Singapore Monitor, 21 February 1983, Afternoon Edition

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  • 18 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR F zm IMTION M C (P) No 19/5/82 ISSN 0217-1325 Monday, February 21, 1983 30cents
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  • 304 1 Why resettlement cases must be given priority DONT fret if vou find a resettled family getting a flat ahead of you, because the Only way the Government can get more land for much-needed housing developments is by resettling families And they must be given
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  • 122 1 25 PER CENT of total land area set aside for housing under a long-term plan BY YEAR 2030, 900.000 homes needed for a population of St million if household siae is four TODAY about 11 million people are being housed in 400.000 HDB flats
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  • 289 1 MR TEH Cbeaag Wan, Minister for Natioaal Development, this morning spelled out rim- for delays in the processing af building plans. Some of the younger professionals do not hnow enaufh about the rules and mm of the experienced architects da not employ enough experienced supporting
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  • 280 1 AP JEDOAH (Saudi Arabia), Mon AN AUTHORITATIVE Saudi Arabian newspaper said early today the Gulf Arab producers have taken a decision to counter Nigeria's US$5 50 (5511.55) crude price cut by knocking down US$7 per barrel off the price of tneir own crudes
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  • opinion / letters
    • 159 2  -  M.D.A. Singapore M2J I WOULD like to comment on Dead Beat's" letter (Get funerals and wayangs off the streets. SM Feb 17). Over the years we have seen trishaws, night markets and food stalls taken off the streets Recently we were told
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    • 54 2  -  UNCLE. Singapore 9314 BECAUSE of a recent report that a banned drug Amaranth has been used as an artificial colouring in a certain bottled drink, will the proper authority please step up checks on harmful artificial colouring and preservatives used in canned and bottled drinks and canned
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    • 69 2  -  REPLIES TAMMIE LOKE Head, Pablic Relatioas, SBS I REFER to the letter by "Safety First'* regarding the carelessness of a driver Apologies are due to your writer (or this regretful incident. Disciplinary action has already been taken against the driver concerned and we have instructed him to exercise
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    • 69 2  -  CHEW KING HWAN for Permaaeat Secretary (Edacatioa) I REFER to the letter "Who caa I hriag my appeals to at the Miaistry of Edacatioa?" by "School Hawker (SM. Feb Matter* cooceraiag school tuckihops are by tW School Taduhof Committee. The writer may appeal
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    • Article, Illustration
      174 2  -  By DELTA HONG IS your New Year orange plant wilting. however much you water it 7 I have heard of at least one case where a puzzled owner eventually pulled the plant out of its pot. only to discover it had no roots Of course, that way. you
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    • 280 3  -  Youths who helped an old man A 7 $-YEAR-OLD AGNOSTIC Singapore 1231 1 WILL never forget the look of concern written on their faces I was lying helplessly and in great pain, with cramps in both legs. on the grass verge on Changi Coast Road when two
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    • 99 3  -  NO MORE BEER, Siagapore 9124 RECENTLY a Mead aad I were eajoylag a beer la tke Cbaagi Airport departare area oatil we aoticod tbe disb-wasbiag teckaiqae employed by tke staff bebiad tbe bar. Used glassra were givea a aaick riaoe oader the
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    • 94 3  -  ROBIN HOOD OF S PORE, Singapore 13 ONE morning I was at the Dendemccr Road bus stop waiting lor bus number 92 to take me to work at my wont place in Kampong Ampat beside Asia Motor Showroom. To my surprise I waited SO minutes before
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    • 131 3  - Blocked at my own driveway KENZAIHILED AND MOORE, Singapore 1444 FOR the past few months, people going to the East Coast in search of seafood have been parking their cars right in front of my house after failing to get a proper parking lot Residents in the area have made
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    • 19 3 EVERYBODY thinks o! changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himsalf. Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
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  • home
    • 84 4  -  Picture and story by CHRISTINE CHEW YU Hood Yiok (picture above), cast as the lion in the musical number Wixard of Ox, catching 40 winks between performing stops at yesterday's chingay procession The parade, which began at 9 am, wound its way down Jalan
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    • 574 4  - National survival the ultimate morality signposts: •V 'THE PLAIN TRUTH' THERE has always been a link between national success and morality How did mankind get its concepts of good and bad? Is something good because it really is good? What is good? In the case of God, there is no
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    • DAY by DAY
      • 89 4 THE Permanent Secretary, Health, Dr Andrew Chew, says the government will consider keeping young doctors on shortterm engagements until they are ready to join the private sector. Commenting on the concern voiced by tome doctors that they would
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      • 50 4 WITH prime rates coming down, there is every likelihood of interest rates for housing loans going down, too. As of today, DBS Bank will cut Its prime rate by another quarter point to 175 per cent, the lowest charged by any bank in Singapore.
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      • 36 4 ORCHID exports have been hit by recession In the first 10 months of last year, domestic exports fell from 912.3 million to $11.9 million, with experts forecasting a further decline this year
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    • 158 4 viewscan SIN Chew talks about the coming visit of a giant trade mission from Japan to the Soviet Union The mission, comprising 2SO leading businessmen. is the largest ever that Japan is sending to Russia At this time of world economic
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    • 115 4 BERITA Harlan's editorial deals with courtesy, particularly the problem of parents who ignore the spirit of the courtesy campaign This has led to some students showing courtesy at school but disregarding it at borne because they are influenced by the attitude of their parents
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    • 105 4 NANYANG looks at the hawking problem in Singapore. Now that the income and social status of hawkers have improved, there is need for us to treat hawking on a par with other occupations If we stipulate that from now on people applying for a hawker
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    • 469 5  -  Team to enlist parents' help in moral values plan for kids •y BERTILLA PEREIRA PARENTS will be brought into the Being and Becoming moral education programme through letters from their children's schools informing them about the lessons and seeking their
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    • 46 5 A 70-YEAR-OLD pedestrian was killed yesterday when she was knocked down by a motorcycle while she was crossing Chai Chee Street Madam Liao Seah was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital with head injuries about 5 SO pm She died two hours later
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    • 131 5  -  Story and pictures HO YOKE WENG THE New World Amu»e ment Park has lost its glitter The cinemas, theatres. table-soccer, mer-ry-go-rounds have disappeared But there are a few Kple who have stayed Snd Madam Wong Oi Sin. 47. is one She operates a
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    • 176 5 POLICE are appealing to the next-of-kin of four people who died in the past four days at different places to help them in investigations A Chinese man in his forties collapsed while joccina along Commonwealth Avenue West on Friday and died shortly after being hospitalised He was wearing
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    • 324 6  -  i* ANG FENG HWA SINGAPORE'S MRT should not be built on the cheap Human requirements must be considered if it is to be an effective system of trsnsport. Professor Eric Lye, dean of Hong Kong University's Architect School, said this morning
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    • 204 6  -  JALIL MISWARDI MENSA. the international high intelligence quotient (IQ) society, is opening a chapter in Singapore and is inviting exceptionally bright Singaporeans to apply for admission All that you need to )otn is to be in the top 2 per cent of the general
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    • 301 6  -  YONG POW ANG FIVE months after rejecting the registrstion of US-made threewheeled scooters for wheelchairbound people, the Registry of Vehicles has approved the use of Elswick Envoy cars by the disabled on Singapore roads The handicapped were already allowed to drive on Singapore
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    • 223 6 HDB flat dwellers can expect better-designed estates if today's Singapore Institute of Araiitects annual awards are a yardstick to go by Architects from the HDB won seven out of 10 Outstsnding Building Awards in the public sector category The buildings ranged from town centres
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    • 210 6  -  •y OEI SIN GIOK TWO flats at Tiverton Lane were sold to one person and then to another within a few weeks by the original owner, the Court of Appeal heard tofhe second owner then sold the flats a third time to
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    • 714 7 Prosper On Productivity ASSESSING PERFORMANCE AN open appraisal of workers emphasises discussions between the worker and his or her immediate supervisor, The supervisor dtscusses the targets to be reached and reviews the achievement of the previous goal with the appraisee at least
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    • 163 7 A SUCCESSFUL organisation is one that spends a lot of time on the needs of employees and on knowing them, Mr Steven Sim, Shell's personnel director says. "But the problem is that many people spend less time interviewing a person for a job than they
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    • 486 7  -  •y CAROLINE BOEY THE scouting movement in Singapore is to be given s shot in the arm now that Mr Lim Keng Tack, the chief commissioner of the Scout Association, is working full-time for the organisation. Mr Lim, a former primary
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  • world
    • 497 8 RATE OF STORAGE COULD ENABLE NEW DELHI TO MANUFACTURE 20 ATOMIC BOMBS A YEAR LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Monday INDIA has become the first developing country to begin stockpiling separated plutonium at a rate that would enable it to build about 20 atomic bombs a year
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    • 205 8 AP NEW YORK, Monday A MAJORITY of American manufacturing companies are using foreign-made equipment in their US operations, moat frequently because of its quality, according to results of a survey released yesterday by the Conference Board, a businee-financed research group. Lower prices of imported
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    • World Briefs
      • 75 8 UPI BgIJtMQ: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang yesterday disclosed the second round of Sino-Soviet normalisation talks will begin on March 1 in Moscow but said the present situation is not so easy to solve The current impasae on three issues Moscow's support for Vietnam, the Soviet
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      • 81 8 NEW YORK: The rescue of US Brig Gen James Lee Douer. who was kidnapped by Italian Red Brigades terrorists, was arranged by the Mafia with the help of an illegal immigrant living in New York, Time magazine reported yesterday On Dozier. abducted from his home in
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      • 63 8 UPI BELFAST: A 20-year-old policeman walking to a confectionery died in a hail of gunfire yesterday when Irish nationalists staged a grenade attack on a police station in Warrenpoint A spokesman for the Royal Ulster Constabulary said the grenade explosion caused no damage Warrenpoint is the site
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      • 42 8 UPI NAIROBI: Government patrols scoured the northeastern Kenya bush for a gang of poachers who slaughtered hundreds of elephants for USgl million <Ss2 M millon) worth of ivory tusks and fought a gun battle with anti pouching troops UPI
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    • 203 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday INDONESIAN Inn searchteg tor Ike sales tog UmII Lear)rl have wriri to aa (toy Palaa Sertoli to the Straits at Matoeca alter He itocovtry of tort|toad flootiag off iTwiir i B HKi'puwrrrti probe IMB UlipltM by Sri UatM PrnMeal Julh
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    • 90 8 Reuter VALLETTA (Malta) ||nil ppunuiy ARMED police and sol diers ringed Malta's main airport yesterday after a hijacked Libyan airliner landed with about I*o passengers, police said The airliner, a Boeing 727 of Libyan Arab Airlines, touched down against the orders of the airport authority, airport
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    • 350 9 Decomposing bodies ready for mass burial in Nelli Reuter NEW DELHI, Monday THOUSANDS of Assamese tribes met massacred from MO to 1.000 immigrants from Bangladesh aad set a Are IS village* la the worst 'lection violence in lndiaa history, the Press Trast of India said last night
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    • 456 9 Reuter HEW DELHI, Mon THE slaughter in the streamy and fertile central Brahmaputra river valley of Assam stems from a fatal eruption of ethnic tensions that have been boiling for years But the direct cause of massacres climaxing two weeks of spiralling violence is
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    • 99 9 Reuter LONDON, Monday ONE of Britain's too surgeons has cancelled hit appointments after oeing bitten by a pregnant orang-utan Gynaecologist William Whitehouse was paying a call on one of London Zoo's most important mother-to-be Bulu the first orang-utan to be bom and raised in England Bulu. due
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    • HOT ... AND COLD
      • 160 10 AP SYDNEY, Monday FIREFIGHTERS battling to control the six-day old fires 10 kms (50 miles) outside Melbourne have had to face fresh outbreaks (pictured above) caused by arsonists, Victorian state forests spokesman lan Murray said today. Murray said three fires had been deliberately lit
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      • 200 10 AP lIAMnmiN. Lekaaaa, Monday THIRTY-FOUR people were kilted -i i btaaH hartadj^ were straaded yesterday, praawikf Lekaaaa's aaaltiaatioaal peacekeepiag larce la TWy ««M rwit expeditioas moaated by U* L■>■■■■■ army civil delsatt corps aad Ike Rd Craw had loaad Ike Mm af
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    • 122 10 UPI WASHINQTOH, Monday MOSHE ARENS, aamed Israel's Defence Minister to replace Ariel Sbaron, said la nn intervew pablisbed yesterday tbe degree of fmstrntion nnd anger in Israeli-Americaa relations is perhaps at Its worst ia history la ii iaterview with Ike New York Timet,
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    • 287 10 AP ALGIERS, Monday THE Palestine exile parliament will endorse the Arab plan for peace with Israel and whoever doesn t agree has full liberty to withdraw" from Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation, a PLO spokesman said yesterday The plan, adopted by Arab leaders in
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    • 533 11 Reign of terror aimed at rooting out Nkomo loyalists Newsweek MAATABCLCLAHO (Zimbabwe), Monday THREE years after Zimbabwe's independence bought peace to the rest of the country. Matabeleland in Southern Zimbabwe is bathed in more bloodshed than it suffered during the Rhodesian civil war
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    • peoplewatch
      • 77 11 AP LOS ANGELES: Actor Danny Kaye. recovering from quadruple coronary bypass surgery, was listed in fair and stable condition yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, a hospital spokeswoman said "He'i in fair condition, his vital signs are stable, he's sitting up in bed. so he's doing
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      • 102 11 AP SALT LAKE CITY: Artificial heart recipient Barney Clark, his weak lungs and kidneys slowly healing, spent part of yesterday sitting up in a chair and watching television with his wife and daughter A spokesman for the University of Utah Medical Centre, said Mr Clark continued
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    • 230 11 UPI MAYPORT, fFlorida) Monday BRITAIN'S dashing Prince Andrew, whose ship is docked here, has been seen in the company of a gor geous blonde bodyguard known only as Donna,' instead of soft-porn movie starlet Kathleen "Koo" Stark Since Prince Andrew's arrival on Friday aboard the
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    • 218 11 UPI Reuter ISLAMABAD, Monday PAKISTAN'S largest city. Karachi, was placed on security alert following bomb blasts that damaged four French establishments including the Consulate General's home, official sources said yesterday Strict security was being maintained at all consul ar missions
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 197 11 I MuNnUK I I Cut out and staple with other coupons I Posting instructions appear below. I Mown Sea Age Octupotioo A66*tt m N.R.I.C TIL I A N IN MISSING wTT'S"" tirrEM I ACROSS USING A A CLUES MLOW I CUT HERE CLUES FOR PU-2 1. The angler umi it
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  • business
    • 380 12 TWO BANKS CUT BEST LENDING RATE BY QUARTER POINT PRIME rate broke through the 9 per cent barrier this morwiM. Two banks. DBS Bank and Oversea Chinese Banking Corp. cut their best lending rate by a quarter point to 8 75
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    • 485 12 Price of gold at noon: U*****.75 to 507.75 GOLD it floundering around looking for direction. Singapore dealers believe. Turnover, not only in Singapore but worldwide, has been lower in recent weeks as the price has see sawed around US$5OO (SH.OSO) But
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    • 316 12  -  •V FOO MEY KIEN RECESSION has swept into the local cleaning business While suppliers of cleaning equipment and chemical clean ers find the going rougher this year, industrial and domestic consumers are becoming more discerning in product purchase Klenco (Singapore) says that sales for
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    • 161 12 Reuter LONDON, Monday THE international banking crisis is not out of the woods yet. and the whole scene could worsen if no world economic recovery gets under way. Lloyds Bank chairman Jeremy Morse said He said the other area of doubt concerns the
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    • 643 13 Currencies analysed in the latest issue of the foreign currency review, a publication of Manufacturers Hanover Trust (MHT), New York. Canadian Dollar THE trade figures for 1912 reveal the depths of the recession that has gripped Canada and caused unemployment to soar past
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    • 67 13 HOTEL Grand Central Limited (HGC) has announced the completion of the acquisition of two pieces of land at Bales tier Road/Ava Road by its newly formed joint venture company. Central Plaza Development The two pieces of land coat $14 32 million, including development
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    • 137 13 COMPANY HEPOHTS CI HOLDINGS received a warm reception in Kuala Lumpur but a lukewarm response in Singapore when trading .began in its 30 million shares In Singapore the CI Holdings A shares which will not rank for the dividend were untraded The
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    • Update
      • 39 13 Reuter MANILA: The Asian Development Bank wants to make US$l billion worth of commercial borrowing this year. ADB President Masao Fu iioka has said The bank last year borrowed US$B22 million from commercial sources Reuter
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      • 47 13 Reuter PARIS: The Bank of France sold an estimated ISO million marks as the West German currency was fixed at a record 283 55 francs per 100 and about US$OO million as the dollar was fixed higher at 6 8190 francs, dealers said. Reuter.
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      • 40 13 Reuter BRASILIA: Brazil adjusted the cruzeiro down 30 per cent against the US dollar, with the new rate set at 379 54/ Ml 44, compared with the previous rate of *****/293 41, the Central Bank said Reuter
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      • 40 13 Reuter MONTEVIDEO: Uruguay will send a delegation to the US and Europe shortly to discuss the rescheduling of about US$24O million of foreign debts maturing this year. Central Bank Planning Secretary General Pedro Aranco said Reuter.
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      • 53 13 Reuter LONDON: Britain's fourth quarter gross domestic product rose 0 2 per cent, based on a preliminary estimate of output, after a 0.4 per cent third quarter gain and was 0.6 per cent higher than what it was in the same 1981 period, central statistical office
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      • 30 13 Reuter PARIS: French industrial production fell a provisional 0 8 per cent in December after a revised rise of 0 8 per cent in November Reuter.
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    • 342 13 Selected stocks at midday Market tone: quietly steady Boustead 2 09 S Cold Storage 4 90/4.94 Esso 7 45 S F and N 7 35/7 40 G I H 3 68 S Genting 3.50/3 52 Haw Par 2 71 B Hume 3.80 S Inchcape 2 87/2.88 Intraco 3
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    • 181 13 Your (Foreign Exchange) Your S$ to ono unit of foroign currency Soiling Buying TT/OO TT DO US8 ***** 2 0590 2 0490 t sterling 3 1916 3 1635 3 1425 Australian 2 0125 1 9899 1 9699 Canadian 1 6998 1 6763 1 6603 New Zealand 1 5058 1 4843
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    • 145 13 UAC's xt profit after tax for Ike half year to Dec 31 fell S8 per reat from M 87.52 millioa to M 83.1? millkM, tbe compaay aaaoaaced yester toy Tbe main reasoa for tke dismal performaace was at tribe ted to Ike
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    • 81 13 DAEWOO Corporation of South Korea will sign a $132 million loan agreement with seven local banks on Wednesday. Daewoo is the first Korean firm to tender successfully for HDB projects and was recently awarded a $300 million contract to build 8.000 four-room flats
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  • Article, Illustration
    1358 14 WHITE PERIL OF THE AGE Are we really becoming subtly addicted to having our food sweet? centrepiece WE arc told that sugar makes us lat and rots our taoth. Wa expect to find it in sugary cakes and chocolate, so if we indulge, we know the price we have
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  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      506 15 He 's Ceng Jiang the dashing and tough Cantonese male lead of the Sixties IF you arc old enough to remember the likes of Chen Bao Zhu and Fung Poh Poh. you will probably still recall Ceng Jiang, the dashing, tough male lead in Cantonese films of the
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    • 304 15 GONG XI FA CAI! This traditional Chinese New Year greeting to the HK TVB audience was made by Lu Hal Peng this season Lu has his tummy to thank for landing the job filled by the late Leung Sine Por it was considered to
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    • 379 16  -  HINTS OF HOPES FOR THE FUTURE IN NEW ALBUM Bruce SprioQeteen nvOfivKS Columbia TC 313 M Record nvn* *1 Lim Sek THE idea of a man singing to his own accompaniment on an acoustic guitar and harmonica is more suited to a pub or
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    • 113 16 THE Australian group Men At Work kept up its winning ways by staving on for the fifth week at the lop of the singles pop record charts with its hit, Down Under Patti Austin held on to the second place for the
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    • 111 16 THE top ton pop singles. oo rated by Coohboa, with loot week's pooitiono in brocfcoto: TMa Laet 1 1 Down Undar Man At Wort (CoiumtM) 2 2 Baby Coma To Ma Patti Aueton (Qweel Warner Brothers) 3 3 Alnca Toto (Columtaa) 4 5 Stray Cat Strut
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    • 121 16 THE top lon country-western oo rotod by Caohboi, with loot week's positions in brocfcoto: TM» Last 1 3 Why Baby Why Chartay Pndt (RCA) 2 4 Fikng Low* T G Shappard and Karen Brooks (Warner Curb) 3 6 H Hoiywood Don I Need You Don
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    • 762 16 New book on royal family has many curious facts, anecdotes THE curiosity of the British about the royal family is both affectionate and insatiable. A new book entitled The Book of Royal Lists provides the inquisitive public with curious facts and anecdotes it was
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    • 366 17 MYTHS have it that Tang Kun Lun a musician of the Tang Dynasty was so good that whenever he played the pipa, he brought lightning and rain from the heavens We do not find such good players nowadays, and according to Singaporean pipa
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    • 648 17 LO TIEN YIN talks to pipa maestro GOH EK MENG MOZART on the ancient IS Goto Ek Meng. S3, pipa maestro, easily switches from Las tern to Western music on his instrument The pips which is s the Omens version of the masdoiia, is
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    • 448 18  -  Matt Monro re-lives those good old days R«vi«w«r: Philip Cheah FOND memories can be therapeutic They give calm to the pressured mind They bring a brief moment of release from the pain Matt Monro who has been performing (or the past 27 years brings his own
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 267 18 NEEDLEWORK HERITAGE: AN ILLUSTRATED talk on Needlework Heritage A tour of British Castles by Miss Mary Gostelow will be held at the Marine Parade branch library lecture hall at 7 pm tonight Miss Gostelow is reputed to be an expert in the art of needlework. She has written s number
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    • 246 18 TRADITIONAL CHINESE BRITANNICUS: ARCHITECTURE: THE Le Theatre Expression d'AuroAN EXHIBITION on Chinese archi- ville of South India will present a lecture is now on at the Gallery, 4th classical French play, Bntanmcus at floor, Mandarin Hotel. the Cultural Theatre. Tanglin Road at Over 1M pictures, including those 8 pm tonight.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1311 19 Tv 3 00 Opening Followed by "On The Water _j>i Y. WIT *AI Avatar decides to use the Star Force as front" (C) (r) 8 target tor the Game Nan s Reflex Gun 3 45 Mr Magoo (Animated) (E). a" so that the Star Force Crew on a mis Delightful
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  • tv & radio
    • 252 20 r CHANNEL 5 HIGHLIGHTS t Brat Mavenck: Horse of Another Colour (10.55 pm) IN the comeback role of his former hit aeries, James Garner once again plays the downbeat personality of gambler Bret Maverick James Garner, now much heavier and with many more wrinkles, still delivers
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    • 145 20 CHANNEL 8 HIGHLIGHTS Sir MecFavian# Burnet and Peter Man Madawar (C), 9.20 pm THIS documentary features two Kt scientists who shared the Nobel t for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance, which very few people understand International recognition and the growing awareness of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      45 20 LETTERS from readers on TV, radio, films and other subjects published in our LEISURE section will now be published under LEISUREBOX. Please address your letters to: The Editor, Leisurebox, The Singapore Monitor Ltd, Unit 201 A Delta House, 2 Alexandra Road, Singapore 0315.
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    • 119 20 THANK you, SBC for the great line-up of proKmes over the Chinese New Year. However, are two complaints. Why was the picture Paint Your Wagon snipped until all that was left were the songs? This picture wss originally about 100 minutes long. It seems that
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    • 51 20 WHEN SBC showed the Surrender of Singapore on TV on Channel 5. it was very nostalgic and memorable for viewers of the older generation Unfortunately for my father, he missed the show Could SBC please repeat the telecast' My father and I would be very grateful
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    • 77 20 CONGRATULATIONS to Mr Gopalie, a foreign producer who successfully staged three Tamil plays in the SBC's "Uthaya Tharakai" (Drama Playhouse) at the SBC Auditorium on Jan 29 Radio and stage comedy actor Elengovan is a well-known personality He can depict all the characteristics of anger,
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 647 20 11.00 PM Your Lunchdats 1.00 News 1.10 Your Lunchdste (contd) 1.90 Mid-day Market Report 1.90 Your Lunchdate (contd) 1.00 On The House 9.00 News-kvßnef 9.00 On The Houae (contd) 4.90 The House At Pooh Comer M 0 News-lrvßrlef S.OS Music My Way 100 Newe-irvBrtef 0.00 Music My Way (contd) 0.96
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    • 567 20 TMKATOt FILM SHOW TMCS (Phona) Ac** (to Mac** N (C)/1 30 3 30 7 00 9 IS (41*77) »f**4»*y Ac** do n*c** M (C)/1 30 3 30 7 00 9 lb (*****93) Catftay Tha ftrata Mov» (f >/1». 1 30 4 00 6 30 15 (*****00) (tola Ac** Oo PImm
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    • 766 21 leisure comics a SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON By Don Sharwood and Stan Stuneil |Hav»4o MMO nOMt, JUfIT IN TIMe I I f WCLL, MOW... I ®MOULD I [LATgW...f' QNPY AHQ TO DCLIVPR ClNO>'S ftAar, 9©T BILL naming >«OU« LITTLE SOY J MAVC rnOUOHT ftUT„. ARIES: March 21 to April
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  • sports
    • 401 24  -  Golf ERNEST FRIDA RINUS BUIJS, a Datch healaeasaiaa. played above hibmclf to wla the B divtaioo of the Warrea Golf Clah char Ity loaraasteal at Fol hoatoae Road yesterBafja, who playa to a haaflcap of 14, tied with Beraard Taa. of Seaahawaag Coaatry Clah, with a heat
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    • 420 24  -  Motor Racing By LEE CHIU SAN DESPITE a defective gearbox. Dutch engineer wybe Valkema drove his Alfaaud 15 Tropheo to easily beat more than 40 rivals in the first round of the five-round Castrol Yokohama Autocross Championship held at Tuas yesterday With one hand
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    • 233 24 UPI LOt ANQELES, Mon. THE Soviet Union and other East European countries are near agreement with Olympic organisers on a plan to televise the 1904 Games in their countries, an official said The agreement will bring the total contracted revenues from worldwide TV rights
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    • 271 24 Tennis UPI CHICAQO, Monday TOP-SEEDED Martina Navratilova, overcoming a slow start, swept past local favourite Andrea Jaeger on Sunday to capture an unprecedented sixth straight Chicago Women's Professional Tennis Tournament title Her victory marked a record for the most consecutive wins by any woman player at one
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    • 58 24 UPI Current World chttnoion Roiand LJtooton of Ptighjm n »n a 4ik |A«Ia( alajk a| crossing ins nnisn line 10 win mt rrorvstionai oycitCross World Championship at the Wyndtoy Leisure vvfuiv If I Dii t ii, cngvana. Liuuion vovupfvivU the seven-lap course
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    • 195 24 UCUDiiIC linn lian wunmy TOP-SEEDED Jimmy Connors captured a record sixth US National Indoor Tennis Championship yesterday, buildinf up steam in the first set before crushing Gene Mayer 7-5. 6-0 By winning the U*****,000 (SI630.000) tournament. Connors pocketed US$45 000 Mayer, who was seeded third in the
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    • 233 25  -  WHITESIDE'S LATE GOAL ENDS DEADLOCK FA Cup Fifth round Reports SIMON BARNES Special to Singapore Monitor SUDDENLY. Manchester United looks like a team that is foinc places The English First Division fiant battled its way through to the quarter finals of the Football Association (FA)
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    • 200 25 EUROPEAN champions Aston Villa suddenly stirred itself into action and walloped attack-ori-entated Watford 4-1 to clinch a deserved berth in the quarter finals Kngland manager Bobby Robson watched the game and said afterwards It looks at 4-1 like a doddle It certainly wasn I 5
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    • 180 25 IF SATURDAY S show has any bearing on it. Burnley and Crystal Palace have definitely not got their names on the great trophy They were locked in a miserable draw and the only time the ball hit the net was when a frustrated fan
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    • 163 25 EVERTON prodaced tbe aeasatioaal retail of tbe weekead by eadiag two-tlmei FA Dip hold eri Totteabam Hotspan' proad aabeatea streak of It Batches wttb a sparkling 2 0 victory at Goodltoa Park. The great Spars' dream of a Cap hattrick soccess Is aow goae aad
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    • 163 25 ARSENAL, mauled 4-2 by Manchester United in midweek, seemed to have wrapped it up when it took the lead against Second Division Mlddlesbor- Big Mai's men whipped la a late equa liaer and the flamboyant manager said afterwards: "We'll win the replay Arsenal has a
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    • 112 25 IPSWICH, the elegant and effective side shaped by England boss Bobby Robson, took another step towards out-and-out crisis as it topRled 1-0 to lowly orwich Norwich waltzed into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in 20 years as Keith Bertschin banged in the only
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    • 329 26  -  Patrick and Chuan Hwee prove equally magnificent TOA PAYOH 1 CHANQI CSC 1 NFL-83 SURESH NAIR WHO will succeed as Singapore"s Number One goalkeeper with the overseas departure of Edmund Wee and David Lee' Will it be Patrick Wee or Koh Chuan Hwee*' The question
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    • 191 26 ARMED FORCES 1 POLICE 0 BE present at all Armed Forces' First Division matches this is the likelv request that went out to soccer loving Colonel Charles Choo by his subordinate players For Colonel Choo's presence again inspired the
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    • 139 26 CHANGI UNITED 0 PtONEER ARSENAL 0 PIONEER'S goalkeeping sensation. P Raveindran. lived up to his billing as the most consistent National Football League custodian when he stubbornly kept a blank sheet against Third Division leaders Cnangi at Gloucester Ground yesterday Raveindran. who has not
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    • 135 26 JUBILEE 1 PUNGGOL CSC 1 HIGH-FLYING Jubilee's proud unbeaten record was almost marred by newly-promoted Punggol Constituency in this surprise Second Division clash at the Gloucester Barracks over the weekend It was a sensational result, according to Punggol coach K C Wan. for his little-known club to
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    • 272 26 FIRST DIVISION P W D L F A Pt» To* Pay oh 4 2 0 12 3 14 FP Dynamo* 4 2 2 2 10 I I Tiong Bahru CSC 5 2 2 1 4 3 1 ChMgi CSC *****71 Armed Forces 5 2 2 1 3 3 1
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    • 72 26 BURKHARD ZIESE, the West Garman technical adviser to the Football Association of Singapore, will be the guest speaker at the Singapore Soccer Coaches Association meet-the-coaches session at the Jalan Besar Stadium tonight (7 SO pen) Mr Ziese will talk of his experiences as an overseas West
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    • 88 26 First Div: Tampines Rovers 1 Tiong Bahru CSC 0; Armed Forces 1 Police 0; Changi CSC 1 Toa Pay oh United 1 fcfi Div: Geylang International 2 Commonwealth Palace 0. Jubilee 1 Ponggol CSC 1; Sembawang SC I THofc Blangah CSC 2. South Avenue 3 Brickworks CSC 1; Jurong
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    • 206 26 QEYLAMQ 2 C'WEALTH PALACE 0 THE dominant influence of e* international skipper Samad Allapitchay (as been the singular factor ui Geylanf s alow but cautK>us rise from the dol drums of the Second Division tables to a creditable mid-table position Geylang team manager Rejab Ismail paid
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 428 27 F A Cup litth 'mril Ex Red Case nets the winner and Neat misses penalty equaliser Reuter LIVERPOOL, Mon LIVERPOOL'S dream of sweeping four loccer trophies was shattered yea terday when Brighton knocked them out of the English Football Association Cup with a 2-1 fifth
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    • 96 27 UPI LONDON, Monday LEADING odds makers yesterday totalled Maachester (Jailed as the aew favourites la win Ike PA Cup following Liverpool's shock 2-1 home defeat la Brighton la a Mill round match Brigbtoa, which was M-l before the Liverpool match, was dawa la 12-1.
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    • 254 27  -  Soccer SURESH NAIR A FORTNIGHT'S recess this is the long overdue fift of Singapore's coach-manager Jita Singh to the players after the weekend's thrilling 3-1 victory over Malaysia Cup arch-rivals Selangor at the National Stadium The two-week break will be welcome news particularly to National
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 49 27 Reuter MADRID: Barcelona surrendered their toad of the Spanish aoccer league yesterday after just two weeks They were held to a goalless draw by middle-of-the-table Gijon which prompted manager Udo Lattek to confirm he would be leaving the club at the end of the season Reuter
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      • 57 27 Reuter LONDON. Liverpool's lan Rush still heads the English soccer league Division One scorers list after matches played on Saturday Luther Bliseet of Watford is next with 20. Bob Latchford (Swansea) It, Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool). Brian Stein (Luton) It. Garth Crooks (Tottenham), John Wark (Ipswich)
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      • 71 27 Reuter ROME: Italian soccer league leaders Roma came from behind to crush Napoli 5-2 and go five points clear of Verona at the top of the First Division yesterday Star-studded champions J uventui ended a barren spell with a convincing 3-0 win over Fiorentina in which the
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      • 32 27 Reuter VINA DEL MAR (Chile): Paraguayan Victor Pecci beat Jaime Fillol of Chiie 0-2, 7S. 0-4 here yesterday to win the Vina del Mar Grand Prii tennis tournament Renter
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    • 153 27 Racing Donnelly lands a good treble P 25 Golf round-up P25 Simon Barnes soccer special P 26 THEORY and PRACTICAL Course (12 Sessions) H With the current emphasis on Automation and Higher Productivity the use of Computers in all Sectors of Trade and Industry is imminent Why not then take
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