Singapore Monitor, 2 October 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 18 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EVEMisCr' EDITION M C iP) No 21 5 84 Tuesday, October 2, 1984 30 cents
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  • 600 1 THE CENTRAL Provident Fund (CPF), whose assets reached $19.7 billion at the end of last year, says that it backs every dollar of contribution received with sound and tangible assets. Almost all CPF funds are invested in Singapore Government bonds. And these bonds, besides
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  • 50 1 CHINA showed off this guided missile at its National Day parade in Beijing yesterday. It is believed to be a dorr estically-produced air-to-surface or surface-to-surface weapon similar to the French-built Exocet, which the Argentines used against British ships in the Falklands War two years ago. PICTURE: AP
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  • 89 1 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Tu«s THE GOVERNMENT-OWNED National Petroleum Corporation (Petronas) uses sheep instead of lawn mowers to "mow" the grass at its oil refinery, Petronas* monthly magazine reported today. Petronas said grass mowers emit sparks which could be disastrous if the sparks
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 12 1 m TV GUIDE: PAGE 18 M TV SCENE AND HIGHLIGHTS: PAGE 19
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  • home
    • 542 2 HERE ARE some facts and figures culled from the justreleased CPF annual report for 1983: Total membership rose from 1,725,293 in 1982 to 1,778,879 in 1983; The total amount withdrawn in 1983 was $1.28 billion compared to $0.88 billion the previous year, Withdrawals
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    • 284 3 INTERPOL ALSO ALERTED TO LOOK FOR HIM AND THREE MISSING VESSELS MEMBERS of Interpol have been alerted to look out for this man (see picture) and three vessels recently missing after leaving Singapore with about $10 million worth of cargo. Singapore police
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    • 116 3 THE Trans-Island Bus Services will be converting its service No 178 to the 'hybrid' mode of operation this Sunday. This system comprises both two-man-op-erated buses as well as one-man-operated (OMO) buses, according to a company statement. A sticker with a blue
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    • 232 3  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG THE VOCATIONAL and Industrial Training Board (VTTB) has successfully adopted a training design model to develop its curriculum for the electromechanical servicing course. Disclosing this today, VlTß's director Dr Law SongSeng said the National Trade Certificate Grade 3 (NTC
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    • 89 3 A CONSORTIUM led by De Leuw Cather International of the United States has been appointed design consultants for Phase 2A of the Mass Rapid Transit system. A total of 41 firms have also been prequalified for two contracts the Phase 1A cWft world and Phase
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    • 376 4  -  JEYARETNAM'S DEFAMATION SUIT AOAINST OOH CHOK TONO By GANDHI AMBALAM THE HIGH Court was told today that Mr J B Jeyaretnam's defamation suit against Mr Goh Chok Tom was a move to bit back at a PAP minister for bis
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    • 666 4  -  By EE BOON LEE SCHOOLS should use intelligence tests to identify potential graduates among nine-year-old Malay children in Primary 3 and start giving them a good grounding in English, mathematics and science, according to a group of graduates. Such a system of intensive
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • world
    • 230 5 Thousands make bee-line for agreement as govt sets deadline for public feedback AP HONG KONQ. Tuesday QUEUES (above) streamed everywhere in Hong Kong yesterday as thousands of people hurried to get copies of the Sino-British draft agreement. At the other end, the Government Printing Department (left) was strewn
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    • 258 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday STATE Governments, off-budget agencies and statutory bodies up to last year owe the Federal Government about MsBoo million (Ss72B million) in loan repayments. This figure is 58 per cent or Ms3oo million more than the Msso6 million that was
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    • 283 6 AP DETROIT, Tuesday US PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan, in his first public comment on his talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, said they were constructive and encouraging. He said Friday's four-hour session, his first with a senior Soviet official since taking office in January
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    • 335 6 UPI ISLAMABAD, Tuesday SOVIET occupation forces in Afghanistan have installed short-range SS-22 missiles at a large air base near Iran, a Pakistani newspaper said yesterday. The mass circulation Jung newspaper said the missiles were deployed at Snindand, 125 km east of Iran. Shindand is the
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    • 406 6 Reuter BLACKPOOL, Tuesday LEFT-WING miners' leader, Mr Arthur Scargill, received a standing ovation from the Labour Party conference floor yesterday and then said he had been served a writ for contempt of court. Mr Scargill made a speech in which he described Prime
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    • 154 6 AP LONDON, Tues BRITAIN'S biggest-sell-ing newspaper, The Sun, failed to appear for the third straignt publication day today in a dispute with print workers stemming from an editorial that described violent miners' strike pickets as "the scum of tne earth." The tabloid,
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    • 140 6 UPI SPARKS (Nevada), Tuesday JACK Nethercutt sold his 1936 Duesenberg in 1961 for US$5,OOO (S$ 10,500). He just bought it back for US$BOO,OOO (551.68 million). Mr Nethercutt, 70, said he sold the car to the late casino magnate,
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 8 UPI THE GIANT jaw of London's famous Tower Bridge seems to salute as the bridge is opened to aHow the rare passing of a three-masted schooner sailing into the heart of the city on the River Thames. The schooner, "Sir Winston Churchill," is a Sail Training Association
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    • 98 8 Reuter NEW DELHI, Tuesday A DEMONSTRATION in the Golden Temple in Amritsar by Sikh militants has interrupted Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's efforts to get India's troubled northern state of Punjab back to normal. Troops were briefly recalled to the Sikhs' holiest shrine yesterday
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    • 336 8 The Star JOHOR BARU, Tuesday CONFUSION reigned when the Pasir Gudang Free Trade Zone came into effect yesterday as hundreds of lorries caused a massive traffic jam in the area. Drivers were ignorant of procedures relating to entering the Johor port area
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    • 203 8 UPI WASHINGTON, Tuesday A NEWSPAPER poll of voters in nine states in southern United States, a traditional bastion of the Democratic Party, indicated that President Reagan has a 25 per cent lead over Democratic challenger Walter Mondale. President Reagan also leads Mr
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    • 56 8 JAKARTA, Tuesday INDONESIAN and Malay ■lan air forces concluded Joint nanownw over the strategic Straits of Malacca wkb a call for anited air defcnccs in the event of external threats, the Indonesian news agency Antara said yesterday The call was made at thecoadnrion of the
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • world / trends
    • 30 9 The adverse effects of cigarette smoke on non-smokers' health can now be measured. Exposure to a two-packs-a-day smoker, for instance, is equivalent to smoking three cigarettes a day.
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    • 29 9 Space has become so crowded with debris that warnings are issued for imminent collisions and third-party collision insurance may soon be needed, Jane's Space Right Directory says.
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    • 33 9 Some Minnesota rsearchers said doctors may be better able to predict how long victims of leukaemia and other cancers will live by stretching their genes to get a better look at mutations.
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    • 362 9 TRENDS Science and Medicine NON-SMdKERS who breathe cigarette smoke can suffer measurable ill-effects on their health exposure to a two-packs-a-day smoker, for instance, is equivalent to smoking three cigarettes a day. In a recent report in the New England Journal
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    • 67 9 Artificial lens im- plants make near-normal vision possible for about 1.7S million US cataract victims, but they also increase the wearer's risk of permanent eye damage from ultraviolet light, an opthalmologist, Dr S Lerman, said. Implanted lens wearers and people who have had their own natural lenses removed
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    • 75 9 Doctors may be better able to predict bow long victims of leukaemia and other cancers will live by stretching their genes to get a better look at mutations, a group of Minnesota researchers announced recently. The technique, called high-resolution chromosome analysis, may also improve cancer treatment, says the
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    • 330 9 Effects of space travel SPACE is so crowded with debris that warnings are now issued for imminent collisions and third-party collision insurance may be needed soon, Jane's Space Flight Directory says. The editor, Mr Reg Turnill, said the increase in space
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 137 9 -f 0 i 1 4 HPf ~J| I fl CONCERT ON OCTOBER 18 19, AT THE YORK HOTEL 7 The Shakatak are back; This Sound by Hibino exciting jazzfunk band have venue: Carlton Hall, York Hotel given you hits tike "Invitations", Date: October is &19 "Easier Said Than Done", "Dark
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  • world
    • 503 10 KANQAR (Perils), Tuesday THE DRUG trafficking activities of a couple turned three of their four sons into addicts. Last month it all ended with the arrest of the whole family. Kangar OCPD Dupt Illias Haron said the father, 46, was a suspected drug trafficker
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    • 71 10 KOTA KINABALU, Toes THE FORMER chairman of the Sahah Land Development Board (SLDB), HaliV Zaman, 47, was sentenced to a total of two years' and six months' jail yesterday on two counts of corruption. Zaman was sentenced to one year's and 18 months' imprisonment respectively
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    • 299 10 LATWP CAIRO, Tuesday EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak moved quickly yesterday to quell unrest over sharply rising prices that sparked noting on Sunday in an industrial town outside Alexandria. Three people reportedly were killed in the rioting and as many as 40 were
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    • 84 10 LONDON, Tuesday MASKED raiders wielding a rivet gun and a sledgehammer yesterday smashed open a "banditproof" display case at a posh Kniehtsbridge jeweller's ana got away with diamonds and other gems worth more than US$l.3 million (5|2.73 million). Police sources said two or
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    • 176 10 Reuter HONG KONG, Tuesday A BILL now before the United States Congress would hurt Hong Kong and Singapore in their fight to boost exports, but would not affect South Korea and Taiwan, two of their major export competitors. Hong Kong's deputy trade
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 83 10 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS THAILAND'S Prime Minister General Prem Tinsulanonda (shove) was listed in satisfactory condition yesterday after being hospitalised shortly after returning from an overseas trip that included a medical check-up in the United States. Gen Prem, 64, was suffering from a
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      • 93 10 SOURCES In the Reagan Administration said yesterday that US Secretary of Labour Raymond Donovan has been indicted by a Grand Jury in Not York in connection with the activities of his former construction firm. A Grand JUI7 has been investigating charges that the firm, for which
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      • 68 10 FORMER MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman returned home from London last night, looking healthier after undergoing a one-month treatment for a slipped disc. "I slept well and had a better appetite after the treatment," said the 81-year-old Tengku who looked tired after the 18-hour flight. He
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      • 48 10 TENNIS great Bjorn Borg (right) smiles as he joins his best friend Hans Rehnstedt and his bride Linda after the wedding ceremony at St Mary's Gate of Heaven Church in Queens, New York on Sunday. Borg was Hans' best man. FROM AGENCY DESPATCHES
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    • 234 11 Finance ministers agree on plan to solve financial crisis AP LUXEMBOURG, Tuesday FINANCE ministers of the European Economic Community (EEC) agreed in principle yesterday on a new plan for rescuing the trading bloc from the worst financial crisis in its 27-year history. The ministers announced
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    • 190 11 Reuter, AP SEOUL, Tues SOUTH Korea today freed 804 convicted prisoners and reduced life sentences to 20 years for 177 others to mark tomorrow's National Foundation Day. a Justice Ministry spokesman said But political dissidents would not benefit from the clemency granted by
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    • 106 11 Reuter ISLAMABAD, Tuesday PAKISTANI military authorities yesterday freed three prominent opposition politicians from house arrest, including former Air Force Chief Asghar Khali, leader of the banned Tehrik-I-Istiqlal Party, the official APP news agency reported Mr Asghar Khan had been detained by the
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    • 156 11 UPI DENVER, Tuesday AN ARMED robber blamed his actions on President Reagan and gave a lecture on Reaganomics as a nervous restaurant manager tried to open the safe, police said. "Just relax. Take deep breaths. I need to do this. Reagan is making me
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    • 501 12 UPI CAIRO, Tuesday PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak accused Libya of plotting to bomb the Aswan High Dam and close the Suez Canal ana said he warned Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to "beware of playing with fire." Mr Mubarak, in an interview published today
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    • 86 12 31 crew members injured when ship fell off a dry dock AP NORFOLK (Virginia), Tuesday A PANAMANIAN cruise ship with 145 sleeping crew members aboard fell off a dry dock and crashed on its side into the water early today, briefly trapping about 50 people and injuring 31.
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    • 214 12 Bernama PETAUNG JAVA, Tuet THE number of tourists to Malaysia has risen to over two million and tourism generates more than $1 billion a year in foreign earnings, a seminar on tourism and hotel management here was told yesterday. Mara Institute of
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    • 165 12 UPI WASHINGTON, Tuesday AT LEAST 70 terrorist attacks around the world last year "probably involved significant state support or participation," the US State Department's second-ranking official said yesterday. Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam said also that more people were killed or injured by international
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    • 114 12 UPI NEW DELHI, Tu«s A WALL collapsed at a movie theatre in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu yesterday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 45 others, a news agency reported. The Press Trust of India said the bodies of 12
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    • 91 12 UPI BOSTON. Tuts THE US government has designated five medical schools as Alzheimers* research centers and C ranted an additional 5516.6 million ($35.8 million) for study of the disease that robs the elderly of their minds, Secretary of Health Margaret Heckler said
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  • money
    • 257 13 SAYS BANKER ON NEW RISE IN BANK'S SAVINGS INTEREST RATES THE Post Ofice Savings Bank's (POSB) move to increase its interest rates on savings accounts will obviously make it more competitive, says the deputy manager of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Mr PE Selway-Swift. However,
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    • 578 13 NOT ONE but two Malaysian parties are said to be interested in Datuk Sri Ang Keong Lan's Malaysian Feedmills Ltd's stake. The asking price for his shares ranges between $3.10 and $3.30 per share for at least 51 per cent out of his
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    • 172 13 FORWARD Oversea Credit Limited (FOCL) has launched its full payout lease facility for computers and related equipment. Following a careful evaluation of users' requirements, the company discovered that ownership is not an important consideration and that many users do not anticipate
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    • 76 13 AP LONDON, Tuesday THE BANK of England announced yesterday it has taken over Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd. one of Britain's largest sold dealers, because of potential nad loans which some banking sources estimated at £150 million (*****.5 million). The Central Bank emphasised
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    • 230 14 Selected stocks at midday. Market tone: lower Boustead 2.04/2.06 Cold Storage 3.08/3.12 F N 5.50/5 60 Genting 5.25/5.30 GIH 2.75 S Haw Par 2.12/2.16 Keck Seng 2.45/2.50 Esso 2.91/2.92 Hume 4.86 S Intraco 2.70 B Mulpha (S) 1.16 B Oriental 3.76 S PMC'I.BS/1.86 Perlis 3.92/3.94 Promet 2.22/2.23 Jurong Cement
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    • 117 14 Your 8$ to on* unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DO US» ***** 2.1000 2.1910 sterling 2.0907 2.0007 2.6587 Australian 1.0124 1.7004 1.7724 Canadian l 6550 1.0249 1.0199 New Zealand 1.0052 1.0452 1.0252 8$ to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 10.2008 10.010ft 9.9000 Belgian Franc/Comm
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    • 246 14 THE SINGAPORE stock opened quietly this morning but saw a flutter of action towards the lunch break. While the weak sellers were disposing of their stakes, no one appeared to be actively chasing. Textile Corp closed three cents higher at 44
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    • 46 14 AT THE mid-day break the OUB Composite Share Price Index was dowa 2.28 poiats to 448.18 from the previoas day's close of 450.46. The OUB Siagapore Dollar Trade-weighted ladex was dowa 0.1509 point to 132.0375 to moraiag tradiag from the previoas day's close of 132.1884.
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    • 136 14 HKLLSTREET Reuter NEW YORK, Tuesday WEAKNESS in the bond market and a general lack of enth'fiasm for stocks at the start of the new quarter caused prices to close moderately lower yesterday on Wall Street, where trading volume remained
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    • 137 14 Reuter IN SINGAPORE, the US dollar eased against most major currencies from New York levels in quiet early trading on profit-taking, after opening higher. Dealers said the market was cautious following large dollar sell-offs in London and New York but the US currency remained underpinned by a
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 144 14 'Today'magazine has a lot of surprises in store. one of them. RIAOERt n.oNREADERS Todav'.The largest weekly nparfprchip jn Singapore. Surprised? TODAY is the new, lively, colourful weekly magazine distributed with the Sunday Monitor. Its established readership base of over 500,000 with a circulation exceeding 100,000 copies puts it way ahead
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  • opinion / letters
    • 412 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE MOUSE is roaring, comments one observer. The rodent referred to is Luxembourg, a tiny tear-shaped country between Prance and West Germany. It has come up with a plan that will revolutionalise broadcasting and television in Europe. If it works, it will
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    • 756 15  -  DR LIM BOON KENG Singapore 0104 IT IS very reassuring that our Prime Minister and bis Cabinet are thinking of building into tbe Singapore Constitution a safeguard to prevent tbe misuse and squandering of national reserves by any irresponsible prime minister or government. On
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    • 69 15  -  REPLY MISS JEANNE TAY Public Relations Officer Singapore Broadcasting Corporation I REFER to the letters from "Kiamkana," "Kami" and "International" (SM, Sept 8 and 18) and wish to thank the writers for their encouragement, views and suggestions to improve the programming on Channel 12.
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 65 15 accepted tor piWcit i o n They should be typed and must be signed. They must also mdude the writer's name and addreee even if the writer deddee to use a peeudonym in print. A oontact telephone number would be ueeM. We reeerve the nght to edN letters. Addraee your
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      1313 16  -  THERE'S LIFE AFTER SUPERMAN FOR CHRISTOPHER REEVE By JUDITH MICHAELSON in Hollywood LAT-WP HE TAKES his own shirts to the laundry, without fans mobbing him like a swarm of bees, and for the man who used to be Superman, that is a good thing indeed. Sometimes, when Christopher
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    • 648 16 UPI SABA ROCK, British Virgin Islands: At 70, his skin is the colour of ancient leather and his beard a grizzled thatch of gray; Bert Kilbride is looking more and more like the pirate he has claimed to be for more than 30 years.
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    • 367 16  -  By INEZ WEI TO CELEBRATE its 25th anniversary, Glamourette presented a stunning collection of designer fashions at an afternoon tea show last Friday. In the posh, French ambience of Maxim's de Paris in the Pavilion Inter-Continen-tal Hotel, patrons were treated to a selection of the
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 552 17 SBC SBC TEXT Live Sample Page*. Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Yesterday's Glitter (C) (r). Our Sonas fT) (rl. The Comic Book Kids: Skeets, The Pirate. The kids jump into Marv's new adventure about pirates and a treasure hunt. Battlestar Qalactica The Lost Warrior (r). ApoHo runs out of
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    • 866 17 18 *v THE SMGAPORE MOMTOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1964 HM -W r a I &gt;s 'v Ik r «r 77w Sm/c* for Alexander the Great ends tonight on Chsnnef 12 (9 pm) iv 1 5.02 Quran Reading. 5.06 Programme Summary. 5.11 Paint Along with Nancy. 5.35 Children of the Stones
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  • leisure / tv
    • 428 18 The Search lor Alexander the Great Lord of Aaia (Part 4) (Last Episode) (Chinese Subtitles) (Ch 12, 8 pm) ALEXANDER resolves the conflict between his Macedonian soldiers and the Persians. After venturing into the Indian Ocean, he makes the famous journey over the Gedrosia Desert back to
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    • 591 18 TVSiESI UPI HOLLYWOOD: Gina Lollobrigida will add a dash of oregano and a touch of garlic to the cast of TV's Falcon Crest soap opera this year but isn't sure if the Italian seasoning will improve the recipe. The serial, which will kill
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 200 18 Where Can You Get the Latest News In Ang Mo Kio? It's in the evening edition of The Singapore Monitor, Monday through Friday. THE SINGAPORE Jk MONITOR 9 lv. ')o'i ;Mi i ■&gt; i I&gt;i S H A h Bn u o K I -01 -i? t A Bk 539
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  • 863 19  -  PSYCHO II TAKES THE 'KILL 'EM ALL' TRACK FILM: PSYCHO II STARRING: Anthony Perkins, Vera Mile*, Meg Tilly ,Robert Loggia DIRECTOR: Richard Franklin SHOWING: Jade leisure Reviewed by C J TAN THERE is more than a reasonable doubt that the celebrated master of suspense would
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 476 19 fiiM guide TOA PAYOH (*****34): THE WAYWARD ANGELS CEQBXffiffl (q DALIT (*****16): RAIDERS(C) JUB,LEE *****07 E WAYWARD ANGELS (C) LIWAGU (*****30): SHAOLIN WOODEN MEN (C) HOLLYWOOD (*****64): THE WAYWARD ANGELS ,:flg,}:(r i ill I| i I ill H —|l|| bedok (*****7): legend of a fighter (C) BROADWAY /*****941' TAI AK
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1040 20 ARABESQUE BALLET LUNCHTIME CONCERT COMPANY THERE a THE Arabesque Ballet Com- concert by the Singapore Sympany will stage, performances phony Orchestral principal today and tomorrow at 8 pm at Harpist, Angela Lu Kun, at Shell the World Trade Centre Audito- Theatrette, Shell Tower, on Fririum. day, from 12.45 pm to
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    • 38 20 TODAY: TOMORROW: Low tide: 9.43 am High tide: 6.46 am (1.5 m) (1.9 m) High tide: 3.35 pm Low tide: 9.45 am (2.5 m) (1.2 m) Low tide: 11.15 pm High tide: 4.39 pm (0.6 m) (2.2 m)
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  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • 546 21  -  By LEE CHIU SAN IF YOU want to make a mark for yourself in photography, you will have to decide what kind of a photographer you want to be. In common with many other wide-ranging disciplines, photography comprises a dazzling diversity of divisions, more than any one
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 453 23 lei»ure comics ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA The sudden illness of a friend September 23 to October 22 may cause a number of Accept some advice about an changes of plan. A sudden in- emotional problem It will be vitation this evening will given bv someone who has
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    • 161 23 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook HOW to G&gt;tr pfcoci** ARRiVe AT WAHH HOFUSSIV AS ON THK FASTfcACIC PAT A. LO&C*L TKtVfcE MlSltfTfeKPfcmsD (ft* CO»APUT-fR UoilXtßti- f W THt fcX£Cl&gt;Th/eS. GATHER TH* FACTS. DR SMOCK By George Lemont W Noßse, wHy's this that's what PATI gNT CUUTCH IN&lt;5 I VOU Wgßg HO
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  • sports
    • 906 26 ■MONUUk^^" RACING TODAY'S TRACKMRK KEEP an eye on Vincent Chong-trained Splendid 111 in the Class 4 Div 6 event over 1200 m at Kuala Lumpur this Saturday. On a good track yesterday, the grey four-year-old by Beau Ghost easily reeled off 600 m in. 39.5
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    • 444 27  -  World champion Mike Yellen here to boost sport with demonstration and clinic By K SILVAM RACQUETBALL'S messiah is here to give the sport a boost. And if he succeeds over the next two days, we will see a lot more Singaporeans trying to trace the footsteps of
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    • 195 27 Reuter MEXICO CITY, Tuesday THE WORLD Boxing Council (WBC), battling for its new 12-round safety rule, said today that it would not ratify the coming title defence by middleweight champion Marvin Hagler if he insists on going 15 rounds. Hagler, the
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    • 127 27 Reuter BAD DUERKHEIM (West Germany), Tuesday THE ATS Formula One motor racing team today announced that it had sacked driver Manfred Winkelhock of West Germany for publicly criticising the team. ATS team boss Guenter Schmid said in a radio interview that Winkelhock had been
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    • 137 27 KARACHI, Tuesday PAKISTAN field hockey star Hanif Khan, a member of the gold medalwinning team at the Los Angeles Olympics, announced his retirement from international hockey yesterday evening. In a brief statement here Khan said, "I have played enough international hockey and I am now' making
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    • 248 27 AP BUENOS AIRES, Tuesday A PREDOMINANTLY Argentine rugby team plans to go ahead with its South African playing tour starting today despite government opposition, a member said yesterday. Members of the "Hispanic 15" team met for a dinner last night at
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    • 294 28  -  Sailing centre's commercial interest handicaps promotion of boardsailing, say BSAS By ALFONSO CHAN STORM clouds are brewing over boardsailing's promotion in the East Coast. Pressed by fears of a declining interest in the sport, the Boardsailing Association of Singapore has written to local sports authorities for help,
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    • 264 28 THE ECSC enjoys a virtual monopoly of the sport in Singapore. Its policy would have to be adopted by the sport. BSAS committee's opinion: A fully commercial body like the ECSC would have as its prima™ objective, that of profits. It is not suited
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    • 428 28 BUSINESS is business, say the East Coast Sailing Centre. But they have not hindered the Boardsailing Association of Singapore from promoUng the sport. Jason Lim, one of the partners in the East Coast Sailing Centre, yesterday replied to charges by the BSAS, adding that
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    • 484 28 ALFONSO CHAN PETER HILL, Singapore's top Huash player, returned last ght in nign spirits after making the last 16 amid a field of top professionals in the New Zealand Open. Singapore's first squash professional, Zainal Abidin, also got into the last 16 but
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    • 273 28  -  By K SILVAM NATIONAL champion Wong Shoon Keat and No. 2 Lau Wing Cheok are poised to dominate the Singapore Badminton Association national individual championships which starts on Oct 12. The two, seeded first and second, are among the 32 entries. They have
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    • 264 28  -  S GULAM SINGAPORE'S quest for success in the most important assignment this year the Asian Cup competition will take them to China, Brunei and Qatar to fine-tune skills through top level matches. Little is being spared to prepare the team for the Asian Cup at
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    • 555 29  - Melanie a true champ wr Pictures and story by CHRISTINE CHEW CONSIDER this paradox. On a hockey field, when you see Melanie Martens, face set and eyes steely as three or four opponents bear down on her, you could say to yourself: she has the nerve of a kamikaze pilot.
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    • 40 29 The real Melanie is also an English major who graduated with honours from our university and started teaching about three months ago at her alma mater, St Theresa's Convent where her mother is also a teacher.
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    • 592 30 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday TOP SOCCER clubs in Europe are all going through a bad spell and are struggling to find their best form this season. Spain's Athletic Bilbao have been trying desperately to recapture their title-winning form of last season. They lost
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    • 159 30 AP MANHATTAN BEACH, Tuesday UNSEEDED Alycia Moulton of the United States used a strong serve to upset fifth-seeded Carling Bassett, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, last night in an open-ing-round match of the US$l5O,OOO (5|315,000) Virginia Slims of Los Angeles Women's tennis tournament. Eighth-seeded Virginia
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    • 63 31 MARK IRWIN'S BRITISH LEAGUE ROUNDUP WOLVES' tiny little striker Paul Dougherty (number 11) has been ordered out of the club's defensive walls by manager Tommy Docherty. Even with him joining his teammates in the wall, there is a hole iq the wall. At just over
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    • 61 31 SOME people get socks and ties for their birthday. Others get a cake with a few candles on top. Sheffield Wednesday's striker John Pearson was luckier than most he got kiss-o-gram girl Zoe for his recent 21st! Actually, it was the idea of his Hillsborough team-mates, who
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    • 116 31 WATFORD 'keeper Steve Sherwood, upset by all the criticism he's taken in recent months, is determined to prove his critics wrong. "I've taken a lot of unjustified stick, and this has given me even more reason to play well, he snaps. V "People don't realise that because Watford
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