New Nation, 5 October 1981

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    Masthead
    17 1 New Nation City Edition SINGAPORE Monday, October 5, 1981 3295 Price 30 Cents M.C.(P) No. JO3/1/81 ipfewKiiw
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  • Article
    Computers galore Computers galore
    299 1  -  Three for each secondary school by 1985 By Gan Soh Eng Three micro computers for each secodary school by 1365 that is the ambitious target the government has set to boost the teaching of computer science in schools. Besides providing the 170 secondary schools with about
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    Lock icon Reagan to meet former govt men
    115 1 AFP Waebtaftea: Prwtjwrt Beagaa Is to hattreet Us mm tor •elHag Awtei r»dar ■bum to Stad AraMa: Mu be will ImM a meeug ef efftalabi ef the past tlx tiveramonta to pnve thai the Matnwial mlc hM wMe >D-p«fty Mrirhg. Mr Bm«m will eeafer
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    Lock icon Police probe into car plant
    155 1 Reuter British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has ordered a police inquiry into allegations of financial irregularities involving a sports car plant in Northern Ireland run by American businessman John de Lorean. A spokesman for Mrs thatcher's 10 Downing Street office announced the inquiry last night.
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    Lock icon Cuba faces problems
    39 1 AFP Wasfctagtaa, The Cuban regime of Fidel Castro is facing its worst-ever economic crisis and could resort to a new emigration drive to rid itself of political opponents, US intelligence expert Russell Swanson said yesterday. AFP
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      153 1 —Tomorrow; 1 Take Three of our series on the Hong Kong TV ci Ivb, ivjrupoßi industry tells how your favourite Chinese serials are made 1 g.TIONAt Ul<- ia POM 'No Smoking' floor in hotel Page 7 Cinema tor late-comers Page 5 West German mark revalued Page 4 Making NTI region's
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    Carry on as usual?
    334 2 So far, nothing has been settled in the GCE O level English essay paper controversy. Except the Education Ministry's bureaucratic failings. Point one. The ministry says it has tried unsuccessfully many times, including once in July, to get details of the Cambridge marking system. It took
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    THEIR VIEWS
    128 2 6A time when two countries (India and Pakistan) are lashing out on lethal equipment does not look propitious for talks on anything, much less on limiting arms. But budgetary arithmetic, if nothing else, should begin to give somebody pause. India has recently contracted for its largest-ever loan from
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  • WHISPERS
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      Quarter of a head
      27 2  -  B > 1 ISP^J Overheard a colleague who was struggling to find the Malay equivalent for headquarters. Finally, in exasperation, he cried out: "Kepalasuku.
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    Lock icon Dream come true for Sara-Ann
    250 2 It WM ft child's dream omdc trie when tittle Sara-Ann Krlshnaniiy. IL found her■elf sarreaaded with ■tailed teys. The teys, made hy patieata d Taa Tech Seng Hospital far the hospital's aaaaal sale of haadlcraft, were seea ta be Mid hat far a while, they
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    Lock icon Rally stirs up trouble
    150 2 AP Ban: Controversy over a peace rally, which is expected to be the largest in rt-war German history, tsofating Chancellor Helmut Schmidt from his Dairt? and threatening Beam's support for Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) defence policies. The religious, union, environmental and antiwar groups organising the
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    Learning from Taiwan
    211 2 A team from the Nanyang Technological Institute is visiting Taiwan and Hong Kong in a bid to make NTl's engineering department one of the best in the region. The three-member team, which left about 10 days ago, is visiting polytechnics and universities that have strong engineering departments
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    Institue sends team to Hong Kong too
    142 2 The |5 million renovation includes converting the science blocks into suitable engineering workshops ana offices for temporary use by the staff. Work is expected to be completed by March next year. In the second phase, a 1200 million complex comprising laboratories, an estate
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    Lock icon West German mark pushed upwards
    433 4 Guilder also gets a boost while franc and lira are devalued Reuter Brussels: European Common Market governments last night announced a 5.5 per cent upward revaluation of the West German mark and Dutch guilder and parallel three per cent devaluations of the French franc and
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    Lock icon Another Ripper on the killing trail
    206 4 UPI Leeds: Police warned yesterday that a killer who strangled a newly-wed prostitute In the same red-light district where the Yorkshire Ripper operated coold strike again. Detectives said Sandra Battle, 37, was found dead on Friday morning In a lovers' lane In Chapeltown, the
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    Students out for the Big Kill in Changi
    256 4 Some students of Bedok View Primary and Secondary Schools are flocking to a store at Block 56, Upper Changl Road, every afternoon. The crowd puller is a board with 68 packets. Each packet contains a sweet and a slip of paper with
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    Lock icon 'Change tight money policies'
    136 4 Reuter Washlagtoa: Treasury Secretary Mr Donald Regan said yesterday that tne Federal Reserve, the US Central Bank, should change Its tight money policies to avert a possible recession. But he stressed that he was not advocating an "easy money" policy. Mr Regan and other government officials
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    Lock icon C'wealth leaders urge for more dialogue with the rich C'wealth leaders urge for more dialogue with the rich
    376 5 AP AFP Caaherra: The 42 Commonwealth Heads of Government who are meeting here yesterday Issued a declaration calling for a new dialogue between developed and developing countries. The "Melbourne Declaration" issued during
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    'Twin' concept for two new cinemas
    193 5  -  Film will run twice 45 mins apart By Julie Tan Do not despair the next time you are late (or a show at the cinema. You will be able to catch up on what you have missed even if you are late by 45
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    STOCK MARKET
    132 5 BUSINESS DONE First Seetlea Pegi M'sia (1) 3.70 (1) 3.68 (1) 3.64 (1) 3.62 (1) 3.60 (4) 3.58 (1) 3.56 (4) 3.54 (5) 3.52 (1) 3.50 S Land (2) 8.90 (1) 8.80 (1) 8.70 S Trading (1) 6.60 (1) 6.55 (2)6.50 OCBC (2) 8.40 (1) 8.45 (5) 8
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    Lock icon Gold down
    27 5 UPI Haag Kaaa: Gold opened today at U*****.50 an ounce on the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange, down from Saturday's closing price of US$44O. UPI
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    Lock icon Model jail made $168 mil profit
    139 5 Reuter "tfiSkl nU jail la ssrsLUs ft milli— yua (stoat fltt mflttsa) la praflt tor fee stale aver the peat M years by ma Hag seeks aad ptaatle saadals, the BHMag DmUy said yeeTbe leeal newspaper said the valae ef fee seeks aai aaadala
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    'S'pore dearer than UK'
    142 5 It is more expensive to visit Singapore than Britain, says a London Financial Times survey conducted this year. A day in Singapore costs about 1224 while one only needs to spend |197 a day in London. These figures were cited by Mr Ivan Polunin, leader of
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      128 5 <:; :***V'. Just opened.The Festival of Oysters Oysters those fabulous shellfish delicacies that nestle snugly in pearly beds. Such divine appetisers to an exquisite meal. They are here in great abundance at Marco Polo's *Le Festival des Huitres' The Festival of Oysters. The biggest harvest of Blue Point Oysters from
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    Lock icon US gives Saudi govt its support
    330 6 Pledge to help leaders in face of revolution Reuter UPI Washington: Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger said yesterday the US would assist the Saudi Arabian government in any way it wished if it were threatened by revolution. Mr Weinberger, commenting on remarks by President Reagan
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    Lock icon Price hike of goods: Solidarity protest
    160 6 Reuter Gdaask: Psllsk Pl—o Minister Mariaa Krsak naked t* Gdaask yesterday after Leek Walesa, leader cf tke solidarity tree trade salea, pretested agalast a steep rise la tke price st cigarettes aad etker geeds. Tke gsverameat ded■lm aagered delegates Solidarity's ala^daytkls Baltic psrtT* 1
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      Lock icon Super-highway
      41 6 AFP HMg Kng: The proposed Hong Kong-Can tonMacau super hißhway is likely to De a toll road, costing HKJIOO (about $35) (or each motorist, it was learned last night. The six-lane super-highway is estimated to cost about HK$2.5 billion. AFP
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      Lock icon Oswald's body
      31 6 AP Dallas (Texas): Pathologists yesterday identified the body buried in Lee Harvey Oswald's grave as that of the accused presidential assassin, ending 18 years of speculation and court battles.
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      Lock icon Subandrio weds
      47 6 AFP Jakarta: Former Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr Subandrio, under the death sentence for complicity in an alleged communist coup attempt here in 19ft, was yesterday reported to nave wed Mrs Diantinah Supeno, widow of the late deputy army chief of staff general Bambang Supeno. AFP
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      Lock icon Pets for health?
      47 6 UPI Philadelphia: Researchers say pets can decrease blooa pressure in human beings and can reach mentally 111 people who are reluctant to deal with other people. More of such details will be presented today at the first international conference on human-companion animal bond. UPI
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      Lock icon At a dead-end
      59 6 AP Stockholm: The Norwegian Nobel committee is in a dilemma. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, whom many believe is still being held by the Soviets, was nominated for the 1961 .Nobel Peace Prize. But the Soviet Union says Wallenberg died 34 years ago in a labour camp. The
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    Car workshop running at half steam
    192 6 The NTUC Comfort workshop at Sin Ming Drive has been functioning at half its capacity since it started operations about five months ago. The assistant workshop manager, Mr Ong Hong Leung, said an average of about 200 cars are serviced or repaired daily. The
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    Solar unit saves firm $15,500
    135 6 A solar collector installed at Hock Hin and Company at Teck Hock Lane has saved the company about 5515,500 in the first year alone. The 149-sqm collector which was designed and installed by the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research* has been in operation
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      74 6 ARE YOUR SAFES FIRE PRO(jF AND SAFE? OK 140 f I nuiigfl^ Mod«l OKCB4—4D All Okochi Safes are officialy approved to surpass the -HS (Japan Industrial Standard) in furnace test (one/two hour Heating Dropping Tests under ITS) Heating Test is up to IOlO*C and Dropping Test from 4 meter height.
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    Now 'No Smoking' floor in a hotel
    164 7  -  By Agatha Koh A local hotel has, from this month, reserved one floor strictly for its nonsmoking guests. The 603-room Marco Polo Hotel at Tanglin Road is asking guests who are checking in whether they would like one of the 56 rooms for
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    Lock icon Don't rent property to foes — Tehran
    250 7 Don't rent property to foes Tehran AP UPI Belrat: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeiny's fundamentalist Islamic regime warned Iranian landlords yesterday they would be prosecuted severely and their property confiscated if they rented to government foes, Tehran Radio said. The state-run radio broadcast a statement by revolutfbnary prosecutor Hussein Tabriz! ordering landlords
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    More NZ beef and lamb on dining tables
    164 7 Singaporeans are eating more New Zealand beer and lamb. During the first half of this year, imports Jumped by 52 per cent compared with the same period last year, to reach 1757 tonnes. The value of these imports rose by a record
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    Lock icon Planes shot down claim
    42 7 UPI Betrat: Iraq said it shot down two Iranian warplanes yesterday in the southern sector of the war front but Iran said all its planes returned home safely on the 377 th day of the Gulf conflict. UPI
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    Lock icon Foetus shot, couple charged
    180 7 AP Chleaga: A lH yr*r old wtmai MtllM of BlwiflM herself hi the abdamen to ead Mix month preg■uey ffH ladletod by aok County grand Jury on ibtrlUa ekaifM, alone with a mil allegedly Involved la the Incident. Lorrle Gray aad Nicholas Hamilton, hath of saath
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      25 7 P Carrie Model Agency 111 TUESDAY <i3| 5 j] !SSs»® SIP Perfectly coordinated with jewellery from the scan collection and Anais Anais Parfum, Cacharel, HH
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    Lock icon Heart travels 640km for transplant
    165 8 AP Cape Ttwi (SmUi Africa): Heart transplant pioneer Dr Christian Barn aard yesterday performed the first-ever heart transplant using a heart that nad been transported a long distance. The recipient, American Rick Anderson, 29, was reported in satisfactory condition, the South African Press Association said.
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    Share a resort in Johore plan Share a resort in Johore plan
    384 8  -  By Agatha Koh Singaporeans who dream of having their own holiday apartments will be able to be "partowners" of such units at a 306-hectare resort being developed in Johore. The developers of the Johore Safari Park at Sim
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    The big cover-up
    102 8 The tread to towards bright aad eye-eateldag heardlags at the varlsas eeastraetlea sites la Singapore. T» the pssser hy, these sqaares sf brightly fleered plastic eeverlag the facade ef a half eempleted balldinc at the aew Slagapere GeaeraJ Hespltal may seem tthe yet aaether bright Idea. Bat
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    Lock icon Deputy oil minister is sacked
    232 8 Reuter Mwmw: A Soviet deputy oil minister has been sacked for his part in a major scandal in which tonnes of imported equipment intended to boost oil production was left to rust and millions of roubles were squandered. Negligence by E. Khali mov, one of
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    Lock icon TODAY
    56 8 UPI TODAY is Monday, Oct sth. the 278 th day of 1981 with 87 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. THOUGHT FOB THE DAT: British historian George Macauley Trevelyan said: "Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to
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    Radar boats to beat crime
    112 9 Marine Police to get $8 million sea craft It is not just speed that makes this new Marine Police boat a formidable foe for criminals who hope to evade detection under cover of darkness. The PX 3 can "see" at night. It is one of
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    Lock icon Karpov does it again
    154 9 Reuter Meraao (Italy): World ehtii chtmplon AnMy Kwpav of the Soviet Unlea «n the •Mmmi mid game ef his title de* feaee whea challenger Vletor Kerehael radped yesterday ea kla 51th move. The vlctery gave the M-year-eld Sevlet champion a commanding M lead ever his M-year-eld
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    Lock icon Pontiff Returns
    59 9 AP VftlieM City: Pope John Paul n, guarded by the tightest security in memory at the Vatican, returned to St Peter's Square yesterday for the first time since he was wounded there in an assassination attempt Plainclothes guards searched the bags of everyone entering the square, and metal
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    Lock icon Beijing wants Taiwan air ties
    218 9 AP Bdjbuf: China is prepared to start air and sea passenger service to Taiwan if authorities there agree, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Xinhua said Mr Shen Tu, director of the civil aviation administration, reported that China's airline already is prepared to
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    Thais to light up lives of retarded
    149 9 A Thai festival of lights celebration will be neld next month to raise funds for retarded children. Proceeds of the event will go to the Singapore Association for Retarded Children. It will also bring Thai workers in Singapore together and promote cultural interest
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  • FEATURE
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      Lock icon The new 'orphans'
      1519 10 / 11 Their working parents leave them alone for hours each weekday US News and World Report Oaklftad: Eight-year-old Danny Richards of Oakland, California, cannot recall the last time his mother waited for him when he returned from school. For three hours or more every weekday, Danny amuses himself
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  • TREND
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      Lock icon Round – the – clock moods
      381 12 / 13  - Round the clock moods Co-ordinated by Jacintha Abisheganaden Think of dark bitter chocolate. Think of gold. Think of forests of trees shedding leaves of russet, brown and red and you think of autumn, the kind that is seen in calendars. And though we aren't likely to experience autumn till the
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        Autumn colours in 'summer' weather
        151 12 / 13 In spite of our weather, most fashion houses are insisting on keeping Singapore women abreast of trends for autumn and winter. And cosmetic companies are following suit with new colours for autumn. Helena Rubinstein has created Cool Fire colours to complement the khakis, browns, greys
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        New boutique
        48 12 / 13 A new designer boutique opened last week at the Hilton Hotel. Femme will carry a complete line of French and Italian clothes and accessories. Namedroppers will be pleased to know they can find Balenciaga, Bernard Perris, Jean-Louis Scherrer, Philippe Venet, Caumont and Vito Gori at Femme.
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        Hit-and-miss fashion night
        73 12 / 13 Members' night at My Place had Let the Good Times Roll Dick Lee's fashion and dance skit billed unofficiaUy as 400 months of Singapore hit-and-miss fashion. Dick and his mixed bag of friends and models, in fact, anyone courageous enough to brave the spotlight in less than
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        Getting the most from your make-up
        104 12 / 13 Revive dried-up mascara by holding the tube under hot running water for a few minutes. The mascara will soften and you'll get more appUcations. Your foundation will last longer if you mix it with moistunser in the palm of your hand before applying. For
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        Relief from tight shoes
        94 12 / 13  -  EDITED IRENE HOE It was the last pair and you simply had to buy those shoes though they felt lust a little too snug. The salesgirl assured you the leather would stretch and it probably has to some extent. But now, after a morning of walking
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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      415 14 the born loser byArtsai»om Flash Gordon By Dan Barry NORBERT byeoorgertt ALEX IN WONDERLAND ly If PT\ Pr~T7777\ T hi, senator.,. ,1 ruv I f SEE? that little 1 n hat's the b»g one j W^rCHA^ THERE?] [JUrt I J SHORT RIBS by Frank O'Neal t CONSUMER CARNIVAL by GIUFFRE
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    'Don't pay credit card surcharge'
    334 15  -  Leaflets sent to retailers giving rationale against practice By Rav Dhaliwal The Consumers Association of Singapore has advised credit card holders not to allow retailers to add a surcharge to their credit card purchases. It has also urged the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board to take
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    Lock icon SDP may form next govt: Jenkins
    151 15 Reuter Pertk (Scotland): Britain's newly-formed Social Democratic Party (SDP) opened its first conference here yesterday with Mr Roy Jenkins, a former Labour minister and one of its founding members, telling delegates they had astonished the world and could form the next government. The former
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    NTUC's creche full even before opening
    169 15 Even before it opened, the NTUC child care centre in Ang Mo Kio has already been overbooked. The creche has received 120 applications, 20 more than the number of the places available. Applicants include five expectant mothers and 20 parents who wanted to transfer
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    Lock icon Scientific approach
    42 15 Reuter Heag Keag: Mr Vo Nguyen Giap, vice chairman of Vietnam's council of ministers, has called for scientific innovations to help raise food production in the country's rice-grow-ing provinces in the Mekong Delta, the Vietnam news agency reported yesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon New US defence: Layers of military hardware New US defence: Layers of military hardware
    600 15 AP Washington: President Ronald Reagan's new defence plan envisions layers upon layers of military hardware missiles, countermissiles, radar-eluding bombers, armed space satellites that the Soviets must contend with should they attack the United States. The US$lBO.3
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    Lock icon 'Ex-spy left in the cold'
    354 15 Reuter New Ywk: A farmer Ceatral latelllgeaee Ageaey iwMe ageat say* tke ■tciafu ahaadeaed Mm aad tke Bevlet KOB to trylag to Ull him, a re* pert pahUshed yesterday saM. Mr Berte Kercsak, a LJthaaalaa-Pele, said he laflltrated the Sevlet latelllgeaee ageaey la Imimirk, ta
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  • SPORT STARTS HERE...
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      Lock icon Rono ready for sub-13
      242 16 I'm in top form now, he says K*9 Athletics Reuter Nairobi: Kenyan long-dis-tance track star Henry Rono believes he will run the 5000 metres one of the four events in which he holds the world records in under 13 minutes before age catches up on him.
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      Lock icon Seoul A-Games?
      270 16 AP Seoul: A top South Korean sports official implied yesterday that his country may reconsider their earlier bid to host the 1966 Asian Games, now that Seoul has been picked as the site of the 1988 summer Olympics. Cho Sang-Ho, president of the Korean Olympic Committee, told a
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  • Briefs
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      Lock icon Raul's walk
      72 16 Reuter Vtkadi: World record-holder Raul Gonzalez won the men's 50km title on the last day of the world walking championships here yesterday. Gonzalez covered the distance in three hours 48 minutes 90 seconds, more than seven minutes outside his record time. BcMlta: 1 R. Gonzalez (Me*) 3:48:30; 2
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      Lock icon Sailing record
      70 16 Reuter Partlaad: The Catamaran Icarus, sailed by Andrew Grogono of Britain, broke the world sailing speed record (or the Tornado class in Portland Harbour yesterday, recording 24.5 knots seven-tenths of a knot (aster than the record the hydrofoil Icarus set here last year. Japp van der Rest of
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      Lock icon Title vacant
      37 16 Reuter Leadea: European heavyweight champion John L.Gardner, 28, of Britain announced his retirement from professional boxing yesterday. This means he will not defend his title against France's Lucien Rodrigues in Paris on Oct 15.— Reuter.
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      477 16 No entrant submitted a 1 2 3 solution which corre- 1.. I TTTT— ■BBTnTiTTTrTBi sponded in all respects 1 CHIN 1 BRAG 1 BUSY with the set of answers -7- by the judges to be 2 LOAD H 2 ROOF H 2 COAL H the most apt and accurate in
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    Bukit Timah results
    1499 17 The figure before the horse's name Is the saddle cloth number, while the three figures after It are the poeltlons at the Mm, 4Mm aid post respectively. Sunday Race 1 Q 2 Dtv 2 ISMm BTS Stahie'a 6 The Challenger 8 6 1 5 Galf Eagle 2
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    How they finished at The Arc
    121 17 Paris: This Associated Press radio- J picture (above) shows Gold River (No. 11), a four-year-old French filly, won the 60th run- i ning of the Prix de L'Arc de Triomph, Europe's richest horse race, finishing a length ahead of Bikala (No. 17 hidden), and
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    Rogers' third win
    81 17 8m Aateate: British Open champion Bill Rogers dropped a three-metre birdie putt on the drat hole of a suddendeath play-off yesterday to defeat Ben Crenshaw and capture his third straight tournament, the U*****,000 (about $525,000) Texas Open. The rash of birdies during the closing round by Rogers
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    Little big girls are growing up
    922 18 j^yfennis New York: In Toronto last month it was Pam Shriver, 19, leaning across the net to Tracy Austin, 18, and saying, as she later woula recall, "two not-so-nice words." At the US Open last month it was Andrea Jaeger, 16, muttering obscene words
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    260 18 Reuter Madrid: Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia won the Madrid Grand Prix title when he beat Peru's Pablo Arraya£3, 6-2, 62 in the men? singles final yesterday.' The 21-year-old top seed alternatively bombarded Arraya with cannonball serves and preciselyplaced passing shots but Arraya fought doggedly. Lendl's
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    341 19 Sasha registers best gross Pam Barton, the Warren lady captain, scored her third success in the club's medals stroke competition this season, held in conjunction with the qualifying round for the club championship, last Thursday. Winner of the April medal on nett 70 and
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    433 19  -  WEEKEND GOLF »>v Lim Kee Chan Three golfers had their handicaps slashed by two strokes, while six others had their's reduced by the minimum after the Singapore Island Country Club medals competition last' Saturday. The three were, Lim Jit Cheng, who played off 14,
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    284 19 Reuter Severiano Ballesteros of Spain came from five strokes behind overnight to win the Spanish Open golf title here yesterday. His last-round 66 gave him a 15-under-par total of 273 and a one-stroke victory over Britain's Steve Martin, who had a 68. He is the first Spaniard
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    Cheng's double
    107 19 Twenty-one handicapper P. G. Cheng was In striking form when she scored two wins in two-days at Keppel last week. On Thursday, she heat* Vend Tan (29) 4 and I for the Elsie Earle Cap, and on the following day won the LGU stableford competition with 41 points,
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      19 19 Jackpot: $10,000 plus Grundig 66cm colour T V worth $2,500 This week's consolation prizes: Grundig City Boy 100 radio
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    Well-earned 12th spot
    797 20  -  All-round praise for Singapore, too BSsqui»sh~ Sports diary By TAY CHENG KHOON Singapore's 12th placing in the International Squash Rackets Federation team championship which ended here on Saturday is praiseworthy. There was no way Singapore could have finished among the top six spsts which were occupied by
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    Lock icon Mix-up as Farrer Park Utd triumph
    575 20 Soccer Changl CSC Farrer Park Utd. 1 Farrer Park Athletic Centre: By NORMAN LIM What a crazy mix-up! A game that nearly did not get under way was won by a team that might have to forfeit it! Referee Sebastian Yap had to scout
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    139 20 UPI BMgM: Singapore Government Services team were held to a 1-1 draw by Thailand's Rajvithi FC, after leading 1-0 at half-time. Singapore's goal was scored in 32ncT minute off a corner- kick taken by Rahim Tahir which Tay Peng Kee converted with a rising kick
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    It's time for a facelift
    1213 21  -  By BRIAN MILLER Ask me how I would describe Singapore's performance against Thailand in the recently-concluded Thomas Cup tie, and I'll give it to you in one word pathetic! Yes, like the peeling paintwork and collapsing facade of Bangkok's national gymnasium, the only thing Singapore
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    Record breakers
    532 21  -  K9 Shooting By SUNNY GOH Two national records that was the highlight on the first day of the Singapore-China friendly shooting competition at the Mount Vernon International Range yesterday. Philip Goh Kim Cheng shot a six-series total of 560 points in the 10-metre air pistol event, while Lauw
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      1016 22  -  In and around town fSight sound »>v Judith Holmberg Figures are figures and unless they happen to be a special person's {>hone number, the closng price of your latest acquisition on the stock or commodity markets or the winning combination
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      680 22 At the cinema SHOGUN: Love story starring Richard Chamberlain and Yoko Shimada. Jade: 2.15, 5.30 and 9 p.m. EYEWITNESS: Thriller. Good acting from William Hurt ana Sigourney Weaver. Orchard: 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY It all began with a Coke bottle. Cathay: 1.30, 4,
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      Contrasting visions of two loves
      635 23 It is the 1930b the last golden age of English aristocracy. Meet Linda Radlett, the beautiful, high-spirited debutante who unceasingly pursues her dream a romantic vision of total love. Meet Polly Hampton, the primly proper heroine who seems untouched by romance, preserving her aloof facade
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      Drama does not live up to expectations
      360 23  -  Review The Brlnger •f Weoder By Lim Kay Tong A gunshot wakes everyone up with a jolt. If that sounds like a Bscript (or a B-fllm, you are getting warm. Playwright Koh Juan Toong's The Brlnger of Wonder, which Crescents' entered (or the
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      357 23  -  I Review CUmarmgal By K. Malathy Take two young lovers. Add their irate parents. Throw in a few assorted characters. The result is a Tamil drama called Chlnan SlrusugtU (Tiny Tots), which was presented last Sunday at the Victoria Theatre by the Singapore Indian
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