Singapore Monitor, 21 January 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR 30cents M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Saturday, January 21, 1984
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  • 352 1  -  Attorney-General's Chambers demands payment for nine-year-old lawsuit By GANDHI AMBALAM THE Workers' Party has been given yet another ultimatum to pay up outstanding legal costs this time by the AttorneyGeneral's Chambers. The A-G's Chambers successfully represented the then Department of Broadcasting in
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    • 295 2 THE keynote speaker at a conference in Singapore yesterday wasn't able to deliver nis speech because he had been snowed in. Not in Singapore, of course. Heavy snow in Kagoshima, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, prevented Mr Kaname Kamada,
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    • 387 2  -  THEY WILL STRENGTHEN OUR AIR DEFENCE CAPABILITY I B y LYE YIN FONG THE Ministry of Defence is considering buying high technology military helicopters to strengthen Singapore's air defence capability. Two of them, the Sikorsky Black Hawk and the Bell 214 ST; are among several
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    • AROUND SINGAPORE
      • 38 2 A touch of Japan came to Singapore yesterday, with the official opening of Liang Court in River Valley Road (picture above). About 2,000 guests were entertained by dancing troupes specially flown in from Japan.
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      • 51 2 A REHEARSAL for this year's Chingay procession will be held tomorrow at the junction of Ang Mo Kio Avenues 2 and 5. The area will be closed to all traffic from 8 am to 11 am. SBS Shuttle Service 266 will not operate during these
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      • 65 2 THE reservoir park at Upper Peirce will be c'&>•«"' to the public with inr,...cdiate effect until September. This is because the Singapore Armed Forces Seletar Rifle Range at Old Upper Thomson Road, adjacent to the reservoir park, is to be used for high
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      • 100 2 THE National Theatre is to be demolished because its structure is unsound and unsafe, the Culture Ministry announced yesterday. Even during its construction back in 1963, there had been doubts about the quality of the workmanship in the making of the steel roof.
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    • 340 3  -  By LYE YIN FONG YOU MAY have to make do with almost "new" notes for your hong bao this Lunar New Year. It may be especially difficult to get crisp, new $1 and $10 notes, as the Currency Board has only issued a limited
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    • 355 3  -  By TOH SU FEN BAD PUBLICITY, not more laws, is the most effective weapon against traders who sell dangerous toys. And it is a weapon that the Toy Safety Authority of Singapore (TSAS) should wield against recalcitrant traders, said
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    • 303 4  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM THE Workers' Party has described the government's move to acquire sophisticated war planes as an "arms build-up quite out of proportion to what is possible for the defence of Singapore." The party is particularly concerned about the planned acquisition
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    • 557 4  -  Ministry moots two proposals to control use of cars By YONG POW ANG THE TAX structure on cars would have to be drastically changed if the Communications Ministry implements taxes based on the distance travelled and congestion charges to control the use of cars.
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    • 89 4 THE sun hat is a bit smalt by normal umbrella standards (picture above), at it's just the thing to get some shade while yon work. Though 71, Mr Chung Fan believes in earning his own living, which he does as an odd
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    • 460 6  -  PA finds cases of 'ridiculously' paid retirees By YONG POW ANG SOME employees taking part ig the Retirees' Services Scheme run by the People's Association (PA)are exploiting their elderly employees by paying them "ridiculously" low wages. The PA has discovered that some employers have not
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    • 315 6  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN THEY passed their examinations with flying colours. And this afternoon, they will get their wings, so to speak They are 28 students, all members of the Junior Flying Club, who will each receive a Private Pilot Licence this afternoon at
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    • 289 6  -  THE CHARGES TAX EVASION CASE By FAEZAH ISMAIL THE PROSECUTION yesterday closed its case in the Wee Mon Cheng tax evasion trial after its last witness, an accountant with the Chartered Bank, had given his evidence. The hearing was adjourned to Monday
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    • 84 6 SIXTY volunteer Civil Defence Urtit members from 15 constituencies will take part in the first weekend camp orfanised by the Singapore Civil Defence 'orce. The session, held at the People's Association holiday camp from 3 pm on Sat- urday to 2 pm on Sunday,
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    • 273 8  -  By FOO MEY KIEN TALENTQUEST '84 kicks off tomorrow, with 51 handicapped and underprivileged contestants showing off their singing talent and vying to win a place in the finals which will be held on March 3. Organised by the Leo Club of Singapore
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    • 212 8 EIGHT-YEAR-old Yeo Tee Mui plays the piano and her ambition is to become a piano teacher. But Tee Mui will not be showing off her piano-playing skills in Talentquest 84. She will sing instead. Her entry for the heats this Sunday will be Silent Nignt. Tee Mui is
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  • world
    • ASIAN
      • 70 10 j DATELINES j TOKYO, Saturday: These young frolickers in the snow are enjoying a treat. An unusually heavy snowfall earlier this week closed down schools, airports, and badly disrupted rail and traffic in Tokyo and other cities. As the National Meteorological Agency issued snow danger warnings, millions
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      • 105 10 Reuter, AP BANGKOK: Prince Norodom Sihanouk arrived in Thailand yesterday on his way to a ceremony at which he will receive the credentials of some foreign envoys accredited to his coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea. Prince Sihanouk said he would "in a few days" attend
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      • 41 10 Reuter BEIJING: A Beijing court announced yesterday the execution of 41 criminals in the past nine days. The men, aged between 18 and 65, had been convicted of murder, manslaughter, rape, assault, robbery and drug-peddling. Reuter
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      • 57 10 Reuter JAKARTA: The Indonesian press was told yesterday to refrain from reporting "negative events" during the conference of the NonAligned Information Ministers in Jakarta from Jan 26 to 30, press sources said. They said officials had told editors that negative events included reports about
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    • 542 10 Purchase is aimed to upgrade communications system Reuter Beijing, Saturday CHINA'S purchase of 26 Canadian satellite earth stations is a decisive step towards a solution to its colossal domestic communications problems, diplomats in Beijing said yesterday. After some hesitation, China is looking
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    • 267 10 Reuter MANILA, Saturday THE CHAIRMAN of a special inquiry into the murder of opposition politican Benigno Aquino said today there was evidence to doubt that the officiallynamed killer actually committed the crime. Police said Mr Aquino was murdered by a notorious
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    • 359 12 MAHATHIR WARNS U.S., WESTERN POWERS AS HE WINDS UP WASHINGTON TALKS Agencies WASHINGTON, Saturday MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad wound up high-level talks with officials of President Reagan's administration yesterday after accusing the US and other Western powers of exploiting the Third
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    • World Briefs
      • 88 12 AP BEIRUT, Saturday: Syrian-backed Druze gunners showered Beirut's Christian sector and Lebanese army positions in the hills above the US marine base with artillery, rocket and tank fire yesterday. At least 10 civilians were reported killed and 20 wounded. Police said 20
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      • 81 12 AP WASHINGTON: Shaking off the worst recession since World War 11, the US economy grew by 3.3 per cent last year, the government reported yesterday. Many analysts predicted an even better showing for 1984, but some said the continuance of trade
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      • 81 12 AP NEW YORK: Polar cold, blamed for 20 deaths, enveloped the eastern two-thirds of the US yesterday, setting records in at least 13 cities. Snowflakes fell in Florida. Never at any time in January had it been so cold in
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      • 84 12 AP LONDON: Former Soviet spy Anthony Blunt, who was permitted to remain the royal art adviser even after confessing to being a double agent for the Soviet Union, left an estate worth £858,121 pounds (5J2.57 million) to his family and friends, his
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      • 81 12 UPI LONDON: A passionate scene in the televised version of "The Thorn Birds" left sq many Britons gasping for a cup of tea that it caused a record surge in electricity demand, power supply officials said yesterday. Minutes after the end
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    • 270 13 Reuter LONDON, Saturday BRITISH Petroleum (BP) and its US subsidiary Sohio yesterday announced they were writing off hundreds of millions of dollars in what may prove to be the oil industry's worst failure. They invested the money in exploring for oil
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    • PEOPLE WATCH
      • 66 13 Reuter STUTTGART, Saturday A 21-YEAR-OLD US soldier faked his own kidnap because he was afraid to face his wife after failing to meet her as arranged, police said yesterday. The soldier, Liam Fowler, phoned his wife after vanishing on Friday last week and told her
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      • 114 13 AP DES MOINES (Iowa), Saturday THE front-running Democratic contender for the US Presidency has compared President Reagan with Iran s Ayatollah Khomeini on women's rights issues. Walter Mondale on Thursday told a group of Democratic state lawmakers the President
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      • 88 13 UPI BOULDER (Colorado), Saturday THE Boulder Human Rights Office ruled in favour of a man who filed a sex discrimination complaint against bars and taverns that offer free or discount drinks on so-called "ladies' nights." Boulder resident Richard Savino filed the complaint on Dec
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    • 322 14 Parliamentary inquiry ordered into Defence Minister's firing of Nato General Kiessling Reuter BONN, Saturday THE CABINET of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was threatened with further scandal yesterday when a parliamentary inquiry was ordered into how Defence Minister Manfred Woerner fired the country's top Nato
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    • 259 14 Reuter MADRID, Saturday THE SPANISH national news agency EFE said yesterday that more than 25 people were reported killed and hundreds wounded when police and soldiers opened fire on rioting students in the east Moroccan town of Nador on Thursday. The agency quoted
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    • 179 14 UPI, Reuter LONDON, Saturday ONE OF the heroes of the Christie's jewel heist yesterday was staffer Humphrey Butler who slipped the most precious piece a US$l million (552.13 million) sapphire and diamond necklace into his pocket without the robbers noticing. Four
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    • 178 11 The sensation of the 1983 Tokyo Motor Show The new high-technology IOOOcc car. A masterpiece of precision engineering. Jr i V jßr--.; m m 1 jt ■J*4 f *'v ■'t''*: i **"'.t' Hiah Derformance Superior driving Suzuki engine comforts Low fuel consumption linnt. aluminium V Vy«| At a constant speed
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    • 171 13 in the jfEflmr pages is always read. Cost-effective advertising that works hard3Bsdays ayear. The Yellow Pages reaches all phone users with an increased circulation of 1.54 million printed copies in homes and businesses in Singapore. And it's by the phone when people have made the decision to buy and are
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    • 74 14 BIG SISTER FRUIT CAKE... Fresh'n fruity anywhere, anytime! Delicious Big Sister Fruit Cake. cVF+QjjJfi Baked to give you perfect-tasting fruit cake. 1 w^mj&jLj Packaged to give you freshness and rich fr,. KjfmW} goodness. E very time. In the office, mSShr AHfl on 3 P' cn c < at home or
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  • money
    • 403 15 Terms agreed upon after talks with Trade and Industry Ministry r q DRAFT PROPOSAL MADE FOR REORGANISATION d Lianhe Zaobao THE RUBBER Association of Singpore will keep its position as a statutory body after its reorganisation, the goverment has agreed after consultations with
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    • 120 15 [jOLLAR AND (r OLD AP THE dollar rose against other major currencies in US and European trading yesterday after the Commerce Department reported stronger economic growth in the fourth quarter of 1983 than some dealers had expected. Gold prices drifted lower on both continents,
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    • 181 15 Lianhe Zaobao MR TAN Eng Joo, the leader of the rubber industry, has resigned his chairmanship of two of the most important rubber associations of Singapore the Rubber Association of Singapore (RAS) and the Rubber Trade Association of Singapore (RTAS). He is
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    • 221 15 IT WAS a largely uncertain week for stocks on the local exchange as the market took on a mild consolidation following the buzz of activity beginning this year. Profit-taking, which led to easier prices, was more or less counteracted by buying of selective stocks and
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    • 164 15 WALL STREET Reuter WALL STREET stock prices closed lower for the third day in a row yesterday as investors took the market's two giants, IBM and AT T, down a notch in heavy trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was
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    • 227 16 THE SINGAPORE International Monetary Exchange (Simex) announced yesterday its financing scheme for individuals applying for membership in the exchange. Under the scheme, an applicant may pay the cost of a Simex seat, currently priced at $50,000, by instalments. An initial down payment
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    • 192 16 COMPANY BRIEFS KHONG GUAN Flour Milling has recorded a turnaround in net profits for the six months ending Oct 31. The group made $80,715, close to its loss of $80,132 for the corresponding period in 1982. At the company level, the gain was $80,784 against
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    • 787 16  -  The greatest show ever produced, say Colony's brokers HK-TVB's 105 million share is:mi By PHILLIP BANGSBERG HONG KONG: To hear some brokers and press commentators tell it, the share issue by one of the Colony's two commercial television stations was the
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    • 196 16 TIMES Publishing continues to have a stake in Asian papers despite the sale of its remaining 20 per cent stake in The New Straits Times yesterday. The group has an estimated 10 per cent stake in the Asian Wall Street
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    • 326 16 MALAYAN Cement Bhd has proposed a one-for-one bonus issue, thus living up to market expectations. It also announced a share split, a special issue and its results. The proposals will not have any material effect on its earnings and the board is confident
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    • 223 16 THE FEAR often expressed last year that economic recovery in the United States would rekindle inflation there and in the world at large seems to have been ill-founded. Financial Digest, published in New York over the weekend by Manufacturers Hanover
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  • features
    • Article, Illustration
      522 17 WHAT TO DO AT AN What action do you take if you are the first person on the scene of a road traffic accident? The crashed car is askew across the road. An unconscious driver is slumped over the steering wheel or perhaps thrown out onto the road. It's
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    • 539 17 THE first rule is to keep cool and not to dither. Lives may be at stake. TELL bystanders or some other motorist to call for the emergency services. On the average they will be there in five minutes, but other drivers must be warned and
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    • 119 17 W Il' For as little as $16 PER PERSON, you j| B 1 lj can hold Seminars, Meetings, I Birthdays, Anniversaries or Wedding I 1 parties at our function rooms. U I Let our people pamper you while you i| I I I dine and relax in our cool, quiet
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    • 74 18 Celebrate witb c }hnmssy C.(5. I a& jflHny A special gift for your y Your appreciation of Hennessy CS deserves a very special Ijf gift. Like this specially designed tea set of 5 pieces. Each exqui- d I /A /Mm s^e P iece c 0 e Chinese ideogram of "Fortune",
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  • opinion/letters
    • 446 19 iffi COMMENT THERE should be good reason for celebration in Asean capitals. After so many twists and turns, all the five founder Asean members have finally settled on their industrial ventures. It is a rare enough moment in economic matters. It took six years of
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    • 26 19 DO what you feel In your heart to be right for you'll he criticised any way. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt. US statesman (1884-1962).
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    • viewpoints
      • 113 19 CYCLISTS in Singapore are not able to pedal cheerfully to work in the sun because they spend much of their time squeezing through rows of cars and buses. They are banned from expressways and most highways. Fear of being injured is the main cause
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      • 83 19 I REFER to your front page news item (SM, Jan 11) on the so-called "miracle baby" after tubal reanastomosis. This has given the operation and the surgeon undue publicity. The success of tubal re-anastomosis after tubal ligation depends on the type of ligation procedure
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      • 52 19 SENTOSA is at present Singapore's last unspoilt corner. Don't let us turn it into a concrete jungle of hotels and shopping centres. There is nothing like escaping to Sentosa to whiff its unpolluted air. I hope those concerned will stop further bulldozing there. HEARTACHE
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    • 440 19  -  DISTANCE-BASED TAX ON MOTORISTS NOT EQUITABLE HAN FOOK KWANG for Permanent Secretary (Communciations) THIS WEEK, we will discuss two suggestions on controlling the use of motor vehicles on the road. One is a rather blunt way of going about it a tax
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  • Article, Illustration
    477 20  -  (p^jSS?*^ WITH VALERIE TREVOR The Best of the Midnight Special (Ch 5, 7.50 pm) FRESH from her latest movie and hit single Twist of Fate, she looks even more beautiful today, but we remember well Olivia Newton John's 1976 winners If You Love Me, Let Me Know
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  • 429 20  -  TV Scene By WONG SING YEONG CAN people be trained in the art of television production? Or should it be left to the creative impulses of producers inspired by flashes of imagination? SBC seemfed to know the answer when they pumped $6 million into a
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1457 20 (jj^^jj -*l K B^jL 1.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by r~~^^ Sesame Street. v »>C4NE 200 Saturday Matinee: The Alaska Wilderness Ad I IM 1\ J venture See 3.30 Second Merlion Cup Soccer Tournament: Singa- |r pore Indonesia, South Korea vs Indonesian Kerana aP young man from Semarang goes
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  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      1066 21  -  THE OLD GROUP Stars in the new cast include (from left) Barbara Townsend and Harry Morgan as Mrs and Colonel Potter, William Christopher as Father Mulcahy, and Jamie Fart and Rosalind Chao as Corporal and Mrs Klinger By RICK FORCHUK IPS AFTERMASH, wrote the TV critic for the
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    • 281 22 ALBUM: HOW MANY TIMES CAN WE SAY GOODBYE ARTISTE: Dlonne Warwick LABEL: Arista ALB-8104 DIONNE had a second career break with Deia Vu, the album produced by Barry Manilow, King of commercial pop. But the album only brought in cash and put her name
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    • 162 22 ALBUM: EMPRESS IX)WAGER ARTISTE: Lin Xiaoqing LABEL: Idea HK 6.*****0 THIS is an album by Liu Xiaoqing, currently the most popular actress in China. No, this is not her debut album but it is of special interest because it relates to the two epic movies
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    • 147 22 ALBUM: MOST FAMOUS TV THEMES ARTISTE: The Hong Kong Philharmonic LABEL: Idea HK 6.*****9 IF YOU enjoy light pop instrumentals, this record may just be right for you. It features The Hong Kong Philharmonic on a selection of 12 Cantonese pop tunes under the baton of Henry Shek.
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    • 172 22  -  ALBUM: BODIES AND SOULS ARTISTES: The Manhattan Transfer LABEL: Atlantic 7 *****-1 Reviews by LIM SEK SPICE OF LIFE, the first single from this album, was a success on the dance charts. So will most of the tracks on side one be but it
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    • 193 22 US top 10 pop singles (as rated by Cashbox), with last week's positions In brackets: 1. (2) Owner of a Lonely Heart Yes. 2. (1) Union of the Snake Duran Duran. 3. (7) Break My Stride Matthew Wilder. 4. (6) Talking in Your Sleep The Romantics.
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    • 926 23 JENNY GIPSON interviews HK superstar CHOW YUEN FATT Hong Kong Star HE CAME from the peace and tranquillity of Lamma Island to the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong, and he rose to fame and stardom on the screfen. His trip to the top was not
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    • 353 23 Hong Kong Star POPULAR starlet Cherrie Zhong took on the most challenging role in her three-year acting career when she reported on the set of an action drama in London recently. Miss Zhong, who won the Most Popular Actress award at the
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    • 650 24  -  Stars of live theatre opening By WONG SING YEONG ANGIE Zhao Yazhi and Melvin Huang Jinsheng. They were two people living separate lives she as a red-hot asset of Hong Kong TVB for many years and he a constant cast in macho roles at
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    • 456 25 PLASTIC SURGERY SHOWS PROMISE AND SPUNK r i c NIC«H'lB':rC» PAT D ROSE L J PLASTIC SURGERY? That's six young men whose near cherubic looks don't deserve the "sissy" tag. Despite their vain attempts at looking older and more macho, they have challenged doubts with
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    • 262 25 REGULARS at The Ship Lounge in Hotel Premier may have missed Tania and Hangloose recently. That's because the groups have just finished their contracts there. But if you're lucky, the guys do make surprise appearances for a jam session. On Wednesday night for example, Tania whipped up a
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    • 320 26 LOS ANGELES: Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman's bittersweet tale of a Scandanavian family celebrating the holidays, and Taiwan's Growing Up, a film with a familial tneme, were among 26 movies submitted for the Oscar nomination for best foreign langauge film. Each country is invited
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 525 25 film cuioe DALIT (*****16): SETAN PALASIK (M) Midnight show: NINJA IN THE DRAGON'S DEN (C) LIWAGU (*****30):5ETAN PALASIK (M) Midnight show: BEWARE OF THE PICKPOCKETS (C) BEDOK (*****7): SALT AND PEPPER (C) Starring: Dong Piao, Jain Erqing, Zhong Chuhong Synopsis: A humorous contemporary comedy about Cnen, a miserly and scheming
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    • 250 26 SSO CONCERT Bach's Organ Concerto in <3 major TO commemorate its fifth anniversa- (2nd and 3rd movements). Admission ry, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra is ree will present two concerts featuring guest artiste Aristotle Garufalis, a re- SYMPHONIC SOUNOS XV nowned Greek classical pianist, to- THE National Theatre Symphonic at Victoria
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    • 254 26 DEBATE 84 AN Inter-Youth Group CJebate organised by the Buona Vista CC Youth Group will be held at the Buona Vista CC from late January to March. The competition is open to all CC Youth Groups and Youth Organisations affiliated to the People's Association. Applications should be submitted to the
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    • 38 26 TODAY: TOMORROW: Low tide: 7.01 am (1.1 m) Low tide: 7.48 am (1.0 m) High tide: 12.45 pm High tide: 1.35 pm (31 m) (3.0 m) Low tide: 7.34 pm (0.1 m) Low tide: 8.28 pm (0.1 m)
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    • 760 27 leisure comics ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry /l T WAS that WORD you TWIS IS A COCC> V WE APON IS My ONlv\Sff A A /NOWMAL. WHAT'S NORMAL IN A WPLAVEP WITH LOADED ICE 1 K /INSURANCE POLICV FROM <L < /MiCrtAEL\ WOULD THAT'S RUNNINO HEAP-j 'CUBES THAT BLOWUP
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    • 227 28  -  HE SHOULD GIVE CHAMPION ALLAN ANOTHER WINNER By WONDER BOY LAST season's champion trainer Ivan Allan should saddle another winner in Impressionist II in the opening event, a 1,100 metres race for restricted terms horses in Class 6 Division B, in Ipoh today.
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    • 271 28 WONDER BOY MA ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zao Bao) (Wan Bao) RACE 1 2 Bed 0' Roses II 5 Spring Water II 3 Ephorna 5 Spring Water II 7 Gympie 5 Spring Water II 7 Gympie 8 Champagne IV 7 Gympie RACE 2 12 The Merchant 8 Bunga
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    • 164 28 Raja Kopi should start favourite RAJA KOPI (1) should start the hottest favourite in Race 2. Previously known as Night Club, he caught the punters' eye in Penang recently when he was edged out by Photophone. He is in tip-top form should be too good for his rivals
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    • 273 28 WONDER BOY MA ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zao Bao) (Wan Bao) RACE 1 5 Impressionist II 3 Addition 3 Addition 8 Glisten 5 Impressionist II 5 Impressionist II 2 Taji 8 Glisten 2 Teiji RACE 2 7 One Dot Red 4 Masirah 2 Crown Counsel 4 Masirah
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    • 5195 29 1 1.30 CLASS 6 DIV B 1100m (2,3 and 4 year olds) Stakes $11,000 1 09 Fighting Princess 57 Gwilliam 2 3brizm Rodgers Royalty (+3) (Mussorgsky Brandy Snap) Hhk 25/12 C4-B 57 KW Tan P1200g GMtenng Prize 1st 1:14 3 9tM 31/12 C4-B 54 Oo P1200y Dynarrncron
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    • 569 34 TflrrcMANN r 1 SUPERBOWLXVIII UPI TAMPA (Florida), Saturday BRASH, COCKY, sometimes overbearing Joe Theismann is all of these, and he's also a producer, and a competitor to his final breath. With Theismann, it's either love him or hate him. Seldom is
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    • 246 34 STONEWALLING UPI LOS Angeles linebacker Matt Millen, one of the premier run defenders in the league, will be counted on heavily to slow down Washington fullback John Biggins who takes a record playoff streak of six straight 100-yard games into the
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    • 139 34 ih INTERCEPTIONS It was also inevitable that Washington coach Joe Gibbs' statement on Wednesday praising practice field security would come back to haunt him. While the Redskins worked out for 2 2 hours on Thursday, NFL security discovered four young men with cameras
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    • 101 34 VISIONS- LOS Angeles cornerback Lester Hayes has had visions of the Raiders' offense all week. On Thursday, four uninvited observers copped a peek at Washington's. With this city ready to reach out and touch someone, anyone, who descends for Sunday's Super Bowl,
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    • 341 35 FBI AND CIA WILL BE ON THE ALERT ALSO FOR TERRORISTS AND DEFECTORS Reuter AP WASHINGTON, Saturday THE United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will be on the alert for defectors, spies and terrorists during the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, according to
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    • 300 35 Reuter LONDON, Saturday ENGLAND will attempt to regain its position as a leading football nation by pouring massive funds into a school of excellence for 14 to 15-year-olds. The scheme, a lifetime dream of England manager Bobby Robson, has been made
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    • 268 35 Reuter TOKYO, Saturday YANG Yang of China caused another upset in the 15 million yen (about S$ 130,00) Japan badminton Open championships yesterday by beating India's former All-England champion, Prakash Padukone, 12-15 •15-12 15-10 in the men's quarterfinals. Yang, 20, was the only unseeded player
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    • 340 35 KELANTAN 2 TRENGGANU 0 KOTA BARU, Saturday MIDFIELDER Wan Arzani Daud last night turned from villain to Kelantan's hero as he helped to beat Trengganu in this Malaysia Cup soccer match played here. Villain? He missed a penalty in
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    • 577 36  -  TODAY'S MATCH PROMISES TO BE EXCITING AS FINALISTS VOWED TO GO ALL OUT FOR WIN By B KULA NEW FACE Eric Tan continued his startling run to make the Pepsi youth squash under-19 finals opposite top
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    • 301 36  -  By ALFONSO CHAN SINGAPORE'S top boardsailor, 27-year-old Kelly Chan, will lead our challenge against a worldclass field in the third Straits Steamship Singapore Open Boardsailing championships from Feb 8-12. Kelly, an RSAF aircraft technician, has been the most consistent and successful
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    • 188 36 Reuter NOTTINGHAM, Saturday BRIAN Clough put an end to recent speculation over his future by signing a new contract with English First Division soccer side Nottingham Forest yesterday. Clough, who led Forest from the lower reaches of the Second Division to
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    • Article, Illustration
      283 37  -  THAT'S HOW MUCH BOWLING BODY NEEDS TO BUN ASIAN FIQ ZONE MEET ALLEY CHAT With TONY LIM A WHOPPING $100,000 will beneeded to run the Asian Zone FIQ championships which will be held here from Nov 1 to 10, says the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress (STBC). The congress members,
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    • 152 37 THERE will be enoagh tournaments at Kallang Bowl this year to keep bowlers happy and busy. The centre has planned eight tournaments for bowlers in categories involving graded and open bowlers as well as tournaments for youngsters. The tournaments kick off next
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    • 346 37  -  By B KULA SAFRA's thrust towards top honours (or'the Blacks 10-a-side K t Ooi trophy took a rude turn when star international Andrew Chin and Teo Han Chua ruled themselves doubtful starters against the Singapore Cricket Club in their
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    • 79 37 SINGAPORE Rugby Union secretary Tan Cbeow Kwang hat disclosed that the scheduled curtain raiser between two women's team Foster's Follies and Foster's Femmes will not take place because some of the women have injured themselves in their last training session. Earlier
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    • 158 37  -  By B KULA ALL FOUR of the Singapore's men's teams tasted success against their foreign oppositions in the first day of the Singapore Industrial Easy Pitch Softball league, an annual international tournament, held at the Singapore American School yesterday. Defending champions, Road
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    • 169 37  -  By B KULA EIGHT hockey teams from Brunei, Hong Kone, Holland, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore wfll be competing in a two-day International Hockey Tournament from today for the Loodden Verraden Trophy on the Padang. The duration of the tournament will be 12
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      256 38  -  BUSINESS HOUSES iMMMHttI Wet Toa Payoh pitch turns game into a wet muddle NEPPEL SHIPYARD 2 TIEN WAN PRESS 2 By ALFONSO CHAN OUR water-polo players would have done better in this Singapore Business Houses Football League Division Two match at a water-logged Toa Payoh stadium pitch yesterday. It
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    • 263 38  -  JUBILEE vs. SAFSA By i ALFONSO CHAN JUBILEE Sports Association want to let the other clubs know that their win over Toa Payoh last week was no fluke. Newly-promoted Jubilee will play their second match this season against SATCA today
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      259 39 SUPER STRIKER POWERS REDS 5 POINTS CLEAR IN DIVISION ONE ASTON VILLA 1 LIVERPOOL 3 Reuter LONDON, Saturday A SECOND-half hattrick by "super striker" lan Rush earned LIVERPOOL a 3-1 win at ASTON VILLA last night and kept them firmly entrenched at the top of the English soccer
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