Singapore Monitor, 19 June 1984

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  • 11 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Tuesday, June 19,1954 30cents
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  • 537 1  -  Businessmen will face less red tape ■y RODNEY HOBSON SINGAPORE businessmen seeking export orders will find their job made easier under a scheme to be launched by the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. The scheme will: CUT OUT (he need for a customs declaration
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    • 165 2 SPECIAL M:I»OKJ ARE Singaporeans too businesslike, abrupt and generaMy lacking in hospitality? This observation came recently from a Japanese psychologist who also works in the travel industry and who was in Singapore lor a seminar on Japanese tourism. Or Nobuaki Kuniya told the seminar that it was a common
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    • 944 2 Most tourists think not and find Singaporeans a helpful and friendly lot PETER YATES and SANDRA HAYES had been in Singapore for 36 hours after arriving on a holiday from England and said they found everyone as helpful as could be. "People have been very considerate and
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    • Article, Illustration
      23 2 Sandra Hayea (left) and Peter Yetea Rita Cooper (toft) end Sheila Dunne raw Haugen (left) and Mire Kontrec Tf» Oharu family
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    • 473 3 Tremendous improvement in S'pore manners, says campaigns head MONITOR Sl'l < 1 11 Itl IMmi THERE HAS been a tremendous improvement in Singapore's manners in recent years, said Mr Basskaran Nair, Head of Projects and Campaigns including the Courtesy Campaign at the Ministry of Culture. He
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    • 662 3 IT'S A MYTH to think that people living in the countryside are more polite than their city cousins, says Professor J John Palen, who has spent a year here on leave from the University of Virgina. He
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    • 174 4 THE FULL-DISPLAY ADVERT ROW THE MINISTRY of Communications would strive to preserve the image of the Garden City even if it means sacrificing lots of revenue. And that is the reason why we don't see big advertisement splashes in Singapore which are common
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    • 654 4 What would have happened if the Reds had won SEMINAR ON BIRTH OF A NATION' IMAGINE a population of three million people living in cubicles, with all parks and pavements turned over to the production of tapioca, sweet potatoes, cabbages and other hardy edibles Imagine also the
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    • 213 4 M IN 1960, five b years before inde- pendent e, only 9 Kr cent of Singaporeans ed in public flats. Today some 77 per cent of the population do so and 8 out of 10 households own their flats. In 1960, the average savings in the
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    • 318 4 THE CONTRAST between Singapore's present prosperity and tne discontent, nigh unemployment, inadauate housing and scarce ucational opportunities of the past was highlighted yesterday by Dr Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State (Education). He chose the retrospective comparison to launch this year's Pre-university
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    • 81 5 SINGAPOREANS who intend to travel to India must now apply for a visa under a new ruling imposed by the Indian Government yesterday. "This is because we have evidence that unwanted foreign elements are creating problems in Amritsar," said an official of the Indian
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    • 230 5  -  By SURESH NAIR FOUR foreign workers suffered severe injuries when a scaffolding linking one of the 12 bridges along the Bukit Timah Expressway collated. The two Malaysian and two Thai construction workers are recovering at the Toa Pavoh Hospital. They were hurt on
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    • 457 5  -  By VICTOR SOH THE PHILIPPINE Embassy in Singapore hears complaints almost every other day from Filipina maids who are unhappy with bad working conditions here. But embassy staff say there is nothing they can do because the Employment Act does not cover domestic help.
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    • 105 5 TWO FILIPINA maids decided to return to the Philippines after they reported to the Labour Ministry that they had to work in the employer's office as well as his home. The employer was called to the ministry but the maids then expressed their
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    • 347 6  -  By CAROLINE BOEY HOW DO principals actually spend their time in school? How should principals spend their time? What are the characteristics of an effective school? Does your school have the right learning environment? Some 200-odd principals, vice-principals and other officers of the
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    • 278 6 Lianhe Zaobao ARMED with a parang and an axe, two robbers broke into a souvenir shop at Shaw Towers in Beach Road, overpowered the proprietor and a security guard a. I got away with $55,000 in gold chains. The robbery
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    • 413 6  -  By RODNEY HOBSON SINGAPORE'S currency may not have taken on a world-wide role, but it has a regional role, judging from a paper presented by two US professors to the Pacific Trade and Development Conference being held in Singapore. Professors David Cole of
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    • 244 6 THE POSSIBLE rise of Tokyo as a financial centre is likely to attract funds and lending away from Singapore and Hong Kong, delegates to the Pacific Trade and Development Conference were told this morning. Dr Lee Sheng Yi of the
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    • 110 6 EVERGREEN Line is to start a round-the-world container service calling at Singapore in both directions in July. The first sailing of the east-bound route will be from Keelung on July 18. The first ship to make the westbound voyage will depart from Tokyo on July 25. In
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    • 9 2 What's ap in Property? Find o«t ia Wednesday's Monitor
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    • 136 6 AUTHOR: ANTHONY P C TOH, AAIA, ABAA, '1 -y IH ASCA, MBIM EXPERIENCE: over 20 years in accountancy. HIS WRITING: A set of 10 books with 8 full sets of book format for a: ll 1 MANUF/TRADING: 5 MINING; M 2 ENGRY CONST; 6 DEPT STORE; Jp 3 SHIPPING TRPT;
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  • world
    • 284 7 MORE THAN 80 BOBBIES AND MINERS HURT IN MOST VIOLENT BATTLE OF COAL STRIKE Reuter LONDON, TiMsday MORE THAN 80 policemen and miners were injured yesterday in the most violent battle so far as Britain's coal strike entered its 15th week. Miners set cars and
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    • 280 7 UPI ARANYAPRATHET (Thailand), Tuesday VIETNAMESE troop in western Cambodia have threatened to attack two huge refugee camps if guerillas disrupt Hanoi's plans to stage a troops withdrawal, military sources said. Thai military officers along the Thai-Cambodian border said the Vietnamese warned Cambodian civilians that
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    • 160 7 Reuter AMRJTSAR, Tuesday INDIAN TROOPS hoped to return to barracks within weeks after ending mopping-up operations against Sikh extremists still hiding in Punjah State, tne region's army commander said yesterday. Lieutenant General K Sunderii, who directed the storming of Amritsar's
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    • 295 8 AP PARIS, Tuesday FRANCE'S voting in the European parliamentary elections, upsetting the domestic political scene, poses serious problems for all parties except the newly-emergent extreme rightist National Front. The ruling Socialists and communists largely blamed tne heavy abstention rate 43
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    • 241 8 US denies report that Korean jet was deliberately sent into Soviet airspace Reuter LONDON, Tuesday THE UNITED States yesterday denied a British magazine report that a South Korean airliner shot down over Soviet territory last September had been deliberately diverted off its flight path.
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    • 516 8 LATWP WASHINGTON, Tuesday MORE THAN 14 months after President Reagan introduced his dream of "eliminating the threat posed by strategic nuclear missiles," a bureaucratic battle still rages in his administration over goals of the "star wars" programme and control of tne
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    • 94 8 AP LEBANON, Tues SYRIAN Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam Cud a one-day visit to ebanon yesterday and said his talks with Lebanese politicians on how to end nine years of civil war were encouraging. "I have sensed a determination from all to overcome all obstacles
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    • 188 8 Reuter WASHINGTON, Tues THE Soviet Union now has more nuclear warheads than the United States, Defence officials said yesterday. They said Moscow took the lead about five years ago, but Western military analysts had continued to believe the United States had more warheads.
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    • 222 8 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday THE GULF war boost to freight rates for vessels venturing into the war zone has prompted shipowners to press mothballed ships back into service to cash in on the "mini-boom," shipbrokers E A Gibson said yesterday. An extra 18 tankers
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    • 280 10 NO MORE TESTS' MORATORIUM SUGGESTED BY EX-MEMBER OF PIONEER FERTILISATION TEAM THE ORPHAN EMBRYOS' SAGA AP MELBOURNE, Tuesday A FORMER member of Australia's pioneer InVitro Fertilisation team has called for a halt to test-tube fertilisation experiments until answers are found to questions raised by a
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    • 226 10 UPI MELBOURNE, Tuesday GOVERNMENT officials said yesterday they would defer a decision on the fate of two frozen embryos whose parents died in a plane crash and left them possible heirs to a million-dollar fortune. The "orphan" embryos have been suspended in
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    • 172 10 Reuter LOS ANGELES, Tuesday THE FROZEN embryos left behind by a couple killed in an air crash could not be considered living heirs to their multi-million-dollar estate, a lawyer said today. "My personal feeling is that because the embryos could not be
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    • 475 11 TRENDS HOW OFTEN have we been told that the movie theater is doomed? Thirty years ago television was supposed to kill the neighbourhood screen, and now the videocassette recorder is being billed as the villian. Film fans, so the story goes, will soon
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    • 63 11 TRENDS a quick read 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 publicatione. In
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    • 41 11 20 arrested for proAsian protest Reuter MELBOURNE, Tues ANGRY university students tried yesterday to break up a lecture given by Professor Blainey, of Melbourne University, who suggested Australia is taking in too many Asians. Police later arrested about 20 students. Reuter
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    • 201 11 AP LONDON, Tuesday SIX MONTHS into 1984, the world is generally judged to be a better place than George Orwell prophesied. Now five writers have gone a step further by looking at the year with widely differing results. The prophesies of Tom
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    • 43 11 AP STUTTGART (West Germany), Tues WEST German metal industry employers expanded lockouts yesterday, thus making "idle" almost 400,000 workers As the strike entered its sixth week, the Bonn Government issued an appeal to end the conflict. AP
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    • 11 8 To Boy or Not to Boy Rood property •action Wednesday's Monitor
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  • money
    • 167 12 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND dollar continued to weaken yesterday despite a Reserve Bank decision to intervene in the foreign exchange market to prevent an outflow of funds before the July 14 election, dealers said. The Reserve Bank's mid-rate opened at U550.6432 compared with
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    • 447 12 BUY STERLING in a month s time because it will be cheaper, according to a forex dealer. By that time, the current rate of $2.90 to the pound will most likely drop another 10 cents to $2.80. That will bring it to the all-time
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    • 461 12 Some shortlisted Safuan properties may be injected into General Lumber GENERAL Lumber Holdings is likely to be injected one or two of the four properties shortlisted by the Safuan group in exchange for a share swap. The four projects in Malacca and Johor, comprising mixed
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    • 178 12 HAJI Mat Shah Safuan, Tan Sri Abdul Samad Idris and Encik Hamli Kushari have been appointed to the board of General Lumber Holdings. Two more nominees from the Safuan group are soon expected to be appointed. Sources said that the two names will be forwarded
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    • 149 12 HMLLSTREET Reuter THE STOCK market staged a sur-i prise technical rally on Wall Street yesterday, one that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average well above the 1,100 resistance level. The Dow, which slipped over 44 points last week, began the session
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    • 112 12 AP THE US dollar turned mixed yesterday in US trading after rising broadly against other major currencies in active European trading. Gold prices were also mixed. Currency dealers attributed the dollar's mid-day decline against some currencies to profit-taking by investors, selling to take advantage of the dollar's
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    • 207 13 ONLY Supreme Corp (SC) shareholders confident of a good shortterm capital gain should accept Textile Corp of Malaya's (TCM) offer to buy their shares. Aseambankers, independent advisers to Supreme Corp shareholders other than TCM, said that the closing prices of
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    • 209 13 TOSHIBA Malaysia's one-for-one rights issue will increase the company's net tangible asset per share from M 51.90 to M 52.42. The five million new shares at Ms 3 each will reduce Toshiba's bank borrowings by MsB.s million and provide 6.2 million for working
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    • 62 13 A PHOTOGRAPH in our "Top Appointments" column yesterday was not that of Mr Tommy Seah of Sperry Computer Systems. The public relations firm handling the announcement erroneously captioned the photograph. Mr Seah has been appointed as the company's Banking and Finance Consultant for South-east Asia
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    • 701 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues THE HIGH Court has K anted an injunction to rmer Bank Negara Governor Tun Ismail Ali last week stopping Kentucky Fried Chicken boss Loo Cheng Ghee from libelling him further. After hearing submissions from counsel in open court, Mrs Justice
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    • 105 13 OUB INDEX THE OUB Composite Share Price Index will appear in the Monitor daily. In the evening edition, the index will be based on the morning's close. This will be the only newspaper ready reference to stock market movements during the day. In the early
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    • 159 13 I We pay more interest I B in more ways than one.l All Rates effective 17 May 1984 subject to change without notice I I BRANCHES I I Main Branch: 6 Battery Road Quaanstown: I Crosby House: 71 Robinson Road Blk 74 Commonwealth Dr #01 -451 H H Alexandra Circus:
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  • opinion/letters
    • 407 14 CALL TO THE AUTHORITIES TO HALT ROAD ABUSE AND NOISE POLLUTION ADJACENT to the car park serving Blocks 7, 8 and 9 Teban Gardens is a road with a dead end. This road separates the car park from Block 10. It has become a haven for
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    • 148 14 I LIVE in Happy Gardens near the junction of MacPherson and Aljunied Roads. Every morning, I find it almost impossible to turn right into MacPherson Road towards Paya Lebar Road. There are always two queues of cars waiting along MacPherson Road, one to
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    • 67 14 THE authorities should increase the minimum mileage that each taxi driver has to fulfil as the present minimum is "no sweat" to the drivers. I believe the problem of supply and demand is caused by those choosy drivers who not only choose the passengers
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    • 55 14 AS A visitor to SingaEre, I find it most extordinary that the tour organisations are permitted to direct tourists to certain retail establishments. I believe in free trade, and that the visitors should not be coerced into directed shopping to the detriment of independent
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    • 312 14 How to cope with the birth problem by the year 2000 A MILLION new inhabitants will arrive on our {lanet every four to five days by the year 2000. n terms of sheer numbers the population then will be growing faster than it is today, with 100 million people
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    • 261 14 I REFER to the letter by Unhappy Resident about danger roads in Happy Gardens (SM, June 13). I am also a resident in this area and I believe the writer is referring to Happy Avenue North in front of Happy Mansion.
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    • 305 14 MANY used cars (either traded-in cars of motor dealers or cars belonging to used car marts) are parked along the roads in private housing estates for days and nights on end until they are sold. But then a new batch of used cars will
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    • 461 15 ■THE SINGAPORE iMuMl'ibkHßiiill A MORE creative approach may be needed to traffic enforcement and driver education in Singapore. Offence figures suggest that large numbers of Singaporeans would still rather risk a fine or loss of licence than change their driving habits. We are all potential offenders,
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    • 156 15 I WOULD like to request the Public Works Department and the Traffic Police consider resiting the traffic lights at the junctions of Koek Road/Orchard Road to Cuppage Road/Orchard Road. The reason is that Cuppage Road is a two-way thoroughfare between Orchard Road and Clemenceau
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    • 135 15  -  Registrar should see that staff speeds up work WILLIAM KOH Singapore 0314 I HAVE observed that the staff in charge of the issue of death certificates take some time to do the documentation. On one occasion, I waited at least half an hour when I
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    • 104 15  -  MINDA U ACAYA Singapore 1545 VISITORS to Singapore usually would not hesitate to praise this beautiful country, whose people are considerate, industrious and peaceful. For these reasons, many Filipina maids and Filipino workers experience much sorrow and heartache when their tenure of service ends here.
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    • 113 15  -  DR TULIP TAN Medical Director Middle Road Hospital I REFER to the article "Sharp fall in cases of sexual-ly-spread diseases" (SM, June 13). I wish to point out that the following has been misquoted: "We have to study the trend for this
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    • 59 15 w LETTERS on •They should be typed and mutt be signed. Thty mutt alto include the writer s name and address to use a pseudonym in print. A contact teisphone number would be usiM. Vile ressrve the light to edrt istters Address your utter* tot The Editor, The Slngspore Monitor.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 589 16 The story IF the walls of the Drama Centre could speak, they would fill several editions with what went on among the audience at last night's Pileh Menantu. Not that all of it could be published.. But let s start with the walls of an
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    • 1131 16 REMEMBER Alex Haley and Roots? I found mine last night at the Drama Centre when Felix Chia's Pileh Menantu the first original Baba piece of literature to be written within living memory made its debut. And just where are these roots? Firmly
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    • 540 16  -  By PAT D'ROSE GOODNESS, what's that beautiful dancer doing with a pair of knotted legs? And wny are her legs pointing in the most absurd directions as if they weren't part of her body. And why is a pink can-can sticking out from under that handsome
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    • 461 18 Drama on 12 Winaton Churchill: Tha Wilderness Yeara, Down and Out (Debut) (Ch 12, 9.05 pm) WINSTON CHURCHILL was a larger-than-life figure in British politics for 60 years. An ambitious man, he had a compelling presence and was able, eloquent and pushy. The drama unfurls from the late
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    • 487 18  -  GOLDEN BELL WINNER FINDS THIS OUT ftV/S&ENE By LO TIEN YIN LAST night, you might have heard the powerful voice of Shiau Lih Ju, 28, in Live from Studio One. Her voice won her the Golden Bell award this year. She is the fifth winner of
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    • 623 19  -  GONGFU MASTERS DISPLAY THEIR SKILLS TITLE: SPIRITUAL BOXING STARRING: Gongfu experts of China PRODUCER: Nan Hai Film Company Coming to Dalit Reviewed by LO TIEN YIN THIS sensational documentary features enough actions to send Hollywood stuntmen out of business. No stuntman in his right mind,
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    • 453 20 MAIN EVENTS PENTA THEATRE THE six-strong Penta Theatre from Holland, a theatre without words, will perform today at 8 pm at Singapore Conference Hall. The mime and dance company will entertain the audience with classical and modern dance, acrol>atics, juggling and tap-dancing. PILEH MENANTU PILEH MENANTU (Choosing
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    • 1394 17 leisure "18"| 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The Understudy Story Time (T) 4.55 Open House Theatre. Featuring a comedy sketch by Pofo the Clown, a sing- along session and a ballet dancers from Mexico. Men from Atlantis Imp 6.10 Programme Highllgnts. 6.15 News <E). Mari Memasak Sukiyaki Istimewa
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 556 19 FILM GUIO€ STONE (E) LIDO (*****14): TERMS OF ENDEARSynopsis: A romantic novelist finds adven- MENT (E) DALIT (*****16): DISASTERS (C) ture in America Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson. Starring: Alan Tang, Qing Shengshian REQAL (*****59): GAMES GAMBLERS Debra Winger Synopsis: About a Chinese taxi-driver in San PLAY (C) Synopsis: An
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 160 20 jgjjlg NATIONAL DAY PHOTO THE Ministry of Culture will hold the 1984 National Day Photo Exhibition, titled Singapore 25 Years of Progress, in August. Photos on display will be the winning entries of the competition now on. The pictures should capture Singapore's progress, development and achievement over the past 25
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    • 247 20 Exhibition MULTIPLE ART MORE than 90 works of etchings, prints, lithographs, reliefs and sculptures will be oil display at the GoetheInstitut Art Gallery until July 7, noon to 6 pm daily except on Sundays. The Multiple Art Exhibition is jointly organised by Goethe-In-stitut Singapore and Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations,
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  • PHOTOGRAPHIC CORNER
    • 166 21 ARMENIAN-born photographer Yousuf Karsh, a master of portraiture, took the photograph of Winston Churchill most well known to millions of people throughout the world. This shot, taken in 1941 when Britain was at its most embattled, shows a glowering, belligerent Prime Minister personifying England's bulldog determination.
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    • 410 22 THE most important factor in taking good protrait photographs is not shutter speed, composition or exposure. It is expression. The technically perfect picture is useless unless it captures the mood and projects the personality of the subject. To do this is an art. To take a
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      255 27  -  EVELYN ASHFORD OUT TO SHOW WHY SHE'S THE WORLD'S FASTEST WOMAN MONITOR SPORTS COLOUR EXTRA Story and Pictures by IPS "SUCCESS CAME quickly and easily for ma up to a certain point I could run 11.0 a vary eaaHy, but In order to get under 11.0, and win the
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    • 958 28 @HOW ARE you feeling physically and mentally after the hamstring injury that knocked you out of the 100 m final In Helsinki? 0 Physically, I think I'm stronger than ever. No, let's be more definite than that: I am stronger than ever. My
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    • 70 28 MY PHILOSOPHY with racing is not to key in on one person. There are eight people in the race, and everybody on that line has a chance to win. So I just try to key in on myself. I respect Marlies Gohr's ability. She was the
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    • 54 28 FIRST OF all, I'll have to be calm and relaxed. I feel that I'm a good runner and I think I can beat anybody if I'm right. When my training is going properly, I know that I can run well, so there's no reason for me
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    • 98 28 I THINK the American women sprinters have to change the way they think. Before 1979, I was thinking: "Oh, the East Germans and those other people from Europe, there's no way anybody can do what they do; they're just better than we are." And that's not
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    • 76 28 I DO distance work, I do track workouts, I lift weights, and I do a lot of stretching. That's basically it each day is different. I usually do two workouts a day. I get up and I'm at practice by 9.30; I'm usually finished between 12.00 and
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    • 76 28 I LOVE to read. I read all the time. I like to sew. I like clothes. I love shopping. I like to eat. I enjoy going out to movies and shows and plays and stuff like that. Nothing too exciting. I'm not an exciting person. But
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    • 79 28 I THINK I can run faster, I can be stronger as I get older. I think I can be good into my 30s. With regards to career ambitions, it's hard to think past right now. A lot of people have said that I have a good voice.
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    • 318 28  -  By TONY LIM BOWLING'S hotshot, Ronnie Ng, bounced back into the limelight with a brilliant performance to register an average of 207 pinfalls in the last roll-off and made the cut for the third phase of the Asian FIQ trials at Jackie's Bowl
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    • 688 29 US OPEN HERE IS the hole-by-hole account off how American FUZZY ZOELLER trounced his good friend, GREG NORMAN, the America-based Australian in the 18-hole sudden-death play-offff off the US Open at the Winged Foot course Reuter MAMARONECK (New York), Tuesday Both players started with birdies, but
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    • 493 29  - Volleyball Singapore's dying sport? By ALFONSO CHAN GAY WORLD Stadium, smack right in the middle of a square of mazy, run-down shops which have seen happier times, is Singapore's mecca for indoor sports Home of basketball, wrestling, and occasionally boxing, the previous week's sporting activity was volleyball, when 15 men
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    • 337 29 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday DEFENDING champion John McEnroe regained top position in the tennis players' computer rankings from Ivan Lend! of Czechoslovakia yesterday just in time to be seeded first for Wimbledon next week. The Wimbledon Committee stuck entirely to the ranking lists in their deliberations
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    • 243 30  -  HOMEFRONT SloriMby S GULAM PARKER PARK UNITED, the only team capable of stopping Tampines Rovers from taking the NFL Divtsfcm One title, faces Police tonight (8) at the Jalan Besar Stadium in what is expected to be the toughest of its five remaining matches. United
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    • 98 30 How th«y standi P W D L F A Pt» TAMPMES ROVERS 18 12 2 4 34 16 38 SAF8A 17 9 5 3 34 14 32 POLICE 17 9 0 8 28 25 27 HOMO BAHRU 18 8 8 4 25 20 28 TOA PAVOH 18 7
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    • 303 30 Hotel Meridian 3 Cycle Carriage 1 HOTEL MERIDIAN made it to the final of the Singapore Business Houses Football League junior knockout competition on their first try when they knock out Cycle Carriage in last night's semifinal match at the Jalan Besar Stadium.
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    • 493 30 DENMARK VS BELGIUM KICK-OFF: 2.30 am Reuter STRASBOURG (Franc*), Tuesday DENMARK needs only a draw against Belgium here today to reach the semifinals of the European Soccer Championship but, fortunately for football, it is not in its' nature to seek anything less than victory. "It
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    • 148 30 REFEREE: Adolf Prokop (East' Germany)— Reuter PARIS, Tuesday WEST GERMAN defender Bernd Foerster broke his nose in Sunday's European Soccer Championship clash against Romania but will be fit to play against Spain here tomorrow, the West German team doctor said yesterday. Professor Heinrich Hess,
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      • 143 30 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday: Tony Barton was yesterday sacked as manager of English First Division side Aston Villa, the side he steered to victory in the European Cup two years ago. Barton led Villa to their 1-0 Champions' Cup triumph over West Germany's Bayern Munich
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      • 95 30 Reuter LIEQE (Belgium): First Division FC Seraing, one of Belgium's oldest soccer clubs, was declared bankrupt by a commercial court here yesterday. Seraing, founded in 1900, finished fifth in the Belgian league this season and has one player in the current national squad, striker
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      • 122 30 Reuter PRAGUE: Sparta Prague added a second title to their earlier Czechoslovak Cup victory by winning the league championship last night with a 3-1 away win over Zvl Zilina. Dukla Prague finished second by beating Spartak Trnava 3-1, but even if Sparta
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    • 517 31 Australia's 'Great White Shark' loses by the most lopsided playoff margin in tourney's history US OPEN AP MAMARONECK, (New York) Tuesday FUZZY Zoeller, victim of a crosscountry putt on Sunday, holed an even longer one yesterday that Dropelled him to the United States Open golf
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    • 505 31 ST ETIENNE, (Franc*) Tuesday FRANCE, hot on the heels of their Saturday night massacre of Belgium, aim to hold nothing back in showing the world that they deserve the accolade recently heaped upon them as the world's greatest team when they take on
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    • 55 31 KICKOFFt 2.30 am at SI Etianna (Franc*). REFEREEs Andra Daina (Swttzartand). P W D L F A Pts FRANCE 2 2 0 0 6 0 4 DENMARK 2 10 15 12 BELGIUM 2 10 12 5 2 YUGOSLAVIA 2 0 0 2 0 7 0 MORE REPORTS
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    • 72 31 Reuter THE European Football Union(UEFA) yesterday turned down France's appeal against the three-match suspension being served by Manuel Amoros, the Monaco defender. Amoros was suspended for butting Danish substitute Jesper Olsen during the opening match of the European championship in Paris last Tuesday. el 4 The failed
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    • 113 31 A NEW Jokaa Cruyff may be la the making. The soccer fraternity is keeping a close watch on Danisk striker Preben Elkjaer. The style of the teenage forward, wko is with Italian club Lazio, to reminiscent of Cruyff in the maestro'* key-day. This was demonstrated in
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