New Nation, 28 August 1982

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  • 19 1 new nation PUBLISHED BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Saturday, August 28, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents I
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  • 506 1  -  Empty since 1979 due to nurse shortage By YONG POW ANG AN $800,000 unused ward in Singapore's K*tag Wai Shiu Hospital will remain empty for an indefinite period because of a long-standing shortage of nurses. This shortage is now also threatening the proper running of the charity
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  • 277 1  - Qatar's Lion City Cup boys sent home to jail By SURESH NAIR THREE under-16 boy soccer players from the sheikhdom of Qatar have been sent home in disgrace from Singapore, thrown into jail and banned from soccer for life for gross indiscipline. The boys came here with the rest of
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    • 71 1 INSIDE: S Susanna's China Syndrome As a promotion gimmick, Singapore singer Suzanna Teo waa called the Little China Firecracker "from China" in her first album released in the US something which promptly created a furore here. In an EXCLUSIVE interview with NEW NATION, she says she is sorry and would
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    • 6 1 LION CITY CUP REPORTS! A 22-24
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    • 70 1 r:r uncle choo sports centre UfW ra 2nd Floor Smgapura Orchard *>ad Smgapor* 0*73 T« 3375(54 Tiop win WIN SENSOR UGH I L K The Winning (ombinaiion X ,;V I lira slini, /'«ait'ilul tr. i dfi/u tinint > M Ith (lilvam cil /«'< ////«>l< >if i ;/;/s c /V/s \/t
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  • home
    • 601 2  -  By SIT YIN FONG THE 6,700-strong administrative staff of Singapore Airlines are at last moving to their new beadquarters at Changi, more than a year after new airport opened. "Non-critical" equipment has already started on its way from the old Air House
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    • 177 2 NOT everyone may know the Housing Board bnildt homes for the dead as well as lor the living. The latest snch home is the Mandai Columbariam and Crematorium, opposite the Mandai reservoir. The services at the crematorium and columbarium will be for exhumed graves from the
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    • 140 2 YOU can expect more efficient service from the Housing Board soon. It plans to install computer terminals in each of its departments with a central processing unit. This is-io improve the flow of information between departments. It also plans to extend the services of
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    • 225 3 THE health hazard warning on cigarette packets does not work. More cigarettes are being smoked than ever before, giving the Customs and Excise Department a net revenue of $168 million from tobacco or 22.5 per cent of its total for last year. This
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    • 343 3  -  By SIT YIN FONG THE historic Sports House facing the Farrer Park padang was warned yesterday that two of its three entrances which were blocked with emply boxes constituted a tire hazard. The Fire Department chief, Mr.Lim Beng Lock, yesterday sent an officer to
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    • 104 3 THIEVES escaped with $10,000 and a diamond worth $11,770 in two separate incidents in the past three days. Police said Mr J Huisjes, 40, a Dutch engineer, left his briefcase on the floor while talking to a cashier in the Credit Suisse office in Shenton Way on
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    • 219 3 A PEDESTRIAN died and three others were seriously injured on Thursday in three separate accidents. S Vellasamy, 58, was hit by a motor-cycle while crossing Sembawang Road. He died in the Toa Payoh Hospital. Moimon Hussin, 47, was crossing Bendemeer Road on Thursday when a motor-cycle
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    • 179 3 SINGAPOREANS should be given fewer "double-bind messages" messages that are contradictory a psychotherapist said yesterday. Mr Anthony Yeo, Director of the Counselling and Care Centre, said: "It is fairly clear the message we are getting is: Achieve at all cost, but don't be materialistic, snobbish
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    • 358 4  -  Manufacturers request TIB to help draw training programme By FOO CHOY PENG WANTED: Skilled workers. That is the message from our local furniture makers, who have asked the Timber Industry Board (TIB) to help draw up a programme to provide training. The request was made by
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    • 147 4 PEOPLE who worry where to go for lunch will soon be able to head for a new hawker centre at the extension to the Ministry of National Development building (right). Some 147 hawkers from the surrounding area will be moving to the
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    • 260 4  -  By K K FONG THE Police are helping the Singapore Contractors' Association in their search for a gang responsible for thefts of at least half a million dollars worth of plywood from work sites all over the island. Senior officials from the Association recently went
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    • 255 4 THE Traffic Police will reveal all the secrets of their radar guns at the Road Safety Exhibition to be held at the world Trade Centre from September 4 to 7. They will even let you handle, test and fire the devices which can detect
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    • 216 4 ACCIDENTS affect productivity. This is the message the National Productivity Board (NPB) hopes to convey to all workers through its free newsletter, Singapore Safety News. The NPB is concerned about the occupational health and safety of workers as some sectors have recorded hich accident rates. It
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  • world
    • 267 5 LAT-WP TUNIS, Saturday. ARAB leaders are expected to outline a "global confrontation strategy" against Israel and its supporters including the United States if Washington's Mid-East policy does not change at a summit meeting next month, according to the Arab League's secretary general, Chedli Klibi. Klibi
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    • 166 5 AP BAHRAIN, Saturday. MOROCCAN King Hassan yesterday asked US President Ronald Reagan to "guarantee the safety" of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. The Bahrain-based Gulf News Agency, in a report from Rabat, Morocco's capital, said the request came in a message addressed to Reagan
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    • 136 5 Reuter LONDON, Saturday. A 10-year-old girl died after constantly eating her hair through nerves, eventually blocking her internal organs, a coroner in Chesterfield ruled yesterday. At an inquest into the death of schoolgirl Alison Garllck earlier this year, her parents told how she had a
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    • 498 5 DATELINE; BEIRUT, SATURDAY PLO hands over heavy weapons to leftist Lebanese militias LAT-WP-UPI THE Palestine Liberation Organisation on Thursday distributed its heavy weapons and vast ammunition stores to leftist Lebanese militias in contravention of the US-mediated agreement that thev would be turned over to the Lebanese army when the
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    • 198 6 Paydirt By the minefuls in China UPI BEIJING, Sat CHINESE geologists have discovered many deposits of useful minerals recently, including the world's largest titanium, second largest nickel and third largest iron ore reserves, the China Daily said yesterday. The figures were released on Thursday at the opening of the 60th
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    • 408 6 Women soldiers not as capable as men, says US army LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Saturday IN ITS first official recognition that women soldiers may not be able to perform the same duties as their male counterparts, the US army says it will begin screening women's physical ability to determine
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    • 97 6 UPI GENEVA, Sat ARGENTINA'S Inflation was Ike highest to the world at 131.3 per cent in 1981 while Japan ranked lowest with oaily 4.7 per cent, the International Labour Organisation said yesterday. Following Argentina came Israel with 101.5 per cent, Pern with 72.6 per cent,
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    • 247 6 UPI BANGKOK, Sat THAILAND'S deputy army commander yesterday accused reporters of distorting news and threatened to slap new restrictions on foreign correspondents. Speaking, to reporters at his office here, Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Gen. Arthit Kamlang-ek, accused the local Press of rumourmongering, especially in
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    • 62 6 RESIDENTS say the wife of 45-year-old Francis McCloskey, a father of eight, was expecting the couple's ninth child. But McCloskey, a Roman Catholic, did not have the good fortune to wit- ness the occasion. He was gunned down by at least four gunmen in Belfast
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    • 287 6 UPI ISLAMABAD, Sat A JAPANESE government official touring a Pakistani hospital filled with civilians wounded in the fighting in Afghanistan yesterday fainted on the' sight of crippled and injured refugees. Kanju Satoh, a member of the parliamentary fact-finding
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    • 170 6 Reuter ISLAMABAD, Sat CHINA and Pakistan today ignored an Indian protest and formally opened a road linking the two countries along the ancient silk route through the Himalayan mountains. The State-controlled news agency Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported the opening ceremony was Krformed at the
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    • Of sound and fury
      • 46 8 SHtQEJi KAWAI of Kanazawa City, Japan, damonatrataa a homa-mada vMin ha aaya wont bothar tha natghboura. Tha odd-looking Inatnanani dakvara a violin Bound at a volumn unllkaty to disturb naarby muaic crtttca. Kawai haa no knmadtata plana to matkat tha product
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      • 105 8 UPI MELBOURNE, Baturday APES at the Melbourne zoo are making so much noise that ape-keepers are worried tneir hearing may be alfectea. The Miscellaneous Workers Union, which represents the keepers, said it was calling in a specialist in sound to record the noise level and sae
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      • 90 8 UPI KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday INSTEAD of a dial tone, a Kuala Lumpur woman gets singing in her ear whenever she picks up her telephone, the newspaper Malay Mail has reported. "I started hearing Chinese opera music evSr time I lifted the receiver," Margaret Chan d in
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      • 57 8 UPI DETROIT, Saturday FORD Motor Co. has plans to make annoying squeaks and rattles as obsolete as running boards and tail fins. Its scheme includes six expanded tests to find out where those pesky sounds are coming from. It is paying special attention to instrument Knels
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    • 444 8 Reuter PARIS, Saturday DEFENCE Minister Charles Hernu has disclosed that France is prepared to sell its advanced Mirage 2000 combat fighter to China and a French team is in Beijing holding talks with Chinese officials. China has been pressing for some time to
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    • 250 8 UPI WASHINGTON, Saturday BUSINESS ecoDomists are revising downward "in every way" their expectations about economic recovery, a survey showed yesterday. Despite lower interest rates the nation's economy is experiencing only a "slow motion" recovery, said the National Association of Business Economists following a survey of 200
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    • 117 8 AP BEIJING,Sat CHINA'S official Xinhua news agency said yesterday Vietnamese troops have inflicted great losses in lives and property on Chinese borderarea inhabitants in the last few years. Xinhua said Vietnam "has been continuously aggravating bilateral relations by befouling the atmosphere for negotiations between the two
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    • 247 8 LAT-WP IRVINE (California), Saturday A TEAM of University of California researchers has found that the brain produces chemicals to reEtself after being ina find that raises i for successful transplants of human brain matter. In what some experts are calling "incredibly significant research, scientists at
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    • 160 8 UPI lONIA (Michigan), Saturday VINCENT Pierce and Mark Chesebro don't fit the mould of "hardened" criminals. They escaped the Michigan reformatory this week but returned because it was raining. They walked away from their minimum security quarters but returned about four hours later drenched from
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 34 8 AP Col Atilla Alti- kat, military attache at the Turkish Embassy, was shot and killed yesterday by a gunman waiting at an intersection in a western district of the city, family sources said.
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      • 29 8 UPI The Treasury Department has denied what it said was a rumour circulating in Mexican business circles that the Government is considering freezing Mexican assets in the US.
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      • 36 8 UPI The Asian market for aphrodisiacs may be encouraging poachers of bear, deer and elk, whose body parts are valuable ingredients in the supposed love potions, the Arizona game and fish department said. -UPI.
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  • opinion
    • 1110 10 Bashir Gemayel was this waak elected prasidant off Lebanon, making tha 34-year-old tha youngest prasidant in its history. In this article special to tha New Nation President Bashir picks up tha piacaa after tha departure off tha PLO and axplaina why ha haa to heal tha wounds
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    • 259 10 new nationKWhWiWi WHAT we have on this page is a faint appeal by a helpless nation to be allowed to live with dignity. This is what President Bashir Gemayal's message amounts to. Today his country, Lebanon, has neither the unity (despite what he says),
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  • 473 10 REVIEW OF ANALYSES AND OPINIONS IN CAPSULE FORM THE financial problem over the collapse of Mexico's economy over the past few weeks is acute. Mexico could not repay its approximately US$80 billion debt on schedule. The nine biggest banks in the US have lent the equivalent of 40 per
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  • centrepiece
    • 943 12/13  -  New innovation in animals helping people: Simians trained to care for quadraplegics TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER TATINER/SIPA PRESS Sipa FOR years, blind people have been using seeing-eye dogs to help them get through life. Now, there's a new innovation: Monkeys trained to make life more
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  • business
    • 310 14  -  Details of maintenance company likely By CATHERINE ONG SINGAPORE Computer Systems (SCS) which recently clinched six deals worth a total of $3.9 million has set up a maintenance company. Computer Engineering Systems (CES), was formed recently with a nominal capital of $2. Mr Chew
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    • 239 14 THE Urban Renewal Authority has announced the results of the 11th sale of URA sites for private development A total of 21 sites were offered. Of these, three were for flatted factories and nine for terraced warehouses. The other nine sites will be for commercial development
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    • 72 14 THE New York Stock Exchange enloyed its busiest session ever on Thursday. Share prices soared, trading volumes hit the roof and this broker (picture above) jost ran ont of hands. The market fever was whipped np by hopes of lower interest rates, with the
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    • 64 14 PRIVATE Investment Company for Asia (PICA) SA has arranged a fiveyear US$l million (5|2.15 million) multi-currency facility for Hiang Seng Fibre Container, a private limited company incorporated in Thailand. Participating banks are BA Asia, Barclays Bank International and PICA. The loan will help Hiang Seng
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    • 85 14 THE stock market's historic Au£st rally hit a roadblock on Friy, with prices lower in afternoon trading, as Wall Street returned from its busiest day in history. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange again was heavy, but well behind the record pace in the previous session.
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    • 138 14 AMERICAN Express is to introduce a new charge card, which it claims is unique in Asia, for companies in Singapore. The Corporate Card, intended for use only for expenses incurred on behalf of the company, will be issued from next month and will gradually
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    • 212 14 SIME DARBY, which is due to clinch the franchise for Apple computers in the region is expected to maintain the existing distributorship arrangement in Malaysia for the time being. Sime however, eventually hopes to take upon itself the task of distributing the machines,
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    • Update
      • 55 14 Reuter THE average discount rate on 91-day treasury bills here fell at the latest tender to 3.200 from 3.265 per cent last Wee Applications totalled $214.15 million for the $140 million of bills on offer. About eight per cent of bids were accepted at $99.18 with
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      • 48 14 HONGKONG: The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the Chartered Bank will cut prime rate to 12 from 12.5 per cent on Monday. The Hong Kong Association of Banks said it will cut interest rates on deposits by half a percentage point across the board.
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      • 56 14 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR: International Tin Council chairman Peter Lai met Malaysia's Primary Industries Minister Paul Leong for private discussions on the tin industry. Industry sources said Mr Lai, who recently led the ITC delegates for talks with the US on tin disposal from the stockpile,
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      • 47 14 Reuter WASHINGTON: The World Bank said it hopes to have additional funds available this year to assist the poorest countries that find other means of raising capital closed to them. The pool of funds to be offered virtually interest free will still be tight.
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      • 26 14 Reuter TOKYO: Japan's consumerprice index fell 0.7 per cent in July. The year-on-year gain slowed to 1.7 from 2.2 per cent in June. Reuter.
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      • 43 14 Reuter HONG KONG: Jardine Matheson and Dairy Farm Properties, a whollyowned subsidiary of Hongkong Land have formed a joint vennire food processing company to develop business in China. Reports say it will supply oil bases in the South China Sea. Reuter.
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      • 28 14 Reuter WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund approved a $42 million loan to Sri Lanka, which has been hurt by a reduction in its main exports.
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    • 367 15 SINGAPORE should "design'' its future around the theme of "Micro-pro-cessors in a global garden city" and must diverisify itself out of "traderelated financial, shipping and comunications services, Mr Chandra Das, MP for Chong Boon says in the NTUC publication, Our Heritage and
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    • 234 15 FOUR tin dredging companies in Malaysia report a mixed earnings picture in the year to March 31. Kampong Lanjut saw pre-tax of Msl.l million compariung with M 5508,000 previously. After tax, the boost is to M 5610,000 from M 5332 million. A final dividend
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    • 195 15 THE stockmarket began and ended the week on a strong note but there were plenty of ups and downs in between. The exhilarating climb on Wall Street continued to fire local investors with enthusiasm on Monday as shares climbed back to the levels ruling before
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    • 129 15 THE STAR DATUK Azman Hasim, executive chairman of Arabmalaysian Development Bank and Taiping Textiles, has bought a 30 per cent stake in Stenhouse Leow (M), an insurance broking and consultant company. The stake, the price of which was not given, was purchased from the Reed Stenhouse In- ternational
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    • 138 15 GEORGE Kent (Malaysia) Group increased pre-tax group profit to M 52.33 million from M 51.71 million for the six months to June 30 on turnover up to M 525.83 million from M 521.03 million. Parent company pretax profit was M 51.44 million against M 51.41 mmillion
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    • 179 15 THE STAR C I HOLDINGS has bought two building materials companies from Ipoh Garden for a total of $9.5 million. The companies are Pantile and Perak Brickworks. The sales and purchase agreement was signed by Mr Vincent Tang, managing director of C I
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    • 83 15 Your (Foreign Exchange) Your S$ to on« unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT DD US$ 2.1550 2.1450 2.1330 sterling 3.7831 3.7551 3.7341 Australian 2.1194 2.0969 2.0769 Canadian 1.7529 1.7294 1.7134 New Zealand f 1.6024 1.5809 1.5609 8$ to 100 units of foreign currency Deutschemark 88.8051 87.6051 87.1551 French
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    • 37 15 Yesterday's close in S$: Selling Baying 5 gm 157 141 10 gm 305 289 20 gm 600 579 Xoz 468 447 Kilobar 29,479 29,279 100 gm 2,968 2,928 50 gm 1,484 1,454 1 oz 929 907
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    • 110 15 GOLD continues its upward momentum at a speed of about 23 per cent per week. This uptrust has been sustained for the last 10 trading days. We are now in a classic bull run state where it seems obvious that the market has to correct itself, yet
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    • 109 15 FEDERAL Flour Mills has acquired Fedflour Trading Company in Hong Kong for trading commodities including grain and oil futures on overseas markets. The company has an initial paid-up capital of HK$ 100,000 (S$35,000) and will be wholly-owned. The Malaysian company has appointed Mr Leslie Cheaht former deputy chairman, as
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous


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    • 350 17 APPOINTMENT CAREER PERSON WANTED For Top Level Appointment Remuneration in the region of #40,000 to 850,000 p.a. The Institute for International Research is one of the largest conference organisations in S.E. Asia and is looking to expand its operations with the appointment of a senior conference producer. This is a
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    • 414 17 NOTICES OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME Notice is hereby given that in consequence of the intended purchase of a ship by our clients Arctic Shipping Singapore (Pte) Ltd., we have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships under Section 417 of the Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 172)
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  • RACING GUIDE
    • 264 18  -  By B J SMITH THE Ivan Allan-trained Sembawang Park, which won at his last outing in August, should win the six-horse race today Race Five. The five-year-old New Zealand-bred has had seven starts with a second and a win from his last two races. In
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    • 363 18 Friday's trackwork by Trackstar THE Royal Pahang Polo Club's Royal Diplomat (late Snow Mist) with top amateur jockey Miss Christine McCulloch on board, showed striking action in a workout on a good track at Bukit Timah yesterday. The grey English gelding by Roan
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    • 230 18 ATTEMPTS by three of the four Australian jockeys who appealed to the Hong Kong Jockey Club to issue them with riding licences for the coming season have failed. Peter Miers, a veteran of 11 seasons and one of the best-known expatriate jockeys in Hong
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    • 153 18 B J Smith Ma Tan (Sin Chaw) Golden Boy (Nanyang) RACE 1 Shalom Bait 828 Warwick Baltaza Cougar of Canada Shalom Warwick Shalom Baltaza RACE 2 Ebony Gold Chfca Copperchwf Richie Ebony Gold Tarino CMca Richie Copperchief RACE 3 Satfina Atoob Golden Baby Kempaa Golden Baby
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    • 823 18 RACE 1 -2.15 M.A.R.A. Class 5 400 m SCURRY (Catchweights: 73kg) 1 513 Shalom (L Mr. Itchy) 79.5 Mr C Andrews (1) 2 ***** Rtngo 7t Mr C MacLaan (10) 3 9402 Saltan 76.5 Mr C Jonpti (3) 4 ***** Warwick 79 Mr P Chaong (11) 5
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  • sports
    • 313 19 Squash j By MUSHTAQ ALI SHAH WONG Yee Leong served exhibition squash as he completely outplayed game Patrick Thlo 4-1 9-4 9-0 in a Boys Under-19 semifinal of the Pakistan International Airlines closed championships at the Kallang Squash Centre yesterday Thlo, who beat national
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    • 466 19  -  FEEDBACK Issue in sports By TEOH ENG TATT SINGAPORE National Olympic Council's tough stand yesterday in its selection of teams for the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games did not come as a surprise although a number of athletes, including Sportswoman of the Year Mavis Ee, must
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    • 321 19 APPROVED for Commonwealth Games: Swimmer Ang Peng Siong, weightiifter Chua Koon Siong and shooters Lee Kum Cheok and Tan Boon Huat. Official leading the team will be Michael Koay, national weightlifting coach and secretary-general of the Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation. REJECTED: Sportswoman of
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    • 736 20 AS the golf saying goes "You drive for show and putt for dough" and that's what happened to John Wilkinson on the second day of the Singapore Open amateur golf championship at the Jurong Country Club course yesterday. Wilkinson, the Papua New Guinea champion, shortened the 6,104-me-tre
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    • 171 20 Reuter BONN, Saturday WEST German centreforward Horst II ru besch, who scored the penalty play-off goal which took his team to the World Cap final in Spain last month, has retired from international soccer. Hruhesch is the second member of West Germany's World Cup
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    • 151 20 A THREE-MAN team headed by Brazilian Soccer Federation Giulite Coutinho has left for Lima, Peni, to bid to host the 1980 World Cup soccer finals in Brazil, it was announced in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Colombia is scheduled to be host but its government has refused to give its
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      301 21  -  Fandi cables his gratitude to Ajax By SURESH NAIR FANDI AHMAD said a big "thank you" to Aiax Amsterdam before he left yesterday morning to start his professional soccer career with the Indonesian Galatama League champions Niac Mitra. The 22-year-old Singapore Footballer of the Year dashed to
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    • 160 21 A SELL-OUT crowd of 40,000 is expected to flock to Surabaya to watch Fandl Ahmad make his debut in tonight's Galatama League match against arch-ri-vals Tanas Intl. Latest reports from Surabaya reveal that Niac Mitra are feverishly trying to secure the release of goalkeeper
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    • 977 22  -  NINE countries Malaysia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Qatar, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore will take part in the Sixth Lion City Cup soccer tournament, starting tomorrow at the National Stadium. But how many will prove to be serious contenders for the major honours in this under-16 international
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    • 263 22 THERE'S already ONE casualty among the liaison officers before the commencement of the fortnight-long tournament! Down and out is veteran Haleem Eafan, popularly known as the "Grand Old Man" among the LOs. Haleem, who is down to "baby-sit" Brunei, is recuperating in hospital following a weak heart
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      89 23 SEASON-TICKETS will NOT be available for the fortnight-long Lion City Cap tournament. Tickets for tomorrow's opening ceremony and semi-finals (Sept 8 and 9) are priced at $6 (grandstand), $3 (gallery) and 50 cents (school-children). The highest gate-charges are for the third-placing and final on Sept 11. Tickets cost
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    • 131 23 GROUP A Saudi Arabia Japan SINGAPORE Malaysia Brunei GROUP B Qatar South Korea Thailand Indonesia FIXTURES TOMORROW Qatar vs South Korea (6.30), SINGAPORE vs Brunei (8.30); Aug 30 Malaysia vs Japan (7.00), Thailand vs Indonesia (8.30); Aug 31 Brunei vs Saudi Arabia (7.00), Japan vs SINGAPORE (8.30); Sep 1
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      • 116 23 SINGAPORE'S No. 2 goalkeeper, Yaakob Hashim, will make his debut tor Singapore Malays in tonight's friendly soccer match against Selangor Premier League champions Club Sultan Sulaiman at the Jalan Besar Stadium (7.30). Yaakob has been out of the Sultans' Gold Cup scene this season because of a
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      • 100 23 A LIFE ban is on the cards for local bodybuilders who participate in any international competition NOT sanctioned by the International Federation of Bodybuilders (IFBB). This warningcame from the Singapore Amateur Bodybuilders' Federation secretary Zambari Asmooin following reports that "a number of bodybuilders intend to take
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      • 59 23 SOMERSET UNITED Sports Club will be organising a seven-a-side soccer tournament for the Cornelius Challenge Trophy on Sep 19 at 8.00 am at the Gloucester Barracßs. Entries at $30 a team close on Sep S. Interested teams should contact, M. Cornelius !4 *****), G. S. Dasan (*****31), Sunny
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      • 50 23 THE inter-constituency siz-a-side hockey tournament, iointly organised by the Singapore Sports Council and the Singapore Hockey Association, will be held tomorrow at the Balestier Road pitches from 8.30 am. National players are invited to participate, but players' must have at least a year's residence in their constituency.
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      • 47 23 THE Taipeh All-Stars basketball match will be staged at the Gay World Stadium tomorrow evening (7.30). Taiwanese singers, actors and actresses will be playing for charity in this event Jointly organised by the Singapore Sports Council, Basketball Association of Singapore and Nanyang Siang Pau.
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    • 32 23 There will be no topscorer ewerd this yeer end, quite ironicelly, Bahrain's nlne-goel hero Ebrehim Hurden kisses the Cup goodbye efter winning it lest yeer. PICTURE: HAIR IS
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    • 506 24  -  Coaches have leave problems Top striker sidelined by injury LESS than 30 hours before the opening match against Brunei and the mood in the Singapore camp is far from optimistic. For starters, they're not living up worthy to their reputation as adequeteiy prepared and ambitious hosts.
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      122 24 tl WE'VE diligently trained them W (Fandi Ahmad and David Lee). We put them through numerous international tournaments. We exposed them to many top-flight matches that's how they've made their mark. That's why they've been watched by international scouts. We patiently spent time and effort to develop their talents.
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    • 585 25  -  SINGAPORE singer Suzanna Teo called herself the Uttle China Firecracker "from China" on her first album cover in the United States and caused a furore here in January last year. In an exclusive interview with New Nation reporter
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    • 395 26  -  TITLE OF BOOK: Fox's Earth AUTHOR: Anne Rivers Siddons PUBLISHER: Fontana REVIEWER: Ee Boon Lee IN THE deep (American) south, white is white and black is black. Even among the whites, there is a sharp cleavage between those born rich and those born poor. In this
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    • 303 27  -  TITLE: River Of Death AUTHOR: Aliatair Mac Lean REVIEWER: Lo Tien Yin WHEN Alistair Maclean wrote his recent novel River of Death, he most have visualised it at another blockbusting film. All the elements are there: head-hunters, cannibals, anaconda, the Amazon jungles
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    • 224 27  -  TITLE: Shike: Time of the Dragons (Bk 2) AUTHOR: Robert Shea PUBLISHER: Fontana Collins REVIEWER: Ee Boon Lee THE Zinjas were warrior monks, Japanese in origin but with cells in sensitive positions in China, Korea, Mongolia and other lands. They ranged far and wide in
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    • 283 27  -  IMI TITLE: Brain Games AUTHOR: David Pritchard PUBLISHER: Penguin REVIEWER: Shaun Koh BRAIN GAMES dispels the notion that good games for two are few and far between. It promises to supply ideas to the reader for games which require much thinking: strategy, logic and
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    • 307 28 THE Kallang and Gevlang rivers will soon be cleared of all lighter repair activities. What will remain will be empty rivers and fond memories. By the end of next year, lighter repair activities, one of the major causes of river pollution, will be shifted
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    • 531 28  -  Barge repairing faces a bleak future By Peter Ooi ABOUT half-a-dozen barges lie idle on the shore of the Kallang Basin, waiting to be repaired. One, a 300tonner which was laid off for a couple of days because of heavy workload, is finally being worked on. Others
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    • 389 30  -  by Pauline Goh UPI. EVER wondered what TV is like in other countries? TV TALK keeps you in touch with Hong Kong tube news, but here is some news on television in Thailand. According to UPI feature writer John Hail, Thai television is mostly for women.
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    • 86 31 THE New Zealand Youth Choir will arrive in Singapore this afternoon after a very successful European tour. It is led by Professor Peter Godfrey who is the dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Auckland. On Sunday evening, the choir will give a
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