Singapore Monitor, 19 February 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SUNDAY MONITOR M.C. (P) No.. 14/5/83 Sunday, February 19, 1984 40cents
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    • 76 1 I sra have lashed out tious serial based on the lives of Singapore pioneers offspring. Doubts have been ra sed about the serial's credibility and f I authenticity. SBC, however, maintains i'f I that the are FIUL DEBATE: PlB-17 royal BRATS WHY DO ROYAL KIDS BEHAVE SO BADLY? STORY ON
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    • 33 1 French fare Violet Oon reviews two new French restaurants in town. One has been opened by a worldrenowned chef and the other by a Frenchman already well known In Sinoa557:.?® ports P42-43v. v.'
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    • 138 2 The end of the Chinese-stream schools does not mean the end of the Chinese lan guage In Singapore. But tt does mean that we must prepere tor adjustments. For example, 'A' level recruits of the Institute of Education with dbttnctlons In Chinese wM be competent to
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    • 114 2 "My three children were al educated in Chineee schools, with Chinese as the first language, one for 12 years to 'A' levels, two for 10 yeers each, to O' levels, not to mention three yeers of kindergarten in Chineee. "Not one of them ie writing Chineee. either for
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    • 100 2 wnat tne ecutonai writers ana cocnmentators (in the Chinese Press) have not noticed is that the threat to our culture comes from the fundamental social and economic changes that have taken place. "Our women are al educated and have equal Job opportunities. This has increased fam«y incomes.
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    • 90 2 "Although Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipeh and Guangzhou are different societies with different life-styles, nevertheless, for the present, there are common features in all of them: the close-knit ties of family, where the respect for and care of parents is the mirror image of love
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    • 700 2  -  Threat to culture is from social and economic changes PM'S SPEECH AT CHINESE NEW YEAR RECEPTION By EE BOON LEE SINGAPOREAN Chinese have been told that the threat to their culture comes from fundamental social and economic changes, not from the fact that
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    • 418 3 PM'S SPEECH AT CHINESE NEW YEAR RECEPTION MR LEE Kuan Yew started his speech by saying that Chinese New Year family reunions bring his thoughts back to family bonds and their nature in the future. He was having lunch with three friends a fortnight ago.
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    • 268 3 PRIME Minister Lee does not expect Singapore to become a purely English-speaking society despite changes in the education system. He said the majority of the older generation cannot speak English. They still use dialects, although they now understand Mandarin, through TV. The majority
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    • 484 4 GUNMAN HOLDS BABY HOSTAGE FOR 8 TERRIFYING HOURS A 19-MONTH-OLD baby's ordeal ended yesterday afternoon when his uncle armed with a gun surrendered to police after holding him hostage In a Clementi flat for eight terrifying hours. The nightmare began when police raided the flat at Block
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    • 267 4  -  REPORTS BY SIT YIN FONG AND KK FONG THE Singapore News and Publications Limited group played its part in the dramatic eight-hour seige at Clementi yesterday morning. Two of the group's newspapers, The Singapore Monitor and Lianhe Wanbao, rushed out special
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      122 6 RELIEF ALL ROUND AS GUNMAN FINALLY SURRENDERS PEACEFULLY POLICE said the raid on the Clementi flat yesterday was carried out simultaneously with another 6 am raid on a house in Serangoon Road. In the Serangoon Road raid, the Organised Crime Unit arrested 14 Malaysians, four of whom
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    • 202 6  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO THE NEW bus system at Toa Payoh has resulted in an average increase of 10.3 minutes travel time, 5.4 minutes waiting time and 12.2 cents in fares per trip forpassengers. This was found in a survey of Kim
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    • 100 7 A 21-YEAR-OLD coffee-shop assistant was stabbed to death and his elder sister seriously injured in a flat at Jalan Bukit Merah View yesterday. The tragedy was believed to have started from a family quarrel in the afternoon. Police arriving at the scene found the body of
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    • 438 7  -  By BERTILLA PEREIRA THE PATE of the six boxers of Henry Abbot hangs in the balance after the end of a dramatic courtroom hearing yesterfar Tan Hwa Luck, the vet who had been taking care of the eight dogs since their
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    • 170 7  -  By DAWN WESTERHOUT THE NEW Chartered Bank building is literally a piece of cake. Its windows are made of chocolate and the rest of the 44-storey building all 2.6 metres of it consists of cake and icing surrounded by coconut trees and railings
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    • 115 7 ABOUT 500 students of the Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) have petitioned against the revised scheme for registering children for pre-prima-ry and primary school admission. The petition was sent on Thursday morning to the Education Ministry and to the Prime Minister's
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    • 162 7  -  By JALIL MISWARDI WITH THE simultaneous turning of switches by Mr J Y M Pillay and Mr T Hijikata, representing the Singapore Government and the Japanese investors respectively, the long-awaited $2billion petrochemical complex on Pu- lau Ayer Merbau finally got off the ground yesterday
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      443 8  -  Turning words into cash to help needy pupils By CAROLINE BOEY SPELLING spelled $28,000 for the Opera Estate Boys' School when it turned words into cash to help needy pupils. The school decided that a spellathon was better than a walkathon or jogathon. Mr B R Sethi, the principal,
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    • 297 8  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO DOES MAN control his environment or does his environment control him? This and other questions on the importance of geography to society were discussed yesterday at a seminar on the Relevance of Geography organised by the Geography Teachers' Association of
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    • 135 9 LAT-WP BEIRUT, Saturday DRUZE militiamen pressed their attack on the Lebanese army stronghold at Sua A 1 Gharb but halted their advance on the coastal highway south of the capital on Thursday amid speculation that Israel had warned them against going farther. Yesterday morning Israeli soldiers
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    • 439 9 PARTIES REJECT SAUDI-SPONSORED PROPOSALS FOR LEBANON BEIRUT, Saturday A SAUDI Arabian-sponsored peace plan for Lebanon accepted by beleaguered President Amin Gemayel crumbled yesterday as Syria, Israel, opposition Muslim forces and even right-wing Christian factions rejected the proposals. President Gemayel, facing demands for his resignation from Syrian-backed opposition
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    • 83 9 The ancient proverb about a sheep in wolf's clothing was rocontly changed. Here we have men in zebra's clothing. And to see what effect it has on a real live zebra, this experiment was made. The two men were
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    • 53 9 AP WASHINGTON, Saturday PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan has ordered US marines to begin palling out of Beirut this weekend to American navy ships off the Lebanese coast, the White House said. A contingent of 500 American military personnel will remain, Mr Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman,
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    • 278 9 Court refuses to set aside 173 m divorce settlement against sheik UPI LOS ANGELES, Saturday A SUPERIOR court judge denied an attempt by Saudi Arabian Sheik Mohammed Al-Fassi's attorney to have a US$Bl.5 million (5|173.6 million) divorce judgment set aside. Attorney Lee Bailey argued that the estranged wife, Sheika Dena
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    • 81 10 REAGAN SHOWS WHY HE IS VOTED THE FITTEST U.S. PRESIDENT EVER President Reagan took a respite from wrestling with the world's problems to arm wrestle in the Oval Office on Thursday with 61-year-old Dan Lurie, publisher of Muscle Training Illustrated. Mr Lurie was there to present the president
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    • 134 10 Reuter LONDON, Saturday EIGHT Western countries will mount more than 900 mock air attacks next month in a major three-day test of Britain's ability to defend itself. Air Force officers said the exercise, codenamed "Elder Forest 84" and due to start on March
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    • 313 10 Reuter PARIS, Saturday ANGRY French truck drivers lifted a blockade of main highways in various parts of France today after the government ordered troops and paramilitary gendarmes to clear road chaos. As the authorities started to unravel what one television commentator
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    • 148 10 Reuter REYKJAVIK (Iceland), Saturday POLICE cordoned off a large part of Reykjavik today in a house-to-house hunt for a gunman who committed the first armed robbery in Iceland's history. The unidentified man, armed with a sawn-off shotgun, fled last night with two million crowns
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    • 135 10 Reuter LONDON, Saturday ARGENTINE President Raul Alfonsin was quoted today as saying he accepted British proposals over the disputed Falkland Islands as a basis to start discussions. In an interview in Buenos Aires with Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, Mr Alfonsin said: We have accepted the
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    • 181 11 Reuter SYDNEY, Saturday A 72-YEAR-OLD man accused of threatening to blow up a Sydney hotel with gelignite over a tenancy dispute appeared in court today hours after a 10-hour siege ended. John Alexander Hay, a former opal miner who has an opal shop
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    • 293 11 Reuter KHARTOUM, Sat SUDAN has said that 80 people were missing after secessionist rebels attacked a convoy of barges on the Upper Nile on Monday. Transport Minister Khalid Hassan Abbas, giving the first official statement on the incident, said 800 passengers were on six
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    • 333 11 Former Philippines senator will go to US as planned Reuter MANILA, Saturday A JUDGE today dismissed charges against Philippines opposition leader Salvador Laurel who was stopped yesterday from leaving for the United States when a gold-plated pistol was found in his luggage. The case
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    • 131 11 AP WASHINGTON, Sat A US delegation headed by Assistant Defence Secretary Richard Armitage will visit Hanoi, starting tomorrow, to discuss the unresolved issue of an estimated 2,490 American military men missing in the Vietnam war which ended almost 11 years ago. Mr Armitage will
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    • 262 11 New technology to generate electricity UPI WHITTIER (California), Sat AMERICA'S biggest garbage dump has been turned into an electrical generator, producing enough power for 5,600 homes by burning the methane gas emitted by 10,000 tons of trash a day. Put on line Friday, the Puente Hills landfill methane
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    • 172 12 Reuter JAKARTA, Saturday THE INDONESIAN Government has allocated US$5 million (Sf 10.5 million] to screen and re-educate an estimated 1.6 million former members of the Indonesian Communist Party, according to a top official. Mr Tojiman Sidikprawira, director general of social ana poliUcal affairs, told
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    • 58 12 JAKARTA, Saturday PRESIDENT Suharto will attend Brunei's independence celebrations in Bandar Sen Bengawan next week, it was announced here today. President Suharto disclosed his intention to attend the ceremonies in a meeting with Pangiran Da to Paduka Haji Jaludin Bin Pangiran Mohammad Limbang, who presented
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    • 52 12 As it turned out, the zebra did not even notice the presence of its "cousin". The animal (and who can blame it?) obviously had more important things to attend to as it nonchalantly continued to drink from the pail of water left
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    • 155 12 Two Malaysian brothers to die for drug trafficking AP KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday TWO BROTHERS were sentenced to death by the high court in Penang on Friday for trafficking drugs, according to Malaysian news reports The verdicts brought to six the number of drug traffickers given death sentences in
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    • 462 12 AP NICOSIA (Cyprus), Saturday IRAN AND Iraq fought a major battle yesterday about 160 km east of Baghdad and many hundreds of soldiers were left deaa on the battlefield, according to military communiques from both sides. Casualty figures fipm two days of fighting nave
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    • 242 12 LONDON Sat THE "inside man" in one of the world's largest robberies, a £26 million (5581.9 million) gold bullion heist, was under 24hour police guard today as he began serving his six-year jail term. Anthony Black, 31, who gave authorities information about the
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    • 339 13 Drugs and mental tricks can alter physical responses to the test Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday A VARIETY of methods as easy as biting the tongue can be used to beat lie-detector tests, a Congressional study has reported. Certain drugs, mental tricks and hypnosis can allow a
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      • 70 13 AP VIENNA: A letter, written on US embassy stationery, which called on the Austrian government to make this neutral country's air space surveillance system available to Nato in case of a "Soviet nuclear attack" was officially Identified as a fake yesterday.
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      • 55 13 UPI UMA: American actress Margauz Hemingway abruptly cut short her visit to Peru because she said she and her husband had been "victims of police persecution" since their arrival there on Wednesday. The 28-year-old granddaughter of novelist Ernest Hemingway hastily boarded a plane for
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      • 82 13 UPI TORONTO: Two Toronto men were given light prison sentences for cheating a group of North Koreans of US$5OO,OOO (Sfl,W0,000), purportedly the payment agreed 00 In a plot to assassinate the president of Sooth Korea. Charles Yanover, SS, was sentenced to two
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      • 68 13 UPI TOKYO: Traffic snarls, train cancellations and flight delays stiffled Tokyo's frantic pace today following the fifth big flurry this winter the city's snowiest season in 28 years. The seven-inch overnight snowfall tangled Tokyo's ultra-efficient transportation networks, throwing at least 300,000 people off
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      • 90 13 Reuter KUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Minister Sheikh All AlKhalifa Al-Sabah was quoted on Friday as saying that a blockade of the Straits of Hormuz could push up oil prices by only US$4 to US$B (SsB.lQto 5516.8) a barrel, followed bv a possible
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    • 183 14 Leonard from Switzerland. A watch for the Leo personality the person who appreciates bold, confident fashion statements and has the authority to wear them. A king in the world of gold watches for both men and women. With dramatically contrasting stripes of gold and platinum echoed in an elegant crown.
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    • 195 15 "WHEN you stop to think that a US$30 game cartridge can bring in more money than a hit movie, it's absolutely staggering," says Rob Fulop, the 26-year-old game designer who created Demon Attack, one of America's most successful cartridges in
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    • 679 15 Sipa There's a new way to make it rich in America and it has nothing to do with rock music. Almost every American teenager with a personal computer now wants to be a video game designer. Joel Gluck,l9, Rob Fulop, 26, David Crane, 30,
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    • 276 16 After only four episodes of the 26-part The Awakening, a haze of controversy is already hanging over the television serial. The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's most ambitions serial to date to based on the lives of a group of local pioneers and their offspring set in the period
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    • 601 16 What the critics say~ What the producers say... THE critics' list of complaints was long and wideranging. Besides questioning the authenticity of the serial, doubts were also directed at its credibilty. Here are examples: How is it that Amei, from China, arrived on the
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    • 716 16 The artistes remain the real makers of drama in The Awakening, despite the publicity generated by the purchase of expensive props, antiques and costumes. Almost every available full-time artiste on Caldecott Hill was called up, and for the first time, many main roles
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    • 198 17 THE serial's executive producer, Lai Shui Ching, (picture) from Hong Kong shared the views of Jiang Long, planning manager of SBC's Drama Unit. "If you want to pick on small details, you are going to have a hard time watching any serial. The Awakening is
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      397 18 IPS The Chinese version of the popular series The Love Boat is scheduled to be released by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts (TVB) as the Lunar New Year attraction this month. A 40-member production crew, headed by the executive producer, recently returned from a eight-day cruise to Manila
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    • 155 18 USA Today DID you know that Sean Connery was once a coffin polisher? That Dustin Hoffman was a toy demonstrator? Ed Lucaire's The Celebrity Book of Lists (published by Stein Day) divulges everything from who has had a nose job (Marilyn Monroe, Sissy Spacek, Alan King)
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    • 280 18 Role switch tor TV hero in new film Sipa Tom Selleck, hero of the hit TV series Magnum P. 1., is hack in a second major feature film that promises to be as exciting as the rollicking High Road to China. In Lassiter, directed by Robert Young,
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    • 1008 19 IPS Wild West hero, John Wayne, stepped on to the stage of the film awards ceremonyand the audience erupted. That night he received an honorary Oscar and a standing ovation. As he stood there, a gaunt figure in his tuxedo, only one woman knew the strength
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    • 622 20  -  PROFILE OF SINGAPORE'S GRASSROOTS LEADERS All stories by EE BOON LEE "YOU mei you wen ti?" (Any problems?) Mr S Vasoo never fails to cause ripples whenever he resorts to Mandarin when he chairs a public forum. It's his way of changing the mood of
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    • 240 20 THE MRT is very much in the minds of the people in Toa Payoh even as controversy continues over the bus interchange, as can be gauged from a recent meeting of the Toa Payoh Residents' Committee Zone C. At the monthly
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    • 117 20 MORE youngsters should be encouraged to do community work, according to Mr S Vasoo. And, in his view, tne EC movement provides just the right vehicle to make the young more social conscious. "It's not that our young are not aware of the problems
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    • 613 21  -  HEAIXHWISE By JOHN YACENDA OPA Children need a certain amount of key nutrients for proper growth and good health, of which dietary fat is essential. But according to a report in Aviation Medical Bulletin (October, 1980), overfeeding during infancy (the first two years especially) can
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      46 21 Note The length of time that it takes a victim to suffer through the stages of hypothermia is highly dependent upon the physical condition and psychological attitude of the victim as well as the environmental conditions Chicago Tribune Graphic Source Hypothermia Causes EWecls Prevention
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    • 545 21 THE NEXT time you get stuck behind a dawdling driver on the road, look at the colour of his car. Chances are that it will be green, according to a leading American psychologist. Dr Emery Stover of Tennessee, says green cars are often chosen
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    • 1797 22 Desptt* th« call for public discretion In behaviour, the younger generation of the British royal family Is a rebellious lot Prince Andrew Is living up to his nickname of "Randy Andy." His brother, Prince Edward, 19, became a lady-killer while still a schoolboy
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    • 531 25  -  All stories by CONNIE YEE Scout-Guide Day falls on Wednesday, Feb 22. Scout-Guide Day, or Thinking Day as it is known to guides, commemorates the joint birthdays of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell who founded the movement in 1907. Scouts and guides worldwide will
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    • 128 25 CHEW Lee Ling feared water because of a bad childhood experience. But her determination to get the President's Guide Award helped her rid herself of this f»hobia. And so Lee Ling became he very first President's Guide in 1972. As she explained, besides
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    • 420 25 WHEN Hylton Frugtniet married his wife, she told him: "If I can't pull you away from scouting, I might as well join it." And to prove that she really meant it, her wedding ring to him had the scout emblem on it.
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    • 344 25 TO leave the world a little better than when you entered it that's the underlying philosophy behind scouting and guiding. The pursuit of this goal leads the individual through a range of experiences in which he is expected to make sacrifices and think
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    • 992 26 KNT The last Black Widow spider working on the production line at North American Survey Supply Co in Philadelphia died the other day. "A short life but a productive one," her tombstone might say, if spiders had tombstones. The company plans to recruit new spiders, a
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    • 279 15 CflVFI tTIMIV Controversy over 'The buvtu «imii Awakening.' Critics have come up wide wide-ranging complaints on SBC's most ambitious serial to date. The serial is about the lives of our early pioneers and their offspring. For full details of the debate: P16-17 STARMfATCH Hon 9 Kon 9 Spotlight, in inntiniiHi
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    • 363 19 BORN TODAY: You are independent and selfreliant. You have executive ability and would do well in business for yourself. You're an individualist who often chooses a creative medium to express your thoughts. Writing, acting, music and painting are some of the fields in which you'll find happiness. You're atso attracted
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    • 74 26 WORLD OF NATURE t ■VTOH a AUSTRALIA) T£RMIT£S i\ L AiLl/IIKOA OF tflK£ ASSAL IM ptJIBOUTI IS the MOST OF «iT»W^3It A M BRANCH rtAiD NOT WATER JM THE WOOLD. IT IS VEN T»**S SALTIER r_ rH from twigs thrm the oceams» mo fish craj uvc in H# scjajs s/o
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  • 376 28 POWER remains firmly in the hands of the ruling royal family although newly-independent Brunei adopted a ministerial system of government on Jan 1. Observers believe that the royal family, led by the ruler, is unlikely to delegate its authority in the foreseeable future. The sultanate
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  • 482 28  -  BRUNEI The Coming of /Vge FIRST IMPRESSIONS All reports by Foo Choy Peng A COUNTRY where the people pay no income tax, where medical treatment and education are free, where food and housing are heavily subsidised, where cars and petrol are cheap.
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  • 245 29 IMI Brunei becomes a British protectorate. 190 C A British resident is appointed to advise the sultan on all matters of State, except for Mfji" religion >IM i customs. 1999 Ths sultanate becomes self-governing. In place of the British Resident, there is a British High Commissioner. The
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  • 378 29 BRUNEI The Coming of Age BRUNEI Is one of Asia's most indent states. It's said to have been first settled during the Bth Ceotnry. In the early 15th Century, during the time of the Majapahit empire, Islam came to Brunei via the Sultanate of
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  • 406 29 BRUNEI will take more comprehensive measures in its next development plan to cut its over-dependence on oiL "We have been sitting comfortably on our oil and gas and there is no actual push to diversify. I think the push is coming
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    • 73 29 Heartiest Congratulations His Majesty Paduka Sen Baginda g eg Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan p Negara Brunei Darussalam, g His Majesty's Government and People S in conjunction with the First National Day of Negara Brunei Darussalam on 23rd February 1984 eg "Merdeka Berdaulat" S Overseas Union Bank Ltd S Head Office:
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    465 30 BflUNti fhe Coming of Age "WE DON'T GO out of the way to encourage tourists to come to Brunei. If they want to come here, we don't discourage them but we want them to accept us as we are." A senior official in the Brunei government, January, 1984. THE
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  • 155 30 ENTRY requiremeats: No visas needed by Commonwealth residents. Language: Malay is the national language but English is most often the language of business. Hotels: Ang's Hotel, Capital Hostel, National Inn, SheratonUtama, Seaview and Sentosa. Currency: Notes are in denominations of 1, 5,10, 50,100, 500 and 1,000 dollars. The
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    601 32 Unusual village where water, water everywhere is a daily fact of life A VISIT to Kampong Ayer, or the Water Village, is an unforgettable experience. Looking at it from the banks of the wide Brunei River, it looks like time stood still while the rest of the town
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  • 345 34 BRUNEI The Coining of Age A BIG BUYER OF OUR GOOOS SERVICES SINGAPORE IS THE SECOND LARGEST SOURCE OF THE SULTANATE'S TOTAL IMPORTS BRUNEI'S population may be only a tenth of Singapore's But it is nevertheless a big buyer of our goods and
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    • 706 35  -  EUNICE GAN Bangkok As a Singaporean residing out of Singapore, I have always been proud of my country's growth and progress into the most developed country in this region. I have made intermittent visits home and each time, I have been impressed by all that I have seen.
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    • 336 35  -  Hobson's Choice By RODNEY HOBSON WHEN the pedants go marching in, your columnist wants to be in that number. Still, there are limits. A reader has rung up to take The Sunday Monitor to task for referring to the year 2000 as the start
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    • 849 35 IT MAY seem strange, but the people in San Carlos, id El Salvador, smile, shyly at first, but then broadly, when a visitor asks about murder and mayhem. There hasn't been any in San Carlos, not for years. Not a single political assassination. Not even
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    • 1364 36 Pierre Cardin, at 62 is a veteran of unequalled fame and durability in the world of haute couture. They say he has sold so many neckties that, knotted end to end, they would encircle the globe. Here, the doyen of high fashion talks about his humble
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    • 1344 38  -  Issues in education All stories by K L QUEK On Jan 16,1906 Dr Maria Montessori gave an inaugural address at the opening of a school in the San Lorenzo poor district of Italy. She had worked with handicapped children and this was her first opportunity
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    • 538 38 IT is doubtful whether the child could cope with the mass of new experiences were it not for the important contribution made by play. Play is his principal exploring time, his renearsal time, his preparation for the future. These are the
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    • 746 39  -  By STEPHEN TAN Anyone who concludes a non-fiction book with "My God, what a fantastic time to be alive" surely must feel very optimistic about the times he is living in, albeit the happenings from Lebanon to El Salvador. Such optimism, surely a throwback to
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    • 153 39 TITLE: Effective Distribution Management AUTHOR: Martin Christopher, et al PUBLISHER: Pan Books RATING: AT Cranfield School of Management, the authors have tried over the last 10 years to make a professional out of the distribution manager. To them, he is not just a transport
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    • 299 39 1. Megatrends by John Naisbitt 2. The Little Drummer Girl by Le Carre 3. Lace by Shirley Conran 4. The Hunters by Alan Stratton 5. The One Minute Manager by Blanchard Johnson 6. No Good Men by
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    • 174 39 TITLE: Pet Sematary AUTHOR: Stephen King PUBLISHER: Doubleday CAPSULES THE first rule of book reviewing is (or should be) to open with a concise account of what is most important or significant if anything about the book. Thus, it must be said that Pet
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    • 142 39 TITLE: The Secret Diplomacy Of The Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes Of The Pentagon Papers EDITED BY: George C Herring PUBLISHER: University of Texas DID the United States Presidents Kennedy and Johnson secretly commit American to war in Vietnam while misleading the public
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    • 138 39 TITLE: UFOS: The Public Deceived AUTHOR: Philip J Klass PUBLISHER: Prometheus BAD news for fans of E.T. as author Philip J Klass sets out to prove that flying saucers are, after all, only swamp gas. Klass methodically tackles the past decade's major cases,
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    • 1280 41  -  Le Bernardin Restaurant lUjllNu ?'3F VIOLET OON Two well-known Frenchmen have just opened their restaurants in town. One is world renowned, with his restaurant in France billed as one of the top 10 French restaurants in the country by the Gault-Millau tome. He is suave,
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    • 724 41  -  le Restaurant dc Franco *.th VIOLET OON He is suave, smooth as silk and every woman's idea of the romantic Frenchman. Louise Outhier who started off with a pension in La Napoule has come a long way since, with restaurants in Osaka, Tokyo, the Oriental Hotel in
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      • 1541 43 Why is Orchard Road, Singapore's equivalent to London's Oxford Street, New York's Fifth Avenue and Hong Kong's Nathan Road? What makes the place a good investment for shopping centres, service apartments, supermarkets, condominiums and offices? Like Topsy, Orchard Road just grew. It has a special drawing
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      • 184 43  -  B* ANG PENG HWA THE last block of the Bayshore Park apartments, withheld by the developers till last Thursday, has been put on the market at a markup of up to 5.7 per cent of the list price over units sola in October. Increases range from
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    • 199 43 (m ImcKage deal in r» WtWTHS WWCHASK-SArf?^ Q »*«eiMW s a 'RJUkItSHINUS mSUBAMCU 117 C Som*rt»i Houtr Singapore 0923 fijjEEEa I jj|B3QDuB Perwonallted Service l( our Speciality AUCTION SALE Auction Sal* Of Valuable Properties To Be Hold At Cecil Street #02-04 People's Insurance Building On Wednesday, 22nd February 1984 At
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    • 205 45 From The Black Gold Collection by Andre Le Marquand Andre Le Marquand. the master watch designer, pares down the elegant essentials of time to an Incredible 3mm ultra-slim excellence. Flawless 20 microns gold plating front and underside, i Distinctive black chrome i coating. Water-resistant down 1 to 20 metres. The
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    • 136 46  -  Sunday Matinee: The Man In The Iron Mask (Ch 5, 2.55 p.m.) Sunday Choice By VALERIE TREVOR THIS timeless Alexandre Dumas story filmed in 1976 adds up to an entertaining family fare. Set in late 17th Century France, it promises political
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    • 159 46 Friday Night Movie: Hardhat and Legs (Fri, Ch 5,10.20 p.m.) TOP SHOW OF THE WEEK NOW, MY top choice is somewhat of a lady-and-the-tramp type film. A light 1980 comedy written by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon and directed by Lee Phillips, you can relax to
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    • TV WEEKEND GUIDE TO THE BEST VIEWING
      • 335 47  -  TODAY S highlights SCORING SYSTEM: M Wtrtfc Stttag Brim Aimn By VALERIE TREVOR Fast Forward State of the Arts (Ch 5, 2.09 pin.) WHAT has poetry got to do with the computer? How can the computer assists poets in the preservation
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      • 436 48 WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS Awn* Vary M EXCMMI A Handful of Songs (Dobuft Fri, Ch 8, 6.05 p.m.) AIMED at the under five-year-olds, this fun-filled music series returns by popular demand. Young children have sent in their own pictures and paintings', and the additional artwork
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    • 85 46 in show tonight Ch 5, 8.30 p.m. UPI~WIr»- H ■pn lij TC^43oM^^^ mm^m^mmmmmmmmtgtr 36cm (14") Portable Colour TV It stands 14" tall. The only thing small about the TC-430M7 i National latest portable colour TV, is its size. But it sure stands tall when it comes to features: Super Quintrix
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    • 116 47 STREAMLINED National's latest video cassette recorder, the NV-370EN, comes in a slim compact design, yet it's packed with all the features you'd want in a VCR. Front loading system Multi-function display One-touch timer recording Memory function 14 days timer recording Cue/Review operation NV-370EN See it today at your nearest National
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    • 579 47 •.00 Opening and Programme Highlight* The Big Cats. programme looks at the legend of the followed by Try It Out See Highlights. Loch Ness Monster which existed as 0.20 New Zoo Revue: Preparation. 2.55 Sunday Matinee: The Man in the Iron early as the 6th Century 10 af 7.30 News
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    • 303 48 8.00 Opening and Programmes Highlights Kanawa. and Piero Cappuccilli perform difficult for the tenor, and the hardly less followed by Today's History: Invisible Giuseppe Verdi's highly-acclaimed op- difficult cole of lago, give the opera an History (Chines* subtitles). era, Othello. The libretto, written by Ar- exciting virtuoso element on top
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    • 380 49  -  HE MEETS AN UNDERSTRENGTH TUNKU'S GOLD CUP FIELD 2 PAGE TEAR-OUT By WONDER BOY CLASSY New Zealand import Jambeau should land his first classic victory on our local turf when he takes on an understrength Tunku Gold Cup field over 2,000 metres in Race 5 in Kuala
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    • 130 49 VALLEY FAME (12), carrying a light weight and handled by Record Harvest (5) must be the best bet in today's card, jockey Leslie Khoo, is likely to start favourite to win the His powerful finish and Tweedie's riding brilliance should put Tunku Gold Cup for the third time
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    • 185 52 classified s 273-9090 Situations Vacant (1) MALE OPERATORS (GENERAL HELP) (2) STORE ASSISTANTS 1 Able to spoak and understand English. f| Interested applicants please call personally f at: FAIRCHILD (S) PTE LTD 11 Lorong 3, Toa Payoh, S'pore 1231 LT«Ii293-1066 I A Schlumborger Company cmn promm you imur» b»i»w w»
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    • 173 52 Situations Vacant JOIN US L J FEMALE I PRODUCTION LoperatorsJ r AND TAKE 1 I HOME I (AFTER CPF |LpEDUCTIONS)J f $305.00 |L on the Ist mthJ f $320 i i after 3 mths 1 $377 "I after 6 mths J NO SHIFT WORK] I FIVE DAYS WEEK 1 8.00
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    • 674 52 Situations Vacant A APPLIED MAGNETICS fl (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD K Applied Magnetics, the largest independant computer magnetic heads manufacturer in the world, is now ready HiK to provide excellent employment opportunity in its newly established subsidiary company. HIApplied Magnetics ialah sebuah syarikat pembuat computer magnetic heads yang terbesar di-dunia dan
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    • 244 53 classified 273-9090 Situations Vacant EMC LAMBD/ requires FULL-TIME OPERATORS Minimum STARTING wage $375/- SOLDERING minimum starting wage $395/Requirements: 16-35 years old Primary education Benefits: 5-day week (no shift) Adjustment after probation Job grading and salary adjustment Paid tea break times AWS more than one month and many attractive benefits Recommendation
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    • 307 53 LEISURE AND SPORTS MART Boats A Outboards BMAMO MffMT WtttO surfers lor sal*. Urrvted number only Price J9bo 00 each Interested cal 268-6787 i OFFICE FACTORY: No 246-C. EUAS ROAD. 14 7km TAMPINES S PORE 1851 TEL: *****05. *****57 (W| CONCEPT DESIGN CONTRACTS (PTE) LTD. We Specialise In: Ship Interior
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    • 229 53 MERCHANDISE AND SERVICES Furniture /Furnishings cam nmmrxjM rom rental/ sale. 26. Greenwood Avenue (off Hillcrest Rd). Tel: 469-0478/ 468-4241. Opens: Sundays/ Public Holidays ft 1 f* w jf* 7n t it uwneeflles Hoeprtai 1984 at Qieneagles to Mary and John Laa. Hospital to Mr X 46 Jalan Novana, Sin- Mrs
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    • 112 53 Property For Sale i, THE IDEAL CHOICE AND LOCATION Furnished, well-renovated 4-room HDB walk-up flat in Ang Mo Kio at junction of Marymount Road and Ave 1 Ang Mo Kio. Ceramic flooring Direct bus routes Re-plastered walls (no shuttle bus need- Tinted windows ed) with grilles 5-min walk to 3-Dimension
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  • sports
    • 127 54 Win over Pahang: What Selangor say The Star WHAT GAVE Selangor victory over Malaysia Cup champion Pahang on Wednesday was their ability to shut out the Pahang midfielders. Realising the damage the four Pahang midfielders T Pathmanathan, Abdah Ahf, Ahmad Yusof and Zainal Abidin could cause if
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    • 148 54 Defeat by Selangor: What Pahang say The Star PAHANG *S Malaysia Cup defeat by Selangor on Wednesday is a blessing > i disguise according to their coach Fred Binney. Selangor ended Pahang*s six-match unbeaten run with a > U victory but Binney said: "The defeat made our
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    • 299 54 EVEN A POINT-BLANK ATTEMPT AT GOAL COULD NOT BEAT THE FT KEEPER FEDERAL TERRITORY 0 TRENGGANU 0 MALAYSIA CUP 1984 KUALA TRENQQANU, Saturday FEDERAL TERRITORY goalkeeper Rashid Hassan played one of his best games last night to keep his goal intact and helped his team earn an
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    • 138 54 P W 0 L F A Pt» Pahang 7 5 1 1 20 9 16 Panang 6 5 1 0 11 4 16 Saiangor 9 5 1 3 12 10 16 NSambHan 7 5 0 2 11 10 15 Malacca 7 4 1 2 16 10 13 FT
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    • 357 54 The Star THE MESSAGE is clear: Goalkeeper E Arumugam is back in the reckoning for the top spot. Pahang coach Fred Binney acknowledged this when he said that what gave Selangor their win on Wednesday night was the superb goalkeeping of R Arumugam. But ne
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    • 49 54 UPI Beijing, Saturday ZHU JIANHUA, the current holder the men's world high jump record, will not compete in Canada nor in the t nited States this month because of illrcss, the Chinese Athletics Association said yesterday. His illness was not explained. UPI
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    • 61 54 Reuter LONDON, Saturday ENGLAND soccer coach Don Howe, manager of First Division club Arsenal since Terry Neill was sacked in mid-December, has been fined £250 for abusing a referee. The Football Association found him guilty of directing improper comments to referee Ken Walmsley
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    • 53 54 AP CAIRO, Saturday FORWARD Alaa Nabil headed in the ball in the 57th minute yesterdau to lead Egypt's national soccer team to a 1-0 victory over Algeria and a berth in this summer's Olympics in Los Angeles. Egypt join Cameroon which already qualified for
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    • 226 54 Reuter BALTIMORE, Saturday FORMER undisputed welterweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard, dismissing the consequences of two eye operations and the pleas of fans and experts alike to stay retired, still plans to fight again. "I've been declared fit and I'm fine,"
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    • 62 54 AP BLACKBURN, Saturday DAVID ARMSTRONG scored after minutes to give Southampton a 1-0 < over Blackburn Rovers in an FA Cup fifth round match here ia night. It was the third successive vie away from home in the Cup for Sci ampton and put the
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    • 28 55 Tears of joy Magoni covers her face in disbelief. PICTURES: UPI Overjoyed ...the win, a first for her. Tears of joy stream down her face.
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    • 438 55 Soviets and Czechs ready to slug it out for Olympic hockey title Sarajevo, Saturday THE SOVIETS and Czechoslovaks are ready to fight it out for the Olympic Hockey title. The Soviets, bidding to recapture the hockey sold medal they lost to the United States four
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    • 54 55 q m East Germany 7 7 5 Soviet Union 4 9 8 Norway 3 2 3 United Statee 3 2Sweden 3-1 Finland 2 3 5 Switzerland 2 2Canada 2 11 West Germany 2 11 Italy 2 Britain 1 Czechoslovakia 1 3 France 1 1 Japan 1 Yugoslavia 1
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    • 117 55 Sarajevo, Saturday BOXERS in the Los Angeles Olympics will be allowed to wear headguards, the International Olvmpic Committee (IOC) announced today. It said a decision on whether their use should be compulsory would be taken by the International Amateur Boxing Federation (AIBA) in
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    • 411 55 AP SARAJEVO, Saturday THERE'S A new house limit of two beers per customer at the best "bar" in town, after four hockey players downed 54 free bottles. Despite an alcohol ban at the Olympic athletes' village, beer is available
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    • 495 56 This footballer wears the quiet mantle of genius without the spoiled star image TREVOR BROOKING OPA BOBBY CHARLTON used to hold the title, now Trevor Brooking proudly wears the crown...tne first gentleman of English soccer, unfortunately, he will not keep this distinction much longer.
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    • 294 57  -  IT WAS EITHER THE THAIS OR HIM IN KEENLY CONTESTED COMPETITION By CHEONG TACK WAI in Kuantan KELLY CHAN did Singapore proud when he won the final race in the lightweight class to snatch the title in the inaugural Asian Pacific Mistral championships here
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      767 57  -  SINGAPORE GOLFERS TAKE MATCH TO DAZZUNG HEIGHTS AGAINST MUCH FANCIED BRITISH TEAM By ERNEST FRIDA SINGAPORE professionals walked 10 feet tall off the Bukit course 18th green yesterday when they beat the much-fancied British team 4-2 in the first Tiger matchplay classic golf international. It was a superb
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    • 47 57 SINGAPORE'S long distance kingpin Jagtar Singh took only 10 mins 18 sees to complete the three-kilometre route in the first F N road relay league held at the Macßitchie reservoir yesterday. His fine performance gave Swift Athletic Association an early lead over the five-day series.
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    • 246 57  -  CHANGI CONSTITUENCY 4 SAFSA 2 By S GULAM LEAGUE-LEADERS Safsa's winning run this season came to a halt when a half-strength Changi Constituency team beat them 4-2 in the NFL Division One match at the Queenstown Athletic Centre yesterday. Changi started
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    • 304 57  -  By B KULA RAFFLES JUNIOR College and United World College stormed into the final of the Singapore Cricket Club Sevens for the Sitnawalla Trophy when they outran their rivals, St Andrew's Junior College, and American School respectively in the semi-finals on
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    • 710 58  -  SPORTS PARADE A WEEKLY ON LOCAL ISSUES AND PERSONALITIES Reports by Kenneth Jalleh FROM THE number one waterpolo goalkeeper in this region to the number one administrator of local sport tnat is the route Dr Tan Eng Liang took in 25 years of Singapore's
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    • 207 58 HAVING A SPECIFIC CATEGORY LIKE BEST ATHLETE IS ONE MAJOR STEP EVEN IN the Best Sportsman, Best Sportswoman and other "best" awards that are becoming traditional at this time of the year, it seems that the winds of change should blow, before exercises
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    • 213 58 THE HOPE for Pesta Sukan in this 25th year of nationhood is that associations, with a bit more money from the Singapore Sports Council, will add the word "super" to the games by going international. The season for this annual snorting festival
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    • 572 59  -  National hockey coach Phil Williams asked to submit his credentials By B KULA SINGAPORE national hockey coach Phil Williams has been asked to produce his credentials as a qualified coach to Justify his continued appointment at the helm of Singapore hockey. In what is seen as an enquiry
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