The Straits Times, 21 August 1988

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  • 10 1 The Sunday Times No: 2723 55 CENTS MCI (P) 93/12/87
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  • 429 1  -  KONG SOOK CHIN Phase I covers 4 GRCs, 15 single-member wards By ALL constituencies will have town councils led by Members of Parliament by February 1991, the National Development Ministry said yesterday. The Town Councils Act, which puts MPs in charge of
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  • 116 1 Reminder for GRC minority-race candidates THOSE intending to contest the general election as minorityrace candidates in Group Representation Constituencies have up to 4 pm tomorrow to submit their applications to the Elections Department. Candidates in the 13 GRCs must stand in teams of three, at least one of whom must
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  • 250 1 NICOSIA A ceasefire in the Gulf War took effect at 11am Singapore time yesterday, ending hostilities that have lasted for nearly eight years and claimed an estimated one million lives Within a few hours, Iran had sent boatloads of troops to the Shatt
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  • 105 1 Student collapses during PE and dies A SCHOOLBOY who had a heart condition but kept it a secret from his parents died after he collapsed during a physical education lesson on Friday. Ong Kok Kheng, 19, a PreUniversity Three student of Queenstown Secondary Technical School, had been told of his
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  • 1146 1 I have told PM many times: I will not change my style 4 Several of my colleagues told me that they felt sorry for the younger ministers. They said the Prime Minister should not have done it, that he
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    • 133 1 With DAIWA CARBOREX WHISKER SHAFT AND GRAPHITE HEAD IRON SCORES TAKE A DIVE -UJ*l r'ar t*st PU» <(srd fTr) T*l T33WS3 ■La I Trtak Kunu. *0V67 i«h Lrwl > Hnj{hl > .Titiv SinKapurr LSC Trl ME>I47D 3MHB6 FOCUS Advice for future MPs I™. \j fl^L mi Waltzing with the Thai
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    • 10 1 Three days in Spore at $18,000 for two: Pg 16
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    • 133 1 BLAUPUNKT BOSCH Group It's a small point. But it makes a world of difference. No mattei il you have really been up there oi enables you h > recall the shot you h.nr iust haveonl) taken youi sliois in Holl> r wood taken in .i jiffy. the picture quality of
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      548 2 IRA BOMB KILLS 7: Seven British soldiers were killed and 29 injured yesterday by a car bomb in the bloodiest attack on British forces in Northern Ireland in almost a decade. The Irish Republican Army has claimed responsibility. Police said the men died when a car bomb
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    • 136 2 RAHMAN IN THE LEAD: Former national bowler Rahman Noor, who only recently came back to form, fired a 210 average at Orchard Bowl yesterday to lead after 10 games of the Masters semi-finals in the Singapore International championships. Rahman's 2,104-total gave him an 82-pinfall advantage over Paeng Nepomuceno, the
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    • 644 2 Heath of Pakistan's President Zia ul-Haq Islamabad rites attended by dignitaries from 70 nations ISLAMABAD President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan was buried yesterday before presidents and royalty and thousands of weeping mourners. His funeral in the sprawling grounds of Islamabad's Faisal Mosque in
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    • 297 2 Son blames Soviet Union reports ISLAMABAD While Pakistan mourned the death of its President yesterday, newspapers in the capital quoted his son, Mr Aijaz ul-Haq, as blaming the Soviet Union for his father's death in a plane crash. According to the reports, he said his father was a target because
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    • 138 2 THE Parliamentary Secretary (Foreign Affairs), Mr Yatiman Yusof, signed the condolence book at the Pakistan Embassy in Singapore yesterday to express sympathy over the death of President Zia ul-Haq. Among the 2tX) people who made their way to the embassy in Nassim Road
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    • 192 2 ISLAMABAD The day of the week on which Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ulHaq died, Wednesday, appeared to have great significance during his life and he seemed to put a lot of store by it, observers said. He took most of his biggest decisions on
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    • 881 3  -  ANNE LOW By THE sailor, the manager, the banker they all have their story to tell about the strains of trying to keep a family together when husband and wife are separated by their work for months or years at a time. One man's
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    • 388 3  -  NG WEI JOO By LOOKING at Saint Joseph's Institution's latest pride and joy a $30,000 stained-glass window in their new chapel is like peeping into a kaleidoscope. Each piece of stained-glass acts as a prism, producing a rainbow effect when sunlight streaks
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 223 2 Showers over several areas in the late morning and early afternoon TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow 31 max., 25 mm SUNSET today: 7.12 pm: SUNRISE tomorrow. 7.03 am. TRAVELLERS 1 HEATHER Adelaide 10 17 C Cloudy Los Angele* 17 28 C Cloudy Amsterdam 16 20 C Cloudy Madrid
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    • 83 3 STATISTICS THAT SHAPE THE COUNTRY I Top 10 fruit trees A 1971 Cabinet directive that fruit trees be planted in public places is bearing fruit. The Parks and Recreation Department and 13 other institutions have planted 79,374 fruit trees, besides those planted in the housing estates. The 10 favourites in
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 389 4 PANMUNJOM A second round of talks between officials of South and North Korea on next month's Olympics and the easing of tension plunged into a stalemate yesterday, with each side blaming the other for lack of progress. The five-member delegations of the
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    • 399 4 RANGOON The new Burmese leadership headed by Western-trained lawyer Maung Maung has promised major changes to the central-ly-planned socialist system. But flag-waving students and Buddhist monks yesterday demanded the ouster of the ruling party and vowed to resume anti-government demonstrations until they
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    • 204 4 SIDON (Lebanon) A Palestinian guerilla group said yesterday three of its fighters infiltrated Israel from South I^ebanon overnight and killed or wounded several soldiers before being shot dead. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said the guerillas clashed with Israeli
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    • 334 4  - Moving house too often 'can harm marriage' SHIRLEY DAVENPORT By LONDON Moving house too often can break up marriages, damage family health and cause mental problems, says a leading stress expert. Businessmen who are expected to move house every two or three years face the greatest risk, says Dr Andrew
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    • 209 4 KOROR (Palau) The President of the United States Pacific Trust Territory of Palau was found dead with a gunshot wound yesterday at his home here. Police said a gunman burst into Mr Lazarus Salii's home and shot him but a presidential
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    • 93 4 CAPE TOWN Jailed nationalist Nelson Mandela has an "excellent" chance of making a full recovery from tuberculosis, the medical director of the hospital where he is being treated said yesterday. The director of Cape Towns Tygerberg hospital. Mr J. G. Strauss, said Mr Mandela. 70, was
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    • 201 4 PARIS The French government and loyalists and separatists from France's south Pacific territory of New Caledonia signed an accord yesterday on legislation to decide the future of the islands for the next 10 years. "This morning we have succeeded," French Overseas Territories
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    • 459 4 Pentagon: Crew to blame for airliner tragedy but no one will be punished WASHINGTON The crew of the cruiser Vincennes erred when it shot down an Iranian airliner killing 290 civilians, but Iran must also share responsibility and no US crew members will be punished, the Pentagon has announced. A
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    • 392 5 Car bomb goes off as bus with troops goes past OMAGH (Northern Ireland) Seven British soldiers were killed and 29 injured yesterday by a car bomb in the bloodiest attack on British forces in Northern Ireland in almost a decade, police
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    • 353 5  -  BURTON BOLLAG By Special to the International Herald Tribune GENEVA Customs agents at Charles de Gaulle international airport in Paris were surprised recently when they opened the bags of a traveller from Mali to find more than 100 live reptiles. Apparently destined for sale in
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      81 5 Mr Jose Ramirez of the northern Spanish province of Navarra decapitates one of five live chickens hung on a wire over the main street in the small village of Nalda on Thursday with his bare hands as he gallops by on horseback. He won the yearly "cock race"
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    • 277 5 Child prodigy 'too young' so can't practise law NEW YORK A child prodigy who graduated j from a Florida law school at age 16 was legally prohibited by the state from taking the bar exam and practising law here until he is 21, a federal judge has ruled. However, in
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    • 94 5 Deadly snake sparks coup jitters in Kampala KAMPALA A deadly snake that slithered into the state-run radio studio prompted coup rumours in the jittery capital on Wednesday night. Officials in Uganda, which has had four coups since the *****, assured residents the rumours that the government had been toppled were
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    • 505 6 MOSCOW More than 600 victims of late Kremlin strongman Josef Stalin's purges have been cleared of the charges for which they were shot or sent to almost certain death in Siberian labour camps, the communist party newspaper Pravda reported.
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    • 57 6 Index falls after late profit-taking NEW YORK A flurry of profit-taking hit Wall Street late on Friday, breaking a three-session advance in the Dow index and causing the week to end on a negative note. The Dow Jones industrial average, which rose only 1.07 points on Thursday, lost
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    • 560 6 LOS ANGELES Mr Stuart Krasner gently swirled the clear liquid to release its aroma. He breathed down deeply, then lifted the liquid slowly to his lips and savoured each drop as it went down. Faintly swampy, with a touch of cardboard, he ruled. Like
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      56 6 Anyone would take a second look at this imposing figure of a biker. This girl certainly did as she cycled past on her regular-sized bike. This easy rider was trying to get just that effect on his rides through the streets of Frankfurt on Thursdav to promote
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    • 166 6 HOUSTON A jury sentenced a man infected with the Aids virus to 99 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl and then stabbing her. Alphonso Percival Darden, 27, said: "It was a setup" as he was led from the
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    • The US Republican Convention
      • 382 7 REPUBLICAN presidential nominee George Bush has left New Orleans to hit the campaign trail after charting a course loyally dedicated to what President Ronald Reagan has set out to achieve. Mr Bush departed on Friday for Indiana the home state
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      • 285 7 Party rhetoric reflects different strategies of the two camps THE rhetoric that the Republicans and the Democrats used in their national conventions reflected the different strategies the two sides intend to follow in the presidential election. The Democrats are homing in on Mr George Bush himself, who was the Republican
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    • 376 7 WARSAW The Polish government has rejected demands by striking workers for the legalisation of the Solidarity trade union as work stoppages spread throughout the country. In a communique released late on Friday, Poland's Council of Ministers rejected the demands for the legalisation of Solidarity,
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    • 123 7 Tchaikovsky or Led Zeppelin, top whistlers will do them CARSON CITY (Nevada) The world's top whistlers are puckering up for tunes ranging from Tchaikovsky to Led Zeppelin at the 11th annual International Whistle-Off this weekend. About 5,000 people are scheduled to attend the Whistle-Off. Whistlers can compete in as many
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    • 188 8 Soviets will launch singer John Denver into space for $20m: Report WASHINGTON Singer John Denver has asked the Soviet Union to launch him to the Mir space station, a jaunt the Russians said they would consider for a stratospheric US$lO million (5520.3 million) fee, a magazine reported. Under the headline
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    • 532 8 PARIS He flies by night, while the city sleeps and police on the Eiffel tower and rooftops stand watch for the "Black Baron," an elusive pilot whose repeated forays into forbidden airspace have given the government apoplexy. There was a
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    • 361 8 NEW YORK Auctioneers can expect an epic of sorts come October furnishings, artworks, jewellery and memorabilia once owned by Hollywood mogul Cecil B. de Mille will be put on the block by Christie's East in New York. De Mille,
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    • PEOPLE
      • 162 8 WAS LIFE in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge holocaust as brutal as depicted in the acclaimed movie The Killing Fields? No it was worse, according to Dr Haing Ngor, (right), the doctor who won an Oscar for his performance in the film. Asiaweek reported that
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      • 148 8 ACTOR REX Harrison has made a triumphant return to the London stage after a four -year absence. The 80-year-old Harrison won a rousing ovation from the first-night audience for his portrayal of the Earl of Loam in a revival of J. M. Barrie's comedy of
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      • 129 8 CONTROVERSY HAS long swirled around vivacious socialite Margarita "Tingting" Cojuangco. Sister-in-law of Philippine President Corazon Aquino, the 43-year-old mother of five has faced accusations about Imelda Marcos' former jewels, barter trade and gambling licences, all of which she has demurely denied. Harder to shake was
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      • 128 8 MR BILL HAYDEN, (left), vowed last week not to wear a top hat. drive a Rolls-Royce or accept a knighthood when he becomes Governor-General of Mr Hayden, 55, who quit as Foreign Minister to take over as Governor-General next February, told reporters: "I won't be
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      • 143 8 BRITAIN'S AND perhaps the world's oldest academic celebrated his 100th birthday last Wednesday with a telegram from Queen Elizabeth and a bottle of Madeira wine laid down the year of his birth. Cambridge University launched four days of special events starting with a thanksgiving service
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      • 104 8 CAROL THATCHER, a 35-year-old journalist and daughter of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has landed herself a job in television. The British breakfast television station TV-AM said in a statement last week that Miss Thatcher will join it as what it described as a contract correspondent.
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 344 10 BANGKOK Thailand's coalition government has handed the opposition its first defeat, winning approval to have a single three-month parliamentary session. The Bangkok Post said the government's motion for a single 90-day session was pushed through despite opposition moves to have two 90-day sessions.
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    • 249 10 BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan was yesterday depicted in a newspaper commentary as insecure and trying to get the military to ensure his position. When Mr Chatichai invited army chief Gen Chavalit Yongchaiyudh to attend Cabinet meetings, he was trying
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    • 193 10 BANGKOK There is widespread support for an Amnesty Bill that will pardon all political prisoners, according to The Nation newspaper. Proponents of the Bill now before Parliament say an amnesty for all political detainees will create a better atmosphere in the country and
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    • 198 10 BANGKOK A Thai border village was hit by about 40 stray artillery shells as Vietnamese troops fought Khmer Rouge guerillas in neighbouring Cambodia, a Thai army officer said yesterday. One village woman was killed and four seriously injured in the shelling, believed
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    • 112 10 Philippine Airlines loses monopoly on domestic flights MANILA President Corazon Aquino has ordered an end to the Philippine Airlines' (PAL) monopoly on domestic flights, a presidential aide said here yesterday. Mrs Aquino issued an executive order on Tuesday revoking the 1973 law giving the govern-ment-controlled flag carrier the monopoly, the
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    • 343 10 MANILA A member of the Philippines' Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) has been charged for graft, becoming the highestranking official in President Corazon Aquino's administration accused of criminal offences. Judge Francis Garchitorena entered a "not guilty" plea on behalf of Quintin Doromal
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    • 290 10 MANILA Armed Forces Chief General Renato de Villa said yesterday that former president Ferdinand Marcos remains a threat to the nation but the military will respect a court order for his return if such a directive is issued. "Certainly there are
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    • 49 10 The Lumbers family signs a manifesto calling for the banning of nuclear weapons from the Philippines. About 200 children accompanied by their parents trooped to Manila's Press Club yesterday during the launching of the signature campaign against nuclear weapons and United States bases. Reuter picture.
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    • 370 10 JAKARTA A European parliamentary delegation yesterday urged Indonesia to find a legal solution to its integration of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. "The European Community should be ready to give a constructive answer to any request from the
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    • 135 10 JAKARTA Four Indonesian railway workers yesterday received jail terms of 10 months to five years after a court found them guilty of causing a fatal crash in Jakarta in October. "The crash could not be blamed on one person alone. There was no
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 210 12 Police out to prevent ceramahs from turning into public rallies Run-up to JB by-election JOHOR BARU Police have been instructed to stop any ceramah (discussion session) from turning into a public rally to ensure law and order during the parliamentary by-election campaign here, the Star reported yesterday. Senior Assistant Commissioner
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    • 94 12 THIS death-defying leap over a row of cars was presented at Kuala Lumpur's Stadium Merdeka on Friday night, not by hell-riders, but by members of the police motorcycle acrobatics troupe. It was among the highlights at a tattoo, attended by more than 15,000
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    • 240 12 'Students proficient in Malay and English should take it up' PENANG The Education Ministry is encouraging Malay students who are proficient in Bahasa Malaysia and English to take up Chinese as an elective subject. Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim said this was now being practised
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    • 398 12 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Bar Council i yesterday urged the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad to advise the King to call off the tribunal set up to investigate allegations of misconduct against five suspended Supreme Court judges. In
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    • 292 12 Mauritius can be 'base for trade access to Europe' KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia sees Mauritius as a base from which it can penetrate European trade barriers, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. Mauritius, besides having good access to the African market, enjoys a privileged trade status with the
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    • 215 12 KUALA LUMPUR Two workers injured by their rotary grass cutters have vowed never again to use the machine. Mr G. Munisapavan, 20, and Mr A Sandrachelvam, 34, who face the possibility of losing the use of their right eyes, are two of a
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 825 14 PAP fielding 17 new candidates THE People's Action Party is going into the Sept 3 elections with 17 new candidates, including a woman, a Malay, a Sikh and two non-graduates. They are a diverse group and include academics, professionals, businessmen, unionists, a former newscaster and a former senior military officer.
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    • 473 14 The opposition candidates THE Singapore Democratic Party yesterday announced the first four of the 20 candidates it intends fielding for the election. For two of them, party chairman Ling How Doong, 53, and executive committee member Jufrie Mahmood, 38, it will be their
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    • 197 14 SINGAPORE Democratic Party leader Chiam See Tong yesterday urged the Government to provide more details of how Central Provident Fund savings could be used for tertiary education. He welcomed last Friday's announcement by First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Trade and Industry Minister
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    • 432 14 THE National Solidarity Party (NSP), which introduced two more candidates yesterday for the Sept 3 does not appear to be part of the electoral p.ut between the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) and the Workers' Party (WP). Its vi< president, Mr Tan Chee Kien,
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    • 460 14 The remaining 5 of 17 new PAP candidates Occupation: Managing Director of Wearnes Polytck Holdings Pte Ltd. Family: Married, no children. Education: Early education in Malaysia Bachelor's degree First Class Honours) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Canterbury; Masters
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    • 482 14 I W (V* ]J T bv I1 1 1 IT i >^*h Occupation Administrative Officer in the engineering division of Singapore Airlines. Family: Bom in Singapore, married, two sons. Religion: Roman Catholic. Education: St Michael's School and St Joseph's Institution. Went through
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    • 516 14 Occupation: Lawyer. Family: Married, no childen. Religion: Hindu. Education: Newton Boys' School; Raffles Institution; National University of Singapore graduated in 1984 with First Class Honours in Law. Reservist Rank: Lieutenant. Community Service: He has been involved in community work in Chong Boon
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    • 338 14 Occupation: Management consultant. Family: Married, with a daughter. Education: Mountbatten Chinese Primary School; River Valley Chinese Middle School: National Junior College, University of Kent at Canterbury. England graduated with a BA Honours degree. Employment: Worked as an accountant in Britain before returning in 1982 to
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    • 445 14 Occupation: Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore. Religion: Anglican Family: Married, two sons. Education: Victoria School. First Class Honours degree in History. University of Singapore; Masters degree in Military History, Duke University, US; PhD in International History from
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    • 497 15 Police issue rules for rallies and meetings during campaign period THE police yesterday issued the rules and regulations for election rallies and meetings during the general election campaign period from Thursday till Sept 2. Police permits are needed for these events and applications must be made to the Police Liaison
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    • 354 15 SBC will give air-time to political parties on radio and TV THE Singapore Broadcasting Corporation will give air-time on radio and television for political party broadcasts in the run-up to the general election. These broadcasts, lasting from two and a half minutes to 12 minutes each, are slotted for next
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    • 301 15 RETIRED chemistry professor and former diplomat Ang Kok Peng announced last night that he was stepping down as MP for Buona Vista after 12 years. Dr Ang, 60, who bade farewell to his constituents at a National Day cultural show, has been
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    • 278 15 THE CHALLENGE for Asian journalists is to present international affairs to their own people in an Asian way friendly and non-confrontational. Dr Yeo Ning Hong, the Minister for Communications and Information, made the point yesterday before 60 Malay-speaking
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    • 292 15 CUTE sing-song voices told colourful folktales and home truths in rhyme and rhythm yesterday, to the accompaniment of flowing arm and hand gestures that would do a stage actor proud. Yet the recital of bersyair, or Malay rhythmic poetry, was put up by
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    • 314 15  -  JACQUELINE WONG By OIL companies eager to end the costly gifts war are in for a surprise Shell has decided to launch yet another promotion after having given a luxury flat away last night to mark the end of its
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    • 1017 15  -  BEN DAVIDSON By SOME Singaporeans, while not as liti-gation-conscious as people in many other countries, are ready to go to court these days over issues that rarely were heard of 10 years ago. Three examples: A woman teacher who
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    • 299 16 •ISTRICT Judge yesterday fined a man $81X) for urinating in a lift the heaviest fine so far since stiffer penalties for such an offence were intro--1 two months ago. Mr Sarjit Singh told the culprit, Idros bin Menan, 27, that iously,
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    • 61 16 INDIAN national Alavvdeen Mohammed Thambi, 27, was sentenced to 4 1 years' jail and 18 strokes of the cane by a district court on Wednesday. He pleaded guilty to abducting and robbing a moneychanger of about $20,000, with another man whose case is pending. Alavvdeen and his
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    • 298 16 AN Australian couple who fear heights bravely took a cable car ride for the first time yesterday and unexpectedly became the centre of attention at the end of their trip. Mr David Sanson, 46, a businessman and his wife Barbara, 45, a marketing
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    • 549 16  - Hotel's 'heaven on earth' package for $18,000 MAYLEE CHIA By Diary of a dream holiday DAY ONE: Arrival at Singapore. Met by airport representatives and garlanded. Chauffeured in Sovereign Jaguar to hotel. Welcome champagne drink in car. Express check-in at hotel. Personal butler in attendance. Candle-light dinner on the room
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    • 275 16 POLICE have arrested four youths believed to be involved in the recent spate of dog killings. The youths, aged between 16 and 21 years, are suspected to have poisoned two dogs following break-in attempts at three houses at Duchess Road in Bukit Timah
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    • 101 16 A MINISTRY of Home Affairs team will leave today for a two-week educational tour to study emergency preparedness in South Korea and Japan. The six-man team, led by the Ministry's Director (Emergency Planning), Mr Chan Boon Kiong, includes senior officers from the Singapore Civil
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    • 115 16 MORE than 100 women are aspiring to become the next Miss Tourism. The exact number, at yesterday's last count when the doors closed, was 110 a pleasant surprise for the organisers, who as recently as last week heard from only 11 women. Organisers are
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    • 372 17 Working with adjacent wards can stretch dollar further, Telok Blangah told COMMUNICATIONS and Information Minister Yeo Ning Hong told Telok Blangah residents last night that co-operation with neighbouring constituencies in a town council can help them stretch their dollar
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    • 107 17 DR Yeo Ning Hong praised Dr Koh Lam Son (right), the MP for Telok Blangah, for the work that he had done for his constituents in the last four years. He said Dr Koh was a "good man, a proven
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    • 346 17 'New scheme spells one worry less for parents' Reactions to use of CPF for education ALMOST every one of the 16 Singaporeans interviewed yesterday by The Sunday Times wholeheartedly supported the use of CPF savings for tertiary education. The People's Action Party announced on Friday that it would include this
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    • 277 17 Dr Augustine Tan sounds a note of caution MANY people may be delighted that the Government has agreed in principle to extend the use of Central Provident Fund savings for tertiary education, but Dr Augustine Tan sounded a note of caution last night. Speaking at the National Day Dinner in
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    • 464 17  -  R RAJENDRAN By JURONG Shipyard has clinched the biggest shipbuilding contract in Singapore this decade with two deals, worth $140 million, involving Soviet parties. The first, with New Delhi-based Magnum International Trading, is a $100-million contract for the design and construction of four
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    • 472 18  -  LIM KWAN KWAN By THE cluster of old government quarters in McNair Road, with a mix of Chinese, Malay and European architecture, will be fully restored to its original condition. These 84 two-storey terrace houses, standing among new Housing Board flats, will then lend
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    • 252 18 A MAN who fixed false registration number plates to his wife's car was fined $1,000 on Friday. Zakariah bin Mohamad had pleaded guilty on Aug 12 to the charge with exhibiting false number plates but the court adjourned his case to await an
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    • 312 18 TWO men were smashing the glass showcases of a goldsmith shop when one of the shop's partners grabbed an iron pipe and confronted them while the burglar alarm went off. The two fled after the abortive robbery in a stolen Honda Accord
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    • 347 18 JEWELLER Dave Chan, who already has a pager, is a proud new owner of a $2,900 lightweight, hand-held telephone. "The pager and handphone complement each other. With the handphone, I can immediately reach those who page for me," he said. Mr
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    • 267 18 A 61- YEAR-OLD man has been going in and out of jail for a variety of criminal offences. He has spent a third of his life behind bars. Low Lam Beng was jailed for more than 20 years between 1953
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    • 185 18 Woman loses gems to 'buyer' A BUSINESSWOMAN was duped of $19,500 in jewellery by a potential woman "buyer" who took the gems to show her husband but never returned. Madam Tan Siew Geok, 39, told police she met the woman, who called herself Madam Chua, in a coffee-house in an
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    • 55 18 A MAGISTRATE jailed a woman on Friday for a day and fined her $200 for shoplifting. Tan Siang Lang, 49, had walked into Chin Huat Supermarket at Yishun Avenue 5 on July 8 last year and left without paying for items, including four salted eggs, two sea cucumbers
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  • FOCUS
    • The Sunday Times VIEW
      • 311 19 WHAT happened to three Greek tourists at Lucky Plaza the other day will not help Singapore to improve its image with ordinary people overseas. It is an incident that no country in this interdependent world can afford to witness often, least of all a
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      • 135 19 >Vhat The Sunday Times reported on Aug 18, 1963 BRITAIN has flatly rejected an Indonesian request for a team of observers numbering "not less than 30 persons" to accompany the United Nations nine-man mission to ascertain the wishes of the people of Sabah and Sarawak on Malaysia.
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    • 1186 19 They used to ca» him a playboy politician. But Major-General CHATICHAI CHOONHAVAN is now the Thai premier with more serious things on his mind I MAJOR-GENERAL Chatichai Choonhavan was bom on Apr 5, 1922. He is married and has two children 1939: Graduated from Military Academy.
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  • FOCUS/Viewpoints
    • 961 20  -  Tan Sai Siong Unless the number of geh angmo Chinois (Chinese faking as whites) can be contained as the delightful and eccentric minority they are today, tomorrow one may have to begin counting the geh angmo Indien or geh angmo Malai too. the
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    • 847 20  -  Sumiko Tan There is another side which cannot be ignored politicians are not the only ones who have loosened up. Singaporeans, too, have gradually become less inhibited towards their leaders. andra. In the evening, I followed Mr Goh in his walk along
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    • 947 20  -  Patrick Daniel PARLIAMENT. Etymology: Middle English, adopted from the Old French word parlement (speaking), formed on parler to speak 1 -ment. Obsolete meaning (until 1542): The action of speaking; a "bout" of speaking; a speech; a discussion or debate. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. To
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    • 415 20 WHEN Manikkam Chin announced that he was going into the goldsmith business and invited us all to the grand opening of his shop at Potong Kio. all of us at Mohideen's Sarabat Stall were aghast. "Haven't you heard of all those smash-and-grab robberies at
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  • FOCUS/Analysis
    • 2311 21 The Latins are catching up fast Watch out, Northerners. Italy and Spain are leading the way to a Southern spurt, and Portugal is coming up from behind Note: Figures show annual percentage change in GNP for West Germany and in the gross domestic product
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    • LETTERS The Philippines / Etiquette / Child abuse
      • 505 21 Hardly on the scrap heap of history I REFER to last Sunday's article, "Laving bare the Filipino soul", summarising the Philippine Senate report on the strengths and weaknesses of Fililipinos as a people and how these have affected the country's political and economic rehabilitation efforts. The report is an honest
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      • 223 21 I READ with deep interest the article "Trappings of the good life, but no grace" (Sunday Times. May 29). This is my second assignment in Singapore, having spent one year on and off through 1985-86. The lack of grace is also a problem in my country, the
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      • 146 21 I SUPPORT Martin I^oh's idea of setting up a chikfline in Singapore ("With unfit parents, take the children away". June 5 This childline is a telephone Line meant specially for children who need help. Child abuse in the US is taken very seriously, with parents
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  • RACING
    • 315 22  -  MALCOLM BASTIANS By Our man on the track RACE 2: Bravado Zest, Choice. RACE 3: Baraous, Sound Investment, Magic Princess. RACE 4: Alacaro, Added Advantage 111, Istanbul, Thorold, Formidabeau. What's Enough 11. RACE 5: He's Dawan, American Soldier 11, Dendrobium IV, Olympic Torch 111. RACE
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    • 249 22  - 'Six' going for that magnificent seven FREDERICK OUEK By SARATOGA SIX, the secOnd horse in post-war years to string up six wins in as many starts, has the fcredentials to better the record in Race 4 at Penang this afternoon. The four-year-old American gelding by Smoggy equalled Star Prince's record,
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    • 315 22 RACE Racing Editor Malcolm Bastians Frederick Quek Tan Thean Loon Lionel Lee 6 Paribo 6 Panbo 7 Con Amore 3 Hello John 6 Paribo fllll > I »ayak Chieftain 6 Panbo 8 Guesswho T Con Amore IGacaßVhO 2 Peacefully Dayak Chieftain 6 Paribo 8 Guesswho S
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    • 5679 22 MPPPpf 2.00 CLASS 4 DIV F 1.200m (Ratings: 75-59) (Stakes: $13,250) 1 6*o*** Man Of Mars II 57 (75) C 0-B Ang sag same 1700m Back from 3-month layoff; finished 12th of 13 to Auric Flame IV C4-B S'pore 1600m yielding May 14; last made the board
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    • 2498 23  -  OUR RACING TEAM He breaks false rails and last to enter starting stall By FIRST *****4 SECOND *****3 THIRD *****7 STARTERS *****0 *****6 *****2 *****0 *****0 *****4 *****9 *****4 *****2 CONSOLATIONS *****1 *****7 *****5 *****6 *****4 *****0 *****6 *****6 *****7 *****7 PENANG While all
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    • 234 23  -  JACK KLLIOTT MELBOURNE Rancho Ruler scored brilliantly in the weight-forage Manikato Stakes (1,200m) at Moonee Valley raceOOHTH yesterday. Second was Special and third Our West Minister. Perth's champion sprinter, Placid Ark, again failed. Placid Ark, who returned a positive swab when
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    • 120 23 LOS ANGELES Sir Harry Lewis, one of Europe's leading three-year-olds last year after winning the Irish Derby, beat Baba Karam by 3 lengths in the US$4B,OOO (SJ100.000) main rare run over 2,200m at Del Mar, California, on Friday. It was his
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    • 116 23  - Piggott to be allowed out to see badly hurt wife ALAN HUBBARD By LONDON Disgraced former jockey Lester Piggott is to be allowed out of prison to visit his wife, Susan, who was severely injured in an riding accident at Newmarket on Friday. Piggott, 52, who is serving three years
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    • 158 23 SECURITY personnel at the Bukit Turf Club yesterday kept a keen eye at the entrances to the two grandstands for racegoers who might attempt to carry into the premises the newly-introduced handheld telephones. But they had little work to do for by the
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  • OBITUARIES
    • Obituary, Illustration
      206 24 K. V. MATHEWS AGE: 76 YEARS Passed away peacefully on 20.8.88 m« behind hit beloved: WMe: Mrs Mary Mathews Children: Verghese, Simon, George and Soosy Son-in-law: K Shanmugam Daughters-in-law Ammujam, Helen and Cony rn bivo ihvh DVfiina nra Drointrt, i»«»ri. grand-childran many r»lativ»t and pood Irianda to mourn
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    • 73 24 322 Acknowledgements 322 Acknowledgements 322 Acknowledgements THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MR SOLI SETNA wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the First Deputy Prime Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong, Mrs Goh, The Charge d'Affaires of The Pakistan Embassy Mr Tasneem Noorani, Mrs Noorani, The Management and staff
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    • 200 24 321 Deaths 321 Deaths Mr. Tan Chin Lye (Ah Poon) Age: 67 passed away peacefully on 20th August 1968 leaving behind beloved ones. Wife: MDM. WEE BEE CHENG Sons: Daughtsrs-ln-Law: Sunny Tan Julie Yeo Anthony Tan Winnie Sng Charlie Tan Quek Ble Tju Tony Tan Teo Slew Lung Henry Tan
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    • 96 24 323 Condolences 323 Condolences OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHIES AND CONDOLENCES TO THE BEREAVED FAMILY OF THE LATE With deepest sympath.es condolences to Mr Lawrence Aw Poh Hwee on the demise of hi* beloved wit* wun aeepest sympathies ft condolences to MR. LAWRENCE AW POH HWEE on the demise of his beloved
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    • 44 24 The family of the late MRS. KOH YEE MING nee LEE KWAI SON (departed 14.8.88.) wishes to express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all the relatives and friends for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavemint
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      89 24 With deepest sympathies and condolences to the bereaved family of the late Mr. Soli Setna From Chairman, Management and Staff of Bara Shipping Agencies Ca If H Bannknk With d»«p«§t sympathies an condolences to the bereavet family of the late MR. SOLI SETNA From Management a Staff o
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      125 24 In Loving Mamory of our d»a-a»i lalhar MR. JOSEPH TEO BAH CHEE Departed: 21/8/«1 Today recalls sad memories, Of a dear father gone to rest. And the one who thinks of him today Is the one who loves him best. B»diy miiiad and alway* r#m«mb«r«d by loving
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  • SPORT
    • 432 24 PORTMARNOCK (Ireland) Jose-Ma-ria Olazabal, of Spain, let Britain's big three Nick Faldo, lan Woosnam and Sandy Lyle make the mistakes on Friday and kept his lead in the £240,000 ($588,000) Irish Open. Olazabal scored a second-round 70 in easy conditions to go eight-under-par on 136. Second-round scorn
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    • 497 24  -  LEE WAI WUN By SIZZLING hot! That was Rahman Noor in the Singapore International bowling championships at Orchard Bowl yesterday. The Republic's former national kegler led a field of 20 men with a stunning 210 average after 10 games of the Open Masters semifinals. Rahmans
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    • 24 24 Picture by Jumping for joy: From left: Thian Joo. Daniel, Win| Leong. Jit Uei, Eleanor and Millie JACKY HO
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    • 429 24  -  ALBERT JOHNSON By DR TAN ENG LIANG, chairman of the Singapore Sports Council, yesterday reminded the Republic's sportsmen and sportswomen that they are fortunate to receive financial assistance in their search for sports excellence. Dr Tan disclosed that the SSC have
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    • 337 24 BASEBALL Results of the Korean league In South Korea on Friday Ixrtte Giants 7 Hai Tai Tigers 1* Samsung :.ions 3 Tai Pyung Yang Dolphin 0. MBC Drag)ns 4 OB Bears 3. Othrr results Ontral League: Chunichi 7 Hiroshima 5, Taiyo 1 Yomuiri 0 1 1 innings). Sfakult
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    • 57 24 LONDON World squash champion Jahangir Khan has agreed to play for Edgbaston Priory in the British League (or f.2,000 ($6,900} a match. The 24-year-old Pakistani is to appear in all four of the Birmingham club's league matches this season. He will make his first appearance on Oct
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    • 85 24 MR AUW THIAN CHOR Passed away peacefully on 20/8/88 Body lying at Blk 346 Clement! Ave 5. Enquiries pis conUct 776-543* More than 150 classifications surely there's one to suit you happilyl c Kaksjor Ovttuaries IN SWEET REMEMBRANCE Of j. inselfish life II has Photo In memory of (name) ("•"!•>
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    • 142 24 322 Acknowledgements Tha family of tha lata M«. KOH BOM QOH (Chairman A Managing Olractor of South taat Pratt Pie Ltd.) Departed: 168.1988 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Rev. Samuel Sla It Pastor David Wong of St James Church, church members, doctors and nurses of NUH.
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    • 36 24 With Deepest Sympathies and Condolences to the Bereaved Family of the Late MR. SOLI SETNA From: Management and Staff of SPECARGO FORWARDING (S) PTE. LTD. _j "In Memoriam" is for the loved ones whom you remember
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  • SPORT
    • 1078 25  - The idol and the vile in same League ROB HUGHES TALK OF SOCCER C VEN in this shocking summer of cheap ethics and insane spending, a fiction writer who juxtaposes so vile a player as Vinny Jones with so idolised a prodigal as lan Rush would be certifiable. Mixing mongrel
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    • 544 25 Former world No. 1 ousted by Soviet teenager MONTREAL Soviet teenager Natalia Zvereva icored a 6-1. 6-4 stunning upset over a lethargic Martina NavratOova in the quarter-finals of the Canadian Open women's tennis tournament on Friday. The 17-year-old Natalia, who defeated Martina. 32. in the fourth
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    • 508 25  -  SHIRLYNN HO By MELWYN PEREIRA. the fourth seed of the Pesta Sukan tennis tournament, became the first seeded casualty at Kallang yesterday. The Davis Cupper aggravated an old injury in the first set and succumbed 6-4. 6-4 to a resilient Zainuddin Yakin. First-round results Men's
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    • 383 25 LONDON Fast bowler David I^awrence. o( Gloucestershire, became the first black cricketer born in England to be picked for his country on Friday when he was named as one of six changes in the 12 for the Test against Sri Lanka starting at Lord's next Thursday Also
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    • 76 25 sinc.apork Chinese Recreation Club won the Muthucumani Trophy by hfating CtyUm sc on a tester scoring rate in the cricket final at Balestier Road yesterday. The teams tied at an KH run total but 9CRC won on a cotintback their 20-over total was 73, against CSC'B
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    • 296 25 THK Spanish Football Federation voted on Friday to allow, chibi to Held three foreign players this rmh after a previous limit of two The proposal, which favours Spain's wealthiei clubs, was backed among others hy AUetico Madrid's big-spending president Jems Cil. hut he s;iid he did not know
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    • 1259 26  -  ALAN HUBBARO ALWAYS ON SUNDAY King Carl battling to win over the American public I T WAS two in the morning at Fraseati's restaurant on the shores of Lake Zurich, five hours after Carl Lewis had slayed his dragon,
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    • 484 26 BRUSSELS The president of the International Olympic Committee has urged Britain's athletics bosses to reconsider their decision not to send double gold-medallist Sebastian Coe to the Olympic Games. In an astonishing, and unprecedented intervention, Mr Juan Antonio Samaranch calls for the
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    • 1293 26 Black power likely to rule the track in Seoul The American men and women most likely to succeed Carl Lewis (100m, 200m, long jump, 4xloom relay). Edwin Moses (400m hurdles). Butch Reynolds (400m). Roger Kingdom (110m hurdles). Johnny Gray (800m). Evelyn Ashford (100m). Florence Griffith-Joyner (100m 200m). Jackie Joyner-Kersee (heptathlon,
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    • SEOUL IN SIGHT
      • 606 26  - Classy Cram throws down the gauntlet to Aouita ALAN HUBBARD By BRUSSELS Never mind Carl Lewis v Pen Johnson. There is a another shoot-out scheduled for .Seoul which now threatens to pull the red carpet from under the fast-moving feet of the rival 100-metre monarchs. Britain's Steve Cram, already the
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      • 340 26 Brussels athletics GP results (IS. unless stated) Men IMm 1 Carl Lewis 10.04 2 Dennis Mitchell 10.22 3 Brian Cooper 10.38. 2Mm 1 Joe Deloach 20.03 2 Calvin Smith 20.25 3 Henry Thomas 20.43 3ttm 1 Butch Reynolds 32.22 2 Walter McCoy 32.43 3 Clarence Daniel 33 .00. 4Mm 1
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    • 383 27  - Fatholomein's injury may rule him out of hunt for gold MAHMOOD GAZNAVI By FATHOLOMEIN ALI'S Did to land his seventh Asian bodybuilding title might just not materialise after all. The Republic's No. 1 twisted his ankle at yesterday's pre-judging at Kallang Theatre but put up a brave show in the
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    • 534 27  -  JOE DORAI REVIEW OF THE SINGAPORE -PAHANG MALAYSIA CUP-TIE By TODAY'S TIES Penang v Kelantan (City Stadium, 8.30pm) Perak v Malacca (Ipoh, 8.39pm) Pahang v Brunei (Kuantan, 8.39pm) Sabah v Sarawak (Kota Kinabalu, 4.30pm) JUST three points from next week's two away matches, against Selangor on
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    • 264 27  -  NATIONAL junior defending champion Donald Koh demonstrated his superiority when he beat former national squad member Kelly Wee 12--15, 15-3, 15-7 to move into the semifinals of the Pesta Sukan individual badminton tournament at Singapore Badminton Hall last night. Koh, representing Harper Valley Badminton Party,
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    • 227 27 FORMER international Jeremy Loh took centre stage with an effort of 27.9 metres (92 feet) in the men's Open jump event of the fourth Sprite Pe?la Sukan water skiing series at Kallang River yesterday. On a day when a strong headwind troubled many skiers, especially
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    • 166 27 ATHLFmCS Spore Open (National Stadium, 2pm). BADMINTON Pesta Sukan tournament (SBH. 7.30pm) RODYBI ILDING Asian Men's and Mixed Pairs c'ships. Finals (Kallang Theatre, 2pm). ROWLING Spore International c'ships (Men Women): Masters semi-finals (9am, 11.30am), Step-ladder finals (2 30pm) both at Orchard Bowl. TANOEING National c'ships sprints Macßitchie. 9am).
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    • 70 27 LOCAL SPORT IN SHORT HOCKEY Fancied Singapore Cricket Club trounced Jansenites 6-1 in a Premier League hockey match at Tanglin ground yesterday. SOCCER Tanah Merah Constituency beat Ang Mo Kio 3-1 in an inter-constitu-ency soccer match at Geylang Stadium yesterday. In another match, Siglap defeated Kampong Übi 2-0. The Singapore
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    • 161 27 KANGAR Kuala Lumpur beat Perlis 3-1 in yesterday's Malaysia Cup soccer match here to take over at the top of the table. All Kuala Lumpur's goals were scored in the first half, by Fandi Ahmad in the sixth and 28th minutes and Saidin Osman
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    • 385 27  -  J. RAJENDRAN By TWO tries from centre Abbas Ismail fired Police to a 20-16 triumph over Blacks in the national under-23 rugby final at Queenstown yesterday. As the scoreline suggested, play was generally even for most of the match, though Blacks tended to dominate the
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    • 460 27 Well done, SBC, but keep up the good work The Sports Editor says IN the wake of Radio Television Malaysia's announcement that they will be screening 14 hours of action daily during next month's Olympic Games in Seoul, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's promise of an average daily coverage of nine-and-a-half
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    • 326 27 Pathetic state of local pitches provides grounds for complaint FOR a nominal charge of $15, you can arrange a soccer match on a Singapore Sports Council pitch. Throw in a few extra dollars and from the open Mountbatten ground you can move to the confines of Bedok Stadium or from
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  • The Sunday Times
    • 555 28 LEE WAI WUN INTERVIEWS THE SPORTING PRINCE OF BRUNEI THE Prince of Brunei has a passion shooting birds. Clay pigeons, to be precise. And Pengiran Muda Haji Sufri Bolkiah has a secret hope that his passion will lead him to Barcelona for the 1992
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    • 281 28 HONGKONG Today's men's singles final of the US$6O,OOO ($122,400) Dunhill Hongkong Open will feature China's world badminton champion Yang Yang and Indonesia's Icuk Sugiarto. Yang Yang showed the difference in class, speed and experience when he demolished Ardy Wiranata, the world junior champion, 15-5, 15-4 in
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    • 748 28  -  HAKIK AT RAI By ALL THE RESULTS Men's lMm: 1 Haron Mundir (Sin) 10.755ec I Takale Tuna (Png) 10.96 3 Mohd Hassan Hussein (Mai) 1099. Him Hardies: 1 Lu Quanbin (Chn) 14.86 2 Fauzan Sunardi (Indo) 14.88 3 P. Parameswaran (Sin) 15.15. Ittiu: 1
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    • 302 28 LONDON Liverpool scored their revenge over Wimbledon for their embarrassing Football Association Cup final defeat in May with a 2-1 Charity Shield win at Wembley here yesterday. John Aldridge, whose place in the Liverpool team is under threat with the return of lan Rush from Italian
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    • 458 28  -  PETER KHOO By Haron has an easy time in century dash TRIPLE jumper Sidek Sahak set a Malaysian and meet record, while local ace Haron Mundir breezed to victory after a controversial start in the century dash on the second day of the 50th Singapore Open
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    • 245 28  - Seng Mok's record earns him trip to Sea meet LEE WAI WITS CHNG SENG MOK cracked a 13-year-Ud trap shooting record on Friday when he blasted 193 out of 200 targets during a competition against a vuiting Brunei team at the Singapore Gun Club. Seng Mok added tkree birds to
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          200 2 Ic^ Warmest Congratulations Best Wishes^Ai To Our Director P MR. LEE KENG BOH pbm on the bestowal of the Public Service Star (BBM) on the occasion of The National Day 1988 by The President of Republic of Singapore From The Board of Directors, Management Staff of L ijTjp) GRAND CLASSIC
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          • 134 2 AN ANGEL'S work is never done. Moon Lee, star of the film Angel 11, will soon be kicking at doors and gunning down villains once more. Barely a month after shooting for Angel II ended, the Hongkong actress will be back at work on
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          • 98 2 BABIES can be In the way even when they are not born yet; just ask singer Alan Tain of The Wynners. Twice he has Invited singer Chelsea Chan to attend the band's anniversary concerts; twice she has pleaded to be excused because she Is
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          • 91 2 HONGKONG actor Simon Yam Tat Wah has •ssed that he is not to plunge into iage yet. enjoys his carefree bachelor life too much to be tied down, the Lianhe Zaobao reports. Yam, whc has been with the HK-TVB station for 12
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        • 829 4  -  ON THE BLINK By VAL MCQUEEN GOOD-NATURED and fast-mov-ing, The Glftie (Cosmorama, last Sunday, Ch 12, 8 pm) was a skilful little play about two businessmen who invent a photocopier that can copy threedimensional objects. They try it out on themselves, to no
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        • 457 4 Battles in life have been worse than those in court for 'lawyer' Andy Griffith MATLOCK means success a second time round for actor Andy Griffith, but he has been through a whole lot of living during his absence from the screen. His truly big moment came,
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        • 853 7 Brosrrauia has reached fever oitch in Italy and the rest of Europe. ANDREW PANOS fights his way through screaming fans to keep up with the boys in the land of spaghetti. "THE fing is the girls aren't really any trouble. It's when you get three
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        • 241 15 ON FRIDAY, a new national campaign begins. Although it is new, it will be familiar to most of you. It is National Reading Month. In the past, the activities were organised on a small scale for only a section of people such as pre-school children. Now, it is
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        • 228 15 It is always more meaningful to give something you have made yourself than something you have bought. So for the next birthday celebration, make an unusual card from tapioca for your friend. You will need: Tapioca Coloured card Two sheets of paper Paints and brushes Pencil
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        • 490 15 American Presidents of the 20th Century THE name of President Richard Nixon will always be linked with that of Watergate, the scandal that forced him to resign in 1974, the only President ever to do so. This stain on his record, however, should not hide his achievements
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        • 761 16 Horror films and television serials are blood brothers, says CARYN JAMES; and the scenes are so banal that TAY YEK KEAK, after two movies, wonders if they were just bad dreams THERE was a phase early this year when, as 1 headed out from
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        • 407 16 THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW (Coming to Prince 1) FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC (At Capitol) FROM Wes Craven, the director of the cult horror classic. Nightmare on Elm Street, comes yet another bad dream and an even worse movie. Set in pre-revolutionary Haiti under
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          • 119 16 Indiana Jones returns with a father IN THE endless round of Hollywooc sequels comes Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. And back as the battered hero for the third time, complete with scar on temple and tattered clothes, is Harrison Ford. Directing him in the film is who else? Steven
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          • 124 16 GUESS who visited the Indiana Jones set last week? None other than Michael Jackson. The pop star had dropped by to let his pal Steven Spielberg know that he, Jackson, was very interested in playing the lead role in Phantom of the Opera when the
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          • 55 16 Still busy at 81 AT 81, Katherine llepbarn refuses to stay idle. The veteran star has written a TV script called Phyllis and Me, which chronicles her life with her housekeeper. It also recounts her life story, and NBC television plans to turn it into a film, with Hepburn playing
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          • 44 16 POP star Peter Gabriel, whose most recent hits include Sledgehammer and Big Time, is having problems with his wife of 16 years, Jill Moore. Gabriel is now enjoying romantic tete-a-tetes with actress Rosanna Arquette, of Desperately Seekine Susan fame. IPS
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        • 376 2  -  MARGARET CHAN EAT IN By BEGGAR'S chicken and Dongpo pork, a staple in local restaurant menus for some years now, typify the hearty food of Hangzhou. As rustic as it is royal, this cuisine from the fruitful delta south-west of Shanghai embraces anything from delicate
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        • 251 4 Too much fibre can harm the body FIBRE does wonders for our bodies, even children nowadays know. Whole natural foods are also packed with more of such goodness than the •white, processed variety. But do not imagine there are no disadvantages from eating a high-fi-bre, wholefood diet. For brown unrefined
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        • 1008 6 On the up by the millions 4 There is really no ceiling on what might be paid for art objects and other collectibles Logic has almost nothing to do with it. After the Crash of 87, smart investors in the West are buying up "collectibles" as safer investments than shares,
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          • 93 6 THE desert hills of. South Australia's Flinders Ranges will ring next month with the voice of one of the world's greatest opera singers, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Dame Kiri, accompanied by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, will star in Opera in the Outback on Sept 3
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          • 51 6 COMPOSER and pianist Marvin Hamlisch, who is a favourite of Nancy Reagan, has been named by President Ronald Reagan as a member of the American National Council on the Arts. If confirmed by the Senate, Hamlisch will succeed novelist Allen Drury on the council.
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          • 65 6 THE Italian opera troupe La Scala started off the Seoul Olympics Arts Fest last Tuesday with a performance of Puccini's Turandot at the Sejong Cultural Centre. The festival, which ends in October, will offer a cultural feast from roadside art galleries to high
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          • 68 6 EXILED Soviet theatre director Yuri Lyubimov has been asked to return to Moscow to take up his old Job at the Taganka Theatre starting in January, according to the Taganka 's current director, Nikolai Gubenko. He told the weekly magazine Ogonyok that he would step
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      • 656 8  - CURTAINS for some house-proud homeowners YEO KIM SENG By mßm CURTAINS determine the amount of light that pours through windows and lend subtle tones to interiors. But too often, homemakers seem to budget for everything except curtains, only to realise later that they have forgotten to dress up the windows,
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      • 594 9  -  EVELYN YAP THE three-room flat in MacPherson estate had been home to Mrs Liling Teo, 36, and her family for 11 years. It was a five-minute drive from her office and they were used to life in the old estate. Then the Teos
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      • 210 10 Families live it up in Swiss-style houses with prices to match WHILE the rest of Singapore aims to achieve a standard of living to rival that of the Swiss by the turn of the century, a group of residents appear to be enjoying it already at least in the area
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      • 576 11  -  YEO KIM SENG By DRIVING past this twoff storey house, which lies for the most part below rnjjpfr" road level in Oei Tiong EPQID k Ham Park, few would M" h< give it a second glance. But once inside its gates, one is instantly impressed
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      • 762 11  -  EVELYN YAP By THE living room of Francis Teo's flat does not qmte double up as his changing room, although it does "change" every three months or so. That's because Francis, a visual merchandiser, reshuffles the furniture and changes the hall's wall decor
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