Singapore Monitor, 17 March 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Saturday, March 17, 1984 30cents
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  • 701 1  -  The two-storey bungalows are 'under strain' By SIT YIN FONG THE OCCUPANTS of six hillside bungalows in Jalan Dermawan, in the Hillview Brivate housing estate, have evacuated lem after a landslip which was aggravated by the torrential rain of Mar 3. The evacuation
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    • 190 1 Prestge at yam Feel Three wishes for my next HDB flat from people who've lived In more than one before COUNTDOWN Countdown WATCH that bowl of mee' -it may have TO THE 4-ha I A more than s sa e or y° u OLYMPICS L-A SINGAPORE physicists discover new way
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    • 394 2  -  By BERTILLA PEREIRA PRESIDENT Devan Nair warned Rotarians this morning against addiction to status or power, and obsession with one's own ego The scramble for recognition and addiction to power and status was unseemly and the egoism that drove it could
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    • 281 2  -  By SIT YIN FONG NUMBER 62 the only one of the six evacuated bungalows in Jalan Dermawan due to be demolished is so badly twisted and damaged by the land slip that three Thais working on its upper floor yesterday agreed they were risking their lives.
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    • 87 2 A SOIL expert said yesterday a slip circle such as the landslip which is said to be affecting hillside houses in J a lan Dermawan and adjacent areas in the Hill view housing estate can cover an area of up to 100 metres by 100 metres. He said
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    • 233 3  -  By OEI SIN GIOK FIFTEEN racehorses belonging to the debtridden Mr Nicholas Chu Fai Hung have been seized under a court order. They will be sold either by auction or by tender. The proceeds of the sale will be used to settle a debt
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    • AROUND SINGAPORE
      • 86 3 THE MASS Rapid Transit system has affected other construction in Singapore. Contractors doing the piling and Basement work for the new United Commercial Bank and Indian Bank Building at the corner of D'Almeida and Malacca Streets, had to study the effect of an
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      • 62 3 THE SINGAPORE Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry is sending an economic mission to the People's Republic of China from March 18 to April 8. The purpose of the mission is to study and identify investment and joint venture possibilities. The
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      • 96 3 The Republic of Singapore Air Force will hold live firing exercises at the Southern Island Live Firing Range at Pulau Sen ang and Pulau Pawai next week. The exercises at Pulau Pawai will be from Monday, March 19, to Thursday,, March 22 between 8.00
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      • 56 3 THESE dragon boats are bound for Sweden for the first Singapore Dragon Boat Race to be held in Europe on April 28. The boats will be loaded on board the Dutch container vessel Korrigan next Wednesday. After the voyage to Gottenberg, they will be transported by truck
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    • 151 3 TEACHERS must keep in touch with the latest developments in Confucian philosophy if they are to be effective moral instructors. They should also follow the sage's example in their transmission of values to students. This was the advice of Mr Wang Mong
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    • 218 3 THE CHINESE Chamber of Commerce and Industry is helping bumboat operators to cope with their resettlement at Pasir Panjang. As a first step, the chamber's commerce section invited the bodies representing the bumboat operators, motorised sampan operators, crane operators, lorry transport owners
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    • 843 4  -  MR GOH SLAMS THOSE WHO INCITE S'POREANS TO PROTEST AGAINST OUR DEFENCE BUILD-UP ALL STORIES BY EE BOON LEE YONG POW ANG AND LYE YIN FONG MR J B JEYARETNAM (Anson) sot an answer in Parliament yesterday to nis oft-re-peated question: "Who are our enemies". In
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    • 156 4 Population USS of No- in Est Country Six** US$ per Govt of Armed Fore** Reserverists (mill ton) million capita Spending GDP/QNP (000) (000) 1N3 1M3 Countries In Asia and Australasia Australia 1S.4 4497 299 10.2 3.1 72.4 32.7 India 723.5 5569 I 17J N.A. 1120.0 200.0 3.3 (1901) Indonssla 190.0
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    • 77 4 MR GOH CHOK TONG, the Defence Minister, told Parliament yesterday that the extension of the reservist cycle from 10 to 13 years was made necessary because of the smaller intake of national servicemen, the result of our effective family planning programme. Both reservists and their employers
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    • 355 4 JUST HOW much do other countries spend on defence? How much does it cost per person per year? And, more significantly, what's the percentage of the defence bill in terms of overall government spending? Figures produced by Mr Goh Chok Tong in
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    • 326 6 Trade with Vietnam an open book, says Mr Dhanabalan THE FIGURES of trade between Vietnam and Singapore are recorded and published. There is no secret about them as far as Singapore is concerned. Mr S Dhanabalan, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, told the House yesterday that if
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    • 380 6 SINGAPOREANS generally do not have the gift of the gab. Few are able to hold the audience oefore the microphone or in front of a camera. As a result, it is not easy for the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation to produce programmes sucn as
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    • 100 6 MR CHANDRA DAS (Chong Boon) felt that the Skills Development Fund has leaned heavily in favour of the manufacturing sector. Not true, said Mr Lee Yiok Seng, Minister of State (Finance). A flurry of statistics followed. Of the total $63.7 million
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    • 63 6 THE government will take a fresh look at the 13th month annual wage supplement for civil servants who retire before Dec 31. This promise was made by Mr Lee after Mr Das made another call to the government to reconsider it. He felt
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    • 52 6 CIVIL servants who opted for the CPF scheme in 1973 can now use their frozen pensions to purchase HDB flats. Mr Lee said the government had allowed the frozen sum, discounted at 6 per cent per annum, to be used for the purchase of
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    • 60 6 THE PUB will spend $4.6 million on staff training this year. Of this, $2 million will go for training daily-rat-ed workers, said Dr Wong Kwei Cheong, Minister of State (Trade and Industry). The management and the workers' union were actively studying
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    • 361 8 THE ASEAN tourist boards and national airline companies are discussing the possibility of a cheap fare for an Asean package tour tp promote tourism in the region. Representatives from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore disclosed this to participants in
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    • 233 8 The dental surgery case THE TEST case of a dentist charged with using an unregistered factory has been adjourned to March 29 for judgement. District judge Lee Cheong Hoh heard final evidence and submissions yesterday. Dr Oliver Hennedige is charged with not registering his premises
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    • From our EVENING EDITION yesterday
      • 49 8 THE Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) has arrested a former purchasing manager of a multi-national electronics firm for corruptly accepting more than $1 million. Sources said the manager, in his forties, was working for Texas Instruments Singapore for a number of years.'
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      • 53 8 TWO Muslim marriages have broken up because of obscene videotapes. In one case, the husband slapped his wife after she had refused to prepare drinks for him while he was watching obscene tapes. In the other, the wife could not stop her husband from
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      • 44 8 THE Consumers' Association of Singapore will computerise its operations to improve its administration. The computer programme will cut manEower costs and is expected to be completed y the end of this month at a cost of $20,000.
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  • world
    • 306 9 Mondale and Hart keep their eyes on delegate-rich Michigan UPI, AP WASHINGTON, Saturday DEMOCRATIC front-runners Walter Mondale and Gary Hart battled for votes in the mid-west industrial heart of America yesterday on the eve of six caucuses that will pick another 251 delegates to the Democratic
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    • 206 9 Reuter AP WASHINGTON, Sat THE WHITE HOUSE yesterday announced stringent new security measures to prevent terrorism and protect President Reagan. The measures, under study for a year, were disclosed by spokesman Larry Speakes the morning after an armed man was shot by a police
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    • World Briefs
      • 58 9 Reuter OTTAWA, Saturday: Former Finance Minister John Turner, hot favourite to become Canada's next Prime Minister, yesterday officially entered the race for leadership of the ruling Liberal Party. Returning from nine years of political exile as a Toronto corporate lawyer, he pledged to
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      • 58 9 UPI NAPLES: Police acting on tips from convicts, arrested more than 100 suspects yesterday in a swoop on organized crime personalities in Naples. They acted on the basis of 550 arrest warrants issued by four Naples magistrates. All those arrested were
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      • 75 9 UPI AVjGNON: A DOZEN militants of the French terrorist group Direct Action, believed responsible for assassinating US and Israeli diplomats, were caught in a police raid on Thursday night. The round-up netted one of the extreme leftist organisation's top leaders, Regis Schleicher, 26.
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      • 83 9 UPI BEIJING: The Chinese Protocal Department said yesterday that the firing of 21-gun or 19-gun salutes will be resumed this month at welcoming ceremonies for visiting foreign leaders. The practice began in 1961 but was disbanded since 1966, the year the
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    • 403 10 Agencies JAKARTA, Saturday FOREIGN Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja said yesterday that Vietnam was not prepared to discuss the withdrawal of troops from Cambodia. It tad also rejected an Indonesian plan to break the stalemate in Cambodia, he said. Reports from Australia have quoted Vietnamese Foreign
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    • 76 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday CAMBODIAN resistance leader Son Sann yesterday promised that his nation would be a friendly neighbour to Vietnam after Vietnamese troops withdraw from Cambodia. He said that an independent Cambodia would not be a threat to any country. As an indication of his good
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    • 269 10 AP CANBERRA, Saturday THE last permanent Australian fighter squadron will be withdrawn from Malaysia by 1988, ending a military presence that has lasted more than 30 years, the Government said yesterday. Defence Minister Gordon Scholes said that the Cabinet had voted to accept
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    • 173 10 AP BEIJING, Saturday CHINESE leader Deng Xiaoping has five children, three daughters ana two sons, the government disclosed for the first time yesterday. The Foreign Ministry Information Office, responding to a question three days earlier from the Associated Press, revealed no other details about the
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    • 168 11 NEW YORK, Saturday UN EXPERTS investigating Iranian charges that Iraq has used chemical weapons in the 42-month Gulf war spent 23 hours in the southwest battle zone, a UN spokesman said. The team was flown to the area of Bostan, near Ahwaz, north
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    • 337 11 AP LAUSANNE, Saturday REPRESENTATIVES of the various Lebanese factions insisted that progress was being made at peace talks vesterday, despite violations of Lebanon's fledgling cease-fire and the kidnapping of an American diplomat. Lebanese President Amin Gemayel said in a Swiss French-language interview that
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    • 177 11 Reuter, AP KHARTOUM, Saturday SUDANESE President Jaafar Nimeiri accused Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of masterminding an air strike yesterday on Omdurman on the outskirts of Khartoum in which three people were reported killed. President Nimeiri said, "the operation carried out by Gaddafi confirms
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    • 337 12 UPI TOKYO, Saturday JAPAN AIE LINES unveiled yesterday a wheel-less train of the future that floats above its tracks on a cushion of magnetism. The sleek and futuristic "floating train," dubbed Hsst-Expo' 85, is expected to go into demonstration service at the Science Expo at Tsukuba,
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    • 261 12 Reuter NEW DELHI, Saturday THE INDIAN Navy is standing by to man the country's strike-hit ports, a shipping ministry spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said naval personnel may help berth and unload vessels carrying vital supplies of oil, edible oils and
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    • 82 12 Reuter BEIJING, Saturday A GROUP of tombs containing a 2,000-year-old preserved corpse ana the remains of possibly sacrificed humans has been unearthed in the arid west of China, the New China News Agency said yesterday. The tombs dated back to the Han dynasty which
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    • 356 13 LONDON, Saturday BRITAIN'S first astronaut, expected to fly aboard the US space shuttle next year, will be one of four men who were named bv Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine on Thursday. One of the four candidates three military officers and a civilian scientist will ride
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    • 194 13 Warner is negotiating to buy back the magnate's shares Reuter NEW YORK, Saturday AUSTRALIAN newspaper and television magnate Rupert Murdoch's battle to acquire control of the Warner Communications empire may be over, Wall Street sources said yesterday. They said that Warner,
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    • 65 13 Reuter LE LOCLE (Switzerland), Saturday A SWISS farmer was fined 500 francs (Ss46o) for turning a hose of liquid manure on a group of people who were picnicking on his land, police said yesterday. Things might have turned out better if the farmer had
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    • 73 13 UPI SACRAMENTO (California), Saturday A SUPERIOR Court judge sidestepped the question of whether a homosexual partner of an airline flight attendant has the same right to discounted tickets as spouses. Judge Roger Warren ruled on Wednesday the issue should be negotiated between the Association of
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  • money
    • 98 14 GENERAL Lumber (Holdings) will continue its rationalisation programme to increase productivity, chairman Datuk Kang Kock Seng said in the chairman's statement for the year ended Sept 30, 1983. More downstream processing activities are being considered so as to maximise return on the capital invested.
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    • 47 14 EU YAN SANG Holdings said it is unable to quantify the impact of the Government's intended acquisition of two properties belonging to wholly-owned subsidiary, Eu Court Realty, on its earnings and assets because the compensation has not been finalised
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    • 67 14 ROXY Electric Industries barely managed to maintain turnover and profit for the year ended Sept 30, 1983 Group turnover for 1983 was M 536.7 million compared to M 536.5 million due to a soft television market which was offset by the continued strength from
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    • 62 14 MONSIA'S offer to acquire Sealion shares drew acceptances totalling 7.5 million, representing about 19.1 per cent of Sealion's issued share capital. These acceptances, tof [ether with the 18.2 milion Sealion shares Monsia purchased from Ayala Hotels, Ayala International Finance and AFHK Nominees,
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    • 433 14  -  By JOYCE QUEK THE Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation's results will not E lease the maret. Contrary to expectations that group net earnings will be in the region of $130 million, OCBC earned $114.07 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1983 compared to $122.61
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    • 355 14 CONTINUATION of a four-week trend, which saw the easing of local stocks, finallv drove the Straits Times Index below the 1,000 mark on Thursday to 998.43. Although stock prices improved slightly yesterday to lift the STI up by 9.71 points to cross the four-digit
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    • 229 14 SHARE OF THE DAY THE APPROVAL for First Allied Corporation's proposed four-for-one rights issue appears to be giving the rarelytraded counter a new phase of life it closed at an impressive $19.80 yesterday, after having risen to $18.40 on Thursday. This makes
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    • 160 14 HMLLSTREET j INVESTORS reacting enthusiastically to a budget agreement between the White House and Republican Congressional leaders gave a big boost to Wall Street prices which closed sharply higher yesterday. The market rose despite continued worries that the strength of the nation's
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    • 208 14 UPI THE DOLLAR rose on all European exchange markets yesterday. Gold held its price in Zurich but fell in London. The dollar finished trading in London at U551.4470 against the round from Thursday's close of 1.4630. In Frankfurt, the dollar closed at 2.6240 deutschmark, compared to Thursday's
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    • 831 15 UPGRADING programmes and extension of both upstream and downstream operations should begin contributing to the group's performance this year. Although the success of the new activities (Industrial Gases and New Technology Divisions) have yet to be realised, realignment of existing facilities should benefit the group through
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    • 994 16 BEIRUT REMAINS A DIVIDED CITY AFFLICTED WITH SAVAGERY KNT International BEIRUT: Beirut is a divided city afflicted with savagery. Beirut Television's newscasts demonstrate how split the images of it can be. Since the upheaval and redivision of the Lebanese capital, the state television's 8.30 pm newscast
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    • 390 16 Duo YOU MAY not be able to take it with you but you can sometimes have the last laugh. And, where there's a will there's a way of having the last word, judging by Second Best Bed (wnicn is what William Shakespeare left his
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  • opinion / letters
    • 513 17 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT AFTER the widespread publicity received by three Japanese cars which broke in two after crashing, some salesmen of these models are being sent to pieces by questions about how it happened The revival of the old joke that if
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    • 99 17  -  PAUL NEO LAM CHUAN for General Manager CPF Board PLEASE refer to Mr C C Ho's letter published under the heading "Early Medisave refund to pay for funerals?" (SM, March 7). We would like to inform Mr Ho that the balance in a member's Medisave
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    • 123 17  -  CHUA CHAI LONG Singapore 0105 THE GOVERNMENT should also give enhanced child relief tax benefits to those mothers with low or no education who supported the government's policy of stopping at two children. Besides encouraging our graduate mothers to produce
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    • 386 17  -  MICKEY HEE Singapore 0821 I READ with disgust, but was not astounded, at the complaint of "MAD" (SM, March 13) about the rude salesgirl she and her Greek friends encountered. Over the past years, such unfortunate incidents have been on the increase. As a sales
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    • Article, Illustration
      74 17 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wtt be accepted for publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful We
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  • leisure
    • 1493 18 At 33, the Blonde Princess is still stunning despite the critics LAT-WP HOLLYWOOD: When the name Cybill Shepherd arises, there is an expectation of battle fatigue. When an actress is 33, and has been written off by Hollywood after coining close to stardom, one expects scars. "Was
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    • 344 18  -  By WONG SING YEONG BARBARA YONG MEILING is the girl-next-door who has made it big a HK-TVB actress and still treats life as if she hasn't. She retains an ordinary charm, with a soft look and demure smile that attract more than just a
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    • 439 18  -  DAMIEN THOMAS TALKS ABOUT THE TV HIT By PHILIP CHEAH THE AWAKENING and Shogun (which is currently showing on RTM) have one thing in common. Both series were hammered by the critics for being historically inaccurate. Though Shogun was embraced by the American public, the Japanese audience avoided
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    • 599 20  -  GREATEST NUMBER OF PAID EXTRAS USED wmsws, By WONG SING YEONG THE Japanese Imperial Forces are here again In fact, they penetrated to as far as Caldecott Hill to capture the prized outdoor studio of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation yesterday. But just as
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    • 577 20  -  SATURDAY'S BEST WITH VALERIE TREVOR Centrestage Faerie Tale Theatre: The Tale of the Frog Prince (Ch 12, 8.35 pm) A fairy tale comes alive, but with a difference. Robin Williams (Mork from Ork) and Terri Garr add spice to this charming tale based on the
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    • 285 21 AP SANTA MONICA: Singer Michael Jackson won the People's Choice award for all-round male entertainer on Thursday night while Barbra Streisand and Barbara Mandrel! shared allaround female entertainer honours. It was the fifth award for both women. Winners tied in two other categories in The 10th
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    • 273 23  -  ALBUM: BUILDING MY WORLD AROUND YOU ARTISTE: David Lee LABEL: Philips 814 4931 Asiabeat All reviews by LIM SEK DAVID LEE is reputed to be a computer wizard who puts much of his skill into the music he Eroduces. But listening this album, one would not
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    • 333 23 IT IS not difficult for ardent fans of CarGnters to choke on their emotions after tening to this album. It's like a final fling with an old friend; a farewell to the clear, crystal sound of a clean-cut duo whom they have learned to love
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    • 151 23 ONE of the best female balladeers tries to update her act and falls flat on her face. This perhaps sums up Melissa Manchester and ner latest album. Not that it is a bad album far from it but somehow, it is not easy to take too much
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    • 485 23  -  CICADA CAPTIVATES AUDIENCE PAT D'ROSE THEY made me lose my head under the stars that night. That Cicada! Four musicians, three back-up singers, Babic in a white ethereal robe and with a voice to match and Randy, moving his pelvis in every conceivable direction as if it
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    • 167 23 FROM Monday, you'll have a dynamic dee-Jay and entertainer at the consoles of the Hilton's MUSIC BOOM. American Leonard Smith, who flew in early this morning, is a former associate TV producer who has guest-starred on WKRP in Cincinnati. His latest contribution to the entertainment industry is a
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    • 239 23 THE current top 10 singles in the US, with the previous week's positions in brackets: 1. Jimp, Van Halen (2) 2. 99 Laftballons, Nena (3) 3. Thriller, Mickael Jackson (1) 4. Girls Jast Want to Have Fun. Cyndi Lauper (4) 5. Let the Music Play, Shannon
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 861 19 dBIMPP i g"7 KSftBSSi H 12.50 Opening and Programme Highlight* followed by Ses- WfJR' [111 I I ame Street I H H The letters K and Z and the number 5 are taught. I 1.55 Saturday Matinee: Mr Forbush and the Penguins. See Saturday s Best. HHB I H H
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    • 329 19 12.00 PM Programme Summary 7.30 Chinese Music and Art Songs: 1. 12.05 Musical Notebook Strauss: National Theatre Club Choir/Au Yang Which is Which: 1. Richard Strauss: Shang Zhang 2. Chooi Yee Peck Metamorphosis for 23 String Instru- (mezzo-soprano), Chooi Yee Sun (piments, Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert ano) 3. Zhong Yi Traditional Orchesvon
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    • 171 19 ffrr^re 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 Let There Be Drums 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 British Press Review 1.15 About Britain 1.30 New Ideas 1.40 Book Choice 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Album Time 3.00 World News 3.09 News about Britain 3.15 From the Weeklies
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    • 651 21 fVLM GUIO€ j"V VI MOVES (E) Midnight show: YOUNG AND WILD (C) Starring: Tom Crabe, Craig T Nelson, Lea DALIT (*****16): KING OF GAMBLERS II Thompson (C) Synopsis: Making the right choices for the r Starring: Wang Guanxiong, Zhong Hua, Yang future is what everybody in this film has to
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 257 22 sso THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra will feature soloist Fausto Zadra on the piano today at Victoria Concert Hall at 8.15 pm. Pieces by Weber, Mozart and Sibelius will be played. Tickets at $15, $10, $7 and $4 are available at the Central Booking Office. QUITAR LOCAL musician Alex Abisheganaden will
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    • 746 22 SMITTY THE MIGHTY X BLAZER FROM Monday to May 9 J&l 19, Smitty the Mighty mtijMu Blazer will perform nightly, except on Sundays, from 11 pm to 1 ww am at the Hilton's Mu- W I sic Room. WW MM The vaudeville-disco W W M act includes comedy, I artistic
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 348 24 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 19 LIBRA Private career discussions are September 23 to October 22 indicated. Don't keep prob- Artistic types experiment with lems bottled up inside. In- style. You re surprised by the stead, discuss them with trust- attention of a new admirer, ed confidants. Curtail
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    • 306 24 ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECBET By Bill Barry r r WITH THIS STEP THIS WAY MR BRAND V KXI CAN'TT IN OUR POSSESSION j V OUR SMUT TLE SUB WILL TAKE POSSIBLy \/bUTWE\ STRIKE WILL FORCE M US TOMV REAL HEADOUARTERBI EXPECT TO 1/ ARC ut i»,ntp rue M ocpr\ THE UNITED
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  • THE SINGAPORE MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 218 25  -  AMERICAN-BRED FIVE-YEAR-OLD SHOULD BEAT HIS 10 RIVALS 2 PAGE TEAR-OUT By WONDER BOY AGASAM Stable's Gay Milano stands a good chance of re-entering the winning list when he takes on ten rivals in Race 5, a 2,400-metre race for Class 1 Division 2 horses,
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    • 169 25 SEVERAL horses in peak form are engaged is Race 2 and my suggestion is to play the tierce. In morning workouts, Slashing Sabre (3) seems to be showing form. Jockey Nigel Tiley is treating this horse with great care and shows confidence of winning on it. Little
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    • 234 25 WONDER BOY MA-ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zao Bao) (Wan Bao) Rice 1 1 Swift III 14 Baacon's Shine 12 Show Me How 14 Beacon s Shine 11 Arumugam 9 Revenue 13 Met San 9 Revenue 7 Masirah Race 2 Little Papa 4 Pleasant Surprise III 3 Slashing
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    • 181 25 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Malcolm Johnston (v) 16 9 6 10 L N Danis 11 7 4 4 Nigel Tiley 9 14 4 5 Terry Lucas 8 8 2 1 Chris Gwilliam (v) 6 8 8 2 Sng 6 3 2 3 Leslie Khoo 5 5 4 3
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    • 154 25 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Teh Choon Beng 13 13 8 8 Ivan Allan 12 13 6 5 Mohd Zafir Matban 10 7 5 9 E van Breukelen 9 7 8 8 Lim Hock Bee 8 4 8 4 Qamat Bougoure 7 8 6 4 Osman Sarimin 7 3
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    • 667 25 ANDERMATT, the champion horse of 1983, showed he is regaining the form that made him the punters' favourite when he finished a strong sixth over 1,200 metres last week. The Amalgam five-year-old was running as well as any other horse in
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    • 3337 26 RACE 1 2.1S CLASS 4 DIV 8 1,400 m Rating*: 65-54 Stake*: $15,500 1 Ml M 3 Mug 57 (dl s) KW Tin 13 Buang Swiftly 5 (0-1-0-2-2) 477 10/3 (KW Tan 7th to In Luck C 4-7 Sl2ooa 1:11.9) 2 Rapid FaMow 56 (d 2 -Vi) 4
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  • sports
    • 367 31 Reuter, AP VILNIUS (Lithuania), Saturday YOUNG SOVIET chess star Gary Kasparov is poised to win the fourth game in tne world championship eliminator against Vasily Smyslov, chess experts said yesterday. Their comments were made after the pair had adjourned at the 41st move. The experts
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    • 142 31 K- King Q Queen E Rook B Bishop N Knight WHITE BLACK (Smytiov) (Kasparov 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 0-0 6 e3 c5 7. dxc5 B*c5 8. Be2 dxc4 Bxc4 a6 10. Qe2 bS 11. Bd3 Bb7 12.
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    • 415 31  -  By ERNEST FRIDA BILL ISRAELSON, a professional golfer from the United States, wearing tight-fitting shorts and jogging shoes, caused a stir on the third day of the $71,000 Rolex Masters at the Bukit Course yesterday. Many thought the 27-year-old American to be
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    • 215 31 THIRD ROUND SCORES OF THE ROLEX MASTERS Professionals: 209 B Israelson (US) 72, 71, 66; 211 L Stephen (AUS) 71, 68, 72; 212 Hsieh Min Nam (TAI) 71, 70, 71; Jeff Sluman (US) 70, 71, 71; 213 Kyi Hla Han (B) 74, 71, 68; Bagtas (PH) 70,
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    • 352 31  -  By ERNEST FRIDA NEW BALANCE Pte Ltd has taken the initiative to mend the soured relationship with its former long distance star employee Jagtar Singh. Mr K C Heng, manager of the sports goods firm, said in an interview that he would
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    • 447 32  -  NFL '84 SOCCER NEWS ~WITH S GULAM TIONG BAHEU and Toa Payoh United, Division One champions and runners-up respectively last year, have the most number o! stars in the National Football League. Surprisingly, these stars have failed to shine. And so, it's not surprising to
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    • 408 32 Kaki Bukit have the last laugh in hearing and emerge as group champs SOME said it was a mystery. Others called it a riddle. But the case of the phantom player may turn out to be the biggest joke in local league football circles. A
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    • 325 32  -  Under-17 and under-15 teams prepare for international meets r w uvivfl lift —WITH B KULA THE Singapore Hockey Association will be keeping up to its promise of building up hockey prowess at near grassroots level in April this year. An under-17
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    • 359 32 THE Astroturf fever which has been around the world for more than 17 years has at last received response frbm the local authorities. The Police Force are the latest organisation who have shown interest besides St Joseph's Institution and the Physical Education
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    • 531 33  -  prance ABianJtiiiiar Tennis Chani^^ prnce Round-Up by ALFONSO CHAN LAUGH a little, cry a lot. There were smiles as well as tears in the sunshine when the boys' and girls' singles quarter-final rounds were completed in the Asian Junior Tennis Championship at the Singapore
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    • 376 33 QUARTERFINAL RESULTS Boys singles: S Ohta (Jap) bt M Tolentino (Phi) 7-5 6-0; M Tzur (Isr) bt Colin Grant (HK) 6-3 5-7 63; Choi Sung Hoon (Kor) bt H Kartono (Ina) 6-1 6-0; F Barrientos (Phi) bt G Bloom (Isr) 6-2 6-2. Girls singles: Akiko Kijimuta (Jap) bt
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    • 335 33 CURRENT speculation, amidst all the Sreat tennis being played in the Asian unior tennis championshms, centres around who is responsible for the poor quality of our junior players. Some are blaming the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association for its shortsighted goals, while many say that it
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      19 34 Israeli Qilad Bloom stoops in distress. He goes crashing down. And out in agony against Felix Barrientos.
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    • 348 34 MINOR snafus have slowly begun to surface in the Asian Junior Tennis championships, now being played at the Singapore Tennis Centre. One minor incident, which was resolved without some irritation, was the Pakistani team's insistence on their girls wearing slacks instead of shorts or skirts. Their team manager,
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    • 54 31 The family of the late A MR. RAM LABHAYA SETH wishes to express their heartfelt gratitude and thanks to all relatives friends for their kind assistance, attendance, wreaths messages of condolence during their recent bereavement. Kirya (last rites) will be held at our residence at 22, Cairnhill Road on Sunday
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    • 136 35 SBC to telecast FA and Milk Cup 4 llve* QOOO mm sports fans* IBC wM tolo» caat both tha Milk Cup an* PA Cup finals K varton fta Ilia MNk Cup AM an March St. NI varton aiaka It ta tha PA Cup finate, tt wM ta a dauHla
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    • 464 35 The Saints go storming in with a 2-goal victory LONDON, Saturday TWO SUPERB goals by Danny Wallace gave Southampton a well-deserved 2-0 win over Liverpool at the Dell last night to open up the race for the English soccer league championship. Liverpool stay top of the table despite
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    • 320 35 Reuter LONDON, Saturday WHILE leaders Liverpool were left with red faces by the Saints last night, hopefuls MANCHESTER UNITED, lying second to Liverpool, suffered a double blow today as they prepared for tonight's home game with ARSENAL. United had been hoping to welcome
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