Singapore Monitor, 21 May 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 18 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR f EVENING r EDITION w M C (P) No. 51/5/85 Tuesday, May 21, 1985 30cents
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  • 436 1  -  Reports by LEE KIT MUN CAROLYN LEE and PHILIP LIM TWENTY-FOUR bed-rid-den elderly people were evacuated from their nursing home in Boscombe Road this morning as a heavy downpour hit the island. A platoon from the First Battalion, Singapore
    Pictures by HAIRIS, CHEW YEN FOOK, SPENCER LOH and SHAFIE GOH  -  436 words
  • 111 1 Police have identified the following areas affected by flood waters: Jalan Sultan, Victoria Street, Beach Road, Middle Road, Queen Street, Rochore Road, Albert Street, Balmoral Road, Mountbatten Road, Pine Close, Sims Avenue, Guillemard Road, Owen Road. BraddeN Road. MacPherson Road, Coronation Road. Duchess Road, Wa- tertoo Street, Balestter
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  • home
    • 79 2 Stranded on a bed The baby is bewildered by it all while the adults look on grimly The children, however, seem to be enjoying the novelty of the situation ABOVE: An inmate at the Vanda Nursing Home...all snug and warm in his bed while the water swirls around the legs
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    • 186 3 A slow-moving Sanitra caused the noriing floods IKE Bit DELUGE THIS MORNING'S heavy downpour was due to a slow-moving Sumatra, a Meteorological Services Department spokesman said. A Sumatra is a storm with strong gusty winds, usually accompanied by rain and thunder. It occurs during the
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    • 255 4 Lianhe Zaobao THE BIGGEST ever auction of marine vessels and equipment in Singapore is to take place from June 25 to 28. Robin Shipyard (Pte) Ltd will auction off more than 3,000 items of surplus vessel and equipment worth $30 million. Items
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    • 116 4 THE PEOPLE'S Association and RMC Consultants will organise the Othello Championships '85 during the school holidays next month Sponsored by INC Enterprises Pte Ltd, the competition is open to all Singaporeans and permanent residents. The preliminary rounds will be held at six community centres. Proposed
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    • 546 4  -  By IRENE TOH A CONTRACT worker could not resist his love for ice cream, but paid dearly for SO sticks of ice cream that he stole. A district court today was told that Rusad Soknaea, 22, went to a provision
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    • 103 4 Lianhe Wanbao A BAR girl living in Taniong Katong lost more than $26,000 in cash and jewellery while she was working on Sunday. "I left at 6 pm and came back at 9 pm. The front door was properly locked but my room was forced
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 131 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS SEVERAL Hollywood celebrities here to help raise $450,000 for the Spastic Children's Association were seen making a beeline for the dutyfree shop at the airport. Jack Klugman and some of the 11 other celebrities who arrived from Jakarta certainly
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      • 113 4 A 64-YEAR-OLD widow who normally sleeps with her back door open to let in the night breeze has decided to cloae it to keep thieves out. And Madam Mary Kho wants to put up barbed wires on her neighbour's gate to prevent thieves from entering
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      • 129 4 MORE THAN 120 people were arrested for glue sniffing in March, the highest number this year. The arrests followed the launching of the National Campaign Against Glue Sniffing and Inhalant Abuse on March 11. A spokesman from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said there were 127
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      • 153 4 A DIRECTOR of a modelling agency says her office has been besieged by angry people demanding refunds of money they said had been Kiid in the belief that it would get them parts in e movie Passion Flower. But she says she still does not know
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    • 594 5  -  By JOSEPH LEE EXECUTIVES and managerial staff have no right to retrenchment benefits. Anything they get when laid off is not an entitlement but an act of goodwill on the part of employers and even bargainable employees are entitled only to what their
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    • 335 5  -  By JOSEPH LEE BETTER benefits obtained by unionised workers compared to non-union workers in the Sembawang shipyard retrenchment were due to the "good efforts" of the shipyard union. This was said by Dr Wan Soon Bee, acting secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress
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    • 120 5 The Mandarin <% Singapore Airlines in co-operation with CAAC present ATA3TE OF BEIJING Beijing Food Festival The Mandarin Singapore To commemorate direct flights between mf m j Singapore and China, the Pine Court m mJ£g« v I features a banquet of authentic Beijing cuisine. at Ten Master Chefs, together with
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  • world
    • 339 6 UPI WASHINGTON, Tuesday FEDERAL BUREAU of Investigation (FBI) agents arrested a retired US naval officer before dawn yesterday for a spy operation involving his son a sailor on the aircraft carrier Nimitz to pass secrets to the Soviet Union. John Anthony Walker, 47, was
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    • 137 6 AP JAKARTA, Tims THE INDONESIAN police will begin assigning high ranking officers to field duty because private officers may find ft difficult to deal with intellectuals, the newspaper Merdeka reported yesterday. "If we continue to let less educated private officers on field duty, they
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    • 152 6 AP PICTURE above shows a group of released prisoners, all with their hands bound by plastic cord, defiantly flashing the "V" sign early this morning as they boarded an Israeli Jet bound for Geneva. Israel yesterday exchanged 1,150 prisoners it held for three Israeli
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    • Article, Illustration
      188 6 Fans at Barbara Yung's funeral shout abuses at him Lianhe Wanbao HONG KONG, Tuesday KEN TONG, former boyfriend of the deceased Hong Kong star, Barbara Yung, was booed and hurled abuses by hundreds of Barbara Yung fans during her funeral on Sunday. As he and Jackie Chan
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    • 183 8 Reuter MADRID, Tuesday MAJOR trade unions called yesterday for shopkeepers and assistants to strike in protest against moves to end a sacred Spanish institution the siesta. The country's socialist government, hoping to stimulate consumer spending, passed a law last week allowing retail shops to
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    • 190 8 UPI LOBATA (West Virginia), Tuesday SNIPERS opened fire yesterday on a convoy of three trucks delivering coal in defiance of a strike at a processing plant One driver was wounded, police said. An angry official blamed the striking United Mine Workers for the
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    • 403 8 Bill lays down death penalty for deadly acts Reuter NEW DELHI, Tuesday INDIAN Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has secured sweeping powers to put down growing domestic violence with a tough antiterrorist Bill that provides for the death penalty in answer to acts that cause death.
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    • 203 8 Agencies 1 COLOMBO, Tuesday TAMIL separatists yesterday shot dead two policemen and injured at least three others guarding a vital bridge at the entrance to Polonnaruwa, an ancient city in northern Sri Lanka, police said. They said 25 to 30 young men armed
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    • 95 8 LONDON, Tuesday VIDEO tapes of Barbara Yung's TV dramas are selling like hot cakes in London. A video shop in Chinatown specialising in Asia Tv and HK-TVB productions has reported that all tapes having anything to do with the late Hong Kong actress have
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 114 8 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKER TAYLOR Wang (above), a scientist who earlier this month became the first Chinese to fly into space, expects to visit both Taiwan and China as soon as formal invitations are received through government channels. Mr Wang, 44, born in
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      • 64 8 K YOGALIGAM, the boy with the "wonder eye," will be re-admitted to the General Hospital in Ipoh if more rolls of multi-coloured thread continue to be discharged from his right eye. The hospital's medical superintendent, Dr Zohrah Wong, said this was necessary to enable doctors
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      • 75 8 MASAKO Izumi, a Japanese actress trying to be the first woman to reach the north pole, is now 190 km from her goal. But she has been slowed by heavy snow and breaks in the Arctic ice, Japanese news reports said. The reports from Resolute,
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      • 127 8 THE CANNES Film Festival got a dose of nostalgia on Sunday night with the showing of The Glenn Miller Story and the presence of its stars, James Stewart (above) and June Allyson. The pair won a long ovation as they mounted the steps to the festival hall
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      • 68 8 THE DIRECTORS of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra have picked Kazuyoshi Akiyama of Tokyo as its conductor and music director. Voted yesterday, the selection ends a two-year search to replace Christopher Keene, who left in 1983 to become music director of the New York City Opera. Mr
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    • 266 9 Reuter TAIPEH, Tuesday AUTHORITIES yesterday arrested the president of the state-owned co-operative Bank of Taiwan and one of his managers. They were held on charges of corruption in a scandal involving the giant Cathay Industrial Group, court officials said. Chen Hsiao-Ao and Wang Mao-Shin both denied
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    • 258 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Tuasday THE CHAIRMANSHIP of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) State Liaison Committees for Selangor, Federal Territory and Kedah was reshuffled among three leaders of the party last Friday. MCA Secretary-General Datuk Dr Tan Tiong Hong announced yesterday that Acting President Datuk Dr
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    • 87 9 Reuter NEW YORK, Tuesday SEVEN people were shot yesterday by a lone gunman at a crowded restaurant in Manhattan's Chinatown District, police said. The victims were rushed to a nearby hospital and police said they had no reports of deaths. A police spokesman said
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    • 131 9 SUPER SJdfING OFFERS! From Faber-Castell Don't miss out on these great-value offers! When you buy one, you get the other FREE! What better time to stock up? TQI-S System HIT m Ipc 9725 TK-matic plastic-metal [■W version mechanical pencil (worth $15) I R A 4-pen TGI-S System Offer price 1
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  • money
    • 409 10 EXPECTATIONS OF GENERAL BUSINESS SITUATION OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS RETRENCHMENTS are likely to slow down over the next few months but the economy is not expected to pick up, the latest Survey of Business Expectations for the second quarter shows. The companies surveyed
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    • 64 10 UPI THE PHILIPPINE Government yesterday signed agreements with more than 30<T international banks for US$925 million (552,035 million) in new money and for US$3 billion in trade credits. Still to be completed is the refinancing of US$5.B billion of maturities between Oct 17, 1983 and Dec 31,
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    • 300 10 SIGMA Metal shareholders have been advised to vote in favour of the resolution to buy 35.5 million Pan-Electric shares at $3.04 a share. In a circular to shareholders, Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia, the financial adviser to the independent directors, said the
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    • 137 10 FOR THE first time in three years, an Australian trade minister is in Singapore as part of an Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) tour. Mr John Dawkins, the Australian Minister for Trade and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Youth Affairs, arrived today
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    • 171 10 CITIBANK launches its "Superloan" scheme for home buyers today a new housing loans package that enables a borrower to get 100 per cent financing for buying new homes. It has also reduced its housing loan interest rates by a quarter-point to 9.5 per cent
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    • 315 11 Selected stocks at midday Market toae: mixed Boustead 170/172 Cold Storage 2 54/2 55 F&N 5 25/5 30 Genting 6.45/6.50 G.I.H. 2 27/2 28 Haw Par 2.42/2.43 Keck Seng 2.26 S Esso 2 69/2.70 Inchcape 2.44 S Keppel 1.60/1.64 Magnum 5.76/5.78 M Cement 1.35/1.36 M T C 3.76 S
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    • 104 11 Your 8$ to ono unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DO US9 2.2100 ***** 2.1910 Sterling 2 8229 2 8009 2 7909 Australian! 1.5312 1 5072 1 4922 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to 1 unit US! 2.21 2.19 NZ! 1 05 0.95 sterling 2.85 2.75 Australian! 1.55 1.45
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    • 120 11 B WMLLSTREET 5 Reuter FALLING interest rates yesterday sparked a buying spree on Wall Street, thrusting the stock market to record highs as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,300 for the first time in history. The closely watched Dow Jones Average,
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    • 25 11 The OUB Composite Share Prices Index closed at 421.97, down 1.35 points. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted Index was up 0.6019 point to 133.4959.
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    • 152 11 Reuter THE US dollar eased slightly against most major currencies from New York levels in very quiet early trading, with operators largely sidelined ahead of the release later today of US firstquarter Gross National Product data. The US unit eased to 3.0650/70 marks from New York's 3.0700/30
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    • 237 11 THE LOCAL bourse opened all round higher, in line with sharp gains on Wall Street overnight Profit-taking towards mid-morning saw most of the early gains fizzlea out. The morning session closed quiet with prices at just about overnight level. Top
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  • 435 12 opinion/letters LIKE many other office workers who live in the West Coast area, I travel home after work on Singapore Bus Service No. 75. However, I am more willing now than ever before to pay a higher fare and travel home
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  • 1045 12 features Great progress has been made in recent years in the provision of employment protection for working women during maternity in countries throughout the world. Much of this progress has been inspired by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention No. 103, which spells oat the minimum
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    • 88 12 The Chef carves at 8.15pm every Hiesday Thursday at In the best European tradition of old, our Chef will ceremoniously carve a succulent roast, done to a turn, on the one and only roast spit in town. TYeat yourself to a hearty slice of this roast, accompanied with all the
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  • opinion / letters
    • 529 13 pj^l— RESTAURATEURS are discovering to their dismay that wedding and birthday dinner parties are fewer and smaller this year. This preference for smaller parties may be more than just a passing fad or a response to the difficult times we are in. Perhaps big,
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    • Replies
      • 138 13  -  CHEW KING HWAN for Permanent Secretary (Education) I REFER to the letter "Hold school activities during holidays" by "Productivity" (SM, April 27). The writer suggested that Teachers' Day, Children's Day and the school Sports Day be held during the long school
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      • 45 13  -  JEANNE TAY (MISS) Public Relations Officer Singapore Broadcasting Corporation WE ARE happy to know that "Fan" likes our Tamil variety snows and dramas (SM, May 16). We thank him for his encouragement and shall strive for further improvement.
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    • 385 13  -  S T SIM Singapore 12S1 CAN someone in the Government please tell me how much it costs taxpayers each day when Parliament sits from 11 in the morning to 4.30 in the evening? I get the impression that the
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 34 13 v-^ LETTERS on any auD)ect of pubic MMw wM accepted ftx pMbtettton. They should be typed and mult be signed They wwt eleo Inoudi tfe wrttar'a name and addrese even I the wftter decide*
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      272 14  -  Location: Pavilion Inter-continental Non-colour holds its own among neutrals and neons Corordinator: Inez Wei FASHION pundits seem to have the ability to get us all worked up over the latest colours. One sings the virtues of muted neutrals, another tells us to paint the town red and yet
      Pictures: Spencer Loh  -  272 words
    • 266 14 WHEN the Hotshot range of unisex casual wear came on the market last year, it offered just basic tops and bottoms in mix and match solid brights. Those were garments with wide appeal safe bets to start off with. A year's success, however, was
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    • 686 14  -  By SAM JAMESON in Tokyo LAT-WP THE executive committee of the Tokyo International Film Festival has rejected the movie, Mishima, for showing at the first-ever Tokyo festival, describing it as a work unworthy "in quality of art". Kyushiro Kusakabe, programming director of the
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    • 290 16 Today's highlights Listen to Your Heart (Part one) (Malay subtitles) (Ch 5, 10.10 pm) KATE JACKSON stars as a successful art director who has just ended a six-year romance, when she accepts an appointment with a large book publishing firm, she also attracts the attention
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    • Series
      • 66 16 Finder of Lost Loves Deadly Silence (Malay subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) DAISY is hired by a woman (Vera Miles) who, during a vacation in Europe, fell in love with a song- writer (Paul Burke) who proposed and then never contacted her again. A man (Tom
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      • 71 16 The Unyielding Butterflies (C) (English subtitles) (Ch 8, 9.30 pm) WHEN Xuejun becomes an actress at the Yu Lian Film Company, Yuanjun approaches Dilei to teach her sister some martial arts. Meng is assigned to find the culprits who stole the rice at the mill.
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      • 76 16 Drama on 12 Mansfield Park (Ch 12, 9.10 pm) DURING Sir Thomas' absence, family discipline is lax. At the instigation of the Crawfords, the Bertrams decide to stage a theatrical. During the rehearsals, Henry flirts with Maria, who is engaged to Mr Rushworth. Against all this,
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      • 125 16 Oh Oku (C) (English subtitles) (Ch 8, 10.25 pm) A CABINET officer, Yamauchi, discovers that Amasaku is the son of General Yoshimune. Because his mother, Orin, did not want to live in Oh Oku with the general, Yoshimune had presented her his dagger, a pallet
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    • 625 16  -  TV SCENE By JOAN HANAUER in New York UPI JAMES MICHENER'S bestseller Space has been turned into an intriguing, entertaining but mislabelled mini-series at 13 hours this is a maxi-series. (His travel documentary, The World of James Michener, in which he talks about the
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    • 755 17  -  BRILLIANT CHINESE PRODUCTION EVOKES EMOTION IN A SUBTLE WAY TITLE: THE GARLAND UNDER THE MOUNTAIN STARRING: Lu Xiaohe, Tang Gooqiang, Gai Ke, He Wei, Tong Chao DIRECTOR: Xle Pu SHOWING: Clementi, Golden, Princess Reviewed by WONG AH YOKE BE PREPARED to laugh and
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1503 15 Leisure/tv 1 o 2.30 SBC TEXT Live Sample Pages. Story Mr* 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights Laundry. E, V 10*>«3 b, Tha Strurnl. (C) (r) Jlw atop o) what W(OT «m Mra A-fl (English subtitles) Lather the washerwoman *****S not jf V H[ 9 Youth Time (T) (r) wash the
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 642 17 fI KM GUIDE KRETA AYER PEOPLE'S GOLDEN (*****66) (11, 1.30, 4.15, 9.30* THE BODY IS WILLING (C) Adela Quested arrives in India, acTHEATRE (*****72) (l, 3.30, 7, 7, 9.30): THE GARLAND UNDER companied by her mother-in-law, to mi .t A 9W): SPLASH (E) THE MOUNTAIN (C) g ill j'j jfij
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    • 63 18 ********************000 BAT NIQHT o HE TAKES THE FORM OF g g A PROWLING WOLF g 2 Rutger Hauer as Navarre q in 20th Century-Fox's multi-million dollar production q o o O The story of the lovers, fated to be "always together O O yet always apart". Only for a split
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 180 18 I t TERCENTENARY CONCERT THE International Festival Chorus will hold a Tercentenary Concert in honour of the birth of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti today at 8.15 pm at the Victoria Concert Hall. Included in the programme are Handel's Zadock The Priest, Bach's Coffee Cantata, Handel's Water Music Suite, Bach's Cantata
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    • 591 18 One of Sarah Pierce Petite's works on display al Alliance Francaise SOMETHING IN PENCIL AND CHAR- ART BY SARAH PIERCE PETITE COAL THERE will be an exhibition of Sarah WDJ ROESCH will present Something Pierce Petite's works at the Alliance in Pencil and Charcoal at the Goethe- Francaise De Singapour,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 694 19 leisure comics I FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook jiff IkjpW f VKNOU). i MAb T security, and the conclusion of someone y at the top is im- [L. 1 f a transaction. A major domes- pressed and may offer you an tic adjustment occurs, and it assignment which includes could affect
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  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • 379 20 THE result* of a photographic competition, Ilk* those of a beauty contest, are sure to Invite comment. The recent Fuji "Lights on Singapore" contest in which two members of the Monitor staff (Managing Editor, Systems and Graphics Phil Nesbitt and Supplements Editor
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    • 623 20  -  PHIL NESBITT Managing Editor News Systems and Graphics FIRST, let me thank you for your letter to the Photography column. It shows a deep concern and a great deal of thought about the Fuji "Lights on Singapore" photo competition. You raise some very valid
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    • 260 21 THE MEETING PLACE CHINESE GENTLEMAN. AGED 31, would like to meet female friends. Write with phone number to: Toe Payoh Central. P.0.80x 469, Singapore 9131. DEAR LADY, PLEASANT Gentleman, aged 28. (Catholic) with interest In sports, swimming, music and photography welcome friendship. Write with contact number to: Toe Payoh Central.
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  • 348 22  -  By ERNEST FRIDA THE SINGAPORE Amateur Athletic Association's (SAAA) specialisation coaching scheme should get off the starting blocks with the arrival of two eminent British coaches next month. The International Amateur Athletic Federation's advanced coaching course will be conducted by jump coach Derek
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  • 267 22 DUESSELDORF, Tuesday PAT CASH, eighth in the latest world tennis rankings, atoned for an abysmal singles performance yesterday to help Australia to victory over West Germany on the first day of the World Team Cup. Cash, 19, who much prefers fast surfaces
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  • 67 22 BLUE GROUP: Australia 2 West Germany 1 (W Germans first): Hansjoerg Schwaier beat Pat Cash 6-2, 6-3, Michael Westphal lost to Paul McNamee 6-3, 6-3, Andreas Maurer/Wotfgang Popp lost to John Fitzgerald/Pat Cash 6-2, 6-1. RED GROUP: France 2 India 1 (French first): Thierry Tulasne beat Vijay Amritraj 6-0,
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  • 272 22  - Last-gasp goal saves F N F&N 3 FJ Benjamin 2 By ALFONSO CHAN TWO DRAMATIC last-minute goals saved this Business Houses Football League junior knock-out tie between Fraser&Neave (F&N and FJ Benjamin (FJB) from penalty kicks at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. F N were leading 2-1 until the last but
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  • WORLDFRONT
    • 61 22 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD JOHN McENROE (above) is top seed for the French Open starting next Monaay the only maior tennis title the American has never won. Defending champion Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia is seeded number two and American Jimmy Connors, three. Martina Navratilova
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    • 58 22 BELGIAN POLICE are looking for a forger who sold an Italian travel agency 2,500 false tickets for next week's European Cup soccer final between Liverpool and Juventus, justice officials said. They said the agency yesterday agreed to withdraw the tickets, valued at five million francs (*****,300),
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    • 75 22 LARRY HOLMES faced "The Truth" on Monday in a prime-time television fight, which had nowhere near the hold on the public imagination of a heavyweight title fight here almost 75 years ago. By Sunday only 2,500 tickets had been sold for Holmes' International Boxing Federation heavyweight
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    • 89 22 ■THE AUSTRALIAN cricketers built up a strong position as Sussex toiled after injury to their captain John Barclay and South African-born fast bowler Garth Le Roux. An unfinished fifth wicket stand of 78 between Greg Ritchie and Wayne Phillips lifted the touring team, 59 ahead on
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  • sports
    • 163 23 With little time left, this team is training seriously THE ROYAL Holiday Inn team gears op for the Puma/Monitor 10-kilometre run. Leading the team it Mr Alan Goh (fourth from right), financial controller, who's been an avid runner for the past 11 years and heads
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    • 136 24 A fu writes to say tkat we skoald appreciate the good work tkat Is being doae for our local soccer aad tkat we skoald bide oar time till Malaysia Cap '86. Aaotker fu feels tkat more tkoegkt should be given to oar players' welfare so tkat tkey
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    • 270 24  -  S A ALSAGOFF Singapore 1545 I FIND it irritating that someone should have made such a silly suggestion that our Intermediate soccer team snould represent Singapore in the Malaysia Cup instead of the national squad. Your correspondent "CCL" of Singapore 0314 (SM, May 9)
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    • 128 24  -  PRITAM SINGH Singapore 143S I READ with horror the riots in China after their national team lost to Hong Kong in the pre-World Cup soccer. What is even more disturbing is the fact that the riots took on an anti-foreigner tone.
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    • 279 24  -  A KINROSS Singapore 1439 IT IS COMMENDABLE that there has been no witch hunt following Singapore's ignominious exit from the Malaysia Cup '85 series. However, we cannot at the same time treat this episode as forgotten and buried; not if we want to win the
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    • 265 24  -  GREG SOON Singapore 0316 RECENTLY, there was a report in The Singapore Monitor about a New Zealand teacher in Singapore offering his services as a coach, if not to Singapore's national side, at least to the younger players and our students. I hope he
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    • 454 24 AP LONDON, Tuesday BRITAIN WILL have a new heavyweight boxing champion on May 28, following a decision by Dave Pearce to vacate the title, promoters said yesterday. Nigerian-born Funso Banjo will fight Jamaican-born Hughroy Currie in the first British heavyweight title contest between two
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    • 507 25 THE MORAN CONTROVERSY Reuter LONDON, Tues KEVIN MORAN, the Manchester United defender who created history of sorts in last Saturday's English Football Association (FA) Cup final when he became the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final, may
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    • 166 25 Reuter SANTIAGO, Tims BRAZIL, who face Chile in a friendly soccer international in Santiago today, expect to hit form when their Italian-based stars return for the forthcoming World Cup qualifying matches. Zico, Cerezo, Junior and Edinho are set to rejoin Brazil's squad later this week
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    • 384 25 Reuter LONDON, Tims BAYERN MUNICH and Ajax Amsterdam, who each won the European Cup three times in the Seventies, took contrasting steps towards clinching their domestic league soccer titles at the weekend? While Bayern struggled to a 2-1 win over Bayer
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    • 168 25  -  By K SILVAM FORTY-eight teams will vie for top honours in this year's Milo Youth Basketball Championships which begins next week. The tournament, the fourth in the series, has attracted 11 teams more than last year and is being sponsored by Nestle Singapore at
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    • 744 25 MR Win COMPILED BY THE SPORTS DESK AMIDST ALL the exhibits on what high-tech could do for us in the next century, the minds of three Singaporeans visiting the Tsukuba Expo '85 instantly returned to the present when they spotted
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    • 633 26 BLOW-BY-BLOW ACCOUNT AP ROUND ONEi The two men came out jabbing as expected, with Holmes doing most ot it. Holmes landed a short right to the head after a Williams jab. Williams got in a light left hook at about
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    • 175 26 Reuter PERTH, Tuesday FORMER Australian cricket captain Kim Hughes said his decision to captain the rebel Australian team to South Africa had nothing to do with the fact that he was not chosen for the Australian Test side touring England. He was replying last
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    • 584 26 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday THE CREAM of the world's athletes, competing openly for prize money for the first time, will introduce a new age in athletics when the Inaugural Grand Prix series begins this Saturday in San Jose, California. In the past
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    • 291 23 OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM m*MMWmS\ luetnr PUMA-SINGAPORE MONITOR 10 Km CHARITY RUN, In aid o! tha Singapore Cancer Society WW Sunday, 9th June, 1989 (Undar IAAF/SAAA Rulas) SURNAME MALE FEMALE n i ii i 11 l i i i i i i i In constderetion of your aocapt- nTWPB kiamp i
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      143 27 British soccer 1984-85 season HONOURS, promotions and relegations in British soccer for the 1984-85 season: ENGLISH PA CUP WINNERS: Manchester United Btattn finalists: Everton ENGLISH MILK CUP WINNERS: Norwich City Btattn finalists: Sunderland DIV ONE Champions: Evert on Ralagatad: Stoke, Sunderland and Coventry or Norwich DIV TWO
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    • 625 27 Ageing world champ closes in on Marciano's 49-0 record IBF WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT AP RENO (Nevada), Tuesday LARRY HOLMES moved to within one fight of Rocky Marciano's record last night with a unanimous but hard-fought
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