Singapore Monitor, 12 July 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR 30cents M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Thursday July 12, 1984
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  • 504 1 Daar Readers, Many of you, like us here in The Singapore Monitor, would have already read of the proposed merger of the two newspaper groups with a (treat deal of surprise ana, perhaps, even with a tinge of disappointment. It was a fait accompli
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  • 592 1  -  By EE BOON LEE NEWS of the latest newspaper merger, kept a top secret throughout the delicate negotiations, came as a shock yesterday to staff of newspapers and publications affected. The merger will result in Times Publications Berhad (TP), the Straits Times Press (STP) ana the
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    • 169 1 raBH KGB BEHIND HATE MAIL (33 Death threats are a Soviet move to disrupt the Olympics, says US: Page 8 L. A IT MAKES IMM in to many ways, yat it's to davastating, says Times' CMaf Editor QRIM faces at tha Monitor newsroom FULL taxt of tha Joint announcement All
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    • 676 2 FULL TEXT OF THE JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT 'Merger to avoid high cost of circulation struggle' THIS IS the fall text ot the Joint announcement of the merger of SI afa pore'* ae wtpaper pabllsklag groapa: The Directors of ■"Times Publishing Berhad (TP), of The Straits Times
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    • 162 2 IN A STATEMENT the Editor-in-Chief of the Times Organisation, Mr Peter Lim, said that like many journalists, he, too, was in a state of shock after coming to know of the merger. "It seems to make sense in so
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    • 526 3  -  New ruling to ensure more efficient use of taxis ay YONG POW ANG RENTED TAXIS now must clock up a minimum of 340 kilometres a day. The requirement nas been imposed by the Ministry of Communications in an effort to ensure
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    • 130 3 Lianhe Wanbao A NINE-YEAR old boy died after bumping his head into a schoolmate recently in a game of hide and seek in school recently. Ida Sulaini of Lorong 5, Toa Payoh was playing with his friends about noon on Tuesday, July 3,
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    • 163 3  -  By K K FONG STRAY DOGS are being eaten by some foreign construction workers in Singapore, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been told. SPCA officials have visited a construction site in Bukit Batok to investigate the allegations. The
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    • 341 4 Lianhe Zaobao A BEIJING-PRODUCED TV drama will be hitting our TV screens next week. Taking the honours of being the firstever Chinese TV series presented in Singapore will be a 13-episode Water Margin (Shui Hu Zhuan), dramatisation excerpts from the ever-popular Chinese classic. The Singapore
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    • 263 4  -  By K K FONG THE POLICE are helping department stores and retail outlets to crack down on shoplifting syndicates. Police, sources said that detectives had collected data on several organised shoplifting gangs and were ready to act against them "at
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    • 189 4 Lianhe Wanbao ONLY FOUR invalid persons have obtained approval to buy a car without paying the 175 per cent additional registration fee since the government launched the incentive scheme in July 1980. A total of 43 persons had applied
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    • AROUND THE COURTS
      • 68 5 A FRENCHWOMAN was charged yesterday with engaging in business while on a dependent's pass. Denise Marie Huxham, 36, was accused of acting as director of Chloe Trading Pte Ltd at Centrepoint without consent of the Controller of Immigration. No plea was taken.
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      • 80 5 A WOMAN was fined $400 yesterday for throwing a plateful of hot vegetable soup over another woman. Choo Kian Ngor, 33, admitted causing hurt to Madam Swee Shiew Kiat, 53, at a stall at a Jurong Town Corporation canteen in
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    • 158 5 THE FIRST rehearsal (or this year's National Dfcy parade will be held at the Padang this Sunday from S 30 pm The following roads will be closed in stages (see map) to motor vehicles from 1 pm and motorists are advised to avoid all the
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    • 107 6 THE CHIEF Assessor, Mr Lim Soo Chin yesterday won his appeal in the Singapore Court of Appeal against a High Court judgment concerning the 1973 annual value of a piece of vacant land belonging to the Health Minister, Mr Howe Yoon Chong. The
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    • 398 6  -  By JALIL MISWARDI "THE NEED for a book which provides comprehensive accounts of the lives and aspirations of the Muslims in Singapore has always been felt, but has not been met so far." With these words, Dr Ahmad Mattar, Minister for
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    • 109 6 A BEDRIDDEN 69 vearold man choked to death on a piece of bread while having his breakfast, the Coroner's Court heard yesterday. The court was told that Ng Cheng Gim of Blk 22 Bedok South Avenue 1 was paralysed but could feed
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    • 445 2 It happens to all ofus. We find ounelves unable to speak stimulate their genuine interest, whether speaking to one up when we really need to. And we don't always know person or to a crowd why. But whatever the reaton, we need not just accept it- Not only do these
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    • 139 6 A selection of the colour photographs in the book will appear in this week's issue of The Sunday Monitor. The stars are shining tonight at The Dynasty Singapore: GREG DtANNE AT LE VENPdME LOUNGE. Come hear the musie they will linger of this celebrated your mind long after diK) from
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    • 108 6 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 off $100 each Subject of Poems Any subject but the theme must be related to the celebration of Singapore's 25 years of
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  • world
    • 423 7  -  ASEAN FOREICN MINISTERS MEETINC THE SIX PLUS ONE DIALOGUE By RODNEY HOBSON in Jakarta WHILE Asean foreign* ministers are anxious to try out their Pacific co-operation idea on prospective partners, the pressure was on the European countries yesterday. The Aaean Six spent the
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    • 161 7 LAT-WP JAKARTA, Thursday THE Reagan administration has informed South-east Asian nations it is willing to consider increasing humanitarian aid to anti-communist Cambodians but will not undertake direct military aid to the Cambodian resistance, according to officials accompanying Secretary of State George Snultx.
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    • 133 7 Reuter GENEVA, Thursday GATT, the international trade regulating body, said that trade of counterfeit goods, usually cheap copies of well-known brands, was a serious menace to the world trade system. A report on the multi-billion dollar trade was considered by Gatt's council of
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    • 190 8 Reuter ABIDJAN, Thursday MORE Third World countries have received death threats against their athletes at the Los Angeles Olympics. Senegal, Came roan and China said they had received threatening letters from the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group warning that their athletes wouldbe
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    • 507 8 Death threats are part of Soviet disinformation campaign against Olympics: US Reuter WASHINGTON, Thursday THE STATE Department yesterday suggested that death threats sent to Third World participants in the Los Angeles Olympic Games were the work of the Soviet Union. Without directly blaming Moscow, spokesman Alan
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    • 156 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurt PAS HAS urged the government to release immediately and without conditions the three youth leaders of the party who were arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA) on Tuesday PAS secretary-general Hassan Haji Shukri said in a statement
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    • 343 9 UPI VIENNA, Thursday OPEC OIL ministers yesterday agreed to maintain the cartel s current oil price and production levels but granted Nigeria's reauest to produce more crude, bus ending a two-day summit that often turned acrimonious. "We have an agreement," Gabonese Deputy Prime
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    • 207 9 AP WASHINGTON, Thursday THE SUCCESS of Singapore and South Korea in curbing the desire for large families underscores the need for financial incentives as the way to defuse the world population bomb, a private US specialist said yesterday. Peter Huessv, of Population Reports International, told reporters
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    • 136 9 Reuter PARIS, Thurs MAJOR non-communist oil consuming nations said they had agreed yesterday on a new oil stock policy under which they would sell from strategic reserves early in tne event of supplies being distrupted. The policy and a set of new procedures
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    • 263 10 THE MEN IN THE CRATES' AFFAIR LONDON, Thursday NIGERIA has turned down Britain's demand to interrogate several of its diplomats over the kidnapping of a wanted Nigerian exile found drugged in a crate bound for Lagos, diplomatic sources said yesterday. The sources
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    • 147 10 AP WASHINGTON, Thursday THE US government yesterday ordered air bags or automatic seat belts installed in new cars beginning with some 1987 models, but said it would free carmakers of the requirement if enough states pass mandatory seat belt laws. Transportation Secretary
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    • 217 10 AP BEIRUT, Thursday MASKED gunmen overpowered guards at the Libyan Embassy before dawn yesterday, then dynamited the building after demanding the release of their spiritual leader, Imam Mousa Sadr. The attack came shortly before the scheduled arrival in Beirut of Libya's foreign minister. There
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    • 690 11 TRENDS Newsweek AFTER 10 years of relative calm, Chile's universities are once again becoming the scene of heated political activity and a focus of opposition to the military government of President Augusto Pinochet. Demonstrations, strikes, elections for student union leaders and a general cry for
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    • 62 11 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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  • money
    • 110 12 MATSUSHITA Electric Company (M) Bhd's chairman, Tan Sri Haji Mohamed Noah bin Omar, says the first quarter of the year brought little improvement for the company. But increased demand in the second quarter gained momentum in the second half of the year when economic
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    • 232 12 DOLLAR AND GOLD Reuter, AP NEW YORK, Thursday THE US dollar rose to a new 10-year high yesterday against the West German mark despite heavv Central Bank intervention, and gold nit a two-year low. After holding at around 2.8460 marks, a
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    • 383 12  -  By JOHN CHOW SINGAPORE'S top four local banks improved their rankings among the world's banks, according to the latest issue of The Banker magazine's ranking of banks' assets. Three of them, DBS Bank, United Overseas Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp improved their
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    • 216 12 SIM LIM Investments had a group income of $111 million for tne year ended March 31, up 14 per cent from $77 million previously. Group pre-tax profits were $6.8 million, up 104 per cent, but profit attributable, including extraordinary items, was $2.13 million, down 73
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    • 338 12 [VIMLLSTREETJ THE STOCK market closed sharply lower on Wall Street yesterday in moderately heavy trading as the shares of drug companies continued to come under extreme selling pressure and ITT stock lost nearly one-third of its value. The
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    • PART 6 OF OUR SERIES ON THE FUTURES MARKET
      • 213 13 By BENNY TAN of Sh«arson/Amex MINIMUM price changes or fluctuations are different for different futures contracts. These are normally referred to as "point" or "tick". For gold futures, the smallest price change is US$O.lO per ounce or 10 points. If the last traded price was U*****.50, the
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      • 99 13 A STRONG rally in the US bond market early this week caused dollar bulls to take profits on long positions. As short-term interest rates are not climbing further, traders are now less certain that the Federal Reserve will raise the discount rate at its
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    • 561 13 AUDITORS in Hong Kong have good reason to be worried. In May, the government filed fraud charges against two auditors at Price Waterhouse and, recently, Bumiputra Malaysia Finance Ltd fired its auditors, Touche Ross and Co, for allegedly raising
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  • opinion / letters
    • 203 14  -  REPLIES ZAINAL A AHMAD for Secretary National Productivity Council WE refer to your editorial "Time for firms to act on Cowec" (SM, July 5). We appreciate your views on the need for the companies involved to act positively. However, lest it appears that the
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    • 123 14  -  TAN CHOO BENG Exhibition Manager Cathay Organisation I REFER to Constructive Critic's letter "Profit at the cost of courtesy" (SM, July 6). Courtesy has, and always will be, given top priority by all Cathay Organisation staff. We would like to point out to
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    • 75 14  -  YAP YEOW WOON Public Relations Officer Republic of Singapore Police I REFER to the letter "Is parking an offence at Supreme Court porch?" by "Indignant" (SM, July 7). We shall be grateful if the writer could contact Supt R V Woodworth, Head, Operations,
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    • 556 14 AFTER READING the report of the Schools Council meeting on July 7, SVI, July 8), I feel that there seems to an "us" and "them" attitude between the Education Ministry and the schools and colleges. The junior colleges were blamed for misleading the students that
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    • 250 14 ISSUE ALTHOUGH widely welcomed, President Ronald Reagan's new eagerness for a summit would be worrying if there were any real prospect of a getting together in the near future, says the Economist. Mr Reagan faces an election: Mr Chernenko, an equally old
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    • 246 15 THE VACANT piece of land just behind some zinc-roofed factories at 15.5 km Upper Bukit Timah Road has undergone a series of transformation within a short period. Behind my house, a small hill has been levelled for some unknown purpose. Since then, excavators
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    • 262 15 I REFER to the letter "Agency insisted on cash on delivery" (SM, July 7). I can understand how the writer must have felt. However, being the owner of a small agency myself, I am inclined to believe that the company in question did
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    • 98 15  -  K G GOH Singapore 1438 THE Marine Parade Library must be commended for having a wonderful room full of audio-visual equipment to serve the public. However, I noticed that the distance between the viewer with the headphones and the television screen is too close. The radiation
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    • 89 15  -  MRS B LEW THE BOOKS at the Young Children's Section of the Toa Payoh Branch Library are in a mess. There is no semblance of order at the book racks. Besides, the "jumble-sale" disarray, there is the loud chatter of adults and rowdy teenagers
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    • 251 15  -  MRS TAMMIE LOKE Public Relations Manager Mass Rapid Transit Corporation WE refer to the article "More buildings make way for MRT" (SM, July 6). Two issues require correction. First, following standard practice throughout the world, buildings located within a certain distance of MET
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  • leisure
    • 1217 16 BOTH GREAT BEAUTY AND UGLINESS ABOUND IN THE BLACK HILLS LATWP B* MICHAEL CARLTON RAPID CITY: Let me share three vignettes from a recent visit to the Black Hills of South Dakota: People stream away from the illuminated rock faces of Mount Rushmore after a stirring
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    • 638 16  -  By MATT WOLF in London AP AFTER years of British hit shows dominating Broadway, the Yanks are now taking London's West End by storm. By the end of July, 14 of the West End's 33 offerings will either be imports of such Broadway hits as David
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    • 435 18 CaMMKfi® Thursday Feature Special Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (E) (Chinese Subtitles) (Ch 5, 10.05 pm) THIS madcap adventure directed by Ken Annakin brings us to the scene of the wildest road race ever to be held before the professional road racing of the
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    • 528 18  -  TV SCENE By WONG AH YOKE RECENTLY, some gems in stage plays appeared over Channel 12. Those that come readily to mind are the enjoyable Neil Simon comedies, Barefoot in the Park and Plaza Suite. Next in the line-up is George Bernard
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    • 88 21 I REFER to the letters from CW Chan (SM, June 11 and 18). We thank the writer for his suggestions. At present, we are concentrating our efforts on dubbing documentaries and Chinese dramas but we will consider the writer's views should the de- mand for dubbing in
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    • 219 21  -  JEANNE TAY (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBC I REFER to a letter from YEE MIKE headlined "European Serials, Please" (SM, June 18). SBC has in the past telecast cosmopolitan contemporary dramas such as a three-hour serial titled The Red Orchestra,
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    • 157 21 JUDGING from her reply (SM, June 13) to ERNIE'S letter (SM, May 18), the PRO, SBC, seems to have completely missed the point Ernie was trying to make. Surely, the point at issue in Ernie's letter and many others to the Monitor in recent months, calling
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    • 77 21 IN 1957, a very fine movie was made from the classic novel by the late Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, with a star-studded cast. I have read with interest the article (SM, June 3) reporting that a TV mini-series production on the same book and
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    • 58 21 IT is monotonous for the news reader to keep repeating the same news items every hour. It will save time, energy and breath of the reader if the news is pre-recorded and broadcast at every hour (with the listeners informed of the repeat) unless there is a
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    • 32 16 festival In tomorrow's Leisure: Director of drama Kuo Pat Kun writes about the development of Indigenous theatre TV: Pages 18 ft 19 RADIO: Pag* 20 DIARY: Page 21 FILM WIDE: Page 20
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    • 161 16 Triple treat at Tipple D'Souvenir, Stars 'n Stripes and Oysters From 7 in the evening, you can laze. laugh, unwind or engage in friendly banter to the music D'Souvenir Stars 'n Stripes at m the Tipple Lounge. Tai-Pan Ramada Hotel. Or savour the succulent and heavenly taste fresh rock oysters
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    • 822 17 Q \J L jmiii= I Left: Fantastic Journey (Ch 5, 4.05 pm); right: last episode of The Flight of the Heron (Ch 5, 4.50 pm) eeh 8 i 2.30 SBC TEXT Live Sample Pages. see the many outstanding paintings 5.20 SBC TEXT Live Sample Paget. 3.00 Opening and Programme High-
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    • 688 19 12.00 PM News-m-Brief followed by (cont d) 6.30 Financial and Share Market Programme Summary 12.05 Your Lunch- Report date 1.00 News 1.10 Your Lunchdate 7.00 News and Weather Report foi(cont'd) 1.30 Mid-day Market Report 1.35 lowed bv Programme Summary 7.15 Your Lpnchdate (cont'd) Evening Digest 7.30 Interlude 7.45 Sci--2.00 News-in-Brief
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 287 20 HONG KONG Yip's Children's Choir will be featured in Music for Everyone on July 16 at 8 pm at the Singapore Conference Hall. The repertoire, ranging from the Renaissance to the modern period, includes religious works, art songs, folk songs of various nations and Chinese folk music. Tickets at $5/$3/$2
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    • 678 20 <£ K rjf Multiple Art Exhibition IN MEMORIAM RBF SINGAPORE 1959-1984 ALPHA Gallery will hold an exhibi- TO mark the 25th anniversary of Sintion, titled In Memoriam RBF, as a gapore's nation-building, the National tribute to the late Richard Buckmin- Museum, the National Library and ster Fuller from today to
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    • 38 20 BHH TODAY: TOMORROW:High tide: 11.56 am High tide: 11.58 am (2.2 m) (2.2 m) Low tide: 4.43 pm Low tide: 5.24 pm (1.2 m) (1.1 m) High tide: 10.24 pm High tide: 11.07 pm (2.6 m) (2.7 m)
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    • 274 21 LETTERS from Leisure readers on subjects pertaining to our columns will be selected for publication weekly in this column. Please address your letters to Leisure Box, The Singapore Monitor, 2 Alexandra Road, 03-01A Delta House, Singapore 0315. You may use a pseudonym but actual names, addresses and telephone numbers must
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  • GO PLACES
    • 613 22  -  The once grand hotel is slowly decaying DATELINE: ALEPPO, Syria By MICHAEL SHERIDAN Reuter WHAT do Lawrence of Arabia, Agatha Christie, Yuri Gagarin, David Rockefeller, Kemal Ataturk and Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad have in common? Answer: A stay at Aleppo's Baron
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    • 195 22 Reuter BETWEEN the wars, a flow of well-heeled travellers passed through the Baron on their way to and from the east. Kings, queens, princelings and pretenders from most of the royal families of Europe and the Levant stayed there. Lady Louis Mountbatten
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  • 525 24 PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT MANY p«ople face a lot of problems when it comes to choosing the right personal computer to fit their specific application. It's hard to blame them, considering the numerous versions of PCs which are becoming increasingly available in the local market. The A
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  • sports
    • 451 28 Lendl slams the Western Press for casting doubts on his patriotism AP PRAGUE, Thursday TENNIS star Ivan Lendl, returning to play for his native country in a Davis Cup match against France, criticised western Press reports that cast doubt on his loyalty to Czechoslovakia. In
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    • 274 28  -  LOTTO 89 SHELL 82 MILO YOUTH BASKETBALL C'SHIPS By ALFONSO CHAN IT WAS a close struggle all the way but the Lotto youths' energy gave them an extra surge to pip Shell in their Milo Youth Basketball match at Gay World Stadium yesterday. It
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    • 248 28 Reuter SUTTON COLDFIELD (England), Thursday SAM TORRANCE defied the pain from a badly gashed left shoulder to shoot a four under par first round 68 for a one-stroke lead in the Lawrence Batley International Golf Classic here today. The
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    • 289 28 Reuter HELSINKI, Thursday TUNA Lillak of Finland, women's world iavelin champion and record-holder, looks likely to recover from injury in time to compete in the Olympic Games starting in Los Angelas in 17 days. Lillak hurt her right ankle during a triangular
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      352 29  -  Poor showing by Anchor Cup squad against Tampines does not bother national coach Hussein SINGAPORE 1 TAMPINES 0 By S GULAM SINGAPORE managed only a 1-0 win over newly-crowned National Football League Division One champions Tampines Rovers in their first practice match at Jalan Besar Stadium last night but
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    • 274 29 SABAH and Federal Territory, two of the five Malaysian states competing in the Anchor Cup starting at the National Stadium on Saturday, are expected to arrive in the Republic today. Sabah, who will take on Singapore in the opening game of the competition (7)
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    • 97 29 AP GSTAAO (Switzerland), Thurs UNSEEDED Steve Meister of the United States upset Chris Lewis, the No. 5 seed, at the Swiss Open here yesterday, 6-4, 6-2. Trevor Allan of Australia, who is also unseeded but shocked the No. 1 tournament seed, Eliot
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    • 290 29 ONE TEAM'S gain will be another's loss for the national team and the Singapore Malays. Malays, will lose seven players to the national team now preparing for the Anchor Cup starting this Saturday at the expense of a full side for
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    • 104 29 AP TOULOUSE (Franc*), Thurt DUTCH rider Petra de Bruin won her third stage victory on Tuesday in the first women's Tour de France cycling race. Helene Hage of the Netherlands retained the overall tour leadership. The race is being run
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    • 240 29 African champs' Merlion Cup debut stays doubtful AFRICAN champions and former World Cuppers' Cameroun's debut in this year's Merlion Cup soccer tournament is doubtful.. Cameroun, who will play in the Los Angeles Olympics, are asking for a match fee to compete in the tournament, which the Football
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    • 73 29 Reuter ABERDEEN, Thursday A STRONG gust of wind costs Scotland's Wood and David Gourlay a surprise defeat by Western Samoa's Falevi Petana and loapo losia in the pairs event on the opening day of the World Bowls Championship yesterday. The Scots, both sold
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 366 31 MALAYSIAN OPEN BADMINTON CSHIPS Reuter, The Star IPOH, Thursday FORMER All-England champion Luan Jin of China suffered a shock defeat by Indonesian Hadiyanto in the Malaysian Open badminton championships here yesterday. The Chinese, who is seeded second in the tournament, began well
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    • 40 31 WONG Shoon Keat, Singapore's sole survivor in the singles event of the Malaysian Open badminton championships won by a hair's breadth yesterday in his second round match against Australian Sze Yu. Shoon Keat woo 1215 1512 17-15.
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    • 218 31 Reuter round)' Morten Frost (Den) beat Kookasemkij Sompol (Thai) 15 3 IS-15 15 8 Hadiyanto (Ina) beat Luan Jin (China) 11-15 15 6 15-8, Icuk Sugiarto (Ina) beat Jesper Helled ie (Den) IS-10 15-2, Misbun Sidek (Mai) beat Eddy Hartono (Ina) 1-15 15-4 17-15. Prakash Padukone (India)
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    • 162 31 RUGBY KINGS MASSACRE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TEAM AP ADELAIOE, Thursday NEW Zealand's All Blacks, the undeniable Icings of world rugby, tore out the heart of South Australian rugby when they slaughtered the home team 99-0 at Hindmarsh Stadium here last night. Although it took the- Kiwis seven minutes to register
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