New Nation, 8 September 1982

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  • 19 1 new nation PUBLISHEO BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents j
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  • 307 1 Agencies BERNE, Wednesday. GUNMEN threatening to blow up the Polish embassy here have extended their deadline by 48 hours, a justice ministry spokesman said last night. The group announced earlier they would blow up the embassy and its hostages at 10am (0800 GMT) today unless
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  • 441 1  -  Three serious cases of misconduct hushed up By SURESH NAIR THREE serious cases of gross misconduct involving the Singapore team taking part in the Lion City Cup have been hushed up. The incidents, which include illegally selling complimentary tickets on the black market; stealing soccer
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  • 161 1  -  By K K Fong TWENTY youths have been rounded up by the Criminal Investigation Department in connection with the death of a man at a dark spot at the East Coast Parkway. The man, employed by a soft drinks company, was injured in a fight during
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  • home
    • 306 2  -  From MARGARET THOMAS in Jakarta MR LEE KUAN YEW and President Suharto met for two hour* this morning at the Is tana Merdeka for wide-rang-ing talks on bilateral and international matters, with particular reference to the severe world economic problems. While they met, the
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    • 307 2  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THE National Trades Union Congress wants to recruit more teachers who are bilingual in English and Chinese for its second series of basic education for skill training (Best) classes due to start next montn. During the first series the NTUC
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    • 154 2 A MONITORING unit has been set up by the Ministry of Education to keep track of Work Improvement Teams (WITs) in schools. It will assist the ministry's Productivity Steering Committee in the promotion of WITs. The unit will also coordinate WIT activities
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    • 68 2 SIXTY-EIGHT children from various community centres have been taking part this week in the annual People's Association Children's Camp at the Pasir Ris holiday complex. The children have been learning how to put up a tent and playing traditional games. The aim of the camp is
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    • 355 4  -  Thais save half their pay packet for that 'rainy day' By SIT YIN FONG THAI workers in Singapore send home at least $1 million or 10.5 million Baht to their families each month. The Embassy's Third Secretary Mr Wisanu Berananda estimated the number of
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    • 62 4 THE Singapore branch of the Royal Life Saving Society has changed its name to the Singapore Life Saving Society. It will also have a new logo. However, it will continue to be a member of the Royal Life Saving Society of the United
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    • 63 4 FROM today, Thai 100 per cent rice will be three cents cheaper per kilogram at NTUC Welcome supermarkets. But those who prefer Thai 100 per cent fragrant white rice (super grade) will have to pay four cents more per kilogram. Thai 100 per cent now costs 80
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    • 233 4 A SIX-VEHICLE crash at the iunction of Bukit Timah and Cavenagn Roads yesterday led to long traffic jams. Fortunately, only one person was injure^!. Police sav a lorry travelling along Bukit Timah stopped at a traffic light iunction when another lorry hit it from behind.
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    • 294 4  -  By JULIE LIAU SAUNA and exercises are good for air passengers and cabin crews on long flights, according to a medical adviser for two airlines. Dr Arab Mehta, a former professor of surgery, who works for Air India and Qantas in Bombay says
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    • 144 4 THE humble kitchen garlic may help to win the battle against mosquitoes. Indian scientists, A Banerji and S V Amonkar have been studying the effectiveness of garlic against the mosquito and found it impressive. In an article in the Singapore Scientist, a publication of the Science Centre,
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    • 299 6  -  Story and picture by PAT D'ROSE RESIDENTS in a four-month-old luxury apartment block who pay $8,000 and $9,000 a month in rent have been without their lifts since last Thursday. To get up and down Wing On Life Garden, a 28storey block
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    • 107 6 THANKS to a group of charitable Australian army wives, the Spastic Children's Association of Singapore and the Singapore Cheshire Home are Both richer by more than $2,500. According to Captain Richard Lea, the defence adviser at the Australian High Commission, the women opened an account at the
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    • 99 6 BRINGING fun and laughter to the handicapped and needy children of Asia is something Japanese singer Syuri Eiko (above) enjoys. She was an instant hit when she called at The Haven, the Salvation Army Girls' Home in Pasir Panjang, this week. With fellow singer Miss
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    • 162 6 The Star A SINGAPOREAN has been detained in Penang in connection with the rape and murder of a 13-year-old schoolgirl. The suspect, a 30-year-old shipyard worker, was picked up from an East Jelutong house last Friday. The Penang Chief Pqlice Officer, Haji Zaman Khan,
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    • 177 6 THERE are chocolate Father Christmases and Easter bunnies. Even nuts and biscuits have been dipped in chocolate. And now the traditional Chinese mooncake has been given a chocolate coating. Fifty thousand boxes of chocolate covered mooncakes will go on sale in Singapore from
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    • 107 6 DIFFERENT approaches in trade unionism is probably the biggest obstacle to the establishment of an ASEAN industrial relations centre. A centre has been agreed upon in principle but Communications and Labour Minister Mr Ong Teng Cheong believes it will take some time for it
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    • 131 6 ASEAN governments will soon mobilise support in the Asia-Pacific region against a common International Labour Organisation standard for the whole world. Communications and Labour Minister Mr Ong Teng Cheong said this would initially be through the Conference of Asian and Pacific Labour
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  • world
    • 328 8 Agencies TORONTO, Wed. BRITAIN'S Finance Minister said yesterday that the United States is showing increased willingness to resolve the bitter dispute with its European allies over construction of the Soviet natural gas pipeline. "I think one's been able to see more
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    • 213 8 Reuter TORONTO, Wed. BRITAIN and France has called for a substantial increase in financial resources that could be made available to the Third World, placing themselves at odds with the Us! At the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 72 8 UPI AN unspecified number of youths, declaring themselves members of the Red Brigades terrorist gang, yesterday stole 43 automatic pistols from a private gun shop, police They said the youths broke into the Reggio Calabria shop, located on the extreme southern tip of Italy, and bound ana gagged
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      • 57 8 UPI ACTOR Paul Newman escaped injury when his turbo-charged Datsun 280ZX hit a guardrail during Monday's featured Canon Camera Nationals Auto race at Lime Rock Park. Newman's car hit a patch of oil and slid sideways into a guard rail, tearing fiberglass off the car's left siae. Both
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      • 69 8 UPI A 5,000-year-old ornamental mace head hailed by archeologists as one of the great treasures of Ireland has been uncovered from a burial chamber near Knowth. The mace head weighing nearly 12 ounces, once capped a heavy ar-mour-breaking club. Professor George Eogan said the mace head, the first to
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      • 54 8 UPI THOUSANDS of .Americans jammed the nation's highways to return home from the long Labour Day weekend. Traffic deaths climbed toward 500, meeting pre-holiday death projections made bv the National Safety Council. A press count done early yeaterday had at least 472 people dead in road mishaps during
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    • 277 8 AP LONDON, Wed. THE British army's Special Air Service commando squad has been called in to help Swiss authorities deal with the siege of the Polish Embassy in Bern, London's Evening Standard newspaper reported yesterday. The newspaper said the SAS unit consisted
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    • 245 8 UPI MEXICO CITY, Wed. MEXICO'S most powerful labour leader warned businessmen their firms could be nationalised if they tried to block ihe government's bank takeover, the official Notimex News Agency reported yesterday. Mr Fidel Velazguez, secretary-general of the government-backed Confederation of Mexican Workers,
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    • 282 10 US and Soviets in bid to defuse tension TEL AVIV, Wsd ISRAEL said yesterday Palestinian or Syrian forces opened fire on its troops in Lebanon's Bekaa Vallev, where the capture of eight Israeli soldiers was fuelling fears of renewed hostilities. Concerns that fighting would
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    • 40 10 Amorica'a nowoat tighter tho Northrop Ttgorshark lift• ott on if tint flight from Edwarda Airforcm Boom, California. The flight on August 90, oxcoodod tho s l pood of sound during a flawioss 40-minuto flight according to NorJjbjuLM oMlnlala tnfOp omcisi*
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    • 267 10 Reuter LONDON, Wednesday THE militant left-wing leader of Britain's Mineworkers Union called on the entire labour movement yesterday to defy the law and stop work in support of a four-month-old health service workers dispute with the government Arthur Scargill, president of the powerful National
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    • 112 10 AP-UPI MANAMA (Bahrain), Wad. A TOP aide of Palestine Liberation Organisation Chairman Yasser Arafat was quoted yesterday as saying the Arab summit conference should "take a decision, not to recognise Israel, but to destroy if The statement, reflecting an ultra-extremist PLO line toward Israel, was
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    • 129 10 Reuter TEL AVIV, Wednesday GOVERNMENT officials said yesterday that Israel was determined to maintain a security belt in Southern Lebanon, irrespective of whether a Gee treaty was signed ween the two countries. The officials were commenting on a speech on Monday by Defence Minister
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    • World Briefs
      • 107 10 NEW DELHI: The Soviet-backed Afghan government for the first time has accused the anticommunist guerillas of using chemical weapons supplied by the United States and Britain, diplomats said yesterday. The Marxist Afghan Defence Ministry said guerillas used chemical weapons in grenade cannisters which emitted white smoke lasting
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      • 78 10 BEIJING: Couples in Beijing who marry late will be able to take an extra week's honeymoon under new regulations announced last nisht as part of the capital's contribution to China's tough birth control drive. The New China News Agency said the city fathers had decided to allow
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      • 105 10 Agencies OSAKA: By the year 2000 Japan will surpass the Soviet Union to become the No 2 economic power in the world after the United States, and will at least equal the American level of affluence, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson said yesterday. "If Japan's total
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    • 209 10 Reuter WASHINGTON, Wed. A 32-year-old man claims he sold a custom Turbo Porsche automobile to a pair of Arabs for sapphires worth more than US$l million ($2l million) in a deal conducted at a Portland intersection. The Portland man, who wanted to remain uniden- tified,
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    • 60 11 PICTURE: UPI Nato 8 nBW killer FARNBOROUGH (England): A mock-up of the AC A (Agile Combat Aircraft) on diaplay at the Famborough Air Show yesterday. Designed to fly at twice the speed of sound, the ACA is a super-sonic single seat fighter with a ground attack capability and could be
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    • 498 11 AP WASHINGTON, Wad. AT Central Intelligence Agency headquarters and elsewhere around Washington, US specialists are trying to analyse what makes men like Cuba's Dr Fidel Castro and Libya's Col Moammar Gaddafi behave and talk the way they do. A host Of other foreign leaders,
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    • 169 11 UPI WASHINGTON; Wednesday DRIVERS stopped by authorities on suspicion of drunken driving in the not-so-distant future may be asked to play a video game to test their sobriety. Purdue University pharmacy professor Roger Maickel recently told a US senate subcommittee on alcoholism and drug abuse
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 102 11 UPI IT could be said President Reagan and his wife achieved a split decision in a recent poll of more than 3,000 teenagers attending the 39th annual junior achievers conference at Indiana University in Bloomington. President Reagan and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor were
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      • 51 11 AP and other mem- bers of the American aid group "Operation California" have arrived in Cambodia to help open a dental clinic, the Cambodian News Agency (SPK) reported. The private group left Bangkok last Thursday to visit orphanages, schools and hospitals in southern Vietnam and
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      • 52 11 UPI the star of "Peter Pan," was in good condition on Monday following a van-taxi crash that killed her Press agent and critically injured Janet Gaynor, the first actress to win an academy award. She was expected to remain in San Francisco general hospital for two to three
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    • 110 10 MERDINGS Re,a Bu.lne.s ANNIVERSARY SALE September. MAUI AMI All Showroom Piyff UN! Items Mutt be Cleared. Hurry I All imported items! A Full Range of Sports Equipment for Golf, Tennis, Squash, Windsurfing including exclusive sportswear/casual wear. o Up to 40% discounts on golf equipment. o Ladies imported swimwear from $25.
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    • 179 11 KS42BZL A Bosch refrigerator in your kitchen is an eloquent statement of the kind of person you are. The kind of person who takes pride in the quality of your possessions. Never templed to compromise because of price. You take quiet satisfaction in the way your reliable Bosch refrigerator performs,
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  • opinion
    • 484 12 THE NEW constitution just ratified by the Chinese Communist Party's National Congress commits the country to a pragmatic course and lays the legal framework for the most orderly transition of power in modern Chinese history. The constitution sets up a semiactive
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    • 85 12 LAT-WP ALL 40 million Chinese Communist Party members will have to tarn in their membership cards and reapply for memberskip in an ideological purifications campaign recently announced by the Party. The campaign will be directed by the victims of the Cultural Revolution now back in power, who want
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    • 130 12  -  viewscan Nanyang Siang Pau SO FAR, things are going on well with the five companies implementing the 12-hour shift system. However, a review may be necessary if the physical and mental health of the workers is affected. Otherwise, it may result in
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    • 74 12 Views from THE Basic Education for Skills Training (BEST) scheme, lannched in June, was aimed at helping more than 600,000 workers who had not completed their primary education acquire basic education in English and Mathematics. However, the aim of the scheme seems to be have been misunderstood
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    • 79 12  -  Sin Chew Jit Poh IT IS partly out of respect tor the choice of parents that the government does not propose to make it compulsory for firemature school leavers o undergo vocational training. Parents have to deal with their children's education in a more realistic manner. A person
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    • 327 12  -  By DELTA HONG I HEAR there was great embarrassment at Shell over the full page advertisments announcing their move into Shell Tower in Raffles Place. The ad was intended to advise' people who need to know of the new address, telephone and telex numbers. The telex number was
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    • opinion / letters
      • 361 13  -  PAUL NEO LAM CHUAN Secretary CPF Board I WOULD like to comment on your report entitled "Legal Fee Cut for CPF Homes" (dealing with the reduction of fees to ease the burden on those using CPF savings to buy homes), which has caused some
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      • 669 13 I HAVE read with interest your article on "Legal fees cut for CPF homes." I feel this is a move in the right direction. However wis is far too little and does not eradicate the inequalities of the past. The fees charged are based on an
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      • 92 13  -  Berita Harian benefit of the worker* themselves as it prepares them for the future. Singapore's entry into the era of higher technology in 10 to 15 years' time, when it will make flail use of aatomatioa, computers and robots, is an inevitable fact. The coming of this era
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      • 104 13  -  Nanyang Siang Pau THE third child who registers this year for admission to a school will not encounter much problems. However, those who register for admission in 1984 will be affected. It is our hope that the Education Ministry will be as flexible as possible
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      • 237 13  -  Berita Minggu THE decision by Singapore soccer star Fandi Ahmad to sign a contract with the Indonesian club Niac Mitra has come as a shock to soccer fans. True, Fandi has every right to make the decision. The question is whether the decision serves
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      • 262 13 A CHALLENGE was issued to me "to write in" in the presence of two reporters from the local press Miss Janice Seah and Mr Ken Jalleh Jr by Mr Woon Sui Kut, secetary-general of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association hence this letter. Mr Woon was
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  • world
    • 576 14 On May 20, Rumanian writer Virgil Tanase left his residence to meet someone. He never returned. The Press got wind off his disappearance and at once accused the Rumanian secret service off kidnapping him. Speculation was riffe that Virgil had been "eliminated." Then, as suddenly as
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    • 252 14 IF the Tanase case cootin set to Interest the media, especially |n France where people are cartons as to now much President Mitterrand really knew about the phoney abduction, it would also have tome important political repercussions Inside Rnmanla. The Rumanians will,
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  • business
    • 88 15 THE stock market dropped sharply yesterday, cooling off a roaring three-week rally after a holiday weekend interruption. The Dow Jones average of SO industrial stocks, up nearly 150 points since All 3 12, was down 12 points half an hour before the close. Some selling had been
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    • 68 15 IN line with softening of interest rates for fixed deposits. Citibank has rednced Its housing loan rates by half a per cent from today. It Is now footing 11.75 per cent for loans of maturity op to 10 years and 12 per cent for loans between 11-2# years.
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    • 398 15  -  Two senior MAS staff to join the bank By CATHERINE ONG THE Overseas Unioo Rank (OUB) is about to get the biggest scoop in top banking brains when two senior staff from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Join the bank next month, banking sources said.
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    • 507 15  -  By RODNEY HOBSON GOLD crashed through the US$5OO barrier in Singapore and Hona Kong yesterdav, exactly two weeks after the two markets took the price above US$4OO- Trading was suspended for one hour in Singapore in the morning when the price had risen the
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    • Update
      • 52 15 CANON Wu Associates has bought a $300,000 VAX mini-computer system from the Computer Systems Advisers (CSA) group. The company, an engineering consultant firm, said from the beginning of this year, it has planned a full computerisation programme which will build up to the use of automatic
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      • 43 15 THE batch of forged shares spotted by Pro met is the first case the company has come across, Promet said yesterday. Promet confirmed that a report has been made to Kuala Lumpur police and that Singapore police are also being informed
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    • 762 16 The Star THE shine is fast fading from one of the fastest growing businesses in Malaysia the fast food chains. For the past decade, there were only two such chains operating in the country, A and W and Kentucky Fried Chip ken. Over
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    • 553 16 The Star WHILE quite a few fast food chains in Malaysia are doing poorly, and some are even closing down, outlets like Wendy's in busy Sungei Wang Plaza seems to be shaping up well. According to MrCB Ong, general manager of Wendco Pacific,
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    • 240 16 The Star WHEN Hertz decided to award its Malaysian franchise to Pernas Sime Darby, it was after a twoirear search, in which at east two other major companies were approached. Malaysian Airline System and motor conglomerate Cycle and Carriage Bintang are
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    • 82 16 Your (Foreign Exchange) Your 8$ to one unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT DO US* 2.1590 2.1490 2.1380 sterling 3.7277 3.6996 3.6786 Australian 2.0958 2.0732 2.0532 Canadian 1.7488 1.7253 1.7093 New Zealand 1.5860 1.5644 1.5444 S$ to 100 units of foreign currency Deutschemark 87.3849 86.1848 85.7348 French franc
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    • 151 16 THE Singapore branch of Samuel Montagu Co is managing a new Issue of floating rate certificates of deposit of the Bank of Tokyo in Singapore. This is the first publicly announced issue managed by the local branch of Samuel Montagu, which began operations on July
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    • 93 16 RICHVEIN, owner of the new 20storey Sheraton-Singapore Hotel, has signed a $71 million contract with a group of six banks, the Development Bank of Singapore said as lead manager with United Overseas Bank. The 10-year loan carried an interest rate 1.5 percentage points above the Singapore prime lending
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    • 402 17 The Star IT is estimated that a further $1.23 million will have to be spent on prospecting certain alluvial gold areas in Kelantan, an area where prospecting was formerly carried out by Kampong Lanjut Tin Dredging Bhd. The $1.23 million will be incurred
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    • 290 17 SELANGOR Dredging is redesigning the foundation system for its building planned for a site in Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. Chairman Datuk Chan Keong Hon said in his annual review the redesigning was necessary due to difficult soil conditions. Datuk Chan pointed out that the changes would not
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    • OTHER COMPANY NEWS
      • 100 17 has declared an interim 10 per cent dividend for the first six months of 1982 on its after tax profits of Ms 32 32 million for the same period. In the similar period in 1981 the company made M 513.18 million. Net profit after
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      • 207 17 Star syndicate expects to have difficulties in securing a profit figure in the current year similar to that in the year to March 1982. In the year under review, the company made a pre-tax profit of $481,228, down considerably from the preview figure of $1,123 million.
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      • 56 17 for one exist* ing share is being proposed by Supreme Corporation Bhd which the company expects, when approved, to capitalise a sum of M 5121.27 million. The company will be holding an extraordinary general meeting to seek shareholder apKroval, on Sept 22 1982
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      • Article, Illustration
        32 19 132) Deaths DEATH '^mGrn' Mr. Andrew s/o Joe Santanaswamy, aged 25, passed away on 7/9/1982. Cortege leaving from Singapore General Hospital Mortuary at 1.30 pm to Chua Chu Kang Cemetery tor burial.
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    • 281 19 EVEN if the US recession is now drawing to an end the turnaround will come too late for many companies, according to Financial Digest, the weekly economics publication of manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. It points out that business failures in America have
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    • 79 19 NEW YORK, Wed. LARGE international oil companies are focusing their search for oil on the United States because profits are better on US oil and gas production than overseas operations for the first time in decades, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW) said yesterday. "This new emphasis
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    • 570 19 Property developers from (he US, Taiwan and the Mariana Island are pushing sales at a time when Hongkong is worried about the expiry of Britain s lease with China on the new territories, consisting of 90 per cent of Hongkong. The lease runs out in
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous


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    • 257 19 1111 Commsrolal/ Languaff* Count* RAPID a a MOMTM COURSES Typing. Book-keeping, Shorthand Htyher Accounting. Costing Enotsh O/A Levels PrtndplM of Accounts r WOf) Toll *****11 3371*40 SHORTMANO imO (70-00 100) otartkig today, 7.00 p.m. For PlUwona and LCCI Examination. Commercial School. 7SS-0, Upper Sorongoon Rood, Tot 2SO-MOO. couroo for Pitman*
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    • 131 19 NOTICE NOTICE Hotels Licensing Regulations, 1974 REGULATION 12 (i) (a) APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION Notice is hereby given that I, TEO TONG WOON (Name of applicant) of 4, PASIR RIS HEIGHTS, SINGAPORE 1851 (residential address) is applying to the Hotels Licensing Board, Singapore, for a Certificate of Registration
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    • 220 20 IS. Sex. FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW 1. Dash or sprint CUT HERE •CLUES FOR OX-3 2. To take a from an orange drink you had prepared would be quite reasonable 3. Embrace warmly 4. It could be that one escaped convict better than another whom the
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  • sports
    • 553 20 Athletics ATHENS, Wednesday Frank Emmelmann snatched a dramatic victory in the men's 100 metres to complete a sprint double for East Germany on the second day of the European athletics championships here last night, Forty minutes earlier, Emmelmann's compatriot, Marlies Goehr, convincingly retained her
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    • 478 20 IPOH TRACKWORK by TRACKSTAR UPALI stable's seasoned campaigner Vaaron, winner of tne Singapore and Perak Derby in 1980, is back in action after a sixmonth spell. He was taken out for work on a good track at Ipoh yesterday morning and
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    • 135 20 HONG Kong jockey Tony Da Crui is expect ed in Ipoh today to fulfil his weekend's riding engagements with Penang trainer Teh Choon Beng. Teh said: "Local jockey T S Chiam will again partner last week's winner Breakthrough, while Rajoo will be astride
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    • 251 20  -  By B J SMITH THE racing fraternity yesterday mourned the loss of Ipoh trainer S T Paol, 77, who died from a stroke on Monday night. A former veterinary surgeon who turned trainer, Paul had a small but select team under his charge until early this
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    • 565 21 Tennis NEW YORK, Wednesday CHRIS Evert Lloyd, calling on her patented waiting game, outlasted youthful 16th seed Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-3 yesterday to advance to the quarterfinals of the United States Open. The stocky 18-year-old Garrison, from Houston, gave the sec-ond-seeded Evert trouble early in the
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    • 436 21 Soccer LONDON, Wednesday CHAMPIONS Liverpool scored twice in the last eight minutes to beat Nottingham Forest 4-3 and climb to the top of the English First Division last night. Liverpool, who were trailing 3-2 at the interval after new signing David
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    • ROUNDUP
      • 75 21 has a new coach at least for the time being. Erich Hof, 45, formerly coach of Austria Vienna, has agreed to take over the joD but only for the first three European championship qualifying matches against Albania on Sept 22, Northern Ireland on Oct 13 and
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      • 79 21 trainer Georges Peyroche has returned from Bulgaria a worried man. He went there to spy on Lokomotiv Sofia, Pans St Germain's opponents in the European Cup Winners Cup next week, and was shocked by what he saw. "They play an ex- tremely rough game," he said in Paris
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      • 32 21 captain Socrates and his Corinthian teammates may play an exhibition match in England next J rear against small noneague English team Corinthian Casuals, it was announced in London yesterday.
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      • 28 21 Aston Villa will make the first defence of its title at an empty stadium next week against Turkish champion Besiktas of Istanbul, a Birmingham report said.
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    • 189 21 ROME, Wednesday ITALIAN World Cup star Paolo Rossi has won the Golden Shoe and the Golden Ball awards for his performance in the World Cup in Spain this year. Rossi won the Golden Shoe for scoring the most goals in the World Cup and international soccer
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    • 102 21 UPI RIO DE JANEIRO, Wednesday SOCCER stars in the poor northern state of Piaui complain that things have become so bad that they suffer from hunger. Francisco Nascimento, top scorer for the Flamengo of Teresina club, told reporters: "Any day now you are going to see me faint
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    • 319 22  -  Hockey By KEN JALLEH Jr FOURTEEN Hong Kong current and exinternationals are in Singapore to display their skills on the Padang in the fourday Singapore Cricket Club international hockey tournament which begins tomorrow. The tournament which will have a record turnout of 12 teams
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    • 345 22 Rugby SINGAPORE Police came within three goals and one penalty goal to winning the Hat Yai international seven-a-side rugby championships for the first time at the Jiranakora Stadium in Bangkok on Sunday. Despite being beaten by Royal Bangkok Sports Club 21-0 in the final, the Singapore
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    • 263 22 PAUL LIM, the pride of Singapore and the eighth best darts player in the world, is likely to be the star attraction at the Pacific Cup in Vancouver where he will defend his singles title from September 13 to 16. Lim
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    • 596 22  -  Badminton SBA begins preparations for 1983 SEA Games By R. MANORAJ SINGAPORE'S badminton team is to be sent on overseas trips and foreign teams invited to play them to prepare them for next year's South-East Asia Games. The other factor favouring the creation of a strong
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      • 80 23 SINGAPORE midfleld dynamo Hashim Buung collapsed at the Half Road Pood Centre on Monday afternoon because be failed to have his meals at the correct time. Hnshlm was incky becnose former Lion City Cap conch Abdnl Manan Sheriff fonnd him unconscious and Immediately carried
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      • 56 23 was the first team to leave for Iwme yesterday afternoon at 2.39 even before last night's official dinner at the Happy Restaurant. It is learnt that the Koreans were anhnppy over the performaace here, particularly their fall are to make it even to the semi-finals for
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      • 76 23 the foreign couches 5-3 in the unnual friendly mutch ut the Julun Besur Stadium yesterduy to win the Abdulluh Al-Duhul Trophy. Hero for Singapore was former In tenia tionnl striker Sumsudln Rakmat who bagged four goub. West Germua technicul udvlser Burkhard Ziese scored the other goal. The
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      • 48 23 Chanon Santawesuk hi In crutches ufter sustaining a bad kick in Sunduy's bruising 3-1 win over defending champions South Koreu. But the Thai camp is optimistic of his recovery. Not for the semi-finals against Japan tomorrow but for Suturduy's final. That's how cock-sare the Thais are!
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    • 124 23 5 Khalid A boras (Saudi Arabia), Susumu Fukita (Japan). 4 Eazali Rash id (Singapore), Nobuhiro Takeda (Japan). 3 Syed Faruk Alkaff (Singapore), Suravudh Lawhakanjanasiri (Thailand), Chanon Santawesuk (Thailand). 2 Othman Abdullah (Singapore), Hashem alMrawai (Saudi Arabia), Omar Backhshween (Saudi Arabia), Joko Emoto (Japan), Alongkote Penjapark (Thailand), Prasong Piboonphongphan
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    • 319 23  -  Over-16s in four foreign teams says Malaysian manager By SURESH NAIR MALAYSIA team manager Akhmat Idrts has alleged that some countries have been usingplayers who are over-age in the Lion City Cup soccer tournament tor under-16s. And ne will recommend that in future Malaysia does not take part
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    • 409 24  -  Swimming panefs slate f6% Asian Games Swimming 3 Reports by KEN KEN JALLEH Jr. A STORM is brewing over the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's (SASA) Asian Games recommendations to the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) with parents of swimmers screaming foul and one of them issuing a challenge.
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    • 215 24 ONE of those hardest hit mi Oon Jin Teik, whose father, Dr Oen Chong Huan, has decided to appeal to Mr Chan Chee Seng personally; Says Dr Oon: ''Why ma Merc (Tay) gcked when he had hfcUßelf admitted at he hadn't competed is any meets
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    • 209 24 SINGAPORE Sportswoman of the Year Mavis Ee will still be recommended for the Commonwealth Games by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association (SASA). SASA vice-president Pone Hoe Beng is making an appeal to the Singapore National Olympic Council during a meeting on Friday. The recommendation comes
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    • 9 23 TONIGHT'S FIXTURES Saudi Arabia vs Qatar (7.30) National Stadium
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    • 1105 25  -  j|| lIIIHj Hi 111 lis 111 111 111 111 sss sss sss lss:sss sss'sissss sss iif'sss ssi :ss sssMss sir*" sssjss sss s:s {{2 2*2 *22 silsstsj iii SSS SSS SSS'SSSSSS sss ssssss.. ississ' "INTERNATIONAL, may I help you?" The voice is efficient, polite,
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    • 508 26  -  By BERTILLA PEREIRA "THEY are not documentaries, they are more than that. The shooting of the film is a look at reality. The editing should give it the heartbeat." Frederic Rossif was speaking of his works. He is in Singapore as guest-of-honour
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    • 406 26  -  THING Director: John Carpenter Starring: Kurt Russetl, Wilford Brimley and Richard Dyaart Showing: Jada Reviewer Angela Herickx THE Thing, like John Carpenter's previous film, Escape From New York, is very impressive to look at. The setting this time is the Antarctic, and the
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    • 545 29  -  Table Talk with VIOLET OON WINE, women, song and fine food are the true loves of Alexis Lichine, wine authority par excellence, who alone is credited with swinging America away from its wines" of: "Ice water, coffee, tea and milk with large doses
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    • 1050 29 TO HELP the beginner wine drinker get started, we asked Alexis Lichine to give some advice. In a Question-and-An-swer session, he reveals what you need to know: QYou travel round the world to promote the love of wine. What would you say is your aim? A
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    • 512 30  -  by Pauline Goh THE SBC debates are back and from September 10 eight teams from the tertiary institutions will battle for the Trophy. This year, the debate will run on a knock-out. In the first quarter-final which will be recorded this Friday, National University of
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 618 30 DR SMOCK By George Lemont j've e>eeN MARRIEP %O THRES POCTORS ANPA VAHOO/ J ■3k. THg POCTOR I HAVEN'T UNuoApgp ygr/ RBpm^HPßsnn 11 If I Ml —...sssi Hi i Vjffc3i ■Jv^ni r« L in* lIIJIH mbHH >._■■■■ is? t m,ll FRANK AND ERNEST m ~r*t il 0 *> By Bob
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    • 429 31 Top shows on your TV KIDS' PROGRAMMES MAGGIE'S MOOR (5.45 pm Ch 5) JACK, unfamiliar with horses, seeks the advice of Maggie's father to help him buy a horse. The horse runs away. Maggie and David are faced with the task of finding it. THE BOOK BIRD: ALONG CAME A
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 805 32 channel 5 3.00 Opening, followed by The Jaw* (C) (r). This serial depicts the struggles and the conflicts between the Xiao and Zhou families. Initilally, both families are on good terms. But when the Xiaos usurp the controlling interests of the Zhou's shipping company, hatred builds up and gives way
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    • 719 32 radio 1 12.00 PM Your Lunchdate 1.00 News 1.10 Your Lunchdate (contd) 1.30 Mid-day Market Report 1.35 Your Lunchdate (contd) 2.00 Programme Summary followed by On The House 3.00 News-In-Brief 3.05 On The House (contd) 4.30 Musical Treats: Averyl Aeria presents children's songs. This is a repeat of the morning
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