The Straits Times, 5 October 1985

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  • 442 1 Pact on crude in jeopardy after inconclusive meeting Ecuador quits session in protest VIENNA, Friday THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) runs the risk of a disintegration of its production-sharing pact. Its ministerial meeting ended here today with little result beyond agreement to defer important
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  • 412 1 Soviet embassy in Beirut, under bomb threat, sends 70 home BEIRUT, Fri. Kidnappers m Beirut today reported the execution of American diplomat William Buckley and Soviet embassy staff quit the city after the kidnap-murder of one of their colleagues. A Reuter reporter saw about 70
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  • 34 1 DETROIT, Fri. General Motors is recalling 44,000 of its 1984 Chevrolet Corvette sports ears because of eight reported incidents in which the rear wheels locked. The incidents caused no acci- dents. AFP
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  • 357 1  - 1,130 grads sign up within two days JUNE TAN Recruitment of teachers By WITHIN two days of the temporary untrained graduate teacher scheme being announced, the number who applied has already met the Education Ministry's needs. More than 1,130 job-hungry graduates have applied to fill the 600 vacancies for teachers
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  • 34 1 Latest 15 INJURED IN EARTHQUAKE TOKYO, Fri. At least 15 people were Injured, three of them seriously, in the earthquake which hit Tokyo and surround- ing areas earl police said. Reuter SEK PAGE 3
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  • 228 1 MEXICO CITY, Fri. A nine-year-old boy trapped In the rubble of his family's home since the Mexican earthquakes struck 15 days ago spoke for the first time today as rescuers dog towards him, a senior police official said. "We clearly heard
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  • 34 1 QUEBEC, Fri. The new head of the Parti Quebecois, Mr Pierre-Marc Johnson, today took over as Premier of Quebec province following the resignation of party leader and provincial Premier Rene e. AFP
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  • 277 1 Plans to celebrate wedding shattered TOMORROW was to have been a special day for carpenter Tan Cheok Hoh. He was to have celebrated his wedding to factory worker Ong Siew Hiok with a dinner among relatives and friends. Mr Tan, 24, had even built his
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  • 104 1 TODAY, The Straits Times launches its weekly Do-it-yourself series Two pages on everything an enthusiast beginner or seasoned needs to know. Each week, we help the beginner with basic information, and give the house-proud handyman ideas on how to improve the home. Miss Fix-it tackles simple repair jobs around
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    • 447 2 Crimefighting public MORE people have come forward to help police in their constant battle against crime, and their help in the first six months of the year led to the arrest of 91 robbers and 119 burglars. CID Director, ACP Jagjit Singh, said that while people had helped the
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    • 659 2 Silver soars NEWS THAT the Hunt brothers of Dallas had sold almost all their silver hoard sent New York prices soaring on Thursday. Spot silver spurted by U550,335 (SI0.71), its biggest gain in seven months, to close at US$6.3B an ounce. After the market closed, dealers confirmed
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    • 230 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: IT is all well and good for the Sports Council to choose an architect with proven ability to design Singapore's indoor sports stadium. Bnt in not considering other ideas which would come to light if an open competition were held, there Is every likelihood that
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    • 335 2 Israel's struggle FROM THE moment of its birth, the nascent state of Israel had to fight for its survival. This struggle saw its infant, ragtag army of patriots evolve into a highly-disciplined armed force that is the admiration of armies the world over, writes Chaim Herzog, military-historian and
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    • 374 2 Easy pickings? DAVIS CUP holders Sweden appeared to have a clear passage to their third successive final when they meet a weakened Australia in the semi-final yesterday The Swedes have a powerful team in Mats Wilander, Anders Jarryd, Stefan Edberg and Joakim Nystrom, while injuries have deprived the Australians
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    • 119 2 Asean: Across the Causeway Short of target? WITTI five more years to go in the New Economic Policy, there is growing concern whether the 30 per cent bumiputra share in the corporate cake could be achieved by 1990. Conventions, seminars and symposiums held on the subject have all pointed to
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    • 174 2 Hopes for strategy EUROPEAN Community officials have hopes for a new "economic strategy for Asean" after the meeting of EEC and Asean economics ministers in Bangkok from Oct 14 to 18. Frustration at lagging behind the United States and Japan is prompting European Community officials to try to
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    • 136 2 SYDNEY-BASED LEE JOINS ALLIED CHOC MALAYSIAN businessman Lee Ming Tee has joined the board of Allied Chocolate Industries. Mr Lee, when contacted yesterday in Sydney where he is now based, said that the 24.9 per cent stake in ACI, bought through Hongkong company June Crown Ltd, is part of
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    • 108 2 WELCOME BACK, SUNGEI RD A READER writes to say that she was happy when she read a recent article on the re-emergence of Sungei Road stalls. She says it shows that the spirit of entrepreneurship that made Singapore what it is today is alive and kicking. But she hopes
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  • around the WORLD
    • 527 3 HONGKONG, Friday TOUGHER legislation is in the pipeline for banks and deposit-tak-ing companies incorporated in Hongkong, an official said today. The government's banking commission is proposing a statutory capital adequacy ratio of 5 per cent on all banks and deposit-taking companies (DTC's) incorporated here,
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    • 228 3 TAIPEI, Fri. TYPHOON Brenda hit Taiwan today, causing floods and landslides, disrupting transport and bringing down a ceremonial arch m central Taipei, officials said. Two people were injured and four cars damaged when the temporary arch m front of the presidential palace collapsed m gusty winds,
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    • 339 3 Number' s up for the obscene phone caller TOKYO, Fri JAPAN'S electronic wizards are turning the life of the obscene telephone caller into a high-technol-ogy nightmare with devices that assault his ears and his sensibilities. Recordings of male voices and shrill whistles are just some of the techniques used to
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    • 115 3 VD spreading in some Chinese cities report HONGKONG, Fri. Venereal diseases are spreading in some Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, a newspaper said here today. Quoting dermatologist Li Hunghsiang, of Beijing's Hsieh Ho hospital, the pro-Beijing Wen Wei Po said more than 66 cases of gonorrhoea and 25
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    • 221 3 LOS ANGELES, Fri. Eleven years after the suspected suicide of a 14--year-old girl, her brother has confessed that he killed her because he was afraid he had gotten her pregnant. "I killed her with a pistol in the mouth I was crazy, crazy There's
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    • 166 3 CALCUTTA, Fri. More than 600 people were arrested in India's Marxistruled West Bengal state ahead of Muslim protests against a court decision granting alimony to a divorced Muslim woman, police said today. Police said here that more than 600 people had been detained
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    • 334 3 TOKYO, Friday TOKYO was today struck by its strongest earthquake in 56 years just as Japan was busy raising funds to help Mexico rebuild its areas that were devastated by severe tremors two weeks ago. The quake, measuring 6.2 on the open-ended Richter scale
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    • 363 4  - US textile Bill supporters win a new round LIAK TENG KIAT By By Washington Correspondent SUPPORTERS of the protectionist textile Bill won another round yesterday when the powerful House Rules Committee voted to limit floor debate on the Bill and to bar attempts to attach amendments to the legislation. The
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    • 173 4 Death leap from 1 00-m tower Suicide filmed as crowd shouted 'jump, jump' FORTALEZA (Brazil), Friday A YOUNG man leapt to hi* death from the top of a IM-metre television tower as a crowd of about 3,H# people below chanted "Jump, jump," police reported yesterday. The man, believed to have
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    • 421 4 NEW YORK, Friday THE price of silver soared yesterday as investors welcomed the news that the Hunt brothers of Dallas had sold almost all of their huge hoard. After the market closed, a spokesman for Nelson and Herbert Hunt confirmed the multi-billion-aire brothers had
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    • 384 4 REDWOOD CITY (California), Friday A 28- YEAR-OLD woman told a jury yesterday that she spent seven years as the "sex slave" of a California mill worker out of fear as he repeatedly chained, whipped and sexually abused her. Miss Colleen Stan, 20 when
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    • 308 4 SAN FRANCISCO, Fri. Brushing tears from his eyes and waving an American flag, Charlie Two Shoes welcomed his family to the United States yesterday, climaxing a saga that began in China 40 years ago when US marines befriended him. In a tearful reunion at
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    • 167 4 Mother appeals for return of daughter's ashes LONDON, Fri. A mother has appealed to burglars to return ashes of her daughter stolen along with a video-recorder and K' ?wellery in a break-in at er home. The ashes of Lei-See Chong, who died at the age of three in 1976, had
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    • 106 5 AN ANTI-NUCLEAR demonstrator races towards American athletes daring the opening ceremony of the three-day World Cap athletics meeting In Canberra, Australia, yesterday. The middle-aged Australian ran on to the track and waved a large No Nukes banner in front of the United States team as it
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    • 397 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. THE United States, in a further shift in debt strategy, is examining a plan that may eventually trigger billions of dollars of new loans to hard-hit i debtor nations. According to banking sources, the idea was 1 aired during a closed-door
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    • 70 5 ISLAMABAD, Fri. Afghanistan announced yesterday a purge of Communist Party and police officials in Logar province, apparently because they had criticised the Soviet Union and Kabul's other communist allies. Radio Kabul said both the party leader and police chief in Logar, which lies south of Kabul and is
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      • 84 5 AFTER a flawless launch on its maiden voyage, the US$l.2 billion (552.5 billion) space shuttle Atlantis carrying a secret military payload has all but vanished behind a curtain of silence imposed by the US Defence Department. Military officials in Cape Canaveral in Florida have clamped a strict
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      • 81 5 PRIME Minister Rajiv Gandhi has ordered Indian forces to boost their vigilance amid reports of Pakistan progressing with work on an atom bomb and of frequent exchanges of fire in a disputed glacier region. Opening a meeting of armed forces commanders in New Delhi yesterday, Mr
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      • 62 5 CHINESE and Soviet negotiators resumed their regular talks m Beijing yesterday on how to normalise their strained relations. Soviet Vice-Foreiga Minister Leonid Ilyichov will meet his counterpart Mr Qian Qichen for about four days m the seventh round of talks since they began m 1982. As m
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      • 66 5 SWITZERLAND enjoyed its hottest October of the century this week with temperatures reaching 30 deg C. The weather bureau in Geneva said the sunshi le and heat were mainly due to warm southerly winds coming up from North Africa and Spain. It said the temperatures were
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      • 55 5 GENSRAL Charles Gabriel arrived in Beijing yesterdaj on the first visit by a US Air force chief si ace the communists took power in 1949. Gen Gabriel was met by Air Force head Wang Hai, a former Korean War air ace. lescribed Gen Gabriel's six-day Diplomats
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      • 66 5 THE man who served as the chief United Nations interpreter for Laos has been granted political asylum in the United States. Mr Chansamone Sengsavath, 27, sought political asylum, which was granted 10 days ago, it was reported yesterday in Atlanta. Mr Senjjsavath was assigned to the UN
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    • 164 5 New regional body agrees on charter DHAKA, Fri COMPLETE agreement has been reached on the draft charter of the South Asian Association of Regional Co-operation, which will be formally launched in Dhaka in December, Foreign Secretary Faruq Ahmed Chowdhury said yesterday. "I hope there will be smooth sailing," said Mr
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    • 47 5 WELLINGTON, Fri. Eight people died today when a light aircraft hit power cables and plunged into the sea in front of hundreds of horrified passengers aboard an inter-island ferry. There was one survivor a young girl who was rescued ured from the sea. AFP
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    • 357 5 Timeshare resorts use bikini girls lure SURFERS' PARADISE (Australia), Fri. Male tourists can't believe their luck when attractive bikini-clad women accost them in the streets of this holiday playground with an invitation to a free dinner. Alternatively, they may be offered an evening cruise, complete with champagne, on the Nerang
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    • 157 5 CANBERRA, Fri. While Australia's flirtation with timeshare resorts has turned into financial disaster for some developers, Asia ap Eears to be on the thresnold of a boom. A survey published m this month's Asia Pacific Property Review said 50 new timesharing resorts
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    • 358 6 British Labour Party Conference and Tory sees poll defeat in jobless figures BOURNEMOUTH (England), Friday AS BRITAIN'S opposition Labour Party wound up its annual conference today in a confident mood, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party conceded for the first time that, unless it
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    • 139 6 Damage to diplomats' cars: London protests LONDON, Fri. Britain has protested to the Soviet Union over damage to cars belonging to members of its embassy staff in Moscow. A Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday about six cars had been vandalised, some of them belonging to British diplomats ordered out of
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    • 47 6 BRUSSELS, Fri. Mario Perusko, 32, a Yugoslav living in Belgium, was jailed for four years for attempted extortion and possessing drugs after he threatened to inject the hallucinogen LSD into Coca-Cola and a range of chocolate bars, failing a US$l million (552.12 million) ransom. AFP
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    • 29 6 MADRID, Fri. The threeday annual Congress of the Liberal International opened here yesterday as liberals from around the world gathered to discuss major interna- tional conflicts. AP
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    • 419 6 NEW YORK, Friday THIRTY-SIX of the biggest names in show business, including Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Ringo Starr and Bob Dylan, have recorded a powerful new song called Sun City that slams apartheid and President Ronald Reagan. It takes its title from the
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    • 218 6 LONDON, Fri. Commonwealth SecretaryGeneral Sir Shridath Ramphal today urged Britain once again to impose economic sanctions against South Africa, saying refusal "comes close to being an accomplice in apartheid". "It is unthinkable that any Commonwealth country should offer comfort to South Africa at this time,"
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    • 346 6 Bonn to hold inquiry into spy scandal BONN, Fri. THE West German Parliament has formally set up an inquiry into the country's long-running' espionage scandal amid growing indications that it was sparked off by the defection of a senior KGB official. The opposition Social Democrats (SPD) pushed through their demand
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    • 180 6 MILAN, Fri. L'Unita, the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, has begun publishing an extensive listing of stock market and bond market prices the first time the paper has offered its readers such capitalist investment tools since it was founded
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    • 129 6 And her millionaire Prince Charming SINGER Diana Ross and and her millionaire Norwegian lover Arne Naas (left) are seen talking to Sweden's King Olav (extreme right) in Oslo on Thursday at a party to launch a Swedish Himalayan expedition. Second from the right is banker Egil
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    • 290 7 Gorbachev's arms control proposal US has no objection to separate talks WASHINGTON, Fri. President Ronald Reagan said yesterday the Soviet Union had substantially altered its arms control proposals and that he had no objection to an offer yesterday by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for
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    • 203 7 THE following are the main points from a major speech by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday in Paris. ARMS RACE the world situation was now worse largely because of the US Star Wars plan for space weapons. It was vital to stop the "infernal train of
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    • 117 7 PHILADELPHIA, Fri. US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger has announced the US tracked a missile in space with a laser beam in a new Star Wars breakthrough. The experiment was one in a series being conducted under President Ronald Reagan's strategic defence initiative (SDI) research
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    • 127 7 US agrees to meet snubbed Nato countries BRUSSELS, Fri. The United States has agreed to a Belgian and Dutch request for a special Nato Foreign Ministers' meeting ahead of next month's US-Soviet summit, Belgian diplomatic sources said yesterday. The two countries called for the meeting after being angered by being
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    • 160 7 PARIS, Friday MR MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S chic wife, Raisa, has captured the hearts of the discerning French. They call her the Soviet leader's "secret weapon" and compliment her figure, clothes and sense of style. Paris' popular France Soir newspa ner yesterday printed a
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    • 224 7 PARIS, Fri. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev today pledged that SS-20 missiles withdrawn from service in European Russia would not be redeployed in Asia. "These missiles have been taken out of service and anybody can photograph them," Mr Gorbachev told a news confer-
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    • 141 7 CHICAGO, Fri. Walter Polovchak, a Soviet teenager who in 1980 chose to remain in the United States when his parents returned to the Soviet Union, yesterday celebrated his 18th birthday by f>roclaiming himself a ree man". His becoming 18 gave him the
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    • 125 7 WASHINGTON, Fri. The Irish embassy here said yesterday, a day after Mrs Margaret Heckler said she had accepted President Ronald Reagan's offer to become ambassador to Dublin, that Ireland had not been officially informed of the appointment by the US. The Irish government would,
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    • 427 8  - EC keen to invest more in Asean SHADA ISLAM By Brussels Reporter 4 It just shows how much importance we give to improving our economic relations m with Asean. Mr Claude Cheysson on the EC's unprecedented meeting with Asean later this month. BRUSSELS, Fri. Frustration at lagging behind the United
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    • 125 8 Guerillas kill 21 soldiers in ambush MANILA, Fri. Communist New People's Army guerillas ambushed two military vehicles on Mindanao Island yesterday, killing 21 soldiers and wounding 10 others, the Philippine News Agency reported. Acting armed forces chief Lt-Gen Fidel Ramos was touring another part of Mindanao when the guerillas waylaid
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    • 46 8 Thailand's census BANGKOK, Fri. Thailand's first computerised nation-wide census, taken last June, places the country's population at 51,180,478, about evenly divided between males and females, according to the local administration department. The figure represents a slight decrease from the previous official estimate of 51.7 million. AFP
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    • 213 8 JAKARTA, Fri. Indonesian President Suharto has ordered the country's top military and civilian officials to file special reports to him on their personal income and wealth tax returns. A tax office spokesman said yesterday the new ruling in the form of a presidential decree would take
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    • 165 8 JAKARTA, Fri. More than three million mice have been killed in central Java province in the past two months following a presidential instruction to combat the crop menace in that region. The Director-General for Food Crop Plantation at the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Suhaedi, said today
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    • 245 8 Indonesia can live without China: Murdani HONGKONG, Fri. Indonesia can "live without China", Indonesian Armed Forces chief Benny Murdani said in an interview published here yesterday. "You can see that we have prospered in the past 20 years without China," Asiaweek quoted Gen Murdani as saying in reply to a
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    • 71 8 THIS Indonesian game makes it hard for the boy's feet to be firmly planted on the ground especially when those feet aren't his. This th-ee-metre-tall boy is playing Jajangkungan a stilt game said to have originated from England. On his left is
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    • 177 8 Big shake-up of Thailand's top brass BANGKOK, Fri THAILAND reshuffled its top military commanders today, bolstering Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda against last month's coup attempt by politically powerful soldiers, Thai and Western officers said. "Prem's stamp is all over the (promotion) list," said one Western officer, who asked not to
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    • 168 8 Kriangsak's detention extended Meanwhile, the Bangkok criminal court today extended the detention of former Prime Minister Kriangsak Chomanan and three other former generals charged with involvement in the Sept 9 coup bid. It was the second time the court acceded to police requests for the continued detention of Kriangsak, former
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    • 54 8 JAKARTA, Fri. Some 35 new cases of Elephantiasis have been found in the Tanggerang area, north of Jakarta, the daily Suara Karya reported yesterday. The paper quoted local health officials as saying ihe disease, which is characterised by gross swelling, hardening and scabbing of the legs and genitals,
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    • 170 8  - Prem signs pact to improve flow of US arms LIAK TENG KIAT By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Fri. The United States and Thailand yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding on ways to improve the flow of US military weapons and spare parts to Thailand, both during peace and in times of
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    • 174 8  -  ABBY TAN By Manila Reporter MANILA, Fri. Australia has withdrawn all 21 members of its aid project in Samar, central Philippines, because of repeated harassment by the Communist New People's Army (NPA). The withdrawal was completed on Sept JB, six weeks after Australia signalled its
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    • 486 9 The Lahad Datu pirate raid Bared chest, blazing away with machine gun in the open A POLICEMAN has emerged as a Rambo-style hero of the Sept 23 pirate raid on Lahad Datu in Sabah that left 10 dead and 11 injured, the Borneo Bulletin reported today.
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    • 151 9 COTABATO (Philippines), Fri. One of the suspected Filipino pirates in the Sept 23 raid on Lahad Datu has been arrested. Security officials identified him as "Nasser." He was picked up by army troops during a military operation on Tuesday in Zamboanga, southern Philippines, some 3M
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    • 456 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday WITH only five more years to go. the New Economic Policy is on the home stretch amid growing concern over whether the 30 per cent bumiputra share in the corporate cake could be achieved by 1990, the Malaysian Business Times reported today. It
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    • 157 9 KL car assembly industry slump worsens KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Malaysian motor vehicle assembly industry is caught in a slump which is turning out to be far worse than was expected at the start of the year, the Malaysian Business Times reported today. Then, motor industry captains were talking of
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    • 84 9 THE wreck of a World War II Japanese bomber was discovered by a gang of timber workers In the Sarawak jungle, near Baram, last week. Though pieces of the plane, including some corroded bombs, were scattered over a wide area, the workers found the
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    • 137 9 Some are 'trying to confuse' Asean KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Malaysia today concurred with Manila that "certain forces" were out to create dissension and confusion among Asean countries. It was the first statement issued by the government following allegations that Malaysian troops recently attacked a Philippine island in retaliation for a
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    • 323 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday THE Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) today declined Umno Youth's offer to mediate in its 10-month-old wage dispute with the government. Thanks, but no thanks, said Cuepacs President Ahmad Nor in responding
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    • 184 9 IPOH, Fri. A man sought by police to assist in their investigations into a case was shot dead when he tried to flee in his car. The man, identified as Mr K. Kevache, 35, died in the car. He was shot in the left eye. A
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    • 68 9 Priest dies of heart attack PETALING JAYA. Fri. A Roman Catholic priest, the Rev Father Pierre Peter DeCroocq, died of a heart attack at Assunta Hospital yesterday. He was 63. Father DeCroocq, who was born in northern France in 1922. came to Malaysia in 1952. He helped set up five
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    • 201 10 Join us in promotions overseas, tourist board urges travel trade THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board has invited people in the travel trade here to join its overseas promotions next year. The board's promotion and advertising plans for the next financial year were presented to about 80 to 100 travel agents
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    • 116 10 A TOTAL of 219,252 visitors came in August, a one per cent fall over August last year. This brought the total increase for the first eight months down to 2 per cent. Slightly more than two million people came between January and August. The biggest decrease
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    • 309 10 SINGAPORE AIRLINES is able to remain profitable because it has been able to remain trim. This point was made by Mr J. A. Loder, an air transport consultant from Britain who was with an eight-member team of European MPs and EC air
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    • 272 10  - 40 China tour guides coming for training LOONG SWEE YIN By FORTY tour guides from China will come to Singapore next year for training with a local tour agency. Mr Cheong Kim Hock, managing director of Cultural and Entertainment Holidays Pte Ltd, said yesterday that the training arrangements with the
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    • 611 10  -  PAUL WEE By Community-policing boosts public spiritedness The number of crimes for every 100,000 people m these cities m 1984 Singapore 1413 Hongkong 1561 Tokyo 2138 Melbourne 7200 Sydney 7714 San Francisco 8305 Chicago 9143 Los Angeles 9408 •These figures were converted to an
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    • 69 10 Crime m Singapore from Jan-June 1985 compared with Jan-June 1984 Down Serious assault, rioting 11.7% Down Robbery j 3.4% Down Rape I 2.0% Down Motor vehicle theft 0.8% "So Murder Change lp Outraging modesty 2.6% "Op Housebreaking 21,3% Down Total seizable offences I tjWh •There was one kidnap
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    • 336 10  -  PAUL JACOB By THE Marco Polo Hotel has informed 57 employees that tomorrow will be their last day of work with the hotel. They will receive retrenchment benefits on Monday. A spokesman said yesterday that the hotel considered other ways to cut cost
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    • 409 11  -  MICHAEL LIM By THIS story is about a Singapore trade unionist, a former South Vietnamese general and a Singapore major. A weird combination, perhaps. But the story has an important message. It all started with the unionist, Mr Francis Goh, from
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    • 178 11 A CANTEEN operator with a history of crime thought he could get away with another by posing as a policeman. But his victim got the better of him. Yesterday, Joshua GovindasamyKannusamy, 38, was jailed for three years and ordered to be given 12
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    • 156 11 POLICE are anxious to contact taxi-driver Ong Pia Key, 42, who they believe can help them in their investigations into a robbery at a house in Lorong J, Telok Kurau, on Sept 14. Ong, also known as Ang Pia Key and Ah Ngoh,
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    • 419 11  - Joint effort wins first phase two contract RAV DHALIWAL By Work on MRT viaduct starts soon WORK on the second phase of the Mass Rapid Transit system is to start soon, with the first contract for this stage having gone to a Japan-Singapore joint venture of JDC Corporation and Jurong
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    • 240 11 Court rejects guilty pleas of three in fatal fight A COURT rejected the guilty pleas of three men charged with causing grievous hurt to another man. The court did this after hearing the mitigation plea m wle by Mr R. Yogendran, defence counsel for Kamal Mustaffa Mohd Mohideen, 43, Arumugam
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    • 258 12 Accident that helped to nab suspect A SUSPECTED snatch thief was caught yesterday after police responded to a burglar alarm which went off accidentally. It happened at about 9.45 am at Lucky Plaza in Orchard Road after a man grabbed a $156,666 necklace from a jewellery shop and ran away.
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    • 44 12 THE MP for Changkat, Dr Aline Wong, will attend the Speak Mandarin Night at the HDB social function hall, Block 136, Tampines Street 11, tomorrow at 7.30 pm. There will be an oratorical contest held in conjunction with the Speak Mandarin campaign.
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    • 515 12  -  SURESH NAIR Death of workers in Yishun fire By and MATHEW YAP Builders are urged to teach workers THE Fire Service has called for greater emphasis on fire prevention at construction sites, following the death of four Malaysian workers in a fire in Yishun.
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    • 362 12 A lesson in the benefits of training PERSONNEL manager Mr Peter Wong never forgot a good lesson about staff training he learnt from his former boss, Mr Tan I Tong. Mr Tan, who was then Deputy Managing Director of National Iron and Steel Mills, had told Mr Wong he did
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    • 45 12 THE First Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Ong Teng Cheong. will attend the 90th anniversary dinner organised by the Ee Hoe Hean Club tomorrow. The celebrations will be held on the roadside in front of the club premises in Bukit Pasoh Road
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    • 58 12 Above: The workers' quarters ot a construction site in Kampong UM neat exterior, uncluttered with loose clothing and bits and pieces that are Are hazards. Lett: Metal beds in container bunks they are more expensive but safer, say? a safety officer in a building company. Smoking
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    • 471 12 I never said girl had a growth, doctor tells court The Chow Dih case CHOW Dih yesterday denied he told a woman her daughter had an intestinal growth. Chow, 35, on trial for cheating his patients, also denied there was an exchange of words on this matter at his Cassia
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    • 66 12 A PEDESTRIAN was seriously hurt when he was knocked down by a bus in North Bridge Road on Thursday. Mr Tan Yong Quee, 72, of Ix>rong 1, Toa Payoh, was crossing the road at about 1.35 pm when the accident happened. He suffered serious head
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    • 60 12 Above: This structure is a Ore hazard, not only because it is made of wood but also because It is untidy, both on the outside and inside. Left: Workers who stay In wooden bonks are not allowed to cook Inside. Bnt they often violate the
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    • 204 12 Deaf mute jailed 9 months for hurting two men A GROUP of 15 men, armed with wooden poles and iron pipes, attacked five men in Clementi West Street 2 one night, injuring two of them, a court heard yesterday. One of the attackers, Abdul Rahman Syed, 23, a deaf mute,
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    • 434 13  -  GOH SUI NOI By PSA studying list of stringent measures following accidents DRIVERS of power-boats would need a licence by 1987 under a list of stringent measures being studied by the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA). The proposal will mean the end of the drive-as-you-please
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    • 539 13  -  BEN DAVIDSON By THE High Court yesterday expunged from an affidavit of the Workers' Party secretary -general, Mr J. B. Jeyaretnam, an allegation against a deputy public prosecutor on grounds that it was "wholly irrelevant and altogether scandalous". DPP Glenn Knight made the
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    • 97 13 Sailors fined for hurting colleagues THREE Indonesian seamen were fined between $3,000 and $8,000 each when they pleaded guilty to hurting two fellow seamen on a vessel on July 12. The attacks took place on board the Singapore-register-ed vessel, Pacific Breeze, when it was berthed at a port in the
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    • 123 13 TWO Japanese training ships, the JDS Katori ana the JDS Makigumo, will visit Singapore on Wednefiday. A Japanese embassy press release yesterday said the five-day goodwill visit is also to develop seamanship and leadership skills of the Sit officers and crew on board the
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    • 52 13 THE section of Chia Eng Say Road between Upper Bukit Timah Road and Jalan Asas will be closed for two months from Monday. Motorists are advised to follow traffic signs and to use Jalan Asas to enter Chia Eng Say Road until drainage work is completed on
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    • 112 13 THE Stars Night '86 show, featuring Hindi film star Zeenat Aman, will run into a second evening tomorrow because of overwhelming demand from fans. The show was originally intended to be staged this evening only. But the tickets for the 988 seats at
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    • 154 15 A DANCE hostess was yesterday jailed for five years for drag trafficking and consumption. Halsa Bee binti Osman, 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of trafficking In five straws of heroin to an undercover anti-narcot-ics officer on Sept 9. She also pleaded guilty to consuming
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    • 206 15 THE Housing Board may try out a common chute rubbish disposal system in the next three to five years. Under this system, a chute is located at a common point within the block and residents have to dispose of their refuse in
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    • 43 15 FIRE damaged a plastics factory in Link Road, Jurong, last night. Two factory workers spotted a machine smoking at 11.30 pm and fire broke out soon after. Three fire engines put out the fire shortly after midnight. Nobody was injured.
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    • 204 15 THE Housing Board believes a neat office will increase workers' oatpat. And bi line with this, it intends to hold a "spring-cleaning day" in January as part of the board's productivity campaign. The board will spend about %l»,m on the campaign. Part of the
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    • 516 15  -  TONG YOKE THO By Approval given after several fail to find work SEVERAL Malaysian graduates from the National University of Singapore who could not find work in Singapore have been released from their three-year bonds. Some of them had told the authorities that they had
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    • 140 15 A JOBLESS woman, Josephine John, 51, was yesterday fined $250, failing which, four days in jail for disorderly behaviour at St Anthony's Convent in January. She was found guilty at the end of a trial in August of disorderly behaviour. She was accused of
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    • 96 15 Asian youth programme cruise MR LEE Chiong Giam, Chief Executive Director of the People's Association and Chairman of the National Youth Co-ordinating Committee, attended the inauguration ceremony of the Ship for South-east Asian Youth Programme at the World Trade Centre yesterday. The inauguration ceremony marked the launching of the 12
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    • 178 15 A FACTORY worker, Madam Ong Jok Heng, 45, died when she was hit by a south-bound train at Lower Delta Road yesterday. Madam Ong, a deaf mute, was walking across the railway track at about 12.45 pm when the accident
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    • 166 16 Abandoned babies now in a home for children THE two babies found abandoned in a Hindu temple in South Bridge Road last month are now being looked after at the Wilkie Road Children's Home as police investigations continue. The babies, a 19-month-old boy named Mani and a 10-month-old girl, Keetahvani,
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    • 90 16 TWO vocational institutes will be open to the public. The Ang Mo Kio Vocational Institute will hold its open day on Oct 11 and 12 while the National Institute of Commerce will be open on Oct 18 and 19. The visiting hours are from
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    • 478 16  -  RAV DHALIWAL Portable machine allows ROV to book overloaded vehicles on the spot By WATCH your weight or get booked in a minute or two. That's the message the Registry of Vehicles wants to drive home to owners and drivers of overloaded vehicles, especially lorries. The
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    • 89 16 Foundation gets a dialysis machine A RELIGIOUS association has donated a dialysis machine to the National Kidney Foundation. The president of the Sree Gnianananda Sera Samajam Association, Mr M. M. Swami, said that 30 of its 100 members have also pledged their kidneys for transplant. Meanwhile, a Japanese company, Toray,
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    • 64 16 Driver wins award for saving woman TRUCK driver Mohamad bin Mahat, 25, won the Guinness Stout Effort Award for saving a woman from drowning. Mr Mohamad was driving along Dunearn Road on July 18 when he saw a woman in a flooded monsoon drain. He jumped into the drain and
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    • 146 16 Trade board gives 13 furniture firms a hand THE Trade Development Board will put up a national stand for 13 compa>nies taking part in the Singapore International Furniture Show at the World Trade Centre from today to Oct 13. This sponsorship is part of the board's plan to help local
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    • 113 16 Woman accused of hurting boy A WOMAN was charged yesterday with hurting a 12-year-old boy by applying a heated knife blade against his back. Zubaidah Rani Abdullah, 49, is accused of hurting Pergash Anan in a flat in Block 3, Seletar West Farmway, between May and June 1963. The case
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    • 42 16 THE Workers' Party will hold a Democracy Day dinner at 7.30 pm on Nov 2 at Block 145, Jalan Bukit Merah. It will also organise a birdsinging contest on Nov 10 at Bam at Block 110. Bukit Purmei.
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    • 120 16 FOOD manufacturers must identify the colouring matter tartrazine on the label of any food. Its specific name and code must be indicated. The Food Regulations 1974 have been amended to require this, according to the Environment Ministry. A ministry spokesman says tartrazine is commonly used
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    • 184 17 IT will soon be a cool ride to work for some of the 25,000 commuters who take City Shuttle Service 8 from Bedok to the Bukit Merah Interchange. The Singapore Shuttle Bus (Pte) Lta, which runs this service, will put two air-conditioned buses on
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    • 187 17 The suitcase murder THE taxi driver whom police had been seeking to help with investigations into the recent suitcase murder, contacted the Criminal Investigation Department on Thursday. He gave police an account of how he took two passengers and their suitcase in his taxi to
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    • 280 17 UNCOMFORTABLE with being thought "squares" by fellow students, 10 first-year medical undergraduates did a rollicking disco jazz dance in front of more than 1,200 students and lecturers yesterday. The guest-of-honour was Mr Wong Kan Seng, Minister of State (Community Development, and Communications and
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    • 103 17 A TRAP by Housing Board officers to nab a culprit who had been urinating In a lift landed an unlikely catch a toilet cleaner. Tan Thiam Huat, was caught in the act on Sept W by an officer who had been waiting on top of
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    • 62 17 Coin sales at Victoria Theatre THE Victoria Theatre has stopped selling the 1965 sterling silver proof coin set of the new series, one cent to $1, and the $5 uncirculated cupro-nickel coins commemorating Singapore's 25 years of public housing. The coins, which were first issued on Tuesday, will continue to
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    • 321 11 Johann Strauss of Vienna welcomes you to his operetta Die Hedermaus in English. W W*l Presented by SI The National University Society of Singapore With orchestra conducted by Lim Yau, stage direction by Peter Chapman. Featuring Sopranos: Lee Soo Bee, Nancy Evans, Shelagh Molyneux, Ng Peng Kit, Alison Haill. Tenors:
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    • 2469 18 ADVERTISER'S ANNOUNCEMENT r&m}w m&- t^**[ri < &'"t~'- m w<w.tw.'- "^nIRiBWBBiiBBBBHBn 7^j:/i*?*-r*.ip™!if t 1 9STjv3 'r'^^flr wu- :<«rc?*^-~ ii _-_-_-»^_^_»^_-__^_^___f By His Excellency Dr Alessandro Vattani, JC%Lb" _F% IS M waW mmtmWWm. \\mWT\\ -^_P_r>*__ driving and P erformance B > Research and Development yflfcSfclp^^ n_dß^a^^^l_L y_i"3P^^y^jK the end ot 1951 Alta
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    • 1402 19 £0 [pt 3D m rn m __l HHH-H IHHhI' BMBBBm HHHHB HHHHi HHHHi lillllllli The Ambassador of The Republic of Italy ALFA is here to sta/ PPtfF Our management team is headed by Mr Kenneth 1_ D C_Jt__l^^i!s^H t^__^ Chow and he is assisted by Mr Benjamin Chua, the fj
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  • 568 20 THE decision of the Sports Council to engage a well-known Japanese architect, Professor Kenzo Tange, as the main design consultant for Singapore's indoor sports stadium has aroused the ire of local architects who feel that they have once again been edged
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  • 939 20 Prof James Q. Wilson, a professor of government at Harvard University, studies crime. He and psychologist Richard Herrnstein have written a book, Crime and Human Nature, which examines the causes of lawbreaking. Here, he talks about the correlation between genetic traits and predispositions towards
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  • 833 20  -  W.J. WEATHERBY By NEW YORK If the American sexual revolution isn't over, it is at least "on hold". Fear of Aids, the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is now so widespread that even the most promiscuous of heterosexual and homosexual groups have
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  • 111 20 "WHAT can I say?" Actress Doris Day reacting to news about the death of her close friend and Aids victim, actor Rock Hudson. "The Government doesn't need CPF money to prop up Its buildings." Brig-Gen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong. "I have not re-married secretly and neither
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  • 485 20 T.F.Hwang takes you down Memory Lane THE GREAT HAPPENING IT HAPPENED here this week by courtesy of the International Bar Association and the Section of Business Law (IBA/SBL). I call it The Great Happening because of the vast numbers of international lawyers (1,7M) and their guests (HI), chiefly spouses of
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  • BACKGROUND
    • 241 21 MORE than 300 trade measures have been mooted for the US Congress this session. About 200 are little more than press releases, some of them actually promoting imports. Most ot the rest are bona fide protectionist bills. Of these, most seek to protect industries or products
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    • 204 21 (1) The Trade Emergency and Export Protection Act, sponsored by Senator Lloyd Bentsen (Democrat, Texas), and Democrat Representatives Dan Rostenkowski (Illinois) and Richard Gephardt (Missouri): Seeks to impose a 25 per cent surcharge on imports from Japan, Brazil, Taiwan and South Korea unless these countries reduce
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    • 126 21 (1) A "reciprocity" bill, sponsored by Senator John Danforth (Republican, Missouri): Would require the President to offset increased Japanese car exports by persuading Japan to buy more American goods of the same value; would also require Tokyo to drop allegedly un- fair trade rules and procedures. If
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    • 206 21 US moves towards protectionist action Unfair trading practices (1) The Trade Law Modernisation Act, sponsored by Representative Frank Guarini (Democrat, New Jersey); companion bill in Senate (sponsored by Senator Heinz): Would expand the power of the Office of the Trade Representative by giving him the
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    • 813 21  -  DAVID BURNHAM By Probe into allegations of manipulation of US vote-counting program WASHINGTON A branch of the National Security Agency is investigating whether a computer program that counted more than onethird of all the votes cast in the United States last year is vulnerable
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  • FORUM
    • 347 22 Why we decided on Kenzo Tange SSC I REFER to the letter from the president and council of the Singapore Institute of Architects on "Why must a foreign architect design our indoor stadium? Let's do it ourselves" (ST, Sept 28). The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) is very conscious of the
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    • 107 22 EVER SINCE community centres were opened for students to study, I have been using the facility almost everyday. I am glad to say that the study room has helped me tremendously to concentrate on my studies. I am not distracted by the
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    • 301 22 I READ with mixed feelings your recent article on the re-emer-gence of the Sungei Road stalls. My heart gladdens to see that our people are still so resilient and can bounce back to life no matter how hard they are put down. This is
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    • 86 22 THE Straits Times welcomes letters from you. Your letters must include your signature, full name, address, and home and office telephone numbers, if any. They should preferably be typed, double-spaced, on one side of the paper. You may add a pseudonym if you wish. Brevity is an advantage.
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    • 213 22 TWO weeks ago I was molested by a youth while on my way to the squash courts at Fort Canning at about 8 pm. My unpleasant experience brings to mind a report in the press some time ago about plans to build a
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    • 233 22 I REFER to your report headlined "Jeya to give up 25^J of allowance. He also appeals for donations for legal cost" (ST. Oct 4). After reading your full report, please allow me to comment further on the points raised in Mr Jeyaretnam's press
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    • 86 22 THE word "gay" as Is very widely known, has other meanings besides "cheerful, happy and fall of fan". I would like to suggest that the owners of Gay World Amusement Park change its name. They could adopt the old name, Happy World Amusement Park, or,
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    • Replies
      • 210 22 Advisable for single occupiers to share the flat PLEASE refer to the letter "Unfair to require sole occupants to take in lodgers" (ST, Sept 30) in which the writer requested the Board to review its policy on single person households in HDB flats. The issue of single-per-son households in HDB
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      • 325 22 WE REFER to the letters "Bathing rooms in a bad state" by "LKT" (ST, Sept 3), "Wrong track" by "Harassed jogger" (ST, Sept 16) and "You go your way and I'll go mine" by "Harassed cyclist" (ST Sept 21) concerning East Coast Park.
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      • 80 22 I REFER to the letter "School cant?en woman touted for business" by "Concerned parent'' (ST, Aug 24). The school iias investigated the matter and found no evidence of such malpractice it its tuckshop. We invite "Concerned parent" to discuss the matter with the principal. We thank
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      • 239 22 WE REFER to the letter "Good Luck Garden subbuyer also finds area overstated" by "Sub-purchas-er" (ST, Sept 26). We would like to draw the attention of your writer to what the Controller of Housing has said with regard to compensation by the developer if the
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    • 391 22 (pr) Golden Lagoon The newest, most exciting seafood restaurant in town I Golden Lagoon seafood pottage S Deep fried squids Fresh fish |steamed. deep fried or 6 Golden Lagoon fried noodle or thai-style) fried rice with salted fish 3 Prawn in spiced salt 7 Fried vegetable with oyster sauce I
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  • TIMESDOLLAR
    • In the market
      • 78 25 MALAYSIAN speculatives yesterday came under selling pressure in the Singapore stock market while the turnover of shares dropped to the lowest for the week. The Straits Times Industrial Index added 1.68 points to 767.4 while the Business Times Composite Index rose 1.6 points to 665.64. Volume
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        • 12 25 Pahong Inv 1,943,000 Raleigh 1,745,000 Pan-El 1,448,000 Johan Hldgs 1,068,000
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        • 82 25 H Leonf Credit 695 -35 ftoir Elect 520 —25 Sunfei Besi 600 -20 IMTeiHes 360 -18 TDM 450 -12 Raieifh 366 -U kit Wood 155 -12 Hied Choc 270 -10 H leonr Fin 250 —10 FELS 243 -9 M Cement 50c 130 -9 Peak Hua 372 -8 IGB Corpn
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        • 89 25 Oct 3 Oct 4 BT Composite 664 04 665 64 BT Indicator *****82 *****22 BT 0B OS -83 -110 CADI -5147 -5151 OBV -***** -***** ST Industrials 756 72 767 40 ST Finance 2644 10 2639 70 ST Hotels 743 49 742 03 Oct 3 Oct 4 ST Properties
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        • 36 25 INDICES Highs Lows Straits Times Business Times Industrials Composite 1984/85 High 1071.91 (8/2/84) 983.06 (8/2/84) 1984/85 Low 717 95 (15/7/85) 631 62 (15/7/85) All time High 1071.91 (8/2/84) 983.06 (8/2/84) All-time Low 74.75 (17/9/64) 550.78 (2/8/82)
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        • 13 25 THE US dollar closed at DM 2.6050 in Singapore, losing 395 points.
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        • 20 25 DM V FF S$ H$ US$ ***** 2.6150 211.85 unq 2.1170 unq 1.4335 2.6050 211.85 ***** 2.1175 7.7630
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        • 9 25 In Singapore, gold was at U*****.00 gaining US$6.5O.
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        • 33 25 Eurodollar: Lost one tick to 91.77 a contract. Deutschemark: Gained 57 ticks to 0.3860 a contract. Japanese yen: Gained 33 ticks to 0.*****8 a contract. Gold: Gained US$6.BO to U*****.10 an ounce.
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    • Short stops
      • 72 25 WASHINGTON, Fri. The United States unemployment rate rose by one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.1 per cent in September as the manufacturing sector of the economy sustained heavy job losses, the Labour Department reported today. The small September rise came after the rate had
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      • 77 25 RIYADH, Fri. Saudi Arabian geologists reported yesterday a huge discovery of tin in the midnorth region of the country, but said the ore was too low-grade to permit commercial extraction. The English language newspaper, Arab News, quoted officials of the Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources as
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      • 93 25 NEW YORK, Fri. American beauty products firm Revlon, the target of a takeover bid by Pantry Pride, will be sold instead to the investment firm of Forstmann Little and Co for US$l.6 billion (553.3 billion), it was an- nounced yesterday. A joint Forstmann-Rev-lon
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      • 78 25 Ban on gold coins? TOKYO, Fii. Japan may ban the import of krugerrands following a United Stat?s ban on the coin this w-jek as part of a package of limited US economic sanctions against Soi th Africa, Foreign Min'stry sources said. Retail sources said Japan imported about five tonnes of
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      • 87 25 MANILA, Fri. The beer-brewing giant San Miguel Corp reported today sales rose 22 per cent during the first half of 1985 despite unfavourable economic conditions. The company registered net sales of 5.5 billion pesos (5J623 million), up 22 per cent from 4.57 billion pesos
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    • 497 25 'Be ready for business failures if you want success' SINGAPORE entrepreneurs must be prepared for business failures if they want to succeed in highrisk ventures eventually. This was the view of three experts who spoke at a seminar on venture capital and information technology development at the Shangri-La Hotel on
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    • 299 25 Charter deals with Sanko cancelled TOKYO, Fri. Two Japanese firms have canceded contracts for three tankers on charter to Sanko Steamship Co Ltd, which has applied for court protection from creditors, but other owners may not support such moves, industry sources said. The cancellations by Marubeni Corp and Japan Leasing
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    • 106 25 US business leaders more pessimistic NEW YORK, Fri. US business leaders are more pessismistic about the performance of their companies in the fourth quarter of this year than they were in the third, a poll here by the economic analysts Dun and Bradstreet Corporation has disclosed. The 1,400 business leaders,
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    • 348 25 BANQUE Indosuez, now celebrating its 80 years in Singapore, very nearly missed the boom years of Singapore. In 1958, a year after the independence of Malaya and a year before self-rule for Singapore, the Paris headquarters of the bank wanted to close the Singapore
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    • 578 25  -  NORA CHENG By Malaysian businessman joins board of Allied Chocolate MALAYSIAN businessman Lee Ming Tee, who has been making corporate waves in Australia, has joined the board of Allied Chocolate Industries, the company said yesterday. Mr Lee, when contacted yesterday in Sydney where he is
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    • 240 25 Singapore firms shun lay-offs seminar ALTHOUGH Singapore companies are not immune to retrenchments and lay-offs, they stayed away from a seminar on how to handle largescale dismissals. The two-day Managing a Redundancy seminar at the Royal Holiday Inn drew only 12 participants yesterday. Those who came "were from either statutory
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    • 180 25 TAKERS of 25 new JTC workshops at Tuas will not only get an Initial six months rent-free hut a follow-up 35 per cent discount on the rent of $13.91 per sq m per month. The -Jurong Town Corporation will also pass on a 5.9
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    • 4618 26 READERS should be aware of the Mtahons of this information Not every transaction, nor every price dealt in at the Sirtfapore and Kuala Lumpur stock exchanges, is necessariy covered in "business done". Further because al dealings at a particular price are grouped together, the table does
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    • 2845 26 INDUSTRIALS A Choc (3 088 3.105X3) 3 14 (7) 306(3) 3.08 (7) 3.16(11) 3.10 AMD (5 00SX4) 5 05 (1) 5.10 (5) 4 90 (9) 5.00 Alcorn (0 98SX2) 0 97 (27) 0 98 AISB (0 938X1) 0 97 (41) 0 96 (78)095(19)0.94(5) 0 93
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    • 2779 26 1955 Last YMd Vol Day Kfh Low Company Sale Chanfe ('000) H_fh Low SECTION ONE INDUSF COMMERCIAL 185 98V. Acmo 109 45 146 75 Alcorn 89 304 158 Alied Choc 270 -10 0.7 47 280 268 134 87V. Amol Steel 50, 122 -1 32 251 125
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      • 172 27 OCBC OUB UO6 DBS DEPOSIT RATES LOAN RATES (2)Pnmerate 6V_ 6% 6% 6% Personal/Renovation (Flat dbcounted) Up to 1 year 6 1 6V2 6 1 Up to 1 V_ years 6V. Up to 3 years 6V2 l A 6Vi 6V2 Up to 4 years 6V4 6V_ Housing u^^fr**'*"
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      • 162 27 Interbank Over the counter Foreign Local dolars to Foreign currency currency one unit of to SSIO Australian dollar 1.5163 1.5185 6.70 6.46 Canadian dollar 1.5521 1.5534 6.54—6.37 NZ dollar 1.2080 1.2107 8.40—8.07 Sterling pound 3.0343 3.0379 3.36—3.27 US dollar 2.1175-2.1185 4.77—4 68 Austrian schilling 11.5631-11.5670 88.03—84.78 Belgian franc
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      • 204 27 Manager, price* for Oct sft 7 Singapore Urit Trust The Commerce 187—198 The Savings fund 1 16 —I*4 S pore Prog Fund 0 80—0 85»d Spore Sk Fund 1 17-1 24 S pore Invest Fund 0 78—0 83 S pore Equity Fund 0 83—0 88 Asia Ulit Trust
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      • 99 27 in_ uo uuiuu tiu_ej_ __~>i-i agaiu-i iiiusi major currencies at 3 pm yesterday. Against the Singapore dollar, the greenback closed lower at 2.1175/85 in quiet and narrow trading. Against the deutschemark, the dollar opened at 2.6150/55 and closed at 2.6035/55. It fluctuated between a high of 2.6170 and a
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      • 87 27 THE kilobar market Closing price traded between HKS ylSerda/ 1"1 Ss22'89° Kruge"and 35««l Gold opened at Chl 'T" s*"5*" U*****.20/0.60 which was also the day's K,h)baf 22.426—22.556 IOW. Um 22-32 sgm 112-122 The day's high was lOgm 224-235 at U*****.00/322.40. 20 gm 448-461 50 gm 1.123-1,143 The market settled
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      • 25 27 GOLD US$/oz Fri Thurs Singapore 331.10—***** 324.60—325.00 Hongkong 331.10 —331 50 324.40-***** Thurs Wed New York 329.00-330 40 324.10-324.60 London 328.00-328.50 324 40—324.90
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      • 17 27 Rubber Closinf prices cents/Mo Singapore November ***** down one cent Malaysia November ***** up 0.50 cents
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      • 16 27 Tin Ctostif prices MS/kio KL Tin 29 90 unch Turnover: 140 tonnes up eight tonnes
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      • 25 27 Ctaing prices Copper £/tome Thws Spot *****—***** (965 00-965 50) 3 months 1002 50— 1003.00 (990 00-990 50) Market tone Steadier Sales 23.600 tonnes
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      • 29 27 Clo_n prices Silver USJ troy w rri Ih_j Singapore 6 37-6 42 6 03-608 Thurs IM Ne* Yofk 6 3b --6 40 603-6 08 Source Credit Suisse Spore
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      • 20 27 Ctaing prices Aluminium £/tome Thurs Spot 698.00—698.50 (695 00-695.50) 3 months *****—***** (*****-718.50) Market tone Steady Sales 11.550 tonnes
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      • 88 27 doling prices Crude MS/tome Oct 665 (north central) 670 (south) Nov 685 (central) 682.50 (south) pabnoi USS/tams RBD palm mmm 335 (setters) Dec 350 (sellers) RBD Olein Oct 330 (sellers) Nov 335 (sellers) Dec 340 (sellers) RBD Stearin Oct/Nov 310 (sellers) Dec ***** (sellers) Dec 315 (sellers) Crude
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          60 27 BULLISH sentiment prevailed and market players kept prices high until early afternoon. Near the close of the market, however, K layers either took their profits or cut their jsses, taking prices lower. (LIS dollar Deutsi'hemark) Open High Low Sett Est Vol Dee 0.3852 50 0.3873 0.3848 0.3860 845 f*mr
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        • 60 27 THE YEN contract benefitted from the weaker US dollar and was bouyant till the early afternoon. However, like the deutschemark, it suffered from players clearing their positions ahead of the weekend and closed lower. Open High Low Sett Est Vol Dec 0.*****0 0.*****2 0.*****7 0.*****8 193 MarSC 0.*****8
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          85 27 THE WEAKER dollar and a sudden demand for silver prompted more interest in gold and the metal enjoyed a good run. Rumours of a broking house selling silver sparked off a sudden rush of buy silver and this demand spilled over into the gold market. However, volume remained light.
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      169 27 Vessel Berth Arr Dep Keppel Wharves Sangerhausen K2B aside 510 Straits Venture K24F aside 5/10 Builder 3 K23 5 10 6 10 Daxing K35 5/10 11 10 Glory Selatan 1 KlB 5 10 6 10 Jenhol K22 5/10 6/10 Myung Sung No 2 K3O 5/10 6/10 Pingancheng
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    • Stock markets round-up
      • 585 27 THE Singapore stock market yesterday rose slightly although turnover dipped to the lowest for the week. The Straits Times Industrial Index added 1.68 points to close the day at 767.4 while the Business Times Composite Index rose 1.6 points to 665.64. Volume
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      • 333 27 Oct 4 Y«n Chant* Apnomoto 1150 unch Akoi 341 -10 Amodo 738 -12 Asohi Chem 777 +7 Asohi Gloss 790 -1 Bank Tk 757 -3 Bndgestone 550 +5 Canon 1030 unch Casio Computer 1590 -10 Citizen 375 +2 D Nip Pnrr 1020 10 D Nippor Screen Daiei 732 +2
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      • 320 27 Oct 4 Cents Chanfe A C I 283 +3 A N t 270 -17 A P M 293 -12 Aberfoyle 1050 +10 Age 282 +7 Alionce CW 115 Alied Mil 292 unch Ampol Exp 290 +5 Ampol Pet 245 +3 Am 510 +4 Ashton 100 +5 B H P
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      • 54 27 NST Index Friday 1275.74 (1214.92) ~J? Honfkont Hani Serif S.O Friday 1587.44 (1581.07) Australian Al Ordinaries _1 Friday 1011.9 (1006.5) Nkkei D J Average Friday *****.83 (*****.86) Financial Fines Industrials Thursday 1010.9 (1012.5) Dow Jones Average Thursday 1333.11 (1333.67) (Figttres in brackets refer to those of the previous tradnr,
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      • 209 27 Oct 3 IBS Chance Alcoa 33* V 4 AXed Chem Cp 44* AKs-Chalmers 3* Am Tel Tel 21* unch Amax Inc 13% unch Amr Corp 39% Bethlehem Sfl 17% Boeing Co 46% Burroughs Cp 63*4 Caterpilar Co 36* Chose Manhtn 50 Chrysler Cp 36* Citicorp 42*4 Com Nat
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      • 566 27 Oct 3 Pence Chanfe INDUSTRIALS Alked-Lyons 285 -5 Ass Dairies 142 +4 BTRPLC 358 +3 Babcocks 135 -1 Barclays 369 +7 Beechom 300 -3 BKX 218 unch Blue Circle 521 -4 BOC Group 265 +1 Boots 203 unch Bowater 315 -10 BATS 265 -I Britannia 105 unch BP 550
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    • 355 28 Gold Club being built for members only KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Credit card company Cheq-point (M) Sdn Bhd has shrugged off its previous financial woes to achieve a turnaround after it was relaunched one-and-a-half years ago. Cheq-point president Stephen Sya said its current turnover averaged Ms2 million monthly,
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    • 99 28 MTP raises stake in VDH to 37.5 MALAYA Tin Printing has so far managed to gain another 7.4 per cent of shares in marine and engineering group Van Der Horst with its revised offer, bringing its total stake in VDH to 37.5 per cent. Before the revised offer, MTP had
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    • 239 28 LONDON, Fri. The authorities of the Lloyd's Insurance Market yesterday suspended a record 199 underwriting members from trading. They also set aside ?M million (*****.9 million), another record, from internal funds to meet potential liabilities. The move came after a six-man Lloyd's committee headed by
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      12 28 "Sura you're unhappy. But that's how you're supposed to be."
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    • 280 28  - New rules to boost Batam oil industry KHNG EU MENG By INDONESIA has a new set of rules to help the growth of its oil and gas industry on Batam island. The new regulations, announced in a joint decree by the Indonesian ministries of finance and trade and the central
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    • 221 28 Singapore Market weaker THE week started off with a series of poorer interim results which pushed the market down slightly and a weaker tone was set generally for the market during the week. However, turnover was relatively active with interest centred around Malaysian speculatives. During the week, the Straits Times
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    • 189 28 Most active stock Pahang Investments PAH ANG Investments is this week's clear leader for the most active stock title beating its next contender, Raleigh Bhd, by about 11.32 million shares. Volatile Pahang Investments, which is a favourite among punters, rode on a volume of 18.65 million shares this week although
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    • 92 28 THE FOUOWING is a list of the live most actively traded stocks on the Stock Exchange ot Singapore this week It gives the turnover in thousands ot units, closing prices yesterday and the high and ow tor 1985 Company Volume Price (J) tifh tow (S) (000) )ct
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    • 191 28 Sellers dominate market Kuala Lumpur SELLERS were the main players in the Kuala Lumpur stock market this week, following the sharp price rises of the past two wp^ks The New Straits Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index lost 3.67 points to end the week at 1,275.74. Profit-takers went into action from
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    • 91 37 PATH DA BHOG The family ol the Late S. SAOHU SINGH ALKRE wishes lo thank all Doctors, Nurses ol Ward 44 S.G.H., relatives and Inends for their kind assistance, attendance and condolences during their recent bereavement. PATH DA BHOG will be held on Sunday, 6.10.1985 from 3.00 p.m.
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    • 501 37 181 Deaths 181 Deaths MDM. WONG WAN HENG Aged 73 Passed away peacefully on 3.10.85. leaving behind SONS DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW Cheong Kwai Chong Wong Ah Mooi Cheong Kwai Hin Lily Teh Kooi Huah Cheong Kwai Meng, Roger Cheong Kwai Hoong Chua Beng Ley DAUGHTERS SONS-IN-LAW Cheong Chow Wan Lau Wing Chor
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    • 271 37 France face danger of being relegated BELGRADE, Fri. With their top two players nursing knee injuries, France are in danger of relegation from the World Group by losing to Yugoslavia in this weekend's play-off. On their recent records, Yannick Noah and Henri Leconte should be able to beat any Yugoslav
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    • 304 37 DAVIS CUP TENNIS Sweden see no problem MALMO (Sweden), Fri. Holders Sweden, playing on clay and against opponents weakened by injury, appear to have a clear passage to their third successive final when they meet Australia in the semi-finals today. The Swedes have at their disposal the same powerful quartet
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    • 287 37 FRANKFURT (West Germany), Fri. Ivan Lendl, the world's topranked player, arrived yesterday for Czechoslovakia's semi-final with West Germany starting today but declared an elbow injury would prevent him playing singles. Ending almost a week of uncertainty about his injury, Lendl said he had agreed to come to
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    • 289 37 REST OF TENNIS Lay-off pays for Connors ST LOUIS, Fri. Jimmy Connors needed just over an hour to defeat Tom Gullikson 6-1, 6-3 yesterday in the quarter-finals of the US$lOO,OOO ($112,000) Seiko Super tournament. The hard-driving left-hander did not lose a service game in the match and broke Gullikson's serve
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    • 298 40 Mkkkfr* GOH GAM SENG will lead the Singapore challenge in tomorrow morning's Mobil Marathon at the National Stadium (starting at 6.30). The Singapore champion is one of the favourites for the title, which will be contested by about 4,200 long-distance runners, some of whom will be
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    • 794 40 India's star athlete looks set to climb greater heights mj B /Saturday f I Peso" BY HAKIKAT RAI The number of Asian women athletes who have left lasting impressions on the public can be counted on one hand. ..with enough fingers left to hold a
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    • 197 40 Roehrl coasts to victory SAN REMO (Italy), Fri. West German Walter Roehrl steered his Audi Quattro first past the post for the fourth successive day to win the San Remo Motor Rally this morning, widening his lead to nearly six-and-a-half minutes. But with two events of the season still to
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    • 265 40 PARIS, Fri. South African Nick Price took a four-stroke lead with a six-under-par 66 in yesterday's first round of the Lancome Trophy golf tournament at Saint-Nom-La-Breteche. Price, joint runner-up in the British Open in 1982 and winner of America's World Series in 1983, collected four birdies
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    • 133 40 WENTWORTH, Fri. David Robertson was yesterday banned for life from membership of the Professional Golfers' Association European Tour. The 28-year-old Scot was originally suspended for 20 years and fined £5,000 ($15,000) by the Tour's Board for replacing his ball wrongly during the qualifying competition for the
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      1006 41  -  MARTIN PALMER By Charlton's crisis scheme to kick off LONDON, Fri. Tomorrow's Second Division soccer match between Charlton Athletic and Sunderland would not normally generate much more than a passing interest but this game marks the start of an experiment that, if successful, could be instrumental in changing
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    • LEAGUE ACTION AROUND EUROPE
      • 350 41 The United chase for history and glory In England LONDON, Fri. Manchester United could reach the brink of English soccer history tomorrow thanks to Tottenham, the team whose 25-year-old record for the best start to the season they look set to equal. United manager Ron Atkinson disclosed this week that
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      • 228 41 ENGLISH DIVISION ONE FIXTURES Arsenal v Aston Villa, Birmingham v Sheffield Wednesday, Everton v Oxford, Luton v Manchester United, Manchester City v Chelsea, Newcastle v West Ham, Nottingham Forest v Ipswich, Queens Park Bangers v Liverpool, Southampton v Watford, West Bromwich Albion v Tottenham Hotspur. LONDON, Fri.
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      • 309 41 Becker fever to hit fan turnout In West Germany, Italy COLOGNE, Fri. The new German {>henomenon "Becker fever" is ikely to reduce considerably attendances at West German soccer matches this weekend. For the league programme clashes with the Davis Cup tennis semi-final between West Germany and Czechoslovakia in Frankfurt which
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      • 213 41 In Spain, France MADRID, Fri. The capital's two major clubs, Real and Atletico, boosted by European victories on Wednesday, clash on Sunday at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Real's stronghold, while champions Barcelona play hosts to Seville. Barcelona have made a distinctly tentative start to the
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      • 128 41 BRADFORD, Fri. The English Football League have stopped Bradford City from going on a free holiday this month as compensation for the fire tragedy at their ground in May in which 56 fans were killed. The League's management committee have refused the Second Division club permission
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      • 466 41 Big guns plan new tournament to replace Milk Cup EIGHT English First Division clubs have discussed launching a new British h aockout competition to replace the Milk Cup whose four-year sponsorship ends this season. Manchester United, Tottenham, Arsenal, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester Cit Southampton and Newcastle want to include the 20
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    • 387 42 Banks on song with meet record WORLD CUP ATHLETICS CANBERRA, Fri. World record-holder Willie Banks, buoyed by his musical tapes and an enthusiastic crowd, won the triple jump today with a World Cup record leap of 17.58 metres. The popular, colourful Banks, who had threatened to withdraw if he could
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    • 215 42 Men's IMm 1 Ben Johnson (A) lO.OOsec 2 Chidi Imoh (Afr) 10.12 3 Kirk Baptiste (US) 10.17. IMm hurdles 1 Andre Phillips (US) 48.43 2 Alexandr Vasilyiev (SU) 48.62 3 Harald Schmid (Eur) 48.84. BMm 1 Sammy Koskei (Afr) 1:45.15 2 Viktor Kalinkin (SU) 1:45.72 3 Agberto
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    • 363 42 THE OLYMPIC FILE-THE BIDS Stars to boost British lobby LONDON, Fri. Birmingham is to enlist the help of tennis stars John McEnroe and Boris Becker and iceskaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean to reinforce its bid to stage the 1992 Olympic Games, the president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan
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    • 344 42 THE OLYMPIC THE CONTRACT NBC clinch TV rights NEW YORK, Fri. The National Broadcasting Company have been awarded United States television rights for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, in a deal worth at least a record US$3OO million ($636m). The contract features a profitsharing provision and could rise in
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    • 203 42 MANILA, Fri. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said he would award the Presidential Cup to Fiipino athletes who showed outstanding performance in the recent competitions in Southeast Asia. The two are lightweight Leopoldo Cantancio, who won the Best Boxer in Asia trophy during the 12th Asian
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    • 337 42 CANBERRA, Fri. World 400 and 800 metres champion and recordholder Jarmila Kratochvilova, of Czechoslovakia, today confirmed this weekend's World Cup meet would be her last major outdoor competition. Jarmila, 34, said she would run in the European Indoor Games in Madrid next March
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    • 290 42 Asian Imbalance: Asia's athletes met with contrasting fates. The women finished in sixth spot out of eight, ahead of Africa, and more surprisingly, equal with the United States on 21 points from seven events, and 31 behind leaders East Germany. The men trailed in eighth and last spot
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    • 103 43 YUSOFF SULEMAN, 20, who won the silver medal in the 200m elimination race at the recent Asian Cycling Championships, is one of four Singapore riders selected for the Asia International Cycle Road Race, starting on Oct 29. He will have the support of team-mates
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    • 206 43  -  HAKIKAT RAI By SINGAPORE, playing at a leisurely pace, chalked up an easy 102-71 win over Sabah in the second round of the Malaysian Amateur Basketball Association tie at the Gay World Stadium last night. But the national women's side, playing their first international match since
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    • 450 43 IF time spent on court is the sole criterion, then Toh Kim Wah can consider himself the most worthy first-round winner of the third leg of the Ellesse tennis circuit at the Singapore Tennis Centre last night. The Singapore Polytechic student took almost three hours to subdue Pathor
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    • 348 43 ARCHERY American Richard McKinney was on target for his third men's world title after taking the lead on the second day of competition on Thursday in Seoul. McKinney, world champion in 1977 and 1983. won the 50-me tre event and was sixth in the 30m to score a
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    • 587 43  -  JOE DORAI By Preliminary-round results point to a happy night for Dollah and his men PUNGGOL skipper Rahim Hussein is, for the first time in five years, without a winners' medal in a local soccer competition. His counterpart, Rahman Tahir, of Bukit Timah, has already won one
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    • 348 43 Hussein is left with only 19 trainees SINGAPORE coach Hussein Aljunied's task of selecting his final squad of 18 for the Merlion Cup soccer competition starting at the National Stadium next Saturday appears lighter. Hussein now has only 19 in the training squad including midfielder Salim Moin,
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    • 225 43  -  J. RAJENDRAN By RUGBY lovers can expect a thrilling weekend, what with two Malaysian Rugby Union Cup matches in store, and the visit of Randwick, Australia's most successful club side. Randwick take on Singapore Cricket Club at the Padang today, while New Zealand Force meet
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    • 93 43 4 1 have a good team young, talented and eager to learn. They had made my task easy. They have performed well to reach the final. I hope they can produce the same kind of fire against Bukit Ti- mah. Punggol's Dollah Kassim (left) 4 Our
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    • 112 43 THE Warren Golf Club 72--hole stroke-play championship, starting tomorrow, is likely to develop into a battle between the Lee brothers Vincent and Kevin. Defending champion Vincent, 19, who plays off two, won the title from younger brother Kevin in 1983. Last year's championship was not
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  • RACING
    • 390 38  -  MARKSMAN Two stand out among his seven mounts By our man on the track KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. With leading jockey Nigel Tiley sidelined this weekend, S.Y. Leong, who is two winners behind the New Zealander, has an excellent chance of catching up. Leong has seven
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    • 81 38 THESE horses have won or done well on a wet track: RACE j: Kuala Trengganu, Gentleman n. RACE 2: Useful Advice, Gaining, Capability. RACE 3: Path Finder m, Trump C^rd IV, Dollars, Toy Drummer, Best Always. RACE 4: Give Me More, j Swift in, Heng Heng. RACE 5: Chollimah,
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    • 210 38 FOR the first time on the local turf, only one expatriate will be riding against the local jockeys at Kuala Lumpur today. Malcolm Johnston has returned to ride in Sydney, Nigel Tiley has been sidelined for this weekend and Terry Lucas,
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    • 404 38 RACE RACING ED MARKSMAN TONTO PEDIGREE LUCKY LEO 12 Ninja's Ambush 8 Punter's Pal 8 Punter's Pal 8 Punter t Pal 8 Punter's Pal 1 4 Aurora 4 Aurora 9 Gentleman 9 Gentleman 4 Aurora 8 Punter's Pal 9 Gentleman 14 Yang Ini 10 Hard To
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    • 5963 38 ■■ppni 2.00 CLASS 5 DIV 5 1,200 m J Tai jMT (Ratings: 51-37) mmmmWmmmbM (Stakes: $11,500) 1 009 Easy Creek 57 (51) NET-Lim 3 irq +1.5 (1200 m). Unplaced three starts m restricted terms; 9th of 10 to Om Shanti with 55.5 Div A Spore 1200
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    • 26 39 Fleet Foot (on the rails) getting the better of Taiping Lake in a Class 4 race on a soft Penang track in August.
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    • 306 39 ON THE TRACK with MARKSMAN KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Five-year-old Fleet Foot, engaged in Race 3 on Sunday, wound up his preparations with an eye-catching workout here this morning. The going remained soft and only a handful of horses
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    • 128 39 TUESDAY (good with some "give"): Columbian Emerald 36.1, Red Cider, Lead Singer and Brown Trooper 40.3 together, Brave Connection (Masruhen) 39.9, Best Of Pals (Gopal) 39.6, Mystic Warrior 39.9, Rich Vision 40.7, Give Me More (Looi) 38.7, Focus (H.S. Chan) 38.8, Coral Island 38.6, Endless Mam" and
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    • 198 39 Total No of placings Placings for last II rides rides Ist 2nd 3rd 1 TUey 245 4* 26 27 ********** 2 Leong ***** 21 24 ********** 3 *Ismadl 188 3538 21 ********** 4 Cook *****3332 ********** 5 Johnston 197 *****7 ********** 6 Nubian 145 23 13 It **********
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    • 85 39 Ist 2nd 3rd Teh 75 61 50 Allan 42 40 22 Zaflr 36 22 25 E Brenkelen 32 36 30 Rodgers 31 37 39 Yeoh 30 13 26 West 25 34 27 Bnang 25 23 22 X Leong 25 15 15 Lee 24 28 30 Bougoure 22 25
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    • 91 39 Ist 2nd 3rd Auric 35 20 15 Goodman 18 12 17 Bluegrass 15 4 5 Chens 14 17 12 Agasam 9 12 10 Mdm TL Long 9 2 4 Sunny Rhoo 7 14 15 AJK 7 2 2 Hail 7 10 RL Chong 6 3 7 Inderapura 6
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    • 122 39 KUALA LUMPUR, WU.— Jockey K. Velayutham, who was hospitalised for several months after being seriously injured by a knife gang at Ipoh in March, has recovered sufficiently to resume riding track work. He worked a few unnumbered horses here this morning and told me later: "I'm
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    • 2150 39 1-?Tn JF.I I'3o1 30 CLASS 5 DIV 4 1,200 m K____U__l_bßJl (Ratings: 53-38) (Stakes: $11,500) 1 245**9 Humble Boy 57 (53) Nike-K Leong 6 nzh dc +2.5 (1200 m) KH Chew 1 2 ****** Lancashire Tower 57 (53) SC KhooBuang 5 nng dc +6 (1200 m) Francis 8
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    • 128 39 PARIS, Fri. The field for Sunday's Prix De L'Arc De Triomphe at Longchamps may be reduced to 15 from 2k at starting time. Final plans for the 2,4ttm classic will not be made until the last minute because of a possible change In the current
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 176 39 182 Acknowledgements 182 Acknowledgements V I The Family of the late PAUL LEE KIAM SENG express their heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their prayers, kind condolences, assistance, attendance, wreaths, scrolls and do- I nations during their recent bereavement. Special Thanks to: Rev.
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    • 39 39 183 Condolences 183 Condolences I rOur deepest sympathy and condolences to MR. ROGER CHEONG KWAI MENG FAMILY on the demise of his beloved mother. MDM. WONG WAN HENG From Management A Staff Of V KENIKA ASSOCIATES PTE. LTD. I
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      124 39 IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOSEPH WONG CHONG KOW Deported: sth Oct. 1980 Gone from our lives one so dear. But in our hearts forever near. Always remembered by Wife, Children and Grandchildren. l Mdm. Ann Tan Swan Looi Departed: sth Oct. 1982 Peacefully sleeping, resting at ast,
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      72 39 In Everloving Memory of MR. K. RAMACHANDRAN Departed 5 October 1983 Time changes many things But not the memory this day brings. Dearly misaed by wifo, children and all lovod onea Prayers will bo hold on 12 Oct. 1985 (Sat.) at Blk 105, #10-206 Ang Mo Kio
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      119 39 In Loving Memory Of LEWIS LIM JOO SIAH Departed 5 10 1976 Gone from our lives one so dear. But In our hearts forever near Always remembered by family and J2**£'2_2_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_™ AL-FATEHAH LATE HAJI ABDUL WAHAB S.D. Departed: sth October 1984 Sadly missed by k»ved_o-es^_ 185 Requiem
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    • 159 43 Today's events *_^mm m mmmmmm^ BADMINTON 4th FftN/Y--onex National Ranking League (SBH, 7). BASKETBALL Maba Cup second round: Sabah v Penang (845) President Merlin Cop: Thailand v Malaysia (7.30). Both at Gay World. BOWLING 2nd World Cup selection trials (Orchard, 9) Vie-Productlon Star* of Tomorrow (-'ships (Bowler-Drome, 10). Anchor Beer
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  • 407 44 $50,000 for those with proven track records FOR the first time, the Community Development Ministry is to give annual grants to cultural organisations which can help it work towards the vision of a cultured society. Grants amounting to $50,000 will be given to
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  • 206 44 HOUSTON, Fri. A 30-year-old homosexual who had vowed to continue his sexual activity even after learning he had Aids, is in hospital today to undergo voluntary psychiatric evaluation. Mr Fabian Bridges, a former truck driver who was diagnosed in July as
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  • 32 44 NEW YORK, Fri. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 4.93 points to 1,328.18 in the first half hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. AP.
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  • 93 44  -  DON HIGGS By London Reporter LONDON, Fri. A man appeared at London's Bow Street magistrates' court today charged with murdering a Singaporean in the city's Chinatown area on Saturday. Duong" Due Quang, 27, is accused of killing Mr Billy Poo Hoe Nong,
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  • 233 44 A WOMAN who had been taking Malay herbal medicine or janitor three years, died shortly after developing rashes, oral ulcers and fever. Yesterday, a coroner's inquiry heard that three weeks before Salmi binti Harron's hospitalisation in October last year, she had taken several types
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  • 397 44 PM's suit against SUF man OPPOSITION politician Quek Teow Chuan was declared a bankrupt by the High Court yesterday after he failed to meet a one-week deadline to pay up his $750 debt to Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Mr Quek, who had
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  • 293 44 Woman confesses on TV LONDON, Fri. A woman confessed in a national television programme broadcast on Thursday that she invented a crime for which a man was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. "I would like to put my
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  • 79 44 What it should have been AN ARTICLE in The Straits Times on Thursday said New Zealand does not accept overseas private students for its tertiary institutions. The New Zealand High Commission yesterday clarified that it does accept private students, but not for undergraduate courses if the student had previously studied
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  • 149 44 REDDING (California), Fri. Students at Sequoia Junior High School have lost a traditional excuse for not doing their homework forgotten books. This year, the school supplied its 550 students with duplicate textbooks one to keep at home and another that stays in
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      • 1008 1 First strikes and lost chances f\ THE ARAB-ISRAELI WARS By Chaim Herzog, Arms and Armour Press, hardcover, 1984, 403 pages, $62 A Reviewed by MICHAEL LIM Twelve years ago tomorrow, a surprise first strike by the Egyptians on the Israelis marked the start of the Yom Kippur War. Today, we
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        462 2 Illustr ANNIE JOHN by Jamaica Kincald (Picador, 1985. 148 pages, $14.15) With sly humour and lilting prose, this first novel weaves a moving tapestry of childhood hurts and dreams. It is the enchanted landscape of a child on her way to womanhood, as seen through her own
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      • 757 2  -  Eric Silver BEGIN: A BIOGRAPHY By Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984 278 pages, $47.50 Reviewed by ROBERT CHEW MENACHEM BEGIN will be remembered in history as the Israeli leader who made peace with Egypt. Unfortunately, history will also remember him as the man who launched a ferocious war
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      • 536 2 VENGEANCE The True Story of an Israeli Counter-terrorist Mission By George Jonas Hardcover, Collins, London, 1984 444 pages, $39 Reviewed by CHRIS CHIA SEPTEMBER 5 1972 was the day when Black September terrorists massacred 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. At 4 am that morning, eight
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      • 361 6  -  JOHN YEMMA By FOR many, the term "Arab world" conjures up images of religious fanatics, terrorism, endless deserts, spy-novel intrigue. As if real people weren't involved. Beware, in all your conjuring, of oversimplification and stereotyping. "Arabs" come from 21 nations, each different, each composed
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      • 916 6 FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL: THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB-JEWISH CONFLICT OVER PALESTINE By Joan Peters Published by Michael Joseph, London 601 pages, $39 Bv MICHAEL MOORE MIDDLE EAST peace initiatives have had an embarrassing habit of turning into clubs for countries in the region and farther
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      • 389 6  -  D.M. Thomas ARARAT By Abacus, 1984, Paperback, 191 pages, $9.40 Reviewed by CHRISTINE KHOR D.M. THOMAS'S powerful gift for invention is splendidly displayed in Ararat It's the story of the one-night affair between a talented Russian improviser of stories and a blind student. It is a
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      • 260 6 New Arrivals at the Bookshops Picking on Men compiled by Jodv Allen (Arrow, 1985, 118 pages, $9.35) MEN have long been regarded as mankind's greatest gift to itself. Here, in this provocative and funny compendium, is the last word on the male of the species (and some of the first
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      • 294 7 AN OPEN MIND By Susan Sallis Puffin, 1985. 139 pages, $6.15 Reviewed by CELINE SIA, aged 14 COUNTLESS books have been written about the predicament of children from broken homes, and the jealousy and hatred they feel when their divorced parents remarry. At first, An
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      • 551 7  -  REBECCA CHUA By 4 He understands begonias and children, canaries and goldfish, dachshunds and Scottish terriers, men and motives He plays a fair ping-pong, a good piano and a terrible poker... He is a good man with axe, rifle and canoe, and sails a
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      • 327 7 By HERBERT MITGANG E. B. WHITE maintains that vigorous writing is concise. "A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragragh no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary part." This requires
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      • 316 7 Young Reader Mixed bag of fun and seriousness THE Speckled Panic by Hazel Townsen (Beaver, 1985. 74 pages, When Kip buys Venger Truthpaste instead of toothpaste, funny things start to happen. But they get out of control when the headmaster eats some by mistake. What terrible truths will he tell
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        2800 8  - Lola warm KELVIN TAN A short story by 21, a national serviceman BRINSLEY BIVOUAC looked at his reflection in the mirror. He stared at himself for a few minutes. It didn't surprise him, the way he looked; a hunched 75 kg load shaped in a 1.76 m frame. Grey hairs
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      • 765 12  - Isle with a magic spell KANNAN CHANDRAN By The charms of Mauritius are found not only in its coral-fringed beaches and sparkling blue lagoons but also in its beautiful mountainous interior, its unique mix of cuisines and its cosmopolitan population STRANGELY, it struck me as being a tale of two
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      • 295 12 Getting there AIR MAURITIUS and Singapore Airlines operate a weekly direct flight each to Port Louis. Air Mauritius departs on Sunday, returning on Friday; SIA leaves on Saturday and returns on Sunday. The normal excursion fare (roundtrip) is $2,030. Air Mauritius and SIA Holidays offer 7-day and
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      • 475 21 LEONG WENG KAM talks to Lion Rock, one of an increasing number of Hongkong groups performing here MORE and more Singaporeans are packing the Hongkong-style music lounges here which hire bands from the colony. These bands are a hit here because they not only
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      • 157 21 World Chess Championship Finals Shortest game in the THE 12th game between defending champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Garry Kasparov was drawn after 18 moves on Thursday night. After opening with a Sicilian Defence, Karpov switched to the Taimanov Variation and then made a bold pawn sacrifice on move eight.
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      • 527 21 JAPANESE director Akira Kurosawa loves big storms, and nature in all its majesty is an intrinsic force in his latest film. Last week, New York briefly handed him a whopper for background hurricane Gloria to usher in his epic movie Ran, the opening work at the
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  • Supplement
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      • 785 4 Starting today, a weekly two-page guide of tips and ideas In this article, ANG LAY WAH gives the low-down on power drills and drill bits. Next week, she continues with the various kinds of accessories available which complement a drill to make it more versatile. MAKING
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      • 558 4 THE right drill bit for the job is just as important as selecting the right drill and there is a wide variety of bits on the market. They can cost anything from a few dollars upwards and there are different bits suitable for different materials. For wood:
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      • 165 4 r> f~W HSHItfV l^vy*/ it mfjjk <s/] If ©IOOTS irA\ L. w \j^ SftttOlTe Vaz BISON Adhesives have come up with glues to fit any kind of surface or so it seems. They range from $1.45 for a tube of the Bison-Kit Contact Adhesive, to $16.40
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      • 324 5 YOU must have, at some time or other, complained about shoddy workmanship. You're sure you could have done a better job. Well, now you can start thinking D-I-Y. With the opening of Hands Superstore recently, D-I-Y will, hopefully, become a lifestyle as in Japan, the United
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      • 739 5 Each Saturday, we'll show you how to improve your home. This week: How to lay a vinyl floor FOR those who want cheap, no-fuss, long-lasting flooring, vinyl is a good choice. Although it lacks the luxury of deep-piled carpets, vinyl is functional. As it is stain
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      • 196 9 Unveil your talent EXPRESSIONS offers an outlet for creative and artistic effort by you and for you. So if you're a closet writer, composer, painter or photographer, now's the time to unveil your talent. Whether you write, compose music, paint, sculpt or draw (cartoons, illustrations or drawings), send it to
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      • 798 15 APPOINTMENTS A deluxe hotel with a new sophisticated well-equipped Health Club and popular recreational and sports facilities requires the services of a professional and experienced person to manage the overall operations of the Health Club on a profitable basis. Qualificationa: Must have professional qualifications or previous training as a physical
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      • 756 16 APPOINTMENTS We, CIPHER DATA PRODUCTS, the "Exciting Company", are at W the leading edge of mass storage technology. In order to accomplish our challenging objectives and realise the exciting potential of our Subsystems, we have the following vacancies: I TEST ENGINEERING MANAGER I Reporting to Managing Director, successful candidate will
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      • 707 16 DIGTTAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION is the second largest com puter manufacturer in the world and a multi-national leader in the manufacture, sales and servicing of mini-computers. We have vacancies for the position of: I Field Service I I Engineers I The job involves: The installation, maintenance and repair work of the
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      • 276 16 (^JoweM J__ V_^___i^ SINGAPORE Sheraton Towers Singapore, a 412-room hotel, invites applications for the positions listed below. We strive for excellence and our demands are high. We believe in the development of individuals as our employees are our assets. If you believe in working in an invigorating and challenging environment,
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      • 1113 17 APPOINTMENTS _________«__a._____«»W__»«_»_«__«_«iK_MNHS«HMn^ Established Offshore Construction Company urgently require the following category of personnel. Only Europeans, Canadians, Australians and Americans need apply. Positions are for both onshore and offshore work. INSTRUMENT/ELECTRICAL TECHNICIANS (20 VACANCIES) Qualifications:- Familiar with API, NEC, ISA and other applicable codes and standards for instrumentation. Required to work
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      • 590 17 r loxboro, a world leader in computer- based systems for process management and control, invites technically qualified j individuals who are interested to embark on a career in the process control and instrumentation business to fill the position of: ELECTRONIC 5 TEST TECHNICIAN (Process Computer Hardware) Responsibilities: Perform standalone and
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      • 714 18 APPOINTMENTS mmmm lCdlll Egg Semiconductors S The good people company! Our continued rapid advances in high technology IC development and manufacturing is resulting in more and more new opportunities. TEAM'S philosophy is to pmvide leadership in technology, quality and customer service using the best people. It' you are one of
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      • 718 18 r i CAREER IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY We are a multinational company ensaging in systems development and consultation in advanced information technology applications. We are leaders in North America in the fields of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Project Management Systems (PMS). We are expanding our operation in Singapore and have
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      • 645 18 r -a I SENTRY FACTRON The Schlumberger Career in Electronics ConfidenlCompetitive, above all Challenging i A dynamic career awaits you with this multi-national group, leading the way in state-of-the-art electronics systems. The following positions require the best people available: Applications Engineers The successful candidate will have a flair for high
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      • 527 19 APPOINTMENTS THANK YOU! f— JJ We appreciate your BETHE ONE overwhelming response WE'RE to our earlier recruitment U||JK |NG ad. Thank you for your 55^ J interest in our company. J Due to the voluminous mails we received, we [a^^o*™ are only able to call on fc^onve, shortlisted candidates Produrtioll
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      • 736 19 IJU SIEMENS We are a subsidiary ol SIEMENS AG. Germany one o! ihe 5 largest elecfro companies in ihe world with over 320.000 employees We require SERVICE ENGINEER, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT in our Medical Engineering Division for installation service of sophisticated computer related Linear Accelerator Therapy Equipment Diploma in Electronic Engineering
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      • 751 20 APPOINTMENTS =T European >^ W E LEC TRONICS^ tw EE A subsidiary ot Thomson-Grand Public, l«"rench leaders in high technology elec- S tronics and household appliances; the I largest manufacturer of electronic products in France with worldwide production and marketing facilities. Significant growth in audio activities in H this part
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