The Straits Times, 19 January 1986

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  • 565 1  -  IVAN LIM By EMPLOYERS m Singapore have asked the Government to allow at least a 15 per cent cut m their Central Provident Fund contributions if they are going to enjoy any meaningful relief at all from their business woes.
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  • 572 1  -  H. L. LIM By RANGOON, Sat. Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his delegation are returning from Burma with prospects of more trade and a better appreciation of the Burmese Way. That very understanding is keeping expectations at a cautious level. But trwe is also optimism.
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  • 340 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Four bank officers have been issued subpoenas to appear before the High Court on Monday m connection with the M 52.5 billion Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) loans scandal. Two of them are from the United Asian Bank and one each
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  • 383 1  -  RAV DHALIWAL By BUSY executives who find there is work left at the end of the day are better off staying late at the office than bringing work home. Home should be an oasis of rest free from stress, not an
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  • 378 1 Singapore actor wins part in Madonna film SINGAPORE stage actor Lim Kay Tong has landed himself the role of the arch-villain m a film starring rock singer Madonna. The film, Shanghai Surprise, will also feature the singer's husband, Scan Perm. It will be shot m Hongkong, Macau and London. Kay
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 637 2  - Interpol help sought to trace missing towkay PAUL WEE By POLICE will ask Interpol to help find missing import-and-export towkay Gan Beng, who is facing charges of conspiring with fugitive "Abalone King" Ng Cnoon Ser to cheat three banks of $5.7 million. The Indonesian-born Gan, 64, now a Singapore citizen,
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    • 620 2  - Schools approached to sell $3 a year accident policies HEDWIG ALFRED By AN ENTERPRISING insurance company has been offering to insure children against accidents at school for a mere $3 a year. The scheme is unusual not only because most insurance companies offer personal accident policies only to those over
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    • 133 2 loniiarif The killer-litter nuisance, still much talked about as the year began, came into UallUai J gijarp public focus with this Shin Mm picture of an angry taxi driver seen moments after a window frame fell on his windscreen from a block of flats m Sims
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    • 805 3 Pick the of the Year Singapore at dusk to murder m the night, these were some of the most arresting images of 1985 WHAT makes a winning picture? You see some examples on these pages, pictures that freeze a dramatic moment, retell the year's headlines m a flash, vividly capture
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    • 771 2 AT A GLANCE TOMMY KOH HITS OUT AT GSP PROPOSAL: Singapore ambassador Tommy Koh, in a speech to the Economic Policy Council of the United Nations Association on Friday, attacked as "unfair" a Senate proposal to remove Generalised System of Preferences benefits from countries such as Hongkong, Taiwan and South
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 127 2 UP TO 1 pm. Fat. TEMP. (C) up to 6 am tomorrow: 30 max., 24 mm. SUKSET today: 7.17 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 7.14 am. TRAVELLERS' WEATHER Adelaide 15/27 C Fine Manila 18/30 C Cloudy Amsterdam $c t Melbourne 14/21 C Fine Bangkok 21/32 C Fair Moscow -9/-3 C Fair Belong
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 452 4  -  YOW YUN WOH Picture* and story by PAGAN m Burma is a holy place, not to be confused with the ungodly who share the name. It was the capital of the Burmese kings before the country became a British colony and then a socialist republic.
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    • 380 4  - Removal of GSP benefits 'unfair' LIAK TENG KIAT US penalising Asian NICs, says Tommy Koh By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sat. Singapore ambassador Tommy Koh yesterday attacked as "unfair" a Senate proposal to remove GSP benefits from countries like Hongkong, Taiwan and South Korea. La a speech to the Economic Policy
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    • 322 4  - Making ground with Soviets, says Nakasone PETER HAZEL HURST By 1 Tokyo Correspondent TOKYO, Sat. The Soviet Union and Japan appeared today to have restored relations to something approaching the detente era of the early *****. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone indicated this after three days of talks between Soviet Foreign
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    • 296 4 RANGOON, Sat. No prizes for guessing Mr Lee Kuan Yew's three wishes at the Shwedagon Pagoda here this morning. For they will ring a bell m Singapore. "I wish for peace, progress and prosperity for both Burma and Singapore," the Prime Minister said when his hosts asked
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    • 190 4  - PM gets a surprise hand in Bangkok hotel ALBERT RAMALINGAM By Bangkok Correspondent BANGKOK, Sat. Mr Lee Kuan Yew arrived here from Rangoon today for a 24-hour visit and was given an unexpected welcome by tourists visiting the Thai capital. As the motorcade carrying the Singapore Prime Minister and his
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    • 358 5 Investors throw out Westland rescue package LONDON, Saturday SHAREHOLDERS of Britain's troubled Westland helicopter firm blocked a rescue bid recommended by the company's board, dashing hopes of an end to a row that has plunged Mrs Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet into crisis. In one of the most widelypublicised shareholders' meetings in
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    • 275 5 LONDON, Sat. An Arab gang was being hunted today by British polic investigating the multi-millioi-dollar kidnap and ransom of a Gulf millionaire who struggled to freedom chained to a mi ttress after being held for 11 days drugged and blindfolded. Scotland Yard said
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    • 332 5 LONDON, Sat. Multinational operation to evacuate foreigners from Aden was broken off today after heavy fighting erupted again m the South Yemeni capital, the British Defence Ministry reported. Britannia, the personal yacht of Britain's Queen Elizabeth which has spearheaded the evacuation, has stopped its
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    • 124 5 Breeder who sank her teeth into dog LONDON, Sat. A dog breeder who bit her dog after it lunged at a passerby was censured yesterday by Britain's Kennel Club. Miss Natalka Czartoryska claimed she had only yelled "rude things" m the dog's ear m Turkish after it disgraced her at
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    • 60 5 MOSCOW, Sat. Valerian Zorin, the tough-talking diplomat who stonewalled the United Nations Security Council during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, has died at the age of 84. The Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, said Mr Zorin died on his birthday last Thursday after a serious illness.
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
      • 93 5 It's not quite like unloading fridges on Eskimos, but Australian Aborigines are negotiating to sell camels to the Arabs. The Kaltukat jara community are discussing the sale of 2,000 camels a year for the next five years, says community adviser Brian Leon in Melbourne. Camels were
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      • 101 5 The covered wagons which once brought settlers to Texas in search of liberty and opportunity are on the move again this time to honour the state's 150th birthday. A 6 km-long wagon train, headed by a detachment of US Cavalry, has set out from Sulphur Springs, a small
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      • 109 5 Ever have a drink called an upside down kamikaze? Mr Jerry Pasciak of Detroit did and claims in a lawsuit that it left him with 20 stitches, chipped teeth and a headache. Patrons who order the drink at Cagneys Bar m suburban Westland are first seated m
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      • 109 5 The British have laid siege to Washington D.C. They have amassed real estate holdings approaching US$l billion (Ss2.l billion) m what they call the Golden Triangle, an area m the heart of downtown that is bordered by Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Hampshire avenues. As the leading foreign investors
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      • 86 5 England cricketer lan Botham says he will join m a week-long run along China's Great Wall m aid of leukemia research. The test all-rounder is to take part m September or October m one leg of a marathon effort by Hongkong fitness club manager David Griffiths, who
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      • 85 5 Five former Argentine junta leaders, jailed for human rights violations, are still enjoying the privileges of their ranks as generals and admirals. Gente, a weekly Argentine magazine, says each of the five General Jorge Videla, Admiral Emilio Massera, General Roberto Viola, Admiral Armando Lambruschini and General Orlando
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    • 185 6 Reagan gets all clear, but doctors taking no chances WASHINGTON, Sat. President Ronald Reagan underwent a major post-cancer surgery check-up yesterday and the White House said his doctors had found no recurrence of the malignancy. Mr Reagan underwent the examination at the Bethesda Naval Medical Centre six months after surgery
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    • 544 6 How to tell the President that he's wrong SAN DIEGO, Saturday PRESIDENT Dwight Eisenhower had a regular piece of advice for his White House staff "Now boys, don't let us make our mistakes m a hurry." General Alexander Haig, when confronted with an idea by President Richard Nixon that he
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    • 98 6 MORE than 12,0ft Canadians flocked to see this statue of the Virgin Mary In a suburban home in the small town of Salnte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac near Montreal In less than a week* Bnt the affair eame to a climax on Friday when a Montreal newspaper reported that the statue's
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    • 131 6 Purse-strings tightened at United Nations UNITED NATIONS, Sat. The financially strapped United Nations is slashing travel costs, overtime and other expenses m hopes of saving about US$l5 million (Ss32 million) this year, a UN spokesman said yesterday. He said Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar has decided to implement certain measures
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    • 78 6 Dow Jones Market closes mixed in active trading NEW YORK, Sat. The New York stock market closed mixed m active trading yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.93 points to 1,536.70. For the week, the index gained 23.17 points. In the previous week, the index dropped 35.67 points. The
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    • 291 6  - Soviet poet attacks censorship LOUISE BRANSON By Moscow Reporter MOSCOW, Sat. Yevgeny Yevtoshenko, the angry young poet of the 1950s who became an establishment figure, is speaking out again and is demanding an end to censorship m Soviet literature. Many intellectuals are wondering if Mr Yevtoshenko's calls are a prelude
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    • 111 6 MADRID, Sat. Police m Spain were on full alert today after three Spanish embassy officials were kidnapped m Beirut on the same day that Spain established full diplomatic relations with Israel. A Spanish security officer and two Lebanese employees at the Spanish embassy were kidnapped
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 161 7 NEW YORK, Sat. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said m a published interview with Life magazine that campaigning against a woman made him "feel small." "I was taught by my father early m life never to argue with a woman, never to lift
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    • 164 7 $5.5 m cannabis seized at Thai cargo terminal BANGKOK, Sat. Thai Customs have seized nearly 1.5 tonnes of cannabis worth more than US$2.6 million (about 555.5 million) at a cargo terminal here, officials said today. The drugs were found when 30 containers on a tow truck at Don Muang airport's
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    • 183 7 MILAN, Saturday A SEVEN-MAN Italian team left here today for a 30-day and 2,500-km expedition across Indonesia's Kalimantan province m the rainy season. They will start at Samarinda, on the east coast of Borneo, and go to Pontianak, on the west coast. Both lie
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    • 137 7 JAKARTA, Sat. Two men have been arrested here for allegedly stealing US$7O,OOO (*****,000) through a hole m a wall, it was reported here. The weekly Tempo said a man, posing as a company director, rang a money-chang-ing firm saying he wanted to change Indonesian
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    • 62 7 JAKARTA, Sat. The son of the late President Sukarno, Taafan Snkarnopntra, died yesterday of colon cancer at the home of his mother, Hartlni, after a two-month illness, Kompas reported today. Mr Taafan, 31, had been studying In the United States and returned with his wife last month
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    • 573 7 Airport official's action averts a disaster MANILA, Sat A LIGHT plane carrying President Ferdinand Marcos to an election rally today nearly collided with an air force plane. A split-second action by an airport official prevented a disaster. Mr Marcos' plane was about to land on Mindoro
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    • 278 7 JAKARTA, Saturday INDONESIA has denied charges that its transmigration programme of resettling people from overpopulated to less crowded regions is suppressive and inhuman, the daily Sinar Harapan reported yesterday. Transmigration Minister Martono told officials m Semarang, Central Java, that the London-based Amnesty International had distributed pamphlets
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 284 9 Koon Swan: MCA has no intention of becoming multi-racial KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Malaysian Chinese Association has no intention of becoming multi-racial, its president, Mr Tan Koon Swan, said today. In a statement to reporters after launching the party's publicity, education and political bureau here, Mr Tan said the MCA
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    • 242 9 BATU PAHAT, Saturday UMNO Vice-president Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today told party members to stop spreading rumours detrimental to the image of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Datuk Abdullah, who is education minister, said the rumours also involved a few businessmen
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    • 323 9 KOTA KINABALU, Saturday SABAH'S ruling Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), largely backed by the state's Catholic Kadazan community, has rejected the Federal government's suggestions that it form a coalition with two largely Muslim-based parties to overcome the political crisis m the state. Chief Minister Datuk Joseph Pairin
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    • 125 9 Death Railway man seeks payment MARANG (Trengganu), Sat. A fisherman m Trengganu claims that the Japanese government owes him M 53,000 for his labour on the Death Railway m Thailand about 40 years ago. Haji Tahar Ahmad, 67, of Kampung Ru Muda here, said the Japanese had failed to fulfil
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    • 98 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The National Housing Department has offered to build 90,000 houses over three years m response to the government's programme for building 80,000 low-cost houses annually from this year until 1988. Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Chan Siang Sun, m disclosing this today, said
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    • 222 9 BMF report: Two stay silent over Mahathir's memo KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Two former members of the Committee of Inquiry into the M 52.5 billion Bumiputra Malaysia Finance loans scandal remained silent over Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad's memo yesterday criticising them for exceeding the committee's terms of reference.
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    • 190 9 Workshop on politics and elections JOHOR BARU, Sat. Prime Minister and Umno President Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad is expected to open the "Politics and Election" workcamp organised by Johor Umno Youth m Segamat next month as preparations for the general election. The three-day workcamp. beginning on Feb 20, will
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 803 10  - A tentative start to a cashless shopping era DOREEN SOH By 4 It is much better than the Japanese system which was started last year there are very few banks and supermarkets m the Japanese system. Mr Ogita, a bank officer, who made his first cashless purchase at Tangs Superstore.
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    • 134 10 AMONG the seven-judge panel for tonight's Chinese Talentime finals is Hongkong song writer and composer Lam Moh Tuck. He wrote his first song at the age of 15 for Teresa Carpio and has tunes sung by popular recording artistes such as Alan Tarn and
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    • 209 10 EXPANDING its range of services and seeking opportunities to export them beyond the immediate region has been a Norwegian marine technology centre's way of dealing with the present economic downturn. Norway's Prime Minister, Mr Kaare Willoch, was told this when he visited the
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    • 71 10 THIS schoolgirl was only one of two people who turned up at the Trade Union House Annexe m Shenton Way to watch a two-hour videotape screening of the history of the labour movement. The show was to help those taking part m an NTUC song
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    • 267 10 A "MEALS on wheels" scheme bringing one meal a day to the elderly m their homes has been proposed. Volunteers could deliver the meals to those elderly who cannot go to a day centre for old folk, Professor Phoon Wai Onn, head of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      161 10 SAF exercise THE SAF will be conducting military exercises m Lim Chu Kang, Tuas, Hong Kah, Marsiling, Mandai, Tampines, Punggol, Wing Loong, Loyang and Sembawang from tomorrow until Jan 26. Blanks and thunderflashes will be used and the public is advised not to be alarmed. The RSAF will be conducting
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    • 351 11 Just sitting still stirs up 100,000 dust particles SIT still, and you generate 100,000 dust particles. Get up and do some gymnastic exercises, and you throw up 30 million. As Dr Leo Tan, Director of the Singapore Science Centre, put it: "Every human being is a dusty person." A house
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    • 116 11 Alarm fails to stop $105,000 break-in THIEVES tripped a burglar alarm during a break-in at a warehouse but still managed to take $105,000 worth of liquor, two television sets and four videocassette recorders even while police were racing to the scene. The burglars struck at the Übi Road 1 warehouse
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    • 289 11 ONE of Singapore's largest developers has suspended year-end bonuses and car allowances because of the economic downturn. Notices were sent to the Far East Organisation's employees on Dec 28 and on Jan 6 informing them that the company was suspending the 13th month payment. Far
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    • 837 11  -  AUDREY PERERA By 4 They (the PAP) felt bad about asking me to work so hard and worried about how I would man- m age my family. 4 Many still have the notion that they are m some way inferior to men,
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    • 433 12  -  AUDREY PERERA By FORTY organised groups have been discovered among the Centrepoint Kids a now familiar nickname for the youths who frequent and loiter m shopping centres. Far from being just a chance gathering of idle youths, a month-long survey among these teenage
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    • 357 12  - Doctors operate on S'porean in plane crash SURESH NAIR By A SINGAPOREAN flight instructor m the United States was m critical but stable condition last night m a South Carolina hospital after a plane he was piloting with a student crashed on Wednesday night. Officials at the McLeod Regional Medical
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    • 288 12 Furniture may be made to the Singapore measure FURNITURE sold m Singapore could be made to Singaporean measure .and ready-to-wear clothing tailored to fit Singaporeans. Hundreds of other products also could be designed with Singapore-sized consumers m mind. All this and more may come about once the National Productivity Board
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    • 199 12 COMPUTER professionals m Singapore are dissatisfied with the salaries they are getting, according to a survey. This is so .'.espite the fact that m 1984 they received a 9 per cent salary increment. Other professionals received 8.6 per °ent The survey, which was carried out
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    • 251 13 A GROUP of lawyers m the Services Sub-committee has suggested that new laws are needed to encourage economic growth. Existing ones should be reviewed and updated. These tasks should be handled by a law reform commission, they said. The proposed commission should also
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    • 267 13 Why some govt business agencies are less cost-effective SOME business services operated by the government or its statutory boards are less cost effective than those m the private sector, the Economic Sub-committee on Services says. The Government's inability to adjust quickly to manpower needs, which fluctuate according to market demands,
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    • 169 13 AT LEAST 3,« M students, including these girls, flocked to the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Careers *U exhibition at Victoria Junior College yesterday. The exhibition, which continues today from II am to 5 pm, gave students and their parents a good look at the
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    • 133 13 Times Printers scores in productivity HIGH wages have been largely blamed as the cause of the present economic ills. But at Times Printers, the story is different. Last year, the company's productivity gains measured m terms of value added per employee increased by 38.5 per cent, Mr Michael Fam, Chairman
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    • 164 13 THREE men were yesterday convicted of molesting women on different occasions on Friday. Musa bin Mahmood, 29, unemployed, pleaded guilty to molesting a librarian at Woodlands Centre Road at about 6 am. The court heard that Musa held the 20-year-old woman by her
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    • 82 13 A MAN who kicked and broke a hamburger restaurant's glass door was fined $150 for disorderly behaviour yesterday. Labourer Lim Teck Seng, 30, was seen kicking the glass panel door of McDonald's m North Bridge Road and de- manding to enter at about 11.45 pm on
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    • 341 13 Five more bad years predicted for builders Report of the Services Sub-committee THE construction industry will continue to be m the doldrums for the next five years, says a working group of the Economic Sub-committee on Services. It projected that m the five-year period, the value of construction contracts will
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    • 286 13 How foreign patients can be wooed here for treatment WOO the foreign patient by paying closer attention to such areas as in-vitro fertilisation, heart disease, cancer and acupuncture treatment. There should also be specialised medical facilities such as private wings m selected government hospitals, and a policy of liberalising work
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    • 242 13 Dinosaurs star in Chinatown trade fair THE Hello Chinatown trade fair, which opened last night, has set the pace for the Lunar New Year celebrations m Chinatown. This year, a laser dinosaur show and a dinosaur exhibition were staged as extra crowd-pullers. The big draw seemed to be the 15-minute
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    • 354 14 TWENTY thousand visitors were expected yesterday but 40,000 showed up, proving again that Singapore likes air shows. Huge crowds packed Asian Aerospace '86 at Changi Airport during the only day it was open to the public. The last time the show was held, m 1984,
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    • 160 14 Singapore firm gets $25 million airport job A LOCAL contractor has won the bid to build Changi Airport's third cargo agents building. The $25.25 million bid from Reliance Contractors Pte Ltd was the lowest of the nine tenders submitted. When the eight-storey building is ready towards the end of next
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    • 698 14  -  HEDWIG ALFRED By IT WAS a slow boat to romance but by the time the Chinese junk ended its threehour cruise, many among the 88 passengers were exchanging telephone numbers or sharing taxis home. The idea behind the Loveboat-type trip to the Southern
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    • 266 14 Heart transplant man is back with new vigour SINGAPORE'S first heart transplant patient, Mr Seah Chiang Nee, returned home last night from Sydney m good spirits and with a new vigour. When he left Singapore for his operation m September last year, he was pale and gaunt. Last night, he
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    • The Sunday Times VIEW
      • 314 15 ONCE again, the tough-talking President of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association, Mr Loh Lin Kok, has put his foot m it. His refusal to authorise any compensation to national sprinter Paul Su for either hospitalisation or lost earnings due to injury while training under the association's
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      • 124 15 V/hat The Sunday Times reported on Jan 15, 1961 CHINESE New Year will be less noisy this year m Singapore. The Government has slashed the import quota of firecrackers from 40,000 last year to only 22,000 this year. A Customs spokesman said the cut m the quota
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    • 1196 15 KURT WALDHEIM re-emerges with memoirs that he hopes will win him the Austrian presidency He loved pomp •and ostentation. He preferred to visit the smaller membercountries, where he was received like a head of state... He rarely visited Western Europe, where he was treated more
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  • FOCUA/Viewpoints
    • 1034 16  -  Irene Hoe 4 Take matters into your own hands. Unless the offender is several times your size and belligerent into the bargain, a word from the nearest m person is m order. s IT'S not the simple snap, crackle and crunch of
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    • 667 16  -  Tiresias 4 We are well-educated about the bad end that befalls people who stare. The newspapers are full of stories of stabbings attributed cryptically to "staring incidents" that carry no elaboration. Presumably because every reader with q a sane mind is thought to know
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    • 774 16  -  Edgar Koh BBjilllyjußß Moscow's preference for a political settlement (of Cambodia) appears to be at odds with Hanoi's determination, underscored by its annual dry-season offensives, to impose a military solution. And Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Kapitsa's apparent lack of confidence m the Heng
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    • 464 16 jhjgfxcvzxcvzxcbvdfhsddfd "OH MILDRED, come over here and look at the quaintest things I ever did see," said a little old American lady as she came out of the imposing Dynasty "Well I declare," declared Mildred, "those are the cutest little pink whajacallits ever. What are they,
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    • 302 16 v^otnc co xridiiiiiiici* \bu'U take home a thousand smiles. A long time ago, someone, Memories to conjure up lacquer ware, gemstones and obviously from a more staid a thousand smiles. antiques. And for extra fun and country, called Thailand "The Our word for 'work' also P™fit when you shop, bargain,
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  • FOCUS/Analysis
    • 993 17 Former bus driver Wee Choo Thai waited three years behind bars before the High Court acquitted him of murdering his lover and her son. Can a person eventually found innocent of a crime seek compensation, and what is the impact of a
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    • 727 17 This article was co-authored by Griffin B. Bell, US Attorney General from 1977 to 1979; Herbert Brownell, Attorney-General, 1953 to 1957; William E. Simon, Secretary of the Treasury, 1974 to 1977; and Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of State, 1977 to
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      • 315 17 HAVE Singaporeans really become a nation of "grumbletonians" as described by Tiresias (Sunday Times, Jan 12)? Having lived here for the past 27 years, I have observed a definite change m attitudes and behaviour. The older generation were imbued with qualities of thrift, caution and
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      • 181 17 A half vote for freedom MANY of your readers who are used to being told that Singapore is a free and democratic country must have been shaken by the Freedom House survey ('"Twas a good year for democracy", Sunday Times, Jan 12), which listed Singapore as one of the countries
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      • 173 17 YOUR report on the Centre for Computer Studies (Sunday Times, Dec 29) stated that 'O' level holders may take a oneyear preparatory course m computer studies that provides them with the entry requirements for the course run by the centre. This is incorrect.
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      • 107 17 I WISH to point out to Cynhrr, who reviewed The World '85, (Sunday Times, Dec 22) that he perhaps failed to appreciate the difference between television and the print media. I am referring to the unique ability of television to portray a story via pictures and
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  • RACING
    • 279 18 Set to shed maiden status By MARKSMAN, our man on the track IPOH, Sat. With the track m excellent condition, topweights Aaron's Pleasure and Modesty look set to shed their maiden status m the first two races here tomorrow, final day of the first meeting
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    • 84 18 FORMER jockey Lsuntl Asban (right) lends a hand as his champion local rider son, Isms di Ismail, is carried on a stretcher while being transferred from the Ipoh General Hospital to the Specialist Centre. Ismail said he requested Ismadl's transfer on Friday. Ismadi was Itodly
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    • 325 18 RACE RACING ED MARKSMAN TONTO MISTER X WENG SOOK 1 Aaron's Pleasure 1 Aaron's Pleasure 7 Bo Bo's Pride 7 Bo Bo's Pride 1 Aaron's Pleasure 1 7 Bo Bo's Pride 7 Bo Bo's Pride 1 Aaron's Pleasure 8 Plastic Queen 8 Plastic Queen 5 Fine
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    • 278 18  - It's the 'last hurrah' at Trentham JACK ELLIOTT Teh attending yearling sale By WELLINGTON, Sat. When Lot 504, a colt by the great staying sire Zamazaan, walks from the sale ring at Trentham, near here, next Wednesday, one chapter of New Zealand racing history will close and another mil open.
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 62 20 aT^ THE FAMILY OF THE LATE I JEFFREY CHAN BOON HONG I With to express their heartfelt thanks and gratitude to I relative*, friend*, colleague*, prie*t*. prayer group for I their prayer* and also doctors and nurses of I.C.U. Ward 45 and Ward 64 B.G.H. for their kind
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    • 87 20 THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MARY CHEW CHUAN NEO express their grateful thanks to Father Bill Heng (Redemptorist), nuns of St. Anthony's Convent, Risen Christ Prayer Group, relatives and triends for their condolences, assistance, attendance, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement. Dep. 16/01/1986. The Family Of The
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      173 20 111 IHIMIIIIiaiBl«MHHH« In Loving Memory of m. mm m ALBERT SAMUEL JANSEN Departed 19/1/84 God took him home, it was His I will, But m our hearts we love him still; His memory is as dear today As the day he passed away. We often sit and
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      42 20 Athma Shan! Pooja Palani Rajagopal will be conducted at Munmathan Temple at Kallang Way on 20.1.86 at 7 p.m. Sadly missed by wife, sons, daughters, sons-in-law, daugh-ters-in-law and grandchildren* to mourn his loss. Please treat this as a personal invitation.
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      69 20 xcbcvb MR. M. RAJOO Departed 19 Jan 1984 Deeply missed but always remembered by wife, children, mother and toyedones^^^^^^^^^^^^^ CHEONG KUN KHAI Departed 19 January 1985 Not just today but every day, We remember the times we shared. Dearly remembered by wife Fong Meng, children Wai Foon,
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    • 164 20 181 Deaths 181 Deaths TAN EYE LANE (MRS. FOO SEE TONG) 75 YEARS pasted away peacefully 17.1.88 leaving behind BELOVED HUSBAND: Foo See Tong SONS: DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW: Kok Sam Chow Lai Yeng Koh Liang Law Hwa Mok Kok Jong Choo Ai Chin Koh Wah Mary Llm Kok Young Wong Wei Mool
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  • SPORT
    • 546 20  -  TAY CHENG KWOON TEE TO GREEN LAST week, the Singapore Ladies' Golf Association named their first all-citizen team for the Queen Sirikit Cup tournament. The team are also the youngest to be assembled. Patricia Goh and Serene Poh, who are part of the team,
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    • 477 20 WHERE the boys are, Serene Poh has no choice but to go. She is the only girl among seven siblings. So while other girls were playing with dolls and masakmasak, Serene was traipsing all over the neighbouring SICC Old Course with her six brothers. She
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    • Article, Illustration
      129 20 xcvb AS PROMISED, here is the proof of why golf has to be a left-handed game for right-handed people. With a right-handed swing, which is the same as a cwo-handed swing m which the right hand has taken control, the axis of the swing becomes the right shoulder.
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    • 679 20 FOSter'S fastest: Greg Foster set a world record of 5.88 sec m the 50-yard hurdles on Friday night at the Sunkist Invitational Indoor track meet m Los Angeles, rewriting one of the standards set by his old nemesis Renaldo Nehemiah. Foster, who won the silver medal m the
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    • 348 21 4 Some players made their appeal and lots of fans m Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte too, and I decided to accept. At first I told them ...that I did not want to go back to leading the national selection, but after those
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    • 1059 21  -  ROB HUGHES Little sympathy for two managers whose teams are found wanting ENGLISH Cup football, always a law unto itself, reserved a couple of humiliating kicks for the backsides of two managerial meanies last week. The astonishing defeat of Birmingham at home by non-league Altrincham
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    • TENNIS WORLDWIDE
      • 321 21 NEW YORK Sat Ivan Lendl's hones Of adding a'third Grand Prix Masters tns£t6Us ahVadv eStteS arrS S rfiJi^L^frl? y 81«ienng array Of sUvemare were given a significant boost M c^isea into the semi-finals at Madlson S^ 11*1"' Garden here last night. Lendl, the No 1 seed,
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    • CRICKET WORLDWIDE
      • 143 21 Kiwis skittle India for 113 PERTH, Sat. New Zealand bowled out India for Just U3 m 44.2 overs m their World Series Cup one-day international here today. India, who thrashed Australia by eight wickets m Melbourne m mid-week, got off to a terrible start when Krish Srikkanth was run out
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      • 151 21 Smith and an eight-wicket haul for Carl Rackemann Put the rel)e^ Australians m the driving seat on the Rackemann quickly polished off the Australian tail and then Smith plundered 116 from 163 balls, including H fours, to help the rebels to 214 for five at the close.
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    • 238 21 BIRMINGHAM, Sat. Coach Keith Leonard was yesterday put m temporary charge of English First Division strugglers Birmingham City, following Thursday's resignation of Ron Saunders. He is likely to be keeping the seat warm for Dave Mackay, who is tipped to take over m April,
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    • 283 21 LONDON, Sat. England striker Mark Hateley has threatened to walk out on AC Milan if he is selected fcr England's soccer friendly against Egypt on Jan 29 and the Italian club do not allow him to play. The 24-year-old player issued his
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    • 340 21 BRUSSELS, Sat. The total ban on British football teams playing m Belgium was yesterday partially lifted, seven and a half months after the European Champions Cup final tragedy here, which claimed 39 lives. Paul Vanstallen, spokesman for I Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, said
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    • 468 22 SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MONTH FORMER England soccer star Bobby Charlton, who will make the presentation to the winner of the Sunday Times/Coca-Cola Sporting Achievement of the Year award at the Shangri-la Hotel on Friday week, has sent this personal message
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    • 1543 22  -  ALAN HUBBARD Typhoon Tyson is blowing m to take the world by storm Always on Sunday JUST FOR THE RECORD 6.3.85 Hector Mercedes, rsf. Round 1 Albany (New York). 10.4 Trent Singleton, rsf ,1 Albany. 23.5 Don Halpin, ko, 4 Albany. 20.6 Ricky Spain, rsf.l Atlantic City.
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    • 108 22 BADMINTON FftN Yonex National Ranking League: 4th cycle (SBH, 9 am). BOWLING Peter Stoyvesant Travel Classic: Preliminary finals (Jackie's Katong, 9.30 am). CRICKET Frlendlles: IA v Tanglin Taverners (lA, 1 pm), The Straits Times v MRTC (Balestier Rd, 9 am). HOCKEY SHA stamlnade C-a-slde tournament (Padang, 8
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    • 259 22 BOXING WORLDWIDE ATLANTA, Sat. Tim Witherspoon battered Tony Tubbs' body for most of the 15 rounds and became a heavyweight champion for the second time by winning the World Boxing Association title on a majority decision last night. Most ringside observers weren't surprised
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    • SQUASH SCENE
      • 456 22  - Wye such a blow on Chew? TAY CHENG KHOON By WYE ME? Chew Kok Wye, who had these words boldly printed on his teeshirt, must surely have asked himself this question over and over again as he walked out of Kallang m the totally unfamiliar role of a loser m
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      • 209 22 LONDON, Sat. Pakistan international Sohall Qaiser has been banned for two months by the International Squash Players' Association. Q&lser, one of Pakistan's world championship-winning squad last year, was punished for not turning op for last year's Canadian Open while under a six-month suspended sentence for not appearing in
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    • 280 22  -  LEE WAI WUN PREVIEW TO PETER STUYVESANT TRAVEL BOWLING CLASSIC By FOUR South-east Asia Games representatives, a national champion and three former internationals are among 16 bowlers who will battle it out m today's Peter Stuyvesant Travel Classic preliminary finals at Jackie's Katong.
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    • 520 23  -  HAKIKAT RAI By Singapore 16 Malaysia 6 A STRONG second-half return saw the Republic's juniors caive out a well-deserved Wf> (two goals and a try to two penalty goals) win over Malaysia m the annual under- 23 rugby international at the Padang yesterday. The
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    • 387 23  - Ace Anan's on board again LEE WAI WUN By WHAT a start to the year! Anan Hosuwan retained his title m the fifth Singapore Open boardsailing championships at East Coast yesterday, and it was only last Monday that he won the Mistral Asia-Pacific crown at the same venue. The 19-year-old
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    • 1053 23  -  JEFFREY LOW Lowdown on Sport He holds the key to better times C OUR matches into the 1986 Malaysia Cup season, and already a missing link, the bridge that carries soccer fans to the stadium, is appearing m the Kallang horizon. Whether it will
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    • 115 21 OPENING T-OD-A-Y mKS/m*m? JB j j£mp^^ mm Delilah probably didn't do justice to Samsons locks. And, Rapunzels tresses probably fared no better at the hands of her prince. But now, we're here at Parkway Parade to make sure that your hair gets the treatment it deserves the best. From our
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    • 220 22 SUNDAY TIMES/COCA-COLA SPORTS ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MONTH My choice is Reason Name Address Tel: Send to: Sports Achievement, Sunday Times, 390, Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923 ma ?fs ms ms nis ipa ins f ?na f s vna ins jf§ tps ijip ||SUPREME FURNITURE M^MildtJtt P »>? LUNAR >v [jiE^^q
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    • MALAYSIA CUP'86
      • 1043 24  -  JOE DORAI Super striker turns Chin Aun's comeback into a nightmare Malacca 0 Singapore 2 Report by MALACCA, Sat. What was to have been Malacca's and their former skipper and coach Soh Chin Aun's show ended up with Salim Mom stealing the limelight and Singapore
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    • 706 24  -  JANICE SEAH xcvb SAO AND DONE DAT BOONE would proba- bly have got off with a warning and a rendition of April Love. But then Pat Boone doesn't smoke. Unfortunately, Walter Koh does. Never mind that this protem president of the would-be football supporters club
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    • 724 24 BRITISH SOCCER LONDON, Sat. MANCHESTER UNITED had their English League Division One lead cut to only two points when they crashed 3-2 at home, after coming from behind to lead 2-1, to Nottingham Forest today. And the man who put new life into the title race
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    • 908 1 r JULIE TAN meets and assesses tonight's finalists ill&ilia"*—^^^^^ ALL eyes are likely to be on the amateurs m tonight's Talentime 85/86 Grand Finals. The eight finalists m the Amateur section have not only received special grooming sessions for the big showdown, but they will also be
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    • SCENE
      • 721 2 The top-rated British drama series Strangers and Brothers (Sundays, Ch 10, 11.30 pm) is supposedly "faction" it is said to be a thinly disguised account of the life of its author C. P. Snow. ROY LAKEMAN reports on the man and his journeys
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    • CINEMA
      • 613 3  -  VALERIE LEE MASK Coming to Jade Starring Cher, Eric Stoltz and Sam Elliot Directed by Peter Bogdanovich By MASK is about unmasking. It is about stepping behind external appearances, about getting inside people. The film examines the resilient, dignified and caring human core that lies
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      • 468 3  - Teenage pop stars steal the show JULIE TAN H HOW ARE YOU MY FRIEND? At Cathay cinemas Starring Shojotai, The Young Tigers, Yoichi Yamamoto and Eric Yeung Directed by Loke Chen Ming I By THIS movie owes much to a straight-forward storyline and the appeal of its youthful cast, especially
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      • 445 3  -  JANICE SEAH PUMPING IRON II Coming to Cathay Starring Bey Francis, Rachel McLish and Lori Bowen Rice Directed by George Butler By SOMEWHERE m this film, female bodybuilder Bey Francis, an unbelievable hunk of a woman, says: "I always wanted to be strong look like
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    • TV EYE
      • 550 4  -  LIM KAY TONG TV REVIEW By THERE weren't any points missing from Huen Swee Kirn's documentary on the current state of trade unions, Trade Unions: A New Relevance (last Thursday, Ch 5, 9.30 pm). The main issues were mentioned and commented on whether for or against
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      • 312 4  -  JULIE TAN TV REVIEW By IT WAS a very meticulouslyproduced episode which launched SBC's eight-part documentary on Singapore culture, Merlion City (Saturday, Ch 5, 7 pm). The debut programme covered virtually every facet of Chinese opera. The 30-minute programme dealt with the very basics of
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      • 507 4  -  JULIE TAN LOOK EAST By LIU Wenzhen, the Taiwanese pop star who's been missing from the music scene for over a year now, recently cancelled a recording contract, dashing fans' hopes for his comeback. Liv flew home from the United States to
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      • 526 4  -  JULIE TAN FIRST came Eyewitness, Patton, The Longest Day and Alien. This week, The Poseidon Adventure and The Verdict follow. Within days of the New Year, the small screen is brimming over with some box-office surprises. And the current spate of hit movies won't be just a
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    • MUSIC
      • 597 7  -  LIM SEK POP REVIEW By FRIENDS Dionne Warwick (Arista) DIONNE'S latest album reinforces the adage that too many cooks spoil the broth. Rounding up five different production and song-writing teams, this great dame of music tries hard (perhaps too hard) to reclaim
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      • 690 7 The Beatles (appearing tonight on Ch 5 at 10.30 pm) were four young men who revolutionised pop music and culture. But do you know everything about them? Find out m this Beatles Trivia Quiz. 1 THE Beatles have sold more records than
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      • 85 7 Singapore 1.(2) Saving All My Love for are for You Dionne Warwick Whitney Houston 7.(5) We Built This City 2.(1) Say You Say Me Starship Lionel Richie 8.(6) Do They Know it's 3.(7) Party All the Time Christmas? Eddie Murphy Band Aid 4.(3) You Belong to
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    • Young Life
      • 241 12 TODAY we have the first of four contests based on the Singapore Armed Forces. The boys should enjoy the series, which was done with the help of the SAF. However, the girls should not feel left out since they too can join the army, although theirs would be
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      • 347 12 WHY not make some bookmarks today to keep your books from getting dog-ears? You can use them m your schoolbooks, as well as those borrowed from the school library or the National Library. Although any piece of paper or an old card can be used
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      • Article, Illustration
        414 12 xcvb RUNNING is probably the earliest sport known to man, although for the cavemen it was not a sport. Skill m running was important for their survival and good runners made better hunters and fighters. Foot races were organised by the ancient Greeks as far back as the
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    • PERSONALITY
      • 1087 16 r Hollywood hps produced an endless crop of heart-throbs and sex symbols, but I none has stood the test of time quite as remarkably as Paul Newman. Meet cinema's EJaby Blue Eyes, a veteran who's chalked up some 50 fijms including classics like Cat
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      • HOLLYWOOD
        • 443 16 ACTRESS Jill St John has split with Hart to Hart star Robert Wagner largely because she's been unable to shake him out of his attachment to the late Natalie Wood. British-born St John, 44, and Wagner, 55. have been close since his wife Natalie's tragic drowning
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