Singapore Monitor, 12 February 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SUNDAY monitor M.C. (P) No. 14/5/83 Sunday, February 12, 1984 40cents
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    • 105 1 w -w«U:' sf. > W*» y 1 •f.m i >..rw .'J '/<v .vri^ Special Valentine's Day Report: P18-19 Are S'pore men romentlc? Our reporters took to the streets to ask Singapore women the most pertinent question on Valentine's Day: Are our men romantics, male chauvinists, or just plain bores? And
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    • 221 2  -  Thousands throng Singapore Mvor banks to watch \historical event' HONGBAO- SPECIAL ■#84 STORK WONG SING YEONG A CLEAR sky and gentle river breeze brought throngs of people to the Singapore River for the Hongbao Special The police, as well as hawkers from the nearby food centres,
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    • 329 3  -  COURT FINDS HER GUILTY AND IMPOSES $1,000 FINE By OEI SIN GIOK A WOMAN lured her friend of 26 years to her house one day and then attacked her with a chopper last November. Lim Poh Chue, 43, was estranged from
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    • 158 3 TRAFFIC Police booked 346 vehicles and towed away 60 for obstructing traffic during a three-day blitz in the Central Business District last week. A total of 90 vehicles were booked on the first day, 137 on Feb 9 and 119 on
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    • 133 4  -  Lunar New Year party treat for 300 children By DAWN WESTERHOUT ABOUT 300 uiMtorpriviltgtd children from 12 different homes were yesterday treated to a party at the York Hotel to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The party was organised by the Qoodwood Group executives
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    • 248 4  -  Schools Council Meeting Reports by CAROLINE BOEY and BERTILLA PEREIRA THE Schools Council yesterday decided that the new land-based PE programme is to be adopted. Swimming, however, will not be dropped completely. It will be incorporated into the PE programme. This is because a
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    • 141 4 THERE is an urgent need to introduce English language materials on Confucianism in Singapore if the Confucian ethics programme is to succeed in our schools. This is because teachers educated in English, and thus with less exposure to Confucian ethics, appear more
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    • 134 4 PARENTS' complaints about their children having to clean school toilets and their classrooms should be channelled to the Education Ministry, school principals were told yesterday at the Schools Council meeting. But Dr Tay Eng Soon said he did not think that many parents
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    • 376 6 Case of taxi driver who accepted $140 for a $14 trip TAXI-DRIVERS who overcharge passengers excessively will not be given a second chance and will have their licences revoked. The Registry of Vehicle; (ROV) will not take into consideration a driver's clean
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    • 198 6  -  Case ol tiny tots' who steal from big mama' STORY AND PICTURES BY CHEW YEN FOOK NO, IT'S not a case of big mama spider bringing home a nice juicy beetle for junior (see arrow). This tiny tot of a spider is actually a
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    • 301 6  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM THE INDIFFERENT attitude of the management of the Moscow Narodny Bank is hampering the Labour Ministry's efforts to settle an industrial dispute between the bank and its officers' union, the Singapore Bank Officers' Association (SB(JA). Although the union's
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    • 64 6 German fined 500 for possession of marijuana A 21-YEAR-OLD German was found guilty and fined $500 by a magistrate's court for possession of 1.44 gm of marijuana. The offense happened at the customs checkpoint at Woodlands on Feb 1. Stefan Einle was searched by a custom officer when he arrived
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    • 469 7  -  By SIT YIN FONG SOCIAL WELFARE authorities yesterday stressed that their role in what has become known as the "babv tussle case" is solely to protect the welfare of five-month old Chen Weiung Weiling is now under the Social Welfare Ministry's care.
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    • 105 7 THE POLICE have clarified that the custody dispute had nothing to do with the police decision to take out a summons against Madam Chen for making a false report. She is to be charged with misleading the police by saying that her
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    • 252 7 THE productivity drive will soon be spearheaded by a core of cadres dedicated to the success of the movement. To create this pool of "competent and experienced" officers over the next five years, the National Productivity Board (NPB) is sending
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    • 530 8  -  280,000 cassettes destroyed in music wep Story: CATHARINE FERNANDO A BULLDOZER tore into a pile of 280,000 cassette tapes yesterday morning in a symbolic gesture of the battle against music piracy in Singapore. As some local and foreign recording artistes watched, the bulldozer rolled back and forth
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    • 606 9 Every Wednesday, offenders turn up at Court 13 to pay the price THINK twice the next time you are about to flick away that matchstick alter lighting your cigarette. If you are caught, you have to face the music in person. And when you get fined,
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    • 96 9 Turn your thoughts to something special So you need a special gift? Then make your way to Centrepoint at the corner of Orchard and Cuppage roads. There you'll find gifts and gift ideas at every turn. Perhaps a little something in appreciation, or maybe a birthday or anniversary. Gifts that
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    • 237 10 Yuri Andropov PASSING OF A STATESMAN AP MOSCOW, Saturday MR KONSTANTIN Chernenko led the delegation of politburo members today to view the body of Mr Yuri Andropov lying in state. Mr Andropov's family, including a sobbing widow, also was seen by an AP photogra--Bier,
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    • 839 10 Reuter BRUSSELS (Belgium), Sat NATO experts on the Soviet Union said yesterday that a long period of collective leadership in the Kremlin is likely rather than a single powerful successor to President Yuri Andropov. Unlike Mr Andropov and his predecessor Mr Leonid Brezhnev, who held
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    • 95 10 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday VICE-PRESIDENT George Bush left Washington today on his way to Moscow for the funeral of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov after President Reagan decided not to attend. The White House waited several hours after yesterday's Kremlin announcement that Mr
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    • 98 10 AP UNITED NATIONS, Saturday UNITED NATIONS secretary-general Javier Perez de Cuellar credited Soviet President Yuri Andropov with a "fervent commitment to work for world peace" in a message of condolences he sent to Moscow yesterday. But his spokesman later announced that
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    • 92 10 Reuter NEW DELHI, Saturday INDIA began three days of mourning today for Soviet President Yuri Andropov as Asia assessed what impact his death on Thursday would nave on the region. Flags on government buildings flew at half-mast across India, the world's most
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    • 142 10 AP WASHINGTON, Saturday THE UNITED States, offering to work with the Soviet Union "to make the world a safer place," is trying to take the chill out of superpower relations after the death of Mr Yuri Andropov. Calling for a resumption of
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    • 524 11 Malaysian floods continue to sever road rail links DEATH TOLL RISES TO 5 WITH DROWNING OF IQ-YR-OLD BOY The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday RISING waters and landslides due to several days of continuous heavy monsoon rains in the affected states of Johor, Pahang and Malacca continued to severe some road
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    • 141 11 UPI STOCKHOLM, Sat THE SWEDISH navy today searched for a foreign submarine it believed might be la the vicinity of its top-secret Karlshroaa Naval Base, the defence stall said. The navy first noticed what it believed to be the foreiga submarine late
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    • 594 12 Rebel attacks and more outside pressure on Hanoi may have forced the rethink LAT-WP BANGKOK, Saturday VIETNAM has allowed more than half the 1983-84 dry season to slip by without launching its annual offensive against Cambodian guerillas based along the Thai border. Although
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    • 132 12 SYDNEY, Saturday SINGING superstar Elton John will marry his recording engineer in Sydney on Tuesday after popping the question over a plate of curnr, his press agent said today. John, 36, is to marry Renata Blauel who is in Australia to work on
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    • 267 12 LAT-WP HOUSTON, Saturday DAVID, the 12-year-old "bubble boy" who climbed out of a f term-free isolation chamber or the first time in his life this week, may be in the process of developing his own immune system, his doctor said yesterday.
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    • 152 12 Coppola's Zeotrope sold for 25 m LAT-WP HOLLYWOOD, Saturday ZOETROPE Studios, the historic Hollywood movie studio where producer Francis Ford Coppola dreamed of housing a repertory company and creating a test site for experimental film technology, was auctioned off yesterday by a federal court for a scant USfl2.3 million (5|25.8
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    • 188 12 A keen enthusiast, the new King has popularised the sport in Johor The Star LIKE his predecessor, the new Malaysian king is a keen sportsman. The new King, Johor Sultan Mahmood Iskandar, popularised windsurfing in his State. The Sultan took up the sport in January last year
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    • 537 13 He once boosted 'nobody bos the rope which coold bong me' Reuter NEW DELHI, Saturday INDIA today executed Kashmiri secessionist leader Maqbool Butt, eight days after a Kashmiri extremist group, which kidnapped and killed an Indian diplomat in England, had demanded his release. The man, who
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    • 65 13 Reuter IttAMAHftfl. Set A PROTEST strike end demonstrations began in Pakistan-administered Kashmir state today aoon after India executed e tscstsioniit Kashmiri leader, lloc|bool Butt, official sources said. They said government offices, schools snd colleges were ordered closed. A demonstration was held in the main town
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    • 109 13 AP NEW YORK, Saturday A PERSON'S chances of getting cancer may be reduced by cntting down on fatty food and eating more food* that are high in fibre and vitamins A ana C, the American Cancer Society said yesterday. The society's
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    • 208 14 Wealthy man commemorates dead brother with an unusual granite statue SIPA LYNDEN (New Jersey), Saturday WHEN a 36,577-kg granite funeral statuary in the shape of a car rolled into the Lynden cemetery in New Jersey, grave-diggers dropped their spades in wide-eyed wonderment. For the car monument
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    • 201 14 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday THE UNITED States is listening with interest to talks about a possible role for a United Nations peacekeeping force in Beirut, the State Department said. But spokesman John Hughes said that nothing concrete emerged from talks on the
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    • 318 14 'He may cut US ties, annul peace accord with Israel' LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Saturday LEBANESE President Amin Gemayel, faced with the imminent prospect of being toppled from office, is prepared to sever his dependency on US support and bow to Syria's demand that he abrogate
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    • 131 14 Reuter BAHRAIN, Saturday IRAQ today carried out its threat to launch air and missile attacks on Iranian towns with a air raid on Dezful. Iran, reporting three deaths in the raid, immediately vowed retaliation. An Iraqi military spokeman in Baghdad said the attack, in
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    • 171 14 Reuter BEIRUT, Saturday THE UNITED States and Britain have evacuated more than 1,000 foreign nationals from Beirut, and the Americans plan to evacuate more, a US Marine spokesman said yesterday. The plan to evacuate more foreigners follows Friday's disappearance of an American
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      • 63 15 UPI CAPE CANAVERAL: The space shuttle Challenger streaked high across Florida, made a sweeping turn over the Atlantic Ocean and glided to the first landing from orbit today at the sprawling Florida shuttleport. Commander Vance Brand eased the winged spaceplane to a smooth
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      • 54 15 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday: Brunei has agreed to become the eighth member of the South-east Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (Seameo), Seameo president and Malaysian Education Minister Sulaiman Daud told reporters today. The other members are Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia,
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      • 86 15 AP WASHINGTON: President Ronald Reagan hopes to bring Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein together in a meeting at the White House on Tuesday that will further underscore that Egypt is being accepted by its neighbours again, US officials said yesterday.
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      • 85 15 21 million lawsuit against seven Catholic priests AP LOS ANQELES: Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred (left) sits with her client Rita Milla, 22 in Miss Allred's LA office on Wednesday where she announced she had filed a US$lO million (S|2l million) lawsuit against seven Catholic priests and the LA Diocese
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      • 65 15 Reuter LOS ANQELES: Two US businessmen have f (leaded guilty to charges in connection with the Uegal export of computer disc manufacturing equipment to Bulgaria, a US customs official said today. The official said the two men were alleged to have sent
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      • 65 15 UPI GUATEMALA CITY: Unidentified gurnnen kidnapped and killed a Guatemalan opposition leader, leaving his bullet ridden body with signs of torture on the edge of the capital, fire brigade sources said. Firemen yesterday found the body of Jorge Galvez Loaiza, 35, leader of
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      • 81 15 US in danger of losing R D leadership to Europe, Japan UPI LOS ANGELES: The United States is in danger of losing its leadership in research and development to Western Europe and Japan, a founder of the high technology firm TRW Inc said. "The race for technological superiority is as
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    • 516 15 Reuter PARIS, Saturday A HIGHLY irreverent story of life behind the scenes of the lofty French presidency is drawing long queues to cinemas all over France. Le Bon Plaisir (The Lord's Whim) is a light-hearted account of how far the
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    • 155 15 AP BEUING, Saturday AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Bob Hawke was credited with bringing the first auspicious snow of the winter to Beijing today. Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang visited the guesthouse where the Australian stayed during his five-day visit to Beijing to say goodbye
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    • 80 15 AP TOKYO, Saturday: Male employees of Tokyo's Takashimaya department store line up yesterday before Cabbage Patch Kids to regulate the flow of prospective customers. More than 100 young and old early risers thronged before the entrance of the respected store, but
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    • 787 17 As the story goes, the rock had been there since the Creation. Eons passed, the stone got pregnant. An egg popped out. More centuries rolled by. The stone egg became a monkey. So what counts for a birthday, the ege-birth or the monkey genesis? It doesn't
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    • 164 17 IN HINDU mythology, the Monkey god Hanuman (or Anjeneyan) makes his debut in the Ramayana about midway through hero Rama's search for his abducted wife Sita. He is the trusted minister in the monkey kingdom of Kiskinda and is instrumental in Rama's victory over the evil Ravana.
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    • 483 18 SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY REPORT THE Singapore man is recognised as being quite successful in his career and good at finance, but when it comes to romance his rating is low. He has great difficulty putting his feelings into words and few of the species ever have
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    • 151 18 The tradition of sending love notes and tokens on February 14, the anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Valentine started in the late Middle Ages and, according to the encyclopaedia, appears to have been accidental. One theory has it that Valentine's Day was chosen because daring
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    • 1424 18 No! Say most of the women they are too inhibited and lack imagination THE Sunday Monitor team asked a total of 22 women for their views on whether they thought Singapore men were romantic. Here are some of their views: JENNY GOH, 26, editor of a foreign publication: "I feel
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    • 527 19 I think Singapore men are romantic in our Asian sort of way. For example, we don't like to show things openly in public. But in other ways I think we are. When we do
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    • 642 20  -  By TYE KIM KHIAT That Monday morning was just fine, a break from the seasonal grey and wet days. The early sun was teasing with forms, turning figures portly, gangly, tall or short into serried elongated shapes. Eats were on their mind, or rather,
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    • 465 20  -  Hobson's Choice RODNEY HOBSON EVER one to be helpful, your columnist has a great idea for raising government revenue. How about a tax on people who own swimming pools but never use them? It seems a shame in recreationscarce Singapore to see these cool,
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    • 665 21  -  UE4ITHWISE By JOHN YACENDA "JUST a moment while I have a dish of ice cream." "But you're diabetic!" "Yes, I developed it four years ago, in my early 505." "Hey, aren't you afraid the ice cream will cause you to have a reaction and make
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    • 626 22  -  Schools Council Meeting All stories by CAROLINE BOEY and BERTILLA PEREIRA Clips is better. This has been confirmed by a survey done by the Chinese Language Instructional Materials for Primary Schools (Clips) team last October. Clips was first introduced in PI (Primary One) among 65
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    • 271 22 LEARNING how to use cleaning agents, paints, different kinds of brushes including long-handled ones for toilet cleaning may soon become part and parcel of what pupils will learn in school. The Ministry of Education has put up a proposal to integrate school maintenance by
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    • 331 22 Advanced production deadlines next year to tackle shortage To make sure that schools are not hit by another textbook shortage crisis next year, the Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore has advanced book production deadlines and devised a system of tighter checks with publishers. Publication contracts
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    • 85 22 SINGAPORE'S half a million students will get the opportunity to show that they care when they will be ashed to give to the Community Chest of Singapore on a Day of Charity. This move was made by Dr Ee Peng Liang, the president
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    • 969 25 THE SKY was overcast and there was a slight drizzle when we left the pier of the Marine Police Headquarters in Kallang early in the morning. The sea was unexpectedly calm after a heavy downpour before daybreak. The patrol boat we were on
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      390 26 Jackson hits it big with new video clip thriller Michael Jackson is the star of one of the most thrilling, expensive and extravagent video clips in history, Thriller. Already with his two preceeding video clips, Beat It and Billie Jean, he established a standard others are trying to match.
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    • 368 26 Sipa ROD SERUNG did the TV world a service when he invented end stock with The Twilight Zone. Serling, who died in 1975, prematurely alas, was one of those extraordinary writers and TV personalities who insisted on bringing oualitv to the screen, an almost unheard of commodity
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      273 26 JAMIE LEE FAVOURS THE GRINDING MILL TO THE SILVER SPOON SYGMA When your parents have names like Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, it's difficult to escape your destiny. Jamie Lee Curtis, moreover, never tried to flee. A "Hollywood brat," she chose early to follow the royal road open before
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    • 653 27 all about WORDS DOES "valid for two days" really mean one day? One Thursday evening my wife went shopping at Metro Grand and received a $10 voucher which was "valid for two days." On Saturday afternoon we returned to the shop with the intention of making
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    • 360 27  -  By MICHAEL GARTNER A COLUMNIST wrote: "There is another facet to the coin." But J A Sullivan 111 of Caldwell, New Jersey, says coins don't have facets. There are two sides cbverse and reverse to a coin, he says, and there are many facets
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    • 1215 29 KNT Nineteen eighty-four is the year George Orwell warned us about, and uie time probably has passed for 1984 to carry heavy metaphorical significance. From now on, keep your eyes on 1999. In the past, "Nineteen Eighty-Four," the novel, served ably as
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    • 613 29 ALL you need is a telephone, and a new book that gives you the numbers of famous and fascinating people all over the world. If you've run out of interesting people to chat with, don't despair. A new book* that
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    • 690 30 TITLE: The Time Of The Assassins AUTHOR: Claire Sterling PUBLISHER: Holt, Rhinehart PRICE: U5514.95 RATING: LAT-WP WHEN Pope John Paul II was shot by a Turkish gunman on May 13, 1981, initial reports had it that the assailant was an unstable right-wing
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    • 428 30  -  TITLE: Gameplan AUTHOR: Leslie Waller PUBLISHER: Granada, Britain RATING: By RAY MILLER IT IS at Harvard that Ben Brown comes under the spell of the so-called Kontratiev theory: that economic booms and busts cycle in waves of 50 to 60 years. Brown's Gameplan buy
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    • 235 30 1. Master Of The Game by Sidney Sheldon 2. Guiness Book Of World Records '83 by Norris McWhirter 3. Spellbinder by Harold Robins 4. The One Minute Manager by Kenneth
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    • 248 30  -  By SA'AT ABDUL RAHMAN WHITE Gold Wielder ends two massive trilogies by author Stephen Donaldson on the life and times of wayward adventurer Thomas Covenant. Both trilogies are sword and sorcery sagas that sometimes test your patience with stories that are longer than even
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    • 568 31  -  In Search Of... Kueh Putu Piring with VIOLET OON Try the popular Malay sweet snack of twice steamed rice flour filled with gluey palm sugar and eaten with freshly grated coconut. The flour is first steamed till cooked and then put through a si£ve till
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    • 714 31 Whew! What a fortnight it has been. Elating rich foods non-stop. If you had participated in the Lunar New Year celebrations you would know just what I mean. So now's the time to change gear and eat something light and simple. How about
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    • PROPERTY
      • 354 32  -  By ANG PENG HWA A development firm has taken a step back into history in designing its project. Unlike most developers which are opting for the latest designs, this firm has incorporated architectural features from the Victorian era to lend an old-world charm to its
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      • 277 32  -  By VINCENT FONG HOUSES with chimneys? In Singapore? Yes, but there is a catch. There are no fire-places in these terrace units at Monk's Hill off Newton Circus. Instead the chimneys served to ventilate fumes from coal-fired stoves. And the heat is on.
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      • 166 33 Foreigners baying landed property will have to pay a slightly higher fee when they apply to the Controller of Residential Property from Feb 14. In a Government gazette dated Jan 20, the fees payable under the Residential Property Rales have been
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      • 249 33 ONCE upon a time, the developer of Lien Tower at Holland Park thought it had built the largest apartments in town, of more than 464.5 sq m (5,000 sq ft) each. Today, Honolulu Tower offers "super king size bungalows in the air" with areas ranging from
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      • 475 33  -  FORTUNE REALTY FAIR 1984 J By ANNIE CHIA THE first property fair in Singapore has so far attracted only one developer participant, though it is scheduled for early March. Fortune Realty Fair '84, from March 7-9 at the Royal Holiday Inn at Scotts Road, aims to create an
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      • 582 33  -  By B ORTEGA What can you do when the flat you bought some time ago is finally completed and, much to your chagrin, the finishing is not what you expected? You can of course complain to the developers. Chances are, you are not going to get
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    • 434 34 Sipa Seven hungry vultures attacked a car stalled in the frozen wilds of Larzac, France, in chilling Hitch-cock-like realism. Fortunately for the motorist inside it was Just a commercial, whose ominous message was: If you dost rent a car from us you're risking being taken ia by vultures.
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    • 49 24 (J just haneiy remember LAST Thanksqivinq. My favorrte Pilgrim story |M iles Standish wanted to l —j 7 I'M HAVIN© A I /"HOW MUCH IT ,i ~n (rutTM C»t*am. 1 him h A^^ TROUBLE RAISING (DO I*HEY WANT? A LEAN S£?upit=p WpMU6TJjlWffi DUTY FIRST/ speak &Ma and p < Wiwr*^
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    • 337 27 BORN TODAY: You arc more versatile than the typical member of your sign. You're ambitious, but at times inclined to be expedient. Develop a moral purpose and a cause to dedicate yourself to or else you may become a mere opportunist. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Friction could exist between a
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  • Tiger MATCHPLAY CLASSIC Bukit Course — February 17th, 18th
    • 245 36 IT'S ON THE BIG $40,000 TEE OFF ON THE BREW MALAYAN Breweries, a regular sponsor of major sporting events, is contributing $40,000 towards the organisation of the first International Match between golfers from Britain and Singapore at the Bukit Course on Feb 17 and 18. Mr Eric Oh, manager of
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    • 455 36 PAUL DOWNES, the former British Amateur Champion, who was in Singapore and Malaysia last year, gives his reasons for arranging this Tiger Classic international match between Britain and Singapore: "I arranged for a group of six top UK players to play in
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    • 328 37 IN THE coming Tiger Matchplay Tournament, the six British players are stars of the European circuit. Their credentials speak for themselves. The team, made up of Brian Waites, Michael King, Barry Lane, Mike McLean and Jeff Hall, is perfectly balanced with three established players and three rising
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    • 355 38  -  By ERNEST FRIDA SINGAPORE golf professionals have played international matches before with mixed fortunes. They may consider this match against the British team just another game to play. If they do take this stance, I can only tell them: "You are far off
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  • tv guide
    • 121 39  -  [Sunday Matinee: Damien, The Leper Priest (Ch 5, 3 p.m.) Sunday Choice By VALERIE TREVOR THE THEME is unusual and the cast is well known. Ken Howard and two MASH stars, Mike 4 B J' Farrell and David Ogden Steirs (Major Winchester)
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    • 189 39 Film Focus -To The Lighthouse (Fri, Ch 12,8.40 p.m.) Top show of the week .VIRGINIA Woolf's popular novel has, at long last, been adapted for television. In a nutshell, the story is actually a biographical account of family life, and the
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    • TV WEEKEND GUIDE TO THE BEST VIEWING
      • 354 40  -  TODAY S HIGHLIGHTS SCORING SYSTEM: M WtPtt SMtaf Mm Hwap By VALERIE TREVOR Ntw Zoo Rovuo (Ch S f 9.20 a.m.) IN TODAY'S show, Charlie the Owl, Henrietta Hippo and Doug are bored, so Freddie Frog tries to get each of them to take up a
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      • 385 41 WEEKS HIGHLIGHTS Avtran v«ry M Eic*Mat Tha Shogun Inharltanca: Echoaa af A Warrior's Draam (Ch 12, 8.06 p.m.) (Tuasday) WRITTEN and produced by Michael Maclintyre in three parts, this documentary series reveals the visual beauty of Japan's commercial success in the historical context.
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    • 113 40 LUXMAN ULTIMATE HIGH FIDELITY STEREO COMPONENTS Model L-550 Pure Class A Stereo Integrated Amplifier. Duo Beta Circuit Stereo Preamplifier. w Model M-120 MiTi" Duo Beta Circuit Stereo Preamplifier. IF~~] Vacuum Disc Stablizer Fully Automatic Direct Drive Turntable. Also available at all authorised Dealers. Sole Agents: EASTERN AUDIO PTE. LTD., 330
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  • Page 40 Miscellaneous
    • 598 40 9.00 Opening and Programme Highlights See Today's Highlights. 5.15 Sixty Minutes Fifth Edition (E). followed by Try It Out (E). See Today s Highlights. Guest: John Burgess 2.10 Fast Forward: About Computers (E). 9.20 New Zoo Revue: Hobbies (E). Wh flt e«c«Y a c °"E* er a "f 615 NewME)"*
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    • 463 41 8.00 Opening and Programme Highlights Beauty, performed at the Leningrad tra of the Leningrad Theatre of Opera followed by Evening at the Ballet The Theatre of Opera and Ballet. and Ballet. Sleeping Beauty (E). Irina Kolpakova, Seiget Berezhnoi, Lu- u bov Kunakova, and Vladimir Lopukhov 10 5 Coming Attractions!! (Channel
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  • THE SUNDAY MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 251 42  -  3PAGE TEAR-OUT By WONDER BOY THE compact-looking newcomer, Cool Mover, who has been here for more than a year, can make it a winning debut in Race Six when he takes on 12 Class Three rivals in the $30,000 Shah A lam
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    • 294 42 WONOER BOY MA-ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zao Bao) (Wan Bao) Race 1 7 Many Wishes 5 Charlie's Angel II 2 Ka Lek 2 Ka Lek 6 Spontaneous 7 Many Wishes 1 Pusmg 2 Ka Lek 3 Sugar Snap Race 2 14 Designer's Dream 14 Designer's Dream 10
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    • 163 42 MANY WISHES (7) has finished second once over a similar distance in Ipoh and also won a 1,400 m race stylishly in Penaag in November. Facing a mediocre field over his pet distance of 1,600 m, Many Wishes, gmided by the capable Snbian, is the ideal horse
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    • 6211 43 1 1.30 CLASS 3 DIV 5 1,600 m (Ratings: 85-76) Syn Stakes: $14,500 1 ***** Puaing 55.5 Dania 4 6bamg Shanmugann Turbo (>3) /JM 20/11 C 3-1 55 Brcfi Sl6oog Taluk Tempoyak Ist 1:41.7 4/4 25/12 C 3-4 53 Gopal Pl2oog My Emmence II Ist
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    • 2853 45  -  RACE RESULTS By WONDER BOY IMPERIAL LORD, with apprentice Azhar up, registered the seventh win of his career when he caused a mild upset by taking the day's main sprint event, a 1,200-metre race for Class 1 Div 2 horses in Kuala Lumpur
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    • 35 45 IG SWEEP FIRST *****0 ($2,179) SECOND: *****1 ($1,090) THIRD *****8 ($545) STARTERS ($49): *****5 *****8 *****7 *****4 *****4 *****8 *****2 *****7 *****4 *****3 *****7 CONSOLATION ($48): *****1 *****2 *****5 *****0 *****8 *****4 *****7 *****4 **********11
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  • sports
    • 99 48 The Star KOTA KINABALU, Saturday FEDERAL Territory clawed their way with an unimpressive win over Sabah in a tense match that saw one player sent out and three others given the yellow card at the Likas Stadium in Kota Kinabalu yesterday. Down.o-2
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    • 94 48 BANDAR SERI BEQAWAN, Saturday NEGRI Sembilan took a major step toward qualifying for the quarter finals for the first time when they beat Brunei 2-1 at the Hassanal Bolkiah Stadium in Bandar Sen Begawan last night. Negri thus maintained their winning streak
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    • 432 48 Two early goals spell disaster for fancied Kelantan in an action-packed match MALAYSIA CUP RESULTS AT A GLANCE SARAH 1 FEDERAL TERRITORY 2 KEDAH 2 KELANTAN 1 BRUNEI 1 NEGRI SERMNLAN 2 The Star ALOR STAR, Saturday IN AN action-packed Malaysia Cup soccer match, Kedah turned on their
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    • 130 48 P W D L F A Pta N. S«mbH«n 5 0 1 11 9 15 Pahang 8 4 1 0 17 13 Malacca 4 1 1 16 7 13 Panang 5 4 1 0 9 3 13 Salangor 7 4 1 2 10 7 13 Kalantan 3 1 2
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    • 324 48  -  By KEN JALLEH JR YUEN SHUANG CHING joined the ranks of the elite national open record breakers yesterday when she powered her way to gold in the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association age-group championships at Amber Road. The 14-year-old international, who has always
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    • 280 48 Agencies SARAJEVO, Saturday SOVIET athletes competed at the Winter Olympics today and gave no indication of withdrawing because of President Yuri Andropov s death. Hours after the death announcement, Soviet skaters and bobsleigh racers took part in their events as scheduled. Soviet sources
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    • 23 48 Q S B Soviet Union 2 2 2 E Germany 2 2Finland 1 Japan 1 Canada 1 Norway 1 Sweden 1
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    • 193 49 WONG PENG SOON, Singapore's king of world Dadminton in the early Fifties, regrets he is unable to accept an invitation to dinner at the posh Parklane Hotel in London, on March 24. The invitation to the dinner, and a reserved seat at
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    • 740 49  -  A WEEKLY FOCUS ON LOCAL SPORTS ISSUES AND PERSONALITIES All stories by KENNETH JALLEH THE schools have never had it so good for sports: Better facilities, latest equipment, more specialised and dedicated teachers, and ample opportunities for youngsters to see the world,
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    • 199 49 SINGAPORE Schools Sports Council has high hopes its Walkathon this year, to be organised as the biggest schools' event of the Republic's 25th anniversary of indeBtndance and that of e council as well will bring in a revenue of $1.5 million. The
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    • 294 49  -  By B KULA THE Singapore Hockey Association (SHA) decided recently not to promote any of the Division One league teams to the Premier Division this year. The SHA, however, is relegating one Premier Division team to Division One, and this is the Port
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    • 377 50  -  Safsa takes advantage of Dynamos' shortest player the goalie FARRER PARK DYNAMOS 1 SAFSA 5 NFL`84 By S GULAM SAFSA made a mockery of Fairer Park Dynamos' supposed "lucky mascot" Keeper V Sounderarajan by hitting five goals past him for an easy win in a National Football League
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    • 84 50 Reuter LOS ANGELES, Saturday SERGEI BUBKA of the Soviet Union broke his own world indoor pole vault record when he cleared 5.83 metres at the 25th Los Angeles Games last night. The leap, beating the old record of 5.82 metres which Bubka established in
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