The Straits Times, 16 February 1986

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  • 211 1  - Yuyi emporium to close down this month GILLIAN POW-CHOMG «y EMPORIUM Holdings is to close Klasse Department Store (Yuyi) opposite Orchard Cinema at the end of the month. The 15-year-old store may be the first of a number of outlets which the troubled retail chain is believed to be thinking
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  • 51 1 ANSWER some simple questions on New and you may win one of 70 all-ex-penses paid, 14-day New Zealand holidays. The first of three New Zealand "Win a Wish" contest coupons appears on the last page of today's Sunday Plus section. The other coupons will appear the next two
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  • 293 1 DISPUTES between developers and residents over shortfalls in floor area hi two condominiums have taken on a couple of new twists. A group of 14 residents in GoodLuck Garden and GoodLuck View in Toh Tuck Road reported the developers to the police for alleged cheating,
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  • Article, Illustration
    51 1 were more than happy to take pot shots at this boy, who smiled through it all with Ms bead on toe line. They were giving their all yesterday to raise money for Anglo-Chinese Secondary School, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary. See Page 10 for full
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  • 408 1 THE government is Uk«ly to accept the main recommendations of the Economic Committee to improve the economy, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. But it is possible that not all of them will be implemented immediately because some may need to
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  • 624 1  -  ABBY TAM By Manila Correspondent MANILA, Sat The Philippines military was placed on fun alert tonight in anticipation of opposition violence after Ferdinand Marcos was finally declared official winner of the bitterly-fought presidential election. Tension was running high in the capital as the
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  • NEWS FOCUS
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      571 2 MEXICO CUTS C Mexico has slashed the 24 per cent to about US RUDE PRICE AGAIN: price of its crude oil by almost >15 (Ss3l) a barrel. The an- nouncement by the state oil company, Pemex, follows those by other producers in their bid to keep their
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      190 2 SPORT'S BREAKTHROUGH: Sport's greatest ideological barrier has been broken with an announcement from the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne. From Seoul onwards, the Olympic Games will be open to all, including top professionals, if a suggestion from the lOC executive board is accepted. After more than 80 years, the
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    • 804 2  -  LEE SIEW HIM By WITH about a week left of the traditional 15-day Lunar New Year celebrations, many Singaporeans are lamenting that it's been the quietest New Year in recent memory. The streets were quiet on the first three days and the "drink,
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    • 696 2  -  HEDWIG ALFRED By VETERAN corporate manager Mr Frank Y.C. Yung was yesterday appointed Chief Executive Officer of publishing giant Singapore Press HoldHis appointment put an end to the search for a replacement for Mr L.J. Holloway, 56, the SPH chief executive who resigned suddenly
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    • 362 2  -  DAVID ZIMMERMAN By LEE lacocca's summary dismissal from a government advisory commission has backfired and given the Chrysler Corporation chairman a public soapbox for a bid for the White House. Mr lacocca, frequently mentioned as a possible Democraticpresidential candidate in 1968, was sacked by Interior Secretary
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    • 156 2 MR MICHAEL FAM, who will be giving up his stewardship of the SPH group to Mr Frank Yung, has described his experience so far as "very interesting". "I must say that the senior management team has rallied around very well... And perhaps equally important, there
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    • 582 3 Manila Correspondent ABBY TAN asks the vital question "WHAT HAPPENS now?" is the headline of the Sunday magazine of a pro-government newspaper, the Times Journal, in the Philippines. It is a question both Filipinos and foreign analysts are asking in the aftermath of the
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    • 1416 3 IRENE NGOO, back from the Philippine election frenzy, will always remember the anguished voter's face that suggested a death in the family 4 One had a feeling that as the groups snaked their way through the streets, it would take but a
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    • 250 3 EARNEST and smiling, these former Bugis Street hawkers still serve up the beef guotiao, roast duck, rojak and other dishes that once made their stalls so talked about. They may not be strong in numbers today only 13 of the hundred-odd hawkers from Bugis Street but they're
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 123 2 UP TO 1 pm. Fair. TEMP. (C) up to 6 am tomorrow: 32 max., 24 mm SUNSET today: 7.21 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 7.16 am. TRAVELLERS' WEATHER Adelaide 19-27C Cloudy ManJU 18 32c aoudy Amsterdam Melbourne 21 29c Cloudy Bangkok 24 31 C Fair Moscow -9/-8C Sunny BeljtaR -6 8C Clear
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    • 400 3 Pendant shown actual size. P^ An heirloom for light-years to come! Soon the horizon will blaze with the appearance of Halley's Comet not seen in 76 years and not to be seen again tor m 76 more. Truly a stellar event in our lives! m^mmmWrnW JL\wk\ And in its honor,
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 256 4 US gets tough on textile imports fraud WASHINGTON, Sat. THE United States Customs Service said yesterday it would impose tough new rules on textile imports next month to counter fraud designed to evade Customs regulations. The decision comes despite a recent complaint by 28 tex-tile-exporting nations that US Customs rules
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    • 136 4 Britain to develop orbital aircraft STEVEN AGE (England), Sat. Britain yesterday unveiled details «f a revolutionary orbital aircraft aimed at achieving European pre-eminence In space by the end of the ryOfficials of British Aerospace (BAE) and the engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce said the new aircraft, known as Hotol (horizontal take-off and
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    • 270 4 BOSTON, Sat. Harvard medical school scientists have discovered where the deadly Aids virus reproduces in the human cell and say the find is an important step towards an eventual cure. The reproductive process of the virus, which can replicate its own
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    • 284 4 Mexico slashes oil price by US$5 MEXICO CITY, Saturday MEXICO yesterday slashed the price of its crude oil by almost 24 per cent, nearly US$5 (about SI10.50) a barrel, the state oil company announced. The move comes amid price cuts by all the oil producers, as each tries to keep
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    • 31 4 JERUSALEM, Sat. The Israeli price index fell by 1.3 per cent during January, it's first such fall in 13 years, the National Statistical Institute here said yesterday. AFP
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    • 152 4 Mexican drug suspects 'tortured 17 policemen' OAXAC A (Mexico), Sat. Suspected drug traffickers tortured and killed 17 police officers in an isolated mountain village before being driven out by police agents, authorities and witnesses said. Police said the drug traffickers, toting automatic weapons, took over the town and kidnapped 11
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    • 227 4  -  DONALD HIGGS By London Correspondent LONDON, Sat. A fresh row has broken out over the issue of doctors giving birth control pills to girls under 16, the legal age of consent. The General Medical Council (GMC), Britain's overseeing medical body, has decided that
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    • 93 4  -  Dow Jones NEW YORK, Sat. Wall Street stock prices closed at record highs yesterday for the third consecutive day as oil prices continued to slide, the dollar weakened against the world's major currencies and there were rumours of a cut in interest rates. The Dow
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    • 291 4 I'll lead party if asked, says Heseltine LONDON, Saturday FORMER British Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine, who resigned last month after a row with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, signalled yesterday he was in the running to replace her as Conservative Party leader. "I am open to offers. Who knows what tomorrow
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    • 270 4 Smoke puff suggests shuttle doomed from start CAPE CANAVERAL, Sat NEW photographs released by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Nasa) show a cloud of black smoke spurting from a shuttle rocket booster less than a second after Challenger's blastoff, indicating the crew of seven was doomed from the moment
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    • 28 4 TAIPEI, Sat. A Taiwanese Air Force F-104 fighter crashed into two empty houses during a training flight in central Taiwan, the Defence Ministrv said today. Reuter
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      • 106 4 JOHNSON AND JOHNSON, makers of the pain-killer Tylenol, have halted its production after a District Attorney in Westchester, in the United States, said that cyanide which has already killed one woman might have been put in the capsules at the company's factory in Pennsylvania. The company, which
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      • 105 4 UGANDAN PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has offered an unconditional amnesty to ousted head of state General Tito Okello, currently in exile in the southern Sudanese city of Juba. a statement issued by the President's office said in Kampala yesterday. The statement said Gen Okello, who was ousted by
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      • 57 4 BURMA WILL auction off jade, pearls and gems worth nearly US$l2 million (about 5525.2 million) to foreign merchants at its 23rd Annual Emporium next week, the organising committee said in Rangoon yesterday. More than 400 gem merchants from 14 countries, including Singapore, are expected to bid
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      • 77 4 EXTRADITED NAZI Andrija Artukovic. who was returned to Yugoslavia by the United States last Wednesday, has been formally charged with ordering the mass murder of 231,000 Yugoslavs in World War n, the government news agency Tan jug said yesterday. Artukovic, 86, one-time Interior Minister in the Nazi
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      • 76 4 GUIDELINES FOR a new international convention to combat drug trafficking have been adopted in Vienna by the 40-nation United Nations Commission on narcotic drugs, but a US-backed Latin American bid to have trafficking deemed a "crime against humanity" was unsuccessful. The resolution, adopted by the commission
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    • 198 5 TOKYO, Sat. A Soviet seaman who rowed a rubber raft into Japanese territorial waters has told Japanese Foreign Ministry officials that he wants to seek asylum in the United States, a ministry official said. The defector, identified as Valeriy Vacheslavovich Polyanin, 33,
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    • 438 5 NEW DELHI, Sat. Indian authorities have imposed curfews, banned public meetings and sent police reinforcements to calm Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs as religious tensions flashed into violence in northem India. Muslim protests over the reopening of a disputed Hindu temple once used as a mosque spread
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    • 385 5 Some Americans may still be here Hanoi HANOI, Sat In what Is seen as a dramatic shift in Hanoi's position, it admitted today it was possible seme Americans who had "illegally infiltrated" Vietnam after the Vietnam war may still he held in remete areas of the country. Vlce-Mlnlster of Foreign
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    • 149 5  - Rambo's no match for dangerous Donald Duck ROY CARSON B» Stockholm Correspondent STOCKHOLM, Sat. Donald Duck on television is more dangerous than Rambo, according to a Finnish researcher who has spent five years studying childhood aggression. University researcher Kaj Bjorkkvist said violence as portrayed in comedy cartoons such as Donald
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    • 213 5 Iran claims artillery attack 80 km inside Iraq BAHRAIN, Sat. Iran said today its artillery was shelling a key supply route 80 km inside Iraq in the six-day-old "Dawn Eight" offensive. Iran said its long-range guns were shelling the Safwan-Bas-ra road. Military attaches in Teheran put the maximum range of
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
      • 68 5 British Airways is to be the first international airline to provide facilities for passengers to make in-flight telephone calls. The airline said it would install telephones in three of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets for a trial period. It will make use of spare capacity on a
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      • 54 5 nicipal Judge Don Gladstone of Sparks, Nevada, became so tired of seeing defendants turn up drunk even when some were facing drunk driving charges that he has introduced a breath-testing machine in court. The judge said that as many as three people a week showed up in his
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      • 53 5 Britain s biggest education authority, covering inner London, plans to set up a "children's ombudsman" to investigate complaints by pupils and parents. But the proposal to improve education accountability is expected to be bitterly opposed by teachers' organisations which say it would further undermine the already poor school
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      • 63 5 ca-Cola officials have admitted that Coke Classic, the original formula brought back last year after public outcry, is outselling the new Coke. The officials were confirming an Atlanta Journal report that the old is outselling the new by a 3-to-l margin. Co-ca-Cola, however, says the new
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      • 56 5 The Japanese, long renowned as the world's greatest workaholics, have lost their title to neighbouring South Korea. The Korean Employers' Federation says Korean factory workers put in an average of 54.4 hours a week, compared with 45.5 hours for the Hongkong manufacturing industry, 41. 1 for Japan and
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      • 75 5 British sci enlists nave uisiovereu a new, rough and tough species of animal "superhog". Unlike its slow-moving back garden cousin, this hedgehog Lhas learned that to live with Ithe motor car it cannot merely roll itself into a ball and show its prickles. Scientists working with Ford Motor Company
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      • 75 5 The Soviet Communist Party has issued an unusual public reprimand to a minister for persecuting journalists who criticised him. In the latest sign of the Kremlin's drive for greater official morality and discipline, Civil Aviation Minister Boris Bugayev's reprimand was announced on the main evening television news. It
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  • ASEAN NEWS ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 421 6  - Malaysians are promised peaceful and orderly elections ISMAIL K ASSIM By MALACCA. Sat. Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad today told Malaysians that the government will ensure that the next general elections, which must be held by April 1987, will be peaceful and orderly. He said that, unfortunately, there
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    • 49 6 JAKARTA, Sat. Two freight trains, one carrying diesel fuel, collided head-on and burst into flames near Medan in north Sumatra, police said today. The drivers jumped clear and there were no serious injuries. The burning fuel sent flames more than 200 m into the air. Reuter
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    • 261 6 Mahathir govt 'using internal security laws with restraint' WASHINGTON, Sat. The government of Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been relatively restrained in its use of internal security laws, according to the United States administration's annual report on human rights. The report, issued here on Thursday, said
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    • 57 6 JAKARTA, Sat. The district court in Jogjakarta has sentenced an editor of a nowbanned Muslim publication to 13 years' jail for subversion, the daily Sinar Harapan reported yesterday. It found Irfan Suryahardi, 23, guilty of subversion of publishing seditious writings in the Al Ikhwan bulletin between
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    • 148 6  - Brunei-bound workers fleeced over bogus job offers HAN LING By Brunei Correspondent BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Sat. Hundreds of foreign workers have been deceived by shady employment agencies which pretended to offer them jobs in Brunei, according to the Brunei Immigration Department. Many victims parted with their life savings or sold
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    • 229 6 NEW YORK, Sat. Dith Pran, whose ordeal in the Khmer Rouge work camps of Cambodia inspired the film The Killing Fields, has been sworn in as a US citizen. "I'm glad I made it. My dream came true," he said to
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    • 132 6 JAKARTA, Sat. The government has provided US$l million (552.14 million) insurance policies to each of the two Indonesian astronauts who will join a US space shuttle flight hi June, the insurance company said today. A spokesman from A«ir»nff| Jasa Indonesia Inc said its company
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    • 671 6 Koon Swan hands in resignation at Multi-Purpose Cites lack of time to mimt its affairs KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. BUSINESSMAN and politician Tan Koon Swan has tendered his resignation as Group Managing Director of Operations of the Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd (MPHB) group. MPHB Group Public Relations Director Tan Ken Sin said
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    • 198 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Prime Mlbmlii Dmtmk Bert Dr Mahathir Mehamad will ad- the rally «f the Malay•laa Chinese AaMeUtiea (MCA) Marek t, party seeretary-geaeral Datek Lee Kim Sal aaU teamy "We have tarvitoi aim to 4e WMihehM agreec/' «Oi Datak Lee, whe h) alae
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    • 162 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. MCA President Tan Koon Swan left today for Singapore where he faces 15 charges of fraud, cheating and stock market manipulation involving over Ss29 million. About 30 people, mostly MCA members, gave Mr Tan a quiet send-off at the
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    • 388 6  - 'We'll fight Viets alone' threat by KPNLF dissidents ALBERT R AM ALING AM By Bangkok correspondent BANGKOK, Sat. The rift in the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) has widened with dissidents in the faction threatening to quit the movement and to go it alone in fighting the Vietnamese deep
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 389 7  - Woman MP's advice to single women raises girls' hackles VALERIE LEE By ASK Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon why career women are being left on the shelf and she'll tell you it's because they tend to appear aggressive and neglect their appearance. Then there's the problem of their attitude. Don't judge
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    • 261 7 A STUDENT was slashed twice on his neck when he went after a burglary suspect on hearing a neighbour's cries for help on Friday. Despite his injuries, Mr Siow Tze Siong, 16, yesterday said he would do the same thing again if necessary. Tze Siong,
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    • 105 7 What it should have been IN ANNOUNCING the appointments of Mr Lim Siong (Juan. Permanent Secretary (Defence), as chairman of the Central Provident Fund Board and Mr Tan Chok Kian as deputy chairman and chief executive officer on Friday, the Labour Ministry said that Mr Tan's appointment was to provide
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    • 152 7 OLDER Singaporeans who are generally in good health and willing to continue working beyond 55 must be encouraged to remain in the workforce if we are to avoid a labour shortage problem in the long run. This was the message from
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    • 120 7 FRUSTRATED motorists who have complained about traffic Jams in Commonwealth Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue West should find the going smoother. Tomorrow, five pedestrian crossings in the two avenues will be removed. The Ministry of National Development has already taken steps to co-ordinate the more than It
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    • 257 7 MORE vegetables, fruits and fish may be imported into Singapore from Indonesian co-op-eratives as a result of talks between trade union leaders on both sides. The NTUC SecretaryGeneral, Mr Ong Teng Cheong, who arrived in Jakarta with a union team last
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    • 78 7 A BUILDING contractor was yesterday Jailed for six months for continuing to employ a Thai worker whose work permit had been cancelled. Chin Kong Foo, 35, was notified of the work permit cancel- lation In February last year, but continued to employ Vlchian Boonpook, 29,
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    • 333 8 HOUSING Board flat buyers who are retrenched and genuinely find it difficult to pay their monthly instalments will be allowed to defer such payments. National Development Minister Teh Cheang Wan said yesterday at the Istana function. Mr Teh said that in the past, MPs
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    • 444 8  - Light banter at Istana party LEE SIEW HUA By IN A light moment, Mr Goh Chok Tong's weight was the subject of some banter as he mingled with one group of community leaders at yesterday's Istana garden party. A few in the circle were commenting that they were putting on
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    • 373 8  - What will decide how soon schools oo mornino JUNE TAN HEDWIG ALFRED There is prospect too off school fees being raised By ana THE Education Ministry has reaffirmed its intention to spend $700 million and press ahead with single-session secondary schools, but it will be at least 10 years before
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    • 406 8 Without afternoon school, even guitar lessons are possible ST NICHOLAS Girls' School takes advantage of being sin-gle-session by holding nearly 80 activities for the secondary girls in the afternoon and close to 40 for the primary pupils. This extraordinary range includes anything from vegetable carving and ballet to Bible study
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    • 365 8 Special N-level course for Best students? WORKERS with little edncadon may be given the chance to sit for the N-level examinations if a special coarse for them gets under way. The Vocational and Industrial Training Board, which la responsible for adult education, Is doing a feasibility study an N-level course
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    • 163 8 TWO eminent Chinese visitors met yesterday at the National Museum Art Gallery. One was Chinese State Councillor Gu Mu. The other was artist Huang Zhou. Mr Gu, in Singapore for a one-week state visit, took time off to view the 120 works of
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    • 189 8 FRUITS and Food Land Supermarket at Cuppage Plaza has been placed under receivership barely eight months after embarking on an ambitious programme to give a different touch to the normal supermarket fare. International accountants Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Co were appointed receivers following an application by
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    • 747 9  -  AUDREY PERERA By JUST as bacon and eggs go together, a gold wristwatch has almost become the inevitable gift for workers who retire or who have served long in a firm. But of late, there is evidence that more and more firms are
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    • 91 9 RAINFALL to expected to be below Average over most parts of Singapore this month, according to the Meteorological Service. Bat there will still be showers up to the end of the month. These are expected to come mostly in the late afternoons and early evenings. Daring
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    • 176 9 Expat wins lucky draw apartment METRO'S lucky draw Bayshore Park apartment has been won by a Japanese expatriate who isn't too sure of what he is going to do with it. Mr Tsutomu Hirano, 37, said: "I have never won a lucky draw before. This is the first time." Unfortunately,
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    • 41 9 THE NTUC Welfare and Community Services Secretariat will organise a workshop on energy and water conservation for union officials and affiliates. It will be held on Feb 27 at the NTUC Annexe Room A in Shenton Way at 2.30 pm.
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    • 174 9 SAF exercise THE SAF will be conducting military exercises in Lim Chu Kang, Tuas, Hong Kan, Marsiling, Mandai, Pulau Übin, Loyang and Sembawang daily from tomorrow to Sunday. Blanks and thunderflashes will be used and the public is advised not to be alarmed. Exercises will also be conducted at Bedok
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    • 72 9 IT was party time yesterday for 250 underprivileged children from eight homes. They were treated to food, drinks and fun at the York Hotel by the Goodwood Group. The children and guests including Mrs S. Dhanabalan, wife of the Foreign Affairs and Community Development Minister were entertained by
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    • 61 9 THREE well-known Chinese poets will take part in a modern and classical poem recital organised by the Association of Singapore Writers at the Apollo Hotel today at noon. They are Mr Pan Shou, also a calligrapher, Mr Chua Boon Hean, a writer and a director of Shaw Brothers,
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    • 431 9  -  LITO GUTIERREZ Five stores hit in seven weeks By EITHER the robbers couldn't read or they were just really going for broke. Signs at 7-Eleven stores saying their tills have no more than $30 after dark had no effect on robbers who broke into four
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    • 491 10  -  LEE SIEW HUA By IN OFFICES across the island, the battle-cry has rung out: Save money. No longer are companies providing free lunches, free tea and coffee and free showers. Potted plants are out and plastic greenery is in, and all wastrels are sternly
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    • 355 10 YOUNG couples packed hotel restaurants and discos on Friday bent on living it up despite the bad times. It was Valentine's Day after all, and romance managed to nudge recession aside at least for a night. Orchard Road saw streams of people,
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    • 215 10  -  NGIAM TONG HAI Story: Picture: A BRIEF wreath-laying ceremony yesterday brought back sad memories of when the Japanese invaded Singapore in 1942. Thousands of civilians were mas-, sacred by the Japanese army during the Japanese occupation between Feb 15, 1942 and Aug 18, 1945. The
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    • 373 10  -  MATILDA GABRIEL By THEY did it for the money. About 20 boys from Anglo-Chi-nese Secondary School took turns of four hours each yesterday getting batter thrown in their face. Their game, called Krazy Kreamers, was one of about 50 that entertained a steady stream of
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    • 140 10 MOTORISTS are advised to avoid roads which will be closed from 7.30 am to 12.30 pm today for the Chingay Parade, which starts at Orchard Road at 9 am. All traffic, including buses operated by the Singapore Bus Service and the Trans-Island Bus Services, will be diverted
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    • 388 10 Judge accepts reporter's word about provocation A JUDGE yesterday ruled that a woman passenger had hit a taxi-driver but accepted her explanation that she had been provoked. In convicting Miss Ravcharan Kaur Dhaliwal, who said she was pushed beyond tolerance, District Judge Mr Rahim Jalil granted her an absolute discharge.
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    • 297 11 The Sunday Times VIEW Safety first LAST week's boat mishap off Pulau Langkawi in which eight Singaporeans drowned was all the more tragic in that it could easily have been prevented. The decision by the Malaysian Marine Department to suspend all inter-island passenger-boat services from the Kuah Langkawi jetty after
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    • 131 11 What The Sunday Times reported on Feb 19, 1961 THE Minister for Finance, Dr Goh Keng Swee, said today that the Government was aware of the importance of the Malayan Stock Exchange and its responsibility to the economic wellbeing of Singapore. Dr Goh wa:. speaking at the
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    • 1255 11 Spunky WINNE MANDELA has emerged as one of South Africa's most formidable black leaders WINNIE Mandela's high-spirited defiance of the white South African regime has been a source of inspiration to her people and, quite apart from her status as Nelson Mandela's wife, has also transformed
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    • 45 11 MANDELA was born in 1934 in Pondoland, Tranrkei She has two daughters. 1956: Married Nelson Mandela. 1969: Arrested and held under the Terrorism Act for 17 months before being acquitted. 1977: Exiled to Brandfort. 1985: Brandfort house burned down in an attempt on her life.
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  • FOCUS/Viewpoints
    • 1163 12  - Look hard at soft facts and make hard facts public Irene Hoe Mr Lee Kuan Yew may feel that we are in need of faster facts. Yet in some cases, there is no doubt that we have had the facts all along but have refused to face them or act
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    • 815 12  -  Lito Gutierrez GOING by the reports of fraud and violence in the Philippine presidential election, I should start labelling myself Lito "I-am-ashamed-to-be-Filipino" Gutierrez. But I am not. Confused, maybe, but not ashamed. In the first place, Philippine elections, as far as I
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    • 897 12 ■Tiresias Whatever upset it may cause my brother-in-law, the cheerful glint of my v sister's false tooth is also a reminder to me that there is nothing new under the sun, whatever the breast-beating do-gooders say about children
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    • 352 12 EVERY now and then, I do the uncle-ly thing and bring my precocious 10-year-old nephew Alex to the weekly meeting of the Amateur Philosophers Association, widely known as APA. Our President, Mr lan Stein, got the ball rolling by the simple, time-tested way of pushing
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  • FOCUS/Analysis
    • 1814 13 Five years in the making, Singapore's new Copyright Bill will soon fie presented to Parliament, which will invite the public's comments before passing it into law. Meanwhile, foreign businesses and the US government are watching with great interest. How, if at all, will consumers benefit?
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    • 202 13 BUTTERWORTHS, the Singapore arm of the British piMUtaglNiMkMwi for Its legal ud medical texts, last yew pobUshed book by Associate Prefesstr Hm Kaag Hong «f the National University «f Singapore School of Accountancy. Before deciding to publish the book, entitled Financial Management, Bntterworths did Its sun*. It
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    • LETTER
      • 369 13 WE thank all the letter writers for their comments on the Centrepoint Kids last week. They gave us some indication of public sentiment over the phenomenon. We wish, however, to clarify certain points. Youth Challenge is basically a voluntary group working with
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  • RACING
    • 329 14 -■y.v>ay:»i'.'ii:i:n;M 1985 BELOALE PROSPECT 48 Kheo 1984 JAMBEAU 52 Tiley 1983 VALLEY FAME 50 Khoo 1962 VALLEY FAME 48.5 Kheo 1981 SIAPA RAJAH 111 56.5 Murray 1980 SURE AM 52 hlam 1979 DRAGON COMMAND 54.5 Piggott 1978 SUPER LEVEL 56.5 Khoo 1977 SIR TOBY 50 Thomas 1976
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    • 347 14 RACE RACING ED TONTO LUCKY LEO MARKSMAN MISTER X Beethoven 6 Beethoven 6 Beethoven 6 Beethoven 6 Beethoven 1 1 Soon Soon 1 Soon Soon 1 Soon Soon 1 Soon Soon 4 Nice Performer 5 Apna Desh 2 Amir 4 Nice Performer 5 Apna Desh 7
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    • 210 14 Thorold to give Teh fifth classic in a row By THE RACING EDITOR •CHAMPION trainer Teh Choon Beng, who won the last four classic races of the 1985 season, has a great chance of making it five-in-a-row with Thorold in this year's understrength Tunku Gold Cup. In just eight runs,
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    • 98 14 THESE horses have won or done well on a wet track: RACE I: Soon Soon, Amir .Seattle Steel. Apna Desh, Bold Punter. RACE 2: Nuclear Number Pamada, Sea Palm, Natural Justice. RACE 3: Pokotoli. Tricky ►Steven, Bylon, Ovation V, Silk, Sofia RACE 4: Pagan Dancer, Skybolt, Biillrush. Passionate Prince,
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      624 14 |"IHP"jgH| 4.05 CLASS 1 DIV 1 2,000m UuSUKfI (Ratings: 176-155) (Stakes: $125,000) 1 *072*3 Folk Glen 57 (174) Folk Glen-Bougoure 6ag -2. By Folkestone going over 2,000m for first time; good 2nd to Truth Div 1 Pg 1700m in Dectwo wins so far, over 1200m and 1400m;
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    • 4004 14 tTfnPWW 20 CLASS 1 OIV 4 1,200m iM^-lB (Ratings: 125-113) (Stakes: $18,000) 1 54*5*0 Bmb Bmb 57 (I*s) AL AR-Rodgers 6 nzg dl +3. Went with pace, dropping right back in straight for 11th of 13 Div 3 1200m last week; best effort of late was
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      283 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday COUNT OP HONOUR tonight was unanimously voted Marlboro Horse of the Year for 1185. It was the second Horse of the Year honour for Goodmsn Stable, who took the Inaugural award with Chmnmy's Special In IW2. More than 44 racing writers from Singapore and
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    • 2654 15 By OUR RACING TEAM Gopal whoops it up after win on Peace Now FIRST *****0 SECOND *****7 THIRD *****4 STARTERS *****2, *****3, *****1, *****4, *****9, *****4, *****3, *****3, *****5. CONSOLATIONS *****8, *****2, *****7. *****2, *****2, *****0, *****4, *****1, *****0, *****3. KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. All four
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    • 307 15 NJ,HJ MELBOURNE, Sat. True Version took one minute and 35.5 seconds at Flemington this afternoon to prove himself the top three-year-old in Victoria then waited 20 minutes to be confirmed as the best in Australia. His win in the $100,000 (about S$140,000) Australian Guineas
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 531 15 181 Deaths 181 Deaths 181 Deaths We sadly miss and lovingly remember our former Pastor, counsellor and friend REV DR CARL M CAPEN of 602, Rhododendron Ave., Black Mountain NC *****, USA. whose life and ministry have touched and inspired many lives. On 9 Feb. 1986 he was received into
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      66 15 IN EVERLOVING MEMORY OF MR. HENG KOONG KWANG LAURENCE Called to be with the Lord 4 on IS FEB "S3 •Remember. I am with you always' Mathew 76 20 Always remembered by. Wife: Agnes Children: Willie. Nancy. Alice li Lye Hock (Son-in-law), Suiy and Irene •nd all
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    • 59 15 We wish to express our thanks to all relatives and friends for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences and donations during the recent bereavement of our mother: MADAM CHIANG LENG CHEE Special thanks to: M/s Ban Woh Engrg. Works M/s Kawasho Corporation ft M/s G Jlfeast Int'l Pte Ltd
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      60 15 With Deepest Sympathies •nd Co «dol«nc»» to CHWEE IM AND FAMILY of) Mm otfitiso YEO TECK MENG on 12/2/86 "He will not grow old as *ve who are left grow old. Age will not weary him nor condemn At the going down of the sun and in the
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  • SPORT
    • 1059 16 Big-time break or hometown humdrum for tennis's little lioness a* anotbar two ytin in Singapore and you can forget all about Lala Zainat; ahofl atag. nato and btcomt just anothor goad local playar. And ttiarw b»» •^^•^^T wacauao 1 ano naa tno poiantial to bocomo a rogionat
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    • 1086 16 mm H B. ALWAYS ON SUNDAY No more Olympian illusions... except the deception of contraception AST Tuesday seemed to be a particularly ■"•auspicious time for crossing bridges. At about the time Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky was stepping towards freedom in West Berlin, an announcement from
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    • 437 16 CRICKET AUCKLAND, Sat. An aggressive 66 from Australian Greg Ritchie helped steer his team to a six-wicket win over Auckland in their 50-over One-Day match at Eden ***** today. Ritchie clubbed six fours and three sixes in his 58-minute innings to take Australia past Auckland's
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    • 993 16 The star of the strangled anthem BHMBTMKM rvr fH JMfflri aaa-aawm mi^w9:^m mtaa^maamaTaf AMBITION is a personal thing, and what glints irresistably in the mind of Joe Duerr is the idea of establishing a new speed record for singing the national anthem on sporting occasions. He's going for 50 seconds.
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    • 138 16 tm mm to Ike tasty Ttat««/C«e*-€«U Sp*rt| B g m|l atf Mai arv^Mß^^at fataM v!mH| ▼am ißsve vs* a^^^^S^S^^.^^ ■^B* aplß^B* we jwmbt mum. mm *«»<we«ssie s«ss«s ym aright *ssji stariiH Lej» Imlmm i, H, I^aMat AMb^mMbl aflßßhA -a^a^h^^ am MmMmm la the Mslsystea KaiamtM
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    • 517 16 SPOTLIGHT ON THE MILLROSE ATHLETICS MEET NEW YORK, Sat. Billy Olson beat a star-studded field to win a marathon pole vault event at the 79tfa Millrose athletics meet last night but the second-place finisher got credit for a meet record. 1 It was that kind
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    • 406 17 FRANKFURT, Sat. Defending champions France were given no favours when the qualifying draw for the 1988 European Championship soccer finals in West Germany w;ts made here yesterday. In contrast to the World Cup, the titlholders have to qualify for the finals and France, winners on home soil
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    • 46 17 Group One: Spain, Romania, Austria, Albania. Group Two: Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Malta. Group Three: France, Soviet Union, East Germany, Norway, Iceland. Group Four: England, Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, Turkey. Group Five: Holland, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Cyprus. Group Six: Denmark, Wales, Czechoslovakia, Finland. Reuter
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    • 1153 17 Time to stop all this verbal violence ROB HUSHES TALK OF SOCCER 4 Sir Matt Busby Charlton's mentor is now, alas, an unheeded presidential figurehead. He was at Anfield last Sunday, he was personally abused, he sat within metres of where trainers were spat upon
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    • 276 17 REST OF SOCCER IN BRIEF RON SAUNDERS is back as a First Division manager and back at the bottom of the table too. West Bromwich Albion, who have propped up the division since the start of the season, have apppointed Saunders as their boss after he resigned last month as
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    • 919 17 The stirring story of Bungling Bill and the Brothers Chen TAY CHENG KHOON LJ E growled as. I approached. 1 No Kong Hee Fatt Choy, not even a limp handshake... just that familiar Eric grumble as I joined my old friend at the club on
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    • STEAL FROM PROS
      • 143 17 Cool power from the Sandv 'fan' j BRITISH Open champion Sandj Lyle Is particularly noted tor tb seemingly effortless way he hit* the tell huge distances. The secret lies In the way he takes the dob back. Look at thi club head. Although his shoulders have barely started U turn
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      • 237 17 HONOLULU, Sat. Mac O'Grady birdied his final hole yesterday and gained a one-stroke lead over Corey Pavin and rookie Jeff Grygiel after two rounds of the US$5OO,OOO Hawaiian Open golf tournament. O'Grady finished with a 69 for a total of 11-under-par 133. Pavin, with a
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    • 14 17 „,;n, ■> juMof...wftn loono E draw... with Ikfexse Cerezo.with Roma Dirceu...with Como
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      334 17 Santana picks veterans for Mexico way RIO DE JANEIRO, Sat. Coach Tele Santana announced yesterday the names of 29 players who will represent Brazil in the World Cup finals in Mexico in May. The Brazilian Soccer confederation also confirmed the team will play exhibition games next month against
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    • 80 17 G— lkeepcri: Carlos (Corinthians), Paulo Victor (Fluminense), Gilmar (Sao Paulo), Leao (Palmeiras). Defenders: Leandro (Flamengo), Edson (Corinthians), Oscar (Sao Paulo), Julio Cesar (Guarani), Edinho (Udinese), Mozer (Flamengo). Junior (Torino), Mauro Galvao (Internaeional). Branco (Fluminense), Dida (Coritiba). MMfleMen: Falcao (Sao Paulo), Zico (Flamengo), Socrates (Flamengo), Toninho Cerezo (Roma),
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    • 237 17 A TOTAL of 416 players, four from each team per match, could be facing dope controls in a major crackdown during the finals. That is the number of controls the specially built drugs check centre in Mexico City are ready to carry out if so required by
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    • 388 17 TENNIS WORLDWIDE BOCA WEST (Florida), Sat. Milan Srejber, largely unkown outside of his native Czechoslovakia, made a name for himself in the USsl. Bm Players International tournament here yesterday when he knocked out Wimbledon champion and No. 4 seed Boris Becker in the third round.
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    • 278 17 SPORT NATIONWIDE G. KRISHNAN fulfilled his ambition of winning the national cross-country title when he took the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association event at the Macßitchie Reservoir yesterday. The 25-year old production operator finished the 10.55-kilometre course in 36 min 31 sec to win the men's title for the second successive
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 125 17 CRICKET Prieadiles: Press Sports Club v SCA Schoolboys (Tanglin, 9 am). SCRC v MRTC, Indian Association v CSC. Both at Balestier Road at 1 pm. GOLF Warren Open < Warren Golf Club. 7 am SOCCER Malaysia Cop: Pahang v Perak (Stadium Darulmakmur. 8.30 pm). NFL Dlv 2: Changi Utd FC
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  • The Sunday Times Sportsfront
    • 484 18 There's no big deal in Singapore's runaway win REPORT BY JOE DORAI; PICTURE BY JERRY SEH WHEN a team create 23 golden opportunities and] end up with just six goals, it is certainly no big deal. l This was the sad story of Singapore
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    • 571 18 J. Rajendran profiles two men who could determine Singapore's Thomas Cup progress IT MAY seem strange, but an Indian and a O»<"^» could well deckle Singapore's fate in the Thomas Cup qualifying round starting in Bangkok tomorrow. Prakash Padukone, the 1980 All-En-gland champion, is arguably the
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    • 414 18  -  JEFFREY LOW Goals worth their wait as Singapore strike in the end ■■BE: had little choice but to come vengeance last night. Yet the ■^tonctr came too easily, too quickly and, HBuueek too late. that mattered wanted to see Singapore Vgain, even though Singapore's winning of
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      112 18 PWDL \?A Pts FT 7 6******19 magi lin 769 119 4 19 Selangor 86 0 ***** 19 Pahang 6 5 10 8 1 16 Tganu 9 4 3 2 13 5 15 Malacca 10 ***** 14 14 Forces 7 3 13 910 10 Sabah 7 3 13 913 10
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    • 113 18 AN EARLY penalty and the lethal feet of Zainal Abidin Hassan were the weapons with which Selangor destroyed Trengganu 2-1 at the Merdeka Stadium last night. The East Coast side never really recovered from the eighth minute penalty conceded by Zakaria Musa who felted Zainal hi the box.
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    • 118 18 KANGAR, Sat. Former Singapore star Fandi Ahmad was on target as Malaysia Cup soccer leaders Federal Territory maintained their perch with a 24 win over Perils at Stadium Datuk Sheikh Ahmad here today. Fandi, who had taken a knock on his right thigh during training earlier in
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    • 666 18 BRITISH SOCCER LONDON, Sat. Tottenham Hotspur, one of England's most famous football clubs, have been rocked by reports in national newspapers of sex romps and punrh-ups during their winter break in Jersey this week. The Sun alleged the Tottenham players enjoyed a fling with
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    • 68 18 EDINBURGH, Sat. Fullback Gavin Hastings kicked five penalties and three conversions today as Scotland crushed England by a record 33-6 in their Five Nations rugby union international at Murrayfield. The score eclipsed Scotland's previous best of 26-6 in the 1971 centenary nonchampionship match and put them top
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    • 124 18 LUMUT, Sat. Malaysian Armed Forces and Redan drew 0-0 in a drab Malaysia Cup soccer match at the Royal Malaysian Navy Stadium here tonight. Both teams played listlessly in the first half and seemed to lack urgency in going (or goals, with most of the play centred in
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    • 137 18 The Sunday Times, February 16, 1986 The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations— a wonderful book to read in the 100, in a traffic jam, before you fall asleep. imT TWfff FffffWf Wf TlffHfflWt v ,-T 1 GONGXIFACAI (T) 1 RAW FISH/CHINA PALACE COLD V~L^ DISH 4c«t4i/ 444 "broi 2. "PROSPERmr
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  • TV PLUS
    • 3 1 TV PLUS JLKJL
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      • 990 2 Thanks to meticulous research, novelist Jean Auel has reaped mammoth success with novels like The Valley of Horses and The Clan of the Cave Bear (the film version of which is now showing at Capitol). MEI-MEI CHAN finds out more about the bestselling author
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      • 657 2 WMKO 4MMBC OVER the years, several films about sporting achievements have caught the imagination of the film-going public. Most of them deal with men and women who conquer physical handicaps or surmount tremendous obstacles to achieve fame. A very recent example is Chariots of Fire.
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      • 372 2  - Another rocking good time ahead JULIE TAN By |gOR |5, you can have a ■N*tag evening on March 16 of Singapore's bestrids occasion? Let's Rock '86, which looks set to repeat ithe success of last SeptemIber's Police Concert. Only this time, the organisers hope to raise $100,000 for the Police
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    • CINEMA
      • 484 3  - A string of Alan Tarn hits with plot and clothes to match JULIE TAN THE STORY BEHIND THE CONCERT Coming to Cathay cinemas Starring Alan Tarn, Fanny Shieh and Jacqueline Lim Directed by Eric Tsang By THE producers might well have titled this Alan Tarn's Greatest Hits. Using lyrics from
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      • 413 3  -  ANG LAY WAH JAGGED EDGE Coming to Cathay Starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote and Robert Loggia Directed by Richard NAorquand By JAGGED EDGE is a good old-fashioned thriller that works, largely because it poses the movie-goer with the two perennial cliff-hanger questions:
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      • 512 3 HK;K; KNIGHTRIDER star David Hasselhoff and actress Catherine Hickland knew the script backwards when they acted out a big television scene recently. The couple, who got married two years ago, re-enacted their wedding ceremony for an episode of Knightrider in front of the same minister. And
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      • 563 3  -  SUMIKO TAN WHITE MIGHTS Coming to Orchard Starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Isabella Rosellini and Helen Mirren Directed by Taylor Hackford By FORGET about the plot in White Nights. Don't try to figure out the themes of individual freedom, politics, art and love. Just indulge in
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    • TV EYE
      • 622 4  - Vivid portrait of the modern woman PHILIP COOREY Hi I V "MfcVlfc\nf Mahanagar (The Big City) Today, Ch 1 2, 9.00 pm By Mahanagar is a study of attitudes that are common in most parts of Asia, and surprisingly enough, with women playing a greater role in society, it is
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      • 451 4  -  JULIE TAN LOOK EAST By RUMOURS were rife over the Lunar New Year that actorsinger Samuel Hui had died. The stories, which spread like wildfire, caused much consternation to the Hui family, especially brother Michael. According to Michael, Sam who sustained a lung
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      • 503 4  -  JULIE TAN TVKEVCW »y IT WAS just like another edition of Live From Studio One. Those who stayed up for SBC's Lunar New Ye»r Sftww (Feb 8, 10.30 pm, Ch 8) must have been disappointed. Instead of a riotous festive celebration, the show
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      • 249 4 DON Johnson may not be wearing socks. But he definitely has something wrapped around his ankle: A bandage. The Miami Vice star fractured his foot while doing a stunt on the set of the top-rated TV series, but it didn't stop him from
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      • 392 4 PRODUCTION manager Jiang Long has been appointed as the new head of SBC's Drama Unit. He will be taking over from Leung Lap Yan, who completes his three-year contract with the station tomorrow. Widely known as one of Hongkong's New Wave film
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    • Young life
      • 260 11 TODAY we feature one of my favourite artists, Michelangelo, whose paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome, rank amcng the greatest works of art ever created. They were all tne more remarkable because Michelangelo originally didn't want to aint them. He prrferred sculpture
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        486 11 JKHJKL HE was a painter, sculptor and architect. Like his Renaissance contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci, he excelled in all these fields and even wrote some good poetry. Born at Caprese in Tuscany, Italy, Michelangelo was the son of a minor official. He learnt the art of painting in
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      • 278 11 LAST year, someone wrote to ask me for instructions on making a pompom because she had joined a band. But you don't have to be a member of a band to use pompoms. Take a pair along the next time you go to a game
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    • SCENE & MUSIC
      • 544 14 Dionne's back, with a little help from friends FIRST Dionne Warwick sang on the famine-fighting We Are the World. Now her single That's What Friends Are For, with royalties going to Aids research, has topped Billboard's black and pop charts, and is No. 4 on the adult contemporary. Warwick, S3,
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      • 659 14 Whether you decide to join the crowds at Orchard Road or catch the action from your TV set, Chingay Parade 86 promises to be a ball. So reports IRENE HOE, who caught a preview of this morning's festivities. THREE wedding couples on the street
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      • 714 14  -  LIM SEK POP REVIEW By A CHORUS LINE, THE MOVIE VariMH Artl^Mt t riMy*w«\ MUSIC from Richard Attenborough's movie adaptation of the highly popular Broadway musical, one of the longestrunning around. The more familiar tunes from this musical are One and What I Did
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      • 76 14 1.(5) When the Going Gete Tough, the Tough Get Going Billy Ocean 2.(2) Burning Heart Survivor 3.(3) I'm Your Man Wham! 4.(8) How Will I Know Whitney Houston 5(9) Kyrie Mr Mister As compiled by Cashbox Magazine United States 6(1) That's What Friend* are For Dionne and Friends (H)
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      • 1106 5 Increased patronage and more chances to perform may have helped encourage Chinese opera here, but it will take dedication to keep it flourishing. SNG POH YOKE concludes her two-part feature on the state of the art. OPERA OVERSEAS professional troupes may have helped
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