Singapore Monitor, 25 April 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 16 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR rEVEAir&lH EDITION S M C (Pj No 21/5/84 Thursday, April 25, 1985 30cents
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  • 515 1  -  Indonesian linked to scheme by 'Abalone King' to outwit banks ■y SIT YIN FONG THE millionaire IndonesianChinese boss of a second trading company alleged to have conspired with "Abalone King Ng Choon Ser to cheat banks through a scheme of drawing letters of credit for
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  • 148 1 Reuter NEW YORK, Thursday AN unidentified private collector paid a record US$9.9 million (5521.78 million) last night for a landscape by Vincent Van Gogh, who once wrote that he wished his paintings were worth what he'd spent on their paint. The price for
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  • home
    • 367 2  -  By CHEE LI CHOO SINGAPORE, Hong Kong and France are considered the best places for shopping as far as Japanese tourists are concerned. This finding was from a survey conducted by the Japanese "Mainichi Shim bun" newspaper based on 983 effective responses from
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    • 433 2  -  By IRENE TOH A HAWKER'S assistant, who was was questioned earlier in connection with the murder last year of a Caucasian, Robert L Pearson, at the Boots and Saddle Club in Upper Thomson, appeared today in a coroner's court as a witness of another
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    • 115 2 THIEVES broke into an office at Marine Parade Central and forced open a steel cabinet, taking away a collection of gems worth $25,000 Mr Muthiah Natayson, 50, the director of Navagraha International, said he left the office at 1 pm on Friday after having
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    • 96 2 SUPERINTENDENT Lee Kim Hock, officer-in-charge of Queenstown Police Station, will be leaving for Canada tomorrow to attend an Executive Development course in Ottawa. He will then be placed on a three-week attachment programme with the Metropolitan Toronto Police. The contents of the six-week course,
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    • 76 2 SIXTY representatives from about 45 companies this morning attended a one-day technical seminar on silkscreen printing. The guest speaker at the seminar was Mr Thomas Schweizer, a screen printing engineer and technical manager of ZBF, Zurich Bolting Cloth Manufacturing Co Ltd, in Switzerland. He spoke
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    • 276 3  -  By JOSEPH LEE THE SINGAPORE Institute of Arbitrators was told this morning to "set high professional standards and to ensure that persons who offer themselves as arbitrators possess adequate training." Mr Yap Neng Chew, chairman of the Construction Industry Development Board, in
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    • 127 3  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG TWENTY-FOUR students from the Catholic Junior College and their teacher-in-charge had a glimpse yesterday of what it takes to groom the Singapore Girl. The students, who are members of the school's Commerce Club, went on an educational tour of
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    • 162 3 Lianhe Zaobao THE SINGAPORE Tourist Promotion Board will increase the number of stalls at the Singapore Handicraft Centre pasar malam from the present 60 to 140 from May 1. The pasar malam, which was first introduced on April 7, has proved to be a
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    • 301 4 SINGAPORE'S revision of its copyright laws will be finalised only after the authorities are satisfied that the public is ready to pay more for books, music and computer software and that the new laws will not result in unfavourable trade relations with
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    • 428 4 SINGAPORE students are worried that the days of cheap, photocopied versions ot expensive textbooks may soon be over. Prior to the High Court ruling, some lawyers argued that photocopying books was not an infringement as the books copied did not enjoy copyright protection. Therefore although
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    • 189 4 Lianhe Wanbao A PATCH of burnt skin showed how a 10-year-old schoolgirl was illtreated bv her mother. She haa to do most of the domestic chores, including washing all the clothes. Chen Meijing of Tions Bahru Primary School received tne burn last Thursday morning when her
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 98 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS SECRETARY Betty Ong (above) yesterday proved that she is a cut above the rest when she won the title of "Super Secretary" for 1985 in a contest organised by the Singapore Association of Personal and Executive Secretaries (SAPES). Miss Ong,
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      • 74 4 RETAILERS of electrical appliances should have their goods tested for safety, says Dr Lee Ngak Siang, president of the Consumer Association of Singapore (Case). If they cannot get competent people to conduct the tests, they should submit the products to the Singapore Institute of Standards and
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      • 95 4 A FASHIONABLY-DRESSED couple has been preying on courting couples at Mount Faber. fne pair, both in their early twenties, is known to have robbed several people in the more secluded spots on the hill. But only one such incident at Mount Faber has been reported because,
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      • 81 4 TAXI-DRIVERS were warned yesterday that soliciting for passengers is an offence. The Registry of Vehicles (ROV) issued this warning following a complaint bv the Singapore Turf Club that taxis had invaded the club s premises during weekends since the taxi fare hike. The Turf Club complained
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    • 68 4 The Chef carves at 8.15pm every Thursday at the In the best European tradition of old, our chef will ceremoniously carve a succulent roast, done to a turn, on the one and only roast spit in town. Iteat yourself to a hearty slice of this roast, accompanied with all the
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  • world
    • 212 6 Dr Mahathir sees them as potential for Malaysia's tourist industry Bernama STAVANGER (Norway), Thursday MALAYSIA will launch a campaign to attract tourists from the Scandinavian countries during the winter months, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said here today. He said that a total of 400,000
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    • 97 6 UPI LONDON, Thurs SNORING may be a good source of marital jokes but it isn't funny to Finnish researchers who reported in the medical weekly "The Lancet," yesterday, as they found it to be often associated with high blood pressure and angina pectoris. The
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    • 330 6 UPI WASHINGTON, Thursday PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan, warning the United States' economic future hangs in the balance, appealed to the American people to rally behind his fiscal policies and force Congress to abandon "the immoral, dead-end course of deficit spending." "We stand
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    • 144 6 LOS ANGELES, Thursday FIFTY demonstrators pounded on drums and chanted "Democracy yes, dictatorship no" when South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan arrived in Los Angeles yesterday on his way to Washington to meet President Ronald Reagan. Some of the demonstrators, who were kept outside the
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    • 130 6 AP TOKYO, Thursday THE AVERAGE office worker in Tokyo and Osaka took 52,800 yen (Ss2ll) out of his pay every month for pocket money, with many complaining that's not enough, according to a survey. The poll conducted among 1,795 office workers by the Nippon
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    • 156 7 Reuter BEUIINQ, Thursday BEIJING, struggling to provide cheap accommodation for tens ot thousands of Chinese tourists, has turned 170 air-raid shelters into underground lodgings, the China Daily newspaper reported yesterday. It said the Chinese capital had a chronic shortage of budget hotels. Too
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    • 197 7 Reuter AHMEDABAD (India), Thurs THE INDIAN Government says it will press on with its controversial minorities policy despite violent protests in the western city of Ahmedabad, in which at least 35 people have died in a week. Home Minister S Chavan told Parliament in New
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    • 61 7 WARSAW, Thurt MARYANNA POPIELUSZKO, the mother of murdered pro-Solidarity Eriest Jerzy Popieluszko, olds a picture of her son during a pilgrimage by clerics in honour of his nameday. Four security police officers were convicted for the murder of Father Popieluszko. The officers were
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    • 318 7 AP WASHINGTON, Thurs PRESIDENT Reagan will visit the military cemetery at Bitburg, West Germany, next month despite an outcry from Jews, veterans and Congress, but he may not participate in> a commemoration ceremony, a top White House aide said yesterday. A
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    • 107 7 Reuter NEW YORK, Thursday A MUSICAL about a French impressionist painter, an expose on a design flaw in a helicopter that killed 250 American soldiers and a suburban New York newspaper's graphic coverage of faraway famine in Africa won Pulitzer Prizes yesterday. Stephen Sondheim's
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    • 558 8 HONQ KONG, Thurs WHEN Taylor Wang's father put his son aboard a luxury liner bound for Hong Kong 25 years ago, he hoped the young man would come back ready to take on the family shipping business. Instead, his studies there only confirmed Taylor Wang's
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    • 155 8 AP SEOUL, Thursday COLOUR has been called for in preparation for next year's Asian Games and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. An announcement by the the South Korean Ministry of Home Affairs today said that instructions were going out to city and provincial governments
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    • 415 8 Agencies NEW YORK, Thursday MAJOR Arthur Nicholson Jr, who was fatally shot last month by a Soviet sentry in East Germany while photo{raphing Soviet anks, had earlier photographed the inside of one, the New York Times reported yesterday. Maj Nicholson, in
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    • 283 8 AP LOUISVILLE (Kentucky), Thursday ARTIFICIAL heart recipient Jack Burcham, whose kidneys had been failing before his operation 10 days ago, died last night, authorities said. Mr Burcham, 62, of Le Roy, Illinois, died early last night, said Mr Bob Irvine, spokesman
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 109 9 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS THE SECOND anniversary of the New York Pops orchestra looked like amateur night at the VFVI Hall. New York Yankees outfielder Dave Winfield conducted the orchestra and ABC's Barbara Walters sang "For Me and My Gal" while Gloria Steinem
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      • 83 9 CODY VAN BELLE, who is 13 and suffering a rare form of cancer, headed from his home in Euless, Texas, to Los Angeles on Tuesday for a meeting with the mortal world's version of God George Burns. "He's just neat because he's lived so long
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      • 57 9 ACTOR Yves Montand has never run for office but is already behind in the polls. Thirty-three K:r cent of the French population would vote for ontand, but 47 per cent said they would vote against him, according to a survey of 1,000 people that was published
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      • 33 9 OLEG Belavensev, 36, Third Secretary at the Russian Embassy, leaving London's Heathrow Airport yesterday with wife Irene and sons Dimitri (left), eight, and Alexei, seven, following their expulsion from Britain.
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      • 64 9 JOHN HOUSEMAN says television has left him stereotyped as a crusty old law professor (in The Paper Cnase) and put him in "rather shameful pursuit" as an announcer on commercials. "I have found myself not reluctantly over the last 10 years condemned to represent myself as a
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    • 227 9 Bernama KOTA KINABALU, Thurs THE USNO and Berjaya Supreme Councils met separately last night to discuss the same issue the question of a vote of no confidence against their respective presidents. The Berjaya Supreme Council held its meeting at the party headquarters
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    • 84 9 AP ANKARA (Turkey), Thursday THE SON of the South Korean ambassador to Turkey committed suicide yesterday by jumping from a fifth-storey window of the Embassy residence, an Embassy official said. The official, who asked that his name not be used, said Lee In-Yul, 28-year
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    • 271 9 Agencies WASHINGTON, Thursday THE US State Department said today Iran may have developed the ability to use chemical weapons in the Gulf war with Iraq. The United States has in the past accused Iraq of using chemical weapons and has
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    • 56 7 f 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. mam Every Friday.
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    • 289 7 Attention: All Singapore Retailers As you may be aware, EFT-POS (Electronic Fund Transfer at Point of Sale) is here and is about to take us by storm. What does it mean to you, the retailer, no matter what size your outfit is, when it happens? EFT-POS is for everyone As
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    • 196 9 ~^m r w *>*{Ifc :As~ ..if ,v -•2*«« 4jr MMem> iH hhuHA, IHMV m vn^^Hßv^ ipg I* Once the curtain goes up at 9.00pm, you're in for an hour of pulsating, non-stop gala entertainment Jiip^BJ^^Hj^^^^B at S.E. Asia's largest theatre restaurant. [V The rousing big band sounds of Tony Tze
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  • money
    • 885 10  -  How it all started By JANICE LIM BANKS have mounted an aggressive campaign to take professionals on the Silk Road with them. They, major local and foreign banks, want to promote their names in general and business opportunities in China in particular.
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    • 142 10 SINGAPORE'S total trade deficit shot up by nearly $1 billion last month and was the highest in five months, according to latest statistics from the Department of Statistics. We imported slightly more than $5 billion worth of goods from overseas countries and Peninsular
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    • 132 10 MIDLAND Bank SA reported a group post-tax profit of French francs 52.3 million (5512.40 million) for 1984 compared to 1983's profit of French francs 51.9 million. Trading profit rose by 23 per cent from French francs 93 million to French francs 114.5 million. But
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    • 127 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday PLANTATION and property group, Keck Seng (M) Bhd, recorded a group pre-tax profit of M|31.61 million (5527.8 million) for the year ended Dec 31,1984, up 74 per cent compared to M 518.16 million previously. This was registered on the back
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    • 159 11 Reuter THE US dollar rose slightly against most major currencies from New York levels in quiet early trading on sh6rt covering. Dealers said the market remained uncertain over the short term direction of the dollar and US interest rates. Operators were also reluctant to take large positions in the
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    • 267 11 Selected stocks at midday. Market toae: slightly Boustead 1.85/170 Cold Storage 2 58/2.82 FAN 5.00/5.05 GenUng 5.70/5 75 GIITT 80/1.11 Ha# Par 2 JOB Isetan 2.388 Jurong Cement 1.878 Keck Seng 2.20/2 22 Esso 2.57/2.80 Inchcape 2 45/2 48 Intraco 192/2 00 M Cement 1.28/1.30 Metro 2.89/2.93 M P
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    • 109 11 Your 8$ to on* unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DD TT DD USf 2.2250 2.2150 2 2060 Sterling 2.7273 2.7052 2 6952 Australian 1.4905 1.4665 1.4515 Canadian f 1.6364 1.6163 1.6063 New Zealand 9 1.0190 1.9989 0.9739 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to 1 unit USf 2.22 2.20 NZ9 1.05
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    • 264 11 THE LOCAL bourse opened quiet this morning, recording one of the lowest volumes in two years, dealers said. "There is absolutely no interest in this dull and featureless market," one dealer commented. The top volume stock JC-MPH loan traded 220,000 to close at
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    • 132 11 HSCLLSTREET STOCKS finished little changed yesterday as investors went into a "holding pattern" while waiting for a key speech by President Ronald Reagan on the US budget, analysts said. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 0.22 points to close at
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    • 42 11 THE OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 404.13, down 1.09 points from the previous day's close of 405.22. The OUB Singapore Dollar Tradeweighted Index was up 0.2043 point to 133.4540 in morning trading from the previous day's close of 133.2497.
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    • 202 11 Now, Suzuki makes even more sense Introducing SB3oB—successor to Japans bestselling car The new Suzuki SB3OB 5-door (CD 0.36) and smooth body surhatchback sedan, successor to face for better fuel economy fBMIVV Japan's best selling car of the year and a speedy and nearly (1984). And proof of the sensibility
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  • opinion/letters
    • 247 12  -  BRYAN PLUNKETT Singapore 2365 MY FAMILY and I would like to take this opportunity to commend the men of Jurong Police Station for the prompt and efficient service rendered on Sunday, April 21. About 5.00 pm on April 21,1 discovered that my motorcycle was
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    • 587 12  -  HENRY LIM Singapore 1545 AS THE proportion of elderly people in our population increases, the most serious of the problems that will arise in the next 15 years as a result of this demographic shift will be providing medical care for them.
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    • 193 12  -  PETER BOYD Singapore 1335 I RECENTLY read your report "Businessman loses $10,000 to pickpockets on bus" (SM, Apr 23) about a 32-year-old businessman who lost $10,000 to a pickpocket while riding on a bus. This problem will get out of hand if these pickpockets are not
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    • 409 13 THE SINGAPORE KKu^SSS MONITOR IBWHB1 IN URGING the medical profession to {>ut self-serving or parochial interests ast so as to maintain the integrity and credibility of the profession with the Sublic, Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, Minister of tate for Health, was reflecting the sentiments
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    • 179 13  -  /dfdv VVMtt ti t\ El* Mr Sum KU& JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBS I REFER to the letter, "Rus driver just walked off Co *tea," complaining against a Service 361 driver (SM, April 3). We wish to apologise to the writer and other passengers
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    • 199 13  -  FOO MENG TONG Administrator Skills Development Fund I REFER to the letter "Hard to see why skills fund application was rejected" by "Perplexed" (SM, April 2). He has correctly pointed out that the Skills Development Fund supports training undertaken by employers for
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    • 224 13  -  CHEOK YEN AIK for General Manager Urban Redevelopment Authority PLEASE refer to the article "Rates at two car parks to rise" (SM, Apr 19). We have explained that through our control of parking rates, all private car parks in Singapore are
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    • 148 13  -  DR S DEVI Dy Director of Medical Services (Primary Health and Health Education) Ministry of Health I REFER to the letter "Fear that VD may be spread through clinic's instruments" by Lily Goh (SM, April 19). A decentralised programme to control venereal
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    • 72 13 I® 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 deddee to use a pseudonym in print.'A oontact telephone number would be useful We reserve the
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  • leisure
    • 1130 14 Hart Bochner takes on another role created by the American writer in The Sun Also Rises OPA ERNEST HEMINGWAY S The Sun Also Rises is a modern classic, but that does not mean it is immune to televisualisation. In turning the book into four hours
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    • 601 14  -  By WONG AH YOKE ERNEST HEMINGWAY purists will be disappointed to fina that the National Broadcasting Corporation's four-hour television version of The Sun Also Rises is not true to the novel. But then, how many movie versions of classic literature ever are? The bigger problem
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    • 545 14  -  By FRANK SPOTNITZ in New York UPI JACQUES-HENRI DJIAN, an urbane Frenchman with a taste for fine cigars and pink champagne, says the United States knows plenty about making movies, but could learn a thing or two about how to watch
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    • 454 16 Feature Special The Sun Alto Rites (Part one) (Chinese subtitle#) (Ch 5, 9.20 pm) BASED on Ernest Hemingway's 1926 classic, this two-part TV adaptation stars Hart Bochner, Jane Seymour, Robert Carradine and Leonard Nimoy as disenchanted English and American expatriates
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    • 63 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 SINQ YEONQ, Faces in the Crowd, The Singapore Monitor, 2 Alexandra
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    • 319 17 THE French are prominent in town right how. The Metro Stores' Vision de France promotion shows off a great range of French products plus a visiting entourage of international beauty specialists, crafts people (from santon dollmaker to hurdy-gurdy performers) and a troupe of folkloric dancers. Picture A
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    • 64 17 AT THE ballroom of the Royal Holiday Inn, Singaporeans are paying tribute to local designers during the special Secretaries' Week buffet-cum-fashion snow, which ends on Saturday. In the picture is Yang Derong, one of seven designers featured, about to receive smacks of appreciation from two Carrie's models on
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    • 82 17 A SPECIAL Secretaries' Week buffet-cum-fashion show is also on at the Manhattan Grill, Boulevard Hotel, until Saturday. Miss Singapore 1984 Jenny Koh Li Peng, is seen here with Mrs Dora Khoo, assistant manager of Management Services Limited, Mr Khoo Ban Tian (right), chairman of
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    • 253 14 BEST U.S. STEAK yr Direct from Harris Ranch in Central California The Number One Steak in California, and now in Singapore L A A Only at Jack s Place Steak House you II find six different choices 'rom only $16. you'll get a tender juicy, corn-fed v. premium U S
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1519 15 leisure 1 Bw" 2.30 SBC TEXT Live Sample Paget. M 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The- "™P!H Wild Bunch (C) 4.30 Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion (Part one). $aK k fl I 5.20 Andy Robson New Friend*.* Jmh I Alec and Andy bid farewell to Victoria
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    • 173 16 Meals at Caffe De Grand are twice as good. Enjoy a select choice of Western and Chinese cuisine or ask for your local favourites at Cafe De Grand. You'll love our delicious food and our surprisingly low prices. Come to Cafe De Grand today. And relax in the cool, quiet
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 206 18 SINGAPORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HORN QUARTET THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra Horn Quartet, comprising Gary Gardner, Low Tee Hong, Li Sheung Mi and Dixie Wong, will give a lunchtime concert at DBS Auditorium tomorrow from 12.30 pm to I.SO pm. Included in the programme are works by Beethoven, Wagner, Tscherepnine, and Weber.
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    • 308 18 One of displa the National Museum Saturday to Monday TANG JUEY LEE Art Gallery. THERE will be an exhibition of paint- A result of the last two years' work, ings on orchids and lotuses by 31-year- the exhibition will feature 45 abstract old Tang Juey Lee, in celebration of 10
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    • 284 18 Theatre for the young PRESENTED by the Ministry of Community Development with the assistance of The British Council and Canadian High Commission, this two-week long programme aims to promote drama among young Singaporeans. If it proves successful, the ministry plans to make it an annual event. The remaining schedule is:
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • GO PLACES WITH Mansfield Holidays
    • 534 20  -  Without the tourists tranquility returns to Sri Lanka's old capital By PAUL WEDEL UPI ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka: It is a paradox the Buddhist rulirs of Sri Lanka's ancient capital might have appreciated: The violence between the country's two main ethnic groups has brought a
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    • 154 20 UPI LEGEND says the city was founded in the 4th century BC and served as the capital for 118 kings before it was abandoned. It was reclaimed from the jungle in the early 19th century. The pride of Anuradhapura is the Sacred Bo Tree,
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    • 703 23 RACE 1 2.15 Restricted Terms Div B 1200 m 1 Against All Odds 57 Copal 5 2 Supreme Chaser 57 Woon 1 3 Only Sunshine 57 Danis 3 4 Qreystoke 57 Cook 4 5 Peace Envoy 57 M Rahman 8 Emmentai 57 Yeap 10 7 Pensive 57 Tiley
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    • 312 23 Agencies ATLANTA, Thursday TOP-RANKED John McEnroe led an advance by five of the top seeded players yesterday in the WCT-Atlanta Tennis Tournament, taking an easy 6-3, 6-3 firstround victory over fellow American Brian Teacher. Stefan Ed berg of Sweden, the seventh seed, was upset,
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    • 119 23 AP ATHENS (Ohio), Thurs FLOYD Beattie had run a few marathons already but decided to do something different for the Athens Marathon. Now he claims the world record for the 42kilometre distance on a unicycle. The 32-year-old American completed last week's marathon in his hometown in
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    • 380 24  -  Favourites fall to team they beat in earlier rounds Sports in School^ WATERPOLO By DANIEL WEE SINGAPORE Technical Institute overpowered Raffles Junior College 13-4 to clinch the "A" Division National Schools All-Star Waterpolo League title at the Barker Road Pool yesterday. It was the
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    • 187 24  -  ACJC 11 St Andrew's JC 0 By B KULA IT WAS more like a final than a third and fourth placing match. The manner in which both AN-GLO-CHINESE JUNIOR COLLEGE and ST ANDREW'S JUNIOR COLLEGE played gave the impression that they were
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    • 22 24 A DIVISION STI 13 RJC 4 B DIVISION BOUNA VISTA 6 QUEENSWAY 2 C DIVISION BOUNA VISTA 7 ST ANDREW'S 6
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    • 138 24 The pitch at Dover Road was suited for anything bat soccer when Bukit Merah took on Donearn yesterday. The overgrown grass, besides making the field look like a patch of eleRhant grass in the jangle, made accurate passig of the ball more a matter of luck than skill.
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    • 318 24  -  BUKIT MERAH 2 DUNEARN SEC 1 By K SILVAM A GOAL in each half was enough to give BUKIT MERAH VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE a semifinal berth when they beat DUNEARN SECONDARY 21 in the National Schools' "A" Division soccer match at Dover Road yesterday. Playing
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    • 389 25 Two teams clinch places in European soccer finals ROUND-UP EUROPEAN CLUB SOCCER SEMI-FINALS... EUROPEAN CLUB SOCCER Reuter LONDON, Thursday THE ENGLISH port of Liverpool could become the first city to provide the winners of Europe's two major club soccer trophies after rousing semi-final second-leg action
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    • 357 25 PANATHINAIKOS 0 LIVERPOOL 1 (Liverpool win 5-0 on aggregate) EUROPEAN CUP Reuter ATHENS, Thursday HOLDERS Liverpool showed their love of the big occasion yet again in Athens last night when they progressed to their fifth European Cup final appearance by outclassing Greek
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    • 357 25 BORDEAUX 2 JUVENTUS O (Juventus win 3-2 on aggregate) Reuter BORDEAUX (Franc*), Thursday ITALIAN champions Juventus last night qualified for the European Cup final, surviving the passionate ana brave challenge of Bordeaux but only just. Juventus lost 2-0 on a night of excitement but scraped home
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    • 203 25 Reuter BORDEAUX (Franc*), Thursday SIX PLAYERS were booked in the red-blooded contest between Bordeaux of France and Juventus of Italy here last night. The battle had been fierce before Dieter Mueller's 24th minute goal, which erased the bitter memory of a penalty miss in the
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    • RESULTS AT A GLANCE
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        31 25 In ATHENS: Panathinaikos (Greece) 0 Liverpool (England) 1 (Half-time 0Liverpool win 9-0 on aggregate. In BORDEAUX: Bordeaux (France) 2 Juventus (Italy) 0 (Half-time: 10). Juvenilis win 3-2 on aggregate.
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      • 37 25 In MOSCOW: Dynamo Moscow (Soviet Union) 1 Rapid Vienna (Austria) 1 (Half-time: 1-1). Rapid Vienna win 4-2 on aggregate. In LIVERPOOL: Everton (England) 3 Bayern Munich (West Germany) 1 (Half-time: 0-1). Everton'win 3-1 on aggregate.
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        32 25 In SARAJEVO: Zeijeznicar Sarajevo (Yugoslavia) 2 VkJeoton (Hungary) 1 (Half-time: 1-0). Vktooton win 4-3 In MADRID: Real Madrid (Spain) 3 Internazionale Milan (Italy) 0 (Half-time: 2-0). Real Madrid win 3-
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    • 39 25 EUROPEAN CUP WINNERS' UEFA CUP CUP CUP Liverpool v Juven- Rapid Vienna v Videoton v Real tus (Brussels, May Everton (Rotter- Madrid (2 legs, May 29) dam, May 15) 8, May 22)
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    • 276 26 EVERTON 3 BAYERN 1 (Everton win 3-1 on aggregate) 27 CUP WINNERS' CUP LIVERPOOL, Thursday EVERTON, trailing 1-0 at halftime, produced an irresistible second-naif performance to sweep aside Bayern Munich 3-1 in the European Cup Winners' Cup soccer semi-final here last night. Graeme
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    • 300 26 DYNAMO 1 RAPID 1 (Rapid win 4-2 on aggregate) Reuter MOSCOW, Thursday RAPID VIENNA enjoyed their greatest moment in European soccer yesterday when they held Dynamo Moscow to a 1-1 draw to qualify for the Cup Winners' Cup final in Rotterdam next month. Rapid,
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    • 262 26 ZELJEZNICAR 2 VIDEOTON 1 (Videoton win 4-3 on aggregate) UEFA CUP Reuter SARAJEVO (Yugoslavia), Thursday A GOAL three minutes from the end by defender Csuhay put Videoton of Hungary through to the UEFA Cup soccer final despite losing 2-1 to Zeljeznicar Sarajevo
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    • 368 26 REAL MADRID 3 INTER MILAN Q (Real Madrid win 3-2 on aggregate) Reuter MADRID, Thursday REAL MADRID resurrected a season which had seen the club stumble from one disaster to another by reaching the final of the UEFA Cup last night.
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    • 273 26 Reuter LONDON, Thurt IRISH international Dave Langan repaid Oxford for rescuing him from the soccer scrap heap when he scored the goal which took the club into the English First Division last night. Langan's career looked to be over this time last J
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    • 58 26 Yards of Difference Spalding's New '85 Series PRO FLUE Individual Balance Irons Generates a consistent trajectory throughout the set. Thereby resulting in a more consistent distance Asct-up for more one-putt W j AMERICA'S FIRS! s°' c A cnt: 2|| MekmKn Marketing Ptm. Ltif 608 Martin Road, #05-06 Singapore Warehouse, Singapore
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  • MONITOR sports
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      20 27 Bordeaux 2 Juventus 0 Juventus win 3-2 on aggregate Panathinaikos 0 Liverpool 1 Liverpool win 5-0 on aggregate
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      24 27 Zeljeznicar Sarajevo 2 Videoton 1 (Videoton win 4-3 on aggregate) Real Madrid 3 Inter Milan 0 (Real Madrid win 3-2 on aggregate)
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    • 24 27 Dynamo Moscow 1 Rapid Vienna 1 (Rapid Vienna win 4-2 on aggregate) Everton 3 Bayem Munich 1 (Everton win 3-1 on aggregate)
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    • 336 27 Coach on what will help Singapore win the Malaysia Cup AFTER clearing the Malaysia Cup preliminary rounds without much of a problem, and landing the League title in the process, Singapore coach Hussein Aljunied has now set his sights on the double. In an article in
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    • 100 27 Note: Three points for a win Fixtures: Tomorrow: Selangor vs Penang, Kedah vs Johor, Brunei vs Pahang, Kelantan vs Negri Saturday: FT vs Trengganu Sunday: Sabah vs Pahang p w d l w k rrs SINGAPORE 15 11 2 2 27 39 Johor 14 9 2 3 31
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    • 98 27 Malaysia Cup matches: Drew with Brunei 0-0, beat Sabah 10, bt Perlis 5-0, lost to FT 0-1, bt Perak 4-1, bt Kelantan 2-0, bt Selangor 1-0, bt Trengganu 2-0, bt Pahang 2-1, bt Negri Sembilan 1-0, bt Armed Forces 2-0, bt Sarawak 2-0, lost to Johor 1-3, bt
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