Singapore Monitor, 15 February 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 16 1 1st Copy THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EVENINGEDITION M.C. (P) No 13/5 83 Wednesday, February 15, 1984 30cents
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  • 467 1  -  'Used properly, system offers more rest days' By FOO CHOY PENG THE 12-HOUR shift in Singapore is promoted because it will benefit workers and employers. The Ministry of Labour replying to several letters in the press calling for a ban on
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  • 218 1 SBC warns weekly to stop printing synopses A LOCAL Chinese entertainment weekly magazine has been warned by the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation to stop printing the synopsis of the current TV crowd-puller, Tne Awakening, or face legal action. It Is believed that SBC had recently sent letters to
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  • 83 1 AP THE SOVIET aircraft carrier Novorossiysk is expected to pass Singapore tomorrow to strengthen the Soviet Pacific fleet, a spokesman for the US Seventh Fleet said today. The carrier and four escort vessels were entering the Malacca Straits today from the Indian Ocean, said
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    • 317 2  -  Japanese Occupation Memorial STOtY: DAWN WESTERHOUT EVERY year on this day for the past 17 years, Madam Ng Kwai Chee has turned up at the War Memorial at Bras Basah. Using a cane and helped by her daughter-in-law, Mdm Ng, 88, still weeps as
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    • 156 2 Gang holds up victim's family, ransacks his house SIX robbers, one armed with a knife, held up a taxi-driver and his family in Sing Avenue; off Rangoon Road, and escaped with more than $20,000 in cash and valuables yesterday. Mr E K Koh,
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    • 159 2 POLICE are looking for the next-of-kin of a man who was found dead yesterday in Beng Wan Road. His body was found at Block 46, Beng Wan Road at about 12.45 pm. He was aged between 20 and 25, 1.62 m tall and wore
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    • 400 3  -  SAYS DHANABALAN THE TWO PRINCES Sunny smiles from Sihanouk and son as they leave City Hall STORY: GANDHI AMBALAM THE GROWING strength of the Cambodian resistance against the Vietnamese occupation troops is reflected in the confidence shown by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, says Foreign Minister
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    • 396 4  -  Do flower shops' bumper sales prove that S'pore men are romantic By DAWN WESTERHOUT ARE Singapore men romantic? asked the Sunday Monitor. No, said many of the women interviewed for the special Valentine's Day report. Yes, said tne florists we spoke to yesterday. The evidence a
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    • 166 4 "Tussle-baby" mum, Mdm Chen, is to be summoned in the 26th Magistrate's Court on Feb 21 on a charge of making a false report. The summons served on her yesterday in her Cantonese name of Amoi alias Chan Ah Moi alleged she had made the
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    • 275 4  -  Baby renamed after meeting between natural and foster parents By SIT YIN FONG "TUSSLE-BABY" Chen Weiling yesterday was renamed Eng at a meeting to settle a four-month custody tussle for him between his natural parents and his foster parents. His new name (which means
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    • 140 5  -  By FOO MEY KIEN A JEALOUS lover decided to rob his girlfriend when he caught her sleeping with another man in her room at Desker Road. Mohamed Hussein Abdul Najid, 23, a cook, woke up Indrany Ramasamy, 30, a Malaysian, on Aug 31
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    • 188 5 FRIENDSHIP turned out to be very expensive for a woman Chew Soi Kim, 33. Madam Chew and another woman Tan Gim Bin, 24, went to a flat at Bukit Merah View belonging to Tan's friend on Jan 30. Both of them have a key to
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    • 81 5 Lianhe Zaobao THE TERMINAL for taxis plying between Singapore and Johor Barn will be moved into the carpark at the junction of Queen Street and Ban San Street from March 1 because of the congestion in Rochore Road. The new terminal is behind
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    • 72 2 ELIZABETHAN Appetizing lunches I -yIV II I and dinner* in the M English manner. VA (T\ Traditional Sunday T M fSSiHE*. Dine and urine J candlelight. Youll hace nt evening. Our tradition is legendary With a Singapore Sling at ith place of origin, the Long Bar. Malayan Cultural Show every
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    • 319 5 w J The Mazda 323 has been acknowledged as one of the best cars on our roads today. Driving it a sheer experience in motoring /af »Jf tf pleasure. So it was difficult to find ways to m M y Wr^ make it even better. Every area that could be
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  • world
    • 310 6 Man now in jail for attempting to steal military secrets Reuter NEWARK (New Jersey), Wednesday HONG KONG businessman Zheng Da-Chuan, held in jail in lieu of US$l.5 million (553.15 million) bail, was described by prosecutors today as the kingpin of an international spy ring
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    • 191 6 JOHOR BARU, Wed THE NORTH-SOUTH trunk road to Kuala Lumpur is now open to all traffic. Malayan Railways have also resumed their services to the Malaysian capital. Both the road and rail traffic were disrupt- ed last week when parts of Johore were flooded
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    • World Briefs
      • 72 6 Reuter PORT MORESBY: Indonesian government forces are locked in fierce fighting with separatist rebels in Jayapura, the provincial capital of Irian Jaya, according to refugees fleeing across the border to Papua New Guinea. There has been no official confirmation of the clashes, but
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      • 37 6 TOKYO: The commission investigating the assassination of Aquino, beaded by Corazon Agrava (centre) flew into Tokyo yesterday to secure the testimonies of Japanese witnesses to the Philippine opposition leader's murder.
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      • 77 6 NEW YORK: Atlantic Richfield has offered to buy Gulf Oil for nearly US|ll billion (S*23 billion), according to Wall Street sources. Gulf was said to have rejected the idea t>n Monday, at least at this early stage. If the transaction took
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      • 61 6 The Nation Review BANGKOK: The "prostitution scandal," in which five girls died in a brothel fire in Phuket on Jan 30, has taken on a new twist with the national police chief ordering three local senior police officers transferred "to facilitate the investigation"
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      • 80 6 Reuter PARIS: Consumer prices in the industrialised West and Japan rose by only 5.3 per cent last year, the lowest amount since 1972, and inflation could continue to decline, according to figures released today. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said
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      • 69 6 Reuter LOS ANQELES: A 43-year-old grandmother, Cathy Wilson, alleged to have run the biggest child pornography ring in US history, pleaded guilty today to one count of pornography. Los Angeles superior court judge Diane Wayne released her on bail of US$l.l
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    • THEY SAID IT
    • 287 8 LATWP DAMASCUS (Syria), Wednesday SYRIA is carrying out a massive ammunition resupply operation for opposition forces locked in renewed fignting against the Lebanese army around Beirut. The move is expected to bring further pressure on the Lebanese army, which was apparently routed
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    • 121 8 LONDON, Wednesday PRINCESS Diana is expecting her second child in late September and leading British bookmakers yesterday were predicting it will be a girl. Corals offered odds of 10-11 on a girl, meaning you bet 11 to win 10, plus the stake back, evens
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    • 196 8 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Wed THE Soviet Union informed the president of the UN Security Council on Monday that it would permit him to take initial steps toward creating a UN force to monitor a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to diplomatic sources. The Soviets,
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    • 244 9 It can intercept and shoot down waves of Cruise missiles, says Jane's AP LONDON, Wednesday A MYSTERY Soviet jet known only as "Aircraft 101" is believed to be the prototype of a supersonic fighter designed to intercept and shoot down waves of Cruise
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    • 176 9 AP, LAT-WP STOCKHOLM, Wednesday SWEDISH navy units, searching for at least one suspected foreign submarine deep inside a major navy base area in southeastern Sweden, dropped depth charges yesterday to cause damage, highly placed military sources said. Military sources said navy surface
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    • 107 9 UPI PITTSBURGH, Wed A YOUNG American girl was listed in critical but stable condition from a 16hour operation which doctors said was "her only hope" the world's first simultaneous heart and liver transplants. At a news conference, Dr William Donaldson, Medical Director
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    • 171 9 UPI WETASKIWIN (Canada), Wadnaaday HOSPITAL privileges will be suspended for a month for a doctor who refused to examine a child rape victim from a nearby Indian reserve, hospital officials announced vesterday. Wetaskiwin Hospital board chairman Clayton Monaghan said Dr
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    • 131 9 Reuter UNITED NATIONS. Wednesday IRAN served notice today that only cities of religious significance in Iraq would be spared from Iranian bombardment in reprisal for Iraqi attacks on Iranian towns. Chief Iranian delegate Raiaie-Khorassani told reporters that raids on three Iraqi towns last
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    • 366 10 AP MOSCOW, Wednesday THE PERSONAL lives of Soviet leaders are usually kept separate from their public roles, and in keeping with that tradition, no one knows much about the family of new communist chief Konstantin Chernenko. Official reports have not mentioned whether
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    • 142 10 Reuter MOSCOW, Wednesday US VICE-PRESIDENT George Bush said yesterday that new Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko agrees that US-Soviet relations should be conducted "upon a more constructive path." Mr Bush made the statement after a 30-minute meeting with Mr Chernenko after the funeral
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    • 232 10 LATWP MOSCOW, Wed ONCE AGAIN, the mournful strains of a Chopin dirge and the thunder of artillery salutes rolled across Red Square yesterday as the Soviet Union buried President Yuri Andropov In a place of honour by the Kremlin Wall. The state funeral for Mr
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    • 320 10 Reuter NEW YORK, Wed THE US army suggested using the atomic bomb to break the Viet Minh siege on French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, according to an official army history book, the New York Times reported yesterday. According
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    • 327 8 THE STH INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EQUIPMENT COMPUTER SHOW IN SINGAPORE March 13-17.1984 World Trade Centre (Hall 2) Time: 12noon-Bpm. On behalf of all exhibitors and the relevant people, International Business Center Co., Ltd. would like to welcome you to visit "BUSI-COM '84" which will be held on a large scale at
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    • 158 9 r.» A prosperous start year. ®W ith a happy round of Iflo qT, ("lo hei"), stir up a grand Lunar New Year celebration, feasting on traditional Yu Sheng (Raw Fish Salad) and other festive dishes. Invite business associates and staff to enjoy our set menu. From Vermillion Splendour (Barbecued Suckling
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  • money
    • 208 11 Reuter HONG KONG, Wednesday HONGKONG and Shanghai Banking Corp and Chartered Bank cut prime rate 1.5 points to 10 per cent this morning, the Association of Banks said. An association spokeswoman said deposit rates had also been reduced by 1.5 points following an extraordinary
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    • 678 11 Mr Tan Koon Swan, executive chairman and managing director of Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd, is believed to be leaving the group soon to go into politics. His expected successor is none other than Datuk Lee San Choon, former MCA president and Transport Minister. The Star
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    • 213 11 SHARE OF THE DAY SPECULATION that Singapore Glass may be the target of a takeover has given the company's shares a good run on the market. After being worn down to a thin $1.34 at the end of December, talks of a courtship
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    • 156 11 SINGAPORE shares bounced back this morning after a 10Giint drop on the Straits Times dex yesterday. Only a handful of counters showed losses, while the 20 most active shares showed pluses. Malayan Banking gained 10 cents to $10.10, KL Industries 45 cents to $7.85 and Malayan
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    • 154 11 THE US dollar hovered narrowly in Singapore this morning around New York's closing levels in quiet early trading with operators shying away from the American currency, dealers said. Its sharp fall in New York despite the larger than expected 2.2 pier oent rise in US
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    • 495 12  -  Tan Chong's 5-for-2 bonus issue may be trimmed by the authorities By RODNEY HOBSON VALENTINE S Day led more romantic investors to muse that all the world loves a lover and a bonus issue. However, one should not be blinded by either of them. News
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    • 233 12 COMPANY REPORTS OVERSEAS Union Securities recorded a hefty increase in group pre-tax Erofits of 45 per cent from $2.2 milon to $3.2 million for the year ended Dec 31. Group income from operations increased 12.3 per cent aided the increase together
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    • 250 12 Selected a locks at midday. Market tone: slightly Uglier Boustead 2.90/2.92 Esso 13.00/13.80 Genting 5 90/5 95 G I H 4.48/4.60 Haw Par 2.68/2.69 Jacks Intl 5.50/6.20 Keck Seng 5.80/5.90 Magnum 4.28 S Cold Storage 4.72/4.74 Fraser 6.40/6.50 Hume 6.10/6.20 Inchcape 2.89/2.91 Intraco 3.26/3.30 Isetan 3.62/3.68 Jurong Cement 3.68
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    • 120 12 Your 8$ to ono unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DO US» 2.1355 2.1255 2.1165 sterling 3 0726 3.0505 3.0405 Australian 2.0104 1.9864 1.9764 Canadian 1.7214 1.7014 1.6914 New Zealand 1.4134 1.3933 1.3833 S$ to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.4632 10.9631 10.9131 Belgian franc/comm
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 32 11 C-1*« 1.,f McNaughl SyiMl Ik j m JjsF ~T "ir /> f '>yn K >< i-SS soil*#? "will you CrtVE ME. A WKITTEM EXCU6& ID MV WlF£ 6AVIMCr WHY TU£ MARKET WEAJT POWM -ropAy."
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    • 489 12 !*************************5T*****T***********************************1515tS S OVERSEAS UNION SECURITIES LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Announcement The Board of Directors of Overseas Union Securities Limited is pleased to announce: AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1983 1983 1982 Increese/( Decreete) Company Group Company Group Company Group s$ s$ s$ s$ Total
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 216 14  -  Tulip Garden will be the 10th condominium at Queensway/Holland Road junction By ANNIE CHIA TULIP Garden condominium, located between Holland Road and Farrer Road, brings to 10 the number of condominiums at the junction of Holland Road, Farrer Road and Queensway. It was up for sale since
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    • 343 14 RESIDENTS of Jurong Town Corporation's executive flats near Jurong LAke don't want to manage their own estate, an option offered to them by JTC about two months ago. The reply to the corporation came from the chairman of the Residents' Committee Zone C and eight
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    • 293 15 Hyundai gets 11.4 m hotel interiors contract Pan Pacific deal may be the first big interiors work awarded to Koreans here HYUNDAI Engineering and Construction Company has been awarded a subcontract estimated to be worth $11.4 million for the interior decoration of the guest rooms, suites and corridors of the
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    • 249 15  -  Centrepoint residents may have to put up with fumes from sateyhousf \'y£- By VINCENT FONG RESIDENTS of the Centrepoint apartments in Orchard Road may have to put up with the smell of satay from an eating house below every time the wind blows towards them. The
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    • 90 15 MR KWEE LIONG KENG of Pontiac Land has been re-elected president of the 17-member management committee of the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore (Redas). Other officials are Mr Kwek Leng Joo, Mr Teo Tong Wah, Mr Peter Yap, Mr Tony Tan, Mr Kuik See Juan,
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  • features
    • 1078 16 w THE TAKEOVER by Britain's Cable and Wireless of Hong Kong Telephone achieves two |B3 targets in one swoop It gives the company a head start in winning contracts for the upgrading of China's telephone system while putting a decisive end to a long-stand-ing dispute over an
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    • 183 16 BETWEEN THESE two telephone companies rests the entire telephone network in Hong Kong. Both companies have never been entirely independent of each other, and an intricate system has been worked out over the years where they complemented one another an
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  • opinion / letters
    • 428 17 COMMENT ACCORDING to a Ministry of Education survey, school pupils today clean their classrooms regularly. In some schools, they also clean the school hall, laboratories, school field and special rooms. They even clean the school canteen. But only in a small number of schools and
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    • 125 17  -  WHO IS SBC CATERING FOR? S KUMAR Singapore 1232 JUDGING from the tone of letters that streamed into the Press to complain about the inability to receive Channel 12 programmes on the majority of Singapore television sets, I deduce that many Singaporeans are indeed
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    • 20 17 INJUSTICE is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice H L Mencken, US editor (1880-1956).
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    • 174 17 ALTHOUGH I personally feel that Singapore has achieved remarkable economic growth in the past 25 years, a great number of my friends and I do not agree with the 12-hour shift. We believe that it will seriously affect the quality of life
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    • 246 17  -  REPLY MICHAEL LEONG Centre Manager Parkway Parade WE REFER to Kamu's letter headlined Parkway Parade needs guards to stop parking mess (SM, Feb We thank the writer for the compliments he paid to our shopping centre, and would like to address
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 47 17 Mr™* 9mm f IT'S AIL MY FAULT \TrC HOW WAS ITO KNOW THAT f "LA I OTHER BUNCH WOULDN'T [try 8001)17 y U S MARNES GO MM MUSUM BAD GUYS FANT DEAD AWAY /■T LEBANON LWES HAPHLY EVER kk I L AFTER I (>v J|L j L±,
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  • 493 18 Rubens (Ch 12, 8 pm) RUBENS was not only an artist, but a diplomat and a spy involved in the power politics of his time. This programme, presented by Robert Hughes, features RuDen's masterpieces, religious works, dramatic battle scenes and contemplative landscapes of his last years.
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  • 441 18  -  TV Scene By PHILIP CHEAH "TOO short" and "too early" were some of the nice complaints the Teen Up crew received throughout the first 13 episodes of the series. Nice complaints? Well, it is nice when people bother to complain that they didn't have enough
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    • 339 18 Why wait till tomorrow morning? Get today's latest news today! It's in the evening edition of The Singapore Monitor, Monday through Friday. Pick up your copy at hawker centres, bus-stops and street stalls where the Lian He Wan Bao is on sale. THE SINGAPORE ijlMfc MONITOR IP Also available from
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 791 18 Kenya s Nairobi National Park has a unique orphanage. where helpless animals are looked after Mjff until they are well enough to be released [m. J W M Wg Aw Sinclair, the real estate agent, campaigns for the "*VEj coming elections Old Joe s house is ransacked A 9 V
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    • 263 18 12.00 PM Programme Summary 12.05 man and His Orchestra 2. New York Musical Notebook: Sonatas: 1. Clementi: Frank Chacksfieid and His Orchestra 3. Sonata in B minor, Opus 40 No 2, Lamar More Waltzes'with Love Geoff Love and Crowson (piano) 2. Mozart: Sonata for Pi- His Orchestra 6.00 News-in-Brief 6.05
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    • 190 18 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 Waveguide 12.40 Book Choice 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 1.30 What's New 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Talking about Music 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 3.30 Let There Be Drums 3.45 Report on
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  • leisure
    • 684 19  -  SUCCESS COMES EASY FOR HER Story: WONG SING YEONG THE dumb brunette we see on screen is no dummy at all. Sally Ye, voted third sexiest woman in the Chinese film industry, is smart, sensitive and self-assured. Add these to sultry good looks and a 1.73-metre curvy
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    • 362 19 Reuter JAPAN'S world-famous film director, Akira Kurosawa, is all set to make the movie he sees as the climax of his career, a story inspired by King Lear and based on a 16th Century family of Japanese warriors. Aides of the 75-year-old director say he
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    • 654 20 STARSTRUCK TZU YUAN HAS CANDICE AND XIAOFEN ON HIS SHORTLIST TZU YUAN, the director of many successful sword-fighting movies for Shaws, recently announced his decision to film his final sword-fighting flick. For his grand finale, he has chosen a remake of his early blockbuster,
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    • 775 21  -  IRONY IN MILK AND HONEY By ROBERT HILBURN LAT-WP IT IS probably just as well that Yoko Ono waited three years to release Milk and Honey, the album she was working on with John Lennon at the time of his death. Just as it was too traumatic
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 735 21 FILM GUlOe John late Rod Serling nl. rr/9T«uii«w tvppanvaxv /o Synopsis. A new version ofHeaven Can Wait CHANQ 444 6459); LITTLE DRAGON DALIT (*****16): TEPPANYAKI (C) in which two condemned sinners are given a maihfn ir\ Starring: Michael Hoi, France. Yip, Sally second chance SUrrißg: ng Guo Rong> X|an Ni>
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    • 191 22 CAPITOL: NOW SHOWING! (*****5*) S SHOWS: 11am, 1.45, 4.00, 6.30, 9.15 It tMk tin cmnMm4 taltits it v^^^rT*TTTTT^riWr!ir t nfer Contest OHC H olcowfmoSSon^ at the finett beach resort TH( Df SARU VltW HOTII and THIRTY double Warner Brother! cinema pallet. by k»«d tow'ttiy S$ DcMru View Hotel JADE: NOW
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    • 233 22 ********************000 g ORCHARD: MOW SHOWING! p (75T15M) 4 SHOW!: 1.30.4.00. «.»Q nip™ 0 i■mm in cumi Mitimt jjf JOHN TRAVOLTA OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN TWO Of A KINO QLIViR REEO 9 V BEATRICE STRAIGHT SCATMAN CROTHERS I.■ CHARLES OUiliNGa.. O I^l-t riw— FRED KOENEKAMP AS C PATRICK WILLIAMS fk t --ROGER
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 135 22 AUSTRALIAN ART AWARD 1984 THE Singapore Australian Business Council, in association with the Australian High Commission, is holding the Australian Art Award 1984 competition, based on the themes Asian Impressions and Images of Australia. Artists are invited to submit their works in any medium but all paintings must be original
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    • 656 22 A Guangdong Chao Zhou Opera Troupe to perform at Palace Theatre GUANGDONG OPERA TROUPE Production Assistance Scheme. THE Guangdong Chao Zhou Opera T he po^V*?. and P rose P res f ntat n Troupe from China will make its begins with the pessinmtic thoughts third appearance in Singapore from unborn
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 338 24 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 19 LIBRA Behind-the-scenes career de- September 23 to October 22 velopments are in your fa- A loved one has good news. An vour. Luck is with you in deal- office rumour has little basis ings with educators, in fact. Work progress is erpublishers
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    • 253 24 ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry I^ e modirep M 200 BISON WAITS Strike is basically an international to make its flight tp moscow CRIME ORGANIZATION THEIR MAIN W THIS is whfrf ARE BLACKMAIL, SUBVERSION ANP Jr IL e PART COMPANY Ration even this Russian controlled air r M BRANDDO
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    • 152 25 THE Pro-Am tournament at the Serapong Golf Course today will be played on the "one-ball. Setter-ball/' system. Teams will consist of four players; one professional and three amateurs. The pros will play on scratch and the amateurs according to their handicaps.
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    • 369 25  -  By B KULA THE first professional ladies' open golf championship in the history of the game in Singapore begins at the Serapong course on Sentosa tomorrow. Singapore hosts the Third Leg of the Asian Women's Golf circuit there from February 16 to 18.
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    • 645 25  -  By B KULA THE golfer to watch at Serapong in this third leg of the Asian Women's Golf Circuit is Taiwan's Huang Yueh-Chyn who is leading with 210 points after the first two legs. But close at her heels in second place is Holly Hartley of
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    • 216 27 THE Pattaya Trophy, second leg of the four-leg Ladies Asia Golf circuit, was played last weekend at the Siam Country Club a well designed layout by Japanese architect Uzumi. This course, with its undulating characteristics and slow greens, was expected to
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    • 900 31  -  IT HAS GOOD CHANCE OF COMPLETING A DOUBLE ON SUNDAY TODAY'S TRACKWORK By WONDER BOY LAST-START easy winner Classic Danger continued to show splendid headway in nis workout on a good track at Kuala Lumpur yesterday morning. With Malcolm Johnston astride, the take-a-risk four-year-old was hard
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    • 218 31 It's not often we are hosts, he says The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday BADMINTON Association of Malaysia secretary Shuaib Kassa is singing a different tune now. After suggesting that the dates of the finals of the Thomas and Über Cups might have to be
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      61 31 DAYTONA (Florida), WtdMtday RICKY RUDD'S arm hangs out of tha window of Ms ear as It flips and ovar and in tha fourth turn of tha 80kHomatra Busch Clash on Sunday. Rudd flippad tha car at tha ontranca of Pit Row at tha and of tha 15th lap.
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    • 798 32 The defending champions fail to measure up despite its star-studded line-up TAMPINES ROVERS 2-0 win over defending champions Tiong Bahru on Sunday at Toa Payoh Athletic Centre was the biggest upset so far in the National Football League Division One. The defeat showed the failure of
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    • 393 32  -  SAFSA 1 FJUIRER PARK UNITED 1 REPORT: S GULAM SAFSA's four-match winning streak came to an end last night when Farrer Park United held them to a 1-1 draw in a National Football League Division One match at Jalan Besar Stadium. On the wet
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    • 105 33 MONITOR Sports' report on Raffffles Institution's surprise withdrawal from the Singapore Cricket Club seven-a-side rugby championships has continuod to stir up the amotions off soma off our readers. Three have wholeheartedly supported Raffffles' decision to withdraw from the match and one off them has even posed a
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    • 642 33 RECENTLY, there has been a hoo-hah in the local press regarding rugby kingpins Rl's decision to stay away from a local club's seven-a-side rugby tournament for schoolboys. After much reading and careful assessment, I hope to share my views with your readers in your sports column.
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    • 268 33  -  By B KULA TEO HAN CHUA, also known as Singapore's Mr Rugby, may not seek a place in the Republic'c team for the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong sevens rugby competition or join the tour for games that will be played
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    • 164 33  -  By B KULA THE Singapore Hockey Association's Under-20 tournament for the E W Barker Trophy scheduled to start during the third week of February has only attracted five clubs so far. Charan Singh, an SHA official said: "The response
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    • 463 33 I WOULD be grateful if you could allow me a space in your Sports Forum to express my comments on Rugby in the schools, in particular, the SCC sev-en-a side tournament for Under-17 boys. Body contact sports such as rugby, boxing, wrestling and
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    • 131 33  -  VINCENT LIM Singapore 1440. Better safe than sorry. That is what Raffles Institution preaches and that is something which any school can be proud of. It's no point sending a team for the Singapore Cricket Club sevens if one is not prepared for the competition. Rl's
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      463 34 BRITISH COUPLE 'BOLERO' THEIR WAY TO A SOLID GOLD UPI SARAJEVO, Wednesday WORLD champions Jayne Torviil and Christopher Dean, showing greater unison than Siamese twins, boleroed' their way to gold medal glory for Rritain last night with a peerless performance in the ice dancing event at the XIV
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    • 87 34 Winter Olympic Games medal standings after 21 events: Q S B Total East Germany 6 6 3 15 Sovtot Union 3 6 7 16 Finland 2 3 3 6 Norway 2 13 6 Swadan 2 0 13 Wast Qarmany 110 2 United States 12 0 3 Canada 10
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    • 227 34 AP SARAJEVO, Wednesday WHEN Javne Torvill and Christopher Dean finished their dance of deatn in the Zetra arena, three years of non-stop work reached a climax. The office clerk and the policeman, who gave up their jobs to practise ice dancing seven
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    • 199 34 WALSALL, Wednesday THE WEMBLEY dream of third division Walsall ended yesterday night when defending champions Liverpool beat them 2-0 to reach the final of the English Milk Cup soccer for the fourth successive year. After holding the favourites to a surprising 2-2 draw at Liverpool
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    • 360 35 Top French rider in a coma after fall during trackwork HONG KONG, Wednesday DOCTORS were yesterday battling to save the life of former French champion jockey Philippe Paquet who was seriously injured in a fall while doing morning trackwork at Shatin yesterday. A Jockey Club
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    • 367 35  -  By KEN JALLEH JR THE DAYS when squash spectators were forced to squeeze into what sometimes seem like a sardine can may be over with the tantalising prospect of the Twin-Vue all glass court making its debut in Singapore sooner than
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