Singapore Monitor, 18 April 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Wednesday, April 18, 1984 30cents
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  • 399 1 Libyans in Tripoli retaliate as London police seal off their embassy Reuter LONDON, Wednesday ARMED police, staking out a gunman who fired on a crowd of demonstrators, kept a tight cordon around the Libyan Embassy here last night as the Libyans laid a
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  • 94 1 THERE has been a virtual standstill in gold futures trading on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex). In the past two days, only one lot was traded in a day. Industry sources say that dealers are staying in the sidelines possibly because of uncertainties
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    • 94 2 Lianhe Zaobao THE repayment period for car loans given to civil servants has been cut down to five years instead of eight, effective from April 11. The new ruling which has been sent to the various permanent secretaries and department heads
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    • 161 2 Lianhe Zaobao ABOUT 100 students whose aggregates in their GCE '0' level examinations last year were below 10 have been persuaded by the Education Ministry to enrol at the various national junior colleges. Another 40-50 students who managed 'O' level aggregates under 17
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    • 335 2 THE eviction issue at the Siglap wet market has taken a new turn, with the owners threatening to take their 260 stall-holders to court if they do not quit by this Saturday. This is the rejoinder of Siglap Development Pte Ltd to
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    • 579 2  -  By SIT YIN FONG A MOTHER and her family of five grown-up children, who said they fled Indonesia because of racial riots, have stayed 18 years in Singapore before they were arrested four months ago for illegally remaining in the Republic.
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    • 136 2 THE new traffic laws regulating heavy goods vehicles and their heights will come into force on April 27. Mandatory jail sentence and heavy fines are provided under the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 1984. Offenders will be those driving vehicles exceeding 5.2
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    • 219 3  -  CAB DRIVER INJURED AS TWO MEN IN A CAR ASSAULT HIM K K FONG A POST-MIDNIGHT "race" along Upper Bukit Timah Road between a taxi and a car ended when the taxi was rammed by the other vehicle and the cabbie was beaten up. The
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    • 211 3  -  Story by TYE KIM KHIAT B THE TURNING point in keeping on the right side of the law by turning left is often severely tested when drivers leave the Centrepoint car park. At that point, the driver spies a circular sign, a white
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    • 422 4  -  A Journalists Notebook By Masaki Watanabe EARLY this week I received by mail a xeroxed summary of an article with the title "New Evidence on the Attempted Assassination of Pope Paul II." There was actually nothing new about its main allegation that the CIA was involved
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    • 220 4  -  By PHILIP LIM TWO out of five people who call the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) do so because of quarrels with neighbours. One man called SPCA because he was jealous of his neighbour's house renovation, his
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    • 197 4 RESOLUTIONS on house unions, endorsed by the NTUC Central Committee on Monday, will be introduced at the Ordinary Delegates' Conference by the end of this month. These will require all the affiliated unions to transfer funds and release members to house unions which are
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    • 309 4  -  Praise for hard work in keeping estates clean By YONG POW ANG MR ONG Teng Cheong, NTUC Sec-retary-General and Minister without Portfolio, has a way of winning the hearts of workers. In a dialogue session with the Public Daily Rated HDB Workers' Union
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    • 256 6  -  Story by PHILIP LIM AS MADAM Loh Ah Hiang was being strapped to her seat in a Singapore Airlines Jumbo 747 for her very first flight yesterday, she turned to reporters and said: "I am not frightened at all. I'm looking forward to being
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    • 53 6 AT 92, sha's tha oMttt pawtngtr on board tho loolng 747. Many years back, Mdm Loh Ah Hlang (loft) cama to tlngopora from China •cross tha South China Saa. Yaatarday sha flaw in a madam j#tun#r ovtr pan of mav imm stretch of watoff sofnalhlnj tha n#v#f
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    • 409 6  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM THE PEOPLE'S Association is watching closely the changing needs and interests of senior citizens as more and more of them are expected to be increasingly Englisheducated. And the association is gearing itself to organise more
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    • From our EVENING EDITION yesterday
      • 66 6 SALES manager Ong Kheng Huat, alias Richard, 44, was yesterday charged with committing a rash act at an international aerospace exhibition at Changi Airport. Ong was accused of the act which was so rash as to endanger human life by bringing a
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      • 31 6 THE DEFENCE and Second Health Minister, Mr Goh Chok Tong, will be the guest-of-honour at the NTUC May Day rally at the Singapore Conference Hall.
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      • 24 6 MITSUBISHI Corporation of Japan has won the MRT Corporation's $36.8 million contract for the supply and installation of power cables.
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    • 104 6 BETHLEHEM Singapore, one of the five major oil-rig builders in Singapore, retrenched about 80 employees last week. Mr B E Larimore, Bethlehem's general manager, said: All the retrenched staff were served termination notices sometime last Thursday or Friday. The retrenchment, Mr Larimore said, was due to
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    • 346 7  -  But Singaporeans have to work harder to remain competitive in the world market By BERTILLA PEREIRA SINGAPORE being the smallest of the four "little dragons" the others being Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea has to work harder than the others to remain competitive
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    • AROUND SINGAPORE
      • 101 7 IF YOU are interested to know more about what the Quality Control Circles have been doing this past year, you can sit in at the 1984 QCC Convention from May 19 to 24 and May 28 to June 1 at the PUB
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      • 62 7 YOU CAN expect isolated and scattered afternoon showers between now and the end of the month. On one or two days, there could be widespread rain with scattered thunderstorms and gusty winds between pre-dawn and mid-morn-ing. On the whole, the rainfall for this month
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      • 71 7 LEARN how to deal with people by taking part in community service, the MP for Leng Kee, Dr Ow Chin Hock, told 300 graduands who received their certificates and diplomas in Management and Marketing from the Singapore Institute of Management at the Mandarin Hotel
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      • 69 7 THE Singapore Scout Association is organising a fancy-dress walkathon on Apr 29 to raise funds for the extension of its Sarimbun Camp at Jalan Bahtera, estimated at $1.65 million. More than 2,000 scouts and leaders will take part in this 8-km walk, which
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      • 72 7 THE THIRD Travelling Exhibition of Asean Paintings and Photography will be held at the National Museum Art Gallery from April 28 to May 16, from 9 am to 5.30 pm daily. The theme of the exhibition is "Asean Art in the
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      • 46 7 KNUTSEN Offshore has recently commissioned its second offshore base warehouse ship, the M/V "Knut Provider." Conversion of the 12,300 ton ship formerly a semi-containerised liner service vessel was carried out by Keppel Shipyard in consultation with BJ Services interna-
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 425 7 Cortebert mm fi DaiotMYOMtiai) cuscn The family firm of Cortebert was established during the French Revolution, in 1790 They have been famous ever since for pendant watches, pocket watches and brooch watches traditionally designed and crafted If you hanker for the gracious days before the coming of the wrist-watch, Cortebert
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  • world
    • 228 8 Lianhe Zaobao HONG KONG, Wednesday MURDERED BMF executive Jalil Ibrahim bad tried to delay a USS4 million (S|B.4 million) loan urgently requested by Carrian chief George Tan before be lost contact with BMF and was later found murdered. But Mr George
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    • 373 8 AP BANGKOK, Wednesday THAI Air Force lets yesterday bombed a hill in Thailand's Surin Province where intruding Vietnamese troops were believed to be hiding, and Thai ground forces were sent to clear the area, a Thai Army spokesman said. On
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    • 190 8 Reuter WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE US has condemned the new Vietnamese border attacks as a threat to Thailand's security and pledged to stand by its commitments to that country. State Department spokesman John Hughes said Vietnamese troops attacked and overran three refugee camps near Thailand's border with
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    • 231 8 THE TIT FOR TAT SIEQES Reuter WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE Reagan administration said the death of a policewoman shot in front of Libya's embassy in London was scandalous and typical of what it called Libyan terrorism. "It scandalous behaviour which absolutely violates all norms," said State
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    • 131 8 LONDON, Wednesday LIBYAN exiles opposed to the regime of Col Muammar Gaddafi have been targets of assassination attempts ever since Col Gaddafi ordered them to return home four years ago this month. "If the refugees do not obey, they must be inevitably liquidated, wherever
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    • 57 8 UPI OTTAWA, Wednesday A LEBANESE woman who swallowed 100 condoms containing US$l million ($2.1 million) worth of heroin died when three of them burst, Ottawa police said. They said Serrie Farhat, 49, arrived from Lebanon and was found dead here on Monday. An autopsy revealed
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    • 95 10 Reuter WASHINGTON, Wed THE Soviet Union might be considering largescale aerial bombings of Afghanistan as part of a spring offensive, Reagan administration officials said yesterday. They based their opinion on evidence from intelligence sources that the Soviet Union has moved 36 medium-range bombers, support aircraft
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    • 430 10  -  By MICHAEL RICHARDSON The Age Newspaper, Melbourne, Special to The Singapore Monitor THE Soviet Union has agreed to allow international inspection of its civilian nuclear installations for the first time. If applied, such a move would strengthen worldwide safeguards against diversion of uranium and
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    • 692 11 Newsweek BY ONE account, it was a coldblooded kidnapping and brainwashing; by another, two of South Korea's top movie artists are simply tired of official repression and defected to the North. Whatever the elusive truth, the charges and countercharges coming from Seoul and
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    • 469 12 TRENDS Reuter LIKE a long-time marriage buffeted by the changing morals and pressures of the outside world, the relationship between the US and Europe is under serious strain. European and US leaders insist that separation is not imminent or even thinkable, if only because mutual security
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    • 63 12 TRENDS a quick read OFTEN, apprently insignificant events or political decisions outside Singapore may signal the start of trends of vital interest to yon they may affect the way you live, the way you conduct your business. Reports of such events may be confined to specialist or trade poublications. In
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    • 465 12 ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AP MANILA, W«d THE economies in the developing nations in Asia grew by an average 5.6 per cent last year compared with 3.3 per cent in 1982. This signalled a recovery from the prolonged world-wide recession, the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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    • 365 9 THE NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS How to have your say and enjoy it too Ir' Through the "Neighbourhood" of I I l\|lf>Di»iii» \P H and Whampoa; Bedok —Chai Chee.Gulega, course. The 8-page weekly newspaper that's I I Ik|r|l(£ ftjl|S/R|fl/)[s)n it/as Ar> D Somapah and Changi. packed with local news and photos of
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    • 105 11 ~w medalist light heavyweight boxer, remembers the thrill of A ftfl the 1960 Rome Olympics tuning and modarn IB d,,,0n And, like ourselves, hes looking forward to the 1984 H Los Angeles Olympics. associated the 353 cm (PAL) cotour TV with tod pud) tuning j 31 movement, proud to be
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 476 13 j 1\ MIT A pioneer manufacturer of copiers in Japan introduces the I WI II I II I I I DC-111, the plain paper copier weighing only 30.6 kg, just for the X T X T JU.l'C'fc' M M M w small-business man, the secretary, manager, managing director or the
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  • money
    • 521 14  -  Dealers still uncertain about rules for new contracts By ANGELINE TAN GOLD futures trading on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) has virtually come to a standstill. Only one lot was traded on each of the past two days. Dealers are staying out of
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    • 325 14  -  By NEIL HARRIS in London BRITISH American Tobacco Industries (BAT) is spearheading moves by multinationals against a US tax system they fear could spread to developing countries. BAT heads a lobby of European, Japanese and Canadian interests, including Unilever, Sony and Matsushita Electric
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    • 190 14 SHARE OF THE DAY j AFTER consolidating at $4.44 early this month, Sealion Hotels appears to be poised for a rally. The counter started making the climb two weeks ago and at one point last week, it hit the year's high of $5.
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    • 203 14 WHLLSTREET Reuter A SHARP drop in the number of bousing constructions in March put some life in the listless Wall Street bond market yesterday and this proved beneficial for stock prices, which closed moderately higher for the second straight day. The
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    • 153 14 AP THE US dollar fell yesterday in cautious and light trading after turning in a mixed performance in Europe. Gold prices were unchanged to slightly higher. James McGroarty, vice-presi-dent at Discount Corp in New York, said trading was "very, very quiet" as traders prepared for the Easter
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    • 1156 15  -  Mr Khoo Ban Han unhappy over matters relating to management of Ming Court •y JOYCE QUEK IN THIS corner, the challenger, with all the Goodwood gronp'i might behind him Mr Khoo Baa Tian, scioa of Mr Khoo Teck Paat la the other corner, the iacambent
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

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    • 434 15 Easto at The Pastry Shop April 22, IW4 •11JO am 3.00 pm 1. Easter Nest Layer Cake (sponge cake) 22.00 A Adult $3l*/Child $20* 2. Easter Bunny-Shaped Sponge Cake per kg 26.00 j Buffet Luncheon and playground for children. (minimum order 2 kg) The immensely popular Mandarin Singapore 3- Faster
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  • opinion/letters
    • 225 16 YOUR report headlined Youthful Colours (SM, April 9) reflects a growing and dangerous trend a metamorphosis which, if left unchecked, will be disastrous for Singapore in the long ran. Take a stroll down any shopping complex and we see our youths
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    • 314 16 ISSUES MAY we offer a mild dissent from some widely accepted current wisdom? Many in Europe, it seems, agree that Europeans have somehow lost their creative fire. The evidence is economic stagnation and rapid loss of rank as Japan and the North Americans surge forward. The Common
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    • 357 16  -  More discrepencies discovered in The Awakening' C K TSENG Singapore 1545 MANY members of the younger generation have accepted SBC's "The Awakening" as the absolute interpretation of World War II history. I want to point out some discrepancies so as to set the record
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    • 191 16  -  BAND MEMBER Singapore 2573 I WAS upset after reading a letter (SM, April 12) regarding band competitions. I was a member of a school band for 10 years and was surprised at the views expressed by the writer. It is true that joining a
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    • 213 16  -  BAND MEMBERS Singapore 2158 AFTER reading the letter by "Concerned Parent", we strongly disagree with his opinion about band competitions. As members of our school bands, we have not neglected our homework. It is true we do a lot of practice as the competition draws
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    • 608 17 Our reserves the best safeguards lUulJln*— FEARS THAT the efforts of a lifetime could be swept away in days have moved understandably into the realm of economics. Most Singaporeans are accustomed to hearing that warning in the context of defence. But Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew has raised the point
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    • 454 17  -  DUDLEY AU Singapore 1024 THERE appeared in the media recently a perspective on Hwa Chong Junior College by one of its students. While I respect her views and have a niece who was also in the group which scored straight A's, there has
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    • 25 17 TO LIVE is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, and that is all Oscar Wilde, Irishbom writer (1854-1900).
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    • 125 17 PLEASE allow me to comment on the letter by "For the Road" (SM, April 3) in which comparison was made between some rude, undisciplined and reckless bus crew of Trans-Island Bus Services and their generally well-disciplined and well-mannered SBS counterparts. As
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    • 247 17  -  RAYMOND WONG LOK CHIN Singapore 0410 MR J B Jeyaratnam, MP for Anson, and writer J L Siva in his letter headlined We don't need these planes" (SM, March 29) cast doubts on the need for our country to acquire the E-2C Hawkeye planes.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 148 16 We pay more interest in more ways than one. All Rates effective 16 April 1984 subject to change without notice BRANCHES Main Branch: 6 Battery Road Quaanstown: Crosby Housa: 71 Robinson Road Blk 74 Commonwealth Dr #01-451 Alaxandra Circus: 40 Clarence Lane Salagia Road: Peace Centre Bldg Bukit Timah: 2
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  • leisure
    • 1053 18 THE POLICE DOES NOT INTEND TO REST ON ITS LAURELS IPS IT HAS never been a very ordinary rock band. Prom the beginning, driving a van from gig to gig across the US to promote the single, Roxanne, to its recent sell-out concert
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    • 621 19 TWO OF HER FILMS TO RUN IN PEAK SEASON STARSTKUCKj CHERIE ZHONG is an actress who is hot in the business two of her movies are competing against each other in the peak holiday season. Wnat is more, both cinema circuits are the so-called
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    • 529 20  -  YATES' DRESSER IS A MUST FOR THEATRE-LOVERS TITLE: THE DRESSER STARRING: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay DIRECTOR: Peter Yates LAST DAY: Orchard Raviawed by PHILIP CHEAH BOX-OFFICE tragedy has struck again. The Dresser, which began four days ago ends today. One can only conclude that the only way the
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    • 683 23  -  SINGAPORE FESTIVAL M OF ARTS 1984 Jfl vssmm By PHILIP CHEAH WSY WINNING tickets to the Arts Festival is the latest alternative for meeting the mad rush for seats. SBC's second series of Arts Around, which will begin on May 1, will
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    • 560 23 Raphael The Apprentice Years (Debut) (Ch 12, 8 pm) THIS three-part series on the Italian Renaissance painter, Raphael, begins with his childhood at Urbino, Italy, and shows the effect of the beautiful landscapes of the Marches and Umbria on him. Later, he trains at Perugia
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    • Article, Illustration
      694 24  -  DELICATE CHOICES IN THE AFTERNOON By INEZ WEI WHEN a food-loving Singaporean goes on a hunt for new eateries, more often than not, he is on the look-out for either a convenient lunch spot or a pleasant and reason-ably-priced restaurant to take family or friends to. For
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    • 340 24  -  By WONG AH YOKE SINGAPOREANS who enjoy swallowing a bit of culture with their food can try a taste of the apparently exotic at Cherry's Turkish cuisine and decor. Turkish carpets currently line the walls of Cherry, a cosy restaurant tucked away at the basement of Shell Towers,
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 432 20 fllM CUIOC ABOUT (C) PLAZA (*****71): LET S ROCK (C) ORCHARD (*****88): THE DRESSER (E) DALIT (*****16): MONKS STRIKE BACK Starring: Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney tfTTCITIfIPTTrFTO (C) Synopsis: This is a story of the friendship i' nl mil iiin 11iii ap 111 j4r7con\> rpttp Qfunf between 3n actor and his
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    • 204 21 OWING TO PRIOR COMMITMENT JADE: LAST DAY! (*****00) S SHOWS at 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30, 9.00 Season Continues Tomorrow at LIDO MERYL STREEP 1979 THE DEER HUNTER 1980 KRAMER VS KRAMER 1983 SOPHIE'S CHOICE now in her latest film NOMINATED FOR C ACADEMY iSb ■■HHfitURT RUSSELL CHER LIDO: LAST DAY!
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1 21 Diary
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    • 847 21 TIOMAN TRIP MARINE Parade CC will organise a trip to Tioman from tomorrow to Sunday. The fees are $139 for members and $145 for non-members. For more information, please call *****33. TODAY: Low Tide: 7.20 am (0.2 m) High Tide: 1.28 pm (2.8 mj Low Tide: 7.22 pm (0.7 m)
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    • 194 21 HERZOQ FESTIVAL screened at 6.30 pm and THE Goethe-Institut will 8.30 pm. screen Heart of Glass to- Admission is free. day at 6.30 pm. This DR NO lrn u ll T!? 1 THE British Council SinEnglish subtitles, depicts g a po re w m screen Dr No the collective hysteria
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 1177 22 and Programme by The Grand Canyon is about 365 km long and 1.6 km M ":?jlßftflfc.'-^' ||iu j deep in its central section is part desert and part J Nj HJK. j*Mi mountain. We meet the animals that inhabit nature's Jff J spectacular Grand Canyon. H. y j Romper Room
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 387 25 leisure comics j^fgsSSl ARIES March 21 to April 20 H BRA A Journey is shown for you. An September 24 to October 23 exciting event is likely, and Your actions today will be you should plan to allow time greatly admired by a member for it. Don't let yourself be
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    • 207 25 ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry |1 X > S > AND V TWO SHERSH AGENTS WATCH BRANO 11 /OPEN PUSH THE\ f J A lITTIE AS HE EXITS THE ANT lOUE SHOP... i stem-then (luckofthe) FASTRACK By BiH^iolb^k fat son. ftxxr pi*ins- 806. What VI PufficxN I V- —s~
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 695 27  -  By ANNIE CHIA SMALL is beautiful for the Vihin-Vilee-Viva group of developers. Successful sales of eight completed residential projects by this group over the past years has confirmed that demand for smaller units has been and will always be there. It doesn't
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    • 92 27 MARKETED two days' ago, Pastoral View, a 10-storey condominium, is the Vi-hin-Vilee-Viva group's latest development. Comprising 50 units with areas ranging from 60.5 sq m (651 sq ft) to 120 sq m (1,292 sq ft), prices for Pastoral View will be from $260 per sq
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    • 447 28  -  By VINCENT FONG WHO would have guessed that apartments in district 21 will find favour with home buyers except probably for the developers of Good Luck Garden, Good Luck View and Green Lodge at Toh Tuck Road? Developed by International Associates, Good
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    • 453 29  -  Group very optimistic of its investments in colony By VINCENT FONG PROPERTY MAGNATE Ng Teng Fong has done it again, buying up land where prices appear to be right and this time, in Hong Kong, informed market sources confirmed. The Far East
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    • 40 29 LAND CONSTRUCTION INDEX (Apr 7 to Apr 14) DAY DATE INDEX CHANGE REMARK SAT 7/4/84 4,777.66 -107.83 dosing TUE 10/4/84 4,852.36 74.70 opening WED 11/4/84 5,036.86 +184.50 THU 12/4/84 4,952.18 84.68 FRI 13/4/84 4,948.87 3.31 SAT 14/4/84 4,878.24 71.63 closing
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    • 342 34  -  SINGAPORE 8 MALAYSIAN ARMED FORCES 1 MALAYSIAN INTER-STATE HOCKEY CHAMPHIONSHIP By B KULA MOHD NOOR played a heroic role in Singapore's 6-1 trouncing of Malaysian Armed Forces in their Group A encounter at Pedis yesterday. This is Singapore's second victory in two days of
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    • 193 34 MALE egos suffered another beating at the Singapore Closed Under-19 Squash Championships last night when Lim Seok Hui continued her winning ways over the boys at Kallang last night. Seok Hui was in complete command dropping only a point in her emphatic 9-0,
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    • 306 34  -  By ERNEST FRIDA THE WORRY over a venue for the 13th Southeast Asia Games is over. And the good news is that not one but two SEA Games' members have stepped forward to offer to host next year's meet. They are
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    • 286 34  -  By K SILVAM EIGHT times champion Anglo Chinese School qualified for the National Schools B Division Boys Badminton finals when they trounced Serangoon Garden Technical at the Delta Sports Complex yesterday. The Anglo Chinese School team proved too superior for the Serangoon
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    • 724 35 i L M IPS AS LIVERPOOL swept to their third Milk Cup triumph in a row, Kop favourite Craig Johnston made it a double celebration by announcing the news all Anfield wanted to hear. Johnston the man thought to be under most threat following the
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    • 529 35  -  SOCCER HISTORY By PAUL KING IPS GLASGOW has been the score of various football disasters. There was the Ibrox Park disaster in 1902, when a terrace stand with an iron framework but made otherwise of wood planks collapsed and killed 26 spectators and
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    • 215 36 OLYMPIC SOCCER QUALIFY INC ROUND APRIL 14-29 THE Arabs, and Kuwaitis in particular, have their drums and beefy, rollypolly male cheerleaders. The Thais have a mysterious, bespectacled Caped Crusader who, rumour has it, kisses the goalposts of the National Stadium for luck and
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    • 34 36 THREE Korean players sharing out oranges after their tough match against Kuwait last night. The pace told as both the Koreans and Kuwaitis made full use of their substitutes.
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    • 359 37  -  OLYMPIC SOCCER QUALIFYING ROUND APRIL 14 29 i r "PREVIEW JAPAN vs MALAYSIA (8.30 pm at National Stadium) By S GULAM MALAYSIA, already hit by the Fifa ban on five of their star players, suffered yet another rude blow with news that skipper Soh Chin
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    • SEEN AND HEARD
      • 68 37 THE Thais had a big celebration yesterday. It was not for their convincing 5-2 win over the Japanese on Sunday, but for being awarded the "Team of the Year" award back home. That was not their only award. They were also given the "Coach of the
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      • 66 37 NEW Zealand midfielder Grant Turner returned home last night for a knee operation. His right knee cartilage was badly injured when he received a nasty knock against the Saudis on Sunday. Allan Jones, the Kiwi manager-coach, said: "He will be out for six months. And
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      • 36 37 AN Indonesian couple were seen in tears at the National Stadium gallery when the wife lost her handbag containing several thousand dollars while they were watching the Malaysia-Qatar soccer match.
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      • 71 37 A LOCAL journalist went to cover last night's match at the National Stadium. But he forgot the basic needs of a journalist pen and paper. He managed to get the paper from the team lineup sheets. But he had no pen. And he could not even get
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      • 68 37 THREE hundred-odd Kuwaiti supporters are in town to cheer their national team. They are here to do the "samba" music on the terraces to help their team to play to the rhythm, just like the Brazilians. And, if the results are any indication, they seem to
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    • 259 38 SSI® wk CHALERMVUDH Saghapool the name may be unfamiliar to local fans, but it is one worth remembering. Chalerm, Thailand's central midfielder, is the mastermind behind his team's victories. The "brains in the team" as coach Saner Chaiyong describes him. The coach cannot be
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    • 400 38  -  1^^^^ THAILAND vs IRAQ (6.30 pm at National Stadium) i OIVMPII SOU IK QUA lit VINC HOUND APnn 14 19 All reports by S GULAM AFTER watching the Thais tear the Japanese apart on Sunday, I m inclined to pick Thailand as the team to watch
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    • 303 38 MADARD Tongtuam, Thailand's star winger, seems certain to recover from his injury in time to play in the rest of the Olympic qualifying rounds after all! Madard, who twisted his knee after a tackle by a Japanese defender on Sunday and had to
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    • 430 39  -  OLYMPIC son IH QUAI If YINL ROUND A PRII 14 29 SAUDI ARABIA 1 BAHRAIN 1 By K SILVAM SAUDI ARABIA'S game with Bahrain turned out to be an anticlimax after the exciting, fast-paced, nail-biting match between South Korea and Kuwait minutes earlier. Last night's
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    • 205 39 Saudi Arabia: Khaled Aldossart 6 Samel Aldawssare 5 Salman Hamd Al-Doaari 5 Hassen Blshy -1 Mohammed Abduljawad 6 Saleh AJ-Doasary 5 Ahmad Aidhi Albisbee 6 Ahmed Bayaxid Mehalsea Aldosari 7 Sbaye AlNafbuh S Majed Mohammed 4 Bahraini Ha mood Saltaa 6 Youslf Sha rid a 7 Abdul Sahib
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    • 97 39 THIS Is oar first match of the tournament and therefore we only gave 70 per cent of what we had. Furthermore, we are used to playing in cold weather, about 11 degrees Celsius. The hot Singapore climate prevented ns from giving oar best. Bnt, when we
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    • 97 39 P W D L F A Pt« Saudi Arabia 2 1 1 0 4 2 3 Kuwait 2 1 1 0 2 0 3 South Koraa 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Bahrain 2 0 1112 1 Naw Zaaiand 10 0 113 0 GROUP A P W
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    • 156 40 HARA HIROMI, the tall, elegant Japanese striker, intends to do to Malaysia what he failed to achieve against Thailand two nights ago. He must, if he is to justify leaving his newly-wed wife and sacrificing his honeymoon to go in search of Olympic honours.
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