Singapore Monitor, 6 December 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR 30cents M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Thursday, December 6, 1984
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  • 483 1  -  Price for developing biggest vacant lot in tourist belt may top $400 m ■y OEI SIN GIOK DEVELOPERS going Christmas shopping have a piece of choice land to put their money in Orchard Square. After months of speculation, the own/er, Ngee Ann Kongsi, has decided
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  • 124 1 THE dispute between Ngee Ann and Metro originated in 1971 when Ngee Ann leased the plot of land to Metro for 99 years for a $200million project. Between 1976 and 1979 several plans for residential and commercial buildings were rejected by the authorities. Approval was given in 1979 for
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  • home
    • 475 2  -  Feast after close shave STORY: K K FONG THE EVACUATION from three doors took merely four minutes, said Captain J G Thui, the pilot ot the China Airlines Airbus A3OO which made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff at 9 19 am
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    • 707 3  -  Give-aways by firms are undermining lessons learnt at moral education classes, says Balhatchet By RAY MILLER FREE GIFTS showered by companies especially at Christmas have been denounced as undermining everything that schoolchildren are taught in the moral education programme. "Soon people will want a perk for
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    • 142 3 SINGAPOREANS would prefer lower prices to promotional sifts, says the Consumers' Association of Singapore (Case). "We think consumers would rather have better service or a discount than many of the promotions being offered," said a Case spokesman. The "free gift syndrome" could also be damaging to
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    • 371 4 SINGAPORE Democratic Party (SDP) candidates say theirs is one party capable of providing a credible opposition although they subscribe to the idea of unity among the opposition parties. This sentiment emerged yesterday during a Press conference given by Mr Chiam See Tong,
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    • 433 4  -  TBmJTICAL iam By EE BOON LEE AN ATTEMPT by the Singapore Democratic Party to hold "political meetings" outside "election time" has been frustrated by the licensing authorities in the Ministry of Home Affairs. As a result, the People's Solidarity Convention, due to be
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    • 426 4 Bus service from Potong Pasir may be withdrawn after polls, says Chiam THE BUS service between Potons Pasir New Town and Toa Payoh was an election gimmick of the People's Action Party (PAP), the secretarygeneral of the Singapore Democratic Party, Mr Chiam See Tong,
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    • 218 6  -  By JOSEPH LEE MARITIME frauds have reached "alarming proportions", shippers were told yesterday. "History repeats itself," said Mr Haridass Ajiab, a lawyer specialising in maritime law. The same thing had happened in 1979, which saw a depressed shipping market, low freight, high bunker costs
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    • 432 6  -  Earnest start as candidates for the coming polls fill up nomination forms GENERAL ELECTION '84 B* EE BOON LEE OPERATION Sign-up began in earnest yesterday, with candidates for the coming general election filling up nomination forms and getting their sponsors to put in their signatures. Great care is
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    • 324 6  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN THE NUMBER of posters a party can fut up in a constituency ranges from 70 to 700. These figures were arrived at after considering the size of the constituency and the size of the electorate,
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    • 88 6 Lianhe Zaobao ABOUT 10,000 people are expected to be mobilised to help supervise and manage the coming general election. Mostly civil servants, they will act as assistant election officers, senior voting supervisors, voting supervisors, clerks, drivers and other jobs. Should there be an opposition candidate
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    • 140 8 RECORD and tape producers say they have had considerable success in the fight against pirate cassette tapes of regional recordings, due largely to support from distributors. They say the number of pirate tapes of regional recordings displayed for sale has been reduced by
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    • 201 8 UNION CARBIDE Singapore said yesterday that its three Singapore factories did not produce methyl isocyanate the deadly substance which has killed more than 1,000 people in the central Indian city of Bhopal. Nor does it import the chemical from its production plants in
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    • 163 8  -  1 ®y LOONG SWEE YIN THE RELATIONSHIP between the People's Action Party and the National Trades Union Congress should be allowed to grow from strength to strength because it has benefitted industrialists and entrepreneurs as well as workers. Mr Ong Teng Cheong, Minister
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    • 180 8 COMPUTER company Honeywell-Synertek has retrenched 200 of its 500 workers in Singapore. An industry source said the layoffs took place last week. An official of the Singapore company said he was under strict instructions to make no comment. He declined to say if there had been
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    • 188 8  -  By OEI SIN GIOK A COMPANY sacked 70 workers, then gave them new jobs. Newton Pte Ltd told its employees last month that their services were no longer needed. But it offered them jobs with a new subsidiary, Newton Precision Components Pte
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    • 69 8 Lianhe Wanbao A MANAGER lost more than $10,000 in a toilet on Monday afternoon. Mr Guo, 38, went to the office toilet and left an envelope there which contained $10,230. When he remembered and got back to look for it, the envelope containing the money
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    • 195 2 Presenting in this corner... Rocky by Inoxcrom |4 Rocky glides effortlessly on paper and il comes f rfl with equally super smooth rehlls. Rocky looks as good as it writes too. It comes in a tough mattsurfaced I body with a brightly coloured pen clip. Available now at only $1.
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    • 76 3 It's here. Singapore Carpet Manufacturers' Christmas Sale on Tai Ping carpets, from 7th December to 9th December. A whole range of luxurious, pure wool carpets going at amazing discounts of up to 75%. Come early with your friends for the widest choice. I Open 10am spm daily. I Lt<> I
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    • 194 4 'Discovery ofthenar 85' <*E* 'Moddofthe\£ar 85' In search of the woman who dares to dream. The Glamour Awards are being held for the first The prizes are worth well over $100,000. Never time ever. And it promises to he the event of the before has a range of prizes of
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    • 156 5 S 1 gR At IBS financing small industries* are big deals IBS is a small bank We give you more service That is why we look after small businesses better. We pay more attention to your needs In IBS the small businessman is a big customer We have the SMALL
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    • 69 7 FLYTHE LEADER. k iniM'"' i s Congratulations, Singapore Airlines, on your choice of the Boeing 757. Starting today, even more passengers than ever before will be able to fly Singapore Airlines to destinations like Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. And do so in complete comfort, thanks to improved seat spacing, legroom
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    • 70 8 POISON GAS DEATH TOLL NOW 2,000: PAGE 10 MArtline Arlline EK 200 04mm Sign Pan H| Arlline EK-600 Fluorescent Marker U Ar tline 50(^0 Arlline EK 500 While Board Marker Artline EK-70 Fine Marker Arlline EK-90 Broad Marker Artlinelo(^9^B Pf'RrORMANCF t Artline EK 100 Extra Bold Marker Desk Tray LION
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  • world
    • 352 9 Move comes after the Tamil separatists blew up building with nine hostages inside COLOMBO, Thursday SEPARATIST guerillas stormed the Central Post Office in the northern capital of Jaffna yesterday and in a separate attack blew up a building containing nine hostages, security officials said.
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    • 196 9 Bernama KUALA TRENQQANU TRENGGANU Menteri Besar Datuk Amar Haji Wan Mokhtar Ahmad is confident that every loyal citizen, particularly in this state, will abide by the ruling on the Kafir (infidel) issue made recently by the Conference of Rulers. Datuk Amar,
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    • 134 9 UPI WASHINGTON, Thursday PRESIDENT Reagan met his Cabinet yesterday to present his plan to slash about US$34 billion (Sf 73.4 billion) from domestic spending in his new budget, after telling new House Republicans to "take the lead and take the heat" for the cuts. Mr
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    • 175 9 UPI PARIS, Thursday THE FIRST foolproof birth control pill that prevents pregnancy early, painlessly and cheaply will be distributed in Europe and the Third World by next year, the inventor said on Tuesday. The pill is taken only after a suspected pregnancy, unlike traditional daily
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    • 260 10 THE BHOPAL POISON GAS TRAGEDY Agencies BHOPAL (India), Thursday DOCTORS warned yesterday that disease could spread from thousands of people and animals killed by the poison gas leaked from a pesticide plant as an Indian news agency carried "unofficial" reports that the death
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    • 144 10 Reuter NEW DELHI, Thurs INDIA'S gas disaster loomed as a major election issue for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and gave ammunition to opponents of his plans to open the economy to foreign technology. The tragedy, in which 2,000 people have died, has derailed
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    • 71 10 Reuter BONN: West Germany's environmentalist Greens party demanded a freeze yesterday on all production of chemicals containing methyl isocyanate, which was used at the pesticide factory in Bhopal where more than 1,600 people were killed by a gas leak. A Greens statement said the disaster was "the
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    • 94 10 AP BHOPAL (India): Two women in tattered saris walked down a street in Bhopal. One is blind and whimpering, holding a dirty cloth over her eyes. She is led by a woman holding a dirty cloth over one eye. Eight-year-old Manu rubs his burning eyes
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    • 73 10 AP BHOPAL: Many of the dead in Bhopal were discovered when authorities broke down shanty doors bolted from within. The people had sought to hide from the vapours that turned their shacks into gas chambers. Hundreds died in their sleep and hundreds more were overcome as
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    • 93 10 UPI INSTITUTE (W«tt Virginia): About 40 residents met to discuss their fears about living near a Union Carbide plant that produces the same gas that killed 1,600 people in India and were angered because the chemical company did not send a representative. "Someone from Carbide
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    • 42 10 FRIENDS and relatives bury their dead in mass graves in the central Indian city of Bhobal. At least 2,000 people are feared dead and another 20,000 seriously stricken in this poison gas disaster. PICTURE: AP
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 70 11 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS THE WHITE House has been full of entertainment people this week. Joan Collins (above), star of television's "Dynasty," was one of the celebrities invited on Tuesday for a state welcome for Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi and Lou Rawls had an Oval
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      • 80 11 HIS WORDS competing with clanging padlocks and banging cell doors, Jorge Diaz Serrano, once one of Mezico's most powerful men, says he concentrates on tennis and the classes he gives to other inmates rather than on the loss of his freedom. When the former head of
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      • 56 11 PRINCESS Caroline of Monaco (above) and her husband, Stefano Casiraghi, flew to tne South African gambling resort of Sun City on Tuesday as the guests for the banquet at the US$l million (Ss2.l million) Sun City golf tournament. The royal couple came at the personal invitation
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      • 53 11 COMPUTER hackers are threatening Richard Sandza, a Newsweek reporter who wrote a story revealing secrets used to infiltrate sophisticated computer security systems. Mr Sandza, who reports from the magazine's San Francisco bureau, said on Tuesday ne was concerned about the death threats and nas taken precautions
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      • 64 11 A JURY has recommended that Fred Douglas die in the gas chamber for the 1982 sez slayings of two teenagers lured into the desert and "used as guinea pigs" for a session of torture and terror. Douglas, 57, sat quietly and flipped the pages of a
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    • 103 11 Reuter NOUMEA, Thursday AT LEAST two Melanesians were killed and three wounded during a shooting incident in northeastern New Caledonia last night, local government officials said today. They had no details of how the shooting started in remote place in the region of Hienghene,
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    • 455 11 UPI TOKYO, Thursday JAPAN is challenging the established order of international finance with one of its few abundant resources cold cash. It is investing the proceeds of its U5531,454 billion (S|66 billion) 1983 trade surplus back overseas, putting its money behind a pledge
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    • 162 11 AP BEUING, Thurt CHINA expressed concern yesterday that United States investigators may not arrest the killers of ChineseAmerican aathor Henry Lin, who was critical of the Taiwan Government. "The whole world and in particular people in China will be watching to
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  • money
    • 617 12  -  By JOHN CHOW BANKS operating in Singapore will have to adapt to new conditions if they want to stav in business, according to a leading British merchant banker Mr Christopher Clarke, general manager of Samuel Montagu Co. said Singapore had been
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    • MARKETPLACE
      • 44 12 AT-A-GLANCE NEWS AND INFORMATION LOW KENG HUAT'S Singapore unit is said to be applying for listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore in 1985, as originally planned. The Malaysian unit is offering its shares to the public soon.
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      • 44 12 NO OFFENCE meant, but Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin has been given a nickname. Seems American bankers who love initials refer to him as DZ (rhymes with Deezee). Of course, we know the minister is anything but DZ... Mr Daim
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      • 63 12 From Forbes magazine come these English translations: On a Greek taverna's menu, a friend in Europe found herself contemplating such delights as "roast lamp" and "lemon kitchen soap." Later in the trip, a restaurant in Sifnos raised eyebrows with its "forced meatballs." But it was a Madrid
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    • 374 12 THE BANKS which do not get a full Australian banking licence may well be in the best position to compete. At a recent seminar. Australian Investment Alternatives 1985, held in Sydney. Mr I C Matheson, Westpac Banking Corporation's deputy managing director, in
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    • 114 12 Reuter ZURICH, Thursday SWISS banks, which survived an attempt to curb their cherished secrecy laws last year, are lobbying for a change in the tax system to prevent what they say is a loss of business to other financial centres. Ufllt major
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    • 103 12 TAT LEE Bank will lower its interest rates by a quarter to a half point from Dec 7. The new interest rate for its saving deposits is 6.75 per cent pa. For its fixed deposits, the new interest rates are: for one month 6
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    • 119 13 HHLLSTOEET Reuter TAKEOVER FEVER in the oil industry captured Wall Street's attention yesterday for the. second straight day. Acquisition rumours drove energy stocKs higher despite sharply lower prices in the market as a whole. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 13.47 points
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    • 46 13 THE STRAITS Times Industrial Index closed at 815.59, up 7.10 points from yesterday The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 414.73, up 6.71 points from the previous day The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index fell 0.1257 points to 133.4138 ?t the close
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    • 66 13 AP THE AMERICAN dollar snapped out of a slump yesterday and staged a late rally in the United States The price of gold was narrowly mixed in quiet trading on world bullion markets, continuing to hover around US$33O (*****.50) a troy ounce On the New York Commodity
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    • 344 13 INNOVATION in large companies is almost always the personal responsibilty of a single individual at or near the chief executive officer level (CEO). This was revealed in the initial results of a long-term study carried out by PA, the international management and technology consulting group.
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    • 105 13 GENERAL Corporation Bhd's (GCB) proposed acquisition of Regional Agriculture Corporation Sdn Bhd will not have any effect on its earnings, share capital or share premium. Pre-tax profit after the acquisition will increase marginally from Ms 23 million to M 523.3 million while gross earnings per share
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    • 181 13 3-10 DECEMBER 1984 lava. The name paints a picture of Four Indonesian chefs will prepare a The Surabaya/Madura Food Fair heavy jungles and padi fields, of special menu which includes: buffet will be available for lunch dance and drama inspired from Appetizer: Rojak Pamekasan, (12 pm —2 30 pm) except
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  • features
    • 524 14 In spite of US aid, repression continues PORT-AU-PRINCE (Haiti): When he became Haiti's president for life in 1971, Mr Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier initiated a new era for the people of his impoverished island. No longer would there J>e the Tontons Macoutes who had bolstered
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    • 728 14  -  ■y MICHAEL BROWNING Knight-Ridder Newspapers BEIJING: A peasant who has become the first millionaire in Chinese Communist history has been given a plaque celebrating his achievement along with the official congratulations of his provincial governor. Jiang Changshen, a peasant from Shifo
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    • 66 14 "WE CANNOT assume for other sovereign nations the responsibility to defend their territory, without their strong invitation, when our own freedom is not threatened." US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger echoing a lesson of the Vietnam War. "POWER AND diplomacy are not alternatives. They must go together or we will
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    • 98 14 Dynamic Explosions at the i B Two stunning new groups, CITY LIMITS and TREBLE CLEF will entertain you from 5.30pm to 12.30 am. (A single group performs on Sundays and Mondays from 7pm onwards.) Now, when you order a glass of 0 Tiger Draft Beer or any other I pouring
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  • opinion / letters
    • 533 15 nH IF YOU were offered two identical bottles of brandy at two different prices, you would surely choose the cheaper version. Make that two identical bottles of Cocacola, two identical videotape recorders, two identical bars of chocolate or any other product you care to name,
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    • 115 15 I AM disappointed with the discourteous conduct I see on our buses. The other day, I saw an old woman press the bell before the Service 174 bus reached the bus stop. But the driver did not stop. The woman reached for the bell again. The
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    • 270 15 THE articles "Why shoot the monkeys, ask visitors at Macßitchie" (SM, Dec 3) and "Three nuisance monkeys shot dead" (SM, Dec 1) reminded me of an unpleasant incident which occurred when I was four years old. I live opposite the Macßitchie Reservoir, and one day,
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    • 112 15 I AM shocked at the selfishness of the writer of the letter "Let there be peace at the CC study room" (SM, Nov 28). I sincerely hope there are not many Singaporeans like him. He went to the community centre to study because his home
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    • 150 15  -  REPLY JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer Singapore Bus Service I REFER to the letter by "Resident" requesting for a bus service from Tampines Avenue 4 to Kaki Bukit (SM, Oct 18). We are pleased to inform the writer that we do have plans to introduce
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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 m print. A contact telephone number would be useful We reserve the
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  • leisure
    • 471 16  -  By WONG AH YOKE VIEWERS in Singapore will be able to tune in to TV3 once the transmission station in Johor is set up. This could be as early as the middle of next year. At present, TV3 programmes can only be received
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    • 914 16 Baby comes first SHOWBIZ MUMS SHARE THEIR JOY LIFE can be tough for a working woman who also has a family to care for and arguably tougher if her career is in show business. In any case, some of the top stars seem to combine successfully being a mother pnd
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    • 371 18 WiSW® KMXMsKTIte Thursday Feature Special Marathon Man (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 5, 10 pm) DIRECTOR John Schlesinger's thriller stars Dustin Hoffman as a New York intellectual who dreams of glory as a marathon runner. To this end. he jogs everyday in Central Park. When his brother
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    • 143 18 TIME ITEM CONTENT Noon-2pm Radio One Sounds Alive (DJ: Susan Ng) Audience Quiz Mid-day Market Report News 2-2.30 pm Radio Four Signature Tune (DJ: Sarasal Raja R Somasundram) DJ's Choice An Event in 1979 2.30-3.30pm Radio Three Song Requests (DJ: Yap Wee Chong)
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    • 213 18 LAT-WP HOLLYWOOD: Home Box Office Inc, a US pay television company, and Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment have formed a joint venture to acquire and distribute home-video programming in North America, the companies announced. The new company, to be called Thorn EMI-HBO Home Video,
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    • 945 19 OPA THERE are various ways for an American kid to become a matinee idol, but no one would think that one of them is by packing up and moving to Australia. Yet, New York-born Mel Gibson took that route at the age of 12. And
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 651 17 «azi 6 «i -g 2.25 SBCTEXT- Live Sample Pages. 2.55 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by If a Immortals (C) ''-Jp Tarzan Basil of the Bulge (r). 5.15 Seaview: Happy Families (Last epiaode).* 5.45 360 Degrees Views of Our World: Kaehmir (M) (Engsubtitles). jff M A look at the cultural
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    • 62 18 THEYARDYOUR LOCAL ENGLISH PUB. An English pub atmosphere that's real cozy and casual. A choice of 16 varieties of beerl Board games darts available too. Open everyday. Mon-Fri 3pm to midnight (Sat eve of Public Holidays till 1 am) Sun 4 pm to midnight. Cheers! HAPPY HOURS: 3PM TO 7PM
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 476 19 fllAf GUIDE- Sx i DALIT (*****16): PROFILE IN ANGER (C) EMPRESS (*****67): PROFILE IN ANGER (C) Synopsis life MANDARIN < *****01 > PROFILE N ANGER (C) disrupted when a long lost friend with shady involve- TOA PAYOH (*****34): PROFILE IN ANGER (C) ments turns up JUBILEE (*****07): PROFILE IN ANGER
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 427 20 yG SILVER JUBILEE BUFFET A SILVER Jubilee Buffet will be held at the Golden Dew Coffee House, in celebration of Singapore's 25 Years of Nation-Building, until Sunday. About 25 Chinese. Malay, Indian and Continental specialities will be featured for lunch and dinner, from 11.30 am to 2.30 pm and 6.30
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    • 738 20 John Covelli will coodnct the Singapore Symphony Orchestra tomorrow and on Saturday SSO STRING QUINTET Smetana's My Country: Vltava, Sarka, THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra From Bohemia s Fields and Forests. String Quintet, comprising Ken Tan, Tickets at $15, $10, $7 and $4 are Kelly Smith, Marina Tan, Malcolm available at
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    • 343 20 FRENCH CONTEMPORARY ART THE works of 30 French contemporary artists will be exhibited at Lafite and Latour function rooms, 3rd floor, Meridien Hotel, today, from 10 am to 8 pm. Admission is free. HENRY MOORE GRAPHICS AN exhibition of Henry Moore Graphics will be held at the Art Forum, The
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  • 252 21  -  Go Places By John McCafferty LAT-WP THERE is such an array of islands, sounds, peninsulas, points and inlets in British Columbia that among the many pleasant rewards of the area are miles and miles of coast, making beachcombing an added enticement for visiting this crisp, clean
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 230 21 PACK A STEWARDESS IN YOUR BAG. philips KHfeij HDIIM The next time you make a trip out of town, be sure to pack a Stewardess in your bag. This slim, compact and lightweight beauty is every traveller's dream come true. Turn this Stewardess on, and shell give you a press
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    • 203 21 \&\3k A* Tasty Frcnch cuisine, wine and v* N w<& tempting local specialities. v**, *>* \**S& X Breakfast, lunch dinner. They're x< all on the house. s Vfi. \>& Cabarets, Broadway-style shows, \r^^ cultural evening*, disco dancing till ,^o« s dawn. All these without having to pay an o <(Xl
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    • 26 21 Time of DepnUvre S'porc: 09 00hrs Batam: 09 30 hrs (NN IB) 13 00 hrs 13 30 hrs (WIB) 16 30 hrs 17 00 hrs (WIB)
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 482 22 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA Discussions with close neigh- September 23 to October 22 bour or relative could concern The spotlight is on travel, a possible trip or future holi- communication and longday. A change of scenery is range projects. Spiritual vallikely and some important do-
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    • 179 22 FASTRACK By Bill Hofbrook r HO6JS LAUfcfcL T CMlt.rM 6H« SftCS IT A* Ml Trtft tM**W WHAT "-v CWKJO- AFRAID SHI'S •fPielAl. MfttMll fc'D* A** I A&ouf THC S£c*fTA*JAL AT THE DAV TAfcflUr rr J W»THIM THfc COMfIKNV, MAMA*6ftS. ADVUT* I I HiM». CARt C6NTIR, A B«T IWo t W«TH
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  • 344 23 PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT THE MANAGEMENT Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) will conduct an intensive part-time course leading to the examinations and award of the Diploma of Business Administration from the Australian Institute of Business Administration. The course is scheduled for January next year. To be eligible
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    • 41 23 FUTURE TUITION A6ENCY Provides qualified experienced and dedicated tutors. Improvement assured. Tel: *****23 (10 am to 0 pm) Enjoy the convenience of a home delivered Monitor daily and Sunday Monitor AT NO EXTRA COST. Details from *****88 X 229 (office hoars)
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    • 151 23 SINGAPORE CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 47, Hill Street S pore 0617 offers EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS 8 lectures by D? Victor Tai, B. A (Hons) MSC., PhD., Management Consultant Date: 10 December 7 January 1985 (Monday Wednesday) Time: 7.00 pm 9.00 pm Content: 1) Daily uses of Verbal
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    • 286 23 CPS Your fitness career begins here. Aerobic Instructors' Course Date: 19-22 December 1984 Fees: SSSOO Therapeutic Massage Course Date: 20 23 December 1984 Fees: Sssoo Limited vacancies only. Closing date on 14 December 1984 Act now! For further details and registration, please tel: 339 0831 today. INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
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      • 103 26 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD MOST of the world's top tennis players, including John McEnroe of the United States and Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia, have signed to play in next May's World Team Cup, organisers said yesterday. Organisers of the US$5OO,OOO (Sfl.oB million) tournament said
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      • 87 26 FRANZ BECKENBAUER, appointed West German soccer team manager in July for a "transitional" two-year period, may stay on till 1990, the head of the National Soccer Federation (DFB) said yesterday. Beckenbauer was appointed to lead the national team until the 1986 World Cup in Mexico after his
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      • 97 26 BOCA JUNIORS' famous soccer stadium, which was to be auctioned yesterday to help meet the Argentine club's debts, has been granted a last minute reprieve. A federal judge last week ordered the auction of Boca's 57,000-seat stadium after the club failed to make a US$3&,OOO payment
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    • 343 26 AP LONDON, Thursday CHELSEA and Sheffield Wednesday, both promoted from the English Second Division last season, have established themselves as major forces in Division One. Both have recorded impressive victories over champions Liverpool and have surprised other top teams with their all-action
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    • 170 26 Reuter SOFIA (Bulgaria), Thurt BULGARIA cruised into contention for a place in the 1986 World Cup finals when they overwhelmed Luxembourg 40 in a European group four qualifying tie here last night. Two goals in each half carried the
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    • 58 26 AP JOHANNESBURG, Thurt DETHRONED World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Gerne Coetzee suffered a setback yesterday when the WBA turned down his appeal against his eighth-round knockout by American Greg Page. Pace floored Coetzee for the 10 count in an eighth round that ran 48 seconds past
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    • 481 27 SEEN AND HEARD Better luck next time SEEN: The rose among the thorns, pacing the stadium tracks during match intervals. Monitor photojournalist Christine Chew must have broken a record of sorts in Asian Cup football coverage by being the only woman photojournalist among the
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      431 28  -  No blacklisting of Singapore, says Fifa boss Havelange By K SILVAM SINGAPORE will be eiven an equal chance to continue hosting Fifasanctioned international football tournaments if they are able ana willing. This was Fifa boss Joao Havelange's assurance at a Press conference yester- day Havelange, the president of the
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    • 521 29  -  SOUTH KOREA 0 KUWAIT 0 By S GULAM THE WATERLOGGED pitch at National Stadium prevented the Koreans from realising their hopes for revenge against Cup holders Kuwait. Not only that, the pitch washed off much of the anticipated excitement expected in a match starring the two
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    • 52 29 Shots on targoti Korea 8. Kuwait 4 Shots off targoti Korea 10, Kuwait 4 Cornorsi Korea 7, Kuwait 4 Frookicks: Korea 14, Kuwait 10 Offsldosi Korea 2, Kuwait 3 Yollow cardsi Lee Tae Ho (Korea), Na'eem Saad Mubarak (Kuwait) Roforooi Cheong Kok Wing (Hong Kong) Crowds 20,752 Match
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      154 29 SHMA THOUGHT KOREAN STRIKER LEE TAE HO LEE TAE HO failed to shoulder his team's hopes well enough despite easy chances. He had promised to keep running until he scored at least one goal but in the end he had to walk away dejected, frustrated, and tired of trying. The
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    • 734 31  -  S'PORE 0 CHINA 2 HIGH ANXIETY MONITOR sports By ALFONSO CHAN The height of excitement in last night's Asian Cup game between Singapore and China is captured by this picture. A Chinese (left) and a Singapore player go their separate
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    • 43 31 Shots on target: China 13, Singapore 4 Shots off targot: China 11, Singapore 4 Comers: China 2, Singapore 1 Freekicks: China 4, Singapore 5 Offside: China 1, Singapore 1 Yellow cards: None Referee: Jassim Mandi (Bahrain) Attendance: 20,752 Match rating: 6
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