Singapore Monitor, 7 January 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Monday, January 7, 1985 30cents
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  • 400 1 Shells with toxic chemicals kill six Cambodians in key KPNLF base AP NONQ SAMET (Thailand), Monday VIETNAMESE gunners are firing shells loaded with gas that has killed six anti-communist Cambodian guerillas and injured 47 others in fighting at the key Cambodian base of Rithisen in
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  • 217 1 UPI TWIN FALLS (Idaho), Monday A MAN was in critical condition yesterday, crushed by his own van when his "little puff of a dog" shitted the vehicle into reverse. Mr Rene Schatz, 64, was behind his van on Friday when his dog
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    • 185 2 FULL colour brochures have been printed by Singapore Airlines (SIA) to give the public a better idea of what goes on behind the scenes at the Changi Airport. Entitled "Welcome Aboard," the two-page brochure gives a short history of commercial aviation from 1947
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    • 258 2  -  By K K FONG A MAN swapped the contents in the letters he stole from over-flowing mail boxes before sending them off to the addressees. And when police caught up with him, he confessed that he did it because he was unemployed
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    • Article, Illustration
      204 2  -  Car park set aside for them to practise parking skills By SEAH MEI KIANG ON THE second level of a multi-storey car park in Queens town, learnerdrivers can practice reversing and parking away from the curious stares of the world. For a paltry sum of $13 a month
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    • 228 2 THE PICTURE on page one of The Sunday Monitor yesterday, headlined "Debut of the High Court 1985," was wrongly captioned The justices were erroneously captioned, from left to right, as Mr P Coomaraswamy, Mr F A Chua, Mr L P Thean, Mr T Sinnathuray, Mr Wee Chong
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    • 203 3 Lianhe Wanbao THE SIGNBOARDS of a number of shops in South Bridge Road were vandalised early yesterday morning. A man wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and dark pants and seen wielding a long steel bar at 3 am was reported to t>e
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    • 224 3  -  FROZEN PORK IS JUST AS GOOD I By NG MING MING A ROVING exhibition will soon take to the road to sell the idea of frozen pork to the public. Starting at Lucky Plaza on Jan 12, the exhibition will
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    • 550 4  -  SOON: FAREWELL TO JAMS HERE By VICTOR SOH MOTORISTS driving through Ang Mo Kio New Town will encounter fewer traffic jams by the end of the year. A tender to install the cableless linking system at 48 road junctions in Ang
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    • 466 6  -  Many children in Singapore are learning to use a computer at an early age Story and pictures by CHEW YEN FOOK START them young and these kids waste no time getting to know the computer. One girl is so fascinated with the computer that she is
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    • 146 6 THIEVES broke into a Bedok flat at the weekend and stole more than $13,000 worth of jewellery. Madam Y S Sitoh, 27, said her four-room Bedok Reservoir flat was broken into after she had left her home at 7.30 am. The break-in was
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    • 279 7  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG THE MUSICALS weekends at the Botanic Gardens promised by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) for the enjoyment of both Singaporeans and tourists started on a quiet note. The crowd of about 100 people stood or sat by the grass
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    • 221 7 Lianhe Wanbao A 64-YEAR-OLD woman was slashed by a youth in a lift during a holdup while putting up a struggle against him. The youth got away with her $2,000 gold chain. If it were not for her shouts for help, another elderly woman would
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    • 132 7 Lianhe Zaobao ALL FREIGHT operators in Singapore are now represented by a single association the National Freight Association of Singapore. The association was formed with the amalgamation of six different associations representing the same trade. The last to join was the Singa- pore Shipping
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    • 396 5 The most talked Noodle Restaurant in^BS||i| town is now open. ™rrrrr.-. DESPITE th« pro!H« r »ttO" c£oro p.nled this dish was made Bnd B ack Chlcke Soup I '■> pli» parlour, and h.mb«r9«r prawn eggs and $6.00. I W* 4 W restaurants, many Chinese che y td W uh Chinese
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    • 365 7 A joint campaign by MPH and Singapore Monitor to stretch your reading dollar. SMSP A NT OFF THIS AD /y OJTACHUtK OFFf BOOK PRICES!LJ books in town. I ■alTo'Sin IFMIPTT An inescapable fact M BBRal I /lltW I .«iwwtjsuf of life if you also f M R?ll 111 K I
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  • world
    • 600 8 Aims range from restarting talks to 'Star Wars' cutbacks Reuter GENEVA, Monday SOVIET Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and US Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday that tney would strive for Eeace at arms talks in Geneva, ut their remarks highlighted differences in the
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    • 213 8 Reuter ASHKELON (Israel), Mon GRIEF-STRICKEN Ethiopian Jews locked themselves in their rooms yesterday, saying they would mourn for those left behind by the halting of the secret airlift wnich brought them to Israel. "(Jo back to where you came from," Shmuel,
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    • 355 8 AP COLOMBO, Monday SRI LANKAN army troops, battling Tamil separatist guerillas, fatally shot a Roman Catholic priest and eight others late on Saturday near the northern town of Mannar, two bishops charged yesterday. Authorities confirmed the slaying of eight Tamils, whom they described as
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    • 153 8 UPI CLEVELAND, Monday A WOMAN accused of shooting her way onto a Pan Am jetliner and holding four passengers hostage for hours was once charged with shooting her husband during an argument over laundry, police said. Ornetta Mays, 42, of Cleveland, was in stable condition
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 90 8 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS JUDGE Christian Riss has completed the investigation into the wartime activities of Klaus Barbie (above), charged with crimes against humanity. Word that the 23-month inquiry was over increased speculation yesterday that the trial of Barbie, known in France as
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      • 67 8 LIBERACE'S familv tomb at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills was vandalised by someone who apparently singled out the flamboyant pianist. A bronze name plate bearing the entertainer's name was pried loose from the marble wall last week and mysteriously left behind, a police spokesman
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      • 75 8 Chinese Communist Party general secretary Hu Yaobang (above) made a promise to rural officials in Hebei Province last April. He said he would invite them to party headauarters in Beijing's Zhongnanhai compound if ley raised per capita income in their region by US$36 (Ss79) in a
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      • 75 8 LAWYERS for Time magazine and for former Defence Minister Ariel Sharon were yesterday allowed to read secret documents related to MrSharon's US$5O million (S$UO million) libel suit against the news weekly. The Israeli lawyers spent all day reviewing a classified annex to the 1983 inquiry commission report
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      • 63 8 ANIMAL rights activists attacked the home of Sir John Vane, Nobel Prize-winning director of the Wellcome Foundation, a medical research laboratory, yesterday. The Animal Liberation Front in a statement to the British domestic news agency, Press Association, claimed responsibility for hurling two gasoline bombs at the
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      • 59 8 ACTOR Dick Van Patten, former star of "Eight is Enough," again joined members of the Penguin Club in their traditional New Year's Day swim in Venice Beach, California. Van Patten, who was making his 14th winter plunge, was joined by his wife, 77-year-old father, and
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    • 52 9 A GOWNED and masked technician at Xebex Corporation in San Jose, California, catcher his reflection in the polished surface of a data storage disk, part of a personal computer's magnetic system. The disk's alominiam oxide coating, only microns thick, will store 80 million magnetic signals.
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    • 351 9 Bersama KUALA LUMPUR, Monday AFTER 27 years of independence, Malaysia will sever its remaining judicial link with Britain with the inauguration of its very own Supreme Court today. The inauguration opens a new chapter in Malaysian legal history. It also marks the final
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    • 154 9 Reuter BEUING, Monday CHINA'S crowded port city of Shanghai has mobilised tens of thousands of people to fight a wave of juvenile crime. China Daily has quoted Shanghai's Deputy Director of Public Security Yi Qingya as saying 35,000 people, including neighbourhood officials and relatives
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    • Article, Illustration
      503 10 Cold Siberian air sweeps across Europe, bringing with it a freak icy spell AP LONDON, Monday A SIBERIAN air mass swept across Europe yesterday and delivered the coldest temperatures of the century in some cities, as well as a dusting of snow in two capitals where it's
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    • 172 10 AP OSSIPEE (New Hampshire), Monday THREE PEOPLE accused of arguing their landlord to death over US$BO (Ssl72) in back rent face trial today in an unprecedented application of New Hampshire's negligent homicide law. The prosecutor will try to prove the three knew their
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    • 22 11 A MACHINE that can detect genes that cause or signal inherited disorders may soon be available for general patient care.
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    • 26 11 CHILDREN in day-care centres are up to 12 times more likely than those who stay home to catch a bacteria, a new study shows.
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    • 20 11 YOUNG boys might imitate feminine behaviour after seeing their parents go through a messy divorce, says a child psychiatrist.
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    • 425 11 TRENDS Science and Medicine AN ACCURATE test for genes that caiuv or signal inherited disorders may soon be available for general patient care because of a machine that speeds up the complicated process enough to make it a practical tool. The test can
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    • 156 11 CHILDREN in day-care centres are up to 12 times more likely than those who stay home to catch a bacteria, a new stuay shows. About 60 of every 100,000 US children contract the Hemophilus Influenza Type-B disease each year. 6f those, 10 per cent die,
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    • 91 11 Young boys might imitate feminine behaviour after seeing their parents go through a messy divorce, says Dr William Sack, director of child psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. Battles over custody and child support might prompt young boys to try on their mothers' high heels,
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    • 90 11 Soviet scientists have devised a scheme to send television and radio signals around the world without satellites by bouncing the waves off a man-made cloud of charged particles. The scientists would use a powerful radio wave to concentrate plasma into a cloud of particles in the earth's upper
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    • 83 11 More than a quarter of all allergic skin reactions in a large study were caused by lotions, creams and similar skin care products and almost one-fifth resulted from hair preparations. Dr Robert Adams, professor of dermatology at Stanford University, reported the results of the study of 281,000 patients
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  • money
    • 870 12 THE ENTREPRENEURS... ...CONTINUING THE SERIES LAT-WP LONDON, Monday SIB JAMES Goldsmith, the British financial tycoon who appears to be moving his base of operations to the United States, is a free-wheel-ing entrepreneur who prefers to keep the details of his operations to himself. Be
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    • 327 12 Ong and Company's weakly stock market outlook LOOKING at the week ahead, the local bourse will attempt to consolidate within the bank ST Index 830-780 in the absence of any adverse news. It is notable that the local market has chosen to
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    • 53 12 US economic statistics in the week ahead include: January 7 December unemployment (7.2 per cent) Jan II December producer price index (0.5 per cent) On the technical scene, the SES Index and its moving averages are still in a downward sequence. The on-balance volume indicator still shows
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    • 287 12 CONTINUED erosion of London Metal Exchange metal inventories, together with falling interest rates and the slight weakening of the US dollar, enabled metal prices to rise moderately over recent weeks. A particularly strong rise in the aluminium price was aided by heavy
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    • 375 13 MR RAINER AALTO was appointed the Regional Director of Kone Far East, the Asian operation of the Finnish multi-national Kone Corporation. He is responsible for overseeing the activities of Kone subsidiaries, agents and joint ventures in the Asean countries, Hong Kong and Taiwan. At the same time, Mr
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      388 13 MR ONG CHENG SWEE was promoted to Vice President of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co (MHT) Singapore branch, while retaining his current post of Treasury Manager. Mr Ong joined MHT six months ago after 12 years on the foreign exchange market with four international banks. As Treasury Manager,
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    • 132 13 AP JAKARTA, Monday THE ASIAN Development Bank has approved a US$25 million (Sss4 million) technical assistance programme loan for Indonesia, the largest user of ADB funds, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. The programme will enable the Government to formulate a well-balanced
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  • features
    • 1371 14  -  Communist ideology has not been discarded despite views of the West By JIM MANN Los Angeles Times BEIJING: Has something earthshaking taken place with respect to Marxism in China? Has the world's most populous nation suddenly abandoned or radically shifted its interpretation of the
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    • 711 14 AP COPENHAGEN (Denmark): A year after it began offering provisional refuge to almost anyone who declares himself a refugee, Denmark is trying to cope with a flood of foreigners seeking a better life in the welfare state. After handling only 332 asylumseekers in 1983, police and immigration
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  • opinion / letters
    • 506 15 THE SINGAPORE mcMMRBS SPECIALISED agencies of the United Nations were started as vital sources of aid for the needy. Nothing much has changed for these organisations except the budgets that run them and the need for their services. Both have increased substantially.
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    • 158 15  -  TAN HENG HUAY Executive Asst Secretary, (Public Relations), Housing Development Board. PLEASE refer to the letter by Mr Rajendran on the safety of HDB flats against earth tremors (SM, Dec 10) The HDB buildings are designed using the engineering requirements of the British
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    • 153 15 THE residents of Depot Road have been putting up with a lot Of pollution which nad somewhat subsided. But just when we thought we would have some quiet and peace, piling has now started again, lasting even as late as 7 pm on weekdays and sometimes
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    • 300 15  -  REPLIES JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBS I REFER to the letter "Could we have public bus services around the clock?" from Basheer of Singapore (SM, Dec 1). It gratifies us to know that Basheer finds our bus service efficient. Our thanks
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    • 75 15 LETTERS on any subfect o» pubhc interest w* be accepted tor publication They should be typed and mutt be signed They must also include the writ er s name and address even if the wnter decides to use a pseudonym *i print A contact telephone number would be useful We
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 489 16  -  By PAT D'ROSE SIX bands will debut tomorrow night at the Victoria Concert Hall in the first popular music concert organised commercially here, featuring only young amateurs. This is expected to help pave the way for the young musicians their average age is 17 to plunge
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    • 1294 16  -  By C SOMBOON in Kuala Lumpur The Star SHE may not have been cast in the same mould as comedienne Joan Rivers, but Rahimah Rahim can definitely crack a few good jokes. However, she pointed out that joking is not something she does very often lately. "Especially with
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    • 389 17 HKhts Solid Gold (Ch 5, 10.10 pm) TONIGHT'S programme takes on a new image with host Rick Dees, a well-known DJ in America. His co-host, LaToya Jackson, will sing Hot Potato. Guest artistes include Go Go which will perform two of its hits, Turn to You and Yes
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    • 886 18  -  COUNTDOWN '85 FAILED TO PROVIDE ROUSING START TO NEW YEAR Story by WONG AH YOKE WATCHING SBC's Countdown to '85 at the National Stadium was about as exciting as watching it at home, but more frustrating. At least, at home, you could let yourself go. But sitting on
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    • 834 19  -  COPPOLA S COTTON CLUB IS BUOYANT By SHEILA BENSON in Hollywood LAT-WP WHAT sort of hot and juicy mixture of good music and bad liquor, high living and low-life, fast dancing and faster ladies was the Jazz Age? You'll know in your bones by the end of
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    • 734 17 leisure -18' EI3BI ML jJmM 530 SBCTEXT j/ 9.00 Opening and Programme HighI 1 »i lights followed by Science.* jgl M ,a, f M A 6.20 The Wonderful World of Plant*: fc-JW Flower Children Leave Home (T) F E(English subtitles), k programme plants send out their offspring in the form
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    • 409 19 fILM GUIDE Synopsis: A comedy in which three eminent ANQ MO KIO (*****01): MERRY CHRISTDALIT (*****16): THE FIRST STITCH (C) fett's home MAS (C) UWAQU (*****30): WINNER TAKES ALL REGAL (*****59): THE OCCUPANT (C) A (C *****71): THE MOMENT HAS Starring. Alan Tang, Shuifan, 4BaZ3ilS underworld thiuts ItaiKkunt' vlolence 01
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 287 20 PIANO RECITAL THERE will be a piano recital by Israeli pianist Ilan Rogoff on Wednesday at 8 pm at the DBS Auditorium. The programme includes Bach-Busoni's Chacoune, Beethoven's Sonata in F minor 57 Apassionata, Chopin's Sonata in B flat minor Opus 35 and Polonaise in A flat Opus 53. Tickets
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    • 813 20 FOOD GUIDE /I MQ r THE annual guide book j on where to eat in Singa- 1— pore is now on sale at all XA/UPDP TO major bookshops and se- VYnCI\C I lected Shell petrol staPOETRY READING MOIL Mtk THERE will be a poetry AmA reading session at the jMr
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    • 162 20 HOW TO COMPLETE THE INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX RETURN BUKIT TIMAH Community Centre will hold a talk on how to complete the individual income tax return on Friday at 8 pm. The talk will be conducted in Mandarin. Admission is free. NIQHT CYCLING CUM BARBEQUE TECK GHEE Community Centre youth group
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  • 502 21  -  The Chef Recommends By THERESA CHAN LOW lights and soft jazz music provides a cosy atmosphere for a tete-a-tete session at the Bistro Toulouse-Lautrec at #04-09, Tanglin Shopping Centre. The Bistro has a wide range of dishes on its menu, both in its entrees and main
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 275 21 ran y WORTH INDIAN CUISINE J FOOD-FIT FOR ROYALTY! Savour tempting delights such as: Itmimml Kb* Ptwm #V A Mart Maaatai Nm* V Royal liaiilil Menu changes dafly #05-36 Far East Plaza, Scotts Road. S'port 0922 (opposite Holiday Inn. Next to Hyatt Regency We also cater for wedding, parties special
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    • 128 21 <# 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 Lantern Revolving Restaurant affords memorable dining experience. I Take in enchanting city sights and dazzling harbour lights as you feast
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    • 177 21 5£ The Best Korean Cuisine 3S was originated in Seoul, Korea and now found in HOOISARMH m ROMAN RESTAURANT If LUNCH DINNER Adult $10.50 $12.00 penon CHkfcen $5.50 $7.00 per penon (Below 10 yean) A Choice of chicken, pork, beef, ox tongue, cuttle-fish, rice, soup, vegetable and etc... Reservations call:
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 805 22 leisure comics Zo~ T~ ~1: FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook l HAVE To CAUL- f teAH, 6HE CAM HI. J'* MOT Otf ttS TRtLLIS. f I V/ RfctElVt CALL 6 W Grttl... WHAT V THI6 PtANfcT Hope 1 CAN CAK*, eutVAToKS, lOMD Of RfccOßDfcp R»6-HT Nov)... f y \¥W\m KtACH Hfc*'
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  • open line
    • 647 23  -  Self-knowledge helps one in choosing a proper career The six different categories of work By JUDY WALKER FEW SINGAPOREANS know how to choose a job that really suits their personality. This is one of the reasons, educational and occupational psychologist Elaine Liu, believes tnere is so
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    • 115 23 THE FIRST STEPS Become aware of the need to decide. Set goals. Collect information and find alternatives. Know the consequences of the alternatives. Weigh the value of each alternative. Choose the alternative with the highest value. Rethink your choice. Put the choice into action. JOB VALUES Income: Is the wage
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    • 351 23 IF YOU have records of your transport expenses, the Inland Revenue Department will not include your transport allowance for taxation on income. An Inland Revenue Dept spokesman clarified last week that only the portion of the allowance which is not spent on official travelling
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    • ANSWER BOX
      • 293 24 THE ANSWERS TO YOUR QUERIES I AM interested in doing the ACA and ACCA coarse and I would like to know what the minimum requirements are? What are the subjects offered and where can we take up the course? What are the fees for ACA level 1,
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      • 241 24 AN Australian friend of mine visited Singapore recently and was surprised to read in the Press that another new airport terminal, will be hnilt at the cost of $2 billion. He woold like to know how much it would cost to build the Changi International
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      • 55 24 Something troubling you. Need clarification on certain issues? Let us help. Send your queries to us and we will try to get the relevant authorities or organisations to provide the answers. Send your questions to: Open Line, The SingaSjre Monitor, 2 Alexandra Road, #03-01 Delta
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    • 161 24 EFFICIENT readers read from 400 to 800 words per minute (WPM) when they're not studying or analysing difficult material. You can read more efficiently by following these tips from Ms Diana Fink, reading specialist and co-author of "Speedreading: The How-to Book for Every Busy Manager,
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    • 78 24 HAVE YOU been making your office your second home? Take a look round and see if it does look a little too "homey." Most people need to spring-clean their tables and surrounding areas once a while. You don't need dead plants, dirty cups or overflowing ashtrays. How
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    • 186 24 THE Singapore Broadcasting Corporation will send its officers to carry out inspections of radio and television licences in January, February and March. The licencing inspectors have been issued with identity passes which will carry the person's picture, the SBC logo and
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    • 20 24 THE Yishun Newtown Community Centre at Blk 102, Yishun Ring Road, is ready for use.
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    • 21 24 THE Multi-Revenue Collection Centre at City Hall which has been closed for renovations has re-opened.
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    • 49 24 QUEEN Street from Basah Road to Stamford Road is being closed for three months. Motorists approaching Stamford Road from Queen Street should use Bras Basah Road and North Bridge Road. The closure is necessary to enable the. MRT contractor to carry out jet-grouting work.
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    • 288 26 classified 273-9090 Under $60 Bargains B.M.X. BICYCLE SO (cm). Good condition. "Selling at $60 only. Interested call Francis. Tel: 294 8006 MUST SELL! NIKE Elite' jogging shoes. Blue, size 7. Original $55. selling $35 Tel 348 5137 Hock Seng between Ip.m. to 6p.m. 'INTERNA TIONAL gold (8 records set) bought
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    • 164 26 Under $60 Bargains Uft> SCHOOL TEXT-BOOK AVAILABLE for immediate said. Interested buyers please can at 253-3387. GROOMING Hairdressers PIVOT POINT SCHOOL offers cut $4, perm $10 to $15, colour $10. By advanced students. For appointment tel: 732 1828/732 3882 #03-33, Orchard Plaza. LEISURE SPORTS MART Health Clubs ur if* Furniture/
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    • 412 26 PROPERTY Accommodation Vacant BEACH a OAD, MASTER bedroom partially furnished, air-cond, batfjroom attached Available for immediate rental. Tel: 338 0287. OIST ISSS, CHUAN PARK newly qompleted brand new maisonnette and apartments for rent. Partly/ fully furnished. Facilities available are swimming pool. 24-hour security, tennis/ squash court, club house, etc. Tel:
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    • 195 26 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 18S KIM HUP HIN PTE. LTD. (In Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting ot the members of KIM HUP HIN PTE LTD duly convened and held at 466. Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 1953 on the 31st day of December 1984, the
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    • 328 26 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPAHIES ACT, CAP. 105 AND IN THE MATTER OF KENNETH OREEN (BROKERS ft TRADERS) PTE LTD (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 15th Floor, St. John's Building, 33 Garden Road. Hong
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  • sports
    • 565 27  -  GOLF ROUNDUP *i!h ERNEST FRIDA THERE were warm praises all-round for the Singapore Golf Association's new format for the handicap league which teed off at three different venues yesterday. Most of the players who played in yesterday's league matches felt the move to
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    • 196 27 Reuter LONDON, Mon TWO UNKNOWN Americans, Ken Flach and Robert Seguso of the United States, won the World Doubles tennis championship at the Royal Albert Hall here yesterday. The two 21-year-olds beat the 1982 and 1983 champions Heinz Gunthardt of Switzerland and Balazs Taroczy of
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    • 513 27 DANIEL LIM, 41, whom many have written off after his poor performance at the World Amateur championship in Hong Kong last November, bounced back yesterday with a sparkling one-over-par 73 in the opening match of the Singapore Golf Association Premier League competition at
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    • 353 27 Reuter BIRMINGHAM, Monday BEFORE yesterday Boris Becker had not won a set from Stefan Edberg in four matches, but yesterday he won three out of five to become the first Young Masters tennis champion. In a match which may
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    • 616 27 RACE I CI J Div 4 1400 m 2 Alexander 56.5 Johnston (3) 111 7 Second Chance 53.5 KL Oo (5) 3 3 2 4 Affectation IU 56 Vein 2 2 3 1 Glamorous Charm 57 Ooi (2) 4 4 4 Owner Romanov Stable Trainer: K M Noordin
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    • 640 28 ENGLISH FA CUP Third round Bamalay 4 Reading 3; Birmingham 0 Norwich 0; Brighton 1 HuM 0; Bristol Hover* 1 Ipswich 2; Burton 1 Leicester I; Carlisle 1 Oegenhem 0. Chelsea 2 Wigen 2; Coventry 2 Man City 1; Doncaator 1 QPfl 0; QHNngham vs Cardiff (postponed);
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    • 223 28  -  s YACHT RACE By ALFONSO CHAN IMPIAN, a sleek 10.8 metre sloop-rig Whiting 36 skippered by Alan Barnes, wrested the second Tatler-Cartier Trophy from a host of favourites in the keel boat race at Changi yesterday. Fortunate tactics in the last hour by her crew
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    • 910 28  -  BRITISH SOCCER BY JOHN SELLERS THE THIRD Round of the FA Cup provided its usual quota of embarrassment for the elite of the First Division at the hands of humbler clubs. Out went Queen's Park Rangers, beaten 1-0 by Doncaster Rovers 01
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    • Article, Illustration
      97 28 Reuter LEADING scorers in EnHsh soccer after Saturday's matchss: DIVISION ONE: 23 Kerry Dixon (Chelsea) 20 Graeme Sharp (Everton) 19 Gary Lineker (Leicester) 18 Gary Bannister (Queen s Park Rangers), Mark Falco (Tottenham). DIVISION TWO: 22 John Aldridge (Oxford) 17 Billy Hamilton (Oxford) 16 Gary Stevens (Shrewsbury) 15 Paul
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    • 545 29  -  ,«s' with Julian Bees Agenzia Ansa ROME, Monday EPIPHANY, the last day of Christmas, when Italy's Lady Christmas traditionally brings children their presents, gave a generous shower of seven goals in Naples, produced Cremonese's second win of the season, and plunged Rome into deep snow,
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    • 116 29 Como 2 Avallino 1; Cremonese 2 Ascoli 0; Inter Milan 0 Roma 0; Napoli 4 Udinese 3; Sampdona 1 Juventus 1; Torino 2 Fiorentina 2; Verona 1 Atalan ta 1; Lazio v Milan match postponed until today bacauaa of snow. Leading standings P W D I
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    • 266 29 AP HOUSTON (Texas), Monday AMERICAN Marty Froelich put on a crowdpleasing charge over the final mile to overtake Kenya's fading Sam Ngatia, hobbled by painful blisters on his feet, to win the Houston-Tenneco marathon by a 30-second margin at 2:11.13 yesterday. Canada's
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    • 33 29 TAMARA McKINNEY of Squaw Valley, California, swerving past the last gate to victory in the women's slalom event during the World Cup skiing at Maribor, Yugoslavia, on Saturday. PICTURE: AP
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    • 470 29 SPANISH LEAGUE Reuter MADRID, Monday BARCELONA, inspired by superb performances from their foreign stars, thrashed Real Zaragoza 4-2 yesterday to increase their lead at the top of the Spanish league to seven points. Real Madrid dropped a home point by drawing 0-0
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    • 103 29 Reuter KUWAIT, Monday KUWAIT have suspended all domestic soccer matches because of a referees' strike, the Kuwaiti news agency, Kuna, reported yesterday. It said one referee was attacked by spectators on Saturday and matches had been suspended until further notice. Soccer has fast become popular in
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    • 391 30 NEGRI SEMBILAN 3 MALACCA 0 NEGRI Sembilan turned giant killers to upset Malacca with a humiliating 3-0 defeat in its opening Malaysia Cup match at the Municipal Stadium in Seremban yesterday. Malacca, former League champions, could not do anything right, and allowed
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    • 207 30 BRUNEI 1 TRENGGANUO Bernama BRUNEI upset the more fancied Trengganu 1-0 through a 31st minute goal scored by forward Faisal Haji Yusuf in a Malaysia Cup match played at the Hassanal Boikiah Stadium in Bandar Sen Bagawan last night. Trengganu were unlucky not to
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    • 418 30 SARAWAK 2 KELANTAN 1 The Star SARAWAK left it till the very last minute to grab the winning goal in their Malaysia Cup match against Kelantan at the Jubilee Ground in Kuching yesterday. Herman Bulang, who had been ineffective for most of
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    • 162 30 PENANG 0 ARMED FORCES 0 MALAYSIAN Armed Forces did well to hold Penang to a goalless draw in this sluggish Malaysia Cup tie at the City Stadium in George Town last night. The home side, playing their first cup tie this season, was a total
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    • 27 30 YESTERDAYS results: Sabah 0 Singapore 1 Penang 0 Armed Forces 0 Sarawak 2 Kelantan 1 Negri Sembilan 3 Malacca 0 Brunei 1 Trengganu 0
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    • 171 30 Match between Singapore and Sabah SHOTS on target: Sabah 2 Singapore 6 Shots off target: Sabah 3 Singapore 6 Corners: Sabah 3 Singapore 6 Free kicks: Sabah 10 Singapore 6 Offside: Sabah 1 Singapore 12 Referee: Clement Ambrose (Selangor) Crowd: 4,000 (capacity) Match rating: 7 PWD L F
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 624 31  -  SABAH 0 SINGAPORE 1 By S GULAM in Kota Kinabalu SINGAPORE'S skill, aggression and reputation proved too much for unadventurous Sabah yesterday at the Likas Stadium here. Sabah took the field cowed by Singapore's reputation, and allowed the Young Lions
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    • 80 31 SEAK Poh Leong, FAS soccer development director, was pleased with the three points gained yesterday. "That brings our tally to four points. Four points out of two away matches is quite a good result We should have take into consideration that this is only the
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    • 107 31 SEEN AND HEARD MAJOR Abbas Abu Amin, the FAS deputy chairman, could have been the reason for the change in fortune for Singapore. Before the match, he decided to sit on the team bench instead of joining the Sabah big wigs. He instructed Steven Tan, the
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    • 122 31 TEAM manager Lim Jit Poh was in a calculative mood after Singapore's win over Sabah yesterday. He brought out a calculator to assess Singapore chances in the competition. "Add these three points to the one gained against Brunei. That makes up four. That
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