New Nation, 8 July 1982

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  • 18 1 new nation PUBLISHED m THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 20/5/82 30 cents
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    • 62 1 UPI WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger said yesterday Israel has set Sunday as a deadline for an agreement to be worked out for the evacuation of Palestinian guerillas from besieged West Beirut. US envoy Philip Habib has only a few days to put together
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    • 78 1 AP BANGKOK: Was Vietnam's communist party chief, Le Duan, 77, hospitalised in the Soviet Union or not? The Vietnam News Agency reported on June 3 that he had returned to Hanoi after a monthlong vacation in the Soviet Union. But over the past two days, Laos
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    • 38 1 UPI The Public Citizen Health Research Group said its review of diagnosis reports filed with Maryland's Cost Review Commission indicated 20 to 25 per cent of pacemakers implanted in 1979 and 1980 were not needed. UPI
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    • 50 1 UPI BOSTON: A city in the suburbs of Boston, Suffolk County, had its entire traffic and parking department virtually wiped out by the arrests of all but one of its staff on charges of filching at least Ssl million from parking meters during the last year. UPI
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  • 346 1 Fifty-fifty chance of girls wearing glasses By JALIL MISWARDI THE EYESIGHT of schoolchildren in Singapore is getting worse. And if you are a girl and in school, there is almost a fiftyfifty chance that you will be wearing glasses by the time you are
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  • 53 1 A very expressive Jupp Derwall, the West German soccer coach, watches his team play at a training session in Madrid. Judging from this sequence of pictures, he was obviously displeased with the performance of his men. West Germany meets France today in a semi-final
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    • 357 2  -  By SIT YIN FONG MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Cho Jock Kim, 50, who was released from Changi prison about nine months ago after serving more than three years for misappropriating funds, is reported to be "living it up" somewhere abroad on a fortune estimated
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    • 50 2 'What I like about this place is the service." "I like the East Coast atmosphere ...invigorating sea breezes, you know what I mean?" "They certainly serve a nice plate of mee goreng for six." "And it's all free... for us birds." Picture by GOH KIM HUI
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    • 180 2 Jurong is becoming more law abiding. And police believe the decrease in the number of major crimes there during the first half of this year is the result of better relations with the public. Robbery, housebreaking, murder and vehicle thefts have all gone down,
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    • 200 2 Empire of a financial genius-turned-bad CHO JOCK KIM was little short of a financial genius who turned bad. His first publishing venture began in 1960 in a small flat in River Valley Road with only two employees when he was only 28.
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    • 157 2  -  Stories by LAM MO LIAN LAND to be reclaimed at Changi over the next four years will be used for recreation until it is needed for airport expansion. About 4.5 km of new beaches will be created, according to Mr A.Vijiaratnam, chairman of Singapore Engineering and
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    • 152 2 MARINA South, which the government will be selling off to finance the MRT, is almost finished. Ohbayashi-Gumi, the company engaged to do the reclamation, is now putting the finishing touches, such as placing breaker stones along the shoreline. Marina South, which is Phase 7 of the
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    • 335 3 'I was not convinced that some of my clients were innocent,' he says MR TOMMY KOH, Singapore's permanent ambassador to the United Nations, became a lawyer because he wanted to stop the rich from bullying the poor. But he told more than 100
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    • 223 3  -  Courtesy month By CHUA NGENG CHOO STANDING outside the Hotel Phoenix in Somerset Road yesterday, I saw a tall, slim Indian in uniform giving detailed directions to three tourists, assuring them with a smile that they would not get lost. He then
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    • 58 3 THE Singapore Police Force is taking the courtesy campaign as seriously as its fight against crime. From this month, the Police Academy in Thomson Road is conducting courtesy lessons for all trainees in addition to basic police training. And a special seminar entitled Courtesy In
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    • 54 3 BURMA is gradually opening its door to foreigners and it has chosen a Singaporean company to put it on the tourist map. The company is Express Service Enterprise and it has been appointed agents by Tourist Burma, the national agency, despite the fact we have no
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    • 401 4 THE more the merrier this is one factory safety manager's response to the National Productivity Board's plan to offer companies consultations on occupational health from April next year. Typewriter makers Smith-Corona's safety and security manager, Jason Lum, said: "There are very few occupational
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    • 60 4 HOW many chairs can you get on a tricycle? Well, Ng Ah Hock (hidden by the chairs), a chair seller from Bukit Merah, manages to carry 27 from his home to Ang Mo Kio. The 67-year-old chair seller pedals 20 km from his house to
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    • 255 4 STRAITS Steamship, the Singapore-based shipping line, has chartered the two-year-old luxury cruise ship Berlin, which is currently cruising in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. When the ship is delivered to the company on November 1 it will be renamed Princess Mahsuri after the
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    • 88 4 ACCORDING to Mr Ho, different types of companies handle career development differently. Japanese firms in Singapore: They are good at training workers such as technicians and operators, and in preparing them for supervisory positions. But their local executives fall behind their counterparts in other companies because
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    • 335 4  -  Staff's career growth a 'new tool' By WONG CHAI KEE SINGAPORE managers are like novice car mechanics when it comes to servicing their staff's career growth, because their companies have shown little interest in the subject and no expert has been called in to snow them what
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    • 74 4 PROF James Hsuing, one of seven American scholars invited to Singapore to discuss Confucian ethics, will give a talk entitled 'Cultural Identity, Moral Education and Modern Confucian Ethics: A comparative perspective* at 10 am on Saturday. The talk, which will be in English, will be delivered
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    • 245 5  -  By PAT D'ROSE SINGAPORE may soon join the ranks of countries with high child suicide rates if parents are not taught how to raise their children. Mrs Lim Lai Teng, the assistant registrar in the department of extra-mural studies at the National University of
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    • 308 5 ART teachers here are being encouraged to be more creative. They have been urged to take their pupils out of the classroom and to look at trees, the shapes and texture of the leaves, and to observe activity in the playgrounds. Mr Chia Wai
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    • 337 5  -  By TOH CHEE ENG SINGAPORE'S cassette tape pirates are facing increasing competition from Indonesia. Indonesian tape pirates, according to a source, have captured at least 5 per cent of the local market with cassette tapes which are slightly cheaper than the ones produced here. Their share of
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    • 194 5 SINGAPORE'S teachers are being taught how to improve their methods of getting secondary schoolchildren to write essays. The in-service course entitled The Preparation of Composition Teaching Materials, is being held at the Institute of Education and will run until September. STUDENTS sitting for their 'A' levels in Economics will
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    • 195 5 DBS awards for the first time, the Development Bank of Singapore has awarded two overseas scholarships for computer studies. The president of DBS, Mr Chua Kim Yeow, presented the awards at the DBS penthouse in Shenton Way yesterday. He said: "Computers are playing an increasingly
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    • 126 5 LAI Kum Yew, 20, is becoming more and more absorbed in military history. He wants to know how forgotten battles were fought, lost or won. His interest started when he found the large number of books available on the subject in his unit when he joined
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    • 118 5 Listen to both sides of the album without flipping Now, a whole new world of music luxury opens up lor all music lovers. With Sharp's thrilling trio, all with both sides linear tracking which means both sides ol your album can be played without flipping System 104 110WMPQ Stereo Cassette
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  • world
    • 41 6 UPI BEIRUT, Thursday PALESTINIAN Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat looks at an assortment of bombs dropped by Israelis around Beirut during their invasion last week. Arafat toured several Palestinians centres so as to boost morale of the fighters. UPI
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    • 438 6 Heavy Israeli shelling forces guerillas to seek new sanctuaries AP Reuter BEIRUT, Thursday AS buildings burned in huge fires caused by artillery exchanges yesterday, Palestinian guerillas and their Leftist allies were moving into residential neighbourhoods in West Beirut to seek shelter. Tanks on the Israeli
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    • 208 6 UPI WASHINGTON, Thurs FIVE US warships sailed to within 240 kms of the Lebanese coast yesterday, ready to land up to 1,800 marines to join an international peacekeeping force, if so ordered. The 18,000-ton helicopter carrier Guam, the largest of the amphibious ships in
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    • 151 6 AP MOSCOW, Thurs THE Kremlin said yesterday that Israeli artillery heavily damaged buildings at the Soviet Embassy in Beirut and that the Soviet government "cannot be indifferent to what is going on in the Middle East." "That area is in direct proximity to the borders of
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    • Briefs
      • 72 6 Reuter TEL AVIV, Thursday Israel plans to set up a detention centre in south Lebanon to hold Palestinian guerillas captured in its latest offensive, security sources said yesterday. They said the camp, to be sited at Ansar, west of the central market town of Nabatiyeh, would accommodate thousands
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      • 73 6 Reuter AMMAN, Thursday At least 47,000 Palestinian refugees living south of Beirut are homeless as a result of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, according to a UN press release. The release, issued by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), said this was the number
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      • 61 6 AP NICOSIA, Thursday An emergency meeting of the non-aligned nations will be held here next Tuesday to discuss the Lebanese crisis, a Palestine Liberation Organisation source reported yesterday. Earlier, press reports from Havana said that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat had requested Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the current
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    • 465 7 AP TOKYO, Thursday POLICE arrested five people here recently on charges of setting up bogus companies to act as "guarantors" for about 500 South Korean women brought into Japan to work as bar hostesses. A month earlier three Filipinas working as dancers in a Nagoya
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    • 213 7 AP Reuter JAKARTA, Thursday REPORTS that Malaysian troops are on two uninhabited islands which lie between Indonesia and Malaysia are false, and longstanding negotiations on the status of the islands are continuing, the commander of Indonesia's Security and Order Agency, Admiral Sudomo, said yesterday.
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    • 156 7 PEKING, Thursday CHINESE first grade pupils should know about loving labour and fourth graders should know that without the Communist Party, there would be no new China," new school guidelines say. Third graders should know about being warm and poised toward foreigners but not tagging after, or readily
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    • 125 7 OSLO, Thursday TANDBERG A-S of Norway has won a contract to deliver 500 electronic language laboratories to Indonesia. The laboratories will be installed for teaching the English language in 500 senior high schools all over Indonesia. Tandberg announced vesterday. Export Chief Toralv Eide said the Indonesian Education Ministry
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    • 234 8 UPI LONDON, Thursday SEXUAL harassment of office workers, including men, may be rampant in Britain, a new report published yesterday suggested. Forty three per cent of men and women sampled at a large public office in Liverpool complained of "being touched up, brushed against and
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    • 151 8 AP LONDON, Thursday MORE than three weeks after Argentine forces surrendered on the Falkland islands, Britain is still holding 600 prisoners of war and is increasingly embarrassed over what to do with them. The prisoners, including their commanding officer Brigadier-General Mario Menendez, are be- ing held
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    • 46 8 A TRAFFIC scene showing five lanes of traffic on a three-lane street leading out of central Manila. The übiquitous passenger jeepney (foreground), each carrying 10 to 12 passsengers, is the main mode of transport for millions of Manilans.
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    • 181 8 UPI PANAMA CITY, Thursday "KILLER" bees advancing from South America have been spotted as far north as Panama and could reach the southern United States in the next five years, an expert says. The African bees were first discovered in Panama in February, crossing from Colombia, and since have
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    • 236 8 AP GENEVA, Thursday UN SECRETARY-GEN-ERAL Javier Perez de Cuellar yesterday said the per capita real income of the developing countries was declining for the first time since the late *****. In an address prepared for delivery at the opening of the UN Economic and Social
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    • 140 8 UPI CEDAR RAPIDS (Iowa), Thursday JOBLESS people will get a chance to go on television to advertise their skills in a 3 Mi-hour jobathon" that one official says should provide a morale boost, if not a job. News director Bob Jackson of KGAN-TV said
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    • 375 9 Reuter ROME, Thursday ITALIAN financier Roberto Calvi appears to have been involved in an arms deal with Argentina until a few days before his body was found hanging from a bridge in London, a government investigator said. Communist Senator Franco Calamandrei, who is heading
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    • 302 9 LOS ANGELES, Thurs THE ancient method of preparing Peking duck, a Chinese tradition older than Confucius and the Great Wall, was finally legalised in California on Tuesday by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Six ducks hung in the background as Governor Brown signed the socalled
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    • 186 9 UPI WASHINGTON, Thursday PRESIDENT Reagan broke his silence and personally denied he has changed his hair style. Acknowledging speculation he had switched from greasy kid stuff to the dry look, the chief executive said: "No, it's the same haircut. I'm too old to change my haircut now." Mr Reagan
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    • 147 9 Reuter NEW DELHI, Thurs ISLAMIC religious leaders in southern India are trying to break a marriage racket in which rich Arabs, mostly from the Gulf states, acquire young Indian brides for brief marriages. The Press Trust of India (PTI) reported that about
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  • opinion / letters
    • 213 10 I THINK 1 can help you solve the mystery of the missing sections of the Sunday Nation containing the week's TV guide, comics and other features. Last Sunday, I went to a provision shop in Bedok North and bought a thin edition of the Living section,
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    • 103 10  -  TERENCE DWYER PLEASE be informed that I am cancelling my weekly subscription to your paper, and will use the money to buy the TV/Radio Times instead, to get a preview of the week's programmes on Radio 5, a station ignored by your newspaper. Could it be that
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    • 104 10 READERS hav« phoned and written to ask why wa do not hava a ragular aditorial column. Tha an* awar la almpla. In thla papar, Important laauaa will ba reported and analyaad In auch a way that raadara can maka thalr own judg- ments, in which caaa aditorial
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    • 96 10  -  NG HONG COULD SBC please repeat telecasts of the current world Cup Soccer matches on weekends for the benefit of night shift workers who missed the live telecasts? SBC replies: The final of the World Cup eerie* will be teleceet on July 12 at
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    • 220 10  -  NGIAM TONG FATT AS THE Ministry of Education is now introducing Confucian ethics in schools, your daily publication of a saying by Confucius certainly helps your readers in their lives, both in the schools and the community. We all know that the study of eastern culture and
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    • 478 10  -  SALEHA SALLEH HAVE YOU ever landed in a strange airport at some horrible hour only to be told that your luggage is lost or is on its way somewhere else? Well, it happens often enough, although the airlines are very coy about actual figures. They seem to be
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    • 76 10  - Xin Yi Dai a mum's thanks Mrs LING H. M. I WRITE to thank you for your publication of the additional Xin Yi Dai section on the Chinese language. It is very useful. People now are so aware of the importance of their children's education and the importance of the
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    • 131 11  -  J. YASOTHA ADVERTISEMENTS on television are no doubt useful to both SBC as a source of revenue and to viewers who find them informative, entertaining etc. However, they also happen to be a "pain in the neck" when they disrupt TV programmes at
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    • 201 11  -  Miss ANGELA TAN I SHOULD say that I was very happy to know of your new New Nation, but was very sad to miss my Garfield comics As you have written in today s paper that we can write to you, I have decided to
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    • 42 11 I LIKED your first issue, but I have two complaints. First, there is so much in the paper I could not read it all during my quick lunch break. Second, and more serious, where is Garfield? DIPLOMATIC, v SINGAPORE 1542
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    • 161 11 I SEEK clarification from the university authorities on why it is not their policy to consider Ngee Ann business graduates for admission to the NUS degree, post-graduate diploma (System Analysis and Business Administration) and MBA courses while leading foreign institutions are accepting them for post-graduate and
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    • 392 11 THE Gold Exchange of Singapore (GES) is now three and a half years old. Trading volume is low: Although this year's projected volume snows a 25% increase, it might be even lower than in 1981 if the gold market continues its slide and financial futures attract more investors.
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    • 73 11 LET-TLHS on any sublet of public interest will be accepted for publication They should be typed and must hf signed They must also include the writ er s name and address even fie wfiter derides to jse a pseudonym ,n A contact telephone numU-r would t>e useful 't*s»-r ,t- the
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 183 11 Great Man cherishes w excellence; Petty Man, his own comfort. Great Man cherishes the rules and regulations; Petty Man, special 4| favours. -i CONFUCIUS TODAY is the 189th day of I982, with 176 days to follow. On this day... In 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, drowned when his boat
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  • centrepiece
    • 248 12/13 Our photographers zoom in on faces and places SINGAPORE is a potpourri of cultures and creeds. It is a place where the traditional and the ultra-modem can be found side by side. These pictures show some of the many faces of Singapore. In a corner of Chinatown, trishaw
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  • business
    • 89 14 AP NEW YORK, Thursday STOCK prices began recovering some losses in late trading yesterday but overall remained slightly lower for the session. Trading was moderate. Drug and financial issues were numerous among the losers, while several defence and technology stocks gained ground. The Dow Jones average of
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    • 340 14  -  By TOH SU FEN FACILITIES at the World Trade Centre (WTC) are to be improved to meet demand for exhibition space. Hall 4 may be demolished and a larger exhibition hall built in its place within a year, sources close to fair organisers said. The
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    • 170 14 DESPITE the economic recession and a weak ship repair market in the first quarter of this year, yards here are not unduly perturbed. According to the latest issue of Shipcare Maritime Management, the sentiment is one of determination, not despair. Overall revenue of
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    • 145 14 THE Marketing Institute of Singapore has appointed an external moderator in an effort to upgrade its status and to promote professionalism. He is Dr Hibbert director of education and training at the Institute of Marketing in Britain. He will be coming to Singapore to moderate
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    • 55 14 MORE conference organisers are including exhibitions in their programmes to help make ends meet. The convention business is expected to slow down this year. "Conferences do not generate income," says Jennie Chua, the Singapore Tourist Promotion BoarcT» divisional director (conventions). Last year, 245 conferences and 42
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    • Update
      • 45 14 UPI LONDON, Thurs. Casualty shipping statistics for early 1982 showed a slight improvement over figures for the same period in 1981, Lloyds Shipping Economist magazine reported yesterday. It reported 75 incidents from January to April (involving vessels over 5,000 dwt). UPI.
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      • 54 14 Reuter HARARE, Thurs. Zimbabwe has announced the reopening of a 288 km oil pipeline between Beira and Feruka, near the eastern Zimbabwe city of Mutare (formerly Umtali). The pipeline, owned by Lonrho of Britain, is vital to Zimbabwe's goal of reducing its dependence on South
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      • 38 14 Reuter CHICAGO, Thurs. Sales of domestic cars remained depressed in the June 21-30 period as average daily sales fell 18.6 per cent and total sales fell to 158,187 cars from 172,760 a year earlier. Reuter.
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    • 1632 15  -  Sales of aircraft reap millions While most airlines have been concentrating solely on marketing to pull them out off the chaotic effects of cut-throat competition, Singapore Airlines has been quietly earning hard cash selling its older aircraft. Some competitors say it is risky strategy to
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    • 490 16  -  By TOH SU FEN BEAT recession by aiming at minority segments, Singapore marketing men will be told today. Jagdish Sheth, a US marketing expert says: "Often, in any market, there are neglected segments such as small businesses which are slowly emerging as major demand
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    • 103 16 Reuter TAIPEH, Thurs. TAIWAN'S economy will grow this year by about five per cent, well short of the target of 7.5 per cent, government officials said yesterday. They blamed Taiwan's poor trade performance in the first five months of the year due to continued recession
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    • 67 16 GENERAL Corporation is considering making a Msso million convertible loan stock issue, according to a banking source. The matter will be discussed at a board meeting next week. The issue, to finance property projects following a series of acquisitions made by the company, will
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    • 524 16  -  OTHER COMPANY NEWS By N BALAKRISHNAN VENEER Products' directors should not use their votes at the company's extraordinary general meeting on July 19, the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) urges in a letter to the board. Referring to the proposed acquisition
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    • 156 16 TURNOVER in real terms at Associated Plastics Industries (API) remains unchanged despite a 16 per cent reduction in absolute value, says the company. Chairman Tan Sri Dato Taib Bin Haji Andak explains in the annual report for 1981 that since last year, prices of
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    • 211 16 Reuter WASHINGTON, Thursday THE US Export-Import Bank yesterday announced it will adjust its interest rates on October 15 to reflect a new agreement reached recently by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The United States, one of the 22 industrial countries in the OECD, pushed
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    • 156 14 THE MOST IMPORTANT APPLIANCE YOU COULD EVER OWN IS AS BASIC AS THE AIR YOU BREATHE. STARTLING SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES PROVE THAT THE QUALITY OF THE AIR YOU BREATHE AFFECTS YOUR MOOD AND YOUR SENSE OF WELL-BEING! You eat 3 times a day And breathe 18 times a minute At the
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 459 19 There was an error in yesterday's Money words. We are therefore reproducing the corrected entry for yesterday, plus the entry for today, mmmm ■■Law* THURSDAY WEDNESDAY 00-3 Ij t I kSt lib jackpd $10,000 Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below. Age Occupation: Address FILL IN
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  • sports
    • sports / racing
      • 504 19  -  Racing By BRENTON SMITH GEORGE WEST trained Man Of Song which finished a creditable third to Credit Line in his first start at Kuala Lumpur, showed splendid form in a workout on a good track at Bukit Timah yesterday. With a riding bov astride, the
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      • 264 19 THE Singapore Turf Club will be staging two more feature races to coincide with the running of the Pesta Sukan and the Singapore Gold Cup in the hope to lure all the top horses on the circuit. In August, as a consolation to those horses not
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    • 406 20  -  Kaki Bukit officials rejoice and hope for the best Soccer By KEN JALLEH Jr. KAKI BUKIT Sports Club officials rejoiced at news of the Football Association of Singapore's green light for football star Fandi Ahmad to play for their relegationthreatened team even though it
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    • 463 20 ARMED FORCES 1 POLICE 0 THE first half was to Armed Forces what the second half was to Police: a goldmine of opportunities. But because the soldiers capitalised where the lawmen could not, it meant that Police had to suffer one of the saddest
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    • 157 20 SRI LANKA'S 11th hour withdrawal from the Asian youth soccer tournament has thrown a spanner in the works of Singapore's preparation for the tournament, which is to be staged at the National Stadium from July 31 to Aug. 4. "We opted for Group B hoping for an easier
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    • 277 20  -  Hockey By JOVITA TOH THE Martens sisters Melanie and Jillian showed what hockey is all about when Theresians beat Ceylon Sports Club 4-0 in their Singapore Women's Hockey Association First Division League match at Balestier Road yesterday. Melanie Martens scored the first goal in the 13th minute through
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    • BRIEFS
      • 111 20 ONE of the world's leading dart professionals, Barry Twomlow, will compete against Singapore's fulltime professional, Paul Lim on Monday (8) at the Station Lounge. He will also stage some exhibitions for our dart-starved sports fans. Twomlow, who is ranked among the top three in the world, lives
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      • 92 20 LEAVING Singapore for Britain on Monday are three lucky members of Singapore golf clubs Seletar's Felix Foo and Singapore Island Country Club's Gouw Ah Lok and Vincent Chua. They will join 93 other winners of a lucky draw from all over the world to watch the
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      • 46 20 SIA GROUP defeated Tat Lee Bank 5-0 in their Anchor Buisiness Houses League squash match at the East Coast Parkway last night. Other results: Price Waterhouse bt Times Organisation 5-0, Chartered Bank bt CIS 3-2, CPA bt Malayan Breweries 4-1, DBS bt Indosuez 5-0.
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      • 43 20 SINGAPORE suffered its third straight defeat in the women's world softball championships in Taipeh when beaten 6-2 by Colombia. Host Taiwan, with four victories, leads the 23-nation tournament from the United States with three wins. Singappre is in 21st position.
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      • 27 20 THE Chinese Swimming Club will hold their 67th Open swimming championships at Amber Road next week on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday (7) and Saturday (2.30).
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    • sports /world cup
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        398 21 Cheering, flag-waving reception for Brazil AP UPI RIO DE JANEIRO, Thurs. HUNDREDS of soccer fans packed Rio's international airport early yesterday to welcome the team home in sharp contrast to the outbursts of anger and despair that followed its defeat by Italy Brazilian newspapers reported yesterday that police had
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      • 118 21 AP MADRID, Thursday BOBBY ROBSON, the manager of English First Division team Ipswich Town, was named manager yesterday of England's national team. The announcement was made by Bert Millichip, chairman of the English Football Association. "We picked the man we want," said Millichip. He
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        120 21 Reuter BARCELONA, Thurs. FORMER United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said yesterday the US was prepared to stage the 1986 World Cup, possibly with Canada. if Colombia could not. Dr Kissinger said he had told the president of the international football federation. Joao Havelange, of the
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      • 544 22 THE PELE COLUMN BARCELONA, Thurs. THE Brazilians may imagine I have deserted my senses. The Italians might argue that it is sour grapes The French will find difficulty believing it after all my compliments to their team. But I forecast that this Sunday,
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      • 51 22 MA TCH forecasting is not an occupation to which I otter myself willingly. It has become a marginal business and, if you analyse the form and capabilities of the semifinal adversaries, there Is about as much between them as there is space in a football boot's lace hole.
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      • 581 23 Preview of the semi-finals: West Germany vs France SEVILLE, Thursday WEST Germany, unbeaten against European opposition for four years, faces France in the World Cup semi-finals here today with its eyes firmly fixed on a third Cup title. The Germans, World Cup winners in 1954
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      • 530 23 Preview: Italy vs Poland AP BARCELONA, Thursday RELIEF filled the Italian camp here yesterday as ailing starters Fulvio Collovati and Marco Tardelli were reported recovering well enough to make the World Cup soccer semifinal against Poland. The heat wave that has hit Barcelona has aided their comeback, team
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      • 151 23 Reuter BARCELONA, Thursday GRZEGORZ Lato, the balding goal-getter who seems always to have played for Poland, has a special reason for wanting to reach the World Cup final. It would be his 103 rd international a record in Polish football. "It would be marvellous
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      • 55 23 WEST GERMANY: Toni Schumacher, Manfred Kaltz, Uli Stielike, KarlHeinz Foerster, Bernd Foerster, Wolfgang Dremmler, Paul Breilner, Hans-Peter Briegel, Karl- Heinz Rummenigge, Klaus Fischer and Pierre Littbarski. FRANCE: Jean-Luc Etlori, Manuel Amoros, Gerard Janvion, Marius Tresor, Maxime Bossis, Jean Tigana, Bernard Genghini, Alain Giresse, Michelplalini, Dominique Rocheleau (or
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    • 457 24  -  Racing By BRENTON SMITH THE ROW between Singapore and the Selangor Turf Club over direct telecasts of races between Kuala Lumpur and Bukit Timah has been further complicated by involvement of the Malaysian Totalisator Board a move which might make a settlement even further away.
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    • 325 24  -  By JEFFREY LOW Today's semi-final* Italy v Poland at Barcelona (11.15 pm: Live Ch. 5). France v W. Germany at Seville (Fri. 3 am: Live Ch. 3). BARCELONA, Thursday ITALY, still delirious over its ousting of Brazil, have followed a life-style pattern that has caused the
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    • 36 21 First Aid for x\* 1* X-VV-v» x* «s>. :^o 9 T •,v>«V -f* m .<*• ir* S«" i<> V* v mT /3 >' v <V **5 Regular, Honey Lemon Orange Another international product from MHP *****0 needham BT/l2e/8
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    • 108 22 GRAYS MERCO OFFICIAL SRA CHAMPIONSHIP BALL 1981/82,1982/83,1983/84 .SwPI §TcQ Grays have pulled off another victory in squash. Selected as the World Squash Racket Association's official Championship ball for 3 consecutive seasons from 1981 to 1984, Grays Merco squash balls must really be good. For more than 120 years, Grays of
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    • 124 23 Official Film of World Cup 1982 >■" hr^L In football it's timing, technique, and experience that produces professional results. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge shows all of these qualities making him one of today's newest superstars. FUJI FILM, the Official Film of the FIFA World Cup 1982, gives you professional results every time
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    • 210 24 Brazil's homecoming A2l Pole's choice A 22 The silver smooth worid of electronic typing is gDing to get even smoother. •*so -r-<. m i I i IV Talk about smooth typing! The Sliver-Reed can type up to 20 CPS (much faster than the average electronlc's 10 to 12 CPS). And
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  • trend
    • 933 25  -  In Singapore, music still seems an elitist thing. It's not reached the grass roots yet. Perhaps signboards and posters with news of concerts could go up in all the HDB estates. Tickets should be available elsewhere and not only in the Victoria Theatre, C.K. Tang
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    • 130 25 THE ball's back in our court. Should we do something about bringing Cheng Jim back to sing in the Messiah? Perhaps we should seriously consider bringing in all our local soloists. It is a very popular work in Singapore and as recent events with Ok Metropolitan Opera
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    • 32 25 IN the meantime, do remember Cheng Jim's concert tonight. He will be accompanied by Cheung Mun Chit and his programme includes songs by Purcell, Schubert, Brahms, Potflenc and Faure.
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    • Article, Illustration
      302 26  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO CASUAL wear has taken over the current fashion scene with nauticals, bermudas, knicker bockers, peddle pushers, cutoffs, three-quarter length pants and the conventional long pants, jazzed up with pleats, tucks and ingenious pockets. The stores are filled with the gayest, brightest, trendiest clothes that
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    • 306 27 JENNY TSENG Jenny Denon DX JFT-7005 THIS is without doubt one of the finest albums in the history of Chinese recording. For Jenny, who has recorded over 70 records, it is a milestone in her career. While this album is unfortunately unavailable in Singapore, it is
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    • 297 27  - No doubt about it Tug of War IS Paul Paul McCartney Tug of War EMI PCTC 259 Review by Lim Sek WITH the exception of one track, all the songs on this album are unmistakably Paul McCartney. The stamp is inescapable. His wonderfully varied style and interpretation makes this one
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    • 437 27 TASTE OF HONEY Ladies of the Eighties EMI CAPITOL ST-*****) "WE'RE the ladies of the Eighties, we've got the groove!" So claimed Janice Marie Johnson and Hazil Payne. Together they are A Taste of Honey. In 1978, their timely appearance on the disco scene with
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    • 363 27 VARIOUS ARTISTES Soundtrack from Sharky's Machine WEA BSK 3653 TRUE to the claim on the record sleeve. Snuff Garett (producer of the soundtrack) and Burt Reynolds (director of the film) have gathered some of the biggest names in the jazz world for
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    • FUN AND FITNESS CYCLE
      • 622 28/29  -  CYCLING in Singapore is generally not considered safe, but if you make the effort, there are still many routes to explore, which are both scenic and worthwhile, from the exercise point of view. Some of the places New Nation reporters have found interesting are fairly uncharted territory
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      • 433 28/29 WHETHER pedalling furiously uphill or cruising along on an uneven path with the wind in your hair and your palms sticky with sweat, the euphoria and exhilaration of cycling as a pastime, are hard to match. Dr Leonore Zohman, author of Exercise
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      • 264 28/29 SINGAPORE still has much to offer by way of cycling tracts in some of the residential districts and kampung areas which are safe and boast some beautiful scenery. If you are a beginner, and have not been exercising very regularly, try this route which
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    • 518 31 THINGS change in Hollywood, but one thing that remains the same are the love stories, whether they're up on screen or played out in real life by the stars. Love is what makes Hollywood go round, and what makes it still the dream capital of the world.
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    • 161 25 SECTIONS B C Sections A, B and C of this paper come off the presses folded into one, mainly for ease of distribution. At your door, there is less risk of pages coming loose. To derive maximum benefit from the design of the paper, you should pull out sections B
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    • 105 26 ROTfIH eum GERMANY'S BEST SPEOALLYMADE FOR INDUSTRIAL USE -LABELLING, PARCEL POST ETC. warTo meet the exacting demands of factories, offices schools and homes, comes a super adhesive ROTAX GUM.With properties no other gum of its Kind can match. Viscose to the exact degree if application, quick drying and non-drip, Rotax
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    • 53 28/29 Melwanfs Clifford Centre. A little surprise awaits you. i 3 ttV? fcp-;*: •i.r 'iwi >j?- ■t* "t 6t>;' :-•> f «sv "7 "V r.n m-M* m g>'. srL fef v I' -1M ■n n. feV". *»"S «> m ••:v s m i r->- a v!-C v pa -a-; tS&UJ .i-jr
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  • 235 30  -  NEW SHOWS COMING YOUR WAY By BERTILLA PEREIRA IF YOU think you could use a drink and country western music after a long day at the office, date Gypsy at the Treetops Bar, Holiday Inn. Gypsy is a four-piece band in cowboy hats, boots
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 638 30 DR SMOCK By George Lemont WHAT fj SARRIN ON THB FUOd>R Ik OFMYCAR?' 1 "Vv"! f.lii'V/' l*V i*/ i Ml* mf n/f'/fi Mr &tf v >' An ?i*/ v^-fl IB™ S& -JiJ FRANK AND ERNEST ®fFO<SJ O^ 3 MIME TROUPE ON STAGEMIMES AND MUMMERS J +t 7-17. By Bob Thaves
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    • 221 32 EXHIBITION THE LATEST MICROFILM SYSTEMS will be held in conjunction with MICKOfOft.CE •82 (A seminar on MICROFILM SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS) organised by MICROGRAPHICS SOCIETY OF SINGAPORE at the KATONG ROOM FOYER SHANGRI-LA HOTEL SINGAPORE Thurs Bth July 1982 Fri 9th July 1982 Sat 10th July 1982 TIME 10.30 AM 7.00 PM
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 1396 32 tv radio soutane Treat for soul-lovers Ray Charles, lovers IN part two of Galaxy Adventures (Cta 5, 7.50 pm) we see the continuing troubles of five scientists working on an advanced ecological research project in Canada with disaster in their hands. People around them die for some inexplicable reasons and
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