New Nation, 7 October 1982

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  • 19 1 new nation PUBLISHED BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Thursday, October 7, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents I
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  • 502 1 Dow Jones in second biggest rise in history Reuter NEW YORK, Thursday THE New York stock market yesterday recorded the second largest one-day gain in its history and its highest level in over a year. Analysts were totally at a loss to explain the unforeseen surge. The
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  • 243 1  -  By YONG POW ANG THE Housing and Development has dropped a contractor for working too slowly. As a result the construction of two point-blocks of 150 Housing and Development Board flats in Aljunied Road in front of Aljunied Primary School has been delayed a year. The
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  • 93 1 THE New Nation will be having a joint promotion with Menard Cosmetics on the Merlion Queen Contest, in conjunction with the Merlion Soccer Tournament now being held in Singapore. Each participating country will field one lady participant for the beauty contest and readers are reSiired to nlace in
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  • Article, Illustration
    374 1  -  By JULIE LIAU A DOCTOR who has lost hope in the present system of recruiting kidney donors feels that "contracting out" legislation is the only effective solution. Kidney patients desperate to get on the Singapore General Hospital's dialysis programme sometimes lie that their relatives will donate a kidney.
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  • Newscan
    • 65 1 A TELEX machine fire at the Manufacturers Hanover Trust bank in Shell Tower was yesterday described as a "million-to-one" occurrence. It is the first such fire known to the Telecoms. It occurred a week ago. A spokesman for Telecoms, however, could not confirm another report circulating that
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    • 40 1 THE bulls in the property market have all gone home. Some analysts see some light at the end of the tunnel but on the dark side, some think the world is coming to an end. Story: Page 14
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    • 34 1 PASSENGERS are NOT required to pay the $1 surcharge when the taxis they are in pass the Central Business District. So, if any cabbie insists on it, report him to the ROV.
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    • 17 1 Our kidney appeal has drawn 80 donors so far. Thank you. Keep them coming. Story: Page 4
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  • opinion / letters
    • 277 2  -  SEAH CHIANG NEE SINCE we made our first appearance as a new newspaper group more than three months ago we have learnt quite a few things from you, our readers. We have learnt of what you like and dislike about us and about journalism as
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    • 354 2  -  MARY I WENT through a harrowing experince with a marriage and pen pal agency recently. I saw a newspaper advertisement published under the "Pen-pal" column. Before I went to the agency, I called up a lady there to get more details. This particular lady was
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    • 313 2  -  ABUSED COMMUTER I WAS not shocked to read a recent newspaper report about a taxi-driver and a passenger fighting. My experience with taxidrivers is an unhappy one. j Nine moaths ago, I complained ftp the ROV about a taxi-driver who made obscene and
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    • 287 2  -  By DELTA HONG RECENTLY I reported a colleague's irritation over the difficulty of getting in and out of Cuppage Centre car park. Now I have another Cuppage Centre moan. If you go looking for an office starting, with a number 5, it would seem logical to look on
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    • 193 3 I READ with regret in your report (NN, Oct 4) that while the Kidney Foundation has sent out 750,000 letters of appeal for pledges of kidney donors over 10 years, only 3,000 responded. This clearly shows how little Singaporeans in general value the lives of
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    • 163 3 I WOULD like to comment on the NUS Drama Festival now on at the Drama Centre. As I only went on the first night, I had the opportunity to watch only four of the plays. On the whole, I found them thoroughly enjoyable with
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    • 165 3 TODAY is Thursday, October 7, the 280 th day of 1982. There are 85 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date in: 1571: Austria's Don Juan decisively defeats Turkish fleet off Lepanto. 1879: Britain invades Afghanistan. 1948 Democratic-Liberal government is founded in Japan.
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  • home
    • 515 4  -  New plan to fight fires in modern-day Singapore Fire drill for 2,000 at ministry headquarters By TO CHEE ENG HIGH-RISE public buildings may soon be required to have a communication system which would link the buildings' control rooms to every floor. This would
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    • 313 4 FIRE broke out in the 21-storey Ministry of National Development Building in Maxwell Road. An alarm rang out. Everybody sat still but ready to move. The control room gave an instruction to the appointed fire warden on each floor: Check!
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    • 376 4  -  By JULIE LIAU SINCE our campaign started, nearly 80 people have sent coupons to us and whether they are 18 or 50, most are keen to donate their kidneys. The student union of the Anglo-Chinese
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    • 472 5  -  By JULIE LIAU ATTRACTIVE 19-year-old Rohayah Mohd Ali was to take part in a beauty contest on Sunday and was looking forward to her wedding in December. She had a new and better paid job at the Dynasty Hotel and had everything to live
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    • 260 5 YOUNG ministers will soon be putting their ears to the ground. In the next few months, second-genera-tion leaders will step out beyond their constituencies to find out what peo- pie think and feel anout government policies. A series of tours of constituencies is being
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    • 75 5 THE Singapore Muslim Missionary Society is opening a free eye clinic in its Changi Road premises. The clinic, which will open on Sunday, will be run by Dr S M Tahir, a visiting surgeon from Pakistan who is attached to the eye department of Singapore General Hospital.
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    • 170 5 THE first phase of NTUC Comfort's campaign to teach passengers correct behaviour in taxis has been launched. Stickers with messages in English and Chinese have been distributed to all Comfort taxi drivers for display in their cabs. The stickers request passengers to: TELL
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    • 248 5 FROM next year, all new taxis bought by NTUC Comfort will be fitted with internal speed warning devices, says its general manager, Mr Michael Liew. Mr Liew said: "We have instructed all the suppliers of taxis to ensure that the vehicles they
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    • 65 5 FORTY-FIVE taxi drivers reported articles left behind between Sept 20 and 25 to the Registrar of Vehicles. The articles include a clutch bag with $3,461 and handkerchiefs, other wallets with foreign and local currency, used towels, passports, driving licenses, airline tickets, a camera, a vaccination certificate and
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    • 331 6 Two held in Singapore's biggest-ever drug haul HEROIN base which can be converted into more than 80 kilos of No 3 heroin worth $32 million was seized last night by the Central Narcotics Bureau in Singapore's biggest-ever drug haul. Two men were arrested
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    • 306 6 SOME people study for the wrong reasons. There are those who study out of fancy or to enhance their status while others do so because their bosses have told them to. And sometimes companies send their staff for training because they have to
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    • 60 6 Story and pictures by CHEW YEN FOOK EXCITEMENT is in the air as 500 children prepare to stage their debut at the National Theatre this weekend. They will be taking part in the People's Association Children's Kindergarten concert on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are on sale
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    • 69 6 SECOND Health Minister Goh Chok Tong will be meeting unionists and employers on the National Health Plan. First to meet him Saturday will be the unionists. Employers will be represented by leading groups $uch as the Singapore Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and
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    • 149 6 YOUNG musicians lookins for a way to the top will get their opportunity in December when the Singapore Youth Orchestra launches a recruitment exercise. The orchestra is particularly anxious to get double-bass players, because it is very short of them. It if also looking
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    • 106 4 #4 new tai nation ILtJr APPEAL Please tick where applicable: lam interested in becoming a kidney donor. Please send me more information. I am making a donation to the National Kidney Foundation. (Please make cheque payable to the National Kidney Foundation.) I support a law which allows hospitals to remove
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  • world
    • 225 8 AP TAIPEI, Thursday TAIWAN has signed two separate contracts to finalise a long-negotiated arms deal that would commit the United States to supplying Taiwan with 60 F5-E and F5-F jet fighters, sources said yesterday. The sources, who have direct knowledge of the sales, said one contract
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    • 71 8 AP WASHINGTON: President Reagan yesterday told a group of Republican candidates visiting the White House that Taiwan will continue to get "everything they need." When one Republican accused the President of deserting Taiwan, Mr Reagan said: "Now you've touched a nerve with the
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    • 148 8 AP TOKYO, Thursday "NEVER again" said a leading American Orientalist as the biggest and most comprehensive exhibition of Chinese paintings ever staged outside China opened in Tokyo's National Museum here. A staggering collection of 281 works, covering 2,000 years of Chinese artistry, the once-in-a- lifetime
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    • 262 8 Japan's exports to drop no thanks to global slump UPI TOKYO, Thursday IN a dramatic reversal of a 30-year trend, Japan's exports will drop this year because the United States and others countries that in the past gobbled up Japanese goods don't have the money to buy, government economists predicted
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    • 327 8 UNGENEHAL KSSENBOr'B2 AP UNITED NATIONS,Thurs PRINCE Norodom Sihanouk's new Cambodian coalition government survived a first tentative challenge to its seating in the UN General Assembly at a meeting of the credentials committee yesterday. Vladimir Shustov of the Soviet Union and Giovinella Gonthier of Seychelles objected
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    • 257 8 AP JEDDAH, Thursday THE Saudi Arabian newspaper Arab News urged Europe and Japan yesterday to "fight back" against what it described as United States manipulation of international money markets. "Beginning this week, the dollar has been scaling new heights against all the
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    • 88 8 Reuter LONDON, Thursday THE British government yesterday drew a veil of secrecy over the opening of talks with China on the future of Hong Kong. Both the Foreign Office and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's office confirmed talks had begun in Peking but would not
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    • 342 10 First reported death outside Chicago AP Reuter CHICAGO, Thursday POLICE in Philadelphia said yesterday that someone had died in tnat city from cyanide in tylenol capsules, the first report of deaths in the bizarre case outside the Chicago area. "We have had a cyanide ty-lenol-related
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    • 99 10 AP VENICE, Thurs HIGH tides flooded Venice yesterday turning St Mark's Square and other piazzas into lakes and putting most of the city under water. A Sirocco, a dusty wind blowing from North Africa, battered the Italian peninsula and sent sea water
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    • 45 10 Reuter WASHINGTON, Thurs LIBYAN RADIO said vesterday that Libyan forces shot down an American spy plane last month bnt the US State Department denied the report. "There is absolutely nothing to it," Department spokesman Alan Romberg said. Reuter.
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    • 180 10 Reuter BRIGHTON, Thursday BRITAIN'S Conservative government yesterday dampened expectations of tax cuts next year to "buy votes" for a second Consecutive term in office. Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the annual Conservative Party conference that tax reductions would be
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    • 208 10 UPI BEIRUT, Thurs LEBANESE troops widening a crackdown on illegal Palestinian residents moved for the first time yesterday into the southern part of West Beirut despite protests by the United States, France and Italy over treatment of the refugees. Italian peace-keeping forces maintained roadblocks while Lebanese
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    • 312 11 The two-year Gulf War hots up UPI BAGHDAD, Thursday IRANIAN jetfighters flew bombing runs over Iraq yesterday while Iraq launched its fiercest counter-attack of the two-year-old Gulf War, with both sides claiming heavy losses inflicted. The Baghdad Military Command said Iraqi forces had "annihilated"
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    • 299 11 Reuter LANSING (Michigan), Thursday IN America's industrial midwest, where unemployment lines seem to grow longer 6y the day, anti-Jaoanese sentiment has reached a fevered pitch not seen since World War Two. From the deteriorating steel mills of Youngstown, Ohio, to the barelyutilised car
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    • 102 11 Reuter LONDON, Thurs. LEADING British banks announced a cut in their key lending rate yesterday, from 10 1/2 to 10 per cent, giving a boost to the country's recessionhit industry. National Westminster, Midland and Lloyds said the new base rate, the charge they make
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    • World Briefs
      • 88 11 Reuter MONROVIA: Rescuers yesterday recovered 40 bodies and 39 injured from a sea of slurry and rocks after a rain-swollen dam burst and swamped a mining camp in Western Liberia, the Liberian news agency reported. The liquid avalanche engulfed a camp of
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      • 74 11 AP LISBON: Angola claimed yesterday that a group belonging to the anti-government guerilla movement "Unita" massacred 150 civilians and wounded 100 others in a raid on a central Angolan village last August. More than 100 guerillas indiscriminately shot women, children and old people in the
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    • 238 11 Reuter BONN, Thure. CONSERVATIVE Chancellor Helmut Kohl had his first meeting with West German trade union leaders yesterday amid union fury at a call by his new Labour Minister for a six-month voluntary wage freeze. Mr Norbert Bluem, Christian Democratic
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    • 162 12 LONDON: Prince Andrew began a secret Caribbean holiday yesterday with Koo Stark, an American-born actress who has appeared nude in a softcore porn film. The couple flew to their island hideaway under the assumed names of "Mr and Mrs Cambridge" the Daily Express said. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman confirmed
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    • 362 12 Reuter BERGA (Sweden), Thurs SWEDISH artillery and infantry troops were yesterday moved into the area near the country's main naval base where warships and helicopters are chasing a suspected foreign spy submarine, a naval officer said. (An earlier report described the mystery craft as
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    • 143 12 Reuter MOSCOW, Thurs THE Soviet Union said yesterday that reports of a suspected spy submarine in Sweden's territorial waters may have been concocted and aimed at spoiling Soviet relations with Scandinavian countries. The official Tass news agency said there were doubts about whether there
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    • 197 12 THE ANGRY ONE UPI WASHINGTON, Thurs PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan, his voice raised and a flash of anger in his eyes, shouted "snut up!" yesterday to a Republican congressional candidate who had stood and accused him of deserting the Dolitical right. Mr Reagan was delivering a
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    • 124 12 AP MANILA, Thurs THE commander of the Philippines' 75,000-strong national police yesterday ordered overweight policemen who refuse to trim their waistlines to be sent to a training camp. Constabulary Chief Lt Gen Fidel Ramos issued the order after reports that many traffic policemen
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  • business
    • 598 13  -  By CATHERINE ONG ANOTHER two top-level resignations have been submitted at the Industrial and Commercial Bank, depleting the publicly-listed company of experience and expertise. The latest resignations bring the number of senior managers who have left the bank within the past 12 months to
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    • Update
      • 42 13 THE American Express Card has become the first charge card to be accepted on all Singapore Airlines' international flights for the purchase of duty-free items. SIA has accepted only cash payment on board.
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      • 37 13 SINGAPORE share prices closed narrowly mixed on lack of follow-through buying support yesterday. The SES Industrial Index rose 2.92 points to 655.44 and the UOB Composite Index 0.24 points to 405.70.
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      • 42 13 AP LONDON: Gold bullion rose above US$4OO (SsB6o) an ounce after its sharp falls on Monday and Tuesday. It closed yesterday at US|4O3 a troy ounce, up from U5390.5 the day before. AP.
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      • 71 13 Reuter MANILA: Asian countries will not run into the huge debt repayment problems suffered recently by Mexico although they must be on the alert, Mr Masao Fujioka, president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said. Mexico's outstanding bank debts of U5559.6 billion
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      • 50 13 Reuter AMSTERDAM: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines intends to cut its workforce to around 18,000 by 1985 from 19,000 at present as part of a series of measures aimed at improving productivity and efficiency in the face of slow growth in air traffic. Reuter.
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    • 305 13 SINGAPORE Airlines will burn enough electricity to supply a small town following its move this month into Airline House Changi. Consumption will be equivalent to the total used in 17,000 three-room HDB flats or 12,000 five-room flats. As
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    • 137 13 AP RIO DE JANEIRO, Thurs. BRAZIL has suspended sugar exports because of low prices for the product in international markets, the government's sugar and alcohol institute. lAA, said yesterday. lAA president Confucio Pamplona said exports would resume only when prices reach "levels that compensate Brazilian producers."
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    • 135 13 Reuter PEKING, Thursday CHINA'S borrowing from the World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), is expected to soar in the next few years, a senior bank official said yesterday. Mr Munir Benjenk, the bank's VicePresident for External Affairs, said
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    • 1070 14  -  Condominiums hardest hit: Sellers scramble to unload, speculators lick their wounds By CATHERINE ONG FOR ONCE, the bulls in the property market have all gone home. There is no one in sight willing to stake his own or his firm's reputation on real
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    • 146 14 THERE are better prospects on the Hong Kong property market, according to the Chartered Bank. It said in a monthly indicators report the recent decline in interest rates should help to offset the effect of lower prices on property companies and particularly their
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    • 213 14 THE COST of maintenance services by a property managing agent would depend on the following factors: The standard of the development whether it belongs to the luxury class or the more modest type. Naturally the more luxurious developments would cost more to maintain. One property manager said
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    • 597 14 TODAY, if you were to buy an apartment or a shop in a large complex or condominium, you would be a subsidiary proprietor. When most of the units in the complex have been sold to various owners, you would be expected to
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    • 895 15  -  Business People By CATHERINE ONG TEO TEE HIM in his normal working attire tee-shirts and jeans can easily be mistaken for one of those McDonald kids. His boyish grin, unpolished English ana down-to-earth manners hardly distinguish him as someone whose services are sought after by
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    • 423 16 TOURIST delegations from opposite ends of the world are in Singapore this month to lure visitors to Britain and Australasia. Singapore is one of seven Far Eastern cities which is the target of a British sales mission aimed at increasing tourist traffic. The 14-strong mission is
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    • 193 16 SINGAPORE is looking for a better class of tourist one who will stay longer and spend more. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board is aiming its advertisements at "a smaller, more select" audience than before. It is placing these advertisements in leading newspapers and up-market magazines. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      381 16 Bolter Simon has appointed Mr William H C Seah as general manager from October 1. He will be responsible for the company's activities in the engineering product field. Specialist's Centre has appointed Mr Neo Thin Hock as assistant manager. Prior to his appointment, Mr Neo was with
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    • 153 16 PAN Malaysia Singapore Holdings has bought another 1.5 million shares in Growth Industrial Holdings. The announcement was made through the stock exchange by Growth Industrial, which referred to Pan Malaysia as "a substantial shareholder." It did not say how many shares Pan Malaysia
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    • 121 16 Reuter HONG KONG, Thursday HONG KONG'S economy is likely to improve next year over this year and its export sector will be quick to respond to a recovery in world trade, Governor Sir Edward Youde said. Sir Edward told the Legislative Council he hopes improved
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    • COMPANY NEWS
      • 71 16 BRITISH Airways beat Swissair and Lufthansa to be named Airline of the Year by readers of Executive Travel, the British independent monthly magazine for regular business travellers. BA emerged the clear winner based on its ground and flight service. Swissair and Lufthansa were
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      • 136 16 MINEBEA Kaushiki Kaisha (NMB) will issue 10 million shares as depository receipts at $3.89 per share on October 22. It has applied to quote the receipts on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. NMB is a leading Japanese manufacturer of miniature instruments and ball bearings. It
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      • 100 16 INCH Kenneth Kajang Rubber is the latest company to suffer from the depressed rubber market. In the six months to June 30, turnover was down from M 51.32 million (about Ssl.2 million) to Msl.lB million and operating profit from M 5166,254 to $92,656. Only an increase
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  • centrepiece
    • 1297 18/19 Yesterday we published a report on how drug companies are pouring money into the search for the so-called "cognitive" drugs that will boost human learning, attention and memory. These additional articles, written by Washington Post reporters Philip J. Hilts, Cristine Russell and Victor Cohn, throw more light
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    • 1134 18/19 Learning how to replace the brain with cell transplants "YOU CANT replace the brain. But that's our job to learn to do that." The paradoxical statement comes from Dr. Richard Jed Wyatt of the National Institute of Mental Health, and he added one word: "Someday." The feat is still impossible,
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    • 928 18/19 DRUG-INDUCED ANXIETY MM THE LARGE brown monkeys straining chairs as When it hit their systems, the result was sudden: They froze, gripping their chairs tightly. They screeched. They wrung their hands, twisted in their seats. Their hearts raced and their adrenalin rose to as much
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    • 1493 20 tv 6* radio channel 5 3.00 Opening, followed by The Dynasty (C) (r). 3.50 Northern Games. (E) This film covers the Eskimo games held in Holman Island in 1980. It tells how the traditional games first originated and the events included in the competition. 4.15 The Wild Wild West The
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 352 21 TOP TV SHOWS Lynn Redgrave Dramas Battlastar Galactica: Qalactica Discovers Earth (Ch 5, 7.55 pm) WORLD WAR II is revisited in the third episode of this space extravaganza series. In their attempt once again to speed Earth into their own century of development, Troy, Dillion and Jamie travel back in
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    • 84 21 Children's Programme Kidsworld (Ch 5, 5.20 pm) IF the antics of the parrots and cockatoos at the Jurong Bird Park impressed you on your last visit, perhaps you'd like to compare them with those of The Parrot Jungle in Miami, Florida. Bertha Villamor takes you there in tonight's programme. For
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  • trend
    • 982 22 ...Or the computer at the other end of a telephone line TODAY'S computer freak will soon be just a man in yet another prosaic occupation. He may look like a glittering star today but, in some parts of the world, he is just doing a
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    • 229 22 ON Sunday the London Shakespeare Group comes to Singapore presenting two Performances of playwrite Harold inter's Betrayal at 4.00 and 8.00 pm. The group continues with Shakespeare's beloved Twelfth Night on Monday the 11th and Tuesday the 12th. These latter performances will both be presented at 8.00 pm. The
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    • 497 23  -  TRUE CONFESSIONS Director: Ulu Grosbard Starring: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall and Cyril Cusack Showing: Jade Reviewer: Angela Herickx TRUE CONFESSIONS is bursting with acting talent Robert De Niro (Academy Award winner for his role in Raging Bull), Robert Duvall (nominated for Oscars for Serformances
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    • 453 24  -  ...and tips on how to preserve silk creations By CATHARINE FERNANDO SILK used to be worn only by the royal and the rich and is today still a much-coveted luxury. However, it is much cheaper now and any Singaporean lady will insist on at least one embroidered Chinese
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    • 350 31  -  aU|Y CHAT with TONY LIM THERE was little surprise when llenry Tan, a close friend, announced the line up for the forthcoming Asian Zone FIQ championship in Manila. Dubbed as the most important event on the Asian bowling calender, It spells prestige for. those selected.
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    • 183 31 THE women's 4xloom freestyle relay team of Lai May May, Chan Mui Pin, Grace Cheong and Gillian Chee yesterday 2ualified for the Asian )ames when they clocked 4:15.40 at the official Singapore Amateur Swimming Association trials held at the Chinese Swimming Club pool. The qualifying
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    • 55 31 HONG KONG, Thursday CHINA'S reigning world champion Guo Yuehua stormed into the quarterfinals of the U5545,000 Third World Cup table tennis championship yesterday by defeating Po- land's Andrzej Grubba 21-18, 21-19. China tightened its grip on the title when another Chinese, Xie Saike, ousted Juan Vila of
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      • 676 32 Soccer BRATISLAVA (Czecho- i Slovakia), Thursday SWEDEN snatched a 2-2 1 draw against Czechoslovakia with two goals in the dying minutes of their European championship Group Five qualifying match here last night. Janecka seemed to have put Czechoslovakia on the winning track with two goals in the
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      • 235 32  -  RIO DE JANEIRO, Thursday A BRAZILIAN court has suspended a soccer referee for hiding a microphone under his shirt ana recording what players said on tne field. The court ruled yesterday that referee Jose Roberto Wright had "offended the dignity of the sport" by secretly
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      • 487 32 Tenn»b BARCELONA, Thursday TOP-SEEDED Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia defeated Javier Soler of Spain 7-6, 6-3 to advance to the third round of the U*****,000-Count of Godo tennis tournament yesterday. In other matches, sec-ond-seeded Guillermo Vilas of Argentina easily defeated Dominique Bedel, France, 6-3, 6-1, and third-seeded
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      • 192 32 BRISBANE, Thursday THE Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) yesterday adopted a tough new code of conduct aimed at barring all sports contact with South Africa. The code strengthens the 1977 Gleneagles Declaration discouraging sports links with South Africa because of its apartheid policy. Commonwealth countries will now
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      • 199 32 Reuter BARCELONA, Thursday BRITAIN'S Nick Faldo, winner of the Tournament Players' Championship three weeks ago, rejoins the European circuit for the US$lO2,OOO Barcelona Open golf tournament starting today. Ryder Cup international faldo missed last week's Spanish Open in Madrid Dut remains a contender
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      • 619 33  -  Can he saddle this year's winner? By B J SMITH THE big question on punters' Hps this week is whether champion Singapore trainer Ivan Allan can saddle the winner of Sunday's f 150,000 Singapore Gold Cup. He has three horses in the race this year:
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        417 33  -  By B J SMITH Wednesday's track work GOLDEN Arrow Stable's King's Spy did a Cup-win ning gallop on a good track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Pulling hard and matching strides with Timber Tycoon, King's Spy strode out well to clock 58.3 for ,the 600 metres. Larry Francis
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      • 460 33 PERFECT Match caught the eye among non-Cup horses that came out for work yesterday morning. He appeared looking very fit and with York in the saddle was sent down the 600 m in 44.5 on the bit Bayan Lepas strode out well in
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      • 244 33 ON THE RAILS... SRI LANKAN horse owner Upali Wijewardene will not purchase a runner in this year's Singapore Gold Cup. This was confirmed by a spokesman for Upali yesterday who said: r 'Upali is in Australia preKirine a horse there for e Melbourne Cup.
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    • 277 34  -  SINGAPORE WARNED OF SIMILAR ACTION Malaysian Open Squash championships SURESH NAIR A MAJOR Pakistan players' boycott almost brought the Malaysian Open Squash Championships to a halt at the Subang Complex here yesterday evening. Pakistan players refused to play their preliminary round matches when they accused the organisers
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    • 576 34 SINGAPORE champion Zainal Abidin did not show any of the famous "bunga gigi" (flower teeth) smile wnen he grabbed the only Pakistani scalp on the opening day of the Malaysian Open Squash Championships at the Subang Complex
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    • 276 34 PAKISTANI champion Rukshana Rashid's cable from Karachi to the organisers that she was pulling out of the Malaysian Open Championships prompted Prasad Pillai, the chairman of the organising committee, to crack another of his wise jokes: "I'm surprised we received it. I sent one from Karachi in 1972
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    • 399 34 KEEP sending promising secondgeneration players to represent Singapore in future East Asian Individual Championships, but it should be discreetly done to avoid a faltering in status as the region's number one squash power. This suggestion was conveyed to the Singapore Squash Backets Association oy three-time champion
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    • 431 35  -  By R. Manoraj "WHIPPING BOYS? We are nothing of the sort. We have proved this against the South Koreans on Tuesday and we will do so against Singapore today." These are the defiant words of Shran J Singh, assistant manager of the Brunei team,
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    • 481 35  -  By GEOFFREY EU AUSTRALIA 4 THAILAND 0 AUSTRALIA proved that they will be the team to watch in the Merlion Cup when they thrashed Thailand 4-0 in a Group B Merlion Cup match at the National Stadium last night. Unfortunately, only a paltry crowd of
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    • 251 35  -  By GEOFFREY EU and South Korea, winners in their opening matches, meet each other tonight (7 pm) in a contest that will probably determine who will be Group A champions. On paper, the South Koreans look to have the stronger side. They
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    • 433 36 While Queen waits to present them a 'gold' BRISBANE, Thursday THE ENTIRE Canadian swimming squad faced possible disciplinary action after storming out of the Chandler pool. The 40-strong Canadian swimming squad left the swimming complex early while the Queep and a crowd of 5,000 were
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    • 201 36 REFEREES at the Merlion Cup soccer competition are proving to be the noisiest bunch of people at mealtimes all because of the ability of some of them to tell jokes best not repeated. R must be their way of releasing the pressures which build up. Perhaps it also
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      • 123 36 Reuter COLOMBO, Thursday. SRI LANKA'S cabinet yesterday decided to try to stop a planned tour of South Africa by a group of Sri ijmkaii cricketers, a government spokesman said. A team of 14 Sri Lankan players, including at least six
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      • 110 36 Reuter MIAMI BEACH: TOP-SEEDED Girls Evert Lloyd returned to tournament tennis after a three-week rest to defeat fellow-American Zina Garrison 6-0, 6-2 in the first round of a Florida tournament at Deerfleld Beach last night. Defending champion Lloyd, who won the US Tennis championship last
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