Singapore Monitor, 29 July 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SUNDAY MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 22/5/84 Sunday, July 29, 1984 40cents
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    • 187 1 I LEUKAEMIA I i What the public can do to help The many faces of Jonathan fences IS-17 IN DISTRICTS 14, 15: Tanjong KatoAi%(im l im tong Girls' School celebrates Youth U%JUiIIUIII Day with lots of fun and games. IN DISTRICTS 12, 13: Find out how n/> A residents in
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    • 389 2  -  By YEOW MEI SIN WOMEN who are vaccinated against rubella (German measles) and then discover that they are pregnant need not fear for their baby's health. Studies in the United States show that the rubella vaccine is not harmful to foetuses. In
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    • 234 2  -  By SURESH NAIR A 74-YEAR-OLD mason, on medical leave from his contracting job, was stabbed to death at his daughter's Jurong flat in what appeared to be a burglary. On Friday, Mr P P Krisanasamy, ill with influenza, took medical leave and went
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    • 129 2 Cuppage Road pedestrian mall will provide shade and quiet THIS it what the Cuppage Road pedestrian mall will look like. It will give shoppert an oatit of thade and quiet amidst the traffic and hustle and bustle of Orchard Road. The mall will be completed
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    • 245 2 THERE is an acute shortage of male candidates to fill certain Division Three posts in the Civil Service. At the same time, there has been a steady increase in the number of woman officers taking up posts in all categories. The 1983 annual report
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    • 291 3 It's the final issue in its present tabloid format THE NEWSPAPER you are now holding in your hands is, in its way, a historic document It is the last issue of The Sunday Monitor to be printed in its present format
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    • 323 4 They will be here for a conference on migration of people from China By YONG POW ANG YOU MIGHT have watched the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's series on The Awakening. It told the story of the trials and tribulations of the Chinese migrants to
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    • 180 4 THERE is scope for pester use of probation rather than jsO when sentencing criminals, says Dr Ahmad Mattar, Minister for Social Affairs. The stiffer penaltiss being introduced by the Government are needed to deal with the hardcore "career criminals or violent predators who
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    • 547 4  -  Tourist refuses to accept the clothes she ordered Story mm! picture by CAROLINE BOEY TAILOR Mr Hiranand Mahtani has been losing sleep over an American tourist, one jacket, two skirts, a blouse and a MasterCard sales slip. The tale of Mr Mahtani's problems
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    • 616 5  -  By EE BOON LEE PRESIDENT C V Devon Nair has told the National Council of Churches that he welcomes the move towards Christian unity, seeing it as a "return to Christ from creeds". But he personally subscribes to an ecumenical movement "with
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    • 97 5 SEVEN of Singapore's top pop groups will perform for charity tonight at the Island ballroom, Shangri-la Hotel. The bands are: Tania, Gingerbread, Matthew and the Mandarins, X-peri-ments, Hangloose, Adaptors, and Gypsy. The Singapore All Stars Charity Concert, organised by the Lion's Club
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    • 141 5  -  By MAGDALENE HAUW AT 1:30 yesterday morning, Police Constable Abdul Kadir bin Abdul Rahim noticed a lady shouting at a man near a block of flats at Ana Mo Kio Avenue 4. He warned her to lower ner voice, but she continued shouting.
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    • 384 6  -  Anthony Lee has reaped huge rewards for taking a calculated risk in junk STORY and PICTURE by CHEW YEN FOOK A LITTLE over three years ago, Anthony Lee was just another civil servant, working in the resettlement department of the Housing and Development Board. He
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    • 258 6 THE GAP between the demand for human organs for transplantation and the supply is wide "and grows wider every year," reports Dr Bernard Cohen, Director of the Eurotransplant Foundation. "Thousands of patients are faced with death or prolonged disability because the
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    • 503 6  -  By SIT YIN FONG THE PEOPLE'S Park Centre (PPQ is now called the "Computers Bazaar" because there is a proliferation of about 20 dealers there and is the first destination of computer bargainhunters. Second comes Sim Lim Tower, with
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    • 197 6  -  By SIT YIN FONG THE WAR between Apple computers and their imitators has led to what is called "the third alternative" in Singapore. According to market analysts yesterday, people who cannot afford Apples because of the price, and are wary of the Taiwan and
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    • 460 7  -  By YONG POW ANG CHINESE teachers' associations should merge into one to pool their resources in the face of dwindling memberships, said Mr Ho Kah Leong, Parliamentary Secretary (Education). Merger is necessary because there are quite a few associations representing Chinese language
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    • 154 7  -  By CAROLINE BOEY NGEE ANN Polytechnic is next in line to answer the Government's call for more work-place child care centres to be set up. By the end of August, the polytechnic will operate a lull-day child care centre, costing nearly $80,000,
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    • 100 7 A 63-year-old man was charged in a district court yesterday with trafficking in raw opium. Poon Jiak Choon was accused of transporting 17 slabs of opium weighing approximately 32 kgs from Taman Serasi to Jalan Mutiara in a NTUC taxi between 8.40 pm
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    • 374 7 Calling All Designers! Here's the opportunity to show off your interior designing skills in the Interior Design Competition And Win Fabulous Prizes Ist Prize :11 days Japan/Taiwan Tour budget of 5540,000. A breakdown of the expenditure 2nd Prize 9 days Philippines/Hong Kong should submitted together with the designs. Y our
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  • world
    • 166 8 Reuter MAHH A. Saturday PHILIPPINE opposition leaders said today tbey planned a concerted attack on Prime Minister Cesar Virata when his re-election comes up in Parliament on Monday. Accusing him of mismanaging the economy, they said they had devised a strategy to oppose his
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    • 546 8 Poorer nations forced to borrow from commercial banks Reuter ■CMNQ, Saturday A STEADY increase in World Bank loans to China, itself rich with foreign reserves, is forcing poorer nations to borrow from commercial banks at rates they can ill afford, banking and diplomatic sources
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    • 298 8 Bernama PET AUNG JAY A, Saturday SOME working mothers should perhaps give up their jobs when their families have grown bigger and their husbands are earning enough to support a healthy family, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today. The Prime Minister believed this
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    • 100 8 UPI TAIPEH, Saturday TAIWAN today charged a man who forced a Pe-king-bound jetliner to Taipei with threatening aviation safety instead of hijacking because he said he did it to express his hatred of communism. "I hate communists who led China to such a disastrous stage," Dennis
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    • 490 10 London trying to meet Beijing's deadline for protocol on colony's future UPI BEUtNQ, Saturday BRITISH Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and his Chinese counterpart, Wn Xueqian today began crucial talks aimed at clarifying "certain problems" on the future administration of HongKona. A Britiu
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    • 384 10 UPI TOKYO, Saturday A DIPLOMAT from the West Indies is a key suspect in a Japanese police investigation into a big international stimulant drag smuggling and sales ring, news reports said today. Japanese newspapers quoted police officials as saying Dominica's ambassador to Taiwan,
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    • 166 10 UPI LONDON, Saturday A RESTORED steam locomotive chugged nostalgically through two drought-stricken English counties belching smoke and sparking 20 trackside grass and heath fires. Firefighters said embers and coals from the lMf locomotive started the fires on Friday along a
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    • 212 10 Agenda KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday THE MALAYSIAN government is drawing up measures to overcome its balance of payment deficit estimated to reach Mss.B billion this year. Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamiah said today. These measures will include ways to cut
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    • 123 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday FAMILY members travelling together in num. bers of four or more on the Malavan Railway will be entitled to a 15 per cent discount in fares beginning Aug 1. Announcing this on Friday, Malayan Railway's psHsngsr manager, Mr Zainal
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    • 346 11 Electron-beam gun will facilitate the building of large permanently-manned orbiting stations Reuter MOSCOW, Saturday A NEW welding instrument tested by Soviet woman cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya this week is vital to Moscow's plans to build large, permanently-manned space stations, a senior scientist said today.
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    • 242 11 AP BEIRUT, Saturday THE LEBANESE army today began setting up a militia-free neutral zone between Beirut's Muslim and Christian sectors. This forms the second phase of a security operation designed to reunite this divided capital. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Rashid Karami flew to
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    • World Briefs
      • 105 11 UPI LOS ANGELES: A driver plowed his car into a crowded sidewalk on Friday night less than a mile from an Olympic village, killing one person and injuring 51 others, officials said. No Olympic athletes were reported hurt The driver, who was
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      • 101 11 UPI NEW YORK: The Soviet Union, a major Opec rival, will lower its oil prices to US$29 (Sf 61} a barrel for the month of August, a cut of US$l.5O per barrel. This could set the stage for another world oil
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      • 71 11 Reuter SEOUL: United Nations undersecretary general Diego Cordovez arrived today for a fiveday visit to examine possibilities of North and South Korea resuming stalled talks on reunification. Mr Cordovez is here for talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Lee Won-kyung after visiting the
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      • 71 11 AP CAIRO: Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk arrived here early today on a four-day official visit for talks with President Hosni Mubarak on developments in Kampuchea. Prince Sihanouk, who heads the UN-recog-nised Democratic Kampuchea coalition government, was welcomed at the airport by
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      • 61 11 AP JAKARTA: Police in Tasikmalaya, west Java, have taken 60 people into custody for questioning about possible involvement in the murder of 20 sorcerers. The official Antara news agency said police are investigating the deaths of an estimated 20 people. Many of
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    • 579 12 Anthropologist believes African and East Asian travellers had visited the area before 700 AD Reuter MEXICO CITY, Saturday AN ELEPHANT, a Chinese junk and a Hindu god make American anthropologist Neil Steede believe he may have found the site of the world's oldest
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 12 PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan grimacing as he throws a ball in a baseball throw game outside St Ann's Church in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was in Hoboken to campaign for his re-election. At a dinner hosted lor him in the church, he called on the people to help him
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    • 148 12 HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE (Florida), Saturday FIRST they went to the wrong house, where their search for drugs and money yielded only heart medicine. Then they drove into a military guardhouse, thinking it was a turnpike tollbooth, and tried to pay the officer on
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    • 246 12 AP STRASBOURG (Franc*), Saturday A DELICATE compromise over British financial contributions to the European Economic Community, painstakingly crafted last month by the 10 EEC governments, was in danger of falling apart yesterday following a vote by the European Parliament to freeze a
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    • 213 12 UPI VEVEY (Switzerland), Saturday FUNERAL services will be held on Tuesday for veteran actor James Mason, a three-time Oscar nominee who died of a massive heart attack at the age of 75. Mason, who last played the unprincipled patrician lawyer in The Verdict, was perhaps
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    • 175 12 UPI THUN (Switzerland), Saturday POLLSTER George Gallup, creator of the Gallup Poll that changed the way Americans look at themselves, has died while holidaying in Switzerland. He was 82. Gallup, who owned a vacation home in the village of Tschingel on Lake Thun
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    • 260 13 AP BONN, Saturday A RECENT Soviet press barrage against the Bonn government could signal a Soviet attempt to stop relations between the two Germanys from improving, officials here believe. According to one well-informed government source, Bonn fears the Soviets may veto a planned visit to
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    • 284 13 UPI WASHINGTON, Saturday THE Soviet Union and the United States blame each other for blocking arms control and differ on almost every issue, including about whether there will be talks in Vienna in September on anti-satellite weapons. The Soviets said in a
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    • 113 13 UPI YUBA CITY (Calif.), Saturday AN unemployed truck driver who sweet-talked several businessmen and women into nearly US$9 million (Ssl9 million) of worthless contracts walked out of court yesterday a free man. The charge of "auto theft" against Lawrence "Skip" Burnham was dismissed because
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    • 280 13 ARABIAN NIGHT FANTASY 10 DAYS CAIRO/LUXOR/JERUSALEM/ AMMAN/ JERASH 2799 Marvel at one of the worid's seven wonder THE PYRAMIDS AT GIZA See the mysterious Sphinx. Cruise the mighty River Nile cradle of civilisation Be entertained by the thrilling belly dancers at Cairo. Tour the Holycity of Jerusalem See the Tomb
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    • 566 15 Jonathan Tan's long and courageous battle against leukaemia is over; on July 16, Jonathan succumbed to the disease. On Jan 26, Jonathan left for Israel for a bone marrow transplant. He went with a load of books and high hopes. He went to seek a
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    • 1190 16 CHEMOTHERAPHY, or treatment with various combinations of drugs, is the only treatment for leukaemia patients in Singapore at the moment. Only a small number of leukaemia patients manage to live for a long period of time with chemotherapy, a haemotologist in a public hospital said. Children and adults
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    • 619 16 ON FEB 9, Prof Shimon Slavin performed a bone marrow transplant on Jonathan Tan. On April 12, Prof Slavin wrote a letter to Dr Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State, Education, given him an up-to-date-report on his patient: The contents follow: "I would like to take
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    • 113 16 ONE doctor believed that in the treatment of leukaemia, the public can do more besides contributing money to the Cancer Society. He said: "Supportive therapy is important. More people should be encouraged to donate blood and blood products. "If there are more people coming in
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    • 436 17 WHY IS bone marrow transplant not done in Singapore? It cannot be the lack of facilities because Professor Slavin did two transplants here. From discussions with doctors in the public and private sectors, the major factors against bone marrow transplants in Singapore seem to be the
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    • 1448 18  -  By ANNE ROBINSON IPS Nothing in India turns out quite as you expect. I rather hoped our first meeting with a maharaja would take place in his palace grounds. That he would be wearing a colourful turban decked out with priceless jewels or perhaps be
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    • 994 19 IPS THE soldier of the future will have everything from a uniform which changes colour by itself to a telescope that can see though a smokescreen. And even a solid gold gun. The soldier crawls across the battlefield, his uniform changing colour to
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    • 315 19 FROM a fog-ridden airfield in eastern Canada, a United States Coast Guard plane regularly takes off to keep an eye on things of deadly beauty: icebergs. Generations ago, the icebergs were just innocent snow on the Greenland icecap. Then they broke off and
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    • 757 20  -  SING APORI AN A By Jackie Sam NEWSPAPER editors don't scold their readers. It's not good for business. Not that some haven't done it. So you can imagine what it must have been like when readers woke up to find themselves lambasted
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    • 899 20 THE Vikings are a mysterious people. Ask anyone what he knows about them, says Mr Peter Addyman, and he probably will think of rape, pillage and slaughter, Viking long ships and horned helmets. "And only part of that is correct," Mr Addyman says. "For example,
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    • 494 23  -  NUTRITIOH By Kath Walsh HERE'S the second in a series of articles on nutrition by KATH WALSH our new columnist. Miss Walsh majored in Biochemistry and Bacteriology at the Liverpool University .She later obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics at the School of Health and
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    • 381 23 Q: I WOULD like to know more about nutrition. I am a housewife who is overweight and I would like to lose some weight. A: The advice offered in my article "Weighing the long-term benefits of a low calorie diet" would be extremely useful, especially
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    • 668 23 LINES... FAMILY LINES... FAMILY LINES... FAMILY LINES... FAMILY LINES... FAMILY LINES... FAMILY LINES... "Why are you always prying into my life?" "You keep telling me what to do don't you even trust me? Just leave me alone, okay?" IT IS hard to believe that this is
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    • 625 24  -  NATURE WATCH by L M CHOU NESTLED beneath the seaward side of the steep hillslopes of Labrador Park Nature Reserve, is an interesting stretch of rocky shore habitat. Life on this rocky beach is best seen at very low tides where the intertidal zone is exposed.
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    • 656 26 KNT International TO the Romans, the tall, graceful animal with the striking patchwork hide resembled a spotted camel, so they named it "camelopardalis." The giraffe has learned to live with misunderstandings such as this. Thought to be a beast of great neck but no voice,
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    • 473 26  -  PET PARADE By DEIRDRE MOSS LOST doss are on the increase in Singapore. Losing the family dog is a heart-breaking experience for any animal lover, but sometimes, the situation could have been avoided had extra precautions been taken. An open gate is
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    • 445 28  -  w all about WORDS by Graham Colin Jones AFTER rending "All About Words" I feel very convinced that "Guess what it is" is correct because "Guess" is a command, not a question. But I felt more puzzled when I turned to the following
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    • 64 28 Form questions from the following statements in the same way as in the examples above. 1) I'm looking for my contact lens. 2) I can't drive without it. 3) I think it's gone under the seat. 4) I thought this was going to be my lucky day. 5) My
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    • 29 28 1 Are you? 2 Can't you? 3 Has it? (It's is short for it has 4 Did you? (Replying to 'I thought 5 Did he? 6 Will you?
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    • 414 28  -  WORDS By MICHAEL GARTNER FRANK Stanley of Collinsville, Connecticut was listening to the radio, and he heard the announcer say that some politician would have to stop throwing bric-a-brac at his opponents. What that politician was throwing were brickbats, but depending on the
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    • 420 28  -  Hobson's Choice By RODNEY HOBSON HANDS up all hotel patrons. You have been found to be "notorious energy wasters." "Hotel patrons may be the most notorious energy wasters of all: they often leave lights burning, air conditioners running and television
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    • 1113 29 Searching for a quick way to prepare snacks for a picnic? Try these recipes from Chinese Fast Food Dishes, the third book of Highlight's Culinary Series, published by Singapore News Publication Pte Ltd. RICE DUMPLINGS WITH PORK SAUSAGE Ingredients: (4 servings) 4 sections of
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    • BOOKS
      • 522 30  -  Title: Night Sky Author: Clare Francis Publisher: Pan Rating: Reviewer: HIE HUI CHING Clare Francis' first attempt at a novel certainly hits paydirt. More known for her voyages across the oceans of the world, her venture into the realm of fiction must certainly be
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      • 321 30 Title: Coroner To The Start Author: Thomas T Noguchi, M D Publisher: Corgi Rating: WHAT COMES TO mind at the mention of Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe, John Belushi and William Holden, just to name a few? They died under mysterious circumstances leaving a trail
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      • 303 30 PmMor Week TWs Autor PuMeher 1 Charte Polar Balantme Company; Goldman What Vietnam Tony Fular Did to Us 2 Tough Timet Robart H Bantam Never Last, Schular But Tough PecpleDo! 3 1 Guinness Book Morris Bantam > i
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    • PROPERTY
      • 772 31  -  View is that present slide in rental market will dip further By NG MING MING THE present slide in the rental residential property market is expected to dip further and it will be over optimistic to predict any upturn at the moment. This is the view of some
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      • 36 31 BEHIND the barricades, work is progressing on the restoration of shophouses at the bottom of Emerald Hill. The work is part of a preservation scheme to enhance the pedestrian areas along Orchard Road.
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      • 354 31  -  By FOO MEY KIEN RESIDENTS of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats and condominiums have to pay a monthly maintenance fee. But many dwellers do not know why they have to pay such a fee. A breakdown of what the maintenance fees are used for is published
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      • 118 32 Jones Lang Wootton's analysis of leased properties compiled from their dealings: 1983 1984 (JANUARY JUNE) $3,000 $5,000 per month $3,000 $5,000 per month $7,000 per month $5,000 $7,000 per month and $2,000 $3,000 per month $5,000 $6,000 per month and 3 below $3,000 per month below
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      • 54 32 NAME OF DEVELOPMENT IMS IM4 Oraycott Tower and Futura $5,000 $6,000 per month $4,000 per month Via Dei Rose $7,000 $9,000 per month $6,500 per month HMcrest Arcadia $5,000 per month $4,000 $4,500 per month Leone Tower $5,500 per month $5,000 $4,500 per month Ridgewood $3,500 per
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    • 40 15 Last week Jonathan's mum, Mrs Queenle Tan, appealed for more support Cor the work of the Singapore Cancer Society so that other leukaemia patients can have a better chance of a cure. The Sunday Monitor focus on leukaemia: Pl 6-17
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    • 86 15 FEATURES LEUKAEMIA What the public can do to help: Pl 6-17 INDIA, the land of contradictions: PlB WHAT the future soldier will look like: Pl 9 THE lengths people go to save the giraffe plus Pet Parade: P26 SIMGAPORIANA R THE day an editor castigated his readers for holding back
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    • 168 22 JHP This series of supplementary exercises J^lEMJ^BSfcp» i >-< n has been compiled after a careful study of the jaJßSft.latest syllabus issued by the Ministry of Educa- tion. It intended to provide pupils with further and useful practice and at the same time con- a I solidate their knowledge on
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    • 78 22 ii pput uhp&SSI2MP;^^^H by Bill Rechin Don Wilde^^|^^9H^ Join! the HEPP. 1 I <S?T it?,., ilu A I rSsfc I /JOrfAP <VIU£IC TOWN'S C4vias <s^M—l L ggueyg irggMcT.J I Lets 90 over to Mr 11/ Eflsy...,C'monA s^c^ a Are'« HKTuorider T IVTIQCLE fim W oot+a do is tell Him w«V*
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    • 464 30 YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: Initially KnUoni are indicated. Aft«r th« first weeks, the troubles will be resolved and you should get what you want. A very vivid romantic affair is indicated during the middle of the phase. This will fade without regrets on either side. Prospects are exceptionally good provided you
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    • 293 32 ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS! Over $45 million worth of properties sold since early 1984 and over $20 million worth sold since January 1984 at auctions alone Unk 101 Novcna VilU S 3*4.000.00 fll -07 Ncwtow Heights S 373.000.00 Unit 103 Novcna Villa S 380.***** No. 17, Hillview Tcmce 51.413.000.00
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    • 245 34  -  Sunday Matinee: Jennifer Slept Here Debut Ch 5, 1.09 pm ■y VALERIE TREVOR FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Joey (played by John P Navin Jr) is a typical New York teenager who has just moved to Hollywood with his family. Joey is a nice, average kid,
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    • 116 34 Ctnlrtttagt Faerie Tale Theatre: The Nightingale Sat, Ch 12, 8.35 pm Top show of the week ROCK 'N' ROLL superstar Mick Jagger (who's 40 and still flying) makes his acting debut in this Hans Christian Anderson classic tale. The ex-leader of the Rolling
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      • 543 35 Romance Baba style TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS SCO KINO SYSTEM: M MM Mt« Mm Iwrm Fostfval of Arts '84 PIMi Monantu (Ch 5, 6.25 pm) IF YOU missed Pileh Menantu in this year's Festival of Arts, here's your chance to enjoy this light-hearted Peranakan play in the comfort of your home. How
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      • 365 36 WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS ma» toy M Emi»t Klnotic Kamlval Fore* and Collision (Dobut Mon, Ch 5, C.25 pm) PROFESSOR Jearl Walker, a Professor of Physics who presents this show, believes that science is meant to be fun. He will present a total of six programmes in
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  • THE SUNDAY MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 1959 37  -  By WONDER BOY JOCKEY Jimmy Lam was at his best riding form this season yesterday, steering home three good winners at Bukit Timah. Lam got off to a flying start in the first race on trainer Ahmad's Siamese Fighter,
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    • 324 37  -  By WONDER BOY AGASAM STABLE'S Western Pacific should make amends for his last-start defeat by winning the unofficial Pesta Sukan Cup Trial for top class stayers over 1,600 metres in Race Four at Bukit Timah today. The American bred five-year-old has to
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    • 2592 38 MOW TO MAP reOlft ■aiiUi Witftin MKHtii; immj mm; iinw ■raw* uwiot •»—>; Mas miii (tuiu ■«—iHMNi huf pleeed) aai liat tfeiM rM*; laal mm nnN| Mi laat wfta i*c«r« (if wqr). RACE 1 2.00 RESTRICTED TERMS HORSES DIV C I,loom (2 ft 3 YEAR OLDS) STAKES: $13,500
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  • sports
    • 230 40 Reuter KMLAN, Sat AC MILAN, ooe of Italy's greatest clubs, which twice won the European Cup In the Sixties before falling on hard times, are pinning their hopes of reviving former glories on AC, WorMClubChainpions in 1969, have paid out more US$2.9
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    • 536 40  -  i WHKLY roc US ON LOCAL SPORTS ISSUES AND PIHSONALITIIS KENNETH JALLEH'S AFTER three decades as a school, state, and nation a 1 player, and now national coach for the second time, 42-year-old Hussein Aljunied dreams of the day when Singapore's footballers will play in the
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    • 185 40 MANCHESTER, Saturday WEST INDIES opener Gordon Greenidge amassed his second double century of the series a personal best of 223 as England suffered further torment in the fourth cricket test at Old Trafford here today. Greenidge, who beat his previous highest test score
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    • Article, Illustration
      638 41 Agencies LOS ANOELES, Saturday ONE THOUSAND Guardian Angels, the red bereted teenage vigilantes who cleaned up New York's crimeridden subway, form part of Operation Fort LA the biggest security display in US history The threat of violence has haunted Olympic hosts since ill Israeli athletes died after a
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    • 266 41 AT 9:10 AM, two men playing out-of-town yokels walked through the front door of Hollywood's Circus Maximus and began to negotiate with two prostitutes. After Steve Gingrich and Tom Brascla played their roles for a half hour, signed for rooms with waterbeds
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    • 135 42 Ed Moses 'natural choice' to take the Olympic oath AP Saturday THE US Olympic hierarchy refers to him as "the wise elder statesman of Olympic sports." Little wonder that it was hurdler Edwin Moses, and not one of the more glamorous American stars like Carl Lewis, who was tipped to
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    • Article, Illustration
      325 42 Lewis and Owens exemplify differing sporting worlds Reuter LOS ANGELES, Saturday HE WAS christened James Cleveland Owens, known to the world as Jesse and became the greatest athlete of his era. Now, 48 years after Owens emerged from the shadow of the Nazi swastika in Berlin U> win
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    • 134 42 Reuter Saturday JAPANESE swimming star Hiroko Nagasaki turned 18 today and her team-mates planned to buy her a doll big enough to wear two Olympic gold medals. Nagasaki, who has a collection of more than 50 dolls, is favoured to keep alive a proud
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    • 199 43 Reuter HERE Is the programme for the first day of Olympic competition which begins today. All starting times are in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Basketball (1600 GMT): Men's preliminaries: Group 'A' Italy v Egypt, Yugoslavia v West Germany, Australia v Brazil. Group *B' Uruguay v
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      1013 43  -  MONITOR FACT SHEET By GRAHAME L. JONES The Histor\ Soccer. or football as it is known everywhere but in North America, is the world s most popular team sport. Not surprisingly it is also the most popular Olympic sport, far outdistancing track and field, boxing. swimming and basketball In
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      474 44 AP LOS ANQELES, Saturday THE SO VI-ET-led boycott removed all the defending soccer medallists from this year's Olympics, but let in European teams now seen as the likely new winners. Italy, Prance and West Germany all are seen as potential semifinalists, along with Brazil. Another strong contender in
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    • 159 44 Reuter FRENCH pole vault coach Jean-Claude Perrin said today countries who boycott the Olympic Games should be banned from competition for a year. Perrin deplored Soviet appearances in European meetings since Moscow's decision to stay away from Los Angeles events highlighted by worldrecord performances by pole
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    • 508 44 Reuter THE OSCAR-winning "Chariots of Fire" may rank as the most popular film ever made about the Olympics but Its billing as "a true story" has provoked aome hefty criticism from Olympic historians. The stirring film tells the story of
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    • 255 45 Reuter AMERICANS Connie Carpenter and Davis Phinney face the herculean task of emulating Czechoslovaks Emil and Dana Zatopek when the Olympic cycling programme starts tomorrow. The Zatopeks became the only couple in Games history to win gold medals as man and wife in 1952. Emil took
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    • 480 45 Reuter LOS ANGELES, Saturday NEW YORKER Mark Breland, one of the moat highly touted boxers in Olympic history, has drawn Canadian Wayne Gordon as his opening round opponent in the welterweight (67 kilos) division of the Olympic boxing tournament which begins tomorrow. The 22-year-old Breland, winner
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    • 400 45 $735 a day to park your car Agencies ANYTHING up to US$35O (S|7S5) a day seems to be the going rate for parking your car near the top ven- ues of the 1984 Olympics. Los Angeles is a city where everyone drives and few people actually walk. The
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    • 184 46  -  L.A. DESPATCH F rom FONG HOE BENG IN A QUIET but dignified ceremony yesterday morning, the Singapore contingent was officially welcomed into the Olympic Village by Mayor Philip Brubaker. Because of the large number of teams arriving at the village
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    • 706 47 WEARING the red jackets of Singapore, our five Olympians will proudly step out on to the Los Angeles Coliseum track today, taking their place in the spectacular parade that starts the 23rd
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    • 244 47 OUR REGULAR OLYMPIC LINEUP EVERY DAY 1. L.A. DESPATCH: Fong H oe Bcng, Singapore team manager, writes exclusively for us on our boys 2. EXCLUSIVE reports by MICHAEL KAREM, our man in L.A. 3. SPECIAL features from the Los Angeles Times and their Olympic task force of more than 35
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