Singapore Monitor, 10 February 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Friday, February 10, 1984 30cents
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  • 568 1  -  By SIT YIN FONG THE Lees of Jurong hawker stailowner Mr Lee (full name unknown) and his young wife may after all get to be parents of the baby they bought for $5,000. This is because the baby's natural mother, Madam Chen Yamei,
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    • 230 1 BORN Boy Why supermarkets y|| TU m X George's ran out of vflin A outrageous fresh milk J TAIL: garb during the Lunar Page 11 Pa 9 e 24 New Year: Page 6 THENEW GENERATION AUTO-FOCUS CAMERA. THE RICOH AF-5. 5 AUTOMATIC FEATURES n Just aim your camera and shoot.
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    • 259 2  -  •y K K FONH THE SINGAPORE Tourist Promotion Board has stepped into the dispute between a secondary school and two travel agencies over an incident in which 87 students were stranded in Penang last Christmas. Chung Cheng High School has made
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    • 304 2  -  Outcome will be known in two or three weeks' time LEUKEMIA BOY S BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANT By CATHARINE FERNANDO JONATHAN Tan, the leukemiastricken boy of seven, received his bone marrow transplant yesterday in an Israeli hospital. Both he and his brother, Daniel, the
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    • 158 2 THE SINGAPORE Anti-Narcotics Association is to form a Parent Group in an effort to get parents to play their part In keeping their children from the habit At Sana's annual general meeting in April, the constitution will be amended
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    • 412 3  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM THE LABOUR Ministry has stepped in to defuse tension in the simmering industrial dispute between the Moscow Narodny Bank and its officers' union, the Singapore Bank Officers' Association (SBOA) said. Both the management and the union have been summoned to
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    • 177 3 Lianhe Zaobao CAN WE USE colour photos for our identity cards now that they are being accepted for our passports? The National Registration Office would be willing to consider the possibility, said a spokesman for the department when the question was put to
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    • 90 3 IN 1978, an education project was started to help Primary Six students develop proper habits and methods of study at home and generally help them prepare for their Primary School Leaving Examination. T-a«t year, about 90 students took part in the on-going project, more than
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    • 437 4  -  NEW POSTINGS OF PERMANENT SECRETARIES By FOO CHOY PENG THE ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday of new postings of permanent secretaries reflects the government's continuing effort to make sure that the civil service is run by those with the best administrative skills. Dr Andrew
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    • 275 4  -  By YEOW MEI SIN ACCORDING to an NUS spokesman, government authorities have taken over the land which will be handed to the Botanic Gardens. The university is still working out alternative quarters for the staff. The 12 lecturers now living
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    • 111 6 THOUSANDS of devotees, mainly Hokkien, last night observed the birthday of Tiangong Ruler of Heavens which falls on the ninth day of the first lunar month. Some marked the occasion by burning paper offerings in front of their homes at the stroke
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    • 402 6  -  Why supermarkets ran eet of fresh milk during the Lunar New Year weekend... By BERTILLA PEREIRA MANY a milk drinker in Singapore had to go without nis milk last weekend. Anticipating the closure of supermarkets and stores over the Lunar New Year, people decided to stockpile fresh milk
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    • 347 7 Directory helps public get through tiresome tangle of red tape BOTHERED by the daily comings and goings of strangers at that house across the street? Do you suspect it is a brothel of some sort? Call *****4 ext 253. That gets you to the
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    • 59 4 Celebrate your Lunar New Year at Tang Court The cclchratcs grand, raw to th<-' k jSntKm menu of twelve of the season's k delicacies. /By all the rich, good things that should be yours in this auspicious RR99EV February lIHf .I*^7 *****00 extension v 'iffK i V" 4|Uk m k
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  • world
    • 398 8 BATTLEWATCH Gunman cautiously eyes US ship Agencies BEIRUT, Friday US NAVY jets attacked artillery positions in Syrian-controlled central Lebanon yesterday as the Christian sector of Beirut came under massive shellfire at nightfall, a local radio station said. US marine spokesman Major Dennis Brooks said he
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    • 177 8 AP UPI WASHINGTON, Fri US DEFENCE Secretary Caspar Weinberger, declaring "we are not leaving Lebanon," said yesterday a tentative plan calls for transferring 500 US marines out of Beirut by the end of the month. Mr Weinberger said: "I
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    • 266 8 Reuter DAMASCUS, Friday LEBANESE President Amin Gemayel is expected to survive only if he embraces Syria as an ally and keeps the country free from any links with Israel, Western and Arab diplomats said yesterday. They added that his future was
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    • 56 8 Reuter BEIRUT, Friday A LEBANESE airliner landed at Beirut airport yesterday, the first commercial flight to arrive since a Muslim militia uprising in west Beirut began on Monday. Residents saw the Middle East Airlines (MEA) plane flying over the city. A local radio said the plane carried
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    • 270 9 UPI STOCKHOLM, Friday IGOR ANDROPOV, son of ailing Soviet leader Yuri Andropov and a senior delegate at the European security conference, has left Stockholm suddenly, Western delegates said yesterday. Mr Andropov left for Moscow before the end of Tuesday morning's plenary session at which
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    • 272 9 Power struggle ahead within party if Shamir also decides to run AP, UPI TEL AVIV, Friday MR ARIEL SHARON, the former Defense Minister who is one of the most controversial figures in Israeli politics, yesterday announced that he would run for Prime Minister. His announcement
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    • 102 9 Node pics case: Reuter LONDON, Friday AMERICAN actress Raquel Welch yesterday accepted libel damages from a British men's magazine which published node photographs said to be of her. The three black and white photographs appeared in a four-page feature entitled "Raquel Welch bares all" of the
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    • 117 10 AP BANGKOK, Friday THAILAND has suspended a soda ash project designed to stimulate cooperation among the Asean nations because of a lack of interest in the effort by its Asean partners, Industry Minister Ob Vasurat said yesterday. Mr Ob said the project also was proving
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    • 351 10 AP Reuter JAKARTA, Friday PRESIDENT Suharto has ordered the launching of another communications satellite to replace the one that failed after launching from the the US space shuttle Challenger, Mr Achmad Tahir, Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications, said yesterday. Following a meeting with
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    • 160 10 AP PITTSBURGH, Friday A RETIRED clerk whose failing heart stopped more than 400 times within Ave days is leading an almost normal life after a rare operation, and said yesterday he feels "wonderful." "I look nt myself now and I feel
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    • 128 10 AP MANILA, Friday AN AIRPORT worker, under intense questioning about the assassination of former senator Benigno Aquino, testified yesterday be beard a shot and caugbt a "fleeting glance" of the opposition leader falling from a stairway. The statement by Fred Viesca, 24, contradicted the
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    • 174 11 Reuter CHICAGO, Fri IF present-day medicine is to advance any farther, it may have to step back and take a closer look at the common wart, accordins to a physician who has studied both modern and traditional methods of healing. Dr Andrew Weil says the wart
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    • 299 11 Agencies ISLAMABAD, Friday PAKISTAN is capable of building an atomic bomb but its actual development is a political decision the government must make, a Pakistani scientist said in an interview published yesterday. If the government decides to direct us to make an
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    • 105 11 Reuter ISLAMABAD, Friday PRESIDENT Mohammad Zia-Ul-Haq said yesterday that Pakistan wants friendship with India as relations between the two neighbours appear to be deteriorating. "Pakistan desires the best of relations with India as it is convinced that friendship between the two countries is vital for
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    • 88 11 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Friday SIX-WEEK-OLD Zulkamaini Zulkifli is like any other healthy baby except that he has a 7.6cm tail. His 17-year-old mother, Madam Maziah, considers this as fate and hopes that it would bring good luck. The other extraordinary
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    • 178 12 Reuter LONDON, Friday THE High Court yesterday ordered the News ofthe World newspaper to pay a record £253,000 (*****,400) damages for wrongly accusing 10 British police officers of Deing rapists and blackmailers. It was the highest sum awarded against a newspaper for libel
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    • 419 12 ELECTION OF EIGHTH MALAYSIAN KING Agencies KUALA LUMPUR, Fri THE election of the independent-minded Sultan of Johor as Malaysia's eighth King yesterday is seen by some analysts here as a show of solidarity by the nation's nine hereditary rulers. The analysts
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    • World Briefs
      • 75 12 AP NEW DELHI: About 400 Muslim separatists were reported iailed in Kashmir state after a court ordered the hanging of a convicted Pakistani slayer whose release was demanded by assassins of an Indian diplomat in England. Mohammad Maqbool Butt, 50, founder of
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      • 73 12 AP BONN: Economics Minister Otto Lambsdorff denied taking bribes from the Flick holding company but said the charges against him are "so unsubstantiated that I cannot defend myself against them." Mr Lambsdorff, a member of the Free Democrats, junior partner in the coalition government
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      • 66 12 AP FRANKFURT: Fierce storms ravaged western Europe, lulling at least 17 people and marooning thousands as avalanches Duried skiers in icy tombs and murky floodwaters surged through countless towns. The death toll hit 32 since the storms began last week. Scores more
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      • 84 12 SYGMA CONCORD: Ronald Reagan is watching Rev Jesse Jackson out of the corner of his eye. But Rev Jackson keeps his cool you might even say he is cold as ice. Cold it is because the politicians are carved in ice by sculptor Emile
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      • 74 12 UPI WICHITA (Kansas): A Vietnamese woman whose 8-year-old daughter told a school nurse she had been forced into a US$lOO prizefight with another girl was charged with child abuse. The girl told the nurse her mother beat her because she lost the
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    • 67 12 Presents (cm J DRINKING CONTEST ~W Join us every Friday at 10.00pm for a fabulous fashion parade of the latest fashions in town or the fun and J excitment of the beer drinking contest. J V TONIGHT Fashion Show, NEXT Friday 17-2-84 Beer Drinking Contest Sponsor' Malayan Breweries Limited Jardine
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  • money
    • 225 13 HHLLSTREET Reuter WALL Street stock {trices dropped moderatey on heavy trading volume today as investors remained anxious about the health of the US economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 3.56 points to close at 1152.74. Declining issues led advances by 1,117 to 496
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    • 128 13 IT has become the pattern for financial centres in the West, especially New York, to move the price of gold. This was demonstrated again on Feb 2 when gold soared much in response to the dollar's drop. Gold reached US$3B2 climbing US$l2 while the
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    • 286 13 DROP IN SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN GOLD FUTURES THE Far East market's ability to initiate major changes in the price of gold has greatly diminished. Whatever the Chinese interest in physical gold over the Lunar New Year, it did not translate into activity in gold futures.
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    • 174 13 SHARE OF THE DAY WHY did Apollo's share price rise 10 per cent to $2.95, especially when company operating profit fell to $1.83 million at half time to June 30 from $2.15 million previously and occu- pancy rates for the Singapore hotel fell
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    • 81 13 Dollar and fir old AP THE dollar turned mixed in US trading yesterday after falling against other major currencies in European activity. Gold prices fell on both continents, with bullion dropping $3.25, to $378.50 dollars an ounce, in late New York trading. Dealers said
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    • 161 14 MALAYAN Cables made a stunning re-en-try on the stock exchange yesterday. The shares shot up 64 cents to a new high of $4.66. The price is double the $2.30 at which Hong Leong is buying its stake. The shares were suspended on Jan 23
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    • 317 14 TAN CHONG Motor Holdings is offering a generous five for two bonus issue which will increase its issued share capital by Ms24o million. The proposed bonus issue will capitalise M$ 182.86 million from its capital reserves and M 557.14 million from its
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    • 179 14 COMPANY REPORTS FUSAN Fish Net Manufacturing Bhd was asked to provide more details by the KL Stock Exchange about its acquisitions of Traders Merchants Insurance Sdn Bhd, Associated Management Services Pte Ltd and Edgo Pte Ltd; and its proposed rights
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    • 436 14 Directors' sale of L M shares shocks investor LETTER I WAS puzzled to read that the executive director of the L M group sold 200,000 shares at $4 a share to the public for "personal reasons". I was even more shocked when you reported on Jan 25 that another two
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  • features
    • 582 16 AP BERN (Switzerland): Swiss military officers, when discussing the armed forces of this neutral country, like to say: "Switzerland has no army, it is an army." The 650,000-man ready reserve force is rated by foreign military experts as one of the best-trained, most highly motivated armies
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    • 318 16 UPI GENEVA: Swiss women may have equal rights with men in theory, but compulsory military service in the country s citizen army is another question. Women bus drivers, yes. Even women police are okay in Switzerland. But female soldiers? Women here won the
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    • 427 16 A Revolution in colour portables FBtt^^aQ >c computer with 'Magic Desk' V The Computer Equipped w.th 64K *°ooW< orFe RAM, the Commodore SX-64 a QQly"—• L computer is one of the most powerful i portable computers ever And il comes with a full colour (I M monitor which no other
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  • opinion / letter
    • 402 17 fyjJNIIUkfAMHSH A STUDY mission sent by the National Productivity Board to Japan to look into the role of the media in promoting national development has returned with an interesting suggestion. Why not set up press clnbs in government ministries, where reporters can mingle with civil servants?
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    • 776 17 Those who oppose school registration priority for children of graduate mothers THE furore over the decision to accord graduate mothers priority in registering their children for schools shows clearly the selfishness of a small (hopefully so) group of Singaporeans: They place self before
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous

  • 336 18 TODAY'S Highlights Friday Night Movie: A Few Days in Weasel Creek (Ch 5,10.05 pm) A YOUNG Georgian, Beldon Stokes, fleeing from his run-down family farm meets a roadweary hitch-hiker, Locksley Caitor, at a gas station and a shaky romance begins. On their journey to
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  • 742 18  -  TV Scene By WONG SING YEONG THE arrival of Channel 12 does not come as just an oasis in a cultural desert. The new channel, like the Festival of Arts, is part of a general proliferation of the arts and reflects the growing awareness
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1247 18 Film on Page 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights foNowad by A Houae is Not a Home (C) (rJL International Badminton: The Poco Homes Chatienga. Two action-packed semi-final matches are fea- I J tured. In the women's doubles match, Japan s Bp M9qqa«r^ Sumiko Kitada and England's Sally Rodger team Hp;
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  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      418 19 MR FELIX CHIA, atkor of The Babas (1980) and Ala Sayaag! (1983) wrote the play, Pileh Meaaata (Choosing a Dangnter-in-law). He agree* that the Baba culture is fait dJsappeariag. 'Take me lor instance. I married a Cantonese. At oae time, a Baba woald be considered aa outcast if
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    • 683 19  -  By PAT D'ROSE THE BABA culture is disappearing fast. Wnen the Babas and nyonyas of Singapore decided to do a traditional wedding pageant in conjunction witn Pileh Menantu (Choosing a Daugh-ter-in-Law), a Baba play, they had to cross the Causeway to borrow the most vital
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    • 271 19  -  By WONG SING YEONG AS PREPARATIONS sail smoothly for the Hongbao Special '84 the first variety show to float on water there is a rising fear that too much water may wash the show away. The Lunar New Year question is: What if it rains
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    • 53 19 Announcement The following roads will be closed from 4pm to 12 midnight on Saturday and Sunday for the Hongbao Special: North Boat Quay (between North Bridge Road and Parliament Lane) Canton Street South Canal Road (between North Canal Road and Boat Quay) Market Street (between Chulia Street
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    • Article, Illustration
      630 20  -  Reasonable resolutions Sor rat year By INEZ WEI IT'S one thing to make resolutions but quite another to keep them. A friend recalls with amusement how she concluded rather quickly that her new year resolutions were all very challenging and also very impractical. If you find yourself in
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    • 495 21  -  TITLE: TRADING PLACES STARRING: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy DIRECTOR: John Landls SHOWING: Jade Reviewed by PHILIP CHEAH EVER had the feeling that you could be worth a million dollars? Most of us have. But not everyone gets into a position to prove it. In Trading Places,
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    • 583 23 pivleet designer Dexter Wong, the man responsible for Culture Club's pretty pop star's outlandish gear IPS THERE'S a Malaysian twist to pretty pop star Boy George and the fantastically flamboyant fashions he and his group, Culture Club, have spawned. The outrageous outfits and penchant
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    • 837 23 LAT-WP CESKE BUDEJOVICE (Czechoslovakia): "She was of a wild, roving nature inherited from father and mother who were both Bohemians," William Makepeace Thackeray wrote of the character Becky Sharp in his classic 19th-century novel Vanity Fair. But here in the conservative heartland of
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    • 226 21 V7!vTT7|Ti B I I The directors of the four episodes in "The Twilight /one" are (A) JOHN LANDIS (B) STEVEN SPIELBERG (C) < iJw»H JOE DANTE and (D) GEORGE MILLER. Their y SSZrnmlJ previous box-office hits were "E.T.", "THE HOWLING", "MAD MAX" and "AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON". We want
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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    • 98 22 LIDO: 9th HOT DAY! (*****14) 11am, 1.45,4.00, 6.45, 9.15 No Free List It's FIVE YEARS later and for Tony Mancro A ROKRT STGWOOO ffUUCTOI I STMSIIR STAUONHKM 1 JOHN TMfttA -SIMM AIM' W CTNTMA RHOOtS V HNOIA HUGHES SIW MMOO nam sonbb pm h OKCTHI IT SIWBTB SWUM JADE: NOW
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    • 389 22 CATHAY: LAST OAYI V I (*****00) S SHOWS: 11am, 1.130, 4.00, 6.30 ft 9.15pm I RICHARD JACKIE #1 A PRYOR GLEASON V W h»n l«ki<* Cltuton 'qld In could (uvt «m pr»t»nt J1 k I h» picked lh« moil oul.-i|ou> > iIIIbVI i>fiu<»ii f*«-h«rd Pry or j! W ""3S"" j|
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 495 22 HONQBAO SPECIAL THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board will hold Hongbao Special '84 off Boat Quay, Singapore River, tomorrow and on Sunday from 7.30 pm Bmrnard Ringoitsen to 10 pm. con The programme will include entertainment by Taiwanese singers and lo- THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra cal artistes, lion and dragon dances
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 581 24 leisure comics CXI ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry TAU*I IffcE ENGINE Of THE EXCALIBUR J\fh A fiRANO FLIP*; THE mKm move 4 churns.the car spins around /wm M tiny red switch "I Michael brand's only and roars straight towaro |/r fft ON the cm^mboard CHANCE TO ESCAPE LIES IN
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  • Valentine Gifts & Celebrations
    • 251 25 FEBRUARY 14, St Valentine's Day, is drawing near. How did this custom of dedicating a day to lovers originate? It all began with the Roman festival of Lupercalia, a feast celebrated on February 15. On this day, young men would write the names
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    • 201 25 ON Valentine's Day, perfume is a present which never fails to please. And there is an added bonus when you give Anais Anais Eau de Toilette or Eau de Parfum from Cacharel, the subtle fragrances which have become great classic premium perfumes in the
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    • 108 27 FOR this coming Valentine's Day, Selangor Pewter is offering a special engraving service to all customers. With every purchase of a pewter vase, the buyer may have a name or two engraved, free of charge, within a design of two hearts. The free service,
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    • 221 27 VALENTINE'S Day is a time for wining, dining and dancing. And you can do these with your sweetheart at the Hilton's Harbour Grill and Music Room. On February 14 there will be a St Valentine's Gala Evening featuring a romantic dinner to
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    • 70 27 WHAT more romantic way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with a candlelit dinner and a bottle of wine? And now there's a new name on the wine scene in Singapore Kaiser, with four flavours of wine and one Sekt. Sekt of course is
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    • 390 28  -  By ANNA JULIET ROSS ON Valentine's Day, the old idiom "say it with flowers" takes on special meaning. Those sending bouquets to their sweethearts had better remember that most common flowers have special associations, and it's all too easy to commit a bloomer by
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    • 281 28 TODAY they say love casts a spell, but in the old days it was not unusual to do things the other way around and cast a spell for love. On Valentine's Day, many quaint custom* were practised in Olde Englande in the name of love. For
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    • 88 25 Happy \Mentine Sweetheartl Here's a gift that's straight from the heart. This Valentine,express your feelings in a beautiful pewter vase. Available at all Selangor Pewter showrooms and authorised dealers. Hearts and two names (up to 10 characters), inscribed at no extra cost! M TP **w HM|Hp jr Ik yfl J
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    • 200 28 Green Gween /'/SvV Florist vfiPl Jl Valentine's Day VU Special I a stalk of Rose in a crystal vase. X y j inclusive of delivery y for only $30.00 \j /y Vis/7 /«a/. \V #05-3S Far Fast Shopping Centre Tel: or #01 78, Ground Floor, Goldhill Square Tel: *****90 YS
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    • 206 29 Class Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sunday Monitor: Word* 0.35 cnte par word 0.55 cnli per word Display $7.70 p«r col. cm $12.00 p«r col. cm Iwlmm Hn Mon-Fri. 9am-Span Sal. 9a ml pan v- Ching Ling Acct.*****1 *****36 Commercial Serv. 260-1157/ 6563 Daniel Chan Mgmt Serv 296-4765 Francis Acctg
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    • 240 30 classified s 273-9090 Situations Vacant NANOTEK ELECTRONICS PTE LTD Manufacturer of photomask printed circuit boards has immediate vacancies for: (1) PRODUCTION CLERK (FEMALE) G.C.E 0 level with credit in English Preferably with 1 or 2 years worVing experience in PCB manufacturing (2) Q.C. INSPECTORS Minimum Secondary 2 education Preferably some
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    • 174 30 Situations Vacant NEMIC LAMBDA requires FULL-TIME OPERATORS Minimum STARTINQ wage $375/- SOLDERING minimum starting wage $395/Requirements: 14-35 years old Primary education Benefits: 5-day week Adjustment after probation Job grading and salary adjustment Paid tea break time AWS more than one month and many attractive benefits Recommendation bonus $60/MALAYSIAN ARE ALSO
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  • sports
    • 284 31 Reuter LONDON, Friday A CONSORTIUM of Manchester businessmen is hoping to thwart publishing millionaire Robert Maxwell in his bid for control of English soccer club Manchester United. It was revealed today that the group, headed by Peter Raymond, sales and marketing director of
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    • 148 31 Reuter LONDON, Friday ENGLAND striker Paul Mariner joined Arsenal from English First Division rivals Ipswich for a fee of about £150,000 (*****,000) today. Mariner, 30, was placed on the transfer list four months ago after asking for more than the £50,000 a year he
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    • 39 31 Reuter TURIN (Italy), Friday EUROPEAN Footballer of the Year Michel Platini will renew his contract with Italian league leaders Juventus until the eiM of the 1985-86 season, the club said today in a brief statement. Reuter
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    • 140 31 Reuter NEWMARKET (England), Friday TOP French trainer Oliver Douieb has signed a two-year contract to train here for Saudi Arabian multimillionaire owner Mahmoud Fustok. Douieb, who had a double classic triumph last year by winning the French and Irish 1,000 guineas with L'attrayante,
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    • 328 32 BRIAN CLOUGH'S NO-STAR FOREST SIDE MOVES UP AS MAIN THREAT QPR vs FOREST; LIVERPOOL vs ARSENAL ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE SPECIAL REPORT...BY SIMON BARNES IT'S not all over yet. If you thought Liverpool had already got the First Division championship sewn up, then think again. Nottingham
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    • 236 32 LUTON vs MANCHESTER UNITED MANCHESTER United, racked by the moves for a £10 million takeover of the club, have what could be a real thriller a match at Luton on Sunday before the live TV cameras. You always get a good game
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    • 1080 32 DIVISION ONI PIDl r APIS Liverpool M IS 7 4 41 II S2 N. Partal H IS 4 1 S! II 41 MaaUtf H II I 4 4i tt Wwt Han 24 14 I 7 42 21 47 QPR 21 II 4 I 41 11 41 Sartkamptaa 21 12
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    • 331 32 COVENTRY vs WEST HAM; SPURS vs LEICESTER WEST HAM are still reeling under their injury jinx, but their plucky kids from the reserves are holding on to their early season high spot. West Ham travel to Coventry, who have managed only one win
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    • 209 32 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO, Friday THE Brazilian Football Association (CBF) has scrapped plans for a sixteam tournament to celebrate the association's 70th anniversary in June, CBF official Dilson Guedes said yesterday. The asociation now intends to mark the anniversary by inviting a number of countries
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    • 563 33  -  THEY COME WITHIN TOP SIX TO BEAT EVEN LAST YEAR'S CHAMP Rtptrts ly ALFONSO CHAN SINGAPORE'S Ramie Salleh, 20, led from start to finish to win the Marathon race on the first day of the Straits Steamship Singpore Open '84 boardsailing championships yesterday
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    • 310 33  -  Rahim Tahir toast of Police as he bags two goals in NFL outing POLICE 3 CHANGI CSC 0 By K SILVAM POLCE SHOWED that their campaign for top National Football League honours are far from over with their win over Changi Constituency at the
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    • 417 33 MORE THAN one person was delighted with the performance of Ramie Salleh, the Straits Steamship Singapore Open's first day's winner in the Marathon event yesterday. The excitement of his win was contagious as most of the boardsailors and officials began discussing the
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    • 335 33 A MINOR sauall threatened to mar the first day's proceedings in the boardsailing championships at East Coast Sailing Centre yesterday. Lek Saard Panvawan, Policar«io Ortega, Ho Kan Soon and Jeab /ichitong, near the end of the last leg of
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    • 345 34  -  Lack of incentives and strain of mixing studies and competition takes its toll on swimmers ■y KEN JALLEH JR THE STRAIN of combining studies with high level competition and the lack of incentives remain the root causes of the high casualty rate among top local swimmers. Give
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    • 330 34  -  wsds KEN JALLEH JR OF THE six swimmers who have decided to retire from international competition, at least three are doing so because 1984 will be critical years in their academic life. Kwefc Leng and Lim Seng Hock, both 17-year-old seasoned
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    • 244 34  -  By KEN JALLEH JR ALVIN UM Joined Junie Sng and Mavis Ee on the list of Brisbanetrained swimmers, returning to dominate the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association age-group championships now on at Amber Road. Alvin added another record to his cap when
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    • 610 31 classified s 273-9090 NOTICES #PWD TENDER NOTICE Tenders are invited from PWD Registered Contractors for the following:(A) SQS/1/84 Construction of Electrical Sub-Sta-tion, Bin Centre end Toilet Block at Botanic Gardens Extension (B) MAE T 19/84 Nominated Sub-Contract for Supply and Installation of an Underground Fuel Storage and Dispensing Facility and
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    • 529 31 TENDER NOTICE Separate tenders are invited for:1 SUPPLY ANO DELIVERY OF 10,200 METRES OF PLYSTS POWER CABLE AND 13,750 METRES OF POUTS TELEPHONE CABLE Tender Deposit 551.500.00 Closing Date 27 Mar 84 2 SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF THREE (3) UNITS 2H2SKVA DUAL-VOLTAGE DIESEL GENERATOR SETS EQUIPPED WITH 3« NOS POWER
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    • 396 35  -  Officials are frantic at disappearing pool of experienced talent By KEN JALLEH JR THE euphoria of last year's SEA Games swimming glory has turned into a nightmare with six top internationals giving in to the paper chase leaving the pool of experienced talent depleted and
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    • 251 35  -  Wife Irene will compete in Europe By K SILVAM SINGAPORE'S badminton ace Wong Shoon Keat added a special twist to his planned European badminton circuit competition tour with news that his wife, Irene, will also be competing alongside him. The husband-and-wife shuttles pair will play in
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