Singapore Monitor, 30 January 1985

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  • home
    • 224 2 THIRTY-FIVE per cent of the first batch of Normal stream school leavers who applied to undergo Vocational and Industrial Training Board courses were successful. According to a statement released by the board yesterday, 8,287 new trainees enrolled for courses in
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    • 421 2  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG STUDENTS who think the General Paper (GP) is no longer important under the new entry rules for admission into the National University of Singapore are in for a surprise. They will still have a hurdle to surmount, in the shape
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    • 180 2 THE TRADE Development Board is to set up a countertrade unit, chairman Mr S Chandra Das said this morning. The board is "most willing to help put traders who reauire countertrade services in contact with others who may be able to close the deal," he
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    • 368 2 MEMBERS of Singapore optical associations have questioned the professionalism of an optometry course held here last week. They have also called for government regulation to maintain standards. The course they referred to was the London Course of Optometry conducted by Professor H Freeman, founder
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    • 115 2 A REPORT on Page 7 of The Singapore Monitor on Monday, Jan 28 stated that a sharpshooter scope introduced for the Singapore Armed Forces infantry section was manufactured by the Chartered Industries. In fact, it is made by Avimo. We apologise for the error. I On Page
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    • 224 3  -  By SURESH NAIR A LATE night argument between two foreign construction workers is believed to have preceded the fatal stabbing of a 25-year-old Thai yesterday, according to police. Detectives said the dead construction worker, Sa Yong, whose body was found on
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    • 516 3  -  By SIT YIN FONG JEANS SUPPLIER Mr Joseph Quek yesterday said he had been pestered by "nuisance calls" ever since he sued Emporium Holdings, the giant retail chain, for an unpaid goods bill a week ago. Up to yesterday, the managing
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    • 294 4  - WAR BUT IT'S ALL A GAME... By ROBERT CONCEICAO THREE Arab-Israeli wars will be recreated this Sunday at Bukit Merah by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). But the battles will not be fought with tanks, howitzers and rifles. Instead, the soldiers will fight with dice, cards and a set of
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    • 185 4  -  By NO MING MING ANOTHER hotel has started a "five-day work, one day off" scheme for its staff. Boulevard Hotel started the scheme on a six-month trial basis last December for about 280 staff members in the housekeeping, front office, and fooa and
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    • 469 5 THE HIGHER you go up the ladder, the greater the pay differential between Singapore and Hong Kong, two reports on pay and benefits in the two countries show. But for those at the lowest end of the pay scale, wages are
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    • 532 5 A MANAGEMENT consultants' survey of employees' pay and benefits in Singapore raises a question mark over Cowec and Medisave. The survey, by William M Mercer International, suggefsts that Cowec schemes will have difficulty in beating the 6.5 per cent interest currently
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    • 241 5  -  REPORTS BY RODNEY HOBSON MERCER identifies eight banks as potential investment managers tor Cowec funds. The report says they have "the best feel for the local market." The eight on the list are: United Overseas Bank Group, Overseas Union Bank, OverseaChinese Banking Corp, Singapore International
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    • 73 4 Mari^^^^^me^Resta^ant yt I 3B| t^mMSi EXECUTIVE^S^LLWCH 9 Tender juicy steaks are our speciality. Try our delicious Sambal Steak and "Surf &Turf'(a combination of steak and seafood). They're a taste sensation. Take advantage of our $6.5(VhExecutive Set Lunch. It's about the best value you can get. 120, Cantonment Road #01-02, Maritime
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    • 82 5 THE WMMNG MB FRENCH LOOK. -V* ADVANTAGE jyf ROSSKNOL. W Mahogany coloured sportshirt with subtle stripes and pinhead dots. Also in light blue, beige, grey Tr and brown. Collar in plain j white. 100% mercerized cotton. 33 L. Model RG 1180. Available at *>' Wk leading Department Stores and 4L
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  • world
    • 89 6 A YOUNG elephant that lost its mother is being taken care of by the unique Orphanage for Elephants in Pinnawela, Sri Lanka. The baby jum- bo, only about a metre tall, is fed with a bottle until it is old enough to eat by itself. The
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    • 109 6 Reuter JEDDAH, Wednesday THE MECCA-BASED Islamic Fiqh (Jurisprudence) Academy has approved organ transplants, artifical insemination, andnal in wooden coffins, the Jeddah-based Arab News said yesterday. The newspaper said the academy, which met on Monday, deferred decisions on other issues, including the programming of
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    • 374 6 Japanese police on alert to prevent gang war AP TOKYO, Wednesday POLICE placed three suspected killers on a nationwide "wanted list" yesterday following the weekend slaying of gang boss Masahisa Takenaka and two of his top aides. Meanwhile, members of Takenaka's 12,000-member underworld group were reported
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    • 240 6 Reuter BANGKOK, Wed CAMBODIAN guerillas have killed 17 Vietnamese soldiers and destroyed a boat pool about 30 km from Phnom Penh last week, the Khmer Rouge radio said yesterday. The raid on Jan 25 destroyed 26 boats and barges near the mouth of the
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    • 208 6 AP BEIJING, Wednesday ELEVEN days after a domestic crash in which 38 people died, China's state airline announced yesterday that it is scrapping 15 out-of-date aircraft and acquiring 19 new passenger planes. The Jan 18 accident involved a Sovietbuilt Antonov 24 of 1960s
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 97 7 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS AN unprecedented academic rebuff for a British prime minister was delivered by professors and administrators of Oxford University yesterday in a vote against granting an honorary degree to Mrs Margaret Thatcher (picture above). Congregation, the hallowed university's Parliament, voted 738-219
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      • 72 7 GREEK shipowner Christina Onassis (picture above) yesterday save birth to a baby girl, a spokeswoman for tne American Hospital said. She said both mother and daughter were in good health. The new-bom baby is Onassis' first child. Onassis, 34, is the only surviving child of Greek
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      • 74 7 THE Japanese Government announced yesterday it will appoint Mr Nobuo Matsunaga, viceminister for foreign affairs, as its ambassador to the United States, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. The appointment, scheduled to be effective as of tomorrow, was approved by yesterday's cabinet meeting, the spokesman said.
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      • 119 7 WANG Fengwu, a worker who befriended Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's son after he was crippled by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, wrote about the 1968 incident tor the first time yesterday. Mr Wang wrote that he was doing propaganda work at Beijing University in
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    • 323 7 Reuter GENEVA, Wednesday OPEC OIL ministers are close to agreement on narrowing the Erice gap between light and eavy oils to US$2.4O a barrel from its present US$4, ministerial sources told reporters yesterday. The change, intended to improve the saleability of the currently overpriced
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    • 249 7 UPI NEW DELHI, Wed THE first Indian lawsuit seeking compensation for the effects of a toxic gas leak was filed in Bhopal yesterday against the Union Carbide Corp, the Indian Government and 55 other persons, the Press Trust of India reported. The Press Trust
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    • 78 7 UPI A TOURIST breached elaborate White House security on Inauguration Day by walking in witn the Marine Band, then wandered into the Reagan family dining room where he was arrested, officials admitted yesterday The man, identified by the Secret Service as Robert Latta, 45,
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    • 309 8 Beijing social workers start lectures to educate newlyweds on sex Reuter BEIJING, Wednesday SOCIAL workers here are doing battle with a stern taboo against talk of sex and married love by starting tne city's first public lectures for newlyweds. This month about 30 couples are gathering
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    • 153 8 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Wed METRO officials will study possible measures to improve the safety of the transit system's escalators. The plan follows this weekend's unusual accident in which a northwest Washington girl was killed after her parka (a hip-length jacket) was caught in
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    • 412 8 LAT-WP HOLLYWOOD, Wednesday LET'S SEE now, a key issue in the trial is whether the SD and SSD should have been listed as combat troops in the MACV OB that became part of the SNIE cited in the trial of CBS that CNN vainly sought to
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    • 209 9 Bernama KOTA KINABALU, Wed METHANOL, an important chemical intermediate used in the manufacture of a wide range of products, will become Malaysia's latest export item with the start-up of the Ms62l million (***** million) methanol plant in Labuan two days ago. The start-up, marking a
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    • 126 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday THE UNITED Malays' National Organisation (Umno) Supreme Council has decided to compel all party divisions to re-elect their committees at the delegates conference this year. The decision is final even though there have been reservations that the decision may give rise to
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    • 112 9 Reuter TEL AVIV, Wed THE ISRAELI army has banned all alcoholic beverages from its bases, a military spokesman said yesterday. "From time to time, there were incidents of people getting drunk," he said, adding that an order issued a few weeks ago removed beer
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    • 256 9 AP, UPI LONDON, Wednesday SRI LANKA has signed a deal to buy assault rifles and four inshore petrol craft from China, a British military magazine reported yesterday. Jane's Defence Weekly, in a report from Colombo, quoted highly-placed government sources as saying Sri Lanka gave the
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    • 191 9 AP WASHINGTON, Wed AMERICAN business productivity rose 3.6 per cent in 1984, the biggest gain since 1971, the Labour Department reported yesterday. The department said the increase was due to the strongest advances in output and hours worked since the Fifties and a substantial advance
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    • 103 7 Tl" Anofhec product o# VINCX> TENOR COMPUTER FURNITURE Attractive and versatile with full range of connecting tops to form multi-configurations. Tenor's wide choice standing work surface system also incorporate a unique segregated wireways feature through its steel frames. *!?>"'•>Tenor computer furniture provides <■ v* ,7. a more efficient and more
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    • 410 9 A joint campaign by MPH and Singapore Monitor to stretch your reading dollar. J&fIPA NTOFF THB AD TO CUT ACHUNK OFFfI BOOK PRICES! "Li ■L_. books in town. mam inescapable act 7M happen to be the r m+M HBIH largest bookstore I I HB IHLfIJI I in Singapore. J a
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  • money
    • 1120 10 SPP Ltd may have more red ink in its accounts for the year ended Dec 31, 1984. Its holding company, Tuan Sing Holdings, was said to have mobilised its merchant banker, a professional accounting firm and a legal firm to identify the
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    • 125 10 OUB Centre, the future headquarters for Overseas Union Bank, will provide 40,000 square metres of office space wnen it is completed by the end of 1986. The centre, built over an area of 7,530 square metres in the Central Business District, comK rises
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    • 171 10 HARPER GILFILLAN intends to diversify into the manufacturing sector in line with its obejctive to achieve a wider operating base that would act as a buffer against the cyclical nature of trading. Harper's new chairman, Mr H J Conybeare, said: "Harper has been a fairly
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    • 243 11 HMLLSTREET J Reuter A SURGE of buying in the final hour of an otherwise routine session yesterday pushed Wall Street stock prices to an all-time record as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The closely watched Dow Jones index rose 14.79 points in
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    • 15 11 THE STRAITS Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 816.38, up 21.74 points from Monday.
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    • 178 11 AP THE AMERICAN dollar turned higher in Suiet, late trading yesterday, reversing earer losses. The mixed showing continued a recent pattern, in which the dollar has drifted in a narrow range amid concern over central bank intervention against the US currency. Currency dealers also said traders were
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    • 244 11 THE GOVERNMENTS gradual withdrawal from businesses is a farsighted policy which should promote freer open competition and promote Singapore as a major financial centre, Mr Allan Ng Poh Meng, chairman of the Association of Banks in Singapore, said yesterday. The association "unreservedly welcomes" this policy
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    • 116 11 Bernama JAKARTA, Wednesday INDONESIA'S debt service ratio this year is expected to reach 23.05 per cent, Finance Minister Radius Prawiro said yesterday. He said the expenditure for payment of debt and interest this year was projected at U553.29 billion (Ss7.l billion) while the country's net
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    • 244 11 CITY DEVELOPMENT'S group pre-tax profit for the year ended Oct 31, 1984? was up marginally to $39.2 million from $38.6 million last year although turnover was up 31 per cent to $226.3 million from $172.4 million. Attributable profits declined 4.4 per cent from
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    • 92 11 THE United Overseas Bank group has bought 188,000 shares in Haw Par Brothers International for $361,230 or $1.92 a share bringing its total shareholding in the company to 41 million shares or 31.5 per cent of the paid-up capital. FEDERAL Cables announced that
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    • 55 11 yourself to an outrageously over a on the order one or a bottle during our daily Golden Hours IV# another, absolutely Disco Hrs. 9pm to 2am ■r' J v Fri Sat to 3am I Pf First drink: $14++ (Sun Thur) V B\A $18 Sat) chiat EIHIS3 5 ~j^^M 04-18 Katong
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 313 12  -  Many new house owners want to get homes renovated before Chinese .New Year By ANNIE CHIA NEW PROPERTY owners who want to get their homes renovated before the Chinese New Year will probably have to pay much more than usual to get the job done.
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    • 80 12 STUDIO apartments at Delfi Orchard in Orchard Road are selling briskly since they were marketed in November. They range from $260,000 to over $500,000. Some of the 17 units sold have already been let out by owners. The luxurious apartments are just on
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    • 73 13 SINDO (Sixth Avenue) Development is refurbishing all 48 maisonettes in Sindo Gardens and the protect is now on the market for lease. Work has finished on a block of 16 flats and these are available to let fully tarnished, although it is
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    • 274 13  -  By ANNIE CHIA each enquiry is unique," he said HOUSE hunters with problems on buying real estate are making a 24-hour property hotline a success. The Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers, a national body embracing all aspects of surveying and
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 170 12 One stop and you're home At Credit POSB you can get a loan for your home with less legwork and on the best terms. All you need to do is visit our offices in the CPF Building We II help you with your application forms for a POSB loan and
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 726 13 I I Mortgagees' Sale Off Properties I I By Public Auction I I To Be Held At No. 6 Cecil Street #02-04, People's Insurance Building, on Friday, Bth February 1985 at 3.00 p.m. H I Particulars I H Landed Properties Apartments/Condominium H 1) Not 43,43 A.438 and 43C West Coast
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  • letters
    • 263 14 DESPITE what the spokesman for the Permanent Secretary (Education) had said in her reply (SM, Nov 16,1984) I maintain that Polytechnic graduate mothers are not given preference in the Primary School priority registration scheme. I present herewith a table for discussion. From the table
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    • 140 14  -  -REPLY DR B Y LAU Medical Director Toa Payoh Hospital Singapore 1129 WE REFER to the letter "Unnecessary to transfer Satient to another hospital" by William Koh (SM, an 22). Toa Payoh Hospital has a limited number of beds for orthopaedic cases and
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    • 149 14 I VISITED my brothei in-law at Blk 25 Telok Blangah Crescent on Jan 24 at 8.30 pm. After a few unsuccessful attempts to find a parking lot, I decided to park my car in the place meant for motorcycles as I would be away
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  • 1196 14 feature UPI TOKYO: Shortly after Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's re-election last November, the Foreign Ministry received a secret request from the Japanese leader's closest aides. The aides felt something dramatic was needed to polish Mr Nakasone's image, tarnished by an unexpected electoral challenge engineered by party
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  • 75 14 "I DO not believe we shall ever have a United States of Europe in the same way that there is a United States of America." British PM Margaret Thatcher on the idea of transforming the Common Market into a political union "THERE is nothing wrong with present day democracy,
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 72 14 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wM 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
    • 502 15 THE SINGAPORE inßil FIRST it was Dr Toh Chin Chye. Now it's Mr Jek Yuen Thong, Dr Ow Chin Hock. Others like Dr Augustine Tan and Dr Tan Cheng Bock have spoken up before on controversial issues. So it isn't just the opposition MPs
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    • 191 15 SOME TIME ago, some members of a family died when fire engulfed their shop house-cum-residence in the Balestier Complex. The family was living above the shop premises and the house was accessible only by a staircase leading from the shop. Once the
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    • 127 15 I REFER to "Killing of swan is disgusting" (SM, Jan 25) where "Nature Lover" said that a fine of a mere $500 is nothing nowadays. I disagree with him. To the ordinary man in the street who is trying to make ends meet, $500 is
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    • 164 15 RECENTLY there has been a lot of news about American football in the papers. This sport is considered the most popular and entertaining sport in the United States,- with 120 million Americans viewing the annual Super Bowl live on TV. The event
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    • 101 15 WE MUST thank Citi Bank for giving us the thrilling "Silk Road", but did NHK and CTV want a historically accurate documentary or just a romantic "spectacular"? In part two one hears that Buddhism originated in what is modern Pakistan. That area was the
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    • 71 15 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wtt 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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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 1182 16  -  By WONG AH YOKE FIVE minutes. The time it takes to sing Happy Birthday 12 times perhaps. The time devoted to marking one year of Channel 12 on 12, with a special "programme" the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation has prepared to celebrate its first birthday tomorrow. There will
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    • 692 16 Wong Ah Yoke A YEAR has passed since the birth of Channel 12. It began symbolically on Jan 31 last year with a glimpse into the act of numan conception and birth in a documentary called The Miracle of Life. From its first wail after a
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    • 660 18  -  By WONG SING YEONG NOBODY watches Channel 12 all the time, but many people watch it at least some of the time. For those who do, it is usually programmes of specific interest that attract them. Dance fans go for ballet programmes, film buffs for
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    • 420 18 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Applause: Broadway plays Washington (Ch 12, 9 pm) THIS programme, hosted by Debbie Reynolds and performed before a live audience at the John F Kennedy Centre at Washington, was produced in celebration of the centre's 10th Anniversary. It features Broadway musicals performed by Beatrice Arthur, Melba
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    • 578 19  -  "t At leisure 3 By VIOLET OON NINETEEN EIGHTY-FIVE is the big year for Bach, Handel and Scarlatti. It's also the big year for harpsichordist, pianist, conductor and choir teacher, George Malcolm, 67, whose speciality in music by these composers has made him one of the
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    • 385 19  -  FILM: NINJA MISSION SHOWING: Capitol and Changi Reviewed by WONG SING YEONG I WAS cajoled into seeing this film by two glib-tongued sales executives. It turned out that they slept through most of it while their snoring kept me awake. Ninjas. Their art at warfare invokes
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1494 17 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. ft W fj v M I 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by This 1 |T >_V I Land la Mine (C) (r) (English subtitles). M I cU #M 1 mT'I 4.39 The Richard Simmons Show. < Wrj# I 4.90 The Animate Express. MB flBHr
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • HOME SERVICE & HOME FURNISHING
    • 440 21  -  By BRYAN SHUMAKER Courtesy Popular Science MY home-computer room adjoins my baby daughter's bedroom, and the chatter of my dot-matrix printer kept waking her. To quiet the printer, I built an enclosure: a foam-padded box with a plastic front and top. To muffle your printer, plan
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    • 297 22 DRAWING up circles? Here's a guide to scribe circles without a compass. Circles up to 600 mm in diameter can be simply marked out by adapting an ordinary wooden ruler to the job. To mark the circle's centre, fit a nail at one end. Drill holes in
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    • 193 22 AUSTRALIAN textile designer Sheridan is introducing a new collection of bedroom fabrics featuring six floral prints inspired by French, English and Japanese influences. These will be available in major department stores and bedroom boutiques from the middle of March this year. Floral
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 269 21 fM 11 OuffiSl] fJp&Bamboo Pardjs|jj\ i t j JflT/ <». t' >*"• a Everyday, neat, clean housing estates qmckJy turn into wet. gawdy eyesores As sure as the sun rises It's the daily appearance of the bamboo parade Creaky bamboo poles laden with sodden laundry pose a cumbersome and soggy
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    • 239 21 Apollo Bathroom Fitting A New Idea In Decorating I 7SS Colours t 3 Ivory, Blue, Brown, Complete Set--7 Items APOLLO Special TRADEMARK offer $75.00 ORIGINAL FROM HONG KONG mtf Sole Agent: Singapore Malaysia STAR BRIGHT TRADING #04-174, Block 1014, Geylang East, Avenue 3, Singapore 1438,Te1: *****83/*****84 Tarkett SHEET VINYL from
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 721 23 leisure I FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook tAimof xwg ACT. i€> this &OT iNis "P>AE ®*x«sf (£Sr«2&)iBJWSys faJW) jtos&tf® 'ifc aMU, ij Sgf ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA U\\ V &jf j |F V&x) Sense of direction is restored, September 23 to October 22 \\l Nr rMI/ ill V&
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    • 411 29 Former world motor racing champ wants to win the title again AP LONDON, Wednesday FORMER world motor racing champion Alan Jones said yesterday he was looking forward to making nis comeback on the Formula One circuit and that he was "totally committed" to regaining the title.
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    • 167 29 Reuter MONTE CARLO, Wednesday FINLAND'S Ari Vatanen edged further ahead of West Germany's Walter Roehrl after the first two time-trials of the day in the Monte Carlo Rally. Massimo Biasion of Italy, whose two-wheel-drive Lancia fared well on a dry road, took the
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    • 170 29 Reuter LONDON, Wednesday INTER MILAN midfielder Liam Brady has been included in the 18-man Ireland soccer squad to meet Italy, in a friendly international in Dublin on Feb 5. The only surprise is the exclusion in the squad of striker Mickey Walsh
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    • 409 30 The Star MALACCA, Wednesday THE MALACCA team came under fire from their fans yesterday for walking out of the match against Trengganu and for refusing to play against Perils. Former national forward and Malacca's coach for more than 17 years, Robert Chee, said: "Malacca's refusal to
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    • 126 30 The Star KANQAR, Wednesday ABOUT &.000 Perlis fans turned up at the Datuk Sheikh Ahmad Stadium yesterday for their team's match against Malacca but had to be content with a friendly match. Malacca failed to show up and Perlis were awarded a walkover. The friendly
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