Singapore Monitor, 22 February 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 30cents Friday, February 22, 1985
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  • 406 1  -  By YONG ROW ANG THE RECENT general elections cost the People's Action Party and its opponents $615,000 in campaign expenses. With close to 1.5 million voters, the expenses in election campaign in Singapore works out to about 41 cents for each voter. These figures come
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  • 580 1 HERE are some facts culled from the returns: SOURCE OF FINANCING: PAP candidates received money from the party headquarters and the respective branches. Contributions from the headquarters ranged from $1,078 to $1,510, depending on the size of the constituency.
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    • 208 2  -  By VINCENT FONG MOTORISTS driving along the Central Expressway (CTE) from Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 to Lower Delta Road when it is ready could find themselves travelling not only underground but also beneath the Singapore River. This is what would happen if an
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    • 153 2 Lianhe Wanbao BUDDHIST temples all over Singapore ushered in the Lunar New Year in traditional style early Wednesday morning. Phor Kark See Temple in Bright Hill, Upper Thomson, attracted one of the largest crowds. Reverend Hong Chuan, president of the Singapore Buddhist Association, presided
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    • 78 2 THIS CALF is becoming the centre of attraction at Chinese Garden. And rightly so for this is the Year of the Ox. While the calf and the ox are not quite the same, it is the closest thing to the ox for Singaporeans. Many
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    • 261 3 Housing Board still seeks tenants for more than 130 of second batch of units By OEI SIN GIOK THE SECOND lot of middle-income Housing Board flats put up for rent at Cairnhill is meeting with poor response. Only eight of the 145 flats and maisonettes
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    • 497 3  -  By CHEE LI CHOO THE COMMITTEE set up to raise funds for the new St Joseph's Institution is finding the job difficult because of the lack of support from the school's old boys and the students' parents. At the same time
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    • 1683 4 They'll need wide powers to be effective, say residents SECURITY officer, MR GERRY LIM, 32, who would like town councils to be informal bodies, said: "It will be good if anyone in the estate could just walk into these councils and have someone there
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    • 84 4  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO and CHEW YEN FOOK THE IDEA of forming town councils in Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates has drawn mixed reactions from residents of these estates. Their opinions were gathered in a random survey by The Singapore Monitor. The survey found that some of the
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    • 803 5  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO MAKING the Housing and Development Board area offices answerable to town councils is one of the proposals being considered by the Members of Parliament representing the nine constituencies of Ang Mo Kio New Town. Mr Lim Boon Heng, Member of Parliament
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    • 126 6 WHILE others pushed and shoved to set a little closer to Mickey Mouse, two-year-old Glenn Yang Wei shied away from the famous Disney character. Glenn was probably embarrassed by the grinning mouse and decided to saty away from the spotlight Mickey Mouse and
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    • 233 6  -  By SURESH NAIR POLICE officers helped stop four separate brawls in the Orchard area on the eve of Lunar New Year. Nine people, including an 18-year-old youth, were arrested. INCIDENT NO 1: The 18-year-old was arrested at Far East Plaza on Lunar New
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    • 159 6 NEAR the site of an exhibition at Ang Mo Kio promoting the consumption of frozen pork, a pig being taken to the slaughterhouse managed to escape and put on a show which drew a good crowd of spectators in the neighbourhood. The pig got off its vehicle
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    • 413 3 I pew y TOpC COURT y wuowcmeNPooL Lupar prosperity Tang Court Feb 12-Mar6) To usher in duo from the Philippines, Toinette Buizon the musical same in Bill Bailey's Bar. the bright new year of the Ox, our chefs have and Carding Cruz, Jr, entertains. While Lynn Ist drink charge (excluding
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  • world
    • 388 7 Reuter WASHINGTON, Friday THE United States economy grew at a robust annual rate of 4.9 per cent in the final three months of 1984, capping its best year in more than three decades. Growth for all of last year was 6.9 per cent,
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    • 163 7 AP WASHINGTON, Fri SOUTH Korean Foreign Minister Lee Won Kyung formally expressed regret yesterday over the incident two weeks ago in which Korean police used force against four Americans who accompanied opposition leader Kim Dae Jung on his return home, the State Department announced. "We have
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    • 246 7 AP LONDON, Friday MEMBERS of Parliament expressed concern yesterday about allegations in a banned television documentary that Britain's intelligence service had tapped telephones of leaders of labour unions, an anti-nuclear protest group and other public figures. Mr Gerald Kaufman, the opposition Labour Party's
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    • 300 7 AP BANGKOK, Friday THE THAI AHMY showed reporters yesterday what it said was photographic evidence that the Vietnamese fired toxic gas shells at Cambodian refugees along the Thai-Cambodian border early this month. At a monthly news conference, the army displayed about 10 slides
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    • 237 7 UPI NEW DELHI, Friday POLICE shot and killed an independent politician and brother of the former ruler of an Indian princely state, and two of his followers in a gun battle yesterday. Official All India Radio said Raja Man Singh, brother of
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    • 90 7 Reuter NEW DELHI, Fri ABOUT half a dozen lions in a South India game reserve are to have vasectomies in a bid to curb an increase in their numbers The Press Trust of India said the Forest Department of Karnataka state decided on the operations because
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    • 349 8 AP KHAO SARAPEE (Thailand), Fri CAMBODIAN refugees once lived in a string of Suerilla controlled camps south of the key Thai borer town of Aranyapratnet. But a month-long Vietnamese offensive, which climaxed last week, swept through the area and forced a mass exodus into Thai territory.
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    • 469 9 UPI years ago in the makeshift "freedom flotilla" MARIETTA (Georgia), Friday TWENTY-THREE Cuban refugees, described as criminals and mental patients, were removed from a Federal prison yesterday and flown by chartered jet to their homeland, the first of 2,700 the Reagan Administration wants deported. A
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    • 114 9 AP ATHENS, Friday A GUNMAN shot and killed the publisher of a conservative Athens daily yesterday as ne drove to his office in the city centre, police said. Nicholas Momferratos, chairman of the board of directors at Apogevmatini, died when the gunman opened fire
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    • 200 9 AP BERLIN, Friday WESTERN authorities found out how thick the Iron Curtain is when they tried to rescue a howling dog trapped between two sections of the Berlin Wall. Police said the episode began when a stray cocker spaniel fell from a viewing platform on
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    • 168 9 UPI SAN FRANCISCO, Fri FEDERAL investigators said yesterday that they were focussing on human error or mechanical failure as possible causes for the terrifying six-mile dive of a China Airlines jumbo-Jet that injured 55 of the 268 people on board. The National Transportation
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    • 219 10 UPI JOHANNESBURG, Fri A MOURNER at the funeral of a riot victim died under police fire yesterday as Black Affairs Minister Gerrit Viljoen, in a major reversal of existing government policy, abandoned plans to dismantle three Black townships near Cape Town. In
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    • 374 10 UPI LONDON, Friday A DELEGATE conference of the National Union of Mineworkers voted unanimously yesterday to continue the 49-week-old coal strike after attempts to restart talks with the state-owned coal board fizzled. The conference thus endorsed union leaders' rejection on Wednesday night
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    • 293 10 Reuter WASHINGTON, Friday BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, setting the stage for a possible confrontation with New Zealand, said yesterday she has "no intention whatsoever" of disclosing whether British ships visiting that Commonwealth country carry nuclear weapons. Mrs Thatcher, set to end her two-day visit
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    • 184 10 Reuter WASHINGTON, Friday DENMARK, Sweden and the Netherlands all bases for international smut peddlers have promised to help the United States combat child pornography, a State Department official said yesterday. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams told the Senate Subcommittee on investigations
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 103 10 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS A TELEVISION movie is being made about the life of boxer Ray "Boom Boom'Mancini (above) and it needs a bloody scene added. About a week ago, Mancini was thrashed in real life by lightweight champion Livingstone Bramble. Mancini, who needed
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      • 64 10 THERE WILL be times when next month's shuttle flight will resemble a kindergarten play period. The seven space travellers, including Senator Jake Garn, Republican of Utah, and a French scientist, will be taking 10 children's toys as part of a science documentary on the effects of
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      • 63 10 ACTRESS Dyan Cannon (above) is marrying for the second time and is doing so in a friendly fashion. Cannon, 48, who has a 20-year-old daughter, Jennifer, from her marriage to Cary Grant, announced on Monday that she plans to marry California real estate mogul Stanley
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      • 58 10 HAWAII will crown actor Tom Selleck (above) "king" for a day with announcements by Governor George Ariyoshi and Honolulu Mayor Frahk Fasi setting Feb 24 as his special day. Selleck lives in Hawaii, where he stars in the hit American television series, "Magnum P I,"
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      • 55 10 THE LEADER of the National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom will boycott the movie "Witness". The film, which opened this month at theatres around the country, stars Harrison Ford as a Philadelphia policeman who becomes involved with an Amish widow after her young son witnesses a
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    • 355 11 LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Friday MURRAY Haydon and Bill Schroeder, the world's only men living on permanent artificial hearts, are both gradually building strength although Mr Haydon's Kidney problem continues, doctors said yester- day. Dr Allan Lansing, chairman and medical director of the Humana Heart Institute, said
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    • 605 11 AP HERE are some of the milestones in the treatment of heart disease: 1628 William Harvey, an English physician, describes how blood circulates through the body. 1706 The structure of the left ventricle and distribution of the coronary vessels are described by French anatomist
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    • 282 11 The Nation BANGKOK, Friday SOME people called it Asia's most unusual wedding. That's a sweeping statement. But when Amorn Kijchawaengkul and Orawan Sriwattanakomen were married 1,000 feet up in the sky over Pattaya, one thing was certain: they were the first in Asia to
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    • 143 9 The Heat ison at FeniHßMla ACastle's presents the aerobics Come and cheer on the participants the k National Aerobics Championship as they leap A to the beat of our disco favourites for a place in iShL# the Semi-finals.'Take part yourself in our on-the- spot Sit-Up and Push-Up Contests and Games
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    • 147 11 TOSS UP A wL OF GOOD LUCK H^Jlfl Enjoy our Good Luck Raw Fish (Wi Sheng) with special Chinese New Year menu at Pin Hsiang this festive season. Our special Chinese New Year menu prices from $250+ $300+ per table The special menu include Yu Sheng, Melon Ham Soup with
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  • money
    • 473 12  - Soon a blackist of cheque-bouncers Companies will be able to check the credit worthiness of clients By SIT YIN FONG COMPANIES can soon subscribe to a service that provides them with a blacklist of businessmen who issue "bounced" cheques. Datapool, a credit information agency, is introducing its "Trade Protection Programme"
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    • 201 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Friday BANDAR RAYA Developments Bhd, a member of the Multi-Purpose group of companies, has secured a $40 million loan to finance buyers of its 16-storey Bangsar Puteri apartments project here. The end-finance facility was provided by Malaysia Borneo Finance
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    • 354 12 THE LOCAL stock market could see a continuation of January's rally this month although the extent and duration of such a rally may be limited, says City Securities. "Technically, the 10-day moving average has cut above the 50-day moving average, confirming the market's firmness
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    • 191 12 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Friday SALES of passenger cars in Malaysia dropped by 4 per cent last year to 86,808, while sales of commercial vehicles jumped to 19,824, up 26.3 per cent from 1983. And total vehicle sales in Malaysia in 1984 rose to 109,915, up
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    • 624 13 LATWP WASHINGTON, Friday THE VALUE of the US dollar on foreign exchange markets hit new highs last week against a number of currencies, including the British pound and the French franc. It was a classic case of commodity traders getting out of the way of
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    • 82 13 THE HONG LEONG group now holds a 7.39 per cent stake in Haw Par Brothers International, it said in an announcement to the Stock Exchange of Singapore over the weekend. King's Tanglin Shopping and Singapore Finance acquired 200,00 shares and
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    • 67 13 COLLYER QUAY Properties announced a shuffle on the board of directors on Jan 28. Mr P E Selway-Swift has resigned and was succeeded by Mr A Dixon. Mr T W O'Brien was appointed as alternate director to Mr A Caplan, in place of Mr Dixon.
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    • 231 13 Reuter TORONTO, Friday MAJOR Canadian banks yesterday announced an increase in the prime lending rate after the Canadian dollar fell to a record low in foreign exchange trading in New York. The Canadian currency tumbled to an all-time low of 73 US cents.
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    • 217 13 MMLLSTREET Reuter WALL STREET stock prices closed lower yesterday on weaker volume as investors remained puzzled over the Federal Reserve's monetary policy and worried anew about the size of tne US money supply. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.09 Cints to
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    • 166 13 AP NEW YORK, Friday TRADERS continued to bid up the dollar to uncharted levels yesterday, again lifting the US currency to record highs against the British pound, French franc and Italian lira. The price of gold, meanwhile, fell below US$3OO an ounce. Republic National Bank in New
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  • 1205 14  -  Sex researchers reject Landers' survey on women's sexuality features By DAVID O'REILLY Knlght-Ridd«r Newspapers CHICAGO: What do women really want? Men have pondered that question since the days they hunted woolly mastodons and none of them not Sigmund Freud, not Hugh Hefner has ever claimed to
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  • opinion/letters
    • 332 15 THE SINGAPORE mmmmam OUR POLICE, because of the nature of their job, are not always thought of in endearing terms. Enforcing the laws and there are many in Singapore without fear or favour must place them often in conflict with some members of the
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    • 167 15 THE ACTION of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), especially of its director-general Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, is simply incomprehensible. It has decided not to reduce its budget in anticipation of a shortfall of US$2B million following the withdrawal of the United States. It is
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    • 88 15  -  REPLY DR SOH CHIO SIONG Medical Director Changi Hospital WE REFER to the letter "Longer visiting hours, please" by William Koh (SM, Feb 6). Visiting hours at Changi Hospital, as with other Government hospitals, are from 1 pm to 2 pm and 5 pm
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    • 63 15 I WAS shocked when I bought four new Eveready batteries recently and found that each has a voltage of 1.35 instead 01 1.5 as written on the batteries. Out of curiosity, I used a voltmeter to measure them. I kept thinking whether someone had
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    • 117 15 I INJURED my back during my army days. I went to see a doctor at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Dr Bala Chandran, Head of the Orthopaedic Department. He certified me unfit and downgraded me to Pes (Physical Employment Standard) 3 on two
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    • 321 15 I NOTE with great interest and amusement the Chief Justice's reminder to the legal profession to refrain from unnecessary litigation (SM, Jan 6). In the light of the Chief Justice's statement, would the relevant authorities like to comment on my
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    • 67 15 aS LETTERS on any subject of pubic interest** be accepted lor publication. They should be typed end must be signed. Thay must also include the writer's name end eddrees to uae a peeudonym in print. A contact taiaphona number would be useful. We reaerve the right to edtt letters. Address
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    • 920 16  -  By RICHARD HARRINGTON WHILE the Rolling Stones roll inexorably on, the group's central spoke is extending himself a bit. On Tuesdav, Mick Jae§er released a solo alum, She's the Boss. Surprisingly, it's the first that he has made in the 23 years he's been
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    • 639 16  -  Wong Ah Yoke OFTEN when reading a murder story, one wonders whether the novelist, when confronted with a real murder, would be able to solve it. To satisfy this craving, watch Murder, She Wrote this Sunday on Channel 5. In this pilot TV movie,
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    • 850 16  -  By WONG AH YOKE LAT-WP THIS is the time when once again, Oscar nominations are in the headlines and movie buffs show off their knowledge and glee at predicting the winners. But since most of the movies involved this year have
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    • 488 18 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Friday Night Movie Hunter (Pilot) (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 5, 10.10 pm) THIS is the pilot episode of a new crime series set against sunny Los Angeles. Tough, sharp .and dedicated Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) goes to extreme lengths to apprehend criminals using unorthodox methods
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    • 654 18 TV SCENE i UPI HOLLYWOOD: Space, the TV miniseries based on James Michener's blockbuster novel, is being discussed in superlatives even before its completion. It is 13 hours long, costs US$3O million (5572.5 million) and includes 175 speaking parts, an ambitious project in a class with
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    • 653 19  -  FASTEST MOUTH IN TOWN TITLE: BEVERLY HILLS COP STARRING: Eddie Murphy, Lisa Eilbacher, Judge Reinhold DIRECTOR: Martin Brest SHOWING: Jade Reviewed by WONG AH YOKE BEVERLY HILLS COP is Eddie Murphy's movie from beginning to end. And that is why it
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    • 162 16 h <«w i "It's not expensive!" she exclaims softly to her fnend. "What's not expensive?" I muse as I step through the door towards the bar. The place? Probably. I see simple furnishings. Nothing poshy. Just cosy; a little homely. The band churns out some old sentimentals. Good music. Don't
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 966 17 2.25 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 2.55 Opening an* Programme Highlights followed by The g *lf pi f* ril Passenger (C) (r). /ff|| Kidsworid.* T ,T /Mi Featuring a circus run by kids, a zoo in Florida where the U! ff.* ilSl animals are not kept in cages, a dance group
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    • 347 17 Noon Programme Summary 12.05 No sin A major for Organ and Harpsichord. Musical Notebook Maidens in Music 1. Anthony Newman (organ). Joseph Payne Janacek: Highlights from Jenufa, Chorus (harpsichord) 4.00 Programme Summary and Orchestra of the Prague National Thea- 4.05 Composers from Different Eras Hantre/Bohumil Gregor. Libuse Domanmska, del: Water
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    • 176 17 Noon Newsdesk 12.30 Country Music Profile 12.45 Financial News 12.5S Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 1.30 My Country on Mind 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Quote, Unquote 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 3.30 Out on the Floor 3.45 Merchant Navy Programme
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 544 19 fllM GUIOC 1 800 MEETS POM POM (C) Morning/Midnight Show: MY LUCKY STAINS (C) 3M 73# m MR 800 800 MEETS POMPOM 15, 5): Michael H.I, John Shun, Richard Show MV LUCKY STARS ,C) Ng JUBILEE (*****07) (1.30. 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): MR 800 Synopsis: A brilliant detective, Mr 800, finds
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    • 151 20 CAPITOL-LIBERTY: NOW SHOWING (CAP *****59) 11am, 1.45,4.00,6.30, 9.15 No Free Ust (LIB *****68) 11am, 1.45, 4.00, 6.45, 9.15 No Fra« List Featuring the NEW DANCE CRAZE that's SWEEPING SINGAPORE ft THE WORLD... AE R OB |C DANCING! RICHARD REBIERE -v—— JADE-JIIRONG: NOW SHOWING (JADE *****80) 11am, 1.30,4.00,6.30,9.00 No Fraa Ust
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 445 20 THELACEMAKER I nfl SINGAPORE FILM SOCIETY will I i ImrißMgffififciVif screen The Lacemaker todav at I yJffijDtfnSflmjg 6.30 pm and 9 pm at the Goethe-Insti- I 7K tut Auditorium, Singapore Shopping |T^C>3^jrs2*2jjy4^_XM^ Centre. I TfiSSa tL 5 Directed by Claude Goretta, this is a I y film about the personality
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    • 264 20 X s,AGt LIGHttO ARIAS V Dickenson M S 1 Hill Road omwAL arches m M aSffflfM gggttg Map showing the centre of activities in Chinatown STREET ACTIVITIES: Sat, Feb 23: Stilt-walking (Siong Fong Art Dragon and Lion): 8.30 pm to 9.00 pm Sun, Feb 24: Dragon Dance (S pore Dragon
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 404 21 leisure comics j^»* r 23 to October 22 8?1— JBESK: into practical rea clash of ideas and marital sta- Be <*«*. stress indepenunusual scenario timing is j__„ 1' right for a "coup." You win by j&StaTp*! being aggressive. pUy signific^ nt ciCciCqiC •nri Iff 1 KrTi Hv> 'nv# nTv> TAURUS
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    • 159 21 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook FMR.lbP5pn4. A* A I ACCEPTED THIS fbStfloH ft) ORDER |JHr ..AVAU-A6Lfc IN URiTER OF SEif-HaP &a*s,\Aesoi-UTELV 12) WADttf MV OF CAREER Ifff HARD COVER fiaoM I U*S THERE AM UOKM* 1 MffTV i Off|OH6« A PRNCIPIE WAITED I HMHHCr PLMT PR6SS I MrfflVC IN &ECOMM6- V
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  • open line
    • 400 22 When you hit your prime time, your concentration is good. You feel energetic and enthusiastic. WHEN YOU hear the expression "prime time," you're likely to think of television. TV prime time refers to the hours between 7 pm and 11 pm. But you've got
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    • 160 22 YOU CAN make yourself more effective even if your prime time does not coincide with your work schedule. For example, you found that you work best in the morning. But your company holds meetings in the mornings so that you don't get to
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    • 381 22 IF YOU have a luxurious pure silk blouse or scarf, you should know how to keep it looking fresh and pretty. Most silk pieces carry "dry clean only" care labels and for a good reason. For example, water and steam will cause silk
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    • ANSWER BOX
      • 144 22 THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUERIES I AM an avid tennis fan. I was one of the many loyal supporters who were at the three-day Davis Cup match between Hong Kong and Singapore. The Singapore players were at their best, especially during tne doubles, and deserve
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      • 55 22 Something troubling you Need clarification on certain issues? Let us help. Send your queries to us and we will try to get the relevant authorities or organisations to provide the answers. Send your questions to: Open Line. The SingaSire Monitor, 2 Alexandra Road, #03-01 Delta
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    • 413 23 WHEN A CASE of mass food poisoning occurs, it is unlikely to escape the attention of a department in the Environment Ministry. This is the Quarantine and Epidemiological department whose business is to maintain a strict health surveillance and control system to protect the people
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    • 244 23 THE BEST safeguard against infectious diseases is to improve environmental sanitation and maintain a good system of surveillance. Detection of sources of infection is a painstaking process but public health inspectors are trained to pick up clues to lead them to the origin of infections.
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    • 303 23 FOOD-BORNE diseases such as typhoid, cholera and food poisoning are caused by harmful germs. They can be found in the environment; on our hands, nose, hair, skin and body; on the bodies of insects and animals; and on uncooked food. Warm, damp and dirty conditions are
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    • 590 23 FROM A JURONG canteen to a Bukit Panjang market to a Geylang factory the search lasted five days before the inspectors finally got a lead. From then on, action was swift and decisive. It is like a detective story, but with a difference. The
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  • sports
    • 234 25  -  By K SILVAM THE WITHDRAWAL of four top national badminton players from the team for the Brunei Merdeka Games from March 24-31 has forced the Singapore Badminton Association to rely on its reserves. National champion Lau Wing Cheok, Hamid Khan, Eddy Goh and
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    • 158 25 Reuter NEW YORK, Fri ALMOST two weeks after the event took 6 lace, Valerie Briscoooks has been declared the winner of a 400-me-tre race at the US Olympic Invitational track and field meeting in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Hooks' victory over Diane Dixon
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    • 367 25 Reuter NEW YORK, Friday OLYMPIC 3,000 metres champion Maricica Puica of Romania is out to break two of American Mary DeckerSlaney's world marks in one race at the US National Indoor Athletics Championships tonight. She only wishes that Slaney, who was
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    • 137 25 Reuter PARIS, Friday THE INTERNATIONAL Motor Sport Federation (Fisa) announced yesterday that the Monaco Grand Prix would be reinstated in the world championship calendar and would be held on May 19 as scheduled. Fisa's decision came after extensive bargaining earlier this week between the
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    • 1048 26 Politics of a different sort overshadows battle of wills LAT-WP MOSCOW: Last autumn, when the World Chess Championship in Moscow was in its early, halcyon days, an article appeared in a newspaper for communist youth about the value of the game for young minds. It
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    • 314 26 UPI JUST for practice last July, Soviet grandmaster Gary Kasparov took on 10 opponents simultaneously five in New York and five in London and defeated tnem all in the world's first satellite chess match. A month later, the 21-year-old chess whiz was seated across
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    • 86 26 INTERNATIONAL Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric starts the first match of the World Chess Championship match between reigning champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov on Nov 9, 1984. At the start of the championship, no one expected the tourna* ment to last as long as it did. Forty-eight
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    • 232 26 UPI CROWNED the king of chess by default at the age of 23, Anatoly Karpov proved his mastery of the game in following years with a machine-like precision attack and unfailing logic until the current match with challenger Gary Kasparov. He started with a bang, rolling
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    • 140 27 IT WAS family day with a distinct difference at the Orchard Road Young Men's Christian Association recently, with blood-curdling screams, tile-bashing and fisticuffs making it a night to remember. But it was also staged to set the parents at ease over their children's activities
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    • 135 27 AP MANCHESTER, Friday BILLY BINGHAM, manager of Northern Ireland's soccer team, which reached the second stage of the 1982 World Cup in Spain, yesterday criticised the kick-off times arranged for next year's Mexico finals. Bingham said that because of difficult playing conditions caused
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    • 101 27 Reuter CHRISTCHURCH, Friday STEVE WOODDIN, a hero of New Zealand's 1982 World Cup campaign, has announced his retirement from international soccer. Wooddin, 30, said he was not prepared to give up the 12 weeks required for New Zealand's Oceania Zone qualifying programme for
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    • 494 27 LONDON, Friday MANY of Europe's leading soccer players may be distracted as they prepare for this weekend's crucial domestic league games with World Cup fixtures looming. The Italian First Division, packed with a galaxy of international stars, is the most vulnerable
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    • 322 27 Reuter LONDON, Friday THE INTERNATIONAL career of England striker Tony Woodcock could suffer a serious setback tomorrow when Arsenal manager Don Howe names his team for the First Division game against Manchester United. Woodcock and Scotland's Charlie Nicholas were recently dropped from the
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    • 688 28  -  By ALFONSO CHAN SPOTLIGHT has been glaring these few weeks in the Malaysia Cup for Singapore strikers, the goals flooding at home and drying up in away games. Coach Hussein Aljunied's response to the heat of the glare has been to play A two strikers, D
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    • 187 28  -  By K SILVAM SINGAPORE Olympian Kelly Chan's hopes were shattered early yesterday when was disqualified for the second time in the Ray Ban Singapore Open Boardsaihng Championships at East Coast yesteraay. Kelly, who, along with four other teammates was disqualified for a "premature
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    • 387 28  -  By KEN JALLEH Jr SINGAPORE are expected to be cannonfodder for the big guns of world rugby, including defending champions Fiji, Western Samoa and New Zealand, when they make their annual pilgrimage to the Cathay Pacific-Hongkong Bank
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    • 140 28 Reuter PHALABORWA (South Africa), Friday SOUTH AFRICAN Mark McNulty birdied the last four holes to stay well ahead of the field after the second round of the 100,000-rand (about S$100,000) Palabora Classic golf tournament yesterday. McNulty, who shot a course record 63
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    • 506 29  -  SINGAPORE OPCN BOARD SAILING CHAMPIONSHIP f The East Coast in full sail By K SILVAM EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Anan Hosuwan of Thailand created an upset when he won the first triangle race in the Ray-Ban Singapore Open Boardsailing Championships at East Coast yesterday. The boardsailing instructor, who lost
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    • 586 30 SACRIFICE A VITAL ELEMENT IN SPORTS FORmwl DONNING national colours and answering the call for national representation are high points in any sportsman's career. There are times, of course, when a sportsman is forced to stay away from doing his bit for Singapore. But such decisions must be substantiated by
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    • 130 30 Reuter MIAMI, Friday PGA TOUR newcomer Greg Twiggs overcame stiff winds yesterday and shot a four-under-par 68 to take the first round lead in the US$4OO,OOO (S$880,000) Eastern Open. Twiggs, a 24-year-old Californian who failed to make the cut in three
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    • 105 30 Reuter LONDON, Friday THE BRITISH Government said yesterday it would back any attempt to bring the Olympic Games to Britain for an unprecedented third time. Local Government minister Kenneth Baker told parliament the Government would also consider backing bids to bring the Games
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    • 243 30 Reuter TORONTO, Friday SCREAMING obscenities in three languages that appeared to destroy his opponent's concentration, top-seeded Anders Jarryd of Sweden beat Mike Depalmer of the United States 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 today to fain the quarterfinals of the U*****,000 (*****,500) oronto challenge Grand Prix
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    • 297 30  -  By K SILVAM SINGAPORE are capable of pulling off another surprise when they play against Japan in tomorrow's PreWorld Cup match. They proved the pundits wrong once, against North Korea with their 1-1 draw and there's no reason why they will
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    • 171 30 AP LONDON, Friday BRITISH motor-racing driver John Watson may join the Toleman team for this year's Grand Prix championship, a British Press report said yesterday. A report in the tabloid Daily Mail said Watson, who lost his place with Marlboro McLaren last season, is having
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    • 377 31  -  By K SILVAM JAPANESE ace Kimura Kazushi could spell disaster for Singapore in the Pre-World Cup at the National Stadium tomorrow (Bpm). The Young Lions found out how lethal he could be during the White Cloud Cup competition in China last November.
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    • 126 31 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO, Friday BRAZILIAN soccer striker Zico will definitely leave Italian First Division club Udinese at the end of the season, but may stay on in Italy with another club, his wife said yesterday. Sandra Antunes told the Press that at least three Italian
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