Singapore Monitor, 22 May 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 14 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EDITION i M.C. (P) No. 51/5/85 Wednesday, May 22, 1985 30cents
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  • 569 1 UPI, Reuter JMUSALIM, WMlMiday AN AMERICAN film producer who interviewed Japanese Red Army terrorist Koso Okamoto last year said on Monday that Okamoto was mentally deranged and that his release from Israeli prison was meaningless. "He's crazy, and it makes no possible difference if he's in
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  • 82 1 RED ARMY: Group of nearly 30 Japanese radicals. Operates entirely in Europe and in the Middto East instead of in their native country. In its most violent act in 1972, three of its members gunned down 26 civilians at Israel's Lod Airport. The group receives weapons and support
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  • 113 1 AP WELLINGTON, Wednesday A NEW ZEALAND-DEVELOPED device which will prevent drunk drivers from driving their cars is to be installed in cars assembled here by General Motors, the company announced today. The electronic hand-held sensor, called Co-driver Ignition Interlock, measures a driver's breath for
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  • 341 1  -  BY K K FONG POLICE are alerting housewives in Jurong to be on the lookout for a bogus salesman who has snatched at least nine gold cnains and pendants in the past few weeks from unsuspecting womenfolk. Housewives who had fallen prey are from
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    • 238 1 THE 4 ORE INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS jy BUILDING CENTRE For all building materials I equipment T4: *****63/*****62 Bfc. 11 #OM3 Outran Put Cowpiw (8311) TV QUIDBi Pl 6 TV HIGHLIGHTS: P 17 We play games in the City. There's one place in Play a meaner game of the city that
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  • home
    • 82 2 SCENES like this are not unusual at hawker centres This one, of three mynahs and a sparrow having their fill of leftovers, was seen at the East Coast Lagoon Food Centre. The most aggressive mynah, with its wings outstretched, tried to fight the others
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    • 66 2 THREE Persian carpets worth s total of $103,000 were reported missing yesterday from a shop in Lucky Plaza in Orcnard Road Mr T A Khan, 44, the proprietor of Amir and Sons Pte Ltd, discovered the loss on Mooday while stock-checking. The carpets were last seen
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    • 363 2  -  Man caught while trying to make his escape in a taxi By IRENE TOH A ROBBER who was caught by a Traffic policewoman while trying to make his escape, was jailed for five-and-a-half years and ordered to be given 18 strokes of the cane
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    • 224 2 Lianhe Zaobao WHAT Will happen to the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system if floods such as yesterday's were to occur again? You need not worry, said Mrs Tammy Loke, the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation's public relations manager. First, the MRT will never be flooded.
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    • 138 2 STUDENTS between the ages of 15 and 24, can say their Dit in Window on Youth. They can send their contributions in the form of photographs, drawings, illustrations, paintings, diaries, letters and poems. Window on Youth is a special project organised by the Singapore Council
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    • 180 3  -  By CALVIN TAN A MAN found himself on the wrong side of the law when he sold a stick of cannabis to a narcotics officer posing as a drug addict bin Abdul Axis, SO, was today sentenced to five years imprisonment and Ave
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    • 303 3 Lianhe Zaobao LONG QUEUES of motorists waiting to make their road tax payments may become a thing of the past if a Giro payment proposal by the Registry of Vehicles is accepted by the insurance companies. To help make the GIRO
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    • 184 3  -  By IRENE TOH TWO men were convicted in court today for throwing "danger litter." Pathmanadan Satippan, 24, was given two months Jail for throwing a flower pot onto a playground at Yishun Ave 4. Another man, R Kandasamy, 38, was jailed for three weeks
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    • 178 3  -  By NG MING MING SINGAPOREANS wiU soon have another resort to get away to when the $40-million Batam View Hotel on Batam Island opens in September. The hotel is located on a beach in the Nongsa area of the island,
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    • 374 4  -  By JULIE ANNE SIT EIGHTY-SIX foreigners including 22 Filipinos, 22 Thais and two Europeans have been turned back at Changi Airport in the past three weeks because they were not genuine visitors. According to an Immigration Department spokesman, the foreigners did not
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    • 172 4  -  Mum detained, brother in jail and dad without a job By SIT YIN FONG TWIN sisters Ho Swee Eng and Swee Bee, 16, say they desperately need jobs to keep hunger away from their door. Their woes began when their mother, Ong Ah Su, 40,
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 84 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS SIX MONTHS aeo, five young Malays at a block of flats at St George's Road were apfiroached by a croup of parents who asked the ive if they could get young people there involved in better pastimes. So an informal
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      • 50 4 DEPARTMENT stores along the Orchard Road tourist belt get one or two pickpocket cases a day on weekdays and three to four on weekends, their managements say. But a Tanglin Police Station spokesman said: "The situation is under control and a close watch is being kept."
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      • 67 4 THE PORT of Singapore Authority (PSA) has succeeded in cutting tne number of its daily-rated employees by 25 per cent over a four-year period without any lay-offs. One method the authority is using to encourage older workers to leave before retirement is Its "golden handshake scheme." At
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      • 56 4 UNDER the increasing pressure of staff shortage, more and more hotels in Singapore are turning to the specialist companies for their maintenance, night cleaning ana security services. Apart from effectively arresting the hotel's staff shortage problem without sacrificing standards, contracting also has the advantage of relieving
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  • world
    • 395 6 QUFU (China), Wednesday KONG FANLUNG grows wheat, sorghum and corn, lives in a poor village and wears ordinary faded blue cottons. But he will be buried near Confucius, China's greatest sage. "I am a 77th generation descendant of Kong the Master," the
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    • 196 6 Lianhe Zaobao IPOH, Wednesday THERE is suspicion that the Indian boy with thread coming out of his eye could have inserted it himself. Mr Jagjit Singh, the medical director of Kedah, would not rule out this possibility. And Dr Huang Meiyi, director
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    • 506 6 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR, Wed MALAYSIAN Airline System (MAS) failed again to win rights for a fifth weekly flight to London in talks with British Airways, airlines officials said today. The bid has failed in frequent meetings since early last year, although
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    • 170 6 Reuter WELLINGTON, Wod NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister David Lange said yesterday that He had abandoned plans to meet United States Secretary of State George Shultz at a regional foreign ministers' meeting in Malaysia in July. The meeting was to have discussed New Zealand's ban
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    • 48 6 UPI WASHINGTON, Wed NAVY SECRETARY John Lehman yesterday froze all new contracts at two General Dynamics Corporation divisons because of breaches of ethics. The firm was also fined for giving Admiral Hyman RicKOver U5567,000 (S$150,000) worth of gifts before he retired. UPI
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    • 88 6 Reuter TOKYO, Wednesday A SWEET-FACED cherub doffs his drawers in front of millions of primetime Japanese TV viewers, and to the tune of a catchy jingle climbs aboard this year's "in' appliance an electronic shower toilet. At the press of a button,
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    • 363 8 Police blunder /11 die, 60 houses razed in 'military' action THE PHILADELPHIA TRAGEDY ELEVEN deaths, a quarter completely ravaged by fire with more than 60 houses burned, a huge cloud of smoke: This is the vision of all-out war which remains in the vicinity where a sect
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    • 273 9 Agencies MANILA, Wednesday THE ARMY fought a gun battle with suspected communist guerillas in a Manila suburb yesterday in its first known encounter with the New People's Army (NPA) in the Philippine capital, the Philippine News Agency said. A
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • Article, Illustration
        56 9 ISRAEL A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKER AFTER touching down at an air force base in Israel early yesterday morning, released prisoner Hexi Shai (left) hugs family members including his wife on his right. Three prisoners were released on Monday by a Palestinian group and exchanged in Geneva for
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      • Article, Illustration
        39 9 WEST BANK Ms Viola Saadi (extreme left) was hugged by relatives yesterday in the West Bank on her release from an Israeli prison. She was convicted of leading an Arab guerilla squad that carried out bombings in Israel.
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      • 71 9 ERIC HO, granted full British citizenship to enable him to sit on the panel that will oversee the handover of Hong Kong to China, is one of the most senior Chinese members of the territory's government. He has been dubbed by the local media as Hong
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      • 79 9 PATTI Frustaci, 28, a school teacher in California, gave birth yesterday to six babies, but a seventh died despite the eiforts of three dozen medical professionals in attendance. The six babies, only 27 weeks in gestation, "had real good colour" and were listed in critical but stable
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      • 57 9 PRINCE Charles, with a growing family and his wife's wardrobe to support, has given himself a 27 per cent pay rise and boosted his annual income to more than USI.3 million (Ss2.B mil lion). The prince is entitled to the profits from the Duchy of
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      • 72 9 THIRTEEN men and one woman who have served as President of the United Nations General Assembly will gather at the UN next month to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the world body. Under Secretary-General Michel Doo Kingue, who arranged the session, said yesterday that the
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 138 8 KOMPASS the business word The KOMPASS Trade Register of Singapore has the information you really need to exploit market opportunities. KOMPASS helps you to identify and reach specific potential buyers for your company's products and services. to source equipment, materials and services from a very wide coverage of over 40,000
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    • 47 8 f FOB THE HOME Look out for the all-new "For The Home" section this Friday. It has everything you need to up-date and beautify your home. Ideas on interior decorating and furnishing, plus product news on kitchen and household appliances. "For The Home" has so much more.
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    • 169 9 When even a single hair is precious. NERIL^VW Hair-Reactive Shampoo and Conditioner and Conditioner the reactive formula for people PI9VIME* JL scalp, to keep their hair healthy to ends complex complex to keep scalp developed by Dralle the specialist with more than 130 years' research experience. For more advice on
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  • money
    • 806 10  -  By CATHERINE ONG and ANG PENG HWA WHEN a local property developer heard about China's new tax law last Friday, he complained: "This is really frightening, who knows what we will have to pay next?" Yesterday, after Press reports from Hong Kong
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    • 53 10 ON the first 250,000 yuan profit 20 per cent On the next 250.000 yuan profit 25 per cent On the next 250,000 yuan profit 30 per cent On the next 250,000 yuan profit 35 per cent On more than 1,000.000 yuan profit 40 per cent Plus 10 per
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    • 379 10  -  By ANG PENG HWA and KOH SOO LEE THREE construction companies are being wound up by a supplier of ready-mix cement for debts totalling about $100,000, and Industry sources say they are concerned. For one of them, Civilbuild Constructions
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    • 110 10 INDUSTRIAL and Commerial Bank cuts its prime rate by a quarter percentage point to 8.25 per cent from today. This pu& it on equal standing with two of the Big Four banks. OUB and (JOB both charge the same rate while OCBC still offers the lowest
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    • 158 11 H HMLLSTREET fl THE STOCK market closed mixed in active trading yesterday, catching its breath at historical highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished 4 82 points higher to an all-time high of 1309.70. The market rally reflected investor confidence following cuts in Key
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    • 42 11 The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 417.93, down 2.17 points from the previous day's close of 420.10. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighed Index was down 0.4513 point to 132.8441 in morning trading from the previous day's close of 133.2954.
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    • 279 11 Selected stocks at midday. Market tone: easier Boustead 1.67 B Cold Storage 2.52/2.55 FAN 5.25/5.30 Genting 6.35/6.40 G.I.H 2.22/2.23 Haw Par 2.39/2.40 Keck Seng 2.24 S Esso 2.69/2.71 Inchcape 2.41/2.42 Keppef 1.57/1.60 Magnum 3.64/3.66 M Cement 1.34/1.35 M T C 3.72/176 N BTSusp Pan Elec 2.60/2.61 Perils 3.46/3.50 Roths
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    • 99 11 Your 8$ to on* unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DO USf 2 2185 2 2085 2.1995 sterling 2.8223 2.8002 2.7902 Australian 1 5442 1.5201 1.5051 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to 1 unit US$ 2.20 2.19 NZf 105 0.95 sterling 2.85 2.75 Australian 156 1.46 Canadian 1.65 1.58
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    • 190 11 BLUE-CHIPS are still being sought by investors in the local stock exchange. While the market open mixed and eased slightly with profit-taking, blue-chips generally stayed at their overnight levels. Top gainer was Esso which rose seven cents to close at $2.70, followed by mining
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    • 117 11 THE US dollar rose slightly against most major currencies from New York levels on some covering of short positions in quiet early trading. The US dollar rose to an early 250.35/45 yen from New York's 250.10/20 close and to 3.0670/90 marks compared with 3.0630/50 in the US.
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  • opinion / letters
    • Replies
      • 212 12  -  PETER CHIA Public Relations and Marketing Service Post Office Savings Bank I REFER to the letter, "Aircon in POSB branch prone to failure" by "Omega" (SM, May 7). The fault in the air-conditioning system at the Post Office Savings Bank Boon Lay Branch was
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      • 174 12  -  CHEOK YEN AIK General manager Urban Redevelopment Authority PLEASE refer to the letter by Feedback 111 (SM, May 6) commenting on the coupon parking system. The coupon parking system was introduced in 1980 in the light of the nation's demand for scarce manpower for
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      • 167 12  -  FATIMAH SULAIMAN (MRS) Public Relations Officer National Library IN HIS letter "Four ways how police can help make Singaporeans more law-abiding" (SM May 7), Wee Kian Seng mentioned the case of a suspicious-looking youth in the Queens town Branch Library on
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      • 142 12  -  YEO YOCK ENG (MRS) Public Relatons Officer for Permanent Secretary/Director of Education Ministry of Education PLEASE refer to your article "Video show will sell the teaching challenge" (SM, May 18). It mentioned that 10 per cent of those who completed the Certifi-cate-in-Education course
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    • 488 12 I REFER to the recent diversion of bus services (Singapore Bus Service Nos. 174, 175, 15t7; Trans-Island Bus Service Nos. 178 and others) from the stretch of Jurong Road outside Bukit Batok housing estate to Bukit Batok West Avenue
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    • 367 12 I REFER to the proposed reduction of the Housing and Development Board levy on the resale of flats, which was recently sounded out in Parliament. I propose that this levy should be removed totally. The board is only a developer.
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    • 144 12 I CANNOT agree more with Chia Shi Teck's letter (SM, May 17) highlighting the present hardships faced Dy property owners, especially small investors like myself. My own unfortunate experience was to invest in an apartment with my hard-earned money and Central Provident Fund savings,
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    • 172 12 I WATCHED Parliament proceedings on television for the past two days and I am very happy to learn that the younger ministers in the PAP led by Mr Goh Chok Tong have the interests of all Singaporeans at heart. I
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    • 452 13 KiffiffiiHH WHATEVER the reasons for the cancellation of the Anchor Cup football competition, the question is raised whether the standard of sports in Singapore can really improve with the kind of stopstart organisation that is prevalent these days. The Anchor Cup tournament was started
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    • 88 13 ONE often finds a hawker wiping the table at his stall, his hands, the plates and the chopping board with the same piece of rag. Isn't this unhygienic? Will the authorities please tell all cooked food -hawkers to use different rags for different purposes?
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    • 441 13 I WOULD like to congratulate the Minister for Communications, Dr Yeo Ning Hong, for his bold, fertile imagination and far-sighted-ness. With one bold stroke of the pen, he has ingeniously solved the intractable problems faced by taxi commuters for the past decade though the
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    • 119 13  -  LYNDON H JONES Principal South West London College MY ATTENTION has been drawn to a letter published under "Open Line" in your paper (SM, March 29). Therein, the writer asked: "Are West London College and South West London College one or two different colleges?"
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 79 13 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wi be ACCoptsO tcx putAcdtioo, They should be typed and mutt be signed. They must also indude the wrtter's name and address even if the writer daddee to use s pseudonym in print. A oontact tslsphons number would be useful. ISJa mi aw
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

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    • 560 14  -  'Quincy' helps others on and off screen By PAT D'ROSE FOR a number of years, Jack Klugman the actor used to visit the morgue very often. Sometimes, friend and co-star Robert Ito accompanied him and they would speak in hushed tones in reverence for the dead.
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    • 580 14 Istmstockl JACKIE CHAN may soon face tough competition from his good friend, Yuan Piao, in Japan. The latter's movies are drawing the crowds and a recent popularity poll placed Yuan second, after Jackie, in the favourite foreign actors category. Like Jackie, Yuan
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    • 328 14 TO MARK Norway's National Day (last Friday), La Terrase at Meridien Hotel is featuring a Norwegian food fare until May 31. Among the offerings on the buffet table are Smoked Mackerel and Herring, Sauteed Veal Escalope in Sour Cream Sauce, Norwegian Fish Pudding with Shrimp Sauce and Rhubarb
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    • 657 14  -  By WONG AH YOKE A RESTAURANT that offers singers, such as Frances Yip and Tracy Huang for dinner-time entertainments likely to be thought of as being impossibly expensive, especially when it also boasts of Hong Kong cuisine prepared by master chefs flown in
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    • 240 16 Today's highlights Tha Heart of the Dragon Trading (Chineaa subtitle#) (Ch 12, 8 pm) IN line with the country's policy to modernise its economy, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping hopes to achieve a four-fold increase in living standards by the year 2000. This ambition,
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    • Series
      • 70 16 V Dreadnaught (Malay subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) DIANA, immuned to the deadly effects of the red dust bacteria, activates her Triax superweapon to reduce Bates (Lane Smith) and the city of Los Angeles to rubble. Donovan (Marc Singer) organises the Resistance to take over the
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      • 48 16 Teachers Only Otherwise Engaged (Ch 5, 11.20 pm) MR COOPER is anxious to make Shari his fiancee. However, she does not want to appear too eager and resolves to give him a hard time. Teresa Ganzel and Lynn Redgrave star in the series.
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      • 76 16 Family Hour Oshin (C) (English subtitles) (Ch 8, 7.05 pm) FU falls ill on the night that Axin's second child is born. Jia Dai writes to inform Axin that she has given birth to a boy. When Fu realises that she is suffering from leukaemia, she exSresses
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      • 98 16 The Passenger (C) (English subtitles) (Ch 8, 9.35 pm) CHENG and Ma are unaware that the land they are building their project on does not belong to them as Qi only paid one third of the shares. Luoshan and Jiang are finally reconciled while discussing
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    • 598 16  -  i s~\ W&2O3E v: 7 .:v By MORGAN GENDEL in Hollywood LAT-WP PRODUCERS of some of this television season's hit fare had some advice for others who did not make it do not send in the clones. Nonetheless, many are. When
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    • 304 17  -  SALLY PUTS UP ONE OF HER BETTER PERFORMANCES FILM: CUPID ONE DIRECTOR: Ringo Lam STARRING: Sally Yeh, Mark Cheng, Erik Chan, BilUe Tan SHOWING: Bedok, Broadway, Jurong Drive-in, Majestic, Odeon-Ka-tong and Regal Reviewed by WONG SING YEONG WHAT stands out in this comedy is the vast
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1290 15 Leisure/tv 2.30 SBC TEXT Live Sample Pagea. 6.50 Happy Day* So How waa Your 3.00 Opening and Programme WghHghta Weekend? followed by Youth (C) (r) (EngHah Marion and Howard spend a weekend 4/ <* subtitles). apart. She visits Mother Kelp with cc tk- oi mmnn qkam Joanie while he becomes
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 675 17 fllM OUIP6 awai ting leave to visit his mother and wife in Synopsis Sequel to the Police Academy in the village, is held back by the incompetence which the recruits are sent upon their gradu/f °f the new political commissar. He is subse- ation to rid a precinct of a
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 206 18 iSi SINQA THE December 1984 issue (Number 9) of SING A is now on sale. Published bi-annually by the Ministry of Community Development, the present issue features a collection of poems and short stories by local writers including prize winning entries in the English Section of the 1983 Annual Short-Story
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    • 803 18 AT THE SINGAPORE f- HANDICRAFT CENTRE '$T A PHOTOGRAPHY cum q v Children's Art Exhibition will be held at the Singa- <• 5, pore Handicraft Centre, m jfl Internal Plaza until J Saturday f r °m 10.30 am mJL It t0 Pm- Admission is free. SOMETHING IN PENCIL v# AND
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    • 755 19 leisure comics 1 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook _g% 7 I frits* ITS (Mt Of J W«RK AUD iMifcr A*> f -fHf IHCoMsiSf£WCIfS OF 1/ SLAVE it* AH *FF©KT T2> EXCEPT C"~}A hT T ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA p* [fli 4i tWmM t#P? HI You receive excellent September
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  • 819 20  -  jjjSjgSF BT 5 mm? mi Is ■BT". !m ST SSES ■BBEii ijBBjBBB B jti' iSniBiM By LINDA CHAN NINE families living in Sindo Gardens are confused as to whom to pay their rent. They are also anxious to find out if they
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  • sports
    • 408 23 AP DUESSELDORF, Wednesday TWO SPANIARDS stunned topranked Americans John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors yesterday in a rain-plagued second day of the US$5OO,OOO (Sfl.l million) Ambre Solaire World Team Tennis Cup. Rain delayed play for four hours as the United States led by No. 1-ranked
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    • 179 23 Reuter JOHANNESBURG, Wednesday A SOUTH African cricket body representing mainly Indian players yesterday called for a boycott of a planned tour by a "rebel" Australian team later this year. The South African Cricket Board condemned the tour, which has created a furore in
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    • 203 23 Reuter EUGENE (Oregon), Wed RUNNING star Mary Decker Slaney has taken on a new coach, thus ending a four-year association with Dick Brown. Decker Slaney said her new coach is Luiz de Oliveira, the 35-year-old Brazilian who also coaches Olympic 800metregold medalist Joaquim
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    • 57 23 RED QROUP: Czechoslovakia vs Sweden (Czechoslovak names first): Ivan Lendl beat Mats Wilander 6-4, 6-3, Miloslav Mecir bt Anders Jarryd 2-6, 6-3, 7-5. (Czechoslovakia take 2-0 lead). BLUE QROUP: United States vs Spain (US names first): Jimmy Connors level with Jose Higueras 6-2, 6-7, John McEnroe level with
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    • 62 23 WHEN A BIRD landed on the field, right in the middle of play, there was no choice but to halt the game. The match was between Philedelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Philadelphia's Veterans' Stadhim It took homepldt* umpire Harry Wendelstendt some time
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    • SOCCERFRONT
      • 113 24 COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES MIDFIELDER Jesper Olsen (above), who helped Manchester United to victory over Elverton in the English Football Association Cup final last Saturday, was named yesterday in Denmark's squad for the World Cup qualifier against the Soviet Union on June 5. But another midfielder,
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      • 115 24 FORMER Welsh international John Toshack yesterday resigned as trainer of the Portuguese First Division soccer club Sporting, a club statement said. Toshack. 36, who signed a three-year contract with the Lisbon side last year, announced the decision with only two games remaining in this season's First Division
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      • 44 24 ENGLISH League soccer champions Everton clinched a new sponsorship deal yesterday with the Japanese electronics firm, NBC. Previously sponsored by Hafnia, the club said it expected to collect around half a million pounds over the initial sponsorship period of two
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      • 102 24 LAZIO STRIKER Bruno Giordano has signed a three-year contract to play alongside Diego Maradona at Napoli, a spokesman for the Naples soccer club said in Rome yesterday. Giordano signed the 2.5 billion lire (552.87 million) deal on Monday in the presence of Italo Allodi, Napoli's new
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      • 56 24 ARGENTINE striker Rolando Barrera yesterday signed a four-year contract taking him from Spanisn soccer club Palma Majorca to Nice, who recently won promotion to the French First Division. Victor Ramos, another Argentine international forward, has also signed a four-year contract securing his transfer within the French
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      • 97 24 THE INTERNATIONAL Football Federation (Fifa) has extended by one month the deadline for completion of the Asian Football Confederation's second round qualifying matches for the 1986 World Cup finals in Mexico. A Fifa official said in Zurich yesterday that second round ties, to be played on a
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    • 77 24 YESTERDAY'S DOWNPOUR not only disrupted traffic in the morning but also resulted in a number of waterlogged fields. Singapore Recreation Club were drawn to play against Indian Association in a Singapore Hockey Association Under-23 match at the Padang yesterday. Because of the
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    • 333 24 Reuter RENO (Nevada), Wednesday LARRY HOLMES, left eye closed and bleeding from the mouth, took another painful step towards boxing history last night He also banked another fortune in the process. Holmes' latest victim was Carl "The Truth" Williams and the points verdict
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    • 226 24 Reuter SANTIAGO, Wednesday CHILE borrowed some of their opponents' legendary soccer magic ana beat Brazil 2-1 in a friendly international yesterday, handing the triple World Cup winners their second successive defeat. Two glorious first-half goals from Hugo Rubio and Carlos Caszely save Chile their
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    • 154 24 AP ROME, Wednesday THE INTERNATIONAL Track and Field Federation is trying to stage the 1987 World Marathon Cup with departure from North Korea and arrival in the South Korean capital of Seoul, the federation's president dis-. closed here yesterday. "It
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    • 466 25  -  S'PORE AIRLINES 7 BBC BROWN BOVERI O By ALFONSO CHAN KNOCKED out by an embarrassing seven-goal margin because of the Hari Raya Puasa season which started yesterday that's the unhappy lot of Business Houses Football League Second Division team BBC Brown
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    • 763 25 MROinH COMPILED BY THE SPORTS DESK THE AMERICANS play soccer, too. But statistics-conscious, they are not satisfied with just the ultimate result. So, points are given not only for a player who scores, but also to the one who makes the pass before the ball
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    • 674 26 Reuter LONDON, Wednesday DIRK WELLHAM has fond memories of The Oval, scene of his triumphant Test cricket debut, but he hardly expected to be back at the famous Surrey County club ground with the 1985 Australian touring team. The fair-haired, bespectacled middle order batsman
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    • 260 26  -  By K SILVAM SINGAPORE'S South-east Asian Games' double gold medallist Sam Tan has been banned for two years by the Archery Association of Singapore on Monday for misconduct during a tournament in China last April. A nine-member committee who deliberated on Sam's
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      89 27 WHAT HAPPENS when the national soccer team loses important matches? In Singapore, we put the blame on bad "peaking techiques," wrong strategies, poor incentives, etc. In soccer-crazy Brazil, they're more personal they take it out on the coach and players. More gracious in defeat, the Malaysians attribute
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    • WHEN THINGS JUST DON'T GO RIGHT...
      • 505 27 KUALA LUMPUR, Wadiwaday MALAYSIA must sit up and analyse the spectacular South Korean revival in order to realise what went wrong in Seoul on Sunday. The 11 Malaysian players and one substitute, who played in that crucial Group '3A' pre-World Cup match at the Olympic
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      • 469 27 RIO DE JANIERO, Wednesday BRAZIL'S 2-1 loss to Chile in an exhibition soccer match yesterday spurred public displeasure with the national team and fueled speculation that a new coach will be named before 1986 World Cup qualifying matches begin in June. "We want a
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    • Australia-the big country A special feature on holidays sponsored by the Australian Tourist Commission.
      • 555 1 AUSTRALIA is three million square miles of red plains, blue green mountains, deep green pasturelands, turquoise lagoons, wide open spaces, fertile coastal strips and golden beaches. But because it is the smallest continent in the world, there is the misconception that one can "cover" Australia in a
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      • 459 1 Cash in on the strength of the S'pore SINGAPOREANS visiting Australia never had it so good. With the current exchange rate at 551.50 to Asl, and prices within Australia remaining pretty much the same as in the past few months, visitors are enjoying greater value-for-money holidays. Based on the Singapore
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      • 545 2 Clamber aboard an exciting Outback safari with Bill King SAFARI! The word conjures up half remembered images of Johnny Weismuller playing Jungle Jim at the Saturday matinee, a follow the leader trail of native bearers, and subordinate acknowledgement of Bwana as his deadly aim
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      • 210 2 FOR those with a sense of adventure, and the desire to break with the average and conventional, a camping tour holiday in Australia can be an amazing experience. You're free and flexible, close to nature. If you wonder where the television is in a two-man tent,
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      • 282 2 Coach tours a great way to explore the big country DON'T let the adventure buff tell you that coach holidays are kids' stuff. Exploring Australia by coach can be an exciting and very satisfying adventure. It can include a quiet motel on a Western Australian wildflower tour, or a CQjgpfire
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      • 643 3 IF you had a week in Perth, you'd probably want to stay longer. It's easy to be charmed by this city, which is a curious mixture of small town and high sophistication. Perth is just over four hours' flight time from Singapore (in fact
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      • 331 3 WHEN in Perth with the kids, visit Adventure World, 18 kilometres from the city on the Mitchell Highway. Here they can participate in activities such as riding paddle boats and bumper boats on a man-made lake. There's also a scaled down grand prix course,
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      • 62 3 THE Australian Tourist Commission on the eighth floor of Orchard Towers has staff who are well acquainted with the Australian travel market and a wellequipped library of literature for the holi-day-maker heading for Australia. For further details required to plan your next holiday, you can write in
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