Singapore Monitor, 26 March 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR 30cents M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Tuesday, Marqh 26, 1985
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  • 594 1 Reuter WASHINGTON, Tuesday THE US Government said yesterday that Soviet authorities denied medical aid for more than an hour to an American army major shot by a Soviet guard in East Germany on Sunday. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt said a sergeant who
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  • 222 1 A JOKE that's making the rounds among Singapore's new-generation Members of Parliament, according to Mr Goh Chok Tone, is about how he became the "hot favourite" to take over as First Deputy Prime Minister in the post-election Cabinet. It runs like this: A couple of MPs. anxious
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    • 41 1 (4 LT BrunelGames /In Edition VT r Hazel Chew wins lU \lSb 800 m bronze: Page 32 W Oscar Disqualified director gets Jib results 3 another chance: Page 11 ■TV GUIDE; PlB ■TV SCENE HIGHLIGHTS; Pl 9 FILM GUIDE; P2O j
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    • 22 1 SAVE 8. MOVE AHEAD WITH 0 UMBC UNITED MALAYAN BANKING CORPORATION BERHAD IaISCTE Since 1933 from France LACOSTE we set the standards
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    • 158 2 IT WAS a night of masks and glitter at Saturday's Masquerade Ball at the Hyatt Hotel and behind the masks were some famous faces. Among those faces were the Minister for Law, Mr E W Barker, and Madam Ratna Dewi Sukarno, wife of the late
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    • 211 2 Lianhe Wanbao HIGHER PETROL prices in Singapore'may be producing a business boost for Johor Baru. Retailers there say the flow of cars across the Causeway has increased by about 1,000 a day since the increase and the drivers are buying more
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    • 414 3  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM A FIVE-MEMBER team from China is expected to arrive next month to hold discussions with local contractors on a multi-million-dollar project to exGnd the port of Dalian, Cnina's second rgest port. The officials from the Dalian Port Authority aim to attract
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    • 345 3  -  CAROLYN LEE By THE NIECE of a woman who lost more than $144,000 in cash and traveller's cheques after arriving at Changi International Airport said yesterday her aunt would offer a $1,000 reward for the return of the money. Miss Marni Masri, 23, of Jalan
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    • 45 3 A 33-YEAR-OLD man fell to his death yesterday at the Public Utilities Board's building at Somerset Road. Police believed G Krishnasamy, a clerk, could have fallen from the 17th floor of the building. No foul play is suspected.
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    • 759 4  -  r SURPRISE i J GRADUATE MUMS SCHEME By YONG POW ANG and LOONG SWEE YIN THE EDUCATION MINISTER, Dr Tony Tan's decision to ask Cabinet to abolish the highly unpopular "graduate mothers' priority scheme" announced in Parliament yesterday came as a a surprise to PAP backbenchers who have
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    • 624 4 SEVERAL issues concerning education were also raised by Members 'of Parliament. They were dealt with by Dr Tay Eng Soon, the Minister of State (Education). SHORTAGE of teachers: Dr Tay told Dr Augustine Tan (PAP-Wnampoa) that the shortage arose not so
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    • 71 4 A SIZEABLE number of school children singing the national anthem daily do not really understand its meaning. The MP for Kampong I 'hi, Mr Wan Hussin Zoohri, who is also the Parliamentary Secretary (Communications and Information), urged the Education Ministry to carry out "remedial action" in
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    • 695 5 j MEDICAL and dentistry students in university may have to pay four to five times more intuition feesin future than those studying Accountancy and Business Administration. At present, students studying Medicine and Dentistry pay $100, or 10 per cent, more than those in other courses. But the
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    • 73 5 Average Fees paid Feet recurrent by students paid costs as percentage Faculty by per of average students student recurrent costs per student Accountancy Business 1.000 8.887 11.2 Administration Architecture 1,000 13,695 7.3 Building Arts Social 1,000 12.105 8.3 Sciences Engineering 1,000 14,654 6 8 Law 1.000
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    • 221 6  -  By JOSEPH LEE MEN ABE lagging in the charm stakes, according to a woman who ought to know. "Before, there was no need for social graces for men as it was a man's market," says Denyse Tessensohn, a director of John Robert Powers,
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    • 113 6 A CRASH involving three cars near the junction of Mandai Road and Woodlands Road at 2 pm yesterday caused a massive traffic jam on both sides of the dual carriageway. Police said a Honda Prelude, which was heading for Woodlands, hit a
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    • 305 7  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO NEXT week, 800 parents of kindergarten children in the Kampung Kembangan constituency will be receiving invitations, signed personally by their Member of Parliament, Mr Yatiman Yusof, to join in the fight against glue-sniffing. Mr Abdul Halim Kader, the chairman of the constituency's
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    • 237 7  -  By PAT D'ROSE PRICES of drinks and food will not drop as a result of the reduction in entertainment tax, but most clubowners still believe they can share their savings with customers through better service. The new tax scheme, effective from April 1,
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    • 117 6 For Business Or Pleasure, Lunch Ar THe .Z*c Elizabethan Grill Menu: Continental and Seafood with English Specialties like Roast Reef and Steak Kidney Pie. For reservation please call *****41. Free parking lots reserved at the front for Elizabethan Grill patrons. Our traditton^^m^n Beach Road, Singapore 0718 Tel: *****41. BfefMh For
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    • 87 7 <&HOME SERVICE THIS SECTION IS MOVING. The Home Services section of The Singapore Monitor is being moved to Fridays, starting on March 29. We've changed its purpose, and even its name to suit your demands. The all-new "For The Home" section has everything you need to up-date and beautify your
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  • world
    • 524 8 Government forced to adopt tighter control of credit, wages and consumption Reuter BEIJING, Tuesday CHINA'S radical economic reforms ran into serious trouble towards the end of last year and the beginning of 1985, forcing a major government rethink about the pace of change, a senior
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    • 161 8 UPI UNITED NATIONS, Tues A BRITISH national working for a UN agency was seized near Beirut airport yesterday in the first Lebanese kidnapping involving a UN official, a spokesman said. Mr Alec Collett, a correspondent for the Botswana Guardian and the Times of Zambia
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    • 164 8 Reuter SOUTHEND (England), Tuesday A PUNK rocker who stabbed his mother, grandmother and himself to death was probably on hallucinogenic drugs, a coroner said yesterday. Witnesses told an inquest at this south-eastern coastal town that Steven Webb, 17, had spoken of
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    • 51 8 LOS ANGELES: At least 21 people were injured when a natural gas explosion ripped through the Ross Department Store in downtown LA on Sunday. Businesses nearby were forced to evacuate after the explosion blew the roof off the store. Picture above shows passers-by attending to the injured
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    • 320 8 Agencies SEOUL, Tues SOUTH KOREA will only hand over a Chinese torpedo boat and its crew if Beijing apologises for the intrusion of three Chinese warships into its waters on Saturday, government sources said yesterday. The Seoul Government earlier refused to allow
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    • 266 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday MALAYSIA'S National Union of Journalists yesterday expressed anxiety over the Prime Minister's statement that he is "rethinking being liberal to the Press", and called for the setting up of a select parliamentary committee to review laws on
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 76 9 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS THE PLAYBOY S playboy needs to act his age, say two doctors. Playboy magazine chief Hugh Hefner (caricature above) needs a thorough diagnostic checkup* after suffering a stroke earlier this month, say the doctors. Considering Mr Hefner's reputation as
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      • 93 9 WENDY'S has called off Clara Peller's search for the beef by firing her. "I'm sorry that the company that I worked so hard for does not want to use me in commercials any more," she said in a statement. The problem was Peller appeared in ads
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      • 56 9 STEVEN Bochco will be getting over his personal case of the "Hill Street Blues" at Soth Century Fox Television Bochco, 41, who created the series, says MTM Enterprises gave him "an invitation to leave" the show. He would not comment on the reasons for his leaving
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      • 61 9 THE TOWNSFOLK in Aberdeen, Mississippi, cheerfully bought tickets to a March 2 benefit featuring country music star Tammy Wynette but later learned proceeds were eaten up by expenses and none went to the local man for whom the show was staged The sale of the
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      • 56 9 gg IN HIS first out-of-town tour since illness kept him for months in Manila, President Ferdinand Marcos (above) flew yesterday to his northern Philippine home province, where he was later shown on government television playing golf. The out-of-town trip was Mr Marcos' first in more than
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    • 167 9 Time NEW YORK, Tuesday "COME IN a car, leave in a coma." So read a Nebraska bar's ad for its happy hour, that afterwork party time when saloons sell spirits at a discount. But with concern growihg that happy hours may lead to driving
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    • 389 9 He hopes to win public support by setting up social projects Reuter MANILA, Tuesday THE PHILIPPINES is pouring millions of dollars into social and economic projects in the countryside as part of a fresh "hearts and minds" offensive against communist insurgency. Military and local
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    • 494 10 Reuter BRUSSELS, Tuesday ALMOST as many women as men are carriers of the disease AIDS in parts of Central Africa and it could soon affect heterosexuals in Europe, a Belgian researcher said yesterday. Dr Nathan Clumeck, who has carried out studies on Africans in
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    • Article, Illustration
      81 10 GAYLE LIZAK of Wyandotte, Michigan, getting a little typing practice while waiting at the Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday for a flight to Australia. Lizak, 33, will challenge Violet Gibson Burns to a one-on-one marathon typing competition dubbed the "Australian Cup Challenge" beginning on March 29 at
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    • 148 10 Bernama JOHOR BARU, Tuesday JOHOR police will come down hard on singers who perform striptease acts in music lounges and pubs Johor police chief Datuk Jaafar Abdul has directed his men to step up spot checks on entertainment places following complaints from
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    • 126 10 AP BANGKOK, Tues BOMB threats prompted the tightening of security measures around the Iraqi embassy and the ambassador's residence in Bangkok, authorities reported yesterday. A police official said an unidentified man speaking Thai called tne Irani embassy yesterday ana said a bomb would explode at
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    • 180 10 AP NEW DELHI, Tuesday A TEENAGE girl was killed and her mother seriously wounded by police gunfire early yesterday as Muslim-Hindu rioting and arson spread to another city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, state police said. The latest violence occurred
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  • money
    • 940 11  -  By MONEY DESK CREDIT POSB's move to offer a quarter per cent concession to firsttime home buyers could lead to another round of rate-cutting by some banks and finance companies, industry sources said. Yesterday's announcement that it will charge 8.25 per cent and
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    • 574 11  -  By CATHERINE ONG LAWYER Alec Ferguson, the first company director to be disqualified under the new amendment to the Companies Act, has been granted leave by the High Court to act as a director, accounting sources said. The amendment introduced under section 125 A of
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    • 268 12 HOT ON the heels of being granted banking licences, 16 Australian and international banks have mounted a joint advertisment to lure Singapore bankers Down Under. In an advertisement placed on their behalf by Price Waterhouse Urwick of Australia last Saturday, the banks said they
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    • 654 12  -  By ANG PENG HWA THE HONG KONG Government has scheduled some 35 hectares of land for sale in the 1985 financial year because more developers are showing interest in the British colony, says the real estate firm of Collier Petty in its March newsletter.
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    • 260 12 MMLLSTREET A REDUCED earnings forecast for computer giant International Business Machines (IBM) dragged down the technology segment ana contributed to an overall decline of stock prices yestyerday, analysts said. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 7.51 points to 1259.94.
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    • 179 12 THE AMERICAN dollar turned mostly higher in listless trading yesterday as it continued a recovery from the steep selloff of last week. Gold prices drifted in a narrow range in quiet trading. Republic National Bank in New York said gold bullion was bid at US$3l6 (Ss7l7) a
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    • 101 12 BEN FOODS (S), a whol-ly-owned subsidiary of QAF Ltd, has agreed to acquire the entire issued ana paid-up capital of Spices of the Orient Pte Ltd, comprising 500,000 shares of $1 each for a total consideration of $1.24 million cash. The purchase consideration was arrived
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  • 691 13  -  PHOTOGRAPHY By LEE CHIU SAN THERE has recently been a rash of photographic competitions. With most of the major photographic suppliers having finalised their promotional plans for the coming year, there is a promise of more to come. This development is obvious. Local photo dealers
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  • opinion / letters
    • 731 14 WE MUST thank the Prime Minister for explaining the meaning of good government. Good government, of course, means a government dedicated to defending the landless and the weak. In Singapore, landlessness is the lot of the vast majority and landlessness, for
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    • 137 14  -  REPLY JANET YAN (MISS) Public Relations Officer Ministry of the Environment I REFER to the letter "Dumps in Tampines should be licensed" by "Sumpitian" (SM, March 5). The Ministry of the Environment is aware that the five plots of vacant land in Tampines Road were
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    • 64 14 "THAT'S what life is all about, isn't it? Keeping on going and never giving up right to the end." Actress Elizabeth Taylor "I DO not plan my life according to what Imelda Marcos does or does not do." Corazon Aquino, widow of Benigno Aquino, rejecting the idea that she
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    • 393 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT FIRST he promised to review it when he became Education Minister earlier this year. He has now done it. Dr Tony Tan announced yesterday in Parliament that he would recommend to Cabinet the scrapping of the priority registration scheme for
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    • 703 15 I AM sorry to say that the Monitor Feedback column on March 19 conveyed the erroneous impression that betting centres encourage gambling. The persons interviewed expressed only the expected initial disapproval of this new concept (of combatting illegal bookmakers) because, "being not in
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    • 141 15  -  NEPALESE BUDDHIST Singapore 1336 Editor: We would like to close this subject. MR ROBERT Powell in the series "The World Religions," screened on TV on Mar 16, stated that Buddhism originated from the northeastern part of India. Let me correct Mr Powell: Buddha was bom
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    • 72 15 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 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 698 16  -  Break your makeup routine and experiment with new colours 4 By INEZ WEI DAY after day, you reach out for the same eyeshadows, blushers and lipsticks and use them in exactly the same way. It may sound like a sensible makeup plan, except that you
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    • 529 18 Chaplin The early days Unknown Chaplin My Happiest Years (Debut) (Ch 12, 8 pm) THIS first episode covers the period Charlie Chaplin spent with tne Mutual Film Company, for whom he made 12 two-reel comedies. Chaplin often ordered his outtakes to be burnt, but he was not always obeyed. Hundreds
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    • 390 18  -  TV SCENE By JOAN HANAUER in New York UPI MIX together Agatha Christie, Helen Hayes and Bette Davis and the result is a delightful television mystery movie in which violence is seldom seen and everybody remains fully dressed at all times. That's Murder with Mirrors, which
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    • 736 19  -  By JOAN HANAUER UPI CHRISTOPHER REEVE has switched from a classic comic-book role to a classic Russian tragedy as smoothly as Superman stepped into a Rhone booth and came out Clark [ent. There is a common denominator between the Superman character that brought him to fame and
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    • 231 16 Hie M Awards The 3rd M Awards organised by Studio M follows the tremendous success Tnn Mrrlpl of 19RS t wT and recognition of the previous M awards. *Jlf C IVILAJCI LJI I/OJ. This promises to be a most cherished event in tribute to Singapore's top K It VHI J?
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1405 17 BE H3 IMP**** 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The —IM—T u 4 J| r j— Struggle (C) (r) (English subtitles). WBtiOtJ 4.30 Story Time (Selected stories) (T). 4.55 Jenny Koo Koo.* Jenny Koo Koo explores the relationship between two JK- m wftpw 1
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 593 19 FILM GUIDE 1 -W DALIT (*****16) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): FUNNY TRI- M^-SP.n?^? *****7 3 3 3 3 9 3 FUN PLK (C) TKIr Lfci (t) LIWAGU (*****30) (1.30. 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): FUNNY *****97) (1, 3 30 7 !5 9 30): WOMAN IN TRIPLE IC) KfcjD (fci) Starring: Kelly Le
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 38 20 TODAY: TOMORROW: Low tide: 8.02 am Low tide: 8.27 am (0.3 m) (0.4 m) High tide: 2.17 pm High tide: 2.48 pm <2.4 m) (2.2 m) Low tide: 8.18 pm Low tide: 8.27 pm (0.8 m) (0.9 m)
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    • 710 20 DBHEI LES rOUATRE CENTS ALLIANCE FRAN- I i Ig?HWHIWtKJw* CAISE will screen Les I J[#sS|B(ipDMß Ka^vt^ Quatre Cents Coups to- I I»mH day at 9pm at the Cul- "|T ♦♦•K A Theatre, Cuscaden I Directed by Francois the relates story a disturbed misunderstood child who nearly falls into delinquency. PHOTO
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 686 21 leisure comics I FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook P'wiTH THE Mfu Ttcnm*tv, Voo CArt TKMVHrT I .-tttUPT Trtt HA6 AN COWPuTfR NFo«KATK>»4, 1 Hi. l'M»loT p AMoTrtfcß 1 wtt HMfiZX imnezs AWAY J PHoTofrPAPH*, GRAPHIC 1< Itl fcifrHT > I PERSON. of osee! J ariu<#k as ud»l6-m <A>o \<9 **> 4
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  • Bangladesh Independence Day
    • 425 22 Message from Lt-General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh ON THIS auspicious occasion, I offer my highest tributes to those known and unknown martyrs who made supreme sacrifices for the liberation of our motherland. Bangladesh, in its 15th year as an independent and sovereign
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    • 388 22 Message from Mr H R Chowdhury, Adviser for Foreign Affairs ON THE occasion of the National and Independence Day of our country, I congratulate our brothers and sisters who are staying in foreign lands. Today, Bangladesh has entered the 15th year of its independent existence
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    • 929 23 AT ITS present stage of economic development Bangladesh requires and welcomes foreign capital to accelerate the pace of its industrial growth. Realising that private initiative is the key to economic success, the Government has, over the years, initiated a gradual transformation
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    • 354 24 THE Independence Day is a. reminder for 95 million Bangladeshis at home and abroad of the supreme sacrifice of the thousands of martyrs who laid down their lives. It is because of their sacrifices that we may live and breath in an indepen dent and sovereign Bangladesh, free
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    • 340 24 IN ORDER to provide a new dimension and greater thrust in its industrialisation plans, the Bangladesh Goverment has formulated the New Industrial Policy which provides for the creation of the Investment Assistance Unit known as the "One-Stop Service". The purpose of creating this Unit is
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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    • 64 22 Congratulations Best Wishes to the Government and People of BANGLADESH on the occasion of their National Day Lam Guan Chan (M) Sdn Bhd LAM GUAN CHAN (PTE) LTD. 101, Cecil Street #13-07 and #13-08 Tong Eng Building Singapore 0106 Cable. "SUNLIGHT" SINGAPORE Telex: RS ***** LGC Tel: *****00 (6 lines),
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 103 23 Congratulations and Best Wishes to the Government and People of BANGLADESH on the occasion of their National Day OE OVERSEAS ENTERPRISES (PTE LTD) Suite 2812, 28th Floor International Plaza 10 Anson Road Singapore 0207 Cable: "OVERPRAISE" Telex: R*****5 GAYLORD Tel: *****55 t Congratulations Best Wishes to the Government and People
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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    • 352 26 Reuter PARIS, Tuesday FRANCE yesterday dropped defender Patrick Battiston, one of their European Nations Championship heroes, from the squad to face Yugoslavia in their World Cud qualifying match next week. Battiston, injured during France's last two Group Four games, wants to fill the libero role he plays
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    • 106 26 NEW YORK, Tues Martina Navratilova poses with two of her bigger fans, Sean (centre) and Yoko Ono Lennon (right) after she won the Virginia Slims Championship. Despite talk of a downward spiral in her play, Martina has rallied strongly over the last few days to prove her
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    • 329 26 Reuter LISBON, Tuesday IT WAS fiesta time in Barcelona last night as more than 100,000 cheering fans celebrated the Catalan team's first Spanish League title win in 11 years. Traffic ground to a halt and the streets were awasn with champagne and decked with
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    • 232 26 Stirling Moss to make a comeback at 55 AP LONDON, Tuesday STIRLING MOSS, one of the most famous names in Formula One, is making a comeback at the age of 55 in sports car endurance racing. Moss is to race regularly in the United States this season, commencing at Riverside,
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    • 334 27 YOU should be well on your way to feeling good if you've been following our programme over the past four weeks If you do, it's time to push a bit harder for that date on June 9 Australian Olympic champion and one-time middle distance world record holder Herb
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    • 366 27  -  CHARITY RUN Train with Herb Elliot FITNESS by YVONNE DOLAN IT IS a wise idea to slow down gradually after your run, to allow the muscles to help pump the blood back to tne heart until it has recovered without undue stress Start
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    • 156 27 YOUR effort will help thousands of cancer victims in Singapore because the run is for charity. IDEAL DISTANCE Ten kilometres is an ideal distance. This is not an impossible distance. It is a distance anyone can run, even if you haven't been in any runs
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    • 250 28 WEEK 5 LET'S RUN...for fun and for charity. This is the fifth week of our PUMA/Monitor 10 km charity run campaign and again we urge you not to allow physical limitations to put you off. The goal of the run is not the
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    • 170 28 JOB LOUIS (left), chairman and president of Fitness International, is challenging all fitness clubs In Singapore to raise money in the Puma/Monitor 10 km fight against cancer. "The 10 km charity run to raise $1 million for the Singapore Cancer Society is to help in the
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    • 477 28  -  By ANNE BARRY HOW MUCH of each source of the most important nutrient do you need? For example, is an orange a day sufficient to satisfy your body requirements for vitamin C? What happens if you go over
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    • 605 29  -  mum* By ALFONSO CHAN in MANILA LAST YEAR, he lost it all. Gone was the national title and the East Asia crown he had worn for so long. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but Zainal Abidin went quietly about his tasks, waiting for
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    • 138 29 IN A dark corner of a tennis court at the Makati Sports Club, a sad and wearv Peter Hill stretched full length on the wet, cold ground to cry. He had been to London, Sweden and Finland in a heady three-month stint in the
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    • 267 30  -  RENDEZVOUS: BRUNEI MERDEKA GAMES REPORTS by KENNETH JALLEH K SILVAM and B KULA in BRUNEI EXCEPT for the Philippines' monopoly of track and field golds, it was a day of ups and downs for the Asean countries competing at the Merdeka Games in Brunei yesterday.
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    • 239 30 NATIONAL number two and SEA Games gold medallist Wong Shoon Keat was put to shame by Thailand's number six player, Surachai Makkasasithorn, in the opening singles of the team event at the Youth Centre Hall yesterday afternoon. Taking an early lead, Shoon
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    • 420 30 SINGAPORE 4 PHILIPPINES 0 SINGAPORE had little problem disposing of the Philippines when they beat them 4-0 last night at tne Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium to qualify for the semifinals of the soccer tournament. But the complacency of the Young Lions has caused considerable
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    • 83 30 THE PHILIPPINES took six of the nine golds at stake on the first day of the athletics events. They won tne long jump, pole vault, javelin, 100 m hurdles, 800 m men's and women's events Malaysia took two golds in the triple jump and the 110 m hurdles, while
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    • 116 30 NATIONAL welterweight boxing champion Mohd Mukhlis outclassed Malaysia's Damit Hj Sulaiman last night at the Royal Brunei Police HQ ring to advance to the semifinals The Singaporean packed too much power and floored the Malaysian in the first round The referee stopped the fight as he felt the Malaysian
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    • 146 30 IT WAS a misunderstanding between the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association and the Singapore National Olympic Council that resulted in Singapore sending a team of only four players and not six for the Merdeka Games tennis tournament. Singapore team manager Dr John Choy said "I was informed by the council
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    • 163 30 IT WAS a bad day for Singapore's table tennis teams They dropped like hot potatoes at the hands of Indonesia and Thailand yesterday. While the Indonesians beat Singapore 5-1 in the afternoon, the Thais spared no game to Singapore in their evening clash (5-0) All Singapore can hope
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    • 106 30 SINGAPORE'S sepak takraw team displayed crafty skills to edge out Indonesia 2-1 in their group matcn yesterday. The victory has virtually assured Singapore of a semifinal berth. It was only in the rubber set of the third regu match that Singapore were able to snatch victory. Had it
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    • 285 31  -  By B KULA in Brunei BRUNEI earned their first point in hockey against Singapore yesterday when they held the South-east Asia Games silver medallists to a draw at the Hassanal Bolkiah Stadium. Singapore, who were expected to make mincemeat out of the novices, fumbled
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    • 480 31  -  By K SILVAM in BRUNEI SINGAPORE'S Hazel Chew, 31, ran the race of her life to collect Singapore's first medal a bronze in the 800 metres on the first day of the track and field meet at the Merdeka Games here yesterday. Hazel, a mother of
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