The Straits Times, 26 July 1987

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  • 14 1 The Sunday Times No. 2668 55 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 109/12/86 JULY 26, 1987
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  • 681 1  -  SURESH NAIR By HE CAME from obscurity on the fringe of the underworld to notoriety as a "master of disguises", a fugitive whose name is on every lawman's lips. Now he is Singapore's most wanted man. Lim Keng Peng, also known
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  • 515 1  - We should learn Malay, says BG Lee YANG RAZALI KASSIM it's one way to forge ties with Jakarta By Jakarta Correspondent MEDAN Trade and Industry Minister Brig-Gen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong yesterday returned to Singapore after a five-day visit to Indonesia, convinced that language should be made a bridge of
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  • 226 1 Peace within a week, Jayewardene promises COLOMBO Peace la week, Sri Lankan President Juntas Juyewnrdeae ptmlsiid yesterday In dlsetoslng details ef a plan to stop the Tamil mtotlltoa Mr Jay e warden* said he will •lea an accord with Indian Prime Minister Ralv Gandhi an Wednesday, "nad terrorism wUI end
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  • 503 1 Verdict m on Zeebruge disaster LONDON A HIGH Court judge yesterday handed down a scathing indictment of ferry owners Townsend Thoresen for the rampant sloppiness "from top to bottom" that resulted m Britain's worst peacetime marine disaster m 75 years. Lord Justice Barry Sheen
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    • 9 1 Joan Collins walks into the sunset, triumphant: Page 5
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • AT A GLANCE
      • 82 2 Mathias Rust, the teenage West German pilot who landed a plane near Red Square, is to stand trial m a Soviet court soon, the West German embassy has said. Rust, 19, who will be provided with a Soviet defence lawyer, will have to convince the court
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      • 84 2 Secretary of State George Shultz has blamed the Iran-Contra scandal on White House aides he accused of concocting their own foreign policy and then using gross deceit to hide it from President Ronald Reagan and other senior US officials. In a surprisingly forceful and widely applauded two
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      • 67 2 au- Best-selling thor Jeffrey Archer has won a record £500,000 (Ssl.7 million) m libel damages from a British newspaper, The Star, m a suit over a story that he had sex with a prostitute. The award, plus costs estimated at £700,000, was made against the tabloid
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      • 79 2 The Thai gov- ernment has launched a wide-scale relief operation to help victims of the country's worst drought m a decade, Radio Thailand said. Its Local Administration Department has set up relief task units at district and provincial levels to dispatch aid to farmers. Other government agencies
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      • 54 2 They may be junk to kampung folk about to be resettled but broken chairs and old furniture are potential antiques to these men (above). They are the "runners" for antique dealers, the modem-day karang-guni men who scour around for discarded furniture that may be transformed into
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      • 58 2 Twen- ty-seven searchlight beams will lance into the night sky above the Padang at Singapore's 22nd birthday bash. They will come on during the grand finale of the twilight parade which includes a four-minute fireworks display, a torchlight spectacle and the simultaneous lightup of the Padang
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    • SPORTS
      • 75 2 At an age when most footballers are past their prime, England goalkeeper Peter Shilton, who turns 39 next month, is still going strong. Shilton has a new challenge with Derby County, his fifth club, on a three-year contract worth almost a £1 million (553.4 million). But although
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      • 77 2 singa- pore won the inaugural Razak Cup hockey competition m 1963 m Kuala Lumpur, thanks to a last-minute goal by Harbhajan Singh Loomba. Today, the Republic are back m XL for the same tournament, but their chances are bleak. Loomba, now the national coach, feels the team
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      • 79 2 Australia were se- verely tested before they managed to overcome China 6-5 m the Pesta Sukan five-nation invitational water polo tournament at the Chinese Swimming Club yesterday. The Western Australians, who surprised many when they held a Soviet club to a 9-9 draw on Friday, were
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    • A deep sonorous boom, a tanker hit and the heat rises m the Gulf
      • 931 2 KUWAIT THE Kuwaiti tanker Bridgeton limped into port yesterday with a hole blasted m its hull by a suspected Iranian mine. But the Reagan administration rejected any suggestion that it would abandon its policy of giving military protection to the 11 Kuwaiti ships registered
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      • 557 2  - The next time may force Reagan's hand TOM WICKER By A commentary m the New York Times IF ANYONE, from the White House on down, thought the protective presence of US Navy vessels would guarantee safe passage for reflagged tankers through the Persian Gulf, the mine that exploded against the
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    • 1254 3  -  KONG SOOK CHIN How have our monuments survived the passage of time? By IMAGINE graffiti scrawled on America's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, underwear draped on Britain's statue of Admiral Nelson m Trafalgar Square, garbage strewn around Japan's memorial to the atomic-bomb
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    • 141 3 NOBODY knows how many civilians were killed by the Japanese Army during the occupation of Singapore between Feb 15, 1942, and Aug 18, 1945. However, the Japanese later admitted killing 5,000 Singapore Chinese m the first week after they
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    • 63 2 STATISTICS THAT SHAPE THE COUNTRY Fewer delivery vans DELIVERYMEN and the self-employed are making do with fewer pickup trucks and vans. The number of goods vehicles, which peaked in May 1985, has declined with each passing month. No. of goods IVCfKMS 100,600 107,500 111,800 109,900 107,700 nov 1380 106,000 Apr
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 208 2 UP TO 1 pm. Showers over several areas from late mommf TEMP. (C) up to 6 am tomonow: 32 max.. 25 mm SUNSET today: 7.17 pm; Sunrise tomorrow: 7.06 am. trawlers 1 heather naenati 8 12 C Rain !>■■■>■ 14/21 C Sunny laajaaafaaj 13 19 C Cloudy Lac Aagelea 16/27
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 255 4 Pregnant woman kidnapped, strangled and then baby ripped out ALBUQUERQUE (New Mexico) A 19-year-old woman kidnapped a pregnant woman from a clinic and strangled her, then cut the baby from her womb and took the child to a hospital claiming the infant as her own. Darci Kayleen Pierce was charged
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    • 515 4 GENEVA Swiss justice authorities said yesterday the Lebanese Shi'ite gunman who hijacked an Air Afrique airliner will be tried m Switzerland for murder and taking hostages. Swissair said it was tightening security on its planes and at airports m Switzerland because of possible
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    • 283 4 NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi shifted his Foreign Minister and took temporary personal charge of the ministry m a minor Cabinet reshuffle yesterday, a government spokesman said. Mr Narain Dutt Tiwari, 62, who became Foreign Minister m October 1986, was moved to the
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    • 79 4 NEW DELHI India's new President Ramaswamy Venkataraman warned that an erosion of confidence m public institutions could have disastrous consequences for India. In his inaugural address after being sworn m as the eighth Indian Head of State at Parliament yesterday, he pledged to work to
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    • 273 4 SEOUL South Korea's ruling and opposition party leaders will begin high-level talks this week on revising the current constitution to allow for popular election of the next president. The agreement was hammered out at a meeting of the secretariesgeneral of the ruling
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    • 101 4 Union Carbide to pay $857,850 in penalties WASHINGTON Union Carbide has agreed to pay U*****,500 (*****.850) m penalties to settle charges that it failed to provide respiratory protection to employees exposed to undetermined levels of a deadly gas and violated book-keeping laws. The chemical manufacturer settled the charges of violations
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    • 649 5 Joan Collins walks into the sunset, alone and triumphant LOS ANGELES Peter says he still loves Joan. Joan says she will never marry again, never, never. His lawyer says Peter was duped. Her lawyer says Peter is a greedy, grasping man. The judge says Peter
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    • 267 5 Taiwan plans to relax ban on China books TAIPEI Taiwan plans to relax a ban on importing mainland Chinese publications that do not promote communism, a government official said yesterday. Director of Publications of the Government Information Office, Mr Lee Mo-Ping, said the ban could be lifted In September, and
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    • 206 5 SEATTLE A United States court has ruled that Japanese families suing Boeing Company for additional damages over the crash of a Japan Airlines 747 jumbo let that killed 520 people m 1965 m Japan, will have to sue the company m their own
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    • 327 5 Shi'ite group threatens France with suicide squads BEJjRUT The French-Iranian crisis entered its second week yesterday amid renewed pressure on France from pro-Iranian groups m Lebanon, including a threat to use suicide squads. At nightfall on Friday, as Iranian and French diplomats remained surrounded inside their embassies m each other's
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    • 206 5 Israeli army loses battle of the beret TEL A VTV The Israeli army has admitted defeat m an eight-year battle to force its soldiers, known for their casual appearance, to smarten up by wearing berets. An army statement quoted m a report published by the International Herald Tribune yesterday said
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    • 202 5 LONDON At least 100 people were killed when a river burst its banks following torrential rains m eastern Iran, the Iranian news agency Irna said m a report monitored here yesterday. Another 36 people were injured m the flood when the Boojhan River
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    • 110 5 LONDON The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was limping back to England from Gibraltar yesterday after suffering the latest in a series of technical problems since a £100 million (Ss33o million) refit earlier this year. A spokesman for Cunard, the ship's British operators,
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    • 224 6 MOSCOW Mathias Rust, the teenage West German pilot who landed a plane near Red Square, is to stand trial m a Soviet court, the West German embassy has said. "The embassy has been informed that the investigation into Mr Rust has been completed," a
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    • 121 6 NAIROBI Commonwealth education ministers have announced plans to set up an open university, teaching students throughout the world through broadcasts and correspondence courses. A statement issued by the ministers at the end of a five-day meeting m Nairobi on Friday said the scheme to
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    • PEOPLE
      • 94 6 If walls could speak A BLANK garden wall is now Salvador Dali's sole source of inspiration. Recently, a friend said, the surrealist painter saw Greta Garbo's lips float past. At 83, the "Divine Dali" spends hours on end staring out his bedroom window at the wall, but he no longer
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      • 96 6 A 35- YEAR-OLD Cameroonian singer, Mongo Fay a, who already lives with 36 wives, has married six more. The official Cameroon Tribune newspaper said he married all six at a civil wedding ceremony on July 11 m the port city of Douala, Cameroon's economic capital. Faya's
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      • 112 6 A BAT gave up its life so that Brazilian President Jose Sarney (above left) and Argentine President Raul Alfonsin (right) might be spared a severe case of food poisoning. Officials said Mr Alfonsin and Mr Sarney were spared when Argentine food experts fed a laboratory
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      • 73 6 EMPEROR HIROHITU will travel m October to Okinawa, the only prefecture m south-western Japan that he has not officially visited since the end of World War 11. An Imperial Household Agency official said the emperor visited all other prefectures between 1946 and 1954, but Okinawa was excluded
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      • 95 6 TWO VANDALS who tried to destroy a Stockholm memorial at the spot where Sweden's Premier Olof Palme was killed were seized by an angry crowd. Mourners have been placing fresh red roses and other flowers at the site every day, beginning o:ily hours after Mr Palme's slaying
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      • 104 6 JESSICA HAHN has sold her story to Playboy magazine and the upcoming revelations about her tryst with disgraced TV evangelist Jim Bakker will "stun the country" but there will be no nude pictures, her attorney said. The lawyer for the 27-year-old woman from the Long
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    • 270 7 China's bid to produce Einsteins from 1,000 child geniuses BEIJING More than 1,000 Chinese "child prodigies" are currently taking special classes in schools and universities in the hope that they will become "Chinese Einsteins", the People's Daily reported yesterday. Such elite classes exist in 16 primary and secondary schools and
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    • 49 7 MOSCOW The Soviet Union has developed a new helicopter that can lift and haul up to 20 tonnes, Tass reported. It said the MI-26T helicopter can lift a tractor and haul it at speeds of up to 290 km h for up to 700 km. AP
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    • 547 7 The Iran-Contra scandal WASHINGTON Secretary of State George Shultz has blamed the Iran-Contra scandal on White House aides he accused of concocting their own foreign policy, and then using gross deceit to hide it from President Ronald Reagan and other senior United
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    • 165 7 When CIA chief tried to get Shultz sacked WASHINGTON As the Iran-Contra scandal was breaking open, former Central Intelligence Agency director William Casey tried to oust Secretary of State George Shultz, arguing in a letter to President Ronald Reagan that Mr Shultz was disloyal, it was disclosed on Friday. The
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    • 234 7 WASHINGTON President Ronald Reagan has picked a tough, no-nonsense federal judge from Texas to be the new head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Mr William Sessions, a wiry 57-year-old who is known as an enthusiastic mountaineer, was named to succeed Mr William
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    • 235 7 ATLANTA Delta Air Lines has said it will offer refunds on tickets to anyone concerned about flying the airline after recent mishaps. Mr Jim Ewing, a company spokesman, said the airline "has had a fraction of a fraction of cancellations" since Delta's in-flight
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    • 333 8 LONDON Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has predicted there would be a satisfactory solution to the problem of the Pershing 1-A missiles m West Germany that are a stumbling block m the US-Soviet arms control talks. Mrs Thatcher said she believed the superpowers were
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    • 243 8 JERUSALEM Moscow has cautioned Israel to "think twice" about developing a nu-clear-capable missile that could reach the Soviet Union. But Israeli officials have downplayed the importance of the Kremlin statement, which came m a Hebrew-language commentary broadcast by Radio Moscow on Thursday. The Soviet
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    • 183 8  - Reagan dares Soviets to prove good intentions ONG MING SEING By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON President Ronald Reagan has challenged the Soviet Union to prove that it wants peace by withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. Speaking to a gathering here on Friday to commemorate Captive Nations Week, Mr Reagan said the
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    • 670 8 Newspaper ordered to pay record $1.7 m in damages LONDON Best-selling author Jeffrey Archer has won record libel damages from a British newspaper m a drama-filled suit over a story that he had sex with a prostitute. At the end of a hearing
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    • 65 8 ROTTERDAM Two typists at a margarine factory had to run for their lives on Friday when a Norwegian freighter crashed through the wall of their waterfront office, police said. The 400- tonne, 35-metre Hedlo, moving out of the 50-metre-wide Nassau Docks, smashed its bow through as
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    • 110 8 Badge vandal's vendetta against the rich LONDON Unemployed Stephan Bucknall developed his own unusual vendetta against those wealthier than himself he wrenched the badges off expensive motor cars. A London court heard on Friday how police trapped him m the act of tearing a badge off a Mercedes m the
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    • 114 8 Dow Jones NEW YORK Wall Street stocks rose on Friday as the market was buoyed by news that the American economy grew more than expected m the second quarter and by a dramatic rally on the Tokyo exchange, dealers said. The Dow Jones
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 278 9 MANILA The Philippine military is more than 20 years behind other armies m South-east Asia, Armed Forces Chief General Fidel Ramos said last Friday. Gen Ramos, whose troops are fighting communist guerillas m the countryside and Muslim rebels m the south, said
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    • 296 9 BANGKOK The government has launched a wide-scale relief operation to aid victims of Thailand's worst drought m a decade, Radio Thailand said. It quoted Interior Minister Prachuab Suntarangkoon as saying on Friday that the Local Administration Department had set up relief task units at
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    • 347 9 Philippines puts troops on alert for opening of Congress MANILA The military chief of staff placed troops and police m a dozen provinces around the capital on full alert yesterday to prevent any disruption of tomorrow's inaugural session of the Philippine Congress. A statement from military headquarters said Gen Fidel
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    • 334 9  -  ALBERT RAMALINGAM By Bangkok Correspondent BANGKOK The Khmer Rouge has pledged that it will not grab power and run Cambodia when the Vietnamese occupation of that country ends. Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan told an international conference on Cambodia here yesterday that not
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    • 146 9 France offers to help find Cambodian solution JAKARTA Frances Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Didier Bariani. who ended a three-day official visit here yesterday, has told Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja that France was willing to help m the search for peace m Cambodia if the interested parties wanted
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 270 10  - Let Health Ministry employ doctors, says medical group R VASANTHI By KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Medical Association iMMA) has appealed to the govr rnment to rescind the recent ruling disallowing the Health Ministry from employing medical officers. MMA president Dr Yeoh Poh Hong said the rule tha f delegated the
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    • 351 10 Thailand wants to send more to Singapore PONTIAN Johor) Thailand has asked Malaysia to lift the quota on Thai lorries carrying vegetables, fruit and fish to Singapore. Deputy Agriculture Minister Alex Lee said he believed the request arose from the problems Malaysia was having
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    • 158 10 KUALA LUMPUR Prices of greens have fallen over the last few days, thanks to the abundance of durians m the market. People are skipping dinner to eat durians because they are cheap, according to the secretary of the Kuala Lumpur
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    • 296 10 Four held after sleeping girl is snatched from car KLUANG (Johor) A three-year-old girl was snatched from a car while her family stopped at a shop near here to have drinks during their drive to Singapore. Foo Hoi Choi was abducted on Thursday evening by four men while she was
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    • 133 10 Britain agrees to continue grant for Malaysian students LONDON Britain has agreed to continue providing the education grant for Malaysians studying here beyond 1988, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. The agreement, he added, was reached during his talks with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. However, the amount
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    • 134 10 Malaysia will buy arms from Soviets, if it has to, says Rithauddeen KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has not discounted the possibility of buying military equipment from the Soviet Union, Defence Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen said yesterday. "We want to upgrade our military equipment and if this is obtainable only from the
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    • 207 10 KUALA LUMPUR The High Court yesterday allowed five Umno members, including party secretary-general Datuk Sanusi Junid, a 30-day extension to file their defence against a suit by 12 party members. The order was made by Justice Datuk Harun Hashim m chambers,
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 872 11  -  JOSEPHINE NG Stories by 4 People are suddenly realising that this kind of furniture is fashionable. Because there are not enough original pieces to go around m Singapore, the copies are better than nothing. OLDER Singaporeans may not think twice before
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    • 611 11 Treasure hunters look for junk' on kampung trail A EAMPUNG has been marked for demoli tion and Its lesticets are bnsy packing op to be resettled. Broken chairs and bite of old furniture and hand-me-down leasehold Items that are of no use lay discarded and piled ap like junk la
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    • 408 12  - Singapore and Indonesia agree to work for more tourism and trade YANG RAZALI KASSIM By Jakarta Correspondent MEDAN Singapore and Indonesia have agreed m principle to work closer m joint tourism and facilitate greater trade between the two countries, Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong and Singapore tourism chief Lim Chin
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    • 682 12  -  RONNIE LIM SERENA TOH By I and THE taps ran dry m more than 6,000 homes yesterday afternoon and residents had to find out m a hurry where and how to get water. That was the idea behind Singapore's second emergency water
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    • 212 12 METHODIST Girls' School has distinguished itself with its academic excellence, Education Minister Dr Tony Tan said yesterday at the school's 100 th anniversary Founder's Day Dinner. Dr Tan said the school could be proud of having produced several Queen's Scholars and President Scholars. In
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    • 61 12 THE Port of Singapore Authority said yesterday the oil pollution on the East Coast Park and Changi beach has been cleared up. Mopping-up operations was completed by mid-afternoon. The slick hit the east and west coasts after the 81,400-tonne Elhani, sailing from Libya to Kaohsiung m
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    • 321 13 WHAT a day for the Thevendrans. And this picture tells it all. Their seven-year-old Senkodan had not only won first prize for telling a story m Tamil on stage but had also emerged tops m singing. "We felt great! Winning one prize is something but he
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    • 358 13 A MALAYSIAN businessman yesterday pleaded guilty to cheating the local branch of the Philippine National Bank by trying to cash two stolen bank drafts worth US$3O million (Ss63 million) earlier this month. District Judge Chang Kok Ming deferred sentence on Ernest Clement Fabian Skelchy.
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    • 428 14  -  MICHAEL LIM The flash-whee-bang show to lead to the national anthem By TWENTY-SEVEN searchlight beams will lance into the night sky above the Padang at Singapore's 22nd birthday bash. They will come on during the grand finale of the twilight parade which
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    • 298 14  -  AGNES WEE By THE pampered occupants of this room with a view on the 65th floor of the world's tallest hotel can get an eyeful of the National Day parade through curtain-draped windows from an elegant French divan. Welcome to the split-level
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    • 261 14 SEVEN Malay cultural organisations will hold a month-long drive early next year m an effort to enrich the Malay language and culture. The organisers plan to invite language practitioners such as poets, writers and artistes from Indonesia and Malaysia to take part. Some of
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    • 328 14 A MALAY community leader last night called on mosques to provide counselling service for troubled Muslims m Singapore. This service could be run along the lines of the Samaritans of Singapore with voluntary help from Muslim social science graduates. The
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    • 123 14 Mortar shell in rubbish heap is harmless THE mortar shell found m a rubbish heap m Geylang East last week was a harmless casing fabricated from discarded parts, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday. The ministry m a statement said there were no identification marks on the casing, which contained
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      • 315 15 IT IS commonplace enough: ambitious executives squeezing more into an already full day by going for a heavy workout on the way home. Now we're told by a leisure consultant, m Friday's Straits Times, that such type-A executives might well end up doing themselves
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      • 109 15 What The Sunday Times reported on July 22, 1962 THE Government has tightened up disciplinary measures against civil servants under new regulations published m a Government Gazette supplement last night. Under these regulations, a public servant will be liable for punishment if he speaks disparagingly of the
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    • 1174 15 As DATIN RAFIDAH walks m the corridors of power, toes get stepped on 4 No one m Malaysian poMes doubts that this signify plump, bespectacled woman can hold her own m the male-dominated Cabinet, which has only one other female. Many observers go
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  • FOCUS/Analysis
    • 872 16  - Bold idea of trust fund for Muslims still in limbo Salim Osman 4 Muslim leaders and the Government must decide the next step, and decide soon. After two years, the early excitement over Danamis is am m danger of turning into disillusionment. THEY called it Danamis: A bold idea to
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    • 787 16  - Can all-powerful TV tell the truth like it is? Kwan W eng Kin fcKMia* The way Lt-Col North (left) dealt with the questions aroused much sympathy for him as his responses were clear, spontaneous and uncontrived. But such was the impact of his television performance that viewers lost sight of
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    • 954 16  -  Chandra Muzaffar Does it make sense to speak of so much wealth for bumiputras, so much for non-bumiputras and so much for foreigners? People are deluded into believing that each and every member of a particular ethnic group benefits directly from
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    • 481 16 WHEN the Singapore team won three gold medals at the World Culinary Arts Festival 1987, beating Canada, the United States and Switzerland into second, third and fourth places respectively, I gave my nephew Alex a little celebration treat at the Mid-Summer Gourmet Restaurant. It
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    • 1838 17 They could become a potentially explosive problem Lay Fong graduated two years ago with a chemistry degree. She is still jobless. Hashim returned with an engineering degree from the United States. He is now a sawmill labourer. Sudirman, also a graduate, fries chicken and hawks it at
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      • 298 17 A question of responsibility IN LAST week's Sunday Times story "A man convicted, others left free", Anne Low gave her view of the trial of Klaus Barbie m Lyon, where she was visiting. She quite rightly contrasts his conviction with many criminals of his ilk who have escaped punishment. She
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      • 245 17 Helpless men i r ccl. compeuea to write alter reading a couple of articles in The Sunday Times. One was on children who do housework and the other was on family trends. I commend parents who give their children opportunities to help with the housework. I believe this helps develop
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  • RACING
    • 410 18  -  PEDIGREE By Our man on the track PENANG Although 1,200 m may be a bit short for him, My Tempio is m such fine trim that he can upset his more fancied rivals m Race 5, the unofficial Sprint Trophy trial for
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    • 344 18 RACE RACING ED O_OKMEE TONTO LUCKY LEO I MISTER X 4 T, Jr *A am Telepethy 8 Mister Hueh 2 Telepathy -1 1 Evergreen 1 EVergreen 1 Evergreen 1 Evergreen 1 Evergreen 9 Mister Hush 2 Telepathy 9 Mister Hush 4 Trigger 9 Mister Hush t
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    • 261 18  - Let's March should be too speedy for rivals LUCKY LEO By LET'S MARCH is all speed and will take some catching m the Class 1 Div 3 sprint over 1.200 m (Race 6) at Penang today. A five-year-old Australian entire by Scarlet Man, Let's March has been running good races
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    • 60 18 RACE 1: Cabochon 11, Pokotoli. RACE 4: Magari n. Little Papa, Air Marshal IV, Sir Toby n. Kushinagar. RACE 5: Money Mart. Meor Romeo, Deer Hunter, Purple Rain, Beat The Clock, Ski Fantasy, You Are Special. RACE C: Thanks A Lot, Lead In, Ruby Kid. RACE 7: Nuclear Number,
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    • 47 18 DONE A DEAL, holder of the I,loom Bukit Timah course record (short course) has been deleted. The gelding set up the record (1:4.8 sec) m 1985 while m the restricted terms class. He was m Class 3 at the time of his deletion.
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    • 2025 19 'Problem' horse Siapa Rajah makes it all the way By OUR RACING TEAM BIG SWEEP FIRST *****5 SECOND *****9 THIRD *****5 STARTERS *****6 *****8 *****3 *****2 *****6 *****3 *****0 *****5 *****7 *****0 CONSOLATIONS *****4 *****1 *****7 *****3 *****9 *****1 *****5 *****2 *****8 *****5 PENANG "Problem" horse SUpa Rajah V. who
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    • 202 19 PENANG Despite a shoulder injury which kept him out of the saddle for several weeks early this season, Jockey K.L. Oo has shot to Joint third spot m the overall Jockeys' table behind expatriate riders Rick Dominguez and Grant Cookaley. After
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    • 263 19 shifted m towards the rails, and at the I,ooom. Time Tunnel was carried m by Tap Dance Wizard and inconvenienced Scooby, who m turn hampered His Toy, racing on the rails. Rounding the 800 m, Apple Of My Eye had to ease off
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    • 255 19 LONDON Reference Point, ridden by Steve Cauthen, produced a brilliant front-running performance to win the King George and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes over 2,400 m yesterday. The Epsom Derby winner and 11-10 favourite led all the way and had his eight rivals, which included
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 204 20 181 Deaths 181 Deaths MDM CHUA BENG CHOO AGED: 78 YEARS Wite of SOH LOCK ANN (DECEASED) Paaaed away peacefully on 2S July "87, leaving behind beloved SONS DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW Soh Jin Hln Wong Soon Wan Son Jin Tat Soh Glm Huat Suml Soh Soh Glm Teck Chan Pul Yee DAUGHTERS
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      32 20 STEVEN CHAN SWEE TUCK AGED: 71 was called home to be with the Lord on 25 7 87 ■eaty lyina at aik. 3. Hillvlew Avanua (Void Dock), Princoss EMiobalfi Eatota.
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    • 44 20 Our heartfelt condolences and deepen sympathies To The Family Of MR. LIE LIANBAH On the demise of his father-in-law MR. QOEY KE TONG of Indonesia From FEAT METAL ENGINEERING A TRADING COMPANY 29A Opal Crescent Singapore "l MR. WILLIAM MOK Staff ~n
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    • 41 20 HJ AHMAD B. MOHD Departed 16th Jury 1987 Wife and ion of tho lata HJ. Ahmad wiahaa to aitand thatr appreciation to the Indonaoian Embassy, raiativa* and friends tor thaw rendatawcaa. assistants and donations daring their recent Tefc *****74
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      96 20 THALAI THEVASAM P. SINGARAS Departed 7-S-wf A year has passed Since we lost you so suddenly Time win never erase Our treasured memories of you; Nor will Time heal the Bleeding heart that yearns For you everyday. You will always live In our hearts For all eternity.
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    • 144 20 183 Condolences 183 Condolences Our Deepest Sympathy to the Family of the Late DR. WONG NANG EONG From: The Doctor* and Staff of MT. Elizabeth Lithotripter Contra With deepest sympathy to the family of DR. WONG NANG EONG Former anaesthetist S.G.M. Singapore pioneer surgeon m TURP surgery S.G.H. from senior
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      89 20 In Loving Memory of JOHN TAN KIM PUAY Departed 26/7/86 They who think that you are gone. Because no more your face they see. Are wrong for In our hearts you live; And always will. In memory Fondly remembered by Family A Loved Ones In Loving Memory
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      50 20 nth ANNIVERSARY RICHARD CHAN CHEE CHOR Departed 26/7/74 Always remembered by your wife daughter. m LovlftQ M+tnory of ANDY MICHAEL Departed 28.7.ai Your memory Is as dear today As on the day you passed away. Always ramambarad by mum. grandpa. brother. sister*, brother, in-law. nephews a niece
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  • SPORT
    • 904 20  - Derby ready to bank on ageing Shilton ROB HUGHES At 39, Pete bags the big bucks m his backyard TsiMi of Sescer He will moan, bawl, cajole and demand that Derby stiffen their backs. Defenders' blunders threaten his net and they won't risk his wrath too often. In this respect
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    • 699 20  -  ALAN HUBBARD 'Le H bombs' living it up after being lured to paradise by princely sums Always on Sunday |U| ONACO is to world class foot- ball what Wimbledon is to sepak takraw. What they know about passing down Monte Carlo way
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    • 126 20 ARGENTINIAN Diego Maradona will play for the Rest of the World XI against England at Wembley m London on Aug 8. He will paid £90,000 ($309,600) for the appearance. IRELAND international Kevin Sheedy and his Everton team-mate Adrian Heath escaped with a warning from the English Football Association
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    • 530 20 Nasir works magic for Trengganu MALAYSIA CUP WRAP-UP...By J. RAJENDRAN WITH his flowing beard and his hypnotic eyes, Nasir Jalil gives the impression that he is a madman m the Rasputin mould. Indeed his looks and exploits m the Malaysia Cup have enabled him to live up to his nickname,
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    • 18 20 KANGAR Perlis beat Malacca 3-1 m a lb biyria Cup-tie at Stadiurr \hmad yesln
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    • 1073 21 Loomba looks to day when Singapore will be a force again MAHMOOD GAZNAVI AT THE RAZAK CUP HOCKEY TOURNAMENT IN KUALA LUMPUR It has got cv- erything to do with attitude. Those days, the players played with feeling. They played because they wanted nothing m less than a win. Loomba
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    • 460 21 Delgado hangs on to 21sec lead over Roche TOUR DE FRANCE DIJON Spain's Pedro Delgado clung on to his slim 21 -second lead over Irishman Stephen Roche on Friday, setting the scene for a thrilling climax to the Tour de France this weekend. They both finished the 224-km 23rd stage
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    • 483 21 HARTFORD West Germany are lust one victory away from knocking hosts the United States out of the World Group and a shot at next year's Davis Cup tennis title. Boris Becker outlasted American rival John McEnroe 4-6, 15--13, 8-10, 6-2, 6-2 m a record 6hr
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    • 373 21 SYDNEY The Joe Bugner bandwagon continued trundling towards world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson on Friday after a convincing points victory over American Greg Page at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Bugner was a clear winner at the end of the 10-round bout one judge scored him
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    • 214 21 SYDNEY Second-seeded Rodney Martin, of Australia, eased through to semi-finals of the Sydney Grand Prix squash tournament on Friday with a 9-6, 9-7, 9-3 win over compatriot Austin Adarraga. Martin joins top seed Jahangir Khan, of Pakistan, and two other Australians, Ross Thome and
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    • 283 21 SPORT WORLDWIDE ATHLETICS Valeric Brisco won the women's 200 metres m 22.28 seconds at the United States Olympic festival m Durham on Friday. Another US Olympian, Thomas Jefferson, won the men's 200 m m 20.38 sec. Other wtaaera Men's 4ttm Bardic*: Tranel Hawkins 48.89. Wamea'i 3,Mtm: Lynn Jennings Bmin 56.895ec.
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    • 471 21 Amitraj brothers put Indians into the last four NEW DELHI India's Vijay Amitraj and his brother Anand teamed up to defeat Shlom Glickstein and Gilard Bloom, of Israel, 6-2, 6-2, 7-5 m the doubles of the Davis Cup World Group quarter-fi-nal here yesterday, giving India an unbeatable 3-0 lead and
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    • 386 21 WORLD GROUP QUARTER-FINALS India S laraet (Indians first): Vijay Amritra} bt Amos Mansdorf 6-4, 6-4, 7-5; Vijay and Anand Amritra] bt Shlomo Glickstein and Gilad Bloom 6-2, 6-2. 7-5. ABStrsJJa 2 Mexfea I (Australians first): Peter Doohan and Wally Masur v Jorge Lozano and Leonardo Lavalle
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    • 183 22  -  ALBERT JOHNSON AS EXPECTED. Singapore's A and B teams found the going too rough m the Pesta Sukan Five-Nation invitational water polo tournament yesterday. Singapore A were beaten 11-6 by Hungary and 15-6 by the Soviets while Singapore B lost 19-4 to Australia
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    • 438 22  -  ALBERT JOHNSON By Morelli's winner at the last minute beats Chinese Australia struggled to beat China 6-5 m the Pesta Sukan Five-Nation invitational water polo tournament at Chinese Swimming Club yesterday. The Australians, who surprised tans when they held the fancied Soviets to a 9-9 draw
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    • 605 22 ON FOREIGN AND LOCAL FAIRWAYS Ace at fifth hole helps Jerry score a record 63 for a two-stroke lead m Dutch Open HILVERSUM (Holland) Canada's Jerry Anderson holed-in-one with an eight-iron at the 125-yard fifth hole tor a course-record 63 to take a two-stroke halfway
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    • 144 22 Samson 1 1 shots ahead SAMSON GLMSON pulled away to an 11-stroke lead after 36 holes of the Sentosa Invitation Golf Championship with a record-equalling round of two-under-par 70 at the Serapong Course yesterday. He matched the record, set by Madasamy Murugiah on May 31 m the Premier League competition,
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    • 120 22 C.K. LAU and H. C. Chiu, representing Hercules Rubber, proved to be a winning partnership when they fired a nett five-under-par 67 to bag the Mth Singapore Manufacturers Association YIP golf championship at the Tanah Merah Country Club yesterday. A stroke behind on 68 were
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    • J. RAJENDRAN ON THE RUGBY SCENE
      • 216 22 Hill Delamain beat Schools A LATE try by hooker Ang Meng Kwan paved the way for Hill and Delamain's 6-3 win over Combined Schools White m the National Under-20 rugby final at Grange Road yesterday. Schools were the dominant team for most of the match, but they were denied victory
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      • 337 22 Welshman Thomas named coach for national squad 6 Age is immaterial so long as they have the ability, the right attitude and are prepared to die for their m country. Morgan WELSHMAN Morgan Thomas, a Loughborough-trained lecturer at the College of Physical Education, has been appointed national rugby coach. Thomas,
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      • 109 22 SYDNEY New Zealand's All-Blacks scored two tries m »he last four minutes to regain the Bledisloe Cup from Australia with c 30-16 win (one goal, three tries, three penalties and a drop goal to a try, three penalties and a drop goal) at Concord
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    • 191 22 HARON MUNDIR ended C. Kunalan's 18-year-old national record m the men's 200 m when he streaked to 21.145 ec at the 7th Asian Track and Field Championships on Friday. His performance will, no doubt, also move the judges when they meet to decide the winner
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    • 400 22  -  LEE WAI WUN WINDSURFING By WINDSURFING ace Ramie Salleh, who has represented Singapore m every major regatta the past few years, is a notable absentee from the squad to September's Southeast Asia Games m Jakarta. Ramie, the 1985 Asian champion who has ruled local
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    • 297 22 WEST GERMAN GRAND PRIX COUNTDOWN HOCKENHEIM (West Germany) Briton Nigel Mansell maintained his lead over arch-rival and Williams team-mate Nelson Piquet, of Brazil, on Friday when he claimed provisional pole position for today's West German Grand Prix. Mansell, hunting his third consecutive win after
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    • 287 22 LOCAL SHORTS TERENCE TAN was a deserving winner of the July Youth Bowler of the Month final at Striker's Bowl yesterday. The 17-year-old averaged 203.3 with 1,830 pinfalls over nine games 99 more than run-ner-up Ivan Chua. Remits 1 Terence Tan
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    • 692 23  -  JANICE SEAH By 4 First of all because we are taking part in this years South-east Asia Games and alto to giva these two soma exposure...Also, competing here is our way of gaining more recognition from the in- ternationai bodies Pou Sothirak. spokesman tor the Kampuchean National Olympic
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    • 322 23 LIKE any thoroughbred, Talal Mansoor dubbed the Black Stallion, has become the hottest, odds-on property of the race track. Suddenly every country with an athletic meet wants his name to appear on the programme. Sri Lankan officials think they may have an edge m actually getting it into
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    • 1028 23 TODAY'S PTOGKAMME MORNING SESSION: 7 .Mam: 20km walk men's final. B. Mam: 110 m hurdles men decathlon. B, Ham: Discus men decathlon. 19.14 am: Pole vault men decathlon. AFTERNOON SESSION: 2.3fpm: 4xloom men's semi-fi-nals. Javelin men decathlon. High jump women's final. 2.45pm: 4xloom women's semi-finals. S.Mpm: 1,500 m
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    • 439 23  -  HAKIKAT RAI Preview. ALL EYES will focus on the men's and women's 4xloo metres this afternoon, where Asian continental record holders China are expected to run the opposition into the ground. Their men's quartet comprising Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Yu Zhuanghui and Zheng Chen
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    • 300 23 Icuk crashes out in quarter-finals JAKARTA Defending champion Icuk Sugiarto crashed out m the quarter-finals of the Indonesian Open badminton tournament here on Friday. Icuk, ranked ninth m the world, was favoured to meet China's Yang Yang m the final but Australia's Sze Yu beat the hometown hero 15-10, 15-9,
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    • 265 23 LONDON Martin Crowe hit 44 and John Hardy cracked 43 as Somerset finished just four runs short of handing Northamptonshire their first county cricket defeat this season. Somerset, set 174 m 49 overs to win the three-day match at Northampton, had to settle for a draw after
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    • 282 23 ATHLETICS Aslaa Track aai FtoM meet (National Stadium. 7am and 2.30 pm). BOWLING Nattaaal Leagae: Masters finals (Kirn Seng Bowl, 9am). CRICKET BCA Div 1: SCRC v LA (Balestier Rd), Safes v SRC (Tanglln) both at 10.45 am; Dtv 2: CSC v SCRC. SGS v MRT both at
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    • 218 23 BIRMINGHAM Pakistan captain Imran Khan struck twice in quick succession to check England after a century opening partnership in the Fourth cricket Test at Edgbaston yesterday. Imran dealt the double blow in his second spell on the third day by firing out Chris Broad
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  • The Sunday Times Sportsfront
    • 748 24 HAKKAT RAI WRAPS UP THE ACTION The7th Asian Track Field Meet No mora 200m racee for me. It's too tiring. That waa my last race. I'm in no coiHlition for the 200m. I trained only for the 7 100m. Talal (above) LYDIA de VEGA,
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    • 548 24 All foreign for the ardent Singapore spectator Godfrey Robert laments the lack of challenge from the Republic's athletes IT was mostly about winners yesterday. Convincing they were. They either made it a Saturday stroll m the sun or a flourishing fling m the occasional shade. The fleet-footed Filipina Lydia de
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    • 1005 24  -  JANICE SEAH SAID AND DONE.. .By But father is still boss for the Filipina sprinter IT'S time for a metamorphosis. The butterfly is doing it slowly, but she knows she must break out of her silken cocoon soon. Twenty-two years within
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    • 221 24  - Squad back to full strength JOE DOR AI SOCCER By SINGAPORE fullback A.R.J. Mani and midfielder D. Tokijan made surprise appearances at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday when coach Seak Poh Leong finalised his preparations for Wednesday's Malaysia Cup-tie against Kedah at the National Stadium at 8 pm. The two
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    • 114 24  -  SAW YEW HOCK SNOOKER FIFTEEN minutes was all it took for Benjamin Lui to wrap up the final of the RPM 3000 championship at the Singapore Billiards and Snooker Council clubhouse last night. Benjamin, who led 6-0 overnight, added the one frame required to gain a resounding
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        • 574 2  -  JOHN BLAKE By (IPS). ELIZABETH Taylor has been advised to wear a bullet-proof vest because of a barrage of death threats. Security at her high-walled mansion, already protected by a sophisticated alarm system, has also been intensified. Some of the threats were stuck on the
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      • 614 3  -  KEN JALLEH JR BLACK WIDOW At Orchard and Kreta Ayer People's Theatre Starhna Theresa Russell, Debra winger and Sami Frey Directed by Bob Raf elson By WATCHING Black Widow can be murder for a man. But the lady on my left said that
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      • 371 3  -  ZIYU LOOK EAST By LISA Wang has become the "most watched" person m Hongkong since it was recently confirmed that veteran TV compere Ivan Ho would emigrate to Canada. According to Chinese press reports, the versatile actress, who's been romantically linked to Ivan
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      • 695 4  -  VALERIE LEE Saturdays, Ch 5, 4.30 pm By EVER hear the one about how the Wild West got its name or how the legendary miner's daughter, Clementine, met her untimely death one lovelorn, moonlit night? Tune m to Tall Tales and Legends where the Wild
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      • 616 4  -  GILLIAN POW CHONG I TV PREVIEW Apartheid uesdays. Ch 12, 8 pm By APARTHEID is a documentary on South Africa which does a lot more than merely focus on violence and poverty m the black townships, or zero m on the "whipping boys"
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      • 414 4  -  SUMIKO TAN TV REVIEW Crime Watch Saturdays. Ch 5 and 8, 9.30 pm By LAST night's Crime Watch finally got it right. Hiccups that had been rampant m the first and second programmes the lack-lustre presentation, amateurish acting and sensational dramatisation were
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          416 10 Geography SWITZERLAND has a land area of 41,293 sq km and is m central Europe. Its neighbours are West Germany m the north, Italy m the south, Austria m the east and France m the west. History Switzerland's formation goes back to 1291, when three cantons (states) leaders
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        • 368 10 A two-page report to mark the country's National Day on Saturday. MESSAGE U. Werner Maurer Charge d'Affaires A.I. bbbbbjt eaa THE Swiss National Day, comCtaaaaßssavi mernoratin 8 the j^^^^^J formation of the '^Y^f t Swiss confedera>jY i 4 tion on Aug 1, m C,
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        • 519 10 SWITZERLAND isa small country with hardly any raw materials of its own, without access to the sea and with about a quarter of its territory unproductive. Yet it is among the world's 12 leading commercial nations. This is because the Swiss people realise that
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        • 468 11 SWITZERLAND'S lame is so intimateL associated with t of the watch, hat nowhere m the vorld can you menion one without callng the other to mind. Since the end of the 16th century, watchmaking has been the country's leading trade. Right from
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        • 449 11 FOR both first-timers to Europe and veteran travellers, Switzerland is the place to visit. It offers a combination of swank cities and quiet countryside, towering mountains and sparkling lakes. More and more visitors tend to do something more than just sightseeing. Of course, there is the
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        • 396 11 THE Swiss textile industry is very competitive, thanks to the know-how of its largely me-dium-sized firms. About 90 per cent of its clothing textiles are exported. Its exports are mainly unfinished fabrics, such as cotton, wool and silk, or man-made fibres. It
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          • 762 17 In this first article of our six-page special feature, SUBATRA SUPPIAH reports on the car sales situation since the rise of the yen. CAR dealers, who are hit by a drop in car sales because of the rising yen, believe that the worst
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          • 734 17  -  LAI YEW KONG By I VERY often, car owners go a long way to keep the outside of their vehicles looking good. They spend hours washing and cleaning the bodywork, but the interior gets scant attention. Looking after the interior is just
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          • 759 18  -  CHAN KIN SANG By S£ spent driving on the road need e monotonous Depending on what listen to, it can be time well-in-lle most drivers would tune in to radio or listen to tape-recorded music, there are others who do more than that.
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          • 438 18 f BRAKES are a vital component a car and should be checked regularly, say every 20,000 km. You can carry out the checks yourself, but you should let the mechanic repair them if they are faulty. Brakes work by forcing a friction material, the
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          • 123 18 GIVE your motor vehicle better protection against corrosion with Dinol Rock Kote, an abrasion and chip-protection coating. This Swedish product protects vehicles operating under aggressive conditions against chemicals and abrasion. It is now widely used m vans to protect the floorboard, a rust-prone area, the door
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          • 106 19 TWO new models m the Porsche 911 turbo series were introduced early this year. Porsche 911 Targa and Porsche 911 Cabriolet are now available m addition to Porsche 911 coupe. All three models have a 300 horsepower six -cylinder turbo engine, with top speeds
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          • 240 19 SOON there will be three Nissan Pulsars to choose from. The popular Nissan Pulsar 1.3 SLX was joined last month by the newer Nissan Pulsar three-door hatchback, and will soon have another addition to its family m Singapore, the Nissan Pulsar LX
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          • 710 19  -  JACQUELINE WONG By Wfiaa THE Alfa Romeo \ww 15 Ti "boy-racer" 888 m is bound to make IBSI I neads turn- Talent r^fp I scouts might call 9 it the 'X factor", p^lfßßaflV^ but it comes with r b a" a bit of
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          • 549 19  -  KENT GRANT By VACATIONING by car with the children can be like having your own personal mechanic along for the ride. Sounds crazy? It does not have to be. Involving youngsters m basic car maintenance while on a vacation trip will not only
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          • 652 20 A passion for fancy cars SUBATRA SUPPIAH talks to Peter Kwee who is mad about cars SLEEK sporty Renaults grace the driveway, and as you enter the living room, you are greeted with pictures of Porsches and Lamborghinis. The residents' passion for cars is evident m this East Coast Drive
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          • 756 20 LISTENING to music while driving is so much a norm now that most cars, even those which seem fit for the scrapyard, would have a stereo set m them. Car stereo manufacturers are keeping pace with the state of the art. With
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          • 531 21  -  LAI YEW KONG By BMM TOYOTA introrm duced its Corolla I 20 years ago and I since then, the I model has been I changed and imjM proved six times. In the process, the Corolla became the best-selling car m the world, with about 17.5 million Corollas
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          • 410 21 OBSERVERS CARS By Stuart Bladon Penguin, 1987 172 pages, $12 I ALL basic information about cars can be found m this easy reference book which has a comprehensive description of 66 car makes. Each car description is complete with an up-to-date picture, history
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          • 676 22 From selling oil rig equipment to polishing cars CHAN KIN SANG talks to a man who transformed a hobby into a full-time job. Running a mobile car polishing business, he gives your car more than just a good shine. AN OBSESSION with cars turned into a business venture for Mr
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          • 456 22  -  KAREN MEREDITH By GETTING a car repaired properly is one of the top consumer frustrations. In fact, many car owners believe that ace mechanics no longer exist. "Not true," says Gary Cassidy, technical service representative for Fram Corp., an automotive products manufacturer. "Reliable mechanics do exist.
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          • 106 22 THE Nissan Sentra (Sunny) model was rated the most trouble-free car m its own market segment, according to a market survey conducted by an American automative research firm. J.D.Power and Associates surveyed more than 25,000 owners of cars registered m November or December last year, who
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    • 2191 5 YOUR WEEK AHEAD Banußßw /aWX \mmm\ Shell theatrette. third level podium MONDAY f*■ Bafaa^^^J aatH block She Tower IfllJ Songs, dances and piano recitals kßaakataaataa! by the DBS Cultural Group. Sponsored CONTEMPORARY |l JJM by DBS Bank 12 45 to 130 pm. DBS GERMAN PRINTS KABaaaaJ aaaaai Auditorium Free CONSTRUCTIVtST!
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    • 650 7 13 Musical Instruments YAMAHA ELECTONE ORGAN Model 8405 for sale $1,800 0.n.0. Very good cond. Tel: *****47 YAMAHA ORGAN MODEL FE4O for sale 1 yr old only Interested pis. call owner *****15 YOUR CHILD JUBT a beginner? New piano $1,980. used piano It organ $800 Shelley Co. *****28 NEW USED
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    • 619 8 70 Situationa Vacant: 70 Situationa Vacant: Secretarial Secretarial/ Clerical Clerical I I mmmmmmm i MITSUI SOKO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD invites applications for tha posts of GENERAL CLERK a Chinese female, age 20 to 25 c OCE O' level a Able to type well MALE OPERATIONS CLERK a Chinese, age 20
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    • 422 8 74 Situationa Vacant: Miscellaneous WW CLUB CORPORATION OF ASIA LTD PINETREE TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB SINGAPORE CCA, the world's leading organisation m professional management of exclusive golf, country and city clubs, seeks candidates for the following positions. The successful applicants should be matured and have the following qualifications. TENNIS PROFESSIONAL
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    • 731 8 71 Situations Vacant: 71 Situations Vacant: Sales Salas A* I GESTETNER INTERNATIONAL Invites applicants for SALES EXECUTIVES Male/ Female Effective m Communication With a minimum of two years m college Achievement oriented, determined. THE COMPANY Oestetner operating m 132 countries with over 1 1000 employees THE JOB Selling a complete
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    • 637 8 86 For Sala: BMW BS BMW 3201A auto. 4-door. Tax 12/87. Beautiful single number plate. Sports rims. *****11 9/88, BSJW 3301 4 doors 1 owner. Showrm. cond. *****0 0.n.0. Call (after 10 30a.m.) *****38. ALMOST 1880 BMW 320. BeauUful condition. 2 owners. Tel: *****35. 87 For Sala: Marcadas A BANK
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    • 954 8 88 For Sala: Ford/Fiat FANTASTIC 1983 LASER, 1 owner 1.5 5-speed, Notchback. Tip top engine Alrcon.. hl-fl. *****43. FIAT 131 SUPER Mlraflorl. 1978 PARF eligible Asking $10 000 ono. Call *****70 LABER OL NOV 32. Oood cond tax till 0ct. 37 $18,000. Call Mr Tan *****15 No dealers pis. MALAY
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    • 949 8 89 For Sala: Datsun/Nissan '74 DATSUN 140J Alrcond. s/rlms, radio cassette. New tax/ paint Selling $6,500 *****66 78 120 V OL. Tax Sept. 37 Alrcon. cassette radio, s/rlms. $10,900 0.n.0 Contact *****03. 70 DATSUN 100A Alrcond.. radio cassette Very good cond. Down payment ***** Tel: *****55 78 NEAR 120Y OL.
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    • 940 8 90 For Sala: Toyota •82 TOYOTA CARINA 16 4-door. auto. Alrcon. Radio/ cassette Tip top cond. $***** Tel: *****68 S3 TOYOTA CREBSaDA 2000 OL. 1 owner, new paintwork. Highest offer secures. Tel: *****16. 'S3. TOYOTA COROLLA DX, 1 owner, perfect showroom condition. Daniel Lim. *****55 'S3 TOYOTA COROLLA DX. 2nd
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    • 83 10 SWISS CUTTING EDGE Beginning m Singapore m the eighties of the last century, Diethelm has grown into a strong, multi-product marketing, distribution and manufacturing company. The Company distributes well known consumer goods and pharmaceuticals and is a leading fabricator of furniture, architectural and engineering products. It does all these things
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    • 378 15 "Perfect" Complexion Beauty Tips Ever wondered how some people keep themselves looking perennially pretty and youthful? It's m the genes? Perhaps. But you can be like them too, genes or no genes, so says the beauty expert at Queen Lin Ting Beautycare, and the method's none other than SUN EXFOLIATION.
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    • 320 16 t/erwtr.we Hello kids WE are now m the middle of Heritage Week, which began last Thursday. Perhaps you may even have done a project about it at school or attended a show or public talk If you wish, you could go to the National Museum today between 10 am and
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    • 470 16 every morning, 10-year-old it was an ordinary morning and 11-year-old Paul oTer K c°n«dr W e« UW waT.?nr i ZS up the soho.. bus. A board the school bus. This was kindergarten pupil was skipping across the road. part of his duty as a member Just then. Paul heard the
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    • 2451 1 RELATIVE VALUES The limelight seeks out fashion designer Benny Ong these days. At 38, he is already ranked among the best m his field. His clientele includes British royalty and Hollywood film stars. In the family of four boys and a girl, Benny was the only
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      • 359 2 BENNY ONG, 38, is the only Singapore designer to be ranked with the likes of London's top couturiers Jean Muir and Bruce Oldfield. Today Benny is famous for his clean-lined, elegant shapes and rather British preference for pale colours for the day and jewel
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    • MIND & BODY
      • 685 3 It's not a question of having too little to say; sometimes the torrent of words doesn't help either. What then for someone who's a turn-off m the company of others? CANDYCE STAPEN of USA Today offers some ideas. LIKE many other people, Frank Gervasi, 37,
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      • 319 3 ONE sure-fire tactic for dealing with social bores at cocktail parties: Be polite. Then break for the punch bowl. Dene Danse, who works m a health services company m San Francisco, uses this method when confronted by an interminable party bore. "I'm usually polite,
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      • 474 3 Etiquette Q: FOR my twenty-first birthday my friend took mack pains te get me a present that was both rudaae aad IwMtift-U Bat tar her bt.-thday, I did a«t make maeh effort aver her present I simply height semethlng tram a n«_rby shop. I
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      • 897 3  -  KATH WALSH T)Ut&«t6, By m One way to reach your goal is to only concentrate on losing half a kilo at a time. Your goal will then be more attainable, m GONE are the days when I could walk into a pharmacy
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      • 1690 4 Glossy glory tells a pricey story of old Singapore A Salute to Singapore (right), published m 1984 to commemorate 25 years of self-rule, was a blockbuster of a coffee-table book on all things Singaporean, past and present. A steady stream of similar publications has swamped the market over the past
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      • 484 4  -  NOEL PERRIN By IS THERE such a thing as an honest person m the art world? Well, yes, but they're not too common or at least they weren't until recently. According to a newly published book, critics, dealers, artists and even museum officials
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    • FASHION
      • 467 5 FITNESS and high fashion are running m tandem this year. Skin-tight cycling gear and body-conscious aerobic outfits are not only for exercise buffs. They're popping up everywhere. Top American designers Donna Karan and Norma Kamali are even borrowing the concept for formal affairs. Their newest
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      • 393 5  - Black -and-gold way to a girl's heart LIM PHAY-LING LIM PHAY-LING previews the works of nine leading local jewellers m the fourth Diamonds of Distinction show, a three-day exhibition starting this Friday by C!HUNKY is out. Discreet shimmer with touches of black is m. That seems to be the theme
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      • 139 5 THE silky, lacy camisole last seen publicly m the 70s outfits as part of the little-girl-lost look is back m style again. Wear it by itself around the house; you can even sleep m this luxurious thing. Or, team it with the sharpest of jackets
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      • 642 6  - Caught with a foot in my mouth and fingers in the dip AYAM By IF THERE is one topic on which I never fail to open my mouth and put my foot m it, it is the subject of food. And it isn't as if I try to be a
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      • 697 6  -  MARGARET CHAN EAT OUT By i IS THE best rati prate to be found m Jalan Kayu or the Hilton Hotel? Indian-bread lovers who swear by Thasevi's familiar favourites at Jalan Kayu should also try Hilton's fancier version. Already, it has gone as
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      • 769 6  -  LEE GEOK BOI EATW •r THE simple rice grain is shades more sophisticated these days. Once unlabelled, bags of rice now come with quaint brand names such as Golden Phoenix and Royal Umbrella. Importers even take out advertisements to convince consumers of their
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      • 1000 7 Wonder car is at hand for Mr Average Can a car made of plastic and steered electronically by a joystick be available for the price of an upmarket 1600 cc saloon? Yes, say two top British designers commissioned by the London Sunday Times to come up with a revolutionary low-cost,
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      • 512 7  -  WINSTON LEE By THE possibility of halving the petrol bill must excite even* the most prosaic motorist. Three weeks ago, the annual Formula Shell Economy Rally again held out such a hope when participants showed how to make the most out of every drop
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      • 435 7 Production will pose main stumbling block Plastic wheels, brakes and suspension components will not be too complicated to make. However, not everyone will feel safe riding on plastic wheels with only plastic brakes to m stop them. 7 THE dream car of John Heffernan and Ken Greenley is based on
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      • 1344 8 The infamous Berlin Wall often draws the curious to gawk at it and to venture into 'forbidden territory' East Berlin. JOSEPHINE NG recounts her encounter with a different way of life. THE recent demonstration to tear down the wall dividing the people
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      • 302 8 UP till the Second World War, there was only one Germany, with Berlin as its capital. In 1949, the country was carved up into communist East Germany and a democratic West Germany. Berlin now lies 170 km inside the communist state. After the
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      • 587 8  -  SID KANE By IN the clear skies above California's Napa Valley, 75 couples last year exchanged vows aboard hot-air balloons, beginning their honeymoons with a flight over lush vineyards and rolling hills. "Two of our pilots are ministers, and we can also provide a
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    • 60 3 ONCE IN A WHILE WE'VE REALLY GOT SOMETHING TO SHOUT "SALE" From July 25 to August 3, Glamounette will be staging a most remarkable sale of evening wear, executive fashion, leisure clothes, lingerie and accessories. Alt from our designer and women. We're open dally from 11 am to Bpm art
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    • 181 4 Naked Truth: Exposure m The Straits Times Classified catches the eye. Hapfjy holidays start at I LWJ^m^tm^M V" TRAVELWEAR I W Travel agents make it easy to I plan holidays Windy Bay can I make it even easier for you with a I __fl-S _________B complete range of travelwear I
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    • 943 1 I^s^ HAS Jr taking over the past 50 years? Is there such a thing as the best way to pose? What sort of shots do people like to have? JULIANA NG sets out to find out. "HOLD the wooden frame. Gently. Now just
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      • 528 1 mW We Just Cant Resist Blowing Up THe Inside Of Our Latest Nikon F401 1) Show Its Fantastic F_atures! __-«b_ MASTER CONTROL l k^__ *^^V___^_l _-___a__k lv R J___________rt-_^_i _fe^__^ ..fffl l_W*#'€! lV^ FLASH Specially des^ned Super tsrignt nnte __L1 ___V____r__ -VaV—T L -**lf -,-1 View Serin ___fl ___w ____§_Lalf"
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      • 729 2 Is there such a thing as the best film for your camera or your subject? ARTHUR LEE finds out. A camera you can throw away HAVE yoa sometimes gone on a maior eeVasg aad saddealy realised thai yee have Mt your camera at Now
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      • 478 2  -  TRUDY LIM By PHOTOGRAPHS still reign supreme, but slowly, more and more Singaporeans are supplementing these snapshots with video tapes, recording precious moments m vivid colour with a video camera. Although the video camera market _s slowly growing m terms of sales, most of the
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      • 405 2 __9HHPV_-f"PVpliifi __J^_BS|_J w |J ill iiiiii i l _r__l _E^_E__l H__ ______^w l_— l I _____^^_l -fl (10^ "^SW^ittl Auto-focus MULTI-COATED LENS COHIGIXI m m m m m m m m m m mmr* m f**mm Auto-date printing J' <HkWH Hi 9 n Precision autc>focusing system M^Sm^l £^i n Fast
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      • 114 2 BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD AWOMANOT T*a** f***M fa SHE HAD POWER. SHE NEEDED LOVE. SHE WANTED REVENGE. In 1905 a \oun_, kitchen maid leaves Fairlev Hall. Kmma Harte is sixteen, simile •unl pregnant My 1968 she is one ol Ihr richest women m the world, ruler of a business empire stretching
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      • 201 3 A CAMERA manufacturer has come up with a compact camera boasting a new autofocusing system. It eliminates out-of-focus photographs which may be produced in conventional au-to-focus systems if the AF spot is not properly trained on the subject. Chinon's New Auto 3001, a
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      • 673 3 A clear, bright and cloudless sky at midday is not necessarily the best time for taking pictures. The veterans say the light is too strong. KENNETH KOH tells when the "magic hour" is. LIGHT plays an essential part m photography,
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      • 348 3 WORLD'S FASTEST SHARP-SHOOTERS. The Canon EOS is the fastest and most technically a shutter speed of 1 /2000 sec. and 1 /4000 sec. for advanced auto-focus SLR system m the world. the EOS 650 and EOS 620 respectively With a builtIt evaluates. All within a split second. So fast-action m
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      • 1131 4 Challenge lies in subjects' facial expre ssions What makes a good picture? Is it because the shot is unposed, or is it because the photograph has captured the subjects' feelings? JUDY TAN talks to seven lensmen to find out about their favourite pictures. She also profiles Henry Lee whose 20-year
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      • 611 5  -  Tan Lip Seng Liew Yeo Foo Desmond Kwan Henry Lee Chuang Lee Jen Albert Lim Chua Soo Bin "FOLLOW the leader", a black and white piece of photography, remains Tan Lip Seng's favourite shot despite its age. Mr Tan, 45, is
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      • 825 6 While other people are out at the Botanic Gardens to take a morning stroll or practise qigong, lensman Chang Yen Ping is out looking for insects. JULIANA NG reports. ON A bright Sunday morning, you may find tyre and battery dealer Jhang Yeh Ping among the
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      • 534 6  - Work of art on back -street walls DAVID TAY By THE next time you pass by any old building, look closer and you might just see more than what meets the eye, as one photographer has found. Moss on the walls of old buildings and rusty water marks left on
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      • 232 6 ASIA'S BIGGEST MOST EXCITING PHOTO EVENT PHOTO FAIR '87 FOR THE LATEST THE BEST IN PHOTO VIDEO mw mm mmpr l fl_~ j s^S m __n(B)fli i__/"~" x _______FE4IR 87 WORLD TRADE CENTRE HALL 2, SINGAPORE SEPTEMBER 2-6, 1987 11 AM 9 PM DAILY ADMISSION FREE -Hh f^w 6_l B_k_
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      • 503 7  -  JULIANA NG By fl WHEN shutterbugs start spewing jargon about the latest techniques you feel the company's all wrong. Or an unexpected request for you to snap a picture at a party gives you cold feet and trembling hands. If
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      • 980 7 What lies behind those gorgeous 'cover girls'. JUDY TAN looks at the backroom work. Photo fair MAKE a date with Photo Fair '87 to see an array of the latest in photographic technology. More than 140 exhibitors will take part in the show at
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        • 165 8 A NEW fully-automatic autofocus Single Lens Reflex camera has come onto the market. The Nikon F-401 features Image Master Control, which allows fully automatic control of all camera and lens operations: Autofocus, auto exposure, built-in auto TTL through-the-lens > flash, builtin motor drive, DX film setting, film loading
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        • 1015 8 HIS well-trained eyes size up each person who walks into his store. With a smile, the store-owner engages his customer m a conversation. From the brief exchange, he would be able to tell if the customer is a novice, looking for
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