Singapore Monitor, 11 December 1984

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    • 275 2  -  By JANICE LIM TEA WILL be sold at auctions in Singapore from next month without coming here. Under a new system to be introduced by the Tea Auctions Association of Singapore, only "guaranteed samples" instead of whole consignments will be shipped for the
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    • Article, Illustration
      692 2  -  Drivers leave vehicles on Causeway to avoid levies Story and pictures by VICTOR SOH A POLICE crackdown on parking offences has uncovered a Causeway tax dodge. Drivers have been avoiding levies imposed by both SingaKre and Malaysia by leaving »r vehicles on the Causeway overnight. But their dodging
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    • 287 3 S'poreans don't take fire-fighting exercises seriously: Japanese expert SINGAPOREANS do not take their firefighting exercises seriously. This is the opinion of the chief of the Japanese team of fire-fighting experts after its three-week stay in Singapore. "Maybe because there wasn't a real fire," quipped Mr Tokio Ishita
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    • 207 3 Lianhe Zaobao THIS IS the receipt (above) you will get from the Singapore General Hospital from next Saturday if you choose to pay by means of the POSB Cash-On-Line card. Through the new "cashless way" of payment, the amount paid will be automatically
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    • 1052 4  -  THE POLITICAL SCENE By LOONG SWEE YIN THE COMMON thread in the opposition parties' manifestoes is the desire to cut back the tentacles of government, especially the People's Action Party (PAP) Government, and to get it to loosen its purse strings. Despite the clear
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    • 346 4  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN IT WAS while he was in Rrison (for defaming Prime linister Lee Kuan Yew) that Mr Harbans Singh decided to form his own political party, the United People's Front (UPF). He said he had been a member of the People's Action
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    • 539 6  -  By JOSEPH LEE IS THE VALET at the hotel who parks the customer's car an agent of the hotel or of the owner? The answer could make the difference between the recovery of the costs of loss or damage, and heavy financial loss. It
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    • 78 6 ISLAM is relevant to progress, Mr Sidek Saniff, Parliamentary Secretary (Trade and Industry and Social Affairs) said last night. The laws of Islam were similar to the physical laws of nature, those who followed them became leaders and those who neglected them failed,
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    • 89 6 MR TAN Chong Kee, the owner of Kheng Lock seafood restaurant, started Issuing a plastic tag as Identification after a customer's new Mercedes Bens was stolen recently. According to Mr Tan, about 70to 80 cars use the valet service daring the weekdays and the
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    • 287 6  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG BAND major Goh Soo Fung hopes she won't drop the mace. Despite three-hour practices three times a week for the past three months, the 11-year-old band major says she's still "nervous and scared" about performing in public. She has
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    • 268 7 Lianhe Wanbao THE NEWLY-crowned movie queen tried to slip in unnoticed but she was "caught" Taking time off from her busy schedule, Yang Huishan, who won the Best Actress Award in the Golden Horse Awards, flew into Singapore on Sunday night, from Bangkok, for a two-day
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    • 381 7  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM TALKS over the retrenchment benefits for 230 employees of Union Carbide Singapore who are to be laid off on Friday due to poor business have reached a stalemate. The affected workers are among 500 employees at the company's Bukit Tiraah plant, wnich
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    • 141 7 SIXTY boys have moved into a new home the former Radin Mas School. The former school is now known as Perak House, which was, in turn, the name of a building in Pasir Panjang Road which had been a boys' home for more than SO years.
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  • world
    • 43 8 HOODED guerillas of the Peruvian leftist movement called Tupac Amaru were shown on television on Saturday night (picture right) after they seized a Lima station temporarily to demand that captured colleagues be treated as prisoners of war. PICTURE: AP
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    • 337 8 AP TAIPEH, Tuesday A MEMBER of Taiwan's watchdog control ytua suggested that a mine disaster in which 51men have been confirmed dead may have resulted from sabotage by disgruntled workers. Ms Lin Meng-Kuei informed the control yuan she had conducted her own investigation
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    • 223 8 Agencies BEUING, Tuesday THE COMMUNIST Party's stunning attack on orthodox Marxism was sanctioned in a crucial, unpublished speech by pragmatic party chief Mr Hu Yaobang, well placed Chinese officials revealed. The officials, providing a rare glimpse of the inner workings of Chinese politics, said
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    • 123 10 Reuter NAIROBI, Tuesday CATERPILLARS known locally as "army worms" have munched their way across farmland around Nairobi and are now attacking the manicured lawns of the Kenyan capital itself. Government agricultural officials said that in less than a month the pests have damaged some 400 square km
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    • 173 10 AP VATICAN CITY, Tues THE JESUITS have expelled the Reverend Fernando Cardenal, who has been serving as Education Minister in Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista cabinet in defiance of the Pope, Jesuit and Vatican officials announced yesterday. A Jesuit spokesman, the Rev. Johannes Gerhartz,
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    • 257 10 AP NICOSIA (Cyprus), Tuesday IRAN PURPOSELY delayed the rescue of hostages in the Kuwaiti airliner in Teheran for six days to lull the hijackers who had killed two of the American passengers into a false sense of security, the official Iranian News
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    • 292 10 THE BHOPAL POISON GAS TRAGEDY UPI AP Indian city of Bhopal NEW DELHI, Tuesday FLAMBOYANT San Francisco lawyer Melvin Belli said yesterday he expected Union Carbide to treat Indians as "sub-human beings" and not "worth as much as Americans" in law suits over
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 63 10 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS GEORGES Simenon, the novelist who created the detective Maigret, has had a head operation but is recovering, feeling well and smoking his pipe, his secretary said. Belgian-born Mr Simenon, 81, is in Lausanne University Hospital's Neurosurgical Department where he had the
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      • 69 10 GRASPING a Chinese and a United States flag and ringed by motorcycle police as thousands 01 onlookers stared, a 41-year-old American yesterday finished a gruelling 3,400 km (2,108 miles) run through the world's most populous country. "I'm just ecstatic today, I'm iust pumping pure adrenalin," said
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      • 68 10 IT'S A good thing Bill Schroeder likes to eat, because tnat's exactly what doctors have prescribed for the world's second human recipient of a permanent artifical heart. To start off his third week with the mechanical heart, doctors prescribed eating and exercising for Mr Schroeder, who
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      • 63 10 WOMEN in Brian de Palma's movies frequently meet untimely and gruesome deaths most recently the character in "Body Double" who was killed by a giant drill. The director says the spillage of female blood is not an indication of a deep-seated hatred of women. "Women in peril
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    • 136 10 AP COLOMBO, TuMday ARMY TROOPS killed 15 people, detained 375 others and evacuated aoout 260 prisoners during a weekend sweep against separatist Tamil guerillas in curfew-bound northern Sri Lanka, authorities said yesterday. Authorities imposed a 61-hour curfew on northern Jaffna Peninsula,
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    • 22 11 There are more female characters, job diversity, and a focus on issues of concern to women on American television.
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    • 21 11 About a quarter of the women who alternately overeat and then starve may also have problems with drug and alcohol'abuse.
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    • 205 11 TRENDS ALMOST 25 per cent of women who alternately overeat and then starve themselves a disorder known as bulimia also may have problems with drug and alcohol abuse. A new study says that between 8 and 14 per cent
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    • 225 11 THE IMAGE and visibility of women have improved noticeably in American television. There are more female characters, more minorities, new family structures, job diversity, and a focus on issues of concern to women. Almost half of the 143 new TV characters are female, and
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    • 109 11 COLLEGES and universities in the United States may face a shortage of top-notch faculty members by the mid-Eighties if salaries and working conditions don't improve, preliminary results of a new study suggest. The lure of other professions is strong and higher education
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    • 73 11 Despite the women's move- ment, mums and dads have not changed much. Young fathers are not taking on a bigger role at home and mothers remain the primary parent, suggest four studies for the US National Council on Family Relations. One study shows that on a typical weekday,
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    • 58 11 Self-hypnosis can help sick children reduce pain and battle their ills. Research provides further evidence that our mental state affects susceptibility to illness and recovery speed. In one study, 85 per cent reported significant reductions in pain and improvement in their conditions after practising self-hypnosis. Hypnosis allows
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    • 72 11 Despite the glamour of Joan Col- lins, Raquel Welch, and Diahann Carroll all of whom are over 40 most men still prefer younger women says a new study on ageing, which finds that when it comes to judging the opposite sex, men consider age an important 1 factor.
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    • 49 10 An Invitation to My Village Noodles Restaurant mast nuts M4"ctoyp7"* an ifKlaMyprtpird rZ?*SI Snttm 7 kynrHNi KM|CIM(I \J£&L^'r i£ ~J Business Hours: 11 am to 11 pm 9\> »n kc*M 0 u MV VILLAGE HOOMS tmmummm The Plaza (Plaza Hotel) 7500-A, Beech Road *01 -305/7 Singapore 0719. Tel: *****55.*****40
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    • 188 11 f M .0/^h^^■V^B^\y/ A Blr It's at the Shangri-La Hotel, the Island Ballroom, no less! Sumptuous 9-course Chinese dinner Free soft drinks and beer till New Year's Day Fashion Show by St. Louis Model Agency Mobile disco and breakdance by Victor Khoo Production Games and entertainment Dancing Beauty Pageant 'Miss
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  • money
    • 549 12 THINGS are changing rapidly for investors in The Conservative Government is moving to introduce new controls over the securities industry. It is also expected to relax ownership rules to allow greater ownership Qf stockbroking and jobbing firms by British and overseas
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    • 109 12 UNITED Malayan Flour Mills reported. a group pre-tax profit of M 53.24 million for the year ended. July 31, up 32 per cent compared to M 52.46 million previously. Group turnover increased by 41 Kir cent to M 552.6 million from *37.24
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    • 293 12 OCBC's 8.75 per cent rate is lowest and is expected to remain so BANKING circles regard the OverseaChinese Banking Corporation's prime rate of 8.75 per cent per annum as the bottom of the trough, at least until the end of the year. OCBC dropped
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    • 182 12 C C returns dismal set of profit and loss figures CYCLE CARRIAGE LTD returned a dismal set of profit and loss figures. Group pre-tax profits of $24.71 million plunged 44.6 per cent for the year ended Sept 30 against $44.58 million previously, despite group turnover remaining almost static at $266.64
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    • 626 13 THE BIGGEST bull markets usually rise from the ashes of a previous and sustained bear market Similarly, it is a runaway advance that sets the stage for an eventual collapse of prices. The more there is to reverse, the greater the potential
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    • 232 13 IN HIS latest newsletter, Mr Fuller stated: "All I have heard so far (about Singapore) is the usual business about a weak property market, fewer tourists and a flat retail sector. You could also say that about other markets that are
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    • 376 13 AP HONG KONG, Tuesday AFTER more than two years of severe economic depression and Glitical uncertainty, Hons Kong >ks to 1985 with renewed hopes of economic and political stability. Land value and share prices, depressed by this colony's uncertain political future, have
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    • 123 13 HMLLSTREET J BLUE CHIP stocks led the stock market to a technical rally yesterday, reversing three straight sessions of declines. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a 26point loser last week because of weakness in Union Carbide and IBM, regained 9.05 to
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    • 56 13 THE Straits Times Industrial Index closed at 821.63, up 3.20 points from Friday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 418.46, up 0.28 points from the Friday's close of 418.18. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index rose 0.1463 points to 133.5962 at the close, compared with
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    • 140 13 AP THE AMERICAN dollar rose in late trading yesterday, helped by expectations of higher interest rates in the United States. Gold continued a slide that has pushed bullion prices to the lowest level in 29 months. Republic National Bank in New York said gold bullion was bid
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    • 76 13 Come to Cockpit $jotel Where delicious food blends with delightful music s p Victoria Bar Coffee House Open 24 hours daily We present you the most thrilling 'live' bands We serve all local delights and Dobtoto A Cedric and typical Indonesian cuisine Kathy A Lot Amoral. I tha sso tantalising
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  • features/letters
    • 632 14  -  US report says graduates know little of their heritage because of its decline LAWRENCE FEINBERG of Tho Washington Post LAT-WP WASHINGTON: Humanities programmes at US colleges have declined so sharply over the past two decades that most student graduates are "lacking even the most rudimentary
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    • 765 14 Flight of Lebanese and Arabs creates vacancies Reuter BEIRUT: When she left her US$35-a-month sales job in Sri Lanka to work as a nanny in the Middle East, Kamala had no idea she would be caught in a civil war. "The agency told
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    • 137 14  -  REPLY JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer Singapore Bus Service I REFER to the letter "Why must we return bus pass?" by "School Leaver" (SM, Nov 15). Student concession passes are issued for the purpose of subsidising full-time students' trips mainly to and from
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    • 62 14 "SUCCESS dispels critics and naysayers." Dr William C DeVries claiming vindication for his push to do artificial heart operations. "THE BEST guarantee of a country's performance is its own best interests. China has and is likely to continue to have strong economic reasons for wishing to see Hong Kong
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  • opinion / letters
    • 455 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT IT IS NOT easy for a non-Muslim to understand the emotions aroused by the use of the epithet kafir. The equivalent word familiar to Eng-lish-speaking people is infidel, but that hardly conveys the deep sense of revulsion and disgrace that kafir
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    • 257 15  -  K M LIM Singapore 1852 I AM surprised to find a list of names of safe deposit box renters in the Chartered Bank advertisement in the Straits Times on Dec 7. The bank may think that it is the best way to
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    • 395 15  -  REPLY LAWRENCE LIM for Permanent Secretary (Health)/Director of Medical Services IN HIS letter, "Imported medicines should have cert of analysis" (SM, Dec 3), Mr Wainscott maintains that substandard drugs and under-prescribing are the major contributing factors for the built-up resistance to drugs in Singapore.
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    • 72 15 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wM be accepted tor publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the Writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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    • 698 16  -  Talentime judges may be missing some great moves Story and pictures by WONG AH YOKE LAST Sunday's fourth quarter-final of Talentime '84 (Chinese) aroused some doubts on the method of judging. The panel's qualifications or sense of fairness are not in question. But one wonders whether the
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    • 378 16 CHICAGO: Bundled up against a bitter Chicago morning, 76-year-old Mattie Sigler waited in a long line to get into the hottest show in town last Thursday a court appearance by moon-walking, soft-talking Michael Jackson, the popular singer. Sigler, who woke up at 2 am in
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    • 394 17 Vietnam: A Television History The First Vietnam Wsr (1946 to 1954) (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 12, 8 pm) WHEN the French tried to re-impose colonial rule in Vietnam after World War 11, they came face to face with fierce Vietminh resistance. In November 1946, France bombarded Haiphong and
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    • 665 17 TV SCENE LOVERS of well-produced movies can look forward to a number of award-winning films on SBC in the next few months. An Englishman Abroad (to be shown on Dec 30) has won a record 16 awards nine British Academy, three Broadcasting Press Guild and
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    • 148 17 TWIE ITEM CONTENT Noon-2pm RadwOne Sounds Alive (DJ: Lynette Chan) Audience Quiz Mid-day Market Report News 2-2.30 pm Radio Four Signature Tune DJs Choice Penodical 2 30 3 30pm Rado Three Song Requests (DJ: Tan Khat) Interview on Meteorological Service m Singapore and
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    • Article, Illustration
      222 19  -  PARTY PIECES THAT WOW Co-ordination: INEZ WEI THE romantic allure of lace is making a timely appearance on the fashion scene. Breathing charm and sophistication, it is going to be the biggest news in party wear this Christmas. Whisper-sheer blouses, drifty full skirts and all-over lace dresses
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    • 722 20  -  BUT 2001 SEQUEL LACKS MYSTERY By SHEILA BENSON in Hollywood LAT-WP PETER HYAMS' 2010 floats as smoothly as one of its great space voyagers. The message it contains is heartfelt co-operation between nations, more exactly between the United States and the Soviet Union. It is breathtakingly
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 501 18 J•T |V B^L 2.30 SBCTCXT Live temple Pagn. %Ml A»Ag|li|j| mi_ff n>r> r»i amma ||IJ|||MAA||A LkHmuAil |u< TL^ j.uu upvting ana rrggrsnim nvgnngnis lonowia oy int Straggle (C) (r) (English subtitles). 4.30 For Am FemOy (T) (English auMMee) (r). 4.80 TIMMH.' The kids hold a sing-along session with Plod Pear.
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    • 799 18 van t f®|W' _JLL m 1 II mriv wlf /T K:: %i*$ 1 r <* MIHr Left: Rosalie Cratchley as Catherine Parr la The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Ch 12, 9.95 pm). Right: Peter (James Brolia) feels aseless after he delegates authority to his staff la Hotel Lifelines (Ch
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 574 20 fllM CUID€ Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Starring: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver Polly Holliday Synopsis: A comedy in which three emin- Synopsis: Another imaginative producDAUT (*****16): LUST FOR LOVE OF ent parapsychology specialists are called tion from Steven Spielberg. Billy's father A CHINESE COURTESAN (C) in
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 502 21 CERAMICS 3KT" A CERAMICS exhibition and sale by Iskandar Jalit. a Japan-trained pot- ter from Singapore, will be held at the Alpha Gallery, 21 Binjal Park, until Dec 21, 10 am to 4 pm diily. Admission is LASTING IMAGES AN exhibition of water- jjt. i colour paintings by Jm f
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    • 277 21 HAWKER FEST TEN of Singapore's favourite hawker selections will be served at the main poolside of the Goodwood Park Hotel today. The hawkers will start their fires at 6 pm and serve till 11 pra. Patrons can have any combination of four dishes at the price of $17 nett per
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    • 93 21 CAREER IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY THE Bukit Merah Branch Library will hold a talk on Careers in the Hotel Industry at* its lecture hall on Friday at 2 pm. Admission is free. RHYtHMIC EXERCISES THE Singapore Sports Council will conduct rhythmic exercise courses at the National Stadium Gymnasium from Dec
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  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • 270 22 Gift possibilities which have emotional value beyond their actual cost AS THE number of shopping days before Christmas dwindles alarmingly, it's hard to keep an element of desperation from entering into your shopping. The desperation is especially bad as you trudge through crowded stores, laden down with packages,
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    • 978 23  - FOR HIM PERSONAL PHOTOS AS PRESENTS By DAVE LARSEN LOS ANGELES IT'S Christmas morning, and there's a special gift from a woman to the love of her life. It's a beautifully bound album of photos which show her in poses and costumes as stunning as a film star or fashion
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • sports
    • 643 27 THE SINGAPORE Marathon has the potential to grow into one of the top 10 meets in the world if the organisers make their event known to runners in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia. So said American Barney Klecker. And
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    • 70 27 WITH the organisers bent on putting the Singapore Marathon on the world athletic map, Sunday's run was an impressive start to what may one day grow to become a premier event on the world calender. But more needs to be done. Here, ERNEST FRIDA talks to s veteran
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    • 210 27 PRO-KENNEX BADMINTON TOURNAMENT Bernama SUBANQ, Tuesday FORMER world badminton champion Icuk Sugiarto does not have any expectation of winning the Pro-Kennex badminton tournament beginning in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The injury to his right heel has not healed, he told reporters on arrival at the
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    • 130 27  -  By ALFONSO CHAN TENNIS enthusiast George Cheng has started another tournament for tennis lovers, called the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association Family Tennis Championships. George, who organised the Singapore Invitational Youth tennis championships earlier this year, is organising it this time for parents to
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    • WORLDFRONT
      • 96 27 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD JUAN Antonio Samaranch (above), president of the International Olympic Committee has reiterated his offer to host a meeting t>etween North and South Korean officials to avert the threat of a new Soviet-led boycott of the 1988 Olympic Summer Games in the
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      • 75 27 DEFENDING champion Bergisch Gladbach of West Germany and the Australian national team battled to a scoreless draw yesterday in the 1984 Taipeh International Women's Invitation Soccer tournament. Both teams advanced to the final round in Group A following the elimination of Japan and the United States'
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      • 59 27 WORLD chess title holder Anatoly Karpov (above) has requested a timeout in the world champion final against fellow Soviet Garry Kasparov, the official news agency Tass announced yesterday. The request by Karpov, who leads the match 50 and needs just one more victory to retain the
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      • 87 27 THE SINGAPORE Armed Forces Sports Association (Safsa) emerged overall champion in the Kedah Open shooting meet at the Pokok Sena shooting range, 19 kms from Alor Star on Sunday. Safsa bagged eight golds and two bronzes to win the Datuk Abdul Kudus Alias trophy. Kedah took
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      • 69 27 Oxford Club of the Year ENGLISH Second Division leaders Oxford were yesterday named Club of the Year by the English League's Executive Staffs' Association. England manager Bobby Robson, who announced the decision, said the club had maintained an excellent public image and astonished people with their achievements in winning promotion
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    • 153 28 Singapore's goalkeeper David Lee had a field day as he warded off the waves of Iranian attacks to enable the hosts to hold on to a memorable 1-1 draw. Picture on the left: David tipping the ball over the crossbar. Picture above: The brave goalkeeper taking a tumble
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    • 110 29 4stanCupB4 TW Mowit tknt look Utile shine oil Ike Skgaport performance lost olfkt. Goalkeeper David Lee (No. 1), looks oa disbelievingly at a penalty is awarded. Llm Tang Booa s (centre) agonised exprsMna tells tke whole story, wklle Iranian striker Gkolamrexa Fatkakadi lies sprawled on Ike groand
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    • 863 30 iHi IPS George Best, one of the greatest soccer players ever seen, seemed to have everything talent, good looks, fame, money and a beautiful wife. But now he's broke, in debt to the British taxman, and living apart from wife, Angie, and two-year-old son Calum. Best,
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    • 303 30 WHEN police arrested George Best recently on charges of assault, drunken driving and failing to answer bail, the ex-star was in the company of a gorgeous blonde. Police found him hiding in the flat of model Diana Janney, who described herself as
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    • Article, Illustration
      706 31  -  Magnificent show by Qatar goalkeeper won cup w QATAR 1 KOREA 0 By ALFONSO CHAN QATAR'S sensational victory over Korea last night was undoubtedly aided by the outstanding goalkeeping of Younis Ahmed, who, within a torrid three-minute spell of fierce shooting by the Koreans in the second half,
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    • 50 31 Shots on target: Qatar 5, Korea 12 Shots off target: Qatar 4, Korea 5 Corners: Qatar 6, Korea 3 Offsides: Qatar 0, Korea 8 Freekicks: Qatar 9, Korea 4 Yellow cards: Huh Jung Moo (Korea), Mohed Afifa (Qatar) Referee: A L Castillo (Spain) Crowd: 3,659 Match rating: 8
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    • 74 31 THK KOREAN TEAM BEFORE the tournament, every team named them as the one they feared most Bat after each match, through A combination of bad luck and tepid finishing, they have been cut down to size. After four matches, they have drawn twice and lost twice.
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 307 32 SEEN AND HEARD THE MIDDLE East countries have taken to a Singaporean pastime in a big way. Besides consuming a vast amount of drinks and food, they have developed a liking for watermelon seeds, better known as kwa-chee. On the terraces and
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    • 555 32  -  Asian Cup fr WA jLH SINGAPORE 1 IRAN 1 By S GULAM SAVE for a slip that resulted in a penalty, Singapore's defensive cobweb proved impenetrable to the marauding Iranians in last night's Asian Cud match at the National Stadium. The final scoreline was
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