Singapore Monitor, 11 March 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SUNDAY MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 14/5/83 Sunday, March 11, 1984 40cents
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    • 162 1 PICTURE: CHEW YEN FOOK The East Coast PROPERTY Construction costs down Local contractors are bidding lower in the face of fierce competition and insufficient jobs: Report on Pages 36-37 CONSUMER GUIDE Scandal of tho copy-cot cheats Faked goods look genuine, but some may prove fatal: Pl 7 W 1 mm
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    • 403 2 We can't swvlve Story and picture by VINCENT FONG LUCKY PLAZA shopkeepers say they would follow tenants of other bis shopping centres in campaigning for reduced rents, if they could. Most tenants interviewed at Lucky Plaza said business had plummetted. But
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    • 173 2 A 31-YEAR-OLD man yesterday faced 32 counts of housebreaking, attempted housebreaking and illegal possession of valuables, alleged to have been committed between September last year and February this year. Soon Kong Fook had 21 fresh charges laid against him in a subordinate court. The
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    • 269 3  -  By SURESH NAIR A TIMELY tip-off from a sharp-eyed passerby has led to the arrest of a man wanted in connection with one of last week's spate of goldsmith robberies. Five shops were robbed of a total of 1465,000 worth of jewellery in four
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    • 228 3 By VICTOR SOH A WOMAN patient brought $22,000 in a suitcase and kept it in the strongroom during her twoweek stay at Woodbridge Hospital. The woman got her money back after her stay it was escorted to a bank by security
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    • 46 3 A 52-YEAR-OLD man was charged in court yesterday with setting fire to a building in Tanjong Pagar Road on Friday morning. Aw-Yong Tuck Onn was remanded at Central Police Station pending further mention of the case on March 17.
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    • 265 4 But he will have to stay on in Israel for six more months JONATHAN Tan, the seven-year-old boy from Singapore who underwent a bone marrow transplant for his leukaemia in a Jerusalem hospital early last month, will leave hospital today but will stay in
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    • 372 4  -  By OEI SIN GIOK CHAWANG the elephant was in demand, and the two Sri Lankan leopard cubs were a hit. But the snake was out in the cold when cuddle-and-stroke time came to the Singapore Zoo yesterday. It was "Meet the Zoo
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    • 132 4 SINGAPORE'S aircraft engineers and technologists want more people to join their professional association. The internationally-recognised Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers and Technologists has sent circulars to 24 aerospace companies here, asking for support. The society, which held its annual meeting last night particularly
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    • 276 4 THE RED CROSS blood service has a message for Singaporeans: seven per cent is not enough. That is the percentage of the population that has given blood at least once in a lifetime. More blood donors are needed for Singapore
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    • 145 6 HEAVY rain and wet, soggy ground yeatarday didn't atop the first Temasek Qamaa Jogathon from getting off to a good atart A thunderstorm delayed the atart by 40 minutea, and the 500 participanta who turned up at the Sembawang Shipyard Sporta Complex were
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    • 149 6 SOUTH KOREAN Byung Yong So, 32, was charged in court yesterday with the murder of a Cisco guard, Mohd Sulaiman, 43, outside the Japanese Embassy in Nassim Road on Friday afternoon. Police allege that Mr Mohd had refused Byung entry to
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    • 93 6 DENTAL nurses in school dental clinics are working half an hour more this month from Monday to Thursday. They will now finish at spm. The extra two hours a week will be accumulated and the nurses will be given the number of
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    • 407 7  -  MEASURES BEGIN WITH EXTENSIVE ORIENTATION PROGRAMMES FOR NEW RECRUITS By SIT YIN FONG THE MINISTRY of Social Affairs is working so hard at improving staff welfare over the past few years that a new recruit is well-looked after virtually from the moment be joins
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    • 381 7 FIVE QUESTIONS from two backbenchers will be given oral answers by Cabinet ministers before Parliament begins its debate tomorrow on Finance and Trade and Industry Minister Dr Tony Tan's Budget statement for 1984/85. Apart from these are another seven questions for
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    • 252 8 The sight of a satay-seller fanning away may be fast-disappearing one THIS WAS bound to happen sooner or later it was only a question of who will start it off. Probably it all began with the humble chilli. In those old days, the only way to get chilli
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    • 210 8  -  POLICE SEARCHING FOR TWO MALAYSIANS TO HELP IN INVESTIGATIONS By SURESH NAIR DETECTIVES are searching for two Malaysians believed to be responsible for the fatal stabbing of a watchman at a drinks factory in Serangoon Road on Friday. Mr Mohammed Kassim Mohammed Sariff, 49,
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    • 60 8 A MAN was charged yesterday with raping his step-daughter when she was 11. Lim Huat Yam, alias Lim Wah Seng, 39, is accused of committing the offence at an apartment in Zion Road in March 1979. The case has been set for further mention on
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  • world
    • 368 9 Reuter HOUSTON, Saturday DIVERS searching the wreck of an American oil drilling ship which sank off South China last year have found the remains of 12 of the 81 crew, most of them in the vessel's recreation area, the ship's owner said. There
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    • 226 9 Reuter NEW DELHI, Saturday WESTERN countries will continue to sell India weapons despite the Soviet Union's intention to provide New Delhi with a wide range of new sophisticated arms, diplomats and defence analysts said toaay. They were commenting on
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    • 106 9 JAKARTA, Saturday JAKARTA is planning to move an estimated 1,000 beggars to barracks in the Thousand Island tourist resort off the north coast of Java, a spokesman for the governor's office said today. The spokesman would not comment on local newspaper reports that
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    • 336 10 ISRAELI-MADE POCKET-SIZE BLASTER IDEAL FOR FIGHTING HIJACKERS IPS BAD NEWS for terrorists and hijackers. The forces of law and order are busily equipping themselves with a new "baddy blaster" that will take some beating. It is a deadly pocket-size weapon, barely 360 millimetres
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    • Article, Illustration
      477 10 Iran and Iraq reach impasse over fate of Majnoon Island oilfields UPI LONDON, Saturday IRAN AND Iraq reached an apSirent stalemate in the battle for e Majnoon Island oilfields and Iran again demanded the overthrow of the Iraqi regime as a condition for peace in the 42-month Gulf War.
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    • 192 10 LAT-WP BAGHDAD, Saturday WITH IRAN'S air force being depleted by losses and a lack of SDare parts to about 40 planes, Iraq's air fleet of 250 combat-ready aircraft should be in a position to provide the winning advantage. But the Iraqi pilots have not
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    • World Briefs
      • 80 11 AP JAKARTA: Vietnam always poses a threat to Southeast Asia if its troops remain in Cambodia, Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Charoye Rattakul said here today. Upon arrival for a five-day visit, he said the degree of the threat is because
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      • 95 11 AP JAKARTA: The Netherlands has agreed to Kant residency to four Indonesians who asked r political asylum, a diplomatic source said today. "The Indonesian government and the Dutch embassy in Jakarta nave exchanged views over the auestion and apparently there is no problem,
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      • 81 11 Reuter NEW DELHI: The driver of a prominent politician from the North Indian slate of Haryana, scene of Hindu-Sikh violence, was killed in an assassination attempt on the politician, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported today. It said Ved Pal,
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      • 101 11 AP NAIROBI: Four Asian-owned companies seized by former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin when he expelled most Asian residents in 1972 have become Joint ventures with shares held by the original proprietor and the Ugandan government, Radio Uganda reported yesterday. The state radio,
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      • 84 11 AP JAKARTA: Chinese support for communist Suerillas in Southeast Asia hampers normalisaon of relations between China and Indonesia, Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja said yesterday. The minister said communist guerillas include the outlawed Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) members whose leaders are given protection in
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      • 112 11 UPI LONDON: Sting, lead singer and bassist with rock band The Police, has t>een divorced by his wife of eight years, actress Frances Tomelty. An annulment was granted on Friday because the couple had lived apart for more than two
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    • 375 11 AP BEIJING, Saturday A CRIMINAL trapped by police on a crowded tram pulled tne pin on a hand grenade, but the 50 passengers were saved when a policeman threw himself on top of the assailant, a Chinese news report said today. The
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    • 218 11 UPI AUSTIN (T«xat), Sat EXERCISE can be hazardous to your health in some instances, say two Dallas allergists. Dr John Erffmeyer and Dr James Holmani, writing in the March issue of Texas Medicine, said exercise can produce a disorder resembling an allergic reaction that can be
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    • 144 12 Hostage team prepares for the Olympics AN FBI hostage rescue team is lowered from a helicopter during a practice demonstration at the FBI Training Academy at Quantico, Virginia, in preparation for the 1984 Summer Olympics. The FBI did what no other counter-terrorist team in the world
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    • 703 12 Threat of terrorist attack is main concern LAT-WP LOS ANGELES, Saturday THE UNIVERSITY of California, Los Angeles will shut down its research nuclear reactor during the Olympic Games because of the threat of terrorist attack, a university official said on Thursday. In addition,
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    • 81 12 UPI ALBANY (New York), Saturday A MAN who was charged with indecent exposure because his fly zipper had popped open in a shopping mall has been awarded US$2OO,OOO by a state court. Mr John Citro, 31, was released after police dismissed the
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    • 377 12 UPI, LAT-WP WARSAW, Saturday A PROTEST by Roman Catholic students over a government ban on crucifixes in classrooms gained support today, with students across the country sending delegations to the school in rural Garwolin. Church spokesmen said yesterday that high-ranking members of the
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    • 83 12 UPI TOKYO, Saturday IT DOESNT pay to call Ms Hiroko Degawa and her friends "snort and ugly." And it may cost union leader Hiromi Otani US$lB,OOO (5527,800) for doing just tnat. Ms Degawa, 34, and three of ner
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    • 406 13 UPI WASHINGTON, Saturday PRESIDENT Reagan, answering Democratic critics, confessed that he rarely attends Sunday church services but said he refrains because others in the congregation would be endangered if he did. Aides said that Mr Reagan has preferred not attending services
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    • 123 13 MOBILE (Alabama), Sat SECRET Service agents wrestled an armed man to the ground at a restaurant where former Vice President Walter Mondale was campaigning, but the man was discovered to be a court bailiff and no charges were filed.
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    • 119 13 Reuter LONDON, Saturday TWENTY-SIX people were injured in a London night club today in one of a series of bomb blasts against Arab targets. Most of the 26 people injured when a bomb exploded in the basement of the Auberge Club
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    • 84 13 UPI NEW YORK, Saturday AN ELDERLY woman found caked in ice and snow after missing her bus and spending the night in a snowstorm has been thawea out and is in stable condition. Nassau County police said Ethel Dever, 74, went to a shopping centre on Thursday
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    • 201 13 UPI WASHINGTON, Sat PRESIDENTIAL candidate Gary Hart has surged into the lead among voters in Florida and Massachusetts three days before key Srimaries in those tates, a new poll said today. A Washington PostABC news poll showed the Colorado Senator overtaking Mr Walter Mondale's once-com-manding
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    • 546 15 SYGMA The three burglars are sure of themselves not a policeman in view. They have not been spotted. Peacefully, they head for the shed where they hide their loot and remove the stolen television and stereo sets and load them into a small lorry. Then
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    • 1026 16 Senator Gary Hart Now, he says, "I've got onlv two hurdles- beating Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan. And when you think about it, that's not so bad.'' The source of that inner certainty Senator Gary Hart's nearly mystical sense of himself and his political destiny
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    • 785 16 THE path to the White House is long and tortuous. It starts with the candidate campaigning within his party for nomination at a national convention. Next comes a period of competition with the nominee of tne other party or parties. Then comes Election Day. The
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    • 675 17 Fake goods aren't just a bad bargain they can be dangerous. A British school bus was fitted with counterfeit brake parts that were so defective, they failed on tne road. Fortunately, they were spotted in time. In America, poor-quality fake components have caused several fatal
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    • 612 17  -  IN SINGAPORE... By K K FONG ONE OF the seemingly indelible marks of a thriving city is the presence of imitation goods of expensive brand names, and Singapore is no exception. The Trade Marks Act, with all its teeth to uphold the law, is
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    • 297 17 IN THE UNITED STATES... NOW AN ominous trend is causing mounting concern. "Counterfeiting has moved beyond jeans ana watches and into health and safety," says Mr David Greenberg, legislative director of the Consumer Federation of America. At Ford Motor Co alone, the list of copied
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    • 1037 18 KNT It looks like one of those new urban universities. The laboratories, where the work goes on, are plain red-brick buildings. Most of the highpowered scientists, researchers and administrators who live in Tsukuba are refugees from the jampacked joys of Tokyo, and they
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    • 193 18 Medical Notes IF YOU suffer from an occasional pimple or blemish, do as you were always told: Keep your hands off it. Picking produces scarring and pushes the bacteria deeper into the skin. USA Today was quoting a message from Dr John S Strauss, professor and
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    • 496 18 KNT FOUR million student gardeners and 12 million seeds are being enlisted to answer a few questions about feeding future space colonies. The seeds will be marooned in orbit for a year and exposed to unprecedented doses of radiation, weightessness and the vacuum of
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    • 790 20  -  HUMOUR with B C BHATTACHARJEE The Sunday Star THE Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamed, suggested during a visit to Sabah last week that we made Malaysian-flavoured cheeses to suit the local palate. "I've tasted green pepper cheese in Mexico...how about a curry flavour here?"
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    • 494 20  -  Hobson's Choice By RODNEY HOBSON YOUR COLUMNIST is all mixed up. That is the inference of a survey conducted in the United States. It seems that drivers match up to the colour of their cars. For instance those in blue cars will
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    • 654 21  -  THE RIVER VALLEY EXPERIENCE PROFILE OF SINGAPORE'S GRASSROOTS LEADERS All stories by YONG POW ANG River Valley constituency has a sizeable number of professionals and civil servants living in private flats. There are only 27 blocks of public housing flats in Margaret Drive, many of which
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    • 340 21 IT'S VERY much an example of "like father, like son." As a youngster, Dr Koh Lam Son was impressed by the manner in which his father sacrificed time and energy to do community work, serving as the vice-chairman of the Tampines
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    • 224 21 IT is just one building on another. And the snowballing effect works in the recruitment of community leaders at River Valley. The mastermind is its member of Parliament, Dr Tay Eng Soon. He believes that professionals are prepared to contribute in community
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    • 292 22 ISRAEL is probably the most famous tourist destination for those who want to discover the cradle of Christianity. But it need not necessarily be questors for religious history who might want to visit the country. Israel has certainly other things to offer. If it is windsurfing, scuba-diving, prehistoric
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    • 525 22 DESTINATION: ISRAEL KNT At sunset, the desert colours come alive, as if painted by a wizard's wand. But Israel is not just a land of deserts and oases. Little-known is its attraction as a health retreat. Israel's Dead Sea and Arad region, being the earth's lowest spot
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    • 1298 26  -  Reports by B ORTEGA and ERNEST FRIDA There's a new club in town and its membership, like that of other private clubs, is private and exclusive so exclusive that some will say power stalks the greens of this new club. Its name is
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    • 181 26 IN land-short Singapore, golf courses are perforce limited. Historically, only catchment area land and open spaces in large British bases were converted to double up as golf courses. This is sensible land use as it ensures green belts and open security zones which are properly maintained by
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    • 364 26 The Tanah Merah Country Club that will be officially opened on Saturday will flatter the ego of an average golfer. When the creator Roland Fream translated his ideas into design on the drawing board, he only had one thought the course had
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    • 420 27  -  Issues in education By K L QUEK YOUNG parents of today are becoming increasingly aware of their responsibilities towards their children. They involve creating the right atmosphere at home and looking for proper environments in schools for their children's mental and emotional well-being. But one must
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    • 474 27  -  r all about WORDS Graham Colin Jones One of my pleasures on a Sunday morning is to read the sports pages of both English newspapers. One morning I found this description of a rugby match. "Not once did Bucks allow SAFRA to get pass their
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    • 320 27 WORDS By MICHAEL GARTNER "BY all accounts," said the article in People Magazine, "Orwell fought bravely until a sniper's bullet passed cleanly through his throat. Rendered briefly speechless (a vocal chord was paralysed), he was released from duty..." Remember: Those folds in your
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    • 467 29 STAR WATCH It's always possible that they believe in their mission, the prophets of body-building and aerobics. But what is more certain is the fact that they believe in combining their reputation as entertainers with the authorship of bestsellers. Offering their readers eternal youth, body
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    • 1272 30 THE WIFE of John Lennon's killer has finally broken her vow of silence and revealed intimate and dramatic details about their life, which was shattered by the shocking murder. Gloria Chapman hasn't spoken publicly of her relationship with Mark David Chapman since Dec 8,
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      336 30 Studios all out to stop piracy of movies By FRANK BARRON HOLLYWOOD'S major motion picture studios are very concerned about piracy of their movies. In fact, eight of the biggest studios have filed suit against a little California tape club, charging infringement of copyright laws by duplicating movies
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      330 31 Bestsellers list from MPH bookstores in Singepore for week ending March 4 1. Lace by Shirley Conran (Penguin) 2. No Good Men by Genevieve Richardson (Orbis) 3. The One Minute Manager by Blanchard and Johnson (Fortuna) 4. The Book of Chinese Beliefs by Frena Bloomfield (Arrow) 5. The Little
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    • 338 31  -  TITLE: The Midas Men AUTHOR: Jonathan Evans PUBLISHER: Futura RATING: By SA'AT ABDUL RAHMAN THE LEADING character of Jonathan Evan's latest book, The Midas Men, is described as: "An opportunist, accurately gauging the potential of unusual situations." This accolade is important since
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    • 373 31  -  TITLE: The If...Chronicles AUTHOR: Steve Bell PUBLISHER: Methuen, London, 1983 PRICE: $7.65 RATING: STEPHEN TAN SOMEONE once said: "(The) two men of comic genius who we should love, cherish and send money to forever one of them is John Cleese and the other is
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    • 358 32  -  SUNDAY MAILBAG MRS A L TAN Singapore 1542 I STARTED my school life at the age of seven, but according to the Chinese way of calculation, I was then nine, because I was born in December. Of the seven subjects that I offered
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    • 78 32  -  WELL WISHER Singapore 1545 A METAPHORICAL truth seems to have emerged from the heated debates in the English and Chinese Press over the television serial The Awakening. The inferno engulfing the Chinese title in the serial symbolises where the letters from viewers have
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    • Article, Illustration
      830 33  -  with VIOLET OON Gourmet friends are a great source of information for new places to eat. One such friend is photographer John Richard Taye whose considerable talent for eating is reflected in his considerable girth. He directed me to the famous MacPherson market and to the delicious Nonya
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    • 664 33 I LOVE eating Nonya pineapple tarts and pride myself on my own recipe. Imagine my delight on finding someone who makes tarts nicer than mine. It means that I can now be lazy and buy them instead of making them. That someone is an
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    • PROPERTY
      • 639 34  -  By ANG PENG HWA Stiff competition and insufficient jobs are driving construction costs into a tailspin. According to some professionals in the building industry, tender prices have fallen by as much as 20 per cent between December last year and January this year. In 1982, construction
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      • 478 34  -  By VINCENT FONG Tanah Merah Country Club is proof of what effective planning can do to reap the most out of a piece of land otherwise rendered worthless by its proximity to the noisy jetplanes which take off and land at Changi International Airport.
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      • 309 35  -  By ANNIE CHIA Despite a quiet property market, tnere is still good demand for landed property from a considerable group of local buyers who are HUDC and HDB five-room flat owners, a spokesman of the Far East Group said. These potential buyers are particularly interested
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      • 461 35  -  By VINCENT FONG and B ORTEGA DEVELOPERS from Singapore and Hong Kong are interested in the Melbourne Central development project, a Victoria State government undertaking, according to William Ker, chief executive, Richard Ellis, Melbourne. This major mixed development in the central business district is estimated to cost
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    • 142 15 CLOSE-UP PROFILE of Senator Gary Hart, the outsider in the race to the White House: Pl 6 CONSUMER GUIDE SCANDAL of the copy-cat cheats: When faked goods may prove harmful: Pl 7 FEATURES JAPAN S Science City gears up for the 21st century plus What not to do about acne
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    • 122 33 Cook the Le Bernardin's Style Starting March 20th, 1984 (Tuesday), Chef Bernard will be conducting a six-week cooking course on French cuisine. There will be one lesson each week (on any one day, from Tuesday to Saturday) starting from 10.15 a.m. in the Restaurant's kitchen in Goldhill Plaza. Each lesson
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  • tv guide
    • 163 37  -  Sunday Choice Viva Las Vegas (Ch 5, 3.15 pm) By VALERIE TREVOR WELL ELVIS fans, SBC is being fair after showing us two of Cliff Richard's biggest movies Summer Holiday and Take Me High. The handsome "king" of rock and roll
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    • 145 37 Crima and Punishment Part 1 (Tuas, Ch 12, 8.55 pm) TOP SHOW OF THE WEEK FYODOR Dostoevsky's classic novel is one of the greatest psychological thrillers today. Based on his bestseller, producerdirector Jack Pulman has adapted this compelling story in three episodes. British actor
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    • TV WEEKEND GUIDE TO THE BEST VIEWING
      • 471 38  -  TODAY S HIGHLIGHTS SCORING SYSTEM: Not Worth Seolng Below Average By VALERIE TREVOR Think Again Buy Books or Byo Books (Ch 8, 8.20 a.m.) TELEVISION is threatening to render the printed word redundant, so it really looks as if one has two choices to
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      • 440 39 WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS Avars* Vary Gtti Exctllwt Madical Report (Dabut, Man, Ch 5, 6.25 p.m.) UNSIGHTLY veins in the human body can be painful, and according to findings based on a survey, people suffer from vein disorders due to their life-styles. High blood pressure is a common ailment,
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    • 704 38 9.00 Opening And Programme Highlights ardy. In order to salvage what appears ows By Constable. followed by Try It Out to Webster to be an imminent marital 6.10 Programme Highlights. This week's celebrity guest is Lee Bee disaster, Webster plans a surprise party 6.15 News (E). Cheow. to bring his
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    • 573 39 8.00 Opening And Programme Highlight. to win It. I«*ing at the history ol intia- Calabha. near on^the l trlMhVn^sSm2 ,,l n nUXZEfrS? Who (Chinese 8.30 Evening At The Opera: I Pagliacci. Heather Pascual. Ramon Opie, and Lyle The fight against inflation has been This is Peter Coates' English version of
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  • THE SUNDAY MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 248 40  -  2 PAGE TEAR-OUT By WONDER BOY AGASAM Stable's speedy Our Saint should prove too fast for his ten rivals in Race Four, the 1,200 m event for Class 1 Division 4 horses at Bukit Timah today. One of the top sprinting finds last
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    • 102 40 CHARRETTE (4) was narrowly beaten In his last race and should make amends in Race 3 today. He has performed well on the track. It will pay to follow him, especially with Australian gnest Jockey Cook as partner. The horses in Race 7 are a boat equal and
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    • 1541 40 RifT CLASS 4 DIV 2 1,200 m 2 Wellington Hammer 57 Sag (4) 1 1 1 It Dvta| Graphon 54 Makkat (S) 2 32 1 Addition 57 Gwilliam (13) 3 2 3 11 Tempered 54.5 app Mariakl (7) 7 7 4 6 Top's The Bottle 54 Francis (1)
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    • 271 40 WONDER BOY MA ZHEN TAN MA TAN Monitor Zoo Boo Wan Boo Kiel 1 I Unto Papa I Uttto Papa 10 CandkJi 10 Candk* 10 Candk* 4 Moulin Rouge 7 AzNna 7 Artna 7 Arina Race 2 1 Baccara 13 8W Payong W Heritage N 9 Brave Punter
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    • 3706 41 HOW TO READ THE CARD: Saddlebag number; horse's name; age, origin and sex; weight; weight difference within brackets; Jockey's name; barrier draw; trainer owner; runs record (flrsts-seconds-thlrds-foarths-nn-placed) and last three runs; last ran record; and last win record (If any). RACE CARD BEGINS HERE RACE 1 2.00 CLASS
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  • sports
    • 464 43 WORLD BOXING COUNCIL HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE Reuter LAS VEQAS, Saturday TIM Witherspoon beat hulking Greg Page last night to capture the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title on a 12-round split points decision. Witherspoon, the WBC's sec-ond-ranked contender behind fellow American Page before the fight, built
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    • 394 43 RACE 8 CLASS 1 DIV 4 1,200 m 3 Cakrawala 55.5 Khoo (10) 1 1 1 12 Gala Display II 51 Lam (2) 2 2 2 2 Gabiano 56 Asawadi (11) 5 4 3 11 American Soldier II 51 Heng (1) 9 8 4 5 Sungei Wang VI
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    • 878 44 says top sports writer Brian Glanville IPS THIS season, for the first time, English League and Cup football is being televised live, and frequently. Some twenty years ago, the occasional League match was screened. Cup Finals and major internationals have long been on the
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    • 232 45 GLENN HODDLE (TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR)^ IPS THE MAGICAL feet of Tottenham's Glenn Hoddle have danced their way to the First Division "Matchman of the Month" title for January. The mercurial midfield maestro, Glenn Hoddle, continued to amaze everyone with his bag-of tricks even though Tottenham didn't exactly
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    • 76 45 Amaft Gaacs raitaf GkH Mflr (Span) tM Ma ChM«k (Nat* C) J IM Raj WUUh (Mm. U) J LM Oalf Madaa (L'pmI) 1 IM Mriaa ImM (EvctIm) 7 ft laa RM (Lhiiyid) 1 7 M DIVISION ONE Anngt Gum rattaf Gary Mtfna (Stef. W) 1 LM TM
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    • 967 45 IPS THE TENSION is mounting in the Spurs dressing room as kick-off time draws closer and closer. Players are going through their own little routines and rituals and manager Keith Burkinshaw is handins out last-minute instructions. Minutes before we take to the
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    • 135 46 Try and match these children with their soccer playing fathers COULD THIS be...No, it can't be...but...hmmm...l just wonder... Well, here's another one of those mix-and-match kind of game. All you've got to do this time is try and match these cute kiddies with their dads. To make
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    • 44 46 PICTURE 1 Emma Burns, daughter of Leeds' Kenny; 2 Stephen Clemence, son of Tottenham's Ray; 3 Ashley Neal, son of Liverpool's Phil; 4 Michael Lyons, son of Sheffield Wednesday's Mike; and 5 Martyn Gates, son of Ipswich Town's Eric. -IPS
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    • 309 46 LAT-WP LOS ANGELES, Saturday THE LOS Angeles Olympic organising committee has decided to scale down sharply the torch ceremonies in Greece, doing away with most of the traditional festivities there, and instead simply send the Olympic flame by laser beam from Olympia
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    • MALAYSIA CUP 1984
      • 69 47 SABAH boosted their chances of moving into the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Cup when they beat Perlis 2-1 at the Likas Stadium in Kota Kinabalu yesterday. Sabah took the lead in the sixth minute with a goal by Hassan Sani. Sabah found the net
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      • 71 47 PENANG, with their clean record in the Malaysia Cup soccer competition, are the leading contender for the Milo Fairplay Award. After having played 10 games, Penang have not received a single yellow card or a penalty point. Penang's sportsmanship and fairplay on the Held
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    • 517 47 Santokh, Wan Azila collide as Selangor and Kelantan battle to a 1-1 draw KOTA 3ARU, Saturday KELANTAN and Selangor battled to a 1-1 draw at the Sultan Mohamed IV Stadium in Kota Baru last night, but both sides will not be pleased at the outcome of the
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    • 139 47 P W D L F A Ptt Selangor 13 7 3 3 17 12 24 Penang 12 7 2 3 17 14 23 Malacca 12 7 1 4 25 17 22 Pahang 11 6 2 3 24 14 20 N. Sambilan 12 6 1 5 13 19 19 F.
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    • 402 47 RESULTS: KELANTAN 1 SELANGOR 1 TRENQGANU 4 PENANG 1 SABAH 2 PERLIS 1 NEGRI SEMBILAN 1 PERAK 1 KUALA TRENGQANU, Saturday PENANG suffered a coup de grace in the hands of a tenacious Trengganu side at the Sultan Nasiruddin Stadium at Kuala Trengganu last night.
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    • 300 47 SEREMBAN, Saturday PERAK survived a final 10-minute onslaught by Negri Sembilan to force this 1-1 draw in the Malaysia Cup competition at the Municipal Stadium in Seremban yesterday. But Negri's 52nd minute goal by Mohamed Noor Hassan was strongly disputed by the Perak
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    • 338 48 SCHEME WOULD ASSEMBLE ALL TALENTED POTENTIALS UNDER ONE UMBRELLA A MILESTONE, an era. Call it what you like but soccer development has undergone a major overhaul with the official launching of the Singapore Sports Council/FAS/Milo soccer school at the National Stadium yesterday. With FAS chairman
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    • 260 48  -  GAME THREATENS TO TURN UGLY TOWARDS THE END OF FIRST HALF FARRER PARK DYNAMOS 0 TAMPINES ROVERS 0 MATCH ABANDONED AT HALF TIME By ALFONSO CHAN A FURIOUS storm was brewing just before the second half and it had nothing to do with rain. Farrer Park Dynamos were
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    • 197 48  -  By B KULA TWO FINE goals by N Pandian gave Safsa a convincing victory over Indian Association in the Singapore Hockey Association's under-20 tournament for the E W Barker trophy played at Farrer Park yesterday. In the 11th minute, he put Safsa in
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    • 182 48 UPI BOSTON, Saturday MITCH Carrier learned to tackle like "a bull charging the matador" always rushing head down until he was paralysed in a high school football game more than six vears ago. Now 23 and attending college classes in a wheelchair, Carrier has
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    • 982 49 KENNETH J/UIEH'S SPORTS PARADE A WEEKLY FOCUS ON LOCAL SPORTS ISSUES AND PERSONALITIES KUCHING-BORN Ong Poh Lim slipped into Singapore in 1938 as a protege of the Sarawak Badminton Association's secretary Chia Bok Gee and as a gift to Singapore badminton. And whenever he played, there
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    • 130 49 IT WAS a service he created from a peculiar one-legged stance to the final deceptive flick of the shuttlecock like a crocodile swallowing his prey. Though through the years, there were many imitators, none could do it as well, or with ribtickling finesse as the originator. No
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    • 99 49 TAKE Peng Soon. Boforo tho shuttlo can come to him, ho already knows whore to send It. I remember one Japanese player, Ogata, who played against me once in Japan. He was unknown. It was the first time he had played in an International match,
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    • 517 50  -  HE'S CAUGHT IN QUANDARY OVER OLYMPICS QUALIFYING TIME By KEN JALLEH JR TIMES and timing have turned Singapore's dreams (or the Asian championships and the Los Angeles Olympics into a nightmare with Ang Peng Siong caught in the horns of a dilemma. In what has come as
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    • 82 50 LAHORE, Saturday ENGLAND all-rounder lan Botham is flying home immediately from Pakistan, for urgent medical treatment on an injured left knee, England team manager Alan Smith announced here today. Smith said an operation was almost certain. Botham's departure is the latest
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