New Nation, 25 October 1982

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  • 18 1 new nation PUBLISHED BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Monday, October 25, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents
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  • 263 1  -  'It was as if hell had broken loose' By K K FONG SIX people are being treated in the Singapore General Hospital for burns received in a Chinese temple fire-walking ceremony. A total of 34 temple devotees, including two children, were injured in the ceremony
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  • 96 1 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A POLICEMAN hailed by the Malaysian press and public as a hero after saving a two-month-old baby in a fire has gone missing. Police now want to know who he is and where. Police constable S Maniam was pictured with the grateful mother
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  • 128 1 Newscan NEW YORK, Monday. TAIWANESE President Chiang ChingKuo says Taiwan will become more vulnerable to an attack from China if the United States cuts back on arms aid to his government. "Anv restriction on the quality or quantity of the defensive weapons of the
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  • 61 1 A POLL published in Rio De Janeiro yesterday showed that up to 35 per cent of Brazilian voters expect the militarybacked government to nullify the results if it loses Brazil's Nov 15 landmark gener--3I elections And leading political commentator Carlos Castello Branco interpreted recent speeches by top generals
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  • 42 1 LABOUR protests and threats of strikes that could shut down some 200,000 businesses and industries erupted over the weekend as thousands of workers in this economically troubled nation demanded emergency pay rises to compensate for the high cost of living.
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  • 47 1 Agencies ABOUT 300 Muslim extremists will be put on trial before the supreme state security court in Cairo next month on charges of conspiring to overthrow the government and establish an Iranian-style islamic regime, the newspaper A 1 Ahram said in today's editions. Agencies.
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  • opinion
    • 933 2  -  LESSONS FROM THE HIROSHIMA HORROR By TRACY DAHLBY LAT-WP HIROSHIMA FOR some reason it gives me chills to think that the youngest survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima are now nearing Koko Kondo, a friend of mine, was
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    • 414 2  -  By DELTA HONG I AM indebted to the Ministry of the Environment for letting me know that after my comment last week about the road works across Scotts Road, it is taking stew to "encourage" the contractor to work on Sundays. The Ministry also points out that even
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    • opinion / letters
      • 227 3  -  HENG HIANG HIANG WE thank 'Roads User' for his letter on traffic conditions along the PIE from Whitley Road to Jalan Anak Bukit ('Mindless Efficiency' expressway needs another lane, NN Sep 6). We would like to assure your writer that in the
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      • 155 3  -  GAN CHEONG CHOR WE refer to the letter 'Welcome' sign that means 'get lost' NN Oct 16). The International Folk Dance Night was organised by the Whampoa Community Centre Youth Group. Youth members from other CCs in the Central Region were invited to participate in
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      • 65 3  -  RAYMOND WONG A WORD of praise for taxi drivers. Many of them are polite and often engage in chitchat. Others are very helpful and help me to unfasten my seat-belt as well as open the door for me. Some offer me cigarettes. L In my experience, they
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      • 105 3  -  L TANG IT would be much better if the bilingual section in the New Nation can be taken out as most of the time the children would want to retain that section. When the Singapore Monitor first took over the New Nation, the layout for
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      • 228 3 IT is no use to blame the looking-glass if your face is awry Nikolai Gogol, Russian author (1809-1852). NOTHING is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is much better. Jean De La Fontaine TODAY is the 298 th day of 1982. There are
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  • home
    • 450 4  -  By K K FONG THE police are concerned over a string of 13 safe-cracking cases since the beginning of this year in which more than $250,000 in cash and valuables have been stolen. They believe a new gang could have been
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    • 185 4 THE spectators are not uncaring people who just stand and stare as a dog attacks. They know it is all just a show. It was staged by the Singapore Armed Forces Provost Unit at the Sennett Community Centre yesterday. And the attacker was
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    • 267 4  -  By JALIL MISWARDI TO the child, model cars are simply toys to be cast aside when the novelty wears off. But to Laurence Ong, they are his life and his passion. He has been collecting them since he was 12 years
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    • 94 4 THE Singapore Indian Film, Arts and Dramatic Society is staging the Miss Deepavali Queen contest again this year. The preliminary rounds will be held on Sunday and the grand finals will be held at the National Theatre on Nov 6. All contestents will recieve a momenta
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    • 155 6 Prosper On Productivity TEAMY, our productivity expert (and mascot), is ready to help you with your problems. He received a number of questions on productivity last week and answers two of them here. More questions will be answered from now on. So write in if you
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    • 27 6 THE national productivity song, called Good Better Best has been written by CHARLES LAZAROO, the well-known local composer. Here it is. Now all together....
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    • 340 6  -  Youth breaks into computer world with innovative software package By TOH SU FEN AFTER only two-and-a-half months on the job, Steven Neo has come up with a software package that promises a future iq which you need not scratch your head and wonder what you ate
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    • 259 6 UNIVERSITY students who will be tomorrow's managers will receive the productivity message on November 5. The International Association of Business and Economics Students (AIESEC) is the first student body to organise a symposium to coincide with the national productivity campaign next month. The chairman
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    • 426 7 Only some 'birth pains' at estate RESIDENTS of the Chong Boon constituency the majority of them young people are contended with their environment and have no complaints over government policy. There are only some "birth pains" for the housing estate built about three years ago, which
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    • 211 7 WHEN a fire breaks in the future you may not have to wait for the fire department to do something about it your neighbour may come to your rescue or you could be your neighbour's rescuer. This will happen when the Swissmodel of National Civil Defence
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    • 189 8  -  For patients to recuperate at home and wheelchairs and crutches for hire too By LYE YIN FONG MOVING along with the current rent-a-video, rent-a-car and rent-a-party trend, one enterprising marketing company has recently started a rent-a-bed service. Rampart Marketing Services Pte Ltd, which manufactures
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    • 104 8 IN HIS left hand he holds magnifying glass and in his right his paint brush. Mr Kwan Kin Mee Sew has been painting for 50 years and is still doing it at the age of 76. In a little corner of Tanjong Pagar, this one-man
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    • 353 8  -  By FAEZAH ISMAIL A GOLDEN dragon, incorporating 1,164 diamonds, weighing 22.50 carats and set in white and yellow gold, will be among 16 pieces of award-winning jewellery which will be on display in Singapore at the end of the month. The 16 winning pieces were
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    • 161 8 THE INCREASE in the number of cars in Singapore is attributed to an excess of sales capacity in the motor trade. Car dealers greatly increased their sales forces during the boom years of 1979 and 1980 when car sales reached an all-time high
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    • 112 8 SINGAPORE'S Dynasty Hotel, which opened this year, has joined an exclusive "club" formed by some of the top hotels in Asia. All of the five hotels are independent without the support of a chain. So they have all come together in an association known as
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    • 54 8 THE National Museum Art Gallery will hold an exhibition entitled Print-making-International 1982 from October 27 to November 2. The exhibition will include 120 contemporary firints by 53 printmakers rom different countries. Mr Ho Kah Leong, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education, will open the exhibition on October
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  • world
    • 541 9 France to consult West Germany on advanced nuclear tactical weapons LAT-WP BONN, Monday SIGNALLING the opening of a new phase in Western Europe's military development, French President Francois Mitterrand has indicated that his country would relax its longtime reluctance to share details of its independent
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    • 132 9 UPI WASHINGTON, Monday FORMER President Jimmy Carter's memoirs, "Keeping Faith," are a faithful self-portrait paying attention to detail but lacking passion and not adequately communicating his vision for the nation. In his 622-page book, published by Bantam Books, Mr Carter admits few mistakes and makes
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    • 183 9 UPI LONDON, Monday EXCLUSIVE sweaters by American designer Ralph Lauren, retailing in the United States for over US$4OO ($860), are hand knit by British pensioners Said about US$lO ($2l) a garment, The unday Times reported. The report, quoting a BBC television consumer investigation, said the
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    • 149 9 UPI LONDON, Mon HUNDREDS of anxious farmers have been inundating the London Weather Centre demanding to know when October's near-record-level rain will stop. But meteorologists had only bad news to offer. "More rain is expected on Sunday as a depression sweeps in from the Atlantic and
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    • 58 9 West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (right) and French President Francois Mitterand meet the press at the end of their two-day FrenchGerman summit. Both heads of State sought to reassure allies and enemies that their new cooperation in the strategic field did not represent any basic
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    • 655 10 LAT-WP TOKYO, Mon. SEEKING the presidency of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and, thus, election as Prime Minister, four candidates opened a 31-day campaign on Saturday that may widen an emotional split in the party and create a political
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    • 141 10 AP ISLAMABAD, Mon. SOVIET forces in Afghanistan are trying to bludgeon anti-communist guerillas by returning to massed battalion tactics, but the situation remains a "military standoff," according to an assessment of the conflict by Western diplomats. Resistance is "strong and impressive considering the
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    • 51 10 UPI THE 324-foot Alaskan based fish processing ship Al-Ind-Esk-A Sea, began listing starboard on Friday after horning out of control for two days. The vessel finally listed too far sinking in the 240-foot water threequarters of a mile west of Everett harbour in Washington.
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    • 308 10 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Mon. GOVERNMENT scientists have discovered a group of sites in the brain that apparently help control appetite and even may dictate whether we become fat or thin. The discovery is a strong new piece of evidence indicating that in
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    • 149 10 AP JOGJAKARTA, Monday A COMPUTERISED jigsaw puzzle with 750,000 stone pieces has been reassembled and Borobudor temple seems ready to stand for another few centuries. Officials say Indonesian President Suharto will formally re-open the 30-metre-high (100-foot) Bth century Buddhist masterpiece in about six months, after an
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    • 507 11 JOHANNESBURG, Mon. MINERAL-RICH South Africa's trade with the Far East is booming in a one-sided contest of nardnosed business versus international politics. Japan has replaced Britain as South Africa's largest trading partner after the United States. The two countries did 3.37 billion
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    • 134 11 CAIRO, Monday. ESMAT SADAT, the late President Anwar Sadat's younger brother, is scheduled to stand trial before the court of ethics on charges of political corruption and black market dealings, the newspaper A 1 Ahram said in yesterday's editions. The prosecutor general will ask the
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    • 222 11 WP-LAT GDANSK, Monday. A TOP Polish government official visited interned Solidarity leader Lech Walesa shortly before the union was formally dissolved, offering him freedom and an official position if he would publicly endorse the regime, wife said in an interview here at the
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    • 603 12  - The myth of opposition politics by the PM By SEAH CHIANG NEE PORT MORESBY, Monday PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew, in a speech delivered "from the heart," said yesterday that Papua New Guinea, like Singapore, could not afford to waste scarce talent by maintaining the myth of opposition politics. His
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    • 422 12 AP NEW YORK, Monday A FORMER British translator charged with spying for the Soviet Union achieved what American officials consider one of the lengthiest and most damaging penetrations of Western intelligence since World War 11, the New York Times reported yesterday. The
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    • 51 12 UPI WHAT appears to be the scene from a science fiction is actually the finalists in the Wheaties' World Junior Frisbee Championships carrying a two-metre frisbee. They were on their way to a presentation at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas last Friday.
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    • 99 12 Reuter KARACHI, Mon. POLICE yesterday arrested Karachi Bar Association president Abdul Hafeez Lakho for defying the military government's ban on lawyers' organisations engaging in fiolitical activity, nis amily sources said. He was picked up from his home in the evening. Police were looking for the
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    • 187 12 Reuter BANGKOK, Monday COMMUNIST guerillas entrenched in Thailand's strategic northeastern provinces suffered crippling losses from government military operations in the year ending last September, a senior army officer said yesterday. Colonel Charuay Nimdis, deputy chief of staff of the Second Thai Army, said
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    • 418 13 LAT-WIR BEIJING, Mon. CHINA has taken a hard nationalistic turn in its foreign policy as the communist government seeks to bolster its domestic prestige by scoring diplomatic points. In recent months nationalism has been the dominant strain in an unusual diplomatic blitz in
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    • 235 13 NEW DELHI, Monday MORE than 100 million people across India are suffering through the worst drought in 50 years, watching wells run dry and farmland turn to dust while waiting for emergency aid, officials said vesterday. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has been besieged
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    • 137 13 JEDDAH, Monday AN ISLAMIC peace mission said yesterday it would continue efforts to end the 25-month-old Gulf war between Iran and Iraq in spite of reports that it had reached a deadlock, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. The Islamic
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    • 303 13 UPI WILLIAMSTOWN (Massachusetts), Monday A ONE per cent jump in the unemployment rate causes 318 more men to commit suicide a year in the United States, a study says. Two labour economists made this finding as part of a two-year study, using federal demograpnic
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    • 105 13 nation Our Editorial Department has vacancies for the following positions: (1) ARTIST GCE 'O' Level or a graduate of Baharuddin Vocational Institute. 2 years relevant working experience preferred. (2) PHOTO-JOURNALIST GCE 'A* Level or a graduate of Baharuddin Vocational Institute Good command of English (3) LIBRARY ASSISTANT GCE 0' Level
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  • business
    • 270 14  -  Most projects are in the labour-intensive industries B* RODNEY HOBSON SINGAPORE investors have pumped Rs 2,429.6 million into Sri Lanka but most prefer to operate outside the free trade zone, figures released by the Sri Lankan Government show. Four Singapore investments are
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    • 152 14 UNITED Overseas Bank has taken a quarter point off savings and fixed deposit rates. However, prime rate remains intact at 9.5 per cent. UOB is clearly expecting other banks to continue the round of rate cuts. All its rates are
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    • 109 14 PERFUMES Of Singapore has broken into the Scandinavian market of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Managing Director Dr Dadi Balsara said his company has appointed as its sole distributor Oy Saletra. He said the perfumes will also be marketed by the Scandinavian
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    • 201 14 THE US computer company, Data General, is expanding its Asian operations by creating a new subsidiary to be called Data General Australia. The new company will be headquartered in Australia with wholly owned subsidiaries in Singapore and Hong Kong. The restructuring was announced
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    • 170 14 GOLD price is likely to be adversely affected by expectations of an upward turn in US interest rate direction, Hunt's Billion says. The lack of a cut in the US discount rate, an unexpectedly large US$3.2 billion (Ss6.B billion) rise in US Ml
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    • 206 14 Reuter KUALA LUMPUE: The Malaysian recession-hit tin and rubber industries have welcomed the changes in export duty levels announced in Friday's 1983 budget. Chief of the plantation conglomerate Sime Darby, Tunku Ahmad Yahya, said the measures were a step in the right
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    • Update
      • 51 14 Reuter NEW YORK'S Chemical Bank cut its prime rate by half a point to 11.5 per cent, the lowest level in over two years, amid signs that interest rates in general would continue to fall and breathe new life into the sluggish US economy.
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      • 36 14 Reuter FRENCH official gold and foreign currency reserves fell 6.43 billion francs in September to 253.92 billion francs after a 4.26 billion franc fall in August, the Economy Ministry said. Reuter.
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      • 34 14 UPI A GROUP of businessmen plans to publish a guide to Swiss banks to warn potential investors of alleged mismanagement of money by the powerful Swiss financial establishment. UPI.
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      • 45 14 Reuter THE London International Financial Futures Exchange will start trading the long gilt contract on Nov 4, subject to its board's approval. The other contracts are three-month eurodollar contract and the sterling and mark currency contracts against the dollar.
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      • 74 14 Reuter JAPAN'S Honda Motor said it has set up a joint-venture company in Bangkok with three Thai partners to assemble Honda-designed small cars. The joint firm, Honda Cars Thailand is capitalised at six million baht and Honda, Siam Credit and Pong Parasin, a Thai
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      • 67 14 Reuter INFLATION rates in OECD member countries are falling faster than expected and the decline is expected to continue, OECD secretary general Emile Van Lennep said. He told a press conference in Paris that the strategy of "non-accommodat-ing" monetary and fiscal policies adopted by
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    • 769 15 DATUK Lim Kheng Kim is well-known throughout the northern states of peninsular Malaysia, having carried out several construction and property development projects via his Lim Kheng Kim (LKK) group of companies. The LKK group is involved in construction, granite quarrying, sand mining and property
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    • 197 15 I Annual meetings Tims Date Venue B K Rubber 9 30 am Oct 26 Malacca Berjuntai Tin 10 am Oct 29 Kuala Lumpur Glenealy Plant 10.30 am Oct 29 Lahat, Perak Berjuntai Tin 10 am Oct 29 Kuala Lumpur Gold Coin (egm) 9.30 am Oct 29 14 Shaw
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    • 614 15 FORTY-ONE years ago, an 18-year-old youth left his family in the Hokkien province of mainland China to seek his fortune abroad. With his meagre savings, this adventurous young man bought a passage ticket out of China, and set sail for
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    • 69 16 The Star THE East Asiatic Company (Malaysia) is believed to be selling at least three pieces of property one in Petaling Jaya, another in Penang and the third, known as Denmark House, in Kuala Lumpur. EAC confirmed in a letter to the
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    • 111 16 KUALA TRENGGANU, Monday THE Trengganu State Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) is building a multi-million-dollar of-fice-cum housing complex 110 kms south of Kuala Trengganu, near the village of Kerteh. Known as Rantau Petronas, the complex will be leased to PetronasCarigali and Esso Production Malaysia Incorporated (EPMI) whose em-
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    • 73 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday THE Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange is expected to start trading in rubber futures from next March, commodity trade sources said. The two-year-old KLCE only trades in palm oil futures at present but it was planned as a multicommodity exchange.
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    • 87 16 THE first five-storey block of PSA's new Keppel Warehouse Complex will be ready by Nov 1. When the second block is completed in January, tenants can use 42,702 samof warehouse and office space, ana a container freight station on the same premises. Costing $48 million,
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    • 159 16 SINGAPORE rubber prices fluctuated narrowly this week to eventually finish unchanged at 188 cents (S) for Nov 1, R.S.S., Holiday, Cutler, Bath and Company said in its weekly rubber report. Turnover was reduced following last week's sudden demand for November which, once short-covering had been satisfied,
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    • 99 16 Reuter ATLANTA, Monday US bankers appear to have adopted a somewhat more positive outlook on the banking industry, at least publicly, despite sharp increases in loan loss provisions and non performing assets and expectations that they will continue to rise. Many of the small regional
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    • 167 16 ALEXANDRA HOLDINGS has informed the Stock Exchange of Singapore that it has acquired 250,000 more shares at M$41 each in Multi-Agro Industries on Oct 18. The paid up capital of the latter company is Mfl.O million. SHANGRI-LA HOTEL LTD has declared an interim dividend of 10 per cent
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

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  • centrepiece
    • 429 18/19 It's more than bright silks, cheering crowds and sad losers THE horses thunder down the straight, straining every nerve towards the finishing post, as the tense punters watch anxiously each willing his selection on. This is the familiar public scene at the Bukit Timah Turf Club.
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  • leisure
    • 218 20  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO ONE shouldn't be afraid of the contrast between pink eyes, and orange lips or profound purples and flashing red lips, say Lancome when introducing their autumn/winter colours, called the Opera Fantastique. Lancome has drawn'inspiration from the famous opera house in France L'Opera
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    • 231 20 UPI PARIS: A NEW young designer shook up the veteran fashion house of Chanel last week in the spring-summer Paris ready-to-wear shows. The Chanel Salon, feeling its way since the death of Coco Chanel in 1971, hired Herve Leger, 25, as its new ready-to-wear
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    • 234 21  -  CATHARINE FERNANDO FASHION this Christmas follows the baroque style and the predominant colours are black and white. What is baroque? The richness and variety of baroque forms makes it difficult to characterise the styles. The word baroque, of uncertain origin, was first used in the 17th century
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    • 600 24 Montand still very popular LAT-WP SAN FRANCISCO, Mon IT has been 20 years since French actor-singer Yves Montand has made a concert appearance in this country and yet, mention his name, and see how many people know it. "Yves Montand, oh, I love him," is the frequent reaction. Certainly the
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    • 264 24 HONG KONG, Monday CENTRAL Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC) has decided not to appeal the ban on its film. Portrait of A Fanatic. The film, which depicts China's tumultuous *****6 Cultural Revolution, was banned by the government earlier this week for political reasons. Chief
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      • 402 25  -  RECORD REVIEW PIA Pia Zadora WEA-ELEKTRA E1-***** Reviewed by LIM SEK TIME magazine once described her looks as something of an "acquired taste". Her rather unique and almost imp-like features landed her a plumb role for a movie called Butterfly, one of the most
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    • 273 20 Diary EXHIBITIONS: ART EXHIBITION: SOLO art exhibition by Chew Piak San is now at the Lone Pine Gallery Ming Court Hotel from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Highlight of the exhibition is a breathtaking view of Genting Highlands. Tomorrow is the last day of exhibition. TODAY: MOBILE DISPLAY: A
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    • 262 20 FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ENGLISH COURSE FOR GRADUATE TEACHERS: CALLING all graduate teachers! You are invited to attend the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Certificate Course in the Teaching of English, jointly organised by the Education Ministry and the British Council. The emphasis is on the practical aspects of language
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    • 305 20 REMINDERS IDENTITY CARD: IF you want to change the details on your identity card, you should do so yourself or get a member of your household to do it for you. This can be done at the National Registration Office at Empress Place during office hours or at 73 community
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    • 1631 22 Tv radio A new co-host SOLID GOLD (10.20 pm) LOOKS like Marilyn McCoo is changing partners every week. Her partner tonight is Rex Smith (right), once the leader and lead vocalist of a "heavy metal" group, Rex. Rex left the group to go solo because critics said his great voice
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    • 1528 23 Tv radio CHANNEL 8 HIGHLIGHT Black magic and straw men are used in the political struggles channel 8 L 6.05 Opening followed by Baldmoney, Sneezewort, Dodder and Cloudberry: The Storm. At last, the gnomes find a clue to Cloudberry's whereabouts. While continuing with their expedition upstream, a violent storm breaks
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    • 678 30 Moneywords results and comments made by the judges No entrant submitted a solution which corresponded in all respects with the set of answers held by the judges to be the most apt and accurate in the New Nation Moneywords Contest 'PC'. Five entrants each submitted a solution which differed at
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    • 193 32 Reuter ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Monday CHINESE gymnast Li Nine won five gold medals on the final day of the World Gymnastics Cup here yesterday. Li, who won the individual combined event two days ago, scored higher marks than anyone in previous World Cups and allowed only one
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    • 729 32 Soccer ROME, Monday THE World Cup stars of Juventus finally hit form vesterday to beat highflying Roma 2-1 and dislodge their opponents from the top of tne table. Newly-promoted Verona beat Catanzaro 3-1 to take over the lead, on goal average, from Roma. Roma seemed set
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      • 357 32 MARTINA Navratilova completed a double in the U*****,000 women's Grand Prix tennis tournament at Stuttgart, West Germany, yesterday when she beat Tracy Austin 6-3 6-3 in the singles final and with Pam Shriver defeated Candy Reynolds and Anne Smitn 6-2 6-3 for the doubles crown. For
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    • 370 33  -  After sharing Div One title, busmen aim to win the knock-out final By R. MANORAJ SBS 0 OBEROI IMPERIAL 0 SINGAPORE Bus Services is half-way to achieving the Singapore Business Houses Football League double, and is looking forward to the second leg. Last
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      • 332 34  -  TRAINER ROBERT NG ALSO SCORES WITH NUTRIENT By BJ SMITH THE only favourite to win at yesterday's Penang meeting was the well-bred Buttons N Bow, who blitzed his rivals to win Race 5. Ridden by visiting Australian jockey John Duggan, Buttons N Bow ranged up to
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      • 1936 34 RACE 1 CLASS 6 DIV 3 1200 m 7 Little Lena 53 Lam (5) 111 12 Sepuloh Sepuloh 47.5 app Rahmat (1) 7 4 2 4 Three Brothers 54.5 Cheam (8) 8 8 3 10 Have A Go 51 Podmore (6) 2 2 4 9 Gypsybelle 51.5 Duggan
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      • 358 34 JOCKEY Masruhen, rider of the winner Nutrient in Race 2 in Penang yesterday, was suspended two race days by the stewards for careless and inconsiderate riding in that race. Jockey AK Cheam, who rode Sound of Sensation II in the same race, was sauspended one race
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      • 398 35  -  By ERNEST FRIDA MAYALAGAN Marimuthu, Singapore's hottest golf property at the moment, will try to complete a hattrick of tournament wins when he comKtes in the Malaysian ofessional Golfers' Association championship at the Subang course in Kuala Lumpur this week. On the basis
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      • 279 35 KAMISAN Ratim, the Singapore Island Country Club playing professional, faces disciplinary action for failing to turn up for the DunhilT/Singapore Professional Golfers Association pro-am tournament at the Jurong course last Tuesday. He failed to inform or flive reasons to SPGA oficials for his withdrawal
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      • 191 35 THE Singapore Island Country Club continued their winning streak against the Royal Selangor Golf Club in their annual golf match at the Inland course yesterday. SICC won the Dato Loke Wan Tho trophy for the 15th time yesterday with a 32% points to 22Vi victory in the
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      • 119 35 DAVID Graham, of Australia, scored his first major victory of the year when he won the Lancome trophy tournament of golf cnampions at St Norn la Breteche, near Paris, yesterday. He shot a final round 70 for 276 to beat Severiano Ballesteros by two strokes. Taiwan's Hsieh
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    • 619 36  -  Meet proves we'll be first from bottom Athletics j Review by KEN JALLEH JR FORGET about the Asian Games. Think and work towards the SEA Games next year and maybe, just maybe, Singapore will be able to lift itself from mediocrity in track
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    • 502 36  -  By KEN JALLEH Jr R NADARAJAN walked away with the only championship record on the final day of the Singapore Open track and field championships at the National Stadium yesterday. Nadarajan shrugged off early resistance from Samsudin Mat of Malaysia to lead in the 20km
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    • 471 36 WHAT do weightlifting international Sarvinder Singh, boxing international Ng Tong Chye and tennis player June Saman have in common? Their love for athletics. It is precisely because of their love for the sport and their ability to diversify so well in
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