Singapore Monitor, 20 July 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Friday, July 20, 1984 30cents
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  • 565 1  -  'Rival gangs block thoroughfares and intimidate tourists' By SURESH NAIR FEARS of teenage violence are growing at one of the busiest shopping centres in Singapore's tourist belt. Shopkeepers at Far East Plaza in Scotts Road say rival gangs of young people are gathering at
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  • 198 1 Reuter NEW YORK, Friday THE TWO major United States stock exchanges have said they are considering extending their trading hours. One of them, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has hinted at round-the-clock trading sometime in the future. The NYSE and its smaller
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 35 1 Case of the Bottlenecks 'vanishing' in CBD as wall at booths run St Michael's B out of ALS Road: Page 2 p discs: Page 3 ■TV GUIDE: PAGE 18 BTV SCENE li HIGHLIGHTS: PAGF 19
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  • home
    • 39 2 The fallen brick pillar and a tow bricks in tha foreground indicate tha position of tha demolished brick wall. It had "locked in" the fourstoreyed block of flats, seen in the background.
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    • 501 2  -  By SIT YIN FONG WHEN he left for work on Tuesday, the brick fence of Mr Tan Yan Boon's home in St Michael's Road was still standing. When he got home from his office that afternoon, a 10-metre section of the 25metre decorative wall
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    • 170 2  -  By K K FONG THE GUNMAN and accomplice who shot and seriouslv wounded a horse trainer last year have a $200,000 price on their heads from today. The reward is for information leading to the successful prosecution of the attackers
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    • 407 3  -  By SURESH NAIR SOME DAILY area licence sale booths are running out of licence stickers at times of heavy demand, delaying motorists driving into the Central Business District (CBD). The problem is especially so on wet days, when more people take
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    • 77 3 TODAY, about 18,000 cars enter the Restricted Zone (RZ) in the Central Basinets District dally compared with 42,790 in March 1975. The Area Licensing Scheme (ALS) was introduced in June that year and three months later the aamher of cars catering the lone dropped to
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    • 119 4 MORE THAN 300 people from the advertising and business world were last night given a preview of the new broadsheet Sunday Monitor to be launched on August 5. The half-hour audio-visual presentation at the Mandarin Hotel gave them a glimpse of the format,
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    • 232 4  -  By K K FONG A MAN is expected to be charged some time today with the murder of the security chief of Chartered Industries of Singapore, Mr Lye Pak Ming, who was snot dead yesterday morning. Soon after
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    • 174 4 A 44-YEAR-OLD man boarded his tugboat to tow a lighter and was not seen alive again, the Coroner's court heard yesterday. Mr Lim Thong, captain of a lighter, told the court that he last saw Ong Sing Yap, 44, alive on March 23 when Mr Ong
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    • 125 4 AN OPEN verdict was recorded by State Coroner S Radhakrishnan yesterday on a 70-year-old man who was found hanging from the railings of a staircase leading to the cubicle where he lived. Lim Ah Bah, alias Lim Teek Hian, was found hanging by a
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    • 351 6  -  UNION MAY NOW HAVE TO RETHINK PROPOSAL By YONG POW ANG ONLY A handful of the Singapore Bus Service's retrenched conductors have shown interest in a cleaning company proposed by their union to give them a continued livelihood. Of 369 conductors laid
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    • 157 6 TOP EXECUTIVES will stand in line with clerks to clock in under new working rules to be introduced by Dresdner South-east Asia. The German merchant bank is looking into a clocking on and clocking off system for all employees, including management, a
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    • 182 6 LIM KIAK MENG, 27, wrote obscene and insulting words on the wall of a flat because a woman who lived there had helped his wife divorce him, a court heard yesterday. Two pairs of panties were also
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    • 389 7  -  ISETAN AND NTUC COMFORT RECEIVE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE FROM STAFF •f JANICE LIM TWO MORE companies, IseUn and NTUC Comfort, officially inaugurate their Cowec (Company Welfarism through Employers' CPF Contribution) schemes today exactly a month after the first two companies launched theirs. And they have received
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    • 361 7 MISS DOLLY LEE, SO, is a floor supervisor at the Parkway Parade branch with over 11 years of service at laetan She said: "The loan for housing renovations and furnishings is very useful for us because we can only use CPF money
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 475 2 Be A Cut Above The Rest! Alan International Hairdressing Schools now also offer Make-up Beauty Courses for 1984. "V'.v The 1984 edition of Alan International Hairdressing Schools i„ Jm brochure comes with a big difference. Besides comprehensive information on hairdressing courses for 19K4. we now offer Make-up Beauty courses as
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    • 58 2 Buy One Drink And Next One X Is On Ds. >13 At the Cocktail Lounge, Ladyhill Hotel, special happy hour concessions are offered to you. For every drink or bottle ordered, the next round is on the house. Happy Hours: 5.30 7.30pm (daily) HOTEL LOUNQC 1 Ladyhill Road Singapore 1025
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 150 5 The Summer Fklace V Ik proudly presents a special luncheon menu. We can think of sixteen reasons why you should try, our unicjue new menu... Braised fish maw soup with crab meat, bra ised fungus soup with assorted meat, braised bean curd with vegetables, braised diced chicken with fresh milk,
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • world / trends
    • 52 8 Why has the strength of the US dollar gone unabated? Some economic analysts say that it is out of Kilter with other major currencies while others align it's strength with high interest rates. But some observers feel a fall in value is forthcoming if the Democrats win the November
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    • 53 8 Speculators in gold have been having a hard time lately. Because of the strong US doiar, the price of the precious metal have taken several hard knocks. Investors are getting better returns for their money by investing in the dollar and this has taken gold prices down to as
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    • 360 8 TRENDS Economics and Finance WASHINGTON: Despite a record US trade deficit, which normally could be counted on to create demand for other currencies, most observers are predicting that the American dollar's strength will last. Most newspapers and magazines predict the dollar would continue to be strong until,
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    • 90 8 American analyst* are pre- dicting higher interest rates during the next six months contrary to what President Reagan says. Meet o# the U experts polled by the Asian WaU Street Journal talked of higher rates not only during the rest of the year, but for the first half
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    • 69 8 While we are seeing more videodiscs in our shops, it's worthwhile to note a declining exuberance in the US for these machines. Columbia Broadcasting Services Inc has just announced it will stop producing them. In April, RCA announced that it would also quit on videodiscs after losing
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    • 60 8 A credit card boom appears imminent in South Korea. American Express and Diners Club are about to challenge Visa's monopoly in the market, according to the Media magazine in Hong Kong. The US giants are scrambling to benefit from relaxed currency and tourism restrictions and a rise
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    • 74 8 All applications by Thai banks to install automated teller machinese (ATMs) have been frozen, The Bangkok Post reported. The order came from the Bank of Thailand, the country's central bank. Two options are being considered: One is to allow installation of ATMs by several banks, and two,
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    • 41 8 Watch out for a possi- ble new trend of oil sales from the Gulf countries. The Kuwait Petroleum Corp is to bypass Western companies to sell directly to European customers. Saudi Arabia has indicated it may follow suit.
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    • 186 8 WASHINGTON: The power of the dollar is not good for gold or those who speculate the metal. Analysts believe investors have dumped gold because inflationary expectations are ebbing. The precious metal took a plunge on July 9, hitting a two-year low of US$332 an ounce, while
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    • 349 9 DECISION BY FRENCH REDS TO PULL OUT OF GOVT PUTS THEM IN A CRITICAL POSITION Reuter PARIS, Friday THE FRENCH Communist Party, once among the most powerful outside the Soviet bloc, today staked its political future on a dramatic decision to pull out of a government pact
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    • 252 9 Reuter DOVER, Friday BRITISH dockers lifted a ban on freight movement at the Port of Dover today, bringing hopes of a breakthrough in the country's 10-day-old port strike. A Dover harbour board spokesman said the dockers' ban on cargo, now four days old,
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    • 125 9 BERNE, Friday TALKS between Britain and Argentina their first direct meeting since the 1982 war over the Falkland islands appeared to have ended in stalemate last night. According to statements issued by the foreign ministries in both London and Buenos Aires, Argentina insisted on raising
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    • 148 10 WASHINGTON, Friday UNLESS the US comes up with new, specific proposals, the Soviet Union will not attend September talks on "Star Wars" anti-satellite and other arms control issues, a Soviet diplomatic source said yesterday. The diplomat said the Soviets do not
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    • 382 10 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO, Friday DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee Walter Moodele last night fired up his party for the 1994 campaign with a hard-hitting attack on President Reagan and a vow to defeat him by jpreaching a "new realism. Mr Mondale, who won the
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    • 90 10 AP MOSCOW, Friday THE official news agency Tass, commenting for the first time on the selection of Walter Mondale as the Democratic candidate for US president, said "fierce bargaining" had failed to rally party unity behind the new candidate. Tass also directed criticism at the Democratic Party
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    • 104 10 UPI KUWAIT, Friday IRAQ said its warplanes hit a "very large naval target" in the Persian Gulf yesterday but Iran labelled the claim a "lie" and shipping sources were unable to confirm it. Meanwhile, Muslim leaders meeting in Saudi Arabia pledged to step up
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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    • 65 8 tfUP Edmund John Come join the fun at our cafe-lounge with Karen Class Distinction Karen Enjoy sentimental, country westerns, Rock 'N' Roll, oriental numbers... at Faber valley where there's good food, live music for lively people. Uve twtwWeniiC 6pm-lOpm (except Sunday) Happy tour*; 4pm 6pm i i i<u i f
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 184 10 The natural to facial treatment jk- body slimming M At Les'Poir Beautique, facial treatment and y body slimming take on a totally different meaning. Our approach is entirely basic and natura- M listic. With personalised service to explain to you about your body's equilibrium through the f Yin and Yang
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 217 11 Closest to first class service at just the economy fare 11 1 I I fm A c w7 i i :jl WL China Airlines new Dynasty Class provides more space, more comfort, more convenience and more service than ever for sophisticated travelers. And all at the normal economy fare, with
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  • money
    • 576 12  -  By RODNEY HOBSON IF BRUNEI cuts its link with the Singapore dollar, the local unit will be out on its own for the first time. Gone is the Singapore link with sterling, gone even the parity rate With Malaysia, and perhaps soon
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    • 349 12  - Does gold price follow a pattern SOME DEALERS DOUBT THERE IS A 'CYCLE' THEORY By JILL HUM OPINION is divided on whether there is a specific trend for predicting gold price movements so that dealers can forecast when it is worth buying or selling. UOB says that it is quite
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    • 194 12 POSB ENJOYED another period of healthy growth last year, chairman Tan Chok Kian said in its 1983 annual report. Excess of income over expenditure dou- bled from $30.5 million to $64 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1983. Although interest to depositors
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    • 229 13 UHLLSTREET Reuter CONCERN about strong economic growth in the United States during the second quarter of 1984 caused Wall Street stock prices to fall moderately for the second straight day yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 8.72 points to 1102.92. Losing issues
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    • 40 13 THE STRAITS Times Industrial Index closed down 1.24 poMs to 877.98 yesterday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 445.18, down 2.28 points from 445.42. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index rose 8.8185 point to 158.9848.
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    • 532 13  -  COMPANY FOCUS »y Sun Hung Kai Securities HAW PAR shares are rated a better investment over counterpart Mulpha International in tefms of price/earnings (P/E) and yield. Mulpha's 19J3 P/E ratio is 33.7 times and IM3 yield is 3.3 per cent versus
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    • 51 13 Wwl WW WUM N0i Ymt to ProfH E.P.8. P.E.R. D.P.S. VMd Cov*r SI ON (tmN) (C) (i) (4) (x) 1983 (Hist) 12.98* 8.7 24.1 10.0 4.8 1.45 1984 (Est) 11.43* 7.7 27.3 10.0 4.8 1.28 excludes the $10.8 mWon extraordinary gain from the sale of investments, subsidiary and
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    • 143 13 THE DOLLAR reached a record high against the Italian lira but retreated broadly against other major currencies yesterday in foreign exchange trading in the United States and Europe. Gold prices, which had risen in Europe and Asia, reversed course in the United States. Bullion was quoted at
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 50 12 Chinese Lunch at only $5 per head You can alto try our houaa-apaciality. To name a faw... BLACK BEAN FISH-HEAD CHILLI CRABS CHICKEN RICE STEAMBOAT Call now for reservations: K VV 1 V Vo»\ >\ tfv mwfflwt > Opening Hours: 10.00 am 3.00 pm 8.00 pm 11.00 pm x Free
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 199 13 /sign of If service For d&taris write to Lombard North Central PLC, Banking Servicea.'Dept 504 17 Bfiitcxi Street, London WIA 30H, England Telephone 01-*****34. r— I. A unique sight and taste I experience awaits you I One of the finest Guangdong restaurants ii\ Singapore, offering the gourmet cuisines of the
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  • opinion/letters
    • 116 14 I WRITE ON behalf of the commuters travelling from the new Potong Pasir estate to the Toa Payoh industrial area. There is no direct bus service to Toa Payoh. May I suggest that the Singapore Bus Service introduce a
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    • 70 14 NOWADAYS many young parents employ nannies to look after their children. I hope that all nannies go for medical checkup annually. I am concerned that some unhealthy nannies may unwittingly spread disease to the children. Nannies should also attend basic education courses so that
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    • 82 14  -  MRS K N AWYONG Singapore 1646 MY two-year-old son and I boarded Sevice 24 on Sunday at 11.20 am near the Bedok Interchange to go to Changi Airport. We left his Snoopy toy in the bus. My child has been pining for it ever
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    • 511 14 WE journalists with The Singapore Monitor, are concerned about the merger proposed by the directors and shareholders of Singapore News and Publications Ltd, Straits Times Press (1975) Ltd and Times Publishing Berhad. The directors of Singapore's two major publishing groups have decided that it
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    • 207 14 THE NEW Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates will not be supplied with piped gas. The Public Utilities Board's decision is based on the fact that only 40 per cent of households in old housing estates use piped gas. PUB should reconsider their
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    • 190 14 IT IS close to impossible to hire any Singaporean for messy jobs these days. The authorities should allow more unskilled foreign workers to work here. Try advertising for a local waitress, a dish washer or a cleaner for a restaurant and you will be astounded by
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    • 485 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE DECISION by the British Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, not to declare a national emergency has been heralded as a pulling back from the brink, but that seems a rather dramatic way of putting it. For a start, a
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    • 496 15  -  =ON THE ROAD MRS L H WONG Singapore 1646 TRAFFIC jams occur along Yio Chu Kang Road every day. In the past few days, the jams became worse because the traffic policeman was not present to man the traffic lights at Philips Avenue
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    • 89 15  -  -REPLY MS KHOO SOO HOON For Permanent Secretary National Development WE REFER to the letter "Resite lights to ease the jam" requesting for the traffic lights at the junction of Koek Road/Orchard Road to be resited to the Cuppage Road junction (SM
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 13 14 111 1 ,1 M HiMft NAN ML if t tAHLi HLn Cockpit Hotel
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    • 109 14 SEASON ENDING, RUSH! CHOUSA AND FAJRI NOW AVAILABLE MANGOES AIRFLOWN from PAKISTAN Gift Pack (3 kg) SslB.oo only Free delivery for orders over 10 gift packs. Also available from our CASH CARRY CENTRES:4 MNCB HPONUM, I CanpM Urn Til 33M407 t WATWLOO CVS CWTM,* 261 «I<3. W*rt» SI Tel *****01
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 72 15 LETTERS on any subject of public interest v* to accepted tor pubication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also Include the writer's name and addreea even If the *rttsr decides to use e pseudonym m print. A contact telephons number would be ueeM We reserve the
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

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    • 555 16 WHAT quenches your thirst? Keeps you cool? Helps keep you healthy? Is not fattening? Does not cause tooth decay? Is readily available? And is cheap? It is water. WATER is better for you than sweetened drinks. It quenches your thirst.
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    • 143 16 A TOTAL of 103 pedestrians are killed in road accidents each year, and some 2,600 are injured. The young and elderly are the most vulnerable pedestrians. Such needless death and suffering can be prevented. The young are naturally impulsive and
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    • 156 16 IF YOU have any queation to aak, who can you turn to for help? You can turn to The Singapore Monitor for everything you want to know, but do not know where to aak. We will gather the information you need to aolve your problem, to enrich your
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    • 532 17 QA S I AM a student (Secondary Four) aad will be takiag my m O" level examlnntioas at the ead of this year. The pass standard for English la Singapore is not very high, bat my standard Is below average
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    • 97 17 ra IS THERE an organisation or institution in Singapore that gives assistance to students sitting for external examinations from London University? 0 According to the Ministry of Education, when you write to London University stating what subjects you are interested in, the
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 61 17 aiwflier two new games from A Mama Lemon The response to our first game-in-a-cassette jRJ offer has been overwhelming. Now we're offering another two new games for your choice 1 free game for every purchase |F?^ iTlra of 2 bottles of Mama Lemon (750m1). \BfcyLion Home Products Pte Ud #03-02
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1093 18 leisure I Sj,,:/ 1 8 2.30 BBCTEXT Live Sampia Pages. 3.00 Opening end Programme Highlights foftowed by The Web (C) (r). HFjH KkJsworid. 4.90 A Whole World of Children. Xw J Gary is an ex-singer who runs a music shop. An agent < wants him to sing again but he
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  • leisure
    • 461 19 Friday Night Movie Dirty Harry (Chinese Subtitles) (Ch 8, 10.06 pm) CLINT EASTWOOD stars as Dirty Harry, a rugged San Francisco police lieutenant who is noted for his brutal handling 0 f criminals and is often criticised for implementing his own code of justice. He to
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    • 501 19  -  TV SCENE By VALERIE TREVOR THIRTY-ONE young Singaporeans will celebrate their country's 25 years of nsUon-building st Victoris Theatre tonight St 7.30. SBC will film the event, cslled Reach Out We'll Be There, for telecast some time during the* National Day week. In a gals
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    • 318 20  - Matched sets... and solo shot MIDSUMMER LIGHTS BY MATSUDA Clothes by Matsuda at Hilton Hotel Co-ordinated by DAVID JOSEPH LOOSE, oversized and almost always in monochromatic grev or black these are clothes with the Made-in-Japan label. Matsuda, one of a group of Japanese designers, improves on the formula that has
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    • 484 21  -  By GREGORY JENSEN LONDON'S stage does not often present a romance between two actors whose ages add up to 157. But then, it nas never before Kiired Claudette Colbert and Rex arrison, as it is doing now Colbert is 81. Harrison is
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    • 669 22 LAT-WP "WHOEVER wants to know the heart and mind of America," Jacques Barzun wrote in 1954, "had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching, first, some high school or small-town teams." The French-born literary critic had it right
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 42 21 FOR THE FUTURE BRIDE^^MKf^^A brff 1 by at our boutique or call for an V appointment with our designers: Boutique De Patricia w -4HP Shop: 04-135, Far East Plaza Scotts Tel: *****08, *****22 Our new shop open in September at The Promenade.
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 80 22 -'aH <~ N I jL a ik* f*- m i, f Jmk I ,-< Jn jr" An Everlasting "Dnrw" I I f2l A lady's eyebrow reflects on her chiim ft personality. %0 JIWL Neat, channing brows project an elegant snd J Ji While light and untidy brows will only P/|
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 464 22 fllM GUIO6 m DALIT (*****16): LOVER S MASK (C) METROPOLE (*****27): PAPA, CAN Starring: Lin Joei Chi, Chang Kuo Chn YOU HEAR ME SING? (C) Synopsis: A girl pursues men with the Starring: Sun Yue, Lin Ruiqi motive of settling a personal score with Synopsis: About a dumb soldier's sacrithem.
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 486 23 AMATEUR MOVIE MOVIES made on film or videotape that are not for professional or commercial purposes may be submitted for an amateur movie contest organised by the Continuing Education and Special Services (CESS) of the People's Association. The competition is divided into three sections open (citizens and permanent residents), student
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    • 887 23 A flower display (left) and a fruit cut creation (right) at the Flower Show in Darkness exhibition, at Hotel Meridien IN MEMORIAM RBF MULTIPLE ART Darkness, by Mr Akira Takahashi, owner ALPHA GALLERY will hold an eihibi- MORE THAN 90 etchings, prints, litho- "oral Decoration and Akira Cation, entitled In
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 696 24 I. 1 wn««rvnc muraiun eisure comics fm»»y.july».h>4 cj~t I FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook Z~l f ut tur Bp X M*D.6o6,\«ibo werr «Aa* evfe To ih*t. \> f ofau s N,c£ i WPl\vf 6IR*E J L«VIH&... Nofc),lteo HAVf Tt> IHC POMMB AND 7 OOPS, ll START. J TH* <ottK, MeRCLV CoMfirm
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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    • 305 28  -  HOCKEY ROUND-UP By B KULA CEYLON SPORTS Club may well realise their hockey dream of a decade. CSC, who finished fourth in the Premier League last season, are now heading the table with 19 points after eight outings. It was their lucky 2-0
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    • 198 28 JANSENITES' speedy left winger G Suprakash was yesterday slapped with a month's ban by the Singapore Hock* ey Association Disciplinary Committee for misconduct. According to umpire Gardeep Singh's report, Suprakash raised his sticK on Police's Sarmoukh Singh during Jansenites' Premier league match against
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    • 850 29 Banned weightlifter Jeff Michels won't go overboard for a place on the US Olympic team LAT-WP LOS ANQELES, Friday THERE is something mining in Jeff Michels' voice: Anger, passion, a sense of injustice, perhaps. 'That's a question the USOC (US Olympic Committee) parel asked," WM
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    • 255 29 AP LOS ANGELES, Friday THE OLD "Hollywood" sign on the side of Mount Lee, which has been one of the city's most recognisable landmarks will be transformed into a rainbow of colour for the Olympics, officials said on Monday. Calling it a first for the 61-year-old
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    • 66 30 HnHmt Mtricin, oim of Singapore'a amt woman hurdlers may bo out of tho limelight of athletics. But in hor ilnd flow Is Nituhii Miricin. Nataahia, won tho 100 m hurdlos for girls B division wNh a moot racord of 15.7 sec. And If tho plana to
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