Singapore Monitor, 6 June 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 14 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 51/5/85 Thursday, June 6, 1985 EVENING' EDITION 30cents
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  • 286 1 AP MANILA, Thursday MANILA'S "Crying Lady", the only civilian eyewitness who says she saw a soldier shoot Renigno Aquino, tearfully admitted in court today that she was confined in 1982 in a Hong Kong mental hospital after she attempted suicide twice
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  • 705 1  - 1 M SPORTS HOUSE BLAZE: COPS NOT RULING OUT ARSON Singapore Olympic council finds some consolation By SURESH NAIR POLICE have not ruled out the possibility that arsonists may have started today's predawn fire which gutted the historic Sports House, one of Singapore's oldest landmarks, at Rutland Road. Initial estimates
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  • Article, Illustration
    61 1 LOSS of documentary records and statistics of 14 national sports bodies, two trade unions and seven sports affiliates $60,000 worth of new equipment spikes, shoes and stop-watches belonging to the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association. LOSS of the Singapore Squash Rackets Association's new mini-computer for updating its records. 160
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  • home
    • 354 2  -  By IRENE TOH ANOTHER oven has exploded in a housewife's kitcnen about five weeks after the glass door of an oven of the same brand shattered during grilling. As a result of these and similar incidents, the Consumers Association of Singapore is conducting safety tests on various
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    • 109 2 A MOTORCYCLIST died after he was involved in an accident with a car yesterday morning. Kalippan R Raphan, 34, was travelling on his motorcycle along Clementi Road when the accident occurred in front of Ngee Ann Polytechnic at 6.30 am. He died at
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    • 255 2  -  By CALVIN TAN THE ALERTNESS of a man and the immediate response of a police patrol crew led to the arrest of two robbers within minutes. The victim, a 54-year-old housewife identified only as Madam Sundaram, was followed by two men when she walked
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    • 217 2 AN ICE CREAM restaurant, a noodle restaurant, and a supermarket bakery were fined between $150 and $300 in a magistrate court today for failing to ensure cleanliness in their premises. Swensen's Singapore at GSM Building, Middle Road, failed to keep its refrigerator racks, used in connection
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    • 240 3  -  Reports by IRENE TOH A YOUTH has been sentenced to five years' jail by a district judge for housebreaking offences. The counsel's plea for a probation report for Urn Puay Kiang, a National Serviceman who will turn 20 next month, was rejected by district
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    • 150 3 A MAN broke the wire mesh of a flourescent light and broke the bulb in a cell at the Jurong Police Station lock-up. Sabri Latiff, 28, who was arrested for having controlled drugs and for absconding from urine tests, was placed in the cell, waiting
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    • 54 3 ANBALANGAM Subrahmaniya Thevar Rajago pal, 17, was charged today with murdering Jurimi Su par man, 32, in front of a house at Cuff Road on April 23 at 5.27 pm, with four others. He has been remanded at CID. No plea was taken. The case will be
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    • 74 4 BUS fares on feeder services will have to go up when the Mass Rapid Transit system starts operating if not earlier according to a Singapore Bus Service study. Concessions given to passengers, such as students, senior citizens and National Servicemen, will also have to
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    • 233 4 Lianhe Wanbao TEN POLICEMEN hit the jackpot when their ticket won the mil-lion-dollar first prize in the Singapore Big Sweep draw last month. Their ticket, number *****74, made each of them richer by $100,000 It is believed that eight of the
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 121 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS THE VIDEO pirates were warned. Muscle in on the latest James Bond action and you will face the consequences. But it fell on deaf ears. Video libraries are already offering copies of A View to a Kill, just as
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      • 79 4 SEMBAWANG Shipyard now has 100 per cent union membership after five non-members were laid off last month. The President of the Sembawang Shipyard Employees' Union, Mr Peter Vincent, said: "All of the bargainable workers are now members of the union. A spokesman of Sembawang Shipyard,
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      • 105 4 EMPLOYERS of eight Filipino maids found working as nurses and aides at a home for elderly people are to be prosecuted. Toe maids were found in the home in Alexandra Road about two months ago. Yesterday, the Ministry of Labour applied to the Subordinate Courts for summonses
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      • 96 4 AN 18-MONTH-OLD baby girl was among five Singaporean holidaymakers who were injured when the Malavsian-bound tour bus they were travelling in collided with a car along Jalan Sekudai, Johor Bam, two days ago. The four sailors in the car, three Americans and one New Zealander,
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      • 57 4 JURONG POLICE have promised witnesses to last Friday's attack on a group of schoolboys that their identities will be kept secret. The police also say they will conduct investigations discreetly to protect witnesses from retaliation, and are willing to accept anonymous tips. The assurance came from Superintendent
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  • world
    • 299 6 HK Standard HONG KONG, Thursday SECRET SOCIETIES here are turning to activities in legitimate areas such as hawking and transportation. This was disclosed by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Raymon Anning, while commenting on the recent reportput out by the Fight Crime Committee (FCC).
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    • 355 6 LAT-WP BEIJING, Thursday IN AN EFFORT to show their tolerance of foreign influences, Chinese authorities announced yesterday that they will let a well-known Beijing hospital and medical school change its name back to the one given to it by the
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    • 168 6 Nation Review BANGKOK, Thursday RAILWAY police on Tuesday rescued 10 girls, mostly aged between 15 and 18, from a south-bound train and arrested two men alleged to have been takinp them to a brothel in Surat A team of policemen found
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    • 124 6 AP WASHINGTON, Thurs A LIBYAN diplomat, accused bv the Federal Bureau of Investigation of plotting against Libyan dissidents in the United States, has been {> laced under orders to eave the country within 24 hours, the State Department said yesterday. The Libyan, Mr
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    • 66 6 JAKARTA, Thurt THE second of 32 Jailbreakers who escaped from Jakarta's main iail 11 days ago has been shot dead by police, the official Antara News Agency said. Bambang Hern, 30, was killed yesterday together with an accomplice, the agency, quoting police sources, said. A
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    • 101 8 Reuter WABHMQTON, Thura ABOUT ooe in 10 American women has been raped, a two to four times higher percentage than in Western Europe, according to a study released yesterday. An additional 10 to 20 per cent have experienced rape attempts, the survey
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    • 257 8 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Thura A SHARP drop in the price of some Japanese semiconductors has provided new ammunition for the troubled US semiconductor industry in its trade dispute with Japan. It also prompted a top Department of Commerce official to issue a
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    • 115 8 UPI NEW YORK, Thurs A BELGIAN diplomat was arraigned yesterday on a charge of smuggling US$22 million (S|4M million) worth of heroin packed in a diplomatic pouch from India into the United States. US Attorney Raymond Dearie said Ludovicus VastenavondL 56, chancellor of the Belgian
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    • 84 8 THE WOMAN police superindentent (right), wearing protectivea helmet, was seen conferring with a member of the French riot police during the clashes which occured early yesterday morning. The fights took place in the eastern Paris suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine, with some 200 trade union workers attempting
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    • 211 8 Reuter PARIS, Thursday WHILE Prance's right-wing opposition parties are hardening their stance on immigration, a new antiracialist movement is gaining unprecedented support among young people. The heated political issue of immigration will be debated in the National Assembly today at the request of
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    • 660 9 EUROPEAN CUP TRAGEDY TIME Magazine THE VICTIMS of last week's tragedy at Heysel Stadium in Brussels were a disparate group. Though there were a handful of Belgians, French and one Briton, the majority who died suddenly and horribly in the crush, of Section "Z" were Italians.
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    • 155 9 GET rid of the British from our stadiums forever. LA LANTERNE, Belgium THERE is nothing left to do but cry... Atrocious, incredible. heart-rending... we are still dismayed and frightened at the spectacle we had to watch. IL QIORNO, Italy IS the human animal return-
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    • 141 10 THE 36th Paris Air Show, the biggest exhibition of air and spacecraft in the world is expected to draw 400,000 visitors before the show ends on June 9. Among the exhibit* are a maquette of a future orbital station and e future space plane developed
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    • 255 10 WASHINGTON, Thursday THE UNITED STATES and other countries are financing Soviet spy and propaganda activities indirectly through their contributions to the United Nations, US intelligence agencies said in a report yesterday. The report, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, was a full
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    • 136 10 Reuter TAIPEH, Thurs TAIWAN'S armed forces displayed their firepower yesterday, demonstrating a locally developed supersonic trainer jet alone with an array of US-made fighter jets and missiles. The military show, an annual event tor the last three years, was watched Dy more than 700 guests, including
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    • 103 10 Reuter NEW DELHI, Thursday WHILE INDIANS in the eastern state of Bihar are reeling under a scorching killer heat wave, Chinese in South China are seeing more rain than they ever want. According to the United News of India, pt least 140 people as temperatures
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 77 11 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKER EXILED Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn (above) and his wife, Natalia, have filed applications for US citizenship, according to court papers. The papers were filed with a US immigration and naturalisation service office at Vermont last week by the Solzhenitsyns, who moved to
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      • 100 11 A YOUNG Algerian girl has found a new life now that a Chinese surgeon rebuilt her face after her nose was bitten off by a donkey, a Chinese news report said yesterday. Bouamouche Fairouze, 12, lost her nose 10 years ago when she was feeding
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      • 137 11 A WOMAN who claims she told the FBI that her son and former husband were part of a spy ring that sold US Navy secrets to the Soviet Union for 20 years says she delayed turning them in because she wanted to protect her family.
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      • 72 11 A LEGISLATOR has urged the Philippines National Assembly to ban advertisements recruiting Filipino women as wives for foreigners, saying many marriages produced by sucn ads have ended in nightmares for the wives. Opposition assemblyman Orlando Mercado, in a bill, said the ban would stop "the pitiful
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      • 74 11 THE POPULARITY of Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has fallen to a record low and his Labour Government would have been turned out of office if elections were held late last month, according to a new opinion poll. The widely respected Morgan Gallup survey gave Mr Hawke
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    • 111 11 Reuter COLOGNE, Thursday WEST GERMAN Ernst Banik has cut the cost of motoring by running his diesel saloon car on old potato chip fat, Die Welt newspaper reported yesterday. The Cologne restaurant dwner 1 clocks up 30,000 km a year on 5,000
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    • 361 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Thureday MUSLIM extremists were blamed for the outbreak of bomb blasts in Kota Kinabalu by Slice intelligence officials, according to a >nt page report in the Asian Wall Street Journal yesterday. The extremists were trying to destabilise the Christian-dominated State Government of
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    • 362 11 Reuter AMRITSAR (Indie), Thursdey TROOPS were ordered back onto the streets of the Sikh holy city yesterday ahead of the biggest meeting of what Sikhs have called "genocide week", marking the anniversary of the Golden Temple storming. Soldiers
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  • money
    • 168 12 FOR MONTHS, the market has been wondering where Mr Peter Tham Wing Fai of Pan Electric Industries Ltd was. Earlier attempts by The Monitor to contact him at stockbroking firm Associated Asian Securities, where he was a director, failed. His secretary said he had
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    • 914 12  -  By CATHERINE ONG SINGAPORE is fast catching up with Hong Kong as a funding centre for Australian hanks and firms, merchant bankers said yesterday. Merchant banks here have so far managed to assemble at least seven commercial paper issues for Australian names
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    • 233 12 THE HEAD of the larEit bank in the world, John Reed, will visit Singapore next Monday on a regional tour of the bank's branches. He will also be meet- ing Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Finance Minister, Dr Richard Hu. Mr Reed, chairman and chief
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    • 147 12 AP CHICAGO, Thurs BUSINESS soared for several major US airlines in May because of a pilots' strike that forced United Airlines, the largest air carrier in the United States, to cut many of its flights for part of the month. The airlines on Tuesday reported in-,
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    • 110 12 AP BEUING, Thurs CHINA has expanded the number of cities in which Chinese with bank accounts in foreign currency may withdraw the money in foreign currency, a newspaper reported yesterday. Previously, under state currency-exchange rules, the account-holders had to withdraw the money in Chinese currency,
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    • 223 13 PRICES on the local bourse opened firm but closed mixed at lunch break on very selective trading. Turnover continued to be very thin with top volume stock Sime Darby trading only 127,000 to close at $1.98, followed by SB Society's 100,000 at
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    • 151 13 WAll STREET DOW JONES CLOSE: 1,320.56 (+5.26) WALL STREET stock prices closed at a record high yesterday on news that oil prices and intercat rates were falling and that the bond market was performing well. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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    • 38 13 THE OUB Composite Price Index closed at 412.33, down 0.74 points from the previous day's close of 413.07. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted Index was down 0.1119 points to 132.6397 from the previous day's close of 132.7516.
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    • 255 13 SELECTED STOCKS AT MIDDAY MARKET TONE! MIXED Boustead 1.65/1.69 Cold Storge 2.46 B F N 5.25/5.30 Gen ting 6.30/6.35 Gib 2.27/2.26 Haw Par 2.34/2.35 Keck Seng 2.15/2.16 Esso 2.69/2.70 Inchcape 2.42/2.43 Keppel 1.56/1.60 Magnum 3.70/3.72 M Cement 1.27/1.29 MTC3.6B B Pan Elec 2.56/2.57 Perils 3.40/3.46 Roths (M) 3.42/3.44 Metro
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    • 87 13 Your SI to on* unit .of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DO US| 2.2225 2.2125 2.2045 sterling 2 8218 2.7997 2.7897 Australian 1.4780 1.4579 1.4449 Canadian 1.6294 1.6094 1.5994 New Zealand 1.0068 0.9867 0.9767 S$ to 100 units Deutsche marks 72.50 .71.50 French francs 23.90 22.90 Hong Kong
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    • 198 13 DOLLAR GOLD Reuter THE US dollar was little changed against most currencies compared with New York levels in quiet early trading. Dealers said the dollar still lacked a clear trend because of the absence of fresh factors and the market is awaiting the release of US unemployment figures. However, they
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    • 246 13 qbhEs k Mae Ccndana A petite uUBv from the Philippines with a M tJV power-packed voice. Sr"3ft KJ% 3 C John Yeo Your a J| f singer too, jn English and Mandarin. v A vv All Jpi Liza Tao PSr Trl F,rsh on the Singapore '\Vi e ..>" scene this
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  • opinion/letters
    • 161 14  -  TEO KO CHAN Singapore 2158 I REFER to the reply, "Bus concession stamps are easily available" (SM, May 31), by Miss Josephine Ong, Public Relations Officer of the Singapore Bus Service. From her reply it shows that the intention of my letter, "SBS
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    • 465 14  -  S L WONG Singapore 1646 THE traffic situation in Singapore has been one of the major subjects of debate recently, especially during the Budget debate in Parliament. Obviously, the Government is very keen to reduce the number of cars on the road. Road
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    • 175 14  -  REPLIES JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBS mal circumstances WE THANK the writer of "More of Service No 159, please" (SM, May 7) for his feedback on our service. Checks were made recently at the bus stop along Braddell Road (opposite the
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    • 247 14  -  JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBS I REFER to the letters "Ang Mo Kio request for a direct bus to East Coast Park" and "Mayflower needs more bus services" from Loo Say Leong and "Hopeful" respectively (SM, May 15). Loo Say Leong may
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    • 531 15 _M _J A iH J m 41B il IIBH 11I^^^^H IT WOULD be easy enough to impose a levy speculation has it that it might be as much as $15 to dissuade Singaporeans from going across to Johor Barn to fill
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    • 149 15  -  MRS K C LIM Singapore 2057 THANK you, "C Tan," for highlighting the woes of motorists following the introduction of the bus lane in Upper Thomson Road and Thomson Road, in The Straits Times on May 23. I took my highway code
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    • 138 15 I REFER to the Urban Redevelopment Authority's answer to my letter (SM, May 14) complaining that a maximum penalty of $20 was imposed on my wife for parking overtime at Cuppage Centre. It argued that it did not take the expired coupon into
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    • 87 15 IT WAS reported in your paper that 14 people were fined for using their homes for betting purposes in Telok Blangah Rise, Ang Mo Kio and Telok Blangah Crescent (SM, May 13) It was also reported in another case that a man was convicted
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    • 226 15 I HAVE enjoyed walking, on many a night, in the lovely shopping complexes in our city, especially along the popular tourist strip of Orchard Road. It was simply enjoyable to see our many races and the foreigners mingling along the corridors and in
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  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      942 16  -  Where the food and nightspots are in Johor Baru By WONG SING YEONG TO Singaporeans, Johor Baru is a Elace for cheap petrol and undubbed long Kong movies. But there are other ways to pass time a stroll by the sea (although there have been reE)rts
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    • 100 16 IT WAS a fashion show of the kind not usually seen here. A 15-member Nigerian delegation on an educational visit to Singapore put on a fashion display of its national costumes at the Boulevard Hotel last week. Pictured on the right is Emmanuel
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    • 104 16 PICTURED left is Allan Teo, group manager of Coop International, the local agent for Mont Blanc pens, discussing the quality of the writing instrument with Hans Fitze, the pen-maker's area sales manager, at a dinner at Hilton Hotel last
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    • 57 16 This column features social events or interesting happenings in and around town. If you have any such occasions on the calendar, our reporter will cover the function if possible. Please address your invitations to WONG SING YEONG, Faces in the Crowd, The Singapore Monitor, 2 Alexandra
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    • 115 16 A WAITRESS to serve drinks, a shoe boy to polish his shoes, a stenographer to take notes, a phone operator to answer calls, a nurse to read his blood pressure and a hostess to light his cigarette. There is no limit to pampering a
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    • 401 18 Today's highlights When the Buck Stops Here (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) IN 1986, the number of hotel rooms in Singapore would have doubled to more than 30,000. To attract more tourists in the next few years, the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board has embarked on aggressive
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    • 610 18  -  TV SCENE By JOAN HANAUER in New York UPI THE cast of Diff'rent Strokes will be working for different folks now that the show has been traded to American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), but Conrad Bain (who plays dad Drummond) expects
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    • Series
      • 53 18 Knight Rider Diamonds aren't A Girl's Best Friend (Malay subtitles) (Ch 5, 7.50 pm) WHILE investigating the death of a beautiful model, Michael is plunged into the world of interna- tional intrigue involving jewels and banks. Guest stars are Cameron Mitchell, Wendy Kilbourne, Jo Ann Pflug
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      • 107 18 The Unyielding Butterflies (C) (English subtitles) (Ch 8, 9.30 pm) JIAN CHENG and his friends plan a bomb attack on a Japanese commercial group. On the eve of the attack, Jian Cheng meets Xuejun and hints that Shangwen should not send the Japanese off. When
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      • 62 18 The Oil Kingdoms (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 12, 8 pm) ABU DHABI, part of the petrodollar coast, is one of the richest cities in the world. It is featured along- side another rich city, Muscat. The lightning-like development of these two cities created by their
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      • 93 18 Cosmopolitan Theatre Elizabeth R: The Marriage Game (Ch 12, 9 pm) IT is 1558 and the 20-year-old Elizabeth has become Queen of England. Since she is unmarried, the question of succession and the actions of other claimants to the throne bulks large. Elizabeth toys with a
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    • 270 19  -  FILM: WELCOME DIRECTOR: Leung Po-chih STARRING: Sally Yeh, Lam Wai, Leung Po-chih, Deanie Yip SHOWING: Midnight at Empress, Mandarin, Ton Payoh, Jubilee and Hollywood Reviewed by WONG SING YEONG CRITICS look upon this film as a breakthrough in Hong Kong comedy. Director Leung Po-cnih steers away
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    • 217 16 1 t fe-'- .1 (hen |ia Min lrum[Ml fl ytrh Shu Han Trumpet |7? fTlQti£_'- yJIkV Dixie Wong Horn HijJ}) Hi JH Wayne Grows tenor V romhorx'H Arthur Radford bass trombone BOLD, BRASSY AND FULL OF MELODY What a night it's going to be! As the Singapore Brass four accomplished
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    • 94 16 Tonight the i excitement I when our dancers in vibrant costumes take to the stage for a captivating exhibition of X. if modern dance. For tonight only, the Ifirst 150 lucky patrons will 11 be served a I complimentary first drink. Cover charge is $11 nett, inclusive Enjoy the secrets
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1504 17 lelsure/tv T^SOAyTS^ 1 lo 1 2.30 880 TEX- Live Sample Pages. 5.40 Perspective The Magic Bullet (M) Hk 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights (EngMati subtitles). followed by The Restless Years (C) Our bodies are battlegrounds. Germs (r) (English subtitles). invade Us and the body fights back. In 4.00 Land of
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 437 19 Film Guide WOODLANDS (*****41) (1.36, 4, 6.45, 9.15): A VIEW Beraeo rUM Organisation TO A KILL (E) JURONQ (*****70) (1.45, 4,5.45, 9.15): ENTER THE DALIT (*****16) (1.36, 3.55, 736, 9.56): CURSE (C) FAT DRAGON (C) UWAGU (*****30) (1.56, 3.36, 736, 936): CURSE (Q STATE (*****76) (2.56, 5.45, 8-45): PUTHU YUGAM
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    • 160 20 THE MIKADO THE Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan will be presented in Mandarin by the Sing Sheng Philharmonic Society today and tomorrow at 8 pm at the Victoria Theatre. In the fictitious town of Titipu in Japan, Nankipoo, the Mikado's son, disguises as a wandering minstrel to escape marriage to
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    • 320 20 ■H9 A A M Ls^r NJj| Jlri Heger and Cfcu Soo Ping will perform tomorrow at the Shell Theatrette FAVOURITE ENCORE PIECES FOR VIOLA AND PIANO JIRI HEGER, principal violist of Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Chan Soo Ping, Honorary Member of the National Music Society, Phi Kappa Lambda (United
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    • 141 20 CAKEMAKINQ CLASS morrow, and thereon every Friday, A CAKEMAKING class will begin to- from ®P m to P") f*® for threeday at Eunos Crescent Community month course is $7 for members and Centre, and thereon every Thursday, f 1 1 non-members. Those from 7 pm to 10 pm. Fee for
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    • 505 22 mSßnftb -."tSSSS.\t///ti&/t. ''•^'.'.^Rfe what the photo means j| I Roles 1. The competition is open to Singaporeans and Youth". The organiser also reserves the right to Entry forms are available in The Singapore Monitor Permanent Residents between the ages of 15 and 24 display or reproduce any of the prize
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  • GO PLACES WITH Mansfield Holidays
    • 932 23 THE image in tome quarters of an Australian as a man in a slouch hat, swigging billy tea and humping his bluey (carrying his bedroll) through the Outback, with a vocabulary as strange as his habits, is as wrong as many other misconceptions about Australia.
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    • 142 23 MELBOURNE: Melbourne has its Moomba Festival in March, with its crowned kings-for-a-day of the Grand Parade ranging from Robert Morley to Mickey Mouse, and its world-standard Film Festival which has attracted directors like Antonioni and Makavejev to talk about their classics. Melbourne's fairly new
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    • 240 23 THE Hong Kong Tourist Association will bring a little bit of the colony's colour, cuisine and culture to Singapore, and at the same time offer Singaporeans a chance to* win a trip to Hong Kong. The HKTA has organised
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    • 152 23 6 Days W. Coach Tour. Wum hotel accommodation Cameron Meifln f W—no Orchard Sun a GenOna (Casino) I total a IVWirr MRfMtffca* «m$M 2/3/4 Days Malacca Ranada by coach«Mr) (MUN Daaara, P. Ofcfcaoa, Taafaag Jan) fraaiSin THAILAND e4ADaysß** MM a 5 Days Ban£«*/Partaya |7M a Oayt Bangtok/Kua tin $7*5 #1
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  • PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT
    • 315 24 A RECENT foreign survey concluded that more than 90 per cent of managers in data processing had been promoted from the ranks of programmers, analysts and technical specialists. However, the transition from technician to manager is difficult and without the right guidance
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    • 319 24 THERE are only about six months to go before this year's General Certificate of Education "O" and "A" level examinations. Private candidates who have registered for either of these examinations had better look sharp. Those among them who are plagued by time constraints
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 299 24 ADVERTISEMENT "Human Resources Management" THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hill Street will conduct a course on: "The Human Resources Management" from June 10 to July 15 This course is designed for executives and supervisors. The course will deal with the principles and practice of human resources
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    • 200 24 THIS it the Personal Advancement market place where various courses for those seeking such information will be listed. Call DORIS LIAW for information and ad placement at *****90 ext 21. a iBIH We offer eenpater oonreee to suit yew pace and budget OIIK COUBSEB: 1) C& O 747' > 2
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  • 209 26 Reuter LOS ANGELES, Thursday CARL LEWIS, still nursing a pulled hamstring muscle, will return to the arena where he won four Olympic gold medals last summer, but not as a competitor in the 200 metres, organisers said yesterday. He is not going to run," said
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    • 375 26 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. ISS SOUTHEAST ASIA MANUFACTURING A TRADING (PRIVATE) LIMITED (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Moating of the Members of Southeast Asia Manufacturing Trading (Private) Limited at 101 Upper Cross Street #04 43, People's Park Centre, Singapore. 0105 on the 30th day of May, 1985, the
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  • sports
    • 313 27  -  By S GULAM FANDI AHMAD is the main target of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) in its efforts to lure Singapore's overseas players back. The FAS has not forgotten how he brought back the crowds at the Merlion Cup
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    • 606 27  -  By S GULAM THE FOOTBALL Association of SingaEore is seriously considering a plan to ring back our soccer "mercenaries" and pay them in an effort to boost the strength of the national team and woo back the fans. The association aims to bring
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    • 237 27 Reuter WOBURN (England), Thursday WEST GERMAN Bernhard Langer, who has made a big impact on the American golf circuit in recent months, makes his first European tour appearance of the season in the British Masters starting here today. Langer carried
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    • 138 27 BERGEN (Norway), Thura NORWAY beat an injuryhit Welsh side 4-2 in a friendly soccer match last night. The match was a warmup for several important ties which both countries will be playing in their effort to qualify for the World Cup finals in Mexico next
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    • 289 27 WORLD CUP /AVm\£M Hd> Reuter STOCKHOLM, Thursday SWEDEN enhanced their chances of qualifying for the World Cup finals with a fully merited 2-0 win over Czechoslovakia in a European Group Two soccer tie last night. Second-half goals by Glasgow Rangers' midfielder Robert
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    • 61 27 Sweden bt Czechoslovakia 2-0 (halttime 0-0) Scorers: Robert Prytz (77th min penalty), Lars Larsson (86) Attendance: 33,273. Remaining matches: June 5 Sweden v Czechoslovakia, Sept 25 Sweden v Portugal, Czechoslovakia v Portugal, Oct 12 Portugal v Malta, Oct 16 Czechoslovakia v Sweden, West Germany v Portugal,
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    • 334 27 Reuter COPENHAGEN, Thursday ITALIAN soccer exiles Preben Elkjaer and Michael Laudrup inspired Denmark to what could prove a vital 4-2 victory over the Soviet Union in a thrilling European Group Six qualifying tie last night. Verona striker Elkjaer, who emerged during last year's
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    • 559 28  -  By ERNEST FRIDA JOHN BAILEY, a top British coach with more than SO years experience, yesterday said being a small nation is no excuse for Singapore's failure to produce world-class athletes. Bailey and Derek Boosey, a British Jump coach, were sent
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    • 54 29 TENNIS star Chris Evert Lloyd and her fitness instructor, Kathy Smith, right, demonstrate one of the exercises in Lloyd's fitness programme in this photo from the Jane issue of Tennis Maga- line. The programme combines drills for agility, flexibility and cardiovascular strength with yoga, nutrition and
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    • 572 29 FRENCH OPEN '85 Reuter PARIS, Thure THE WORLD'S TOP tennis players took their allotted places in the men's singles semifinals of the French Open yesterday as Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl joined John McEnroe ana Mats Wilander in the last
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    • 112 29 MEN'S SINGLES Ivan Lendl beat Martin Jaite 6-4 6-2 6-4; Jimmy Connors bt Stefan Edberg 6-4 6-3 7-6; John McEnroe bt Joakim Nystrom 6-7 6-2 6-2 3-6 7-5; Mats Wilander bt Henh Leconte 64 7-6 6-7 7-5. DOUBLES Joakim Nystrom and Mats Wilander bt Tony Giammatva and
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    • 792 29 COMPILED BY THE SPORTS DESK The day Jin Talk's 'data' failed te shew ap... AT AN apartment In Canyon Terrace, Provo, Utah, Singapore's Olympic swimmer Oon Jin Teik lies terribly disappointed over a "date" that wasn't kept after he had driven all the way to Salt Lake City
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    • 208 30  -  FARRER PARK UTD 2 S AVENUE O By S GULAM FARRER PARK United continued their recent winning streak by beating South Avenue at Jalan Besar Stadium last night and in doing so applied more pressure on National Football League Division One
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    • 105 30 Reuter SAN DtEQO, Thurs FORMER light-heavy-weight champion Archie Moore is scheduled to be released from a hospital tomorrow after being attacked by a swarm of bees at his home on Saturday. The 72-year-old Moore, one of boxing's greatest champions, said he had sufficiently recovered
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    • 221 30 Soath A venae striker Aba Bakar Sud (left), grimaces as he fails to capitalise oa a through pass from a teammate daring the match with Farrer Park Ualtea. It was one of the few chaaces Sooth A venae had la a match that was dominated
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    • 530 30 UPI INQLEWOOD (California), Thursday DENNIS JOHNSON hit a 7-metre jumpshot as time expired, enabling the Boston Celtics to even the National Basketball Association finals at two games each with a 107-105 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers last night.
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    • 120 30 Reuter WELLINGTON, Thursday ENGLAND'S team for the second rugby Test here on Saturday is unchanged from the side which lost the first Test 18-13 at Christchurch last weekend, manager Derek Morgan said yesterday. The only injury worry affects winger Mike Harrison,
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    • 445 30 Reuter NEW YORK, Thursday TWELVE years after losing to Billie Jean King in tennis' first "battle of the sexes", Bobby Eiggs is training for a mixed doubles game with a difference. For Riggs, now 67, and fellow American Vitas GerulaitisMwe
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    • 58 30 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. ifl gj Every
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 192 31 SOCCER VK>LENCE...AGAIN ADELAIDE: Referee assaulted by Udinese player; SHENYANG: Second 'disturbance' in China ADELAIDE, Thursday FOOTBALL violence has reared its ugly head again. In yesterday's match between Udinese of Italy and the Australian national team, referee Don Campbell (extreme right of picture) was assaulted by an
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    • 238 31 AP HONG KONG, Thursday A SMALL-SCALE disturbance erupted in the north-eastern Chinese city of Shenyang after a Hong Kong soccer team defeated a Chinese squad on May 26, Hong Kong newspapers reported today. The newspapers, including the English-language South China Morning Post and Hong Kong
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