Singapore Monitor, 21 August 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Tuesday, August 21, 1984 30cents
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  • 445 1  -  Dollar-for-dollar suggestion to encourage S'porean manufacturers CAROLINE BOEY A DOLLAR-for-dollar subsidy of up to $200,000 may be given to local manufacturers for research and development in industrial design. This is one of several possibilities being studied by an advisory committee established last month to
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  • 243 1 Reuter WASHINGTON, Tuesday DEMOCRATIC vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro and her real estate developer husband disclosed yesterday that they owe the American government more than US$5O,OOO (S$107,000) in back taxes and plan to pay it immediately. The revelation was part of a strenuous effort by
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  • home
    • 474 2 THREE of the original nine PeoBle's Action Party ministers in le 1959 Cabinet will be contesting the next general election as the Old Guard gradually loosens its hold on leadership. The three from the "Class of 59" are Prime Minister
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    • 146 2 THE FIRST PAP Cabinet %as sworn in on June 5, 1959, although the party won the general election on May 30. The delay was caused by a constitutional crisis deliberately provoked by the party leadership. The PAP insisted that the top party leaders under detention should first
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    • 646 2 THE SECOND Deputy Prime Minister (Foreign Affairs), Mr S Rajaratnam, has labelled some foreign journalists as "foxes without tails" and a few local journalists as people displaying an inferiority complex" before their foreign counterparts. Speaking at the opening of the new Crawford
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    • 174 2  -  REPORTS BY GANDHI AMBALAM SINGAPORE says it is now up to Canberra to rearrange the cancelled visit to the Republic by Australia's Foreign Minister, Mr Bill Hayden. MrHayden, who was to have been here last Friday for talks with Singapore leaders, had to cancel his scheduled
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    • 483 3  -  Move to prevent abuse by big purchasers By YONG POW ANG NTUC Fairprice is setting a $12,000 ceiling on the amount of purchases which can qualify for rebate to members. The move is an attempt to prevent abuse by a few big buyers
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    • 158 3  -  By JALIL MISWARDI WHY DO some Housing and Development Board blocks have more payphones than others? It is simply because they have more flats. Telecoms has explained the guidelines for the installation of payphones in response to queries about apparent discrepancies.
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    • 59 3 PARLIAMENT will meet on Friday, Aug 24. Seven Bills will come up for second reading during the session. Among the Bills are: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (Amendment) Bill. The Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) (Amendment) Bill. The Small Claims Tribunals Bill. The Rqad Traffic
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    • 330 4  -  By K K FONG A MAN who was made a company manager and given the authority to sign cheques got the shock of his life last week when he was arrested for cheating. At least nine companies had told the police that the
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    • 465 4  -  By SURESH NAIR BREAKDANCERS are likely to get a permanent venue on Sentosa and the news has brought relief among Scotts Road shopkeepers. The Sentosa Development Corporation is expected to announce details this week of plans to open sections of the island to young people.
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    • 209 4 AN EIGHT-YE AE-OLD schoolboy who fell from the kitchen window of a fourthfloor flat could have been trying to reach a pair of shoes hung out to dry, the Coroner's Court heard yesterday. Sergeant Ong Thiam Hock told the court that Ong Chin Heng,
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    • 529 4 ADMISSION TO PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY CLASSES THE third phase of registration for admission of pupils to Pre-Primary and Primary one classes next year will be held tomorrow and Thursday. It is for children who are Singapore citizens or permanent residents and those who are not eligible for
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    • 223 5 Lianhe Wanbao 'MAGIC FIGURES' painted on strips of paper have been found on the doors of more than 10 yet-to-be-allocated new flats in Blocks 104, 105 and 107 in Bukit Batok. The Taoist charms are believed to have been stuck
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    • 416 5  -  By EE BOON LEE IT'S A tale of three unions for training check stewards of the Singapore Airlines. Once members of the Singapore Air Transport Workers'.Union (Satu), they were upgraded to the administrative cadre in 1981. No longer eligible for Satu membership, they
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    • 269 5 THE lIOMRT^ A SINGER from the Philippines was sentenced yesterday to a day in jail and fined $1,200 for committing theft at a department store. Ferevlyn De Guzman, 26, admitted to stealing two belts and a leotard valued at $67.80
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    • 110 5 A MAN was killed and two passengers were injured when their car skidded and crashed into road signs before hitting the pillar of a flyover at East Coast Parkway yesterday. Police said Mr Roslan Plempine, 23, was driving towards Changi Airport at about
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    • 296 6  -  WOMEN OF THE COMMANDO SCHOOL MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE By ROBERT CONCEICAO THIS IS how the flag bearing the 25th anniversary logo, which was slung beneath a helicopter on National Day, looks like on the ground. Measuring nine metres by six metres and weighing
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    • 142 6 Lianhe Wanbao A 6-YEAR-OLD boy was found drowned in a monsoon drain near Changi Beach Road last Saturday, the sixth such incident this year. The little boy, Wu Shaoming, went to the beach for the first time in his life with his 45-year-old uncle,
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    • 335 6 CONSUMER pressure will be apBlied on doctors in private pracce who have not labelled their medicines. This is the next step in the campaign to persuade all doctors to label meaicines. The Consumers' Association of Singapore (Case) and the Pharmaceutical Society
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    • 89 6 A FORMER patient of Woodbridge Hospital was charged yesterday with throwing the components of a hi-fi system from a second-floor window. Tan Khah Imm, 34, did not plead to the charge of committing a rash act that endangered human life and safety by throwing
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  • world
    • 788 7 He turns 80 tomorrow and there is no doubt he holds China's future in his hands AP BEUING, Tuesday Chairman Mao Zedong once accused Mr Deng Xiaoping, the man destined to succeed him as China's leader, of treating him like a dead ancestor and being a
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    • 122 8 LATWP BEIJING, Tuti IN A sign of growing Sino-American military co-operation, China apKrs ready to agree to t a port call by US navy vessels for the first time in over 30 years, informed diplomats reported yesterday. Discussions of a possible port
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    • 890 8  -  New support facilities at Cam Ranh Bay give it better strike ability By MICHAEL RICHARDSON The Age Newspaper, Melbourne Special to The Singapore Monitor THE Commander-in-Chief of US forces in the Pacific has warned that construction of new military support facilities at
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    • 204 8 Reuter ISLAMABAD (Pakistan), Tuesday PAKISTAN yesterday accused Afghanistan of killing 16 people with artillery fire across the frontier, bringing the death toll from cross-border shelling in the past week to at least 48. The latest victims died in over an hour
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    • 66 8 Reuter PARIS, Tuesday A BOMB exploded outside a Jewishowned bank in central Paris early today, causing considerable damage but no injuries, police said. The bomb went off outside the Bank Leumi, in the busy boulevard Des Italiens. Police said a large number of people were
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    • 392 9 UPI MANILA, Tuesday FILIPINOS began massing today for massive demonstrations to mark the assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino a year ago as the entire armed forces went on "red alert." State-run television, quoting military authorities, reported the discovery of explosives and firebombs last
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    • 369 9 THE AQUINO INQUIRY Reuter MANILA, Tuesday THE HEAD of a commission investigating the murder of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino said today that she was most disappointed by reports submitted by lawyers about a conspiracy theory. Two highly respected lawyers' groups which observed the
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    • 189 9 UPI LONDON, Tuesday FORTUNE hunters should marry wealthy, elderly widows rather than young heiresses as their brides, the publishing director of "Burke's Peerage," Britain's guide to aristocracy, advises. Mr Harold Brooks-Baker, in an article published in the Times of London yesterday,
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    • 127 9 UPI NEW DELHI, Tuesday A BOMB hoax and the Jate arrival of a train carrying lawmakers backing ousted Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Mr Rama Rao yesterday delayed a bid by the former movie star to prove that he was
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    • 223 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday DATUK Musa Hitam left for Romania on Sunday for follow-up discussions on the possibility of using Romanian ports for the export of Malaysian goods to Eastern European countries. Speaking to reporters before leaving for Zurich
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    • 499 10 Reuter DALLAS, Tuesday PRESIDENT Reagan's campaign chairman vesterday blamed Democratic Presidential nominee Walter Mondale for Geraldine Ferraro's political problems and said: "My heart went out to her." "I hope this woman survives the impact of controversy surrounding her family finances," said Senator Paul
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    • 100 10 Reuter DALLAS, Tuesday BEATRICE Mooney, a pleasant 67-year-old nurse, is hoping the Republican National Convention will dump Vice-President ueorge Bush as President Reagan's running mate and turn to her. Miss Mooney, a life-long Republican from Lakeland, Minnesota, said yesterday she wants to be the Republican version
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    • 396 10 UPI WASHINGTON, Tues A COMBATIVE President Reagan, campaigning in the industrial MidWest, hit out at Mr Walter Mondale's commitment to higher taxes vesterday as a "typical knee-jerk reaction by Democrats who "encourage envy, division and resentment." Mr Mondale did not return the attack. Instead
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    • 223 10 Reuter DALLAS, Tuesday THE REPUBLICANS raised the curtain yesterday on a four-day, made-for-television convention carefully crafted to build to crescendo with the unopposed nomination of Mr Ronald Keagan for a second term as President. As a band blared and delegates waved American flags, Republican national
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    • 83 8 1 pm 3am show bands be compared "tribes" pop culture today, group comes across as akin to England's trendy and crusty upper JZk'/ class Sloane Rangers is the MAIN JF~ ATTRACTION band" W/X \fy Times Journal w Yes they are here at Fujtang all together, 11 of them with of
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    • 84 10 t UMHtD 1 Fixed Deposits I 1 month *S p 3. 12 months I I 3 months 8/4% pa. I I f months 8V4% p.a. 8%%D.a.| I 9 months 81/2% pa. B Savings 7% p.a (calculated daily) M ON CALL 6%% p.a. M [J All interest rates subject to change
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  • world / trends
    • 27 11 The recent death of a running guru has left much confusion among runners who believe that sustained running will stave off such mortal injury or disease.
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    • 23 11 Scientists say that women in the United States consume less than half the calcium they need to counteract bone loss through ageing.
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    • 27 11 Some 250,000 baby girts have been killed in China since the introduction of the one-child policy in 1979. Rural parents still prefer sons to daughters.
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    • 455 11 TRENDS Lifestyle THE recent death of writer-turned-run-nine-guru, Mr James Fixx, has left much confusion among runners who believe that sustained running and other aerobic activities will stave off such mortal injury or disease. People are asking
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    • 282 11 RISING income levels in Asia mean many nations can afford more advanced western medicines and more expensive lifestyles mean they are more likely to need them, according to a multi-national drug company's salesmen. "The economy determines the lifestyle and the need
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    • 334 11 THE MAN in charge at the United Nations International Conference on Population, Mr Rafael Salas, says the world can feed the population of 6.1 billion predicted for the year 2000 but life is likely to be ''hazardous" after it reaches the
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    • 168 11 Some 250,000 baby girls have been killed in China since the introduction of the one-child policy in 1979, according to an American demographer from Princeton University, Mr Ansley Coale, quoted in the Economist. The normal ratio of girls to boys at birth is 100:106. Mr Coale's study shows,
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    • 101 11 Another 300,000 Malaysian civil servants will have to declare their assets, according to a report in The Star. This new requirement is aimed at ensuring a clean public service. According to the May 1 directive, their declarations had to be made within three months but many civil servants
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    • 96 11 Women in the United States consume less than half the calcium they need to counteract bone loss through ageing, a condition that affects 20 million Americans, says Dr Richard Rivlin, head of nutrition at the New York Hospital. A woman should consume between 1,200 and 1,400 milligrams a
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  • money
    • 714 12 LIMITED CAPITAL BASE HINDERS GROWTH THE SMALL Four local banks Tat Lee Bank (TLB), Industrial Commercial Bank (ICB), Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) and Far Eastern Bank (FEB) are facing a rough time in the increasingly competitive local market, says Asiat>anking. Tat Lee, the largest,
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    • 108 12 KILLINGHALL Tin (M) Bhd's group turnover was M 515.2 million for the half year ended June 30, marginally down from the previous corresponding period's M 515.6 million. Pre-tax profit of M 55.4 million was down from MsB.2 million. Gross earnings per share dropped to
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    • 144 12 f 1 HMLLSTREET k A A FINAL-HOUR buying spree in blue chip stocks helped Wall Street salvage the session, with the market finishing narrowly higher. But trading volume remained a weak 76 million shares, with nearly 10 per cent of the turnover coming from American Express
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    • 39 12 THE Straits Times Industrial Index fell 1.01 points to 935.67 yesterday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 471.94, down 0.06 points from 472. The OUB TradeWeighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index rose 0.0261 points to 130.9087.
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    • 118 12 THE US dollar staged a late rally in quiet US trading yesterday after turning in a mixed performance in Japan and Europe. Gold prices fell, drifting lower in Hong Kong and Europe and then falling further later in the US. Bullion was bid at US$344 a troy
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    • 367 13 KAMUNTING Tin Dredging (M) Bhd told the Kuala Lumpur and Singapore Stock Exchanges that it did not know why there was a substantial rise in its share prices. It is thinking of buying Golden Wealth Timber Sdn Bhd but agreement has not
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  • features/ letters
    • 523 14  -  REPLIES J B JEYARETNAM Secretary-General The Workers' Party MR LiM Siam Kim writing for the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs (SM, Aug 17) says that my allegations about the ill-treatment meted out to Mr Jufrie
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    • 91 14 I REFER to the letter "Please stop insulting the intelligence of Singaporeans" by Flabbergasted (SM, Aug 14). Laziness is inherent in human nature. We hear people saying: "I'm lazy to think, lazy to walk, lazy to go Laziness is a bad influence to society. In
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    • 84 14  -  TAN HENG HUAY Executive Asst Secretary (Public Relations) Housing Development Board PLEASE refer to the letter by "House owner" who feels that the $5 charged by the Board for photostating a copy of the floor plan is too expensive. we would like to
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    • 568 14 ISSUE THE Malaysian government has shown remarkable restraint so far in the latest Muslim party, PAS, onslaught in its drive to turn Malaysia into a theocratic state. If published reports of things being said and done in the name of PAS politics are
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    • 742 14  -  REGINA MURGOTH of Rtutm Reuter COLOGNE: Seventeen years after he left his family in Turkey but fit now only for light work, Recep Aksu is going home with about 5521,500 in refunds from the state pension fund. He is one of thousands of
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  • opinion / letters
    • 413 15 thesingaporh^M^^B IN HIS Natioaal Day Rally speech on Sunday, Mr Lee Kuan Yew touched on some of the most important issues in the life of every man, woman and child in Singapore. Of immediate concern is the health of the old guard, the leaders responsible
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    • 329 15 IN HIS letter "Criticism must be constructive" (SM, Aug 17), the writer has been puzzled by the critical comments of Dr Toh Chin Chye, Member of Parliament for Rochor. I do not begrudge anyone their admiration
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    • 167 15 I AM a resident of Bedok and rely on Singapore Shuttle Bus Service No 8 to and from work. I have observed that lately there have been fewer and fewer Service 8 buses in the evenings. On Aug 16, at the bus stop alone
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    • 179 15 THE NEW Singapore General Hospital may be very pretty to look at both from within and without. But get into any of the wards (not the A-class wards, of course, which are all air-conditioned) and you will quickly discover one major defect
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 34 15 THE DEMOCRATS) HWJE 1 ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT MOVED SO FNRIEH... &TOSWOUTOF RAIS. TAXES IN 1985.'.' TOYVE LEFT MAERKA! WHMHEWMIWS,TWERL IFTRFAGANBtREASANi WW A Y&h-UH)HSr &RE NO FOR NEW TAXES lli runum dl m -for aMB
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  • leisure
    • 273 16  -  CRISP, CLEAN LINES FROM THOMAS WEE By INEZ WEI AFTER what seemed like an eternity of sombre dressing in black, blue and grey, local designer Thomas Wee's recent show, August Airs, blew in some colourful changes. The enduring good looks of his collection were spiced with imaginative touches
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    • 635 16  -  ACT 3'S ALADDIN A HIT WITH STUDENTS Drama Festival 1984 By Pi PAT D'ROSE THE anonymous author of Aladdin (or The Wonderful Lamp) would have been delighted with the response his Arabian Nights' tale drew from more than 200 primary school children last week. And, perhaps,
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    • 283 16 y j I The start of my period usually meant the end of chafing difficulties. Tarn pax dispenses with all my aerobic classes. There was no way I could these messy problems. wear a tight leotard without showing the Super hygienic, each Tampax tampon embarrassing bulge of a pad. comes
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1562 17 *>■,£"< /Jhp7' ™E smoapore MONTTCM |ft I leisure /tv tvwqay. *uqu«t 21. 1 \j. 1 flume -r=-i ■EXHI3 I mMmfr 2.15 SBCTEXT Sample 2.45 Opening and Programme Highlighta followed by Yea- K gW tarday'a Glitter (C) (r). 4.20 Dances of India (r). 4.45 The Comic Book Kida: The Worried Wizard
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  • leisure / tv
    • 693 18 The Comic Book Kids: The Worried Wizard (Debut) (Ch 5, 4.45 pm) A COMIC book wizard comes to life and gives two children, Carrie and Skeeter, enchanted belts which allow them to step, with a touch of a button, into the comic book drawings on
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    • 411 18  -  myisggENEj By WONG SING YEONG SIMPLY SING is just what it is. No frills, sequins, special effects or scenic outdoor settings just plain "live" entertainment staged in a studio. It is like being there for the viewers, participating in a casual get-to-gether of 18 local
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  • leisure
    • 652 19  -  Film probes scars of Falklands battle By MARCELO CANTELMI in TandM, Argentina UPI WHEN the Argentineans reluctantly marked the second anniversary of their defeat in the Falkland Islands war against Britain on June 14, moviemakers were in the process of completing a film that painfully probed
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 374 19 FILM GUIQe w«f«illillllili -w DAUT (*****16): AN OXCART DOWRY (C) METROPOLE (*****27): INVINCIBLE GONGFU Starring: Lu Xiaofrn, Chen Zhenlei, Zhin Tu TRIO (Q 'lISpU S up b port S (***** 9 7 LEGEND OF THE SHAOUN man in exchange for his wife's services. LIWAQU (*****30): AN OXCART DOWRY (C) ANQ
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 234 20 OS POSTERS OF A GERMAN GALLERY THERE will be an exhibition on Posters of a German Gallery at the Goethe-Institut Art Gallery until Aug 31, noon to 6pm daily except on Sundays and public holidays. Admission is free. MONIQUE FULLER'S ART THE Alliance Francaise de Singapour, 4 Draycott Park, will
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    • 775 20 A scene from the German Mm, The Moon ia But a Naked Globe (left); the director, Jorg Qraaer (right) BLACKHOLE ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES THE Toa Payoh Branch Library will ANGELS with Dirty Faces will be screen Blacknole at its lecture hall to- screened at the Goethe-Institut Audimorrow at 3pm
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    • 251 20 LSSO THE Lancashire Schools' Symphony Orchestra (LSSO) from Britain will give a concert at Singapore Conference Hall on Friday at 8.15 pm. There will also be a combined performance, with the Singapore Youth Orchestra, of Shostakovich's Festival Overture. The conductor is Malcolm Doley, director/conductor of LSSO. Tickets at $3 and
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  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • 386 21  -  By LEE CHIU SAN A FORTNIGHT from now you will have a chance to shoot dragon boat racing, one of the most colourful sporting events in Singapore. On the afternoon of September 2 the dragons will be storming up the Singapore River in the second annual Singapore
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    • 103 21 FOR more spectacular close-ups of the splashing rowers, go closer to the start line. Most of the rowers start very enthusiastically and throw up huge plumes of spray just as they get their boats moving but by the half-way mark their paddles cut the
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    • 31 22 Going closer to the start line offers possibilities like this picture which portrays the spirit and enthusiasm of the dragon boat racing teams Picture: By CLIFTON AW
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 637 23 leisure comics FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook 805. COUU) vfeo w»w., r OoT 1 Httt> VbO Nott/ CoMe OP To MV 1 TH6 MATTER, fAtlotfl WHftTfVffC IT IS Voo'KC j OH,I®V/ i«!lfl Office gifrKT J- 8©B? /ACAP6UA lookup AfT«R,M*6- i TH»& V\l v AMtf rr's UHHH- /AETo IT M*M*/ GortHA &t5»55»8
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    • 489 27  -  By ERNEST FRIDA FOUR 16-year-old athletes, Joey Khoo, Bryan Selva Ratnam, Mohd Faizal Omar and Hoon Kim Seng were delighted by their selection for the South Korea International Youth Athletic Championships in Seoul this weekend. It was a pleasant surprise for the youngsters
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    • 76 27 THE SAFRA Open Novice Squash Championship this year will start on Sept 1 with a drop in the number of participants. Last year, more than 200 played in the tournament but only half the number are competing this year. Favourites for the tournament
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    • 222 27 NICE (France), Tuesday AMERICAN Roger Kingdom beat his Olympic title-winning time by 0.01 of a second in a 110 metres hurdles triumph at the Nice Athletics International last nisht. Kingdom flashed across the line in 13.19 seconds, ahead of compatriots Tonie Campbell and Milan
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    • 407 27 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Tues KEVIN Keegan's main concern about the Merdeka soccer tournament tomorrow is that he give the home fans a pleasant surprise. The controversy over his eligibility to play for the Malaysian Tigers is secondary. "Right now I am
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    • 239 27 Reuter BUPAPEST, Tuesday CARL LEWIS received a hero's welcome, Jarmila Kratochvilova suffered an upset and Steve Cram produced a searing 1,500 metres run at the Budapest athletics grand prix yesterday. Lewis, making his second appearance since winning four Olympic gold medals,
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    • 399 28  -  Weng Yew and Ben Lui will pit their skills against top British pros in Camus Masters By ALFONSO CHAN THREE-TIME national champion Lau Weng Yew and last year's national runner-up Benjamin Lui will have an opportunity to sharS;n their snooker skills before they leave
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    • 386 28  -  By ALFONSO CHAN WORLD snooker champion Steve Davis is a big television star in Britain. Apart from earning more than a £1 million (Ss2.B million) in prize money after bagging the major British titles for the past three years, he also endorses products ranging
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    • 295 28  -  SIA 2 JANSENITES 0 By B KULA HIGH-FLIERS Singapore Airlines continued their winning streak in the Premier Hockey League, beating Jansenites 2-0 at Tanglin yesterday. Now six points ahead of Khalsa at the top of the league table, the victory is a welcome boost
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      • 201 28 Reuter HANOVER, Tuesday CHIEF organiser Res Bruegger blamed the excessive demands ofEdwin Moses' managers for the non-ap-pearance of the world record holder and Olympic champion at the Hanover athletics meet. He scoffed at suggestions that a sum around US$lOO,OOO (S$210,000) had been demanded, but
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      • 162 28 Reuter ZURICH, Tuesday SEBASTIAN Coe will attempt to regain the 1,500 metres world record currently held by fellow Briton Steve Ovett here tomorrow night. Coe, the 800 metres world record holder and double Olympic champion over 1,500 metres, said yesterday: "There
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      • 150 28 Reuter MAHWAH (New Jersey), Tuesday TOP-SEEDS Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver beat Britain's Jo Durie and Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi of the United States 7-6 3-6 6-2 in the rain-hit doubles final of the US$l5O,OOO (*****,000) Jersey Women's Tennis Classic yesterday. It was the 64th
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    • 424 29 Sygma THI TRACK and field competition of tho 1984 Olympics may bo remsmbsrsd for the dominance of the US, but what was perhaps more memorable was the handful of athletes countries who surprised the world with their winning performances In this first of a two-part colour
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    • 366 30  -  TEO CHIANG HENG WILL LEAD SINGAPORE'S TEAM AGAINST STRONG VISITING SQUADS By K SILVAM TEO Chiang Heng will lead the Singapore team ft) the Inaugural Merlion Cup basketball championship at the Gay World Stadium from Atag SI to Sept 9. Although the national team
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    • 201 30  -  By K SILVAM THE Olympic Council of China has agreed to send a basketball coach here in January to prepare Singapore's team for the South-east Asia Games in Bangkok next year. According to Mr Quek Hiang Chiang, secretary of the Basketball
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    • 205 30 Reuter NICE (Franc*), Tuesday NICE has been confirmed as one of 10 West European venues for a Grand Prix series of 15 international athletics meetings planned for next year, a local official said yesterday. Mr Robert Bertojo, director of the annual Nikaia match in
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    • 212 31 7 FLASHBACK! HIS LAST RACE Reuter HAVANA, Tuesday CUBAN track star Alberto Juantorena, who shot to fame by winning two gold medals at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, has officially retired from athletics, the Cuban newspaper Granma said yesterday. In a report from the Friendship '84
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