Singapore Monitor, 10 July 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 16 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR V C < p No 51 585 Wednesday. July 10, 1985 EVENING EDITION 30cents
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  • 226 1 Lianhe Wanbao JOHOH MRU, Wednesday JOHOR GANGSTERS who threaten Singaporean tourists with extortion or robberies do not always get away with it. One man who attempted to extort money from a Singaporean in broad daylight at the train station here was arrested on
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  • 287 1 Current look The ultra-short Shavetail' AP WASHINGTON, Wtdnesday KEEP your hair, long, soldier and that's an order. This unusual directive has gone out to Marine guards at all US embassies around the world. Reason? To make the close-cropped Marines less prominent and hence, less susceptible
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  • 108 1 UPI MUNICH, Wednesday THE DREAM man of West German women is sporty, bronzed and blue-eyed, short-haired with curls and mid-blond, slim but muscular, clean-shav-en and 184 cm (6 ft 1 ins) tall, a weekly magazine here reported yesterday. Bunte Magazine said a "representative sample"
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  • 738 1  -  ■y ROBERT CONCEICAO SPECTATOR PARTICIPATION that's what the organisers of this year's National Day parade are striving for to make the centrepiece of this year's celebrations different from parades in the past. The organisers hope that Singaporeans will not only cheer and clap during the
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  • home
    • 198 2  -  By CALVIN TAN TWO SEPARATE traffic accidents yesterday killed one pedestrian and seriously injured another. In the first accident, which took place about 10 am yesterday, an SBS service 137 bus was travelling along Lorong 6 towards Lorong 1 Toa
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    • 199 2 THE GEYLANG Methodist Girls' School is still short of the $2.8 million it needs to meet its share of $4.1 million required for its building. The total cost of the building is $21 million. The school was re-sited last year
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    • 80 2 ITS BACK to the drawing board. Lost among the many comics and magazines, this sign just doesn't seem to be working. Or perhaps customers just prefer to ignore it. These two boys were too busy doing precisely what the sign asks them not to. Put up by
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    • 93 2 JOHOR, which is presently drawing 135 million litres of water daily from Singapore under a special arrangement with the Refublic, can draw up to 66.5 million litres if the need arises. Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ajib Ahmad said today that under the
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    • 342 3 Oven suppliers appointed as PUB agents will be able to apply on consumers' behalf Lianhe Zaobao BUYERS of gas appliances will be able to apply for piped fas through certain gas oven suppliers from next month The Public Utilities Board (PUB) is making amnaim—to
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    • 233 3  -  By IRENE TOH A SYSTEM operator invaded the privacy of a woman from Toa Payoh when he took a photograph of her in a toilet cubicle, a district court heard today. The 26-year-old woman was in a ladies' toilet in Inchcape
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    • 241 3  -  9y JOSEPH LEE TELECOMS is now the sole publication of Singapore's telephone directories, including the Yellow Pages. It has paid off its previous American partner in the venture, General Telephone Directory Corporation, with an undisclosed sum. The amount is believed to be in
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    • 367 4  -  By PAT D'ROSE WEE AIK THIAN'S wedding, due to take place later this year, will have to be postponed. He will probably have to go iob-hunting again now that his employment has been cut short by a near fatal accident, just three
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    • 149 4  -  By EE BOON LEE HAWKER-CONTROL officers want stiffer penalties to deter illegal hawkers who keep plying their trade despite repeated convictions. Some have chosen to stay selling outside the law even after being offered legal stalls. Heavier fines would be a real deterrent,"
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    • 86 4 DOCTORS in Muar last night kept the secret from little Suri Diana Tina that her grandparents were killed in the head-on collision between the car they were in and an express bus. Suri, 10, a pupil of Bedok Primary School, had iust woken after nearly
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 94 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS BELIEVE it or not, you can now literally wear a hi-fi system, speakers and all. A local company, Creative Arts Centre, is distributing a fashionable Taiwan-made PVC jacket with a sewn-in hi-fi system (picture above). Looking good while
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      • 64 4 HOW about renaming the Outram Road MRT Station to the Chinatown Station? This was the request from the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) which was formally submitted recently to the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation. The rationale for the name change is simple: The name, Chinatown Station,
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      • 68 4 THREE DUTY-FREE shops aiming to sell last-minute farewell gifts to well-wishers at Changi Airport have found business slow. The shops, set up in the check-in hall, allow dutv-free goods to be selected and paid for, then collected in the departure lounge. The shops opened on
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      • 73 4 BY ALL accounts, it was a strange robbery. At the request of the victim, Mrs de Souza, (picture above) the robber returned a pendant of the Virgin Mary which she has had for more than 20 years. He was probably a first-timer. Trembling in his shoes, the
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      • 58 4 THE SPEAK Mandarin campaign this year, aimed mainly at transport workers, has as its slogan, "Mandarin is Chinese." For the last seven years, both the public and private sectors have participated in the campaign, which is held to encourage the Chinese public to speak Mandarin. The
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  • world
    • 258 6 AP BEIJING, Wednesday CHINA said last month it will arm 4,000 more troops of the non-com-munist factions in the Cambodian resistance, coalition leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk said yesterday. Prince Sihanouk said he was in Pyongyang, North Korea, at the time, but his coalition
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    • 233 6 AP BEUINQ, Wednesday POL POT, shadowy leader of the communist Khmer Rouge guerillas in Cambodia, visited Beijing this year for a medical checkup and to negotiate military aid, Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk said yesterday. Pol Pot is now in the Cardamon
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    • 234 6 Reuter SHANGHAI, Wednesday THE MINI SKIRT has hit China. Along Nanking Road, the main shopping street in trend-setting Shanghai, young girls are now wearing hems ranging from a conservative midi-length to a full 18 cm above the knee. After decades of revolutionary puritanism,
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    • 68 6 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday FIJI would like to establish a link with the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean), Fijian Deputy Prime Minister David Toganivalu said. <f Fiji is not seeking membership in Asean," Mr Toganivalu said, noting however that Papua New Guinea has observer
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    • 155 6 AP WASHINGTON, Wed THE UNITED States said vesterday that it would seriously consider sending a permanent delegation to Vietnam to work with officials there on resolving the fate of missing Americans if Hanoi has "a sincere desire to move forward much more
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    • 258 7 Reuter JOHANNESBURG, Wednesday SOME of the worst violence to hit troubled South Africa in recent months left at least seven Blacks dead from police gunfire at a township east of Johannesburg in the country's vital gold-producing region. Reporters at the scene of
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    • 57 7 Reuter TEL AVIV, Wed TWO CARS driven by suicide bombers exploded at the entrance to Israel's security zone in South Lebanon yesterday, killing 17 people and the vehicles' two drivers. Fifteen of the victims were Lebanese civilians and two were soldiers from the
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    • 69 7 AP PARIS, Wed CULTURE Minister Jack Lang, saying French cuisine is a national heritage, has decided to treat French gastronomy as an art. He and Agriculture Minister Henri Nallet have announced the creation of a National Centre for Culinary Arts, known as CNAC, to promote
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    • 302 7 AP WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE US Secret Service has broken up a counterfeiting ring in Asia that produced the highest quality fake US$lOO bills ever seized in the agency's 120-year history, US officials said yesterday. The agency said four men were now awaiting
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    • 112 7 Reuter LONDON, Wedneeday THE LONDON-BASED Lloyd's insurance market, yesterday expelled four of its members after a disciplinary committee found them guilty of dishonest conspiracy. The committee also found two of the four guilty of misappropriation of funds and falsification of accounts. Three of the
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    • 106 8 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday CALIFORNIA officials ordered grocers on Monday to destroy all of the thousands of watermelons in their possession and instituted an inspection programme to keep pesticide-taint-ed melons off the market. The action followed reports that 149 people in California had become ill after
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    • 481 8 LAT WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE FEDERAL government has "lost control" of prescription drug sales and may no longer be able to assure their safety. This is because pharmaceuticals are being distributed at discount prices through a submarket that thrives in California, according to a
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    • 356 8 UPI WASHINGTON, Wed SOVIET officials apparently have launched a trial balloon in the arms talks with the United States, floating the idea that the Kremlin might now be willing to accept some "Star Wars" anti-missile research. Spokesmen for the State Department
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    • 50 8 Reuter MADRID, Wad THIEVES hit a Madrid supermarket twice in less than five minutes yesterday, police said. Two armed men took 10,000 pesetas (Ssl32) from the cash box. When told the store had just been robbed, they took jewels from a woman customer instead. Reuter
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    • 154 8 AP SAN ANDREAS (California), Wednesday TWO DECOMPOSING bodies were unearthed from a newly discovered gravesite near a cabin used by survivalist Leonard Lake and companion Charles Ng, bringing to at least 11 the number of victims buried in the area, investigators said yesterday.
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    • 64 8 Reuter PARIS, Wed PARIS will soon have a new fleet of custom-built taxis sporting the city's red ana blue colours. The state-controlled Matra Company said it had signed a contract with Renault to market a cab based on the car manufacturer's new
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 84 9 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS THE GRATEFUL Dead and their loyal fans, the Dead Heads, were praised on the editorial pase of The Washington Post. The Dead played outside Washington last week and the Post said it brought out "more tie-dyed clothes than you've seen
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      • 66 9 MADONNA (right) says she does not care that Penthouse magazine is going to publish nude pictures of her. Madonna, recently engaged to actor Sean Penn, is in New York and will not speak directly to reporters. But her spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg, said: "She doesn't feel that she's done
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      • 75 9 PRESIDENT RONALD Reagan's daughter Maureen criticised US Attorney General Edwin Meese 111 yesterday for withholding a USs<2s,ooo (Sf 1.38 million) grant to a group that operates shelters for battered women because Conservatives have claimed the group promotes lesbianism. She said: "That's patently absurd...that's the same
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      • 38 9 WHEN CHINA'S premier Zhao Ziyang met US astronaut Taylor Wang yesterday, the premier told him: "You are the first Chinese descendant to have flown in space. You are the pride of the Chinese nation."
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    • 198 9 Reuter WASHINGTON, Wednesday U.S. BUDGET director David Stockman, who frequently ran foul of the White House for candid remarks criticising Administration policy and the military, resigned yesterday to take a job on Wall Street. The resignation, effective from August 1, was announced by the White
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    • 226 9 Reuter UNITED NATIONS, Wednesday PRESENT day criminals begin their careers earlier than the previous generation, with an increasing number of 13- and 14-year-olds becoming delinquents, according to a US expert. Professor Marvin Wolfgang of the University of Pennsylvania said in a
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    • 97 9 AP LONDON, Wed SPEAKERS Corner in Hyde Park, Britain's citadel of soapbox oratory, is facing a threat to the free speech that has characterised it for a century. Some of the speakers who come here on Sundays to address the crowds claim tbev
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  • money
    • 499 10  -  Its strength is due to the weakening US dollar in Britain By JILL HUM FOE THE first time since December 1983,. pound sterling traded briefly at $3.0019/42 to the Singapore dollar (U551.3480/90) yesterday morning before settling back around $2.9953/75 (U551.3450/60). This may augur sterling's
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    • 196 10 JURONG CEMENT'S group pre-tax losses dropped to $1.75 million, almost a tenth of last Sear's $15.89 million for tie year ended Mar 31. It was the same story for the after-tax profits, which dropped to $1.73 million from $10.49 million previously. Over the same period, group
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    • 238 11 SELECTED STOCKS AT MIDDAY MARKET TONE! SLIGHTLY HIGHER Boustead 1.46/1.48 Cold Storage 138/145 F&N4.M/S.OO Genting 5.50/5.55 GDI 1.13/1.84 Haw Par 104/2.05 Keck Seng 1 95/1 97 ESSO 161/2.63 Ipchcape 136/130 Keppel 134/1.35 Magnum 3.36/130 MCsmsnt 1.138 M.T.C. 3.80 B Pan Elect 118/119 Perils 114/3.18 Roths (M) 130/133 Metro 168/170
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    • 118 11 DOW JONES CLOSE: 1,321.91 (-6.50) Reuter STOCK market prices slid lower in moderate trading yesterday as investors grew nervous over the prospect of companies reporting lower profits in coming weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 6.50 to 1,321.91 while the New York Stock Exchange Index slid by
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    • 125 11 DOLLAR GOLD Reuter THE US dollar ruled narrowly mixed against most major currencies compared with New York levels in quiet early trading. The US unit eased to an early 244.30/40 yen from New York's 244.40/50 close and to 2.9635/45 marks from 2.9645/60 marks in the US. Sterling softened to an
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    • 89 11 Your 8$ to on* unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DO US| 2.2230 2.2130 2.2050 sterling 3.0305 3.0144 3.0044 Australian 1.5315 1.5115 1.4085 Canadian! ***** 1 6288 1.6186 New Zealand! 1.0669 1.0468 1.0368 CURRENCY NOTES SS to 1 unit US! 2.22 2.20 NZ! 1.08 1.00 sterling 3.04
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    • 303 11 BARGAIN hunting by private investors and major funds institutions pushed stock prices up a bid higher at noon. The market opened steady and remained steady throughout the better part of the morning. Much of the activity was concentrated on blue chips. OCBC was the top
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    • 19 11 Reuter OUB Composite Share Price In- dex close: 369.41 (+0.09) OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted Index close: 131.3832 (-0.0667)
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    • 826 11  -  By CATHERINE ONG HOLIDAY Inn Parkview wants 75 per cent occupancy in its first year of operation and its 36-year-old general manager Bernd Riegger, is confident of getting it despite intense competition and a sagging market. ™'m very, very aware of the situation, and
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    • 246 11 Bernama A TOTAL of 12 stocks have been traded below their par value while another seven hovered at iust between 1 and 10 per cent above par. Amalgamated Properties and Industries Bhd (API) was traded at 67 Malaysian cents yesterday, down 33 cents
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous


  • opinion/letters
    • 200 12 I REGULARLY travel on Service 41 of the Singapore Bus Service from Marine Parade. Recently, when I was on the bus, there was a pregnant woman and an old woman standing next to me. There were also three girls sitting in front of
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    • 814 12 THIS is courtesy month. It's time again to take a look at the "bus hog", a peculiar being who infests our buses. Members of the species are there in the morning when you go to work and there again in the
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    • 81 12 MAY I suggest that the vehicles of lift mechanicsbe fitted with a siren and strobe lights like those on ambulances and fire engines. Otherwise, a team of mechanics responding to emergency calls may arrive 20 minutes late. And old folk especially trapped in
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    • 174 12 CONGRATULATIONS to the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation for the very pleasant production, "Glimpses of Peking and Snanghai". Considering that It was only an incidental product of a visiting mission and that there was no prior planning in terms of personnel and equipment, it scored significant
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    • 494 13 THE SINGAPORE MtiNnoRHfIHSSH THIS is the second time in the past few J rears that Malaysia has decided to relax ts guidelines on foreign ownership of equity. The first was when Kuala Lumpur announced that those companies which exported 100 per cent of their products
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    • 111 13 COULD the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) please cnange the way it is televising the weekly Indian movies? At present, Indian movie fans are treated to a Tamil show in one week and a Hindustani show in the following week. But instead of screening the
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    • Article, Illustration
      74 13 LETTERS on any subject ol pubkc interest win be accepted for 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
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    • 81 13 I REFER to the recent report of a death associated with drug allergy in our hospital and the reply by Dr Chew Chin Hin, the Director of Medical Services (The Straits Times, June 21). As a concerned citizen, I am writing to ask what facilities
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    • 110 13  -  REPLY j& i ?<• e DERRICK TAN Public Relations Officer Telecoms WE REFER to the letter in Press, "A mailbox too far" by Derrick Poh (SM, July 1). With regard to the writer's request for a posting box near his home, we would
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    • 175 13 RECENTLY I was stopped by a Registry of Vehicles enforcement officer and booked for speeding. I asked to see the speed gun in order to ascertain the speed I was travelling at. I made this request after I suspected there was a mix-up
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    • 61 13 FOR the last few months the houses between Lorong Chuan and Cardiff Grove have been plagued by mosquitoes after dark. Residents have been badly bitten and denied sleep at night. There must be some mosquito breeding grounds in this area. Will the Ministry of the Environment kindly locate
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 813 14 2.30 BBCTEXT-LiveSamplePaaaa. 6.50 Oteema What OraamaAm Made Ot 9.00 Opening and Programme Highlights (Debut). > I BlossomsinlhaSun(C) SaeHighghta. v flndso* SSTh? Sayang Nenek-ku ISL»M •mm "V- S^f" 9 11 A ThaßtehardSimmonsShow. ties). Soma tipe on how to relieve fatigue A 70-year-old woman, Nanek Su. ar- 1 1 w^r are given.
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  • leisure
    • 390 15 Series V A Reflection in Terror (Malay subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) THE parent of this series, a shorter mini-series shown earlier, provides an excellent example of what makes an action sci-fi series throb, particularly when compared with its plodding follow-up. The ingredients are the
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    • Article, Illustration
      178 15 -Highlights Dreams What Dreams Are Made Of (Debut) (Ch 5, 6.50 pm) THIS new musical drama series follows the careers of five young Philadelphians as they realise their dreams of rock 'n'roll stardom. You could say it's Fame on the road but played for laughs. The five youngsters
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    • 42 15 1985 NCAA Basketball Championship (Final) (Last episode) (Ch 5,10.30 pm) THIS week's NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Basketball Championship features the final game between Villanova Wildcats and Georgetown Hoyas. Next week: THE MISL (Major Indoor Soccer League) All-Star Soccer Game.
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    • 88 15 Applause The Sona Writers: An Evening with Charles Strouse (Ch 12, 8.55 pm) TONIGHT'S music man is Charles Strouse, the composer who wrote Bye Bye Birdie, an old Broadway hit which shot him to fame. More familiar to local viewers is his Broadway sensation, Annie. In this programme,
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    • 153 15 Lome Greene's New Wilderness The Sceriest Piece on Earth (Ch 5,4.20 pm) THIS episode brings us deep into the Colombian rainforest, along the Putamayo river. The sun never shines on the forest floor and the mammals compete with the reptiles for survival in perpetual gloom. There is the
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    • 116 15 Civilisation The Skin of Our Teeth (r) (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 12, 8 pm) THIS 13-part series returns for another rerun after it was first telecast more than a decade ago. An art historian's incisive view of the story of Western civilisation, it remains timeless and is a must
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    • 625 16 But she has yet to fulfil Polygram deal POLYGRAM has just bid farewell to Tracy Huang, and it looks like it may do the same to another of its biggest money makers Teresa Teng Teresa is one of the "original" singers, Joining the company when it
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    • 418 16 WHEN Bella Lewitzky was asked by reporters what she had told the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Joe McCarthy witch-hunts of the early Fifties, she replied: "I said I was a dancer, not a singer." That she has been, from the age of seven,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 829 15 Noon News-in-Brief followed by Programme Summary 12.05 Your Lunchdate 1.00 News 1.10 Your Lunchdate (Cont'd) 1.30 Mid-day Market Report 1.35 Your Lunchdate (Cont'd) 2.00. News-in-Brief 2.05 On the House 3.00 News-in-Brief 3.05 On the House (Cont'd) 4.00 News-in-Brief 4.05 On the House (Cont d) 4.30 Musical Treats 5.00 News-in-Brief 5.05
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1345 17 ert Preston learns the meaning after reaBorneo Fllem Organisation Synopsis: Because of his skill at a lising that peace is not within the """J video game, a small-town teenager temple but the wide, open nAiiT mismm m h 7,n is recruited to help the inhabitants of country. Shedding his monk
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 254 18 DIARY- A guide to what's happening Concerts THE PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR THE Phoenix Boys Choir will perform at the Victoria Concert Hall today at 8 pm. Aged between nine and 14, the sincere will perform works by John Hutter, Johann Michael Haydn, Guillaume Dufay, Leonard Bernstein, Ernst Toch, Jacques Offenbach,
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    • 523 18 Films BRITISH GANDHI be screened at the GoetheAuditorium, Shopping Centre, today at 7 pm. Probably the bestknown movie in the film w week, it won eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The 1982 film, directed c by Richard Attenbor- Kj^MMLA ough, stars Ben Kings- f ley, Rohini Hattangada
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 718 19 Ipisure the SINGAPORE monitor 1 WEDNEBOAY, JULY 10,1085 I V 1 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook pMftHWjiS, MMf ettcoMts MANMf VWHAT FA9RMK V »»T, #<•.. <* 7" Cycle high for money, per- September 23 to October 22 n MMjSI f T) I sonal possessions, confidence, Emphasis on financial re- IflKiß'mifcL I
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  • property
    • 538 20  -  Reports by LINDA CHAN A BIG market exists for timeshare purchases in the corporate sector, participants at a recent real estate convention in Kuala Lumpur were told. Timeshare "holiday bonuses" are a cost-effec-tive and valuable way that a company can reward its sales people,
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    • 108 20 THE ONE-PG timesharing resort in Penang is on the open market for sale in Singapore. The beach resort fronting the northern coast of Penang consists of fullyfurnisned three-bedroom apartments (1,815 sq ft) and four-bedroom maisonettes (2,530 sq ft). Prices start at M 56,900 for a three-bedroom
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    • THE BUYER'S GUIDE
      • 32 20 VACATION timesharing is the purchase of vacation accommodation whereby the buyer receives the right to exclusive use of tne accommodation for a specific period for a stated number of years.
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      • 69 20 TIMESHARING resorts are so sophisticated these days that most of them are linked to international vacation exchange networks like Resort Condominiums International (RCI) or Interval International (II). This allows a buyer to exchange his time at a resort with a similar length of time at another resort listed
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      • 51 20 MOST resorts charge a flat one-time fee for a period of time. The market rates for resorts in Malaysia range from $4,900 to $14,5 M for a period from five to 50 years. On top of this, you pay an annual maintenance fee of about $200 for one week's
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      • 36 20 MOST resorts are sold on one- or twoweek use, either on fixed dates or on a floating time basis so that you can, to a certain extent, vary the timing of your vacation.
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      • 53 20 TIMESHARE proponents say it's a hedge against inflation becasue it allows you to pay for your future vacation accommodation at today's prices. Studies have shown that timeshare owners spent more on food, entertainment, etc, than an ordinary tourist because their purchasing power is heightened l>y not having to pay
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      • 169 20 RESORTS offer different forms of ownership to buyers, but briefly: Fee Timesharing: The buyer receives all of the rights inherent in the ownership of real property such as the right to sell, lease or bequeath the interest. Noa-fee Timesharing: This does not convey a legal title in the property.
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  • sports
    • 110 22 Reuter CORK (Ireland), Wed TOP AMERICAN runner Mary Decker-Slaney opened a two-month European tour with a win over 800 metres at the Cork City international meeting last night. Slaney came within eight-hundredths of a second of equalling her own US record
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    • 453 22  -  By ALFONSO CHAN SILHOUETTED against the sky, Jame* Wong looked like a giant A noisy giant At the discus flew out of his right hand, a tremendous roar echoed around the National Stadium. The sound came from James, as be threw the discus to
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    • 105 22  -  By HSU CHIEN TEH IRVING NG, one of our youngest swimming sensations, shattered three national records yesterday in the 16th National Age Group Swimming Championship 1985 at Amber Road. He now holds the national record for the 200 m freestyle, 100 m breaststroke and the 200 m backstroke
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    • 333 22 Boys: Graip 1 200 m free: 1 Terry Koh 2 Ray Lm 3 Chta Heok Meng 2:15 25; 100 m breast: 1 Colin Tan 2 Terry Koh 3 Ricky Tan 1:15.92; 200 m back: David Tay 2 Ricky Tan 3 Ng Chin Han 2:38.27. Groap 2 200
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      303 22  -  WITH B KULA AEROBICS, anyone? If aerobics is your game, then Victoria Junior College may just be the scnool you are looking for. VJC, which came into existence last year, is big into exercise to music for a few months each year. The school's Physical Education department
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    • 124 23 SYDNEY, Wed ONE OP Australia's top soccer clubs has been banned from playing at its home ground and fined AK.600 (§*9,900) following a riot last Sunday that forced the abandonment of a First Division match, national soccer league officials said today. Sydney Olympic
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    • 408 23 Waning influence takes turn for worse following Brussels soccer tragedy AP LONDON, Wednesday AUTHORITIES promoting Britain overseas said yesterday they are making efforts to repair the damage to the country's reputation done by the Brussels soccer riot involving English fans. Sir John Burgh, director-general of
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    • 159 23  -  By K SILVAM FAUDZIAH Mohd Ali's nine-year-old 80-metres hurdles record, the subject of some doubt among pundits, was equalled when another C Division schoolgirl returned the same time in the heats of the National Schools Track and Field Meet at the National Stadium yesterday.
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    • 149 23 Reuter CHELMSFORD (England), Wed THE FOUR-DAY match between the Australian cricketers and Essex ended in a draw yesterday. The scores: Australia 279 and 333, Essex 409 and 169 for eight. Meanwhile, Australia, troubled by batsmen out of form, and England, anxious to sharpen
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      136 24 MEN'S SINGLES 1. JENS-PETER Nlerhoff (Denmark) 2. Steve Baddeley (England) 3. Michael Kjekjsen (Denmark) 4. Torben Cartsen (Denmark) 5. lb Frederick sen (Denmark) 6. Misbun Sidek (Malaysia) 6. Nick Yates (England) 8. Hendri Suputra (Indonesia). MEN'S DOUBLES 1. MARK Christiansen/Michael Kjekjsen (Denmark) 2. Steen Fladberg/ Jesper HeUedie (Denmark) 3.
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    • 428 24 MALAYSIAN OPEN KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday CHINA have withdrawn from next week's Malaysian Badminton Open because of problems over entry visas for its players, a Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) official said today. The official told Reuter 'that China had notified the association that they were
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    • 99 24 JAKARTA, Wednesday REIGNING world champion Han Jian of China is seeded first and Danish player Jens-Peter Nieroff is seeded second in the men's singles of the Indonesia Open which will be on from July 24-28. Former world champion Icuk Sugiarto is seeded third
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    • 225 24 Hagler and Hearns enter same ring but won't fight each other AP LAS VEGAS, Wednesday MARVELLOUS Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns are scheduled to return to Caesars Palace on Nov 14 but they will not be facing each other in the ring. Hagler will be putting his three middleweight titles
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