Singapore Monitor, 4 May 1985

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  • 13 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 51/5/85 Saturday, May 4 f 1985 30cants
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  • 141 1 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday THE US Justice Department has approved a U*****,371 (5f1.64 million) study to determine if Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler magazines contribute to juvenile delinquency and sexual exploitation of children. Officials of the department said the research project involves reviewing all 660 issues
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  • 421 1  -  By OEI SIN GIOK SOME TEXTILE shop operators at Joo Chiat Complex have surrendered their units to the Housing Board and are retendering at lower rates, say several tenants at the complex. And it is all above board. A spokesman for
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 74 1 m TV GUIDE: P 16 M TV HIGHLIGHTS TODA Y TOMORROW: P 17 JB.' IWfl ■H >.. JJ HI bl ''lUmv T t H The man who freed women from the perm See Page 8 Sunday Monitor living Philip Cheah reviews Prince's latest record A new TV column with Hie
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    • 101 1 Something to crow about BIG ROOSTER Hot Chicken Roll Only $2 j. —fiBW Handy when you need a close shave anywhere Braun Pocket Battery You are at your best always with Braun Pocket Battery. The famous platinum-coated Braun foil ensures a close shave everytime. Besides, it is smaller than a
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • home
    • 327 2  -  By VICTOR SOH TWO JURONG neighbours are mystified by bullet-sized holes which suddenly appeared in their windows yesterday. The occupants heard bangs" between 6.30 am and 7 am, and holes were punched in two windows of one flat and one of the other. School hawker Mr
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    • 90 2 THE recording industry says it spends more money in Singapore than in any other country to combat music piracy. Mr Nicholas Garnett, Singapore-based regional director of the International Federation of Phonofjram and Videogram Producers (IFPI) said the ederation spent about $500,000
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    • 209 2  -  By JOSEPH LEE TAXI sales in the first three months of this year were up 46 per cent on the same period last year but are expected to take a dive in the next quarter. According to statistics released by
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    • 297 2  -  By PHILIP LIM THE HUMAN body does not need sugar at all yet the average Singaporean takes an average of 50 kg of it annually. A report in the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association (Sata) bulletin says sugar is not a vital source
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    • 244 3  -  By LEE KIT MUN MORE SPEEDSTERS were taken to court in the first four months of this year compared with the same period last year. Non-compoundable cases more than doubled from 621 cases in the first four months of 1984 to 1,441 cases in
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    • 831 3  -  They should set opinion climate for country's future By YONG POW ANG THE educated should help articulate people's aspirations and set the climate of opinion for nation building. BrigadierGeneral (Reservist) Lee Hsien Loong made this call last night at a forum orga- nised by the
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    • 443 4  -  By JULIE ANN SIT A QUAINT little temple on top of Mount Washington will soon have to make way for the Mount Faber Park Extension project. The custodian of the temple, known as the Thousand Buddhas' Hall, was given notice to quit
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    • 69 4 THE shop (left) at a corner of old Bencoolen Street is not called Rainbow Signs for nothing, although it would be difficult to tell in a black-and-white photograph. The signs on its facade are painted in all the colours of the
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    • 604 4  -  By ERNEST FRIDA A NOTED golfing official in Singapore answered a battery of questions about the game's handicapping system in the High Court yesterday in what is believed to be the first case of a legal dispute over the sport here. Mr
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    • 546 5  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG TOURISTS buying goods in bulk have provided some people the chance to run a pirate taxi service with pickups, lorries and vans. Shopkeepers at Serangoon Road said yesterday that tourists who bought heavy goods such as television sets, video recorders
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    • 313 5  -  By CHEE LI CHOO A MAN who contracted a crippling disease while helping fight communists in Malaya is back in Singapore for the first time in SO years with a message. Roy Thompson, now 56, caught poliomyelitis in the Fifties,
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    • 194 5 A TOTAL of 847,000 people watched the Community Chest Show when it was screened "live" in March. Dr Ee Peng Liang, chairman of the Community Chest of Singapore, said this at a Press conference yesterday. The figure was arrived at after a survey
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 26 2 Suniw CurrvTlffin At Raffles. Also, special Tok Panjang buffet in the Tiffin Room. S Raffles Hotel Our tradition is legendary Beach Road. Sintfapore 0718 Tel: *****41
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 85 3 Come rain or come shine, your shoes look great if you're shining X them with new Cherry Readywax. Cherry is quick, easy and effective. X polishes evenly and leaves a shine that lasts longer than any other instant X shoe shine. So spread on Cherry Readywax and In less than
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 95 5 >> J?' miox lunch this Sunday Mm Because a full buffet spread of 23 delicious local specialities awaits you! From salads and cold appetizers to main dishes like Diced Prawns jjftK With Dried Chilli, Beef Rendang, Chow Mein f- .JH With Seafood, Fork Spare Ribs In Black Sauce, f" fij'fejjxM
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  • world
    • 270 6 WASHINGTON, Saturday THE UNITED STATES yesterday expelled four Polish diplomats in retaliation for Poland's ousting of two US officials accused of taking part in a May Day protest by Solidarity supporters. The unusual four-for-two response, announced by the State Department, plunged US-Polish relations
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    • 426 6 AP LONDON, Saturday OPPONENTS of a Bill outlawing research on human embryos besieged the acting Speaker of the House of Commons yesterday and broke his ornate canopied chair. In one of the noisiest outbursts in the House in recent years, four legislators confronted Deputy
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    • 308 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday EFFORTS BY the Malaysian Chinese Association leadership to start fresh talks to bring the Tan Koon Swan faction to the negotiating table appear to have come to nought although Mr Tan confirmed yesterday that he has met newly appointed
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    • 48 6 AMERICAN architect I M Pei poses in front of Palais du Louvre in Paris, where his controversial glass pyramid will be built. A life-sized model of the future pyramid has been erected for Parisians to have an idea of its impact.
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    • 136 6 UPI MARYSVILLE (California), Saturday FORMER Municipal Court Judge Donald Wahlberg will return to his old courtroom on May 15 as a defendant. Yuba County sheriff's deputies arrested Wahlberg on Wednesday on charges of knowingly receiving stolen property and aiding a fugi- tive, Sheriff
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    • 911 8 SATURDAY PEOPLE VIDAL SASSOON is as Sixties as the kipper tie. Or, for that matter, Lord Snowdon. "Met him for the first time the other day," Sassoon said. "I said to him, How come we never met in the Sixties? He said to
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    • 133 8 WHEN Vidal Sassoon opened his first salon up some rickety stairs in Bond Street in IMS, be took £44 Is 3d (about S$ 120) having cut and shampooed 30 clients. As bis rent was £12 10s a week and his rate £4, he made a total
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    • 273 8 OPA THE STAR of a BBC detective television series, David Yip, nabbed a bank robber for real and discovered it wasn't anything like the reel thing. Yip, who plays Detective-Sergeant Johnny Ho in the series Chinese Detective, chased the raider for 450 metres down
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    • 392 9 Man without legs robs hamburger restaurant and forces couple to help him escape UPI HOUSTON, Saturday A DOUBLE amputee in a wheelchair robbed a hamburger stand at gunpoint, rolled into a nearby discount store ana shot a woman in the chest, then forced two people to assist
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    • 281 9 UPI MIAMI, Saturday A CALIFORNIA police chief who gave a habitual sex offender a plane ticket to Miami because a Florida judge had banished a prostitute to Los Angles has triggered a transcontinental war of words and one-upmanship. Miami Vice-Mayor Joe Carollo
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    • 68 9 INDIAN army troops patrolling the streets of the walled city of old Ahmedabad after the curfew was lifted during the dsy yesterAhmedabad, Gujarat's largest city, has seen demonstrations in the Isst two months over the state's policy of reserving quotas of jobs snd
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    • 171 9 UPI LANSING (Michigan), Sat IT MAY be hard to convince the 1,800 residents of the town of Yale that lightning doesn't strike twice, especially after the community in northeast Michigan claimed its second Lotto jackpot winner of the year. The latest is Mr
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    • 418 9 Reuter BUENOS AIRES, Saturday LEBANESE Christians yesterday occupied embassies and consulates in several countries on four continents to protest against the killing of Christians in civil strife in Lebanon. In an internationally coordinated campaign, demonstrators took over diplomatic missions in Australia, Sweden, Brazil
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  • money
    • 585 10  -  By ANG PENG HWA IN THE life insurance industry, fewer life policies sold can be good news for profits at least in the short term. At a time when the industry is reported to be sluggish, Great Eastern Life Assurance released 1984
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    • 144 10 Bernama, Reuter TOKYO, Saturday A FINANCE Ministry survey of foreign banks and securities firms in Japan found that New York is seen as the world's most important financial centre and that it is likely to maintain its Dosition for the next 10 years.
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    • 101 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday United Engineers (M) Bhd, the civil, electrical and mechanical engineering group, has forecast a group pre-tax profit of Msr.43 million (551.28 million) For the year ending Dec 31 1985. This profit forecast is, however, based on the assumption that
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    • 705 10  -  By Francine C Brevetti in Hong Kong Spoclal to Tho Monitor HONG KONG is becoming an active market for revolving underwriting facilities (RUF) but its Hanking Commission may try to tether the free-wheeling trade that is developing here for these instruments, regulatory sources
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    • 282 11 MULPHA (Singapore) Ltd has {gone hi-tech with ts recent set-up of a building automation systems division to market compu-ter-based engineering control systems. Another venture to furnish the "office of the future," is a business systems division providing computers, equipment and services. Chairman Tan Koon
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    • 354 11 THE STOCK market opened quiet at the beginning of the week and turned mixed at mid-week before firming slightly towards the weekend. Plantation stocks recorded higher gains in the first three trading days of the week, led by a steady increase in palm oil
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 60 11 THE BOARD of Ambassador Hotel Limited (AHL) has appointed Mr Ghanshyam U Champaklal as director of the company. He replaces Mr Leaw Kok Yin who resigned under the requirements of the new amendment to the Companies Act Mr Champaklal is a director and shareholder of
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      • 65 11 MALAYAN UNITED Manufacturing Berhad has set new dates for its annual general meeting and extraordinary general meeting. Due to a delay in the posting of the annual reports and circulars for the EGM, the directors have changed the date from May 10 to May
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    • 425 11 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Saturday THE GOVERNMENT is considering a change in the way it calculates the price of computer Rroducts in determining the nation's Gross lational Product, a move that could increase real national income by as much as 1 percentage point in each
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    • 192 11 HHLLSTOEET i Reuter STOCKS posted a modest gain yesterday, apparently on predictions by a leading economist that American interest rates would soon decline. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 4.97 points to close at 1247.24. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange fell
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    • 56 11 THE Straits Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 795.87, up 0.34 point from Thursday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed yesterday at 405.51, down 0.94 point from Thursday's close of 404.45. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index rose 0.0002 point to 133 1954 at the close,
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    • 281 11 AP THE AMERICAN dollar staged a powerful advance in light trading yesterday, extending a rally in which it now has regained more than half the ground lost in a steep selloff earlier this year. Even such usually bearish developments as a lackluster economic report and a decline
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  • features
    • 1112 12  -  People seek partners like themselves: Psychologist ■y EDWARD DOLNICK Boston Qlobo BOSTON: Opposites attract, right? There's gorgeous, unschooled Marilyn Monroe and bald, bookish Arthur Miller. Or brawny Arnold Schwarzenegger and brainy Maria Schriver. Or brilliant James Joyce, revolutionising English literature with startling experiments in prose,
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    • 507 12 —opinion/letters ALLOW me to reply to Dr Hennedige's letter "Dental body exercised right to self-regula-tion" (SM, April 23). I am not involved in any way with the organisation of the privately-run orthodontic congress in question. I was a delegate, and
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    • 110 12 I NOTICE that lately some Chinese movies and local Chinese dramas on television have premarital sex themes. Is this good for our society? I hope the authorities will do something about it, otherwise there will be more teenage abortions as teenagers may think that pre-marital
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  • opinion/letters
    • 485 13 THE SINGAPORE MONTTOR ISii— WHEN a government has something to tell the people it has a variety of means of doing so. Issuing a statement is one way. Calling a press conference is another. Indepth briefings of selected journalists are a third possibility. Whether the
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    • 362 13 I VIEW with concern and alarm such comments to your letters page as those of "Anti-AIDS" (SM, April 30) and others before him/her, who would .have us believe that the closure of Bugis Street would protect Singapore from a sweeping epidemic of
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    • 104 13 I AM a student of Bendemeer Secondary School. I go home from school by bus, and the only bus that I can take is Singapore Bus Service (SBS) No. 23. The problem is that the buses on this service always skip the bus stop
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    • 171 13  -  REPLY WOOT AH SENG for Secretary National Exhibition Steering Exhibition I REFER to the letter "Teachers waiting for their 'reward'" by "Anxious Teacher" (SM, April 18). We are grateful to the 600 teachers and 700 other officers wno helped in the National Exhibition. Shift
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • Saturday snippets
      • 126 14 GENTLE singer Tracy Huang has promised to sing in a room of Lionesses for charity. However, she will be in no danger of having her bones licked. The Lionesses are members of Singapore Mandarin Lioness Club, a society for women which was formed
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      • 178 14 DESPITE a newspaper comment that Bruce Springsteen's Bom in the USA is banned by the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), the video clip of the song was shown on Solid Gold this week. Yesterday, it was also played over the radio during the programme Another
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      • 89 14 ASPIRING young comperes can get a chance to appear on television and win prizes, too. SBC is organising the first Mr and Miss TV Personality contest with the final held on Dec 31 in the New Year's Eve show. Countdown to *86. There will
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      • 91 14 UPI FIRST came the Outlaws and now there are the Highwaymen. The new quartet, which comprises Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, is the latest country supergroup. Columbia Records is about to release an album by the country superstars and the material includes a
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    • 1001 14  -  By WONG SING YEONG EVEN minus the long silky hair, Taiwanese actress Terry Hu Yin Mong remains captivating. Yet, she says, "I don't think I'm very beautiful." Occasionally, she lifts her willowy hand to sweep back imaginary tresses, an asset she has sacrificed for her latest film,
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    • 502 14  -  By PAT D'ROSE SINGAPORE will get its first English compilation album comprising mainly original material this month. And following that, on June 23, there will be a concert at the ShangriLa Hotel that will feature the music and musicians of the
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    • 916 14  -  Asiabeat Reviews by LIM SEK ALBUM: SLEEPING WITH GIRLS ARTISTE: Stephen Bishop LABEL: Polygram 825 841-1 THOSE who favour the musical style of Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon will have no difficulty tuning in to the music of Stephen Bishop. Many
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    • 217 14 THE US top 10 pop singles, as rated by Cashbox, with last week's positions in brackets: 1. (1) We Are the World USA for Africa (Columbia). 2. (2) Crazy for You Madonna (Geffen-Warner Brothers). 3. (3) Rhythm of the Night Debarge (GordyMotown). 4. (7) Don't You
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    • 366 16 Saturday Matinee On Moonlight Bay (Ch 5, 1.50 pm) DORIS DAY plays Mariorie, a tomboy with a penchant for baseball and singing. She attracts the attention of William Sherman (Gordon Macßae), a serious young man who dismisses baseball as a trivial pastime. When he also expounds the
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    • 402 16 Film Focus For Whom the 801 l Tolls (Ch 12, 8.35 pm) BASED on Ernest Hemingway's novel, this is the tale of a group of Spanish loyalists and an American adventurer who pledge to destroy a bridge during the Spanish Civil War. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Gary
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    • 807 17  -  By WONG AH YOKE SUNDAYS will be the day fans of Chinese drama serials look forward to most. Besides the re-run of The Flying Fish at 3.55 pm on Channel 8 and the Taiwanese serial, Yiechienmei, at 5.20 pm over Channel 10, two popular
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1367 15 nwm 12.15 BBCTEXT Live Sample Page*. ist Shane Thio and violinist Seow Jin 12.45 Opening and Programme Highlights Chong. Among the pieces played are jfl followed by Sesame Street.* Felix Godefroid's Romance, OonizetThe alphabets E and 0 and the num- ti's solo from the opera Lucia. Debusber 11 are taught.
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    • 151 15 [s&c 1 Noon Newsdesk 12.30 That's Trad 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 1.30 About Britain 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Album Time 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 3.30 From the Weeklies 3.45 Network UK 4.00 World News
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 631 16 Tomorrow's programmes 8.30 SBCTEXT Uve Sample Paget. 5.15 Horizon The Chopper.* 9.00 Opening and Programme High- 6.10 Programme Highlights. lights followed by Today's 6.15 News (E). Special Travel.* 6.25 Simon and Simon -1 Heard it was 9.35 Fraggle Rock. Murder. 10.00 Cuba Cuba (M). The owner of an art museum
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 648 17 ft KM GUIDE MUSICAL SINGER (C) 9.30): AFFECTIONATELY YOURS (C) Midnight Show: THE SHYLY JOKER (C) Midnight Show: NIGHT CALLER (C) nai IT fit n wnn in unv ak ODEON-KATONG (*****19) (I, 3.30, 7, 9): VENUS (*****97) (L 3.30, 7.15, 9.30): THE v vnnnii: THE MUSICAL SINGER (C) MUSICAL SINGER
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 311 18 OUR HISTORICAL SITES THE third and fourth shows in the series of Our Historical Sites will feature Serangoon Road and Malay Kampongs in Singapore. Serangoon Road is a 12-minute show which traces the growth of the area into an Indian enclave while Malay Kampongs in Singapore offers a glimpse of
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    • 511 18 INDIAN AND MALAY ART THE traditional art and craft of the Indian and Malay communities will be on display at the National Museum Art Gallery until Monday from 9 am to 5.30 pm Admission is free. SOMETHING IN PENCIL AND CHARCOAL WDJ ROESCH will present Something in Pencil and Charcoal
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 509 19 shrf&tfz ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA A favourable response results September 23 to October 22 from a recent long-distance Stress on movement, writing, communication. The law is on variety, and special contacts, your side and authoritative A short trip may be part of the sources back your position,
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    • 219 19 FASTRACK MSiTdBLLlS, LOOK AT" THBSB Tints.S9h?tR. -TRAFFIC CoHTfcoUfe* W5V-0»®WC IMMAfrfR.* *E*ic01Wf *1 CHARM of uvrtCM X WHY Do NX 50 Trt*Y moht/Titles uKft Vol) CAM. t*AV*USTb I IH^KUP PfcoPl* I JolMfH* I -fiiWA I V HI8I? f V 1HlH6fc? J 3°*l V > By Bill Holbrook -(HfVfEt Ho EMlWtAMfD lb
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  • THE SINGAPORE MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 249 20 2 PAGE TEAR-OUT MR TAN HOCK CHONG has relinquished the presidency of the Race Horse Owners' Association to become one of two new members of the Singapore Turf Club committee. The other new committee member is Mr George Teo Eng
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    • 399 20  -  By COMPUTER ANALYST VISITING Australian jockey Robert Heffernan, who drew a blank from a total of 15 rides at the recently-concluded meeting in Penang, can break his "duck" on Sooobe (No 8) in Race 5, a 1,800 metres race for Class 1 Division horses,
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    • 453 20  -  By MA-TAN of UantM Wanbao BERJAYA II and Esprit are my two best bets in today's card of nine races in Ipoh, which will be run on likely good going: BERJAYA (Race 7, No 2), partnered by Junaidi, beat Gemfish by a length over the
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    • 237 20 TET MAZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zoo Boo) (Won Boo) Race 1 3 EM* Squad 2 Fu Lu Shou 3 EMe Squad 2 Fu Lu Shou 7 Reputation 9 Ver*fcST 8 Burong Apo 13 Abeng 5 Rio Blanco Race 2 Forty Minutes Forty Minute* 10 Seattle Steal 8
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    • 233 20 1st 2nd 3rd NigalTilay 18 11 9 Malcolm Johnston 16 18 15 0 Cook 13 16 15 Connorton 13 5 5 8 Y Loong 12 8 5 Subian Dalwee 12 7 10 Torry Lucas 12 4 3 Satchas 10 12 15 Foo Yuh Kong 10 6 3 Hamid
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    • 1969 21 RACE 1 1.45 CI 3 Div 5 1200 m Short Course Stakes: $14,500 1 ***** Taiwan 1-12 9 9) 57.0 Sairi 1/4 snzg Chong GYSO/17-0 43.5gThu 2 33-10 FuLuShou 1-139 (1)56 5 Maauki 1/6 3rug Yeoh GYSO/04-S 3 22-44 ELITE SQUAD 1-130 (4)56 0 Hefeman 1/7 6nzg West
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    • 89 21 BEST PICKS PUCE 1 3 Elite Squad 13 Abang II 7 Reputation II 2 10 SaaWa Steal 13 Ban Hue IV 14 MoeaHNon 3 10 LoontMang V* 11 Showvtota 4 Loyal Commission 4 10 Truth 9 Count Of Honour 2 Thunderbird 8 Sonobe* 4 Star-Makar 11 Wonderful Joy
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 1582 22 WCIWiWm IMS Tel: 273 9090 CUMlfld Ad RatM "T- r Monitor: Sm4*y Monitor: WaH* 0.35 cente per word 0.55 ceeu per word Dhybf $7.70 per col. en 110.00 H' col. cm Imlmm Hrs Moo-Frl. tm-Spa Sat. 9e«-lpe» FOR SALE YARD SALE, CLOSING toys, books, small appliances, some furniture. 738 Kings
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    • 231 22 THE MEETING PLACE CHINESE BACHELOR SEEKS male friends of simitar interests. Replies assured. P.O. Box 25. Singapore 9121. CHINESE SUCCESFUL PROFESSIONAL. 33. of character and charm seeks lady friends. Reply to: Maxwel Road. P.O. Box 2497. (9044). CHINESE GENTLEMAN AGED 37 welcomes female friends r3O years above. Reply contact number
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  • 202 23 WE READ so much about the European Cup, the Cup-Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup in European soccer. In our conversations, my friends refer to these tournaments interchangeably but I think there are some differences between them. I would like to know the differences between
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  • 210 23 Reuter HAMBURG, Saturday TOP SEED Mats Wilander of Sweden showed nearclassic form to crush Argentine Guillermo Vilas 6-3, 6-0 yesterday and reach the semi-finals of the West German International Tennis Championships. The match was a far cry from their famous meeting in
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  • 95 23 IF YOU WANT to cycle leisurely around the city in company with other like-minded enthusiasts, be at the National Stadium Runway Carpark at 8 am tomorrow. The ride, organised by the Singapore Amateur Cycling Association and the Singapore Bicycle Dealers Association, is open to
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 703 23 classified/sports NOTICES I Important announcement from I I Singapore Tobacco Company (Pte) Ltd I I The following are the new prices of I I Kool Menthol in Singapore. I I Kool Menthol Kingsize 20s: $2.30 I I Kool Menthol Super Lights 20s: $2.30 I IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES
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  • sports
    • 593 24 SMRWnB COMPILED BY THE SPORTS DESK MUCH WAS expected of Hu Na at a tennis clinic she was to have conducted at the Singapore Tennis Centre at East Coast Parkway yesterday. But there was no clinic; only simple demonstrations coupled with a "chat show" before television
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    • 454 24  -  By B KULA CHINA'S former No. 1 tennis star, Hu Na, who defected to the United States three years ago, can play in the Crocodile Tennis Classic at the Singapore Tennis Centre (STC) today. But she chose not to because of her
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    • 283 24 Reuter MILAN, Saturday BRITAIN'S Sam Torrance shot a 67 for a three-stroke second round lead in the Italian Open Golf championship yesterday only to find himself upstaged by Italy's Gerolama Delfino. The Italian stole the spotlight by taking a three wood
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    • 177 24 Reuter KINGSTON (Jamaica), Saturday A HAMSTRING strain may force West Indies pace bowler and vice captain Michael Holding to miss the fourth and final cricket test against New Zealand beginning today. Holding sustained the injury during the West Indians' 10- wicket win in the
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    • 61 24 Reuter HOUSTON, Sat CARL LEWIS will be seeking his 41st consecutive victory in the long jump tomorrow when he makes his first outdoor appearance of the season at the Houston Invitational Athletics meet. A victory would tie Lewis with George Brown of the United
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    • 274 25 ASCOT SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIPS ZAINAL ABIDIN will win in straight games. Stewart Ballard will take two games off Zainal. Zainal to win in four games. These are the different results squash fans are predicting in the Men's Final of the Ascot 10th Singapore Closed Squash Championships
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    • 420 25  -  By JEREMY YEO Special to Tho Monitor TOP SEED Zainal Abidin and second seed Stewart Ballard showed vesterday that they are still heads and shoulders above their adversaries by winning their respective semi-final matches at Kallang in the Ascot championship. Such was Zainal's
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    • 903 26  -  BRITISH SOCCER WITH SIMON BARNES LONDON, Saturday ENGLISH soccer is in a bullish mood right now. On the League front, football is celebrating the achievements of champions in all but name, Everton. And on Wednesday afternoon, England scrambled to a 0-0 draw with Romania to make
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    • 392 26  -  ASEAN BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIP Reports by B KULA HE HAD a cramp. He tried his best not to show it. But the pain became unbearable and he tumbled on stage. That was the fate of Singapore's three-time Mr Asia, Fatholomein Ali, during the compulsory
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    • 96 26 THAILAND have upset the Singapore Bodybuilding Federation with their silent withdrawal from the Asean Bodybuilding Championships, which started yesterday. The Thais, who had earlier promised to take part, did not even send a telex or make a telephone call to inform the organisers of
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    • 225 26 Today's matches. Liverpool vs Chelsea, Luton vs Arsenal, Norwich vs Man United. Forest vs Watford, QPR vs Leicester, Sheff Wed vs Everton, Southampton vs Ipswich, Stoke vs Newcastle, Sunderland vs Villa, Tottenham vs Coventry, West Brom vs West Ham p W 0 I P A Pk Ewrton
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    • 250 27 TEENGGANU fordfrd Nasir Jalil yesterday claimed he was provflfced into striking Singapore defender A R J ManL; The incident also apoet resulted in a free-for-all on the field. Nasir came to the Hp! where the Singapore team was staying but Hosni, his former clubmate, greeted
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    • 137 27 RECEPTIONIST Nicholas Maria Lalitha of Cycle and Carriage thought that someone was pulling a belated April Fool joke on her when The Monitor telephoned to inform her that she had won the "Score for Cash" H series contest for the preliminary rounds of the Malaysia Cup
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