New Nation, 14 October 1982

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  • 18 1 new nation PUBLISHED BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Thursday, October 14, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents
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    • 211 1  -  By SEAH CHIANG NEE IN a colourful Fijian ceremony in which Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew took centre stage as guest of honour, the Third Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting opened here today. Mr Lee is the longest serving of all
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    • 70 1 AP VIENNA: Doctors in a local hospital mistakenly implanted a heart pacemaker in the chest of a patient suffering from a broken leg, Vienna newspapers reported yesterday. A nurse who discovered the mistake told the patient he had been mixed up with
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  • 384 1 NEW CRISIS WARNING BY ENERGY AGENCY LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Thursday THERE is a possibility of a new oil crisis occurring in the mid-to-late 1980s that would "deal a devastating blow" to major industrial countries. This warning was given by the authoritative International Energy Agency which said
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  • opinion / letters
    • 251 2  -  THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE HOWS AND WHYS THE 'GENERAL PAPER CHASE'...THE DEBATE STARTS VEENA KUMARI A MOST emphatic "yes" to the view that students do badly at General Paper because they lack an analytical and inquisitive mind (Sunday Nation, October 10). The General
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    • 174 2  -  ZHOU RHONG CAI TO SAY that an analytical mind would see us through the General Paper is a gross exaggeration. I am not a "whiz' kid or anything of that sort, but I have distinctions for my Mathematics and Economics yet I only managed to
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    • 200 2  -  DEPUTY ALTERNATE ASSISTANT I SUPPOSE I am one of the "expat accountant-turned-manager", referred to in recent letters appearing in the New Nation. Shuffling of job titles is a common thing in for-eign-owned businesses. We find that Singaporeans are very sensitive to official titles,
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    • 63 2  -  LIVE AND LET LIVE HAVING keenly followed the points raised in the New Nation about expatriates, I feel that what some readers say are also equally true of our local people. We can find a few "chronic" cases in our Government departments and Statutory Boards too! What I
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    • 177 2  -  GILBERT LEONG BEING a Pre-U Two student myself, I understand the complaint of not having enough time. Tutorials alone take up the lot of a student's time. Also, the reading lists given by the other teachers are not exactly short. Studying for term tests and
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    • 169 3  -  SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN BY OPERATORS PROVES THAT THEY ONLY WANT TO PROTECT THEIR OWN ECONOMIC INTERESTS CONCERNED PARENT THERE is more than enough public opinion expressed by concerned parents, teachers and consumer associations to conclude that the majority of Singapore's citizens are for the ban on
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    • 356 3  -  REPLIES PETER SIM CHENG KHOON YOUR writer Mr Awther Singh in his piece (New Nation, Sept 22) equates late payment penalties as "overzealous diligence." Mr Awther Singh obviously does not know of a long-standing scheme agreed to by the accounting profession
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    • 107 3  -  TAN HENG HUAY PLEASE refer to the letter by "Intimidated" regarding a "mystery caller from the HDB Area Office" who tried to get personal information without identifying himself and by threatening the writer's wife. As far as we can ascertain from the Higher Housing and Maintenance
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    • 186 3 Hurrah for revolution and more can-non-shots; a beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet (1865-1939) TODAY is Thursday, October 14th, the 287 th day of 1982. There are 78 days left in the year. HIGHLIGHTS in history on this date:
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  • home
    • 173 4 RESIDENTS in Chancery Court, off Dunearn Road, will be conducting the first fire drill in a high-rise private flat on Sunday. At 9 am, an alarm will go off at the eight blocks and alert the people in the 136 households. Mr Hemo
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    • 201 4 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board is concerned pver the recent spate of thefts from hotel rooms. And the police yesterday urged tourists to keep their cash and valuables in hotel deposit boxes when they were out of their rooms. Six hotels, including a
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    • 77 4 A 1983 calendar (above) for children featuring stories aboat the customs and cultures found in Singapore is being published by the Sin Chew Jit Poh. The first of its kind in Singapore, the bilingual calendar in Chinese and English has stickers to remind children of school events.
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    • 93 4 TWO motorcyclists and a pillion were injured on Tuesday night when their machines ran into a police car parked along Nicoll Highway. The police patrol car was there to investigate an earlier accident. Later, motorcyclist Woo Leong Mun, 23, with pillion Tan Kok
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    • 243 5  -  Enterprising trader imports them daily By SIT YIN FONG IF you are dining on a king-sized crab like you see in this picture with their importer, Mr Francis Lye, the chances are that it was this very morning swimming in the warm waters off
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    • 174 5 A UNIVERSITY undergraduate has gathered about 2,000 signatures from her fellow students to show concern over the killing of whales. Miss Shakuntala Prasadh, 21, a third-year Arts student at the National University of Singapore, was so taken by an advertisement in an
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    • 248 5 BRINGING Up Children is the title of the seminar and parents will be able to take their offspring along. The Singapore Association for Mental Health, which is organising the seminar at the Hyatt Hotel on October 31, thinks it will attract more
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    • 295 6  -  Stalls manned by retired people and housewives Story and pictures by YEOW MEI SIN HAWKERS on Kusu Island are setting up shop in readiness for the pilgrims who will flock there on Sunday. Stalls are being repainted, extra benches are being built and
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    • 170 6  -  By YONG POW ANG TRADITIONAL provisions shops are learning how to display their products and increase their sales by taking part in promotional competitions. The display contests Require the shops to provide prominent space for the particular product being promoted. The promotional contests usually last a month.
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    • 248 6  -  By JULIE LIAU THE Quota Club of Singapore, formed only two years ago, is to give $40,000 to the School of the Deaf so that a classroom can be built for training deaf students in vocational trades. The club raised the money through
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    • 140 8 PEOPLE say welcome in many different ways. The Guieratis and some of the other ethnic Indian groups does it with floor-art. Ranggoli coloured design is the traditional practice on auspicious days as a symbol of gracious blessings and for good luck. At an exhibition of
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    • 461 8 THE Sentosa Development Corporation feels it is most unfair for any tour agency to say the corporation is not interested in tourists going to Sentosa. Hitting back at recent criticisms it says a onesided picture has been paintea and that the corporation owes it to
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    • 131 8 HUNDREDS of thousand orchid blooms will go up in smoke if alternative planting sites are not found soon. Orchid farmers in the Jalan Ulu Sembawang area are facing a massive removal problem. The government has asked them to leave their present site for a
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    • 508 9  -  Family unwilling to donate kidney to dying brother, says sergeant Story and picture by JULIE LIAU JULIE LIAU POLICE Sergeant Wong Toon Han spent five hours trying to persuade the brothers and sisters of a 21-year-old patient to give a kidney to their brother. He failed.
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    • 272 9 GRANDMA Koh Ah Tong shrieked with delight yesterday when she won a big, blue stuffed tortoise. The 75-year-old grandmother was one of the visitors, who attended the annual sale of arts and crafts made by bedridden patients at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. When Madam Koh saw the
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    • 104 9 new nation APPEAL Please tick where applicable: I want to be a kidney donor. Please send me more information. lam 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 kidneys from accident victims
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  • world
    • 392 10  -  Protectionism will come under heavy fire By SEAH CHIANG NEE SUVA, Thursday WILL Malaysia and Singapore launch a coordinated attack on Australia's protectionist trade Dolicy? Will India's pro-Soviet policy on Cambodia come under renewed criticism? These are two of the major issues that are expected
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    • 216 10 Reuter OSLO, Thurs. DISARMAMENT campaigners received major recognition of their work towards a nuclear-free world yesterday with the ioint award of the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize to Mrs Alva Myrdal of Sweden and former Mexican Foreign Minister Alfonso Garcia Eobles. Egil Aarvik, Chairman of
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    • 416 10  -  Dateline: Suva SEAH CHIANG NEE SINGAPOREAN journalists had their first real look around the Fijian capital yesterday, after their arrival in darkness the previous night, and are liking it more and more. I walked through the main thoroughfare, Victoria Parade, and was stopped by
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    • 49 10 The world's largest crystalline rock found in 1981 at the Blocker lead mine in Arkansas being guarded at the Munich fair grounds. The crystal rock valued at US$l6O,OOO (§5336,000) will be the star attraction at a mineral fair at the weekend. PICTURE: UPI
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    • 454 12 Reuter UPI GDANSK, Thursday WORKERS in the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, bowing to intense pressure by the martial-law authorities, yesterday ended a strike begun on Monday to protest against the banning of the Solidarity Trade Union. The protest ended after the authorities put the shipyard
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    • 235 12 Reuter BRUSSELS, Thursday THE Soviet army has reintroduced into its doctrine a World War II concept to punch through Nato's front lines in any conflict and take Western Rositions in the rear, ato military sources said yesterday. The idea is to hold
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    • 101 12 Reuter AMSTERDAM, Thursday DRIES VAN AGT, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 1977, yesterday took the country by surprise by announcing his resignation. His move caused particular shock because he was expected to head a new centre-right coalition which is likely to take office within the
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    • 287 12 AP Reuter VIENNA, Thursday THE official media of communist Eastern Europe praised Poland's military government for outlawing Solidarity, and citizens of some Soviet bloc countries were told about street violence that followed the ban. In Romania, which suffers from economic problems similar to Poland's, newspapers, radio
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    • 290 13 Reagan expected to play crucial role in making Israel accept US plan Agencies AMMAN, Thursday KING Hussein and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat have reached an agreement in principle on a Jordanian-linked independent Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan
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    • 125 13 Reuter VATICAN CITY, Thursday POPE John Paul asked the PLO leader Yasser Afafat last month to recognise Israel and Mr Arafat said he accepted this, an authoritative Vatican official said yesterday. Don Virgilio Levi, editor of the semi-official Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano, said in a
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    • 103 13 AP STOCKHOLM, Thurs. SWEDISH navy divers combed murky Mysing Bay yesterday for evidence of a possibly damaged foreign submarine. Security was also tightened at the Berga naval training base. There was no immediate report of progress, however, in the search for at least one and
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    • 151 13 AP KUWAIT, Thurs KUWAIT has imposed a ban on the entry of foreigners, Interior Minister Sheik Nawaf A 1 Jaber was quoted yesterday as saying. Sheik Nawaf, in a statement published in the independent newspaper Al-Qabas, said the ban includes a stop to visitors' visas and
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    • 317 14 AP TAIPEH, Thursday PIRATED X-rated Japanese comic books designed for adults are selling like hot cakes to rental book shops for Taiwan juveniles who reaa them with bugeyed interest. Available statistics show that last year about 2,070 Japanese comic books, whose subject matter
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    • 60 14 VICTOR tanker aircraft and Harrier jets flying past during Britain's Falklands Victory Parade in London on Tuesday. A quarter of a million spectators turned out in rain to cheer 1,250 veterans of the war, on their march to the Guildhall. A champagne reception was held there, and
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    • 197 14 AP Reuter LONDON, Thursday A STONY-FACED Prince Andrew returned home alone yesterday from a headline-stirring 8-day vacation with American blue movie actress Koo Stark on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Reportedly angered at sensational British Press coverage of his trip, Queen Elizabeth ll's 22-year-old son arrived
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    • 68 14 AP PARIS, Thursday INFLATION in industrialised non-communist countries fell below eight per cent in August for the first time since 1978, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said yesterday. The rate of inflation in the European Community fell from 10 per cent in July
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    • Article, Illustration
      135 14 Basque leader arrested BAYONNE (France): The presumed leader of a Spanish Basque extremist movement, Jesus Abrisketa Korta Cxuxo, 33, has been arrested in France, official sources said yesterday. The sources said Korta Cxuco was taken into custody on Monday at Saint Jean de Luz, near the Spanish frontier, and was
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    • 101 14 Anita live at the Top of the Hilton > _<V t NL ■<5. .4: Q5 m A* j+*» V o N r \*s k w Top of the Hilton Also featuring the Singapore Swing Asia's most dynamic entertainer, Anita Sarawak. Exotic and vibrant. Anita's electrifying performance packs more punch than
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  • business
    • 166 15 UPI WALL Street's historic rally wound up its second month yesterday with the Dow Jones average vaulting to a 17 1/2-month high of 1,015.08 in the second busiest session on record. Investors, anticipating the economy will recover several months from now, were encouraged when most of the
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    • 278 15  -  'Company not experiencing any growth this year' By CATHERINE ONG PHILIPS Singapore has shelved expansion plans indefinitely in the wake of a worldwide recession. Managing director Mr W G Maeyer yesterday confirmed the company has decided to freeze its plans to build a $20
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    • 426 15 THREE plantation companies in the Sime Darby group take a gloomy view of the immediate future in their annual reports for the year to June 30. Benta Plantations complains: "Commodity price levels for both palm oil and rubber remain depressed. "With
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    • 92 15 THE new managing director of Sime Darby Singapore is to be Mr K A Wallen, at present Sime Darby's regional director in Hong Kong. He takes up the post on Nov 1, replacing Mr R T Constable, who is leaving Sime Darby to take up
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    • Update
      • 52 15 UPI GOLD dropped on the bullion markets yesterday. "As the dollar strengthened, gold moved lower," said a dealer for bullion brokers Johnson Matthey. On the London market, he said, "there was some profit-taking and at one time gold dipped to US$42B before closing at
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      • 46 15 SINGAPORE share prices closed higher on renewed buying interest in the afternoon after a slightly easier opening. There was active selective trading. The SES Industrial Index rose 3.98 points to 509.61. The UOB Composite Index was up 4.11 points at 429.86.
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      • 58 15 Reuter THE Philadelphia Stock Exchange said it will begin trading foreign currency options on Dec 10. The exchange said it initially will trade options in marks, sterling, Canadian dollars, Swiss francs and yen. It plans to add French franc, Italian lira, Dutch guilder, Mexican peso
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      • 40 15 Reuter THE Japanese Finance Ministry told Japanese commercial banks that they are required to submit reports every three months on their short-term loans to foreign borrowers so it can closely monitor such lending, banking sources said. Reuter.
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    • 723 16 Excited over PremiumLandmarks merger The Star THE few details of the proposed merger between Premium Holdings and Landmarks Corporation released so far have excited Premium shareholders and the investing public to take a closer look at the whole deal. From whatever angle one looks at the deal, Landmarks is being
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    • 207 16 FIMA-PALMBULK Services has obtained an $18 million term loan through Bumiputra Merchant Bankers from a consortium of five banks. The loan will be used to finance the construction of a liquid bulking terminal at the Penang Port Commission wharves at Butterworth. The consortium lenders
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    • 91 16 Your (Foreign Exchange) Supplied by UOB Your S$ to one unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT DO US$ 2 1910 2.1810 2.1710 t sterling 3.7577 ***** 3.7087 Australian 2.0935 2.0709 2.0509 Canadian 1.7965 1.7729 1 7569 New Zealand 1.5908 1.5692 1.5492 S$ to 100 units of foreign currency
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    • 321 16 The Star THE East Asiatic Company (Malaysia) forecast that earnings this year will be comparable with last year's group pre-tax profit of $16.71 million is reasonable, says company managing director R. Schwartz Hansen. Mr Hansen was commenting on a query to the company
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    • 201 16 A FORMER Malaysian lawyer now residing in Perth, Mr Stephen Chew, is expected to face some tough questioning at the forthcoming annual general meeting of his company by shareholders. The annual general meeting of J and W Bateman, a company controlled by Mr
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    • 117 16 AP LONDON, Thursday BRITAIN'S major banks lowered their base lending rates yesterday by per cent to 9V4 per cent, the first time prime rates have been below 10 per cent in more than four years. Barclay's Bank led the way, followed by Midland Bank
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    • 151 16 PerwiraSime Darby buys 11 ha of land The Star CONSOLIDATED Plantations, a 62.76 per cent owned subsidiary of Sime Darby, has sold 11 hectares of land on its Tali Ayer Estate to PerwiraSime Darby Sdn Bhd. The land was sold for $1.36 million, which works out to $49,454 an acre.
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    • 93 16 MM DESPITE several US banks lowering their prime rate to 12 per cent from 13 per cent, the gold market has failed to rally, United Overseas Bank points out. This is mainly due to a lack of follow-through buying support. The market will remain volatile in a
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    • 262 17 SIM Lim Investments intends to apply for a listing of its Singaporeincorporated finance company on the Stock Exchange of Singapore before the end of the current financial year on March 31, 1983. The prospectus for the public issue of shares
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    • 332 17 Firmer trend due to three important legislations AFTER declining 35 per cent to 40 per cent in the past 40 months, there are signs that residential real estate prices have stabilised and in fact have picked up a little recently. This view is expressed
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    • 112 17 RENTALS at the SingaSore Chinese Chamber of ommerce and Industry building will drop in line with the falling market trend. Under the new rates, tenants will pay $4.20 per sq it tor a one-year lease, $4.10 for a two-year lease
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    • 58 17 SHAREHOLDERS of Ambassador Hotels have approved diversification of the companv that may be necessary to save its stock exchange listing. After approving the sale of the hotel, the company's main asset, an extraordinary meeting agreed to amend the memorandum of association. It can now act as
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    • 125 17 Place: Singapore National Stadium Date: 7th M in concert fho Gioup w!k> ijivt'.s you hits Too Hoi J ;i h<>t from Mir film r h.ink (lex JII s fridny' ;iii<l tin hit »n(|' T hnv I irruv> A I ;i<ly 'who w< »t> 'j< >l< I Of pl.itirnjm .iw.iMs ,ir
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    • 260 18/19  -  STORY AND PICTURES BY TO CHEE ENG IT is nothing like MASH, the television series. The Nine Field Hospital, staffed with 900 men, can take ap to 720 casualties and provide medical support for a division of 10,000 fighting men. With the medical equipment they set up in
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    • 398 18/19 AN ambulance screeched to a halt, stirring up a huge cloud of dust. A door flew open and out sprang a soldier in green. He sprinted to the nearest tent, half hidden in the bushes, which was serving as the sorting station of the Singapore Armed Forces' Nine
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    • 753 20 tv 6* radio CHANNEL 5 Hilarious musical entertainment V .1 V. I Joey Heatherton Thursday Entertainment Specials I II (10.10 pm and 11.10 pm) THERE'S hilarious starstudded musical entertainment galore in store tonight, so you should stay home if you want to catch some of the swinging action. The first
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    • 1076 21 Tv radio Long-awaited Taiwan musical starts tonight By The Moonlight Bay (Ch 8, 8.05 pm) THE long-awaited Taiwan musical, By The Moonlight Bay, will begin its series tonight. The series was supposed to have been launched last week, after the Ode To Night series ended. But SBC has to use
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    • 293 21 Seven days of martial arts tests On The Waterfront (Ch 8, 9.20 pm) THIS on-going battle of the warring Chinese factions continues with the 51st episode. Yan Yan becomes angry when Zi Yi tells them Yun Meng intends to teach her skills to Tian Yuan. She tries in vain to
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  • leisure
    • 514 22 CONTRARY to popular belief, the amount of food you eat does not determine your body weight. Then what does? The BBC production, Horizon: The Fat in the Fire, telecast over SBC last Tuesday delved into the issue and produced some interesting findings
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    • 203 22 SIPA THERE'S been something of an uproar in New York recently over the destruction of some of the city's landmark theatres, which have been torn down to make room for new buildings as Manhattan continues its building boom. But luckily, the city's most famous and
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    • 968 23 PART 3 OF A FIVE-PART SERIES What I like about you is that you are not pretty, the director tells her GRACE BECOMES A MODEL..THEN GOES FOR HER FIRST SCREEN TEST AND FAILS IT! 20th Caitun/ Cinderella No matter what career she had chosen in life,
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    • 506 24  -  FILM PREVIEW Title of film: Undated Wedding Starling: Kenny Bee, Jean Shen Yen and Ling Feng Director: Wang Shi Zhen Showing: Plaza, Ang Mo Kio, Yangtze, Kong Chian, New City, Golden City Reviewer Joyce Lee THIRD time lucky does not always apply
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    • 512 24 I CATHAY THEATRE FILM/SHOW TIMES (Phone) Bedok Pink Thief (C)/1 30. 3 30. 7.00. 9 15 (*****7) Broadway Pink TMet (C)/1 30. 3.30. 7.00. 9.15 (*****93) Cathay Quest for Flre (EJ/11. 1.30. 4 00. 6 30. 9.15 (*****00) Gala Pink TMef <C)/130, 3 30. 7 00. 9.15 (*****75) Golden SuHanPink
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    • 1027 25 DR SMOCK Ta CHUCK/ THE BUONPg IN THAT CONVgRTI&ue SURE SUOWgP POWN AN' (3AVE You the gyg n By George Lemont &Uf WHAT HAS SHE <30T THAT X HAVEN'T SOT/ EH, KIC>C?C??/ I a fife 1 a M FRANK AND ERNEST By Bob Thaves OF COURSE Y»u FEEi- funny YOU'RE
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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    • 149 31 72) Tours/Travol Agwitl HAW A ft SAFARI PARK w—k- and aacapada. Com*! Join us tor ~Mi unforgotatol* waahand. Ml/ Tttl NoMfflbw, $120 for 90 and 2N. UmHtd only. Foe dittilt call Y.M.C.A., 337-7SM today VII) MOTOR MART 08) Cars For Sal* 88a) Honda a Ona a—r only a CP' Plata
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    • 207 31 X) JOB OPPORTUNITIES iMlft 121) Employment 121 a) Administrative Professional Singapore Dealer of World's most successful furniture system requires: SPACE PLANNER CUM INTERIOR DESIGNER Successful candidal* must possess a Diploma In Interior Design Architecture or has minimum 5 years' extensive experience. Salary and benefits commensurate with qualifications. PACIFIC DECOR (PTC.)
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    • 394 32 DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION' TENDER NOTICE JEWELLERY SHOP AT SINGAPORE CHANGI AIRPORT Tenders are invited from established and reputable companies with not less than three years experience in the business of retailing jewellery either locally or abroad and with an annual sales turnover of not less than $2 million over
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    • 165 32 THIS WEEK S v challenge: HOW MANY WORDS CAN YOU MAKE? HOW TO PLAY: Form as many words as you can from these letters, joining them horizontally, vertically or diagonally without repetition in the same word. No proper nouns or abbreviations allowed. :n !t 0000 suao HOW TO SCORE: Score
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 242 32 [1 I I I I I I 111 BJLfcrs dbrt THURSDAY liSJ^ Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below. Age Occupation: Address immmmm cut here mmmmmmw CLUES FOR PC—4 1. Mythical animal with a single horn 2. Having in films, an actress can expect to be
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  • sports
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      • 870 32 HE OWES HIS SUPERB 66 TO KIAN TIONG'S NEW DRIVER CHEN Tze Chung of Taiwan may want to split his prize money if he wins the $60,000 Maru man Classif golf chamBionship which teed off at je Bukit course yesterday. Tze Chung, 25, who shot a
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    • sports / racing
      • 287 33  -  By B J SMITH THE Malayan Racing Association is bringing in a handicapping expert from England and possibly one from Australia to study its present handicapping system and offer advice. The Englishman is Mr Swannell, a senior handicapper, who will act as a consultant for 30
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      • 400 33  -  Trackwork by B J SMITH THE Singapore-trained Sungei Wang, which has been entered for the Class Three Division One 1700-metre race on Sunday, was impressive during yesterday morning's trackwork on Penang's Batu Gantong course. With a riding boy in the saddle, Sungei Wang was hard held but
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      • 105 33 Reuter LONDON, Thursday FRESH doubts about the future of the Grand National steeplechase, one of the world's most renowned horse races, arose yesterday with news that a deal aimed at saving Aintree racecourse had fallen through. The English Jockey Club, hoping to buy the course from property
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      • 354 33 FOUR-YEAR-OLD Disputed Bid, which finished three placings in as many starts, has come right and is ready to strike in the Class 3 Div 4, 1200 m race on Saturday at Batu Gantong. With a riding boy astride yesterday, the Australian gelding did a
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      • 334 33 THE standings after the first round of the Maruman golf championship at the Bukit course yesterday (report on Page 32): Professionals 66 Cheng Tse Chung. 67 Soemarno. 68 M Marimuthu. 69 Lim Leng Ann, Fung Hee Kwan. 70 Lai Chum Hui. 71 V Sopon, M Siodina, J
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      • 163 33 SOUTH Australian Jockey John Murray returned from England at the weekend and may be seen in action at Ipoh in the forthcoming Gold Vase Meeting which starts on October 30. "I rode ten winners there so far this season" he told me. "And I
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      • 384 33 Roundup CHINA trounced Thailand 93-56 and the PhilipF lines beat Japan 91-74 m inal round matches in Manila yesterday and moved closer to a title showdown in the 7th Asian Youth boys basketball championship China plays South Korea tomorrow and the Philippines tackles Malaysia the same
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    • 326 34  -  Underdogs Malaysians may go down under unless they score early against Australia Story by GEOFFREY EU THE Malaysians may be the underdogs in tonight's semi-final against Australia, but they are hoping that the presence of top officials from the Football
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      122 35 MEN: Ali Aziz (Egypt) vs Jerry Loo (Malaysia), Clive Navlor (Australia) vs S. Maniam (Malaysia), George Okerchiri (Ghana) vs Zainal Abidin (Singapore), Ivan Schneider (Switzerland) vs Ricky Hill (Australia), Mo Asran (Egypt) vs Darius Pandole (India), Diniar Ali Khan (India) vs Albert Wee (Singapore), George Tan (Singapore) vs
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    • 577 35 BY GEORGE! How fast international newcomer George Tan has improved since making his big-time debut in the East Asia individual squash championships in Kuala Lumpur last week! If you nave only read about his rags-to-riches Kuala Lumpur exploits where he finished a creditable East
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    • 641 35  -  They want 'respect, equity and dignity' By SURESH NAIR PAKISTANI star players, who walked out of the Anchor Singapore Open squash championships, are keen to play in Singapore again if they are treated with "respect, equity and dignity. The Pakistanis, in a joint statement last
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    • 254 36  -  $5,000 offer to Indonesian 'player' to lose Australia match By GEOFFREY EU OFFICERS from the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau yesterday apprehended a man in connection with an attempt to bribe players in the Indonesian football team taking part in the Merlion Cup tournament at
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    • 424 36 ALL THE EUROPEAN SOCCER RESULTS Reuter ENGLAND 1 WEST GERMANY 2 LONDON, Thursday EUROPEAN Footballer of the Year Karl-Heinz Rummenigge again proved West Germany's ace match winner as he struck two chilling blows to dispatch England to a 2-1 defeat in a friendly international here last night
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      323 36 Reuter IRELAND 2 ICELAND 0 DUBLIN, Thursday FRANK STAPLETON put his disappointing club form behind him to score a vital goal for Ireland in their 2-0 European soccer championship Group Seven qualifying tie victory over Iceland here last night. The Manchester United striker, with only two goals to
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    • 152 36 Reuter SOVIET UNION 2 FINLAND 0 MOSCOW, Thursday THE Soviet Union kicked off its European soccer championship campaign with a convincing 2-0 victory over Finland in a Group Two match last night. The Russians rolled into attack from the outset and the game was virtually over as a
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 89 36 UPI LAUSANNE (Switzerland): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said yesterday it is finally awarding two gold medals won 70 years ago by American athlete Jim Thorpe. Thorpe, who died in 1953, won the pentathlon and decathlon at the Stockholm Games in 1912. But he
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      • 97 36 UPI SYDNEY: Third-seeded American Vitas Gerulaitis set the pattern for a day of disputes in the U*****,000 (§5525,000) Custom Credit Australian indoor tennis championships at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion yesterday when he disputed at least 10 line calls before being beaten 3-6, 4-6 by compatriot Brad Gilbert
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      • 77 36 AP SAN FRANCISCO: Hu Na, the Chinese women's tennis star seeking political asylum in the United States, has been granted a work permit. David Ilchert, regional director of the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service, said yesterday that he approved the 19-year-old's application for a work
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