Singapore Monitor, 30 July 1984

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    12 1 THE STNtiAFQRE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Monday, July 30, 1984 30cents
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    Jin Teik fails to qualify but betters personal best
    325 1  -  OLYMPIC GAMES WRAP-UP DAY 1 ■y MICHAEL KAREM WE CAN be proud of 21-year-old Onn Jin Teik. Taking part in his first Olympics, in the very first event of the men's swimming programme, he bettered his own personal best for 100
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    Lock icon CHINA'S DRAMATIC GOLD VICTORY
    470 1 They return to Olympics after 32 years by winning opening event AP LOS ANQELES, Monday CHINA made a dramatic return to Olympic competition after a 32year absence yesterday by winning their first gold medal in the opening event of the Los Anteles Games. Xu Haifeng became
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      55 1 L Kelly Chan confident he will make It to top 10: I Page 80 Olympic sidelights plus pictures Page 28 SWIMMING SEE PAGE 29 GUIDE TO TODAY'S EVENTS: PAGE 30 All the results: Page 26 I Editorial lOC action on boycotts long ovorduoi Pago 13 »TV GUIDE: Pajje 18 ■TV
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      'Noise barrier' wall goes up at St Andrew's Cathedral
      156 2  -  By VINCENT FONG DIVERSION of road traffic due to MET works near St Andrew's Cathedral ha* made it necessary for the church to request this noise barrier (see picture, centre), a temporary brickwall, fronting Stamford Road opposite the Raffles City project.
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      Smaller hotels confident about future as bigger hotels worry
      1078 2 CONFIDENCE that's the feeling of some of Singapore's mid-range and smaller hotels as their bigger and more expensive multi-star cousins become increasingly worried about falling occupancy rates and a doubling of rooms by 1989 Some people in the industry are predicting
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    • Article
      $ 13,000 video equipment stolen from shop
      158 2 13,000 video equipment stolen from shop THIEVES stole an assortment of video equipment worth $13,000 after they broke into a video shop in Chinatown over the weekend. Detectives believe the thieves got into Nikko Video Services Private Limited, en the first flo«r of the Pearl Centre in the early hours
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      Hello! No wrong numbers here
      51 3 THERE is no excuse for dialling the wrong number from this call box at Hougang. It b one of the latest models which display the numbers as yon posh the buttons. So if you make a mistake, just ring off and dial again. The new
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      Enter the ticketless POSB lucky draw
      301 3  -  By JANICE LIM POST Office Savings Bank depositors will no longer be told what their draw numbers are but stand to gain more -in prizes under changes proposed for the POSB lucky draw. Prom next year the bank will scrap the system of sending
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      Doubts if draw would be genuine
      177 3 THE SINGAPORE Monitor talked to some customers at the POSB headquarters in Bras Basah. Four out of eight said they had doubts about whether the draw would be genuine if the POSB did not send out tickets for the December Draw. MISS CHEONG JIN
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      Lining up to fill that pail
      101 4 NO, THERE was no water shortage yesterday. The queue (pictare at right) of people with buckets in hana was a simulated exercise which the residents of MacPherson went through to find out how they get water during an emergency Following a simulated bomb blast
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      Lock icon PUB is there with water when taps go dry after 'bomb blast'
      392 4  -  STORY: ROBERT CONCEICAO RESIDENTS OF MacPherson went back 20 years yesterday when they found out how water would reach them in an emergency. Following a simulated bomb blast which "disrupted" the water supply at Block 90, Pipit Road,
      PICTURES: ASMAH HAMID  -  392 words
    • THE TURNING POINTS
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        1THE PERFORMANCE OF MR J B JEYARETNAM
        119 5 AFTER the Badge! session (last year), I noticed a change in mood. I found an Increased willingness H amongst the professionals to take part In politics. I asked some of the potential candidates why they were prepared to enter a no-gain high risk
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        2 THE UNEXPECTED DEATH OF MR HON SUI SEN
        130 5 The second turning point we can do without. It arose out of a misfor- tune. In October last year, Mr Hon Sui Sen unexpectedly passed away. Then followed the numbing news of Mr Raiaratnam's heart attack while he was in New
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      Why more willing to be MPs: Goh
      390 5 TWO EVENTS persuaded more potential candidates to consider standing for the People's Action Party in the next election, Mr Goh Chok Tone said last night. They were the speech by Workers Party Member of Parliament, Mr J B Jeyaretnam, in last year's budget
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      On Malay candidates
      104 5 IF we cannot find sufficient number of the better-qualified bilingual Malay leaders who can understand Malay aspirations and at the tame time serve their non-Malay constituents well, should we lower our standards and widen our choice? The Malay intelligentsia is unanimous that we should not. Better to
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      192 2 The Solar Age Even For Scientific Calculator. A solar cell enables CASIO Scientific Calculator* to bo used anywhere even by candlelight• More advanced than ever loaded with multiple I. illLi lumrHnm. SCtttmTK TUIKHOnS 111— eluding binary, octal and hexadecimal col■FtfJMS6lB9onlrtta,,. indbpm»«W» I* oddreMing mm and memory capacity mh > i
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      482 3 Qntes&& Prizes for each category IN CELEBRATION OF f f JUr (Primary/Secondary/ fcb Singaporeans must take to heart one simple fact, that ls n e arcasfo,lows: unless we improve ourselves through education and i set sheaffer 1036 Blue Ronce training, and through developing the will to productivity S id Cold
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  • world
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      Lock icon 'HK pact ready by September'
      408 6 CHINA AND BRITAIN SAY THEY HAVE MADE PROGRESS TOWARDS 1997 AGREEMENT Reuter BEIJING, Monday CHINESE Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian and British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said yesterday they- have made progress towards reaching an agreement on Hong Kong, and Mr Wu indicated a pact
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      Lock icon Meet Fabrizia 'Legs' Femina
      52 6 ELECTED by Roman photographer* as Miss Beautiful Lags, Fabrizia La Famina, 18, show off har assets against a background of St Pater's Basilica in Rome. Miss La Famine will take part in the International Miaa Beautiful Legs contest to be held in San Benedetto del Tronto.
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      Lock icon Pakistan to launch inquiry into border explosions
      226 6 AP PESHAWAR, Monday THE Pakistan government yesterday launched a "full inquiry" following a string of explosions in the North-West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, officials said. And there was speculation that the blasts might indicate a fresh outbreak of internecine guerilla warfare among various
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      Hijackers wait arms in exchange for 87 hostages
      117 6 PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), Mon A VENEZUELAN jetliner hijacked by five armed men demanding an arsenal of military weapons landed at this Caribbean island yesterday and was surrounded by Trinidadian security forces as negotiations began for release of 87 passengers and crew
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      Striking Bangla pressmen bar owners from offices
      79 6 DHAKA, Monday STRIKING journalists and press workers prevented Bangladesh newspaper owners entering their offices yesterday in the latest move over a pay dispute which has left the country without newspapers for 17 days. Witnesses said the owners left when strikers in front of
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      Lock icon Viets in the first rainy season attack at border
      174 7 Reuter BANGKOK, Monday ABOUT 2,000 Cambodians yesterday fled into Thailand when Vietnamese troops attacked a resistance camp on the Thai-Cambodian border, United Nations relief officials said. They said many people were wounded in an hour-long artillery attack on the Khmer Peoples
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      Lock icon Militia clashes in Beirut shatter three-week truce
      237 7 LAT-WP BEIRUT, Monday RIVAL Muslim and Druze militias battled for three hours in the streets of west Beirut yesterday, breaking a delicate truce that had lasted in the Lebanese capital for 3Mi weeks. The fighting, which sent Sunday strollers in downtown west Beirut
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      Lock icon Cure for brain damage from boozing may have been found
      83 7 UPI LONDON, Monday RESEARCHERS in Ireland say they may have found a way to cure damage done to the brain by excessive drinking, but admit the treatment might be regarded as worse than the disease. Experiments on rats at University
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      Lock icon Datuk Kuok released by his kidnappers
      126 7 Lianhe Zaobao DATUK KUOK Hock Yeow, the eminent Malaysian Chinese community leader, has been released by his kidnappers after being held for 60 days. Sources say an undisclosed sum was paid before he was allowed to go home. Datuk Kuok, particularly well respected in
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      Lock icon Mondale insists Reagan has secret tax increase plan
      241 8 AP, UPI MMNEAPOUB, Monday DEMOCRATIC Presidential nominee Walter Mondale renewed his charge yesterday that President Reagan has a "secret" plan for a post-election taz increase that will work against average Americans and "leave Mr Reagan's rich friends alone." "They're planning a big
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      Lock icon First spacewalk woman is back
      177 8 Reuter MOSCOW, Monday THREE Soviet cosmonauts, including Miss Svetlana Savitskaya, who carried out the first spacewalk by a woman last week, returned to earth yesterday at the end of their 12-day mission, Tass news agency reported. Miss Savitskaya and fellow cosmonauts Mr Vladimir Dzhanibekov and
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      Lock icon Oceans cannot protect US, says Soviet admiral
      383 8 Agencies MOSCOW, Monday SOVIET admirals marked National Navy Day yesterday with warnings to the United States that their fleet was capable of dealing a devastating nuclear counterblow in the event of war. Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, naval Com-mander-in-Chief, in an interview with the official
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      Lock icon Soviets playing politics on arms talks issue, says Weinberger
      247 8 AP, Reuter WASHINGTON, Monday US DEFENCE Secretary Caspar Weinberger said yesterday the Soviets may be balking at going ahead with the Vienna arms talks in September for "purely political" reasons. "They may be simply trying to defeat the President of the
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      Lock icon Help from religious faction boosts Shamir's chances
      215 8 AP JERUSALEM, Mon PRIME Minister Yitzhak Shamir took the lead yesterday in the race to form Israel's next Government after a key religious faction agreed to negotiate a coalition partnership with him. The Sephardi Torah guardians, known as Shas, hold four seats in
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      Lock icon Siamese twin 'very sick' after 12-hour operation
      81 8 AP TORONTO, Mon ONE OF the infant Siamese twins separated by Toronto doctors during the weekend was "very sfck" yesterday and rapidly losing blood, a spokesman at the hospital for sick children said. He said that 2%-year-old Win Htut of Banna was taken
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      191 6 in*J I twßjjH j wm HI llHw AM THE PAIN RELIEVER THAT ALSO Reduces inflammation while it relieves pain, fever and flu. Muscle tension causes most headache pain. Inflammation often comes with body pain. ANACIN not only relieves muscle tension headache fast, but more. ANACIN also reduces inflammation that often
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      105 7 THE SINGAPORE IVDNTTOR First with news of the Olympic Games OLYMPIC GAMES REPORT MAW,MWITH THE VERY LATEST NEWS LOS ANGELES The Singapore Monitor promises to deliver the very latest newspaper coverage The Games will finish in Los Angeles each day at 2 am Singapore time too late for the morning
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  • money
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      Lock icon C K TANG – MAN WHO BUILT AN EMPIRE FROM SCRATCH
      1698 9 C K TANG MAN WHO BUILT AN EMPIRE FROM SCRATCH THE ENTREPRENEURS Lianhe Zaobao ONE DAY, 62 years ago, a cargo ship named Feng Sheng (Fulsome and Prosperous carried to Singapore a 21-year-old young man from Snantou (Swatow). On his way down to the South Seas, his heart bobbed up
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      'Buy cheap, sell cheap' strategy that pays
      141 9 TO EDGE out his competitors, Mr Tang had always made good use of his favourite strategy buy cheap, sell cheap and he always purchased with cash, so that he could buy at lower prices thaa his competitors. In the first Orchard Road building,
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      TOP APPOINTMENT
      452 10 MR GUNNAR TUFTE has been appointed Managing Director of Bergen bank from Aug 1. He comes from the bank's central office in Oslo where he was Deputy General Manager and Head of the Shipping Finance Department. Holder of a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University, New
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      On The Move
      820 10 BUSINESSWORLD Services Pte Ltd has appointed MR KEITH BOUSTEAD General Manager, Interiors Division. Mr Boustead, 43, will take a particular interest in the commercial and contractual functions of the business. "We at Business World support the government's stand on increasing productivity and saving energy costs in the
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      33 9 01 TKf C hartered Bank BUg, I 6 Battery Road, #14-06, H.Singapore 0104. I Telephone: *****86. wMK# Lunch Ar Raffles. r c m 1 (mtfl****). *££2?*" S Raffles Hotel Our tradition is legendoy
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      95 10 Asiatic Engineering 9to. Ltd. 154, IN, OWEN ROM), SINGAPORE tott, TIL *****10 *****90 THBMAMB: ASMBMME TELEX: RS23S7I. Soto Agwt Modal AxM Plow Stngla Suction MuM-Aoa Modal DRP3O Ooubi Suction TTw Aoa APM PortobtoAo^^W^ DRAGON PHOENIX RESTAURANT BIbIBISBIBIBIBIBI UVf BJ ICJ SEAFOOD DO g 6AROUPA fin SOON HOCK nji O CRABS
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      1101 11 WELLS FARGO BANK'S SINGAPORE OFFICE. PART OF A SYSTEM OF BANKING FACILITIES EXTENDING AROUND THE WORLD Statement of Accounts of Wells Fargo Company and its principal subsidiaries including Weils Fargo Bank for year ended December 31, 1983 (in Thousands) AsMt* 1983 1982 liabilities ano STOCKHOLDERS' Accountants' Report UwS? 19,2 The
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  • opinion / letters
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      Businessmen without hearts
      142 12 I AGREE with the views of" Aquarius Mentor" in his letter "Disgusting destruction of vegetables for profit" (SM, July 26). Just when nature is generous enough to provide abundant harvest, the merchants' wastefulness in destroying the produce to "preserve" higher prices cannot be condoned. It just shows
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      Chance to prove the opposition's credibility
      183 12 THE opposition parties should accept the People's Action Party (PAP) government's offer to go into Parliament as non-constituen-cy Members of Parliament (NCMPs) should they fail to win seats in Parliament at the general elections. It is the next best thing to do. They should
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      DANGER LURKS MOVE BRAS BASAH ROAD: WHEN WILL THE BUILDING BE DEMOLISHED?
      203 12 A "KILLER" in the form of a rotten structure is perched precariously on the roof top of a threestorey building due for demolition. This building at the junction of Bras Basah Road and Bencoolen Street has become an
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      Products without frills could help to lower cost of living
      151 12 IF GENERIC products are an answer to lower the cost of living in Singapore then they should be advocated and promoted among Singaporeans as another alternative to the branded and more expensive products. However, quality counts the most. If the
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      IOC action on boycotts long overdue
      469 13 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT COMMENT LET THE Games begin! The starter's gun has gone off at the Los Angeles Olympics. Over the next two weeks the world's best, minus those from most communist countries, will compete for sports honours. The current Games may bring
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      Stamp out void deck gambling at Bedok
      206 13 THE ARMY has done it again and won the war so to speak. The combined forces of a major and captain provided the thrust and punch to get rid of a nuisance at the HDB Dover Road block. I admire the army's credibility
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      More reason for a yellow box junction
      131 13 I SUPPORT the request of your reader "Cairnhill Resident' 7 (SM, July 24) for a yellow box at the Cairnhill Circle/Clemenceau Avenue junction. This has now become even more necessary. I even think traffic lights are now necessary since, at the nearby Elizabeth
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      Foreigners need a permit to work here
      126 13  -  EVELYN LOH (MISS) for Controller of Immigratioa I REFER to the letter from "Deprived Salesman" concerning foreigners who are going around selling oil paintings in offices and homes (SM, July 20). Foreign visitors are issued with Social Visit Passes on the condition that
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      77 12 Hsemosol gives quick, effective relief. Piles or haemorrhoids They may cause pain, haemorrhage, itch MMMB and swelling. Haemosol contains five active ingredients Vit E, Vit Ki, Rutin, Lysozyme Chloride and Pluronic F-68 to jg help combat swelling, pain, haemorrhage and itching at the source of the Hsemosol Today's oral relief
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      84 13 LETTERS on any subject of tMlMr- interest w9 bo aocepted tor publication. They mould be typed aid must be signed. They must siso Include the wrttar's name and eddrsss even n me writer oectoes to use a pseudonym m prim. A contact Miphona number would be useful. 1*1-- r, tM
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  • The Chef Recommends
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      Cantonese cuisine — the real McCoy...
      562 14  - Cantonese cuisine the real McCoy... By THERESA CHAN DINING at the Shatin Restaurant gave us a taste of food cooked in genuine Hong Kong style According to proprietor Andy Lai, all Cantonese dishes served in his restaurant are prepared in the uncompromising traditional fashion, with no changes made to accommodate
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      Taking pride in home cooked food
      187 14 WANT genuine Cantonese home-cooked food? Then try the Shatin Coffee House and Restaurant on the third floor of the Golden Mile Complex. At the entrance the words "genuine Cantonese cuisine" in Chinese are inscribed on the wall. And that's what proprietor Andy Lai is
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      Some frying experiences — real Hong Kong style!
      330 15 Some frying experiences real Hong Kong style! ANDY LAI is one restaurauteur who happily admits that he likes eating. He spends much time sampling the food in other restaurants and is prepared to talk about his culinary experiences, some of which were acquired during a six-year sojourn in Hong Kong.
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      119 14 USA Duck.Siamese Chicken. Crystal Prawns. Fresh Live Seafood. Catar tor a« function* XfSIN LEONG Restaurant HmU Office Block 80 (Behind Republic Theatre) Marin* Parade Tel: *****05/0 Branch. 30 Upper Serangoon Road (3m/s) Tel: *****10 FATTY WENG (Shark's Fin Wood) RESTAURANT fCome and experience our famous dishes spodafly prepared by bur
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      110 14 CAUSEWAY BAY KITCHEN It's a touch of Hong Kong with the tastes of home the trademark of Causeway Bay Kitchen, the restaurant for lovers of good home cooking. Our popular dishes include: Hong Kong-style Special Steamed Chicken, Causeway Bay Porridge, Steamed Pork and Oyster Sauce Chicken. PLUS a grand six-part
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      45 14 SHATIN RESTAURANT I Kill A tt The only Restaurant in Singapore that serves Home-Cooked Cantonese Food in the traditional way. 5001 Beach Road. #03-81, Golden Mile Complex, Singapore 0719. Tel: *****15 Business Hours: Mon Sat 11.00 am 9.00 pm —4—»• r< «—utt jt I; (y|
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      149 15 iacmll Chicken in Prawn Paste: $8 Deep Fried Cuttlefish: $8 MCNU Claypot Stewed Beef Briskets: $7 Dry Beef Fried Noodles: $8. PHmmKfMyjv WH Mitt Hong Kong Luo Pd 21 M M 2£ 1t beautiful and attractive. We congratulate for her great performance recently and the dtteived at the tuccettl Pteate
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      142 15 <9 RED LANTERN REVOLVING RESTAURANT (PTE) LTD. 60A, Change Alley Aerial Plaza, Col Iyer Quay. Singapore 0104. i I Set atop the city's buzzling business core and harbour front, the Red '1 Lantern Revolving Restaurant affords memorable dining experience. I Take in enchanting city sights and dazzling harbour lights as
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      60 15 RfSTfIURfINT UVE EAFOOD I Holland Ro*d Shopping Centre. 4th Floor. Te1:*****06'*****18 9 Courses with WHOLE SUCKLING PIG Our Gcillxccai only $280 JK opening soon 1 Cash Mm 1. Special Cold Dish 2. Crab Meat Shark Soup 4.Golden 7Fried Noodles! j Fried Chicken 8 Abalone Vegell Special tables Soup II |5.
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  • leisure
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      WHEN WE WERE POOR
      830 16 9 STARS RECALL THEIR CHILDHOODS f Robert Redford: My father was a milkman after the war. It was the only work he could get. My mother, who died when I was 18, was a good woman, a joyous person who found the positive in everything, but
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      Lock icon I WAS ALWAYS A LONER, SAYS STREISAND
      552 16 IPS f Barbra Streisand: k My childhood is just a depressing bad mein- ory. I never knew my father because he died in 1943 when I was one-year-old. My mother spent the next three years in bed crying. We lived on my brother's
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      Science – the fun way
      300 18 Science the fun way BKaxMaxrug Kinetic Karnival Force and Collisons (Debut) (Ch 5, 6.25 pm) KINETIC Karnival presents science in an interesting way, with explanations of how the various principles are arrived at. In this pilot episode, Professor Jearl Walker, the host of the programme, explains how people survive long
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      Lock icon General sues CBS for libel
      483 18 TV SCENE LATWP LAWYERS for Gen William C < Westmoreland have laid out i the general's case against CBS, contending that a CBS documentary, charging West- i moreland with wrongdoing i during the Vietnam War was wrong, and that CBS producers knew it was wrong
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      Send in the cops
      618 19  -  Pom Pom's duo in town By WONG AH YOKE DETECTIVES NG and Beethoven, the two bumbling cops in Pom Pom, were in town last week to promote the comedy's sequel, The Return of Pom Pom. The character of Beethoven has become so familiar to his fans
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      Lock icon Travolta turns director
      175 19 LAT-WP HOLLYWOOD: John Travolta has reached an agreement with Columbia Pictures to make his directing debut on a family drama that the actor is developing with writer Ken Griswald. The project, tentatively titled Greenwich, is based on Griswald's own family life. Travolta will work solely behind the
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      106 16 fttk. ■BSSBag Many Singaporeans still recall the feeble attempt And a part of Total Defence is learning the lessons younger generation about the security that Total S Wi£jSPSsaßy this country made to defend itself in World War 11. taught four decades ago. Defence can offer. The outcome was total disaster.
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      1133 17 L __^__J ft —1 I—V I 2.30 SBCTEXT Uve Sample I 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Prin- I ceaa Chang Ping t I Mr Wizard'a World (E). <*>» We find out why sugar when burnt, how a I straw can make different sounds, how a rolling pin can
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      446 19 fllM GUIDE 1 TOA payoh (*****34): DUEL OF THE MASTERS DALIT (*****16): 1)1 hi. ()F THh MASTERS (C) JUBILEE (*****07): DUEL OF THE MASTERS (C) LIWAQU (*****30): DUEL OF THE MASTERS (C) Hp LLY WOOD (*****64): DUEL OF THE MASTERS BEDOK (*****7): THE OTHER SIDE OF GENTLESJftg Alan Tam, Li.
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      425 20 BROTHERS IN CONCERT BROTHER Vincent Malham and Brother Laurence Waltber will sing at the Goethe Institut tomorrow at 8 pm. The two Christian Brothers, have performed in Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Ford Auditorium in Detroit, the Greer Garson Centre in Santa Fe and the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC. Those
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      604 20 BBHHDI L r~ h vUi^l One of the exhibits on diapiay at the Printa USA Exhibition MULTIPLE ART PRINTS USA MORE THAN 90 etchings, prints, THE Prints USA Exhibition will be lithographs, reliefs and sculptures held at the National Museum Art will be on display at the Goethe- Gallery until
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      381 20 LES ADVENTURIERS ALLIANCE Prancaise will present the film, Les Adventuriers, tomorrow at 9 pm at the Cultural Theatre. It is about two friends who enjoy dangerous living. Admission is free. THE PARTY HILTON Movie House will screen The Party on Sunday at 8.15pm. This is a comedy of disasters, starring
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      369 24  -  OBEROI IMPERIAL 1 HILTON INTERNATIONAL 0 By ALFONSO CHAN FORMER national goalkeeper Lee Bee Seng won the match for his team, Hotel Oberoi Imperial, when he saved a last minute penalty shot in the Business Houses Division One final at Jalan Besar Stadium last night.
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      Chelliah victory sinks Samy's grand slam bid
      382 24 GOLF ROUNDUP P M SAMY, 32, like the fine sportsman he is, paid the highest tribute to the new Sembawang Country Club champion A Chelliah, whose comfortable 2 and 1 win in the 36-hole final off the stick matchplay on Saturday ended his
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      S'pore juniors hand Hong Kong a thrashing in golf friendly
      219 24 SINGAPORE'S youngsters thrashed Hong Kong by six points to one in a friendly international match at the Bukit course yesterday. It was a warm up for the Hons Kong players, who have entered for toe 72nole Singapore Amateur Open championship
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      Yesterday's Results
      602 24 RACE 1 Restricted Term* Div C l,lNn (2 ni S yew olds) 6 CMdMiH M Tweed ie (4) 2 3 1 t Klaroas Lai 89* Gopal (8) 4 2 2 Light of Dawa S3 Sag (2) 113 7 Gestare HS3 Daata (12) I 4 On an. Diamond King
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      ALL THE RESULTS
      1548 25 DAY 1 WOMEN'S 79.2 km Road Race 1 Connie Carpenter-Phinney, US, 2 hours 11:14 minutes (36.210 kph average speed), 2 Rebecca Twigg, US, same tune, 3 Sandra Schumacher, West Germany, same time, 4 Unni Larsen, Norway, same time, 5 Maria Canins, Italy, same time, 6 Jeannie Longo,
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      Chinese put on a dazzling display
      313 26 LOS ANGELES, Monday THE CHINESE men's gymnastics team put on a dazzling display of fluid motion in yesterday's opening compulsory compe- Utlon at the Los Angeles Olympics. With five of the six Chinese gymnasts scoring perfect 10.00s including two by Li Nuig China opened
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      First female cyclist to win Olympic gold
      221 26 MISSION VIEJO (California), Mon CONNIE Carpenter of the United States Rabbed victory by a w centimetres in the women's cycling road race yesterday to become the first female rider to win an Olympic gold medal. Carpenter forced her way past compatriot Rebecca Twigs
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      Super Seb: Confident but not quite content
      473 26 PL YMPIC NOTES SEBASTIAN Coe is confident but not content. The British runner says he is in as good form going into the Summer Games as during his peerless 1981 season. But rivals are gaining on the 800 m world recordholder where once
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      Lock icon No easy path for US favourite
      218 26 Reuter tOS ANGELES, Monday MARK BRELAND of the United States recovered from a standing count of eight yesterday before scoring a unanimous 5-0 decision over Wayne Gordon of Canada in the opening round of the Olympic boxing tournament. Breland, the world amateur wel- terweight
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      225 27 The extraordinary and the ordinary take their place at Los Angeles President Reagan declared the Games open on Saturday in a showbusiness spectacular that lived up to its billing as 'the greatest show on earth'. Beamed live to an estimated 2.5 billion television viewers around the world,
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      Lock icon The Official Hiker of the Olympics
      40 27 SOME arrivals for the opening ceremony are earlier than others. Roger Cooke of Britain sleeping outside the Los Angles Coliseum on Friday night so as to be the first for the opening. PICTURE: UPI
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      Lock icon Your guide to today's events
      200 28 Reuter BASKETBALL (1600 GMT): Women's round-robin matches (Australia v China, US v Yugoslavia, Canada v South Korea). Men's preliminaries (Italy v West Germany, Egypt v Brazil, Yugoslavia v Australia). BOXING (1800): Preliminary bouts. CYCLING 1630): 4,000 m individual pursuit qualifying, kilometre time trial. EQUESTRIAN (1500):
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      SWIMMING
      1005 28  -  MONITOR FACT SHEET By JOHN WEYLER Exactly wh«n man first learned to propel himself through water without drowning it purely conjecture. The Greeks and Romans were able swimmers and Plato once sa«d that a man who could not swim was "uneducated." The first records of competitive swimming were kept
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      'Unbecoming of an opening'
      921 29  -  I From I MICHAEL KAREM in Los Anoetes 'jy M| I so WHAT do you expect? Obviously Los Angeles, the tertainme nt Capital of the World," as it likes to call itself, would produce a Hollywood spectacular as an Olympic opening ceremony to beat all opening
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      Lock icon Australia whip Malaysia in hockey opener
      124 29 Reuter MONTEREY PARK (CaUfomia), Monday AUSTRALIA, the favourites, beat Malaysia 5-0 in the opening of the Olympic men's hockey tournament after leading 1-0 at the interval. Terry Walsh, Australia's centre for- ward, scored their first four goals and laid on the fifth for inside
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      Kelly in a confident mood
      580 29  -  LA. DESPATCH From FONG HOE BENG KELLY CHAN has recovered from his backache which had been bothering him the past week or so and is now feeling much better. He estimates his chpnce of finishing among the top 10 to be very good. Kelly and
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      US swimmers shine in women's heats
      622 30 LOS ANGELES, Moooay AMERICAN Nancy Hogshead yesterday recorded the eighth best ever time to lead the qualifiers after the heats of the women's lOOmetres freestyle in the Olympic Games. Hogshead, in line for five medals at the Games, clocked 55.85 seconds before a delighted
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      Emotion-packed grand opening triggers a rush for tickets
      235 30 SPARKED by the emotion-filled torch relay and opening ceremonies, ticket sales for Olympic events shifted into high gear over the weekend with some going for as high as US$l,OOO (SI2.100). Bartering of tickets was brisk outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site
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      Medal Tally
      40 30 Q S B TOTAL us 4 10 5 CANADA 1 1 0 2 CHINA 1 0 1 2 AUSTRALIA 0 2 1 3 SWEDEN 0 10 1 NETHERLANDS 0 0 1 1 WEST GERMANY 0 0 1 1
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      653 31 2.5 billion people ell over the world sew the opening of the Olympics Iwt believe It or not, our boys In LA were kept In the dork r es Fong Hoe Bong laments Parking fees $230 L. A DESPATCH FONG HOE BENG'S EXCLUSIVE REPORT FOR THE
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