The Straits Times, 17 December 1981

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1981 35 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 101/1/81
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  • 679 1 Defiant workers occupy factories VIENNA, Wednesday SOVIET transport planes were reported to have landed m Poland today as thousands of defiant workers armed with tools and iron rods occupied factories, shipyards and steel mills m a swelling protest against the imposition of martial law. A
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  • 207 1 soviets' 'hands off' warning to US MOSCOW, Wed. The Soviet Union has accused the United States of attempting to apply economic pressure on the Warsaw Pact by cutting off aid to Poland. The Soviet official news agency, Tass, made the charge yesterday less than 24 hours after US Secretary of
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  • 230 1 SAY REPORTS FOR these managers, It is back to child's play. Toys like Leg* aad Meccano are helping them grasp the nuts and belts of adult planThey are given projects like building a bridge. Bat the specifications are precise. It most be IS cm long, 14
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  • 73 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. An accused terrorist brought to the United States from The Philippines was yesterday ordered to serve a tail term for refusing to identify his alleged American-base^ supporters before a Federal grand jury. After announcing his refusal to testify before a grand jury investigating
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  • 48 1 TOKYO, Wed. An estimated mUttary/bMe* m Japa n went ona l^hour strike at midnight yesterday to protem against enforcement of a pU n to reduce their severance allowance the first time m three years that the AU-j apan Gaßrison Forces Labour Union naunoe on strike. AFfiL
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  • 82 1 BOTH the Straits Times report on Monday of the Prime Minister's recent speech on the Anson byelection and the text can give the erroneous imEression that only 1,179 Hair Plain voters will be evicted to make way for expansion of the port's container complex. The facts are
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  • 59 1 TOKYO, Wed. At least 70 per cent of Japan's salaried workers fear losing their jobs to computers, said a TaiyoKobe Bank survey published today. It found that 80 per cent of the 1,142 workers questioned find they had to learn to use computers to catch up with
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  • 406 1 Strikes make it Calamity Xmas in Australia sewage let loose because of treatment plant walkouts. A SPIRAL of labour disputes threatens to cut off Australians from the rest of the world and from each other m a season that one newspaper has called a Calamity Christmas Strikes m recent days
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  • 35 1 MOSCOW, Wed. A summit of all socialist-bloc countries will be held here on Friday, the day before Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's 75th birthday jn December 19, East European sources here said today. AFP.
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  • 118 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Parliament will meet en Monday to formalise the adoption of a single time zone for Malaysia from Jan 1, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said today. All clocks m Peninsular Malaysia will be put forward 30 minutes
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  • 42 1 MANILA, Wed. About 40 armed men m military dress robbed four banks m the southern Philippine town of Digos yesterday, military authorities said. The men collected about one million pesos (5J256.250) m the raid as well as five firearms. Reuter.
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  • 43 1 MANILA, Wed. Two people were killed and 11 crewmen taken to hospital when a Überian-registered oil tanker caught fire In Manila Bay yesterday after unloading crude oil at a refinery, officials said. Cause of the fire was not known. AP.
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  • 393 1  - Mahathir flies in today for talks with PM TAN LIAN CHOO, By Diplomatic Correspondent MALAYSIA'S Prime Minister, Datnk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, arrives today for talks with Mr Lee Kuan Yew, covering mainly bilateral aad regional Issues. Dr Mahathir's twoday official visit is his first here as Prime Minister and
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  • 276 1 Johore towns cut off by floods JOHORE BARU, Wednesday JOHORE today declared a full state alert as rising flood waters cut off Johore Baru and all other towns south of Kota Tinggi from the East Coast after the the road to Mersing was flooded yesterday Mersing is now cut off
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  • 82 1 TOKYO, Wed. Japans Supreme Court, m its first judgment on an environmental case, today rejected a demand from residents for a ban on night use of the Osaka international airport. It also ruled against advanced compensation for jet noise pollution m future. It did, however, approve damages
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  • 57 1 LATEST WORKERS' BOMB THREAT VIENNA, Wed. Work era have threatened to blew up the Gdansk shipyards unless authorities release Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, an official interpreter for Chancellor Bruno Krel.sk> said today. Miss Llllaaa Nleslel- ska said on arrival from Poland that news of a 48hour workers ultimatum reached Warsaw
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    • 204 1 9t:**:t3tii<i;i#;9j:Tti*M 66 pages today FOOLISH TO BUILD MRT NOW, SAYS DR TAN 41 THINK that the construction sector today is overheated and, If we are foolish enough to try to build the MRT today, I think we will lost pat ourselves into trouble. We will have to phase la all
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    • 506 2 P»ge7 For mass appeal TELEVISION for the people and by the people. This is SBC's new policy of giving air time to the average Singaporean with something to offer. They could be housewives with a recipe to share, a group of student dramatists or artists, SBC chairman Wee Mon
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    • 337 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: THERE is reassurance In Mr Lee Kuan Yew's recent speech on the Alison byelection that the People Action Party's defeat changed nothing of the basics and that his government will make strenuous efforts to complete the home-owning society he envisions for Singapore. He has also
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    • 354 2 'FOOLISH TO BUILD PROPOSED MRT SYSTEM NOW THE construction industry has become overheated and if Singapore were to be foolish enough to want to build its proposed mass rapid transit (MRT) system now, it will find itself in trouble. This warning was sounded by Dr Tony Tan last
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    • 625 2 Curtain of silence THE news "blackout" in Poland this week is the most severe ever imposed in communist Eastern Europe since World War n. Even in 1956 and 1968, when the Russians invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Western news agencies could report by telephone and telex. But not
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    • 250 2 Turning East MALAYSIA is "looking East" for growth lessons because the experience of countries like Japan and South Korea is more relevant to its growing economy. Also, there is "a need to balance our people so that they will have a world view... which is not slanted
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    • 293 2 An SBC dancer's life THE working dav of an SBC dancer is time-tabled, as it was in school only now it is for dance lessons, practice and rehearsals. There are 13 dancers, but only five males. Their choreographer, Mr George Pearce, would prefer 20 dancers. Their practice room
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    • 189 2 Why the poor show ATHLETICS and gymnastics were two of the main sports in which Singapore flopped at the SEA Games in Manila. The chief reason is we were not well prepared as the others. Also, Singapore had been depending for too long on the same old athletes. The
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    • 133 2 Problems of aged THE Singapore Creative Dramatic Society has presented a full-length play, 77ie Late Storm. which capably depicts the problems of the old, oi personal inner doubts, and of being a woman in a Chinese family. It is set in an extended family living in
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    • 436 3 NOTHING LIKE IT SINCE WORLD WAR II VIENNA, Wednesday i'H5 communications cutoff m Poland this week, was the most severe news blackout imposed m communist Eastern Europe since World War D. Even m 1956 and 1968, when the Russians invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia, western news,
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    • 373 3 Armoured cars bring chill of reality to Gdansk story below was smuggled oat of Gdansk on Tuesday by ALEXANDER Ml NNIGHOFF of the Haagsche Courant newspaper m the who was In the city when the state of emergency was declared. GDANSK, Wed Trfe residents of Gdansk looked on with resignation
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      • 67 3 UNITED NATIONS: Official bodies of the United Nations debated a wide array of topics on Monday, including peacekeepers m Cyra-us and the rights of women. But none would discuss the imposition of martial law m Poland. The Soviet delegate, Mr Oleg Troyanovsky, said: "It is
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      • 71 3 MADRID: Poland, saying martial law was imposed m "the broad interest of stability and security" throughout the continent, asked the United States, Canada and 32 European countries meeting here on Tuesday for "understanding and political wisdom." Poland's chief delegate to the European security conference met all other delegation
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    • 299 3 THE Polish crMs rateef bankers' concern today that talks to reschedule Poland's debt niajM fall because Warsaw cannot repay USISM million (Sfl Mllion) In Interest within the next fortnight. «Ws a wait-and-see j attphde towards the aewest twist In the Polish) crisis," said a
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    • 238 3 ROME, Wednesday WESTERN Europe's communist parties have been embarrassed and divided by the crackdown m Poland and one key leader said it shows Soviet-style socialism has become "worn out." The Spanish and Italian communists, rushing to demonstrate their declared belief m Westernstyle democratic principles,
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    • 109 4 Prophet o£ doom jailed by Thais BANGKOK, Wed. The publisher of a book which predicted Thailand would be invaded by Vietnam, China and the Soviet Union m October next year was yesterday jailed for six months for creating public disorder and dampening morale, Radio Thailand reported. All 1,600 copies of
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    • 268 4 Indira party paper calls on China to solve border row NEW DELHI, Wed INDIAN Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's party newspaper, National Herald, today appealed to China to jointly solve the sensitive border problem. It also suggested that the border problem can be amicably sorted out "m the historic context, keeping
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    • 60 4 NEW DELHI, Wed. The death toll m a collision yesterday between a bus and an express train m Eastern Int.ia has risen to 16, the Trust of India reported. The news agency said the victims were passengers on the bus which was hit by the train at
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    • 331 4 Japan adopts plan to cut surplus and silence critics JAPAN today adopted a package of policy measures designed to reduce its growing for- eign trade surpluses and ward off mounting criticism overseas. The government said the package comprises measures to open the market to foreign products, enforce emergency imports and
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    • 256 4 China produces new amphibious landing craft SHANGHAI, Wednesday CHINA has produced an amphibious landing vessel that might enable it to launch an assault against Taiwan, foreign shipping sources said yesterday. Officials of the Marine Design and Research Institute m Shanghai told foreign shippers they had designed a 60-tonne hovercraft and
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
      • 88 4 SRI LANKA'S government has extended the I state of emergency by another month because I of apprehension over a unilateral declaration of independence by an exile separatist movwj ment, a government spokesman said I Colombo on Tuesday. The government of President JuniqK Richard Jayewardene declared a state jqfc
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      • 63 4 SOUTH KOREA yesterday carried out 9 major reshuffle of top military brass wn General Hwang Yung-Si becoming the n«j army chief of staff. Gen Hwang, 56, played a major role bringing Gen Chun Doo-Hwan to power twjH years ago, following the assassination of tS late President
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      • 80 4 Soviet- Afghan ties SOVIET PRESIDENT Leonid Brezhnev ajK knowledged yesterday that Afghanistan 1 facing domestic and external challenges bflH said the Soviet Union will support the trtM bled regime of Babrak Karma 1. "Our friendship and cooperation au being further strengthened in the preseflP conditions, when the Afghan people have
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      • 59 4 GREECE YESTERDAY became the firgg European Economic Community nation recognise the Palestine Liberation OrganfeM tion (PLO) as the Palestinian's sole legiH mate representative. This came after Greece announced tH upgrading the PLO liaison office in Athens a diplomatic representation. The decision wtfj announced on the final day
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      • 53 4 MILITARY BOMB experts discovered a^H dismantled four rocket-propelled grenad^H found in a car parked yesterdav outside o«£*j of Beirut's top hotels, military officials said. "5, The weapons were found only a kilomet.irjj from ihe Iraqi Embassy where a bomb e^,, ploded on Tuesday, killing 25 people aM$**
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      • 70 4 GANNETT COMPANY, owners of a major American newspaper chain yesterday announced plans to publish a morning new»£»; paper by satellite in almost all parts of tH£> United States from late 1982. Chairman Allen Neuharth said in Wasgsg ington that the newspaper, USA Today, woufcL be transmitted from
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    • 180 4 $3.9 b PLAN TO HELP JOBLESS YOUNG IN BRITAIN LONDON, Wed. The British government, under pressure to reduce unemployment, announced today a £1 billion (553.9 billion) scheme for jobless young people. The programme for action guarantees all 16-year-old school leavers a year's job training and is expected to affect 300,000
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    • 188 4 BEIJING AND TOKYO SEE GOOD PROSPECTS L FOR TRADE TOKYO, Wed. Chinese Vice-Premier Gu Mv and Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshio Sakurauchi said today prospects are particularly good for bilateral economic and technical cooperation. Both men told a press conference that Chma's natural resources and Japan's technology and capital will pave
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    • 48 4 NEW YORK, Wed. A sur> way express train lost a motor and swerved off its tracks Just south of the Times Square Station early yesterday morning, injuring 10 passengers and disrupting subway, bus and car traffic flow (or several hundred thousand New Yorkers and commuters NYT.
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    • 268 5 Senate votes for lib foreign aid Bill THE Senate yesterday gave final approval to a foreign aid Bill lifting prohibitions on military sales to Argentina and Chile and imposing curbs on assistance to nations acquiring nuclear weapons. But it retained a ban mi US military aid to rebel forces m
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    • 35 5 BEIJING. Wed. China earned more than 5.7 million yuan (SJ6.B million) this year from opening up its mountains to foreign climbers and tourists, according to the president of the Chinese Mountaineering Association. Reuter.
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    • 114 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. The United States is making plans for a major military action if there are any further military threats from Cuba, Defence Undersecretary Fred Dele said yesterday. Mr Dele told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that a Soviet-back-ed military build-up m Cuba, 150 km from
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    • 184 5 A stay on mergers of big oil firms WASHINGTON, Wed. A House of Representatives' energy subcommittee yesterday approved a Bill to ban major oil company mergers and acquisitions until mid-1963. The legislation proposed by Republican Clarence Brown, a leading foe of the proposed Mobil takeover of Marathon Oil of Find
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    • 97 5 Underwater birth brings wave of joy trough Oiled with warm water. When the baby emerged it was allowed to breathe through the umbilical cord for eight minutes before being token oat of the water. According to Mr Rodgers, his child is the fourth m the world to be delivered by
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    • 187 5 -Enough funds to keep govt going till March WASHINGTON, Wed. President Ronald Reagan signed a compromise budget resolution yesterday which will keep the US Federal Government running until March 31. "The control of government spending, reducing inflationary expectations, restoring jobs, growth and prosperity for Americans is a slow and difficult
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    • 54 5 feelers, NEW DELHI, Wed. India is sounding Third World Countries about a possible conference m New Delhi next year to discuss cooperation between the poor nations of the South, an Indian Government spokesman said today. He said the meeting could take place during Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere's visit
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    • 167 6 SADAT'S VILLA GOES IN OPERATION CLEAN-UP WORKERS bulldozing what was once President Anwar Sadat's resthouse near the Great Pyramids m Cairo. President Hosni Mubarak approved the demolition m the first part of a clean-up operation. The presidency resthouse is one of more than 300 weekend cottages and tourist nightclubs dotting
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    • 43 6 NEW YORK, Wed. Four Vietnam war veterans depart today on a 16,093 km journey to Hanoi for talks with their former enemies about Orange, the defoliant chemical, and the 2,500 US servicemen who never returned from jungles m South-east Asia. UPI.
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    • 92 6 BAHRAIN, Wed. Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, may have oil reserves twice as large as those already discovered, according to Its OU Minister, Sheikh Ahmed ZaU Yamanl. The official Saudi Press Agency today quoted Snelkh Yamanl as saying In a lecture at Jordan
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    • 64 6 GUATEMALA CITY, Wed. Unidentified gunmen spraying submachine gun fire from a speeding motorcycle killed the President of Guatemala's largest university, authorities "Mario Dary Rivera. 51, was shot to death yesterday m his car shortly after leaving his office at Guatemala City s San Carlos University, the largest
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    • 389 6 IN A rare move, the United States said it would vote m the United Nations to condemn Israel for annexing the Golan Heights. Washington officials said the US would support a condemnation of Israel if was not "too shrill" or if
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    • 200 6 Libya expects US to stop buying its oil NEW DELHI, Wednesday LIBYA has said it expects America to totally stop buying Libyan oil because of animosity between the two natio"° "If America withdraws all its help, I don't think the US will ask for a drop of oil from Libya,"
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    • Sideliners
      • 90 6 SCIENTISTS m Los Angeles said reports of a huge creature resembling a brontosaurus m a remote African Jun,u, were m, c tne reported sigh'.u.ps of the abominable snowman ar.i the Loch Ness monster. "I'm sceptical," Dr CjvVJ Whistler, a paleontology* at the Los Angeles county imiseum, said. "It
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      • 54 6 WOMEN ARE the most frequent shoplifters, often stealr ing out of monotony, neglect or unsatisfied sexual desire, the Ladies Home Journal reported m its January issue which appeared m New York yesterday. "Between one-fourth and one-third of all shoplifters are women" In the 20-50 a^e group
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      • 61 6 A "HEAVEN and hell" party was held yesterday outside the Federal Courthouse where Arkansas creationscience law is being challenged. Robert "Say" Mclntosh, a local restaurateur and activist, was at the courthouse, clad m a devil's suit, to serve free slices of sweetpotato pie to supporters of the
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    • 143 6 LOS ANGELES, Wed. Ueve In BuU *nyw»y, A psychologist says at lout utll tney we parents should not feel old (Mfk to at* the guilty when they "Ue" reality, sic saM. to their children about The myth of Sant*, the existence of SanU Dr
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  • 373 7  -  MAY HO By STARDOM FOR THOSE WITH SOMETHING TO GIVE FUTURE stars of Singapore Broadcasting Corporation programmes will be people from the streets of Singapore the average Singaporean with something to offer. They could be housewives with a recipe to share, a
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  • 16 7 THE children's Christmas party at Brickworks community centre on Dec 20 has been cancelled.
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  • 196 7 WOMAN PAID $10,000 FOR SHARES' TWO unemployed men were yesterday fined $5,000 each by a district court for cheating a businesswoman of $10,000 by making her believe that she had bought shares. Wee Liang Leng, 23, and Leong Kam Meng, 34, were also jailed a day each for jointly deceiving
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  • 30 7 THE new Pakistani ambassador, Mr Afzal Mahmood, yesterday presented his credentials to President C.V. Devan Nair at the Istana. He is accredited to Singapore but i-e-sides m Rangoon.
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  • 131 7 Search for tontine head 'with $100,000' ABOUT IN people la Tainan Jnrong are lookIng for their tontine head who,they claimed, is holding about $IM,IM of their money. The victim*, mostly housewives, are now said to be looking for the tontine operator, a middle-aged housewife, who disappeared a fortnight ago with
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  • 40 7 Computer course A COMPUTER training course will start on Dec 23 at the PAP Toa Payoh Education Centre. Classes will be held every Wednesday from 7 to 10 pm. The course will last three months and costs $150 per person.
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  • 111 7 CUPPAGE Centre, off Orchard Road, has been vibrating during the day and its landlord, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), is trying to find out why. Tenants of several offices on the lower floors said there have been slight tremors m the building throughout the day. Hawkers
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  • 268 7 Higher food prices send CPI up FOOD prices, which remained stable m October, went up last month to push the consumer price index (CPI) up by 0.7 per cent. Vegetables, fruits and cooking oils were cheaper m November. However, dearer pork, fowl, fish and eggs more than offset these falls
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  • 41 7 THE Cairnhill community centre Malay cultural group will be conducting courses on MalayVolk dance, Malay drama workshop, Angklung and choir every Saturday and Sunday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m from Dec 21. For more details ring *****37.
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  • 305 8 Now music to help the food go down at Clementi SWEET mule is dished np at a Clementi hawker centre to add that little extra spice to life. Behind the Instruments are a group of musicians who nave not always struck a happy note with the public. They were formed
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  • 168 8 FOUR police officers will leave for Japan tomorrow on a 10-day visit to study the Japanese policing system and community-po-lice relations. They are acting assistant commissioners Jagjit Singh (Commander Areas), Chua Cher Yak (Director, Training) and Goh Liang Hwang (Director, Strategic Planning), and Insp
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  • 70 8 DR GREGORY CLARK, professor of comparative culture at Tokyo's Sophia University will give a lecture on Japan and her people The people are the enterprise at the National University of Singapore today from 5.15 to 6.45 p.m. at Lecture Theatre 10. The lecture is organised by the
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  • 24 8 A HOLIDAY camp organised by the Tampines community centre at the Outward Bound School will be held on Saturday at 3 p.m.
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  • 391 8  - ON A NATIONAL LEVEL Project to help couples prepare for marriage EVELYN NG, By Social Services Reporter A MARITAL and family service project, the first of its kind here, is being s f arted by the Counselling and Care Centre to help couples prepare for marriage and parenthood. The centre
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  • 170 8 CARPARK THAT IS SHUNNED BY STAFF THE car park at Changi Airport that car ownersseem to avoid is being subsidised by its operators, Singapore Airlines, it was claimed yesterday. When the airport opened charges at the car park were raised from $10 to $50 a month. The airline maintainscosts have
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  • 57 8 THE Kuo Chuan Zone D residents' committee will be organising a badminton and table tennis tournament for residents. The table tennis tournament will be held from tomorrow until Sunday and the badminton tournament will be held from Dec 23 to 29. Registration forms can be obtained
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  • 295 8 Abortion plea mum jailed for taking drugs A 19-YEAR-OLD female drug offender, who was granted two adjournments last month to enable her to have an abortion, was produced m court yesterday on a warrant of arrest because she jumped bail on the third occasion she was supposed to attend court.
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  • 147 8 SIA acts to end discounting in Bonn SINGAPORE Airlines has begun moves to take Itself out of the discount market m the West German travel industry. The airline has stopped distributing leaflets winch tell the German travelling public about its cheap air tickets and discounting poll y The airline has
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  • 382 8 Second terminal at Changi to cost over $450 m CHANGI Airport's second passenger terminal building is expected to cost over $450 million to build and will have centralised checking system. The deputy director of the Public Works Department, Mr Goh Keng Chew, said yesterday the authorities are now studying several
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  • 446 9  -  RONNIE WAI By Jurong Reporter BICYCLE patrols have caught on Jurong Police Station bought 10 bicycles to complement their foot and car patrjls. They began their patrols m twos yesterJay". The acting OC of Jurong station, acting Deputy Supt Yee Teck Yong, told The
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  • 90 9 Sembawang to get 3 soil-less farms THE Primary Production Department is developing three hydroponic farms m Sembawang farms that grow vegetables and plants without soil. It is understood that the farms Evergreenery, Evershine and Evergreen will be set up on a 20hectare site. Two more such farms may be built
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  • 46 9 Computer careers A TALK, "Careers with Computers", will be given tomorrow at 3.00 p.m. m the Oueenstown branch library lecture room. The talk, by Dr Yeo Gee Kin of the National University of Singapore, is organised by the library's Promotion and Programmes section. Admission is free.
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  • 199 9 Wide range of Chinese machinery to go on display SOME $5 million worth of machinery from China will be on display from Saturday at East Machinery Pte Ltd at Kung Chong Road. The equipment include lathes, milling machines, grinding machines, motors, switches and power tools, many displayed m this region
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  • 50 9 A THREE-DAY photographic exhibition by the Singapore Photographic Trade Association will be held at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce's hall from tomorrow until Monday The association's president. Mr Ton Urn Kwong, will open the exhibition of colour photographs at 6 p.m. to mark its 21st anniversary.
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  • 465 9  - Car siren became 'instant alarm' at blaze GERALD PEREIRA, RC chairman praisec for presence of mind By Crime Desk THERE was too little time and too many residents to wake and warn of a fire m their block m Jalan Bukit Merah. So the chairman of the residents' committee did
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  • 329 11  -  r LOW GUAT TIN By PRINCIPALS of aided schools complained yesterday that they were spending too much time raising money and not enough time at their proper jobs. They say the cost of maintenance, building materials, and labour have risen dramatically m the
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  • 18 11 DR LEE LAY TDM has been appointed by the Ministry of Labour as Inspector of Factories.
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  • 339 11 THE grooming of Singapore's new highranking civil servants to help them become all-rounders ended on Tuesday when they returned from an Asean tour. The three-month induction course included a session at the Elsa Yeo modelling agency, learning table manners, how to sit, stand, dress,
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  • 172 11 FINE, BAN FOR CAUSING FRIEND'S DEATH SIX teenagers m a car were on their way to fish m Kranji when tragedy struck, a district court heard yesterday. The driver, Ong Eng Huat, 18, was travelling along Farrer Road on the night of May 2 when he hit a bus which
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  • 90 11 SAN SHAN Primary school will be officially handed over to the Ministry of Education by the Public Works Department today. Costing $4.5 million, this is the third of the 50 schools under the second school building programme. The school is located at
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  • 209 11 Downpour makes roads impassable to traffic SEVERAL areas were flooded and some roads were impassable to traffic during heavy rain throughout the island yesterday. The floods came with yesterday's high tide at 1.43 p.m. Trees were uprooted and several cars broke down during the downpour. Police said three roads, Hertfort
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  • 119 11 Wet Xmas likely as more rain expected A WET Christmas is likely as more rain Is expected for the rest of the month. A Meteorological Service statement ha* said that a "surge" of the North-Eaat Monsoon was responsible for the continuous rala m the past five days. Bat It Is
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  • 77 11 Learning better ways to play PARENTS, children and members of the public will get together for an afternoon's workshop on Saturday to learn more enjoyable and creative play. The workshop, organised by the Social Affairs Ministry, will include indoor games, songs, handicraft sessions and a Muppet show. The workshop aims
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  • 132 11 THE Member of Parliament for Radin Mas, Mr M. K. A Jabbar. will ask the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Dr Goh Keng Swee, m Parliament on Dec 22 if there are plans to build a new primary school m the Radin
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  • 340 11 ABOUT 300 journalists from four Chinese newspapers will forgo their holiday on Jan 1 to review the performance of the Chinese press. They will attend a seminar on upgrading quality to achieve greater professionalism at the Equatorial Hotel on New Year's Day. The
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  • 44 11 THE managing director of Tan Chong Realty m Upper Bukit Timah Road told the police that six electric typewriters worth about $14,100 were stolen from his office. Mr Y.L. Ong, 32, said his secretary discovered the theft at 9 a.m. on Monday.
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  • CAUSEWAY
    • 379 13 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that his administration is "looking East" to countries like Japan and South Korea because their development is more relevant to Malaysia's growing economy. Dr Mahathir, who will be m Singapore for a
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    • 86 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Some 1.5 million people visited Malaysia during the first 11 months of this year, an increase of 5 per cent over the same period last year, Director-general of Tourist Development Hamzah Majid told reporters yesterday. He said 60 per cent of the tourists
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    • 39 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Forty Vietnamese refugees m a small wooden fishing boat landed at Dunging 224 km northeast oi here, yesterday, refugee officials said They will be sent to the island refugee camp on Pulau Bidong. AP.
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    • 274 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The United States has now become the holiday haven for Malaysian Cabinet ministers, dislodging traditional Britain. Four have already chosen to have their holiday m the US this year and more are expected to follow. One apparent reason for the switch is
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    • 312 13 Need for sixth university under study KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Malaysian Government Is looking Into the need to set op a sixth university to cater for the large number of students who require higher education, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. "I have initiated a study of
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    • 265 13 Membership for sale in ex-cops' association MEMBERSHIP of the ex-policemen's association can be "bought" even though a person has not been m the force, the Malay Mail reported today. It said the price ranged between MJ3OO and Msl.ooo The paper said among those who have become "ex-cops" are small businessmen
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    • 200 13 KOTA BAKU, Wed. The trial of two women and a man charged m the kadi's court here with selling or abetting m the sale of alcoholic drinks could not proceed after the prosecution objected to the presence of a nonMuslim the defence counsel m court.
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  • CAUSEWAY
    • 254 14 MOVES have been started to reorganise completely Malaysia's National Padi and Rice Authority (LPN) which suffered millions of dollars m losses. The LPN is expected to conclude the reorganisation by March next year. The LPN board, under the new chairmanship of Datuk Haii Basir Ismail,
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    • 81 14 THE French Ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, Mr Andre Travert, is to be replaced, the Far Eastern Economic Review said m its latest edition. The magazine said the impending move reflects a change of view m Paris which has long regarded Kuala Lumpur as being m diplomatic backwaters.
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    • 81 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Primary Industries Deputy Minister, Mr Buiang Haji Ulis, said yesterday that Malaysia would be a net importer of oil by the end of the decade if no new oil fields were located and developed. Opening the annual meeting of senior
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    • 140 14 ARMY PUTS HEAT ON REDS IN KEDAH KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Security forces have stepped up antiterrorist operations In Kedah, a senior police official said today. laspector-General Tan Sri Hanlff Omar said the operations aimed to track down the terrorists who last month ambushed and killed seven security force members In
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    • 289 14 Millions await rightful land owners in Johore HUNDREDS of land owners whose properties have been acquired by the state still do not know that millions of dollars are waiting to be claimed. The money is m the High Court which is act- i-^—i-^—— JOHORE BARU, W«d. ing as trustee until
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    • 49 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The sale and firing of firecrackers are prohibited under the law, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Mr Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik told the Senate this week. Replying to a question, Mr Abdul Rahim said the government had no plans to ban the non-explosive crackers. NST.
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    • 254 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Rhinoceros, feared extinct on Borneo island, have been discovered m the Lahad Datu area of Sabah, according to a survey by the World Wildlife Fund Malaysia (WWFM). Seven of the mammals, including a young rhino, have been spotted
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    • MALAYSIAN ROUND-UP
      • 66 14 THE University Hospital in Kuala Lumpur made Malaysian medical nistory when its surgeons restored the sight of a woman who was blind in one eye. The hour-long operation known as "intraocular lens implant" was carried out on a retired tapper K. Chinnakannu, it was reported yesterday. She is
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      • 60 14 RETRENCHMENT looms at the Free Trade Zone in Bayan Lepas in view of the recessionary situation in the electronics industry. Industry sources said so far one factory in Penang's electronic components manufacturing centre is known to have retrenched workers including its managerial staff. The move was made
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      • 57 14 MALAYSIAN youth organisations have been asked to stop giving elaborate welcoming ceremonies to ministers and instead concentrate on their own activities. Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Mokhtar Hashim, told a gathering of youth leaders in Kuala Lumpur that elaborate welcomes such as motorcycle escorts often given a
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      • 69 14 A TOTAL of 6,977 illegal immigrants had been arrested and deported from 1979 until August this year. Deputy Home Affairs Minister Rahim Datuk Tamby Chik told the Senate in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday that the government did not have figures on illegal immigrants from Indonesia adding that there
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      • 44 14 INVESTIGATIONS to locate potential zones for ground-water supply are being carried out throughout the country to provide an alternative to surface-water, Deputy Primary Industries Minister Haji Bujang Ulis told reporters in Ipoh yesterday after opening a conference on geology here. NST.
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    • 763 14 W^\n a world of mass prxxiuctoi, compromise and horse trading, its refreshirgtoo^sco\€raperfectk)nist. Mr Peter Tan Sr is HHH| perfectly it may be a master tailor. He has been JflHK^ I necessar y to P u^ lt with Robinson's for thirty js..-. J^HRT >^fl^Bt a P art twice before five years.
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  • 254 15 Anson void deck office rented out to PA PREMISES m a Housing Board void deck m Anson constituency now being used by the People's Action Party as a branch office and education centre will be rented to the People's Association. This means the PAP will have to give up the
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  • 106 15 refrigerator 1 -STATE Coroner Tan Soo Kiang yesterday recorded a verdict of misadventure on the death of Mohamed "Rozir bin Mohamed Salleh, 18, who was electrocuted at his Lorong Tai Seng home on May 17. Mohamed Rozie was found lying m the kitchen beside a fallen refrigerator
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  • 336 15 I THE countdown to Christmas Day is on but some department stores are still waiting for the big rush. People have been slow 1 m turning up this year, say Isetan, C.K. Tang and Robinson's. Other stores say they are doing just fine. Isetan
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  • 460 15 Vehicle traders urged not to rest on their laurels MEMBERS of the Singapore Cycle and Motor Traders' Association were urged last night to increase their productivity and not become contented and complacent with their increased business m recent years. Making this call, the Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Trade and Industry), Mr
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  • 96 15 THE United World Coltege building fund has received a $100,000 donation from the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association. The chairman of the UWC Development Fund Committee, Mr R. H. L. Bacon, received the cheque from the chairman «f the association, Mr C. Holdroff on Tuesday
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  • 154 15 TROUBLE WHEN 1733' WAS CALLED PRISON warder Lim Soon Huat was walking past a coffee-shop one night when he heard someone calling out his service number 1733 Soon after this a man walked up to him and aggressively asked if Mr Lim recognised him. Before Mr Lim could reply, he
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  • 193 15 More arrests expected after graft swoop MALAYSIAN and Singapore anti-corruption officials are confident of more arrests after four Malaysians were picked up m Singapore on Tuesday following an investigation into a corruption scandal involving certain Malaysian Customs officers. In a statement soon after the arrest, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau
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  • 49 15 River Valley courses ELEMENTARY Japanese is the subject at a three-month course starting on Jan 10 at the River Valley community centre. For further details telephone *****84. Other courses at the centre include cake-making starting on Dec 23, dressmaking starting Dec 30 and restaurant cooking beginning on Jan 8.
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  • 468 16 The Anson assurance SO THE Prime Minister has spoken on Anson and what it means to his government and the nation. All concerned about how this country will continue to be run had better take note. His were measured words, pregnant with political meaning. They revealed not
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  • 2495 16 Malaysia's Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, arrives today for a twoday official visit, his first to the Republic since becoming Premier. New Nation regional correspondent, Ismail Kassim, interviewed Dr Mahathir m Kuala Lumpur on Monday. On Malaysia-Singapore relations I don't know
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  • 549 16  -  HAROLD JACKSON By m WASHINGTON THE world arms race has achieved a momentum unparalleled m peacetime. Military spending m 1981 reached at least US$55O billion (5J1.13 billion) a year, of which about one-fifth is being spent on nuclear weapons. The five countries with acknowledged nuclear arsenals
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  • 1122 17  -  TAN LIAN CHOO, By Diplomatic Correspondent 4 ...talking with Dr Mahathir will be easier for Mr Lee because the Malaysian PM is frank and direct. Indeed Dr Mahathir, who believes m pragmatic nation-building through steady economic growth while adhering to traditional Asian cultural virtues,
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  • 769 17  -  JOHN DARNTON By m WARSAW ABOUT 12.8 km south of here, m a little village called Dabrowka Wilanowska, there is a Polish millionaire. He owns several greenhouses, which raise flowers to sell m central Warsaw, a fox farm, a mink farm and more than one
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  • FORUM
    • 161 18 THIS is m reply to "Bombarded by Pets" (ST, Dec 9). "Bombarded by Pets" all too clearly typifies the ugly Singaporean. This narrow-minded, self-centred individual loves only himself and his own species. The pettiness of his complaints attests to the cloud of
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    • 144 18 Where that 'happy pig' came from [N his speech, Mr S Rajaratnam attributes to Socrates the words: "What would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy man? (ST, Dec 9). rhe source of the quotation is probably a passage m John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism "It is better to
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    • 70 18 WHEN I take my breakfast along with The Straits Times, I first look to the Forum page to select any prime items to whet the appetite. But holy cow, I did not quite bargain for the chunky hunk dished out by "Bombarded by Pets" (ST, Dec
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    • 79 18 THE SPCA has their "donation boxes" m the form of cats and dogs m major shopping centres. Even before the plight of the SPCA was publicised, whenever I go shopping with my young daughter, I always let her have all my loose change to put m
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    • 517 18 SBS on improvement of services I REFER to the letters "Rough and tumble ride by Commuter Chin and "Thrown off our feet" by RD (ST, Oct 27), and "Mystery of the bus stamp shortage" by "Fuming mad" (ST, Nov 12). The bus that Commuter
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    • 337 18 Problem posed by bus lanes that are too long MANY of our present bus lanes are definitely overdrawn. This does not help the buses to travel faster. In fact, it has the opposite effect. Moreover, the lines are also a nuisance to other motorists. One example is the bus lane
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    • 223 18 I REFER to the New Nation article on Central Provident Fund (CPF) contributions headlined "NTUC: Give bosses a boost" (Dec 4), which was also carried by The Straits Times. Your reporter enquired about the subjects scheduled for discussion during our meeting with Dr Tony
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    • 129 18 All I got for saving energy was bigger bill AS one who realises that Singapore spends a huge amount of money to produce energy, I took positive steps to do my part m energy-conservation. Nine months a o, I replaced several electrical appliances with new ones of very much lower
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    • 161 18 I REFER to the article "Rickety Shape of Things m GynV" (ST, Dec 1) and the letter by "Enthusiast" (ST, Dec 10). The Singapore Sports Council has not lowered its standard m the management and maintenance of its public gymnasium at the National Stadium.
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    • 181 18 I REFER to the interesting letter "It's 'progress' and not amateur hunting that wipes out wildlife, (ST, Dec 11) by Outdoor Man. It is the mention of fishing that causes me to write this letter. It is true that an angler might have to spend
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    • 68 18 2-CMED 20-27 DEC 1981 oV (■■mm* titt China Machinery Equipment Display Exhibition Place East Building EAST MACHINERY PTE.LTD. 2 Kung Chong Road (Off Long Kee Road) Alexandra Singapore 0315 Date 20th to 27th DEC 1981 T.me 1 1 00 am to 8 00pm (Also open on Sundays Holidays) j iBS
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  • TIMESBUSINESS
    • 366 19 BL sells offshoot LONDON, Wed. The British Leyland (BL) Motor Company said yesterday it was selling off Coventry Climax, a loss-making offshoot which produces forklift trucks. The sale of Coventry Climax is the latest in a string of sales designed to let the state-owned company concentrate more on mainstream
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    • 120 19 MANILA, Wed. The overall balance of payments deficit in the Philippines for the first 10 months of 1961 rose to US$846.20 million ($1,734 billion) from US$414.47 million in the same period last year, central bank statistics show. But central bank governor Jaime Laya said he expected the year-end
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    • 149 19 Guthrie queried THE Singapore Stock Exchange has queried Guthrie Bhd regarding the sharp increase in the price of its shares recently. Pointing out that under the exchange's corporate disclosure policy, immediate disclosure should be made about the company's affairs when it is likely to have a significant effect on
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    • 410 19 Textile manufacturers in depressed. mood HONGKONG, Wed. Textile and garment manufacturers here are winding up another year m a depressed mood. This stems largely from prospects of more future import restrictions by the developed countries under the provisions of a new multlfibre arrangement (MFA), expected to be finally thrashed out
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    • 825 19  -  WONG MAI YUN MORE EMPHASIS ON HDB FLATS? By THE construction industry has become overheated and if Singapore were to be foolish enough to want to build its proposed mass rapid transit (MRT) system now, it will find itself m trouble. This warning
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    • 222 19 THE public offer of 7.5 million new International Trust and Finance (ITF) shares at $1.70 each has received an overwhelming vote of endorsement from the investing public. At the close of applications yesterday, the ITF issue was oversubscribed by between 37 and 40 times. This
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    • 204 19 HONG Leong Credit Bhd, following the impressive results obtained for the year ended last June 30, has announced a bonus issue of one-for-one. For the period ended June this year, the company has achieved a consolidated pretax profit of $10.99 million, an increase
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    • 124 19 NEPTUNE Orient Lines Ltd (NOD has entered into agreement to sell the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) the Neptune Building at Trafalgar Street and the freehold land on which the building is erected for $1.7 million. This represents a $683,000 surplus from its net book value
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    • 47 19 THE Singapore Microcomputer Society will be holding a talk Microcomputers m Scientific Applications for its members during the monthly meetingon Dec 21. Dr Hari Gunasingham from the National University of Singapore (NUS) will be showing how microcomputers are extending the value of scientific laboratory research.
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    • 137 19 SINGAPORE: Share prices clotted narrowly mixed on late profit-tak-ing after a wave of sellIng earlier In the afternoon prompted by unconfirmed reports Soviet transport planes landed In Warsaw overnight. The Strait* Times Industrial* Index fell 3.63 potato to 753.18. KUALA LUMPI'R: The stock market ended silently easier on
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    • 145 19 I p Down Inch Industrials 32 49 Finance 6 7 Hotels 2 5 Properties 3 4 3 Minings 4 Plantations 3 5 1 Deb/Loans 111 The All Ordinaries Index fell 1.4 points to 594.1. Most stocks were traded In a narrow range with many larger industrials easing and turnover
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    • CHIEF PRICE CHANGES
      • 38 19 Leong Credit Public Bank ■land Pen rat Lee Bank )CBC Leon« Huat fall BankiDf .'td Plantations flyle* 1280 8S0 705 SOU 1120 320 414 730 520 138 40 40 30 25 20 20 16 15 15 13
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      • 35 19 Sea View C Sug.ru MTC TaipinK Textile M B f Hld(* H l.eonit Pla Urtan PMC BUI 835 1250 MO 350 770 755 454 408 -ou -30 -20 -20 -18 -15 -15 -12 -12
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      • 24 19 Hytex r D M Bhd duthrie Supremp Corp Paber Mprlin roul turnover: 764m fota I value: S28.63m 410.00C 392.00C 370.000 305.000 289.000
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      • 36 19 BT Indicator: Industrials: Finance: Hotel*. Properties: Minings Plantations OCBC: SESInd: Dec id uec v> *****1 *****5 757 61 753 98 1644.69 *****3 1210.53 1205 IS 732.50 734.44 337.25 335.S 927.50 928.22 731.41 ***** MJI MUI
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    • 62 19 •stetd Bhd Jaaeai itkiir Bbd iw Pv «-E3ee ehmpeBM rc -4 -10 5 -6 -2 -3 -20 NBT N»t lr.o PMC Perth Plaat Prims -6 -5 -12 ■A 10 -4 ScmbShlp Sap Carp Sime Dkrby StSteMUklp St Trmdlng Times Pib D EaglMsen 5 -6 -1 *10
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  • 2408 20 SECTION ONE INDl'STRIAl A COMMERCIAL 1980 L«.t D** High Low Company Salt or- Nel P/E Vol Day COOO) High Low 494 248 Aetna 292 -3 14.5 US 115 Alcom IIS 4.8 350 130 Allied Choc 204 +4 7.0 312 190 B A T 250 45.5 420 308
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  • 604 20 INVESTORS adapted a wait-and-see attitude early yesterday an the Stock Kxchaa%e Siagapare but more bad news from Poland seat prices skMdlaK hi the aftenma. Tuesday's late rally haißed the market to open an a steady note with most price* quoted slightly setter than overnight
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  • 605 20 SHARE prices finished broadly lower on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday m generally quiet business conditions. Trading volume was little changed. The market opened slightly above overnight levels but volumes began to ease towards the lunch break. Afternoon trading saw prices declining further and, on balance,
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  • 35 20 Industrials Finance Hotels Properties Oil Palms Tins rubbers robbers Deb Loans Up 20 4 5 3 3 4 Down 51 5 1 3 1 6 5 1 Unch 15 2 3 3 3
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  • 1147 20 BID and Oder prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. All Times Settlement Contracts are quoted after the world "sett". Big Board deal
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  • 697 20 PLANTATIONS Batu Kawan (3.408 3.488) (1) 3.50 (3) 3.46 (5) 3.48 Batu Lintang (3.508) (1) 3.50 (1) 3.60XD Benta (3.708) Cona Plant (1.998 2.008) (1) 1.08 (12) 2.00 (24) 1.09 Dunlop Eat (5.758 5 80S) (11) 5.80 (21) 5.70 (6) 5.85 (18) 5.75 Glenealy (2.708 3.008) High A Low
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  • OVERSEASE
    • 259 20 HONGKONG: The stock market closed Wednesday's halfday session slightly lower with the Hang Seng index down 5.03 points at *****5, dealers said. With the initial impact of news from Poland having worn off, the market lacked direction and drifted down m quiet, featureless trading, they added. There was some
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    • 345 20 SYDNEY: The stock market was quietly mixed yesterday, dealers said. The All Ordinaries index fell 0.4 points to 594.0. Most stocks were traded m a narrow range with many larger industrials easing and turnover very low. Oik, Tooths, Comaieo and BramMca each lost five cents, Myer eased three cents
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  • 1840 20 BID and offer prices officially listed and business m and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares traded shown m brackets m lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified DTOURBIALS AJaeaaete (3.208) Aleeai (1.465) (4) 1.50 (21) 1.48 (1) 1.45 (7) 1.46
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 636 21 PRICES m the Singapore rubber market closed slightly lower yesterday, with January RSS One buyers quoted at 179.00 cents per kilo, down four cents from Tuesday's close, dealers said. Morning prices were marked down about five cents on lower London advices, reserve of buyers and stale bull liquidation, they
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    • 94 21 NOON SSR tnd SMR prm yaUnUjr HAS Jtßuary February (Carnal Mth) (Forward Mia) Bayers Seller* Buyers Seller* SSR 20 (l-tcmptUM) 163.00 164.00N 16S00 166.00N SSR 60 (l-unptUttl ***** 160.00N 160.00 162.00N MBBLB Jusary February SMRCV (luoptJlMl 186 00 187.00N 187.00 18B00N SMRL (1 100 pallet! 164.00 IW.OON
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  • 34 21 Rubber: Dec 16 Singapore: Jan: 179.00 cents (down 4.00 cents) Malaysia: Jan: 196.00 cents (down 5.00 cents) Tin: M 535.12 per kilo (up 2 cents) Official offering: 208 tonnes (down 13 tonnes)
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  • 140 21 CHINESE Prwtaee Rxchaajrr, Slnxaparr, n*M etaalag prices per IN »k ywrtenUy. CaeMit «il: Bulk fob $108.00 sellers, old drum (m second hand drum) fob $122.00 sellers, new drum fob $126.00 sellers. («prm: Mixed (loose) $59.50 buyers. Pepper: Muntok white pepper fob Asta NLW $370.00 sellers, Sarawak white pepper
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  • 223 21 THE STRAITS tin price closed 2 cents up to M 535.12 m Penang yesterday, on an official offering down 13 tonnes to 208 tonnes. The overnight London market for forward buyers was down £90 to £8,225. LONDON: Tin closed with losses of up to £180 for Three Months m
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  • 138 21 KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian crude palm oil market continued to move higher yesterday despite operators becoming sidelined m late trading, dealers said. In December, south gained Mss to $895 per tonne while central was at $890 In January, south was unchanged at {890 while central rose $10 to
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  • 30 21 LONDON: Copper prices on Tuesday (previous m brackets). Wirebar Spot £859.00 (£871.00); sellers £860.00 (£871.50); Three Month buyers £883.00 (£892.50); selle i £884.00 (£893.00). Market Mac: Easier. Sale.: 21.490.
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  • 33 21 Taea Mas New York 8.658 8.708 8.72S 8.77S Zurich 8.608 8.708 8.70S B.BOS Woa TaeaSingapore 8.628 8.658 8.77S B.BOS Closing prices m US dollars a troy ounce. Saane: Credit Ssdsae, S'ptrr.
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  • 204 21 THE kilobar market (or gold deliverable m Singapore opened at $27,793 and close at $27,790 yesterday The Far East market opened at U*****.50 $419 00 and moved higher to $419.00. $420.00 but (ell to $416.75 $417.25. Support was seen at this level and the market moved higher to $417.50
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  • 339 21 THE US dollar closed below Tuesday's close m the Spore forex market yesterday, as the Poland crisis factor receded to the background However the Poland situation emerged as a factor again when news of Moscow transport warplanes were rumoured to have landed m Warsaw Panic buying of
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  • 46 21 RANGE of prices offered by discount houses on Dec 16: Overnight: 2%to4'.'> Call deposits: 2* to 4.. Closiag Buyiaf Selliaf 3-monlh Treasury bills 3M 3 3-month Bank bills 75/18 7 3/18 3 months CD 7H 7U 6 months CD 8% 8* Shim: NsMsasl Mseiaal C*.
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  • 31 21 Closing Interbank rates for Singapore dollars on Dec 16: Offer Bid Overnight 2 lfc 1 month 63/16 61/16 2 months 7 7- 3 months TH IV. Overnight mode 2
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  • 345 21 ASIAN currency deposit Interbank rates as at close on Dec 16: ISDollsrKSpotl Offer Bid 7 days 12. 12W 1 month 1215/1612 13/16 2 months 131/16 1215/18 3 months 13 3/16 131/16 6 months 141/16 13 15/16 9 months 14* 14* 12 months 14H 14* Bw.Fr*. Das. (Middle Priem)
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  • OVERSEASE MARKETS CONTINUED
    • 365 21 TOKYO: Share prices closed mixed yesterday, with an uncertain sentiment prevailing, after a firm morning following the yen's firmness against the dollar and the overnight Wall Street recovery, dealers said. Yen Allnomoto Akal 990 -1 Aaanl Chem 930 +1 Asahl Olass 666 +1 Bank Tk 366 unch Banyu 061
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    • 410 21 NEW YORK, Tues. Stocks ended the day slightly higher as the market settled into a narrow trading range following its steep slide yesterday. The Dow Jones average finished up 4.47 points to 875.96 points. Advances managed to edge past declines near the close by around 780-to-750 despite trailing
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    • 718 21 London- Selected indices LONDON, Wed. Share prices opened slightly firmer In quiet trading today, dealers said. The firmer opening was m extension of yesterday's late trend and followed the steadier tone on Wall Street, they added Electricals were firm, with GEC up 13p to 802p following I reports that the
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    • 256 21 AMSTERDAM, Tues. Snare prices were mixed, with tnllever down 0.60 and H«e> gaveas up 0.50 m Dutch internationals, dealers said. Shipper Ne_k>y. added 2.60 while m firmer banks, ABN gained 1.70 and NMB one R*beeo> fell 2.50 and B«_pm 1.70 m investment funds while insurer Amev was down one.
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    • 288 21 ZURICH, Tues. Share prices firmed to close mostly at previous day's levels after opening lower m line with yesterday s sharp decline m Wall Street, dealers said. The share market benefited mainly from a broadly firmer trend m bond trading. Foreign issues fully recovered from yesterday's fall m response
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    • 102 21 MANILA: The stock market was mixed yesterday, as commercials industrials eased and oils firmed. Turnover rose to one million pesos from 842,000 on Tuesday. Paws Aeoje Mlnlnf oms unch AUai Con. A Atlas Con B 19.40 unch Bafulo Oold 0025 unch Benruet Con B 4700 unch BT Ooodrtch CDCP
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    • 85 21 BANGKOK: Stock prices closed slightly higher m slow trading yesterday, dealers said. BatiU Aala fibre m unch Arutnmjrm Inv And Trust Bangkok Bank Ml unch Ban! O. Ajudhaya Lid 156 -3 Berll Jurker XD -2 Charoonf Thai Wire 218 rirst Trust a* +1 Industrial Finance Corp 106 +1 International
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    • 183 21 to open m late 1982 Wishes to thank all of those who promptly responded to our ads m this paper m November for the position of a marketing and sales executive. We regretfully advise the applicants that they should consider their applications disqualified if they do not hear from us
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    • 308 22 Beijing unveils company tax laws BEIJING, Wed. China's new income tax on foreign companies m China will take effect on Jan 1. A penalty of 1.5 per cent a day will be impose on overdue taxes, the official Xinhua news agency said today. Xinhua distributed a "tentative translation" of the
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    • 222 22 ONE of the three vessels to be built by the Singapore Shipbuilding Engineering Ltd for Hellenic Lines, the national flag carrier of Greece, will be launched a month ahead of schedule. More than 100 guests from around the world will witness the
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    • 452 22  - Finance firms look to banks for trends ANGELINE TAN By FINANCE companies are adopting a wait-and-see attitude in reducing their interest rates for loans. These finance companies are looking towards the banks for the trend in interest rates. A small survey carried out by Times Business showed that finance companies
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    • 199 22 JAPAN Development and Construction Co (JDC) has clinched the contract for the building of Chartered Bank's new 43storey block at Battery Road. Total cost of the buildins is estimated at $150 million. JDC submitted a bid of $115 million for the building's main
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    • 58 22 Petronas studying oil situation KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The state-owned oil agency. Petronas is studying closely the oil market situation before deciding whether to follow Opec ou producers m reducing oil prices, a spokesman said. He, however, did not say bow long this would take and whether it would lead to
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    • 377 22 BANK of Ame, ica has promoted five officers to assstant vice presidents. They are Mr David Chan Chee Chung, Mrs Rose Tan, Mr Daniel Tay, Mr Philip Tan and Mr Jeffrey Kee. Mr David Chan Chee Chung, who first joined the bank as a trainee officer m
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  • J OBITUARY
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      49 33 ATHMABANTHI BUBRAMANIAM (PMEBT) BRI RENG ANATHAR SHRINE (SENOKO) Passed away peacefully on 2.12J1. ATHMA SANTM prayers will be held at HOLY TREE SM BALASUaRAMAMIYAR TEMPLE (CANBERRA RD FORMER NAVAL BASE) on Sat. IS Dec. 1081 at 6.30 p.m. Oi»alm and ilahwa ara ooroiMny Mvnva to tiw pfiytn.
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    • 30 33 IN LOVING MEMORY Of MR TAY SEONG BENG Departed 17-12- 19 M Not Just today but everyday In silence we remember you. Sona, Pawghlafi In and grand-
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    • 103 33 IN L OVING MEMORY MARY CHAM Bom 2S-S-ISOS Diad: 17-12- itTS 2 yean may pau But memories of you will forever last. Deeply missed and always remembered by: Your children, ioni-in-li» daaghlaf a In law^gfandchtldran The family of the late MADAM CHUA MUI MEE sincerely thank the Venerable Sek Hong
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      219 33 In Evcftovtng Memory of Late MR. ONG THENG SWEE Born 1917 Departed 14th Dec, 1981 Sadly missed and always remembered by wives, sons, daughters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and grandchildren. Cortege nmnmm IS, Track 7, Mandal Road at 2.00 pm on Friday ISth Dee, ISSI tor Burial at Chwa Chu
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    • 71 33 THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MR C. DAMODHARAN NAIR Express ttMk gratitude to all r -1..i..- irl^rutm Si*t*iw *%4 Canessa Convant, Doctors and staff of Ward 52, Tan Tock Sang Heap Hal tor rhair kind aaalatance, oondolancss, attandancaa and prayars during tn#4r r#c^fit D#roAV onion is. AN ara
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    • 396 33 BROWN BOVERI KENT (EAST ASIA) PTE. LTD. deeply regret to advise that our DIRECTOR AND GENERAL MANAGER, MR. MANFRED W.O. SCHRAMM passed away suddenly on SUNDAY, 13th December. 1981 The funeral service will be held on Friday, 18th December, 1981 at Mount Vernon Crematorium Building No. 1 at 11.30 a.m.
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  • 348 34 Regis on target again for WBA Season's tally is now 17 LONDON, Wed. Cyrille Regis, the English First Division's leading scorer, sent another emphatic message to England soccer manager Ron Greenwood last night, by slamming two goals to ease West Bromwich Albion into the fifth round of the League Cup.
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  • 138 34 EBgUsa Div. 1: Swansea 2 Aston Villa 1. Raclteh Lcagae Cap f*arth r*ud: Crystal Palace 1 West Bromwich 3 (West Bromwich away to Aston Villa m quartei finals); Everton 2 Ipswich 3 (Ipswich home to Watford). Kaglteh FA Cop secaad raiid: Aldershot 2 Oxford 2 (replay at
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  • 56 34 FIRST DIVISION LEADERS TEAM P W D L F A PI Swansea 19 10 3 6 30 28 33 Man Utd **********2 Ipswich 16 10 2 4 28 19 32 Southampton 18 9 3 6 32 27 30 Tottenham 17 9 2 6 26 19 29 Form 18 8
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  • 180 34 It's back home for AEK's Kottides ATHENS, Wed. A 25-year-old striker who joined Greek First Division club AEK from Rhodes at the start of the season has been kidnapped by his family and taken home to his island. AEK sources said Manolis Kot tides' sudden departure had nothing to do
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  • 92 34 Middlesbro'lose their Best hope I'VE decided not to come V back to football this side of the Atlantic and the decision is final. I never agreed to play for Middlesbrough. There's no such thing as a verbal contract, and after thinking it over, I decided not to play over here.
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  • 338 34 LONDON, Wed. George Best, the former Manchester United soccer star, has turned his back on an English First Division comeback. Best, 35, had been expected to sign a contract with Middlesbrough yesterday, but instead flew to the United States
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  • 167 34 Austria give manager the big boot VIENNA, Wed. Austrian national soccer manager Karl Stotz has been sacked just 22 days after leading the side to next year's World Cup finals. Stotz, who said he will appeal m an Austrian Labour Court, was dismissed after a meeting of the Austrian Football
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  • 147 34 England hope to play Holland LONDON, Wed. England are hoping to arrange a soccer friendly against Holland as part of their World Cup countdown. "We've had discussions with the Dutch and are awaiting confirmation," said a Football Association official. The Dutch, World Cup runners-up m 1974 and 1978, failed to
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  • 127 34 Stars down but not out yet... COLOGNE, Wed. West Germany's brilliant young midfielder Bernd Schuster underwent a knee operation yesterday which will pat him out of soccer until March. Professor Paul Schneider, who carried oat the operation m a Cologne hospital, said everything had
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  • 119 34 PARIS, Wed. French World Cup soccer striker Dominique Rocheteau was cnce again hit by a mystery illness m training here yesterday. The 26-year-old ParisSaint Germain idol has fought a running battle against chest problems for the past year, but he seemed to have overcome the problem
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  • 72 34 VALENCIA, Wed. Spain and Belgium, who should be among the front-runners m next year's World Cup soccer finals, continue their build-up for the big event when they meet here today. The World Cup hosts will be based m Valencia for the first round next year
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    • 611 34 I Plant Technical I I Manager I $60,000 $70,000 A large international organisation, well established m Malaysia and engaged m the manufacture of high qua'ity metal products, is seeking an experienced Engineer to fill the posnton of Plant Technical Manager m its new expansion plant m Kelang. The successful candidate
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  • TMIESPORT PAGE TWO
    • 346 36  -  TIPTOP By Nawari, Goh and Samsudin fail to get their licences THREE local professional jackeys will be witkoat their licences m the siew racing seasan. Veteran rider Nawari bin All, Goh Rhone; Sye, and Samsndlo bin L. Mat have Jast been notlfled by the Malayan
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    • 407 36 ON THE TRACK WITH ..TIPTOP PENANG, Wed. Laststart winner Faatan, with Edward Chan m the saddle, showed that he is retaining form when he reeled off 600 m m 39 sees here this morning. The going was good. At the just-concluded Kuala Lumpur December
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    • 87 36 Tycoon's Theme (M. Lee) vent m 45. Kattegat (Heng) showed form m 41.2. Straight Ob (Raymond) finished ahead of Fntnre PresMeat (Podmore) and Chooa Foag II m a fast trial m 37.2. These horses did pace work on the grass: Silver Wren, Balik Pulau, Alvarona, Petir, Sunny Smile,
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    • 154 36 THE formidable ownertrainer combination of Upali Stable and Ivan Allan has broken up. Most of Upali's string are now with Ipoh trainer Chong Keng Leong. They include Vaaron, a leading contender for the $100,000 Governor's Gold Cup to be run m Penang on Dec 27.
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  • TIMESPORT PAGE THREE
    • 180 37 But Wimbledon champion Chris fights back from jaws of defeat EAST RUTHERFORD (New Jersey), Wed. Americans Andrea Jaeger, Tracy Austin and Martina Navratilova all had relatively easy victories m their opening matches m the women's Masters tennis tournament here yesterday, but Chris Evert Lloyd
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    • 152 37 Pakistanis move into Masters' last four KARACHI, Wed. Pakistan's top players yesterday moved into the semifinals of the PIA Masters squash championship here. The semi-finals will be an exclusively Pakistani affair as all foreign players were eliminated from the championship yesterday. Pakistan's top players, seeded from one to four, will
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    • 515 37 TWO SIGNIFICANT BREAKTHROUGHS IN THE lOC NEW YORK, Wed. The shattering of more sexist barriers and several outstanding individual performances highlighted the achievements of women m sports this year. One of the most archaic and hardened institutions m all of sports and therefore historically
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    • 510 38 Singapore's athletes have ability, but lack training, determination ATHLETICS and gymnastics were two of the main sports m which Singapore Slopped at the SEA Games m Manila. At the last Games m Jakarta, the Republic's athletes won two gold, six silver and four bronze medals. This time
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    • 69 38 BRISBANE, Wed. Opening batsman Faoud Bacchus scored a rousing century today as West Indies beat a Queensland Country team by 68 runs In a one-day, limited-overs match at Coulandra, north of here. Sc*n»: West Indies 214-7 m 45 overs (F. Bacchus 103 n.o M. Marshall 36,
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    • 32 38 SENDAI, Wed. Japans Katsuo Tokashiki outpointed Kirn Hwan-Jin, of South Korea, m a 15-round title fight here m Japan last night to become the World Boxing Association light flyweight champion. Reuter
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    • BRIEFS
      • 53 38 HOCKEY: New Zealand beat Malaysia 2-0 m the first of two Test matches m Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. Malaysia controlled the first half, winning seven penalty corners and two long corners against none for the visitors, but were unable to cash m on their opportunities. Arthur Parkins and
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      • 57 38 MOTOR RACING: Italian autoracers Bruno Giacomelli and Andrea de Cesaris will represent the Alfa Romeo team m the 1982 World Champion Formula One races. De Cesaris, who raced twice for Alfa at tha an/I nl >tu> IOOn. season, recently signed a contract with the Milan team. Giacomelli has
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      • 21 38 KUGBY: The Australian rugby union team beat Scottish North-Midlands 36-6 (halftime 12-3) m a friendly In Aberdeen on Tuesday.
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      • 80 38 IN Baagkak. Malaysia's Anchormen edged out Singapore's Yellow Jackets 7-6 and the Thai Police whipped Sri Lanka Police 23-6 m a Group B match of the second Asian Clubs tournament. Centre-three Colin Brake sent the Yellow Jackets ahead m the third minute with a try, full-back John Forte
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      • 46 38 IN Part*, France's most capped rugby union international, Roland Bertranne, is to retire from international competition. Bertram*, 32, who was capped 69 .times for France, said he had decided to carry on long enough to play Rumania ana the New Zealand All-Blacks this season.
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      • 56 38 IN Ly*as, club officials were unable to explain how a 25-year-old Moroccan student was killed while playing m a local rugby union match. Abdel Fatha Fermi, who played scrum-half for local side Rhone Sportif and Marocco's National University side, remained motionless after being tackled m the final minutes
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      • 42 38 SKI-ING: Yugoslav Boris Strel won the men's World Cup giant slalom event on Tuesday, edging out American Phil Mahre Strel's winning time over two heats was 2:41.06, while Mahre finished second m 2:41.33. Swiss Joel Gaspoz was third m 2:41.43.
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      • 61 38 TABLE TENNIS: Sweden beat Japan 5-2 m a friendly international m Soederhamn. Results 'Swedes first): Lars Franklin bt Tadashi Morishita 21-13, 21-11; Ulf Bengtsson bt Takumi Hagewara 21-15. 21-14: Bengtsson bt Morishita 21-19, 21-15; Bengtsson bt Masanori Uchida 21-15, 21-13; Ja-ove Waldner bt Hagewara 21-17, 2118; Waldner lost
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      • 52 38 YACHTING: Nine countries will send a total of 162 yachts to compete m the 37th Sydney-to-Hobart ocean race starting on Dec 26. The race will be the final m the Southern Cross Cup series. The entries are from Britain, Japan, Italy, Bermuda, Hongkong, New Zealand, Papra-Ncw Guinea and
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    • 338 38 It's time the SAGA put their house i n order... MANILA, Wed. Officials of Singapore's gymnastics team entertained no illusions of winning a medal m the South-east Asia Games last week m Quezon City. The pragmatic analysis of their chances here stemmed from the fact that their teams were not
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    • 522 38 Dine And i Dance Your Way IntoXmasAnd TheNewYear This year, celebrate the festive season at Oriental Restaurant (Clementi k or Bedok). On both Christmas' and lv New Year's eves, the night's programme p^" vt)-^ highlights a grand 9-course dinner I n\ II o^j f°ll owec l by non-stop dancing to
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    • 108 38 ROADSTAR HI-POWER SERIES World's first built-in Hi-Power Radio/Cassette with BdntscoDanchd fights i Vwaftsy jvlSgl^^fcM toll W RS 7000 HP EXTRA Superb car stereo with auto-reverse cassette player and AM/FM radio. Special Led Disco Dancing Lights show moment-to-moment power 60 Watts total output. QPS (Quick Program Search) for easy selection of
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    • 367 39  - It's a quiet welcome for super Junie... J. RAJENDRAN By SHE deserved a red carpet welcome last night. But swimmer Junie Sng, who created a tidal wave at the South-east Asia Games m Manila, had to settle for a banner and a few handshakes at Changi Airport on her arrival
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    • 297 39  -  JOE DOR AI By RAZALI ALIAS, former Intermediate soccer squad striker, has been expelled from the National Football League Division One club Armed Forces. This was decided by the Forces Sports Association following Razali 's conviction at a magistrate's court last week on three soccer
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    • 108 39 THE visiting Oxford and Cambridge Universities squash team trounced the Singapore Island Country Club 6-0 m a friendly match at the SICC courts yesterday. Gerald lim, 23, stole some limelight from the visitors when he took William Barrington to four sets. The former reserve of Singapore's second team
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    • 34 39 TODAY'S EVENTS ■njJAMm National four-ball championship final Kallang Saloon, 7). BOWLTNG Kallang Allstar championship (Kallang, 1.30). BOCCEB Staminade Cup: DeuU Par East v Singapore Chemi-con (Jurong Sudium. 5.15). SQUASH Oxbridge v SCC (SCC. 6)
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    • 261 39  - Stars on parade at the alley WILFRED YEO By IT may have been cloudy elsewhere, but stars were still seen m abundance at the Anchor Beer Kallang All-Star '81 bowling championships at the Kallang Bowl. In fact a galaxy of stars bowling ones, of course were there, including Frenchman Philippic
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    • 73 39 vgr vtfQxS H^r SWATOW TEOCHEW RESTAURANT f§ Stop searching, we are right at ||> H| the heart of Singapore-Shenton Way ||> We serve the best Teochew Cuisine m town||| H We have lots and lots of car parking space. For more enquiries ring: §§9> Tel: *****01 Swatow Teochew Restaurant Ptc
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    • 455 39 New. For your feet only. The 1982 collection of Olympas Men's Socks. Cool. Comfortable. Lasting. aaaaT* S J b\ Casual or sports. Finest quality materials. aaaßaW Sweat free. In various designs and colours "<lB T^f^BßaiP*' FREE r^' f Wallet or Address Book with every purchase of Olympas socks, I underwear
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  • 548 40 rLETTER CALLS ASEAN FORMULA 'REASSURING 1 FORMER Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk has written to Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan suggesting a meeting to work out the prince's role m a tripartite coalition to fight the Vietnamese troops occupying Cambodia. Prince Sihanouk, m
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  • 181 40 NEW DELHI, Wed. An Indian couple have achieved the rare distinction of sailing 10,000 km In a 10-metre long fibreglass yacht from Southhampton In Britain to the Indian west coast city of Bombay In 82 days. Mr Gul&han Rai, a Customs official, and his wife
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  • 597 40  -  LAN MARKHAM-SMITH NAJEEB JARHOM By m Los Angeles and m Singapore SINGAPORE Airlines will sell off 12 of its aircraft m the latest move to keep the company highly modernised and a major competitive force m world air travel, it was revealed yesterday. ,__^i^^^^^^_
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  • 73 40 MOSCOW, Wed. Zoya Fyodorova, the Russian actress who plunged into a wartime romance with an American navy officer and gave birth to a "love child" that infuriated Stalin, was shot to death during a robbery at her Moscow apartment, a Soviet source said yesterday. The source
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  • 33 40 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. Javier Perez de Cuellar, sworn m yesterday as United Nations secretary-general, will take over the post on Jan 1 after a holiday at his home m Peru. Reuter.
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  • 70 40 NEW YORK, Wed. Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon's communications company plans to start a general Interest newspaper m Washington, DC., officials of the firm said. Vice-president of News World Communications, Mr Nicholas Buscovich, said the new paper. The Washington Times, will be a "forum for those
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  • 211 40 LONDON, Wed. Soviet spy satellites, able to photograph objects only 20 cm square, pass over Britain tw*ce a day on the average, the British news agency, the Press Association, reported yesterday citing military sources. A Defence Ministry spokesman, asked about the report, said: "Yes,
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    • 241 40 Looking back You lived the year. What was it like for you? For us, it was the year when the stock market crashed, a new airport was built, a new president was chosen, the people of Anson voted m an opposition MP... For the rest of 1981, turn to our
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    • 192 40 UP TO 1 p.m. TODAY: Cloudy with occasional rain. 6 a.m. TOMORROW: 27 max., 23 min. SUNSET today: 6.31 p.m.; SUNRISE tomorrow: 6.29 a.m. Amsterdam -9 3C Cloudy Lm Angelea 13/25C Clear Atkeas 12/26C Cloudy Madrid 6/15C Goudy Bahrain 16/24C Cloudy Maalla 18 29C Gear Baagkvk 21/30C dear Mexlc* City
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      • 1121 1 REFLECTIONS $jff KANNAN CHANDRAN takes a look at the behind-the-scenes life of our SBC Dancers. IN MULTI-COLOURED outfits, 13 guys and dolls face the music blasting out of a stereo set. Flit, prance, leap, and the dancers move to their assigned places, breathing deeply. Choreographer George
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      140 2 THURSDAY Entertainment Special Let It Be (Ch 5, 11.15 p.m.): The music of the Beatles will never die. Though a bit draggy, this musical semi-documentary takes a look at the Sixties' sensation. In two parts, the first follows the Beatles through their practice sessions, and the other,
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    • 807 2 pick of the DAY C SPCS THE Young And The Restless (Ch 5, S p.m.): Ron tells Nancy that she must get well, so that they can be together again. He also assures her that things will be the way they used to be. Already nervous, Nancy panics and screams.
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        529 3 Science Show, Science Centre Dec 18, 19, 22 and 23 Showtime 10.30 a.m. Admission 50 cents for children and $1 for adult* Reviewed by GANESH VIJAYAN LASER beams dancing to music, a rubber ball breaking into two, a bouquet of fresh flowers crumbling the minute you touch
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      • 1018 3  -  CHRISTOPHER S. WREN By m Beijing 4 Romantic scenes in colour are interrupted by jarring flashbacks in sepia or black and white. When Red Guards batter the young man blind, the camera cuts from his bleeding face to the red armbands of his assailants
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      • 526 5 TWO sisters (one good, one bad), a Brave, kind hero, an evil wolf, a flower with magical properties This is the once-upon-a-time world of countless fairy tales, and the ideal material around which to weave a colour- ful, exuberant dance drama such as Ma Lan Hua, staged
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      1350 6 By I had to get rid of their self- consciousness and shyness, to bring out their individual characters without their fear- ing to show their feelings. 7 Whether showing how or just watching, George Pearce (seated left, below) keeps an eagle eye on rehearsals, insisting on obedience, for
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    • 499 9  - ESP linked to Chinese medicine TODD EASTHAM By m San Francisco Physicists m Beijing have demonstrated that acupressure points show a lower skin resistance and higher conductivity to electricity during periods of increased psychic activity. The Chinese have shown that the acupressure point on the back of the neck gets
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      826 9 In Guangdong, a pleasant, homely teahouse introduces "live" pop music, and becomes a Hongkong-style restaurant. A metaphor for the increasingly stronger influence that the British colony has over Guangdong. Residents watch Hongkong television shows and a student analyses Beijing's attitude towards foreigners as based on ignorance. MICHAEL RANK
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      787 12 4 Often it is a deceptively ordinary machine that has the most power to change our lives. 4 The invention that made Western civilisation is not a technological glamour-boy the light bulb, the steam engine, the car but the humble clock, which cut up hours and days and, for
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    • 459 12  - Tough wonder pea brings hope to Third World MICHAEL DAKA By ■n Nairobi IT IS ugly and awkward. Gourmets wouldn't like it and gardeners would weed it from their plots. But it might help solve the problem of feeding the world's hungry and undernourished millions, according to researchers here. It
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      1100 13 4 America will have centralised solar heat, as m Iceland We will ride m jet-powered cars over more resilient roads, eat more fish, live m prefab housing, and learn about computer-designed products m computer-run classrooms We might (even) have to have a universal monetary system. Harry Freeman, inventor
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    • OUTLOOK
      • 1478 14 IT'S all very well to paint (or buy) a picture, hang it on the wall and appreciate its beauty from a distance. But interior designer H.L. Lim would rather apply art to environment use it, live in it. He put his fine arts training into practical art through
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      1607 15  -  MEG JUMP By THE understated sophistication of the quaint and homespun has been a major design trend in Europe for almost two decades. In clothes, furnishings, tableware, cooking uten- sils, toiletries, gift items i every conceivable kind < of merchandise the appeal of the clean-cut, the rustic and
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    • 471 1 Man behind SBC dancers He cajoles, he pleads and threatens and gets them moving. Leteare^Page Six The magic of science Leisure, Page Three Colonial w architecture is suitable for this climate. Look at hotels like the Goodwood Park and Raffles they were designed for the tropics not for airconditioning, therefore
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    • 354 2 It makes sense to rent from THORN! The woriefs largest and most experienced TV -VfcJeo rental J Special Package Deal company. J ww <, I V<_ > TV,Vkto©ltecor*r .Rm*« a *~^W for a irmed parod orty I «fc RENT THORN for the most technically advanced sets J\ _k. RENT THORN
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    • 163 2 Straits Times Crossword ACRO88 7 Found in M«rrakesh a len- 5 ter f >1 pleMUr 10 Money conjured from chap's 1 i MOnD u£7d game that nuke, one M What «kes stalwart, col17 inclined «o be fc* when spe^c- a Ut, (5) ID AmnttwH- anrt fathM- In all A\ 21
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    • 242 2 EXHIBITIONS: LIU Rang Retrospective: Nat Museum Art Gall, 9 a.m. 5.30 p.m. Until Dec 20. Free. Golden Twenties: Posters, records, books and music covering the period 1910-1935. Goethe Institut Gall, 10 a.m. 6 p.m. Ends tomorrow. Free. Art Exhibition: By Leo de Silva, Gall of Fine Art, 11 a.m. 7
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    • 1135 2 TV and Radio SBC 5 3.00 PM Openint folowed by The Younj 6 CuHi" 1 (English) And The Restless 7.00 The Muppet Show 3.25 Reincarnated (r) 7 30 Ne ™d Weather Forecast 4.15 Diary of Events (Mandarin) iS? 1^ u i ?n Ur« 7 55 The Incredible Hut A Minor
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    • 380 3 DISCOUNT FAIR 81 BARGAINS GALORE! 10.00 AM 10.00PM FREE GIFTS! DEC. 15 20 1981 WORLD TRADE CENTRE FREE ADMISSION! ENQUIRIES TO 117 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA. TEL *****86 *****84. How do the French call their luggage? Superior is a new generation Jm^*\; //^^"^^sm^mK^^mmS^^^-] HMH ;^^E^ > MillilrP^ v luggage with superior features:
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    • 233 5 %W2 have your tL Christmas gift idea \fyV\ Looking for a practical gift this Christinas? 7/ j Consider a National washing machine, blender or rice cooker just the thing to add some magic to the home. At Cosmic Electric, you can choose from a wide VpA g^g^> range of National
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    • 373 5 HP9^ Exclusively Yours, a^L^^^^^L^r aY .^■^^^■^^■■■■^fc^a^r r^ (WITH NO RESTRICTIONS TO FOREIGNERS) Few people realise this: Whether you are a Singaporean or a foreigner, you can arrange loans of up to 80%. Fact is— you can own an exclusive apartment at Leedon Heights, starting now. Located at the junction of
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    • 338 6 Turn on to instant tuning Energy saving chassis NPC for more natural colours •Antimagneticfeatureeliminatespicture /I. < distortion Excellent sound reproduction from 2-w hi-fidelity wk. 'JBBBWMIIMI^—^— 1 speakers 3-S colour picture tube VHS record and playback system. Speed Search at 7 times normal playback speed Record what you're not watching Audio
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    • 62 6 AVPAllAftlV* M'/I £)J CACCIIvIICC^W JW InSolidlSKor 14KCrt)ld. //////f ///jf I4K or IOK (iold Filled. /////W ////M jftt Black and Lustrous Chrome ffff/w/ /Mhw /Mm// Mechanically guaranteed Mffnw //mw m^ww Hr Mj SINCE 1646 Authorised Wnolesalef i\ Pen Specialist Wholesale Retail Repairs Engraving Service Block 34-132A. Upper Cross Street Singapore 0105
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    • 569 13 FESTIVE GIFTS AT VERY SPECIAL PRICES TJk^SBHgBK.' 'JrSJP*' xSmmf^ '7^^ Oberglas Ash Tray (10cm) Oberglas Storage Jar 260z Oberglas Dessert Set (Boul Plate) Normal Price: $2.90. Offer Price: $1.95 NormJ Price: $8.50. Offer Price: $5.95 Normal Price: 7.80. Offer Price: 5.45 SA YE: $0.95 SA YE: $2.55 SA YE: $2.35
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    • 355 22 LVsankyol SANKYO INTERNATIONAL (S) PTE LTD The manufacturer of Sankyo SD-5 Car Airconditionmg Compressors, are seeking four ambitious males fo fill positions in:- QUALITY ASSURANCE QUALITY CONTROL PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE COMPRESSOR ENGINEERING Ideally they should have A technical qualification m the relevant subject; Must have experience m the manufacturing industry; Initiative
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    • 238 22 The YMCA of Singapore, international voluntary and charitable service Organisation, invites suitable applications for the following positions GENERAL SECRETARY The incumbent will serve as the chief executive of the Association and will be responsible for the general administration and overall execution of policies, decisions, protects and programmes including finance and
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