Singapore Monitor, 21 March 1983

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  • 16 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 ISSN 0217-1325 Monday, March 21, 1903 First Edition 30cents
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  • 324 1 Indian amy moves In as death toll goes up AP ONCW DELHI, Monday BLOODY rioting and arson flared again in India s northeastern Assam state yesterday on the eve of a 24-hour statewide general strike called by student led groups demanding expulsion of Bengali
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  • 164 1 UPI O KARACHI, Monday SUNNI Maslims rioted ia Pakistaa s attaching riMgljaj araas af tke rival aaet M lac tklrd straight gay of violeace The death toll from the three days af rtotiag raac ta flva whoa Ahhaa Hyeev, a Shafts ssadnchse tanrgas aboil hat
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  • 263 1  -  •y TO CHEE ENG WATER lorries from the Parks and Recreation Department are working overtime to save Singapore's green image The prolonged dry weather is drying out grass and plants so seriously that officials fear that if we don't get some heavy rain soon many of them
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    • 193 1 DONNAY THE WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF TENNIS f A RACKETS 301 SpotQH' I T* I«MM 4 LI ll—uwltf Is CklMse Ctok tf tkt Ytir: Pif6 4 THE MICRON Imagine a micron, barely discernible through the most powerful microscope. Yet there are people who look on it as being bulky and
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  • opinion/ letters
    • REPLIES
      • 163 2  -  CHUA KOK SWEE lr PRO Miakury of the bvlrwoNl PLKASE refer to the letter by Anti litlerer (SM. Feb 21) and Ant i-lit terer and Ann spitterer (SM. March 4) I would like to ensure the writers that there is no let up in our efforts to
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      • 63 2  -  MISS ROSSLYN P C MAK PRO Miakury af Health WE ARE concerned over the experience a pastor had with our staff (SM, March 13) and would not spare any effort to trace the cause of the unhappiness If The Sympathiser could liaise directly with me at Tel *****44
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      • 105 2 I REFER to the letter captioned Blocked at my own driveway from Kenzaihiled and Moore" (SM. Feb 21) It is noted that many motorists in Singapore indiscriminately park their vehicles without concern for residents and other road users Such indiscriminate parking does take place at Upper East Coast
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      • 100 2  -  YEOW SHANG ING. ASP PRO Singapore Police Force I REFER to the letter captioned Check Spot-checks'' from "Ivan*' (SM. March 3). We wish to inform "Ivan" that police officers are required to conduct routine checks in the course of their patrols as part of the overall
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    • 198 2  -  NGK Singapore 0922 VARIOUS methods of electing opposition MPs have bora discussed May I therefore suggest sn slternative that is fair, equitable and representative of the electorate? Could we not adopt West Germany's proportional representation which ensures that seats in the Bundestag (Parliament)
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    • 276 2 "y Df 1 T A H( ;N(, IT IS a nice idea that SI A has decided to produce its own specially blended perfume, manufactured by Lancome of Paris, for selling aboard its planes But neve they chosen the right name for it? Does Reves dv Smgapour really
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    • 183 3 LAGUNA PARK RESIDENTS REPLY LET me explain why we need security guards st I wig una Park When we first moved into Laguna Park five years ago. there were no security guards and the residents had to fend for themselves. First, the
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    • 319 3  -  CHARLES JC Skujspors Mil YOUR article. "The Artificial Status of the Kight Al Students (SM. March Ift) by Edmund Leow has drawn a very illogical conclusion between all-round excellence and specialisation Mr Leow felt that the students desire to achieve all-round academic
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    • viewpoints
      • 32 3  -  JJ JIANG Singapore OS 13 BY giving housing priority to civil servants and NHS lecturers at Oilman Circus and Pine Grove, the HDB is actively promoting queue- jumping
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      • 63 3  -  NG Singapore 0315 HOW Is it that the postal district number of a Post Office Box address is different from taw postal district number of the buildings in that district? For example: For Alexandra P 0 Box 290, the postal district hi Singapore
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      • 40 3  -  HELP US PLEASE Singapore 0315 THE Ministry of Education should transfer some of the better teachers from elite schools, such as Raffles Institution and Anglo-Chinese School to teach at schools which have a majority of belowaverage students.
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    • 15 3 vsn£n inflame* the smthualast, nev- Johatm Fhadhoh jnhjfggr. Qarman wntar (1759-1905).
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  • home
    • 344 4 MADAM Ng Pek Chun, St, who has entered several cooking competitions before and won two of them, was actually reluctant to try her hand at the Cook of the Year competition But when she received a letter from the PA
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    • 260 4  -  Winners carry away prizes worth $27,000 in the Monitor-People's Association contest By YEOW MEI SIH NURSES, typists, technicians, factory workers and hairdressers were some of the people who turned cooks yesterday in the battle for the Cook of the Year title But it
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    • 222 4 THE II prise winners among the 41 contestants hi yesterday s Cook of the Year competition COMMUNITY CENTRE SECTION Chssese Ceeksag Bsi ih artss First prise Miss Tay Swee Haay. 22 Second prise Madam Low Wee Har. M Third prise Madam Wong Thai Thai. 52 ski a. i
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    • 467 4  -  YONG POW ANG THE Chinese High School in Bukit Ttmah, once a centre of aati establishment and student radicalism, is celebrating its 64th birthday today with promises of supporting Cernment policies on bilinguahsm and ifucian ethics Mr Ong Teng Cheong. Communications and Labour
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    • 461 4  -  By ANG PENG HWA MOST of the advantages of three-tier family living can be enjoyed, and their diaavantages eliminated, if the in laws live close by but not in the same flat This was the consensus st s workshop on the Three-tier Family
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    • 411 5  -  1 found myself in a Chinese language-speaking environment 1 By SIT YIN FONG FORMER monk Tinas Daammo. alias the Rev Kong Huat, provides the answer as to why there seems to be no place for tke Fnglinh sdacsted boy in the Buddhist monkhood in Singapore.
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    • 211 5 MALACCA'S Chief Minister Mr Abdul FUhim Datuk Thsmby Chik, who is visiting Singapore next month, will be looking for investment from Sing* pore Mr Abdul Rahim's target covers not only industrialists but hotel developers Helping the Chief Minister with the task will be Mr
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    • 499 6  -  OH MATTAR'S WALKABOUT By EE BOON LEE FOO CHOY PENG •nd YONG POW ANG IT was a leisurely ministerial tour, though it covered three constituencies instead of one And there were many questions put to the Acting Minister for Social Affairs. Dr Ahmad Mat
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    • 103 6 HAWKERS at Lorong 2. To* Payoh. accept the decision that they have to move to make way for the MRT station But they are at siies and sevens about where they should go. The hawkers from the cooked food and wet market centre have been offered places in
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    • 88 6 COME June, the disabled will be able to turn to a centre to help them find jobs they can do well The Social Affairs Ministry, in conjunction with the Council of Social Services, is setting up a vocational assessment and placement centre for gauging the abilities
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    • 64 6 THERE is already $1 million in the Community Chest even though the project has yet to be launched. Dr Matter said at the Press conference st the end of his walkabout yesterday Once it is launched, charitable organisations need not worry their tends over fund collections
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    • 45 6 DR MATT AH promised to look into s request by Mr Ho See Bene to grant s proposed home (or the aged sick in Khe Bong to he en institution of public character so that donations could also he tax exempt
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    • 114 6 AT s forum in the Toe Payoh library. Dr Mattar said the Majlis Ugama Islam (Mais) is working out s scheme to help Muslims save money to pay for their pilgrimage to Mecca. Dr Matter declined to give details as the controlling body of
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    • 52 6 A STUDY committee nee been formed to find out how our transport system can accommodate the disabled The committee comprising officials from the Social Affairs Ministry. Registry of Vehicles, Social Services Council, Provisional Mass Raped Transit Authority has yet to submit Ms findings to the Social
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    • 90 6 The CPF is studying the proposal to allow retired workers to convert weir CPF savings into an annuity which would provide them with a monthly payment for the rest of their Uvea. The proposal was submitted by the Committee on the Care of the Aged headed
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    • 94 6 A PUBLIC assistance review committee, chaired by Dr Mattar. ex smines every cane before public assistance is withdrawn from sny individual. Government officials apply the criteria laid down for payment when a person is known to be receiving money from sny source, s recomendation will be
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    • 63 6 DR MATTAR laid he would join tome of his colleagues in Parliament to try to persuade the Finance Ministry to raise the existing $1,000-income relief for wives. He agreed with a member at the forum that the $1.000 a year which works out to less
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    • 223 6 THE Singapore Chinese Cham t>er of Commerce and Industry plans to set up two new committees to help its members promote their businesses One is the industry sub-com-mittee which will take over pert of the activities of the commerce sub-committee which currently oversees the interests of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      534 7  -  Prosper On Productivity By TOH SU FEN WILLIAM < M rill creator of Theory Z. firmly believes that the Japanese style of management is general and ran be found outside Japan It exists in the US. he says, where organisa turns with many characteristics similar to Japa nese
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    • 20 7 Lifetime employment Slow evaluation and promotion Non-specialised career paths Implicit control mechanisms Collective decision-making Collective responsibility Wholistic concern
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    • 20 7 Short-term employment Rapid evaluation and promotion Specialised career paths Explicit control mechanisms Individual decision-making Individual responsibility Segmented concern
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    • 143 7 Long term employment Slow evaluation and promotion Moderate career specialisation Consensus decision-making Individual responsibility Informal, implicit control, with explicit measures available JAPANESE menegement took Singnpore by storm a few ynnrs 090 with debates on ita transfersbility hotting up on the emvel of doxene of Japensss experts who
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    • 539 7 MUCH of our time is spent in meetings Much more of our time outside meetings is spent talking about how much time we waste on meetings Why are meetings unproductive* Decision Processes International, a training consultancy, says there are five culprits to ineffective
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  • world
    • 149 8 Reuter BANGKOK, Mon THAILAND'S Prime Minister Prem Tinsulan onda today appealed for calm and urged politicians to cooperate so that a snap general election he called for April II could he held without upheaval and violence. The election announcement on Saturday night caught
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    • 577 8 Soviet citizens getting bitter over the price of their govt's policy LAT-WP WHEN a 19-year-old soldier named Yura came home from Afghanistan a few months ago in a grey, zinc coffin, there was no military pomp, no public honour, not a line in
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    • 141 8 AP MOSCOW, Monday A SOVIET television report from Afghanistan shown here yesterday said guerilla attacks in the northern Afghan city of Kandahar are preventing the city from getting 75 per cent of its fuel needs other Soviet reports on Afghanistan said yesterday
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    • 85 8 AP BEIJING. Mon A CHINESE factory has begun producing a device that can "smell" alcohol on a driver's breath and automatically tern off his vehicle's ignition, the Beijing Evening News reported yesterday The o 3 kg (0 7 lb) device is installed in front of
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    • 312 8 UPI BRUSSELS. Mon EUROPEAN Foreign Ministers will meet their Asean counterparts in Bangkok this week against a background of renewed moves to resolve the controversy over Vietnam's military presence in Cambodia. Leaving just after European leaders meet here today and tomorrow on a wide
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    • 147 8 AP BEIJING, Mon CHINA'S eight non-com munist political parties have expanded their membership by a total of 30.000 since October 1179. the national newspaper Uuangming Daily said yesterday The newspaper said six psrties now hsve more members than before the 1957 anti right ist"
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    • 173 8 UPI TOKYO, Monday JAPAN National Railways has punished 1,174 workers who stormed the locked employee baths during working hours despite s new ban, officials said yesterday In the past, Japanese railway workers have been allowed to take baths in the employees' locker rooms during
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    • 145 9 Reuter LONDON, Mon FOOD served to foreign tonrists st London's sightseeing spots is makiag British cnisine s worldwide Joke, according to a report published yesterday Cafes at the London Zoo and Madame Tvs saud's waxworks mess urn are a scsndal aad cooks at
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    • 160 9 AP DUBLIN. Mon AN American who left Mssssrhunatti on Oct M in an 2 72 m (t ft) sail boat reached Ireland yesterday, behind schedule and in good shape Wayne Dickinson. Si, was found at 10 30 pm (14S0 GMT) by a lighthouse keeper on Arran more Island,
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    • 29 9 PRINCE Charles and the Princess of Wales arriving at Alice Springs yesterday with baby Prince William to start their six-week Australian tour. PICTURE: UPI
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    • 296 9 UPI BEIRUT, Monday AFTER five Israeli tanks were turned from a no-go line by the Lebanese peacekeeping force, a US Marine commander said yesterday Is raali troops are f Irteg ainineuiition ksdiscriminately in a gross lack" of discipline Israeli troops attempted to
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    • 89 9 UPI VILAMOURA. (Portugal). Monday US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger arrived et safe golfing resort la southern Portage! Inst night to attend n tap secret meeting af the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation s (Nate) neclear planning group Weinberger laced pressure from Bmspisa allies
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    • 419 9 AP, UPI NEW YORK, Monday THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting un tries' (Opec) historic agreement to cut prices I v IS Cr cent is leas than a week old. and already it may out of date Some oil exporters outside Opec.
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    • 548 10 UPI AMSTERDAM Monday THE social safety net that keeps the 12 3 million iobtess of Western Europe fed and clothed offers no solace from the boredom and despair of chronic unemployment it's not physical hardship, it's men tel. said Michael Wallacher 37. who has
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    • 46 10 Woohingtoti Mottonol ioo, onoUng a $t%wtny, uncwoducth/o oight-yoof courtohip. Doctofw af frsa moo »o4d thoy anW fry to Incroooo tho oddo by orthlcimwy ktoomotottng Ling Ling with troMon aevnavv from Chio Chio, onothof giont pondo ot tho London moo. PICTURE: UPI
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    • 137 10 Paris, Man PRESIDENT Praacois Mitterrand may announce a cabinet reshuffle hi s major speech to the nation aext Wednesday, his spokesman Michel VsussUe said yesterday Intensive consultations between Mr Mitt err and. Premier Pierre Mauroy and Finance Minister Jacques Delors s favourite to succssd Mr Maurpy
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    • 357 10 AP BRUSSELS, Monday EFFORTS to realign fight European Community currencies under prutsure of a weak Ftoack franc and a strong West German mark failed yesterday after two days of intense neajoUationß. A new attempt will be made today. The situation was unprecedented in the
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    • 297 10 AP ROME, Monday ITALY'S last king. Umberto 11, has bequeathed to the Vatican the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be Christ's burial cloth. Rome's leading newspaper reported yesterday. The shroud, a length of linen bearing the image of a bearded
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    • 285 11 But only if Geneva arms talks bring some results, says Soviet official Agencies WASHINGTON, Monday SOVIET leader Yuri Andropov would be willing to meet with President Ronald Reagan in Washington or Moscow If progress is made in the Geneva arms talks, Soviet deputy Alexander Chakovskiy
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    • World Briefs
      • 77 11 UPI MEXICO CITY. Monday: The Mexican attorney general's office asked Interpol to detain two former Petroleos Mexkanos officials, believed to be hiding in the United States, involved in a US$2B million (SssB million) bribery scandal, an Interpol agent said yesterday. The agent said photographs
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      • 78 11 Reuter ATHENS: Two of Greece s most influential newspapers reported yesterday that the US has made a sharply increased offer of military aid to Athens, paving the way for agreement on US military bases here Five month-old talks on the bases resumed on Friday
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      • 69 11 UPI WASHINGTON: The US has about ISO Intelligence technicians la Central America tracking Soviet and Cuban aid to guerillas la D Salvador, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Senior Reagan administration officials were quoted as saying the intelligence gatherers, some of whom conduct
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      • 64 11 Reuter LONDON. British parliamentarian Jonathan Altken, the new head of Britain's commercial breakfast television company, TV-AM, said yesterday his appointment had to be temporary to save any political embarrassment The Conservative Member of Parliament, ap-TV-AM chairman in the face of low view figures, told
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      • 54 11 AP NICOSIA: Iraq said its war planes continued intensive bombing yesterday of Iranian positions and troop concentrations along the batUefront. A communique by Baghdad Radio said Iraqi jets scored direct hits, inflicting heavy looses among Iranian troops and equipment in the central and southern sectors
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      • 43 11 Reuter HURLEY (England): Four people ley dead or dying in a wrecked car beside a highway for seven hours yesterday before a passer-by reported an 'abandoned" vehicle and police found the bodies, s police spokesman said. Reuter.
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  • business
    • 571 12 SINGAPORE banks are likely to disclose profit growth in 1883 twice as high as in 1982 stockbroker Hoare Govett says. There will not be "vintage expansion by local banks but conditions should improve to provide a pick-up la disclosed earnings growth to
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    • 172 12 BANK shares have fallen slightly out of favour and have underperformed in the market over the past year. While the Stock Exchange of Singa pore Finance Index rose 8.7 per cent, the Straits Times Industrial Index rose 10.7 per cent. In the second
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    • 608 12 PBS Recommendation: Wait to buy Price at report Si.2o Price now: $8.75 DBS has underperformed the Straits Times Index by I per cent over the past year but the relative decline since October hss been much more pronounced At that time, the stockmarket was
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    • Update
      • 59 12 Reuter WASHINGTON: US wholesale prices rose by a seasonally adjust ed 0 1 per cent in February following a 1 per cent decline in January Personal income of Americans rone US$2 9 million (Ss6 million) or 0 1 per cent, to a seasonally ad Cated aaaaal
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      • 59 12 Reuter TOKYO The Japanaaa govern ment will adopt a set of economy boosting measures as soon as the fiscal IMS national budget hi approved by parliament, probably early next month, a government spokesman said. The brood agreement came at a meeting of economic affairs ministers aad
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      • 69 12 Reuter KOTA TINQQI Malaysia will shelve s number of development projects under s mid-term review of its five-year ecotiomic plan because of the economic rsrsnsion, Deputy Prime Minister Mnsa HI tarn said. He told reporters the cuts in the USsi» 5 billion devolopimnt plan, launched in 1981
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      • 43 12 Reuter VIENNA: Poland will be unable to service its US$26 billion Western debt in the next three jeers, and will probably have difficulties up to 1988 Mr Gerhard Pink of the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies said. Renter.
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      • 74 12 Reuter PANAMA CITY: The president of Use Inter American Development Bank said debt rsaagjotiaUons of financially pressed Latin American countries with filiates banks were starting to show satisfactory results' Mr Antonio Ortiz Mean told reporters that Mexico, Brazil, Argon Una, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica and Honduras
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    • 115 13 DBS Bank has joined the latest round of cutting short-term fixed deposit rates. It has taken s quarter point off interest paid up to six months. Mew rates are 5 75 per cent for one month, 6 per cent for three months and 6 25 per
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    • 783 13 Currency THE following is a selection of currencies analysed in the latest issue of the Foreign Currency Review, a publication of Manufacturers Hanover Trust (MHT), New York. Swiss Franc Responding to political uncertainty prior to the West German elections, speculative capital fled into Switzerland,
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    • 240 13 Lose ufiwiof*%wlttee by H YlßSiv4sl stn^tlwaftfose Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday BANK BUMIPUTRA Malaysia and Citicorp have arranged to raise a US$55O million (Ssl 11$ billion) loan for the Malaysian Government for general development purposes, Bank Bumiputra said. The 10 year loan
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    • 152 13 The Star THE Malaysian government is moving full steam ahead on Its gas utilisation project in Trengganu Petronas. the national oil company, ligned s contract with a consortium of two Japanese firms and two principal subcontractors to build a Kw processing plant in erteh.
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  • centrepiece
    • 835 14 Imagine a micron, barely discernible through the most powerful microscope. Yet a M m 9™ there are people who look on it as being bulky and massive. Read on about these people... and their incredible work. LOOK at i( this way. Think of a sugar cube
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    • 502 14 PHYSICIST Michael Isaacson takes off his glasses to squint closely at the display screen of a scanning transmission electron microscope (Stem) But instead of examining a sample, he's making one. He focuses a 100.000--volt beam of electrons a scalpel s half nano metre (thousand-mil-lionth of a metre)
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    • 153 14 THE world of ultrasmall does, of course, have limits but so far they haven't been set "What happens,'' asks optical specialist Ballaatyne, "when you fabricate a wire so small that the atoms that make up its surface sre also those composing its interior? It turns into an
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    • 761 14 Silicon Valley the electronics capital 1,300 ENTERPRISES CONSTITUTE THIS POLE OF ATTRACTION FOR INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE Sygma SAN FRANCISCO, lost in the fog Daylight has difficulty piercing the opaque screen which gives the city, seen from the sky. the aspect of s giant. long cocoon. But when the sun bursts through
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  • leisure
    • 678 15  -  TIME BANDITS Directed by Terry Gilliam Starring: John Cleese, Scan Connory, Shelley Duvall, lan Holm and Michael PaHn Now showing at Capitol Reviewed by PHILIP CHEAH WHILE half of Singapore queues up for Tootsie or Tron. the rest are waiting for Gandhi That's how interesting films
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    • 261 15 HBEfllTTY ®4 BITS Catharine Fernando TRANSPARENCY is the theme of Lancome s spring summer collection, to shape the rebirth of the new romanticism. The advent of spring in Europe inspires the neo romantic charm of soft, sheer, translucent colours that appear slightly faded To harmonise
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  • leisure/cinema
    • 301 16  -  •v EDMUND LEOW NOT many drama producers would relish the task of producing a complicated French comedy with 40 actors in the cast snd 99 backstage workers The task becomes even more problematic when the actors and workers are s group
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    • 258 16 THE Catholic Junior College present Doctor Faustus bv Christopher Marlowe, at the Drama Cen- y tre 7 JO tonight and tomorrow night The play revolves around the legendary story of John Faustus. Doctor of Divinity, who tires of conventional study Only necromancy and black magic offer a challenge to him
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    • 191 16 FINGER PAINTING LAST day of a charity exhibition of finger painting is now on at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry The display features about 100 works by more than SO members of the San-Yi Finger Painting Society Open from 10 am to 6 pm SEEDS Of HUNGER: AN
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    • 214 18 CHANNEL 5 HIGHLIGHTS Science International (6.25 pm) SOME of the features highlighted in today's programme are a space museum run by a robot, a sophisticated computer-controlled walking machine for patients and the world's first artificial voice box Car owners may be Interested in s novel and unusual
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  • sports
    • 397 23  -  CHANGI 3 CAIRNHILL By SURESH NAIR CHANGI Constituency coach Ibrahim Awaag called his players a bunch of sissies for their half hearted display after this luckiest of First Division victories over newly promoted Cairnhill at Toa Payoh complex yesterday evening "There were several so-called
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    • 78 23 CHANGI UNITED 1 WEALTH ROVERS KANNAN KUNJURA MAN has done it again' The maa who is Singapore's hottest striker consolidated Changi United s reign as Third Division leaders at the Be dok Complex against gritty Commonwealtk Avenue Rovers yesterday He struck with a magnificent second half goal to
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    • 275 23 POLICE 6 FARRER PARK LTD 1 THE long arm of too law, almost audaciously, turned the clock bock three years and brought unhappy memortos for reigning First Division champion Fairer Park United, who suffered the most humiliating upset defeat of tho season at
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    • 133 23 FIRST DIVISION tabletoppers Tiong Rahru will mm two of its most promising 18 year old stalwarts for the rest of the season because of national service commit merits. Youth international striker Too Liang Huat and midfielder Lokman Hamdan have been called up for national service with
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    • 255 24  -  Using Bleasdale's whipping technique he scores on Cool Customer By B J SMITH YOUNG Singapore apprentice Jockey M Ran man capitalised on tke withdrawal at tke barrier of two not favourite*. Nakuru and Sail Home, ia Race Eight at Ipoh yesterday to win on the outsider,
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    • 88 24 ST GEORGE'S, Greasds. Mm: A partnership of 55 between Yashpal Sharma (57) and Kapil Dcv (36). and a tail ender knock of 37 not out by Madan Lai revived the Indian cr cketers oa the third day of their foarday match against the Windward Islands here yesterday India.
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  • sports
    • 666 25 Big splash potential grows with upsurge in facilities Jeffery James FRANKLY SPEAKING SwrrvrnxjaJ WE WHO want our sport and sportsmen to rise and shine internationally can take heart in what is emerging from the swimming pools Thanks should go to the government which, through
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    • 353 25 T»'f in KUALA LUtdPUR. Sun CHINA S Liv Shuhua and You Wei were declared joint winners of the 52nd Malaysian open tennis championships here when an afternoon downpour washed out the final at the Selangor Club courts Shuhua. the Chinese number one. was leading in
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    • 106 25 Reuter aawOM AMERICAN Bob Wrenn won the Indonesian Open golf championship here yesterday with a total score of 274 after a final round 71. The 23-year-old Virginian finished the contest four strokes ahead of Peterno Brasa of the Philippines and five shots up on Taiwan's
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    • 170 25 Reuter ROME, Mon ROMA maintained their three-point lead over Juvenilis at the top of the Italian First Division today when both sides were held to goalless draws European Cup semifinalists Juventus. who put out champions Aston Villa of England last week, won a
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    • 327 25 AP BOSTON (Massachusetts). Monday AUSTRALIAN Wendy Turnbull seised the middle of the court and neutralised the more powerful Sylvia Hanika of West Germany to win the Virginia Slims tennis tournament yesterday 6 3. 3-4. 8 4 The match pitted two international stars who
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    • 92 25 UPI RIO DE JANEIRO, Mon CARLOS Alberto Parreira. Brazil's new soccer coach, said yesterday he hopes the 19M World Cup finals will be held in Mexico. Thirteen years ago. Par reira was part of the backup team to the Brazilian side which won the old Jules Rimet Cup
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    • 440 26 'You are a bunch of comic cuts', players told BARNES' SOCCER SPECIAL TO MONITOR j Manchester United 1 Brighton 1 A BUNCH of Comic Cuts that's what Manchester United boas Ron Atkinson told his players after they drew 1-1 with bottom placed Brighton
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    • 266 26 Norwich 2 Notts County 2 NORWICH is also strug gling down in the basement and would have bagged three lovely points but it conceded an 27th minute penalty and had to be content with a 2-2 draw with Notts County. "It was a shattering result."
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    • 251 26 Arsenal 4 Luton I NORTH LONDON club Arsenal has a reputation for boring, negative football so much so that manager Terry Neill felt the need week to make a public apology about a recent horrendous performance. But on Saturday, it put all together with
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    • 118 26 DOWN in the Second Division, the great Dene, Allan Sim onsen, played Ms last game for Chariton as it lost 10 to Leeds In front of Its won crowd. Said manager Leunie Lawrence: "It's a shame Allan's stay With us had to end like this. On tke
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    • 156 26 LONDON, Mon LIVERPOOL'S lan Rush continues to lead the goal getters in Division One of the English Football League with s tally of 27. three more than Watford's Luther Blisset. But his is not the best in the League. The top goal scorer Is Kerry Dixon of Reading
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 280 27 FAS on shortlist as one of four Cup hosts f'f By SURESM NAIR THE Football Associ ation of Singapore may take the biggest step forward to make a bid to host, for the first time ever, Use prestigious Asian Cup championship at the National Stadium Singapore is
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    • 290 27 THE Lion City Cup tournament will not be hosted by the Football Association of Singapore, as originally planned, in conjunction with the Asian under 16 championship at the National Stadium end of the year. Instead. Singapore is among three countries which
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 61 27 Reuter LUSAKA: American Bill Calfee woo the Zambian Open coif title on the third hole of a sudden death playoff yesterday when Eamonn Darcy of Ireland three-putted from 12 metres The two had deadlocked on 280, 12 under par. after the regulation 72 holes
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      • 74 27 Reuter LONDON: Be ope (Jabbiani of Italy won a wet opening round of the European Formula Two motor racing championship yesterday after a dramatic struggle against Stefan Betlof of West Germany Gabbiani. 26 led in his Works March BMW for most of tke race but
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      • 64 27 Reuter LONDON Bekelee Debele of Ethiopia won the men's 12 km world cross country championship at Gateshead yesterday in M mm 52 sec. Carlos Lopes of Portugal waa second and Kenya's Some Munge third Both men recorded the same time as the winner Grete Waits
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      • 38 27 AP MAPLES (Florida): Top-seeded Rod Layer defeated second seed Ken Rosewall 6 3 16. 7-1, in the final of the Foster's Lager tennis champion ships yesterday afternoon at the World Tennis Centre AP
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