The Straits Times, 21 April 1984

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  • 15 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1984 40 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 62/1/84
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  • 667 1 Hongkong in 1997... But Britain wants a high degree of autonomy when China takes over By The Straits Times Foreign Desk HONGKONG, Fri. For the first time, Britain today placed its cards on the table over its ongoing negotiations with China over
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  • 416 1  -  NANCY CHNG By Bangkok Correspondent Quote ■■■■■■■■M^tMiiaita^^ 41 HAVE been asking Malaysians to increase the population bat one person is still not married yet, let alone have five kids. One of these days, I am going to tie him up, put him on
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  • 118 1 IT IS two weeks since the Education Ministry first voiced concern over the fact I hat one in five of Singapore's brightest students had opted to attend a polytechnic instead of a junior college. Concern over the brain drain prompted an investigation. The discovery: Fear
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  • 34 1 PAPUA New Guinea's Finance Minister. Mr Philip Bouraga. left Singapore last night after a two-day unofficial visit On Thursday, he visited the Central Provident Fund Board and the Housing Board. 2?
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  • 266 1  - Police bicycle patrols to make a grand comeback NG WENG HOONG By POLICE bicycle patrols will make a grand comeback throughout Singapore soon. This follows favourable public response to such patrols reintroauced in some housing estates and rural areas on a limited scale. A total of 198 new bicycles, costing
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  • 321 1 Nevada court gets hang him' letters and cheques in the mail LOVELOCK Nevada Fri. Thousands of Californians are sending letters containing cheques to the state prosecutor's office in Nevada to pay foi whai is being billed as Americas first privately-funded mu r der
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    • 43 1 LONDON, Fri. British coalminers moved closer to an all-out strike toda\ uhen union leaders in Nottinghamshire, the eountrj s second-biggest coalfield, voted at a special delegates conference to order an official stop page n> th»- district 'v SI.WNI miners. Keuter
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    • 579 2 416 reject flats ONE in five of the 2,142 HUDC Phase 111 flats and maisonettes have been rejected by applicants who have waited three to four years for a home. Next week, 416 rejected flats in Pine Grove, Gillman Heights, Jurong East, Bedok and Hougang will be up for
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    • 392 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: SOME bright students fear the General Paper. How can they overcome this (ear? A lot depends on right guidance and the right attitude. GP teachers can stimulate students to good grades or bore them to mediocrity. And students themselves must have the right attitude. Here,
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    • 65 2 DECIDING ON THE SIZE IT SEEMS certain now that Malaysia will go ahead and build its own petrochemical project. What remains to be determined is the size of the project. A large-scale petrochemical complex would offer economies of scale but it would also mean dependence on the export market.
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    • 189 2 KEPPEL HAS MOVED FAR BEYOND SHIP-REPAIRING KEPPEL. the largest local industrial conglomerate in Singapore, following its massive acquisitions during 1983. notabh ih<- $41 million purchase of Straits Steamship, has indeed moved far beyond its traditional single activity of ship-repairing. In his last annuai review of the company he helped
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    • 307 2 Blame the computer IT SEKMS that if Manchester United fail to win the Canon league Soccer Championship, a computer is to blame. For of the six games that the two clubs are left to play, the computer used b\ Cap (Northern) Ltd. the firm hired to sort out the
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    • 573 2 Oil spill damages THE American Standard Oil Company and two subsidiaries are liable for up to US$3 billion (556.2 billion) in damages for a 1978 supertanker wreck that spilled millions of litres of oil along French beaches in one of the worst spills in history, a judge
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    • 216 2 Group's actions A GROUP of members in the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) are going around recruiting dissatisfied members to contest for the party elections next month, says Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Dr Mahathir, who is also Umno president, said on Thursday that
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    • 531 2 Pioneer writer IN 1962, a young, heavily-pregnant housewife bored to tears in a provincial town decided to take part in a local playwriting competition. Her entry, about the behaviour of people belonging to small town football clubs, won no prize, but notoriety as "New Zealand's dirtiest-minded woman "playwright",
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    • 464 3 Warring factions move to new peace line Gemayel returns from successful talks with Assad BEIRUT, Fri. A BUFFER force today began to separate warring Muslim and Christian factions in and around Beirut as President Am in Gemayel returned from successful talks with Syrian leader Hafez Al- Assad on ways to
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    • 329 3 CHRISTIAN'S across the world yesterday observ--ed Good Friday, marking the occasion of Jesus Christ's crucifixion nearly j.uOO years ago with solemn prayer services as well as painful reenactments of Christ's sufferings. In JERUSALEM, thousands of Christian pilgrims converged on the town to walk
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    • 375 3 VATICAN CITY, Friday POPE John Paul said today an internationally-guaranteed status for Jerusalem, a Palestinian homeland and the security of Israel were fundamental requirements for a lasting Middle East peace. In a comprehensive apostolic letter addressed to Catholics in the Holy Land
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    • 290 3 JERUSALEM, Fri. ISRAEL has quietly begun accepting Arab citizens for army service as part of a campaign for greater communal integration, officials disclosed yesterday. "If Muslims and Christians want to volunteer, we are ready to accept them," Mr Binyamin Goor-Aryeh, Arab affairs adviser to
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    • 420 5 Supertanker's big spill one of the worst in history CHICAGO, Friday THE American Standard Oil Company and two subsidiaries are liable for up to TSS3 billion (556.2 billion) in damages for a 1978 supertanker wreck that spilled millions of litres of
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    • 118 5 WASHINGTON, Friday PEARS that the United States economy was overheating were fueled by news yesterday that the gross national product (GNP) grew more in the first quarter of this year than forecast. The growth of 8.3 per cent in real annual rate exceeded forecasts of 6
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    • 113 5 'First-time' shopper acquitted of shoplifting charge SAN ANTONIO (Texas), Friday A SOVIET immigrant who thought a shopping mall was a single, large store has been acquitted of shoplifting charges. A jury recently found Maya Rudnitsky, 35. innocent of charges that she stole a US$5O (SS100) dress from a store at
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    • 118 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. TWO security dogs on routine patrol around the White House sniffed accusingly yesterday at a Chinese embassy car parked in the grounds, but a search by Secret Service agents found the dogs had erred. Security men temporarily closed the north driveway, one of
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    • 88 5 IBM home computer disappoints NEW YORK, Fri. International Business Machines (IBM) acknowledged for the first time yesterday that sales of its PCJR home computer were falling short of the company's expectations. •'ln April, demand for the PCJR has been variable, and is not growing quite as rapidly as we expected,"
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    • 337 5 WASHINGTON, Friday A FEDERAL judge yesterday dismissed claims against the I nited States government for failing to warn the crew of Kurean Air lines flight Wi that their plane had strayed into Soviet airspace. Chief IS district judge Aubrey Robinson said in a
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    • 243 5 'Defect plan' for Soviet Olympians LOS ANGELES, Friday SOVIET athletes at the Olympic Games here in July/August may see main road billboards urging them to defect and could be offered "safe houses" and private legal aid if they decide to seek political asylum, anti-communist group organisers say. Mr Dave Balsiger,
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    • 29 5 TOKYO. Fri. The 43,000--tonnc Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk was seen off Okinawa heading northward today, apparently returning to its home port 'if Vladivostok in western Sitwiia. AFP
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    • 362 6 LONDON, Friday PHE proprietor of Britain's Observer newspaper, disputing a report by the editor alleging army atrocities in Z i mbabwe, yesterday urged him to return to Harare at once to prove his charges. Mr Roland ■•Tiny" Rowland, whose Lor. rho trading company
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    • 285 6 Viet deserter surrenders to Thai police u\imjmmvntruim TA PHRAYA (Thailand), Friday A VIETNAMESE deserter who surrendered to Thai authorities this week said morale among Hanoi's troops in Cambodia was low and that food, clothing and modern weapons were in short supply. Corporal Nguyen Van Binh,
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    • 202 6 3.5 mil will 'defend' Seoul against infiltrators SEOUL, Friday MORE than 3.5 million troops, police and reserve forces will take part in a four-day exercise beginning on Monday to defend Seoul against possible North Korean infiltration, officials said yesterday. About 6,000 troops will act as North Korean infiltrators entering by
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    • 136 6 BANGKOK, Friday AUSTRALIA has offered to hold military exercises with Thai forces in Australia next year, Australian Defence Minister Gordon Scholes said today. He told a news conference that if Thailand accepted the offer, about 150 Thais and a larger number of Australian troops would
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    • 67 6 BEIJING, Fri. The city's first fast food restaurant opened today and ran out of hamburgers, hot dogs, coffee and most other supplies around midday. After that, customers had nothing to eat but noodles and meatballs until the restaurant closed at seven, staff said.
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    • 261 6 Thach hits out at Japan's aid term HANOI, Fri VIETNAMESE Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach has lashed out at Japan for trying to dictate what Vietnam should do in return for aid. He told a press conference here yesterday that statements by Japan that aid to Vietnam would remain suspended
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    • 64 6 BEIJING. Fri. Several hundred Vietnamese soldiers were killed or wounded when Chinese gunners pounded Vietnamese border positions in the past week, the official Chinese Xinhua news agency said today. It was the highest toll China has reported since the latest frontier clashes erupted at the beginning
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    • 422 6 Vietnam admits Soviet held exercises off coast HANOI. Friday VIETNAM has officially admitted that Soviet military manoeuvres had taken place along its coast, defending them as normal among allies and declaring that they were not aimed at any cne country Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach, questioned at a press conference
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    • 157 6 JAKARTA, Fri FOREIGN Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmaja said today that the recent Vietnamese offensive along the ThaiCambodian border was a setback to attempts to find a solution to the impasse in Cambodia. He said the offensive had set back Indonesian initiatives to gain an
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    • 235 7 Britain rejects Libyan account of shooting UNITED NATIONS, Fri. BRITAIN yesterday rejected a Libyan account of the shooting incident at the Libyan embassy in London as wrong in almost every detail British ambassador Sir John Thomson refuted accusations made on Wednesday by Awad Burwin. the Charge D'affaires of the i
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    • 360 7 Barricades at embassy strengthened LONDON, Friday POL r CE strengthened barricades around the besieged Libyan embassy early today, amid concern that the Easter weekend will swell crowds of sightseers who gather daily outside the cordon of sharpshooters ringing the mission. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher returned to London Heathrow Airport from
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    • 240 7 Police quell violent protest by steel workers PARIS, Fri A GRUDGING French Communist Part voted to maintain its partnership with the socialist government in a confidence vote early today, but violent protests by steel workers broke out in a north-eastern town, even
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    • 129 7 PARIS. Fri. Two Britons jumped successfully on Wednesday morning from the top of the Eiffel Tower on a single stunt parachute The couple were identified as Mr Mike McCarthy, in his ,'iOs. and Miss Amanda Tucker, in her 20s, both from London. They concealed the steerable
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    • 333 7 MOSCOW, Friday SOVIET KGB chief Viktor (hehrikov was promuted vesterday to the rank of marshal, the first head of the security organisation to hold the title since the rule ■if Josef Stalin. fke award is Mr hehrikov 's third promotion in fiv months and Western
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    • 101 7 4 EVERY passing day means Europe is losing money to Japan. Our banks are in a tighter and tighter position, and our economy is in a more difficult situation. Time A is running short. 7 Mr Raymond Phan Van Phi. the European Community's directorgeneral of external affairs,
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    • 61 7 ASTI (Italy), Fri. Vets in this northern town are puzzler! by the green pup born to the mongrel ***** of a lorry driver. "It's exceptional but genetically not impossible." said one vet. Another said the colour might be caused by a type of dandruff, and would
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    • 431 7 the Hote/ Nikko E^yohoppinQ Centre Kr today, and see it Wappredate tomorrow. In 1984, the Japanese attraction will be completed in Singapore's newest tourist belt at the Havelock Road Outram Road Ganges Avenue area. Soaring 27-storey high, the 510-room Hotel Nikko Because o) the Singapore hn er s new lease
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    • 359 10  -  BENG TAN Rejected for price, lease, limitations By ONE in five of the U42 HUDC Phase 111 flats and maisonettes have been rejected by applicants who have waited three to four years for a home. Next week, the 416 rejected flats in Pine Grove.
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    • 65 10 SCOUTS or children or former scouts can apply for the Sheares Scout pre-university scholarship award. The scholarship is for students who have been scouts for three years. In the case of children of former scouts, their parents must have been scouts for more than four years. Forms
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    • 87 10 A SIX-KILOMETRE traffic queue built up at the Causeway as Malaysians and holiday-makers headed north yesterday morning. They got trapped in their cars for hours on end. At the peak of yesterday's jam, it stretched all the way from the Woodlands checkpoint to Kranji War Memorial.
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    • 218 10  - Woman found dead with head wounds JUDY TAN By AN UNIDENTIFIED woman was found murdered outside a house at Race Course Road yesterday morning. The woman, aged between 45 and 50, had two wounds on her head. Bloodstains were also found at the foot of a staircase of nearby Block
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    • 127 10 Two shops lost $25,000 to thieves TWO "carbon-copy" housebreakings at different restaurants over the past two days left the owners $25,000 poorer. Mr M. H. Loau, 22, of Sam Wah Eating House at Block 207, Bukit Batok, left his premises at about midnight on Thursday after he closed for business.
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    • 100 10 SSO to play at Botanic Gardens THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra will give a full orchestral concert at a spot described as a natural amphitheatre in the Botanic Gardens on May 1. Stationed on an island on the second lake of the Palm Valley in the grounds, the orchestra will have
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    • 260 10  -  TONG YOKE THO By MEMBERS of a mutualaid association were attacked when they tried to help a family in trouble on Thursday night. Three men attacked and injured four members of the Yio Chu Kang Road Villagers' Mutual Help Association outside their premises.
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    • 196 10 THE National Productivity Board has had to add two more sessions to this year's first National Quality Control Convention because of the overwhelming response from both private and public sectors. And for the first time, three QC circles will make their presentations
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    • 41 10 ABOUT 8.600 telephone numbers starting with "4r will have a "2" added in front. The new numbers, to be introduced on April 2<i. will thus begin with ■•241" The telephones affected arc those in the Bedok telephone exchange area
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    • 182 10 IN THE past, charcoal traders made it possible for people to have scaiding tea or steaming noodies. Business was so brisk that their product was rightly called "black gold". But the lustre of their life's trade faded when gas. electricity and even kerosene supplies
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    • 78 10 POLICE arrested a man yesterday after he allegedly threw an assortment of items out of his second-storey flat at Jurong West. The items, which included a crash helmet, bamboo poles, a knife, pots, pans and crockery, were found on the ground below the kitchen window. It
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    • 238 11 $1m lost in fire during first quarter ABOUT $1 million worth ol property was destroyed by fire in the first three months of this year One person died and eight others were injured in the fires. fne director of the Singapore Fire Service, Mr Lim Beng Lock, said more than
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    • 88 11 Man dies after accident A MAN died after he was knocked down by a motorcycle along "Orchard Road on Thursday at about 4.45 p.m. Mr Neelakandan. 66. was crossing the road when the accident occurred. He was taken to hospital with serious •njuries and died about six hours later. His
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    • 298 11  -  MAGDALENE LUM By IT IS perfectly safe to drink water from UPVC (unplasticised polyvinyl chloride) pipes as there is no danger of lead contamination from such pipes. This assurance from the Public Utilities Board comes after some doubts on the use of such pipes
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    • 158 11 THE Parliamentary Secretary (Trade and Industry and Social Affairs), Mr Sidek bin Saniff, yesterday urged Muslims to study and follow in the footsteps of earlier Muslims who placed great importance on education. He cited the examples of Prophet Muhammad and his friends, and other
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    • 109 11 Case holds more surveys MORE surveys are being conducted by the Consumers' Association of Singapore for the benefit of consumers. Price surveys, the main ones conducted, enable consumers to choose outlets that offer fair prices without their having to shop around. The latest issue of Consumer Bulletin, a Case publication,
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    • 495 11  -  JULIE TAN AUGUSTINE LOW By and TWO recently-intro-duced bus lanes outside the city area have caused discontent among some taxi drivers and commuters. The bus lane in I pper Serangoon Road is the subject of an impending petition from a group of
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    • 26 11 A POWER failure occurred in the Bukit Merah area on Thursday night. The blackout occurred at 11.05 p.m. and power was restored 70 minutes later.
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    • 469 13  - Skills there are but at a high price SAM RAN What contractors' team found in HK, Taiwan By A POOL of skilled construction workers is available in Hongkong and Taiwan but local com ractors must be prepared to pay a high price to lure them here. This observation was made
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    • 187 13 THE Construction industry Training Centre's second builder's certificate course started on Mondu> with a group of 140 trainees. Among them are 17 from Hongkong and It from Malaysia. The foreign trainees are sponsored by a government-owned building firm, Construction Technology Pte Ltd. A spokesman for
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    • 286 13  - Six holiday units at Port Dickson for men in blue NG WENG HOONG By WELFARE for police officers has now been extended to include holidays in the seaside town of Port Dickson in Peninsular Malaysia, about five hours' drive from the Causeway along the West Coast. Two bungalows and four
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    • 438 13  - We'll stick to dinner and dance, say firms NG PUAY JOO By SEVK R A L companies have said they prefer the traditional dinner and dance, to mark the end of a working year, rather than sponsor staff on holiday trips to nearby countries. The annual dinner and danre was
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    • 66 13 1 .000 to take part in walk-a-jog ABOUT 1.000 residents in the Aljunied constituency will take pan in a five-kilometre wa 'k-a--jog tomorrow. The constituency's sports club hopes to raise a hunt $50. (KH) from the evenl Mi Chin Main Tong, Senior 1 Parliamentary Secretary (Home Affairs) and Ml' for
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    • 40 13 A DOCUMENTARY film based on author Alvin Tofner's best-selling book, Future Shuck, will be shown ;ii the (jueenstown Library's auditorium today at 1! p.m. Future Shock deals with the effect on people of the rapidly changing technological socielv
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    • 197 14 Picture by THE grounds of the Church of St Joseph was a sea of flickering candles last night. The lighted candles were carried by thousands of people to mark Good Friday. They had flocked to the church for the traditional annual service and candlelight procesvsion around
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    • 309 14 Mitsubishi. Voted by Germans the best-engineered cars in the world. Again. It's official. The highly-regarded 'MOT' magazine, in Germany, recently published the results of their annual poll among motorists. I hey asked their readers to rate their own ears, in terms of reliability, economy and the latest technology. I he
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    • 420 14  -  PETER HAZELHURST They will run classes on the nuts and bolts of productivity By Tokyo Correspondent THE National Productivity Board's first team of instructors return to Singapore tomorrow to begin instilling "the nuts and bolts of productivity" to the workforce. The team of
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    • 95 14 A DIRECTORY has been compiled by the Singapore Institute of Architects. It not only lists members but shows examples of their work. The directory lists 59 firms, their size and capacity, their historical back ground and philosophy towards design and project management Pictures of more than
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    • 124 14 A STUDY mission to the United States to learn more about computer integrated manufacturing systems is being organised by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Singapore. The two-week mission (from April 29 to May 12) will take participants on visits to large American corporations where such
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    • 325 15  -  RONNIE LIM By THE petrochemical complex on Pulau Aver Merbau, which has been running exceptional] y "smoothly" since its start-up on Feb IS, is trying to go more local, officials said. Mi'Wn are already afoot to get more Singaporeans to man the complex
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    • 116 15 YESTERDAY saw the start of the first of the Singapore Contract Bridge Easter Tournament events, the Open Pairs. After two of a total of three rounds of play, Mesdames Alene Friedman and Neiko Teo of Singapore took the lead with a total average of
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    • 50 15 EIGHTY-THREE children will be given scholarships anil bursaries by the Singapore Manual an<l Mercantile workers' I nion Mr John \onis. president i if the union, will give away ihe awards at a presentation ceremony at the union promises in Rochoi Road on May r »at 1 D m
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    • 296 15  -  GRACE CHNG By THE high failure rate in the British Computer Society examination has prompted a firm here to organise seminars conducted by an examiner from the society. Figures available show that the pass rate for Part 1 of the examination has never been higher
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    • 46 15 A FnRI'M entitled Overseas Malayalees will be declared open tomorrow by the Indian Hi^'h Commissioner to Singapore, Mr Gopalakrishna Pillai. Organised by a cultural organisation of Singapore Malayalees. t'daya Library, the forum will tx- held at Block 11. Hillview Avenue, at 5 p m
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    • 142 15 A TEAM of members and officers of the Vocational and Industrial Training Board and Singapore's two polytechnics will pay a visit to firms in the architectural and engineering consultancy industry on Wednesday The visit, to be led by Dr Ta y En g Soon. Minister
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    • 359 15 Joo Chiat police move into $1 m quarters IT WAS time to move. And not a day too soon for the officers and men of Joo Chiat police station in East Coast Road. They greeted "Moving Day" with the relief of sardines about to be
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    • 403 16 4 IN A democracy, there should be competition but there is a time for contest and there should also be good reasons for holding a contest. The reasons for the contest should be for the good of the party and not just to become
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    • 112 16 MCA uses bouncers to control meeting i.'H'-MJI.'.J^MMJaiHHMI JOHOR BARU. Fri. Tension at MCA branch meetings here is running so high that bouncers have been deployed, among other measures to prevent the situation from getting out of hand. Several bouncers were evidently at work during i the Taman Maju Java MCA
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    • 217 16 SEGAMAT, Fri DATUK Musa Hitam yesterday hit out at Umno leaders who raised no objections to decisions made at Supreme Council or Cabinet meetings but later went around saying they disagreed with the decisions taken. Datuk Musa, who was at the Umno Labis divisional
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    • 240 16 KULIM (Kedah), Fri YES, the target is indeed a population of 79 million but no, that does not mean the men should use it as an excuse to have four wives, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today. "I did
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    • 184 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday MINISTER in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Dr James Ongkili said yesterday that foreign competition for Petronas projects has not jeopardised the position of Bumiputra contractors. He told the Dewan Negara (Senate) that five of the nine Petronas turn-key projects had
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    • 63 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Brunei is to be asked to join the Indonesia-Malaysia Language Council aimed at promoting and improving the Malay language. The chairman of the council. Mr Hassan Ahmad of Malaysia, told reporters here after" a council meeting that with Brunei in the
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    • 130 16 Royal couple get 'red carpet' welcome BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Fri. The Malaysian Yang di-Per-tuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong were given a rousing welcome when they arrived in Brunei today to begin a three-day state visit. On hand to receive them at Brunei Intern?tionai Airport were the Sultan of
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    • 99 16 PENANG, Fri. Kighty-six people were evacuated from their homes and thousands of workers were caught in massive traffic jams when Penang was hit by its worst flood in 10 years yesterday. The flood, brought about by a continuous 12-hour rainfall, reached its
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    • 1048 18  -  HEDWIG ALFRED THIS year, one in five of Singapore's brightest students had opted to attend a polytechnic instead of a junior college. The brain drain caused concern in the Education Ministry and the students were summoned for a special meeting. Ministry officials discovered that fear of the
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    • 205 18 THIS year, Chinese medium students will be taking the GP paper in English for the first time. (About one third of the brightest students who had opted for the poly route are Chinese educated.) According to Mrs Teo Hwee Teng, who teaches GP to Chinese
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    • 299 18 SINGAPORE is one of the few countries in which GP is a compulsory subject for all preuniversity students. A special paper is set by Cambridge for Singapore. In other countries, GP, or General Studies, is a prestigious subject done by a selected group of students.
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  • 483 20 The Straits Times says General Paper without tears ALL students aspiring for a more meaningful tertiary education should be made to sit for a special compulsory test. In this test, they need only answer one question: "The General Paper has been in the news lately. Some bright students seem to
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  • 533 20 T.F.Hwang takes you down memory lane THI\KIN(. ol days that are mi mor«'. Tennyson. MY thoughts today'wander back to the oia Easter days that are not there any more. First, the Easter holidays for English schools here. Spanning two weeks in my time, the Easter vacation marked the end of
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  • 805 20  -  WILLIAM SAFIRE Comment By WASHINGTON Last week, former US President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger chose the most fashionable restaurant in New York for their lunch together: Le Cirque. Their fast-track tete-a--tete was frequently interrupted by the obeisances
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  • 912 20  -  JAMES MARKHAM By- BONN For many politicians and those who follow them, Bonn has been a much duller place since Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was toppled 19 months ago. An atmosphere of intellectual tension and energy has drained away, and the small town on
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    • 188 21 WE are a group of handicapped people who are trying to earn a living through self-emplo\ ment and hard work. While we are trying to do so we could do with more support an d understanding from the Social Affairs and Envi- Linment
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    • 61 21 IKE backlane behind the row of houses in Joo Avenue, at the side of the brain that runs alongside a newly-completed clubhouse in Tessensohn [load, is overgrown with l.illang and is being used as a dumping ground. It is a potential breeding ground for mosquitoes. Could the authorities
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    • 199 21 I AM now staying in quarters provided by my employer. I managed to get the accommodation after having failed to buy or rent a flat from the Housing Board because of its housing policy for single people. I now understand
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      • 95 21 WE took a group of handicapped children for an outing at the Jurong Bird Park the other day. The weather wasn't cooperative, but, the helpfulness and concern of the staff compensated for that. We were provided with wheelchairs and prams. Using these presented no problems
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      • 85 21 AM happy to add another true tale about an honest taxi driver to the chapter about the fine character of our people. Recently. I left my purse containing $500 in a taxi. I was at a clan association in Chinatown when I realised my loss. And
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      • 89 21 ALTHOUGH 1 have had bad experiences with taxi drivers in the past, a recent incident proves that not all of them are unpleasant. I fa id unwittingly left my wallet in the taxi of Mr ipadi Laklang (SHA 2687 E). About an hour later, he drove
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    • 166 21 She wants to install sliding glass window I OWN a five-room Housing Board apartment in a slab block. I am happy that it has a sliding door at the balcony. Although it keeps the rain from getting into the living room, the balcony itself does not have such protection. It
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    • 366 21 I REFER to the report ■"Warm response to a cool ride". (ST, April 17). I am inclined to disagree with the opinion of the 18 passengers interviewed. Please allow me to relate my own experience. On the very day it was introduced by the
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    • 147 21 CC's six bathrooms are being kept locked I HAVE written to the management committee of the Crawford community centre about its six bathrooms being locked. Those people who use the sports facilities (three squash and three badminton courts, etc.) are therefore denied the use of the bathrooms. The committee has
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      • 121 21 I REFER to the letter "A cleaner system" by Mr G. Pereira. (ST, March 1). Public toilets which are clean and well maintained should not have dirty handles and defective flushing systems. This ministry has launched a programme to get managements of public toilets to
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      • 127 21 I REFER to the letter "More and cheaper bags needed" by Mr T.S. Yee. (ST, March 7). I wish to inform the writer that he could purchase the plastic bags for refuse at the Serangoon district office, which is situated at the junction of Upper
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    • 915 22  -  RONNIE LIM Malaysia can't decide on size of petrochemical plant By THERE is little doubt now that Malaysia will go ahead and build its own petrochemical project. But the Malaysian dilemma now is, to whether to go big or take the modest path.
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    • 752 22 LONDON South African-born track star Zola Budd has raced through British immigration barriers in record time but may be running into trouble over Olympic rules. And the Daily Mail, the newspaper which brought her from her homeland, is involved in a
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    • 391 23  -  S. KUMAR Keppel Group By KEPPEL. the largest local industrial conglomerate in Singapore, following its massive acquisitions during 1983, notably the $408 million purchase of Straits Steamship, has indeed moved far beyond its traditional single activity of ship-repairing. In his last annual review of the
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    • 119 23 NEW YORK DowJones and Co lnc said recently shareholders authorised the issue of up to 377.2 million shares of capital stock at the j company's annual meet- I ing. Although considerable opposition was voiced by several stockholders at the meeting, the proposal was carried
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    • 746 23  -  WONG AI KWEI By IT MAY not be a prime office building but Colombo Court has, from the beginning of this month, become among the cheapest in the central area. Poor market conditions and a relatively crowded arena for offices for rent
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      • 68 23 NEW DELHI Stateowned Air India and Indian Airlines are expected to have earned record net profits for 1983 84 ending in March, the Department 4 Civil Aviation said in its annual report. Ai: India's net profit ;s expected to have substantially exceeded 500 million rupees Ssloo
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      • 45 23 U 'NT* Imperial Chemica] PLC expects further growth and profits in the near future, company chairman John HarveyJones said. He reminded shareholders of his state- ment that ICI started well in 1984 when he announced 1983 results at the end of February. Reuter
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      • 67 23 TOKYO Toshiba Corp president Shoichi Saba said the parent company current profit in the first half of the year ending Sept 30 will increase at least 2X per cent to 60 billion yen 5555.2 million on sales of 1,150 billion yen. He said he predicts the rise despite
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      • 69 23 TOKYO Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan has joined companies from the US. West Germany and Sweden in an agreement to develop and produce aircraft jet engines jointly, a Mitsubishi official said. The official said Mitsubishi will produce two versions of the "JTBD-200" series of jet engines already
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      • 65 23 LONDON British Rail showing its best results for 21 years turned a 1.175 million (***** million) loss in 1982 into an KH million pounds profit last year, its best performance for six years. The main rail business recovered well from the traumatic strikes of 1982 to
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    • 143 23 THE Ambassador Hotel's Australian hopes rest on three Perth hotels the Freeway Hotel, Kings Hotel "and the Perth Ambassador. They are the hotels from which the Ambassador hopes to reap the goodies soon, says chairman Peter Tham in his latest annual
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    • 227 23 Time expects better profits this year NEW YORK Time Inc expects a strong gain in earnings this year from a year-ago net income of U*****.2 million (about *****.9 million). Time president J. Richard Munro said, in prepared remarks for the company's annual meeting, its magazines were expected to have improved
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    • 177 23 DETROIT Chrysler said it made a profit of almost US$7O6 million (about 551,468 million) in the first three months of the year, the best quarter in its 60-year history and a figure that eclipsed even last year's record full-year profits. "There are certain memorable
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    • 208 23 NEW YORK American Express Co, reporting lower first quarter earnings, said net income from its investments services fell 48 per cent to IS$24 million (5549.9 million) from IS$47 million a year earlier. I ncertainty in both the securities and commodities markets resulted in
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    • 451 23 LONDON Dunlop Holdings PLC is currently having talks with its bankers aimed at putting a package together for the restructuring of the company's debt, chairman Maurice Hodgson told a press conference. Net debt presently stands at L320 million "(SS96O million), he added.
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    • From the companies desk
      • 24 23 I HOTEL Properties Ltd will hold its fourth annual general meeting at Hilton International Singapore on May 12 at noon.
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      • 73 23 5 TAT LEE Bank raised its deposit rates by a per cent on Tues- day, to 7 per cent for I one- and two-month fixed deposits, and 7 I per cent for nine and 12 j months. Three- and six- month rates remain unI changed at 7
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      • 61 23 BOTH group operating and pre-tax profits of South-East Asia D^Nelopment Corporation Bnd have increased by 7 per cent to Msl4 million and M510.7 million respectively for the year to Jan 31, 1984. A final dividend of 27.5 per cent will be paid, making a total
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      • 568 24 Receipt of Export FCL containers and LCL cargo LCL Receiving Receiving Ship i Voyage Arr Cargo Time Block Che* Ron (38W) I 0400) FSB 0700 0900 1400 1600 F3 4o84N> i0700> IA3 1000 1100 1800 1900 L2 t 0700) FSB 0900 1100 1700 1900 P4 AsP-ogrtiss (178> i
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      • 114 24 TOKYO Foreign orders for the Japanese shipbuilding industry continued their uptrend in fiscal 1983 to reach a 10-year high of 8.68 million gross tonnes, registering a 2.46-fold increase over a year earlier, it was reported. The Japan Ship Exporters' Association said the total ocean-going new-building
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      • 1953 24 INDUSTRIALS Ajtnomoto (3.708 3.905) (1) 3.90 Aleom (2.3982 425) (4) 2.40 AnUh (2.008 2.105) (6) 1.94 (26) 1.95 (11) 1 98 (2) 1.97 (2) 200 AISB (5458 5.505) (4) 5.40 (42) 5.45 (14) 5.55 (69) 5.50 AMD (4.08B) (5) 4.08 (17) 4.14 (2) 4.20 (5)
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      • 26 24 %p.a. Savings account 7 Autosave 5*4 Fixed deposit 3 1 month 7 3 months 7 6 months 7 9 months 7 12 months 7
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      • 49 24 p.a. Prime rate 2 9 4 Personal Renovation (Flat rates) I 4 years 7 (discounted I Housing Up to 10 years 9 1 I I to 25 years 9 1 Hire purchase Cars 1 year 5 2 years 5 2 3 years 6 4 years 6 1
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      • 88 24 BUSINESS LOANS %p.a. J Commercial properties 1 15 years 10 Small Industries Finance Scheme (SIFS) Factory loans 9 Machinery loans 9 Working capital loans 9 Construction Equipment Finance Scheme (CEFS) 10 '< MAS rediscount rates lor export bills 6 Source DBS Bam 1 Indicative rates. 2 For best customers only
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      • 159 24 Foreign currency Australian dollar Canadian dollar NZ dollar Sterling pound US dollar Austrian schilling Belgian franc (com) Danish kronor Deutschemark Finnish mark French franc Hongkong dollar Indian rupee Indonesian rupiah Italian lira Japanese yen Korean Won* Malaysian dollar Netherland guilder New Taiwan dollar* Norwegian kronor Philippine peso* Renminbi
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      • 128 24 SHARES closed the week marginally ahead in another quiet session yesterday as investors showed their concern over latest developments within the MCA. Sentiment was generally subdued and whatever interest seen was restricted to selected industrial as well as finance issues. At the final bell,
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      • 39 24 K. Lumpur barometer Up Down Unch Industrials 51 32 32 Finance 8 2 5 Hotels 2 0 0 Properties 6 1 3 Oil Palms 1 5 2 Tins 2 8 5 Rubbers 12 7 3 Deb/Loans 1 0 1
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      • 182 24 i_a iq list Dunre Oen Motors 84*4 Aprils US Change GoodyearTlre 254 +W Gulf OH 78*. +V 4 Gulf Res 22*. +M Alcca 36 -w iBm 110*4 A ed n mCp u c h Intern Harvester 7*4 Allis-Chalmers... UM to ITT 371, AT&T V itJ Jhsn Jhsn 37'*
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      • 623 24 MONEY and other markets were closed In Western Europe, Hongkong and Johannesburg yesterday. They will also close on Monday. New York and Montreal were closed yesterday only. Tokyo will function normally on both dates. NEW YORK, Fri. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose a total of about six
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      • 77 24 I I I I I I I I I I 1 Hongkong Hang Seng I Friday (1115.85) i Week ago 1075.70 0 Australian All-Ordinaries "3 v^ Friday (759.3) ig£Week ago 764.0 Australian Industrials Friday (993.4) Week ago 989.8 I Financial Times Industrials Thursday 879.8 (888.6) Week ago 888.6 Dow
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      • 478 24 Ml 19 Pence Chanje AAI Bracken 328 unch INDUSTRIALS Blyvoors 14 15 16 unch Alhed-Lyons 160 unch Botswana Ass Dairies 170 -2 Buffels BTRPLC 470 .4 De Beers 775 unch Babcocks 159 .4 East Dries Barclays 477 .2 Dooms Beechams 321 .4 FS Geduld BICC 260 .3 Gen Mining.
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    • 809 25  - ACU what it is and how it works DOREEN SOH Your money By HAVE you looked enviously at US interest ites far fixed deposits ami wished >. -ukl earn the 10 pt. I or so offered, rail 'han the approximately 7 per cent offered locally 0 Well, you can. opening
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    • Stock market weekly round-up
      • 170 25 Investors plagued by two possible main factors THE tone of the KL market was generally duun as investors were plaqued by two possible main factors. The Malaysian Chinese Association crisis must hase torn investors' minds as they wonder which camp Datuk Tan Koon Swan or Datuk I)r Neo
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      • 583 25 Previous bullish sentiments fade away Top five stocks THE FOLLO/VING is a list of the 5 most actively traded stocks on the Stock Exchange of Singapore this week. It gives the tunover in thousands of units, closing prices yesterday and the high and low for 1984. WHATEVER bullish notes
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    • 96 25 GEORGE Kent (Malaysia), the subsidiary of Johan Holdings, has improved its sales by 23 per cent to M566.9 million for the 12 months to this January, compared with last year. Group operating profit was about 19 per cent higher at MS6.I million, compared
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    • 255 25 UIC is tops with only 1.l m units traded ONLY a fortnight ago, it would have been unheard of for a stock to emerge as the week's most active in terms of volume with only some one million shares traded. But, amid an uninspiring market last week,
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    • 197 25 S. Korean shipyards recovering with new orders SEOUL South Korean shipyards, plagued by a sharp decrease in business earlier this year, are now beginning to recover 'vith new orders clinched or under negotiation this month, industry sources said. The Hyundai shipyard's single order for the first three months of this
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    • 280 31 A progressive can maker and metal printing company invites applications for the following positions:--1) PRODUCTION FOREMAN At least 3 years' experience in a similar field. Willing to work shifts. 2) ASSISTANT STOREKEEPER Preferably secondary 4 education Completed N.S. F.xpenence not essential. 3) ASSISTANT PRINTERS Completed N.S. No experience required as
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  • TIMESPORT
    • 910 36 LIVERPOOL UNITED Versus West Brotn- Versus Coventry wich (Apr 21, home), v (Apr 21, home), v West Ipswich (Apr 28, Ham (Apr 28, home), v home), v Birmingham Everton (May 5, (May 5, away): v away), v Ipswich May Coventry (May 7, 7, home), v Tottenham home), v
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    • 303 36 Cup teams seek Easter goodies before the glory LONDON, Fri. Easter used to be the traditional time for sorting out championship and relegation issues in the English Football League First Division. But with another big night in Europe on Wednesday, this year's Easter weekend programme has
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    • 300 36 BAYERN Munich centre-forward Dieter Hoeness met Strasbourg directors on Thursday as a first step towards a probable transfer to the French First Division club. Hoeness, whose contract with the German giants ends this season, said: "Talks will continue in Munich. I would very much like
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    • 837 37  -  JANICE SEAH By RESULTS Boys' »irc-u|) 1 !<Mlni back: I Ivi- Mm. I'AYS. Daniel Budiman (TTSCI 3 Dan i": ninth 1 I 'A ■.'iMtni tr«-f: I Daniel Budi iisi 1, 2 Stxt-tho K»k Mun 1 PAYSC 1 3 Dam.'! Wildwmuth PAYSC 1 2 01 66 ro 1 2«»m
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    • 340 37  - Coaches on dual mission sweat it out TAY CHENG KHOON By FOR 10 hours on Thursia> they slogged under the hot sun at the Changi Suimming Club tennis courts. And those who had undergone the punishing ritual last November, and were hungry for more, came back yesterday. These were the
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    • 462 37 MONTE CARLO, Fri TOP SEED Ivan Lendl crushed American Mel Purcell to stride into the quarter-finals, but French Open champion Yannick Nu.ih nil it desperately fine at the Monte Carlo Open tennis tournament yesterday. The big Czech bludgeoned Purcell, runner-up last year, to a
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    • 327 37 SHEFFIELD, Friday SOME of the world's most individualistic and colourfully-named sportsmen will dominate Britain's television screens for 17 days and nights when the World Snooker Championships start here tomorrow. Players known familiarly by fans as "Count Dracula "The Hurricane" and "The Italian Stallion" will
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    • 334 37 King in bid to depose the monarch I'M NOT going to be there just for w the occasion. Bat I admit that it's every snooker player's dream to play in the World Championship, and to start off against the defending champion makes it even more of a privilege. Steve Davis
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    • 130 37 MARSEILLES (Southern France), Fri. Jose Luis Clere, of Argentina, is top seeded for next week's US$BB,5OO ($1X4.080) Raquette d'Or (Golden Racket) Grand Prix tennis tournament at Aix-en-Provence near here. Title-holder' Mats Wilander is not defending his crown, but Clerc will face stiff opposition from
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    • 222 38  - Forwards fail Bedok MAHMOOD GAZNAVI By PIK)R finishing let down Bedok Spoils Club as rhey went down 2-0 to Ceylon Sports Club in a Group R Singapore Hockey Association Under-23 match at Balestier Road vesterdai Bedok took the initiative right from the start, but their forwards failed to capitalise on
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    • 565 38 Bubble bursts as Singapore crumble at the last hurdle Results of Malaysian Hockey Federation Under-20 tourney Semi-finals: Singapore 4 Selangor 3, Penang 2 Kedah 0. Third place: Kedah 2 Selangor 0. Final: Penang 4 Singapore 1. KANGAR (Perlis), Fri. A gallant Singapore outfit were sadly outclassed 4-1
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    • 481 38 Leicester in command CAMBRIDGE (Kngiand), Fri. Leicestershire, 226 ahead in the first innings, were 212-3 at the close of the second da> of their three-day match against Cambridge I niversin yesterday. Brief scores: I>elcestershire 353-« dec. and 272-3 (Ian Butcher 119, Nigel Briers 73,
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    • 446 38 Leader's plundering 64 is one shot off record HILTON HEAD ISLAND (South Carolina). Fri. GIL MORGAN, playing one of the fines! rounds of his golf career, birdied the 16th and 17th holes yesterday to take the first-round lead from Brit kin's Nick Faldo in
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    • 394 38 BRAZIL beat France 89-85 and Cuba A triumphed 104-102 over Puerto Rico in the Cuba Cup men's basketball tournament at the Havana Coliseum. Brazil and Cuba A both have three victories and no defeats, while France have two victories and two defeats. Puerto Rico and Cuba B have
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    • 191 38 INAMURA (Japan). Fri. Australia's Michael Clayton and Japan's Namio Takasu shared the second-round lead in the Japan Open golf tournament today with four-under-par 140s. Clayton, 26. shot eight birdies and one bogey over the 6,404-metre par-72 Ibaraki Course for a sizzling 65. the days best score.
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    • TIMESPORT PHOTO SPECIAL
      • 285 42  - Even with the Royal touch excitement was amiss J. RAJENDRAN By THE trouble with friendly matches is that they sometimes tend to get too friendly, resulting in the paying spectator no: get ting his money's worth. Such was the case at the Jurong Stadium last night w hen Singapore's ex-international
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      • 367 42  -  JOE DORAI By Theatrics of an anxious coach WHAT Tony Lopez is doing in these sequence pictures is nothing new in football. As a coach, he is doing what comes naturally, alone. Only trouble is, very rarely do our cameramen come across such theatrics on the bench except
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      • 70 42 Two ways to stop an attack MALAYSIAN captain Son Chin Aun (above, right) slides in to prevent Japan's Kazushi Kimura from making inroads, while Saudi Arabia's Khaled Al-Dossari (below, right) uses his head to stop this speeteeular o\erhead kick b> Marjan Kid Marjan, of Bahrain. Malaysia won 2-1 to boost
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      • 407 42 NEW YORK, Fri. A rookie pitcher who left college a year ago helped end the Detroit Tigers' nine-game winning streak in the American League yesterday. Bret Saberhagen, at 20 the youngest player ever for the Kansas City Royals, scattered six hits in six innings and,
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      • 61 42 LOS ANGELES. Fri. Malaysia are among the record 146 countries who will telecast this year's Olympic Games, the Los Angeles Olympic Organising Committee said yesterday. The number is 22 more than in the 1976 Games in Montreal, according to the LAOOC. Michael O'Hara. the organising committee's television agent,
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      • 203 42 Secretin proves right old theory MOSCOW, Fri. Sixthseeded Jacques Secretin, a member of the victorious French side in Tuesday's team final, proved an old theory when he crashed out of the individual event of the European Table Tennis Championships here yesterday. Secretin was beaten In the second round of the
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      • 470 42  -  TAY CHENG KHOON By ONG SOO HE\G ended a four-year wait with a convincing 3-2 win over a lacklustre favourite Julius Foo in the semi-finals of the Ascot Singapore Closed Under-19 Squash Championships at Kallang last night. Ever since the Catholic Junior College
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    • 273 43  -  JOE DORAI THAILAND ace Piyapong Pueon will be more than a mouthful for Qatar in the pre-Olympir Games soccer tournament match tonight (6.30). Piyapong. South-east \>, is top striker, has recovered from an aching tooth which troubled him against Iraq. A fully-fit Piyapong
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    • 63 43 OFFICIALS and players of the 10 teams involved in the pre-Olympic Games soccer tournament received a pleasant surprise yesterday from jeans manufacturers I.evi Strauss. Levi's, who wflJ outfit about TIM) members of the United States Olympic team for the Los Angeles (lames, have decided to
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    • 1068 43  - Struck by stars JEFFREY LOW Signs point to Iraqis, Kuwaitis, Koreans and Thais making last four Byv Malaysian moments The joy of winning. ..Malaysian winger Vunus All/ (above, 19) congratulates his striker Zainai Abidin for scoring against Japan, and shows why he is a tricky flanker when he beat the
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    • 419 43  - Japan in bid to regain pride JOE DORAI By JAPAN may be out of the running of the Los Angeles soccer competition. But their spirits are certainly not down and out. Defeats by Thailand and Malaysia have put paid to the Japan's chances, but like wounded samurais, they intend to
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  • RACING
    • 160 40  -  TONTO By Our mar on the track PENANG. Fri. Laststart winner King Of Diamonds is maintaining form and looks good I for another win in Race 4 for Class 5 Div 2 horses over 1,700 m. \lthough s(-ven years old, he ran his
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    • 147 40  -  LUCKY LEO By FORMER restricted terms performer, Peerless 11, meets moderate opposition in the opening race and should score his first win. This four-year-old finished a good "fourth to Unit Four over the Penang 1.200 m in soft going in February He came in for
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    • 91 40 THESE horses have won or done well on a wel t rack RACK 1: Assure. Peerless 11. Lutomer RACK t: Costa Rica, Road Runner 11, Jewellery. Yellows K\( E 3: Harrigan, IX ong Fei Huns < late Audit Exception) RACK I: Victoria's (lift. Teamwork, Gallant ive, Razzmatazz HI RACK
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    • 663 40  -  EPSOM JEEP Three ready to break the ice on heavy track By THERE should be a crop of maiden winners on a heavy Penang track today. The pick of the "maidens" are Qaincy in Race 2, Flight Captain in Race 3 and Advance in Race 5.
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    • 77 40 Johnston takes breather MALCOLM JOHNSTON (above), who is joint h leading In the jockeys table with Nigel Ttle>, is skipping the Penang meeting starting w>da The three-time champion Sydne\ jockey has returned home for a holiday and will be back for the Perak Derby Meeting. Miek Goreham from Victoria is
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    • 4952 40 GOING FORECAST: HEAVY HHpMNMH 2.1 5 CLASS 5 DIV 2 1,200m I<M Jf (Ratings: 55-47) (Stakes: $11,500) 1 0507*0 Hollow Laughter 57 (55) A C-Heddle 4 irh dc same (1400m) Heavily-fancied in last outing, finishing disappointing 11th of 12 to San Lorenzo C4-7 S'pore 1400m good March
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    • 357 41  -  TONTO ON THE TRACK with PENANG, Fri. Last-start winner Unit Four, with visiting Brisbane jockey Graham Cook in the saddle, showed up smartly here this morning. The four-year-old Australian gelding was eager to go on the heavy track but was restrained to do pace
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    • 101 41 Robinson wins on Guineas hope LONDON, Fri PEBBLES, ridden by Philip Robinson (above), galloped into contention for the English 1,000 Guineas with a game victory in the Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket yesterday. Pebbles, a 7-1 shot, had a length to spare over Walter Swinburn's mount, Leipzig, at 4-1, with
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    • 92 41 1st 2nd 3rd Teh 24 20 18 Allan 19 16 11 E van Breukelen 14 8 10 Zaflr 13 16 8 Urn 13 6 12 Boagonre 11 11 9 Ismail 9 10 8 West 9 6 16 Osman 9 4 6 Rodgers 8 14 9 G van Brenkelen
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    • 86 41 1st 2nd 3rd Auric 14 14 7 Goodman 8 3 7 Agasam 5 4 6 Inderapnra 4 4 5 FH Ctau 4 10 Distinction 4 0 0 Caballo 3 3 0 Dedicated 3 2 0 Blue Cap 3 11 Sunny Khoo 3 0 2 Anderesingh 3 0 0
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    • 239 41 THE veterinary surgeons list the reasons for the following horses not fulfilling their engagements at the justconcluded Sultan of Selangor Gold Cup Meeting at Kuala Lumpur: Paper Chase inappetance loss of condition. Jorunjo lame off fore shoulder. Fortune Maker lame off fore fetlock. Port
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    • 1756 41 ■■WfW^fll 1.45 CLASS 5 DIV 4 1,200m )i liTW (Ratings: 53-45) (Stakes: $11,500) I «S4»C3 Fijsan IU 57 (53) Sunny Khoo-Lim 3 nzg -.5 (1400m) Vzhar 11 j I *****2 Gentleman D 58.5 (52) K Chong-Owner 5 ag -1 (1400m) Vein 4 3 »63*0* Royal Members 58 (51)
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  • OBITUARIES
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      155 41 CHNGNGHEEHUAT. DOMINIC of CHOPHWAKEE 126, BOAT QUAY AGED 74 passed away peacefully on 18 April 1984. Leaving behind beloved wife Lee Yong Muay, Cecilia 5 sons, 6 daughters. -5 daughters-in-law, 5 sons-in-law. 21 grandchildren. 2 grandsons-in-law i and 2 great granddaughters. Cortege will leave Bin 307, Hougang Ave
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    • 126 41 MUROSAMY S/O RANGASAMY passed away peacefully on 20th April '84 Cortege leaves Alexandra Hospital at 2.30 pm for Mount Vernon Crematorium today. The family of the late PETER TEE SWEE HEE departed 15.4.84 wishes to express their deepest gratitude to all priests, relatives, friends, colleagues and members of
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      214 41 LT. COL. (retired) EDWARD CHAN YIN CHEE (General Manager ol PSI Concrete Pte Ltd) Departed on 21 4.82 Remembered by Pnscilla Tan Willie Tan Ho Chee Leong Tony Ho Loke Kai Hoong Robert Ho Frankie Lee Tommy Koh Philip Ng Joseph Toh Winston Zee Alan Lee Koh
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  • Page 42 Miscellaneous
    • 105 42 Todays events CRICKET Friendly: SCC v Hongkong SOCCER Pre-Olvmpics: Cricket Club (Padang, 2 p.m. Qatar (6.30 p.m I, Japan v Iraq (8.30 pit HOCKEY SHA under-23: Khalsa v both al National Stadium National SRC (Farrer Park, 5.15 p.m.). Schools A Division: Various venues (5.30 RIGBY National Schools A DM- a.m.
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    • 13 43 q§gT Today's ties Thailand v Qatar (6.30 p.m.); Japan v Iraq ($.30 p.m.).
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  • 487 44  -  AHMAD OSMAN and how Raia sees it 'Confront the culprits' By_ IHIS is how two primary school pupils see the killer litter menace in Singapore. The drawing by Wu Weiren below shows a victim lying prone on the ground after being apparently hit by a
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  • 93 44 IS. Korean demos: 39 cops hurt SEOUL, Fri. Police P. ->aiti today that 39 riol police were injured in P Studenl demonstrations marking the 24th annii, versa rv of a bloody f' uprising which toppled South Korea's first President. They said thousands of students at more than 10 X. universities
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  • 453 44 The Libyan embassy siege 1 LONDON, Fri. LIBYA today deliverec a secret response tc Britain's terms for lift ing its four-day-old po lice siege on the Libyar embassy here amic affirmation by both sides that they were looking for a peacefu solution to
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  • 217 44 Time to act, says Bush WASHINGTON, Fri. US Vice-President George Bush, commenting on the shooting outside the Libyan embassy in London on Tuesday, said yesterday that it was time to think of taking measures against the Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi. Speaking at a press lunch about international terrorism, Mr
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  • 356 44 Much dearer at Beijing's modern office building The rental there may be higher than in London, Hongkong or New York BEIJING, Fri. China's first modern office building for foreign firms will be ready soon, but the rents will be as high or higher than in central New York, Hongkong, Paris
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  • 33 44 BEIJING, Fri. Shakespeare's play. Anthony and Cleopatra, will be staged for the first time in China this weekend when the Shanghai Youth Drama Company presents it as a birthday Bard. AFP
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  • 241 44  - More than 130 pupils drawn to RC's art contest NG PUAY JOO By would be like if litter was indiscriminately thrown, the pupils talked of their naughty deeds. A 13-year-old contestant recounted how he threw down an old drawer from his 10thstorey flat three years ago. It did not hit
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  • 160 44 NEW YORK, Fri. US scientists today claimed a possible breakthrough in the mass production of a low-cost vaccine to combat hepatitis B, a liver disease which afflicts about 200 million people. Although a vaccine already exists for hepatitis B, a major killer in
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    • 138 44 Weather Y UP TO 1 p.m. Showers in tew areas late morning onwards. TKMP. up to 6 a.m. tomorj row: 31 max., 25 min. SUNSET today: t 7.07 p.m.; Sl'NRISrc tomorrow: 6.58 a.m. 1 Adelaide 12 20C Cloudy IVlunila 22 36C Fair Amsterdam C Melbourne 13 LSC Rain BaiiKkok 27
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  • SECTION TWO
    • 2 1 SECTION TWO
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    • 1246 1 Fiona Kidman is the foremost writer of women's issues in New Zealand and the immediate past president of PEN, the international body representing poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists in 109 countries. Today, this controversial writer talks about herself, her work and developments in New Zealand
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      742 1  -  FIONA KIDMAN Pu^jc FIONA Kidman's first novel was A Breed of Women, which focuses on two women who move from the countryside tc a small town. Fiona says it is not biographical, "although its themes follow the shape of my life". Mandarin Summer, her second novel, was described
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    • KIDS & THINGS
      • 989 2 THIS is how the Encyclopaedia Britannica sums up the egg: "Considering all factors, eggs rank next after milk in importance and efficiency among foods of animal origin". It is strange that of all the eggs in the world, man has narrowed down
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      • 635 2 YOUR mother is probably the most important person in your life. Yet many of us take this fact for granted. Who wakes up early, prepares breakfast, cooks most of the meals, dresses you up, tidies the house, goes marketing, takes care of you when you
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    • OUTLOOK
      • 388 4  - Food thai tells the story of Easter TAN LEE LENG For the Easter weekend, our columnist describes some traditional food eaten by people around the world during this festival. She also provides recipes for popular Easter dishes, some of them pagan in origin. By ALTHOUGH Easter is a Christian festival,
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      • 956 4 Simnel cake 240 g unsalted butter 2 large lemons 240 g castor sugar 4 large eggs 200 g chopped mixed peel 200 g sultanas 550 g currants 420 g plain flour pinch of salt pinch of baking powder 1 tsp mixed spices Decorations: 125 g
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      • 1016 5  -  PETER KEYS SHATIN COFFEE HOUSE AND RESTAURANT -03-81 86 Golden Mile Complex. 6001 Beach Road Reviewed by Specialities of the house home-eooked dishes (clockwise from top left): kangkong in bel&c&n, brisket beef in ciaypot, chicken with mushroom and wine, deepfried sotong and steamed sotong Ql
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      • 666 5  -  MAGDALENE LUM By "I'M LATE, I'm late," the White Rabbit said as he whizzed by in his bunny mobile. White Rabbit (Bunny, for short) did not care a whisker about the curious stares he got as he stopped at the traffic lights. He shook his floppy ears
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    • BOOKS
      • 1039 6  - The voice of a sincere critic LIM YOON LIN WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR By Tan Chee Khoon Edited by Raj Vasil 339 pp, Eastern Universities Press, 1984. $15 Reviewed by TO Malaysians, he was Mr Opposition. There was hardly a day when he wasn't in the news when Parliament was
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      • 480 6  -  LEE GEOK BOI EXOCET By Jack Higgins 237 pp, Pan Books, 1984, $9.40 Reviewed by A GOOD thriller has you sitting on the edge of your chair, biting your i nails as you wait impatiently for the plot to be revealed. The combination of
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      • 758 7  -  VICKRAM KHANNA PUTTING THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER TO WORK By Kenneth Blanchard and Robert Lorber 96 pp, Willow, 1984. $22 Reviewed by GIVEN the current state of jselfdoubt. especially in the US and European industry, how-to books on management are proving :o be a gold mine. Tl>e
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      • 710 7  -  REBECCA CHUA Browsing in D l£ssvl the library fU/J By Yr>r VE bought a computer and now you re stumped on how to use it and what to use it for. What do you do? You pick up a book and read about it, that's
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      • 270 7 The Englishman's Daughter by Peter Evans (Penguin, $9.35) A spy novel spiced with love and betrayal, ambition and murder. An English aristocrat-defector manoeuvres his way through the Kremlin's corridors of power in a bid to save the daughter he abandoned in the West. Berlin
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      • 221 6 K ,^iB^ Up-.'* jj* 11 1 -3 w I r*J^7 l k rl !^g >M V, -**m\ Wmm\ .-t^K Kt**!* HIS BBr jf^ttk H3 Iv yQhUHI I^ZZITZZZ^^m iT^^wi^fl^Mr -^^^mmmW^'Aimmmmm Hi a^mtanik S8L-' i I HB^^^^Hl Ha^fll u -IK <ajj^M aH 1 At kW^j^< ANN vvS^^^mn goo^^^^^^ anq^^^^n^ >offl!|Somers. r U^Ji
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      • 339 6 Bear in Mind Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Picador. $9.35) Garcia Marquez reconstructs the events associated with a murder that occurred in a Caribbean town 27 years before. He interviews people who remember the murder, studies the documents and creates a chronicle of what happened. The
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      • 689 7 Times bookshops are at Lucky Plaza, Centrepoint. Colombo Court Specialists" Centre basement. Goldhill Square and Tangs KEN-AIRJHE NAME MANY HAVE (nU (§3 COME TO TRUST Hjiiyjlr WoSp KEN-AIR offers the widest choice of American Tours from Singapore $2999 "What better way to select your American tour than to pick from
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      • 2151 8 O'Jrl 'lftf CCI/ hg^^""l INVEST IN INDUSTRIAL TRAINING |_3^llWfMTllT: f^^H^l OIU Wttl\ h-WS-T" UPGRADE YOUR STAFF .4 v.: raT"?Y™"!lsETiT^!^ §-^_SSB »IWT^P,MM I M EFFICIENCY FOR HIGHER $8$ wftiSL f m >n:ini i^o S^Smkk jfi w .3jj;s« PRODUCTIVITY l^gy 8 _i!_ißfe X __*'atM B _iia^_i__ cnnuir'C runirr I NT:130,0.*5,r.UU,y.w j _>—^~T'
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      • 568 9 APPOINTMENTS/NOTICES HMM relex Service: Address: Kates: Min. Charges: CTJI|JTC S -T.A.N.T.S Appointments Notices Section Straits Times: 5523.75 psc. cm. Straits Times: 5571.25 -I--TLL- RS 50H81 TIMEAD TIMES PUBLISHING BHD Sunday Times: 5524.40 psc. cm. Sunday Times- Ss73 20 RSSOBBI Sa|es s^.,^. Times House MB!" 81 Tel^TWlfext 2724-7 2669 singapme^^ B
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      • 1090 9 A tyfitiTlxHi.se V V Management Consultant* Pte ltd Management Consultants in a wide range of services including: executive recruitment, organisation and corporate planning, financial management, manufacturing, production and project management systems and procedures, market surveys, data processing and computerisation, job evaluation, salary surveys and compensation structuring, as well as management
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      • 876 9 Coopers &LyDrdnQ Associates provides a comprehensive range of management consultancy services aimed at helping clients increase the effectiveness and profitability of their organisation. These services include Corporate Development, Organisation Planning, Financial Control and Management Information Systems, Investment Planning and Appraisal, Electronic Data Processing, Manufacturing ■|MBaj| and Distribution Systems, Executive Selection,
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      • 867 10 APPOINTMENTS Dear Engineers, ws '"phis is an invitation for you to be in the technological forefront and to share in §B 1 X our growth. We believe that your writing to us could be of mutual benefit. |S| We are seeking to employ experienced Engineers to fill the following vacancies
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      • 208 10 Air-distributing Engineer A well-established company requires the services of an air-distributing specialist who will have to sell original American equipment. The ideal candidate must be able to propose comprehensive systems to consultants and contractors. Experience gained as a Project Manager for air- conditioning contractors or as an air-conditioning specialist in
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      • 741 10 MERCHANDISERS I OVERSEAS APPOINTMENT The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Our Client is a large and well-established international trading group based in Saudi Arabia with a turnover of USS462 million. They seek enquiries from candidates who consider they match the following: A mature male, single, in his mid-twenties or early thirties
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      • 734 10 flP 1 kl 1 OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING I fzZZZ 1 invites applications for the following appointments: CREDIT REVIEW OFFICERS Successful candidates will report to the Internal Auditor and will be responsible for conducting reviews on ciedit facilities extended by the Bank and its financial subsidiaries Candidates should possess a good University
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      • 668 11 APPOINTMENTS programme (1982-86), we invite 7 applications from suitably qualified jig Singapore citizens, Permanent Residents of SPi Singapore and ASE-AN citizens to fill the following posts: 3» (A) Administration Division S| Assistant Librarian I (a) Gross salary range: ***** ***** per month «ra (b) Gross salary range: $999 $3376 per
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      • 722 11 Panasonic, Office Automation/" 2^! We seek intelligent, highly motivated and M I f— M hard-working personnel for the following positions: vV^ Jf MARKETING ASSISTANTS (Male/Female) OFFICE EQUIPMENT To deal with relevant parties and follow through all marketing or promotional programs. To handle correspondence; to prepare statistical reports for business review;
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      • 644 11 A U.S. oilfield service company whose regional office is in Singapore has a vacancy for a FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT The successful candidate would principally be responsible for the financial reporting of one of the companies and preparation of the consolidated U.S. dollar reporting required for the region. As a computerised accounting
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      • 595 11 ■f^- n A Multi-Natii applications for an ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT This is a newly create I the expanding operations and Accounting Depa I organisation The job will initially involve tl of the company's manual accoui terns to microcomputei ing and training the a the new systems Other duties n preparation of
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      • 510 12 APPOINTMENTS A^ INDOCEMENT IHOOCIMIHT We are a leading cement manufacturer in Indonesia, currently setting up a new cement grinding plant in Tuas Crescent. Expected to be in operation in the third quarter of 1984. we are now inviting qualified candidates for the following positions:MARKETING MANAGER Recognised degree/professional qualification Minimum 3
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      • 603 12 "J\(f CARLEE\ jtl 41 Electronics Pte LtcP \lp w f n a'# (Associate Company A of Time Engineering Berhad) 9 1 ENGINEERS We are a young and progressive I Electronic manufacturing concern servicing Computer Industry and due to expansion, we have created these new 1 m engineering positions in the
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      • 958 12 cts j a^ s^ CT PTC f r^T"C2 rHHrnHW^HriL mw«a«Ln rv>^^^F^w^v^i^ *-^h^^^v^^^h r-*T* CTS Corporation was ITri 4ff4!t4iß^B3 KjHnVT^tfIHHEJ I •J'T'll 'TN'TiMM^J B J>y iPf E*M*4^J f^T* r-»-T"^. I founded in 1896. It iMHiKMIi I UKiMiiflHl UkMIhII MMmUmUmJI CTS I Jas 3D •production TheJob (Active Device) (Passive Device) (Permanent 2nd
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      • 569 12 DBS BANK CAREER APPOINTMENTS DBS Bank is in the banking and financial services business We are a multi-service, universal bank providing development financing, commercial banking and merchant banking services. And we are Singapore's largest bank, measured in terms of assets We aim to be the pre-eminent Singapore bank and invite
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      • 759 13 APPOINTMENTS a DU PONT (SINGAPORE) ELECTRONICS PTE LTD a subsidiary I of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours, a top fortune 500 Company engaged in the production of electronic connectors and inter- connection systems, invites applications for the following positions; II PRODUCT ENGINEER I I Degree in Engineering with at least
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      • 703 13 I SINGAPORE I AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES B i: I Accountant I Internal Auditor I Audit Assistant BE B Singapore Aircraft Industries is a group of fast growing companies n involved in the maintenance and refurbishment of aircraft, overB| haul and manufacture of aircraft parts and components, electronic M and systems engineering
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      • 656 13 CAREER APPOINTMENTS ■IHBMHHH| NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE SOCIETY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE SOCIETY (NUSS) The NUSS is a registered Society of university graduates. Its current membership strength is 4,500, and fast growing. The Society's new Guild House facilities in the University campus at Kent Ridge include: Swimming pool Meeting Function
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      • 971 14 APPOINTMENTS HH Senior Engineer Engineering sHI (Mechanical Engineering) Aooioi'Orffro The J b (Mechanical Engineering) HBBhH Responsible for a spectrum of engineering r^^^^^^ activities which include the design of The Job: :^^^^^r manufacturing process for the production of Assist in designing automated and mechanised television receivers, design of automated and systems,
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    • Page 14 Miscellaneous
      • 183 14 COMICS GARFIELD B^ Jim Davis I LET'S 6LOW\ —^r^\\- ri I WMeRE PIP y- tmis joint, r^^"n I f^T^rt V vou gop \-%r: *-r m 1 HL/^ T rTooive^Mb\ i/] 1 BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY By Bates U Sparling THE BOHN LOSER By Arl sansom WBK^^^ R> irsßsALL
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      • 1090 15 APPOINTMENTS MaHHi|HMH| mesa LX/C/rC IC? \Aj I L/f (A One of the downstream companies of Singapore's \r\]A/^i6&n\r P\ l"f"l AWJ Petrochemical Complex on Pulau Ayer Merbau. EG tow L/f \yV\\KZf I Ml MFC producing NITROGEN and will also produce ETHYLENE OXIDE and ETHYLENE GLYCOLS when the Air Separatio Assistant Electronics
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      • 414 15 PEANUTS BySchulz hERE'S TME uIORLF cCAs I HMI P!P VOU KNOU' THAT TME T TMINK I NFFP A i FLYIN6 ACE FLIRTING uiITH FOAM ON ROOT BEER COMES TTER OPENING LINE I KING TUT By dm i Mt.NK'/ >O0 THAiT\/ 115 JO5-T a PARK^' '^^©^I^^^^BiS v\eK6 ATTIM6 ON K^'jjy/ W|
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    • LEISURE
      • 623 16  -  CATHERINE TAN It was a dark and stormy night. Our reporter bumped into Count Dracula By HE WHIRLED his cloak which spread bat-like around him, mesmerised me with his piercing eyes and said in a deep-throat-ed European accent: "Good evening." I had just met what
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      • 676 16 This story is by British television producer David Attenborough who has just finished a three-year world tour for his 11 -part The Living World series. He warns that global disaster lies ahead. I EXPECTED to be dazzled by the sheer splendour of the natural world. I knew
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      • 1004 17  - Glittering but tedious JACINTHA ABISHEGANADEN By in Boston Amerfcana The Academy Awards ceremony, held in Hollywood last week, will be shown on Ch 5 tomorrow. Our stargazer in America, while not among the fans outside the Pavilion, caught the show "live" on television. ONE can take the hard boiled approach
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      • 180 17  -  Kannan Chandran ■■mhmhmbm/ TV and radio 1 Round-up i MINORITY" games that attract fewer spectators than, say, football, may soon enjoy better coverage on RTM There are plans to introduce international compilations of such games as cricket, golf and tennis. They may be a shot
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      • 824 16 NOTICES I SEALION HOTELS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore' The Directors of Sealion Hotels Limited are pleased to make the following announcement AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1983. :U.l2.H:{ M. 12.82 4- or $'000 $'000 la) Turnover $56,480 $59^376 i4.9°/o> Interest [ncome 285 751 (62.1%)
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      • 210 16 LAND TITLES ACT (CHAPTER 276) and LAND TITLES (STRATA) ACT (CHAPTER 2T7) NOTICE Pursuant to Section 29 of the Land Titles Act an r Application No. A/***** dated the 13th day of December 1983 has been made by HENG ER SUAN of Block 92 Commonwealth Drive -09-710. Singapore, for the
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      • 520 16 U H (S) PTE LTD A (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of U H (S) PTE LTD duly convened and held at 354K Alexandra Road, Singapore 0315 on the 18th April 1984 the following Special Resolutions were duly
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    • Page 16 Miscellaneous
      • 340 16 What's on 'r'PWimiW^." I<WI i pmwi n i»ff|f'nHl ip.p i> 'Hi JJLJi". 1 Jl^l "iHJ'MWVIIiii 'IIW>M< T ".H'l'.W HI fiUHI tliM"!!! i flWWf'B'' "IHWITl'HIIHI 'mtPIP^^' 'H'f'lfff* i 1 )lii lH 1 SINGAPORE (lobby level). From 10 hibiscus and lotus. SYMPHONY a.m. 10 p.m. Free. Lone Pine Gallery, ORCHESTRA FAMOUS WARSHIPS
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      • 628 17 APPOINTMENTS GM Singapore g H w PteLt(l p H GM SINGAPORE is a modern reputable manufacturing W B company that uses the latest technology in the assembly H ot sophisticated integrated circuits and computerised H automotive electronics. We provide excellent career and 9g BB personal growth opportunities for those who
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      • 687 17 APPOINTMENTS frii A newly created Far Fast subsidiary of LJ.S. based hi^h P J technology electronics manufacturer requires: A FINANCIAL CONTROLLER set up and manage r> r l financial organization in Singapore. The appointee will be responsible foi H entire financial and accounting function including head office reporting. H treasury
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      • 372 18 IWHERWORLD/i^"lit,iO j f^MlHvAl'l Y@^^ are notjust small adults. 4 m^^ril/lP* iJ% l/ULf^J^" %4%f Children are quite different \i/fl[Jßl %>w t from adults in so many ways. JIC^I I wrQ^ I Treat them with Children's Cough Syrup I^^ /\\.]^f W^^^ It's still WocxJs' Great Peppermint Cure. \»^l^^^ I kij^f J) for
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      • 1824 18 \QUR VIEWING AND LISTENING GUIDE tf_ ~Pick New series based fSBCS Radio One Of tho OH ChPlStlG S IIOVCIS S- 58 AM National Anthem Daily Serial 2.M The Top 12.30 PM SBCTEXT "Live" Sample Pages Exchange of Radio and Television Artistes (Part Mowed by opening An- Ten 3.M News m
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