Singapore Monitor, 5 July 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Thursday, July 5, 1984 30cents
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  • 208 1 MONITOR HOTLINE WHAT ARE your views on the new "compromise" guidelines on the withdrawal of CPF savings which were oatlined in Parliament this week by Minister of Labour Professor S Jayakumar? Under the guidelines, a person should be permitted to withdraw Us
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  • 501 1  -  Sharp dip in participation by 25-29 age group: SSC study By K SILVAM MORE than half of Singapore's adult population neglects exercise and sport, a Singapore Sports Council (SSC) study has indicated. Lite survey, conducted in three major housing estates last year, found that
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  • 126 1 THE PEOPLE'S Association, a key ormisattoi responsible for running more than 158 community centres in Singapore, Is to have a new Minister In charge. Mr Lee Yock Suan, the Minister of State for Finance, Is expected to take over as deputy chairman from Mr
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  • 126 1 AP RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil), Thursday A 42-YEAR-OLD housemaid save birth to her 10th set of twins nere on Tuesday. Maria Goncalves Moreira, herself a twin, began having twins at IS. She has 20 children, all twins, and says that double
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 35 1 Career and marriage take up too much time No shortage of sports facilities in Singapore Facts and figures ALL ON PAGE 4 Full reports: Pg 2 TV GUIDE: PAGE 18 TV SCENE HIGHLIGHTS: PAGE 19
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    • 136 1 I; A KENNEX BORON ACE f SPORTS b IIISURI (PTI) UD with Johor next year: P 32 NO OTHER BANK ALLOWS YOU TO DO ALL THESE KaT Check your balance fcar Order a new cheque book tar Request for a statement tar Stop payment on a cheque Kar Transfer funds
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    • 639 2  -  By EE BOON LEE JUST A year after moving into the board of management of the key grassroots organisation, the People's Association, Mr Lee Yock Suan, Minister of State for Finance, is poised to take over the post of
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    • 59 2 THE DEPUTY Chairman is the Minister in charge of the PA, which nans a network of more than ISO common!ty centres and is responsible for promoting recreational, social, educational and cnltaral activities at the national as well as constituency levels. The community centres themselves
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    • 286 2 PA allows S'poreans to meet across racial, language, religious and cultural barriers THE CRUCIAL role of the People's Association in helping the government meet the challenge posed by the communists nas been acknowledged bv Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. In a publication marking the Association's 20th
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    • 259 2 A HIGH-RANKING civil servant, Mr Wong Hung Khim, is being posted to the Ministry of Social Affairs as its Permanent Secretary in preparation for its evolution into the Ministry of Community Development. He will retain his post as general manager of
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    • 538 3  -  The Jayakumar formula on withdrawal of CPF By EE BOON LEE CONTRIBUTORS to the Central Provident Fund will be given adequate notice of how much money they would have to leave in the fund when they reach retirement
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    • 98 3 AND NOW the latest technological import from Japan: The coffee coupon. It gets you your favourite brew at a discount. Mr S Suzuki, restaurant manager at Isetan's Petit Monde Cafe in Parkway Parade, has introduced a coupon system for regular patrons. A booklet of 6
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    • 194 3 A YOUNG woman and a boy are dead and a youth is recovering from stabwounds after two separate incidents in two days. The woman was found dead at the foot of a block of flats in Aljunied Road early yesterday, shortly after
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    • 117 4 No. No. No. Participation 15 19 474 80.8 220 79.4 66 89.2 20-24 264 61.3 166 55.9 45 51.7 25 29 165 45.6 142 48.8 29 47.5 30-34 89 29.4 138 40.6 23 39.7 35 39 49 20.9 78 30.4 16 28.1 40 44 24
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    • 285 4 SPORTS COUNCIL STUDY OH SPORTS PARTICIPATION WHY DO adults in the 25-29 group tend to stay away from sport or recreational activity, as indicated in a Singapore Sports Council study? Although the study did not reveal the reason behind this tendency,
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    • 99 4 ■-sM* mm 94VMMPMMM 0#£? A"l Mo Klo Oilitiimr (n 2,308) (n 1.738) (n 449) No. No. No. Participation 1,101 47.7 825 47.5 210 46.8 NonParticipation 1,207 52.3 913 52.5 239 53.2 EXTENT OF SPORTS PARTICIPATION ll Ma DUVIII MTtVr AfHM Mo Klo
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    • 86 4 THE SSC study did not look into the reasons why Singaporeans are giving up sports so early, though it did make a record of the sports facilities available in the three estates, which shows no shortage of facilities. For instance, the Bukit Merah-Delta has 35 outdoor
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    • 285 5 Jeweller vanishes with gems worth thousands of dollars which they gave him for setting A GROUP of Queenstown women want to find a jeweller who, they say, has vanished without returning items worth thousands of dollars which they had given him for setting. Two of them have
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    • 543 5 OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT CASE TWO MEN accused under the Official Secrets Act were to begin giving evidence today, after the prosecution closed its case in a hearing held in camera which lasted for most of yesterday. The defence case
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    • 271 6 WHAT qualifications does a man need in order to give a speech on courtesy? Mr David Haines, council member of Ngee Ann Polytechnic and managing director of Industrial and Offshore Computer Services, pondered this and came up with some answers. This is his keynote
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    • 300 6  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG CIVIL SERVANTS will receive an overall average wage increase of 12 per cent. This figure was agreed between the Ministry of Finance and the civil service staff unions and announced yesterday. It is slightly ahead of the National Wages Council
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    • 101 6 A FATHER who beat his three-year-old daughter when she couldn't answer questions about the alphabet was jailed for 10 months yesterday for causing the child s death. Krisnnan Thamotharan told the court he had loved the child very much and had hit her in
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    • 145 6  -  By BIT YIN FONG IN THE SPACE of 16 months, Jurong Shipyard labourer Mohammed Mokhtar Huseri, 29, raped five women. High Court judge Mr Justice T S Sinnathuray yesterday Jailed Mokhtar for 10 years, and ordered him to receive 10 strokes of
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  • world
    • 300 7 Both accused of 'carrying out activities incompatible with their diplomatic status* Reuter, AP MOSCOW, Thursday TWO US diplomats were detained by KGB security police yesterday and accused of carrying out activities incompatible with their diplomatic status, a US Embassy spokesman said. Jon Purnell and George
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    • 369 7 AP MOSCOW, Thursday THE Soviet Defence Ministry has promoted the general named in some Western reports as the man who Save the order last year for Soviet fighters to shoot own a South Korean airliner with heat-seeking missiles. Army General Vladimir
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    • 144 7 Reuter WEST BERLIN, Thursday A WOMAN being tried on charges of spying for East Germany told a court here yesterday that she had repeated sexual contacts with Western businessmen as part of her espionage work. Regina Boettcner, 40, testified that
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    • 156 8 AP NEW YORK, Thursday THE STATUE of Liberty's battered torch, symbol of freedom to tens of millions of new Americans for almost a century, was lowered from the statue's hand to its base on Saturday, making way for a new flame to
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    • 83 8 AP MANILA, Thursday RIOT police clubbed several demonstrators yesterday as hundreds of Filipinos protesting the "US-Marcos dictatorship" staged at least three anti-US military and economic aid demonstrations in different parts of the country on Philip-pine-American Friendship Day. No serious injuries or arrests were reported. For the
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    • 402 8 Reuter, LAT-WP BEIRUT, Thursday WAR-WEARY Beirut residents welcomed today's army takeover of the capital from Christian and Muslim militias, but many doubted the peace would be permanent. "For us, on paper, it's wonderful. But in terms of action, we don't know," said
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    • 312 8 BUT HE HAS APPREHENSIONS ABOUT VISIT NEXT WEEK AP SYDNEY, Thurs AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Bill Hayden flies to Indonesia next week in an attempt to moderate increasingly acrimonious exchanges between the two countries. The exchanges have led Indonesia to suggest a cooling-off period
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    • 156 8 Reuter TOKYO, Thurt JAPANESE Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe said today a controversial law which requires non-Japanese residents to be fingerprinted could not be changed now. Mr Abe was answering an opposition questioner in Parliament who asked how Japan would respond if and when
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    • 119 8 Reuter MOSCOW, Thursday A SOVIET factory manager beat a drunk mechanic to death when he refused to carry out orders to repair a pump. Nikolai Dubinsky, head of a spirit factory in the central Russian town of Khinelly, poured two buckets of water
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    • 421 9 Reuter PARIS, Thursday FRANCE has served notice of its determination to buck the trend towards higher world interest rates when the Banque de France announced the third cut in its money market intervention rate within two months. With yesterday's 1/4 per cent
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    • 215 9 UPI BONN, Thursday WEST Germany on Wednesday announced a fiscal 1985 budget plan providing for a 1.2 per cent spending increase and a projected deficit of an estimated US$B.5 billion (5517.8 billion). Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, giving details of the budget in Bonn said
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    • 213 9 UPI TORONTO, Thursday THE Canadian dollar plummeted more than half a cent to an historic low of 75.19 US cents on Wednesday and money traders said it will fall again unless Canadian interest rates rue. Although the US markets were closed
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    • 522 10 UPI HONG KONG, Thurs HONG KONG s top designers are creating a whirlwind of fashion that could soon take the world by storm. Whether casual or formal, softly romantic or sharply chic, the clothing designed in Hong Kong is sophisticated and right
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    • 158 10 AP NEW DELHI, Thurs TWENTY-SEVEN police officials were fired in troubled Punjab state yesterday as army troops searching the countryside for SiMi terrorists arrested 45 suspects, authorities said. A government spokesman said the police officials were retired in Amritsar district as
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    • 76 10 This Raphael drawing was sold late on Tuesday at Christies tor a world racord price of £3,564,000 (5510.5 million.) Seventy-one drawings, including Holbein, Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Rubens realised £21 million. The drawings were from the private collection of the Duke of Devonshire, who
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    • 432 11 TRENDS World Press Review SINCE THEY invaded Lebanon in June 1982, the Israelis have sought to win the support of Shiite political, military and religious leaders in southern Lebanon. Nearly 70 per cent of the million people living south of tne Awali river
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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 yon they may affect the way yon live, the way yon conduct your business. Reports of soch events may be confined to specialist or trade publications. In
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    • 33 11 Reuter BEIJING, Thurt RABID DOGS roaming northeast China's Liaoning province have bitten hundreds of peasants, killed an undisclosed number and forced authorities to start an emergency extermination campaign. Reuter
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    • 118 11 UPI TEL AVIV, Thurs AN ISRAELI scientist yesterday claimed to have documented for the first time a case of dreamless sleep, apparently caused by a tiny piece of shrapnel lodged in the brain of a 33-year-old man. Dr Ron Peled, deputy director of the Sleep
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    • 256 11 COUNTRY'S REPUTATION FOR RELIABILITY DAMAGED, SAYS DAIMLER BENZ STUTTGART, (West Germany), Thursday LUXURY CARMAKERS Daimler Benz said yesterday the seven-week metalworkers dispute had cost the firm losses of 3.5 billion marks (5|2.7 billion) in sales, forced it to cut production targets and damaged West Germany's
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    • 212 10 IT'S TIME YOU GOTTHE Message FOR YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER r~- W new ordinary typewriter. the Jr advanced features of an electronic MF typewriter, but hook it up to your personal computer and you get a letter quality printer. Take a look at some of the advanced features of this electronic
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  • money
    • 157 12 THE US dollar improved yesterday against most major currencies in Europe after opening weaker following a fall on Far Eastern markets attributed to profit-taking. Gold prices rose. Foreign exchange dealers said the dollar began moving up in the last hour of the day as traders hurried to
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    • 564 12 FOCUS ON BIMEX JULY 5 marks a momentous occasion. It heralds the start of Simex's ne.w gold futures contract by the new breed of entrepreneurs, the "local", an individual non-clearing member who trades on his own account. He and other floor traders, who buy on
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    • 333 12 WHAT A LOCAL TRADER SAYS MR CHAN WENG YEW, aged "between 35 and 40", will be trading in the Simex as a "local". He said: "I'm all raring to go. I've been expecting this for the last four months. It's worse
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    • 339 13  -  PART 5 OF OUR SERIES ON THE FUTURES MARKET By BENNY TAN Vice-President of Sheareon/Amex PRICES of futures contracts are quoted in many ways, depending on the type of commodity tradied. As price is the only variable that is negotiated on the exchange floor, its
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    • 100 13 AFTER consolidating its advance on profit-taking and end of month position squaring last week, the US dollar sprang through all technical resistance levels against major currencies on Tuesday. Higher Eurodollar interest rates in reaction to strong US economic indicators and Middle East tensions turned traders
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    • 780 13 Continuing Km 'Duta' Yap Intarvtaw PRIOR to the Sealioo acquisition, "Duta" Yap Yong Seong was little known outside Malaysia. He was only known as the largest shareholder of two financially aila second-liners, Duta Conidated Bhd and TDM Bhd, on the Kuala Lumpur
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    • 97 13 Ben Co requests trading suspension BEN ft Co requested suspension of trading in its shares yesterday in the light of recent speculative trading and pending the outcome of negotiations which are in progress. Tne price languished around 81 cents until last week when it suddenly surged upwards. On July 2,
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    • 83 13 Hongkong Standard HONG KONG, Thursday IN A statement to the press, a spokesman for Sun Hung Kai Co confirmed that Mr Fung King-Hey will remain as chairman of Sun Hung Kai and its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Sun Hung Kai Bank and Sun
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous

  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 138 13 307. OFF Room Rates*at The Merlin Kuala Lumpur Merlino Supper Club The iuthby Lounge The Merlin Kuala Lumpur now offers 30% discount to Singaporean. Newly renovated Superior and Deluxe rooms and suites. New Computerised Reservations System for swift checking in and out. Electronic Subscriber Trunk Dialling for direct outstation calls.
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  • 1483 14  -  features By MICHAEL RICHARDSON The Age Newspaper, Melbourne Special to the Singapore Monitor HONOLULU: The focus of America's economic interests is shifting away from Europe and the Atlantic to East Asia and the Pacific. When United States President Mr Ronald Reagan stopped
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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  • opinion / letters
    • 454 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE MOST encouraging aspect of the Company Welfarism Through Employees' CPF Contributions (Cowec) scheme has been the response of the employees. Of the two companies that have already started the programme, 95 per cent of the employees at one
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    • 335 15 THERE is no need to apologise for publicising the acts of cruelty to animals. No one should object to the pictures that the Singapore Monitor publishes. Your editorial "Where have all the animal lovers gone?" and the article "Ten neglected canines put to sleep"
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    • 184 15 IT WAS hardly three days into the new Courtesy Campaign when I had the misfortune to come across a blatant display of rudeness. My wife and I boarded an NTUC-Comfort taxi at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital at 10.30 pm. It was cold and we
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    • 77 15  -  DAVID TAN Singapore 1545 WHILE I agree with the food intentions of the Howe 'oon Chong Report as a whole, I am against the proposal to increase the CPr withdrawal age. Our leaders have praised us for our readiness to
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • leisure
    • 784 16  -  THE EVERLY BROTHERS GO ON TOOR AGAIN AFTER A DECADE By MARK SCHWED in Nashville UPI ALL it took was one long-dis-tance telephone call to repair the emotional damage that had silenced the Everly Brothers for more than a decade. The last time they performed was on
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    • 625 16  -  By LO TIEN YIN IN the Sixties, the place for wedding dinners was Dragon Phoenix at Tanjong Pagar, near Metropole Theatre. The owner of the restaurant, Hooi Kok Wai was in his early 20s. His father made noodles and Hooi became an apprentice in the
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    • 107 16 NATIONAL POETRY WRITING COMPETITION in celebration of Singapore's 25th Anniversary of Nationhood Cash Prizes: Ist Prize: $1,500 2nd Prize: $1,000 3rd Prize: $500 Consolation Prizes: 5 consolation prizes of $100 each Subject of Poems Any subject but the theme must be related to the i celebration of Singapore's 25 years
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 614 17 L 7 A Q— Z 77 •T n -4 /JMB/ THE SNOAPCWE MOWfTOR I A leisure /tv /«p/ s,i«« iu 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed Maatar 3.50 Tha Fantastic Joumay "V H< tha Heron (r). V, When Major Keith Windham teams that Ewan Cameron is f being tortured prison
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  • leisure / tv
    • 409 18 MKEMu® Thursday Feature Special Revenge of the Stepford Wives (Chinese Subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) TELEVISION reporter Kay Foster (Sharon Gless) arrives in the New England town of Stepford and finds the women strangely subservient, almost slave-like, to their husbands. When her assistant, Megan, disappears
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    • 478 18  -  W©@gKE By WONG AH YOKE TAIWANESE singer Jenny Luo Yanli is thinking of ending her singing career soon. Her stint here may be her last. She still has to fulfil a contract with a nightclub but hopes to get out of it.
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  • leisure
    • 526 19  -  THAT'S HELPED BIG-SMALL EYES BECOME FAMOUS By WONG SING YEONG YOU need not be a goodlooker to be in the movies. At least three crosseyed actors, known by nicknames best left unmentioned, have had hundreds of cameo parts in Chinese films. An exceptionally big mouth of one actor
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    • 369 21 BO PLACES THE average Singaporean is probably more familiar with scenes of American life than with those from countries closer to home. Even in this part of the world the American presence is stronger than that of our Asian neighbours. Every John Denver song, Coca Cola commercial
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    • Article, Illustration
      331 22  -  Clothes by Issey Miyake at The Promenade Masks and Artifacts Nuigini Village Arts at Far East Shopping Centre Co-ordinated by DAVID JOSEPH SACKS. That's what Issey Miyake clothes look like on the racks. The range of batik designs of Miyake's Spring-Summer *84 collection suffers a fate no less.
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    • 430 26 PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT SWISS finishing schools were once considered the privilege of the very affluent, who enrolled their daughters for a final course in sophistication and parlour manners, before they were presented to society. Today, however, there are similar organisations, which for a reasonable fee, cater
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 285 19 ii REBELS WITH A CAUSE A PHOTO QUIZ 5 I I'iSSIK a I 'AjbySA James Garner j: G. D. Spradlin U Shirley Jones C. Thomas Howell lj Lido Attraction j| J I Sherman *R W Lv lank he'* la »prinK hi* nan from I <* jLr jail and balance the
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 503 19 fILAI GUID6 HOLLYWOOD (*****64): THE RING OF DEATH (C) dalit (*****16): the ring of death (C) Starriag: Rim Tug, Hwang Jug Lee, Shek Tien, BiWTK I T T WfiWy Kiel Wing Mu Synopsis: A young man, rejected because he is an METROPOLE (*****27): TRUE GAME OF DEATH illegitimate child, finally
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1073 20 leisure I SAFETY AWARENESS IN THE PORT gapores nation-building, the National I —fTTlfc r i THE Port of Singapore Authority will Museum, the National Library and the I J 3fliqp nf«f4 fmsl hold a Safety Exhibition today at the A r ch «v« and Oral Histoiy Department I World Trade
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • sports
    • 98 27 Reuter LISBON, Thursday FORMER international striker Jose Torres will be Portugal's new national trainer, a spokesman for the Portuguese Football Federation said today. Torres, 45, will take over from Fernando Cabrita, who guided Portugal to the semifinals of the European Championship in France
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    • 246 27 I leave Barcelona happy Maradona Reuter BARCELONA, Thursday ARGENTINE Diego Maradona, the world's most expensive soccer player, left here today for Italy saying he had no regrets about parting with Spanish club Barcelona and just wanted to dedicate himself to the game. The stocky striker, signed by Italian
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    • 77 27 AP BARCELONA, Thursday SOVIET grand master Garry Kasparov yesterday received the World Chess Oscar awarded to him by the International Association of Chess Journalists. Jose Luis Vilaseca, sports director general of Catalonia's autonomous government, presented Kasparov with the coveted trophy. It was the
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    • 467 27  -  By ALFONSO CHAN SINGAPORE'S thrust towards regional basketball domination has received a boost from China, who will send a coach to help the national team for six months to a year. The Basketball Association of Singapore have secured China's expertise and the coach
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    • 116 27 Reuter LONDON, THURSDAY SEBASTIAN Coe. the world's mile record holder and Olympic 1,500 metres champion, clocked the best time for the mile by winning in three minutes 54.6 seconds the best time by a British athlete this season. He plans to
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    • 259 28  -  By S GULAM SINGAPORE'S star midfielder cum defender lim Tang Boon has withdrawn from the national soccer squad, citing "pressing work commitments" as the main reason for his decision. Tang Boon disclosed his reasons for leaving the squad in a telephone call to team
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      486 28  -  DEDICATION, DISCIPLINE AND DETERMINATION-THAT'S WHAT THE NEWLY APPOINTED MANAGER YUSOFF ISMAIL STRESSES SPOTLIGHT ON OUR NATIONAL FOOTBALL SQUAD By S GULAM DEDICATION, discipline and determination that will be the national soccer team's battle cry for the future under newly-appointed team manager Yusoff Ismail. Yusoff kicked off the
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    • 91 28 ORDER OF PLAY: July 16 (Asian players first) 2nd women's singles Ivana Lie vs Kirsten Larsen, 2nd men's doubles Jalani/Razif Sidek vs Martin Dew/Steve Baddeley, Ist men's singles Luan Jin vs Morten Frost, mixed doubles Christian Hadinata/Ivana Lie vs Martin Dew/Gillian Gilks. July 17 women's doubles Wu
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    • 732 28  -  Chance for S'poreans to see 'return match' of last year's singles thriller in Jakarta B* K SILVAM A REPEAT of the Pro Kennex Grand Prix final is on the cards with Chinese ace Luan Jin to face All England champion Morten Frost in the Asia vs Europe
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    • 344 29 Reuter LONDON, Thursday THE WIMBLEDQN saga ended for Paul Annacone yesterday and left him with a conflict of emotions after his first big professional tennis tournament. The unseeded 21-year-old New Yorker who blasted through the gualifying tournament and four rounds of Wimbledon was
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    • BLOWING HOT
      • 218 29 AP WIMBLEDON (England), Thursday IVAN LENDL, the number two seed, shook off a warning over a line call dispute to demolish fellow Czechoslovak Tomas Smid 6-1 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 yesterday and enter the semifinals of the All England tennis championships for the second straight
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      • 216 29 AND COMPLAINS OF UNFAIR TREATMENT Reuter LONDON, Thursday IVAN LENDL, normally one of the quiet men of the men's tennis circuit, launched a vitriolic attack on Wimbledon officials yesterday, accusing them of unfairness in allocating the main show courts. The second-seeded Czechoslovak feels he has been unfairly treated because he
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      227 29 AP WIMBLEDON (England), Thursday DEFENDING CHAMPION John McEnroe, seeking his third Wimbledon crown and a place in the history books, cruised to a semifinal berth against unseeded Australian Pat Cash with a 6-3 6-3 6-1 triumph over John Sadri yesterday. The 25-year-old New Yorker, aiming to become the
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    • 425 29 Reuter LONDON, Thursday UNSEEDED Pat Cash of Australia claimed his third seeded victim of the Wimbledon tennis championships here yesterday to join the big three of the men's game in the semifinals. Cash, the 19-year-oldwho already plays Davis Cup tennis for his country, followed his
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    • 782 29 Men's singles quarterfinals: Jimmy Connors (3) (US) bt Paul Anna cone (US) 6-2 6-4 6-2, Pat Cash (Aus) bt Andres Gomez (6) (Ecuador) 6-4 6-4 6-7 7-6. John McEnroe (1) (US) bt John Sadri (US) 6-3 6-3 6-1, Ivan Lendl (2) (Czech) bt Tomas Smid (J 3)
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    • 241 29 AP WIMBLEDON (England), Thursday THREE-TIME champion Chris Evert Lloyd claimed a berth in the semifinals with an easy 6-2 6-2 victory yesterday over Sweden's Carina Karlsson, the only aualifier ever to reach the women's quarterfinals of the All England tennis tournament. Lloyd, the number
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    • 478 31  -  S'pore star has 'Hari Raya' meeting with state's football bosses e* ERNEST FRIDA FANDI Ahmad may well be playing against Singapore in the Malaysia Cup next year if the Republic's readmission into the tournament becomes a reality. And the colours the currently Dutch-based
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    • 336 31 wvmxB *m AP WIMBLEDON, Thurs TWO young qualifiers were despatched in straight sets yesterday as the top three men's singles seeds sained the semifinals ana Chris Evert Lloyd the women's semifinals of the All England lawn tennis tournament. Third-seeded Jimmy Connors, behind defending champion John McEnroe
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