Singapore Monitor, 23 June 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Saturday, June 23, 1984 30cents
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  • 525 1  -  Need for private sector to adopt a more positive approach in advertising S'pore, says Tourist Board By RODNEY HOBSON THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) has told hotels and other tourist services to help themselves and adopt a more aggressive role in promotions. The board
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 80 1 j DIVORCE RATES UP UMUML.I Singer Dolly flJjrnrarSrC?* PASES OF PREVIEWS: 31-32 WZ- Parton'S le Jita s resignation: FAS f r|a 7 7linn Resident's one-man battle te trips aoain desoite 'No* solve deadlock over use of tries again *J comeback facilities In apartment block Big ad response to SBC's new
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    • 58 1 PUERTORICO Pnstge at your Fee( I •mmmm Madk n Itaty The Marine Look In FUll Sail... A wide collection of styles to mix and match. Featuring 3 breezy colours. Blue. Red. White. 100% cotton and cotton twill for utmost comfort and coolness. J jl Bermuda $35 'fl&UHcntffat! ROBINSOgg'S at Centrepoint
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    • 366 2 RUE-UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON 'BIRTH OF A NATION' Interviewed after the seminar yesterday, six students five from St Andrew's Junior College and one from Temasek Junior College admitted that they knew nothing about the struggles among political parties in the 1950s before this
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    • 443 2 TWO PEOPLE on the stage of the Nanyang Technological Institute auditorium faced two thousand students. Such a sea of faces would have been difficult to distinguish under ideal conditions, but to the man and woman on the stage, with the glare of television lights
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    • 210 2  -  By Story and picture by CHEW YEN FOOK THESE live tortoises travelled 691 kilometres from Taiping to Singapore, packed tight in gunny sacks. Members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are having talks with the Primary Production Department about the means
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    • 290 3  -  Chamber vice-president's warning to small Japanese firms By RODNEY HOBSON SMALL but highly specialised Japanese businesses trying to break into the Singapore market were warned last night not to create resentment among local companies. The Japanese should "allay all fears of domination or control" in investing here,
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    • 252 3  -  By TYE KHIM KEAT HE sparkles with wit. He's rich in gems of anecdotes. In fact, Mr Alain Boucheron is multi-faceted, first as a top jeweller whose lineage in the jewellery business dates back to 1858 in France. With him in Singapore
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    • 131 4 A 34-YEAR-OLD man was sentenced to a day's jail yesterday and fined $1,000-for having an air pistol without a licence. Tan Chek Min, unemployed, pleaded guilty to possessing the Milbro 4.55 mm, .177 calibre Eistol at 139 B Nee Soon load,
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    • 384 4  -  Community Chest's misunderstanding with them cleared By OEI SIN GIOK WHEN the Community Chest surprised customers by bringing out its Christmas cards half a year early it also surprised two Singapore artists whose works were used on the cards. Ong Kim
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    • 169 4 ALL THE HUDC maisonettes and apartments at Cairnhill advertised for rent by the Housing and Development Board yesterday were taken up on the day itself. A total of 20 maisonettes and 60 apartments were allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. The maisonettes were
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    • 292 5  -  Report gives good ratings for The Awakening and SBC's 'early bird package scheme' By JALIL MISWARDI ADVERTISERS have given "overwhelming" support to three new Chinese television dramas. They say good ratings for The Awakening and an "early bird package scheme" offered by
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    • 197 5  -  By MICHAEL LIEW ANOTHER local advertising agency won an award at the 14th Asian Advertising Congress in Seoul yesterday. The Singapore Petroleum Company advertisement entered by the Asian Ad Group agency won the inaugural South Advertising award. The copywriter was Mr Sunny
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    • 316 5 CONSUMERS must, actively criticise unfair advertising techniques in order to upgrade standards, says Mr Ivan Baptist, secretary-general of the Consumers' Association of Singapore (Case). "Attempts must also be made to counter these techniques by consumer education. Pressure should also be brought
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    • 619 6  -  Govt's decision to scrap capital grant scheme for building pig waste treatment plants By YONG POW ANG SMALL pig farms seem almost certain to go out of business, and Singapore's 22 commercial farm operators are facing a dilemma whether to continue or
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    • 375 6  -  By YONG POW ANG Refineries in Singapore are unlikely to (let Malaysian oil processing contracts onger than three years. This is because Malaysia is planning on setting up a refinery in Malacca. Talks have been going on about long term processing contracts
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    • 176 6  -  By JALIL MISWARDI THE NATIONAL University of Singapore's $1.35 million computerised telephone system will come into operation on Monday. The exchange has a capacity of 150 lines and 1,500 extensions. It also comes with a magnetic memory which allows internal messages to be passed from one
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 138 2 SHERWOOD FROM THE USA THE NEW KING OF THE ROAD All 3 Sherwood Car Radio/Cassette players offer state-of-the-art hi-fi performance with many advanced features:- AM/FM Stereo Tuner with MOS FET front end Auto Gain (AGC) Auto Noise Reduction (ANRC) Auto-reverse Deck with Super Permalloy Head Auto Music Search (AMS) Metal
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 40 3 v Sole Agent Distributor for Singapore, Malaysia Brunei VINCO PTE LTD AvaJtabto at John Uttte (Plaza Singapura) Metro (Orchard/Supreme/ Golden Mile/Far East) 0.0. Department Store (Main/Orchard/Elite) People's Emporium (Buklt Tlmah/City Ptaza) Robinson's (Centrepolnt) Vsrmailles Leather Stoop and also Specialty Stores.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 158 4 Sharp opens doors to the ocean, garden and form. Delights from the ocean, greens from the garden, meat from the farm. All these food stay fresh longer in Sharp's range of super spacious refrigerators. Which means you can keep more food in Sharp fridges and cut down your marketing time.
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    • 256 5 Contest f —Oi PUcJ^S^-l] TAKE PART IN THE LAWMAN BUCK 0 BULL CONTEST TOMORROW Win prizes of over $10,000 And get a Lawman T-shirt free If you're above 17 and below 35 years of age, I The Grand Finale will also be telecast physically fit, you're invited to enter the
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  • world
    • 480 7 AP WASHINGTON, Saturday A GIANT blast that demolished a munitions depot cost the Soviet navy substantial missile supplies but in no way crippled the powerful northern fleet, US intelligence sources said yesterday. The sources said the Soviets had adequate stocks of surface-to-air and
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    • 262 7 Reuter ROTTERDAM, Saturday CRUDE oil was selling on the European spot market yesterday at the lowest prices since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) slashed US$5 off the price of a barrel of oil last March, oil traders said. Tne low
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    • 130 7 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday SENATOR Gary Hart said yesterday he would press ahead with his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination but would take no action that would divide or weaken theparty in its challenge to President Ronald Reagan. "I do intend to press
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    • 194 7 Reuter LONDON, Saturday A HUGE blast reported to have destroyed perhaps one-third of the Soviet northern fleet s stock of surface-to-air missiles was more likely due to an accident than to sabotage, officials and private analysts said yesterday. The Washington Post,
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    • 674 8 But they agree on holding informal consultations with each other on their debt problems Reuter CARTAGENA, Saturday LATIN American debtor countries will set up an informal system for holding consultations for their debt problems, but have ruled out collective negotiations with creditors, Colombian Finance Minister
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    • 357 8 JAKARTA, Saturday FOREIGN Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja yesterday called on Australia to stop making remarks concerning problems between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Mr Mochtar told a news conference that both Indonesia and Papua are doing their best to maintain good relations and don't need the interference
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    • 50 8 MISS England, Louise Gray and Miss Singapore, Violet Hui-Him Lee, pose with the Vizcaya mansion in the background, Vizcaya is a popular South Florida tourist attraction. Miss England and Miss Singapore are competing for the Miss Universe title to be decided on July 9.
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    • 219 8 Reuter BANGKOK, Saturday THAILAND, locked in a border dispute with Laos, today launched a major diplomatic offensive to give its side of the row which it accuses Vietnam of fomenting for propaganda purposes. The Secretary General of the National Security Council, Mr Prasong
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    • 380 9 AP CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida), Saturday LIKE a sailor at sea, Miss Judy Resnik, America's second space woman, will spend a lot of time raising and lowering a sail during the next space shuttle mission on Monday. No ordinary sail, however. It's a
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    • 34 9 DAY in and day out, politics seems to rule world news. In fact, a great many other events take place that affect people's lives. On this page, we present some of those events.
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    • 305 9 JOHANNESBURG, Saturday ONE OF South Africa's longest-serving trade union leaders has announced that she intends to step down, a move that signals the end of an era in labour history here. Miss Anna Scheepers, president of the Garment Workers Union of South Africa (GWUSA)
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    • 337 9 Reuter ATHENS, Saturday SCIENTISTS are battling to ensure that the Athens Acropolis site of the most famous monument of the classical world does not literally fall apart. Dominating bustling modern Athens, the Acropolis is the home not only of the renowned 2,500-year-old Parthenon, but
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    • 554 10 TRENDS Sovetskaya Rossiya LATIN American nations now rank as middle class more developed than many African and Asian countries but still face fundamental economic problems. The middle class designation makes it harder to get aid and economic concessions from the international system. Although manufacturing
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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 you conduct your business. Reports of such events may be confined to specialist or trade publications. In TRENDS,
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    • 376 10 Reuter MEXICO CITY, Sat AT A small Florida airKrt suitcases full of dolrs are hurriedly unloaded from a string of Venezuelan private planes. Across the Gulf of Mexico, black market dealers all along the Rio Grande are doing a brisk trade in selling dollars
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    • 271 10 AP MANAMA, Saturday WITH Iraq's and Iran's attacks against commercial shipping apparently subsiding, oil tanker traffic through the Gulf sea lanes has picked up with remarkable resilience. But fears have prompted studies of drastic, longterm oil shipping strategies. Analysts said the
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    • 296 10 UPI NEW YORK, Saturday WHEN consultant Arnold Brown thinks of success stories, he remembers a conservative insurance company employee who, in the early Seventies, was asked to read and summarise articles on communes. After several months of caustic commentary, the man
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 183 7 Mi V' I H REGULAR SIZE NAILSLICKS FOR $1.15 Cover Girl Nail Slicks colour that looks wet even when It's dry. Pay only $1.15 for Nail Slicks (usually $5.90) when you buy any other Cover Girl make-up. Now, for a tiny price, you can be a Cover Girl from the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 27 8 All Items Must Go! And many more, including Children Shoes and Lady's Belts. Note: Limited Stocks only! KAN KAN SHOES (Level 2, Cold-Storage-Katong) Amber Close, Singapore 1543
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 144 9 1 N> Over- time, this very popular cuisine with traditional specialities has not lost its distinctive flavour Especially at the Coffee Shop in Oberoi Imperial And it happens every MraMjgßK" Sunday when we unveil choice savoury and delightful fare such as Babl Pon,eh Chicken Buah Keluak. Otak-Otak and tantalising desserts
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  • money
    • 134 11 THE DOLLAR reached new highs yesterday against the currencies of Britain and Canada and added to its gains in late trading following a Congressional agreement to eliminate a 30 per cent withholding tax on interest and dividend payments to foreign investors. Gold prices fell in Hong Kong,
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    • 281 11 Bernama ES KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday THE SUCCESS of George Kent (M) Bhd, a member of the Johan Group of companies, in 1984 will partly depend 1 on tne government's ability to fund key development projects under the Fourth Malaysia Plan, some of which
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    • 293 11 GENERAL Lumber and International Wood, two companies which attracted much attention recently, are fully aware of the need to diversify. GL's ex-chairman Datuk Kang Kock Seng said in his last chairman's statement that, "the demand and prices for our primary commodities as well as
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    • 382 11 Bernama ES KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday The local timber industry will continue to face a tough time this year due to stiff competition from neighbouring producers and the falling demand for timber products. Several timber traders generally believed that prospects for local timber industry would
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    • 137 11 HMLLSTREET BARGAIN-HUNTERS collected blue chip shares in the final hour of trading today to boost the stock market to a narrowly higher finish today, despite indecisive trading for most of the session. Some analysts say that investors' optimism about the US economy also aided the days'
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    • 319 12 INVESTORS WAIT FOR DETAILS OF SINO-BRITISH AGREEMENT The Monitor recently previewed the trend for Singapore stock market indices for the second half of 1984. Today, we present a stockbroker's analysis of the Hong Kong stock market trends. THE HONG KONG stock market will
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    • 226 12 20 Largest Price Movements Among Major Stocks During The Month Closing Price COMPANIES 27/4/94 29/5/S4 Change Ralativa (HK$) (HKS) change 1. Great Eagle 0 50 0 385 -23.0 -10 5 2 Trafalgar Housing 0.31 0 24 -22 6 -10.1 3 Far East Consortium 0 51 0 395
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    • 142 12 Change Relative Index at Change Over To Index Over 29/5/85 1 mth 3 mths 1 yr 1 mth 3 mths 1 yr Banks 5430 83 -11.3 102 -2.1 +3 2 426 -04 Unties *****1 -94 -59 +155 +5.1 +69 +172 Land Construction 4184 40
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    • 420 12 COMPANY NEWS MOUNT Pleasure Holdings proposes to issue M 547.1 million loan stock at par. The issue will comprise 15.000.000 10 per cent convertible unsecured loan stock units which will be issued to bumiputra investors at par and a one-for-three rights issue. Ten per
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    • 353 12 STOCK MARKET ROUND-UP THE SINGAPORE stock market continued its downward spiral all week, with mild lastminute rallying saving it from plunging. A research manager said that this past week was a disappointment with no lead amidst bearish indicators. Wall Street had little
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    • 68 12 Volume Value ST Index OUB Index Dow Jones Change Ready Set'ment Ready Set'ment Mon 4.78m 0.86m $12.69m $2 48m 920 63 472.74 1109.65 22.75 Tues 6.96m 1.24m $17.34m $3.17m 921.29 472.31 1115.83 6.18 Wed 8.14m 1.48m $21.75m $3 89m 919.23 470.16 1131.63 -15.80 Thurs 8.10m 1.53m $22.14m
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    • 132 11 INVESTMENTS FINANCE UMfTED Fixed Deposits 1 month 73/ 4 p.a. 12 mon ths 3 months 8 pa. montnS o month s 8 %p a. 8 1 /2%P.a. 9 months BV4 pa. I Savings 7% p.a (calculated daily) ON CALL 6 1 /2% p.a. All interest rates subject to change without
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous


  • 1251 13 features WOMEN who start bearing children too early in their lives can put their own health at risk as well as that of their children's. And, as Troth Wells explains, they can have a significant influence on future population growth. Girl meets boy. It could
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 27 13 Suniw CurryUffin At Raffles. k Also, special Tok Panjang buffet in the Tiffin Room. S Raffles Hotel Our tradition is legendary Beach Road, Singapore 0718 Tel: *****41
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  • letters / features
    • 897 14  -  By Laura Stewart of Orlando Sontinel KNT International NEW YORK: The small chunk of wood that served as a gavel rapped smartly, authoritatively on the stately lectern. Once, twice, three times. "For $2,500, it's yours, number 131." His
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    • 563 14 Evening clinics will take some pressure off the public clinics THE KIM SENG Community Centre has a clinic that is opened to the public five days a week with the help of doctors, nurses and phamarcists who contribute their services free of
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    • 274 14 ISSUE Die Zeit LITERACY is not just a matter of words and signatures. work, too, is one of the key elements of today's world. Life is structured around a 10b, a profession. But in this century the job has shrunk in importance as other
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  • opinion / letters
    • 495 15 mi*— THE PING Tree Club will open its doors soon to a maximum of 3,600 members; yet another country club in urban Singapore. There should be no difficulty in filling the members' roll. There are more than enough Singaporeans eager for the exclusivity of
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    • 206 15  -  REPLY MISS JOSEPHINE ONG Public Relations Officer Singapore Bus Service I REFER to the letter "Install lower bus bells for kids" by William Koh of Singapore 0314 (SM, May 31). All Singapore Bus Service buses have bell switches positioned within easy reach of the children.
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    • 125 15  -  PETER BOYD Singapore 0314 SINGAPORE is a small island with no mountains. It is impossible to find wide expanses of land where one can escape from the towering flats. Along Orchard Road, you see shopping centres and hotel buildings. There are too many skyscrapers,
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    • 122 15 I REFER to the letter by "Unhappy Too" regarding the parking problems at Happy Avenue North (SM, June 19). The writer presumed that the problems caused by irresponsible parking are limited to Happy Avenue North. In my first letter (SM,
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    • 140 15  -  IRENE POON Singapore 1336 EVERY morning, I take bus service 92 from MacPherson Road Market to my office at Harper Road. I alight at the bus stop just after the Chinese newspaper office building. I have been made to feel frustrated each time as
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 59 15 Yr***] accepted (or pubAcetion. They should be typed and mutt be ekjned. They muet ado mdude the writer'! name and addreaa to ma a peeulonym in print. A contact telephone number would be ueeM We reeerve the right to edK letter*. Addreee your .letter* to: The Editor, The Singapore Monitor.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 292 16  -  FELIX CHIA Singapore 1128 A LETTER from the author of Pileh Menantu: I refer to Ms Violet Oon's review of Pileh Menantu (SM, June 19). Please allow me to express some sentiments I have about its staging. I feel that the credit for the play's success
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    • Article, Illustration
      471 16  -  By VIOLET OON BOUQUETS go to the Singapore Symphony Chorus for its part in last night's performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at the Victoria Concert Hall. One was just held spellbound by the fact that the sopranos could reach the very
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    • 520 16 ANITA SARAWAK, Asia's singing sensation, will give two shows at the Connaught Room. Century Park Hotel next Friday and Saturday Anita will be backed by her fourpiece band, the Singapore Swing. The show is priced at $95 nett per person inclusive of a
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    • 433 18 Centrestaae Timon of Athens (Cn 12, 8.30 pm) TIMON of Athens is a timeless tale about man's ingratitude and weakness, leading to cynicism. Jonathan Pryce plays Timon, the rich ana noble Athenian who is renowned as a generous host, wasting his fortune on flatterers. Although warned
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    • 800 18  -  TV SCENE By STEVEN REDDICLIFFE in Los Angeles LAT-WP "lT'S morning again, in America." The voice sounds as if it belongs to a golf announcer. "Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history." A business type gets out
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    • 540 19  -  rfkjULi^sicLt All reviews by LIM SEK ALBUM: PURPLE CRYSTAL ARTISTE: Tracy Huang LABEL: Philips 822 195-1 TRACY'S songs may not be as sensational as hits by, say, Su Re. But they are more lasting. Their melodies work in a subtle way, forming a stronger impression
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    • 420 19 ALBUM: BREAKDANCE, ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ARTISTE: Various Artistes LABEL: Polydor 821.919-1 FLASHDANCE What A Feeling! Breakdance There's No Stopping Us. There must be a connection somewhere, ana I don't mean just dance music. Since Saturday Night Fever, every new dance is a potential source of
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    • 210 19 THE top 10 pop singles in the US, as rated by Cashbox, with last week's positions in brackets: 1. (1) The Reflex Duran Duran (Capitol). i C^J ime T,me Cyndl L an P er (Por3. (5) Dancing in the Dark Bruce Springsteen (Colombia). 4. (4) Oh
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    • 440 20 MAIN EVENTS GUANGDONG NATIONALITIES SONG AND DANCE TROUPE THE 45-member Guangdong Nationalities Song and Dance Troupe from China will depict in song and dance the culture of Hainan today and tomorrow at 8 pm at Palace Theatre. BUMBOAT BUMBOAT, a musical play that focuses on contemporary Singapore,
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1457 17 i THE SINGAPORE MONTTOR A 1 leisure SATURDAY, june 23.1964 I U ESI 5 12 20 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. ■PCPI 12.50 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Sesa- iH v, *dH 1.55 Saturday Matinee: Swallows and Amazons. T^-, See Highlights. WE' "V P WKP 1M 330 Pre-Olympics Football Qualifying
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 766 19 fVLM ouioe I story that smacks of Flashdance, Staying .4r '< •> iJSf.fi!? ?fi k UAMAMA mp /rx CAPITOL (*****59): GREYSTOKE THE DALIT (*****16): DISASTERS (C) Midnight show. BANANA COP (C) LEGEND OF TARZAN LORD OF THE Starring: Alar. Tang, Qing Shengshian ODEON-KATONG (*****19): ALL THE APES (E) Synopsis: A
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 141 20 10th Top-Grossing Day: PRIIMCE-ORIENTAL CHAIMGI-SAVOY-PRESIDEIMT-WOOOLAIMDS PRICES: $41 J3-CASH BOOKINGS ONLY-STRICTLY NO FREE LIST PRINCE: 11,1.30, 4, 6.45, 9.15, ORI: 10.45, 1.00, 3.15, 7, 9.15 CHANGI-SAVOY -PRESIDENT: 11.00 am, 1.45, 4.00, 6.45, 9.15 WOOOLANOS: 4 SHOWS OAILY at 1.45, 4.00, 6.45 ft 9.15 N.B. ALL TICKETS at PRINCE ARE CASH BOOKABLE
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 215 20 A FESTIVAL OF GERMAN FILMS TODAY at 4 pm, The Man on the Wall will be screened at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium. It is the story of a man who cannot accept the idea.of a divided Germany. When in East Germany, he is obsessed with climbing the wall to the other
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    • 276 20 ART DESMOND SIM'S exhibition of collages will be on at the Bistro Toulouse-Lautrec, Tanglin Shopping Centre, from noon to 2.30 pm and 7 pm to 2 am today, and 7 pm to 1 am tomorrow. PAINTINGS OF OLD SINGAPORE OIL and water colour paintings on the changing landscape of Singapore
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    • 107 20 SSO THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra will give a eoncert today at 815 pm at Victoria Concert Hall The concert is held in conjunction with the Festival of Arts. The chorus master is William Zimmerman. ARMED FORCES' DAY THE SSO, under the baton of guest conductor Yoshizaku Fukumura, will give concerts
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 569 21 leisure comics jSaarSflgref C.C. FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook I WW <A&. TgtlLlS' tn SOPRjSeD lb J |>w Hou WANT 6 HIM 6VAI-UAT6 TH6 RfcACTIoJS i Tf's KIND OF _<fH Cotefrt'sS ToJw* Of TO SHORT- r r AUTOB.O&RAPHICAL n2L%:®A\ VQv -«t\lS UTEjNaJ CoMfVTER. ffcgM PCKIOPS j -<lf TONIGHT?/ pro&RA* r\ 1
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  • THE SINGAPORE MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 313 22  -  2PAGE TEAR-OUT By COWBOY TRAINER Zain's Novice can give jockey V Nathan a winning break when he takes on 16 rivals in Race Four at Batu Gantong in Penang today. The four-year-old by Jimmy Reppin is no novice. He made his debut in
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    • 155 22 The Star PENANG, Saturday SOUTH Australian Jockey Clayton Bromley left for Adelaide with a broken collar bone the result of a three-horse pile-up last weekend bat far from being bitter, he plans to return to ride on the Singapore-Malaysia circuit if he can. Bromley,
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    • 742 22 RACE 1 1.45 Restricted Terms Div C 1200m (2 year old only) 1 Active Fox 57 App Dams 4 2 Capriconian 57 Chee 10 3 General Orders 57 Heng 4 Marie Lisa 57 Sairi 5 Roily Polly 57 Tims 6 ShogunN 57 App Gopal 7 Silvery Moon II57
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    • 203 22 COWBOY MA ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zao Bao) (Wan Bao) ftacat 5 Abang 7 Dau Bar* 7 Data Bar*. 9 Ktvoaa Lad 9 Knots Lad 10 Onental Paart *ac*2 II Aa yon Uka N DaooaM 7 Pwtt Fool 7 Real Fool 13 As You i_*e II 2
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    • 472 22 The Star ENGLISH-bred As You Like It has good potential and will go far, judging by his promising second in Race 2 at Bukit Gantong on Saturday. Third most of the way, the Vilgora three-year-old finished strongly but failed by
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    • 3587 23 HOW TO MAD THE CARD: taMtokig Nianktr, htnt't name; age, orlfla Md SO*; wtlfhl; ««l|hl tflCltNK* within Iracktts; Jockey's name; terrier draw; trainer owner; rans record (llrsts-seconds-thlrds-fourths-un-placed) and last three rans; last ran record; and last win record (II any). RACE 1 2.15 RESTRICTED DIV B 1,200 m
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  • sports
    • 388 26 Reuter LOS ANGELES, Saturday CARL Lewis completed the first step towards duplicating Jesse Owens' feat of winning four Olympic gold medals by qualifying for the 200 metres at the United States Track and Field trials on Thursday. Lewis' winning time. 19 86secs, was the
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    • 106 26 Reuter MOSCOW, Saturday MARAGARITA Ponomaryova of the Soviet Union shot into international prominence yesterday when she slashed the world record for the women's 400 metres hurdles by o.44secs to 53.58secs. Ponomaryova, 21, broke the record set on June 11 last year by her compatriot Anna Ambrezene.
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    • 459 27  -  NATIONAL BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIP By TONY LIM HISTORY will be made in the National Bowling Championship series should the brother and sister combination of Patrick and Adelene Wee perform to expectations in the Masters final roll-off today and tomorrow at Jackie's Bowl, Katong.
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    • 357 27  -  Ceylon Sports Club 3 Indian Association 0 By B KULA CEYLON Sports Club's two penalty flick conversions and a sizzler by S Sundralingam sent Indian Association tumbling to their second successive defeat in the Singapore Hockey Association Premier League at Balestier
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    • 180 27  -  By ALFONSO CHAN DECATHLETE turned sprint international Tang Ngai Kin and Paul Su will have to provide the sparkle in the absence of top stars Sng Sze Hiang, Jagtar Singh, T Selvarajoo, Roy Tan and Choo Suan in the
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    • 309 27 Reuter NEW YORK, Saturday HOWARD Davis was named Best Boxer of the 1976 Olympics, overshadowing eventual world champions Sugar Ray Leonard and Leon and Michael Spinks who also won gold medals at the Montreal Games. But the only title Davis has
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    • 130 28  -  By B KULA SINGAPORE President's XV selection of 32 will be trimmed to 21 after their warm-up match against the visiting New Zealand Forces HMS Wai Kato team today at the Dieppe Barracks, in time for the big rugby showdown against
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    • 438 28 GOLF ROUNDUP M MURUGIAH'S sacrifice to play in the Singapore Golf Association's Junior Championship at Jurong instead of defending his Singapore Civil Service title at Tanah Merah yesterday paid off handsomely. He walked away with champagne bubbling in his trophy for his
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    • 222 28  -  By K SILVAM SINGAPORE'S senior citizens can teach our young a thing or two when it comes to participation for the sheer joy of sport. And Aug 4 will be their day again when they plunge into the Toa Payon Swimming Pool for
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    • 293 28  -  MALAYSIA NOT TO BE INVITED FOR MERLION CUP IN RECIPROCAL MOVE By S GULAM them for the Merlion Cup." SINGAPORE will be out of the Merdeka Soccer Tournament in Kuala Lumpur this August in a reciprocal move to avoid too many competitions involving
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    • 130 30 VOJTECH Christov of Czechoslovakia will referee the European Soccer Championship final at the Pare des Princes in Paris next Wednesday. He will he officiating at the Pare des Princes for the second time in the tournament, having been in charge of the West Germany-Spain
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    • 421 30 Trainer Cabrita's hopes depend on how his defence can contain Platini Reuter PARIS, Saturday PORTUGUESE trainer Fernando Cabrita is hoping that club side Porto's success against French star Michel Platini last month can be repeated in today's European Soccer Championship semifinal in Marseilles. The
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    • 430 30 Reuter BONN, Saturday FORMER World Cup skipper Franz Beckenbauer emerged yesterday as the man who could help restore West German soccer to its past glory. As newspapers heaped blame on trainer Jupp Derwall for the team's European Championship failure, Beckenbauer was already being hailed as his
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    • 581 30 Reuter LYONS (France), Saturday A FEW years ago, the notion that little Denmark would ever be considered a major power in world soccer would have seemed as fanciful as a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. But the ugly duckling has indeed turned into
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    • 416 31 Reuter MARSEILLES (France), Sat HIGH-FLYING France, the team with the irresistible air, carry their challenge for the European Soccer Championship title to a semifinal clash with Portugal here today. France, inspired by the ere- 1 1 ative vision and lethal marksmanship of Michel Platini, look increasingly destined
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    • 445 31  -  Last-ditch effort to reverse quit decision By S GULAM THE Football Association of Singapore (FAS) is looking into new arrangements with Jita Singh in a last-ditch effort to lure him back to his job as manager-coach of the national team. FAS chairman
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