The Straits Times, 7 August 1983

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  • 596 1  -  HEDWIG ALFRED The bumper pre-U classes show we are turning out better students By I When better may not be best... This is quite a serious problem. Junior college students are not getting the individual attention they were meant to get. a principal at yesterday's Schools Council
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  • 55 1 SINGAPORE swimming star Ang Peng Siong could only manage third place in his pet event the 50-metre freestyle at the United States longcourse swimming championships in Go vis, California, yesterday. His time of 22.93 sec saw him finish behind Robin Leamy (22.59 sec) and Tom Jaeger
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  • 128 1 LOCAL currency notes are being "systematically and deliberately" defaced with drawings and slogans like "Black Eagle Gang" and "Pig's Mind," the Currency Board said yesterday. The board, which said in a statement that police were investigating the matter, believes that this is the work of "undesirable elements."
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  • 207 1 Super spill as giant oil tanker breaks in two CAPE TOWN, Saturday THE Spanish supertanker Castillo De Bellver, engulfed in flames near the South African coast, broke in two and sank today, posing an "enormous pollution threat," maritime authorities here said. The supertanker, believed to be carrying at least 200,000
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  • 127 1 Barking up the bright tree BEIJING, Sat SCIENTISTS in southern China are examining a long, thin tree which glows as bright as an 8-watt bulb after sunset, the official Xinhua news agency said today. The report said a farmer in Hunan Province recently discovered the tree and researchers from Hunan's
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  • 375 1  -  RAV DHALIWAL By I A LIMIT of $2,000 has been proposed for claims to be brought to the proposed small claims court. The bill, which has been drafted, is expected to go to Parliament soon for approval, The Sunday
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  • The Sunday Times Worldwide
    • 189 2 LONDON, Sat THE Triumph Motorcycle Cooperative, a pioneering exercise in socialist-style workers' control, yesterday gave up a straggle against mounting debts and lack of orders and called in liquidators. The enterprise was set up In 1975 with £5 million (5518.5 million) cash aid
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    • 158 2 KEMPEN (West Germany), Sat. A 67--year-old West German woman, who confessed earlier this week to poisoning two of her husbands and a lover, has admitted to also killing her father and an aunt. A police spokesman said Maria Velten, ar- rested last week, admitted murdering
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    • 128 2 Thatcher leaves hospital '101 pc fit LONDON, Sat. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left hospital today after an operation on her right eye, saying she was feeling fine and "ltl per cent fit." "I can see clearly this morning. I can see everything that's wrong with you," she joked as reporters
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    • 331 2 Jaye hopes the violence will not discourage foreign investment TOKYO, Saturday SRI Lankan President Junius Jayewardene, said in an interview published here today that the government would lift curfew restrictions in a few days as security on the island began improving
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    • 290 2 Occidental Petroleum is first American company to get Chinese contracts BEIJING, Saturday OCCIDENTAL Petroleum has become the first American company to win a place in China's massive offshore oil and gas programme, company chairman and chief executive Armand Hammer said today.
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    • 216 2 WASHINGTON, Sat. Chief US arms negotiator Edward Rowny said the Soviets have made it clear there will be no breakthrough in talks on long-range nuclear weapons until an agreement is reached on intermediaterange missiles in Europe. Mr Rowny went to the White House
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
      • 65 2 PRESIDENT RONALD Reagan will form a political exploratory committee by Oct 15 and 15 days later he is likely to announce his plans regarding re-election, a White House official said on Friday. Oct 15 is the deadline set by federal election laws for forming an exploratory committee.
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      • 54 2 IRAQ SAID yesterday that its forces had crossed the Iranian border in the central sector of the Gulf war front and encircled several towns. An Iraqi communique, quoted by the official Iraqi news agency Ina, said fighting was continuing following the thrust near the Iranian border
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      • 69 2 NIGERIANS BEGAN voting yesterday in the country's first civilian-run presidential election for nearly 20 years and the biggest security operation in its peacetime history. In Lagos, large numbers of people turned out to vote early in cool and overcast weather that threatened rain. Queues at polling
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      • 46 2 FLOODS CAUSED by severe monsoon rains during the past week have killed nine people, left at least 500,000 homeless and caused wide-spread damage to crops, houses and communications in Bangladesh's eastern districts of Chittagong, Noakhali, Comilla and Sylhet, press reports said yesterday. AFP
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      • 42 2 THE PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) decided on Friday to set up a new conciliation committee to negotiate with Damascus an end to the conflict between Syria and the PLO leadership, Palestinian sources said in Tunis yesterday. Reuter
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      • 38 2 A HEAT wave gripping South Korea has caused at least 16 deaths and has prompted authorities to advise factories and plants to cut their workload and working hours, officials said in Seoul yesterday. UPI
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      • 37 2 A PRE-DAWN explosion damaged a synagogue in Johannesburg yesterday, just a few hours before state President Marais Viljoen was to attend a service, South African radio said. No injuries were reported in the blast. AP
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    • 316 3  - TV set for the bilnd PETER HAZELHURST and a computer enables deaf to hear' television sound By Our Tokyo Correspondent TOKYO, Sat. Japanese scientists are developing a television set which will enable the blind to read written announcements on the screen in Braille. At the same time, a research team
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    • 111 3 JAKARTA, Sat. Indonesia will recycle more than BV_ million copies of the Pancasila Morality book (PMP) for pulp material. The old books, meant for primary, secondary and senior schools, were sent to Pasuruan, east Java, after Education and Culture Minister Nugroho Notosusanto conducted
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    • 317 3 Tumour of city' bites into department store takings TAIPEH, Saturday TAIPEH'S peddlers are edging out its departmental stores, polluting streets and evading taxes, prompting the government to take action against what it calls "a tumour of the city". A survey by the China Post newspaper
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    • 167 3 Compulsory education for Thais in junior high BANGKOK, Sat. Thailand will introduce compulsory education for students in junior high schools after it has successfully implemented it for those in elementary schools. Full implementation of the six-year compulsory education for elementary school students is expected to be achieved by 1986, Mr
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    • 299 3 KATHMANDU, Sat. THAI Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda today described President Ronald Reagan's coming tour of Asia as "a clear demonstration of the interest of the United States in the region." General Prem made the comment at a news conference shortly before
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    • AROUND THE REGION
      • 56 3 INDONESIAN ROMAN Catholics plan to invite Pope John Paul IT to the country next year, Religious Minister Minawir Sazali said in Jakarta yesterday. After a meeting with President Suharto, Mr Sazali said the Roman Catholics want the Pope to attend ceremonies marking the beginning of Catholicism
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      • 65 3 THAI BUSINESSMEN have asked the government to take urgent action to stem the soaring trade deficit which could reach a record 60 billion baht (555.4 billion) in 1983, the Board of Trade said in Bangkok yesterday. A board spokesman said the organisation last week asked the Commerce
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      • 58 3 LIBYAN LEADER Col Muammar Gaddafi has recognised the Vietnamese-installed Heng Samrin regime in Phnom Penh, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said in a despatch monitored in Bangkok yesterday. VNA said that Col Gaddafi expressed full support for the Heng Samrin regime, while receiving on July 28 a
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      • 67 3 INDONESIAN FOREIGN Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja said in Port Moresby yesterday that he expected South Pacific countries to vote the same way later this year as they did last year when the United Nations discusses Indonesia's annexation of East Timor. After three days of talks with Papua New
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      • 32 3 MORE THAN 100 Indonesians were missing after a motorised sailing ship sank in the Java Sea on Thursday, the official news agency Antara reported in Jakarta on Friday. Reuter
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    • 175 3 BANGKOK, Sat. Burmese and Thai government forces have separately launched attacks against guerillas of opium warlord Khun Sa. Press reports said Burmese forces were battling the guerillas near the northern Thai border. The fighting began on Thursday near Ban Huay Ha village
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    • 166 4 BEIRUT, Sat. Explosions killed at least 2* fieople In Lebanon's hree largest cities on the eve of US envoy Robert McFarlane's mission today to persuade Syria to withdraw its troops. Mr McFarlane was expected to leave for Damascus early
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    • 296 4 NEW YORK, Sat THE US dollar soared to new heights in US and European trading yesterday, prompting a new round of market intervention by eight central banks. Despite the intervention in Europe, the dollar closed the week at record levels against the French franc,
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    • 199 4 WASHINGTON, Sat. The US foreign trade deficit widened to a record US$l4.B billion (Ss3l billion) in the second quarter, from US$B.7 billion in the first three months of this year, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. The big shortfall came as imports, reflecting
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    • 330 4 WASHINGTON, Sat. The United States, concerned over the Libyanbacked rebellion in Chad, yesterday promised to help any friendly countries in north Africa threatened by Libyan aggression. A White House statement said the US had a "strong strategic interest" in assuring that Libyan
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    • 203 4 OUAGADOUGOU, Sat. Upper Volta's new proLibyan Marxist military government closed the country's borders and imposed a curfew following a bloody coup on the 23rd anniversary of the former French colony's independence. The landlocked, impoverished west African nation was reported calm yesterday, hours after former
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    • 121 4 JERUSALEM, Sat. An 18-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence and fined US$4ll (SsB4o) by an Israeli military court in the first case heard in connection with an epidemic of alleged poisonings on the West Bank In March. Nawal Hamdan from Arabey
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    • 435 5 Bernama vital to our news policy, says Dr M Premier stresses need to strengthen agency KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday THE Malaysian Prime Minister today stressed the need to strengthen the national news agency Bernama so that the country can handle its own information needs. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad regretted that
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    • 196 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Fleet Group company has been awarded the licence to operate the country's first private television network, generally referred to as the Third Channel. The setting up of the network has been approved by the Cabinet. Disclosing the award of the licence,
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    • 261 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Hongkong police said yesterday that they were looking for other people believed to be involved in the murder of Mr Jalil Ibrahim. A spokesman for the Hongkong Police Public Relations Bureau said yesterday that no charges had been preferred against a 32-year-old
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    • 276 5 PENANG, Sat. Some Influential businessmen owning public companies are raking In billions of dollars through share swopping In the stock market, the Consumers Association of Penang said yesterday. The Star newspaper quoted the association's nresldent, Mr S. M. Mohamed Idrls, as saying
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    • 38 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam will make a six-day official visit to Japan from Aug 23 to meet Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and other leaders, the Foreign Ministrv sairi today. Reuter
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    • 216 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. A Bill requiring foreign publishers to pay deposits to bring their products into Malaysia has been Indefinitely postponed, an official source said yesterday. The Bill was scheduled to be Introduced In Parliament yesterday. The source said the Cabinet had called for a
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  • 645 6  -  KHNG EU MENG At midnight, the Singapore flag will go up in a garden to the roll of drums 4 This is the first time I am celebrating National Day. In past years, I just watched the parade on TV. But
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  • 411 6 MRS Noreen Comer cannot kiss and cuddle her baby son without causing him to scream in pain. This is because the very touch of skin on skin can produce sores on the two-year-old's super-sensitive body. W T hen Anthony was born, doctors told Mrs
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    • 494 6 For a fortnight dishes most loved by Singaporeans are brought together at the Bamboo Court. Daily, a buffet lunch boasts old favourites, Hainanese Pineapple fish soup, Nonya Assam Fish, Sambal Prawns, Bak Kut Teh, Hokkien Kong Bak, Indonesian Lontong, Hakka Mui Choi Pork, Teochew Kway Teow, Barbecued Spare Ribs, Cantonese
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  • 497 7  -  S. KUMAR They are perfectly safe if well-looked after, say experts By DON'T brand all dogs as potential public menaces because of Thursday's attacks by eight boxers on a family and a gardener, canine experts said yesterday. The attacks, which came even
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  • 293 7 LEARN a lesson from recent events in Sri Lanka, Brazil and Chad and never allow our tiny and precious nation to suffer the same fate as these countries. The Minister for State (Law and Home Affairs), Professor S.
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  • 551 7 SINGAPOREANS turned up by the thousands to attend dinners and variety shows to celebrate National Day in 17 constituencies last night. At the dinner at the Sennett community centre, the Minister for Health and MP for Potong Pasir, Mr Howe Yoon Chong,
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  • 262 8 BUY your pork from licensed market stalls. The Primary Production Department gave this advice yesterday after it seized 500 kg of diseased pork from illegally slaughtered pigs. A spokesman also warned pork sellers that their licences could be revoked if they were caught
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  • 102 8 THIEVES broke into a Housing Board flat in Avenue 5, Ang Mo Kio, and got away with $9,240 in cash, liquor and jewellery on Friday. Police said a clerk, Madam M.K. Teo, 30, left her five-room flat in Block 501 with her husband
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  • 237 8 YOU can go a long way with 20 cents worth of petrol, as these pedal pushers will tell you. It does not necessarily mean that you can whizz around the track, but it does mean that you can travel for about 10
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  • 623 8  -  TSANG SO-YIN Improve reading and writing skills, says oil executive By 41 have read many engineering specifications and instructions purported to be written in English. However, one can hardly understand what they really mean if one does not know some Hokkien or Cantonese aft
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  • 115 8 Resettlement cases get offer from HDB PEOPLE affected by resettlement can still buy Housing Board flats at 5 per cent lower than what other applicants would have to pay if they are not choosy. On offer to them are 445 flats in Tampines New Town which were balloted but later
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  • 305 10  -  HEDWIG ALFRED ABDULLAH TARMUGI Name change for CSE to avoid confusion By and OUR students take the GCE 'O' and 'A'levels and from next year, the GCE 'N' levels. That is the new name for the CSE (Certificate of Secondary Education) examination,
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  • 348 10 BROTHER Joseph McNally, the retired principal of St Patrick's Secondary School, will head the new art elective programme starting next year. An art educationist and well-known sculptor, he was a member of the committee which recommended setting up a special art course for bright
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  • 62 10 ALL schools will have computer terminals which link up with the Education Ministry's computers in three to four years' time. Principals can then retrieve information about their pupils at the push of a button. They can also use the new equipment for filling class registers and
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  • 172 10 SCHOOLS may get a dollar-for-dollar grant from the Education Ministry to buy more computers. Secondary school principals have asked for more computers because of the great interest shown for the computers by students. The ministry's offer of a dollar for every dollar the
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  • 137 10 OUR students have a 200-day school year, but just how many are learning days? One hundred and thirty, says the director of schools. Substract the public holidays, days spent on the Youth Festival, on sports, other activities, and on examinations, said Mr
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  • 103 10 Call to broaden contacts THE Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home was urged to broaden its contacts with schools, residents' committees, citizens' consultative committees and other civic and church groups in Ang Mo Kio. The Minister of State (Education). Dr Tay Eng Soon, said this yesterday on the occasion of
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  • 165 10 THE case of 19-year-old Sek Kim Wah, charged with murdering five people, Is fixed for further mention in Court 26 on Aug 13. This is to allow the police to continue Investigations into the killings three at Andrew Road and two at Seletar Reservoir on July
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  • 130 10 A SIKH scholar, author, and retired educationist, Prof Gobind Singh Mansukhani, is now helping the Education Ministry to write a textbook for students who will take Sikh Studies from next year. The book, which is being written after careful study of the standard
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  • 246 10  -  MATHEW YAP By WHAT is junk to others is big business for Mr Lee Chea Seng (above), who owns a junkyard in Woodlands. And, for the many motorists who visit the yard in search of second-hand spare parts for their cars, it
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  • 162 10 A DOCTOR'S degree is the most expensive and costs the taxpayer $210,000 a student. An arts graduate, by comparison, costs the taxpayer about $48,000 to educate, and an engineer about $60,000. Dr Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State (Education), used these examples to
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  • 798 12  - Leadership of petrol union faces break-up IVAN LIM NTUC pressure to retract 'undemocratic' resolution By Our Labour Correspondent THE leadership of the NTUC-affiliated petroleum union could break up over the controversy of its resolution on house unions. NTUC chief Ong Teng Cheong has demanded that the union rescind the resolution
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  • 307 12 Export insurance firm pays out record $15.5 m THE Export Credit Insurance Corporation of Singapore (ECICS) has paid out a record $15.5 million in claims in the first half of this year, more than half as much again as it did for the whole of last year. But Mr H.
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  • 298 12 THE age gap between newly-weds here has narrowed because women are marrying later. The average age of men when they tie the nuptial knot has remained unchanged at 27.5 over the past 20 years. But for women, it has gone up to 24.6 from 23.7
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  • 65 12 A MOTORIST died instantly when his car was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry along Clementi Road on Friday. Police said Mr Liaw Kong Loy, 32, a company managing director, was travelling towards Ayer Rajah Road when the accident happened at about 9.20p.m. Anyone
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  • 179 12 THE telephone which was taken from La M argia Jewellers, an empty shop in the Singapura Forum Hotel, has been returned to Telecoms. It is still not known who smashed the glass door to get to the telephone. Bat Telecoms are certain that
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  • 68 12 Endowments board members MR S. R. Nathan has been appointed chairman of the Hindu Endowments Board with Mr Athisdam so Poopalasingam as the secretary. Other board members include Mr Gopinath Pillai, Mr Hariram Pokardas Dayani, Mr Maruthamuthu Mohanavelu Paramantham, Mr S. Tiwari, Mr V. Krishna, Mr V. Ranganathan and Mr
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  • 89 12 FIRE damaged a ferry building and store on St John Island yesterday. The fire was spotted by a Marine Police boat at about 11 a.m. It was in a store behind the Port of Singapore Authority ferry schedule building. The PSA's fire-fighting vessel, Api Api, was
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  • 216 12 NEARLY 14,000 coins were handed over to an independent commission for testing to see if they meet with the stringent standards set by the Board of Commissioners of Currency. The chairman of the Sixth Annual Assay Commission, Mr Justice T. S.
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  • 389 13 But only if your reasons are good RESIDENTS in private housing estates, unhappy with trees planted in front of their houses can have these replaced with trees of their choice if they have good reasons to do this. Although the Parks and Recreation
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  • 282 13 It's HDB service all the way HAD IT not been for HDB cashier Lum Tai Tong's considerate act Mr Tee Ad bin Kasuan would have had to travel all the way to the HDB Henderson area office from Jurong East to collect $6. And if Mr Tee Ad had taken
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  • 123 13 THIRTEEN scouts yesterday became the first recipients of a Scout scholarship fund set up in memory of former President Benjamin Henry Sheares. The 13, all pre-universi-ty students, each received an award of $400 to pay for their studies this year. The Singapore Scout Association
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  • 271 13 TWO groups of Chinese physicians will end their seven-year rivalry and reunite under one banner the Association for Promoting Chinese Medicines (APCM). The groups had been at loggerheads since 1976 when a dispute over the election of association officials resulted in the parting of
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  • 157 13 WILL the government consider imposing a minimum speed limit on expressways with three or more lanes? Dr Lee Chiaw Meng, MP for Tanah Merah, will ask the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Chua Si an Chin, this question at the next sitting of Parliament. Dr Lee
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  • 171 13 THE Toy Safety Authority of Singapore (TSAS) will embark on a toy safety marking scheme when it gathers more experience and is able to cope with testing demands. Dr Lee Ngak Siang, president of the Consumers' Association of Singapore (Case) said this at the
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  • 62 13 THE Workers' Party will hold a National Day rally at Clementi Athletic Centre in Upper Ayer Rajah Road from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. today. It will also organise three events in Anson constituency: A party for children at the children's playground at Block 135, Jalan Bukit
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  • 223 13  -  IVAN LIM By Our Labour Correspondent THE Metal Industries Workers' Union (Miwu) is trying to propagate the idea of joint consultation through success stories about union-management cooperation. It wants successful companies to share their experiences with others within the metal industry which
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  • 321 14 CHONG Yew Lam, leader of the 12th company, Junior Section, of the Boys' Brigade in Singapore and his teammates have every reason to be jubilant. The team has won the Junior Section's Figure Marching competition for the second year running, to walk away with
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  • 207 14  -  CONRAD RAJ By MOST of the approximately $50 million owed to depositors of Overseas Union Finance, which is being wound up, has been settled. Only $240,000 remained to be paid to 1,305 depositors as at the end of Wednesday, a
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  • 450 14 You can base it on any theme in contest PUT that cine or video camera you own to more creative and lucrative use make your own movie and win a prize. This invitation to take part in the first such competition
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    • 384 14 k Congratulations Best Wishes to the Government and People of Singapore n the occasion of our 18th Year of Independence on August 9, 1983. 11l HHHi; Jihl Blltß WkMHm aBH^aRtH If I HI '..^MM'-'-'^^.mmmßmW \M SWmhfC^i^^^'^^S^^^R^Mi HIS fIH Mm t^;-^' r ■'">-'Ss Hit MM m 'm\ BtmemmmLmimi. Wt ■>itf jtrtttTtrmT""
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  • 1621 15 Time with a capital T is 60 years old this year. PETER BARNARD looks at how the famous weekly news magazine has treated history. And how the world through its covers has changed, or hasn't, in the years since Singapore's independence. mmmW ACKWARDS ran sentences until
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  • 18 Breaking holding t away and ogether
    • 234 16 SHE'S become the centre of their lives out of necessity. Without their Filipino maid, Mr and Mrs Tan would find it difficult to maintain a two-career family, with two young children at home. Not quite a social equal, yet not a chattel as were the servants
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    • 161 16 Piggy makes Way for the ATM WE'VE never earned, spent or saved so much money. Before you could say EFT, ATM and PIN (electronic funds transfer, automated teller machine and personal identification number), depositors had chalked up 3.8 million transactions just on POSB's ATMs last year, more than double the
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    • 143 16 WITH school starting earlier for tots and continuing into adulthood, it's no wonder these two students are yawning. Now the race for a headstart begins at preschool. If everybody's child has been, can yours manage without? An experimental return to a single-session full-day school, designed to ease
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    • 261 16 The Sunday Times View EIGHTEEN. Old enough to licence and to marry over i objections. Old enough to < Service but not yet old enc make a will. On the thresh* Singapore is breaking awa fast as sledgehammers km ground, and young couples parents' homes behind to i But we
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    • 141 16 Some things haven't changed LONG past retiring age, the old boathand on the Singapore River continues to work. It could be out of choice. We have moved away from the mistaken notion that work and life stop at 55. Some find their second wind and new careers when they grow
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    • 150 16 GOING ...going ...but never quite gone, the extended family lives, even thrives. Sustained by telephone calls. Sundays and occasional meals together, the bonds of the extended family have not snapped only stretched. The boot of the family car often holds the secret of its vigour durians
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    • 204 17  -  IRENE HOE WHfcJN they moved into tneir orana new five-room Housing Board flat in Hougang just over seven months ago, they had a fully-equipped kitchen, a bed and little else. They put up shelves, installed inexpensive track lighting, sewed curtains, and swept and mopped
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    • 124 17 Is it great to be young? brtUFr'HNu centres are their clubhouses. When the lights go off, they may shift to the 24-hour coffeeshops in Hotel Row. Dressed for comfort or dressed to kill, many young people here clearly have the money to match Orchard Road prices which some tourists might
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    • 132 17 LHiL ruture is going underground as commuters get ready for the first Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line scheduled to start at the end of 1988. Digging starts only in October but planners already had the MRT in mind as far back as 10 years ago
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    • 173 17 New awareness of our unique heritage WHO would have thought, even five years ago, that Serangoon Road would be the stuff ol an historical exhibition and the focus of a scholarly book on Little India's past, presen and future? Or that Singaporean would flock to see, in pictures, what they
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  • 483 18  -  IRENE HOE By LOGICAL. Sensible. r c^T R w Wise. Prudent. v&\N Singaporean aeads ocQU^S nodded all round in Vr^^^J^ agreement with the VJ^. s==ps Immigration Depart- ment's new and stricter ~^Z-^~~^ guidelines on expatriate recruitment, reported in The Sunday Times last week. Expats wanting
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  • 452 18 IT'S been 16 years since I first put on a cheongsam. Changing from jeans and T-shirt to a cheongsam in a cramped aircraft toilet in mid-Pacific was quite a feat. But like most of the 130-odd students headed for a year in
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  • 429 18 OH NO, we're not making a profit out of this, said the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. Asked what SBC was going to do with the $5 it is collecting from aspiring actors and actresses, a spokesman said the sum would cover administrative costs and the printing
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  • 1278 19 IS THERE a way out of the less-developed countries' (LDCs') vicious circle of corruption, ignorance and inequity? Education has been widely proposed as a possible long-term solution. At first sight, there is much to commend in this approach. After all, economic growth
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  • 2362 19 4 Japan commercially, I regret to say, does not bear the best reputation for executing business. Inferior goods, irregularity and indifferent shipments have caused no end of worry... My impression as to your cheap labour was soon disillusioned when I saw your people at work. No
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  • 782 19 DR GOH'S sources: (IS). Theodore W Shultz, "The Economic Value Of Education", Columbia University Press, 1963. (14). Edward F Denison, "Measuring The Contribution Of Education (And The Residual) To Economic Growth," in "The Residual Factor And Economic Growth" OECD, 1964, pp 13-55. (15). lan M D Little, "Economic Development:
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  • 236 19 MR QUAH Kung-Yu and Dr Phua Swee Liang searched for the literature; Dr Teh Kok Peng and Dr Soon Teck Wong read the early drafts and proposed improvements. DR TEH KOK PENG, 35. He is manager of the economics department at
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    • 558 21 737H66 I ,&f I ENTERTAINMENT ill AFOOOQUfOE 3 Food Guide TANGLIN WESTERN FOOD (Cuppage Hawker Centre), Monday lunch at $4. Onion soup. Chicken Danish, green salad. Tuesday, National Day Special. Corn soup, Beef Stroganoff, Butter rice or Tanglin sparerlbs, Saute Potatoes and fruit. FOR QUICK LUNCH Reservation, visit Lai Wah
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    • 1815 22 76 Vehicles For Sale 76 Vehicles For Sale 76 Vehicles For Sale Honda t) Honda Honda Now Honda Accord at new prices Effective 25th July, 1983. I •Accord 4-door manual STD inclusive of air-con. A.R.F. 150% $33,151.00 •Accord 4-door manual EX inclusive of air-con. A.R.F. 150% $36,812.00 •Accord 4-door auto
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    • 1146 23 86 Accommodation 86 Accommodation Vacant Vacant b) Apartments b) Apartments (C7rT| BENG'S LODGE u f OFFERS: b) Brand new studio apartments and 2-room maisonette in Orchard area 3 minutes walking distance from Mandarin Hotel. Designed for those who want a refreshing change from the 4 walls of a hotel room.
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    • 745 23 i 89 Properties For Sale b) Private Apartments DIST. 15 MARYLAND PARK, Blk E, I 3 bedrooms, attached baths, high floor. Freehold. Fully furnished, i $520,000. OM Housing 459-1180/ 459-1098. BARGAIN SALEI Chempaka Court, Pandan Valley, 4 bedrooms, 2,200 sq.ft. (Agent) *****13 after lp.m. DIST. 5 VISTA PARK 2 bedrooms,
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    • 1167 23 92 Warehouses/ 92 Warehouses/ 92 Warehouses/ Storage Spaces Storage Spaces Storage Spaces e*ee*eejee^**eej»e*ee*#ej*e^e*ee*ee*ee**e*e^^ I TIAN XIANG warehouse Centre X AIRPORT ROAD/EUNOS LINK X •> e*e I Every Floor is similar to Ground Floor Forklifts accessible to all Floors I X Area from 96 sq.m. (1,030 sq.f) J Y Floor heights:
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  • OBITUARIES
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      45 24 With deepest sympathies condolences to the family of the late MR LIAW KONG LOY FROM: The Management Staff of H.K.U. MACHINERY PTE LTD With daapaat sympathy and condolancaa to the family ol tha lata MR. BOEY CHUN HENG From: Projects Staff of CDL.
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    • 266 24 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Wa, The family of tha Lata P. Kamatchiammal would liko to thank all those who helped ua ao generously and untiringly during our tima of bereavement {and those who attandod, aant meaaagaa, telegrams and wreaths) "Mother you are gone but you will always be a source of
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  • Racing
    • 307 24  -  EPSOM JEEP Intriguing race as 12 last-start winners clash By THE most intriguing race in today's card is the 1,200 m sprint for Class 3 Div 7 horses (Race 3) where 12 last-start winners have been brought together. Going strictly on time test, Red Goddess
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    • 209 24  -  LUCKY LEO By ALLEZ ALLEZ II will be hard to beat in the Class 3 Div 1 sprint over 1,200 m (Race 6). The Habitation four-year-old showed ability in his second outing to finish a three-length second to Turf Ruler over the Penang 1,200 m
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    • 73 24 THE following horses have won or run well on a wet track: RACE 1: Little Lena, Melody Fair RACE 2: Bun Luck, Satria RACE 3: Sureman n, Gay Prussian, Datin's Delight RACE 4: Instant Recovery, Deputy Minister RACE 5: Forest Eagle, Nichol Wings RACE 6: Best Bold, Fighting Spirit
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    • 315 24 RACE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 EPSOM JEEP 8 Melody Fair 3 Little Lena 5 What A Chance 4 Satria 5 Overwhelming 6 Kodama Express 2 Rod Goddess 3 Datin's Delight 4 Puteri Emas 6 Singapore River 4 Memory Lane 3 Roman
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    • 217 24  -  PEDIGREE By Our man on the track KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Escada, who finished second twice from three starts this season, has a bright chance to break the ice in Race 8, the Class 3 Div 3 sprint over 1,200 m. This five-year-old
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    • 2672 24 ■■■■■H 2.00 CLASS 5 DIV 1 1,200m IB [f \M (Ratings: 55-47) mMMMMMBmm (Stakes: $12,500) 1 *066 Teamwork 57 (55) Teamwork-Samsuri 5 nzh dc same (1200m) No showing in three runs in restricted class; midfield all way when 6th of 11 over S'pore 1200m May 22
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    • 163 25 HE is the toast of the local turf. And he has just travelled 800km home to his air-conditioned stall at Bukit Timah after his astounding win in the Penang Sprint Trophy race his third classic triumph this year. So what better reward than a big, juicy
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    • 753 25 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Stipendiary Steward's report on today's races: RACE 1: Hunting Eagle (E. Chan) could not be boxed and was withdrawn. The gelding is required to pass two starting stall tests. RACE 2: Loyal Escort (Watson) was difficult to be boxed, delaying the start. The mare
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    • 2332 25 Nathan, Chew come in from the cold Rank outsider Happy Days pips favourite Kita Punya Py OUR RACING TEAM FIRST: *****9 SECOND: *****9 THIRD: *****9 STARTERS: *****9, *****3, *****8, *****7, *****7, *****5, *****3, *****7, *****7, *****1, *****8. CONSOLATIONS: *****9, *****6, *****9, *****6, *****4, *****6, *****4, *****7, *****0, *****4. KUALA LUMPUR,
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 34 25 142 Condolences 142 Condolences 142 Condolences Our heartfelt condolences to the family of the late Mr. Boey Chun Heng on their recent bereavement From the Management Staff of LUM CHANG BUILDING CONTRACTORS PTE LTD
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    • 282 25 141 Deaths 141 Deaths YING AH KOW Aged 90 Years passed away peacefully on 6.8.83 leaving behind Beloved Wife: Chan Soon Hoc Sons Daughters-in-law Ying Cheok Koon Tan Keng Lan (deceased Ymg Cheok Leong Loke Wai Chun Ying Cheok Sing Irene Chia Ying Cheok Ping Joan Koh Daughter Son-ln-Law Ying
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    • 65 25 THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MR V. SINNATHURAY express their heartfelt thanka to the specialists, doctors, and nuraing start of the Intensive Care Unit, General Hoapital, Johor Baru, and the Johor Specialists' Hospital for the excellent medical and nuraing care. They also express their gratitude to relatives and
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      99 25 In loving memory of MARIAN FRANCIS 23 years old Departed: 7th August 1982 'For to me to live is Christ, And to die is Gain.' Philippians 1:21 FROM ALICE, ALEX JOHN MOSES WITH LOVE DEAREST MEMORIES. IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR MOST BELOVED SON CHARLES ANBAZHAGAN Departed
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      72 25 MR CHAN KONG WEE agad 60 passed away peacefully on 6.8.83 leaving behind Wife: Hiaw Yee Nam Sons: Peter Chan Chow Ming Philip Chan Chow Khlan Daughter: Chan Yueh Tarn Oaughtar-in-law: Adeline Chan Hui Huang Memorial service will bo hold at 8 pm on Sunday 7/8/83 at 17,
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      178 25 in Loving Memory Of MR. A. PALANISAMY Departed: 21 July 1982 One long year has passed But memories stay fresh and painful Always remembered by loved ones A prayer in memory of him will be held at Block 74. Whampoa Drive. 11-342. on 9th August 1983 from
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    • 33 25 BELOVED GRANDPA LAU Tok Boon gone but always remembered by grandson Michael and loved ones "In Memoriam" is for the I loved ones whom you I mm mmm. mmmm mmm fuewek mo*. ftf
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 500 26 ANNOUNCEMENT I am honoured to announce on behalf of the HWA HONG I am very proud to be associated with the HWA HONG >*MB^ GROUP OF COMPANIES the association between jMfek GROUP OF COMPANIES and to be involved in its expansion AMERICAN ORIGINAL CORPORATION and our wholly- of the food
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  • 742 27  -  Shirley Tan <0«r BY Coaches Hong Kang and Pritam make athletes better people 4 Our relationship isn't that of just a coach and a trainee. They are like my own parents ...And besides athletics, coach and Mrs Lim have taught me much more like good manners, how
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  • 83 27 Closing date is now Aug 1 5 WE HAVE extended our closing date for entries for the Times Inter-Business Houses Athletics Meet by a week to Aug 15. The organisers Times Organisation and the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association were informed last week that a number of firms interested in the
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  • THE WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
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      • 417 28 IT WAS a route Steve Ovett had taken many times and knew well. But one night, more than 18 months ago, Britain's Olympic 800m champion was suddenly distracted and ran into church railings. For a few months Ovett's track career looked in jeopardy as
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      • 408 28 FOR THE last five years Steve Cram has lived in the shadow of his more famous British compatriots, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett. But the 23-year-old European 1,500m champion is poised to snatch the spotlight in Helsinki. Cram has hovered around the top
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    • 368 28 Zatopek looks back on his greatest triumphs ON THE eve of the first world championships, a legend returned. Before most athletes who will be taking part today were even born, Emil Zatopek thrilled the world with a unique treble at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. In
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    • 400 28 WORLD high jump record-holder Zhu Jianhua has a great chance of earning China a gold medal at the championships, though he reckons every one of his rivals could thwart him. The bespectacled student from Shanghai smiled diffidently when asked about his title prospects. "We have
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    • 484 28 Carl confident of beating Calvin's challenge CARL LEWIS, proclaiming he competed just for fun, yesterday unfurled his challenge for a golden treble which could confirm him the outstanding athlete of the championships. The 22-year-old radio and television communications student at Houston University said he did not
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    • 1230 29 Amazing Maree go round How life has turned for the man who outran apartheid When South Afri- cans, the world's foremost windowdressers, attempt to persuade us that apartheid no longer exists in sport, they conveniently forget to mention such trivialities as the pass laws, which make it quite impossible for
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    • 156 29 T J^ Wsi't Holyland, m r* __^nl homeland of Christ 1 1 amp j/i*""" 'I ?-**&*>■ t I V Make a personal pilgrimage to the Holyland and see 1 the Biblical places, little-changed since the time of For those who would like to go back in time, we have *i
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    • 590 29 EJ^3| I TIMES INTER-BUSINESS HOUSES fir^_lll! __3* ATHLETICS MEET '83 _l_Ji|_l 3*fe^ Saturday, October 8, 1983 I \^r National Stadium 6 p.m. For the Champion '-^^Tift Business House 3 A Nissan Cabstar i^ mmum^ mm£^ ==:!imn plus The Times muummmmmmm^ M t- Organisation and (*^j MmmmmMt^Tan Chong qjj mam£ Challenge
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  • 1256 30  -  Brian Miller Cindy's making waves but she can't hear the cheers I love the water. I love the freedom it gives me. In the water I'm as normal as everyone else. And in competition, it's just me swimming as fast as I can and the others
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  • 210 30 ATHLETICS: Seiko Inter-Club championships (National Stadium, 2pm). BOWLING: Singapore International PreQualifying Graded finals (Kallang BowlerDrome, 9am). CRICKET: National Second Division Knockout SCA Schoolboys v Indian Association (Tanglin, 10.45 am). Singapore Cricket Association League, Second Division Singapore Cricket Club v Tanglin Taverners (Padang), Ceylon Sports Club v Ayer
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  • 660 31 I'M happy •and sad that my term is coming to an end. I've made lots of friends here and I'll m miss them. Chung Fa I'M hitting the ball as well as I ever have. I hit the ball real well with my irons. I b
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  • 312 31 BRITAIN'S Glenn Ralph yesterday hit a seven-under-par 65 to equal Severiano Ballesteros' course record and take a four-stroke lead in the Dutch Open golf championship at the Kennemer Links in Zandvoort. The 27-year-old professional, who is ranked only 187th in the European Erize-money list, produced a formidale
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  • 274 31  -  TAY CHENG KHOON By TAIWANESE golfer Chang Chung Fa will leave his post as head Srofessional of the ingapore Island Country Club at the end of the month. ..but he will stay on as coach until Christmas. Chung Fa, who joined the club as senior coach
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  • 230 31  - Not so polished Police HAKIKAT RAI Easy time for champions against Anglo-Chinese Old Boys By THE long arm of the law forced Anglo-Chinese School Old Boys Association into a 30-0 (six tries and a goal) submission in a Pesta Sukan under-23 rugby match at Farrer Park yesterday. Defending champions Police
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  • 125 31 Bold Bolder boldest LONDON, Sat. English First Division soccer champions Liverpool yesterday signed 24-year-old goalkeeper Bob Bolder from Second Division Sheffield Wednesday. No fee was disclosed. It will take a bold effort from Bolder to replace Liverpool's current No. 1 the erratic, but often brilliant, Bruce Grobelaar. ENGLISH First Division
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  • 317 31  -  PETER SIOW By SINGAPORE A blazed to the front on the opening day of the Pesta Sukan trap team championships, but it was France's Michel Carrega who fired the imagination at Rifle Range Road yesterday. The world recordholder his 199 out of a possible 200
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  • 173 31 CLOVIS (California), Sat. Singapore's Ang Peng Siong took third spot in the 56m freestyle at the United States long-coarse swimming championships. He clocked 22.93 sec losing out to Robin Leamy and Tom Jaeger who returned 22.59 and 22.89 sec respectively. When told of the
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  • 132 31 NIMES, Sat. Lucien Rodriguez, of France, successfully kept his European heavyweight boxing title for the ninth time when his Belfian challenger Al yben retired with a badly cut eye in the eighth round here yesterday. THE 1984 West Indies cricket tour of England will go
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  • 147 31 INDIANAPOLIS, Sat. Eighteen-year-old unranked Jimmy Arias, of the United States, overcame the heat and fifthseeded Chris Lewis, of New Zealand, 6-4, 7-5 yesterday to reach the semi-finals of the United States clay-court temds championships. Other quarter-Qnal results Men's singles: Andres Gomes (Ecu) bt Jimmy Brown
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  • The Sunday Times
    • 268 32  - Soccer's drive down Quality Street JOE DORAI QUALITY rather than quantity will be the motto in the MiloSingapore Sports Council Football Training Scheme next year. Plans are on the drawing board to revise the scheme, inaugurated in 1973, to spot "potential stars" and mould them in the crusade (or good,
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    • 101 32 SINGAPORE continued their winning ways with a keenly contested 1-0 win over Thailand in a losers' pool match of the Tun Razak Cup hockey tournament in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The goal came in the 57th minute when Kevin Ng converted a penalty stroke. In the tournament proper, Johore
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    • TSINGTAO CUP
      • 434 32  -  JOE DORAI Singapore 4 Malacca 0 Pahang 0 Selangor 0 Singapore in party mood but it's flat beer for Malacca SINGAPORE made a dream start in the soccer quadrangular competition to beat Malacca 4-0 in front of more than 20,000 fans at the National Stadium last night.
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      • 191 32  - Stalemate proves a victory for caution JOE DORAI MALAYSIA Cap finalists Pahang and Selangor could not have been more happy with this goalless draw in their opening quadrangular match at the National Stadium last night. From the start both teams showed respect for each other, and so caution rather than
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    • 416 32 Moses takes star role in world's greatest track show HELSINKI, Sat. Ed Moses, world 400 metres hurdles king for the past seven years, will provide a majestic start to the first World Athletics Championships here tomorrow. The supreme American hurdler will be the first world record-holder in
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    • 176 32 TORONTO, Sat. New York Yankees baseball star Dave Winfield will not be prosecuted for accidentally killing a seagull with a warm-up throw during a game against the Toronto Blue Jays last night, a Toronto prosecutor said today. Crown Attorney Norman Matusiak decided, after a
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    • 60 32 NATIONAL University of Singapore trounced Hawks 16-1 in a Pocari National Softball League Division One men's match at Dover Road yesterday. Other results Men: Div. 2: Red Sox 15 SIA 1, SAFSA 9 Schools 5; Div. 3: Scorpions 21 Mei Chin 16. Women Div, 1:
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    • 39 32 SINGAPORE A emerged champions when they beat Swida A 7-3 in the Pesta Sukan Darts team championship at Peninsula Hotel yesterday. Other results': Swida B 7 Singapore B 2. Women's league: 1 Anchor Angels 2 Singapore 3 Upsetters.
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    • 132 32 UP TO 1 p.m. Showers in a few areas late morning onwards. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: 31 max., 25 min. SUNSET today: 7.21 p.m.; SUNRISE tomorrow: 7.11 a.m. GLOBAL WEATHER Adelaide 11/16C Rain Manila 22/33C Cloudy Amsterdam JC t Melbourne 7/13C Fine Bangkok 25 32 C Cloudy
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      • 544 1 Singapore meltingapot SINGAPORE the culinary melting pot. A multi-cultural society where you can find professional cooks happily serving food of the other races. So Chinese hawkers do Indian curries and dish up Malay food. Some present a halal version of Chinese favourites. Hainanese cooks used to be famous, of course,
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      • 665 1 HOTEL Marco Polo's cakes are, to say the least, wellknown. It has gained a reputation as one of the first of the modern hotels to produce fine cakes, pastries and confectionery. Before the days of towering hotels, there was Cold Storage. These two big
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      • 483 1 ALEX Rodrigues resigned from work as an accounts clerk last year to realise his dream of running his own Eurasian food outlet. And he is serving it at hawker prices. For the past two decades, Alex has been catering for private parties. His recipes were handed
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      • 400 1 CARE for some mee Hongkong? The dish is not as fancy as it sounds just Cantonese-style hor fun but the man behind the wok is 58-year-old Mohammed Ali. Mohammed has been earning his living this way for 20 years. Now a Singapore citizen, he learned
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    • Mind & Body
      • 921 2  - Stop trying to understand computers JEFF SHEAR Just use them like vou do your stereo or typewriter or washing machine By 4 The only frigftfening tfiing about computers is the implication of not using ene ...-The fact is you don't actually use the computer when work. You use its "application".
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      • 386 2 EACH year, more women are travelling abroad as an increasing number of hotels and airlines claim to cater for their special needs. Despite what they would like you to believe, unfortunately, few actually go beyond providing a hair-dryer here and a few skirt hangers there. It takes
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      • 242 2  -  ROSEMARY CHEN By THERE are 144 known varieties of snakes in Singapore and Malaysia, of which 33 are dangerous. Do you know what to do if you ever get bitten? It is wise to be prepared. The following steps should help: Keep warm. Do not
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      • 127 2  - Health capsules MICHAEL PETTI IF Your chilvacciPenTauy SHOCKS OUT A PERAfANENT TocTh, vuhaTlHoulp You vol POT "THE TooTh IN milk ahp gctto The. PEHT\9T.RIGHT AWAr fop, RbimplanTaTicU. IF You HAVE P/ABeTe^, U)HAT TYPE- Of PIBT, SH-ULP You FcILOV(2 I,- MAHY VocToRS Mou> ReCoMMBHP A PißT' High \n complex car&oHYPRATeS (STAHCHt$
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      • 269 2 Advertisement Special advice tor sun lovers If a day in the great effect. Then pat a outdoors sometimes IP^^^H^ little extra beauty leaves your skin feel- x^ fluid around the eyes ing coarse and 'tight' and mouth to pamthe answer could lie v per the fine skin in a light
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    • Fashion
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        423 3  - White magic LIM PHAY-LING Story by w ff HAT is it about white that makes fashion designers everywhere use it time and time again? It has a "seasonless" appeal an appeal American designers use to the maximum every summer. And this year's no different. Walk into New York's Macy's or
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      • 228 3 TRIM DOWN SHAPE UP Trim unsightly bulges around hips, thighs, waists, buttocks, now with the world's first portable vibromassage belt. You must see and feel your improvement in just 7 days or you don't pay a cent. Two thousand invigorating vibrations per minute Now you can whittle away unsightly bulges
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      • 188 3 Results guaranteed in just 7 days Send in the coupon right away. You have nothing to lose— except those bulges! 4 \rfoeai l /<} f /ffen tA little extra girth around the middle? Let those soothing, relaxing VIBRAFORME vibrations tone up flagging stomach muscles in just minutes a day. a
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      • 295 3 J I I bedroom theme. And the ■PS" prices of these beautiful _fta__-_r~ L bedroom suites are designed Rl Ito1 t0 surt any bud 9 et y° u ad °p*x*T"' See us today while stocks last! f '*V_. In ■"■■■■■■BSl—HE— E— ShS—W". 188 1 t L__rf"^ BH^^^^ i ,_M r!^^^^
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    • Motoring
      • 502 4  -  WINSTON LEE Car accessories which are a distraction, obscure vision and cause confusion should be banned MANY Singapor.ans are buying useless, even downright hazardous, accessories. Take, for instance, the recent craze for strobe lights. Mounted on the rear of the car, these emit a blinding,
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      • 839 4 Score Chart for Volvo 760 GLE Excellent Good Average Poor Styling Performance Economy Transmission Handing Brakes Accommodation Ride Comfort 0) Noise Finish Equipment 9 Refinement Score 2 83 i 1 THERE was a time not too long ago when Volvos were considered tough but rough. Strong
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      • 1871 5 mm mmmmmW mm t^mmtm MMMMMMMmm WMMMMWMMMMWMMWMMMM jAJM fckr j^^ PRIME MINISTER'S NATIONAL DAY MESSAGE f MBMMMBMmMBmBBMB^mHMMMMm —^^^nl li, '>0 I fV% Monday, Ch 5, 9.20pm (E); 7.50pm (M); Movies I y er, 8J5 P /n C); 9 s °P m (T). r**XT T 'i i J MlilW^m SUPERMAN I 4
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      • 812 5 ________r^^ Jfl_t l MM iJ__l!____J_ Diana Ross sings two songs from her new album on Chartbusters at 11.15 am on Radio 1 today Radio 1 Today SAfl A.M. News In Brief Profile 3.30 Track Chat 4.00 .UU 6.05 Another Morn- News In Brief 4.05 Beauty mg Another Show 7.00 News
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    • TV Eye Showbuzz Music
      • Look East
        • 235 7 GEORGE Lam, the hero of All The Wrong Clues and Boat People, has been voted the most popular actor in Hongkong for 1982. Boat People, a film about the plight of the Vietnamese under the Communist regime, took five awards best film, best director (Ann Hui),
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      • 475 7 The boy next door prefers to jive HE MAY lay claim to being the first rock 'n roll star on the Mandarin pop scene, but Tony Yang hardly looks the part. This clean-cut 24-year-old, in town for a singing engagement at the Hoover Theatre, is more your average boy-next-door. One
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      • 476 7  -  Judith Holmberg TV REVIEWi By I SUPPOSE I should say something about Step Ahead (last Tuesday, Ch 5, 7.50 pm) being surprisingly good. And the fact that our Francis Yeoh, visiting from the Institute of Choreology in London, choreographed all the items
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      • 531 7 MICHAEL CHIANG tells you about the best rock 'n roll videotape available, and meets the first Mandarin rock 'n roller (left). Heroes <M Rock *N Roll "WHEN rock 'n roll first started, a lot of parents thought it was an outbreak of insanity." Having set
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      • 317 7  -  John Logan By Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2 Grieg. Pelleas et Melisande Sibelius. Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon Both magnificent pieces of music were written for plays Henrik Ibsen's extraordinary versedrama, Peer Gynt, and Maurice Maeterlinck's tragic drama, Pelleas et Melisande. The
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    • Cinema
      • 332 8  -  Lim Kay Tong SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES Coming to smaller Cathay theatres Starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce Directed by Jock Clayton THE maxim that all dreams come true is mocked in this dramatisation of sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury's novel. In Green Town, an
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      • 461 8  - Forty and still fabulous Lim Kay Tong THE ROLLING STONES: TIME IS ON OUR SIDE At Cathay Starring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Ron Wood Directed by Hal Ashby By MICHAEL Philip Jagger, London School of Economics dropout and rock 'n roll animal was 40 last
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      • 357 8 This Stone wants to roll on to greener pastures MICK Jagger grins. "Once I never thought I would live this long," he says. Yet, the year of his 40th birthday will be one of his busiest. There's a new Rolling Stones album, Still Life; a film of their USA tour;
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      • 457 8  -  Tan Jong See DUEL TO THE DEATH At Golden, Clementi, Palace, Zenith, Raja, New Town, Princess, New City, Toa Payoh, Metropole, Hollywood, Venus and Paramount Starring Xu Shaoqiang and Liu Songren Directed by Cheng Xiaodong By AFTER Xu Ke's spectacular Zu, Warriors Of
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    • Page 9 Miscellaneous
      • 990 9 10 stockmarket tips By Irene Hoe "One of the essential require- nextruleistospreadyourri.sk. I -mm* mr^ m r-.TMT-v u ments for successful stockmarket in- Also remember that the greater BmmW W UND out who you are and you vestment is emotional maturity, the yield, the bigger the risk, he .1 I
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      • 328 9 TAKE the family to the IX "Police Carnival and Display '83, which ends today, at the P Police Academy in Watch some impressive combined police band. Other highlights include and ex-girlfriend of 17 years ago. That's Neil Simon's witty and funny Plaza Suite, a comedy in three acts, presented by
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      • 210 9 your boss on Monday morning for more pay, more holidays and less work it's a fairly effective way of finding out who you are!" Beware of fashion trends, he warned. "The share everyone is chasing today could easily be looking for a home tomorrow. And so could you." Look for
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      • 220 9 unloading while encouraging you to said, recalling a saying attributed to buy. a Rothschild with a reputation for Distrust any "consensus" about selling too soon, market prospects. Share prices Mr Sutherland predicted that the usually make their best advances stock market index could hit 1200 when people are most sceptical
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    • Sight and Sound
      • Sunday Times Spotlight
        • 1321 11 Should you buy pirated cassette tapes? EDMUND WEE, who last night threw his 200 pirated cassette tapes down the rubbish chute, explains how he came to that decision FOR years now, I have been merrily buying pirated cassette tapes from the
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      • A humorous look at the VCR
        • 802 13 When it first came on the market here some years ago, tie video cassette recorder was promoted as an hdispensable luxury. To the bored housewife, it promised hours of endless entertainment. To the progressive educator, it promised to be an invaluable teaching aid.
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      • Sound revolution
        • 1369 14 The ABCs of CDs (compact discs) The latest invention in music reproduction is the compact disc (CD). But are these discs as revolutionary as they are touted to be? Are the/ here to stay? We explain how they work, their advantages, limitations and prospects. And we take you on a
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        • 800 15  -  HANS FANTEL By wrtting in the New York Times TODAY'S digital happenings centre on the provincial capital of Eindhoven in Holland, headquarters of Philips Corporation. It is there that nearly all compact discs (CD) made in the Western world have their origin, for Eindhoven now
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      • Looking for dee-jays
        • 847 20 Good disc jockeys are so hard to come by that a company is holding a contest to spot potential talent. AGATHA KOH reports on the search for good "jocks". AN HOUR before midnight and the pace is getting hot. Lights flash, the dance
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        • 316 20 FOR Ch'ng Poh Tiong, or P.T. Ch'ng, as he is known In broadcasting, the ability to be humble always helps. "That is the only way yon learn new things," says the 27-year-old part-time announcer on Radio Five, SBC's classical radio station. P.T.,
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      • New products
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          83 16 ADD some music to your life while waiting for the fish to bite. Conion has introduced a radio-cum-fish finder which you can pack along on that fishing trip without taking up too much space. The CSR-P4B uses a sonar sounding circuit to tell you if there are fishes
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        • 124 16 HOOK up your portable tape player or pocket radio to a power amplifier speaker system for more power-packed sound. Launched only at the beginning of this year, Dahw's range of speakers can be plugged into any headphone outlet. The systems are priced between $95
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        • 336 16 SIM Kwan Shin is one hifi enthusiast who believes in making his hobby pay. Sim, 26, is managing director of Absolute Sound Equipment which recently opened in Lucky Plaza. It took over the former premises of Atlas Sound which moved to UIC Building
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        • 101 16 A NEW concept in turntables is here. The Sound Burger is compact and light enough to be carried around in your shopping bag. You can't play it while travelling or at the beach where sand and grit may get into the grooves and cause damage. But
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      • Magazines review
        • 894 17 HAND in hand with the proliferation of hi-fi components comes a flood of publications for the audiophile and hifidelity buff. Most of these magazines are from Britain and the United States, with a handful from Australia and one from Malaysia. I think
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      • Buying your first stereo
        • 1272 18 Woofers and tweeters watts that? You don't just walk into a stereo shop, listen to equipment and decide. There's more to it. CHRIS LEWIS tells you what to look out for when you buy your first stereo system. Before you buy THERE is a story of a novice looking for
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        • 380 18 THERE are two schools of thought about watts, the measurement of the power output of an amplifier. One says that the more watts you have, the better. The other says that not all those watts are necessary and that the manufacturers have been fooling people
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      • Teletext and you
        • 715 19 You need not buy a special TV for teletext 4 Both retro-fitting and the teletext adaptor offer text-enlarging features and are as good as buying a new TV set with a built-in decoder. However, the older the set, the poorer the text m reception. 7 This week, the electronic newspaper
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