New Nation, 24 October 1982

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    • 79 1 Soviet spymaster defects and reveals secrets FULL REPORT: PAGE 7 I .A man It's Marimuthu again FULL REPORT: PAGE 21 Athletics: Big £lop by S'pore FULL REPORT: PAGE 24 ACTION PIX: PAGE 23 Sunday nation RACING GUIDE Living cover story on horror movies plus a chance to win cash prizes
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    • 321 2  -  By LAM MO LIAN SEVENTY-FIVE-year-old Tan Hui Ngoh rushed into her burning twostorey pre-war shophouse on Friday night in a daring attempt to recover her valuables. But the fire spread so quickly, there was little she could do, and her son
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    • 328 2  -  Still tops list of offences committed by motorists By OEI SIN GIOK THE NUMBER of motorists who do not maintain their cars properly, despite compulsory vehicle tests, is increasing. "Poor vehicle condition and maintenance continues to top the list of offences most commonly committed by
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    • 96 2 Heed Mufti law Mattar MUSLIMS should follow the rulings of the Mufti of Singapore. This was the instruction of Dr Ahmad Mattar, Acting Minister of Social Affairs to all Muslims yesterday. Speaking at a Jurong East ceremony to mark the Muslim New Year, Dr Mattar saitl the decisions of the
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    • 108 2 TWO MEN have died from injuries sustained in separate road accidents during the past two days. Png Kay Ai, 37, was driving along Nicoll Highway at 12.20 am yesterday, when his car went over a road divider and was involved in a head-on collision with
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    • 141 2 STUDENTS at the National University of Singapore are complaining that they cannot get a seat when they go to the canteen. The five canteens at the university are so crowded at lunchtimes that students often have to wait 15 minutes to get a seat. Mr
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    • 234 2  -  By TOH CHEE ENG POLICE mounted a massive operation against weekend shoppers who parked their cars illegally in the narrow roadsDehind the Orchard Road shopping area yesterday. The clampdown, which began before noon, caught many errant motorists off-guard. One hundred and forty-three vehicles
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    • 462 3  -  Around the Courts By CHUA NGENG CHOO A TRAFFIC policeman driving down Empress Road had an unusual duty on Friday ne had to stop a fight between two men on the back of a lorry in front of him. In a magistrate s court yesterday, Ng
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    • 472 3 Party branches to double as English classes for workers PEOPLE S Action Party branches will provide premises for English and mathematics classes for workers. This is evident from the pledge of full cooperation to the labour movement given last night by party chairman Mr Ong feng
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    • 75 4 Mandarin campaign surveys PEOPLE still speak dialects rather than Mandarin when conversing with hawkers, a survey of 6,000 conversations by Sin Chew Jit Poh has found out. Wnen speaking to salesgirls in department stores, nowever, customers prefer to speak in English. But the Speak Mandarin Campaign
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    • 75 4 CHINESE Singaporeans are more inclined to speak Mandarin since the Speak Mandarin Campaign started three years ago, according to a Times survey. They speak it when talking to family members and colleagues. Ten out of 12 interviewees out of a representative sample of 215 felt that the ability to
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    • 396 4  -  Nanyang probe's surprising find on English use By YONG POW ANG THE use of Mandarin is on the increase in restaurants while dialects still predominate in coffee shops. And English is used less in both restaurants and coffee shops even by English-educated Chinese Singaporeans. These
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    • 132 4 MADAM Phng Cheng Kwee has left her "home from home" on a piece of landscaped park near the South Quay viaduct, and now a path has been bulldozed through the area. Madam Phng, 74, was photographed two weeks ago by New Nation living
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    • 243 4  -  By JALIL MISWARDI THE housemaster at St Andrew's House, Mr Robert Ng has had to wave the big stick at the PWD Mr Ng was annoyed to find pieces of dug-out tar, piles of gravel and stones left on a side road and pavement near St Andrew's
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    • 299 6  -  Singapore scientist aims to induce chickens to lay eggs more frequently By LYE YIN FONG A SINGAPORE scientist who is trying to use hormones to make chickens lay more eggs is off to Britain next month for further research at Reading University. Earlier research has shown
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    • 459 6  -  By TOH SU FEN AFTER a trying month for the 15 judges of the first National Quality Control Circle Convention, the last of the four sessions of preliminaries closed yesterday. The judges came away very satisfied and encouraged by the confident and
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    • 69 6 THE Government has gazetted the list of 24 "declared" commodity companies, now nnder investigation for alleged malpractices in gold and commodity futures trading. These are the companies raided by the Commercial Crime Division and the Monetary Authority of Singapore on 29 Sept. The gazette notification on
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    • 350 3 9he Malacca Village desert When you visit Malacca, you visit a city of adventure, history, culture and now informal luxury. You'll find ancient forts, quaint buildings and a host of vivid imprints of Siamese, Portuguese, Arab and Javanese traders of the Old World. Explore abundant antique stores, bargain for J|
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    • 127 6 Shanghai Natural Chrysanthemum Teathe refreshing way to bring flowers to a picnic *i M A-? s* some cans of ft K Chrysanthemum Tea. Shanghai Natural Chrysanthemum Tea is made from the petals of ripe. Chrysanthemum blossoms specially grown in Shanghai. It's cooling and refreshing. Each can is filled with the
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    • 280 7 Biggest scoop in 10 years, claims newspaper DEFECTION 1 AP LONDON, Saturday A SOVIET diplomat reported by the British Government to have defected to the West is one of Moscow's top spymasters, The Daily Mail reported today. The paper said the detection of Vladimir Kuzichkin, a
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    • 173 7 AP TOKYO, Saturday THE Soviet Union has completed a new submarine base on an island in the Kurile chain north of Japan, a Japanese newspaper reported today. The Yomiuri Sbimbun said non-nuclear attack submarines have been deployed at the base on Simushir island, 400
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    • 212 7 BONN, Sat WEST Germany's armed forces may soon have only limited capacity to fend off a potential attack, according to reports by senior commanders to the country's new Defence Minister, Mr Manfred Woerner. A copy of the reports obtained by AP snows commanders all
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    • 104 7 Reuter MADRID, Saturday FINAL opinion polls forecast a landslide Socialist victory in Spain's general elections as the campaign drew near its close amid violence in the Basque country and rumours of a military coup. Surveys published by the daily newspapers El Pais
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    • 170 7 AP LONDON, Saturday PRIME Minister Margaret Thatcher came to the defence other 67-year-old husband, Denis, yesterday when a leftwing opposition Labour Party legislator questioned how much Denis costs the taxpayer. MP Dennis Canavan asked specifically whether the public had to pay for the Prime Minister's
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    • 95 7 DEFECTION 2 UPI WASHINGTON, Saturday THE CIA and FBI are talking to the highest-ranking banker Poland has in America, who has defected and could be "of extraordinary value" to US intelligence agencies, administration sources say. The sources confirmed yesterday that the official, Andrzei Treumann, who helped re-schedule
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    • 52 7 DEFECTION 3 AP SEOUL, Saturday SOUTH Korea will send to Taiwan a Chinese air force Rilot who defected here last Saturday, the Foreign linistry said today. The pilot bad expressed his desire to go to Taiwan, the Ministry said. Taiwan earlier expressed its interest in receiving
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    • 216 8 VIOLENT demonstrations, clobbering time in "peace" protests, revolutions and Israel's "self defence" (the invasion of Lebanon)... The world we live in is becoming increasingly violent and these pictures are a reflection of what is happening in most parts of the world. Demonstrations are a civil right in
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    • 249 8 UPI WASHINGTON, Sat PRESIDENT Reagan tried to restore momentum to the stalled Middle East peace talks by meeting with a delegation of key Arab leaders who pledged to join him in pursuing stability for the region. Peace in the Middle East means achieving security for all
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    • 132 8 UPI TEL AVIV. Sat ISRAELI Education Minister Zevulun Hammer wants to change the designation for the next Jewish new year because the Hebrew letters spell out the word 'doom.' The Hebrew calendar lists the number of years since the biblical creation of the world by means of
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    • 259 8 UPI BAGHDAD, Sat THE war between Iran and Iraq enters its 26th month today, with no sign of an end to the war that has killed at least 200,000 people. Iraq's Soviet-made tanks and heavy artillery rolled to the northeastern Mendali frontlines yesterday in
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    • 53 8 Reuter BAHRAIN, Sat AN Islamic mission making a new attempt to end the 25-month-old Gulf War left Saudi Arabia todav to visit the canitals of both combatants, Iran and Iraa Islamic Conference Organisation (ICO) officials in the kingdom said the 12-member mission left jEddah carrying unspecified new
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    • 327 9 AP DAYTONA BEACH (Florida), Sat LIKE "books falling off the shelf," 27 personalities have emerged in a 30-year-old man found dazed and wandering in a shopping mall last February. Called Eric at first and now known as Charles, the Texas native was picked up by
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    • 222 9 Woman strikes a blow for non- smokers LAT-WP LOS ANGELES, Sat A WOMAN unable to work in a smoke-filled government office is legally disabled and entitled to retirement benefits unless given a job in a smoke-free environment, a Federal appellate court ruled. In a new declaration of non-smokers' rights, the
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    • 65 9 Reuter MAINZ (West Germany), Saturday SMUGGLERS have sold more than 1,500 tonnes of kangaroo, springbok, donkey and horse meat to West German hospitals and restaurants as pork and beef over the past two years. The Mainz public prosecutor's office said yesterday police uncovered a gang illegally importing the
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    • 303 10  -  By JUDY WALKER WHAT actually happened to suave Hong Kong TV star Chow Yuen Fatt? There have so far been three conflicting versions on why the 27-year-old heart-throb was admitted to hospital this week. VERSION 1: Hong Kong press reports said he attempted suicide
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    • 86 10 LITTLE Sai Buri, who lost her left arm above the elbow when her father bit it off, will no longer wear an artificial arm. The Siamang ape was fitted with an artificial limb and provided with therapy sessions to help her learn to use it
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    • 267 10 Reuter MANILA, Sat PHILIPPINE Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile said here his government was seriously concerned about the tendency of some radical Roman Catholic priests to link up with rebel forces intent on violent revolution. He told a businessmen's meeting last night that some clergymen in
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    • 148 10 AP BERKELEY (Calif.), Saturday US President Ronald Reagan's economic record is the worst of any President since World War 11, according to a statistical analysis by two university economists. An Economic Report Card of the Presidents gave the Reagan years a "D"
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    • 232 10 'lt's Superwoman NOT washerwoman' MIAMI: Warner Communications Corp. says washing windows is not a job for Superwoman. The New York corporate giant is warning a South Dade County cleaning service to stop using a logo similar to tne trademark of its famous super heros and heroines. Supermaids
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    • 83 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday MALAYSIA is looking into the possibility of a sixth university, it was said today by Datuk Musa Hitam the Deputy Prime Minister. Speaking here, he said that no details, such as where the university might be sited, the tyne of institution it
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    • 1186 11 tv I SUNDAY NATION A 1 1 I The (doomed) Dawson Patrol Business Nippon: Labour Management Relations In Japan (Ch 5, 2.05 pm): Several experts visited Japan to experience and understand Japanese business practises and Japanese labour-manage-ment relationship. In today's programme they will air their views on whether this unique
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    • 295 11 9 A lesson in love for one's child Children's single drama Old Man and I' Channel 8, 4.50 pm SHOU KANG is an only child whose parents are too busy watching TV to care for him. What it worse, they forbid him to play with his schoolmates in the playground
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    • 748 13 week's tv highlights End of the Road AFTERNOON MATINEE: THE ROAD TO HONG KONG (TuesHA THIS is the final road movie for Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Produced in 1962 in Britain, it is a curious, almost dismal attempt to continue the series which began with The Road to Singapore,
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    • 728 14 diary TODAY USSR FILM FESTIVAL: A POEM of Dances featuring Maya Plisetskaya, world renowned Soviet ballerina, will be shown at the Victoria Theatre at 7.30 pm tonight as the finale to the Soviet Film Festival. Tickets at $3, $2, $1 are available at the usual booking offices. FILM SHOW: BREAK
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    • 581 15 movie review DUO ROLLS OUT BIG BARRELS OF LAUGHS Bu Zhi (left) and Ah Tien arrive in Maiayaia HONG KONG singer Frances Yip makes her debut in this comedy, teaming up with actor-director Carl Mak who serves up a platter of slapstick jokes woven around the themes of love and
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    • 31 15 TITLE OF FILM: It Takes Two STARRING: Shi Tien, Wu Yao Han DIRECTOR: Carl Mak SHOWING: Odeon, Orchard, Regal, Majestic, LeisureDrome, Broadway, Golden Sultan, Gala, Bedok, Jurong Drive-In REVIEWER: JOYCE LEE
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    • 340 16  -  By B J SMITH LAST week Buttons N Bow was our headlined horse and if punters had followed our advice and bet win and place on this outsider they would have made a profit as the gelding paid $16 for
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    • 184 16 1st 2nd 3rd Ivan Allan 73 48 32 Teh Choon Beng 63 V2 55 52 George West 46 35 59 Gary van Breukelen 34 V2 19 12 Samsuri Rahman 31 37 33 Tan Lye Hup 29 11 16 Alex Rodgers 28K 41 21 Garnet Bougoure 28 36 35
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    • 160 16 1st 2nd 3rd Alwin Tweedie 52 35 53 Terry Lucas 49 27 19 Leslie Khoo 39 22 28 Brian York 36Vfe 30 25 George Podmore 32 19 24Vfe A.K. Cheam 28 34 28 S.Y. Leong 27 24 16 M.C. Lam 19 25Vfe 10 Y.K. Foo 19 17 19
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    • 226 16 BJ SMITH MA-TAN (Sin Chew) GOLDEN BOY (Nanyang) 4 Three Brothers 6 Kum Quantow 6 Kum Quantow Race 1 9 Gypsybelle 7 Little Lena 7 Little Lena 4 Three Brothers 7 Little Lena 1 Chapter Two 8 Hiawatha 8 Hiawatha 8 Hiawatha Race 2 11 Forefront
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    • 436 16 MUCH confusion has arisen over the conditions of entry into this year's Perak Gold Vase field due to a report in another daily newspaper. Owners and trainers have been led to believe that whether their horse runs in the Gold Vase "Trial"
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    • 90 16 PAT Eddery, who will be making a riding tour of Singapore-Malaysia next year with Lester Piggott, Willie Carson and Freddie Head, scored a double at Naas last Saturday to clinch his first Irish jockeys' championship. The double took his tally to 55 winners.
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      4042 17 -V- CI A 2.15 Class 6 Div 3 1200 m (Ratings: 31-11) Stakes $10,000 Chapter Two 57 Chiem (9) ♦bam SH Lee Golden Saddles J2tk 6/3 C 6-1 57 Murray Il7oog Command Ist 1.47.6 lltk 30/5 C 6-3 56'/4 Sari P 1400s Fi* Luck Ist 1.35.1 lOtk 16/10
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    • 221 19  -  By BJ SMITH IPOH trainer Robert Shanmugam saddled the first winner of his career since being granted a licence on Aug 1 when Radhika caused a sensational upset win in Race 4 at Penang yesterday Never finishing in the money from 15 starts, Radhika was
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    • 1385 19 RACE 1 CLASS 6 DIV 1 1200 m 8 Divine Raler SS.S A Tiffin (1) 5 2 I 2 Everything Nice II 57 Podmore (11) 112 9 Magic Boat 55 Tweedie (2) 3 3 3 7 Jackie'■ Knda II 56 Wooo (12) 8 5 4 1 Bess
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    • 726 19 Soccer Reuter ROME, Saturday ITALY'S World Cud soccer heroes, carried aloft by jubilant fans when they returned home from Spain with soccer's most coveted trophy in July, have come down to earth with a bump with the new season just six matches old. Fans have
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  • sports
    • 807 21  -  He completes a back-to-back double By ERNEST FRIDA MAYALAGAN Marimuthu opened new golfing horizons for himself when he completed an unprecedented back-to-back double by winning the $40,000 Dunhill/Singapore Professional Golfers' Association tournament at the Jurong Country Club course yesterday. He returned to a standing ovation after holding off
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    • 283 21  -  By R. MANORAJ OBEROI Imperial has a mission to accomplish when they meet the vastly-improved Singarore Bus Services in the ingapore Business Houses Football League Division One final at the Jalan Besar Stadium tonight (8). Oberoi striker Don Ang says: "We would like
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    • 300 22 Former world champ lashes out at Czech star Tennis UPT BOSTON, Sat ROD LAVER isn't the No 1 tennis player in the world any more. Dut he doesn't think a lot of some of today's young stars. Laver, who in 1969 won tennis' grand slam by
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    • 157 22 Gymnastics Reuter ZAGREB (Yugoslavia), Saturday CHINA'S gymnasts took the top medals in the men's individual combined event at the 7th World Gymnastics Cup here yesterday. Ning Li took the gold and Tong Fei the silver with performances that delighted both experts
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    • 108 22 Badminton AP NEW DELHI, Sat INTERNATIONAL star Prakash Padukone will captain the Indian men's badminton team in the Ninth Asian Games next month, S R Chadha, secretary of the Badminton Association of India said yesterday in a surprise announcement. Officials had earlier said Padukone would
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    • 100 22 Soccer UPI 4 ATHENS, Sat IN a sudden turnabout vesterday, Greek Minister of Youth and Sports Kostas Laliotis said the European Championship qualifying Group 3 match against England on Nov 17 will after all be played in the new Olympic stadium. Earlier in the
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    • 78 22 Golf Reuter PENSACOLA, Sat ROOKIE Steve Liebler fired a four under-par 66 yesterday to hold his surprise lead in the US$2OO,OOO ($440,000) Pensacoia Open Golf tournament with a one-stroke advantage over Calvin Peete. Liebler, who has won only US$l4,OOO this year, had a 36-bole total of 130,
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    • 48 22 ST LOUIS Cardinals pitcher John Stupar, right, who won tha kay sixth gama for tha Cards, pours champagna on Cards deaignatad hitter Dana lorg, who sat a Series record for DHa, in the Cards clubhouse after Wednesday's championship in St Louis. PICTURE: AP
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    • 440 22 Jogging AP NEW YORK, Saturday TWENTY-SIX miles of potholes are being filled and more than a ton of pasta is ready for the kettle. A thousand stretchers and more than two dozen licensed massage therapists are standing by. The 13th New York
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    • 233 22 AP STOCKHOLM, Sat THE hackers on the adjacent indoor tennis courts didn't pay much attention. They were too busy trying to get their awkward backhand shots going. Bjorn Borg hit his ground strokes deep and hard on the fast tile surface as he completed
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    • 163 22 AP Reuter NEW YORK, Saturday ALBERTO SALAZAR, who beat Dick Beardsley by two seconds in last April's Boston Marathon, faces his chief rival again tomorrow, while bidding for a third victory in the New York City Marathon. This time, Salazar boldly has vowed to destroy
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    • 371 23  -  ACTION CAMERA SINGAPORE OPEN TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS By KEN JALLEH Jr ACE Thai sprinter Suchart Jaesurapara, the fastest man in the region for the past five years, will bid farewell to the competition arena after the New Delhi Asian Games next month. "I
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    • 139 23 THAI Surapong Chaisong (picture) was only seven when Jimmy Crampton set the 150 0 m South-East Asia Games record of 3 mins 52.8 sees in 1963. Two years ago, Surapong was an unknown name on a list of Thailand's top track stars, living in the shadows of
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    • 534 24 Nightmare as Thais shock our sprinters Athletics By KEN JALLEH JR SINGAPORE'S dreams of a revival in time for next ear's South-East Asia lames in June turned into a nightmare on the first day of the Singapore open track and field championships at the National Stadium yesterday with Thailand's
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    • 109 24  -  By CHAN WAI KONG The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Sat NEW ZEALAND Forces (NZF) were too tough for the national team to handle as the Kiwis romped to a 32-9 win a MRU Cup invitational match on the Padang here today. The powerful Kiwis scored four coals and two
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    • 67 24 Teams share F N cup CHANGI International Airport Services and Galax SC drew 0-0 in the Singapore Business Houses Football League Division Three final at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, which means they will share the FAN Trophy. Both sides were guilty of poor finishing, but favourites Galax, with international
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      • 62 24 Reuter KARACHI: Australia's cricketers left here without fanfare for home yesterday. It was only the second time this century they had lost every Test in a series. They failed to win a match on the seven-week tour of Pakistan losing all three Tests and two one-day internationals,
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      • 51 24 AP BEIJING: China will send 308 athletes to the Ninth Asian Games in New Delhi on Nov 19 to Dec 4, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. It will be the largest Chinese sports delegation ever sent abroad and will include 137 officials, coaches and referees.
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      • 26 24 Reuter MELBOURNE: Ivan Lendl beat Vitas Gerulaitis 6-2, 6-2, 7-5 to win the A 5400,000 ($850,000) Mazda Superchallenge tennis tournament yesterday. Reuter
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    • 806 26 Terror, not thought, seems to be the horror buf f 's motto Margaret Thomas on why things that go bump in the night are box-office hits here WHAT IS it that drives so many of us to pay good money to be scared out of our wits? Why do we
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    • 332 26 CALL yourself a horror film fan? Stephen King, master horror writer and author of ghastly goodies such as Carrie, Salem's Lot and The Shining, asks readers of his book Danse Macabre to try a quiz and prove they are true horror
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      • 566 28  -  Horror film buffs try to explain why they go By RAADHIKA MAHADEVAN THE thrill, fear, suspense and excitement of the film and your girlfriend jumping onto your bp some of the reasons for going to a horror show? Not according to many of our local
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      • 669 30 Real estate agent Tan Eng Keong, 25, has been a horror film fanatic for several years. In the tranquil setting of a secluded cafe, Raadhika Mahadevan got his views on this most frightening motion-picture form. "There's a scene I remember in a film called
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      • 495 30 FEAR NO EVIL Starring: Stefan Arngrim, Elizabeth Hoffman and Kathleen Rowe McAllen Written, directed and produced by Frank LaLoggia Co-producer/executive producer: Charles LaLoggia FAST on the heels of Dawn of the Mummy, Fear No Evil also features the "walking dead" in the herewe-goagain clash between
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      • 751 33 Could there be something therapeutic about going to a film to scream our guts out? PHILIP CHEAH checked with Dr Arthur Lindley, English Literature lecturer at the National University of Singapore, for a meaning to our mania for horror. DR LiNDLEY, who has been a
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      • 905 34  -  By ANGELA HERICKX HORROR tilms, in many guises, have been i>art of cinema entertainment since the movie industry began The faces and forms (hat terror has taken have changed from one period to the next. What makes one generation iock their fiedroom doors and keep
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      • 452 34  -  Focus on the Chinese cinema By ALAN NG VOODOO, detective-horror or shades of "The Exorcist." These form the core of Chinese horror films of the 80s. The industry is booming. More horror epics have been produced in Hong Kong in the past
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      • 579 35  -  But there's no substitute for a nail driven into a head MALAY MOVIES By SALEHA SALLEH AGAINST his will his mouth opens...and out flows a mass of leeches rich, red and bloated. The gush doesn't stop. The living mass spills out of his mouth
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    • 338 36/37  -  < EA TING 1 //ith VIOLET OON AT last, elegant dining has come to Asian food. In the near past, we had to make one of two choices either to eat in really elegant and romantic surroundings and confine ourselves to European food, or to
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    • 671 36/37 FOR a truly novel Singapore eating experience, lunch at the Tien Court of King's Hotel as you'll get the humble, hawker rojak served on fine China with highly polished cutlery and on an elegant tablecloth in a luxurious setting. This may be a bit
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    • 825 36/37 IF you're an "action" sort of person with more than a hint of drama to your personality, then the Sea-Food Theatre at Hotel Merlin's the place for you. And if you've always had a longing to be part of
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    • 1411 38  -  FACE to FACE MR Othman Wok, ex-Jour-nalist, ex-ambassador and former Minister for Social Affairs, Is now 58 but Just won't get off the treadmill. RAADHIKA MAHADEVAN talks to him about his colourful life. RAADHIKA MAHADEVAN RAADHIKA MAHADEVAN OTHMAN Wok was 22 years old and
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    • 714 40  -  Your letters on the General Paper MRS MARY SOON SINCE Mr Edmund Leow's opinion (Sunday Nation Oct 10) that "A level students do badly at General Paper because they lack an analytical and inquisitive mind" is based on a sample of one
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    • 454 40  -  YANG TIEN IF THE General Paper could be "studied" from text books, I doubt the term "General". "General" means a wide range of general knowledge. Not only from textbooks, but also from the real world of politics, economics, war, life. Those who fail
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    • 345 40  -  LI SIEW PENG FRANKLY the biggest problem with our educational system is this: it does not educate. It imparts skills and knowledge, yes, but only as much as is required to pass examinations. Ex ams? They are the beall and end-all of every
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    • 227 40  -  SHARON WONG I REFER to your feature on "Exam Fever" and would like to give you the student's side of the story. We all have inquisitive and analytical minds. But right from the very beginning, we are taught to accept what the teachers say. They come,
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    • 119 40  -  KHOO GEAR CHONG HOW much encouragement has been given to students to be analytical and inquisitive about social and political Issues in their primary and secondary schools? Teachers in Pre-U may be doing their best, but how much can we expect within two or three
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    • 208 40  -  By EDMUND LEOW MOST respondents failed to point out that general reading should be pursued not merely for doing well in GP but for intellectual stimulation and enrichment. To read widely merely for the sake of GP is precisely the mercenary attitude we are trying to avoid.
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    • 232 40 MANY who offered view* on the General Paper issue did so as if they were sitting for the General Paper lengthy pieces which carefully considered all relevant factors. Worthy efforts, but a little boring. The three most interesting letters each offered something a little different. Ex-teacher Mrs Mary
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    • 725 43  -  r all about WORDS by Graham Colin Jones IT MAY be thought that Chinese is a much more difficult language to speak than English because each word must be said in a particular tone, otherwise it means something completely different. For example, the
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    • 276 43  -  By MICHAEL GARTNER DR 808 BLEICHER of lowa City has a problem. "In the medical literature," he says, "some authors speak of administering therapy biweekly. Unfortunately, my Webster's defines this as either (1) occurring every two weeks or (2) occurring twice a week. "Should we simply
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    • 318 43  -  HAND-ME-DOWNS Author: Rhea Kohan Publisher: Sphere Books Reviewer: Janet Witt HERE is another book contributing to the argument that dust jackets and back covers should be banned. In the effort to titillate and thereby sell copies, the blurb on the back of 'Hand Me-Downs' deliberately distorts the
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    • 249 43  -  BOOKS Reviewer: Janet Witt A DARK HORN BLOWING Author: Dahlov I pear Publisher: Fontana-Lions ONCE upon a time men told tales meant for adult and child alike. These tales in simple language enriched as they entertained. They were were not afraid to admit
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    • 247 44  -  Heart EART with NALLA TAN I AM a 16-year-old girl. I have two friends who treat me very well. I take them as my best friends. But both of them take me very seriously. They each want me to be their steady
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    • 244 44 I AM a working mother with two children, aged 6+ and 4%. My 4te-year-old son has a problem with his speech. I urge him to think and talk slower but each sentence is spoken with difficulty. I feel so sorry for him. What should I
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    • 716 44 LOVE sometimes does drive people bananas. They can't eat, they can't sleep, they go crazy. You ask me to tell you something about love and about the difference between feeling love and having a crush. Love is such a complex emotion it
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    • 238 44 I AM an Aries. I got to know a girl when I was taking my pet for a walk. I have known her for only a few days or perhaps a week. I have already taken one of her photographs from her. Everyday, I look
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    • 310 45  -  Hobson's Choice Hy I RODNEY ROBSON THE STOCK Exchange of Singapore proposes to introduce a new index. It has six already one for each sector but never mind, so does the Straits Times. Fraser and Co seem content with two (plus two in
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    • 345 47  -  Here's your chance to win $25 for that candid shot By PHILIP CHEAH ONE day, we will have a film called The Burger That Ate A Nation but until then, we will still be a nation that eats hamburgers. Singaporeans may not be oral
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      470 48  -  Story and pictures by CHEW YEN FOOK CHEW YEN FOOK GALILEO GALILEE oncc said: "With this tube I have seen flies as big as lambs..." What appears mundane often turns up to be a fascinating and breath-taking sight under the microscope. A drop of water from the sea
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    • 450 45 STARSCOPE By JEANE DIXON YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: The months, ahead are an excellent time for you to get family affairs in order. Ask mate or friend for help in setting up a better bookkepping system. A business begins to turn around and you make steady career gains. Show your loved
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