The Straits Times, 1 March 1987

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  • 14 1 The Sunday Times No: 2647 MARCH 1, 1987 55 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 109/12/86
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  • 490 1  - Regan quits and Baker is new White House chief LIAK TENG KIAT By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON In the first fallout from the Tower report, President Ronald Reagan on Friday named former Senate Republican leader Howard Baker to replace the much-cri-ticised Donald Regan as White' House Chief of Staff. And after
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  • 103 1 BOUGAINVILLEA beckon cheerily at Bishan Mass Rapid Transit station, which will welcome passengers later this year. Bishan, and other first-phase MRT stations, are being spruced up for the big day. The only ground-level station in the system, Bishan is unique with its open "sunken plaza" design.
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  • 129 1 Getting to the bottom of it HONGKONG The mystery of the tattoo on the posterior of US Secretary of State George Shultz may now have been solved by a source close to the man his wife. Mr Shultz, asked by reporters on Friday about a report that he had a
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  • 324 1 WHEN Parliament sits on Wednesday, the chairmen of the new Government Parliamentary Committees will be seated in the front row opposite the Government benches to give them recognition, the new Leader of the House, Mr Wong Kan Seng, said yesterday.
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  • 629 1  -  WONG A I KWEI Ecam\\&su\vtiW Two By OVERALL, it was an encouraging year on Singapore's labour front last year. The job market turned around, there was greater job security with fewer workers retrenched, and more jobs created. The rate of unemployment also eased
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  • 41 1 HIGHLIGHTS of First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's press conference on the new population policy at 11 am today will be telecast by the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation tonight over Channel 5 at 9.30 pm.
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • AT A GLANCE
      • 65 2 A seven man panel of French judges has sentenced Lebanese guerilla Georges Ibrahim Abdallah to life imprisonment despite a surprise prosecution plea for a light sentence. Abdallah was convicted of complicity in the 1982 murders of United States military attache Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimentov and
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      • 79 2 The practice of sur- te motherhood is spreading "like wildfire" and professionals in the field that in the absence of rules, say improvised surrogate arrangements are posing complex problems. Improvised arrangements have included using sisters and other relatives as surrogate mothers. A case that has emerged involves a
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        79 2 The ruling body of the Church of England, the General Synod, has voted in favour of draft legislation to allow women to be ordained as priests. But the leader of England's Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Basil Hume, has said the decision would damage efforts for Christian unity. However,
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      • 56 2 Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has been criticised by his own government for discussing a proposed international conference on the Middle East crisis with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has said that Mr Peres does not have a mandate to talk with Mr Mubarak
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      • 69 2 Communist guerillas contin- ue to fight government troops outside the southern Philippine city of Da vac even as President Corazon Aquino renews her amnesty offer for communist rebels. Mrs Aquino's new amnesty offer is for all political offenders who surrender within the next six months. She has urged
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      • 64 2 THERE are about 500.000 drug addicts in Malaysia who spend about MS2 billion a year on narcotics, the Malaysian Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Megat Junid Megat Ayub has been quoted as saying. The number is based on a United Nations report whi?h said that for each of
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      • 51 2 More than 160 baskets of spring onions and five types of leafy vegetables have been destroyed by the Environment Ministry. Laboratory tests of samples taken from the baskets have shown high levels of pesticides which contain a chemical that releases a cancer-causing agent when heated during cooking. Page
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      • 60 2 A recent survey of 1,600 working mothers with young children has given the Government an indication on how to help working mothers with their childcare problems. Among the most important considerations when choosing childcare are nutrition and health, safety and reliability, continual care from a single caregiver and formal
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    • SPORTS
      • 73 2 London has lost some of its romance with the sale of Fulham Football Club, whose Craven Cottage ground had occupier.', the southern bank of the River Thames for the past 91 years. Craven Cottage is to be demolished and yuppie homesteads are to be built in its place.
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      • 86 2 Only the Koreans and East Europeans appear capable of upse'ting China in its aim to complete a clean sweep at the World Table Tennis Championships in New Delhi. Witn defending singles champion Jiang Jialiang and No 2 seed Chen Longcan leading the way into the last 16
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      • Article, Illustration
        64 2 Pakistanis Usman Rahim and Farah Kursheed (left) have easily won the Marina Square Singapore International Junior Tennis Championships boys and girls singles titles respectively. Seventh seed Usman downed compatriot Raz-, Mirza 6-3, 6-2 and unseeded Farah subdued top seed Thuy Viragh. of the US, 6-0. 6-1. The two
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    • 613 2 Economic Survey of Singapore: Part Two FURTHER wage restraint is needed as Singapore's unit labour costs are still high when compared to its Far East competitors, the Economic Survey said. Although productivity growth last year outstripped real gains in wages, and unit labour
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    • 510 2 Uncertainty led to boom in life insurance business UNCERTAINTY in the economy last year fuelled a boom in the life insurance business as more people bought policies for long-term financial security. Better agents and improved training helped new premiums earned from individual business grow by more than 50 per cent
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    • 227 2  -  TONG YOKE THO DOREEN SOH ANNE KOH RONNIE LIM Reports by and INFLATION last year was actually minus 1.4 per cent, the first drop in 10 years. The inflation rate, from a high of 8.2 per cent in 1981. dropped to 0.5
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    • 554 3  - Rainbow dressing at Toa Payoh station RAV DHALIWAL Report: IN just a matter of months, these Mass Rapid Transit stations will be all hustle and bustle. The mess of cables and wires and equipment will have disappeared and the stations will be spruced up and ready for the big day
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    • 239 3 Economic Survey of Singapore: Part Two SINGAPORE'S total energy consumption increased last year due to a combination of lower oil prices and economic recovery here. The .'all in world oil prices from LS$2B to below US$lO a barrel was passed on to Singapore consumers through lower electricity
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 203 2 UF TO 1 pm. Fair. TEMP. (C) up to 6 am tomorrow: 32 max., 24 min SUNSET today: 7.20 pm: Sunrise tomorrow 7 14 am. TRAVELLERS' MATHER \deiiide 15 18 C Hazy Ix»ndon 8 12 C Rain \mMerdam 2 7C Rain l-os Vngeles 4 18 C Clear Uhens 49C Cloudy
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    • 60 3 STATISTICS THAT SHAPE THE COUNTRY Fewer m-cycles on the road MORE motorcycle! j2k given up riding. At the end of iast year, there .jw^Ho. 4oo motorcycles and scooters down l^pery&m from the number of these two-wheeler/ oiUhJS^ dajQDf 1983. I i wfff*-_ "•'ft 1 1 7 --.Ta-. jg ml %of
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 312 4 LONDON Scientists in Australia believe they have proof that heavy drinking shrinks the brain, according to a report published in the British Medical Journal. The brains of alcoholics they studied weighed on the average 100 grams less than teetotallers' or moderate drinkers', they say. But
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    • 147 4 Amorous alligator trapped by love call MIAMI Matching Australia's Crocodile Dundee of screen legend, Florida hunter Johnny Tanner (see picture) on Friday taught an alligator which had been holed up in an Orlando, Florida, sewer by luring it into the open with the animal's mating call. The ,U-metre-long reptile was
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    • 289 4 SEOUL South Korea started work on a dam yesterday to cope with flood threats posed by a huge dam North Korea is building across the truce border dividing the two Koreas. A ground-breaking ceremony for the dam was held north of
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    • 261 4 China and US celebrate Shanghai Communique anniversary BEIJING China and the United States celebrated the 15th anniversary of the document that paved the way for diplomatic relations just before US Secretary of State George Shultz arrives the People's Daily said yesterday. It said a reception was held on Friday to
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    • The Georges Abdallah trial
      • 460 4 Judges dismiss leniency plea by prosecution PARIS A seven-man panel of French judges yesterday sentenced Lebanese guerilla Georges Ibrahim Abdallah to life imprisonment despite a surprise prosecution plea for a light sentence. The special anti-terrorist court rejected French prosecuting counsel's plea for a sentence of less than 10 years. Prosecuting
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      • 251 4 HONGKONG A HK$4.4 billion (Ssl.2 billion) debt and equity package was unveiled in Hongkong on Thursday for the construction of a road and rail tunnel linking Hongkong island with Kowloon. The tunnel, the second linking the island to the mainland, will take
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    • 207 4 Early morning dancing for retirees BEIJING Retired people in the Chinese city of Shenyang are going to early-morning dances where they can enjoy fox trots and waltzes they learned in the *****, says a news report. The Shenyang Culture Bureau has set up a dance hal! to provide recreation and
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    • 238 4 Palestinian refugee camp shelled in Beirut BEIRUT An artillery battle erupted at a Palestinian refugee camp yesterday in the worst fighting of the camps war since thousands of Syrian troops moved into Muslim West Beirut to halt militia violence. A Palestinian spokesman said the shelling of Bourj alBarajneh camp in
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    • 80 4 LINARES (Spain) Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov defeated fellow Soviet grandmaster Andrei Sokolov \vhen they resumed the adjourned second game of their world title eliminator here on Friday After three hours of play and 20 moves, Sokolov resigned to leave Karpov leading the 14--game match
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    • 144 4 TOKYO It's a far cry from the delicate traditional kabuki dance forms, bu? the Japanese have taken to the tango. "Japan seems to be in the midst of a tango boom." said Tsutome Yamada of Japan's Dance Association. "Basically, they just seem to like
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    • 79 4 BAHRAIN Iraqi warplanes attacked the Iranian oil tanker Khark off the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf on Friday. Shipping sources said yesterday the engine-room caught fire after the 116,403-tonne vessel was struck by missiles. No casualties were reported. The attack occurred
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    • 445 5 NEV: YORK While the Baby M trial in New Jersey has focused attention on the practice of surrogate motherhood, cases are emerging across the country in which surrogate arrangements have been improvised between friends and relatives, or by homosexual couples and single people, with
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    • 305 5 CANTERBURY The leader of England's 4.2 million Roman Catholics has said that a decision by the Church of Ergland which could allow women to be ordained as priests would damage efforts for Christian unity. Cardinal Basil Hume was speaking as the
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    • 145 5 LONDON A survey of European men has destroyed a few myths by listing two out of every five Italians as shy and home-loving rather than hot-biooded Romeos. The poll, conducted last summer by th* Association of Market Sarvej Organisations, asked 2,100 men aged 16-34
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    • 206 5 ABM treaty 'key to world peace' MOSCOW Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Friday that the observation of a major arms control treaty which he accused the United States of breaking was a key element in achieving world peace, Tass news agency said. Mr Gorbachev, in two hours of talks
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    • 34 5 NEW YORK James Tomlinson, 61, treasurer of the Associated Press for 18 years, was named assistant to AP President Louis Boccardi on Friday and Patrick O'Brien was named to succeed him. AP
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    • 241 5 MOSCOW The city government has increased the number of shops allowed to sell vodka and drunks have reappeared on the streets of the capital, the literary weekly Literaturnaya Rossiya reported. "The council's decision to conduct a so-called experiment and raise the number of
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    • 264 5 VATICAN CITY Warrants issued for the arrest of top Vatican Bank officials and a tough response by the Holy See have opened up a legal and diplomatic maze which could damage Italian-Vati-can relations, church and Italian sources said. The Vatican, in its first
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    • 445 6 The Tower Commission Report WASHINGTON THE Tower Commission Report raised what it called "far-reaching legal questions" about the Iran-Contra affair that the special prosecutor and the Congressional investigative committees will try to resolve in the months ahead. The legal underpinning of the
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    • 360 6 WASHINGTON Donald Regan, used to barking orders and cracking heads as a former Marine colonel and Wall Street executive, met his match in Nancy Reagan and his downfall in the Iran arms scandal. Mr Regan, 69, who resigned on Friday as White House Chief
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    • 322 6 41 frankly was extremely surprised that he (Mr Reagan) knew so little of what we had learned up to that point. He seemed to distance himself from procedures. He was not at all concerned about it. He did not seem
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    • 342 6 JERUSALEM ISRAELI Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, facing a major crisis in the government here over his talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on a proposed international conference on the Middle East crisis, has said that the time was not ripe to
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    • 196 6 LONDON A 42-year-old Mexican diplomat was arrested on Friday in connection with the murders of two London prostitutes when he gave himself up after watching Crime Watch on television. The unidentified man, a married employee at the Mexican embassy with full diplomatic
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    • 223 6 Promising results from Aids drug tests STOCKHOLM Doctors have obtained promising results with a new type of Aids treatment tested for the first time on humans, according to a Swedish reasearcher on the project. Dr Lennart Wetterberg of Karolinska Institute says a new drug called Peptide T appears to stop
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    • 384 6 Baker should improve Reagan's ties with Congress WASHINGTON Former Senate Republican leader Howard Baker, named to replace Donald Regan as White House Chief of Staff, brings a reputation fcr integrity to his new post. Giving up his own plans to run for President in 1988, Mr Baker on Friday accepted
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    • 110 6 NICOSIA Iranian Parliament Speaker Hashemi Ri! saniani. clutching the barrel of a rifle, praised the report that criticised President Ronald Reagan's handling of the arms sales to Iran. He said the Tower Commission Report confirmed Iran's account of the affair
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    • 80 6 In November. Mr Rafsanjani was the first Iranian official to disclose the secret contacts between Washington and Teheran. The Islamic Republic News Agency, which reported Mr Rafsanjani's remarks and translated them into English, quoted him as saying Mr Reagan was being ridiculed in American political circles. "They laugh
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    • Dow Jones
      • 99 6 Wall Street affected by Tower Report NEW YORK Wall Street stocks rose slightly on Friday despite uncertainty over the economic outlook which kept investors timid The Dow Jones industrial average rose 7.31 points to 2.2113.99. Volume slipped to 143 million shares fi om 166 million on Thursday and advances led
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      • 33 6 MANCHESTER (New Hampshire) Vice-President George Bush says the findings of the Tower Commission make clear he was not involved in any wrongdoing and therefore will help his presidential campaign. AP
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 363 7 MANILA COMMUNIST guerillas battled government troops outside the southern Philippine city of Davao yesterday even as President Corazon Aquino renewed her offer of an amnesty for communist rebels. The latest fighting left at least 14 people dead or wounded. The fighting began when
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    • 35 7 BANGKOK Three Thai soldiers have been killed and some 20 others wounded in a monthlong operation to evict Vietnamese troops from dense jungles near the Cambodian border, a military officer said yesterday. AP
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    • 146 7 Imelda wants pianist for her love songs HONOLULU Imelda Marcos, who awakens neighbours by singing love songs through a microphone, is seeking a full-time, live-in pianist. "She is tired of singing her favourite song, Sentimental Journey, alone," says a Filipino friend. "She wants a pianist on call." Her husband, former
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    • 170 7 Indonesia to help stateless Chinese JAKARTA Indonesia is planning new measures to overcome a long-standing problem that concerns thousands of stateless ethnic Chinese. Kompas said yesterday. The newspaper quoted Justice Minister Ismail Saleh as saying the citizenship status of stateless aliens must be resolved. He did not elaborate on the
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    • 175 7 lAKARTA Indonesia said it hoped the visit by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze from Thursday to Saturday would boost trade with Moscow and bring about a settlement of the Cambodian problem. Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja said on Friday he hoped to hear new
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    • 109 7 Democracy 'not' working well in Thailand BANGKOK King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand believes that democracy is not working well in his kingdom because it is pat terned on foreign models and that socialism will also not work for the same reason. The Thai monarch made the unusual public comment on
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    • 96 7 JAKARTA The Indonesian Parliament has endorsed Jakarta's proposed austerity Budget, a parliamentary spokesman said. The Budget for the financial year 1987 88 beginning on April 1 is the toughest in a decade, with deep cuts in development spending and a freeze in civil service and military payrolls.
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    • 63 7 BANGKOK A vice-rector at a Thai university here has resigned following a fist fight with a professorover a poster of a nude woman. Mr Paiboon Puriveth apologised and resigned after Prof Savong Boonyavanich complained to the police that he was attacked by Mr Paiboon after he
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  • ASEAN NEWS •ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 429 8 'Malaysians were cheated of passports' claim KUALA LUMPUR A SRI LANKAN syndicate with networks in Thailand, Singapore and India has cheated several Malaysians of their international passports to help Sri Lankan Tamils get into third countries. Agents of the syndicate are said to have tricked the Malaysians into parting with
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    • 159 8 MANILA Asean will skip the Philippine claim to Sabah when the Asean heads of state meet here in December, the Philippine News Agency said yesterday. The Sabah issue will not be on the agenda because it is an issue that cannot be resolved in
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    • 87 8 Trawler with 32 crew caught in wrong waters AN ARMED Fisheries De partment officer keeps watch while the Thai crew of a trawler with Malaysian registration markings draw In their nets at Patau Langkawl last week. The trawler was caught encroaching in Malaysian waters around Pulau Balar near Langkawi. The
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    • 230 8 Reject seasonal 'turtle' leaders, urges Anwar KEMAMAN (Trengganu) Umno Youth leader Anwar Ibrahim has called on Umno members to reject "seasonal leaders" who, he said, were like "turtles" and were insincere in their participation of the party's struggle. He told the Kemaman Umno Youth meeting here on Friday that such
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    • 285 8 PASIR MAS (Kelantan) Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah yesterday said a good leader should know when to step down. "Do not wait to be opposed by others," he said at the opening of the Pasir Mas Umno division delegates meeting
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    • 236 8 KOTA TINGGI Malaysia's primary commodities would have a bright future in thc world market if the country's leaders were able to forge friendship with other nations, former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam said yesterday. Opening an Umno branch meeting at Felda
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 69 9 Mahathir chairs meeting of state chiefs FRIMF MINISTER Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad chairing the 54th meeting of mentris besar and chief ministers at his office in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. The meeting discussed, among other things, government efforts to improve district-level administration and reviewed measures being taken to overcome
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    • 24 9 KUCHING Australian botanist Petr Faigl, suspected of inciting the Penan tribesmen to protest against logging activities in Sarawak's interior, has been deported Bernama
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    • 260 9 KOTA KINABALU Only half of the 46 foreign airlines which had signed air agreements with Malaysia operated in the country, Malaysian Airline System Managing Director Datuk Haji Aziz Abdul Rahman said yesterday. Some of the airlines were even allowed special landing
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    • 138 9 400 workers of Johor shipyard may be axed JOHOR BARU About 400 workers of the government-owned Malaysia Shipyard and Engineering at Pasir Gudang near here face retrenchment because of an austerity drive. However, no date has been set for the retrenchments, the company's chief executive and general manager, Mr Mohamad
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    • 297 9 Malaysian addicts spend $2b a year on drugs JOHOR BARU THERE are about half a million drug addicts in Malaysia who spend an estimated Ms2 billion annually on narcotics, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Megat Junid Megat Ayub has been quoted as saying. The number was based on a United
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    • 138 9 'Strengthen defence of South Johor' call by JB Umno JOHOR BARU The Johor Barn Umno division unanimously proposed at its delegates meeting on Friday that the defence capability in South Johor be strengthened to ensure that the area was secure from foreign threat, the Malaysian Berita Harlan reported. Among other
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    • 64 9 SIBU Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak, a member of the ruling National Front coalition, held its first triennial delegates conference here yesterday with a pledge to remain moderate. Opening the meeting, the party president, Datuk Leo Moggie, who is also Energy, Telecommunications and Posts Minister, said the Dayaks
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    • 341 9 KUALA LUMPUR UMNO Vice-President Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has expressed regret over a recent statement by Singapore Minister for Trade and Industry Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong on why Malays in the country could not be given top posts in the armed forces, the
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    • 219 9 PAP leaders chauvinists, says PSRM leader JOHOR BARU The deputy chairman of the opposition Partai Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia (PSRM), Mr Razak Ahmad, has described a recent statement made by Singapore Minister for Trade and Industry, Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong, as "stupid" because it questioned the loyalty of Singapore's own
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 271 10 Stamps to feature lion symbol from July FROM July 1, all Singapore stamps will feature the Singapore Lion. Mr Ng Kah Ting, MP for Punggol and chairman of the Stamps Advisory Committee, announced this at the opening of the two-day 16th Raffles Stamp Exhibition at Raffles Institution on Friday. The
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    • 399 10  -  MICHAEL LIM Report: A PLANE goes out of control and slams into several blocks of HDB flats. Bombs go off in a chemical plant and fires rage out of control. A thunderstorm wreaks havoc and causes widespread and heavy floods. Plots for
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    • 134 10 THE Girls' Brigade In Singapore celebrated its 60th anniversary yesterday with a thanksgiving service at Kallang Theatre. The highlight of the event was the presentation, for the first time in Singapore, of Honorary Life Member awards to those who have contributed selflessly to the
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    • 184 10 A CARPENTER slapped a woman acquaintance while they were on a bus. He then forced the woman to alight before robbing her of jewellery worth $500. Not satisfied, he demanded that she send $1,000 to his home in Malaysia. Yesterday, Foong Yee Keong, 39, was sentenced
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    • 92 10 THE National Trades Union Congress will hold a forum entitled, Our Population Problem and What We Can Do About It. It will be a follow-up to the Feb 13 dialogue session at which the First Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Goh Chok Tong, discussed national population issues with
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    • 126 10 Drowned boys: Teachers and pupils contribute $1,660 TEACHERS and pupils of Yumin Primary School have collected more than $1,660 to help pay for the funeral expenses of the two boys from their school who were drowned on Toesday. The school principal, Mr Tan Kang Chai, 46, gave an initial sum
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    • 402 10 Journal only wants freedom to make money from ads: Govt The AWSJ affair THE Asian Wall Street Journal wants the freedom to make money selling advertisements and is not interested in helping the business community in Singapore to get information, the Government said yesterday. This was what Mr Martin Marini,
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    • 236 10  - 162 out of 199 samples fail ministry tests BEN DAVIDSON Excessive use of pesticides on Malaysian vegetables By A TOTAL of 162 baskets of spring onions and five other types of leafy vegetables weighing more than 9,200 kg were destroyed on Friday and yesterday after samples were found to contain
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    • 348 10  -  SHIRLEY TAN By in Cameron Highlands THE export of Cameron Highlands spring onions to Singapore has been grounded and the bulbs will remain unharvested here for the next two weeks. Starting last night, officials from the Cameron Highlands Vegetable Growers' Association plodded the
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    • 117 10 Reinstated driver in new job THE double-decker driver who lost his job following an accident, started on his new job as workshop driver on Tuesday the day after the Singapore Bus. Service offered it to him. Mr Wong King Ping is nowattached to Hougang Depot, working daily from 8 am
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    • 211 11 NINETEEN O-level singles will be going on a three-day cruise to nowhere later this month. It is the first cruise organised by the Social Development Section (SDS). the Government's matchmaking agency for O-level holders. The young men and women going on the
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    • 76 11 A NEW stretch of BuKit Br-.tok Road offering a direct link be tween Bukit Batok New Town and Chua Chu Kang Road is now open to traffic. The three-lane dual carriage way stretches 1.12 km from Bukit Batok West Avenue 5 to Choa Chu Kang
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    • 569 11  -  KONG SOOK CHIN By SINGAPORE'S falling birthrate and the need to have more married women in the workforce prompted the Government to find out what can be done to help mothers take care of their childcare problems, Mr Wong Kan Seng. Minister for Community
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    • 201 11 Pieces of S'pore to puzzle over FIRST, there was Singapore Go, a home-grown version of the international favourite, Monopoly. Then came the Singapore version of Trivial Pursuit and the all-Singaporean Total Defence Board Game. Now, those who enjoy locally-in-spired games have another one to puzzle over a Jigsaw made in
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    • 343 11 Mattar praises work of Muslim missionary committees ENVIRONMENT Minister Dr Ahmad Mattar last night underlined the important role played by the Muslim missionary committees (or JHD) in generating a greater sense of awareness of the religion among Muslim Singaporeans. He said their active involvement in missionary activities helped Muslim Singaporeans
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    • 90 11 MALCOLM, the comedy film that was to be shown today as part of the Singapore International Film Festival, has been withdrawn. The festival organisers said in a statement that the film, and Dog Tags, which was to have been shown last night, were withdrawn due
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    • 98 11 THE flyovers at the junctions of Bukit Timah Road Farrer Road and Dunearn Road/Adam Road will be closed to traffic from midnight to 6 am until Saturday. This is to enable maintenance work on the flyovers to be carried out by the Public Works Department. Motorists
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    • 213 12  - Two in hospital after dragon boats capsize By YEO KIM SENG TWO dragon-boat rowers, both women, were admitted to hospital after their boats capsized within 30 minutes of each other in the sea off the Port of Singapore Authority Container Terminal yesterday. The two. Miss Maggie Lim. 19, and Miss
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    • 202 12 Team MPs: See how others do it, Teng Cheong urges SINGAPOREANS can better appreciate the proposed team MPs concept by finding oat more about how teams of MPs are chosen in other countries. This would help the country to decide how best to implement the idea. Second Deputy Prime Minister
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    • 376 12  -  AGNES WEE By THE BUZZWORD in the trading sector these days is countertrade, a sophisticated form of barter where goods or services are exchanged for other goods, rather than cash. Singapore businessmen are eagerly seeking information on how they can take part
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    • 28 12 A POETRY competition, Kavi Arangam, by various Singapore Tamil Muslim organisations will be held at the NTUC Conference Hall in Shenton Way today at 2 pm.
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    • 306 12 Malay group to seek community's views on the National Agenda TAMAN Bacaan, the Malay Youth Library Association, will collect feedback from the Malay/Muslim community on the National Agenda presented by the People's Action Party last week. A special committee of 20 individuals was formed recently to gather the views of
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    • 66 12 THE body of a missing Singapore Armed Forces serviceman has been found. A Defence Ministry statement said the body of Sergeant Chin Kian Min, 29, who was reported missing while training at sea on Feb 26, was recovered at 4 pm yesterday. The statement
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    • 275 12 DEVELOPERS and industrialists will, from today, pay standard rates to tap electricity from the Public Utilities Board's cables for their buildings. The board's new scheme of rates reflects the average cost of linking these buildings to its main power lines in different
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    • 145 12 TWO men, one carrying a knife, robbed a company director of a $10,000 watch but one was caught by two Registrar of Vehicles traffic police enforcement officers in Guillemard Road on Friday night. The 20 year-old suspect and his accomplice had confronted Mr Tan
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    • 371 12  -  SALIM OSMAN MP gives assurance on independent schools By MALAY parents need not fear that their children would be unable to join the proposed independent schools because of financial difficulty. The Parliamentary Secretary (Trade and Industry), Mr Sidek Saniff, assured parents yesterday that
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    • 451 12  -  AUDREY PERERA By THE Singapore Tamil Teachers' Union has appealed to the education authorities to make certain that pupils from each of the tour language streams will be inclnded if independent schools are set up. The union wants the Education
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    • 467 14  -  AUDREY PERERA By WHEN a group of trade- s in Semba v. ang got together to promote the area as the iast unspoilt corner" of Singapore, they were unaware that it was slated for redevelopment. Three years ago, they appealed to the tourism
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    • 162 14 A JOBLESS man was yesterday charged with using; a pistol to commit a robbery while his friend, a housewife, p.lleg- h* 1 i t i disp >se of part of tne loot, a $1,890 Rolex watch. Loo Siew Wan. 30, allegedly had a .32 Llama
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    • 41 14 Arbitration court to move to City Hall FROM tomorrow, the Industrial Arbitration Court will be re-located from its third-floor address at the Supreme Court Building. The court will move to the 4th storey of City Hall, St Andrew's Road, Singapore 0617.
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      • 73 14 POLICE BOOKED 108 motorists for speeding and warned 13 others with faulty speed devices in a five-hour crackdown on Friday. Thirty-six motorists were booked for carrying excess passengers. Another 19 were booked for carrying passengers in goods vehicles without permits, and five for carrying excess passengers on
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      • 73 14 TWO JOBLESS men were charged yesterday with murdering cake-shop owner Lee Juay Heng, 47, at Block 241, Hougang Street 22. No pleas were taken from Ong Ah Lek, 32, and Tan Joo Cheng, 34, who were said to be with another person when they allegedly murdered
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      • 70 14 TWO DRIVERS were charged yesterday with stealing 184 bottles of VSOP Martell brandy worth $9,261. Siken bin Hadi, 27, and Masrom bin Omar, 32, are alleged to have stolen the brandy between Jan 12 and Feb 23 from a godown at the Port of Singapore Authority.
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      • 75 14 POLICE WANT to contact the relatives of an elderly Chinese woman who was found dead in a vacant house in Bencoolen Street on Friday. Her decomposed body was found in house number 160 after police received a telephone call from a member of the public. Those who
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      • 70 14 MOTORISTS WHO still have unused parking coupons printed in 1985 and valid up to the end of last year should exchange them for new ones. They can do so before March 31 at any Housing Board area office, Urban Redevelopment Authority parking kiosk or the Car
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      • 86 14 A CABBY was beaten up and robbed of $40 and his $20,000 taxi after he was made to strip to his underwear by three men during the early hours of June 3, 1985. Yesterday, Mohd Ali bin Jam, 27, one of the three men, was given
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    • 299 14  - Baker set on being boss signs up for classes TONG YOKE THO By BAKING buns brings in $650 a month for 21-year-old Mr Yeo Kheng Siong, but he wants to be his own boss. So, after hours, he goes back to class the Skills Development Fund's Core Skills for Effectiveness
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    • 509 14 A DISPUTE over a plan to convert a church centre in Punggol into a home for the aged sick and aged poor has been settled. The vicar of Saint Anne's Church, Father Cyril Lee, had opposed the idea when Archbishop Gregory Yong, head
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    • 635 14  - Employers must invest more in training: BG Lee KWAN WENG KIN By THE average amount spent by employers here to train a worker each year was described as "peanuts" by Brig-adier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong. "The Americans, who are already ahead of us, are spending $750. The Japanese, who are
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    • 383 14  -  AGNES WEE By AN INNOVATION Centre to stimulate creativity and exhibit its results will open in May at the National University of Singapore's Engineering Faculty. Plans for the centre were described yesterday by Associate Professor C. C. Hang, vice-dean
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    • The Sunday Times
      • 299 15 THE drive to a more literate society continues with the National Reading Fortnight, beginning Friday. The target audience of this year's campaign' could not have been better chosen children aged between four and nine. "Start them off when they are young" is an appropriate maxim to
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    • 140 15 What The Sunday Times reported on March 11, 1962 THE Government yesterday revealed more details of the multi-million dollar scheme to turn Toa Payoh into a giant satellite town to provide low-cost homes for 250.000 to 300.000 people about one-sixth of the population. The development, besides easing
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    • 1174 15 SIR DAVID WILSON will need all his diplomatic skill and climbing stamina as HK's new Governor Hongkong Governors are an endangered species. Sir Edward Youde died in office and his predecessor, Lord MacLehose, was carried home on a stretcher. ALAN HUBBARD explains why he thinks
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  • FOCUS/Viewpoints
    • 927 16  -  Tan Sai Siong SINGAPORE has set aside seven months for a wide-ran-ging national self-appraisal, to distil shared intrinsic vai tes for our National Agenda. One issue worth examining. .rank, is now to improve the behaviour of those who behav? unneighbourly,
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    • 1126 16  - Paper qualifications count but only up to a point Kwan Weng Kin IT'S again that time of the year when people struggle to fill in what the taxman calls Form IR4 (CH) (Y/A 87), and what the rest of us ordinary mortals know as the Income Tax Return form. While
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    • 854 16 Interview with Bebe Moore Campbell, author of the recently-published book Successful Women, Angry Men Q. Why are men and women having problems adapting to two-career marriages? There's a tug-of-war going on because there are no role models for men and women to help them relate
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    • 478 16 EVERYONE knows that the Northeast Monsoon is dying, but someone forgot to tell the monsoon that. Which explains why the monsoon is still huffing and puffing and generally trying to blow my house down. All that huffing and puffing naturally made things
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    • 5 17  -  Collette
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    • 1874 17 Many Singaporeans spurn a chance of becoming expatriates, either because adapting to a foreign lifestyle does not appeal to them or they are afraid that a stint away from home may affect their career and their children's education. Yet, helping to show the flag abroad
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    • 417 17 MR KEVIN Koh rings home every night from Hongkong. His wife and children fly up to spend all their school holidays with him, while his daughter cries about not being with daddy after each family holiday. "We miss him on weekends because we used to
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    • 143 17 AnoD^iiivitation ©women I Catch a colourful feature •t* _y_Bß!*ftW****ft_E3_L'' what private ciubs are ic MM v^^b mmm MMW S m k M jk Striking the balance between _.->*__; J jj Towards a successful career ftHMHHHHi HHHHHMH Fashion for women on the go Voice your views Tell us about "The Singapore
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 458 18 MR. YEO PENG HOCK AGE: 84 DEPARTED PEACEFULLY ON 27.2.87 Leaving ftehmd SONS DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW Robert Yeo Siew Koon Deceased) Ang Lay See. Daisy Willie Yen Siew Keng Mary Lee DAUGHTERS SONS-IN-LAW Yeo Slew Hong. Dora (Deceased) Teo Cheng Thum Yeo Siew Gek. Dolly Tan Lam Seng
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    • 70 18 The family of the late LAM PANG SIEW, JOSEPH Departed 22/2/87 Cremated on 26 '2 87 Wishes to express their heartfelt thanks to friends, relatives and colleagues for their attendance, condolence, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement. The family ot the late MR VENGADASALAM RAMA CHANDRA wish
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      35 18 With Deepest Sympathies Condolences To: MR. GEORGE K.C. WUU on the demise of hi* beloved wife MDM CHAN TECK CHOO, DAISY From: The Management 4 Staff of MAJID SATAY ANIKA (S) PTE LTD
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    • 48 18 The Family Of The Late: MR NG KAY WHEE wishes to express their heartfelt thanks to the management and staff of Keck Seng Group of Companies, business associates, friends all relatives for their condolences, attendance, wreaths, scrolls, donations kind assistance during their recent bereavement.
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    • 68 18 With Deepest Sympathies and Condolences to MR GEORGE WUU KHEK CHIANG on the bereavement of his beloved wife MDM DAISY CHAN TECK CHOO From: PATRON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE SINGAPORE SQUASH RACKETS ASSOCIATION SQUASH MEMBERS Our Heartfelt Condolences and Deepest Sympathies To The Family Of The
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      48 18 In Loving Memory Of ANNE PANG AH SEAM Departed Ist March 1983 Today recalls sad memories. Of a dear mother gone to rest. And the one who thinks of her today Is the one who loves her best. Always remembered by your children and grandchildren.
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      59 18 In loving memory of CPL NORAZMAN BIN HUSEIN It may have been a year since you departed from us, but memories of the times we shared together still remains. Always remembered by Staff of 2 PDF TC Medical Centre Friends. CHEONG YEW HING Departed: 1.3.1983 One. so
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  • RACING
    • 239 18  -  PEDIGREE By our man on the track He looks even fitter after runaway win PENANG Moon Gazer escaped a promotion despite his 6 1 2 -length win in Class 4 Div 6 last weekend and has a first-rate chance of scoring a double for the meeting
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    • 262 18 RACE RACING ED PEDIGREE TONTO LUCKY LEO MARKSMAN 3 Malaysian Pearl 4 Lawmaker 1 Strike Rate 4 Lawmaker 1 Strike Rate 2 Our Antidote 1 Strike Rate 4 Lawmaker 1 Strike Rate 4 Lawmaker 2 Bird Of Peace 4 Eurodollar 2 Bird Of Peace 2
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    • 2473 18 MPJPP"SM| 2.30 CLASS 4 DIV 3 1,200m |Zfll_2___U (Ratings: 73-66) (Stakes: $13,000) 1 ****** Strike Rate 57 (73) Brackets-Noordin 4ag +.5. Regaining form; fair effort when 1-shd-nk 4th to Tanjong Bungah HI with 56.5 C4-3 Pg 1400m Jan 3; got up close home to edge Emu by
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    • 248 18  -  JACK ELLIOTT sfgureuytrurtun MELBOURNE Two-year-old filly Midnight Fever made it five wins from five starts when she took the A5350.000 (about SS500.000) Blue Diamond Stakes over 1.200m at Caulfield racecourse yesterday. On the last official day of summer, rain, which had fallen heavily for many
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    • 115 18 PERTH Trainer George Way (above) was vesterday disqualified for another five years as West Australian Turl Club Stewards completed inquiries into the scandal involving the drug etorphine. Chairman of stewards John Mahoney said Way, who is now banned 20 years, pleaded guilty to two
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    • 110 18 MELBOURNE Former champion apprentice Darren Gauci (above) broke a collar-bone in a fall at trackwork yesterday. Gauci s mount was involved in a collision with another horse and fell From his hospital bed. Gauci said. "1 was galloping my horse on the track when another
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    • 713 19  -  ROBIN PARKE By Big send-off for HK champ and S'porean-born wife HONGKONG Champion jockey Tony Da Cruz bid farewell to the colony last week as he set out on his search for glory on the racetracks of Europe. The 30-year-old Da Cruz, who includes a Singapore
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    • 1534 19  -  OUR RACING TEAM By PENANG T.M. Wan. one of the most improved apprentices in recent months, scored on both his mounts yesterday and brought his tally to three for the meeting. Wan duly obliged on even-money favourite Bujang Senang in Race 3, then
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    • 55 19 LIVERPOOL A total of 98 horses from many countries have been entered for this year's Grand National on April 4. Among them are last year's winner, West Tip, and Ccrbiere, successful in 1983. This figure will be pruned to about 40 runners. The National is the
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    • 85 19 PENANG The Ismail brothers, Ismadi and Azhar, are now full-fledged jockeys. Ismadi, top apprentice and champion local rider in 1985. had no rides yesterday. In Race 4 today, he wiP be astride Moon Gazer, whom he partnered to vrcto- ry last weekend. He has one
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    • 66 18 With Deepest Sympathies Condolences to MR GEORGE KC. WUU on the demise of his beloved wife MDM CHAN TECK CHOO From The Manangeme.it Staff Of Goh Yau Kee Company f Acceptance of obituary announcements Mon to Fri. 5 pm. for the next day's publication Sat Sun. 2 p.m. for the
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  • SPORT
    • 397 20  -  HAKIKAT RAI By Usman beats compatriot for boys' title, Farah upsets Thuy for girls' crown IT was a final with a difference the difference being in the standards. On the receiving end of a whitewash during yesterday's Marina Sqvare Singapore International Junior Tennis Championships were internationally-ranked Thuy Viragh
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    • 362 20 KEY BISCAYNE (Florida) Sweden's unseeded Johan Carlsson, ranked 110th in the world, upset llth-ranked compatriot Mikael Pernfors 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 1-6, 6-4 on Friday to advance to the third round of the International Players' Championship. Carlsson won the first two sets 6-3. 6-1 but
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    • 1110 20  -  ALAN HUBBARD Always on Sunday Q OME romance went out of Lon- don life this week when they sold Fulham Football Club down the river. Yes, right down the River Thames, upon whose southern bank Craven Cottage has stood jauntily since 1896. They have been 91 fanciful
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    • 73 20 Craven Cottage has provided football with pleasant memories LONDON Fulham may be saved by former owner Ernie Clay. He is believed to be making an offer to buy the club's name and not the Craven Cottage ground, earmarked for a riverside housing development. The offer would
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    • 899 20  - Sporting chance for pioneers ROB HUGHES AN OFFER FOR SINGAPORE ENTREPRENEURS Archibald's aid for Africa project is worth pursuing Talk of Soccer 4 There is the chance to prove Singapore's flair in integrating people of different races. The chance to demonstrate major organisation, major diplomacy, major communications. There is the
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    • 289 20 Hope for banned English: The Europe an Football Union completed a full about turn on Friday when they agreed to discuss their ban on English clubs at their executive committee meeting in Berne on March 10. The change of position followed an appeal to Uefa by English FA
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    • SPORT WORLDWIDE
      • 44 21 RANDERS (Denmark) Danish boxer Gert Bo Jacobsen kept his unbeaten record and took another step towards a world title fight when he retained his European lightweight title on Friday with a unanimous 12-round points decision over Spanish challenger Jose Antonio Hernando.
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      • 56 21 NEW YORK Atlanta Hawks overran Boston Celtics 115-105 in a National Basketball Association game on Friday. Results: Atlanta Hawks 115 Boston Celtics 105. Portland Trail Blazers 123 Detroit Pistons 111, New Jersey Nets 125 In liana Pacers 115. Dallas Mavericks 123 Philadelphia 76ers 110. Los Angeles
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      • 69 21 ZWIESEL (West Germany) Swiss Golden Girl Maria Walliser returned to the top of the women's overall Alpine skiing World Cup standings with a comfortable victory in Friday's giant slalom race, clocking an aggregate time of 2min 15.685ec for the two legs. Rasatta: 1 Maria Walliser (Swit)
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      • 69 21 PALERMO (Sicily) Maurizio Rossi, of Italy, leader from the first stage, bagged the Sicilian International Week cycling race following Friday's 153km fifth and final section from Alcamo, won by Giuseppe Calcaterra. Stage placings: 1 Giuseppe Calcaterra (Ita) 4:26:06, 2 Erik Pedersen (Den). 3 Jesper Worre (Den) same
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      • 24 21 LAUSANNE Chinese gymnast Li Ning has been appointed Asia's first representative on the Athletes Commission of the International Olympic Committee.
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      • 94 21 POPRAD (Czechoslovakia) Czechoslovakia took the gold medal in the ice hockey event on superior goal difference at the Student Winter Games on Friday after drawing 3-3 with the Soviet Union. Result of National Ice Hockey League games played on Thursday Friday: Detroit Red Wings 5 Vancouver
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      • 36 21 FURANO (Japan) World downhill ski champion Peter Mueller, of Switzerland, won the season's ninth men's World Cup downhill race on Friday, covering the 2,979-metre course with a drop of 800m in lmin 53.895ec.
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    • 975 21  -  i^YiHll^* H^![ui! TEE TO GREEN 'Charming Aussie ace doing great job on Tours' IF YOU have it, flaunt it. If no one objects to macho-man Andy Bean consistently belting the ball more than 300 metres down the fairway or to Craig Stadler making putting
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    • 222 21 Professionals: 214 Liselotte Neumann (Swe) 71, 75, 68. 219 Fusako Nagata (Jpn) 73, 73, 73; Beverlv New (Eng) 71, 76, 72. 22i Tomiko Ikebuchi (Jpn) 77, 73, 70. 221 Janet Soulsby (Eng) 71,74, 76. 222 Tomoko Sasaki (Jpn) 77, 69, 76. 223 Kasumi Adachi (Jpn) 76, 70. 77:
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    • 578 21  - Liselotte gets into the S'pore swing TAY CHENG KHOON Pretty maids are all on the fairways Report by Tanah Merah leg is Swede's first Asian success THIRD in Malaysia, second in Thailand, and now, first in Singapore. This is Sweden's Liselotte Neumann's proud record after winning the Tanah Merah Country
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    • 295 21 NEW YORK Eamonn Coghlan became the first man to win 50 indoor-mile races on Friday, surging into the lead with a half lap to go and charging to victory in 3min 59.255ec at the United States Indoor track and field championships. The Irish
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    • 240 21 WORLD TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS NEW DELHI China's formidable squad stayed on course for a clean sweep at the world championships on Friday. But they were still glancing anxiously at the Koreans and East Europeans, who could upset their plan in the doubles. Defending singles
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    • 119 21 NEW DELHI Japan's Ichiro Ogimura became president of thc International Table Tennis Federation on Friday by defeating Welshman Roy Evans in an election that divided Europe and Asia. An ITTF spokesman said Ogimura unseated Evans 65-39 in the first contest for the sport's top post since the Welshman
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    • 399 21 Men's singles: Chu Jong Choi (NK) bt Kim Wan (SK) 21-17. 21-18. 22-20; Jan-Ove Waldner (Swe) bt Dietmar Palmi (Aus) 21-10. 21-16, 21--17; Andrzej Grubba (Pol) bt Xu Zengcai (Chi) 21-10. 21-15. 21-18; Wang Hao (Chi) bt Kim Ki Taek (SK) 21-16, 21-16. 21-11; Teng Yi (Chi)
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      • 213 21 Woosnam in three-shot lead after 65 HONGKONG Welshman lan Woosnam is in line for an early birthday present after shooting a six-under-par 65 to take a threeshot lead in the Hongkong Open tournament yesterday. Woosnam, 29 tomorrow, would dearly love to celebrate his birthday with a victory in the tournament,
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      • 227 21 Langer and Seve in front with three others MIAMI West German Bernhard Langer and Spaniard Seve Ballesteros were tied on seven-under-par 137 with Americans Fred Couples, Larry Rinker and Lennie Clements for the second-round lead in the Doral Open on Friday. Couples shot the lowest round of the day, an
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    • 697 22  -  LEE WAI WUN Special feature by A safety test, a dunking and we're ready to row THE first thing that struck me about a rowing boat was that it has shoes. Yes, shoes bright blue sneakers that don't fall out when the boat is carried
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    • 660 22 Blade the flared end of the oar, which is pulled through the water to propel the rowing beat. Bow man the oarsman who sits nearest the bow, or front, of the boat. Bowslde the starboard side of the boat; crewmen whose oars are rigged
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    • 280 22 SINGAPORE have a good chance of winning a rowing gold at this year's South-east Asia Games. So says Singapore Amateur Rowing Association president Goh Eng Ghee, who has already started training a squad for the Jakarta Games, in September. It will be rowing's Sea Games debut and
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    • 553 22 THE first rowing boat in Singapore lost its home when the raft it had "lived" in for five years sank into the Singapore River. Some boathouse it was' But that was more than a century ago and many are surprised today to
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    • 243 23  - James in line for another mark J. RAJENDRAN SCHOOLBOY James Wong, who appears to have developed a knack for record breaking, may make his mark in the Sunday Times Coca-Cola Sporting Achievement of the- Month award as well. The 18-year-old discus thrower. who won the Coke award last November, is
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    • 579 23  - Cup champion to present our big award MAHMOOD GAZNAVI Icuk makes it a March date in Singapore By 4 Icuk will only be here for three days but, even in such a short period, there is definitely something worthwhile to pick up from him. Perhaps, your local players can find
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    • 110 23 KUALA LUMPUR The Badminton Association of Malaysia yesterday advised Rashid Sidek to leave the BAM-Marlboro Project 1988-90 junior squad for falling to fulfill his obligations towards the project. BAM deputy president Dr Fadzil Che Wan said Rashid would instead be asked to train with the national
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    • 464 23  -  GODFREY ROBERT By IF the recent Konica Cup broke the myth of China's shuttle supremacy, it also shattered the belief that Singapore was not ready to stage, or is it re-stage, an international badminton event. Some quarters in the Singapore Badminton
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    • 355 23 JOE DORAI ON LOCAL SOCCER WHAT was expected to be an easy and enjoyable outing, turned out to be a nightmare for favourites Tiong Bahru, who eventually beat Toa Payoh United 1-0. in the National Football League Division One quarter-final at Jalan
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    • 171 23 LAST season, when Armed Forces won the National Football League Division One title, their toast was striker V. Sundramoorthy. who scored 18 goals in as many matches. After two seasons he left Forces on complerion of national service duties last October and returned to his
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    • 188 23 Geylang set for Under- 1 9 title HIGH-flying Geylang International, with a number of League Division Two footballers, are strongly favoured to win tonight's National Un-der-19 soccer final against Ayer Rajah Wanderers at Jalan Besar Stadium at 7.30. This is the first of the two ambitions revitalised Geylang are striving
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    • CRICKET
      • 192 23 Greenidge (213) shatters Kiwi attack AUCKLAND West Indies opener Gordon Greenidge plundered the New Zealand attack to complete his third Test double century, boosting his side to 415-8 at the close on the second day of the Second Test yesterday. Although he was dropped four times, Greenidge batted superbly, hitting
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      • 119 23 BOWLING SWBC Queens' c'ships: Masters' Graded finals Oam); Open (3pm) both at Jackie's Orchard. Youth Raving League (Queenstown Bowl, 9.30am). National League (Celebrity Bowl, 10am) First Anniversary Masters tournament (Striker's Bowl. 9am). CRICKET SCA Div One: JCSC v UWC (Balestier Rd, 10.30am); Div Two: SGS v SCA Schoolboys
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    • 499 23 Unbeaten, but Dragons lack firepower J. RAJENDRAN on the SCC rugby sevens ALTHOUGH they won, it was far from being a "fire-breathing" performance by defending champions RSL Dragons against Royal Fijian Military Forces (Naval) in the Singapore Cricket Club rugby sevens at the Padang yesterday. Dragons beat Royal Fijians 6-0
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    • 311 23 ORA jog: Old Rafflesians' Association will hold a jog-a-walkathon this morning (8) to raise funds for Raffles Institution, Raffles Girls' School and Raffles Junior College. ORA president Dr Chan Peng T^un said thev hope to raise $200,000. He "appealed to all former Rafflesians to extend their support. Those
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    • 402 20 APPOINTMENTS SICCRA ATLANTIC COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP Applications are invited for the above Scholarship tenable for two years at the United World College of the Atlantic in South Wales. U.K. The Scholarship is financed from a trust fund set up by the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association (SICCRA). The two-year
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    • 413 21 STUDY IN AUSTRALIA IN A TOP PRIVATE SCHOOL Freeman Overseas Testing Service (FOTS) represents over 30 of Australia's leading independent secondary schools. Places are available in these schools for bright, hard-working overseas students who can speak English reasonably well and who want to go on to tertiary study. FOTS is
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    • 165 22 ADVERTISEMENT pete* s f for squash'/ f Sigh, 1 can't. "mAR^y^RM\ ■^SL iw ir-^K i_3_ i Mmmom .MmmmmmM f Something ~___l___ i a I used to feel like you. A I Until I took Yomeishu. 1 Wk I Yep. A Japanese health tonic which originated 4 centuries ago. It has
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  • The Sunday Times Sportfront
    • 1144 24 PETER SIOW tracks down the man who was the shuttle sensation of the Sixties IN the land of badminton greats, home of the legendary Rudy Hartono and that clinical "finisher Liem Swie King, Tang Hsien Hu (Tang Xianhu) alias "The Thing" is
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    • 140 24  -  THE Singapore Badminton Association will consider employing Tang Xianhu if the need arises, but pointed out it is not their policy to employ coaches only from China. SBA secretary Robin Chan said the association would rather employ a full-time local coach if possible. Said Robin: "We
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    • 196 24 LISELOTTE NEUMANN, who attracted a large gallery at the Tanah Merah Country Club the past three days with her strikingly-lovely Swedish features, yesterday rewarded them with an immaculate brand of top golf. The 20-year-old, who last year finished second on the European Order of Merit,
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    • 360 24  -  LEE WAI WUN By AS ZAINAL ABIDIN scooped his seventh consecutive Ascot Singapore Closed squash title vesterday, Anthony Chua realised he still lacks the final punch so crucial in competition. For a moment, it looked like Anthony's clash with national champion Zainal at Kallang
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    • 144 24  - Krishnan triumphs again HAKIKAT RAI GOVINDASAMY Krishnan, with barely a week's intensive training behind him, outran a strong field to retain the men's title during yesterday's National Cross-Country Championships at Macßitchie Reservoir. The 25-year-old clocked 35min 42sec for the 10-kilo-metre route. The time was just 9sec ahead of run-ner-up Perumal
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    • 153 24 NAIROBI A fig-hurling sykes monkey added to the hazards faced by players in the Kenya Open golf tournament last week. The large black and gray monkey, which wildlife experts say is usually friendly to humans, ambushed British professional Gordon J. Brand and his partners on the
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    • 303 24 BRITISH SOCCER LONDON John Aldndge scored his first goal in the red of Liverpool and his 22nd of the season to put the English cham pions joint leaders of the First Division with traditional foes Everton yesterday. Aidridge, playing his first full
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  • TV PLUS
    • 8 1 TV PLUS The Sunday Times, March 1, 1987
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    • 533 1 A_Straits Times reader recently complained that SBC's Malay dramas and variety shows are a great disappointment. The popular feeling is that our producers could take a leaf from the productions offered by RTM. How valid is this? ROSNAH AHMAD comments. DISGRUNTLED viewers do have
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      • 1038 2 41 had only to think of someone hurting Sidney and the clue to the character I was m playing fell into place. Rod Steiger on his relationship with Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night RESPECT matters a lot to Rod Steiger.
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      • 489 2  -  JOSEPHINE NG By FESTIVALS of any kind are fun, seeing how they are like big public parties. The first Singapore International Film Festival has had both high points and low moments. For star-gazers, it turned out to be a pretty low-key affair. I'm sure if Richard
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    • CINEMA
      • 504 3  -  VALERIE LEE By A GREAT WALL At Chong Gay cinemas Starring Peter Wang, Shen Guanglan, Hu Xiaoguang, Sharon Iwai, Kelvin Han Yee and Li Qinqin Directed by Peter Wang THIS is a back-to-roots movie minus the anguish and the breast-beating. Director Peter Wang takes
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      • 578 3  -  SUMIKO TAN By THE COLOUR OF MONEY Coming to Orchard Starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantomo and Helen Shaver Directed by Martin Scorsese THE combination spells Os-car-greatness durable megastar Paul Newman and current box-office hot-shot Tom Cruise. Yet The Colour of Money just
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      • 643 3 HOLLYWOOD *J IN AN unprecedented move towards inter-cultural relationship, the Soviet Union h_u invited Mikhail Baryshnikov to dance at the Bolihoi Theatre in Moscow. Baryshnikov, one of the worlc" s leading ballet dancers, defected from the Soviet Union U years ago. He has always said
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    • Young Life
      • 263 4 HAVE you ever watched any of the old cowboy and Red Indian movies made in Hollywood? They were popular when I was a child. I never thought of the Indians as the good guys. The United States Cavalry or the cowboys were always the good guys. Then one
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      • 292 4 LET your fingers do the telling. Make some finger puppets, think up a story and tell it with the help of your fingers. Finger puppets can be made with a variety of materials from paper to textiles. However, paper is easier to do although
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      • 519 4 MEN AT WAR THE scene of one of the most well-known American battles has virtually no memorial to the victors the Sioux led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Even the name, Custer Battlefield National Monument, marks the men who lost the Battle of
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      • 1088 13 Vanessa on her challenging role as a man Actress Vanessa Redgrave appears as a man in the TV-movie Second Serve (Saturday, Chs, 11 pm), based on the true story of a transsexual. She talks to MICHAEL BILLINGTON about her remarkable role. 4 The pressures in acting are countless and not
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    • TV EYE
      • 484 14  -  LEE SIEW HUA By TV PREVIEW Shaka Zulu Wednesday, Ch 5, 9 30 pm ONE WORD describes Shaka Zulu. Opulent. The iO-part series is a visual feast, properly researched and with an enigmatic storyline to boot. It could have been
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      • 572 14 Wu's in no hurry to be famous JULIE TAN catches up with former SBC actor Wu Gui'an and finds out more about his new career in Hongkong. IT LOOKS as though Singaporeans expecting exSBC actor Wu Gui'an to be Hongkong's next TV heart-throb will have to be patient. The actor,
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      • 520 14  -  PHILIP COOREY By TV PREVIEW Wetherby Today, Ch 12, 8 pm DAVID HARE is better known in Britain as a playwright for stage and television, and this is his first foray into cinema, written and directed by him. It is indeed ample proof
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      • 368 14 It's going to be a girl, doctor tells Fei Fei LOOK EAST LYDIA Sum Tin Har's first child will be a girl. So says her doctor. The popular Hongkong comedienne relayed the good news to host Lisa Wang on the Enjoy Yourself Tonight variety series recently Lydia, who's popularly known
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    • 383 2 Liaiihe Zaobao I i Singapore's leading Chinese daijy^^^^^^-^^ j _.ftfl.ff4E I y i-- m r=- 'tt- rr < Iv IH i [Sji_L_fl__|_| flu i i|_S-H_i jfc**_i___. Jl __d _0_ K _K- M\W' AW jp I MMRmW^r i£«H^at'iM^«li|!S^W 1-3-87 '«-___--_--------------_--H-KV-----n_H_H-HH-H--r*-- SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL THE MISSION" LIDO: TONIGHT at 6.4551R N.B
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    • 402 4 TODAY we have another contest in Prizes are: conjunction with the Young A 10 book vouchers of People's Theatre Festival. This se- $30 each plus four tickets to a nes of theatre performances for Der f orma n ce young people starts on March 12. F Ift The contest is
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    • 152 4 What you study in a classroom can just as well be learned in your home at your own convenience. Stamford's expertly I structured correspondence courses with its system of personalised instruction plus access to the most up-to-date facilities, will bring out the best in you. Courses include: GCE O&A levels
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    • 295 4 THEATRE ATTHE PARK Mime "Cinderella" by Oriental Artiste An* Troupe Children sketch "Pussy Cat" by Arts and Acts Comic sketch by the Singapore Amateur Players Puppet Show by Children Puppet Castle Folk Tales by ST* ARS 'Oil C l C i l• j If THEATRE '2 Mo-c<- '2 -ck '987
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    • 30 4 When was the torpedo invented? In 1866. by Robert Whitehead. British manager of an engineering company. The first torpedo was an explosive-stuffed small boat steered on the surface by wires.
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    • 2314 5 YOUR WEEK AHEAD MONDAY /^fIMPJ^ FRIDAY rvT ro.FT F.wimTinN v. .PVVPfI f■ 1 NATIONAL READING .RAFT EXHIBITION J RTR 1 I mm T I FORTNIGHT 1987 ■■I SSSeal,^ L______4_l_l I li^J FESTIVAL OF ASIAN art k creations, __F_f^^-^- I _ff^ __-_-fc--_---l STORIES: Retelling of including traditional folk W* -TgT L^
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    • 3458 6 ■utiiiiiiHi w_-~ _____*^**P___**^ H A 3*__H HjBI __J_^v_____k m Mm _P_JI ____i 9__H ~^i_l_9__j&»rl _f_i T_BIA VA T_H a_ -.■i _Bb _H ___r| -TM I ___^_H I i TUESDAY 2.30 P.M. SBCTEXT. Sample pages. 5.15 P.M. SBCTEXT. Sample pages 3.00 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS FOLLOWED 5.45 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS FOLLOWED BY BY RHAPSODY
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    • 329 7 M Forthcoming supplements include -19 Secretaries Day The Sunday Times March g china Holidays The Sunday Times 19 Going Places I The Sunday Times *m _____r _L __T Mauritius Independence 24 Homemakers ,yy The Straits Times aM >:lv The Sunday Times 21 Japan Toda\ The Sunday Times _l_l____.___r.i_i M Aw
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    • 192 11 14 Antiques/ Arts/Crafts An Exhibition and Sale ol MAGNIFICENT AQUATINTS ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS Dy SAMUEL HOWITT ANTIQUES OF THE ORIENT Lower Basement Tanglin Shopping Centre Extension Last Day Today SPECIAL OFFER Discount 10% 30°* for Various type of Blackwood and Rosewood Furniture, Porcelain Ware and Countless other exquisite items. Sunday
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    • 713 11 18 Home Furniture/ Furnishing Certified genuine Mar _i cane T-eaterJ wrrh r_em*_s against pest Trade-ins Hire [_r_ase welcome Services Available: Re-upiiorstenng ot cushion covers Repair and re- staining work Cai! Bob Cm Fufnfture 61 90 Bukit T«nar. Road (after Coronation Plaza) T_ .96' 19 0-erlO-rr.to6pm REUPHOLSTERY YOUR OLD sofa sets,
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    • 490 11 24 Garage Sale EXPAT. GARAGE SALE All must go, two settes. cane har-' stools, display cabinet, stereo, .single beds, misc. furniture, clothes, household goods today (sun. 1/3/87— only 9 a.m. 5 p.m 148 Watten Estate Rd. EXPAT LEAVING. SELLING sofa, furniture, 3-door Sanyo fridge 14 mths. old). View: 31. Watten
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    • 679 11 28 Health Centres/ Massage DUKES HEALTH CENTRE 3rd floor, Duke Hotel. 42 46 Meyer Rd (former Ambassador Hotel) Massage/ Steambath. All rooms with bathrooms attached Ample parking space. Opens daily 1100am to 11.30pm. Tel *****87 Visa card acceptable. DOUBLE-FORTUNE HEALTH Centre massage/ suana, shower attached rooms. Daily 10.30am--11pm. Masseuse wanted.
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    • 702 11 37 Airconditioners/ Refrigerators AIRCONDITIONER A REFRIGERATOR SALE, SERVICE RESPRAY SPECIALIST e 24 hour island wide service for all commercial and domestic airconditioners and refrigerators at introductory offer e free delivery charges pay only for workmanship and spare parLs at cost price Tel: *****36/ *****38/ *****46 CONVENIENCE AIRCONDITIONING ft REFRIGERATION CO.
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    • 547 11 54 Book-keeping/ Secretarial/ Answering/ Translation Services BOOK-KEEPING SERVICES/ SETTING up of computerised accounting system. Reasonable rates. Contact: Mr. Goh *****10 57 Business Opportunities SUCCESSFUL, PROFITABLE, ONGOING Peranakan Restaurant in Holland Village for immediate takeover. $39,000 ono. Ideal for Penang, Thai, Indonesian cuisine. Owner migrating. View: 258, Lorong Liput. 10am-2pm/ 6pm-Bpm
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    • 859 11 mwamammm- 64 Domestic Help 64 Domestic Help 64 Domestic Help Available Available Available [-B|l[t):t»f-_7_r^|--gg .ILINNO OVER RSHSJCCBSISTT ~TRKanKCSW! .hSi_ s p j $220 ($640) j I BtNe WAI OF CONTR AH -WE ARE PROUP TO CL^M $160 ($770) Atmve piacemenMee includes S5 OOO Secu'ity Bona SIOOOOPA Vi_a Airfare Mec.a lExam
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    • 333 11 72 Situations Vacant: Technical Graduates from recognised University eligible for legislation with PE Board Possess class 3 driving licence Those who have construction experience In road works will be at an advantage JACKING FOREMEN e Polytechnic Graduates from Mechanical Civil Engineering field Possess class 3 driving lii ence i Willing
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    • 602 12 72 Situations Vacant: 72 Situations Vacant: Technical Technical r= Requires Diploma in Electronic/Electrical Engineering At least 2 years of working experience m a QA.QC environment in an electronics industry Good understanding of QA Responsibilities includes Analysis ot product 'ailures Implementation of corrective plan and strategies to improve productivity Provide assurance
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    • 465 12 85 For Sale: Alfa/ Peugeot/Volvo SEP '85 ALFA Romeo 33. 15 Greenclovcleaf. graphite colour, s/rims, hi-fi. aircon.. very veryfast. Tel. Mr. Maha Rajah, *****88 (24 hrs.) MID 81 ALFA (iIULITTA 16. beautiful cond Or'ginal paint, hi-fi, s r:m_s $21,800 0.n.0. Tel: *****92 Danny after '.Km •81 ALFA ROMEO Alfetta 2.0.
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    • 967 12 87 For Sale: Mercedes VEHITO SPECIAL Free chassic lube 4 Lts. mobil super oil 4 pes spark plugs I 1 set contact point Total package offer $28.50 Computerised front wheel bal tncing im I A-ei«ht> $8 Tel: *****33. Mr Lee' Daniel *****63. Molly/ Edmund Otter valid till 6th May '87
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    • 1004 12 90 For Sale: Toyota ALMOST '84 TOYOTA I .Ilea XT 20 Showroom cond Full accessories. Door remote control, alarm system, trade-in acceptable. Tel: *****28 *****96 END '85 TOYOTA Corolla, original cond 12-valve. new tax, sports rims, hi-fi Pager: *****81. Blk 449, Clementi Ave.3. =01-231. NEAR 1984 TOYOTA Corolla 1300DX Pte
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    • 910 12 92 For Sale: Mazda NOV '83 MAZOA 323 15 1 pte owner. Tip top cond. Aircond. S/nms Radio cassette. Tax Oct '87 $21,800 Tel *****80 1986 MODEL MAZDA 323 13 LX 5-dr. Latest model, 1 owner, low mileage Showroom condition $29,950 0.n.0 Tel: *****75. •83 MAZOA GT 4-door. Aircon. Radio/
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    • 979 12 94 For Sale: Daihatsu '80 AUG DAIHATSU Charade. 5- door. 2nd owner, aircon. tax Ju- Iv, radio cassette, orig. showroom cond $12,900. Tel *****78 '84 NEAR, DAIHATSU Charmant, 1300LC, 4-door, excellent, 1 own- er New model, big bumper, sq. lights, new tax *****43. Victor 81. DAIHATSU CHARADE 10 XTE. Aircon.,
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    • 830 12 98 Sale/Wanted: Motor Cycles/ Scooters *****E, NEW PAINT, just overhauled. Selling $2,000 neg. Tel: *****23 Chan. MUST SELL KAWASAKI GPZ2SO :.c Plate no 'FB7l' Selling $1500 Tel: *****76 Sani. SEPT. '83 YAMAHA YPVS 350. 3ood cond Red, white colour Tel *****64 Rosli, after 1.30pm SUZUKI GN2SO CC FD, engine jood
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    • 775 12 107 Accommodation 107 Accommodation Available: Available Apartments Apartments cl%_P^*. Hote Styk WT^^k LUXURIOUS fJWRTWENTS M^^mm9m®m9r*^ At he J unct on Scotts/Orchard Road next to Hyatt Hotel I 14,000 sq ft Hotel Style Lobby SeK Service Free I Swimming Pool. Tennis Launderette Court. Squash Court, Billiard Ample Indoor Car Parking Room.
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    • 737 12 108 Accommodation Available: Rooms 2 ROOMS FOR rent r house) at 33. Tagore Avenue Rent negotiable Tel *****88 109 Accommodation Wanted: Houses REQD: F/FURN BUNGLW /Condc for the month of May i. June '87 Rent neg Please call Miss Eng at *****92 during off. hrs. 110 Accommodation Wanted: Apartments HOB/
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    • 1016 12 114 For Sale; Private Apartments P.AC- MAN 2476 sq.ft Central aircon Renovated $300K *****26 (agt Mon 115 For Sale HUDC Apartments BEDOfc RESeRVOIP ROAD I mais Groundflr Good Feng Shui' for sale at good price Genuine buyer only Tel *****32 116 For Sate HDB Apartments 3-RM STIRLING RD I- ken
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    • 727 13 116 For Sale: HDB Apartments .-ROOM LORONG LIMAU expensive kitchen cabinets $43,000 ono Tel *****51 *****03. .ROOM WHAMPOA Cool, clean, quiet corner, high floor Call. *****20 3-ROOM WHAMPOA DRIVE High tloor. aircon Oood facing $39,000 neg Tel __1926 2ZM3M 4-RM OOVER RO. Terrazzo. cabinets furniture, near market sch W3K (CPF
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    • 828 13 137 Tours 137 Tours 137 Tours 137 Tours 145 Foreign Education 146 Foreign Education *Pj by a New Zealand Maori cultural group brought SR Won the wonders of New Zealand, plus a chance \ffl W to win New Zealand sheepskin rugs in on-the- /^^^B^, lP^J|t VENUE DATES OF SHOWS I
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    • 216 13 150 Commercial/ Technical Courses FREE TALK on IMPORT/ EXPORT Conducted by experienced qualified Teachers on 1/3/87 at 11.00 BJn. For reservation please call: CLIFFORD EDUCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE -05-3545 Block 162 Bukit Merah Town Centre Tel: *****90 (8 Lines) BOOKKEEPING BEGINNERS SUNDAY 9.30 11.30 a.m. 01/03. United Commercial Training Ctr., Blk.
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    • 765 13 I STUDY IN NEW ZEALAND Applications to study at I New Zealand universities j 1 open on 2 March and close on 30 April 1987. The estimated annual cost of study in Z New Zealand is approximately NZ56,200 f p.a. (557,300 p.a.) I Courses are available in Accountancy, j I
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 588 14 IT'S A FANTASTIC SACRIFICE NEVER pet 55 1 1, BEFORE, MORE THAN THOUSANDS %^™zP f g__?_cK m 128 PRINSEP ST -^^v^TMWTBiVO- 3-ttO.t KU c»r./^\T.F~ ATI O OF FURNITURE SHOW L^r^^rsiF~ POR E PIECES TO CLEAR AT BKIDW COST!! I primsep st >jjy— rEL; *****98 SEE TO BELIEVE, ALL MERCHANDIZE Jfl
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  • SUNDAY PLUS
    • 8 1 SUNDAY PLUS The Sunday Times, March 1, 1987
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    • 2527 1 THE BEHIND THE Grind Glitz _ife on the catwalk is all and glitz to the Dutsider. going by the ising number of teenage fighting for a toehold W\ the fashion runway. 3ut tnere is more to the A/orld of modelling than neets the eye. Stripped ofl the poise and polish,
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    • Page 1 Advertisements
      • 1083 1 P^3 v^p^ V fll JAPAN CHERRY BLOSSOM l_tf-«_T___^__j___>fc_r;>*^ 'S- KOREA HONGKONG t- BBBIgaSBIEgMa BEST OF JAPAN shopping paradise _tf-__lP_»^ > >BrM %ig' HONGKONG 9/1 1 DAYS 7 DAVS $1540 Mm m\^^S\/m%^\^'C mlAm^amiji TA I tVAIfIA KUROBE FROIVI $2399 Bargain to your heart's content at two ofthe world's greatest shopping M
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      • 8 1 Mind and Body Time-off Food Spectrum Habitat Travel
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    • FEATURE
      • 739 2  -  TAN LIAN CHOO •EEaEffiai By Mother at work IF EVERY fall was a gentle tumble, parents of young children would not go around wishing their kids wore crash helmets all the time. With babies whose skull crania have not sealed completely, a hard
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      • 514 2 Timeless splendour: Kashmir. Jb_ftW §mmM9timWM _l H _Uf t V m^^A t m m f yii J& am TV aHRKS Kashmir beckons. On high Handicraft galore: carpets. ground. shawls, silver-ware, walnut wood In the valley of the Gods. and papier mache boxes, silks and Cool. refreshing. P.ower-filled embroidery. meadows. Ice-cold
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    • TIME-OFF
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        88 3  -  Chan Soon Wong Submitted Top shots 28 Ptoto Editor: A very bright picture of the couple on Cloud Nine. Not to be missed are the very warm smiles of their well-wishers and the raining confetti. The aisle frames the subject to a T. Priie: Kodak VR3S camera (K4O),
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      • 120 3 S. K. Chung, Submitted by 36 A BRIDE of the Year contest will begin soon. Organised by Kodak, this year's brides will be judged by their photos taken on their wedding day. Four brides will be picked in three preliminary rounds. The photographs selected in each
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      • 833 3  -  TAN HWA LUCK By 1 Pet corner CATS have for a long time taken second place in most homes after dogs. There have always been a great number of Snoopy fans but now Garfield seems to have captured many hearts.
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      • 883 3  -  TYE KIM KHIAT By Back to nature 4... besides requiring good muscular co-ordination, skill and sufficient strength, there are other things to grapple with. You could also come face to face with snakes and other reptiles that inhabit trees Some of
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    • Page 3 Advertisements
      • 136 3 fmm MONTESSORI > TEACHER TRAINING A CORRESPONDENCE COURSES mR J Lesley Bntton. Principal of the London Montessori Centre The London Montessori Centre is the leading international Montessori college with students m over 80 countries Choose from a range of tutor guided correspondence courses which can lead to internationally accepted qualifications
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      • 596 3 Start today... on your way to career success. Why not? lf you can read ana understand this advertisement, then you have the ability to earn the education you need to gain the necessary experience in your field that will lead to a successful career. No one. no advertisement, no school,
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    • FOOD
      • 832 4  -  MARGARET CHAN By EAT OUT IT'S hard to believe that the name of the meal at the latest Jack's outlet is not steak, the item which the group's eateries are automatically associated with In fact, say its owners, the Says, customers persist in ordering
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      • 958 4 The one thing that was not served at Indonesia's first national professional cooking competition was nasi padang. MARGARET CHAN, one of three invited international judges, discovered traditional recipes and a plethora of new flavours usually unassociated with Indonesian cuisine. A BIT
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      • 611 4  - Good grief, waiter, there's a worm in my soup LEE GEOK BOI By THE soup was like nectar The smell would have tempted even Buddha to jump over the wall for a sip. The sharksfin was superior indeed. Second helpings were served. Our host extolled the virtues of cordyceps, a
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      • 104 4 senses on our r^ buffet lunch W %W 3_P&W&^ UUTICT lUlll.ll* vy^fe_*s__fe^ sra^ /"^x^ 11 {h April in conjunction with Singapore Fashion Week. i \i Models are from Carrie Models and __UH___2fc_^_; J the co-sponsor is Cold Storage Trading. LMwls_Ufe N_B mt Tr eat yourself to the feast of a
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      • 130 4 Vittel The pure natural mineral water for healthy living. m^r^^^ I aRA™^ JM Hr m^a*^ mm \m A mm m\ Viuel's natural goodness of well balanced mineral content and properties makes it an ideal health -giving drink. w »J«i_»w, especially when taken during Vl_ I.C-1 meals and physical L_!_^ activities.
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    • SPOTLIGHT Money Matters
      • 355 5  -  MARA FERNANDEZ Find out if you are the sort who's good at taking risks, within a company or in a business venture see next page By IF YOU want to earn more than your colleagues or contemporaries, then go for the top position in the marketing department.
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      • 944 5  -  E. C. NEO By THE man-in-the-street has never been worse hit in terms of interest on savings than in recent years. Take the Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) for example. By far the bank with the largest savings deposit base, the POSB has been reducing
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      • 272 5 At Great Eastern Life, our growth has hardly been plain. hhh I In tact, you must be wondering why we have kept them to m M mW ourselves all this while. 1m T fe These facts reveal more than just how well In we have performed. They speak of the
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      • 284 5 Deposit in the currency of your choice with the world's leading bank. It's as easy as ABC. A wide range of currency options Committed to service excellence At Citibank you can make your financial At Citibank you'll have your own Personal arrangements in a wide variety of other Citibanker to
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      • 811 6  -  E. C. NEO By THE present bullish sentiment on the stock market is drawing the crowds to the trading rooms of broking firms like bees to honey. The popular belief is that a fast buck can be made in a bull run. This
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      • 390 6 A test for risk takers 1 I would take the risk of starting my own business rather than work for someone else Yes No 2 I would never take a job that requires lots of traveling Yes No 3 If I were to gamble, I would never make small bets
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      • 1504 7 Failure is not in their vocabulary. These people risks, doing the unconvei failure only as setbacks or course corrections, and these will not stop them from taking I or exploring the unknown. Are you one of these T-type people? IN A can-do society, they are ones who
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      • 670 7  -  MARA FERNANDEZ By THERE'S more to look at t) just high interest rates if you i thinking of investing in a foreign c rency. More often than not. the currei fluctuation is what determii whether you make on your invt ment, said a manager
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      • 170 6 I 2000 safe deposit boxes that I -^sp^ p^ don't keep banking hours W f§p^; 3) Open from Bam to 6pm 1 DBS Bank opens Singapore's first banking hours! DBS Bank. For more privacy and better and only-- computerised safe deposit box The DBS Safe Deposit Box Centre security in
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      • 170 6 You make the choice. We make the arrangements. Buying a home is now easier. Just choose the home you want: a bungalow, a terrace house, an apartment or a condominium unit. Then call at Credit POSB in the CPF Building. We will help you make all the arrangements without you
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      • 563 7 LJUjJ \_m\ ManuLife gives you another incentive to stop smoking If you're a non-smoker or M /M afT^m/VA atT^M -r age and don't smoke, you'll have stopped smoking for MJ MM MM M/M-**\l save 157.00 a year on your over 12 months, ManuLife jf Jill ■%_>•' premium payments with a
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    • SPECTRUM
      • 782 8 Winging his way to Hongkong, MILES KINGTON of the Times of London, indulges in a flight of fancy. HONGKONG! The very name was like the ping of a cash register. I was so excited at the thought of arriving in a duty-free
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      • 991 8 Scientists are hotly debating the greenhouse effect on life on earth while in the Galapagos Islands, animals there warn of impending disaster. IS THE much discussed greenhouse effect the disaster of the 21st century a gradual warming of the earth that threatens life
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      • 1007 8  -  BOB DROGIN By IN AN age of high-altitude weather satellites and deepsea oceanography, scientists on the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific are paying close attention to what ancient land iguanas and sea snakes are saying. And what the reptiles and other aboriginal animals on
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      • 569 8 rjsio^ v t time j |AjA Improve your career prospects fOf .ar *E~^B^^^7* T *?'*Lr'*\) ou can shape vour career path when >ou embark on a Home 9 CMS offers you a wide choice of opportunities. Select the one that's right for you. SINGAPORE COMPANY gKKKT™" H £__r" > I
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    • HABITAT
      • 992 9  - The adventures of Puff, the decor destroyer ROSEMARY CHEN By Puff, the decor destroyer, visited our homes It frolicked midst the drapes inc. plants And fouled up our rooms IT LOOKED like any other invitation to Christmas lunch except for the extra line beneath the telephone number you called to
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      • 444 9 IS THE new headquarters of insurance brokers. Lloyd's of London, a marvel of high-tech architecture or a monstrosity 0 The issue is still being debated, four months after the extravagantly avant-garde building was officially opened. Made of metal and glass. with pipes
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      • 327 9 LLOYD'S new building is the fourth the insurance brokers have occupied this century. Built on the site of its 1928 headquarters, the new place incorporates many unique construction features in its design. The building fulfils the prime requirement of a single underwriting Room
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      • 224 9 A FEW practical consider ations could relieve homeowners of any decor worries when there's a smoker in the home Finish wooden furniture with a non burn synthetic lacquer that needs no polish ing. Use lami.iatec furniture that is easy to wipe clean with a
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    • Page 9 Advertisements
      • 94 9 ZMJHf rwrnture fiuperwßfyetf^ 87 An Important Fair For New Homeowners More than 1,000 items on display More than 20,000 prizes must be won in the Instant Draw, including a brand /.C^ArtPt? 171^**^ new car and home appliances /^SjAOU^-!--— -d^iv It's the time to buy furniture at competitive prices >/ la\J^^m\r
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    • TRAVEL
      • 1142 10 TAN CHUNG LEE samples the ski runs of the Savoie, the French alpine kingdom of 17 resorts, which offer dream slopes of powder snow right up to June and a chance to hobnob with stars, from $278 a week. WHETHER expert or novice, skiers expect
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      • 129 10 THE Singapore agent for France Ski International is UTA French Airlines, which offers seven-day ski packages to any of the 17 FSI resorts, starting from $278 a person (low season rates) for a seven-day stay on a twin-sharing basis in a two-star hotel with daily continental breakfast included.
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      • 491 10 ALONG with the expensive and highly prized shark's fins and bird's nest dishes, the menus of Hongkong's better restaurants list pigeon. For some diners, however, the small and tender birds are perhaps even more desirable if they come from Shek-Ki (Zhongshan), a town in Guangdong
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    • Page 10 Advertisements
      • 640 10 72 glorious holidays to be won! j_jS 11 The Brilliant v^ inai International and the Through most of 1987, we will be running the "Brilliant Thailand on Us" quiz. Totlrism Authority Of are Once every month, you will find an entry form in your Sunday Times, 1 1 Straits Times
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