The Straits Times, 9 December 1984

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  • 393 1  -  JOE DORAI By IRAN favourites for the Asian Cup soccer title have been told to toe the line and respect the organising committee's rules or be expelled from the competition, now being held here. The warning was given verbally by committee chairman
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  • 622 1  - Boat murder suspect held in flat raid PAUL WEE NG WENG HOONG YEO KIM SENG Stories: and SINGAPORE'S most wanted man was m custody last night after a crack police team raided a flat m Boon Lay Avenue. The hunt for Special Constable Abdul Rashid bin Mohd Said had begun
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  • 395 1 Gas leak suit against Carbide against C NEW YORK, Sat. A USsls billion (5532.25 billion) lawsuit has been filed against Union Carbide alleging negligence m the gas leak disaster that killed over 2,000 people m Bhopal, central India, this week. Miami lawyers Michael Tobin and Jack Thomson filed the suit
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  • 414 1  - Heroin queen's cabby jailed GILLIAN POW CHONG By CABBY Cheong Yin Fong, 42, acquitted m a $90 million heroin-smuggling trial m Australia, has met the same fate as Judy, Singapore's heroin queen they are both behind bars at Changi Prison. The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), following investigations, arrested Cheong recently
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 40 2 Thousands of video recorders have been shipped to China from Singapore, pushing up wholesale prices here. A trader who needed 10,000 sets for West Germany stumbled on the exports when he couldn't get more than 1,000. Page 13
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    • 46 2 The scene outside Mandarin Hotel (above) has brought that touch of the Orient to this holiday season by featuring 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. Even the staunchly Chinese Kreta Ayer Complex has added tinsel for a festive atmosphere of its own. Page 13
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    • 37 2 The Education Ministry wants students to read with understanding and will start with a special reading programme in Primary One next year. Reading with comprehension is crucial to learning, the ministry feels. Page 15
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    • 40 2 Police yesterday started a drive to cut crime in private residential areas where crime rates had risen this year. They briefed representatives of condominiums and apartments, building managers, developers and security agencies on crime prevention. Page 17
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    • 46 2 Singapore has a tight lid over the Aids problem, said the registrar at the Middle Road Hospital. Aids-linked factors are under control. The number of homosexuals is small, blood donors are screened and very little hard drugs get on the streets. Page 13
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    • 58 2 President Ferdinand Marcos, 67, (left) yesterday unbuttoned his shirt to show cabinet ministers that he had not undergone surgery. The cabinet meeting was his first appearance since Nov 14. The palace had said he was suffering from flu and asthma but there were persistent reports of kidney
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    • 39 2 Hijackers holding a Kuwaiti airliner with 57 remaining passengers in Teheran have reportedly grounded the plane after gunshots were heard inside. Eyewitnesses said windows were shattered and the jet was no longer fit for flying. Page 4
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    • 40 2 An American resident of Singapore, Mr William Mathers, remains in Vietnamese custody five months after his yacht strayed into Vietnamese waters. Four other people with him three French and one Australian have already been released. Page 4
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    • 40 2 The Pravda's unusually frank reporting of angry arguments of senior Communist officials gathered in Prague shows the Kremlin's annoyance that smaller foreign parties were not prepared to play down differences with Moscow, said Western diplomats there. Page 8
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    • 43 2 Umno will soon launch an exercise to recruit at least 100 party speakers able to lecture and debate on religion, politics and socio-economic matters. They will be mobilised to defend government policies and provide correct information to the people. Page 11
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  • SPORT
    • 39 2 Jack Barringer, of Ames, lowa, has created the Monster mechanised arm wrestling. Combatants anchor their elbows at diagonal corners on adjustable padded platforms, grip the pivoted metal arms and get to it, relates Dermot Purgavie. Page 24
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    • 44 2 American Chris Evert Lloyd (left) today beat Czechoslovak teenager Helena Sukova 6-7, 6-1, 6-3 in the Australian Open and later hinted she may retire from the circuit next year. Chris won her 16th Grand Slam title and $216,000. Page 24
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    • 49 2 The Japanese have put a new slant on an ancient theme: If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. Or rather, buy the event. Now the "word from our sponsor" is likely to be a sharp-edged syllable or two made in Japan, says Alan Hubbard. Page 26
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    • 44 2 Jeffrey Low examines the history of bribery that has affected soccer here. The shocking conclusion: No level of football competition here is spared the evil. These past two years, no player, coach or official has been convicted only the punters. Page 27
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 835 2  -  CONRAD RAJ The Hoo Thye saga By CHOP HOO THYE'S LENDER (IN MILLION) CHEMICAL $20.5 DBS $19 ASIA COMMERCIAL $11 FOUR SEAS COMMUNICATIONS $10 MITSUI $6.5 BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS. $5.7 EUROPEAN ASIAN $5.6 BANK OF AMERICA $3.7 BANGKOK BANK $3+ BANQUE FRANCAISE DE COMMERCE EXTERIEUR... $3+
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    • 335 2 THE idea of establishing a credit information bureau here, to reduce loan losses such as those incurred m the Chop Hoo Thye incident, goes as far back as 1977. The Monetary Authority of Singapore made the proposal for such a bureau m a 77-page
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    • 339 2  - Home is a phone call away for them EVANGELINE GAMBOA Sundstrand allows expats to use its satellite hook-up with headquarters By EXPATRIATES of an American company m Singapore talk to their families back home for hours at the company's expense. But the boss is still smiling. He and his wife
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    • 755 3 Fault 'minor and was corrected' BHOPAL, Saturday Except for sounding the siren, which many people thought was a fire alarm, no effort appears to have been made by either the company or the city administration to alert people to the impending disaster. We
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    • 159 3  -  EVANGELINE GAMBOA Words by SINGAPORE GIRLS? Not quite. They're Sooth Koreans on board Singapore Airlines. In their sarong kebaya, stewardesses Oh Sun-Ohk, 23, Lee Hye-Kynng, 24, and Chung Hye-Kyung, 24, certain- ly look the part. Until they speak. 'Then people ask if we're Japanese/ laughed
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    • 122 3 BHOPAL, Sat. The arrest and subsequent release of Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson m connection with the deadly gas leak at his plant here has sparked off a bitter controversy that could become a political hot potato for the ruling Congress (I) Party, political observers said
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 116 2 UP TO 1 p.m. Cloudy with occasional slight rain. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: 29 max., 23 min. SUNSET today: 6.58 p.m.; SUNRISE tomorrow: 6.55 a.m. TRAVELLER'S WEATHER Adelaide tC t K. Lumpur 23/32 C Rain Amsterdam 0/7C Clear London 6/10C Sunny Bangkok 22/30C Fair Mftnl,a 21 32C
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    • 73 3 STATISTICS THAT SHAPE THE COUNTRY The six longest-serving MPs l^rGoirKeng^wee, MP for Kreta Ayer since 19t>y I (stepping down) 1 ;iHS^s7iaiaratnamr\ MPJoM<ampo^^ I J!pjorjfelok_Ay^^ 4 fDrfSTchiiTchye, |j^PjoMßocho^ejinc^ J (stepping down) I ONLY six of the 74 Members of our now dissolved Parliament can boast 25 or more years of uninterrupted
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 315 4  -  NANCY CHNG By Bangkok correspondent BANGKOK, Sat. An American residen" of Singapore, Mr William Mathers, remains m Vietnamese custody five months after his yacht strayed into Vietna-nese territorial waters, with efforts for his release complicated by lack of dplomatio relations
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    • 292 4 China's disabled widely abused, says Deng's son BEIJING, Sat. The physically-disabled son of China's leader Deng Xiaoping complained m an article published yesterday that handicapped people m China face widespread ridicule, wear rags and suffer assaults including stoning by children. Writing m the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily, Mr Deng
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    • 173 4 China's CAAC to open talks with Cathay Pacific BEIJING, Sat. China's national carrier, CAAC, is to open talks next year on future cooperation with the Hongkong-based airline, Cathay Pacific, a CAAC spokesman said tonight. Mr Li Shufan, Director of the Department of International Affairs, said the recent Sino-British joint declaration
      Reuter  -  173 words
    • 76 4 General strike paralyses Bangladesh DHAKA, Sat. A nationwide general strike paralysed Bangladesh today, with opposition leaders claiming that three people died m clashes. They also said that they were planning another strike m two weeks to deliver a "final blow" against military rule. The 22-party opposition, the Awami League, released
      UPI  -  76 words
    • 255 4 Hijacked plane 'grounded' after shots heard Shattered glass on tarmac, reports BBC BEIRUT, Sat. Hijackers holding a Kuwaiti airliner with 57 remaining passengers m Teheran have reportedly grounded the plane after gunshots were heard inside. The British Broadcasting Corporation, citing eyewitness reports from Teheran, said the jet no longer was
      UPI  -  255 words
    • 139 4 SEOUL, Sat. A leading South Korean opposition politician, Mr Lee Chul-Seung today asked former opposition leader Kirn Young-Sam to help form a new political party to contest upcoming parliamentary elections, dissident sources said. The sources said Mr Lee, former leader of now-defunct New Democratic
      Reuter  -  139 words
    • 59 4 TAIPEH, Sat. Rescue workers today found the bodies of 10 more miners m the shattered pit of the Haishan Iken coal mine near here, raising the death toll m the disaster to 44, police said. Another 50 miners were still unaccounted for after Wednesday's
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    • 112 4 KPNLF clears mines at Nong Chan amid fighting BANGKOK, Sat. Cambodian resistance guerillas cleared land mines from their camp on the Thai-Cambodian border today and fought sporadic clashes with Vietnamese troops. Thai army officials at the border said more than 30 rounds of mortar and artillery reportedly fired by Vietnamese
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    • 209 4 Sri Lanka clamps weekend curfew on north COLOMBO, Sat SRI LANKA today clamped a weekend curfew on its troubled Tamil districts m the north as thousands of Sinhalese flocked to join the army m the south The government announced a 42-hour curfew from noon today (2 p.m. Singapore time) for
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    • 48 4 LONDON, Sat. British Granada's a ward- winning serial, The Jewel m the Crown, and the detective series, Cribb, are to be shown by the Regional Television network of China which consists of 40 independent television stations. The series will be dubbed mainly m Mandarin. AFP
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
      • 64 5 Artificial heart patient Bill Schroeder, barely able to lift his head two weeks ago, has reached another milestone in his recovery by being transferred from the intensive care unit to a private room. The 52-year-old Schroeder is so happy with his improvement that he is talking
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      • 120 5 For generations, fathers have longed for the birth of sons as an excuse to buy model train sets. Alas, those days could be coming to an end. Model railway industry executives, for the first time, are worried about their future, amid a declining birth rate and a
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      • 78 5 American actor Stacey Keacn, wno played tough-talking private detective Mike Hammer m the Mickey Spillane-based television series, has been jailed for nine months m London for smuggling cocaine into Britain. The prosecution said 31 grams of cocaine were found m an aerosol can of shaving foam m
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      • 102 5 HAND IN MAGGOTS: Britain's Prince Charles (right), patron of Operation Raleigh which will provide children with a chance to mature and see the world on the sailing ship Sir Walter Raleigh, told an Americantelevision interviewer that among the tests of character planned were weighing a python and sticking one's hand
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      • 109 5 The Chinese path of love is never easy, but it is getting rockier. Rural men are reportedly desperate to get married, but there is a drastic shortage of young women and romantic morale is sagging m the countryside. The Academy of Social Sciences and various women's
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      • 103 5 Smugglers were running children from China into Hongkong m highpowered speedboats, drugging them for easier handling and sometimes tossing them overboard to evade capture, police said. The smugglers, known as snakeheads, have stepped up their lucrative trade to reunite couples m Hongkong with offspring they left behind
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      • 93 5 At least 10,000 doctors in the United States might be using bogus credentials, a US Congressman has claimed. Florida Democrat Claude Pepper, who heads the House Ageing Committee, said a current investigation indicated that many unwary Americans were being treated by so-called doctors who had bought diplomas
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      • 101 5 Paul McCartney has told a British television audience how his once-close relationship with fellow Beatle John Lennon soured after the pop group split up m 1969. McCartney said he fell out with the other Beatles because of his dislike of their then-manager Allan Klein. Of Lennon, he
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      • 49 5 cnma win oc a Die to avail itself of the best available crime detection talent when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Beijing on Dec 18. Among the security men accompanying her are a certain Detective Inspector Holmes and his assistant, Sgt Watson. Reuter
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      • 110 5 Beginning next month, 20 American states will start programmes to help their citizens live longer, by telling them what their chances are of dying m the next 10 years. Public health officials said people whose habits were unhealthy might change their outlook if they knew they
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      • 87 5 Male dogs can no longer pursue their romantic goals m the town of Alpine, Utah, without subjecting their owners to a fine. The City Council recently decided that owners of male dogs must leash their pets to prevent them from entering the yards of female dogs at
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    • 306 7  - Reagan willing to cut defence spending LIAK TENG KIAT 'Important to see everyone takes part m freeze' By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sat. President Ronald Reagan has signalled his willingness to make some cuts m defence spending, a move that Republican leaders m Congress insist is necessary if Americans are to
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    • 113 7 TOGETHER again. Mrs Eleanor Parnes, deported to the Philippines three weeks ago, buries her head against American husband Richard Parnes at Los Angeles Airport on Friday. The couple embraced silently for a minute. Mrs Parnes, 29, who is five months pregnant, was declared an alien
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    • 349 7 Reagan claims credit for South African dissidents' release WASHINGTON, Sat. President Ronald Reagan yesterday took credit for the release by South Africa of 11 dissidents whose arrest three weeks ago sparked growing anti-apartheid protests here and m other American cities. Earlier, the President and his top officials met Nobel laureate
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    • 127 7 Dismal week ends with lower prices Dow Jones NEW YORK, Sat. Wall Street stock prices closed moderately lower yesterday on the final day of a dismal week of trading as investors remained unwilling to bid up even the price of blue chip stocks because of economic and monetary uncertainty. The
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    • 130 7 2,000 get the axe at Texas Instruments DALLAS, Sat. Texas Instruments (TI) said yesterday that it will lay off 2,000 employees next month because of a drop m demand for semiconductors. The company did not identify which employees would be affected but said most of them would be from Texas
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    • 241 8 British miners face cash crisis after losing court battle LONDON, Saturday BRITAIN'S striking coal miners were plunged into a cash crisis yesterday when their union lost a battle to regain legal control of its funds. A High Court judge upheld a ruling made a week ago under which control of
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    • 80 8 PALERMO (Sicily), Sat. A Mafia member who turned police informer died m hospital yesterday, five days after being ambushed by gunmen outside his home, police said. They said Leonardo Vitale, 44, released from detention m a psychiatric hospital a few months ago, had given them inside information
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    • 91 8 LONDON, Sat. A court martial on Thursday severely reprimanded the captain of a 2,900-tonne frigate for crashing into London Bridge. Commander Colin Hamilton, 40, told the hearing he failed to heed advice and use tugs to turn the frigate Jupiter round on the River Thames last June.
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    • 191 8 PARIS, Sat. A close friend of President Francois Mitterrand, Mr Roland Dumas, was named Foreign Minister yesterday, replacing Mr Claude Cheysson. Mr Dumas, a 62-year-old lawyer, was Minister of European Affairs and government spokesman. The President announced on Tuesday that Mr Cheysson would become a
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    • 342 8 Arguments at Prague talks, says Pravda MOSCOW, Sat. Western diplomats said the Soviet daily Pravda 's unusually frank reporting of angry arguments at a gathering of senior Communist officials m Prague indicated that the Kremlin was annoyed that smaller foreign parties were
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    • 94 8 THE birth of this ant-eater four weeks ago at Krefeld zoo m West Germany caused a stir among naturalists. It was the first time a European zoo had succeeded m breeding the Tamandua ant-eater. The scourge of ants and other insects, the creatures come from
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    • 504 8 LOUIS HEREN'S VIEW Tories winning ideological battle From London THE £3.9-billion rS$lO billion) British Telecom share offer was inevitably described as the sale of the century, but it is more than that. The sale marks another phase m the greatest ideological battle m recent British history, and the Conservative government
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  • ASEAN NEWS
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      • 83 10 A FRENCH man and woman, serving long jail terms m Thailand for heroin offences m Bangkok, were to be released and allowed to return home next week, the French Embassy announced here on Friday. The two, Patrick Parant, 30, sentenced to 16 years' jail
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      • 57 10 A MAN was killed after saving a child from being run over by a train m central Manila yesterday, police said on Friday. Mr Filorneno Guitong, 49, pushed the boy off the railway tracks as a train was about to run over *he boy, but
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      • 69 10 A 10-YEAR-OLD girl was killed last Saturday by her father m a village m Irian Jaya for refusing to be married to pay off a US$llO (Ss23l) debt, Antara news agency reported m Jakarta early last week. Villagers, on hearing of the killing, gathered with bows and arrows
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      • 76 10 A COURT m Saudi Arabia has sentenced a Thai woman co 150 strokes of the cane and a year's jail for adultery, it was reported m Bangkok on Thursday The Bangkok newspaper, Thai Rath, quoting a correspondent, said Kamolwan Chiangpien, a 27-year-old divorcee working as an
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      • 64 10 A 49-Y EAR-OLD nightwatchman claimed m the Brunei High Court m Bandar Seri Begawan that a six-year-old girl made him a sex proposition. Lakim bin Daud was answering a charge that he raped the child m his home at Jalan Muara m June. But Judge Edward Bewley said
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    • 131 10  - Brunei gets tough on drug abuse HAN LING B> Brunei Heporter BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Sat. Brunei has taken important steps towards fighting drug abuse. The police have set up a centralised anti-drug squad which is working closely with police forces m other Asean countries. In another move, a highlevel government
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    • 76 10 Jakarta fires 'started deliberately' JAKARTA, Sat. Investigations show that many recent fires m Jakarta, east Java and Riau were deliberately started by people who wanted to collect insurance money, national police chief Gen Anton Sujarwo was quoted today as saying. This was the conclusion of police investigations and tests m
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    • 355 10  - Marcos laughs off rumours about surgery ABBY TAN Cabinet gets close-up of unscarred President By Manila Reporter MANILA, Sat. In his first Cabinet meeting since falling ill, President Ferdinand Marcos today opened his shirt to let ministers see that he had not had surgery. The Philippine News Agency said that
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    • 139 10 SITUBONDO (Indonesia), Sat. Indonesian President Suharto today called on Muslim leaders to avoid causing splits which could endanger national unity. President Suharto, opening a congress of the powerful Nadhlatul Ulama (NU) Muslim grouping, said Indonesia was determined to avoid the failure of other nations to
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    • 72 10 Manila lawyers to boycott court hearings MANILA, Sat. More than 1,000 Filipino lawyers were set to boycott court hearings and join anti-government rallies across the country for two days from Monday, International Human Rights Day, organisers announced today. Prominent lawyers, including 36 opposition Members of Parliament, former senators and law
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    • 281 10 MANILA, Sat. Asean was "jumping to conclusions" when it said that the trip to Cambodia by United States Congressmen could send the wrong signals to the communists. This was said here today by members of the first US congressional delegation to Cambodia since the Vietnamese invasion.
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 182 11 'Reds using religion to win over Malays' IPOH, Sat. The underground communist movement has embarked on a programme of using religion m its efforts to win over Muslims, especially the Malays, Deputy Home Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad said today. He said that among the activities detected were the distribution of
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    • 326 11 Umno to get 100 speakers on religion, politics Plan to explain government policies to masses IPOH, Sat. Umno is to launch an exercise to recruit at least 100 party speakers who are able to lecture and debate on religion, politics and socio-economic matters. These speakers would be mobilised to defend
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    • 88 11 INDONESIAN UeutenantGeneral Soesilo Sadaiman pinning an award on the sleeve of a Sarawak soldier during a two-week joint exercise m Bandar Sri Aman involving Malaysian and Indonesian troops. Observing the ceremony is the commander of the Malaysian 3rd Brigade, General Adam Aba Bakar.
      Borneo Bulletin  -  88 words
    • 125 11 SUBANG, Sat. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad left last night for a 10-day official visit to Libya, Egypt and Mali. He was accompanied by his wife Datuk Seri Datin Paduka Dr Siti Hasmah, Foreign Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen, Agriculture Minister Anwar Ibrahim,
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    • 205 11 Question of appeal to MCA 'not raised' KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Two key members of the Tan Koon Swan faction said yesterday the question of their appealing for re-admission into the MCA did not arise at all, indicating that the eight-month-old party crisis is far from being resolved. Datuk Dr Ling
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    • 203 11 Anwar warns TV3 to cut out obscene scenes KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Umno Youth chief Anwar Ibrahim yesterday warned TV3 to do away with obscene scenes m its programmes and give prominence to the use of Bahasa Malaysia. He said TV3 was emphasising the English language and had put practically no
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    • 112 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Two Japanese foodpackaging experts are coining here on Monday on an aid programme to help improve the shelf life and packaging of Malaysian food delicacies like dodol&nd belac&n. The 12-day programme is expected to give the local food industry a shot
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 195 13 Tight lid on Aids problem here, says doctor SINGAPORE has a tight lid on the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) problem, a doctor said on Friday. Unlike Western countries, said Dr K. V. Ratnam, who is the registrar at the Middle Road Hospital, Singapore has some Aids-linked factors, such as
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    • 54 13 TWO films will be shown at the Toa Payoh branch library lecture hall this month. The James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, will be shown on Friday, while the Walt Disney production, Shaggy D.A., will be screened on Dec 18. The screening times are 11
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    • 307 13 IT'S beginning to look like Christmas a' la Singapura. And the scene outside Mandarin Hotel m Orchard Road, which is adding a touch of the Orient to this Christmas, was brought into the spotlight on Friday night. The unique Yuletide display, which features
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    • 298 13  -  CONRAD RAJ By Dealers not willing to talk for fear of competition TENS of thousands of video recorders are now being shipped to China from Singapore, causing wholesale prices here to rise. But dealers are reluctant to talk, keeping the trade hush-hush for
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    • 236 13  -  LOW MEI MEI By A MADE-TO-ORDER tour package for older folk aims to cater to their travel needs without leaving them breathless and exhausted after their vacation. Instead of putting older folk with the younger and more energetic, Tradewinds is offering a deal
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    • 573 14 IN A special issue of Petir magazine, the People's Action Party's official publication, published to mark the party's 30th anniversary and Singapore's 25 years of nation-building, PAP leaders and Cabinet ministers discussed subjects vital to Singapore's well-being. In the first article below, Social Affairs Minister
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    • 207 14 Modern women shed their traditional role They are better educated and more of them hold jobs MODERN Malay women today are no longer full-time housewives. Instead, they are competing with Malay men for jobs. The kampung maid of yesteryear has also established herself firmly m the mainstream of Singapore's education
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    • 322 14 THE telephone, the Cinderella of home appliances, is ready to bloom into something quite spectacular. Letters will be sent as electronic messages. People will buy shares or goods, pay bills and book holidays from their homes. The latest information on the stock market, foreign exchange
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    • 563 15  -  Hedwig Alfred Elayne Thong Schools' Council Stories by and THE chairman of the Schools' Council, Dr Tay Eng Soon, yesterday thanked school principals who had served on the council for the year. A third of them will be replaced by new principals m
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    • 352 15 Weak students are getting remedial help, says Dr Tay AN ENGLISH language expert has again asked the Education Ministry to replace the general paper m pre-uni-versity classes with an examination that will test a student's skill m English. This is because many junior college
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    • 253 15 Pupils can take music as 'O' level subject STUDENTS not on the Music Elective Programme (MEP) can take music as an '0' level subject. The Education Ministry decided to continue to offer the one-year and two-year '0' level courses for non-MEP students m the four schools with the programme because
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    • 219 15 A BUS driver of 35 years who had never been aboard a plane before flew off to Hongkong yesterday morning, courtesy of the Singapore Bus Service. This was for being courteous himself. Mr Sunny Tan of Kirn Keat Avenue was among 23 bus drivers and
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    • 272 15  - Hongkong jeweller charged with giving false information CONRAD RAJ By A HONGKONG jeweller who a year ago claimed that the wife and daughter of a prominent banker had cheated him of $1.7 million m cash, jewellery and precious stones now faces up to seven years' jail on charges of giving
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    • 292 16  -  TERESA OOI By London Reporter LONDON, Sat. British Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley is remaining intransigent over Singapore Airlines' bid for fresh routes to Britain despite mounting criticism from the press and fellow MPs. In a speech m the northern city of Manchester, where SIA
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    • 321 16 Profit-sharing proposal for Beijing flights Seats provided by each national carrier to be basis SINGAPORE has proposed to China that the two national carriers share revenue earned from Singapore-Beijing flights based on the number of seats provided by each airline. According to a Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) spokesman,
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    • 207 16 Students to air views of life in 2000 UNDERGRADUATES and recent graduates will have the chance to tell the United Nations their expectations for the year 2000. In line with the proposed International Youth Year next year, the International University Congress is inviting Singapore students to study how they can
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    • 44 16 A WOMAN died m hospital yesterday after an accident involving a car driven by her son. Madam Fong Yoke Khoon, 49, died after a two-car accident at the junction of Braddell Road and the Central Expressway slip road on Friday.
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    • 68 16 Swedish minister ends visit TECHNOLOGY involved m the underground storage of oil and water is an area of interest between Singapore and Sweden, according to Sweden's visiting Energy Minister Birgitta Dahl. Mrs Dahl left Singapore on Friday night after talks with Trade and Industry Minister Dr Tony Tan and PUB
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    • 60 16 THREE youths, believed to have been sniffing glue, were arrested for shoplifting at a Lucky Plaza store m Orchard Road yesterday evening. They were shouting and seemed to have lost control of themselves when they walked out of the store with beer and chocolates worth $11.
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    • 282 16 Plan to allow top people to return to NUS for short spells A PLAN to allow top officials from the public and private sectors to return to the National University of Singapore for an intellectual retreat is now under study. The university could benefit from the practical experiences of these
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    • AROUND THE COURTS
      • 66 16 FOUR men armed with knives set out to settle a score with someone but ended up robbing a teenager, a court heard on Friday. One of them, Malaysian Low Kirn Wah, 21, was sentenced to three years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane
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      • 86 16 A MAN was sentenced to four-and-a-half years' jail on Friday for housebreaking offences involving $34,000. Hong Keng Hock, 36, is now serving an 18-month jail sentence for failing to pay a $25,000 fine for having uncensored and obscene video tapes. Hong admitted breaking into
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      • 106 16 A PILLION rider escaped serious injuries m two accidents within seconds of each other but the motorcyclist died after the second spill along Changi Coast Road. Car washer Mr Abdul Rahim bin Rasaid. 21, told the coroner's court on Friday that he rode pillion with labourer
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    • 284 17  -  NG WENG HOONG By Police say crime rate there has gone up for first nine months POLICE carried on with their drive to cut crime m private residential areas yesterday with a briefing for representatives of condominiums and apartments, building managers, developers
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    • 442 17  -  AHMAD OSMAN Manifesto no longer focuses on Malay issues ELECTION'B4 bw sbaSbk j^- n n,i 1 1 M i i.. i i. n By THE Singapore Malay National Organisation said yesterday it would project itself as a national political party m the coming election, not
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    • 160 17 Police want more to join scheme ABOUT 12,000 households or 17 per cent of private homes are already members of the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme but police want a better response from residents. In contrast, about 151,151 households or 40 per cent of Singapore's public housing estate homes are members of
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    • 171 17 THE Singapore Malay National Organisation yesterday dismissed the possibility of the SMNO and five other opposition parties contesting the same constituencies m the election. SMNO's acting secretary-gener-al, Mr Osman Jantan, said several all-party conferences were held among the six opposition parties the SMNO, the
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    • 304 17 POLITICAL parties can obtain police permits for election meetings ffom acting Assistant Commissioner of Police L. Thambiah. Mr Thambiah, who has been appointed the Police Liaison Officer (Election), will operate from an office at the police computer room m Pearl's Hill Terrace from Nomination Day on Wednesday
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    • 264 18  - TV phone-in-donation show to help Chest raise funds DELICE GAN By A TELEVISION charity show is among plans to offset an expected decline m company donations to the Community Chest next year. Another hope is to get more workers to give through the POSB Giro scheme. Chest president Dr Ec
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    • 259 18 Picture by IT WAS a night of mixed feelings and occasion. For one man, it was a time to say goodbye to the people who would always have a special place m his heart. But for two others, it was a night of "hello" and "welcome".
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    • 258 18 Moves to cut down sales gimmicks Games of chance and lucky draws may run foul of gambling laws TWO recent moves by the Attorney-General's Chambers will make it more difficult for companies to organise lucky draws and other money-making games as sales gimmicks. The organisers of these increasingly common games
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    • 424 18  - Tour agents say they are now getting cheaper hotel rooms MATILDA GABRIEL CHRISTINA TSENG By and HOTEL reservations staff may tell you that their room rates have not changed, but tour operators tell a different story. At least one tour operator said he managed to clinch a contract with some
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    • 240 18 WESTERN Australia's increasing interest m the region has led a leading law firm m Perth to hire a former University of Singapore student leader as its consultant for Singapore and Malaysia. Mr Ernest Devadason will advise clients of the law firm of Robinson Cox
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    • 386 17 SOLID Singapore Bullion Coins on Monday, 10 Dec 1984. Vj^jSSJjBfYL These coins are also sold at Hall B. World Trade Centre throughout y^^J^fljSkjjJt the duration of the National Exhibition H Sunday, 23rd December 1984. §4 Events Get your tickets from f~/ T^SSW^I 0 U •Lucky Draws Or fill m the
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    • The Sunday Times VIEW
      • 346 19 After the "breaking of the iron rice-bowl" a few weeks back comes another indication of China's disenchantment with Marxist dogma, a significant and m some ways more surprising step m the country's development. It is one thing to make changes m policy at the micro level
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      • 135 19 What The Sunday Times reported on Dec 6, 1959 SPEAKING before the opening of last night's mammoth Aneka Ragam Ra'ayat (people's concert) at the City Hall steps, the Minister for Culture, Mr S. Rajaratnam, said: "In the old days people used to say that Singapore had no
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    • 1307 19 Ousted MCA vice-president TAN KOON SWAN; Burning the candle at both ends MR TAN KOON SWAN was born in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 24, 1940. 1977: Managing director (operations) of flulti Purpose Holdings. 1978: MP and member of the Malaysian Chinese Association's central executive
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  • FOCUS/Viewpoints
    • 1083 20 SEVEN DAYS Peter Barnard WE seem to have spent most of this rapidly-fading year either looking forward to or looking back on or just plain looking at an election. Here m Singapore, there m America, and everywhere m general, voters have
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    • 1380 20 AS I SEE IT I Irene Hoe JAMES CHOY is a contractor. He is 30 and single. And suddenly, he is m the limelight. Mr Choy is the owner of a pretty pre-war house m Chinatown. It has
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    • 596 20 AS I SEE IT Chua Beng Huat A DEBATE over how women are portrayed m ads is now on but one point has yet to be mentioned. The National Productivity Board's task force on working women recommended that TV ads stop stereotyping women as mothers and
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  • FOCUS/Analysis
    • 1114 21 Face-to-face with voters, how do the PAP's women candidates fare? Most people believe women MPs will deliver the goods as well as the men, they told IRENE HOE, who followed the three PAP women candidates on visits to the constituencies where they will
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    • 668 21 ggfgsgsg DR Aline Wong commutes to Changkat from her Bukit Timah home every night. At the beginning, she spent four or five evenings a week working with party officials and grassroots bodies including the residents' committees (RCs), to whom she is an
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    • 410 21 ,l,;,.agl,eflagl DR Dixie Tan has at least one advantage over the PAP's two other women candidates. Having lived m Ulu Pandan since 1969, she will be the only PAP candidate who can cast a vote for herself. Already a familiar face to the
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    • 520 21 Willing hands from the unions help out asgsgefg././saegg 4 Fortunately, my home is not too far away from my constituency. After work, I rush home to be with my children before I go off again to Yuhua. I still try to go to the library to borrow books for my
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  • RACING
    • 345 22 RACE EPSOM JEEP RACING ED MARKSMAN PEDEGREE WENG SOOK 3 Tristram Pride 9 Multiscope 5 Ovation 4 Sari Angkasa 6 Beat The Clock 1 10 Dinkum Aussie 5 Ovation 4 Sari Angkasa 6 Beat The Clock 5 Ovation 5 Ovation 3 Tristram Pride 10 Dinkum Aussie
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    • 358 22  -  EPSOM JEEP KELANG SILVER BOWL By TUKANG WANG and Tooborac, both owned by Chens Stable but under different trainers, may well fight out the finish of the 1,800 m Kelang Silver Bowl (Race 5) for Class 2 Div 1 stayers at Kuala Lumpur today.
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    • 65 22 THE Singapore Turf Club has granted licences to England's Nick Connorton and Mark Birch and Western Australia's Peter Nikolai to ride as visiting jockeys at the December meeting starting next weekend. They are sponsored by trainers Doug Dragon, M. Ismail and Luke Rang respectively. English jockey
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    • 312 22  - Angel's Pet as good as any in weak field MARKSMAN By our man on the track RACE 2: Gympie RACE 3: Trail Blazer IV, Amir, Meteorite IV, Lucius Quintus 11, Jetting Flash RACE 4: Elegant Star, Angel's Pet RACE 5: Scarab, Incredible, Pusing, John's Gift, Tooborac RACE 8: Merdeka Bridge
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    • 4217 22 .,.gas,.gs,.s.g,.sf,g MMMMM 2.00 RESTRICTED TERMS DiV A 1,200 m I F:A*J (3 and 4 year olds) (Stakes: $11,000) 1 *6* Elrond Dream 57 Elrond-Alian 4 nzg Went well up to stage, weakening to finish 6th of 15 m Div B 1200 m XL Oct 13 Lucas
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    • 1743 23 Four out of four by Johnston Sydney ace now only eight winners behind Tiley By OUR RACING TEAM KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Malcolm Johnston demonstrated the kind of riding prowess that earned him the title of three-time champion Sydney rider and the tag the "millionaire jockey" when he brought home four
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    • 792 23  -  JACK ELLIOTT By of the Melbourne Herald WHEN a racing season starts, predictably some things are certain, or at least, almost certain to happen. Generally, it is not too difficult to predict the leading jockey and the leading trainer
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    • 492 23 Former classic contender Blaze Ahead springs upset (8) Marryland 53.5 c 54 (1445-629) Tweedie 2 (11) Looks Good 55 (1007-370) KW Tan 3 (2) Coral View 54.5 (1145-394) SM Chew 4 (5) Fa Cai 55 (2009-601) Francis 5 (10) Kong Hee 54.5 (1356-525) Birch S (3) Drum Roll 56.5 (3312-688)
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    • 1008 23 ,m,m,amskmkmgkasmmkmk KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Jockey Razmy Ashari was suspended for two race days, effective Monday, for allowing his mount, Jungle Hawk, to drift out under the whip and bump Candidi on two occasions m the final 200 m of Race 3 here today. In the previous
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 68 24 182 Acknowledgements 182 Acknowledgements DATO'SRI TAY KIA HONG and FAMILY OF THE LATE DATIN TEO KWEE CHOO (departed Ist December 1984) with to expre*» their heartfelt thank* and gratitude to minittert and government officers from Singapore and Malaysia, memhri of many associations, business associates, relatives, colleagues and friends for their
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    • 44 24 184 In Memoriam 184 In Memoriam In Cherished Memory of MISS MAUREEN CLARKE Departed on the 9th December, 1983 SHE EVER LIVES IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LOVE HER. A Memorial Service will be held at St. Andrew's Cathedral today at 3.30 p.m.
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    • 80 24 THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MR. WONG SZE WAY wishes to thank all relatives and friends for their assistances, attendances, condolences, wreaths and contributions during their recent bereavement. AL-FATEHAH The family of the late PC8627 Wahid b. Ahmad would like to expr»«» their deepest gratitude A thank* to
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    • 29 24 We extend our deepest condolence to: MR. NARI LULLA FAMILY on the demise of his beloved father DR. 8.8. LULLA from Management Staff of RAHIM SAM ENT.
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      25 24 IN LOVING MEMORY OF MR. LIM TECK HOO DEPARTED: 9/12/73 Forever rtflMmtartd by wile, sons, daughter!, adopted daughter, daughtert-in-law, son-in-law and grandchildren.
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      193 24 YEE HONG CHENG AGE: 71 passed away peacefully on D«c. Bth leaving behind beloved wife Amy alias Kam Yong Sons: Robert Wai Mun Victor Wai Heng Peter Wai Hong Daughters: Janet Wu Nelly Leong Betty Yee Sons-in-law: Wu Vat Wah Leong Yew Kwok Daughters-in-law: Anna Chong Miranda Yap
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      32 24 The Family Of The Late KERTAR SINGH invites all relative* and friends for the Phath Da Bhog (prayer*) on 11-12-84 at Khal•a Dharmak Sabha, Niven Rd. from 3pm to spm.
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    194 24 MADAM NEO HOO ACE 7Q Passed away peacefully on Bth December 1984 leaving behind baloved:I Husband: Grandsons: Grand-Daughters-in-Law: Grand-Daujhters: Grandson-in-law: I Mr Hong Ah Bee (Deceased) hone Chee Seng Saudamany R Viraya Hong Lai Choon I Sons: Dauihters.in.law: Hong Chee Wha Than, Wan Ngan (Eily) Hong Poh Choo L,m Bok^hoon
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  • SPORT
    • 387 24 FOCUS ON AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT MELBOURNE, Sun. American Chris Evert Lloyd today beat Czechoslovak teenager Helena Sukova, 10 years her junior, to win the women's singles title and hinted afterwards she might retire. Chris beat 19-year-old Helena 6-7, 6-1, 6-3 to maintain her record
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    • 984 24 DERMOT PURGAVIE EYE ON AMERICA But it can't figure out the million-dollar men ONE day, when the sport has enslaved the world, dominated television and is the biggest single attraction of the Olympic Games, Jack Barringer, of Ames, lowa, will be rightfully recognised
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    • 678 25 JANICE SEAH SAID AND DONE 4 It's man's ultimate dream, isn't it, to be able to fly like a bird? The views are absolutely stupendous, and after a while, you just get hooked. It's absolutely magnificent up there, and, depending how high you
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    • 451 25 Singapore Marathon/ IF, LIKE the rest of us, Sunday is your day to defy the cockerel, then, by the time you read this, the Singapore Marathon will be long gone. And you would have missed watching 12,000 joggers, all of whom beat the bird
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    • 336 25 Zaza and Adrian claim the graded honours ZAZA MATZ, 18, clinched the women's Graded Masters' crown of the Pepsi Kallang All-Star bowling championships at the Bowler-Drome yesterday, with a 3,003-pinfall total. Adrian Tang, 26, took the men's graded title with 3,934. Today's Open Masters' finalists, meanwhile, are reminded that the
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    • 30 25 KARACHI, Sat. Defending champions Australia beat Britain 4*3 m a six-nation Champions' Trophy hockey match here yesterday. Pakistan trounced New Zealand 5-1 m another match. Reuter
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    • 248 25 HE strikes you as being almost a cliche, for he tells the same story as many others. About the cruel barbs and humiliation he endured as a child, doing his best to hide the stumps he had instead of feet, the misshapen fingers he had for
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    • 205 25 Lawson carves career best for the Aussies ADELAIDE, Sat. Pace bowler Geoff Lawson recorded career best figures of eight for 112 as Australia continued to hold their own m the Second cricket Test against West Indies today. The Australians, seeking to end the touring team's run of 10 successive Test
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    • 153 25 WEST INDIES Ist inns: Extras 12 (overnight 244-5) Total 356 C. Greenidge c Hogg b Wkts fell at: 4, 25, 157, 157, Lawson 95 172, 322, 331, 348, 355. D. Haynes c Hughes b Bow j> n .F Lawson 40-7-112-8, Hoee 0 Ho £S 28-7-75-1, Alderman 19-8-R. Richardson c
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    • 431 25 Spaniard Sevvy swings to a two-stroke lead SUN CITY (South Africa), Sat. After a dramatic swing m mid-afternoon, defending champion Severiano Ballesteros, of Spain, increased his overnight lead to two strokes m the US$l million ($2. 16 m) Challenge Golf Tournament here yesterday. And again it was Nick Faldo, of
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    • 140 25 SINGAPORE will not bid to host the first Fifa world women's soccer championships to be held somewhere m Asia m 1987, because the Women's Football Association of Singapore are not confident of support from the FAS. This statement, coming from WFAS secretary Jackie Chan m the midst of
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    • 861 26 FOCUS ON THE TWO BIG TALKING POINTS IN FAR EAST SOCCER: THE TOYOTA CUP AND ASIAN CUP ALAN HUBBARD ALWAYS ON SUNDAY THEY have descended on sport with names which sound like resonant war cries from the marauding Samurai of old. "Hitachi!
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    • 792 26 ROB HUGHES Talk of Soccer IN Britain, they are banking on the delights of Ms Joan Collins flesh to keep the nations manhood ay ake for the big match kick-off at 3 o'clock today. In Argentina, where the same televised match begins on the stroke
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    • 328 26 Groundwork is the key for Liverpool TOKYO, Sat. Stakes are high on both sides as Argentina's Independiente meet Liverpool m tomorrow's fifth Toyota European-South American Cup the match that will decide the world's top team m club soccer. South American teams have won all four Toyota Cups since the inter-continental
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    • 485 26 A FUNNY thing happened on the way to the National Stadium on Friday night. There was this fellow, you see, who tried to bribe the Iranians to lose against India by offering them a couple of cases of Remy Martin... That's a
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    • 76 26 Parting Shot WHEN he was In Singapore last week, Flfa president Dr Joao Havelange spoke of how frequently bribery allegations are made about soccer matches and how infrequently they are proved. That's true. But I wonder if he recalls one of the more infamous incidents a few years ago when
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    • 720 27 BACKGROUND TO THOSE WOULD-BE FOOTBALL FIXES JEFFREY LOW LOWDOWN ON SPORT Only unselfish players can off-side the punters FOUR long days have passed and the good name of Singapore has yet to be cleared of the very bad image our leaders abhor a haven for punters and a
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    • REST OF THE SOCCER
      • 147 27 QPR move confuses Revie LONDON, Sat Former England soccer manager Don Revie said he was "very confused" at Queen's Park Rangers' chairman Jim Gregory's decision not to appoint him as the club's new manager. After a meeting between the two men last night, Gregory claimed Revie had been ruled out
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      • 141 27 ROME, Sat. Roma's injury-strick-en Brazilian midfielder Roberto Falcao will know today if he needs a cartilage operation on his knee, the club's medical adviser said. Falcao went home to Brazil this week to consult a specialist about problems with his left knee. He returned to
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      • 288 27 GLASGOW CELTIC have sold 40,000 tickets for the replay of their second-round second-leg UEFA Cup match against Austria's Rapid Vienna at Old Trafford on Wednesday. A club spokesman said demand for tickets for the game at the home of Manchester United had been greater than for
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    • 406 29 ON THE WINGS OF LOVE Haddad'sa 6 love, peace and Lionel people and that's why I like him. I Richie fan "__i* night long" is m all the way tontasttc FOOTBALL would be a dull game without people such as Kuwait's Mo'ayyad Haddad. In football terminology, Haddad is known as
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    • 384 29  -  J. RAJENDRAN lklklkl.,.,.,sg,l,l Syria v Kuwait (7); By BEFORE they came to Singapore, Syria never gave themselves a chance of making the last four of the Asian Cup. Since then, things have changed dramatically for them, and within the space of a week,
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    • 384 29  -  JOE DORAI Little Zhao can make China walk tall China v India (9); By CHINA'S dimunitive midfielder Zhao Dayu, also known as "Short-legged Tiger" who found his scoring touch on Wednesday with a gem of a goal m his team's 2-0 win over Singapore, will tonight
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 67 24 BOWLING Pepsi Kalians All-Star Championships: Open Masters finals (Kallang Bowler-Drome, 8.30 a.m.). RUGBY SRU Div. Three League: SIA v Blacks (Farrrer Park, 5 p.m.). SINGAPORE MARATHON Connaught Drive. 6.30 a .m. SOCCER Asian Cup: Kuwait v Syria (7 p.m.); China v Tndia (9 p.m.), both matches at the National Stadium.
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  • The Sunday Times
    • 704 30  - What a vain show of temper JEFFREY LOW Singapore 0 UAE 1 By SKf* CAN you imagine, Singapore threw a tantrum last night. The cheek of them. They were so angered by what looked like an offside goal awarded to the United Arab Emirates that the referee had to put
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    • 133 30 TOP-SCORERS Two Naser Mohammadkhani (Iran). One Hamld Alidosti, Siedzia Zlaarabshhl and Shahrokh Bayanl (Iran); Razali Saad and Malek Awab (S'pore); Lee Tae Ho (Korea); Majed Mobhammed, Mohammed Abduljawad and Saleh Al-Dossari (Saudi); Adnan Khamees AlTallyani, Farooq Abdalrahman and Fahad Khamees Mubarak (UAE); Ibrahim Khalfan Ahmed, Aly Mohmed
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    • 332 30 Former Czech national coach names Tokijan among outstanding players THOUGH the performances of the 10 teams m the current Asian Cup soccer competition do not match that of the 1982 Asian Games m New Delhi, the Singapore event has seen the emergence of some outstanding new talent.
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    • 517 30  -  JOE DOR AI Qatar 1 Saudi Arabia 1 By LINESMAN George Joseph, of Malaysia, had to be escorted off the pitch by policemen after last night's Asian Cup soccer match between Saudi Arabia and Qatar which ended m a 1-1 draw. Immediately after referee Antonio
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    • 26 30 EDINBURGH, Sat. Magnificent Australia completed their first Grand Slam on a rugby union tour of Britain when they crushed Scotland 37-12 here today. Reuter
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    • 447 30 Metgod 's late goal fires Forest BRITISH SOCCER LONDON, Sat. First Division favourites Manchester United squandered a gilt-edged opportunity to go top of the League for the first time this season when Nottingham Forest fought back from 2-0 down at half-time to beat them 3-2 today. With leaders Everton almost
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    • 16 1 SUNDAY PLUS Mind and Body Horizons Arts and Book Food Fashion Habitat Look Motoring Travel kal;lk;k;lka;smflm;l;l
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    • 823 1 LIVING ON THE WATER M Mr and Mrs Yuppie sink their savings into a flat. But home for Singapore-born Melinda and husband Herb is a boat. Can you afford a lifestyle like that? The money is only one consideration. DELICE GAN reveals what's involved. THE alarm clock rings at 6
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    • MIND & BODY
      • 1009 2 The challenge of making a marriage work when both partners are busy pursuing their separate careers is difficult at best. Psychologist LEONARD FELDER writing m The Los Angeles Times offers several helpful guidelines to breathe new life into a relationship EVEN though it was
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      • 617 2  -  ROBIN McKIE BEHAVIOUR By AUGUSTE Rodin would have been astonished because an unusual new scientific foundation, dedicated to "sinister" research, has just been named after him. The Rodin Foundation has been set up to investigate recently discovered links between left-handedness, exceptional mathematical
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      • 549 2  - The special love between a father and daughter JOHN YACENDA PARENTING By a psychologist ARE you a father of a young girl? Maybe you laugh as I do at times and say no that is, no longer am I a father of a young girl, but a young woman who
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      • MEDICAL BRIEFING
        • 169 2 WHEN a child goes into hospital it is a worrying time for all involved. A major concern is the fear that a young child, missing his or her mother, could be psychologically scarred for life. A new study offers parents some reassurance. It seems
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        • 116 2 ABOUT 30 per cent of all heart attack victims do not realise they have suffered Dne but these quiet seizures are just as likely as painful attacks to foreshadow serious health problems, a new US study concludes. The study involved more than 700 heart attack
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    • LIFESTYLE
      • 196 3 THE Vaganza was built m Bangkok m 1977. She was based on a design of a pilot boat meant for the North Sea. The cost of building and outfitting the boat then was about $70,000. Herb Altaian sailed her to Singapore m early 1978.
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      • 912 3 Scraping a hull is part of the housework What it costs to stay afloat IT COSTS the Altmans $1,600 to $2000 a month in maintenance of the boat and in living expenses. Melinda and Herb Altman usually have to have their meals on land as the refrigerator is switched on
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    • HORIZONS
      • 249 4 MANAGERS, for all their hard-headedness, are not immune to the whims of fashion. They greedily consume how-to books that recommend Theory V one day and Theory Z the next. One of the hottest recent best-sellers is In Search Of Excellence,
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      • 924 4 EIGHT ATTRIBUTES OF CORPORATE EXCELLENCE Bias for action Staying close to customer Autonomy and entrepreneurship Productivity through people Hands-on, value-driven Sticking to businesses the firm knows best Simple form, lean staff Simultaneous looseness and tightness of control IS IT seemed like a good idea
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      • 70 4 Alien-Bradtey Eastman Kodak Maytag AmdaN Emerson Electric McDonald's Jttatf- .-Flow Merck Avon Produoto Frito-tay Nationa) Sernlconcluctor Bechtet Group llowlott rpricorri Procter Gamble B«*iS Huohes Aircraft **?chm Bristol-Myers ftovton Calorptttor Tractor international Business ScNumberger fraaabraugh Pond's standard Oi (Indiana) iohnson Johnson tac irtrtrurmnta ■Dolta Air Uwea K
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      • 348 4  -  RUFUS .,m.m,.m.mlkml By REMEMBER when calculators were the size of a pushbutton telephone and cassette-players were an effort to lift, let alone carry around? Who would have thought a decade ago that within a few years there would be the Walkman II and calculators that could
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      • 60 4 Central processing unit (CPU): A computer's control centre It does calculations and executes the instructions m a program. Integrated circuit (IC): A silicon wafer on which the equivalent of thousands of transistor circuits is etched. Microprocessor: A miniaturised central processing unit. Program: Series of instructions that tell a computer
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    • ARTS & BOOKS
      • 736 5 I see no need to be ashamed that the play depicted 25 years of nation-building. Plays like Mr X should be staged if, for no other reason, to teach us our history and to evoke a sense of pride in our country
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      • 671 5  -  TAY KHENG SOON ARCHITECTURE Aivar Aalto exhibition 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. dally, National Museum Art Gallery By ALVAR Aalto was born m 1898 and was 19 when Finland became independent. He must have been excited by the nationalist fervour of the time
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      • 1122 5  -  ANNE-MARIE CURRAN POTTERY Wi By AFTER just a few minutes m the company of potter Iskandar Jalil you become aware of an aura of peace and quietness that seems to emanate from him. Spend more time with him and you are conscious of the fact
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      • 332 5 SO YOU'RE interested m starting a pottery collection. But how do you go about choosing pieces? Potter Iskandar Jalil suggests the following guidelines, although ultimately, as m all art and craft, personal taste plays a big part. Always bear m
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    • FOOD
      • 763 7 MARGARET CHAN discovers a restaurant m Newton that's fussy about its food 1 EAfOUT-] Rocovo Restaurant, 151 Goldhill Centre (next to Goldhill Square), tel *****38. Hours: Breakfast, 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., lunch, 11 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. and tea, 3 p.m. to 4.30
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      • 268 7 Host a French dinner at home and leave it all to the chef FOODNOTES A FRENCH chef m your kitchen? Yes, and candlelight, music and wine and roses too if you are so inclined. The owners of a Singapore company have gone into home catering of French food with two
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      • 459 7 IS AT DI^UT S» JnL I lII VXIT I IF YOU are thinking of becoming a vegetarian, it is encouraging to know that you need not be any the less wellfed for that. Vegetarian diets are also cheaper than meat diets. There
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      • 714 7 j MY CHOICE DISHES PARSI food is a little known cuisine because the Parsis are a very small community throughout the world. There are about 100,000 Parsis, and m Singapore there are only about 100 of them. Originally from Persia, the Parsis cook food
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    • FASHION
      • 677 8 LIM PHAY-UNG on the best of our own spring-summer collections for next year, shown here for the first time last Sunday after their trade exhibition m Tokyo Singapore Apparel 85 THE 21 Singapore designers and manufacturers didn't show anything new but at least most of their clothes were
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    • HABITAT
      • 1115 9 Accessories and space-saving items are the most distinctive pieces at Actus, the latest entry to the knock-down furniture market. JUDITH HOLMBERG reports THE address at Sixth Avenue is familiar. So are many of the services and facilities, while some of the goods are identical.
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      • 214 9 Italian innovation and a bulb with a long life Alternative ELEGANCE and efficiency is what this desk lamp is all about. Produced by Artemides, one of Italy's leading light manufacturers, Tizio is a superb piece of engineering housed m a silhouette of clean and sleek lines. The Tizio uses a
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    • LOOK
      • 477 10 ,m.m;,m.,m.mkljlkaflk CHRISTMAS is a time of goodwill so a gift or a card should be accepted m the spirit it was given and not criticised. The thought, however, is appreciated even more when small details are perfect. To find where you stand on card etiquette,
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      • 163 10 ,m,/m;,mlkalkflkam WITH the examinations over and the holidays here, it's party time again. Here are som* hints to help you make barbecuing all fun and no hassle. LIGHTING UP To start your pill quickly, put enough charcoal for one fire into a grocery bag and
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      • 1040 10 The 'A' and '0' level examinations may be over but the grilling continues. Many school-leavers now face their next arduous task: Getting their first real job. Mr James Challenger, 58, president of an American firm which helps people find employment, talks to US News World Report
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      • 175 10 .,ma,fm;kam;fma A WEST GERMAN company has developed and manufactured a new synthetic material called Lisa. It can absorb and emit even the weakest light, and may be used to replace expensive neon lighting. Bayer AG made Lisa by combining transparent plastics and new fluorescent dyes which
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    • MOTORING
      • 645 11  -  WINSTON LEE By "LEFT rear door not closed," said a firm but gentle male voice. "Fuel level low," it added insistently. I duly took note. The talking Renault 25 broadcasts 23 different messages arranged m three categories alerts, warnings and omissions. "Alerts" cover drastic situations such as
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      • 184 11 A practical Lotus car for the future CAR TALK ONE of the stars at last month's British International Motor Show was the Etna, a mid-engine concept car from Lotus. Unlike many motor show specials, the Etna is a practical prototype for the future. The styling for the next generation of
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      • 443 11  -  JOSS JOSELYN CAR CARE By MANUFACTURERS recommend an oil change every B,oookm or 9,600 km but if you drive only short distances that could mean your oil is not changed for over a year. It should be done at least every six
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    • SPOTLIGHT Shopping
      • 565 12  -  AUDREY PERERA A two-page special report published m conjunction with Discount Fair '84 and Consumer Showcase '84 By Venue: World Trade Centre Hall 2. Date: Dec 14 to 20. Time: 10 am to 10 pm daily. Admission: Free. MORE than 10 years
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      • 290 12 HOW does one organise an event like the discount Fair? Isn't it just one big headache with its myriad of details to take care of? Not so, said Mr T. C. Teo, manager of Trade Management and Promotions Pte Ltd, organiser of the
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      • 729 13  -  SIMONE VAZ A preview of some of the attractions at the fair By WHILE their friends are engrossed watching television, this group of children are learning how to make the computer their friend for life. This is the daily scene at Microkid, which offers a
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      • 267 13 DRAGON Beard candy, a favourite sweet, goes a long way back m history. In the days of old, it was served only to emperors and highranking officials m China because it is so difficult to make. Preparation of the candy involves special skills and deft hands. A
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      • 71 13 THE iron lace look has been revived m the architecture of the Eighties. Sydney Lace is a range of aluminium reproductions of this traditional feature. These reproductions have the added advantage over the originals of being rust-proof. There are several typically Victorian designs to choose from. You
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    • TRAVEL
      • 852 14 Bargains galore in London BRITAIN'S lower prices and the strength of the Singapore dollar has made London a shopping attraction for Singaporeans. TERESA 001 elbowed her way to the front of pre-festive season queues to find out what looks like a good buy at London stores now THE British Tourist
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      • 341 14 ,m,l;ma;lkmf;lamflkml SINGAPORE Airlines, British Airways, Qantas and other airlines fly to London, but you have to shop around for the best fare. You don't need a visa to go to Britain for a holiday. VALUE ADDED TAX In Britain, Value Added Tax (VAT) is charged on
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    • 151 9 Pure silk blouse Jf^SfS \SU&, M^mm fff^'^S, Usual $199 Now $89 H House offers fabulous discounts on BHI Sci A JH i^Hh Pure linen dicss si > v mm Mmm iH^k 1 1 ttoo vi coo v X-_ ticnat C 199 Nrtui iR"} Ik9H r H sm I j^BRW Usual
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    • 229 10 MING COURT HOTEL SINGAPORE Ming Court Asia Hotel Bangkok invite you to A Traditional Thai^, Authentic Thai cuisine by chefs from Asia Hotel Bangkok. Thai hostesses m traditional dress. The Experience It begins right at the door where gracious Thai hostesses welcome you with a friendly 'sawasdee'. Inside, you see
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    • 194 10 THE SECRET OF STAYING YOUNG CmpD Rowing Machine Now it's easier to jrtßk Get rid of that tummy Jf^HlBL Harder* your leg and arm muscles S Firm-up thighs The CmdT)* Rowing Machine is built to he safe I Hydraulic operated /-^ts knobs m /Mtu^*"^ Home Gym Systems No. 3, Lorong
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    • 215 10 There's good money m banking Qualify with The School off Banking The AIB is a professional qualification awarded by the Institute of Bankers m England, and is accepted by more than 1,000 banking groups m over 100 countries around the world. To obtain this prestigious qualification, you need expert tuition.
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    • 103 11 Warehouse Clearance Sale 7th Bth6 9th December 1 984 JJEyJBR^jFri, Sat G Sun) Wwtk B^5 v j| r^T I M Ml il I^l Exciting great offers! I Sanitary Ware Floor circle Wall Tiles Bathroom S Accessories Wall Paint kx> koon toad ,v R oN c Consumer Products S #winiam lacks
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    • 251 12 The IMo.I Consumer Fair m Town I #|The 6th m the Annual Series^ dlsedunfc The^No.l Consumer Fair m Town now into its third successful year I A time to celebrate. A time to rejoice. Join m the festive mood. Celebrate x^Ny^JJ uMji with 2 9 r eat consumer shows. 200
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    • 86 12 The perfect gift of health and good cheer mmrW (tajuHt a. I JF jam HB HJP^H^R^BJ9^^j^^Ed|MH|| "&L -^SH l!*^ |ro£JH W&W$wJ" BS. J^& jljft SBj s HORSE BRAND PRODUCTS t icfOU^' 1 Bird's Nest Mushrooms \4 O% w dunng I Shark's Fins Dried Abalones on aU n °oenods. 1 Fish
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    • 518 13 An International Blockbuster of Passion and Power APOSTLES They made their own laws and others had to live by them Till Times 111 liyi Distributors tiidJJSew fanciful yet sew easy •1 5 full utility stitch with 6 fancy stitches """Limh Compact free arm light-weight i^W machine W^ Bk 6 mm
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    • 177 14 V>(K)l, calculated and designed to steer fashion frontiers. That's the new H^^P^^ dill BSfeWi. range of fashion wear from Jordache. Bold, striking colours hide a I^^ subtle note of confidence. While cottons and rugged denims give you sheer 1 S rHHfe; comfort and freedom for action. m M,-, t !pTotally
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    • 85 1 Even tnou 9 n tnat 'ong-ago Christmas was much different from the one we celebrate today, many of the trac'itions such as carolling and gift-giving go back to that night m Bethlehem. You'll find m the Allowing pages more traditions of the season and wa^s t0
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      • 111 2 wasn t always a place to De kissed. In Roman times, this whiteberried plant was more a symbol of peace than romance. When people warring with each other met beneath a mistletoe-covered tree, they would throw down their weapons at least temporarily. Later on, m England and
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      • 747 2 In the beginning THE CHRISTMAS DINNER The happy family party seated at their Christmas dinner. In the middle of the table, a large bird, oranges, several plates of almonds and raisins, and a mighty pudding with its sprig of holly. The English guests are making dreadful faces as if the
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      • 114 2 with boughs of holly and other evergreens did not start off as a Christmas z~. ritual at all. Indeed, this custom goes back to a Roman festival honouring Saturn, the god Agriculture. ..During this celebration, wfilefc was held around Dec 25, Romans would fill their homes jarith
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      • 681 3 The Nativity scene symbolises the essence of Christmas and, says agatha koh, nowhere does it become more real to her than at the Church of the Nativity m Hougang. fIT HAS been years since I left the parish, but every time I approach the church,
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      • 400 3 SINCE the fifth century, Christians all over the world have celebrated the birth of Christ. With time, some details have been added but the original intention is the same: A symbolic representation of the sacred birth. The Nativity scene is possibly the oldest representation of
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      • 1238 4  -  TIM BRYANT ,m,am.mlkmalkmlkqma By lIT WAS the day before Christmas Eve, and I was seated at the table busily writing my letters to Santa Claus when Dad said "What are you doing, son?" "Writing to Santa Claus," I answered, surprised he hadn't guessed. "Now Tim,
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      • 725 5 SIMONE VAZ spoke to 37 people aged between eight and 41 CHRISTMAS is that time of the year when legendary figures, such as Santa Claus, appear at department stores and hotels. But jolly old Santa, m particular, has little meaning for Singaporeans many see
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      • 268 5 Original Father Christmas VERY often the good old man's death has been announced; but instead, he is livelier than ever, at 1,705 years of age. All through his 17th-century life-span, he has changed his name several times, he has altered his clothes, face, language and habits, but he continues to
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      • 412 6 CHRISTMAS means music, any place you go. Many leading hotels have invited choirs to sing m their lobbies during the season. The choirs run the gamut from churches of different denominations to the Singapore Youth Choir, the National University of Singapore and that of the
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        653 7 AUDREY PERERA on tree decorations for the young ones to make "WHAT'S this, Mummy?" "Why are you doing that?" "Sorry, Mummy, I didn't mean to break it. I only touched it." "But I'm so bored!" Christmas is when you're rushing to get everything ready. And the young child
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    • FACADES
      • 588 9 Josephine ng checks out the displays at department stores and visits the creative teams at two of them CHRISTMAS m Singapore wears many faces. One of them is the green styrofoam palm trees of Printemps' department store. Is this equatorial theme a submission to
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      • 403 9 TIRED of visions of sugar plum dancing m your head? Then spare a thought for the people responsible for bringing all the lights, glitter and merriment of the season to you. Preparations to dress up their establishments for the year's most widely celebrated festival
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        447 10 BELOVED holiday tradition, symbolic of the season, the Christmas tree is an ancient symbol of immortality m the lives of Christians. The German people have been credited with being the first to use decorated and lighted trees, but the idea goes much further back m history. Primitive
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      • 626 10  -  DAVID TOH By NOTHING beats the cheerfulness and charm of a gaily decorated tree. Traditionalists may insist that nothing but a real tree will do, but m Singapore, it's the "evergreen" plastic fir that reigns supreme. Plastic ones They're practical light and easy to dismantle
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      • 487 11  -  AUDREY PERERA By SOMEONE spied the Christmas wreaths which were brought to the office to be photographed and asked, m all seriousness: "Who died?" Many people still associate wreaths with funerals. But Christmas wreaths actually appeared m the West during the Bth or 9th Century,
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    • PANTOMIME
      • 664 12 SIMONE VAZ previews the Stage Club's Mother Goose's Golden Christmas starting Wednesday at Victoria Theatre A COSY feeling of belonging that's what the Stage Club tries to convey to both audience and cast during its annual Christmas pantomime. This year, they are performing Mother Goose's Golden
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      • 331 12 IT'S a topsy-turvy, fantasy world where adults forget their inhibitions and children revel m the dramatisation of their favourite nursery rhymes and fairy-tale figures. Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Puss m Boots and other characters are made real to children pantomime's main target audience as they materialise
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      • 282 13 What would the pomp and pageantry of the season be like without the sight of gifts massed under a gaily decorated Christmas tree? Make your present stand out from the rest by wrapping it imaginatively. All it takes is a little creativity. RETHI GOVIN
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      • 189 13 IF YOU don't have the time or inclination, you can pay to have more nimble fingers dress up your gifts for you. Paper Moon at Centrepoint, which did the first three parcels shown below, will do the wrapping if you buy the gift or paper
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      • 284 14 LEGENDS OF SANTA HISTORY never dies, it just gets more colourful as it passes through time and telling. The history of St Nicholas, the original Santa Claus, is an example. One version says that he was a bishop m Catholic Spain during the 80-year
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      • 536 14 ON A DUTCH ISLAND While most people celebrate Christmas with parties and family gatherings, the men of the windswept Dutch island of Hollum mark the season by dressing as demons and battering each other with clubs, says ABNER KATZMAN. DURING Christmas m Hollum, men blowing
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      • 527 14  -  AUDREY PERERA ST NICHOLAS IN SINGAPORE By ONE hundred and sixty Dutch children toddlers to early teens waited anxiously at the West Coast jetty recently. To lessen the anxiety, they sang with gusto their voices raised m anticipation. The children
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    • BETHLEHEM
      • 439 15 In the town where it all started, Christmas is truly a silent night because it is a holy night. No radios blasting carols or stores advertising cheap sales. VALERIE LEE reports on the mood m Bethlehem and on tours to the Holy Land. I IT IS
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      • 432 15 TRAVEL NOTES IMAGINE walking along the shores of the Sea of Galilee m Israel where Jesus Christ, according to the Bible, first walked on water. Or leaning against a wall where a crusader once rested. That dream could well become a reality.
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      • 584 16 This beautiful plant can be deadly, especially for children, says rethi govin. BEAUTIFUL blood-red poinsettia plants are often used to brighten the home during the festive season. Even their Latin scientific name Eurphorbia pulcherrima translates elegantly into English as "very beautiful splurge". Today, the beauty of
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      • 593 16 HOW did the poinsettia come to be associated with Christmas? The use of the poinsettia as a Christmas symbol originated m Mexico, where the bright red leaves blossom m abundance on the hillsides. One Mexican legend has it that Jose, an impoverished boy,
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      • 1143 18 For upper-class Americans, reading the Christmas Book from Neiman-Marcus is an annual ritual. For the wares offered within this catalogue read like a fairy tale diamond-studded stockings, full-sized gingerbread houses, his-and-hers cars An avid reader of the book, IRENE HOE lets us
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      • 517 19  -  VALERIE LEE By SIMPLE sentimental verses, it seems, are not enough these days. Now there are musical cards that even light up when they are opened. These cards, which come m a choice of different coloured flashing lights which have been synchronised
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      • 297 20  - Light up your Christmas with candles SIMONE VAZ By ADD a glow to your Christmas this year with candles. The flame of the Christmas candle holds a special significance, especially m the colder lands, as it symbolises the promise of life m the spring after the cold of Christmas. But
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      • 395 20 HOUSEWIFE Mrs Esther Quek, 44, spends her evenings toiling over a hot stove at the back of her house. But culinary delights are not what she turns out though the occasional Swiss roll may emerge. Instead, the fruits of her labour are dozens of unique,
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      • 438 20 TRY your hand at makin|p?andles. It's easy and cheap, and best of all, you can decorate them just as you like. You'll need paraffin wax (the kind that melts at 56 to 58° C is best), stearin (or stearic acid), wax dyes, wicks
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    • 380 4 No other camera measures up to this. At Olympus, photographic With it, photography begins a as you need. With every photo, innovations come m many forms. new generation of electronic the OM-4 gives you a virtually In the remarkably compact, sophistication. To enhance your unlimited choice of creative yet ruggedly
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    • 110 5 ■k sk ctXjpr^SS yDUr 3pprOCI3IIOn F^jl BKBL to customers, friends dr lIF l*y s 3ll^k relatives with our special lit m 1 J^Smw n a^P® r s and gifts. jig I Prices range from $135 JlmrK WmtiM %to $495. Call us for Jmf& mvJn fi W^L more in^o rmati o
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    • 167 6 A l\s&J for the price of one This Christmas,get your best value r^7\-y—?^ for money with the PENTAX Super CZ-^ A Kit. The camera that won the r-^tA \A L^wtllf^J European Camera Of The Year award is now being offered at an Q>y WH^O J<r^ X attractive price, PLUS you
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    • 90 7 S^s^s. Cut y° ur st ff P a P er into this >/ 3. Stick a satay stick through the styrofoam ball. X. f X 2. Join the ends A and B with glue or tape. This gives you the angel's skirt. The stick should be m/ this position though
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    • 325 9 IFOURPRICESARE MUSIC TOTOUREARS, WAITTILLYOU HEARTHE SOUND. I t l i. ■i H i 8 'i-h*'*iy^E SJiir Jh j EjSjBS" I i B I O H^_| —**_**>.**-.**-**_**— r> < A rt rt Hii'l 'ILJJ h \A*& "j _VWm 'n# ''^iJ !]ww'fc J TBf'''i"ii*it!'* i "J )B: ultl I mi B* 1
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    • 331 10 SUPER SINGER OFFER 5 exciting gifts for your sewing pleasure. Singer, the trusted name m sewing machines for generations, has now come up with this unbeatable Super Offer: Buy any of our zig-zag models between November 19 December 31, 1984 and you get 5 gift items FREE! jfgj^^ 1 One
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    • 92 19 A scented Christmas. From Ralph Lauren,of course. Christmas is here again. And what *Mh '-ff* These special gifts are limited and better gift to give than a special JJ are available at all leading departChristmas fragrance pack, from ■ISPf' ''^"Mw^T m^ nt stores and retailers. So hurry, Ralph Lauren. SffiPfc-
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    • 145 20 EUROPE 'S FINEST COLLECTION OF LEATHER PRODUCTS \^^X Gold-Pfbl GOLDHILL SQUARE, *01-18. 101 THOMSON ROAD, SINGAPORE 1130. TEL: *****16 There's more to Christmas shopping at Plaza Singapura With each level specialising o fOto m different products, it's so o c\^\^m^^J^ I\lfi&3i jfiMrs with the prices and the v^rC J> wide
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      • 751 1 MBL m SINGAPORE MARATHON I H 5 T H 1985 syllabuses of the Trinity of \1 >j4. College of Music and the Associated 88l I More than 12 000 Board of the Royal Schools of Music ■BBMBJ tri t London Road, Geylang Road, Paya Lebar Road, Mti—mh-t'iM SINGAPORE YOUTH ORCHESTRA
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      • 990 2 It's the newest game m town putting the wraps on SBC artistes m dramas and variety shows. JULIE TAN reports on the glamour appeal of the sponsorship trend, and meets the SBC unit with the nose for the nitty-gritty. What some of the sponsors
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      • 472 2 THE Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's Facilities Coordination Unit. It's a mouthful and it has a pretty unappetising task. The credits at the end of each SBC serial give an idea of what comes under the charge of the unit. This includes location research and filming schedules,
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      • 624 2 ALL TOURS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL. EXPERIENCE, EXPERTISE and EXCELLENCE form the basis of tour creations. Reliance holds more than 1 4 years of accumulated tours with extra services. And our objective of opening up experience. A dynamic team of 500 staff all work towards new horizons to the travelling
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      • 414 2 Scott trims down to play J^H young Mussolini JS^^m GEORGE C. SCOTT (right) is desperately trying tc lose 18 kg />^Bi^S^ Hß W before starting his forthcoming fl LJM. HL mini-series, Mussolini. Jm&M ft m The star wants to look as Tfj ■lir^^Nfc l young and trim as possible so
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      • 350 3 TOP SECRET! At Jade Starring Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge and Michael Gough Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker TOP SECRET! starts with two credit sequences which give an idea of what the film is about. Nazi storm troopers, representing present-day
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      • 433 3 ELECTRIC DREAMS At Cathay Starring Lenny Von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen Directed by Steve Barron EVERYWHERE m the sunshine state of California, there are executives computer whiz kids, aspiring movie directors, script-writers, lawyers, bankers and other upstarts cooking up dreams of success to keep
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      • 495 3 Stylish, stylised and sterile. LIM KAY TONG gives the lowdown on three new film comedies which are now playing in town SHANGHAI BLUES At Chong Gay cinemas Starring Sylvia Zhang, Kenny Bee and Sally Yeh Directed by Tsui Hark OVERWHELMINGLY stylistic, Shanghai Blues may have great visual impact
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      • 301 4  -  TEO LI AN HUAY LOOK EAST By MUMMY'S little girl is full of surprises. So learnt Taiwanese star Hu Huizhong's mother. She decided to catch the midnight screening of her daughter's latest film m Hongkong, although the actress had advised her to wait for the
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      • 656 4  -  CHAN ENG CHENG By IT PROMISES to be SBC's most ambitious operation as far as election coverage is concerned. Mobilising both man and machine, the coverage of this month's general election will be an all-out effort to bring the excitement of the hustings and
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      • 341 4  -  LIM KAY TONG TV REVIEW By THEY are new, have engaging personalities, yet remain essentially the same. Two current American prime-time favourites Riptide (Sundays, Ch 5* 7.50 p.m.) and Scarecrow and Mrs King (Sundays, Ch 5, 9.15 p.m.) may be new shows but both owe debts
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      • 441 4  - Warts-and-all tale about Grimm storytellers LIM KAY TONG TV PREVIEW The Brothers Grimm Wednesday^ Ch 1 2, 8 p.m. HBy I WONDER what would have happened to Walt Disney without the Brothers Grimm. Many children today and most adults may vaguely recall reading or being told about Snow White And
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      • 235 4 iL^A MAT A r v_ OPGAN'SAHON j I 1 30. 3.45 7.00 pm A\ J| 1 1 "PROFILE IN ANGER" X I m Mondorin jr I TONIGHT 9 1 5pm ONLY JC IfI MM JIIJ W»B!!Bffiia Q J 'Kreto Ayer People's Theatre 1 1 j "WINNER TAKES AUL" J 1
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      • 236 4 1 fIDPIIAnn (TEL: *****88) O i UnunAnU 5 shows daily 5 I 1 1 am, 1 .30, 4.00, 6.30 9. 1 5pm <, Admission: $4.00 $3.00/ Cash Bookings/No Free List <|' Fantastic Sound Effects m m [2^*l2™] X 1 TH EY RE H ERE to save the world j i
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      • 266 4 I NOW SHOWING At BROADWAY/BEDOK/REGAL/G ALA/KONG CHIAN X LEISURE DROME/VENUS 0 BEDOK (24 1 2677) I GALA (*****75) Q 1.30,4.00 7 30 9 30 130 3.30, 7.00 9.00pm O REGAL (*****59) LEISURE-DROME (*****62) Q 1 30, 4 00, 645 9 00pm I I lam, 1.30, 4, 645 9 15pm fa
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      • 247 4 M ORGANISATION I OPENS TODAY No Free List PRINCE j 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6 45, 915 I i B LIBERTY-PRESIDENT-SAVOY I Horn, 1.45, 4.00, 6 45, 9.15 I I "First Stitch" Mandarin -■■fifiVHBtHWHJ 1 NOW SHOWING I P- I lam, 1.45, 4 00, 6 45, 9.15 J "Th» ENCHANTRESS" (Mond)
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      • 134 4 ■■■■■■■■■■•■■■lB I CAPITOL: 32nd BIGGEST-EVER DAY (*****59) 5 SHOWS AT Ham, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30, 9.15 1 Pnce*s^^CASHßOOKlNG^oFreeUst ■BBBT**^^^^^ l^"*t*^rf^V^^^Bßßß^''^ '^BH BB^^^l»^TW?Ttl?r7'*^M LIDO:HURRY-SeasonENDINGSOON (*****14) 5 SHOWS at 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.45, 9.15 I€ you thought "CLASS" was saucily hilarious, WAIT TILL YOU SEE.., I BBBBBBBBBI^'S*M«lB^b?s?^'^^^^TBBPBBBBBI BB?* i^S ""WBK BB»P^ I BBBBY
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      • 337 4 1 Are you handicapped by your English? B Are you content with the way errors. How to express your ideas you speak and write? Are you fluentl; I sure that you are not making The study requires only a mistakes that cause people to little time, and very moderate underrate
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      • 165 5 Poor 6th Aoiue. Yes, we are sorry we had to leave. But we needed much more space. To give all our of us herein Katong for our opening celebrations this Thursday to Sunday (Dec 13 to 16). MII ho^^mm customers a bigger choice. The bargain prices we will be announcing
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      • 2658 5 YOUR WEEK AHEAD Monday .SB SI I 1 MONDAY I I WEDNESDAY I__L«^L Singapore-China BiL< 41^***" H!™*^ VWnPV Calligraphy Exchange exhibition and the I j/t^ V The Final Battle Ch 5920 n m THE A-TEAM: Diamond 'n' Dust wm V-' CONTEMPORARY Singapore Calligraphy 1984 exh.b.t.on f^K^ I^T 7 f! 920
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      • 205 6 m All the features of the PARTNER AF pjus I^^Ji L 4. _j^> ff\ C HHSfI built-in quartz clock/calendar that prints 1 lAuto-everYthingplusa l^^aiTßerrir J time or date right on the film. Only I liiriTftii I I world-famous raioTsharp an d '^V^x |J |HU $199 nett (case included) Ikll ggflf
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      • 2733 6 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY^ 4.00 MR WIZARDS WORLD. 6.15 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PLANTS: 4.30 FOR THE FAMILY (T/r). 6.15 ROMPER ROOM (C) !m SEE^EXPRESS 645 NEWS (T) 430 PINWHEEL. Plants. B.rds And Vamp.res (T). 5.00 TROUPERS. W.th ventriloquist John <J) J-5« JJgf™^ 7 05 FAMILY HOUR (C). Sent to stop
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    • MUSIC
      • 536 7 Another Jackson appears on the music scene IS THE world really ready for another Jackson? Apparently so. As if Michael, Tito, Jermaine, Jackie, Latoya, Marlon, Randy and Janet aren't enough, along comes big sister Rebbie, the eldest and, to date, least-known of the brood. She's pulling up the rear with
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      • 578 7  -  CHRIS LEWIS JAZZ REVIEW By HERBIE HANCOCK TRIO Herbie Hancock Ron Carter Tony Williams (CBS-Sony Compact Disc) TWO-THIRDS of the Great Jazz Trio plus one often wayward pianist equals a startingly innovative and clever combination of hard bop and thoughtful cool. When Carter and
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      • 723 7  -  KANNAN CHANDRAN POP REVIEW By EVERY MAN HAS A WOMAN Yoko Ono (Polydor) IT'S been four years since Lennon's death and still Yoko mourns. Like her previous albums, Yoko uses her music to convey her grief, and this one is rife with sadness.
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      • 131 7 LEARN at HOME about the CATHOLIC CHURCH BY MAIL V/| AT NO COST WITHOUT ANY OBLIGATION Fill m the Following R.I.C. and mail to 225-B, Queer. Street, Singapore 0718 Name Address Dist. No I nGn 3rd book fair I I LSLJ THE FAMILY I Organised by the Singapore Book Publishers
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      • 474 7 National's new Quintrix Alpha TC-640M makes other CTVs look outdated ■jm Sleek and smart. It has equally stunning features. And once you've seen it for yourself, no other CTV will be good enough. Simply because it represents the shape of CTVs to come. The Alpha square design is a totally
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    • Young Life
      • 234 8 THERE has been a fantastic response to our contests and many boys and girls have written to ask me all sorts of questions. Some of you wanted to know how I got the photographs of the winners. It's simple. I sent a photographer to their home to take
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      • 436 8 DRESSED FOR WORK NAVY DIVER HAVE you ever wondered what it is like to work underwater? Navy divers do so as they go about their tasks of underwater salvage, rescue work and underwater maintenance on navy ships. And if bombs are found underwater, they have to dispose of them. To
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      • 1039 8 A pop-up card for someone special Make a pop-up card for rraflST'l P someone who is special to you. T^^l I He or she will be very happy to receive it. Besides, it is fun to U t learn to make this kind of card Once you get the hang
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      • 349 8 Young lift Contest 11 TODAY we want you to design a Christmas card. We have provided the outline of a scene here. The design can be for the inside or outside of a card. You may draw Santa cycling m a garden or along the pedestrian mall m Orchard Road
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      • 268 9 X o o \s E Jll COLLINS JUNIOR DICTIONARY The 'Collins Junior Dictionary' provides a wide vocabulary of 18,000 words and phrases with features specially designed to help young readers. Available at all Good Bookshops H VI Times I I 111 IV 111 IBJ Distributors 2 Jurong Port Road Singapore
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      • 241 9 Hra^MllMlmintmlMYYTTm I iTTTI 1 1 mvi i niilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllk illlnfllloiilliylllmllfltlnm MirMmls, :^rni i '""X^ Hft» M^^ IBW Wk Em i 111 VL) WiCT" K/V *7 S UHATS IK THB- ;tffl^. 1 (T*STOPAVS 1 U>KW,TVIKEfIUSrBEAr Rnuß^H^jMcvuMP msru&ivksgj"' V IS REALLY THE PITS j^f.^ «/CAy >»A/ OUTSTAND/N& IAMP IKjF '"l'?pM^^3 /^|k I ntCfc/r/^
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      • 264 10 I TODAY'S WORLD TMiBMMLBSER. I Um*g\ I /what a day this ...lost our Biee*srA^ouwT...6csrcH&WEP S/ \,,ANP now I fe==^4HA^KEW..I CXJT BVTHeODSS..,I < M6ernM6AaX.PSORE... Ar\_ 3 F "If you're taking up astronomy, we need «jhe management have decided to "I shouldn't complain really, I've always r=CL F?/' HAD A FLAT rcrV—
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      • 543 11 m\ Oxleyllth£rl2th I Grand Mass Wedding £r I Honeymoon Tours %p I Date of Ceremony; 2nd June 1 985 29th September 1985 I Venue of Ceremony: Neptune Theatre Restaurant I Date of Departure: 3rd June 1 985 30th Septemb*" 1 985 I Watch out for our Bndal Fashior S tow
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      • 495 11 IIBB^iPnill! mijl" 11 iin.niiiiiii^iiiiiui""""""""""""""""""™"""™^^ !l ""mniiiiii[mn |p|fH||pW|; Hmffilfmlnlllllmlmtlo lm!i!ii;, liiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillliiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiliiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! 'lil'lllllllllmll lllmlMlimlillliimtTtrm DBBlfflfiilllll lIIIIIIIMIIIW W ■MMinMBfBB LJk i fl Hi IH^^^Bl Wr^T*yy^^^jW^P7y j/ y 'jf '^w r' rA NOW AN EVERYDAY I_^^B I: H ■P^^TH j| 3^i^^^^S|^^^^Mß==iF Ws^bmlW JH rcrATF NFW MODELS wEmiSEM Ifl 11 ■—^aHKe^jii T^^llrir^H^— JFTB :i vii-Ba»^.ii
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      • 301 12 BARGAIN FOR/^ ec ft^ APDCAT Y f |\/lAC f (while stocks last) J| J-J 1 UrICMI A I VI MO Purchase above SMOand get a stainless kettM r net Sydney makes your Christmas extra special at our great bargain furniture fair you I (notemjttod t0 cash ,nd carry Hems) can
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      • 1115 12 "IV FOR W°*£ COUNTER TO THE /l TOLt? TH E f^\'^^^^fe^» |m|| '2^ 1964 Un.t^l Fe«lure Syndic«l«.inc V^^J 4^^ > b fi"-^ I SI/^^^Slt^e^ I^^mpKt^ I H OV^ APkH. Jj^^ THRRV3UE! KHOW DISCOUNT SHELTER. JA r^SWSHH^MHB n s wee < personal affairs I^^ISSSHHLV Now is your opportunity to I^iHESEEI II
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      • 651 13 737H66 1 2 Eating Out COCKPIT HOTEL COFFEE House For quick lunch/ dinner. Specially prepared by our Indonesian Chef. Fish Head Curry, Ayam Penggan, Udang Pepes, Gado Gado, Lontong many others. Also available at Cockpit Restaurant for quick lunch/ dinner, varieties of sumptlous Hong Kong Tim Sum prepared by Hong
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      • 779 13 18 Home Furniture/ Furnishing 2 DAYS CLEARNACE AT FACTORY Dining tables $80 up Coffee tables $10 up. c Safari chairs $25 up. Cane furniture $30 up. Cash and carry. Public and retailers welcome Bth and 9th Dec. 1984 10am to spm KODA WOODCRAFT PTE LTD 28 Defu Lane 4 Singapore
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      • 631 13 20 Pets/Pet Care 1 MALE AND female Shlh Tzu, black/ white, without/ with papers. Contact Julin Tan *****57. 3 ADULTS FEMALE Pedigree German Shepherd for sale. $1,000 each. *****01. 4 MONTHS OLD female Boxer puppy with paper for sale. Interested call: *****13/ *****96 7 DALMATIAN PUPPIES with papers, 3 males,
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      • 756 13 30 Hairdressing 'BEN' -BENJAMIN'— LatestInternational InventionsDominoes, Pyramid PermlngsBo.oo by Benjamin, Cornelius. (Holiday Special Permings2s.oo. Cutting $12.00 by London Hairstylists Ricky- SimonBernard). #02-02 Odeon Katong. Appointment *****45 (Free Hairdressing Courses). LAN UNISEX HAIRSTYLING StudioChristmas season offer- International Hair Journal latest creation spiral straw perm $50.00 by Peter- Hair cutting $16.00, cutting
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      • 643 13 36 House Renovation/ Decor HON INN GENERAL Contractor. Specialise m renovation works. Italian heavy duty ceramic floor tiles with skirting, 3-roomed $3,300, 4-roomed $5,300, 5-roomed $7,300. Tel: *****38 or *****16. Free water heater and soap holder. WE SPECIALISED IN plumbing, maintenance, renovation, installation and changing copper/ stainless steel piping to
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      • 581 13 TELEPHONE SERVICE: Monday Friday 9 00am to 5.00pm Saturday 8.30 am to 2.oopm (Ham deadline for the Sunday Times) Public Holiday 9.00 am to I.oopm COUNTER SERVICE: Timea Orchard Centra, #02-105 Lucky Plaza Monday-Friday: 10.00 am to 12 noon I.oopm to 5.30pm (4.00pm tor next day) Timaa Houaa, 390 Kirn
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      • 1434 13 RATES Ordinary: $1.00 per word (Mm $15 00) Semi-display: $20.00 per col. cm (Mm $60.00 Straits Times) $20.50 per col. cm (Mm $61 50 Sunday Times) Display: $25 00 per col cm. (Mm. $75 00 Straits Times) $25 62 per col. cm. (Mm. $76.86 Sunday Times) Box Charges: $5.00 (collected)
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      • 735 13 CLASSIFICATION GUIDE: Food/Entertainment (2 5) Personal Service«/Merchandise(ll 39) Business to Business (49 58) Employment (64 74) Vehicles (81 98) Properties (106 127) Travel Guide (135 139) Education Instruction (146 157) Announcements (166 174) Obituaries (181 185) 87 For Sale: Mercedes '80 200. Fully automatic Tip top condition. See to believe
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      • 750 14 83 Vehicle Financing/ Insurance It's fast with FOCL c Prompt processing of applications c Attractive interest rates 12 months 5%% flat 24 months —6% flat 36 months 6Va% flat 48 months 6%% flat c Up to 90% financing Call 533-3737 today H FORWARD OVERSEA CREDIT LIMITED 65, Chulia Street, #46-02,
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      • 706 14 83 Vehicle Financing/ Insurance 90 For Sale: Toyota 1979 TOYOTA CORONA 1600 1 private owner. Excellent condition. New sports rims/ tyres. Expensive hi-fi. $14,800. Tel: *****72. 1979 TOYOTA CORONA 1600. Aircon, radio/ cassette. Private owner. PARF eligible. Excellent condition. *****45. 1980 COROLLA 1300 DX, 1 owner. Aircond. Powered TKR stereo.
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      • 1558 14 90 For Sale: Toyota 90 For Sale: Toyota I STARGAZING I The new lively Toyota Starlet and prestigious Toyota Cressida are now on view m our showrooms. Showrooms open today. BORNEO MOTORS For a great deal more AUUNIED ROAD TEL *****32 BUKIT TIMAH ROAD TEL *****55 6 7 8 9
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      • 896 14 95 For Sale: Commercial Vehicles AUG '81 DATSUN pickup 720, new road tax, insurance. Excellent condition. Passed inspection. $9,900. *****27. LATE 1983 MIT. L2OO Pick-Up. Tip top condition. Aircon, new tax. Asking $8,800 0.n.0. Loan arrangeable. Tel: *****00., 1978 DAIHATSU VAN 550. Selling: i $3,500. Contact: *****90/ *****12 or view
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      • 654 14 106 Accomodation Available: Houses i-STOREY BUNGALOW 3 bedrooms, servant's, partially furnished, 11,000 sq.ft. Pool. $7,000 negotiable. *****73. 107 Accommodation Available: Apartments TO LET At the junction of Scotts/ Orchard Road, next to Hyatt Hotel. Immediate Occupation. Long or Short Lease. 14,000 sq ft Hotel Style Lobby. Swimming Pool. Tennis Court
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      • 799 14 108 Accommodtion Available: Rooms ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE FOR foreign students with Eni glish educated couple with grown up children. School along Bukit Timah Road. Interested 1 please contact *****67 after 7pm. EUNOS CRESCENT, UNFURNISHED room for working couple/ newly weds. Convenient facilities. $280 p.m. Available i 1/1/85. *****87. JURONG EAST ROOMS
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      • 558 14 113 For Sale: Houses Hill-top Luxury Residences Elevated locality. Easy Transportation well-known St Nicholas Pn Sec School at t^H 77 Thomson area Near MRT station A new f^ -1_ Beautifully designed Spanish-style /J| A^J Jk The unique design of these Spanish-style I<*l uj r>^ jJpTjTr /°|o I ,^fl double storey
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      • 360 14 113 For Sale: Houses SERANGOON GARDEN SEMI-DE-TACHED single-storey. 3420 sq.ft. Extensively renovated. Centralised alrcon. Price $430,000 0.n.0. Tel *****27- Angie. SUNDAY SPECIAL! oversized hobby room plus 3 lovely bedrooms, m 2 1/2-storey corner terrace m Upper East Coast. 5 years $515,000. Admiral: *****22. DIST.2B, 40, BEGONIA Drive 4 years' old
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      • 511 14 113 For Sale: Houses 116 For Sale: HDB Apartments 4-ROOM TOA PAYOH Lorong 8 Blk-228. high floor, beautiful front view. Broken marble and wall plastering throughout, kitchen cabinets. Good location near school market. $78,000 0.n.0. Tel: *****71. BUKIT MERAH CENTRAL sroomed, 7th-storey, luxuriously renovated, aircond, hot and cold water supply,
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      • 1329 15 114 For Sale: Private Apartments 114 For Sale: Private Apartments 114 For Sale: Private Apartments nwKiLW' G^° sis Kj4^^B^^BpMESJ r^^ f, JfJMf Muk 1 '"^^<S-!SSBy|^^^g^EajHg jp/ FAR HORIZON GARDENS MORE THAN 50% SOLD! It's easy to understand why Far Hori- Swimming and wading pools zon Gardens has been so popular
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      • 970 15 137 Tours 137 Tours 137 Tours i|P il.l'H i mWm\ WP flB BB IbH great way to truitl EXPERIENCE Wonders of the World The travel conquest of Africa has now begun with S A Tours, flying SIA! Northeast Africa/Egypt/Cairo/Belly Dancing Egyptian E3anquet/Pyramids of Giza The Sphinx/Luxor/ Suez Canal/Nile Dinner Cruise
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      • 749 15 137 Tours 137 Tours 137 Tours P^jJjwr Service Gert.no H^wanos fraser's H"i r.tv) (Airport) I Su per' 2l2 HelicopterAirßoad, Direct from USA the fabulous Fantasy Factory! Deluxe 1 or 2 nights stay m Genting Casino Hotel. Return Singapore/KUSingapore air ticket. Return XL (Subang)/Genting/KL (Subang) Super 212 helicopter air service. Super
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      • 443 15 150 Commercial/ Technical 1 Le.jcimg to the Examinations of GCE C&G CEI LCCI VITB etc GCE 'A' 'O' Levels (Science. Arts Commerce Streams) Diploma m Commerce Diploma m Marketing Public I Relations Private Secretary Certificate Institute of Administrative Management English Language at O level Japanese 9 Import Export Typewriting Bookkeeping
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