Singapore Monitor, 20 April 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Saturday, April 20, 1985 30cents
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  • 918 1  -  Bugis Street restaurant serves transvestites with disposable cutlery THE AIDS PROBLEM By SIT YIN FONG A RESTAURANT in Bugis Street has started serving homosexual prostitutes there with disposable plates and cutlery to keep the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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    • 63 1 M TV GUIDE: PAGE 16 a TV HIGHLIGHTS: PAGE 17 Monitor sports IjjHMjjjHHMppggHi Lendl takes three titles in three weeks Mm Formula One Racing gets off to a fast start jm Herbal cures work on the yin yang principle MtWy Step up to a happy three-tier family w Wham! makes
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    • 230 1 (Qg?) The (yolf Specialist presents The New Revolutionary Golf Clubs MARUMAN 'GRADATIONAL' THE GREATEST INNOVATION IN GOLF Unlike conventional sets Maruman s new revolutionary Gradational qoll clubs are designed with each individual club having its own swing weight mak ng it easier to swing thereby obtaining the optimum result trom
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  • home
    • 479 2  -  By YONG POW ANG THE ALREADY-DEPRESSED pork prices are likely to remain low for another three years because of dumping by farmers who face farm closure. Farmers believe that some 900 pig farms on Temporary Occupation Licences (TOL) in Lim
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    • 306 2  -  By JOSEPH LEE EMPLOYERS found hiring workers without valid work permits will face prosecution and imprisonment in future. Mr Lim Siam Kim, director of operations at the Ministry of Home Affairs, said the ministry took a serious view of such
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    • 42 2 A REPORT headlined "Raja Satisfactory" in yesterday's edition of The Monitor wrongly attributed the statement on Mr S Rajaratnam's health to the Prime Minister's Office. It was in fact released by the Ministry of Health The error is regretted.
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    • 257 2  -  By LEE KIT MUN A STUDENT yesterday related how he was nearly killed when a car rammed into the bus stop where he was seated, killing one man and seriously injuring a woman, who were there with him. The accident happened at Kampong Bahru Road
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    • 525 3  -  150 non-hostelites get to know each other better during NUS residential camp By CHEE LI CHOO and BENNY ORTEGA A HUNDRED and fifty undergraduates got to know each other better this week in a special residential camp held at Sheares Hall in the National University of
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    • 512 3  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM THE CENTRAL Provident Fund (CPF) Board has obtained a High Court order to "seize and sell" vessels and other property belonging to a shipping firm to recover outstanding contributions amounting to $69,000. The company, Auto Shipping Private Limited,
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    • 86 3 A WARRANT to levy enables the person obtaining it to execute the claim through seizure or sale of the assets. There are various execution proceedings and the methods include, among others, seizure and sale, bankruptcy proceedings, winding-up proceedings judgment debtor summons and committal proceedings (imprisonment). If there is already
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    • 171 3  -  By OEI SIN GIOK A RECORD $2.6 billion were withdrawn by home-buyers from their Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings to buy Housing and Development Board flats under the ApS roved Housing Scheme between anuary last year and March this year. This
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    • 187 4 THE FIRST exercise in mobilising civil resources is likely to be held in March 1986 This was announced yesterday by the Minister of State (Defence/Trade and Industry), BrigadierGeneral (Reservist) Lee Hsien Loong, when he met representatives from the various sectors of the economy
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    • 593 4  -  By JULIE ANNE SIT MOST private car park operators have adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) announcement that it would allow market forces to determine parking fees. As a result, parking fees are expected to remain at present levels
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    • 231 4  -  By IRENE TOH LORRY drivers, who usually earn between $750 and $1,000 a month, feel that the $140 parking fee which they have to pay for fringe lorry parks is too steep. Said loiry driver Tan Teck Seng, 34: "The $140 parking fee
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    • 204 4 THREE hospitals will be restructured and upgraded with more staff and sophisticated equipment to adapt to modern changes in health care. Dr Chew Chin Hin, deputy director of Medical Services (Hospitals) who said this at the Singapore Medical Association Convention yesterday, added that the hospitals
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    • 524 6  -  By MICHAEL LIEW IF YOU are a man and aspiring to be a secretary, but have doubts about the kind of reception you will get from women in the profession, be rest assured they are not about to give you the
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    • 329 6  -  Teenagers to take part in 'zany' event for International Youth Year By SEAH MEI KIANG BEING led on a wild goose chase in midweek may not be many people's idea of fun. But 125 busloads of teenagers will be doing just that. The youngsters,
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    • 178 6 A BOOKSELLER is planning to contest in the Court of Appeal a High Court decision which found him liable for infringing copyrights of works published by a group of British publishers, a music academy and a music college. A lawyer from Allen and Gledhill,
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    • 178 6 BUYERS of Housing Board flats who have trouble digesting the board's many regulations can now go to the board's information room for an audio-visual show which highlights and reinforces some useful points from the Residents' Handbook. In 14 minutes, the
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    • 492 5 Stamford Raffles would u spend his first day at the River View ...if he had arrived in Singapore today! Sir Stamford Raffles would spend his first day at the River View... if he were ll to arrive in Singapore April 1# *85. Raffles would have gladly landed a little further
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  • world
    • 68 7 AS HIS assistants look on, Dr Ronald Young prepares to do a biopsy on the brain tumonr of a cancer patient with the aid of the world's first surgical robot, Ole, on April 11. During the procedure, which was developed at the Memorial Medical Centre
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    • 74 7 NEW DELHI, Sat AFTER a trial lasting 16 years, an Indian businessman was jailed today for four-and-a-half years for evading taxes. Thakur Dutt Khera was also fined 14,000 rupees (5|2,552) but did not say how much tax he had evaded. Khera, 65, magnified
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    • 70 7 LONDON, Sat DAVID YIP, a Chinese who plays a Chinese detective in a British TV serial, helped catch a real robber yesterday. The 33-year-old actor who acts detective Sgt Johnny Ho in the British Broadcasting Corporation's The Chinese Detective, joined four other men in chasing the
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    • 169 7 Reuter BANGKOK, Saturday MORE than 1,500 Vietnamese troops backed by heavy artillery have driven the last defenders from a Cambodian guerilla base at Prea Chan, a Thai army officer said yesterday. Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) guerillas abandoned the camp near Cambodia s
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    • 283 7 Researchers evaluate character of gifted kids UPI NEW YORK, Sat LEFT-HANDEDNESS, allergies and nearsightedness may go .hand in hand with great intelligence, a survey of gifted children indicates. Researchers evaluated biological characteristics of 400 gifted 12-year-olds whose abilities were assessed with Scholastic
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    • 247 7 UPI LAKE WORTH (Florida), Saturday THE WIFE of a disabled veteran went into a coma and died after buying a chemical aphrodisiac at an adult book store and using it en route to a motel with her lover, police said. Gail Buscher, 43, died in
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    • 423 8 AP KUNMING (China), Saturday TROOPS killed more than 1,000 Hui Muslims to crush a 1975 rebellion in southwest China's Yunnan province which began when Huis were forced to raise and eat pigs. The previously unreported revolt was disclosed this week to visiting
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    • 112 8 AP BEIJING, Sat FOR 20 YEARS, all doctors and nurses not on emergency duty at Beijing's hospitals have attended political or professional study sessions two afternoons a week. Notice boards said the hospitals were closed on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. But
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    • 57 8 UPI SAN RAFAEL (Calif), Sat WORKING on tips provided by other ranchers, deputies arrested Jack Farmer, 56, on charges of stealing about U5575,000 (S$ 157,500) worth of frozen bull semen, officials said. About 600 containers valued at US$3O,OOO were recovered with the arrest of the rancher,
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    • 148 8 UPI AHMEOABAD, Saturday THE GOVERNMENT of riottorn Gujarat state agreed yesterday to all preconditions for talks with demonstrators campaigning against policies favouring lowcaste Hindus. An official spokesman said the Government released seven student leaders arrested last month, revoked suspension orders against 1,500
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    • 222 8 UPI BONN, Saturday PRESIDENT Reagan, moving to blunt outrage over his plans to honour German war dead during a May visit to West Germany, will tour the Bergen-Belsen death camp where Anne Frank died, the government said yesterday. A government statement said Chancellor Helmut Kohl
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    • WORLDWATCH
      • 57 8 QUICK ROUND-UP OF WORLD NEWS ■HU YAOBANG (above), leader of China's Communist Party, inspecting the Royal New Zealand Air Force's guard of honour on his arrival at Wellington yesterday. Mr Hu is there to hold talks with New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange and his officials.
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      • 59 8 TEN people, including five foreigners, were killed yesterday when tire swept through the top stories of a newly-built hotel in the north China city of Harbin, Chinese central radio reported. It said the fire broke out on the 11th floor of the Swan Hotel and
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      • 73 8 PRESIDENT Reagan (above) bowed to congressional opponents yesterday and abandoned his quest to restore military aid to antigovernment rebels in Nicaragua. White House officials said that Mr Reagan had reached a deal with Senate Republican leaders calling for Congress to release US$l4 million (5530.8 million)
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      • 71 8 A SEOUL court jailed a man for six years yesterday for threatening to poison products of a leading South Korean cosmetic company in a bid to extort US$l5O,OOO (*****,000), court officials said. They said Kang Song-U, 31, admitted sending letters to the Pacific Chemical Company last
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      • 77 8 A SUSPECT in the massacre of 13 people at a Chinatown gambling den in United States two years ago was acquitted yesterday on 13 counts of murder, but the jury said Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng helped rob each of the victims. Ng's defence lawyers said he was unaware
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      • 61 8 A CROWDED passenger train ploughed into a freight convoy in. a town east of Mexico City yesterday. Police said 18 people died and 82 were injured. Mr Edmundo Espinoza Mota, police chief at Apizaco in Tlaxcala state, said the crash occurred early yesterday morning outside
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    • 428 9 Princess, whose father was found to be a Nazi, never fully accepted by royal family SATURDAY PEOPLE Reuter PRINCESS MICHAEL of Kent, at the centre of a storm last Tuesday over revelations that her father was a major in the Nazi SS, Hitler's elite troops, has never
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    • 188 9 OPA SO YOU thought Hawaii's most famous television private eye, Tom Selleck, was Mr Macho personified? Think again because actor Selleck, who stars in the hit television series "Magnum, P I", has a crew of bodyguards. That was the case in London recently where
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    • 94 9 LAT-WP NEW YORK TIMES photographer Dith Pran, the Cambodian refugee whose escape from the Khmer Rouge was dramatised in the Academy award-winning movie, "The Killing Fields," says he has become a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Pran, who was in
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  • money
    • 192 10  -  By STEPHEN GUO Special to The Monitor TELECOMS is expected to bid for a multi-million dollar contract to privatise Sri Lanka s national and international telecommunications link. The Singapore Telecommunications Authority is likely to be the only Third World bidder, competing with Nippon
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    • 493 10  -  By CATHERINE ONG THE DEBIT card will prove to be a big hit in Singapore, predicts Mr John G Wilson, Managing Director of CAP Information Systems. Three factors augur well for the Electronic Fund Transfer Point-of-Sale system (EFTPOS) a computer
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    • 443 10 THE US dollar will rally in the short-term but Federal Reserve intervention will push it on a long gradual decline into 1986 This was the forecast of Mr Robert Jones, founder and chairman of Money Market Services and Institute; of Economic and Monetary Affairs,
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    • 233 10 Bernama A BILL is expected to be tabled in the July session of Parliament to amend the Commodities Trading Act 1980 to better control trading in the futures market, the Dewan Negara was told yesterday. Deputy Education Minister Haji Buiang Ulis, replying
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    • 134 11 HSfLLSTOEET Reuter WALL STREET stock prices closed slightly higher yesterday, aided by a burst of late buying. But analysts said the market was drifting and the day's end result was not very significant. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.43 points to
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    • 55 11 THE Straits Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 796.95, up 4.85 points from Thursday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed yesterday at 404.37, up 0.71 point from Thursday's close of 403.66. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index fell 0.9786 point to 132.8570 at the close, compared
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    • 186 11 AP THE AMERICAN dollar edged higher in late trading yesterday, reversing losses from earlier in the day and halting a sharp selloff that had been touched off by evidence of slowing economic growth and declines in interest rates in the United Slates. Gold prices also were mixed,
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    • 463 11 STOCK MARKET ROUNDUP THE LOCAL stock market continued its downward trend this week with the Straits Times Industrial Index breaching the psychologically important 800 level. Except for yesterday's minor rally, trading tor the week was mostly quiet and featureless. Dealers attributed yesterday's rally to short
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    • 398 11 IGB Corp Bhd's group pre-tax profit for the year ended Dec 31, 1984, was down 27 per cent to M 521.62 million from M 529.57 million. However, the pre-tax profit for 1983 included a pre-acquisition profit of M 511.4 million from the
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    • 351 11 SINGAPORE is Japan's largest Asean market with exports to the Republic last year making a third of its total exports to the region. Japan's exports to Asean totalled US$l4 billion worth of goods in 1984. Singapore's share is US$4.6 billion (5510.12 billion). Raw material
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  • opinion/letters
    • 395 12  -  KO-CHAN TEO Singapore 2158 IN YOUR article, "Schools unlikely to phase out soft drinks" (SM, April 16), it was stated that soft drinks might be phased out by the Government. However, this has been met with much opposition from my school.
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    • 173 12 THE "sudden death" of the FA Cup sertii-final telecast two minutes before the final whistle was indeed the height of preposterousness! The least the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation could do was forewarn viewers of the unextendable time limit and announce the final result as soon
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    • 230 12  -  ZULKIFLI AMAT Singapore 1647 MANY thanks to the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation for giving us good, fast-paced crime dramas like Hunter, Cover-Up, Murder, She Wrote, not to mention the A-Team SBC should continue giving us this type of fast-action series, especially on Saturday and Sunday
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  • 864 12  -  features By RONALD KOTULAK Chicago Tribune CHICAGO: Drug abuse, including cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption, has become the No. 1 cause of death in America, accounting for nearly one out of three deaths, according to a US Government study. The extensive analysis represents a
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 72 12 LETTERS on any subject of public interest will be accepted tor publication. They shoukJ be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decades to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful We reserve the
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  • opinion/letters
    • 587 13 MUNUUkHB WHEN Mr Teh Cheang Wan, the Minister for National Development, first challenged Mr Chiam See Tong in Parliament to build four blocks of public flats to prove the latter's claim tnat the Housing and Development Board was making huge profits, the leader
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    • 121 13 MR S KUMAR S letter, "Pseudonyms place doubt on credibility" (SM, April 17), is far too sweeping and onesided. I often write to the Press not necessarily to condemn, but also to praise. I do not care whether people doubt
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    • 156 13 ON MARCH 14, we parked our car at the car park a slight distance from the lagoon hawker centre (in the direction of Changi Airport) and went for our regular jog at the East Coast Park. On the way home, we discovered that
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    • 134 13  -  THAMPOO PANJACHARAM Hon Secretary Government Pensioners' Association Singapore 0409 THE Government Pensioners' Association, SingaKre, is extremely grateful to the honourable Memr for Ponggol, Mr Ng Kah Ting, for having brought up the case of the Government pensioners in Parliament on March 22; and
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    • 238 13  -  REPLY KHOO SOO HOON (MS) for Permanent Secretary (National Development) WE REFER to the letter "Reason in support of pick-up point" by "CBD Worker" (SM, March 5), requesting a waiting lane along Guillemard Road near the junction of Paya Lebar Road and
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    • 65 13 They should be typed and mutt b« signed They IIMMtowM mutt be signed. They MraiuifiH mutt alto mckide the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to ute a pseudonym in print. A contact ttiaphone number would be useful We reserve the right to edit letters. Address your
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  • leisure
    • 1290 14  -  Young musicians from this region to play works rehearsed at workshop By VIOLET OON TWO works by prominent Asean composers will be played at the Asean Youth Orchestra concert tomorrow at 5 pm at the Victoria Concert Hall. Singapore's premier composer, Kam Kee Yong, has
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    • 230 14  -  By WONG SING YEONG IT IS not only the television series The Awakening that is making Singapore's presence felt in the Hong Kong entertainment world. The one they call the Golden Dragon, former Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's actor Ralph Chen
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    • 216 14 THIS week's US top 10 pop singles, as rated by Cashbox, with last week's positions in brackets: 1. (1) We are the World USA for Africa (Columbia). 2. (3) Crazy for You Madonna (Geffen-Warner Brothers). 3. (2) One More Night Phil Collins (Atlantic). 4. (4) Nightshift
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    • 304 14 Lianhe Wanbao SOME of China's best known film stars will be on board the first direct Singapore Airlines flight from China to Singapore on May 16. Singapore's national carrier will fly in 50 representatives of China's film industry to do 10 shows.
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    • 460 16 wcoimw Saturday Night Movie Life with Father (Ch 5, 11.05 pm) ADAPTED from a long-running Broadway play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, this is a comedy about growing up with an eccentric father in New York City in the 1880's. Clarence Day is under the impression that
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    • 364 16 Film Focus Saigon: Year of the Cat (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 12, 8.35 pm) THIS pointed political commentary, written by David Hare, was inspired by his stay in Saigon in the mid-Seven-ties. Played out against the political turmoil is the romance of a CIA agent and an English banker.
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    • 712 17  -  By MICHAEL HEALY in Denver LAT-WP A CHOPPED and channelled version of Sergio Leone's gangster film, Once Upon a Time in America, played briefly in the United States in 1984 and it was awful. Now the full 3 hours and 45 minutes version, Leone's preferred cut of
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    • 30 14 THIS SUNDAY AT THE PARK SKIT COMPETITION t)f comic sketches snted by mpeting teams 21 April 85 4 pm JOTANIC GARDEN Admission free Resented by the Ministry of jnity Development
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1340 15 n-. HBSr/flf 1 fin leisure WL SATURDAY, april 20, isss I\J g 12.20 SBCTCXT Live Sample Pages. I 12.50 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Sesa- §v^: \JC jf* I 155 Saturday Matinee Short Walk to Daylight. J 4 L See Highlights 3.15 Challenge of the Champions (Women's Event) ,m
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    • 561 16 TOMORROW'S PROGRAMMES 8.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 5.20 The People's Medicine.* 9.00 Opening and Programme High- This programme looks at the state lights followed by Today's of China's medical technology and Special Our Story (Part one).* how medical services are delivered 9.35 Fraggle Rock. to one billion people. 10.05 Cuba
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 713 17 FllM GUIO€ MANDARIN (*****01) (1.15, 3.15, 7.15, 9.15): MY NAME IS WOMAN (C) Midnight Show: THE TRAP (C) DALIT (*****16) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, JQA PAYOH (*****34) (1.15, 3.15, 9.30): MY NAME IS WOMAN (C) 7 j s> 915). MY NAME IS WOMAN (C) Midnight Show (11.45 pm): THE Midnight Show:
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 130 18 INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE COURSE A THREE-MONTH international folk dance course, organised by the YMCA, is being held at the Homer Cheng Auditorium at Palmer Road from 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm every Sunday. Instruction is in English and Chinese. The fee is $7 for members and $10 for nonmembers. YOU
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    • 456 18 Theatre for the young DATE TIME PROGRAMME Today 11 am/3 pm Cinderella by Act 3 at Marine Parade Library. Admission is free. 3.40 pm Behind-the-scene workshop by Act 3 at Marine Parade Library. Admission is free. Tomorrow 4pm Skit competition at the Botanic Gardens. Admission is free. Monday 11 am/3pm
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    • 69 18 BE MY SUSHI TONIGHT THEATRE WORKS will present Be My Sushi Tonight on April 25, 26, 27 and 28 at 8 pm nightly at the World Trade Centre Auditorium. The play is adapted from Mike Leigh's Goosepimples and directed by Lim Siauw Chong. Tickets at $15, $10 and $5 are
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 858 19 leisure comics 20~] I FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook ittfi V CHiU*»l SWt OA This \X <(bu MEA>J, L ~>v N& (M MogE V Jo&, Wfc HAV£ X UK* P»l>* I[ FMfCHUKS. «fO(llft 09V1005 TrfArt APOUTS.. /To MAKE Do WITH AHD SftF- If V J l^iil|AlV W W»TH fr*At*6 AND P*ii*S
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  • THE SINGAPORE MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 106 20 BEST PICKS RACE 1 5 Trend Setter II 2 Peak Of Perfection IX 8 Fireglo II 2. 3 Wang Banyak 4 Jantan 9 Satu Hati II 3 9 Forward Attack* 2 Bulan Bintang 4 Mystic Warrior 4 2 Djagoan* 7 His Eminence II 1 Jules 5 6 Plenty
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    • 137 20 THE week's top gallops on the Penang track: Fireglo II (Race 1 No 8): Cook took it out for a tryout on Thursday at medium pace. Had difficulty keeping him strongly in check. Clearly a very powerful horse. Resedanse (Race 4 No 6): Clocked 41.7 sec
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    • 265 20 TET MA-ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zao Bao) (Wan Boo) Race 1 S Firaglo 2 Pert 04 Porfoctton Fveoto 5 Irend Setter S Trend Sonet 5 Trend Seller 2 Peak O* Pertechon 9 F»»gto 1? Wrustang KngM Mm* I aWengSanya* 8 Wo W J Wang CUn,,» 9 Situ
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    • 391 20  -  By COMPUTER ANALYST DJAGOAN (No 2), a six-year-old Irish gelding by Tudor Music, can give visiting jockey lan Albuino his first win on his very first ride in Race 4 for Class 6 Division 1 horses over 1,700 metres in Penang today. Djagoan
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    • 212 20 1st 2nd 3rd Malcolm Johnston 15 15 15 Nigel Tiley 14 10 8 Connorton 13 5 5 G Cook 12 15 13 Terry Lucas 11 2 3 Setches 10 12 15 Subian Dalwee 9 7 10 Foo Yuh Kong 9 5 3 Hamid 9 3 9 Peter Lee
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    • 446 20  -  By MA TAN MA TAN selects New Project (Race 6, No 10) and Oriental Pearl (Race 10, No 8) as his two best bets in today's card of 10 races at Batu Gantong in Penang: NEW PROJECT: He started
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    • 1962 21 RACE 1 1.30 Restricted Terms Div B 1200 m Stakes: $11,000 1 Palm Court (B)s' 0 M C Litw 1/1 3nzg TEH GYSH/00-0 worked fcghtty in 43g Tue, 41 9g Wed 2 PEAK OF PERFECTION IX (1)57 0 Tiley 1/7 3nzh TEH 0000/00-0 shaped well m 37.7gTue 3
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  • sports
    • 384 24 *1BIT WOTEIMJVBtna T* MANCHESTER United got the result that everyone outside of Merseyside was hoping for on Wednesday night. They beat Liverpool 2-1 in their FA Cup semifinal replay to earn a crack at Cupholders Everton at Wembley next month.
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    • 714 24 Barring the unthinkable, Toffees should widen lead i,BKIIISISIGCHI jRIMM SELLERS EVERTON, thanks to an emphatic 4-1 midweek win in their match against West Bromwich, strengthened their grip on the title and seem certain to have the First Division championship sewn up long before
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    • 85 24 DIVISION ONE Liverpool v Newcastle, Norwich v Leicester, Nottingham Forest v Coventry, Queen's Park Rangers v Arsenal. Sheffield Wednesday v Watford, Southampton, v Aston Villa, Stoke v Everton, Sunderland v West Ham, Tottenham v Ipswich, West Bromwich v Chelsea. Tomorrow: Luton v Manchester United. DIVISION TWO Birmingham v
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    • 189 24 DIV ONE TABLE P W D L F A Pts Evarton 33 22 6 5 75 36 72 Man United 35 19 8 8 67 37 65 Tottenham 35 19 7 9 64 38 64 Shaft Wad 36 15 14 7 52 37 59 Araanal 37 17 8 12
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    • 406 25  -  They confirm their volleyball superiority with this double PSpQRT^wScHOO^^ By K SILVAM YUMIN Primary School, which won the A division boys title, confirmed their volleyball superiority by completing a double when their B division boys beat favourites Pei Chun at Delta Sports Complex yesterday
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    • 323 25  -  By DANIEL WEE BUKIT Ho Swee's 8-3 win over AngloChinese School in the National Schools All Stars Waterpolo B division league yesterday at Barker Road was just two goals short of clinching the tournament's last semifinal berth. Earlier, Buona Vista, Queensway and Newtown
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    • 318 25  -  ST ANDREW'S SEC 34 WHITLEY SEC 6 By B KULA THEY did not know the rules or even the scoring system in a rugby match. They did not even know where their players were supposed to go for a touch down. Despite their lack of
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    • 213 25 CHEERFUL Mohamed Kamsani bin Yussoh of Queensway Secondary, finalist in the National Schools Waterpolo B division title, is not their star striker, but he is somebody special. Kamsani, the 1.55 metre, 40 kg waterpoloist, will be the only Malay lad to play in next Wednesday's
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    • 237 25  -  ALFONSO CHAN By IT'S now time for top bowlers in Singapore to prove their worth. The Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress will begin its trials in two weeks'.tijTTe to select a team for the SouthEast Asia Games. All bowlers registered with affiliated clubs are
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    • 393 26 ASIAN BADMINTON CONFEDERATION CHAMPIONSHIPS Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday TOP SEED Zhao Jianhua of China survived an early setback and beat unseeded Indian Vimal Kumar after a three-set tussle in the Asian Badminton Confederation Championships yesterday. Kumar stunned Zhao 15-12 with sharp strokes
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    • 111 26  -  By K SILVAM SERANGOON GARDENS, who have dominated the Inter-Constituency Netball championships since the inception of the tournament in 1977, are almost certain of making it the ninth time. With crushing 40-7 and 58-15 wins against Mountbatten and Tanjong Pagar respectively, they have
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    • 158 26 THE SUCCESSFUL Team Tennis tournament will return to the Kallang courts next month with new sponsors and fresh incentives which are expected to draw the best tennis players in the land. Starting on May 11, the battle for an all-expenses paid trip to Perth,
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    • 382 26  -  By ALFONSO CHAN WHEN the preliminary rounds of the 10th Ascot Singapore Closed Squash Championships get under way, the focus will be on the Under-19 tournament and the Men's Open. Lim Seok Hui, the number five seed, will be out
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    • WORLDFRONT
      • 66 26 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD CHILE'S Number One, Hans Gildemeister, beat a nervous Stefan Edbe™ 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 to win the first singles when Sweden opened their defence of the Davis Cup yesterday. Gildemeister, 29, and ranked 60th, took advantage of hi* greater experience and
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      • 92 26 SIXTH-SEEDED Tim Mayotte (right) of the United States regained his concentration in the third set and rallied to a 7-6, 1-6, 6-3 victory yesterday over John Lloyd of Great Britain to reach the semifinals of the US$2OO,OOO (5J448.000) River Oaks International Tennis Tournament Mayotte broke Lloyd
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      • 75 26 WEST GERMAN Bernhard Langer, the upset winner of last week's Masters, shot a 5-under-par 66 and climbed to within one stroke of the coleaders yesterday in the second round of the US$4OO,OOO (S8896.000) Pines Heritage Classic. Langer, 27, who scored his first American triumph last weekend
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