26, captain of First
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    • 30 29 P W U L t A KI N Ireland Wain England Scotland 2 110 2 13 110 0 4 12 2 0 112 5 1 10 0 10 10
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    • 310 29 Velasko. of Colombia. 6-1. 6-4 in the opening round of the US$75,000 ($162,000) Bavarian international championships. Other results: Chris Lewis (NZ) bt HansDieter Beutel (W. Ger) 6-2, 6-4; Pavel Slozil (Czech) bt Carlos Gattiker <Atr) 6-3. 6-3. BASKETBALL Singapore lost 87-90 (48-45) to Denmark
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    • 526 29  -  GODFREY ROBERT, By Deputy Sports Editor ENGLAND 1 N. IRELAND 1 LONDON, Wed. If anything, last night's British home international championship soccer match, between England and Northern Ireland at the Wembley Stadium here, raised several ominous question marks over the home team's prospects for next
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    • 255 30 Ng charges into the Masters qualifying BOWLER Andy Ng, last year's Singapore national runner-up, took his expected place In the Masters qualifying list •f the Golden Bowl championships in Johore Bahru yesterday, reports WILFRED YEO. The left-handed Ng, 27, who led last year's national final until the last game when
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    • 244 30  -  WILFRED YEO By THE Singapore Women's Bowling Club are up in arms against a levy of $2 per team for all STBC-sanctioned Leagues, imposed recently by the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress. A circular to all STBC affiliates reads: "The General Council decided at
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    • 1032 30 RACING... with FAIRWAY CAN WE GO looks the pick of the six Class 3 newcomers entered for the Penang Turf Club meeting starting on Saturday, A tour-year-old chestnut English horse by Porto i Beflo out of Sweet Surprise, Can We Go
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    • 315 30 PENANG, Wed. Laststart winner Adik has made good progress and should easily hold his own in Class Three at the races here this weekend, reports FAIRWAY. With a win, a second and a third from as many starts, the Guillaume Tell three-year-old is certainly
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    • 58 30 RAFFLES INSTITUTION beat St. Andrew's Junior College 213 in the preliminary round of the National Schools' rugby tournament for the Police Cup at the Police Academy yesterday. RI scored a goal, three trie:, and a penalty goal against one dropped goal in their win in the
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    • 394 30  -  ERNEST FRIDA Ruling holds back Swee Wah and Kian Tiong By LIM SWEE WAH and Lim Kian Tiong, two of Singapore's top professional golfers, have been denied the chance of playing in the $40,000 Mizuno championship at the Royal Perak course in Ipoh from
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    • 197 30  -  BERNARD PEREIRA By INDONESIA yesterday broke their long silence on Singapore's four-man training stint in Ragunan next month in one sentence about their accommodation. In a cable to the Singapore Sports Council, the Indonesian Badminton Federation (PBSI) said: "Cost of accommodation for Singapore team
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    • 429 31  -  JOE DORAI By Selection triumph SINGAPORE SELECTION 2 SOUTH KOREA 0 TEAM manager Jita Singh is likely to make a few surprise changes in the Singapore soccer team for Saturday's Malaysia Cup-tie against Federal Territory at the National Stadium. This follows the impressive
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    • 87 31 SINGAPORE Schools' Athletes began their training yesterday at the National Stadium Practice Track for the third ASEAN track and Held championships. Though the Singapore School Sports Council have mapped out a comprehensive training programme, the date (or the championships In Jakarta remains a mystery. Bat one thug Is
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    • 240 31  - Coach Gul waits for job of f ers PATRICK BASTIANS By FORMER national squash coach Rahim Gul is waiting on the wings these days, while the Republic's team to tour New Zealand, from Tuesday, are training without a coach. Gul now promotes equipment for a sports goods distributor and coaches
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    • 21 31 PUBILC Utilities Board thrashed SAFSA 4-0 in the Singapore Squash Racket Association's women's E grade tournament at the PUB buildin*.
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    • 244 31  -  ERNEST FRIDA By SINGAPORE'S hockey team began their final preparations for the Tun Razak tournament in Seremban from Sunday week to June 7 with the squad trimmed to 24 players yesterday. They will play three more matches before the final squad of 18 to travel are
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    • 34 31 MARINE PARADE have withdrawn from Division Two of the Singapore Hockey Association and their scheduled match at Balestier yesterday was awarded to Kampong Kembangan. The other match between Telerac and Bedok was postponed.
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    • 114 31 TODAY'S EVENTS ATHLETICS Outram Secondary School meet (Toa Payoh Stadium, 2 15) GOLF SICC women's matrh-play first round (Old rourse, 1). HOCKEY SHA MvWm Oh Lmfae: Singapore Recreation Club B v Special Constabulary; MvWm Tw»: SCC C v Singapore Airlines Group B. matches at the Padang. SOCCER Tetone laterd I
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    • 279 31  -  R. MANOR A J By SINGAPORE'S Looi brothers, Gerry and Fabian, and Japan's Hiroyuki Kawasaki, Hideo Kanaya and Keiji Kinoshita, will be some of Asia's big names in the Malaysian Grand Prix at the Shah Alam circuit in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and
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    • 176 31 THE International Squash Rackets Federation are moving fast to consolidate their controlling position now that squash is going open in less than four months' time on Sept 1 to be exact, reports PATRICK BASTIANS. They have sent out circulars to all their affiliates in
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    • 201 31  -  PETER SIOW By SINGAPORE International lee Kng Hong will lead a galaxy of local stare In the floodlit skeet shooting competition this Saturday at the Rifle Range Road. The versatile 44-year-old oaslnessman. who made his debut in the Southeast Asia Games in Kuala Lumpur In
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    • 34 31 GOVERNMENT Schools Employees beat Tan Tock Seng 4-0 In the AUPE soccer tournament at Mountbatten Road yesterday. In other matches, Customs beat TAS Artisans 3-0 and Kandang Kerbau defeated TAS Messengers 24).
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    • 79 31 ST. ANDREW'S first "Festival of Games," organised by the Old Boys' Association, begin tomorrow (2.30 p.m.) on St. Andrew's Junior College grounds. The annual Games, which will be played between St. Andrew's and St. Andrew's Junior College, will have competition in badminton, chess, squash, tennis and rugby.
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    • 40 31 TELOK AVER beat Lotto 8072 in the National Basketball League at the People's Association last night. Other results: Sinma Techorama 59 Ministry of Defence 55, Hal Chew 101 VC B 68, VC A 65 Gay Sim 56.
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    • 220 31  -  KEN JALLEH Jr By ALL is set for the inaugural national intra-zone swimming championships to begin on June 8. Singapore's 69 constituencies nave been divided into seven zones 10 constituencies in each zone, with Zone Three the only one with nine. The competitions will
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    • 62 31 ADMIN SALAM won the best performance award In the Maju Secondary School's annual athletic meet at the National Stadium yesterday. Admin set a record of 12.7 seconds In the 100 metres event (or lower-secondary boys. The other record-break-ers were Mazlan Abdul Hamid (9.9m for lowpr-secondary boys'
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    • 31 31 SATU beat PUBDRU 1-0 In the NTUC Division One soccer tournament at Farrer Park yesterday. In other matches, FDAWU defeated another SATU team 4-1 and PUBDRU beat SEECU 1-0.
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  • 58 32 CAIRO, Wed. A Urge uranium find was reported here today in the eastern Egyptian desert on the edge of the Red Sea. Cairo press reports said there was some 5,0(10 tonnes of or* at the site. Egypt could extract SO tonnes a year from 1982 onwards,
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  • 75 32 BEIJING. Wed. There will be plenty of ice cream In BeiJing this summer, but not enough beer, the official Xinhua news agency reported said today. Xinhua quoted a factory spokesman as saying the city's population are expected to buy more than 400 million ice creams over
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  • 60 32 TOKYO. Wed. Typhoon Ellen roared toward Japan's Pacific Coast today packing centre winds of 6.2 km/h and torrential rains, weathermen said. Officials at Tokyo's meteorological agency said Ellen, the first tropical storm this season to hit the Japanese Archipelago, is expected to sweep through the eastern
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  • 28 32 Carter trip WASHINGTON. Wed. President Jimmy Carter might make an extensive European trip next month after attending a seven nation economicsummit conference in Venice, officials said today Reuter.
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  • 126 32 PREM'S CRACK DOWN ON EXPENSE ACCOUNTS BANGKOK, Wed. Prime Minister Prem 'Riisulanonda, continuing his crackdown on all forms of offlrUI corruption, has now cast a watchful eye on his asHlstants' expense accounts, officials reported today. This came after Gea Prem told those who had accompanied him on Us recent visit
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  • 34 32 JAKARTA. Wed. Popular American disco singer and dancer John Travolta has quietly spent a few days at Prapat near Lake Toba In north Sumatra, the Jakarta newspaper Berita Buana reported today. AFP.
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  • 31 32 NEW YORK, Wed. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks declined 1.96 to 830.55 in the first half-hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. AP.
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  • 562 32 Quebecers reject separation BY THUMPING 59-40 VOTE MONTREAL, W*d QUEBEC'S voters yesterday soundly rejected their separatist government's appeal for a mandate to lead them out of the Canadian Confederation. In a strong vote of confidence in a future in Canada, the predominantly French-speak-ing province voted more than 59 per cent
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  • 76 32 OSAKA, Wed. A Japanese businessman today escaped from an airport customs office here, leaving behind three kilogrammes of a stimulant drug with a street value of 900 million yen (SsB.s million), officials said. The 28-year-old man, who flew in from Pusan, South Korea, this
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  • 38 32 MANILA, Wed. Military authorities today reported today that another 22 people were killed in clashes in the rebeUJon-torn southern Philippines bringing the death toll in three weeks of violence to at least 63 persons UPI.
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  • 244 32 Missile tests a success says Beijing BEIJING, Wed. China tonight confirmed it had fired several intercontinental ballistic missiles on a target in the South Pacific between Sunday and today. Without saying how many had been fired, Xinhua news agency announced today in a communique that "China's launching of carrier rockets
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  • 257 32 LONDON, Wednesday FIVE more major oil producing countries have joined the latest round of price leapfrogging, placing Saudi Arabia's attempt to control the chaotic world market in jeopardy. Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Venezuela last night became the latest member-nations
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  • 68 32 JAKARTA, Wed. Indonesia* balance of trade for the nacal year ending last march recorded a surplus of US$4.l bflnon (SJB.7 bCUon), Finance Minister AU Wardhana told Parliament today. He said exports for the *****0 period totalled USJI7.S billion while imports for the same period were US$l3.4
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    • 275 32 BUSINESS TIMES Singapore's Financial Dally Cov*r Pncr Mr Annual Subtcretion $156 For lubtcnption. call *****11 Ext. 231 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS. A major rig-builder is on the verge of securing the largest contracts in its order books, but may yet lose out to fierce financing terms from competitors. This case suggests that
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    • 332 32 Lure o£ the Chameleon It is the Asian version of Rich Man, Poor Man, Dallas and Peyton Place put together. It transcends not only dialect but also racial barriers. Why do so many Singaporeans young and old follow the Cantonese TV series, Chameleon, so avidly? Some of its most faithful
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      35 1 IF YOl can speak Mandarin and are about to use dialect again, stop yoonelf and start in Mandarin. The other person may know Mandarin bat may also be shy. Be the Initiator!
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      • 500 1 /J^^ The "Mandarin By Radio" Series currently broadcast over I|sr H LflhHHL^Hß^BßßfflHlfl^rsHf^tr SBC and published in the Straits Times Bilingual Page, l^ l^^ iTr^^J 1 »i f^ H^^b^M is now available on |jaj I^^LHL^AhAb^^VwMHH KrTavvV Vtt cassette with a .sj& *'''1k _b\^~ comprehensive book ft X K^a^^^^^^ B^fl >Wx to
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      • 88 1 INSfltt^ Driving and that perfect trip Many of us have been driving for years, but do we make "perfect" trip each time we get behind the wheel? Learn how yon can be a safe driver on Pag* 6 Pioneer painters Ml Hk This is one of the 25 girls hand-picked
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        309 2 WHO is strong, invincible and a woman? Helen Reddy of course. But there is also Wonder Woman Lynda Carter. And what about Jacqueline Bisset, who rose from The Deep not long ago? All three are on Channel Five tonight, so their fans had better stay home. Helen makes
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      • 72 2 IN High Chaparral (Ch 3, 9.47 p.m.), John and Blue are captured by Soldado and his renegades and are in danger of being killed. The Late Movie (Ch 3, 12.08 a.m.) is Corey For The People. Made in 1977, it is a mystery drama about a young assistant
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      • 97 2 CONSUMER'S Gnlde (AM, 7.15 p.m.) takes a look at how true or false is the claim by some advertisers that you can lose five centimetres off your waistline and two Kilograms in six days. Also, you can hear what others have to say about "no-frost" freezers and learn
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      • 24 2 GUITAR buffs, don't forget Gnltar Workshop (6.45 p.m.) with Stefan Grossman, who talks about contemporary guitarists like Eric Clapi ton, and their music.
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      • 34 2 FACTS Of Conception And Contraception (9.43 p.m.) deals with hormones and sperm survival. Also, you can i learn what some of the i causes of infertility are. Leisure it on Pag* Five today
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      • 382 2 Holiday Intensive Course Hi everybody! It's holiday time again. Make full use of it by enrolling for either organ, pop piano, or guitar at all levels. The Holiday Intensive Course Lessons are held three times a week, each lesson being one hour. Enrol now to avoid disappointment. Please call us
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      • 156 2 ART ONE opening of an exhibition by Catholic High School at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Building exhibition hall at 5.30 p.m. On till Saturday. CRIME PREVENTION AS A COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY a talk by Mr Ratan Singh from Central Police Station at Tanjong Pagar community centre at 8 p.m. HIGH
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      • 1230 2 TV and Radio SBC 5 3.00 PM Opening followed by Rag Trade 7.45 New Adventures Of Wonder Woman The Export Order A Date With Doomsday 3.30 Diary of Events (Chinese) 8 -< 5 Sports Magazine 3.35 The Vagabond Swordsman 55 Cultural Diary 4.25 Intermission J-JJ J" Bobb V' s B|
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      • 630 3 I JiiF HERMES PRECISA INTERNATIONAL SA I Due to activity expansion in ASEAN and the Far I East region, we invite applications from qualified I candidates to till challenging career positions: SERVICE MANAGER He will be in charge ot local and regional ottersales service centres for typewriters, calculators ond office
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      • 537 3 A large international organisation requires PERSONNEL EXECUTIVE Him Industrial relations Salary administration Recruitment Counselling Employee welfare services Recreational activities TlmMh Singapore citizen above 25 years of age Preferably educated to tertiary level with good command of English and Mathematics Good communicating and social skills Ability to converse either in Malay
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      • 585 3 'An ••tablithod «ntgin««ring Company has an immediate vacancy for ASSISTANT PERSONNEL OFFICER Tertiory education or minimum GCE 'A' with at least 2 3 years experience in the field of personnnel administration and industrial relations. Responsibilities include recruitment, employee welfare, payroll, liaison with Government departments, counselling ond grievance handling. Qualities expected
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      • 525 3 MULTI NATIONAL SHIPPING AND FORWARDING COMPANY INVITES 2 SALES EXECUTIVES (MALE/FEMALE) FOR THEIR SEAFREIGHT AND AIRFREIGHT DIVISIONS Good General Education Familiar in shipping forwarding and airfreighting requiremenis Matured, Dynamic and self-motivated Own transport an advantage Salary commensurate with experience and achievements Please apply enclosing photograph and contact telephone number to:S.T.
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      • 464 3 IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE Salt No int of in» Between HARPER UILFILLAN (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD .PUlatWs Aml 1 UM SOON HI AT tradlnK UM KIONG AND COMPANY .Defendant NOTICE TO: LIMSOONHUAT trading as LIM KIONG AND COMPANY No 2983-K Block 18 Eunos Crescent Singapore TAKE
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      • 362 5  - The art of Chinese painting on ceramic LING POON WAH By ANNA Lim's face was a study in concentration and patience. With delicate and deft strokes of her Chinese brush, she added flesh to the outlines of a white chrysanthemum flower on a vase. "It is very taxing for the
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      • 867 5 6 In this film, Spielberg invites us to take an amusing and affectionate look at a cross-sec-tion of American films through the past 60 years. I doubt whether anyone will not be carried along by its brash approach, and un- A deniable
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      • 594 6 "THERE isn't much that I don't know about driving," boasts the seasoned motorist who has been wheeling round the roads for "years". Even if the statement isn't spurious, it speaks of the complacent attitude of some drivers. Whether he's driving a Mercedes Benz or a Toyota, the Singapore
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      • 836 6 Good driving is a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes "IT was raining hard, and I was following a bus and two cars. We were aproaching a town. The bus stopped without pulling off the road. The two other cars in front stopped too. "I
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    • 1038 7 She's one of the most influential women in journalism and her op-ed page carries contributions from writers as varied as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and the head of Italy's Communist Party. Here Charlotte Curtis, associate editor of the New York Times,
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    • 753 7  -  KEVIN RAFFERTY By in NEW DELHI A ROW is threatened between India and Bangladesh over Mrs Gandhi's plans to build a canal linking two of the world's great rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. Because the canal would enable India to control nearly
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    • 1197 8 Invest in Britain is the cry and Japan is beginning to do so. But a problem has arisen in the yawning chasm between the two nations' management styles. JASON CRISP reports on the situation. AN English personnel manager responsible for more than 700 people in
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    • 561 8  - Giving Sweden's retarded their sexual rights VINCENT By SCHODOLSKI in STOCKHOLM FOR thousands of retarded people in Sweden, a new approach to sexuality is sweeping away many old taboos about them and their sex lives. Under a new programme being implemented in institutions around the country, experts strive to "normalise"
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