The Straits Times, 20 July 1986

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  • 14 1 The Sunday Times No: 2615 55 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 189/12/85 JULY 20, 1986
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  • 618 1 Judge calls Jeya's allegations 'wholly unfounded and scandalous' MR J.B. JEYARETNAM made completely unfounded and scandalous allegations m Parliament about the independence of the Subordinate Courts, the Commission of Inquiry on the Judiciary said m its report released yesterday. The Commissioner, Mr Justice
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  • 23 1 Picture by For where it b and what it offers, see Pace 2. LIM SENG TIONG
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  • 318 1  - For a bit more, flats with better finish MATHEW YAP By FUTURE buyers of Housing Board flats can get kitchens and bathrooms tiled up to the ceiling, twin-bowl kitchen sinks and other improvements if they're prepared to pay a bit more for them. The better finish also includes larger ceramic
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  • 97 1 MOUNTAIN VIEW (CALIFORNIA) The world's most powerful computer will begin making up to 250 million calculations a second when it starts operating tomorrow at the Ames Research Centre here. Officials said yesterday that it took 10 years to design and build the computer which will link a
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  • 299 1  -  AUDREY PERERA By AN AGGRESSIVE red lion leapt into the limelight yesterday m a bold bid to become a national symbol if Singaporeans like it enough. The symbol m the national colours was picked because its unswerving gaze conveys Singapore's resolve
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  • 268 1 Boss of locked-up Lankan maid charged in court THE employer of a Sri Lankan maid whom police freed from a locked flat m May has been charged m court. Vasanmal Murli, 47, was charged yesterday with wrongfully confining Miss Wimalawathie Hitapu Gedara, 27, m his Peach Gardens penthouse for 24
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  • 160 1 KUALA LUMPUR The opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Parti Islam (PAS) are considering taking court injunctions to stop Malaysia's general election from being held next month. The DAP, the main opposition party, yesterday accused the Election Commission of breaking the law by
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • AT A GLANCE
      • 100 2 The organisers of the Commonwealth Games, due to start next Thursday, have denied that the event is facing a collapse, as the boycott list grows to 16. Zimbabwe and Zambia were added to the boycott list late on Friday after a meeting of African "front-line" states m
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      • 83 2 Bolivia, with US support, raided a cocaine laboratory m a jungle m northern Colombia on Friday. The exercise was to stamp out cocaine trafficking and to discourage Bolivian farmers from growing coca, from which cocaine is produced. This is the first co-ordinated US-Bolivian raid on the drugs
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      • 65 2 Scan Perm, husband of pop star Madonna (left), has been charged with allegedly assaulting Grammy-winning songwriter, David Wolinski, for trying to kiss Madonna. If convicted, Perm, 25, could face six months m jail and a US$l,OOO (552,180) fine. The incident happened on April 12 m a Los
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      • 80 2 Sotheby's will auction one of tbe finest collections ot Chinese antiques later this year. The collection belongs to Mr T. Y.Chao, chairman of Wah Kwong Shipping Co of Hongkong, and is expected to fetch at least £7 million (S$23 million). Wah Kwong, Hongkong's third largest shipping
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      • 74 2 A US federal judge has dismissed three lawsuits that accused ex-Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos of murder and torture. His ruling is that Mr Marcos cannot be sued m US courts for actions allegedly committed while he was President of the Philippines. However, the Judge let stand two
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      • 52 2 Speech trainers m Singapore are reporting a booming business, and their new clientele is the senior executives, models and even students. The hope is that, armed with clearer speech, tips on public speaking and social chit-chat, executives will do a better job of selling their companies.
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      • 65 2 Dog owners are paying as much as $200 for a two- to three-week course for their pets to learn a few tricks, such as dancing and fetching the newspapers. The smarter canine graduates, after daily lessons, can even arrange numbers and simple words with lettered cards.
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      • 55 2 Importers of mineral water have reported good sales m recent years, as affluent executives become more health-conscious. Last year, $2.5 million worth of this clear, sparking liquid is consumed. This was 10 times more than the sales seven years ago. However, some nutritionists appear unconvinced about
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    • SPORTS
      • 94 2 Mike Wee, who represented Singapore for the first time in the Asian Amateur Bowling Championships in Malaysia recently, struck his first gold in his eight years in the sport, four of which he played competitively. It was also the Singapore team's only medal in the tournament. Mike,
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      • 90 2 When a columnist oi uou Monthly, a leading British golf magazine, was m town recently for the Dunhill Nations Cup Pacific qualifying round, he filed his report from the Raffles Hotel (above) where he stayed. The result was a piece that did Singapore tourism proud,
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    • 1054 2  -  LIAK TENG KIAT By Washington Correspondent MIDLAND (Texas) Mr C.K. Chan jokes that most people m this south-west Texas town mistake his company, KESU, for a radio station. It is an understandable mistake. Radio stations m this country normally identify themselves by a
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    • 602 2  -  AUDREY PERERA By ALL-NIGHT restaurants and 24-hour provision shops sprouting up m the KatongGeylang area are giving it a reputation as Singapore's Sunset Strip. Over the past two years at least 20 food shops, half of them open round the clock and the rest
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    • 230 2 JOHOR BARU Babies aged between a few days and three weeks have been sold m a plantation m Negri Sembilan through middlemen for $200 each as their parents have found it difficult to support them with their meagre wages, according to State MIC Youth
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    • 655 3  -  AUDREY PERERA By AN MP has a radical suggestion: Allow free parking on Sundays and public holidays everywhere m Singapore. He thinks families and businesses would benefit if there is free parking on these days at public housing estates, shopping
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    • 678 3  - Brought back to save Haw Par Villa from fading away MATHEW YAP By SINGAPORE SNAPSHOTS THESE two men have devoted their entire working lives doing only one thing: Keeping the statues m Haw Par Villa m good repair. For nearly 40 years now, they have used their skills, rare here,
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 475 4 EDINBURGH The tally of countries boycotting the Commonwealth Games rose to 16 yesterday, with yet more expected to pull out over the weekend. But the organisers denied that the Games, due to start here next Thursday, were on the brink of
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    • 105 4 EDINBURGH There is no question of next week's boy-cott-hit Commonwealth Games being called off, leading official Robert Maxwell said yesterday. Mr Maxwell, chairman of the Games fund-raising consortium, told a sews conference: 'There is no question of the Games being cancelled." The
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    • 325 4 SEOUL Riot police fired teargas yesterday to stop hundreds of South Koreans marching on a church m central Seoul m defiance of a ban on a rally called m protest at alleged police torture. Hie government banned the rally, organised by the opposition New Korea Democratic
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    • 382 4 Editor in Beijing to discuss reporter's detention BEIJING New York Times executive editor A. M. Rosenthal arrived m Beijing yesterday and said the detention of the newspaper's correspondent John Burns by the Chinese police on suspicion of spying was "a misunderstanding". Mr Rosenthal said he hoped to meet Chinese officials
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    • 220 4 NEW DELHI The government said on Friday some Indian doctors are misusing pre-natal sex determination tests to enable women to abort female foetuses. The statement m Parliament followed press reports of widespread abuse of amniocentesis, a test of foetal health during pregnancy,
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    • 107 4 NEW DELHI Security forces using helicopters, motor boats and bulldozers have launched a major offensive against Sikh extremists m Punjab and arrested 180 people. Nearly 2,000 paramilitary and policemen began the operation on Friday night m three districts bordering Pakistan. One military
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    • 382 5  - US troops join Bolivia in cocaine raids LA PAZ UNITED States and Bolivian forces undertook their first coordinated drug raids, with officials from both countries trying to play down the importance of the American participation. The raids aimed to disrupt the cocaine trade by putting the traffickers out of business
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    • 214 5 LOS ANGELES Actor Scan Perm was charged with battery on Friday for allegedly assaulting Grammy-winning songwriter David Wolinski m a nightclub because be was talking to Perm's wife, pop ringing star Madonna. If convicted of a misdemeanour charge, Perm, 25, the star of such movies
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    • 48 5 An emergency dump-site m downtown Philadelphia spans a three-block area, the result of an 18-day strike by rubbish collectors. The workers began returning to work yesterday after being ordered to do so by the courts. The strike was over pay and benefits. Reuter picture.
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    • 294 5 WABHINGTON THE top 12 per cent of American families control 38 per cent of all household wealth, according to the US Census Bureau. The bureau, m its first-ever assessment of wealth m America, says the 10.7 million wealthiest homes, made up
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    • 97 5 Prices lower in moderate trading Dow Jones NEW YORK Wall Street stocks dosed slightly lower m moderate trading after an erratic session which traders said was influenced by automatic computer trading and qiw^'i coverinc The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 3.80 points to 1,777.98 after saining 18 at one point
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    • 131 5 Wife of 21 -death killer sues McDonald's NEW YORK A woman whose husband killed 21 people at a McDonald's restaurant m California has filed a US$5 million (5J10.9 million) lawsuit claiming the rampage was spurred m part by additives m food served at the restaurant. The wrongful death suit was
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    • 135 5 Press scolded for 'diamond' story WASHINGTON President Ronald Reagan has vented his anger at the media for identifying his chief of staff as the official who said American women would have to give up their diamonds if the United States imposed sanctions on South Africa. Mr Reagan scalded the newspapers
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    • 243 6  - HK magnate's fabulous antiques for sale DON HIGGS By London Correspondent LONDON A fabulous array of Chinese works of art which has inspired collectors hi Singapore, Hongkong and Taiwan will be auctioned by Sotheby's and is expected to fetch at least £7 million (Ss23 million). It is the combined private
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    • 200 6 MR Christopher Chaplin, 23, son of Charlie Chaplin, holding his father's original bowler hat and cane that sold for £15,000 (5M9.000) at Christies m London on Thursday. The Times critic David Robinson bought them on behalf of a group of friends. The
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    • 326 6 BONN The West German authorities took the unusual step of blockading the East German mission here, where an East German scholar who is accused of being a spy was hiding. An East German diplomat delivered a protest note to the office of Chancellor
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    • 125 6  -  DON HIGGS LONDON Britain has made a good job of cleaning up its appalling soccer violence, according to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She told club chiefs and players that she was delighted how crowd behaviour at the country's soccer matches had improved m the past
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    • 232 6 European Court buttons up trousers dispute BRUSSELS IT'S official now. The European Court of Justice has ruled that trousers for men must button to the right, while pants buttoning to the left are tor women and both will cost the same to import. The ruling would put a stop to
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    • 41 6 BRUSSELS Ten countries m Latin America and Asia are to receive development aid totalling US$6O million (Ssl3l million) from the European Community. The EC executive commission said on Friday the aid will finance construction, research and training. Reuter
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    • BRIEFS
      • 122 6 EXPERTS ABE trying to tighten security on France's computer systems after an unknown intruder gained access to sections of one of the country's most powerful computers. A spokesman for the Research Centre for Vectorial Calculations m Paris said the intruder had cracked a computer entry code
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      • 89 6 FOUR GUNMEN leaped from a car and attacked an American University Hospital bus m Beirut yesterday, killing a doctor, two nurses and a hospital administrator, police said. Three other hospital employees were wounded. The attack took place near the Barbir bridge, which links predominantly Muslim west Beirut
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      • 108 6 US BUDGET Director James Miller says the US is not heading into a recession but that economic growth this year could fall short of the 4 per cent forecast by the Reagan administration. Mr Miller, director of the Office of Management and Budget, also forecast
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      • 88 6 THE LEADER of the Gurkha National Liberation Front has vowed to wage a guerilla war and armed struggle to create a separate Indian state of Gurkhaland. "We will either be finished or achieve Gurkhaland, we will fight unto death," Mr Subhas Geishing said this week during rallies
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      • 64 6 A CRAZED monkey has been running amok m the small central Indian town of Dhar m the past few days and has so far bitten 50 people, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported yesterday. The mad monkey is still at large and
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  • ASEAN NEWS ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 458 7  -  HEDWIG ALFRED Story By A WEDDING under the stars took place last night between the Malaysian King's third daughter and the Crown Prince of Pahang. The colourful bersanding ceremony on the sprawling lawns of the Istana Besar m Johor Baru was witnessed
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    • 171 7 Bangkok puts curbs on some envoys BANGKOK Thailand will restrict the movements of diplomats from 10 countries mainly communist and Muslim for security reasons and m retaliation for limits set on Thai envoys abroad, officials here said. As of Aug 1, the diplomats must ask the Foreign Ministry for permission
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    • 96 7 KUALA LUMPUR The Workers Party of Malaysia became the fifth member of the PAS-led opposition front on Friday night when it signed the joint draft declaration here. The front was set up to face the ruling National Front m the general election. Besides
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    • 353 7 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia views seriously the illegal encroachment of its territorial waters by foreign fishermen and will continue to take action against them according to its laws, Fisheries DirectorGeneral Tengku Datuk Übaidfflah Abdul Kadir said here yesterday. According to him, the "aggressiveness" of
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    • 219 7 KUALA LUMPUR The Election Commission will engage 69,224 temporary workers to help its 400 employees conduct the seventh Malaysian general election. Nomination day is July 24 and polling will be on Aug 2 and 3. Commission secretary Haji Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman said yesterday the
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    • 138 7 King gives Murdani top military honour JOHOR BARU The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, who is also Supreme Commander of the Malaysian Armed Forces, yesterday awarded the Pingat Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT), the forces' highest military honour, to Indonesian Armed Forces Chief Gen Benny Murdani at Istana Bukit Serene here. Gen Murdani
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    • 129 7 Order out to shoot foraging bears JAKARTA Troops have been called m to help shoot tree-climbing bears which have been ravaging coconut crops m central Kalimantan, Antara news agency said yesterday. The tree-climbing bears are said to have inflicted heavy damage m plantations m the Kotawaringing Barat district, eating coconuts
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    • 377 7 HONOLULU A federal judge has ruled that Mr Ferdinand Marcos cannot be sued m US courts for actions allegedly committed while he was President of the Philippines. US district judge Harold Fong made the ruling on Friday when he dismissed three lawsuits
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    • 296 7 ZURICH Some US$2l3 million (about ***** million) m assets held here by Mr Ferdinand Marcos will stay blocked after the former Philippine President apparently gave and then withdrew approval for them to be handed over to the Manila government, a prosecutor's office spokesman said.
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    • 203 7 Philippine move to abolish death penalty MANILA The Philippine Constitutional Commission has decided to recommend the abolition of the death penalty. The charter framers have also decided to recommend that the death penalty already imposed on at least 600 convicts be commuted to life imprisonment. They likewise suggested a ban
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    • 62 7 BANGKOK Police have formally charged 44 people m connection with the destruction of a controversial tantalum plant m Phuket during a riot on June 23. The 44 were charged with instigating the riot, arson and destruction of property, police said. If convicted, they could face the
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 198 9 TWO elderly pedestrians died and an SBC producer was seriously injured m separate road accidents m the past two days. Madam Ng Ai Lan, 75, suffered serious injuries on her face after she was involved m a crash with a car
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    • 39 9 APPLICATIONS from confirmed Division One officers are open for the 1987 overseas postgraduate scholarships m general management or economics. The closing date for the scholarships, tenable m the United States, Europe and Japan, is July 28.
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    • 679 9  -  STELLA DANKER By CABINET ministers and other politicians conscious of the power of the spoken word are not the only ones taking lessons on how to speak well. While they have been reported learning the knack of public yfcfag from
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    • 506 9  - Trial shipment of Medan pigs arrives this week PAUL JACOB By m Medan SINGAPORE could receive large numbers of live pigs from Medan if a trial shipment scheduled to arrive here this week fisds the porkers m good shape after their 30-hour journey. About 160 pigs, from five commercial farms
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    • 728 10 The onus to produce evidence lay very clearly with Jeyaretnam Findings of the Commission of Inquiry on the Judiciary THE onus to produce evidence lay very clearly with Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam, Mr Justice T.S. Sinnathuray said. And because the MP for Anson did not do so when given the opportunity,
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    • 348 10 Inquiry won't curb MPs' right to free speech A COMMISSION of inquiry can investigate statements made m Parliament without infringing an MP's right to speak freely m the House, said Mr Justice Sinnathuray Indeed, such commissions had been set up over the years m Commonwealth countries and a good example,
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    • 899 10 MR JEYARETNAM not only failed to use the many opportunities given him to prove his allegations of Executive interference m the subordinate judiciary but also abused the privilege accorded by the commission to him as an MP and as a senior member of
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    • 1185 10 The terms of reference 1. To Investigate the evidence upon which Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam based his allegation In Parliament on the Itth of January, ItBt, that the Executive arm of Government had at least three ibbislms Interfered with the administration of Justice la
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    • 98 10 MR J.B. Jeyaretnam yesterday filed a motion asking Parliament at its next sitting on July 29 to reject the report of the Commission of Inquiry on his allegations of Executive interference m the subordinate judiciary. He told reporters last night at a public forum that he
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    • 100 10 Jeya was expected to waive parliamentary privilege "Turing to another view ef the matter, there Is no doobt that the proposalofthe Prime Minister to have a commlssiMi ef Inquiry into the privileged statements made In the Hmm was accepted by Mr Jeyarntwi "At that time he would have knewn,
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    • 41 10 "Mr Jeyaretnam never had the intention to five evidence as he did not have the evidence to substantiate Ids aOegsttsm; It may therefore be presumed that any evidence he may have would be unfavourable to him."
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    • 69 10 "On the evidence of the Chief Justice, the evidence of the Attorney-General, and the letters of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Law, there Is as donbt that at as time had any member of the Executive interfered with the delegated functions of the Chief
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    • 61 10 "It Is esseatlsl for ntaasnl, for him to carry out his dittos, is take written sfstemeati from potential witnesses. Hie purpose of taking statements of evidence is U assist the nsmmlssl— to decide sa the relevance of the evidence aad the need to call the person as
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    • 38 10 It is an estabHshed rale for which no aothority is required as it is based on plain commonsense that he who makes an allegation most prove the fads on which the allegation Is founded."
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    • 28 10 "Section 4 of the Privileges Act does not preclude a fummlMlii of inquiry from investigating the evidence upon which allegations are made m Parliament."
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    • 171 10 THE commission found no evidence to back Mr Jeyaretnam's claim of public disquiet over the alleged Executive interference m the transfer of judicial officers. Mr Justice Sinnathuray said the claim was not reflected m the response to the commission's widely-publicised invitation for public
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    • 556 11 Nothing unusual about Knight's appointment as counsel THE commission carried out its duties according to well established procedures and practices, Mr Justice Sinnathuray said. And there was nothing unusual about Mr Glenn Knight's appointment as counsel to help the commission conduct its investigations efficiently. Addressing the challenge raised by Mr
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    • 208 11 THE Law Society tried to give oral evidence at the commission's public hearing on June 3 but was told the subject it was interested m came under the fourth term of reference, which would not be covered initially. It was told that
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    • 292 11  -  KONG BOOK CHIN Story by THEY are a different breed of pet dogs showing off more talent than their duller cousins who can but sit, stand on their hind legs or offer a limp paw for a handshake. Not for these new stars such a run-of-the-mill
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    • 277 11  -  LEONG WENG KAM By FIVE Chinese academic societies, concerned that young Singaporeans were steadily getting westernised, have pooled their resources to promote interest and studies m Asian cultural values here. They have formed a joint committee to organise cultural activities they hope will
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    • 98 11 Songs of our own will give 'sense of identity' SINGAPORE seeds its «wn sengs to reflect the people's asplratieiu, straggles ■natlsa), Mr Tu| Qua Ses«, sald7estef^ 'Writing aw ewa stags is set •aly a fiM^Hwn f^v maM IMa^ fc— t* -j M u^^mm «w no cijirami out ii gives seasesf
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    • 159 11 Laundry owner and student win trips to Canada A LAUNDRY owner and a student have each won a return trip to Canada m a contest organised by Air Canada and The Sunday Times. Their names were drawn from about 5,000 entries which gave correct answers to two questions on the
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    • 43 11 THE international telex exchange failed twice on Friday afternoon, interrupting all international and most national telex traffic. A Telecoms statement yesterday said the exchange failed from 357 pm to 4.28 pm, and again from 4.45 pm to 5.34 pm.
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    • 53 11 A JAPANESE housewife was found dead at the foot of a high-rise block of the Westpeak (V»iAiCT»tnhifw near West Coast Road early yesterday. Police said Madam duetto Omori, 32, who lived m an llth-floor apartment of the block, is believed to have fallen to her death. No foul
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    • 115 12 Ex-MD gets five years for cheating bank THE former managing director of a textile company was yesterday sentenced to five years' jail after being convicted of a charge of abetment-by-conspiracy to cheat. Tan Meng Tong, 47, cheated Bangkok Bank Ltd into releasing U*****,250 into Pantex Pte Ltd's bank account between
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    • 75 12 A MAN was charged yesterday with using criminal force on a woman when he allegedly stole her jewellery worth $3,800. Lee Wan Tiong, 31, is alleged to have used force on Madam Tan Puay Joo when he took the gold chain and bracelet she was
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    • 515 12  -  HEDWIG ALFRED By MRS Kathleen Chung, a 25--year-old accounting executive, picks up a carton of Perrier water from the supermarket with her groceries every month. That adds about $24 to her grocery bill but she thinks what she pays for, the sparkling water m
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    • 180 12 11 survivors of sunken trawler back in Singapore ELEVEN survivors of the fishing trawler which sank In the Seam Chin* Sea off Sarawak mi July II returned to Singapore yesterday. ftmoag them were two 81bgftptrean fishermen, Mr Leoag Hoo Han and Mr Lee Ah Pong, both hi their early Ms.
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    • 559 12 Forum on place for dissent NINETEEN of the 22 people who spoke at a forum last night on whether professional bodies should air public views on government policies argued that this must be so. They said that professionals had a duty
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    • 128 12 A TEENAGER was on Friday charged with vandalism at a school. Kin Gtan Seng, 17, is alleged to have broken a cupboard padlock m one of the classrooms of Buona Vista Secondary School on Aug 18,1961 He is also accused of writing vulgar word* on the
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    • The Sunday Times VIEW
      • 333 13 MR J.B. Jeyaretnam, having mounted the tiger's back by alleging Executive interference m the Subordinate judiciary, must now find it hard to climb down. He has only himself to blame. The report of the Commission of Inquiry into his allegations has stated m no uncertain terms
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    • 128 13 What The Sunday Times reported on July 23, 1961 THE Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, said today the solution to Singapore's problem was two-fold a common market and merger with the Federation. He predicted that independence for Singapore without merger would be disastrous. This is because
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    • 1177 13 Things are looking up for ex-minister ABDULLAH AHMAD, once denounced as a communist LHe has set his sights on national politics, where he has a better-than-even chance of getting back the post he held before his arrest the deputy ministership. DATO ABDULLAH AHMAD, 48
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  • FOCUS/Viewpoints
    • 233 14 An injustice to 'protest' priest I WAS concerned to read last week's letters m The Sunday Times, criticising Dr (Rev) Robert Balhetchet for his statements on the proposed opting-out legislation for donor organs. It bothers me that anyone who raises the ethical issues inherent m such legislation is regarded as
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    • 345 14 What would a lonely old woman know? LETTERS Organ donation/Mental illness it. The consent of the relatives must be obtained and their wishes respected. The doctor's task m such a situation is easier because he is approaching relatives not to get consent for organ donation, but to confirm that the
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    • 211 14 Remove the stigma I READ your article "Refuge for troubled souls without the stigma" (Sunday Times, July 6) and am glad that we have another hospital to help people suffering from severe depression or other mental tiiiMwaog We could even open wards for them m other hospitals. But a stigma
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    • 848 14 Irene Hoe 4 A sports museum and hail of fame will also stimulate greater interest m competition the breakfast, lunch and dinner of champions. People need emblems, symbols and icons to feed their emotional appetites. A sports museum can and should
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    • 852 14 Tiresias IF there is one thing that binds all Singaporeans, it is our passion for shopping. Shopping is to us what baseball is to the Americans, the pub to the British and the Bolshoi ballet to the Russians. It is a singular custom that knows no
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    • 495 14 LAST week was the week of the hoarse laugh at Mohideen's Sarabat Stall. The cause of the hoarse laughter, as well as the hoarse voices, was the same namely, the king of fruits, durian. The durian tree, genus Durio, produces fruits twice a year, m
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    • 2551 15  -  TAN LIAN CHOO The Government has again sounded the alarm bell four out of 10 women graduates and three out of 10 A-level girls are likely to remain single unless marrying patterns change. Five Singapore women discuss how members of their sex can be helped
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  • RACING
    • 257 16  -  LUCKY LEO By our man on the track Well prepared for feature race EPOH Silence la Golden D, a shade underdone when second m a feature race at Bukit Timah last month, will be at full strength for the $50,000 Dato Yeoh Cheang Lee Memorial Trophy over
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    • 101 16 THESE horses have won or done well on a wet track: RACE 1: Bratasena n, Face The Facts, Barbette, Sustain. RACE 2: Justification, Cabochon n, Alchemist n. RACE 3: Active Fox, Auspicious Boy, Southern Galaxy, Vendicato, Honest Promise, La Granda, Tintinium, Purity. RACE 4: High Index, Medallion, Jubilation IV,
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    • 383 16 RACE RACING ED LUCKY LEO TONTO PEDIGREE MISTER X 3 Bratasena 3 Bratasena S Outstandingly 7 Sustain 3 Brataaana 1 7 Sustain 7 Sustain 1 Skipalong 9 Thirteen Wonders 8 Classy 1 5Wp«in«ig 5 Outstandingly 3 Bratasena 5 Outstandingly 7 Sustain 9 Return To Ratio 1
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    • 5595 16 GHJGHJ 0«V«iMB 1.30 CLASS 5 DIV 3 1,200 m IZf.TH^I (Ratings: 52-43) (Stakes: $11,500) 1 *****3 flilflwi 051 (it) Meritorious-Bougoure 3 nzg ul +1.5. Well up early last week but could only finish 5V 2 -9 3rd to New Project with 55.5 Div 4 1200 m -his
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    • 40 17 Picture by The three riders hit the turf after the spi yesterday. The stricken Presamaran is on the ground wtie Tudor Rama and Superspeed II jot up and are seen galoping away. LEE FOO SAN
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    • 1128 17 By OUR RACING TEAM TPOH Jockeys Peter Lee, Winson Liew und S.H. Chew were admitted to hospital after their mounts fell m Race 8 yesterday. Lee, on the joint favourite, Presamaran. was leading the field of 11 at the turn out of the
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    • 1671 17 2 Persian Hero n57 (321-68) SB Tan (11) 7 II I 10 Fighting Hawk 54.5 (70-16) Chua (10) 12 11 II 4 I Love Daddy 56 (161-35) E Chan (12) S 8 11 9 Great Choice
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    • 451 17 Victoria gets Sunday racing bug By JACK ELLIOTT MELBOURNE Sunday racing is just around the corner for Victoria. State premier John Cain said last week that the government was keen to see galloping, harness racing or greyhounds every Sunday. Melbourne's first Sunday race meeting is likely to be at Moonee
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    • OBITUARIES
      • 325 17 181 Deaths 181 Deaths MISS LIM KENG LUAN, ANNE Age: 21 yrs. paM»d away suddenly en 19.7.86 leaving behind her beloved parents, sister and loved ones to mourn her IMB. Father Lim Guan Kin Mother Lim Siew Eng Sister Lim Keng Mcl "I saw the Lord before me at all
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      • 71 17 me fsniiiy o* ctki iaiv SPIRUS TAN MM BEMG pa*Md away 137 M express their heartfelt thanks to all colleagues, friends and relatives for their kind attendance, condolences, donations It support during their recent bereavement^^^^^^^^^^^ Tlm FamMy of ttM Uto MR. HO KIAH SHUNG wish to thank relatives,
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        140 17 With daspsst sympathy to SEE SOON SOON on the demise of your beloved husband DR TEOEE SOON From all your brothers, tit tors, brothers-in-law, sic- DEAREST KENQ UIAM. And though we may be parted, There is still a light that shines on us Bh'jie on tin tomorrow, and
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    • 92 17 ■aafnociafii is for those who were close to you. Call *****11 i 5680 for your free booklet of "In Memoriam" verses. IN EVERLABTING MTMOWV of our loving husband fattier Frank R Gomes Departed 20 777 Sadly missed always remembered by his loving wife, children loved ones M 1 flffltaJaSttai ls^Wß^^^W
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  • SPORT
    • 536 18 JANICE SEAH Said and Done After eight years, big brother finally strikes gold THEY say good things coma to those who wait. It's a bum rap, isn't it? I mean, if you want a good thing to come to you
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    • 654 18 Mike's last, but not least with this father of three. It seems to be a family trait, this lade of airs. It's a kind of come-on-in-take-off-your-shoes feeling and it's decidedly comfortable. "Actually," he continued, "When I was up there on the rostrum, I didn't think at all of my family.
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    • 969 18  -  ROB HUGHES The unsackable Big Mac has Sunderland on a string NINETY-NINE times out of a hundred, the price of failure m soccer is a speeded-up version of what most of us expect: you fail, you go. But Lawrie McMenemy has achieved the ultimate no-lose situation.
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    • 438 18 TENNIS WORLDWIDE PRAGUE Martina Navratilova returns to Czechoslovakia today after 11 years of exile much to the silence of the hosts. Martina, 29, is expected to arrive this morning to partner her longtime rival Chris EvertLJoyd m the US team at the women's Federation Cup tournament. Czechoslovakia's Communist authorities, with
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    • 556 18 Soviet star hurls javelin to a record picture. ATHENS Vladimir Sasimovic, of the Soviet Union, hurled the javelin 78.84 metres for a world junior mark at the World Junior track and field Championships here on Friday. "It went two metres further than I expected. I never
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    • 364 18 JAKARTA Australia's Sze Yu beat Indonesia's Lius Pongoh 15-9, 14-18, 15-10 to advance to the semi-finals of the Indonesian Open badminton championships here on Friday. The Chinese-born Australian took a quick lead at 7-3, 9-8 before winning the first set 15-9. In the second game,
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    • 457 18 SPORT WORLDWIDE BASKETBALL Greece, Italy and China woo their first games m the final phase of the men's Madrid World Championships on Friday night. ■—Hi: Greece 102 Arrrtna 88; Italy 100 Israel China 98 Cube 78. CRICKET Gloucestershire survived the fright of a hat-trick by new Sussex seamer Andy Babington
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    • 257 19 HOCKEY SCENES THERE were many red faces at Balestier Road yesterday. Although both teams from Indian Association and Singapore Recreation dub were ready to play their Premier League hockey tie at 5.30pm, the match had to be called off because there were no umpires. SRC. with an
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    • 481 19 41 try to stay as low-key as I can. I felt relaxed at Augusta and at Shinnecock Hills, and I feel just as relaxed here. I've learned you don't get impetuous when you have a chance of winning a major. Norman TURNBERRY (Scotland)
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    • 200 19 TURNBERRY A second-round 67 shot Japan's Tsuneyuki Nakajima into contention at the British Open but his reputation still revolves round two eight-year-old disasters. Indeed, Nakajima will always be remembered for his 1978 misfortunes. At St Andrews that year, he sailed his second shot blissfully
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    • 303 19 CLUB SCENE IN ENGLAND, they charge them m court Four men were given a 12--month conditional discharge by a Warwick Crown Court after being charged with diving into a lake at the Belfry course and salvaging 448 lost balls two months ago. Jurong Country Club are not
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    • 390 19  - Publicity for Open can help boost tourism TEE TO GREEN kdfjkfjth asfdhasfdas UJ HY is Raffles Hotel and the Singapore ww Sling, along with the Singapore Island Country Club and Poh Ec Kiat, being mentioned m a leading British golf magazine? The latest issue of Golf Monthly carried almost a
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    • 308 19 Ee Kiat, Muru on pins and needles SENTOSA INVITATION GOLF A BATTLE Royale is shaping up between Singapore's leading amateurs Poh Ec Kiat and M. Murugiah m the final round of the Sentosa Invitation golf championship today. After 36 holes, the pair are tied on 149, with identical rounds of
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    • SPOTLIGHT ON THE SCHOOLS NATIONAL YACHTING/CANOEING FINALS
      • 412 19 FOR the better part of yesterday, Balestier Hill Technical Secondary boys swopped hammers and saws, their school symbol, for canoes and paddles (writes Lee Wai Wan). Their reward eight golds, nine silvers and four bronzes from the Schools National finals at the Junior Sailing
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    • 307 19 (British unless sated): 137 Greg Norman (Aost) U, S3 equals championship course ivcord. 139 GtrtM Brand 71, «8. 141 Tsuneyuld Nakajlma (Jpti) 14, 91; Nick Faldo 71, 71. 142 Bernhard Laager (WG) 72, 7t. 144 laa Wn— m 71, 74; Greg Tomer (NZ) 73, 71;
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    • 66 19 SPOTLIGHT ON THE SRU NATIONAL UNDER-20 RUGBY FINAL Picture by "Who's the masked man?" the Combined Schools player (No. 6) must be asking, as the man of mystery whizzes past with the baL Can it be the Lone Ranger? No, it's just Safsa winter Daniel Tan. who taped
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    • 187 19  -  J. RAJENDRAN ARMED FORCES more than made up for last season's miserable performance when they overcame a determined Combined Schools A team 17-7 to clinch the Singapore Rugby Union Under-20 title at Grange Road yesterday. The soldiers, who won the final by two tries,
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    • 91 19 Skylarks soar SKYLARKS whipped Dolphins 104 m a Singapore Softball Association National League Division One women's match at Dover Road yesterday. Other reunite Men: Mv One: NUS bt Shadows 13-5, Esso bt Cardinals 10-0. Yafi bt Dodgers 27-7. Mv Two: Strangers wo. NZ Forces 7-0. Red Sox bt Schools
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    • 413 19 Cochran shines in Coal Valley FOREIGN GOLF COAL VALLEY (Illinois) Left-hander Russ Cochran, seeking his first Tour victory, took a one-stroke lead m the Coal Valley Classic with a 36-hole total of sev en-under-par 133. Cochran holds the edge m the hunt for the U5572,000 ($156,960) first prize over several
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    • 381 19  -  I S SC/F ft N AGE -G ROU P ■M>WHIHI IQOWWiI WIRY John Lim, of Serangoon Garden Technical School, put up a splendid performance to beat his friend and rival Wee Peng Siong 15-2, 15-10 m the Under-16 boys' final of
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    • 53 19 NOTICE This is to announce that Ms. Renee Thong Ymg Siew is no longer m our employ with effect from 19 July 1986 With effect from the same date, she is no longe r authorised to transact any business or collect any monies on behalf of the Company. SIME TRAVEL
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 182 19 ATHLETICS All-Camers meet (National Stadium. 2pm). CRICKET SCA DX I: SCC n v JCSC. SRC v SCRC both at the Padang; IA v CSC (Balestier Rd). All at 10.30 am. Dtv 2: SCRC v SGS (Tanglin). CSC v SCA Schoolboys (Balestier Rd). TT v MRTC (Dieppe Barracks) all at lpm.
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  • 4 20 The Sunday Times Sportsfront
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  • 237 20 Flabby champ versus slim Frank ALAN HUBBARD'S ringside wrap-up off the Bruno-Wither-spoon showdown will bo m The Straits Times tomorrow. LONDON Tim Witherspoon weighed m at a surprisingly heavy 106 kg yesterday for his defence of the World Boxing Association heavyweight title against Frank Bruno, scheduled to start at 8.10
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  • 152 20 THAILAND came to the Asian Youth qualifying round at the National Stadium tagged as certain champions. But last night the favourites were bundled out of the competition with a 1-1 draw against Malaysia. The result puts Malaysia, who also drew their opening game against Singapore, m with
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  • 659 20 LONDON Sir Stanley Rous, former president of the International Football Federation and the leading administrator of post-war soccer, died on Friday, aged 91. His death, m a hospital here, 'came only a month after he had been to the World Cup finals m Mexico, from
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  • 369 20  -  JOE DORAI THE ASIAN UNDER-19 SOCCER TOURNAMENT By Indonesia sail home on six-minute slip-up SINGAPORE bade goodbye to their Asian Youth soccer hopes last night no thanks to an erratic and indecisive defence which conceded two goals within the first six minutes as Indonesia cruised to a 3-0
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  • 534 20 Canadian sizzles into Games sprint favouritism XIII Coninonwtilth Gims SPORTSFRONT's frontline men m Edinburgh are columnist ALAN HUBBARD and the sports editor of The Straits Times, GODFREY ROBERT BIRMINGHAM Canadian Ben Johnson, the fastest man over 100 metres at low altitude, confirmed his position as favourite
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  • 60 20 Singapore Hisham Noor; Zskaria Rahman, Ramlee Abdullah, Latif Abdullah, Jeffrey MacPherson; Ghazali Rahman, A.R. J. Maran, Annan Mohammed; Shaharoddin Ismail (Basil Ellas), Abdullah Borhan, Joharl Hosin (Roszali Ahmad). Indonesia Wan Armansyah; Maruf Patlmara, Erwin Yoyo, Iwan Settawan, Zaenal Asrl; Frans Sinatra Hawee, Badiman Yanas (Ibrahim Lestaloho),
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  • 172 20 TURNBERRY None of the big four golfers at the tail-end of the third round field made any headway yesterday. Title-holder Sandy Lyle, of Britain, and ex-champions Severiano Ballesteros, of Spain, and Americans Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino all toiled m vain. Lyle had the best chance, standing
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  • 226 20 Race is on among record breakers IT'S going to be tough this month. Last week there were already six worthy candidates for the Sunday Times/Coca-Cola Sporting Achievement of the Month Award. Four more join the fray this week long jumper Deng Youxing, hurdler Syed Malik Aljunied, snooker players Lav Weng
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    • 128 20 We'll make you look and feel good. W Hair Daaignara: Marc Ong Roger Wong W EHcWon A Address =02 23 Parkway Parade Marine Parade Road Singapore 1544 T«l: *****75/*****72 _-<"*^ CASSETTE STEReS^^Si/ COMPONENT SYSTEM WITH 5-BAND GRAPHIC EQUALIZER si RD-1215 s^ High Available m Shiny Black and Super Red lL'Bßing
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    • 377 20 PUCCINI MADE IN ITALY Sole Agent Mediterranean Footwear Pte Ltd Tel: *****43 Earlier report Page |o| I'fv^ hi-tedi innovations Diagonal Rollbar >^ Tfwfeidtv A n nnA^o o^ ««f Excessive rolling action of the M^" 9 V Ztrte^Liach -eelswhUe^.s.e^ed M|^ EVA mkhok creaiea equal, tacn 'pronation and is a very common
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  • TV PLUS
    • 22 1 TV PLUS Scene Cinema TV Eye TV Listings Music Young Life Comics Classifieds Personality TV Eye The Sunday Times, July 20, 1986
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    • 1249 1 She tempted Robert Redford m The Natural and romanced Scan Connery m Never Say Never Again. But all that is tame compared with what Kirn Basinger does m the controversial new film 9V2 Weeks. DOUGLAS THOMPSON meets the actress. KDf Basinger is still a little surprised
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    • SCENE
      • 504 2 In a recent Sunday Times interview, official matchmaker Dr Eileen Aw urged Singapore women to stop looking for Mr Tall, Dark and Eloquent. But, wonders SIMONE VAZ, can they give up such romantic ideals if they're being courted by Hollywood's brigade of
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      • Article, Illustration
        624 2  -  JOHN BLAKE (IPS) By, Princess-to-be invites old beaus to wedding WHILE Sarah Ferguson has invited t her wedding the two men who shared five years of her life, Prince Andrew is ignoring his old flame Koo Stark. The pair split up m 1963 after a three-year relationship. "Koo did
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    • CINEMA
      • 464 3  -  LIM KAY TONG By 9*4 WEEKS At Lido, Changi, Savoy and Woodlands Stoning Mickey Rourke and Kirn Basinger Directed by Adrion Lyn« THIS film has been dubbed "Last Tango m Manhattan", after Bernardo Bertolucci's explosively controversial 1972 movie Last Tango m Paris. The
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      • 354 3  -  LEE SIEW HUA By THE KARATE KID II Coming to Cathay cinemas Starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Tamyln Tomita Directed by John Avildsen AFTER the freshness and magic of its predecessor, The Karate Kid U is a let-down. The earlier film, shown here as
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      • 357 3  -  JULIE TAN ■By HAPPY GHOST 111 Coming to Coihoy cinema: Starring Raymond Wong, Maggie Cheung, Fennie Yuen, Chorine Chan, Lam Wing Han and Sabrina Ho Directed by Johnny To MAY LOS departure from Cinema City seems to have spelled the end for
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    • TV EYE
      • 323 4  - Computer series aimed at youngsters LIM KAY TONG By i TV PREVIEW The Micro At Work Today. Ch 5, 9 55 am AN easy-to-understand computer series aimed at children between 11 and 13 starts this morning. Ike Men At Work is more about the practice rather than the theory of
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      • 636 4 The highlight of SBC New Year's Eve show was the crowning of Singapore's first Mr and Miss TV Personality, fresh faces who would inject some excitement into the scene. Today, more than six months later, very little has been heard of the two winners. JULIE
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      • 457 4  -  JULIE TAN •»\^\^>\ I By ALL 50,000 copies of the Hongkong edition of Playboy magazine, which made its debut two weeks ago, were snapped up within a day much to the delight of its publishers. The magazine, which contained locally-based articles m addition to
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      • 438 4  -  JULIE TAN TV REVIEW JUST as the thoughtful lyrics of its theme song are a toast to the common-folk, the human comedy m Neighbours is a celebration of the man-in-the-street. The on-going series of short dramas, slotted m Family Hour (Ch 8, 7 pm) every
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    • MUSIC
      • 731 7  -  CHRIS LEWIS •y CLASSICAL REVIEW BEETHOVEN: SPRING SONATA OP 24 and KREUTZER SONATA OP 47 Yehudl Menohln (violin) and Jeremy Menohin (piano) (EMI) lips, which has so much hiss m the background it seems to spit at you. BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATAS Rmli Gilels (Deutsche Grammophon) BEETHOVEN was already
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      • 301 7  - National Day treat for Chick Corea fans CHRIS LEWIS THE annual National Day fireworks will have a little competition at the World Trade Centre Auditorium jazz star Chick Corea and his band will be performing the first of a twonight gig. Corea, former boy-genius and now experimentalist, has played a
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    • 109 8 EJe it a promotion, a sale, a special kWservice or something exclusive which you want your neighbourhood to know, say it first m Timeszone. Timeszone is the special zonal display advertising section appearing m The Straits Times every Friday. Dividing Singapore into 4 distinct
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    • Young Life
      • 265 12 Hello kids JO, one of the characters m Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women, was a tomboy. She hated to do many of the things that young girls of the mid-19th Century were supposed to do. For example, she hated sewing, dancing and walking slowly. She loved nothing better than
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        169 12 Do you know OmM these ants is not Ac the others. CDAT TU "^"o»? -januß 3JB aeuueiue qi jatutt pußi|-jqBu jBmoj aq) v auo aq) anoqe jue aqx From your dictionary Do snakes lay eggs? Yes, a large number of snakes lay eggs which then hatch into baby snakes. One
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      • 487 12 THE 500-piece jigsaw puzzle of a wood m autumn didn't look easy to put together. It wasn't. At the end of an hour and a half, some groups of children had fitted less than eight sq cm of the jigsaw. However, it was fun.
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      • 311 12 DO YOU tap your feet or sway when you listen to hot music? If you do, then make yourself this papier mache maraca to get sound effects as well. A maraca is a hollow container with beans or something similar m it and when shaken m
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      • 454 12 FGHFH SHE is best-known for her children's books, especially Little Women, one of the most popular books written for girls. Born m Germantown, Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott spent most of her life m two very conservative American cities, Concord and Boston m Massachusetts. However, because of her
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      • 98 12 If you want to know where the sun goes when it sets, stay up all night and it will dawn on you. If a tanner stands In a field with his dog and 41 cows, how many feet have they got between them? Two, hecaot only the fanner
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        13 15 I Rose Zhani Qiani: "I'm a Mkhael Jackson fan, but who's Madonna?"
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      • 977 15 China's Madonna is a pop star for the people J I Wh ji MaHnnna Wrilie MaaOnna aaoniseS Over hOW tO u Ar r>ru,,^w protect her privacy, hpr OhinPSP "erf Counterpart S DiggeSt nrnhlpm ie Hprirlinn prODiem is aeciaing Where tO put the frirlnp IFF Wll 9ON Triage. LtC WILOUN discovers
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    • 359 16  -  JULIE TAN By RECENTLY, viewers were enthralled by Samsui Women's depiction of the hardships which faced a vanishing breed of pioneer workers. This month, SBC's Drama Unit spotlights another sector of the Singapore labour force the working professionals. Crossroads, the new drama serial
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    • 1745 13 _^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^lW^^^^^^^^~^-^.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^l aS A 12 Computer Products/ 12 Computer Products/ Services Services Modal No: NCR I 9020-1 and NCR 3250 consist of following peripherals and devices: 1 Processor with 256 KB memory 4 CRT Terminal 1 125 LPM MATRIX Printer 1 Microprocessor with 512 KB memory 4 SLIP Printer 4 Journal
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    • 716 14 74 Situations Vacant: KOKUSAI SECURITY SYSTEMS A SERVICES PTE LTD requires GUARDS $500 $600 with allowances and full CPF Interested, please call personally or write to: 111 North Bride* Road Tho PwMnouia Ptosa #08-34 Singapore 0617 EXCLUSIVE GYMNASIUM HAS immediate vacancy for fulltlme Male or female Instructor Prospective applicants should
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    • 781 14 88 For Sal*: Ford/Fiat ADVERTISER BUYING/ SELLING Ford It Fiat vehicles. Best terms services offered. Cash/ loan It exchange available. Call: *****22. MB 70 FORD Cortina 2 0 Ghia. auto. Non-PARF, aircon. radio cassette. Call: *****93 or pager *****61. Mr Leow MB 10 FIAT 132 2 01. Sun roof Pte.
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    • 675 15 »r Sale: Houses 'ON RD. O storey corner 2200 built-in. 4 bdrms.. 5 yrs Challenger Pager *****79 SEAVIEW PARK, bunglw baths. 4 halls, f'hold .lion $11 million Call: lo agents please V RARE duplex type semi-d. for sale or cxl d 19. 20. 28. *****59 ID. SEMW-O. Renovated. $435,000 Richard
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    • 18 1 SUNDAY PLUS Fashion Food Spectrum Arts and Books Mind and Body Travel The Sunday Times, July 20, 1986
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      • 297 3 THE woman who designed royal bride-to-be Sarah Ferguson's gown is littleknown former secretary Ldndka Cierach. Miss Cierach, 33, may not be a household name, but she's been a favourite with a select clientele since setting up her own business m her terrace house m
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    • 876 5  - He can't infect anyone but people still shrink away VALERIE LEE By The ex-teper| Who the lepers are m Singapore H How many there are: 2,000 B How many are males: 75% Their age: Most are 20 40 years old How it is contracted: From the bacteria m droplets expelled
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    • 948 5 Only a decade ago, the movement promised to unlock the door to power for Western European communists. Today, barely surviving, it gropes for new life against fearsome odds. ROBERT A. MANNING analyses the reasons for the rot. Shift towards high-tech has sapped the communist working-class base.
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    • 628 5 Nettle shampoo is for cleaning nettles, of course MILES KINGTON, humour columnist m The Times of London, on the claims implied, by the manufacturers of some products THE trial continues today of Lord Howard de PUatory, chairman of Grotty Body Products Ltd, who is accused of making 13,450 beauty products
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      • 659 6  -  DAVID TOH By GUARANTEES are among the best marketing tools of any appliance manufacturer or dealer. Almost every piece of household appliance comes with some sort of guarantee. Consumers tend to believe that a product that comes with a guarantee must necessarily be defect-free. This isn't
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      • 816 6 DAVID TOH tries out some of today's mini-sized home appliances m is m this four-page supplement THERE was a time when big was better and synonymous with extravagance and luxury. The Americans were the foremost producers and consumers of all things big, especially things m or about the
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      • 501 7  -  KHOO HOW SAN By YOU name it, they have it those wondrous gadgets for the modern household. From electric toothbrushes and so-called mini-vacuum cleaners (to remove dust from the coffee table; it's passe to use a cloth, you know) to multi-programmed washing machines and automatic-grill piezo-elec-tric ignition cooker/ovens,
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      • 724 8  -  DAVID TOH By Most of us have heard of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. Their inventions, the lightbulb and the telephone respectively, are among the great inventions which have shaped the history of mankind. It would be difficult to imagine
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      • 887 9  -  DAVID TOH By 4 It is preferable to buy only plugs with sleeved pins. These are plugs where the live' and 'neutral' pins are covered with insulation, leaving only the tips exposed. This makes it impossible for someone to accidentally touch the 'live' portion of the pin when
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        • 142 9 IF IT'S a sewing machine you're looking for, then you may want to check up Pfaff. This German sewing machine manufacturer has sold 10 million machines since the first example made its appearance m 1862. Today, more than 100 years later, Pfaff is the largest
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        • 127 9 IF YOUR wardrobe ranges from rough-and-tumble blue denims to slinky delicate silk, the latest GEC MX 6688 Superior top loading washing machine may just be the thing to solve your laundry woes. It is a fully automatic programmable machine with 22 programmes to handle
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        • 89 9 THINKING of brushing up on your housekeeping skills? The Philips Electric Brush fits onto any of its 70 and 90 series vacuum cleaners. It consists of a powerful electric motor and a row of tough bristles attached to a roller. The attachment is said
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        • 207 9 THESE days, just about every contraption comes with a Turbo label. Electrolux, the home appliance manufacturer, is no exception. But its newest device, the Turbo Clean, really operates along the principles of an automotive turbocharger. It doesn't have a motor, but has a turbine which works off air
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        • 77 9 IF IT'S an upright vacuum cleaner you're looking for, then Kenwood's new Powerboost may be the thing. It boasts of being the most powerful upright you can buy. There are two models m this range, the ClOOO and the U-1000. Both are 1,000- watts adjustable power
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    • ARTS & BOOKS
      • 1069 10 STELLA DANKER discovers that a growing number of Singapore performing arts groups is gaining exposure abroad THE Young Musicians Society recently returned from a concert tour of Canada and the United States. During its three weeks on the road, the society's youth choir and Chinese
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      • 498 10 ANDREW STEPHEN looks beneath the public facade of Yehudi Menuhin, the man they call Mr Music, who recently turned 70 THE phones never stopped ringing, either back at the agent's m north London or downstairs m the office m Belgravia. Will
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      • 877 10  -  LEE SIEW HUA By art In one sense, the sculpture doesn't actually represent anything. In another, it attempts to go so far as to talk about the mystery of the universe.^ IN DIRECT sunlight, its highlypolished surfaces were blinding. So it took
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      • 349 11 Overcooked burgers can cause cancer HEALTH NEXT TIME you call at the take-away for a hamburger, ask what temperature it was cooked at. You could be doing yourself a favour because fresh evidence has shown that overcooked hamburgers can cause cancer. Tough, overcooked hamburgers contain up to eight toxins that
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      • 1393 11  -  ANNA HJK Edited by *De&t s4kk& JENNY writes: I am a IS-year-old student In Secondary Five. I am ashamed of myself for not being excellent m my schoolwork. My results this year were very bad. Why can't I do as well as my
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      • 787 11 Trying to be flawless to a fault? Experts say it's a con job that the practitioner inflicts on himself Let some things slide DIANE traces her perfectionism to age five, when her teacher father would inspect her bedroom while she stood at attention. "First he'd
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      • 177 11 LOOKING for the perfect love? Perfectionist thinking may hinder many single, lonely people from finding Mr or Miss Right, the experts say. "If you're a romantic perfectionist, you're either looking for someone perfect or you have to be perfect," says Dr David Burns, who explored the
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      • 232 11 BEHAVIOUR A COMMITMENT to helping others is what separates highachieving kids from less successful ones, a new American study says. Young achievers "spend a lot of time thinking about others and how to help them," says a researcher at Selection Research m
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      • 475 12 i i I f 1 ICELAND'S President Vigdis Flnnbogadottir tells visitors of chats with a ghost haunting her official residence. Also m this North Atlantic island of 250,000 people, roads have been diverted to avoid disturbing "elf-mounds" and a quarry stopped work
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      • 1035 12 Mindful of the brickbats that businessmen, expatriates and even Indonesians hurl at Jakarta, an apprehensive DOREEN SOH ventures forth and finds the city full of surprises, with several nearby weekend getaways. JAKARTA hardly ever makes it to anyone's holiday list. Bali, certainly, but Jakarta? Businessmen
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      • 808 12 AFTER a hectic schedule, businessmen with a day to spare may like to dash off to Bogor for a break before hopping on a plane home. This hill resort, about 54 km from Jakarta, is reminiscent of Cameron Highlands. The city's rich usually have their
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        • 159 12 A COMMONER m London can celebrate the nuptials of Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson on Wednesday m a royal way. For US$BOO (about 551,600), Trafalgar Tours offers six nights at a Mayfair hotel. It includes a private screening of the procession and wedding ceremony
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        • 135 12 THE Commonwealth Expedition, or Comex Singapore, is organising a 27-day journey to South America. Open only to its members, the trip from Aug 29 to Sept 24 will take m Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. The fee of $6,600 per person will cover the airfare
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      • 228 12 bjbvivb]][bw]3BMßQßQHlbV3l 1 Don't miss the greatest feast m the East. From August 1 7 to September 1 7, Hong Kong is celebrating the joys of food and you're invited. Come and taste the great regional specialities of China and national dishes from around the world. See cooking demonstrations and exhibitions.
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