Singapore Monitor, 19 August 1984

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  • 11 1 The Sunday Monitor M.C.(P) No. 22/5/84 Sunday, August 19,1984 40 cents
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  • 267 1  -  Bill Giles Sunday Editor Good morning! Thank you for joining us today, and thank you for your many helpful comments and suggestions about the new Sunday Monitor. With this issue-our third--we launch our drive toward expansion and self-sufficiency. Our price, beginning today, is 40 cents a copy, the
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  • 509 1  -  by Ee Boon Lee Monitor staff writer Among the guests at Qiong Boon's National Day celebrations last nignt was Brigadier-Gen-erai Lee Hsien Loong, 32, fuelling speculation that he will be among the People's Action Party candidates in the general election. "While the party insists
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  • 773 1  -  by Jackie Sam Monitor staff writer Medical lab technician Miss Kang Kim Lian, 35, wanted to donate blood. The doctor at the Singapore General Hospital politely showed her to the door. She is pale, delicate and weighs 41 kg.
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  • Article, Illustration
    17 1 What makes this fellow so happy? A miracle, that's what. Story on Page 6.
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    • 216 1 Singaporean adventurers NEWS IN BRIEF SINGAPOREAN OLYMPIC official explains the ruling on the Zola Budd-Mary Decker controversy in an exclusive interview. Pg 26 CORONER RECORDS an open verdict in the death of a woman who died after a doctor injected a painkiller. Pg 8 A PANAMANIAN TANKER, hit by a
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    • 13 1 Hollywood's golden 0 Simply smashing Paris Building a dream with 4 pancakes.' [f
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    • 95 1 Computers and the new "smart Bras Basah: the light Mjj3 and the dark sides. P Teenage survey: "Your W¥" Favourite Author." If WHAT DOES IT COST? FOOD Average monthly u^. e n ar dn household expenditure junei9B4 in Singapore dollars $543.13 July 1984 $538.80 HHHHH CLOTHING HOUSING A $68 60
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 327 2 In recent years, Brig-Gen Lee has become more prominent in the public eye, making speeches and writing articles on national issues. In his first public speech at a National University of Singapore forum in January 1982 the then Col Lee, who was Assistant
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    • 431 2  -  by Yong Pow Ang Monitor staff writer The technocrats inducted into politics are not test-tube babies manufactured in the clini-cally-clean laboratories of universities, says Mr Goh Chok Tong, Defence and Second Health Minister. "They are sons and daughters of Singapore. They lead a very
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    • Article, Illustration
      695 2  -  How do young people make friends? Interviews at Orchard Mall by Bertilla Pereira Monitor staff reporter N MAHESWARI 30s, cookery author "Parties are young people's only outlet usually; if they don't meet in school. Parents should allow them to organise parties on birthdays and festivals. As for public
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    • 459 2 Ancient Chinese saying: First generation acquires, second generation consolidates, third generation squanders. How can Singaporeans ensure this doesn't come true? Produce more local history books, arts and dances to enshrine the "indomitable spirit" of the early pioneers, said Mr Teo Chong Tee, Parliamentary Secretary (Environment and Social Affairs) in
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    • 127 2 The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) will launch a series of fortnightly public forums to discuss current issues and government policies next Tuesday. At a press conference yesterday, party secretary-general, Mr Chiam See Tong, said the public is being invited to give theni the chance to meet
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    • 98 2  -  by Jalil Miswardi Monitor staff writer People join secret societies for a variety of reasons, and not because there is something innate in Chinese culture that draws them into such societies, says psychologist Long Foo Yee. It is common in the West, according to Mr
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    • 44 3 If you're heading for Centrepoint today, remember that Cuppage Road will be closed to traffic from today. It is to be turned into a pedestrian mall. Access to the Centrepoint car park will be from Orchard' Road.
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    • 354 3  -  by Bertilla Pereira Monitor staff writer An estimated 500 video cameras and 350 video cassette recorders are sold in Singapore monthly. And about 150,000 people own video recorders. Relative to our population size, Singapore is one of the biggest buyers
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    • 449 3  -  by Seah Mei Kiang Monitor staff writer Gyrating in laser-lit discos may be dangerous dancing. The Consumers Association of Hong Kong has warned that laser lighting in disco cabarets can be harmful to the eyes. It said lasers now being used are powerful and in dimly-lit cabarets,
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    • 210 5 The small house sits in a remote corner at Kuala Simpang, off Sembawang Road, under a canopy of tall coconut trees near the sea. It has no electricity or running water and is accessible only by a small, often muddy path. For 35
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    • 1033 5 More marriages are being declared null and void in Singapore these days on the technical ground that they have not been "consummated" through sexual intercourse. The number is not large but it's grow-ing--and the cause is both puzzling and troubling. Some
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    • 532 6  -  by Sit Yin Fong Monitor staff writer A Singapore mother who had her fallopian tubes severed for a decade, but gave birth again after a sterilisation reversal operation, has been given the green light by her doctor to have a second
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    • 113 6 Police have confirmed that the bullet that killed the driver of a hijacked lorry did not come from the revolvers of the three policemen involved in the shooting incident on July 30 at Shenton Way and Metropole Cinema. Ballistics tests by the Scientific Services
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    • 203 6 Singaporeans are spending more time, money, and thought on television viewing. Today, 99 per cent of Singapore homes have at least one TV set; more than a fifth have two or more sets. Nearly two-thirds of the people spend an average of
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    • 248 6 American David W Harris the man formerly referred to as "Mr X" was sentenced yesterday to a total of two-and-a-half years' jail on six counts of cheating by using another person's credit cards. He was sentenced to five months' jail on each count,
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    • 120 8 A ROUSING START: The Miss Singapore/World Contest is off to a rousing start. These young women, among 30 semi-finalists, met the press yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel. Our journalist "judge," Pat D'Rose, reported that they're a good representation of today's woman, brighter and more confident than
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    • 333 8  -  by Faezah Ismail Monitor staff writer The coroner yesterday recorded an open verdict on the death of a 66-year-old woman who died shortly after a doctor gave her an injection for pain in her left knee. State coroner S Radakrishnan said in this case the
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    • 79 8 A LOVING HUG: Tay Slew Choon, 4, gets a loving lift and hug from grandmother Madam Ong Siew Tin after police returned her home last week following the child's mysterious two-week disappearance. A police patrol spotted her with a man early Wednesday morning on Woodlands
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 189 2 TV UPDATE Today's. Programmes IW U-' 3.01 Opening followed by Quran 7.31 Good Times (Episode 310). Reading. g qq News and Weather Forecast. 3.09 Programme Summary. 8.25 Programme Summary. 3.18 Afternoon Movie: PSI Factor. jq Today in History. 4.52 Kesuma. 8.36 Azan Isyak. 5.21 Greatest Sports Legends. 8 .50 Drama
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    • 623 8 w rw |u tiierokid Opens New Doors To Computers For Your Children The Computer is an integral part of everyone s future. There are courses for toddlers, (four-year-olds). For 6 No one can afford to leave their children behind in this to 8 year-olds. 9 to 12. and 13 to
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  • MONEY
    • 609 10  -  by Rodney Hobson Business Editor HONG KONG The weekly guessing game on whether there would be a cut in interest rates petered out earlier than usual and shares subsided accordingly. A weak Hong Kong dollar at 7.84 to the US dollar and rising
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    • 270 10 Green Collier Spot gold prices rushed up to US$35B a troy ounce last Tuesday because of a sharp decline in the US dollar. The market then eased and stayed around the US$35O level for the rest of the week. Signs
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    • 948 11  -  by Leon D. Richardson For the Sunday Monitor Is jewellery a good investment? Almost everyone would prefer a glamorous, timeless, beautiful investment to an investment in "dirty" industries such as coal mining, or an abattoir or in oil. More requests for information about
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    • 250 11 E.G.L. (European Gemolec) They have offices in New York and Antwerp. They are considered the second most qualified. Many experts claim their grading is inferior to G.I.A. E.R.D. Office in Antwerp. In this writer's opinion, the E.R.D. has not yet earned a credibility equal to either E.G.L. or G.I.A.
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    • 252 11 The Pan-Electric board advanced the release of its interim results by about three weeks to bring stability to the market in its shares, thejtoard says in a letter to the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The letter, released yesterday, defends the Pan-El board against the
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 667 12  -  ANALYSIS by Masaki Watanabe Monitor staff writer The succession of leadership is a hot topic in Bangkok and Jakarta--in high places as well as in the coffeeshops. In Bangkok, talk was sparked last week by a proposal to
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    • 203 12 The Star KUALA LUMPUR Personal income tax in Malaysia is too high and should be reduced to provide an incentive for increased productivity, the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers said. It added in its memorandum that personal income tax com- prised only 9.9 per cent
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    • 233 12 Bernama BACHOK, Kelantan The Parti Islam Sa-Malaysia (Pas) has launched an open confrontation against the government because its leaders feared the members will accept the government's concept of assimilation of Islamic values in the national life, United Malays National Organisation (Umno) Youth Leader, Mr Anwar
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    • 143 12 If any student aspiring toward a career in the Malaysian Civil Service is dreaming about enjoying a five-day work week, he or she had better think again. When Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohammad met some 200 Malaysian students in
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    • 1094 13  -  by Michael Richardson Special to The Sunday Monitor MAE SA MAI VILLAGE (Northern Thailand) Five or six years ago, Manot Saesong used to grow opium on nearly about half a hectare of hillside not far from this village. Since then, he and the other 900
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    • 163 13 Bernama SEMPORNA, SABAH Police have identified the three armed pirates who carried out a cold-blooded massacre of 33 people in a boat near Pulau Bulu in southern Philippine waters on Aug 11. States police commissioner Haji Yahaya Yeop Ishak said today the trio
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    • 395 13 Reuter MANILA The Supreme Court today gave the go-ahead for a mass rally in the Philippines capital on Tuesday marking the first anniversary of the murder of opposition leader Benigno Aquino. Officials said the court, in a 11-3 decision, ruled that Aquino supporters could
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    • 575 13 WHERE RELIANCE LEADS, THE WORLD FOLLOWS. Under the banner of Reliance, travellers are implanting their footsteps all over the world. Among the thousands of Reliance regulars and new-comers, you would find Asian nationalities from Canada, America, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong as well as Malaysia and Singapore. Which
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 498 14 It will be no surprise if Brigadier General Lee Hsien Loong is named as a PAP candidate. He is as qualified as any Singaporean his age can be for the job. He has a brilliant academic record, and his leadership and administrative abilities have been clearly demonstrated in his
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    • 275 14 What a dull Olympic Games. No scandals, no muggings, no accidents. What happened to-all the street corner crooks, the rip-off artists, the dope-peddlers, the Mafia? Dullsville, that's wot. So moans our top Olympic Games scribe, A Long Hubbub. This ought to have been foreseen once the Russians
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    • 962 14  -  by Gregory Vitiello For the Sunday Monitor When I was in Singapore last December, a friend told me that I'd arrived too late for "Productivity Month." The signs urging people to produce more had been taken down and now
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    • 565 14  - The pomp, pageantry nationalism by Ong Wee Hock For the Sunday Monitor Watching the National Day celebrations reaffirmed the role of pomp and pageantry in reinforcing the spirit of nationalism. I recalled a previous National Day parade when a lady standing in front of me burst into tears, overwhelmed by
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    • 1807 15  -  by Edmund Leow for the Sunday Monitor What is Cambridge really like? The man in the street worships it in blissful ignorance. Most NUS graduates, with some notably patriotic exceptions, also have an irrational adoration for the supposed ultimate in academia. It is true that
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    • 70 15 Edmund Leow studied at the Anglo-Chinese School and Anglo-Chi-nese Junior College. Previously a free-lance writer with the Singapore Monitor, he left Singapore last September to read law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. After taking a first in his examination and winning the George Long Prize for Roman
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 62 14 LOS ANGELES The American Olympic team, capitalizing on the absence of our superior Soviet rVr j j n champions and taking advantage of smog-Minded ndVGda judges, stole gold medals from a bunch of wimp countries city ram in cnme rava 9©d city...only to lose them to President Reagan, who confiscated
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 222 17 MOSCOW SEEMS to be having second thoughts about East German leader Erich Honecker's scheduled trip to West Germany. Having earlier condemned East Germany's overtures to Bonn, the Kremlin now indicates it will not interfere with the visit. CHINESE PRESIDENT Li Xiannian left for visits to Romania and Yugoslavia as
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    • 326 17 Associated Press MANAMA A Panamanian tanker was hit by a missile and set on fire in the Gulf off Qatar early on Saturday morning, Gulf shipping sources and Lloyd's of London's shipping intelligence unit reported. The tanker, identified as the Endeavour, was the
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    • 157 17 Associated Press and Reciter CAIRO US mine hunting helicopters have begun operational flights as part of a multinational effort to clear mines from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez, where at least 17 ships have been damaged, a US embassy source said. The source
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    • 48 17 International BEIJING China, the world's largest unmapped nuclear market, has signed *a contract to buy nuclear power plant monitoring equip- ment from West Germany, a report said yesterday. Beijing's China Daily newspaper said the equipment was being ordered from West Germany's Kraftwerke Union (KWU),
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    • 384 17 United Press International UPI HONG KONG China announced plans yesterday for a spectacular bank tower in Hong Kong designed by American architect I M Pei that will be the British colony's tallest building and a symbol of its impending shift to
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  • WORLD
    • 786 18  -  by Catharine Fernando DALLAS Dallas is ready. Ready for the GOP. Ready for the partying. Ready for the politicking. But more importantly, to Dallasites at least, the city is ready to face the world. Like the debutante anxiously preparing her wardrobe, curling her
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    • 173 18 Associated Press DALLAS Republicans, preparing a statement of policies to be adopted at their party's National Convention, expressed full support for self determination of the people of Hong Kong. The Republican Party's 106member platform committee completed President Reagan's re-elec-tion platform which representative Trent
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    • 226 18 Reuter and Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Former carmaker John De Lorean, who was acquitted of drugs charges on Thursday, says he intends to devote the rest of his life to church work. "During my trial I didn't want to harm
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    • 338 18 United Press International THIS JUMBO IS NO DUMBO BEIJING Visiting US Secretary of the Navy John Lehman and Chinese Defence Minister Zhang Aiping said yesterday that they supported further exchanges between the armed forces of the two nations. Mr Lehman, who arrived
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    • 382 18 United Press International NEW DELHI At least 13 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters demanding the reinstatement of ousted Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N T Rama Rao, officials said on Saturday. In New Delhi, 100 opposition Members of Parliament marched to
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  • 177 20 SPORTS SYGMA HE SAID HE'D DO IT, AND HE DID! Carl Lewis has equalled Jesse Owens, a black American like ihimself, in Olympic legend. At Berlin, in 1936, Owens won the men s 100 metre race, the 200 metres, the long jump and
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  • RACING GUIDE
    • 151 21  -  by Wonder Boy For the Monitor Path Finder 111 with jockey Yusoff showed a promising start, and gave a fine performance throughout Race 1 but was beaten in the straight home. Johnston rode Scotland Yard to victory in this Class 5 race. Path Finder 111
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    • 597 21 iim i i Class 5 Div 1 1,600 m 11 Scotland Yard 52 Johnston (10) 6 5 1 6 His Eminence II 54 P Lee (5) 5 4 2 7 Path Finder 111 53.5 Yusoff (6) 1 J 3 8 Kuala Trengganu 53.5 Velu (2) 3 3 4
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    • 278 21 RACE WONDER BOY MA-ZEHN TAN MA-TAN TET (Monitor) (Zao Bm) (Wan Bao) (Monitor) 9 Pingat Mas 5 Three Leaders 9 Pingat Maa II S Thraa Leaders 1 8 Yellows 9 Pingat Mas II 5 Three Leaders 9 Pingat Mas II 6 Tremendous Force 8 Yellows 3 Chateau Gardens
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    • 2902 21  -  by Wonder Boy For the Monitor Four-year-old Duty Free should score his maiden win by capturing the $30,000 Selangor Trophy in Kuala Lumpur today. Race Five He will be running in the event for Class 3 stayers over
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 431 22 NATIONAL VENUE DATE TIME REMARKS SPORTS ASSOCIATION 1 Athletics National Stadium 24. 25 and 26 Aug 7 pm -11 pm 13 foreign countries 2 BasKetbal Gay World Stackum 31 Aug to 11 Sept Whole Day 8 foreign countries 3 Bodytoulding World Trade Centre 19
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    • 271 22  -  by K Silvam Monitor staff writer The Pesta Sukan, Singapore's week-long festival of sport, was initiated by the Ministry of Culture two decades ago. The ministry, together with an ad hoc organising committee comprising well-known sports personalities and government officials with support from the
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    • 419 22  -  by B Kula Monitor staff writer The heat's on in the national women's lightweight bodybuilding championship tonight with defending champion Salbiah Morris and newcomer Rachel Eileen Williams already engaged in a war of words. Even before Salbiah, who finished 15th in the world
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    • 86 22 With nine of the 36 events completed, this year's Pesta Sukan, the biggest in the series, is taking a big stride forward with the Republic's 25th Year celebrations. From today until Sept 9, 16 sports will be conducted featuring international participants, with another 11
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    • 353 23  -  by B Kula Monitor staff writer SAFSA 22 SAFRA 31 Fitness will be the key to Singapore's hopes in the Malaysian Rugby Union Invitational Cup next month. Yet many national players lacked fitness when they turned out for either the Singapore Armed Forces Reservists' Association (SAFRA)
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    • 230 23  -  by Tony Lim for the Monitor Singapore's Kathleen Tan looks o jset to retain her crown in the M Women's Masters finals of the .•20th Singapore Open Bowling Championship. She shot a total of 2,291 pinfalls _to take the lead after the first £block
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    • 275 23  -  by S GULAM Monitor staff writer West German-trained Seak Poh Leong, who returned to the Republic two weeks ago, has become the Republic's first professional coach not with the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) but with Hwee Seng Pte Ltd. This comes as a
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    • 76 23 Singapore Airlines stretched their lead to four points in the Premier League hockey table with their convincing victory over low-ly-placed Police at Tanglin. Police, who earlier last week created an upset by beating Singapore Recreation Club 2-1, could not do much yesterday to preventSlA's Azlan Khalil
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    • 36 23 KUALA LUMPUR China's bronze medallist at the recently concluded Los Angeles Olympics, Zhu Jian Hua, has confirmed participation in the National Athletics Championship here from October 26 to 29.
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    • 749 23  -  by Alfonso Chan Monitor staff writer Th 6 creme-de-la-creme of Singapore's tennis sailed through their first round without any mishaps in the National Tennis Championships at Kallang yesterday. In the men's singles, top seed Albert Teo was made to sweat a little as he overpowered
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    • 939 24 SPORTS PARADE Like other leaders of Olympic contingents from 140 countries, Singapore's Chef de Mission, Dr Tan Eng Liang, left for home last week wondering whether any other Olympiad could surpass the 23rd which the Americans had organised in Los
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    • 996 24 With Ang Peng Siong leading the way as the fastest swimmer in Asia, for the first time, hopes are bright for Singapore to have 86C* ond time Olympians: Our youngsters back from Los Angeles may get to go on to Seoul
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    • 150 24 Associated Press TORONTO John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors will battle today for the first time since the Wimbledon final when they face each other in the semifinal of the US$ 45,000 (5594,500) Player's International Tennis Tournament. McEnroe was never threatened by Peter
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    • 498 25  -  SINGAPORE 1 MALAYSIA 1 (Malaysia win Ovaltine Cup on 2-1 aggregate) by S Gulam Monitor staff writer The last-minute-goal jinx struck Singapore again in last night's Ovaltine Cup return leg match at the National Stadium, and it was Zainal Abidin, yet again, who played the
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    • 126 25 Everton surprised Liverpool with a one-goal victory in their Merseyside Charity Shield clash at Wembley last night to return the trophy they last won in 1970 when the annual Charity Shield matches began as curtain-raiser to the English soccer season. The deciding goal came after a
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    • 977 26  -  by ERNEST FRIDA Monitor staff writer JKSingapore Amateur Athletics jmsociation's vice-president, Maurice Nicholas, who sat on the sev--36»-member Jury of Appeal, said 3fie world controlling body's deci•gten was unanimous in clearing Zola Budd. a council member of International Amateur
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    • 333 26  -  SINGAPORE 1 MALAYSIA 1 (Malaysia win Ovaltine Cup on 2-1 aggregate) by S Gulam Monitor staff writer >• Singapore held Malaysia to a fife-all draw in the second leg of Ovaltine Cup soccer international at the National Stadium last night but Malaysia
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    • 91 23 OBITUARY At MRS. LIAM TIAN SIAK NEE MDM YEO LAN SENG Passed away peacefully on 18th August 1984 at the age of 56 years and leaving behind her beloved Husband: LIAM TIAN SIAK. Sons: LIAM BENG HIAN LIAM BENG LIN Daughter LIAM BENG LENG Father, six brothers four sisters to
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    • 1 1 LIVING
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    • 1708 1  -  by Jackie Sam Monitor staff writer The great outdoors leads in more directions than people normally perceive. For 65-year-old Chin Weng Koon it meant growing old gracefully in the most unconventional manner. He climbed to the snowline of 3397 m Mount Kinabalu at
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    • 714 2  -  by Steve Harvey Los Angeles Times At 15, an avid reader and daydreamer named John Goddard made a "blueprint for life" of 127 goals, including retracing the route of Marco Polo, diving in a submarine, milking a poisonous snake, taking off from and
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    • 595 4 IN STYLE FASHION Feminity has always infused local designer Tan Yoong's creations. He prefers to go against the dictates of the latest styles by expressing elegance in his own way. He blatantly rebels against the latest season's style and look as this can only mean the commonplace after
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    • FOOD
      • 831 6  -  by Violet Oon Monitor staff writer Remember Molly Ang, Singapore's most famous Miss Tourism 'who carried the banner of Singapore proudly to distant lands? Today you're more likely to find her carrying a tea towel and holding, court among factory workers.
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        138 6 Have you noticed a silent revolution going on in food in Singapore? Violet Oon, our food columnist, doesn't mean the American fast food chains that have made such an impact but a parallel development in quality Chinese cooking at reasonable prices. Over the last two years has emerged
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      • 871 6 The crowds drew me to the Seh San Seafood Restaurant along Serangoon Road at No. 943. As I passed that road on my way home in the evenings and at nights, I saw the gradual transformation
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      • 481 7 One of the better value-for-money meals can be found at the Cafe Vienna of the Royal Holiday Inn where $10.50++ gets you a three course meal. This week we feature a recipe from their August menu for Hamsteak "Hawaii." HAMSTEAK
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      • 69 7 Ingredients: 600 g boiled ham (Stegemann ham) $10.00 Ikg potatoes 1.80 360 g raisins 0.60 4 eggs 0.72 0.1 litre beef consomme 0.30 300 g garden peas 2.25 0.1 litre pineapple juice 0.45 3 shallots 0.10 Total butter 1.50 Seasonings: (total cost: $0.50) 4 slices canned pineapple
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    • TV REVIEW
      • 989 11  -  by Masaki Watanbe Monitor staff writer "I declare the 23rd Olympiad closed," intoned International Olympic Council President Juan Antonio Samaranch. "No-o-o-o," yelled a boisterous fringe of the 95,000 spectators jam-packed into the Los Angeles Coliseum. That bit of spontaneity during the closing
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      • 349 11  -  TUNING IN by Philip Cheah Monitor staff writer The National Reading Month began last Friday. SBC will be running a series of programmes in conjunction with it till it ends on Sept 16. Of Mice and Men and James Michener's USA, which begin today
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    • MUSIC
      • 281 12 OUT TAKES Major record companies are muscling in. The 12-inch single, an innovation of independent record companies, no longer remains totally their preserve. The big companies are releasing more of their artistes on 12inchers. Unfortunately, this conflicts with the rationale that 12inch singles
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      • 692 12  -  by Cart Skadian Monitor staff writer Heavy Metal is banging its way into the charts. Since last year, Heavy Metal groups such as Def Leppard, Quiet Riot and Van Halen have dented the Top 40. They represent the dawn of the new Heavy Metal invasion. Heavy
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      • 496 13 VOICEBOX There is a youth market out there and it's keeping record shops alive. If the music business is exciting now, it's because the kids are excited. In these past four years, the record-retail-ing business has never seen more ups and downs.
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      • 715 14 FILM FOCUS Tanya Roberts will be the new queen of the jungle in a John Guillermin film, Sheena. Unlike Greystoke, Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Tanya's co-stars include a falcon, a gorilla, three lions and several elephants. Who says the queen of the jungle hes
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      • 27 15 A New York bachelor (Tom Hanks) falls in love with a mysterious blonde named Madison (Daryl Hannah),who is a mermaid.
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      • 436 15 A preview of the films coming our way Allen Bauer needs to love. It's the only thing that would give his life meaning. But unfortunately, love keeps passing him by. Then one day Splash! He falls into the ocean while on a boating trip and becomes unconscious. When
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      • 32 15 Director: Ron Howard Starring: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy Screenplay: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman Photograph: Don Peterman Producer: Brian Grazer Coming this month
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      • 519 16  -  FILM REVIEW Enigma Starring: Martin Sheen, Brigitte Fossey, Sam Neill, Derek Jacobi and Michel Lonsdale Director: Jeannot Szwarc Showing at Orchard Reviewed by Adaline Scheerder Enigma, the word, means a mystery or a puzzle, and Enigma, the film, takes its name from a
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      • 714 16  -  VIDEO UPDATE Title: My Brilliant Career (Australia 1979) Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill and Wendy Hughes. Directed by Gillian Armstrong. Title: Breaker Morant (Australia 1979) Starring: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bryan Brown and Charles Tingwell. Directed by Bruce Beresford Coming
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    • 124 1 TV WEEK Masaki Watanabe reviews SBC's coverage of the Olympic Games: Page 11. Table Talk gives you the recipe for Ham Steak Hawaii: Page 7 In Eating Out meet a restaurant owner who is a former Miss Tourism: Page 6 Our fashion writer, David Joseph, continues his focus on local
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    • 1724 9 TODAY'S TV 8.30 SBCtext 'Live' Sample Pages. 4.40 25 Years In Retrospect For 9.00 Opening Announcements. The Hearts And Minds (M). 9.03 Programme Highlights. 5.10 Musical Interlude Excerpts 9.06 Mousercise. From The Sound Of Applause*. 9.30 The Electric Company. 520 James Michener's USA: The 10 00 Smurfs Northesat. (see Sunday's
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    • 1905 10 MONDAY AUGUST 20,1984 TUESDAY AUGUST 21. 1984 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22. 1984 2.30 SBCtext 'Live' Sample Pages. 6.55 The Incredible Hulk. 2.25 SBCtext Live' Sample Pages. 6.40 Mickey And Donald. Pag< 7.20 N^wate'h 3.00 Opening Announcements. 7.20 Newswatch. 255 Opening Announcements. 7.20 Share A Story: The Frog Family. 303 {W-ramme Highlights
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    • 428 12 We both enjoy our weekends together* Peter loves fishing* Hove a good book* a good book and a cosy a completely was Peter the from ear to a whopper for our on the galley to the calls for a said, making my way to the galley. I opened the fridge
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    • 138 13 At the D'jit Pochana Restaurant, we serve lunch, dinner supper at one convenient location. Where else can you savour genuine Thai cuisine? At the D*jit Pochana Restaurant, of course. Our team of Thai Chefs a are specially flown-in to whip up an endless variety of authentic Thai fare, to titillate
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    • 466 13 HOROSCOPES by Frank Barron First features YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: A rewarding year lies ahead once the first few weeks are over. Some early trouble is likely, but a senior person's help clears the matter up and your reputation will stand higher than ever. ARIES (March 21-April 20): LLXv /X J
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    • 1 1 SPECTRUM
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    • 1877 1  -  by Jackie Sam Monitor staff writer In the next few years Bras Basah is expected to rival Orchard Road as a centre of tourism and local social life. It will not be anything new. Merely a return to its pristine glory. Before the war, when Orchard
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    • 1522 2  -  by Jackie Sam Monitor staff writer Reverend J M Beurel, Gordon Forbes Davidson, Tan Jaik Kim. Most Singaporeans are not familiar with these three names. But they represent views about Singapore that are very much today's concerns: Faith, hard work and sacrifices, pessimism and
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    • COMPUTERS
      • 647 3  -  by Roger Vivier Sygma Press Agency Soviet computer operators are in a jam. They are finding it increasingly difficult to tap readymade and on the cheap software programmes from the United States and the West. To oppose the use of these computers for industrial espionage, piracy,
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      • 560 4  -  BYTES Our column on new products and processes by John Free Popular Science A new all-in-one software package for monochrome IBM PCs with 26K of memory integrates word processing, spread sheet, business graphics, data management, a high-level programming language, and a new outline function into
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      • 186 4 Five Apple II personal computers, lent by the Tiong Bahru Community Centre, were used to record each contestant's score at the 1984 National Bird Singing Contest held in Orchard Road, adjacent to the Mandarin Hotel. It was the first time that personal computers have
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      • 231 4 The Chinese language, previously available for use in computers only through specially-designed programs, is now readily accessible to personal computer owners. This has been made possible by the IBM-PC Chinese Character Generator and Graphic Monitor Adaptor Chinese card for short introduced in Singapore by Computerage
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    • 875 5  -  Computers are used increasingly to make diagnostic checks SPECTRUM by Herbert Shuldiner Popular Science evolutionary things are happening in car design not in new engines, transmissions, and suspensions but in computers that give a driver an amazing amount of information on his car's metabolism. And
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    • BOOKS
      • 731 7  -  Tiger Eyes Author: Judy Blume Publisher: Bradbury Press by Bertilla Pereira Monitor staff writer Tiger Eyes, written in the first person, is about the feelings of 15-year-old Davey "Tiger" Wexler. Resettled in Los Alamos, New Mexico, with her mother and brother, she recovers from the
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      • 184 7  -  The Terrible Temptation Author: Honor Arundel Publisher: Hamish Hamilton by Seah Mei Kiang Monitor staff writer Eighteen-year-old Janet Meredith enrols into Edinburgh Hospital as a first-year student. Determined to lead an independent life, she vows to keep aloof and uninvolved. She resolves not
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      • 375 7  -  Killing Mr Guinness Author: Lois Duncan Publisher: Little, Brown and Company by Robert Conceicao Monitor staff writer This is Lois Duncan's tale of the kidnap of a universally disliked teacher at the Del N§rte High School by his English students that ends in two deaths.
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      • 561 8  -  lUnes for a Small Harmonica. Author: Barbara Wersba Publisher: Bodley Head by Wong Ah Yoke Monitor staff writer The title reads like that of a music book. However, the first line of the book will change that preconception. It starts with "It all began
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      • 311 8  -  Ihe Chocolate War Author: Robert Cormier Publisher: Pantheon Books by Irene Toh Monitor staff writer The Chocolate War breaks from the norm of a mere schoolboy story and takes on the heavier tone of politics as played out in a private boys' school in New
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      • 140 8  -  Ihe War on Villa Street Author: Harry Mazer Publisher: Delacorte Press by Jill Hum Monitor staff writer The War on Villa Street is about a lonely boy, Willis Pierce. His mother is a waitress and his father a welder who spends his meagre income drinking. Willis
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      • 354 8  -  My Darling, My Hamburger Author: Paul Zindel Publisher: Bodley Head by Ng Ming Ming Monitor staff writer The focus in Paul Zindel's book my Darling, My Hamburger is on two teenage couples. Set in the United States in the late Sixties, it traces
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      • 230 8  -  The Cat Ate My Gymsuit Author: Paula Danzinger Publisher: Delacorte Press by John Chow Monitor staff writer "Marcy, the younger generation just doesn't understand they've got to play by the rules Can't you see now why I am concerned about Miss Finney and her strange ways?"
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    • PROPERTY
      • 414 9  -  by Foo Mey Kien Monitor staff writer The Orange Grove condominium project is fast taking root at the junction of Stevens Road and Orange Grove Road. Although the name recalls the days when verdant orchards thrived in the area, the new condominium
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      • 653 10  -  by Ng Ming Ming Horizon Towers is an innovative and well-thought out showflat that will appeal to the discerning homemaker who is looking for more than just the latest in home design. This is another article in our continuing series on showflats in
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      • 294 10 DEVELOPMENT/LOCATION Parkwest, Upper Ayer Rajah Rd Clem«nti Park, Sunset Way Casa Rosita, Newton Meyer Park, Meyer Road Kismis View, Bukit Timah/Jurong KechU Roads Villa Dee Florea, Whitley Road Teresa Vilte, Lower Delta Road Tulip Garden, Farrer Road Horizon Tower, Leome Hill Road Sommervilie Park, Farrer Drive
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      • 164 10  -  by Foo Mey Kien Monitor staff writer Gammon (Hong Kong) has completed a $26-million contract to build the 20-storey condominium, Beaverton Court, on Mount Sinai Rise. Mr David Gem, Gammon's general manager, handed over the condominium to Mr Laurie Seale, executive director of Beaverton Properties, last
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      • 572 11  -  by Annie Chia Monitor staff writer Rentals for the older residential properties such as Cavenagh Court, Emerald Mansion and Cairnhill Mansion in the prime districts of 9,10 and 11 have fallen some 20 per cent over the past year. But analysts
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      • 288 11  -  by Annie Chia Monitor staff writer A parcel of land for residential development will be auctioned by Knight Frank Cheong Hock Chye Baillieu on Aug 23. It is understood that this is the largest land parcel offered for the auction market.
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    • PSYCHOLOGY
      • 756 12  -  by Dr Ahden Busch For the Monitor A doorman stands at the employees' entrance and opens the door with a greeting: "Good afternoon, Su Ling. How are you today?" This is an example of hospitality in action. How is hospitality learned? Training is
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      • 546 12  -  by Dr Ahden Busch For the Monitor Sitting idle on the plant floor is the recently acquired expensive tooling equipment. But no one touches it. The machines represent a large investment by the company to upgrade itself. Each day there would be a minor
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      • 346 12 GRAMMAR English is spoken worldwide and consequently there are differences in pronunciation not only from country to country, but also within the same country. Thus for me, from the south of England, it is necessary to listen carefully when speaking to some people
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      • 224 12  -  On right use of the word: belie by Michael Gartner Register and Tribune Syndicate The reporter was writing about a man some people consider thinskinned. To make his point, the reporter wrote: "Critics...say his penchant for firing off letters when he thinks the institution has been unjustly attacked suppresses
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    • 666 16  -  TRAVEL by Yeow Mei Sin Monitor staff writer Singaporeans are venturing to other lands in greater numbers than ever before. The figure: a sixfold jump from 72,239 to 433,849 in the 14 years since 1970. The majority of Singaporeans take pleasure trips. Business travellers
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    • 104 1 COMPUTERS Computers usher in the age of the smart car, which boasts some astonishing features: Page 5 Bytes a column about new products and processes: Page 4 American experts build traps into software to confound potential "pirates": Page 3. National Reading Month started on Friday. We invite teenagers to pick
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    • 86 7 The Bestsellers and New Releases lists have been held over this week. I MIND I hyourH I LANGUAGE I I You are judged by the way you speak and write Vou can H I improve your spoken and written English language through H our proven home study course This special
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    • 89 8 Subscribe now! Don't miss the Sunday Monitor just clip this coupon or call us now to place your order. Remember your subscription will also entitle you to participate in our $100,000 Lucky Draw. J MAIL THIS COUPON TO: The Singapore Monitor Ltd., J Circulation Department, I Alexandra P.O. Box 285,
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    • 498 13 Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sunday Monitor Words 0.35 cents per word 0.55 cents per word Display $7.70 per col. cm $10.00 per col. cm Business Hrs Mon-Fri. 9am-spm Sat, 9am-lpm ANNOUNCEMENT (BUSINESS) M 1984 Leipzig Autumn Fair from 2 to 8 September Leipzig, German Democratic Republic Under the proven
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    • 40 1 GARFIELD by JIM DAVIS DENNIS THE MENACE €Sh RANK KETCHAM THE LOCKHORNS DTT T by BILL HOEST ij.j* iti "i 11 m |r■ 11-. vjc>-- Mr^■' > J HE ENJOYS WATCHING OOGGERS. "WE HAVE A STRANGE RELATIONSHIP*- HE'S THE 6TRAN66 PART.
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    • 8 1 PLAY PAGE THE SUNDAY MONITOR SUNDAY AUGUST 19,1984
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