Singapore Monitor, 10 January 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 18 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EVENING EDITION i J MC iP» No 215 84 Thursday, January 10, 1985 30 cents
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  • 486 1  -  ■y EE BOON LEE WRITS were taken out in the High Court yesterday against two fnore opposition politicians for making allegedly slanderous remarks against Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew during last month's election rallies. The two
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  • 466 1 They are engaged in heavy fighting with Viets, say Thai sources BAN SA-NQAE (Thailand), Thursday CAMBODIAN guerillas shot their way into Vietnameseoccupied Ampil camp yesterday in a dramatic bid to regain control of their former headquarters. Thai military sources at the Cambodian border
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  • home
    • 199 2 GIANT KITES will be flying high at the Padang on Saturday, even if there is no wind. The Singapore Kite Association will put two unusual kites to test at 1 pm this Saturday in preparation for the Singapore International Kite Festival to be held
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    • 80 2 WITH THE approach of the Lunar New Year, many factories will close for an extended vacation. Some factories are making the close a must, with the days off to be discounted from the annual holidays of their staff. Below are extracts of interviews with Mr
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    • 318 2 WANG YONGRUI, MAINTENANCE WORKER AND UNION SECRETARY ®IS MASS worker's vacation something worth promoting? oYes. Because then everyone would get a chance to rest during the festive season. Sometimes, it is during such periods that the company can organise leisure activities and entertainment programmes
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    • 381 2 LI XIANQI, RELATIONS MANAGER FOR ASIA, US GENERAL ELECTRIC Lianhe Zaobao nri HOW does the factory 1"1 decide oo the dates of temporary stoppage? 0 Before the dates of temporary stoppage are decided, the factory always discuss the matter first with the
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    • 144 3 Thieves make away with watches, shirts, bags and cigarettes from President Emporium THIEVES broke into the President Emporium and took away $25,000 worth of goods. The break-in was discovered yesterday when supervisor Mr Sim Liang Teck, 31, went to the office in the morning. He found the emporium
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    • 143 3 AN ANGLICAN missionary who has been in Singapore since 1955 and a chief clerk with Shell Eastern Petroleum (Far East) are among the 31 recipients of the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association's (Sana) Certificates of Honour for 1984. Miss Felicity Carter, 60, the holder of Volunteer
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    • 366 3 PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew has received congratulatory messages from President Marcos and Prime Minister Cesar Virata of the Philippines on the People's Action Party's (PAP) election victory. PRESIDENT MARCOS' MESSAGE "The Filipino people Join me in congratulating you on your party's victory in
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    • 589 4  -  By EE BOON LEE THE GOVERNMENT is considering whether the two elected opposition Members of Parliament should be given places on any of the House committees. If they are, it will be the first time in almost 20 years that anyone but members
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    • 64 4 Lianhe Wanbao IF you are a member of the NTUC taxi service and do not know how to fill in your income tax return, ask the NTUC Comfort office. The cooperative will help you without charge. For those who need the assistance to complete their
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    • 289 4  -  By JOSEPH LEE MEMBERS of the Singapore Sound Tape Retailers' Association (SSRA) will not be allowed to display, sell or produce pirated copies of the charity record Do They Know It's Christmas? This was unanimously agreed to at the SSRA's committee members'
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    • 187 4 A SPATE of lift robberies hit housing estates last week. Several people, most of them housewives, have reported that they were robbed at knife-point. The thieves followed women into the lifts, then held them up, police said. A 69-YEAR-OLD housewife said she was confronted
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 76 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS SBS DRIVER, Mr Chin Yali (picture above), who was beaten unconscious on Monday night at the Ang Mo Kio interchange is puzzled why the four thugs had turned against him. Speaking to the Press from his hospital bed yesterday, the
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      • 59 4 SIGLAP COMMUNITY Centre wanted to buy some computers, but decided it couldn't afford them yet, despite a special price offered by a salesman. However, salesman Mr Alimin Rahim managed to persuade the managing director of Comsertrac Computer Centre to donate 10 Apples to the CC,
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      • 55 4 TWO BROTHERS lost their home when a fire yesterday destroyed three shophouses in Sin Koh Street. They also lost $9,000 which was kept in a Chinese tea tin. Seventy-year-old Mr Lai MengSim (picture above) said: "Not one cent remains in that tin that was stacked
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      • 78 4 HOOVER LIVE Theatre ushered in the new year with a very special programme. Right after the clock cnimed midnight during its New Year Eve Special, two comperes went on stage and gave its show audience a Press Review of tne major events of 1984. With
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    • 243 4  -  By JOSEPH LEE A FUND set up to help the families of lost seafarers has nad no claims since it was formed almost five months ago. The floo,ooo-fund, established by the National Maritime Board, is designed to give families immediate help until missing sailors
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    • 120 2 A&T International For superior drafting equipment A T is Ihe sole agent for Mutoh drafting machines and Faber-Castell drafting instruments leaders the "hardware" and "software" of the A&T supplies, among others, Mutoh's DRAFTER series of excellent drafting machines. A&T also supplies the full range of FaberCastell's technical drawing instruments including
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    • 192 3 The Mandarin Singaporc& Ftmajc Magazine In search ofthe woman who dares to dream. The Glamour Awards are being held for the first The prizes are worth well over 1100,000. Never time ever. And it promises to be the event of the before has a range of prizes of this extent
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    • 70 4 Suzuki RCIOO Powerful! Economical! RC 100 The Multi-use Bike ♦Unique |et-cooled engine Economy Range gear for results in low fuel cosf fuel economy and low Power Engagement Clutch noise level System ensures smooth Telescopic front forks change of gear A assures you of a stable and comfortable ride all the
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  • world
    • 436 6 UPI NEW YORK, Thursday LAWYERS for Time magazine conceded in court yesterday that part of a Time article about former Israeli Defence Minister Ariel Sharon was wrong but insisted the rest of the report was correct. The part of the article in error,
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    • 49 6 AP LONDON, Thurs PRIME MINISTER Margaret Thatcher and her top military commanders want Britain to resume making chemical weapons again after a 20-year moratorium, the New Statesman magazine reported today. It said this was to counter a reported Soviet buildup of biological weapons. AP
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    • 270 6 UPI ISLAMABAD, Thursday AFGHAN REBELS have recaptured a hill position at Chamkani near the Pakistani border after a 4-hour battle in which 42 Soviet and Kabul regime soldiers were killed, rebel sources said yesterday. Six Kabul regime soldiers were also taken prisoner, they
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 121 6 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS /XPV A FEDERAL court If ftT judge in Los Angeles MM has dismissed actor f Sean Connery's (above) allegations that the producers and distributor of the James Bond movies in which be starred had violated federal securities laws.
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      • 82 6 DANIEL ORTEGA SAAVEDRA, a revolutionary from his school days who underwent imprisonment, torture and exile in the fight to change his country, will become Latin America's youngest elected nead of government when inaugurated as Nicaragua's new president tomorrow. Now 39, he has neen a dominant
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      • 77 6 THE top aide and confidant of Prince Charles (above), Britain's future king, has quit unexpectedly prompting speculation of discontent in the royal household. Buckingham Palace said Mr Edward Adeane, 45, who for the last sixyears has been grooming the 36-year-old prince Nr the throne, was leaving "by
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      • 73 6 ROCK star Peter Garrett was narrowly defeated in his bid to win election to the Australian senate on the Nuclear Disarmament Party ticket after a tight race that took five weeks to decide. The lead singer of the rock group Midnight Oil emerged as one
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    • 208 6 UPI HARTFORD (Connecticut), Thursday SOME OF THE US$7 million (5515.4 million) stolen in a 1983 Wells Fargo robbery may have been used on Sunday to treat poor children to US$5,OOO (S$11,000) worth of Christmas toys, cash and food, the US Federal Bureau
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    • 337 7 She is said to be his daughter The Star PETALING JAVA, Thursday FORMER Sabah Chief Minister Tun Mustapha Datu Harun ha? agreed to pay $600 a month in maintenance fees to a 12-year-old girl said to be his daughter. In an out-of-court
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    • 278 7 UPI WASHINGTON, Thursday THE SOVIETS have bought another 350,000 tonnes of corn in a grain-buying spree that has raised tne Kremlin's purchases of US corn in the past few days to 3.1 million tonnes. Heav.y buying, first announced last Thursday, ended a drought in sales
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    • 159 7 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday MALAYSIA'S very own aerospace industry Will be launched tomorrow when the Royal Malaysian Air Force's Aircraft Repair and Overhaul Depot (Airod) is privatised and renamed the Aerospace Industries of Malaysia (Aim). Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Abang Abu Bakar Mustapha said
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    • 498 8 PARIS, Thursday THE ARCTIC weather sweeping Europe has highlighted the plight of France's thousands of homeless who normally sleep rough and are now struggling to survive nights in snow and sub-zero temperatures. The cold has killed 29 people, mostly vagrants or elderly. At least
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    • 440 8 The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday ASSEMBLYMAN for Tambunan Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan said yesterday that he would sue the Sabah Government if all reasonable appeals to reinstate the district status of Tambunan were not heeded. "The State Government's action is very authoritarian... to
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    • 318 8 UPI WASHINGTON, Thursday PRESIDENT Reagan said yesterday he would be "perfectly willing" to meet Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko but is not interested in a "get-acquainted" session. Mr Reagan, tempering his "evil empire" rhetoric of the past, said ne would welcome a new era of detente with
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    • 355 10 /ietnamese soldier gets stern warning that he's intruding on Thai territory Unusual row at the border LAT-WP BANGKOK, Thursday FACING each other across a road-block near a captured Cambodian guerilla camp, Vietnamese and Thai soldiers yesterday argued about where the Thai-Cambodian border was ana warned each other
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    • 94 11 THE LEBANESE government is In the process of deploying a 200-member police detachment in the southern part of the country. The move is in preparation for a later deployment of Lebanese army troops in the region. The picture above shows Lebanese policemen who were taking
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    • 370 11 AP SEOUL, Thursday PRESIDENT Chun Doo-hwan declared yesterday that he was confident that South Korea, by the next century, will be among the world's 15 largest economies and 10 top trading countries, with a gross national product of US$25O billion (*****
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    • 176 11 AP LOUISVILLE (Kentucky), Thursday WILLIAM Schroeder now walks up to two blocks a day through hospital corridors and has lost 7.7 kg (17 lb) with diet and exercise, 45 days after receiving an artificial heart, a hospital spokesman said yesterday. j The 52-year-old Indiana
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    • 133 11 WANTED: JOBS WASHINGTON, Thursday THE US unemployment rate held at 7.2 per cent in December, the Labour Department said today, desbite the fact the American economy created 3.2 million new jobs in 1984. With the increase in the labour force during the year, the new
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    • 150 11 WANTED: JOBS Reuter PARIS, Thursday FRENCH unemployment, already affecting 10 per cent of the workforce and the source of a series of violent demonstrations in recent months, is forecast to rise further this year and looks set to dominate the run-up to the 1986
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    • 40 11 Ij For all motoring I| j! enthusiasts. The Sunday Monitor's first motoring 1 i J supplement of the year! j: MOTOR SPORTS '85 Ij I; THE YOKOHAMA SPRINT jj A Special Feature in J The Sunday Monitor, jjj January 13.
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  • money
    • Article, Illustration
      625 12  -  The bellwether stocks which indicate which direction the market will take The blue chips have solid foundations built over a long period By JANICE LIM THE YEAR started on a quiet footing in the stock market just as it haa ended last year. As we move into another
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    • 244 12 DBS Bank the bellwether stock to watch? DBS BANK may be the current bellwether stock to watch, say market observers. Yesterday, it fell below its net tan(;ible asset backing per share to $4.98. t is expected to fall further, say market observers, in tandem with the market indices. The bank's
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    • 160 13 E HMLLSTREET j| THE STOCK market chalked up its third straight winning session yesterday, fuelled by Wall Street expectations of a fresh round of interest rate reductions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11.04 to 1202.74 and advancing issues lea
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    • 28 13 THE OUB Composite Share Price Index was down 4.34 points to 385.72. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weight-ed Index, was up 0.0135 point to 133.9446 in morning trading.
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    • 134 13 THE US dollar eased slightly against most currencies in. very quiet early trading, following its softness in New York. Dealers said uncertainties over the near term outlook of the US currency and continued fears of Central Bank intervention continue to dampen activity as operators remained on the
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    • 104 13 Your SS to one unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DD TT DO US$ 2 2050 2 1950 2 1860 sterling 2 5268 2 5048 2.4948 Australian I 1.8068 1.7827 1.7677 CURRENCY NOTES SS to 1 unit US| 2.20 217 NZI 110 100 sterling 2.55 2 45 Australian I
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    • 693 13 GENTING Bhd yesterday announced further details of its proposed participation in the Burswood Island resort in Western Australia and the Adelaide casino project in South Australia. The company will seek its shareholders' approval of the proposed participation at an extraordinary general' meeting (EGM) later.
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    • 256 13 THE LOCAL bourse rebounded this morning as speculation about a trading company's liquidity problem cleared, together with Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's approval of contra-trading on a settlement basis. There was selective interest and volume traded was moderate. Top volume stock Promet did 227,000 to
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    • 233 13 Selected slocks at midday. Market tone: steady Boustead 1.55/1.56 Cold Storage 2.51/2.53 F&N 4.78/4.80 Genting 4.72/4.74 GIH 210/214 Haw Par 1.94/1.97 Isetan 2.40 B Keck Seng 1.93/1.95 Esso 2.54/2.58 Hume 3.36/3.46 Inchcape 2.40/2.41 Intraco 2.30/2.37 M Cement 1.56/1.58 RMMnafttta MPHB 90tt B MUIB 2.31/2.32 Nat Iron 3.34/3.36 NOL 1.68/1.70
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  • opinion / letters
    • 281 14  -  YOUTH AHOY Singapore 2573 WHiLE Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has taken a bold step in bringing fresh young blood into Government and Parliament, I notice, with some surprise, that the process of renewal has not been carried out as diligently in
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    • 81 14  -  PETER BOYD Singapore f335 DURING pay-day you can see many people, especially workers, waitins in long queues at the POSB branch in Great Eastern Hotel building off MacPherson Road These POSB branches are always so crowded during peak periods. I am writing on
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    • 238 14 FOR TWO days at the beginning of the month, I saw long queues at the POSB counters. Curiosity got the better of me*and I went near to see what was happening. I found that most of the queues were for the
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    • 205 14  -  -REPLY DERRICK TAN Public Relations Officer Telecoms WE REFER to the letter "Unlisted number should be free of charge" from "Making Money." (SM, Dec 10 L The phone book is produced for the convenience of the public in obtaining the names, addresses
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    • 1034 14  -  ■■features By MICHAEL BROWNING Knight-Ridder Newspapers BEIJING: A tiny, five-month-old bureau in the Beijing City government has made a small dent in China's monolithic job assignment system, which normally ensures that a Chinese worker keeps the same job for life, whether he likes it or
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    • 471 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE REPORT of the inquiry committee on the $2.2 billion loan scandal involving Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) is not likely to satisfy all Malaysians. But there are enough details in the reB>rt about how the loans to Carrian, the ong
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    • 493 15  -  LAWRENCE WEE Singapore 0207 MY HEART aches each time the leaders of the governing party utter some remarks about the possible change of our voting system or the possible consequences to the constituencies that voted in the opposition. I feel painful because these were
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    • 165 15 FORMERLY bicycles had to be registered. The registration number served to identify the bicycle. The number was also embossed on the frame. However, the registration of bicycles had been discontinued, for a couple of years now. The reason given then was that the registration
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    • 57 15  -  WILLIAM KOH Singapore 0314 WILL THE Housing Development Board (HDB) consider putting up directory boards at strategic points in all its housing estates so as to enable visitors to the estates to locate their friends' or relatives' flats easily? These information boards should contain the
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 72 14 LETTERS on any subject of public interest w* be accepted* for publication. TYwy should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use e pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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    • 71 15 LETTERS on any sub|ect of public interest wiH be accepted for publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym m print. A contact telephone number would.be useful. We reserve the right
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 1426 16  -  SCENARIO By DAVID BIRCH IT is significant that the National' University of Singapore Literary Society's annual Evening of Poetry and Music on Nov 30 last year was in celebration of youth. Because youth has dominated the drama scene in English since then. The last weeks of 1984 were
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    • 341 16 A GOOD school brass band may possibly capture the limelight in the mnsical production, The Music Man, to be staged in May. "Part of the surprise of the production is to include a brass band. So if there's a school with a good
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    • Article, Illustration
      501 16  -  Talentime winners leave behind sales jobs for musical careers By PAT D'ROSE LAST year's English talentime winners, Connie Chew and brothers Frank and Robin, have avowed themselves to showbusiness. But while Frank and Robin Anthony (the country duet that took first place in the group section) are feeling
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    • 525 16  -  Clash of the Amateur Bands Victoria Concert Hall Reviewed by LIM TECK LIN THE first-ever Clash of the Amateur Bands was held in the unlikely setting of the Victoria Concert Hall. For once, gone was the usual distin-guished-looking SSO audience reared on Bach and
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    • 810 18  -  ITiWSrCENEi By LIM KWEE LAN and WONG AH YOKE THE road is long over seven thousand kilometres and fraught with danger. But men were willing to trudge through deserts and mountain ranges to obtain that precious commodity silk. For in the pre-Christian age, a sheaf of silk
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    • 405 18 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Thursday Feature Special The Red Tent (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.50 pm) IN 1928, an air ship, led by General Umberto Nobile, crashed on an ice pack while on an expedition to the Arctic. The 10 survivors erected a red tent so that
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    • Article, Illustration
      618 19  -  By STEPHEN TAN IN THE prominent British film journal, Sight and Sound, Citizen Kane was voted all-time best film in 1962,1972 and 1982; and Orson Welles was voted all-time best director in 1982. The poll, taken every 10 years, by reputed film critics from around the world is
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    • 146 19 ARE YOU one of those who feel frustrated because films like The Dresser, and The Natural have very short "lifespans" in our cinemas and you've missed them? Are you one of those who enjoy "quality" movies and wished that SBC's Channel 12 would show more of these?
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1329 17 t mPIPE— Live Sample Pages" 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The Immortals (C) Tarian Steal the Rising Sun 5.15 Frank and Fearless (Part two) (Last episode). rf^Vf 5.40 360 Degrees Views of Our World: Wales (M) (English jm f We take a trip to Wales, one of the
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 471 19 FILM CUIDC 1 g TOA PAYOH (*****34): HOST FOR A GHOST (C) UiUiiiiMM JUBILEE (*****07): HOST FOR A GHOST (C) DALIT (*****15): HOST FOR A GHOST (C) HOLLYWOOD (*****54): HOST FOR A GHOST (C) LIWAGU (*****30): HOST FOR A GHOST (C) at METROPOLE (*****27): EVIL VERSUS EVIL (C) BEDOK (*****7):
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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    • 86 20 ORCHARD: J 5 SHOWS DAILY: 11am, 1.30, 4.00,8.30 A 9.15pm NOMINATED FOB 3 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 4 I* BEST MOTION PICTURE (Musical or Comedy) 4 > 4 >• BEST ACTOR-BILL MURRAY I 4 r BEST ORIGINAL SONG < jjjgjVs HURRYI I! iI'Q^SEEITNOWHII [CATMAVa (*****00) 8 4 > I bMinHV: 11am,
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 190 20 Chinatown by Tkwg Tiaa Toag, on display at Alliaace TIONQ TIAN TONQ ised by Bukit Merah Constituency's THERE will be an exhibition of SEEJuImJ! sketches by Tiong Tian Tong at the Cjjjj' ™Tnd thT Bukifßterah Alliance Francaise de Singapour from Comiwtoe PhillrKlh Jmh« today to Jan 20, 9am to Ipm
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    • 450 20 AUDITION FOR ST*ARS MUSIC MAN 3INQ ALONG THE first round of auditions for the Music Man will be held this Sunday from 7pm to 9pm at the National Theatre. All potential cast members will be required to attend a singing/dancing audition on either Jan 15 or 17 at 7.50 pm
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    • 32 20 YOUR RIGHTS AND DUTIES ON MEDICATION A talk on your rights and duties on medication in Mandarin will be held at the Kampong Chai Chee Community Centre on Saturday at 8 pm.
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  • 525 21  -  GO PLACES By SANDY ROVNER LAT-WP GETTING around the world in 80 days may have seemed pretty swift in its day, but did you ever hear of a Jules Verne character with jet lag? Or, for that matter, La Turista? The latter, of course, has less
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  • 482 21 LAT-WP DR WOLFE and his staff keep a day-by-day record of which disease may be breaking out in what countries so that only those immunisations required need be administered, and no one will go off without necessary immunizations. "People," he says, "are going more and
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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    • 25 21 Time of Departure S'porc: 09 00hrs Batam: 09 30 hrs (WIB) 13 00 hrs 13 30 hrs (WIB) 16 30 hrs 17 00 hrs (WIB)
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 740 22 leisure comics ~7Z FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook &£>6.WtVfc MAD 4 A\A DO "AO THIMK OH,VfS.' PtoPLf ARE A /of COUR4S, THERE _*«tl MAJOR. EFFORT TO 1 UERf MAKINfr- I M*(H W« KttPTIVE I ARE 5tiLL SMAC ■tfGU* ERADICATE CfIAFiTT*- I PfcofrKfcSS? ITo HIOH I PDCKfcTS OF J PH*6»A HERE AT
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  • PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT
    • 567 23 CAN one learn effectively by taking a correspondence or home-study course? Can one really hope to achieve the same results as compared with lessons in a classroom? Researchers who have concluded a study on the subject are of the opinion that you
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    • 193 24 THE Lancastrian School of Supervisory Management (UK) has been issuing certificates and examining the Supervisory Management courses in Singapore since 1980. This is a joint venture with the Institution of Industrial Managers (UK). The Lancastrian School of Supervisory Management (UK)
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    • 483 24 ARE you among those who have to work full-time while coping with your studies? Certain people in this category attempting to squeeze in some time for their studies should be able to succeed if they possess the will to do so. However, will and
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    • 553 25 THERE is the story about an advertising agency, which got its contract terminated by an important client. Reason? The ad agency accountant's letter to the client was said to be "so insulting" that the latter decided to take their business elsewhere. The accountant's poor writing
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    • 124 25 THE International Nam Wah Pai Hung Fu Institute of Self-Defence will conduct courses on Nam Wah Pai Kung Fu between this month to March 1985. The courses will be held at the Institute Headquaters at No 6, Geylang Road (rooftop), Lorong
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    • 169 23 THIS is the Personal Advancement market place where various courses for those seeking such information will be listed. Call IDA YUNOS for information and ad placement at *****90 ext 27. I ml S Awaiting results? Let Powers J prepare you for the j next Big step. J I Be ready
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  • sports
    • 289 27 KHALID Ali, his hopes of reviving his soccer career cruelly dashed following a nasty accident in a Selangor Dunhil League match, had his ankle damaged in a collision with SCRC goalkeeper Yap Kam Choon. Even three hours after he came out of the operating
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    • 446 27 Reuter PARIS, Thurs FRANCE yesterday embarked on a new era in the five-nation Rugby Union Tournament when they picked a side for the opening match against Wales which did not contain the name of Jean-Pierre Rives. When the French team enters the Pare Des
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    • 72 27 Reuter VARZIM (Portugal), Thursday PORTUGUESE champions Benfica beat Varzim 1-0 in the replay of a Pint Division championship match abandoned last Dec 2 after a linesman was injured by a bottle thrown by a fan. International striker Diamantino scored the only goal from a free kick
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    • 1710 28  -  MM™ RACING TODAYS TRACKWORK By WONDER BOY LAST start winner LOYAL COMMISSION continued to show striking form when he did a winning gallop on another morning of spectacular fast gallops on a good track at Ipoh today. With a riding boy astride, the Proudest Roman
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    • 432 29 Reuter LONDON, Thurs TWICE WORLD champion Barry Sheene of Britain announced his retirement from motor cycle racing yesterday after a career spanning 16 years. Sheene, 33, who won the World 500cc Championship in 1976 and 1977, fo'ight back from horrific injuries received at the Silverstone Circuit
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    • 757 29 AP TOKYO, Thursday AN AMERICAN weighing nearly a quarter of a ton is stirring up xenophobia and cultural chauvinism in sumo wrestling. There even have been suggestions that foreigners be banned from Japan's ancient national sport. The mercurial rise of 222 kg Salevaa Fuauli
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    • WORLDFRONT
      • 75 29 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD PEDRO MORALES, currently in charge of planning and development for Chile's national soccer teams, has agreed to coach the national side for World Cup qualifying matches which begin in less than two months. Morales told reporters after a meeting
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      • 93 29 SWEDEN'S Joakim Nystrom advanced easily into the quarterfinals of the US$4OO,OOO (S|880,000) Volvo Masters Tennis Championships after crushing Vitas Gerulaitis (above) tf-3, 6-4 in a first-round match last night. In the final opening-round pairing, Czechoslovakia's Tomas Smid played Eliot Teltscher, with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals
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      • 89 29 MALAYSIA'S Federal Territory team drew 2-2 with the Hertha OS Berlin team from West Germany in a soccer match at the Merdeka Stadium in Kuala Lumpur last night. Hertha led after Grecngs Jurgen and Schurc Rainer scored in the 50th and 52nd minutes, respectively. Mohamed
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    • 462 30 The Star STRIKER Chen Wooi Haw will be playing with vengeance in his heart when his new team, Federal Territory, takes on his former team, Penang at City Stadium on Sunday. Wooi Haw has a score to settle with the Penang officials
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    • 265 30 MORSHIDI Awet had resigned himself to being a mere spectator for this season's Malaysia Cup competition until he received a call-up on Dec 26 from the Sarawak Football Association. Considered Sarawak's most experienced midfielder, Morshidi, 33, said he was pleasantly surprised and he considered the call-up
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    • 274 30  -  Garett FC 3 Haw Par 0 By ALFONSO CHAN GARETT Football Club made mincemeat of Haw Par's challenge by going twoup in 15 minutes at the start of their Division Three Singapore Business Houses League match at Tanglin yesterday. They wanted to
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      154 30 The Star MALACCA'S Malaysia Cup ambitions may go up in smoke if the Football Association does not give total support to coach-cum-skipper Soh Chin Aun, team manager Mohamed Jais said yesterday. "The strategy adopted by the fciam against Negri Sembilan on Sunday was decided upon, following lengthy discussions between Chin
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    • 140 30 AP OKLAHOMA CITY, Thursday A WORLD-CLASS member of the East German swimming team told authorities that he did not want to return to his homeland and stayed behind when his teammates left the airport here, an official said yesterday. Jens-Peter Berndt, 21, appeared
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      434 31 AFC boss Vellapan urges South-east Asian countries to check decline in standard of soccer KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs ASIAN Football Confederation (AFC) General Secretary Peter Vellapan today urged Southeast Asian countries to check the decline in the standard of soccer in the region Noting the relatively poor standard, he
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    • 140 31 LONDON, Thursday TWO EXTRA-TIME goals gave Nottingham Forest a 3-1 win over Newcastle United in an English FA Cup Third-Round replay last night. Lan Bowyer unleashed a 20-yard scorcher for Forest 17 minutes into the extra period and Trevor Christie sealed victory three minutes
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