Singapore Monitor, 10 December 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 19 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EVENING EDITION r J M C iP iNo 21 584 Monday. December 10. 1984 30 cents
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  • 321 1 UPI LONDON, Monday AT LEAST 100 shots were fired by the hijackers of a Kuwaiti ietliner during the six days they held the crew and passengers hostage in an airport in Teheran. A British flight engineer, freed yesterday just before Iranian security men overpowered
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  • 126 1 Agencies KUWAIT, Monday FOUR Iranian security men, disguised as a technician, a doctor and two cleaners, were responsible for overpowering and capturing the hijackers of a Kuwaiti airliner last night, said Iran. An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Iranian security personnel went into action
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  • 349 1 Pro-Iranian group to carry out suicide strikes in Europe, says Italian paper UPI ROME, Monday AT LEAST six members of the proIranian Islamic Jihad movement are planning to strap explosives to their bodies and carry out suicide attacks on American targets in Europe, the
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  • 88 1 A SPECIAL CONSTABLE, Abdul Rashid Mohd Said, 18, was charged in a district court this morning with the murder of Sergeant Chin Ah Kow, 43, and Constable Wahid Ahmad, 26. No plea was taken from Abdul Rashid who was accused of committing the crime
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    • 18 1 END THIS BARBARISM, SAYS U.S.s PS mTV GUIDE: PlB M TV HIGHLIGHTS: Pl 9 M FILM GUIDE: P2O
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    • 58 1 vabn No, it's the best of both worlds. DBS Autosave the convenience of a cheque book while your savings balance earns daily interest, credited monthly. And only DBS Bank has it. Call in and we'll tell you more. DBS Bank. We're closer to you. o DBSBANK Head Office: 6 Shenton
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    • 957 2  -  ■PETIR3©I nQf OMVOMA Mi I By EE BOON LEE THE PEOPLES Action Party (PAP) leadership cannot allow power to pass on by default to "old faithfuls of past battles," says Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew as he surveys the political
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    • 223 2 HAWKER liaison officers from the Housing Board (HDB) had been asked to drive the enforcement vans whenever there was a shortage of drivers, said the HDB workers' union newsletter, Build-Up. However, this was no longer the case, said the HDB, as the vacancies for
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    • 112 2 COMPUTER giant IBM Singapore and PrenticeHan, a major book publisher, today signed an agreement to produce a series of training programmes for use on the IBM personal computer. These computer software packages will enable more novice users to learn more about programming
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    • 360 3  -  By MAGDALENE HAUW A THAI businessman was jailed for eight months this morning for offering a bribe to five players of the Syrian Asian Cup squad. Pravit Limapongpas, 28, pleaded guilty to offering (together with another man, Yam Phung Fei) $40,000 to
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    • 77 3 THE MONKEY Ring and an assortment of other Chinese opera characters have Joined the farewell party of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. The masks have been placed in the departure lounge of the Changi International Airport as part of the Board's contribution to our 25
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    • 156 3 SINGAPORE journalist Alan John from the Straits Times, has been selected for a Press fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, for the coming academic year. Mr John, who is an assistant to the editor, is the third Singapore journalist to have been awarded the fellowship in
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    • 196 3 THREE HUNDRED and seventy primary school teachers from all four language streams are attending the Being and Becoming training workshop from today till the end of the week. The aim of the workshop is to train teachers to teach the Being and
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    • 69 3 THIEVES broke into a flatted factory during the weekend and got away with $89,000 after breaking open a safe. Businessman Y T Leow, 39, told police that he left his office at 6 pm on Saturday. Mr Leow found the back door damaged and the office
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    • 89 3 A BROTHER and sister were killed last night after being hit by a car while crossing the expressway with their mother. Marliza Rahman, nine, was killed on the spot while her brother Muzafir, 12, died in the Tan Tock Seng Hospital later. Their
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 114 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS A VALIANT and true son of St Joseph's Institution (SJI) had his dying wish fulfilled last month. S Subrahmaniam (above), the old retired SJI clerk, whom everyone connected with the school remembers with fondness, became a founder member
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      • 91 4 Lianhe Zaobao THE amount of Central Provident Fund money withdrawn to buy Housing and Development Board flats and private houses this year will be at least one and a naif times higher than last year's and three times higher than the figure for 1982. In
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      • 63 4 A TEAM of policemen (above) from Toa Payoh rescued a damsel in distress yesterday. They freed a Filipino maid after she was accidentally locked between the door and the iron Sate of a Braddell View HUDC apartment yesteray. Since there was no one at home to
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      • 74 4 Lianhe Zaobao A MAN and a woman have been holding up housewives in St George's Road, in the guise of a courting couple. At least two women have been robbed by the couple. The two housewives fell prey to the holdup couple about 8 pm on Nov
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    • 246 4 FAMILIAR faces in news and current affairs programmes will be bringing you quicß updates and snap analyses of the results of the general election to be held on Dec 22. Kenneth Liana, presenter of Friday Background, will anchor the show, with Veronica Lena, a newscaster,
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    • 114 4 If you can bum a tune Sing a song or two Enter the jingle contest Here is what to do IF THAT little ditty catches your interest, you may be just the person to win $1000 in a jingle/song contest launched today by the National
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    • 212 4 Lianhe Zaobao MALAYSIANS spend as much as $30 million a day shopping in SingaGre, according to the alaysian Finance Minister. That is why the Malaysian Government is slapping a 50 per cent tax on goods bought outside the country when they
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  • world
    • 189 6 UPI TOKYO, Mon The US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, the world's largest nuclear carrier, arrived in the naval port of Yokosuka today amid' protests by local officials and a drum-banging demonstration by antinuclear groups. The 332-metre vessel arrived at the US Navy base
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    • 341 6 Shultz urges all nations to unite and put an end to hijackings UPI NEW YORK, Monday SECRETARY of State George Shultz, denouncing countries that provide haven for terrorists, said on Sunday that nations should unite to end "this barbarism that threatens the very foundations of civilized life."
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    • 222 6 LONDON, Monday THE DELIBERATE shooting of f<jpr passengers in the Kuwaiti airliner hijack at Teheran Airport is a rare example of hijackers killing their hostages to enforce their demands. Hundreds of hijackings have taken place over the past 15 years and routinely there are
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    • 391 8 THE BHOPAL POISON GAS TRAGEDY AP BHOPAL (India), Monday DOCTORS here are concerned about a new wave of deaths and illnesses related to the leak last Monday of poisonous gas from a pesticide plant that has reportedly killed more than 2,500 people.
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    • 140 9 AP MAMLA, Monday THE PHILIPPINES is expected to suffer a negative economic growth rate of between 5.2 and 5.5 per cent before the year is out, compared with last year's growth rate of I.S per cent, Economic Planning Minister Vicente Valdepenas
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    • 305 9 Notice board for all tax-exempt goods to be put up for tourists' convenience Bernama JOHOR BARU, Monday A NOTICE board listing all goods exempted from customs duty will soon be put up at the checkpoint here for the convenience of tourists and the public. Deputy Finance
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    • 128 9 AP ODENSE (Denmark), Monday VIVACIOUS, melodious and gay sounded the music of a long-lost symphony (or the first time in perhaps two centuries yesterday night to testify to the genius of an Austrian teenager, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. An international audience headed by Queen Mother Ingrid
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    • 459 10 Good weather and improved farming methods turns world's number one rice buyer into an exporter Reuter JAKARTA, Monday INDONESIA will harvest the biggest rice crop in its history this year due to gooa weather ana improved fanning techniques which will turn the world's number
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 65 10 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS CLIFF Robertson (above) is yet another actor doing his bit for the hungry in Africa. He was talking to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, during a conference organised by the US Committee on Hunger to announce
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      • 76 10 FOR HALF a century, 80-year-old Mr Zhao Wenjin was the loyal caretaker of the American Consulate building in Gulangyu Islet, a short ferry ride from Xiamen Islan<T He retired after Sino-American relations Were restored in 1979 and he now sets a US Government pension of
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      • 52 10 THE FOUR winners of the alternative Nobel Prize were in Stockholm yesterday to receive their awards. Seen here with the founder, Mr Jacob von Yxhull (middle) are: (from left to right) Winefreda Geonzon of the Philippines, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, Ela Bhatt of India and Iman Khalifeh
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      • 77 10 A SKIN care specialist says more male executives are being forced by competition from women to get face-lifts and even wear makeup. Miss Grace Rose says men will turn in greater numbers to surgery and safe water-basea makeup to achieve the healthy look, so important
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    • 223 11 Reuter WLOSZCZOWA (Poland), Monday POLISH students, angered bv the removal of crucifixes from their school here, have been occupying their classrooms despite pressure from local authorities. Up to 150 students, aged between IS and 20, have occupied rooms and corridors in a vocational school at Wloszczowa,
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    • 214 11 AP TOKYO, Mon DESPITE a literacy rate of 99 per cent and students who get top scores in international math tests, Japan is considering a sweeping reform of its highly centralised education system. The rigorous competition in Japanese schools is being blamed for social
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    • 226 11 AP BEIJING, Monday CHINA seeks long-term cooperation with Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways and is not buying shares in the airline as rumoured, the Chinese Government's Aviation spokesman said on Saturday. Mr Li Shufan, spokesman and International Affairs Director for the Civil Aviation
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    • 328 11 Reuter MADRID, Monday HEALTH treatment is undergoing a revolution as patients and doctors increasingly opt for cures like acupuncture and herbs over manufactured drugs, according to participants at a World Alternative Medicine Congress. "The popularity of alternative medicine is soaring," said organiser Fermin Cabal as
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    • 54 11 LITTLE Lindsay Wilcox wear* a big finite as the listens to the soons of Woofer, one of three new "Chatter Animals" bailt with interactive speech synthesizer technology. These cnddly creatures, now available for Christmas, literally "talk back" with a variety of sounds to anyone talking
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 321 9 TOYOTA Overall market leader again in Singapore m 1983 Our Star. In our family the star is the new Toyota Starlet. As a housewife I it because it is so practical. There's plenty of room for the kids and all their toys. When I go shopping I find the rear
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 119 10 I Unbelievable But True I Special Trade-in Discounts of up to $700 I Any Brand, Any Age! I Forget annual inspections! You can now trade-in your old motorcycle or scooter (on-the- road, ANY BRAND, ANY AGE) and enjoy trade-in m discounts of up to $700 on net retail prices for
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 95 11 I®'Winter comes into litsownalacarteat It restaurant I When the snow lies thick on the ground in France, hearts are warmed by the reassurance of a cuisine certain to bring great cheer to the season. It is the time when pots and pans and casseroles reign on stoves and in ovens.
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  • money
    • 906 12 THE ENTREPRENEURS Newsweek AT AN AGE when most young Japanese submit themselves to the ethic of corporate obedience, Mr Kazuo Maezawa embarked on a daring gamble. At 23, he left his job at Hitachi, the electronics giant, to found Japan Digital Laboratories (JDL)
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    • 72 12 HONG Leone Holdings Ltd and subsidiary Union Investment Holding (Pte) Ltd have ceased to be substantial shareholders in Haw Par Brothers International. Thev sold their 7.17 per cent stake of 10.69 million shares to Hong Leong International (Hong Kong) and Hong Leong
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    • 338 12 Ong and Go's weekly stock market outlook IN THE COMING week, Ong and Company expects several developments, both locally and in Malaysia, to have a positive bearing on market performance. On the local interest rate front, DBS bank has lowered its mortgage rates for
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    • 214 13 THE SINGAPORE stock market opened quiet in line with Wall Street's seven-point decline last Friday. Prices moved up slightly with attention focused on speculative counters. Towards the lunch break, market sentiment held steady. Top volume stock Gentings did 217,000, followed oy Sime
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    • 46 13 AT THE midday break the OUB Composite Share Price Index was up 1.15 points to 419.33 from the Previous day's close of 18.18. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted Index was up 0.1885 points to 133:8384 in morning trading from the previous day's close of 133.4499.
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    • 165 13 Reuter THE UNITED States dollar rose against most major currencies from last Friday's New York levels in quiet early trading. Dealers said a US$2.2 billion increase in latest US M-l money supply figures and news that US unemployment dropped to 7.2 per cent in November from 7.4
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    • 233 13 Selected stocks at midday Market tone: mixed Boustead 1.86 S Cold Store 2.66 S F N 5.20/5.25 Genting 4.98/5.00 GIH 2.56/2.61 Haw Par 2.03 B Jurong Cement 2.20 S Keck Seng 2.15 S Esso 2.57/2.60 Inchcape 2.42/2.48 Intraco 2.59/2.60 M Cement 1.65 S Metro 3.42/3.44 MPH b MUI b
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    • 95 13 Your S$ to on* unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/OD TT DD US9 2 1760 2.1660 2.1570 sterling 2.6206 2.5986 2.5886 Australian 1.8454 1.8214 1.8064 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to 1 unit USf 2.17 2.15 NZf 1.17 1.02 sterling 2.65 2.55 Australian 1.86 1.79 Canadian 1.67 1.60 S$ to
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    • 480 13 FOREIGN CURRENCY REVIEW BY MANUFACTURERS HANOVER TRUST SINGAPORE DOLLAR ALTHOUGH the Singapore dollar is normally tied to a trade weighted basket, it is actually very tightly controlled by the Monetary Authority of Singapore which seeks to limit daily fluctuations to a minimum. During 1984, the currency
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous

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    • 153 13 MING COURT HOTEL SINGAPORE Ming Court &AsjaHotd Bangkok invite you to A Traditional'7ha^—^ Declothto2oth Authentic Thai cuisine by chefs from Asia Hotel Bangkok. Thai hostesses in traditional dress. The Experience It begins right at the door where gracious Thai hostesses welcome you with a friendly 'sawasdee'. Inside, you see fresh
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  • features
    • 840 14 Government payoff scandal gives billionaire Friedrich Flick the publicity he wanted to avoid AP MUNICH: FRIEDRICH Karl Flick, tagged as "The Paymaster of the Republic" in a growing government payoff scandal, was once known as a billionaire industrialist who preferred privacy to publicity. Today Flick, which
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    • 441 14  -  By KAZUYA TAKABATAKE Yomiuri Shimbun LAT-WP OSAKA: "HERE, this is freshly hrewed coffee." With those words from a robot, high-tech has taken another step into daily life in the city of Osaka, which now has a coffee shop where the beverage is
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    • 71 14 "MY HANDS are not tied, my wings are not clipped, nor is my spirit diminished." Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke insisting the recent election was still a clearcut victory for his government. "IT IS simply not acceptable that the future of civilisation lies in the hands of only five
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  • opinion / letters
    • 504 15 THE disappearance of those who have committed some crime or have fled leaving large-scale debts inevitably raises the cry: "Bring them back." Ordinary law-abiding citizens who pay their way cannot understand why others should escape from the appropriate criminal or civil proceedings. The question of
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    • 75 15 I CANNOT understand why a subscriber should pay a fee if he wishes to have his number unlisted. Shouldn't it be the other way round? All subscribers should have the "privilege" of unlisted numbers, and those who wish to have their numbers listed
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    • 248 15 ALLOW me to correct the erroneous notion of "Shocked" who, in the letter "CCs aren't only for studying!' (SM Dec 6), got the impression that I had written out of selfish interests. The views in my letter ("Let there be peace at the CC
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    • 150 15  -  PETER BOYD Singapore 1335 CHRISTMAS is just a few weeks away and after that, it's the New Year. Then comes February and Chinese New Year. How many of us can really go around buying gifts for their friends or book a
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    • 66 15 HOW SAFE ARE HDB FLATS AGAINST THEM? THE recent earth tremor in Sumatra sent shockwaves through Malaysia and Singapore. In Singapore, our HDB flats dwellers felt the tremor too. Luckily none of us were injured. Can the HDB guarantee the public that the HDB flats are safer to
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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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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      625 16  -  Story by PAT D'ROSE TO the uninitiated, the nine hairstylists who competed feverishly in the finals for the Golden Scissors Award last Thursday must seem to have surrendered their senses to their imagination. Their models were sitting delicately on barber stools one had chillies stuck in her
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    • 586 16  - FAIRY TALES GRIMM AND OTHERWISE By WONG AH YOKE MOST of us have in our childhood been stuffed with fairy tales about princes and princesses woven round magical experiences. But the success of illustrated books and Walt Disney cartoons such as Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella have so identified
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    • 543 18 The Living Planet A Portrait of the Earth, the Frozen World (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 12, 8 pm) THIS week, David Attenborough journeys into the snowy peaks of the Andes, the Antarctica and the Arctic. Besides meeting moulting elephant seals, king penguins and
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    • 132 18 TIME ITEM CONTENT NoorvJpm RactoOne Sounds Alive (DJ. WMtan Xavier) Audience Quiz News Mid-day Market Repon 2-2 30 pm Radio Four Signature Tune DJ 5 Choice Periodcal 2.30-3.30 pm Radio Three Song Requests (DJ: Yeow Seng Yong) Interview on health and training (Guest:
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    • Article, Illustration
      687 19  -  Cyrano the computer falls in love FILM: ELECTRIC DREAMS STARRING: Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield DIRECTOR: Steve Barron SHOWING: Cathay •Reviewed by WONG AH YOKE AT first sight, Electric Dreams appears to be just another movie which pits man against machine in this technology-dependent world. But
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 460 19 fllM CUIOC wpl» 1 pipim two phases (o ORCHARD (*****88): GHOSTBUSTERS auq UQ |MQ (*****01 V BREAKDANfF DALIT (*****16): LUST FOR LOVE OF A (E) R, t *****01 >- HK^AKUAINLfc, CHINESE COURTESAN (C) Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold TI Starring: Candice Yu, Hu Guanzhen RamifSigourney Weaver PLAZA (*****71): FORBIDDEN
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 295 20 FILMSHOWS AT THE MARITIME MUSEUM VISITORS in groups of ten or more can request for the following films to be screened at the Maritime Museum on Sentosa this month: Stol Beach and Rescue Amphibian US-1 a film about the air-sea rescue aircraft, Amphibian US-1. Ice Society a film featuring the
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    • 684 20 Herbs Vendor by Poh Siew Wah, one of the works on display at the Alliance Francaise A REVOLUTION WITH SCENARIO will be held at the Alpha Gallery, 21 AN exhibition on impressionistic im- j 01 a y t0 ages by Italian photographer, Dr Cor- PP da, 'y rado G Letta,
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    • 246 20 NATIONAL SHORT STORY WRITING THIS competition is open to Singapore citizens and permanent residents. Entrants may write on any subject or theme in any of the four official languages. More than one entry in different languages are allowed but no two versions of the same story will be accepted. All
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  • 550 21  -  The Chef Recommends By THERESA CHAN IT is in the Trishaw Coffee House at the Hotel Royal that East will meet West. For $10.50 plus, plus, customers can choose to have either Continental buffet or Chinese buffet lunches. The buffet tables are set up daily
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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    • 135 21 rn> RED LANTERN REVOLVING P| RESTAURANT (PTE) LTD. 60A, Change Alley Aerial Plaza, Collyer Quay. Singapore 0104. I Set atop the city's buzzling business core and harbour front, the Red J Lantern Revolving Restaurant affords memorable dining experience. I Take in enchanting city sights and dazzling harbour lights as you
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 777 22 leisure comics I FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook wiiiftk. -Orcctino- YVrr^fl ipjllf Tl Voo oA6tf-*T > < To &*fe A 1 Nteo Hbo fWW WAW I Uitftk J 9AVED UAUUU oFtwe to &AC* AH awwep I 1 TONifrHT? V\EUOy. J NWStflTfcß Otf H*V, WHAT V HOO*/ JTo Do I fcAINV DAV.
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  • open line
    • 310 23 REMEMBER to take your identity card with you when you go to the polling station on Dec 22. Besides your identity card, you should also take along the polling card which would have been sent to you after Dec 12 Nomination Day. On
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    • 252 23 VOTING is compulsory. Should you fail to vote for some reason, for example, if you are out of Singapore or if you are ill on Polling Day, your name will be removed from the register. You may apply in writing after the general election,
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    • ANSWER BOX
      • 140 23 THE ANSWERS TO YOUR QUERIES I AM A foreign maM with a very strict employer. I work ap to I lpm daily bat I am aot gives a day off. My Meads, who are also forefjpi makh, get every Saaday off or at least two days
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      • 78 23 ■Recently, a family friend bought a pair of insoles which, according to the agent, the salesgirl, and an advertisement, would increase her height within three months. But the insoles, for which she paid $19, were very uncomfortable, and she could not wear them for the stipulated
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      • 124 23 What are folic acids? I read that they are vitamins to prevent greying of hair. How much can be taken daily without harmful effects? Can they be taken together with vitamin E and vitamin B tablets FOLIC ACID is one of the water-soluble vitamins
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    • 60 23 TO FACILITATE the widening of Upper Jurong Road from Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim to Benoi Road, traffic has been diverted into a newly-constructed two-way carriageway between Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim and Benoi Road. Motorists travelling along this road are advised to drive carefully and follow the traffic
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    • 201 25 cla»»ifl,ed: 273-909Q Situations Vacant, I Immediate vacancies I I available at Wild I I (Singapore) Pte Ltd I I (a Swiss manufacturing I I company at Bukit Meran I Central) I Completed Apprenticeship Training Scheme (Precision Machining) from one of the EDB training centres Minimum 1 year's working experience in
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    • 337 25 Situations Vacant ISBHDBI invites applications from Singapore Citizens for the post of: (A) CASHIER/RENT COLLECTOR (B) HAWKERS LIAISON OFFICER (C) HORTICULTURAL OFFICER (D) PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER (E) WORKS SUPERVISOR (F) TELEPHONE OPERATOR/ CLERICAL ASSISTANT (Q) SECURITY GUARD (H) PARKING WARDEN Requirements for Posts (A) QCE 3 0' Level including Maths
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    • 229 25 tttuitfoin Vacant HYMOLO PTE LTD Plastic injection molding factory raquirai: 1) Machine Operators 2 rotating shifts Permanent night shift 2) Technician Trainees NTC 3in Metal Machininq 3) Skilled and Sami-Skilled N Spray Peinterc 4) Female Production v Operators Shift Allowinct: Ist shift 2DO 2nd shift 8.00 3rd shift $10.00 Benefits:
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    • 277 25 APPOINTMENT SUB-EDITOR Building and Construction News Oil and Gas News Catering and Hotel News. If you are thinking of specialising, and like the idea of working on these established newspapers, contact us. We need an experienced, dependable Sub-Editor with .a newspaper background to join our small and friendly team. Written
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    • 130 25 TNE COMPANIES ACT CAP. ItS AMALGAMATED ENTERPRISES (PRIVATE) LIMITED y«|a idi I■ Oiunury WMkifUp) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 10 Weld Road. Singapore 0620 on the 3rd day of December, 1984. the Special Resolution set out below was
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    • 349 26 classified 273-9090 NOTICES Advertisement CENTRAL PROVIDENT FUND BOARD ACCOUNTS OF:Nomas of Dacaa—d Mam ben Account No. 1. MUNISAMY RAJOO *****06F 2. ALGU BELDAR *****861 3. PERRIETAMBY S/0 GOVALANO *****14H 4. SUCHA SIN6H S/0 *****320 MATA SINGH 5. GOVINOASAMY MARIMUTHU *****89H ABDUL RAHMAN S/0 *****678 MOHAMEO ABU BAKAR 7. MAHAT BIN
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    • 274 26 PAX (ASM) m. LTD. (In Voluntary Liquidation) WHMtPNMLMMM ■NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 272 (1) o» The Companies Act. Cap. 185, a final general meeting of the abovenamed Company w« be held at 16 Raffles Quay #1804, Hong Leong Building, Singapore 0104, on Monday, 14th January 1985.
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    • 392 26 M I 4 ft 4 JURONG CEMENT LIMITED 15 Pioneer Crescent, Jurong Town, Singapore 2262 (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTERIM RESULTS The directors wish to announce that the unaudited results of the company and the group for the half year ended 30th September 1984. Half Year
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  • sports
    • 138 27 Reuter INVERCARGILL (New Zealand), Monday FORMER World Speedway champion Barry Briggs is in stable condition in a hospital intensive care unit here after a freak accident at the weekend. The New Zealander suffered broken ribs, a perforated lung and a broken shoulder when
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    • 477 27 The Star NIMBLE Han Jian, the bucktoothed Chinese shuttler, looks like the best candidate to stop Dane Morten Frost from adding the ProKennex Grand Prix title to his already impressive collection this year. The 29-year shuttler, who arrived yesterday with China's women
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    • 174 27 Reuter ADELAIDE, Monday AUSTRALIA, needing early wickets for any chance of victory in the third test, dismissed West Indies Roger Harper and the in-form Richie Richardson before lunch on the fourth day here yesterday. The visiting team, two-nil up in the five-test
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    • 152 27 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Mon INDIAN badminton star Prakash Padukone arriving for the Pro-Kennex badminton meet was detained for 30 minutes at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at Subang near here when he could not produce a visa to enter the country. The assistant secretary of
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    • 271 27 AP JORGE Gonzales of Puerto Rico battled strong winds to win the 12th Honolulu Marathon here yesterday. His time was an unofficial 2 hours, 16 minutes and 25 seconds, the third fastest in the history of the race. The 1979
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    • 83 28 WORLD CLUB SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP Enio Trotsero (left) and Claudio Maragonal of Argentina's Independiente showing off the svmbols of their Toyota Cup victory over Liverpool yesterday. The Smith Americans won 1-0. PICTURE: UPI THE SAVE OF THE MATCH: Liveroool's goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar diving to make
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    • 458 29  -  ITALIAN SOCCER with Julian Bees Agenzia Ansa ROME, Monday PESCARA, on the Adriatic coast hot sun, clear air and ice-creams were the order of the day when Italy beat Poland 2-0 at the local municipal stadium. It was the first time the Italian
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    • 239 29 Bernama ALOR STAR, Monday THE SINGAPORE Armed Forces Shooting Association (Safsa) bagged six gold medals at the end of the 10-day Kedah Open Shooting Championship at Pokok Sena shooting range near here yesterday. Gold medal-winning shooters were Capt Philip Goh (centre fire), Lt
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    • WORLDFRONT
      • 162 29 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD GOALS by Scottish international striker Steve Archibald and West German midfielder Bernd Schuster kept unbeaten Barcelona on top of the Spanish First Division this weekend. The Catalan team beat Sevilla 3-1 at home to claim their 10th win in 15
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      • 86 29 AUSTRALIAN Peter Thomson, the leader from start to finish, posted an even-par 72 today to capture the U*****,000 (*****,000) PGA Seniors Championship Thomson, who nad scores of 67, 73, 74 and 72, finished with the only sub-par total in the 72-hole event, a two-under 286. His
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      • 118 29 SPAIN defended bravely against Olympic champions Pakistan but were beaten 3-2 in the sixth Champions Trophy Hockey Tournament in Karachi today Pakistan's second successive victory left them 6int leaders with Australia on the tnird day of e six-nation competition. Spain remain at the bottom of the
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      • 106 29 OLYMPIC champion Michael Gross (above) set a world best time for the men's 400 metres freestyle in a 25-metre pool at the West German Swimming Championships in Schwaebisch Gmuend today. Gross clocked three minutes 42.8 seconds 16 hundreths of a second less than the previous best
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      • 80 29 FIGURE skaters from East Germany and Austria led the field of non-Soviet women competing in an annual international skating competition in Moscow, the official news agency Tass reported. Soviet skater Kira Ivanova, the 1984 Olympics bronze medallist, won first place in women's singles at the 19th
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    • 416 30  -  PREVIEW OF TONIGHT'S KOREA-QATAR MATCH (9) By ALFONSO CHAN A DRAW would be the closest thing to a ticket home for these two teams, Qatar and South Korea, as they go out to hunt for goals in their final Group A match tonight.
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    • 60 30 Korea: Juna Ki Dong, Park Kyung Hoon, Jung Jong soo, Jung Yong Hwan, Park Sung Hwa, Huh Jung Moo, Park Chung Sun, Lee Kang Jo. Byun Byung Ju, Lee Tae Ho, Kim Suk Won. Qatar Younis Lari, Mohd Deham, Abdullah Mubarak, Mubarak Ambar, Ibrahim Saeed, Issa Ahmed, Mubarak
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    • 316 30 Reuter SUN CITY (South Africa), Monday SEVERIANO Ballesteros of Spain coasted to his second successive victory in the million-dollar Golf Challenge here yesterday to pick up the first prize of US$3OO,OOO (*****,000), one of the richest purses in the game Although
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    • 134 30 SINGAPORE v IRAN IRAN'S striker par-excellence Naser Mohamadkhani holds the key to his team's hopes of setting a scoring record against Singapore tonight. Leading the goalgetters chart with two goals, Naser has the skill and pace to outwit the Singapore back-four and give
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    • 630 31  -  PREVIEW OF SINGAPORE-IRAN MATCH (7PM) MONITOR sports By S GULAM IN THEIR last Asian Cup match tonight (7) at the National Stadium, Singapore could face the backlash of an Iran side determined to redeem themselves after being held to a surprise scoreless draw by India
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    • 170 27 "TAKE MY ADVICE. NEW BALANCE HAS." Bryan Robson England and Manchester United Captain New Balance running shoes are recognized around the world for their technological sophistication. To create an innovative line of football boots, however, the company needed the involvement of someone who knows the 0 game inside For more
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    • 75 30 vv are p I A A II kV A r~y A\ players the world over FN V r™.q r ASIAN CUP "84 TODAY'S FIXTURES A > fa FIFA {\J f,BA SV Singapore v Iran (7 p.m.) South Korea v Qatar (9 p.m.) F 9 W 'if- YESTERDAY'S RESULT: s v
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