Singapore Monitor, 28 February 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Tuesday, February 28, 1984 30cents
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  • 582 1  -  Singapore's performance rests on shoulders of the US economy teonanie survey «f Nippon HIS By RODNEY HOBSON ON THE shoulders of the American economy rest Singapore's hopes of sustained recovery from recession. This major trading Krtner and source of investment is more iportant
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    • 66 1 Arrested 1b aAhs Shocking show Hong Kong TWf COLOUR flesh $800,000 S pore ''T COWbOVS who DlaV at exh lition Cartier robbery SOCCeP: p afle JQ OOtraged suspect: Page 2 8 reader: Pfl 15 3 MORE PAGES INSIDE Optimistic outlook: Page 5 7.9% overall growth for year: Page 6 Recovery
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    • 322 2  - 800,000 gem robbery suspect arrested at HK Customs checkpoint MAN FOUND WITH LOOT FROM CARTER HOLD-UP By K K FONG ONE of the suspects involved in the $800,000 jewellery robbery here earlier this month has been arrested in Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong before he could walk out of
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    • 386 2  -  By FOO MEY KIEN A TOUR co-ordinator, Mr Anthony Lloyd de Silva, told a subordinate court yesterday how he saw the collision at midnight last July between a Mercedes Benz car and an ambulance, resulting in the death of a nurse, Miss Foo
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    • 418 2  -  ASSESSMENT OF RESERVIST EMPLOYEES FOR PROMOTION By LOONG SWEE YIN SEVERAL businessmen have said they are prepared to consider their employees' performance during reservist training when assessing them for promotion. But, first, they need to get the necessary feedback from the SAF. One
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    • 482 3  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM ONE OF Singapore's giant trade unions, the Singapore Air Transport-Workers' Union (SATU), which boasts of 13,000 members in the airline industry, will be split into three or more house unions. This was disclosed by the Minister
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    • 53 3 CWE WILL also be meeting the management to make eure that the benefita accorded to union members, such as free travel, will not in any way be affected by the con- m version into house V unions. w Mr Goh Chee Wee, NTUC asst secretary-gener-al, who heads
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    • 410 4  -  His main aim will be to spread the 'PE gospel' Profile of Dr Paul Robinson, principal of new PE College By BERTILLA PEREIRA A SPORTS evangelist that's how you can describe Dr Paul Robinson, 44, the man appointed to be the principal of the new Physical Education
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    • 180 4  -  B* YEOW MEI SIN SINGAPORE Airlines' success in pulling off cheaper holiday packages to South America has put their combined air fares to Rio de Janeiro with Varig Airlines in a predicament. While combined fares for a trip from
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    • 431 4  -  It covers hospitalisation, accident and life By YONG ROW ANG THE Government-owned Insurance Corporation of Singapore has offered a comprehensive group insurance scheme for people who are in their twilight years the aged. It covers hospitalisation and surgical benefits, personal accident insurance and life insurance.
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    • 749 5 O Fewer new jobs and improvement in productivity. O Surplus off $2.2 billion in balance off payments. OFall in inflation. Consumer prices rose 1.2 per cent. O Expenses ffor households grew S per cent. ©Expenditure ffor government rose 10 per cent. tctwfc wny tf rt»ppi> 1983 THE improved
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    • 188 6 Resilient, diversified economy helps boost growth ECONOMIC growth reached 10 per cent in the last quarter of 1983, boosting overall growth for the year to 7.9 per cent. The survey says the resilience and diversified nature of the economy enabled it to respond swiftly to
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    • 134 6 OLD problems remained in the world economy, the survey suggests. While inflation in the OECD countries eased further to 4.9 per cent in June 1983, the lowest annual rate of increase since late 1972, unemployment rose to 9 per cent from 8.4 per cent. Europe
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    • 296 6 INDUSTRIES which export a high percentage of their output to the US led the turnaround in manufacturing here. Manufacturing registered a 2 per cent growth in output for the whole of 1983, reversing its decline which had started in the second
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    • 130 6 FOREIGN demand again overtook domestic demand as the main stimulus to the Singapore economy. With an improved international economic environment, overseas demand for Singapore's goods and services accounted for 55 per cent of the growth in demand while domestic demand accounted for 45 per cent.
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    • 284 7 ALTHOUGH the Singapore economy picked up for most of last year, the recovery was not broad-based. The 1982 slowdown was not as severe as that in 1975 when economic growth plunged to 4 per cent. However, in both cases, the economy took as long, about two years,
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    • 122 7 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Country Percentage Change Over Previous Year Total OECD 9 8 12.8 10.5 7.8 5.5 United States 11.3 13.5 10.4 6.1 4 Japan 3.6 8.0 4.9 2.7 1.5 W Germany 4.1 5.5 5.9 5.3 3 France 10.8 13.6 13.4 11.8 9.25
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    • 242 7 COMPARISON OF QUARTERLY CHANGES IN REAL GDP 1074/70 A 1001/08 SINGAPORE cut its trade gap but earned less net from services and attracted a lower net inflow of capital. As a result, the country recorded a slightly lower overall balance of
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    • 113 7 rA WEvery Wednesday an< Friday at Lunchtime Food and fashion go together every Wednesday and Friday with different shows to reflect different moods. Wednesday: Ilro Fashion comes up with fresh ideas for stepping out in style with their new range of smart and casual wear. Friday: Estique Boutiaue gives you
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  • world
    • 170 8 Reuter THE Khmer Rouge said yesterday its guerillas killed at least 85 Vietnamese troops and wounded 78 in fighting in north and north-west Cambodia. A Khmer Rouge radio broadcast monitored in Bangkok said the guerillas also destroyed 22 artillery guns, 32
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    • 229 8 AFGHAN RESISTANCE RADIO IN FULL CRY RADIO Free Kabul was born in the spring of 1981. The UN Human Rights Commission blessed the request of the Afghan resistance movement and a ravine radio station was set up. With funds gathered from several countries, 15 portable transmitters
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    • 191 8 Reuter BRUSSELS, Tuesday EUROPEAN Nato officials have reacted with a mixture of bewilderment, scepticism and unease to the first detailed briefings on futuristic US ideas for a space-based anti-missile defence system. The US this month sent a highpowered expert team to
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    • 317 9 Reuters KARACHI, Tuesday PAKISTAN'S military government freed six opposition leaders from detention in a surprise move yesterday. One of those released was Sardar Sherbaz Khan Mazari, chief of the banned National Democratic Party and convenor of the 10party opposition coalition. The Movement for the
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    • 309 9 UPI ZAMBOANGA, Philippines MUSLIM REBELS, armed with grenade launchers, killed 14 soldiers in a battle on war-torn Basilan island in southern Philippines, a survivor said yesterday. The encounter on the island, 880 km sout|> of Manila, came just two
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    • 233 10 Starving Mozambican mother forces baby to eat maize porridge AN AFRICAN TRAGEDY UPI A MOZAMBICAN baby too young to eat (picture at right) is fed by a starving mother who tries to force maize porridge into the infant's mouth. About 100,000 Mozambicans, many of them starving, have
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    • 247 10 Reuter MOSCOW, Tuesday SOVIET Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko yesterday called the Reagan administration irresponsible and said it had wrecked Soviet-US relations. In a speech which showed few signs of any conciliatory attitude towards the US, he said Moscow was ready to improve links but
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    • 134 10 Reuter MANCHESTER (New Hampshire), Tuesday DEMOCRATIC presidential hopefuls made last-minute efforts yesterday to catch up with front-runner Walter Mondale before today's crucial New Hampshire primary election. Mr Hart, Mr Glenn and others were out wooing voters at factory gates and on
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    • 86 10 Reuter MONTREAL, Tuesday THE Soviet Union made no attempt to identify a straying South Korean airliner before shooting it down last September with the loss of 269 lives, a team of United Nations aviation experts said yesterday. Soviet fighters sent up to intercept the
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    • 597 11 Reuter BAHRAIN, Tuesday IRAQ, IN a move that could escalate and widen the Gulf War, yesterday said its warE lanes had bombed oil tankers berthed at ran's Kharg Island oil terminal. An Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, announcing the attack, said: "From today,
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    • 375 11 Gemayal must decide on troop withdrawal LAT-WP, Reuter BEIRUT, Tuesday SYRIAN-backed anti-government forces yesterday appeared to be increasing the military pressure on Lebanese President Amin Gemayel as artillery shells fell in the vicinity of the presidential palace at Baabda and into Christian neighborhoods of east Beirut.
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    • 79 11 Reuter SALIMA, Tuesday THE US battleship New Jersey missed its target by at least 300 metres when it fired 16 one-tonne sheUs into the Lebanese mountains on Sunday, residents in the village of Salim* said yesterday. The only casualties were a dozen
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    • 109 10 Stroll into a vintage experience... Coddrig with Wine at the Cafe Boulevairl From Ist to 29th February 1984 Dine on an inviting selection of pick a wine from our range of full-bodied full set meals consisting of appetizer, reds, refreshing whites and romantic main course and dessert... each main roses.
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    • 8 10 Good jobs are plentiful! Look in the Classifieds
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    • 149 11 Udang Goreng Formal Chicken Curry J ic GOOD NEWS for lovers of Penang and Szechuan food Now you can enjoy an authentic you can sample specialities such as Diced Penang Szechuan dinner at Tien Court. Chicken with Dried Chilli. Braised Meat For $20 per person, you can feast in with
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  • money
    • 432 12 Chocolate Products buying controlling interest in Allied Chocolate CHOCOLATE Products (Malaysia) Bhd, the Penang-based chocolate manufacturer controlled by the Lim Kheng Kim group, is buying control of Singa-pore-based Allied Chocolate Industries Ltd, the principal fran-chise-holder of Van Houten chocolates. Sources said Chocolate Products has agreed to acquire some
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    • 80 12 CHOCOLATE Products (M) Bhd plans to invest in cocoa production in Sabah. Its chairman, Datuk Lim Kheng Kim, said the company is negotiating to buy plantations in Tawau to invest in modern cocoa cultivation. Datuk Lim, who visited Sabah recently, said Tawau is one
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    • 374 12 ANALYSTS expect Hong Kong's budget deficit to double in the coming 12 months compared with the year ending on March 31. Last year's forecast of HK$3.2 billion is still seeen as realistic, but in the coming year, the deficit is likely to
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    • 45 12 MS CHEW Lee Ching (above) has been promoted to the post of general manager, Business Development and Publications in the Singapore News and Publications Ltd (SNPL). This is a new division. Previously she was senior manager, Group Marketing/Advertisement, SNPL.
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    • 222 12 SHARE OF THE PAY^ SHARE of the Day takes its first trip abroad to look at an underrated American counter, Ford Motors. Ford announced 1983 earnings of $10.29 a share earlier this month, but got little response from the market. After getting a small lift of
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    • 216 12 f 1 HHLLSTREET Reuter A FINAL-HOUR buying spree helped stock prices close sharply higher for the second straight session yesterday as Wall Street was encouraged by signs that the Reagan administration might be willing to trim the Federal budget deficit through a tax increase. The
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    • 161 12 UPI THE US dollar sprang back on most European exchange markets yesterday after three straight days of decline, closing lower only in London and Tokyo. Gold dropped. In Zurich, gold finished trading at U*****.50 an ounce, down from Friday's close of U*****.50. In London, the metal dropped
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    • 230 13 THE SAKAPP AFFAIR MALAYSIAN Primary Industries Minister Mr Pan! Leong Kbee Seong said he is awaiting a report from the management board of the Kuala Lampur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) on the allegations of misconduct against some officials of the exchange and the Kaala Lampur
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    • 405 13 They allege KLCCH has contravened futures contracts regulations CUSTOMERS of Sakapp Commodities have made a further complaint against the Kuala Lumpur Commodities Clearing House (KLCCH) for imposing, on them only, an additional $7,000 in deposits on uncovered contracts from April onwards. The complaint, in
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    • 195 13 BRUSSELS, Tuesday THE European Community will go ahead on Thursday with reprisals against US curbs on special steel sales from the Common Market, European Commission officials said yesterday. Sanctions will be introduced despite top-level talks yesterdav between the Commission and the
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    • COMPANY NEWS
      • 110 13 JACK CHIA-MPH proposes a two-for-three rights issue at $1.35 per share. Each rights share will have a detachable transferable subscription right to subscribe for a further share, also at $1.35 each. Holders of the existing transferable subscription rights who exercise their rights before the
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      • 58 13 THE NEW Zealand South British group has informed the Stock Exchange of Singapore that it has sola 47,000 shares in Van der Horst, bringing its shareholding in the company to 1.19 million shares (6.86 per cent of outstanding shares) from 1.24 million
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      • 65 13 SINGAPORE Land has announced the resignation of Mr David S Y Young from its board of directors from Jan 31. The company has also announced that Mrs Mildred TaoOng has been appointed as director from Feb 23, while Mr Melvin Yap Boh Pin has
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      • 54 13 TAIPING Consolidated has announced a two-for-one bonus issue. It is also sub-dividing all its shares to 50 cents the j>ar value from the present Msl each. These proposals are subject to the approval of the shareholders, the stock exchanges in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and
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      • 26 13 FIRST Allied Corporation has said that no dividend will be distributed for the current year ending March 31 1984.
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    • 78 13 tweak.,. 1 Thursday Fashion Special H 1 At Mezzanine Lounge Ml l\ I WR Watch the current fashion trends VyL /JK as you indulge in afternoon tea a "d cakes or unwind over I t coc ktails. Then catch up on some r B\ 1 reading or play backgammon in
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  • features
    • 1109 14 Transition begins on an island-society that prizes political stability and conservatism LAT, WP TAIPEH: THE transition has begun on Taiwan, an island society that prizes political stability, and most people here, despite their conservatism, seem glad that far-reaching leadership changes are in
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    • 736 14 FRENCH GOVT INTRODUCES NEW MOVES TO RAISE FALLING FERTILITY RATE KNT International PARIS: INTO a world in which many countries are struggling to hold families to just two children, there was some excellent news in France late last month in the maternity ward
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  • opinion / letters
    • 328 15 MONITOR EB^^^B THE HDB campaign to discourage shopowners in its estates from selling chewing gum is another step taken by the authorities to eradicate the mucky problem. SBC began by phasing out chewing gum advertisements While these steps are commendable for being persuasive rather than
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    • 407 15  -  Young model wore revealing Red Indian swimsuit JUNE ANASTASIA Singapore 0316 WHAT promised to be a show for oil exploration equipments at the Fifth Offshore South-east Asia Exhibition held at the World Trade Centre from Feb 21 to 24, turned out to be more
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    • 311 15  -  REPLY MONICA BEH Public Relations Manager Port of Singapore Authority WE REFER to the report "Just where is the helpful hand when you need it" by Connie Yee (SM, Feb 13) and wish to point out some discrepancies in it. We sympathise with the
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  • 471 16 TODAY'S Highlights The Shogun Inheritance: Pageboy to the Gods (Last Episode) (Ch 12, 8 pm) ASPECTS of Japan's native religion, Shintoism, can be found in many areas of Japanese life, such as the preparation of food, the forging of the Japanese sword and the
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  • 885 16  -  TV Scene By WONG SING YEONG RTM'S announcement on running Cantonese serials from March 7 has raised speculation about the number of local viewers they will attract. In fact, SBC's decision three weeks ago to shift The Immortals to Wednesday night and
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1362 16 GUIDE n Pa9e 2.55 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by My Way (C) mm ifVl JMi Story Time B l| V Wy. B VT t 5.10 Man from Atlantis: The Death Scouts (Part 2) (r). BEBJE-* »>, Mark is convinced that the two divers can help him more about CI
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  • leisure
    • 335 17  -  WINNING WITH CLEVER PLAY OF COLOURS Clothes: ESTIQUE FASHIONS and SKETCH BOUTIQUE Model: JENNY Co-ordinated by INEZ WEI COLOUR can make as much of a difference as a change in design. A single, bright shade gets you noticed. But two colours together can actually MAKE a design on
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    • 686 18  -  TV TAKES TOLL OF CINEMAS with Pauline Loh FOGGY days are here again. Hurray. Foggy days mean warm weather, that is why. Inspired by warmth and the budding azaleas everywhere, I took a long tram ride and passed numerous Hong Kong streets doing an impromptu survey of
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    • 932 19  -  BIRTH OF VCR IS NOT DEATH OF MOVIE HOUSE By MICHAEL LONDON in Las Vegas LAT-WP AMERICA'S movie-theatre owners have seen the future and it's on videocassette. Suddenly, after years of conventions here devoted to fear and loathing of the home-video industry, a radical new strategy
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    • 1982 21 CODEWORD WAR PART TWO OF THE SERIALISATION OF THE FILM, WARGAMES THE WORLD was about to end under the personal supervision of David Lightman. His eyes focussed unblinkingly on the screen, taking in every movement as the enemy missiles massed for one last strike. His hands rested lightly on the
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    • 434 19 fllM GUID6 are worthy of receiving mercy. REQAL (*****59): PROJECT A (C) llillWilli iiiii lilmkM^H DALIT (*****16): 36 SUPERKIDS (Q 1 F V CAPITOL *****759): GO FOR IT (K) CLEMENTI (*****51): KIDS FROM SHAO- changi (4446 59) M RTIL c u (C) ■wnnx 1A19A77V PRHJirrT A ICS LIN (Q JADE
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    • 50 20 If you have information about events like these which might interest others, we would like to hear from you. You can write to The Singapore Monitor, Leisure Desk, 2 Alexandra Road, Delta House, 03-01 A, Singapore 0315. If you have pictures accompanying the programme, we'd be glad to have them.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 135 20 leisure 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
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    • 646 20 The Vienna Flute-Trombone-Piano Trio to perform on March 5 VIENNA FLUTE-TROMBONE-PIANO and the Music of London will give a TRIO violin, cello, piano and orchestral conTHE Vienna Flute-Trombone-Piano wrt at Victoria Concert Hall on FriTrio will perform at Victoria Concert day and Saturday at 8.15 pm. Hall on Monday, March
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 678 22 leisure comics ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry K A /g(^4c rYjF ir iift/i^nniNGTCH Y/ t* < FROM THE WINDOW OF THE TAXLBRAND CAUTION IS A SECRET M WATCHES THE MANVRAS6ING FACES THAT MOVE UPW tf% AGENTS LIFELINE... (crossed-EITHERTMAT OR I fll THROUGH THE STREETS OF TANGIER. BRAND «UJKwi;r INSTINCTIVE
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  • PHOTOGRAPHIC CORNER
    • 27 23 This picture of the stiltwalkers at the Chingay Parade captures the spirit and colour of the occasion. Picture: KENNETH TEO
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    • 288 24 MULTI-RACIAL Singapore with its varied cultures and religions is a land of many festivals. There are festivals held practically every month of the year festivals to greet a new year, to appease hungry ghosts, to rejoice at the fullness of the moon, to mark the end of
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    • 351 27 Malaysia and Thailand face action Reuter ZURICH, Tuesday INTERNATIONAL Football Federation (Fifa) general secretary Joseph Blatter has hit out at the growing number of unofficial tournaments being staged around the world in the February edition of Fifa News. In a hard-hitting editorial,
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    • 367 27 Reuter GLASGOW, Tuesday SCOTLAND manager Jock Stein resisted the temptation to bring in Watford's goal-scoring sensation Maurice Johnston when he announced the team for today's British home international game with Wales here at Hampden Park. Instead, in spite of
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    • 116 27 Reuter ROME, Tuesday ITALIAN manager Enzo Bearzot has made only one change from the squad which crushed Mexico 5-0 for the world champions' soccer friendly against Turkey next Saturday. Roma's sweeper Übaldo Righetti comes in to the 18man squad in place of
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    • 276 28  -  UPPER AUUNIED TECHNICAL 3 WILLOW AVENUE 0 SPOTLIGHT ON THE SCHOOLS By S GULAM WILLOW AVENUE goalkeeper Abdul Rahman played a hero's role in restricting the bigger and superior Upper Aljunied Technical boys to three goals in a National Schools (North Zone) soccer match at
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    • WORLDFRONT
      • 63 28 JAKARTA: Tennis ace Yusteio Tank, suspended by the Indonesian Lawn Tennis Association (PelU), has decided to seek a court injunction to annul the ban, his lawyers said yesterday. The 30-year-old 1982 Asian Games men's singles champion was suspended for 10 months by Pelti
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      • 57 28 MELBOURNE: Steve Ovett, the Moscow Olympic 800 metres champion, said here yesterday that Australian 800 and 1500 metres champion Mike Hillardt would prove a tough opponent in the next few weeks. The 28-year-old Briton arrived in Melbourne yesterday to race at an Olympic
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      • 66 28 ADELAIDE: Sir Donald Bradman told the visiting Sri Lankan under-19 cricket team yesterday that he would have worn a batting helmet in the *****3 bodyline series, had one been available. While posing with the team at the Australia-Sri Lanka youth test
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      • 35 28 LIMA: Honduras beat Peru 3-1 (half-time 2-0) in a friendly soccer international here on Sunday. The match was part of .both countries' preparations for the 1916 World Cup. Reuter
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    • 286 28  -  By B KULA SINGAPORE is among 16 countries competing in the Junior World Cup hockey qualifying rounds in the Australasia Zone in Kuala Lumpur from mid-September to early October. The countries in the zone participating with Singapore are Pakistan, Bangladesh,
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    • 222 28 SINGAPORE will compete in three major volleyball championships this year. They are the Asian junior girls, the Asian junior boys, and the Asean youths meets. The Asian girls tournament in Melbourne will be held in September on dates to be finalised while the boys
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    • 350 29 fMOHITORSPOBTSI COLOUR EXTRA STORY AND PICTURES: OPA In a pampa countryside in Brazil, OPA reporter J B SCALCO was participant in a most unusual soccer game. It was a match between two gaucho teams, with the players taking the field in their traditional gaucho outfits. There was
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    • 190 30 NEW YORK, Tuesday FOB Ike first time in more than 80 years, the final of a major women's tennis tournament will be contested over the best-of-five-sets next Sanday in the climax of the US$5OO,OOO (about $1.1 million) Indoor circuit play-offs. Up to Saturday afternoon's
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    • 340 30  -  HOMEFRONT By ERNEST FRIDA M MARIMUTHU, 36, Singapore's World Cup representative, yesterday left for Kuala Lumpur with the aim to finish among the top 20 in the $315,000 Malaysian Open golf championship to be played at the Royal Selangor Golf Club.
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    • 106 30 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday DENMARK'S Jyderup Football Club and Kuala Lumpur drew 2-2 in a friendly soccer match. Jyderup's Kim Krog scored in the 13th minute and two minutes later, goalkeeper Jesper Hansen scored a penalty goal to give the Danish team a 2-0
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    • 292 30 UNITED HAS STILL NOT CONTACTED AJAX ON HIS TRANSFER Reuter AMSTERDAM, Tuesday A J AX'S Danish soccer international Jesper Olsen left here yesterday for Copenhagen with a double cloud hanging over his future. Ajsx chairman Anton Harmsen said Olsen's transfer to English First Division
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    • 440 31  -  IT'S TOP ON LIST OF SPORTS FACILITIES FOR NEW PREMISES By B KULA ST JOSEPH'S Institution plans to have an artificial turf pitch by 1987 when it moves to its new $15 million premises at the junction of Malcolm and Whitley Road. According to
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    • 375 31  -  By S GULAM FANDI AHMAD hopes to score his first goal in the Dutch Football Association (FA) Cup tomorrow night when FC Groningen meet FC Twente in a quarter-final match at Groningen. The Singapore soccer star, in a telephone call
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    • 90 31 Reuter KARACHI, Tuesday PAKISTAN cricket captain Zaheer Abbas has appealed to Karachi's students not to carry out their threat to demonstrate during the threeTest cricket match series against England, who arrive today. He said: "I'm sure they will realise we're playing the game for
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