Singapore Monitor, 23 September 1984

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  • 236 1 The waiting game is over. The candidacy of Brigadier-General Lee Hsien Loong is out at last. He's one of the five new faces the People's Action Party is fielding in the coming general election. The announcement in the party organ, Petir, comes after Brig-Gen
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  • 442 1  -  by Gandhi Ambalam Monitor staff writer Brig-Gen Lee was proposed as a candidate early this year by Mr S Rajaratnam, Second Deputy Prime Minister (Foreign Affairs). In disclosing this yesterday, Mr Goh Chok Tong added: "I supported his candidature wholeheartedly and so did all the
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  • 440 1 It will be another two years before the government takes any decision on the controversial CPF withdrawal age issue. This assurance was given by the Minister for Labour and Second Minister for Law and Home Affairs, Professor S Jayakumar, last night when he spoke
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  • 83 1 BEIJING-China and Britain will initial un historic agreement on Wednesday to return Hong Kong to Chinese control when Britain's lease expires in 1997, it was announced Saturday. "There will be no further round of talks and the text of a joint declaration on the Hong
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  • 67 1 The World Paper, a news supplement that explores international issues in depth, is included today for the first time in The Sunday Monitor. Among the topics featured are: Amnesty actions in Poland, Colombia, and The Philippines; the new US anti-abortion position, and current outlook of
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    • 151 1 LIVING Move along with Fashion in the fast lane. Sunday's TV listing on the back page of Living Lobsters to stir your appetite. t Bg&v. v* NEWS INDEX KOm MONEY UVIMO Photovtow 2 Stock Close 7 Food 4 Happenings 2 US Dollar 7 Fashion 2 ASEAN Case 8 Music 6
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    • 34 1 I 1 Fitness craze is shaping up in Singapore. i A mail order firm that y, started with a pair of boots. 1 Answers to questions on mL H Hi See Profiles page 6
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 27 1 WEATHER HThe weather today is expected to be fair, with showers in several areas in the morning. Temperatures should range from 25 to 29 degrees Celsius. Pr
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      1410 2  -  What do you think of B-G (Res) Lee Hsien Loong going into politics? Monitor staff photographers Interviews at Orchard Road Tack Qhee Market b* Bertilla Perelra Dawn We aterhout Magdalene Chaw Monitor staff reporters JOESEAH S4, Retired "I think there's nothing wrong with Lee Haien Loong entering politics.
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      452 2 AT THE OFFICE: Have you heard that small trade unions can afford to buy their own offices now? The smallest unit available at the Singapore Labour Foundation Complex now under construction at Thomson Road measures only 500 sq m. Additional space for recreation and meetings will be provided at
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    • 454 3  -  by Bertilla Pereira Monitor staff writer Education is never a soft option, said the Minister of State (Education), Dr Tay Eng Soon, last night when he addressed secondary school principals at the annual dinner of their association. "We should beware of those who
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    • 308 3 Children are being treated like ball bearings by the Education Ministry, said Dr Ow Chin Hock, MP for Leng Kee, yesterday. In fact, he added, the ministry is the greatest source of pressure on students more than parents and the schools. At* the
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    • 458 3  -  by Magdalene Hauw Monitor staff writer Two "hell-drivers" were yesterday jailed for several weeks each for rash driving in January this year. The two, with a third driver, had raced each other from Orchard Boulevard to Holland Road in the middle of the night. They
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    • 515 4  -  by Chew Yen Fook Monitor staff writer A surprising "in" place for a growing number of young Singaporean night owls is a remote rendezvous on the fourth floor of Changi Airport. It's the Terrace Buffeteria, a casual place where young adults, meet friends, eat and
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    • 426 4  -  by Sit Yin Fong Innitnr 4 ■II Monitor stan wrrter There was a fire on board the Singapore tug-boat as it was steaming in the South China Sea and approaching Kalimantan in Indonesia. The master decided to abandon it when all efforts to
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    • 150 4  -  by Seah Mei Kiang Monitor staff writer The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is having problems recruiting the polytechnic graduates it needs because there aren't enough of them, said Mr YapChee Liew.'the board's chief civil engineer, yesterday. Mr Yap was speaking at
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    • 1091 6  -  by Ee Boon Lee Monitor staff writer If you live in the new constituency of Teck Ghee in Ang Mo Kio New Town, you are likely to get a tall, crewcut man with a military bearing calling on you this morning. With a
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    • 298 6  -  by Loong Swee Yin Monitor staff writer Gertrude de Gracias wants to speak up for mothers who cannot get their children into nearby schools because they do not have a university degree. That's the main reason why she will stand as a candidate for the Singapore
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 192 2 3.01 Quran Reading. 7.32 Gloria. 3.06 Programme Summary. t.OO News And Weather Forecast. 3.22 Afternoon Movie: Tarzan Finds t.31 Drama Minggu Ini. A Son. g.27 Hadis Nabi. *.43 Kesuma. 9J7 Peristiwa. 5.13 Greatest Sports Legends Jerry 9.92 Today Ini History. West. 10.01 Remington Steele: A good 5.40 Pope ye The
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    • 369 3 Share bThiWTOspertty Of The Region. There is growing consensus that the Asia-Pacific region offers some over a number of markets will not only enhance capital growth but also help of the best investment opportunities in the world today. lower the risk exposure. Japan has the largest securities market outside the
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    • 143 6 v Auction LANDED PROPERTIES 388 Draycott Drive 8 Gardenia Road TS 25 lot 723-2-D/E Mk 15 lot 22-127 Accessory lot A/723-2-D/E 144.8m 1 Freehold 487m J and 12m 2 Free hold (UP) 152 Jalan Ratalong #03-02 Liho Liho, Mk 31 lot 832 Ridgewood Condo. 309.4 Freehold Mk 4 lot 3863/
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  • MONEY
    • 570 7 Speculators take their profits and run in frenzied selling Associated Press NEW YORK The US dollar plummeted from record heights in hectic trading on Friday, staging its sharpest one-day retreat in more than three years. Analysts attributed the drop to frenzied selling by
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    • 403 7  -  by Rodney Hobson Monitor staff writer HONG KONG Investors need not expect Hong Kong stock prices to rise automatically this week despite news of a settlement of outstanding issues between Britain and China. The market has already acted positively, breaking above 1,000
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    • 156 7 Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Foreign compeI tition is pushing American car and "steel companies to invest billions £of dollars in new machinery. Deregulation is prompting trucking land railroad companies to cut by upgrading equipment. £And brisk defence spending is •leading US
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    • 998 8  -  by Ray Miller Monitor staff writer The Consumers' Association of Singapore received 978 written complaints last year, an average of 18 a week. But that represents only the tip of the iceberg of consumer displeasure. For every one member who writes, there
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    • 518 8 United Press International TOKYO While Europe worries about a cargo of 300 tons of uranium hexafluoride that sank off Belgium's coast, Japan is toying with the idea of sinking 1,000 times that much radioactive material in the western Pacific. The plan to dump
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    • 133 8 LA Times-Washington Post WASHINGTON President Reagan refused to grant American steelmakers the import protection they sought, but pledged to seek agreements with exporting nations to end the "surges" of unfairly traded steel that has flooded into the United States. The President said these agreements
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 824 9  -  ANALYSIS by Masaki Watanabe Monitor staff writer The Agrava commission's long- awaited report on the assassination of opposition leader Benignc LI Aquino almost certainly will implicate elements of the Philippine armed forces. The only question is, to what extent? After several delays, the
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    • 514 10 Police break up demonstration near Marcos 9 Manila Palace Associated Press MANILA Long columns of helmeted riot police stormed through Manila's University belt yesterday, pursuing 2,000 demonstrators who held an all-night rally against President Ferdinand E Marcos. The troops, outnumbering the demonstrators as they filled a street near Mr Marcos'
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    • 239 10 The Star PRESIDENT: Datuk Dr Lim Keng Yaik, Datuk Michael Chen DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Datuk Paul Leong, Dr Goh Cheng TeiC SECRETARY-GENERAL: Mr Kerk Choo Ting (uncontested) Z TREASURER: Mr Alexander Lee, Datuk Hew See Tong KUALA LUMPUR The Gerakan, a partner in Malaysia's ruling National
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    • 182 10 Malaysia's Scorpions will be commissioned 'shortly' Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Deputy Chief of Army, Lt-Gen Datuk Hashim Mohamed Ali, said yesterday that all the 26 modified British Scorpion light tanks ordered by the army were battleworthy and would be commissioned for training purposes "shortly." He described as "misleading, inaccurate and mischievous"
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  • COMMENTARY
    • OBSERVATIONS
      • 129 12 A new session of the UN General Assembly opens this week in New York City with the same old problem: An image of a long-winded, do-nothing international debating society. The image is not entirely fair, but stereotypes seldom are. What is distressing, however, is that the UN
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      • 127 12 When a woman gives birth, her heart expands considerably and puts a severe strain on it. Last week, for the first time ever, a woman with a transplanted heart gave birth to a baby girl in a San Diego hospital. That in itself is remarkable. But the
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      • 127 12 American polls show Ronald Reagan leading Walter Mondale by a country mile in the presidential race. Poll results have been so lop-sided that some people already have proclaimed President Reagan the winner. It could happen, but political polls are based only on small samplings of opinion
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      • 74 12 The good news is that vegetable eaters run a lower risk of cancer than those who do not regularly eat green and yellow veggies. That is based on a new 17-year survey of eating habits by Japanese medical researchers. The bad news is that vegetables won't
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    • 339 12 There must be lessons to be learnt from Andhra Pradesh where deposed film star turned politician N T Rama Rao has been reinstated as Chief Minister. He used to play god in his many films. And he appears almost godlike to his supporters. Unfortunately, he had to
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    • 815 12 Did I hear him correctly? Did the BBC World Service newscaster really say "trucks?" He did and it was one morning last week on the news as I was getting ready to go to work. Why the big fuss? When I was
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    • Article, Illustration
      872 12 Craftsmanship is dying in Singapore. Like the old buildings which are a symbol of our heritage, craftsmanship has become a victim of our relentless march towards prosperity and a higher standard of living. Gone are the days when houses were ornately designed, furniture intricately carved, clothing embroidered
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    • 859 13 Sir, Several weeks ago the Health Minister Mr Howe Yoon Chong commented on the 'ills' affecting the medical profession. We note that there has been very little response to those comments. We would like to make the following observations. We are glad to note that the minister recognises that
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    • 269 13 HOBSON'S CHOICE Optimism always prevails in the property market no matter how bad the downturn. Colleague Annie Chia tells how a Singaporean who had just returned from the United States after four months asked how bad the market was and was told:
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    • 824 13 Some members of the New York Philharmonic stormed out of their luxury hotel in India the other day when they discovered, or so they claimed, cockroaches and bugs in their rooms. Boorish behaviour, but not surprising. Only entomologists would willingly seek the company of creepy- crawlies.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 505 14 ONE OF THE MOST baffled men in the world this week is Jack Eason, a public safety officer of Berkeley, California. He can't explain the disappearance of a two-metre boa constrictorfrom a locked room with no windows and no escape routes. Only two men hold keys to
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    • 484 14 Wire services BANGKOK Vietnamese forces and Cambodian guerillas were engaged in heavy fighting near the Thai border for the second day yesterday, Thai military officials said. They told reporters the fighting broke out seven km inside Cambodia, opposite Tha Phraya
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    • 202 14 Associated Press LOS ANGELES The Soviet Union may be secretly deploying additional Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) capable of reaching the United States, according to a published report. The build-up of new ICBMs, called SS-255, may be occurring under the guise of preparing bases for
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    • 207 14 United Press International TOKYO A FIRE-HIT Soviet nuclear ballistic missile submarine, white smoke leaking from its conning tower, slowly steamed northeastwards yesterday nearly two days after it was discovered afire in the Sea of Japan. A Japanese Defence Agency spokesman said
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    • 128 14 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia yesterday banned the Jakarta bureau chief of Agence France-Presse (AFP), the French news agency, from working in Indonesia following articles he wrote which angered the Government. Press Director-General Sukarno said AFP bureau chief Gilles Bertin, a French national,
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    • 267 16 Associated Press BRUNEI JOINS THE U.N. LONDON Police mounted a big security operation yesterday to guard Mr Arthur Scargill, leftist leader of Britain's striking miners, after a threat to kill him, as the 27-week-old coalfield walkout dragged on amid picket-line violence. Six thousand miners, some armed
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    • 520 16 Associated Press WASHINGTON Democratic presidential hopeful Mr Walter Mondale said on Friday that there was "a serious failure of security" at the US embassy annex in East Beirut where two Americans were killed in a terrorist bombing. Mr Mondale, in a sharply worded criticism, also said
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    • 280 16  -  by Catherine Ong Washington D C Dr Tony Tan, Minister of Trade and Industry and Finance, arrived in Washington to attend the 39th annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He was accompanied by a fiveman delegation including Dr
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    • 334 16 United Press International MOSCOW Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko made a five-minute nationally televised speech, apparently designed to end rumours that he was ailing. Mr Chernenko, who turns 73 tomorrow, seemed healthy though thinner. His shortness of breath, believed to be caused by emphysema, was less
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    • 89 16 United Press International WASHINGTON When House of Representatives speaker Thomas O'Neill compares the presidential qualities of President Reagan, a former actor, to Robert Redford, the latter wins. "This guy (Reagan) is a Robert Redford out there," Mr O'Neill told wire service reporters on Friday as he
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    • 457 16 Associated Press HAIFA, Israel The skeleton of a man thought to have lived 15,000 years ago was unearthed on Thursday by archaeologists who believe the burial site contains significant evidence of mankind's transition from wandering hunters to grain-harvesting farmers.
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  • SAUDI ARABIA NATIONAL DAY
    • 402 18 Every year, millions of Muslims from all parts of the globe flock to Mecca (Makkah) to perform the holiest of Islam's pilgrimages the Hajj. Beggars and kings will gather there to worship God and rejoice in that momentous occassion one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
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    • 494 18 ON this most auspicious occasion of the National Day of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I wish to extend and humbly record my congratulations and best wishes to His Majesty King Fahd Ibn Abdul Aziz, their Royal Highnesses and
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    • 248 19 As the guardian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia is aware of its responsibilty to the Muslims of the world. One sign of how well this responsibilty is fullfilled is in the extensive preparations made for the Hajj season. Express
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    • 131 19 THOSE who wish to apply for a visitor's visa to Saudi Arabia need to contact a friend or a relative in the Kingdom. The latter can then apply on the applicant's behalf at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On approval of the application, the Royal Emabassy of Saudi Arabia
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    • 117 18 r HEARTIEST CONGRA TULA TIONS m 1S Majesty King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Am, pok W I the Government People of VQp The Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the occasion of their National f l• I Mr. Abdul Rahman Saleh Al-Homied AL HOMIED GROUP in
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    • 121 18 1 7 I —H OUR HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS TO HIS MAJESTY KING FAHD BIN ABDUL AZIZ, the government and the people of SAUDI ARABIA ON THEIR NATIONAL DAY FROM S.A.Sbafyib Co.Ptc.Lid. #07-16 COLOMBO COURT ASSOCIATES 7TH FLOOR, SINGAPORE 0617 ASSOCIATES TEL: *****22 (3 LINES) TUTANKHAMUN telex: shahab r« *****/r*****0 SA SHAHAB
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  • RACING GUIDE
    • 168 21  -  by Wonder Boy For the Monitor Inderapura Stable's Putera Sandhurst might get the chance of running in this year's prestigious $210,000 Singapore Gold Cup over 2,200 m next week if he wins the 'unofficial' Trial for Class 1 stayers over 1,860 m in Race Five
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    • 4019 21 CI 3 Div 7 1,200 m 7 Looks Good 56 H S Chan (4) 3 3 1 4 San Jose 56.5 V Nathan (6) 10 7 2 12 Siamese Fighter 55 Gwilliam (5) 8 6 3 8 Liverpool 56 Khoo (1) 2 14 Course Scratching: 1 Active Fox
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    • 299 21 SUNDAY'S CARDS How to read the card: Saddlebag number; horse's name; age, colour, country of origin and sex; weight (weight difference); trainer-owner; runs record (first-second-third-fourth-unplaced); last three runs; last run record; last win record (if any); jockey stall barrier number. (AM WONOOIBOV HA-ZEMNTAN MA-TAN TeTT (Mentor) (ZaoBao) (WrM
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS NEWS
    • 722 22  -  by Kenneth Jalleh Monitor staff writer ave weights, will lift. HFor about two decades it's been like that for security officer Chua Koon Siong, weightlifting's three-time Sportsman of the Year, and Commonwealth Games gold medallist already assuming the mantle of a living
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    • 608 23  -  by S Gulam Monitor staff writer In a complete turnaround, the Football Association of Singapore last month invited T Pathmanathan and R Suriamoorthy to play for the national team in the Merlion Cup, and the pair have already started training
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    • 1080 23  -  SPORTS PARADE by Kenneth Jalleh Monitor staff writer A former hockey star, lamenting the junior team's performance at the recent Junior World Cup qualifying rounds in Kuala Lumpur said: ''Another flop for Singapore. But it's only to be expected. We have players
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    • 478 23  -  by Haridas Nair For the Monitor For some time now, we have been hearing of Zainal Abidin's intention to turn professional. Each time he scored a spectacular win, his confidence soared, naturally. Still, as a married man with a sports business to
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    • 381 24 The Star KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia staged a great comeback to clinch a place in the final of the Malaysia Rugby Union Open Invitational Tournament when it beat Australian Forces North (AFN) 12-4 in the semifinal at the Police Depot ground yesterday. Singapore, however, were unlucky
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    • 278 24  -  By K Silvam Monitor staff writer In desperation, badminton officials will move 700 chairs into the Singapore Badminton Hall, but about 1,300 free ticket holders will still be denied admission for the Singapore versus China friendly tomorrow. 'Singapore Badminton Association officials confirmed yesterday that
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    • 443 24  -  By Ernest Frida Monitor staff writer National athletes on overseas assignments, top stars on the injury list and school examinations left a depleted field to compete in the Third All-Comers Sonetti Italia track and field championships at the National Stadium yesterday.
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    • 139 24  -  By Daniel Wee For the Monitor Defending champions Queenstown virtually secured the Singapore Open Waterpolo title when they beat Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association 17-7 on their first game tie at the Toa Payoh Swimming Pool yesterday. Although two other teams Singapore Armed Forces Reservist
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    • 935 25  -  by Alfonso Chan Monitor staff writer and Jeremy Yeo For the Monitor Moppet Lim Seok Hui emerged tops again in the women's final of the Anchor Singapore Open at -Kallang yesterday. The 17-year-old schoolgirl gave a world class squash display, retaining the title and
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    • 225 25 On two counts of minor woes of squash this weekend, it is all's well that ends well. First, our professional duo, Zainal Abidin and Peter Hill, both obtained their visas for New Zealand yesterday morning. They had not been able to pick
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    • 236 25  -  Farrer Park Dynamos 3 Hai Sing Park Rangers 1 by S Gulam Monitor staff writer Hai Sing Park Rangers lost their cool and concentration in extra time to go down 3-1 to Farrer Park Dynamos after a stalemate at fulltime in the
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    • 218 25 Rajagopal Suriamoorthy and Thambiah Pathmanathan, who rejoined the national squad last week, will turn out for Pahang this evening (5 pm) and will be trying their best to get a goal against Singapore. However, it is not the national team they will be up against but
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    • 297 26 AT AN AGE when most strong men would be inclined to let bulging muscles lie unflexed, Singapore's 36-year-old weightlifting champion Chua Koon Siong is still going strong for more medals to add to his already big stock from the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, Southeast Asia Games and other
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    • 73 26 Defending champions Nee Soon, who lost their opening match last week, put themselves back into contention by scoring an easy 6-1 win over MacPherson at Geylang Stadium. OTHER RESULTS: Kim Keat beat Kallang 6-1, Alexandra beat Aljunied 5-4 on penalty kicks (fulltime 0-0), Mountbatten
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    • 90 26 Sunday Monitor photographer Christine Chew captures Singapore's mighty moppet of squash, 17-year-okJ schoolgirl Lim Seok Hui sitting pretty "at the top of the worid" after retaining the 15th Anchor Singapore Open women's squash title at Kallang yesterday. It was a victory for Dad, who was
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    • 344 26 BRITISH SOCCER RESULTS Liverpool firmly underlined their championship pedigree today when they held Manchester United to a 1-1 draw. England striker Paul Walsh grabbed an opportunist goal for the European champions 17 minutes from time as Liverpool staged a powerful second half revival
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    • 8 1 SPECTRUM THE SUNDAY MONITOR SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 1984
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    • 195 1  -  Text: Irene Hoe Publisher: MPH Publications Beyond the quietude of street stalls at dusk and in the dilapidated shophouses in Chinatown, life still goes on. Although Chinatown's days are numbered, its candid moments are immortalised in a photographic portrait by R lan Lloyd. Many of the old
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      • 1810 2  -  by Jackie Sam Monitor staff writer ingaporeans are resignSing themselves to long pile-ups at the Causeway, when the planned road toll gets under way on the Malaysian side. Since those who drive over at peak periods long weekends and holidays can afford the toll,
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      • 600 2  -  by John M Leighty United Press International Ever dreamt of rafting on Chile's Bio-Bio River, or hiking through Botswana, or even trekking up Mount Everest? Sobek named after the Egyptian crocodile god is an adventure traveller's clearing house based in California that matches clients to
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    • LANGUAGE
      • 311 4  -  SINGAPORIANA by Jackie Sam Monitor staff writer Roads are being dug up, tunnels built, traffic slowing down. And getting Vorse. That is what the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation is doing to Singapore. And hardly any complaint from the public. Eighty years ago when trams
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      • 68 4 We thank.reader Marcus ScottRosg for pointing out an error in a photo caption on Page 6 of last week's Spectrum in the a£ory headlined "When the order of things changed." In the photograph on the bottom lefthand corner, the gentlemen on the right of
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      • 841 4  -  By Ray Miller Monitor staff writer was to teach English in the traditional fashion A war of words is being fought in Singapore. It revolves round such key questions as: Is it humour or humor? Marvellous or marvelous? Or even toward or towards. The two
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      • 197 4  -  WORDS By Michael Gartner Register and Tribune Syndicate Complacent with compjaisant. Both words come from the Latin word meaning "to please," but the complacent person pleases himself while the complaisant person pleases others. A complacent man is self-satisfied, contented to a fault. A complaisant
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        513 5 Researchers have dubbed hydrogen "the forgotten fuel", the alternate energy source that could end the energy crisis at a stroke. One of its virtues is its versatility. Combined with alloyß of iron and titanium, hydrogen is both convenient to store and use, making it an attractive source of energy for
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        • 143 6 Associated Press International Business Machines Corp (IBM) says it has begun producing in volume a 256K computer memory chip which would enable the company to offer customers greater storage capacity. The chip, which is being produced at IBM's semiconductor manufacturing and development
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        • 134 6 Associated Press Casio Computer Co has produced a liquid crystal printer for small office computers which can print nine pages per minute according to the manufacturer. Liquid crystals are used to display numbers in calculators, a mainstay product of Casio, and
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      • 683 6  -  USER NOTES by Fong Weng Fatt Monitor staff writer My little guest, the intelligent robot RBSX, was to have demonstrated his capabilities at our office last week. But he failed to turn up and the session was postponed. It seemed that he
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      • 173 6 Farnborough draws crowd What better place to put the latest planes on show than at The Farnborough Air Show, trade fair for the world's aerospace industries. It began on Sept 2 and attracted big names in the industry such as Norththrop Corporation, Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet
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      • CURRENTS
        • 108 6  -  by Peter Mailer Grit Students in the vocational classes at Rice Lake Secondary School in Winsconsin will be learning a lot more than wood-working and metal-forging. Modern technological equipment is moving into the vocational wing of the school. New equipment, such as laser beams, industrial
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        • 136 6  -  by Joseph Carey USA Today Doctors at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital treated a man who had been burned over 80 per cent of his body with a new, experimental, artificial skin substitute. Two months later the man was able to go home. Although he
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    • PROPERTY
      • 700 7  -  by Annie Chia Monitor staff writer The present poor market for flat units is likely to persist through 1985, an international property review says. Difficult market conditions can also be expected for landed properties although the impact of the fall will
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      • 529 7  -  by Annie Chia Monitor staff writer Sub-proprietors of the Golden Mile Complex have received a strongly worded appeal from their own management committee to keep up with the payment of management fees. The new management committee took office in May, and has met
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      • 166 7 Barker Road Methodist Church plans to add an extra storey to its educational building. With an increasing number of people worshipping at the church, the present sanctuary is usually filled. It is not uncommon to find worshippers standing outside the church
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      • 403 7 Changing markets mean changing expectations for prospective tenants, Mr Paul Chaston, development manager in the property division of United Overseas Bank, pointed out at a recent seminar. Mr Chaston was referring to office buildings, but many of the points he raised apply
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      • 708 8  -  by Foo Mey Kien Monitor staff writer Villa Des Flores is another in our regular focus on the new genre of showflats in Singapore that appeal to the discerning homemaker. Showflats sometimes cost half a million dollars to decorate but some are furnished
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      • 234 8 DEVELOPMENT LOCATION OPENMQ TIMES PMiaat Upper Ayar Rifah Rd 9 an 6 pm (My CMaaafftaik SuneetWay 9 an-530 pm dNy C*taRo«» Newton 9 am 6 pm aa*v vieDti Fiona WtrteyRoad 9am-5pm<My Tama Via Lower Delta Road by ■jMWWi TM)p> Garden Famsr Road 10 am 6
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    • BOOKS
      • 865 9  -  by Ray Miller Monitor staff writer It was more than sand and solitude which greeted them when they found themselves alone with the elements for the first time. aniel Defoe started it all with Robinson Crusoe. Ever since then, the more man has
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      • 294 9  -  by Nina King LAI mes wasnmgton post There are names here to stir the imaginations of readers. A publishing season that features new works by all of them seems rich in promise. The season traditionally extends from September through February. Here's a glimpse of what these
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        248 9 New releases at Times and MPH Bookstores. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (Publisher Arena, $10.35, Times). Soeeki explores the tragic conflicts between old and new, love and duty, friendship and self-interest. Winter's Tale by Mack Helprin (Publisher: Arrow, $12.50, Times). An epic of lovers and dreamers, eccentrics and beauties,
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      • 360 9  -  by Jackie Sam Monitor staff writer Frederick Forsyth at his usual cat-and-mouse. Or, as his hero John Preston says, playing hunches on the slimmest of clues. Fans will not be disappointed, though this one is nowhere near The Day of the Jackal for sheer edge-of-seat
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      • 615 9  -  by Laurie Parker Monitor staff writer This is not a book that will appeal to everyone: there are some people for whom forensic pathology that's what television's Dr Quincy does has no appeal, and others who already know more or know in more detail
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      • 412 9  -  by Selena Gan For the Monitor The cover of this book gives the impression that it is a short (there are only 112 pages), frivolous account of female discrimination in society. Fortunately, this initial impression did not last after the firet few pages. It is
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      • 84 9 Bestsellers at Times Bookstores for the week ending Sept 29, 1984 Position Title/Author Publisher 1 Aquitaine Progression: Robert Ludlum Granada 2 Lace: Shirley Conran Penguin 3 Chinese Beliefs: Frena Bloomsfield Arrow 4 Castaway: Lucy Irvine Penguin 5 Descent From Xanadu: Harold Robbins Nal m 6 Tough Times Never Last
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    • PSYCHOLOGY
      • 568 12  -  by Ahden Busch For the Monitor He wrapped his head in hot towels, sat in bed and stared out of the window at a tree. When they came one day to cut down the tree, Kante told the men he could not finish his
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      • 1476 12  -  by Cynthia Gorney The Washington Post "Your gestures are rapid," Dr Meyer Friedman says, leaning back from his desk and lacing his fingers. "That's a sign." The reporter, who thought she was cloaking it pretty well, looks embarrassed. "Two," Dr Friedman says,
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    • 739 10 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 EMPLOYMENT Situations Vacant SINGAPORE NEWS PUBUCATIONS LTD Publisher of Nan rang Xing znou uanhe zaooeo. Nan Yang ring Zhou
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    • 1463 1  -  by Violet Oon For the Monitor ashimi Lobster is the ultimate delectable experience in raw seafood. The Nadaman Restaurant at the Shangri-La Hotel specialises in this gourmet item which costs $80 per air-flown live Australian lobster. It weighs about 800 gm
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      200 1 Perhaps it's the vermillion splendour of the impressive shell that does it. Or could it be the unbeatable crunchy texture coupled with the out-of-this-world flavour? Whatever the reason, mention lobster and you'd induce salivary glands everywhere to work overtime. Lobsters cost money, sometimes lots of it. But more and more
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    • FASHION
      • 350 2  -  TREND TRAIL by Inez Wei For the Monitor Opposites in texture do attract. There is now a strong focus of attention on mixing a variety of textures and patterns on one garment for a unique twist. This unconventional fusion of fabrics is turning up everywhere and on
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        928 2  -  by Camille Duhe News America Syndicate There is a brand new challenge for the bil-lion-dollar fragrance industry retailing products to appeal to a woman who thinks of perfume as simply another of the pleasures with which she fills her life. What does she wanl from fragrance? A lift. Fragrance
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      • 430 2 Agencies Italy's shoe stylists put their best foot forward with new colours, textures and heel shapes for Spring-Summer 1985. "Are you ready for the avalanche?" asked Colette Hughes, associate director of the Italian Shoe Centre in New York. She reeled off a list of colours that
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      • 337 3  -  DOWN TOWN by Inez Wei For the Monitor Modern girls are in such a hurry these days. With the flurry of activity that takes them through the whole day, it's amazing how they keep looking so unruffled. One trick of the trade is culottes. Call
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    • 438 4  -  GOURMET CIRCLE FOOD by Violet Oon For the Monitor Have you been cooking from the recipes given in Table Talk? I hope you like them. This week we continue with the Sunday Monitor Gourmet Circle Cooking Class at the Shangri-La Hotel with the
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        258 5 Ways to keep your pet bird healthy Apart from the usual household pets-such as dogs and cats, birds are also very popular companions. But favourable conditions are necessary to keep your bird healthy. Metal cages with removable trays are preferable as they are easier to clean. They should be
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      • 336 5 The Chinese stream entries of the Drama Festival begin next Thursday and a treat's in store for drama lovers, more so this year because, for the first time, all the entries are original works. Chinese stream drama had its beginnings in
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      • 273 5  -  by Fatimah Gous Monitor staff writer Canadian classical guitarist, Liona Boyd, also known* as the "First Lady of the Guitar" has enchanted and enthralled her audiences with her brilliant performances, some of which were before distinguished people such as the former Prime Minister of Canada,
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    • MUSIC
      • 507 6  -  VOICBBOX by Lee Yin Cheong For the monitor It would be'a mistake to say that there is no jazz scene*in Singapore. Appearances can be '•deceiving.* Local listeners and musicians are aware that we await Singapore's third jazz festival. In June this year,
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      • 620 6  -  by Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times Composer Giorgio Moroder has done a great and terrible thing to Metropolis, Fritz Lang's 1926 art deco vision of the future. He has restored it with the utmost care only to desecrate it with one of his disco scores, emphasising the
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      • 508 6 This must be the most poorly annotated compilation to appear in a long time. Firstly, you don't even know who Kid Creole is. Secondly, you're never entirely sure whether this is the best. To set the record straight, here are the facts. Kid
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        1151 7  -  Life after Lennon's death by Wayne Robins Los Angeles Times "Goodbye sadness, I don't need you anymore." When Yoko Ono sang those words three years ago, there was reason to believe she was thinking wishfully. The album on which the song first appeared, Season of Glass, was'
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      • 491 7  -  Patrice Rushen by Dennis Hunt Los Angeles Times "If I was a tall white man I'd be unstoppable," quipped R B singer-pianist Patrice Rushen during a lively lunch. "Don't get me wrong. I'm not wishing that I was something I'm not. That's foolish.
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      • 632 7  -  Rickie Lee Jones b* Robert Hilburn Los Angeles Times Three summers ago, Rickie Lee Jones scoffed about her life-on-the-edge image. She admitted during an interview in New York that she had gone through rough times trying to adjust to the demands made on her
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    • TV REVIEWS
      • 927 9  -  TV COMMENT by Ang Peng Hwa Monitor staff writer In many ways, the first quarter-final of Debate '84 was disappointing. But, in the words of the judge, Ong Wee Hock, both teams did not develop their arguments. In other words, for all their
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      • 193 9  -  WEEK'S CHOICE by Philip Cheah Monitor staff writer Evening of Dance: Nihon Buyo and Twyla Tharp Fri, Ch 12, 8.30 pm It was a toss between Oh Madeline and Evening of Dance, for spotlighting on this page. But Evening of Dance wins for its inclusion of
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      • 371 9 COMEDY Oh Madeline (Debut) Wed, Ch 5, 11.15 pm Madeline Kahn, a veteran of Mel Brooks comedies Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety and Blazing Saddles finally gets her own programme. She plays a housewife who fears of her marriage getting stale. James Sloyan plays her husband, Charlie. FILMS Thursday
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    • FILMS
      • 1052 10 FILM REVIEW In the early Sixties, a few films made in Maoist China dared to strike out against the predominantly ultra-leftist influence in the movie industry. Early Spring by director Xie Tieli is one of them. The period of the Him is the *****, shortly
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      • 664 10 When they get around to writing "the book of the movie" for Purple Hearts, it'll probably read like a cross between a Mills and Boon romance and an Alistair Maclean action-adventure story. It's essentially an old-fashioned war movie, the type that salutes rather than
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      • 489 11 SCREEN SCENE After 22 years, Norman Bates is back home. He has been declared legally restored to sanity by the court and is returning home, a rehabilitated man. Unfortunately, before he knows it, his past returns to haunt him and Bates' newly restored sanity is
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      • 882 11 FILM FOCUS Gregory Peck will return to the big screen as the Jewish doctor called upon to confirm the miraculous healing of a Catholic woman at modern-day Lourdes if plans for the film adaptation of Irving. Wallace's new Miracle package go
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    • 554 12  -  SUNDAY'S PICK TV WEEK by Philip Cheah Monitor staff writer Film Focus: The Third Man, Ch 12, 8.35 pm An American writer arrives in post-war Vienna to find his old friend, only to be told that he has been killed in an accident. After painstaking investigation,
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    • 377 5 TODAY September Concerto by the SBC Chinese Orchestra at the Singapore Conference Hall at 5 p.m. this evening. The orchestra, set up 10 years ago in 1974, has always strived for perfection. Some of the concerts performed include Strings in the Garden, Kiwi Band Concert, Our Melody and The Fiddlers'
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    • 262 5 Roger Moore's James Bond at the Hilton Movie House. prepared by two chefs specially flown from Bangkok's Dusit Thani Hotel. Enjoy lunch between 11.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. or dinner between 6.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. entertained by authentic Thai classical tunes by a Thai musician. Prices at $18,00++ for
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    • 2114 8 TV WEEK MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24. 1984 I TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1984 I WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26. 1984 2.30 SBCtext 'Live* Sample Pages. 7.30 News (M). 220 SBCtext 'Live* Sample Pages. 7.50 Glen Campbell Music Show. 2.30 SBCtext -'Live' Sample Pages. 7.20 Newswatch. 3.00 Opening Announcements. 7.50 Konset Bereama (M). 2 50
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    • 451 11 HOROSCOPES by Frank Barron First features YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: Guard against a tendency to cultivate one friendship to the exclusion of others. A charming person may let you down rather badly all the charm is on the surface. This will be a good year for achievement, and there is likely
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    • 580 12 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23. 1984 8.00 Opening Announcements. vard University discusses. 8.30 SBCtext 'Live' Sample Pages. blamed for the break-up of the g.02 Programme Highlights. 8.30 Coming Attractions. •00 Opening Announcements. family. w Evolution Of Darwin Is Focus: The Third Man 8.03 Programme Highlights. 5.28 National Save-A-Life Test the theory of
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    • 2 1 PHOTOGRAPHY SUPPLEMENT
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    • 565 2  -  By DAVID P C TAY The 35th Singapore International Salon of Photography opens this Wednesday at the National Museum Art Gallery. This Salon, which will run until September 26, is the premier annual event in The Photographic Society of Singapore** ca> endar. It
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    • 174 2 In its 34 year history, the Singapore International Salon of Photography has enjoyed the support of prominent personalities. During the colonial period, VlP's who officiated at the opening of the Salon included Sir Malcolm McDonald, former British High Commissioner to Singapore and Mr
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    • 106 2 The Photographic Society of Singapore recently purchased a new clubhouse at Lorong 7 Geylang #01-06, Singapore 1438, having raised 80 per cent of the half-million-dollar purchase price in the space of just three months. The PSS was prompted to move when the old premises which it
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    • 161 3  -  DR TAY ENG SOON, Minister of State for Education THE Photographic Society of Singapore deserves congratulations for playing an important role in the promotion of photography, and for its effort in presenting the Singapore International Salon
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    • 197 3  -  ROBERT TAN TEE YOKE, Hon. FPSS, ESFIAP, FPSNY Salon Chairman. THE Photographic Society of Singapore's 35th Annual International Salon of Photography should be an opportunity for the interested public to become acquainted with the techniques employed by
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    • 274 3  -  ANG CHWEE CHAI, BBM, Hon. FPSS, Hon. EFIAP, Hon. FSEAPS President, The Photographic Society of Singapore THE 35th Singapore International Salon of Photography coincides with the celebration of Singapore's Twenty-Five years of NationBuilding. It is with great pride and
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    • 698 4  -  By DAVID P C TAY Secretary of the Organising Committee, 35th Singapore International Salon of Photography. In any discussion of photographic excellence one has to bear in mind that taste in photography, as in all applied arts, is highly individualistic. However, certain characteristics are
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    • 472 6 Only about one entry in ten is selected for display in the annual Singapore International Salon of Photography organised by the Photographic Society of Singapore. Some of the selected pictures have universal appeal, with a message immediately clear to any viewer. Others are
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    • 692 7  -  By LEE CHIU SAN The latest films today are too fast for some cameras to handle. Current winner of the high-speed stakes is Fujicolor 1600, with an ISO rating of 1,600, no less than four full stops faster than the ISO 100 films for which the average family
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    • 239 7 Quite a number of amateurs have the wrong impression that using professional films will result in pictures of unsurpassed brilliance. This is not the reason why professionals use the special films they do. Mr Susumu Minami, Fuji Film's technical advisor, explained that besides being
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    • 105 7 Fuji recently introduced a new range of four colour slide films for professional use in Singapore. These are the daylight* films Fujichrome 50 Professional D and Fujichrome 100 Professional D, a Tungsten film Fujichrome 64 Professional T, and Fujichrome Duplicating film. These films
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    • 462 8 THE second generation of autofocus cameras which made their debut this year are so fully automated and so fool-proof that one actually has to try very, very hard to take a technically bad picture. Aperture-priority automation is now old hat. Almost all the
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    • 215 8 Programmed autofocus cameras are almost but not totally foolproof. To avoid bad shots, bear the following points in mind: 1. Set the film speed index correctly. 2. Make sure that the focus indicator (the dot, circle or square in the middle of the
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    • 253 8 New films from Kodak are two Kodachrome professional daylight films (available on special order) and Ektachrome 100. The Kodachrome professional daylight films, with ISO ratings of 25 and 64, have tighter colour balance, better resolving power, finer grain and better stability compared to existing
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    • 318 9 The 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) is the camera for anyone serious about photography. This shotgun of the photographic world is an allrounder which can take most types of pictures fairly well and some types of pictures exceptionally well. SLR development has not progressed
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    • 235 9 Whether you believe in the traditional or the modern school of photography, there will be situations in which your pictures can be improved through the correct use of filters. Hoya manufacture practically the entire range of standand colourcorrecting filters for use with colour films under adverse
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    • 372 9 Light is the most important factor in photography and Olympus have taken an entirely new approach to its control with the Multi-Spot Metering system in their new OM-4. This is not just a run-of-the-mill spot metering system. It is a method of allowing a camera
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    • 577 9 Medium-format cameras utilising 120 roll film used to set the standard of photography. But following the 35mm SLR boom which began in the sixties, the development of the medium formats took a back seat as camera manufacturers rushed to cash in on their more lucrative mats market.
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    • 156 10 The next time a minister passes through your constituency on a walkabout, take a look at the photojournalists in his entourage. The chances are that a good number of them will be carrying their equipment in Lowepro bags.
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    • 185 10 Independent lent manufacturers appear to be going full circle. In the early days, many such manufacturers offered interchangeable lens mounts, but abandoned this along the way as more and more cameras began to feature coupled functions between the body and the lens. Only Tamron
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    • 200 10 A new concept in slides storage which incorporates filing, viewing and projecting has been introduced by Mayson Photo and Colour Service. Known as Slidex, the system consists of files, album boxes, cabinets and a projector. The different filet are available for the storage
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    • 162 10 Universal processes for colour negative films and prints are not new, but until now all of them have required the addition of extra chemicals to the developer to make it suitable for processing prints. Now Paterson have introduced a product called 2NA which
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    • 152 9 world's first fully automated 35mm camera with built-in flash using a lithium battery TAKES ONIY US seconds to re-charge! No more missed shots whilst waiting for the flash And talking about automatic..everything else is battery to come on! OLYMPUS AFL Quick Flash automatic about this amazing Automatic. takes only a
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    • 681 1 yOU CAN UELPTIM CROSS Colouring Pun by Anna Soong THE RIVER IF YOU GET A pencil ano connect 7ue oors. Once there was a little mermaid with long red hair and a shiny blue--START green tail. She also had a beautiful voice that sailors could hear more ~Tj* 6 miles
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    • 11 1 neighbourhood MACPMEWSOW TOA PAYOH KALLANG POTONQ PASIR SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1984
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    • 100 1 Calling all primary school children! Here is a chance for you to win $50 and a meal to celebrate Children's Day on Oct 1. Just fill in the "bubble" in the cartoon panel below and send it in today. Please include your name,
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    • 1071 1 by the Neighbourhood Team 1974. A little girl walks up to you shyly. Opens her mouth and mutters something under her breath. She wants you to sponsor her in a walkathon. "Please, could you pay me 50 cents for every mile I walk. I'll
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    • 677 2 Neighbourhood spoke to eight people at Balam Road. SPEAKING OUT Do you have an interesting question to ask? Neighbourhood will take your question to the streets and get you the answers, some of which can prove to be revealing and provoking. You also stand
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    • 392 2 A TRAIL OF PLASTIC BAGS: Littering is infectious. This was proved true during the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts last month. A HDB resident who had brought a plastic bag of paper money to the turf, left the empty bag on the lawn after burning the paper money
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    • 404 3 Hoi Yuen Leong, 13, wanted to take part in the Pesta Sukan Jog/Walk but he did not want to do it alone. So, he roped in four friends who live in his block to join him on his trek. The five from Block 196 of Kim
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    • 735 4  -  It will link north and south parts of the island by Hie Hui Ching Monitor staff writer A solitary steel ball, which children used to climb, is all that reminds Jalan Tenteram residents that there was once a playground at the foot of
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    • 518 5 With the setting sun peeping from behind the pink walls of the Saint Andrew's School, the 122 nd Founder's Day celebrations on Sept 15 got underway. About 3,000 people, mostly past and present 'saints' gathered in the open air at the school quadrangle. Unlike in most
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    • 350 7 Bespectacled Toh Kok Sin is a frequent visitor to Block 90 of Pipit Road because he gets to play his favourite game there. The void deck of Block 90 is a haven for table-tennis buffs such as 14-year-old Kok Sin. A dozen table-tennis tables are
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    • 180 4 r THE fflffijjfiSOTiiffiSCji SUBSCRIPTION Keep the good news eoming regularly! The sure way to get a smooth flow of information about your neighbourhood is to subscribe to The Sunday Monitor (send completed order form below). Or you can drop it in the Neighbourhood Mail Box you'll find at the Singapore
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    • 385 6 The Neighbourhood Team TOH SU FEN: IRENE TOH: HIE HUI CHING: MAZLAN SAMAD: DAWN WESTERHOUT: SHAFIE GOH: Leads the Neighbour- Responsible for news in Reports on Postal dis- Covers Postal Districts Postal Districts 19, 20 Photographer for the hood Team. Postal District 16. tricts 12 and 13. 14 and 15.
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    • 194 6 NEIGHBOURHOOD 24-hour petrol service stations CALTEX: Golden Ocean Filling Station, 274 Braddell Road. Seng Hin Service Station, 319 Braddell Road. BP: Golden Star Filling Station, 793 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1. Sin Guan and Co, 337 Changi Road. Havelock Enterprises, 397 Havelock Road. BP Bedok Service Station, 101 Bedok North
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    • 423 6 DIARY IDEAS FOR CHMOAY TUITION Do you have any new ideas on The Kim Keat CC is holding how to run the Chingay proces- English and Mathematics tusion next year? ition classes for Primary Three, If you have any original, Four, Five and Six pupils, imaginative and practical sug- The
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    • 94 7 We want you to know one another better^. Help us to keep all of you in touch with one another Neighbourhood is here to provide community news at a level and in detail that has never been attempted in Singapore before. Keep us in touch with what's going on in
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      22 1 v vrs- •>. -V. ,:"V- •>,,, >■, ,> j I Opening up around the world 9 MP September 198 1 Illustration by Richard A. GOLDBERG
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    • 881 2  -  Letter from Brazil By Hamlet Paoletti Senior Edttw Recently, on an unseasonably warm Brazilian winter night, a friend took me out to dinner. I had just arrived in Sao Paulo after an 18-month absence, and was about to become acquainted with the creative,
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      • 489 2 Volume VII, Number 8 Copyright World Times Inc. September 1984 An international publication featuring fresh perspectives from around the world on matters of global dimension. STAFF ASSOCIATE PUBLICATIONS Publisher A Editor-in-Chief: Crocker Snow, Jr. World Paper, in one of its three language editions, President: Wilford H. Welch. Advertising Man- appears
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    • 159 3 Countries, like people, cannot bear to remember everything forever. From time to time, relief is necessary. Pent-up sorrow, anger and guilt must be released. This is what amnesty is all about. The word comes from the same Greek root as amnesia, meaning to forget. But
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    • 584 3  -  Colombia's civilized agreement works By Daniel Samper Special to World Paper BOGOTA, Colombia—Amnesty has contributed to a new political climate here that is perhaps best illustrated by the public exposure being given to the most legendary and persecuted of all Colombian guerrilla fighters: Manuel Marulanda Velez, known
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    • 296 4  -  The main problem remains the economy By Daniae Passent Special to World Paper WARSAW, Poland—For the first time since December 1981, when martial law was imposed, there are no political prisoners in Poland. It was on the 40th anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland—July
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    • 1201 4  -  By Silviu Brucan Anodato Editor in Extern Europe BUCHAREST, Romania—During a recent visit to Hungary, I inquired about the people who took part in the violent political upheaval 0f1956.1 was told the story of a college student who spent many years in jail for his
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    • 802 6  -  Filipinos want a blanket pardon By Ramon Isberto Special to World Paper MANILA, Philippines—Local lawyers say there are as many specialized amnesty laws in the Philippines as scrumptious tropical fruits. Since declaring martial law in 1972, the government of President Ferdinand Marcos has issued eight
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    • 554 6  -  By Somtawin Kongsawatkiat Special to World Paper BANGKOK, Thailand—A bloody military coup in October 1976 sent thousands of students and intellectuals into the waiting arms of the outlawed Communist Party of Thailand (CPT). In the next few years, like most of
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    • 557 7  -  Another French tradition *y Jacqueline Grapin Anh» Editor in W—tern Europe PARIS, France—When it comes to enthroning a new president, the French Republic has not abandoned the traditions of the old monarchy. Just as princes of the past would routinely grant a royal grace when they became kings,
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    • 432 7  -  By Yoshiko Sakurai Associate Editor in Northeast Asia TOKYO—To many Japanese, the concept of amnesty is a very personal matter, unrelated to government decrees. In a tightly-knit society like ours, one is never fully guilty of anything. And when one is partly guilty, the act of expressing
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    • 1045 8  -  Who should share American dream? By Paul Keegan Assistant Editor BOSTON, USA—There is a growing fear among many people in the United States that the American dream may be going wildly out of control. This is what they see: Masses of Latin Americans swarming across
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    • 647 8  -  ■r Marina Castaneds Special to World Paper MEXICO CITY—A proposed amnesty for millions of Mexicans now living illegally in the United States has been lost in an uproar in Mexico over US efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. Outcries of US imperialism, discrimination and
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    • 1095 9  -  Hijackings drop by 50 percent in ten years Currents By Frank A. Campbell Special to World Paper OTTAWA, Canada—On a Tuesday in March 1970, Captain Shii\ji Ishida left Japan on a routine flight to South Japan. He was piloting a Japan Air Lines 727. The
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    • 1077 11  -  New US anti-abortion stand infuriates the world Currents By, Aron Chacho Editor hi ■—Ih Aato MEXICO CITY—It was a little like two ships passing in the night. On the luxury liner S.S. United States, carrying wealthy passengers prepared to spread largesse, the captain was promoting economic development,
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      • 215 12  -  Nawab Saeed Laghari Hyderabad Bind, Pakistan World Paper welcomes letters from its readers, which should be mailed to 44 Kilby Street, Boston, MA *****, USA. Dear Sir, I happened to see the March 1984 issue of World Paper—the cover of which features two little kids carrying a
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      • 58 12  -  Antonio C. Roldan, Jr. Manila, Philippines Dear sir, Your recent (July) articles on cancer, and the myths of population explosion certainly deserve a wider circulation. You've successfully debunked Several myths which have beclouded both issues in the last decade. I hope such articles could be made a required
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      • 166 12  -  M.J. O'Rourke Bangkok, Thailand. In World Paper of July 1984, Mr. Tarzie Vittachi, writing on population problems, makes his one point very well by remarking that needy Indians could not buy India's own 20 million tons of "surplus" grain because "they had no money to buy any of
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      • 175 12  -  Elizabeth Hiser —Kyoto, Japan I have oflen passed up the opportunity to read the World Paper, even though it is included in the Mainichi Daily News, which I frequently purchase. It had seemed to me to be filled with mostly economic and business news which isn't of
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      • 229 12  -  Steven D. Smith Director of Communications Bretton Woods Resort New Hampshire, USA Dear sir, I wish to express our serious concern and dismay over the cover of the May issue of WorldPlaper. Quite frankly, the use of the photograph of the Mount Washington Hotel was in poor
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    • 579 13  -  Currents By Abiodun Lewis Special to World Paper LAGOS, Nigeria—Twenty pedestrians were arrested recently and given the choice of being fined 80 nairas (US$lO6) each or spending three months in jail. Their crime? Failure to use an overpass when crossing a Lagos expressway.
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    • 48 13 To place an ad, contact World Paper, 44 Kilby St., Boston, MA *****, USA BANKING INVESTMENT representatives wanted. Good commissions, IBIS WP, 73 New Bond Street, London W1 England. MAKE FRIENDS WORLDWIDE through international correspondence. Details free! Hermes-Verlag, Box *****0/ K. Berlin 11, West Germany.
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    • 89 14 I WorldDiary/Crocker Snow, Jr Ronald Reagan is riding tall in the saddle. The US dollar continues stronger than it should be. And the New York stock exchange experienced an unexpected midsummer surge with record trading and some record profits. It's a high moment, it
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    • 538 14 Doomsday scenarios notwithstanding, the Los Angeles Olympics was a big success. It was a success for the athletes who participated, the spectators who watched and the immense supporting cast of trainers and ticket takers and television technicians who helped make it happen. Even the city's smog cooperated by
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    • 398 14 The success of American free enterprise in financing the Los Angeles Olympics must have been narcotic. Fifteen hundred miles southeast of Los Angeles, coincident with the carnival, the poo-bahs of population statistics and population control were meeting in Mexico to discuss how
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    • 457 14 The late American cartoonist Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and other charming cartoon characters, was a man of marvelous fantasy. He has outdone himself eight years after his death with the creation of EPCOT Center and World Showcase to embellish his grand
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