Singapore Monitor, 17 May 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 18 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EVENING EDITION r M C (P) No' 21 '5 84 Thursday, May 17, 1984 30cents
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  • 299 1 1983's increment considered too low by the NTUC THE National Wages Council is recommending at least a 10 per cent wage guideline for this year. This is considerably better than the $10 plus (2 to 6 per cent) increase for this year because our
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  • 518 1 UPI, LAT-WP NEW YORK, Thursday MOBIL Corp and several other oil companies have decided to stop sending tankers into the Gulf war zone because of the recent wave of air strikes on ships in the escalating Iran-Iraq war. But
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    • 148 2 THE Singapore and Ngee Ann Polytechnics will each get another 44 computer workstations by the first week of July. This is the second phase of microcomputer purchase under their five-year expansion project. In May last year, 20 Fortune PS Systems, with a total of 110
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    • 166 2 THE Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRTC) logo and design will soon be a familiar sight around Singapore. The MRTC announced this morning that it would paint all its construction sites' hoardings with the corporation's logo and the slogan, "Moving Ahead With You" in
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    • 79 2 THE $20 million computerised control system for Mobil's Jurong refinery will be in operation by the end of this month. The first of its kind in Singapore, it is also believed to be the biggest direct digital control system in the
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    • 65 2 A HOUSEWIFE lost more than $14,000 in cash and valuables after thieves broke into her Jurong flat yesterday. Madam S K Lee, 29, told police she left home in Tah Chin Road with her family at about 9.30 a.m. and returned at 6.35 p.m. The
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    • 236 2 DISABLED children have a new pony for their therapeutic riding lessons. Benson, brought from New Zealand by a donor company, was officially handed over today to the Riding for the Disabled Association which has been organising the lessons for the past two years. The new
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    • 354 3  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN THE Consumers' Association of Singapore will introduce sophisticated new testing programmes soon to check the quality and val-ue-for-money of food-displayed in shops, and to crack down on food adulteration. A list of food items likely to be affected
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    • 177 3 THE Sale of Food and Drugs Act provides penalties of up to $5,000 and three months' imprisonment for offences involving the sale of food. The Act makes it an offence to sell any food which is unsound or unfit for human consumption. It bans
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    • 76 3 Lion flag dance to woo delegates in Tokyo TOKYO Disneyland will get an added attraction on June 3 when the Singapore Nanyang Shaolin National Arts Association lion and flag dance troupe will be there to ?[ive two 25-minute perormances. This will be the first time such a troupe has performed
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    • 65 3 THE Filipino cargo ship Ofelia, which was grounded in the Western Anchorage on Wednesday, is waiting for its salvage company, Smit International South East Asia, to give it the green light to sail off. According to the ship's representative, Bian Yew Shipping
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    • 326 4  -  HE'S LISTED AS MEMBER OF TRADE GROUP FROM NETHERLANDS By ANGELA TOH THE DUTCH are cashing in on the return of Singapore's favourite footballer to his home country. Fandi Ahmad is officially listed as a member of a trade delegation from the Northern Netherlands, which is
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    • 331 4  -  By SURESH NAIR BOYCOTT seems to be an unpopular word in the Soviet dictionary particularly with reference to the upcoming Los Angeles Olympics Games. "We're absolutely not boycotting the Olympic Games," said Mr Vladimir Taranenko, the First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy, at a
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    • 392 4  -  By JILL HUM SINGAPORE is about to be "zapped" by the Space Invaders. Atari, which makes some of the world's bestknown home games but whose sales have not been zooming lately, has decided on the direct approach. It has
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    • 147 6 Case to set up know-your-product centres CONSUMERS who have difficulty choosing a product from among the different brands and models will soon have some help. The proposed Consumer Product Information Centre planned by the Consumers' Association of Singapore (Case) is expected to be operational at the end of the year.
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    • 439 6 Arts Festival committee takes action to reduce the long queues HOURS for the sale of Arts Festival tickets have been extended in an effort to reduce the long queues and wait experienced on Tuesday and yesterday, the first two days of sales. The festival
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    • 230 6 Title of Date of Seats Performance Performance left Fou Ts'ong 9.6.84 385 Fou Ts'ong 10.6.84 469 La Nuova Compagnia 11.6.84 659 di Canto Popolare 12.6.84 673 SSO Carmina 15.6.84 728 Burana 16.6.84 695 The Nash Ensemble 17.6.84 548 of London 18.6.84 677 SSO Beethoven's 22.6.84
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    • 508 8  -  A Journaliit y 4 Notebook By Ee Boon Lee ONE CAN get a whiff of our historic links with the British not just in our courts, as noted by British lawyer and playright John Mortimer in his candid if somewhat erroneous impressions on Singapore.
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    • 542 8  -  By SIT YIN FONG A FORMER executive of Gold Coin Ltd told the High Court yesterday that for 22 years he had been so busy promoting the sales of the company's chicks that he "gave no thought'' to the commissions due
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    • 134 8 ARE THERE 100 people in Singapore willing to pay $500 for a haircut? Mr Michael Johnsey, a director of Mosche of Davis Mew Hair Salon, hopes so because on Sunday, June 3, the salon will do its bit for charity. It will contribute the day's
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    • 353 7 WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE THE F.A.CUP FINAL Right after your dinner? Al7Pr\o A video recorder. Or would it be more AY mi I 1 f Right, of course. But which convenient if they kick off a Lull mJkmJ brand? alter your Sunday afternoon nap? Choosing which video recorder to buy
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  • world
    • 236 9 FEARS THAT ROCKETS MAY BE LEFT ON BOARD VESSEL Reuter LONDON, Thursday IT WAS still not clear today whether any unexploded missiles were left on board the Saudi tanker which was hit and set on fire in an air attack in Saudi Arabian waters yesterday, Lloyd's said. Lloyd's
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    • 354 9 AIR ATTACK ON SUPERTANKER IN THE GULF Reuter WASHINGTON, Thursday THE UNITED States yesterday blamed Iran for an air attack on a Saudi supertanker in the Gulf and said it deplored the raids on shipping in the area. The White House reiterated
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    • 360 9 Reuter LONDON, Thursday IRAN, accused of attacking Arab oil tankers in the Gulf, is telling Iraa s neighbours they can continue backing Bagndad only at their peril, Western diplomats said yesterday. It was not clear whether Iran, which until this week
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    • 235 9 Reuter RIYADH, Thursday SAUDI ARABIA and the smaller Arab Gulf oil states are likely to respond with traditional caution to a crisis that has flared over air attacks on their shipping, well-placed Arab diplomatic sources said in Riyadh yesterday. The Saudi supertanker
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    • 614 10 Europeans disillusioned with one-way-street weapons trade with US LATWP BRUSSELS (Belgium), Thursday THE European members of Nato are increasingly determined to develop and produce their own new high-technology weapons and not to rely solely on the United States. This was made clear yesterday
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    • 148 10 Reuter MILAN, Thursday A MILAN magistrate yesterday recommended that seven former officials of the failed Banco Ambrosiano should stand trial for using shareholders' funds to acquire Ambrosiano stock in a bid to head off its collapse. A prominent Italian financier, Carlo Pesenti, is
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    • 250 10 Reuter PALM BEACH (Florida), Thursday DAVID Kennedy, the 28-year-old son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, died from "multiple drug ingestion", officials said yesterday. State attorney David Bludworth told reporters that young Kennedy had taken cocaine, the painkiller demerol and the strong
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    • 167 10 Reuter UNITED NATIONS, Thursday CHINESE condoms are of poor quality and effectiveness and a US$2.7 million (555.67 million) aid project has been proposed to help improve the product. The project is part of the UN Fund for Population
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    • 721 11 Reuter LONDON, Thursday THE SOVIET UNION is preparing a bold blueprint for conventional war that Western Defence officials say is the most significant shift in Moscow's fighting doctrine since the arrival of nuclear weapons. The plan calls for highly mobile formations
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    • 191 11 Reuter BRUSSELS, Thursday and solidarity in the Hague NATO Defence Ministers implored the Netherlands yesterday to accept deployment of 48 Cruise nuclear missiles, warning of grave consequences for Allied cohesion and arms control if it reneged, officials said. The Dutch Cabinet is due next
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    • 269 11 Reuter WASHINGTON, Thursday THE House of Representatives voted last night to reduce from 30 to 15 the number of MX nuclear missiles which the United States will build in 1985. The compromise, on a 229-199 vote, gave neither President Reagan nor
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    • 153 12 Reuter WOLFSBURG Thursday THE GIANT Volkswagen car manufacturer said yesterday it would halt all vehicle production in West Germany and Belgium early next week because of strikes by metalworkers campaigning for a 35-hour week. The BMW and Daimler-Benz car makers have already announced
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    • 622 12 Reuter BONN, Thursday THE PRESENT industrial conflict over the 35-hour week in West Germany is severely testing the consensus between labour unions and management that has been a feature of the country's postwar rise to economic strength. West German unions, traditionally far less
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    • 778 13 TRENDS A GROUP of scientists is making plans to explore the surface of Mars with unmanned computerised wheeled vehicles in what would be the first joint planetary exploration by the United States and Europe, Reuter reports. A paper unveiling the billion-dollar project at a physics institute
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    • 63 13 OFTEN, apparently insignificant events or political decisions outside Singapore may signal the start of trends of vital interest to you they may affect the way you live, the way you conduct your business. Reports of such events may be confined to specialist or trade publications. In
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    • 279 13 DAMASCUS, Thursday FRESH from its victory over the United States in Lebanon, Syria is hoping to win over Arab moderate leaders to its hard-line views, taking advantage of prevailing disillusionment with American policies in the region. It is now planning to launch a
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    • 131 11 Think Sharp Now! $1950 only! Here's why: usual $2950 Trade-in (any condition, any brand) $1000 Outstanding Features Paper holder for convenient stocking of originals Effective 12 March 1984 Adjustable hard cover for easy book copying |n conjunctlon wjth OU r office removal Power-save key saves power consumption by 33 percent
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    • 143 12 > w Knock, f f who's there? y? Mr Neighbourhood. /Mr Neighbourhood"/ V who? 7 Mr Neighbourhood with cash prizes for you. This Sunday, keep an ear cocked for And if you ran answer correctly "Mr Neighbourhood" who will visit your any question he puts to you about area* between
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    • 93 13 JmPte fenang Amake you three offers you cant refuse. From now until July 31st, you can enjoy the sun and sea at three of Penang's best-known hotels at incredibly low prices: MSSS Msgo Single or double occupancy in mountain view rooms. Subject to 10% service charge and 10% government tax.
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  • money
    • 480 14  -  RE-FORMED ELDERS-PICA TO MANAGE INVESTMENTS By STEVEN GUO SPECIAL TO THE SINGAPORE MONITOR ELDERS IXL, the Australian conglomerate, is losing no time restructuring the Private Investment Company for Asia (Pica), an international development financing company based in Singapore. Once the majority of Pica's shareholders
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    • 145 14 USA Today ONLY 13 companies were consistently profitable enough over the past 10 years to qualify as corporate "stars of the decade," says a list released by Fortune magazine. Topping the list is American Home Products Corp, makers of Anacin. It had an average return
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    • 194 14 Brokers recommend F N SHARE OF THE DAY j BLUE-CHIP Fraser Neave (F N) may be a good defensive stock at its current price of $6 although investors looking for quick capital gains are probably hoping to buy at an even lower price. Two broking houses, Alfa-Pacific and Sun Hung
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    • 210 14 THE LOCAL market ended this morning, like the previous day's, on a quiet note, featuring Pan-El again as the most active share with 375,000 shares traded, last done two cents up at $2.01, and two mining stocks as top gainers. Fed Cables was last done
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    • 183 14 THE US dollar rose in Singapore from New York levels against most major currencies in lairly moderate earlv trading. Dealers said growing tension in the Middle East, expectations that US interest rates will remain high and continued US economic growth supported the dollar but operators were cautious
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    • 928 15  -  COMPANY FOCUS Review by Sun Hung Kai Securities THE OVERSEAS Union Bank (OUB) group expects improved earnings for the current year in view of the current recovery in the economy, but at a slower rate than that of the banking boom years of 1980 and
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    • 180 15 CHAIRMEN'S CORNER THE EXCESS capacity in the wiring and general cables sector in Malaysia, and the depressed requirement from the private sector resulted in aggressive competition, says Malayan Cables Bhd's Chairman General Tan Sri Datuk Haji Abdul Hamid bin Bidin in his
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    • 386 15 COMPANY BRIEFS MALAYSIA Borneo Finance Holdings announced an after tax profit of $4.75 million for the six months to March 31, 1984, up slightly from $4.74 million in the corresponding 1983 period. The latest results represent the first since restructuring in MBF Corporation Bhd, which reduced
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    • 255 15 Selected stocks at midday. Market tone: narrowly mixed. Cold Storage 3.62 S Fraser Neave 5.90/6.00 Haw Par 2.48/2.49 Jacks Intl 5.50 S Keck Seng 5.00 S Magnum 3.66/3.72 M Cement 7.55/7.65 Arab-Mai Dev 1.18/1.19 Boustead 2.58 S Esso 14.50 S Genting 5.25/5.30 Hume 5.35 S Inchcape 2.79/2.80 MUIB
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    • 119 15 Your S$ to one unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT OD US$ 2.1105 2.1005 2.0915 sterling 2.9497 2.9276 2.9176 Australian 1.9059 1.8818 1.8668 Canadian 1.6388 1.6188 1.6038 New Zealand 1.3746 1.3545 1.3395 S$ to 100 unit* of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.0593 10.7593 10.7093 Belgian franc/comm 3.7949
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  • features
    • 467 16 CLINCHING THE 11.5 BIL SHELL MERGER WHEN Royal Dutch/Shell Group first tried to buy its US subsidiary earlier this year for US$55 (Ssl 15.50) a share, Shell Oil Company president John Bookout refused to sell. Even though the parent company was offering a 25 per cent premium over the stock's
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    • 569 16  -  By KEITH STAFFORD of REUTERS TOKYO: WHEN Mr Takayoshi Seki takes his lunch break at Toshiba's new company headquarters, he never pays cash for his noodles and raw fish. He just hands over his company identity card and lets the computer
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  • opinion/letters
    • 503 17 lUJJiu*—! THE GOVERNMENT has often been accused of being virulently intolerant of criticism and opposition. Its critics had a field aay in 1982 when the Second Deputy Prime Minister (Foreign Affairs), Mr S Rajaratnam, said, "put bluntly, the role of an opposition is to ensure
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    • 375 17 YOUR correspondent's letter headlined "Travel agencies must have basic standards" (SM, May 11) raises some interesting legal issues and "Annoyed" might be interested to note that there is legal remedy for the aggrieved party who has suffered a detriment arising from a breach
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    • 133 17  -  REPLY YAP YEOW WOON Public Relations Officer Republic of Singapore Police I REFER to the letter headlined "Additional brake lights: Police should clear the air" from James Wong (SM, April 25). We wish to inform James Wong and your readers that it is not
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    • 26 17 IF WE are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it -Cicero, Roman scholar (106 BC-43 BC
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    • 117 17 LETTERS on any sublet of public interact wM bi accepted for puMcetion. They should be typed and must ba signed. They must aieo 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 reserve the
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  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      666 18  -  PIANIST KOH JOO ANN HAS BIG PLANS By WONG AH YOKE HE DOES not fit into one's usual idea of a pianist. Absent are those slender fingers and the willowy figure. But well-built Koh Joo Ann, 25, is a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London
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    • 670 18  -  Story by INEZ WEI THE diversity of Indian cooking offers the adventurous anything from the mild, aromatic dishes of the North to the stingingly hot curries of the South. Though less hot, the well-spiced North Indian fare is not just a pallid relative of the "real" curry.
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    • 710 18  - Modem Bangkok where little things fascinate By YEOW MEI SIN SONGKRAN, the old Thai New Year and the famous Water Festival, is a playful opportunity for people to splash water at you and for you to do the same. But in bustling Bangkok, the Thais splash as much water as
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    • 536 20  -  By PHILIP CHEAH BLUE THUNDER, the film about a superpowered helicopter of the future, has been adapted into a TV series and SBC has acquired it. Starring James Farentino, the first episode will run on May 27 at 9.15 pm. Roy Scheider's Vietnam War
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    • 430 20 Thursday Feature Special Fanny (ch 5, 9.50 pm) A NON-MUSICAL version of Marcel Pagnol's trilogy, the film revolves around a young woman (played by Leslie Caron) who marries an ageing widower (Maurice Chevalier) to give her baby a name, after her adven-ture-seeking sailor lover
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    • 508 21  -  YENTL FLOUNDERS IN SOME AREAS FILM* YENTL STARRING: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving DIRECTOR: Barbra Streisand SHOWING: Lido Reviewed by PHILIP CHEAH YENTL is a reversed Tootsie without hairy legs. It is Isaac Bashevis Singer with no poverty and a Barbra Streisand soundtrack to boot. Yentl is
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    • 169 18 A 1+ ■■■pj mw wM attoo) We have always borne a suspicious attitude towards eyebrow tattoo and eyelid tattoo. Our visit to Taiwan confirmed that eyebrow and eyelid tattoo is really the most perfect way to eternal beauty. Now, with the cooperation of international eyebrow tattoo inventor Mr Huang he
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 670 19 —Sbme M a VIVMH JaAa (Stephen Coffins) ia ottered $10,000 to protect Prince»9 Kofi in Tales of the Qotd Monkey (Ch 5, 7.50 pm) 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. that of 5000 years of plundering the 3.00 Opening and Programme High- cultural heritage of the second oldest lights followed by
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    • 294 19 E3H381 5.20 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 5.50 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Rainbow: Night Time. This programme looks at some of the people who have to work during the night and sleep in the day. 6.15 Romper Room (C). Featuring Bouncing Ball, Kim's Game, Pictures from Home, Balloon Game,
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 400 21 fILM GUlOe METROPOLE (*****27): MISTRESS (C) VENUS (*****97): WOMAN FROM HELL (C) DALIT (*****16): THE TRAIL (C) Synopsis This tale deals with the use of occult powers to walk corpses home for burial. To further their trade, some smugglers pretend to be stiffs. ANG MO KIO (*****01): THE DEVONSVILLE TER
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 41 22 I. .1 1.111. TODAY: Low tide: 7.10 am (0.3 m) High tide: 1.33 pm (2.6 m) Low tide: 6.52 pm (1.1 m) TOMORROW: Low tide: 7.50 am (0.2 m) High tide: 2.22 pm (2.5 m) Low tide: 7.26 pm (1.2 m)
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    • 478 22 mrnm 1 MADE IN SINGAPORE THERE will be a slide-show and talk on the topic, Made in Singapore, tonight at tne National Museum Theatrette at 8 pm. Admission is free. SINGAPORE'S WEDDING CUSTOMS THERE will be a talk on Singapore's Wedding Customs at 9.30 am and 10.30 am tomorrow at
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    • 402 22 BRITISH FILM WEEK Richard 111 will be BRITISH FILM WEEK, screened tomorrow^ organised by the British M P, n Sat rda y g Council and the Singa- Mail Br,ef EncounKre Film Society, will ter W1 screenedheld at Singapore Cultural Theatre, Cuscaden KHARTOUM Road, at 8 nightly. HILTON MOVIE A limited
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    • 118 22 SSO STRINfc QUARTET THE String Quartet of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra will give a community concert at Serangoon Gardens Community Centre tomorrow at 7.45 pm. Admission is free. FAMILIAR FAVOURITES THE next Familiar Favourites Concert, on Saturday at 8.15 pm at Victoria Concert Hall, will feature the deputy leader of
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  • GO PLACES
    • 685 23  -  LAZY SUN-FILLED DAYS IN A LOTUS-EATERS' PARADISE By ROB CHARLES THE Maldives are not a new discovery but somehow they have been forgotten in the dash towards twentieth century fun spots. Sinbad the Sailor stopped there, while Vasco da Gama and Marco Polo missed them by a hair.
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    • 253 24 the Club Med way... Male is the thriving capital with a population of 32,000 on its own island near the airport. At least once a week the resorts organise a 'shopping expedition' to Male. But for those accustomed to big shopping sprees, this is just
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    • 178 24 MOST vacations come in neatly wrapped packages these days, with tour operators taking care of all those niggling formalities. Today, the idea of getting married en masse and then going on a honeymoon together is proving increasingly popular among Singaporean couples. Oxley's mass wedding and honey moon
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    • 332 28 Situations Vacant HDB WALK-IN INTERVIEW Friday 18 May 1984 2.1S pm to 4.30 pm HAWKERS LIAISON OFFICER QCE 3 O' Level with pass in English. Assisting in the control and management of hawkers in the Board's estates and miscellaneous duties relating to hawkers management. Shift duties are required. Gross salary
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    • 850 29 TODAY'S TRACKWORK By COWBOY TRAINER Samsuri's Live And Learn caught the eye in his final workout at Bukit Timah yesterday. With M Rahmat astride, the four-year-old by Bandmaster II disposed off 600 m in 38.7 seconds with ease and was striding out fluently all
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    • 786 29 RACE 1 CLASS 4 DIV 6 1200m 1 Salute II 57 Leong 10 2 Tibe Tiba II 57 Mahhat 11 3 Wang Mari Leh III 5S'/2 M Rahman 4 4 Productivity 55ft Heng 9 5 Ras Tanura 55 Ng 3 6 Ocean Park 55 Chiam 6 7 Cruise
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    • 140 30 UMPIRE Lin Chuan Chao of China came under heavy fire by South Korean officials for using Chinese while officiating the third singles match between South Korea and England in the Thomas Cup tie yesterday. Korean manager Kim Han Suk confronted tournament referee Arthur Jones immediately after
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    • 76 30 SUN AND HEARD DURING the second game between Korea's Byung Hak and England's Dipak Tailor, the former was given a ticking by referee Jones for wanting to change his shoes. Jones said later: "I inspected Byung Hak's shoes and found them to be
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    • 83 30 THE Koreans, who showed so much fighting spirit and received the ovation of the Stadium Negara crowd as the "team of the tournament," was a disappointment last night. Sung Han Kook and Byung Hak started well in their respective games but they failed to display the same vigour
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    • 584 30 CHINA VS ENGLAND (MO tonight. Stadium Negara) TONIGHT'S ÜBER CUP FINAL THOMAS CUP USER GUP naftLkM07-lS HBULA UDMPOB STRIPPED down to the bare essentials, it is not by how many games the CTIINA dolls would take the Über Cup, but at what speed
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    • 490 30  -  ENGLAND 3 SOUTH KOREA 2 From KENNETH JALLEH and K SILVAM in Kuala Lumpur IT WAS billed as a Korean power show against the might of Europe for third place, but the Korean powerwas sapped by a fighting England team which challenged them
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    • 306 30 DENMARK'S No 2 and backhand maestro Jens Peter Nierhoff has withdrawn from the European team that will take on Asia in Singapore on July 16 and 17. Disclosing this before leaving for home on Tuesday from Kuala Lumpur, he said: "I've been playing
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    • 130 30 Retails: Thomas Cap England 3 So«th Korea 2 (English first); Steve Baddelev lost to Park Joo Bong 15-«, 8 15, 15-3; Steve Butler bt Sung Han Kook 18-17, 17-14, 15-1; Dipak Tailor bt Choi Byung Hak 15-11, 11-15, 15-6; Park Joo Bong and Kim Moon Soo bt Steve Baddeley
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    • 930 31 SIMON BARNES PICKS WATFORD TO WIN WATFORD are the most extraordinary side in the football league. From nowhere in the Fourth Division, they have risen to become one of the leading teams in the game. The ambition of their pop star chairman, Elton John, and the
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    • 223 33 FIRST, it was the near-impossibility of coping with his first winter. Now, after having got used to almost five months of freezing temperatures, Fandi Ahmad finds Singapore too hot in his second homecoming. And Fandi says that the heat might affect his performance
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    • 637 33  -  FC ORONINOEN'S FAR EAST TOUR By S GULAM THE weather is likely to play a key part in deciding the outcome of tonight's friendly match between Singapore and Fandi Ahmad's FC Groningen at the National Stadium (7.30). The Dutch club cancelled their scheduled training sessions
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    • 369 33  -  HONGKONG BANK 3 HILTON INTERNATIONAL 1 By ALFONSO CHAN HONGKONG Bank's fluid teamwork gave currency to their attacking football when they beat Hilton Hotel 3-1 in a Business Houses senior knockout competition at Jalan Besar last night. The half-time score was tied at 1-1.
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    • 122 34 Reuter VALLETTA (Malta), Thurs THE Council of Europe Sports Ministers yesterday adopted an anti-dop-ing charter aimed at checking the use of drugs in sports. The charter sets down Sidelines for joint-ac->ns by governments and sports organisations to limit the spread of drug use. Among the
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    • 439 34 Italian ace storms back to win after being down 5-3 in the final set Reuter ROME, Thursday ITALIAN CLAUDIO Panatta thrilled a fiercely partisan crowd when he fought back to send defending champion Jimmy Arias of the United States tumbling out of the Italian Tennis Championships
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    • 162 34 Reuter OSLO, Thursday ATHLETE ZOLA Budd will be invited to compete in the Bislett Games here next month as soon as her renunciation of South African citizenship is officially confirmed, a spokesman for the Games' organ- isers said yesterday. Svein Arne Hansen
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    • 108 32 THtLj *y >> )ty>j N I s versus Official equipment for both teams by Pii hi In 11IH® The winning streak Don't miss this "friendly" battle between F.C. Groningen of Holland (with Fandi Ahmad) and the Singapore National Football Team. Tonight, National Stadium at 7.30 pm. For this international event,
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    • 186 35 Manchester United end season with another defeat NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2 MANCHESTER UNITED 0 Reuter, AP NOTTINGHAM, Thursday MANCHESTER UNITED, who until recently were locked in an intriguing battle with Liverpool for the English First Division soccer title, were almost certainly condemned to a disappointing fourth
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    • 59 35 WHEN THE Soviet Union notified the world on May 8 that they were pulling out of the Los Angeles Olympics, the move sparked off a boycott by various countries, particularly those from the western communist bloc. The map (above) shows the countries
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