Singapore Monitor, 19 January 1985

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  • home
    • 88 2 PERCHED on top of some beams which jut out to the sea below the Benjamin Sheares Bridge, he sits undisturbed. While others raced through the congested streets to get to their homes after a day's work, he had time on his hands. Time to
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    • 232 2  -  By K K FONG NINETEEN Thai women have been picked up by police at a Singapore construction site on suspicion of soliciting. The police also apprehended a Thai man and two Singaporeans at the site, the unfinished 42-storey Port of
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    • 53 2 IN A report in our Property Section on Wednesday headlined Four Banks Will Take Up 60 Per Cent of Tung Centre, we said that the building was expected to receive its temporary occupation licence this week. It was only the"inspection for the TOL that was due to
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    • 493 3  -  Direct imports of mandarin oranges from China will meet Malaysia's needs for Lunar New Year By JOSEPH LEE SINGAPORE exporters will not be allowed to send mandarin oranges to Malaysia this Lunar New Year. Malaysia can meet its needs by direct imports from
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    • 252 3  -  By EE BOON LEE THE GOVERNMENT S feedback machinery, which became the subject of intense debate after the general election, is to be made more formal. The idea is to have a system which allows for dialogue between
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    • 291 3 MANY GRASSROOTS leaders are wearing "too many hats" and this has had an adverse impact on the Government feedback machinery, according to Mr Tony Sng Yam Choon. Mr Sng, a businessman, should know what he's talking about. He is on the Marine Parade Constituency
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    • 116 3 Lianhe Wanbao A BLAST was heard from a Public Utilities Board (PUB) substation in Commonwealth Avenue yesterday. People at the petrol kiosk next door got a scare, but fortunately there seemed to be no damage when PUB technicians rushed over to repair it. The reason
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    • 106 3 IT WAS a sporting gesture, with political overtones. At a dinner held in Marine Parade constituency .to mark Mr Goh Chok Tong's promotion to First Deputy Prime Minister, he was presented with a soccer halt The significance was not lost to the 700 diners.
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    • 649 4  -  By NO MING MING HOTEL packages aimed at attracting Singaporeans in December didn't work but the hotels aren't complaining. While Singaporeans did not take advantage of offers including cut prices, rental cars and trips to Malaysia, others did. And the result was a significant
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    • 527 4 THE PAST two years have not been kind to the hotel industry. The first sign was the decline of 3.5 per cent in tourist arrivals in Singapore in 1983. The second was the oversupply of rooms. At the end of 1983, there were 14,468
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    • 416 5 ENTERING kite competitions has become an annual affair with the Chua brothers. This is the fourth year that Mr Chua Boon Tong, 25, and his brother, Chuan Huat, 34, have sent in entries for the Singapore International Kite Competition. And they
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    • 314 5  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO THE SINGAPORE Fire Service (SFS) will soon have a hand in vetting building plans through its new Fire Safety Bureau. From Feb 1, the bureau will be responsible for all fire safety matters in buildings, which is now under the wing
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    • 263 5  -  By EE BOON LEE SPARKS flew at a meeting of the central executive committee of the United Workers of the Petroleum Industry yesterday after an attempt by a group to get the Esso collective agreement signed before next Friday's extraordinary
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    • 198 6  -  By CHEE LI CHOO THE PUBLIC can now take a childcare teacher course at the Institute of Education. The institute advertised yesterday for "candidates interested in being equipped with the skills required of teachers in Childcare Centres" to apply for its first Child Care Teacher
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    • 349 6  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO THE PRIMARY Production Department (PPD) is trying to determine whether some fishes it seised from an aquarium about two weeks ago are piranhas. A PPD spokesman said yesterday that following a tip-off from a member of the public that
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 66 2 UNBELIEVABLE? NO, I UNBEATABLE. The Konica AF3D just $179 The auto-focus camera with auto-date device from Konica In-built with a unique infra-red focus-detection system, the I AF3D allows precise focusing automatically under any lighting condition. Now yours for only $179 at all Singapore Colour Centre outlets. Hurry! Offer ends January
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 104 5 When Graciela serenades, the heart melts. She's pretty and si She's Graciela Castilla Gonzaga. M\ accompanied on the piano by Marina M\ Vargas both from the Philippines M\ Feel your heart melt, muscles relax. "T Hlk nerves soothed as Gracie renders I M Barbara Streisand. Shirley Bassey. Irene Japanese as
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  • world
    • 610 7 But Congress will most likely oppose the plan LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Saturday THE PENTAGON, trying to rebuild an air defence network that one official said was "stripped bare" 20 years ago, is planning to boost the nation's protection against Soviet bombers and lowflying Cruise
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    • 458 7 LAT-WP MONTEREY (California), Sat IT IS not how fat you are, but where your fat is that is beginning to be considered important in coronary heart disease, a Swedish researcher has said. Professor Ulf Smith, chairman and Professor of Medicine
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    • 291 7 LAT-WP GARDEN GROVE, (California), Saturday A VIETNAMESE man charged with the mutilation murder of nis wife in West Berlin has been arrested at a video store here, ending a year-long search. Although West German officials sought the help of foreign police and government agencies in
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 152 7 %>s£&> rss#&s^ io» e* 2^ 0 LEITZ LEICA Distributors l*Jv\ Sole Agents (i ASCHMIDT SCIENTIFIC (PTE) LTD S. 18 > PMi P«*"g Road, #1008, PSA Multistorey XJhJly Complex. Singapore 0611. Tai; *****33. J a Designed with precision. Created for faultless action. That's the Hitachi GT Cross Spark Plug. The only
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  • world / trends
    • 87 8 An exceedingly thin "wind" blowing through the solar system could carry material that would produce worldwide rains and sharply alter the climate on earth. If the prediction to correct, the climatic changes would occur ISO,OOO years from now, says an astronomical study by the University of Chicago. Observations
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    • 79 8 In a computer-assisted update of a 40-year-old technique, neurosurgeons at the Mayo Clinic in United States are using three-dimension-al "road maps" to navigate deep into a patient's brain during surgery and pinpoint tumours that can be vaporised with lasers. This technique has been used in more than 100
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    • 80 8 Israel has quietly es- tablished a small space agency and hopes eventually to put its own communications satellite into orbit. Set up two years ago by the government, the agency has been operatiAg without fanfare from a suite of rented offices in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. Professor
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    • 56 8 Thanks to improved nutrition and a healthier social environment, Chinese young people are taller than their parents. A survey said the average height of boys and girls was 2.4 to four centimetres taller than that of their parents. The study was conducted by the Institute of Genetics, a
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    • 27 8 ASTRONAUTS spending up to 90 days on board a permanent space station will live in an environment designed to make them feel at home.
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    • 23 8 HYPOCHONDRIASIS, commonly thought to be an accompaniment to advancing age, to the result of neuroses that span all age groups.
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    • 27 8 A RECENTLY identified class of infectious agents that are smaller than viruses has been found to be the cause of a rare type of senility.
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    • 441 8 TRENDS Science and Medicine ASTRONAUTS spending up to 90 days on board a permanent space station will live in an environment as much like home as possible in designs proposed by Lockheed Missiles and Space do Inc. Lockheed's plans for the living area
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    • 165 8 IMAGINED or overstated medical complaints, commonly thought to be an accompaniment to advancing age, are the result of neuroses that span all age groups. The American Psychologist magazine said hypochondriasis the tendency to make unfounded medical complaints stems from an individual's poor psychological adjustment. The
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    • 383 8 A RECENTLY identified class of infectious agents that are smaller than viruses has been found to be the cause of a rare but fatal type of human senility, University of California researchers report in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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  • world
    • Article, Illustration
      367 9 First picture of George Best serving sentence in jail for series of offences Ex-Manchester Utd star now tends a Sussex prison's vegetable plot p"SATURDAY PEOPLE *1 BUTTONING his Jacket against the bitter January wind, the man who was once the idol of millions'whiles away another weary day in
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    • 137 9 IT SEEMED a most un-Christian way for a vicar and his wife to announce the engagement of tneir daughter. The advertisement in the local paper at Saxmundham, Suffolk, said that the Rev and Mrs A J G Newman were relieved to
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    • Article, Illustration
      104 10 The population is made up of J 150,000 persons, 62,000 of them J Melanesians (the Kanaks), and 50,000 of French descent (the Caldoches), plus a W number of Indonesians, Polynesians f and Asians. I Discovered by Captain Cook in 1774, I a French Catholic mission went to the island
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    • 268 10 DATELINE: NEW CALEDONIA A little South Sea island is now in the throes of political awakening. New Caledonia, a French overseas territory, was last week wracked with violence which brought it on the verge of civil war. The toll: 18 killed, many injured and thousands of dollars
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • money
    • 959 11  -  THE KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN SAGA By JANICE LIM KENTUCKY Fried Chicken shareholders' extraordinary general meeting yesterday to vote on a motion to remove managing director Masamichi Yazawa lived up to the "extraordinary" tag. They knew full well that the votes were stacked against him.
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    • 152 11 ROXY ELECTRIC Industries (Malaysia) Bhd chalked up a group pre-tax profit of Ms 4-33 million for the year ended Sept SO, 1984, compared with MfS.aS million previously. This year's figure included a contribution of M 5859,000 from an associated company. However, company turnover decreased to
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    • 295 12 Reuter LONDON, Saturday BRITAIN'S leading stock market barometer topped the 1,000-point barrier for the first time yesterday as shares continued to roar ahead, undaunted by rising interest rates and the woes of the pound sterling. The Financial Times 30-share Index closed 17.2 points higher
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    • 179 12 HSCLLSTREET Reuter PRESSURE continued on blue chip and airline stocks on Wall Street yesterday, but secondary issues remained strong and the market finished mixed in lighter volume. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.33 Kints to 1227.36. But gaining issues led
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    • 54 12 THE Straits Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 771.01, up 4.05 points from Thursday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 387.43, up 1.50 points from Thursday's close of 385.93. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index fell 0.1000 points to 134.4819 at the close, compared with
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    • 189 12 AP THE AMERICAN dollar fell against most other major currencies in worldwide trading yesterday amid reports that the Federal Reserve Board intervened in the US market and sold dollars. Gold prices were narrowly mixed worldwide. Republic National Bank in New York quoted gold as of 4 pm
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    • 341 12 THE WEEKLY STOCK MARKET ROUNDUP CONTINUING last week's easier trend, local share prices opened weaker on Monday with most sectors being traded lower. News of a tussle in a local broking firm contributed to the easier trend. MUM, which saw substantial trading interest, was suspended
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    • 416 12 METAL BOX Singapore Ltd has linked up with Siebert/Head Ltd, Europe's leading specialist in package design. A spokesman for Metal Box said that the move was to meet the total packaging needs of the company's clients. "We do not consider ourselves only
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    • 116 12 DBS BANK will revise its interest rates down a quarter point from Jan 21. Its prime rate will fall to 8.75 per cent per annum and the savings account rate to 6.25 per cent per annum. The autosave rate remains unchanged at 5.75 per cent.
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  • features
    • 1093 13  -  ■y BILL HEWITT and MILAN KUBIC Nowsweek AS CIVIL-EIGHTS movements go, it is modest enough. There are no signs of outright insurrection not even any violence to speak of. Even so, the long-silent and neglected Arab population of Israel has to speak out. With a degree
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    • 875 14  -  Canada gets its fingers burnt after sports betting scheme crumbles By RONALD KOZIOL Chicago Tribune TORONTO: Many said it was doomed from the start. Others said it never should have begun. In the epd, both opinions turned out to be right. That end came on
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    • 255 14  -  """opinion letters PETER BOYD Singapore 1335 I WRITE in response to the article headlined "Table-stand thrown from Boon Lay flat hits school girl" (SM, Jan 17). In early March last year, Madam Lim Soh Eng, 44, was knocked unconscious by an iron
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    • 213 14  -  V K KANNAN Singapore 0718 IN REPLY to Mr William Koh's questions (SM, Jan 12) on my CPF withdrawal suggestions (SM, Jan 2), I would like to make these clarifications: 1) Nowhere in my letter did I imply that the Central
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    • 101 14 "I HONED my hunting knife to such an edge that when I removed it from its scabbard the shadow of the blade lopped off two kitchen table legs and a ceiling fan before I could teach the switch to turn the light off." George Covington of Clinton, Lousiana, telling
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 158 13 young Computer camps are vogue for the teenyboppers yli# 1 |^H Learning ABC goes hand in <•-■ with tnts and bytes for A four-year-olds Singapore. That finishing touch 1 Try eating with your hand. V m.. You think you can do it well. It A finishing school in town thinks
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 72 14 LETTERS on any subject of public interest will be accepted for publication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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  • opinion / letters
    • 462 15 THE SINGAPORE I MALAYSIA has long made it clear that it wants to handle its own trade rather than use Singapore as an entrepot. It is perfectly entitled to do so, and Singapore has taken the positive attitude of building up its manufacturing and services
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    • 344 15 IT IS a good sign that the Government intends to withdraw from business and leave it to the private sector. Indirectly, it will provide more opportunities for people to invest their money. However, I hope that it is not the intention of the
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    • 134 15 I AM A resident of Bukit Batok. On behalf of the residents, I would like to make this request: That more buses be added to Services 178, 174, 175 and 157. Every day, during peak hours these buses are so crowded that commuters
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    • 162 15 I REFER to the letter "One sign less is one taxi more" by "Robin Hood" (SM, Jan 12). Robin Hood suggested that the "Not For Hire" sign was unnecessary. He should firstly understand that we taxi operators drive taxis as a livelihood. Therefore,
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 73 15 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wiN be accepted for publication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even it the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      978 16  -  gmla&Mrf Reviews by LIM SEK ALBUM: THE WANDERER ARTISTE: Sarah Chen ALBUM: TC-EMGS 5083 COMPARED to her last Chinese album, Endless Love, this is definitely more accessible. But a lot was compromised to arrive at a commercial sound and this is where the album fails. Sarah offers nothing
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    • 955 16  -  ONLY TWO STILL IN BUSINESS By WONG SING YEONG IS competition good for business? Not for the live theatres, it seems. Of the five theatres which existed last year, only two are left in 1985. And only one. Hoover, is operating full-scale. After more than
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    • 205 16 THE top 10 pop singles, as rated by Cashbox, with last week's positions in brackets: 1. (1) Like a Virgin Madonna (Sire). 2. (4) All I Need Jack Wagner (Qwest-Warner Brothers). 3. (2) Cool It Now New Edition (MCA). 4. (5) Run to You Bryan Adams
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    • 744 16  -  By WONG AH YOKE SIDNEY SHELDON has become a household name as much for the dramatisations of his works as for being a best-selling novelist. Following the success of the movie version of The Other Side of Midnight, almost all his other novels have Deen made either
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    • 506 18  -  SATURDAY'S BEST H WITH LIM KWEE LAN Night Movie Will There Really Be a Morning (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 5, 11 pm) THE story of Frances Farmer was told on our big screens last year, but for those who did not catch the Oscar-winning movie, this TV
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    • 510 18 Sunday Matinee The Fantaatic World of DC Collina (Ch 5, 3 pm) D C Collins (Gary Coleman), the son of an American United Nations diplomat, is a problem child who loves to indulge in fantasies. His parents try to set him to face reality but to no avail.
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    • 781 19  -  By MIKE HENDERSON LAT-WP CLIFF ROBERTSON (Charly, 1968) once proffered that the Oscar could not mean much unless it was bestowed after careful scrutiny of five guys vying in the same role. Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs Kramer, 1979) accepted the plaudit but pointed out that an Oscar
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    • 486 19 TITLE: LOVE BEYOND THE GRAVE DIRECTOR: Chao Chen Chiang and Li Tai Heng STARRING: Lin Yung, Chien Hni Yi, Kn Kuan Chung SHOWING: Princo, Savoy, Preaibont. Oriental, Liberty, Chanai Reviewed by WONG SING YEONG YOU cannot fault Hong Kong horror movies just because they plagiarise
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1248 17 EH3 5M jSSJBSk 12.30 BBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 1.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed Baaa- ma StreeL* 2.00 Smurfa (r) (Cartoon). Saturday Matinee Bitter Harvast Saa Saturday's Bast. Italian Football Juvantus versus Milan. 4.55 Sanandong Irama (M) ■□M| 5.40 Tha AN Naw Popaya Show (Cartoon). 5.05 Cultural Diary (E). 6.10
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    • 162 17 Noon Newsdesk 12.90 That's Trad 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 1.90 About Britain 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.90 Album Time 9.00 World News 9.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 990 From the Weeklies 9.45 Network UK 4.00 World News 4.09 Reflections
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 529 18 TOMORROW'S PROGRAMMES 8.30 BBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 6.10 Programme Highlights. 9.00 Opening and Programme High- 6.15 News (E). lights followed by Music Box 6.25 Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure Music through the Ages. (Last episode). 9.20 The Electric Company.* 6.50 Medusa Challenger. 9.50 Fraggle Rock. 7.15 Dawn Flight 10.20 Take Tepat
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 492 19 FILM GUIOC MANDARIN (*****01): THE SURGEON <C) Midnight Show: POLICE WOMEN (C) DALIT (*****16): THE SURGEON (C) TOA PA OH *****34 THE SURGEON (C) Synopsis: A horror movie in which the "dead" revive Midnight Show: POLICE WOMEN (C) only to die again, trapped in the crematory vault or JUBILEE (*****07):
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 65 20 QARDENINQ SKILLS A three-session course on Gardening Skills will be held at the RELC, Conference Hall, ground floor, Orange Grove Road (next to Shangri-la Hotel) on Jan 26, Feb 2 and Feb 9, from 3 pm to 6 pm. The course will be conducted by local horticulturalist Serina Sng. The
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    • 297 20 ir K. wl mIJ ■Kftw iH The musical, Fame...will be screened today at the Marine Parade Branch Library FILMSHOWS AT THE MARITIME Europe. MUSEUM The Garden of Eden a film that VISITORS, in groups of 10 or more, features the exploration of minerals can request for the following films to
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    • 99 20 BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE (THEORY) ALEXANDRA Community Centre Photographic Club Committee will organise a 12-session 3ra Basic Photographic Course (Theory) commencing Wednesday and thereon, every Wednesday from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm at the community centre. Coarse fee is $20 for club members and $24 for non-club members. Those interested can
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 480 21 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA You'll get friendly advice September 23 to October 22 from a Leo native. There is Good lunar aspect coincides plenty of reason for optimism, with perfecting techniques, Make a new start, stress inde- streamlining procedures and pendence and realise that love
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    • 178 21 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook ~~N\6MO L Vol) TH»S Witt P«V*HT yWHAT tfoooDV T*HfcpT 6Portfc WM. tACH HAVE fiHWffloHS U)H*fU f WOO6HT OM IH6 Cofftß I TO: DfcPAfTTMWT STAFP I £XACT, DfcFiMtt) \ATAI-, ItfßoßfAltT THt5 1 fAACMIME THIS IU» OF I wmw, WITH "D»KS Att A«4XM- I OM? J WSPO#S»aUII*S I
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  • THE SINGAPORE MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 353 22  -  2 OAGE TEAR-OUT By WONDER BOY THE well-bred Tristram Pride shot\ld get his break in tjie last event, the 1,200 metres race for Restricted Terms A division horses, in Ipoh today. The Sir Tristram four-year-old put up an eye-catching performance when he finished
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    • 196 22 WONDER BOY MA-ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zoo Boo) (Won Boo) Race 1 Atlantic City 9 Mtduu 3 Medusa 5 Jubilee Heights 8 Atlantic City S Jubilee Heights 3 Medusa 7 Emu 9 Atlantic City Race 2 4 Star Blazer 2 The Merchant 6 King Of Diamonds 2
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    • 80 22 1st 2nd 3rd Connorton 5 Setches 2 2 1 Subian Dalwee 2 -1 2 Alwin Tweedie 2 1 Samsol 2*1 Malcolm Johnston 1 3 2 Peter Lee 12. Hamid 11 R Rajoo 1 1 LamMunChew 1 Sairi Suliman 2 QSSng 1 1 W K Seow 1 Dahlan 1
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    • 84 22 1st 2nd 3rd Nigel Tiley 57 6.5 38 Malcolm Johnston 53 33 30 App L N Danis 49 43 31 Tarry Lucaa 40 41 20 Leslie Khoo 35 24 20 Alwin Tweedie 33 35 36 Q Cook 25 22 26 Lam Mun Chew 25 21 22
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    • 395 22 WONDER BOY sums up the chances and form of today's runners: RACE ONE 1 Fair track form. 2 Pair track form. 3 Working impressively, worth following. 4 Fair track form. 5 Looks well, one to follow closely. 6 Working keenly. 7 Working keenly. 8 Good sort,
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    • 423 22 PUNTERS in Singapore and Malaysia should not just place their bets simply on tips, said to given by owners, trainers, jgckeys and stable syces. It will pay them to know the pedigree of the horses and follow their form in track exercises. The study
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    • 1327 23 COMPUTER ANALYSt BEST PICKS RACE 1 3 Medusa 5 Jubilee Heights 7 Emu 2 6 King Of Diamonds 3 Mountain Eaglo 3 9 Esprit 1 Spiniflex II 6 Brilliant Hue 4 Diplomacy* 1 Cecil's Kuda II 6 Diamonds Forever 8 8 Dark Romance III* 6 Air Bus N
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    • 86 23 EXPLANATION: ttTTTME «time speaaly calculated, based on past perlormanoes and adjusted for weights, times returned in other turf dube in both Singapore and Malaysia and in dWleienl track conditions NUWW OF WBM: In example, this is jockey's first ride of four today. OWKmt A Australia
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  • sports
    • 363 25 KARPOV S KASPAROV 1 KARPOV-KASPAROV TUSSLE AP MOSCOW, Saturday THE 43RD game of the World Chess Championship between title holder Anatolv Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov ended in a draw last night after 21 moves in what chess experts described as an exciting opening
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    • 101 25 Renter PARIS, Saturday WOMEN'S world record holder, Natalia Lisovskaya of the Soviet Union, won the women's shot putt final with contemptuous ease yesterday in the opening session of the inaugural World Indoor Games. Lisovskaya wanned up with two efforts of less than
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    • 794 26  -  with Ken Jalleh Jr TODAY, MONITOR SPORTS Introduces a mw weekly column KEEPING SCORE. Each Saturday we try to help you, the sports fens, keep score of the going-ons In the ipoNi world by hrlaglag yes com——i and sew insights from our sportwrlters. KEN
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    • 643 26 JUNKIES in sports are about as revolting as cheats. Perhaps more so, because besides destroying their own bodies, they are poisoning the minds of the kids who look up to them as perfect specimens of man. What's more, those innocent of such sins are similarly suspected
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    • 333 26 WITH THE kind of affluence, initiative and prosperity that others envy, one would hardly expect our ambassadors of sport to travel looking like nomads. Yet that is what happened when the national hockey team left for Dhaka carrying our hopes and our
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    • 813 27  -  CROWD STUNNED WHEN BENNY CHEN AWARDS GAME TO BAILEY DAVIS CUP Reports by ALFONSO CHAN SINGAPORE started their Davis Cup rounds with a bang at the Padang yesterday. A controversial decision by officials, cramps, a hissing crowd and a magnificent Mahader Hassan ended a
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    • 534 27 YESTERDAY'S Davis Cup tie between Singapore's Mahader Hassan and Hong Kong's Mark Bailey lasted 3 hours and 10 minutes, including the penalty interruption and rain, which nearly caused the match to be postponed. Later, Mahader said: "It was upsetting. It was the crowd
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    • 883 29  -  BRITISH SOCCER ,BY JOHN SELLERS BRITISH soccer got the cold shoulder once again this week from an Arctic winter which has paralysed sports. First division "casualties" are matches between Everton and Tottenham Hotspur, Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton against Sunderland. And during
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