Singapore Monitor, 20 February 1983

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  • 15 1 THE SUNDAY MONITOR M C (P) No. 20/5/82 ISSN 0217-1325 Sunday, February 20, 1963 40cents
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    • 37 1 POSB goes commercial: What it means to 2.2 million depositors SUNDAY MONITOR SPECIAL REPORT ON PAGES 9-11 V j jfen iww» mw jd 2 i Don't miss the V I prfCBSSpM St f/tkJO Ctntrsl tsisy st sm
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    • 278 2 They let off rocket fireworks and crackers in Lido Theatre A GROUP of thrill seeking yoaag motorcycle riders in vadod the Lido Cinema la Or hard Road last Saturday, the eve af 1 awor New Year, sewdtng waves of terror through the mil house Some
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    • 482 2  -  w) LAM MO LiAM PROPERTY agents are optimistic that Friday s announcement of the selling prices of the latest HUDC flat will benefit the private property market sir David Ong of Knight Frank Chaong Hock Cfcye and Bail lieu said "There are people
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    • 187 2  -  1 CHUA NGENG CHOO FIVE Filipinos who K'eaded guilty on Friday rasstmg various department stores sad shops by using stolen credit cards were yesterday sentenced to s total of five years and four months' imprisonment Wilfrido Wijangco 42. the man who
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    • 449 3  -  They will be made bomb-proof, says Ong Teng Cheong •r FOO CHOY FENG SOME Mats Rapid Transit (MKT) underground sta Uons in Singapore will serve as civil defence shelters in times of hostility Selected stations will be made bomb-proof and blast proof at tae
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    • 117 3 TWO Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) pilots were killed in Brunei yesterday when their helicopter crashed during a routine flight The Defence Ministry has identified them as Lieutenant Ang Cheng Sing, 10, and Lieutenant Tto Soi Ngee If. The accident took place
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    • 195 4 MORE taxis from both sides of tbe Causeway will be allowed to ply between Singapore and Johor following an agreement to increase the quota of permits allowing taxis to operate the route. The Registry of Vehicles has agreed with its Malaysian counterpart
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    • 109 4 A .10 year old elertrk-iaa. w hose lorry was lavorvod ia a traffle secsdeat, sadeealy snatched away Ms tdeattty card aad arrvkog licence from a poilcemaa chart, a caart hoard yesa sis wsTTaWy. Cbaa tla Taaa was fined II SOO ia tbe magis urate's court
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    • 66 4 THREE boys yesterday pleaded guilty to possf ing nine pipes of Moon Travellers fireworks snd 25 firecrackers on S second-storey ststrcsef landing at Block 207. Boon Lay Place oo Feb 7. Bey Pob Lin. 10, and Tob Hong Hoe. 17, were each fined 1100 by a
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    • 68 4 A 17 year old teenager. Ng Choon Heng, appeared in a magistrate s court yesterday charged with the murder of Tan Chin Chiat on a staircase landing of the Bukit Timah Shopping Centre on Feb 0 Ng is alleged to have committed tbe offence with seven
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    • 391 4 WATCHED by his two children a M don from the National University of Singapore s political science department yesterday received his High Commendation Certificate from Police Commissioner Gob Yong Hong. Dr Seah Chee Meow was commended for hit invaluable service to the Police
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    • 281 4 IF you should be in London between Msrch 5 and 19. you will be able to savour s taste of home inside one of the city's big department stores. Dickens and Jones. For the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, in conjunction with
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    • 387 6 Statement may stir controversy in Beijing LAT-WP WASHINGTON Sat "WE'RE not going to torn our backs on the people of Taiwan, Secretary of State George P Shults said yesterdsy, claiming thst "they fought on our side" in the Korean snd Vietnam wars Mr
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    • 147 6 UPI CHICAGO, Saturday RESPONSES to saeeses have be cease part af social custom hat ao laager carry their former magical significance. a folklore expert says. Uaiversitv of Illinois folklore as> pert Larry Daaielsoa said the tradition of responding to a saeese hegaa centuries
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    • 234 6 Reuter MELBOURNE, Saturday THE known death toll in the Australian bush fire disaster rose to 71 today as the fires continued to burn around the cities of Melbourne and Adelaide officials said The total equals the grim record set ia January, fill when
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    • 353 6 AP JAKARTA, Saturday THE new US Ambassador to Indonesia. John H Holdndge presented his letter of credentials to President Suharto at the Merdeka Palace today amid what Indonesian officials said wm a feeling of relief and goodwill. Mr Suharto said "I am
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    • 155 6 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday THE first woman to go to the gallows under Malaysia's tough internal security laws was hanged with her husband st dawn today, prison officials said The woman. Thye Siew Seong. a 41-E-old seamstress, and her husband. Re Song. 44). a
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    • 194 6 dswCiA^aV^O, Set- A FEDERAL judge rejected defence motions claiming diplomatic immunity and sentenced a former vice-consul of Thailand to 30 years' imprisonment for smug gling heroin into the US in diplomatic pouches. Us district court judge George N Leigh ton
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    • 238 7 BUT US WILL BE CONSULTED FIRST ON ANY POLICY CHANGE, SAYS NAKASONE AP TOKYO, Set. JAPANESE Prime Mm uter Yasuhiro Nakasone suggested yesterday that there may be instances when Japan would be willing to provide weapons snd military technology to other nations
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    • 214 7 AP TOKYO, Saturday YASUHIRO Nakasone yesterday became the first Japanese Prime Minister to say in public that tbe Japanese military incursion into China during tbe 1930s snd 1940s was a war of aggression brought shout by Japan, Kyodo news agency reported Mr Nakasone.
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      • 56 7 Reuter PEKING: Chins today rejected Vietnamese charges that it wm violating its sovereignty by allowing foreign rnmusnlss to search for offshore oil in the disputed Besbu (Tonkin) Gulf tbe official New China agency warned Vietnam that if it obstructed tbe search for oil, it should bear tbe
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      • 83 7 Reuter HOUSTON: Former CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson was unled for 17 years today and fined U*****,000 for conspiring to smuggle 20 tonnes of plastic explosives to Libya in lt7T He sad bean fowad guilty on all four counts of an indictment oo Feb i after
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      • 84 7 UPI PRESTON (ENGLAND): Demonstrators hurled eggs snd paint st Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on s visit to north-western England on Friday bat the protesters all missed their target, police said One man was arrested when s policeman guarding the Prime Minister was spattered with red paint,
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    • 114 7 UPI NEW DELHI, Sat HUNDREDS of ramnaging tribesmen armed with spears, bamboo rods sad bows aad arrows massacred 30 Beagali immigrants in tbe northeastern state of Assam, forcing thousands to flee their homes, news reports said today. The latest sttacks brought the death toll
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    • 196 7 AP WASHINGTON, Saturday DEBT RIDDEN poor countries got a warning yesterday against default from a member of tbe board of tbe Federal Reserve System, tbe US Central Bank. "A country visibly and demonstra bly repudiating its debt would find it very difficult to
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    • CONFRONTATION IN THE SKIES ...
      • 232 8 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday TWO Libyan Mig-23 fighter planes approached tbe US aircraft carrier Nimitz near tbe Gulf of Sidra this week before being chased off by tbe ship's F-14 jets, administration officials said yesterday. The incident took place as tbe nuclearpowered carrier
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      • 223 8 2 US navy planes intercepted by Soviet 'jump jets' AP WASHINGTON, Saturday US navy war plaaei were intercepted far tae first time by missile armed Soviet jump jet" fighters over the Arabian Sea last month, tbe US navy said yesterday. It said this wbea asked for elaboration on testimony by
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      • 469 8 UPI NEW tensions are building up in the Middle East involving Libyan snd American military moves. Sudan said Libya is massing troops and war planes along their joint border and warned its armed forces are "fully prepared" to confront any aggression from Tripoli. In
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    • 292 8 AP TEL AVIV, Saturday PRIME Minister Mena chem Begin s popularity has declined nearly 10 per cent in the past six months, and only 44.7 per cent of Israelis now consider him the man best equipped to lead tbe nation, says a poll published
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    • 181 8 AP BASINGSTOKE (England), Saturday A SOLDIER took a SO ton army tank oa a 128 km joy ride along quiet country lanes yesterday aad] Bailee! up in a school playground, police said Residents of Basingstoke, a village 88 km south west af Load
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    • 1232 9  -  POSB goes commercial THE TASK AHEAD FSS PSSS: 10 DEPOSITORS' FEEDS AOL 11 By STEPHEN GUO Whofi tha Post Office) Savings Bank bocomos a commercial bank, it naad not spoil tha and of tax froo interest an deposits Tha neat eighteen months provide a
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    • 943 10  -  Bank has to change 100-year old image. BY CATHERINE ONG IT IS a mammoth task ahead for the POSB How does one shed an image that was painstakingly built up since the 19th century Although the national savings bank was formally established as the POSB in 1971,
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    • 526 10 HOW does tbe Post Office Savings Bank make mosey when it wax pay mg ami to depositors a higher interest rate taaa tt was getting from government securities Although tae per rentage of total deposit reads invested ia government securities
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      826 11 DEPOSITORS COMMENT ON WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THE NEW-LOOK POSB The Sunday Monitor asked the man-in-the-st re et two quostions: Should tho curront tax free status on intorosts earned on savings at tho POSB bo continuod when it becomes a commercial bank? If so, should tho privilege bo extended
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    • 94 12 PS housewife has a rare allergy British housewuc nm mttvtsr {saws*? coma v to eteritte vieW whoe* mewTuage tw ijwtm her itve-yeer-°M tothe^^^ tefS S wh ICL ,no treatment m j this country... i 9 the 17th ce^tAjry she spent hour*
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    • 263 12 For Amanda Strang life is a science fiction nightmare where the 20th century is the deadly alien. Any of the following, which are harmless to normal humans will harm hen Things that will kill Amanda Strang Chemical*: A whiff of any chemical could
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    • 627 13  -  Catherine Ong takes a look at the increasingly popular studio apartment mimmi By CATHERINE ONG Mttrttgr Catherine Ong IF you can fulfill a combination of the follow ing conditions, read oa. Single or divorced, stops st two, does not require trappings of a family life, does aot
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    • 86 13 a MO JSC A««A|.-*) eesoe/a*PPJOS/m* |H*| SJO.OP USMTS TMi PLAZA UOL •1-7* HMI1I0I Fl sees (set) tes STUAHS W*OI» •••el MS (to) rt 3221(300) SS OUAM ess asts (42s) dm *ea SSS7 (4/0) 41 BALMORAL COUPT HOSPITALITY ASSOC ea 1300 (121) 00 4000(372) SS
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    • 210 13  -  A COOL $1.92b FOR SPACE AGE TECHNOLOGY By GEOFFREY EU THE moat expensive building in the world That label has been placed on the new flagship building of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in central Hong Kong. With an estimated price tag of six billion
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    • 264 13 Property Talk GEOMANCY or feng shut is a big factor that super stitious Chinese take into consideration when they are thinking of buying a bouse 'Geo-maniacs'' (how else do yoa call a follower of geomancy'*) warn against buying corner houses and houses located at T junctions
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    • 151 14 Continuing the debate on morals... A reader writing under the pseudonym. Western Woman," complained aha was tick and tared" that Sm gaporeane continually compared alipa of moral* Kara with Western decadence." She said: "I am not DOM and I am not permissive neither ara any of
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    • 354 14  -  Dl'DLEY All Singapore 1024 THE LETTER by "Western Woman" has, as expected, brought ripples of opinion in its wake. The issue is not, and should not be, a confrontation of Western and Eastern morality "Western Woman's" public demonstration of affection is not bad;
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    • 432 14  -  AN EXPATRIATE POINTS OUT THE THINGS HE FINDS OFFENSIVE IN S PORE HANSJ SCHAEFER MUNICH BOY Singapore 2056 HAVING worked ia Singapore lor a considerable period. I don't hesitate to say that I
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    • Feedback...two replies to last week's column
      • 144 14  -  MORAL MAJORITY Singapore 205« THE SINGAPORE that we will one day hand over to oar children and our children's children must not be allowed to be one that is devoid of moral principles. History has shown that throughout the Ages great civilisation
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      • 129 14  -  DOWN TO EARTH Singapore 2159 HUMANISM and humanistic influence aave eroded Western societies to an alarming extent but we should not resign ourselves to such s fate. "Broad minded's advocacy to allow Desker Road to exist so that innocent girls will not be rsped
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    • 262 14  -  T.C. CHUA Singapore 19SS HAVING read various opinions on the issue of morality, I feel that I must add my bit. My interpretation of the term 'morality" pertains to the distinction of right or wrong of a particular action in accordance
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    • VIEWPOINTS
      • 143 15  -  TASADAY Singapore 1027 I HAVE been following the debate on morals with interest I am a Filipino Chinese, a Catholic and I am not bold nor permissive Coming from a country which had been under Spanish for 350 years and
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      • 93 15  -  QUANTUM Singapore 1955 WHILE we appear quick to condemn the West, we remain blind to our own short-comings. We have our full share of crime, permissiveness, criminal breaches of trust and more. Our own society appears moral only because we are subjected
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    • 235 16  -  •y MICHAEL GARTNER A PHOBIA is a persistent, abnormal or illogical fear of a specific thing or situation. The word comes from the Greek phobos, which means fear. In fact, the Greek had a god named Phobos,
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    • 89 16 A READER WRITES JOHN E Cooke of St Petersburg. Florida, says be has "lost a word from my vocabulary. and I woald like very much to recover It." All be caa remember, be says, to that the definition to "a pretender to knowledge The word to sciolist.
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    • 750 16 LEBANON Global Update Commission's findings a bitter joke for survivors Newsweek AU Salim Fayed will never forget the grisly evening lest September when gunmen of the Christian Phalange stormed into the Chatils camp in West Beirut They slaughtered his wife and two daughters, then
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    • 410 16 CHINA ON A cold night in Shan dong Province last December, Liv Chunsan, an illiterate peasant, threw his four-year-old daughter down s well According to the China Youth News, he ignored her cries of Papa Papa." calmly "lit a cigsrette and peered into the well until
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    • 569 17 {nm. THE HUNT GOES ON FOR THREE WAR CRIMINALS WHO ARE STILL AT LARGE ...news beyond tho headlines SERGE KLARSFELD, the French lawyer who hunted Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie in Bolivia, spoke »**iAtV fcSlanitaiiif tMm. kV tarn am os%mm tM i
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    • 325 18  -  1 leart with NALLA TAN ON New Year's Day this year, I made love with my girlfriend We did not use any contraceptive. She had her period less than two days before wa made love. Bat I do not remember penetrating her. Now she claims she
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    • 304 18 I AM 23 aad be re 25 Ire kaewa him Car several aseatha aad have gwae oat with him several times We go to the movies every time beeaaee be says there bait aay asee place to go to
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    • 157 18 AFTER sax with asy husband I aseaJly bleed. It leaks take menstrual bleed hot it han't. Please advise me7f there kt tajthatg I caa de at prereat that bleeding. WIFE You need to tee a gynaecologist as soon as pos sible Bleeding after
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    • 290 18 I AM 23 aad she is 20 Is it tree to sey that whea yea miss a person It aseeas yee love that serosa? I am rather confused I em not sere at I am la lave with my colleague who shews ceaetra
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      701 21 WHEN MURDERERS HAVE BRAIN DISEASE Do killers suffer from some sort of brain disease? There is mounting proof that some of them may have damaged or diseased Drains. In at least two casos post mortem examination after tho death penalty was meted out revealed serious brain diseases. This
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    • Case histories of criminals who had brain abnormalities
      • 151 21 AFTER minor disagreement with hit uncle, for whom he worked, a 24 year old man borrowed a shotgun "to go duck-shooting He seemed perfectly normal. Half an hour later, he shot both his aunt and uncle After the murder, the man said
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      • 114 21 2 Reagan's attacker had abnormal brain shrinkage Most recently. Cat-team were made of tbe brain of John Hinckley, the would-be assassin who took a shot at President Reagan Hinckley's scan showed a slight abnormality of widened ventricles which form part of the folds of the brain. This indicated a degree
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    • 28 14 Have your say. Whether you are expressing views on Singapore issues or offering suggestions, write to "Sunday Mailbag," The Sunday Monitor, Delta House, 2 Alexandra Road, Singapore 0315
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    • 512 18 YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: On this day In 1962 astronaut John Glenn, now a Senator, made the first aarth orbital flight by an American Celeb rtttes sharing this birthday wtth you include design er heiress Gloria Vanderbilt and actor Sidney Pot tier Those who have been under great pressure recently will
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    • 53 19 -0xe» I 5 I THINK I'LL MOVE IN I I WHA/?) n (SLOW-MOTION TOPAV V. 'J I T I r~ 7 OH, NO, V I I 1 I ~3 IT'S HARP TO TAKE V 1 WHAT VOO WANT IN LIFE s V WHEN THEY SEE J V. VOO CO/MING 79*3
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    • 97 22 LEFT: Actress GOLD* HAWN, the OhgmtJ PRIVATE MNJAhSN, had sn unpsjaaant start to ray vacation w\ India rscantfy she waa held by Imrmgra Hon authorities tor tut hours because aha w\t not hava a visa OurtnQ a watt through tha crowded streets of Puehkar, an elderly woman
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    • 93 22 right For mesons of MtaiNion viewers ho is STAftSftY, me alter ego of HUTCH But now PAUL MICHAEL QLASER sheds ret lovable cop image to taaa up tha role of a doctor n ha latest tern PHOBIA. PHOBIA a about a doctor s axparv mant n
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    • 57 22 RtQHT: ROBERT DUVAL, tha Mad Colonel of that COPPOLA bkxkbustar APOCALYPSE NOW, recentty returned to tha beaches 300 km from Manse whara soma of tha moat beautiful sequences of tha movie were shot Robert was m the PhAppries with his wife QAELLE (with him m picture)
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    • 221 22 LATEST VIDEO NEWS... Just as USA WANG saved me day tor NX TVB's *ung tu-currvhrstonc drama AMAZONS OF THE YANG FAMILY, exjht damsels were grven the unenviable task of heading the tort for ASIA TV m extemporary drama senai BA MEI TU
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    • 94 23  -  the ROAD with LEE CHIU SAN Today, On-tho-Roed take* on a now look. If a the kind Of motoring page you aay you arent. In our recent readerahip survey, you aatd that you would like mora amphaaia on the laauea that aflect car
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    • 576 23 CARS SHOULD you bay a car or motorcycle from aa ledspsodiiiit importer 7 The authorised agents of the various brands call the independents pirates and aaajjajp then for selling ma ctuneajrhich are unsafe and unrelia cUiimaefUsaTthey hrwaj taat public the hasovoTi™ machines
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    • 271 23 NUTS U BOLTS Question My BMW S2ti, which has automatic transmission, will aot start when the shift lever Is ks "Drive. What caa he done to solve this problem? Answer Many manufacturers of cars with automatic transmissions incorporate a cut-out switch which does not permit
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    • 408 23 Nothing exclusive about the bikes independents offer they're just cheaper MOTORCYCLES THE situat.on in the motorcycle market hi slightly different There is nothing very exclusive about the motorcycles the inde cost a bit less because toe independents do not have to beer the overheads of providing gaarantoni. service facilities aad
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    • 204 23 NEWCOMERS Toy© Kogyo's latost THE two latest cars on tha market are the Mazda 626 and Ford Telstar, both born oat of the Toyo Kogyo factory. Following the success of the two-pronged Mazda 323/ Ford Laser attack on the family car market, Toyo Kogyo (in which Ford
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    • 719 25  -  •EACTING PUB: Where you can get good food at low prices Today Violet Oon noes a little "down market to the baeement of the PUB building end Introduces you to some good, cheap grub Bo if you have burnt a hole In your pocket after paying
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    • 384 25 O Stall N0.7, Koek Rd Tong Hoat, Satay Beehoon Stall This is run by one of the sons of the ongi nal owner Mr Quek Kye Ten* M. said We ye been in this business for over SO veers." This dish is a combination of
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    • 251 25 ©Stall No. 10, Koek Rd Beef Kway Teow Mcc Run by the children of Mr Ng See Yew the original owner, this stall is considered one of the best in Singapore if not the heat This is the Teochew variety of beef kway teow mcc
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    • Of kway ee, t'ang kwa and the Kitchen God
      • 198 25 I wm amased at the aaaccoraclea ia Vies* Om'i article awadlasrd The tradition behind every BSSrsal ef festive fare' ia lest Saaday's Firstly, Babas do aot observe the sending ef the Kitchen Ged SS Heavea oa the 23rd day of the 12th month They lllin
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      • 389 25 I thank Mr Gwee for pointing out the inaccuracies but to be fair I must also point out the inaccuracies kt his letter. He was right to say that the Babas do not celebrate the sending of the Kitchen God to Heaven on
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    • 125 26 A RARE SELECTION OF STRANGE AND AMAZING IMAGES FROM BYGONE DAYS TW— Strang, (and somotimot funny) photographs wara takan from tha archivas of tho Franch maga*lna, L'llluatration, which disappaarad from tho nswtsUndt In IMO aftor 117 yaars covoraga of world no ws. Tho wookly (Its closast
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    • 43 26 The Maharajah of Alwar, whose kingdom was located in the Indian state of Rajputana, was worth his weight in gold. Here, in March 1929, he prepared to distribute to the poor his own weight in pieces of silver.
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    • 46 26 It w.is .1 (jrr.it big si. .»r»' but didn t do all th.it muc:h damage Dur mq thicourse of .1 speed req.itt.t in August 1932. this spri-dbo.it pierced arrow like through .1 l.iunch The pilot w.is thrown off but was unharmed
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      36 27 Siamese twins Rosa and Josephs Blazek pose with Rosa's child, whose paternity was admitted by "a gallant Austrian carpenter." This picture was taken in Berlin, July 1910 where mother, aunt and child was on exhibition.
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    • 1432 28 ONE CITIZEN'S V/EW^r\ ReeoJttng the days when Spore was young The moment I stepped out Of the Singapore jetliner into Changi International Air port, I felt the jolt I was entenng a new time slot snd after 20 years of living si homes sway
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  • tv guide
    • 206 29 A MOUSE IS NOT A HOME, Ephuiii 73 A 74.1.2S pern: TW Story Lmst Week De lost hu job and received more bad news Ms found his estrmnged wife, Juan. Serial am affair wits) Jim. Jiuman, oa learning of -SAW, en torted from Jam.
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    • 110 29 Chingay procession live Early birds can catch 100 minutes of joyful colour CHINGAY 13 (Live) (8 55 am): The Chingay procession which will set out from Bukit Merah Central will be televised live for an hour and forty minutes. Schools and organisations will take part in this colourful procession which
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    • 103 29 SUNDAY MATINEE: The Return ef Charlie Caaa (2.55 pm). Earl Der Big gars' polite Oriental detective with hu wise and witty sayings is lured out of his self-imposed retirement to solve some mysteries on board a yacht Charlie Chan's character was based on a
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    • 63 29 PERSUASION (1.25 pea): This is the dramatisation of Jane Austen's classic The story: Sir Walter Elliot leaves the family residence at Kellynch Hall and moves to Bath His daughter Anne is left behind with her sister Mary at Upper Cross There she meets Mr and Mrs Croft.
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    • 102 29 CULTURAL SPECIAL The Dutch National Ballet (19.19 sea): This is the story of the birth of s contemporary ballet, from its first inception to the theatrical performance It is a spectacular feature through which the makers wanted to express their involvement and concern about today's world. Rudi van
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    • 37 29 EXCLUSIVE Interview with Hong Kong star Tse Yin Sfefj Deborah Patrick is S aelf-con-fassad family man and Ha dascribas >w Deborah as an ideal wife Page* I 33 and 34. m .-Jon—. d,u in li swung ewasshuAetossMea
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    • 863 29 855 Opening Fotowad By Chingay S3 when he comes face to face wrth an okl witness to the ever charing history ol (Live) (CiswatsAarlM In EwgSsh snd enemy Britain as weS as the world Set against Mandarin) 1.4* Drtfrent Stroke* the scene spots along the Over, thai SeeHighhghts Arnold depiction
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  • week's tv highlights
    • 19 30 CHANNEL 5 HIGHLIGHTS 4 scewe mmm i§mm§t Thm Win* (Turn*, Ch 5 4 25 pm)
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    • 477 30 AFTERNOON MATINEE: Against tha Wind (Tuns, 4.25 pm) THE undaunted spirit of two rebels a man and a horse, both untamable hi beautifully portrayed by Sergei Ourousaevsky. one of Russia i most distinguished painters and photographers, who turned film director some time ago The man Tanabai (Nourmoukhan Jan tourine)
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    • 130 30 LUCINDA BR AY FORD (Toes. 11.05 pm) THIS series is based on the novel by Martin Boyd, which tells the life story of the lovely Australian debutante Lucinda Vane Young, beautiful, spoilt and wealthy. Lecinda has the world at her feet Her ambitious mother seeks the finest house
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    • 170 30 HORIZON: A Mediterraneen Prospect (Tue. 10.15 pm) THE countries in the Mediterranean are slowly dying of contamination from raw sewage and industrial effluent However, both the nature and origin of the pollutants are known. Major contamination begins in the highly populated and industrialised north-west: Prance, Spain and Italy The
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    • 148 30 IN PERSON: Christina Ah/Peter (Tuna, 7.50 pm) ALI Ahmad. Christina Ong and Peter Chua team up to make their debut in the series. Ali Ahmad first came into the limelight when he clinched one of the top positions in the 1990 Talentime, and again when he was placed 9th
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    • 181 30 Sir MacFariane Burnet and Peter Brian Medawar (C) (Mon. 9.20 pm) THIS documentary features two great scientists who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance International recognition and growing awareness of the importance of Sir MacFariane s work began in the 1940s when
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    • 115 30 Just one touch National's latest NY 300 EN with OTR, one touch timer recording This means when friends visit you while you're watching your favourite programme, one touch will instruct the NY 300 EN to record the rest of the programme and you won't have to miss a thing The
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  • 613 31 Tse Yin actor who has time for his family showbiz yoej mmr rnpnrtejr JOYCaVLEaTS Imt**Wife), fhajßarejai, wlbO tIN MMM a fwlJowUhjJrfesM mmr r*>U la tarn TT lerUl aaaJ liiiua jH-La iwmm tmmmj mmm 1W "HOW old are you. Patrick?" "Do you really want to know the truth?" he asked, bursting
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    • 6 31 Deborah talks about herself page 34
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  • 496 32 showbiz STARDOM and mother hood are seldom compati ble lifestyles but Hong Kong TV star Deborah Is determined to prove that wrong A familiar face in a TV serial. Hotel which is currently showing, Deborah has been on the TV scene since 1975 two
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    • 1227 33 Thr event is organised by the pm to JO pm today and tomorrow B It'll ill fj t People's Association. Singapore There will be a 10 per cent dis Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) count on all books on display The and the Singapore National Pugilis first 100 customers will each
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  • THE SUNDAY MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 372 34  -  By B J SMITH THE locally-trained The Mercenaries can complete a hat-trick by winning Race Eight in Penang today Trained by Lam Hock Bee. The Mercenaries won his third start in Class Four on soft going, beating John's Gift by a length
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    • 165 34 Reuter LONDON, Saturday JOHN HUGHES, the clerk at Liverpool home of Britain s Grand National steeplechase, has suggested > super league of 20 major race tracks as a poasible answer to tae sport's failing fortunes Hughes put forward the idea at a meeting of representatives
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    • 216 37  -  ALLAN-LUCAS TEAM GETS ANOTHER TWO B J SMITH APPRENTICE II Rah mat riding like a veteran, notctjed a double for his master. Samsuri, at Penang yesterday. Aboard Express Car in Race Six, Ranmat urged his mount past early pace setter Space Invader with brilliant
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    • 2070 37 RACE 1 CLASS 4 DTV C l ,2SSm (Restricted Terms 2 year-olds) I fcjSJSjSjfJ 17 WStaaa (It) 111 II Good A* (mm IS A Rabanae (7) 4 1 2 7 iKsM^ 11 til I Its Pis Chsef 17 SXHo(l) 114 4 Marporo $7 Swbtao ft) 111 Startracfc
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  • sports
    • 89 38 AP HERSMEY /r*._-__ Cat ar»»a 9w\ THREE Americans and Canada's l b year -old Carling Basaett yesterday moved into the semi-final round Of the US$5O 000 (SIIO4 000) Ginny Tennis Tournament of central Pennsylvania. Despite a close first set and controversial line calls on
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    • 354 38 9 v TENNIS ROUND-UP AROUND THE WORLD ME MPHIS (Tonnosee Saturday TOP-SEEDED Jimmy Connors fought bock several times to bold off Eliot Teltscber 4 6 S-l, 7-4) last night and advance into the semi-finals of the U*****,000 (5f655.200) US National Indoor Tennis champion ships
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    • 224 38 CHICAGO. Saturday NO. 2 seed Andrea Jaeger fought off a strong upset bid from unheralded West German Eva Pfaff to post a 6-4. 6-4 win la:it night and join two other seeds in the semi-finals of the US$l5O,OOO (SI312.0O0) Virginia Slims of Chicago
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    • 263 39 SAN WE 00, Saturday Tom KITE no-died three of the laat five holes for a seven under par IS and led tha field ia the Sl6OO 000 Saa Diego Open golf tournament yesterday Kite's second round score gave him a two-day total of
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    • 428 39 Golf UPI TAIWAN S l.v HsiChurn today fought off a challenge by Japan's Ik no Shirahama by firing a sizzling five under par 17 to take the lead after throe rounds in the SS3OO 000 Philippine Open golf tournament Lv s nines of SS
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    • 208 39 Motor Racing DAYTONA BEACH, Sat National Association lor Stock Car Racing (Nascar) is studying ways to slow down grand national stock cars in the wake of an rvmtful crash-filled wash at Daytoaa international speedway Luckily, only one driver was injured in the qualifying
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    • 173 39 Reuter and AP FRENCH soccer international Jean Francois Lariot yesterday signed a three-year contract with Atletico Madrileno the Second Division affiliate of Atletico Madrid club offioials said The transfer fee waa not officially diacloaed but informed sources said the figure was US$l million
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    • 210 39 AP EVELYN ASHFORI) broke her kmr week-old world Indoor record lor the St yard dame with a time of 5 74 see □wis lest BBS* hi tht Mlcheloh iavtta ■■j tract meet at tbe Sea Diego AshSocd, wboac world record at tht tt yard
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    • 426 39 Reuter LONOON. Saturday THE Weat Indiana, who defied cricket authorities by visiting South Africa, have ended the tour with controversy aadiminished and the players defending a professional sportsman s right to sell h is talent aa ha wants. "We consider ourselves to he no different than businessmen
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    • 181 39 AUCKLAND, Sat MASTER opening batsman Glenn Turner scored s brilliant 88 as New Ze land romped to a sixwicket win over England ia a one-day cricket inter national here today Scores: England 114 for nine (SO overs). New Zealand 117 for four in
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  • sports special
    • 350 40 s THEY ara no OOCCOr showmen or players of exceptional skill or talent They are merely amateur soccer xpetnates arho kfestt the) ■port fu*t mo«t IOCOI OOCCOr fanatic• a» an oeontaQ paat But like the Oswaldo Ardiles or Arnold Muhrens in the English professional soccer scene,
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    • 266 40  -  STORIES: SURESH NAIR VALOO VACCARO plays an unique role with newlypromoted First Division club Cairnhill he is sole sponsor plus the club's striker-in-chief The Singapore based Italian businessman gave Cairnhill the kiss of life early in the season when the club was rumoured
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    • 305 40 FIRST DIVISION champion Ferrer Park United can rightly claim it bagged a potential winner whan It signed 19 year old Dutch-born "giant" Alex Brouwer The recent arrival of the l 85 metre 83 kg PSV Eindhoven apprentice prnfaasloasl will ia the words of United manager
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    • 292 40 UNITED World College Undent CUve Fletcher at 16. to tae yonngeit expatriate to) the local leagae led make* oo bone* of his dteam af beeag the first atsrasas player to wear a Sasgapsre soccer Jar- Born in Marlboroagh. Wihietri, CUv« craatad local aacccr history
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    • 289 41 TREVOR ARNOLD has made more headlines for his tantrums than lie did for his ability to coach First Division club Tampines Rovers. The 32-year-old British-born draughtsman has, sadly, been embroiled in controversy after last season's President s Cup quarter-fipal clash against Brickworks In
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    • 224 41 MEET Dr Chris Bates aa academic among tae wortinf-class footballers with his doctorate in geology from the Cambridge University Like popular English prnfreaionsls Steve Coppei and Steve Highway, who have similar academic dsgrses, he has green Farcer Park United s new
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  • sports
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      254 42 Soccer MIDFIELD STAR SALIM STEERS SINGAPORE TO VICTORY SINGAPORE 3 SELANGOR 1 SUPER MOIN' That was taa err at Kallang after midfield star Salmi Mom almost smgk handedly steered Singa pore lo a magnificent come from behind vie lory over Solajigor In tae frleadly soccer match at tae National
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    • 190 42 NFLB3\ GEY LANG INTERNATIONAL Is serious on seeking promotion despite an early season poor start la the National Football League Second Division Taa East Coast baaed club snowed positive signs yesterday that it can reaatabliak itself aa tae local soccer kingpin with this victory over
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    • 123 42 a musf tor logger SCOPE tTpTE LTD II wnomtui Ay Orogn Soccer Special: Singapore's 'foreign legionnaires* Pages 42 43 I I I No one else raafl preserves I bring out a smut] beeped with sweet 1 c»jn9\u%9Kncttm favorv pieces of i a sftnie that J I juicy fruit cofties from
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