Singapore Monitor, 29 April 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 13 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR Sedition; M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Monday, April 29, 1985 30cents
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  • 533 1  -  VICTOR SON and SURESH NAIR TWO MEN are helping Traffic Police in their investigations into hell-rid-ing activities after one of them tried to escape while being escorted to headquarters yesterday morning. The 20-year-old man, dressed in a Singapore Armed Forces' uniform, skidded while trying
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    • 142 2 A 36-YEAR-OLD housewife was charged in a district court today with exporting about 10 packets of heroin (diamorphine) weighing about 2,297.36 grammes to the United States. Sim Ah Cheoh was arrested at Changi Airport three days ago at 1.35 pm at Gate C 32.
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    • 140 2  -  By JOSEPH LEE THE FIRST European Economic Community (EEC) trade mission to South-east Asia has been a great success, according to the mission leader, Mr L Fulci (right). The 33-member mission which visited Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore in December 1984 secured 14 contracts totalling
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    • 382 2  -  By IRENE TOH A BUSINESSMAN and a salesman who tried to dispose of 93,000 forged Sime Darby Holdings shares valued at about $600,000 to stockbroking firms were each fined $8,000 in a district court today. Eesah Sulaiman and Abdul Rahiman Mohamed
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    • 43 2 THE NORTH Korean Vlce-Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Chon Yong Jin (left), called on the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr S Dhanabalan, at the City Hall at noon today. Mr Chon is on a four-day visit to Singapore.
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    • 263 2 Lianhe Zaobao THEATRE groups in Singapore have urged the Ministry of Community Development to strengthen its promotion of the Theatre for the Young. The Ministry of Education is also called upon to consider including drama as part of the students' regular
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    • 114 2 FIVE MEN were charged with the murder of a 33-year-old man, Samynatan Pawathai, at Tanjong Rhu on April 28. Chandran Gangatharen, 22, Kumar Nadison, 28, and Kabar Kadernastan, 23, were accused of being members of an unlawful assembly, together with five other persons, whose common
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    • 378 3  -  NTUC CENTRAL COMMITTEE By LOONG SWEE YIN THE TOP three positions in the new-ly-elected Central Committee of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUQ remain unchanged, with Mr Ong Teng Cheong as SecretaryGeneral and Mr Lawrence Sia and Dr Wan Soon Bee as his deputies. Four other
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    • 154 3 THE HIGHLIGHT of the National Trades Union Congress' celebration of Labour Day on May 1 will be a rally held at the World Trade Centre Auditorium. The First Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Goh Cbok Tong, will be present to address the rally, scheduled to
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    • 297 3 Mr Mohd Yusoff Marican MORE rank-and-file union leaders will be appointed to the various committees of the Industrial Relations and Organising departments of the National Trades Union Congress. Both departments have been expanded to create more opportunities for grassroots leaders to hold responsible positions and
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    • 1032 4  -  By SIT YIN FONG UNAUTHOBISED "tollcollectors are said to have collected at least $100,000 from about 300,000 Qing Ming festival worshippers who thronged Singapore's biggest temple the Kong Meng San Temple during the 30-day ghost-worshipping festival which ended on April 20. This amount is
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    • 193 4 ANOTHER problem which bothers the Kong Meng San Temple authorities is what they describe as "rampant pickpocketing". The temple authorities say pickpockets have a field day during the '•Reprieve of Souls" festival, which falls on the 27th day of every lunar month. At least 10,000
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 150 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS MANY Singaporean motorists are making more than one trip a day to Johor Baru to fill up their petrol tanks. The picture above, taken on Saturday, shows two cars with Singapore-registered licence plates at a petrol kiosk in Johor
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      • 113 4 NINE Residents' Committees will be formed in Tampines by this year, making it one of the constituencies with the largest number of grassroots organisations. Tampines lost three of its four RCs to a new constituency, Changkat, after electoral border changes before the Tast general elections. The
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      • 112 4 ANTI-NARCOTICS officers are now trying to find out whether the 2.S kilograms of heroin worth about US$2.4 million (5|5.6 million) seized from a Singapore woman as she was about to get on a plane at the Changi Airport are the total haul of the drugs
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      • 138 4 NEWSPAPERS, television and sex are out Life will be chanting, meditation and study from 5 am to 10 pm every day for 35 Buddhists for two weeks. They are the first group of people, including businessmen, insurance agents, finance managers, land surveyors and national servicemen
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    • 383 6 Lianhe Zaobao SINGAPORE is facing an increasingly tougher challenge this year in its effort to get more people to invest in the Republic. At an interview with the Press, Mr P Y Hwang, chairman of the Economic Development Board, said the total foreign
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    • 142 6 CENTRAL police arrested two youths for carrying a parang each on Friday night near a leading departmental store in River valley Road. The two suspects were described as odd-job labourers aged 15 and 18. Sources said the two were going towards Daimaru shopping complex
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    • 226 6 A ROBBER caned his victim before robbing him of nearly $115,000 worth of jewellery on Saturday evening. Mr Chong Hock Loo, 35, a goldsmith's shop assistant, said yesterday that he ran in fear for his life when the robber, in his 30s,
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    • 226 6 HOUSE break-ins are common in a housing estate because several flats are left unattended by owners who are out working in the day. Dr Aline Wong, the Member of Parliament for Changkat, said yesterday that the types of crime committed in a
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    • 344 7  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG A ROBOT submitted as Singapore's sole entry to the World Exhibition of Young People's Inventions was picked as an outstanding piece of work and put on display at the exhibition in Tokyo from March 26 to March 31. It was
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    • 302 7 WORKERS have to be flexible, versatile and be fast enough to exploit new opportunities if they were to remain relevant in a rapidly changing working environment "This is of course easier said than done," Mr Ng Pock Too, the Political Secretary to
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    • 198 7 THE UNITED Nations Council for Namibia is to hold a regional symposium here from May 6 to 10 at the Hyatt Hotel to find ways of strengthening international solidarity for the independence of Namibia. Thirty-five people have been invited to attend the
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  • world
    • 238 8 UPI LONDON, Monday MEMBERS and parents of Britain's equivalent of the Girl Scouts were up in arms yesterday over an apparent failure to "be prepared." Forty-seven members of the Girl Guides, aged between 10 and 16, collapsed from cold late Saturday during outdoor
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    • Article, Illustration
      1290 8 No time for tears as Americans leave the only war they lost UPI "THAT'S it," snapped UPI Bureau Chief Alan Dawson, after receiving a telephone call at mid-morning on April 29, 1975, from a US Embassy official. Those of us within earshot in the UPI bureau on
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    • 317 9 Reuter CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida), Monday THE US space shuttle is scheduled to blast off today on its 17th mission, carrying seven astronauts, a pair of monkeys, two dozen rats and the European-built Spacelab If all goes according to plan, it will be
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    • 162 9 Reuter MANILA, Monday THE PHILIPPINES and its creditor banks have reached a final agreement on a US$lO billion (Ss22 billion) rescue package, a spokesman for Prime Minister Cesar Virata said. He said the problem of a major Saudi Arabian bank's refusal to take
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    • 107 9 UPI WARSAW, Monday AUTHORITIES dismissed a prominent history professor and close friend of Solidarity founder Lech Walesa from his post at the Polish Academy of Sciences, sources close to the outlawed union said yesterday. The sources said Professor Bronislaw Geremek was notified of his dismissal from the
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    • 296 10 LAT-WP MOSCOW, Monday SOVIET leader Mikhail Gorbachev has banned public drinking by Communist Party officials, ordered a cutback in production of alcohol and is considering doubling the price of vodka and other spirits in what party officials say is a top-priority attack on alcoholism.
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    • 333 10 LAT-WP TOKYO, Monday JAPAN is drafting a US$lOO billion (5|222 billion), five-year military spending plan tilat would expand sea lane and air defence capabilities and probably mean the formal end of a policy of holding defence spending to below 1 per cent of Gross
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    • 55 10 A GROUP of survivors swimming towards a life raft after a helicopter crashed into the East River in New York. The accident happened when the chopper soddenly lost power and plunged into the icy waters last Friday. One died of heart attack. Seven survived the crash
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    • 211 10 UPI WASHINGTON, Monday UNITED Press International filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code yesterday to gain "breathing space" wnile it attempts to reorganise its finances. In papers filed with the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia,
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    • 156 10 LAT-WP LOS ANQELES, Mon THE CURLY-HAIRED Greek had the tongue of a poet, one of his admirers wrote. When he spoke, women believed. And they believed when he promised to repay the hundreds of thousands of dollars that he had borrowed while the women
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    • 64 10 "I find it very difficult to be objective about a product which so strongly appeals to my sense of what is required from an amplifier". Graham S. Mayor "Hi-Fi For Pleasure" > W*_ ZErr! 9 L., m 0 t-tf m witi r iti annr PERREAUX QmsnSfliUMliSia DKMIEmSOTISKML IFim 055® 04-12
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  • money
    • 995 12  -  THE MERCHANT BANKERS... CONTINUING OUR SERIES Focus on industry leader Baring Brothers By CATHERINE ONG AT ONE time during the horse and buggy period, it was said there were six superpowers in the world ana Baring Brothers was one of them. The extent
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    • 204 13 THE LOCAL bourse opened quiet and steady this morning and closed firm at lunch break. Prices of plantation stocks surged in mia-morning due to firmer palm oil prices. Top volume stock, Pan-EL traded 159,000 to close at $2.54 followed by Cons Plant's 144,000 at
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    • 38 13 THE OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 403.75, down 0.14 point from Friday's close of 403.89. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted Index was up 0.3904 point to 133.6716 in morning trading from Friday's close of 133.2812.
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    • 257 13 Selected stocks at midday. Market Tone: slightly Boustead 1.66 B Cold Storage 2.56/2.57 F N 5.00/5.05 Genting 5.75/5.80 G I H 176/178 Haw Par 2 18/2 19 Keck Seng 2.21/2.25 Esso 2.58 B Inchcape 2.45/2.47 Intraco 1.81/1.90 M Cement 1.26 B Metro 2.85/2 86 M P H B
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    • 111 13 Your 8$ to on* unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DO US$ ***** 2.2250 ***** sterling 2.7128 2.6907 2.6807 Australian I 1.4793 1.4553 1.4403 Canadian 9 1 6412 1 6212 1.6112 New Zealand 1.0224 1.0024 0.9774 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to 1 unit USf 2.23 2.21 NZ* 1.05
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    • 168 13 Reuter THE US dollar rose agai.ist most European currencies from New York levels on some covering interest in very quiet early trading. The US unit rose to an early 3.1405/25 marks from New York's 3.1300/30 Friday close, to 2.6190/6220 Swiss francs from 2.6100/50 and to 9.5800/50 French
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    • 248 13 ME DAVID CHOO KHOON MENG, 36, has joined Metropolitan Broking Services as General Manager. A Business Administration honours graduate from the University of Singapore in 1971, he has varied working experience, including a stint as Administrative Assistant in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He was seconded to the
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    • 58 13 Bernama JOHOR BARU, Monday SINGAPORE investors have put up 37 factories with a total capital of Ms2l4 million (*****.4 million) in Johor as at the end of March. The projects set up included food, textiles, electronics, metal, engineering and gas and petroleum industries, Jonor Menteri
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    • 7 12 STOKER THE BROKER IS ON PAOE 13
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  • 186 14 features THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID "BULLETS and tear gas will never stop us," E reclaimed signs carried y the Black population who turned out to attend the funeral of members of their community killed bv police bullets during the recent riots in Port Elizabeth.
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  • opinion/letters
    • 555 15 MUNllUkRH NOT SO long ago, traders in a shopping complex complained of poor business. And they pinpointed pay-parking as a chief cause of their losing out to a nearby complex where parking was free. It is something worth recalling now that the Government has given
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    • 136 15 I AM totally appalled and disgusted at the alleged child abuse case reported in your paper (SM, April 25). Something must be done with someone who can physically and mentally torment another human being, let alone her own flesh-and-blood" I applaud
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    • 405 15  -  BERNADETTE LEE Singapore 2264 ARE there sufficient facilities and expertise to help those with hearing defects in Singapore? I understand that an audiogram can be done here but apparently no audiologist or ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) surgeon in Singapore
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    • 113 15 THE ORIGINAL purpose of the $3 airport surcharge was to encourage taxis to go to the airport. But keeping the surcharge despite the revised and high taxi fare structure amounts to a "double charge" as the surcharge has already been incorporated into the new
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    • 71 15 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wil be accepted for publication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the water's name and address •v6fi if ine wfTOr oecioes to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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    • 1617 17 THE BMQAPORE MONITOR I O leisure/tv MONDAY, april 29, His I w I 2.30 88CTEXT live Sample Pagoa. 7.20 Htwlch (E). I I 3.00 Opining and Programme lOghMghte 7.30 Nm (M). B I foiowed by Prtnceaa Chang Ping (C) 7.50 Khaa Untuk Mu (M). I (r) (EngMah sutotMaa). D J
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  • leisure
    • 495 18 The Last Days of Pompeii (Part six) (Malay subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) GLAUCUS, arrested for Antonio's murder, is sentenced to a fight-to-the-death in the gladiatorial games sponsored by Diomed. His opponent is Lydon. Although he hates to fight his friend, Lydon eventually
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    • 444 18  -  NEW SBC SERIAL IS SET IN 'WILD' SHANGHAI By WONG AH YOKE THE latest production of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's Drama Unit has an impressive achievement. Tune in to The Unyielding Butterflies (today, Ch 8, 9.30 pm) to watch how the producers make familiar
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    • 1082 19  -  The advantages of being a prodigy By VIOLET OON HOW marvellous it is to be a child prodigy. As a musician you would belong to a long line of distinguished names dating back to Amadeus Mozart. And then there's that immediate positive feeling towards you even before
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    • 117 19 AT this stage, I would like to ask why the orchestra has yet to play a work by Kam Kee Yong, one of Singapore's few composers. His works may not be strikingly creative but if the orchestra does make a point of playing mediocre works
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    • 95 19 LAST Week's Singapore Symphony Orchestra's concert programme omitted a familiar name that of General Manager David Lim. A check with the management revealed that Mr Lim left the job on April 1 to return to the Ministry of Education. Before his appointment as general manager of
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    • 603 20  -  ay ROBERT HILBURN in Hollywood LAT-WP THE acidic British rock press does not mince words when dealing with its homegrown stars. Melody Maker's Barry Mcllheney dismissed fellow countryman Phil Collins' best-selling No Jacket Required album as "bland Fairly ordinary (music) for very ordinary
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    • 929 20  -  Asiabeat Reviews by LIM SEK ALBUM: VOX HUMANA ARTISTE: Kenny Loggins LABEL: FC ***** (CIS) KENNY LOGGINS gets louder with each new release. But who's complaining, when the result is a collection of pop-rock pieces that grow on you with every listening? After his Footloose success,
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    • 870 21  -  Revivals seem to be main survivors on Broadway By WILLIAM A HENRY III Time THE soul of the stage may be the grand tragedy or its modern cousin, the middle-class problem play, but the essence of Broadway is the musical. Spectacular song-and-dance
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 617 21 FILM GUIP6 TOA PAYOH (*****34) (1.15, 3.15, 7.15, 9.15y. THE DALIT (*****16) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): THE WAR- TRAP (C) RIOHS AGAINST THE BLIND SWORDSMAN (M) JUBILEE (*****07) (1.30, 3.30,7.30,9.30y. THE TRAP LIWAQU (*****30) (1.30, 3.30,7.30,9.30): TIME SLIP (C) (E) HOLLYWOOD (*****64) (1, 3.30, 7, 9.30): THE TRAP < (C)
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 336 22 PAINTING OF THE YEAR THE United Overseas Bank Group's Fourth Painting of the Year Competition will be divided into three categories abstract painting, representational painting and Chinese painting. It is open to Singapore citizens, permanent residents and foreign artists residing in Singapore. An entrant may submit a maximum of three
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    • 598 22 ASBERTIVENESS THE MUSIC MAN THE Assertiveness THE Singapore Theatre's American Repertory Training Skills Workshop Showcase will present the musical, The Music Man, will be held on five con- at the Victoria Theatre from Friday to May 11. secutive Thursdays, Performances begin at Bpm on Friday and Saturstarting this week, from
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  • 840 23  -  The Chef Recommends For enquiries, please call *****22. By GASTON DE ROSAYRO THE Coachman Inn sounds terribly British, conjuring up romantic visions of hansoms and carriages and lamplighting time in Georgian England. Tucked away neatly on the third floor of Parkway Parade, the Coachman Inn
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    • 143 23 THE Coachman Inn Raataurant ia opan from 11.30 am to 2.30 pm and again from 6.30 pm to 10.30 pm. Happy houra ara from 4 to 7 pm whan for avary two glaaaaa of draft you will ba served ona fraa. In addition thara'a a 20 par cant diacount on
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    • 199 23 BAY KITCHEN INTRODUCING OUR SPECIALTY:HONG KONG STYLE FOUR SEASON'S STEAMBOAT SIDE ORDERS:A *LA CARTE CHIENES DISHES, PORRIDGE, RICE VERMICELLI, RICE AND NOODLES, WE OFFER BUFFET AND ALSO TAKE AWAY ARE WELCOME. \\//i/ DROP IN V \cjV«V AND EXPERIENCE Vy OUR excellent FOOD AND SERVICES. /f/m, /yA BUSINESS HOUR: V HON-SUN
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      • 480 25 THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUERIES I WOULD like more information on fork soft lens. My optician informs me that I have very high astigmatism (my degree is about 650*700 each eye) which he says cannot be rednced. He even told me that it
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      • 258 25 I AM 22 yean old ud have not been to a lounge or disco before. Recently I was Invited by my colleague to Join her and otber friends for a drink Can yon please advise me what type of drink I should order?
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      • 203 25 I DID physical science at "O" level and I am unsure whether to take up Physics or Physical Science at "A" level in a private institution. I consulted my friends and they gave different views and opinions which only confused me. Could you
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      • 183 25 A FRIEND of mine showed me an unusual coin which he recently acqnired. It was a three-quarter cent coin with 1820 a* the year of tesae. Ob the obverse tide was Ike head of Qveen Victoria. It Is aot mentioned In any of the coin
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      • 82 25 CAN you please tell me what is meant by "written off?" What are its effects on a company? •WRITTEN OFF" is an accounting term which is used to reduce a company's assets. For instance, when a company cannot collect its receivables (goods sold or
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    • 70 25 THE SOUTH Zone schools will celebrate their zone festival with a music and dance presentation tomorrow at 7.30 pm at the Henderson Secondary School Hall. Mr Lim Chee Onn, the MP for Bukit Merah, will be the guest of honour. THE GEYLANG East CC Youth Group is
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    • 130 25 THE Toa Payoh Branch of the National Library will be organising a series of talks on "Family Life Education" for yonng people. These talks are aimed at developing yoang individuals as members of the family and society. They will cover areas of adolescent development, interpersonal
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    • 127 25 DO U.S. BANK notes Issued In 1950 nnd In denominations of US$lO, US$5O and US$lOO In good condition bat without the words "IN GOD WE TRUST" have anything other than their lace value? THE NOTES you refer to are worth more than their
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      • 93 25 INFORMATION YOU CAN USE SCHOOL children should be encouraged to take steps to protect their eyesight from strain while studying or doing homework. Desk lighting, for example, should be no more than three times brignter than the rest of the room. Books should be read at
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      • 122 25 JUDICIOUS use of short-acting sleeping pills those that wear off within eight hours can be effective against jet lag, but taking longacting sleep drugs can worsen jet-lag symptoms, according to a study by researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California and Henry
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    • 458 28 Reuter WALNUT (California), Monday CARL LEWIS, in his first outdoor appearance in southern California since last summer's Olympics, won the men's 100-metre dash in a wind-aided time of 9.90 seconds yesterday at the 27th Annual Mount San Antonio College relays. Lewis' time was
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    • 144 28 RESULTS of yesterday's 27th Annual Mount San Antonio College relays: Men's 100 metres: 1. Carl Lewis (US) 9.90 (wind-aided) 2. James Butler (US) 10.17 3. Harvey Glanz (US) 10.19. Men's 800 metres: 1. James Robinson (US) 1:47.41 2. James Mays (US) 1:47.67 3. Jack Armour (US) 1:48.70. Men's 110-metre
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    • 377 29 Reuter ROME, Monday VERONA increased their lead at the top of the Italian League to four points with a 1-0 win over Lazio yesterday to take a firmer hold on the championship with only three games left to play. Surprise defeats by
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    • 102 29 Ascoli 0 Udinese 1; Atalanta 1 Milan 0; Avellino 2 Sampdoria 1; Como 0 Torino 0; Inter Milan 2 Cremonese 0; Juventus 1 Fiorentina 2; Roma 1 Napoli 1; Verona 1 L azio 0 u< wu P W D L F A PU Verona 27 14 11 2
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    • 413 29  -  BRITISH SOCCER BY SIMON BARNES Everton 3 Norwich 0 AND SO the Everton machine rolls on. They stand just five points from clinching the Championship and the race is all over barring the shouting and the coronation of the season's
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      73 29 DIV ONE 32 Kerry Dixon (Chelsea); 29 Graeme Sharp (Everton); 26 Gary Banister (Queen s Park Rangers); 25 Mark Falco (Tottenham), Mark Hughes (Manchester United), Luther BMssett (Watford), Gary Lineker (Leicester). DIV TWO -31 John Aldridge (Oxford); 23 David Geddis (Birmingham); 19 Wayne Clark (Birmingham), Gary Stevens (Shrewsbury).
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    • 1082 29 ENGLISH MV ONE Arsenal 1 Sheffield Wednesday 0; Aston VMa S Queens Park Rangers 2; Chelsea 1 Tottenham 1; Coventry 2 West Bromwich 1; Everton 3 Norwich 0; Ipswich 0 Liverpool 0; Leicester 1 Nottingham Forest 0; Manchester United 2 Sunderland 2; Newcastle 2 Southampton 1; Watford
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    • 309 30  -  By B KULA THE SINGAPORE Under-20's yesterday put up a gutsy display against Premier League club Jansenites, beating them 3-2 at Tanglin in a tune-up game to prepare them for the coming Malaysian Hockey Federation tournament in Seremban from May 14-18. Though they had the
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    • 28 30 S'port Undtr-20 3 Jansenites 2 40th min K Vijayan 46th min A Ravindran 55th min Nordirt Manaf 60th min Teng Yuen Yuen 65th min K Vijayan
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    • 406 30 RAFFLES JUNIOR College may have impressed many fans with their third successive defence of the Police Cup for the Under-20's at the Padang last Friday but certainly not Taffy Davies. Taffy, who was in charge of secondary schools' rugby in New
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    • 95 30 Reuter SAN DIEGO, Mon Britain's Annabel Croft surprised everyone including herself when she unset top-seeded Wendy Turnbull of Australia 6-0 7-6 (7-5) yesterday in the final of the U5575,000 (S$ 166,000) women's tennis tournament. Croft, ranked 83rd in the world, took home US$l2,OOO for her first
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    • 205 30 Reuter LISBON, Monday LEADERS PORTO missed a chance to clinch the Portuguese First Division soccer title yesterday when they were held to a 0-0 draw by rivals Sporting Lisbon, but the result kept them on course for the championship. Roared on by
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      • 89 30 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD JOHN MCENROE (above) won hit fifth tournament of the year yesterday when he overcame a surprisingly strong challenge to heat fellow New Yorker Paul Annacone7-0 7-4 0-2 in the final of the WCT Atlanta championships. McEnroe earned US$OO,OOO of the
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      • 72 30 WORLD RECORD holder Calvin Smith sprinted to a pair of victories and Danny Harris pulled off an upset in the 400 metres for his secood title of the weekend at the 70th Drake Relays held recently. Smith won the 100 and 200-metre dashes, while Harris outduelled
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      • 121 30 BORDEAUX EDGED closer to retaining the French soccer league title with a 0-0 draw against Racing Club last night, achieved despite the loss of skipper Alain Giresse with a knee injury. The reigning champions were clearly tired following their European Cup tie with Juventus in
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    • 366 31 Appeal arising from missile-throwing incident rejected by UEFA Reuter ZURICH, Monday THE EUROPEAN Football Union (UEFA) disciplinary committee yesterday rejected a protest from Internazionale Milan over a missile-throw-ing incident in their UEFA Cup clash against Real Madrid last Wednesday. Inter had asked for the result of
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      167 31 AGENCIES BORDEAUX midfield international Alain Giresse will miss Thursday's World Cup qualifying soccer match between France and Bulgaria because of a knee injury, his club said yesterday. Giresse is suffering from persistent strained knee ligaments. He left the field in the 64th minute of last night's league draw in
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