Singapore Monitor, 2 August 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 18 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EVENING EDITION f M C (P) No 21 5 84 Thursday, August 2, 1984 30cents
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  • 273 1 L.A. DESPATCH From FONG HOE BENG OLYMPIC GAMES DAY 4 LOS ANGELES, Thursday WITH ANG PENG SIONG having become Asia's fastest swimmer at the Olympics, Singapore now aim to win yet another accolade as Asia's fastest freestyle relay team when they
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  • 201 1 AIR FRANCE HIJACK PARIS, Thurs FRANCE consulted several foreign governments and the UN General Secretariat early yesterday on moves to ena a hijack ordeal for the remaining hostages aboard an Air France plane at Teheran Airport, an official source saia. The hijackers had
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  • 401 1 SOUTH-EAST Asian nations were urged this morning to work through the International Monetary Fund and other international bodies to fight protectionism. They were also urged to complain to developed countries that allowed trade disputes among themselves to hit exports from developing nations. Countries
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  • 162 1 FLOATING exchange rates have failed, and major industrialised countries, especially Japan, the US and West Germany, must act to- ether to stabilise currencies, Dr ony Tan said this morning. Fluctuating exchange rates have allowed sharp short term fluctuations, encouraged protectionism and caused uncertainty and risks
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    • 8 1 ■TV GUIDE: Page 18 TV SCENE Page 19
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  • home
    • 413 2  -  National Association of Travel Agents to appeal on behalf of individual agencies By YEOW MEI SIN TRAVEL agents say that stricter procedures for granting employment passes or work permits are making it difficult to find tourist guides with a knowledge of foreign
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    • 238 2 THE HOUSING and Development Board is to be allowed to lend money to purchasers of any undeveloped land it sells. Only land that has planning permission is involved, and the land will be mortgaged to the HDB until
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    • 144 2 A 78-YEAR-OLD man came home one night and found his wife lying on the kitchen floor with burn marks on her body and legs, a coroner's court was told yesterday. He also saw kerosene on the floor and broken pieces of glass
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    • 98 2 TOURISTS can now hire limousines by purchasing coupons at two leading hotels. The system came into effect yesterday at the Hilton International and Pavilion Intercontinental, after several months of planning for alternatives to reserved taxi fleets for the use of houseguests.
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    • 150 3 Lianhe Zaobao A CROCODILE estimated to measure about 2.5 metres was sighted at about 9 am yesterday. Mr Huang Yasheng, who makes wrought-iron windows in Havelock Road near the river, said he had sighted a similar reptile the day before. As he was going about
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    • 248 3  -  By K K FONG FOUR robbers overpowered five people in a Thomson Road jewellery workshop before escaping with an assortment of jewellery valued at $160,000. The daylight robbery took place in a ground floor apartment in Jalan Novena Barat, off Thomson Road, when two
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    • 192 3 CINEMAS suffered a 14 per cent cut in advertising in the first five months of this year, figures in the latest issue of Advoice magazine show. And advertising in all media as a whole grew by only 5 per cent as compared with last
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    • 145 4 A 22-YEAR-OLD woman used a forged medical certificate when she needed a day off work to take her mother to hospital. In court yesterday, Tan Bee Neo pleaded guilty to using a medical certificate purporting to be issued by a clinic of the Department
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    • 574 4  -  Stories by SEAH MEI KIANG THE railbus service began its first run promptly at nine yesterday morning. And its first passengers gave the service a thumbs-up. "It's good, very good," said Singaporean Mr Zainal Tapa, 53, who was visiting his eldest son in
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    • 238 4 THE RAILBUS chugged its way to Johor Baru with two car loads of passengers. It was the first time that a railbus had come to Singapore, and it was making its maiden run. The passengers, were there for a variety of reasons, but the most
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    • 119 4 THE new railbus service affected the business of taxis plying the Sin-gapore-Johore route. An official the Rochor Road taxi kiosk, who keeps a tally of the number of taxis leaving for Johore, said between 110 and 120 taxis left for Johor Bahru between 7.30 am and 4
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    • 111 5 FOR ABOUT a week in the coming fortnight, the weather is likely to be partly cloudy with isolated or scattered showers in the late morning and afternoon. The Meteorological Service said widespread thundery showers should also be expected around dawn and in the
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    • 515 5  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN ENGINEERING and Science graduates predominate among the People's Action Party candidates announced so far for the coming general election repeating the trend at the last election. Half of the 16 candidates introduced so far are engineering or science
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    • 165 5 Many in group doing well in government TWO OF THE 18 PAP candidates in the 1980 general election have already made it to the Cabinet. They are Dr Yeo Ning Hong, Minister for Communcations and Second Minister for Defence, and Prof S Jayakumar, Minister for Labour
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    • 203 5 PEOPLE can get their employers to deduct a minimum of 50 cents a month to help the Council for the Education of Muslim Children (Mendaki) achieve its objectives. This is provided for in a bill to amend the Administration of Muslim Law Act. The
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    • 29 2 The noon and evening editions of the Monitor would be the only —LjaT newspaper with the latest m (V th* MM lII,a Olyrrtp.sd >\ A'Kf+t t Olympic results in Singapore
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    • 494 3 Qntes&& Pri/es for cach category iwm:i Ldd Tiruviru.- (Primary Secondary 66 Singaporeans must take to heart one simple fact, that S ,E arc as lollows> xunless we improve ourselves through education and i set sheaffcr 1036 Blue Roncc training, and through developing the will to productivity,^^^ n M q N!"bh"nd'^iipo"m'
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    • 18 5 First with the 1984 fj Olympics results. Read the winner R The Singapore Monitor noon and evening editions.
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    • 104 5 soMMat^n I Highlighting some of Japan's latest jk I and most creative Summer Collections in the fashion scene. Every Friday from July to Poolside sth floor B; Royal Holiday Inn Singapore Hi* Time 7.30pm Lavish barbecue buffet dinner with a selection B of Japanese specialities. B |^^^Bflß^lß 9.00pm Fashion Show
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  • world
    • 103 6 UPI KINGMAN (Arizona), Thurs A KINGMAN woman has been ticketed for failure to have a tail-light on her horse. The ticket was issued to Ms Kathie Smith, 34, after the horse was struck from behind by a car on Hualapai Mountain Road near Kingman
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    • 307 6 UPI CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida), Thursday SPACE agency officials said yesterday they hoped to nail down an agreement "early next week" to fly a dramatic shuttle mission to rescue an Indonesian communications satellite stranded in a useless orbit. Indonesia's Palapa B-2 relay station
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    • 237 6 Agencies CLEVELAND, Thursday REVEREND Jesse Jackson, saying he has "national responsibilities" to campaign for the Democratic presidential ticket, announced yesterday that he will not challenge Republican Senator Strom Thurmond in South Carolina. "As a former presidential candidate who ran a national campaign,
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    • 458 7 LONDON, Thursday Teheran early yesterday after touching down first at Geneva, Beirut and Larnaca in Cyprus. an Iranian official, who demanded the release of all passengers and especially women and children, it was agreed the hijackers would free nine women and
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    • 126 7 Reuter SANTA BARBARA (California), Thurs PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan is astonished and frustrated by what he considers Soviet distortions of the US position on proposed Vienna talks on banning space weapons, a senior White House official said. The official, who did not
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    • 238 7 UPI WASHINGTON, Thursday CRITICS OF US military purchasing practices that produced a U559,609 (5520,179) bill for a 12-cent (Sso 25) wrench showed examples of overpriced hardware at a news conference the Pentagon criticised as "guerilla theatre." Shrugging off Pentagon assertions that
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    • 124 7 Reuter JERUSALEM, Thursday A PLOT by several Americans and Paraguayans to kidnap notorious Nazi physician Joseph Mengele in 1977 was cancelled because Israel was not interested in it, one of the alleged plotters has said. An American who said he took part in the
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    • 399 8 AP PONTYPRIDD (Wales), Thursday A JUDGE ordered the seizure of £50,000 (S$ 136,500) from the South Wales' coal mining union's funds yesterday after it refused to pay a fine of that amount for illegal picketing. About 2,000 striking miners converged on this mining village
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    • 89 8 HERE are the top 10 companies, their home countries and their 1983 revenue: O ROYAL DUTCHSHELL, BritainThe Netherlands, US$BO.5 billion (*****.05 billion) O BRITISH PETROLEUM, US$49 19 billion (5598.38 billion) OENI, Italy, US$25 billion (5552.5 billion) OIRI, Italy, U5524.52 billion (5551.49 billion) ©UNILEVER, Britain-The Netherlands. U5520.29 billion
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    • 200 8 AP NEW YORK, Thursday THE 500 largest industrial companies outside the United States boosted their combined profits by 37 per cent in 1983 after three straight years of decline, Fortune magazine said yesterday. The improvement came after a 39 per cent decline
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    • 136 8 UPI LONDON, Thurs SURGEONS yesterday performed emergency surgery to save the life of 12-day-old Hoi lie Roffey, who developed a critical complication two days after becoming the world's youngest heart transplant recipient. "We do not know if she will survive the night, but she
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    • 415 8 UPI BEIRUT, Thursday ISRAELI helicopters, supported bv F-16 jet fighters and gunboats offshore, strafed and bombed a Palestinian camp northeast of Tripoli yesterday, witnesses and raaio stations said. "You can still hear the rumbling of outgoing shells or rockets from the
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    • 82 9 The kind of property boom Hong Kong's property market saw in 1980 and 1981 "will never come again," according to the president of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, Mr Stanley Ho. He said: "Private developers are unlikely to be engaged in new development projects
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    • 46 9 Main sellers of gold are the lesser-developed countries, oil sheikhs and the wealthy. As the US dollar firms further, the gold price will dip even more. The Belgian diamond industry is seeking government handouts. Banks financing the diamond traders report a profit slide.
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    • 48 9 Big American corporations are rushing to set up subsidiaries or joint ventures in Japan to concentrate mainly on exports to untapped markets. This is possible with the passing of the Export Trading Company Act. The new trading companies should help to reduce the US trade deficit.
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    • 48 9 The Malaysian government is to undertake a detailed examination of all factors affecting the nation's economy, according to Prime Minister Datuk Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The government, he added, wanted to know whether its policies on taxation, transportation and construction were "actually doing us good or not."
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    • 80 9 For the first time, the white male prototype of the American worker since the beginning of the nation no longer makes up the majority of the US work force, New York Times reports. It says that in 1983, white male workers fell to 49.8 per cent of
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    • 352 9 TRENDS Economics Finance THE sharp decline in the gold price is attributed to a dramatic sell-off by many large gold funds and commodity pools. "But the biggest sell-off, the experts think, is coming from lesser-developed countries, Middle East oil sheikhs and the wealthy
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    • 233 9 THE United States is trying to trim its burgeoning global trade deficit, much of which is with Japan, with a strategy based on a Japanese model itself the trading company. With the passage in Congress of the Export Trading Company Act
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    • 73 9 THE chart at left shows the countries which are most adversely affected by labour unrest. In Europe, Italy has the highest days lost per 1,000 workers, Britain comes next and presently its government is undergoing a bitter confrontation with the coal miners' union over the issue of closure
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    • 118 9 A SMALL businessman from the old country kept his accounts payable in a cigar box, accounts receivable on a spindle, and cash in the cash register. "I don't see how you can run your business this way," said his son. "How do you know what your profits are?"
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    • 110 6 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR Sure to lead the field in Olympic Games news coverage V r ixi r r?!k /V W DAIL Y SPECIAL <WOLYMPIC GAMES REPORT ■V JyWITH THE VERY LA TEST NEWS IJ LOS ANGELES The Singapore Monitor promises to deliver the very latest newspaper coverage during the Olympic
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    • 101 8 (Visit us at Booth 26 NUTRI-HEALTH AND MEDICARE 84 WORLD TRADE CENTRE 4 -12 AUG 1984 12.00 10.00 p.m.J Non-smokers! You don't hove to inhale poisonous fumes now. Research has shown that non smokers also suffer from health hazards in a smoke-tilled room Now you can airconditionmg. dust So the
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    • 11 9 Who the most? Days per 1,000 workers strikes and lockouts (Average
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  • money
    • 103 10 THE POSB has introduced a facility whereby a Cash-On-Line card can be used to transfer funds between a savings account and a current account. If the customer already has a cash card,, for his savings account, he can apply to have his current acccount linked
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    • 1040 10 Reactions to the MAS Act Amendment Bill MHK IF approved, the MAS will be empowered to: Pay Interest on deposits; Extend to six months the period in which loans, advances and credit facilities are made to financial institutions against security; Accept deposits from
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    • 236 11 HMLLSTREET Reuter NEW YORK, Thursday WALL STREET stock prices jumped dramatically higher yesterday on the news that the US economic boom seems to be slowing. Some analysts predicted the rally spelled the end of the doldrums for the market. The New
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    • 160 11 AP NEW YORK, Thursday THE DOLLAR fell from its record-setting pace in US trading yesterday after posting new highs against the French franc and Italian lira in European activity. Profit-taking was credited with pushing the dollar lower. As the dollar fell, precious metals prices rebounded. Republic National
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    • 316 11 PART 9 OF OUR WEEKLY SERIES ON FINANCIAL FUTURES By BENNY TAN, Financial Consultant, Shearson/Amex AS FUTURES positions are taken with the intention of taking deliveries at a future date or profitting from price changes, hedgers or investors are not required to
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    • 121 11 THE US dollar made another record run to touch an all-time high against the mark this week. In spite of the much larger than anticipated decline of the US economic leading indicators in June, the dollar continued to be firmly underpinned by the current high Fed funds
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    • 359 11  -  COMPANY FOCUS REVIEW BY SUN HUNG KAI SEMBAWANG Shipyard has good long term potential for diversification based on the group's sound financial position and caEible management, says Sun Hung ai Securities (SHK). Although it turned in disappointing results for 1983, this is understandable in the
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    • 718 11 LEE KIM TAH Holdings Ltd's public offer closed yesterday with the market speculating that the 20 million shares offered were oversubscribed '40 times. The grey market price had fallen from $2.20 to $2. The balloting ceremony was held yesterday at DBS Bank. □CO THE INSURANCE
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  • features/letters
    • 1066 12  - PRIVATE EYE GETS HIS MAN 13 MONTHS LATER IN NIGERIA ■y CARRI CUMMINGS Los Angslss Times LAT-WP LOS ANQELES: Mr Joseph Idoko will travel the last mile to see justice done. A private investigator shocked by the .murder of a friend, Idoko left his wife and children, spent 5530,240 of
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    • 293 12 THE authors of the book "In Search of Excellence" made some pertinent comments concerning their studies of successful growth companies in America. Among them are IBM and Hewlett Packard which are known for their enlightened personnel policies. Some factors that set excellent companies
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    • 159 12  -  K G GOH Singapore 1438 I AM an avid reader of newspapers and I can't wait to see the August 5 edition of the Sunday Monitor which will be a broadsheet. Another paper, in anticipation of competition, has already tried and improve its
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  • opinion/letters
    • 552 13 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE RELATIONSHIP between doctor and patient has to be one of trust. That does not mean, though, that the patient should put blind trust in a doctor while being kept in the dark. Most of us like to keep an air of mystery
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    • 487 13  -  RAYMOND WONG LOK CHIN Singapore 0410 AS NATIONAL DAY approaches, I write with great pride as a Singaporean of a city-state which has carved out a lasting niche in the world. Its fame has spread far and wide like that of Athens
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    • 103 13  -  C C L Singapore 0105 PLEASE refer to the letter "Cabbie suggests an increase in fares" (SM, Jul 17) in response to my letter (SM, Jun 17). Our taxi fares are not cheap compared to those of the major cities in Asia. Commuters wait a
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    • 219 13  -  REPLIES MISS JOSEPHINE ONG Public Relations Officer Singapore Bus Service I REFER to the letters "Request for loop bus service into Elias Road" (SM, Jun 29) and "Costly feeder service along Marine Parade" (SM, Jul 3). Surveys conducted indicate that the
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    • 76 13  -  DERRICK TAN Public Relations Officer Telecoms WE refer to the letter "Phone book design has room for improvement" from Miss Lim Lay Siang (SM, Jul 18), in which she made some observations and suggestions with regard to the Singapore Phone Book, July 1984 edition.
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  • leisure
    • 1396 14  -  By CHARLES CHAMPLIN in Hollywood LAT-WP THERE are a couple of stories Jack Lemmon still likes to tell about his first days in Hollywood in 1953. He had just come west from New York, where he had done hundreds of hours of live
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    • 927 15  -  GOOD MUSIC AT CHARITY SHOW By PAT D'ROSE COMPERE Brian Richmond called the seven music groups the creme de la creme while, at the other end of the stage, Peter Boudewyn was trying to unravel the microphone wires caught at his feet. Things were a little messy
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    • 683 16  -  FILM: MISUNDERSTOOD STARRING: Gene Hack man. Henry Thomas, Huckleberry Fox DIRECTOR: Jerry Schatzberg SHOWING: Orchard Reviewed by C J TAN A CYNICAL film buff would say that this film was made because the producers hoped to cash in on the popularity of child star
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    • 554 19 TODAY`S HIGHLIGHTS Applause Memories of Eubie (Ch 12, 9 pm) A ONE-HOUR tribute to Eubie Blake, the American pianist, whose songs have been hummed by three generations and whose warm personality has won the hearts of millions of ragtime, vaudeville and jazz enthusiasts. Blake's first
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    • 592 19  -  TV SCENE By WONG AH YOKE FOR his first dramatic role for television, Mick Jagger has picked an easy one. He plays the Emperor of Cathay (the old name for China) in the Faerie Tale Theatre version of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen (to be
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    • 7 15 Places at Leisure has been held over
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    • 136 15 30/.OFF Room Rates*at The Merlin Kuala Lumpur Merit no Supper Club The btbby hwnge The Merlin Kuala Lumpur now offers 30% discount to Singaporean. Newly renovated Superior and Deluxe rooms and suites. New Computerised Reservations System for swift checking in and out. Electronic Subscriber Trunk Dialling tor direct outstation calls.
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 453 16 DALIT (*****16): THE RETURN OF POM POM EMPRESS (*****67): THE RETURN OF POM (C) POM (C) Starring: Richard Ng, John Sum, Deanne Yip MANDARIN (*****01): THE RETURN OF POM Synopsis: A sequel to Pom Pom. The two blunder- dqw /p\ ing cops continue to blunder. LIWAGU (*****30): THE RETURN OF
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 320 17 mw' POETRY WRITING THE Ministry of Culture invites entries for the 1984 National Poetry Writing Competition. Entries may be in Malay, Cninese, Tamil or English and entrants may write on any subject but the theme must be related to Singapore's 25 Years of Nation-Building. Entry forms are available at the
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    • 630 17 buffet luncheon at the i Belvedere, Mandarin imir I Singapore, until the end LB| o f^Q A st noon to |W> jl for 1 val will be on Huber Sheraton Singapore, until Aug IS. featuring a spe- P cial businessmen lunch- *"k j eon buffet at $28++ per 1 person
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    • 52 17 Sonata in C major K 330 8.30 Preview 9.00 News 9.15 Book Club: Episode Three of Sagittarius Rising, Cecil Lewis' account of the early days of military flying during World War I 9.30 Music from the Festivals: 38th Cheltenham Festival 11.15 Music to Remember 12.00 AM News-in-Brief and Weather Forecast
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    • 208 17 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THE New York Philharmonic will give a chamber concert on Sept 7 at 8.15 pm at Victoria Concert Hall. Tickets at $30, $15 and $8 are available at Victoria Concert Hall, 10 am to 6 pm on weekdays and 10 am to 5 pm on Saturdays.
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 604 18 wmm 5 r L 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pager 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The Immortals (C) (r). J 3.50 Cartoon Selections. 9 4.05 The Fantastic Journey: An Act of Love (r). < V Mi, imto' Varian marries a beautiful girl, unaware that after the A ±»V* v
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    • 75 19 Now you can get the latest news at IiTUC Fain Price too! It's all In THE SINGAPORE MONITOR wm MUgl available at: NTUC Fairprice Supermarkets: Clementi Blk 451, Clementi Ave 3 #01-307 Yung Kuang Blk 63-66 Yung Kuang Road, Jurong #01-119/02-119 Coronation Gl, Coronation Shopping Plaza #587, Bt. Timah Road.
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  • 657 20  -  GO PLACES By RONALD B TAYLOR LAT -WP EVER want to dive into the undersea world of Jacques Cousteau and play with the schools of brightly coloured parrotfish, swim with the dolphin and photograph life down along a coral reef? You can, even if you
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    • 155 20 A whole new package of Indonesian delights SATRYA Travel Services (Pte) Ltd has recently been appointed the Singapore Representative for the Hotel Indonesia International Corporation Limited. The corporation owns seven hotels in Indonesia which includes Hotel Indonesia (Jakarta) and Hotel Bali Beach (Bali). This appointment, according to a spokesman from
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 454 21 leisure comics j^SBS| ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA You are usually generous with September 23 to October 22 your help to friends and neigh- There likely to be misunderbours in trouble, but just now standings with older members one person is taking advantage of the family. Keep controverof
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    • 200 21 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook soM,Vt>o'Rt 17 Y HO»Vf I*\ A CoMPOlWfltPfltT' I MAM§2$,OOO A VW/ UHAT *>U>,AMD ITSTIM* MOM... I THAT* MVOW and r SUPERVISE ABOUT >* Voo THOOGHT ABoyT DAD- f IT'S frofolfr VfcfcV iMXX! \r>t7»eCCCm»lAL*f T'/J CD\xe*t?/ rtt 3o&T\ VoDR Pitt**'. {W-O0 DON'T V v~ 7 WAMT Vooß
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  • 318 22 sudßm i^B^K TODAY'S increasingly competitive job market it obviously the primary factor that motivates most people to join in the paper chase. And it is naturally the time when young job-seekers planning their careers will perhaps have to make the biggest decision of their
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    • 486 23 W inm hp iwiui nn' m iiiiiiimjii. .J. mn classified NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, Teo Kwee Hong of No. 545-A Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 1953, have applied for a Wholesale Liquor Shop licence in respect of premises at M/s. Sum Yee Hung Trading Company, 19, Simon
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    • 488 26 RACK 1 2.15 Restricted Terms Wv D 1200 m (3 yeer olds) 1 Brazzaka 57 Sng 13 2 Charity 1157 3 Commandar Three 57 li 4 Ferroua Cardio 57 K H Chaw 1 5 IWdoshin 57 Nathan r Jardinar 57 FrW f!j 7 Mogul 57 Aauwadi 5 SMveiy
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    • 720 26 DAY 4 HOCKEY MEN: PRELIM POOL B Britain 3 Canada 1 WOMEN: FIELD HOCKEY USA 4 Canada 1 CYCLING MEN: IND POINTS RACE, ELIMINATION RACE NUMBER TWO (FIRST 12 QUALIFY FOR FINAL): I Joerg Mueller (Sw) 14 ptt. 2 Jo* Manuel Youshimatz (Mex) 8, 3. Didier Garcia
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    • 503 26 Reuter COTO DE CAZA (California), Thursday THEY RIDE, fence, swim, shoot and run, tust like Errol •"lyn and Douglas Fairbanks, but for swashbuckling Olympic pentathletes it's a state of mind as well as muscle. The four-day, five-sport modern pentathlon was devised by the founder of the
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    • 413 27 West German swimming star seeks to stop US domination in the pool Reuter LOS ANGELES, Thursday WEST GERMAN superstar Michael Gross, waging a solitary campaign against American domination, returns to the Olympic swimming Sk>l today in pursuit of his third gold medal 01 e Games. The 2.01-metre
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    • 322 27 UPI LOS ANGELES, Thursday SO WHAT does the American swim team think of Michael Gross? Olympic swimming coach Don Gambril thought for a moment before responding. "They tell me," he said, "that gross means great in German. So I'd say Gross is gross." The
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    • 149 28 Reuter BASKETBALL (1600 GMT): Men's preliminaries: Group A West Germany vs Egypt, Brazil vs Yugoslavia, Italy vs Australia. Women's round-robin: Australia vs Canada, US vs South Korea, China vs Yugoslavia. BOXING: Preliminary bouts. CYCLING: 4,000 m team pursuit qualifying and quarterfinals, sprint semifinals. FENCING: Men's
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      999 28 By ELLIOTT ALMOND MONITOR FACT SHEET Shooting events have been part of the Olympics from the beginning of the modern Games—the 1896 Otympics in Athens. Since then, shooting events have been held in every Olympics except 1904 and 1928 The number of shooters has risen to a point where
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    • 141 29 Reuter LOS ANGELES, Thurs TINY 16-year-old Spanish gymnast Laura Munoz won thousands of new fans with her charming routines in the Olympic women's team event yesterday. The frail-looking Munoz is unlikely to win a medal, but she tumbled, swooped and spun her way into
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    • 435 29 UPI LOS ANGELES, Thursday AMERICAN cyclist Steve Hegg, who grew up in a motor home and raced for Canada for two years under an assumed name, rode his "funny bike" into history yesterday by winning the Olympic gold medal in the 4,000-me-tre
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    • 283 29 o4 OLYMPICS UPI LOS ANGELES, Thursday CALL IT the miracle of the mats. Or refer to them as the lords of the rings. Whatever you say about the United States' triumph over China in the men's team gymnastics on Tuesday night, it will go down as
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    • 308 29 OLYMPIC SIDELIGHTS... UPI AP UPI UPI VENDORS who expected a boom during the Olympics say it's been a bust so far. The International Settlement Building in Chinatown, where food and gifts from all over the world are sold, is "a ghost town", complained Marcela Posada, who says
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    • 69 31 ANNAPOUS (Maryland), Thursday YUGOSLAVIA earned a berth in the quarterfinal round of Olympic soccer competition with a 1-0 victory over Canada last night hi an opening round game at the US Naval Academy Stadium. Forward Jovica Nikolic scored the only
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    • 71 31 shot by Dragan Stojkovic hit Canadian goalie Tino Lettieri and bounced back to Nikolic. Canada, which still has a chance at one of the two berths in the quarterfinals that will be played on the West Coast, mounted a furious offensive assault in the closing minutes.
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    • 222 31 CAMEROUN 1 IRAQ 0 OLYMPICS AP CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts), Thursday CAMEROUN, competing in the Olympic Games for the first time, edged Iraq 1-0 in the opening round of soccer action last night on an early goal by Paul Bahoken and spectacular late goaltending by Joseph Bell. Cameroun,
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    • 104 31 COUNTRIES Q S B TOTAL USA 17 7 2 26 CHINA 6 3 3 12 WGERMANY 3 3 4 10 CANADA 3 3 17 ITALY 3 115 BRITAIN 114 6 AUSTRALIA 0 2 4 6 FRANCE 0 2 13 SWEDEN 0 2 13 ROMANIA 0 2 0 2
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    • OLYMPIC NOTES
      • 62 31 AP SOUTH Korea, led by hitters Mi-Hee Park and Myung-Hee Lee, breezed to a three-set victory over Canada yesterday to gain its first women's volleyball victory of the 1984 Olympics. The Koreans swept the Canadians 15-10, 15-1 and 15-3 in a match between two teams
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      • 48 31 Reuter A GROUP which campaigned to ban the Soviet Union from the 1984 Olympics yesterday turned on Games organisers for barring Baltic-American folk dancers from the opening ceremony. The Baltic American Freedom League is taking legal action against the Los Angeles Olympic Organising Committee. Reuter
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      • 45 31 AP DEFENDING world foil champion Andrea Borel la advanced easily, but 1980 Olympic silver medalist Pascal Jolyot of France was eliminated and American Peter Lewison pulled off an upset yesterday as 16 fencers advanced to the Olympic men's individual finals. AP
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      • 50 31 AP CANADA, with seven players scoring double figures, routed China 121-80 yesterday for its first victory in the Olympic men's basketball tournament. In an earlier game, Australian lan Davies launch a 5.2 metre jump-shot with 2:21 remaining to earn his team a 67-66 Olympic basketball victory. AP
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      • 53 31 AP CHINA also rolled to a 3-set victory over West Germany and Canada yesterday in Olympic Women's Volleyball action at the Long Beach Arena. China's powerful women's team continued its march toward a showdown with the United States this Friday night by crushing West Germany 15-5, 15-6
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      • 40 31 AP BRITAIN took the provisional lead in women's team gymnastics yesterday with a good showing in the optional exercises. Romania, the United States and China were competing for the medals in the final session last night. AP
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    • 248 32 JUDGING CONTROVERSY SPREADS TO WRESTLING COMPETITION )LYMPICS Reuter ANAHEIM (California), Thursday THREE officials at the Olympic greco-roman wrestling competition have been suspended after protests about their judging in two bouts featuring Americans, organisers said yesterday. International Wrestling Federation (Fila) officials ruled referees Ahmet Koksal of Turkey and
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    • 332 32 CATCH the wind and surf to glory that has been Singapore Olympian Kelly Chan's prayer each time he sets out on a race in Los Angeles. And yet, he hasn't caught a whiff of wind in two days of board- sailing competition,
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    • 139 32 LOS ANGELES, Thursday AN AFRICAN weightlifter was given the go-ahead to compete in the Olymfiics after Americans clubbed together o pay off a US$3OO (Ss63o)-debt and bought him some clothes and shoes. Paul Hoffman from Swaziland arrived to find that he might be barred from
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