Singapore Monitor, 16 March 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR 30cents M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Saturday, March 16, 1985
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  • 536 1  -  By ANG PENG HWA THE ADVERTISEMENT said a shoJihouse was to be auctioned and Tari nvestment Pte Ltd made a successful bid. It has since discovered that the shophouse it bought isn't a shophouse. It's really a terrace house and cannot be used to house a
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    • 178 1 ■npns MIND THE BEND BEWARE of this bend at Eng Neo accidents have occurred on it since it was WSSJJ wV Avenue facing the Orchid Apartments. It resurfaced about three weeks ago. s a danger stretch. Residents in the area say that more Full story and pictures on Pago than
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    • 134 2 Nobody knows who dumped unused vehicles A STRETCH below Benjamin Sheares Bridge, parallel to Tanjong Rhu Road, has become a graveyard for vehicles. It's such a pity because this stretch is now an eyesore beneath the bridge, which is the pride of most Singaporeans. More than
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    • 286 2  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO TAN SWEE TEN is appearing in newspaper advertisements in England, but this time the Singapore Girl is not selling Singapore Airlines' services She's pleading its case to fly to Manchester In a full-page advertisement headlined. A Message from the Heart,
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    • 474 2  -  Book on Kampong Glam relives the old days By EE BOON LEE A KAMPONG GLAM hawker remembers the day, in 1956, when more than 100 triad members marched behind a flag through Bugis, Hylam and Malabar Streets, pushing over stalls and creating tear. "They marched to
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    • 319 2  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN ON MONDAY, the curtain will be raised for a second round of debate in the new Parliament, which is expected .to last nine working days. For the first two days, the focus will be on the financial policy spelt
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    • Article, Illustration
      435 3  -  More than 20 motorists have driven into trouble along recently re-surfaced road, say residents By JOSEPH LEE MORE THAN 20 cars have skidded and a number of accidents have occurred along a stretch of Eng Neo Avenue since it was re-surfaced about three weeks ago, say residents of
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    • 447 3  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Low Chee Seng is modest. Cnee Seng, 20, the eldest child of a couple of blue-collar workers, says he does not even consider himself particularly bright even though he scored distinctions in all the six subjects he sat for
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    • 179 4 You'll hear the famous 'Old Mac Donald' refrain in the Lee farm AND A QUACK, quack here. And a quack, quack there. Here a quack... The "Old Mac Donald" refrain is heard loud and clear from 15,000 ducks on this farm in Punggol Road. It is run
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    • 581 5  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM MEMBERSHIP of trade unions is falling even as the number of workers eligible for union representation is steadily going up Last year, membership of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) fell by 2.2 per cent to 186,500 despite an increase of more
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    • 159 5 THE Singapore Monitor branch of the Singapore National Union of Journalists (SNUJ) yesterday signed its first collective agreement with representatives of the Singapore News and Publications Limited group, which manages the company. Mr Ang Peng Hwa, chairman of The Singapore Monitor branch of the
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    • 300 5 THE MAJORITY of workers who attend the Basic Education for Skills Training (Best) classes are not members of trade unions. This was revealed in a survey of the proframmes students in two of the National rades Union Congress/People's Action Party (NTUC/PAP)
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    • 580 6  -  The key to the rise or fall of a taxi driver's income with the hikes in diesel duty and fares By YONG POW ANG THE KEY to the controversy of whether taxi drivers are going to suffer following the increase in taxi fares and the jump in
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    • 370 6 THE GAP in travel cost between cars and taxis will be narrowed with the substantial jump in taxi fares from next month. Before the latest round of increase in road tax and petrol duty for private cars, travelling in a 1,200 cc car per
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    • 183 6 ALMOST two years ago in May, tt)e Singapore Zoological Gardens recorded a somewhat rare event. Its resident pygmy hippopotamus, Bibi who had come from an American zoo, gave birth to her first child, Biba. Yesterday Bibi, who has been here for seven years, did
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    • 237 6 SPANNING more than two metres from wing-tip to wing-tip, any ordinary visitor to the Jurong Bird Park could hardly miss it. But, to a group of school children yesterday, the white-bellied sea-eagle, was simply majestic. The children, from the Merlimau Primary School, were
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    • 77 3 ™0 V Venue: People's Park Centre Time: 3.00 p.m. sharp Date: 17th March, 1985. ATTENTION ALL CHILDREN! GRAND PRIZES AWAIT YOU FOR THIS GRAND FINALS: Ist Prize Colour T V set 2nd Prize: Stereo Radio/Cassette Recorder 3rd Prize: Bicycle 4th Prize Portable Stereo Cassette Recorder sth Prize Headphones Radio/Cassette Player
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  • world
    • 67 7 DR WILLIAM S Pierce (above), Professor of Surgery and chief of Division of Artificial Organs at the Milton S Hershey Medical Centre in Hershey, United States, poses with a velcocovered air-powered artificial heart that he invented. Dr Pierce received federal government approval to use the
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    • 110 7 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday PRESIDENT REAGAN has directed his inaugural committee to donate US$l million (552.25 million* of its $3 million profit to the Treasury to help reduce the national debt, the White House announced yesterday. The rest would be disbursed among 23 charities, spokesman Larry
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    • 139 7 UPI WASHINGTON, Sat LABOUR SECRETARY Raymond Donovan, haunted for years by allegations of organised crime ties, resigned yesterday shortly after a New York judge refused to dismiss an indictment against him, the White House announced. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said President Reagan accepted the
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    • 379 7 UPI MANILA, Saturday RIOT police used tear gas and truncheons yesterday to break up a protest march on the palace of President Ferdinand Marcos Dy more than 1,000 slum dwellers, leaving one woman dead and 23 injured Police and hospital sources said
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    • 662 8 Tokyo is now world's biggest importer of the metal AP TOKYO, Saturday ONLY 12 years after lifting an import ban, Japan is today the world's biggest importer of gold, with growing numbers of Japanese discovering the precious metal as a solid form of investment The
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    • 83 8 THESE two fashions were among those viewed by Britain Princess Anne at a gala fashion show at the Guildhall here on Thursday night. At left, Carole models a black and white op-art outfit, at right, Angeline, in Boy George-inspired mil- linery with slinky black panne
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    • 174 8 AP TOKYO, Saturday NINETY per cent of doctors and dentists living in the Tokyo area cheated last year on their income tax returns, resulting in more than 6.4 billion yen ($552.5 million) in lost revenues, says a Tokyo regional tax administration
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    • 452 8 UPI SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday DON'T BLAME sugar or additives or allergies for a child's hyperactive behaviour, a nutritionist says. The real villain may be a poorly balanced diet. Some 10 per cent of America's 5-to-8-year-olds suffer from hyperactivity, characterised by inability to
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    • 91 8 LOS ANGELES, Sat RESEARCHERS here have uncovered evidence indicating that US officials knew of a postwar German hideaway used by accused Nazi war criminal Dr Josef Mengele but failed to alert authorities. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre here, said a
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    • 50 8 Reuter WELLINGTON, Sat A SPECIALLY protected area of virgin forest on New Zealand's North Island has been felled by mistake, forestry officials said yesterday. They said about 40 hectares of native totara trees at a reserve had been cut down by logging contractors Reuter
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    • 332 9 [fr SATURDAY PEOPLE OPA SIR FRANK COOPER, 62, retired two years ago as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence. Since then he has acquired directorships of Babcock International, N M Rothschild and Sons, Morgan Crucible, and Westlands. He relinquished his Westlands post
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    • 150 9 SIR DOUGLAS WASS, 61, was Whitehall's £42,000-a-year (*****,000-a-year) economics supremo from 1974 until 1983. The former Treasury Permanent Secretary has since taken up a string of private industry posts. Sir Douglas, who has a £100,000 house in Wimbledon, is now a nonexecutive director
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    • 166 9 SIR ANTHONY PART retired as Permanent Secretary at the Department of Industry in 1976 when his annual salary was £18,675 (5546,687). He is now chairman of Orion Insurance and a director of the Savoy Hotel Group, Lucas, Metal Box and the Life
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 108 7 finally the Aerotics Champbns onstage at the tytfudariM Ballroom Saturday, 23 March with the supreme finalists staging their last electrifying A show-down. Don't miss this clash of the titans and the dances, heavenly body-posinp and gymnatics dazzlers these plus out-of-this-world course Chinese pF Mandarin Orange Juice with Lonaans^^V^^ Organised by
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    • 28 9 Suniw Curry Tiffin At Raffles. JB Also, special Tok Panjang buffet in the Tiffin Room. Raffles Hotel I Our tradition is legendaiy Beach Road, Singapore 0718 Tel: *****41
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  • money
    • 675 10  -  By CATHERINE ONG RICHARD ELLIS, one of the biggest property consultants, is retrenching 19 employees and withdrawing from the residential and industrial markets in an effort to cut costs. And several other consultancy firms are likely to take equally drastic measures soon,
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    • 267 10  -  By P T BANGSBERG in Hong Kong HONG KONG shipping magnate Sir Yue-Kong Pao looks like winning the battle for Wheelock Marden and Co Ltd over his Singapore rival, Mr Khoo Teck Puat. Steady buying of shares by Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf
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    • 52 10 BEIJING, Saturday THE NUMBER of private individual businesses in China grew 57.4 per cent last year, the official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The State Administration of* Industry and Commerce said China had 9.3 million individual businesses in 1984, employing more than 13 million
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    • 325 10  -  By JANICE LIM GOLD prices may fall below US$275 per troy ounce over the next six months, its lowest in more than five years, traders said yesterday. Yesterday, it closed at US$29O/$290.40 per troy ounce in the Hong Kong market. "The market should
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    • 194 11 fi HMLLSTREET g Stock prices dropped sharply yesterday in a late selling binge by major institutional investors. Trading dramatically increased in the last ten minutes of trading and major indices fell quickly The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 12.70 points to 1247.35. For
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    • 342 11 AP THE dollar mostly rose in United States trading yesterday, after a mixed showing in Europe, as the stability of the American financial system came under renewed scrutiny. Gold prices followed a similar course, closing higher in the United States. Republic National Bank in New York quoted
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    • 86 11 OVERSEA-CHINESE Banking Corporation has announced a 6.15 per cent increase in net after-tax profits for the year ended Dec 31, 1984 from $114 million to $121 million. The bank itself registered an 18.3 per cent rise in net after-tax profits from $81.9
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    • 413 11 PRICES on the local stock market opened mixed on Monday but turned easier towards mid-week as the market corrected its overbought position with profit- taking. The Orchard Square tender which failed on Wednesday also contributed to the easier trend, with Metro falling 86 cents
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    • 76 11 SOME thirty Australian firms which took part in an exhibition of Western Australian building products in Singapore have reported sales of $6.4 million and a further $9.2 million under negotiation. The market development manager of the Western Australian Department of Industrial' Development, Mr
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    • 171 11 THE NATIONAL University of Singapore will be conducting a six-day government accounting course from May 20 as part of its executive development programme. This is the first time the course will be taught, said programme chairman Mr Tan Teck Meng. "Traditionally, accountants don't study
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    • 143 11 MADE-IN-MALAYSIA cars will hit the streets of London in the second quarter of the year as plans are afoot to sell 4,000 to 5,000 such cars in the first year of marketing: Mainline Investment, a company set up to promote the Proton
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    • 103 11 INTRACO has posted a 68 per cent decline in pre-tax profits from $5,586 million to $1,794 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1984. This was despite a 44.8 per cent increase in turnover from $262.1 million to $379.4 million. A poor second half was
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    • 157 11 PROMET has transferred 6.71 million shares in Chuan Hup Marine from its subsidiary Chut Kee Ltd to the holding company at $3.80 per share. INTERNATIONAL Wood Products announced that at the close of its rights issue on
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  • opinion / letters
    • 579 12 PRESIDENT Nair s recent remarks about the medical profession in Singapore has revived painful memories for members of my family. In 1983, my eldest son, then about 14 years old, suddenly suffered a collapse of his left lung (pleurisy). I understand that
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    • 116 12  -  MICHAEL SEET Singapore 0315 THERE is a traffic jam daily at the junction of Scotts Road turning into Draycott Drive and Stevens Road This is due to the fact that the traffic lights change too fast, which allows only three to four cars
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    • 93 12  -  CHUA KENG YEOW Singapore 1334 COUPON parking from 7 am to 10 pm was introduced to our area in Genting Lane last year. But at the nearby MacPherson market, the parking time is only from Bam to 5 pm. Our area has been generally
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    • 102 12 SINCE traffic jams are found only in the Central Business District (CBD) zone and along Orchard Road, Tanglin Road, Selegie Road, Bencoolen Street, Scotts Road, Jalan Besar, Victoria Street and North Bridge Road, why can't the authority extend the CBD zone to include the above
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    • 339 12 RECENTLY a doctor duped his patients into believing that they had some kind of frightful disease and charged them exorbitant fees for each consultation. In another case, a doctor was asked to account for the death of a patient. He
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    • 103 12 I'M LIVING on the 11th storey of a HDB block. I discovered that residents tend to throw their unwanted things in the lift or on the landing. It is a very disgusting sight. It's worse when mischievous children dig into the
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    • 111 12 "TO GET to the top of buro is not a career for choir boys. We should not assume just because someone wears western suits and his wife is slim a rarity in the Soviet Union that he is one of us." Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warning that no
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    • 448 13 TH£ SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE NEW Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is likely to be analysed by the Western media over the next few weeks In a way few men in history have been. Is he a hawk or a dove? Has he a priority for
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    • 139 13  -  K N ACHARY Singapore 0315 I AM shocked to read Robin Hood's letter (SM, Mar 8) which asked that horse racing be banned Unfortunately he does not realise the number of people who will lose their {obs if horse racing is
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    • 269 13  -  FRANCIS LIM Singapore 1955 AFTER reading "Why Grand Prix is worth considering'' in the comment column of The Singapore Monitor (SM, Mar 7), I decided to contribute my opinions. First of all, I agree that the Grand Prix is worth considering
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    • 145 13  -  PATRICIA ENOCH Singapore 2056 IT IS sad that so many of our teenagers and young adults are involved in glue-sniffing and inhalant abuse. I suggest that in our effort to stamp out gluesniffing we should not highlight its dangers too much as this
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    • 79 13 CONSIDERING the high cost of living these days, the amount of $2,000 for personal relief and $1,000 relief for one's wife is rather insufficient. This tax relief has not been changed since I started paying taxes in 1968. On the other hand, the Malaysian authorities
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 72 12 LETTERS on any subject of public interest will be accepted for publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in pnnt. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 72 13 LETTERS on any subject ol public interest win be accepted for publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym m print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      746 14  -  z&cL'i Reviews by LIM SEK ALBUM: HIDEKI SAIJO ARTISTE: Hideki Saijo LABEL: RCA HSLPI (Ideas Music) THIS is Hideki's first local release in two years. With a collection of 18 of his greatest hits, it is really one of the best value-for-money grabs currently. Despite the general
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    • 203 14 THE top 10 pop singles in the US. as rated by Cashbox. with last week's positions in brackets: 1. (2) Can't Fight This Feeling REO Speedwagon (Epic). 2. (1) Careless Whisper Wham (Columbia). 3. (3) California Girls David Lee Roth (Warner Brothers). 4. (6) The Heat
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    • 756 14  -  This year's results reflect a new recruiting strategy By ROBERT HILBURN in Hollywood LAT-WP AND the winners are: Prince's When Doves Cry, Best Single of the year. Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, Best Album of the year. No, there hasn't been a recount of the Grammys.
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    • 626 14  -  By WONG AH YOKE BRITISH comedies that have made it to the local dinner theatre circuit have been predictably hilarious, working on coincidences that create madcap situations. However, the writers of There Goes the Bride, playing nightly at the Hilton Ballroom until March 23, have
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    • 527 16 Centrestage Early Days (Ch 12, 8.30 pm) THE late Sir Ralph Richardson stars as a retired politician, Kitchen, who is fighting a battle against old age and guilt from having led a selfish life. Because of his capricious moods and self-conceit, his family and friends cannot understand
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    • 425 16 Sunday Matinee Warlords of Atlantis (Ch 5, 3 pm) VICTORIAN scientist Charles Aitken (Peter Gilmore) and his friend (Doug McClure) are in the diving bell of the Texas Rose when it is seized by a giant octopus. They are transported to the lost city of Atlantis, an undersea
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    • 685 17  -  Falcon and the Snowman lacks answers By MICHAEL HEALY LAT-WP THE toughest question to answer in any espionage case is: Why did the spy do it? The answer to that question makes all the difference between a trivial criminal case (money is the most banal of motives) and
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1313 15 BUIIK 1 «E35-. 1.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Seta- W w < ifl Smurfs JtjF r 2.30 Saturday Matinee Smoke P^HygK.See Cup Singapore versus Hong Kong I^/ V 1V Undangan ,«v 4 The New Popeye Show (Cartoon). iwlvJnlMlkfl Programme Highlights. >f* /^^IP^HI The Cooking v Wwt r^^ Chef
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    • 563 16 TOMORROW'S PROGRAMMES 8.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. Elections. 9.00 Opening and Programme High- 3.00 Sunday Matinee Warlords of Atlights followed by Today's lantis. Special Plays.* See Tomorrow's Highlights. 9.35 Fraggle Rock. 4.35 Sandiwara Meniti Kabus (Eng--10.00 Tepuk-Tepuk Tangan (M). lish subtitles) (M) (r). 10.30 Bill Emmerton's Definitive Guide 5.20 Survival
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 123 17 ********************000 2 KRETA AVER PEOPLE'S THEATRE o GOLDEN SULTAN 1 8 1 TONIGHT MIDNIGHT 1 X PEOPLE'S THEATRE 11.45 pm GOLDEN SULTAN 12.15 wn X O MICHAEL KEATON HE WAS FUNNY IN "MR. MOM" V O HE IS FUNNIER AS GANGSTER "JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY" J S O JOtPISCOPO O o PfTtRBCWf
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 807 17 FILM GUIDE Midnight Show (11.45 pm): THE KILLING concert, gets involved in a communist plot. FIELDS (E) PLAZA (*****71) (1.30, 4, 7.30, 9.30): THE DALIT (*****16) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): MY REGAL (*****59) (1.30, 4, 6.45, 9): SILENT THRONE OF FIRE (E) LUCKY STARS (C) ROMANCE (C) Midnight Show: FUNNY
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 111 18 CAPITOL 10th ACTION DAYI I (*****59) 5 SHOWS at 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30, 9.15 Vs. JADE: 24tk BIG DAYI (*****80) 5 SHOWS at 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30, 9.00 Eddie Murphy is I detective Axel Foley e quick-witted, fasttalking Detroit Cop on vacation flB in Beverly Hills Hilarious and Highly IntalUgant
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 121 18 TRUE CONFESSIONS HILTON Movie-House will screen True Confessions, which explores hypocrisy among high church officials, tomorrow at 8.15 pm. There will be a first arink charge of $8.50++ for non-diners. KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS THE British Council will screen Kind Hearts and Coronets, about revenge in an aristocratic family, on
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    • 672 18 Violin Concerto in E v W V•> minor Admission is free. V Nil GRAND FINALS OF 4 m\ sth NATIONAL MUSIC are available at Cen- Lynette Seah-Simon and Shane Thio recital af Goetral Booking Office the-lnstitut Auditorium tonight (Victoria Theatre), Cold Storage Centre- the Victoria Concert Piano Quartet and point
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 663 19 leisure comics FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook P Utli. H£Rfc I AM, KCTKNNIN6- PlHl* 6 VoDR &A*cY IT HOO<s OP lb A i» -ttl DflZM* OF Tf«UFi*D tniCiJTW&A/ NWWIL COMPUTER Zsfr« MAIMFRAMC UWW 1* B«K> U AlllLLlMjf/ AU.HAKMW«-DtfP.NT»»fe <V ref 'HAL. A 36 Mf*AotfTß i SFORE. JA/\H||Thnff Aooar CooAPVTttIS AND J
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  • THE SINGAPORE MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 341 20  -  fSi^f By WONDER BOY UNRACED Hebat II has a first-rate chance of scoring in his debut in Race Two, a Restricted Terms Division C event over 1,200 metres, in Ipoh today. The nice-looking Jubilee Wine three-year-old has been working impressively
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    • 232 20 WONDER BOY MA-ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zao Bao) (Wan Bao) Race 1 1 Malaysian Pearl 2 Persian Tiara 1 Malaysian Pearl 3 Donna Quasar 1 Malaysian Pearl 7 Ammushanti 5 Spring Water 7 Ammushanti 2 Persian Tiara Race 2 5 Hebat 6 Mata Han 6 Mata Han
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    • 328 20  -  By MA TAN PULAU TIOMAN V has been reserved for today and I am not looking beyond him as the winner of Race 5. He has come to this race with four wins in his bag, including two successes over
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    • 448 20 WONDER BOY sums up the form and chances of the runners in today's races in Ipoh RACE ONE 1 Working well, should make it here. 2 Disappointing last week, should be better today. 3 Speedy sort, one to catch. 4 Not seen on track. 5 Working
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    • 1712 21 COMPUTER ANALYST BEST PICKS RACE 1 7 Ammushanti* 5 Spring Water II 3 Donna Quasar 2 2 Emmental 6 Mata Hari 111 5 Hebat II 3 2 Resedanse 9 Jewellery 3 Diamonds Forever 4 6 Missouri II 5 Emu 8 Tiros 5 8 Smartest* 12 Sunrise Villa 14
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    • 90 21 EXPLANATION: BEST TIME is time specially calculated, based on past performances and adjusted for weights, times returned in other turf clubs m both Singapore and Malaysia and in different track conditions NUMBER OF RIDES: In example, this is (OCfcey s first ride of four today
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 1070 22 Classified Ad Rate* Singapore Monitor: Sonday Monitor: W«H( O.SS canto per word 0.55 canto par word Meplay 17.70 par col. cm 510.00 par col. cm Mmm Hra Moa-Fri, 9aa>-Spo> Sot, 9aa«-lpm Private Tuition PT UNDERGRADUATE GIVING TUITION. Pre-U Physics and Mathematics. Secondary ail subjects. Call: 732 4837/ 732 4237/ 732
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  • sports
    • 100 23 FIND A way to keep the stars we have groomed first before we talk about developing Singapore into Asian soccer giants. So writes a reader, commenting on plans to Improve standards. The Bodybuilding Federation's unsuccessful attempts to gain official affiliation has also Irked some readers. If you
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    • 353 23 I READ with interest the comments made by our soccer development director Seak Poh Leong (SM, Feb 27) over Singapore's future soccer standard. He said that Singapore needed two or three years before they could take on the Asian giants. It
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    • IS THIS A SPORT?
      • 88 23  -  TOMMY GROSSE (Ex-boxer; RAF champion) SINGAPORE 2056 I HAVE been concerned for a long time about the failure of the Singapore Bodybuilders' Federation to become a member of the Singapore National Olympic Council. And now that the matter is hot news, I feel I must voice my
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      • 61 23  -  LIM JOO CHYE SINGAPORE 2260 YOUR REPORTS about the clash between the Singapore National Olympic Council and the Singapore Body Builders' Federation is very sad. I don't know much about the case, except from what was reported. And I feel that the body builders should be in
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      • 84 23  -  JOHN ROCH SANTIAGO General Secretary Johor Amateur Bodybuilding and Weightlifting Association I was shocked by your article (SM, March 1) about the bodybuilding federation's failure to gain official recognition. I fully support the Singapore Bodybuilders' Federation in their conflict with the Singapore National Olympic
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    • 738 24 Sorry tale of how fans run riot during Cup tie and bring game to shame BRITISH SOCCER WITH JOHN SELLERS LONDON, Saturday BRITISH SOCCER hung its head in shame after astonishing scenes of violence broke out during LUTON'S sixth round Football Association Cup tie with MILWALL.
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    • 169 24 I BELIEVE sadly since they have certainly been the team of the season so far that Everton will be the first to crack. They have done remarkably well to survive the loss of injured strikers Adrian Heath and Graeme Sharp without breaking stride,
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