The Straits Times, 19 October 1987

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  • 782 1 More troops flown into Sri Lanka as fighting rages for ninth day Rajiv calls on rebels to surrender their arms Rebels pledge to defend their positions to the last Jaffna residents face food shortages and go without power supplies COLOMBO India piled pressure on Tamil Tiger
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    • 53 1 NEW DELHI ladlaa traoaa have caatared the aaaijaarlw af ta* liberattea Tlgem «f Tamil Eelam at Kapay North, jast aatolde Jaffa*, mm ■—i All laala Eadio reported yesterday. Tha radio said a large qaaatfty ef arms aad ammaalttea had beea oelaed at the aeadoaarters. It gave aa
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    • 31 1 FREETOWN (Sierra Leone) Sixteen people, including former Vice-President Francis Mi nah, were sentenced to death on Saturday for plotting to overthrow Sierra Leone's President moh in March. Reuter
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  • 261 1 NICOSIA Iranian armed forces shot down an Iraqi warplane over the Gulf on Saturday, the third brought down m one day, the Iranian news agency Irna said. But Iraq has denied this, saying that only one Iraqi jet was downed m Saturday's
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  • 114 1 KUALA LUMPUR Umno MPs will wear the Malay dress when attending the current session of parliament from today as part of the efforts to revive the Malay spirit, according to Umno sources. They will continue to wear the Malay dress until Nov 1, when
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  • 292 1  -  CHEONG YIP SENG By Key decisions taken at Vancouver meet VANCOUVER Kuala Lumpur will be the venue of the next Commonwealth heads of government conference, it was announced here on Saturday on the final day of the fiveday conference. The Malaysian
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  • 269 1 NS men who strayed into Johor VANCOUVER Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Serf Dr Mahathir Mnh^nwd has said he is "quite satisfied" with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's explanation on the four Singapore soldiers who strayed into Malaysian territory. He told Malaysian journalists here on
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  • 179 1 S'pore will not rejoin Unesco SINGAPORE will not rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation dospite the withdrawal of its much-criticised directorgeneral, Mr Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, from seeking a new term. A Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman yesterday said Singapore left Unesco three years ago tor its own
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  • 407 1 Spanish scientist voted in as Unesco chief Emotions run high as M'Bow pulls out of contest PARIS Spanish biochemist Federico Mayor won a bitter fight for nomination as Unesco's next Director-General yesterday, but angry supporters of controversial leader Amadou Mahtar M'Bow might contest the result, officials said. Dr Mayor, backed
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    • 19 1 Peacekeepers tram India tan fighters la Sri Laaka: Page It Umno rally an occasion to revive spirits: Page 12
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  • IN SUMMARY
    • 323 2 Not-so-easy payments MORE and more Singaporeans are turning to buy-now-pay-later schemes for major purchases, many of them grossly underestimating the amount of money they are paying m interest above the cash price. A random poll by The Straits Times of 27 customers showed every one of them far off
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    • 237 2 Harvard may sue FACULTY members of the Harvard Business School are considering suing the author of a new book that suggests that the school is more of a commercial enterprise than an educational institution. The Empire Builders, written by a former researcher at the school, contends that
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    • 278 2 Barnes revival JOHN BARNES, the England and Liverpool winger, has been widely thought of as having had his best soccer playing days behind him. Ever since his memorable solo goal against Brazil m 1984, Barnes' soccer career had rarely been impressive. But the son of a Jamaican army colonel
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    • 420 2 Resilient children WHY do some children thrive despite hardships that have torn the rest of their families asunder? Scientists are trying to decipher this baffling enigma of how well-adjusted children develop under the most chaotic, abusive or impoverished circumstances. Although they can identify no single set of qualities
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    • 220 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: THE recent aaanal conferences af the Labour aad Conservative parties af Britain dramatise their diflerent fortunes. The Tories are eanfhtont that their idcslsgy serves the country well while Lnhsnr la fumbling far ways ta revamp discredited policies. With the political mmmmm Lahanr haa made and
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    • 223 2 GOLD GLOWS AS STOCKS AND BONDS LOSE SHINE JUST as things m the stock markets start to look bad, prospects for gold brighten. Last week, as Wall Street share and bond prices came tumbling down and the Iranians struck a US flag-carrying tanker m the Persian Gulf, the yellow
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    • 184 2 Around Asean...and Across the Causeway Alliance urged CONSERVATIVE American groups are urging an alliance of rightwing groups m the Philippines to protect US interests m case President Corazon Aquino's government falls, two major newspapers reported yesterday. The Philippine Daily Inquirer and Malaya quoted an unnamed source m the opposition Grand
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    • 84 2 SIGNS FOR SAFETY'S SAKE BEPEIUUNG to a letter about expressway signs which advise motorcyclists to keep left, the police say the signs are meant for the safety of motorcyclists. By advising them to keep left, the police expect them to travel at a speed suited to tnat of the
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  • around the WORLD
    • 420 3 Gorbachev stresses need to restructure industry MOSCOW Food production is the most pressing problem facing the Soviet Union, Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev told a Central Committee meeting held here to discuss agriculture, according to a report of the meeting published m Pravda yesterday. "The
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    • 113 3 Burkina Faso's borders stay closed ABIDJAN Burkina Faso's air and land frontiers remained closed late on Saturday, while Captain Blaise Compaore, the leader of the coup last Thursday m which former leader Captain Thomas Sankara was killed, has still not appeared m public, informed sources said m Ouagadougou. The sources
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    • 255 3 WASHINGTON Mrs Nancy Reagan was sitting up m her hospital bed, doing breathing exercises and asking about the surgery that removed her cancerous left breast on Saturday, her spokesman said m the evening. The First Lady is expected to be
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    • 116 3 SUVA The wife of a minister m Fiji's interim military government was taken to hospital following a bomb blast m a department store here, a police spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said the wife of Education Minister Ratu Filimone Ralogaivau and two people with her
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    • 250 3 Riyadh returns pilgrims' bodies to Teheran PARIS The bodies of 55 Iranian pilgrims who were killed on July 31 during disturbances m Mecca were returned to Iran on Saturday, Teheran radio said m a broadcast monitored here. The return of the bodies has been at the centre of weeks of
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    • 393 3 WASHINGTON Ameri-can-made Stinger missiles m Iranian hands were seized from stocks bound for Afghanistan, and were not sold to Iran by Afghan rebels as earlier claimed, a newspaper has reported United States officials as saying. A small circle of top US
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    • 205 3 NICOSIA (Cyprus) Teheran yesterday accused American Marines of torturing four wounded Iranian sailors after an armed clash in the Gulf. It warned Washington that its fighters were willing to inflict "bitter and unforgettable lessons" on the United States. Teheran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr Ali Mohammed
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    • 168 3 MOSCOW The Soviet Union said it welcomed the invitation from the pro- Vietnamese regime m Cambodia to former ruler Prince Norodom Sihanouk to return home and take up a high post. "The initiative of the Kampuchean government has created favourable conditions for starting
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    • 498 4 Book suggests faculty members more interested m making money NEW YORK Faculty members of the Harvard Business School are considering suing the author of a new book that suggests that the school is more of a commercial enterprise than an educational institution. The book.
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    • 393 4 PARIS Dr Federico Mayor Zaragoza, who emerged from a bitter struggle as sole nominee for the leadership of Unesco yesterday, is a distinguished Spanish scientist who has so far divided his life between universities and politics. A biochemist who entered politics 10
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    • 174 4 Runaway, 12, sleeps his way to sea in container SEOUL A 12-year-old South Korean boy who fell asleep m a shipping container woke up to find himself locked inside and bound for Taiwan, news reports said yesterday. The reports said Chung Chin Hwan crept into the container beside a highway
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  • 221 5 VANCOUVER British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, strongly criticised by many black states for her opposition to sanctions against South Africa, will visit Africa next year, British officials said on Saturday The trip will be Mrs Thatcher's first to Africa since she
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  • 758 5 CHOGM VANCOUVER OH 13-17 October O Group of 48 nations pledges to broaden and strengthen measures I against South Africa VANCOUVER The Commonwealth nations, except for Britain, ended their week-long meeting here on Saturday vowing to broaden and strengthen economic sanctions against
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  • 346 5 VANCOUVER Asked why Malaysia, which previously was critical of the Commonwealth, had now decided to host the summit, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said this was due to the findings of two studies. The studies were conducted on Malaysia's position
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  • 440 6 Removal of 15 tightens his hold on ruling party ISLAMABAD Afghan leader Najibullah has tightened his grip on the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDPA) by purging supporters of his ousted predecessor Babrak Karmal. The official Kabul Radio said 15 leading associates of Mr Karmal, including
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  • 286 6 Doctors operate to save Jessica's foot Baby rescued from well shaft MIDLAND (Texas) Surgeons operated on Saturday to save 18-month-old Jessica McClure's right foot, injured when she was trapped for three days m an abandoned well shaft. A hospital spokesman said doctors would not know for several days whether they
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  • 75 6 IQUTTOS (Peru) Two sisters were devoured by piranhas when their boat capsized m the Black Water lagoon, 450 km south of this Amazon city. Police said on Saturday that Gisella Torres Sahuana, six, and Magaly, 10, were travelling with their father on Friday
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  • 112 6 WEST German police drag a protester during a clash with a group of masked and helmeted demonstrators who gathered at Stuttgart on Saturday to commemorate the deaths of Red Army terrorists. A crowd of more than 500 had gathered to marie the 10th anniversary of the
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  • 258 6 It's a gigabyte task to computerise Oxford dictionary OXFORD Gigabyte is the latest word m the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), a measure of the 1,000 million bytes needed for what will be a major event m the history of both computerisation and lexicography. The event is the transfer and updating
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  • 147 6 Humphrey the seal falls for milk cows AUCKLAND The trouble began a month ago when Humphrey, a threetonne male elephant seal. lumbered ashore at a dairy farm on the north-east coast of New Zealand and fell m love with a herd of milk cows. He refuses to leave the farm
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    • 85 6 MONTHLY l^tt I B^P I Every month, m the fourth week's issue, the Far Eastern Economic Review carries a special report called "Where to put your money". This section is a detailed guide to the world's best investment opportunities. Written by experts. In language you can understand. This month's issue
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  • 388 7 US willing to let dollar fall further Rising interest rates cause concern NEW YORK The United States is signalling that it might be willing to let the dollar dip further, reflecting growing frustration over rising interest rates and an inflation psychology that threatens economic recovery. In the past few days,
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  • 159 7  -  SUBAN DAVENPORT By LONDON Britain's chief medical officer, Dr Donald Acheson, has denied reports that a major influenza epidemic, which may involve a Singapore virus, is on its way. The last new strain to hit Britain was "Russian flu" m 1977. The Influenza
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  • 352 7  -  PETER HAZELHURST By Tokyo Correspondent TOKYO After decades of resistance, the Japanese S government is expected to egalise the Pill m the near future ironically at a period when the country's birth rate has dropped to the lowest level since 1899.
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  • 357 7 Woman on trial over daughter's suicide FORT LAUDERDALE (Florida) The father of a woman accused of driving her daughter to suicide by forcing her to work as a stripper testified that the teenager called her home "death row". Mr Charles Gouveia, 68, took the stand as a prosecution witness at
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  • 210 7 picture. GIZA (Egypt) American and Egyptian scientists have started drilling at the Pyramid of Cheops near Cairo for an invisible ancient treasure as precious as any tangible relic a 5,000-year-old pocket of air. Using specially-designed scientific equipment, they aim to capture ancient air
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  • 55 8 SEa. Tktepictareef fermer West Germaa state Premier Uwe pahHshed hy (Hwa aßß^BaivHe Ma_mjm a teperterfrwntfce wenaaa jMifMM feaad Mr Banchsl dead aa Oct Ilia Ike aatktafe effete htttl rtwp ia Ota era. rralg«n las slate fcyafenMrfrsmaUe mtAmmmmmA eraerea aim va aire private mWrnmrntm ta spy ea
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    67 8 The duel before the fight challeng r picture. Anne* wftk Ike tools of another trade, heavyweight boxen Joe Bagaer (left) of Australia and England's Frank Bruno prepare for a moek duel at Ike grounds of the Tottenham Hotspur football dab In London but week. They will meet at
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  • 56 8 amilies who had fled from the communal violence In the eastern town of picture. *****>** J? "l*mc", Its fleer their bed. Tomorrow, who knows? This Sri Lankan llJfS'li 1.??*-** f Mf* tcr.yeki ?g J?*?? recently m a Buddhist temple m Colombo were but
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  • 51 8 t-place. Excep picture. Te tke young mother, It was the most logical solution. With a basket tn one hand and a shopping bag la the other, there was no way to hold on to tke little one la the t bu to pat him m the bag.
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    53 8 Anti-nuke protest pretest p picture. Undaunted by tke height aad the barbed wire, a masked demonstrator attempts te climb over a fence at the Wackersdorf nuclear reprocessing site m West Germany. Police reported that more than IMM people turned up recently to stage a at tke lant which Is
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  • 66 8 Television sets, vide* cassette recorders, toys they were all up for grabs. A little salted, maybe, but these people were too thrilled to let such minor imperfections hold them back as they made off with their haul. About 400 scavengers flocked to Miami
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  • AROUND ASEAN
    • 239 10 MANILA The Aquino government, determined to hold the third Asean Summit here m December, has guaranteed absolute security for heads of government coming here to attend the meeting. The assurance was given by presidential press secretary Teodoro Benigno m response to
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    • 424 10 Aim to protect American interests, say Manila papers MANILA Conservative American groups are urging an alliance of rightwing groups here m an effort to protect American interests m case the Aquino government falls, two major newspapers reported yesterday. The Philippine Daily Inquirer and Malaya
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    • 360 10 Aquino won't seek military help from US, say reports MANILA President Corazon Aquino has ruled out asking for any United States assistance to help the Philippine government fight simultaneous assaults from various insurgent forces m the country, press reports said here yesterday. Mrs Aquino was answering a question from a
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    • 142 10 HONGKONG The Philippines must acquire "new directions" m its policies towards the United States, says the new Philippine Foreign Secretary. Mr Raul Manglapus said on Saturday that before President Corazon Aquino became President m February last year, "the special concerns of the US
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    • 380 11 Figure should top $lb this year, says Kadin official JAKARTA Direct trade between Indonesia and China, which began m 1965, totalled US$424 million (SsBB6 million) at the end of last year and should top US$5OO million (Ssl billion) this year, Antara news agency
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    • 83 11 Chavalit leaves on 3-nation visit BANGKOK General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, Thai Army Commander-in-Chief, left here late on Saturday for visits to England, Belgium and the Soviet Union. He will be accompanied by several senior army officers. During his visit to Britain, Gen Chavalit will meet Defence Secretary George Younger, Admiral of
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    • 187 11 BANGKOK Members of Parliament from more than 100 countries have said that refugees should have easier access to the developed states to shift the burden from the developing nations. A six-day session of the InterParliamentary Union which ended on Saturday called for a
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    • 187 11 BANGKOK A young mahout has been arrested for allegedly stealing an elephant which was left to graze m Bangkok by its owner. Police said yesterday that Sanya Kled-kaew, 21, was nabbed on Saturday on the outskirts of the capital while riding on a 50- -year-old
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    • 162 11 Sweatshop fire prompts safety call JAKARTA Members of Indonesia's Parliament demanded tighter safety controls and a full investigation after a fire ripped through a Jakarta garment sweatshop, killing 21 people and critically injuring five. The official Antara news agency said yesterday the owner of the garment factory would be charged
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    • 89 11 Bad flooding expected in Jakarta JAKARTA More than 90 areas m the Indonesian capital are expected to suffer serious flooding m this year's rainy season, an official said on Saturday. The head of Jakarta's Public Works Service, Mr Syamsul Romli, said the rainy season, forecast to begin m early November,
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  • 596 12  -  ISMAIL KA8SIM By KUALA LUMPUR The Civic Consciousness rally organised by Umno yesterday turned into an occasion to revive the spirit of the Malays and unite them behind the party. From the beginning, there were constant references to the perceived challenges against the
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  • 47 12 JOHOR BARU The Johor State Economic Development Corporation recorded net profits of M 537.7 million for the first half of the year, exceeding last year's profits. Its executive director, Datuk Mohamed Ali Hashim. yesterday said related companies also created 8,651 jobs. Bernama
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  • 150 12 KUALA LUMPUR The General Hospital here will take disciplinary action against a worker said to be responsible for having caused a woman to give birth on a trolley at the hospital's maternity ward last month, deputy director Dr Tajuddin Jaffar said yesterday. A doctor saw Madam
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  • 255 12 JOHOR BARU Twenty-seven police officers face disciplinary action for failing to inform their department that they had more than one wife, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Haniff Omar said on Saturday. "The action taken would depend on the individual cases," he said,
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  • 304 12 Economic strategy already m place, says Mahathir VANCOUVER The 1988 Budget to be tabled m Parliament on Friday will not be a "spectacular" one, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said on Saturday. "I don't think the Budget will be very spectacular because we have
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  • 407 12 By KUALA LUMPUR Deputy Agriculture Minister Datuk Alex Lee yesterday urged Attorney-General Tan Sri Abu Talib to look into the possibility of applying the Seditions Act to prosecute United Malays National Organisation leaders who allegedly made seditious speeches at last Saturday's
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  • 163 12 Police to probe Kit Siang's report UEM case JOHOR BARU The police will conduct a full investigation into the report made by Democratic Action Party leader Lim Kit Siang against all Umno Cabinet ministers and the Works Minister who took part m the decision on the privatisation of the North-South
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  • HOME
    • 496 13 Good facilities, home ownership make for happy residents ACTING Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong yesterday cited West Coast constituency as an example of a socially cohesive constituency where residents of different age groups and races mixed easily. Their satisfaction, he noted after
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    • 454 13  - Few members sign up with PA Retirees Club for jobs MAUREEN CHUA By THE drive to get more older Singaporeans to re-join the workforce may be a tough challenge if the experience of one retirees' club is any guide. Of the 3,137 members of the People's Association Retirees Club, only
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    • 38 13 YIO Chu Kang Link will be temporarily closed tomorrow morning from 1 am to 5 am for the launching of an overhead pedestrian bridge. Traffic will be diverted to Yio Chu Kang and Boundary roads.
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    • 592 13  -  BRENDAN PEREIRA Many unaware of high interest they have to pay By MORE and more Singaporeans are turning to buy-now-pay-later schemes for major purchases, many of them grossly underestimating the amount of money they are paying m interest above the cash price. A random
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    • 316 14 CHANGI Airport aims to improve on its impressive records, the Communications and Information Minister, Dr Yeo Ning Hong, said last night. Dr Yeo made this point when he opened the 20th General Assembly of the World Airlines Clubs Association at
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    • 661 14 'Spreading faith commando-style can cause trouble' A MUSLIM MP yesterday urged a small band of religious groups to review what he described as their overaealous approach and methods m spreading their gospel. Mr Yatiman Yusof warned that their "com-mando-style" activities could lead to religious disharmony
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      • 50 14 LEADING SCHOLARS from Asean and South Korea will discass the economics and politics of South-east and North-east Asia m a forum from Oct 25 to 28, at Novotel Orchid Inn. The forum Is organised by the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and the Seoul Forum for International Affairs.
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      • 72 14 A FORMER cashier with Tat Lee Bank last Saturday was charged with an additional 10 counts of receiving a total of $169,000 of stolen money at the bank's Market Street branch between Aug 31 and Oct 29 m 1965. No plea was taken from Tok Seng Hua,
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      • 60 14 A MAN was jailed for 15 months last Friday after pleading guilty to a spate of motorcycle thefts from April to October. He was also disqualified from driving for three years. Syed Salim bin Wan Ahmad, 23, faced a total of 12 charges but only three were
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      • 90 14 THE GOODWILL ship, Nippon Maru, with 245 young people on board, will arrive m Singapore on Wednesday for a five-day visit. Members of the Ship for South-east Asian Youth Programme (SSEAYP) will attend a dinner and cultural show hosted by Labour Minister Lee Yock Suan, who is
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      • 67 14 SOME M bank officers learnt about business trends m the electronics, metal engineering and plastic moulding industries, m the first of a series of Knowing-the-Industry workshops, at the Shangri-La Hotel last Saturday. The workshops, held jointly by the Economic Development Board and the Institute of Banking and
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      • 36 14 INSURANCE OFFICIALS from Asean countries will make a study visit to Japan next year under the Japan-Asean Co-operation Promotion programme. The visit will focus on Japan's insurance supervisory system and market practices.
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    • 295 15 First shot and a bull's-eye for MP IT WAS the first time he had held a rifle and shot and he scored a bull's-eye. Mr Chng Hee Kok, the MP for Radin Mas, who gave away the prizes at the 4th Annual Civil Defence Individual Open Shooting Championship yesterday morning,
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    • 668 15  -  CHARMAME CHAN Most parents-to-be say they want to check unborn baby's health, not its sex By "WILL it be a boy or girl?" The use of ultrasound scans to uncover the sex of an unborn baby appears to be on the rise at private
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    • 195 15 FIRE yesterday damaged parts of a factory belonging to Singatronics Limited, a manufacturer of electronics and health-care products. Police said the blaze broke out at about 8.50 am on the top floor of the seven-storey flatted factory m Lower Delta Road. Firemen from four fire
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    • 405 16 DOCTOttS feel they are better at curing people than communicating with them, but they can help people so much more if they also considered themselves educators. This was the message of Australian behavioural scientist, Dr David Hill, 44. who was here to lead
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    • 129 16 Police seize 3,000 tapes from video pirates AN ILLEGAL video duplicating ring was smashed when police and Crown Video representatives raided the culprits' premises m Jalan Eunos on Friday evening. Police seized more than 3,000 video tapes, 33 video recorders, 18 tape rewinders and a television set from the three-storey
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    • 335 16 First HDB-approved unit installed m Tampines, more orders m the books THE latest m gracious living m Housing Board flats is having a whirlpool bath hi the master bathroom. It has started m a small way one has been installed and four more will follow
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    • 472 16  - Visiting woman Rotarian gets Banding ovation L. E. PREMA By fILIFORNIAN Mandy PBtto is one of the few fwomen m the world to I break into the all-male doI main of the Rotary Club. I So, one of the last things Lite expected was a standflip: ova Uon and thundering
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    • 145 16 ENGINEERS have been sternly reminded of their duty to the public. Nobody m the business can afford to make mistakes as the consequences can be disastrous, said Dr Tan Swan Beng, president of the Professional Engineers Board. Speaking on Saturday at the board s annual
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    • 169 16 ALL but 20 of the 800 advertisement panels m first-phase Mass Rapid Transit stations have been taken up. The panels taken up are expected to net a revenue of more than $500,000, according to Pearl and Dean, the company which is marketingadvertising space m the
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    • 497 17  -  SERENA TOH Anything's open to discussion at weekly talks By THEY wouldn't tell their teachers about boyfriends, lest they "sneak on us and tell our parents". But just about everything else is on the agenda at Dunearn Secondary Technical School where, six months after
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    • 170 17 MRS LINDA Koh, 24, a A housewife, wanted an k independent rating of her m baby's health. m Tliis prompted her to 1 enter her daughter m M yesterday's baby contest^ organised by the Marine Parade community centre^ women's sub-committee. Well, she certainly
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    • 227 17 Some old flats in Kirn Keat to go THE Housing Board is demolishing several old blocks of mainly one-room flats m Kirn Keat constituency to make way tor larger apartments, Second Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong disclosed yesterday. But two of the one-room blocks will be retained, said Mr
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    • 674 17  -  CATHEMNE C. ONG The Brunei bank trial Prosecution alleges wrong-doings m Republic By BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Allegations made m the billion-dollar Brunei fraud case provide a basis for the Singapore Government to take action against tycoon Tan Sri Khoo Teck
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  • COMMENT/Perspective
    • 1138 18  -  ISMAIL KASSHM Around the region By of the Foreign Desk Observers described the action of the 11 Umno members as tantamount to refusing to acknowledge the leadership of Dr Mahathir. Victory for the plaintiffs will throw the country into turmoil, considering
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    • 518 18 Art Buchwald THE word on the street is that interest in Ollie North souvenirs is plummeting and vendors are now stuck with everything from videotapes to T-shirts. Curious as to what all this means, I stopped by a stand on Pennsylvania Avenue that was loaded
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    • The Straits Times
      • 625 18 CHARLES DICKENS began his novel A Tale of Two Cities with those famous lines of paradox: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." He was speaking of France m the 18th century. Those lines are now applicable m a different
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    • 885 18  -  DREW MIDDLETON By Internationa Herald Tribune WASHINGTON The United States has just had some excellent advice from a wise and friendly counsellor, Oxford University's Sir Michael Howard. Sir Michael has seen more wars than most (he is a highly decorated veteran of
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    • 1185 19  -  KHAW WEI KANG By of the Economics Desk The fall of Mr Hu Yaobang (left) has deprived Japan and China of the right kind of person who had the power and a touch of pragmatism to overcome diplomatic and bureaucratic hurdles m handling their
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      28 19 Tamil militants naw find themselves engaged In clashes wttk ladUa tr— m alter dropping a pledge te fc— 1 9 tke pence pact. Renter pletnro.
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    • 801 19  - Peacekeepers from India turn fighters in Sri Lanka STEVEN WEISMAN By MADRAS The warfare m Sri Lanka last week turned the logic of India's original intervention upside down. Only four months ago, Sri Lanka's army pressed an offensive against Tamil strongholds m the Jaffna peninsula. India stopped the Sri Lanka
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    • 348 20 Reply I REFER to the letter under the heading "Jet Pilot Took Action To Avoid Small Airplane" by Mr Steven Slith (ST, Oct 17). We wish to assure Mr Siith that his concern arising trom his recent experience was misplaced as there was no violation
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    • 117 20 Tiny plants by the sides of PIE not AT THE request of some Bukit Batok residents, the authorities have put up a few more plants by the sides of the Pan-Island Expressway. This is much appreciated but one wonders why only tiny plants were used instead of the instant trees
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    • 636 20 I REFER to the letter "Must m-cyclists remain m the left lane?" by Mr Rupert Yeo (ST, Oct 8). We wish to inform him that advisory signs put up along expressways are meant for the safety of motorcyclists. By advising them to keep left,
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    • 215 20 MAY I clarify the position on the cost of hepatitis B vaccines. The cheaper vaccines currently available m some countries are manufactured from human blood. In some cases, the cost is low because the dose has been reduced. Users of such vaccines
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    • 414 20 Indian offensive against Tamil terrorists lauded I CONGRATULATE the government of India on the tough action it has taken against those Tamil terrorists who are not prepared to abide by the peace accord. Recent events have shown how ruthless the terrorists can be, even to fellow terrorists of another organisation.
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    • Article, Illustration
      207 21 OCT 2S The National University of Singapore's Department of Extramural Studies will begin a five-lecture course on "Working Capital Management". The course, to be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Institute of Education, will benefit managers and supervisors performing non-fi-nancial functions. Fee: $80. Phone: 732--2055 or 338-8400.
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    • 226 21 THE Aluminium Company of Malaysia Bhd has appointed director Tunku Imran ibnl Tuanko Ja'afar chairman of the board. Mr I.A. Maclean has been appointed director of Metal Box Singapore. The Gulf Bank KSC, Singapore branch, has appointed Mr Georges (J Met General Manager. Mr Gillet, previously a Senior Treasury
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    • 52 21 4 Others may accuse us of flooding the market, but that isn't at all true. Our last project is almost sold out, and if we are to remain as a property development company, m we need to have something to sell. Mr Kwek Leng Joo. City Developments' Group Deputy
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      • 79 21 TAIPEI Taiwan's stock market rebounded strongly on Saturday after the government took steps to boost investments following a sharp decline over the past two weeks. The market index surged 159.89 points to close at 3,551.75. imum 5 per cent gain allowed by the government. Traders said
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      • 108 21 NEW YORK Trans World Airlines Inc Chairman Carl Icahn has raised his July offer to take the company private and its board has approved the new proposal, clearing the way for a shareholder vote. The new offer for the 27 per cent of TWA stock
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      • 97 21 "Hold on to stocks 9 call to investors PARIS French government and business leaders have appealed to small shareholders to hold on to their stocks, and save a massive privatisation programme despite a bout of plummetting indices m Paris and foreign markets m the past week. The bourse drop came
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      • 86 21 JAL April- August profit hits $438 m TOKYO Japan Air Lines (JAL), the largest airline m Japan, said its pre-tax profit m the April-Au-gust period reached 30 billion yen (Ss43B million). JAL President Susumu Yamaji did not give a comparison with the same five-month period last year but said that
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      • 56 21 TOKYO The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) will accept 22 companies as new members this year m an effort to open up Japan's capital market. The names of the companies will be announced m December. Thirty securities dealers 10 Japanese and 20 foreign are
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    • 677 21  -  DOREEN SOH But metal's rally may be short-lived if stock markets recover Your money By JUST as things m the stock markets start to look bad, prospects for gold brighten. Last week, as Wall Street share and bond prices came tumbling
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    • 312 21  -  TRUDY UM By MANY eyes will be on the launch today of the seventh counter on Sesdaq, Singatronics, which is seen as a "blue chip" even though it is being floated on the second securities market. The general market consensus is that Singatronics is a
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    • 488 21  - Shing Loong Finance plans to set up more branches CONRAD RAJ By KEPPEL Corporation's wholly-owned Shing Loong Finance appears to be preparing for a listing on the stock market with plans to expand its branch network to four or five offices m the next few years. The company, which now
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    • 185 21 THE Industrial A Commercial Bank, now part of the United Overseas Bank group, is the latest to raise its deposit rates with increases of between a quarter and three-quarters of a per cent from last Saturday. This is the bank's first interest rates change m more
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    • 349 21 Sime Shield completes revamp SIME Shield Investment Holdings (Pte) Ltd, the 50 per cent-owned Singapore insurance arm of plantation giant Sime Darby, has completed the restructuring of its reinsurance operations. The company, which expects to seek a listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore within the next two years, said
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    • 524 21 Wall Street at the crossroads after 5 -year bull run NEW YORK For more than five years, millions of individual investors have enjoyed one of the most prolonged bull markets m history. Even if they did not cash m their chips, they spent more freely and helped lift the US
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  • TIME$
    • Overseas markets' round-up
      • 529 22 Too soon to write off bull market analysts New York NEW YORK The generation of Wall Streeters raised on the great bull market of the 1960s has been subjected to a new experience the past several weeks. The steady procession of record highs that had become so familiar has suddenly
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      • 207 22 LONDON London share prices fell last week m line with falling prices m the United States sparked by disappointing US trade figures and another increase m American prime interest rates. The Financial Times Industrial Index of 30 leading British companies closed 45.3 points lower as measured from Friday of
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      • 171 22 maa_____mm_________mmmm_____m_____m TOKYO Share prices were mixed last week on the Tokyo Stock Exchange following a series of record drops on Wall Street since Wednesday. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average advanced 27.97 yen during the week to finish Friday at 26,366.74 yen, while the composite TSE index of all issues,
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      • 143 22 HONGKONG Wall Street blues and persistent rumours about local conglomerate Jardine Matheson added to the confusion m an unsteady week on the Hongkong stock market. Panic selling sent the Hang Seng Index plunging on Friday to finish at 3,783.20 points, down 99.22 on the week. Many dealers attributed the
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    • 3349 22 1M7 Last YMd Net Vot Week M* Low Company Sale Chance P/E C000) rffh Low SECTntONI MMSTRMLS ft CQIMKRCML 2 If '2° 205 12 04 185 217 203 96 56 AJcom 66 +1 I 66 66 308 109 Am»«M»M» 264 -28 15 26.4 1091 294 263
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    • Commodities, Finance
      • 427 23 1 Mn Jl 000 2 F« bttt OBtamn orty 3 OCBC fronce 4 a«afabk it DBS FiuKt QiuUywt that rate* we «ft«rt<f by subudury OUT. UOF't rain.** ritMvalaWc it uof aho avifaWe at DBS Fiunt« OCBC OUB UOB DBS DEPOSIT RATES Savings daily 3 3'/ 4 2'/i 3
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      • 761 23 Receipt of Export FCL container* and LCL cargo Delivery of FCL import containers CL ReceWint Receiwint Sh*> (Voyafe) An Carp Tim Block Kiti Bhum (K04N) 19/10 (1800) 15 *****000 J6 Mana (26) 19/10 (1900) F7 0900 1100 02 P Pierce (134W) 19/10 (2000) Fl *****200 2 B Perm*
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        280 23 Vessel Berth Arr Dep Vessel Berth Arr Dep Vessel Berth Arr Dep Keppri munn GL Selatan 8 K27 19/10 19/10 P Bulian 8 P5C 19/10 20/10 Bangkok Navee R35 a*d# ?v\n SHI?""" Ki4E 19/10 19/10 P S"" 1 p 2* 19/10 20/10 Snshar Il9 M£ ?o S
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      • 183 23 Asian rates ASIAN currency average v« deposit rates for the Men low week ended Od 16. J}0} 6 Rffl PBIPIX 6 months 5 3/16 S's mi rwwj 12 mont|)S 5 ?/16 5 5/16 us$ S t«w H(h Low n,ti i .'mo! J!m« 6 Tn/u I"""" 1 16 9^ 16 iZh,
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      • 30 23 Ctemf prices nun Sport KL cents cents S/kilo M/kilo Oct 12 217.75 267.00 Oct 13 217.50 266.50 Oct 14 216.50 266.00 Oct 15 216.75 266.00 Oct 16 217.75 267.00
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      • 28 23 Ctafcif Turmvtr TM prices lamts Ml (M)/kilo Oct 12 17.15 75 Oct 13 17.15 77 Oct 14 17.15 50 Oct 15 17.10 52 Oct 16 17.18 43
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      • 552 23 BANKS' prime lending Gen 4 e ale Ba J k r 7 rates at the close of busi- £ui an K c 7 1 ness on Friday. Oc« 16. ™> Bairil PLR Hokkaido Takushoku Hongkong Shanghai 6'; Indian Bank 7 Al^emene Bank 6 l 4 Indian Overseas 7
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      • 169 23 Interbank Over the counter Foreifn Local dofare to Foreifn currency currency one unit of to SJ10 foreifn currency Australian dollar 1.5079—1.5097 6.77—6.50 Canadian dollar 1.6100—1.6120 6.28—6.17 HI dollar 1.3511-1.3580 7.58 7.25 Sterling pound 3.4781—3.4808 2.90—2.86 US dollar 2.0915—2.0925 4.81 4.77 Local ddbrs to 100 units of foreifn currency
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      • 89 23 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian rubber market finished marginally easier with Int RSS One closing at 266 sen per kg, down two sen from the previous week's close. November SMR 20 closed at 254.50 sen a kg, down 0.5 sen from the previous week. Throughout the week, the Inro buffer
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      • 414 23 PRECIOUS gold returned into the limelight after nearly two months of dull trading. On Friday, at New York's commodity exchange, spot gold rallied m brisk trading to settle at U*****. 60 an ounce, the highest level since mid-Au-gust. The dollar's drop and sharp decline m the stock
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      • 20 23 Buying Sefnj Hghest—Lowest Hghest—Lowest Ss/gm SS/gm Bank ot China 31.16—30 90 31.28—31.02 OUB 31.20—30.94 31.35—31.09 UOB 3119—30.93 31.34—3108
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      • 21 23 GOLD USS/oz Sat Fri Hongkong 472.00 472 75 464 40—464 90 Fri Thus NewYork 471.00—471.50 462 75— 463 25
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      • 31 23 NARROW RANGE. Values on the European spot market (basis Rotterdam warehouse) fluctuated narrowly, ending the week at £4,130-4,160 against £4,150-4,170 per tonne under the influence of curren- cy factors. AFP
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      • 53 23 IRREGULAR. Bullion prices reflected the initial rally m the remainder of the precious sector, but ran into firm resistance above US$7.BO per oz for spot delivery m the absence of speculative involvement. Activity on the London Metal Exchange (LME) was at a minimum and LME stocks fell oz to
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      • 47 23 FIRM. Cash and forward metal rose to the highest level since May 1965 on the LME, boosted by several (actors. The continuing near-term supply shortage on both sides of the Atlantic, aggravated by the 5,350-tonne drop in LME stocks to 100,000 tonnes, contributed to gains. AFP
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      • 59 23 RECORD LEVELS. Standard aluminium rose sharply to record levels for both cash and forward delivery on the LME. LME stocks were down 3,450 tonnes at 58,950 tonnes, their lowest level since June 1981, but higher-grade metal stocks were 950 tonnes up at 24,625 tonnes. Merchants outside the LME quoted
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    • Srock market weeklt round-up...by RUDY LIM
      • 695 24 Singapore Top five stocks THE FOLLOWING is a list of the five most actively traded stocks on the Stock Exchange of Singapore last week. It gives the turnover m thousands of units, closing prices on Friday and the high and low for 1987.
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      • 354 24 Kuala Lumpur TURNOVER dwindled on the Kuala Lumpur market last week, with the volume dipping well below 10 million units on one day. The week's average daily volume was only 10.31 million units worth M 524.7 million, down from the previous
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      • Companies Desk
        • 107 24 DIVERSIFIED Hwa Hong Corporation Ltd has formed a joint-venture company with a corporation m China to undertake overseas projects and trading activities. The new company, incorporated m Singapore and called NFC-Hwa Hong Construction Trading Pte Ltd, is a 50-50 joint venture with China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Foreign Engineering
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        • 74 24 UMW Corporation Bhd shares will be suspended from trading m Kuala Lumpur and Singapore on Oct 27 to enable the determining of shareholders' entitlements m UMW Holdings Bhd and a rights issue entitlement under a scheme of arrangement. The Kuala Lumpur and Singapore stock exchanges have granted in-principle
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        • 82 24 DUNLOP Malaysian Industries Bhd will start commercial production of latex examination gloves m December at its factory m Seremban, Chairman Datuk Seri Syed Nahar Tun Syed Sheh Shahabuddin has said. The factory will initially have an annual capacity of 50 million pieces. Datuk Seri Syed Nahar said production
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        • 78 24 AOKAM Tin Bhd's purchase of 10 million shares m Roxy Electric Industries (Malaysia) will cost MslB million instead of M 526.3 million. The 7.37 per cent stake will be acquired from Roxy's parent Halimtan Sdn Bhd through an issue of almost 6.67 million new Msl Aokam Tin shares
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        • 34 24 Fraser Neave FRASER Neave has acquired a new subsidiary, Fraser Neave (Hongkong) Ltd. The wholly-owned Hongkong registered company has an issued capital of only HK$2 (53 Singapore cents) and has yet to begin trading.
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        • 60 24 GLENEALY Plantations (Malaya) Bhd has explained that a reported extraordinary gain of M$5.44 million arose from the sale of quoted shares on the open market during the financial year ended June 30. Replying to a Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange query, Glenealy said the proceeds totalled MS16.05 million, while
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        • 93 24 SOUTH Malaysia Industries Bhd has reported a pre-tax loss of MJ3.81 million for the year ended last December, compared with a pre-tax profit of M 51.76 million for 1965. Group turnover fell to M 524.63 million from M 534.38 million. The loss was attributed to the poor
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        • 140 24 THE increased competition from local and imported flour has had an adverse impact on Khong Guan Flour Milling Ltd's trading results, Chairman Chew Choo Keng said. Mr Chew said m his latest annual review that the board was viewing with caution the difficult trading conditions. The group
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        • 104 24 INDUSTRIAL Oxygen Incorporated Bhd (IOI) chalked up a 121.54 per cent rise m group pre-tax profit to M 53.92 million for the year ended June 30. However, turnover declined 5.46 per cent to M 547.98 million. At the company level, it reported a pre-tax loss of M 5302,000
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      • 223 24 Sime tells why it put off bid for Guthrie Ropel KUALA LUMPUR Sime Darby Bhd has said it did not discuss with Kumpulan Guthrie Sdn Bhd the proposed acquisition of Guthrie Ropel Sdn Bhd before its general offer because that would have amounted to "acting in concert". Sime said it
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    • 1035 22 I ySu^^^hl Company news f//^^7/l The w was r V/// 1/ Week ended Oct 16 Final Results Gross Group net Year to Company dividend profit/loss ('000) Khong Guan 7.5(7.5) JS4OL ($862) Apr 87 Sateras Res M58,434L ($20.035 L) Mar 87 Preliminary figures Gross Group pre-tax Year to Company dividend profit/loss
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    • 1107 26 FIRST DIVISION HIGHLIGHTS i Charltoa Derby 1: Steve Cross fired Derby ahead against bottom-club Charlton when he met a cross from Nigel Callaghan and half-volleyed the ball home m the 12th minute. It proved the only goal as goalkeeper Peter Shilron then kept the home side
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    • 195 26 MADRID Real Madrid cruised to yet another Spanish soccer League win on Saturday, beating Espanol 24 away m the form which has made them look invincible. The score took Real's League record m seven matches to seven wins, 28 goals for and a paltry two against. After
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    • 263 26 BERNE Italy held off a late rally by underdogs Switzerland to salvage a 0-0 draw m a Group Two European Championship soccer qualifying match on Saturday. The draw moved Italy within a point of group leaders Sweden with a game m hand. Switzerland needed a
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    • 198 26 PARIS French soccer pace-makers Monaco suffered their first defeat m two months at the hands of Matra Racing Paris on Saturday and saw their lead m the First Division cut to three points. Second-half substitute Merry Krimau scored the only goal m a match Racing dominated. Nantes moved
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    • 76 26 SANTIAGO Reigning champions Brazil clinched a place m the quarter-finals of the sixth World Youth Soccer Championship, beating Canada 1-0 on Saturday. European youth champions East Germany and Chile also ensured their presence m the last eight with wins over Bahrain (2-0) and Australia (2-0) respectively. Remit* Graap
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    • 184 26 BONN Cologne were deposed from the top of the West German soccer League on Saturday when they were held 1-1 at Eintracht Frankfurt. Werder Bremen are the new leaders on goal difference after winning 2-1 at fourth-placed Borussia Moenchengladbach, ending Borussia's run of 12 consecutive home victories.
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      • 222 26 Charlton 0 Derby 1. Chelsea 1 Coventry 0. Liverpool 4 Queens Park Rangers 0. Luton 2 Wimbledon 0. Manchester United 2 Norwich 1, Newcastle 1 Everton 1. Nottingham Foifst 3 Sheffield Wednesday 0. Oxford 1 West Ham 2. Southampton 1 Watford 0 P W D L F A
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      • 47 26 Am on Villa 1 Bournemouth 1. Barnsley 1 Hull 3. Blackburn 2 Stoke 0. Bradford 4 Birmingham 0. Ipswich 3 Manchester City 0, Middlesbrough 2 West Bromwich 1, Millwall 4 Shrewsbury 1. Plymouth 6 Leeds 3. Reading 3 Huddersfield 2. Sheffield United 2 Leicester 1
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      • 436 26 Bradford 13 10 2 1 25 9 32 Hull 13 7 5 1 21 12 26 Middlesbro 13 7 2 4 19 12 23 Ipswich 13 6 4 3 15 9 22 Palace 12 6 3 3 26 16 21 Swindon 12 6 3 3 19 13 21 Aston Villa
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      • 699 26 Bolton 5 Carlisle 0. Crewe 1 Scar borough 0. Kxeter 1 Burnley 2. Hart lepool 0 Torquay 0, Hereford 2 Scun thorpe 3. Leyton Orient 0 Cambridge 2. \.'»port 2 Swansea 1 (played at Swansea). Peterborough 4 Cardiff 3 Rochdale 1 Darlington 3. Wolver hampton 3 Tranmere 0.
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    • 386 28 Lendl gets revenge Cash crashes out m three sets WORLD NO. 1 Ivan Lendl, of Czechoslovakia, stormed to a 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Australian Pat Cash to win the U*****,000 ($721,060) Australian Indoor Tennis Championship here yesterday. Lendl's victory gave him sweet revenge over third-seeded Cash, who had beaten
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    • 266 28 REST OF TENNIS FILDERSTADT (West Germany) Chris Evert stands between Martina Navratilova and a Porsche sports car. for her 31st birthday after both won their semi-final matches on Saturday at the Filderstadt women's tournament. Chris beat fellow-Ameri-can Pam Shriver 7-5, 6-3 after Martina crushed Gabriela Sabatini,
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    • 181 28 _^£!FLr*_^Ly_*ns' SiTSmmmmTmmm Se^SeU fflSSd |J£ tournament idni its inrSl IKTiHSK P" Mansdorf heat No 9 seed Brad GUtert of the UaitedStatiniMiS ta STtISKS to^hS rarely hit the heights. Gilbert, winnS of this tournament for the last tensive m the first set, d?™inatin« exchanges "5 "S *?"H
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    • 190 28 READING (England) Defending champion Jimmy "Whirlwind" White was blown out of the £300,000 ($1.04 million) Rothmans Grand Prix by 22-year-old Tony Drago, of Malta, on Saturday Drago took only 85 minutes to complete a famous 5-3 victory over White, the world No. 2, and exorcise the
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    • 370 28 TwifM triumph: Minnesota Twins defeated the visiting St Louis Cardinals 10-1 m the opening baseball game of the World Series on Saturday. YomUiri One-up: Yomiuri beat Yakult 1-0 m Saturday's Japanese Central League baseball match. Other results: Taiyo 5 Hiroshima 3. Pacific League: Lotte 4 Kintetsu 3.
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    • 168 28 Australian Indnnr Champ*•nsalp Semi-finals: Ivan Lendl (Cze) bt Slobodan Zivojinovic (Vug) 6-3, 7-5; Pat Cash (Aust) bt Boris Becker (WG) 6-3. 2-6. 7-6. Final: Ivan Lendl bt Pat Cash 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Pllderatadt women's tnnrnament Singles seml-fl-naN: Chris Evert (US) bt Pam Shriver (US) 7-5, 6-3; Martina
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    • 159 29 Bacher retorts Europe's claims LONDON A LEADING official of the International Badminton Federation has hit back at criticisms of the federation from a European tournament director. Tom Marrs, in charge of the British Masters here this week, had accused the IBF of "riding roughshod" over a number of events and
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    • 423 29 Frost takes on Baddeley in bid for four straight wind LONDON Defending champion Morten Frost, of Denmark, put limself m line for his fourth title m a row when he takes on Englishman Steve Baddeley m the men's singles final of the British Masters badminton championships. "I've never lost to
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    • 393 29 BIRMINGHAM New Zealander Ross Norman, the defending champion, was ground to defeat by unseeded Englishman Neil Harvey m the World Open squash championship on Saturday. Harvey, who was undecided about competing m the championship because he thought he might aggravate an ankle injury, won a closely-fought fourth-round
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    • 79 29 Fnnrtb-rnnnn' res alts: Chris Dittmar (Aust) bt Gawain Briars (Brit) 9-7, 9-7, 941; Stuart Davenport (NZ) bt Jamie Hickox (Brit) 9-3, 9-5, 9-1; Rodney Martin (Aust) bt Maqsood Ahmed (Pak) 94, 94, 9-1; Neil Harvey (Brit) bt Ross Norman (NZ) 2-9,10-9, 4-9, 9-5, 9-7; Jahangir Khan (Pak) bt Tristan
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    • 183 29 BRUSSELS World Cup hockey champions Australia were named top seeds for next year's Olympic Games m Seoul, a spokesman for the International Hockey Federation (FIH) said on Saturday. The FIH council selected 12 men's teams and eight qualifiers for the women's event after discussing
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    • 414 30 AMCmC AH FOOTBALL WASHINGTON The owners of the 28 National Football League teams are the undisputed winners m the 24-day players' strike, at least for now. But the NFL Players' Association, which barely came out of the strike with their life, may yet
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      • 290 30 322 Acknowledgements 324 In Momoriam Thu family of the Into John Wong Tuok Lok wiahon to thank Megr. Wno, Roy. Fr. Vim of St. Stephen's, Cnnonninn Sintorn, Doctors and Nurnnn of Word 33 T.T.S.H., Mgnt. and Staff of Yno Hiap Song Ltd. and Staff of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, rnlativnu and
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      • 525 30 321 Deaths 321 Deaths MR. VINCENT CHAN ENG LIM Age: 64 waa MM homu psacsfudy te bu with thu Lord on IB 1047, laavtng behind: mma*. Johanna Heng Oek Keow •ONS DAUQMTERS Edward. Siak Mong Marian. Siak Ngern Raymond, Siak Kwang Gertrude Siak Choo Frederick, Siak Joo Dorothy, Siak Tlang
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    • 712 30 Larry can't wait to fight the champion ATLANTIC CITY Larry Holmes, the 37-year-old former world heavyweight boxing champion, watched the latest display by the current king of the division and says he is looking forward to fighting Mike Tyson. If Holmes spoke the truth, he
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    • 57 30 JAKARTA EUyas Pical, of Indonesia, has regained the International Boxing Federation junior-bantam-weight crown by beating title holder Chang Tae n, of South Korea, on points over 15 rounds. JAPAN'S Hiroki Ioka won the World Boxing Council's newly created straw-weight division (47.6kg) with a unanimous points win over
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    • 149 30 BEIJING Tanzania's Junta Ikangaa pulled away m the final three kilometres to win the seventh Beijing Marathon yesterday. Ikangaa, the pre-race favourite, battled blustery winds and shook off challenges from Japanese, fellow-African and Australian runners to finish m 2hr 12min I9sec, well off his personal best
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    • 278 30 Gavaakars lost interest: India's Sunii Gavaskar, who has scored more runs and more centuries than anyone else m Test cricket, says he doesn't like the game any more as he nears the end of a phenomenal career. ***ye no further Interest m any aspect of cricket at
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    • 448 30 Top two teams from each group qualify for semi-finals. Where teams have equal number of points, their positions are determined first by number of wins, then by run rate. Semi-finals Nov 4: Winners Group B v runners-up Group A (Lahore). Nov 5: Winners Group A
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    • 253 30 PESHAWAR (Pakistan) England cricket captain Mike Gatting was quick to praise his batting colleagues after the World Cup victory over Sri Lanka here on Saturday. The top-order men had been under some pressure after manager Micky Stewart pointed an accusing finger at them for scoring too
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    • 277 29 Probenicid to join list of banned drugs INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee vice-presi-dent Prince Alexandre de Merode, of Belgium, said on Saturday the drug probenicid will be banned at the 1968 Winter and Summer Olympic Games. Speaking at the closing ceremonies of a three-day meeting of the general association of international sports
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    • 346 31 Champ Norman crashes WENTWORTH (England) MARK McNULTY, of South Africa, beat defending World Matchplay champion Greg Norman, of Australia, by one hole on Saturday as the European golf tour again showed its strength. For the first time m the 24-year history of this championship, four European tour regulars reached the
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    • 388 31 ORLANDO (Florida) STEVE PATE shot two eagles on the way to a sev-en-under-par 65 that lifted him into a one-stroke lead after Saturday's third round of the US$6OO,OOO ($1,254,000) Walt Disney World Classic golf tournament. Mark O'Meara is the major challenger Pate must face m the
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    • 652 31  -  JOE DORAI By 4 It was a big anti-dimax. My players didn't parform to expectations. But what matters moat tho Cup is ours now. Probably thay wara cautious or using a 'cat-and mouea' strategy rather than show the actual skills and teamwork thay
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    • 307 31  - Douglas posts double at SICC UM KEE CHAN By DOUGLAS 001 (handicap 3) completed a double by winning the Singapore Island Country Club Strokeplay championship at the Bukit Course yesterday. Douglas, who won the Matchplay championship m May, shot a final-round 77 for a 72-hole total of 303. CX. Ong
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    • 106 31 Fleet Group prove too good for SPH KUALA LUMPUR The Fleet Group, of Malaysia, overwhelmed Singapore Press Holdings, who include The Straits Times, 8 1 .-3 1 m their Mth annual Inter-Company Games held here over the weekend. Results Men's badminton: Fleet 8 SPH 1. Bawling: Fleet 22 SPH 12.
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    • 19 31 GUANGZHOU China beat Thailand 2-0 m the second leg of their pre-Olympic soccer match here yesterday. Reuter.
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    • 225 31 BOWLING Michael Lav won the third weekly final of the Club de Remy Martin bowling tournament at Striker's Bowl yesterday with 3,199 pintails. Reunite 1 Michael Lav 3,199 2 David Neo 3,156 3 Steven Lee 3,118. CRICKET Ceylon Sports Cub defeated Singapore Chinese Recreation Gub by
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    • 245 31  - Ben's fancied to retain his RPM Classic title SAW YEW HOCK SNOOKER THE chase for ranking points, trophies and prize money worth over $10,000 begins tonight m the RPM Snooker Classic and will end on Nov 8. Sponsored by Rothmans of Pall Mall, the event will be staged at the
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    • 207 31 DARUL Afiah Mayflower, hurt by remarks about their lack of fitness, yesterday made their critics sit up when they trounced Delta CSC 10-1 m the Football Association of Singapore Island-wide Queenstown League soccer tournament at the Queenstown Complex. Darul did not look impressive despite last week's
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    • 128 27 Two days each for Dominguez, Grylls and Ng PENANG Jockeys K.C. Ng, Rick Dominguez and Gary Grylls earned the displeasure of the stewards here yesterday and were each suspended for two race days. All three were penalised on the same charge careless riding. The stewards established that the three riders
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    • 198 27 NEW YORK Forty Niner, the early favourite for the 1988 Kentucky Derby raced to a 4 1 4 -length victory m the US$6lB,OOO (about Ssl.3 million) Champagne Stakes for two-year-olds at Belmont Park on Saturday. It was the fourth success m
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    • 28 31 HOCKEY SHA Jr KO: Yuhua v NUS (LA). later-Mla-tetry towaey: MOE v Prisons (LA), Telerec v Safsa B (Tanglin). All at 5.30pm. SNOOKER RPM Clvmtc (SBSC Clubhouse, 7.30pm).
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  • 556 32 Chase before the shooting A MAN, said to have a record as a drug addict, was shot m his crotch when he threatened two police constables with a revolver he had snitched from one of them after hitting him with
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  • 59 32 NEW YORK Undercover agents posing as buyers seized about 518 kg of cocaine, worth US$lOO million V S$2O9 million), hidden m crates near a boat docking site, the US Drug Enforcement Administration said on Saturday. Eight people thought to be linked to one of Colombia's largest drug rings,
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  • 30 32 NAIROBI The five African countries of Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique face famine and will need large amounts of relief supplies, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said vesterdav
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  • 434 32 Manila palace under heavy guard after tip-off about new plot MANILA A rebel soldier stole an armoured car from a Philippine army camp yesterday, triggering fears of a new putsch m a city racked by rumours of assassination plots and fresh coups. Hundreds
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  • 473 32  -  JANICE SEAH By Nursing officer's job is to get feedback from patients A PATIENT Relations Officer appointed by the Singapore General Hospital has been getting valuable feedback on how to improve the hospital's in-house service. Miss Lee Geok Vow, 44, a Nuraing Officer since 1976
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  • 183 32 JERUSALEM Archaeologists have located the ancient city of Bethsaida where the New Testament says Jesus performed the miracle of fish and loaves, a researcher at Haifa University said. Mr Rami Arav, an archaeologist at the university's Golan Research Institute, said yesterday that
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  • 177 32 [BEIJING Scientific [tests on strands of hair raave proven conclusively that China's "wild man" I exists, a newspaper says. The Saturday edition of the Wenhui Daily (Wenhui Bao), said tests done on six strands of hair found m central and southern
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  • 45 32 CAIRO At least seven people were killed when torrential rain lashed Egypt's southern Sinai region on Saturday, police said. Army helicopters rushed to the mountainous desert region to help local police rescue 200 people believed trapped m and cars. Reuter
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    • 73 1 IN OURHHNESS (LASSWU MWBS END UPTMINGSIDES i^B I i^B I^l "iS fl i^b ftflHH-K *fll i^b q WW H I i^b j^ifl i^k i^Ki^il BUSINESS(IASS 1 The prospea of spending approximately 14 hours sitting squashed m the After all, no matter how appetizingly the food is dressed. Or how 'Air
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    • 1367 1 Brought up under the most chaotic, abusive or impoverished circumstances, some children go on to thrive against all odds. Why? Scientists attempt to decipher the baffling enigma of the seemingly Invulnerable' child. A WOMAN, a paranoid schizophrenic, ate all her meals m restaurants because she
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      • 822 2 SCIENTISTS have assembled a map of genetic signposts covering all 23 pairs of human chromosomes, an accomplishment that foreshadows a new era m the study of human heredity and the search for genes that contribute to many serious diseases. The map, which
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      • 66 2 SCIENCE 3RIEFS k_ A WALTER H. Brattain, 85, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize m Physics for inventing the transistor, died last Tuesday, at a nursing home m Seattle. With Dr John Bardeen and Dr William B. Shockley, Dr Brattain invented the transistor Dec 23,1947, at
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      • 55 2 PREGNANT women m the Swedish port city of Malmo can now borrow beepers from the authorities so they can page their husbands when it's time to give birth. The Swedish national news agency, TT, reported that fathers sometimes do not arrive on time to the
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      • 93 2 DISTURBED sleep and fragmented dreams may be the first sign of an impending bout with depression, according to preliminary results of a study of divorced people m the US. Rosling D. Cartwright said at an American Medical Association conference that depressed people have severe sleep disorders and
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      • 68 2 FRENCH researchers reported new evidence strengthening the idea that a sexually transmitted virus may be an important cause of cervical cancer m women. Doctors at the Pasteur Institute m Paris examined the sexual partners of 480 women with genital warts or early stages of cervical cancer and
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      • 253 17 THIS programme Is compiled by Rediffusion and broadcast dal- _7 b ly m Teochew, Hokkien Lfft S Ledm and Cantonese. The Manrlorin broadcast times over mdnudrlll SBC's Radio Four arc 9 pm m Teochew and 11.45 pm In Hokkien on Mondays. 9 pm m Cantonese and 9.45 pm m Teochew
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      • 866 18 The Baweanese are a Malay dialect group m Singapore, known for their social cohesiveness. The elders of this community are trying hard to strengthen this spirit among their young. MARDIANA ABU BAKAR reports. TODAY, many Baweanese prefer to call themselves members of "masyarakat" (society)
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