The Straits Times, 11 August 1984

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  • 15 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1984 40 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 62/1/84
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  • 772 1  - Voters decide our survival P. N. BALJI PAUL JACOB 'Singapore's future as a democracy depends on the electorate and leaders alike 9 by\ and says Raja PORT MORESBY, Fri. Mr. S. Rajaratnam said it three times during a breakfast interview yesterday. The survival of Singapore as a democratic state depends
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  • 478 1  - FEB and director fined total of $48,000 ELENA CHONG By They broke banking rules FAR Eastern Bank Ltd was yesterday fined $40,000 and its managing director, $8,000, for contravening the Banking Act. Three of the offences to which the bank and Ng Eng Kiat, 56, the managing director, pleaded guilty
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  • 140 1 Assurance for customers CUSTOMERS ctf Far Eastern Bank should rest MMf«i that the United Overseas Bank, widen to taking over FEB, will see that its subsidiary follows UOB's regulations onder which all leans are closely reviewed periodically, a banking source has said. Yesterday, FEB was fined a total sf $4«,
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  • 148 1 lOWA CITY (Iowa), Fri. A doctor found circular, bleeding wounds on his secretary's palms resembling stigmata the wounds of Christ. But on closer examination he found she was a video game addict and got the wounds from excessive play. "My secretary came to work
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  • Latest
    • 57 1 BOGOTA, Prl. The main political leader of Colombia's most active guerrilla group M-19. Carlos Toledo Plato, 52, was killed today by two gunmen just as the group was reported on the Drink of reaching a trace with the government of President Bellsarlo Betancor to end 15
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  • 321 1  - Passport offices in big housing estates PAUL WEE By THE Immigration Department plans to set up branch offices m major housing estates. These offices will issue international and restricted passports, and other types of passes and permits. The first branch will be m Joo Chiat and it is expected to
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  • IN SUMMARY
    • Home
      • 102 2 THE owners of the 193 Grangeford luxury apartments m Leonie Hill Road are likely to fork out a total of $2 million for repairs to the three-year-old building. The amount is to pay for applying a water-proof coating to the exterior walls to prevent rain
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      • 95 2 WORK together m good times and bad. This was the theme for success highlighted to both workers and employers at National Day assemblies held at nine companies yesterday. Team effort was called for to achieve higher productivity. This was hammered home by government leaders m
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      • 129 2 TAXIS will be on the road longer from next year. The minimum daily distance of 340 km set by the Communications Ministry which taxis have to cover will be increased to 370 km next year and to 400 km m 1986. The ministry hopes that by
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      • 140 2 A SUITCASE is all a tenant moving into the Orchard Point apartments will need when the 61 units are turned into service apartments. Besides the usual facilities a fully-furnished apartment and a daily maid service some "frills" the tenant can look forward to are the use of private
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      • 76 2 MORE than a year after it opened its doors to shoppers, business continues to elude tenants of the Orchard Point. They now fear they may have to close shop if business remains bad. Six shop tenants interviewed by The Straits Times blame the heavily tinted glass panels,
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    • Comment
      • 96 2 THE attitude of some private employers on hiring older women is a disappointing mixture of prejudice, choostness and complacency. They should not dismiss all older women as unemployable and a liability to some kinds of businesses. And how can they be so sure that a younger
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      • 134 2 BY NOW everyone is aware of "the greying of America" the fact that a steadily Increasing percentage of the US population is living past 15. What is dramatically new and worrisome is the ageing of the aged. More and more Americans are living Into their
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      • 105 2 Page* THE quality of Post Office Savings Bank Cask-On-line cards is comparable to that of similar cards issued by major banks. The POBB says this m reply to a reader who complained on July 25 that It was difficult to use the card. The banks
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    • Around the world
      • 110 2 SOUTH Korea's construction industry, which made big money during a building boom m the Middle East, is today suffering from serious financial trouble, forcing the South Korean central bank to institute bailing-out measures. Local press reports said that the Central Bank of Korea has decided to give
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      • 94 2 JAPAN is planning to tighten its hold on new and advanced industries during the next two decades by setting up three special institutes a private corporation, a special university and an academy of scientists to keep the country competitive m the field of high technology. "These
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      • 98 2 THE worst anti-British riots of the year left one man dead, eight people injured and more than 50 jailed. The outburst of violence on Thursday m 11 cities and towns, including Belfast and Londonderry, were marked by petrol bomb attacks and shooting at security forces. It is to
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      • 102 2 BRITISH industry bosses have called on the government to break the nations "strike mentality" as some miners went back to work despite the bitter deadlock over the 22-week walkout. "The picture which overseas investors are now beginning to get is of a Britain which is seen to
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      • 108 2 EGYPT has served notice to Iran that its ships will be barred from the Suez Canal if proof is found that the Teheran government has planted mines m the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea. The influential Al-Ahram disclosed the warning m an editorial, which said
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      • 87 2 MORE than 100,000 people may have died m Uganda m recent months through starvation or at the hands of indisciplined troops, US Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Elliott Abrams told the House foreign affairs committee. Mr Abrams said the deaths occurred because the government was
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    • Section Two
      • 102 2 MANY of us take for granted tropical fruit such as the coconut, papaya, jackfruit and jambu. They yield a wide range of tastes, whether eaten raw or cooked. Our Gourmet writer, TAN LEE LENG, suggests that we learn to appreciate and enjoy local fruit rather
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      • 115 2 "IT'S RIDICULOUS to thfnk that we started with ice-cream even children could afford. Now, imported ice cream costs between $2.50 and $3.50 for a single scoop. "It's a question of affordability. We feel we have a responsibility to the consumer to give them good quality at
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      • 208 2 WE'VE SEEN the spectacular Broadway-style opening ceremony and we've watched the megastars of sports every night on television. But today, just one day before the 1964 Olympics ends with yet another Hollywood extravaganza, we bring you colour photographs and stones of The Other Olympics, the things sports
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    • 217 2 SINGAPORE RANKS FOURTH IN DUTY-FREE SALES SINGAPORE is fourth m the world when it comes to selling duty-free "drinks, fragrances and smokes", according to a worldwide ranking of duty-free shops. Singapore Airport DutyFree Emporium sold US$65 million (5J139.75 million) worth of duty-free goods m 1982. The country as a
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    • Timesport
      • 84 2 THE American crowd at the sports arena m Los Angeles went wild on Thursday night when US heavyweight boxer Evander Holy field was disqualified t>y Yugoslav referee Gligorie Novicic m the second round of his semi-final bout against New Zealander Kevin Barry. Most of the 11,000 spectators booed
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      • 70 2 A giants showdown THE giants are coming. From Aug 31 to Sept 9, they will assemble at the Gay World Stadium for the Merlion Cup. The colossal befngs will come from Malaysia, the Bank of bra, Japan's Matsushita, China, New Zealand, ustralia's Mazda Cannons, Spain's Estudiantes, America's South Utah State
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      • 74 2 NOT many athletes, even Olympic champions. have had royalty walk out of the crowd and ask to shake their hands. But when Olympic decathlon winner Daley Thompson turned his back on Princess Anne, even the Americans thought he had gone too far. And then they started to laugh.
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    • Asean: Across the Causeway
      • 63 2 THE Malaysian government has to take firm and uncompromising action to check the danger of disunity and civil unrest posed by several groups m the country, said Acting Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hi tarn at the Royal Malaysia Police College. He stressed that steps to preserve national security
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      • 54 2 TALKS between Malaysia and Britain over additional landing rights for Malaysian Airline System m London have reached a deadlock. MAS managing director Datuk Haji Abdul Aziz Rahman told a press conference that the British government had taken a strong stand m not granting the national carrier an
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    • 118 2 Indonesian support INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja said Indonesia supported Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's view that Thailand should not be allowed to fall under the influence of its communist neighbors. Mr Mochtar told a news conference m Jakarta that Indonesia also maintained that regional resilience could be
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    • Background
      • 115 2 THERE have been four basic methods used to strengthen trust, confidence and goodwill among Asean nations, writes Dr Noordin Sopiee in the third and final part of his series on Asean. Not only has there been the most liberal use of loosely structured summitry at the
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  • around the WORLD
    • 406 3  -  LIM SAY BOON, By Melbourne Reporter He hits out at racist attitude m Australia .MELBCHJRNE, Fri. Prime Minister Bob Hawke last night said his government would persist with its policy of integrating Australia into the Asian-Parif-ic region desp» "racist attitude' within the country. He
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    • 208 3 MELBOURNE, Friday MALAYSIA'S Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad appeared to have wanned up to his Australian counterpart, Mr Bob Hawke, but remained cool towards the Australian press. Speaking to Australian journalists at the National Press Club today, Dr Mahathir said Mr Hawke was "a
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    • 95 3 Britain and China near final HK agreement HONGKONG, Frl. Outstanding Issue* In the Slno-Brltish talks •ver Hongkong's future are well on the way to solution and China's Sept M deadline for agreement looks like being met. Three main issues land, civil aviation and nationality remained to be solved when British
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    • World briefs
      • 65 3 SRI LANKA'S National Security Minister, Mr Lalith Athulathmudali, said yesterday security forces were preparing for more separatist guerilla attacks m the island's troubled northern district of Jaffna. "The long awaited terrorist offensive began last weekend. It is expected to continue with attacks on banks, police stations and military
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      • 96 3 THE STATE of Texas filed suit on Thursday to recover damages and the cost of cleaning up oil from a British tanker spill that blackened parts of the Gulf of Mexico coast, Attorney-General Jim Mattox said m Austin. He said he has asked the United States district
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      • 84 3 DESPITE DISAGREEMENT with the aims of the Marxist regime m Ethiopia, the United States will send it 5,000 tonnes of food, reaching a record 43,000 tonnes this year, according to the Agency for International Development (AID) m Washington. Mr Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for
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      • 78 3 INDIA IS planning to raise a special national security guard to deal with extremists following growing communal disturbances m the country, Interior Minister Narasimha Rao said m New Delhi. "The time has come for some hard options," Mr Rao told Parliament on Thursday, confirming reports of a
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    • 142 3 Ancient chariots found TWO seta off this 2,2t»--year-«ld painted bronze chariot and horses were unearthed from the tomb of the emperor Qln SW Huang who bain the Great Wall of China In the north-western Shaanxi province. Made of 3,4C8 pieces, the chariot weighs 1,241 kg with its driver «mIG BOr9€B*
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    • 250 3 Vietnam keeps up attacks on border camps ARANYAPRATHET, Fri. Vietnam kept up its artillery and mortar attacks on civilian and military camps along the Thai-Cambodian border today. The Vietnamese shelling of the camps at Ampil and Nong Chan continued for the fourth straight day despite heavy rains m the area,
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    • 40 3 NEW DELHI, Fri. A herbal tea which tastes like real tea but virtually with no toxicity has been evolved by the Tamil Nadu state government-owned Herbal Medicine Corporation m south India, the Press Trust of India reported. AFP
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    • 34 3 DHAKA, Fri. Torrential monsoon rains and flooding rivers have killed 1,225 peo&le and displaced millions i the past six weeks m Bangladesh and India, officials m the two nations said yesterday. AP
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    • 110 3 NEW DELHI, Fit An 18-year-old In need of pocket money chopped off the feet of his sleeping aunt after trying nnsnccessf oily to remove the silver anklets worth 2ft rupees (about Sf43) from her leg, a Press Trust of India report said today. To escape
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    • 319 4 Bank freezes debt payments SEOUL, Fri. South Korea's construction industry, which made big money during a building boom m the oil-rich Middle East, is today suffering from serious financial trouble forcing the Central Bank here to institute bailing-out measures. According to local press reports, the
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    • 119 4 WASHINGTON, Fri. On the 10th year of Richard Nixon's resignation as President of the United States, a Congressman said it was appropriate "that we take time to reflect on those 10 years". "It gives us an indication of what is right with this country and what
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    • 47 4 Praying for A-bomb victims JAPANESE Catholic women and children attending a mass to pay tribute to the victims of the World War n atomic bombing of Nagasaki daring a morning mass at Uragami Cathedral m Nagasaki on Wednesday. It was the 39th anniversary of the bombing. UPI
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    • 60 4 KARLSKRONA (Sweden), Fri. A man m his 30's who used an inflatable dinghy with an outboard motor to flee the Soviet Union was picked up by a Swedish trawler and arrived here yesterday, police said. They said that fishermen spotted the man last night m international waters
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    • 430 4  -  PETER HAZELHURST By Tokyo Correspondent TOKYO, Fri. Japan is planning to tighten its hold on new and advanced industries during the next two decades by establishing three special institutes. It plans a private corporation, a special university and an academy of scientists to keep
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    • 249 4  - Law passed to control sprawling sex industry KOICHI ISHIYAMA By Tokyo Bureau TOKYO, Fri. Japan is tightening its laws on a sprawling sex industry as the Diet, or Parliament, yesterday passed a law which m effect bans any gaudy girlie bars, "love hotels", "Turkish bat houses", and other sex-related businesses.
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    • 131 4 NEW YORK, Fri. A New York city street corner was named Sakharov-Bonner Corner yesterday m honour of dissident Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Elena Bonner Unveiling the name plaque on the corner of b7th Street and Third Avenue, New York mayor Edward
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    • 355 5 One dead, 8 hurt in anti- British riots Violence marks Internment Day m Northern Ireland THE worst anti-Brit-ish riots of the year left one man dead, eight people injured and more than 50 jailed. The outburst of violence yesterday m 11 cities and towns, including Belfast and Londonderry, were marked
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    • 58 5 picture. THE Image or Queen Elizabeth II m she appears on the coin (left) currently In use In Britain, and how she will appear from next year In a new study by sculptor Rapheal Mr Maklouf worked from photographs taken by Lord Snowdon
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    • 38 5 VIENNA, Fri. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrived m Salzburg yesterday with her husband Denis for a 10-day stay likely to include a few concerts at the city's famous Salzburg Festival, state-run Austrian television said. UPI
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    • 343 5 LONDON, Fri. BRITISH industry bosses yesterday called on the government to break the nations "strike mentality" as some miners drifted back to work despite the bitter deadlock over the 22-week walkout. "The picture which overseas investors are now beginning to get is
      UPI; Reuter  -  343 words
    • 132 5 MOSCOW, Fri. Soviet scientists, adapting the Pavlovian conditionedreflex technique developed on dogs, have invented a machine to enable humans to overcome fear, says Tass news agency. Tass reported today that doctors of the Leningrad Institute of Physiology use the machine to measure the intensity of human
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    • 197 5 New oil ship that taps seabed wells LONDON, Fri. Oil giant British Petroleum (BP) has placed an order for a revolutionary new ship which, it is hoped, will allow it to tap oilfields currently regarded as too small to be worth drilling. The ship will be a mobile rig and
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    • 141 5 Solidarity supporter granted amnesty •WARSAW, Fri. Mr Jacek Kuron, the most prominent of the Solidarity supporters imprisoned under martial law m December 1961, was freed yesterday under the government's recent amnesty. Mr Kuron, who started a hunger strike m June to demand an open trial on sedition charges against him,
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    • 212 5 LONDON, Fri. THE rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer In Britain, government figure* showed yesterday. Figures from the Central Statistical Office showed that the top If per cent of wage earners were better off la the lSßti
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    • 457 6 Cairo says it will act if it finds Teheran mined canal CAIRO, Fri. EGYPr has served notice to Iran that its ships will be barred from the Suez Canal if proof is found that the Teheran government planted mines m the Gulf of
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    • 231 6 PARIS, Fri. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeiny yesterday denounced the reported mining of the Red Sea and criticised Teheran Radio which is run by his own government for implying sympathy for the action. The Ayatollah 's highly unusual statement on the state radio was
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    • 73 6 The long wait to return home to Iran IRANIAN passengers of a hijacked Iranian jetliner seen waiting to board a bus for the Leonardo da Vinci Airport m Rome on Thursday. The jetliner, an A-300 Airbus, was hijacked on Tuesday The hijackers will be tried from Monday on charges of
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    • 149 6 ROME, Fri. The hijacking on Wednesday of an Iranian airbus has probably saved the life of a four-month-old baby whose heart ailment had been unknown until she was released from the plane, an Italian doctor said yesterday. Nastfem Perham, the baby, was among 294
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    • 222 6 They starved or were killed by troops: Official WASHINGTON, Fri. More than 100,000 peoBle may have di"d m ganda m recent months through starvation or at the hands of indisciplined troops. "It is clear thousands of people have died, either by direct army action or
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    • 292 6 Saudi prince gets invited to Beijing NEW YORK, Friday PRINCE Talal of Saudi Arabia, whose country has no diplomatic relations with Beijing, was yesterday invited to visit China m his capacity as special envoy of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef). The prince, who is a brother of King Fahd,
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    • 191 6 New bank note signifies Israel's problems TEL AVIV. Fri. Israel's economic crisis and the protracted attempts to set up a national unity government are given simultaneous expression m a new bank note issued yesterday. Soaring inflation forced the Bank of Israel to prematurely release a new, shS.OOO note. By coincidence,
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    • 99 6 CAIRO, Frt. A nudist colony established by Israel at the disputed Taba border region forced Egyptian policemen to retreat ltl metres because their commander feared "Infatuation," a newspaper said. Taba is a strategic stretch of coastline along the Aqaba Golf near the Israeli port
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  • AROUND ASEAN
    • 94 8 ABOUT 3M homes were destroyed and about 2,M§ people made homeless when fire ■wept through a residential area m Van Nawa, Thailand, shortly after midnight last Sunday, police said. No one was Injured In the 2V 2 hoar blaze widen destroyed aboat If million bants
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    • 319 8 Mochtar agrees with Lee's view on Thailand JAKARTA, Friday FOREIGN Minister MochtarKusumaatmadja said today that Indonesia supports Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's view that Thailand should not be allowed to fall under the influence of its communist neighbours. Dr Mochtar told a news
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    • 98 8  - Ramphal arrives in Brunei HAN LING By Brunei Reporter BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Fri. The Commonwealth SecretaryGeneral, Mr Shridath Ramphal, arrived m Brunei yesterday for a three-day visit. He was on the same plane as Brunei's Foreign Minister, Prince Mohamed Bolkiah. They were returning from the one-day Commonwealth Heads of Government
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    • 175 8 MANILA, Fri. After only three months m his post, United States Ambassador to the Philippines Stephen Bosworth has found himself m a bind over seemingly harmless remarks he made on the local economy. He told local and foreign journalists at the national Press Club last Friday
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    • 382 8 BANGKOK, Fri. THE Bank of Thailand has urged the public not to rush to withdraw deposits following moves to reorganise a commercial bank here beset by management and liquidity problems. In a statement quoted by AFP yesterday, the Central Bank appealed to depositors of
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  • Asean: ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 237 9 'KL has to act firmly to protect security' Musa warns of destructive Malaysians KUALA KUBU BARU, Fri. The government has to take firm and uncompromising action to check the danger of disunity and civil unrest posed by several groups of people m the country. Acting Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam
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    • 155 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday THE Information Ministry has set up a committee to help prepare and coordinate programmes to combat deviationist teachings and activities which could split Muslims m the country. .It will study daily reports and make recommendations on the types of programmes needed
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    • 242 9 Entry rules relaxed for some Indians KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. INDIAN citizens who were allowed entry into Malaysia before Aug 1 this year will be permitted to stay m the country for a period of three months from their arrival date. The Immigration Department's public relations officer, Mr Ibrahim Haii Abdul
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    • 255 9 Britain not granting extra flight, says MAS chief KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. NEGOTIATIONS between Malaysia and Britain over additional landing rights for the Malaysian Airline System m London have reached a deadlock. MAS managing director Datuk Haji Abdul Aziz Rahman told a press conference yesterday that the
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    • 124 9 HAND-OPERATED fans may be obsolete m these days of electric fans and airconditioners bat Mr Addi Mat Harus of Gombak, Selangor, finds they ran be a money-spinner. His hand-made plywood fan has the figures of a man and woman with their hands on a
      Malay Mail  -  124 words
    • 144 9 Dredge death toll rises to four PETALING JAVA, Fri. Four bodies have so far been found m the mining pool m Puchong near here where a dredge overturned on Wednesday Three bodies were found today, while that of Mr Tahir Ibrahim, 54. a shift headman, was recovered last night. Among
      Bernama; NST  -  144 words
    • 222 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. House prices m Peninsular Malaysia, except m a few places like Petaling Jaya, have not risen for the past six months, the Ministry of Finance Interim Report on Residential and Commercial Properties shows. The prices of doublestorey terrace and detached houses
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    • 360 10  -  SAM RAN By They have to decide whether to waterproof exterior walls OWNERS of the 193 Grangeford luxury apartments m Leonie Hill Road are likely to fork out a total of $2 million for repairs to the three-year-old building. The amount is
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    • 144 10 THE chief security guard of Tanah Merah Country Club was stopped by two other guards at the club gates one morning. In Hamid bin Yusof's bag, they found a spoon, two forks, a plate, a bowl, two glasses, a tube of detergent and
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    • 229 10 Jetliner proves its; worth in 'silence' BRITAIN'S "goodneighbour" aircraft flew over parts of Singapore yesterday to show that it could live up to Its reputation as the world's quietest Jetliner. Although the journalists who flew m the aircraft could not hear it, the British Aerospace lM's ontsMe noise level has
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    • 310 10  - - JEEVARAJAH YASOTHA By 204 send m entries for the Adventurer and Adventuress of the Year awards ADVENTURE takes many forms and is available m many places. This was revealed m the 204 entries received for the first Adventurer and Adventuress
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    • 228 10 Gardens act to conserve rare Asean orchids THE Botanic Gardens has stepped up its efforts to collect seed capsules of rare orchid species from Asean countries to grow m its laboratory. The seedlings will then be sent back to the donor Asean country or other official parties or botanic gardens.
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    • 73 10 THREE men were charged yesterday with trafficking m approximately 3.1 kilos of heroin on Wednesday at Kinta and Race Course roads. No pleas were taken from Lim Kheng Boon, 25, and Md Yusoh bin Esa, 27, both Malaysians, and Tan Leong Chay, 32, who are
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    • 192 10 Worker killed by electric shock at worksite A WORKER was electro- cuted at a spot where the earth leakage circuitbreaker (ELCB) at ther worksite had a 300 mA v (milli- Ampere) trip-off 1 point, 10 times more than 2 what it should have been. I A coroner heard yester- day
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    • 425 12  -  J. RAJENDRAN By But this jigsaw puzzle was six months m the making PUTTING together the National Day Parade is, m many ways, like working on a giant jigsaw puzzle. Except that instead of cardboard pieces, you are handling AMX-13 tanks, F5-E fighter aircraft and that
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    • 43 12 Fer the flrat time, the float pcteeeaita Is maUag lte way to thepeeple threagh U e— gtttaearfea, along IS Ulemetrea ef vmi. Wken the fear days ef paraalag ends temerrew, hundreds ef theamadi weaM have seen the million-dellar read shew
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    • 53 12 Flftaea F5-E Tiger aircraft start the sky over the riverfrwrt as they streak towards thefr *pp*Mtnmt »t the Paduog, shortly after the start «f the NaU muU Day Parade ea Thnsday Pictures on this and the next page by Wong Kwai Chow Raymond Ng and
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    • 98 15 PRESIDENT Devan Nair welcoming the Prime Minister to a glittering reception at the Istana yesterday. The hour-long gathering was to celebrate Singapore's National Day. Happily milling around the illumi- nated Istana party grounds were l,tM other guests, including ministers and MPs opposition MP Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam was
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    • 647 15 Work as a team in both good and bad times WORK together m good times and bad. This was the theme for success highlighted to both workers and employers at National Day assemblies held at nine companies yesterday. Team effort was called for to achieve higher productivity. This was hammered
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    • 219 16 THE Straits Times has received a number of telephone calls asking about the two paintings (above) of the National Day celebrations at the Padang which we reproduced yesterday. Offers ranging from $IMM to $Ojm were made for Mr (baa Mia Tee's 122 by 88 cm view
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    • 356 16  -  SIMONE VAZ By TAXIS will be on the road longer from next year. The Ministry of Communications had set the minimum daily distance which taxis have to cover at 340 km. This will be increased to 370 km a day next year
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    • 261 16  - Man jailed for selling drugs to narcotics officer CHARM A NE CHAN By A MAN who sold a narcotics officer a sachet of heroin was yesterday sentenced to seven years' jail and ordered to receive seven strokes of the cane. Ng Soon Teck, 25, was Jailed two years for having
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    • 149 18 A MECHANIC was sentenced to four months' jail yesterday for stealing his colleague's auto-teller machine card and withdrawing money on four occasions after memorising the secret number. Suteioh bin Rada Seira, 24, had pleaded guilty to the two theft charges on Aug3. Sentence
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    • 333 18  -  SAM RAN By Many frills provided to lure tenants m depressed market A SUITCASE m hand is all a tenant moving into The Orchard Point apartments will need when the 61 units are turned into service apartments. Besides regular service apartment facilities like
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    • 19 18 THE Matter Primary School band will perform at the MacRitchie Reservoir park tomorrow from 5 to 6 p.m.
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    • 354 18 MORE than a year after it opened Its doors to shoppers, business continues to elude tenants of the Orchard Point. Tenants of this Urban Redevelopment Authority residential com shopping complex along Orchard Road now fear they will have to close shop if business remains
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    • 297 18 POLICE are hunting for a gang of thieves who cut their way into an electronics engineering company's storeroom and stole more than three tonnes of tin ingots and bars worth $80,000. How the heavy load was carted off is a mystery but the gang
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  • 423 19  - NTUCComfort may take over ROV training centre JEEVARAJAH YASOTHA By NTI'C Comfort hopes to take over the Registry of Vehicle's Training Centre m Paslr Pan Jang to train Its staff of more than ll,tM fall-time and relief taxi drivers. Discussions are now taking place and Comfort hopes to run the
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  • 98 19 A LABOURER was jailed for three months yesterday for threatening to use acid on the staff of an outpatient dispensary. Murugayan Raja, 30, was found guilty of three counts of criminal intimidation at Kallang Outpatient Dispensary at Mountbatten Road on July
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  • 359 19  -  MAUREEN CHUA The love-affair murder case By Judges convinced stabbing intended to cause injury WELDER Wong Foot Ling, 32, was sentenced to death by the High Court yesterday for murdering his lover, along Kirn Seng Road, last October. In convicting him, Mr Justice Sinnathuray,
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  • 521 19  - Joint venture training centre to be set up R AY DHALIWAL By It will train engineers m back-up power supply maintenance A SWEDISH-LOCAL joint venture will set up a training centre m Singapore, its launching pad to boost its sales of back-up power supplies and industrial batteries m this region.
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    • 20 19 Two sets of POSB CASH vouchers to be won! For details, look m your I Sunday Times. I Tomorrow. I
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    • 428 20 THE attitude of some private sector employers on the hiring of older women leaves much to be desired. It is a disappointing mixture of prejudice, choosiness and complacency. True, every company has its preferences. The nature of some companies' business may require them to look
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  • 1390 20  -  ALAN OTTEN By Writing for The Asian Wall Street Journal The aged will badly stretch US resources m decades to come WASHINGTON "A 76-year-old patient of .Time died the other day, *nys Dr Joanne Lynn, a Wushingtor, D.C., geriatrician. "The real tragedy was that
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  • 28 20 Year 1940 1982 2000 2050 Percentage 0.3% 1.1% 2% 5.2% Number 365,000 2.5 mi 5.1 mi 16 mi Source: US Census Bureau
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  • 835 20  -  NANCY CHNG This and that By HADYAI Bangkok Correspondent A SIGN outside a popular mwigt parlour here reads: Forbidden Woman Entry. Step through the red doors and yea face a bevy ef wemea through a glass partition, with numbers pinned on their dresses, waiting to be called apon
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  • 568 20 T.F. Hwang takes you down memory lane Ouuity In Humility, Humility tn Cbmrtty WHO on earth could have said these words to me with such pure simplicity and sincerity but a nun and old friend? Sister Mary, Superior of St Anthony's Convent m Middle Road, was telling me about the
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    • 215 21 Cards of quality I REFER to the letter by Mr Robin Chan (ST, July 25) on the quality of Post Office Savings Bank Cash-On-Line cards. I would like to assure the writer that the quality of the POSB cards is comparable to that of those issued by major banks as
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    • 173 21 Upgrade roads to improve traffic flow I WOULD like to suggest why Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim is still congested with traffic despite the construction of new roads and the improvement of the existing ones that lead to Jurong. Many motorists continue to use Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim because it is a wide,
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    • 135 21 I AM saddened that ••Irritated Observer" has put forward suggestions to make raids on illegal hawkers more effective. (ST, Aug 10). The writer has unknowingly brought up a very significant soc\J problem. The suggestions, if taken up by the authorities, will only serve to, m
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    • 340 21 AT first, Dr C.K. Tseng's speech the other day might seem hardly worth comment. (ST, Aug 2). However, whenever someone takes the trouble to say "I am not xenophobic", it's a fair bet that the phrase precedes remarks of a distasteful nature. So, first and foremost, can
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    • 231 21 "FAIRPLAY" 's discourse on the moral, commercial and legal responsibilities of insurers m the context of motor insurance (ST, Aug 7) reveals a rather naive and biased view on matters recently raised m the Forum page. He has missed the gist of the recent complaints
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    • 151 21 Replies I REFER to the letter "Mid-year chance needed" by Asha Julia Meyale. (ST, July 24). Under the Foreign Language Scheme, only pupils with high linguistic ability and a special interest m foreign languages are allowed to do a foreign language. II your
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    • 96 21 I REFER to the letter "Separate marks will help parents" by "Concerned Parent (ST July 20). whether separate marks for the various components of the English Language should be entered m the pupil's report card is to be left to the discretion of the principal
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    • 76 21 I REFER to the letter "Blood donor wasn't given priority" by "Very Upset Donor I (ST, July 14). The writer was not given any priority of attention when he visited the Singapore General Hospital Specialist Clinic because patients at all hospital specialist clinics are seen by appointment.
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    • 141 21 Special crockery will not be a problem I REFER to the letter "Don't throw away money and pollute the environment" dv Mr C.H. Lee. (ST, July 11). The use of disposable crockery is a hygienic practice as there is no need to collect and wash it afterwards. Less manpower is
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    • 93 21 Hawkers entitled to do well too I REFER to the letter "Licences should be for deserving cases" by "Food For Thought (ST, July 24). Hawker licences are only issued to applicants m extreme financial hardship and the licences issued are personal to the holders. The success of the hawker's business
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    • 1420 22  - Concert of powers, community of nations DR NOORDIN SOPIEE Last of a three-part series on Asean By YESTERDAY, I talked of four ways m which Asean had made a major contribution to regional security. There is a fifth way m which Asean has contributed most substantially to the security of
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    • 440 22 Soviets hooked on TV spy serial MOSCOW Twanging electric gal tar chords and electrode music their favourite television armchairs these days for the next Instalment of a new thriller based on the work of the KGB abroad. Top actors depict "heroic" KGB secret agents battling the "evil forces" of the
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  • TIMESDOLLAR
    • 247 23 $140 m worth of goods sold m 1982 SINGAPORE is fourth m the world when it comes to selling dutyfree "drinks, fragrances and smokes", according to a worldwide ranking of dutyfree shops. Singapore Airport Duty-Free Emporium sold US$65 million (5J139.75 million) worth of duty-free goods
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    • 587 23 THE jarring juxtaposition is the discordant stuff of modern fiction: Ronald McDonald's wholesome American hamburger stand as the site of a bloodbath. So when 22 were gunned down m Southern California last month, there was no chance the event would be recorded sis McDonald's Corp described
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    • 460 23  -  S. KUMAR By THE Hongkong financial futures market, expected to open m November, is unlikely to threaten Singapore's own futures market, says Hongkong's Commissioner of Securities. Mr Robert FeU said yesterday that the colony's tatares market would be looking mainly for
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    • 250 23 THE separation between corporate and securities market practices m Singapore and Malaysia is widening because of differing economic goals of the two countries, said a law lecturer at a stock market seminar yesterday. Dr Philip Pillai said that while Singapore is aspiring to enhance its standing
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      • 56 23 TOKYO Nippon Electric Co Ltd said it signed a licensing agreement with /he Samsung Co Ltd group of South Korea allowing Samsung Electron Devices Co Ltd to manufacture small business and personal computers m South Korea. It will start production of the computers later this year and pro-
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      • 78 23 HONGKONG Security Pacific National Bank said it may make an offer for the ordinary and preference shares of the Bank of Canton Ltd it does not already own, the banks said m a statement. Security owns 69 per cent of Bank of Canton's ordinary shares, 63
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      • 41 23 LONDON The Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company reported on Thursday a profit of C 778 million (about 5J2.18 billion) for the second quarter an increase of more than 25 per cent compared with the same period m 1983. AFP
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    • 394 23 KUALA LUMPUR Bank Sumiputra Malaysia Bhd may have to inject as much as Msl.s billion to accommodate the MJ2.04 billion problem loans transferred to it from Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) on the last day of 1983. The large part of this Msl.s billion
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    • 179 23 SINGAPORE Airlines has once again proven that size has nothing to do with success. SIA maintained its ranking as the 14th largest airline m the world last year m terms of passenger kilometres. As four United States domestic airlines are included m the list,
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      173 23 PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yews encouraging National Day Message and the overnight 28-point gain on Wall Street failed to improve the local stock market yesterday. In the third consecutive faU, the Straits Times Industrial Index shed another 9.35 points to 963.25. The Business Times Composite Index lost
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    • 38 23 Un Down Um-H Up Down Unch Industrials 29 74 20 Finance 3 16 3 Hotels 1 6 3 Propert.es 0 8 3 Plantations 3 9 1 Deb/Loons 4 3 2 Total 42 118 33 I 1
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    • 142 23 There were 6x5,000 shares traded on the ncrmal basis and it rkised at i 2 7S down 24 c££&*'JldneTay 24 pinance stockg further ground. OCBC ]ost 10 cents t0 $10 20. Dns n^jj fell five cents t0 jg 15 But Malayan Ban
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    • 92 23 A LATE bout of profittaking caused share prices to close off their day's high at the Kuala vZPrH r av StOCk ma t rkCt yesterday m active trading The widely-followed Counter New Sto-aits Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index rose 2.23 points to 1452.43. At the close of
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    • 212 23 Chief price changes Rises DK«MMt 1040 +235 KMMNR|50c U20 +140 Cafctart 620 +30 U+m 575 +25 MttoMdp 446 +22 CtfeTtck 28S +20 MM** 915 +15 MCUtanMc 304 +14 OtMrni 50c 185 13 CASH50C 404+12 SoWCom 344+12 Sipna IMal 20S 12 Mm 510 +10 OriwtH IMp 428 10 SM 440 +S
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    • 43 23 K. Lumpur barometer Up Down Unch Industrials 57 36 29 Finance 9 0 3 Hotels 1 0 1 Properties 3 2 5 Oil palms 3 3 I Tins 6 3 3 Rubbers 7 5 4 Deb/Loans 0 2 0 Total 86 51 46
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    • 3739 24 SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL Acma (2 68S) (1) 260 (1) 2 55SETT (2 755) Alcom (2 058 2 1 OS) (I) 207 (1) 2 05SETT (2 05B) Allied Choc (2 818 2 85S) (7) 288 (6) 288 (1) 287 (2) 2 85SETT (2 858 2 90S)
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    • 2011 24 INDUSTRIALS A|inomoto(3 90S)(D 3.90 Alcom (2 275) (17) 2.26 (5) 2 25(4)2 28(10)2 27 Antoh (1 925) (10) 194 (2) 1 92(7) 1.95(5) 1.93 cd A Choc (3 18S) (7) 3.20 (13) 3 18 (ID 3 14 (3) 312 (17) 3.16 AISB (4 86Bi( I)
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      • 48 25 GOLD US$/oz Fri Thurs Singapore 351.50 352 00 closed Hongkong 351.20 351.70 343 90—344.40 Thurs Wed New York 349.00-349 50 344 25 344.75 London 345 50 346.00 345.25 345.75 De: Feb Simex Gold Futures high— low 364.60 363 50 370.60—370.60 Closing 363.80 370.60 Volume: 622 1
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      • 237 25 THE KILOBAR market opened at 5524,376 and closed at 5524,345. The Far East gold market opened at U*****.60/2.10 and traded up to U*****.25/2.75 on local buying. It slipped off slightly m late hours and finished for lunch at U*****.70/2.20. It re-opened m the afternoon at U*****.50/ 2.00 and climbed
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      • 229 25 THE Straits Tin price m Penang remained at the International Tin Agreement's floor level of M 529.15 per kilo on continued lack of demand. The price has been at this level since July 30. The buffer stock manager again provided most of the support. Turnover fell to la
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    • Finance
      • 229 25 THE US dollar Opened at a low of 552.1415/30 and was brought to a high of 552. 1440/50 to close there. The greenback was traded higher against major currencies. However, it fell back to close at the opening levels. Against the Deutschemark, it opened at 2.8735/45 and was traded
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      • 594 25 Delivery of FCL import container* Ship (Voyage) An Rent Due Kawana (09/444) 8/8 (2345) 12 8 (1500) N Zircon '29S/N; 9/8(0010) 12/8(1500) Sea Hawk (51) 9/8 (0730) 12/8 (1500) B Butang (32B33A) 9/8 (1120) 12/8 (1500) Harvester (41/84) 9/8(1025) 12/8(1500) Access (016W) 9/8 (1000) 12/8 (1500) Islamabad (18-0W)
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      • 59 25 118 m deal for oil/ore carrier TAIPEH Wah Kwong Shipping and Investment Co (Hongkong) Ltd has signed a US$55 million (*****.25 million) contract with China Shipbuilding Corp (CSBC) for the construction of an oil/ore carrier m Taiwan, a CSBC spokesman said. It will be delivered m early 1987. A second
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      • 213 25 H!2^F?2L ric s <or Arbuthnot Securities Asia swam. B-put« <»> 224-229 llln A 13in AligUtt spore Gfowth Fund 087-092 Seventh Bputra <B) 406—4 11 Singapore Unit Trust n! u nn aoil b wua The Commerce 3 14—3 34 WlfU-iHUIIldJU TefiBputra 1M-193 The Savings Fund 1 98-2 10 Umofl
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      • 213 25 Interbank Over the counter Foreifn Local dollars to Foreifn currency currency one unit of to 5$ 13 foreign currency Australian dollar 1.8091 1.8116 559—545 Canadian dollar 1.6391— 1.6411 617—607 NZ dollar 1 0694 1.0720 9 58-9 21 Sterling pound 2.8290 2 8324 3 57-3 51 US dollar 2
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      • 442 25 From Page 24 10.70(2) 10.80 cd Tolom (15 50S) Tonjung (12.006 1 3 40S) Tronoh (I 0 308 10.40S) (1) 10.30(4) 10.40 DOLLAR RUBBERS Asiotic Dcv (I 288 1 295) (31) 1 29(2) I 27(5) 1.30M4) 1 28 cd A Hitom (30 008 37 OOS)
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      • 302 25 Vessel Berth Arr Dep v MW Berth Arr Dep Keppel Wharves Alpha Pacific 6/7 aside 11/8 Eishin Maru 302 11 '8 12/8 Chang Won 15/6 aside 11/8 AIK 303 11;8 1?/8 Gerbera 35/6 aside Indra Sakti 306 118 12 8 Jenson 23 aside 11/8 Ocomas Prosper 303
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    • 593 26  -  KEVIN PAGE By UNITED Overseas Bank has outpaced rivals Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation and DBS Bank m the local banks' reported interim results stakes, with only Overseas Union Bank yet to report progress. At group level, UOB net profits fell from $81.22 million to $70.26
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    • From the companies desk
      • 59 26 SAMANDA HOLDINGS BHD will subscribe for four million new shares of Msl each, or about 11 per cent of the issued share capital, m Seasian Hotel Sdn Bhd, to be financed from internal funds with first dividend expected within four years. A company statement said Seasian Hotel
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      • 55 26 KUALA LUMPUR SUNGEI BESI MINES MALAYSIA BERHAD saw its pre-tax profit slashed by 47.1 per cent to M 52.748 million for the year ended March 31, 1984. The drop is at- tributed to the lower output of 572 kg compared to 802 kg previously, a reflection of the
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      • 87 26 KUALA LUMPUR SELANGOR DREDGING BERHAD expects the current year to be difficult m view of the bleak outlook m the tin industry, according to chairman Datuk Chan Keong Hon. He said m the company's annual report that the tin price would continue to be depressed m view of
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    • Stock market weekly round-up
      • 353 26 Singapore IT SEEMED too good to last. After a record-break-ing performance on Monday, profit-taking soon set m and the end of the week saw a declining local stock market. Even with the biggest one-day gain of this year (29.33 points) being registered
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      • 84 26 THE FOLLOWING is a list of the five most actively traded stocks on the Stock Exchange of Singapore this week. It gives the turnover m thousands of units, closing prices yesterday and the high and low for 1984 Convmy Votum Prict Hip- Low COM) Am 10 U
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    • 264 26 Federal Cables topples Pan-Electric FEDERAL Cables, Wires 6 Metal Manufacturing Bhd takes the most active stock spot last week with a total of 6.S million units traded, toppling Pan-Electric from this position after five weeks. During a week when investors generally engaged m profit-taking m a market
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      17 26 'Instead of changing jobs, why don't you just start working at the on* you've got?"
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    • 95 26 LONDON The board of ICL PLC said it has repeated its recommendation to shareholders not to take action on the proposed bid for the company by Standard Telephones and Cables PLC (STC). ICL rejected the July 26 bid by STC on the basis of two
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    • 108 26 Profittaking trims gains SHARE prices on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange rose sharply on Monday when the second highest volume m history amounting to 19.6 million units was recorded. The highest volume of 20.3 million units was recorded on Jan 12 this year. Profit-taking seeped m following the
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    • 3039 39 102 Tourt 102 Tourt 102 Touf 102 Touf [liliß«Tßpii j 112 Commwcl-/ 113 Languag* 118 Coo<ery 137 Religious 138 Ottw a^^a^—^^^i^^aß^ a^ aß^^^ a p|R I I Tthnical issa^sssaassi^ =-^=s==i Announcements Announcement^/ i 1 B^iTSB'iJB^IRSBWSR I L^. t?^ O f com^c. IBTTTfT^nkT ji xu n cooking centre II |i 1
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  • RACING
    • 370 40  -  EPSOM JEEP He won well and should make the grade m Class 3 By THE top bet m the card of nine races at Kuala Lumpur today, opening day of the Selangor Turf Club August Meeting, is Tinttnlum m Race 4 for Class 3 Div 6 horses
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    • 98 40 RACE 1: Scotch Reel, Without Hesitation, Satu Hati II RACE t: Mountain Eagle, Al Rosso, Tambun II RACE 3: Kawan Karib. Anchoring. Rosereno, Black Dinero RACE 4: Raja Kopi. Papatol 11. Zero Option. Plastic Queen, Professor Winstun 11, Bundini Bliss RACE 5: HoUow Laughter, Condominium, King Of Diamonds. Taraskiwi
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    • 173 40  -  PEDIGREE By Our man on the track KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Chicken Best II and Home Game gave their best performances when second m their last start and can score their maiden win m Race 2 and Race 5 respectively. Chicken Besi
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    • 97 40 Seow and Rahman back JOCKEY W.K. Scow (above), who was Injured when his mount, Belmont Bay, fell and brought down two other horses during the running of the Twin Cities Stokes at Penang on June 17, has fully recovered and Is back m the saddle. He has one ride today
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  • RACING
    • 266 41 ON THE TRACK with PEDIGREE KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Five-year-old King Vibes, who was involved m a three-horse spill m the Twin Cities Stakes race over the Penang 1,200 m m June, is none the worse after that mishap when he did a sparkling
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    • 316 41 (late Arumugam) is m fine trim, with apprentice Lsmadi up, the four-yrar-old clocked 42.3 on the bit. CecU's Kuda II (apprentice Danis) did pace work. Lack Everywhere (H.H. Chan), who has yet to race this season, trotted on the sand, as did Dawn
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    • 286 41 Melbourne Gup PERTH, Friday MOSS KINGDOM, Western Australia's top stayer and early favourite for the Melbourne Cup to be run at Flemington on Nov 6, has been given 57 kg by Victorian Racing Club handicapper Jim Bowler setting the horse the
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    • 115 41 TUESDAY (good with some "give"): Blitz 'Em 39.4, Lone Venture 36.7, newcomer Beldale Prospect (Dahlan) 39.1, Noble Ambition 37.9, Almecolour (W. Uew) 39.6, North Atlantic m 37.6, newcomer Millsum 39.2, Charlie's Angel n (Aziz) and Sherwood Oak 38.2, Badak n and Kuala Kangsar (Aziz) 38.7 together. WEDNESDAY
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    • 214 41 I With deepest sympathy and heart- I I felt condolences to our Chairman/ I I Managing Director, Mr Chong Kwek I I Kirn on the demise of his beloved I H TOTnOf MR. CHONG SWEE NGAN I From: I I The Management and Staff I I KEMLINK SDN BHD I
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    • 1190 41 Tomorrow's card *^*i*« (Ratings: 45-32) 5 *****8 C^mMi. Walk M (7S) Coronation- 6**4 lU^nwU 54 TS) SPA-ChenK 4 ire 2 IMW a7 (Stakes* $11 500) Dragon4agds+.s(l2oom) JuakUl 6 4 »a^«wu hj SPA-Cheng 4 irq 2 (QiOMJß.*ii,wuj o*lB Gra«eUa4 55 (7S) Memphis^heng 3eg d 5 ii tH'PTI fitin 51 ITIU Qiirlr'
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 314 42 was called horn* to be with the Lord on 9th August, 1964 leaving behind Wife Mdm. Lee Ah Chit Sons Daught*r*-in-law Teo Lye Huat Margaret Llm Teo Lye Choon Lim Hong Lian Teo Lye Kwee Lek See May Teo Lye Hua Timothy Yeo Slew Choo Teo
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    • 39 42 Deepest Sympathies and Condolences to MR RICHARD C.H. LIM FAMILY on the demise of his beloved mother, MDM LIE XIM NEO From: The Management ft Staff of EFRS ENGINEERING PTE LTD EVER FREEZING REFRIGERATION SERVICE
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    • 79 42 The family of the late MR CHEE SENG CHIANG wish to thank relatives friends for their donations, wreaths attendances during their recent bereavement. 144 InMemoriam 144 m Memorism In Loving Memory of my Dearest Godfather Departed: 15th Day of 7Mth 1982 The years may wipe out
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    • 93 42 wish to express their heartfelt thanks to all relatives, friends and colleagues for their kind attendance, assistance, donations, condolences, wreaths and scrolls during their recent bereavement. Inaartod by: SHon Kok Tone. Kok U*m, Kok Choy, Kok Hang. AL-FATEHAH Tha family of th* late Sahib *athu (Sabtu) bin Abdul
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    • 50 42 With deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to: Mr. Chong Kwek Kirn on the demise of his beloved father, MR. CHONG SWEE NGAN From: The Management a Staff of Hok Mcc Constrn. Co Pte Ltd Hugauss Pte Ltd Contract a Trade Pte Ltd Kemlink Constrn. Pte Ltd
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      178 42 paassd away paacawjUy en 9/8/B4 leaving behind beloved: Sons Seah Peng Khw ing Seah Peng Lip Seah Peng Him Seah Peng Klong (Deceased) Dsughtara-in-law Ltm Chay Klang Sim Hong Keng Daughters Seah Mul Keng Tan Al Hwa (Deceased Seah Mul Ngoh Seah Mul Tlan Low Cheng Jen Deceased
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      46 42 AOE:S4 RETURNED PEACEFULLY TO THE LORD ON 10/1/84. CORTEGE LEAVES BJ.K It LOR. 7 TOA PAYOH AT 12 NOON ON 11/S7S4 FOR FUNERAL SERVICE AT THE CHURCH OF THE RISEN CHRIST, 51 TOA PAYOH CENTRAL, AT 1-OOPtJ. BENEDICT A DSILVA W/O L. V. DSILVA
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    • 148 42 The Family of HwUM MedamSoon Loka wish to sxprsee thsir heartfelt thank* to Paster Lai and member* »h« Church of Christ of Malaya, all ralatrve*, friend* and coMsafjwss lor tnair kind assistancs. attand- ncs, donations, wroaths and cowdolanoss during thoir recant bar—vamant. The family of the Ist* wish
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      88 42 in jhj kj I Noim know hor I I fc* to lovt hf I I but m praiso. I 1 Yooc Loving HuibMid 1 and Children A O«pfted: 11 August S3 One year has passed; We still see you In the things You have taught us. WttttME.
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      35 42 Bth day prayar will b* hold on 12/I/S4 from 2pm. P tr#fll tfiM sfl p#r •on#l in vil atiofi. All Kf wwcOflM)* in**rt*d by levad on«». Blk 11 02-114 Qumiw Cr»»c«nt Singapof 0314.
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  • TIMESPORT
    • 373 42  -  TAY CHENG KHOON By FOO SAY CHUAN gave away II yean aad still made It to the final of the B Grade Ovaltue Individual Squash Championship at Mailaag last night. Bat David Tayler found that, however willing the spirit, a 21--year handicap hi toe
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    • 173 42 Bid to hold clash of champs SINGAPORE will bid to host the final round of the Malaysian Amateur Basketball Association championship at the Gay world Stadium (writes Peter Slew). If successful, Singapore will organise the roundrobin final round, involving winners of the North, South, East and Central Zones, after next
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    • 401 42  -  PETER SIOW By Giants out to prove that height is might THE gathering of the giants is coming. From Aug 31-Sep 9, they will assemble at the Gay World Stadium to prove conclusively that shorties and pygmies have no business playing basketball. The colossal beings will
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    • 161 42 Lady Luck is no associate of Indians SINGAPORE Recreation Club survived some harrowing moments before pulling off a 2-1 win over Indian Association m a Singapore Hockey Association Premier League match at Balestier Road yesterday. SRC took the lead m the seventh minute when umpire Arul Subramaniam awarded a penalty
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    • 184 42  -  JOE DORM By TWO young members of Singapore's national squad, goalkeeper Wong Wee Khong and midfielder Sharom Mokhtar, have been left out of tomorrow's Ovaltine Cup firstleg soccer match against Malaysia. Coach Hussein Aljunied chose 18 players, using fitness and experience as a yardstick, for what
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    • 200 42 Rest of the foreign sports CLEVELAND (Ohio), Fri. Second-seeded Bill Scanlon, of the United States, and fifth-seeded Vijay Amritraj, of India, both crashed out of the U5575,000 ($161,250) Cleveland Grand Prix tennis tournament yesterday. Scanlon, ranked 20th m the world, lost to unranked compatriot Jeff
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    • 336 42 CESAR LUIS MENOTTI, who coached Argentina's victorious 1978 World Cup squad, was quoted as saying he was considering an offer to coach the Buenos Aires club River Plate. Menotti, who resigned as coach of Spanish club Barcelona recently, was offered the job during a three-hour meeting on Wednesday
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    • 86 42 GRAND BLANC (Michigan), Fri. Tom Kite, who missed the cut m last week's PGA tour event, fired a six-under-par 66 yesterday to pull into a four-way tie for the lead m the first round of the US$4OO,OOO ($860,000) Buick Open. Leullag kotm (America** unions stated): M
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    • 29 42 SINGAPORE A beat Swida Green to win the Pesta Sukan Darts International team championships at Plaza Hotel yesterday. The women's title went to Alana, of South Australia.
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    • 172 42 LONDON, Fri. England opener Graeme Fowler had to retire hurt on the second day of the fifth cricket Test against the West Indies at The Oval here today after being struck on the arm oy Malcolm Marshall. It was the lowpoint of a difficult
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    • 504 44 Picture by LOS ANGELES, Fri. Pakistan and West Germany will meet m the men's hockey final here tomorrow m a repeat of the 1972 final m Munich. On that occasion, West Germany won 1-0 and Michael Peter, captain of the current team, was one of the
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    • 277 44 SYNC SWIM So sweet for Candy and Tracie LOS ANGELES, Fri. Childhood friends Candy Costie and Trade Ruiz, of the United States, wept uncontrollably as they made Olympic history yesterday by winning the first gold medal ever awarded for synchronised swimming. Their triumph m the duet event marked the end
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    • 187 44 Timely boost for Chinese LOS ANGELES, Fri. China's divers capitalised on errors by their American rivals yesterday to lead the 12 qualifiers m the women's Olympic platform competition. Zhou Jihong and Chen Xiaoxia made fewer mistakes to finish first and second after the eight preliminary dives on the 10
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    • 332 44 Scent of success THERE'S a bad smell at the Olympic Games. A skunk skirted security barriers around the archery contest and found itself a warm Blace to sleep among le concession tents at El Dorado Park m Long Beach. Officials with spray ing equipment made a wary approach and netled
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    • 115 44 Paying penalty MALIBU, Fri. The United States scored 26 seconds from time to beat West Germany 8-7 yesterday m the Olympic tournament, assuring themselves of at least a silver medal. The US meet Yugoslavia, the 1980 silver medallists, for the gold tonight. Doug Burke bounced m the final score
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    • 102 44 Seeds on the mat LOS ANGELES, Fri. South Korea's Ha Hyoung-Zoo won the halfheavyweight Olympic title last night after a series of surprises left the favourites watching the final. The rugged 23-year-old won a narrow decision over Brazil's Douglas Vieira to take the gold. The bronzes went to West
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    • 287 44 BASKETBALL LOS ANGELES. Fri. Spain will seek to prove that reaching the final was no lucky break when they meet the powerful United States for the Olympic men's title tonight. Spanish coach Antonio Diaz-Miguel, who led his side to a shock win over defending
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    • 489 45  -  GODFREY ROBERT Violence erupts as the Olympic boxing controversy sutlers anotner blow By Novicic is man m the middle of a storm over disqualification LOS ANGELES, Fri. The American crowd at the sports arena here last night went wild when their heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield was disqualified
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    • 200 45 LOS ANGELES, Fri. Tawee Umpornmahar became the best-ever Thai performer m the Olympics when he qualified for the lightwelterweight final with a convincing s^o decision over Rumania's Mircea Fulger m yesterday morning's semi-final. Tawee, 25, made it a fitting birthday present for the Thai
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    • 726 45 Godfrey Robert previews the soccer final at the Rose Bowl Brilliant Brazil set to take shine off French LOS ANGELES, Fri. Brazilian brilliance meets French flair tomorrow night at the Rose Bowl m Pasadena to decide the gold medallists of the Olympic Games soccer tournament. Brazil's
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    • 107 45 Archery: Men's 30m and 50m, women's 90m and 50m. Undue Final bouts. C>««rihg; Men's I,ooom final. Dtving: Men's platform preliminaries. Femclng: Epee Men's team preliminaries and finals. GynuuMtlcs: Women's rhythmic finals. HMHirwill' Men's final. Hvckey Men's final. Jud«: Open category. S«ee«r: Final. Ttmek and Held:
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    • 198 45 Seconds out, jeers in LOS ANGELES, Fri. Controversy contlnoed to rock Olympic boxing yesterday M United States heavyweight Henry Tinman and Canadian lightmiddleweight Shawn Sollivan won reversed decisions to reach the finals. Four other Americans flyweight Steven Jerry Page, light-middle-weight Frank Tate and middleweight Virgil Hill also assured themselves of
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    • 647 46  - Usha-rinhg in Asia's sensation GODFREY ROBERT By LOS ANGELES, Fri. Try pronouncing her full name and you may end up with a locked jaw. Try studying her rate of track progress and the same jaw may fall. India's hurdles heroine P. T. Usha came here as a non-entity. She will
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    • 1083 46  - Faster, higher and stronger ALAN HUBBARD By Daley perfect answer to Olympic motto LOS ANGELES, Fri. Daley Thompson was m a mischievous mood. Not many athletes, even Olympic champions, have had royalty walk out of the crowd and ask to shake their hands. But when he turned his back on
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    • 87 42 Tim family of ttio lato MOM. UM BOON ENO wnnfi io fxfiTvif inwir nwriiwii thanks to fotetivoat frioods, col* looovoa for ttioflr kind aaaiatanco, condolancaa, attandanco, dona- mil m ,«k a Aialmw ik^u iiofis, wrvflirts, scroH* ounng mvw wcwrtbwMimmHt THE FAMILY Of the late Mr Saravanamuthu Sundram Filial wishes to
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    • 83 42 Today's events ARCHERY Peate Stku meet (Gloucester Barracks. 8 a.m.). CRICKET DwiWe-wteket I'lMpiHHia (Balostier Road. 1 30 p.m.). DARTS Peat* s»k»« r'afcipa (Plaza Hotel. 10 a.m.). Bl GB V B>n Ragfcy lUm V-tt turn;: NUS v ORA <4 p.m.) Tanfflin CSC v Police (5.15 p.m.. both at Police Academy). Blacks
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    • 544 43 V»d^^fe KEN-AIR 12th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATE with us SAVE 'My^i ce^brate this auspicious new routings, no matter which p^SjpV «^S^r X) /^jfer^M occasion we are proud to invite destination you head for, you'll find Vi^iils^ c> MSQJbL you to Celebrate with us m our we have it all. There is no
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    • 570 43 sdfds sdf »'S3i,TS l 2®i *8& f= 1 All the Olympic results m 1 r^S 1 syfassT)^' H 0 B 8W ©wrestling Siper-heavy: Tyrell Biggs I 1 j HH|^^ j^t^^^ ittltJ Ets Francesco Damiani (Ita) W«meB: Rhytfcmle gynjB»«- Women: West Germany 1 Vazquez (Arg) 4:07.15 C Einar WT i^H^H^L tRo^We.MCBR.rsf
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    • 88 45 Spotlight on Tawee Umpornmahar I iH^^^ONDOI!EHcE ll^™ l H With Deepest Sympathy to: H THE CHAIRMAN, H M MR LIM SENG TJOE M TUAN HUAT TRADING PTE LTD (BAN HIN LEONG GROUP) jfl m the recent bereavement of his wife: H Mdm Lie Kirn Neo I B who passed away
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    • 111 45 THEL.A. OLYMPICS From the 8 August right up to the 19 August, Southern Village will be serving local delights from Penang at modest, hawker- If your taste buds missed the last food extravaganza, don't despair. We will once again be serving Assam Ice Kachang. i vsSrw HI ISU. 2BS /^^HBj
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    • 540 45 (Incorporated m Malays a) I <\ I I PREUMINARY FINAL STATEMENT I I AND DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT I i|| The Directors are pleased to announce: I 1. Unaudited results for the year ended 30th June, 1984: GROUP— —COMPANY— I 1984 1983 1984 1983 MS'OOOs MS'OOOs MS'OOOs MS'OOOs TURNOVER 394,549 338,320 16.6
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  • 92 47 Pictures by and Some like It hot and some not.. .AH the excitement on the track tends to pot what is happening off it m the shade. This cool customer m the crowd should he given a medal for
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  • 1074 47  - The pride and the perfectionist ALAN HUBBARD What makes Ovett climb out of a hospital bed and step back on the track By There is no way sport can be so important as to damage the rest of your life Ovett WHAT motivates a maestro? For some it is the
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  • 541 47 S 'THE ONLY THING THAT CAN STOP HIM IS A NUCLEAR WAR* THE most dangerous man m Los Angeles doesn't carry a gun or mug old ladies. And as you read this, Yasuhiro Yamashita will be on his knees scrubbing the floor of his room m
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  • 369 47 LOS ANGELES, Fri. Zola Budd has been the centre of controversy and mystery ever since she changed citizenship so that she could compete m the Olympics. And after her first race m the 3,000 metres here, Britain's best-known new citizen kept her thoughts about
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  • 77 47 LOS ANGELES, Frl. Swiss Pierre Delece's dreams of appearing In an Olympic athletics final shattered yesterday when he crashed to the track only metres from the l,stim finish while lying a comfortable third. Delexe, who finished sixth In last year's World Championships, lay helpless as Ireland's Marcos O'Snlllvan
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    • 87 47 HOW TO ENTER: 4 A 1 Find the correct answer to _^^^jg^^S the question herein from today's "^ss?^ Sports pages, and fill m the *^*^g^. answer m the entry form to be found m The Sunday Times /^N/^N/^N j|||Wton 12 August 1984' W7tiiMW SjS^K 2. The full set of rules
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  • 362 48  - Brunei and Jakarta sign deal to work closely HAN LING By Brunei Reporter BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Fri. Brunei and Indonesian businessmen have sealed a significant package deal on future cooperation and joint ventures. A joint statement by the Brunei Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Indonesian Chamber of
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  • 64 48 REMEMBER the nursery rhyme that goes "Three men m a tab? Well, the tab that these three are m is a cable car (right) that will take them clean over Arita resort m Japan. Amazing, the Japanese. They've taken that cringing cliche, "Bathing m the
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  • 406 48 'Opec planning to reduce ceiling to avert price collapse' ABU DHABI, Friday OPEC is considering production cuts to prevent a possible collapse m prices, oil industry sources said as Saudi Arabia the world's No. 1 exporter confirmed it had already cut production. United Arab Emirates
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  • 201 48 HONGKONG, Fri. A group of professionals today took out full-page advertisements m several newspapers here, appealing to the local people to "face 1997 with a positive attitude". The advertisement was taken out by 132 people m the film, media, social work, education and other
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  • 243 48 CHICAGO, Fri. The harmless-looking toothpick sends 8,000 people to US hospital emergency rooms each year, with a few deaths reported from swallowing the little wooden slivers. The Consumer Products Safety Commission estimates that 478 cases of people swallowing toothpicks occurred m 1982
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  • 123 48 Soviet Union names new envoy to S'pore MOSCOW, Fri. The Soviet Union has replaced its ambassador to Singapore with the deputy chief of the Foreign Ministry department responsible for Britain, Australia, Canada, and Ireland. The official news agency Tass reported today that the previous ambassador, Mr Fyodor Potapenko, posted m
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  • 38 48 MOSCOW, Fri. The Soviet Union's Tupolev-144 supersonic airliner, one of the most expensive failures m aviation history, has been grounded for good, Mr Nikolai Poluyancnik, a senior official of the state airline, Aeroflot, said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 37 48 LONDON, Fri. A British adventurer, Mr Richard Knight. 47, Jailed m Vietnam last year for violating territorial waters while searching for pirate treasure should soon be released, the Foreign Office said m London yesterday. Reuter
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  • 31 48 NEW YORK, Fri. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose 22.53 points to 1,246.57 m the first hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. ter
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  • 586 48 By The Straits Times Foreign Desk Pressure on East German leader to curb links with Bonn stepped up MOSCOW, Fri. The Soviet Union stung by a split m Warsaw Pact countries over rapprochement between the two Germanics today launched a direct attack on East
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    • 287 48 BUSINESS TIMES Singapore's Financial Dally IN TODAY'S ISSUE Singapore has won international recognition as one of the few countries where government, employers and workers have worked together to carry out an incomes policy successfully. CHUANG PECK MING reports on the compliments from the most unexpected quarters the International Labour Organisation.
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  • SECTION TWO
    • 2 1 SECTION TWO
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    • The other Olympics
      • 548 1 Meals that run on and on Food FOOD lots and lots around the clock for the 7,800 athletes living m the three Los Angeles Olympic Games villages is served m nine dining areas. For two weeks, Americans, Europeans, Australians and New Zealanders are sinking their teeth freely into chunky sirloin
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      • 279 1 PIN mania is an informal trade, a frenzied free-for-all of buying, selling and bartering. Thousands of pins from Olympic participating countries are m circulation. "Any pins?" is the greeting a foreign pressman, official and athlete gets before a conversation is opened or a job completed. The power
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    • KIDS & THINGS
      • 284 2 NO. 25. What's so special about it? Well, nothing much, except that it's made up of a score and five, whatever that is! But if you think of 25 years that's a long time indeed! Especially if you are only 12 2 it means another
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      • 167 2 Hi, kids, Let's join m the National Day parade fun with Ah Too. Today, we bring you a telecast of the parade. How exciting! Here comes the marchpast our army boys marching m perfect unison led by the armoured column. There's something wrong with
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      • 433 2 AS THE dreaded examinations creep up on us and revision moves into top gear, it is important not to forget that our poor brains need the occasional break for rest and relaxation m order to perform really well. If you have worked hard enough to
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    • FEATURES
      • 303 3 I Security SECURITY m this land of the bizarre has to be tighter than a noose. A child with a toy gun was detained, and a man was arrested when he climbed a fence and tried to get into the University of California Los
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      • 261 3 Fan I'_ j I After walking out of the popular Vidal Sassoon salon at Main Street m the University of Southern California Games Village, Belgian cyclist Rudi Ceyssens said: "I think I'd better put a hat on." He was dumbfounded as he
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      • 144 3 COVERING the games for the 8,000 journalists is not easy, with clashing schedules and venues spread out. Precious minutes could be lost travelling through heavy traffic. The organisers have provided 32 television screens at the main press centre, which have proved to be
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      • 427 3 A Facts not ikjk i^FwL3: I really fancied M^^M I X 11} f[ -jiJafe Mmd? Tulip Garden. My J^ \_j^T I^^b^ W husband also liked it. k J m Tulip Garden had the kind of home he's been saving for all these years. The children loved its exclusivity and complete
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    • OUTLOOK
      • 1367 4  -  TAN LEE LENG By TO MOST Asians, a week of meals without pineapple or banana would be unthinkable. But Europeans rarely saw these tropical fruits until their steamships began to cross the seas. We tend to take our tropical fruit for granted until we visit temperate
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      • 1003 5  - Now you can buy ice cream sundae at a hawker centre MAY HO By An ice cream stall m a hawker centre that's one of the moves made by Magnolia, the local leader m the ice cream industry, to meet the challenge posed by the foreign invaders. AFTER months of
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      • 559 5  - Which is the culprit salt or calcium? JAN ZIEGLER By m Washington FIRST we were eating too much salt and giving ourselves high blood pressure. Now some researchers say we're not eating enough calcium and giving ourselves nigh blood pressure. What are we supposed to believe? As usual, a little
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      • 370 4 > FACTORY AREA 50,000 SQ. FT. «m^^^^ VL VARIETY OF DESIGNS TO SATISFY ALL TASTE fl juiL FREE Aj||" FOR EVERY T^T^J GIFTS II JSB l\ X^|f% PURCHASE \M. v^ I I w OVER $300 [L^^^X B^B^B^B^K I"*'******1 00 £*"%f%t% IF YOU PURCHASE ONE \i AUT^bH /T^ 'WONDERFUL REGENT' \y
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      • 110 4 GOURMET i—a— ao— r How can you feel your prett> T feminine best f vwll if your arms and legs 4 mf J J| J Unwanted hair is embarrassing M n^ s having it oil can he \crv unpleasant and If tL unfemimnc. V m 049 Pv** What you really
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    • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      • 853 5 THIS LUXURIOUS MI II I.I HES BBC 380SL COULD BE YOURS... Just enter trie y^^^l^*"^^BHPWßWl^ jt B^^BJ IV^H Y^V^B^bl^bl^bT HbVB^BBS^B^bI B^B^Bfl BC *-*v rf^C*^ J owner of the co>r^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^K^;X^^ onv one or tho owunt over I ,uuu aiTOQO 11 lei r w PI 2nd Prize (30 winners) 3rd Prize (100
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      • 2265 6 i 2nd WEEK j fl^iJJiuitUiimiJßmiflll/^^ i^^i iT ADTTAT (*****59) 5 SHOWS at _fl I 3 big pau NOW Opeil small pau h A A r^. Q B lailJlMgiKiMirnßH.'H.'iHJ 8 V/^lTl A \fl\j 11 am, 1.45,4.00,6.30,9.15" fl B^^^ I Q OAa 4A P S 1 *\^sM)' I Ilfc X l'l'llV'l^Blr;J:tl'iy\'illl Deep
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    • BOOKS
      • 657 7 IRA story m a nutshell THE IRA By Tim Pat Coogan Fontana, 1980 622 pages, $14.15 Reviewed by KHOO HOW SAN A RECENT press report spoke of Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic leaders saying they were willing to hold talks aimed at breaking the political deadlock
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      • 537 7 Creative challenge from Down Under? JUST RELATIONS By Rodney Hall Penguin, 1984 502 pages, $16.80 Reviewed by CHRISTINE KHOR EVERY now and then, the Commonwealth throws up a writer who threatens to put the good old mother country into a position ol uncomfortable ambiguity. It used to be that really
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      • 270 7 THE M-Fornm Society: How American Teamwork Can Recapture the Competitive Edge by William Onchi (AddisonWesley, hardcover, $59.00) Onchi goes beyond Theory Z and takes: a hard look at the relationship between business and government m Japan and the United States and offers a vision
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      • 732 7  -  REBECCA CHUA By HERE are a few biboks about states that figure m various lives: the dream state explained m a way that children would understand; jealousy, the green demon that rears its ugly head; deafness, a disability that the fit seldom try to
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      • 656 8 MCA split and monarchy discussed CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MALAYSIAN POLITICS By Tunku Abdul Rahman Pelanduk. 1984, 397 pages, $9.95 THE MONARCHY IN MALAYSIA By Tan Chee Khoon Pelanduk. 1984. 76 pages $5 THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MCA By Lao Zhong Pelanduk, 1984. 254 pages, $9.95
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      • 380 8 THE ASIANS THEIR EVOLVING HERITAGE Ey Paul Thomas Welty Harper and Row 6th edition New York. 397 pages Reviewed by IRENE PATES IF THERE was any regret I had on reading The Asians Their Evolving Heritage, it was that I wished I had discovered this book
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      • 211 8 THE Banquet is a carefully modulated story of psycho-patho-logical love. Every Tuesday and Thursday Harold visits Marks and Spencer m London, where he gazes adoringly at Blossom, a young saleswoman m the food department. "I hadn't the courage to approach her," he says, "I'm not even sure I
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      • Article, Illustration
        230 8 Ararat by DM. Thomas (Abacus, $9.40) Following on the success of The White Hotel. Ararat is a fantasia on the theme of poetic improvisation and of the soul's quest for the pastoral. A Short History of Socialism by George Lichtheim (Flamingo, $14.20) A concise and perceptive account
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      • 112 7 r T| -:?fl ~.)b m »;ftß MS i& Golden Phoenix <W7T| A^ CHAO ZHOU Sffin? 1011 GARDEN RESTAURANT 6th storey. UIC Building. Shenton Way For reservations, please call Ellen. Tel: *****55. \n\ 1 1 < iiolfk'n IMmhmi ix o Sichuan Rpwlauranl Sichuan cuisine Hotel Equatorial 429 Bukit Timah Road. Singapore
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      • 41 7 s I IM I'AI X HE IRA Kxpamk^ukhijvdak'iU-ilitionoi In lai the best and rnusi iniimaieacouunf NEW STATESMAN rjtflkm V:^ ,s0 o0 3^ P_____P________________________________________________________P I' I _^^^Am^km^^^^^^e^ v>w^^~^ __a__»*^^* ____l\ Vy Y2i>^r»* s mO*£ *~**!\t*_*& i W^SSSy t^S%gr "jimmwmm L agO _____......____________________________________________________J____________^^
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      • 202 8 *IBBBBBBBBs i^ '^V'^ a Bl Bw BB^W^^ V 888 i»l Bk T fl Bl X Bm bb J Bff B^^^9^^Bk jjßb Bt /Bwfl Bw^^K-^ BV-v *>^- >l jMkigrffl^| B^bT^^B^BvK S B^v >^^f «W wV w 111 Ml lM ■■bY ,^bw Jaw m 1111 I^bV ■bbbL. ]u!jSbV'i5S2A i^il >- j^SSW^SSSiBi A
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      • 25 8 THE BANQUET By Carolyn Slaughter Penguin, 1983 207 pages. $9.35 Reviewed by JILL GROSSMAN \I \l I \M> *>*£ limi KM I SiOKY I arolvii Sta#r
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      • 2513 9 2& DDOTIMTMFNTQ/Nr^TTi^FCT Coo E ers Mf^LWk Wk MIiwMJLjJI^ WL^9I M^^& JL A^^BBBbI^BP^ &Lybrand Associates provuiesa comprehensive range of management consultancy services aimed at helping clients increase the effectiveness and HHSTANTS RSSOBBII 1 Sales Service: Rates: Box Service: profitability of their organisation. These services include Corporate Development Telex Service- STA N
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      • 2413 10 APPOINTMENTS AA i m v I 1 I RB I SE MBAWANG 111 De Zaan Far East Pte. Ltd. recently acquired a Singapore cocoa 111 MORCAI^ GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK Is one Of the largest Inter- 1 1 1 Ikt TTIWITMr- r-OIVIDANrV H I processing faciUty that i,
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    • Page 11 Advertisements
      • 2269 11 Al*l*^JlW llflCW 15 f We are a diversified and established regional Group ofl m b^^ bb»> Companies. Due to our continuing expansion, we are SINGAPORE SAPPTV nDllflMifl ITlTtl n FT'M 11 m m m\ poised to invite applications from suitably qualified and i— ■^"■VIW\I i^jTt, f If FTC J" "alf\
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      • 2429 12 APPOINTMENTS MWHMbmHHBMMMbH JMMHIHiHBMaHia»ia^BW IB WBm\ mm <^ Ur Clienl is a oint venture unit trust company. Active fc^^^^fc^ I H^H An American multinational high-technology plant H^| Profession 3l an d in-depth portfolio management is available to |k^^ B^^. J^ J m m M located m Jurong invites suitably qualified B^H
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      • 1970 13 APPOINTMENTS t^on)ated f^ssen)bfy mm M^^^fL I We are an established company speciaJlsed E UU^P W^ fr^ 0 0 m the assembling and testing of PCB for E t E-JSWAtTfTaII l computer related industries. Due to expan f T^^U^^l^- O C y %M^w9^ *S sion ot our operations, we have vacancies
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      • 2622 14 APPOINTMENTS i^HJUJJLHIJ^I p^^^^^^s»*-HH-i^i^— H inni P^^WVPpHMUkJwflflW I rv n l"' l> with out f)-yoar oxpansion fl r— -^L. X-/ 1 J P'ogiiiintno (1981^86), we invite fl I »-w^-k applications from suitably qualified fl B b^p^b n^^ AIIV L 1? _fl Singapore citizens. Permanent Residentsol fl llAlall Ul ÜbB^TCI ClKI^ A
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      • 2509 15 APPOINTMENTS I tv V M "Z^^T^~^T^^^^^^lZrj^^^^~ fl m I Tn€ D6St S3I6S pBOpl6 fl fl A major multiiational company with widely diwrsififil inu-ivst-. m \\w manufactu B B^tl fl fl mW rifiriHfi f hfilP AlaiM I I nn^rsivtor is swkmjr a dynamic individual f«.r tlu-ir Asia iv»ri<.n:tl .-urin.nu.- hi-a«l- 1
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      • 2133 16 |N THE H|GH COIIRT 0F THE IVIITIr FC REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE i*vFIIVLO ompanles Wi.idlnK p t^r« f mmi^ in «™^°c h opS^™ "Sbis^ xso I Announcement 1 srsrir,^- 811 ..*««^-kh..^ I I In the Matter of the f'ompwilwi ADVERTISEMENT OF Up I >^7i nniT^v I ut ha P u>r iBs
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    • Page 16 Miscellaneous
      • 239 16 COMICS By Jim Mjavts \f I TROLV BetlE-VE I'M A &IRP, I I y^V I 1 I MIGHT BE ABLE TO FLAP MV I I ffMA ARMS ANPFLVCXJT OF THIS TREE r\ \A BIRP.'X i 1 I I ri *A A y fill BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY b,
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    • Page 17 Miscellaneous
      • 365 17 at: PEANUTS Byschtx foOQC /^VOU KNOU UJHAT Tp^ I I /uiMICM PIP YOU \|l PON't BELIEVE M COOKIES I I LIKE TO KNOW? PREFER..TWE PEANUT N EX|T POL LS J I VMUH?7 r^7\ V>^— i- MW _^X aUTTERORTHE I V °J\ 4l h/ y rr V CHOCOLATE CHIP? J MT^S
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      • 69 18 r i i i.I I I I j t j 111 m j I SUNDWS seemto^ "^|T j New year SUNDW TIMES has THREE sections, allwithy2/# colour, more news, more features, more#& The Sundw Tlmes Tomorrows Newspaper Today TOMORROW. Art-proofs of this advertisement, without the panel of t.-pe. suitable for
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    • LEISURE
      • 933 19  - British music leads the way RAY COLEMAN By m London Perhaps more than any other band, Britain's glossy pop pair, The Eurythmics, epitomise the visual emphasis of British rock. Their image and songs have captured the imagination of millions of pop fans* TWENTY years after the first British beat group
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      • 874 19  -  JOSEPHINE NG By THE bicycle whisked past and screeched to an abrupt stop m front of the cab I was m. "Hi Eric, how're things going?" I asked the cyclist. "Great. I'm just going some place to play the guitar." We talked. All
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      • 341 19 ANTI-CANCER CAMPAIGN Exhibition at Plaza Singapura. On till Friday. SSO CONCERT Featuring Lee Pan Hon and guest conductor Huang Yijun. World Trade Centre. 8.15 p.m. Tickets at $4, $7, $10 and $15 from Cold Storage Centrepoint, Tangs and UOB Branch at the Victoria Concert Hall. Tickets also available
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      • 284 19 THE King's Singers will perform m Singapore at the Victoria Concert Hall on Sept 23 (5 p.m.) and 25 (8 p.m.) The six singers have been called "the next Beatles" by the British press. Apart from the beatnik title, they have also been described
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        109 19 TODAY: Singapore 5.15 a.m. (0.1 m), 12.22 p.m. (2.2 m), 5.13 p.m. (lm), 11.03 p.m. (2.6 m). Sedili Kechil 4.26 a.m. (0.3 m), 12.03 p.m. (2.1 m), 5.15 p.m. (1.3 m). 10.20 p.m. (1.9 m). Port Dlckson 1.30 a.m. (0.9 m), 6.48 a.m. (2.5 m), 1.18 p.m. (0.4
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    • YOUR VIEWING AND LISTENNG GUIDE
      • 311 20 SATURDAY MATINEE TO RACE THE WIND (Ch 5, t p.m.): A true- life story of a blind Harvard Law School student who graduates as a lawyer through sheer determination and humour. Based on the autobiography by Harold Krents, this 1980 drama appeals for equal
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      • 255 20 fi AM World News C.99 The World Today C.25 Book Choice fi.39 Financial News 6.1« Reflections 5.45 Sports Roundup 7.99 World News 7.91 Commentary 7.15 From the Weeklies 7.39 Shiver m the Morning Dew 8.99 World News 8.99 News about Britain 8.15 Radio Newsreel 8.39 About Britain 8.45 Sarah
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      • 261 20 ir VflllD CliniCC 1 ir ii|iin ir.i fe- f^^^^^^lli^B ARF AQ 111 11 1 AC HP This frosted glass bowl 1/IIAII Mmd&^ with Maggi 2-Minute Noodles KIWI MmmL Maggi 2- niinute Noodles has a free frosted glass bowl W^ ka I lak m store for you with every purchase of
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    • Page 20 Miscellaneous
      • 211 20 SBC 12 8.00 PM Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Living Heritages m Asia Masks and Pagodas Dance Dramas of Thailand The programme looks at the activities of a student of the National Dancing School m Thailand, which preserves the tradition of Thai dance. 8.35 Centrestage A Midsummer Night's Dream
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      • 503 20 rSBC 5 12.25 PM SBC Text Live Sample Pages Tooth: An unusual adventure set m the South 12.55 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Pacific. A brave youth escapes from his captives Sesame Street: Featuring the letters G and T, and who have also stolen his father's prized relic the
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