New Nation, 16 September 1982

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  • 19 1 new nation I PUBLISHED BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Thursday, Sept. 16, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents
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  • 421 1 DEATH IN BEIRUT WRAP-UP OF THE NEW CRISIS IN LEBANON O ISRAELI troops have pushed forward three kilometres to captare a large swathe of West Beirut, ad- vancing up a road along the coast and another farther Inland. Three Israeli gunboats offshore were
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  • Newscan
    • 107 1 ONE of the two PUB engineers who suffered burns when a fire broke out in a sub-station in Jalan Buroh, off West Coast Road, yesterday had only started working just six weeks ago. Mr Lim See Kiong, 25, is suffering from third degree burns. His
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    • 61 1 AP WASHINGTON: It is "very likely" that the Soviet Union is using Erisoners as forced laour to build parts of its pipeline to Western Europe, a US State Department official said yesterday. Mr Richard Burt, the department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, said the department has made an
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  • 365 1  -  IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE AWARE POLITICALLY, SAYS K.C. LEE By FAEZAH ISMAIL YOUTH leaders should ask searching and sensitive questions if this helps them to be more conscious of the political situation in Singapore, the Senior Minister of State (Prime Minister's Office), Mr
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  • 65 1 Reuter DISGRUNTLED staff at a bank in Manila have their own way of demanding a pay rise. They greet catomers by laying down a "noise barrage" ranging from glass-tapping to desk-thamping. Union leaders said the bizarre protests for a pay increase began two weeks
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  • home
    • 211 2 THIS is what one end of an audiographic conference looks like. Executives sit around a hexagonal table in a soundproofed studio and hold an international meeting with their counterparts in Jakarta. The new service, which is initially being provided by Singapore and
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    • 183 2 THERE was a possibility that Chinese-edu-cated students were being marked down because of their inability to express themselves clearly, a National University of Singapore lecturer said yesterday. Mr John Skelton, from the university's English Department, said most of them knew their subjects and
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    • 211 2 TAKE training more seriously, bosses were told this morning. The advice was given by Mr Chan Chee Seng, Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Trade and Industry), at a seminar on Career Development the Japanese Perspective. Mr Chan said that while training and development were important,
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    • 117 2 HERE are the three top winners of the Toy Safety Quiz held in conjunction with the five-day Toy Fair at the World Trade Centre from August 6 to 10. The quiz was part of the Toy Safety Authority of Singapore's (TSAS) efforts to inform consumers about
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    • 132 2 THE National Trades Union Congress's Secretariat for Economic Affairs is to simplify its language. It will publish its bulletins and hold talks on economic and labour issues in simple terms. This will help workers to get a basic understanding of these complex issues. The
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    • 325 3  -  Villagers snap up 3 lorry-loads dumped by wholesaler in Sembawang By CHUA NGENG CHOO THE villagers of Bah Soon Pah, in Sembawang, recently found themselves flooded with cabbages $15,400 worth and as a result did not have to buy vegetables for the rest of the week. The
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    • 276 3  -  By JULIE LIAU DELEGATES at next week's clinical biochemistry congress at the Mandarin Hotel need not get bogged down in the technicalities expected at any scientific congress. The organising committee has planned a social programme, which includes music and the arts, to
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    • 203 3 SEVENTY five per cent of industrial accidents are caused by the workers themselves, says Mr David Brown, an occupational safety expert from the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Mr Brown, who heads the engineering section of the ILO's occupational safety and health branch in Geneva,
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    • 239 4 IT is normal procedure to pay an entrance fee and an additional fee to view an exhibition, Mr Loke Foo Yee, secretary of the working committee of the International Trade Exposition 1982, said yesterday. Mr Loke was responding to complaints from members of
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    • 161 4  -  By LEE CHIU SAN KEY security is a hotelier's nightmare. All kinds of people have access to tne hotel's room keys. And it is a full-time iob trying to prevent the keys from being duplicated for criminal purposes. Computerised key systems will end the
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    • 255 4 SECRET SOCIETY MEMBER ARRESTED BEACH Road Police have arrested a 26-year-old secret society member suspected of taking part in a pre dawn rampage on Tuesday in which hawker stalls were smashed up. Further arrests some of Triad members are expected to be made
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    • 121 4 THE Criminal Investigation Department is anxious to get in touch with Mr Wee Choo Thai, 38, whom they believe might be able to help them with their investigations into a recent double murder. A police statement yesterday said Wee is the holder of a Malaysian
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    • 188 4 Jfjai JfewKer Test The time has come for the much anticipated Thai Hawker Fest. This year, we feature authentic Thai food by cooks from Suriwongse Hotel in Chiangmai. This exotic cuisine with a melange of flavours spicy hot, sour, sweet and savouiy, will surely be the answer to a gourmet's
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  • world
    • 373 5 Aim to occupy entire city: Observers LAT-WP BEIRUT, Thursday THE Israeli army invaded major sections of West Beirut yesterday in a six-pronged attack that started at dawn just hours after the government officially announced tne assassination of Presidentelect Bashir Gemayel. By evening the Israeli
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    • 258 5 UPI MOSCOW, Thursday SOVIET President Leonid Brezhnev, calling President Reagan's Middleeast peace plan "vicious," presented his own blueprint urging the creation of a Palestinian state on the Israelioccupied West Bank. Mr Brezhnev used a visit by Marxist South Yemen Prime Minister Ali Nasser Muhammad to unveil
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    • 229 5 UPI BONN, Thurs CHANCELLOR Helmut Schmidt's coalition government managed to postpone another threat to its existence but failed to resolve its deep crises in the cabinet. Chancellor Schmidt, who is showing increasing irritation with the squabbling between his Social Democrats and Foreign Minister HansDietrich Genscher's
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    • people watch
      • 80 6 AP LOS ANGELES: OIL magnate Armand Hammer and entertainment mogul Jerry Weintraub say they are forming a firm to promote entertainment exchanges among the United States, the Soviet Union and China. The partnership is a ioint-venture between Weintraub and Armand Hammer Productions, the film and television subsidiary
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      • 101 6 AP TOPEKA (Kansas): IF the world survives until the year 2000, a Washburn University professor has big plans for a special celebration. Criminal Justice Professor Gerald Griffin mailed invitations to 100 countries this ,month asking them to help him throw the biggest party the world will
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      • 116 6 AP BERLIN: RUDOLF HESS, the 88-year-old former deputy of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, was transferred from his Spandau prison cell to a military hospital for a medical check-up, a British forces spokesman said yesterday. Hess is the only inmate of Spandau prison, one of the few Berlin
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    • 58 6 OFF NOTO PENINSULA Japan), Thursday A SOVIET TU22m jet bomber, known by its Nato name of "Backfire", (above) was photographed by a Japanese Self-Defence Agency Interceptor jet off the Noto Peninsula north-west of Tokyo on Tuesday. It was reportedly the first time the modern
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    • 393 6 Airline and tourism industries badly affected Agencies MEXICO CITY, Thurt. THE already shaky airline industry, hoping for relief from a sharp drop in travellers, was hit by new exchange control rules that took effect yesterday allowing Mexicans to purchase only US$5OO (551,050) each year to
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    • 108 6 Reuter MONTE CARLO, Thursday THE body of Princess Grace, her blue eyes still open, was put on show in an open coffin yesterday to allow her grief-striken subjects to pay their last respects. As many of the Mediterranean principality's 28,000 subjects filedpast
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    • 90 6 Reuter PARIS, Thursday. INFLATION in July fell to its lowest average since 1978. in the 24 countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the OECD said yesterday. Consumer prices rose an average annual 8.1 per cent, compared with 8.6 per
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    • 281 8 UPI WASHINGTON, Thurs. PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand Marcos, arriving for sensitive talks with President Reagan, suggested yesterday the US sometimes ignores its Filipino friends. Arriving from Honolulu in a Philippine Airlines 747, Mr Marcos was greeted at the Andrews Air Force Base by his wife,
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    • 240 8 STUDY SEES END OF US HEGEMONY AP WASHINGTON, Thurs. JAPAN is now the natural leader in determining global international trade policy, says a new study by the Brookings Institution. The economic hegemony of the US over the world economy has ended and cannot be
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    • 81 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday THAI and Malaysian armed forces are currently working oat plans to mount more operations against the guerillas of the banned Communist Party of Malaya operating along the common border tangles, the chief of Malaysia's defence forces, Gen Gkazali Seth, said yesterday. He
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    • 91 8 Reuter BEUING, Thursday NORTH KOREAN President Kim 11-Sung crossed the border into China by train yesterday on his way to Beijing for his first visit in seven years, the New China News Agency reported. It said he was met in the frontier city of
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    • 81 8 UPI CALIFORNIA, Thurt. A PORTABLE satellite receiver that can be folded up like an umbrella and taken just about anywhere has been developed for those who can afford the $3,000 (556,600) price tag. The collapsible "earth station" can nick up any of 105 American television channels
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    • 59 8 UPI BEUING, Thurs. CHINESE doctors and cobblers have a new cure for high blood pressure, nervous exhaustion, insomnia and dizziness a pair of magnetic shoes. The China daily said vesterday 340 patients throughout China volunteered in the recent testing of the new shoes in Beijing
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  • opinion
    • 965 10 SHIFTING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REALITIES MAY SPUR MARCOS TO REVAMP ACCORD ON AMERICAN AIR, NAVAL FACILITIES IN PHILIPPINES LAT-WP A GRADUALLY shifting outlook within the Philippine government and growing dependence on Middle East oil-producing countries have aroused concern among some US officials about the future
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    • 517 10 Editorial in The Nation Review, a Bangkok daily FOREIGN Minister Siddhi Savetsila, being the country's top diplomat, brushed off a statement by Singapore Prime Minister Lee ICuan Yew saying that Mr Lee was very concerned by the Soviet threat to this region. That was before Air Vice-Marshall Siddhi left
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    • opinion / letters
      • 198 11  -  ASP YEOW SHANG YING Public Relations Officer Singapore Police Force I REFER to the letter "Dangerous Driving in Braddell Hill Road" by "Resident" (New Nation Aug 20). We wish to inform "Resident" and the residents of Braddell View Estate that between August 10 and 28, the
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      • 406 11 Case of doctor who refused to make housecall 'Not even for an ang pow' NOT TOO long ago, there was a spate of complaints about private doctors who were reluctant to make house calls especially at night to attend to patients who
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      • 118 11  -  S.K. TNG HOW Dice it would look if the two pictures of Singapore in bygone days were to be framed and displayed in the home or office. I am referring to your report about the forthcoming National Archives and Records Centre exhibition (New
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 203 11 Great Man seeks to be slow of speech but quick of action. Great Man is completely at ease; Petty Man is always on edge. Great Man is conscious only of justice; Petty flk Man, only of self-interest. CONFUCIUS TODAY is Thursday, Sept 16, the 259th day of 1982. There are
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  • centrespread
    • 1003 12/13 Has chance for unity been lost? Who is the assassin? 1. Death of a President... Agencies BEIRUT, Thursday 9 CHRISTIAN President elect Bashir Gemayel's violent death has stunned Lebanon and left even Muslims in tears not because they loved him but because they sensed that this
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    • 1364 12/13 2. Death of a Princess... LAT-WP PRINCESS GRACE of Monaco, who as actress Grace Kelly walked away from a meteoric film career to wed a prince, died on Tuesday night in Monte Carlo of injuries she suffered on Monday when her car went
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    • 223 12/13 LAT-WP SHE was the perfect Hitchcock heroine classy, cool and distant, but as he put it, also the embodiment of a "sexual elegance." When she left Hollywood to marry Prince Rainier in 1956, he was never able to replace her. Grace Kelly was always irreplaceable, and
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  • background / umno general assembly
    • 774 14 UMNO charts course sure hand at helm In the name of Islam... The 33rd General Assembly of UMNO, Malaysia's dominant political party, ended last Sunday in Kuala Lumpur. Throughout most of the sessions, domestic and intra-party issues predictably engaged the attention of the delegates from the party's 114 divisions. Datuk
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    • 474 14 ANWAR IBRAHIM'S election as UNMO Youth leader was undoubtedly the biggest event of the four-day meeting. It had the experts scrambling for their notebooks and calculators and arguing about what had gone wrong with incumbent Suhaimi Kamaruddin's campaign. Some said it was Mr Suhaimi's
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    • 397 15 DATUK Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad was more than a match for his critics. At once disarming, candid and caustic, he carried the floor on almost every issue. At one point he told the assembly: "I know I am a slightly emotional man...
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    • 281 15 THE Malaysian government's decision to allow the use of Chinese over one of RTM's networks came in for severe criticism. Delegates wanted to know why the station had relaxed its ruling that only Bahasa Malaysia was to be used on all its
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    • 372 15 On global divisions ADVANCED nations are still practising the strategy w of confrontation behind the diplomacy of co-operation. Much time is wasted in talking and adopting resolutions that get nowhere. Mankind is still far from peace and comfort in life. In the Islamic world, bloodshed
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    • 274 15 Council decision needed on new secretary general The Star THE appointment of a new Umno secretarygeneral is likely to be discussed at its next Supreme Council meeting. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the incumbent, Datuk Mustapha Jabar, would continue in the post for the time being. "Any appointment will
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  • business
    • 145 16 Reuter SINGAPORE will have the highest growth rate of any country in the world over the next four years, the Economist Intelligence Unit says. Gross domestic product (GDP) should grow at nine per cent a year between 1981 and 1986, slightly exceeding
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    • 544 16  -  New Electron has anti-fraud features By RODNEY HOBSON VISA International has taken the latest step in the plastic money war that has gained momentum in Singapore over the past year. It is to introduce the Electron card, which can operate automatic teller machines at
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    • 69 16 SKANDINAVISKA Enskilda Banken (South East Asia), the Swedish Merchant Bank in Singapore, has established a reference group for Swedish industries in Singapore interested in the MRT Project. Several Swedish industries have extensive experience in construction of subway systems and the production of related equipment such as trains
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    • 137 16 A FOREIGN exchange consultant from New York specialising in charts and a Swiss banker will be visiting Singapore to deliver lectures on tne torex market. Both will be sponsored by the Forex Club of Singapore. The senior vice-president of the Union Bank 01 Switzerland, Mr Mathis Cabialla- vetta,
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    • 103 16 AP STOCK prices advanced moderately yesterday amid uncertainty about prospects for a recovery from the recession. The market has rallied sharply since mid-August, responding to hopes that declining interest rates would help induce a rebound in economic activity in the months ahead. But some economists have warned
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    • Update
      • 85 16 SAMUEL Montagu Co Limited, Singapore Branch, the managers of the new floating rate certificate of deposit (FRCD) issue of the Bank of Tokyo Ltd, Singapore branch, say that the issue amount has been increased by US$5 million to US$l5 million. The other terms and conditions
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      • 47 16 WILLIAM Jacks will quit the Bukit Timah Road site it has occupied since just after World War II ana move on September 20 to the GAS building at Sin Ming. The company says the move reflects "a higher price for building land in Singapore."
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      • 97 16 Reuter ASIAN Development Bank president Masao Fujioka said in Frankfurt he believes the time has come for the bank to take on a broader development role than its traditional lending instruments have so far allowed. Mr Fujioka said he saw a need for the bank to
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    • 250 16  -  Micro firm's $23 million investment By CATHERINE ONG THE Economic Development Board has succeeded in wooing yet another manufacturer of high-technology computer peripherals to set up shop here the product this time is one that is not made elsewhere.. National Micronetices (NMIC), a
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    • 152 17 the stock market GENTING lost further ground yesterday when the counter was again actively traded. It closed at $2.87 only one cent off the day's low, with 439,000 shares traded. Singapore stocks generally closed higher on continued buying support in selective, moderate trading Cold Storage rose 10 cents
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    • OTHER COMPANY NEWS
      • 202 17 GROLIER International, the American publishing organisation which has worldwide operations, has secured the franchise for Macmillan Publications in Malaysia. The company kept a low profile until last year when its operations expanded substantially. A spokesman said this year's sales increased tremendously and "our turnover is expected to
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      • 141 17 group suf- fered a decline in after tax profits to $150,354 in the first six months of this year compared with $387,312 in the same period last year. Turnover of the group also declined to $2.91 million from $3.94 million in the same period. The company fared
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      • 23 17 Shares were suspended from trading yesterday at the company's request pending an announcement "which will be made as soon as practicable." i
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      • 79 17 has replied to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on why its profit fell M$ll.l million short of its forecast for the year to June 30. Supreme says economic condition in Malaysia deteriorated at a much faster rate than expected. Housing projects acquired during the year were delayed by
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    • 144 17 AP LONDON, Thursday THE executive board of the International Coffee Organisation discussed yesterday the possibility of releasing one million bags of coffee to world markets because of rising prices. This release, unless the 16-nation board decides otherwise, is automatic when the Organisation's composite (average) price of the
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    • 89 17 AP BEIJING, Thursday CHINA and Sweden signed their first joint venture contract yesterday for a US$l2 million Bharmaceutical factory in Jiangsu province, le official Xinhua news agency reported. The Sino-Swed Pharmaceutical Corp Ltd in Wuxi City, southeast China, will produce tablets, injections and highly nutritive transfusion liquid
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    • 198 17 EMERY Worldwide, the USbased international freight forwarder, has embarked on an ambitious plan to further expand its freight services in and out of Asia. Service-oriented units, such as that in Singapore, are to be upgraded to full marketing organisations. This follows the recent streamlining of
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    • 126 17 GOLD appears to be currently dominated by economic fundamentals rather than political factors, (JOB says. The US$455 region is not critical as it was tested in New York, the bank adds. The sharp fall in gold was attributed to selling on the Comex market as Professor
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    • 198 17 THE Monetary Authoriy of Singapore has confirmed that some assets have been transferred to the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GSI). Although no figure is given, the statement helps to explain why the MAS annual report shows its gold and foreign exchange holdings fell
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    • 177 18 UPI WASHINGTON, Thurs. THE economy is still ailing with unsold goods mounting and factories not moving to make any more, adding to unemployment problems, latest government figures show. The Federal Reserve Board was scheduled to release its measure of August factory production yesterday,
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    • 412 18 A W is biding time for big gobble The Star A W Malaysia, one of the earliest and most established fast food restaurant chain in Malaysia, is actively seeking to increase its share of the fast food business. Despite growing competition A W has doubled its outlets in the past
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    • 146 18 This $84 million jack-up rig built by Robin Shipyard is on its way to India after being named yesterday. The Sagar Shakti, which means power of the sea, is the first local-built rig ordered by the Oil and Natural Gas Commission of
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    • 288 18 British Airways' $63m account goes to Tory ad agency Reuter LONDON, Thurs. STATE-OWNED British Airways has touched off a controversy by switching its £17.5 million (S|63 million) advertising account to the Conservative Party's publicity agency, Saatchi and Saatchi. Bill Barry, head of Foote, Cone and Belding, the
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    • 179 18 Reuter PARIS, Thursday. THE French government announced yesterday that it plans a US$4 billion (SsB.4 billion) standby credit from international banks to defend the franc, and firmly rejected the possibility of a further devaluation. President Francois Mitterrand said in a communique after the weekly
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    • 270 21 In tough gomes like bodminl are you giving your feet the they need? ■MK. These games cal lor quick starts, rapid sideways movements and constant forward and backward rushes great games to Keep tit and healthy But what happens to your feet 9 A A ti M i MUHIVI WflOOfi
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    • 170 22 THIS WEEK'S V challenge: HOW MANY WORDS CAN YOU MAKE? HOW TO PLAY: Form as many words as you can from these letters, joining them horizontally, vertically or diagonally without repetition in the same word. No proper nouns or abbreviations allowed. a n HOW TO SCORE: Score 1 point for
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    • 222 22 jackpd $10,000 Cut cxjt and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below. Ag« Occupation: Address FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW CUT HERE CLUES FOR OY-4 1. Great pain. 2. Due to carelessness, things are easily apt to be in the wrong place. 3. Not just a
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    • 389 22  -  Says women's hockey boss to SNOC after yesterday's win over Japanese youth team Hockey By R. MANORAJ LAWYER Annabel Ess, president of the Singapore Women's Hockey Association, sends in her letter of appeal today asking the Singapore National Olympic Council to reconsider its
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    • 219 22 THE Singapore Under--23 women's hockey team was in the mood to give Japan youth a hot send-off in their final friendly match here when they edged the visitors 2-1 on the Padang yesterday. Singapore, playing with venom and fire, provided anxious moments for the
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    • 298 22 SINGAPORE will have to contend with much stiffer opposition at this year's Malaysian Hockey Federation-hosted Tun Razak Cup tournament in Kuala Lumpur from September 19 to 26, whicn, for the first time, has been opened to teams from Asean. Added to
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    • 189 22 Soccer LION CITY CUP chief coach Dollah Kassim's prospects of enhancing nis coaching career received a severe jolt when heavy work commitments forced him to opt out of the International Olympic Council-hosted soccer course, which started yesterday, in Bangkok. Dollah's last minute pullout
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      • 343 23 MUSCULAR Rohmat Juraimi (above), holder of the World "Best Poser" for 1978 and 1979, leads a four-member Singapore team taking part in the 34th National Amateur Body-building Association championship, starting today, at the Wembley Centre, London. Rohmat and Hashim Salleh will vie for
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      • 3 23 Football Club will
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    • 482 23  -  Swimming; By KEN JALLEH Jr LOCAL internationals Oon Jin Teik, Chew Ann Wee, Marc Tay and -Lai May May should add a touch of tension and excitement to what has been a boring affair tommorrow when they compete in the final day
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    • 316 23  -  BROWN BOVERI 5 PREMIER MILK 2 By GEOFFREY EU BROWN BOVERI beat Premier Milk 5-2 in a sharp, fast-paced game in the Singapore Business Houses Football League junior knockout competition at the Geylang Stadium yesterday. Equally cutting was the match which took place on
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    • 426 24  -  Frustrated MAS players go berserk as fullback is ordered out By SURESH NAIR PANDEMONIUM broke out at Fairer Park yesterday evening when a senior referee, Govindasamy Rajagopal, was assaulted in a Singapore Government Services Football League Third Division match between the Port Authority and the Monetary Authority
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    • 113 24 Rcuter LONDON, Thursday. FORMER England soccer captain Kevin Keegan, left out of new manager Bobby Robson's first squad for the European championship group three clash with Denmark next week, said in a newspaper article yesterday it was not boing dropped that angered
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    • 519 24 Reuter LONDON, Thursday JOHAN CRUYFF, the last link with the great days of the past, rolled back the years in Glasgow last night with a vintage display for Ajax of The Netherlands against Celtic of Scotland in the European Soccer Cup. Cruyff,
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      • 108 24 Reuter ACAPULCO (Mexico), Thursday IVAN LENDL and Tracy Austin representing their countries at the 1988 Olympic games? This unlikely prospect could become fact if the International Tennis Federation can convince the Olympic authorities that the world's top tennis stars would comKte in the same
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      • 94 24 AP WELLINGTON, Thursday NEW ZEALAND Olympic and Commonwealth games sports officials decided yesterday to oppose moves to introduce an anti-South African code of conduct into the constitution of the Commonwealth Games Federation. The New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association voted unanimously to oppose
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      • 324 20 WORLD CUP BADMINTON Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Thura. DEFENDING champion, Prakash Padukone of India displaying excellent strokes beat Steve Braddeley of England 15-11, 15-6 on the opening day of the second Alba World Cup Badminton Championship here last night. The 26-year-old Padukone overcame
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      • 80 20 Hereford 1 Cardiff 2 Lincoln 3 York 1 Oxford 2 Reading 0 Peterborough 4 Darlington 2 Torquay 0 Bristol Rovers 4 SCOTTISH DIVISION ONE Airdrieonians 2 Hamilton 0 Ayr 2 Partick 1 Clydebank 5 Dumbarton 1 Falkirk 0 Alloa 1 St Johnstone 1 Hearts 1 SCOTTISH
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      • 106 20 MONTE CARLO, Thurs. AC Monaco club officials failed yesterday to win postponment of their UEFA game against Cska Sofia bat both sides agreed to play tbe match in nearby Nice. The Monegasqne Club would have preferred to put off the game to honor
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        • 89 20 Thursday.JUVENTUS, de- fending Italian league champions and the "hot" team of the new Italian soccer season, warned its fans thousands of fake tickets were being sold in the city. "Anybody who did not get his season ticket directly from one of the authorised places of sale is warned not
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        • 79 20 were horrified yester- day to hear that more than half the team has been stricken with stomach upsets in the Soviet city of Tbilisi (Tiflis) where Napoli meets Tbilisi Dynamo in the UEFA Cup soccer competition. Among 10 of the team who were in trouble were Napoli's two
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        • 60 20 UPI used his serve- and-volley skills to defeat Guillermo Vilas 6-4,6-4 on Tuesday night in the second stop of a six-match exhibition tennis tour. McEnroe, who along with Vilas, was defeated in the semifinals of last week's US Open, used his aggressive style to force the rally prone
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      • 288 20 AP NEW DELHI, Thurs. WITH the ninth Asian Games barely two months away, the "trial games" now being conducted here are off and limping. The trial games will test India's finest athletes and help determine the makeup of its teams. They are, however, mainly intended
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      • 478 21  -  TRACKWORK By TRACKSTAR BUKIT TIMAH based trainer Samsuri's The Challenger appears to be back in form. He showea dazzling speed in a workout on a good track at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. With local jockey Martin Sng astride, the six-year-old by Jungle Boy was one length
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      • 433 21  -  By BRENTON SMITH LAST season's leading trainer, Teh Choon Beng, who has been chasing Singapore's Ivan Allan for most of the season, has a chance to collar him before the season is out. The Penang trainer trails by 14 wins having saddled
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      • 219 21 LONDON, Thursday. EUROPE'S richest horse race, the French Prix Del' Arc De Triomphe, is to be sponsored by a British-based catering company which said yesterday it would also like to sponsor an English classic. The group, Trusthouse Forte, announced it was putting nearly £400,000 (Ssl.6
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      • 186 21 A HONG KONG court appeal by Australian jockey Peter Mien against the refusal of his licence to ride in the colony, will be heard from October 4. Hit lawyers have announced that a summons was served yesterday on the Hong Kong Jockey Club's legal representatives.
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      73 25 LEFT: Actress Zhang Jin Hua before she undergoes the "ageing" process under the deft hands of make-up artist Mrs Pauline Sim. RIGHT: The transformation takes places. The cosmetics used are foundation, eye-shadow and powder. Madam Zhang, who plays the part of the daughter-in-law's mother in a Chinese drama
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    • 526 25  -  Concluding our *Backstage' series The masters of 'deception' can add 40 years to a person with the skilful application of liquid latex. They call the process "character make-up." Or they can transform you into an animal. We focus on SBC's make-up artists in this concluding part of
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    • 660 26  -  ROAD with LEE CHIU SAN ALMOST every major motor manufacturer is going front-wheel-drive, and Mitsubishi is no exception. The new Lancer F retains the name and the same outlines as the old model, but, is different in a number of significant ways. The best
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    • 442 26 Mr F J Samuel, is a rather rare officer, a man who was a rider long before he became head of the Traffic Police. His experience dates from the days when British thumpers ruled the roads. To him, road safety for motorcyclists is a personal
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      414 27  -  Ground into mincemeat in his comeback fight, our hero tries yet again to reach for glory... ROCKY III Director Sylvester Stallone Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith Showing: Lido ROCKY 111 Reviewer Angela Herickx FANS of the two previous films starring Sylvester Stallone as boxer
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    • 51 27 ANOTHER FILM REVIEW: B7 Advertisement MEDICATED FORMULA helps heal piles, relieves itching... Now you can get relief from the itching, burning and pain of piles with Preparation H a medicated formula that helps heal injured tissues and helps reduce the painful swelling. Preparation H also lubricates, making bowel movements less
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    • 492 28/29  -  Medleys straight off the album £rf) A i By LIM SEK WITH more than two decades of glorious show-biz behind her, Dionne Warwick flew in to keep her concert date with a local audience on Tuesday at the Neptune Theatre Restaurant.
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    • 467 28/29  -  By PAT D'ROSE AFTER being in the music business for 20 years, Dionne Warwick looks back on each one of the numerous moments she experienced as something special. She could not say which moved her most. "Each moment had a special place when it happened," she breathed
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      539 28/29  -  Irene (Little Mak Nenek) teams up with brother By BERTILLA PEREIRA IRENE FRANCIS, 23, and brother Steven, 21, will be performing again as a brother and sister duet. They were known more as a teenybopper family band in the early 70s. While most kids were learning
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    • 382 28/29  -  By FRANK WITT DEEP-VOICED jazz singer Joe Lee Wilson made the stately Victoria Concert Hall jump as he performed on Monday and Tuesday. Receiving sustained and warm applause for a jazz repertoire ranging from blues to rebop, the American-born Wilson provided
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    • 387 28/29 "I'M a little nervous," commented Joe Lee Wilson backstage at Victoria Concert Flail on Monday. Wilson's worries were unfounded as the audience received his vocal jazz improvisations with enthusiasm. Born in Oklahoma and receiving voice training at the Los Angeles Conservatory, Wilson now makes his
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    • 224 28/29  -  By RAADHIKA MAHADEVAN "OH you *****, I hate the roles you play but I love to watch you act them." "That's the reaction I get from many fans," laughs American actress Morgan Fairchild, 32, best known locally for her "superbitch" role in the TV
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    • 1068 30 NEW SHOWS COMING YOUR WAY by Pauline Goh xxi xxxi rxxxxxxi Imperial show of Suzanna and band THE Imperial Bar at the Oberoi Imperial Hotel is currently featuring Suzanna Teo and her new band, The Touche. Singaporeans will remember that Miss Teo received her first successes by entering the "Francis
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    • 542 31 CATHAY THEATRE (Phone) FILM/SHOW TIMES Cathay (*****00) data (*****75) Qoiden Sultan (*****76) Jurong Drive-In (*****94) Kreta Ayar Paopta'a (*****86) Leisure-Drome (*****62) "*****2) Odeon (*****16) Orchard (*****32) Regal (*****59) Carry On Pickpocket (C)/1 30, 3 30. 7 00. 9 15 Carry On Pickpocket (C)/1.30, 3 30. 7.00. 9.15 WoWan (E)/11, 1
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    • 821 31 Lynda Carter in The Last Song...and Moore, Minnelli and Lemmon in Thursday Entertainment Special. Top TV shows KIDS' PROGRAMMES Secret Valley The Trojan Bull (5.50pm Ch 5) The family at Secret Valley organises a fiesta and arranges for a Spanish woman to speak to her mother in Madrid on radio.
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 1433 32 TOP TV SHOWS/MOVIE GUIDE: B7 NEW NATION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1982 channel 5 3.00 Opening, followed by Dynasty (C) (r). During the Qing Dynasty, the ambitious Prince Yong Zheng schemes to usurp the throne. Ruthlessly, he rids himself of all his enemies and becomes the Emperor but he incurs the
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