Singapore Monitor, 30 March 1984

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  • 11 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Friday, March 30,1984 30cents
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  • 622 1 Legislative Council sounds alarm on Jardine's plan to move to Bermuda AP HONG KONQ, Friday UNCERTAINTY about the future of capitalism in Hong Kong threatens to bring about a financial exodus from this British colony, Legislative Council members warned yesterday. Seven members
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    • 129 1 i nead m mm* $1.20 SBS I THE NEW b Patient held air-con STREISAND I nurse bus fare hostage at into the CBD: r Toa Payoh Page 2 I Yen,l: 18 Hospital: Pg 3 9 r Tlaam I# uAii fam if Aim tiiAiuo WE wish to thank all the people
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    • 733 2  -  Instead of sacking them, companies are arranging jobs elsewhere for their staff By MICHAEL LIEW IN A TWIST to the well-established staffpoaching practice known as "headhunting", some Singapore companies have hired management consultants to help them get rid of unwanted senior staff. Like
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    • 106 2 A TOTAL of 1,263 applications have been received from polytechnic Kaduates for places in e second-year course at Nanyang Technological Institute for the 1984-85 academic year. More than 1,000 are likely to be rejected. The institute's registrar, Mr Ling Sing Wong, said
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    • 261 2 Lianhe Zaobao AIRCONDITIONED SBS buses charging a maximum of $1.20 for a trip between Ang Mo Kio and the Central Business District will start their trial runs- next month. The Ministry of Communications has approved the fares structure
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    • 123 2  -  By YEOW MEI SIN AIRLINES which operate in Singapore have formed their own club. The Airline Club of Singapore (ACS) aims to develop closer links among people working in the airline industry. It will also have links with the World Airline Club Association and
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    • 267 3 NURSE SLIGHTLY HURT AFTER SHE WAS TEMPORARILY TAKEN HOSTAGE BY PATIENT Lianhe Wanbao A NURSE was temporarily taken hostage this week by a patient who was warded at Toa Payoh Hospital for an apparent overdose of tranquilisers. However, the man, aged about 30, released the
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    • 301 3  -  Fewer inmates return to jail By LYE YIN FONG FEWER convicts have been returning to jail since the Ministry of Social Affairs introduced its two-tier rehabilitation scheme two years ago. Of the total number of convicted prisoners dealt with under the scheme, less than 5
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    • From our EVENING EDITION yesterday
      • 83 4 THE indiscriminate dumping of waste will still be a problem even after 1985 even though by that time the sources of pollution would have been eliminated. This was revealed by Mr Chiang Kok Meng of the Ministry of the Environment at the Third
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      • 59 4 TWO women were slightly injured when they were fleeing from an early morning fire at Jalan Kepala, off North Bridge Road, yesterday. The iFire destroyed three pre-war houses and damaged two others. Damage was put at more than $200,000. The cause of the
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      • 64 4 THE Nanyang Institute of Technology is willing to consider late applications from students for its 1984-85 enrolment. The institute's failure to advertise its enrolment in the Chinese papers had resulted in Chi-nese-educated parents not knowing about the exercise. Those who are interested in
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    • 447 4  -  By ROBERT WAN JOE TEO knows at first band the problems a handicapped person faces in driving a car. He also knows better than most how the problems can be beaten. Mr Teo, 31, is one of Singapore's first disabled driving instructors. And he
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    • 116 4  -  By K K FONG TRAFFIC policemen will be on duty this weekend and next week to direct traffic to Brighthill and Choa Chu Kang cemeteries during the celebration of the Qing Ming festival. Qing Ming, a time when people go to pay their respects
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    • 362 6  -  ORDER INTRODUCED AS CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS PROVE INEFFECTIVE By FOO MEY KIEN A NEW weapon has been introduced into the war against manufacturers of pirated cassette tapes the Anton Piller Order. It is helping record and tape producers to take civil action against tape pirates, in
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    • AROUND SINGAPORE
      • 76 6 DENTAL surgeon Dr Oliver Hennedige (left) was yesterday found guilty in a test case under the Factories Act. He was fined $1,000 or a month's imprisonment for operating his surge™ as an unrefistered factory from Dec 10, 982, to Apr 15, 1983 District Judge Mr Lee
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      • 77 6 A MAN who robbed a taxi-driver at pen-point has been sent to iail. Ng Swee Hoe, 27, a lorry driver robbed taxidriver Mr Wee Kian Teck, 48, of $40 after pointing the Parker pen at Mr Wee's armpit, a court was told. It happened while
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      • 76 6 THE PWD is building a $67 million viaduct along Keppel Road, as part of the Aver Rajah Expressway, from Shenton Way to Gulman Circus. To keep inconvenience to a minimum, the PWD is first widening Keppel Road between Shenton Way and Cantonment Link. This is
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      • 60 6 FROM Sunday, another three SBS services 41, 70 and 135 will be converted to OTS. SBS has already displayed posters and distributed leaflets at tne appropriate bus stops to.inform passengers of the impending change. With the forthcoming conversion exercise, SBS will have a total of
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      • 51 6 THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra will play monthly lunchtime concerts at the Shell llieatrette at Shell Tower, 3rd floor Raffles Place. The concerts will be held on the first Friday of each month, beginning on April 6. Concert time is 12.45 pm to 1.30 pm. Admission is
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    • 807 7 U/lONITORI I HOTLINE I A TOTAL of 67 people rang the hotline yesterday to tall as what they thooght of the proposals suggested la the Report on the Problems of the Aged. Agala, the propoaal to raise the Cir withdrawal age to
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    • 162 3 l»Al KAMPAWf Japanese Restaurant NOW IN SHENTON WAY Savour Kaiseki at the newly-opened Kampachi in Shenton Way. Every dish at the Kampachi is delicately prepared using the freshest ingredients flown in from Japan. Whether you want a light lunch or an elaborate dinner, the Kampachi offers a selection of delightful
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  • world
    • 92 8 KP WASHINGTON, Fri THE State Department yesterday stood by its contention that the "yellow rain" phenomenon in South Asia is the product of Soviet chemical warfare and is not the excretion of wild honeybees, as two American scientists contend. Reacting sharply to
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    • 208 8 Reuter JAKARTA, Friday FOREIGN Minister Mochtar Ku sumaatmadja yesterday said a reported violation of Papua New Guinea's air space by Indonesian fighter planes was possible and future air manoeuvres may be held away from the border. Government officials in Port Moresby said earlier yesterday that Papua
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    • 450 8 The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Friday MALAYSIANS should no longer expect the Government to do everything for them, Prime Minuter Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday when he tabled the Mid-Term Review of the Fourth Malaysia Plan in the Dewan Rakyat He said he was
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    • TRENDS
      • 74 8 AP US-TAIWAN TIES: US President Reagan, while moving to improve relations with China, has engaged in a delicate balancing act to also reassure Taiwan he remains a staunch friend who won't sacrifice its security to placate Beijing. For the most part, he has been successful.
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      • 58 8 Washington Post MANILA: Beset by armed rebel activity, civilian scrutiny ana internal factionalism, the Philippine military is fating a barrage of unprecedented challenges. Increasingly, the military must deal with mounting civilian concern about its expanded role in society and dissatisfaction within its ranks over the
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      • 53 8 LAT BRITAIN: In the wake of yet another failure to resolve the budget problems of the Common Market, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is probably the most unpopular leader in Western Europe. And the European press are having a field day with anti-Thatcher cartoons
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      • 66 8 Reuter SOVIET INFLUENCE: Mozambique's treaty with South Africa has proved a stark signal for the Kremlin that the drive to project Soviet influence in the Developing World may be losing momentum. From Latin American to Asia, Moscow's backing for national liberation movements and leftist Third
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      • 60 8 Reuter AUSTRALIA: Australia's mining companies are in a political, cultural and environmental fight for a vast mineral store they say is locked away by legislation which gives ownership to aborgines. The dispute is in the inhospitable Northern Territory, where there are known to be big
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    • 290 8 He will discuss all aspects of Hong Kong's future Reuter LONDON, Friday BRITISH Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe will pay his first visit to China from April 15 to 18 to discuss all aspects of Hong Kong's future, the British Government said yesterday.
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    • 336 9 Under-30 six peddle everything from hats to computers UPI NEW YORK, Friday A SEARCH for America's youngest tycoons turned up five men and a women all under SO who struck it rich peddling everything from hats at football games to computers and software in their own
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    • 129 9 UPI RIVERSIDE (CaNfornia), rnamy NURSE Robert Diaz was convicted yesterday of murdering 12 elderly patients at two rural hospital in 1911 with massive doses of a heart regulating drug, culminating one of the most complicated medical and legal cases in Californian
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    • 292 9 Reuter NEW YORK, Friday AFTER a bitter televised debate the previous night, Democratic candidates for the United States presidential nomination trudged around in a snow storm yesterday trying to win support in next Tuesday's New York primary election. The debate became so heated on two occasions
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    • 240 9 NEW YORK, Friday FIDEL Castro says a private note from President John Kennedy suggesting that the US and Cuba try to resume relations was delivered to nim almost at the moment Mr Kennedy was murdered in Dallas. Mr Castro describes himself as an admirer
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    • 154 10 Reuter VIENNA, Fri MORE than 100 nuclear reactors around the world are close to retirement age and will soon have to be dismantled, raising the problem of how to dispose safely of the ensuing nuclear waste, a UN agency said. The UN International
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    • 329 10 Reuter THE HAGUE, Friday US DEFENCE Secretary Caspar Weinberger appealed to tne Netherlands to accept 48 Cruise nuclear missiles, saying their deployment was vital to Western defence. But at the start of a delicate mission to persuade the Dutch to maintain Nato solidarity over
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    • 51 10 THIS is the War Cabinet Room, part of the underground emergency headquarters in Whitehall, London, that were uaed during World War II by the then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his government The headquarters are due to be opened to the public on April 6. PICTURE:
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    • 230 10 Ap WASHINGTON, Friday US TROOPS have come under hostile fire in El Salvador three times, most recently this month, the Defence Department said in a written statement disclosed in the Senate yesterday by Sen James Sasser. Mr Sasser said he received
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    • 332 10 Reuter LONDON, Friday HUNDREDS of demonstrators with painted faces and bizarre hair styles invaded the staid city of London's financial district yesterday and battled with police in a bid to paralyse Britain's banking and finance institutions. Cars were damaged and bank windows
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    • 203 12 Reuter ATHENS, Friday A GREEK ship was set ablaze at the head of the Gulf yesterday after a land-based missile struck its engine room, its owners said. A spokesman for the Stravelakis company said the vessel was the 16,230-tonne lapetos, a bulk
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    • 455 12 Reuter BEIRUT, Friday SOUTH Lebanon has been completely isolated from the rest of the country yesterday after Israeli forces closed the only road between the Druze-held Shouf mountains and the Israeli-occu-pied southern town of Jezzine. The closure followed clashes between Shi'ite villagers and
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    • 105 12 Reuter LIMA, Friday PERUVIAN police used batons and water cannons to break up a demonstration by 200 prison guards yesterday at the outset of a 24-hour strike two days after a jail mutiny in which 21 people died, including a prison guard. Peru's 2,500 prison guards
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    • 62 10 J Presents (FASHION SHOW BCEK DRINKING GmvEZ *J CONTEST J Don't miss the excitement of the final beer drinking J contest tonight at 10.00pm and a fabulous fashion f\ parade of the latest fashions in town. Sponsor: V Malayan Breweries Limited H Jardine Marketing Services I Bisquit XO Models by:
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  • money
    • 328 13 FABER Merlin Malaysia has announced good halftime results ana expects boardroom changes, in the wake of rumours of the Fleet group making a formal takeover declaration for this hotel-cum-property group. The first half year to Dec 31 saw an 83 per
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    • 283 13 SINGAPORE NEWS 8, PUBLICATIONS LTD Group turnover leaps from $27 million to $117 million in four-fold increase from '82 SINGAPORE News Publications Ltd has lived up to expectations of a high growth in earnings. The group, which comprises the two major Chinese newspapers, The Singapore
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    • 290 13 Better freight rates may bring turnaround for group soon BETTER earnings during the second half of last year failed to stall the decline in Neptune Orient Lines's performance for the year ended Dec 31, 1983. It has, however, lived up to its promise to maintain a
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    • 159 13 SHARE OF THE DAY TOSHIBA (Malaysia)'s reported group turnover of $16 million for the six months to Dec 31, compared to $18.3 million previously. Loss before tax fell to 11 $26,000, compared with $212,000 previously. M The report blamed increasing production costs and lower demand
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    • 134 13 HMLLSTBEET j Reuters THE STOCK market, after its sharp run-up on Wednesday, closed mixed on reduced trading volume yesterday as Wall Street investors showed uneasiness over new signs of vigorous strength in the US economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose 20 points on
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    • 92 13 AP THE US dollar rose against most foreign currencies in light trading yesterday. Gold held steady. The dollar's gains in US trading reversed earlier declines in Europe on news of a hefty US trade deficit last month. Dealers said anticipation of a large trade deficit and the
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    • 560 14  -  Major hotels forecast 1984 will be another bleak year for the business SURVEY OF HOTEL INDUSTRY By FOO CHOY PENG THERE is little reason to discount the bleak forecast for the hotel industry by publicly-listed hotels. So far, the hotels among them Shangri-la, Marco Polo, Goodwood
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    • 193 14 C K TANG plunged into the red despite an assurance by its chairman that the company's performance will improve in 1983. The group reported an after-tax loss of $28,000 for the year ended Dec 31, while at the bottom line, the loss was $16,000.
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    • 172 14 AMBASSADOR Hotels group turnover of $19.2 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1983, aided by investment income of $1.3 million, is a hefty 92 per cent increase over the previous period's $10 million. Group consolidated pre-tax profits however almost halved from $692,000 to $375,000
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    • 114 14 JCIA owns 14.99 of Allen's Confectionary JACK Chia-MPH Ltd's wholly-owned subsidiary, Jack Chia industries (Australia) Pte Ltd (JCIA) now owns 14.99 per cent or 2.09 million ordinary shares of A 50.50 each in Allen's Confectionary Limited, Melbourne, a public company listed on the Melbourne and Sydney stock exchanges. Since the
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    • 149 14 UNITED Industrial Corporation has not only returned to profitability but has also exceeded the profit forecast made last year in its rights issue document. It posted a group pretax profit of $7.1 million for tne year ended Dec 31, 1983, compared to expectations of
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    • 89 14 TAAIASEIt REEK MKIBK (OPPOSITE THE MARCO POLO HOTEL) Join our Anchor's Draft's "Half-Yard Sprint" fTon the Saturday nights at 10.15 p.m 31st March 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th April '84. Final: sth May '84 f( Prizes for Final (sth May '84): (f Ist Prize: $350 2nd Prize: $200 J J 3rd
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  • features
    • 375 15  -  By JOHN NGAI Reuter TAIPEH: THE direct heir of Confucius, the ancient sage whose teachings have influenced 2,500 years of Chinese civilisation and culture, believes declining moral standards pose a serious problem for mankind. "We are at a cultural crossroad. While some are battling to
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    • 734 15  -  Franglais: the use or misuse of English especially in the commercial field By EIKO FUKUDA Reuter PARIS: PURISTS call it pollution of their language. Businessmen call it simple marketing strategy. The law calls it illegal in some areas. But to most Frenchmen it's "Franglais" the
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    • 117 15 (f|) neptune iSM 7th floor, Overseas Union House, Collyer Quay, Singapore 0104. Tel: *****22. (Operated and managed by The Mandarin Singapore) Another roaring success by Andrew Uoyd Webber, creator of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, "Cats" is a stage musical that has taken the sophisticated London and New York audiences
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  • opinion / letters
    • 390 16 But do label and itemise medicine THIS is in reply to Dr Goh Lee Gan's letter "Time GPs charge for services rendered" (SM, Mar 16). I had written in my original letter that doctors are reluctant to itemise bills and put labels on
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    • 206 16  -  TAN HOW ING Asst Public Relations Manager/ Editor, COMFORT Newsletter for General Manager I REFER to your report "COMFORT faces an identity problem (SM, March 24). I am afraid your reporter has missed the theme in the Editorial of our February 1984 issue of COMFORT
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    • 484 17 I THE SINGAPORE iMONrfra COMMENT MALAYSIA'S review of its development plans represents more than a series of cuts in expenditure. It is a veritable revolution in the way its planners have begun to see the role of government in curing social and economic
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    • 523 17  -  Ministry seconds teachers to special schools at ratio of 1:25 pupils KOH YONG GUAN Director of Administration for Permanent Secretary (Education) Singapore 1024 I REFER to the letter "More help for handicapped children" by. Mona Ho (SM, March Mona Ho stated
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    • 127 17  -  KELVIN ANG Singapore 1231 I AM a student of Clifford Training Centre, a private school, and therefore I am not eligible to get a student rate while travelling on SBS buses. I would like to appeal to the authorities to reconsider allowing private school students
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  • leisure
    • 2014 18 BARBRA FINDS NEW SELF-RESPECT AFTER YENTL Hong Kong Star BARBRA STREISAND is fabulously wealthy; yet today, she is busy giving away her money, her clothes, her "things". Her mirror looks back at her with a face some have described as that of an ant-eater, with a nose
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    • 484 18  -  MAX BOYCE TO PERFORM HERE ON APRIL 3 AND 4 By PAT D'ROSE HE it Welsh, a former coal-miner and has thick carls and prominent sidebnras. He sings and dances, and he will split your sides with his Welsh wit and jokes. Tom Jones? Harry Secombe?
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    • 431 20  -  tvscMH By BARBARA BRIGHT in NEW YORK Reuter EVERY eight minutes on prime-time American television, there is a physical assault, every 20 minutes an attempted murder and every two-and-a-half hours an actual murder. On the Saturday morning cartoon programmes, watched mainly by children, there
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    • 759 20 Film Focus: Showcase Theatre Elizabeth the Queen (Ch 12, 8.30 pm) CHARLTON HESTON and Dame Judith Anderson re-enact a popular historical drama of Bwer and two strong personalis. The aging Queen Elizabeth both loves and fears her ambitious courtier and lover, Robert Devereaux, Earl of
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    • 516 21  -  TITLE: THE DAY AFTER DIRECTOR: Nicholas Meyer STARRING: Jason Robards, Jobetta Williams, Steven Guttenberg, John Lithcow Reviewed by WONG SING YEONG I don't know how the Third World War will be fought, but I know how the fourth will be with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein. AN astounding,
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    • 1031 23  -  By PAT D'ROSE MEET the sole survivors of their trades and a culture that may soon be as lost as the Incas of South America. Already their knowledge and wisdom are sought after and lapped up hungrily by a generation uncertain of
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    • 683 23 LAT-WP HOLLYWOOD: Barbara Streisand wasn't the only one to be ignored this year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. When the nominations for the 56th Academy Awards were announced, Federico Fellini was nowhere to be seen. Not that anyone expected the acclaimed
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1116 19 ■BEST 5 I 3.00 Opening Programme by A vJ House it Not a Home (C) (r). 7 m| V .B r JKk W y m M- >; J B 4 50 A Whole World if B T 5.40 The Kids of Degrassi Street: Ida Makes a Movie (De- A V
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 415 21 f\LM GUlOe SHIP SEASON (E) Starring: Jason Robards, Jobeth Williams, DALIT (*****16): GOLDEN BUDDHA s|?* L J *****59): THE GREAT SUR film depicts images of the AGAINST THE SNAKE PHANTOM (C) PRISE (C) aftermath of a nuclear war, and the indelible LIWAQU (*****30): GOLDEN BUDDHA mark il leaves on the
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 81 22 JOSEPH THE DREAMER PRINSEP Street Presbyterian Church will present the musical drama, Joseph the Dreamer, at victoria Theatre today, tomorrow and on Sunday at 7.30 pm. Admission is free. Donations and gifts will go to the Ang Mo Kio Presbyterian High School Building Fund. TODAY: TOMORROW: High tide: 10.31 am
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    • 750 22 Cecilia Hon and her dancers wiii stage Dance works at Victoria Theatre on Tuesday. DANCEWORKS by Cecilia Hon and her dancers will be staged at SSO Victoria Theatre on THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra will give conTuesday at 8 pm. certs today and tomorrow at Victoria Concert Hall Tickets are bv
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    • 178 22 A WOMAN OF GOOD CHARACTER and JANE THE Singapore Film Society and the New Zealand High Commission will screen David Blyth's A Woman of Good Character and John Reid's Jane at the Goethe-Institut today at 6.30 pm. Blyth's film shows New Zealand in the 19th Century, a country with few
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 653 24 leisure comics ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry y AHH.THE WONDERS a I of mooern pdcp/ the uoritz aoent michael brand W* IPWWI TO UNVEII A DEADLY SCHEME TO BE KNOWN AS downhill spy ARIES March 21 to April 19 LIBRA I Career initiative will pay off September 23 to
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    • 83 29 classified 273-9090 VACATION Hotel/Holiday Accommodation lIM9IOK «lir MOUtt in 1 Milkci (4 km. from town). 3 bad- j rooms with kMchan $60/- (My or < $80/ »wh«nd». T«l: *****20. j roars 1 TAQo3'?ei NOTICE I f A Looking to selll Call Monitor's classified today 273-9090 Why pay more? CHANGE OF
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    • 236 29 CENTRAL SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT The following tenders are invited by the Chief Supplies Officer, Central Supplies Department:- Tender No. CSD3/PT4S/S3 SINGLE BED (WITHOUT MATTRESS), BEDSIDE CABINET AND CUPBOARD for PRESBYTERIAN English Schools b Tender No CSD3/QIS77/S9 HEX AMINE TABLET for National Police Cadet Corps. o Tender No CSD3/019SO/S3 MADE TO MEASURE
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    • 170 30 RICHARD Leong may not be a good golfer but he certainly is a good businessman. He will be putting Singapore in the golfing world by organising the first Asia-Pacific golf show next March. Leong will be revealing his plans for the first AsiaPacific golf show at a Press
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    • 551 30 He will show his Open display was no flash in the pan POH Ee Kiat, fresh from his brilliant performance in the recent Singapore Open golf championship, will lead Sentosa Golf Club in the Singapore Golf Association Premier League tie at Jurong course
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    • 319 30 DR B K SEN, the former international amateur golfer, is the new owner of the $141,000 BMW 728 i that Performance Motors Limited has donated for the hole-in-one prize at the just-concluded Singapore Open golf championship at the Bukit Course. He bought the car
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    • 142 30  -  GOLF ROUNDUP with ERNEST FRIDA Draw and starting times for the SGA Premier League at Jurong Country Club on Sunday. FIRST TEE: 8.01 am Ting Sa Tee (Jurong), Ong Ah Loh (Changi), Ta lib Haron (Keppel), Lim Choo Beng (Seletar); 8.07 P M Samy (Sembawang), Alex
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    • 102 30 JUST A reminder to golfers taking part in the Singapore Golf Association League and club monthly medals events: Several USGA rules will come into force on Sunday. The Singapore Golf Association nas informed all golf clubs in SingaKre to observe the new B4 USGA rules. The
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    • 188 30 Reuter JAKARTA, Friday MARK Aebli and Brian Mog of the US shot five-under-par 67s to share the lead after the first round of the US$lOO,OOO ($210,000) Indonesian Open Golf Championship here yesterday. They were one stroke ahead of compatriot David Hobby, while fellow American
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    • 552 31 ENGLISH LEAGUE SOCCER PREVIEW BY JOHN SELLERS LIVERPOOL'S chances of retaining the First Division championship were given an unexpected boost vesterday by Graham Taylor, manager of Saturday's opponents, WATFORD. Taylor plans to leave out key defenders Wilf Rostron, Steve Terry and Graham Bardsley, although all three would ordinarily
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    • 257 31 IT HAS been a miserable week for TOTTENHAM and their midfield ace Ossie Ardiles. On Tuesday he had an operation on his suspect left leg to remove a steel plate after X-rays had revealed a new crack in the bone. Ardiles
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    • PROBLEMS... PROBLEMS...
      • 96 31 FORMER England defender Jack Charlton is to become manager of Second Division MIDDLESBROUGH again, following the sacking of Malcolm Allison on Wednesday. Charlton said yesterday: "I have agreed to help out Middlesbrough but I don't know for how long. The club have some problems and
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      • 99 31 THERE was a new, bizarre twist, meanwhile, to the tangled web surrounding DERBY COUNTY. Millionaire Robert Maxwell the man who owns OXFORD UNITED and tried to buy MANCHESTER UNITED and promised to bail out Derby by buying their ground was threatening to merge
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      • 111 31 IPSWICH are the other team in deep trouble, after starting the season looking like championship material. Just one point and two goals from their last six matches, they look like in relegation form all right. With the departure of top performers John Wark
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    • 893 32 LET'S hear it for Everton the best Milk Cup losers any one could wish to see. They put up a magnificent battle in the first leg against a Liverpool side that never truly looked capable of great things. And in the replay on Wednesday night they did
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      270 33  -  Meat Mana the first Malay unman national baskotbaltar Reports by K SILVAM EVEN if 19-year-old youth basketballer Amedah Dol had made it to the plane to Seoul for the Asian Youth basketball championships, she would not have been the first Malay woman to have represented Singapore at an
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    • 298 33 FORMER Olympic and national swimmer Bernard Chan, who used to make waves during the Sixties, has turned archer. Bernard who was in the US recently, was encouraged by a friend who bought a bow to get one for himself. On his return, he
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    • 309 33  -  Fairer Park Dynamos 1 Changi CSC 3 By B KULA DEFENSIVE blunders in the second half by Farrer Park Dynamos save dark horses Cnangi CSC a lacklustre win in their National Football League Division One match at the Jalan Besar stadium last night.
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    • 408 34  -  9m EAST ASIAN SQUASH 1 ANCHOR&BEER By ALFONSO CHAN TALL AND gangly James Barrington of Hong Kong found Singapore's Zainal Abidin an obstacle too steep to conquer in their East Asia team squash match at the East Coast Recreation Centre last night. He lost 6-9, 9-4,9-0,9-2
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    • 232 34 MEN: Singapore bt Hong Kong 5-0 (Singapore first): Z Abidin bt J Barnngton 3-1, P Hill bt Kent Li 3-0, S Ballard bt C Charles 3-0, G Tan bt A Ram 3-0, G Lim bt K S Ho 3-0. Philippines bt Thailand 3-2 (Philippines first): Roberto Yam bt
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    • 327 34  -  By ERNEST FRIDA GLORY Barnabas. Singapore's former woman Seap Games sprint champion, wilf be among eight athletes who will take part in the inaugural Malaysia Association of veteran Athletes championships in Kuala Lumpur on April 21. This was disclosed by Joseph Yan, the
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    • 260 34  -  By B KULA SAFSA S lethal striker N Pandian seems to be flashing his way past his opponents like lightning in the Singapore Hockey Association's Under-20 matches for the E W Barker Trophy. Pandian, who will be travelling with the
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    • 341 34  -  C'wealth Sec 16 Gan Eng Seng 9 By DANIEL WEE COMMONWEALTH Secondary, firsttimers to the game, surprised many at Barker Road Pool yesterday when they beat Gan Eng Seng Secondary to boost their prospects for a national schools waterpolo B division
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    • 244 32 li How about a career i in JOURNALISM? I 1 If you are a graduate and have worked one or opportunities for career advancement many. The i H two years, or have passed 'A' level and have at best will be given top training opportunities. I H least four years'
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    • 394 35  -  By B KULA NATIONAL hockey coach Phil Williams, who only last month was in the centre of a controversy over his coaching qualifications, will quit as national coach on April IS. According to reliable sources, Williams has accepted a lucrative offer to coach the Jamaican women's team
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    • 407 35  -  Top two should easily win their ties this evening PREVIEW OF TONIGHT S MEN'S TEAM SEMIFINALS 9TH EAST ASIAN SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIPS ANCHOR BEER ASCOT By ALFONSO CHAN THE semifinal rounds of the East Asia Team Championships this evening might well turn out to be a predictable affair.
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    • 45 35 WOMEN Singapore v the Philippines (2.30), Thailand v Hong Kong (2.30), Japan v Papaa New Gaiaea (PNG) (3.30). MEN Singapore v PNG (0.30), Hong Kong v Malaysia (0.30), Indonesia v Brunei (2.30). All matches to be played at the East Coast Recreation Centre.
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    • 135 35 YESTERDAY'S SQUASH RESULTSI MB RIO DE JANEIRO, Friday A NATIONAL ballot should be held to select the manager of the Brazilian soccer team following the resignation of Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian captain Socrates has said. "The head coach of the
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    • 135 35 HANOVER, Friday BAYERN Munich sweeper Klaus Augenthaler yesterday swelled the ranks of West German soccer players who refuse to play for their country. Augenthaler, who has four caps, said he would no longer consider selection after West German
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