Singapore Monitor, 13 February 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR f evening' Z cnmnv r i.-r.r atnrj M C (P) No. 13/5/83 Monday, February 13, 1984 30cents
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  • 381 1 We do not want to set taxes so high that they blunt individual effort, says Mr Lee Yock Suan THE policy of progressively reducing the personal income tax rates to reward individual effort and enterprise will continue. "Our basic approach is still to
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  • 195 1 LISBON, Monday ANGOLAN rebels said today they shot down a Boeing 737 carrying Angolan Government and Cuban troops over the central city of Huambo. A communique issued in Lisbon by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) did
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  • home
    • 65 2 VISITING Australian Prima Minister Mr Bob Hawka is not only Impressive but can ba expressive as was witnessed (luring a braakfast meeting at a local hotel this morning. At some point, the harddriving Mr Hawke's genial sida took over and ha won all-round approval whan ha gava
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    • 331 2  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM AUSTRALIA is prepared to consider some different form of association with Asean but not as a full member' of the regional group, says the visiting Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. "If the Asean countries
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    • 48 2 A QUICK-THINKING coffee shopowner stopped his shop from being burgled this morning. The proprietor of Rex Cafe in Upper Cross Street immediately dialled '999' when he heard noises at the back of his shop. The shopowner's identity is being withheld by the police.
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    • 166 2 Ho pays up 1m tax interest Winding-up orders against his two companies rescinded MULTI-MILLIONAIRE developer Ho Kok Cheong this morning paid interest of $1.4 million on the $13.5 million which he owed the government since 1982. The amount of the interest was calculated up to today. The payment of the
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    • 225 3  -  By FOO MEY KIEN A MAN'S heavy gambling debts proved too much of a strain for him. He was found dead on the floor of his room by his wife at their Prince Philip Avenue's flat. The wife, Madam Tan Poh Suan,
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    • 192 3 SINGAPORE LEADERS have sent their condolences to the Soviet Union on the death of President Yuri Andropov. President Devan Nair, in his condolence message to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, said: "Your Excellencies, I deeply regret the passing of
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    • 241 4 ROCHOR IS a tough constituency, says Dr Toh Chin Chye, its MP. And he speaks from experience as he has been its representative, first in the Legislative Assembly and later in Parliament, since 1959. Three times, the Barisan Sosialis leader, Dr Lee Siew Choh,
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    • 299 4  -  Two discover the meaner side of Singaporeans after theft By CONNIE YEE IT WAS upsetting enough when Miss Caroline Wilson, 26, found that her bag had disappeared while she was eating lunch next to the World Trade Centre yesterday. And
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    • 121 4 Lianhe Zaobao FANS BY the thousands are queuing up outside the National TTieatre to buy their tickets for the first eight performances to be given by the distinfuished Chaozhou Opera roupe from Guangzhou beginning on Feb 26 at the Palace Theatre, Katong. A spokesman
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    • 383 5 HERE'S your chance to tell the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board what can be done to boost tourism in Singapore. If you have any idea as to what tourist developments or activities would appeal to tourists, send them in to the
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    • 299 5  -  By K K FONG POLICE dogs are being trained to sniff out guns because of the recent spate of crimes in which guns were used. It is learned that four of the 36 dogs in the Police Dog Unit have already acquired
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    • 253 6 PRESSURE IS building up for employers to continue to take on staff beyond 55, though there's yet another reminder yesterday from a government leader that the senior citizens cannot expect to enjoy their old salaries. In a speech, Mr
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    • 144 6 SBC PLANS TO CUT TWO-HOUR PROGRAMMES TO ONE Lianhe Wanbao SBC IS studying a proposal to cut the telecast of Hong Kong drama serials from two episodes to one per transmission from June. The aim of the proposal, which would cut the present two-hour programmes
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    • 419 6 THE JAPANESE believe that information about a company should be shared with its employees if it is shared VOLUNTARILY and at the DISCRETION of the company. Legislation is not the answer. In fact, an association of Japanese companies took issue with the European
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    • 61 6 FOR PERFORMERS and animals alike, there's a break from normal routine as the Great Royal Circus of India prepares to move from Clementi to Ang Mo Kio. Training, however, is continuing. The circus put up its last performance at Clementi on Saturday. It hopes
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    • 46 6 THE JAPAN Federation of Economic Organisations (Keidanren) feels that corporate information should be voluntarily shared and the disclosure of such company secrets ought not be the result of formal legislation. TOH SU FEN looks into Keidanren's arguments presented to the European Community Commission.
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    • 198 4 Valentine s Day at !j A Plaza Hotel m will set your heart f k Seafood- Other 10ve...1y Valentine's Day /1\ 'mi Theatre-Restaurant attractions > Sit down to a sumptuous Patrons to Seafood-Theatre-Restaurant and v Valentine's Day Dinner at Studio M will receive complimentary heart»JT Seafood-Theatre-Restaurant and shaped cookies, perfumes
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  • world
    • 77 7 AP LONDON, Monday PRIME minister Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, was quoted by the Sunday Times as admitting he was involved in securing a £300 million (Ss9oo million) construction deal in Oman, but denied he exploited his mother's position to
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    • 281 7 THE PARTY'S OVER AP LONDON, Monday THE floor of a London apartment collapsed under the weight of hundreds of party-goers early Sunday, hurtling them into a store three metres below, police said. At least 68 people were injured and 10 remained in the hospital, according to hospital officials. Police
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    • 131 7 AP HOUSTON, Mon THE space shuttle could be employed in an attempt to salvage the two US$75 million communications satellites now drifting in useless orbits about the earth, but the difficulty and expense might outweigh the benefits, experts sav The Westar VI and Pa-lapa-B satellites
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    • Article, Illustration
      283 8 Trade journal says the wedding report of Jennifer 'Flashdance' Beats is false THE MARRIAGE of "Flashdance" star Jennifer Beals was all a hoax, said the American trade journal Editor Publisher. It tied a knot in the stomach of New York Post editors who published reports and a
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    • 193 8 UPI STOCKHOLM, Monday in the search area," they said THE SWEDISH navy stepped up its search yesterday for a foreign submarine in the same restricted military area where a nuclear-capable Soviet submarine ran aground in October 1981, officials said.
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    • 198 8 AP SYDNEY, Monday PRIVATE schools in Sydney are being inundated with applications from Hong Kong families keen to enrol their children because of the colony's uncertain future, school officials say. Some schools have received twice as many applications since China declared it wants to
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    • 241 8 LAT-WP KENNEDY SPACE CENTRE, Mon TWO OF the space shuttle Challenger's four brakes were heavily damaged on landing on Saturday and cannot be reused, a mysterious problem that has plagued all 10 shuttle flights, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa)
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    • 254 9 Telephone Department to lose $2 million a day The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Monday MALAYSIAN telephone operators plan to stop metering and pricing trunk and international operator-assisted calls from Thursday. This will mean that subscribers will get free calls because the accounts section
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    • 128 9 AP BELFAST, Monday PROTESTANT militants have set Up a network of businesses in Northern Ireland to bankroll a "loyalist" army, ready to fight "as a last resort" to stop unification with the Irish Republic, one of their leaders says. Mr Andy Tyrie, supreme commander of
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    • 197 9 UPI CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts), Monday A PROFESSOR going through the texts of English poets before the year 1800 discovered on Saturday a long-forgotten and unpublished poem by William Wordsworth, and hailed it a "wonderful find." Mr Roger Stoddard, associate librarian at the Houghton Library
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    • 371 10  -  PASSING or A STATESMAN A guide to today's Politburo election of the new Russian leader Yuri Andropov UPI MOSCOW, Monday THE SOVIET Union bills itself as a one-party democracy but the real power lies in the hands of a dozen men their chosen leader's and
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    • Article, Illustration
      15 10 K CHERNENKO 72, the favourite V GRISHIN Politburo member V VOROTNIKOV Politburo member
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      19 10 M GORBACHEV 52, youngest contender A GROMYKO Now the Foreign Minister D USTINOV 75, the Defence Minister
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    • 171 10 Central Moscow deserted but other areas still bustling with life Reuter MOSCOW, Monday CENTRAL Moscow was deserted yesterday except for a long queue of hand-picked people waiting to file past the open coffin of Mr Yuri Andropov. But in other parts of this sprawling city of over
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    • 134 10 Reuter WASHINGTON, Monday TWO SENIOR American officials said today that they did not expect any dramatic changes in US-Soviet relations because of the death of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. In separate appearances on television, US ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick and Un-
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    • 323 11 GULF WAR AF BAGHDAD, Monday IRAN shelled seven Iraqi cities and towns yesterday killing 14 people and injuring 89 others and Iraq retaliated by attacking four Iranian areas, it was officially announced here. The Iraqi armed forces attacked the Iranian port of Bandar Khomeini and the
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    • 204 11 UPI BEIRUT, Monday LEFTIST gunmen and Lebanese army troops exchanged machine gun fire yesterday across the "green line" dividing Muslim and Christian Beirut. Anti-government forces in the mountains fired artillery shells into the Christian suburbs. The sporadic clashes and shell fire came
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  • money
    • 206 12 Ketucky turnover profits move up KENTUCKY Fried Chicken's turnover increased by 15.6 per cent from $37 million to $42.9 million for the year ended Dec 31. Group pre-tax profits increased by 201 per cent from $1.8 million to $5.5 million. Although still above the 40 per cent statutory tax rate,
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    • 481 12 SHARE SWAP RATIO WILL BE 3-FOR-4 The Star A MERGER between Textile Corporation and Supreme Corporation is believed by many in the corporate circle to be in the offing. The merger, if it is comes through, will involve a swap of three Textile
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    • 274 12 FOREIGN CURRENCY REVIEW THE following is a selection of currencies analysed in the latest issue of the Foreign Currency Review, a publication of Manufacturers Hanover Trust (MHT), New York: SWISS FRANC The Swiss franc has eased modestly from mid-December levels near
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    • 72 12 OVERSEAS Union Bank has raised from today the rates on three-and six-month deposits from 6.5 per cent to 6.75 per cent. The rates on nine-and 12-month deposits will go up from 6.75 to 7 per cent. The one-month deposit rate and savings account rate
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    • 269 12 SHARE OF THE DAY SOME think it's expensive but others say that Fusan is a situational stock which is worth looking at although its current price of $3.08 is close to its 1983 high of $3.12. Fusan is said to be fishing for more ac-
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    • 405 12 GOLD REPORT RY GREEN COLLIER AS EVIDENCE that the US dollar was forming a periodical top continued to mount, spot gold gained almost US$lO from the previous week's close to reach US$3BO per ounce by the beginning of this week. Short covering of the
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    • 236 13 PROFILE OF AN ANALYST MS MARGARET Woo of Phillip Securities, is one analyst who finds her job very satisfying. She said: "The remisiers here have shown a great interest in the information gathered from research and I'm glad that this has helped
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    • 139 13 DOLLAR AND GOLD GOLD FUTURES prices rose slightly across the board in Singapore this morning from New York's close in very quiet early trading. Dealers said the lower-than-expected US$3 billion rise in US Ml money supply and the US dollar's weakness contributed to
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    • 352 13  -  FOCUS ON RESEARCH DEPARTMENTS By JEANNE WONG RESEARCH has often been neglected although it is integral to the share investment business. A decade ago, only a handful of stockbroking firms believed in investing in a research department. In some cases, the investment
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    • 118 13 Your S$ to one unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT DO US* 2.1370 2.1270 2.1180 sterling 3.0332 3.0111 3.0011 Australian 1.9990 1.9750 1.9650 Canadian 1.7209 1.7009 1.6909 New Zealand 1.4067 1.3866 1.3766 S$ to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.2966 10.766fe 10.7466 Belgian franc/comm 3.8371
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    • 164 13 Selected stocks at midday Market tone: slightly higher Boustead 2.92/2.93 Cold Storage 4.72/4.74 Esso 13.80 B F and N 6.45 B G I H 4.30 B Genting 5.90 B Mulpha Ltd 1.78/1.79 Haw Par 2.69 B Hume 6.05 B Inchcape 2.96 B Intraco 3.24 B Isetan 3.60 B Jurong
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    • 45 13 J Ballas Co; Cathay Securities; Golden Hope Securities; Grand Orient Securities; Lee Co; Lin Securities; Pacific Union; Su E-Min Co; Summit Securities; E G Tan Co and Tsang Ong Stockbrokers. Total Number: 11. Some stock broking firms with research departments
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    • 156 13 FRASER CO IS 38-YR PIONEER FRASER Co is one of the first broking companies to attach importance to research. Its monthly has been published for about 38 years. Lyalf Evatt's research department was started in 1973. A market up-date is published and circulated to 2,000 3,000 clients monthly. J M
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  • features
    • 632 14  -  By SIT YIN FONG A RECENT incident has pressed home the importance of setting up a body of professionals to foster the appreciation of art advocated by Mr Lee Khoon Choy, Senior Minister of State (Prime Minister's Office). Recently,
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    • 574 14 MUCH DEPENDS ON OURSELVES TO KEEP IT ALIVE, SAYS COMMENTATOR THE Chinese language now stands at the crossroads in Singapore, so to speak. Where will it go from here? How should we react to the fact that the Chinese language is coming under
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  • opinion / letters
    • 529 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT NO SINGLE person commands as much influence on world affairs as the leader of the Soviet Union; no single man has a greater say over good or evil than he. Russia is the second most powerful military nation in the world.
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    • 270 15  -  Many others launch a Library Week each year REPLIES CHEW KING HWAN for Permanent Secretary (Education) I REFER to the letter headlined "Encourage discussions on major issues among school kids" by "Nasreddin" (SM, Jan 20). We agree with Nasreddin on the importance of
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    • 235 15  -  KHOO SOO HOON (Ms) for Permanent Secretary (National Development) WE REFER to the letters on the East Coast written by "Libra" and Lazzaretti Viner Raleigh (SM, Jan 7 and 11). We wish to inform your writers that the Parks and Recreation
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    • 317 15  -  KHOO SOO HOON (Ms) for Permanent Secretary (National Development) WE REFER to the letters from "A Frustrated Motorist" (SM, Dec 29, 1983) and "TTY" (SM, Jan 6, 1984). We wish to inform your writers that our traffic data shows that
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    • 158 15 CARDS are a form of greetings. It serves many purposes...especially on occasions. Millions of people are exchanging greeting? through cards, but they nave not realised how expensive they are. "Gibson," "Hallmark" and "American" cards, for instance, originate from the
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  • 466 16 TODAY'S p m -mm Highlights The Awakening (Ch 8, 9.30 pm) (C) (Episode 3) (English subtitles). CONTINUING from the previous episode Fa's fiancee from China, A Mei, has landed on Singapore and discovers to her dismay that Fa has passed away. Fortunately for her,
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  • 349 16  -  TV Scene By WONG SING YEONG SBC is looking for sponsors for Channel 12 programmes to offset the heavy costs of acquiring such quality programmes. They have approached several corporations for sponsorship. So far, Esso Singapore, who sponsored the Top of the Trade series last year,
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1053 16 FILM GuiDEpage 20 3.00 Opening Programme Highlight* followed "jl^" by Swordsman Chu (C) (r) VL I f jHJ? 4.00 Spectrum: Bright Sparks I BH. •A# .jl 4.25 Children of Different Places. "3f* 4.50 Paint Along with Nancy Komlnsky: Yellow Shrub -C** fl% Roses. A J If f. _1 5.15 Romper
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    • 379 16 giME—ggiiaaa .isaa 12.00 PM Programme Summary 12.05 mary 4.05 Composers from Different Eras Musical Notebook: Sonatas: 1. A Gabrielli: 5.00 News in Brief 5.05 Easy Listening: 1. Canzon francese dette Petit Jacquet, Ricer- Piano Portraits Ferrante Teicher 2. Tango car del Secondo Tuono, Rafael Puyana (har- with Love Geoff Love
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    • 179 16 mmmm. ~i 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 The Painter of Signs 12.45 Letter from London 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 1.30 Alexis Korner's Rhythm and Blues 1.45 I Know It's Here Somewhere 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Just a Minute 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary
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  • leisure
    • 237 17 PAT D'ROSE suggests you don't dial a rose this Valentine's Day and offers a few alternatives YOU can dial a rose for her tomorrow. But haven't you been doing that each year at Valentine's Day, her birthday, her mother's birthday, or your anniversary and all the other
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    • 136 17 AHHH! So he loves dogs! There's a little shop called the Doggy Shop in Orchard Towers where you can buy everything, except the mutt itself. Just think of the many happy hours the two of you will spend together spraying dog cologne over his Great
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    • 114 17 HERE'S a chance to try out the way Valentine's Day was celebrated in the Middle Ages, where lovers sent notes to one another on that day the Baci way. When you buy your Valentine a box of Baci, you're actually doing that, because
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    • 97 17 SHE'S warm, generous and vivacious. She's all heart. Tell her just that this Valentine's Day without mincing your words. Buy her the biggest heart available 58 cm from side to side. There are smaller ones, too. These plastic hearts recently imported from Denmark come in
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    • 92 17 NOW... for the ultimate romantic gift on Valentine's Day your own deserted island, fresh seafood (eat as much as you want), untouched reefs, white beaches and servants. All that is possible on Isla, a 2.5 hectare coral island, off Iloilo City in the Philippines. Her*'*
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    • 59 17 IF YOU'RE starved of compliments, try fishing for some. Bay your Valentine a couple of flour amis that's right, the kissing fish. They're sock a delightful gift, I'm sure you can hear her shrill cries of joy already. And remember, you're letting the fishes do all the
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    • 562 18 Filming begins on 2010, the sequel to Kubrick's 2001 LAT-WP HOLLYWOOD: "TODAY, repeat, today, the shuttle astronauts are for the first time doing a non-tethered EVA exactly as shown in 2001." Arthur Clarke was excited. You could tell, even on the
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    • 664 18 She has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy and still wants more AP SHE has won the top US performing arts awards the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony, the Grammy. She has earned more money than any film actress in history. She has directed, produced,
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    • 503 18  -  By CHARLES CHAMPLIN in Hollywood LAT, WP THERE are a few items of suspense, anyway, attached to the Academy Award nominations that will be announced on Thursday. How many nominations will Terms of Endearment receive? Will both Shirley MacLaine and Debra
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    • 693 19  -  But the 24-hour TV scheduling is a bjeary-eyed delight HONG KONG SIDELINES Wfln Pauline Loh LETTERS from Singapore arrive slightly damp and all my friends are complaining about the rain. What are you moaning about? Do you know I haven't seen the sun for weeks? My
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    • 367 20 AT THE HILTON THE Harbour Grill will offer a special St Valentine's Gala Evening tomorrow which includes a dinner menu with a bottle of champagne for every couple, coffee and chocolates, late night dancing, Valentine's Day fashion show at the Music Room after dinner and a lucky
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    • 126 20 Sygma WHEN a smoke bomb exploded on Jan 27 in a Los Angeles studio, a young man sprang forward to rescue poor Michael Jackson whose hair had caught fire. The young man's name happened to be Brando, Mlko Brando the son of the famous actor,
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    • 959 21 The Dresser, chosen lor Britain's 1984 Royal Film Performance, is Albert Finney's triumph as an autocratic stage actor-manager. Come April, he's a hot contender for the Best Actor Oscar which has so far eluded him despite a previous nomination for his
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    • 557 21 VERY few films or stage plays give a convincing picture of life behind the scenes with a traditional English touring stage company, comments Albert Finney as he talks about his latest film. "But, of course, it all depends on whether you have the material in
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 717 19 fllM CUID6 tßls ODEON-KATONG (*****19): PROJECT MAIDEN (C) A (Q JADE (*****80): TRADING PLACES (E) DALIT (*****16): TEPPANYAKI (C) Show time: 3 shows daily Starring: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, JaStarring: Michael Hui, Frances Yip, Sally ORCHARD (*****88): TWO OF A KIND mie Lee Curtis e /e* Synopsis: A modern-day twist
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    • 165 20 CAPITOL: NOW SHOWING! (*****59) 5 SHOWS: 11am, 1.45, 4.00, 9.30, 9.15 tt tMk the cm«M titoatt at 4 TOP Directors tt brta| intor Conltil and Win Two-Night FREE accommodation at tho finott booth rotort THE DESARU VIEW HOTEL and THIRTY double Warrior trothors cinoma patios. by ll«d COV't«ty «l OnamVWw
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 28 20 Tide Guide TODAY: Hifk tide 6.43am (2.3m) Low tide 2.22pm (0.6m) High tide 10.05pm (2.6m) TOMORROW: High tide 8.11am (2.3m) Low tide 3.24pm (0.4m) High tide 10.05 (2.0m)
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    • 141 20 Film LA QRANDE LESSIVE LA GRANDE LESSIVE, an amusing satire which touches on the problems of children, will be screened at the Cultural Theatre, Cuscaden Road, at 9 pm at the end of the month. Admission is free. LA MAISON DES BORIES THE Alliance Francaise will screen La Maison des
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 355 23 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 19 LIBRA Others may be tardy in keep- September 23 to October 22 ing appointments, but if you Problems could arise about a become angry, you'll only distant matter or in communimake matters worse Expect eating with others. You may some differences of
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    • 1169 26 classified s 273-9090 I PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TECHNICIANS 1 I PART-TIME POST-TECHNICIAN DIPLOMA CERTIFICATE COURSES I I FOR 1984/85 SESSION I I (COMMENCING 11TH JUNE 1984) I Applicationi are invited for admission to the following part-time courses: I I ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY I I DIPLOMA IN INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
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  • sports
    • 468 27 j(_i INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND SPORTS ROUWD-UP AP SARAJEVO, Monday CZECHOSLOVAKIA and the SOVIET UNION advanced in their bid for the gold medal in the Olympic hockey event with easy wins over AUSTRIA and YUGOSLAVIA respectively. Vladimir Ruzsitchka, Darius Rusnak and Vladimir Caldr each scored twice
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    • 33 27 Finnish cross-country team members hoist Marja-Liisa Hamalainen in the air after she won yesterday's women's 5 km crosscountry event, her second gold medal in the Winter Olympics. PICTURE: AP
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    • 324 27 AP BLOOMINGTON (Minnesota), Monday Detroit 6, Minnesota 4 DETROIT'S John Ogrodnick notched his 39th and 40th goals to hoist the Red Wings to their first National Hockey League victory over Minnesota in 26 months, 6-4, on Saturday night. Black Hawks 1, Blues 1 In St
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    • 198 27 UPI Saturday'* Results Cleveland 86 Indiana 83. San Antonio 123 Detroit 116 Chicago 101 Golden State 96, Kansas City 94 Washington 91 Phoenix 108 Dallas 89. New York 138 Denver 112 Sunday's Qames Houston at New Jersey. San Diego at Milwaukee. Philadelphia at Boston. Atlanta at Los Angeles. Utah
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    • 92 27 Reuter DUSIBURG (West Germany), Monday POLAND'S Andrzej Grubba lifted the West German Open Table Tennis title with a surprise win over emerging Swedish star Jan-ove Waldner in the men's singles final here yesterday. Grubba took the first two games but second-seed-ed Waldner fought back strongly before
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    • 101 27 AP ATLANTA, Monday AMERICAN Tony McKay has set a new world best for the indoor 400-metre run with a time of 45.79, taking a big step toward his goal of making the United States' Olympic track and field team. McKay made his record run
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    • 267 27 ■HHiJLZa UPI (Top lour in Mch division qualify for Stanley Cup playoffs.) Saturday's Results Boston 4 Edmonton 1, Calgary 6 Hartford 3, Chicago 1 St. Louis 1, Detroit 6 Minnesota 4, Washington 6 Philadelphia 3, NY Islanders 6 Vancouver 4, Bui falo 4 Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 3 New Jersey
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    • 427 28  -  S'pore Recreation Club B edge out Jansenites A to win national six-a side tourney S'pore Recreation Club B 5 Jansenites A 4 bv B KULA A STAR-studded Singapore Recreation Club B side had sweet revenge when they edged Jansenites in the final of
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    • 136 28  -  Heli Orient 1 Jansenites C 0 By B KULA JANSENITES' juniors fared no better than their seniors when they lost to Heli Orient by a solitary goal scored by Colin Fedelis in the SHA junior six-a-side knockout final for the Staminade Cup at the Padang yesterday.
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    • 1034 28 JOCKEY Malcolm Johnston took riding honours in Kuala Lumpur yesterday when he performed the hat-trick, bringing in hot favourite Hochoy in Race 6. Fortune Maker in Race 7 and Photophone in Race 8 Hochoy was an easy winner of the $30,000 Shah Alam Trophy for Class 3 Division
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    • 133 28  -  By B KULA SINGAPORE'S junior hockey squad for the Junior World Cup qualifying round have yet to receive notification from the Federation of International Hockey on the venue of their round whether in Australia or Malaysia. If Singapore's venue is Kuala Lumpur, that would
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    • 747 29 CLOUGH'S FOREST TURN ON THE WITH ITS FIFTH AWAY HOTIW ENGLISH LEAGUE SOCCER WITH JOHN SELLERS QPR 0 FOREST 1 THE remarkable run of success, which has transformed Forest from First Division also-rans into potential champions, continued unchecked on the artificial surface at Loftus Road.
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    • 336 29 Reuter, UPI LONDON, Monday MANCHESTER United reclaimed third place in the First Division with an emphatic 5-0 win at Luton yesterday as the tussle for the English soccer championship narrowed significantly to just four sides. United, pushed
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    • 40 29 Division One lan Rush, Liverpool, 30 Steve Archibald, Tottenham, 22 Trevor Christie, Notts County, 18 Peter Withe, Aston Villa, 16 Division Two Kerry Dixon, Chelsea, 23 Kevin Keegan, Newcastle, 18 Jimmy Quinn, Oldham, 18 (17 for Stockport)
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    • 1399 29 DIVISION ONE Birmingham 0 Wolverhampton 0 Coventry 1 West Ham United 2 Liverpool 2 Arsenal 1. Norwich 3 Aston V«a 1. Notts County 3 Wattord 5 Queens Park Rangers 0 Noting ham Forest 1. Southampton 1 Sunderland 1. Stoke 11pswich 0 Tottenham 3 Leicester 2. West Bromwich AKmn
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    • 338 30  -  By ALFONSO CHAN AS EXPECTED, the Freestyle event in the Straits Steamship Singapore Open '84 was dominated by the Thais, whose acrobatic inventiveness ensured first placing for Lek Saard Pan- yawan and others like Bamroong Suamsap, Pradap Rangabpis and Jeab Wichitong within the top five.
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    • 343 30  -  Boardsailing association should build on the success of the Singapore Open to promote local talent and interest By ALFONSO CHAN NOW THAT the Straits Steamship Singapore Open '84 is over and they have stowed the boards and sails away, what next? The Asia-Pacific International Mistral
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 431 31 Malaysia Cup '84 The Star THE "Singapore Connection" of Nasir Jalil ana Ahmad Paijan helped Trengganu hold Johor to a 1-1 draw. Johor, which have never fielded their best 11 since the start of the competition, did it again when another newcomer Zabidi Osman made his
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    • 381 31 Connors takes his 7th US indoor championship title by beating Leconte UPI MEMPHIS, Monday JIMMY CONNORS won an unprecedented seventh US National Indoor Tennis Championship yesterday with a 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 victory over Henri Leconte. who was penalised a game after collapsing in the final set Connors,
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    • 185 31 UPI CHICAGO, Monday TOP-SEEDED Pam Shriver overcame an erratic serve to shake off unseeded Barbara Potter yesterday and capture the US$l5O,OOO Chicago Women's Tennis Championships 7-6, 2-6, 6-3. Shriver picked up US$2B,OOO for winning the championship match that lasted
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