Singapore Monitor, 21 November 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EVENING EDITION r J Wednesday. November 21. 1984 V I iPi No 21 SB4 1 30 cents
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  • 423 1 One of largest mass defections in recent memory LAT-WP BONN, Wednesday IN ONE of the largest mass defections in recent memory, 192 Polish tourists failed to return to a cruise ship following a three-day stopover in the northern port city of Hamburg, officials there
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  • 125 1 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Wtdmiday A MURAL on the perimeter wall of the Pudu Prison here has gone into the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest painting in the world. The 266-metre long mural, which covers the entire length of the wall, is
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  • 152 1 LAT-WP THE MASS defection came on the eve of a three-day visit by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to Warsaw, the first by a leading member of the West German Government to visit the Polish capital since martial law was declared.
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  • home
    • 185 2 THE SCENE: An irresponsible resident dumps his old mattress in the lift lobby on the ninth floor of a block of flats in Telok Blangah. Later, another resident discards a cigarette butt on the mattress. THE RESULT: A fire that scarred the
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    • 279 2  - Food industries are urged to invest in R D By JANICE LIM FOOD and beverage companies have been urged to develop research and development (R&D) activities by Mr Eugew Yap, Parliamentary Secretary (Labour). Speaking at the opening of the Kikkoman Factory this afternoon, Mr Yap said: "The food and beverage
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    • 110 2 A MAN was killed and another injured after a car smashed into Anderson Bridge early today. Police said Mr Soh Chin Poh, 25, lost control of his car which crashed against the bridge near a bend about 2 am. He died after arriving
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    • 123 2  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG THE ART elective programme will be extended to the National Junior College and two more secondary schools the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus and Victoria School. National Junior College will ptfer the aft programme as a two-year course
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    • 154 3 THE RECENT Mars bars poison threat by an animal rights activist group that caused a nation-wide alert in Britain has turned out to be a bluff, the Singapore distributor said yesterday. Mr Peter Wong, general manager of East Asiatic
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    • 182 3 ILLEGAL TRANSFER OF 1 MIL SHARES: SUSPECT ARRESTED A BANK employee has been detained by the police in connection with suspected illegal shares transfers amounting to a total of $1 million. The employee has been put on police bail pending the outcome of Kilice investigations, confirmed Acting Superintendent Abu Bakar
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    • 131 3 A SNATCH-THIEF surprised a female clerk yesterday in a lift and escaped with her handbag containing more than 125,000, most of which were wages for her company's workers. Miss C K Ong, 21, of Nice Pte Ltd in Sims Avenue reported to police that she and
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    • 93 3 A VAN DRIVER who forged his own parking label after finding the queue to get a new one too long was fined $700 this morning. Ng Huat Teng, 37, admitted in the Subordinate Court today that he used a forged parking label in a
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    • 335 3  -  By CHEE LI CHOO A MUSEUM Of Chinese-Australian history is to be set up in the Chinatown area of Melbourne. And Singaporeans who are members of the Australian Alumni Association, graduates of Australian universities as well as people with fond memories of that area have
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    • 547 4  -  Story: K K FONG A BROTHER and sister aged five and seven respectively, described yesterday how they were bound and beaten by two robbers who ransacked their home and stole jewellery and cash worth $20,000. The ordeal tor Ng Koon Leone and his
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    • 97 4 LADIES garment manufacturer, Esprit, has joined the anti-piracy war. It is threatening to take legal action after finding imitations with the Esprit label on sale. Esprit De Corp Singapore says imitations of its garments, including boots, shoes and slippers, have been sold in
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    • 230 4  -  By EE BOON LEE THE BIG secret about when the general election will be held is expected to be out in a matter of days, now that Parliament has been adjourned indefinitely. A statement from the Prime Minister's Office will reveal
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 68 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS SPRAY-PAINT vandals have struck at another of Singapore's underpasses. Names and symbols two metres high have been daubed in vibrant hues on the walls of the pedestrian way leading under Orchard Road from Centrepoint (in picture above). They are similar
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      • 61 4 THIRTY-EIGHT each that's the number of years Mr Ong Chwee Woo and Mr Dahim bin Hassan have served the Singapore Government. This morning, both of them and eleven others received the Long Service Award. In 1946, Mr Ong Chwee Woo joined the City Council as a
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      • 82 4 HE HAS been called "car crazy" and a "car nut" by his wife and friends. But for 42 years, Mr K C Koh (above) has stuck to his hobby. As a result, he now owns 1,000 cars including Adolf Hitler's personal Mercedes, an 1894 steam-driven
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      • 111 4 HEAVY rain yesterday afternoon caused another flood in the 23rd km vicinity of Choa Chu Kane and the residents have repeated their call for government action to contain the problem. Mr Xie Wenliu, 66, a farmer, said the flood began to spread soon after the
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    • 164 4 DECLINING film audiences will cause yet another cinema to close. This time it is the Singapura in Geyowned by the Shaw organisation. The Singapura, opened during the cinema boom of the mid-Sixties, will screen its last film on Dec 31. It will be the 54th cinema
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  • world
    • 281 6 Reuter BRUSSELS, Wednesday THE SOVIET Union is converting some of its SS-20 medium-range missile bases, apparently to accommodate the new SS-X-25 mobile intercontinental nuclear missile, a senior United States official said today. The conversion programme has left US intelligence analysts uncertain about
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    • 81 6 A STARVING Ethiopian child wasting away in the arms of its grief-stricken and helpless mother. Ethiopia is among the most afflicted African countries currently hit by the worst famine in the history of Africa. At least 300,000 people have died in the country and
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    • 134 6 Reuter TAIPEH, Wednesday TAIWAN said yesterday its air force is still superior to China's despite Beijing's recent efforts to modernise its fighter planes and improve training. A Cabinet statement said in a reply to Parliament that Taiwan's F-104 fighters were as good
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    • 299 7 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday THE NUMBER OF violent crimes last year and up to June this year has increased over figures forpast years. There were 8,029 cases of violent crimes for 1983, an increase of 14.06 per cent from the 7,163 cases in. 1982. There
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    • 462 7 LAT-WP NEW YORK, Wednesday THE LARGEST and most successful manhunt for criminal fugitives in American history featuring undercover sting operations and cooperation by SO federal, state and local lawenforcement agencies in eight northeastern states was announced yesterday by the US Marshals Service. The
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    • 200 7 Bernama LUMUT, Wednesday DATUK SERI Dr Mahathir Mohamad reminded armed forces members yesterday that the country's security lies in their hands and they should be brave and positive in carrying out their functions without depending on outside help. The Prime
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    • 54 8 THIS IS the new Mercedes-Benz series 124 car. It will be offered for sale after Jan 10, 1985. It will replace the old series 123 car of which 2.6 million units have been built. It will come in seven versions, ranging from type 200 D to
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    • 574 8 UPI LONDON, Wednesday SOME 940 coal miners deserted their 8-month-old walkout yesterday as trade union boss Norman Willis accused the state-run Coal Board of "pushing and paying" miners to go back to wort. Angry picketing miners in West Yorkshire burned barricades, yanked down
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    • 199 8 UPI NEW YORK, Wednesday BRITAIN made a clean sweep of the International Emmy Awards, taking all five programme honours, including best drama lor Granada Television's Jewel in the Crown. The 12th annual awards, sponsored by the International Council of the National Academy
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    • 130 8 AP TOKYO, W«d ARSON became the leading cause of fires for the first time last year in Japan, replacing tobacco, a government report said yesterday. The report, released bv the Home Affairs Ministry, said arson, including suspected arson, accounted for
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    • 96 8 UPI TUCSON (Arizona), Wed A TEXAS truck driver made the mistake of using a cigarette lighter to try to find a can of fuel additive he dropped in the dark. The lighter ignited fuel vapours and Randy Moody was burnt
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 97 9 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS JEANE Kirkpatrick, chief United States deleSate to the United Nations since 1981, said yessrday she planned to resign after the General Assembly ends on Dec 18. She said she would then talk to President Reagan, "to work out something which
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      • 67 9 SOUTH Korean Prime Minister Chin lee-chong left a Seoul hospital yesterday, three weeks after being admitted with hardening of the arteries in the brain. A government spokesman said the premier, 62, would need rest before resuming his duties. President Chun Doo Hwan named Deputy Premier
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      • 53 9 MINERS union leader Arthur Scargill got a kiss yesterday from Maureen Moss, a miners' supporter, at the Thames Television studios in London. Mr Scargill was facing questions from an audience selected from a cross-section of Britain's voters. More miners began returning to work yesterday from
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      • 66 9 FAIZ Ahmad Faiz, Pakistan's foremost poet whose Urdu verses won over even those who opposed his radical politics, died in Lahore yesterday at the age of 73. Pakistan Radio reported that Faiz, a Lenin Peace Prize winner who actively supported the Palestine Liberation Organisation, was
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    • 124 9 BEIJING Reuter CHINESE archaeologists have found their first nearly-complete skeleton of homo erectus, and believe it is at least 200,000 years old. The China daily said yesterday the bones were found on Sept 27, 400 km north of Beijing at Jinniu Shan in Liaoning province
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    • 162 9 MOSCOW, Wednesday THE SOVIET SUPREME court ordered a crackdown yesterday on thefts of cattle, grain and machinery by workers on state farms. In a report published in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda, it rebuked rural ludges for being soft on thefts
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    • 430 9 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Wednesday A MATHEMATICIAN from Bell Laboratories has devised a radical new method of programming computers to solve some of the most difficult management problems faced in industry, and other large organisations. But, although early word of the development has stimulated optimistic press
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    • 115 9 TOKYO Reuter A DISCOVERY in northern Japan indicates that some of the earliest prehistoric men may have been there until 370,000 years ago, researchers said yesterday. A geological survey at Nakamine, northeast of the northern city of Sendai, unearthed 106 stone tools thought
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    • 139 9 AP RED BLUFF (California), Wad A MILL worker who picked up a female hitchhiker in 1977 imprisoned her, blindfolded and bound by leather straps, for seven years in homemade boxes, before letting her out so she could set a job.
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    • 25 10 About half of the patients in the United States don't take their medications as recommended. Prescription drug misuse is becoming a serious problem.
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    • 29 10 The US Air Force will test an anti-sat-eltite missile system designed to destroy satellites in space. This new weapon could start a new arms race in space.
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    • 31 10 About 10 to 15 per cent of heart attacks are "silent" victims suffer no pain and don't know they had an attack, says a study in a medical journal.
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    • 366 10 TRENDS Science and Medicine IN THE NEXT six weeks, a US Air Force F-15 fighter plane under full computer control at 80,000 metres will streak at Mach 2.5 plus more than 2,500kph over the Pacific Ocean in a major weapons test which could start a
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    • 269 10 ABOUT half the patients in the United States don't take their medications as recommended. Studies show that up to 20 million workdays are lost each year at a cost to the economy of US$l.5 billion due to misuse of heart drugs alone. Other
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    • 155 10 YOU CAN have a heart attack without even knowing that you have had one, a new study shows. The study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, found: ABOUT 15 per cent of heart attacks are "silent" victims suffer no pain and do not
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    • 83 10 The first technological breakthrough in the administration of drugs in 100 years is a transparent plastic patch which can transmit medicine directly to the blood system in whatever dosage a doctor prescribes. The patch, which is stuck to the skin, is the first such advance since the gelatin
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    • 52 10 A de- fect in certain brain cells crucial to memory may be responsible for Alzheimer's disease, a leading cause of senility. Researchers at the University of lowa examined the brains of 25 deceased Alzheimer's victims and found cell damage in the hippocampus, the region scientists believe records and
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    • 57 10 Patients suffering from two types of lung cancer usually considered poor candidates for surgery may now be operated on successfully, a new study shows. Patients whose lung cancer has only spread to the chest wall or selected lymphs nodes between the two lungs have an excellent chance of
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    • 136 10 The "Beach Bag," a small solar collector the size of a face towel could supply all the electricity you need. A development of Energy Conversion Devices Inc, the collector supplies a steady five watts. A Sony Walkman needs less than three watts; and a portable TV, two to
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    • 211 11 Thousands of people huddle in makeshift refugee centres AP MEXICO CITY, Wednesday THOUSANDS of people huddled in makeshift refugee centres and tonnes of food and clothing poured in from throughout the country as rescue workers continued yesterday to comb the rubble of a working-class district for
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    • 60 11 Reuter LONDON, Wed LAWYER James Cooper bought London's narrowest house just 1.83 m (six feet) wide and advertised as "of interest to thin people" for £33,000 (S$89,000) at an auction yesterday "It's a funny little Rlace," Mr Cooper said of tie curious live-floor building squeezed into the
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    • 70 11 Reuter OAKLAND (California), Wed A WOMAN who sued her lesbian lover for the right to visit a daughter they "parented" by using artificial insemination has won the right to see the child every two weeks. Lawyers said the out-of-court settlement, approved by a Californian Superior Court
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    • 294 11 Reuter ISLAMABAD, Wednesday THE SOVIET Union is building airfields in two areas in western Afghanistan close to the Iranian and Pakistani borders. Western diplomats said here yesterday that the airfields, which guerilla sources have spoken of for several months, are being built in Mir
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    • 228 11 AP LOS ANGELES, Wednesday ABOUT 5,000 frenzied fans of popular music idol Michael Jackson swooned and surged yesterday as the singer unveiled his star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. Several fainted and at least three were injured before police on horseback moved in
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    • 6 11 'HE'S SO LONELY': LEISURE PAGES 18-19
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    • 130 11 APPETIZERS PHEASANT TERRINE S 10.50 served with Mushroom Salad and Toast HOME MADE HARE PATE 8.50 served with Celery Salad, Walnuts and Fruits SOUPS VENISON CREAM SOUP S 6.00 ESSENCE OF PHEASANT 7.50 MAIN COURSES DEER STEW "HUNTER STYLE" S 18.75 served with Spaezh (flour dumplings) VENISON ESCALOPE "CON FUNGHI"
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  • money
    • 498 12  -  HONG KONG FOCUS Reports by EDWARD ONG AS HONG KONG people rush to get their money out of the colony, Asians especially South-east Asian Chinese are flocking to fill the gap. Although many feel that Hong Kong has, as one businessman put it,
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    • 621 12 0 AJifc-' WHO IS INVESTING IN HONO KONO AND WHVt >jrm WHO IS investing in Hong Kong and for what reason? A Singapore bank director in charge of properties said: "Basically, it is now the Asians, especially the South-east Asian Chinese- "The people of
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    • 325 12 SINCE early September, there has been a new wave of investments resulting from increased exports and confidence in the colony's shortterm future. Chartered Bank Hongkong has projected that overall capital investment in industry and property will rise by six per cent by 1985. However, it
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    • 134 13  -  MID-WEEK FUTURES REVIEW By BENNY TAN of Sh«arson/Am«x THE US dollar shot through the Dm 3.00 level on aggressive short-covering sparked by the higher-than-expected increase in the US third-quarter Gross National Product figure of 3.7 per cent announced yesterday. Technical buying, corporate demand and the
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    • 124 13 ROXY Electric Industries (M) Bhd's shareholders will realise a higher capital value by selling their shares in the market than accepting Irex Sdn Bhd's offer of M 53.67 each, says D and C Nomura Merchant Bankers Bhd. The
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    • 106 13 Your S$ to ono unit of foreign currency Setting Buying TT/DO TT DD US» 2 1593 2.1493 2.1403 sterling 2 6803 2 6582 2 6482 Australian« 1 8593 1 8353 1 8203 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to 1 unit US! 216 2.13 NZ$ 1.10 100 sterling 2.72 2.62 Australian 1.88
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    • 314 13 Selected stocks at midday Market tone: slightly higher Boustead 1.68/1.73 Cold Store 2.58/2.59 F and N 4.82/4.84 Genting 4.82/4.84 G I H 2.64/2.66 Haw Par 1.90/1.91 Isetan 2- 30/2 44 Jurong Cement 2.10 S Keck Seng 1 99/2.00 Esso 2.44/2 46 Hume 3.70 S Inchcape 2.33/2.35 Intraco 2 61/2
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    • 125 13 HKLLSTREET STOCK prices closed higher on Wall Street today for the first time since President Reagan's re-election, as blue-chip stocks staged a technical rally that only moderately affected secondary issues. The market improved despite new signs that US economic growth has slowed dramatically. The
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    • 46 13 AT THE mid-day break the OUB Composite Share Price Index was up 1.97 points to 394.83 from the previous day's close of 392.86. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-Weighted Index was up 0.0613 point to 133.4349 in morning trading from the previous day's close of 133.3736.
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    • 177 13 PRICES on the local bourse opened firm with blue-chip counters well supported. Dealers said institutions have started collecting selected stocks resulting in the price firming especially for the top 20 counters. Trading was moderate in volume terms. Towards lunch break, market sentiment held. Top
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    • 111 13 Reuter THE US dollar eased slightly against most currencies from New York levels in quiet early trading. Frankfurt's holiday today and the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the US tomorrow dampened trading, with the dollar easing to an early 244.25/35 yen from New York's 244 80/90 and to
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 547 14  -  Two international marketing campaigns are already in the pipeline By VINCENT FONG SL MARINA Centre Development is making big plans to "sell" its development of three hotels and a shopping mall in Marina Square. Two marketing campaigns are already in the pipeline an international
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    • 81 14 SIMON LIM, Oh Partners, the chartered surveyors, have agreed to team up with Chestertons, an established UK firm of chartered surveyors. The link will take effect on January 1. A joint practice to be called "Chestertons, Lim, Oh", will be set
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    • 542 15  -  By ANNIE CHIA BUILDING profession firms will have to reduce and retrench as much as 40 to 60 per cent of their staff, especially at the sub-professional level when the slowdown trend of the construction industry increases in momentum early next year.
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    • 364 15 j Mortgagees' Sale of I I Properties By I I Public Auction I To Be Held At No. 6 Cecil Street *02-04, H People's Insurance Building, I on Wednesday. sth December 1984 at I 3.00 p.m. H Particulars Apartments/Condominium 1) No. 27 Adam Road *02-02, Adam Garden Floor Area: 165
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  • features / letters
    • 248 16  -  h REPLIES LIM JIT IMM for Director Public Relations Department Republic of Singapore Police I REFER to your editorial comment "Lessons from the Mandai hike" (SM, Nov 3). It was suggested that there was a delay on the part of the
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    • 125 16  -  JEANNE TAY (MISS) Public Relations Officer Singapore Broadcasting Corporation I REFER to the letter from P S Png on the "unEnglish" intonation of an SBC newscaster (SM, Nov 15V The writer could perhaps furnish me with more details so that we can look into the matter.
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    • 780 16 AP TOKYO: After nearly a decade of court rulings that Japan's parliamentary elections are unconstitutional, the Government is moving, guardedly, towards correcting glaring inequalities in voter strength. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) says it will introduce in the next Diet session in
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  • opinion / letters
    • 555 17 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE FIGURES on teenage abortions in Singapore are startling. On any given day, five girls under the age of 20 legally terminate their pregnancies. Three times a week a girl aged between 13 and 16 gets rid of an unwanted
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    • 531 17  -  Our doctors have upheld highest ethical standards REPLIES«: LAWRENCE LIM for Permanent Secretary (Health)/ Director of Medical Services IN OUR LETTER (SM, Nov 6), we expressed concern that "hand-car-ried" exports of classified poisons were being recirculated into the local market by unlicensed dealers
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    • 158 17  -  THIA SIOW KHEE President Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore WE REFER to the letters .from "Pharmacist" and Mr Lawrence Lim on behalf of the Permanent Secretary (Health)/Director of Medical Services (SM, Oct 31, Nov 6 and 13). As the name of the Pharmaceutical Society
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 1045 18 JERMAINE JACKSON TALKS ABOUT THE BROTHER HE IS CLOSEST TO OPA AS Jermaine Jackson was boarding a private jet to fly to London, his Drotner Michael flung his arms around him and said: "Breathe in some English air for me." Jermaine, 29, explained: "Michael just couldn't accept
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    • 381 18 OPA JERMAINE JACKSON is determined to become as much of a superstar as his brother, Michael, with a little help from Pia Zadora. They team up in his latest and her first single, When the Rain Begins to Fall, as well as in
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    • 603 18  -  THEIR TOUR IS SHOWBIZ AT ITS MOST GLITTERING By JIM KELTON in Vancouver, British Columbia LAT-WP FIRST, there was the hardware Truckload after truckload of it rolled into the giant B C Place Stadium enough to set up the seven-storey-tall stage, enough for thousands of lights,
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    • 421 20 wsemr Kttaamaajjg Matt Houston: Secret Admirer (Malay subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) CHRISTIAN DEAN (Marjoe Gortner), a brilliant but disturbed man, arrives in Los Angeles to look for C J Parsons, the girl whom he has had a liking for since their high school
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    • 648 20  -  TV SCENE By HELEN ONG PAINTED FACES takes a nostalgic look at the development of Chinese opera in Singapore. This enlightening three-part series traces opera from its dramatic heyday at the turn of the century, to its momentary decline in the late Fifties to the significant effort
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    • 795 21 [STMESTIIUCK BREAKING her engagement to Charles Qing may have sorted things out for Lin Qingxia but it is bringing its share of headaches in the form of new suitors hot on her heels. One of the Eastern beauty's most recent suitors was
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    • 1332 19 lAiftiirA rtfirr 1 /-W the smqapore momtor /II yyp- H WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1964 Lmm\J ■ehss™ 1 2.25 SBC TEXT Live TO''" 2.55 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by h <t. Land is Mine (C) BSMIj'• «J, <; 4.25 Sports Images Lightning Boats (Last episode). BaK^l^W This programme features a high
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    • 584 21 FILM GUIDE VENUS (*****97): ESCAPE FROM DARK STREET DALIT (*****16): DOUBLE TROUBLE (C) (C) Starring: Zhang Aijia, Xiao Lingling Starring: Kou Liling, Wang Xia Synopsis: About the lives of a brother, a sister and an Synopsis: A Taiwanese production about a prostitute orphan girl which are irrevocably linked in a
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    • 156 22 CAPITOL 14th BIGGEST EVER DAY (*****59) 5 SHOWS AT 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 9.30, 9.15 Prices: 94 9 93-CASH BOOKINGS-No Frss List JURONG: LAST DAY! JADE: LAST DAY! (*****90) 5 SHOWS at 11am, 1.30. 4.00, 9.30, 9.00 ALL-HEW OUTER SPACE ADVENTURE! Paramount Pictures Presents <t HAHVf BtNNH! PrirttUjn SIAH THtK 111
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    • 250 22 §^BSB°tfB6BBs«^i 2 ORCHARD: 5 SHOWS DAILY 2 sl 11.00 am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30 9.lspm| V O LAST DAY AT 0 2 BROADWAY I LEISURE-DROME 2 1.30. 9.30, 7, 9.00pm 1.90, 4,9.49, 9.00pm j' DEDOK REGAL 6ALA 01, 3.30,7.19,9.99pm 1J9,190, 7,9.11pm 3.30, 7,9.15pra X I ADMISSION PRICES: $4.00 ft $3.00 0
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    • 675 23 leisure/ comics FASTRACK B Y Bi Holbrook iASW I r«s..rsA{totH» rzrjj^n M9TUCK ItlClS HEU EXWPtfe Ho*o A twfiwf |nf fWM NriJlNb'ib'iß >MWI S®W' /W*l e v ARIES March 21 to April 2* LIBRA '^*/g You will be pleasantly sur- September 23 to October 22 1 ,11/ I Mi I prised
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  • HOME APPLIANCES '84 November 21 — November 25, 1984 World Trade Centre, Singapore
    • 265 24 THE Home Appliances '84 exhibition opens today at Hall Two of the World Trade Centre. This show is organised by Technotrend Pte Ltd, which is also the organiser of the highly successful Domestic Appliances '83. The Home Appliances show will run till this Sunday. The opening hours
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    • 173 24 HOW big is the market for home appliances in Singapore? Estimates by value are hard to come by, but a fairly good estimate of the size in terms of numbers can be made by looking at the number of new dwelling units being built. The Housing
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    • 272 25 NAN Wah Marketing is introducing the Wilton range of bath and shower trays designed specifically for HDB and HUDC flats. Manufactured locally from acrylic with glass fibre reinforcement, the Royal and Camellia models come with anti-slip shower areas. The Royal Bath with its ergonomically designed head
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    • 286 25 TIRED housewives, those short of space and those worried about killer litter will like what Mekay Sales Trading Co has to offer a range of wall and ceiling mounted retractable clothes hangers designed to replace bamboo poles and do a
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    • 190 26 THE Fuji Massage Chair, imported from Japan, will be on display at Booth 134 in the Home Appliances '84 exhibition at the World Trade Centre, Hall Two. It is being marketed by Floma Trading Pte Ltd. The chair is said to help relieve muscle tension. A
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    • 270 26 AN exclusive range of crockery sets comprising full dinner settings for up to 12 people will be displayed by Batraco Singapore Pte Ltd at the Home Appliances '84 Exhibition now on at the World Trade Centre. These sets, of contemporary design, originate from the
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 163 24 IThe Roy ale Collection I brings a touch of class I into your dining room I The Royale Collection is an exquisite range I of tableware. Each collection is a reflection I of your impeccable taste and elegant j§ lifestyle. 1 Whether you prefer the fragile grace of deli- cate
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    • 180 24 gimnrom? MffiZZMM! THE HOME APPLIANCES AND FURNITURE SHOW IS ON AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE (HALL 2) 21 TO 25 NOV. '84 Open daily noon to 10 pm. Admission free. look, to try, to watch demonstrations, to Come and see appliances and furniture that find out everything you want to
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 132 25 Unique combination of Beauty Practicality it's bathroom luxury you can afford Everything from taps to complete suites, it's Quality and Elegance you can completely relax in. Go on, pamper yourself for once in your life Choose from this magnificent range Royal Bath, CP Camellia Shower Tray, Prelude Suite, Naiad Suite,
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    • 124 25 FUJI MASSAGE CHAIR "FULL COURSE" rzT) ojS 1 JM&L 30 Yrs Experience si/l A A The only massage Japan Top Seller chair with y /x \f W POUNDING J 5 Variations of Massages ACTION. m C/W Ottoman Vibrator k *1 30 Mins Timer Simple Remote Control Feeling tired tensed after
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 398 26 Hang Up Your Bamboo Blues LET MEKAY TAKE THAT HEAVY LAUNDRY LOAD OFF YOUR HANDS The toughest part of doing laundry is hanging BF. wet clothes on those heavy bamboo poles. W MEKAY puts the problem out of your way c-jraaHfe-.. and efficiently utilizes your limited space. f CHUM PMkS
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  • HOME SERVICE & HOME FURNISHING
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    • 298 27 Hang Up Your Bamboo Blues Today! The hardest pari of doing laundry is hanging heavy, wet clothes on those cumbersome bamboo poles Now, MEKAY puts the problem out of your way so neatly and efficiently! MEKAY's quick retractable feature saves your clothes from soot, grime and dripping mops from above
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    • 94 27 TNO MORE HACKING ON WALLS AND FLOORS WITH Mi WALL FLOOR VINYL COVERINGS. 100% PVC contents to prevent scratches W\ s y maintenance f jM iu 7 Resistance to stains W '11 I II M|i |2|i r |M)M Attractive colour and designs to suit Individual taste Jf yH Most ideal
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 96 28 HOME DECOR AT ITS BEST Special ceramic tiles for all types of HDB apartments Renovation specialists I*?*. e Italian Ceramic Wall 'ML mk and Floor Tiies Kitchen Cabinet and Furniture e Marble, Terrazzo Parquet, Vinyl Tiles and Cork L e Aluminium and Iron M jLg Works e Carpet and Wall
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    • 129 28 Make Yourself At Home With I.E.R. We're not another brick-in-the-wall renovation company. lER is THE company to contact for your interior or exterior renovating needs. We put the "home" into your house, with our wide range of flooring materials, carpets, wallpaper and expert workmanship. Visit our showroom and see some
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    • 207 28 THE cost of this finish ranges from $38 to $49 per square metre, depending upon the colour, type and texture of the pebbles or gravel selected. As for durability, Mr Gan said that these finishes applied by his company to walls 15 years ago were still in good condition. However,
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 234 29 VAN Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sunday Monitor: Wards 0.35 c«nii per word 0.55 cants par word Diaplay 17.70 par col. cm $10.00 par col. cm Basinaaa Hrs Mon-Frt, 9am-spm Sal. 9am-lpm ACCOUNTING A 1 ACCOUNTING2BO-7777/ 1157 (day) or 213-4071 (night). A AOOALL (3-1433 acct forms, records t systems refills
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    • 218 29 Madame Iki's Oriental facial for problem skin 741-5016. Paper Cottage Card 474 0149 Reds Salon (Rochor Centre) 296-7460 296-7250 Reds Salon (Parkway Parade) 440-4724 SALON 21 (Unisex/ Hairstyling). Blk 211. Hougang St 21.*****07 SMWAL SERVICES Gnomes Flower Peopie44s-2258 CAM MEMTAI Eastern United (Car Truck Rental) 440-2204/5. Elvin Rent A Car
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    • 270 29 MONITOR'S DIRECTORY 1 CLEANING Dry Cleaning Carpet Services Call Magna-Ory 465-4796 GSM Carpet Shampoo 337-7769 Kleenshine Industrial 5er*****2 Painting specialist lor HOB/ Privates apartments/ factory or bungalows 250 4761/ 250 $237 DS9CO 3EMVfC£S A.Megaton 444-1414/221-5310. A-Disc Promotions 732-1900 Brickhouse Mobile Discos4s-9163 Casa Bianca 440-2277/ 743-3477 Chapter One 745-6169 CRF-REX 453-7346/452-1476
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    • 399 29 Design Interdec Pte Ltd 746-0716 Yong Sing Intr. Const. 257-1607 I MODELLING I CATZ 732-5501 none Coronation Music 5ch..469-3252 Eric's Guitar Tuition 445-1291. Royston Music 5ch001..468-0797. Technics Music School 469-3714. OFFICE SEmCBS Yen Lee Typewriter Repairer *****11. FE9T CONTROL Active Pest Control 459-4990 MCBWI MOVEMB Ace Removal 280-8969. Scanfreight 221-6970
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    • 138 29 PAMTY DBCQBAVOMB Gnomes Party People ..441-3340 1 PENPAL* Amour Friendship 775-3086 Chong Kuan Sang. Marriage-Aid Bureau *91-7174. Choo Huay Friendship Agency 292-1137/ 292-7215 Computer Dating 533-7715 Friend/ Mar Agency 534-3921 Lucky Friendship Ag .296-9255/ 296-2192/ 294-5145 FHOTOemAPHY I David, Video Filming...449-15M Edward, UK trained provides video filming/ photo video transfers/
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    • 156 29 PMQPEMTY Precious Gold Real Estate Agency 336-4671 9EMWCE9 Cushion Covers Maker .255-7210 Construction Electrical Ser 250 5237 250 4761 Construction Electrical Services 250 4761/ 250 5237. I" tECuamr OVAMD T AGENCIES Frontier Security Management Services..336-7522/3 (24 hours) Harmon's Pte Investigation L Security Ag *****71/ 33M477 (24 hours answering service: *****55,
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • 310 30 classified 273-9090 Hire Purchase HP MIRK PURCHASE CENTRE Colour TV, video, refrigerator available to trade in whole set. Contact: Victor Choo. 241-3104 interior Decor/ Renovation WE SPECIALIZED IN interior decorations designing for offices, residences, shops, factories restaurants eg partition, carpeting, ceiling board ceramic tiles More details call 291 5225/ 291
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    • 41 30 Office Equipment Furniture off RE-UPHOLSTERY OF SOFAS, cushions, etc. Specialist charging reasonable rates. Please call 481 0077 (day). 252 1798 (night) Packers Movers^ CHEAP TRANSPORTATION, DAY and night services. Friendly and helpful workers at your service Call now! At 563-3901/ 769-8452
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    • 189 30 PROPERTY Accomodation Vacant SOON TECK TOWER off Balestier Road Luxuriously furnished apartments/ penthouses for immediate rent. Swimming pool facilities. Tel: 734-9181, Miss Ng Business Premises For Sale Enjoy the convenience of a home delivered Monitor dally or Sunday AT NO EXTRA COST. Details from 27JS08S X 229 (offico hours) Notices
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    • 222 30 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CAP. 185 and IN THE MATTER OF KONTHAI ENTERPRISES (PTE.) LIMITED NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to Section 272(2) of the Companies Act Cap. 185, the Final Meeting of Members of the Company will be held at N0.3 Shenton Way #20-01 Singapore
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    • 72 30 Notices PUBLIC AUCTION Under Instructions From Receivers Managers Burkla Laminating Machines, Plywood, oil drums, steel pipes, scrap metal miscellaneous hand tools, nuts and bolts, etc. On Friday, November 23, 1984 at 2.30 p.m. to be held at No. 2 Sungei Kadut Drive, Singapore 2572 Viewing on Day of Sale Auctioneers:
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    • 10 30 Looking to sell! Call Monitor's classified 273-9090 Why pay more?
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 416 31 J w q S tz&r- PERSONAL CARE AND fitness Sweetened Condensed Milk 1 I The Choice of Generations of Caring Mothers. I \Tr I LifeGuard, the premier// LifeGuard Milk helps I J I condensed milk, sold II you and your family I I 1! I in Singapore for over/1 grow
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  • sports
    • 674 32 TODAYS TRACKWORK By WONDER BOY AURIC Stable's classy import JINGLE BELL IV showed up smartly, in his preparations for the $157,500 Singapore Lion City Cup over 1,200 metres, with an impressive workout at Bukit Timah today. Taken out by stable jockey Nigel
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    • 202 33 AP NEW YORK, Wednesday AMERICAN OLYMPIC runner Mary Decker, whose hopes for a gold medal at the 1984. Games were dashed by a collision with Zola Budd, has rejected a promoter's offer of US$4OO,OOO (S$840,000) for a match race against the
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    • 253 33  -  By S GULAM in GUANGZHOU (China) AFTER A hectic 13-hour journey, the Singapore football team arrived at this Chinese town, venue for the White Cloud Cup competition. The journey, however, turned out to be more eventful than they had expected. There was no direct flight
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    • 521 33  -  By ALFONSO CHAN TED FANG, Dennis Yip and Julius Foo were three juniors who were dropped last month by the Singapore Squash Rackets Association when it announced a squad for a training tour of New Zealand. However, when the new season starts
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    • 127 33 A great way to brush... THE SINGAPORE football team left for Guangzhou yesterday morning without the one thing they needed everyday toothbrushes. Thankfully, the souvenirs they received on the Singapore Airlines plane were toothbrushes. IN THE PLANE, vice-cap-tain Malek Awab collected biscuits from all the others who
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    • 399 33 THESSALONIKI (Greece), Wednesday THE OPENING round of the 26th Chess Olympiad was full of surprises yesterday as former world champion Boris Spassky was forcea to a draw with an unknown player, and Czech grandmaster Jan Snejkal fell victim to a 16opponent from
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    • 664 34 Reuter SUN CITY (South Africa), Wed ON THE SURFACE, the outcome of South African Gerrie Coetzee's first defence of his World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight title on Dec 1 should be a foregone conclusion. Facing him will be American Greg Page who
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    • 95 34 Reuter TOULOUSE (Franc*), Wad URUGUAY'S Diego Perez became the second seed to fall in the first round of the US$lOO,OOO (S$210,000) Toulouse Grand Prix tennis tournament when he was beaten in straight sets by Chip Hooper yesterday. Perez, seeded seventh, succumbed 6-4 6-0 against
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    • 345 34 WORLD BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Reuter LONDON, Wednesday EUROPEAN champions Italy and Olympic bronze medallists Yugoslavia are the leading contenders to reach the 10th World Basketball Championship finals from the zonal qualifying rounds which get under way today. Sixteen teams, split into four groups of four,
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    • 236 34 AP NEW YORK, Wednesday MARY Lou Retton (above), the dimunitive US gymnast who won five medals in the Los Angeles Olympic Games, is lending her trademark big smile to sell the American public everything from breakfast cereal to fast food hamburgers. And come next year,
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    • 43 32 PERSONALCARE AND FITNESS I Professional Way I l| f« k^T^r'nl B'§£S**j I 15X, Seiegie Road, I I Singapore 0718 II Tel: *****60,*****92 I BjCabIe:TONINTERCO li This is the guide to Personal Care Fitness CALL IRENE WONG at *****90 28 to place your ids
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    • 151 32 Naturopathy j9H£9 Biochemic Tissue {RgKSBfl and food arrangement jM' *VyiHnPp Wisma Parubatan Zss v jfcjKjKB #01-24 Paramount jagmH Shopping Cantra 448 Changi Road /js\ HILTON HEALTH M^CLUB GOOD NEWS!!! FOR THE FIRST 100 BUSY EXECUTIVES HHton Health Club offers the Special "Privilege Card Holders" who pays:1) No Entrance Fee (usual
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 535 35 The Star KUALA LUMPUR, W«d FORMER West German international footballer Paul Breitner, who arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, intends to spend his one-week stay exploring the possibilities of setting up a sports centre in Malaysia. Breitner, who is best remembered for scoring the
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    • 153 35 Reuter LONDON, W«d Results of English soccer matches last night: Milk Cap fourth round: Evert on o Grimsby 1 Ipswich 2 Oxford Utd 1 Sneff Wed 4 Luton 2 Southampton 1 QPR 1 Watford 4 WBA 1 Division Two: Carlisle 3 Fulham 0 (postponed from Nov 3)
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