Singapore Monitor, 18 April 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 30cents Thursday, April 18, 1985
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  • 614 1  -  HDB contractors must recruit people from colony for larger projects ■y YONG ROW ANG THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) has imposed a condition on all its contractors reSuiring them to recruit Hong long workers for projects worth $3 million or more. The contractors
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  • 221 1 Reuter LONG BEACH (California), Thursday A ROBOT named "Ole" has taken part in an operation to remove a brain tumour from a cancer patient, a hospital spokesman said yesterday. "To our knowledge, this was the world's first robot-assisted operation," said a spokesman
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    • 1377 2  -  Indian embassy assures that the group will leave when the visit passes expire Storv and pictures by SURESH NAIR A GROUP of 139 Indian nationals has been allowed two weeks' social visit pass after the Indian High Commission gave an
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    • 46 2 IN OUR story on April 17 headlined "Void-deck community centres for 12 areas" it was reported that Mr Lee Yock Suan was the chairman of People's Association. This is incorrect. Mr Lee is the deputy chairman of the association. We regret the error.
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    • 334 3  -  By JULIE ANNE SIT ILLEGAL foreign workers from Sri Lanka and India are now flying in instead of coming by sea. Once they arrive, they pretend to be tourists. A Labour Ministry source said yesterday: "There are usually syndicates behind these illegal
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    • 735 4  -  Property agents say prices have gone up after the Housing Board relaxed its lending policy By OEI SIN GIOK PRICES OF RESALE Housing and Development Board flats have increased by as much as 12 per cent since the board relaxed its loan policy for
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    • 402 4 MR J B JEYARETNAM, Secretary-General of the Workers' Party, yesterday took a swipe at the Government for refusing to allow his party to hold a rally on May 1, terming it as a move that "highlighted" its lack of credibility. He made a
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    • 311 4 THE FATE of these two abandoned lorries is still uncertain as they wait to be claimed by their owners. One of them was left in a parking lot in front of Block 325 in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3. Besides the four
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    • 78 5 CAUTION Lorries Merging WHAT DOES happen when two lorries merge? And does it happen only to lorries? Motorists must have been baffled by this prominent sign on the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) near the Singapore Conference Hall. The sign warns motorists to beware of merging lorries. Motorists
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    • 545 5  -  By IRENE TOH MEMBERS OF THE Singapore Lorry Owners' Association are unhappy about facing a fine of $50 for illegal parking on the roads from May 1 and stringent enforcement by traffic police. Mr Lee Chye Thiam, secretary of the Singapore Lorry Owners' Association,
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    • 117 5 MR S RAJARATNAM, Senior Minister (Prime Minister's Office), who was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital on Tuesday for a persistent abnormality in his lungs, is scheduled to undergo a chest operation this morning. According to a statement yesterday from the Prime Minister's Office, the persistent
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    • 341 6  -  Business as usual for roast-duck stall whose food is prepared on unhygienic premises By CAROLYN LEE A ROAST-DUCK seller at the Boon Lay Hawker Centre is still doing brisk business even though the Ministry of the Environment has found tne place where the ducks are
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    • 231 6  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG THE SINGAPORE Bus Service plans to start an air-conditioned mini-bus service to run along the lines of the school bus system. This new express service, which will ferry workers to and from their places
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    • 303 6  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO FOUR of Singapore's top travel agencies each with at least 30 years' experience have formed a consortium, World Discoveries Holidays. They are Haw Par Travel, a subsidiary of the Haw Par Group, Santa Tours, the pioneer organiser of tours to China, NTUC
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    • 206 6 THE FEEDBACK Unit has received more than 30 letters offering opinions on government policies. Written mainly by professionals, the comments and proposals refer chiefly to matters relating to the Housing and Development Board, communications, the economic conditions and tourism. The feedback letters began
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  • world
    • 459 7 UPI WASHINGTON, Thursday THE JUSTICE Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating allegations that a consultant for the General Dynamics Corp. paid off South Korean officials to win F-16 fighter plane contracts for the firm, sources said yesterday. Investigators also are looking into
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    • 149 7 AP SAO PAULO, Thurs THE CHIEF doctor treating ailing Brazilian Presi-dent-elect Tancredo Neves said yesterday that contrary to earlier official statements there was a "possibility of cure" for tne 75-year-old leader. "He's still alive," Dr Henrique Walter Pinotti said oi Mr Neves, who
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    • 179 7 Reuter OSLO, Thursday NORWAY yesterday became the first North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) country to state publicly that it would not participate in the US Government's "Star Wars" research programme. "In the government's view, it is not topical for Norway
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    • 61 7 Reuter THEY don't make them like that anymore... Definitely not in economically hard-pressed Vietnam these days where this vintage French-made Citroen, circa 1940, was spotted (picture, left). The old but hardy car still plies the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), laden with passengers,
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    • 164 7 AP NEW DELHI, Thursday POLICE killed three people yesterday as anti-government rioting spread to new areas. The killings brought the toll to 13 in two days of riots in western India, state authorities said. The shootings took place as army and paramilitary
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    • 497 8 Agencies ATLANTA, Thursday PRELIMINARY results from the first federal study of health-care workers exposed to patients with AIDS indicate that despite their close contact the workers run little chance of coming down with the deadly illness. Some nurses have transferred from units treating
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    • 110 8 AP JERUSALEM, Thurs THE United States and Israel will jointly develop and produce new missiles, submarines and patrol boats to cut costs in updating both navies, U§ Navy Secretary John Lehman said yesterday. The project would involve more than one billion dollars over several
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    • 310 8 Reuter JAKARTA, Thursday INDONESIA'S armed forces commander, General Benny Murdani, yesterday said he believed that Vietnam's periodic announcements of troop withdrawals from Cambodia were genuine and not merely troop rotations. He told reporters after a meeting between President Suharto and Vietnamese Defence Minister Van
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    • 193 8 AP TOKYO, Thursday SONY CORP has responded to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's appeal to buy more foreign goods by importing picture tubes. Mr Akio Morita, chairman of the multinational electronics maker, said that the company will this year import 300,000 picture tube units from
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    • PEOPLE WATCH
      • 76 8 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS CHINA'S senior leader Mr Deng Xiaoping above) complimented Belgian Prime Minister r Wilfried Martens yesterday in Beijing on his Irouthful appearance, but remarked that nis own ooks are declining. "Among the leaders in Europe, you are relatively young. You
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      • 100 8 ENGELBERT Humperdinck is wishing his fans many happy tax returns. He likes to ease the tax burden of his fans with a special present around the April 15 deadline for American tax payers. "Every year at tax time, I work out a new act as a
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      • 74 8 PLAYING an abused wife was easier than being a sex object on Charlie's Angels, says Farrah Fawcett (above). "I was talking with Barbra Streisand and she said: 'Wasn't The Burning Bed the hardest thing you've ever done?'" "And I said: 'No. It's much harder to
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      • 82 8 THE MARQUIS of Blandford, heir to a £50 million (Ssl44 million) fortune, was fined £1,000 on Monday in London after he admitted breaking into a pharmacy to get heroin for his drug habit. "The highest in the land can fall to the lowest when drugs are
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      • 151 8 LINDA RONSTADT forsook rock 'n' roll to concentrate on the Big Band sound with Nelson Riddle and it doesn't sound as if she'll be coming back. In an interview with The CBS Morning News, she was asked if she would like to take back her
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    • 470 9 Analysts see this year's economic growth to be well below that of 1984's AP WASHINGTON, Thursday CONSUMER SPENDING, a key factor in the American economy's expansion, fell 0.5 per cent in March, the steepest monthly decline in more than a year, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
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    • 59 9 ANIMALS need love and attention too. And Chu-lin, the two-and-a-half-year old panda, born in captivity at the Madrid Zoo in April, 1982, is no different. He seems to be enjoying the attention he is getting from his keeper Angel Lopez. Chu-lin has now
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    • 219 9 Reuter LONDON, Thursday A JUDGE branded the British Broadcasting Corporation "scandalous" pirates yesterday after it hijacked a rival's exclusive interview with Princess Michael of Kent about her father's Nazi past. The judge banned the network from repeating its broadcast of the interview
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    • 132 9 LAT-WF DALLAS, Thursday AT A STORMY meeting on Tuesday with about 300 Blacks, Dallas Times Herald editor Mr Will Jarrett announced that the satirical column Joe Bob goes to the Drive-in would be cancelled immediately because of community reaction to a column many considered
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    • 171 9 MING COURT HOTEL SINGAPORE Bou6QU® mccl Mo J Rrjce 5522.00 per adult 5517.00 per child under 12 years Mondays to csV\ Fridays to Sundays [o] un ripe tomatoes. x > fpl resh, cool salads plus IsiJ Fresh crisp greens. I LLJ a choice of roasts Crunchy carrots and />\ N.Z.
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  • moeny
    • 323 10 FOCUS ON THE UNLISTED SECURITIES MARKET THE ACTUAL number of casualties on the London unlisted securities market has been surprisingly low, only four since its inauguration in November 1980, according to stock broking firm, Hoare Govett. It started with some 28 securities, mainly
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    • 787 10  -  Success of London experience should encourage proponents of unlisted mart here By JILL HUM AN UNLISTED securities market (USM) is not as risky as many think as experience in overseas markets has shown. And the success of the London unlisted market one of
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    • 355 10 THE VOLUME of trade bills discounted by banks has dropped and banks, flush with funds are aiscounting them for as low as six per cent. Bankers say this is another sign of the hard times. "Traders, both importers and exEorters, are
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    • 65 10 BARING Brothers Asia Ltd has been elected chairman of the Singapore Merchant Bankers' Association (SMBA). Waraley Ltd was elected treasurer of the council. The Association's other committee members, elected at the 10th Annual General Meeting in March were: Bank of Montreal Asia, Citicorp International (Singapore), Dresdner (South
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    • 25 10 AP BANGKOK, Thurs THAILAND and China agreed yesterday to expand their investment and trade relations, a senior Thai Foreign Ministry official said. AP
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    • 313 11 B HMLLSTREET fl WALL STREET stock prices finished with a small gain yesterday for the seventh consecutive session, with some takeover issues surrendering recent advances. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 2.76 points to close at 1272.31. Advancing issues led
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    • 194 11 AP THE DOLLAR staged a late rally yesterday as nervous traders began reassessing a perception that had emerged in financial markets that economic growth in the United States was running out of steam. But currency dealers also said traders were anxiously awaiting a report today on the
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    • 300 11 GENERAL LUMBER has issued a Press release to explain a loss of some Ms 4 million (553.52 million) for the year ended Sept 30, 1984, when it had forecast a profit of Msl million just four months earlier. In answer to a query from the
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    • 595 11 MALAYSIAN Finance Minister Mr Daim Zainuddin disclosed in New York recently that his country is proposing a change in its approach to foreign investment. Addressing American business leaders at a luncheon organised by the American Council on Foreign Relations, the minister said that
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    • 318 11 THE OUTLOOK for Singapore's external trade is getting brighter, according to figures released by the Department of Statistics for the months of January and February. Trade with China, touted the largest untapped consumer market in the world, has more than doubled. In February,
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    • 98 11 Reuter MALAYSIA has postKmed until the end of ay its 100 million mark public Eurobond planned for April 18, lead manager Deutsche Bank AG said. A spokesman said the postponement is unrelated to current market conditions or likely issue terms. Total volume sought
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    • 53 11 FOB THE HOME Look out for the all-new "For The Home" section this Friday. It has everything you need to up-date and beautify your home. Ideas on interior decorating and furnishing, plus product news on kitchen and household appliances. "For The Home" has so much more. Every Friday. jggf Don't
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  • opinion/letters
    • 121 12 I WAS one of the teachers who sacrificed their school holidays and worked at last year's National Exhibition, from Nov 16 to Dec 31. We were officially told we would be paid a certain amount of "salary" for our work. It is already four and
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    • 249 12  -  JAMES P RICH Attleboro, Masschusetts USA I LIVED in Singapore from 1979 through 1981. This is my first trip to Singapore in four years and I am extremely impressed with the tremendous vitality and development of your beautiful island during my absence. I have
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    • REPLIES
      • 144 12  -  JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBS I REFER to the letter "Bus drivers with a sick sense of humour" from K-Chan Teo of Singapore 2158 (SM, April 10). Our company does not condone such behaviour from our drivers. We make thorough investigations
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      • 151 12 I REFER to the letter "Vacated school is now a gambling den" by "Affected" (SM, Mar 29). Our school shifted to its new site in Clementi in December, 1982. Our school management committee has continued to maintain the old school premises. Workers
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    • 59 12 WOULD the authorities please do something about the illegal parking along double yellow lines in the Redhill Close estate (see picture above), especially on the road near the hawker centre every night after 8 and on Sunday mornings. These vehicles obstruct bus drivers when they
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    • 68 12 "THE idea that Europe works more and sleeps less is a myth." Spanish Minister for European Community Affairs Manuel Marin "DESPITE our years of learning and our efforts at education, we still find our patients and clients turning with distressing frequency to today's equivalent of snake oil and witchcraft."
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    • 118 12  -  GOH KENG HUAT Singapore 1646 WHILE I was waiting for a bus at an East Coast Road bus stop on Monday April 15, about 1.40 pm, a most frustrating incident happened to me. I flagged the first bus (SBS Service No 10, licence: SBS 2507T) that
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    • 111 12  -  PETER BOYD Singapore 1335 ON BEHALF of all who appreciate actionpacked movies such as Tight Rope, starring Clint Eastwood and now screening .at the Capitol cinema, I must express intense displeasure at the way the movie was censored. It was censored in
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    • 526 13 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR BMHM THE ECONOMIC Committee, set up to chart new directions for our business and industry, is in danger of getting bogged down even as it begins. The danger comes from our present economic straits and from a distorted view
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    • 148 13 I AM SURE that the recent hike in road tax, petrol and taxi fares must have hurt everybody. It was noted by one Member of Parliament in the recent parliamentary debates that the lower income group should share in the prosperity of the
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    • 242 13  -  S W TAY Singapore 0512 IN THE April 13-14 issue of the International Herald Tribune, there was an article on the televised parliamentary debates in Singapore. As a Singaporean, I was astonished to read Mr Chiam See Tong telling this newspaper that, because of
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    • 146 13 MAY I point out that your sweeping statement, a retired worker pays no taxes...", in the second last paragraph of your editorial (SM, April 11) is both incorrect and misleading. Whether a retiree, who is not involved in any form of work
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    • 169 13 IT APPEARS that more than $3 million was raised through the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's recent dial-a-donation show for the Community Chest. I wish to draw attention to the fact that at least one such donation, of about 1280,000, was not raised by
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    • 73 12 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wW be accepted tor publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful We reserve the
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    • 66 13 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wtt be accepted for must be signed. They must ateo indude the writer's name and address even W the writer deddee to use e pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the right to edit letters Address your
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

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    • 877 14  -  By VIOLET OON UNLIKELY as it may seem, the film Amadeus can evoke intense feelings of embarrassment, especially for people who have been intimately involved with Mozart. "I felt as though he was being laid bare in some parts when the music was
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    • 876 14 F MURRAY ABRAHAM IS STILL UNCERTAIN OPA By GEORGE GORDON in New York USUALLY, according to Hollywood legend, when an actor takes away the Oscar for Best Performance of the year, the floodgates to fame and glory should be wide open. But not of
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    • 465 14 Time Magazine KALEIDOSCOPIC spotlights flashed. A slick crew of singers and musicians, led by a pair of go-go dancers in skimpy bl<ick-leather skirts, gvrated rhythmically as two boyisn British rockers strutted and sang. Amplified music boomed. The sight was familiar: A concert by
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    • 199 14 MlflWtes THE Ministry of Community Development is inviting nominations for the Cultural Medallion Award and the Patron of The Arts Award for 1985. Nominations may be made by cultural organisations and individuals who are knowledgeable about the local art scene. The Cultural Medallion Award was instituted in March
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    • 580 16  -  TVSCENE ......v. By WONG SING YEONG IT LOOKS like the days when it took years for a new television series to get to Singapore are over. Those were the times wh6n we were still watching Eon Howard play a fumbling teenager in
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    • 597 16  -  By JOAN HANAUER in New York HISTORIAN Arthur M Schlesinger Jr breathed a sigh of relief after he saw the TV mini-series treatment of his book, Robert Kennedy and His Times. "I didn't know how it would come out and
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    • 408 16 HEW Thursday Feature Special Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 5, 11.20 pm) THE rise and decline of screen goddess Rita Hayworth is recaptured in this 1983 drama. Born Margarita Cansino, daughter of a flamenco artiste and a Ziegfeld girl, Rita
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    • 92 17 "HELLO, Mr CHiPS." Bruce Penhall, star of the television series CHiPS and world motorcycle champion in 1981 and 1982. shared a happy moment with a group of spastics at the Hollywood USA Charity show, held at the Neptune Theatre last Friday, in aid of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      85 17 TRYING to teach coffeeshop owners how to make tea? This man was doing just that. Chew Seng Heng (above), a sales representative for Lipton Tea, is seen here performing the "tea-dipping" ceremony at a dinner thrown by the tea-makers last Monday to mark the switch from tea
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    • 79 17 "IRASHAI-MASU (Welcome)," she said. "D omo- arigato (Thank You)," he replied. It's "Go Japanese" at the Cher- Blossom Festival at Hotel urama's Tiffany Coffeehouse till the end of the month. Welcoming Mr Francis Cra- ven, the hotel's director of sales, to the festival was Yati, a kimo-no-clad
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    • 92 17 A NEW chapter was written for the Rotary Club last Friday when its Marina City club the 10th in Singapore was inaugurated. The guest of honour at its Charter Night at the Hilton Ballroom was the Rotarian district governor Dato Balwant
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    • 57 17 This column features social events or interesting happenings in and around town. If you have any such occasions on the calendar, our reporter will cover the function if possible. Please address your invitations to WONG SING YEONG, Faces in the Crowd, The Singapore Monitor, 2 Alexandra
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    • 233 14 BEST U.S. STEAK IE Direct Irom Harris Ranch in Central California The Number One Steak in California, and now in Singapore Ln a Only at Jack s Place Steak House you'll find six different Fmm choices from only $16. you'll get a tender, juicy, corn-fed A premium U S Steak
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1293 15 Sample ft I 3.00 Opening Programme Wild 4.30 Tarzan Man Killer episode). v 5.15 Andy Robson Romanichal.* Adam Charlton is discharged from hospital, but he is U unable to look after the cattle. Craggs. Lord Rothwick's land agent, wants Andy to return home so that son, Bdly, can become Adam's
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    • 185 15 .SiSX J Noon Newsdesk 12.30 International Soccer Special 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twentyfour Hours: News Summary 1.30 Peebles Choice 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Nature Notebook 2.40 The Farming World 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 3.30 Kings of Swing 3.45
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 526 17 FILM GUlOe dian interpreter and friend, Dith Pran. REGAL (*****59) (1.30. 3.30, 7, 9.15): MISDALIT (*****16) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): MATCHED COUPLES (C) CAPITOL (*****59) (11, 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15): FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART 111 (E) TIGHTROPE (E) LIWAGU (*****30) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): JADE (*****80) (11, 1.30, 4, 6.30,
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 174 18 INTENSIVE CARE A REMEDY FOR CORPORATE INSOLVENCY A SEMINAR on Intensive Care A Remedy for Corporate Insolvency will be held at Mandarin Hotel tomorrow. Sir Kenneth Cork, a pioneer in the development of intensive care services, will head a panel of experts who will explore the practical and legal aspects
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    • 332 18 I "I fr 1; f i p f One of Tang Juey Lee's artworks on display at the Lone Pine Gallery, Ming Court Hotel TANG JUEY LEE IN celebration of 10 years of painting, 31-year-old Tang Juey Lee will hold an exhibition of early and recent works at the Lone
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    • 121 18 WIM WENDERS RETROSPECTIVE commit murder for a mysterious perGERMAN director Wim Wender?' Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Nlck F m (Lightning Oyer Water) Friend) will be screened today at co f<* s American 6.30 pm and tomorrow at 8.30 pm at director Nicholas Ray from cancer In the Goethe-Institut Auditorium,
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  • GO PLACES WITH Mansfield Holidays
    • 574 19  -  Welcome to Nepal's wildlife haven where elephants serve as taxis and the tiger is king By JANET FULLWOOD LAT-WP TIGER Tops in Nepal is a jungle safari camp like no other. Small, remote and rustic, situated in Royal Chitwan National Park, it is one of the last
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    • 538 19 LAT-WP FROM a passenger's perspective, the view from elephant back is ideal. Our six-animal game viewing safari set out the second day at dawn, with a beast bearing Tiger Tops' leading tracker, or "shikari," leading the way. Although there are
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    • 92 19 A VISIT to Tiger Tops is usually made in conjunction with a Nepal itinerary that includes time in the capital, Kathmandu, and trekking and-or river rafting in the Himalaya foothills. Facilities are open throughout the October-to-May dry season, with the winter months offering the most pleasant weather conditions. Tiger Tops
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 527 20 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA Focus on the family, home im- September 23 to October 22 Erovement, security, and the Focus on important docuudget. The cycle is high, your ments and legal -decisions. A judgment and intuition are on ove relationship intensifies target. You'll be invited
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  • PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT
    • 464 21 THE paper chase is a phenomenon that has not only come to stay but is becoming progressively competitive. And as the years roll along, there will be increasingly fierce competition in the job market. That is why more and more people are becoming clearly
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    • 222 21 The Systematic Business Training Centre conducts the following courses: ACCOUNTANCY The Association of Certified Accounts (ACCA) LCCI Diploma in Accounting ADMINISTRATION The Institute of Chartered Secretaries Administrators (ICSA) LCCI Diploma in Managerial Pnnciples ACADEMIC (Commerce Stream) GCE A'Level; GCE O Level BUSINESS STUDIES (ICM The Institute
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    • 1355 22 M Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sunday Monitor: Word* 0 35 icnU per word O.SS cents per word Display $7 70 per col. cm $10.00 per col. cm Bmlniw Hre Mon-Frl, fim-Spm Sal. 9am-lpm FOOD CORNER CATERERS Caterers CAT WE CATER BUFFET, barbeque. cocktail party for $8/- only. Tables, chairs
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  • sports
    • 354 23  -  By K SILVAM "STRIVE TO do better" will be the motto of the new council of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS). Stating this yesterday after the council's first meeting, its chairman Teo Chong Tee said: "We always wanted to
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    • 300 23 EAST GRINSTEAD (England), Thursday GAWAIN BRIARS, the England number one who considered quitting at Christmas after a string of bad results, continued his fine revival yesterday by reaching the last 16 at the British Open Squash championships. Briars, who has won five tournaments
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    • 152 23  -  By B KULA SINGAPORE'S Under-20 squad may have to go to Seremban for the Malaysian Hockey Federation Age Group tourney (May 14-18) without being at full strength. Without forwards Daren Ware, Mohd Noor and Ho Kok Cheong, Singapore will lack enough sting in attack
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    • 315 24  -  ST ANDREW'S JUNIOR COLLEGE 0 ANGLO-CHINESE JUNIOR COLLEGE 18 IN SCHOOL^ By B KULA SCOTT LIN had every reason to be happy at the ground of his rugby rivals St Andrew s Junior College yesterday. His three tries helped Anglo-Chinese Junior College trounce St Andrew's. More
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    • 155 24  -  By DANIEL WEE ST ANDREW'S Junior College and the Singapore Technical Institute assured themselves, for the first time ever, of final berths, when they won in their respective categories at the National Schools Waterpolo League in Barker Road yesterday. The Saints beat Buona Vista 12-4
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    • 335 24  -  By ERNEST FRIDA THOMAS KAAN, an ardent rugby fan, player and referee, is the central figure in the controversy over Raffles Institution's elimination from the National Schools rugby tournament. Kaan, a former St Andrew's rugby player, officiated the crucial Rl-versus-Whitley Secondary School match at Dunearn
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    • 179 24  -  WUN HON SUN Rugby adviser Singapore School Sports Council WE thank "Fairplay" and "Supporter" (SM, April 13) for their comments and concern regarding the rugby match played on April 1 between Raf fles Institution and Whitley Secondary School. SSRUR has always assisted us in the appointment of
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    • 626 25 ASIAN BADMINTON CONFEDERATION CHAMPIONSHIPS The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday CHINA retained the Asian Badminton Confederation crown last night at the Stadium Negara, but not before Malaysia gave them a tough fight which belied the 4-1 scoreline. Misbun Sidek produced the kind of form he
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    • 177 25 MICHAEL QUIRK, the Managing Director of Bowater Food Systems, played a major role in bringing an end to the "war" between the Singapore Sports Council and the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association over the $330,000 A W training scheme. Quirk was very
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    • 390 25  -  TIONG BAHRU 2 S AVENUE 2 By ALFONSO CHAN A PENALTY goal in the dying moments of the match gave Tiong Bahru a much-needed reprieve in their National Football League Division One match against South Avenue Sports Club at Jalan Besar last night. It seemed
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    • 461 25  -  By ERNEST FRIDA DR TAN ENG LIANG, the chairman of the Singapore Sports Council, yesterday warned coaches and officials to stop politicking at the expense of innocent athletes. Speaking at the A W cheque presentation ceremony yesterday, Dr Tan said: "If politics is
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    • 267 26 Reuter BERNE (Switzerland), Thursday A BRILLIANT last-minute goal by Andy Egli enabled Switzerland to snatch a 2-2 draw with the Soviet Union and go to the top of their World Cup soccer qualifying group last night. Egli, a key defender used in an
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    • 448 26 AUSTRIA 0 HUNGARY 3 WORLD CUP YESTERDAY'S RESULTS AT A GLANCE: EUROPEAN GROUP FIVE: AUSTRIA 0 HUNGARY 3 EUROPEAN GROUP SIX: SWITZERLAND 2 USSR 2 Reuter VIENNA, Thursday HUNGARY became the first European country to qualify for nezt year's World Cup soccer
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    • 182 26 Reuter DETROIT, Thura THOMAS HEARNS apparently broke two fingers on his right hand during his fight with Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas on Monday night, Hearns' doctor said yesterday. "His hand is the size of a basketball," Dr Thomas Magnell said, after examining the 26-year-old
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    • 451 26 W GERMANY 4 BULGARIA 1 Reuter AUGSBURG (West Germany), Thursday FRANZ Beckenbauer's West Germany confirmed they are again becoming a major force in world soccer with a storming 4-1 win in the friendly against Bulgaria last night. Centre-forward Rudi Voeller was on the
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    • 249 26  -  By K SILVAM ALL 25 youth soccer players turned up at the former Victoria School grounds last night to find out who amongst them would be the final 18 who would make it for the Thailand Youth Invitation in Bangkok next month. But the news
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    • 83 27 THE SCORE at halftime was Liverpool 1 Manchester United 0. And it was the first time in their semifinal tie that United fell behind. But not for long Two minutes after the interval, skijpper Bryan Robson beat the Liverpool defence to unleash a tierce drive into the
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    • 418 27 ROBSON'S BUND RECOVERS FROM A GOAL DOWN TO EDGE OUT LIVERPOOL MAN UTD 2 LIVERPOOL 1 Reuter LONDON, Thursday MANCHESTER UNITED'S exciting young striker Mark Hughes struck his 25th goal of the season last night to earn his side a place in the English Football Association Cup
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    • 110 27 THE SURPRISE omission in the Liverpool lineup last night was ace striker lan Rush. The Welsh international was rested because of a knee injury. Although his replacement, Paul Walsh, put on a creditable performance, fans must be wondering if the result might have turned
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    • 82 27 RESULTS II Results of other British soccer matches played last night: English Division One Tottenham 0 Arsenal 2 Newcastle 0 Coventry 1; Division Two: Oxford 3 Huddersfield 0 Division Three: Derby 4 Reading 1 Division Four: Exeter 1 Blackpool 1; Hereford 0 Swindon 3;
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