The Straits Times, 24 August 1986

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  • 743 1  - Two PMs clear blocks to gas and water deals H. L. LIM MANO SABNANI By and Our officials of course are reluctant to make us more dependent by not only tying our water supply but also our gas supply to Malaysia. I take the approach that the two countries cannot
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  • 395 1 MANILA CARDINAL Jaime Sin, m his first criticism of President Corazon Aquino's government, has said the gains of the revolution that ousted the Marcos regime six months ago are "little by little being lost". Cardinal Sin, 57, who played a key role
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  • 224 1 THE Director-General of the Trade Development Board, Mr Ridzwan Dzafir, 59, has been appointed the new President of the Muslim Religious Council of Singapore (Muis). He succeeds Haji Ismail Said who retired on Aug 6. Mr Ridzwan will hold the post for 18 months at his
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  • 496 1  -  KONG SOOK CHIN Story by Picture by TWO-YEAR-OLD Dene Shevlin flew here from Scotland for an operation to save his right lee. His parents brought him here after they were told the boy's best hope lay m a Singapore surgeon who
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  • 99 1 Let's hear it one more time... What? BEIJING Chinese opera, with its repeated clanging of cymbals and gongs, is making its musicians deaf, the daily Health News reported yesterday. Only three of 77 musicians tested m the northeast China city of Changchun had normal hearing, with hearing losses greater among
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    • 17 1 Dr Mahathir's two Items, •ne still top secret: Page 8 Fake corpses caught some napping: Page 3
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • Article, Illustration
      541 2 SOVIET TRADE REFORM: The Soviet Union has indicated an interest m joining the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt). This decision has been described by a Gatt spokesman as indicative of major changes m Soviet policy, as the Soviets have long looked on the 92-nation trade accord
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      184 2 UPS AND DOWNS OF SOCCER GKEATS: In his regular column on soccer, Rob Hughes looks at some of the trials and tribulations of soccer stars: Helmut Ducadam (above), the Rumanian goalkeeper who saved four Barcelona penalties m the European Cup only to end up m hospital with an injured
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    • 671 2  -  AUGUSTINE LOO LIM KWAN KWAN By and THE plan to set up three town councils m Ang Mo Kio next month has received widespread but guarded support from many of the people staying there. Nearly all 50 community leaders and residents interviewed by The
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    • 769 2 OKLAHOMA CITY THE words "loner", "strange" and "weird" came up again and again as neighbours and fellow workers described Patrick Henry Sherrill, the gunman whose rampage at a suburban post office here left 15 people dead on Wednesday. They recalled that the behaviour of the
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    • 490 2 HAMBURG (We.t Germany) THE sea rescue of 155 castaway Sri Lankan Tamils off Canada's Atlantic coast has drawn world attention to Asian refugees fleeing civil war m their homeland. The United Nations estimates that 50,000 Tamil refugees have streamed into Western Europe to
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    • 944 3  - Who else was sleeping besides the fake corpses? KONG SOOK CHIN By SOME were fooled by the fakes and some weren't, but there were a number of red faces last week when an exhibition that had touted fibreglass models as 2,100-year-old corpses taken from Han Dynasty tombs had to be
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    • 159 3 LOOK at the picture above. Not a bad bungalow with such grand overhanging eaves, you may be thinking. But it is just the guardhouse of the Istana Nurul Izzah. The istana is one of the Sultan of Brunei's palaces, and it is home for his
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    • 330 3  - Small audiences leave 'Emily' of Emerald Hill unperturbed IRENE HOE B Y m tainDurgn EMILY of Emerald Hill opened quietly at the world's largest arts festival m Edinburgh, Scotland, on Tuesday. 1 The darling of last year's Drama Festival m Singapore played to its smallest audience yet m the Edinburgh
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 155 2 UP TO 1 pm. Showers over a few areas from late morninf TEMP. (C) up to 6 am tomorrow: 32 max., 26 mki SUNSET today: 7.11 pm; Sunrise tomorrow: 7.02 am. TRAVELLERS' HEATHER del aid e 12 15 C Showers MH bourne 12 17 C Showers Bangkok 26 34 C
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 346 4 West urged not to miss 'Asia Pacific Express' WASHINGTON A NEW United States report on the economic growth of Pacific Rim nations has warned the West to get aboard the "Asian-Pacific Express otherwise it will leave without us". These comments were made by Democrat Congressman David Obey, of Wisconsin, chairman
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    • 206 4 Beijing sentences elderly American to jail for spying BEIJING A 17-year-old American with alleged links to a United States-based intelligence agent has been sentenced by the Chinese authorities to 12 years' jail on charges ef spying for Taiwan, officials said yesterday. US Embassy officials said he Is the first American
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    • 114 4 Indian govt challenges court ruling on anthem NEW DELHI The Indian fovemment has challenged a upreme Court ruling allowing people not to sing the national anthem. Attorney-General K. Parasaran said m an appeal to the court that its decision last week m a case involving three Jehovah Witnesses children, placed
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    • 82 4 TENS of thwuanda of people yesterday watched a. spectacular restating of a royal procession through the streets of Seoul, featuring flags, bands and a troop of armour-clad cavalry. The profwitß depleted a king and his Un leaving their palace. The pageant marked the reopening of one
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    • 311 4 China confirms clash on Soviet border BEIJING CHINA yesterday confirmed an "isolated incident" occurred along its north-western border with the Soviet Union, where one Chinese soldier was reported killed and another wounded by Soviet troops last month. A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said m a two-sentence statement that Chinese officials have
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    • 277 4 NEW DELHI Former Interior Minister P. C. Sethi, who is on a Sikh extremists' death list, became the latest victim of India's notorious telephones when he allegedly used a gun to try to get a number. Sethi, 66, a veteran Cabinet minister who has handled
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    • 315 5 Toy-makers cash in on top-secret plane WHILE the Pentagon has refused to comment on a report that the US Air Force has built about 50 Stealth fighters and is testing them at night m western Nevada, toy-makers are cheerfully cashing m on public interest generated by the "plane that doesn't
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    • 231 5 Black African states split on sanctions LUANDA Nine blackruled southern African countries have failed to adopt a unified stand on imposing tougher economic sanctions against South Africa. This has exposed a serious rift between advocates of punitive measures and states that are more economically dependent on Pretoria. The differences emerged
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    • 130 5 CAPE TOWN South Africa's ruling National Party on Friday easily defeated a no-confidence vote, introduced m the white Chamber of Parliament by the opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP), condemning the government for imposing a state of emergency. The National Party, which has ruled South Africa
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    • 118 5 Dow Jones NEW YORK Stock prices churned ahead on Friday m a hesitant response to unexpectedly strong economic news. The Dow Jones Average of 30 industrials rose 6.61 to close at 1,887.80. Before the market opened, the government reported that new US factory orders
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    • 407 5 MOSCOW pictures. THE Soviet Union wants to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt), is studying joint ventures with capitalist countries and will reduce oil exports to the West three major signs of sweeping changes m Moscow's foreign trade system. The
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    • 404 6 OSLO THE Soviet Union has almost completed work on a 4,600-me-tre-long airstrip that will strengthen Moscow's ability to strike at targets m the United States without using nuclear missiles, according to a report and photographs published on Friday. It is also building a
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    • 245 6 WASHINGTON An American F-15 fighter jet has carried out a fourth successful flight test of an anti-satellite (Asat) weapon by firing a heat-seeking projectile towards a star m outer space, the US Air Force said. Congress has forbidden the Defence Department to fire the
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    • 294 7 OKLAHOMA CITY The long-running court battle over Karen Silk wood, the nuclear research employee killed m a car crash m 1979, ended on Friday with a settlement between her employers and her family. A spokesman for the company, Kerr-McGee, said Mrs Silk wood's three children
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    • 250 7 US police seize heroin worth $151 m in raids NEW YORK US POLICE have seized 33 kg of pure heroin with a street value of US$7O million (SSISI million) m what officials said was one of the biggest US drugs seizure m 10 years. Federal, state and New York City
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    • 203 7 Reagan tightens the economic screws on Cuba SANTA BARBARA (California) President Ronald Reagan has moved to tighten the 26-year-old United States economic embargo against Cuba and halt what the State Department called Cuban trade m human beings. He said most Cuban immigrants would be defied entry to the US because
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    • 131 7 Super trains to run on normal tracks STOCKHOLM Sweden has ordered a fleet of high-speed trains to go into service by 1989 to provide the world's fastest travel on conventional tracks. Swedish State Railways (SJ) announced a contract for the trains from Swedish electrical manufacturer Asea at an initial cost
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    • 148 7 Clangers before wedding bells MIDDLESBROUGH Mr Eddie Smith wm praying his wedding yesterday would go through without a hitch. He run-up to It wm disastrous he broke his leg, and lost his Job, his car, a house and ft honeymoon. The 21-year-old labourer's troubles began when he drove to work
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    • 397 7 Surrogate mum says hubby may be real father HACKENSACK (New Jersoy) THE first legal battle by an American surrogate mother who wants to keep her baby has begun. She claims that her own husband could be the father. Mary Beth Whitehead, 29, had agreed to have a child for 40-year-old
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    • 149 7 Girl who turned in parents reunited with them LOS ANGELES A 13-year-old girl who turned her parents to the police for using illegal drugs has been reunited with them. Deanna Young was released from a children's home on Thursday night, family lawyer Gary Proctor said. Deanna took a bag containing
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 701 8  -  H. L. LIM MANO SABNANI By and KUALA LUMPUR Mr Lee Kuan Yew's disclosures at the press conference here yesterday explained the suddeness and the timing of his brisk and brief visit. But first what it was not about, on the word
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    • 198 8  -  Mr Lee Kuan Yew The Prime Minister told me that the subject of Tan Koon Swan did not come up at all. It was not discussed at all. You can quote me on that. Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr S. Dhanabalan, on the
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    • 274 8 KOTA KINABALU Nineteen political leaders m Sabah were yesterday fined Mslso each on each charge by the Sessions Court here for taking part m an unauthorised assembly and illegal processions m March. Seventeen of the accused pleaded guilty but United Sabah National Organisation (Usno)
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    • 88 8 PENAMPANG A call to the Sabah government to review the position of Labuan as part of federal territory was one of nine resolutions adopted at the First Parti Bersatu Sabah congress here yesterday. It also called for a referendum to decide whether the island should be
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 493 9 ROME ITALY'S anti-terrorist police have arrested former Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican Bienvenido Tantoco, a close associate of ousted President Ferdinand Marcos, after raiding his villa m Rome and seizing an arsenal of automatic weapons. Tantoco, who lost his diplomatic post m March
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    • 153 9 MANILA Philippine Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who has repeatedly denied harbouring any presidential ambition, said on Friday night he will join the presidential race m 1992 if there is a clamour for him to do so. "If that is the will of
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    • 328 9 THAILAND'S new government says its top priorities are fighting crime and corruption while developing a freer, more profitable economy. The policy statement released yesterday will be formally presented to Parliament on Wednesday by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, a government spokesman said. It also
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    • 196 9  -  ALBERT RAM ALING AM By Bangkok Correspondent BANGKOK Unemployment, particularly among schoolleavers and those with higher education, has over the past few years become a grave problem, according to a major commercial bank here. The Bangkok Bank, one of the largest commercial banks m Thailand,
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    • 103 9 Thai govt row over royal insult claim BANGKOK Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda's new government is heading for a crisis over charges that a minister insulted the Thai monarchy, officials said yesterday. The Senate, at the urging of army generals, will debate on Friday whether Deputy Interior Minister Veera Musikaphong slandered
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    • 280 9 East Timor progress on human rights Lugar JAKARTA Indonesia is tackling the issue of human rights sensitively, and substantial progress has been made m East Timor, including greater access for international organisations, according to a US senator. Senator Richard Lugar, Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 274 11 Give residents full powers to run town councils, urges Chiam THE MP for Potong Pasir, Mr Chi am See Tong, said last night he welcomed town councils but only if the concept was implemented m the true spirit of democracy, with residents given full powers to run their own lives.
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    • 33 11 THE Singapore Civil Defence Force will hold an open house at its Nee Soon Camp on Sept 7. The MP for Thomson, Mr Leong Horn Kee. will be guest of honour.
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    • 718 11  -  KONG SOOK CHIN BY EIGHTEEN young designers, all students, have impressed the international judges of the first Singapore chair design comp^Htkm. A Japanee? industrial designer, Mr Toshiyoki Kita, whose own creations are on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art m New York, declared them "very
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    • 338 11 Wages must rise again eventually, says Teng Cheong WHILE efforts are being made to keep salaries down m the recession, wages must eventually if gradually rise again, NTUC secretarygeneral Ong Teng Cheong said yesterday. Mr Ong, who is also Second Deputy Prime Minister, said higher wages are on the horizon
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    • 49 11 OUR report last week about Ha ri Raya Haji and the new Darul Aman Mosque said Prophet Ibrahim gave up his son m sacrifice at God's command. It should have said "was willing to give up his son". We are sorry for the error.
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    • 136 11 MR Lin Tah Hwa, the 40-year-old former managing director of Lin Securities, was declared a bankrupt by the High Court on Friday, Business Times reported yesterday. The bankruptcy petition was heard before Judicial Commissioner S. K. Chan. The report said Mr Lin was not
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    • 853 12  -  HEDWIG ALFRED By I HE IS causing so much misery to the family that his father is glad each time he runs away from home. "My heart sinks each time he returns," the father said of his 22-year-old son. Another family is going through
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    • 235 12 HILDA was not quite sure how to behave before the press. After all, not every lion cub gets to be the mascot for the Singapore Zoo's courtesy campaign. But the zoo believes 11--month-old Hilda will get used to the attention when the national courtesy
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    • 195 12 Man Jailed two years for extortion A JOBLESS man was sentenced yesterday to two years' jail and four strokes of the rotan for threatening to break a newsvendor's legs if he continued to distribute newspapers without paying him $4,000. Goh Eng Wah, 35, originally denied the extortion, which he committed
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    • 30 12 THE MP for Yuhua, Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, will officially open Yuqun Primary School, formerly Joo Koon Public School, m Jurong East on Sept 5 at 6 pm.
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    • 177 12 Engineer facing trial hanged himself AN ENGINEER hanged himself while a court case was pending against him for allegedly setting fire to his own kitchen. Police constable Chan Chee Wah told a coroner's court on Friday that Kok Kum Lin, 36, of Block 316, Clementi Avenue 4, set ablaze his
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    • 233 13 Expert help soon for Malay businesses MALAY businessmen will soon have experts to help them manage their operations better and tackle problems like cashflow, pricing and marketing. They can get this help by taking part m a programme run by management consultants. This is part of an action plan by
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    • 339 13 Dr Tan invites public views on giving schools more say EDUCATION Minister Dr Tony Tan has asked parents, teachers and principals for their views on a proposal to give established schools more say m how they are run. He said his ministry was considering how to delegate greater responsibility m
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    • 157 13 A FOREIGNER whose nationality has not been established by the police was charged yesterday with attempted cheating of $40,000, and stealing and using another man's identity card. Leong Boon Chiong, 32, was also charged with remaining m Singapore on Jan 26 without the permission of
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    • 37 13 PORT Road, off Labrador Villa Road, is closed to the public for Ministry of Defence development purposes. Users of this road and Tanjong Berlayer Park are advised to use the access at Labrador Villa Road.
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    • 223 13  -  SUMIKO TAN Paint hydrants luminous yellow so they stand out more By HUNTING for a fire hydrant, some firemen will tell you, can sometimes be like searching for a needle m a haystack. If that sounds rather strange fire hydrants are not painted red for
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    • 229 13 ARSONISTS could have started the fire that gutted part of the four-storey Tong Aik Industrial Building m Eunos industrial estate on Friday night. "The fire could have been deliberately set," said Singapore Fire Service chief Lim Beng Lock yesterday. "It started on the top
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    • 442 14 Eviction only after second conviction: Teh THE Housing Board will only evict a killer-litter offender and his family from their home if he has been convicted of the same act at least twice m court. First offenders whose act did not injure anyone would not have their flats repossessed by
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    • 274 14 COMMUNrTY leaders were set a new task by Mr Ong Teng Cheong last night: Get more of the older workers to attend Best classes. The Second Deputy Prime Minister and NTUC secretary-general said that even foreign workers were making use of the
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    • 399 14 Jail and cane for axe gang who robbed goldsmiths THEY wore crash helmets with tinted visors, black Jackets and gloves when they struck. One of them would carry an axe. Three men part of a gang that robbed three goldsmith shops of a total of $472,534 worth of Jewellery yesterday
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    • 320 14 SOME Singaporeans are quick to jump to conclusions on issues without fully understanding them, the Acting Minister for Community Development, Mr Wong Kan Seng, said last night. This tendency springs from their superficial knowledge of the society here, he added.
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    • 68 14 PLANS for Pasir Ris Park call for a recreational complex, cultural village, food centre and wide landscaped promenades. Some of the facilities will be developed on sites which will be leased to private companies m 1988, Mr Phua Bah Lee, the Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Defence), said
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    • 120 14 SSO today at new-look reservoir bandstand THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra will be the first group to perform at the newly renovated Macßitchie Reservoir facilities when it takes the bandstand today. Twenty-two symphony musicians will give an open-air concert from 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm. Mrs Lv Sinclair, the General Manager
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    • 181 14 Let families decide number of children, says Jek MR JEK Yeun Thong, another PAP old guard noted for his open criticism of government policies, last night took issue with official thinking again this time over the declining birth rate. Speaking at a National Day dinner m his Queens town constituency,
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    • The Sunday Times VIEW
      • 262 15 THE independent provision shop whose übiquitous presence m neighbourhoods was once taken for granted is now facing extinction. For, increasingly, customers are being lured away by modern supermarkets and minimarts offering goods, services and a shopping environment which many dank and musty provision shops obviously lack. In
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    • 116 15 What The Sunday Times reported on Sept 3, 1961 POLITICAL parties m Singapore yesterday welcomed the Government's announcement that variable allowances for civil servants would be fully restored. However, they said, this was a move to rectify one of the mistakes of the People's Action Party. The
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    • 1318 15 CORAZON AQUINO has had to be a fast learner m the art of government 6 Cory is tough as nails. Publicly, she is very unpretentious, completely without guile. Some of her reactions are girlish, but she has her own mind and relies on m
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  • FOCUS/Viewpoints
    • 714 16  - Praise or criticism, best take it with a pinch of salt N. Balakrishnan IT is easy to criticise people who criticise us. But it is almost impossible to criticise those who praise us. Yet at least some of those who say critical things about us have our welfare at heart,
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    • 728 16  - If abortion is frowned upon, tell teens about the Pill Tiresias Whatever surveys say about the conservative attitude of our teens to sex, we should face the reality that many a slip lies between what is averred to strangers with an intimidating questionnaire and what is avowed to a loved
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        • 325 16 To each her own presentable style I WAS very disappointed with the article "How to bring TV news-girls up to date" m last week's Fashion page of The Sunday Times. As a professional hair designer who has travelled around the world and been active on the fashion scene, I believe
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        • 474 16 Worsening the singles problem IN a Greek myth, Paris had to choose the fairest of three goddesses. Junos promised him a kingdom; Minerva, military glory, and Venus, the fairest woman m the world. Paris awarded Venus the Golden Apple. In return, he got Helen of Troy. A few thousand years
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        • 211 16 THE organiser of the beauty contest reported m The Sunday Times last week appeared to have lined up the perfect f.pologists for the forum the only panellists were the con estants themselves. And though the forum was intended to "replace the silly questions asked at beauty
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    • 443 16 MACOW IF you were to come to Singapore by boat on Friday or Saturday night and land at Changi Beach, the East Coast Park, Sembawang Park or the West Coast Park, you can be sure of a warm, if not hot, welcome. For the
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    • 2136 17 THE GREAT BABY DEBATE Government ministers recently warned that unless Singaporeans have more babies, the country will suffer grave consequences m the 21st century. FRANK LIM asked several social scientists not all m agreement with the Government about the likely effects, and how
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  • RACING
    • 301 18  -  PEDIGREE By Our man on the track PENANG Champion trainer Teh Choon Beng, who scored a treble yesterday, looks set to take the last four events today to bring his tally for the weekend to seven. (iolden Dawn II (Race 6), Be Proud II
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    • 222 18  - Out for another 'slaughter' in the 2.45 TONTO By imJTSTANDINGLY made no show m his first four outings but at his last start over the Ipoh 1,200 m a month ago, he slaughtered his Class 5 rivals by 9'/ 4 lengths. Now that he has come right, it will pay
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    • 107 18 THESE horses have won or done well on a wet track: RACE 1: All Night Long, Pukawa, Emu. RACE 2: Imperial Lord, Auspicious Boy, Famille Rose HI, Muchos Gracias. RACE 3: Buck's Tempo, Diplomatic Joy. RACE 4: Surety, Gutsy. RACE S: Jungle Hawk, Iglu 11. Profound, Alpha Dynamics, Raja
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    • 384 18 RACE RACING ED PEDIGREE TONTO LUCKY LEO MARKSMAN 10 Lov.nc«rt 4 Touch Of Luck 7 Reality 4 Touch Ol Luck 1 Nothing Amiss 4 Touch Of Luck 10 Lovencare 13 Emu 13 Emu 4 Touch Of Luck 13 Emu 13 Emu 4 Touch Of Luck Lovencare
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    • 6649 18 GOING FORCAST raP¥9| 1-45 CLASS 4 DIV 6 1,200 m Bif-\n^M (Ratings: 71-63) (Stakes: $13,000) 1 6* Nothing Amlm tt.s (71) Nothing Amiss-E Breukelen 4 eg d 2 -.5 (1200 m). Midfield throughout for 6th of 12 to Hawaiian Heat m only start Div 4 Spore 1200
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    • 75 19 FOUR outsiders were first past the post la Race f at Peaaag yesterday and at Bukit TV mak, a* paater struck the quartet m the correct order or any order. Express Car 11, Shade Of Purple, Pleasant Surprise 111 aid Lagl B«irh (It, 3, 14 aad 2)
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    • 273 19  - Champion rider Gauci to star in film JACK ELLIOTT By MELBOURNE Champion apprentice Darren Gauci (above) has two good reasons to have a holiday from Melbourne racing (or two weeks. He is meeting the grandmother he has never seen and to become a film star. Darren, 20, flew to join
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    • 3087 19  - Hat-trick by Tote Buster OUR RACING TEAM National Stud Farm gets a shot m the arm By PENANG The National Stud Farm, which will hold its sale of Malaysian-breds on Sept 13, received a boost when "son of the soil" Tote Buster completed a hat-trick m Race 8 yesterday. The
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    • 143 19 CHICAGO CREME FRAICHE, winner of the 1985 Belmont Stakes, was among three horses named yesterday to complete the line-up for the sixth running of the Arlington Million to be run over 2,000 m on Aug 31. Over The Ocean and Divulge were the other
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 44 19 183 Condolences 183 Condolences 183 Condolences WITH DEEPEST SYMPATHIES CONDOLENCES TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF MR TOH KONG LOK (PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER) From: BOARD OF DIRECTORS COLLEAGUES OF ENAMELLED WIRE CABLE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD 142 GUL CIRCLE, JURONG B SINGAPORE 2262 5
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      87 19 CHAN SWE LOU pimi away on 22/8/86 taavtng behind Hyband: Yip Peng Kin Sons: Daughter in-law Yip Lum Horn Poon Ah Ying Yip Hon Meng Yip Siew Hoe Yip Woon Kwong Dmitg/htmn. Sona-in-law: Yip Lum Chow Llm Chong Khoon Yip May Chan Yap Yoke Ying Yip Poh Lin
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      404 19 MR.OOH AX HAI AgaTO paaaad away psacsfuWy at XSO p.m. Friday, 22nd August ItM. Tn# coctAoo m rttstvOQ An void o#ck of apt. Blk. 33a, (Tat: *****61) UM Crawawsn wi tafca plao* at Mount vamon i^ramafonurn ijhk noon Tussday aeth August i«ae. M EVERLABTTHQ MEMORY MFC: See Slok
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      17 19 B.V. CHAL AM paeeed away peacefully on 23/8/ M. For funarai arrangement* contact tar: *****34.
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    • 121 19 Tha tamHy of tha lata MR. ERIC SIDNEY PAINE with to »«pr#i» their heartfelt thank* and gratitude to doctor* •taff of Toa Payoh Ho«p«t«i Ward* 8. atari of 48IR and 01-MNOCF. Faith Aaaembly Church, all rela Mvee and fn.nd. for th«.r hind attandanca, invaluable ataiatanca donation*, wraath*, prayara
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      84 19 Athma Shanti Pooja MR. K. GOPAL AOE-.52 FORMER PSA. CHIEF COOK H/O S. KAMACHI DEPARTED ON 12 8 M Th* family of the late MR. K. GOPAL «n«h to raquaat th* preaanc* of friends A relatives for th* Athma Bhanti prayer* held on X a 86 nit* at
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  • OBITUARIES
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      57 20 THALAI THEVASAM SUPPIAH LINGAM DEPARTED 4TH SEPT. 1985 BuUstll) the empty chair Reminds us of ihe (ace, the smite. Of one who once sat there PA WE MISS YOU DEARLY ALWAYS REMEMBERED BY WIFE. CHILDREN. RELATIVES FRIENDS Praywrt would b« held TODAY (24 I 86) (m NOON
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      52 20 In Momcriam MURRAY BRUCE BRAS* D»p«rt»d 24th Augu.t 1965 Fond nnemorles of a dear friend and a much-loved godfather Lim Bo Yam and Family MADAM YEO KIM ENG (MRS ONG KIN LIAN) Departed 24th August 1984 Gone from our lives one so dear. But In cur hearts
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  • SPORT
    • 1128 20  -  ROB HUGHES The recovery and rehabilitation of injured and errant stars purely a game of speculation Till of flnnrnr I 4 Three months ago, Helmuth Ducadam, huge and indomitable, saved four Barcelona penalties to win the European Cup. And where now the hero? Recuperating after
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    • Article, Illustration
      306 20 LONDON Team officials said on Friday they would back an appeal by Tottenham Hotspur's striker Mark Falco of his £1,500 ($4,830) fine and two-match suspension for celebrating a pair of goals m a victory over Aston Villa last season. The penalty, the stiffest ever for such behaviour m
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      • 443 20 Manufacturers hit home run m world of sporting goods NEW YORK The world of sporting goods is full of products bearing the autographs of the stars. From footballs to golf clubs to running shoes, mere signatures lure buyers with images of top performances dancing m their
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      • 285 20  -  ALBERT JOHNSON DESPITE the global economic recession, five Singapore-based organisations have rallied to help make the Singapore International Marathon the biggest sporting spectacle of the year. Mr Ong Pang Boon, the Member of Parliament for Telok Ayer, and adviser to the marathon organising committee, who received cheques
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    • TEST CRICKET- ENGLAND v NZ
      • 213 20 LONDON New Zealand appear to have secured their objective of not losing the Third and Final Test against England on Friday, thanks to opener John Wright's painstaking 119 and regular interruptions by bad light and rain. The touring team, 1-0 up m the series, were 257
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      • 92 20 NEW ZEALAND Ist inns T. Blaln not out 27 (Overnight 142-4) D. Stirilmg not out J. Wright b Edmonds 119 Extras B. Edgar c Gooch b Botham 1 ToUl 257 J. Crawe lbw Botham 8 MCrm9,f Ihw Dillpv 11 te I 31, 59. i. C««ey c Gooch b Botham
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      • 397 20 MASON (Ohio) Top seed Mats Wilander and third seed Stefan Edberg, both of Sweden, survived tough matches on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the U*****,000 ($806,250) Association of Tennis Professionals championship here. Wilander edged out Emilio Sanchez, of Spain, 6-4, 7-6, while Edberg beat Tim Wilkison, of
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    • Article, Illustration
      1232 21  -  TAY CHENG KHOON Tm to Onm I ...and the short of it Love's big on distance but Peete's driving to the bank 6 If you can't hit the ball 300 yards, than work on consistency and put tha ball m tha fairway. It'a bad •nough to be abort
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    • 210 21 AKRON (Ohio) American Donnle Hammond railed la an 1&-I oot MrtUe putt on the final hole on Friday to grab the lead at the halfway point of the UBTOMM (*l.sm) World Series of Golf with a M-hole total of six-nnder-par 134. Hammond posted a 18 to hold a
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    • 906 21  - Overseas stint the key for Bee Khim JANICE SEAH SaW and Done EE BEE KHTM doesn't be lieve m doing anything m half measures. That goes for her golf, her work, and most important of all, her beer. She doesn't drink m excess or gets drunk except for the last
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    • 1227 23  - A lot of bull from Barcelona ALAN HUBBARD ALWAYS ON SUNDAY Champagne flows as the Catalonians cap their Olympic bid with a splurge TT HE Spanish have never been shy of taking the bull by the horns, so when the Mayor of Barcelona thrusts a drink into your hand you
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    • 538 23 MEDAL TALLY (after 10 days) Men's 59m free filial: 1 Tom Jager (US) 22.495 ec (meet rec) 2 Dano Halsall (Swit) 22.80 3 Matt Biondi (US) 22.85 4 Ang Peig Slon X (Sin) 23.13 5 Stephan Volery (Swit) 23:08 I Per Johansson (Swe)
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    • 853 23  -  JEFFREY LOW LOWDOWN ON SPORT ASIA'S youngest soccer tournament, the Merlion Cup of Singapore, goes into its fifth year today struggling for survival m a forest of continental competitions that have mushroomed m the last 20 years. What started m 1982 as THE tournament
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    • 145 20 SUNDAY TIMES RATES FOR OBITUARIES $15.00 for 3 line* (run-on «tyle) $61.50 for 3cm x 1 col. (sami-display style) $76.86 for 3cm x Icol. (display style) 'm Memoriam" is for the loved ones whom you remember... ROBERT LUDLUM STUFFS MORE SURPRISES INTO HIS NOVELS THAN ANY OTHER SIX-PACK OF THRILLER
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    • 950 21 limn" Western Australian UlWIr Institute of Technology The Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), one of the largest tcrtiarv education institutions m Australia, is located m 1 12 hectares of parkland just 10 kilometres from the city business centre of Perth. WAIT was established by Act of Parliament m 1%7
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    • 17 23 arena 5-^"^ Available at all leading department stores. Sole Distributor m Singapore Malaysia: LUCKY SPORTS PTE LTD
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    • 82 23 Warmest Congratulations Best Wishes to Mr George Tan Kok Thye on the bestowal of the Pubfcc Service Medal (PBM) on the occasion of the Nationol Day 1986 by the President of Republic of Singapore Mr. George Ten Kok Thye Chairman of Cheng San Constituency Citizen's Consultative Committee Cheng San Community
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    • 159 23 ATHLETICS SAAA Challenge Trephy: KENDO PesU Sukan MalaysU-Slnca-Civilian v Services (Khatib Camp, 2pm). p»rr Annual Uoodwill Unrnev PA 10am^ CRICKET SCA Dlv 1: SCC n v SCC I, MOTORSPoStT fSSaSaii Cwtrol SRC v CSC both at Padang, TT v SCRC Alpine AnUtesto (Kallang, 9.30 am" Castr. 11 3t iSc 30
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  • The Sunday Times Sportsfront
    • 707 24 ALAN HUBBARD at the World Swimming Championships MADRID Ang Peng Siong did not need to utter a word as he watched the prizes being handed out for the 50-metre freestyle world title he had dared to hope might be his. His downcast face
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    • JOE DORAI PREVIEWS THE 5TH MERLION CUP
      • 763 24 Tigers 'selection' make it a full field at last A MALAYSIAN selection was last night signed to complete the Merlion Cup field just hours before this evening's kick-off at the National Stadium. After almost a fortnight's search for a sixth team to replace the defaulting
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      • 410 24  -  TAY CHENG KHOON SQUASH By PANG SZE MENG carried on his giant-ki ling act to qualify for the C-grade final of the (-valtine Individual Graded squash championships at Kallang yesterday. Sze Meng, who knocked out second-seeded <elly Choo on Thursday, took advantage of superior fitness
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      • 286 24 N. PANDIAN, who scored two goals m Singapore A's 3-0 win over Malacca m a Pesta Sukan Quadrangular hockey match at Farrer Park Athletic Centre yesterday, was forced to quit the post-match celebrations. The nippy centre-forward, m pursuit of a chance
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    • EUROPEAN SOCCER
      • 306 24 PARIS Marseille and Nantes continued to set the pace m the French First Division on Friday as Marseille beat visitors Laval 3-0 and Nantes won 3-1 at Rennes to remain level on nine points at the top after five games. A 34,500 crowd at Marseille's Velodrome
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      • 136 24 LONDON David Gower, with an unbeaten 60, saved England from disaster when he steered his side to 134 for three at tea on the third day of the Third and final Test against New Zealand yesterday. Gower and captain Mike Gatting (16 not out) pulled the England first
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  • TV PLUS
    • 5 1 TV PLUS The Sunday Tiems
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    • 537 1 THE SWORD AND THE SONG A fictional piece based on two Tang Dynasty figures, Li Yu M (Li Wenhai) and Zhao Guangyin (Lin Mingzhe). Emperor Li Yu, also known as Li Houzhu, is an intellectual who is more at home with literary works than the
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    • SCENE
      • 341 2  - Ice-skating extravaganza coming to town TAN THE Big Top goes up at Clement! again, on the same spot that Britain's Chipperfields Circus performed earlier this year. This time round, however, the tent will not be going up for circus animals, trapeze artistes and daredevil acrobats. Instead, the tarpaulin will house
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      • 723 2 Last weekend, about 250 people gathered at SBC to catch a sneak preview of the new serial The Bond. JULIE TAN joined them and files this account of the excursion. ONE parent was happily feeding kueh to her toddler. Only that the child eyed
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      • 598 2  -  PHILIP COOREY VIDEO QUtD€ f "MY God, it's full of stars." These were the mystifying last words spoken by astronaut David Bowman at the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey. Nine years later, that odyssey begins again somewhere near Jupiter, with mankind already
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      • 1268 16 POP music history was made recently when the weekly trade magazine Billboard reported that for the first time m its charting of records, America's three best-selling pop albums were by black female singers. At No. 1 last month, displacing the 14-week run of Whitney
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        41 16 4 Perhaps the biggest spur to the "retronuevo" movement has been the success of Sade's acoustically oriented pop-jazz, for it helped to forge a link between contemporary pop and the great vocal tradition of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald.
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    • CINEMA
      • 610 3  - When her matinee idol stepped out of the screen LIM KAY TONG THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO Coming to Orchard Starring Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels and Danny Aiello Directed by Woody Allen By THIS is the first time that a Woody Allen film has been screened here within a year
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      • 836 3 Woody Allen is widely recognised as being one of cinema's most original film-makersT even though his works have not enjoyed mass appeal. MIKE CLARK reports. DESPITE the popularity of Technicolor, he continues to make black-and-white films. Comedies without car chases
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      • 348 3 IT has been a long, lukewarm summer at the box-office m the United States and the sun is about to set on one of Hollywood's worst seasons. According to USA Today, the ratio of fizzJers to sizzlers has dampened ticket sales this summer, when
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      • HOLLYWOOD
        • 440 3 ZANY Robin Williams, of TV's Mork and Mindy fame, is said to be reeling from the shock of his life. His wife Valeric took their three-year-old boy and moved m with another man, a San Francisco writer. She told close friends that
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    • TV EYE
      • 401 4  -  LIM KAY TONG TV PREVIEW I Brazil, Brazil I Wednesday, Ch 12, I 8 pm I By VIEWERS will probably be aware of the fun-loving side of Brazil the joyous, freewheeling artistry of her football and the pulsating samba rhythms of the Carnival. But there
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      • 500 4  -  JEFFERSON GRAHAM By The show will make it, if it holds on to the kids who watch Knight Rider, and attracts adults who watch Twilight Zone but don't want to stay tuned to Dallas. IN 1964, America's advertising community correctly predicted The Cosby Show would be
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      • 330 4  -  JULIE TAN SIX times a day, it goes out over SBC's three TV channels. Every single day of the year. Without fail. It's the one constant on TV night after night, and even the most casual of viewers would have caught snatches of it at some
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      • 421 4  -  JULIE TAN LOOK EAST By REMEMBER Fei Xiang? After lying low for some time, the Taiwan-born pop star is slowly making his way into the showbiz headlines again. This time, reports have it that the American-Chinese singer is preparing to break into the untapped pop
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    • MUSIC
      • 884 7  - More of the same from Lionel Richie LIM SEK POP REVIEW By DANCING ON THE CEILING Lionel Richie (Motown) AT LONG last, a new album from Lionel Richie. Since early this year, expectation has been mounting for the new release by the pop king with the Midas touch. Unfortunately, dancing
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      • 443 7 EDNA GUNDERSEN meets Kenny Loggins, the singer-songwriter who's now making his name scoring hits for Hollywood from Footloose to Top Gun. KENNY LOGGINS pulls a bundle from his refrigerator. "Is this chicken or what?" he says, poking his nose into the wrapper. "Smells funky. I
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    • Younq life
      • 280 12 Hello kids THE next time you eat a plate of mcc rebus (noodles with gravy) or chicken rice, think of the different races here who have made our city a food paradise. Special foods of different races appear during each other's festivals. For example, I have eaten murku (a type
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      • 212 12 Sealing your nature study specimens between waxed paper is a neat way of displaying them. This method works very well with flat specimens like pressed flowers, leaves and grasses. It will also work with small, flat seeds. You can also use this technique to make
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      • 495 12 ALTHOUGH there are only about 100 Parsis m Singapore, they make up one of the larger minority groups, having grown from about six m 1900. The Parsis were originally from the province of Fare m Persia (now called Iran). They left Persia to escape the conquering Muslim
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    • 795 15 personai_TtvjP-^ IN THE history of the American cinema, Frank Capra occupies a very special place, mainly due to the type of films he directed warm, human, drenched m sentiment with happy tearful endings, and always extolling the value of the individual as against governments and
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    • 127 2 sijl fitk 304 Orchard Road #06-14 IS Lucky Plaza WsMi M US* J Singapore 0923. Tel: *****39 I Rl!^lj f^4. vL^^S 849 J A popular group X /^^> \TxH !MI M x l 1 all the way from W <^^:1m A t A« W performing 1 X'; every nijrht. Xi;
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    • 284 3 MIDDLE EAST (RtC WESTERN EUROPE I I SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEM M COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE 51AMP ISSUE M On Monday, 8 Sep 86* Telecoms wM release a set of four commemorative postage stamps depicting "South East Asia MWde East Wwtem Europe Subrnarlne Cable System". The postage stamps wW be m the values
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    • 43 12 Why do bats hang upside down? Because their limbs are not suitable for standing By the way, last week, I mentioned that Constantinople is now known as Istanbul, the capital of Turkey. Oops! It is the old capital; Ankara is the present capital.
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    • 367 16 ft VBP% SB 188 I BHiB^i pi-:* |H WBS^ 1 I BOTH PIECES Cff FlSi WERE FROZEN: I OSE DIDN'T TASTE LIKE IT. i I j Just seven days before our photograph was taken these two morsels were popped into the freezer. But not into the same freezer. The fish
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    • 5 1 SUNDAY PLUS The Sunday Times
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    • 2387 1 RELATIVE VALUES MOTHER and twin sons were at last Sunday's Miss Singapore/Miss International contest. Mrs Scow Peck Leng, 75, is synonymous with such fundraising beauty shows since 1975. Peter and Paul, 52, do not see eye to eye with mother on the holding of these contests
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      • 1073 2 My sons, my friends LOUISE BROWN got divorced three years ago. She had not wanted to break up with her husband of seven years and says that at the time she felt terribly depressed. Today, she has "pulled herself together" but still feels strongly about the
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        • 94 2 ONE of the biggest problems facing the staff of psychiatric and geriatric hospitals is making sure that confused and disturbed patients don't wander off. Often the only remedy is to seaaie or pnysically constrain them. According to The Times of London,
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        • 140 2 PEN tops may seem harmless but they are potentially lethal. Between 1969 and 1984 eight British children suffocated when the pen top they had been sucking on lodged m their windpipes. There is a critical age, between three and 13, when children
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        • 121 2 fSRERS of bunervosa (a cousin of annervosa) are known to keep their weight m control by alternate bouts of gorging and self-in-duced vomiting, says the Times of London. Now doctors at the Institute of Psychiatry m London have discovered that while most people find
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      • 618 3 New York, here they come. Our young designers wiil soon get the chance to show their creative talent m one of the major fashion capitals of the world. LIM PHAY-LING reports. 1. David Want's electric blue tafcoat with braided lapels and black
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      • 309 3  -  LIM PHAY LING FASHFLASH SHU UEMURA is as much a household name m Japan as Shiseido and Kanebo are. This veteran make-up artist with Hollywood experience has a very sensible approach to marketing his cosmetics m 6,000 beauty salons throughout Japan. Mr Uemura, 58, doesn't
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      • 1288 4 LEE GEOK 801 recently sat through a 22-course feast savouring dishes made famous by descendants of Confucius. Her verdict: Even China's great sage, said to be a notoriously finicky eater, would have approved. In another story, she traces the history of the repast. EAT OUT
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      • 438 4 THE tradition of the Confucian banquets began with the rise of the fortunes of Confucius' descendants m the 11th century. A palace complex with 462 chambers gradually grew over the site of Confucius' birthplace m Qufu, Shandong. It housed the growing clan of
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      • 818 4 EAT In the last of a series on therapeutic diets, the Singapore Dietitians' Association weighs m with advice on slimming sensibly NANCY Fong was pleased about it. Her parents certainly were not. In fact, they had been shocked when they saw how thin their
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      • 1348 5 Does your office chair torture you and leave you feeling like the Hunchback of Notre Dame? ALIX M. FREEDMAN writing for the Asian Wall Street Journal looks at some much-touted ergonomic seats. 4 Half the chairs out there have no basis for existence. There are too
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      • 471 5  -  Khng En Meng THERE were shark's fins shaped from black marble, which supported the glass top for a coffee table. Another low square table had its marble surface finely raked like a tilled field seen from the air. And then there was an object that
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        • 744 5  -  WINSTON LEE By THE 10-tonne truck was weaving m and out of the fairly heavy traffic along Commonwealth Avenue. Suddenly, the driver switched lanes, forcing Peng m her puny Datsun to slam her brakes to avoid a collision. The furious
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      • 821 6  - Concept and comfort to we d woo the crowds back SIMONE VAZ Mill 1 II the ocean Joor if that's what it takes to brinq you back and ask for more. I Today's nightclubs are not the same anymore. They will even take you to the ocean floor By It
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      • 615 8 SIMONE VAZ spent her evenings at three spots. Here's her verdict. PALM trees, balmy breezes, music and an ice cold beer these are things some people look forward to after a hard day's work. Others may look to the open court for a game
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      • 852 9  -  SIMONE VAZ By People have become bored with disco, especially since there is not much room to do anything fancy except hop about. Mr David Chan (left), principal of David's School of Dancing. IT WAS a lazy, sultry Sunday afternoon. Strains of the Tennessee Waltz wafted
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      • 134 9 UNTIL recently, those who wanted to have a go at social, or ballroom, dances were sorely neglected. Youth culture seemed to have taken over Singapore's dance spots, and those who danced could only jive to the music of Madonna and Billy Ocean. However, a year ago,
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