Singapore Monitor, 7 November 1984, Afternoon Edition

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    19 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EVENING EDITION; r V C 'Pi No 21 5 84 Wednesday, November 7, 1984 30 cents
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    A HISTORIC STUNNING VICTORY FOR REAGAN
    511 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN swept to a landslide victory over Mr Walter Mondale with a chance of an unprecedented 50-state sweep by winning or leading in every state except Mr Mondale's Minnesota. At press time, Mr Mondale had only taken the District of
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    Lock icon HOW THE VOTING WENT
    47 1 UPI The voting up to 0629 GMT. Popular Volt Pet Eloctod vote Mondale 27.738.785 41 13 Reagan 39.838.132 59 509 Mr Mondale has won the district of Colombia with 3 electoral votes. Mr Reagan has won 47 states with 509 electoral votes UPI
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    CHANGES TO PAP LEADERSHIP
    434 1  -  By EE BOON LEE CHANGES have been made to the leadership of the People's Action Party, with Dr Tony Tan taking over as vice-chairman, leaving Mr Goh Chok Tong as the only assistant secretarygeneral. Dr Tan, the Minister for Finance and Trade and Industry, had served
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      More than 1,000 turn up to watch the polls
      798 2  -  THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS LIVE' IN SINGAPORE... By CHEE LI CHOO MORE than 1,000 peoS turned up this mornat the Shangri-la Hoto the 1984 American Presidential elections "live" via satellite from New York. In the Jurong Room, the 480 seats for a
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      Mono pupils to continue education in English
      190 2  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG PRIMARY 3 pupils who will be streamed into the monolingual course next year will continue their education in English medium classes. In previous years, parents were allowed to choose whether to put their Primary 4 Monolingual pupils in the
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      4 ways to woo women into the labour force
      961 3  -  productivity month '84 By JANICE LIM FOUR key recommendations are part of a report compiled Dy a task force formed to look into ways of encouraging women to ioin or remain in the labour market. They are proper childcare services, suitable
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      Why task force on female labour was commissioned
      239 3 THE Task Force on Female Participation in the Labour Force comprising representatives from the employers, unions, government, the academia and women's groups, was formed in February this year. Its objective was to find out women's views and submit proposals on ways of
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      Lock icon $100,000
      149 3 S PORE DONATIONS FOR ETHIOPIAN CAUSE Lianhe Zaobao SINGAPOREANS are responding generously to the plight of Ethiopian refugees hit by famine. Yesterday alone, World Vision, the relief organisation collecting funds for helping the refugees, received $15,000 in donations. So far, the organisation has collected $100,000 from Singaporeans. The biggest
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      Who's who in the PAP'S election machinery
      232 4 THE WHO'S who in the People's Action Party's election machinery is now out. The main General Election Committee is chaired by Mr Goh Chok Tong, the Defence and Second Health Minister, with Dr Yeo Ning Hong, the Communications and Second Defence Minister, as
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      New PAP exco line-up
      132 4 REALIGNMENT OF THE PARTY LEADERSHIP THE NEW leadership hierarchy that hat now emerged in the People's Action Party (PAP) may give a clpe to the aatare of the heavier Cabinet responsibilities that the yonnger lenders will have to assnme niter the general election. However, PAP insiders
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      Girl strangled and thrown from flat?
      255 4  -  By K K FONG POLICE believe a 19-year-old girl was strangled and thrown from the 10th storey of a block of flats. The body of Miss Lim Kwee Huang was found at the foot of Block 52, Kallang Bahru last Friday. She was dressed
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    • NEWS SCAN
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        Close slave far 2 in pickup
        64 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS A PICKUP travelling towards Jurong along Upper Ayer Rajah Road crashed into a tree on the road divider, landed on the other side of the road and was then hit by an oncoming lorry. Neither the driver of
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        Cathay out of video battle
        82 4 THE CATHAY Organisation has bowed out of the video battle, and says it will not return until Singapore's copyright law is changed. Cathay Home Video, the cinema chain's answer to competition from home entertainment, closed at the end of October, about 18 months after it
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        Orchard's changing skyline
        65 4 THE SKYLINE at Orchard Boulevard, Newton Circus and Somerset Road will change as buildings associated with the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project take shape. High-rise developments proposed for Newton Station will overwhelm tne nearby two- storey pre-war houses. On either side of Scotts Road, tall semicircular buildings
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        1,400 pirate tapes seized
        81 4 EVENING RAIDS are being considered by the International Federation of Phonogram and Videosram Producers (IFPI) to stamp out the sale of pirate tapes after its swoop operations on Monday netted some 1,400 illegal tape recordings from 11 retailers. Only 1,400 pirate tapes were seized because nearly
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      100 hell-riders to be charged in court
      203 4  -  By VICTOR SOH A TOTAL of 100 people will be prosecuted for defects and illegal modifications to their motorcycles and vehicles after the raid on hell-riders at Nicoll Drive last month. Eighty-six of them are motorcyclists, eight are motorists and six of them
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      157 3 /fiPl y A^QQkMH Autumn A La Carte au Vfendome LEyWiiME I restaurant I In France, as the seasons change, so t(x> does the menu. Baby Chicken in Springtime, Fresh Strawberries in Summer and River Salmon, Quail and Ragout of Hare in Autumn, when the hunting season begins. Because, as any
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      158 4 From worldwide sources, this new and unique monthly magazine reports business opportunities of aN kinds. Manufacturing i ieaocs i. Tranchisat/Agonciat.' Distributorships/lmport-Export Opportunitias/ Tumtay Pro/acts/Production Know-How/Joint Vanturas/Patants/Naw Products/Haw Procasaas/Acquisitions/and much mora... Specifically to: Help you start a new business of your own; Help you expand your product lines; Help you diversify
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      104 5 is in the air at the Latour, Shangri-Las new Continental L/ restaurant, is about to open its doors. An abundance of ambience, exquisite "®wSr- r food, superb wine, attentive service and a luxurious comfortable interior awaits you. Tftese dre just some of the special touches \^[jflH^K] i/wf will make your
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  • world
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      Lock icon Jaruzelski moves in to purge security
      371 6 UPI WARSAW, Wednesday PREMIER Wojciech Jaruzelski took control of Poland's internal security apparatus, signaling a purge of the organisation, after three secret police officers confessed to murdering a pro-Soli-darity priest. The official state- run news agency PAP, in a report on a meeting of
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      Lock icon Death toll in S African violence rises to 16
      112 6 UPI JOHANNESBURG, Wed ADMINISTRATORS in black townships ringing Johannesburg today began assessing damages from a two-day civil rights strike that left at least 16 dead. The damages were unofficially estimated at millions of dollars Hundreds of thousands of workers stayed home
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      Lock icon Maggie urges end to strike as more miners defy union
      191 6 AP LONDON, Wednesday HUNDREDS more miners broke ranks yesterday in Britain's nearly 8-month-old coal strike, management reported as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher urged those still manning picket lines to "end it now." But miners' leader Arthur Scargill insisted there had
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      Lock icon Big military show at Kremlin
      166 6 AP MOSCOW, Wed TROOPS, artillery, tanks and missiles were being readied today for the annual Kremlin Military Parade, a day after Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared that thtf new US leadership has much work to do to repair its credibility with the Soviet Union. In
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
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        Deng's sen heads new firm
        86 6 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS SENIOR Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's crippled sdh, Mr Deng Pufang, is heading a new company established to import foreign technology for factories that employ handicapped people. Tne state-run China News Agency, says the younger Deng, 40, is chairman of
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        Marathon winner engaged
        70 6 JAPANESE marathon runner Toshihiko Seko, who won the Boston Marathon in 1981, has announced his engagement to a 25-year-old kindergarten teacher. Seko, 28, proposed to Miss Yoshie Watanabe on their 10th date on Oct 22. Kyodo News Service reported they met on Sept 9 this year. Seko,
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        Marilyn's hubby elected
        101 6 THE FIRST husband of legendary sex svmbol Marilyn Monroe (above), was unopposed in his first try for elective office. Mr James Dougherty, 63, who lives in the town of Sabattus in Maine with his third wife, Rita, conceded yesterday that voters knew of his four-year marriage to
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        Terrorist Abu Nidal dies
        88 6 ARAB terrorist Abu Nidal, who helped Yasser Arafat found the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) movement but later deserted it as too moderate and led his own radical faction, has died in Baghdad of a heart attack. Nidal, whose, real name was°believed to be Sabri Khalil Al-Banna,
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      Lock icon Hainan Island to be 'Hawaii of China'
      146 6 AP TOKYO, Wednesday HAINAN Island, largely untouched and sparsely populated, is destined to become "the Hawaii of China," catering to millions of tourists a year, the chief architect of the 1,300-hectare resort project said yesterday. Mr Kisno Kurosawa, whose Japanese architecture firm is
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      Lock icon Making a beeline for Beijing
      474 7 Hard-nosed HK businessmen lining up to meet their 'new bosses' in China LAT-WP HONG KONG, Wednesday FOE DECADES, the more ambitious of the millions of Canton-ese-speaking residents of Hong Kong have concentrated on learning English as a ticket to success. Now, an in- creasing number
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      Lock icon Space shuttle to retrieve two lost satellites
      165 7 UPI CAPE CANAVERAL, Wed THE shuttle Discovery was set to blast off this morning on an unprecedented doubleduty mission to carry two satellites into orbit and bring back two written off as lost in space nine months ago. The salvage part of Disco
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      Lock icon Michael Chen to make move back to MCA
      367 7 The Star Kuala lumpur, w«j DATUK Michael Chen, a former MCA Deputy President, is expected to announce his decision to quit Gerakan and return to MCA tomorrow, sources said yesterday. They added that the former Gerakan Vice President was likely to hand
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      Lock icon Hawke will win by a majority, say two polls
      238 7 Reuter SYDNEY, Wednesday TWO NATIONWIDE opinion polls today delivered further blows to the Australian opposition's hopes of denting the ruling Labour Government in the December 1 general election. Both surveys showed that Prime Minister Bob Hawke's Government would be returned to
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    • State after state to Reagan
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        Lock icon TV's early-bird predictions anger officials
        236 8 AP NEW YORK, Wednesday ALL THREE major television networks in the United States projected a Reagan victory by mid-evening yesterday, while polls in 26 states more than half the nation remained open. Some election officials were angry that the networks had not waited longer to
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        INCUMBENT SWEEPS AMERICA WITH STUNNING VICTORY
        231 8 As at 2pm today (Singapore time) the state-by-state table (below) and an indication of the size of President Reagan's sweep (map above). Legend for table: "E" denotes number of electoral votes won and "PC" denotes percentage of popular vote. THE PRESIDENTIAL STAKES Mala Mm
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        Lock icon Reagan's ready for summit with Soviets
        263 8 Agencies LOS ANGELES, Wednesday PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan said last night it was time for him and Soviet President Konstanun Chernenko to hold a summit to dispel mutual suspicions and pave the way for nuclear arms, reductions. Mr Reagan made his comment to reporters who
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      'Landslides have led to blunders'
      62 9 NEW YORK, Wed A NOTED political historian recalled that winners' fortunes can change. Mr Theodore White, noted that some previous landslide winners later committed the biggest blunders of their political careers. He recalled that after sweeping election victories, President Lyndon Johnson became more deeply embroiled
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      Lock icon Ferraro hurt Democratic effort: TV poll
      246 9 AP NEW YORK, Wednesday VICE-PRESIDENTIAL candidate Geraldine Ferarro apparently hurt the Democratic presidential effort more than she helped it, according to network television exit polling in yesterday's election. Exit polls are conducted as voters leave voting places. A poll by the NBC network said
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      Lock icon GOP slices into Democrat dominance of the House
      575 9 LAT WASHINGTON, Wed REPUBLICAN candidates, riding a cascade of votes for President Reagan, preserved their Senate majority yesterday and sliced into Democratic dominance of the House, but the showing appeared to fall short of the sweeping political mandate Mr Reagan had urged
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      STATE OF THE PARTIES
      62 9 SENATE (SI nocossary for control) HOUSE (218 nocosury for control) Democratic Republican Others Democratic Republican Others Elected 14 15 0 Elected 186 138 0 Leadin 1 2 0 Leading 52 44 0 Holdovers 31 36 0 New total 238 182 0 New totaI 46 53 0
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      160 7 'Today'magazine has a lot of surprises in store. Here's one of them. 39 096" READERS Today .The largest weekly rparfprdiip h 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
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      58 9 gjzjjjll Easy to carry 191 Easy to set-up Various colours and sizes available. Suitable for: gardens, pool-side, terrace, patio/ inner court and the beach 2.50 x 2.50 x 2.30 m $1300/Distributed by SaquariesCo 2P Pte Ltd 100 Eu Tong Sen Street #01 33 Pearl's Centre, Singapore 0105 Tel: *****13, *****14
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      109 9 M -:jj ffl SpT Golden Phoenix mir\ A* CHAO ZHOU ChaoZh° u GARDEN RESTAURANT 6th" storey. UIC Building. S hen ton Way For reservations. please call Ellen. Tel: *****55. pqjil S (iol<k>n Phoenix Sichuan Rratauranl Sichuan cuw.ne Ho e| EquatorlaJ 429 Bukit Timah Road. Singapore 1025. For reservations. please call
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      Concern over trade volume on Simex-Chicago linkup
      549 10  -  By GEOFFREY EU in Chicago, Special to Tha Monitor THE CHICAGO Mercantile Exchange's (CME or the Merc) two-month-old futures trading link with its Singapore counterpart is experiencing some teething problems, but that is to be expected at this early stage, a top CME
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      Outlook gloomy, says Sea View Hotel head
      73 10 SEA VIEW Hotel Ltd's chairman, Mr Lim Kok Gin, said the outlook for the hotel industry remained extremely gloomy with the room glut worsening. In his chairman's statement, he saia he did not expect contributions from hotel operations to improve. The termination of
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      Shopping around for the best fixed deposit rates
      445 10  -  By EDWARD ONG SHOPPING around and bargaining are two things a customer can do to ensure the best rate of interest for his fixed deposits with finance companies. There are 34 finance companies which offer Singapore dollar deposit facilities for customers, however,
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      FINANCE COMPANIES INTEREST RATES ON DEPOSITS
      85 10 1 mth 3 mths 6 mths 12 mths (Per cent) Asia Commercial Finance 7.75 8 8.25 8.25 Chartered Finance Company 7.0 7.25 7.50 8.0 DBS Finance 7.0 7.0 7.25 7.75 Far East Finance Organisation 8.0 8.0 8.25 8.50 Forward Oversea Credit 7.0 7.25 7.50
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      Lock icon Kudos for Reagan as first election day trading is held
      103 11 VH4LLSTREET AP INVESTORS celebrated President Reagan's re-election today even before polls closed in Wall Street's first-ever election day trading session. With Mr Reagan projected by national pollsters to be headed for a landslide victory over .Democratic challenger Walter Mondale, stock
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      INDICES
      46 11 AT THE mid-day break the OUB Composite Share Price Index was up 1.66 points to 418.20 from the previous day's close of 416-54. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted Index was down 0.1219 point to 132.8223 in morning trading from the previous day's close of 132.9442.
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      Lock icon Dollar and Gold
      153 11 Reuter IN SINGAPORE, the US dollar firmed across the board from New York levels in quiet early trading. Dealers said anticipation of a Reagan victory in the US Presidential election supported tne dollar but operators were cautious with some profit-taking also seen later. The dollar initially rose
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      Current trend of money market may be misleading
      200 11  -  MIDWEEK FUTURES COMMENT By BENNY TAN of Shearson Amex THE US DOLLAR made a surprise plunge against all major currencies at the end of last .week in thin trading, ahead of the Presidential election. Commercial and technical selling accelerated the fall. The
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      The biggest potential for growth in the world
      457 11  -  That's what South-east Asia promises, says NMB chairman By JOHN CHOW SOUTH-EAST ASIA has the biggest long-term growth potential than anywhere else in the world, says a top Dutch banker. NMB Bank chairman W E Scherpenhuijsen Rom said this at a Press
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      STOCK
      264 11 Selected stocks at midday. Market tone: slightly higher Boustead 1.81 B Cold Store 2.90/2.93 FAN 5 20/5 25 Genting 4.98/5.00 G i h 2.12/2.16 Haw Par 2.08/2.09 Isetan 2.70 S Keck Seng 2.18/2.20 Esso 2 51/2 52 Hume 3.72 B Inchcape 2.55 B Intaco 2.80 S M Cement 1.63/1.88
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      FOREX
      93 11 Your S$ to ono unit o! foreign currency Selling Buying TT/OO TT 00 US| 2.1560 2.1460 2.1370 sterling 2.7396 2.7176 2.7076 Australian 1.8651 1.8410 1.8260 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to ono unit USf 2.15 2.12 New Zealand 1.10 1.00 sterling 2.76 2.66 Australian 1.88 1.80 Canadian 1.67 1.59 S$ to
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      S'pore market firm on selective trading
      235 11 THE LOCAL bourse opened firm on selective trading this morning in line with Wall Street's overnight gain and close steady at the mid-day break. Top volume stock ICB did 253,000 to close at 15.50. Ben and Co did 209,000 to close at $1.57 and
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      Light trading on new Japanese yen contract
      115 11 THE NEWLY-LAUNCHED Japanese yen contract was thinly traded on lack of participation by Japanese banks and limited local interest on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex). December yen opened at U550.*****2 compared with Chicago's close of 0.*****6. About 66 lots changed hands in
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
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      Property investment dips by 55 pc
      322 12  -  By VINCENT FONG PROPERTY investment in Singapore has taken a 55 per cent dip in what was described as a "cautious" market by the former president of the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore, Mr Daniel Xeo*- in the last six months compared to
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      When prompt completion of project poses problems
      427 12 WHILE the owners of other hotels are busy sorting out strategies to overcome the effects of the glut in hotel rooms, the developers of Marina Square have yet another .dilemma on their hands. The awesohie task of filling 850 rtfoms in the Pan
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      Two properties worth buying
      136 12  -  By ANNIE CHIA TWO OF the four residential properties listed as mortgagee's sale for the Knight Frank Cheong Hock Chye Baillieu (KFCB) auction tomorrow are worth considering. They are. a two-storey detached house at 12 Lorong Mydin and another at 283 Joo Chiat Place. It is
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      American Club alters new building plans
      654 13 Higher cost estimates send architects back to drawing boards HIGHER than expected cost estimates have sent architects scurrying back to their drawing boards to modify the original design plan of the Singapore American Club. Steady progress is being made in the largeafcale redevelopment project,
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      151 12 iTo be held at:- The* British Council Theatrette B&sement, Singapore Rubber House I 14 Cellyer Quay Singapore 0104 I On Thursday Bth November, 1984 'H At 3.00 p.m. I 40, Jalan Gembira I Singapore 1336 I (MK 24, Lot 2488) I Title: Freehold Area: 82.2 sq, metres. I 145, West
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      110 12 UNITS 3store y ii/nriir semi-detached bungalows UINLI by the East Coast X. iVi Freehold tenure Ideally located in the residential area of Katong/ Siglap, each unit is sited on a land area of 3,700 sq ft and has a large built-up area with S bedrooms, study and 4 bathrooms. Located
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      125 13 I Property Auction I Sale Today I 1) No. 11 Phoenix Garden 2) #07 01 Claymore Plaza Apartments 3) No. 21-C Mount Sinai Rise |H 4) No. 200 West Coast Road #08 04, Westpeak 5) #21-07, #21-08 and #21-09 TongEng Building, Cecil Street 6) Unit 5730 Golden Mile Shopping Centre
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      222 13 Buying a home? Take advantage of OUB's Housing Loan Scheme M 2 <L <. i tHj > IS;. HI m i: iSblSi .Mtf BE Mandarin Gardens OUB's Housing Loan Scheme offers:, Easy loan repayments with CPF contributions Longer repayment period of up to 25 years Loan with Overdraft facility Competitive
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  • features
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      MEXICO FOLLOWS LATIN TRADITION OF SPECIAL CHARITABLE PAWNSHOPS
      1027 14 A special Mexican pawnshop uses its profits to run a home for the aged, a school for the poor, a soup Kitchen and an art exhibit room. It charges less on its loans than banks, reports PATRICK OSTER of Knight-Ridder Newspapers. At
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      Warsaw retains independent spirit
      679 14  -  By DEBBIE SEWARD NtwtwMk WARSAW: A joke making the rounds in Eastern Europe has two travellers converging on Warsaw. The nrst is from Moscow; the second from Paris. Exclaims the Muscovite on his arrival: "Ah, Paris!" Groans the other traveller: "Ugh Moscow!" The Solidarity movement couldn't
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  • opinion / letters
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      A little bit more feeling
      443 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR—BM ABOUT 120 workers were reported this week to have gone to lunch and returned to their factoryto find that they no longer had Jobs. Their company had been placed under liquidation; business had Last week, a reader wrote to The Monitor to
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      Stress on courteous ami caring service
      169 15  -  REPLY MISS JOSEPHINE ONG Public Relations Officer Singapore Bos Service WE WISH TO thank the writers of the letter "The bus driver who didn't like students" (SM, Oct 10) for bringing the incident to our attention. Our apologies to them for the unpleasant ride.
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      Workers have avenues to settle grievances
      214 15 I REFER to the report "Unusual debate in pages of Catholic News" (SM, Oct 31). Father Edgar D*Souza, associate editor of Catholic News, commented on the amendments to the Employment Act by saying that the "amendments have opened the door wider for management to
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      Noise pollution at Cairnhill Circle
      230 15 IT SEEMS that people living near Mass Rapid Transit sites aren't the only ones having to suffer huge doses of noise pollution. Residents of Cairnhill Circle have had to live with the noise of the construction of three blocks of private apartments for the past
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  • leisure
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      Lock icon A bond that's hard to break
      1192 16 'A VIEW TO KILL' MAY BE MOORE'S LAST 007 FILM X IPS "I WILL miss James Bond," says Roger Moore. The movie world is already speculating about who could possibly step into Agent 007's shoes when Roger Moore and Sean Connery kick them under
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      One of the best buffets in town
      596 16  -  iSuisine By WONG AH YOKE SERVING buffet lunches has usually been the practice of hotels but Southern Fishing Village (formerly known as Southern Village) prides itself for breaking that tradition by having a spread of Asian food every day. The Chinese restaurant on
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      Lock icon Schnitzels, strudels and more
      475 16 rooo FESTIVAL Wong Ah Yoke FOR many Singaporeans, the only awareness of Austrian food is hearing Julie Andrews include schnitzels and apple strudels among her favourite things in The Sound of Music. However, the Austrian Food Festival held at the Century Park Sheraton until Nov 18
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      Tribute to Harlem's Apollo Theatre
      433 18 Applause Uptown: Tha Story of Harlem's Apollo Tnaatra (Ch 12, 9.05 pm) THIS musical extravaganza pays tribute to one of New York's most famous landmarks Harlem's famed Apollo Theatre. Appearances by well known artistes such as Jack Albertson, Lou Rawls, Natalie Cole, Ben Vefreen, Gladys
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      Lock icon Greta gets to suffer gloriously for love
      665 18 mmm UPI HOLLYWOOD: Camille may or may not be the greatest tour de force for actresses, but many great stars were drawn, like moths to flame, to the role of Marguerite Gautier. It gave many a distinguished actress the opportunity to die by
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      Lock icon Gripping canvas of war-torn Cambodia
      556 19  -  PUTTNAM'S 'KILLING FIELDS' By DAVID ANSEN Newsweek IMAGINE a country where an estimated three million people out of a population of seven million have either been massacred or have died of starvation or disease. An extraordinary movie called The Killing Fields is about such a
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      Lock icon LANGE TO PLAY PATSY CLINE
      185 19 LAT-WP JESSICA LANGfe wUI play country singer Patsy Cline opposite Ed Harris in Sweet Dreams, one of three current productions unveiled by HBO Pictures and its financing arm, Silver Screen Partners. Sweet Dreams is being directed in Nashville, Tennessee, by Karel Reisx (The French Lieutenant's
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      12 16 ■TV ft UMNO: Paps II ft 19 Starstruck will be carried tomorrow
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      1443 17 A i_.mm Tmwmrammomm If\ I 7 WEDNESDAY, NOVBMKR 7, 1664 V Em5P 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Paget. 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by This <4 w m mi Land it Mina (C) (r). «*A <>mWU 4.36 Sport knagat Triathlon: Tha Super Athletes. iC> The triathlon comprises endurance sports such
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      213 25 Reuter MEXICO CITY, Wtdrwsday TICKETS for the 1986 Soccer World Cup finals in Mexico will go on sale from Feb 1 for between USI2O-30 (S|4263) each match, the tournament's organising committee said. Fans will have to buy tickets in series. The price of
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      Lock icon Weather holds key for underdogs Wrexham
      666 25 EUROPEAN SOCCER PREVIEWS Reuter LONDON, Wednesday BOBBY ROBERTS, manager of English Fourth Division team WREXHAM, will be praying for rain and cold weather in tonight's Cup Winners' Cup game against mighty ROMA. Roma lead 2-0 from the second round first leg and Roberts knows
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      358 25 Reuter LISBON, Wednesday BENFICA COULD be forgiven for thinking they are caught up in a recurring nightmare on the eve of their European Cup second round return leg showdown with holders Liverpool. The Portuguese champions trail 3-1 and know they must shut
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      Grasshopppers plan an all-out raid on Juventus
      376 25 ZURICH, Wednesday GRASSHOPPER Zurich trainer Miroslav Blazevic will take a conscious risk when opting for all-out attack against Italian champions Juventus in the European Cup in the Letzigriind Stadium here tonight. Gasshopper take a two-goal deficit into the second-round sec-ond-leg match and Blazevic
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      All's clear for Cooksley
      1042 26  -  ■munuuk™" RACING TODAY'S TRACK WORK By WONDER BOY TOP RANKING New Zealand jockey Grant Cooksley has been cleared by the Immigration Department and will make his debut at the re-scheduled Penang November meet at the Ipoh racecourse this week. Cooksley, 24, arrived in Singapore on Monday
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      Rain spoils golf outing for Ali and company
      266 26 RAIN and lightning have for the second time this year robbed Belville Country CLub residentprofessional Ali Ratim a chance of winning a Pro-Am tournament at the Bukit course yesterday. Ali and his three amateur partners Gary Chua (handicap 7), Vincent Seet (12)
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      503 26  -  S'pore team needs time to adjust to fast greens By ERNEST FRIDA SINGAPORE'S Douglas Ooi, Daniel Lim, Poh Ee Kiat and A Chelliah are all geared up for the World Amateur team golf championship, which is now being played at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club
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      796 27  -  i < By KEN JONES IPS STAR SOCCER focuses on Mark Hateley, the latest sensation in English .football. The 'young striker's rise to the limelight has been nothing short of phenomenal. Starting from the time he scored that memorable goal for England against Brazil in their summer tour
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      Lock icon The pitfalls behind the glamour
      392 28  -  By BRIAN CLOUGH IPS. MARK HATELEY is flying high He's scored goals for AC Milan in Italy, goals for England at Wembley. Schoolboy dreams aren't they? And he is only 22 years old. Glamour, headlines and praises have been heaped on him. And rightly so.
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      Ronnie shrugs off the blues
      550 29  -  By TONY LIM A DARK cloud was hanging over Ronnie Ng's head since the tournament began on Monday he had started off rather poorly in the singles event. But he managed to cast that aside and together with som& uplifting pep talk by coach Madoka
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      Bowlers are birds of various feathers
      312 29 SEEN AND HEARD UNEARTHED: Some bowlers with very unusual occupations. Among the 100-odd bowlers from 16 countries we have a movie star, a trotting horse trainer, a forklift driver and, hold your breath, a public health officer who inspects "communicable diseases." Filipino coach Tito
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      THE JOY OF VICTORY
      208 29 RESULTS AND TABLES Results: 1 Men's Doubles Ronnie Ng/Patrick Wee (Sin) 2532.2 Byun Yong Han/Yoo China Hee (S Kor) 2508. 3 P Nepomuceno/O Reformado (Phil) 2505. 4 Kang DI/SM Moon (S Kor) 2503. 5 Silvano Prez/John Sullivan (Aus) 2416. 6 Tjandra F B/R L Tuwassey (Ina)
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      302 30  -  By S GULAM AT LEAST four intermediate players will be enlisted for the national team participating in the White Cloud Cup tournament in Guangzhou from Nov 20-26 and for the Asian Cup finals (Dec 1-16) at the National Stadium. According to team manager Yusoff Ismail,
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      156 30 AP WEMBLEY (England), Wednesday JIMMY CONNORS and Ivan Lendl, the top two seeds taking part in the U*****,000 (*****,000) Benson and Hedges indoor tennis tournament, began their programmes today knowing that the No. 1 seed was 5,000 kilometres .away. Connors, seeded two, and Lendl, three,
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      227 30 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday DEFENDING Malaysia Cup champions Selangor will be retaining most of their old stars for the new season starting in January. Football Association of Selangor (FAS) secretary S Anthonysamy announced after a FAS Council meeting on Monday night that
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      98 30 TWO TOBACCO companies are fighting to win sole sponsorship of the 1985 Malaysia Cup tournament. Both Dunhill and Malaysian Tobacco Company (MTC) have submitted offers to the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) which would give them sole advertising rights at all Malaysia Cup venues.
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    343 31  -  MONITOR sports By ALFONSO CHAN THE AUSTRALIAN trio of Jeanette Baker, Sue Cassell and Ruth Guerster led from start to finish in the first lot of the women's trio event in the Bth Asian Zone FIQ championships at Jackie's Bowl this morning. Ruth's 196
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