Singapore Monitor, 24 May 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 30cents Thursday, May 24, 1984
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  • 440 1 FACED with a fleet of 2,800 conductors when the One-Man-Ticketing System was first introduced last year, the SBS management has embarked on several programmes to prevent retrenchment. CONVERSION SCHEME: Bus conductors are encouraged to learn Class 3 driving (cars) and
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  • 605 1  -  Negotiations with union to begin next week »y YONG ROW ANG SOME 1,400 conductors of the Singapore Bus Service are facing retrenchment. They are made redundant by the introduction of the One-Man-Ticketing System (OTS) and yet cannot fit into
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  • 699 1  -  By CAROLINE BOEY YESTERDAY, there was no hustle or long queues at the Ministry of Education's pupil placement section. Madam Johal and her son, Raminder Singh (pictured left), were among the parents registering their children on the second day of the Phase 1B Primary 1 registration
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  • home
    • 633 2  -  Cracks on walls and sunken land seen in nine houses Story and pictures by CHEW YEN FOOK OCCUPANTS of nine houses have been living with cracked walls and floors and sunken land since subsidence damaged their homes while a sewer was being laid nearby. No one has
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    • 537 3 'Problem not as serious as reports made it out' THE HOUSING and Development Board (HDB) says it will issue a statement to clarify questions raised by allegations that one of the board's contractors, Daewoo Corporation, had met structural problems during construction. A board spokesman said
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    • 370 3 PEARS that declining trends in the Japanese economy will handicap the economic growth of East Asian countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea, were rejected at yesterday's International Air Cargo Forum. Mr Willard Sharpe, Vice-President of the Chase Manhattan Bank (Asia-Pacific),
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    • 606 4  -  Dr Arthur Beng says Anson defeat hastened him into politics Reports by EE BOON LEE A SECOND People's Action Party candidate, Dr Arthur Beng Kian Lam, 35, has singled out the party's defeat in the Anson by-election in October, 1981, as the
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    • 284 4 TO YOUNG Arthur Beng, the St John's Ambulance Brigade was not iust another uniform group. "It was through my membership of the St John's that, as a teenager, I discovered my own identity," he said. "I found that I could organise things." He started
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    • 306 4 SINGAPORE'S drains and canals were not big enough to take the heavy votyme of rain that fell in Monday afternoon's "exceptional storm," the Ministry of the Environment said yesterday. The Ministry said it would not be economical to build a drainage system to cope with
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    • From our EVENING EDITION yesterday
      • 58 4 SINGAPORE could develop itself into a "digital crossroads" for the world's information, businessmen were told yesterday by the chairman of the the Trade Development Board, Mr S Chandra Das. Mr Das, who is also MP for Chong Boon, said it could also serve as a modern
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      • 42 4 IN AN effort to improve their foreign languages, 24 Secondary Three pupils at the Education Ministre's Foreign Language Centre will leave for Tokyo today for three weeks in Japan. Ten others will go to Bonn on Saturday.
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    • 228 6  -  By PHILIP LIM THE SECURITY guard of a company in Jurong risked nis life on Tuesday when he stopped a knife-wielding robber from getting away with the pay packets of 58 workmates. He knocked the thief from his motor scooter as
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    • AROUND SINGAPORE
      • 98 6  -  By KK Fong A WOMAN has told police that her cousin blackmailed her into prostitution with a videotape he made of them in bed together. The woman says the man se- duced her and made the tape without her knowledge. Police said yesterday that she
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      • 119 6 A PREGNANT woman suffered a head wound yesterday after being hit by a bicycle thrown from a sixth-floor flat in Geylang. Police are hunting two youths after the incident one of the worst examples of danger litter this year. Residents chased the youths as
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    • 60 4 Ceogbir Kbaoival k jl |jE Tr3dft Sm! The Awesome Grandeur Of L Mongolian Culture And Weapons That i^>y L Family's Promised Land Of Fun And Joy. >m I Exquisite Cuisines From Canton wngnpwii uupw woujfw K> 52moNALsr IVSTA( r JMR NICOIL MlGh, ->y I 8 ',>{ 111 I i N!l
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  • world
    • 674 7 It will persuade Vietnam to leave JAKARTA, Thursday. INDONESIA has worked out a.five-year plan to get the Vietnamese out of Cambodia ana turn that country into an independent nation. It is also aimed at thwarting Beijing's ambitions in South-east Asia. Jakarta's strategy was outlined
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    • 229 7 LAT-WP MANILA, Thursday PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand Marcos' actions since last week's elections have left some opponents, diplomats' and even supporters wondering whether he received what is widely seen here as the voter's message of discontent. There has been no sign yet that President Marcos is taking advantage
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    • 625 8  -  UMMO GENERAL ASSEMBLY From RODNEY HOBSON in Kuala Lumpur THE MOST exciting, and possibly the most important, issue before the General Assembly of the United Malays National Organisation will be one of the first to be settled when the meeting gets under way tomorrow.
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    • 111 8 NEW YORK, Thursday NEWSWEEK International will join with The Bulletin, Australia's largest weekly, to publish a single magazine beginning early July. The Newsweek logo will be featured prominently in conjunction with The Bulletin logo on the cover. A fully-contained, easily identifiable 24-page Newsweek International magazine
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    • 187 8 UPI CANNES, Thursday THE GOLDEN Palm for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival, the world's most prestiPious cinema market, was awarded yesterday to 'aris-Texas, a film by West German director Wim Wenders that was written by American Sam Shepard. The award for Best
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    • 406 9 Essential step towards reviving past glory, says Mahathir KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday THE ISLAMIC community must end wastage of funds and petty quarrels among themselves and discard outdated attitudes towards development ai knowledge if.it wants to revive the glory of Islamic civilisation, Prime
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    • 126 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday AN INTERNATIONAL scholar in Islam says that the* "backwardness of Muslim material and technological culture" is caused by misconceptions on the part of Muslims worldwide. Prof S Waqar Ahmed Husaini, from the Utah State University in the United
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    • 256 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday ISLAMIC ideology could serve as the basis of a common outlook on world politics among Muslims, says Prof Manzooruddin Ahmed, chairman of political science at Karachi University. In practice, he said however, not all Muslim states have been able to recognise
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    • 518 10 TRENDS THE songs of birds, so pleasant to the human ear, result from a complex system of learning, and while there is no evidence that birds are "speaking" to each other when they sing, they are not whistling in the dark either. Songbirds,
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    • 62 10 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 yon conduct your business. Reports of such events may be confined to specialist or trade publications. In TRENDS,
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    • 353 10 UPI ABU DHABI, Thursday IRAQI President Saddam Hussein threatened yesterday to destroy Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal in an escalation of fighting in the Gulf war, reports from Baghdad said. Despite concern expressed by Gulf states and Western-allied nations, which get 20
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    • 164 10 AP WASHINGTON, Thursday THE US has withdrawn its proposal to help Jordan create an 8,000-man strike force for use in the Gulf region, the State Department said yesterday. Department spokesman John Hughes said the Reagan administration has asked Congress to
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 183 10 Add some pizzazz to your weekend! fs&SW f Every Friday at the Poolside JKWiB i C,\V i j it Vp f Swimwear if R M V I t II BPi •«Pjp- Tn \f v,, yA j 4 new... in a sensational fashion show by Ivor's Models. Call now for reservations
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  • money
    • 105 11 HHLLSTREET Reuter THE shares of certain take-over targets rose substantially in heavy trading on Wall Street yesterday, but the overall stock market suffered its fifth straight decline. Analysts said major worries about current interest rate levels continued to haunt investors. The Dow
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    • 330 11  -  By JEANNE WONG MALAYSIAN Resources Corporation Bhd (MRC), in line with its diversification plans, has proposed to acquire a 60 per cent stake in the share capital of Cheq-point (M) Sdn Bhd, representing three million shares, from Syabas Holdings and its president, Mr
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    • 101 11 AP THE US dollar was mixed against major currencies in uneventful European trading yesterday despite reports of growing tension in the Persian Gulf. Gold prices fell marginally in thin trading. Worries about the impact of the Iran-Iraq war on shipping in the Gulf haa little effect on
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 120 12 CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES is unlikely to show a spectacular performance for the full financial year to March 31 if its interim results are any guide. The company saw a 19 per cent drop in operating profits to $3.74 million but thanks to a smaller
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      • 104 12 MALAYA TIN PRINTING, now 68.4 per cent owned by Gineer Investments after a takeover bid earlier this year, did not really disappoint shareholders when it posted a 38.5 per cent drop in pre-tax earnings to $1.2 million for the year enaed Feb 29, for
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      • 48 12 TRADING in Kemayan Oil Palm will be temporarily suspended from Monday, June 4 until further notice, to facilitate the sub-division of its Msl shares. When trading in the counter is resumed, quotation will be at par value of 50 cents each.
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      • 38 12 PUBLIC Corporation has completed the subdivision of its existing Msl shares into 50 centshares. Trading in the 96.3 million 50 centshares was resumed today, under its new name of Mount Pleasure Holdings.
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    • 551 12  -  It hopes to introduce a stock market index contract By PHILIP BANGSBERG HONG KONG: The Hong Kong Futures Exchange hopes to begin expanded activities by October with the introduction of a stock market index contract. The Commissioner for Commodities Trading, Mr Robert Fell,
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    • 432 12 US MISGIVINGS about the regulatory controls over Chicago's mutual trading link with Singapore may further delay the mutual financial futures trading between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (the Merc) and the Singapore International Monetary Fund (Simex) until July or September. The Asian Wall Street
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    • 61 12 IN YESTERDAY S article titled "Daewpo group taps S'pore for funds the vicepresident of Arab Bank Limited was reported to be Mr J F Villa. His name should have been spelt as Mr J S Villa. We apologise to Mr Villa
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    • 185 12 Newsweek REUTERS Holdings PLC is going public next month with perhaps the firstever simultaneous offering on the New York and London financial markets. The sale of 27.5 per cent of the British company's equity to investors should raise between US$27O million (*****
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous

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    • 116 12 Wanted: Financial Reporters FOR THE SINGAPORE MONITOR IF YOU are Making sense with figures, especially those in the stock market and personal finance Own a degree in accountancy, biz ad or commerce and possess initiative Need challenges, later starting times, pressure and are willing to Enable us to mould you
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  • opinion/letters
    • 453 14  -  JEFFREY LAW Singapore 2056 THE ARTICLE "Fairy tales and happy endings" on the young writer Noel Chia (SM, May 21) is indeed interesting I agree with his exhortation that if one's works are not accepted by local publishers, one should try publishers overseas. A writer
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    • 201 14  -  REPLY TAN HENG HUAY Executive Assistant Secretary (Public Relations) Housing and Development Board PLEASE refer to the letter "We need a bus shelter" (SM, April 17) in which the writer requests for a bus shelter in front of Block 716, Bedok Reservoir Road.
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    • 626 14 ISSUES Lianhe Zaobao LLANHE ZAOBAO EDITORIAL, May 22 THE PROPOSAL made by the Minister for Defence and Second Minister for Health, Mr Goh Chok Tong, to amend the Constitution to bring opposition members to Parliament nas become another hot topic of discussion for the masses. Initial
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    • 502 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR THE Health Minister, Mr Howe Yoon Chong, has proposed a radical change in hospital administration. Hospitals will be run by boards of governors with greater autonomy to manage their own affairs, especially in acquiring new equipment and paying better salaries, allowances
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    • 65 15 I LIVE in'Taman Mas Merah, Singapore 0512. This is a very narrow road with terrace houses on both sides. Motorists park their cars indiscriminately on this road making it difficult to drive in and out of one's compound. Could the authorities please look into the
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    • 349 15 I REFER to the comments by Mr Lau Teng Chuan, executive director of the Singapore Sports Council, in the report "Shame on you trainees" (SM, May 11). He hit out at swimmers who stayed away from the Singapore Open Swimming Meet because
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    • 87 15  -  CROSS SAFELY Singapore 1544 AS I was passing the overhead bridge near the Bukit Merah Bus Interchange, I noticed that some people were crossing the road below the bridge. Instead of taking the trouble of climbing a few steps and cross the road safely, these pedestrians pose
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 87 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LIMITED 2 Alexandra Road #03-01 A, Delta House, Singapore 0315 Telephone: *****88 Telex No: RS ***** Monitr JOHN ORR, CHIEF EXECUTIVE Seah Chiang Nee, Chief Editor Hazel Ong, Classified Sales Supervisor Toh Thian Sac, Deputy Chief Editor Robin Yiu, Circulation Manager FaNx Soh, Assistant Editor Lee Chiu
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    • 143 15 .w* LETTERS on any sublet oi pubic totareet y* bt accepted lor puMcittun They should be typed and mutt be signed. They must also include the wrtter*s name and atMriai to uaa a pseudonym m print. A telephone number would be uMMi wi rmrvi vv Rgni u> oqh wqpi. aootwi
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  • leisure
    • 623 16  -  CONNIE STEVENS, THE PRODUCER By PAT D'ROSE HER beautiful blue eyes still retain their twinkle though the tease is gone. The Connie Stevens we knew as Cricket, Robert Conrad's bouncy blonde sidekick in the television series Hawaiian Eye, has put acting into her history book and
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    • 424 16  -  By LO TIEN YIN EXHIBITION designer Horst Schroter, 42, has a slight problem. There is a huge gramophone, an incandescent lamp, a spin nine wheel, even a steam engine all built from Lego bricks. But what can be constructed to capture Singapore's essence? Last year
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    • 767 16  -  mm travelling at leisure By YEOW MEI SIN NAVIGATE a plane from Penang to Pulau Langkawi without a pilot's licence? Just one of the fringe benefits when you fly in an eight-seater propeller aircraft operated by the Malaysian Air Charter and all seats are taken except
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    • 522 18  -  TV SCENE By WONG SING YEONG INSTEAD of listening to Leo Sayer sing praises of Orchard Road, or Manhattan Transfer hum On a Little Street in Singapore, it is time we hear and see homespun talents sing about our land and themselves. From June 26,
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    • 602 18 Career or Children (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) THIS half-hour SBC documentary will examine the issue, career or children, by looking at four case histories. The Cunicos have a relative to look after their younger son while their older 10-year-old son is left on his own until either
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    • Article, Illustration
      499 19  -  Marie! Hemingway takes on journalism in Mean Season By DALE POLLOCK AFTER portraying a bisexual track star in Personal Best and a doomed Playboy playmate in Star 80, Mariel Hemingway is going to try something different: Playing someone tiormal In her newest film, The Mean Season, Hemingway will
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    • 166 16 Triple treat at Tipple From 7 in the evening, you can laze. laugh, unwind or engage in I K friendly banter to the music DSouvenir Stars 'n Stripes at m Lounge. Tai Wp| N mm mL Al IT heavenly taste fresh rock oysters fin from Australia flown in straight to
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 692 17 rTHE SNQAPORE MONTPOR THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1964 18 r *-/rf? y >«' 3.. rv— *i Vi ft w v j ,tO f Y i 1 A .v. .v Tf :YW, H- ii v 5 i v. V X&W-'Wi' T M»V^v V V* M» r..—• .tS -i. "•R. M-> ■cAl v,
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    • 150 19 K JfOtt Tt»AYI 1 "jSStfglti}!" 13 2 1.30pm 1.00, JDOjJM Spin j j > 1.30, 4.00, 0.45,t.00pm 1.00, 3.00, 7.30. t.3opm U MMITMMIU IBMK-MMI I S Shew* 3.30, 1.30, 4, 7.30, 0.30pm U i aauai an 1.00,3.30,7.1#, o.sopm > J Uin MT it M j|| I 11, 1.30, 4, 0.30,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 424 19 FILM GUIP€ fyTTT?TiTf?yiffTyT?fffT7r i !'?lfc Synopsis: An introverted wealthy young man, fed up with dates arranged by his DALIT (*****16)* THE CHAMPIONS (C) CLEMENTI (*****51): WONDERS OF CHI- mother, decides to seek his friend's help in Synopsis: Country boy goes to the city and NA> PAI *T 2(Q finding a
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    • 252 20 OPENS TOMORROW SIMULTANEOUSLY AT 4 THEATRES Jade-Liberty-Savoy-Woodlands THE CURRENT NUMBER 2 TOP-GROSSING HIT (OVER US$6O MILLION TO DATE) NOW SNOWING IN 1,200 CINEMAS ACROSS TNI IMTED STATES! Ms music and dancing sets the town tree. HIT SONGS INCLUDING DENIECE WILLIAMS KENNY LOOOINS FOOTLOOSE BONNIE TYLER HOLDING OUT X FOR A
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 476 20 BB PIANO RECITAL THERE will be a piano recital by Chew Seok Kwee at Victoria Concert Hall this evening at 8.15 pm. Tickets at $10, $5 and $3 are available at the door. BSO THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra will give a concert tomorrow and on Saturday at Victoria Concert Hall,
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    • 404 20 |.H ii TODAY: High tide: 5.15 em (2 m) Low tide: 12.52 pm (0.7 m) High tide: 7.56 pm (1.9 m) TOMORROW: High tide: 6.58 em (2 m) Low tide: 2.01 pm (0.7 m) High tide: 6.37 pm (2 m) IRON ANQEL IRON ANGEL will be screened at the Goethe-Institut
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  • GO PLACES
    • 349 21 ROMANIA is one of the Eastern European Communist bloc nations now making a conscious effort to woo more Capitalist tourist dollars. The official stance is to simplify visa formalities, and to make scarce or rationed products such as petrol and hire cars available to incoming tourists prepared to
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    • 155 22 A HOLIDAY for the old who want to feel young. That's what Alpha Golden Wings is offering on their tours to the Holy Land and Romania. After retracing the footsteps of Christ from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, participants in the Alpha Golden Wings packages will spend three days
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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    • 102 21 Bfßasygyfwswryggfgww 2-7 days PENANG Includes SI A airfare, twin accommodation at Palm Beach/Holiday Inn, welcome drink and free shuttle service between beach hotel and town -Daily departures from $320 3-7 days HONG KONG A wide selection of packages to suit every need is available. Daily departures (excluding air-fare)* from $240
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 63 22 Departure dates; 31/5,7/6,14/6 and 21/6. £&M' ?TKIV jSrsgSttr «Sfetes?» ia r^-« Transinex Imperial Tours Insight Holiday* Travelplan Wing On Travel #08-07 Golden Wall Auto Centre (0718) #11-11 Blanco Court (0718) #07-01 Cathay Building (0922) #18-05 Goldhill Square (1130) #02-328 The Plaza (071ffl Tel: *****33 TA 087 Tel: *****22 TA 383
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 463 23 leisure/ comics ARIES March 21 to AprU 20 P® RA 00 You may find it hard to keep 23 to October 22 mentally alert The signs show could be a significant day that you are tired, and it for B ett,n B someone to see would be advisable to slacken
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    • 155 23 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook 'WHAT DO Vbl?V^fl» r=Vfc*/rHING- WIU < 111 lir^^l THINK, Baft? Mfc\ SORE.. THIS i OKAV IF WXKtfoiA IS OPWTC THE WEG<HNG-TO /(5 A dtmcAL j ABIE To RESfeN* MfcRSOF U u UIHEKE ARE\ OL' JoB OCT THE STAG€ IN THE I FtoW REACTINO lb THE iifiiMmOT'
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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    • 168 24 THIS is the Personal Advancement market place where various courses for those seeking such information will be listed. Call JOHN LIM for information and ad placement at *****88 ext 227. FOR EVERYONE IN ANY SHAPE We offer wide range of programmes that emphasisies FUN and PARTICIPATION. Aerobics Jazz Disco Modern
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    • 187 28 Reuter PERUGIA (Italy), Thursday TOP-SEEDED Chris Evert-Lloyd, of the United States, had an easy passage into the third round of the Italian Women's Open tennis championships here yesterday, beating Switzerland's Christiane Jolissaint 6-2, 6-3. A fierce wind gave the players problems and Evert-Lloyd, who has
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    • 231 28 WORLD TEAM TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS Reuter DUESSELDORF, Thursday MUCH-FANCIED Sweden stumbled to a surprise defeat against Italy in the World Team Tennis Cup here yesterday. The Swedes' form completely deserted them as 31-year-old Corrado Barazzutti and Gianni Ocleppo put the Italians into a winning 2-0 lead in the Red
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    • 141 28 Reuter DUESSELDORF, (Watt Germany) Thursday IVAN Lendl led Czechoslovakia to another comfortable victory in the World Team Tennis Cup yesterday but said he was unhappy with his form. Lendl dropped only five games in beating Paul McNamee of Australia 6-2 6-3
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    • 176 28 Reuter PARIS, Thursday US OPEN champion Jimmy Connors expressed confidence yesterday that he could become the first American to win the French Open tennis title for 29 years. Connors dismissed his crushing defeat by Czechoslovak Ivan Lenal at Forest Hills earlier this month
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    • 466 28  -  By ERNEST FRIDA THE $25,000 Tiger Open Golf Classic at the Sembawang Country Club from tomorrow to Sunday, will give the Singapore Gfessionals a chance to redeem mselves after a lean season. Singapore professionals, despite trying hard, have fared badly in
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    • 153 28  -  By B KULA SINGAPORE have been invited to cross sticks with teams across the Causeway in two more competitions this year Malacca's first quadrangular competition for the Dato Haii Tamby Chik Challenge Trophy and for the President's Cup, both in July. The quadrangular will
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    • 151 28 SINGAPORE'S national team may have finished ninth in the Malaysian Hockey Federation un-der-23 tournament, but they won the hearts of the organising committee with then* spirited display of hockey to win the fairplay trophy yesterday. The Singaporeans were awarded the trophy for their
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    • 841 29  -  He scores just once in nine-goal feast by Groningen FC Groningen 9 Ex-Nationals Invitation 0 By KENNETH JALLEH THE crowd was there, 30,000 strong. The Minister for Law, Mr E W Barker, was there, too, as president of the Club. Together they enjoyed a nine-goal
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    • 190 29  -  By S GULAM NEGOTIATIONS are still going on on Fandi Ahmad's new contract with FC Groningen. Yesterday's meeting at a local hotel lasted nearly three hours. Fandi's manager Abu Sujak, who was accompanied by Fandi's father Ahmad Wartam and uncle Ismail Wartam,
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    • 174 29 Reuter SHEFFIELD, Thursday MANAGER Dave Sexton faces a series of selection Croblems as England bid to retain the European 'nder-21 Soccer Championship when they face Spain in the second leg of the final here. Sexton has delayed naming his side to give
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    • 322 29 POLICE vs FP UNITED Jalan Besar Stadium: 7.30 pm POLICE and Farrer Park United, two of the four teams still in the running for the National Football League Division One title, clash tonight (7.30) in a vital match at the
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    • 183 29 BANGKOK, Thursday THAILAND 'B' and Singapore marched into the semi-finals of the first Coke Cup Invitational Un-der-16 Youth Football Championships when the former beat the latter 2-0 after the goalless first half and Indonesia drew with Hong Kong 2-2 in Group 'B\
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    • 231 30  -  By ALFONSO CHAN THEIR opponents might have had the national stars but Temasek Junior College (TJC) held the winning trophy at the end of the first Inter-College Swimming championship yesterday. Despite the presence of Soo-tho Kok Mun for Raffles and Olympic-bound Oon Jin Gee for
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    • 213 30 AP MAGDEBURG, (East Germany) Thursday TWO world records and a European record were shattered at the East German national swimming championships here yesterday. Kristin Otto of Leipzig lopped almost half a second off the women's 200 m freestyle record which American Cynthia
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    • 263 30 BOYS: lMm free 1 Oon Jin Gee (ACJC) 2 Gerard Xu Xian (TJC) 3 Roger Swee (RJC) 58.535ec. 100 m breast: 1 Soo-Tho Kok Mun (RJC) 2 Max Gan 3 Justin He Nengzhan (TJC) 1:15.95ec. 50m back: 1 Soo-Tho Kok Mun (RJC) 2 Poon Kah Leong (ACJC) 3 Theodor
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    • 128 30 Reuter MARACAIBO, (Venezuela) Thursday PANAMA'S Eusebio Pedroza will defend his World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight crown against Venezuelan Angel Levy Mayor behind closed doors here on Sunday because the bout clashes with nation-wide municipal elections. Public spectacles are banned during polling hours so the
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    • 114 30 Professional Entertainers Sun City Spectacular 11 Catch their versatile presentation when they take to stage in a riot of colour and music. This is not a female impersonator show. m\ TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE FAMILY A scintillating production fully choreographed by A Charles Van Oeuns It's a show with a
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  • 658 31 Two saves by 'shadow' goalie in shoot-out clinches title for Spurs UEFA CUP PINAL: Spurs 1 Anderlechl 1 (Spurs win 43 on penalty kicks) hrst leg: 1 in Brussels MONITOR sports Reuter LONDON, Thursday ENGLAND'S TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR won the European Football Union (UEFA)
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