Singapore Monitor, 14 March 1985, Afternoon Edition

Microfilm: NL14926
Total Pages: 27
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    21 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR J EVEfiIMn r EDITION IL M C (P) No 21.5 84 L Thursday, March 14, 1985 30 cents
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    Lock icon Arts student scores six As
    259 1  -  ■y SEAH MEI KIANG A FORMER student from Hwa Chong Junior College has dispelled the myth that Arts students cannot achieve perfect scores in the 'A' level examinations. Ng Sek Chow, 20, a Malaysian, did just that when he scored As in all six subjects
    PICTURE: CLIFTON AW  -  259 words
  • Article
    BANKS 'LAGGING' IN CASHLESS MOVE
    455 1  -  Computer equipment should be standardised, says Telecoms boss By JANICE LIM BANKS were told today they were lagging in the drive towards a cashless society. Unless the banks standardise their computer equipment, Singaporeans may have to carry money around with them for a long time
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    Lock icon 'Sextuplets' wife not pregnant
    125 1 AP KITTERY (Maine), Thursday A WOMAN who received widespread publicity when she reported that she was expecting sextuplets despite her husband's vasectomy is not pregnant and is undergoing psychiatric care, her family said yesterday. Richard Perham, 33, said his wife, Kim, 27, has been admitted for
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      9 1 m TV GUIDE: PAGE 16 TV HIGHLIGHTS: PAGE 17
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    • Article
      Death car dodged 'cat', court told
      157 2 THE driver of a car in which three people died had swerved to dodge an animal that looked like a black cat, the coroner's court heard today. The driver, Sudiono Mohd, 36, was so startled to see the animal while he was driving along
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      Lock icon Six distinctions each for live boys from Raffles Junior College
      473 2  -  By CHEE LI CHOO FIVE Raffles Junior College (RJC) students scored four As for the principal subjects and distinctions in General Paper and Chinese. One of the top students was Teo Kien Boon, son of a contractor and a housewife.
      PICTURE: ASMAH HAMID  -  473 words
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      Immigration Dept to move to South Bridge Centre
      326 2  -  By OEI SIN GIOK THE IMMIGRATION Department and the National Registration Department are moving from Empress Place to the South Bridge Centre in the middle of this year. The public will be able to apply for passports or identity cards in cool
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    • Article
      Seven fined for carrying out illegal public lottery
      215 3  -  By IRENE TOH SEVEN employees of an illegal gambling syndicate caught during a raid last Saturday were fined in a district court today. Siew Seek Hun, 41, Tay Chwee Piow, 40, See Leng Suan, 27, Lu Siew Kheng, 26, and Tan Bee
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      2 fined for stealing basketful of crabs
      134 3 TWENTY kilograms of crabs caused two men a hefty $4,000 when they were convicted for theft in a district court today. Lee Boon Nguang, 22, and Lee Boon Swee, 25, who both pleaded guilty to stealing the crabs from a crab-seller at Simon
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      Man, 75, jailed for throwing danger litter
      122 3 A 75-YEAR-OLD man was jailed for three weeks in a district court today for throwing danger litter. Ong Choe Moy, unemployed, admitted throwing a kerosene tin containing some unwanted forks and spoons, together weighing 1.59 kg, from the ninth floor of Blk 110
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      Rebuffed salesman molested woman
      65 3 A MAN was jailed for nine months for outraging the modesty of a 30-year-old woman. Yeo Hiap Heng, 27, had gone to the woman's house at Blk 92 Pipit Road yesterday at 3 pm to sell vi- tamin pills. When she refused, he outraged her modesty.
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      Lock icon Centrepoint coffee-shop that has the MRT look...
      64 3 Lianhe Wanbao HAVING coffee in an MRT cabin? Yes and no. Yes, because the place looks like the inside of an MRT cabin. No, because it is only a mock-up of an MRT cabin in a coffee-shop at the Centrepoint basement. But the
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      Nine locks, four doors couldn't keep off thieves
      249 4  -  By JULIE ANNE SIT BURGLARS cut their way past nine locks and four doors, two of them steel, to break into a photo store at Bras Basah Road yesterday. They made off with about $50,000 worth of cameras and about $10,500 in
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      Four charged with having pirate tapes
      336 4  -  By IRENE TOH FOUR people were charged in court yesterday with having pirated cassette tapes of the charity record Do They Know it's Christmas* for sale in their shops. Two of the cases were adjourned to today after District Judge Rahim Jalil asked the
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      US stars here to stage charity show
      254 4  -  ?y CATHERINE FERNANDO FIVE dancers from the hit TV series Solid Gold, Lou Ferrigno of The Incredible Hulk fame and a few stars from the hit comedy series WKEP in Cincinnati are among 13 celebrities who wifl be giving a charity show here
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    • NEWS SCAN
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        Mandarin in Braille
        85 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Tav Choon Rui, a student at the Singapore School for the Blind, can now read and write "zhe shi ren" (this is a man) and other Hanyu Pinyin sentences in Braille. The school devised a system in January to allow
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        MP joins Building Society
        97 4 THIRTY years after he left the Malaya Borneo Building Society to become the organising secretary of the People's Action Party, Mr Ong Pang Boon has returned to the building society business. He is now a director of the Singapura Building Society, which was created when tne
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        Dr Yeo to explain fare hike
        109 4 TOMORROW'S Friday Background (Channel 5, 7.55 pm) will take another look at the increase in taxi Tares from next month and the rise in duty on diesel which cabbies have to pay from October. The Minister for Communications and Information, Dr Yeo Ning Hong,
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      Lock icon Phantom drug designer 'has killed 85'
      459 6 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Thursday A PHANTOM chemist in California is foiling authorities by tinkering with molecules to create legal "designer drugs" that addicts say are as strong as heroin but that have killed at least 85 people. "He's clearly a state-of-the-art chemist," said Mr Gary
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      For lovers' eyes only
      32 6 YOUNG couplet in love can show their affection by wearing these spectacle* offered in Munich. The spectacle-frame is shaped lihe kissing doves, its colour is red what else.
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      Lock icon Pahang deports illegal immigrants
      169 6 The Star SEQAMAT, Thursday THE PAHANG Immigration Department and police have launched an operation to deport about 20,000 Indonesian illegal immigrants working in 20 palm oil estates in the Keratong area. At least eight estates have been raided and 400 workers deported since the operation started
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      Lock icon Five killed by Java's ammo dump explosion
      270 6 Agencies JAKARTA, Thursday FIVE PEOPLE were killed yesterday when a military ammunition dump exploded in the West Java capital of Bandung, informed sources said today. Although it was the third ammunition dump explosion to hit Indonesia in five months, the authorities insisted it
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      Lock icon Jumbo's thrust flips light plane
      121 6 AP CHICAGO, Thursday JET THRUST from a Boeing 747 Jumbo cargo plane flipped over a twin-engine plane at O'Hare International Airport yesterday, crushing the small craft's pilot, a government investigator said. Charter pilot Keith Winkler was killed when his Beechcraft Baron was tossed by the
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      Lock icon Lucky dip makes political history
      213 7 Lottery gives Labor control of House Reuter MELBOURNE, Thursday A LOTTERY draw today gave the Australian Labour Party control of the Upper House of the Victorian State Parliament for the first time in history. The dramatic draw followed a tie between Labour and the opposition
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      Lock icon For sale: mansion with 27 servants' rooms
      238 7 UPI 'PALM BEACH (Florida), Thursday THE 11S-ROOM mansion of the late cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post complete with three bomb shelters and 27 servants' rooms will be sold, officials said yesterday. The Palm Beach Town Council gave final approval on Tuesday to plans
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      Lock icon Christians revolt over Lebanon's ties to Syria
      156 7 LAT-WP BEIRUT, Thursday A FULL-SCALE revolt erupted in Lebanon's Christian community yesterday over President Amin Gemayel's policy of tightening the country's ties to Syria. The revolt was led by Mr Samir Geagea, the commander of northern units of the so-called Lebanese Forces, the
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      Lock icon US registers biggest jump in retail sales since November
      230 7 AP WASHINGTON, Thursday RETAIL sales in the United States climbed 1.4 per cent in February, the biggest increase since November, the government reported yesterday. The Commerce Department said sales rose to a record U*****.1 billion (***** billion) last month, 6.3 per
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      Lock icon Shultz to meet Asean leaders in July
      53 7 AP WASHINGTON, Thursday US SECRETARY of State George Shultz will attend a meeting with ministers of the Association of South-east Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur, In mid-july, the State to woUd travel to Canberra for Utt. with the Australian Government, after the Kuala
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      Lock icon Chinese President gets a doctorate
      52 8 WEARING a doctorate academic gown, Li Xiannian listens to an interpreter during a ceremony at Thammasat University in Bangkok to present a degree of Doctor of Pkilosopky in Economics to tke Chinese President yesterday. Sitting at the right is his wife, Mdm Lin Jia Mei
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      Lock icon Huge blast wrecks bank in Baghdad
      250 8 Reuter BAGHDAD,Thursday A HUGE explosion destroyed a multi-storey bank building in central Baghdad early today. The blast wrecked the Rafidain Bank heaquarters in the commercial district of Shorja, in the heart of the Iraqi capital. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.
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      Lock icon Malaysian politicians ready for polls
      252 8 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday Barisan Nasional party leaders say their parties are all set to face the possibility of a snap election. Leaders of the Malaysian Chinese Association and the Malaysian Indian Congress two major partners in the 11-member coalition say they are prepared, even
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      Lock icon Marijuana seeds in fodder
      115 8 AP JAKARTA, Thursday SECURITY authorities in Surabaya, East Java, have seized 3,000 tonnes of fodder from China because the shipment contained marijuana seeds, the newspaper Sinar Harapan reported yesterday. The paper said local police spokesman Maj Suharto reported tnat the East Java Military Command was probing
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      Lock icon China steps up war against corruption
      417 8 LAT-WP BEIJING, Thursday THE CHINESE Government has intensified its current drive against corruption, with the focus increasingly on officials and Communist Party members who have taken advantage of their positions to try to enrich themselves. The official People's Daily yesterday carried on its front
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      Cambodia dispute 'may tip the balance in S-E Asia'
      561 9  -  MICHAEL RICHARDSON Tim Ago Newspaper, Melbourne, to The Singapore Monitor SINGAPORE, Thursday AUSTRALIA'S Foreign Minister, Mr Bill Hayden, has warned that unless the Cambodian conflict and related hostility between Vietnam and China is resolved, Soviet military strength in South-east Asia will
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      Lock icon Sihanouk says his forces will help 'evict' Viets
      426 9 AP SURIN (Thailand), Thursday CAMBODIAN resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk said yesterday that his guerillas were fighting side by side with Thai forces to evict Vietnamese troops from Thai territory. Prince Sihanouk also rejected Communist Indochina's most recent overtures on the Cambodian
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      Lock icon Removal of tumour is as effective as mastectomy'
      260 9 Reuter WASHINGTON, Thursday WOMEN do not have to undergo disfiguring breast removal to survive breast cancer, provided the disease is treated in its early stages, according to a study released yesterday. "This supports the trend away from the mutilating, debilitating, radical mastectomy
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      Lock icon 'Ethiopian troops sell food meant for the starving'
      271 9 Reuter STRASBOURG, Thursday HUNDREDS of tonnes of European Economic Community food aid to Ethiopia are being sold to traders by Ethiopian soldiers, three members of the European Parliament said yesterday. Mr Paul Howell (Conservative, Britain), Mr Niall Andrews (Fianna Fail, Ireland) and
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      120 6 'i JI "V 1 i |pp Kiosmode is back where they started. It's only a year since Krosmode's The Black 'n' White Nites first triumphant entry into the local Every Tuesday, Wednesday music scene. Thursday. The first 100 to arrive, And where did it all start? At between 8.30 10.30,
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  • money
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      Bankers shun prime site
      828 10  -  They give developers the thumbs down for Orchard Square, say property sources By ANG PENG HWA and JANICE LIM BANKERS gave the thumbs down to developers interested in tendering for the only prime piece of land left in Orchard Road, say valuers and developers. As a
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      We're number 11
      140 10 FOREIGN RESERVES SINGAPORE ranked 11th among the world's nations in the size of its foreign reserves, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF} statistics. With official foreign assets valued conservatively at US$lO.3 billion (5522.7 billion) at the end of Sep tember 1984, a rise of 15 Ser cent
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      Ex-chairman of stock market to head Morgan
      148 10 MORGAN Grenfell (Asia) Ltd has appointed its first Singaporean chairman Mr Ng Soo Peng, former chairman of the Stock Exchange of Singapore. He replaces Mr David Keys who is now deputy chairman. Mr Keys is a member of Morgan's management committee in London.
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      Prices drop amid profit fears
      108 11 S MMLLSTREET S INDICATIONS that several major computer firms are suffering from a drop in profits pulled most stock prices lower yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 10.05 points to close at 1261.70. Declining issues led gainers 1,008 to 493. Volume on the New
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      INDICES
      42 11 THE OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 418.77, down 1.51 points from the previous day's close of 420.28. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted Index was up 0.1627 point to 134.2650 in morning trading from the previous day's close of 134.1023.
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      Lock icon DOLLAR AND GOLD
      163 11 Reuter THE US dollar rose slightly against most currencies in quiet early trading following its rise in New York on a high federal funds rate and a 1.4 per cent rise in US' February retail sales. It rose slightly to an early 260.35/45 yen from New York's
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      Metro's fall dampens bourse
      265 11 IN LINE with Wall Street's sharp overnight fall and the weak sentiments in Metro, the local bourse opened lower this morning although some short covering towards late morning helped it close off its morning low at lunchtime. Metro fell a further 18 cents to $3.50 on
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      STOCKS
      249 11 Selected stocks at midday Keppel 1.65 B Magnum 3.44/3.46 Mulpha (S) 0.94 B Pan Elect 2 96/2.97 Peak Hua 4.20/4.50 Perlis 3.62/3.68 Pegi 1.20 B Prima 5.00/5.20 Rothmans (M) 3.40/3.42 Shell 3.10/3.20 S Darby 1 95/1 96 S'pore Press 6.15/6.20 S Steamship 1.13/1.16 S Trading 4.44/4.46 Sembawang Shipyard 1.34/1.35
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      FOREX
      104 11 Your 8$ to on* unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT 00 US| ***** ***** 2.2555 t: sterling 2.4724 2.4504 2 4404 Australian I 1.5893 ***** 1.5502 CURRENCY NOTES 8$ to 1 unit USI 2.27 225 NZ6 1.08 1.00 sterling 2.50 2.40 Australian 1 162 152 Canadian I
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      81 10 PROPERTY SALE BY AUCTION MORTGAGEES' SALE #02-14 Pearl Bank Apartment 593 Sixth Avenue '23m' (99 yrs from 2-6-70) 2-Storey Semi-Detached 471.8 m (999 yrs) OWNER' SALE 181-05 Lucky Plaza (SHOP) 4 Jalan Pernama 5l m > (FREEHOLD) 2-Storey Semi-Detached #81-I4 Lucky Plaza (SHOP) 330.5 m (FREEHOLD) s|m (FREEHOLD) DATE: Thursday
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      135 11 A GREAT DEAL MORE WTTH BORNEO MOTORS. MORE SHOWROOMS MORERMITS models including the popular j West Coast stocks thousands of Starlet are on view at our Qenuine Toyota conveniently located showrooms. P arts which will keep your The nippy compact Starlet v"w W I Toyota running smoothly and comes with
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      Let people be the judge
      206 12 Oil PARLIAMENT THE decision of Mr Goh Chok Tong and Professor S Jayakumar to come down hard on opposition MPs and people who spread rumours and half-truihs is both timely and right. From his Derformance in Parliament, Mr Chiam See Tong seems sincere in wanting
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      Watching Parliament altered preconceptions
      325 12 I HAVE never really read Parliamentary reports in the Press. There was just too much to read. But during the past week I became an avid fan of the TV broadcasts. Congratulations to the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation for this fine effort. I have not only been
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      Televise future Parliaments 'live' too
      168 12  -  ROBERT CRIAU Singapore 0922 THE Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) should be congratulated for the production of "Today In Parliament." It is a fine example of democracy in action, perhaps an inevitable trend in our increasingly sophisticated society. It ought to be a permanent fixture for
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      Sympathy for opposition, admiration for Tony Tan
      193 12  -  SHIRLEY LIM Singapore 0718 AFTER watching "Today in Parliament" on TV for the past week, I must say I was really put off by the behaviour of several People's Action Party (PAP) MPs. The jeering and catcalls emitted when an opposition MP tried
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      Constructive criticism was missing in debates
      233 12  -  MELVIN SIM Singapore 1646 HAVING watched the Parliamentary debates on TV, may I suggest that the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation not cover the event until the politicians have attained professional maturity. Each time the opposition MPs speak, viewers have to put up with volleys of
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      Let's re-examine the way we dress
      537 13 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT SHORTS AND DIRTY jeans are out if you want to watch a soccer match from the VIP seats. Also out of favour with the stadium authorities are* "slippers, sandals, T-shirts with advertisements and collarless Tshirts." It is about time that
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      Observation showed no obstruction to traffic
      125 13  -  -REPLIES CHAN CHOO GIAP Public Relations Officer Singapore Police Force PLEASE refer to the letter "Parked cars in Seletar an eyesore" by "Fed-up" (SM, Feb 23). Observations conducted by Traffic Police officers revealed that although there were vehicles parked along Seletar and Kasai Road,
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      Flashing amber being used as out-of-order light
      128 13  -  KHOO SOO HOON (MS) for Permanent Secretary (National Development) WE REFER to the request by Mr Steven Koh in the letter "Angullia traffic lights need adjusting" (SM, Feb 26). The Public Works Department (PWD) has adopted a standard three-second amber light for all
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      Unwise for HDB to cut 30-month waiting period
      300 13  -  TAN HENG HUAY Executive Assistant Secretary (Public Relations) Housing and Development Board PLEASE refer to the letter "HDB should cut waiting period for house sellers" by "Ineligible" (SM, Jan 14). The writer suggests that the 30-month waiting period for those who sold
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      72 13 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wtf 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 telaphona number wouM be useful. we raserve tne
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • leisure
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      An Imperial touch of pop in sacred tunes
      775 14  -  By PAT D'ROSE TODAY'S Christian music reflects a marriage between the sacred and the secular the sacred in the lyrics, the secular in the up-beat modern strains. And for the Imperials, four gospel singers from the United States who gave a performance
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      Back together again
      1003 14  -  Bacharach and Warwick bridge 10-year rift By MARILYN BECK in Hollywood IT IS a story in the tradition of show business reunion sagas that of an internationally acclaimed songwriter-recording artiste combo of the Sixties that split to the discordant strains of the lawsuit, waltz. For the first
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      Teri finds her niche in gospel music
      440 14  -  By PAT D'ROSE A SENSATIONAL cover-album image can do much for a rising star. It can inflate the ego. But it can also lure you away from your real self, as Teri De Sario found out the hard way. Like most young girls,
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      What they did for love
      457 16 Thursday Feature Special Mayerting (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) OMAR SHARIF and Catherine Deneuve take the leads in this Terence Young tragedy about love in the Royal Court of Austria in 1888. Rudolph, son of the Emperor Franz-Jo-seph and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne,
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      Lock icon Gone with the Wind on videocassette
      684 16  -  By FRANK SPOTNITZ in New York UPI METRO Goldwyn Meyer-United Artistes (MGM-UA) has finally released Gone with the Wind on videocassette and videodisc with restored visuals and an enhanced soundtrack. Studio executives had wanted to release the blockbuster, which for decades was the top-grossing
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      HEY MICKEY
      134 17 IT is every child's dream to pinch Mickey's nose. But four-month-old Daniel Teo is too young to realise he was toying around with Mickey Mouse, one of cartoonland's best loved characters. Daniel was amongJB.OOO people who showed up at the Ken-air Travel Fair at the Mandarin Ballroom last
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      WHEN GREASE IS NOT FOR REAL
      141 17 "HI there, the name is John, and I'm swell-headed because they say I've the hips of Elvis and the feet of Fred Astaire." Nobody, not even Mr Travolta, talks like that unless the occasion is a fancy dress party, like the one held at
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      FACES IN THE CROWD A*w *y-v;T "
      63 17  - FACES IN THE CROWD A*w *y-v;T By WONG SING YEONG This weekly column features social events or interesting happenings in and around town. If you have any such occasions on the calendar, our reporter will cover the function if possible. Please address your invitations to WONQ SINQ YEONQ, Faces in
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      993 15 SBC 2.30 SBCTEXT- Live Sample Pages. 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The Wild Bunch (C) (r). 4.30 Tarzan The Perils of Charity Jones (Part two) (r). Social worker Charity Jones and Jai are captured by the Waziris after escaping from a horde of murderous rebels. Charity is saved
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    892 19  -  BP 0 ?<yiat(mto4 ifounltft By SHARON DIRLAM LAT-WP SRINAGAR, INDIA: THE Vale of Kashmir is golden with the rice crop at harvest time. Peasants' trudge along the narrow roads, heads and shoulders hidden beneath massive loads of yellow rice straw. The road winds between the valley's
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      97 21 THOSE aspiring to further their studies but unable to attend classes because of work commitments can take up correspondence courses. Cambridge Correspondence School in Mayo Street, offers education by post in the General Certificate of Education (GCE) "O" and "A" Levels. There are two types of tuition
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      133 21 Where you can study for the C G exam ADAMS Computer and Commercial School at the Peninsula Plaza now conducts full-time and part-time computer courses leading to the London City and Guilds 747 examination. Both the full-time and part-time courses will start on March 25. The full-time course will last
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      572 21 ADVERTISEMENT Chinese Chamber to conduct courses soon And there will be one on corporate taxation THE SINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of write computer programmes in the Ba Commerce and Industry in Hill Street sic language. will conduct a number of business, com- It will run from May 2 to June 25.
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      103 21 CAMBRIDGE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL (Established in 1960) 158, Mayo St., S pore 0820. G.C.E. 'A' LEVEL EXAM. Gen Paper. Economics History. Engbsh. Geog Divinity Art, Maths/AO Maths COMMERCE SUBJECTS (For S pore-Cambridge GC E A Level) Management Ot Buaness Pnnaptes Q< Accounting G.C.E. '0' LEVEL EXAM. Eng Language (1120). Eng As
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      395 23  -  By KEN JALLEH Jr OLYMPIAN brothers Oon Jin Teik and Jin Gee have made history by becoming the first Singaporeans to be honoured for successfully combining sports and studies to win the Brigham Young University Academic Athlete Award. The two swimmers, both medal
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      411 23  -  POLICE SPORTS 2 TAMPINES ROVERS 0 By ALFONSO CHAN REFEREE Johnny Han was the object of the 500-odd crowd's wrath in an ill-tempered Natiohal Football League Division One match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. He flashed the yellow card four times, two each at
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      368 24  -  NATIONAL SCHOOLS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP Reports by K SILVAM A young runner brooding over a lost rece. another eyeing the finish line and glory just metres away, a boy flat out with exhaustion, and a group of jubilant girls celebrating victory. These pictures capture some
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      208 24 DEBUTANT Wu Xiuchun of Jurong Secondary created an upset by winning the Girls 'C' Division title in the National Schools cross-country championship at Macßitchie Reservoir Park yesterday. A volleyball fan and player by inclination, she never liked or wished to take up running.
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      278 25 Reuter PARIS, Thurt CHRIS DITTMAR, ranked fourth in world squash standings, overcame fellow Australian Rod George 9-0 9-6 9-2 to gain nis expected quarterfinal place in the French Open Squash championship yesterday. Dittmar needed just 22 minutes to clinch his second round match. He takes
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      46 25 LATEST SECOND ROUND RESULTS: Chris Dittmar (Ans) bt Rod George (Aus) 9-0 9-6 9-2, Ross Thorne (Aus) bt Jamie Hkkox (Britain) 9-19-2 9-6, Stuart Davenport (NZ) bt Kelvin Smith (Aus) 9-5 9-0 9-1, Gawain Briars (Britain) bt Hiddy Jahan (Britain) 9-4 9-5 9-2.
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      597 26 Reuter LAS VEGAS, Thursday WHAT HAD been a relatively quiet prefight buildup erupted into an angry and bitter exchange when Larry Holmes called challenger David Bey a "halfbreed" to his face at a press conference yesterday. The 35-year-old Holmes, who defends his
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      511 26 AP NEW YORK, Thursday THE COSMOS, who withdrew last month from the major indoor soccer league, were expelled on Wednesday from the North American Soccer League (NASL) for failing to post a letter of credit for the 1985 outdoor season. Jay Miller, counsel for
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      385 25 CONTEST Predict the score m*k qnd win $2,000 1) The object of the contest is to predict outright If there are more than one corcorrectly the scorehnes of si* Malaysia rect entry, the prize-money will be Cup matches in the boxes provided shared If there is no outright winner, the
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      428 27 Luton boss asks Govt to kick in on hooliganism Reuter LUTON TOWN manager David Pleat has called on tne British Government to take action against violence at soccer games after his team's tie with Milwall was played under intimidating circumstances. "Judges and magistrates can only do so
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      84 27 POLICE itruggU to prtvmit Milwall fans from spilling onto pitch Referee David Hutchinson takos tho playors off for 25 minutos after polico fail to provont fans from invading tho pitch Roforoo Hutchinson loads tho playors in a mad dash to safety after tho final whistle 7,000
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      622 27 AP LONDON, Thursday THINGS are beginning to look ominous for Tottenham Hotspur, the north London team who are trying to win the English soccer championship for the first time in 24 years. After suffering their first-ever home defeat in European competitions last week,
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