Singapore Monitor, 19 July 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 337 1  -  Another officer shot and in serious condition By K K FONG THE CHIEF security officer of the Chartered Industries of Singapore Pte Ltd (CIS) was this morning shot dead at point blank in his office. Mr Lye Pak Ming, who retired from
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  • 196 1 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday MR WALTER MONDALE won the Democratic presidential nomination last night on the first ballot cast by the nearly 4,000 stomping, cheering delegates to the Us opposition party's national convention. As the roll was called at the Democrats' Convention, New Jersey's delegation
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    • 92 2 GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONY HELD THIS MORNING Mr UPDATE CONSTRUCTION of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station at Newton Circus, which will cost $43,4*2.348, is going into full swing. The pound-breaking ceremony for the station, which is one of the nine civil daence stations,
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    • 186 2 MORE than $6 million worth of orders were received at the Fifth International Leather Fair held in Singapore last month. About 4,000 visitors from 40 countries visited the trade fair. Most of them (about 87 per cent), however, were from the
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    • 84 2 A GROUP of 24 people, believed to be Indonesians, were rescued by the Singapore Navy some 15 kilometres off Changi Airport at 7.30 this morning. The 24 survivors were travelling in four sampans from a nearby Indonesian island and were heading for Malaysia. At 3
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    • 155 2 A SENIOR documention clerk was today fined a total of $760 for using two forged bills to endorse two documents. Lim Lee Tiang, 28, working for Amin Timber (Pte) Ltd, pleaded guilty to fraudulently using as genuine a Certificate of Origin purported to
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    • 149 2 A CONTRACTOR pleaded guilty today to committing mischief by writing Chinese characters on a wall beside a flat with a marker pen. Um Kiak Meng, 27, of Blk 126 Hougang Avenue 1, admitted committing the offence outside Unit #12-848, Apt Blk 61, Chai Chee Road,
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    • 136 2 THE DECLINE in the number of local seamen at sea, which began in 1979, took a sharp drop last year. Of the 4,275 active seamen registered with the National Maritime Board (NMB) last year, only 2,713 (63 per cent) were
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    • 307 3 Lianhe Wanbao THE REGISTRY of Vehicles (ROV) has rejected the application by the Singapore School Bus Owners' Association to operate seven air-conditioned bus routes linking residential estates with the city. But the ROV has no objection if the association wishes to convert its
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    • 157 3 Lianhe Wanbao RAIL FARES to Malaysia will be raised from August 1. For the regular passenger runs, First Class fares will be increased by 15 per cent, Second Class by 10 per cent and Third Class by 8 per cent. However, the extra $3 charge for Daylight
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    • 193 3 TWO ROBBERS tied up a housewife in her Mei Hwan home, off Ang Mo Kio Avenue, and escaped with about $13,000 worth of jewellery and cash yesterday. Madam Asemah Ismail, 43, said she was home at about 10 pm when the
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    • 527 4  -  By EE BOON LEE THE next ministerial walkabout, scheduled for Aug 5, will see the Minister for Finance and Trade and Industry, Dr Tony Tan, touring Ulu Pandan and Bukit Timah, part of which will be hived off to form a
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    • 333 4  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN GRASSROOTS leaders in the Ulu Pandan constituency say they have no problem working with the four 'caretaker MPs' assigned to their area in the absence of Dr Chiang Hai Ding, their MP, who is Ambassador to Belgium. But though
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    • 213 4 A 36-YEAR-OLD Malaysian was charged in a district court yesterday with 37 counts of corruptly obtaining bribes totalling $183,277 from a managing director between March 1979 to March 1982. Thoon Ah Lai, the former chief electrical design engineer of Philips (S) Pte Ltd, was accused of
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    • 69 4 A VERDICT of discharge' not amounting to an acquittal was given to a 20-year-old man who was charged with murdering a 29-year-old woman. Gan Sai Len, a Malaysian, had been accused of causing the death of Miss Lim Hua Lian on the sixth floor of Blk
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    • 246 6  -  National Safety Council wants stricter legislation on transport of dangerous chemicals Making sure this does not happen here again By SURESH NAIR THE NATIONAL Safety Council of Singapore has urged stricter legislation on the transport of dangerous chemicals. This follows an accident in which hydrochloric acid spilled
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    • 426 6  -  NUS pilot scheme will award a degree which usually takes 4 years to complete By OEI SIN GIOK FIVE civil service engineers are taking an intensive two-year law course designed to give them a degree which usually takes four years to complete. The five,
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    • 476 7  -  Angry truckers blockade French, Belgian ports: Pg-8 By YEOW MEI SIN THE BRITISH dock strike is creating extra costs for Singapore shipping agents. A shortage of British goods on the Singapore market is also expected soon. The shippers face extra payments because UK-bound
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    • 312 7  -  By MAGDALENE HAUW A COOK told a sad story of a shrinking salary to a district court yesterday. Subbiah Soundar Eajan said that instead of receiving regular increments he received successive Kiy cuts, until he was getting less an a third of
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    • 112 7 EIGHT PASSENGERS were injured when three buses collided in the rain in Upper Ayer Rajah Road on Tuesday morning. It happened about 8.20 am when a Service 97 bus was approaching Block 428 in Gementi Road. The bus crashed into a 197 bus
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    • 258 7  -  By RODNEY HOBSON MOTOR insurers who are slow to pay up on claims cause undue hardship, says the Motor Insurers' Bureau of Singapore. The bureau says in its annual report: "There has been one instance where the payment to the claimant was inordinately
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  • world
    • 469 8 UPI SAN DIEGO, Thursday A CRAZED gunman blasting away from a McDonald's restaurant in the worst single massacre in American history yesterday killed 20 people, slaughtering men, women and children on bicycles before he was shot dead by a police marksman. "I've killed
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    • 121 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday FEDERAL drug enforcement agents yesterday arrested three persons in Miami and obtained warrants for three other?, including an aide to Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge, charging that they had smuggled 1,452 pounds of cocaine from Nicaragua into the US.
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    • 203 8 UPI BALTIMORE, Thurs A STUDY shows more than half of those who survive head and neck cancer develop some other form of malignancy, largely because they revert to the lifestyle that caused the initial tumour, researchers report. University of Maryland doctors
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    • 489 8 Reuter BONN, Thursday VIRULENT attacks on West Germany recently in the Soviet media are confusing Bonn about Moscow's intentions in view of the Kremlin's commitment to improved bilateral relations, Western diplomats said. Bonn sees itself as the target of an orchestrated
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    • 146 8 UPI NEW MEXICO, Thursday A BURGLARY suspect told authorities that a ring on his little finger caught a rooftop air conditioning vent, left him dangling until the finger ripped off. The suspect, Ernest Robert Gabaldon, 24, was listed in stable condition yesterday at the University of
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    • 491 9 PARIS, Thursday FRENCH COMMUNIST Party leaders Sthered for an emergency meeting yestery amid reports they might be left out of France's new government. Communist Secretary General Georges Marchais hurried to Paris from a Black Sea
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    • 156 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs THE MALAYSIAN Government is awaiting the police report on the putting up 01 photographs of Ayatouah Khomeini at a seminar in Kota Bharu before taking action. Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad
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    • 259 9 UPI TEL AVIV, Thursday ISRAEL SAID yesterday its gunboats seized a Lebanese ship that was involved in a Palestine Liberation Organisation attempt to land terrorists in Israel for a "mass murder attack." The military command said Israeli gunboats stopped a 750-tonne merchant
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    • 107 9 WASHINGTON, Thursday PRESIDENT Reagan signed a US$63 billion (S$l3S billion) package of spending cuts and tax increases yesterday in a step towards bringing huge budget deficits under control Mr Reagan, who praised the legislation, signed the three-year measure without fanfare. <v., > r
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    • 76 10 A major shakeup within Chan- cellor Helmut Kohl's government coalition and possibly in the country's broader political balance of power was set in motion by June's election for the European Parliament, International Business Week reports. As a result, the hardline leader of Bavaria's Christian Social Union may become
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    • 73 10 The hot line link be- tween the Soviet Union and the United States is to be expanded, and President Ronald Reagan calls the move "a modest but positive step towards enhancing stability." A senior US official says that the Russians had shown interest in pursuing another American
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    • 68 10 Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke emerged victorious from a bruising battle with his Labour Party's leftwing faction over a number of issues uranium mining, Timor and continuance of US bases in Australia. The occasion? The party's biennial conference last week. On each issue Mr Hawke, wbo enjoys the
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    • 80 10 Let*™.. A™*. twice rebuilt with US help, has just slipped into positions in Beirut formerly used as firing bases by rival Christian, Muslim and Druxe militiamen, US News and World Report says. Five months of terror seemed to be ending, it adds. It's a debatable prognosis. Irregulars have
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    • 16 10 Despite the existence of deep differences, Beijing and Moscow have left channels of communication open.
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    • 21 10 The biggest fear in Vietnam now is that China and the Soviet Union may make. a deal over its head.
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    • 18 10 The Japanese think that the policies of Mr Waiter Mondaie have no relevance to the present world.
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    • 16 10 The proposed move to form a loose economic grouping has no military or political overtones.
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    • 16 10 The' British authorities in Hong Kong plan to issue draft legislation for electoral changes.
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    • 324 10 .TRENDS BEUINQ: A spate of bickering between Beijing and Moscow over Soviet support for Vietnam has highlighted their political differences but channels of communication remain open, Reuter reports. Despite the deep differences between the two communist giants on the issue, Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Qian
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    • 147 10 Hanoi fear of a MoscowBeijing deal over its head HANOI: Vietnam's biggest fear, the Economist re r-ts in its latest edition, that China and Russia might make a deal over its head. A special correspondent of the London weekly said that all the officials he met in Hanoi seemed confident
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    • 192 10 JAKARTA: The proposed move by the six Asean nations and their industrialised dialogue partners to form a loose economic grouping comes as an important regional development after years of wrangling, Reuter reports. The dialogue partners are the United States, Japan, the
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    • 114 10 0 MR WALTER MM dale's rcpatatka ad a m liberal Democrat ku one Important exception from Ike Jap—mi viewpoint. That is Mi Ml—■ of trade prolan Hmlmb. Mr Moadalea vtatoa ta of aa America with the traditional imshsotsrh todos- tries of slaal aad aatewall paMMwHwllar workers
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    • 167 10 HONQ KONG: The British authorities in Hong Kong are planning to take a small but significant step towards granting the colony's 5.5 million residents a greater voice before 1997. The New York Times reports that a green paper as the British call draft legislation will
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    • 317 11 UPI UVERMORE (California), Thursday THE WORLD'S most powerful laser capable of delivering up to 120 trillion watts of energy was unveiled yesterday and hailed as a potential source of clean, economical energy. The laser also can be used to "increase the understanding of weapons physics,"
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    • 120 11 UPI MOSCOW, Thursday THREE cosmonauts successfully docked their spaceship with the Sa-lyut-7 space station early today, Joining three comrades already orbiting the earth, the official Tass news agency announced. "After checking the sealing of the docking unit, Mr Vladimir Djanibekov, Miss Svetlana Savitskaya and
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    • 228 11 Reuter LONDON, Thursday Britain plunged further into industrial turmoil today after talks failed to settle a marathon coal strike, and a related dock strike paralysed ports and brought chaos to cross-channel ferry services. Miners' leaders and employers ended a round of peace talks with no
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    • 95 12 AP TOKYO, Thursday AMERICAN Telephone and Telegraph Co announced yesterday ii has opened an office in Tokyo to handle licensing and distribution for its Unix Computer software operating system. Mr John Hinds, vice president of market development for ATT International, said that
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    • 621 12 Why the sudden jump in trading of PEL shares WHY HAVE Pan-Electric Industries Ltd's (PEL) shares been so active recently? Volume traded has been over the two million mark so far this week. It jumped to a peak of 5.6 million shares on July S before plunging to 477,000 on
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    • 274 12 The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday AT THE helm of the Chinese business community, Unico Holdings is likely to spearhead such activities as participation in the Government's privatisation programme, high technology industries and international trading. Unico Holdings was incorporated on May 21, 1981,
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    • 130 12 Bernama ES KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday UNICO Holdings Berhad received the Captial Issues Committee's (ClC)'s approval for the public issue of 49.4 million ordinary sharer of Msl at par. UNICO's public issue promotion will be launched on July 28. Chairman Tan Sri Wee Boon
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    • 95 12 MULTI-Purpose Holdings Bhd informed the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) that the total consideration for the sale of its interest in UMBC is M 5262.3 million and for the acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in Malaysian French Bank
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    • 110 12 PROMET Bhd informed the KL Stock Exchange that the sale price of $3.80 per Chuan Hup Marine (CHM) share for its sale of 17 vessels to CHM was based on the average of prices over a three-month period prior to the
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    • 281 13  -  PART 7 OF OUR SERIES ON THE FUTURES MARKET By BENNY TAN Vice-President of Shearson/Amex TRADING LIMITS are the maximum number of points the prices of a futures contract are permitted to advance or decline, based on the previous day's closing price. Different
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    • 110 13 THE RECORD monthly surge in US consumer credit of U5510.23 billion for May re-ignited dealers' expectations of higher interest rates, pushing the dollar near to the last high against tne German mark last Tuesday. Overnight Federal funds and Eurodollar rates remain high. The greenback is
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    • 157 13 rfjOLLA^N^yOL^I Reuter IN SINGAPORE, the US dollar eased slightly against most major currencies from New York levels in quiet early trading. Profit-taking and reluctance to buv the dollar at high levels caused the US unit to soften but its undertone remains bullish.
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    • 271 13 Selected stock* at midday. Market tone: slightly lower Arab-Mai Dev 101/102 Boustead 2.05/2.07 C Storage 3.14 B F and N 5.00/5.05 Genting 4.82/4 84 GIH 2 67/2 69 Haw Par 2.02/2.03 Isetan 2.92/3 00 Keck Seng 3.04 S Esso 13.30/13.40 Hume 4.58/4.62 Inchcape 2.61/2.62 Intraco 2.89/2.92 Jacks Intl
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    • 138 13 Your S$ to one unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/OO TT DO lis* 2.1565 2.1465 2.1375 sterling 2 8414 2 8193 2 8093 Australian J 1.7934 1.7894 1.7544 Canadian I 1.6288 1.6087 ***** New Zealand 8 ***** ***** 1.03B8 S$ to 100 unite of foreign currency Austrian schilling
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    • 255 13 THE SINGAPORE stock market opened mixed in line with Wall Street. Prices firmed at overnight levels towards the midday break Interest was again centred in selected situational stocks like GIH-Pan El groups Pan El traded the top volume of 745.000, closing a cent
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  • opinion/letters
    • 608 14  -  ROBERT CRAIU Singapore 0922 YOUR comment "Making the non-constituency MP concept work" (SM, Jul 3) mentioned an "accident" that might occur should everyone vote for an opposition for the sake of opposing You are quite right. You also stated: "The ruling party has been
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    • REPLIES
      • 145 14 WE refer to the letter "Why advertise professional courses which are not recognised here?" by "I want to better myself" (SM, Jul 4). We have to advise the writer that the ACIS or FCIS qualifications, which are obtained after the successful completion of the Institute
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      • 110 14  -  DERRICK TAN Public Relations Officer Telecoms WE refer to the letter "System to indicate incoming calls" from Mr .William Koh (SM, June 27V The new 'call-waiting' facility as well as other telephone supplementary services like abbreviated dialing and absentee facilities are already available
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      • 93 14  -  MISS BERNADETTE CHIM Public Relations Officer Singapore Shuttle Bus (Pte) Ltd WE refer to. the article "Bad manners on the roads" (SM, June 22)concerning Singapore Shuttle Bus Service No 2. Members of all bus crews have been reminded by a circular on the importance
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      • 284 14  -  PETER CHIA Public Relations Marketing Manager Post Office Savings Bank I REFER to the letter "Separate counter services will improve service at Savings Bank" by William Koh (SM, July 2). I wish to inform the writer that many depositors transact more than one type
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    • 241 14 Learn from the Swiss use referendums to resolve issues THE voter elects a representative to Parliament. But once he is in parliament, the voter has virtually no control over his representative. This is the major failing of representative democracy throughout the world. Some countries, such as Switzerland, hold referendums to
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    • 450 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE LEGAL Profession Act is being amended to open the doors of the profession to lawyers with foreign degrees and qualifications not previously accepted in Singapore. The degrees and qualifications now recognised are Bachelor of Laws of the University of Singapore
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    • 215 15  -  Fear that the newspaper merger could lead to such a situation DUDLEY AU THE merger of the Times Organisation with the Singapore News and Publications Ltd (SNPL) appears to rest on expediency. There is a feeling, not unreasonable, that the liberty of expression will be
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    • 244 15 IT IS disappointing to learn that the completion of Gillman Heights will be delayed till the end of October. This estate was first scheduled to be completed by the fourth quarter 1983. Then the date was revised to mid-1984 and now to October. As a purchaser,
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    • 124 15 THE merger of the newspaper groups will blunt the edge of competition among journalists. To have good newspapers, we must have quality reporters and other supporting staff. The Sunday Monitor did well in reporting on Dr Chan Onn Leng's death in Kuala Lumpur (SM, July 15)
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    • 72 14 LETTERS on any subject of pubic interest wHI be accepted tor publication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the miter's name and address even if the writer decides to use a peeudonym in prmt. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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  • leisure
    • 975 16  -  CLAUDE MONET'S PETIT PARADISE IN GIVERNY PLACES At leisure By GLORIA LOPEZ GIVERNY, FRANCE: There is a petit paradise in France, northwest of Paris, east of the Seine, where the air is sweet, the light soft and nature is delightful in its extravagance. This is
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    • 581 16 By WONG SING YEONG MAY TAI ZHAOMEI belongs to a young breed of Taiwanese singersongwriters inspired by Western music who are offsprings of the campus-based xiao yuan min ge scene. In a land where folk heroes and heroines are pop stars, May retains the
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    • 991 16 LAT-WP SHORTLY before midnight one evening, English rock singer Billy Idol scurried out of the sound stage of a Hollywood studio and walked into a tiny dressing room that looked like a mini-slum. Clothes were strewn everywhere. Only the makeshift bar on the dressing table
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    • 633 18 Applause Fred Astaire: Putting on his Top Hat (E) (Ch 12, 9 pm) THIS one-hour retrospective of Fred Astaire's illustrious dance and film career is produced and directed by David Heeley. It follows Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first film, Flying Down
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    • 569 18  -  WM By WONG AH YOKE AS PART of this year's anniversary celebration, SBC has prepared a trilogy of hour-long English documentaries that review Singapore's efforts at nation building in the last 25 years. The first in the series, For the Hearts and Minds, will be
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    • 453 19  -  By MICHAEL LONDON in Hollywood MISS PIGGY was in seclusion. Bowlf the Dog was talking only to Entertainment Tonight. And Kermit the Frog was cultivating a new image as a leading man, so to speak, and refused to talk about his Muppet past. It is a good
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    • 790 17 L\» (■BE3 5 I 2.30 Live Sample W I 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlighta followed by Taiji 3.55 The Fantaatic Journey: Children of the God Br f| I Travellers Varian, Scott, Fred. Liana and Willoway enter a f| t time zone where they find a Greek-style temple and an J
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    • 547 19 fi\.M cuioe DALIT (*****16): LOVER'S MASK (C) METROPOLE (*****27): PAPA. CAN YOU HEAR Starring: Lin Juei Chi, Chang Kuo Chu ME SING (C) Synopsis: About a girl who pursues fame and men, Starring: Sun Yue, Liu Ruiqi with the motive of settling a personal score with them Synopsis: About a
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 436 20 PRINTS USA THERE will be an exhibition on Prints USA at the National Museum Art Gallery from today to July SI, 9 am to 5.30 pm daily. The exhibition includes works in all areas of the printmaking medium including relief, intaglio, lithograph, stencil and mixed media. Admission is free. FLOWER
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    • 516 21 leisure comics FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook Y You Jtt&sitoo f How "Y"wloov.<>ts.kmt. .N. J 1 AJ*V /o 1 THf CROTtH I US(P lb REPLACE cmotibw* -nw «*r of amer/ j> urrH mm2s- Tackle j difficulty you have in September 23 to October 22 common with someone else. Family matters are
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  • GO PLACES
    • 623 22  -  By MICHAEL CARLTON LAT-WP IRVING, Texas IT'S THE biggest copying job since Peter the Great decided to build his own "Venice of the North" and call it St Petersburg (now Leningrad). At least in Leningrad canals were sensible, since the
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    • 75 22 IT IS, even by a Texan's considerable standards, unique. A city complete with canals, water taxis and spires right out of an Italian piazza, rising in the midst of mesquite trees, rattlesnakes, scorpions and dust. Perched only 10 minutes from
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    • 126 22 Las Colinas a great base for a North Texas vacation LAS COLINAS is a great place to base a vacation fn North Texas. It is close to most of the tourist attractions: Six flags over Texas, the Fort Worth Stockyards, Neiman-Marcus. the Texas School Book Depository from which Lee Harvey
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      91 27 DAYS to go before the biggest sports spectacle in the world begins. We continue our run-up to the Olympic Games. Our main aim is to highlight the people who have become the finest in the world of sports and who wil gather in Los Angeles to try and become
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    • 254 27 OL YMPIC NOTES AP LOS ANGELES, Thursday CHINA'S Olympic contenders say they like their posh Los Angeles compound, the videogame parlours and frozen slush sold at the local store but complain that some of the beds are too short and that
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    • 142 27 UPI LOS ANGELES, Thursday SPECIAL teams of prosecutors are being set up in case mass demonstrations erupt during the Olympics, and bankers have announced a special programme to help prevent credit card fraud during the Games. District Attorney Robert Philibosian said on Tuesday
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    • 150 27 AP SAN DIEGO, Thursday ABOUT 22 kg of TNT and plastic explosives have been stolen from a Fire Department storage bunker, prompting some concern among Olympics security officials, police say. The explosives, stored in a World War 11-era bunker near the Brown Field
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    • 442 27 Charter may be rewritten if tension does not ease, says lOC chief UPI LOG ANGELES, Thursday THE INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee (IOC) may ban from future Olympics any nation that boycotts the Games, lOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch says. Samaranch issued the threat while
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    • 135 27 Reuter HELSINKI, Thursday WOMEN'S world javelin champion Tiina Lillak of Finland has been given medical clearance after a persistent injury to resume training for the Los Angles Olympics, sports officials said. Lillak's right ankle has been strapped since she hurt it when making
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    • 1129 28  -  RACING TODAY'S TRACKWORK By WONDER BOY AMERICAN bred Grand Charles showed remarkable headway in his winding-up gallop in Ipoh this morning. With a riding boy astride, the four-year-old by Bold Commander went fast from the 800 m mark to cover 600 m in 41.7 seconds
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    • 417 28 Reuter ST ANDREWS (Scotland), Thursday BRITAIN'S hopes of winning the British Open golf title rest heavily on the shoulders of Nick Faldo today. As Faldo, 27 yesterday, prepares to take on the might of world golf over the St Andrews "Old Course" starting today, he
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    • 528 29  -  TONIGHT'S SEMIFINALS: m PAHAM ,SJS, SABAH By S GULAM WITH both Singapore and Federal Territory promising to provide attacking football, another goal feast is on the cards when the hosts take on the Malaysian state tonight. It is the first semifinal of the
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    • 305 29  -  By ALFONSO CHAN WEST LOOKS likely to conquer East as Sabah takes on Pahang in the evening's Anchor Cup second semifinal clash at the National Stadium tonight (8.45). The two Malaysian states are unevenly matched. And although Sabah, with the mercurial James WongHassan Sani frontline
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    • 287 29  -  VAJIRAVUDH OLD BOYS 17 POLICE SPORTS ASSOCIATION 4 By BKULA THE TOURING Thailand Vajiravudh old boys were lucky to walk away with a goal, two tries and a penalty victory over Police Sports Association at rugby yesterday. Though the lawmen dictated
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    • 550 30  -  WEE LENG HELPS SAINTS SET NEW TIME BUT FALTERS IN TRIPLE JUMP NATIONAL SCHOOLS TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS' ALFONSO CHAN SOME DAYS you get it right And on the wet. fourth day of the 25th National InterSchool Track and Field meet at the National Stadium yesterday,
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    • 132 30 Reuter WELLMQTON, Thure BRITAIN tuned oo the best performance of their New Zealand Rugby League tour when they brushed aside a weak Central Districts side 38-6 yesterday. Britain led 22-0 at half time after four tries, added another three in the first
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    • 300 30 Reuter MORZINE (France), Thur* ANGEL Arroyo gave Spain their first stage win in the 1904 Tour de France cycle race here yesterday with a solo break over the last of five mountains which tore the field apart and produced two crashes.
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    • 77 30  -  ARMED FORCES 2 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINOAPORE 0 By B KULA FORMER International captain Arul Subramaniam of Armed Forces brought bis goal tally to seven in the Singapore Hockey Association Division One League match with his two goal feat against National University of Singapore at
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    • 386 31 ALL LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST FIFA DROPPED The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday THE FOOTBALL Association of Malaysia (FAM) has dropped all proceedings to seek legal redress for the $55,000 fine and the three-month suspension on its players by the International Football Federation (FIFA). FAM president Tan Sri Hamzah
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    • 177 31 Reuter BANGKOK, Thursday PETER LEW of Singapore seized the lead in the overseas challenge for the men's masters title of the U5525,000 (S$50,000) Thomson Dusit Open tenpin bowling championships. The bespectacled two-time winner of the Thailand Open shot games of 204, 211, 206
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