Singapore Monitor, 8 January 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M C (P) No. 21 5 84 Tuesday, January 8, 1985 30 cents r EVENING 4 > EDITION
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  • Article, Illustration
    79 1 MALAYSIAN police constable Nordin Ujad (above) had a miraculous escape when two ballets drilled three boles In his helmet (top picture) daring a shootout with robbers at a shophouse in Kaala Lampar -yesterday morning. Miaates later, Constable Nordin shot and killed oae of the robbers as the latter
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  • 119 1 UPI GENEVA, Tuesday THE talks between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko are aimed at thawing the chill between the superpowers but Mr Gromyko feels too cold. Its too cold here. I think 111 go back to
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  • 156 1 lAN »A4WAI (ThoHud), Tu—day VIETNAM today shot down a Thai jet fighter at an area of the Thai-Cambodian border where Vietnamese troops reportedly intruded into Thailand. The downing of the American-built A-S7 fighter came as Thai troops were attempting to push back Vietnamese troops
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  • 408 1  -  By JOSEPH LEE PUSSY willows and red lanterns will line the streets of Chinatown as part of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board's plan to attract tourists and Singaporeans to Chinatown during the Chinese New Year. There will also be four Chinese arches erected at the ends of
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  • 196 1 UPI FAIRFIELD (California), Tuasday AIR FORCE Captain Joe Viani and his wife, Anne, will get only one 1984 tax deduction for their new twin babies because one baby missed the deadline by five minutes. Augustine Hill Viani arrived at 11.54 pm
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • home
    • 160 2 OA stage will be erected to feature Chinese operas and orchestras. Well known Cantonese storyteller, Lei Tai Sor, will be participating. Dragon, lion nnd pugilistic dances, stiltwalking and calligraphy exhibitions will also be held. A bird-singing competition nnd photographic contest will be held. Trophies will be awarded to
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    • 210 2 MINISTERS of State and Parliamentary Secretaries were sworn in before President C V Devan Nair at the Is tana this morning Heading the list was Mr Lee Yock Suan, Senior Minister of State. He is also acting Labour Minister. The Ministers of State
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    • 90 2 POLICE are working on the theory that an "inside job" may have led to the loss of about half-a-million dollars worth of tin concentrate from a warehouse in Penjuru Lane over the weekend. The loss of 443 bags of tin concentrate belonging to Lington Private
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    • 270 3 THE FROZEN Pork campaign is now in full swing. Ana, Singaporeans, who consume 68,000 tonnes of pork yearly, will be getting plenty of advice on the benefits of eating frozen pork. The campaign to educate consumers on the availability, quality and nutritional value of
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    • 151 3 ROBBERY NO. 1 HOARDING money in "tin safes" cost a 40-year-old woman factory worker $16,000 yesterday. Madam Lim Chee Heng lost about $16,000, which she kept in three tins in her wooden kampong house at Jalan Jamba tan Lama off Chua Chu
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    • 162 3 ROBBERY NO. 2 A 25-YEAR-OLD businessman who was carrying $84,340 in a brown bag was mugged by a lone robber in busy Rochore Centre yesterday afternoon. The robber, believed to be unarmed, surprised businessman Mr Koh Yeow Chong immediately after he
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    • 436 4  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO SEVERAL beggars rounded up six weeks ago are being treated for alcoholism with a drug that makes them feel sick if they drink. They are among 82 still being held after an island-wide swoop in which 114 beggars were taken into custody.
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    • 246 4  -  By JOSEPH LEE WENG CHAN Engineering, a ship-repairing company for off-shore and coastal vessels, has gone into voluntary liquidation after operating for more than 40 years. About 100 employees have been retrenched, and the company's machinery, worxboats and shipyard equipment have been advertised for sale. Marine
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 87 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS A BRITISH teacher has been appointed principal of the Anglo-Chinese Secondary School (ACS).' Mr William Thomas (above), 51, an Honours graduate in Engbsh and Literature from London University, will start work next Monday. Before his ACS appointment, Mr Thomas
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      • 93 4 A WORKSHOP on sexual harassment at the office is being organised by the Singapore Association of Personal and Executive Secretaries (Sapes). The workshop, which will be held next Saturday, aims "to expose the seriousness of secretaries being harassed in the workplace, especially those who work in the
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      • 91 4 THE GOLDEN LION Literary Awards for the best Chinese writers in Singapore were given away to their proud winners in the presence of a group of distinguished writers last night, at the closing ceremony of the 2nd International Chinese Writers' Forum. Journalist Liu Peifang (above right) won
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      • 94 4 A 34-YEAR-OLD traffic policeman is in a serious condition in hospital with multiple injuries suffered in a collision between his motor-cycle and a lorry. Corporal Chong Kok Chong, a member of the elite Special Enforcement Squad, was riding along a slip road to the the East
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    • 142 4 DETECTIVES are looking for a youth alleged to have robbed and raped a housewife in her apartment last Saturday. The woman a Chinese housewife in her early thirties said she was pushed from behind as she was opening the door t°tate n er
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    • 534 6 UPI HONG KONG, Tu«sd«y HUNDREDS OF people are swamping a new immigration counselling agency with requests for advice on how to leave Hong Kong before China takes control of the British colony in 1997, the firm's director said yesterday. The firm, known
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    • 66 6 Reuter BEIRUT, Tims SWISS diplomat Eric Wehrli, abducted by four gunmen in Beirut while driving home on January 3, was freed today, sources in the Shi'ite Amal movement said. They said the movement had secured his release. Mr Wehrli was then taken to the home of
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    • 360 6 Agencies DERBY (England), Tuee NINE STRIKING British coal miners were sentenced to up to three years' iail yesterday for setting fire to buses which were used to take working miners to the pits. The attack, one of a string of violent outbursts during the
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    • 157 6 AP NEW YORK, Tuesday WORLD EXECUTIVE S Digest, a monthly that calls itself the largest Eng-lish-language business magazine published in Asia, has been sold by Wed International Ltd of Hong Kong to the Goldhirsh Group of Boston. Mr Bernard A Goldhirsh, president, said he acquired the
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 129 6 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS ACTOR Peter Lawford's (above) last attempt at show business ended in December with him stumbling around the set and unable to remember his lines. People magazine says. Elizabeth Taylor managed to get Lawford a US$2,OOO (554,***** two-day cameo role In
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      • 111 6 I A MAJORITY of Britons think Queen Elizabeth (above right) should abdicate in favour of her 36-year-old son and heir Prince Charles jabove left), according to an opinion poll pubA similar poll in 1980 had two thirds against abdication. The latest survey, for the weekly
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      • 69 6 JOE KITIINGER, the first person to cross the Atlantic alone in a gas-filled balloon, has another adventure in mind around the world in a couple of weeks. "This is the ultimate adventure. This is Hk» going to the moon," said Mr Kittinger. A launch site has
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      • 64 6 THE US reprwetattve fm a pnat cooking competition in Parti mUmttkmm bo a Frenchman who now lives ani works In Now Jersey Jean-Marie JoaeelfcLtt,of LainPnrafrpanj is executive chef at the black OrchM laeUaraat in Morristown and qealiflod lor the contort with a dish of roasted sq«ab
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    • 214 6 Reuter DALLAS, Tuesday A HUGE TAKEOVER move by millionaire oil tycoon, Dr Armand Hammer, collapsed suddenly yesterday when the purchase of US oil and chemical firm, Diamond Shamrock, by his Occidental Petroleum empire was suddenly called off. Earlier yesterday, Occidental announced it
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 50 6 OSamsoniter All Function Spare Table Fold-away Steel y Vinyl Top y One Year Guarantee y Imported from U.S.A. R i Luggage Distributors Pte. Ltd. I Tel: *****44/*****41/*****51 BOOK EXHIBITION AT PEOPLE'S PARK CENTRE (BASEMENT) TIME 11 A.M. TO 10 P.M. DAILY DATE: 1 TO 10 JANUARY 1985 ALL ARE WELCOME!
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • world
    • Article, Illustration
      759 8 Close shave for cop as 2 bullets hit his helmet nil mm cncrim. cunnrrnirr iu iri ■■w www ■ww im The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday A ROBBER was shot dead and a policeman had a narrow escape when two bullets went through his helmet in a shootout at
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    • 509 9 Thawing of frosty US-Soviet relations but no signs of breakthrough Reuter GENEVA, Tuesday THE FIRST arms talks between the Soviet Union and the United States for IS months are being kept under a veil of secrecy, but the few outward signs
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    • 55 9 AP STOCKHOLM, Tuesday THE SOVIET Union accounted for half the world's underground nuclear tests last year, Swedish military researchers said yesterday. Mr Nils-Olov Bergkvist, spokesman for the Swedish Armed Forces' Research Institute, said the Soviet Union conducted 27 tests out of 53 registered by
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    • 247 9 LAT-WP TORUN (Poland), Tuesday A DEPUTY Minister of Interior was named in trial testimony yesterday as having approved the covert operation last October in which a pro-Solidarity priest was kidnapped and slain. The Deputy Minister, identified as Wladyslaw Ciaston, was linked publicly
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    • 458 10 Beijing magazine says country is suffering one of the worst pollution problems in world AP BEIJING, fiMtday AN OFFICIAL Chinese magazine said yesterday that China was suffering one of the worst pollution problems in the world and should spend more money on environmental protection. The English-language weekly,
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    • 228 10 AP ARANYAPRATHET, Tuesday GUERILLAS clung to a small portion of Ampil camp in Cambodia today after fighting through the night against Vietnamese forces that captured most of it in yesterday's assault, Thai military sources said. Vietnamese artillery pounded fighters of the Khmer People's National
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    • 148 10 ME SON Sann (above, left) President of the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF), who was in Ampil, on Sunday, predicted correctly that there would be a Vietnamese attack to mark the sixth anniversary of their occapation of his country. Vietnamese troops attacked a
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    • 285 10 Reuter ROTTERDAM, Tuesday IRAN, which was recently discounting its oil prices aggressively to attract buyers, has sprung a surprise by increasing the official price for its light crude, buyers on the Rotterdam spot market said yesterday. They said Iran had raised the price
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    • 241 10 BEVERLY HILLS, Tum AMADEUS, the drama of Mozart'i life, and The Killing Fields, the study of two friends in war-torn Cambodia, scored six Golden Globe nominations each yesterday from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. A Passage to India David Lean's film
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 482 11 k^^Btlceletei^the Usher in the New Year with gifts of your choice from Tan Chong. Here's how you can get these wonderful gifts: ,i "HMfißMfc You wM be entitled to a specific number of points wL\3 IMB Bk. when you buy any new Nissan vehicie this BBj 9K Lunar New Year
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  • money
    • 497 12  -  18% fall in group profits gW Training to play key role Review to take 6 months By OEI SIN GIOK COLD STORAGE has begun an exhaustive internal reorganisation in an effort to "maintain its market position and improve its margins". A team of
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    • 126 12 FITZPATRICKS Ltd, another supermarket chain, also suffered from intense competition last year. The previous year ended Dec 31, 1983 saw group pre- tax profits almost halved to $2.9 million. It blamed a two-third reduction of exports to once-major customer Indonesia, and the strong Singapore dollar affecting its
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    • 227 12  -  By JILL HUM SINGAPORE, "Switzerland of Asia", is a natural choice for Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (KOP) to extend their activities here, says its chief general manager Dr Jaakko Lassila. KOP, the largest bank in Finland, has been in Singapore since 1970, and, Dr
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    • 248 13 HHLLSTOEET Reuter TECHNICAL factors and a strong bond market helped Wall Street close higher yesterday for the first time in 1985. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 5.63 to 1190.59. Overall, gaining issues lea losers 968 to 567. Volume on the New
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    • 28 13 THE OUB Composite Share Price Index was down 1.71 points to 392.84. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted Index was up 0.0833 point to 133.7784 in morning trading.
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    • 170 13 Reuter THE US dollar held near New York levels in quiet early trading. Dealers said operators were generally reluctant to take large positions after its sharp fall, especially against the mark, in New York. Fears of possible Central Bank intervention also limited trading with the dollar rising
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    • 172 13 THE LOCAL bourse opened quietly this morning in spite of the Wall Street s mild sains last night. Volume was still very thin at the midday break with top volume stock UOL warrant doing only 385,000 to close at 36 cents, followed by
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    • 752 13 Precious Metals and Currency Report by UOB Bullion A Futures THE PRECIOUS metals have been under pressure since the last three weeks of 1984. The New Year has neither brought in a cheer nor a relief. The overall rate of inflation in
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    • 258 13 Selected stocks at midday. Market toae: slightly ester Boustead 1.63/1.65 Cold Storage 2.55/2.56 F 6 N 4.86/4 88 Genting 4.80/4.82 gihTlss S Haw Par 1.99/2.02 Isetan 2.40 B Jurong Cement 1.90 S Keck Seng 1.97/1.98 Esso 2.58/2.60 Hume 3.30/3.48 Inchcape 2.35/2.36 Intraco 2.45 S M Cement 1.60/1.62 Metro 3.02/3.04
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    • 94 13 Your S$ to on# unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DD US| 2.2070 2.1970 2.1880 sterling 2.5489 2.5269 2.5169 Australian 1.8044 1.7804 1.7654 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to 1 unit US$ 2.21 2.18 NZf 1.10 1.00 sterling 2.58 2.48 Australian 1.84 1.74 Canadian 1.66 1.59 S$ to 100
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 26 12 STOKER THE BROKER 7-It CIIM McNawrht Srmi lac. Z 6TUPY "Mfc UPTUTK-OOWMTICK VOLUME, HlfirM-LOW Dl FPEREMTIAI*, COMPUTER CfRA?M6... /pw loLTijiofF *TW6« U6G. MV E£dlE-/rfIMEV- MO MBTHOP.
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • opinion / letters
    • 492 14 I HOPE the opposition's comments on the President's speech at the Swearing-in of the new Cabinet will not be an overture to another term of opposition tirades against the People's Action Party (PAP), which we so often read in the Press in
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    • 215 14  -  ELVIN TAN M T Singapore 9109 I WAS really astounded when I read in page two of Jan s's edition of the Singapore Monitor that your reporters covering the press conference of Mr Jeyaretnam could have problems understanding the implications of
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    • 220 14  -  ROBERT LEE Singapore 1024 THE SINGAPORE Monitor has produced many interesting articles for public reading but there is always room for improvement. I would like to suggest some topics that might be interesting, such as how new towns are set up in Singapore, the
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    • 183 14 THE SINGAPORE Association of Women Lawyers deserves public praise for staging tne recent "You ana tne Law" exhibition at the Singapore Conference Hall. This achievement, I hope, will inspire and goad the male lawyers collectively to do something worthwhile along similar lines for the
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    • 126 14 I REFER to the article "Noodle soup at 40 cents" (SM, Jan 2). The cost of living is indeed very high these days. But it seems to me that some hawkers and coffee stalls are still very generous with the amount they give for their
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    • REPLIES
      • 185 14  -  TAN KIOK K'NG Director (Pharmaceutical Dept)/ Chief Pharmacist, Ministry of Health I REFER to Mr Garry Wainscott's letter on "Substandard antibiotics may have been prescribed" (SM, Dec 28). The product under discussion is a proprietary brand of capsule/tablet Erythromycin which has been labelled
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      • 123 14  -  JEANNE TAY (MISS) Public Relations Officer Singapore Broadcasting Corporation WE REFER to the letter from "TV Addict" (SM, Dec 19). A number of popular mini-series such as "Return to Eden," "Rage of Angels," "V" and "Mystic Warrior" were shown recently. The nine-episode "Master
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      • 177 14  -  JEANNE TAY (MISS) Public Relations Officer Singapore Broadcasting Corporation WE REFER to the letter "Historical inaccuracies in TV serial" from "TV Viewer" (SM, Dec 8). At the time of filming we were aware that the metalled roads and the modern concrete slabs were not
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    • 464 15 THE SINGAPORE fyftMluß BBBBM IT IS a pity that these days Zola Budd makes the headlines in the news pages rather than the sports pages. Her prowess on the track has been overshadowed by her country-hopping antics. That she is a talented runner has never
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    • 158 15 WILL THE relevant authorities please explain why there isn't a bus stop along Keppel Road for residents of Spottiswoode Park Road heading towards Shenton way? There was a bus stop outside the Malayan Railway Station a few years ago but this was demolished. Now
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    • 734 15 I REFER to the letter "Days of profiteering in property market are over" (SM, Dec 26) by Mr Ang Seng Chuan. Whilst Mr Ang may appear to be informative on the property scene to some extent, I feel that he has omitted to
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 71 14 LETTERS on any subject of public interest w« be accepted tor publication. They should be typed and must be signed They must also include the writer's name and address even It the writer decades to use a pseudonym in print A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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  • leisure
    • 636 16  - '85 a year to be creative By INEZ WEI LOOKING back at past fashion notions, 1984 was a year filled with amusing mixtures and interesting changes. It was a good time for those with a spirit of adventure, as anything from tailored menswear to flirty feminine finery could be experimented
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    • 563 16 IPS INTERNATIONAL ice skater Randy Gardner, 26, has been skating since age nine. Because of a rigorous, demanding and fast-paced life as a performer and athlete, Gardner has developed a very personalised self-maintenance programme. Here he answers a few questions on the subject of beauty and grooming
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    • 532 18 wmm It Takes Two Sam and Molly (Debut) (Ch 5, 11.05 pm) RICHARD CRENNA and Patty Duke Astin star as Sam and Molly Quinn in this new comedy series. They have, had a stable relationship for the past couple of decades and are doting parents of
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    • Article, Illustration
      634 18  -  TV SCENE ;v. > By JOAN HANAUER UPI LLOYD BRIDGES nibbled on a piece of Danish and talked about cheating on his wife. Dorothy Bridges sipped her Sanka and smiled. That's because the actor wasn't talking about real life, he was talking about the character he plays
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    • Article, Illustration
      843 19  -  ®y MICHAEL LONDON LAT-WP AS the final credits roll on Starman, director John Carpenter bestows a dedication of the sort usually reserved for deceased editors or inspirational predecessors: For Dean Riesner. Riesner is a writer, and is living to boot. He wrote the last five drafts of Starman
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1439 17 |M A THE SMGAPORE MONTTOR K leisure TUESDAY, January 9, 1995 I U SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The V 'mF* (English subtitles). |£HM^> 4.55 Troupers. Besides the Mime Associates. Circus Shmirkus enter fl I VV tains us a juggling act and Michael Cooney
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 231 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. NIGHT CYCLING CUM BARBEQUE TECK GHEE Community Centre youth group
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    • 568 20 Pianist Ilan Rogoff will give a recital at the DBS Aaditoriam tomorrow aight at 8. PIANO RECITAL Stephanie Chase, one of America's THERE will be a piano recital by Is- most gifted violinists will be featured raeli pianist Ilan Rogoff tomorrow at 88 a soloist. Included in the pro--8 pm
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    • 162 20 PIZZA QALORE CAFE VIENNA, Royal Holiday Inn, is featuring a pizza galore for the month of January. The menu offers six different creations of pizza and is priced at $7.50++ each. A fine selection of Italian wines by the glass is also available. The pizza galore will be served for
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  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • 396 21  -  By LEE CHIU SAN THERE are pitfalls to buying a camera in Singapore. A front page report in this newspaper last Friday revealed that most of the price complaints made by tourists involve cameras, watches and electronic goods. In this area, local buyers cannot complain of
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    • Photography market guide
      • 145 22 ENSURE a good buy when shopping for a camera by going with a knowledgeable friend to a recommended retailer. If your friend cannot go with you, get him to call and let the proprietor know you are coming. Some shops practice a double standard,
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      • 111 22 A QUESTION often asked by holiday makers is whether or not to buy cameras abroad, especially in Japan or Hong Kong. The answer is no. Prices in Japan are considerably higher than those in Singa pore, up to 40 per cent more. Hong Kong
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      • 127 22 WITH normal and wide-angle lenses, don't always opt for the fastest lens available. 50mm lenses with apertures of f1.2 and wide angle lenses of f2 cost considerably more than their fl.B and f2.8 cousins. And in practical terms, they are not always better. When was the
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      • 261 22 FOR long-range work, quick focussing is essential. There is a good case to be made for buying the fastest telephoto lenses you can afford, but this can be very expensive, and can give your orthopaedic surgeon some extra business. Every photographer should opt for an aperture
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      • 348 22 MANY amateurs will opt to buy a zoom lens. Zooms have their uses, but don't ever believe the claims that one lens can do the work of all. In terms of value for money, the best zooms are those in the short to medium telephoto
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    • 53 21 not h' tfoods items which are much low prices -aper In duty-free Singapore who arive other -.imtrk- Of 464 c. From our front page article last Friday f W*o#»|^3soD The Complete Auto Memory Maker with Quartz Clock 9c Calendar —sbbbS The little camera that makes the best memories...and dates them,too.
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  • sports
    • 275 25  -  By B KULA THIRTEEN days to go before the Asian Cup in Dhaka, and Singapore are still in the dark about the fixtures of the tournament. All Singapore officials know is that they have been placed in Group A together with Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Japan
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    • 318 25 TAKE your hats off to Singapore's hockey goalkeeper Sukhdev Singh. He plans to sacrifice his engagement just to make sure that he wins a place in the national squad for the Asian Cup in Dhaka from Jan 20-28. Sukhdev, 26, was to be
      PICTURE: ASMAH HAMID  -  318 words
    • 560 26 EUROPEAN SOCCER ROUNDUP Reuter LONDON, Tuesday BARCELONA added to their growing reputation as one of the finest teams in Europe this season by beating Real Zaragoza 4-2 on Sunday and stretching their lead in the Spanish League to seven points. On a day
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    • 201 26  -  By B KULA THE NATIONAL Physical Fitness Gymnasium, in its bid to attract Singaporeans to bodybuilding, has signed up three-time Asian lightweight champion Fatholomein Ali as chief instructor. Fatholomein left Singapore in search of a career in Malaysia in August last year.
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    • 228 26 Reuter ROME, Tuesday AC MILAN beat struggling Lazio 1-0 yesterday in an Italian League First Division game postponed from Sunday because of the first heavy snow in Rome for 14 years. Milan were still without England international Mark Hateley who has played only once
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    • 404 26 Reuter LONDON, Monday LIVERPOOL and Tottenham, Britain's two European trophy holders, faced an English Football Association (FA) Cup showdown after yesterday's fourth-round draw. Tottenham, the First Division leaders who won last season's UEFA Cup, have to beat London neighbours Charlton in a third-round
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    • 1664 27  -  MONITOR SPORTS COLOUR EXTRA By JIMMY CONNORS IPS I THINK that more than 95 per cent of tennis at the pro level is mental. To be successful, you have to develop and maintain a positive attitude towards your game which, believe me, is a
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    • 495 28 GRAND PRIX MASTERS TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP Reuter NEW YORK, Tustday DAVIS CUP heroes Mats Wilander and Henrik Sundstrom lead a record four-pronged Swedish assault on the Grand Prix Masters Tennis Championship starting at Madison Square Garden today. Only two Swedes Wilander and Bjorn Borg have previously
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    • 594 28 KARPOV KASPAROV 1 KARPOVKASPAROV TUSSLE Agencies MOSCOW, Tuesday TITLE HOLDER Anatoly Karpov took a leaf out of challenger Gary Kasparov's book in yesterday's 39th game of the World Chess Championship. Karpov, playing white, began with a clever move designed to force the
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    • WORLDFRONT
      • 123 28 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD MIKE McLeod of Britain, who finished third behind disqualified runner-up Martti Vainio of Finland in the Olympic 10,000 metres in Los Angeles, is to be presented with a belated silver medal at the World Indoor Games in Paris later
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      • 121 28 BJORN BORG (above) has been named Player of the Decade ana John McEnroe Player of the Year by the Association of Tennis Professionals Borg finished ahead of McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl in the voting. The Swede, winner of five Wimbledon and six French Open
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      • 99 28 THE ASSOCIATION of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has extended the contract of executive director Mike Da vies until the end of 1987, the association announced yesterday. Da vies, a former touring professional from Britain, has held the post for the last two years. "The ATP wanted
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      • 111 28 HEAVY snowfalls and bad visibility forced the postponement of a World Cup men's slalom ski race at La Mongie, France, yesterday, foiling a move across the Pyrenees from the original venue in Spain. Too little snow had ruled out a slalom in Ba-quiera-Beret Too much
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      • 120 28 UNSEEDED Nicholas Sakle of France ousted No. 5 seed Chris Pridham of Canada yesterday in the first leg of the U5537,500 (S$810,000) Indian Satellite Tennis tournament The Frenchman triumphed 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. In another first-round contest, unseeded Lemor Morris of the United States whipped
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    • 1214 29  -  ■monitors™ RACING TODAYS TRACK WOHH By WONDER BOY LAST start easy winner LOYAL COMMISSION continued to show good headway with an outstanding workout on a morning of spectacular gallops on a good track at Ipoh this morning. With jockey Dahlan Saim astride, the Proudest Roman
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    • 344 29 AP WASHINGTON, Tuesday MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, the queen of the tennis courts, hopes to continue her reign as the world's top-ranked woman player for at least another two or three years. "I always said I would play until I was 30 and now I
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    • 344 29 Reuter INDIANAPOLIS, Tuesday SPRINTERS Sam Graddy and Mel Lattany and women's hurdler Stephanie Hightower head a relatively unimpressive United States team for the World Indoor Games in Paris on Jan 18 and 19. The squad of 13 men and
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    • 303 30  -  By S GULAM SINGAPORE'S quest towards Malaysia Cup glory took a rude turn with news that national coach Hussein Aljunied may have to leave the driver's seat because of Mindef's refusal to grant an extension of its agreement with the Football Association of Singapore. Hussein
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    • 515 30  -  By S GULAM THE STRIKERS have let us down and if matters do not improve soon, the powers-that-be in the Singapore national football camp may be urgently despatching the SOS signals for fresh reinforcements. That seems to be the gist of national
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    • 79 30 FILIPINO Paeng Nepomuceno (pictured left) won the International Ballmaster tournament's men's bowling competition held in Helsinki on Sunday. Sweden's Annette Hagre (pictured right) won the women's competition. Nepomuceno also won the prize of the best amateur bowler of 1984. The Filipino was in Singapore in
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 235 31 KUANTAN, Tuesday PAHANG S Zainal Abidin Hassan, to the surprise of many, sat out their opening match against Federal Territory on Saturday. Malaysian daily The New Straits Times reports that during the match, the striker was found sitting in the stands with Selangor's manager
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    • 384 31 Irate Malacca fans blame coach-skipper for team's loss to Negri Sembilan The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday MALACCA fans are blaming coach and skipper Soh Chin Aun for their team's 0-3 loss to Negri Sembilan at Seremban on Sunday. This was the first time since 1981 that Malacca
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    • 14 31 Johor v Pahang (8.30, Larkin Stadium) Kedah v Parak (8, Stadium Darulaman)
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    • 209 31 The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday DE JOSEF VENGLOS, the former Czechoslovak World Cup boss, got cracking on his first day as Federal Territory's Malaysia Cup coach yesterday. He had pin-pointed several weaknesses In the team during its 0-1 loss to Pahang in Kuantan on Saturday
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