Singapore Monitor, 3 November 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Saturday, November 3, 1984 30cents
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  • 498 1  -  PWD considering new move to get more people to use the tunnels By ROBERT CONCEICAO ESCALATORS may be installed in several of Singapore's underpasses in an effort to persuade more people to use the multi-million-dollar pedestrian refuges. This is one of several measures under study by
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  • home
    • 211 2  -  National Exhibition stand will feature a special obstacle course for them By ROBERT CONCEICAO CHILDREN who visit the Ministry of Defence's (Mindef) stand at the National Exhibition between Nov 16 and Dec 16 will find more to interest them than mere military hardware. Mindef has erected
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    • 681 2  -  Hoteliers hope Communications Ministry will let system stay By RAY MILLER HOTEL guests do not expect to go out and fight for taxis, especially if they are loaded with luggage and are rushing to the airport, Singapore hoteliers say. This is one reason they
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    • 290 3  -  proaubiivii? monthffijd By EE BOON LEE THE TIME has come to translate Singaporeans' productivity consciousness into action at the workplace, the Secretary-Gener-al of the National Trades Union Congress, Mr Ong Teng Cheong, said this morning. Opening NTUC's Productivity Month, Mr Ong, who is also
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    • 98 3 DAPHNE CHAN has 14,000 reasons to smile. She has been chosen as the first recipient of a $14,000 secretarial scholarship to Perth, Western Australia. Daphne, 21, will spend a year studying at the Edwards Secretarial College, and her scholarship covers air fares, books, and living
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    • 324 3 Lianhe Zaobao IT WILL take you just a matter of seconds to find out what bus to take to get to a particular place, how long the journey will take, what fares you have to pay and whether
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    • 79 3 A DIRECTORY of industrial designers is now being compiled by the Trade Development Board to keep the manufacturing sector informed of the available expertise in Singapore. This is the first step taken by the Advisory Committee on Promotion of Industrial Design, set up by the board in
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    • 259 4  -  Pre-university students present solar-powered clock to college By SEAH MEI KIANG THIS year's graduates from Temasek Junior College will leave a memento no one will forget. The departing students' gift to the college is a clock. It is no ordinary timepiece. It stands 3.6
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    • 131 4 MORE young professionals should volunteer their services in the grassroots and voluntary organisations, Dr Ahmad Mattar, Minister for Social Affairs, said last night. Now that they were established in life, they should devote some of their time and expertise to the
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    • 311 4  -  By CHEE LI CHOO PROFESSIONAL groups may be able to take part in next year's Drama Festival. The Ministry of Culture is reviewing its policy of excluding non-amateur groups from taking [>art in the annual festival, aunched in 1978. Mr Liew Chin
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    • 206 4 WANT to sell leather goods, cash registers, photographic equipment? Or are you looking for cheap supplies of cotton goods, handbags or toys? The Trade Development Board has set up a new service to help you. The board is compiling a list of trade enquiries
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    • 113 3 A In Control Our remote control switches are controlled by an infrared transmitter. You can control your lightings from a distance of up to 50 ft (15.2 m). The switches are practical for elderly or handicapped people. And even for security reasons. At home, a remote-controlled dimmer switch is both
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    • 101 5 V delicious is in the air at the Shangri-La. y S Latour, Shangri-La's new Continental restaurant, is about to open its doors. An abundance of ambience, exquisite food, Wl superb wine, attentive service and a luxurious interior awaits you. These are just some of the special touches that will make
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  • world
    • 421 6 Was Indira killing part of a conspiracy? Reuter NEW DELHI, Saturday ALL SECURITY guards at the Indian Prime Minister's residence have been replaced amid fears that Indira Gandhi's murder was part of a conspiracy, official sources said yesterday. Two Indian newspapers reported in
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    • 75 6 ASSASSINATION OF INDIRA GANDHI Reuter INDIA'S ruling Congress (I) Party yesterday formally elected Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as leader of its parliamentary party Party officials said a general meeting of the party's Members of Parliament endorsed the decision of its eight-member parliamentary board to choose
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    • 364 6 AP NEW DELHI, Saturday THE BODY of Mrs Indira Gandhi will be carried through sloganchanting crowds today to a cremation expected to be witnessed by hundreds of thousands of followers. The body of the 66-year-old leader will be burned on a pyre
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    • 247 6 Reuter LONDON, Saturdaty MRS INDIRA GANDHI'S funeral today will provide a rendezvous for leaders around the world, not only to meet India's new Prime Minister, her son, Rajiv, but also in some cases to confer among themselves. Presidents, Prime Ministers and
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    • 387 7 Officers plotted the death of Solidarity priest Reuter WARSAW, Saturday POLISH authorities said last night that two senior officials in the Interior Ministry had been arrested in connection with the murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a pro-Solidarity priest whose funeral takes place today. As
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    • 270 7 AP WASHINGTON, Saturday IRAQ has built up a "significant" stock of nerve gas and other chemical weapons in preparation for possible use of the weapons against Iran in their four-year-old war, US officials say. Iraq used chemical weapons, including deadly nerve
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    • 298 7 Reuter BEIJING, Saturday CHINA yesterday drew the final curtain on 35 years of persecution of people branded as landlords, rich peasants, counter revolutionaries and bad elements" after the communist victory in 1949. Beijing's Public Security Ministry announced that it had "remoulded"
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    • 276 7 AP MANILA, Saturday, PRESIDENT Marcos of the Philippines withdrew a controversial new tax on horse racing yesterday, after it backfired and resulted in the closure of Manila's twp race tracks instead of creating more income for the financially strapped Government. A Presidential Palace
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    • 650 8 LAT-WP NEW YORK: With only three days to go, the campaigns of President Ronald Reagan and Democratic Presidential candidate, Mr Walter Mondale, are relying heavily on political commercials to carry their messages to voters Mr Reagan employing a California grizzly
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    • 83 8 IN 1964, President Lyndon Johnson was returned with a big majority of 22.58 per cent of the total vote for President. This majority was close to the 24.25 per cent achieved by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. President Reagan won by only 9.73 per
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    • 75 8 IN THE 19th century, American voters rejected five incumbent Presidents. In the present century, such casualties number only three so far. President Reagan is determined not to have his name added to the list. In 1980, Mr Jimmy Carter lost to Mr Reagan
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    • 107 8 John Quincy Adams Graver Cleveland William Howard Taft Herbert Hoover Incumbents names in bold type Candidates Year Popular vote Electoral vole John Adams 1800 Not available 73 Thomas Jefferson 65 John Qulncy Adama 1628 508,064 83 Andrew Jackson 647,286 178 Martin Van Buren 1840
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    • 430 10 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Saturday THE SOVIET Union has "dumped" about US$l6O million (***** million) in polished diamonds on the international market this year, apparently to help raise money to pay for the increased grain imports that are expected to follow its fifth straight poor
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    • 155 10 THE MOUNTED police surveying the area to prevent striking English coalminers from approaching the pits and protecting the non-strikers who will go through to do their work in Yorkshire. The striking miners have passed the point of no return. They are behaving as if
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    • 274 10 AP TOKYO, Sat REHABILITATION is meant to be a profitable business in Japan, where prisons have begun marketing everything from furniture to dishes under their own brand names. Justice Ministry officials say they are aiming for sales of 8 billion yen (5569.3 million) a
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    • 110 10 AP RANGOON, Saturday BURMA'S infant mortality rate dropped to 46.8 per 1,000 live births in fiscal year 1983-84, down from 56.8 a decade ago, according to a government report released this week. The measurement counts deaths among infants under one year of age. Unicef,
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    • 217 9 If you'reworried about what lies over the horizon remember the friendly giant can see further. One of the advantages of being a giant the world. If you're in trade, export/import, the friendly giant behind you even in day-to-is that you can see further than others. deal with foreign exchange or
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    • 62 10 The Prestigious Emperor Elegant Imperial professional massage. Imperial Health Centre out for the g rand Oberoi Imperial Hotel, I lalan Rumbia, H Vf r Singaporeo922. Tel: *****18/9 Op© arkH« a Emperor Health Centre ft G°^ eU T)ynaSty Hotel Jjj Unit 01-01, Ground Floor Centre ai Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, pP*
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  • world / trends
    • 22 11 Airborne pollution is rapidly killing many of Europe's forests and newly-pub-lished statistics show the damage is greatest in West Germany.
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    • 22 11 The Indonesian Medical Association will work to improve the medical curriculum for medical students. Doctors have been publicly criticised lately.
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    • 21 11 New commercial satellites will make television and other communications services affordable to all. Users can receive signals with inexpensive dishes.
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    • 271 11 .TRENDS Science and Medicine THE INDONESIAN Medical Association (IDI) will form a special body to improve the medical education curriculum. Doctors have become the focus of public criticism lately, and IDI has been busy coping with the complaints. A dormant body of the organisation (Badan
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    • 93 11 BONN: Airborne pollution, caused by car exhausts and factory effluent, is rapidly killing many of Europe's forests and recent statistics show the damage is greatest in West Germany. Statistics showed that half the nation's trees have been damaged by pollution, a figure that has leapt
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    • 67 11 When the land suddenly caves in, the buildings around will also collapse. When this happens in an urban area, heavy damage and casualties can result. Above picture shows a huge sink hole in Florida, USA. Sink holes are likely to
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    • 250 11 DIRECT Broadcast Satellite Corp, became the fourth and final company to qualify for the first heat in the race to launch direct broadcast satellites (DBS). The aim of the new orbiters is to make satellite borne television and other communications services affordable to all.
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    • 175 11 How sink holes are formed J' Rain dissolves catbon dioxide ll in atmosphere into a weak acid J that wears away carbonate rock V m [limestone and dolomite] Winter Park, Fla., sink hole /v Carbonate rocks are mazes of 7 vertical and horizontal cracks Caves are fowned, below water table,
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    • 171 11 'Today'magazine has a lot of surprises h store. Here's one of them. OV R E EADEns° t V 19.0 M* READERS 'Today .The largest weekly mapraTinp readership in Singapore. Surprised? TODAY is the new, lively, colourful weekly magazine distributed with the Sunday Monitor. Its established readership base of over 500,000
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  • money
    • 377 12  -  By JILL HUM FOUR LISTED tobacco companies returned mixed results this year. While the Rothmans companies on both sides of the Causeway increased their profits, British American Tobacco (BAT) and Malaysian Tobacco Company (MTC) saw theirs shrinking by a third. BAT and MTC
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    • 169 12 ROTHMANS MALAYSIA is the fastest growing cigarette manufacturer and is expected to dominate the market in the future. Its encouraging performance can be attributed to several factors: THE increase in sales, helped by the successful launch of the Marlboro brand, currently the leading American cigarette
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    • 103 12 MALAYSIAN TOBACCO COMPANY (MTC), in contrast, turned in a lacklustre performance even though it is the largest Malaysian tobacco company, commanding about 64 per cent of market share. This is attributed mainly to its inability to cushion the adverse effects of the heavy increases in
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    • 189 12 BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO S (BAT) decline in both group turnover and pre-tax profits were due to higher excise duties, lower investment income, share of associates' losses and lower duty free sales. Since 96 per cent of its income comes from tobacco
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    • 183 12 ROTHMANS INDUSTRIES (RI) commands about 40 per cent of the Singapore market compared with British American Tobacco's 25 per cent. Rl's ability to make a marginal profit inspite of increasingly difficult conditions is partly due to its efforts in continuously investing in
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    • 149 12  -  By EDWARD ONG THE Kansallis International Bank (Asia-Pacific) has big plans for its future in this region. Singapore will be the centre for Finland's largest commercial banking group's Asia-Pacific coverage. Kansallis, the Singapore merchant banking subsidiary, was incorporated with an authorised and
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    • 295 12 THE AMERICAN economy has reached a critical Juncture, says Mr Irwin L Kellner, senior economist of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company (MHT), in a special report released in New York yesterday The report comes just as the US dollar tumbled to eight-week lows
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    • 231 13 HHLLSTREET AP THE STOCK market showed little change yesterday in the final session of a stop-and-go week. The Dow Jones Average of 30 industrials was up a fraction of a point half an hour before the close. Most analysts agree that the bond market
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    • 56 13 THE Straits Times Industrial Index closed 2.33 points up to 836.43 yesterday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 418.70, down 0.27 points from the previous day's close of 418.97. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index fell 0.2320 points to 132.1577 at the close, compared with
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    • 274 13 AP THE AMERICAN dollar plunged yesterday, extending a broad retreat in which it has tumbled 5 per cent in 2Vk weeks. Analysts attributed the slide to growing expectations of further declines in US interest rates, something that would make returns less attractive on dollar-denominated investments. At the
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    • 546 13 THE WEEKLY STOCK MARKET ROUNDUP THE LOCAL stock market continued to drift downwards in lacklustre trading. The Straits Times Index shed 17.05 points from last Friday's 853.48. The STI fell to new lows for the first four sessions as prices slumped across a broad front.
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    • 281 13 Bernama PLANTATION group Boustead Holdings Bhd anticipates lower earnings from the commodity sector in the current year. Chairman Tan Sri Raja Muhammad Alias said the group's ability to maintain or improve earnings depends to a great extent on the level of commodity prices. Boustead, which
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    • 346 13 Reuter LONDON, Saturday ROLAND 'Tiny' Rowland's trading and mining conglomerate Lonrho yesterday finally abandoned its marathon struggle for control of House of Fraser, Britain's biggest store chain and owner of the London shop Harrods. Lonrho, which has its roots in Africa but
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  • 1348 14 features MARCOULE, France: The black, glass cylinder that Mr Michel Chotin holds in his hand as he walks around the meeting room measures less than five centimetres in height and diameter. It's about the size of a small lemon, but a good deal heavier.
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  • opinion / letters
    • 446 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE circumstances that led to 30 children making an unscheduled overnight stop in the Mandai Forest are slowly being unravelled. After the initial confusion of the search and rescue, the organisers of the hike, the Singapore Scouts Association, Katong district, nave
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    • 366 15 THERE HAS been much debate on the propriety of Brig-Gen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong's entry into the political arena. We hear it in Parliament, at home and in the coffee shops. Why is there a need for hue and cry? I think
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    • 164 15 I REFER to the Minister without Portfolio, Mr Ong Teng Cheong's tour of Choa Chu Kang constituency. It was reported that residents queued to hand in petitions, most of which were from farmers affected by resettlement. They were asking for better
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    • 112 15 THERE ARE five large housing estates and a score of factories and warehouses in the vicinity of Clover Park. Commuters in this estate have to walk a long way to catch their buses at Upper Thomson Road. I suggest that City Shuttle Service look into
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    • 111 15  -  RUTH OH YI-LING Alberta, Canada I AM surprised by the unbelievably cheap taxi fares in your island-city. Everything else is very expensive. The usual fare for a short ride is less than $3. In comparison with the food and hotel accommodation prices, there is a 98
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    • 72 15 LETTERS on any subject of public interest will be accepted for publication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful We reserve the
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 1911 16  -  FINALISTS' LAST WORDS BEFORE THE BIG NIGHT TOMORROW I&£Kl?M£o* By WONG AH YOKE THE best of our raw talent according to the judges of Talentime 84 will sing for their musical lives if not their livelihood in the grand final tomorrow night which will
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    • 219 16 THE US top 10 pop singles, as rated by Cashbox, with last week's positions in brackets: 1. (1) I Just Called to Say I Love You Stevie Wonder (Motown). 2. (2) Hard Habit to Break Chicago (Warner Brothers). 3. (5) Caribbean Queen (No More Love on
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    • Article, Illustration
      540 18  -  WITH LIM KWEE LAN The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (Ch 5, 6.40 pm) THIS portrayal of faith, hope and love won four Emmys last year, including one for Cloris Leachman.who plays May Lemke. Although friends and relatives discourage May from adopting six-month-old Leslie because he is retarded,
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      258 18 TWO JUDDS IN ONE HOLLYWOOD: Emmy winner Judd Hirsch, formerly of the Taxi series, will nlay a double role in a CBS TV movie, Brotherly Love, to be filmed on location in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hirsch will be seen as a successful familv man who is haunted by his
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    • 423 18 Just Our Luck Transition (Ch 5, 1.10 pm) KEITH is told that he no longer holds a spot at the station. If he wants the job of a roving reporter, he has to deliver an audition tape within three days. Keith confides in Shabu, who comes up with
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    • 625 19  -  LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL SHOULD HAVE BEEN TV MINI-SERIES By KEVIN THOMAS in Hollywood LAT-WP JOHN LE CARRE'S The Little Drummer Girl is a work of such psychological complexity, richness and subtlety that surely it would have lent itself better to the more spacious TV mini-series
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    • 407 21  -  By PAT D'ROSE WEST going East? That's right. The new management of the West End Club, an exclusive private club once under the Goodwood Park Hotel, is now looking eastwards for its entertainment menu. "Why engage only European artistes? Why not those
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    • 1815 21  -  By MARTIN BERNHEIMER in Los Angeles LAT-WP AN orchestra is, to some degree, like litmus paper. It tends to change colour according to the personality of its conductor especially if the conductor is willing to linger long enough to make a lasting impression.
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1017 17 sbc rf 12.20 8BCTEXT Live Sample Paget. 12.50 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Sesame Street* 1.55 Saturday Matinee: McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force. See Saturday's Best. 3.30 President's Cup Soccer Final Safsa vs Ferrer Park Dynamos. 4.20 Malay Movie. Anak Bapak (b/w) (English subtitles). See Satutd&y's best. 6.10
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    • 414 17 > m 1 m N\V y The 36th Emmy Awards (Ch 5, 10.10 pm). Tom Selleck (left) it host, while Bob Hope (right) is presented the prestigious Governor's Award for his contribution to the TV world. 3.02 Quran Reading. 3.08 Programme Summary. 3.16 Bintang Baru: Safar Qatar (r). 3.S5 Pacman.
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 357 18 Tomorrow's programmes 8.25 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 8.55 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Mousercise (Last episode). 9.25 The Electric Company.* 9.55 Smurfs (Cartoon). 10.20 Bintang Kecil '84 (Final) (M) (Part 4) (Last episode). 10.55 International Sporting Seven (Part 3) (Last episode). 11.40 World of Sport Incorporating Match of the
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 781 19 nbMCUIMStarring: Michael Sopkiw, Anna Kanakis wmtmmmtmamw Synopsis: An Italian production about a DALIT (*****16): TAOISM DRUNKARD CLEMENTI (*****51): AT MIDDLE AGE world crbis in the year 2099 when people /q (C) live under huge magnetic bubbles and are Starring: Zhu Hailing, Yuan Xinyi, Luo PU- Midnight show: POMEGRANATE FLOWER sterile
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    • 14 19 you Sunday in the 1 Sunday Monitor, MoaMor To wbtcrlbi call *****68 tit 327/328
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 92 20 ECHTZEIT (REALTIME) THE Goethe-Institut will re-screen Echtzeit (Realtime), a film about computers and society, today at 4 pm at its auditorium. This is one of the first feature films with images completely created by the computer. Admission is free. I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES HILTON Movie House will screen
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    • 803 20 Exhibitions 4 i ART FORUM Tl AN ART exhibition on New Works in Tapestry, Sculpture and Paper will be held Forum (#O3-13 The Promenade, 300 Orchard Road) until Thursday, 10 am to 6pm 1 SB except on The will vH feature about 60 pieces W. of works by young artists
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    • 24 20 w ■W^^EFr^* Silver Triangles on Blue by Helyne Jennings (above) and Emergence In Bronze by Naomi Blake (left). On display at the Art Forum.
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 615 22 leisure comics I FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook TT twih** is op c 1 GrAROA<rE.' <*>*. OF MOV|gS |C /VA C>« C I 6rUtSS THAT fAtMS S U' G*R&AG-fe.' <?Of. OF V > 107. OF THIS STUFF JVvV» Ik &°°K* B <t*K.s*G-et x x is 5-nu-ooot>v J Efforts made in contact
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  • sports
    • 354 24 MOSCOW, Saturday TITLE HOLDER Anatolv Karpov, who leads 4-0, and challenger Garry Kasparov drew game 21 of tneir duel for the World Chess championship after 31 moves Karpov, needing two more victories to retain his title, has white and besan5 an the game with
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    • 152 25 SINGAPORE'S performance in .the recent Merlion Cop comes under the scalpel with readers giving their views on the national team's failure and poor turnout. The Football Association of Singapore's decision to turn down Salim's appeal before the Merlion Cup has, judging from the reaction, not gone down
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    • 780 25 ONCE again Singapore has performed badly in an international tournament. Worse still, it was on home soil in our own Merlion Cup tournament. Not only that, the tournament also failed to attract the fans to the National Stadium where it used
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    • 286 25 WEEKS before Singapore started preparing for the recent Merlion Cup tournament, Football Association of Singapore (FAS) officials were seeking the return of three "exiles" striker K Kannan and midfielders T Pathmanathan and R Suriamoorthy. The FAS obviously had high hopes and good faith in the
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    • 69 25 THE Football Association of Singapore, organiser of the Merlion Cup, had expressed great surprise at the poor attendance at the matches. It should not be a surprise at all, as football fans were disappointed and disgusted with the FAS suspension of Salim Moin. Wake up,
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    • 78 25 WITH Salim Moin out of the national squad after his second appeal was turned down, his absence was felt by Singapore's lack of capable shooters in the Merlion Cup. I still don't understand what the Football Association of Singapore is trying to prove. Please
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    • 78 25 I REFER to Victor Tan's letter "Referees are not fit enough" (SM, Oct 24). Singapore referees are well respected in the international scene for their good handling of matches. But in local matches, the referee has become the target of criticism without any reason. I would
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    • 71 25 I REFER to the Seen and Heard article that appeared on Oct 31. This is to clarify that the Indonesian shooters were not involved in any shopping during the championships. I was with them throughout the event and they did their best to win
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    • 263 26 Reuter ZURICH, Saturday SWITZERLAND will be anxious to end a 20C#r jinx on their international performances in usanne when they take on world soccer champions, Italy, in a friendly match today. The Swiss have not won there in eight internationals spanning two decades. But their chances
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    • WORLDFRONT
      • 85 26 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD SECOND-SEEDED Bulgarian teenager Manuela Maleeva reached the semifinals of the US$l5O,OOO (*****,000) Women's European Tennis Tournament in Zurich last night when she beat fifth seed Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia 6-4 6-7 7-5. In a tense deciding set, in which each player
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      • 91 26 BOCA Juniors, one of Argentina's most famous and well-supported football clubs, is deeply in debt and in danger of losing its stadium. Most of its first team players, saying they are owed at least ons month's wages as well as win bonuses and signing-on fees, are
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      • 86 26 FRENCHMAN Guy Forget reached the quarterfinals of the Scandinavian Tennis Grand Prix by beating Vijay Amritraj of India 6-2 76 in the third round yesterday. The Frenchman broke Amritraj twice in the first set with strong returns and he served steadily throughout, losing his service only once.
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      • 94 26 STEVE Cauthen, the first American to win the British Jockeys Championship for 71 years, collected his trophy yesterday from General Sir Cecil Baker, deputy senior steward of the Jockey Club, which runs horseracing in this country. Cauthen won the trophy in his last season
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      • 77 26 SPANIARD Manuel Montes retained his lead in the Portuguese Open Golf Championship yesterdav while British challenger Craig Defoy was disqualifed after forgetting to hand in his card. Montes shot 71 for a six-under-par second round total of 138 to lead by a stroke. Defoy, a former Welsh World
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      • 110 26 NEW ZEALAND reached the final stages of the 1982 World Cup in Spain, but its task to repeat that success will be four times more difficult for Mexico 1986, national team coach Alan Jones warned yesterday. New Zealand's soccer squad is on a tour of
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      • 84 26 Jo Durie boosted Britain into a 2-1 lead over the United States in the Wightman Cup Women's team tennis match last night. She avenged her defeat two years ago by beating Barbara Potter 6-3 7-6. The British number one survived two set points against her in
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    • 411 27 INSULTS "YOU HAVE as much class as my backside" Cliff Thorburn to Steve Davis during the 1981 World Snooker Championship. "IF EVERTON were playing down the bottom of my garden. I'd draw the curtains" the late Bill Shankly. "I WISH his dad had taken him to
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    • 214 27 RUSSIAN fencer Boris Onishenko in the 1976 Olympics rigged his epee with an electrical circuit to register non-existent hits. He was disqualified, returned home in disgrace and has never been heard of since. GERMAN student Norbert Sudhaus joined the 1972 Olympic marathon in the home stretch outside
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    • 285 27 AS SHE WAS playing on No. 10 Court at Wimbledon, Hazel Philips' knickers' elastic snapped. When she asked to leave the court to change, at first the referee refused. He relented when scores of reporters and photo- HEAVYWEIGHT snooker player Bill Werbeniuk ripped his trousers as he
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    • 840 28  -  bv Simon Barnes WHO'D BE a goalkeeper? Two of the league's top performers between the sticks go into tonight's matches knowing that midweek blunders have cost their side a place in the Milk Cup. Bruce Grobbelaar, no stranger to disaster, was responsible
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    • 445 29  -  Reports by ALFONSO CHAN CHEERFUL, confident and talkative, the Filipino bowlers are easily recognised not least because of their massive reputation as one of the world's top amateur teams. Paeng Nepumuceno's tall figure towers over the rest, but you won't find his team-mates intimidated.
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    • 389 29 THE FILIPINO HOTSHOTS A TEAM WITHOUT FEARS BEING punched up and knocked out may seem a sad way to end young dreams, but the experience proved to be a blessing in disguise for 20-year-old Oly Reformado. After being nearly decimated in a national Tae
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    • 323 30  -  By TONY LIM JEANETTE BAKER won the admiration and adulation of the world when she captured the World Cup in 1982 and 1983 successively a feat many had thought impossible. Her success story made the front covers of major bowling magazines and newspapers throughout the world
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    • 286 30 AUSTRALIA'S team of six women bowlers comprising two-time World Cup champion Jeanette Baker, Ruth Guerster, Sue Cassell, Barbara Richmond, Leanne Moyle and Cheryl Munson are expected to take the lion's share of the six gold medals at stake in the women's division.
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    • 79 30  -  By ALFONSO CHAN SINGAPORE'S national squash team, which is undergoing the new training programme under New Zealand's Neven Barbour and Rob Crothall, will have a chance to gauge their skills when they meet the team from the Delhi Squash Players Association in a friendly match
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    • 315 31 LONDON, Saturday ENGLISH LEAGUE leaders Arsenal suffered their third defeat in a week last night when they crashed 4-2 at Manchester United in an exciting top-of-the-table clash. United, who took an early lead through England captain Bryan Robson, had to fight back after strikers lan
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