The Straits Times, 13 July 1985

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  • 15 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1985 40 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 95/1/85
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  • 505 1  -  PAUL JACOB New Singapore and XL leaders 'ought to get better acquainted' By Asean post-ministerial meeting US cautious over proximity talks: Page 6 Ideas flow in session on Pacific Basin community: Page 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam today called
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  • 61 1 Latest RUSH TO CLEAR CHINA PORTS BEIJING, FYI. China announced urgent measures to cope with bottlenecks at its ports, with 54M ships waiting to load or unload, Xinhua news agency announced today. Zhao Weichen, Vice Minister of the State Economic Commission, announced that military ports, warehouses, vehicles and manpower will
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  • 80 1 Time saved by zipping up patients THIS zipper that Dr Harlan Stone is holding may be an ordinary zipper, but the doctor uses it m an unorthodox way. Dr Stone, head of general surgery at University Hospital m Baltimore m the United States, sews the zip onto patients who need
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  • 140 1 THE closure of The Singapore Monitor triggered off a fresh wave of selling on the stock market yesterday as the Straits Times Industrial Index lost a further 9.60 points to 725.18. The Monitor's ultimate holding company, Singapore Press Holdings, received a rush of sell
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  • 409 1  - Demand keeping petrochemical complex 'busy' RONNIE LIM By SINGAPORE'S petrochemical complex is doing fine right now with all its plants running flat out to meet buoyant demand from Asean countries and Hongkong. And we are not overly concerned about sales to Japan for the moment, said Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore
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  • 147 1 Life saved by open-heart massage MANCHESTER, Fri. A woman whose heart stopped for an hoar was revived by a doctor who cut open her chest and massaged her heart until it beat again. Dr David Morrison said Mella Quinn, 38, who had a heart attack at her home m northwest
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  • 578 1  - Acid attack: 6 suspects arrested LAI YEW KONG By POLICE have arrested six men, one described as a hired assailant and another the mastermind, who are believed to be behind the acid attack on Mr P. Ramasamy, a former deputy director of the National Trades Union Congress, last week. The
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  • 586 1  -  SALMA KHALIK By JOB offers for Singapore Monitor staff have started to come m, including some from Malaysia and Hongkong. But with 108 journalists who will be retrenched if they are not redeployed to other newspapers within the Singapore Press Holdings group, the company
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    • 31 1 Inside 58 pages today Summary 2 World News 3-5 Asean 6 Causeway 7 Editorial 16 Background 17 Letters 18 Times Dollar 19-22 Classifieds 23-33 Sports 35, 38, 39 Racing 36, 37
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  • IN SUMMARY
    • 572 2 Bugis St will go BUGIS STREET'S shopkeepers and hawkers will have to go, and that's final. The Ministry of National Development and the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board have completed their study and the verdict is that the businesses will have to move, Most of the hawkers will go to
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    • 319 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS TWO questions come obviously to mind as the last copies of the Singapore and Sunday Monitor roll off the presses this weekend: Firstly, what went wrong? The Monitor obviously chose an ill-advised strategy of competing head-on with The Straits Times to be a newspaper of
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    • 143 2 FOR SAFETY'S SAKE THE Port Authority says its ban on windsurfing m the east Johor Straits is to ensure the safety of windsurfers, not to discourage the sport. It says the straits are a narrow and busy shipping channel, and that there has recently been an increase m the
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    • 553 2 Galloping economy CHINA'S industrial production shot up by 23.1 per cent m the first six months of the year, despite government measures to rein m the galloping economy. And the State Statistical Bureau said firms must be prevented from blindly seeking high growth. Consumer liquidity was also
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    • 126 2 Bypassing Marcos THE United States House of Representatives has voted to channel development and food aid to the Philippines through the Roman Catholic Church and other groups to avoid control by President Ferdinand Marcos' government. The House approved an amendment to the $27.9 billion foreign aid package for
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    • 238 2 INSURANCE FIRM REPORTS $19.5 m TRADING LOSS OVERSEAS Union Insurance (OUI), the insurance arm of Overseas Union Bank, suffered its largest trading loss of $19.5 million last year, most of it due to underwriting losses from its re-insurance business stemming from its agency m Britain. This caused it to
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    • 327 2 Thais lead THAILAND has taken the lead m the eight-nation Putra Cup golf championship after the third round at the Royal Selangor Golf Club. The Thais, looking for their first victory m the 25-year-old competition, turned a four-stroke overnight deficit into a five-stroke lead over hosts Malaysia, reports TAY
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    • 95 2 Asean: Across the Causeway Musa's pledge THE Malaysian government will ensure justice is done m the M 52.5 billion Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) loans scandal and those guilty will be brought to book, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam. He said it was unfortunate that the affair had become
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    • 289 2 Power play DEADLY GAMBITS talks about the personal conflicts and diplomatic wrangling that go on behind the arms control negotiations Detween the United States and the Soviet Union. Author Strobe Talbott, who is Time magazine's diplomatic correspondent, says the talks have been complex, frustrating and extremely slow-moving, ana
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  • around the WORLD
    • 360 3 Better ties with Beijing wanted -Tikhonov MOSCOW, Fri. Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tikhonov told visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Yao Yilin yesterday that Moscow wanted better ties with Beijing, but an official made clear major political differences remained between the two estranged communist countries. Mr Yao met Mr Tikhonov a day after
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    • 94 3 BEIJING, Fri. China and East Germany are to triple bilateral trade in five years under an agreement to be signed on Monday, East (Jerman diplomats said here today. They said the 1986-1990 accord would be signed by East German Vice-Premi-er Gerhard Schuerer,
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    • 60 3 BEIJING, Fri. Salesmen and entrepreneurs have become a prime target for bagsnatching thieves on China s trains, according to a report in the China Legal News. In the first five months of 1985, about 400,000 yuan 7S$308,000) has been stolen from unsuspecting passengers, nearly twice the number
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    • 101 3 WASHINGTON, Fri. The United States is rushing delivery to Pakistan of anti-aircraft missiles worth USSB.S million (almost Ssl9 million) because of attacks m Pakistan by planes from Afghanistan, the State Department said today. Spokesman Robert Smalley said the Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and Stinger ground-to-air missiles,
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    • 139 3 CHINESE President IJ Xiannian stepping off a Chinese airliner onto a red carpet welcome on Thursday at Vancouver internatonal airport, his first stop on a three-week tour of Canada and the United States. Although the trip to North America, the first by a Chinese
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    • 282 3  -  WINSOME LANE By Hongkong Reporter HONGKONG, Fri. A Bill to protect the public against crooked travel agents was gazetted here today. The legislation, expected to be implemented before the Lunar New Year, is aimed at preventing the recurrence of massive travel frauds, which have
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    • 292 3 Dinghy may be clue to sinking of flagship WELLINGTON, Fri. Police today said an abandoned dinghy could be a clue to the bombing and sinking of the Greenpeace flagship as they sought Interpol's help m tracing a Frenchman who visited the Rainbow Warrior before it went down on Wednesday. Greenpeace
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    • 340 3 BEIJING, Friday CHINA'S industrial production shot up by 23.1 per cent m the first six months of the year, despite government measures to rein m the galloping economy. The State Statistical Bureau, which disclosed the increase, said firms must be prevented from blindly seeking
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    • 77 3 MELBOURNE, Fri. A Ukranian who escaped from a Soviet prison camp and migrated to Australia left nearly US$7O,OOO (*****,000) in his will to defend his new country against communism, a court heard yesterday. A Supreme Court judge ordered Petro Fedorczenko's estate to be placed in a
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    • 81 3 TOKYO, Fri. North Korean President Kirn n Sung, 73, has confirmed that his son, Kirn Jong n, will succeed him as the leader of North Korea, the North Korean Central News Agency said today. It quoted the president as saying of the divided Korean peninsula: "If
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    • 102 3 580th year of Cheng Ho's voyages celebrated BEIJING, Fri. China is celebrating the 580th anniversary of the first westward voyage of its greatest navigator, the Ming Dynasty eunuch Cheng Ho. More than 3,000 maritime experts and academics have gathered for a special conference in Nanking, where Admiral Cheng embarked on
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    • 330 4 WASHINGTON, Fri. The FBI brought espionage charges yesterday against a relative of the leader of Ghana and a female CIA clerk whom he allegedly wooed into turning over secrets about US spy operations m the African nation. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director William Webster said
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    • 168 4 CHICAGO, Fri. Small pet turtles, the sale of which has been banned m the United States since 1975 because they spread salmonella poisoning to children, are being exported m millions and pose a global health threat, medical researchers said yesterday. US-bred
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    • 368 4 WASHINGTON, Fri IN A major setback to President Ronald Reagan's policy of "constructive engagement" with Pretoria, the US Senate last night overwhelmingly voted for economic sanctions against South Africa to protest against its apartheid polices of racial separation. The 80-12 vote marked the first time
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    • 248 4 PRETORIA, Fri. South Africa said yesterday a Dutch detainee, centre of a diplomatic row between Pretoria and The Hague, had duped security police into taking him to his embassy in a dramatic but vain bid to escape. The Netherlands said armed South African police entered the
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    • 330 4 War veteran heads task force against terrorism WASHINGTON, Fri. Vice-President George Bush has appointed a veteran of three wars, Admiral James Holloway, to direct the United States task force on terrorism set up after the hijacking of a TWA plane on June 14. "The goal of this task force is
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    • 165 4 WASHINGTON, Fri. US retailers reported weaker sales for the second successive month in June, the government said today in a report that revived concern about the economy and added to the pressure on the dollar on foreign exchanges. Retail sales, considered a key
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    • 67 4 CARACAS, Fri. Dutch Prime Minister Rudolph Lubbers will discuss the threatened closure of Royal Dutch Shell's oil refinery in Curacao during a two-day visit to Venezuela starting on Sunday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said today. Shell has said it will clos? the 320,000 barrels a day refinery unless
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    • 43 4 LIMA, Fri. Peruvian guerilla bombers blacked out much of Lima briefly and damaged offices of the country's incoming ruling party yesterday on the eve of a party congress which is expected to discuss a possible amnesty for some detained rebels. Reuter
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      • 76 4 A WEALTHY Taiwanese businessman will face treason charges and a possible death sentence after he tried to form a separatist political party, the Taiwan Garrison Command said in Taipei yesterday. A command spokesman said Hsu ChaoHung, 44, was arrested and charged this week on his return from Japan
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      • 62 4 THE BLACK box flight recorders from the Air India jumbo jet that crashed into the sea off Ireland last month were brought ashore yesterday and flown to India. The recorders will be opened and played back m India. It is hoped that they will indicate whether
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      • 73 4 THE ZALE Diamond, the largest uncut diamond m the world, has successfully undergone its first risky preliminary cutting, m Irving, Texas, on Wednesday. A cast of the diamond (left), was made when the diamond weighed 890 carats. At right is the actual stone after the first cutting,
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      • 66 4 JAPANESE PRIME Minister Ya&uh'ro Nakasone began a three-nation tour of Europe yesterday in efforts to mend fences with the deficit-ridden European Community. His trip takes him to France, Italy and Belgium. His mission is to show the importance the Japanese government places on its trade relations with the
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      • 29 4 THE CZECHOSLOVAK embassy's Number 2 man in Washington had defected and been granted political asylum in the United States, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service said. UPI
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    • 64 5 FRENCHMAN Kleber Boollneaa will not make it in the i our de France cycling race but he may be on a short ride to fame. The 23-cm long bicycle, which he Introduced this week at a world record festival at Aubigny ln western France,
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    • 128 5 TEL AVIV, Fri. Government and union officials continued intensive negotiations yesterday for an agreement on wage erosion levels before Sunday when the unions are planning to launch an index-linked general strike. The country's 60,000 civil servants postponed their strike which was due to start yesterday,
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    • 165 5 Lebanon names alleged TWA hijackers BEIRUT, Friday THE alleged hijackers of a TWA jetliner will be prosecuted, Lebanon's State Radio reported today. The radio for the first time publicly named the alleged sky pirates, one of whom shot dead an American passenger. State Radio, which is government-owned, said the names
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    • 46 5 LONDON, Fri. Tiny quantities of the deadly Legionnaires' Disease bacteria were found in the water system of an administration block at London's Heathrow Airport, British Airways (BA) said yesterday. A BA spokesman said the bacteria had been found during routine checks. Reuter
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    • 230 5 BRUSSELS, Fri. King Baudouin of Belgium was accused by a socialist newspaper yesterday of smuggling rare chimpanzees and ivory from Zaire on the royal jet which flew him back from a state visit last week. The Dutch-language newspaper De Morgen said its editor-in-chief, who
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    • 41 5 BEIRUT, Fri. Lloyds of London said a Turkish tanker was on fire and seeking assistance m the Gulf today after a missile attack. Lloyds identified the vessel as the 226,145-tonne deadweight Turkish steam tar.kpr M. Ceyhan. UPI
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    • 28 5 CAIRO, Fri. The Egyptian Parliament cancelled a 40--year-old right that has allowed Palestinians living m Egypt to own land, Palestinian sources said here yesterday. AFP
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    • 220 5 LONDON, Fri. Thousands of American lawyers and judges have taken out a short- term lease on high-life m London, cramming top hotels, theatres and restaurants m the biggest US invasion of the British capital since World War 11. And the natives are restless. Londoners might
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    • 85 5 Harp contest opens in Jerusalem JERUSALEM, Fri. Twenty-nine of the world's most distinguished harpists have gathered for a competition m Jerusalem, where King David made the instrument famous 3,000 years ago. The ninth International Harp Contest m Israel was opened on Wednesday night and has brought together harp players from
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    • 403 5 In other words... 4 THE issue of wages for housework cuts across national boundaries, it is an m issue that unites women. Anne Neale, a member of the International Wages for Housework Campaign. NAIROBI, Fri. Militant housewives called yesterday for a worldwide general strike by
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    • 211 5 PARIS, Fri. Women remain m a position of economic disadvantage to men m the industrialised world and the recession is increasing the barriers to equality m the labour market. This was revealed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) m a study on
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  • AROUND ASEAN
    • 261 6 Private groups 'to handle part of distribution' WASHINGTON, Fri. The House of Representatives has voted to channel American development and food aid to the Philippines through the Roman Catholic Church and other groups to avoid control by President Ferdinand Marcos' government. On a
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    • 60 6 MANILA, Fri. Robbers blocked the highway to the seaside resort of Puerto Azul, boarded a tour bus and robbed the Japanese passengers of their valuables, a tour agency spokesman said yesterday. Twenty-seven tourists lost their money, cameras and jewellery only a few hours after arriving m
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    • 135 6 GENEVA, Fri. A Soviet ship returned 37 "boat people" to Vietnam after picking them up m the South China Sea last month, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today. The Soviet vessel, Poisk, picked up the Vietnamese m mid-June and since then its whereabouts
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    • 207 6 Ideas flow in session on Pacific Basin community KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Foreign ministers of the Asean countries and the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan today met m a session where ideas and views on the future of the Pacific Basin community were thrown about. The session's format,
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    • 524 6  -  TAN LIAN CHOO Many risks and interests involved Shultz By 4 THE Asean call for proximity talks introduces a new element into the equation. There are of course risks. Many interests are involved, particularly those of Thailand, the front line state. We are reassured by
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    • 237 6 BANGKOK, Fri. Thai and US troops today stormed ashore at the southern Thepha Beach near here amid the din of diving jets and towering explosions m a noisy end to their biggest joint war games. Twenty ships, more than 10,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen
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    • 151 6  -  HAN LING By Brunei Reporter BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Fri. Crowds of students have flocked to the Education and Health Ministry offices here hoping for a place m Brunei's first university. Almost 1,000 students had collected forms for the Universiti Brunei Darussalam by Wednesday, the
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    • 76 6 Thai visit for Soviet official BANGKOK, Fri. The Soviet Union's DirectorGeneral for South-east Asia, Mr Anatoly Zaitsev, will visit Thailand from July 24 to 28 during a tour of Asia, a spokesman for the Thai Foreign Ministry said today. Mr Zaitsev will hold talks with Thai officials on various topics,
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    • 210 6 MANILA, Fri. Former Philippine Information Minister Francisco Tatad, a critic of President Ferdinand Marcos' government since he was sacked five years ago, has been indicted on charges of corruption. The Philippine News Agency reported today that the office of the government's ombudsman filed the charges before
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 320 7 We do not have money problems Petronas chairman KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Petronas, the national oil corporation, has dismissed reports that it does not nave enough funds to continue with its oil exploration activities after its takeover of Bank Bumiputra. Petronas Chairman Tan Sri Raja Mohar Raja Badiozaman stressed yesterday that
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    • 69 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Malaysians will be able to see the Proton Saga on the road even before it is commercially launched on Sept 1. Sources from the distributors of the National Car, Edaran Otomobil Nasional (EON), said today that a campaign to drive the Proton Saga throughout
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    • 373 7 No surprises in new Sarawak Cabinet line-up KUCHING, Fri. Sarawak Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abdul Taib Mahmud sprang no surprises when he announced the new state Cabinet line-up yesterday, renaming some ministries while abolishing others. He said the reshuffle was aimed at streamlining the specific functions of each ministry m
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    • 61 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A second runway for Subang International Airport is being considered for inclusion in the Fifth Malaysia Plan The project is being mooted to cope with the anticipated rise in air traffic at the airport by 1990, especially with the shifting of the RMAF base from
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    • 147 7 Malaysian vessel rams into seven Thai patrol boats BANGKOK, Fri. A Malaysian freighter rammed into seven moored Thai marine police boats yesterday, causing damage amounting to 50 million baht (554.4 million), a senior Thai police officer said. Col Vinai Thamruksa, Deputy Commander of the Thai Marine Police, said the provincial
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    • 95 7 A MAJOR blast has been averted after a fire which raxed three nearby factories threatened to engulf drums of Ktrol and thinner at lan Puehong In Koala Lumpur on Thursday. Despite difficulty In getting water, firemen from seven fire engines managed to prevent the flames from
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    • 458 7 Quote mMmummmmuHmwmmmmmmm THERE are differences in views... .But this issue should be left to the legal circles to decide. This should be argued on legality, and not on political, grounds. s Datuk Musa Hitam. 'mMMMmmMwmMmmmmmwmmWmWsmmmWmW^MWmWmii KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The government will ensure justice is done
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    • 58 7 PENANG, Fri. The MsBoo million Penang Bridge will be named after the state, Works Minister Datuk S. Samy Vellu said today. He said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad was m favour of the 13.5--km-long bridge being named after the state and the Cabinet was expected
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    • 210 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Malaysian government will not extend the New Economic Policy (NEP) but will find other ways to ensure that the two-pronged strategy of the policy is continued. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam said today that when the NEP was
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    • 364 9  - Bugis Street stalls must go it's final ILENE ALESHIRE Hawkers to leave by the end of the year By I THE REPRIEVE is over for Bugis Street hawkers and shopkeepers. A study by the Ministry of National Development and the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board has been completed and the verdict
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    • 57 9 Theft from coinafons charge TWO youths appeared m court yesterday on three counts of theft from coinafons at Woodlands Town Centre on Thursday. Lim Chue Fatt, 18, and a 15-year-old boy are alleged to have stolen coins totalling $100.35 from coinafons belonging to Telecoms at Block 1A and Block 3A
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    • 305 9 Ring 732-1005 10am 4pm Mon Fri j THE Courtesy Hotline was told about a heroine yesterday a Port Authority woman police officer who stopped a three-year-old girl from dashing into the path of a lorry. Mrs Nori Suyito, 40, an Indonesian visitor, called
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    • 153 9 Two fail in bid to stop court order THE High Court yesterday refused an application by two shopkeepers to stay a district court decision, ordering them to vacate their Siglap Road wooden lock-up shops. Mr Lim Yeow Choh and Mr Teo Teck Huat took their case to the High Court
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    • 55 9 A REPOSSESSOR of cars was committed to stand trial yesterday on the charge of murdering a jobless man m River Valley Close on Jan 19. Lim Siang Heng, 36, is alleged to have murdered Mr Ng Wah Cheong, 62. The court heard written statements from 17
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    • 318 9 STAFF members of the Toa Payoh Central Post Office are special, says one caller. Housewife Sheila Fernandez, 57, explained why on the Courtesy Hotline yesterday. Mrs Fernandez, of Lorong 2, Toa Payoh, said she had visited many post offices but she found Toa
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    • 79 9 Total Defence show on today PROFESSIONAL photographers and camera buffs are invited to the Defence Ministry's presentation on Total Defence today at 11 am. The presentation will include audio- visual presentations on total defence, civil defence and the Singapore Armed Forces weapons system. It is held m conjunction with the
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    • 208 9  - Passports to China now within a day ILLIAN POW CHONG By SINGAPOREAN passport holders wishing to travel to China now need just one day instead of one week to have their passports endorsed. This means that tour operators or individuals now need just eight days one day to have the
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    • 399 9  -  ELENA CHONG Coroner told of struggle before worker was hit By A DETECTIVE police constable yesterday told a coroner's court that a shot from his revolver which killed a construction worker was purely an accident. DPC S. Jegathevan, 42, from Joo Chiat police station,
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    • 404 10  - 'Incredible Hulk' stops theft suspect NG WENG HOONG By A SNATCH theft suspect who tried to flee with $45,000 worth of loot came to a crushing stop yesterday beneath a 110-kg man. The heavyweight passer-by sent him tumbling and then sat on him outside a Standard Chartered Bank branch m
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    • 782 10 The closure of the Singapore Monitor How some MPs and the man-in-the-street reacted 4 Different newspapers can reflect different viewpoints. Now with the closure of the Singapore Monitor, we have only you (The Straits Times). How can? There should be some competition in m the press.
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    • 151 10 BRIG Gen Lee Hsien Loong last night said the closure of the paper was a business decision m which the government could not interfere. Asked by a Monitor reporter to comment on the closure after the economic forum at the Mandarin hotel last night,
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    • 376 10  -  DOREEN SOH The financial aspect By INVESTORS who sold off their Singapore Press Holdings shares yesterday on news of the paper's closure, may have over-reacted. The paper's $26 million loss $21 million m capital and $C million m loans has been largely
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    • 335 10 THE Singapore Monitor was a source of livelihood for wheelchairbound Mr Syed Abdul Rahman, one of the paper's many street vendors. From his spot near the Queenstown branch library, he sold the newspaper to passers-by and brought home $600 a month
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    • 274 10 'Another English language daily needed' The Monitor editorial THE Singapore Monitor announced its closure yesterday and maintained that Singapore still needs another English-language newspaper. It said that at this point of Singapore's political development, "a second newspaper can do more to help us achieve that consensus we feel must be
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    • 453 13 Move includes review of loan scheme Brig-Gen Lee THE Government is looking at various ways to help small companies which face difficulties m the present economic slowdown. But local businessmen must also help themselves by upgrading their operations, the Minister of State (Defence and Trade
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    • 265 13 A BUSINESSMAN who was to supply $157,000 worth of photo albums and garments to buyers m Saudi Arabia instead shipped 10 lots of dummy cargo of waste paper and sand. Once the cargoes were loaded on board the vessels bound for Saudi Arabia,
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    • 445 13  -  JEONG WENG KAM By I LOCAL businessmen have asked the government to review immediately its fiscal policies to help them tide over the present economic downturn. This call for help was the thrust of the speeches made by the three panel speakers from the
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    • 363 13  -  NG WENG HOONG By WHEN Serene Tan goes to Japan for medical treatment later this year, her family members are full of hope that she will return as the oncelively schoolgirl she was nine months ago. Serene, 17, a Secondary 4 student last
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    • 182 13 Jail for man who stole in church A WOMAN was suspicions when she saw a man m church who was unfamiliar with the prayers, a court heard yesterday. Miss Urn Met Lin, 34, then saw Annar bin Akhbar, 25, placing one of his hands into a handbag on a bench
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    • 30 13 THE ambassador of Chile, Mr Erwin Conn, and the New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr Timothy Hannah, presented their credentials to the Acting President, Dr Yeoh Ghim Seng, yesterday.
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    • 425 14  - Used tyres under scrutiny CHRISTINA TSENG ByC Dealers to report on sub-standard imports A COMMITTEE from the Singapore Motor Tyre Dealers' Association is looking into the problem o: second-hand and sub-standard tyres coming onto the Singapore market. The committee was formed afier a monthly association meeting on Tuesday. Association Secretary
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    • 361 14  -  MICHAEL LIM Story by Handbook and visits to clear the air on reservist training IN A move to strike even better rapport with employers, the Defence Ministry has produced a 30-page handbook on reservist matters for their reference. "It's to keep them informed
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    • 375 14  -  GRACE CHNG By MORE than 60 workers with two Galax companies who lost their jobs last month when the firms closed down, will get their Central Provident Fund payments. The liquidator appointed by the companies' creditors, Mr J. K. Medora, assured the
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    • 226 14 Other doctor 'gave similar medicines' Cheating of patients case COUNSEL for doctor Chow Dih yesterday sought to establish, among other things, the similarities of the medicines given to a patient by Chow and those by another doctor. The defence version was that one medicine prescribed by Chow to Madam Chua
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    • 459 15 NTUC still aims to win over hearts and minds, says Pock Too AN NTUC leader has hinted that imposition of a levy for workers who stay out of unions the free-riders would only be done as a last resort. Mr Ng Pock Too,
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    • 155 15 A BUSINESS adviser to a bank was charged yesterday with two counts of cheating a finance company m relation to obtaining $100,000 m loans from the company allegedly through fraudulent use of false shares. Julius Ang, 45, is accused of cheating Singapore Finance Ltd m
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    • 151 15 Building company wound up by High Court CIVILBUILD Construction Pte Ltd, which owes 73 creditors more than $2 million, was wound up by the High Court yesterday. Bestmix Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Paper Products Ltd, to which Civilbuild owes $62,000, petitioned for the winding up. It was supported
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    • 95 15 ABOUT 150 community leaders will attend a blood grouping exercise tomorrow at the Bedok community centre at Upper Changi Road. The exercise will last from 9 am to 3 pm. It will also be attended by the Minister for Home Affairs and Second Minister for
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    • 437 15  -  AGNES WEE By THE Small Claims Tribunal yesterday dismissed an appeal by the Royal Lady Beauty Salon against having to return $250 to one of its clients, Miss Tan, who was dissatisfied with the product sold by the salon. Miss Tan is likely to receive
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    • 134 15 Suspended architect applies for High Court hearing AN ARCHITECT who was recently suspended by the Board of Architects for having a criminal conviction is asking the High Court to set aside the board's decision. Malcolm Koh Ho Ping, 38, was fined a total of $3,000 by a district court last
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    • 54 15 SAF exercise THE Singapore Armed Forces will be conducting military exercises at the Bedok jetty area from midnight tonight to midnight, Friday. The Bedok jetty and car park A will be closed to the public during this period. No pyrotechnics will be used and the public is advised to keep
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    • 154 15 AIR LANKA chairman, Captain S.R. Wikramanayake, will meet Singapore Airlines officials shortly after he arrives m Singapore today. This will he the first high-level meeting between the two airlines following the unsuccessful government-level talks over resumption of flights m January. Both
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    • 154 15 AMENDMENTS are likely to be made to an air services agreement signed between Singapore and Canada early last year before Singapore Airlines starts flying to Canada. According to yesterday's issue of Travel Trade Gazette, a weekly trade paper, Mr Lim Chin Beng, deputy
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    • 195 15 Tioman to get 400 extra hotel rooms PULAU TIOMAN, a favourite haunt for Singapore holiday makers, will be able to cater to more visitors when a plan to add 400 more hotel rooms to the island is completed. The Merlin Inn Resort, the only hotel on the island, will manage
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    • 232 32 FOUR stalls m Beauty World Centre, Bukit Timah Road, lost $75.05 within 15 minutes on July 10. Two men and a youth who were accused of taking the money pleaded guilty to three charges before District Judge Soon Kirn Kwee on Thursday.
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    • 71 32 TWO junior colleges will be officially opened next week. Victoria JC will be declared open by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Community Development, Mr S. Dhanabalan, on Friday at 5.45 pm. Anderson JC will be opened by the MP for Jalan Kayu, Mr Heng Chiang
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    • 238 32 MORE families have taken advantage of the higher income ceiling for Housing Board flat applications. So far, about 308 families who qualify because of the new celling, which was raised In April from a combined monthly income of $3,500 to $4,000, have
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    • 311 32 Move to encourage cashless transactions THE Housing Board is setting up a special counter at its sales section to help new flat owners and tenants start a Giro account for regular payment of bills. It is a one-stop counter service where new owners and
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    • 265 32 MORE consumers have opted to pay their Public Utilities Board bills through Giro, lured m part by the new incentives given by the board to new account holders who pay through Giro. The response was also due to the board's pay-by-Girq drive
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    • 786 12 ADVERTISEMENT S'pore headquarters for St Michael St Michael is the in- Specialists' Centre, house label for merchan- John Little's Departdise manufactured by ment Store occupies the 4 Marks Spencer, Bri- lower levels. Take the tain's most popular escalator £jpm the ground department store. floor all tfh_ way to St The
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  • 494 16 The Straits Times says Monitor has missed a chance TWO questions come obviously to mind as the last copies of The Singapore and Sunday Monitor roll off the presses this weekend: What went wrong? And where do we go from here? The closure has been precipitated by shareholders unwilling to
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  • 509 16 the singaporel MONITOR I Jf This editorial, headlined Three tough but satisfying years, was published m The Singapore Monitor yesterday TOMORROW, the team producing The Singapore Monitor will sign off and say their goodbyes individually to you, our readers. The Sunday Monitor
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  • 1447 16  - I never thought I was a permissivist Dr Spock CORRINE STREICH Baby expert urges political action to make better world for our children By 4 The drive to raise super kids is an excessive cause of strain in our society. Of course they (parents) should be delighted by their children's
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  • 216 16 "I THINK this will change my whole life." New Wimbledon men's singles champion Boris Becker. "The future (or a perpetually isolated Vietnam, next door to a modernising and technologically advanced China, cannot be bright, especially if its current ally, the Soviet Union, does not wish China
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  • 499 16 T. F. Hwang takes you down Memory Lane TOWN OF TRANQUILLITY TOWN of Eternal Peace. That's Taipiog for you. That's how the historic Malaysian town with a famous Chinese name gets its name translated into history textbooks and travel publications. Many of today's Singapore citizens, including a few veteran politicians
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  • BACKGROUND
    • 1278 17  -  NANCY CHNG Guerillas adopt hit-and-run tactics after losing bases By Bangkok Correspondent THE US House of Representatives this week passed a Bill to provide US$5 million (Ssll million) m aid for the two noncommunist factions of the Cambodian resistance, thus clearing the way
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    • 762 17  - House vote a signal for active US role in search for solution LIAK TENG KIAT By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The US State Department, probably grudgingly, had some good words to say on Wednesday of the House of Representatives' vote on Tuesday on aid to the Cambodian an tl- Vietnamese resistance.
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  • FORUM
    • 96 18 I REFER to the article "Make your own rice wine". (ST, June 27). I wish to inform your readers that it is an offence to distil, ferment or manufacture any intoxicating liquor without a licence issued by the Customs and Excise Department. As
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    • 85 18 THE Straits Times welcomes letters from you. Your letters must include your signature, full name, address, and home and office telephone numbers, if any. They should preferably be typed, double-spaced, on one side of the paper. You may add a pseudonym if you wish. Brevity is an advantage.
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    • 151 18 Inmate should have been allowed to attend funeral I REFER to the letter "Inmate could not attend mum's funeral" by "Detained Forever". (ST, July 8). We wish to assure your readers that it is the policy of the Prisons Department to grant liberally compassionate leave for an inmate of a
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    • 383 18 ON Monday, construction work on the mass rapid transit system m Cross Street left only one lane free for traffic. It created a massive traffic jam on all the roads leading to the street. The situation was compounded by many drivers
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    • 211 18 On the screen I WOULD like to comment on the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's coverage of the recent Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Apart from the finals the only thing we saw of the event were a few brief snippets, lasting 30 seconds at most at the tail end of
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    • 489 18 THE letter "The home is a better educator of children" by Mr Dudley Au (ST, June 17), draws one's attention to the perennial question of which environment plays the stronger role m the education of children. My view is that economic
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    • 147 18 SINCE the Certificate and Diploma m Education programmes at the Institute of Education have already started, I can presume that my application has been unsuccessful although I have yet to receive a letter. I am very interested m teaching and am willing to resign from my
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    • 352 18 Windsurfing WE refer to the letter "Is PSA's ban on windsurfing really necessary?" by "Mens Sana". (ST, June 28). We wish to stress that the Port of Singapore Authority is not discouraging windsurfing. Rather, the ban on windsurfing at the East Johor Strait is to
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  • TIMESDOLLAR
    • In the markets
      • 72 19 LED by Singapore Press Holdings, share prices plunged further on the Singapore stock market yesterday. The Straits Times Industrial Index, already at a 30-month low, lost another 9.60 points to 725.18. The Business Times Composite Index lost 7.93 points to 638.20. Falls swamped rises 112 to 22,
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        • 46 19 Ron Elect 290 +170 Mil It 1900 +40 Sifma Metal 249 +5 JC-MPH 110 +4 Duta Com 108 +4 Sim Lin 204+3 LtMSOc 194+2 Parkway H 50c 118 +2 TuanSatfHMp 42' 2 +V/i EuoSOc 259 +1 M(ri I Lew 50c 237+1 krone Ent s<k 201+1
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        • 49 19 SP H 545 -30 Tasek Ctflietrt 360 -30 Oriental Hdp 280 -20 Amcol 25c 125 -15 Spore Land 230 -14 Bouitejd SOC 129 -14 Sea We* 225 -13 Metro HW|s 241 -11 Pan-D 50c 202 -11 DBS 520 -10 S Finance 155 -10 H Leonf Fir, 256 -9
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        • 13 19 s p H !£'2s Promet 877,000 Pohong Inv 764,000 DBS 468,000
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        • 54 19 BT Composite ***** 638.20 ST Minings 302.07 301.97 BT Indicator *****54 *****38 ST Plantations 2321.50 2320.01 BT 08/ OS -559 -563 OCBC 556.69 ***** ST Industrials 734 78 725.18 OUB Composite 363.51 NA ST Finance 2194 49 2186 08 SES All Share 261.85 260.43 ST Hotels 761.24 757.44 SES
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      • 33 19 INDICES Highs Lows Straits Times Business Times Industrials Composite 1983/84 High 1071.91 (8/2/84) 983.06 (8/2/84) 1983/84 Low 712.29 (5/1/83) 684.88 (4/1/84 All-time High 1071.91 (8/2/84) 983.06 (8/2/84 All-time Low 74.75 (17/9/64) 550.78 (2/8/82)
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      • 12 19 THE US dollar closed at DM2.8990 m Singapore, losing 44 points.
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      • 20 19 DM V FF S$ H$ UBs ***** 2.9260 ***** unq 2.2110 unq ***** 2.8990 242.00 8.8150 2.2085 7.7570
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      • 8 19 In Singapore, gold was U*****.20, gaining US$O.7O.
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      • 33 19 Eurodollar: Lost 23 ticks to 91.90 a contract. Deotschemark: Gained 26 ticks to 0.3448 a contract. Japanese yen: Gained 10 ticks to 0.*****6 a contract. Gold: Gained US$l.6O to U*****.30 an ounce.
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      • Short stops
        • 80 19 SAN FRANCISCO, Fri. Levi Strauss and Co President Robert Haas is considering a leveraged buyout offer at US$5O (SJlll) a share cash that would make the company private. The company said that if the offer was made it would return ownership of Levi Strauss to the
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        • 76 19 HONGKONG, Fri. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co Ltd has awarded a joint mandate to Chemical Asia Ltd and Wardley Ltd for the arrangement of a HK$BOO million (Ss22B million) commercial paper issue, banking sources said. They gave no further details and spokesmen for Chemical and
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        • 88 19 CHICAGO, Fri. Mobil Corp said June sales of its Montgomery Ward and Co declined 5.6 per cent to US$5l7 million (551,147.74 million) from U*****.9 million on a comparable unit continu- ing business basis. It said these sales reflected the retail and catalogue business of Montgomery
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        • 112 19 Deal on Montagu holdings HARTFORD (Connecticut), Fri. Midland Bank PLC and Aetna Life and Casualty have agreed in principle, subject to formal contracts, to restructure their interests in London merchant bank group Samuel Montagu. They said Midland would buy Aetna's 40 per cent interest in Samuel Montagu and Co Holdings
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        • 62 19 BEIJING, Fri. The US Pharmaceuticals giant Warner-Lambert today joined China m a joint venture expected to eventually produce 2.5 billion hard gelatine capsules a year, including some for export to South-east Asia. Sin Capsufel Ltd, with a capital of !S$H million (Ss3l million), would start with eight production
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    • 278 19 US dollar gains in Europe after 4-day slide LONDON, Fri. The dollar gained yesterday against all key currencies m Europe after falling sharply for four straight trading days. In later trading at midday m New York, however, the currency again turned lower on market sentiment that key US indicators to
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    • 59 19 NEW YORK, Fri. CocaCola's June sales of its new brand Coca-Cola were "below expectations", said Mr Brian Dyson, president of Coca-Cola USA. Mr Dyson told a press conference that sales of the company's new Coke were particularly weak m what he called "the Coke heartland"
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    • 157 19 China to relax foreign exchange rules BEIJING, Fri. China will relax rules governing the availability of foreign exchange to foreigners, overseas Chinese and Joint ventures which make sales m China, the China News Service said. The agency quoted a senior official of the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau as saying
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    • 435 19  -  MARA FERNANDEZ By I RESPONDING to a nudge from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, DBS Bank has cut its prime lending rate by a quarter point to 7.75 per cent. The cut, the fifth this year, takes effect on Monday and
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    • 90 19 SINGAPORE International Airlines (SIA) has reported its unaudited results show that its revenue went up 6.5 per cent m the year 1984/85 to $2,914 million. It also said that its expenditure increased at a slower rate of 6,2 per rent to $2,830 million.
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    • 616 19  -  S.KUMAR By and ANTHONY HOE PUBLISHING conglomerate Singapore Press Holdings led another round of selling on the Singapore stock market, already weakened by a 10.25 point loss m its index on Thursday. It was further battered yesterday with a 9.51--point drop
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    • 547 19  - 19.5 m trading loss by insurance firm NORA CHENG By OVERSEAS Union Insurance (OUI), the insurance arm of Overseas Union Bank, suffered its largest ever trading loss of $19.5 million last year, most of it due to underwriting losses from its reinsurance business stemming from its agency m Britain. The
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    • 62 19 WAH Chang International Corp Pte Ltd said it won a contract worth $13 million to convert offshore oil production equipment for Bohai Oil Corp, a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp. Wan Chang said the project to convert the 3,000-tonne barge into a derrick and
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    • 46 19 FORMSTRUCT Construction Pte Ltd, was wound up by the High Court yesterday for not being able to up debts totalling $82,000 to nine creditors. One of the nine, Teck Seng Beng Pte Ltd to which it owes $25,813. petitioned for its winding up.
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    • 34 19 JOHN Little's move from Plaza Singapura to four levels of the Specialists' Shopping Centre has been completed and its largest St Michael store m Singapore on the fifth level will open today.
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  • TIMES
    • 3068 20 READERS should be aware of the imitations of this information. Not every transaction, nor every price dealt m at the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur stock exchanges, is necessarily covered m "business done' Further because all dealings at a particular price are grouped together, the table does
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    • 1784 20 INDUSTRIALS AChoc(l.soß 1.605) AMD (3.005X1) 2.96 (1) 2.97 (1) 2.99 (35) 3.00 Alcom (083BX9) 0.84 (5) 0.88 0.83' 2 AISB (0.808 0.80' 25X4) 0.80' 2 (14)080 API (0.67 "2 BX2) 0.66 (9) 068 (10) 0.67 ,2 ASM (1 03BX8) 0.97 (13) 0.98 (4) 0.97' 2
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    • 2704 20 M shares quoted have a par value of $1, unless otherwise specified. Adjusted for scrip/rifhts. N Tax-exempted dividend. ABN is traded in lots of 10 shares each, with the price quoted in dollars 1985 Last Yield Vol Day High Low Company Sale Change ('000) Hljti Lpw
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    • Commodities, Finance
      • 278 21 1 Mfci SI.OOO. 2 For belt cuitomm only. 3 OCBC Finance 4 only avatabte at DBS France. IMF's rates. also avalabte at UOf also avaiabfe at DBS Finance. DEPOSIT RATES Savings 5% 6 5V_ 5% Autosave 5 V. Fixed deposit 1 month 4% 43/4 4% 43/4 (1) 6
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      • 165 21 Interbank Over the Fore jfl, Local dolars to Foreign currency currency one of to SJl foreign currency Australian dollar 1.5455—1.5484 6.56-6.39 Canadian dollar 1.6306—1-6325 6.19-6.09 N 7 dollar 1.0671 1.0698 9.55-9.22 Sterling pound 3.0491-3.0527 3.32-3.06 US dollar 2.2095-2.2015 4.55-4.51 Local dolars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian
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      • 91 21 THE US dollar closed at 2.2095/05 against the Singapore dollar at 3 pm yesterday. It fluctuated between 2.2090 and 2.2105 m quiet trading after opening at 2.2100/10. Against the deutschemark, the US dollar closed lower at 2.9150 compared with the opening of 2.9270/80. It traded between 2.9100 and 2.0270.
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      • 95 21 THE kilobar traded between 5522,270 and 5522,450 yesterday. The Far East gold market opened at the IOW Of U*****.40/ 313.80 and traded slowly to a high of U*****.20/314.60 on a weaker dollar and settled the day. ■Source: Rothschild The London gold fix yesterday was U*****.15, up US$l.25. Closing price
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      • 25 21 GOLD USS/oz Fri Thurs Singapore 314.50—315.00 314.00—314.40 Hongkong 314.20 314.60 313.50 313.90 Thurs Ned New York 314.10 314.60 315.00 315.50 London 314.50-315.00 314.50-315.00
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      • 177 21 Managers price* for July 13 A 15 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.59 1.69 The Savings Fund 124 1.31 S'pore Pro* Fun* 0.70—0.74 Spore Sec Fund 1.04-1.10 S'pore Invest Fund 0 79-0 Mid Spore Equity Fund 0.71-0 75 DBS Bank Shenton Growth Fund 0.98— 1.03 Asia Unit Trust
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    • Stock markets round-up
      • 628 21 LIKE Singapore, the Kuala Lumpur stock market suffered another bout of selling yesterday and share prices closed lower on all fronts. But a few counters recouped losses on some light covering and closed with marginal gains. The New Straits Times Industrial
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      • 280 21 My 12 HKS Charge Associated Hotels 0.50 -0 02 Bank Of East Asia 23 70 +0 2 Cheung Kong 1690 +0.1 Chma Light 15.80 unch Cross Harb Tunnel 10.60 unch F E Consortium 0.71 +004 For East Exch Philex 0.0475 +***** G I Cement 8 20 Greot Eagle 078
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      • 330 21 My 12 Yen Change Anno— ioto 1090 -60 Aka, 381 -15 Amodo 880 -6 Asohi Chem 840 -25 Asahi Gloss 850 -20 Bonk Tk 938 +18 Bndgestone 546 +3 Canon 1000 -10 Cosio Computer 1480 -60 Citizen 421 -12 D Nip Print 1100 -10 D Nippon Screen 1000 -130
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      • 320 21 My 12 Cents Change (Aust) A C I 281 +5 A N I 256 +2 A P M 285 -3 Abertoyle 1100 +10 Age 245 unch Alliance Oil 105 unch Allied Mill 275 unch Ampol Exp 252 +2 Ampol Pet 192 +5 Anz 496 -2 Ashton 105 -4 BHP
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      • 68 21 I I I I I I -J 1 I i-_ NST Index Friday 1181.24 (1186.97) ~g Hongkong Han* Seng -?s3* Friday 1615.78 (1597.81) Australian Al-Ordinaries Friday 908.6(907.0) Nikkei D J Average Friday *****.49(*****.10) Financial Times Industrials Thursday 934.4 (923.1) Dow Jones Average $S* Thursday 1337.70(1332.89) (Fifures m brackets refer
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      • 216 21 My 11 USS Change Alcoa 33* AWed Chem Cp 43% unch AHis-Chalmers 41. -M Am Tel Tel 23* unch Amax Inc 14* unch Aim Corp 48* Bethlehem Stl 17 +M Boeing Co 46W Burroughs Cp 57* Caterpillar Co 36* Chase Manhtn 63* +W Chrysler Cp 34* unch Citicorp
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      • 543 21 My 11 Pence Change INDUSTRIALS AHied-Lyons 219 +6 Ass. Dairies 140 +2 BTRPLC 336 +-10 Babcocks 137 -2 Barclays 407 +5 Beechom 313 +3 BICC 200 +12 Blue Circle 520 +5 BOC Group 262 +6 Boots 184 +3 Bowater 255 -2 BATS 303 unch Britannia 95 unch BP 526
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    • 456 21 Receipt of Export FCL containers and LCL cargo Delivery of FCL import containers LCI. containers unpacked at the containers freight station on July 12 (2300) LCL Receivini Receiving Ship (Voyage) Arr Cargo Time Block Ins Ace (08A) 14/7 (0600) Fl 0700 0830/1600-1800 Fl Proud Eattell) 4 7 0700
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    • 62 21 TAIPEI, Fri. Taiwan's container fleet will become the world's third largest at the end of this year, trailing only West Germany and the United States, the Communications Ministry said today. A ministry official said Taiwan's fleet would be bigger than those of Japan, Britain and Hongkong when
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      • 84 21 Eurodollar 3-month deposit THE September Eurodollar slid to 91.83 from the opening 91.85. Profit-taking and short-covering then took it to a high of 91.92, but it came off slightly during the final stages of trading to end at 91.90. (100 implied interest rate) Open High Low Sett Est Vol Sept
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        71 21 EXPECTATIONS of the release of economic data to point to a continuing sluggish US economy hurt the greenback. Deutschemark futures rallied to 0.3449, the highest level m recent months. It shed one tick to finish at 0.3448, near the day's high. (US dollar, Deutschemark) Open High Low Sett Est
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      • 47 21 INFLUENCED by a weakening US dollar, the September yen climbed to a new high of 0.*****7. Volume was encouraging. Open High Lew Sett Est Vol Sept 85 0.*****8 0.*****78 0.*****8 0.*****6 14 Dec 0.*****5 Mar 88 0.*****0 Open Int (Thin): 81. Aet Vet (Than): SI.
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        49 21 THE US dollar's slide has helped gold, which closed yesterday at U*****.30 US$l.6O above Thursday's settlement. Reports from Security Pacific National Bank/SPAFI. (In UStper Troy ounce) Open High Low Sett Est Vol Ana 316.30 100 Sept 317.80 Oct 319.30 Dec 322.80 Open Int (Thurs): 71. Act <~wn): 188.
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    • 149 21 Vessel Berth Arr Dep Keppel Wharves Faurei K32 a'side 13/7 Donam No 8 Kl5 13/7 15/7 Belait K24E 13/7 13/7 Equator 4 K22 13/7 14/7 Iwen Kl9 13/7 14/7 lenson 4 K23 13/7 14/7 Lai Gaing K2l 13/7 15/7 Nedlloyd Barcelona Kl2 13/7 13/7 Pasir Panjang Golden
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    • 17 21 T»n CJwint price* MJ/Wo XL Tin 30.62 down 13 cents Turnover: 151 tonnes down 21 tonnes
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    • 25 21 Ctosint prices Copper £/tonne Thurs Spot 1055 00—1055.50 (1037 50-1038 00) 3 months 1065 00—1065 50 (1050 00—*****0) Market tone Steadier Salts: 13.800 tonnes
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    • 24 21 Ctosinf prices AiuminiutT' £/tonne ■m Spot 729.50-730.00 (725.00-725 50) 3 months 762 00—762 50 (746 50-747.00) Market tone; Barely steady Sales: 14.225 tonnes
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    • 95 21 Ctosinf prices Crude Itt/tome palm ofl July 1000 (south) 990 (central ft north) tat MS (sotitft) 97'; (central) 965 (north) Sept 950 (central) Refined palm oi USS/tonrws RBDpalm Aug 500 (se'lerv) Sept 490 (s.-tlers) Oct 480 (sellers) MM Aug 480 etlers) Sept/Oct 465 (seten) RBO Stearin Aug 380
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    • 164 22 Malaya Tin Printing going into electronics MANUFACTURER Malaya Tin Printing (MTP) is seeking to go into electronics and communications with the purchase of a 70 per cent stake m General Engineers (GE) Corp. The company, which suspended trading m its shares on the stock market yesterday prior to the announcement,
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    • 447 22  -  ANTHONY HOE Singapore Week ends on depressing note caused by Monitor's closure Stock market weekly round-up by THE selling on the Singapore stock market accelerated during the past week and the Straits Times Industrial Index fell to a new 30--month low of 725.18 yesterday.
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    • 80 22 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 1985. Company Vokme Price (I) Kfh (J) Low COM) July
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    • 293 22 Kuala Lumpur SELLING of shares by investors who were pressed by their banks to repay their loans depressed the Kuala Lumpur stock market during the week. These investors had used their shares as collateral for loans. As their share values fell, banks started
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    • 174 22 Most active stock Pahang Investments at its year's low after six-cent loss PAHANG Investments Pic emerged from the littery stock market as the week's most active stock with 2.5 million shares traded. Over the week, it lost six cents to its year's low of 49 cents. The mining stock lost
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    • 126 22 ONLY customers of American Express Bank will have access to an exclusive, international personal and business travel services programme next month. The package, called Premier Services, will offer an extensive range of travel, medical, business, entertainment and charge card facilities. Premier Services will handle all needs
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    • 216 22 HONGKONG, Fri. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is making its first foray into the international capital markets m its 120-year history to raise US$4OO million (SsBBo million) by issuing primary capital floating rate notes. The issue is the largest yet mounted
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    • 70 22 Independent Australian based dried meats company immediately available for partnership buy-in or direct purchase. Established 4 years and rapidly expanding: beef, abalone, and shark examples of goods produced. Australasian potential unlimited. Contact Perth Western Australia, phone Australia 09-447 3342 or 09-409 1089. Address unit 6, Baretta Square,
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    • 150 22 CHINESE ARTS CRAFTS -xsri EXHIDITION O A at L AFf TE L ATOUR ROOM ■ft t Bbi ■ajijf J i' i I*m v jJ > Mk!t.r """Bl Li" f '^Hi km Bm r/w P'ttßSSflL ,-^B Ime B^K^^K H curio cabinet I jfl iff Sm Now I I *i 1 R/W
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    • 715 23 w■ V p *w^P Imp |I I 1^ A x TWUUCK WESTERN ORIENTAL _FAST FOOD UW TOP lUCK EATING B HOUSE (PTE) LTD 03 26, Parkway Parade OUTSIDE CATERING: *****79 *****47 ■H S* k** m'For a unique 'mix-match' menu Hk. ~,*-Jj '^^mS^r I* promises local dishes with a Woo^^^^M spicy
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    • 373 23 Experience The Flavour 0f... m /Will W Mlishun I Seafood Village (S)Pte. Ltd. Sembawang Road 13 Miies Main Rd Bring Your Family along and Enjoy the Excellent Cuisine. Weddings, Birthdays and office functions, alf are welcome. Business Hours: Daily 11.30 am 2.30pm., 6.00pm 12 Midnight. Weekends, Public Holiday's rye till
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    • 243 23 RENOWN FOR THE BEST SZECHUAN CUISINE Come and Savour The Best There Is In Szechuan! 'A'AKflX£tif£s&* Prepared only ~te#VraW* by ur HtAf»sw />Xi 3 experienced i\ j JsJ^ttT Taipei Cooks and try our chef s own delightful receipe W/]5 of "OMEI SPECIAL FISH" r^>^* We also cater for wedding/ f»^w
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    • 438 23 ?OTLUCK CLAY-POT RICE SPECIALIST '^fiPOT LUCK EATING J^J HOUSE tel 3«*t 1 99 East Coast Road OUTSIDE CATERING: *****79 *****47 A FEW WORDS ON EATING \A£ELL ■lIMMIMMIIIIH APPETISING DELICIOUS EXCLUSIVE GREAT MAfiVELLOI^ RVLATABLE SUCXXILENT TEMPTING WOW! Any of these words could very well describe what's dished out by our advertisers
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    • 1077 24 TELEPHONE SERVICE: RATES CLASSIFICATION GUIDE: Monday Friday 9.00 am to 5.00pm J Run-On. I $5 00 per line (Mm $15 00) Food/Ent«rt«inm«nt (2 5) r-1 i— r-, J^mt^ L- Saturda y 8.30 am to 2.00pm f"*» Ptton* S«rvic M /M«rch«ndi M <ll 39) ->- I j^^^^^. r^ Jr 'if^ m
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    • 1256 24 14 Antiques/ Arts/Crafts 14 Antiques/ Arts/Crafts ■•aw* W (OBJETScTART)PTELTD n ENGLISH ANTIQUES Lace, Textiles Victorian and Edwardian Clothing, Antique Costume Jewellery and Watches Silver, China and Bric-a-brac. 19 Tanghn Road #03-25, Tanglin Shopping Contra Singapore 1024. Tel: *****80 I r TEAKWOOD A ROSEWOOD CARVED FURNITURE Must clear at very low
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    • 699 24 24 Garage Sale EXPAT LEAVING. ALL household items mcl. fridge, washing machine, cooker, chairs. Very cheap or give-away. *****83 Sat. afternoon and Sun. OWNER LEAVING, SELLING household goods/plants mcl. imported GE 21 cv.ft. fridge with ice dispenser. Sat. 9 to 1 p.m. View: 4 Nassim Rd. Tel: *****31. PORTABLE VIDEO/
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    • 691 24 27 Wanted WANTED USED PIANOS at any condition/brand. Please contact *****88 res./ *****62 office. 28 Health Centres/ Massage DOUBLE-FORTUNE HEALTH CENTRE. »04-12/ 13 Fortune Centre, 190 Middle Road. Massage/ sauna. All rooms with shower attached Daily 10.30 am to 11pm. Tel: *****44/ *****45. SPECIALIST HEALTH SALON 277 Orchard Rd, »03-29/30,
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    • 756 24 34 Gardening/ Landscaping SPECIALISE IN TREE, grass cutting, grass turfing, disposal, removal, big or small; landscape, gdn maintenance. Prices are reasonable. Contact MJ at *****275 anytime. SPECIALIST IN GRASS turfing, landscaping, tree grass cutting, garden maintenance, disposal and removal, big or small. Contact DM Contractors, tel: *****10/ *****34 Pager: *****07.
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    • 1291 24 ■MB ff^i ■5231 ■p Interested m English AnW tiques, including VictoriX an and Edwardian ClothH ing? Find them and more at classification 14. 28 Health Centres/ 28 Health Centres/ Massage Massage RELAX* REFRESH YOURSELF AT A GREAT EASTERN -HEALTH CENTRE i vji I urean eastern note* i>^l^ 401 PMcpnorson noao
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    • 699 25 56 Industrial Equipment/ Supplies wanted" 1. Pi Bending Roll ity. I" x 10' 2. F.j vng Machine Capacity: 3/4" x 10' dia. mm. 3. Hydraulic Guillotine Capacity: 3/4 x 12' 4. Hydraulic Press Brake 300-500 ton. Capacity: 3/4 x 12' All machines must be m good condition. TEL: *****66 or
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    • 1574 25 A Boilerman cum Machine Operator is needed by the J Singapore Tobacco Co (Pte). Wnm jrm The incumbent should have a |L*aV 2nd Class Attendant Certifi- M cate and able to work m 2 9 m rotating shifts. For details of Jam Pte their attractive fringe benefits, read classification 65.
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    • 574 25 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical faaaat gf%\ PETROCHEMICAL MV IaMC CORPORATION OF X ■NPi SINGAPORE B// I %P^ J (PRIVATE) LIMITED M\// w£ invite applications from suitably ß A qualified persons for the followingH, position H \y/ PURCHASING CLERK I Requirements: I v, Minimum QCE 'O' level with credits inß
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    • 5 25 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical
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    • 491 25 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT We need an Assistant to join our Accountancy Dept. The job covers the servicing of clients m writing up books of Accounts. The person should be an Accountancy graduate or possesses a recognised Accountancy qualification with 1 to 2 years' related working experience.
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    • 530 25 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical World's largest manufacturer of quality writing instruments requires FEMALE ACCOUNTS CLERK c Minimum OCE 'O' level. c 1 year's working experience with some practical knowledge on P.C. c Ability to type an advantage. Interested applicants, pleaea apply with full resume and telephone contact to> PARKEB
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    • 571 25 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical Established Group of companies with diversified businesses m- t vites suitably qualified appli- < cants for the following posts:--1) STENOGRAPHERS Pre-requisites c GCE "O" Levels with good credit m English c Minimum accurate typing t speed of 40 wpm c Knowledge of shorthand c Ability
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    • 631 25 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical Multi-Nattonal Company m the Oiltool Rental Services invites applications for the poet of ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT for the Regional Office based m Singapore. Candidates should possess a Higher Accounting Certificate (or pursuing Professional Accounting Certificate) with several yrs' of Accounting experience Those who could be available
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    • 727 26 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerk al LONDON GUARANTEE ft REINSURANCE CO. LTD. tequires ACCOUNTS Cl ERK c Typing ability. c Fluent m English. GCE Level. c Working experie ice not necessary but knoviedge of Elementary Bookkeeping would be essentii I Please reply with full personal details, contact tel. nc., expected
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    • 719 26 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical WANTED INDIAN, MALAY, Chinese Female Part-time Accounts Clerks with knowledge m IBM computerised accounting work. Apply m own handwriting with tel. no. to Colombo Court P. O. Box 397. Spore 9117. FEMALE COUNTER CLERK required by an established hotel. Pleasant personality with Sec. j education
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    • 627 26 71 Situations Vacant Sales Aesthetician Lancome, the leading French name for cosmetics and fragrances, now requires several Aestheticians to be part of its growing beauty and promotions team. We see you as an outgoing young woman (at least 2 1 yea rs) who enjoys being on the move and meeting
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    • 365 26 71 Situations Vacant: Sales (cost pfcis) has immediate vacancies for: MALE/ FEMALE SALES PERSONNEL Requirements: c Must have pleasant personality. c Completed N.S. c Some experience m related field, c Knowledge of electronics and electrical products. Salary will commensurate with experience and qualifications. Besides a basic salary, attractive incentives will
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    • 472 26 71 Situations Vacant: Sales MAKING SALES A CAREER? International marketing firm based m Singapore. Malaysia and Indonesia, invites applicants to market a complete range of business machine and automation systems. Requirements: c Minimum GCE 'O 1 Level with good command of English and Mandarin and completed National Service. Remuneration: c
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    • 730 26 72 Situations Vacant: Technical 72 Situations Vacant: Technical CHARTERED INDUSTRIES OF SINGAPORE PTE LTD invites applications for the following positions m our subsidiary companies fSM CHARTERED ELECTRONICS tmSt INDUSTRIES PTE LTD MECHANICAL/ELECTRONICS TECHNICIANS c Candidates should have ITC/NTC m Electronics/Mechanical Engineering c Vacancies exist m various departments including Engineering Project
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    • 427 26 72 Situations Vacant: Technical 72 Situations Vacant: Technical INTERGRAPH SYSTEMS (S.EA.) PTE LTD, wholly-owned subsidiary of tntorgraph Corporation, the industry leader m Computer Aided Design/ Computer Aided Manufacturing, invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for the position of; COMPUTER TECHNICIANS Applicants should have Diploma or ITC m Electronic Engineering. Must
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    • 542 26 72 Situations Vacant: Technical MANAGEMENT CORPORATION STRATA TITLE 461 Ha* immediate vacancies for the following potittont: A) MAINTENANCE (BUILDING) SUPERVISOR To supervise and co-ordi-nate jobs for maintenance staff comprising plumbers, carpenters, plasterers and painters. Relevant Trade Certificate m Plumbing, Masonary. Carpentry with 5 to 10 years experience m the maintenance
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    • 345 27 72 Situations Vacant: Technical mm SINGAPORE mm shipbuilding mm ENGINEERING ITD Electrical Technician Polytechnic diploma m Electrical Engineering Related experience m supervisory capacity adventageous Interested applicants should j write m enclosing a full resume, current and expected salary and contact telephone K« number to: The Personnel Admin ■|B E JIB
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    • 410 27 72 Situations Vacant: Technical 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous 0.0 INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SINGAPORE Applications are invr-ed from suitably qualified persons for the following postsHORTICULTURAL ASSISTANT Gross Salary: $537 pm to $1449 pm Qualifications: (a') 3 GCE 0' level passes including at least a pass m General Science or Biology or
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    • 1669 27 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous We Train, Reward and Offer (Si Career Opportunities for Young Men and Women Join CISCO, the security specialists, as CONSTABLE BM^^C^^£2|lM entry requirements career prospects Ifcl^-P*^ PSLE (English)/Passed Secondary Two
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    • 362 27 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous Working at McDonald's is fun! want a Part-time/full-time job and •am between $370 to $870. Students and housewives are welcome. Come personally for an interview today and tomorrow, from 11am onwards: McDonald's Robina House McDonald's Goldhill McDonald's World Trad* Centre PART-TIME ASSISTANT REQD by Merchants Association
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    • 544 27 74 Situations Vacant Miscellaneous I MmiScnbe I **^^^*^——*^*—m Helping you plan your future I II the NINISCRIBE way. A I lieipinCJ leading American manufac- I 17/tn nlan turer of computer peripherals I JOU plan O ff ers dedicated and en- I V/lllf future thusiastic individuals the I J***" IUIUIC* opportunity
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    • 292 27 74 Situations Vacant Miscellaneous 81 Vehicles For Hire Check out our Budget-Beaters' FREE MILEAGE Daily rental for: 2000 c.c. $75 per day 1600 c.c. $60 per day 1300 c.c. $42 per day 1000 c.c $33 per day VEHITO CAR RENTAL 7 m.s., Upp. Thomson Rd Tel: *****63. CALL TOPWAY FOR
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    • 825 28 74 Situations Vacant: 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous Miscnllaneous I GM Singapore gJ GM Singapore can provide you with opportunities m your search for individual excellence. An interview with us could lead to a turning point m your career. Currently, we are looking for suitable applicants to fill the following positions:
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    • 2068 28 (T^INT Two cars of the '50s are for (JLJJipJJ sale today. One is a 32 nnnra year-old Morris Minor, the 1r |5~ other a27 year-old Fiat U UUcJSI 500. Find these oldies but TS\ fr%\ fl\ TFTt goodies at classification Jmm IS Iml^B m^^m^k yM N .fc^M M Wm U
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    • 924 28 91 For Sale: Mitsubishi 7/77 LANCER 1400 EL, 1 meticulous pte. own»r. Aircon, radio cassette. PARF. Tip top cond. Road tax 6/'B6. $8,900. *****23. 1978 MIT. STATIONWAGON, good condition, with aircon, radio cassette. $9,800 0.n.0. *****69. 1979 COLT LANCER 1.4 GL, 1 owner, s/rims, aircon, radio cassette $11,800. *****47/ *****09
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    • 843 28 93 For Sale: Honda ■65 HONDA CIVIC Shuttle auto 12 valve, showroom condition, 2 digit number, stereo, rims, auto lock/ windows/ tax till Dec. Fun and economical for city driving. See to appreciate. $34,800 0.n.0. Tel: *****77/ *****38, Mr. Kwok. PRELUDE, 1963, SBB Reg. 15" tyres, sports wheels, ralley seats,
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    • 712 28 94 For Sale: Other Makes Call Wayfoong for Fast approvals on loans Competitive rates Friendly, efficient service Waytoong Mortgage and Finance <S) Ltd A wholly -owned subsidiary ot J Hongkong Bank 6 Claymore Hill KO3-0O Claymore Plaza Singapore 0922 a. < END SO AUSTIN Allegro, air-con. hi-fi. Original paint, low
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    • 849 28 95 For Sale: Commercial Vehicles OCT. '83 DATSUN pick-up 1500. petrol, steel body, 1 owner, original condition. $9,200. 18 Maju Aye, Serangoon Gdn. I OWNER TOYOTA Toyo-ace 1 1/2 ton 10' steel body petrol driven. Reg. end Oct. '84. Low mileage. Highest offer secures *****37 II MTHS. OLD Tcyota Commuters.
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    • 844 28 97 Vehicles Wanted Selling Your Cara? TIONG CHOON CO PTE LTD Plot B Kg. Java Fringe Carpark Singapore 0*23 (Opp. Nawton POSB) MM a Atlf active Pricaa For Your I*Bl Onward* Good Uaad Cara Call Ua For A Valuation TEL: *****4*/ *****45. WANTED! Any make of good secondhand car. a
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    • 383 29 95 For Sale: 95 For Sale: 95 For Sale: Commercial Commercial Commercial Vehicles Vehicles Vehicles __TOYOTA_ n Overall market leader again m Smqapoif m I( >fUl TOUGH ON THE JOB LIGHT ON THE POCKET. The Toyota Stout is now selling at $12,500 (on-the-road price without insurance). With this special offer
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    • 272 29 105 Property Financing 105 Property Financing 1 M^ve.en.s.orßes.dent.a, Ponies I I .Use of CPF savings 1 I Bridging Fjnan cc i I properties are also a 1 106 Accommodation Available: Houses DIST.II OLIVE RD. 4-bdnn. 2-sto-rey split-level bunglw. for rent. 10.000 sq.ft. of land. P/furn. Rental: $3,000 p.m. Tel: *****91.
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    • 247 29 106 Accommodation Available: Houses INT'L SCH. VICINITY. D/storey detached. 4 bdrms./ study/ servant's, in-ground pool, p/furn. $4,000. Soel: *****93 (Sat./ Sun). MODERN SEASIDE 2-STOREY bungalow at Pasir Ris furnished with 4 bdrms. Rental: $2500. Tel: *****25 Peter Lin. 35 MOUNT SINAI Drive, 2-1 /2-sto-rey semi-d, 5 bdrms, servant's, spacious gdn
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    • 380 29 106 Accommodation 106 Accommodation 106 Accommodation Available: Houses Available: Houses Available: Houses I Hill-top Luxury Residences I Elevated locality. Easy Transportation I Situated beside Shangri-la Park and the p^~^~~ I well-known St Nicholas Pn Sec School at I Thomson area Near MRT station A new r~ I road leads to
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    • 289 29 106 Accommodation 106 Accommodation Available: Houses Available: Houses PROPERTIES TO LET Tenders are invited for the lettings of the following unfurnished residential ties:Tender Deposit A) CHIP BEE GARDENS Payable (Off Holland Road) (i) 3-Storey Flat (3 bedrooms) at Apartment Block 44 Jalan Merah Saga #03-58 875.00 (ii) Double-Storey Terrace (3
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    • 757 30 107 Accommodation 107 Accommodation Available: Available: Apartments Apartments 'Go out on Sunday? We never have time! 1 /*TN. Sundays are spent t 0 K^f^Y*** with friendly expat ntA fl SsiJS™ s*> neighbours playing CT. -j£==^ a *^~^o^'^ ten s swimming, lunch /ij)^|l fy? jtf/^ by the pool. We get full
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    • 747 30 LONG/ SHORT-TERM LEASE. Dlst.s near Japanese sch. Faber Hill Condo. with 3 bdrms. a well equipped kitchen. Rental: $2,000. Please call owner: Mr. Yeong, *****11 (Sat./ Sun). PTE APTS: CAVAN Rd, Geylang. Tiong Bahru, Sembawang, Farrer Court, St. Thomas Walk, Lucky Plaza, River Valley Rd. Changi Tg Katong. 3/4/5 rms.
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    • 870 30 107 Accommodation Available: Apartments D.lO, JERVOIS RD walk-up apt 3 bdrms, free parking facilities. 1600 sq.ft. Tel: *****28. D.ll HILLCREST ARCADIA D' Blk. Carpeted/ marble. 4 rms P/furn Aircond Tel: Mdm Ling. *****69. D.ll HILLCREST ARCADIA 3 bdrms, nicely furn., full facilities. $2,000. *****38 (Agent). D.19 JADE TOWERS. 3 bdrms.
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    • 806 30 108 Accommodation Available: Rooms FURNISHED ROOM AT Fast Coasl Rd for rental. $250. Suitable for couple/ ladies only. Tel: *****30 F/FURN. RM. NEAR Centrepoint, convenient lor transportation at reasonable rate Owner *****92. KATONG, CHAPEL RD. f/furn master bdrm. with attached bathrm.. aircon Call *****09. LUCKY PLAZA, BEHIND Orchard Rd fully
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    • 823 30 113 For Sale: Houses 113 For Sale: Houses 113 For Sale: Houses |v^ jhV\ vV c,e h 'W^^ ♦•.^illl Type Area P.S.F. .gg^lSgTßi^ ff •ir|L± USE '^406 $1 33 $10,0^ n* 41-^^^ 050 7 5148 $4 soo jM Jftj Jr 1134 5166 $2500 H'iiß V^" M\ BEDOK COURT] Bedok Court's
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    • 457 30 D.16 NEW d/storey terrace h'se, land area 2,500 sq.ft. built-in 1.900, 4 bdrms., bath attached $480,000 0.n.0. AYS *****44. D.19 LIM AH Pin Rd s/storey terrace. 3 bdrms, renovated, area approx. 1700 sq ft. $270,000. System Properties, *****38. Dl 9 LORONG PAYA Lebar, d-sto-rey corner terrace. 1,330 sq ft., recently
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    • 513 30 114 For Sale: Private Apartments D15T.2678 GREEN MEADOWS CONDOMINIUM 1750 sq.ft. Fully renovated furnished PRICE NEGOTIABLE Contact *****71 NORFOLK COURT Mergui Road Brand new 11 -storey apartment block. Freehold. Convenient to City and Shopping Areas. Low maintenance fees. Contact Developer *****66/*****87 VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY Dl 3 Serene View Mansion
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    • 931 30 114 For Sale: Private Apartments SEMBAWANG RD TERRACE apt Mosaic throughout, 3+l, 2 bathrooms, I gdns $290,000 ono Sale or rental $1,000 5M2812. URGENT! DIST.S FAIRLY new Tat Lee Court, 3 rms, all attached, split-level, turn (id facing $300,000 neg Hap Seng *****58 URGENT SALE! 3-RM walk-up apt with attached
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    • 908 30 116 For Sale: HDB Apartments apjßtßat^ p^ Hß j ßM ai a^ HßaHß^ i^ Hßa a^ p^ pa ßi^ ifl ßißßßaj ßl a >> 3 ROOMS TELOK .Blangah Rise 9 iiiK.r. Blk 31, renovated, near market School 5552.000 ono Tel. *****71 l.im 4-RM FLAT AT Ave.s, Ang Mo Kio for
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    • 618 30 117 Properties Wanted ~HO¥^LATS WANTED As a seller, what guarantee do you need? F:ificient and reliable agent Right price' Reasonable buyers We guarantee all the above and more. Try is BALLOT HOUSING *****03/ *****04 I Wanted TERRACES Dist.2o, 19, 15, 14 16 Please call Asia 273-3333 x 309 (bus. after
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 288 32 ATHMA SANTHI POOJA Mdm. Saradambal and relatives of the late MR. S. RETNAM JOTHI Departed 27th June 1985 wish to express their heartiest thanks to doctors staff of Wd. 31 T.T.S.H., staff of Spore National Printers, relatives and friends for their prayers, condolences, kind attendance, assistance, wreaths, donations
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  • TIMESPORT
    • Article, Illustration
      509 33  -  TAY CHENG KHOON By Lead change hands again as Thais shoot to the fore THE lead for the eight-nation Putra Cup golf championship changed hands once again, with Thailand snatching pole position back from Malaysia after the third round at the Royal Selangor Golf Club yesterday. Thailand, looking
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    • 177 33 Seoul receive new Olympic banner SEOUL, Fri. A tattered Olympic flag which has been used since the 1920 Games m Antwerp has been replaced for the 1988 event here, a city spokesman said yesterday. Roh Tae-Woo, president of the Seoul Olympic Organising Committee received the flag from International Olympic Committee
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    • 548 33 Hinkle on song with a 64 after skipping Canada WILLIAMSBURG (Virginia), Fri. Lon Hinkle went to work on his game last week and the re-tool-ing paid off as he fired a seven-under-par 64 yesterday to take the openinground lead in the US$5OO,--000 ($1,105,000) Williamsburg golf classic.
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    • 218 33 A Strange pressure just too much SANDWICH (England), Fri. Curtis Strange, leading money winner m the United States this year, yesterday pulled out of next week's British Open golf championship, organisers said. In a telex to the Royal and Ancient, Strange said he was withdrawing because of "pressure of leading
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    • 483 33 Ryan'S 4,000th Strikeout: Nolan Ryan, baseball's greatest ever strikeout pitcher, reached a new career milestone at Houston yesterday when he recorded his 4,000th strikeout in a game against his original team, the New York Mets. The 38-year-old Houston Astros right-hander, who claimed his first strikeout victim on
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    • 81 33 MANCHESTER, Fri. Manchester United manager Bon Atkinson has agreed to pay Coventry City £50,006 ($115,000) for ex-England winger Peter Barnes. The deal will be completed this morning. Atkinson moved quickly for Barnes to reinforce his squad following the departure of Arnold Muhren and Arthur Graham and an
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    • 301 33 LONDON, Fri. Bert Millichip, chairman of England's Football Association, warned yesterday that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could introduce legislation to make football club membership cards compulsory. "I don't think there is any doubt that if the FA does not bring pressure to bear on the
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    • 259 35 Injury keeps Boris out WASHINGTON, Fri. Boris Becker, the 17- year-old West German who this week became the youngest player ever to win the men's singles championship at Wimbledon, withdrew yesterday from the US$2OO,OOO ($446,000) D. C. National Bank tennis classic because of an ankle injury. Becker has been vacationing
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    • 720 35 4 We have done market research which shows sponsorship like this accounts for 30 per cent of people's awareness of our product. We find people like to identify themselves with well-known per- sonalities. s Ebel's managing director Denys Pasche Ebel's $78,000-a-year investment m a wristwatch for
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    • THE FRENCH CONNECTION
      • 469 35 PARIS, Fri. Summer holidays are m full swing, and the Tour de France continues to captivate sports fans but soccer is already elbowing its unseasonal way back on to the French calendar. European champions France have fixed their gaze on the 1986 World Cup
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      • 154 35 Skipper Rives revered PARIS, Fri. JeanPierre Rives, French rugby union team captain until last year, will be created a member of France's prestigious Legion of Honour on Bastille Day next Sunday, French officials said. Rives will become an "officer" of the Order on the sixth anniversary of one of his
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      • 358 35 VILLARD-DE-LANS (France), Fri. Belgian Eric Vanderaerden won the 13th stage of the Tour de France yesterday. He beat tour leader Bernard Hinault into second place by more than a minute. It was a shock victory for Vanderaerden who held the tour lead for
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    • 176 35 Under- 14 ban on pro circuit BARCELONA, Fri. The International Tennis Federation yesterday banned players under the age of 14 from playing m professional tournaments from Jan 1, 1986. At their annual meeting, the ITF decided that players aged 14 and over would be allowed eight tournaments a year, four
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    • 340 35 NEWPORT (Rhode Island), Fri. Second seed Tim Mayotte and sixthseeded John Sadri posted victories yesterday to set up a semi-finals rematch between the two Americans at the Hall of Fame men's tennis championships. Mayotte, who beat Sadri here last year to advance to the
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    • 277 35 Big toe forces Lambert to quit PITTSBURGH, Fri. Jack Lambert, who played on four Super Bowl championship teams and was selected to the Pro Bowl nine times, yesterday said he wanted to be remembered "just simply as somebody who played the best he could when he retired after 11 seasons
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    • MALAYSIA CUP FINAL
      • 792 38  -  PETER SIOW FEDERAL TERRITORY 1 JOHOR Odds on Johor, but FT will be no pushovers Stories by Picture by THE ogres of Malaysia Cup soccer competition will be watching meekly from their unusual position on the terraces when Johor come to a thundering embrace with Federal
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      • 55 38 JOHOR: Salleh Mohamed Noor, Azman Zaln, Ismail Ibrahim, Kamarnddin Ahmad (capt), Ahmad Marican, Khalid Shahdan, Nasir Yusof, Mnhidln Husin, Kamaraddin Ahmad, Fad'zli Ahmad, Dollah Salleh. FEDERAL TERRITORY: M. Pavalamani, Razif Ismail, Serbegeth Singh, Kamarulzaman Yusof, Tang Slew Seng, Mat Zan Mat Aris, Yip Chee Keong, Ramlan Askolani, Saidin Osman,
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    • 391 38 MUHIDIN HUSIN, a Malaysian discard at the young age of 25, is on the threshold of tasting sweet revenge against those who booted him out of the national soccer squad. The Johor centre-for-ward, whose lean and compact body is linked to a pair of
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    • 541 38 Hashim pledges to persuade coach to stay FARRER Park United are not down m the dumps yet. Despite their problems, they were able to pick themselves up and stroll past Fairer Park Dynamos 3-0 m a Division One match at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. Two key
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      724 38 r First Person FIRST PERSON is a column for YOU. Players, coaches, fans (not just our writers!), anyone with anything valid, constructive or humorous to say about sport, here is your platform. Address your contributions to First Person, The Straits Times Sportsdesk, 390, Kirn Seng Road, Singapore 0923.
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    • 314 39 Punggol just one step from glory PUNGGOL, often whitewashed m the earlier rounds, are Just one step away from their moment of glory m the inter-constituen-cy table tennis tournament. They face 1981 rnnners-up Tanjong Pagar m tomorrow's final at the Toa Payoh Indoor Hall m a clash that pitch two
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    • 466 39 Wai Sum's great awakening Schools athletics report: Hakikat Rai on the champion who upset the form-book and the champion who failed to upset the national record book FRANKIE LEE, it seemed, was running true to form m the 200 metres final for A boys at yesterday's national schools track and
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    • 354 39 Boys A 2Mm 1 Chay Wai Sum (SAJC) 21.8 sec, 2 Frankie Lee (SAJC) 22.0, 3 Gary Chelliah (SAJC) 22.4. 4Mm hurdles 1 S.A. Malik Aljunied (RJC) 55.9, 2 Avatar Singh (GES) 58.9, 3 Sazali Surati (SAJC) 59.3. BMm 1 Sinnathambi Pandian (BTV) lmin 54.55 ec
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    • 494 39 Pandian: See you later, accelerator! SINNATHMABI PANDIAN had only one thought on his mind yesterday to gun down the national 800 metre record of lmin 52.7 sec, jointly held by Serjit Singh and S. Surrendra. He missed. His only consolation was that he improved on the meet record for A
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    • 191 39 LONDON, Fri. Zola Budd is set to make her first appearance m Scotland m the Edinburgh Games at Meadowbank on July 23. With Carl Lewis pulling out of the Meadowbank meet, Zola's appearance will ensure a capacity crowd. Which distance she will run has
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    • 196 39 A TWO-WAY duel m the women's high jump and a four-way fight m the men's pole vault is on the cards for this afternoon's Swift Athletes Association's annual track and field meet at Farrer Park (2). Old rivals Choo Suan, the current national high jump
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    • 298 39 Francis hits winner for CSC FLUENT attract tive hockey earned Ceylon Sports Club a 1--0 win over Port Authority Recreation Club m a Singapore Hockey Association Division One Group A match at Balestier Road yesterday. Once the portmen's early offensive was suitably galvanised, CSC attacked m waves and m the
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    • Article, Illustration
      173 39 Badminton: The Thailand Open BANGKOK, Fri. Defending champion Icuk Sugiarto, of Indonesia, shocked Denmark's Morten Frost with a straight-sets victory m the men's singles semi-finals of the Thai Open badminton championships tonight. Fourth-seed Icuk, whose recent form had been m question after a dismal All-England showing last March,
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    • 101 39 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Misbun Sidek, the only seeded Malaysian player, has been drawn into a relatively easy section m the U5545,000 (about $111,600) Benson and Hedges Malaysian Open badminton championship at Stadium Negara from July 16 to 21. The No 7 seed meets Holland's Lex Coene
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    • Cricket: England vs Australia
      • 274 39 NOTTINGHAM( England), Fri. England's smooth progress to a seemingly monumental total was jolted when their last six wickets crashed for 40 m the Third Test against Australia at Trent Bridge today. Fast bowlers Geoff Lawson and Craig McDermott sparked the slump by capturing two wickets each m
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      • 300 39 LONDON, Fri. A fivewicket haul by West Indian-born paceman Neil Williams and an unbeaten 94 by in-form opener Graham Barlow helped weakened Middlesex to sustain their English County cricket championship challenge yesterday. Williams captured five for 71 to help leaders Middlesex take a first-innings lead of
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 165 33 181 Deaths 181 Deaths Peter Jay Lye Huat Age 31 Victoria Tay nee Cheah Soh Kheng Age 31 Mindy Tay Mci Yun Age 3 Passed away suddenly on sth July 1985 m USA leaving behind members of the TAY and CHEAH families. Friends and relatives can pay their last respect
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    • 45 33 183 Condolences 183 Condolences We wish to express our deepest sympathies to Tay Ah Lee family on the demise of their beloved Son: Peter Tay Lye Huat Daughter-in-law: Victoria Cheah Soh Kheng Grand daughter: Mindy Tay Meiyun From: Friends colleagues of SUNDSTRAND PACIFIC PTE LTD
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      53 33 THANGARATNAM W/O K. VELUPPILLAI Of Ex BOD. Passed away suddenly on 12.7.85 leaving behind beloved husband, son Paramasivam, daughters Rajalaxmy, Jeyaluxumy, sons-in-law Kandasamy and Shanmuganathan and tcur grandchildren to mourn her loss. Cortege will leave 29 Spottiswoode Park Road, Singapore 0208 at 4 p.m. on 13.7.85 for Mount
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      40 33 With deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to the family of: MRS. TAN HO KENG From: THE MEMBERS OF SAC, PRINCIPAL, STAFF AND PUPILS OF SANG NILA UTAMA SECONDARJ^CHOOL^^^ "In Memoriam" is for the loved ones whom you remember
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    • 99 33 183 Condolences 183 Condolences 183 Condolences WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHIES TO MR TAN HOCK KENG AND BROTHERS On the demise of their beloved father MR TAN KIM KOK DEPARTED ON 11TH JULY 1985 From: THE STAFF OF LOONG FONG CONSTRUCTION CO. KWANG QIAN CONSTRUCTION CO. CHYE FONG
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    • 73 33 185 Requiem 185 Requiem DR. SHUBHANKAR BANERJEE (43 years, Departed: sth July 1985) The family of the late Dr. Shubhankar Banerjee wish to express their heartfelt thanks to relatives and friends for their kind assistance, condolences and contributions during their recent bereavement. Last rites (Sraddha Ceremony) will be held at
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      45 33 In Loving Memory of MRS LAU PHUN KIM departed 13.7.77 rime changes many things EUit not the memory this day wrings. Mways remembered by Husband, IhildrenandGrandchildren^^^^ In Ever Loving Memory of MDM. ONG VAN NEO Departed 13.7.66 Dearly missed and always rememberedbylovedones^^^^^^^^
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      30 33 IN LOVING MEMORY OF GILBERT SEBASTIAN NONIS Departed: 13.7.84 Gone from our lives one so dear. But m our hearts forever near Always remembered by Wife, Chil-drenjndSon-ln-Law^^^^^^^
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 203 33 ATHLETICS Swift Athletics Association meet (Farrer Park AC, 2). CRICKET SCA Sr K.O: SRC v SCC II (Padang, 2.30). HOCKEY SHA Premier League: IA v SIA. Div 2A: IA B v PARC B. Both at Balestier Road, 3.45 and 5.15. U-23 semifinal: CSC A v Punggol (Tanglin, 5.30). SWHA Div
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  • RACING
    • 285 36  -  TONTO Fourth-season campaigner can still go fast By our man on the track IPOH, Fri. With Nigel Tiley taking a rest this weekend, leading jockey S.Y. Leong can increase his two- winner lead by taking Race 8 on Solar Power. The front-running Australian gelding, now m
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    • 370 36 RACE RACING ED TONTO PEDIGREE LUCKY LEO WENG SOOK 5 Dragon King 3 Mr Nice Guy 4 Lawmaker 3 Mr Nice Guy 5 Dragon King 1 4 Lawmaker 5 Dragon King 5 Dragon King 5 Dragon King 3 Mr Nice Guy 7 Heritage 5 Natural Nina
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    • 4940 36 GOING FORECAST: FIRM ■MPpPHB 1.30 CLASS 4 DIV 2 1,600 m X^-m (Ratings: 67-56) ■■■■■■■^B (Stakes: $13,000) 1 25**09 Roman Leader II 57 (87) Roman-Buang 5 nzg dc +2.5 (1400 m) Last of 9 m C 3-3 Ipoh 1600 m yielding May 11; best effort last season
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    • 70 36 THE latest batch of horses to be taken off the active list, according to the Malayan Racing Association: Class 1: Mint's Favourite, Permanent. Class I: Ready-To-Go, Ganelon 111. Class 3: Kindred, Marble Arch, Sari Angkasa. Class 4: Tat And Tat, Vogue, Ankara, Easy Jet, Multiscope. Class J:
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    • 158 36 THE following horses did not fulfil their engagements at the Penang Jun«* meeting because of the these conditions noted during training: Ru Turn (tendinitis left fore). Serom (injuries right fore). Taohwa. Chiang (unfit to race). Casablanca II (unfit to race). BinUng Timor V (epistaxis).
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    • 299 37  -  THE RACING EDITOR 119 horses (more than one-third of those handicapped) withdrawn due to firm ground By" UNUSUALLY heavy scratchlngs are causing havoc to the races at Ipoh this weekend. With no break m the weather, trainers are not taking any chances with their horses galloping on the
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    • 474 37 Fluent trial by Monterio He looks ready after his second to Tall X ON HE TRACK withTONTO IPOH, Fri. Four-year-old Monterio showed that he is ready for a winning performance m Race 5 on Sunday with a fluent gallop here this morning. "With J.F. Heng m the saddle, the New
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    • 75 37 IPOH, Frl. Jockeys Nigel nicy and Malcolm Johnston will not be riding this weekend. Both are believed to have gone on holiday. They also did not ride track work this week. This leaves only two expatriate riders m action Graham Cook and Terry Lucas. Tiley, last
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    • 67 37 TUESDAY (good going): Thief Of Baghdad II 42.5, Bon Ami II 40.6, Menang Lagi II 39, Alia-Oni 40, newcomer Marching Home 42. WEDNESDAY (good): Addition 39.3, Genuine Members 40, Track Win- ner 39.3, Cili Padi 38, Taste-Yin 41. THURSDAY (good): Versatility 39, Heritage LTI 40.6, Key Factor
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    • 80 37 11st 2nd 3rd 50 33 31 33 16 17 25 27 14 22 9 19 21 19 25 KLeong 20 13 10 EBrenkelen 19 29 18 Baaag 18 14 19 Rodgem 17 29 24 Samsari 17 17 13 West 16 30 17 Dragoa 16 15 10 Boagove 15
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    • 1870 37 !H'y Jfl 100 CLASS 5 DIV 3 1,200 m (Ratings: 50-40) (Stakes: $11,500) 1 11*077 Uon City II 57 (51) Little Master-Ismail 3 me dc +2 (1200 m) *Nastr 2 2 95*0 Knight Rider 56 (48) Rider-Ismail 4ah -1 (1200 m) Yusoff 7 3 **80*2 Julie's Gem 55.5
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    • 108 37 Mystery of the limping winner NEWMARKET, Fri CHAMPION sprinter Never So Bold limped away from the course again yesterday after winning the July Cud. The colt did the same thing after winning the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot last month. But trainer Robert Armstrong said: "He only appears Tame
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    • 152 37 rides Ist 2nd 3rd 1 Leong 128 28 11 18 2 TUey 168 21 18 11 3 *Ismadl 107 22 22 11 4 Johnston 158 21 23 23 5 Cook 173 18 27 22 C Sublan 118 18 9 15 7 Lucas 163 IS 9 7 8 *Danls
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    • 89 37 Ist 2nd 3rd Auric 23 10 11 Chens 13 9 7 Goodman 12 7 9 Bloegrass 12 2 1 Mdm TL Long 8 13 Agasam 7 9 9 Bail 7 10 AJK 6 2 1 True Friend 5 3 1 Trend 5 2 3 Inderapora 5 1 10
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    • 245 37 Hern's chance to lift Irish Oaks DUBLIN, Fri BRITISH royal horse trainer Dick Hern, recovering after a fall while hunting m December, has a bright chance m tomorrow's Irish Oaks of winning his first classic since the accident. Hern, still partially paralysed but improving steadily, has just begun to strike
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    • 471 38 Merdeka Stadium, 8.30 p.m. Live on Channel Three Public Housing 25 years of Achievement Commemorative Stamp Issue On Friday, 9th August 1985, Telecoms will release a -4lJfe^ set of 4 stamps and miniature sheet to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Housing :^^^^^S and Development Board. The set of 4
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  • 465 40 Terrorism and drugs the main targets WASHINGTON, Fri. The House of Representatives has approved a foreign aid Bill for 1986 and 1987 that cracks down on terrorism and narcotics and opens a door for increased United States involvement m Cambodia, Angola and Nicaragua. After
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  • 72 40 The Look and the dream POUR with The Look of the Yearpostng In New York on Thursday Look of the Year Inc held the contest to discover and launch the careers of future superstar models. The winners are (from left): Klmberly lon Adams, second, from the United States; Arnica Ohnesorge,
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  • 124 40 7 people gored by bull in Pamplona PAMPLONA (Spain), Fri. A rogue bull injured seven people m the running of the bulls at Pamplona yesterday, tossing and goring the runners during a rampage through the city's cobblestone streets. Three of the injured, all Spaniards, were gored m the buttocks, hospital
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  • 274 40 Kuwait's day of mourning after cafe blasts kill 11 KUWAIT, Fri. Kuwait declared a national day of mourning today as a massive manhunt was launched to track down the bombers behind two blasts at two crowded cafes last night m which 11 people were killed and 89 injured. The cabinet
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  • 62 40 PARIS, Fri. Munna, a Tibetan bear brought to Paris for the recent Indian Festival, has been kidnapped by animal rights' detenders who claimed yesterday the bear's keeper was breaking several French laws. Since the festival, Munna has been kept m a cage on a Seine River quay
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  • 31 40 NEW YORK, Fri. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 3.02 points to 1,334.68 m the first half-hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. AP
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  • 395 40  - Dynachem invests another $25 m in Singapore ANNE KOH By A LEADING American company has given the electronics industry a boost by injecting another $25 mil.. on into its operations m Singapore. Dynachem (S) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of the Chicago-based Morton Thiokol Incorporated, produces chemicals called epoxy moulding compounds
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  • 160 40 WASHINGTON, Fri. The US Senate has voted to mint an American gold coin to compete with the South African Krugerrand to pressure Pretoria into changing its racial separation policies. The coin, which would be the first official US gold coin minted since Washington
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  • 66 40 What it should have been ON JUNE 18, The Straits Times carried a Jakarta report about the spread of foot-and-mouth disease m East Kalimantan. This was based on a report by AFP quoting the Suara Karya newspaper. We have received a letter from Dr Daman Danuwidiaja, DirectorGeneral of Livestock Services
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  • Page 40 Advertisements
    • 81 40 CHINESE CARPETS (DIRECT FROM CHINA) 1 I KHi ■EM 60% OFF AMIRGSONS (SINCE 1921) pXE LTD #03-01 to 07 LUCKY PLAZA, Orchard Road, Singapore 0923 Tel: *****83 Weekdays Saturdays Open 10am to 7pm Closed Sundays CHART POINT Rothmans (M) Bhd at important cross-roads. Prime cut Bankers expect another round of
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    • 549 40 ONLY T^ ySjJii Hk .Zltyle desk cum bookcase /flffiw eoopSmes^^cSr// Student desk with 3 spacious drawers and a 1 mtirrn rt% TUi/% okdkamhv convement 3-shetved bookcase Handles ,n sinking red. I UmntU IV IWU rtKHmilf.f HURRY! W^» SmUNG£RISINGTOS3 TH/SSALf MUST £ND SOON L W^j, $599^559 pOS ot^*\j^^"^ M I complete
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    • 137 40 Weather UP TO 1 pm: Fair. TEMP. (C) up to 6 am tomorrow: 32 max., 24 mm. SUNSET today: 7.16 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 7.04 am. GLOBAL WEATHER Adelaide 6/14 C Cloudy Manila 23 33C Cloudy Amsterdam 14/23 C Cloudy Melbourne 8 13C Rain Bangkok 26/31 C Fair Moscow 1121 C
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  • Section Two
    • 2 1 Section Two
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    • Books
      • 904 1  -  Strobe Talbott This is not simply a book about nuclear arms negotiations. It is a damning expose of the infighting m Washington's corridors of power. DEADLY GAMBITS By Picador paperbacks, London, 352 pages, $16.20 Reviewed by MICHAEL LIM More book reviews on Page Two: Limits
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      • 645 2  -  Jonathan Steele THE LIMITS OF SOVIET POWER By Penguin Books, 1985 290 pages, $14.35 Reviewed by DAVID TOH THE Soviets are peace-loving, life-loving humans, after all. In his book, The Limits of Soviet Power, veteran political analyst Jonathan Steele argues that the Western terms, "expansionism",
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      • 465 2 NUCLEAR WAR: WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? By Ground Zero Methuen. London, 1982 265 pages, $8 Reviewed by PETER SCHOPPERT A NUCLEAR explosion. Ground zero; Singapore's Padang. A one-megaton bomb would leave a crater 300 m wide and 60 m deep. The Shenton Way skyscrapers
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      • 271 2 MANAGEMENT by Guilt by Nicholas luppa (Pitman, 1985, 129 pages, $29.50) This book is a manual for the acquisition of control by guilt and other uncensored tactics, with help from some archetypal managers such as Vlad the Impaler, Cesare Borgia, Napoleon Bonaparte and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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      • 214 2 STAYING OK by Amy Bjork Harris and Thomas A. Harris (Harper and Row, 1985, 297 pages, $41.55) "If I'm OK and you're OK, how come I don't feel OK?" Picking up where their 15-million copy bestseller left off 16 years ago, the authors explore the
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      • 791 4  -  Mario Vargas Llosa THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD By Faber Faber London Boston 568 pages, $22.90 Reviewed by MICHAEL TAY THE War of the End of the World is a fictional account of the birth-pangs and death- throes of a revolution m one
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      • 545 4  -  Robert Westall THE MACHINE GUNNERS By I Puffin, 1983, 186 pages FATHOM FIVE By Robert Westall Puffin, 1984, 245 pages Reviewed by Gerald Chen Jiafa, aged 12 CHAS MCGILL had the second-best collection of war souvenirs m Garmouth, England, and desperately wanted
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      • 351 4 Bookbug THREE thrillers take pride of place this week each one different, but each equally engrossing. One Police Plaza by William J. Caunitz (Corgi, 252 pages) is a police procedural novel which goes way beyond anything written by Ed Mcßain or Joseph Warnbaugh. It
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    • Page 1 Advertisements
      • 45 1 I l-^\ /ii m p fIU A new look. A new preparation. A new function. Jfc 3 Btf'.T- v 1 1BH Hc^ b w■' -^B i^l^Wa By Ik^l m± JKmw J^m 6 lasts' «BO cao^^ 6 A Bk* j^ iW \s\o^ eS B B*~ H^'
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      • 52 1 Baby, you can drive my car: A short story #J MB C trnSF \JUmJM 2i"'*&F ■■■> WlMSrlV* I 'Wil s^OL jKjT t A*" tßPjb. The paper (wild goose) Q chase 5f O Hawaiian holiday Books, Expressions Edited by Rebecca Chua Personal Glimpses Edited by Richard Lim Going Places Edited by
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      • 284 2 Wj/t j BBBB^BBB^^fc^^M Brl- f?^*^F*>«L-2BM W^te^B Hi' p.* '•■■^ULsSEsjT^^^^^b^ i i /fc.O\3/187 i r^^r 2s^^!/^^!- I- I yJB .^B^^^^^^^^i j 1 1 1 !LI ■JB'I *2« BfS I? I B^m^=- SIM s »<f nue li^l^^^^^B B^VVH au^^^^ i I v*. ■f-.. f mVBB> A^B%Bk^Bi II f Be^Bß Bh m A
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      • 291 3 1 Cl bw Am 8 w Iki^B^Bnfl |pWBB^ I mH^i^bhbßbCSm Ho^ BB Wtr I B^^^ flfl .^^^bV B^B Hr j^Hk^^v\4 Ib^bW^ W^*^ J jifci «v jA ill ,J B (l-^P^"^^-^^ f <^^ bK'^ib^bC BY mbßbw PP^!»ff^Hu IM Mil 1 1 1 ■■tßm ill H .>ia£MiMA I P^ iim <ffin H
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      • 57 4 Shopping centres m Orchard Road have waxed j^^^^r-^~~ T^] h H E^J H r~* V^^W^^^^^^* YTJELCDME TO THEIR NEW HOME AT SPECIALISTS' SHOPPING CENTRE T"^*i^^^i P^ \I~T/ M Id' Pv\ 1 underwear, fashion /frßfff&ik trave goods, small leather items. w WNmSmr^ i P^^jl T*r^rn|W]k li. Ig ware, cookware, cutlery, cleaning
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    • Page 5 Advertisements
      • 381 5 IORCHARDTNOWiSHWmG!^ (*****88) 4 SHOWS: 130, 4.00, 6.30 9 15PM I TOMORROW EXTRA SHOW AT 1 1 .00 am <J> I J|f '< Ai THE PLOT WILL GRIP YOU J JaHf THE MURDER WILL MYSTIFY YOU 1 1 THE TRUTH WILL SHOCK X STUN YOU I 9Bl^^ 1 n HOWARD E
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      • 52 5 »//^BI 8 1/Jill^ I n jfc~ fjI NEW TOWN AVER RAJAH ROAD Jj NATIONAL I > V^V P UNIVfcRSITYB E Marble House 5 ()F 5 Pte. Ltd. SINGAPORE 2 m HOMESTEAD y J bus STty I WEST COAST ROAD TO HAYV iPAR"yiLLA~B HCLEMENTI I W'i-| r ■jiY^l^^B^O^Sn^ HIGHWAY B I-^fl
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      • 172 5 MmL EXCITING DESIGNS IN GORGEOUS PRINCESS^ X iPPHk $24.90 |V 4 colours a^L^^^^M^ La x^M* %M V l^ JHPI JAZZY ■4tfE>< BPllkL ♦i^" ft > Hi I' ;.1| I In tomorrow's Asia Magazine THE RETURN OF HUXIAM'S HALLEYS COMET PEASANT The Halleybaloo PAINTERS surrounding the world's most rMIHMEIIO celebrated missile
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      • 478 5 B 24th DAY: CAPITOL-CHANGI-BROADWAY D WOODLANDS: OPENS TODAY! s y| PRICES $3 00 &$4 00— CASH BOOKINGS ONLY— NO FREF US r V CAPITOL: 11, 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15 W000: 1.45, 4, 6.45, 9.15 1 CHAN.iI: 11. 1.45, 4, 6.45, 9.15 BROAD: 1 30, 3.30, 7, 900 Tickets CASH BOOKABLE
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      • 730 5 ORGANISATION Bf; |i j ii'Bil?fflH NOW SHOWING No Free List P i Stalls %i 00 Crctm $4 00 j| PRINCF j I lam. I 30. 4 00. 6 45, 9I 5 B SAVOY jB I lorn. I 45 4 00, 6 45, 9 15 B ÜBFPTY-f'RFSIDfNT B m 4 SHOWS
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    • Expressions
      • 5058 6 A short story 4 Then it said on the news that John Lennon was dead, killed by a gunman outside his New York apartment; and m the wind I imagined a gunshot, a crack that was so realistic that I m nearly jumped. It felt like
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    • Page 6 Advertisements
      • 706 6 A\ l/\ SHELL INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY SCHOLARSHIPS Applications are invited from qualified candidates for four Shell International Petroleum Company Scholarships for post-graduate courses m Energy Technology leading to the degree of Master of Engineering or Master of Science beginning m January 1986. These scholarships are tenable at the Asian Institute
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      • 191 6 Unveil your talent EXPRESSIONS offers two pages of creative and artistic effort by you and for you. So if you're a closet writer, composer, painter or photographer, now's the time to unveil your talent. Whether you write, compose music, paint, sculpt or draw (cartoons, illustrations or drawings), send it to
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    • Page 7 Advertisements
      • 423 7 NOTICES IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE Suit No. 1054 > of 1985 Between TAN KEE (w) Plaintiff And 1. LIM CHIN TECK and 2. LIM CHENG SWEE Trustees of the Estate of lim Teng deceased 3. SNG TOON KENG Administrator of the Estate of Swee Ang
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      • 409 7 CANTEEN CATERER Applications are invited from experienced canteen caterers fljhe operation of its staff canteen m the Petrochemicai Complex of|*uiau Ayer Merbau. Application must meet the following requirements:- At least 3 >■ years' experience m operating a canteen serving qper 400 ernployms m 3 shifts. Able to provide Chinese, Muslim
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      • 266 7 llliißHiiiituiiiiiiuiniiniiiiiiiiutuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiitiiiitiiiiiiii ■^J|^^rW H "B^ l^ l^K^ iitiiniiHinn i iiniiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiinifiMNi i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuj Take notice that SETSCO PTE LTD of 4th Storey SISIR 4. Design Registration No. *****02 for gold border brooches Building, 179 River Valley Road, Singapore 0617, have 5. Design Registration No. *****03 for gold borderobtained under the United Kingdom
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    • Going Places
      • 1520 8 -—MOTORING—— HOLIDAYS From this week, the accent is on motoring holidays. We begin with SHELDON A. GUNARATNE, who went on the road on Big Island, Hawaii, for four days and discovered spectacular volcanoes, beautiful gardens and historic sights. This series will also feature driving along coastal
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      • 305 8 Getting There MANY airlines serve Honolulu with stopovers at Hongkong or Tokyo. It's a long flight of about 18 hours and the return airfare is $1,650. Most airlines will allow at least one stopover enroute, flying out or return. When to go The weather is mild all
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    • Page 8 Advertisements
      • 317 8 B^B^T mKBS 4Hk JKt JkW B^t u^B' B^B^F a^Bk^^k^^^te_> Jm m B^B^F a^K SB y .^^^^^E^B^B^B^B^B^ Bb^HHbbHbibM l^y W VV m ab^^^ib^b^B^l W^^y^jHHflßffr L t^ HM»^W4BmHBMKw aW^al i I f _^K^f Jk^-^H BbKbL. VHBdHI t W EWJi^Jfc E**mTW"'' 3^* Mttt I |Hl J BBrTT r^ r^Bßrm waBH I aVawal BW>
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    • Personal Glimpses Chess
      • 864 9  -  David Kraa At Large: SO THEY thought that the right place for the older sportsmen was alongside the girls. Well, they were wrong and I could have told you so wrong yesterday, today and any day m the foreseeable future. When I read that the Singapore hockey
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      • 618 9  -  Rebecca Chua Saturday Observer By "EVERY person must be judged on what he is worth, repeatedly, at every stage of his career. He cannot be classified for life based on the weight of paper he has accumulated. Brig-Gen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong at the National
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      • 580 9 Chess Leslie Leow TWO Singapore state players shook off several years of indifferent form to place first and third at last month's Kuala Lumpur Masters' Chess Tournament. Organised by the Kuala Lumpur Chess Association, the competition was sponsored by Manville Corporation Sdn. Bhd. with a
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      • 151 9 FROM the diagrammed position, the game continues with 16. Qes Bf6, since Qes was the most popular move submitted. A total of 126 entries were received, out of which 51 gave the correct answer of Qes (also the most popular move). Despite numerous requests, analysis is
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    • Page 9 Advertisements
      • 797 9 NOTICES SUPREME CORPORATION BERHAD LOST SHARE CERTIFICATES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undermentioned Ordinary Share Certificates have been reported lost CERTIFICATE REGISTERED NO. OF NOS IN THE NAME OF SHARES S ***** Estate of Abu Bakar Bm Bagmda (Deceased) 1 x 10.937 S ***** Cheong Sai Mun Ixll 000
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      • 714 9 IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE Companies Winding Up Ne. 247 at 1985 In the Matter of the Companies Act (Chapter 185) A»d In the Matter of CHEN HUAT FRUITS PTE LTD ADVERTISEMENT OF PETITION Notice is hereby given that a Petition for the Winding-Up of the
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      • 551 9 APPOINTMENTS rSf Software -BI engineers UiAH I krttzU We are looking for graduates and/or ELECTRONICS non-graduates with proven experience iwru /ctdicc to J°* n us as Software Engineers. The INUUSTHIcS successful candidates will be involved PYE LTD n c tner one °f tne following areas of work computerised process control
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    • Page 10 Advertisements
      • 880 10 APPOINTMENTS/ NOTICES DCRfIDCIIHHB Telefax No: *****59 Rates: Box Service: WBWfflß STANTa KdOUoOl 91— BBPHB Sa|es se rv j cc Straits Times: 5525.00 psc. cm. Collected: 555.00 Telex Service: S.T.A.N.T.S. RS ***** TIMEAD Tel^OOll e'xt 2724-7 2669 Sunday Times: 5525.62 psc. cm. Posted: Sslo.oo APPOINTMENTS J9 j Management C onsultants Pte
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      • 664 10 Box Service: imes: 5525.00 psc. cm. Collected: 555.00 'imes: 5525.62 psc. cm. Posted: Sslo.oo PH NATIONAL m£] UNIVERSITY H*y OF SINGAPORE Applications are invited for appointments to the post of: ASSISTANT LABORATORY TECHNICIAN m the Department of Pharmacology QUALIFICATIONS (a) At least 3 G.C.E. 'O' Level passes, preferably including science
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      • 941 10 Coopers vxLyDl dDQ Associates provides a comprehensive range of management consultancy services aimed at helping clients increase the effectiveness and profitability of their organisation. These services include Corporate Development, Organisation Planning, Financial Control and Management Information Systems, f^^^^^k Investment Planning and Appraisal, Electronic Data Processing, Manufacturing and Distribution Systems, Executive
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      • 88 10 I k iillW PilittitifniiiflJfc^fHfcftrL We are a production house specialising m direct response advertising and designing of brochures and catalogues for a few international clients. We presently require the services of a qualified artist with creativity and imagination to supervise our F/A artists and coordinate all jobs m the studio.
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      • 607 11 APPOINTMENTS SENTOSA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION has a vacancy for ASSISTANT MANAGER (ENVIRONMENT) Qualification and Experience A Diploma for Public Health Inspector from the Royal Society of Health, U.K. At least five years of relevant working experience. c Some knowledge of horticulture and landscape matters an advantage. Duties and Responsibilities Reporting to
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      • 441 11 SUNDSTRQND W We are a manufacturer of aircraft components and have vacancies for the position of Requirements GCE A' Levels with good credits m English and Mathematics (Preference will be given to those with Diploma m Production Management) At least 3 years relevant working experience m a manufacturing environment with
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      • 1033 11 KiIAkIAPIM^ Arthur Vbung Management Consultants Re Ltd has been retained by a major corporation to IVIANAvaIIMvX advise on the appointment of a Managing Director. Our client is engaged m engineering, trading niDrrTHD and manufacturing operations with subsidiaries m the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia, Brunei UiHtLrl KJri and Hongkong. Salary Negotiable
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    • Page 12 Advertisements
      • 419 12 APPOINTMENTS jSBBBB H kKHR 111 BAKER FAR EAST LTD We are a major U.S. multi-national Company, engaged m oil and gas well completion equipment. The Company, a dynamic leader m the industry, has an opening with outstanding career potential for the following position: 111 TRAINEE ■11 DESIGN ENGINEER The selected
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      • 648 12 SINGAPORE AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES The Singapore Aircraft Industries Group of Companies is m the forefront of the aerospace industry m the Republic. Our activities include the overhaul and modification of aircraft and components, manufacture of aircraft parts and assemblies, and systems development and integration of related electronic equipment such as m
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      • 708 12 P PUBLIC UTILITIES HA I BOBRD The PUB invites applications for the following I posts: I (A) SENIOR PROPERTIES I OFFICER/PROPERTIES OFFICER (Gross Salary: $1,845 4,775 per month) Applicants must possess one of the following qualifications. (a) Degree m Estate Management or Building Science from a recognised university or equivalent;
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      • 598 12 M^ C*s m PUBLIC UTILITIES BOfIRD Continued from annexed appointment. I (F) STEERSMAN (Gross Salary: $505 642 per month); Applicants must: (a) possess a Steersman Certificate issued by PSA, Singapore; (b) have previous experience m the operation of small craft; (c) be familiar with the waters around Singapore; (d) have
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    • Page 13 Advertisements
      • 694 13 APPOINTMENTS (ieneral Electric, the world's largest and^^^B B^\ most diversified electrical manufacturing company, is seeking a dynamic and self-motivated indivi-^^^B^. dual to fill the position of: I SALES MANAGER ASEAN Countries For High Technology Medical Equipment Our products are an impressive range of highly sophisticated diagnostic imaging equipment, eg. X-ray,
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      • 602 13 9rW HARRY TAN MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS PTE LTD Due to our continuing commitment to providing better service to our clients, we wish to recruit. MANAGEMENT CQNSUUANT Job: Working closely with the director to carry out various interesting consultancy assignments including the review of and recommendations to our clients' operations. Qualifications: I
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      • 566 13 I THOMSON-CSF la world leader m professional electronicsl A French multinational Company engaged m the jjij manufacturing of semiconductors, invites appli- ijj: cations from suitably qualified candidates for iji; the following positions: The successful candidate, reporting to the Production Manager, will be responsible for the effective maintenance of TERADYNE *****
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      • 452 13 |y^The Singapore Branchofan^^^B International Offshore Bank invites^^ applications for the position of CREDIT OFFICER I Reporting to the Manager, Credit Department, the job entails the analysis of financial statements, evaluation of projects, country studies and other duties as assigned. Requirements: Minimum of 4 5 years' experience m credit analysis work
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      • 1041 14 APPOINTMENTS We're an industry leader I m our country. §f I s jfln^r iii We're here to do the same m yours. American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) is setting up its very first advanced integrated circuit manufacturing facility m Singapore AT&T Microelectronics Pte Ltd. This is part of our projected
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      • 674 14 If JUgm Singapore I GM Singapore, currently employing over 2000 employees, 1$ a U.S. multi-national manufacturing company specialising m the production of high volume, high technology automotive electronics. We have immediate openings for: II PRODUCTION PROCESS I 1 1 ENGINEER I Degree m Production or Mechanical Engineering 1 to 2
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      • 566 14 DBSBANK CLERICAL OFFICERS QUALIFICATIONS At least 4 GCE 'O' level credits including English and Mathematics Ability to type is an advantage REMUNERATION DBS Bank pays a competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. The minimum annual salary inclusive of the 3 months annual wage supplement is $6,825. Those with GCE
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      • 634 15 APPOINTMENTS (European I fl Standard I Electronics pte up A subsidiary of Thomson-Grand Public largest manufacturer of electronic products m France and having production and marketing facilities worldwide; French leaders m high technology electronics and household appliances. I f Head, Production Dq)artment _J Applicants should possess a Degree m Electronics
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      • 545 15 l^#lr International Computers Limited ICL is Europe's largest computer manufacturer and a world leader m leading edge technology. To augment our CUSTOMER ENGINEERING and SOFTWARE SUPPORT A DEVELOPMENT TEAMS, we seek suitably qualified professionals for the following positions: Programmers to develop and maintain the ICL suite of Software 9/stems. Pre-requlsltes:
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      • 509 15 J We are a subsidiary of a German telephone^L h company. Due to our expanding PABX and KTS sales m Singapore, we seek suitably qualified and experienced candidates for the following positions: i) Sales Engineer I# Degree/Diploma m Electronic or Com- I munication Engineering Duties: To handle project sales To
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      • 455 15 SINGAPORE BROADCASTING CORPORATION Invites applications for I BROADCAST I JOURNALIST GR 11/GR 111 (ENGLISH) ($1610— *****)/($1012— $2819) THE JOB: To provide reports and conduct interviews on topical matters for news bulletins on radio and TV. Job entails TV reports from locations (at home and abroad) of new events and/or To
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      • 574 16 APPOINTMENTS li -i i j n i n A MATSUSHITA DENSHI A L (S) PTE LTD I ARE YOU YOUNG, AGGRESSIVE, LIKE I CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENT i IF >Ot/ ARE, WE OFFER YOU THE 1 CAREER OPPORTUNITY OF A UFE j I a) Product Development ill Degree m Electrical /Electronics
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      • 127 16 ATTRACTIVE LW may «r~>l I a%^~*~_F W mm mm <w^ w*+ CAREER »~1ft9% FORA //^f\A DYNAMIC f_WL mu mm Awmw I We are a multinational company. Due to our expansion, a new position has been created. We need a dynamic lady to start our indoor sales section. You should possess
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      • 98 16 NOTICE BAILIFF'S SALE In The Subordinate Courts Of The Republic Of Singapore Writ Of Distress No. 207 of 1985 In The Cause Of Far East Organization Centre Re Ltd Plaintiff versus Mohd Shah s/o S.H. Moulasa Defendant AUCTION SALE OF Ladies dresses etc TO BE HELD AT #04-53 Lucky Plaza.
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    • Page 16 Miscellaneous
      • 460 16 SUN TAN Bycoiiette PEANUTS ByScltaix iP*"™ """"7^^^ //Bmmm^*" mit^^^^ I LOOK AT THAT LICENSE I AmEN LOOK AT /%.;^iNEf- .'Lt'a^l T rAu TT^ 60 AND ASK- r^ v FATHEfUDiDNT PL ATE. ."HAPPINESS V TWIS ONE J i 5 BEiNt? A CAN T A6REE, MOW CAN rWi^tMm JV^f^t^l r&n-^ALWA^ l^2!s!wMfj 15
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      • 292 17 APPOINTMENTS DRESDNER BANK GROUP seeks the employment of a I MARKETING I for its Business Development/Marketing Division RESPONSIBILITIES i Marketing planning, product development, sale of bank services to existing and new clients m the ASEAN region. g|g QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE 1 Banking Diploma, University degree m Business Administration, Economics or
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      • 348 17 <55 I SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK I is m the process of expanding its Treasury Operations m Singapore. In line I with our emphasis on the technical approach to the Foreign Exchange, I Money and Securities Markets, we are looking for highly qualified people to I join a new Technical
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      • 301 17 81 boruuil A member of the Barwil chain of international shipping agencies has following vacancies: 1) SALES EXECUTIVE Due to a re-organisation m our Marketing Department, we require an additional Sales Executive. Applicants must be mature persons of 28-35 years of age and possess drive, self-motivation and be result-orientated. Proven
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      • 225 17 NOTICES I SHERIFF'S SALE IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE IN THE CAUSE OF SUIT NO. 8529 OF 1984 EXECUTION NO. 492 of 1985 SONA FURNISHING PTE LTD PLAINTIFFS VERSUS TAY POI BONG T/A WE KIONG TEXTILE CO DEFENDANTS AUCTION SALE OF Textile, Fabric, Suitcases, Briefcases, Bags,
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    • Page 17 Miscellaneous
      • 2020 17 a™*°?l\ ss, Qh OO t for defence HISTORY OF ROCK 'N' ROLL (8.05 pm) feature. A U I ■%M%M Si I %JP I Irfi WI I I W l^ AT THE HANDICRAFT the soul sounds of the 60s performed by Arthur onuiw CENTRE. There will be a Conley, Joe Tex,
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      • 405 18 >^^PBE SBfiSS^ ijr%/ JBL wkJL JbL Hfci MM ii mP^ HI ji>i JF P :ji 'dB y ttuai R Cairnhill Community Centre Birdsinging G)ntest. With musical entertainment provided by mm mM i I m I I mI 1 Sunday, July 14 B.3()am various bands and orchestras. rl^^ 1 I 1
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      • 1527 18 mMV VIEW mm Catherine Ong (Hi Imn F prngnrr— l '"""1 Ui ""1 v—u r u r^D^nmr^Miranininr iiimi *****11 i M i ■limn ■iiHiiiiiiiwHiH i iMiiiiiiiiMiiwwiiiwiiHiMmi,, ■■iiiimii ■mm ,i, I iiii g^W[ h 2 *t« m( out i^ ow m P° r mfm Jm P^ R.l BO W^ LAST ee
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