Singapore Monitor, 9 February 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Thursday, February 9, 1984 30cents
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  • 63 1 NEW YORK, Thursday WALL STREET stock prices yesterday took their biggest plunge in 16 months as investors reacted to pessimistic Congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 24.19 points to close at 1,156.30. The Dow
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  • 393 1  -  Police warn motorists to exercise extra care during rainy season LATEST •AT ABOUT 1.40 am today, a white mini car skidded along Marymount Road. It shot over the road divider and overturned along the roadside. The windscreen was shattered, hut the driver escaped injury. BUTCHER
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    • 532 2  -  Only 24 hours before deadline By SIT YIN FONG WITH only 24 hours left before deadline, multi-millionaire Ho Kok Cheong is said to be "almost certain" to pay up the $10.9 million balance of his income tax arrears.
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    • 309 2  -  PICTURES AND STORY BY CHEW YEN FOOK GETTING wet and dirty is all Grt of his job, and Leo Meier /es it. Mr Meier, 32, one of the 39 photographers involved in the A Salute to Singapore project, loves it
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    • 410 3 SNEF RECOMMENDATION WOULD WEAKEN US FINANCIALLY, SAYS NTUC THE NATIONAL Trades Union Congress has shot down a suggestion of a study mission sponsored by an employers' organisation that house unions pay lower affiliation fees to it. A lowering of affiliation
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    • 89 3 THE NTUC welcomes constructive suggestions. This was shown by its support for the following views of a study mission sponsored by the Singapore National Employers' Federation: THAT employers support a house union by encouraging workers to join the union and make a
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    • 169 4 OUR taxi drivers have proven themselves to be an honest lot Last year, as many as 237 of them went to the Registry of Vehicles to hand over money left by their passengers in their cabs. Some of the money
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    • 543 4  -  4 By SIT YIN FONG OUTSIDERS have been hanging around the Anson Road examination area of the Singapore Insurance Training Centre (SITC) waiting "to pump candidates dry" of the questions they had just sat for. This is the reason behind the stiff warning recently issued
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    • 183 4 Transplant tonight but success chances only 10 pc Lianhe Zaobao JONATHAN Tan's marrow transplant starts at 10 tonight, Singapore time. The Israeli professor is giving him barely a 10 per cent chance of success. He examined him after his arrival at the end of January. It was
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    • 185 5  -  By DAWN WESTERHOUT THE National Library has about $620,000 in its coffers which it cannot touch. This is the money paid by members ($5 each) who joined the library before Nov 1980. In those days, a deposit was required for membership. Membership is now free.
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    • 207 5 Lianhe Wanbao ARE Singaporeans turning into bigger and bigger gamblers each year? Judging from the sharp increases in gambling tax figures, which reached an estimated $100 million last year, the trend is certainly clear. As the figure is confined only to officially registered
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    • 200 5 APOLLO Singapore has retrenched 33 of its employees as part of its efforts to trim its organisation to prepare for tougher competition in the hotel industry. Thirty of the retrenched employees were staff of the Dolphin Restaurant an Apollo subsidiary in
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    • 307 6  -  Big Splash gets a facelift with saunas and new garden image Story: SURESH NAIR A ROCK garden with a mini-waterfall, modern changing rooms with saunas and a giant 1500-seat restaurant are among the new features in the million-dollar renovation at the Big Splash. The new management
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    • AROUND SINGAPORE
      • 69 6 THE annual Chinese New Year reception hosted by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues for community leaders has been postponed because of the current wet spell. Instead of being held this Friday, it will be on next Wednesday. A statement by the Prime
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      • 75 6 ANOTHER bank is contributing to the Community Chest of Singapore. The Chartered Bank of Singapore is presenting a cheque for $50,000 to Chest President Dr Ee Peng Liang this afternoon Also, the Shangri-La Hotel is presenting $7,527 collected during the Christmas period. On Friday,
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      • 61 6 QUEENSTOWN Branch Library will remain closed until March 25 as renovations are not yet completed. The library will also not be open for the return of books. Readers whose books are due during this period are requested to return their books when the
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      • 55 6 BUILDING products specially designed to suit local climatic conditions will be on display soon. A 26 company-strong contingent from Britain is to take part in the International Building Exhibition being held in Singapore between Mar 28 and SI. Many 0 f the products introduced will
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      • 123 6 THE Cairnhill and Boon Teck Day Care centres have vacancies for children aged between three and six. The centres are staffed by trained personnel who organise activities which promote the physical, social, emotional and intellectual growth of children, says the People's Association, which
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    • 90 4 Editorial: What prica honesty?: Page 15 Fashion rides high at The Stables Saturday Fashion Show a M Tuck into a delicious set lunch V Price: $25 nett per person. And j Jr watch an exciting collection of fashion wear and accessories that Ifc iSw look terrific anywhere. y'v.X RG International
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  • world
    • 703 8 But presidential spokesman says UN replacement force is necessary PARIS, Thursday FRANCE indicated that it would not be rushed into withdrawing its peacekeeping troops from Beirut, but that it was urgently seeking their replacement by a United Nations force. Defence Minister Charles Hemu, speaking to
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    • 82 8 JERUSALEM, Thurs ISRAEL has denied requests from Lebanese President Amin Gemayel to prop up his collapsing regime, Israel Army Radio said. The report also said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told his cabinet that there was no room for a chance in Israeli policy in
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    • 70 8 NEW YORK, Thurs ALTHOUGH the United Nations is ready to send a peacekeeping force to Beirut, there are conditions that must be met before that is possible, a spokesman said yesterday. The conditions are that Lebanon's government must ask for the force, that the warring
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    • 148 8 AP MOSCOW, Thursday THE Kremlin has announced that politburo member Geidar A Aliev would visit Syria this month on a trip that a Soviet source said was aimed at coordinating Soviet-Syrian military policy in the face of escalating warfare in Lebanon. The announcement came as the
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    • 270 9 13 Viet troops killed and oil dump destroyed Reuter BANGKOK, Thursday KHMER Rouge guerillas said yesterday they had attacked the strategic central Cambodian town of Kampong Thom, lulled 13 Vietnamese troops and destroyed an oil storage dump. Last Friday's attack was the the second
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    • 101 9 Reuter BANGKOK, Thursday A SENIOR Thai official today denied allegations that, as a result of action by Thai authorities, 23 Vietnamese boat people drowned and teenage girls were abducted and raped by pirates in the Gulf of Thailand. The secretary general of
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    • 280 9 Reuter BEUINQ, Thursday CHINA'S leading financial paper said yesterday in a rare analysis of the county's economic problems that Chinese were spending too much instead of saving and investing. In a lengthy front page editorial on the economic reforms
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    • 206 10 Under old ruling 35-year-old painter would be jailed instead AP KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday A 35-YEAR-OLD Malaysian painter, Won Ah Kaw, was sentenced to death by a High Court here yesterday for drug trafficking, court officials said. He is the first person to
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    • 315 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs THE HEREDITARY rulers of nine Malaysian states are due today to elect the nation's eighth king and a deputy king from among their ranks under their system of succession by rotation every five years. According to the daily
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    • ASIAN DATELINES
      • 71 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday: Farmer Ismail Samad went out as usual to till his rice field, but returned with a jar containing 45 coins believed to be more than 700 years old. The national news agency Beraama reported yesterday that Mr Ismail unearthed the
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      • 72 10 AP BEUING: Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang told Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke yesterday that China no longer believes it feasible to reunify Korea under one government Mr Zhao's remark, reported by the Australians and confirmed by the Foreign Ministry, was the clearest signal
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      • 78 10 Reuter TOKYO: Workers in Japan's publishing industry accused the Education Ministry yesterday of reneging on a pledge to revise textbooks to give a fair account of atrocities committed by imperial forces during the Second World War. The accusation, made by a spokesman
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      • 81 10 AP JAKARTA: President Suharto called on Indonesian journalists yesterday to accept any reduction of their freedom as a sacrifice to the nation, Mr Zulharman, chairman of the Indonesian Journalists Association, said. Mr Zulharman quoted the president as saying Indonesian journalists should
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      • 72 10 Reuter NEW DELHI: An Indian government spokesman said last night President Zail Singh had rejected a mercy petition for a Kashmir Liberation Front (KLF) leader under sentence of death. Kashmiri extremists who kidnapped an Indian diplomat in Britain last weekend and later murdered
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      • 63 10 AP JAKARTA: The fifth negotiations between Indonesia and Australia on the boundary between Timor Island and Australia ended on Saturday without agreement, a parliament spokesman said yesterday. Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja said Indonesia hoped both countries would abide by the United Nations'
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      • 82 10 AP MANILA: Japan has agreed in principle to allow a Filipino board investigating the Benigno Aquino assassination to go to Tokyo to hear the testimony of witnesses in Japan, the Japanese Embassy said yesterday. Embassy First Secretary Hiroyasti Ando told the Associated
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    • 258 11 LAT-WP BONN (WMt Germany), Thursday WEST German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, confronted by fresh attacks on his leadership qualities, sought yes* terday to defend his decision to retain Defence Minister Manfred Woerner in the wake of an embarrassing scandal that led to the
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    • 516 11 LATWP TORONTO, Thursday A CITY government effort to halt the rising number of teenage pregnancies and abortions by distributing condoms free to boys has ignited a heated debate, with roth sides accusing the other of irresponsibility. The Toronto Board of Health started the
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    • 111 11 Reuter MOSCOW, Thursday DRIVERS of Soviet officials' cars were publicly chastised yesterday for thinking themselves above the law even when not on top-level important business. The "black Volga at the red light" was the subject of criticism in the government newspaper Izvestia.
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  • money
    • 185 12 THE Securities Industry Council (SIC) has reappointed Mr Chua Kim Yeow, president of DBS Bank, as chairman of SIC for another term of two Sars starting Jan 1. Mr ua is also the chairman of the Association of Banks. Four members,
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    • 501 12  -  RIGID SAFEGUARDS MAY BE NECESSARY By JOYCE QUEK THE emergence of stock brokers as managers of public share issues has raised the question of whether the trend could lead to a conflict of interest. Last year saw broking firms as
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    • 145 12 BROKERS of public share issues are not the only ones who have their independence to consider. Merchant bankers are also in a position to use their influence while managing the share issues. This is because as fund managers they have
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    • 202 12 SHARE OF THE DAY GENTING shares suddenly shot away yesterday after ambling along directionless for some time. The 55 cents gain took the counter up to $6.05, a new high for 1 OSS- SI. The latest market rumour is that the group is now shopping
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    • 179 12 W4LLSTREET L I WALL STREET stock prices yesterday took their biggest plunge in 16 months as investors reacted to pessimistic Congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Board C&airman Paul Volcker. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 24.19 points to close at 1,156.30. The Dow Transportation Index fell
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    • 179 12 [jjOLLA^IN^IrOLDI THE US dollar recovered from heavy early losses against major European currencies yesterday on news of the deteriorating situation in Lebanon but still closed lower. Gold bullion prices rose. The US currency fell overnight on Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker's remarks to
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    • 225 13 MALAYA Tin Printing shareholders who accept Gineer Investments' offer of $2.15 per share would realise a loss because the most recent market prices are higher than that. This is based on closing market prices of $2.50 on Jan 24, the
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    • 211 13 FUNDS can now be transferred from one customer to another within seconds in Hong Kong through an online electronic transfer system. Launched by the Hong Kong Association of Banks yesterday, the Clearing House Automated Transfer System (CHATS) will enable participating banks to increase
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    • 166 13 COMPANY REPORTS CABLE and Wireless said it now owns 52.35 per cent of the total issued capital of 113.04 million ordinary shares of Hong Kong Telephone. It said in a statement that it bought more than four million ordinary
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    • 99 13 Reuter LONDON, Thursday WITH the Iran-Iraq war threatening to enter a more dangerous phase, some shipowners and insurers are steering well clear of the Gulf, but for others even risky business is better than no business at all. Low demand for tankers and dry cargo
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    • 133 13 OVERSEAS Union Bank's representative office in Sydney will be in operation as early as April or May. An OUB spokesman said that negotiations for office space in the heart of Sydney's business district had been finalised. The new office will be housed
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  • features
    • 1012 14 Nineteenth-century Singapore was a time when fierce pirates ravaged trading vessels on the Straits of Malacca. It was a time when the life and death of the "sinkhehs" were decided by the secret societies. Now, Secondary One students can learn all about the trials
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    • 281 14 A FEW controversial issues were faced by the Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore (CDIS) team when compiling Book Two of the Lower Secondary History Project. Book Two will be the text for Secondary 2 students from next year. It picks up where Book
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  • opinion / letters
    • 481 15 THE CITIES in Canada and Japan do it. London does it. And yes Hong Kong does it. So why shouldn't Singapore give cash rewards to honest cabbies* The Registry of Vehicles has suggested that every driver who returns a lost article to the authorities will be given
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    • 23 15 Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted Is the most terrible poverty Mother Teresa, Yu-aoslav-born Roman Catholic nun-missionary (1910—).
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    • 233 15  -  Impose cancellation fee if passenger fails to turn up QUAH SOON TONG Singapore 2678 RECENTLY, a group of passengers were stranded at Changi Airport. It was not the first time that passengers were stranded (at Cnangi Airport or any other busy airport in the
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    • 238 15  -  DUDLEY AU Singapore 1024 I AM STRUCK by the report that 40 per cent of the 100 gifted children in a pilot project have graduate parents. This leaves 60 per cent without universityeducated parents. Statistics
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    • Article, Illustration
      73 15 LETTERS on any subject of pubic interest wtt be accepted for publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number wot*) be usefulWe reserve
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  • 372 16 Shoe gives clue to mystery Thursday Feature Special: One Shoe Makes It Murder (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) HAROLD SCHILLMAN is an ex-policeman who is hired by a gambling czar, Carl Charnock, to find his missing wife, Caroline. When Schillman finally locates her, he is just in time to
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  • 568 16  -  TV Scene By STEVEN REDDICLIFFE in Dallas I HAD planned to give them up. They were not doing me any good, really; they had been great bad fun for a while, but they seemed tired. Or maybe it was me who was tired of them. You see
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1374 16 j', <ww I g )gg H P jH^p| 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by {hBH ''v y Taiji Master (Series II) (C) uflß JT 1 The stomach, and leg muscle attention 4 today. Woman: In This Corner OSI agent gets information but before he to Oscar, he suddenly disappears.
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  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      469 17  -  NO MORE SEDUCTIVE ROLES FOR TIEN Nl By WONG SING YEONG TIEN NI, siren of Shaws cinemascope in the early Seventies, is a different woman now. Gone is that slim, 40-kg figure that was once the envy of many women. She now carries a weight closer to 54
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    • 361 17  -  YUEH LEI DUBBED 'SINGING PRINCE' WONG SING YEONG AMONG the present crop of local artistes, one who is bound for greater stardom is Yueh Lei. Winner of SBC's Chinese Talentime in 1981, Yueh Lei has slowly gained a foothold in the local entertainment circuit and is working
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    • 712 18  -  BEYOND PIZZAS AND SPAGHETTI By INEZ WEI TO SOME people, an Italian meal can mean only one of two disnes pizza or spaghetti. But really, Italian cuisine encompasses much more than that. Because the Italians appreciate good eating, their meals tend to be elaborate and are
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    • Article, Illustration
      463 19  -  HARDLY ANY LIFE OR DEPTH STAYING ALIVE Title: STAYING ALIVE Starring: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes Director Sylvester Stallone Showing at Lido and Liberty Reviewed by PHILIP CHEAH SYLVESTER STALLONE'S poster stares at Tony Manero as he preens himself for the dance contest finals in the
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    • 224 20  -  V S SUNDRAM Senior PRO SBC WE refer to the letters by "Hard to Keep Awake" and "A Thousand Apologies" (SM, Dec 22). The World Popular Song Festival '82 could not be telecast at an earlier hour, between the two News bulletins, because of its long duration.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 502 19 ftiAicuioe PLACES 111 OUR MAN FROM BOND Starring: Mark Gregory, Bo Svenson, RaySTREET (C) mood Harmstorf ""LrM^H H T P F P r^s!p C S.H,Y t ORCHARD (***** M): TO BE OR NOT TO (444.459): EIGHT DIAGRAM slta Hl Sttfrtog: Boocroft, Mel Brooks. Tim SUrrtag: F. Sheog, Lily LI, »«l
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 482 20 leisure I vShW NEW YEAR TRADE FAIR writer, Felix Chia, it will be directed I »ftu^f" J A NEW YEAR Trade Fair organised by Cecilia Ong. I > SHiflfMi K M by the MacPherson Community Fund Auditions for the cast will be held I A J SKmHISAI ♦IS 8 Committee
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    • 87 20 MAN ON THE BRINK THE Singapore Film Society will screen Man on the Brink tomorrow at 6.30 pm and 9 pm at the Goethe-Institut. The film, in Mandarin, is about the anguish of a cop on the beat. The cast includes Ai Ti, Fong Oi Chee and Gallan Leung. TODAY:
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  • GO PLACES
    • 383 21 HERE'S A BUDGET-PRICED VACATION FOR A QUICK GET AWAY A HOLIDAY at a budget price for adventurous people in a hurry! This is what Orient Vacations is offering in their new 14-day Indonesian package which takes in 16 destinations all for less than $1,000. inclusive of all
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    • 173 21 ORIENT Vacation's 14-day flying tour of Indonesia is scheduled to take place during the school holidays in June and December. Ground travel will be by airconditioned coach. The fares are: $998 for a twin sharing room; $1,188 for a single
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    • 680 22 YOU don't have to be in the same class as Gary Player or Tony Jacklln to enjoy a golfing vacation in Scotland. Indeed, you don't even need to possess half the hefty swing Sewy Ballesteros or Jack Nicklaus put into their drives either. Nor do you have to
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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    • 354 27  -  PAHANG 1 PENANG 1 By JOHNSON FERNANDEZ KUANTAN, Thursday PAHANG and Penang remained the only unbeaten teams in this year's Malaysia Cup soccer championship when they fought out this draw at the Darulmakmur stadium here last night. Defending champions Pahang led
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    • 361 27  -  ARMED FORCES 2 JOHOR 3 By PETER CHAN LUMUT, Thursday AFTER two defeats, Johor redeemed themselves with this win over Armed Forces in Lumut yesterday. But they should consider themselves lucky because the soldiers had them pinned in deep defence for
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    • 422 27 AP SARAJEVO (Yugoslavia), Thursday THE Winter Games opened formally yesterday as 1,600 athletes from 49 nations paraded their colours in an exuberant display of Olympic friendship and spirit. Kosevo Stadium, a renovated local soccer stadium, was crammed with 50,000 people for the opening ceremony, which the
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    • 203 27 Reuter SARAJEVO, Thursday ALL WOMEN competitors will require Olympic femininity certificates to take part in the Los Angeles summer Games, an international Olympic Committee (IOC) official said yesterday. Prince Alexandre de Merode, president of the lOC's medical
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      • 65 27 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO, Thursday FLAMENGO fullback Junior, 29, who played in Brazil's 1982 World Cup team, said he had received a 552.5 million transfer offer from the Italian First Division club Napoli. Gilberto Cardoso Filho, vice-president of the Rio club, said Flamengo may transfer the
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      • 55 27 Reuter LONDON: Former England soccer international Norman Hunter became the 13th manager of an English club to lose his job this season when he was sacked by Second Division Barnsley yesterday. Barnsley have won only one of their last 10 matches and are struggling near the
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      • 77 27 Reuter LONDON: Tottenham beat Sunderland 3-0 and Nottingham Forest beat West Bromwich 5-0 in English Football League First Division matches played yesterday. Scottish FA Cup second round second replay: Arbroath 1 Stirling 2 (Stirling now home to Rangers) Third round: Clydebank 0 Brechin 0 (replay
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    • 244 27 Reuter ZURICH, Thursday THE INTERNATIONAL Football Federation (FIFA) denied yesterday reports from Rio de Janeiro that it had banned a planned Brazilian Football Association tournament to celebrate its 70th anniversary. Fifa General Secretary Joseph Blatter told Reuters: "This is not correct.
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    • 478 28 Locals still lag behind but they are fast catching up THE SPOTLIGHT falls on our local boardsailors this year, even though foreigners like Svein Rasmussen, John van den Starr and Bamroong Ruamsap will spearhead the windsurfing challenge in the Straits
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    • 248 28 THE FICKLE North-east monsoon winds threaten to play havoc with the four-day 1984 Straits Steamship Singapore Open which begins today at the East Coast Sailing Centre. Strong, constant winds are essential for the races to be fast and
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    • 372 28  -  Reports by ALFONSO CHAN AND WHO ELSE is in the running, or in this case, the sailing? It is likely that the real waves will be made and conauered by Svein Rasmussen, Norway s Olympic Games medal hope. Defending his
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    • 220 28 The Straits Steamship Singapore Open's four races: Marathon race: A 30 kilometre race along a route marked out by buoys. Olympic triangle race: Three buoys moored with buoy one directly upwind of three. The starting line is between a committee boat and
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    • 417 29  -  RUGBY KINGPINS RAFFLES TO SKIP S'PORE CRICKET CLUB'S SEVEN-A SIDE TOURNAMENT By B KULA BETTER safe than sorry. Such is Raffles Institution's strategy this year even at the expense of their participation in the Singapore Cricket Club's Under-17 Rugby Tournament. Raffles' coach for the past 12
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    • 389 29  -  By KEN JALLEH Jr THIS YEAR'S schools rugby season kicks off next week with the pleasant possibility of an ambitious annual scheme to import foreign coaches to build up Singapore's pool of talent at grassroots level. What's more, teachers
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    • 124 29 Reuter LONDON, Thursday THE BRITISH government yesterday opposed a proposed English rugby tour of South Africa this year bat resisted opposition Labour calls in Parliament to ban it. Sports minister Neil MacFarlane said the government was against such a tour because of
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    • 236 29  -  By B KULA TEO HAN CHUA, Singapore's rugbv skipper was as surprised as most pundits to hear of Raffles Institution's withrawal from the Singapore Cricket Club's Under-17 competition especially since he coaches their arch rivals St Andrew's School. Like
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    • 672 30  -  CONSTANT RAIN CAUSING FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES FOR LEAGUE CLUBS All •torf«s by S GULAM BAD weather hat become almost at critical to local league officials, players and fans, as it is to farmers. The recent rainy spell has resulted in a number of matches having to be postponed
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    • 273 30  -  By S GULAM CHANGI Constituency are hoping that Police Sports Association keeper Snari Rahim will be as generous as he was last week against Safsa in tonight's (7.30) National Football League Division One match at Jalan Besar stadium. Shari, deputising
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    • 382 30 MAJOR Abbas Aba Amin, the National Football league tournament committee chairman and the FAS deputy chairman, feels that it is not time yet to press tlie alarm button. He says that he and his committee were well aware of this even
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    • 361 30 They came in the rain only to find there was no game PLAYERS and officials of league clubs are not the only ones affected by the postponement of matches. Soccer fans too are disappointed over the no-shows. Fans who turned up for Tuesday night's match at the Jalan Besar Stadium
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    • 324 31  -  By S GULAM RAIN, rain go away; come again another day preferably when the league is over. So, sing many in local football circles who are becoming desperate as they watch the skies open up day after day without let up, forcing a number of matches
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    • 456 31  -  THEY SET A POSER: ARE THEY KILLJOYS OR STRATEGISTS? By KEN JALLEH Jr THE national schools rugby scene has been set ablaze with intense speculation over Raffles Institution's shock pullout from the Singapore Cricket Club under-17 schools rugby sevens championship on the Padang from Feb
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